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Verb. To cock. To mock, tease, harass, annoy, parody, deride, ridicule, jest or otherwise make fun of another. To give one a hard time.
Past tense, cocked.
Present tense, cocking.
Past tense, cocked.
Present tense, cocking.
1. Marge thought Homer was cocking her when he said he'd lost his job.
2. Bart cocked Nelson, saying "don't have a cow"
2. Bart cocked Nelson, saying "don't have a cow"
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The male reproductive organ. Used as a secondairy brain at times.
Before I stuck my rough, bent-up COCK into her vagina, I was certain that I would hit her G-spot on every thrust.
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(1) the best goddamn thing in the word. If I could, I'd ride one all day long.
Cocks feel so great in my pussy
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1. A rooster living on a farm, or anywhere.
2. another word for penis
2. another word for penis
1. Sam, look at that red cock!
1. Sam, look at that enormous cock!
1. Sam, look at that enormous cock!
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a large animal which inhabits mens pants sometimes hairy with one eye.
cricky... look at that cock
dari T-shizzle Sabtu, 20 Desember 2003
The pussy's bestfriend.
When the pussy fell on the puddle, the cock started laughin becuase the cock is happy when the pussy is wet.
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A rooster.
A rooster.
My rooster is 7 inches long.
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George W. Bush, also see bush, village idiot, and alcoholic
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For the last 25 years, Chris Elliott, 48, has been earning laughs by playing lovable losers and silly psychos—from his stints on David Letterman's late-night talk shows and the sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, to his turns in films like There's Something About Mary and Cabin Boy. Now his oldest daughter Abby, 21, is joining the action. When she started on Saturday Night Live last November, Abby became the show's first-ever second-generation player—thanks to her dad's stint on SNL's 1994-1995 season. But it's not her family ties that are getting her noticed; instead, her gift for hilariously spot-on impressions of stars like Angelina Jolie and Rachel Maddow has earned raves. Father and daughter sat down at the Elliott family home in Old Lyme, Conn., with PEOPLE's Mark Dagostino to talk about growing up funny.
When did you know that Abby had inherited your comedy genes?
CHRIS: I remember taking her to Central Park, and while I was pushing her on the swing, with a completely deadpan face, she'd say, "Who are you? Where's my dad?" I'd have to joke with the moms on either side of me: "Oh, she's a cut-up." You were pretty young when you did that!
ABBY: Like 6 months old.
CHRIS: You couldn't talk yet. You signed it.
When did you realize what your dad did for a living?
ABBY: My first memory of being on a set was [his 1990-1992 TV show] Get A Life. Someone handed me a Ken doll dressed like my dad's character.
CHRIS: Did you think stores had those? It was just a prop!
ABBY: Yeah, but I remember thinking, "I have a Ken doll dressed as my dad." That was different.
Did you always know Abby was destined for showbiz?
CHRIS: In middle school she was in The King and I.
ABBY: Lady Thiang, the King's head wife. Which was very dramatic for 13. (laughs)
CHRIS: She had such a presence, and I remember thinking, "Oh my God. You're going to be a star." But we pushed her. I wanted you to follow in my footsteps. It was all planned before you were born. I just thought you were going to be a boy.
ABBY: And be bald?
CHRIS: What? You still will be, honey. I lost mine at 22. You've got a year.
Abby, did you always want to act?
CHRIS: You wanted to go into medical school.
ABBY: I thought, "I'm gonna drop out of college but go straight into med school."
Did you go to college?
ABBY: I didn't even last a semester. The school part was doable, but the living situation—there were mice crawling up the desk in my dorm room, which was on top of a YMCA.
So you started working with comedy troupes like the Groundlings and Upright Citizens Brigade. How did you land SNL?
ABBY: I just kept sending in tapes. "Look, I can play a yoga instructor and stand on my head!" One character, then four. When they called me to audition, I couldn't speak.
CHRIS: Her audition was great.
ABBY: I did five minutes of impressions: Drew Barrymore, Joan Cusack, Katie Holmes.
CHRIS: She's always been a good mimic. Angelina Jolie I think you started doing when you were 12.
ABBY: When she came out with that whole Gothic thing, with Billy Bob [Thornton]. I started doing her face before the voice: the eyes, the moving.
Have you met Angelina yet?
ABBY: No! I've met Drew, but I haven't done her on the show. And the Olsen twins, who I love to do too.
Did your dad give you any advice?
ABBY: Not a lot of advice, but a lot of support—a lot of letting me know that I can do anything that I want. You couldn't ask for a better family.
CHRIS: Well, you could ask, but you're not going to get it. This is as good as it gets.
Abby & Chris Elliott
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Possibly the most nefarious woman in Nazi history. She was the wife of the head supervisor of the Buchenwald concentration camp, and she loved to torture and witness the murdering of the prisoners of the camp. A true sadist; I wouldn't disagree if she was found to be Hitler's long lost sister.
Her nickname was "The Bitch of Buchenwald"
Ilse Koch was a sadistic bitch
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The double punch means that this punch also embosses. I know a few people who weren't too sure about this punch as it seemed the punched out shape got stuck in the punch. There is a reason for that and reading the instructions on the box solves that problem pronto. Let me quote the experts!
"Many paper crafters are familiar with the traditional craft punch, which punches out a shape. When you insert paper and flip the tool over, you see the paper you are going to punch. When you press the lever on the tool, you hear a snap as the tool cuts the paper, and the punched paper piece pops out of the tool.
Some Martha Stewart Crafts™ punches are what we call double punches – meaning they not only punch out the shape, but they also punch or emboss additional detail in the interior of the shape. Because the punch is performing this additional function, it works a little differently.
When you insert the paper and flip the tool over, you do not necessarily see your paper. When you press the lever on the tool, you don't feel and hear the same snap that you do with a regular craft punch. Instead, a double punch gives you more of a crunching sound and feel as it cuts the paper. In addition, our double punches are designed so the punched piece stays attached to the paper by a couple of tiny tabs. If this didn't happen, the punched piece could become stuck inside the tool. You can remove the punched piece from the paper by gently pulling it out with your fingers, or by cutting the tiny tabs with a craft knife or scissors.
The double punch, therefore, behaves a little differently than the regular craft punches we are used to, and as a result, you get a punched piece with greater detail than a regular craft punch produces.
How do you know if you have a double punch? Look at the design on the punch. If you see additional detail inside the shape, it is a double punch. Examples of Martha Stewart Crafts™ double punches include the scalloped heart, skull and bones, diamond ring, elephant, safety pin, and embossed owl."
I love the double punches! And I own the scalloped heart, elephant, owl, and sand dollar. But I have to be honest and say when I first started using them I was using my fine tip tweezers to get the embossed die cut out. Unlike my friends who just thought something was wrong with the punch design, I went directly to the source, well the website anyway! I find the die cut easily removes itself from the tiny tags and no additional trimming or cutting is needed. There is something extra special about the added touch of embossing to a punched out shape. And how clever was the designer of this style of punches! Go Double Punches! Keep 'em coming, Martha!
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love punches now a double punch my mind is turning lol.
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We pick seven filmmakers we'd love to see make a 'Justice League' movie
Nicolas Winding Refn
For many people, "Drive" was an introduction to the particular talents of Refn, and looking at that film, the first thought isn't automatically "give this guy a superhero megafranchise." What Refn has done over the course of his short and distinguished career is offer up intimate portraits of men who are pushed to some extreme place, who become almost emblematic in their behavior. The idea that the guy who shot "Valhalla Rising" or "Bronson" would be responsible for showing us what the most powerful people in the world are like when the pressure on them would break anyone else is exciting, to say the least.
After all, the whole point of this exercise is to imagine how many ways various directors might twist or bend our expectations for a film starring such larger-than-life figures. These are people with such a strong directorial voice that they might actually push through the system that has so far failed the DC movies so often, which has to happen if they're going to really establish these as something special.
It might be easy to think, reading my reviews over the last decade or so, that I think Marvel is the pinnacle of all superhero filmmaking, but I want to qualify the praise I've given to various films that I view all of this as part of a continuum. I think there is so much room for growth within the spectrum of "superhero movies," and part of seeing these films transcend the crass corporate impulses that drive their production is hiring the right people, people who will push instead of just imitating what's already been done.
Mark Romanek
You want to see a superhero movie that looks like no other superhero movie? Mark Romanek was not the most audacious visual imagination of the Propaganda, nor was he the most surreal and anti-commercial of the bunch. When you look at his music video work, though, he's very obviously a filmmaker. He had, in fact, made his first feature already by the time he became an MTV mainstay. Music videos were his safety net after "Static" came and went, and he worked with a truly odd and eclectic range of artists. En Vogue, De La Soul, Teenage Fanclub, The The, k.d. lang, Robyn Hitchcock, Iggy Pop., Lenny Kravitz, Madonna, David Bowie, Nine Inch Nails, Macy Gray, No Doubt, Weezer, Eels, Sonic Youth, and Beck were all part of his time in music video, and he created some iconic images in those videos.
And, to be blunt, he could use the gig.
Romanek's feature films are both strong, interesting pictures that seem to me to be uncompromised, and neither one of them proved to be particularly commercial. Like any artist working in film, he needs some financial success to point at so he can make other things that are personal to him. I have no doubt he could tell the story in big painterly strokes, and that it would be beautiful. I just have no idea if Warner would support him fully. If they did, I have a feeling we'd get something amazing as a result.
Robert Zemeckis
How has this not happened yet? How has Robert Zemeckis not been pulled into one of these already? I'd love to see what he would do with these icons, especially since he's going to be coming at it based on the way the characters were defined when he was young. He's not the same pop culture generation as many of the other names on this list, and that might make for a very interesting approach, one we haven't seen.
Technically speaking, is there anyone on this list who you can honestly say is better at creating and executing amazing cutting-edge FX sequences? Zemeckis could show us things we've only ever seen in the comics before. Have you ever seen a George Perez panel where there are roughly 10,000 different characters all in the same panel? Well, Zemeckis would know how to do that, and he'd probably invent a new way of shooting things that would suddenly become the industry standard for how to show superpowered heroes at work and play. Holy cow… the more I think about this, the more I wonder why no one's made this happen.
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Yankee fans usually get to experience it with a rooting interest. As a Phillies fan, I'm happy to be having that rush again for the third straight year (second straight getting past the first round) – it had been a while before that. Sorry, Mets fans – not.
So what are the most remarkable things about playoff baseball? I'd say "favorite things," but I have one pet peeve that can't be a favorite. Here are some from my list. Enter yours below.
1 – The big at-bats – Like no other time of the baseball season, and like no other moments in sports - with the crowd in a fever, with the tension building with each pitch, with the one-on-one showdown between batter and pitcher, with the weight of a season riding on the physics of a split-second - October late-inning ABs are the stuff of antacid and memories.
2 – Playing hooky – Figuring out how to get out of work or school, how to listen on the radio or watch on the Web. How dare they play your game when you can't watch? So you find a way to watch.
2b – The flip-side of playing hooky is the interminable late-start night game, replete with the 8:20 (or later) first pitch, batters stepping out ad nauseum, conferences on the mound every inning and game times of 4:45 or worse. Can that really be good for the game?
3 – The dangerous, dangerous postseason players – the guys you do not want to see opposing your team, the guys you pray are up for your team with it all on the line. The guys who come through time and time again. Derek Jeter. Reggie Jackson. Curt Schilling (give it up, Yankee fans – no denying 11-2, 2.23 postseason marks). Manny Ramirez (sorry again). Pete Rose. Name yours below.
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|My De Ferrers ancestors
The following history on the De Ferrers family is from various sources including "Medieval English Ancestors of Robert Abell" of which is primarily based on the research in Cokayne's Complete Peerage [4:190-199]
01. Walkelin De Ferrieres, earliest recorded ancestor was born abt. 1010 in Tutbury, Staffordshire, England. He sided with Philip Augustus of France and was slain in the civil wars which occurred in Normandy during Duke William's youth. His name has also been recorded as Gaulchline. His wife's name is unknown.
02. Henry De Ferrieres, son of Walkelin was born abt. 1036 in Normandy, France. He married Bertha (Roberts?) abt. 1061. She was born abt. 1040 in Gostenois, Normandy, France and died in Darly, Derbyshire. Henry was buried in Tutbury in Staffordshire.
03. Robert De Ferrieres, son of Henry and
Bertha was born abt. 1062 in Derbyshire, England. He was the 1st Earl
of Derby. He married Hawise De Vitre, daughter of Andre,
seigneur de Vitre in Brittany, by Agnes, daughter of Robert, Count of
Mortain. Robert died in 1139.
05. William De Ferrieres, son of Robert and Margaret was born abt. 1130 in Derbyshire, England. He was the 3rd Earl of Derby. He died while on crusade at the siege of Acre, Palestine, before 21 Oct. 1190. He married Sybil De Braiose, who was living 5 Feb. 1227/8; she had remarried Adam de Port of Basing.
06. William De Ferrieres, son of William and Sybil was born in 1162 in England. He died after suffering long with the gout, on 22 Sept. 1247. He married in 1192, Agnes (De Meschines) of Chester, sister and coheir of Ranulph de Blundeville, Earl of Chester and Lincoln, and third daughter of Hugh de Kevelioc, Earl of Chester, by Bertrade, daughter of Simon de Montfort, Count d'Evreux. They had livery of her share of her brother's lands, including the castle and manor of Chartley, Staffordshire, and the castle and vill of West Derby, Lancashire, on 22 Nov. 1232. She died 2 Nov. 1247, and the King had livery of her inheritance. William supported King Richard and was rewarded with lands and honors; at Richard's second coronation he was one of four who carried the canopy over the king's head. He supported King John, and was further rewarded; and he supported King Henry III, assisting at his coronation - all in opposition to the rebelling barons.
07. William De Ferrers, son of William and Agnes 5th Earl of Derby,
born about 1193, died at Evington near Leicester, 24 or 28 March 1254, and
was buried at
Merevale Abbey on the 31st. He married first, in her father's
lifetime, thus before 14 May 1219, Sibyl Le Marshal, third daughter of
William le Marshal, Earl of Pembroke, and his wife Isabel de Clare, daughter
and heir of Richard de Clare, Earl of Pembroke. He married second, in or
before 1238, Margaret De Quincy, first daughter and coheir of Roger
de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, by his first wife, Helen de Galloway, first
daughter and coheir of Alan de Galloway, Constable of Scotland. He
accompanied King Henry III to France in April 1230, and was Constable of
Bolsover Castle from
28 Feb. 1234/5 to 3 July 1236. He paid homage to the King and had livery of
Chartley Castle and the rest of his mother's lands on 10 Nov. 1247. He was
invested as Earl 2 Feb. 1247/8 at Westminster, and attended Parliament that
month. He suffered with gout from his youth, and his death was due to
the affects of injuries sustained when he was accidently thrown from the
litter in which he was carried into a river.
10. Sir John De Ferrers, only son of
William and Anne was born on June 20, 1271. John inherited the
turbulent spirit of his father, joined the Earl of Hereford and others, in
the 25th year of Edward I., in opposing the collection of the subsidies
granted by the parliament then held in St. Edmundsbury, to the crown, but
the ferment was allayed by the king's confirming Magna Charta, and the
charter of the forests; and by declaring that in the future no tax should be
imposed upon the subject without the consent of the parliament, and at the
same time granting a pardon to the discontented lords and their adherents,
in which pardon John de Ferrers is especially named. Soon after this he
petitioned Pope Nicholas III., that his holiness should interfere to procure
him the lands of his late father which had been conferred upon Edmund, Earl
of Lancaster, but his suit was ineffectual. He was subsequently in the
Scottish wars, and was then raised to the peerage as stated above. He
married as her 2nd husband, Hawise Muscegros, daughter and heiress of
Robert de Muscegros, of Charlton, co. Somerset, by whom he acquired a great
increase in fortune. In the 34th year of Edward I., he was again in the wars
of Scotland, and, subsequently, in the 4th year of Edward II., the year
following he was constituted seneschal of Aquitaine. John died in August of
1312 in Gascony.
11b. Eleanor De Ferrers, daughter of John and Hawise married Sir Thomas De Lathom. Eleanor is the grandmother of Isabel De Lathom, the wife of Sir John Stanley of whom I also descend.
12. Sir John De Ferrers, son of
Robert and Margaret 3rd Baron Chartley, born and baptized in Southoe,
Huntingdonshire, on or about 10 Aug. 1333, was slain at Najera, Spain, 3
April 1367, according to a poem by Chandos Herald, lines 3443-5 [CP,
5:314b]. He married as her second husband, by license dated 19 Oct.
1349, Elizabeth De Stafford,
daughter of Ralph Stafford and Margaret D'Audley who was great-granddaughter
of King Edward I. On 13 Dec. 1353
the King took his homage and he had livery of his grandmother's lands. He
accompanied the King in the invasion of France Oct. 1359 to 1360, and in the
invasion of Navarre in 1367. He also petitioned the Duke of Lancaster to
restore to him the lands forfeited by Robert, Earl of Derby, and other
properties [CP, 5:313].
14. Sir Edmund De
Ferrers, son of Robert and Margaret 5th Baron Chartley, was born about
1387, and died 17 Dec. 1435. He married Ellen de la Roche, who
died 4 Nov. 1440, Lady of Castle Bromwich, Worcestershire, having married
second Sir Philip Chetwynd [CP, 5:317-319] of Ingestre, Staffordshire (as
his first wife), who died without issue on 10 May 1444. He had livery
of his father's lands on 14 April 1413. Soon after he carried on a private
war, with the help of his brothers Thomas and Edward, against the Erdeswikes
of Sandon, near Chartley. He received a pardon on 24 Jan. 1414/5 for all
treasons, murders and other offenses committed up to 8 Dec. 1414, except for
any murders committed after 19 Nov. 1414 [CP, 5:317g]. He went to Frances
with King Henry V in Aug. 1415 and was at the
siege of Harfleur,
and then in the
battle of Agincourt on 25 Oct. 1415. He was in the relief for Harfleur
with the Duke of Bedford in Aug. 1416. Accompanying Henry V to France again
in Aug. 1417, he was at the
siege of Rouen
from July 1418 to Jan. 1418/9 in the division commanded by the Earl of
Huntingdon. He was also in the siege of Melun from July to Nov. 1420, and
that of Meaux from Oct. 1421 to May 1422.
16. Anne De Ferrers,
daughter of William and Elizabeth was born on in Nov. of 1438. She
married Sir Walter Devereux, son of
Sir Walter Devereux and Elizabeth
Merbury. Anne died on Jan. 9, 1469. I descend from their
daughter Elizabeth Devereux who
married Sir Richard Corbet.
|Surnames that married into my De Ferrers family
My Descent From The De Ferrers Line
|Sir John De Ferrers (1331-1367)
|Elizabeth De Stafford (c1337-1375)
|Sir Robert De Ferrers (1359-1413)
|Margaret Le Despencer (1415-)
|Sir Edmond De Ferrers (c1387-1435)
|Ellen Roche (-1440)
|Sir William De Ferrers (1412-1450)
|Elizabeth Belknap (1471-)
|Sir Walter Devereux (1433-1485)
|Anne De Ferrers (1438-1469)
|Sir Richard Corbet (1451-1493)
|Elizabeth Devereux (1452-1541)
|Sir Robert Corbet (1477-1513)
|Elizabeth Vernon (1481-1563)
|Sir Richard Mainwaring (1499-1558)
|Dorothy Corbet (1498-)
|Sir Arthur Mainwaring (1520-1590)
|Margaret Mainwaring (1521-)
|Richard Cotton (1539-1602)
|Mary Mainwaring (1541-1578)
|George Abell (1561-1631)
|Frances Cotton (1565-1630)
|Robert Abell (1589)
|Joanna (1610-1671)
|Caleb Abell (1646-1731)
|Margaret Post (1653-1700)
|Zachariah Loomis (1681-1751)
|Joanna Abell (1682-1759)
|Ebenezer Jones (1718-1800)
|Zerviah Loomis (1724-1808)
|Miles Jones (1764-1812)
|Mehitable Adams (1771-1812)
|Miles Jones (1794-1885)
|Pamelia Turner (1805-1883)
|Darius Benjamin Jones (1834-1918)
|Marquerite Cowan (1835-1906)
|Nathaniel Henry Hawk (1858-1944)
|Anna Irene Jones (1868-1936)
|Ernest August Schwiening (1873-1944)
|Grace Myrtle Hawk (1885-1984)
|William Edward Marshall (1901-1981)
|Irene Sophia Schwiening (1908-1992)
|William Edward Marshall
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Kids in a local restaurant have a lot on their plate, But we're not talking about the chicken, salmon, and tomatoes.
Tia Young teaches image and etiquette classes at Roy's Restaurant. She helps them learn the right way to dine.
"You dab like this and this. You don't do like that and wipe like you're drying your face off," Young tells her students.
Young dishes out the dos and don'ts:
Don't put condiments on your food until after the first bite,
Don't bring electronics to the table,
Don't mix your food together.
"I think manners are a lost art and I really want to bring them back," Young explains.
"With the younger ones, it's hard for them to sit still and not fidget or run around and mix food, you know, on the table and put in their drink."
Young says children younger than age five probably aren't ready to do fine dining. She says to start with a fast food restaurant, then practice fine dining at home.


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The world's largest mall is in the central China city of Chengdu. It opened in September of 2013, and it is a new regional tourist attraction. Tourists want to see what one of the world's biggest buildings looks like inside, and they are interested in seeing its entertainment and amusement facilities, accommodations, and shops.
It is big! It is twice the size of both the previous mall record holder in Dubai and the biggest mall in Guangdong called the New South China Mall. It is designed to be a self-contained town and includes its own hotels with 2,000 rooms. There is an indoor beach area that is more than a kilometer long.
Interesting facts: There is a wide screen LED that measures 150 meters wide to provide indoor scenery, video, or important news above the great pool that serves as the indoor sea. The big pool can be covered over for concerts. More than a hundreds shops and stores serve Chengdu's 14 million people and tourists. There is also a glass roof for natural lightning and a glass bridge 5 stories up over which people can take a walk to look around. But if you are afraid of heights, it's frightening. The mall is only recently opened, and sections are still under construction, and some facilities haven't been fully developed. There is plenty of space to keep changing and developing. What else will it become?
This mall is not the only mall that has recently been built or is still under construction in the city. Chengdu has had a mall construction boom. Companies in Chengdu have been recently completing 2.9 million square meters of mall space, so the new mall is less than half of the total new mall space. More new mall space is being built in Chengdu than in 89 Western European cities combined. According to the CBRE research group, in 2013 the Chinese are building half of the brand new mall space in the world. There might be 30 percent vacancy in malls in China in 2014.
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Spring Fling with Ruby Port, Stiletto, Contels set for Saturday
Singer (and Showcase columnist) Monica Lewis will pull double duty at Saturday's Spring Fling benefit concert for the Autism Society of Northwestern Pennsylvania.
Fine by her; that's twice as much time to belt out some of the greatest songs in rock history. She'll sing with Stiletto, her female-powered group that covers a wide swath of artists. You'll likely hear Lady Gaga, Labelle's "Lady Marmalade," Fleetwood Mac, Miranda Lambert, Pink, the Bee Gees and a couple of new entries into their formidable canon: Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" and Guns N' Roses' "Welcome to the Jungle."
Lewis will also sing with Ruby Port, the veteran, horn-fueled, sock-it-to-you Erie band that primarily plays 1970s classics, but dips into the 1960s and early 1980s, too. She joined as an emergency fill-in a couple of months ago and decided to keep on truckin', baby.
"They found themselves in the position of needing a lead singer right away, and my bass player in Stiletto (Bob Seaman) is also Ruby Port's bass player," Lewis said. "He was talking to me about it, and I said, 'I can cover. I can sing with you guys for that night.' So I did, and we all just kind of fell in love with each other. It was a really good experience."
Ruby Port's Paul Yoculan loves having her powerhouse pipes in the band.
"She's become a permanent fixture. She's doing a great job," Yoculan said. "She's such a talented lady. We feel very fortunate to have her."
Lewis, in turn, loves the extra punch that Ruby Port can deliver with its four-man horn section (two trumpets, saxophone and trombone).
"In Stiletto, we have the three strong female voices; that's what revs me up. And in Ruby Port, I'm in love with the horn section," Lewis said. "It just knocks me out every time I sing with them, so it's pretty awesome."
With Ruby Port, she gets to belt songs she wouldn't sing with Stiletto, such as the Ike & Tina version of "Proud Mary," the Rascals' "People Got to Be Free" and even Tom Jones' "I (Who Have Nothing)."
"Let me tell you, Dale Zimmerman -- who writes the charts for the horn section -- has written unbelievable parts for this (Jones') song," Lewis said. "It's just going to be wow. I'm so excited, I can't wait to sing it. It's a very emotional song to begin with, and with the horns it's going to be great."
Spring Fling is an emotional night. It pulls together veteran performers from Erie rock history, so memories flow like "Proud Mary" down the Mississippi River. Yoculan long ago sang with the Epics, which became the house band at New York City's Peppermint Lounge in the early '60s and performed before celebrities galore, including the Beatles. One of his bandmates was Neal Myers; his daughter Angie Myers is one of Stiletto's powerhouse vocalists.
The Epics -- with original members Yoculan, Larry "Bugsy" Cope and George Nopio -- will do a few songs during the Contels' set of mostly 1950s and 1960s songs. They'll take the crowd back to the doo-wop era with "Zing! Went the Strings to My Heart" and "No Arms Can Ever Hold You."
"It'll be a good night of entertainment," Yoculan said.
Especially for Lewis, who'll be in the thick of it.
"I have the privilege of singing with Ruby Port, but also Stiletto, one of the most unique, coolest bands in town," she said. "I feel like a really lucky person."


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From USA Today 5/11/00 ...
Benitez also may have figured out a flaw in his delivery affecting his fastball. He's been rushing, causing his arm to drag. Tuesday, he concentrated on slowing down his delivery and the coaching staff was pleased he was able to do it on some of his pitches.
Anyone who knows aerodynamics understands this?
There's no magic here, not even aerodynamics. A ball is thrown by whipping the hand and arm. The velocity of the thrown ball at the moment it leaves the hand is the velocity of the hand. The whipping action causes surprising velocities. The same action is used to "spike" a volleyball. The article says that rushing caused drag. Who knows what that means, exactly, but it translates into a less effective "whip". Keeping the arm too tense could do that, and perhaps rushing the delivery results in too tense an arm, while slowing down the pre-delivery motion yields a more rubbery arm, as needed for high velocity throwing. The paradox vanishes when we realize that the motions are complex and staged out in time so that a slowness in one part does not imply slowness overall. Breathing through the eyelids also helps. --
Sounds like he is using
I don't think there is any
principle that specifically addresses speed.
The same principle applies to satellites in orbit (
(Is this something similar to
Haste makes waste.
This turns up in
uses it for example.
I recall an enjoyable SF novella in some magazine about a astronomer who wants to get up in space with a telescope and plans her whole career to set up the right space shuttle experiment. A key part of the story is that she knows that the shuttle can catch up to an errant satellite by slowing down. She also uses
to great effect. Any one know what-where-when? --
I believe that was
, by
. It was in the November 1973 Analog. --
I read a story where a space ship, fed from a "teleporting stream" from Earth starts to run low on fuel. So they *speed up* to *slow down time* (as they're going close to the speed of light) - the relativistic effects cause their subjective time to "slow down" relative to Earth, and thus get fuel more quickly, from their perspective. --
I seem to remember the line: "See you later, Accelerator."
The story of
reminded me of another story about a young hard working lumberjack. Each day he was cutting down fewer and fewer trees. He tried to work more hours to make up for the fact, but nothing he tried seemed to matter. One day, he came across an old lumberjack, sitting down with his back to a tree, sharpening his axe. (It can pay off to take a minute to
Which reminds me of another story about a romantic young bull, an old bull, and a herd of cows...
I find that when playing games like
, in addition to fast paced card games like Dutch Blitz (
), I do better when I take a moment to breath, and then work at my own pace instead of rushing. The stack of cards in front of me gets smaller more quickly, and I stay alive longer in gun fights.
This reminds me of how I managed to do well on most of my exams. Most of my friends would go in all nervous and everything, and I would simply relax. I think this gave me quite a significant advantage, since I was able to keep my mind focused on the questions and to remember what I had read more easily. Never helped me with essay-style questions, though.
As an electrical engineering student I was horrified to discover that I had forgotten to bring my calculator to the midterm. I turned in a paper with every problem carefully and plainly setup, but not one worked out to a final answer. This was actually a lot more fun than crunching numbers and earned me nearly full credit in every case. (I later turned to programming because the same technique works so well for everything.)
That's right; I don't feel good as a programmer unless I'm solving a problem at least twice-meta-removed from the problem at hand. ;-) --
This sounds very like some findings from the University College of London. They calculated that if everyone working in London traveled to work by Bus, their journey times would be significantly quicker. The time taken waiting for buses etc would be more than offset by the reduced congestion allowing buses to travel quicker. So the slower means of transport would be the fastest if everyone used it.
The downside to this is that for a given level of congestion, any
quickest method of travel would be to use a car. This means that people are not likely to choose to travel by bus themselves, even if they could see the benefit of everyone travelling by bus. See the link
Would you consider this an example of a
or at the very least a
I think that it is a variant on the
. In the classic version, if the prisoners cooperate they will get less reward than if they don't. Here the potential reward is greater. If this game were played by two people, they would almost certainly decide to cooperate.
(imagine a bridge that could take one vehicle a day - if two tried to cross it would fall down and take hours to rebuild, delaying both. If there were only two potential users they would almost certainly agree to share a vehicle. )
The difficulty arises because there are a million or so participants, some of whom can't cooperate.
City planners certainly see it as a
; a proposed solution is to introduce road pricing, so the roads will no longer be a free common resource.
I certainly hope that if they start that policy they also reduce my taxes to eliminate the amount I'm paying to build those roads! I'll pay for construction, or for use, but not both!
(Oh? Why not?)
Paying for construction is like buying the road; paying for use is like renting it. It's unreasonable to pay rent on something you own - not the original poster
"Any man who is still travelling by bus at the age of 25 can consider himself to be a failure." --
Anyone still listening to Thatcher can consider themself to be a failure. ;)
Also applies to JackieStewart
's style of driving: smooth vs hurried.
While I am driving in intercity roads, I slow down before overtaking if the left side of the road is full. While slowing down I'm calculating the last car of the left pack and begin accelerating. This way I'm in maximum speed when the last car in left pack passed and I'm just behind the car I'm about to overtake. This also allows me to overtake with seemingly lightning speed with my RenaultTwingo
(Americans: replace intercity with interstate; British: replace left with right, and right with left).
This is taught to new US Marine officers as the 'Smooth is fast' principle; Which is then lovingly referred to as 'Slow is fast'. The last thing you want to see to someone shaking through the correct reaction to a jammed weapon.
(Unless you're the one at the other end of the weapon!)
I remember when I was very young, maybe only 4 or 5, my mother had to go somewhere in a hurry, but I wasn't dressed yet.... My mother told me to get dressed QUICKLY..... So, I tried to get dressed as quickly as I could, but Lo and Behold! I could not seem to get my arms and legs into all the right holes in my various pieces of clothing.
This was when my mother explained to me that sometimes slowing down actually speeds thing up. I remember being struck by this piece of wisdom and thinking about it for the rest of the day......
"Slower Is Faster"
This is a common phrase in all sorts of racing. Being slower than necessary in a turn may not be the optimal solution overall, but it sure beats the living crap out of being too fast in a turn. Slowing down at the right time allows the ride to be
, and smooth is fast. All those TV shows from the '70s and '80s with the cars sliding sideways around the corners? Total shite. I could outrun those cars on my bicycle, for crying out loud.
, for
. Sometimes it is the most effective
way to deal with issues.
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Katherine Quimby (Johnson) is obviously overjoyed with her writing award! N.A. Nelson photo
Cambridge is the home to a writer who is quickly becoming known for the quality of her work. Resident Katherine Quimby was recently awarded the Norma Fox Mazer Memorial Award. This award is given to a student in their second or third semester at the Vermont College of Fine Arts, where Quimby is pursuing her Masters in Fine Arts (MFA) in Writing for Children and Young Adults. Norma Fox Mazer was a longtime member of the faculty at the Vermont College of Fine Arts and the award was established in her honor following her passing.
"Receiving the award came as a complete shock and surprise," stated Quimby, "I feel incredibly honored. I had a chance to attend a workshop where Norma Fox Mazer was a co-leader, and I have a very strong memory of that workshop. It gives the award extra meaning for me."
According to Quimby, she won the award after submitting the first 20 pages of her own young adult novel in October. She explained that her novel is about a high school senior basketball player in Vermont who has the chance to be the first member of his family to graduate. However, he can only graduate if he completes a fine arts class, and the only class that fits his schedule is dance. While Quimby only submitted the first 20 pages of her novel, she actually has a complete rough draft and will be revising it during the coming semester.
"I actually have been writing for children and young adults for about 20 years," explained Quimby, who went on to explain that reading to her daughter was what got her started in the field, "It kick-started my creative thinking."
Along with the honor of receiving the Norma Fox Mazer Award, there are also several benefits that come with being the recipient of it. The scholarship associated with the award will help fund the current semester for Quimby, who will have one semester left after completing this one. In addition, the 20 pages that she submitted for the scholarship will now be reviewed by the editor for Norma Fox Mazer, who was herself an author.
Quimby, who is an Adjunct Professor in the Professional Writing program at Champlain College and teaches a senior portfolio class there, has been working to improve her own writing over the past few years. She has attended a number of writing conferences and is a member and contributor to the League of Vermont Writers in addition to pursuing her MFA.
"I have known I wanted to earn a MFA over the last four or five years," stated Quimby, "The time came, I applied, and I was happy to be accepted to the program."
"The program has done so much for my writing and my professional life. Being able to continue to work while writing has been a real benefit," she continued, "This is one of the best things I have ever done."


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Of course schools should ensure that children master Standard English but conventions change. If you read a Times leader from even 30 years ago, you find differences from today. Punctuation is lighter, sentences are shorter. Text speak is a development of the same narrowing of the gap between the way English is written and the way it's spoken. That's neither a good nor a bad thing: it's just


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Holiday travelers up and down the East Coast are facing a tough trip this Thanksgiving. An icy winter storm is wreaking havoc on the highways, causing more than 100 accidents and at least 11 deaths, along with hundreds of flight delays at airports around the country.
"Now I'm really glad, of course, that I'm leaving today because I know the weather is going to be just a bear," Maria Hull, a Philadelphia traveler, said.
The powerful winter storm that already pummeled parts of the west and south is marching east. It's expected to bring with it rain, snow, and strong winds. It's not the kind of forecast holiday travelers want to hear.
"My son said, 'Don't you think about driving!' And I'm so glad we're not driving," Amy Jacobsen, another Philadelphia traveler, said.
"I hit a bridge coming over and a car just went airborne sideways and I was doing 20, white knuckle with two hands on the wheel," Harry Mazurkiewicz, in Wisconsin, said.
Those heading to the airport may be in for some holiday travel complications as well. Mikey Smith is one of the those travelers. His flight to Texas was delayed.
"I wish I could click my heels three times and be home. But this is pretty tough here," Smith said.
Some 25 million Americans are expected to get on a plane this week, but anyone headed to an area affected by the winter storm could face major delays.
Some travelers have been forced to camp out on airport floors to wait out the weather.
"I'm trying to get home... can't get home, had to spend the whole night in here, in this airport, on the cold floor," traveler Corey Keys said.
The website Flightaware.com shows cancellations and delays in Texas, Miami, Atlanta, Washington, D.C., and New York.
The rain and wind are forecast to clear the East Coast by Thanksgiving day, but the cold will remain.
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With a tropical system in the Gulf of Mexico expected to dump at least 8 to 10 inches of rain on New Orleans during the next five days, Mayor Mitch Landrieu on Thursday afternoon announced that residents can park on neutral grounds and should avoid driving through standing water.
The mayor also said the weather system already has reduced air quality problems created by a week-old marsh fire in eastern New Orleans, though it's not certain that the anticipated rain and wind will extinguish the blaze.
Landrieu discussed both events at a 2:30 p.m. news conference at City Hall. A summary of the event is below.
2:36 p.m. The mayor and his staff have arrived for the news conference.
2:38 p.m. Another 160,000 gallons of water were used today to douse a pair of marsh fires in eastern New Orleans, bringing the total to 749,000 gallons dropped.
"The smaller, second fire we believe we have successfully doused," adding that the larger fire is still smoldering.
2:38 p.m. Fire-fighting operations, however, have ceased since "there is a fairly large weather event that is percolating in the Gulf of Mexico," Landrieu said.
Emergency operations responses at the city and the state levels have been launched, the mayor said. National Weather Service officials Thursday afternoon told city officials to expect eight to 10 inches of rain over the next five days, with greater localized rainfall possible.
"Unforturnately for us, it is slow-moving," Landrieu said of the weather system.
2:40 p.m. Landrieu said city crews are on call to respond to debris in roadways. Capital projects going on across the city will be halted when winds reach 25 miles per hour. Tourism leaders are in touch with conventioneers. Residents who want up-to-the-minute updates should sign up at www.nolaready.info.
Landrieu and Police Superintendent Ronal Serpas implored residents not to drive through standing water and also announced loosened neutral ground parking restrictions.
"If there is standing water anywhere, don't drive in it. We've been through that before. That's been folks have been really hurt before," Landrieu said. "Citizens you are allowed from now until this event ends to park on the neutral grounds," the prohibition against parking on neutral grounds is hereby suspended."
2:43 p.m. Army Corps of Engineers Col. Edward Fleming said the threat is "from not from a surge standpoint but from a rain standpoint." Fleming said his agency has activated its emergency operations center and is prepared for whatever weather changes may occur.
2:45 p.m. Sewerage & Water Board Executive Director Marcia St. Martin said her agency is prepared and asked residents to clean catch basins and street drains.
"We have established backup power systems. The pumping system is at 100 percent," she said.
2:50 p.m. "It's not time to panic. It's just time to prepare," Landrieu said.
As for whether the tropical weather system is expected to extinguish the marsh fire, Landrieu said it's possible but not certain. The wind and rain has improved the local air quality, he said.
2:54 p.m. For now, Landrieu said residents aren't being advised to stay indoors, but as winds whip up and rainfall increases, officials may make such a request.
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Net slang meaning "purple fog"; used to describe someone who exudes an aura of homosexuality.
You can't walk into that phoggy PlanetSide forum without turning gay, or at least bi.
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Street name used to describe somebody who pimps, and does not "share the hoes."
Yo that dude be phogging man! As soon as I get my new caddy im gonna be the phog on the block, and all the hoes will be mine!
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He is the "Pimp Hand of God".
He is the PHOG on this street.
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A photo-blog, consisting primarily of photographs and descriptions by the phog owner.
Did you see that Ansel Adams updated his phog yesterday?
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An acronym for Phantom Owners Group. A paintball forum specifically created to discuss the CCI Phantom paintball marker.
Invented long before anything defining it as gays or pimps.
Invented long before anything defining it as gays or pimps.
I was on PhOG earlier and saw an awesome upgraded marker, so I told the guy I will have to get those mods.
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A non-existent creature made up when I was stoned one day. Is a cross between a telephone and a canine.
"You are a complete idiot."
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an obsessive forum spammer, in denial about his spamming habits.
"you're such a phog."
"no i'm not!"
"denying it only proves i'm right."
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"denying it only proves i'm right."
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Melatonin is a hormone secreted by the pineal gland recognized for regulating sleep wake cycles in the body. Melatonin production increases with darkness at night and decreases by day. It assists to regulate your body's sleep-wake cycle and its production is determined by light and darkness.
In light, melatonin production is reduced, and increased during darkness to promote sleep. By this action melatonin regulates your sleep-wake pattern and induces sleep at night.
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The outcomes have suggested the effectiveness, usefulness and safety of melatonin, but no studies have been published where the drug has been utilized on larger numbers of youngsters over lengthy durations.
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North Myrtle, a loggerhead sea turtle, was just floating in the surf when it was discovered with severe cracks in the shell. The sea turtle had been living with the large cracks, usually caused by boat propeller blades, for about three weeks before it was rescued.
Many turtles like North Myrtle, named after the location it was found, are stranded on South Carolina beaches every year. But unlike those usually found dead, this story will have a happy ending thanks to the efforts of the South Carolina Aquarium's Sea Turtle Rescue Program.
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He Walked 1,100 Miles to Flee War. Now He Helps His Countrymen.
Syracuse, N.Y.
Other than memories, all John Bul Dau has left from his childhood in rural Sudan is a line of tiny scars on his shoulders. When he was a young boy, a traditional healer treated him for typhoid by placing red-hot metal balls on his feverish body. "Your skin smoked," recalls Dau as he discusses his plans to aid his home village. "If I can build a clinic, people will never have to do that again."
When Sudan descended into a horrific civil war, archaic medicine became the least of Dau's worries. As a young teenager, he fled a government militia attack on his village, joining thousands of other homeless Sudanese boys on a harrowing 1,100-mile trek to safety. Granted asylum by the U.S. in 2001, he now costars in God Grew Tired of Us, a documentary coproduced by Brad Pitt and narrated by Nicole Kidman that tracks him and other so-called Lost Boys of Sudan from their ordeal in Africa to the challenges of adjusting to America's mind-boggling plenty.
The grateful Dau is determined to give back. A longtime leader and advocate for some 4,000 Lost Boys and other Sudanese refuges in the U.S., Dau has raised $180,000 to break ground this month for a medical clinic in his home town, whose villagers currently must walk 75 miles to see a doctor. Dau is "a born leader," says Jack Howard, a member of the First Presbyterian Church in Skaneateles, N.Y., which sponsored Dau's resettlement in nearby Syracuse and is helping organize fund-raising for his clinic. "A lot of the Lost Boys want to help their people. John knows how to execute."
He has already conquered nearly unimaginable challenges. In his teens, wandering with the Lost Boys from southern Sudan to the border of Ethiopia and then to Kenya in search of safety, he survived disease, starvation, thirst, militia attacks and hyenas. Six-foot-eight and rugged, he became a leader to hundreds of younger boys, many of whom died. "We chewed the grass. We drank mud and urine. It was a very bad life," he says. More than 20,000 refugees reached a makeshift camp in Ethiopia, where cholera and measles soon spread. The survivors journeyed in 1991 to shelter at a refugee camp in Kenya. By the time they got there, their numbers were halved.
Dau set off on another journey in 2001, when the U.S. offered asylum to some of the refugees. Aboard his first airplane, "all I could see were lights everywhere," Dau says of landing in New York City. "I thought, these people must be so rich. The lights looked like a huge grass fire."
In Syracuse and their other new American homes, Dau and his compatriots needed lessons about every aspect of modern life, from indoor plumbing to refrigerators. The change in diet proved particularly tough: "When we first got here, we ate doughnuts, and that smell stuck in my mind," says Dau. "I couldn't eat them again."
After juggling a number of jobs to get on his feet, Dau now works as a hospital security guard and attends Syracuse University, hoping to get a degree in immigration law so he can help other refugees. He has also reconnected with his family—and started one of his own. In 2002 Dau, who believed his parents had been killed, came home to find a letter from them, alive in a refugee camp in Uganda. On the telephone, he spoke to his mother for the first time in 15 years. "She said, 'I don't believe you—you don't sound like my son,'" he says. "And I said, 'I am your son, but I am not the boy you remember. I am a man now.'"
Two years later, he got permission to bring his mother, Anon Duot, 66, and a sister, Akuot Leek, 18, to the U.S. In 2005 Dau returned to Africa to ask relatives of Martha Akech, 24, a woman he met in the Kenyan camp, for her hand in marriage. Using his work savings, he paid a traditional Dinka dowry: 80 head of cattle. The couple had a baby daughter, Agot, in November.
The soft-spoken Dau sees the source of his determination—to survive and to help others—as simple. "You can't always expect God to make things easy," he says. "I didn't give up."
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As a co-founder of the Dallas/Fort Worth Search Engine Marketing Association, I highly recommend that you plan attend the State of Search 2015 Conference, being held in Dallas on November 16th and 17th, 2015. Back in 2003 when I first personally chose a list of founders and invited them to get together at a local hotel in Dallas, I didn't envision that we would be at this point: holding an annual conference and having digital marketing and search engine marketing speakers from all over the United States (and beyond) attend. [Read more…]
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I have a friend who currently has a job opening for a Search Engine Marketing / Search Engine Optimization / Social Media job in the Dallas, Texas area. This is a full-time in-house marketing position, and the person will handle all of the marketing, search engine marketing, social media marketing, and search engine optimization for the company's two websites. [Read more…]
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I could have written so many different titles for this post. I could have written a title like "Click It Summit Fails at Inviting Speakers" or maybe even "Click It Summit Spams The Internet Marketing Community". But in all fairness, I decided to just leave it as the current title, showing that this is a lesson how NOT to invite speakers to speak at your next event. [Read more…]
7 Things I learned at SMX West 2015
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A vigorous area of low pressure will pass to the north of Scotland during Thursday morning, bringing a brief spell of very strong winds for northern parts of the UK, before the winds ease down from the northwest by the early afternoon. The strongest winds are currently expected to affect more northern parts of the Hebrides and then move east over Sutherland, Caithness and Orkney during the first part of the morning. Gusts of around 75 mph are possible, but any one location is only expected to experience the strongest winds for an hour or so.
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T/F: When taking a patient's cheif complaint you should ask how many family members are healthy?
T/F: Releasing a record, with regard to filing it, means: placing a mark indicating the item is ready to be filed
Care which continues smoothly from one provider to another so that the patient receives the most benefit is called?
Continuity of Care
What is the name of the legal instrument authorizing one to act as the agent of the guarantor?
Power of Attorney
What is the most important reason to tell the physician when there is an error in charting that is discovered later?
could effect the wellbeing of the patient
What is the name of the filing system where an intermediary source of reference such as a file card is used to locate specific files?
Indirect Filing
Name three types of filing equipment found in the medical record office
Rotary, lateral and automated
Name three advantages of color coded filing system:
misfiled chart is easily found
refile quickly
faster way of finding the patient
When is the only time a patients medical record can be released?
when a patient signs a consent form expressed permission
What 3 things must be addressed on an informed consent form?
Nature of procedure of treatment
risks/ benefits of the procedure of treatment
any reasonable alternatives to the procedure or treatment
risks of not performing procedure
what are the 3 stages of machine transcription?
dictating into adication unit
listening to what has been dictated
name 3 things that the medical assistant should do when preparing a file for a new patient:
name spell correct
all forms completed
get copy of insurance card
what is the name of the item used to provide space for temporary filing of materials?
out guide or out folder
what is the name of the method of filing where by 1 report is laid on top of an older report resembeling a roof?
what kind of files are filed for patients who have died, moved away or otherwise terminated their relationship with the physician?
closed files
what is the length of time recommended by HIPAA for a physician to keep medical records on patients that have died?
what things should you consider when selecting filing equipment?
space cost fire protection and confidentiality
quality assurance is concerned with.....,...... and ....... of medical service
overuse, underuse and misuse
what is the characteristic of high quality data that assures multiple users can obtain the data at one time?
what is the name of the non profit organization that assists health care facilities by providing accrediations service?
T/F: Exceeding standards and provides optimal healthcare to patient is in the interest most health care facilities now
hipaa places great restricitions on patients info for used for..... ..... purposes of .....
marketing soliciation and sales
what is the high quality data characterisitics that suggests that info in the database about a patient can be trusted


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April 29, 2013 (Newhall, Calif.) -- The Newhall County Water District (NCWD) announced today that it has filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court to stop a harmful and costly water rate increase that would directly impact more than 44,000 residents that it serves.
The lawsuit challenges a controversial new rate adopted by Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA), a wholesale agency responsible for selling imported water to Santa Clarita Valley's four retail water agencies, including NCWD.
NCWD's lawsuit alleges a violation of Proposition 26, enacted by California voters in November of 2010, which requires governmental charges to bear a fair or reasonable relationship to benefits provided. To view a copy of NCWD's lawsuit, please click here http://www.ncwd.org/OB/Petition.pdf.
If fully implemented, CLWA's plan would cost NCWD's customers more than $850,000 per year in increased rates, at a time when all businesses and residents have had to cut back.
"We are standing up on behalf of our customers in opposition to this unfair, unprecedented rate increase," said NCWD Board of Directors President Maria Gutzeit. "It's very disappointing that Castaic Lake Water Agency has chosen to ignore the concerns of our District's residents and businesses and move forward with this rate increase, which we will vigorously fight in court."
Unprecedented and Unfair Rate Changes
For more than a decade, CLWA has implemented a "variable rate" structure for imported water, which means it charged Newhall and the other three water retailers only for the water each needed. This "pay as you go" formula provided the greatest amount of certainty and fairness for the local water agencies.
However, on February 27, 2013, CLWA's board of directors voted 10-1 to impose a new fee that recovers 80 percent of CLWA's budget from a "fixed rate" — or flat fee — that it plans to charge the local water retailers for imported water, regardless of the amount of imported water each local water retailer needs.
This fixed rate will redistribute costs for all water imported by CLWA effectively penalizing NCWD, which has historically relied on a higher percentage of local groundwater than the other retailers. NCWD continues to rely on local groundwater at the same levels it has historically over its 60 year existence.
CLWA is the only wholesale water agency in southern California that has imposed a rate structure that recovers such a large percentage of its costs on a fixed fee basis. By doing so, it discourages use of local resources and encourages use of CLWA's more expensive imported water that comes via the environmentally sensitive Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Given the state legislature's mandate that all California water retailers reduce water consumption by 20 percent by 2020 and spare the Delta as much as possible, these rates are not consistent with current public policy.
"We've done our part to innovate and become more efficient, but now NCWD and its customers are being punished by this rate increase," said NCWD General Manager Steve Cole. "To not account for the use of our historic groundwater rights is just not right, and our Board took the necessary action to protect our customers."
CLWA's fixed rates will also include salaries, retirement benefits, public relations and other administrative overhead eliminating the need to consider more cost effective solutions. Additionally, as a wholesale water agency with no direct customers except its four member agencies, CLWA was not required to conduct a transparent public process to adopt the rates under Proposition 218, the state law that requires public notifications and, hearings before imposing water rate increases. See the table below which illustrates the impact of the new rate structure on NCWD customers.
This is the second controversial policy implemented by CLWA in recent months. The wholesale water agency is also being investigated by the California Public Utilities Commission (PUC) for the claimed illegal acquisition of the Valencia Water Company, a private retail water agency. NCWD believes this acquisition is a clear violation of the state law which expressly prohibits CLWA from serving as a retail agency in Valencia Water Company's service area. This case is under investigation by the PUC with a local hearing scheduled for May 16, 2013.
About Newhall County Water District
Newhall County Water District traces its roots back to 1913 and is the Santa Clarita Valley's first public water utility, currently providing service to more than 44,400 residents in portions of the City of Santa Clarita and unincorporated Los Angeles County communities, including Newhall, Canyon Country, Valencia and Castaic.
For more information about the District, visit www.ncwd.org.
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Hey! I know when I downloaded this song! July 2, 2011 when Memo wrote his entry on this song. He did all the heavy lifting on this song already so I'm going to direct you right to his entry for lyrics and other pertinent information.
Instead, here you will hear my theory about how the development of Jefferson Airplane into Starship (and back) perfectly reflected how the hippie generation changed from 1967 to the mid-80's. See, Jefferson Airplane may have had some hits, but their writer-of-love-songs, Marty Balin, was always pushed off to the side in favor of the members of the group who wanted to explore songs with more meaning.
In the 1970's, the band eventually developed into Jefferson Starship and had their greatest success (arena rock level success) recording quirky love songs, typically written by Marty Balin. They at first leaned a little bit prog rock but as Balin's songs became huge hits, they leaned much more towards the sort of rock songs that Boston or Journey might record. Balin eventually bailed.
Then as we entered the 80's, Paul Kanter (long time member who at first eagerly went along with their gradual conversion to a standard, unremarkable AOR unit shifter) decided he'd lost control of the band and left. The band fully embraced their crap-rock status, changed their name to Starship, released the obnoxious "We Built This City" with its cloying self-aggrandizing and fuck-you-everyone-who-ever-thought-we-were-musically-inventive keyboard line and had the biggest hit ever. Everyone involved in that song deserves a long, slow kick to the balls, but the song made them wealthy and many people love it more than anything Jefferson Airplane ever released.
To clarify, more people have heard and love "We Built This City" than have heard "Somebody To Love." They have nobody to blame but themselves.
Perhaps realizing they sold their souls, Balin, Kanter and Grace Slick (who'd stayed with Starship and sang on "We Built This City" – think of that the next time you listen to this song and your brain will try to escape through a cocaine-by-proxy sized hole in your nose) regrouped Jefferson Airplane (and either flopped or returned triumphantly depending on your point of view). Different combinations of Jefferson Starships have been kicking around ever since on the nostalgia circuit.
Anyhow, idealism to corporatism to nostalgia for idealism (while still rolling in corporate cash) sort of sums up certain segments of the baby boomers. The various iterations of this band just illustrate that. That's my theory.
Now I need somebody to love.


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Art patron and city native Elias Janetias loves Williamsport and wanted to commission an artwork that captured the beauty of the city and the area.
"There's a universal feeling that everyone from the Williamsport area has when they round the mountain on [Route] 15 and when they see the valley ... a feeling that they're home," he said. "I thought that having that captured in a painting would be interesting."
Janetias, who now lives in Boca Raton, Fla., thought that Bloomsburg University Assistant Professor of Printmaking and Pajama Factory tenant Chad Andrews would be the right person for the job.
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Bloomsburg University Assistant Professor of Printmaking Chad Andrews is seen working on "Upward Over the Mountain,"?a large painting-in-progress that will be on display in the Allen Hall Gallery at Mansfield University from Nov. 1 to 26.
"I come up to Williamsport a couple of times a year and I met Chad a couple of years ago," Janetias said. "I bought some of his work and I felt that he was a really talented artist."
Andrews happened to be looking for an opportunity to produce some new work and Janetias suggested the artist should do a piece for him.
"It started as something that I might put over my sofa and now it's become something I'll have to loan to an institution," Janetias said. "It's grown quite a bit."
Andrews said, "I told him, 'This is a project I'd like to take on but I don't think it'll be in the 4-foot-by-5-foot dimensions you were considering originally.' "
The artist had something much larger in mind - a piece that now dominates his printmaking studio, Paper+, at the Pajama Factory, 1307 Park Ave. It's currently 12-feet-by-5-feet but is planned to extend 12 more feet horizontally by the time it's finished.
The work is called "Upward Over the Mountain" and will be featured as a work-in-progress in an upcoming exhibition in the Allen Hall Gallery at Mansfield University.
The opening reception will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Nov. 1, with an artist talk at 5:30 p.m.
The painting features several familiar landmarks for area residents - Trinity Episcopal Church's towering spire and the glowing red Old Corner sign, to name a few, as well as the Susquehanna River and surrounding hills.
"This painting will be a year of studying the area," Andrews said.
He also said that the work will feature several styles as he tries to illustrate the area's differences as well as its beauty.
"If I'm painting an old farmhouse, I'm trying to do it in a folk-art style," he said. "There's going to be a colonial style in the way the fieldwork is done ... there will be photographic imagery, naive, child-like, imagery, and even a little abstract, non-objective work the way things are painted will allow you to read into what I'm trying to get at."
And part of what he's aiming for is capturing the complex nature of the city and the landscape.
"I went to Beiter's [Home Center] and they have a painting of the overlook," he said. "It's a beautiful painting, but it's from a singular viewpoint and done with a singular style and that doesn't represent the complexity of this area in any sense ... it's the complexity that I'm trying to grapple with."
Andrews is using "every bit" of his artistic powers to push the work as far as it can go and said that Janetias gives him "words of encouragement" regularly.
"I've never been in this position where I have someone's support like this ... to have someone believe in the vision and allow me to keep moving forward," Andrews said. "I don't have to worry about things - I'm just working."
"I'm just a bystander waiting to see what it warps into," Janetias said. "I've come up a couple of times and I've been able to lob a couple of ideas, but for the most part, he's taken ownership of it. I'm as excited to see it done as anybody else."
Out of the major undertaking that is "Upward Over the Mountain," many other artworks are being born as well, including pop art versions of the farmhouse - which is based on Andrews' home - included in the painting, and mixed-media works that shuffle the imagery in the piece.
"Normally I would avoid doing spin-off pieces," Andrews said. "But given the length of this project, I figured let me stop and make some paintings."
Many of the "offshoot" pieces will be on display as a part of the upcoming exhibition at MU, which will be open until Nov. 26. For more information about Chad Andrews, visit www.chadandrews.com.


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Today marks the last daily appearance of Charles Schulz's beloved "Peanuts" comic strip. The farewell strip is a thank you note of sorts by Schulz, 77, who announced his retirement -- and the subsequent end of the comic -- last month, following his diagnosis of colon cancer. "Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Linus, Lucy . . . How can I ever forget them," reads the strip. The last image: Snoopy on his doghouse with his typewriter. "There are so many things I'm going to miss," Schulz, told the Santa Rosa Press-Democrat on Sunday. "I think what I'm going to miss the most is Lucy holding the football and looking up and then the big bonk when Charlie comes down." Fans will have on last chance to catch the "Peanuts" gang in action when the final Sunday strip appears in newspapers on Feb. 13.