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Premium pay TV movies - Decision
1.1 This document sets out our decision to refer to the Competition Commission ('CC') for market investigation under the Enterprise Act 2002 ('EA02') the following closely related markets:
- the rights to show movies from the Major Hollywood Studios in the first pay TV subscription window in the UK; and
- the wholesale supply of pay TV packages including Core Premium Movies channels.
1.2 We published a consultation on our proposed decision to make a market investigation reference on 31 March 2010 ('the Consultation') and received 14 responses.
1.3 We consider that the markets we have identified are distinct economic markets and that within these markets a combination of features has an adverse effect on competition. This in turn negatively affects the consumer experience, particularly in terms of reduced choice and innovation and higher prices. The features we have identified are:
- a limited pool of premium content from the Major Hollywood Studios;
- the way in which the rights to broadcast movies are made available over time (i.e. the release windows structure);
- the joint licensing of premium linear channel and subscription video on demand ('SVoD') rights by individual studios;
- exclusivity of rights licensing agreements between individual studios and purchasers of rights;
- other restrictions in contracts for the rights in the first pay TV subscription window, such as [ redacted ];
- aggregation of substitutable premium movie content into a single wholesale offering;
- staggered availability of content rights and duration of contracts for premium movie rights ;
- Sky's market power in the distribution of Core Premium Movies channels, which in turn gives Sky a high degree of negotiating power with the Major Hollywood Studios in the upstream market; and
- vertical integration of firms over the pay TV supply chain. In particular, vertical integration in conjunction with its market power gives Sky an incentive to limit the exploitation of its SVoD rights, and restrict distribution of its wholesale channels.
1.4 We believe that we have reasonable grounds to suspect that the combination of these features prevents, restricts or distorts competition in these closely linked markets. In particular, the combination of the features identified creates a situation in which one player is enabled and incentivised to prevent, restrict and distort competition. We see these issues being manifested in three ways:
- limited exploitation of premium SVoD rights;
- restricted distribution of Sky's Core Premium Movies channels; and
- high prices for Sky's Core Premium Movies channels.
1.5 Pay TV is now the single largest source of revenue in the UK's TV industry. First-run Hollywood movies on a subscription basis are particularly important to competition in the pay TV sector because they are highly attractive to a large number of consumers, and shown only on pay TV.
1.6 There are three enduring characteristics of these movies that make them particularly compelling to consumers:
- they are movies of a high quality, at least in terms of box office success;
- this is the first time they are shown on TV and consumers typically value films more the closer they are to their theatrical release date; and
- they are available via subscription and subscription services are in greater demand than pay-per-view ('PPV') or transactional video on demand ('VoD'), given the convenience of not paying for each movie.
1.7 To date, subscription to packages of linear channels showing first-run movies has been the most compelling movies offer on TV. However, the importance of linear movie channels appears to be gradually declining over time. Subscription services offering recent movies on demand present an important long-term proposition. They offer consumers many of the same characteristics as linear channels, but with the added convenience of providing access to a wide range of content on demand.
1.8 We consider that the combination of the features has resulted in a situation in which Sky has control of premium movie rights. We are concerned that Sky will maintain and exploit its market power by restricting the distribution of its movies channels and exploitation of SVoD rights. In the longer term we are concerned that as Sky develops its SVoD services, its current market power in relation to linear channels could be transferred across to these new services. Therefore, it is unlikely that, absent intervention, competition will develop and consumers will benefit in terms of choice and innovation.
1.9 Our preference would have been for a commercial solution to address the competition issues identified. In the Third Pay TV Consultation, we noted the evolving nature of the market and explored whether the studios' existing commercial plans were likely to result in the wider availability of premium movie services . However, our discussions with the studios gave us a clear view that change was unlikely.
1.10 We conclude that it is appropriate to make a reference to the CC and in exercising our discretion to refer, we have considered in particular the four criteria set out in the Office of Fair Trading ('OFT') Guidance on market investigation references ('the OFT Guidance'), namely:
- the suitability or otherwise of using our Competition Act 1998 ('CA98') or other sectoral powers. Our powers under Section 316 of the Communications Act 2003 ('CA03') do not adequately extend to VoD services, whilst action under CA98 is unlikely to be effective as a means of addressing our concerns ;
- whether the problem could be addressed through undertakings. We consider that adverse effects in competition arise from the complex interrelationship between several features of the market, involving the unilateral conduct of several firms. Negotiating undertakings with multiple parties poses serious potential difficulties. In any event, no undertakings in lieu were offered by any party;
- proportionality and whether the scale of the suspected problem, in terms of its adverse effect on competition, is such that a reference would be an appropriate response. We believe that a market reference is a proportionate response to the persistent nature of competition concerns and the scale of the sector impacted by these concerns i.e. a significant proportion of the markets identified; and
- whether there is a reasonable chance that appropriate remedies will be available. We consider that there is a reasonable prospect that the CC has appropriate remedies available to it. We consider that there are two broad approaches:
- the CC could seek to change the way in which key premium movie rights are bought and sold. Such intervention may involve restrictions on the ability of firms to aggregate different types of rights or requirements to make the sale process more contestable; and
- the CC could intervene to reduce Sky's ability to act on incentives to exploit market power, by requiring it to provide wholesale access to linear and SVoD premium movie content on regulated terms.


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Two teenagers were arrested Thursday night after off-duty Amarillo police officers came to the rescue of a person who was being beaten.
The four off-duty officers - Toby Hudson, Paul Pacheco, Trey Hart and Chris Padron - were playing softball at John S. Stiff Memorial Park around 10 p.m. when they noticed four or five people assaulting a male victim at the skate park, police Sgt. Brent Barbee said.
"A guy was down on the ground and was getting kicked and stomped, and you can't let that thing go (if you're a police officer), even if it interrupts your softball game," Barbee said.
The victim, whose name and age were not released, was on the ground being kicked and hit by two teens.
Arrested in the case were Corey Michael Chrzanowski, 17, and Caleb Alexander Lee Jones, 18.
According to police, the teens tried to flee the scene but the officers detained them. Police also also detained and cited a 16-year-old girl for allegedly striking one of the officers while he was attempting to arrest Chrzanowski, police said.
Softball players and umpires jumped into the fray to assist the officers until at least three patrol units arrived. The two teens were taken to the Randall County Jail.
The beating left the victim with head and facial injuries. His condition was unknown Friday afternoon, but Barbee said an ambulance had been called to the scene.
"Two other people in the park had picked him up and were supporting him," Barbee said. "He was bloody."
Chrzanowski was charged with assault causing bodily injury for allegedly kicking the victim in the head. Jones was charged with assault by contact, possession of marijuana under 2 ounces and five outstanding traffic warrants.
Barbee said during the past few months, officers have responded to a number of calls at John S. Stiff Memorial Park, but said it's not known how many of the calls were precipitated by incidents at the skate park versus other areas of the park.
Barbee said it's likely police patrols will be increased in the area of the skate park, which is near Bell Street.
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HARDWICK, Herbert Noah, 94, of North Charleston, a Navy veteran, and retired supply officer with the Navy Supply Center with the Charleston Naval Shipyard, died Friday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.
WRIGHT, Cecil William, 87, of Mount Pleasant, a Navy veteran, construction project manager and widower of Conway Haney Wright, died Saturday. Arrangements by Stuhr's Mount Pleasant Chapel.
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MURRAY, Annie Lesesne, 92, of Walterboro, formerly of Charleston, widow of Thomas H. Murray Jr., died Saturday. Arrangements by Parker-Rhoden Funeral Home of Walterboro.
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RAST, Frances Murray, 56, of Eutawville, an artist and wife of L. Carson Rast Jr., died Saturday. Arrangements by Avinger Funeral Home of Holly Hill.
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In the Moving to Opportunity study, 4604 families living in public housing in 1994-1998 were randomly assigned to receive a housing voucher and counseling to facilitate relocation from high-poverty to low-poverty neighborhoods, a geographically unrestricted housing voucher, or no intervention. In an exploratory analysis, Kessler and colleagues evaluated the association of housing mobility randomization with psychiatric disorders in adolescence among 2872 participants who were aged 0 to 8 years at randomization. The authors report that compared with no intervention, interventions to encourage moving out of high-poverty neighborhoods were associated with increased rates of depression, posttraumatic stress disorder, and conduct disorder among boys and reduced rates of depression and conduct disorder among girls. In an Editorial, Halfon discusses socioeconomic influences on child health.
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The State-Owned Enterprises Ministry has appointed Budi Setiawan as the new president director of state-owned postal company PT Pos Indonesia, replacing I Ketut Mardjanan.
'The replacement was conducted based on a decision made during the latest Pos Indonesia general shareholders meeting documented in Decision Letter No. KEP-316/MBU/2013,' the ministry's interim deputy for infrastructure and logistics, Imam A. Putro, said as quoted by Antara.
Imam said that Ketut was replaced because his term had finished.
The ministry also discarded the position of deputy president director and finance director at Pos Indonesia.
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"I was scared, but I went just a little farther because I'm a Girl Scout, and we challenge ourselves," Kiley Dhatt said.
Pictured above, the adults are (left to right) an instructor from REI and Clarice Jackson, a mom. The girls are (left to right) Hilary Olson, Christine MacDonald, Jill Housekeeper, Kiley Dhatt, Jadriene Peterson, Gigi Peaslee, Dana Jackson, Britten Brunsman, and Caitlin Walker. Other scouts not pictured are Sara Shwarz, Nicole Hensley, and Brianna Bulger.


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Regarding her being toothless, it actually doesn't matter - cats gulp, they don't really chew. The teeth are more for ripping skin and pieces of meat off their prey. In a domestic environment, if the meat is soft or cut into small pieces, it's not a concern. My vet very stupidly informed me of it right after I paid $750 to have one of my cats' teeth cleaned/pulled...you bet I never paid for dental work for them again.


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Scientists from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research and the Karolinska Institutet report the development of an improved method for analyzing the genes expressed within a single cell. They say their finding ("Smart-seq2 for sensitive full-length transcriptome profiling in single cells"), published this week in Nature Methods, will be relevant for everything from basic research to future cancer diagnostics.
"We introduce Smart-seq2 with improved reverse transcription, template switching, and preamplification to increase both yield and length of cDNA libraries generated from individual cells," wrote the investigators in the journal article.
According to Richard Sandberg, Ph.D., senior author, there are cells in tumors and in healthy tissues that are not present in sufficient numbers to permit analysis using anything but single-cell methods.
"This method allows us to identify rare and important subpopulations of cells in all sorts of tissues. We can also use it to tease apart, more rigorously than ever before, how the expression of unique suites of genes transform cells from one state to another as, say, an embryo develops into an organism or a tumor becomes metastatic," he said.
Traditional approaches, which depend on the collective analysis of gene expression in millions of cells at once, tend to obscure biologically significant differences in the genes expressed by specialized cells within a particular kind of tissue. Single-cell analysis of gene expression overcomes this limitation. The leading method for such analysis (Smart-seq) was developed in 2012 by Illumina, together with Dr. Sandberg's laboratory.
To develop the new technique, named Smart-seq2, Dr. Sandberg's team conducted more than 450 experiments to improve upon their initial method. The new procedure consistently captures three to four times as many RNA molecules, which often translates into 2,000 more genes per cell than current methods allow, explained Dr. Sandberg. This, he said, will permit researchers to conduct a more granular analysis of how subtle differences between single nucleotide polymorphisms in different people contribute to differences in biology and disease.
The new method is likely to be of great value to cancer research, he continued. Identifying rare subpopulations of cells in tumors and understanding their role in the survival and progression of cancers can provide invaluable information for the development of diagnostics and targeted therapies.
A study recently published by Ludwig researchers described, for example, how certain subpopulations of cells in melanomas can be pushed into a drug-susceptible state and then destroyed by chemotherapy. More such strategies might be devised as researchers get a better handle on the cellular species found in different types of tumors, and the patterns of gene expression that define them.
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Several species of the genus Eurytoma have been reared as larval ectoparasitoids of fruit-infesting Tephritidae, most notably in Europe and Africa, and most frequently in association with work on the olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi). For example, Silvestri (1914) reported Bactrocera oleae (Rossi) as a host for Eurytoma rosae Nees in Italy. Also, Eurytoma cf. martelli has been collected from Rhagoletis berberidis infesting Berberis in Europe (Hoffmeister 1992). More recently, Eurytoma sivinskii has been described from Mexico and investigated as a parasitoid of tephritid pests in the genus Anastrepha. Details can be found on the page for this species.
The species attacking fruit-infesting tephritids have generally been characterized as polyphagous. Caution should also be exercised when attempting to determine hosts of Eurytoma since some species are known to be phytophagous.
Both Eurytoma oleae Silvestri and Sycophila aethiopica (Silvestri) have been reared from cultivated olives in South Africa (Neuenschwander 1982). Both Silvestri (1915) and Neuenschwander (1982) noted that Eurytoma oleae developed on the seeds of olives and is thus phytophagous. Sycophila aethiopica, on the other hand, is most likely to be a parasitoid of seed-infesting chalcidoids, as is Eurytoma varicolor Silvestri (Silvestri 1915).
Members of the genus Eurytoma are exceptionally difficult to identify to species, but the family can be readily recognized by the quadrate, usually deeply pitted pronotum (Fig. 1) and general habitus (Fig. 2).
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Specimens with Sequences:1263
Specimens with Barcodes:722
Species With Barcodes:75
Public Records:564
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The Eurytomidae are a family within the superfamily Chalcidoidea. The group is apparently polyphyletic, though the different subfamilies may each be monophyletic, and may be elevated to family status in the near future. As presently defined, some 1420 species in 87 genera are described.
Unlike most chalcidoids, the larvae of many are phytophagous (feeding in stems, seeds, or galls), while others are more typical parasitoids, though even then the hosts are usually found within plant tissues. They are found throughout the world in virtually all habitats, and a few are considered pests.
They tend to be dull and not metallic, and heavily punctured, with very thick, collar-like pronota, but none of these characters is unique within the Chalcidoidea, nor do they appear to define a natural group, and the family is likely to be divided.
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The source confirms that a fight with a dancer on tour was the catalyst for Lovato's decision to seek treatment. According to another insider, Lovato "doesn't have that same kind of love for life that she at one point had."
The insider tells PEOPLE she was already struggling with her weight when she entered her teens: "She definitely had body-image issues. She was always conscious of her weight."
"Like many other teenage girls, she struggled a lot to fit in and find acceptance," says a family friend. "She's very sensitive, very intuitive and that is part of what makes her a wonderful performer – very talented. It is double-edged sword. I think she felt that the hard time she had [in school], problems with kids who were incredibly vicious made her stronger. But none of us feels strong every day."
Lovato acknowledged those body issues to PEOPLE in September. "I have a tattoo on my rib and it says, 'You make me beautiful,'" she said. "There was a song that inspired me when I was younger and it helped me through a really rough time I used to have self-image issues."
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AKRON - Twin girls born with a rare condition in Akron were breathing on their own and their mom said she and her husband were able to hold them on Mother's Day.
Sarah Thistlethwaite said babies Jillian and Jenna were removed from ventilators today afternoon after they were able to breathe comfortably. She told The Associated Press that she and her husband Bill both held them for a while on Mother's Day.
"It's just hard to put into words how amazing it feels to know the girls are OK," she said. "It's great to know that they're doing so well, and being able to hold them."
The identical twin girls shared the same amniotic sac and placenta. Such births are called monoamniotic, or "mono mono," and doctors say they occur in about one of every 10,000 pregnancies.
They were born Friday at Akron General Medical Center, grasping each other's hands when doctors lifted them up for their parents to see after delivery. "They're already best friends," said Thistlethwaite, 32.
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Well,I think the iPhone5 is great,it is faster for it has used the A6 processor,and it is bigger which comes with 4.0 inches screen.I really love this machine.
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The accumulation and aggregation of mutant proteins that are commonly observed in different neurodegenerative disorders is suggestive of a shared pathogenic mechanism. Recent data indicate that the elimination of the accumulation of mutant proteins can halt the symptomatic progression of neurodegeneration and can also lead to the regression of disease. This has been best demonstrated through conditional mouse models, in which the elimination of the expression of disease-linked proteins such as α-synuclein (SNCA) and mutant huntingtin resulted in a reversal of the pathological phenotype. The evidence is most compelling in Parkinson disease (PD) because clinical and genetic studies point to a clear dosage relationship between SNCA and disease. For example, a duplication of 1 of the 2 wild-type SNCA alleles can lead to parkinsonism similar to idiopathic PD in about one-half of the mutation carriers. However, 1 additional copy (triplication of 1 of the 2 wild-type alleles) confers full penetrance with clinical features that can encompass PD and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB). Therefore, alterations in expression levels of SNCA are sufficient to cause a wide spectrum of disease.1 These findings hold promise for potential causative treatment approaches: if SNCA can somehow be cleared, the disease could possibly be reversed or even prevented. Clearance of aggregation-prone proteins is largely achieved through the autophagy-lysosomal system. However, one of the main challenges is to identify the specific mechanisms and targets involved in the clearance of these proteins in order to develop specific therapeutics. Recent studies of rare lysosomal storage disorders that commonly exhibit neurodegeneration and are caused by mutations in genes involved in lysosomal function have offered intriguing and novel insights into the pathogenesis of neurodegeneration.
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Yes there is.
iptables is the name.
You can configure it yourself or
with a frontend. I believe guarddog was a good one.
Normally Slackware isn't used for newbies.
On Mon, 24 May 2004 09:03:25 -0700, Dave wrote:
> Running Slackware 9.1 and am new to Linux.
> Is there a built-in firewall (which I haven't been able to find) or
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It's still free and you just need to scroll down to the bottom to select the Premium Edition. Then go to the premium in the menu and download each map pack. But all my three map packs are pending at 0%.
Try quitting the game, then see if they download.


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Thank you and goodnight
Day Thirty-One: Vinnie Jones XI v. Spain
6:35 "He can be really proud of what he's achieved." This is Alan Hansen's verdict on Nelson Mandela, who would doubtless be overjoyed to learn the high regard in which he is held by a Scottish football pundit. "He's been absolutely magnificent," opines Creosote Man, as though Mandela were a centre-half who's made a couple of goal line clearances in an FA Cup tie.
6:36 Hansen on Holland. "I would imagine they'll get men behind the ball and try and stifle that Spanish side." Certainly, Alan, if by stifle you mean 'kick repeatedly'.
6:37 "Some of their players [Holland's] like chasing the ball," says Lee Dixon. If by chasing the ball you mean 'kicking opponents repeatedly'.
6:52 "I think my boys did extremely well." Kofi Annan, who is apparently the Ghana manager now, is interviewed on BBC 1. Ever the politician, Annan refuses to predict who will win tonight. Cute hoor.
7:12 Marcel Desailly would ask Van Bommel and de Jong "to play in the interval" if he were one of the Dutch centre-halves tonight. Yes, I am absolutely flummoxed by it too.
7:23 The players are shaking Sepp Blatter's hand. Amazingly, each of their number resists the temptation to raise his hand, press his thumb against his nose and waggle his fingers mockingly.
7:26 Ray Houghton is working the second mic for RTÉ, likewise Mark Lawrenson on the BBC, and Clive Tyldesley is on ITV. Faithful vuvuzelas, do not forsake us in our hour of need.
7:42 Who can claim in good conscience that they have not, at some point over the past month, felt an overwhelming compulsion to apply a good sharp razor to that infuriating little triangle nestling on David Villa's lower lip? It looks as though it were once part of a large and happy family of facial hair, but was separated from the rest in a tragic accident, leaving it orphaned, to fend for itself in the lonely wasteland between Villa's chin and mouth.
7:50 "Villa and Pedro are the true goalscorers in the [Spanish] team," according to Tyldesley. Yes, Clive. This is primarily due to the fact that they are strikers. In association football, the sport on which you are commentating, the striker generally occupies the forward-most position on the pitch, being, therefore, more likely than his teammates to score goals.
7:52 Van Bommel, who has displayed remarkable restraint in waiting a whole 21-and-a-half minutes before inserting his studs into another player's flesh, is booked.
7:58 Karate Kid Nigel de Jong catches Alonso in the chest with a foul so spectacularly flagrant it deserves some kind of official recognition. By which I mean a red card.
8:19 You may be familiar with an ad for a betting website which has been appearing during half-time breaks on ITV. It features the actor Ray Winstone, a man who makes Hannibal Lecter seem a rather avuncular, genial sort. Ray apprises us of the menu of bets from which we may choose during the game, before halting to announce, "Hold on. The latest live odds are coming up on your screen now." And, spookily, they do, as if frightened into appearing by Winstone's terrifying demeanour alone. (Note to Ray Winstone: Please don't hurt me. It's the Irish Times. They make me write these things. Love your work)
8:24 Creosote Man, whose elbows, as a player, had an unfortunate tendency to finish their passage through the air in opponents' faces, is outraged at the Dutch tactics.
8:26 "Spain have to keep moving the ball." Gareth Southgate advises the Spanish to avoid the experimental 'keep the ball static' approach to winning football matches.
8:31 Hilarious 'defenders versus strikers' banter between the BBC boys. Ho, ho, ho. If you ask the strikers, the defenders don't know what they're talking about. Whilst the defenders, well, they consider the strikers to be utter fools. It has all the intellectual substance of the mutual dislike between 8-year-old boys and 8-year-old girls. "Girls / boys! Oooeeww! I hate girls / boys!" No, no. That's unfair. To 8-year-olds.
8:35 "There are so many players on a tightrope now," says Lawrenson. Really? That would improve the entertainment value considerably. That, and a few jugglers, and maybe a guy on a unicycle. I'd like to see a knife-throwing routine too, preferably performed by a blind knife-thrower, with Van Bommel the target.
8:58 Van Bommel has a word with Dutch sub Elia, presumably exhorting him to enter the spirit of the occasion by kicking everyone wearing navy as hard and as frequently as possible.
9:06 "It's not the kind of match you'd want to see 30 more minutes of, is it?" asks George Hamilton.
9:20 Thirty more minutes.
9:50 "Another one for the 'over the bar' DVD of this World Cup, of which there are many," says ITV's Craig Burley as Xavi misses from a free. Tip for Craig Burley: do not enter the video production industry. It is unlikely you would be successful there.
10:05 Eamono Dunphyos reveals he is pleased Spain won, as are the two Guillermos, Brady and O'Herlihy, and Juan Giles.
10:12 "It needed a strong ref tonight. It got a strong ref," says Mowbray of Howard Webb. A few minutes ago, the RTÉ panel were expressing their dismay at Webb's performance.
I'd like to thank everyone who's read the blog over the past six weeks. I'm frankly a little surprised you had nothing better to do, but there you are. Thanks also to those who took the time to comment.
Here I go, passing the hat around. Should you be inclined to do so, please feel free to ceaselessly petition irishtimes.com to endow me with a regular blog. Might I suggest lobbying thus? "Give him a blog or I shall stop reading irishtimes.com, and lose the will to live, in that order."
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I went home. I flew in and out of Boston on my way to and from a
wedding in the Adirondack Park in northern New York. My parents
have 2 more weeks to pack before they move out of my childhood
home, a place they have lived for the past 30 years. While the home
itself is large and lovely, it is really the neighbors that make
that place home.
On Sunday night we had our neighborhood grandmother, Mrs. Chris,
over for apple pie to celebrate her 80-something birthday. She
brought the remainder of a box of chocolates to share and when I
asked if she had eaten the others for lunch, she giggled and
replied, "Breakfast!"
The Hartnetts, our other neighbors, also came over to sing happy
birthday and share dessert. You have to understand that all of this
transpired over the course of about 15 minutes; my parents realized
they had a pie to eat, Mrs. Chris popped her head in the door on
her evening walk, I called my best friend Annie (living momentarily
with her parents next door while she and her boyfriend wait for
their new apartment to be ready), and within 5 minutes she and her
family had walked the 100 yards from their front door to ours. And
we had a little party!
After pie, Annie's boyfriend Drew helped my brother with his
statistics homework, while Annie and I tried to come up with the
perfect caption for the photo of Mrs. Chris and the birthday
sparkler in her piece of pie.
This is the community I come from. It explains the high
expectations I have for Home, wherever that place turns out to be.
I know that Chicago is not my true Home, but while I am here, the
NUHS community is serving and supporting me better than I ever
imagined it would. I chat with my professors in the hallway and I
see them at our botanical garden, on the train, and walking around
campus. There is an online community too, on Facebook pages, where
my fellow students and our professors post links to relevant
articles and information about upcoming seminars, workshops,
presentations and club meetings.
The recent improvements on campus at the library and the ongoing
work in Janse are providing us with more places to congregate
during downtime and create community on campus. You might think
that 28 credits and all the work that goes into keeping current in
all those classes would leave us little time to engage with our
community, but it seems that all that work actually brings us
together. We commiserate, we struggle together, and we experience
success together. We are a small community of hard workers with
similar goals and morals when it comes to healthcare. Some of us
come from different states, some of us love Chicagoland, and some
of us feel lost in this expansive city, but no matter your
perspective on this place as Home, the NUHS community certainly
offers a supportive community if you are willing to engage.
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Here's a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYJVvftAMn8
S/B fd seems so intresting! Hansel and gretal witch hunters.
For anyone who missed it you can still go the link and watch the practices... that's what I'm doing at the moment
Thanks Tonichelle!
So cool... Watching the practices almost makes me feel like I'm actually there.
I adore the music but I wouldn't go so far as to say it steals the show from Tessa and Scott!
It's funny I struggle when I see skaters use the music from Pina. For me it's definitely a moment when I have to forget about my old associations with the music and try to appreciate the skating. That was especially difficult when S/S first used it and were doing a mimic of gestures and ideas created by Tanztheater Wuppertal (I should add I am a professional dance/theater artist and for me, Pina Bausch is arguably the most important choreographer of the 20th century... but I digress).
I think one thing I'm realizing is since the movie Pina came out, the particular song Lilies of the Valley has become the Carmen of the dance and theater world in many ways. Good music, that gets way overused. But to be fair the music isn't used that much in figure skating... yet...
However it looks like Jeremy is doing his own take on it and I'm looking forward to seeing the fully fleshed out concept! He looked to be in pretty good shape at the Japan Open so I hope he's building on what he did there.
I really like S/B programs
SD - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eYrl...layer_embedded
music pls ?
shame Ivan was sick at the start of the season, lost a host pick too
but I think they are getting back to form
Good luck to Nobu! Wishing him a podium finish, or even a win at Skate Canada. One reason is I LOVE his programs two of them finally; which hasn't happened to me before so that I have been waiting and waiting aaand waiting ever since Nobu moved up senior circuit. The other reason is because he probably is the one who needs every points thruout this GrandPrixSeries+Final among Japanese boys, if we look at the current World Standings: http://www.isuresults.com/ws/ws/wsmen.htm
And a bit surprised Yuzuru is above Patrick now. wow...
Goooo Nobu!
Yes, so would I.
Does they have a link stream for the practice this morning ?
Practice videos
Akiko Suzuki SP:Short Program, Free Skating
Kaetlyn Osmond:Free Skating, Short Program
Julia Lipnitskaia(RUS):Free Skating 1, Free Skating 2
Gracie Gold(USA):Short Program, Free Skating
Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN):Short Program, Free Skating
Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN):Short Program, Free Skating
Stefania Berton/Ondrej Hotarek (ITA):Short Program
Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN):Short Dance, Free Dance
Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN):Short Dance, Free Dance
Ekaterina Riazanova/Ilia Tkachenko (RUS):Free Dance, Short Dance
Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin (RUS):Free Dance, Short Dance
Nelli Zhiganshina/Alexander Gazsi (GER):Free Dance, Short Dance
Alexandra Paul/Mitchell Islam (CAN):Short Dance, Free Dance
Charlene Guignard/Marco Fabbri (ITA):Free Dance, Short Dance
Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA):Short Dance, Free Dance
Patrick Chan(CAN):Short Program
Yuzuru Hanyu(JPN):Short Program, Free Skating
Takahito Mura(JPN):Short Program, Free Skating
Nobunari Oda(JPN):Free Skating, Short Program
Jeremy Abbott(USA):Short Program
Michal Brezina(CZE):Free Skating


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Police were called around 8:45 p.m. Sept. 20 to the crash at Andersonville and White Lake roads. Thomas Michael Mclaughlin was taken to the hospital and put into the Intensive Care Unit, according to police.
Mclaughlin was driving a 1997 Ford Aerostar east on Andersonville Road when he crossed the center line and struck a 2003 Chevrolet Silverado. The driver of the Silverado, a 16 year old Grand Blanc girl, and her passenger, a 36-year-old Clarkston man, were taken to the hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
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on September 7, 2012 - 7:58 PM
Oct. 31, 1936 - Aug. 16, 2012
A memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Michigan Street, for Lee "Ziggy" J. Zigmant, a retired home health aide, who died Aug. 16 following a long illness.
The Town of Tonawanda resident was 75.
Born Lee J. Liddell in Buffalo, she graduated from Lafayette High School and attended the University at Buffalo.
From 1985 until 2008, she worked as a home health aide for Interim Health.
Mrs. Liddell also was a home health aide at Weinberg Campus in Getzville from 1991 to 2008.
In addition, she owned Ziggy's Superior Cleaning Service from 1981 to 2008, when she retired.
Mrs. Liddell taught sewing classes at home and was a tailor for local clothing manufacturing plants. She also made draperies for the Sappio Home Decor Business.
She received the Western New York Employee of the Year award in 2002 while at the Weinberg Campus.
Her husband, John G., whom she married in 1971, died in 1997.
Surviving are five sons, Jason, Paul, Douglas, Jonathan and Kristopher; three daughters, Linda, Lisa and Robin; and two sisters, Carol Hull and Diane Malecki.


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One who is highly addicted to the social networking website, Myspace (www.myspace.com). Examples of addiction can range from an obsessive love of My Chemical Romance to a full blown series of Myspace stakeouts, which may last long through the night. In order to combat this addiction, an intervention may be necessary, in which close friends or family members may group together to voice their concerns. If conversion is still unsuccessful, a silver bullet through the monster's profile is in order. Be forewarned, the monster may transform and try to reclaim its profile through a series of beatings.
Kara Walsh is a myspace monster; she checks her profile almost every hour, neglecting friends, family and food.
by Concerned Mother Of Five November 15, 2006
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Main :: M5 / M9 / M13
Happy Halloween!
by woyvel on 2011-10-31 11:12:24
by woyvel on 2011-10-31 11:12:24
Last year, or maybe the year before, I mentioned playing around wuith the M13 to enterttain trick-or-treaters, or more so, myself, with my M13. I was asked to provide a sample but never recorded one. So now I have and thought I might see if anyone else out there is doing the same tonight. If you are, upload some.
The information above may not be current, and you should direct questions to the current forum or review the manual.


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Cat Collars
Small Rhinestone Cat Collars
3/8" Wide
Large Rhinestone Cat Collar
5/8" Wide
Cat Carriers
Cat containment
Cat Enclosures
Cat Houses
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Pins - Pendants- Braces
Earrings - Charms - Rings
Cat Strollers
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Holiday Gifts
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Modeled this after the best selling Outdoor Heated Kitty Camper. This is a fun place for cats to hang out and call their own.
Generous sized peeking holes accommodate large cats while keeping the camper private. Inside is lined with soft microfleeece and the outside is covered in an attractive poly/cotton print. Available in 2 colors - Plum or Sage with a fun Polka Dot design. The bottom of the bed has a layer of "stay put" non-slip fabric for stability.
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My kefir is yummy and consistent, which is all I ask. The only reason I ferment the milk is to make it last longer. I digest raw milk just fine, in small quantities.
We're on a month-to-month payment arrangement with the producer, so not exactly a herd share. I bet you could ask for a sample before committing to any herd share, though.


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Statistics show that by May 2012, 2.1 million students from 18,000 schools around the world took 3.7 million AP exams.
East Grand Rapids was among the 539 of those in the United States and Canada recognized on the third annual College Board AP honor roll, released last week. Thirty-nine schools in Michigan made the list, second only to Massachusetts, which had 44 high schools named.
In order to make the honor roll, the school district must have increased access to AP classes by a minimum of four, six, or 11 percent, depending on the size of the district; ensure that the percentage of African-American, Hispanic/Latino, and American Indian students taking AP exams did not decrease; and improve performance levels when comparing scores of all students taking the exams.
AP classes enable academically prepared students to pursue college level studies with the opportunity to earn college credit while still in high school. According to the College Board for Advance Placement, exams are offered in 34 subjects and most four-year colleges and universities in the United States grant credit, advanced placement, or both on the basis of successful AP exam scores.
Other local Michigan districts on the list are Coopersville, Grandville, Lowell, and Rockford.


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Fourth AnnualADJUVANTS & DELIVERY SYSTEMSAugust 15-16, 2012
Day 1 | Day 2 | Download Brochure
8:00am Morning Coffee
Toll-Like Receptors
8:25 Chairperson's Remarks
David E. Anderson, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, VBI Vaccines
8:30 Engineering Vaccine Adjuvants with a Focus on Safety and Tolerability
Nicholas M. Valiante, Ph.D., Head, Immunology, Novartis Vaccines & Diagnostics, Inc. - Biography
Although vaccine efficacy is greatly enhanced by adjuvants, very few have been licensed for human use. A key impediment to adjuvant advancement is poor tolerability caused by activation of inflammatory responses, a necessary event in the generation of immunological memory. The seminar will highlight the power of rational drug design to identify and then optimize novel small molecule immune potentiators targeting toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7). Moreover, the data will show how advanced medicinal and formulation chemistry can be exploited further to develop stable, scalable and reproducible formulations with remarkable potential for prophylactic vaccines and beyond.
9:00 Paying the Toll: Getting Modern Adjuvants to Make T Cell Responses
Ross Kedl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Graduate Program Director, Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver - Biography
The majority of modern vaccine adjuvants target innate activating pathways such as the Toll Like Receptors. Despite inducing ample degrees of inflammation, few of these adjuvants demonstrate the capacity to elicit potent, durable and protective cellular immunity. We will explore the molecular mechanisms underlying this deficit and the various means by which we have attempted to circumvent it.
9:30 Agonists of TLRs 3, 7, 8, and 9 as Vaccine Adjuvants
Nicola La Monica, Ph.D., Vice President, Biology, Idera Pharmaceuticals
Adjuvants are a key component of vaccines. Toll-like receptors 3, 7, 8, and 9 are endosomal receptors and are expressed on different immune cells. Agonists targeted to these TLRs induce Th-1 type immune responses. Studies on the use of agonists of TLRs as vaccine adjuvants have shown promising results, thereby providing a novel class of adjuvants.
10:00 Coffee Break
Innovating Vaccines through Novel Approaches
10:30 Novel Approaches to Pre-Clinical Development of Pediatric Vaccines
Ofer Levy, M.D., Ph.D., Principal Investigator, Medicine/Infectious Diseases, Children's Hospital Boston - Biography
The immune system of newborns and infants is distinct from that of older individuals, rendering them particularly susceptible to infections and simultaneously impairing responses to many vaccines. To date, the development of vaccines for pediatric populations has been largely ad hoc and empiric; herein, we will explore novel approaches for in vitro modeling of immune responses and for adjuvantation of vaccines targeting key pediatric pathogens.
11:00 IM Injection Pain Association from the Perspective of Osmolality for Vaccine Drugs
Murali Bilikallahalli, Ph.D., Vaccines & Adjuvant Systems, MedImmune LLC - Biography
Pain upon injection is a limitation in the administration of parenteral drugs, predominantly through intramuscular, intravenous and sub-cutaneous routes. It is important to understand the physiology underlying the pain process as well as the drug product formulation ingredients and devices associated with injection site pain and irritation. Osmolality of the formulation is one of the key components along with buffer species and pH that drives injection site pain. Various methods used to measure osmolality, solution conditions & molecular interactions that drive osmolality will be discussed in this presentation with particular emphasis on the intramuscular delivery of adjuvanted and non-adjuvanted vaccine drugs.
11:30 Liposomes as a Versatile Co-Delivery System: Novel Adjuvanticity
Andrew Bacon, Principal Scientist and Head, Liposome-Based Vaccines Group, R&D Laboratories, Xenetic Biosciences plc - Biography
Liposomes are a licensed product proven adjuvant system, application of liposomes to co-deliver various vaccine components by Xenetic has yielded novel vaccine candidates with enhanced efficacy, reduced dosage and fewer injections. Co-delivery of a protein antigen along with the encoding plasmid DNA, presumably promoting both MHC class I and II presentation within the same antigen presenting cell, demonstrates enhanced immune responses and protective immunity against both influenza and hepatitis E (NHP) preclinical studies. Similarly co-delivery of polysaccharide antigens together with a protein creates vaccines like conventional glycoconjugate (hapten-protein carrier) methods, as shown by examples of Haemophilus and multivalent Streptococcus vaccine product candidates. The potential of Xenetics liposome vaccine formulations are under investigation by IAVI and Gates Foundation Grand Challenges Explorations.
12:00pm Luncheon Presentation (Sponsorship Opportunity Available) or Lunch on Your Own
Particulate Delivery
1:25 Chairperson's Remarks
Ross Kedl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Associate Graduate Program Director, Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver
1:30 Featured Presentation:
Engineering Materials for Antigen and Molecular Adjuvant Delivery
Darrell J. Irvine, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering, Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 Potent Neutralizing CMV Antibodies against Both Fibroblast and Epithelial Cell Infection Induced Using a Multivalent VLP Vaccine Candidate
David E. Anderson, Ph.D., Vice President, Research, VBI Vaccines - Biography
A prophylactic vaccine against Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the highest public health vaccine priority for which a vaccine is currently lacking. One shortcoming of current vaccines that target only the gB glycoprotein is the failure to induce potent neutralizing antibody responses that can prevent infection of epithelial cells. Using a novel VLP platform, we have developed a multivalent vaccine that targets the gB protein as well as additional proteins that induce neutralizing antibodies against epithelial cell infection and induce strong cellular immunity. The VLPs can be produced in a variety of mammalian cell types, with current production being evaluated in both 293 and CHO cell lines suitable for GMP manufacturing. Confirmatory testing in rabbits demonstrates that unadjuvanted VLP immunization induces strong neutralizing antibody responses using a novel, more quantitative flow cytometry-based neutralization assay.
2:30 Role of Adjuvants in Improving Immune Responses to Pandemic Avian Flu
Ramadevi Raghunandan, Ph.D., Manager, Pre-Clinical Immunology, Novavax - Biography
Avian flu continues to be a major threat to public health. Unlike the seasonal strains of viruses, pandemic strains replicate rapidly in the host making it essential for the candidate vaccines to elicit copious amounts of immune response to control the infection. To develop vaccines that can be produced rapidly, Novavax has utilized the insect cell-baculovirus expression system. This recombinant VLP vaccine technology could provide a rapid response to emerging influenza infections with pandemic potential. The role of adjuvants in improving humoral and cell mediated immune responses to pandemic influenza will be discussed.
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3:15 Rational Design of Self-Assembling, Synthetic Nanoparticle-Based Vaccines
Takashi Kishimoto, Ph.D., CSO, Selecta Biosciences - Biography
Selecta Biosciences is a clinical stage company developing an entirely new class of Synthetic Vaccine Nanoparticles (SVP™) applicable to a wide range of antigens for both prophylactic and therapeutic vaccines. In pre-clinical experiments with rodents and non-human primates, Selecta's nanoparticles consistently induced more than 10 fold higher immune responses than conventional vaccines approaches and robust cellular immunity. Selecta's technology optimizes immune reactions by arraying or encapsulating antigens and using various proprietary adjuvant–immunomodulator combinations in a single nanoparticle. Toxicology studies and GMP production for Selecta's lead nicotine vaccine in Phase 1 clinical trials confirmed the safety and scalability of the SVP™ platform.
3:45 Use of NanoStat Mucosal Adjuvant Technology to Achieve a Balanced Th1/Th2 Immune Response
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NanoStat™platform technology employs high-energy oil-in-water nanoemulsions (NE) to deliver antigen and stimulate toll-like receptors (TLR) 2 and 4. Vaccines formulated with nanoemulsions exhibit improved thermostability and immunogenicity, demonstrated with numerous antigens including recombinant proteins, viral subunits, and whole virus vaccines. We propose that intranasal delivery of vaccines may prove to be favorable in cases where mucosal and cell mediated immunity is an essential feature in protection. Further, IN delivery may avoid systemic interference that occurs as a result of preexisting immunity and transplacental transfer of maternal IgG.
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Professor Weigley, one of the most respected military historians in the United States, recently retired as Distinguished University Professor of History at Temple. In honor of his many years of outstanding service to the university and the historical profession, Temple's Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy and the Temple History Department have scheduled a full day of lectures and other tributes.
Four of Dr. Weigley's more prominent former students will deliver special lectures. The presenters and their titles are:
All festivities will be held on Temple's main campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For a full schedule, complete with buildings where various events will be held and their times, please consult the web site of the Center for the Study of Force and Diplomacy: http:/www.temple.edu/histdept/mildip.html.
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November 09, 2011
For the fifth consecutive year, participating Burger King® Restaurants will be raising funds for the VFW's Unmet Needs Program throughout the month of November through the annual Burger King® Unmet Needs Fundraiser. Over 1,200 Burger King® Restaurants have participated since 2007 and have raised over $1.3 million in support of the program. Burger King® customers are encouraged to donate $1 or more at participating locations across the country as the proceeds will help military families in need pay for essentials such as rent/mortgage, utilities, medical expenses, vehicle repairs and food.
Also for the fifth consecutive year, Sport Clips — the official haircutter of the VFW — will donate $1 from every haircut now through November 13, to VFW's Operation Uplink as part of its National Cut-a-Thon. Sports Clips stores also offer a Heroes discount that includes active and retired military. Since 2007, Sport Clips has raised more than three-quarters of a million dollars through company and client donations, making more than 1.3 million calls possible for U.S. service members.
In its more than 600 restaurants across the United States, Bob Evans Restaurants will donate ten cents per hotcake sold on Friday, November 11. Proceeds from the promotion will benefit the VFW Foundation's Return the Favor campaign, which honors, celebrates and supports active-duty military, veterans and their families.
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In the E3 Conference they said that it was made the way it is to appeal to all age groups. Made for someone who's played for years and for people who've never picked up a game controller. The games they are working on are also based on the idea that the game console, and controller is for absolutly everyone.Originally Posted by Riviet
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Memoirist blossoms after decades of deferring ambitions
Ernestine Martin's byline was never printed in a newspaper.
She grew up during the 1940s, in an age when parents did not encourage their daughters to enter journalism.
"My mother was very upset," said Martin. "There were not that many women journalists at that time, so I ended up enrolling at the Katharine Gibbs Business School to learn secretarial skills. But the excitement of the interview and talking to different people always held a fascination for me. I visualized all this and loved writing."
Discouragement, followed by a lifetime devoted to family and work, further delayed her literary ambitions.
The 75-year-old Morris Plains resident has fulfilled her dreams of the writing life with the recent publication of her memoir, "Saturday's Child," by Chapel Hill Press. Using the landscape of 20th century Morris County as a backdrop, Martin narrates the events that helped shape her life.
She was born on Saturday, Feb. 16, 1929, in Morristown, and became known immediately as Saturday's child, after the old Scottish nursery rhyme. Saturday's child, according to the rhyme, works hard for a living. It is a title that would fit throughout her life, according to Martin.
On her family's Morristown estate, Knollcroft, her demanding father molded her into the son he never had and her overbearing mother lacked warmth and affection.
Her recollections also include time at Ridgewood Hall, an abandoned Morristown mansion, 39-cent ice cream cones at Thode's and deliveries by the milkman, iceman and the vegetable man, who sold out of a cart hitched to a large truck.
Martin writes about one of her childhood friends, Sidney Schneider, now 74, of Morris Township, who was befriended as a youngster by Martin's father, Paul Ritter.
"During my childhood, Dad befriended several young men, and one of these, a young boy around nine years old, really touched his heart," writes Martin. "Dad treated him like a son, taking him fishing, hunting and teaching him many things about guns and dogs. This young boy's needs were a perfect match to my father's: He was looking for a father while my father was looking for a son."
"I was an alley cat and made that my home," said Schneider. "The book is sacred. I can't believe she collected all that information; she must have been taking notes all those years."
Martin writes about vacationing with her maternal grandparents, relatives in Georgia and North Carolina and her grandfather, John Ritter, whose landscaping business refurbished many of the yards outside the mansions on Morristown's Madison Avenue.
Clementine DePetro, 76, of Whippany is another of Martin's friends from Morristown High School who was transported back to a time when Gypsies settled in Whippany.
"On the way to their many different campsites, wagons with fancy and brilliant trappings along with a large drove of horses would pass our home," she writes. "Their lifestyle was so unique, nothing like ours. We were completely captivated. We dared not speak of our spying to our mothers and fathers."
"It's a very truthful book," said DePetro. "She's the type of writer who allows you to see what she sees. With the description she uses, it's just like being there. She remembers everything that happened to her."
Martin also recalls quarantine signs being posted on front doors announcing a family member's bout with the measles, mumps or chicken pox and Orson Welles' radio production of "The War of the Worlds" that set off public hysteria in 1938.
Martin's book evolved from short stories she began writing about her childhood in 1994. It was during a period she spent nursing her late husband, Frank, who had emphysema and a heart condition.
"I knew he was not going to recover from his illness. I was in a serious situation, and writing became more than just therapy because it allowed me to escape," she said. "It let me get away from the reality I was living."
Although Martin says she might want to try writing a novel at some point, she is content on focusing on her life right now. Before her memoir, she contributed to a story her husband wrote called "My Life in the Army, 1943 to 1946," which chronicles his military service during World War II.
Martin has done 20 book signings so far and is at work on her next project, a recipe book.
"I'm not famous and I've never been rich in my life," says Martin. "I'm just like an ordinary person walking down the street. Writing is one of the hardest things I ever did. But I told my story and I told it from my heart."
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Sacred Space begins with the clean slate of morning on "Early Morning Mist." Once in a state of openness, it is easier to reach that sacred space, which is as much a mental place as a spiritual one, required to reach a place of peace and calm. Gentle and unintrusive, "Sacred Space" elevates you at a low incline, with gentle pressure from Blue Feather's flute reaching from your ears into your mind, clearing away all thoughts of negativity with airy synthesizers and persistent tones.
Blue Feather takes the listener through all the necessary levels of consciousness before reaching the penultimate "Place of Forgiveness." Intense bursts of flute that perfectly mimic the chirping of birds heard throughout the album send insistent messages of tolerance. You can hear Blue Feather's breath pushing through as he strains to achieve the final level of purity necessary before finally reaching "Spirit World." "Spirit World," which opens with intense cawing before a vast expanse of sounds, creates the impression of birds swooping unfettered and unafraid through an open sky. Calm and ponderous, Blue Feather's flute floats on a cloud bed of synthesizers to carry the listener through an unfamiliar yet welcoming world waiting to be discovered.
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LEWISTOWN - Susan M. Arnold, 65, of Lewistown, died at 9:25 p.m. Dec. 22, 2012, at Locust Grove Retirement Village, Mifflin.
Born on Aug. 17, 1947, in Lewistown, she was the daughter of the late Mary E. Orth.
In addition to her mother she was preceded in death by: her husband, Boyd "Junior" Arnold; two brothers, Kirby Wagner and Robert "Butch" Wagner; and one sister, Linda Trudeau.
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Surviving are: two daughters, Lori Snyder and husband, Kenneth, and Tiffany Gearhart, both of Lewistown; siblings, Donna Norton and husband, Charles, of Lewistown, Kenneth "Sonny" Wagner and wife, Josephine, of McVeytown, and Ruth Ann Wagner; three grandsons, Matthew Lauver, Dustin Lauver, and Robert Ewing Jr.; and two great- grandchildren, Xavier "Tater" Lauver and Viktoria Lauver.
Susan was the owner operator of the Gold Star Pub.
She loved spending time with family and friends, especially her grandsons. She also liked playing bingo and she loved her dog, Zeus.
A graveside service will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 27, at Juniata Memorial Park Cemetery.
A viewing will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 26, at Heller-Hoenstine Funeral Homes, Inc., Woodlawn, 200 N. Main St., Lewistown.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Lung Association, 3001 Old Gettysburg Road, Gettysburg, PA 17011.
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There is no quick fix? for cat overpopulation
Let's do the right thing – not just look for an easy way out. It's not a fast fix. It's a long-range solution. We must get educated, then make wise and humane decisions. The problems of cat overpopulation are initially caused by people being irresponsible. Some don't spay or neuter their cats, some allow them to roam the neighborhood. Some abandon them when they are no longer convenient.
We are fortunate in Western New York to have organizations like Feral Cat Focus and Operation Pets to guide us, advise us and assist us with overpopulation, strays in the neighborhood and those being a nuisance. Why would we not explore their expertise? The Alley Cat Allies website is also a valuable resource of information and education.
Most of the people in our communities are responsible and law-abiding citizens. They may have many cats in their household, and no one would ever know. The cats are neutered, vaccinated, healthy and not a problem to anyone.
Let's focus our attention on those who don't take responsible care of their cats, and not punish those who do. Let's not pursue licensing cats or limiting the household numbers – it's just not smart. Instead, we can focus on TNVR (trap, neuter, vaccinate, return) to control overpopulation.
We can help with individual complaints, those not taking proper care of their cats and hoarders who may need assistance. There are many caring individuals in the community. I think people will volunteer to help with TNVR projects. Intelligent and humane solutions are available. We can happily co-exist!
Sue Jolls
Free market won't? save middle class
Wednesday's presidential debate was an enactment of chapter one of the 2012 self-help book, "Pomp and Circumstance for Idiots." It was written especially for the uninformed electorate. Such time-long subtleties as having the Republican wear a red tie while the Democrat's tie is blue may seem irrelevant to some; but if so, why is it a staple of partisan political theater? You rarely see a politician point an extended digit toward his crowd; it's less offensive if the finger is bent at the knuckle. As a baby boomer, I've seen too many of these scripted plays. It's embarrassing to my intellect – however much intellect I have been able to salvage.
Buzzwords and bumper sticker philosophies have more of an effect on the uninformed electorate than any seriously structured presidential debate ever will. However, since Mitt Romney hails the free market as the panacea for what ails all the problems faced by the middle class of America, I beg the reader's attention and seek his wise counsel.
The free market; it sounds pretty cool. Everybody likes to shop, and what sounds better to a shopper than "free"? Here is where the actual experience of being a boomer comes in: I grew up in Sloan, a small and proud community only one square mile in area. Near the St. Andrew's Lyceum stood two competing mom-and-pop stores. The best examples of both the free market and the American Dream, they co-existed even though one's profit was the other's loss. Long story short – free-market capitalism swallowed those guys up; they are long gone.
The free market's appetite is voracious. Left unchecked, the free market will become a massive monopoly acquired pretty much in the same manner as the winner in the game of the same name.
I will fight to the death for the right of Americans to engage in the free market; but please don't insult us by claiming that it's a "fair market" as well.
Robert J. Wegrzynowski
Both candidates playing? fast and loose with facts
Being a history and political junkie, I watched with interest the first debate between Mitt Romney and President Obama. This was, without a doubt, the worst and least informative debate I ever watched. The moderator was terrible. He allowed both candidates to walk all over him and just ramble on, ignoring his feeble attempts to bring some order to the so-called debate. The candidates offered little true information to assist voters in making up their minds. They played fast and loose with the facts and the moderator did not challenge them when they made outrageous claims.
Something must be done to change our procedure for electing public officials at every level. The entrance of hundreds of millions of dollars by super PACs that air ridiculous ads just compromises the information delivered to potential voters. The average citizen is being fed false or misleading information and has difficulty interpreting these ads. Our elections are becoming a farce, with money becoming the determining factor. We wind up with poor representation because those elected are beholden to the corporations and billionaires who are now controlling our elections.
For our government to truly represent the people, we must shorten the election season to several months, hold several true debates and somehow take the money coming from anonymous donors out of the equation. If we do less, we will no longer have a government that represents the people!
Allen F. Scioli
Breast cancer survivors? thrive because of support
How refreshing to read the recent article in the Women's Voices section of The News detailing the accomplishments of women dedicated to making a difference. This particular group gathers in the name of sisterhood to race through mud-soaked hills supporting breast cancer research and awareness. It's refreshing to see fund-raisers that emphasize exercise, a lifestyle proven to help prevent recurrence.
As we enter this month of pink support, I applaud their efforts. Lisa Wiley speaks of a sisterhood brought together by strength, determination and common ground. Like runners, breast cancer survivors learn to thrive with the support of a community that reaches out and offers their hand.
I never thought I would belong to such a group, but four years ago a routine mammogram began my journey. Like these women who make the best of a muddy run, I, too, searched for ways to make this challenge easier. I have been blessed and surrounded by women fighting the same battle, my role models as we learn to live each day with new appreciation.
We are very lucky to have resources such as the Breast Cancer Network of Western New York and other groups dedicated to raising awareness, promoting research and paving the way to recovery.
Surviving any cancer involves thriving as we embrace the new normal. Rock on, mud sisters! I appreciate all you do in making the way easier for those who may follow.
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Exactal's newest version, CostX® 3.50, is officially released today to customers around the world. CostX® 3.50 contains a variety of new updates, especially in the area of BIM estimating. Some of the main features are as follows:
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Etsy issued an unusual warning to users on Tuesday about site security - it appears the hackers who compromised eBay's user database are hijacking Etsy user accounts, most likely in cases where members used the same password on both marketplaces.
"Over the last few days, Etsy's security and risk teams have been tracking an increased volume of spam in convos," Etsy explained.
"If you have been following the news recently, you may have seen that a number of high-profile websites have suffered security incidents. We recognize that some Etsy members use the same usernames and passwords across multiple sites, and that they may be victims of the recent attacks aimed at other websites."
Etsy said it had no indication that it had suffered any compromise. "We currently believe that the uptick in convo spam that we are seeing is a direct result of usernames and passwords stolen in other attacks being used to login to some Etsy members accounts, but we want you to know that your financial and credit card information has not been compromised."
Michael Rembetsy, Etsy Vice President of Technical Operations, shared recommendations for how users could keep their accounts secure:
He linked to more information on how to accomplish those steps, you can read the full warning on this Etsy blog post.
Finally, Rembetsy warned users to be cautious when receiving "convos," Etsy slang for user-to-user messages, and to be cautious of following any links they may contain.
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