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It was a tumultuous final twelve hours of the life of former Penn State coach Joe Paterno. Reports of his death started circulating late Saturday night that were ultimately proven false until finally becoming a reality late Sunday morning.
I'll be honest, I don't know how I feel about his death.
My condolences go to his wife, children, grandchildren, and friends. Its always difficult losing a love one, but it's hard for me to feel remorse considering the recent allegations that he was aware of the sexual abuse that Jerry Sandusky allegedly committed with many children.
For all the good deeds, for all the money donated, for all the lives impacted, there are children who are scarred forever because of his lack of action.
Supporters of Joe Paterno will tell you that he was treated unfairly in the firing by Penn State because Paterno wasn't the one who committed the alleged acts.
Paterno's lack of action was worse than Sandusky's alleged actions.
Many people thought Paterno was a great man because he won a lot of football games and guided many people through their young adult lives at Penn State. But when children really needed him to be great, he wasn't.
Winning football games doesn't make you a great man. Protecting people makes
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About Our Department
Thank you for taking time to learn about the efforts of the UMKC Department of Ophthalmology that aim ultimately to improve the lives of those afflicted with eye disease today and tomorrow. We accomplish this vision through the following tenets:
- Education – excellence in training the next generation of ophthalmologists through its renowned residency and fellowship program
- Research – acceleration of ground-breaking research for blinding eye disease via the Vision Research Center at UMKC
- Treatment – nationally-renowned physicians providing the latest information available on treatment of eye disease
- Prevention – guidance on lifestyle choices that may help prevent eye disease and contribute to better health overall
- Community Outreach – efforts to provide services to underserved populati
Over forty years ago, the first class of resident physicians graduated from the Department of Ophthalmology at the UMKC School of Medicine, marking the commencement of a shared commitment to provide the very best care to patients with eye disease, starting with the training of future practicing physicians. The same mission drives our efforts today as we continue to train the next generation of ophthalmologists and now as we guide the science that will eventually equip our doctors and provide our patients with the best possible treatments available.
The UMKC School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology has seen exponential growth during the past 40 years not only in faculty, but research and patient care. The Department now boasts 35 faculty members involved in patient care, research, and clinical trials. Founded in 2007, the Vision Research Center at UMKC—the research arm of the Department of Ophthalmology—provides a direct avenue for basic science research, translational research, and clinical trials to ensure that patients with ocular disease receive the most advanced medical treatments available. From lab bench to bedside, the VRC offers an unprecedented interdisciplinary synergy with a unified goal: to better diagnose, prevent, and treat eye disease and vision disorders in order to make a difference in the lives of millions of people worldwide.
Thanks to our generous supporters, talented faculty, gifted researchers, and enthusiastic residents and fellows, the Department is poised to make a significant impact in better treatment for eye disease throughout the region and world, leading to a better quality of life for generations to come.
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Good news, everyone: 3D Holographic TV could be here soon. (Also, sorry for the oft-used Leia hologram picture.) Earlier this year, a University of Arizona team lead by Dr. Nasser Peyghambarian (let's call him Dr. P) made a major breakthrough in the quest for holographic displays: They have an erasable, re-writable hologram.
Dr. P's "Hologram R/W" breakthrough has created a single-color, four-inch square hologram takes a few minutes to erase and re-write. Thanks doc, but we need high-def color holograms, "rewriting" at about 60fps (also, couple it with one of these, and Starcraft 2 please). Dr. P is very optimistic about the future of this technology, even saying "there are no more great barriers to overcome."


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This branch is made up of three Placement Officers who place for various educational, recruiting and training claimants:
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Navy-sponsored graduate education programs are offered to commissioned officers at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and/or at various civilian institutions throughout the country. All graduate education requires to serve on active duty for three years upon completion or disenrollment of the assigned program. Additionally, only one DOD funded graduate degree (to include distance learning) is permitted per officer unless required by a newly assessed community for follow-on assignment and progression. Service College graduate degrees does not constitute funded graduate education and those officers retain graduate education eligibility.
At civilian institutions, administration of officer students in matters concerning education is exercised by the Superintendent of the Naval Postgraduate School through the Commanding Officers of NROTC Units or other supporting commands absent an NROTC Unit. Information concerning advanced curricular programs is taken from applicable directives, the Catalogue of the Naval Postgraduate School, and from the catalogues of the civilian institutions concerned. Students may receive undergraduate and/or graduate degrees provided they meet the requirements established by the institutions conducting the instruction.
Provides an outstanding opportunity to complete a graduate degree in variety of technical and non-technical programs. All interested applicants should explore the NPS website to collect information on various curriculums. After getting a detailer endorsement, applicants must complete the application process through the NPS website: http://www.nps.edu.
All interested applicants should contact their detailer prior to apply with NPS to discuss desired curriculum. All NPS curriculum quotas are assigned by OPNAV to each community based needs of the Navy. As a result, the member's desired curriculum may not be offered for the member's community.
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NPS is dedicated to provide relevant, high quality education, anytime, and anywhere. A variety of delivery methods are utilized to expand learning beyond the traditional classroom. All Officers, especially URLs are encouraged to check the following link for more information: http://www.nps.edu/dl.
Computing your Academic Profile Code (APC)If you do not have a computed APC or you wish to have it changed contact the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey: (831) 656-3093/DSN 756. For initial calculations, applicants must submit an application via the NPS website. All official transcripts should be submitted directly to NPS. You can click the following link for further information: Grad School Information
Fellowship and Scholarship Programs
The Navy has a variety of selective fellowship programs open to officers. These fellowships no longer offer JPME phase I credit, however they do provide a unique opportunity for motivated, career oriented officers to represent the Navy as fellows in various civilian institutions, post graduate schools, businesses, or offices within the legislative branch of the government. Each fellowship is typically one year in length. Each scholarship and fellowship has a three times the length of the program service obligation. For example, the typical one year program has a three year service commitment.
Governing Instruction: OPNAVINST 1500.72GApplications must be sent in letter format via the appropriate chain of command to PERS-440B NLT than COB of the day identified in the annual NAVADMIN. "Appropriate Chain of Command" simply means that the application package must be endorsed by the person who signs the applicant's Fitness Report. Upon receipt PERS 440B will submit your application to the appropriate Detailer for statement on impact:
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SECDEF Corporate Fellowship
Two officers will be selected annually to be assigned to a participating U.S. Corporation for one year beginning in July.Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellows initially meet with the Secretary of Defense and Deputy Secretary of Defense to set their agenda and then at least quarterly with the Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretaries of Defense to report on progress. Upon completion, they report to Secretary of Defense, Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Under Secretaries of Defense, the Secretaries of the Military Departments and the Service Chiefs to brief their work, insights gained on operational and organizational changes and analysis of how these changes might influence DOD operations.For specific questions concerning the management of the Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellowship Program and details of fellow's activities should be directed to the Director of the Secretary of Defense Corporate Fellowship Program, contact LT Eaves.
Legislative Fellowship
Governing Instruction: BUPERSINST 1560.21EThe Navy Legislative Fellows (LEGIS Fellows) program provides an annual opportunity for Naval Officers to broaden their experience and knowledge in operations and organization of Congress while enhancing the Navy's ability to fulfill its roll in the national policy development process.For more information please see the Navy Legislative Fellowship page.
Olmsted Scholarship
Governing Instruction: OPNAVINST 1520.23CAllows junior officers to study at an overseas university funded by the Olmstead Foundation. Navy-wide selection board held each October. Depending on study location, selectees may attend Defense Language Institute (DLI) followed by graduate studies abroad. Visit the Olmsted Foundation website for more information and review current NAVADMIN.Officers that participate in this program are obligated to serve on active duty for three times the number of months overseas. In other words, if an officer spends 24 months OCONUS, that officer will serve for 72 months upon completion or disenrollment.
For specific questions concerning the management of the Olmsted Scholarship Program and details of student activities contact us.
Governing Instruction: OPNAVINST 1500.72GMix of one and two-year programs at the following Universities: California, Chicago, Georgetown, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, New York, Stanford, and Tufts. Navy-wide selection board held each October. Officers selected must apply to one of the approved universities following selection notification. Selectees must apply to a program length based on the NAVADMIN selection message (I.E. if selected for a two-year program, members must apply for a two year program). Officers must be accepted to one of approved schools in order to participate.
Specific questions concerning the management of the Political Military Masters Program and details of student activities should be directed LT Jack Eaves at email@example.com.
Joint Schools/Service Colleges
According to the FY05 National Defense Authorization Act, joint military education must be completed in order. Waivers for attending JPME Phase II without having first completed JPME Phase I are on a strict case by case basis and will most likely be denied. Waiver requests must be submitted through your detailer. Begin your joint education as soon as possible. You may enroll through distance learning at the Naval War College as an 03 or other junior service colleges as an O4. Completion of Phase I is now a requirement for assuming URL O5 command.
Provides CDRs and CDR(S)s the opportunity to earn a PHD in a selected discipline with follow-on assignment to NPS, Naval War College, or USNA. For the board specifics and questions, contact CDR White.
Provides LCDRs the opportunity to earn a Master's in a selected discipline with follow-on assignment to USNA as faculty. For the board specifics and questions, contact LT Cavalcanti.
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FY-17 JPMP Announcement - NAVADMIN 171/15
Provides graduate education and preparation for talented, highly qualified junior officers to serve as Company Officers at the United States Naval Academy (USNA). Selected junior officers will complete a 45-credit degree program at George Washington University (GWU) in a one-year period with classes both at GWU and USNA.
Provides USNA with unrestricted line officers qualified to serve as teachers and role models in various academic disciplines. The program provides for one year of graduate education at a selected civilian institution in the Baltimore-Washington D.C. area, followed by a two-year teaching assignment at USNA.


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In the mainstream media (and the popular consciousness programmed to consume it) defective genes are spoken about as if they were "disease time bombs," fatalistically programmed to go off inside of us, thanks to flawed genetic contributions of our ancestors. And yet, despite common misconceptions, monogenic diseases, or diseases that result from errors in the nucleotide sequence of a single gene are exceedingly rare. In fact, less than 1% of all diseases fall within this category...
Following the completion of the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 2003 it is no longer accurate to say that our genes "cause" disease, any more than it is accurate to say that DNA is sufficient to account for all the proteins in our body. Despite initial expectations, the HGP revealed that there are only 20,000-25,000 genes in human DNA (genome), rather than the 100,000 + believed necessary to encode the 100,000 + proteins found in the human body (proteome).
Did you follow that? There are not even enough genes in the human body to account for the existence of the basic protein building blocks that make it possible, much less explain the behavior of these proteins in health and disease states!
The "blueprint" model of genetics: one gene -> one protein -> one cellular behavior, which was once the holy grail of biology, has now been supplanted by a model of the cell where epigenetic factors (literally: "beyond the control of the gene") are primary in determining how DNA will be interpreted, translated and expressed. A single gene can be used by the cell to express a multitude of proteins and it is not the DNA itself that determines how or what genes will be expressed.
Rather, we must look to the epigenetic factors to understand what makes a liver cell different from a skin cell or brain cell. All of these cells share the exact same 3 billion base pairs that make up our genetic code, but it is the epigenetic factors, e.g. regulatory proteins and post-translational modifications, that make the determination as to which genes to turn on and which to silence, resulting in each cell's unique phenotype.
Moreover, epigenetic factors are directly and indirectly influenced by the presence or absence of key nutrients in the diet, as well as exposures to chemicals, pathogens and other environmental influences. Thoughts and emotions also play a role in how these epigenetic factors are articulated, indicating that the flow of genetic information, once thought to be strictly vertical (passage of genetic information from one cell or individual organism to its progeny by conventional heredity mechanisms), also flows horizontally and bi-directionally, opening the door back up for the human soul to return to biological science, having been reduced to a mere "ghost in the machine," since René Descartes (1596-1650), the French philosopher and mathematician, split body and soul asunder, almost five centuries ago.


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Prior to joining the faculty at the University of Arizona, Professor Becker was a professor at the University of Tennessee Medical School and Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons. She joined the faculty at the University of Arizona in 1990, where she is Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, and a member of the faculties of the Psychology, Policy and Law Program and the Clinical Psychology Program within the Department of Psychology.
Selected Awards and Honors
Significant Achievement Award, for "[r]ecognition of dedication and leadership in the field of sex offender evaluation and treatment", Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
Award for Research, New York State Office of Mental Health Programs and Systems
Authors Award, American Society of Journalists
Award for Dedication to the Problems of Adolescent Sex Offenders and Concern for Adult Sex Offenders, Third International Congress on the Treatment of Sex Offenders
Fellow, American Psychological Association
Selected Publications
Becker, J.V. and Johnson, B. R. (In press) Sex Offenders. In Gold, S. N., Walker, L. and Luccenko, B. (Eds.) Handbook on Child Sexual Abuse (Revised Edition). NY: Springer.
Becker, J.V. and Johnson, B. R. (In Press) Sexual and Gender Identity Disorders. American Psychiatric Press Textbook of Psychiatry (Third Edition). In R. Hales, S. Yudofsky, and J. Talbott (Eds.), American Psychiatric Press.
Boeschen, L.E., Sales, B.D., and Becker, J.V. (In press) Expert Testimony in Pre-existing Mental Injuries. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice.
Hunter, J.A., Figueredo, A.J., Malamuth, N.M., and Becker, J.V. (In press) Developmental Pathways in Youth Sexual Aggression. Journal of Family Violence.
Hunter, J.A., Figueredo, A.J., Malamuth, N.M., and Becker, J.V. (In press) Juvenile Sex Offenders: Toward the Development of a Typology. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment.
Becker, J.V., Hall, S., and Stinson, J.D. (2002). Female sexual offenders: Clinical, legal, and policy issues. Journal of Forensic Psychology Practice, 1 (3).
Becker, J.V., and Johnson, B. R. (2001) Treating Juvenile Sex Offenders. In Ashford, J. B., Sales, B. D. and Reid, W. H. (Eds.) Treatment of Adult and Juvenile Offenders with Special Needs. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association Press.
Geer, T.M., Becker, J.V., Gray, S., Krauss, J.D. (2001) Predictors of Treatment Completion in a Correctional Sex Offender Treatment Program. International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, 45(3), 302-313.
Figueredo, A.J., Sales, B.D., Russell, K.P., Becker, J.V., & Kaplan, M. (2000). A Brunswikian evolutionary-developmental Theory of Adolescent Sex Offending. Behavioral Sciences and the Law, 18,309-329
Holland, L.A., Zolondeck, S.C., Abel, G.G., Jordan, A.D. and Becker, J.V. (2000) Psychometric analysis of the Sexual Interest Cardsort. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 12, 107-122.
Krauss, D.A., Sales, B.D., Becker, J.V., & Figueredo, A.J. (2000). Beyond Prediction to Explanation in Risk Assessment Research: A Comparison of Two Explanatory Theories of Criminality & Recidivism. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 23, 91-112.
Becker, J.V. and Johnson, B.R. and Kavoussi, R.J. (1999). Sexual and Gender Identity disorders. In R. Hales and S. Yudofsky (Eds.) Essential of Clinical Psychiatry, American Psychiatric Textbook of Psychiatry (Third Edition). (pp. 471-484). Washington, D. C.: American Psychiatric Press.
Becker, J.V. and Reilly, D. (1999) Preventing sexual abuse and assault. Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment, 11,267-278.
Selected Editorial Board Service
Editor, Sexual Abuse: A Journal of Research and Treatment
International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
Psychology, Public Policy and Law
Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy
Annual Review of Sex Research
Journal of Psychology and Human Sexuality
Child Maltreatment
Journal of Clinical Psychiatry
Journal of Child Sexual Abuse
Journal of Family Violence
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Selected Public Service
International Academy of Sex Research
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers
Advisory Board
Ethics Committee
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
Board of Directors
American Psychological Association
Human Capital Initiative, Organizing Group for Violence Sub-group
Working Group on the Treatment of Child Abuse and Neglect
Commission on Violence and Youth
American Psychiatric Association
Task Force on Sexually Dangerous Offenders
Workgroup to Revise DSM-III: Psychosexual Disorders
Her Majesty's Prison Service, London, England
North American Advisory Panel
American Professional Society on the Abuse of Children
Board of Directors
Chairperson, Task Force To Establish Standards For The Evaluation And Treatment Of Sex Offenders
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
Research Committee
United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography
National Institute of Mental Health
Criminal and Violent Behavior Review Committee
Office of Justice Programs and the Center for Effective Policy
Advisory Board of the Board of Accreditation for Sex Abuser Treatment Programs
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ACF Region 4 Spotlights the Oral Health of Children
Community partners help provide services to farmworker families to combat tooth decay.
Leading Hurricane Sandy Recovery for Domestic Violence Victims
The long road to recovery nearly three years later.
New Trainings on the Intersection of Domestic Violence and Disaster
Focusing on the impacts disasters have on victims of domestic violence.
ACF's Region 4 Latino Summit
Grassroots organizations and community leaders focused on Latino issues are expected at the 2nd Annual Latino Summit on Sept. 21.
Moving? You May Qualify for a Special Enrollment Period
Depending on where you move, you may have new health care options, prices, and savings available to you.
HPOG Grantees Share Strategies for Student Success
By using program data, grantees track progress and identify practices that are promising.
Remembering Staci Perlman – Yay Babies!
Colleague remembers young researcher who dedicated her life to improving the lives of children who experience homelessness.
A New Partnership for Early Childhood Teaching
Early EdU is an alliance of Institutions of Higher Education working together to increase access to affordable bachelor's degrees, offering relevant coursework and effective college instruction for early care and education professionals.
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We recently gave you various suggestions on how to stay away from Facebook during this difficult time (finals). However, when one returns to the land of living, there are some general social rules one should always follow when using The Good Book. Now, this ain't your mama's basic social media etiquette, kiddos. We can all use some some common sense and couteousness to maintain decorum (avoid drama) and generally keep things classy.
1. When a friend has tagged you in a status, it is customary to like it, regardless of whether it's actually funny or not.
2. It is unacceptable to like one's own status or photo, unless a) one is trying to be ironic, or b) one is trying to look like a self-important douche.
3. If you choose to have a long conversation with one or more persons on a status, be prepared for everyone who liked said status or commented on it in passing to hate you forever.
4. It is impolite to wait more than 24 hours to reply to a wall post or message; if one waits longer than that in order to create the illusion of having a life, keep in mind that no one is buying it (no one else has a life, either).
5. Since Facebook's founding, poking has evolved from meaning "Hey there, you!" to "I just got a facebook and I'm probably old; aren't I hip?" Therefore, if one wants to be friendly or flirtatious over Facebook, poking is no longer the best option to attract the attention of your heart's desire.
6. It is perfectly acceptable to link one's Facebook account to one's Tumblr. However, keep in mind that posting 6,000 things a day to Tumblr and thus blowing up all your friends' news feeds is grounds for de-friending.
7. Remember: your status box is not your therapy couch.
8. It's only when one doesn't own up one's Facebook creeping that one is creepy.
9. Do not reply "Yes" to an Event RSVP unless you are abolsutely 100% positive you will be attending. However, if an event even seems mildly interesting, it is acceptable to reply "Maybe".
10. Pick and choose your song lyric statuses. Pick and choose.
Don't forget what Facebook for, friends – to have fun!!! (LOL JK. It was made to stalk your lab partner/future soul-mate.)


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Oooooh, on repeat #10 now and I'm loving this! Listen now to Janelle Monae's first single from her upcoming studio album "The Electric Lady", entitled "Q.U.E.E.N" featuring neo-soul star Erykah Badu. It premiered on April 22 on Janelle's official website.
You've got to give a lot of 'repeats' to this track to fully 'taste' it. "Q.U.E.E.N" is a little masterpiece, and we should all buy it on iTunes ASAP. It's the business! Janelle and Erykah Badu join forces in this kind of old-school, sassy, funky, jazzy, female anthem. Let me tell you, the instrumental and harmonies on "Q.U.E.E.N" are to die for. "Q.U.E.E.N. was inspired by private discussions between Erykah and me. It is meant to make you JAM. DANCE. FUNK OUT. and dialogue later...", explained Janelle in a tweet on the premiere day. Can't wait for "The Electric Lady"! *The booty don't lie*


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can hydrogen peroxide soaked in a tampon help cure bacterial vaginosis?
i have had bacterial vaginosis non stop for almost 5 months now ive been seen by 5 different docs and have only gotten pills and creams to use with no success what so ever. i heard soaking a tampon in hydrogen peroxide and inserting it in for an hour will help get rid of it will it?
i also have had really bad discharge and have been on flagyl 3 times it does not work. i have been to doctors. i need other remedies besides anti biotics and creams because they do not work
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Hydrogen peroxide (30 ml of 3% solution) rinses are very effective, but applying it with a tampon would not work nearly as well. Tampons soaked in plain, unpasturized yogurt with no additives has also been effective
Absolutely NOT! Never put anything inside your vagina besides your partner and a tampon (fragrance free only). Using douches is bad for your body as well. Your period acts as a cleaning device and the clear white secretion aids in a "fresh" vagina. You should never have to use douches and if there is an unpleasant smell there is something wrong with your body. Please go to your doctor and have them prescribe you an antibiotic, Flagal. Maybe the doctor isn't giving you a strong enough dose or it needs to be higher. There is no shame on checking yourself out. This is a very common type of yeast infection and your partner could have given it to you. A man can have the same thing and not know it. He may had a past partner from years ago that had it and he's been carrying it for that long before you got this. This can be cause from an unclean penis. I suggest that have your partner clean their peri area before sex and after you are done you pee immediately. This will help from getting it again. If you like to eat yogurt this helps your antibodies produce the good antibodies it needs to fight the yeast infections. If you don't like yogurt buy a pill form from the health store. You also might have to have your partner get on Flagal too or you'll keep giving it to each other. Make sure to ask your doctor cuz I'm not sure. IMPORTANT!!! Do not have sex for the 10 to 14 day course while your on the meds or it will never go away. This is not an STD! It's just a bad yeast infection that requires meds and keeping away from sex during the treatment period. Good Luck!
to get rid of recurring vaginosis antibiotics and conventional medicines, creams etc are not effective. What you need is a natural technique which will systematically guide you to get rid of the problem permane tly
First of all, this isn't a yeast infection as someone else said. Yeast are fungi; bacterial vaginosis is caused by bacteria.
It's not recommended to put anything in your vagina. Like someone else said, the vagina does naturally cleanse itself. However, it needs time and the right conditions.
Try attacking the infection through an all-around, holistic approach: exercise when you can, eat the most healthy foods you can, drink only water, cut out anything unhealthy you eat/drink/smoke, and get as much sleep as possible.
You must strengthen your body, including your immune system, to fight and ward off future bacterial vaginosis infections. This is the only way to reverse the conditions antibiotics create, where bad bacteria grows unchecked.
Hope this helped, and I hope you feel better. Just remember, never stop learning, and do your best!
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Brief Description: Sussex County Cricket Club is the oldest of the 18 County Clubs in the UK. Founded officially in 1839, Sussex actually hosted its first County Championship match back on 6th June 1872 against Gloucestershire. As well as the County Ground, Hove, the Club's First and Second XI teams regularly play around the County, the grounds at Horsham and Arundel Castle playing host to First XI team fixtures. After a wait of 164 years Sussex won their first County Championship trophy in 2003. This lead to them being the dominate team of that decade; winning ten trophies in ten years!
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Where: Central Hove
Postcode: BN3 3AN
Opening Times: Normal office hours are Monday to Friday, 9.00am to 5.00pm.
Telephone: 01273 827100
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Getting in and aroundLevel Access: No. However there is a wheelchair ramp and stewards will assist if required.
Facilities/AccommodationAccessible Toilets: Yes. There are several disabled toilets located around the ground. Locations include the Members Pavilion, South Stand, Corporate Hospitality, Cromwell Road end and at the Indoor School.
Rooms Available: Yes. Function rooms available for birthdays, anniversaries, christenings or other special celebrations. More information can be found at: http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/1839-booking-information
Hearing Loop?: No
Getting ThereBus Routes: Thee is a bus stop 100 yards from the ground on route 81B.
Parking: Disabled parking in the ground by the main scoreboard. Use the Palmeira Road entrance (rear entrance 23) for this. Open to anyone that holds a disabled parking permit, though there are a limited number of spaces so it is on a 'first come, first served' basis. Note there is no parking at any Twenty20 matches.
Drop Kerbs: Yes.
Costs: Costs vary. Please check website.
My experience: Despite their great success in recent years, Sussex is still one of the smaller clubs at this level and does a great job of maintaining its friendly, welcoming atmosphere. More infomation on accessibility can nbe found at: http://www.sussexcricket.co.uk/disabled-facilities. Although there is no hearing loop, there is ball-by-ball commentary on LV= County Championship matches. Radio ear pieces are available at the Club Shop.
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Ben Affleck Insists 'Justice League' Job Is Not His
Rumors began to swirl that Ben Affleck might be first in line to direct the long anticipated Justice League movie. Affleck, who of lately has been concentrating on making movies (i.e. The Town, Argo) insists he will not be directing the DC superhero team-up version of Marvels success, The Avengers.
Industry speculation suggested that Affleck was in talks to take charge of the DC Comics franchise after Christopher Nolan insisted he was done with Batman following this summer's release of The Dark Knight Rises.
The film will include an ensemble of superheroes, including the Caped Crusader, Superman, Green Lantern, Wonder Woman and The Flash.
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Sanguinetti's compositions mirror his search for local, urban sounds of his hometown, Buenos Aires. The recording of his acoustic band is expanded and enhanced with live, everyday sounds from the city, mixing the imagined musical abstractions of Buenos Aires with actual, random sounds and voices. All compositions are defined by simple melodies, short songs, without solos or improvisation development, and features musicians with great genre flexibility. The eight compositions correspond with eight illustrations of Argentine painter Leandro Castelano, representing graphically the conceptual argument of music, with the piano scores included.
Within these binding aesthetic boundaries Sanguinetti weaves careful, multi-layered, beautiful and concise mini- suites that sound surprisingly rich and daring, all suggest evocative reflections of a vivid city. The rhythmic "Cuchillo" is introduced with playful percussive sounds of Sanguinetti hammering on the piano strings and the bows of double bassist Jeronimo Carmona, and cellist Leila Chero on their instruments strings, locked in drummer Fermin Merlo's light pulse, before Sanguinetti takes the lead. "Ruedas" feature Sanguinetti in an expansive and powerful solo, climaxing when the piano resonates with the distorted city sounds. "Camino" is a passionate song and Sanguinetti echoes his emotional piano playing with the harmonium.
"No lo sabemos..." is a contemplative blues number that accompanies the voice of John Cage reciting aloud thoughts about the futile attempt to define music and love. Vocalist Victoria Zotalis delivers the touching ballad "La ventana" with a soft, dreamy voice. "Navigator" magnifies patiently, a simple chord till the climatic, roaring coda. Sanguinetti and Chero correspond with the dense, dramatic city sounds and sits suggestive voices on "San Telmo." The short and playful "Claramente" with the soaring guitar solo of Mariano 'Manza' Esain ends this arresting set of imaginary portraits of a loved city.
Track Listing: Cuchillo; Ruedas; Camino; No lo sabemos…; La ventana; Navigator; San Telmo; Claramente.
Personnel: Jeronimo Carmona: bass; Fermin Merlo: drums; Migma: scratch; Victoria Zotalis: voice; Leila Chero: cello; Mariano 'Manza' Esain: guitar; Marco Sanguinetti: piano, harmonium, spoons, tablas.
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The Sun Boat
The Sun Boat (or Sun Barque) is the great ship in which Ra (or Atum or other gods) and his companions sailed through the sky giving light to the world. It is also the ship in which the gods traveled from the heavens to earth and which Ra took to go back to the sky when he became old, leaving Osiris in power. When the gods use it to travel between the worlds, it is called "The Boat of a Million Years."
Traditionally, the Sun Boat shows Ra in the center wearing the sun disk on his head. Osiris and Isis stand behind him, arms raised in prayer. Sometimes Nephthys is depicted as well. Set and Mehen stand with weapons raised to strike Apep.
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I installed the latest version of FF a few weeks ago (v. 8.0), created a totally new profile, eliminated extensions, and I still get this issue - primarily with Gmail.
Like others have mentioned, if left open over night, FF is unusable in the morning.
FF becomes unusable within a few hours of use, even if I have but few windows open. Typically, FF is the only application I have running since I use Google Docs and Gmail now. I started using Gmail so I could stop running Outlook - goodness I miss the functionality. I thought eliminating one memory hog would allow the other hog to flourish. Not so.
I created a new clean Windows profile and tired again, but FF continues to be very slow. It opens slow. It runs slow. It crashes often. It becomes unresponsive even more often.
Too many things are simply not compatible with Chrome yet. But it seems over the years FF has developed all the issues that drove me to it from IE to begin with.
Version 3 was supposed to fix the issues. Then 3.1. Then 7. Now 8.0 and although some nice features have been added, the basics are still not working well. I use my browser all day every day - sometimes for 15-16 hours a day.
I have FF 8 on a second computer, and went through the same steps with it. It has all the same issues.
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Additional candy will be available for pick-up throughout the sale period. Take candy as you need it. Avoid spending your profits on a large stockpile of candy.
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During High Point University's May 7 commencement, former Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice urged the Class of 2016 to find opinions that differ from...
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The Showtime documentary, "The Spymasters: CIA in the Crosshairs," which will air Saturday night, pulls the curtain back on America's most secret agency and sheds light on its successes and failures.
This ran in a NYT article in the Music section dated April 9, 2006, and it read, as we posted at the time, like "fiddling while Iraq burns." In light of the Senate C.I.A. torture report summary released yesterday, however, it strikes a different chord.
Intellectual growth necessitates becoming exposed to differing ideas and world views -- even if they threaten our core values and beliefs. To do less is to relinquish academic freedom in favor of social conformity.
Instead of seeking a superficial fix, the United States needs to lift its trade embargo on Cuba or at least remove the country from the state terrorism list. The time has come to normalize economic ties, improve political relations, and allow financial transactions to function regularly.
It is the death throes of the neoconservatives' hold on United States foreign policy that makes the confirmation of Hagel and the installation of the Biden-Kerry-Hagel team so critically important for the United States and the world.
Zero Dark Thirty ignores the fact that America's torture program inspired anti-U.S. sentiment around the world, causing many to vow revenge on the U.S. and its allies.
There are legitimate questions and concerns that should be raised about the deaths of the four Americans at Benghazi. But to use that terrible event to discredit the legion of ground-breaking, successful foreign policy accomplishments of the Obama Administration is beyond unconscionable.
Football is no longer just for the guys, and the NFL is encouraging its female fans to show their love of the game with their revamped women's line.
If Susan Rice must be held to account, so must Condoleeza Rice. Leading America into a costly and deadly war that has no real signs of ending has been a detriment to our economy and families everywhere who've lost family members or had them return home in a condition far worse than when they left.
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Eastwood's gag dramatically (and some would say brilliantly) turned the spotlight on Obama, while deflecting attention from the president who was missing. After all, Eastwood "talked" to Barack Obama. No one talked to Bush.
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November 26, 2013 —
Good local governance requires an implicit partnership between elected officials and citizens with each party doing its part to make and implement good decisions for their community. The term social contract comes to mind—an agreement between the governed and the government defining and limiting the rights and duties of each.
When parties on either side of the equation fall short of meeting responsibilities and expectations, the functioning of a civil society (or in this case, the functioning of a civil community) is put at risk. You can see exactly what a broken civic relationship looks like if you view video excerpts of the meeting of the Village of Bloomingburg, NY Planning Board meeting on September 26. (www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Bloomingburg+NY+%2B+planning+board+...)
The anger of the overflow crowd of citizens is plainly evident, shouting down the village planning board. The reasons for the citizens' wrath are many but focus on construction of an approved 396-unit, high-density townhouse development and adjacent 16-room private girls' school in this rural village of about 400 residents. Unable to conduct normal business over the raucous gathering, the planning board cut the contentious meeting short and adjourned. Since then municipal officials have not been convening municipal meetings in Bloomingburg. This controversy has been brewing of several years, and this is not the first contentious public meeting on this subject.
We at The River Reporter believe that the crisis in Bloomingburg offers a cautionary tale for other communities, and that it is therefore worthwhile to look at what the rights and duties of governments and citizens are.
In the compact between government and the governed, municipal officials are expected to conduct public business openly and transparently; to consider the impact of policies, programs and projects on their community and its citizens; to hear community input before decisions are made and, once made, officials are to be accountable for their decisions, and, of course, to obey the law.
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It's finally setting in: Trump is Trump and he's not going to change because of winning the nomination.
A little more than two years ago, bestselling author Bill McKibben's life was filled with canoe trips, mountaineering, writing, and teaching. The author of a dozen books and a scholar in residence at Vermont's Middlebury College, McKibben lived at a relatively slow pace with his wife, writer Sue Halpern, and daughter, Sophie.
But the author who made his reputation in 1989 with the first general audience book on global warming, The End of Nature, would soon organize his first protest. That would lead to the creation of one activist organization and then another. His goal? End the global lethargy on climate change.
Today, McKibben works with a handful of recent college graduates in a group called 350.org.
These days, McKibben is in constant motion. The only way we could talk was to connect via cell phone one Sunday as McKibben drove from one speech to another in New Hampshire. He had just returned from a trip to China, Italy, Trinidad, Sweden, and Canada to promote 350.org. "Right now my carbon footprint is much higher than it should be," he says.
Q: You recently wrote that global warming is the biggest problem humans have ever faced. Why do you believe this?
Bill McKibben: Think about it. All the other things that we've done as a species have had a limited scope. We're now talking about melting the ice caps, raising the level of the seas dramatically, changing the distribution of every other species on Earth, perhaps wiping out one-third or half of them. The changes at work now are geologic in scale. The level of change required to deal with it is enormous, too. It will require change in every country. It will require a degree of global cooperation that we haven't seen before.
Q: How did we get into this mess?
McKibben: Fossil fuel is very seductive stuff. [John Maynard] Keynes once said that, as far as he could tell, the average standard of living from the beginning of human history to the middle of the eighteenth century had perhaps doubled. Not much had changed, and then we found coal and gas and oil and everything changed. Now we're reaping the result of that, both ecologically and socially.
In the United States, cheap fossil fuel has eroded communities. We're the first people with no real practical need for each other. Everything comes from a great distance through anonymous and invisible transactions. We've taken that to be a virtue, but it's as much a curse. Americans are not very satisfied with their lives, and the loss of community is part of that.
Q: You wrote about those problems in your book Deep Economy.
McKibben: That was an essay about my hope for the emergence of a more localized economy. Now, it's happened, or begun to happen, with amazing speed. We're flying less and driving less. The only houses holding most of their value during this economic downturn are in the city or along the transit lines or in the walkable suburbs. All of a sudden, the fifty-year American dream of building a bigger house away from people is turning into a nightmare. SUVs have gone from being objects of desire to expensive planters.
Q: Has the Bush Administration played a role in making global warming worse?
McKibben: The Bush Administration was precisely the wrong thing at the wrong time. This was a crucial eight years we lost. We did nothing about our own carbon emissions. As important, we sat idly on the sidelines as emissions in China and India began to take off. I imagine that history will clearly hold Bush responsible for the folly in Iraq. My guess is that doing nothing on global warming at the moment that it was accelerating will also be seen as an abdication of responsibility.
Q: You've spent much of your career as a writer, but in the last two years you've stepped into the role of a political organizer. What prompted you to make the change?
McKibben: It's really not my favorite thing. I'm happy to do some of it. I still write. I look forward to the day when that's all I do. But about two years ago, I was obsessed with the idea that nothing was getting done. Everyone had seen Al Gore's movie. Everyone had seen what happened in Hurricane Katrina, and nothing was going on in Washington. I organized a march on global warming in Vermont. That march was successful in converting our Congressional delegation into zealots on global warming, but it was depressing to read in that newspaper that the 1,000 people we gathered for the march made it one of the largest demonstrations on global warming in this country. That spurred us to try the Step It Up campaign we did last year. We organized 1,400 demonstrations in all fifty states. Then we created 350.org, a global version of the same idea.
Q: How did you come up with the name, 350.org?
McKibben: Scientists are now telling us that 350 parts per million [of carbon] in the atmosphere is the upper limit. We're at 387 parts per million now, and we're up in that zone where the risk of going past irrevocable tipping points is elevated. It's no different than going to a doctor and learning your cholesterol is too high, and you're at risk for a heart attack. You have to work to lower your cholesterol and hope to get there before the heart attack comes.
Q: When I interview climate scientists, they often tell me to turn off my recorder and then confess that they have little hope that we will find the political will to stop global warming. Do you agree?
McKibben: They're absolutely right. That's why we're trying to build the political will. There's no shortcut around it.
Without a movement pressing for change, there's little hope. We've got to work the political system to make this happen fast. The physics and chemistry are daunting. The resources on the other side are very large.
Q: Do people elsewhere respond differently than Americans do when you talk about this?
McKibben: Where people aren't as deeply reliant on fossil fuel as in the United States, it's far easier for them to imagine change on this scale. When you go to Europe, they're much more ready. They use half the amount of energy per capita that we use. They can imagine using less than that. They see the benefits. They're ready to go.
When you go to China and the developing world, people understand more clearly the dangers that are coming at them because they're living closer to the margin. They don't have any of the false sense of invulnerability that Americans have.
People from developing countries also feel that it's their right, if you're talking in terms of justice, to use fossil fuels like we did for a hundred years to get rich. It's hard for them to give up that vision.
But there are people in China who know that it's possible to leapfrog to good technology. I was just at one of the largest solar panel factories in the world in China, and it is an exciting place to be.
Q: It sounds like you came back from your trip more optimistic.
McKibben: It's hard to be optimistic. I spent two weeks hardly able to see the sun [in China] because of the pollution in the air. For me, it's not an issue anymore of being optimistic or pessimistic. I work as hard as I can to organize, and then we'll see. It's realistic to hope for dramatic change in China, but it's not going to happen without dramatic change here. We're going to have to lead the way. That's only fair because we led the way down the path of burning fossil fuels.
Q: What does life in a post-fossil fuel world look like?
McKibben: I think it will look different depending on where you are. The economy will be much more localized. Many commodities, food, energy, entertainment will be much more likely to come from your neighbors or from people in your region than at present. I don't think food will be traveling 2,000 miles. I think it will be traveling 20 miles. In a post-fossil fuel economy, energy will be coming from solar panels on your neighbor's roof and your roof.
Not only will that provide good, clean power, but it will do that without your having to send your daughter or son off to the Persian Gulf to defend a 10,000-mile-long straw through which we suck hydrocarbons. We won't have to blow the tops off any more mountains to mine coal. The most important parts of our standard of living, good food and good friends, will be strengthened by a more energy efficient economy. I look forward to its advent.
Q: What is the one, most important thing each of us can do to stop global warming?
McKibben: Get involved politically. Often when I'm on TV, they'll ask what are the three most important things for people to do. I know they want me to say that people should change their light bulbs. I say the number one thing is to organize politically; number two, do some political organizing; number three, get together with your neighbors and organize; and then if you have energy left over from all of that, change the light bulb.
Diane Silver is a nationally syndicated columnist who writes about climate change and LGBT issues. She blogs at www.hopeandpolitics.blogspot.com.
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The issue isn't winter—it's that we all have a home.
The new head of the Environmental Protection has a history of suing the agency for trying to do its job.
By Wendell Berry
Manifesto: The Mad Farmer Liberation Front
Love the quick profit, the annual raise, vacation with pay. Want more of everything ready made. Be afraid to know your neighbors and to die. And you will have a window in your head. Not even your future will be a mystery any more. Your mind will be punched in a card and shut away in a little drawer. When they want you to buy something they will call you. When they want you to die for profit they will let you know. So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Give your approval to all you cannot understand. Praise ignorance, for what man has not encountered he has not destroyed. Ask the questions that have no answers. Invest in the millennium. Plant sequoias. Say that your main crop is the forest that you did not plant, that you will not live to harvest. Say that the leaves are harvested when they have rotted into the mold. Call that profit. Prophesy such returns. Put your faith in the two inches of humus that will build under the trees every thousand years. Listen to carrion—put your ear close, and hear the faint chattering of the songs that are to come. Expect the end of the world. Laugh. Laughter is immeasurable. Be joyful though you have considered all the facts. So long as women do not go cheap for power, please women more than men. Ask yourself: Will this satisfy a woman satisfied to bear a child? Will this disturb the sleep of a woman near to giving birth? Go with your love to the fields. Lie easy in the shade. Rest your head in her lap. Swear allegiance to what is nighest your thoughts. As soon as the generals and the politicos can predict the motions of your mind, lose it. Leave it as a sign to mark the false trail, the way you didn't go. Be like the fox who makes more tracks than necessary, some in the wrong direction. Practice resurrection.
Wendell Berry is a poet, farmer, and environmentalist in Kentucky. This poem, first published in 1973, is reprinted by permission of the author and appears in his "New Collected Poems" (Counterpoint).


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Christmas cards to and from Karl Fortess, 1951-1953
Fortess, Karl E. (Karl Eugene), b. 1907 d. 1993
Painter, Printmaker
Active in Woodstock, N.Y.
Collection size: 4 items.
Collection Summary: Two original Christmas cards sent to Fortess, one from Helen Tobler, 1951, of a watercolor and ink drawing of a woman reading on a park bench, surrounded by squirrels, and the other, a color etching of trees and people, 1953, from Margaret Harvig (?). Also included are a "Holiday Greeting" card sent by the Fortess', with an abstract print on the cover and a surreal landscape drawing of a mask on a tree inside; and a card "Karl and Lillian Fortess" with a drawing of a tree.
Biographical/Historical Note: Painter; Woodstock, New York.
Provenance unknown.
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See my comments in red.Can you try these again now?1. I would like to know if this is correct:
where x is an element of 0 and 360 (2pi in radians)
No. 5 sin x cos x = 2.5 sin 2x.
2. I would like to know where to continue in this question:
Don't do it like this. Use sin 3x cos x - cos 3x sin x = sin (3x-x) = sin 2x
...I don't really know where to go from here and how to find angles for x.
3. I am being introduced to product and sum formulas and I don't know how to tackle the questions.
eg1. This doesn't make sense. Do you mean tan x = 3/2?
Find the exact value of sin2x, cos2x.
The extra formulas given for sinx and cosx are:
I know all the normal ones like sin2x=2sinxcosx etc., just not how to apply them. Don't use them here. Evaluate sin 2x and cos 2x, using the formula above, but substituting 2x in place of x.
If you could help me out here that would be great


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Here are 5 reasons foodservice is smitten with flatbreads.
Flatbread is one of the oldest breads around. Archaeologists have even found it in ancient tombs. While it may not be new, "we seem to be using flatbread more than ever now," says Michael Boroskas, executive chef at Southern New Hampshire University, Manchester. Diners there devour about 200 to 300 flatbreads every day, some pizza, some with a salad on top and still others served alongside ethnic dishes such as curry. And Boroskas is not alone in his observation. Operators everywhere are ...
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WWE Writer Doubts The Undertaker Could Get Over If He Were A Rookie Today
Former WWE writer Scott Keith has updated his blog at RSPWFAQ.net and answered an interesting question about whether today's current legends would be able to become top stars if they were just entering the business in 2013. As much as WWE has done to develop talent through the NXT and the new Performance Center, Keith's answer exposes the huge flaws that still exist in the process. He was asked:
Given today's environment in WWE's creative and corporate structure, do you think many of today's legends would even make it to the top if starting today? How many would be buried for trying to get themselves over or having more fan support than they should have? Do you think any would still get over regardless, such as The Rock?
Basically, how do you think many of wrestling's (or at least WWE's) legends would be treated today if they were just starting? I shudder to think of how, say, The Undertaker would handle starting today.
Keith replied:
"The ropewalk spot wouldn't be approved in developmental, he'd get shit for not having a good body, they'd make him do goofy promos because he couldn't talk without a manager and they'd want to rib him, and then he'd get saddled with a Rhinestone Cowboy gimmick because he's from Texas and acts like a tough guy. Think I'm close there?"


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text: With a stay at Hotel Adria, you'll be centrally located in Karlovy Vary, steps from Jan Becher Museum and minutes from Mattoni Mineral Water. This hotel is within close proximity of Elizabeth's Spa and Mill Colonnade. Make yourself at home in one of the 41 guestrooms featuring minibars. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and digital programming is available for your entertainment. Private bathrooms with shower/tub combinations feature deep soaking bathtubs and complimentary toiletries. Conveniences include phones, as well as day beds and a turndown service. Make use of convenient amenities, which include complimentary wireless Internet access and tour/ticket assistance. Enjoy a meal at a restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Featured amenities include dry cleaning/laundry services, a 24-hour front desk, and multilingual staff. Guests may use a train station pick-up service for a surcharge, and limited parking is available onsite. The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby, fees may apply.


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Thanksgiving vs. Christmas
Despite some of the morbid rituals that it's often associated with, Thanksgiving has long been my very favorite holiday, because (unlike its overrated rival, Christmas) you don't have to buy anybody presents for it. There are also not one, but two football games on Thanksgiving, which gives the day another powerful edge over the more popular December holiday (which is often embarrassingly devoid of sporting events), and its central theme—eating—is simple, but consistently satisfying. So, I put it to you that Thanksgiving is in fact the greatest holiday of all—or it would be, if they could only get over that whole unfortunate turkey thing. For more on that, check out this awesome ad we made a little while back to encourage people to give turkeys a break on Thanksgiving Day.
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Mars You just want poor Jack to work so he can write stories and u get 2 use ur keyboard.
This is a great message. I love the humor. The sad part is this is totally true. So sad that Americans still eat this way. Keep it up Peta!
Gotta LOVE it. GoVeg! This should be aired on network TV before the Christmas genocide er feast. Have a turkey AND a pig doing the ad!
XD the best ever! I love peta ads
Get rid of both holidays and Jack can work those days instead of having them off.
Do you watch CFL! Canadian Football Legue Okay I know it may be a joke for you guys out there in America but since you love football and all I just have to tell you! First off I no longer follow Atlanta used to like them until Mr. Vick ruined it! Now with that out of the way It's the "Grey Cup" this weekend Sunday in Toronto 500pm eastern standard time. Please check it out! It's the first time in history of the CFL that the Winnipeg Blue Bombers are meeting up with the under dogslol the Saskatewon Rough Riders! Thats been that long that even our Great grandparents never seen the two together competing for the Cup. And those two teams have the Biggest fans only four teams in each division but hey it's an exciting time for us. While everybody is celebrating Thanksgiving in the U.S. this is our happy place. You won't be disappointed!! Long live animals Ingrid all the compassionate people in this world Jack and Footballminus the bad apples of the football league
Classic! A little humor always helps get the message across.
They are both ridiculous holidays! Santa who? Oh and let's thank the natives whom we almost wiped out in one of the biggest genocides!
Hee hee…funny! The fat lady's expression was classic! Then again PETA always hes the best ads ever!
Geez marta will never forgive you…
They are both good. Both are about being with family
I love this ad! It needs to be aired on TV! I remember seeing this once on TV a long time ago actually I was like squee!
Awe this advert is so cute especially when you see the poor little bird even he or she is terrified trying to make the announcement. Good one again PETA and just love you Ingrid!!!!
JACK! This is inappropriate! Christmas is way better! You take it back or I'm telling everyone you gave me a Christmas snowman whoops already did.


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Reading Activities
Not to disappoint, I am passing on a few of the activities my son has been partaking in to get those reading juices flowing without him having to follow an arbitrary workbook or force himself to read a book he has no interest in reading. It seems to be working quite well, while I didn't have him read a book for a month, last week I pushed one of the ones that came in our curriculum at him and he read the first story with no problem at all!
Today I will take him to the bookstore and let him pick out level 1 readers that HE wants, not that MOM wants him to read, but that HE wants to read. After talking to his enrichment teacher, she said he is reading great in class! Now just to find his inner motivation to do it!
Anyway, yes I am excited over his progress, here is one game we have been doing:
He finds two words that rhyme and put them together. He is reading without really knowing he is reading, and he thinks it is a fun activity, I will change the words out next week to new and a few longer rhyming words.
Yes, that is coffee spilled all over the cards. They still work. They just taste better now!
This is a site word activity in which I make two card of each site word and lay one stack out on the table, and keep one in a pile. My son reads the one in the pile and finds the match on the table. As they get too easy, we take them out of the pile and move them to our window as a friend suggested!
My son is very proud of his 23, which he counted, words that he considers "too easy".
Mix up your day and try some of these! They seem to be working for him! I am finding that I can't keep doing the same 'games' everyday. He becomes less motivated with them on the third day, so I am mixing them up now. A little site word bingo today, a little rhyming matching tomorrow, a little site word matching the next day.
Be flexible! That is becoming my motto, happily.
Spill it: What ideas do you find useful in keeping your kids engaged in the learning you are presenting? If you are not homeschooling, what are some tips you have found helpful in working with your kids on reading/phonics at home?Tweet


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Who is really behind Canyon's Wal-Mart legal entanglement? Who should pay the lawyers' fees?
The answer is don't worry about it - at least for now.
That was the message Thursday from 47th District Judge Hal Miner, who temporarily set aside claims and counterclaims from Canyon City Attorney Chuck Hester and Amarillo attorney John Mozola, who has sued the city of Canyon.
Miner said he wanted the Mike McBroom vs. Canyon lawsuit to go trial Nov. 24 and for the other issues to be decided afterward.
McBroom's lawsuit - filed by Mozola - seeks to reverse the Canyon City Commission's vote allowing the construction of new Wal-Mart SuperCenter at Hunsley Road and U.S. Highway 87.
While Mozola brought the lawsuit on McBroom's behalf, Hester has charged that others are really behind the suit.
Hester and Mozola said Thursday they would not challenge Miner's ruling to go ahead with the trial.
A second lawsuit against Canyon concerning Wal-Mart is still caught up in pretrial motions and appeals.
Kevin Fehr and Brian Goss sued demanding the city take action on a residents' petition pushing for a citywide vote on the construction of the super center.
Attorney fees charged by Hester to the city for the Wal-Mart litigation have reached an estimated $100,000 so far, said Courtney Sharp, assistant city manager. And Mozola is trying to collect $51,043.05 in fees from the city.
Hester charges the city $125 a hour and he is on a $1,242 monthly retainer from the city, Sharp said. Mozola charges $290 an hour for his legal services plus fees from other attorneys working on case, according to court records.
Flood-plain approval
In a related development, the federal government approved building of a super center at the Hunsley Road location, which is in the Palo Duro Creek flood plain, Sharp said.
"We have reviewed the submitted data and determined that the proposed project meets the minimum flood plain criteria," Kevin Long of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said in an Oct. 9 letter to the city.
Sharp said Wal-Mart, not the city, paid for the FEMA study.
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Solar flare today zaps spacecraft camera with protons
Solar flare zaps satellite camera
April 21, 1998: The sun itself has just provided a not-so-subtle hint that this sunspot cycle will be stronger than usual.
Above are quarter-sections of images from two of the SOHO coronographs before (left in each pair) and after (right) the spacecraft was showered with protons from the flare that caused the coronal mass ejection seen rising from the surface. The C2 coronagraph (left; (1018x504-pixel image) covers an area from 2 to 6 times the Sun's radius. The C3 coronagraph (1017x530-pixel image) covers from 4 out to 30 radii. In each, the Sun's disk is the small white circle drawn inside the occulting disk. So faint is the corona that stars can also be seen in these images. The full-size images (1024 pixels square, are available; go to the SOHO LASCO C2 and C3 images.
On Monday morning (about noon, UT, April 20), the sun emitted a medium-size flare that included a blast of high-energy protons that zapped the cameras on the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) in a "halo" orbit just outside the Earth's protective magnetosphere. The protons (recorded at right) appear as tracks inside the cameras' charge-coupled devices, the electronic retinas that build the images.
"SOHO has experienced things like this before, but this is the first time I've seen so much garbage," said Edwin Reichmann, a solar physicist at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center. "This is another indication of the kind of stuff that will cause detectors to give false signals."
Reichmann is a co-author, with Dr. Dave Hathaway and Robert Wilson, also of NASA/Marshall, of a paper predicting that solar cycle No. 23 will be larger than usual, but not a record.
Reichmann said the flare that was observed Monday evening was classified as an M 1.4 flare as seen by solar X-ray monitors aboard a Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite GOES-8; click on the image at right for a 2-day graph of X-ray data. Flares are measured on four levels - B, C, M, X - each 10 times stronger than the last.
At the same time, the SOHO's LASCO telescope saw a coronal mass ejection, an eruption of hot, electrified gas from the sun into deep space.
"Most of the flares we have in a solar cycle are C-class," Reichmann explained. "As the cycle proceeds toward maximum, we begin to see M- and X-class events." The biggest flare on the last cycle was an X13, 100 times more powerful than what was seen Monday. (The scale runs X1 to X10, but large flares saturate the detectors, so the estimate is X13.)
Upper-level M-class flares and X-class flares can overload electrical power grids and cause black outs if operators do not take precautions. Satellites can be damaged or even destroyed when their electronics are saturated by charged particles from large flares.
Evidence of that is seen in SOHO images where streaks indicate hits by high-energy protons traveling near the speed of light. The noise will diminish as the proton levels decrease. The detectors are continually evaluated by ground controllers and refreshed by a process called a bake-out when the noise level is too high.
Meanwhile, Earth is awaiting the possible arrival of the coronal mass ejection from this event.
"If it arrives, it will be 24 to 48 hours later," Reichmann said. The uncertainty comes from not knowing exactly where it was aimed when it left the sun, or the shape of the interplanetary magnetic field which will help direct it.
"One of the earliest indications will be a brightening
in the aurora as seen by the Ultraviolet
Imager aboard the Polar spacecraft," Reichmann said. (MPEG movies of images
gathered by the UVI are made every
six hours.) Then again, it might miss the Earth altogether.
Author: Dave
Curator: Bryan Walls
NASA Official: John M. Horack


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The Week in Money
• A credit card insurer must pay a record-breaking £10.5 million fine and hand over about £14.5 million in compensation for "widespread mis-selling" to millions of customers.
CPP reached agreement on the payments with the Financial Services Authority, ending a 19-month investigation into the company's aggressive and inappropriate sales practices over credit card and identity theft insurance. The investigation could draw in several large banks which either sold CPP's products or referred customers to the company.
The banks are in discussions with CPP and the regulator about creating a compensation fund.
• Households are to face yet higher energy prices, with E.ON


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The Portland Sea Dogs trounced the B-Mets 9-3 behind a 13-hit attack that included a pair of home runs and a total of five extra-base hits.
B-Mets starter Matt Bowman allowed nine runs on 10 hits in 4 1/3 innings. Sea Dogs starter Brian Johnson lasted 5 1/3 innings in his Double-A debut.
Dustin Lawley went 2-for-3 with an RBI for the B-Mets.
Deven Marrero and Carlos Rivero each hit home runs for the Sea Dogs in the win.


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Saturday, June 5, 2010
Have you seen this movie yet?? Oh emm geee, HILARIOUS! I'd have to say Samantha was my fav in this movie. Another fav of mine were the hairstyles worn by Carrie! This one in particular is a very sexy soft wave hairstyle. Its quite simple to do, all you'll need are the following tools:
-1 inch curling iron
- heat protectant
- hair spray
- teasing comb
- hair brush
I used my enzo milano from beautychoice, and the teasing comb I got from Sallys Beauty Supply.
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