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Duke Aiona enters the governors race
HONOLULU - Former Lt. Gov. James "Duke" Aiona has made it official that he's running for governor.
Republican Aiona announced his candidacy Monday after filing papers with the state office of elections.
The race has echoes of 2010, when Aiona ran against Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie. Back then, Abercrombie handily beat Aiona.
Abercrombie filed papers to make his 2014 run official last week, and faces a primary challenge from Sen. David Ige.
Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann, who also ran in 2010, is running for governor as an independent.
Aiona says it will be a tough campaign, but he plans to get an early start bringing his message to voters. He says he will focus on homelessness and affordable housing in his campaign.
Aiona served as lieutenant governor of Hawaii from 2002 to 2010.
Governor makes Turtle Bay deal law
KAHUKU, Oahu - Gov. Neil Abercrombie has signed legislation to preserve more than 665 acres of land on Oahu's North Shore.
The deal was reached with Turtle Bay Resort near the end of the legislative session. Lawmakers scrambled to adjust the budget and approved $40 million in revenue bonds.
Abercrombie signed the bill authorizing those bonds Monday.
The money will go to the resort to keep nearly 79 percent of the resort's land hotel-free. The City and County of Honolulu is chipping in $5 million and the Trust for Public Land is adding $3.5 million.
Abercrombie says the deal will protect pristine coastline from development and provide open space and access for everyone.
Oahu Dems agree to allow Har challenger
HONOLULU - One of the most vocal opponents in the Democratic party of legalizing same-sex marriage will have opposition in the primary election.
Oahu Democrats on Sunday decided to let a University of Hawaii-West Oahu instructor challenge state Rep. Sharon Har, who was one of 13 Democrats to vote against legalizing same-sex marriage.
Nicole Ferguson needed permission from Oahu Democrats since she recently moved to the district and is still registered to vote in another House district.
Another announced primary opponent for Har will be Michael Golojuch Jr., who is chairman of the party's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Caucus.
Har says she was expecting challenges in the Aug. 9 primary. She said that contested races are the spirit of democracy.
Skateboarder killed in crash on highway
KAAAWA, Oahu - Authorities say a skateboarder died when a vehicle hit him on a highway in Oahu.
Police say the 26-year-old Honolulu man was heading north on Kamehameha Highway in Kaaawa around 12:43 a.m. Sunday when he rode into the path of a vehicle going the same direction.
The skateboarder was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police records indicate that a 24-year-old Laie man was arrested at 1:35 a.m. near the crash on suspicion of driving under the influence of an intoxicant and first-degree negligent homicide.
Police say alcohol may be a factor in the crash.
UH-Hilo set to get first endowed chair
HILO - The University of Hawaii at Hilo is getting its first endowed chair.
The university said Friday Hilo dentist and University of Hawaii at Manoa faculty member Patsy Fujimoto is donating $500,000 to establish an endowed professorship in honor of her former history professor.
The professorship will be named The David C. Purcell, Jr. Endowed Visiting Chair in History.
It will allow the school to bring distinguished historians to campus.


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Biologist Ellen Jorgensen wonders, "We have personal computing, why not personal biotech?" So she and her colleagues opened Genspace, a nonprofit DIYbio lab in Brooklyn devoted to citizen science, where amateurs can go and tinker with biotechnology. And their lab is just one in a growing movement of biohacking operations around the globe.
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Celebrate 100 years of Paramount on your iPad
If you've caught a screening of "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," you likely noted the new animated logo celebrating the studio's 100th anniversary. It's a grand occasion for any company to hit that kind of a mark, and Paramount will be wasting no time heralding the occasion later this month with a planned exhibition of Technicolor's restoration of 1927's first-ever Best Picture winner "Wings."
Meanwhile, the studio has launched a new app for the iPad that also celebrates the landmark year. The 100 Years of Movie Magic app "is an exploration of the studio's incredibly rich and storied history," the iTunes blurb reads. "From Paramount's modest beginning in 1912 with 'Queen Elizabeth' to 'Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol,' the app provides a fresh and innovative opportunity to experience your favorite films by flipping through never-before-seen photos, watching memorable film clips, and listening to timeless music scores."
This is the kind of thing an iPad app can excel at. There is a wonderful (pricey) app dedicated to T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land," for instance, which draws in a boatload of interactive features related to the famed poem, all taking advantage of the iPad's components. I downloaded the Paramount app (it's free) and just a moment ago started digging through the bells and whistles myself.
Included is a forward from studio CEO Brad Grey, photos charting the studio's journey from its earliest days (when much of the surrounding area was yet unspoiled), a detailed history of Paramount's many films (with smartly tied-in purchasing options, natch) -- it might even be ALL the studio's films, and much more. Images from "Wings," "Terms of Endearment," "Forrest Gump," "Braveheart," "The Lost Weekend," "The Greatest Show on Earth," "The Godfather" and "Ordinary People," among others, flash by, reminding of a rich legacy.
Quite applicable to our purposes here is an Academy Awards section, which goes through each year that saw Oscar recognition in the form of a nomination or an actual statue for Paramount films. Very cool stuff. I wish every studio would do something like this.
It's well worth it to kill a little time diving into the history. You can download the app at iTunes or on your iPad.
What are some of your favorite Paramount films over the years? Naturally I have to speak up for "The Godfather" and "The Godfather Part II" (as I'm sure you all would). The 1970s weren't too bad for the studio, actually, with others like "Harold and Maude," "Serpico," "The Conversation," "Chinatown," "Nashville," "Days of Heaven" and "Heaven Can Wait" spread throughout.
Obviously, "Once Upon a Time in the West" ranks up there for me. "Double Indemnity" and "Metropolis" are also personal all-time favorites. "Hud," "Sullivan's Travels," the Indiana Jones trilogy (what fourth one?), "The Untouchables," "The Truman Show," entertainments like "Top Gun," "Coming to America," and "Tropic Thunder," recent favorites like "School of Rock," "Mean Girls," "Hustle & Flow," "There Will Be Blood," "Up in the Air," "Shutter Island." So much to note.
And since the holidays just passed, I might as well mention "It's a Wonderful Life," "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Scrooged," too.
This year, of course, Paramount has another healthy crop of films, including "The Adventures of Tintin," "Hugo," "Justin Bieber: Never Say Never," the aforementioned "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol," "Paranormal Activity 3," "Super 8," "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" and "Young Adult." And "Hugo" looks to be the studio's 62nd film nominated for Best Picture. (Note: Paramount includes "No Country for Old Men" as one of its films. The studio shared the film with Miramax Films in 2007.)
Here is my Oscar Talk colleague Anne Thompson on the studio topping the domestic market share in 2011.
It's a big year for the crew on Melrose. Congratulations to them. And here's to 100 more. Oh, and have a look at that celebratory logo in action (with new fanfare courtesy of "Super 8" and "Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol" composer Michael Giacchino) below.
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For the family that owns Brick House, the question is becoming urgent — particularly since part of it appears ready to fall down.
This is no ordinary ruin. The surviving brick shell of the Paul Hamilton House, which was built around 1734, is the oldest surviving European structure on the island and a decade older than Drayton Hall.
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At the 2005 Menopause and You event, "Menopause and You
LIVE!", attendees submitted questions to Beverly
Vaughn, MD, gynecologist and medical coordinator of the
Menopause and You program. Here are her answers to those questions.
There are two non-oral medications. One is called Miacalcin, which is a
nasal spray. The other is Forteo, which is a daily injectable. Some
patients are better candidates for one over the other. You should talk
to your health care provider about which one may be best for you.
This is a common and complicated question, and a good one for your
physician. Treating symptoms specific to your personal needs and being
mindful of your health history and current medications is very
The simplest answer is: you can't. Estrogen is important for dental
health, skin tone and moisture, as well as for hot-flash relief. Other
than good dental hygiene, I don't have another answer for
receding gums; a dentist or oral surgeon would be a better source of
information. For the skin: drink water;, avoid caffeine and
alcohol, which dehydrates the skin; avoid cigarettes, which damage the
skin's supportive structures and cause wrinkling; use a mild soap;
moisturize with a good lotion while skin is still damp; use sunblock SPF
15 at least; and eat lots of fruits and veggies. FYI, estrogen is really
important for skin health. It helps it retain moisture and keeps the
collagen from thinning. For muscle tone, the only answer here
is exercise, both cardiovascular and weight training but particularly
the weight training. The hot flashes may be helped with
alternatives to estrogen. First try eliminating caffeine, smoking, spicy
food and alcohol. Try adding natural soy to your diet through the foods
you eat. Relaxation (possibly yoga) and wearing layered clothing can
come in handy too.
Treatment with selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), such as
Effexor, Prozac or Paxil, is one possibility. Treatment with a Clonidine
patch (low-dose antihypertensive) is another. So is short-term treatment
(six months) with Remifemin, an over-the-counter brand-name black
cohosh. (It's made by a German pharmaceutical company so it is
regulated; others from the health food store are not.) Also, try vitamin
E 400-800 I.U. daily.
No one measures the hypothalamus, as there is very little variation
between people. It is hard to explain why some people have more
significant symptoms than others and why some therapies are more
effective in particular individuals. There are certain women for whom
hormone therapy is the only thing that is helpful.
There is no clear answer for this question. It is an issue that has not
been looked into.
"Isohormones" are the same thing as "bioidentical hormones." These are
hormonal compounds that are made for the individual based on her
salivary gland levels of different hormones. There are several problems
with the bioidentical hormones. The first is that their effectiveness
has never been established. It is unclear if it is better, the same as,
or less than the traditional pharmaceutical hormone therapy that has
been used. Another serious concern is that not only has their efficacy
not been well-documented, but neither has their safety. It is unknown
when using the bioidentical hormones what the risks are for breast
cancer, stroke and/or heart attack. Since the bioidentical hormones are
classified by the FDA as vitamins, they do not have to adhere to the
same rigorous scientific controls and quality controls that
pharmaceutical companies are required to follow. This is of particular
concern given that there is no guarantee of the actual content of the
bioidentical hormones between the manufactured batches. Even though
estrogens produced by drug companies aren't thought of as "natural,"
many are in fact produced from plant sources.
There are two kinds of estradiol supplements that are used vaginally.
One type, examples of which include Vagifem, Estring or Estrace cream,
are used for vaginal dryness symptoms only. These achieve very low
levels of estrogen in the blood stream. Given that this is true, they
are different from systemic estrogens, whether they are given orally or
by an alternate route. The likelihood of their causing a significant
risk is probably very small; however, the package insert will list the
same risks as for any estrogen because the information in the insert
doesn't make any adjustments for the route of administration. Another
type of vaginal supplement is FemRing. The FemRing is used for both hot
flashes and vaginal dryness. Because it is prescribed for hot flashes,
it does achieve a therapeutic level of estrogen in the blood stream. It
does need to be taken with progestins, like Progestin/Progesterone, if
you still have a uterus in place.
Each product has a variety of doses. It is hard to compare them exactly
to one another, but all of the doses are felt to be effective for
treating hot flashes. Some patients find that they need higher doses
than others. The advantage of patches, creams, or vaginal rings is that
there is a more even level of hormone in the blood stream and,
therefore, they may be more effective in alleviating hot flashes. These
alternative routes of administration also bypass the liver and are not
metabolized by it. This is important because they seem to not have as
much of an effect on the clotting factors. This provides a theoretical
advantage of decreasing the incidence of stroke and pulmonary emboli.
Wear light cotton garments, and avoid caffeine and alcohol. If these
measures aren't useful, you may need to try medication, whether it is
hormone therapy, Clonidine, one of the SSRI's or Neurontin (an
anti-seizure medication).
Urinary concerns are common among women of all ages. Frequency of
urination is different from loss of urine when coughing and sneezing.
Frequency may be caused by a high intake of fluids, caffeine, alcohol,
carbonated beverages, and/or smoking. There are other dietary bladder
irritants as well, and you can speak with your health care provider
about this for more detail. The loss of urine with coughing and sneezing
is caused by a change in the anatomic relationship of the bladder and
the urethra. Sometimes in conjunction with this there is pelvic
relaxation or a "dropped bladder." For more information, see Understanding
Female Urinary Incontinence.
First, the cause of the vaginal dryness must be established. If it is
simply decreased estrogen, then any of the topical estrogen products
should suffice. Other causes of these vaginal symptoms could be yeast
infection, other vaginal infections, or allergic reactions to soap,
bubble baths, shower gels or detergent. If the symptoms are primarily
external, skin disorders such as eczema and psoriasis must be looked
for. There are other conditions of the vulvar area that cause burning
and itching such as vulvar cancer, so this would need to be evaluated as
It is very common after menopause to have an increase in arthritis and
have more joint pain. Increased physical activity, including exercises
that improve flexibility and stretching, may be beneficial. Keeping
weight under control is also beneficial, particularly for the hips and
knees, as there is a lot of wear and tear on these joints.
If the cramping is related to your period, it is not unusual. Some women
find they have increased cramping during perimenopause. If it doesn't
seem to be period related, you should be evaluated for another cause.
Some women experience chills after they've had a hot flash, and this is
perfectly normal. If it doesn't seem that the chills are in any way
related to hot flashes, then other medical problems should be
Migraines are certainly a symptom that can occur in some women in the
perimenopause transition. They should be treated with appropriate
medication as any other migraine would be if they are severe and/or
interfering with your day-to-day activity. They should subside once you
have entered into menopause.
Vagifem, when used as a maintenance therapy for vaginal dryness, should
be used twice weekly. It is very common for women to notice a vaginal
discharge when using this or any other vaginal product. There is debate
about whether or not vaginal estrogens that are used for vaginal dryness
put women at increased risk for endometrial cancer. Though this risk is
probably small, some practitioners feel it is appropriate for women who
are using vaginal products, particularly if they are not using hormone
therapy by another route and taking progestin/progesterone with it, that
they be given a progestin/progesterone product every three months to
protect the uterine lining.
The first question is, why did you start HRT? If you started only to
prevent heart disease and/or osteoporosis, then you should stop. If hot
flashes were a problem and they were mild, you should stop. If they were
severe, you should consider the pros and cons. By severe I mean that you
felt they interfered with your quality of life. The recommendation is
that women stop after five years. This is based on the small increase in
heart attack, stroke and breast cancer in women taking estrogen and
progestin. If your symptoms were severe, you should discuss with your
doctor whether or not you want to stop or continue, understanding that
there may be a risk. There is no one way to stop. I would suggest
weaning. This can be done either by changing to a lower dose or taking
your medicine every other day, then after a time taking it every third
day, then stopping. I definitely wouldn't recommend stopping abruptly.
You can certainly add more soy to your diet and try black cohosh, which
should be helpful. There are also non-hormonal drugs, such as the SSRIs,
that you may want to consider.
Two glasses of wine a day is considered moderate. The effects of too
much alcohol are many: addiction, heart failure, liver disease,
osteoporosis and dementia.
There are many internists and family practitioners who have an interest
and expertise in women's health and who may fit this description.
Keeping your mind active is one suggestion. This means reading material
that is challenging, doing crossword puzzles, taking a class. The other
suggestion is to ensure that you're getting enough sleep. Sleep
deprivation is a prime cause of decreased mental acuity. Stress can also
contribute. If you are on any medications, I would review them with your
physician to make sure that they are not the cause.
If it is cyclic, then it is most likely hormonal. Symptomatic treatments
like vitamin B6 (300 mg daily, but no more) can be helpful. A mild
diuretic may also be needed. If it seems to be more abdominal and not
cyclic, it could be related to your GI tract. It is more difficult to
digest carbohydrates with age and this can result in bloating. It is
important to ensure that you have enough fiber and water in your diet.
This will help with motility and decrease bloating. Intestinal disorders
such as irritable bowel syndrome and lactose intolerance need to be
considered. If the bloating is persistent and doesn't change with
therapies suggested by your health care professional, causes that are
more serious like ovarian cancer need to be investigated.
Actually, everyone has a different time that they are awakened. The
question is why are you waking up? Is it because you have to go to the
bathroom (once or twice a night is normal after age 50)? Is it because
of hot flashes? Do you wake up stiff and achy? You may be waking up
because of arthritis. Many medications can cause sleep difficulties.
Depression and/or stress are also common reasons for waking in the
middle of the night. The specific problem needs to be addressed.
Yes, if you are using birth control pills you begin to increase your
risk of stroke and clotting. The estrogen in birth control pills is
about six times more potent than the estrogen in hormone replacement
therapy. If you still get periods and need birth control, I would
suggest another method such as condoms, diaphragm, IUD or cervical cap.
A birth control pill that contains only progestin (the "mini pill") is
another option.
Sure. It's nice not to get a period. This is particularly true for women
who have heavy flow. It will decrease the chance they may be come
As we age we don't absorb vitamins as readily. Any multivitamin is fine.
It is best to take one without iron unless you are anemic. Daily calcium
requirements are 1,200 to 1,500 mg. This can be consumed with a
combination of calcium rich foods and supplements. The supplements need
to be taken 3-4 times a day, since your body can only absorb 300 to 400
mg at a time.
Examples of Calcium Rich Foods
The numbers indicate the mgs of calcium contained in the serving size
Source: National Dairy Council
Don't take soy pills. They are not that helpful. Soy milk, tofu, edamame
beans and dried soy nuts are the best source. You may need to drink a
quart of soy milk or eat the equivalent of a pound of tofu. Many women
feel they get benefits from eating less. Remember, it's a great source
of calcium too!
Yes, there seems to be a difference in hot flashes, though not in other
symptoms. In the U.S., African American women and Hispanic women seem to
have slightly worse symptoms than Caucasian. Asian American women have
the least. The frequency and severity of flushes changes in different
parts of the world. For instance, in Britain it is higher than in the
U.S. There is probably more at work than ethnic differences.
There can be an increase in respiratory symptoms such as asthma from
secondhand smoke. Also, your risk of heart disease and lung cancer are
increased. Click
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At perimenopause they may become tenderer. After menopause the symptoms
should disappear.
Symptoms include fatigue, weight loss, weight gain, thinning hair, dry
skin, and irregular periods, to name a few. The only way to diagnose
thyroid disease is by having a blood test (TSH) ordered by your doctors.
This article is part of the Menopause and You library,
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SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- As soon as he was introduced to an ovation that shook the teflon roof of the Carrier Dome, the night belonged to Carmelo Anthony and the Denver Nuggets.
Anthony, who as a freshman led Syracuse to the 2003 NCAA championship, wowed his adoring fans with 14 first-half points and the Nuggets remained unbeaten in the preseason with a 94-91 victory over the Phoenix Suns.
"To actually be back here brought back a lot of memories," said Anthony, who also had nine rebounds and five assists. "It was good to get back here in front of the fans that I played in front of. They was rooting for me every game when I was here."
Heck, they adore Melo so much that on this night they even cheered his Denver teammate Allen Iverson, who starred in college for Georgetown, Syracuse's archrival in the Big East.
Anthony played 24 minutes and left the game midway through the third quarter after setting up a pair of baskets by Juwan Howard. He never returned despite chants of 'We want Melo!' from the crowd.
"I asked him if he wanted to go back in and he said no," Denver coach George Karl said. "If he wanted to, I would have let him."
He didn't.
"I had a long summer," said Anthony, a member of the gold-medal-winning U.S. Olympic basketball team in Beijing. "I wish I could have went back in there."
J.R. Smith had 19 points to lead Denver (4-0), Linas Kleiza had 11, and Anthony Carter finished with 10. Iverson had four points, four assists and five turnovers.
Raja Bell had 15 points for Phoenix (2-3), Matt Barnes and Grant Hill had 13 apiece, and Robert Hite had 12, all during a fourth-quarter rally that fell just short, and Leandro Barbosa had 10 points. Shaquille O'Neal had four points and four rebounds in 12 minutes, while rookie Robin Lopez, the 15th overall pick in this year's draft, finished with seven points and five rebounds.
The Nuggets went on a 14-2 run in the third quarter to build the biggest lead of the game. Iverson and Ruben Patterson converted three-point plays and Smith scored six straight points for a 65-55 lead with 1:38 left.
The Suns slowly rallied, and Hite's turnaround jumper in the lane gave them a 76-75 lead with 5:25 left in the fourth.
Dahntay Jones then scored five straight points and Kleiza hit a layup and a pair of free throws, giving Denver a 90-87 lead with 1:23 left.
Hite's baseline runner had the Suns back within a point, but Chris Andersen blocked Hite on a drive with 4.4 seconds left and made two free throws to help the Nuggets hold on.
Anthony scored the game's first basket on a dunk off a feed from Iverson to the delight of the crowd of 22,115. The Nuggets trailed for most of the first two periods, falling behind 22-14 late in the first after a dunk by O'Neal off a feed from rookie Goran Dragic.
Anthony re-entered the game midway through the second and scored six points to key a 10-4 run that gave the Nuggets the lead. Anthony started the surge with a 12-foot jumper from the right side and finished it with a fast-break lay-in, spinning in midair as he laid the ball in for a 38-37 Denver lead with 1:38 left in the quarter.
Hill then scored six straight points to give the Suns a 43-41 halftime lead.
Earlier in the day, Anthony spoke to current Orange junior Paul Harris, who will be a key to a team that has failed to make the NCAA tournament the past two years.
"I just asked him if he was ready," Anthony said. "I think he has the challenge of putting Syracuse where they're supposed to be at and make the world respect them. I'm hoping and praying. We need that here. This town is looking for that great team again."
Though Melo still flashes the same smile that lit up the Carrier Dome on so many cold winter nights in his one season at Syracuse, he's clearly not the same guy.
"It's my sixth season in the NBA," he said. "I have a gold medal. I have a son now. A lot has changed for me both on the court and off.
"But I do miss college," said Anthony, who donated $3 million to the university to help fund a basketball practice facility that's slated to open in a year. "I wish I could've spent more time here."


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I can only wish that this had been around when I was your age!
Welcome!! I think you'll like it here
Age (If you want): 21
How Primal are you: I've been Paleo for a while now. I only just ordered Primal Blueprint, so I'm not Primal yet, but I'll do my best to answer these questions.
Do you consume dairy: No
Do you drink coffee or tea: Herbal tea
Motivator for switching to Primal: I want to implement the hunter gatherer ways 100%, and this PB community looks perfect.
Favorite exercise: Adventure sports (free diving, snowboarding, hiking, rock climbing)
Favorite Primal food: Raw carrots with tahini! (I hope that's Primal!)
Best part about being Primal: I'm sure it'll be energy levels, state of mind, fitness, appearance...
Worst part about being Primal: Eating out, I bet.
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I can only wish that this had been around when I was your age!
Welcome!! I think you'll like it here
Hey there. I'm 21 too. Glad to see people from all over the world on here Welcome!
Welcome Nat! check out our little Primal Australia group here
All the best! and welcome to living primaly!
Thanks everyone
yay .... another Aussie!! (I'm in Adelaide)
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Deputies found about 69 pounds of high grade marijuana along Interstate 40 Thursday, according to police.
Deputies observed a 1996 Lincoln that was unable to maintain its lane of travel. A traffic stop was made near mile marker 147 about 10 miles west of downtown Albuquerque.
Police said the driver gave consent to search the vehicle. A K-9 unit responded to the scene and indicated the presence of drugs in the vehicle.
Police sad about 69 pounds of high grade marijuana was found in several duffle bags in the trunk. The estimated street value of this seizure is $200,000 to $350,000.
Both subjects were arrested and charged with distribution of a controlled substance.
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In separate incidents, three people were found dead in Narayanganj and Khulna districts on Sunday.
In Narayanganj, the body of an unidentified young man, aged around 30, was found inside a sack by a road at Kashipur in Fatullah of Sadr upazila in the morning.
Akbar Hossain, sub-inspector of Fatullah Model Police Station, said being informed by locals, police recovered the body and sent it to Narayanganj 100-bedded General Hospital for autopsy.
However, the hands and legs of the youth were not found in the sack.
Police suspected that miscreants killed the youth sometime at night and dumped the body there.
In another incident, the floating body of a Class IV student of Joygobinda School, Adar Chowdhury, 12, was recovered from the Buriganga River at Alirtek in Narayanganj city at noon.
Some fishermen recovered the body from the river.
In Khulna, the body of a housewife, Dipali Odhikari, 35, wife of Kalidash Odhikari, was recovered from her house at Boyra Sardarpara in the city in the morning.
Police recovered the slaughtered body of Dipali from the house after being informed by locals that bad odour was coming out from the locked house, said Maruf Hossain, officer-in-charge of Sonadanga police station.
Police suspected that Dipali's husband Kalidash slaughtered her two or three days back and then fled to India.


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Apple Cobbler
The time to make this all-American dessert is in the fall, when you can get apples that are crisp and snappy.
Yield: Serves 6.
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1 cup water
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 5 cups apples, peeled and thinly sliced|
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1-1/2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 4 tablespoons sugar, divided
- 2 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 1/4 cup cold water
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
InstructionsBlend 1 cup sugar with the cornstarch and cinnamon in a large saucepan. Add the water. Bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Add 2 tablespoons butter or margarine and the apples to the hot sauce. Pour into a shallow baking dish.
In a mixing bowl, combine the baking powder, salt and 2 tablespoons sugar with the flour. Cut in the additional 2 tablespoons butter or margarine. Add the cold water and stir with a fork to soft dough. Smooth the dough into a ball on a floured board. Knead five or six times. Roll out 1/4-inch thick. Cut with a 2-1/2-inch cookie cutter, then cut each piece in half. Arrange around the baking dish.
Combine the remaining 2 tablespoons sugar and the orange peel. Sprinkle on the dough. Bake in a 450 degrees F oven for 25 minutes, or until the apples are tender and the biscuits golden brown. Serve with sweetened whipped cream.


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Douglas Brinkley's hagiographic treatment of the "Cronkite Moment" doesn't hold water, says Media Myth AlertHistorians in the News
W. Joseph Campbell is a tenured full professor in the School of Communication at American University in Washington, D.C. He is a former professional journalist, having reported for the Cleveland Plain Dealer, Hartford Courant, and the Associated Press in a 20-year career that took him across North America to Europe, Asia, and West Africa.
The evidence that the mythical "Cronkite Moment" was of minor consequence is compelling and multidimensional.
The "Cronkite Moment" was the televised report in February 1968 when CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite said the U.S. war effort in Vietnam was "mired in stalemate." Legend has it that President Lyndon B. Johnson was profoundly moved by Cronkite's assessment.
Among the elements of the minor-consequence brief are these:
- Cronkite said nothing about the war that hadn't been said by leading journalists many times before. By early 1968, "stalemate" was a decidedly unoriginal way of characterizing the conflict.
- Public opinion had begun shifting against the war months before Cronkite's commentary. Indeed, Cronkite followed rather than led the changing views about Vietnam.
- Johnson did not see the Cronkite program when it aired on February 27, 1968, and remained publicly hawkish about the war in the days afterward.
- Cronkite, until late in his life, pooh-poohed the notion his pronouncement had much effect on Johnson, likening its impact to that of a straw....
But little in the minor-consequence brief has kept historian Douglas Brinkley from offering in his new book about Cronkite a glowing, hagiographic interpretation of the "Cronkite Moment."
Brinkley's hefty biography is eager to find exceptionality in the "Cronkite Moment," asserting that it "guaranteed" Cronkite's "status as a legend."
Brinkley, however, offers more assertion than compelling evidence in writing that the "aftershock" of Cronkite's report about Vietnam "was seismic" and in declaring that the report "signaled a major shift in the public's view of the war."
As evidence of the purported "seismic" effect, Brinkley claims that Cronkite's assessment "opened the door for NBC News' Frank McGee to take a similar stand in a documentary on Vietnam that aired two weeks later."
But as I point out in my 2010 book, Getting It Wrong, Cronkite's "stalemate" characterization was "far less emphatic" McGee's on-air remarks on March 10, 1968. "The war," McGee declared on that occasion, "is being lost by the administration's definition."...
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Sense about Science ? equipping people to make sense of science and evidence
Annual lecture 2011
Epidemics and refuseniks: the birth of state responsibility
by Professor Richard Evans
Chair: Tracey Brown
Our sixth annual Sense About Science lecture took place on Monday 9th May 2011, at the Royal Society of Medicine and was delivered by Professor Richard Evans, Regius professor of modern history at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Evans compared historical case studies such as cholera epidemics in the 19th century, with recent public health crises including the cholera epidemic in Haiti and the 1980s outbreak of BSE in the UK.
He posed questions about how the relationship between science, politics and society influences the acceptance of new scientific theories, and critical decisions about public health.
This prompted much discussion about the use of scientific evidence in unfolding public health crises, when the need for decisive action coincides with unclear evidence. Can overreaction to an epidemic be riskier than the epidemic itself?
You can read the transcript and listen to the Guardian's podcast of the lecture.
Read Professor Richard Evans writing for the Guardian ahead of the lecture.
See more pictures from the night here. Photos by Kelly Haddow.
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Professor Richard Evans
Richard is Regius Professor of History and President of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. He studied at Oxford and has taught at a variety of universities, including Birkbeck, University of London, where he was Vice-Master. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and a Fellow of the British Academy, and is currently Gresham Professor of Rhetoric at Gresham College, London.
Among his many books is "Death in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years, 1830-1910", published in 1987, as a result of which he was asked to help organise the centenary commemoration of the great cholera epidemic of 1892 in the city. He has also delivered the Pump-Handle Lecture of the John Snow Society, of which he is an honorary member.
More recently, he has written a three-volume history of Nazi Germany; the final instalment, "The Third Reich at War", was published by Penguin Books in 2008.
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Lexi Simmons would like you to know the following things about her: She is 16. She likes blue nail polish and boys and Starbucks coffee. She sent 4,096 text messages one month this summer. She gets good grades and hates baby-sitting. She is a normal girl. You're going to think that she's not.
Sixteen years ago, Lexi was born without a lower jaw: a rare aplastic mandible. Her face ended at her mouth: no chin, skin pulled straight back below her lips, a tongue as small as the tip of her pinky.
Her nasal passages were blocked by a cleft upper lip, her palate was shrunken and curved. Her throat had collapsed without a jaw to pull it open. She couldn't breathe. She came out purple.
Doctors rushed her away and cut a hole in her neck for a tracheostomy, a permanent opening in her trachea, to allow her to breathe.
They told her mother that Lexi wouldn't live through the night.
Lexi was born with turquoise eyes: the roundest shape, the deepest blue.
Teenage Lexi still can't talk - her airways are closed, her tiny tongue and tracheostomy remain - so these days she likes to telegraph herself with ever-changing nail polish and hair colors. She owns 22 pairs of shoes. Normal girls don't need the electronic speaking devices that therapists offer Lexi, so she talks with her cellphone instead, tapping out questions to her teachers and doctors, texting boys and friends.
She keeps her voice in her pocket.
Hey its Lexi :) Lol just got home from mcdonalds with chris lol.
"Lol" means laugh out loud. Lexi writes this at the beginning or ending of almost every sentence.
She can't laugh out loud.
Lexi giggles silently with her whole body: half bent over, eyes crinkled at the corners, shoulders shaking up and down so that everyone can see she's in on the joke. The trach in her throat wheezes air out of her body in fast, short bursts.
She covers her mouth with her hands.
That first night of Lexi's life, doctors prepared her mother to visit the nursery. Born 12 weeks premature, 3-pound Lexi was entwined with wires and monitors. Doctors told Lexi's mother about the jaw, the cleft lip. There was no preventable cause, they said. It was just a sporadic developmental quirk. It happens in one out of every half-million people, doctors estimate.
If Lexi lived, doctors said, she would never walk or see. They thought she'd live in a permanent vegetative state.
Melissa Swan walked slowly to her daughter's side.
"I saw her, and I cried," Lexi's mom remembers. "And not because I felt bad, but because I thought she was beautiful."
Lexi had her mother's wispy blond hair and pale porcelain skin. Her ears were perfect.
"She was lying there, peacefully sleeping, not a care in the world," Melissa recalls. She stared at Lexi's silhouette, her head "so cute and tiny." She watched as Lexi moved her hands.
"Everyone used to tell me that she looked like a Precious Moments doll," says Melissa, 35. She loved Lexi the minute they met.
After the first night, doctors gave Lexi two weeks to live, then two months . . . two years.
When Lexi was 2 months old, Melissa watched those turquoise eyes follow her movements. When Lexi was 2 years old and already toddling, she had surgery to correct her cleft upper lip. In therapy, Lexi started learning sign language. Her first word was "ball."
When Lexi reached the second grade, teachers took her out of special-needs classes and put her in with the normal kids.
She felt like she belonged.
In third grade, a new boy came to Lexi's school and made her feel like she didn't. He made fun of her mouth. He said she was ugly.
Lexi went home to her mother. Her face said it all.
Lexi started feeling people's stares in the grocery store: children, and adults, too. She would hide behind her mom.
Sometimes, if Lexi hadn't noticed the stare, her mother would step in and block the view.
"God makes people in different ways," Melissa would say to children who looked too long.
That's what she told Lexi, too.
"Everybody else says how cute you are and how smart you are and how funny you are," her mother said. "You've got to just rely on that."
Melissa never treated Lexi as if she were different, and Lexi would never have let her. She was born into a huddle of dauntless women: Great-grandma Ruth, Grandma Cheryl, Aunt Angie and Mom - all centered, all strong.
"She had all these people telling her she could do it, she was beautiful," Melissa says.
These days, Lexi is obsessed with posting photos to her MySpace page, like all the kids at her west Phoenix high school. Online, she can chat with friends if her stepbrother isn't hogging the family computer. Her MySpace name used to be SexieLexi, until her mom and stepdad saw it and said no way.
Lexi likes to take self-portraits with her camera-phone, posing in the mirror. She stands with her hands over her mouth, pretending surprise. She poses with a Starbucks cup over her lips, as if she's taking a long sip. Lexi can't eat or drink the way others do. She can take tiny tastes of liquids but pours liquefied meals and even her coffee into a feeding tube attached to her stomach.
Sometimes, Lexi holds the camera high above her head and lifts her face toward the lens. The sharp angle creates a shadow just beneath Lexi's lips.
All the girls take pictures like this, Lexi says.
In these pictures, Lexi looks like all the girls.
Hey :) Guess what I did last night.
I stayed up all night, and was writing like a blog on paper about the year of 2008-09.
In the year 2008-09, Lexi got her own room, a boyfriend and a new reflection in the mirror.
A surgeon built her a jaw.
Lexi is always eager to see Dr. Lettieri. He yanks on her ponytail. He tells her that her hair should be all one color. He asks her advice about cellphones for his 14-year-old son. Or he might tell her it's time for another surgery that will ruin her spring break. When she complains, he smiles and rolls his eyes like a teenager.
Salvatore Lettieri, 47, is a Mayo Clinic consultant from Minnesota on loan to Maricopa Medical Center, where he has served as the chief of plastic surgery since 2000.
Lexi was referred to him five years ago through her doctor at Children's Rehabilitative Services, a state agency that has overseen and funded her care since she was an infant. Lexi was born when her mom was 19 and single. When Melissa took Lexi home from the hospital, Lexi's father visited just once. They have not seen each other since.
Lettieri told Melissa that when Lexi turned 15, her growth would have sufficiently slowed so he could build her a jaw.
He told her he would cut out the middle section of Lexi's fibula, the outer leg bone between the knee and the ankle, taking an artery and a vein with it, and some skin from her leg. With all of that, he said, he could fill in the bottom of her face.
After that, Lettieri could work with Lexi's team at the Barrow Children's Cleft and Craniofacial Center in Phoenix to open up the roof of her mouth. They might be able to give her another airway and rearrange Lexi's 10 scattered top teeth. Over the next few years, the team could even stretch Lexi's mouth and coax her new lower jaw to grow high enough for a row of dental implants there.
Lexi balked.
I don't see why I have to do the surgery.
I'm fine the way I am.
She was scared it was going to hurt. She was scared that she'd look in the mirror and not see herself. She'd spent 15 years finding happiness in her own image. She ran cross-country, signed up for drama, charmed boyfriends and went to pool parties. She had learned that if she stared back at strangers and threw up her hands in disgust, they would turn away.
What if she looked weird?
What if she looked worse?
But her family insisted.
They said that it will change everything.
They just want me to become normal like everyone else.
Normal. Lexi heard it over and again. You're going to look like a normal girl.
A normal jaw, a normal life.
Don't you want to be normal?
Lexi feels normal every day, until someone tells her that she's not.
Lexi had the surgery last December. It took 11 hours.
Afterward, she didn't feel normal for a long time.
Just above Lexi's vocal cords, Lettieri found the lower jaw, or mandible, that had never developed. It was the size of his index finger. He cut it in half with a saw and swung it open like a pair of gates.
From Lexi's lower right leg, Lettieri cut a piece of skin the size of an index card to help cover her new jaw. He opened her leg between her knee and ankle and carved out the middle of her fibula - a 21-centimeter piece of bone, along with an attached vein and artery.
He divided the 21-centimeter piece into three sections and formed them into the shape of a new mandible, wrapped in muscle and fused together with a long titanium plate. He attached the new mandible to each side of Lexi's existing, unformed jaw.
The fibula's artery and vein were connected to an artery and vein in Lexi's neck so that her new jaw would be made of living bone.
Lettieri moved the skin he had cut from Lexi's leg onto her new chin and stretched her thin, porcelain skin over her face's new contours.
After the surgery, Lexi woke and hurt all over.
She looked in the mirror.
That hurt, too.
A thin, red scar stretched from her knee to her ankle, marking where Lettieri had carved out 60 percent of her fibula. The remaining portions of her fibula will keep the knee and ankle functioning.
Lexi's stepbrother, Jake, told her the scar was cool. Lexi saw it and said she'd never wear shorts again.
It disgusts everyone.
The skin over her new jaw was pale and taut. As the swelling settled, Lexi could see the outline of the metal plate underneath. It looked like a row of screws.
The muscle between her jaw and her neck was unusually small. It tugged her new jawbone downward, forcing her mouth into a permanent O. Without teeth to support her lips, her mouth was concave, a small hollow in the middle of her face.
Lexi stood in front of the mirror and tried to push her jaw up where it belonged. She ran her fingers over the bumpy metal bracket inside her chin, across the long scar that traced her new jawline.
I was expecting something else.
Lexi's mother saw her disappointment. The two have a kind of secret language, a mix of signing, sounds and mother-daughter code. Verbally, Lexi can express herself with whimpers, bleats, grunts and sighs. Melissa knows the meaning of each. The two have conversations on the telephone: Lexi humming high and low, Melissa interpreting.
"You need a ride? You're coming home soon?"
After the surgery, Lexi moped around the house, healing, lounging on the couch, her 2-year-old sister, Sydney, at her side.
Lexi is Sydney's favorite. They have a code, too. Sydney likes back rubs, arm rubs, tummy rubs, caresses for hours. Lexi is the only family member who will comply. Sydney toddles to Lexi's side, drapes herself across her sister and waits.
It's quiet. Neither sister can say a word. Lexi knows what Sydney wants. She strokes her little sister softly.
At home, Melissa calmed a sullen Lexi by reminding her that the surgery was the first of many.
"Keep your eye on the goal," Melissa said.
Currently, Lexi has three: a job at Starbucks, permission to sleep over with any of her girlfriends and freedom to walk alone between her classes at school.
At school, Lexi is tethered to an adult assistant, hired by the district, to help if she gets a plug in her trach. If she can't suction the trach quickly enough, she turns blue. Her teachers have been taught to help, but Lexi wants independence during that time between classes when her friends run up and hug her and talk about boys.
Also, Melissa says, Lexi can sleep over only with girlfriends who've had the trach training, and a job might be a liability for the employer. Lexi's doctors hope that after her jaw has healed, they will be able to open her throat or nasal passages and give her another way to breathe. It's a long shot, but it would let Lexi's mother breathe easier, too, every time Lexi wants to go somewhere alone.
After her surgery, Lexi begged to go back to school, where she could escape to normal teenage worries.
When a few of Lexi's teachers saw her new face, their eyes filled with amazement and tears.
Lexi was embarrassed.
I want them to treat me like nothing is going on with my jaw.
She sat down in first-hour biology, propped her elbow on the desk and cradled her new chin in her hand.
That wasn't there before. Subconsciously, she began to habitually pull a lock of her long blond hair across her mouth like a mask.
Lexi turned 16 in February. Her girlfriends came for a sleepover in her new bedroom. With a futon and turquoise paint, her mom and stepdad had converted the former carport into a teen haven to give Lexi space. Their small house was full: Lexi's stepbrother, Jake, 14, and three little sisters younger than 5. Lexi's mom stays home with the girls. Stepdad Erick Swan is a teacher.
Lexi's friends sprawled over her striped bedspread and fuzzy green rug, cellphones glued to their palms. Lexi's stepdad bought her a new cellphone for her birthday. It's turquoise.
The girls ate pizza and potato chips, then headed to the mall.
In the stores, Lexi kept close to her friends, who summoned the sales clerk if Lexi needed a fitting room and went with her to the cash register just in case. Some of them have loved Lexi since the first grade.
Her friends know that if they ever need to talk, Lexi is the best at listening. And she always texts back the fastest.
They know not to ask about her jaw, her trach, her surgeries. She never wants to talk about that.
At the mall, two of Lexi's friends stopped in the Apple Store to play with a computer's photo-booth application. They could take funny self-portraits for MySpace.
Two girls snapped photo after photo, laughing as the computer tugged and squeezed their faces like a circus mirror. One became a Cyclops, another turned square. They pulled Lexi into the frame and set the camera to twirl. It twisted the girls' mouths into distorted shapes, leaving the rest of their features alone.
How funny they looked. The two girls giggled for just a second, until they realized Lexi's silence. She turned and walked away.
In the picture, the girls looked just like Lexi.
Quickly, they gathered the whole group for an Andy Warhol-style picture, their faces tinted yellow and green.
They stood Lexi in the center. She smiled with her eyes. Her friends made silly faces and kissy grins.
Lexi covered her mouth with her hand.
Melissa can sense when something is wrong, if something has pierced Lexi's feisty, self-assured shell.
She also knows that Lexi won't discuss it.
"She doesn't like to talk about it a lot," Melissa says. "Maybe she knows that everybody's just going to give her that same old reassuring line, and she's heard it before."
Sometimes, Melissa will take Lexi aside, and they'll get it out. If Lexi does have a wound to heal, only her mother is allowed near.
No you didn't upset me. Why would I be upset? Don't feel awful.
"She's like, 'I want to be perceived as normal. I am normal. Let it go,' " Melissa says.
It hurts Melissa to watch Lexi struggle, but she keeps her worry tucked away. She thinks Lexi would feel it.
"I wish so much for her," Melissa says. "I wish that she could do some of the things that her friends are getting to do: go swimming, go off camping. I want her to know what she wants to do. If she wants to go to college, I want her to go and not be sidetracked by anything - that's the thing."
I'm for sure going to college.
I want to be a nurse.
In March, Lexi had surgery again. Her chin had pulled so tight that the skin was splitting. Lettieri wanted to add donor tissue to cover it. He planned to take out the metal bracket along her chin and to sever the muscle that tugged Lexi's jaw down.
In the operating room, Lettieri peeled the skin from her face. He snapped the bracket off her jaw with a giant bolt cutter.
"I want her to have the Audrey Hepburn neckline," he said, excited as an assistant stitched Lexi's chin closed. With the muscle cut and the metal gone, her jaw looked almost perfect.
Lexi went home with her head wrapped, afraid to look in the mirror and meet another new reflection. Four days later, the bandages came off. Still, she wouldn't look.
"Are you 16 or are you a mouse?" her mother said. "What are you afraid of?"
It being ugly.
Everyone told her that it wasn't. Her jaw was higher and rounded. Her chin had softened, her mouth was almost closed.
"She looks like me," her mother said.
Lexi waited until she could see herself alone.
I looked. Lol.
It's okay.
It's different.
Once they do the lips I won't be different.
That night, Lexi went to a pool party and flirted with a boy.
Sometimes, if Lexi gets to thinking, she feels angry about things that have taken place. She spent her first three years at school in a special-education class. There was never anything different about her mind.
It made me feel stupid.
Growing up, there were all of those stares and questions in the grocery store, Lexi hiding behind her mom.
I don't like a lot of attention. I'm just another person in this world.
There was the Christmas break she spent in the hospital and all the touch-up surgeries to come. They're scary. Sometimes Lexi can't make the nurses understand what she needs and she panics. The procedures are painful: a broken leg bone, her aching jaw, a raw patch on her leg.
Her doctors aren't optimistic that they'll be able to open another airway. They say Lexi will never be able to talk or eat like everyone else. The surgeries may only help her look like everyone else. It feels unfair.
Lexi was always happy with what she saw in the mirror, unless she also saw the world staring back in wonder. That's the part that felt ugly.
I wanted to stand out, like I was made to do. Why should I change my life so it will please everyone else?
When Lexi went back to school in March, her jaw softened and transformed, no one said anything.
Eh they didn't notice.
I noticed a lot.
Lexi noticed the way that boys looked at her a little longer and how everyone wanted to talk to her at lunch.
Her mom noticed that Lexi couldn't pass a mirror without stopping to primp and admire.
Lexi began to imagine the way she will look in a year or two after doctors stretch her lips, build up her jaw and add dental implants to support her mouth.
Like her mother.
The same as everyone else.
Being like "everyone else" felt OK once she could see it.
She felt like she belonged.
The anger began to evaporate, and Lexi felt something new.
She applied for a job at every Starbucks near her house this summer, dreaming of endless chai tea and a spot behind the cash register. She figured that someone could learn to help with the trach if she needed it, and she'd talk to customers by using her phone. She never was called back.
At school, she stopped going to the nurse's office to eat her lunch and began pouring Gatorade into her feeding tube in front of her friends.
She went to the mall, a Diamondbacks game, to Target with her mom.
That felt different, too. Hardly anyone stared.
I like how I look now.
People treat me the same now.
When others look at Lexi, sometimes they see her as she always has seen herself: a 16-year-old who likes blue nail polish and boys and Starbucks coffee. Just a normal girl.
I am normal.
One afternoon in late March, feeling buoyed by compliments and a particularly good hair day, Lexi reached for her camera.
She put on a striped tank top and stood before the living-room mirror.
One hand held the camera out in front of her. Wisps of hair framed her face. Her porcelain skin had a soft glow. Lexi looked straight into her reflection. Her gaze was timid but direct.
That night, she posted the picture to her MySpace page.
A notice went out to all her friends.
Lexi added a new photo.
It was just a headshot, like dozens of others she'd shared before. But this one was different - changed, just like the girl in the picture.
With the hand that always covered her mouth, Lexi reached forward and touched her reflection in the mirror.
It's a portrait of everything.
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Lexi's quotations were taken from text messages and Internet chats with reporter Jaimee Rose, who also accompanied Lexi to school, to the mall, Starbucks Coffee and the operating room. The two have exchanged more than 1,000 texts.
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Mickey Mantle Signed Hat and Signed Book
Starting Bid - $200.00, Sold For - $587.50
Collection of two Mickey Mantle signed items: 1) New York Yankees pro model cap signed "Mickey Mantle" in white marker ("8") on the top of the brim. Manufactured by New Era (size 7), the cap is in Near Mint condition. 2) Hardcover first edition of My Favorite Summer 1956 (Doubleday, 1991) by Mickey Mantle and Phil Pepe, inscribed "Thanks, Mickey Mantle 1956" in blue ink ("10") on the front flyleaf. The book is in Near Mint condition and is accompanied by its original dust jacket (Ex-Mt, with two minor adhesive stains on the front). These items were signed by Mantle at a corporate dinner event in 1992. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Total: 2 signed items (hat and book). Reserve $200. Estimate $400/$600. SOLD FOR $587.50
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Has anyone heard about Gamestop/EB Games doing a midnight release for the Wii? I heard they did it for 360 and stuff, I would really hope they do it for Wii or I am going to be one sad cookie. So has anyone's Gamestop/EB Games mentionde this?
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Not yet they didn't
Maybe I'll start camping out at midnight, then...
these were on go nintendo i recommend you call your local shop
See I made it my own! RELIGION *whoosh* wow a 50 page thread bout how there beliefs are right and you are all wrong wow. Oh do want to be different rep! even if I don't help it seems to happen a lot here
my shop said that they get their shipments of the wii AT midnight no sooner, and that they would call me as soon as they got them :-p so yeah i think they are doing a launch at midnight for my store here in hemet (where the hell is that?!@?) lol
If thats so then that means no one will get one sooner before anyone, besides the people on the coast from where its shipping.Originally Posted by komio
The zelda poster, tomorrow I will call my GS asking about that.
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ill Have to call to...hopefully they do if not then i guess ill have to call walmart!
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That's cool. I live right by Hemet. Well, fairly close, lol. I shoot through Hemet all the time on my way to Amerimax, to pick up Alumawood patios.Originally Posted by komio
Back on-topic though... I really hope the store by me calls me at midnight and says I can come pick mine up, lol. I already have the Wii system, a 1.0GB SD card, Red Steel, GT Pro Series, NFS: Carbon, Legend of Zelda and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance all fully paid-for.
i planned on camping out at mine, but ive got early basktball practice that morning
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The information continues to filter the web for Windows 8, the new Microsoft operating system expected for 2012 including a new pre-release appeared recently on the web. We discover as well as multiple editions E and ARM are in preparation.
As you probably know if you follow the news related to Windows 8, Microsoft has only formalized the fact that this new OS will be compatible with the ARM architecture.
If it is based on the equivalent of N and E versions of Windows 7, it means that the first lacks the Media Center and Windows Media Player while the Redmond company had Pl. several months later on a version E the decision of the European Commission.
This body of the European Union had considered that Microsoft did not play the game by integrating its Internet Explorer browser automatically in its Windows operating systems which put him in a de facto dominance, even too dominant compared competition. Microsoft had then worked on editions of Windows without Internet Explorer 7, named E. versions However they have not been sold, Microsoft has proposed an interim solution, the bundle screen (offering the user a choice of browsers), who convinced the European Commission.
Steve Ballmer teams seem to be prepared for any eventuality with Windows 8, already now working on specific editions in case of official agencies (such as the European Commission) accused him again its dominant position.


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Ex-Stanford exec gets 5 years for $7 bn swindle
Stanford used investors' money to bankroll a string of failed businesses and for his own lavish lifestyle.
Houston: A judge on Tuesday sentenced the star prosecution witness in the trial of convicted Texas financier R Allen Stanford to five years in prison for bilking investors of more than $7 billion in one of the biggest Ponzi schemes in US history. James M Davis, who was sentenced in a Houston federal court, was facing up to 30 years in prison after pleading guilty in 2009 to three fraud and conspiracy charges.
Prosecutors say Stanford persuaded investors to buy certificates of deposit from his Caribbean bank, then used that money to bankroll a string of failed businesses and his own lavish lifestyle.
Davis is the former finance chief for Stanford's various companies. He testified that he and Stanford faked the bank's profits and fabricated documents to hide the fraud.


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If the city of New Orleans has been perhaps overly starstruck - even obsessed - with the upcoming HBO series Treme, blame our relentless optimism. After all, for the past 70 years, at least, from Bette Davis to Dennis Quaid, New Orleans has borne the indignity of questionable representation on film.
Treme, the subject of major local buzz for over a year, is (of course) spearheaded by the well-reputed TV impresario David Simon, consulted upon by the less-well-reputed-in-a-good-way local musician Davis Rogan, and written in part by acclaimed New Orleans scribes Tom Piazza and Lolis Eric Elie. It has a good chance - a really, really good chance - of getting it right. Finally. (And we excuse writer David Mills' end-of-panel mispronunciation of 'Liuzza's By The Track' - props to him just for going there for a frosty goblet of Abita Amber.)
The Treme writers also spoke on a panel at last year's Tennessee Williams Festival, which I did not attend, so it's possible that they there grappled with the more interesting global issues that faced them while trying to translate weird, wonderful, heartbreaking, hybrid post-Katrina New Orleans into 12-odd hours of cable television.
In the hour allotted for today's panel, though, it was a bit of a letdown to hear the four writers - Simon, Piazza, Elie, Mills and co-creator and part-time New Orleans resident Eric Overmyer, moderated by Times-Picayune columnist Dave Walker - spend 42 minutes of the allotted 60 discussing the nuts and bolts of writing for television. We learned that the writers do sit in an actual 'writer's room,' around a table, to brainstorm the episodes; that they use index cards and magic markers to keep track of ideas; and that once each episode is fully mapped out by the team, each writer in turn then actually takes one skeleton episode home and writes it himself.
"It's the closest I've come to being on a sports team," said Piazza, for whom Treme is the first foray into writing for television.
For a writerly audience, the logistics were, apparently, interesting enough. The ballroom at the Royal Sonesta, the festival's largest venue, was nearly full and mostly rapt. At the end, a clutch of festgoers swarmed the writers, cornering them beside the stage snapping endless photographs.
Probably, they were pumped up by the brief but compelling final 18 minutes of the panel. Mills won major points by announcing that the season had employed, by his count, 50-75 local musicians. Simon compounded their credibility by commenting that "the culture of New Orleans was the force that brought New Orleans back after Katrina, in 1000 individualistic ways. It was a force to be reckoned with, even more so than the overtly political forces that were arranged after the storm."
Piazza, who wrote two of the first cohesive post-Katrina texts, "Why New Orleans Matters," and "City of Refuge," addressed the rather hackneyed critical accolade often thrown at media about New Orleans.
"The reviewers said, New Orleans is a character in the story, New Orleans is a character," he said.
"The show really is grounded in character."
Former Times-Picayune columnist Elie picked up the idea and ran with it.
"This is not our essay on how the levees should have been better," he said. "This is our story of how people survived that circumstance."
That is - sure, New Orleans is a character. But more importantly, New Orleans is made up of characters - individuals dealing in their own ways with a strange and wonderful city, and the blow that it's been dealt. Even though the Treme writing team only had a few minutes to address that idea, it seems like they have their task well in hand.
"I think this has the best shot anything's actually had of getting at the essence of New Orleans," Piazza said.
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Woman faces charges after car crashes into Jeffersonville home
UPDATED 4:42 PM EDT Apr 29, 2013
A Florida woman faces charges after a car crash in Jeffersonville.
Indiana State Police responded to a report of a car that crashed into a home on River Wood Drive off Utica Pike early Monday morning.
The homeowner told troopers the driver took off.
Shawna Fields was arrested a few blocks away.
She faces several charges including battery and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.
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Ending her world tour with Enrique Iglesias in Miami this weekend, Jennifer Lopez made a splash Thursday in the SLS pool on South Beach with Casper Smart and her adorable twins Emme and Max.
Clad in a sexy strapless yellow bikini with her hair up in a bun, Lopez, 42, spent time in the pool with her 4-year-old children and a smiling, doting Casper, 25.
"It was very hot and humid when the couple and her kids were swimming," a source tells PEOPLE. "Casper looked like he was really into playing with the kids in the pool. They looked like a happy family."
Smart showed off his strengths, carrying Emme on his shoulder and launching her into the air. Wearing a cute red-and-white bikini, she was doing little dances and prances, smiling and having a blast, says the source.
At one point, the children were playing with swim toys while Lopez and Smart were teasing each other and laughing on a lounge.
"They were kidding each other, making jokes and enjoying the late summer afternoon," the source adds. "They looked both energized and relaxed."
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THE Manufacturing Circle on Wednesday welcomed further designations made by the Department of Trade and Industry for public sector procurement.
On Tuesday, the department designated valves, manual and pneumatic motors, electrical and telecommunication cables, and components of solar water heaters for local production and content in public sector procurement. It said that public procurement was one of the key levers in the Industrial Policy Action Plan (Ipap).
The items added by the department in December 2011 included power pylons, rolling stock, buses, TV set-top boxes, canned vegetables, clothing, textiles, footwear and leather products.
The department said the national Treasury would in "due course" circulate instruction notes regulating how government departments and public entities could procure designated products. The notes would set minimum local content thresholds.
On Wednesday, Manufacturing Circle executive director Coenraad Bezuidenhout called on "all entities" in national, local and provincial government, and the private sector, to "immediately align their tenders and procurement with this step".
"All entities and departments across government spheres should align themselves with this step immediately in recognition of the importance of the national goal of promoting sustainable economic growth and achieving shared prosperity through employment," he said.
Mr Bezuidenhout said that in the past, line departments in national government and local authorities had been found "particularly wanting in this regard".
The private sector had yet to take "meaningful steps" in aligning with local procurement, as agreed, he said. "Business has to make good on the position of the Business Unity South Africa-led contingent during the New Growth Path discussions of 2011."
The Manufacturing Circle is made up of a number of South Africa's leading medium-sized to large manufacturing companies, in a range of industries.
On Wednesday, it also said that domestic demand for locally manufactured goods was under "severe pressure" because of the "proliferation of unfairly incentivised and illegal imports".


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It was there that he posed for one of his last photographs, with fellow entertainment icons Dick Van Patten, 85, and Mel Brooks, 87, for a snapshot taken March 30.
It's classic Mickey – he's grinning broadly, clearly thrilled to be soaking up another spring Sunday in California with old friends who, as octogenarians, could have been his younger brothers.
"Mickey was fine. He seemed terrific. But I guess when you're 93 …" Van Patten told PEOPLE of Rooney, who died Sunday.
Van Patten also reflected on Rooney's marvelous career and his broad array of talents. "He was my idol," said the Eight Is Enough star. "He could do everything. He was a wonderful actor. He could sing. He could dance. He could play instruments. Unbelievable."


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Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks records, 1962-2006
The Commission for the Preservation of Pioneer Jewish Cemeteries and Landmarks was formed in 1962 to assist in the preservation of pioneer Jewish cemeteries located in the California Mother Lode.
Cogan (Sara) research files, 1969-1980
Sara Cogan worked as a bibliographer for the Western Jewish History Center of the Judah L. Magnes Museum from 1967 through the mid-1970s.
California Alliance of Jewish Women records, 1922-1958
Organized in 1921 to assist Jewish college students, particularly those at the University of California at Berkeley.
Caminetsky (Michael) papers, 1869-1970.
Michael Caminetsky was born in Russia. In 1882, he immigrated to and settled in Winnipeg, Canada.
Cohen (Mordecai Simon) letters and marriage contract, 1888-1889.
Jewish scholar and resident of San Francisco, Calif.
Cohen (Wolf) family papers, 1924-1981.
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Cohn (Henry) papers, 1852-1953
Henry Cohn was born in 1831 in Dobrzyn, a town on the Polish-Prussian border.
Cohn (Mary) papers, circa 1930-1971
Mary Cohn was born in China; she also lived in Hawaii and in San Mateo, California.
The collection contains Mary Cohn's papers and a few photographs of her and members of her family.
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Courtesy: Maqsood Ahmad Malik, Deputy Director, Directorate General of Archeology Youth Affairs, Sports, Archeology and Tourism Department
A monitoring mission from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO)is in Lahore to assess whether the Lahore Fort and Shalamar Gardens can be removed from its list of endangered world heritage sites.
The mission would review the steps taken by the government to preserve the two sites during a four-day stay in Lahore and then compile an inspection report for UNESCO. Both sites were placed on UNESCO's list of important world heritage sites in 1981. They were added to the endangered list in 1999 after the irrigation water system at Shalamar Gardens was demolished. Two projects to conserve these two sites at a cost of Rs300 million each are underway.
Experts from the Archaeology Department have completed indoor work at the two sites. The outdoor work is still underway.
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George Lovell Banks Research
Research page for George L. Banks.
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Orin and Olive (Brown) Banks (Chapman, Connelley)
Had 11 siblings (Chapman), 8 of whom were still alive in 1888 (Chapman).
Wife 1: Miss Olive "Ollie" Chandler (Chapman, Duncan). Olive W. Chandler (Connelley, Kansas)
From wife 1: William N., of Montgomery County, Kan. (b. 1865), Charles B. (b. 1866), and Arthur A. (b.1873) (Chapman, Duncan, Connelley). Were all in Montgomery Co. Kansas in 1903 (Duncan).
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Company C, 15th Indiana Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
6 June 1861 — Enlisted Valparaiso, IN
The Battle of Stones River
George Banks was the color bearer for the 15th Indiana at the battle of Stones River. The 15th was under the direct command of Lt. Col. Gustavus Wood. The regiment was part of Col. George D. Wagner's 2nd Brigade, part of Brig. Gen. Thomas J. Wood's First Division. The First Division was one of three divisions in Maj. Gen. Thomas L. Crittenden's Left Wing of the Army of the Cumberland. On 30 December 1862, Crittenden's Left Wing was arrayed north-south along the west bank of the river. Crittenden was supposed to cross Stones River and set up artillery to bombard the Confederate right from above. However, Maj. Gen. Alexander M. McCook on the Union right was not informed that this would occur. He thought Crittenden would be attacking along the west side of the river. Early on the morning of the 31st, Crittenden sent Brig. Gen. Horatio P. Van Cleve's division across the river. However, the Confederates attacked heavily on the Union's right (west side) and Crittenden had to call off the plan to cross the river, and instead moved south. Gen. Wood's First Division then became the Union's left, positioned between the river and the Nashville Pike. The 15th Indiana did not engage Gen. Polk's forces until around 10:30 AM. They were with the rest of Wagner's brigade on the east side of Wood's line, immediately adjacent to the river, and were facing Brig. Gen. Daniel S. Donelson's First Brigade. They managed to repulse Donelson's attack. By afternoon, Wagner's Brigade was facing heavy attack from several detached regiments on the Confederate right. The 15th Indiana repulsed part of Brig. Gen. John K. Jackson's brigade. CSA Brig. Gen. Daniel W. Adams then moved his entire brigade forward to take the artillery of Capt. Jerome B. Cox's 10th Indiana Battery. For a third time the 15th Indiana repulsed the Confederate advance, sustaining heavy losses (187 men). Corporal Banks carried the flag so far forward into the attack that a Lieutenant Davis (likely 1st Lt. Andrew F. Davis) had to physically pull him back. On 3 January, after the Confederates sustained tremendous losses from Union artillery, and with fresh Union reinforcements joining the battle, Gen. Bragg moved his Confederate army south to Tullahoma, TN. The regimental flag of the 15th Indiana was tattered and torn, shot through by 52 balls and a cannon ball, and its flag staff was shattered. Banks himself sustained no wounds, but he had two holes in his hat, four in his shirt, his haversack was shot through, and his canteen shot off his body. After the battle, the ragged regimental colors were sent back to Indianapolis.
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Party: Republican (Chapman, Duncan, Connelley)
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Medal of Freedom Re-Invigorates Vivian Civil Rights Icon Sees Honor As A Platform
By Carrie L. Williams Contributing Writer | 8/23/2013, 6 a.m.
ATLANTA - Being awarded the prestigious Presidential Medal of Freedom is no occasion to "ego trip", as 89-year-old civil rights activist C.T. Vivian sees it.
Instead, the honor that President Barack Obama will soon bestow upon him is what Vivian considers a launching pad for a new wave of advocacy on behalf of the poor, marginalized and disenfranchised in our society.
A film crew from CNN recently converged on the Rev. Dr. Cordy Tindell Vivian's Atlanta home to record his reaction to being tapped as a Medal of Freedom recipient. He will be among 16 individuals – including Oprah Winfrey and former President Bill Clinton – to receive the medal this year. And Vivian will join the ranks of other Atlanta Civil Rights Movement icons – the Rev. Joseph Lowery, Congressman John Lewis, and former Ambassador Andrew Young – who have previously received the highest accolade a U.S. President can give.
With the Atlanta Voice sitting close by, Vivian told CNN anchor Fredricka Whitfield that the international exposure that comes with receiving the Medal of Honor would renew his vigor "to get some things done that we haven't been able to get done".
"An Atlanta public engagement movement could prove to be a model for the country, where we could share our lessons learned with others, through the technology we now have" added Vivian, the president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) and a pioneering strategist for urban education.
"The question is: Do we have the will?"
Vivian travels to Washington, D.C. this weekend to participate in the commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington, and to press political leaders to help preserve voting rights for minorities.
His interview with Whitfield will air on CNN as part of the cable news network's coverage of commemoration events.


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Lancaster collection gets new $8.6 million home
LANCASTER -- "Lancaster County's attic" has a new home.
That includes the ostrich egg from the Colonial-era Juliana library, the Oscar statuette awarded to RCA for making the first color picture tube, leather buckets from Lancaster's Union Fire Company No. 1 and donated pewter, handmade cradles and racks of paintings.
Those items, 2,750 in all from the Heritage Center collection, have formally joined the 15,000 artifacts from LancasterHistory.org in a newly renovated and expanded facility.
The $8.6 million "Campus of History," at Marietta and President avenues in Lancaster Township, will open to the public Feb. 1. Between now and then, LancasterHistory.org will be closed as it prepares to open the doors of the 35,000-square-foot building.
"We're moving 300 years of history," LancasterHistory.org Chief Executive Tom Ryan said of the delicate task.
The organization plans to continue its downtown Lancaster presence. Its storefront gallery, at 4 W. King St., just off Penn Square, also will reopen Feb. 1.
The campus expansion offers more than twice the space of the organization's previous headquarters. It includes larger galleries and research rooms, lecture halls and a theater.
The public will also have access to the lower level where many stored items will be visible behind glass along the long corridor. A cell-phone application is being developed to provide information for the pieces of Lancaster County's history.
"There's a little bit of everything," Ryan said.
LancasterHistory.org -- the organization formed in 2009 with the merger of the Lancaster County Historical Society and the Wheatland foundation -- began the 20,000-square-foot expansion more than a year ago.
The Heritage Center board offered its collection to LancasterHistory.org, including the 82 quilts of the famous Esprit quilt collection. The transfer of that collection was approved earlier this month by a county Orphans Court judge.


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Lebanon boy assaulted, robbed
Cash, iPod taken from victim
Published 1:33 PM EDT Mar 26, 2013
Two 15-year-old boys assaulted and robbed a Lebanon boy, according to police.
Police said the victim told them he met the boys Monday night in the 300 block of Federal Street to buy a game system.
Investigators said the boys assaulted the victim and took $40 cash as well as his iPod.
They were charged with robbery, criminal conspiracy and simple assault.
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Room is still available for players ages 10-18 to sign up for the North Idaho College's Cardinal Heat position play offensive camp and pitcher's camp July 23-26 at Finucane Park, located on the northwest corner of Prairie Avenue and Fourth Street in Hayden.
Instructing at the camps will be NIC Head Softball Coach Don Don William, NIC players, Adelphi University Head Coach Paige Smith, Columbia Basin Head Coach Adrian Ochoa and University of Alabama-Birmingham Assistant Coach Holly Kzran.
The camp will be divided into two heats with one specifically for pitching skills and the other a position play/offensive heat camp. The position play offense camp will run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and the pitcher's camp will go from 7:45 to 9:45 a.m. each day.
The bonus pitcher's camp is only available to campers participating in the position play offense camp.
Participants in the pitching heat will receive instruction on pitching mechanics and will work directly with some of the National Junior College Athletic Association's top pitching coaches. Pitchers will receive speed development, spin work for different pitches, fielding and "the mental game."
Players participating in the position play/offensive heat camp will receive instruction on infield skills, outfield skills, catching, hitting, short game, base running and more.
Cost is $60 for the pitchers heat camp and $175 for the position play/offensive heat camp and includes a T-shirt and drawstring backpack. For a registration form, go to www.nicathletics.com, and under "Athletic Department" click on the "Camps, Clinics & Special Events" link to find the form.


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Huikahi Restorative CirclesLorenn Walker, Health Educator and Attorney, Hawaii
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The Huikahi Restorative Circle is a group reentry planning process involving the incarcerated individual, his or her family and friends and at least one prison representative. This article in the June 2010 issue of Federal Probation provides a history and philosophy of this restorative practice, as well as outcome data regarding those who have participated in the process, which show extremely high participant satisfaction rates as well as significantly less recidivism than current state of Hawai'i and national rates.
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