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Sinusitis is also known as sinus infection that leads to inflammation of the sinuses in the head. Sinuses are air filled spaces that are behind the forehead, nose, cheeks and eyes. If there is blockage of the sinuses by excessive mucous (due to a cold or flu) bacteria and viruses can build up leading to congestion, fevers, pressure like feeling and pain.
Acute sinusitis usually follows after a viral infection involving the upper respiratory tract but allergies can also lead to sinusitis. Due to mucous blockage and inability for sinuses to drain, bacteria and viruses easily grow and invade the lining of the sinuses. This leads to symptoms of sinusitis.
Medical attention should be sought out if symptoms such as pressure, fever, pain, is worsening or persisting especially for more than a week. Sinusitis can be treated several ways some simple things that you can do at home include steam therapy using a vaporizer or inhaling seat from a shower in the bathroom. Drinking fluids and using anti-inflammatory and pain reducing medications such as ibuprofen can also help. However your doctor may recommend decongestants such as nasal sprays that work quicker. It is important to note that decongestants should not be used for more than 3 days since they become less effective thus when stopping can lead to worsening congestion. Antibiotics may also be needed and there are several that your doctor can prescribe for worsening or persisting symptoms.
Sinusitis can also be prevented by washing your hands especially when in contact with others who have a cold or flu, obtaining influenza vaccination, staying hydrated, and avoiding allergens in the environment.
Pink eye is also known as conjunctivitis or inflammation of the conjunctiva (membrane that lines the eye). This inflammation results in engorged blood vessels causing the eye to appear red or pink.
Signs of conjunctivitis include redness, irritation, blurry vision, watering of clear liquid or yellow thick mucous material, crusting of the eye, sensitivity to light and having a gritty feeling in the eye.
There are several causes of conjunctivitis such as irritation from chemicals, infection from virus, bacteria, fungus, allergies or overuse of contact lens. One of the most common cause of pink eye is a viral infection and commonly occurs in children. Viral conjunctivitis can be associated with upper respiratory track infections such as flu or common cold or sore throats. There is usually a watery discharge without much pain. The infection usually starts in one eye and can spread to another. There are no specific treatment for viral conjunctivitis except for symptomatic relief from cold compresses and artificial tears. As always hand washing is very important to prevent from infection the other eye and others around you.
Bacterial conjunctivitis is due to bacteria leading to yellowish drainage or pus. This thicker drainage can cause more crusting and sticking of the eyelids shut especially after sleep. Sometimes the infection could involve the skin around the eye as well and definitely requires a physician to evaluate this since this can lead to other dangerous complications and extension of infection to even behind the eye. Even though bacterial conjunctivitis may resolve by itself in about three days, antibiotic eye drops or ointment may be needed after that.
Chemical conjunctivitis can be due to acids or bases (alkali) substances that get in the eye and the amount of injury and irritation depends on, concentration, type, length of time and amount of material that entered the eye. The first thing that must be done is to flush the eye with running water. These injuries usually require urgent medical attention.
If you have pink eye be sure to practice good hand hygine, take out your contact lens right away and seek medical attention. At CityMD urgent medical care the physicians can provide prompt evaluation for pink eye from newborns to adults. There is no appointment needed and you can walk in during the extended hours 365 days a year.
This article will review what you should do if you think you have a sprain or a strain. But first lets start off by differentiating between a sprain and a strain. Your body has many muscles, ligaments and tendons that hold joints together and allow you to move. A ligament holds two bones together such as ligaments in your knee or ankle. Tendons connect muscle to bone and allow for movement to occur.
A sprain is injury to a ligament due to stretching and or tearing. A strain is injury to of a muscle or a tendon (easy to remember since the word "strain" has a "T" in it to remind you of tendon). Sprains and strains are very common injuries in all age groups that can occur from falling, twisting, lifting, getting hit or being involved in car accidents.
Signs of sprains and strains can include any of the following either alone or in combination: pain, swelling, bruising, muscle spasm, inflammation or cramping. Some sprains or strains can be severe enough to actually cause ripping of the ligament, muscle or tendon and thus urgent medical care should be sought.
Treatment for sprains and strains should start with basic rest, ice, compression (such as an ACE bandage) and elevation if there is swelling. However since the ligaments, tendons and muscles are damaged in such injuries, severe cases can also lead to fractures and others may even require surgery. Thus, urgent X-rays may be needed as initial tests in certain cases. The doctor may also wrap joints with an ACE bandage or even apply a splint to keep the joint stable for healing to occur. Usually anti-inflammatory medications are helpful in such conditions and some cases may benefit from muscle relaxants as well. A physician can also determine whether further tests such as MRI may be needed or a referral to a specialist.
If you live in New York City (NYC) or in the NYC area, and need urgent medical care for a sprain or strain or many other conditions - City MD Urgent Care is there for you. You do not need an appointment, and at City MD the goal is to treat you immediately on a no-waiting basis. We have X-ray on premise and can refer you locally for further testing or specialists in a prompt manner.
A fracture is the same as a broken bone. There can be numerous reasons why a bone would break and most are due to some type of injury or trauma. Very commonly people end up with fractures from slips and falls or while playing sports. There are some risk factors that may increase one's chances of getting a fracture such as advanced age, certain types of cancers and osteoporosis. The extent of a fracture can widely vary as well from a minor fracture which may be difficult to even pick up on an x-ray to an "open fracture" where the bone is totally broken and protrudes out of the skin (a surgical emergency that needs hospitalization and operation).
This article will review minor fractures. To a person with a fracture, no fracture is minor, however a "minor" fracture is defined here as one that usually does not require an operation.
A fracture should be suspected after an injury if there is deep pain down in the bone that gets worse when you push on that part. Besides the obvious pain, other signs include swelling, bruising, decreased ability to move the joint and inability to walk if it pertains to an injury in the leg or ankle. More worrisome signs that a physician can determine requiring hospitalization would include decreased pulse, cool or pale extremity below or further from the injured site, numbness and tingling.
X-ray is commonly used to diagnose a fracture, however not all fractures show up on an x-ray especially a "minor fracture" or a hairline fracture. An example of this is a rib fracture which may not show up on x-ray however due to the severity of pain it creates may exist. The good news about majority of minor fractures is that they need only a few simple treatments that can be provided quickly.
The way a fracture is treated totally depends on the location. These include splitting, casting or doing nothing else but applying cold packs and taking pain medications. Frequently a simple splint (which is a removable cast with a ACE wrap on top) is used to treat a minor fracture. This allows the part that is broken to be stabilized and limits movement, allowing quicker healing and less pain. Splints are commonly used in hand and arm fractures. Small splints are also available for finger fractures! Usually fractures of the leg or ankle also need crutches. Rib fractures usually need nothing else but pain medications.
It is important to look into if a fracture exists or not and treat it in cases where there is a suspicion for one since besides bones there can be injury to ligaments and tendons around the bone as well. Depending on the location and severity of the injury, follow up may be needed with a bone specialist or an orthopedic doctor to further assess or treat these other injuries and take care of the fracture.
Preliminary assessment as well as diagnosis with an X-ray and treatments can be quickly made in urgent care facilities such as CityMD . There is no appointment needed and the urgent care is staffed by physicians well experienced physicians who are capable of taking care of your minor fracture.
What to do if you have cuts requiring stitches
Your skin can get cut in many ways, from working in the kitchen making dinner to working with tools to playing sports or falling in a playground. The first thing that you should do if you cut yourself is to clean the cut with cold running water. If there is bleeding, apply compression to the cut using a clean cloth. If the cut is in an extremity bleeding can also be controlled by elevating that extremity.
The first question that many people have after they cut themselves is if they should go see a doctor. If the cut is deep, meaning more than a simple abrasion or scrape, it may need stitches and a doctor should look at it to determine if it does. It is important to see a doctor sooner than later since many cuts do not qualify for sutures or stitches to be placed after 12 hours since there is a greater chance of an infection occurring.
Most cuts that require stitches can easily be taken care of in urgent care or walk-in clinics that offer such services. Depending on the depth, location and type of cut a doctor in a walk-in urgent care can wash it further, give you a local anesthetic similar to what dentists use to numb the cut. This way when stitches or sutures are placed, you will not feel the needle. The wound then may need to be wrapped to keep it clean.
Some cuts may not require stitches but may be a candidate to be closed by a medical glue that closes the skin together. The doctor at the urgent care or walk in clinic can determine which cuts can be closed using this method. Furthermore most cuts on the head (scalp not the face) are usually fixed with staples also after a local anesthetic is placed.
Whether you end up getting stitches, medical glue or staples it is important to understand that some amount of scar should be expected. Once skin is cut, it loses its strength and elasticity, the body tries to heal this loss of tissue by forming new connective tissue which in essence is a scar. So scar formation is the body's normal way to heal cuts even if you have stitches.
At home the sutures should be kept dry for the first 24 hours. You many need to apply an antibiotic ointment as well. Your doctor will inform you when you should return for the stitches or staples to be removed. Sometimes cuts can get infected. Everyone has bacteria on their skin, anytime there is a cut the bacteria can go inside and cause an infection. This usually does not occur however even after cleaning cuts well and under the best medical management 5 percent of cuts can get infected. Signs to watch out for at home for infected cut include redness, swelling, more pain, pus, fevers or red streaking. If you see any of these signs you must return to the doctor right away.
If you live in New York City (NYC) or in the NYC area, and need urgent medical care for a cut or many other conditions - City MD Urgent Care is there for you. You do not need an appointment, and at City MD the goal is to treat you immediately on a no-waiting basis.Â
An skin abscess is a local infection that results in pus being accumulated under the skin. Anyone can get an abscess since everyone's skin normally has bacteria on it, if the bacteria gets below the skin, there is a chance for a collection of pus or abscess to form. However certain practices can increase the chance of an abscess to be formed such as shaving or waxing. Other causes include bug bites, scrapes or getting a foreign body under the skin. There are certain parts of the body that are also more likely to have an abscess formed especially areas where there are more sweat glands than other areas such as armpits, groin, rectal and external vaginal area.Â
You should be concerned of an abscess developing if you have pain and localized redness in the skin. Sometimes, prior to pus being accumulating, these are the only symptoms that you have. You should seek medical care early if this is the case, since the doctor may evaluate the infection and recommend some simple treatments for it such as soaking it in warm water before pus accumulates. However if there is swelling and warmth in addition to pain and redness or you see pus coming out, urgent medical treatment is needed. Most abscess do not get better on their own and require urgent incision and drainage. Medical attention should be sought sooner if you have fevers or certain medical conditions such as diabetes, kidney problems and on dialysis, chemotherapy or steroids.Â
Not all abscess will open up and drain by itself, some require a physician to take out the collection of pus that accumulates below the skin. The doctor will numb the area on the abscess and inside using a local anesthetic similar to what dentists use. The abscess is then cut with a surgical knife and pus is drained. Sometimes, especially in larger abscess, there are several collection of pus pockets underneath the skin, similar to a beehive. Since there are "walls" between these separate pus pockets (or loculations) they have to be broken up with minor surgical instruments so the pus can be drained. Once pus is drained a packing (sterile gauze in a string) is placed inside to keep the walls open so that pus does not reform and that any pus left drains out.
Once he pus is drained and the packing is placed, it is usually necessary to return to the doctor in two days so that the wound can be evaluated again. The doctor during the second visit will see if pus is still draining or has stopped. By looking at the wound again, the packing may be removed and wound be allowed to close by itself or the wound may need to be packed again. At times, although uncommon pus pockets may form again and they may have to be opened again for more drainage. These are all evaluations that a doctor can perform at your local emergency department or urgent care medical practice.
The doctors in CityMD in NYC are board certified Emergency Medicine specialists that can take care of skin infections and abscess that require incision and drainage right in their office. They will provide personalized compassionate urgent medical care without having you wait for hours.


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Sigma 50-150mm F2.8 EX DC APO HSM Canon
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Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM lens review: Updated EF-S telephoto zoom no improvement on predecessor
The Canon EF-S 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS STM is a telephoto zoom designed for use on Canon DSLRs featuring an APS-C sensor. A versatile 2nd lens to complement the standard 18-55mm kit lens, it offers an equivalent 80-400mm focal length to get closer to the action and 3.5 stops of image stabilisation. With its DxOMark scores in, lets look at its strengths and weakness and consider some of the other options available.
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Friday night summer salad
Last Friday, some friends and I got together at Mel's house and all cooked a meal. Everyone prepared a different dish. My friend Josh came up with the idea as a way for all of us to hang out and also because he wants to learn more about cooking. I was excited to see everyone and a little nervous about the cooking.
I don't do as much cooking as I'd like to, mostly because I don't feel like I'm very good at it. I work too much and get home too late, and also there's probably a bit of laziness and also I'm spoiled because my girlfriend is an amazing cook. Recently, though, I've been making more of an effort, contributing a dish whenever we have a dinner party.
Growing up, I used to help my mom cook all of the time. So the knowledge is there, buried deep somewhere in the wrinkles on my mind. These days, I completely lack confidence. Whenever I cook, it seems miraculous that it is even edible.
I wasn't sure what I would take to the dinner party. A salad sounded like an easy idea. But a regular tossed green salad would be too much of a cop-out. I started doing a little Internet research. I quickly came upon a list of 100 summer salad ideas on The New York Times website. It was a really great list for recipes, all with basic ingredients that might taste good together.
There were so many ideas. I copied six down in my notebook. I was torn between a watermelon, tomato, basil vinaigrette salad or a carrot, blueberry, sunflower seed salad. There were no amounts listed for either. I decided on the carrot blueberry salad.
At the store, I bought a bag of carrots and two small cartons of blueberries. I scooped out a few handfuls of sunflower seeds. I bought some lemon, and hoped Mel had olive oil and black pepper.
It was a blast cooking with everyone. We each carved out a little area in Mel's big kitchen. We chatted, drank wine and snacked while we cooked. It was great to see old friends. Some I hadn't seen since January. It's nice to be reminded how much you enjoy hanging out with people you haven't seen in a while. You just pick up right where you left off.
The salad was a total cinch and it turned out great. I grated the bag of carrots into a bowl. I toasted the sunflower seeds in a toaster oven and added them. I tossed in the blueberries, added olive oil, three lemons and pepper.
The recipe described it as "Sweet, sour, crunchy, soft" and it was. People seemed to enjoy it. The meal was a feast with chicken, asparagus, sweet potatoes, and everything was delicious. Over dinner, we reminisced about past shoots and memories. We sat around the table and laughed.
I was home by 1:30 a.m., after we all helped clean up; earlier plans of late-night karaoke dashed as my idea of an enjoyable Friday night with friends morphs into something much calmer than it once was.


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Breath taking snow fall on the Tug Hill Plateau!!!!
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Pot grower sentenced
A Columbus-area man said he was ready to accept his sentence Tuesday for running an indoor marijuana growing operation in Washington County.
James M. Mayle Jr., 53, of 3933 Three Rivers Lane, Groveport, pleaded guilty March 11 to a third-degree felony count of illegal cultivation of marijuana. He was arrested in July while visiting a Cutler residence where authorities found 97 marijuana plants and six pounds of processed marijuana.
Asked if he would like to make a statement before his Tuesday sentencing in Washington County Common Pleas Court, said, "No your honor. Only that I accept your decision and the judgment of the court."
The 1495 Clark Road home where authorities ultimately found the growing operation belonged to Mayle's daughter. While the home was under surveillance in June and July, agents from the Major Crimes Task Force witnessed Mayle entering and leaving the property on multiple occasions.
When agents executed a search warrant they found an elaborate indoor marijuana growing operation, including fans, flex ducts, potting soil, plant food, lighting, a drying room, and other tools used to produce and process marijuana, said Washington County Prosecutor Kevin Rings.
Mayle was ordered to forfeit all of that equipment, added Rings.
Mayle was sentenced based on an agreed disposition, but raised concerns at the beginning of the proceedings that an error in the presentence investigation report would change the agreed upon sentencing.
"There is an inaccuracy in the sentencing report. Instead of having three prior felonies convictions, it is only two," said Mayle's Columbus-area attorney Toki Clark.
Mayle told Washington County Common Pleas Court Judge Randall Burnworth that he has a receiving stolen property conviction and one conspiracy to distribute marijuana conviction. A felony conviction in Franklin County was inaccurate, he said.
"The court accepts your recollection but either way it's not going to impact the court's decision today since this is an agreed disposition," said Burnworth.
The sentencing agreement included 180 days in the Washington County Jail, 19 of which Mayle has already served. He was also sentenced to three years of community control, fined $5,000, and ordered to forfeit the Suzuki vehicle he had been using the travel to the Cutler residence.
"I see he has the title with him," said Burnworth, as Mayle handed it to his attorney.
Mayle did however ask for leniency on the 180 day license suspension Burnworth issued pending Mayle's release from jail.
"I would like to remind the court I'm a class A (truck) driver. I drive for a living so it's very important that I be able to retain my driving privileges. I know that some sort of suspension is required but if there is any way I could get work privileges," he asked the court.
Burnworth said it was his understanding that the suspension was mandatory and the court did not have the option to grant exceptions. However, he allowed that if Mayle's attorney could find a statute that said otherwise, he would consider the request.
Mayle had faced a maximum of three years in prison on the third-degree felony charge.


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UK patients are outraged over whether the government NHS (National Health Service) data base was used to find individual cancer patients and pressure them to vote for the Labour party. See article here.
Even if NHS data was not used, CLEARLY there is enough commercial data for sale in both Britain and the US for cancer victims' addresses to be found and re-identified.
Allowing the secret US data mining industries that steal, collect, aggregate, and sell all Americans' sensitive personal health information, health-related searches, health-related posts on social websites, email about health, and health-related purchases to continue doing business-as-usual is a prescription for disaster.
It's a key reason we are seeking 500,000 people to sign the Do Not Disclose list. If Congress gets 500,000 signatures, they will pass a law to restore our control over our digital health records and set up the list.
Don Berwick MD, President Obama's nominee to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, agrees that health information should belong to patients—and doctors should have to ask us to see it. See his article on patient empowerment: What 'Patient-Centered' Should Mean.
Yes, it's illegal for employers and banks to use health information—but if they have it, they can use it—and there is no way to stop them.
We should be able to stop anyone from getting our health information. A national Do Not Disclose list would ensure we decide who sees our health information and who doesn't.
It's time to prevent corporations and government from being able to get our sensitive health information without consent. Sign the Do Not Disclose list!
- "The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats have attacked the Labour Party for sending "alarmist" literature to cancer patients, and called for an inquiry into whether NHS databases had been used to identify recipients. The row erupted after Labour sent cancer patients mailshots saying that their lives may be at risk under a Conservative government."
- "Experian, the data management company, confirmed that both Labour and the Conservatives use its Mosaic database, which divides voters into 67 groups. The databases can use anonymised hospital statistics, including postcodes and the diagnoses of patients, to identify the likely addresses of those with particular illnesses."


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damn we have our work cut out for us now
espicaly with our very limated resorces but i do know one thing we can do if we distroy the map to were the halo is the signal will be lost and it will be as if that ring dident igsist
k lets get started then
alright *we head down to the map room*
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alright *we head down to the map room*
*fallows you*
*activates it then sets up the calculations to self distruckt*
how lomg would it take?
about 2 minets 30 seconds i think we should run
*head start*
yup we should...i'm flying!
damn it i hate riding shot gun *keeps runing* were almost there
i know
*running closes to top speed*
Lance: -hunting for food-
mika: hurry jack
*spraps up and ready to take off*
*jumps in right as the exploshon gos off* mika hurry!!!!
*blast off into the sky and fly away*
*the fire shoots out of the entrance door* wow that was awsome
mika: *luaghing*
yeah it was
well we should be good for awhile lets head back to camp now
roger that
*takes off to camp
its good that we have got this planet protected
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Witte's 'Mummies' a little freaky
Updated 1:43 am, Sunday, September 30, 2012
Ralph Voight, the Witte Museum's director of visitor services, had only one word for the opening of the highly-anticipated "Mummies of the World" exhibition: "gangbusters."
That's because at 3 p.m. with two hours to go on Saturday and with a line out the door, more than 1,600 visitors had come specifically for the new exhibit which runs through Jan. 27.
But where Voight was succinct, visitors (especially young children) were anything but speechless.
In the dark and sometimes eerie setting, where adults spoke in hushed tones, children spoke their minds.
"Oh, he's dead!" gasped one young boy looking into the face of an Egyptian child mummy.
Andrew Martinez, 27, carried his 3-year-old son, Andrew Jr.
Dad said he only came because of his son. "He's seen fake mummies on TV. He's having a zombie party next week," Martinez said.
Andrew Jr. didn't look so sure: "It's spooky."
Such reactions were common as children took in the multimedia exhibit, which displays human and animal mummies — man-made and naturally created — from Egypt, Africa, Asia, Europe, Oceania and South America.
One little girl asked her mother about an ancient sarcophagus. "Mommy, who was in there?"
"Mummies of the World" includes 150 rare specimens and artifacts, including statuettes, a heart scarab, fragments of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, jewelry, toys and a mummified fish, dog, cat, hyena and baby crocodile.
The Witte is the only Texas stop on the exhibition's U.S. tour.
Among the most impressive displays is the Detmold Child, a 6,420-year-old Peruvian child mummy that predates King Tut by 3,000 years.
Jacquelyn Ramos, who brought her two daughters — Madelynn Ramos, 8, and Natalie Davila, 4 — said she's long been interested in Egyptian history and mummification.
Ramos found the displays appropriate for children and recommended it.
Madelynn, however, admitted it was "scary" — if not too much. "It's about real people," she said, adding that her favorite was the Coptic Child in Embroidered Tunic exhibit "because it's a child and seeing a baby back then."
(Coptics were the first Christians in Egypt).
Enclosed in glass, The Tattoo Woman, mummified in a sitting position by the elements in ancient Peru and with long dark hair intact, also stopped traffic.
One young boy took just one look and summed it up like this: "It's a little freaky, Dad."
More Information
'Mummies of the World'
Where: Witte Museum, 3801 Broadway
When: Through Jan. 27
Cost: $18-$22, which includes museum admission; on Tuesdays from 3 to 8 p.m., admission to the museum is free and "Mummies" admission ranges from $7 to $10. Children 3 and younger are admitted free. Advance tickets can be purchased at wittemuseum.org.
Information: 210-357-1910; wittemuseum.org


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From a reader – Do you have any bullies in your life?
Only here sometimes lolReplyCancel
No. I'm like a chihuahua that thinks it's a pitbull.ReplyCancel
Not that I know of.ReplyCancel
Sandyboo makes fun of my big words 🙁ReplyCancel
LOL T.E.. The damn NSA and IRS TRUEReplyCancel
And to quote one of my favorite sayings/ mantra's: no one can make you feel inferior without your permission…
Haha LadyH you can kick my ass anytime you want. :))ReplyCancel
Not bullies per say, but I do let my flatmates take advantage of my better nature…oh you guys I'm so stressed! Two girls are moving out and although we've had loads of viewings noone wants to move in. Maybe because its cluttered with my flatmates crap who've lived here longer than me. Anyhoo we have a viewing tonight and I've came home from work to find the flat a tip. I've tidied up the last few times but I'm tempted to just leave it this time as I can't cope with it all…what do you think?ReplyCancel
Lol. Me too. And it works. I have would be bullies running far away from me. Win, win.ReplyCancel
confrontation time, Wee.ReplyCancel
I used to, at my old job. Nasty bitch of a nurse…crazy really. I filed a formal complaint against her, but quit anyway.ReplyCancel
Not really, but I do tend to let people boss me and then I get mad. LolReplyCancel
I work for myself so no, but I used to have a sociopath in my team who bullied me relentlessly and I was her manager!! Worst time of my life….never again…
@Wee get your own place babe, flatmates are the Devil's Work! Even if it's a shitbox in BumFuckNowhere it's better than the hell that is other people 🙂ReplyCancel
Rosie the Riveter and Mooshki both tried to bully me off this site, calling me horrible names and hurling insults at me. Atleast Rosie kept it all here. Mooshki took to Twitter to be hurtful towards me.
Oh, and the Fake Count Moron. She too full o' DERP to be an actual bully, but she did make an attempt.ReplyCancel
I had one of those. Two weeks after probation was over on my promotion, I had another job lined up and was out of there 30 days later. One of my coworkers in that unit took another job 9 months into a 12 month probation to get away from her, and he was her favorite.ReplyCancel
@wee. Throw their crap in the dumpster. They're moving out anyway.
God, I love owning my own house. Even if my mother has moved in with me and brought an ever increasing number of children. It's still MY house and I get to make the rules (and threats.) I clean the older kids' rooms by going in their with large plastic containers and taking anything that isn't put up (although, I do usually give them two days notice before I do this.) Goodwill loves me.ReplyCancel
Maybe one or twoReplyCancel
I do. At work. Horrible situation. She fits all the criteria for being histrionic or narcisstic. She's loud and friendly to anyone on the outside but get close to her and you realize how disordered she is.ReplyCancel
@Wee S G'wan ya good thing! Put on yer teacher voice and treat them like pupils. Good luck with yer new flatmate.
Been there, done that!
Sure as a kid. Doesnt everyone? I always wonder if the bully feels really bad about the crap he did. Or she. As annadult, you dont hv to take that crap. I have to be honest , i went aling with popular kids in grammar school doing some not very nice things. So sorry if i hurt anyone, really sorry.ReplyCancel
Oh count, I didnt try to bully you off this site. I tried to bully you into stopping the vile, nasty language and terms you'd use towards women. And look, it worked to a large degree- you're a much kindler, gentler count. You, sir, are voted most improvedReplyCancel
Nope, not bullied but easily manipulated at times.ReplyCancel
Cue the linesReplyCancel
^5 +1 move over so I can sit next to you on that train sister! !!ReplyCancel
There was this girl in school who was goth before goth was in. She was soooo pale black hair they used to call her the sunscreen queen.
Not me. I kept to myself and tried to avoid friendly fire at all cost.
Yes I kind of do. It is at my work, and this person is perfectly fine when we speak one on one, but he seems to take pleasure when he is in public–in a meeting situation, in being critical and insulting.
I've had to put up some barriers with him to distance myself from contact with him whenever possible because dealing with the disrespect is depressing.
@Rosie: You thinking "whore" is a derogatory term shows exactly how unevolved you are and how you are a Fugazi Feminist.ReplyCancel
Rozee dozen kno Wat tryed meenz. It sed dat it iz reely a Bully.
It need too macke up itz mined. Ar yho a bully Rozee? R did yho jus triey too bee a Bully?
@ frosty…just spit out my highly coveted , and earned marguerita…that was funny in only a Williamsburg, Brooklyn or maybe silver lake Venice beach CA, person might grasp..
Where do you live..
Or Austin, tx as well…sorry!!
Hi mango- I dont notice your name, are u new here? Welcome.ReplyCancel
Oh count. Youre so silly. I don't know what a fugazi feminist is, but I do want to thank you for laying off all the hate talk- Very well done, its quite sweet…great jobReplyCancel
LOL! @ Rosie da Pig. You tryin the kindness troll on me? I invented kitten and rainbow trolls.
Fugazi Feminist = Fake Feminist = Doesn't want women to be empowered to be themselves, wants women to conform to their ideals of what a woman should be. Bitter that the Patriarchy "controls" women; wants the Matriarchy to "control" women.
That is why you hate whores and find the name to be a term of derision. I find whores to be a wonderful thing and believe a woman has the right to do what she wants with her body, even if that means rent it out.
I find sluts to be even better, because they don't charge money, just food or drinks or attention.
I really shouldn't be arguing with a Borderline Rapist. It aint like you are even hot or personable enough to be a Date Rapist. They would have had to go on a date with you for you to be a date rapist. You preyed on college age women you sold drugs to, then pounced on them, after they got high.
Was it about the power for you? That is what Detective Benson says it is about for Serial Rapists. Or are you just so addicted to vagina that you had to drug co-eds to satiate your cravings?ReplyCancel
Yep, workplace ones – and assholes at thatReplyCancel


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It's battle that has been waged for years, but now the Honolulu City Council is finally drawing a line when it comes to funding vacant positions that cost taxpayers millions of dollars every year.
Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi, who chairs the Budget Committee, says city departments will no longer be allowed to set aside money for positions that have yet to be filled. Instead, funds will be moved into a single provisional account controlled by the city's Managing Director Ember Shinn.
"So it doesn't become like a slush fund for the departments, and it'll be even more transparent," said Kobayashi. "The taxpayer can see what vacant positions have been filled, and where the money is."
Under the new protocol, every department must justify a new hire before any money is allocated by Shinn's office. Councilman Ikaika Anderson called it a much needed improvement.
"Every department head must make their case to the managing director as to the necessity of these positions, and as to whether or not the administration will ultimately fund them," said Anderson, who also sits on the Budget Committee.
With only two months until the full council must approve a city budget, committee members are going through Mayor Kirk Caldwell's proposed $2.08 billion operating budget line-by-line. Part of the exercise is to find enough money to cover priorities for both the Council and the mayor, such as sewer and road repairs, restoring bus routes and ensuring public safety.
Last month, Caldwell was disappointed when the Council shot down his proposal to raise an additional $15 million in revenue by raising the city's gasoline tax by a nickel per gallon. However, council members like Anderson and Kobayashi believe savings can be found through the elimination of vacant positions and a small measure of belt tightening.
"There are other ways to do it, we don't always have to raise taxes," Kobayashi told KITV4. "There's a lot of bureaucracy and we should see how we can save, and not burden the taxpayer so much."
Meanwhile, the Council is still awaiting the outcome of an arbitration hearing held last year by the State of Hawaii Organization for Police Officers that could result in retroactive pay raises for 1,800 Honolulu police officers. Officers at HPD have been working without a contract since June 30, 2011, when a four year agreement with the city expired. Just last month, the Hawaii Fire Fighters Association ended its arbitration hearing that could also result in the awarding of back pay.
Anderson says the Council's new policy on vacant positions comes down to a matter of choice about city workers.
"We either fund these pay raises and we do not fund vacancies," said Anderson. "Or, we fund vacancies, but we do not fund pay raises. Really, that's what we're looking at here."
Under the new guidelines for vacant positions, the managing director is required to notify the Council every quarter on the number of new hires retained by the city, and how much money has been spent on each position.


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FRANCE — Après le succès de Bâle-Strasbourg en juin 2015, plus de 50 bibliothécaires et amoureux des bibliothèques pédaleront du 1er au 7 juin 2016 entre Toulouse et Bordeaux pour promouvoir les bibliothèques et échanger entre professionnels pour améliorer leurs pratiques. L'Association des Bibliothécaires de France (ABF) demeure un partenaire privilégié de cette édition.
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Du 1er au 7 juin, plus de 50 bibliothécaires et amoureux des bibliothèques pédaleront entre Toulouse et Bordeaux pour promouvoir les bibliothèques et échanger entre professionnels pour améliorer leurs pratiques. Cyclo-biblio 2016 est soutenu par l'Association des Bibliothécaires de France (ABF).
More than 50 librarians and library lovers will cycle from Toulouse to Bordeaux (France) on June 01-7, 2016! Cyclo-biblio 2016 is supported by the French librarians association's (ABF).
What is Cycling for libraries?
Founded in 2011, the Cycling for libraries is an international cycling conference for librarians and library lovers. It aims to advocate libraries and increase awareness of the valuable services and resources that libraries offer to the community.
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In November 2013, the Cycling for libraries team with its members set up an international association to support Cycling for libraries tours as well as voluntary based library advocacy and library campaigns. The official name of the association is International Association for Library Advocacy, but it has also been called as "Voice for libraries" or "Passion for libraries" according to its mission.
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Kiehl's Midnight Recovery Blogger Event: Of Pyjamas, Candles And Some Boob Talk
What do pyjamas, candles and boob talk have in common? Yes!! A pyjamas partaayyy!!!
Only that I didn't get to have the boob talk at the actual event. You'll see in a while.
When I got invited for the event I didn't expect to be that special and fun! Oh I never expect anything out of any event anyway coz every one is always different.
On the eve of the event my blog manager Gabby texted me to come dressed in pyjamas and I was like 'HUH? Pyjamas?! Why so weird?' but in my heart my reaction was more like 'YAYYY!!! HAPPY!!!'. LOL.
How I LUURRVVEEE themed parties! School uniform, Geeky, Shanghai, Wondergirls (HAHA!), Cowboy, etc. I love dressing up specially for an event; going through all the costumes, makeup, hair makes me ~high~. That's why I LOVE Halloween!
OMG! That's in less than two months!!!
A themed party makes the experience more wholesome, the energy more united and everyone more in tuned with one another. It's like having a shared, sacred memory.
I love themed outings, but one thing I no longer do is wear couple clothing.
It's so… um… un-adult-like. Maybe coz we're both 28 and way over the let's-get-cute-together-and-let-everyone-know-we're-an-item stage. Kinda passe, you know what I mean? We've been together since secondary school. Yea, we did the couple clothing thing back then. That's why I felt a little, teeny, tiny awkward when we went out in BRIGHT orange top and off-white shorts/berms just recently. Hoho.
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GED students face 2001 testing deadline, or new exams
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Springfield -- Illinois adults working toward their GED certificate have until December 2001 to successfully complete the GED Tests.
The GED Testing Service in Washington, DC will release new tests in January 2002 to replace the current edition. Any GED candidate who has not successfully completed the GED Tests by that time must start again with the 2002 Series GED Tests to qualify for an Illinois High School Equivalency Certificate. Scores from the current test cannot be converted to scores on the new tests.
Persons who have not yet begun taking the battery of five tests, but who are planning to do so, must begin testing as soon as possible and earn the scores needed to qualify for a certificate before the December 2001 cut-off date. Those not passing all five tests must begin testing again in January 2002 with the new GED Tests.
The new GED Tests will continue to measure the significant and lasting outcomes of a four-year high school course of study in English Language Arts, social studies, science and mathematics.
The tests will incorporate the most current, widely used curriculum standards and standardized assessment practices available. Graduating high school seniors will continue to set the benchmark by which passing scores are set.
The new GED Tests will differ significantly from the current GED Tests. For example, the new tests will use real-life materials to a greater extent.
Such materials—editorial cartoons, graphs of economic data, and business memoranda, for example—cut across traditional classroom subject areas and require candidates to process information in multiple disciplines simultaneously.
These types of questions not only mirror the tasks students are being asked to perform in the kindergarten through 12th-grade environment, but also closely match the ways adults must function as effective workers, parents, students, and citizens.
The 2002 Series GED Tests will allow the use of a calculator on the mathematics test. Traditional high school students at every level are using calculators and the calculator's presence allows introduction of more realistic questions into the test. For one-half of the math test, however, GED candidates will be required to demonstrate their mathematical abilities without a calculator.
Changes to the language arts/writing test will affect the way the essays are scored and combined with the multiple-choice portion of the test. In the past, candidates who knew their grammar, but had difficulty expressing themselves in writing could write a poor essay but improve their scores with excellent performance on the multiple choice portion of the test. To pass the new writing test, GED candidates will have to demonstrate better all-around communication skills.
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Nowadays solid-state drives (SSDs) are used to store frequently accessed data or applications both by client and server computers. By contrast, hard disk drives are used to store massive amounts of data since their capacity is larger, while the per-GB price is lower compared to SSDs. But SanDisk Corp. believes that in the coming years SSDs will get considerably larger capacities and will also significantly drop in terms of per-GB price.
Earlier this week SanDisk released Optimus Max SSD with 4TB capacity and SAS-6Gb/s interface that significantly outperforms mission-critical hard disk drives with 10K or 15K rpm spindle speed (up to 400MB/s sequential read/write, up to 75K/15K random read/write IOPS, 1-3 drive writes per day for five years) at the same time providing higher capacity as well. While a 4TB enterprise-class SSD is probably rather expensive, SanDisk does not plan to stop here: it wants to double capacities of solid-state drives every year or two and hopes to see 8TB and 16TB SSDs in 2015 and 2016, respectively.
"We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," said Manuel Martull, product and solutions marketing director at SanDisk, in a conversation with Computerworld.
SanDisk reaffirmed that it hopes to release 6TB and 8TB Optimus Max SSDs in 2.5" form-factor next year. It is logical to expect SanDisk to offer 16TB SSDs in 2016, if the company keeps the same pace.
Solid-state drives are going to continue being considerably more expensive than hard disk drives in 2015 – 2016 timeframe. However, if a company needs to store a large amount of mission-critical data within a limited amount of space in a datacenter and do it more efficiently from power consumption standpoint, then it may get 8TB or 16TB SSDs instead of large-amount of mission-critical HDDs.
In fact, SanDisk hopes that starting from 2017 enterprise-class SSDs and HDDs for mission-critical applications is going to cost about the same amount of money per gigabyte; hence, solid-state storage will be much more competitive than 10K or 15K hard drives.
It is rumoured that the newly-announced generation of 10K and 15K hard disk drives is the last generation of such HDDs. Partly this confirms expectations about per-GB price-parity between mission-critical HDDs and SSDs.
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Yared Legesse Tetmke, 39, from Raleigh, N.C., was the driver of the 2005 Volvo truck tractor pulling a 2012 Hyundai van trailer.
His passenger was Samson Tefera, 34, of Stone Mountain, Ga.
Both men were pinned in the tractor and later died.
They were pronounced dead at the scene at 9:35 a.m. by Justice of the Peace Jim Lane and taken to Roberson Funeral Home in Three Rivers.
The driver was wearing a seat belt, but his passenger was not, according to the accident report prepared by Trooper Kolton Kendall.
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North Central College music faculty will present an instrumental faculty recital at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 17, in Wentz Concert Hall.
Jonathon Kirk, assistant professor of music, will play the euphonium and trombone, and Lawrence Van Oyen, professor of music and director of bands, will play alto saxophone. They will be accompanied by other North Central faculty—Joann Cho and Jon Warfel on piano and Mitch Paliga on soprano saxophone. Admission is free.
The repertoire will include "Shepherds of Provence" by Eugene Bozza, "Suite Francaise" by Francis Poulenc, "Phoenix" by Ryo Noda, "The Housatonic at Stockbridge" by Charles Ives, "Symphonic Rhapsody" by John Anthony Lennon, "Sonata for Euphonium and Piano" by Arthur Frackenpohl and "Sonata" by Paul Creston.


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Boulder, CO - More than 6000 geoscientists will gather at the Salt Palace Convention Center in Salt Lake City 16-19 October for "Science, Learning, and Colleagues," the 117th annual meeting and exposition of the Geological Society of America. A total of 257 symposia, topical sessions, and discipline-specific sessions will cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from effects of the 2004 South Asian tsunami to the recently released Millennium Ecosystem Assessment.
Topics addressed in these invited-speaker events include the 2004 South Asian tsunami, the 2004-2005 eruption of Mount St. Helens, and results from the Cassini-Huygens mission to Saturn. Others focus on science, politics, and public policy, including the latest efforts to strengthen the teaching of evolution and water resources science. Of particular regional interest is a symposium on the Wasatch Range-Great Salt Lake hydroclimatic system.
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Community service has been a large part of Floyd Thompson's life. He has been a member of the Naperville YMCA board of directors where he served as president for three years. He also volunteered with Wayside Cross Ministries, the American Legion, the College's Alumni Association and has been part of the Naperville Post Office Citizens Advisory Committee for the past eleven years. He served as director of admission for North Central from 1950-64 and was one of six founders of the Association of College Admissions Counselors. He served as the first and second president of the Illinois Association for College Admission Counseling (IACAC) and was a national parliamentarian of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC). He has received service awards from the Mayor of Naperville and the YMCA, a Citizen Award from the Naperville Area Chamber of Commerce, and a Citizen of the Year Award from the American Legion.


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In 1961, during spring training in Florida, LIFE gave 25-year-old Yankee shortstop Tony Kubek a camera and asked him to photograph his teammates: Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, Roger Maris, Whitey Ford and the rest of the players on what would be seen, in time, as one of the greatest teams in baseball history.
The resulting photos were never published. (See slide 12 in this gallery for a possible reason why.) Now, five decades later, LIFE.com presents those pictures, along with Kubek's own insights and memories of that particular spring training and that singular, unforgettable era of pro ball.
Kubek, the 1957 American league Rookie of the Year, played his entire nine-year career with the Yankees, winning seven American League pennants and three World Series. After he retired, he embarked on a distinguished broadcast career, working for NBC for more than 20 years (as an analyst for the network's Saturday "Game of the Week," among others) and calling Yankee games for the MSG network for another five. In 2009 he was given the Hall of Fame's Ford Frick Award, bestowed on a broadcaster for "major contributions to baseball."
Now 78 years old, Kubek lives in Wisconsin. He doesn't follow pro ball much anymore. (He retired from broadcasting in 1994, he says, because "I got tired of hearing myself talk, and it was time to get on with another phase of life with my wife, Margaret.") But the images in this gallery obviously had some resonance for him, and after all these years, they got him talking again — about his own playing days; about the game as he knew it back then; and about guys with names like Mickey, Yogi, Elston, Whitey, Moose, Bobby, Roger — his teammates, and his friends.
On Mickey Mantle:
"One amazing thing about Mickey," Kubek told LIFE.com, "is what he was able to accomplish despite the devastating injuries he suffered. [Note: Mantle suffered serious damage to his legs starting in his teenage years, and played through pain his entire pro career.] As his teammates we saw it, every day — how he had to tape his legs with huge bandages before every game, from hip to ankle, and then he'd go out and somehow run down a shot to deep center field that no one else would have been able to catch, or he'd hit one of those tape-measure home runs. He did all that on legs that, after a game, were so swollen and in pain that we would have to physically help him out of a cab, because his knees wouldn't hold his weight." In 1961, bad knees and all, Mantle hit .317, drove in 128 runs, and (famously, in his race after Babe Ruth's home run record with teammate Roger Maris) hit 54 homers.
On Roger Maris:
Kubek recalls Maris as one of the greatest multi-tool ballplayers he ever saw. "For a few years there," Kubek says, "Roger was as good an all-around player as there was in either league — and I'm including Willie Mays and Hank Aaron and all the other Hall of Famers from that era. He could run like hell, he had an arm like a cannon and of course he was a tremendous hitter. The best thing and the worst thing that ever happened to Roger was hitting those 61 home runs in 1961, because it distracted from what a complete baseball player he truly was."
On Bobby Richardson:
"I roomed with Bobby for years," Kubek recalls, "and beyond his remaining a good friend, let me tell you, he is highly underrated as a player. People say, 'Well, sure, he was the World Series MVP in 1960 [He remains the only player from a losing team ever to win the award; Richardson hit .367 and drove in 12 runs in the seven-game loss to the Pirates.] but that's about all they know of the guy. But he was an All-Star, he won a lot of Gold Gloves, was solid at the plate. Bobby was a central part of that team in 1961."
On Elston Howard:
"Ellie should be in the Hall of Fame," Kubek says, simply and firmly, of his old teammate, the first African American to play on the Yankees. "Elston not only starred in the Negro Leagues, but he went on and played in the majors for years. He was an All-Star, won world championships, won Gold Gloves, was a league MVP — he was Hall of Fame caliber."
On Bob Turley:
Turley was no slouch on the mound — he won a Cy Young Award and a World Series MVP award during his career — but 1961 was almost a lost season for him. "Bob had an injured arm and was close to going home because he felt like he couldn't help the team and maybe should make room for another, healthier player," Kubek told LIFE.com. "But the reason Turley stayed for the year, even if he was on the bench for much of it, is that [new Yankee manager Ralph Houk] said, 'Bob, you're not leaving.'
On Whitey Ford:
"Despite Mickey hitting 54 home runs and Roger's 61, and all the other guys hitting pretty well, we didn't lead the league in scoring in 1961," Kubek points out. "What won us the pennant was Whitey Ford. Ralph Houk and Johnny Sain decided that he would pitch every fourth day, and he ended up winning the Cy Young, with a 25-4 record. Elston Howard called him the Chairman of the Board, and in 1961 — when we were coming off that crushing loss to the Pirates in the 1960 Series — that's exactly what he was. Whitey was the real deal."


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Father accused of driving drunk with kids in carSeptember 05,2013Police: Man drove drunk with his kids
BENNINGTON A local man faces criminal charges after police said he had a blood-alcohol level more than 2½ times the legal limit while driving with his two children, 7 and 10, in the car.
Michael A. Martin, 31, of Bennington was arraigned Tuesday in Bennington criminal court on a misdemeanor count of driving under the influence of alcohol. The charge was modified because Martin had been convicted of the same charge in July 2006.
Trooper Elliott Justinger of the Vermont State Police said he had been dispatched to Shaftsbury for a citizen dispute at 8:50 p.m. Monday. But on the way he learned that one of the people involved, later identified as Martin, had left with two children in his car.
At Martins home on School Street, Justinger said, Martin told him hed had 14 beers that day but had slept for five hours before driving.
A preliminary breath test indicated Martins blood-alcohol content was 0.208 percent at 9:20 p.m., the trooper said. The legal limit for driving in Vermont is 0.08 percent.
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On November 14, Dr. Oswaldo Cannon of Peru, currently Fulbright Scholar in Residence at Kennesaw State University in Georgia will share his professional expertise at Bluefield State College and Montcalm High School.
At 9 a.m. on Monday, November 14, Dr. Cannon will provide Montcalm High School students an introduction to Peruvian culture.
On Monday, at 4p.m. in the Basic Sciences Building, Room 307, at Bluefield State College, Dr. Oswaldo Cannon will discuss Hispanic American Literature with students of Dr. David Haus' and Dr. Luciano Picanco's History of Latin America course.
Dr. Cannon teaches English and Spanish at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú in Lima, Perú, where he has taught courses in English and Spanish as a Second Language, Linguistics, General Studies, Literature , History of Theatre, Phonetics and Prosody, Contemporary Literature, Dramatic Literature, Introduction to Linguistics and Literature, and History of Theatrical Spectacle. During his visit to Dankook University in South Korea, he taught diverse Spanish conversation courses.
Dr. Cannon has published books and articles on Spanish and study material for Theater–Dramatic Literature. He has shared his research in publications in Peru and at conferences in Peru, the USA, and South Korea. His research interests are History of theatre, Latin American literature, Korean culture, Classical Japanese literature, and Peruvian lexicon. Dr. Cannon is a member of the Lima Lawyers Bar, having earned a baccalaureate degree in the law in 1988 and passed his bar exams in 1990. His area of specialization at the graduate level is Hispanic American Literature.
Dr. Cannon will enjoy a home stay with Fulbright Language Teaching Assistant for Portuguese Cristiano Melo of Brazil.
Dr. Cannon's visit to Bluefield State College and Bluefield High School is funded by the Fulbright Occasional Lecturer Program which also relies on the willingness of host institutions of Fulbright Scholars in Residence to share their scholars with other U.S. institutions of higher education. The Fulbright Scholars Program is funded by the U.S. Department of State and managed by the Council of International Exchange of Scholars, a subsidiary of the New York-based Institute for International Education.
This project has also received financial assistance from the West Virginia Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in the Bluefield Daily Telegraph or Princeton Times do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
BSC's Office of International Initiatives is coordinating this activity in collaboration with BSC's School of Arts and Sciences and Mark Page, Principal of Montcalm High School. For information about this initiative, contact BSC's Office of International Initiatives Coordinator Dr. Sudhakar R. Jamkhandi at email@example.com or call (304) 327-4036.


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(Bluefield)—The West Virginia Board of Examiners for Registered Professional Nurses formally approved expansion of the Bluefield State College Associate Degree Nursing program to accept ten additional students at the program's Beckley campus. The expansion of the program was approved at the October 18, 2012 meeting of the Board.
"We are excited about the opportunity to expand our program in Raleigh County," noted Angela Lambert, Dean of the BSC School of Nursing and Allied Health. "The Board's action will permit us to address the shortage of qualified nursing education opportunities in the greater Raleigh County region. Lambert noted that BSC's 2012 Associate Degree Nursing graduates from the Raleigh county campus achieved a 96.8% passage rate on the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) for Registered Nurses.
Due to the current and projected shortage of RN's into 2020 BSC intends to be a driving force in filling this need," according to Lambert. "The ability to educate future nurses will assist in providing qualified professionals to meet the healthcare needs of southern WV. BSC is proud of their current clinical affiliations in Raleigh County and looks forward to expansion of these relationships," she stated.
BSC is currently in the process of taking applications for the associate degree nursing program on both the Beckley and Bluefield campuses. The application deadline for students seeking to enter the 2013 BSC Associate Degree Nursing program is December 15, 2012. Additional information can be obtained by contacting the college admission office.
The Bluefield State College Associate Degree Nursing Program, Beckley & Bluefield Campuses, is fully accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission and West Virginia Board of Professional Registered Nurses.


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Alpha Protocol ReviewBy Gus Mastrapa - Posted May 28, 2010
Obsidian's espionage-driven Alpha Protocol aims for the sky and misses its target, delivering a half-baked action RPG that doesn't satisfy in a single department.
The Pros
- Decisions affect how the game plays out
- Ambitious espionage plot
- Choice diversity encourages replay
The Cons
- Largely unlikeable lead character
- Gameplay is bland at best, broken and buggy at worst
- Plot dullness outweighs ambitions
If you're going to crib from another game's playbook, you could do a lot worse than tapping Mass Effect as an influence. Alpha Protocol, the new action RPG from Obsidian Entertainment, tries valiantly to replicate Bioware's formula for melding in-depth story-telling and gunplay with a firm role-playing foundation, but thanks to shoddy third-person action and a flimsy spy story, the game winds up shooting itself in the foot.
In Alpha Protocol, You play as secret agent Mike Thorton, a spook who finds himself wrapped up in a global conspiracy after a passenger plane is taken down by a terrorist attack. It's your job to travel the globe, track down the people who responsible and bring them to justice. How you accomplish your mission is up to you. And, really, that's pretty much all Alpha Protocol has going for it.
Cloak and Dagger
Like most action-oriented role-playing games, Alpha Protocol lets you chose the way you want to fight. You can chose between a handful of character classes ("tech" is Bond-like, "soldier" is Bauer-like, "stealth" is Bourne-like), then upgrade your skill tree as you level up. New powers, mapped to the shoulder buttons, unlock as you go. During combat, you can squeeze the bumper to gain the benefits of extra armor, increased martial arts damage or awareness of enemy locations. Points can be sunk into proficiencies on different weapons, hand-to-hand combat, stealth and useful spy skills like hacking and lock-picking. The mini-games for opening barred doors, cracking into computers and circumventing security are simplistic, but really ramp up as the game progresses -- if you don't sink at least a handful of skill points into the right categories, some of them feel downright impossible.
All of this customization would be fine if the action were up to par. But the mechanics of shooting from cover, stealth take-downs and close-quarter combat feel uneven and undercooked. Sometimes the Gears of War-style cover system works. Other times Thorton clumsily fumbles into waist-high barriers, taking assault rifle fire in the face while you struggle to make him crouch. Plus, the stealth action -- always a difficult tactic to pull off -- never feels very good. More often than not, guards will round a corner and spot you before you get a chance to put them in a headlock. And the camera and action is far too sluggish and unresponsive to support a proper CQC system.
And because the action feels so unrefined, much of the game feels like a slog -- you're faced with a ceaseless maze of enemies that must be fought using mechanics you must wrestle against to take them out. Videogame fights should be fun, but there's little joy to be had in Alpha Protocol.
Choose Your Own Intrigue
To make matters worse, Alpha Protocol's protagonist is profoundly unlikable. Thorton comes off as a creep. Part of the problem is that during conversations, you're not really shaping Thorton's personality in so much as you're telling people what they want to hear. There's no sense of character ownership over Thorton's choices and dialogue that you see in the likes of Commander Shepard. Instead of being some sort of super-agent in the vein of Jack Bauer, Mike Thorton is a social chameleon skilled in morphing into the person people want him to be. And if you chat up enemies and allies the right way, you'll earn benefits -- your allies will give you perks that give you stat bonuses and enemies who warm to you will become more cooperative. But that's not the only reason Thorton feels like a weasel. Glib writing and Josh Gilman's nasal voice acting undermine his secret agent persona and image. This guy is definitely no James Bond.
Still, there's some satisfaction to be found in playing Secret Agent Man. Befriending (and eventually bedding) female contacts and handlers can be fun, up to a point. The sex scenes in Alpha Protocol make the inter-species couplings in Mass Effect look tasteful and austere. Despite the obvious influences of that blockbuster space opera, this game is a far cry from the spectacularly streamlined melding of action, story-telling and cinematics achieved in Bioware's sci-fi series. It's an ambitious effort from a studio capable of knocking the ball out of the park at times -- though a tad rushed, Obsidian's Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II was an excellent game -- making the failures of Alpha Protocol all the more disappointing.
Stricken From The Record
It's tempting to give Alpha Protocol a caveat-loaded recommendation to hardcore RPG fans for merely missing the mark. But outright glitches, bugs and quirks make that impossible. During one sequence, enemies respawned at the feet of their downed allies, making one of the game's already annoying action set pieces all the more frustrating. Limp boss battles against dopey, yet bullet-absorbent enemies are far more frustrating than thrilling. The good news is that the game is reasonably short -- the entire plot can be endured over a long weekend. Achievement hunters and other masochists will need to engage the game more than a couple times to explore all the different ways the game's plot pans out. But given what the game -- in all of its half-baked mechanics -- offers, those people are crazy.
Anemic gameplay and sub-par story and acting aside, there's an underlying problem with Alpha Protocol that's almost impossible to shake. The game's espionage setting isn't quite as fertile as the space opera or sword and sorcery epic. Or, at the very least, Obsidian wasn't able to find anything remotely compelling to hang its game upon. The characters and settings feel so far removed from what's at stake that there's little reason to get emotionally invested in the proceedings. When Alpha Protocol tries to get serious and forces you to make a massive life-or-death decision, the impact is blunted because you don't really care about the one-dimensional character whose life hangs in the balance.
Obsidian has the talent. We've seen the studio make great games that merge action and role-playing before. But in this instance their intel was bad and the mission a failure. From a squandered setting to dysfunctional gameplay to numerous bugs, it's very difficult to recommend Alpha Protocol to nearly anyone beyond the most masochistically hardcore RPG fan. But even to those still considering, I'd lend this piece of advice: Treat Alpha Protocol like a covert government operation. Pretend like it never existed.


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#206648 - 08/12/12 10:40 PM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: zmjezhd]
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There's a dwarf planet out beyond Pluto and its five moons.
This dwarf planet is named Makemake, which I am told, means
"dead" in Hawai'ian, tho' I don't know for sure._________________________
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#206649 - 08/12/12 10:46 PM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Bartlett]
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You know you will have to take your world tour twice!
#206650 - 08/13/12 12:56 AM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Bartlett]
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I'm glad someone's alerted you to New Zealand. There are many place names that are examples of reduplication. Add Kawakawa, Katikati and Ramarama to the list above. Look in the index of an atlas for more!
#206654 - 08/13/12 05:13 AM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Bartlett]
Registered: 08/08/12
Posts: 14
Loc: West Sussex, UK
I drove through Baden Baden on my way to Slovenia from the UK, a few years ago. My advice, if you do try going there, is to plan your route very carefully, as I couldn't get out couldn't get out of Baden Baden!
I vowed never again to go anywhere near either of the towns.
Life's too short.
"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate" - 'Abandon all hope, ye who enter'.
Dante (Durante degli) Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia", "Inferno", c 1308-1321
#206678 - 08/14/12 11:26 AM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Candy]
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Fantastic, thanks! -- I secretly wanted to visit New Zealand and now with all the suggestions I am compelled to go!
best, B
#206689 - 08/15/12 09:01 AM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Bartlett]
Registered: 08/14/12
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Loc: Florida and North Carolina
If you ever find yourself in the middle of Georgia (the one in the U.S.)you may as well add Ty Ty to your list. It's on US 82 between Tifton and Albany. Don't blink or you'll miss it.
#206690 - 08/15/12 11:57 AM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: jaxbook]
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Know the type well, we have many like that in this state.
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#207203 - 09/19/12 04:13 PM Re: Reduplication World Tour [Re: Bartlett]
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Loc: Toronto, Canada
While not *technically* a reduplication, you should consider throwing Wawa, Ontario onto your list. I mean really, where else in the world are you going to see a 28-foot-tall metal statue of a Canada goose?
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A Start-And-Park Solution
Folks who defend the practice of start and park in NASCAR -- which is once again an issue thanks to Jennifer Jo Cobb and 2nd Chance Motorsports at Bristol -- tend to fall back on two main themes:
1. It's been going on forever.
2. The teams who do it have no other choice.
Both arguments are ridiculous.
Repeating a mistake over and over doesn't make it better. It institutionalizes it.
And I've never seen anyone with gun to the head of a team owner telling him he has to compete in a series he doesn't have the money to compete in.
But let's not get into all that. Let's get to the real reason that start and park is tolerated.
It's the romantic attachment to the idea that the little guy can put together a race team with more determination than money, show up at the track and run with the big guys. That worked in 1960. In 2011 it's an anachronism.
In 2011 a start-up team is never going to compete against the likes of Roush-Fenway, Childress, Hendrick, etc. by scraping together a few thousand here and a few thousand there by starting and parking. And quitting after a few laps sure doesn't impress any sponsor worth having.
But the idea of providing opportunities for small teams is worthy. Everybody likes to see the little guy do well. Every likes a good underdog story.
So if NASCAR really wants to keep this small-team-can-make-it myth going, it needs to lend a helping hand.
There are plenty of ways to do that, but they all involve providing small teams with some of the resources they need to compete.
So how about NASCAR establishing a program to do just that? Any team that enters only one car would be eligible.
Teams in this program would be allowed to participate in NASCAR-funded test sessions and be given access to wind tunnel time. Teams in this program would get discounted rates on tires whenever they buy enough tires for the entire race.
Teams would receive NASCAR-funded pit-crew training. They would receive bonus money on top of their prize money whenever they finish the race.
This would, of course, be expensive for NASCAR, so the cost ought to be spread around. There are two good ways to do that.
One is the luxury tax concept. In baseball, the teams on payroll binges are taxed to send money to the poorer teams. NASCAR could "tax" its super teams in the interest of improving the level of competition on the track each week. The NFL calls that parity and it makes the sport healthier.
Another way is for NASCAR to recruit a sponsor to foot part of the bill. The sponsor would get a prominent position – although not the hood -- on each car in the program.
There are probably numerous other ways that small teams can be helped enough that they won't have to resort to starting and parking. Whatever form it takes, there has to be come kind of help.
The time for ignoring the problem is over.


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Tragelaphus imberbis
|Scope: Global
|Scientific Name:
|Tragelaphus imberbis
|Species Authority:
|(Blyth, 1869)
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Near Threatened ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|IUCN SSC Antelope Specialist Group
|Mallon, D.P. (Antelope Red List Authority) & Hoffmann, M. (Global Mammal Assessment)
Total numbers are estimated to number at least 118,000, about 33% of them in protected areas. Numbers are considered to be in decline in much of the range, as a result of hunting, overgrazing, and outbreaks of rinderpest. In some other areas, bush encroachment has increased the amount of suitable habitat, and local range expansion and population increases have been reported. Nevertheless, the level of decline is estimated to have reached at least 20% over a period of three generations (21-24 years), so approaching the threshold for Vulnerable under criterion A2cde. The Lesser Kudu will probably persist in the arid scrublands of northeastern Africa, as long as human and livestock densities remain relatively low in extensive parts of its range such as northern Kenya and southern Ethiopia. It nevertheless faces a continuing, long-term population decline as meat hunting and pastoralism increase within its remaining range. Its status may eventually decline to threatened.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|The Lesser Kudu occupies semi-arid areas of north-eastern Africa, commonly known as the Somali-Masai Arid Zone of Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya and Tanzania. Its range extends from ca. 12° N in the Awash area of Ethiopia southward through southern Ethiopia, much of Somalia except the north and northeast (i.e. east of 46° E and north of 08°N), most of Kenya except the southwest, extreme southeast Sudan, extreme northeast Uganda to northeast and central Tanzania (Leuthold in press). It is extinct in Djibouti (East 1999).
The purported former occurrence of this species in Saudi Arabia (Harrison and Bates 1991) is based on two sets of horns said to have originated from Arabia and one from southern Yemen. No live animals have ever been reported from the area, and the true origin of those specimens remains in doubt.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Ethiopia; Kenya; Somalia; South Sudan; Tanzania, United Republic of; Uganda
Regionally extinct:Djibouti
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|Citing various authors, East (1999) indicates that population estimates based on recent aerial surveys are available for considerable areas of the lesser kudu's range, but aerial surveys substantially underestimate this species' true numbers. In addition, its populations are unknown in the remainder of its range. The sum of available estimates, about 22,000, is therefore probably a significant underestimate of the species' actual total numbers. Correcting for undercounting bias in aerial surveys, East (1999) produced a total population estimate of 118,000. Despite the species' ability to persist in the face of uncontrolled meat hunting, its numbers are probably in gradual decline over extensive areas of its range as human settlement expands.
|Current Population Trend:
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|The Lesser Kudu is closely associated with Acacia-Commiphora thornbush in semi-arid areas of north-eastern Africa; it generally avoids open spaces and long grass (East 1999; Leuthold in press). They have been recorded at about 1,740 m near Mt Kilimanjaro (Grimshaw et al. 1995). The Lesser Kudu is primarily a browser, consuming mainly leaves of trees, shrubs and herbs, and their water requirements can largely be fulfilled from the water content of the food plants (Leuthold in press).
|Major Threat(s):
|Its shyness and preference for thick cover enable it to withstand considerable hunting pressure, e.g., it is relatively plentiful throughout the Ogaden region wherever there is sufficient dense bush, despite widespread, uncontrolled hunting by local people (East 1999). On the other hand, its susceptibility to rinderpest resulted in a substantial decrease in its numbers in eastern regions of Kenya during the mid-1990s. These populations can be expected to recover following the subsidence of this rinderpest outbreak. There are relatively few parts of the Lesser Kudu's range where protection against poaching reaches moderate levels or better, and eradication of rinderpest from cattle would be a major step towards reducing current pressures on its populations (East 1999).
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About one-third of the estimated total population occurs in protected areas. Important populations occur in protected areas such as Awash, Omo and Mago National Parks (Ethiopia), Bush Bush National Park (Somalia), Tsavo National Park (Kenya) and Ruaha National Park and adjoining game reserves (Tanzania), but it occurs in larger numbers outside protected areas (East 1999).
The Lesser Kudu's long-term survival prospects would be enhanced by improved protection and management of the relatively few protected areas which support substantial populations. In addition, its value as a trophy animal gives the species high potential for increased revenue generation in the extensive bushlands where it still occurs in good numbers outside national parks and equivalent reserves (East 1999).
East, R. (Compiler). 1999. African Antelope Database 1998. IUCN, Gland, Switzerland and Cambridge, UK.
Grimshaw, J. M., Cordeiro, N. J. and Foley, C. A. H. 1995. The mammals of Kilimanjaro. Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society 84: 105-139.
Harrison, D.L. and Bates, P.J.J. 1991. The Mammals of Arabia. Harrison Zoological Museum, Sevenoaks, UK.
Leuthold, W. 2013. Tragelaphus imberbis. In: J. S. Kingdon and M. Hoffmann (eds), The Mammals of Africa. VI. Pigs, Hippopotamuses, Chevrotain, Giraffes, Deer, and Bovids, Bloomsbury Publishing, London, UK.
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The pressure is mounting on Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker to accept millions of dollars in federal Medicaid money.
Gov. Walker will announce his decision on Wednesday, but the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel is reporting he's already decided to reject the funds.
At a stop Tuesday in La Crosse, Walker would not say yet what his decision will be but did say that getting people off of government health insurance is one of his top goals.
"Our overall goal when it comes to entitlement reform is to ensure there are fewer people who are uninsured in this state when it comes to health insurance but also fewer people who are on government assistance," said Walker.
"Ideally because we've helped create more jobs and more opportunity," he added.
The governor's comments are leading many people to believe he will reject the money, which will be dissapointing news to the thousands of people still waiting for coverage.
"I don't understand why if someone was offering you at least three years at no cost, why wouldn't you take it," said Noreen Holmes, the director of the La Crosse County Aging Unit.
The Affordable Care Act is giving states the chance to receive millions of dollars in funding to expand their state Medicaid Programs. In Wisconsin, that program is BadgerCare.
There are an estimated 170,000 people who are currently eligible for BadgerCare but are on a waiting list because there's no funding. Holmes says those people have no way to pay for health insurance.
"The people who are on the waiting list are basically the working poor," said Holmes.
On Monday, the La Crosse County Board approved a resolution encouraging Governor Walker to accept the funds. The resolution states that doing so would provide additional coverage for an estimated 3,400 people in the county.
"I think one of the biggest misconceptions out there is that Medicaid is a yes or no proposition," said Walker.
"I think people will be surprised to see (Wednesday) that it isn't," he added.
"There are plenty of conservative governors in other states who have accepted the money. That includes Michigan, Arizona, and Ohio. They've accepted the money because they've realized it's a good deal for their states," said Holmes.
Democratic lawmakers in Wisconsin are trying to put pressure on Governor Walker to change his mind. They argue that expanding BadgerCare would create an estimated 10,000 new jobs in the state as well.


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