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Show #3820 Gerard Butler, and Elizabeth Cook.
PLUS: The New Sex Cereal; Hulk Pope; Gaucho Pope; and a Top Ten List.
" . . . . and now, with laser-like focus . . . . . . . . . David Letterman!
- "In less than 24 hours they decided on the leader of the Catholic Church. But it took a year to find a replacement for Regis."
It's Conclave 2013! Yeah, we know it's over but we need to make our money back on this.
There's a new cereal on the market designed to increase a man or woman's sexual performance. The item looks like it's going to be a big seller and now other cereal companies are trying to get in on the action. We take a look at one of the commercials.
We see a woman wondering what to have for breakfast. An animated bee buzzes her head with a suggestion.
We see the commercial for Honey Nut Cheerios. We change the voice of the bee.
HONEY NUT CHEERIO BEE: "Good morning! You want to start the day with something healthy and delicious?"
WOMAN: "You're a talking bee."
HONEY NUT CHEERIO BEE: "A talking bee . . . . with a sexually-charged new cereal."
WOMAN: "And it tastes good?"
HONEY NUT CHEERIO BEE: "It tastes good, and . . . I can make you feel even better!"
WOMAN: "Wow."
HONEY NUT CHEERIO BEE: "Honey Nut Cheerios. Want to see my stinger?"
People got so caught up in the excitement of the Papal Conclave and the new Pope. Now CBS is jumping on the bandwagon. We take a look at what they have planned.
ANNOUNCE: "Black smoke. No new pope . . . . . . . White smoke. A new pope has been elected . . . . . Green smoke. They've elected... Hulk Pope."
We see an angry Hulk wearing a Pope hat.
ANNOUNCE: "'Hulk Pope' . . . . Coming this fall to CBS."
The new Pope is from Argentina. Dave doesn't know much about Argentina . . . what he knows about Argentina you could fit in Ecuador . . . But what he does knows about Argentina is the Argentine pampas, the wide open lowlands. And on those lowlands you would find gauchos. And lo and behold, tonight on Broadway we have the Gaucho Pope! We cut to Broadway to find the Pope on horseback riding down Broadway.
Dave takes out pencil and does some figuring.
DAVE: "The outfit for the Pope . . . the rider . . . the horse . . . . was the laugh worth it?"
Dave isn't sure if all that was worth the money spent. But when he learns we have the horse and the Pope all night, well, he decides he will get as much out of this as he can. He "asks" if we can get the Pope to ride north on Broadway against the traffic. Since we all live in Dave's world, YES! Yes, we can get the Pope to ride the wrong way on Broadway. We cut back outside to find the horse slowly making a U-turn. Dave is delighted. He feels so much better now.
Tony Mendez, our cue card guy Tony Mendez who used to do a show on the Late Show website, had his taxes done recently by a professional. His ex-wife used to do the taxes, but now that they've separated he takes his taxes out. Tony decided to video his visit to his tax preparer in something called, ""Tony Does His Taxes."
We see Tony in his tax accountant's office. Tony has a shoebox of receipts and is throwing them on the desk of the accountant. The accountant is confused. We soon find out why.
ACCOUNTANT:"I don't do taxes. I'm a taxidermist." The camera widens to show the office is filled with dead heads on the wall. The camera zooms in on each one by one, accompanied by a psycho sting.
TONY: "I thought you were just a weird accountant." Tony collects his receipts and says, "I'll take the armadillo. Wrap it up!" And exits.
Back to Dave who is again doing some figuring. The actor . . . the stuffed animals . . . the props . . . . was the laugh worth it?
On the information blue card, I typed: "The History Channel is receiving its best ratings ever for its 10-part mini-series 'The Bible.'" I added an additional line: "The final episode will be shown on Easter Sunday." I was hoping that would spring Dave into a, "Oooh, Easter Sunday! I'm not going to tell you how it ends!"
10. "Leviticus and Shirley"
9. "Gomorroh Five-0"
8. "Curb Your Polytheism"
7. "Abstinence in the City"
6. "Monk"
5. "I Dream of Jesus"
4. "Parks and Resurrection"
3. "Two and a Half Wise Men"
2. "The Big Bang Theory Is A Lie"
1. "S#*! My God Says"
During the commercial break I went out on stage to deliver something. I was then told to get to wardrobe. I have to get into a police uniform. And with that, I'm off! I see nothing more of tonight's show.
GERARD BUTLER - He stars in the new action thriller, "Olympus Has Fallen."
We go outside to see what's up with the Gaucho Pope. Hey, the pontiff is getting a ticket from a copper for riding the wrong way. I imagine he knows somebody and can get the thing squashed.
ANNOUNCE: "Be back here tomorrow as Dave welcomes Seth Meyers, comedian Demetri Martin, and Dropkick Murphys. I was in your basement and I noticed evidence of termites. You should call an exterminator. Never mind why I was in your basement."
She's the host the Sirius/XM radio show, "Elizabeth Cook's Apron Strings" on the Outlaw Country station on Channel 60. The show airs weekdays from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM (Eastern Time). Elizabeth sticks around to perform "If I Had My Way I'd Tear This Building Down" from her EP, "Gospel Plow." While I was still outside with the Pope and the horse, I saw 4 marching band members come out to take pictures. I learned they were from the band. I remember Elizabeth Cook being fun and talented the last time she was here. I'll be giving this show and her performance a look-see for sure.
And that was our show for Thursday March 14, 2013.
While I was getting into my cop uniform, I figured I would be giving the Pope a summons. I ran outside and then had to wait. I wasn't officially told what I had to do till right before I was cued. I was positioned and was ready to write the summons. I asked like a ventriloquist if we were on. I also asked if we were miked up and if they could hear us in the audience. If not, I asked to be cued when to write the summons and when to hand the summons to the Pope. I had no eyes or ears. I was going blind. If I was told when to rip off the summons, I didn't hear it. I was writing gibberish onto a blank sheet of Police memo book paper and had little idea how long I should scribble. When I sense I did enough, I ripped the "ticket" from the memo book and handed it written-side down to the Pope. It was given written-side down because I didn't want those at home with the HD to be able to read my nonsensical scribblings. As it turned out, it turned out well.
I was asked to go to the edit room to do a quick voice over for a piece. I had one line to do, my favorite kind of work. I get to the edit room and there is a guy already in the announce booth doing the major part of the piece. My line will be a quick add-on at the end. I like getting to the edit room to watch how a professional voice-over artist does their job. I'm embarrassed to be in the same club as them. Anyway, he does his bit and while he's packing up to leave, I do mine. I rush out when I'm done to the elevator and the guy who was in the announce booth before me is already waiting for the elevator. We do some quick chit-chat. He says he was sitting in the edit room waiting for his assignment and watched the piece about the sex cereal with the Honey Nut Cheerio bee being voice. He says to me, "I couldn't believe it . . . I'M THE HONEY NUT CHEERIO BEE!" The actual Honey Nut Cheerio Bee in the commercials? "YEAH!" And then he gives me a quick sample of his Bee. Did he tell anyone in the edit room? No. He says he didn't want to seem pushy and maybe elbow a fellow voice-over guy out of a gig. So here we were doing a joke about the Honey Nut Cheerio Bee and we had the ACTUAL Honey Nut Cheerio Bee in the very same room. And we didn't use him.
We actually probably did him a favor. I'm sure he wouldn't want what happened to the Geico lizard.
When I heard there was a new sex cereal, I thought, "Trix?"
I was talking to Tony Cue Cards after the show. When he was introducing his piece during the show, he told Dave that his ex-wife used to do the taxes. He was hoping Dave would ask his ex-wife's name. Tony was prepared to say, "Sue." That would have been Dave's cue to repeat, "Sue?" to which Tony would reply "Si." Dave would follow that with, "And what does she do for a living?" Tony: "Sew."
If the Holy Spirit guides the Cardinals on whom to elect as Pope, then why isn't it unanimous?
Did you enjoy Pi Day? We all know Pi equals 3.14 etc etc etc. But what is Pi really?
The distance around the circle is called the circumference.
The distance across the circle is called the diameter.
Pi is the circumference divided by the diameter and it will always be the same . . . . pi.
My daughters are going to the St. Patrick's Day Parade in the city on Saturday. The big St. Patrick's Day Parade is usually held on March 17th except when the 17th is a Sunday, then it's held the day before. My girls, 17 years old, haven't experienced the under-age drinking yet but I'm sure it'll come someday. I'd prefer it happen when they are college aged but not while they are in college. I don't want them to experience the "too much" for the first time while they are far from home. I want them near home so I can wag my finger at them, hoping they don't smell the beer on my breath while I admonish them. I've told them there will come a time when they partake in the festivities of St. Patrick's Day and it is very important to know WHO and WHY we celebrate St. Patrick. I don't want them to be caught unaware if confronted by a snoot. It's my advice to all: If you're going to act like an ass on St. Patrick's Day, at least know why.
Friday is the Ides of March. Paul and the band will play "Vehicle" by the Ides of March. Tell me if you notice anything interesting about the playing of the song.
Columbo thinks it was Brutus, on the Capitol steps, with the knife.
From Lakewood, Washington, it's Charles Ames
This concludes another installment of CAMEO MENTION OF A WAHOO READER
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Pima County Community College District Standard Practice Guide
SPG Title: Building and Facilities Naming
SPG Number: SPG-5503/AA
Effective Date: 7/1/00
Approval Date: 2/1/00
Review Date(s): 2/7/02, 3/15/07, 12/9/09
Revision Date(s): 2/7/02, 3/15/07, 12/9/09
Schedule for Review & Update: Annually
Unit Responsible for Review & Update: PCC Foundation
Sponsoring Unit/Department: PCC Foundation
Regulation Title & No.: Building and Facilities Naming, RG-5503/A
Board Policy Title & No.: Building and Facilities Naming, BP-5503
Legal Reference:
Cross Reference: Receipt of Gifts, BP-5502
The Board of Governors may approve the naming of buildings and facilities under its jurisdiction for the benefit of the College, providing that the naming honors an individual, family, foundation, corporation, or organization, or the naming recognizes a financial gift, is lawful, and reflects the mission, values, and best interests of the College.
The Chancellor will bring forward to the Board of Governors those recommendations endorsed by the Chancellor's Cabinet. The Pima Community College Board of Governors has final approval for facilities naming. The Board shall delegate to the Chancellor's Cabinet in collaboration with the Pima Community College Foundation the following nominating processes and financial criteria for deserving individuals, families, foundations, corporations, or organizations.
Dedicating Classrooms and Facilities
Classrooms and facilities other than entire buildings may be dedicated to honor distinguished employees, whether retired or deceased, or other individuals for whom evidence of extraordinary service to the College or their discipline is demonstrated.
Names of living or deceased employees or other individuals may be considered for nomination for unusually significant and meritorious service to the College, State, or nation. Candidates may be nominated by the President's Cabinet from any campus, the DO (M&S) Executive Committee, or the PCC Foundation Board of Directors. The PCC Board of Governors may nominate candidates through a campus, DO, or Foundation sponsor.
The nominating unit shall provide a portfolio of accomplishments for a candidate. The purpose of the portfolio is to demonstrate substantial evidence for the following applicable criteria:
- Excellence in teaching or services to students or faculty at Pima Community College (faculty, staff)
- Leadership in Campus and District committees, task forces, councils (faculty staff, and others)
- National and/or international recognition of scholarship or contributions to a discipline (Faculty)
- Innovation, major accomplishments, and recognition (staff and others)
- Statewide or national office holder, or other significant recognition (others)
- Service to Tucson, Arizona, or the Nation (faculty, staff, others)
- Specific, unique contribution to Pima Community College (faculty, staff, others)
The portfolio will include the following:
- A dossier or curriculum vitae of the nominee
- A one to two page justification for nomination including significant contributions addressing the relevant criteria
- At least three letters of support from colleagues, students, administrators, other institutions, and/or community leaders
- A one page justification for the request for the dedication of a specific facility
- Letters of support from the Faculty Senate, Staff Council, and Student Government
The PCC Foundation will appoint an ad hoc nominating committee to screen portfolios once a year (if necessary). The ad hoc committee will be comprised of at least one faculty member, a staff member, an administrator, a community member, a PCC Foundation board member, and a student. Finalists' portfolios will be presented to the Chancellor's Cabinet for consideration.
Once the Chancellor's Cabinet makes a selection, the original nominating unit will present the nomination at a regularly scheduled Board of Governor's meeting during the Chancellor's report. The Board shall hear the nomination and vote at the next regularly scheduled Board meeting providing one month for consideration and public comment.
The Board of Governors may not, however, recognize more than two dedications during a calendar year.
Current employees may not be nominated. Retired employees or deceased individuals may be nominated three years from his or her retirement date or death.
In Recognition of Financial Gifts
The naming of a building or a facility in recognition of a financial gift must also meet an ethical criterion in that the donor's intent for the gift must reflect the mission, values, and best interests of the College. The gift should also meet minimally the following financial criteria:
- A name proposed for a new building or facility so as to recognize a gift to the College may be considered when the gift represents at least 25 percent of the total cost.
- A name proposed for an existing building or facility so as to recognize a gift to the College may be considered when the gift represents at least 25 percent of the original cost.
- A name proposed for an existing but presently untitled facility under renovation may be considered when the gift represents 50-100 percent of the appraised value of an improvement or renovation (not less than $25,000).
- If multiple facilities are contemplated as part of a capital campaign, specific room and facility naming opportunities and values must be established and approved by the Chancellor's Cabinet.
College staff and constituents are aware of the opportunity and the process for naming buildings and facilities.


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Welcome, Wake Forest History Alumni!
Please send us stories and pictures about your travels, careers, or any other developments.
- Leah Schenkel is a Volunteer Coordinator for AmeriCorp VISTA. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com
- Gavin Smith entered Wake Forest University in the early 1990s but left early to build a successful career in broadcast media. He returned in 2009 to complete his B.A. in history. Since graduating in December 2010, he has launched a venture with other partners that combines social and traditional media to meet the marketing needs of the pharmaceutical industry. He will enter the MBA program at William & Mary Mason School of Business in fall 2011 where he will focus on International Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital.
- Timothy Williams received his Ph.D. in United States History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2010. He is currently revising his dissertation, entitled "Intellectual Manhood: Becoming Men of the Republic at a Southern University, 1795-1861," into a book. In 2011, he accepted a position as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of South Carolina's Institute for Southern Studies.
- Pollyanna Rheereceived her M.A. from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. She is working on her Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture at Columbia University. Her work focuses on the relationship between the social sciences, media, and architecture in Trans-Atlantic contexts during the early to mid-twentieth century.
- Read a story about Nikolai Vitti work as superintendent of Duval (FL) County Public Schools in the Wake Forest Magazine.
- Arthur Ralston taught for five years at Grimsley High School in Greensboro before moving to NYC. He has been teaching at Hastings High School in Hastings-on-the-Hudson, NY, for the past eight years. He earned a Masters in History at Norwich University. His thesis, entitled "The Second Casualty of War: The Campaign Against Dissent in New York City during World War I," has been added to the permanent collection at the New York Historical Society.
- Allen Bevins is Senior Vice President and Director of Global Arts and Heritage Programs at Bank of America, where he oversees their extensive collection of historical artifacts including paintings, presidential bank records, and money. Read more about his work here.
- Richard Bidlack is Professor of History at Washington and Lee University. His book, coauthored with Russian historian Nikita Lomagin, entitled The Leningrad Blockade, 1941-1944: A New Documentary History from the Soviet Archives was published in 2012 by Yale University Press as part of the Annals of Communism series. Professor Bidlack first developed a deep interest in Russian history in the summer of 1976, when he took part in a study tour of the Soviet Union with Professors Anne and Lowell Tillett. The excellent liberal arts education he received at Wake Forest University, exemplified by the close interaction between faculty and students, continues to shape how he approaches his work as a professor of history at Washington and lee University.
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THE PERSONAL life of Sharon Reed, the Channel 10 anchor, makes Page 3 of the Daily News.
Her relationships with the men she chooses to date are of no interest to me. I think it's pretty low when news reporters, radio personalities and journalists start attacking each other and dragging names in the mud.
I would have rather seen Page 3 (or even Page 1) filled with news about the symposium on black concerns that was held at Sharon Baptist Church on Saturday. As a matter of fact, I didn't see any article in your paper about it.


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Getting High Discussion Thread
I'm sure most of you have done it some point in your life.
I don't smoke Marijuana, I have once with some buddies in High School, but yeah.
How many of you do, and how relaxing is it for you or how does it affect you?
My experience I remember very clearly, I was relaxed and had a good time, but now looking back I still don't know if I would do it again, who knows.
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I smoke weed at least twice every weekend. Sometimes more. There are nights where I smoke 2-3 times. Its relaxing and i do it with my friends so its fun.
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I have rheumatoid arthritis and I smoke a lot, it really helps. A lot of people don't want to smoke weed because it's associated with losers and lazy people. Weed makes me more ambitious, so I don't have that problem. I'll get a million more things done high and done better as well as opposed to doing it sober.
The world would be a much better place if we all smoked.
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Drug addicts are losers.
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I don't see the whole "thrill" of it.That's maybe because weed is overpriced and shit in Ireland really.That being saidI do smoke on the odd occasion though ,but only good stuff.It's great just to smoke up ,relax and chill listing to a bit of music or hang with friends.
Smoking every day is horriblethough ,I pretty much did it everyday ,two or three years ago.Not my thing ,I much rather a night in a club or pub .It's cheaper here.
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I've never smoked, but I'm not a hardcore anti-drug lunatic. In fact, based on everything I've read, marijuana NEEDS to be legalized.
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I smoke weed on a consistent basis. It's good.
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i never understood the people who get high and say they go out and accomplish all this shit, they call it getting stoned for a reason. it opens your mind, you become more mentally stimulated, but less physically stimulated. it depends on the type of weed too, i've had weed that gave me the opiate get up and go feeling which is good, but most of the time it doesn't do that.
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I like a joint every now and then. I'm not as good as I once was but I'm as good once as I ever was.
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Research Resources
Teaching Materials
Prosperity, Depression and War: American Images 1920-1945
Lewis Hine, Icarus Atop the Empire State Building ca. 1922
From the end of World War II to the stock market crash of 1929 that began the great Depression, American energies were devoted primarily to domestic prosperity, national and individual. A retreat from international engagements and a resurgence of isolationism on the international front, and an increasingly anti-regulatory and pro-business policy at home made for a divisive relationship between the broad culture and the artistic and intellectual leaders. While American artists and writers found ways to leave the 'States' for the expatriate communities of Paris, Berlin and elsewhere, they also formed similar expatriate communities in the major cities of the US, notably New York City's Greenwich Village. And they retreated into more austere locales like Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, forming artists colonies that attracted not just their own, but others seeking a similar experience.
On the larger front, though, the '20s were marked by a rapid rise in mass and popular culture: magazines and illustrated journals, popular novels and the like, but most notably the movies.
Russell Lee, Hands of a Farm Woman, ca. 1936
With the onset of the Great Depression, however, expatriates lost the capital to stay away, and artists and intellectuals felt a newly urgent need to speak to, for, and with the broader culture. The election of a liberal/social democratic administration in the form of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal lent optimism to this turn back toward the center of the culture, and provided as well the promise of work, ranging from the WPA (Works Progress Administration) with its writers projects, guidebook sponsorship, and its many commissioned works of public art, to the FSA (Fram Security Administration), which sponsored a cadre of photographers to travel the nation photographing the troubles of farmers and citizens alike.
Norman Rockwell, Freedom of Speech from The Four Freedoms, 1943
With the onset of World War II, many of these artists and photographers turned to the face of wartime America, enthusiastically embracing a new role as providers of propaganda and wartime information. The FSA's evolution into the OWI (Office of War Administration) is a case in point; photographers, writers and artists found new work in this administration, providing war posters, war bond advertisements, photographs of wartime factory production, and the like.


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Commencement Weekend Schedule
Schedule of Events
All graduating students, their families and guests are invited. (No tickets needed.)
The Cathedral is handicapped accessible. Parking is at a premium, although there are parking lots and garages in the vicinity. Please allow yourself ample time to find parking.
Please see the attached map for available parking locations adjacent to the Cathedral of St. Paul. Please do not park in any lots that are shown as "No Parking" on this map, cars will be towed from private lots.
Baccalaureate Parking Map
This religious celebration is open to all seniors, their families and their guests. There is no limit to the number of people who may attend.
A list of hotels and restaurants in the Worcester area are available online at: http://www.socialweb.net/Clients/Worcester/restaurants.lasso
Join us for a semi-formal dance party and dessert reception for all of those graduating and their families. The event will feature a live performance by "Goza," a latin music quartet. Click here for order form. (Tickets required, $15 per person for all graduating students, family and friends.)
Graduating students report in cap and gown.
Leaves Plourde Recreation Center
(Tickets are not required, and there is no limit on the number of guests who may attend.)
Graduates and their guests may celebrate with faculty at a dessert reception immediately following Commencement exercises. (No tickets needed.)
Academic Regalia (cap and gown)
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Moving Out of Residence Halls
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Commencement Mass
Friday May 10, 2013
St. Paul's Cathedral
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Commencemtent Soiree
Friday May 10, 2013
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I am breeding two NLxShivas over winter using natural light, now they have been flowering for around i don't know maybe two months....and i have stressed them big time into turning hermie so as to try and create fairly feminised seeds.
The pollen sacks are continuing to grow and pop and the hairs that do sprout out are soon withering back into the calyxs after coming into contact with the pollen.
However the seeds in the few calyxs i have picked off.. are very small and not yet viable.
Does anyone have any idea if it should take the same length of time to bud sinse plants as it does to produce seeds to maturity on a plant???
if not how long should it take???
I am looking at keeping myself in NL x Shiva seeds for a while and am quite pissed off at the lack of advancement they are making.
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I had a Lower Body Lift about 2 weeks ago after losing over 200 pounds. Am wondering when it would be safe to have sexual "activity." I'm just afraid to climax since the whole area down there feels so fragile. Drains are coming out Friday, so was hoping my wait would soon be over :) I should mention, my surgery did have complications. Low blood pressure caused by a hematoma, 2nd surgery to fix, and was discharged anemic.
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I would not recommend any strenuous activity for at least 6 weeks after your surgery or after the complication was corrected. Kenneth Hughes, MD Los Angeles, CA
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A body lift is a fairly involved procedure. I recommend no heavy lifting or strenuous activity for 5-6 weeks. Please talk to your PS about his/her recommendations. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
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Thank you for the question! I hope that these answers help you! I typically have patients wait a few weeks (2-4 weeks), depending on the complexity and what was done during the procedure. Hearing your story, it may be a little longer since it will take some additional time for appropriate healing following your 2nd procedure, to allow for the additional swelling to subside, and have proper healing of your incisions.
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Why do boys always go for the pretty girls? They have to have the blonde hair and blue eyes! But what about the girls with dark hair and green eyes? Aren't they pretty too? Boys always go for the pretty girls, they want to look popular with those girls and be considered cool cause they go out with the "cute" girls! What's so cute about a ton of blonde cheerleaders thinking they're better then everyone else? In all the movies the blonde cheerleader has the guy at the beginning but then, in the end, the brunette get's him. Why can't it be like that in reality? Boys are so confusing. One moment they are together with the geeky girl, the next moment they are dancing at prom with a cheerleader. Why can't the girls that make sense and are beautiful in there own way be loved. Why are boys so cute, yet so hard.
Why are boys so confusing?
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megsloveslions said...
Jul. 16, 2011 at 4:08 pm
Jul. 16, 2011 at 4:08 pm
I don't think it has anything to do with the looks because I'm blonde with blue eyes and most guys don't like me, and the one that does is colorblind! lol
RandomInspiration replied...
Aug. 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Aug. 11, 2011 at 12:48 pm
Lmao the colorblind thing is hilarious!
megsloveslions replied...
Aug. 15, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Aug. 15, 2011 at 5:53 pm
Haha but true! lol
Tysondramafreak said...
Jul. 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm
Jul. 14, 2011 at 5:39 pm
its the exact oppisite at my school...if ur blonde (like me) u dont get the guys. unless ur a stupid cheerleader. then u r hooked for life
With-the-Wolves replied...
Jul. 22, 2011 at 11:47 am
Jul. 22, 2011 at 11:47 am
Hey! Have you ever even bothered to get to know a cheerleader. I'm a cheerleader and I have the best grades in my class. Actually, most everyone on the JH squad is really smart and nice
megsloveslions replied...
Aug. 15, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Aug. 15, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Yeha I think its more of tht ppl think of cheerleaders as blonde, blue eyed, and sorta bratty or popular or whatever, like in chic flicks and stuff. But I agree with you, my best friend is a cheerleader and she's really nice, but there are some that I no that can be really bratty, so it depends on the person and you shouldn't judge ppl by whether they are a cheerleader or not.
sophza replied...
Nov. 14, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Nov. 14, 2011 at 10:44 pm
Brunettes outnumber blondes on our cheer team, and the majority are super funny and smart. However, the cheer captain has a smile so big that looks like it will BITE YOUR HEAD OFF not even joking. She kinda scares me...
UnwantedNinja replied...
Dec. 29, 2011 at 2:22 am
Dec. 29, 2011 at 2:22 am
hahahaha Bite ur head !!!! funnii
CarolineF. said...
Jul. 5, 2011 at 7:38 pm
Jul. 5, 2011 at 7:38 pm
not always true i have blonde hair and blue eyes. I never really dated anyone, the few guys i dated always dated me to get to my friends and they all had brown hair. It sucked being used like that. Im not a cheerlead but i play ball so
russianreader said...
Jun. 20, 2011 at 2:46 pm
Jun. 20, 2011 at 2:46 pm
OMG!!! I TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS ARTICLE. All of the cute guys are either gay or they are with the 'popular' girls. what about the rest of us? the girls who are smart, but not ready to put themselves out there like the populars? we deserve cute cool guys too!!!
It's because we're not whores :) most of us anyway. ;)
that is soooo true if u dnt wear things to expose urself its like u never get any cool guy. But in truth and fact when some of the populars reach in the world its like they never exsisted!! AT ALL and the nerds so to speak are the ones you hear about.
MalloryR. said...
Jun. 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm
Jun. 12, 2011 at 12:09 pm
In my school, the "popular cheerleaders" are a mix of african american, asian, brunette, and blonde. i don't really think it has to do with hair color, its confidence. The "popular" girls are generally a lot more confident, which makes them seem prettier. The "geeky" girls are always hiding, never making an effort to be more confident. in reality, they won't be noticed because they don't try. Also, if you really wanted this article to be taken seriously, watch out for run on sentences and gramme... (more »)
rachelpark said...
Jun. 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Jun. 11, 2011 at 5:25 pm
Boys like what they see, so that's what they go for. They don't have the patience to go beyond a girl's looks to see them as who they really are. That's why they always go for the cheerleader type of girl, because that's what they think is beautiful. They're just too shallow to consider personality.
alwayskelley said...
Jun. 10, 2011 at 10:16 pm
Jun. 10, 2011 at 10:16 pm
omg you should come to my school! i have blonde hair and hazel eyes but all the guys i go for always fall for the tiny beautiful flirty brunettes :/ i think we should swich schools sound good to you??
Kobalt said...
Jun. 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm
Jun. 10, 2011 at 2:26 pm
I have very fark brown hair and green eyes and the guy thats been flirting with me aleays says if he wasnt dating (whoever he was at that particular time_) he would be dating me. Go figure every one of them is blonde
JoPepper said...
Jun. 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Jun. 4, 2011 at 5:56 pm
Hey..... I'm brunette with green eyes!!!!! But anyways I agree with you!!!!! I've always wondered the same thing!!!!!
Fate98 said...
Jun. 1, 2011 at 8:36 am
Jun. 1, 2011 at 8:36 am
It's some sort of law of life that the Man and women never understand each other. It must be the missing 11th comandment thy man and woman are never to understand one another
Hey that's funny I like! I know, I'm brunette and it feels like boys drool over blondes but ignore other pretty girls. Sometimes I wish guys could love or crush someone for their pretty PERSONALITY, not hair color. *sigh*
russianreader replied...
Jun. 20, 2011 at 2:51 pm
Jun. 20, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I'm a blonde with green eyes....no guys fall at my feet so it's definatly not hair color they like...
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A New Favorite - Lake Como, Italy
My favorite lakes:
New Hampshire's Winnipesaukee, mainly for family-nostalgia reasons (nearly 30 years a visitor to my in-laws' vacation home), though it is a lovely piece of northern New England real estate. However, the golf, with a couple of exceptions (Bald Peak, Lake Winnipesaukee Country Club), could be described as mostly mediocre.
Golf Club Villa D'Este
Lake Tahoe is magnificent, the snow-capped Sierras in the distance, dozens of fabulous tracks from Truckee to Edgewood-Tahoe and even more in the surrounding area.
Lake Taupo in New Zealand scores points, mainly because it's in New Zealand (the world's most delightful country) and the name is strikingly similar to Tahoe. High-quality golf tracks like Kinloch and Wairekei are also close at hand.
And then there's the magnificence, the grandeur of Lake Como in the north of Italy, not far from the Swiss border. Never before have I been privileged to see such steep mountain slopes looming directly above the shoreline, the hillsides dotted with ancient towns and villages, built ever more vertically above the lake itself.
Just in the small township of Laglio where we stayed there are dozens of winding staircases, 300 steps and more, climbing to hidden villas seemingly built directly into the hillside. Why are Italians so narrow-waisted despite the cappuccino and vino, the pasta, the veal, the gelato? Try climbing up and down 500 or more stairs a day. See what it does for your fitness level.
Menaggio is One of Italy's Oldest Courses
The roads around Lake Como, to the delightful villages of Bellagio, Cernobbio, Menaggio, etc., are comfortably wide for one-way traffic. Unfortunately, it's all two-way traffic, and with ancient stone walls hemming drivers in at every turn there is literally no way to bail out. The Italians drive with a practiced insouciance. The whole region is seemingly engaged in a high-speed game of "chicken" - at intersections, roundabouts, at yield or merge signs. I don't know if texting-while-driving has become an issue yet, but if and when it does watch out. The whole country will become a boot-shaped demolition derby.
Word to the wise: As you make your way to any of the seven golf courses that make up the Como Consortium, build in plenty of time prior to teeing off, and not only for the inevitable wrong turns that will make getting to the facilities an adventure. Because anyone not making a living on the NASCAR circuit will need ample time for relaxing and massaging the ligaments, joints and tendons in one's hands, which will be stiff - perhaps frozen - from the white-knuckle driving caused by that steering-wheel death grip.
Menaggio, one of the oldest golf courses in Italy, is also one of the most charming in Europe. It fits the peculiar geography of the region hand-in-glove: truncated in nature, designed like a staircase, descending and then ascending narrow ribbons of fairway to and from the elegant clubhouse. The clubhouse is the essence of La Dolce Vita, "the sweet life," with its zillion-dollar views of the lake, fine cuisine and a library with an unprecedented collection of thousands of golf books, many of which hail from previous centuries.
A Fall Golf Scene at Carimate
Sadly, there's no shimmering lake view from the course itself, which is sunken just below a modest ridgeline west of the clubhouse. The dominant geographic feature is a massive, near-vertical rock face looming to the west. A golfer's eye and craning neck can't help but be drawn repeatedly to the summit; it seems as if at any moment a hang glider will launch from far above.
Throughout the grounds there are ancient stone or wood buildings of indeterminate nature - farm sheds, storage bins, animal pens and the like. They add immeasurably to the ineffable charm of the place, with its rustic teeing grounds, abundance of steeply uphill par-3s, drive-and-flip-wedge par-4s, and greens as slow as grandma's shag carpeting. The 13th hole alone, a single-file par-5 tumbling downhill with a smattering of Dr. Seuss-style trees reminiscent of San Francisco's Olympic Club, is worth the price of admission alone.
In two-plus weeks throughout Italy I never found any evidence of grape-stomping winemakers. But the curious sight of barefoot maintenance crews were in evidence, both shoeless and clueless, riding atop fairway mowers with their feet precariously perched a hand's-width from the whirring blades.
A Water-Guarded Green at Carimate
Both Menaggio and Golf Club Villa D'Este have a similar sensibility in terms of overall land footprint. Topping out at about 6,000 or maybe 6,200 yards, they offer similar challenges to the much-admired recent U.S. Open venue, Merion. Like Philadelphia's finest, which boasts a unique mixture of very short and very long tests, these Italian iterations - shrunken by numerous tiny holes and the aforementioned par-3s, also have half-a-dozen holes per course that are all any golfer could want. Banging driver to fairways far below, spying the ball hanging - for a moment motionless in the ether, framed against the forested landscape in the near distance before dropping earthward - is one of the game's most elemental pleasures.
Carimate Golf Club is some miles farther inland from the lake, and therefore not as pinched in as other courses. Unlike the "4/5ths" sensibility seen elsewhere, Carimate is a full-bodied layout, not particularly long, but broad-shouldered in a way that is far more reminiscent of a typical American golf course. It is perfectly lovely, but lacking a smidgen of the charm and novelty of the courses closer to the lake.
Named after the neighboring eponymous town, one cannot help but think the "car" in Carimate is the vehicle of choice needed to negotiate the significant stretch of real estate between the second green and third tee, and then again from the seventh green to the eighth tee.
Golf Club Lecco in the Lake Como Region
In 820-plus courses played in more than 40 states and a dozen countries, this correspondent has crossed many roadways, byways, parkways, even the occasional bridge-over-the-interstate. But never before had I encountered an actual roundabout, made for vehicular traffic, smack in the middle of the playing fields. My first thought was wishing for the Garmin attached to the windshield back in my rental car, the better to negotiate to the next teeing ground. By the time I covered the quarter-or-so mile distance, in both directions, enough time had passed that I felt like I needed to warm up again.
The long commutes are worth the effort, as the five-hole stretch (a pair of par-4s and par-5s and a one-shotter) are strong and straightforward. Carimate doesn't have the garish elevation changes of the other Lake Como-area courses. Much of the up-and-down comes courtesy of the walk from the parking lot to the clubhouse and from the ninth green to 10th tee.
The facility most reminiscent of home is undoubtedly Golf Club Monticello, 36 holes of championship golf, with the Red Course serving as the host venue for the Italian Open on seven occasions. This is full-bodied golf: long and straightaway corridors, encroaching trees, daunting par-3s, slight elevation changes. It's easy to see why it has been the site of so many notable competitions, with the likes of Billy Casper, Sam Torrance, Sandy Lyle, Greg Norman and homegrown hero Constantino Rocca emerging victorious through the years.
Golf Club Monticello
The Blue Course has many of the same challenges as its older sibling, but the inward nine is a horse (course?) of a different color. Corkscrew fairways, wasp-waist landing areas and hairpin turns (reminiscent of all the nearby roadways) make it a gauntlet for all but the most precise ball-strikers. Put it this way: If the Italian Open was ever to be played on the Blue Course, the London bookmakers would install Fred Funk as the even-money favorite.
Of course the odds of "Fairway" Funk winning an Italian Open are just slightly longer than getting paired up Stateside with a gent who speaks seven languages. But that was exactly my good fortune at Monticello Golf Club when I met up with club member Roberto, a technician for the Swiss Ski Team, fluent in Italian, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic in addition to English. Also in our group: world-renowned skier and World Cup stalwart Fabienne Suter (you can look her up), who thankfully hits far more trees in summer (with her golf ball) then she does in winter on her skis.
"We love our golf here," enthuses Roberto, who spent years as a scuba-diving instructor in Cairo, explaining his proficiency in Arabic in addition to all of his romance language skills. "The game is delightful, despite our middling skill level. We Italians love the good life, whether it's fine wine, a delicious meal, a beautiful sunset, a sexy woman or a sleek sports car. Golf is just another of the pleasant diversions we enjoy, and golf in this part of the country, in close proximity to beautiful Lake Como, is even better."
For more information about golf in the Lake Como area, visit www.golflakecomo.com.
Joel Zuckerman, called "One of the Southeast's most respected and sought-after golf writers" by Golfer's Guide Magazine, is an award-winning travel writer based in Savannah, Ga. His seventh and latest book, entitled "Pro's Pros - Extraordinary Club Professionals Making Golf Great!" was released in June 2013. This is the first-ever golf book to shine the spotlight on the beating heart of golf - the unsung, yet hard-working club professional. Joel's course reviews, player profiles, essays and features have appeared in 110 publications, including Sports Illustrated, Golf, Continental Magazine and Delta's Sky Magazine. He has played more than 800 courses in 40-plus states and a dozen countries. For more about Joel, or to order this unique new book, visit www.vagabondgolfer.com.
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On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 12:01:39 -0400, Ezekiel wrote:
> http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa...-than-Leopard-
> Jeff Waugh, from Waugh Partners, an Australian **open source**
> consulting firm, commented that this result should not be seen as a
> guarantee that Ubuntu based systems are more secure.
> "Certainly one of the exploits [the Flash exploit], WOULD have allowed
> entry into the Linux system as well," said Waugh, who added that the
> lower penetration of Linux-based systems gave such systems a security
> advantage.
That, apparently, remains to be proved.
> "There are not a lot of people focusing on [Ubuntu], because it's not a
> high profile system. The kind of people participating in this event ...
> would want the crowning glory from finding something tasty in Windows or
> Mac OS X," Waugh said. Waugh said that this also highlighted that the OS
> is not the principal security weakness in a desktop.
If no one attacks it, that would seem to be a GOOD thing.


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The 64th WoodPussy Class Nationals were run on Saturday, Aug. 28th and 29th, at Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club in Oceanport, New Jersey as sanctioned by the United States WoodPussy Class Association.
Due to a variety of circumstances and conflicts the turnout was very light this year with only six boats participating and all were from local clubs. Regrettably none of the boats from the class's New York or Michigan fleets were able to attend.
Class defending 2009 champion Dan Vought from Monmouth Boat Club sailed a strong regatta under frustrating conditions to win his fourth WoodPussy National Championship. Extremely light and shifty winds plagued the regatta both days as only three of the five races planned were able to be completed. The boats were never able to leave the docks on Sunday due to lack of wind. Lee and Talbott Ingram of the host club officiated as the Principal Race Officers for the event. Final results were: Dan Vought of Monmouth Boat Club (MBC) 1st (2, 1, 1 - 4 points), John Garth of Shrewsbury Sailing and Yacht Club (SSYC) 2nd (1, 2, 3 - 6 points), Chris Pratt of SSYC 3rd (4, 3, 2 - 9 points), John Quinn of SSYC 4th (3, 4, 4 - 11 points), Tim Unsinn of MBC 5th (5, 5, 6 - 16 points) and Jack Foster of SSYC 6th (6, 6, 5 - 17 points). WoodPuusy related news and notes can be found on the class website at http://groups.
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Miley Cyrus to play "MTV Unplugged": The Video Music Awards firebrand will return to the network for a possibly toned-down take on her "Bangerz" material on Jan. 29. Cyrus' a cappella "We Can't Stop" with the Roots was one of last year's most charming music moments -- hopefully the special is more of the same. [Billboard]
Beats Music launches: The streaming alternative to Spotify and other services launches today, backed by Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor and online music savant Ian C. Rogers. Will you try it out? [Beats]
TxE's "Vs PRTLND" lands: The hip-hop trio's solid new album is out today, and it looks like this:
HUGE THANK YOU to the amazing @tinasnowle for all her hard work on the @TxEmusic cover!!!!!! pic.twitter.com/JU8Vdi3Cc7— TOPE (@itsTOPE) January 21, 2014
How Mary Lambert joined "Same Love": The singer says she was a "last resort" for the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis hit, which has rocketed her to stardom. She'll release an album on Capital Records this year. [The Associated Press]
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NEWELL-The hazards of policing are compounded when the one doing the policing is a German shepherd.
Dogs can't communicate the way people do, so it's up to the K-9 handler to read the symptoms if the dog is in distress, said Dr. Amy Chronister, veterinarian with Sunny Ridge Veterinary Services in Rogers, Ohio.
"The faster you act, the better chance you have of saving the dog's life," Chronister told a group of K-9 officers from across West Virginia on Tuesday.
Chronister taught a 90-minute class on dog first aid for the 20th annual state seminar of the West Virginia Police Canine Association, which is being hosted by the Hancock County Sheriff's Department. Seminar organizer Deputy 1st Class Scott Little said Chronister donated her services.
Focusing on German shepherds, Chronister talked about how to give a dog a physical, what to do if a narcotics dog ingests drugs, how to help a patrol dog that has been stabbed or shot, and what happens when a tracking dog is dehydrated.
Chronister suggests that K-9 officers keep a first aid kit in their cruisers containing a thermometer, a towel, a box of Saran Wrap or something similar, bandage material, hydrogen peroxide and syringes for dosing hydrogen peroxide.
The latter can be used to induce vomiting in a dog that has ingested certain drugs, she said, cautioning that the technique is not recommended if the dog has ingested poisonous chemicals.
Seven ounces of marijuana can kill a dog, and heroin can be absorbed within seconds, Chronister said.
"Of all the drugs your dog can get into, (heroin) is the most deadly. It takes a very small amount, so you'll want to act fast," she said. "If they sniff it as a powder, the lining in their noses is already absorbing it."
One "positive" aspect of heroin exposure is the fact that it slows down the digestive system, which gives the handler more time to induce vomiting, she said.
In addition to hydrogen peroxide, Chronister also recommends activated charcoal, which is used for a wide variety of toxic ingestion situations to prevent absorption and ease passage of the toxin.
Chronister said different actions are indicated depending on if the dog has ingested depressants, stimulants or hallucinogens. The best thing to do? "Get the dog to a vet," she said.
As for gunshot wounds, stabs, blunt trauma and bone breaks, Chronister said there's more that a handler can do. "If they're bleeding, you want to stop the bleeding. If their bone is broken, you want to stabilize it," she said.
Chronister recommends steady, constant pressure-not a tourniquet-to stop the bleeding. For open chest wounds, it's important to keep air from getting into the wound by using Saran Wrap and a binding agent, she said.
If an object is penetrating the dog, it should not be removed until taken to a veterinarian because it is doing the job of sealing the wound, she said.
For dehydration, look for gums that are tacky to the touch or panting with no saliva, she said. Get the dog to water and a cooler environment as soon as possible, she said.


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Preston Olinger is a typical teen in many ways - and a typical Type 1 diabetic. His body is unable to produce insulin, so he's forced to give himself injections.
"I always have snacks with me to eat and I always have insulin, but it's pretty much if I feel weird or feel my blood sugar is off just go and check it and correct it by eating something or having some insulin," says Olinger.
It's Type 2 diabetes that Julie Borkowski battles. Her body either doesn't produce enough insulin or doesn't use it properly. She controls it through medication.
"The doctor tests your blood and gives you a certain milligram of the pill you have to take to get into a normal range, which I haven't been," says Borkowski.
Health professionals are finding more people moving into a grey area, an in-between zone, sometimes called diabetes 1.5 - people who were diagnosed with Type 2, but over the years saw a change in their condition.
"They are so burned out, the insulin is not produced. So we end up having to put them on insulin. And that's when we say Type 2 is now mimicking Type 1," says Dr. Mala Singh, family practitioner with Lee Memorial Health System.
There is some thought that these Type 2 diabetics are really latent, or slow-progressing Type 1s. At first oral medications work, but then just as quickly, drugs become ineffective. That requires doctors to up their treatment.
"Because Type1, you'd put them on insulin right away," says Dr. Singh.
Whether its body burnout or a slow onset, getting the proper diabetes diagnosis and treatment is essential in living a healthy life.


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3M jumped nearly 2.2% after making moves to increase both its dividend and its share-repurchase program. Going forward, 3M will now pay $0.855 per share quarterly, up 35% from its previous $0.635 quarterly payout. Moreover, the conglomerate also raised its estimate for stock buybacks, expecting a range between $17 billion and $22 billion in repurchases between now and 2017. With earnings growth expected to come in between 9% and 11% annually over the next four years, and with favorable guidance for 2014, 3M is trying to assure investors that growth prospects are there for the innovation giant going forward. 3M will now yield 2.6%.
Boeing joined the dividend bandwagon, climbing nearly 1% after giving its own positive payout news after the market closed yesterday. Boeing made an even bigger boost of 50% to its quarterly dividend, with its quarterly payout growing to $0.73 per share from $0.485 per share. The aerospace giant also made a buyback move of its own, authorizing $10 billion more to put toward share repurchases. Given how far the stock has climbed, though, even the new payout will barely bring Boeing's yield above the 2% mark.
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Owosso placed first in the first and second rounds, and was narrowly defeated by .7 points in the third round; the team finished with 710.2 points overall.
Jackson Northwest and Eaton Rapids placed second and third with 675.04 and 616.64 points, respectively.
Leslie finished in fourth place with a final score of 603.90.
"I was very happy with my teams performance today," Leslie coach Jean Maiville said. "They improved their score in round one and two today. I am looking forward to their continued improvement."


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A man is in critical condition following a fire that destroyed a home in Laval early Saturday morning.
The victim was found unconscious by firefighters inside the home at 6850 19th Ave., in Laval West. He suffered from cardiac arrest.
Two other men were able to escape unharmed from the house.
The home is destroyed. According to Laval police, the fire was accidental. They suspect smoking was the cause.
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There are limited other possibilities for reusing a helmet. You might plant flowers in it and hang it on your front porch.
The vents are good for draining the pot if you overwater. The nylon strap should last for a long time. The helmet/planter will advertise to the world that you are a bicycle rider. Hunters might hang their old helmet in a tree and use it for target practice. Be careful of your backdrop, of course. And your local Emergency Medical Service may be able to use your old helmet as a training aid, teaching new EMS technicians how to treat a helmeted rider who is injured and on the ground.
The EPS foam in your helmet is similar to the packing "peanuts" you get in boxes with all that stuff you buy over the Internet. So you can crumble that foam and use it to pack the cookies you send as holiday presents. Or you can crumble it into very small pieces and use it as a soil amendment, to lighten clay or other compacted soil. It can't be reused by helmet manufacturers. It would be structurally inferior if reused, and a helmet would have to be made much thicker and have more internal reinforcing or fewer vents to meet impact standards. There are enough quality control problems already with virgin EPS to discourage anybody from recycling it in a helmet. The Portland program is trashing helmets with internal reinforcing in the foam, representing a large percentage of the more expensive models.
But unless the manufacturer tells you in the helmet manual or on a label, you don't know if the plastic in the shell is recyclable. Some shells are made of PET, the same plastic used for bottled water. Those are recyclable, but others may not be. Only the manufacturer knows for sure. High-end helmets are often made from polycarbonate (GE's Lexan for example) and that can not be included in local recycling pickups. If your helmet has a fiberglass or ABS hard shell, that has to be pitched, since it is not recyclable in most local programs. Local programs vary in the plastics they can take, so you may need to check.
The Italian manufacturer MET is the only one we have heard talk about the lifecycle of their products and recycling. Their 2010 catalog says: "We take into account the complete life cycle of the products we develop. Thanks to the development of new waste treatment technologies it is now possible to dispose of our helmets at the end
of their lifespan without harming the environment. Only a few sites are currently available around the world, however, we are confident that they will become more easily accessible in the future. Meanwhile
we are selecting components and materials to ensure our products are fully compatible with such waste treatment processes."
We regard that as a weak statement, but it is in fact ahead of other manufacturers who don't even seem to be aware of the issue. The solution below is probably one of those "few sites are currently available.
The Alliance of Foam Packaging Recyclers has a page on recycling EPS foam. You can remove the EPS from your helmet and mail it or take it to one of the sites they list. Just don't take it in a car and use the earth's non-renewable fossil fuel resources to get it there!
If your community has a "co-generation facility" that burns trash to make electricity, you can pitch the helmet in the trash knowing that at least it will not end up in a landfill, where the EPS would last for a lifetime. EPS burns cleanly, producing only carbon (C), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO) and water (H2O). So it releases carbon into the atmosphere, but at least it does not produce sulphur or heavy metals. The energy contributed to making electricity is considerable, since 1 kg of EPS=1.3 litres of oil. (We are indebted to Finnish EPS maker Epsira Oy for this info.) Given that oil content, the carbon footprint is already established and release into the atmosphere sooner or later will be difficult to avoid.
In 2014 several manufacturers introduced helmets with non-foam impact protection liners. Smith Optics and POC both have liners combining EPS with other materials. There should be more to come, following years of use of collapsible plastic constructs in some lacrosse and football helmets.
At least one designer is experimenting with
helmets made of sustainable flax and linen-reinforced helmets are already on the market by Urge, a pioneer in the green helmet field. Another is well along with designs using a corrugated paper liner similar to cardboard. It has to be coated to resist water, so would not be recyclable. And Kali Protectives has a helmet using a shell made of a corn-based polymer.
In 2016 designer Isis Shiffer is working on the Eco Helmet a new helmet made of recyclable paper in a radial honeycomb pattern. It will fold flat and be very inexpensive to produce. They are intended to be readily available for shared bike system users. A media reports says it is not yet certified to CPSC as of August 2016, and the testing shown on the company's video does not even approximate the CPSC lab test protocol. Spitfire Industry is developing a new helmet known as the Eco made of recyclable paper in a radial honeycomb pattern. It will fold flat and be very inexpensive to produce. They are intended to be readily available for shared bike system users. A media reports says it is not yet certified to CPSC as of August 2016, and the testing shown on the company's video does not even approximate the CPSC lab test protocol. EcoHelmet plans to launch early in 2017.
Just one cycle clothing manufacturer that we know of has established a recycling program for their products. Loeka set up their program in 2011. It covers only women's clothing products, not helmets. We hope helmet manufacturers will follow suit.
If you find other ideas on recycling helmets, please let us know. Now that there are millions of old helmets being pitched or reused every year, the recycling question is well worth asking.


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It's 10 p.m. on a Friday night. A naked girl is splashing about in the swimming pool at the Standard Hotel Miami. She is from New York and runs a nonprofit for homeless teens. We'll call her Liz: "You're so boring!" she yells from the middle of the pool.
It was a common refrain here during Art Basel Miami Beach—now the world's largest contemporary art fair—where many of earth's most privileged humans gather for a week of champagne and gawking at art (and at each other) in the sun.
The poolside celebration was for Terry Richardson, a fashion photographer known for his sexually charged (or sexually abusive, depending on your source) shoots. A cell phone company, HTC, spent $100,000 to sponsor the party, a book release for Richardson. This is a typical event, one of hundreds that occur during what is commonly referred to as "Basel."
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Basel is now 11 years old. It's gone from a decent sized art fair to an international marketing and branding orgy with few parallels. Because all the big collectors fly down private, and scores of cool young New Yorkers file in on JetBlue, luxury brands rush in to hit both their "target demos" and "tastemakers" in one shot.
In terms of tourism dollars, Basel is Miami's highest grossing week. Hotels on South Beach were demanding thousands per night for rooms. The fair's main sponsor was the honorable UBS, the very same Swiss bank that just settled a billion dollar fraud case with international authorities. UBS not only robs the world and stashes terrorist/dictator cash, it sponsors art fairs too—cool guys.
Most Miamians don't care about Art Basel. The city is only 11 percent white (far and away the primary Basel target demographic), and most of the 40 percent Hispanic and 20 percent black populations live far from the South Beach glam, many in poverty. Miami has the second widest gap between rich and poor in America, after New York. Blacks make an average of $15,000 a year. Whites double that, at $37,000. But at $19,000, the city's majority Hispanics aren't doing so well either.
Disparity defines the art world too, with its hungry artists and rich collectors and patrons. So it's fitting that the largest contemporary art fair in the world happens in Miami.
Few people are more detached from the short-end reality of income disparity than the global art tribe. These arbiters of the cultural elite fly around the world to various openings and fairs then retreat to galleries, museums and studios in their home cities before heading out again. Of course, there are exceptions. Some artists at Basel retain a socio-politico aesthetic. A good example is Barbara Krueger, whose text-orientated pieces mocking consumerism and political power were selling for $200,000 to $500,000 and became the talk of the fair.
Bearing many hallmarks of a third world city, Miami breaks down into two distinct populations. The rich live across Biscayne Bay on beautiful beaches and gated islands. The poor are stretched across downtown's grid, where every block headed west from the bay is worse than the one before it. The city has few economically diverse neighborhoods.
The two Miamis can easily be visited on the same day. Last week. Alex "A-Rod" Rodriguez, the New York Yankee third baseman with the largest sports contract in history, was having a party in his $30 million modernist manse.
I skipped A Rod's soiree, mainly because I hate the Yankees, to hang out with Dee, a 22-year-old drug dealer who lives on west 20th Street downtown. All he wanted was customers: "Man, who down here needs anything? I'm fucking broke. I live in the projects with my aunt. Gotta get out."
Dee said he'd take any job—as in, "I'll work at Chick-fil-A, man!" Saddled with a criminal record, he's never been hired anywhere.
We cruised over to 75th Street, the main drag in Little Haiti, where public housing is painted lime green and similarly awesome pastel paint jobs cover buildings advertising W.I.C and Western Union.
"There are no banks here," Dee tells me. "We don't have enough money."
UBS—where are you?
The South Beach Basel crowd hosted quite a few Hurricane Sandy benefits. But I didn't find one art world benefit for Miami's poor. There is a definite willful ignorance in plopping your billionaires down at dinners and six-figure parties in the name of "culture" while ignoring masses of people who are in dire need of said culture and are readily at hand: The impoverished residents of Miami.
Back in New York, I catch up with Liz, the naked pool gal. She's in Tompkins Square Park, the epicenter of Manhattan's Lower East Side. Stella is smiling. Her art world disdain has clearly dried off.
"I have no idea why I was in Miami," she says. "Who were those people? Why are they so boring, and why did that one guy in the black suit keep saying Le Baron over and over again?"
Around the same time I get a text from Dee. "You know anyone still down here? Tryna get that $."
I inform Lee that Le Baron is a Parisian disco that does a chic party every night of Basel.
Lee receives this information as she's handing out clean needles and Narcan to the local crust punk populace, all of whom she knows by name.
"Do these people really care?" she asks.
Sadly, Basel people do seem to express more concern about French discos and wearing aggressive outfits than they do about the inequality in America—maybe best seen in Miami's two worlds.
I have an idea for Art Basel next year. In the process of exchanging all those millions for bought and sold visions, try and help some of the people from Miami.
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The market erased early losses to finish higher in today's session. The major indexes rose between 0.3% to 0.6%. Investor participation picked up and market breadth was good. What was impressive was the markets ability to shrug off bad economic news and turn losses into gains. We are raising the support/resistance levels on the DJIA, S&P 500, and Nasdaq Composite (see below). The DJIA closed above its 21-day and 50-day moving averages. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite remain below their respective 21-day and 50-day moving averages. The Volatility Index (the VIX) closed down 5.2% to 19.17 and tested its 50-day moving average intra-day. If the VIX can hold from here then we can expect volatility to expand again. If this occurs then stocks could see more downside testing before establishing a new base to rally from. The prudent approach right now based on the stock market direction is to keep your new buying small until the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite regain their 21-day and 50-day moving averages. The three scenarios we discussed last night are all still in play for now. See last nights post (Tuesday, March 22, 2011) for details. If you need to own stocks, please see our watch list below. In our watch list we added Cameco Corp. (symbol: CCJ) intra-day at $31.44. CCJ is involved in the nuclear/uranium field and they have publicly said what is happening in Japan will have minimal impact on their business both short and long term. Since the events in Japan have unfolded CCJ has declined from the $45 area to the $32 area.
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Here's the best interview show of the week, the best I've seen in ages. Up Front proves to be amazing simply by making Shelley Winters, that shrieking presence on The Tonight Show, likable. "On Johnny Carson," Winters says, "he presses the right buttons and there I am, a middle-aged blond bombshell acting like an idiot sometimes." She smiles at her interviewer, Greg Jackson. "You're good," she says. "You've made me admit it." Jackson says he doesn't know how. But I'll guess. What's most phenomenal about Jackson's show is that Jackson himself doesn't appear on the screen until the last minute. Unlike every other interviewer on TV, he doesn't try to be a star; he lets his guests star. Unlike Robin Leach, Jackson doesn't call all his guests beautiful, does his homework, asks intelligent questions and spends more than 30 seconds with his subjects. Unlike American Masters or Roger Mudd, when he interviewed Mary Martin on 1986, or Barbara Walters, when she apologized to Baby Doc Duvalier for asking a not-nice question on 20/20, Jackson does not revere and fear his guests; he treats them like plain people who happen to be famous. Jackson's had plenty of interview shows before: The Last Word and One on One on ABC and Signature on the now defunct CBS Cable. So he's had practice and it paid off. After watching his interviews with Winters, Richard Pryor and Joan Collins, I can't wait to see what Stacy Keach, Valerie Harper, Ron Reagan Jr., George Hamilton, Hal Holbrook and five more have to say.
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String customerName; Hashtable customerState;Now, when I have multiple variable declarations I like the variable names to line up, like so :
String customerName; Hashtable customerState;which makes the names and the types more apparent and easier to read. The problem with Slick's standard behavior is that it differs from the standard behavior of Windows edit controls, which is that you select the space between words, type Tab, and the Tab replaces the previous selection. Of course the Windows edit control doesn't move text to tab stops when you type Tab for multiline selections, but I wanted to have the best of both worlds - the Windows behavior when editing within one line, and the Slick behavior when moving multiline selections. With any other editor I know of, I would have been stuck; I would just have had to grit my teeth and get used to first hitting Del to remove the space, then Tab to insert the tab. With Slick, I was able to open the source files for the standard editor macros (clipbd.e and stdcmds.e), and code in the behavior I wanted. As I mentioned, the only problem with Slick is that the language (and some of the built-in function library) is bletcherous; one thing I'd like to do, for instance, is write RefactoringBrowser functionality for it, but I don't want to even consider giving a thought to the possibility of attempting to think about implementing that in Slick-C. -- LaurentBossavit