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Senior Designer, eCommerce
- Employer
- XO Group Inc.
- Location
- New York
- Posted
- Feb 13, 2013
- Closes
- Mar 15, 2013
- Contact
- Ms. Human Resources
- Duration
- Full Time
XO Group Inc. is looking for a Senior Designer to join our E-Commerce team. Teams at XO Group are very dedicated and excited about what they do – we work hard to maintain that atmosphere. The right candidate will be smart, entrepreneurial, and enthusiastic with a problem solver, go-getter and above all a team player attitude!Must have the ability to juggle multiple projects and staying calm and collected under pressure must be part of your DNA. You thrive on being part of a collaborative team and will never say the words "It's not my job"!The Senior Designer will:• Serve as lead designer on projects including web and mobile design with an e-commerce and transactional focus, e-mail marketing, product development for our wedding shop, magazine print ads and more• Oversee the daily activities of a Junior Designer, maintain deadlines, and provide guidance• Design in the look and feel of our established brand identities, and maintain the integrity of our brands' visual style while finding new and exciting ways to expand our use of existing design elements• Demonstrate awareness of current best practices for browser/device compatibility and accessibility as it relates to the consumer experience• Create detailed design specifications for the tech team and prepare artwork for build, as well as maintain oversight of the build through a design review process• Provide art and style direction for photography and illustration• Collaborate with other designers within the office, and external vendors, as needed Requirements:• 5+ years of design for web and print, with an understanding of how design affects the customer experience• 1+ years of design in an e-commerce environment strongly preferred• 1+ years of design for iOS and Android mobile applications preferred• Superior knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite; working knowledge of HTML and CSS• Sophisticated sense of typography and layout, with the ability to solve information hierarchy challenges• The ability to juggle multiple projects and remain calm under pressure and aggressive deadlines• Stay on top of style trends in products relating to weddings and brides• Excellent visual, verbal, written communication and presentation skills are a must• Illustration skills are a HUGE PLUS• Link to portfolio - candidates without a portfolio will not be consideredXO Group Inc. complies with all federal, state, and municipal laws that prohibit discrimination because of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other protected characteristic.Thank you for your interest in this position and our company. It is appreciated.


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G. Schneider (Steward Obs., UofA), I. Song (Gemini Obs.), B. Zuckerman, E. Becklin (UCLA), P. Lowrance (Caltech), B. Macintosh (LLNL), M. Bessell (ANU), C. Dumas, G. Chauvin (ESO)
2MASSWJ 1207334-393254, a likely member of the nearby TW Hya association (age app 10 Myr and app 70 pc from Earth), is an app 30 Mjupiter brown dwarf (M8V spectrum due to its youth) for which a putative candidate planetary-mass companion was identified by Chauvin et al (Astron. and Astroph. 425, L29) with VLT/NACO observations in April 2004. Earlier, 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254 had been scheduled for observation in HST cycle 13 in a NICMOS H-band coronagraphic companion detection survey (GO 10176), but was re-programmed as an early "follow-up" observation given the ground-based derived implications for shorter wavelength space-based detection and efficacious diagnostic photometric measurements. Here, we present NICMOS camera 1 imaging photometry observations of 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254 and its point-like companion candidate in three bands: F090M (0.80 - 1.00 microns; similar to I-band), F110M (1.00 - 1.20 microns) and F160W (1.40 - 1.60 microns; similar to H-band) obtained on 28 Aug 2004. For the 773.7 +/- 2.2 mas (app 55 AU projected separation) distant companion we find in-band magnitudes for the companion candidate of F090M = 22.34 +/- 0.35 (delta-F090M = +7.14), F110M = 20.61 +/- 0.15 and (delta-F110M = +7.02) F160W = 18.24 +/- 0.02 (delta-F160W = +5.62). The NICMOS [0.90] - [1.6] micron color index of +4.1 +/- 0.4 is consistent with expectations for the spectral energy distribution of a mid to late L-dwarf (e.g., I - H of app +4.4 for spectral type L4). At the likely age of this candidate, the NICMOS and longer wavelength VLT/NACO derived photometric measures may implicate an object of several Jupiter masses. If the candidate companion is (as is yet to be) demonstrated to exhibit common proper motion with 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254 then the first image of a gravitationally bound companion of planetary mass may have already been secured. This work is supported through grants to the GO 10176 and 10177 teams from STScI, which is operated by AURA, Inc., under NASA contract NAS 5-26555.
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text: Changing genders in the Xbooks has always been a bit of a theme. And I don't just mean Mystique. But one CBR poster, timberoo, has taken this to a new science. Posting on those forums and his own DeviantArt page, he's created a CG galley of X-Men as X-Women and vice versa.


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LAFAYETTE - If the state playoffs have proven anything, it's that there is no reverse gear in the Brother Martin Crusaders.
The unflappable Crusaders recorded their fourth victory of the postseason on their biggest stage to date with an improbable comeback for a 68-66 victory against Hammond in the Class 5A state semifinals of the Top 28 Boys Basketball Tournament played Wednesday night at the Cajundome.
Martin guards Schane Rillieux and Pat Swilling Jr. hit single free throws in the final 11 seconds to break a tie at 66 and propel Martin into its eighth state championship final. The Crusaders will go for the Gentilly school's sixth state title at 6:30 p.m. on Saturday against Scotlandville, a 60-58 winner against Jesuit in Wednesday's other semifinals.
Martin (28-10) won its fourth straight game after entering the playoffs as a District 10-5A wild card and a No. 9 seed. In advancing to their first state final since 2005 when Martin captured the second of two consecutive championships, the Crusaders have dispatched two of the state's top-ranked teams in No. 5 Hammond and No. 1 St. Augustine in their last two games and now face No. 2 seed Scotlandville (34-5) in the finals.
Hammond (29-4) had an 18-game winning streak broken after entering the postseason as an unbeaten District 7-5A champion and a No. 5 seed.
"There is something about this team,'' said Swilling, who fought through foul trouble to score 17 points. "We're just a resilient bunch. We don't try to get behind, I swear. We play hard the whole game.''
Rillieux scored a game-high 18 points for the Crusaders while junior center Jamon Gray, sophomore forward Myron Chapman and junior guard Dante' Butler contributed 8, 7 and 7 points respectively. Gray and Butler's contributions came as reserves and were vital in taking up the slack created by Swilling's absence due to fouls.
Rillieux, a junior point guard, also had 10 rebounds to go with six apiece from Gray and Butler to help Martin record a 39-33 advantage on the boards. Rillieux scored 15 and Swilling 12 of their totals in the final two periods.
Junior forward Mark Bridgewater and senior center Terrence Bridgewater scored 16 and 14 points respectively for the Tors, who also got 11 points from junior guard Mikel Henry.
"Man, unbelieveable,'' Martin Coach Scott Thompson said with a sigh afterwards. "This is just a great experience for our team. Our guys are very proud to represent Brother Martin High School. We've been through a lot of battles this year. We're battle-tested. We had some tough losses, some tough wins. Our kids don't know the meaning of the word quit. They're Warriors.''
Rillieux hit two free throws with 58 seconds remaining to give Martin a 66-64 lead that Hammond's Domonick McCoy quickly answered with a field goal 32 seconds later. In Martin's ensuing possession, Rillieux drove the lane, was fouled and then hit the second of two free throws for a 67-66 lead with 11 seconds to go.
McCoy then attempted to drive the lane on Hammond's penultimate possession, but dribbled into a swarm of Martin defenders with the ball popping free and into possession of the Crusaders with 1.8 seconds later. Following an intentional foul, Swilling followed by hitting the first of two free throws for the final margin.
"I was going to the goal, they jumped me and I had to spin,'' McCoy said. "The ball bounced out.''
"It was a heck of a game, it just didn't go our way,'' Hammond Coach Brent Grigas said. "We thought we had the game in control and then we started making costly mistakes (19 turnovers). They made more plays down the stretch than we did.''
Martin trailed by 14 points twice in the third period before mounting a dramatic rally with 5:36 remaining in the period that inspired a raucous crowd of Crusaders fans and in turn seemed to energize the Crusaders. The Crusaders, who trailed 39-30 at halftime, closed the quarter on a 13-2 run that left the Catholic League's third-place team facing a 50-47 deficit heading into the final period.
"Basically, we fed off the crowd,'' Rillieux said.
A torrid second-quarter in which the Tornadoes scored 25 points and held the Crusaders scoreless for the first 5 ½ minutes of the period resulted in Hammond reversing a deficit of nine points near the end of the first quarter and turning it into a 39-30 advantage at halftime.
Henry keyed the 25-9 run by hitting four field goals and a three-pointer to score all 11 of his first-half points in the period.
Martin played much of the first half minus its leading scorer, Swilling, who picked up two quick fouls in the first 2:49 of the first period after hitting a three-pointer and two free throws to help the Crusaders take a 5-2 lead. After sitting out 6:11, Swilling returned one minute into the second period and collected personal No. 3 with 4:19 left until halftime and Martin leading 9-7.
"We did a good job of getting Swilling into foul trouble,'' Hammond's Grigas said. "He's one of the best players in the state. But we did not do a good job of executing against their reserves when he was out of the game.''
"I knew my teammates are resilient and were still going to scrap and come back,'' Swilling said. "I knew we were going to come back. I just feel great. I wanted this for everyone. I wanted it for the city. I wanted it for my friends and for all of the people who couldn't be here. I just want a championship.''


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Parties on a Budget
Quick fixes for common stressors, DIY Halloween costumes, kiddie parties on a budget, and so much more in the October issue of Good Housekeeping Philippines, out now!
Despite increased awareness about sexual intercourse, many teenagers are apparently still clueless about it. In fact, a survey by The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the US revealed that many teen moms didn't think they would get pregnant when they started having sex.
The survey was spread across 19 states with around 5,000 participants—all of whom gave birth after getting pregnant unexpectedly between 2004 and 2008. The survey was done through mailed questionnaires with follow-up calls afterward. The researchers weren't able to determine the reason teen moms thought they were "safe," but they did discover that more than half of the participants weren't using birth control when they got pregnant. Of those who did use contraceptives, around 20 percent claimed that they used birth control pills or patches. Meanwhile, 24 percent said that they used condoms.
Despite the reported use of birth control methods, researchers believe that the participants may have failed to use them properly or consistently. Birth control pills, for instance, need to be taken on a regular basis. However, more alarming than the lack of proper knowledge is the fact that a quarter of the women in the survey stated that they didn't use birth control because their partners told them not to. Whether their partners were just as clueless as they were or just didn't care about what could happen, the fact remains that it's the women who had to live with the consequences.
Now, to some people, using birth control may be common sense, but you'd be surprised to find out just how many are still crossing their fingers, hoping against hope that their first time won't result in an unplanned pregnancy. If you're a mother with daughters of your own, then you need to be around to educate your girls about the facts and help them make good decisions.
Help educate your teens about sex (and be more informed yourself along the way!). Check out these articles:
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Is there holding anymore in the NFL? Seriously, no holding calls on the New Orleans Saints the entire game ... and only one on the Lions?
If the old axiom is true that you could call holding on every play, how then can you not call holding ever?
This does go both ways. The Lions offensive line isn't exactly filled with all-pro players, but it also went through the season relatively unscathed by the avalanche of holding calls Lions fans are accustomed to seeing.
THEORY: In one more attempt to protect the quarterback, the NFL has relaxed its standards on holding, without changing the rule. That does not bode well for teams that rely on a strong pass rush to mask a poor secondary.


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One of my favorite collections out of Paris is Hedi Slimane's debut collection for Saint Laurent. Two parts 60's/70's California rock glamour with modern sharp tailoring, its a hit! From Le Smoking to bow blouses and the iconic safari collection, the collection recalls some of Yves greatest design hits.
Can't wait to see what the newly rechristened house of Saint Laurent does next!


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The Arizona Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are beginning an engineering and environmental study of I-10 between Tangerine and Ina roads. The goal for this study is to develop a long-range plan for providing an improved roadway for general traffic, commuters and truck traffic traveling along this portion of the I-10 corridor. To support that goal, the study will
The study will include
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Lois Brennan
BRENNAN, Lois A., 84, of Wheeling, W.Va., passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Good Shepherd Nursing Home, Wheeling.
Lois was born September 12, 1929, in Erie, Pa., a daughter of the late Walter Espy and Marguerite (Graham) Anderson.
She was a retired secretary for COMAV Management and a member of St. Vincent de Paul Parish, Wheeling. She was also a member of the Wheeling Bridge Club, and a local real estate agent.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her sister, Carol Curtze; and son-in-law, Raymond Davies.
Lois is survived by her loving husband of 57 years, Donald J. Brennan; six children, Leslie B. Givens and her husband, Robert of Benwood, W.Va., Liz A. Fleming and her husband, Mike of Glenside, Pa., Michael G. Brennan and his wife, Tina of Warminster, Pa., Kate Davies of Quakertown, Pa., Anne Schuck and her husband, Todd of Warrington, Pa. and Guy P. Brennan of Perkasie, Pa.; a sister, Mitzi Grad of Sandusky, Ohio; nine grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The Brennan family would like to thank the staff at Good Shepherd Nursing Home for the kindness and excellent care that their mother received.
Friends will be received from 9-10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 8, 2014, at the Altmeyer Funeral Home, Elm Grove Chapel, 154 Kruger Street , Wheeling.
Mass of Christian Burial will then be celebrated at 11 a.m. Saturday, at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church, with the Rev. Gary Naegele as celebrant. Interment will be in Mount Calvary Cemetery, Wheeling .
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer's Association, P.O. Box 96011, Washington , DC 20090-6011.
Online condolences may be offered to the family at www.altmeyer.com.
Lois Brennan
BRENNAN, Lois A., 84, of Wheeling, W.Va., passed away Wednesday, March 5, 2014, in Good Shepherd Nursing Home, Wheeling.
Arrangements are pending at Altmeyer Funeral Home, Elm Grove Chapel, 154 Kruger St., Wheeling.


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ebruary 2, 1998
Letters to the Editor
Correcting a correction
In News from the King County Council by Louise Miller, County Council Chair, in the Jan. 19 WW claims that my letter [to the Editor, Jan. 5] concerning the 300 foot tower to be built by King County on the closed county dump on Ring Hill is inaccurate, and that she is correcting it. Ms. Miller reveals now that there will be a network of such tall towers to serve "...public safety agencies such as police, fire, and EMS." I've neither heard nor read of failures of the present telephone and radio systems. I thought that the transmitters in outer space did the job. If the tower is "specific" in purpose as an emergency tower, why then are commercial cellular phone companies using it every second of every hour?
Where are they now?
Once again we have been cheated. The first time was when Medalia took over the Duvall Family Practice and kicked OUR Doctor out. They promised us better health care and more convenient hours. Where are they now, leaving this growing community high and dry without one single doctor?
Tree-cycling success due to community cooperation
A total of 998 trees were chipped in Carnation and Duvall. That's a lot of organic resources put back into the growing cycle and kept out of the landfill.
Group accuses county of double standard in sign code enforcement
At around 3 a.m. Saturday morning Jan. 10, a King County Road Maintenance crew from the Union Hill Public Works Yard in Redmond dismantled and removed four of the coalition's large "Help Us Fight the UPDs in Court" signs.We believe they were singled out for their apparent infringement on King County's rights-of-way because of our pending suits against the county. It was our understanding that our signs were on private property, and we had obtained the permission of the property owners.
Holiday program at multi-service centers a great success
The Multi-Service Centers of North and East King County is pleased to report that our 1997 holiday program was one of the best in the agency's history. Our Northshore center in Bothell received enough children's gifts and holiday foods to provide 319 families with food and 615 children with gifts.
Letters to the Editor are welcome and encouraged. Please send them to us at: P.O. Box 587 or 13342 NE 175th St. (Woodgate Mall); Woodinville, WA 98072; or deliver them to our office. They may also be faxed to (206) 486-7593. Letters must be signed and must include a daytime telephone number for confirmation. They may be edited.
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Sacramento was positively drenched with rain last weekend. The meteorologists called it an "atmospheric river;" I called it a great time to wallow in some seriously depressing music to match the shitty weather. As far as I'm concerned, there's no better band in 2015 to accompany overcast skies and sheets of (probably toxic) precipitation than Australia's Weeping Rat. The band is set to drop their debut album Tar via the mighty Handmade Birds, and it's a deliciously dismal listen, to say the very least.
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Samhain @ The Warfield, San Francisco, CA 09/20/14
Longtime THKD readers will recall that late last year I finally got to see Danzig live after being a fan of the man and his music for twenty years. Considering the fact that the set included a slew of Danzig classics + a mini-set of Misfits songs featuring Doyle Wolfgang Von Frankenstein on guitar, I was convinced that I could pretty much die happy.
Beastmilk – Climax (Svart Records, 2013)
There are few things that please me more right now than this resurgence we're currently seeing in the gothic sounds of the 1980s within the realm of heavy music. It appears that metal musicians have taken a shining to the the stuff of late, or maybe they're getting bored with metal, or perhaps they always had it and are only now allowing themselves to cut loose and release the bats. Whatever the case, Helsinki's Beastmilk are absolutely killing it with their debut album, Climax.
THKD's Top 20 Metal Albums of 2012
2012 has been more stressful than a motherfucker; probably one of the most all-around stressful years of my life. Buying a house + assorted family and work-related issues that I wouldn't even dream of getting into here managed to turn the year into a goddamn pressure-cooker. I'm pretty sure the only things that kept me alive were my wife's unwavering love (and limitless patience) and an avalanche of incredible music. In 2011 I was feeling pretty jaded and dissatisfied with the state of heavy metal, this year I found myself feeling better about things than I have in years. That isn't to say there weren't great albums released in 2011, there were, but in 2012 I felt like there was so much greatness that I couldn't possibly keep up with it all.
Atriarch – Ritual of Passing (Profound Lore, 2012)
Rumors of deathrock's uh, death, are greatly exaggerated. Pinkish Black proved it was still alive and well with their excellent self-titled debut earlier this year, and now Portland, Oregon's Atriarch have knocked it out of the goddamn park with Ritual of Passing. This isn't your granddaddy Rozz Williams' deathrock though. While it might be built on a tortured foundation similar to what bands like Christian Death were putting down back in the day, Atriarch breaths new life into the genre by incorporating the musical vocabularies of doom and black metal into their approach, making their brand of diseased heaviness that much more, well, deathly.
Interview: THE ASH EATERS
I must admit, I was late to the party on Brown Jenkins; I didn't hear them until the inimitable Nathan T. Birk sent me a copy of Death Obsession while he was doing PR work for the once prominent black metal label Moribund Cult. I fell instantly in love with the band's spellbinding attack, which blended elements of black metal, doom and gothic rock with an appropriately Lovecraftian sense of dread and crumbling sanity. I gave the album a glowing review for the now-defunct Sonic Frontiers(dot)net and subsequently came into contact with band mastermind Umesh Amtey. That correspondence blossomed into a friendship that I've had the pleasure of enjoying for several years now; although Amtey and I have never met in person, I consider him a close comrade and look forward to the day when we can raise our glasses together in the same room.
As a result of our friendship, I've had the distinct privilege of watching the next phase of Amtey's musical journey come into being. The Ash Eaters shares some traits with Brown Jenkins, but is an all together different beast. The guitar-work is more complex, the arrangements are more frantic, attacking the listener from every direction, while at the same time remaining catchy and memorable; Amtey has drawn from a wide range of influences and pushed them forward in every way imaginable.
I've been waiting for my chance to interview Mr. Amtey, so when he finally gave Ruining You, the debut Ash Eaters full length, to the world after a string of shorter releases, I knew the time had finally come. While I've had many private conversations with him regarding his musical history, motivations, influences, etc, I wanted to afford my readers the same opportunity to learn more about this truly unique individual and the excellent music he's been releasing over the past several years. I contacted Mr. Amtey via e-mail for the following interrogation.
Pinkish Black – s/t (Handmade Birds, 2012)
Of all the great heavy music that's happened in 2012, I find myself being the most interested in the handful of bands that have openly defied the trappings of heavy music both musically and conceptually, while at the same time being embraced by the metal community. I'm thinking of bands such as Wreck and Reference, Menace Ruine and Author & Punisher; bands that have forged unique and innovative identities for themselves without adhering to the guitar/bass/drums format. You can add Fort Worth, TX duo Pinkish Black to that short list; their self-titled debut album is a drums/synth/loops/voice fuelled exercise in gothic/death rock exellence that nods to the past as it creeps towards the future.


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I want to get a full tummy tuck with lipo suction in flanks and breast augmentation silicone (photos)
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Tummy tuck with liposuction and breast augmentation
Web reference: http://www.jjrothmd.com/procedures/mastopexy-w-augmentation/
Mommy Makeover
Some of your stretchmarks will be removed, however not all. Therefore, if your primary purpose of the tummy tuck is to get rid of stretchmarks, you may be disappointed. Your surgeon can let you know how much can be removed. Your stomach will be flatter and more toned after surgery.
Your initial recovery will be about a month or two, during which you'll be swollen and bruised. You may need to wait about 2 months before resuming regular exercise.
Web reference: https://harmonycosmetic.com/cosmetic-procedures/surgery/mommy-makeover.html
Mommy makeover: tummy tuck, #stretchmarks and #breastaugmentation
After childbirth, when the mother is no longer lactating, the breast glands will shrink. Most often this leaves the breasts smaller especially in the upper portion In this case, breast augmentation may allow the patient to achieve her desired breast shape and size.
Liposuction and tummy tuck can be done at the same time.
Web reference: http://www.horowitzmd.com/plastic-surgery-procedures-newport-beach/breast-augmentation
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In the midwest, $10,000-$15,000
The vast majority of Mommy Makeover patients resume most of their normal activities within two weeks of surgery.Strenuous activity and heavy lifting should be delayed for 6 to 8 weeks following surgery.
When the surgeon's fee, facility fees, anesthesia charges, implant costs and pre- and post-operative care are considered, the total cost ranges between $10,000 and $15,000 for this procedure.
If you're considering Mommy Makeover surgery, it's important to consult a board certified plastic surgeon with experience in this area.This surgeon should be able to evaluate your condition and formulate a treatment plan that addresses your anatomic findings and achieves your aesthetic goals.
Combining cosmetic surgery procedures
Web reference: http://www.baltimoreplasticsurgery.com/procedure/mommy-makeover/
I want a full tummy tuck, liposuction and breast augmentation.
Web reference: http://www.surgicalimages.com/plastic-surgery/liposuction.cfm
Mommy make-over
- Yes, a breast augmentation, tummy tuck and flank liposuction are common done at one time,
- The cost, depending on area of the country and type of implants, including all fees will range from $14,000 to $20,000.
- In rural areas with few plastic surgeons and high cost areas of LA, NY and San Francisco, prices will be at the high end. Hope this helps!
I want to get a full tummy tuck with lipo suction in flanks and breast augmentation silicone
All three procedures can be safely done at the same time. As you noted above, costs are important but should never be the determining factor in your decision. Costs in the Southeast portion of the US are less than where you live. At our Institute we frequently received patients from as far away as California or the Northeast, NYC, Boston etc. Miami has become the mecca for cosmetic surgery in this part of the US. We are equipped to handle all travel concerns. We require that patients undergoing a tummy tuck with any other procedure stay a minimum of 10-14 days so by the time they return home the "critical" period is over.
I am certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery and have practiced in the"land of mommy makeovers", Miami, for the past 29 years. I encourage you to look up the surgeon you eventually select and make sure they have years of experience in performing cosmetic breast surgery, tummy tucks and liposuction. Furthermore request to see before and after photos of previous patients by that doctor....not a clinic or surgery center. Do your homework......research and verify the doctor's credentials. Have they had problems with the Board of Medicine, disciplinary or otherwise. Any law suits?
How about the center, clinic or facility? Are they accredited by a national organization or do they just have State approval. Understand that at the current time, there are three nationally recognized organizations responsible for the highest levels of patient safety, AAAASF, AAACH and JCHO. You owe it to yourself to position yourself for the best possible results but under the most stringent safety regulations, If you have kids, even more so.
How about anesthesia? Will you have a medical doctor certified by the American Board of Anesthsiology or a certified nurse anesthetist (CRNA)? Understand that there is no substitute for research. Cosmetic surgery, no matter how simple it may be to the patients, are invasive procedures and as such carry certain risks and complications.
You would be looking at somewhere around $11,000-$12,000 here in Miami, though the costs could run as high as $18-20,000 in other areas.
I wish you the best on your journey. I hope that the info provided has been helpful. Should you require any further clarification, do not hesitate to contact our institute. We use a web based program called TouchMD which allows us to upload your pictures ( privately/HIPPA compliant) and then I can actually draw on them so that the patient is able to view from their home what my recommendations are. I answer all questions personally, not through patient coordinators or other marketing individuals. Good Luck
Web reference: http://www.realself.com/find/Florida/Miami/Plastic-Surgeon/Jose-Perez-Gurri#photos
I want to get a full tummy tuck with lipo suction in flanks and breast augmentation silicone
Kenneth Hughes, MD
Los Angeles, CA
Web reference: http://www.hughesplasticsurgery.com/Mommy-Makeover-photo-galleries.php
Mommy Makeover
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Jennifer's Book Review: Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Crewel, the first book in a new dystopian series by Gennifer Albin, is one-of-a-kind. In a genre that's quickly being saturated with Hunger Games rip-offs or love stories hiding behind a dystopian façade, Albin masterfully weaves dystopian with fantasy to create Crewel World.
In the world of Arras, men are in control, while women have very limited options. Girls must be married at age 18, and their careers are chosen for them by the government. The only women that appear to have a modicum of freedom are the Spinsters – women with the ability to control the threads of life (obviously inspired by the Fates in Greek mythology). Their special ability allows them to carefully monitor and control the weather, food and even life spans and memories. Even Spinsters, however, answer to the male-run Guild, the ruling force in Arras.
Crewel's heroine, Adelice Lewys, passes the mandatory test to enter training as a Spinster, to the dismay of her parents. After a failed escape from her fate, she is viewed with contempt and suspicion in her new position. What's more, Adelice has a secret she's been warned to keep hidden – she has the rare ability to see the threads of life without a loom, making her invaluable to the Guild. As Adelice uncovers secrets the Guild would like to keep hidden, Adelice and those she loves find themselves in ever-increasing danger.
In Crewel, classic dystopian themes are evident, such as the constant observation and iron-fisted government control from 1984, or the disempowerment of women found in The Handmaid's Tale. Although the methods used by the Guild, the manipulation of elemental threads, are different from those found in the aforementioned novels, they are stifling and oppressive, nonetheless.
But Albin's blending of traditional themes with popular young adult trends separates her from those classic books, making Crewel easier to recommend to readers who are searching for "Hunger Games read-alikes." Like the protagonists in Harry Potter, Eragon, Twilight and other trendy YA fiction series, Adelice's rare ability increases her value to those in power. Whereas traditional dystopian literature often follows normal, mundane people with questionable worth to the authoritative body, Adelice stands out.
Crewel is a beautiful world, filled with color and intrigue. As with many fantasies, a bit of suspension of disbelief is necessary to accept the nature of Spinsters and the threads they manipulate. However, Albin does a wonderful job of explaining the nature of Arras without getting bogged down in jargon and overdone description. Albin writes beautifully, and readers will breathlessly wait for the sequel.


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ATLANTA -- The U.S. Postal Service could close five mail processing facilities in Alabama, including the one in Huntsville that already is being downsized, as part of a nationwide cost-cutting effort as it struggles with finances.
The Alabama facilities are among 252 mail processing facilities across the nation that will be reviewed over the next three months for possible closing. In addition to the Huntsville facility on Wall Triana Highway, Anniston, Dothan, Mobile and Tuscaloosa are also on the list for review.
The Postal Service is looking at consolidating operations as part of its nationwide effort to trim costs at the financially strapped agency.
Postal officials say their studies will be finished in early 2012 and that it's too soon to say how many jobs might be affected.
In July, the postal service announced it was moving some processing operations from Huntsville to Birmingham.
The move was the result of last November's Area Mail Processing study, which involved a review of mail processing and transportation operations in the areas served by the Huntsville and Birmingham facilities.
The transition is expected to be completed by Jan. 1. Some employees may be reassigned to the Birmingham center or to other vacant positions as a result of the move, postal officials said in July.
In August, the postal serviced announced it was closing its branch at Marshall Space Flight Center.
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Timing is Everything: Look at Anti-Trust Law as a Digital Design and -- Guess What -- Microsoft Wins
Last week, Microsoft was slapped by the European Union with sanctions and a $600+ million fine for anti-trust violations. Readers have been asking me what this really means. But Microsoft's troubles extend beyond Europe. There are signs of strain in last year's DoJ v. Microsoft anti-trust settlement. And while Redmond has settled many private and class action anti-trust lawsuits, several more are continuing. This would seem like not a good time to be Bill Gates. On the contrary, this is a VERY good time to be Bill Gates, because Microsoft is winning every case. Not only are they winning, in fact they've already won. Sure, the verdicts aren't all in, and in some cases, the jury hasn't even been chosen, and there is even the very real prospect that some verdicts will appear to go against Microsoft, but that doesn't matter: Microsoft has already won, by which I mean that Microsoft literally can't lose. It's just that until now they are the only ones to have figured this out.
There was a time, years ago, when I actually worked for a living. I did a little software, did a little hardware, and while I wasn't the best at any of it, I got by primarily on, of all things, my skills in geometry. Something of an idiot savant, I was so bad at math and so good at geometry that, of course, I reduced everything I could to a geometry problem. And it turns out that geometry, at least as I practiced it back when I did practice it, was particularly useful for understanding the timing of digital circuits and the biorhythms of software. I believe that in today's world circuit libraries and object-oriented code such timing is something of a lost art, but the results back then were that my efforts, crude as they were, often got to the finish line first just because in computers, as in comedy, timing is everything.
What this has to do with Microsoft's legal situation is simple. Forget about looking at Microsoft's legal problems as, well, legal problems, and start looking at them as a digital design problem. Business itself is just a big computer program with the computer being our economy or maybe our entire culture. There are inputs, outputs, variables, coefficients, values, and constraints. Most of these are analog, but if we forget for a moment the business of business and think only of the business of law, suddenly the design becomes all-digital. That's simply because laws are made up of yes's and no's which are effectively zeroes and ones -- a binary system. Even the fuzzy logic of legal opinions can be reduced to digital values since someone inevitably wins while someone else loses, no matter how many words are involved in explaining the outcome.
Timing comes into this because doing work (even legal work) takes time, and the time required for some work is more flexible than for others. Think of it in hardware terms as discrete devices that can only work so fast, plunked into designs where something can't start until something before it ends.
Good design is like figuring out the timing of traffic lights such that driving a steady 38 miles per hour gets you green lights all the way through town. Bad design is like having to punch the accelerator or slam on the brakes over and over again to achieve that same average 38 miles per hour. REALLY bad design is not being able to go fast or slow enough to average 38 so you miss a few lights and finish later even though your car may actually be the fastest of all. Sometimes you go nowhere at all.
Now let's apply these admittedly poorly defined principles to anti-trust law and to Microsoft in particular. I have no idea whether anyone at Microsoft has done this same exercise, but I'd bet they have. Nor does it matter whether they've done the exercise or even thought of it, because the result will still be the same.
In anti-trust law the actors are individuals, companies, and regulators. The clock rate of the overall system was defined no later than the 1930s when the most recent anti-trust laws were passed. The primary data bus is provided by the U.S. Mail. And here's the most important part of all: coefficients were set too long ago to be effective in the case of Microsoft or any Microsoft-like entity. Finally, there is almost no way to optimize the system, which is filled with extraneous wait states and timing loops that slow it to a crawl because lawyers are paid by the hour. Justice may be blind, but she is also slow.
None of this should matter if we believe to be true the idea inherent in law that the courts can always redress infractions even in cases where victims are dead. Sure the system is slow, little Eolas tells itself, but all the while Microsoft is being assessed interest on that $520 million punitive damage award, so if it isn't paid for years, that hurts Microsoft more than Eolas. At least that's the idea which is, of course, nonsense.
In practice, it doesn't work that way, and not just in America. Take this example of the European Union fining Microsoft. It looks tough, but Microsoft gets to appeal, remember, and this particular part of the EU bureaucracy has been reversed on appeal two out of the last three times. So whatever the fine, Microsoft has two-to-one odds of not having to pay it, or at least of having it substantially reduced. And while the fine looks like a lot of money, to Microsoft it isn't. That $600 million is the amount by which Microsoft increases its cash hoard in TWO WEEKS. Even if the EU had hit Microsoft with its maximum allowable fine of 10 percent of gross global turnover or about $3 billion, it wouldn't have mattered. Paying a $3 billion fine to keep moving a $10 billion annual European cash machine that yields $7 billion in annual profits is a no-brainer. Would you pay $3 billion knowing that doing so would bring in a net profit of $4 billion PER YEAR, especially given the likelihood that the final judgement would be reduced or eliminated entirely? OF COURSE you'd pay the $3 billion, anyone in that position would. And nobody in that position, having paid the $3 billion (or $600 million) would put much effort into real compliance, since THAT's the thing that threatens profits, not paying artificially-capped fines.
So Microsoft will pay the European fine, which will have no impact on their behavior. They will appeal the decision, which will freeze any real enforcement action and effectively authorize continuation for another two to five years of otherwise proscribed behavior while the appeal moves forward. And if its European appeal fails, Microsoft will still be $8-20 billion ahead of where it might be had they actually attempted some version of compliance, which they won't. By that time, too, enough will have changed that Microsoft will have good grounds for arguing that it's a different world and just maybe all parties should start again from scratch.
Much the same thing is happening in the U.S., too. Microsoft is laboring under a consent decree ostensibly being monitored by Harry Saal and his team up in Redmond, but I'm hearing enough grumblings through friends of friends to believe that Microsoft isn't paying a lick of attention to complying with that agreement. Why should they? Compliance just slows the company down without providing Microsoft any advantage. While it may look like the company agreed to comply, what is really happening is the company agreed to be bound by certain requirements, not necessarily to comply with them. At the end of the day, they can always opt for what's behind door number three, which is the DoJ's punishment for noncompliance. But Microsoft knows that any such punishment won't be enough to reverse the gains of noncompliance, and that there is a good chance there will be no punishment at all.
Viewed as a digital system, Microsoft gains more from noncompliance than from compliance. Microsoft risks less through noncompliance than it would through compliance. Dynamic action gives Microsoft effective control of the master clock because wait states can always be added by hiring more lawyers. And if all else fails, Microsoft can always pull up stakes and move to some other country, the very threat of which would stimulate a frenzy of political ass-kissing that could ultimately result in Bill Gates being named king of somewhere or other, possibly even of the U.S.
Justice is blind, slow, and unequal. What makes this possible is a legal system designed for the late 18th century and operated by a government that effectively believes that while antitrust matters to individuals and companies its effect on nations cancels out. Only it doesn't if the companies involved are as big and powerful as Microsoft or Intel or Wal-Mart -- companies of near-infinite resources and near-total fixation on executing a global strategy.
There are only two ways for a society to address such taking advantage of a legal system. One way is to drag that legal system into the 21st century, which isn't going to happen in America. The other way is to dramatically simplify the legal system along the lines of nomadic justice where there are no prisons nor even capability for collecting damages, so all correction comes down to death or maiming. That isn't going to happen, either, so Microsoft wins.


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Costas said on "Late Night" that some viewers of his programs have reacted negatively to his discussion of hot-button issues surrounding sports. However, Costas argues that he wouldn't be doing his job if he didn't bring up politics involved in his coverage.
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Philadelphia Soul quarterback Matt D'Orazio has been named the Arena Football League Writers Association Player of the Year.
D'Orazio edged teammate and wide receiver Chris Jackson, a former member of the Grand Rapids Rampage, for the honor. San Jose SaberCats quarterback Mark Grieb finished third in the voting by beat reporters covering the league.
The Press' ballot:
1. Jackson
2. D'Orazio
3. Chicago Rush defensive back Dennison Robinson
D'Orazio entered the regular season as the backup to popular Soul signal caller Tony Graziani.
Injuries, however, relegated Graziani to the sideline early in the season and forced him to miss 11 games. D'Orazio stepped into the lineup and passed for 72 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
"I'm extremely humbled," D'Orazio said. "It was just about a year ago that I was having back surgery, and now to be mentioned in the same sentence as Chris and Mark Grieb is very humbling."
D'Orazio quarterbacked the Chicago Rush to the AFL championship two years ago. He ended up leaving as a free agent due to back surgery, but was signed by the Soul, who finished with a 13-3 record in the regular season and will play the Cleveland Gladiators for the National Conference title at 1 p.m. Saturday.
The AFLWA, founded in 2004, is a national organization comprised of media members who cover the Arena Football League. Mark Anderson of the Las Vegas Review-Journal is the AFLWA's founder and executive director.
AFLWA Player of the Year previous winners:
2007 -- Chris Geisen, quarterback, Georgia Force
2006 -- Clint Dolezel, quarterback, Dallas Desperados
2005 -- Siaha Burley, offensive specialist, Arizona Rattlers
2004 -- Marcus Nash, offensive specialist, Las Vegas Gladiators
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Report from: Europe
by Sean Milmo
A wave of pharmaceutical expansions is expected in Europe this year, surprisingly by Indian companies. Their goal is to use the region as a production base for supplying the global market—particularly North America—with active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) and intermediates. In the past two years alone, Indian companies such as Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (Mumbai) have used acquisitions to build a strong presence in the European generics sector. Among the biggest deals have been Dr. Reddy's $690-million takeover in February 2006, of Betapharm, Germany's fourth largest generics player, and Mumbai-based Wockhardt's $265-million acquisition of Negma, France's fourth biggest integrated pharmaceutical company, in May 2007. In fact, Wockhardt has taken the lead as the largest Indian pharmaceutical company in Europe, with 1500 staff.Now there are signs that Indian companies desire a significant position in contract manufacturing in Europe. They plan to grow production capacity via outsourcing, partnerships, and acquisitions.
Bangalore-based Avesta Biotherapeutics and Research Pvt. Ltd (ABRPL), a joint venture between Avesthagen (Bangalore) and Meditab Specialties of the CIPLA Group (Mumbai), acquired the biologics operation of Siegfried GmbH in Switzerland with the aim of strengthening its biopharmaceutical contract-manufacturing activities. The move fits in with ABRPL's strategy of being able to meet the manufacturing standards of both the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Union's European Medicines Agency.
These deals demonstrate a reversal in a trend of European pharmaceutical companies manufacturing their APIs and intermediates in India. "Indian companies are now outsourcing APIs from Europe because of the advantages of having products in both the North American and European market which are made in European plants and have been approved by the EU plant inspection agencies," said Roger Laforce, marketing and sales general manager for Fabbrica Italiana Sintetici (FIS), a leading Italian advanced intermediates producer, at the 2007 ICIS Fine & Specialty Chemicals conference in Hamburg, Germany. "We're now making APIs for Indian companies."
Manoj Dutt, managing director of Solaris Chemtech (Gurgaon, India), said on the sidelines of the conference that, as Indian companies become global operators in the production of APIs and intermediates, they will inevitably want to have production facilities in Europe.
"As they expand internationally, Indian [companies] want to make use of the technological expertise of European fine chemical companies by, if necessary, taking them over," he added. "They also want to benefit from the close relationships which European fine chemical producers have with the large Western pharma companies. Some of the European fine chemical companies seem content to restrict their activities to Europe because of these close ties with Big Pharma."
Indian pharmaceutical companies are targeting Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) for expansion because the area provides a platform for exporting into Western Europe as well as into the neighboring Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), including Russia.
A number of Indian companies are already making their move. Ranbaxy (Gurgaon) acquired Terapia S.A., Romania's largest independent pharmaceuticals company, for $324 million in 2006. Sun Pharma (Mumbai) bought ICN Hungary, a producer of controlled substance APIs in 2005. And, Strides Arcolab (Bangalore), a leading Indian specialist in the production of finished generic medicines, has established a regional production base for making dosage-form pharmaceuticals in Warsaw, Poland, which will also be part of the company's global manufacturing network.
"Production costs in CEE countries are cheaper than in Western Europe where there is a general trend to move production facilities from western to eastern countries, especially to Hungary and Poland where there is a strong base of qualified employees," says Aleksandra Jargot, an analyst at Frost & Sullivan, a market research organization headquartered in London.


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The Georgia Supreme Court is scheduled to hear a case Tuesday weighing the merits of a $350,000 limit on jury awards for malpractice victims' pain and suffering.
A Fulton County judge struck down the provision in February, declaring it unconstitutional. But supporters appealed the ruling, arguing that the caps don't violate the state constitution.
The caps were at the center of a rancorous debate that dominated the 2005 legislative session.
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But what of the people who are medical marijuana cardholders, using or growing the drug for their benefit?
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Syracuse, NY -- The number of applicants has grown significantly in recent years at two local specialty institutions that are part of the state university system. That appears to match a trend across the country at public colleges and institutions.
The State University of New York Upstate Medical University has attracted 58 percent more applicants in the last five years — 6,273 for the fall of 2010 compared to 3,982 in 2005. And the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry saw applications grow by 87 percent during the same period — 1,720 compared to 922.
A study by Don Hossler, a professor at Indiana University, showed similar growth at public colleges and universities with a 47 percent increase in applications from school years 2001-02 to 2007-08.
Hossler, who specializes in educational leadership and policy studies, noted a combination of more graduating high school seniors, with more applying to more institutions was part of the reason. He also suggested a societal push to get more moderate and low-income students into college has led them applying to more institutions.
Applications are up at Upstate Medical University — which offers medical and doctoral degrees and a range of undergraduate and master's degrees for various health professions — because of new program offerings, an increase in the number of open health positions and aggressive recruitment, Admissions Director Jennifer Welch said .
Not only are applications up, but so is enrollment. From 2005 to 2010, enrollment increased 27 percent, from 1,235 to 1,545.
The growing number of applicants at ESF follows the college's high rankings in value and quality, aggressive out-of-state marketing, a unique relationship with Syracuse University, much research being done there and high demand for the kinds of programs it offers, said Robert French, vice president of enrollment management.
ESF offers 23 bachelor's and 30 graduate programs. There also are associate-degree programs and eight doctoral programs. It, too, saw enrollment increase over the last five years — by 27 percent, from 2,140 to 2,718.
The other SUNY colleges in Central New York — Oswego, Cortland and Morrisville and Onondaga and Cayuga community colleges — also have seen double-digit increases in applications.


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To the Editor,
What gruesome pictures were shown by the "Show the Truth" group, depicting what actually happens during an abortion, when a real baby, one of us humans, is torn apart limb by limb, and aspirated by the suction machine.
Would it have been easier for anyone offended by these graphic posters, if it had been a young child torn apart by a wild animal. I bet someone would have gone to its defense. Little ones living in the uterus, are supposed to be in the safest, most secure place in the world, under the mother's beating heart.
Dr. Bernard Nathanson, a leading ex-abortionist wanted to see what happened during an abortion so he recorded it in an ultrasound; what he seen horrified him, the child sensing harm at the approaching forceps or suction cannula tried to retreat to the furthest end of the womb, only to be sucked out as his hands and feet were flailing and mouth opening in a 'Silent Scream'.
Humans have descended lower than the beasts of the field. Woe to any government that enacts any law contrary to the natural law.
We have to return to traditional marriage, give it the respect that's it's owed, as that is what God intended: to have a commitment for life, raise children, not abortions.
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Will Uncle Sam Send Dan Choi's Unpaid Army Bill Into Collections?
Because in an open letter to President Obama, the former first lieutenant says he's going to "refuse to pay your claim" for the $2,500 or so the Army sent him a bill for, asking cash back for "the unearned portion" of his contract. You know, the part where he was paid, but didn't complete service because he was, uh, discharged for being gay.
They should have tied up that loophole during repeal, but I can see how it would have been contentious granted that they did break standing law to get kicked out. Then there is the whole thing about people that have been kicked out and payed the government back; to reimburse them they would have to pass a congressional resolution to provide those funds. That also could open the door to Pandora's box. Dan should realize that we are moving forward from DADT not looking back and trying to kick up old poisonous dust that can ensnare the whole process and create bad blood up on capital hill as if there isn't enough already. He broke the law and got kicked out justly/or unjustly, if he doesn't pay the bill he risk ruining his credit, damaging his ability to apply for government grants, and risk the threat of being sued or even imprisoned. Keep your ring on your finger, pay the bill, and move forward.Jan 28, 2011 at 1:04 am · @Reply ·
Ah, UNreason, demonstrating what a Good Little German he is again. "Ya, Frau Goldstein, you have to pay for the bullets we used to kill your husband. It's the law. You could have married a Christian."
Pitiful, just pitiful.
And, no, you stupid fuck, congressional action would NOT be required to compensate/reimburse gays discharged. IN FACT, the ACLU is SUING your unrequited boyfriend, Barry, over just such an issue.
It was filed last November because, in violation of the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of equal protection and due process, the DOD under Obama continues to follow a 1991 "half-pay" policy that denies gays the full separation pay that nongays automatically get upon discharge.
None of this is related to DADT. Per federal law, *"Separation pay is granted to military personnel who served at least six years but were involuntarily discharged, part of an effort ease their transition into civilian life," But, the DOD was left free to create policies however they wanted to administer it, sou under DOD policy 1332.29, IF YOU'RE GAY you only get 50%; putting gays in the same category as similarly denied alcoholics and drug addicts. Thus, for example, despite having served his country for NINE years, after being outed, gay Air Force Sgt. Richard Collins was cheated of over $12,000.
That he was discharged under Bush is irrelevant as *"the ACLU and the SLDN first contacted the Obama Defense Department in November 2009 [and several times thereafter] to request that the separation-pay policy be revised to eliminate the discrimination against gay and lesbian service members [and that Collins and others like him be fully paid], but the department has refused to do so. THE SEPARATION PAY ISSUE IS ENTIRELY WITHIN THE ADMINISTRATION'S CONTROL. The administration can at least take a preliminary step toward backing up its rhetoric with action by addressing this issue promptly and protecting gay and lesbian service members from needless additional discrimination." [At last Feb. 2nd's Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Sen. Levin asked Secretary Gates to look at the practice among those issues Gates promised to get back to the Committee about 45-days later. Nothing changed.]
ACLU/SLDN letters to Secretary Gates and the demonstrably homophobic Undersecretary of Defense Clifford Stanley [who is also in charge of "implementation" of "repeal"] can be read at:
Further, in December, while the Pentagon Working Group report recommended no monetary compensation of any kind to those discharged under DADT, they said anyone, WITHOUT "congressional resolution, could petition for "redress through the Service Boards for the Correction of Military Records or Service Discharge Review Boards under the procedures and standards set forth by statute." TRANSLATION: "Good luck with that."
Is it not enough that the President had the unequivocal legal power under federal law 10 USC 12305 to stop Dan's discharge in the interests of national security—AND the discharges of HUNDREDS of other gays discharged since he became President/Commander-in-Chief—yet CHOSE to do nothing about Dan or any other discharge HE personally described as both immoral and damaging to national security throughout his campaign for President and at the "Stonewall" celebration at the White House A YEAR BEFORE Dan was discharged?
Is it not enough that the DOD denied Dan permission to reenlist when he applied during that brief window before Mr. Obama's Department of Justice blocked the LCR court ruling—a suit they continue to incomprehensibly fight even post passage of the "repeal" bill?
Now, Dan's effectively received a Bill for Being Honest, just as, under Bush, Inc., Anthony Woods was sent a bill for $35,000 and Mara Boyd was sent one for $30,000, both for tuition payments, even though both, like Dan, wished to continue to serve.
Obama made Bush's War in Afghanistan HIS war.
Bush's "Patriot Act" HIS "Patriot Act."
Bush's Gitmo HIS Gitmo.
Bush's refusal to treat honorably discharged gays the same way he treated discharged straights HIS refusal.
Ad nauseum.
It's just another cry for attention in the hopes it will revive Choi's speaking business.
I agree with Reason – enough, already Dan. Grow up. Find a job. get on with your life.
It is also very telling when [email protected] is your biggest advocate.
@[email protected]: I find your posts to be very well informed, well written and well thought out. Thank you. I agree with you.


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I'm writing this post about a year late, but I realized that I neglected to cover a big vendor decision—our photographer!
Confession: photography was never super high on our list of stuff to invest in. For a while, Wolfman even suggested that we just buy a nice camera and enlist someone to snap a few shots of us. I strongly vetoed this approach, of course, but I didn't want to pay an arm and a leg for photography either (which, especially in the DC region, is really easy to do).
Unlike other vendor decisions, we picked a budget and stuck to it, because it made it far easier to sift through the dozens of photographers in the area. We also really didn't care about engagement pictures, so we favored photographers that allowed us to exchange an engagement shoot for more wedding coverage. Surprisingly, those two parameters really left only a handful of photographers up for consideration, and we ended up booking the first one we met with, Emily Clack. Even if we had no budget, I feel like she's a steal. Some examples of her work:
I think her photojournalistic approach is perfect for us, as is her flexibility on our package. She also will let us add coverage on the fly if we want, which I appreciate.
I know other bees have had a tough time with this vendor decision, but it was one of our easiest. I think it helped that we were (mostly) on the same page with how much importance we placed on it, and that it seemed to be one of those vendors with a price point for every budget.
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Mets pitcher Jon Niese had a request for reporters after news broke of pitching coach Dan Warthen using a racial slur and later apologizing: What happens in the clubhouse should stay in the clubhouse.
Specifically, he asked them to stop tweeting about the clubhouse...a statement which was then tweeted on Thursday morning by Newsday's Anthony Rieber:
Jon Niese to a group of reporters: "Stop Tweeting about our clubhouse. That ----'s got to stop."— Anthony Rieber (@therealarieber) March 13, 2014
There have been some incidents in recent years about what should and shouldn't be quoted in a locker room or clubhouse by the media present, with Warthen's apology to interpreter Jeff Cutler witnessed by a Wall Street Journal reporter. Niese's take should only continue to fuel the debate as evidenced on Twitter Thursday morning:
Well done Jon Niese. Reporters should not be allowed to tweet stuff behind closed doors in the teams' clubhouse— Franco (@DonCheech) March 13, 2014
It's about time the #mets fight back and the media snark is a good place to start. #niese— Paul Lebowitz (@PRINCE_OF_NY) March 13, 2014
This Jon Niese/Mets thing is fascinating. Should clubhouse rhetoric be shielded from fans? To me, PR is part of the job of a pro athlete.— Joe Giglio (@JoeGiglioSports) March 13, 2014


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śrī-śukaḥ uvāca — Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said; vṛtra — of Vṛtrāsura; vikrama — by the powerful activities; saṁvignāḥ — being full of anxieties; sarve — all; devāḥ — the demigods; saha ṛṣibhiḥ — with the great sages; tat-vadhāya — for the killing of him; ārthayan — requested; indram — Indra; na aicchat — declined; bhītaḥ — being afraid; bṛhat-vadhāt — due to killing a brāhmaṇa.
Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī answered: When all the great sages and demigods were disturbed by the extraordinary power of Vṛtrāsura, they had assembled to ask Indra to kill him. Indra, however, being afraid of killing a brāhmaṇa, declined their request.


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LONDON--The girls slumped in wheelchairs look barely conscious, their blond heads lolling above the plastic vomit bags tied like bibs around their necks.
It's an hour to midnight on Friday, and the two girls, who look no older than 18, are being wheeled from an ambulance to a clinic set up discreetly in a dark alley in London's Soho entertainment district.
They're the first of many to be picked up on this night by the ambulance, known as a "booze bus," and carried to the clinic — both government services dedicated to keeping drunk people out of trouble, and out of emergency rooms.
Binge drinking has reached crisis levels in Britain, health experts say, costing the cash-strapped National Health Service 2.7 billion pounds (US$4.4 billion) a year, including the cost of hospital admissions related to booze-fueled violence and longer-term health problems. Unlike all other major health threats, liver disease is on the rise in Britain, increasing by 25 percent in the last decade and causing a record level of deaths, according to recent government figures.
Doctors believe rising obesity is combining with heavy drinking to fuel the spike in liver disease, which is hitting more young people than ever.
"Undoubtedly professionals are seeing more (patients) in their late-20s to mid-30s, which would have been unusual 20 years ago," said Chris Day, a liver disease specialist at Newcastle University.
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Although Mother Nature has once again refused to cooperate, the Jamestown Community College Earthfest celebration went off without a hitch indoors.
In keeping with the college's commitment to sustainability, the annual event was held at the Hamilton Collegiate Center's student union Wednesday.
Students had an opportunity to meet exotic creatures from around the world, and learn how to care for the planet; while many local vendors and organizations were available to provide information on their services, display their wares and educate students about Earth-friendly products and methods of sustainability. A tree seedling adoption was also made available by donations from the Chautauqua County Soil and Water Conservation District.
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The event was sponsored by JCC's Earth Awareness club, which receives its funding from the student senate and the college programming committee.
According to Janis Bowman, associate professor of biology, the event has grown since its beginning in the 1990s.
"The premise is to the celebrate Earth Day," Bowman said. "And at JCC, Earth Day has become Earth Week, which has become Earth Month. So as we get into March and move into April, we have an Endangered Earth series of films that we start showing to gear up for the culmination - which is the Earthfest event."
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Bowman said this year's event emphasized the importance of buying locally produced organic food and goods. She said the number of Earthfest vendors has grown significantly in recent years, and more opportunities for participation are being made available all the time.
"We've got over 30 vendors here today, and we're always reaching out to potential vendors. It always shifts and changes a little bit, but we always have the same general theme. They have to have something that's Earth-friendly, and something that sends a message or is educational about sustainability," she said.
Vendors and organizations present at this year's Earthfest included the Jamestown Audubon Society, Jamestown Renaissance Corporation for Grow Jamestown, Roots & Wings Family Farm, Mike's Nursery Outlet, the Chautauqua Watershed Conservancy and Mike Morton's petting zoo.
The event featured music by local singer, songwriter and acoustic guitarist Matt Maloof - who has performed throughout the region. Through JCC's collaboration with Roger Tory Peterson Institute, there was also a live bird presentation given by Mike Dupuy, a falconry expert.
In conclusion of Earth Week, there will be a tree-planting ceremony on the sidewalk behind the physical education complex Friday at 12:45 p.m.


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Adjusted income rose 12 percent to $906 million, or 53 cents per share, from $807 million, or 47 cents per share, for the same period of 2010. Total sales increased 7 percent to $5.45 billion from $5.11 billion.
Those results were slightly short of analyst expectations as polled by FactSet, which called for 55 cents per share on sales of $5.51 billion.
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Financials (XLF, KBE & KRE) for example have also joined the bullish party rallying sharply over the past two weeks. This is a positive since there has never been a durable bull market without financials in the mix. That said, we haven't experienced a financial crisis like this before either.
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Live post: Devils at St. Louis Blues, 1/28/14
The Devils trail the St. Louis Blues 1-0 in the third period of tonight's game at Scottrade Center.
Cory Schneider made a pair of stick saves on Alexander Steen in front at 6:27.
Schneider made a right arm save on Chris Stewart from the inner rim of the right circle at 8:35.
Patrik Elias and Jacob Josefson have swapped positions this period. Elias has replaced Josefson at left wing on the top line with Travis Zajac and Jaromir Jagr and Josefson has taken Elias' spot at center between Dainius Zubrus and Damien Brunner.
Vladimir Sobotka came close to upping the Blues' lead to 2-0 with when he clanked a right circle shot off the left post on a 3-on-1 rush with 4:48 left in the second. In fact, the goal horn sounded and lights started flashing as if the puck had gone in, but play continued.
The Blues received their second power play of the game when Ryane Clowe was called for hooking Steen at 15:55. The Blues didn't manage any shots on goal during it before it was cut short with six seconds remaining when St. Louis' Alex Pietrangelo was called for tripping Stephen Gionta at 17:50.
After six second of 4-on-4 hockey, the Devils began their second power play of the game. During it Blues defenseman Barret Jackman and Jagr battled in the left corner with Jackman knocking Jagr down following a series of cross checks. Jagr got up and cross checked Jackman back. The battle continued at center ice after the whistle stopped play with 1:39 left in the period.
The Devils had two shots on goal during the power play.
Roman Polak high sticked Stephen Gionta just nine seconds into the game to give the Devils an early power play. The Devils had the puck in the Blues' zone for much of the man advantage time, but managed to get only two shots through to goaltender Jaroslav Halak.
The Blues grabbed the lead at 3:25 with Alexander Steen finishing a 3-on-2 rush. David Backes fed Jaden Schwartz on the right wing before Schwartz passed to Steen in the middle. Steen moved into the slot and ripped a shot over goaltender Cory Schneider's blocker for his 27th goal of the season. That came on the Blues' first shot on goal of the game.
Halak made a right pad save on Michael Ryder's right point shot at 5:10.
Schneider made a right pad save on Patrik Berglund's rebound effort in front at 10:02. Berglund's right circle shot at 13:08 went off Schneider's left shoulder and the post.
Halak got a piece of Steve Bernier's shot with his glove when Bernier moved in on a partial break at 14:12.
The Blues received their first power play of the night when Anton Volchenkov was sent off for hooking Magnus Paajarvi with 2:48 left in the period. The Devils did a good job killing it off, liming the Blues to only one shot on goal -- a left circle one-timer from Backes that Scnneider absorbed with his left shoulder with 2:29 left in the period.
The Blues outshot the Devils, 9-8, in the first period.
The Devils are coming off a 7-3 loss to the Rangers Sunday afternoon at Yankee Stadium. The Blues have won their last two games following a 7-1 loss to the Devils a week ago at Prudential Center.
Cory Schneider started in net for the Devils for the seventh time in 10 games. Jaroslav Halak started in net for the Blues.
The Devils dressed the same 18 skaters as Sunday, scratching center Andrei Loktionova and defenseman Jon Merrill.
Here were the starting lineups:
Forwards: Ryan Carter-Stephen Gionta-Steve Bernier. Defensemen: Bryce Salvador-Marek Zidlicky. Goaltender: Cory Schneider.
Forwards: Brendan Morrow-Maxim Lapierre-Chris Stewart. Defensemen: Ian Cole-Roman Polak. Goaltender: Jaroslav Halak.
Here is the Devils' complete lineup with the line combinations and defense pairs from warm-ups.
Forwards: Jacob Josefson-Travis Zajac-Jaromir Jagr; Dainius Zubrus-Patrik Elias-Damien Brunner; Ryane Clowe-Adam Henrique-Michael Ryder; Ryan Carter-Stephen Gionta-Steve Bernier.
Defensemen: Andy Greene-Mark Fayne; Bryce Salvador-Marek Zidlicky; Eric Gelinas-Anton Volchenkov.
Goaltender: Cory Schneider.
Injured: D Peter Harrold (fractured right foot).
Healthy scratches: C Andrei Loktionov, D Jon Merrill.