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text: With lots of school programs playing 3-4 D and hybrids systems scheming against wide spreed O's it seems every year finding a " true " 4-3 MLB gets more and more difficult. The talent level gap between Te'o and Ogletree and the rest of the MLB seems quite considerable. This is nothing new as we all know and have living proof on our team with Fewell running the 3 safety look often and relying less of a MLB in his system. This year isn't the exception with only Te'o and Ogletree worthy of 1st round pick and of course Te'p looks like he would battle to fit Fewell system and Ogletree a reach at 19. Another year without a " true MLB " ? Thougths?

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And just when you think the run game is making a come back ... back to passing!
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You couldn't be more full of **** if you were break dancing in a Port-a-Potty.......Kruunch
The new rule will draw a 15-yard penalty if a runner or a tackler initiates forcible contact by delivering a blow with the top/crown of his helmet against an opponent when both players clearly are outside the tackle box (an area extending from tackle-to-tackle and from three yards beyond the line of scrimmage to the offensive team's end line). Incidental contact by the helmet of a runner or a tackler against an opponent would not be deemed a foul.
He's a part of getting the rule passed. For those who don't like the rule then you have your team's owner partly to blame, or if you are on the fence and want to look on the bright side you can understand that the rule change was advocated by a guy most have high respect for.


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You wouldn't think a family with three cats would need any help protecting its fruit trees but our figs are plagued by birds.
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I have suggested to The Landscaper that I spend the days in a chair under the fig, reading a book and idly waving my straw hat at the interlopers, but this idea was met with contempt.
"Get a scarecrow," he suggested. "They're very cool."
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Nelson-based photographer and artist Elizabeth Goodall was watching a French film and found herself taken with a window display of scarecrows. This started an interest which first became a hobby and then a business.
She had just completed revamping the garden at her bed and breakfast and was looking for a new project, so she assembled a collection of old clothes, bales of straw and various other items and constructed her first scarecrow.
He stood an imposing 2m and worked extremely well as a burglar deterrent outside her house.
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"The ones with moustaches do have a sort of international look, though," she says. They also have names - Emmanuel, Pierre and Alfonzo."
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Making them is extraordinarily messy but she thrives on the creative element, and particularly enjoys shopping for them.
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Fve years ago, the world's urban population surpassed the rural population for the first time in history, and the number of city dwellers is expected to double in the next century. This dramatic change has created new challenges in urban living that require innovative new solutions. Cities have long made use of information technology to streamline city planning and daily life, from power grids to phone lines to wireless networks. As cities continue to grow, new technologies will arise to manage energy use, crime, traffic patterns and other urban issues and turn cities into finely tuned machines.
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I'M REVVED UP AND READY TO GO FOR NEXT WEEKS 2013 DRAFT. Now that we're past the combines and teams interviewing players, some players have dropped in your estimation and some have moved up. Who do you WANT the Giants to draft in the 1st round (has to be realistic and not Joeckel falling all the way to 19) and who do you think the Giants WILL draft?
For me, I'd like Ogletree or Vaccaro, and I think the Giants will draft one of those two (probably Vaccaro). Yes, I actually believe that JR could take a LB in the 1st RD this year simply because I think Ogletree is worthy of the 19th pick.
I'd really want them to draft Ansah, but I think that he's shot way up the boards at this point and will be gone in the top 10. Regardless, who you do want vs who do you think JR will draft?


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Jackie coordinates our admissions marketing efforts. She also visits and reads applications for parts of Massachusetts (Plymouth County as well as select schools close to Boston).
Meet Jackie Woodson, Senior Associate Director of Admissions Marketing at Emmanuel College, Boston.
What is your favorite thing about Emmanuel College?
Location, location, location! Emmanuel students have the best of both worlds: a true residential campus (with a quad) inside the beautiful city of Boston. Opportunities abound for internships, cultural experiences, and the like. It's impossible to become bored here--there's too much to explore.
What is your favorite thing to do in Boston?
I love riding my bicycle in and around the city. It's a great way to gain a better sense of where things are located in Boston, and I always seem to discover a new park or green space during my rides.
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Try to visit a range of institutions to see what's right for you and where you feel most at home. You may surprise yourself! People around you will have helpful opinions, but you're the person who will be living at the college you choose for the next four years. I'd also suggest visiting (if possible) when school's in session, so you can develop a "feel" for what the college is like with students on campus.
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I have seen many people feel very strongly about which Boba they want to do. My one question is why? Why do you want to make your armor look like which one?
This is meant to be a fun discussion.
My answer: When I first watched the movies, I did not know there where 2 different suits used the movies and the with SE a third. The first person that I saw in armor was Bobafettish. I was blown away at how nice it was. Some of you old guys know what I mean. To me that is what Boba should look like.


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I'm sure this varies by region, but are there any estimates of US hives, what percent of hives are feral and what percent of hives are kept? Thanks for your insights.
I'm sure this varies by region, but are there any estimates of US hives, what percent of hives are feral and what percent of hives are kept? Thanks for your insights.
There is no way of counting the feral's.
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
When you consider the disparity between those collecting ferals who find them everywhere, and the "experts" who claim the are no ferals, I think it is safe to say that no one really knows. Tom Seeley who has been tracking the feral bees in Arnot forest for several decades now (since at least the 70s) says the density has remained basically the same and has put a density number on that (which I don't have handy right now). My guess is there are far more feral bees than domestic.
Michael Bush bushfarms.com/bees.htm "Everything works if you let it." ThePracticalBeekeeper.com 42y 40h 39yTF
Gee, I would have guessed just the opposite. But, I guess there are a lot of places where people don't look which may have bees. So, maybe Michael is right.
Michael, wasn't it something like X feral colonies per 10 acres, or 100 acres? Let me see if I can get Tom to answer.
Mark Berninghausen
I don't clearly remember either the number nor the terms. I'm pretty sure it wasn't furlongs per fortnight or in hides or ferrels, but it was something like colonies per sq mi or something like that.
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Apx 60% are kept hives, and 96 % of all statistics are made up on the spot
Not if read on the internet Harley? Harley, har, har.
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Obviously, bee population varies with geographic regions. It seems to me that in deep east Texas, Louisiana and Arkansas my friends are always talking about bee swarms. There's a beekeeper in South Louisiana that catches 30 swarms a year and resells them. I can't remember his name, but he was once a member of this forum.
On the other hand, arid West and South Texas are both short on water and blooms. I'm sure the feral bee population is low in such areas.
Looks like .5 feral colonies per km squared in rural forested area and 2.3 feral colonies in urban area buildings, across NY State, Vischer and Seeley 1982, Morse et al 1990.
Mark Berninghausen
In 13 years of living here I've seen two swarms. There was two bee trees that I knew of but one died out this year.
I don't believe there are many ferrels near me.
I am only a bit over an hours drive from the start of the northern boreal forests. As far as I know there are no ferals around me.
some info on feral bees that have been studied recently:
journaling the growth of a treatment free apiary started in 2010. 20+/- hives
SOURCEIn agricultural settings, we need to know if the density of feral bee colonies is sufficient to provide adequate pollination. In conservation areas, we would like to know if the density of feral colonies is sufficient to be of concern.
Directly counting the number of honey bee colonies in the environment over broad scales is not often feasible because colonies are cryptic and difficult to locate (Oldroyd et al. 1997). Here, we implement a new indirect method of estimating colony density based on microsatellite analysis of workers.
First, our data suggest that the density of feral bees is probably insufficient to provide adequate pollination in a horticultural setting. Typical recommended stocking rates are 100200 colonies/km2 (e.g. Free 1970), whereas our estimates are <10 colonies/km2.
We suggest that without supplementation with domestic colonies, it is unlikely that any crops requiring insect pollination are adequately pollinated.
Second, concerns about the impacts of feral honey bee colonies on natural ecosystems (Goulson 2003) are likely to be unfounded in most areas because the density of feral colonies is quite low.
Arundel, J., Oxley, P. R., Faiz, A., Crawford, J., Winter, S., & Oldroyd, B. P. (2014). Remarkable uniformity in the densities of feral honey bee Apis mellifera Linnaeus, 1758 (Hymenoptera: Apidae) colonies in South Eastern Australia. Austral Entomology.
There are 2.5 square km in a square mile, so you can multiply the figures to get colonies per square mile. 2.3 x 2.5 = 5.75 or almost six colonies per square mile in an urban area in 1991.
Other figures are
Russia forests, .41 per km2, or one per square mile.
Arizona desert, up to 13 per square mile. Similar concentration in Brazil. Both African bees.
Mexico, as high as 22 per square mile, but again: African bees.
Santa Cruz Island, off the coast of California had a very low density: less than one per square mile. European bees, perhaps very old introduction.
the number of feral colonies in an area would be directly related to the number of managed bees in the same area.
Wouldn't it be regional? I don't remember ther the number but feral winter survival in northern areas is extremely low, based on something I read in "The Hive and the Honeybee". This was published In 1992 but I don't think it has gotten easier to survive since then. I also wonder how you would define feral. A hive that survived through the winter is good enough for me.
So, in areas conducive to the survival of feral colonies of bees one may find 5 or 6 colonies of feral bees per square mile. How many managed colonies of bees per square mile are there across the US? I bet Peter or Graham can find that information for us, so we can make the comparison, the ratio # of ferals/# of managed or # of managed/# of ferals. Are there more feral colonies of honeybees in the US than there are managed? Or vice versa?
Mark Berninghausen
Brian Cardinal
Zone 5a, Practicing non-intervention beekeeping
That's where statistical analysis comes in to give us the best estimate possible. It's an estimation. It will always be flawed. What isn't? Perfection is unreal. That doesn't mean we can't try to come up w/ useful information. Not that you said that at all.
Mark Berninghausen
The density of commercial colonies varies considerably, depending on the quality of the forage. Ben Oldroyd, who has studied this extensively in Australia, writes:
Using the conversion factor, that's 100 colonies per square mile for commercial colonies in a good beekeeping area.Typically, in forest areas owned by the Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Bee Site Licences are is- sued at 3.2-km intervals. If we assume 130 colonies are typically sited at each apiary (B.P. Oldroyd, personal observations), then the density of commercial colonies is expected to be around 40 colonies/km2.
The Central Valley of California is 22,500 square miles. In spring there are about 1 million hives there. That's a density of 45 colonies per square mile. Feral populations never reach these numbers, not even in Africa or Brazil where the density is highest.


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text: On The Media Published by On The Media The Power of Myth Download this audio Want to embed this player? Use the code below. More info. <iframe frameborder="0" scrolling="no" height="130" width="100%" src="https://www.wnyc.org/widgets/ondemand_player/otm/#file=/audio/json/128961/&share=1"></iframe> Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Email a Friend Summary Transcript Summary Election-night graphics had barely faded from TV screens before the media rushed in to explain what the vote meant. One narrative was that the Republican base turned against its party because it felt betrayed. Another was that the electorate was registering its disgust with the war. But Time.com Washington editor Ana Marie Cox tells Bob that many of those explanations are, in fact, myths. Transcript BROOKE GLADSTONE:From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media. I'm Brooke Gladstone. BOB GARFIELD:And I'm Bob Garfield. The election night graphics had barely faded from our TV screens before the media rushed to explain what the midterm vote meant -- that say, the Republican base voted against their party because it felt betrayed, or that a majority of voters had simply registered their disgust with the war.Other explanations played on the failure of earlier predictions. For instance, the Net Roots, the online community of liberal activists, was supposed to carry Connecticut Democrat Ned Lamont to victory over Joe Lieberman. So when Lamont lost, the pundits said that the Net Roots wasn't all it was cracked up to be.But Ana Marie Cox, the Washington editor of Time.com, observed recently that many of those explanations are, in fact, myths. She says that to piece together the real picture consider, for example, how the Net Roots candidates actually fared overall. ANA MARIE COX:While it's true that the Net Roots became very closely identified with Lamont, they really were more helpful and actually raised more money for other candidates, including Tester in Montana and Jim Webb in Virginia. These are both candidates, by the way, that probably wouldn't have even gotten on the national radar if it weren't for liberal bloggers who really fell in love with them early on.And I think if you look at the results of the races that the Net Roots choose to identify themselves with, you'll see that either they're doing a better job of picking winners or they have more influence. Either way, that's a significant step forward for them. BOB GARFIELD:Another myth that you observed, as proliferated on C SPAN and MSNBC, is the idea that conservative Democrats were elected. You say, not so fast. ANA MARIE COX:Well, there were definitely some conservative Democrats elected. Heath Shuler and also, to some extent, Jim Webb, who actually has a conservative line on immigration, of all things. And there were other people, that there were some pro life Democrats -- Bob Casey in Pennsylvania. But, on the other hand, there was a bunch of Democrats that got elected that are way to the left or, at least, they're part of the sort of old, traditional Democratic wing of the Democratic Party, as Howard Dean might say.There's a liberal alternative newspaper editor that got elected. There's a woman who was elected, I believe, in New Hampshire who was actually once thrown out of a Bush rally for wearing an anti Bush tee shirt. So these are people you can't actually point to as being very moderate. BOB GARFIELD:There's another idea floating out there, mainly because Karl Rove and the GOP have been floating it, and that is the inevitability of the results, because in any president's sixth year in office, the House of Representatives tends to revert to the party not in power, enabling us all to shrug at these results. ANA MARIE COX:I think that actually this is still a pretty stunning upset for the Republicans, even taking into account the traditional swing back to the minority party in a mid-term. And the Republican Party worked very hard for the past two years, even four years, to gerrymander themselves into a position of permanent power.I don't know if anyone recalls all the reasons why Tom DeLay was disgraced, [LAUGHS] but one of them had to do with gerrymandering Texas. This was done all over the country. And the fact that Democrats got this majority despite having literally, you know, the lines against them -- I mean, it's actually really, really significant. BOB GARFIELD:Your number four could be number one on a lot of lists, and that is the 2006 mid-term election being a referendum on Iraq. ANA MARIE COX:Well, exit polling showed that the clear winner, when they went into the booth, was corruption. And the fact that the war isn't going well, I think, is something that a lot of people definitely feel and feel deeply, and definitely something that a lot of candidates talked passionately about.But I think in the end, those swing voters weren't thinking so much about the Iraq war; they were thinking about wanting a change for a lot of different reasons. BOB GARFIELD:Now, your fifth myth is the one that, to me, is the most provocative, the idea that Republicans lost their base by straying from conservative values. I think it's provocative because I pretty much totally bought into it. ANA MARIE COX:Well, Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity both, the day after the elections -- this was part of their post midterm monologue -- when they said, the Americans didn't abandon the Republican Party, the Republicans abandoned the Republican Party -- you know, they abandoned their principles. Mike Pence, who's a very conservative congressman from Indiana, ran for minority leader under the idea that this was what was going on. I think that, as with many myths, there's a grain of truth to this. There are probably conservatives who look at what happened in Congress in the past six years and feel like their leaders did stray. They overspent and they became part of the "culture of Washington" is the catchphrase that a lot of people like to use.However, that explains perhaps why certain base Republicans didn't vote Republican. That doesn't explain why the large majority of Independents broke for the Democrats. The Republicans actually turned out. There was a fear that they wouldn't, and they did. What happened was that Independents just acted and thought like Democrats. BOB GARFIELD:Now, among the news organizations that got suckered into the conventional wisdom, was --what do you call it, Time Magazine? ANA MARIE COX:[LAUGHS] BOB GARFIELD:[LAUGHS] Now, you're a Time.com contributor. Time Magazine -- one of its star political writers, Joe Klein, wrote an analysis piece that you say is -- really not right. ANA MARIE COX:Well, I think that Joe is a provocative thinker and a great reporter. He was really early out of the gate trying to put a narrative around this election. There was a very unusual mid-term. There were races that came out of no one's playbook. I think people are still kind of struggling with how to make it all make sense. And the best that we can do here at Time Magazine or Time.com is tell you what doesn't make sense. BOB GARFIELD:Ana Marie, thanks very much. ANA MARIE COX:All right, thank you. 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The songbird from Brooklyn said an elementary school glee club conductor sparked her singing career when he gave her a classical piece to perform. "That's when I realized I had a solo voice and really liked singing," says Sibongile Boyd. "It was just something about the grandeur of it that attracted me. I preferred singing more than listening to instrumental pieces."
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More than 130 Binghamton University advocates traveled to Albany on March 3, to request that legislators invest in the University and in SUNY. The top agenda item for the 14 teams of administrators, faculty, staff, students, business leaders and alumni: to keep 100 percent of the tuition increase on campuses.
"In the past, we've managed our cuts," President Lois B. DeFleur said, "but they weren't linked together with a tuition increase. We're pretty efficient and very lean. We've done a lot of the straightforward things and I don't yet know what we're going to do with more cuts." Click the image to see videos of President DeFleur and others discuss Advocacy Day.
Daniel Doktori, director of higher education for New York state, met with DeFleur, Professor of Geology and Faculty Senate Chair H. Richard Naslund and graduate student Kathryn Fletcher.
"You provide a very convincing case and we'll continue to advocate for you," he said. "Higher education needs to be a priority for your local legislators, as well."
The Assembly has always placed the Tuition Assistance and opportunity programs at the top of its priorities, said Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, chair of the Assembly Higher Education Committee.
"There really is an understanding that higher education is key to our economic growth," she said. "There will be some restorations in the final budget, but I don't know what they'll be.
"We're not happy with the level of state support," she added. "We're committed to a real rebuilding and we're confident that now that we have a new chancellor to give SUNY a presence, it will keep people on track and minding the store."
Darryl Wood, president of the Binghamton chapter of United University Professions, reminded legislators that the state of New York "has made this wonderful investment in SUNY and it will begin to fall apart unless the investment continues. One very large concern is that students won't be able to get the classes they need and won't be able to graduate on time — plus, with the tuition increase, it will cost more."
That sentiment was underscored by Fletcher and other students throughout the day of meetings. "Many of my friends want to graduate early because they can't afford it, but getting the classes they need, even when taking an overload, is uncertain," Fletcher said.
Class sizes will continue to grow and the campus will suffer, added Naslund, citing his own department's examples.
"We expect three senior faculty retirements in the next two years and won't be able to fill those spots with replacements," he said. "I teach an introduction to geology course, Planet Earth, that normally enrolls 160 students. I increased that to 176 and still have a waiting list. This is the first year I'm seeing this pent-up demand and students worrying about graduating on time."
Lawrence S. Schwartz '80 is Gov. David A. Paterson's recently appointed secretary. "I get the value of an education and the value of Binghamton University," he said. "It's a great value and why you're bursting at the seams."
With such a huge economic problem confronting the state, and really only two solutions — cuts or revenue additions — nobody is going to be happy, Schwartz added.
"What I would say is that we're trying to instill a culture where people have an open mind and are bringing solutions to the problem to the table," he said.
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It may be more famous now than any time in its 1,300-year history as the setting of the hit drama "Downton Abbey," but England's Highclere Castle has its own extraordinary stories to tell. In its heyday, Highclere was the social epicenter of Edwardian England, playing host to royalty, nobility and celebrity alike. "Secrets of Highclere Castle" shows how all the inhabitants of Highclere lived, from the aristocrats who enjoyed a life of luxury and indolence for centuries in the castle's rooms (on an estate as large as New York City's Central Park) to the army of servants toiling endlessly "below stairs" to make the lives of their lords and ladies run as smoothly as possible.
"Secrets of Highclere Castle" reveals the intersections of Highclere's real history with the narrative arc of its fictional doppelganger. For instance, the castle actually served as a WWI military hospital, replete with an aristocratic resident who tended to the wounded. In real life, as in drama, historical events truly changed Highclere and its residents forever.
No one knows Highclere better than its current inhabitants, the current Lord and Lady Carnarvon. "Secrets of Highclere Castle" follows these modern royals to find out how their $1 million in annual upkeep funds is spent and what life in a fairytale castle is like many generations past the age of extravagant parties and opulence.


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Presenting My Latest Crush of the Week…Jacob Artist!
Each Friday, our love editor Devin will be chatting about her hot-guy celeb crushes. This week, she's fallen for Glee newcomer Jacob Artist!
I'd like to start off this Friday's love letter by admitting that, even though I was a total Glee fan in college, my Gleekness has faded a tiiiny bit over the years. But alas, everyone in the office was abuzz about Kate Hudson performing on the season premiere last week, so I had to check it out. Hands down, my favorite minute of the episode was when breakout star Jacob Artist, who plays Puck's little brother, performed "Never Say Never" by The Fray. And even though exactly 60 seconds later he did something pretty not-so-cool, man was that cover good—and I think as the season goes on we'll eventually see through his bad boy exterior. In fact, his duet with Marley on last night's Britney Spears-themed episode (she started off with "U Drive Me Crazy" and Jake dropped in a little of Aerosmith's "Crazy") already showed us a bit of his soft side. But back to "Never Say Never." That performance had me digging around online to find out more about Jacob (see, I really do have a crush on him!), and I learned that he's a native New Yorker and he didn't even start his acting career until 2011. (Oh, what a difference a year makes, right?)
So thank you, Jacob Artist's vocal chords, for getting me hooked on Glee again, and thank you, Jacob Artist's face, for the five-star eye candy. I really can't wait to see what happens to his character this season, especially after he told The Hollywood Reporter that Jake will be "vastly different from any character we've had on the show in a really interesting and surprising way." (I'm calling it now: I think a little love triangle between Jake, Marley and Sam will have something to do with it!)
Either way, I can't wait to watch what happens to everyone at McKinley this year! Glee is back! And now it's your turn to talk about it: Who's your favorite new cast member on the show? Tell me in the comments, and have a great weekend!


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Family systems and chronic illness Doctor/patient relationships
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Keith DV, Connell GM and Connell LC. Defiance in the family: finding hope in therapy. Philadelphia, PA: Brunner-Routledge. 2001.
Prosky P and Keith DV (eds). Family therapy as an alternative to medication: an appraisal of pharmland. New York: Brunner-Routledge. 2003.
Book Chapters:
Keith DV. The child in the therapist and the old man in the child: psychosomatic symptoms and children. In: S McDaniel, J Hepworth, W Doherty (eds), The shared experience of illness, stories of patients, families and their therapists. New York: Basic Books. 1997.
Keith, DV. Symbolic-experienced family therapy for chemical imbalance. In: F Dattilio (ed), Case studies in couple and family therapy: Systemic and cognitive perspectives. New York: The Guilford Press. 1998.
Journal Articles:
Keith DV. Family therapy, chemical imbalance, blasphemy, and working with children. AFTA Newsletter. 1998;72:21-25
Souid AK, Keith DV, Cunningham AS. Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Clinical Pediatrics. 1998;37:497-504.
Keith DV & Kaye DL. Consultation with the extended family: Primary process in clinical practice. Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics of North America. July 2001.


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I found this on LazyFoo's website. http://lazyfoo.net/g...locks/index.php and it's working code, but there are a lot of global variables, C style functions that should be part of a class object, and so forth. I'm not bashing his code, Ive written far worse myself.
I don't need perfect, I just need something with a good format as a reference. Something I can use whenever I hit a roadblock to look and see "how they did it".
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There is a four-ticket purchase limit for Diamond, Marquee and Platinum games per household, credit card or email address, and a 14-ticket limit for all other games. There is a maximum of 40 total tickets per order.
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Learn about proper septic system care July 9 at Ideal Town Hall
A free Septic System Homeowner Operation and Maintenance Education class will be offered from 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, July 9, at Ideal Township Hall, 35458 Butternut Point Road, Ideal Township.
Participants will learn about septic system care and the proper treatment of human wastewater. They'll discover how proper septic system operation and maintenance can save homeowners money while protecting the environment.
With proper maintenance, septic systems can effectively treat wastewater for 20, 30 or more years. Improper maintenance can lead to system failure and the need for expensive repairs in 10 years or less.
It is much cheaper to pump a septic tank on a regular basis, monitor water use and regulate products that go down the drain than it is to replace a septic system drain field.
Properly designed, constructed, operated and maintained septic systems reduce the levels of fecal coliform bacteria and nutrients discharged into streams and groundwater. Elevated levels of fecal coliform bacteria from human wastes are of special concern due to potential human health risks.
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Weaning babies from milk to self-service finger food, rather than the traditional spoon-fed puree, has become so popular that researchers are trying to prove whether it could help solve the obesity "epidemic".
Facebook and other websites have "baby-led weaning" pages packed with comments and questions from parents experimenting with serving their babies the likes of little sticks of cooked vegetables, meat and other adult foods that they can suck, chew and swallow.
"The evidence on whether it's good or bad is virtually non-existent," said Associate Professor Rachael Taylor, of Otago University at Dunedin.
"Health professionals, like in Plunket, are crying out for evidence. They have got a lot of parents asking whether they should put their baby on this sort of feeding regime."
Professor Taylor will tell an obesity conference in Auckland this week that the traditional approach of introducing solids - spoon-fed puree and later mash, then chopped foods - may lead to problems in learning when to stop eating, which are associated with obesity.
The problem is that infants learn to rely on their parents to decide when they have had enough to eat, rather than following their own internal cues.
"We know that mothers who follow baby-led weaning tend to be more educated, less likely to return to work before 12 months, and less likely to use feeding practices that have been associated with overweight in children."
Professor Taylor said those practices included parental pressure to eat and rewarding infants with treat foods if they ate their vegetables.
But there were potential problems with baby-led weaning, such as iron deficiency, reduction in growth rates and choking.
Professor Taylor and her colleagues have started recruiting 300 pregnant women, half of whom will be trained to use a form of baby-led weaning that has been modified to address the perceived risks.
The rest will use the standard weaning methods.
The ability of the children in each group to regulate their own energy intake will be compared at two years. They will be offered a buffet of food on two separate occasions, preceded on one day by a high-energy first course and on the other by a low-energy first course.
It is expected this will show if the experimental method makes a difference.Martin Johnston


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Whether you live north or south of the river, you can find all the exciting new 2014 & 2015 Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM models at our local dealership serving the greater Independence, Lees Summit, Gladstone, Kansas City, MO and Liberty, MO areas. You'll also find a friendly and accommodating staff eager to assist you. In fact, our staff is comprised of your friends and neighbors from Blue Springs to Liberty, and right here in Independence too.
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In exploring the new Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and RAM inventory available at our Independence-area showroom, you'll find everything from classic picks to new favorites, including the RAM 1500, 2500, Dodge Challenger, Jeep Grand Cherokee and Chrysler 200. And while, you can do much of your pre-buy research online, Landmark Dodge Chrysler Jeep, serving Independence, Lees Summit, Gladstone, Kansas City, MO and Liberty, MO is always happy to share specs, compare different models and present you with other options that might also suit your lifestyle. Our ultimate goal is for you to be satisfied with your decision for hundreds of thousands of miles to come.
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Celebrating Jamestown, New York's most famous daughter, Lucille Ball, her husband and co-star, Desi Arnaz, and the most enduring series on television, "I Love Lucy ". Enjoy exhibits of their wardrobe and personal belongings, interactive displays, reproductions of television soundstages, original props and costumes, video screenings, three gift shops more!
Home & Away, the AAA Magazine of Mid-America, selected the Lucy-Desi Museum in downtown Jamestown as a "unique travel gem" and profiled it in the AAA Travel Treasures section of its January/February 2003 issue.Annual festivals include Lucy-Desi Days Memorial Day Weekend in May and Lucy's Birthday Celebration in early August. Hours for both museums are Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30, Sun. 1-5. Closed Easter, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Day, and New Year's Eve and Day.
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yyyup. I was kind of hoping they'd pick Barkley, to continue the tradition of USC suckitude...
I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite team in the NFL.
It's a good thing because it means they're no longer under the delusion that Sanchez is a good quarterback.
They're not keeping Sanchez....they obviously decided to eat the money they owe him and plan to cut him.
He's going to be a very rich unemployed NFL QB shortly!
The Jets Circus has been here since Joe Willy left in 1970!
Forget the Past, Live for the Future!
Wonder if they're gonna let him sit and learn from Sanchez and Tebow. lol
Who knows what'll happen with Tebow, they've no use for him so they should just let him go. They've a very full house with Sanchez, Smith, Tebow, David Garrard and Greg McElroy under contract. So strange.


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Cause of Choice: Martha Stewart Center for Living at Mount Sinai
Early Catering Gigs: Events at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Cooper Hewitt Museum and Sotheby's
One Talent She Lacks: Her contribution to the school orchestra amounted to "scratch, squawk, screech."
Advice for Pursuing Dreams: "Go with your gut. If you feel good about an idea, work on it until it works...or it doesn't work."
Personal reinvention and astounding business success? Definitely "a good thing." The former Martha Helen Kostyra had married and worked as a model to support her husband's law studies by the time she finished her own 1962 Barnard degree in History and Architectural History. Stewart's stockbroker father-in-law piqued her interest in Wall Street, where she spent a few years as an institutional broker for the likes of the Rockefellers, Ford Foundation, and Fidelity Fund. But ultimately it was her visionary savvy in the home, garden, and kitchen that carried her back to the boardroom. The renovation of the Stewarts' 1805 farmhouse and start of a successful catering business consolidated her identity as an exemplar of tasteful self-improvement so familiar today.
Martha spent the 1980s working on a series of successful cookbooks, and drew the spotlight of both the Larry King and Oprah Winfrey shows. The Martha Stewart Living magazine (1990) and Martha's own television show (1993, now called "Martha") helped make her a household name in every sense: her eponymous lines of home-improvement products and furnishings are featured at Macy's, Home Depot, Staples, PetSmart and, soon, at JCPenney. Stewart's talents and unflappability have provided a superlative model for women in the home, as well as in the corporate sphere, where she retains no less than 96% of voting power in the vast and publicly-held MarthaStewartOmnimedia.


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Many people in eastern Europe celebrated the end of World War II and paid tribute to Russian soldiers who drove out the Germans. However, there are areas such as in the Baltic states where many people harbor hate toward Russia for seizing their lands and making them part of the Soviet Union. In Estonia, sculptures of Russian soldiers were spray painted red. The Russian Foreign Ministry accused Estonia of glorifying Nazism. "It is obvious that the attempts of the Estonian authorities to white wash Nazism and their henchmen are continuing with blatant disprespect for those who saved the world from fascism."
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Russian army which did so much to gain victory against Nazi Germany. Russians must also understand the anger felt in Baltic nations at being conquered by the Soviet Union and forced to live in a communist society.


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Elegant & Sunny Brooklyn Apartment
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Brightly lit and spacious, this tastefully decorated studio features a warm colour scheme, high ceilings and wooden floors. The double bed is a cosy resting spot following a day of enjoying the city, and there is a fully-functional kitchen for those wishing to dine at home.
Holding approximately 1.5 million works, the Brooklyn Museum is a 20-minute walk away. One of the oldest suspension bridges in the United Stated, Brooklyn Bridge is 30 minutes' away by New York Subway.
Spend the day at Coney Island, a well-know area containing an amusement park and a seaside resort.
House rulesA $200 security deposit is required.
Guests should make sure that trash and recycling are taken out before check-out.
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We've stayed in Rohan's appartment during one week. It's been a really good time. The appartmen is spacious, clean, quiet, good comunicated (two subways lines at 5 minutes walking). The kitchen has all the necessary utensils and there're lots of shops, suppermarkets, restaurants close to the appartment.
Rohan has been very friendly with us. We met him the day after our arrival because the first day we were late and he is a very nice person; he gave us his tlf number in case we need something. The day we left the appartment we did one hour later and we had not any problema
So, if I go back to NY, I will call Rohan without any doubt
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Everything was ok. The apartment is comfortable and big enough up to 5 or 6 people (sharing beds), and ideal for 3 or 4. The outside room it's a little noisy but nothing really disturbing. It is placer in a Jewish area with very good bakeries like "Gombo's". Rohan was a nice host. The neighborhood was quiet and safe.
Great experience! Rohan is an awesome host!
Dear Rohan, we had a wonderfull stay in your nice apartment. Bedrooms were ok, good beds. The bedroom at the street had plenty room and the second bedroom is inside, no window only a door to the kitchen-sitting room. So we were happy that it was not to warm even there was a fan. The bathroom and douche were great. The kitchen was well equipped and clean. And you gave good instructions .
For guests: From the apartment to Manhattan with the subway you have to count on 45 min all the way.
Thank you for staying in your apartment Good bye Maria
We stayed in N.Y. in May and enjoyed every day...because of the comforable flat and, and, and...the apartment is in a walking distance to the subway, so we went every day to Manhattan or elsewhere...the flat itself is as discribed, so all was extraordinary. We would book again
Very nice and clean flat. Thanks Rohan !!!
Rohan is a nice and helpful Person.
There are many Subway line nearby going to Manhattan within 7-12 min Walking distance. Supermarkets are on the way to the subway.
We are a family with two teenager Boys and felt very safe in Brooklyn.
Park opposite the flat is a bit strange. Kids (15 and 13) did not want to go there !
In the flat there is all you need. Some cereal bowls would be nice.
very nice appartment
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My family and I loved this place. Fast connection to Manhattan very close to the appartment. Clean spacious appartment. Nice neighbourhood. Thanks Rohan, you made us feel really welcome!
The appartament is fine, when i have got some issues with the wifi Rohan was responsive and helpful.
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Well Guys, there are some photos over on the 1919 site of the plate that went to Halo Mfg today, wish I knew how to post photos here. Computers and me are just barely on speaking terms as it is, photos are completely out of the question. Michael has said he hopes to hold to the prices as talked about earlier. $200 - $230 for an 80% and $65 - $75 more for a 100% FFL reqd plate. I have the spring issue resolved and should receive the trip return springs from Wolf Springs by the first of the week.
We'll set up a sign up list later this week, I believe I can start shipping basic conversion parts kits next week.
More later, Thanks for your interest, Lon


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DVD Review: Green Lantern
It's not the best superhero movie of the year, but there's still some emerald-colored eye candy to be had.
Director: Martin Campbell MPAA Rating: PG-13 Studio: Warner Bros.
Expectations were high for Green Lantern in a year that gave us X-Men: First Class, Thor and Captain America: The First Avenger. Those three movies were all entertaining superhero adventures that were surprisingly better than most anticipated. Now that some time has passed and Green Lantern is flying home, it's time to lower expectations and enjoy Green Lantern for what it is: a cheesy superhero special-effects showcase that occasionally crackles with green energy, especially on the Blu-ray 3D version.
We are told in the introduction that millions of years before the Earth was formed, the wise Guardians of the Universe harnessed the power of will to create an intergalactic police force known as the Green Lanterns Corps. Ryan Reynolds—who looks like he has been working out to play a superhero since birth—plays cocky test pilot Hal Jordan who is chosen by a dying Lantern's ring to take the alien's place as a protector of the one of the universe's 3600 sectors, which includes Earth. The powerful ring allows Hal to fly, wraps him in a suit of green energy and enables him to create anything he wills from his mind.
Hal is transported by the ring to the Lanterns' home planet of Oa where he learns that one of the Guardians has fallen from grace and succumbed to the power of fear. Now called Parallax, this giant cloud of evil yellow energy makes its way to Earth to destroy it. Hal doubts his power to commit—as evidenced by his shaky relationship with fellow test pilot Carol Ferris (Blake Lively)—but can he pull it together before our world perishes in a sulfur-colored cloud of doom? If there was ever a time to "go green," Hal knows this it.
Reynolds is best when he is gently poking fun at himself, so he is built for the role of Hal Jordan. Unfortunately, too much time is wasted trying to establish some kind of deep romantic attachment between Reynolds and Lively, which just never comes together as we are subjected to Reynolds dropping whopper lines like, "You look pretty." Thud! Also, superheroes are only as great as the villains they are up against. Although Peter Sarsgaard does his best as a doctor infected with Parallax's evil energy, the real villain is Parallax itself—essentially a giant yellow CGI cloud with a mean face voiced by Clancy Brown. Parallax is not exactly Darth Vader, Dr. Octopus or the Joker, in other words. Still, there are other familiar faces that raise the bar slightly, including Tim Robbins as a U.S. senator, Angela Bassett as Dr. Amanda Waller and Mark Strong as Sinestro who, if you wait around until after the end credits, appears to be being set up as the next film's villain—if it ever happens.
Green Lantern is a special Friday home video release that is available on DVD, a barebones Blu-ray, a Blu-ray/DVD combo with digital copy and a combo with a Blu-ray 3D version as well, which somehow looks more impressive at home than it did in the theaters. The Blu-ray contains an extended version of the movie that is nine minutes longer than the theatrical cut. Green Lantern is not the best superhero movie of the year by a long shot, but there is still some emerald-colored eye candy to be found on any of these editions.
Best extras: Both the standalone DVD and the Blu-ray contain deleted scenes and "Justice League #1 Digital Comic." The Blu-ray includes the interactive Maximum Movie Mode, which includes picture-in-picture commentary, eight featurettes, character bios, galleries, storyboards and more. The BD also has "The Universe According to Green Lantern."


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Fashion Post: Dolce & Gabbana Spring/Summer 2013
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I could not agree more! I have always felt way to tall for heels (not to mention would tower over my husband..!) and tend to awkwardly crouch next to more petite felines and fellas, so I'd love to see more more more fancy flats.ReplyDelete
Totally agree with Camilla, I feel like a giant in heals!Delete
I too am tall with big, wide feet, I hardly ever wear heels largely because there is just no need. I would also like more fun flat shoes thoughReplyDelete
And I also love the fact that they are not incredibly skinny (at least some of them look healthy).ReplyDeleteReplies
yes! love that. especially the first girl. she looks great!Delete
- AnonymousSeptember 24, 2012 at 8:15 PM
Love this! I have size 10/11 feet as well and extremely long toes that throb after 1 hour in heels. my friends make fun of my collection of flats but it's better than being miserable in heels!ReplyDeleteReplies
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I already get self conscious wearing my easy tones as they dwarf those around me, not to mention heels :)ReplyDelete
It might be a thing to show flats on the runway, Marc Jacobs had a lot of flats in his line as well as Marc by MJ line, as did Boy by Band of Outsiders. Lots of pretty flats this season.
Let's hope they have some cute flats! Finding a size 11 is no fun!ReplyDelete
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I think women have been brainwashed into heels as the only option so I don't think they will lose their appeal anytime soon. I like heels but I don't wear them often and I don't think they should be a staple of women's fashion.ReplyDelete
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It's easy to forget that while we sit here watching this lot go through hell and back every seven days, in reality they're doing these challenges much closer together.
They are most likely rooted. Completely stuffed. Perhaps even delirious. This may explain why they all seem so ecstatic to have the idea of a trip dangled in front of them, even if it is flying Jetstar.
Looking back at that reaction and knowing what we know now, it does seem particularly bad luck for the eventual evictee, who looked genuinely floored at the idea of a first overseas trip.
"Seeing David from Jetstar was really good because I knew that it was real," Ella beamed. In fact you might even call him a celebrity, seeing how much he appears in the media, defending his airline against one thing or another.
Like some of his passengers, Jetstar CEO David Hall has arrived without any baggage, but he does have nine boarding passes, each with a different destination.
I misunderstand this to mean that each contestant will actually fly to a different destination and I'm rather confused.
Paula gets Thailand, uncanny of course as her husband is Thai. Jennis gets China.
"Probably the closest I've been is the takeaways."
The Aaronator gets Singapore, Vanessa USA, Kelly Vietnam, Eliott Australia, Ella Malayasia, Dana Japan and then Sushil rounds it all out with Fiji. He's beside himself and once again plays it down.
"It was the most amazing moment that has ever happened to me, I feel like I'm the luckiest man on earth today."
Then he starts crying. Later: "I've never been so motivated in my life." Oh Sushil, don't ever leave.
Contestants have an hour to create their dishes from recipes that don't have any quantities, so knowledge is paramount. Like Sushil, Paula is making one of her staples but isn't taking any chances.
"Just because you've done something a million times, it only takes one mistake and it's all over."
Dana could only dream of being in that position. She's making buckwheat noodle soup and her knowledge of Japanese cuisine extends to incorrectly stating that spring rolls are from Japan. Uh oh.
Kelly, whose wide-eyed expressions are reminding me more and more of ex-contestant Traceylee Hooton, may not have made Chicken Pho before, but she also hadn't made a sponge cake before nailing that challenge.
She's putting whole ginger and shallots on the gas flame, a great technique for de-skinning capsicum but I've no idea why it's being used here. Char flavour? I look forward to giving it a try but wish I didn't have a ceramic cooktop.
Eliott has an Australian seafood stew to brew, using several different types of fish, all with different cooking times. Tricky. In fact with just 60 minutes to make all this it's a tall order for everyone, including those who got the easy (ish) ones.
Over at the Aaronator's bench things seem pretty calm. The man is a great advertisement for yoga. He may not have made the Singaporean noodle dish before but seems on top of it anyway.
"I imagine hot, fragrant, tasty, delicious, I'm going to make it how I'd love to eat it," he tells Simon Gault and it's hard to doubt him.
At this point I realise that aside from a few "cleared for takeoff" puns early on, there isn't too much hamming it up going on. They're not really trying to create drama tonight, there just is drama. It's an enjoyable challenge. Please sir, I want more.
Kelly wants more. More time. The pressure cooker isn't cooking fast enough and she's starting to lose it. Gault, unwisely, approaches her to chat.
"Is that your nervous laugh?" He asks. "It's my you don't want to know what laugh it is."
He keeps prodding and finally gets this answer, and possibly the best line of any episode.
"It's the f**ked laugh!" Gault gets it now. "Right," he mumbles, eyes facing the floor. It's the moment we realise she may be in bigger trouble than we first thought.
But back over at Sushil's the only problem Gault can find is a messy workspace. The floor is covered in rubbish, off cuts and appliances.
"I try to be clean every time I come in but I admit it, I'm a messy cook," he admits. I'm quite excited about Sushil's Curry House, the restaurant I hope he opens. Earlier he said he just wanted to make the best curry in town. Well, I just want to have dinner there. Between his knowledge of curries, his feel good people skills and lack of cleanliness it could be the best night out ever. Like an Indian Fawlty Towers.
Back over at f**kvile Josh Emett is beginning to see Kelly's problem. The pressure cooker is still pressure cookering. "I've got nine minutes left," she says of the stock that she still has to poach her chicken in.
"I'll back the hell off then and leave you to it," Emett says. He doesn't want to be there when it blows. The pressure cooker or Kelly.
Turns out it's the pressure cooker that goes first, spouting fat and steam high into the air and making the stove a no-go area for Eliott. He looks pissed. Gault's starting to look pissed too and once again tells Kelly to harden up.
But there is no getting past Dana's struggle. As Emett explains to Gault "there is just a total look of confusion on her face whenever she's tasting, she really looks like she's not getting the answers she wants."
When it's all over, every dish seems to have had a makeover since they were last seen. Despite Kelly's stress-bomb the dish looks amazing. Again. "My chicken is just cooked." Even Dana's looks ok. Elliot's stew looks amazing. "Probably the best presentation I've ever done in my life."
Vanessa is first for judging and despite feeling she got the raw prawn on the destination, her American Jambalaya sounds faultless.
"I've got a little voice in my head saying just put the spoon down," Emett says.
Despite it looking great, Kelly's dish has drawn criticism we haven't been used to hearing about her these past weeks.
"Kelly has today good reason to be worried about and unsure about the flavour of her broth," Gault says. "I find it just a little insipid."
Emett also finds himself unfulfilled. "I want more balls," he says. I think he said something else too but by then I was giggling like a seven year old and couldn't hear.
Jennis is an easy pass. The airline guy was obviously so confident in the outcome he was happy to speak first and was full of praise.
Aaron's Hokkien Mee turns heads. He'd never tasted the Singaporean dish before but still nails it. "I can't believe this guy's never tasted this," Ray McVinnie says. "How does he do it?"
Ella's prawn Laksa smells good and tastes okay but there isn't enough broth. It sounds kinda bad, but we all know who's ahead of her in the elimination line.
Whatever Eliott has been drinking lately is still paying off. His Australian seafood stew gets his best comments to date. Emett best sums up my thoughts. "Wow.. Eliott... I mean... "
But the challenge was Paula's for the taking. She had everything going for her by getting Thailand and Pad Thai, and didn't waste the opportunity. "That is my idea of heaven," gushes Emett. "Best Pad Thai I've ever had and that's all I have to say," adds Gault.
No surprises for Sushil either, being the other lucky bugger of the day. "I've got a symphony of curry flavours going on in my mouth," Gault says. I think that was meant to be a good thing.
So to Dana. Her Japanese buckwheat noodle soup with prawn tempura wasn't sounding great and no amount of wanting to go on her first overseas trip would give this story a happy ending.
"That's a little bit unpleasant really," says McVinnie. Emett goes further. "It's vile. For me it's a complete and utter disaster."
When Dana is joined in the final two by Kelly, Gault sees no reason to cushion the blow. "Insipid is better than inedible." Ouch.
But for Dana those harsh words may have been made easier to handle given her fellow contestant's reactions. "It's going to be SO weird with her gone," said pretty much everyone.
I just hope Dana's flatmates will forgive her for repeatedly describing their flat as "crappy."
A few weeks ago it looked like the Aaronator was going to win every challenge. That's being shared around a bit more now, Paula won tonight and the trip to Thailand that went with it, but Aaron still definitely has one hand on the MasterChef title.
It's not the final eight I would have predicted, but each of them has shown at least some moments of brilliance over recent weeks. We're at a stage now where every elimination has the potential to be an OMG moment. We're on the home straight.
Episode 10
Best line: "It's the f**ked laugh." Kelly
Worst line: "I want more balls." Josh
Current favourites: Aaron, Ella, Paula, Kelly.
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Episode 3: Keep blowin' brother
Episode 4: Wake and shake
Episode 5: True colours
Episode 6: Dropping the ball
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Nadine, I don't think your favorite made it into the FS. Sorry! List of skating order is on p1 of this thread.
This next Chinese lady is nowhere near as talented as little Miss Bingwa.
LP results: http://www.isuresults.com/results/fc2011/SEG004.HTM
Zhu's spin ending in an I spin was pretty cool looking.
Thanks, Spun Silver, YIKES, I just noted that myself. Oh well, I will never forget her phenomenal SP to "Somewhere in Time", complete with antique lace, haunting choreography, and beautiful skating. I need for that to be on my favorites. If Taryn ever reads GS, I just want her to know she's simply exquisite...


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Tapp attorney: 'There's a killer out there'
BONNEVILLE COUNTY, Idaho - The attorney for the man convicted of raping and murdering 18-year-old Angie Dodge in her Idaho Falls apartment in 1996 says his client is not guilty, despite a judge's Wednesday ruling that a 1997 confession from Christopher Tapp will stand.
Tapp's conviction rested largely on a confession his attorneys said was coerced by then-detective and now Idaho Falls mayor Jared Fuhriman.
Public defender John Thomas doesn't question if Tapp is innocent. He said it's an issue of time.
"There's a killer out there," said Thomas. "There's someone who killed Angie Dodge and they're still running around loose."
Thomas said he may never have been so sure of anything.
"I believe in my heart of hearts, Chris Tapp is not the killer," he said.
Thomas said Wednesday's ruling by District Judge Joel Tingey was a surprise. The ruling, he said, was presented to his client, but not to him. It stipulates there will be no dismissal of Tapp's 1997 confession to the murder of 18-year-old Angie Dodge.
"The prosecutor and the police have admitted that the only evidence they really had was Chris Tapp's confession," said Thomas.
The confession was taken by Fuhriman.
"Sixteen years later we're trying to rehash everything that happened, and the problem is, people don't remember," said Thomas.
Fuhriman himself had trouble remembering on the stand in February. There were several times he told both Prosecutor Bruce Pickett and Thomas that he couldn't recall events in question.
Even Angie Dodge's mother, Carol, said she has trouble believing Chris Tapp is her daughter's killer. After a phone call with Carol Dodge on Thursday, we passed the phone to Thomas.
"We're going to hunt him down, Carol," said Thomas, as he assured Dodge they would find her daughter's true killer. "I promise you that."
Our station reached our to Pickett. His office said he is on vacation.
Fuhriman released the following statement Thursday:
"It has always been a main priority of mine, both as a city official and a uniformed peace officer, to ensure that the citizens of Idaho Falls have a diligent, just and professional court process. The recent post-conviction trial involving Christopher Tapp and the work done by our County Prosecutor have been a testament to that practice. As a citizen of Idaho Falls and a former police officer involved in this case, I am satisfied with the ruling that was handed down and am confident that it was fair and accurate.
"It is also important to remember the victim in this crime and the family that has long suffered. As a father myself, I want to express my continued sympathy for the Dodge family and their loss."


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Emerging Markets: Are a Strong Dollar, Higher Rates a Catalyst for a Selloff?
We always here about how emerging markets have stronger balance sheets and better trade balances than developed markets--but that's not always the case.
Three countries in particular--India, Turkey and South Africa--have large current account deficits, and while that hasn't been a problem--it could quickly turn into one, says the strategists at Pavilion Global Markets. The reason: The end of the deleveraging cycle in the U.S.
The strategists write:
If we are correct and the end of the private sector deleveraging process is indeed upon us, the negative real interest rates that characterize well-managed deleveraging periods will no longer be necessary. The private and public sectors will begin to crowd each other out for investment and real rates will slowly begin to grind higher. This should benefit the dollar against other G10 currencies, especially the European ones, where we expect deleveraging to last significantly longer.
But it won't just be the G10 who feel the impact of a strong dollar. Historically, when the dollar has been strong and U.S. rates heading higher, the currencies of emerging-market countries with current account deficits have been hammered, Pavilion's strategists say. They note:
Periods of dollar strength are typically not favorable for inflows into emerging markets. As an extreme example, the 1990s, overall, was a bad period for EMs – especially those with current account deficits – but a good one for the United States. EMs, which typically do not borrow in their own currency, see their real debt burdens increase when their currencies are weak
against the dollar. Additionally, many EMs are net resource exporters. China growing at a structurally slower pace and the dollar being strong are not positive developments for commodities and many EM countries' terms of trade.
And a rising dollar will be particularly painful for countries with current account deficits, inflation and low interest rates.
...there are good reasons to believe that a curtailment of asset purchases by the Fed could lead to trouble for some EM currencies. Take, for example, two of the worst current-account deficit EM countries: Turkey and South Africa. Turkey has a current account deficit at 6% of GDP, interest rates at 5.5% and inflation at 7%. South Africa has a current account deficit at 6.5% of GDP, interest rates at 5% and inflation at 6%. In both cases, we are in the presence of large current account deficits and easy monetary policy in the presence of high inflation (negative real
policy rates). This is a precarious equilibrium that requires a steady stream of foreign capital inflows, without which the situation of these two countries is not entirely sustainable.
Turkey, in particular, looks worrisome. The iShares MSCI Turkey Investable Market Index ETF (TUR) has gained 38% during the past 12 months, to the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF's (EEM) 0.4% gain, even as its currency has gone nowhere. (The iShares MSCI India Index ETF (INDA) has gained 1.5% during that period, while the iShares MSCI South Africa Index ETF (EZA) has dropped 5%.)
The upshot: Be vigilant for a selloff, Pavilion says.