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hip dysplasia???
Anyone ever heard of a chihuahua with hip dysplasia? I thought it normally happened to large breed dogs, but I'm reading online that it can happen with small terriers as well. They didn't mention chis.
I think Daisy has something wrong with her hip. The muscles on one side of her butt look mal-formed. I was thinking if she's favoring that leg because there's something wrong with it, that could explain the muscular difference. It doesn't seem to HURT, though.
Poor kid is allergic to everything and now she's got something wrong with her hip (maybe). She is half toy fox terrier, so even if it doesn't happen to chis, she's probably screwed.
I think I'm just going to have to take her to the vet for a radiograph. Ugh. It's a good thing Christmas isn't coming up.... Oh, wait, it IS.
I swear my pets are living examples of Murphy's Law. Stupid Murphy.
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It is more common in larger breeds, but pretty much and breed can have it unfortunatly.
Please let us know what the vet says.
Good Luck!
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Her appointment is Thursday. I'll let you know what the vet says. Hopefully it will be good news....
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JEEPGIRLTX- Just a couple of questions for you
1. Is the "malformed muscle" smaller than the other side, i.e. does it look like there has been a wasting of the muscle?
2. Is she putting weight on the leg that is showing a difference in the muscle?
I am asking these question because I went through a similar situation with my puppy at 10 months of age (she is now just over a year old). She was in doggie daycare and they called me in the middle of the day because Lola (my puppy) was favoring her right hind leg and would lift that leg when she stood still. I picked her up that afternoon and did notice that she was not putting the rear leg down much at all. After a week of her still favoring the leg, I took her in to see her vet (her daycare is affiliated with her vet's office). The vet thought it looked like she had a partially torn ACL probably secondary to a larger dog stepping on her the morning that she started to favor that leg(yikes!), and recommended that we give her pain meds and a week to see if she improved, the next week I took her back in (she was not showing any improvement) and the vet gave her more pain meds and said to give it another week, this happened one more time (i.e. 3 weeks had elapsed since the injury presented) and I noticed that the muscle on her rt rear quarter had completely atrophied and wasted away from lack of use.
Well, I decided that she needed to see a specialist asap, because I wanted to fix whatever was wrong with her, not just keep waiting to see if she would get better, because that route was obviously not working. And it was heartbreaking to see her hopping around on 3 legs.
I took her to an orthopedic surgeon at a very good local animal hospital that specializes in rare and trauma injuries. The surgeon immediately said he did not think it was her ACL (knee) at all, he thought it was more likely her hip, but they would need x-rays to be sure.
Well, the x-rays came back and she was diagnosed with Legg Calve Parthesis (avascular femoral necrosis) in layman's terms the top of her femur that goes into the hip socket had it's blood supply cut off (they think this is an inherited condition) and had died becoming weak and brittle. When the dog at daycare had stepped on her her femoral head (the top of the femur that goes into the hip socket) had collapsed which caused it to rub on her pelvis and cause pain when she put pressure on it while walking or standing. The only way to fix this was to perform a femoral head ostectomy (FHO), which basically meant they would cut off the top of the femur, and she would need to rest and then work on developing the muscles in her hind quarter to stabilize the joint.
All of the information I found on the internet said this condition is somewhat common in small dogs, and that it presents around 10 months of age.
I just thought I would throw this info out there as I had never even heard of it before Lola was diagnosed. I really hope that Daisy does not have this disorder or hip dysplasia. Good luck at the vets and make sure they take x-rays so they can give you an accurate diagnosis.
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Poor Lola!!! Has she has the surgery yet? How is she doing?
Daisy's hip / leg doesn't seem to really bother her. She runs and jumps normally and for the most part, doesn't act like there is anything wrong. I have noticed that she favors it slightly when she's running up stairs, but it doesn't slow her down in the least. The muscle in question doesn't exactly look like it's wasting. It looks like there is a large lump where there shouldn't be and an indentation under that (which also shouldn't be there). It's like she's using a different muscle on that side of her body. I noticed the lump before, right after her rabies vaccine, and the vet thought it was a vaccine reaction. Now I think it was probably there before and I just happened to notice it then because the vaccine made her sore and she seemed to have trouble walking. But her vaccine was like 4-5 months ago, so surely this can't be a residual side effect.
In any case, I think it has recently gotten worse (the lump seems bigger) because the other day I was looking at her sitting down and it seemed REALLY obvious.
My main concern is that this is one of those injuries that doesn't bother her NOW, but will result in crippling arthritis later in life.
My vet is pretty cool. If I tell her I want x-rays, she'll take x-rays. She knows I research all this stuff before I bring my pets in and I usually have a fairly accurate theory of what the problem is. And she'll give me the name of a specialist if I ask for one.
You know, I stepped on her when she was a baby. Maybe I injured her hip and it's just now showing signs. I feel like such a bad mom
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Lola had her surgery back on August 19th and has been a real trooper. When I brought her home her entire rt rear quarter had been shaved in addition to her front leg because they gave her an epidural during surgery and had an IV drip in her front leg. She was able to come home the day after she had surgery and was so tired that she just slept and slept. I was really worried about her as I am sure you can imagine. Slowly but surely over the next month she got her pep back and wanted to play again. She had staples in her suture for 2 weeks and did noticably better once those were removed. The surgeon had suggested that I let her swim in the bathtub to help strengthen the muscles in her affected leg, as the faster she could build muscle the faster the "joint" (it is actual a false-joint because the bone was removed during surgery) would be stabalized and she could go back to her pre-injury level of activity. All of her hair has now grown back and she is still building the muscle back up on the right side, and one leg will always be shorter than the other, but she has adapted in is getting along very well.
The bump you are describing on Daisy does sound like the lumps that can occur after the vaccination shots. Lola had one on her neck when I first got her, and the vet assured me that the little dogs sometimes develop them and that I shouldn't worry. On a side note- she also gave Lola her shots just behind her shoulder, which Lola did not seem to mind at all. In fact, she didn't even cry. When we went back for her 2nd set, she saw one of the other vets in the office and he gave her the shot in the scruff at the base of her neck and she cried like crazy! From then on I always ask that any shot be given behind her shoulder.
I think it is great that you are getting her looked at right away, a lot of the problems that crop up can be corrected if caught early enough. I wish that I would have gotten my second opinion sooner, as it would have helped Lola's recovery a lot to have not lost so much muscle mass in her affected leg.
Your not a bad mom! If you had caused an injury to her hip when you stepped on her, it would have been obvious right away, ie she would have been limping around and would not have recovered without medical intervention. Don't beat yourself up. You are taking the right steps to take care of her by taking her to see the vet.
Please keep me updated, I really hope that it turns out to be something minor.
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GOOD NEWS!!! I am an over-protective weirdo!
The vet said that all it is is a pocket of fatty tissue. She says that they see them a lot and it's perfectly normal and harmless. Of course, I made them do x-rays anyway (because I didn't believe them). They x-rayed her hips and her knees and they are fine. She showed me the x-rays and her hips looked really good! Not that I am an expert on what they SHOULD look like, but I did see a few examples as I was researching hip dysplasia online, and hers looked really good!
The dog I had growing up used to get the fatty lumps too. She had them all over and it was kind of gross. I hope Daisy doesn't get any more. I don't want her to be lumpy
Of course, I'll take lumpy over hip dysplasia any day....
rachael7 -- I hope Lola continues to improve. I'm sorry she had to go through such an ordeal. Does she swim in the bathtub? I bet that's cute
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Yeay!!!!!! What great news. I am really happy that nothing is wrong with Daisy's hip. And you're not an overprotective weirdo....you are a concerned mommy.
Lola was so cute swimming in the bathtub, but we have stopped it because it seemed like it was making her stressed. She would be ok at first just paddling around, but then when she realized that she couldn't get out of the bath tub she would start flailing about and splashing water everywhere. Her leg developed enough muscle that she was able to start slowly using it while walking, so it wasn't necessary any longer to make her swim when she was obviously no longer enjoying it.
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CHARLIE ANDERS is one striking woman, if the images posted on her various Web sites are any indication. The stylish publisher of Other magazine is long and lean: slim legs, trim torso, sinewy arms. Prone to wearing fabulous dresses and intricate costumes, she looks as adorable in a slinky cherry-red dress as she does decked out as Wonder Woman or dolled up in strappy heels and a knee-length number made entirely of yellow caution tape. Her facial features are narrow and angular, resembling those of a young Matthew Modine. In other words, the Connecticut native is a damn good-looking woman, especially for someone born, as she herself has been known to explain, "a genetic male."
Anders — who sometimes introduces herself as Charlie Girl — is transgender, a cross-dresser who wears women's clothing and exudes more feminine attributes than masculine ones. But such gender expression doesn't conform to traditional male and female categories, and so she has mostly invented her own descriptions. A prolific short-story scribe, sometime satirist, and occasional journalist, Anders is described as a "harmful eccentric, a sheep in women's clothing, and a bastion of the moral non sequitur" in the author identification of a book review she wrote for the San Francisco Bay Guardian. "If Charlie Anders were a flavor of ice cream, she'd be pistachio fudge swirl with pink marshmallows," reads a bio appearing on the online "journal of subversive writing" Suspect Thoughts. And last year, Anders released a how-to-manual-cum-manifesto on transvestitism called The Lazy Crossdresser (Greenery Press), a designation she uses to delineate someone like herself who, as she explains on www.lazycrossdresser.tv, "does the minimum necessary to look stunning."
Even in a world where a presidential candidate seeking the Democratic nomination can advocate same-sex marriage in a nationally televised debate and include "transgender people" in that endorsement, mainstream American culture doesn't represent, understand, or even know how to classify nontraditional lifestyles like Anders's. Of course, the transgendered aren't the only ones whose identities don't conform to social constructs — biracial people and progressive political thinkers are just a few of the others who aren't conventionally classifiable, either. It was this recognition that inspired Anders and her partner of three-plus years — writer, San Francisco Bay Guardian culture editor, and syndicated columnist Annalee Newitz — to establish Other magazine, a bicoastal publication launched in Cambridge earlier this year and founded to give voice to "people who defy categories."
Published three times a year, Other is a journal of dissident nonfiction, transgressive fiction, freethinking comic art, and experimental poetry. Anders calls it "the New Yorker for freaks." The magazine's unifying principle? According to Other's guidelines for contributors, each piece questions "the idea that your identity and tastes are as simple as checkboxes on a questionnaire."
"We try to have a really strong set of anchor pieces," says Newitz, on the phone from her home in San Francisco. "Pieces that you would find if all the editors of the Atlantic [Monthly] got high one night and decided, 'Let's start a revolution.' And they were all like, 'All right, we're going to do well-researched articles on genital-mutilation surgeries and not do another article on, I don't know, quilting.' " The result of such brainstorming certainly wouldn't be like anything else on the newsstands. But it might just be something like Other.
I'm the stomach and she's the brain," says Anders of her and Newitz's relationship to Other. "Maybe I'm even the intestines." Anders is saying that she makes Other work in terms of publishing mechanics — distribution, fundraising, finances — while Newitz generates most of the ideas, recruits contributors, and edits the articles.
Although Other was born in Cambridge a little less than a year ago, the magazine was actually conceived in San Francisco over a year before that, when Anders and Newitz were discussing how none of their favorite literary magazines actually reflected their own lives. "We read Harper's magazine, the New Yorker, the Atlantic, and we felt those kinds of magazines are great," explains Newitz. "But their audience doesn't include us. It doesn't include most of the people we know — it's basically aimed at middle-class white people in urban areas." And so they envisioned starting a general-interest alternative magazine that would "talk to people who're poor, or people of color, or queers, or people who like alternative culture. And who aren't necessarily married — or at least married in the conventional sense. Something that would be like the New Yorker, but for all the people who feel left out of the New Yorker."
The couple already had extensive writing and editing experience. In 1992, Newitz helped create Bad Subjects, a Web 'zine dealing with pop culture that she describes as somewhat "academic-y and pretentious." She'd also freelanced regularly for years, writing mostly about technology, pop culture, and sex for periodicals like Salon, Wired, and Nerve, and eventually became culture editor of the Bay Guardian. For her part, Anders had worked for two years as editor of Anything That Moves, a bisexual progressive quarterly based in San Francisco that ceased publication in 2002. To benefit the magazine, she'd also been producing literary events called Writers with Drinks — bibulous, variety-show-style readings that brought together authors from disparate literary genres like science fiction, erotica, slam poetry, and romance writing together for one night to share the stage. "Ideally, [Writers with Drinks] would show how all these different genres have a lot in common, how each one is really using words to try to evoke a response, but at the same time, celebrate the differences between them."
When Anything That Moves went under, Anders wanted to find another project for Writers with Drinks to support. That project became Other — a name chosen to represent people whose lives or identities weren't easily defined by the ironclad classifications on, say, a census form, people who couldn't easily answer inquiries like, "Are you male?" "Female?" "Democrat?" "Republican?" "Married?" "Single?" "Gay?" "Straight?" "Bi?" "African-American?" "Caucasian?" "Latino?" Newitz and Anders wanted to reach the sorts of folks who'd always find themselves choosing "Other." And so the magazine's logo became a checked box.
Although the print industry was in decline, Anders saw the downturn as an opportunity. "My theory was that maybe during an economic meltdown is when people have the ability to start a really interesting magazine," she explains. "Because first of all, there's a lot of unemployed people to work on it — and so many people are unemployed, they have a little bit more time to sit down and read magazines." Plus, Anders adds, when economic times are tough, people are pissed. "They're a little bit more upset and dissatisfied. I guess it's a bonus for a magazine like ours, if it's an economic downturn and a really right-wing administration."
The pair was about to move across the country to Cambridge — Newitz had been invited to study at MIT as a Knight science-journalism fellow — but just before they left San Francisco, they put the word out that they wanted to start an alternative magazine for people who didn't feel represented in the mainstream media, and held an open meeting for potential contributors. "A whole bunch of libertarian hackers showed up," recalls Newitz. "And really pissed-off mixed-race people and gender queers and people who were cartoonists, but wanted to do realistic cartoons. It was all these people who felt like they were doing really interesting work, and no one wanted to listen to them because they didn't fit into a category. These were people who're like, 'Well, I'm black, but I like to date white people, what does that make me?' Or 'I'm a libertarian, but I am not in favor of big business, where does that put me?' "
In mainstream American culture, nowhere. "For example, say I'm a bisexual," Newitz continues. "And someone else says, 'Oh, you're a lesbian,' or 'You're just lying to yourself — c'mon, you haven't dated a man in so long.' Or what about someone who is black? I was talking to this African-American woman who is writing a piece for us, and she was saying that she went to private school with a variety of people who would say, 'You're black, you should think a certain way. You should vote a certain way, you should support certain politicians.' And she's like, 'No, I want to be able to say, I'm black, but so what, I'm other things, I'm a writer, I'm bi.' "
Newitz sees this as the beauty of Other. "That's really what it means to check the 'other' box on a form. It means getting the choice to be something different."
OTHER ISN'T SIMPLY about being left of center. If it were, Newitz never would've penned a rant for the second issue called "Why NPR Is Evil." In the two-page spread, Newitz railed against how "NPR is the wholesome choice, like oatmeal instead of sugar cereal" and how it's become default cocktail talk for lefties. "People cite NPR with a fervor and sincerity that reminds me of the way my uptight Southern grandmother might talk about underwear," she wrote. Religiously subscribing to any one medium or channel, insists Newitz, becomes a variation of Big Brother, no matter how innocuous it may seem. Other isn't about subscribing to anything blindly. It's about criticizing the tenets of knee-jerk liberalism, casting light on the nuances of reform thought, and recognizing that there's more than one way to think and live left of the majority.
Although Other specifically wants to embrace the marginalized subcultures of "genderqueers, radical geeks, mixed-race people, progressive shit-disturbers, and anyone else whose voice isn't heard elsewhere," one doesn't have to fall precisely into any of those groups to relate to the idea of thinking outside the box. Indeed, the most recent issue of Other, published last month, includes first-person testimonials from former dyke tykes and fag hags, each describing his or her recovery from addiction to queerness despite being straight; a darkly humorous comic mocking hypocrites; and a transcript of long-time queer activist and Tribe 8 lead singer Lynn Breedlove bickering with medical-marijuana martyr Ed Rosenthal.
In the past, Other has published harangues like "Reclaiming the Suits," in which Stephen Duncombe berated leisurewear for fostering social self-delusion. Running shoes "are the SUV [sic] of footwear. The promise of every SUV is that you could be doing something else. Except for the kids, the job, the mortgage and the spouse, you could be, would be, on safari. The same goes for running shoes. Who runs in them? Not many of us. But the sneaker beguiles us into thinking we could." There's even poetry by Michelle Tea — a Chelsea native and author of The Chelsea Whistle (Seal Press, 2002) — called "The Beautiful," an ode to America that addresses the country as if it's an emotionally disconnected crush.
oh america i love you.i just want togo on a date with youand you won't even give me the time of daystuck up bitchthink you're too good for meamericai could have anyonecanada, londonamsterdamIs in love with meBut it's you i want,america ...
fuck youamericayou're just so emotionally unavailableyou act likeit's everyone else'sfault, you're areally badcommunicatorand you haveserious boundary issues.i think you're really fucked upamerica.
The creative freedom fostered by such breadth is a writer's dream — except that Other doesn't pay its contributors. "When you're making a living by freelancing the same thing over and over again, you wind up not being able to write about certain things," says Other contributing editor Greg Dicum, who also writes for Harper's and the New York Times Magazine and who contributed a rumination on the blurring distinction of racial identity in modern-day, melting-pot America for Other's first issue. "Anywhere else, you'd have less control over your work and your vision, and it'd end up rewritten in the magazine's collective voice."
But for all its ire, Other doesn't take itself too seriously: the magazine's scope is broad enough to include a well-placed poop joke. In the first issue, there's a one-page comic called "Crap," drawn by Shannon Wheeler, about exactly that: the art of defecation. Then there's "I Am Bill's Butt," a short piece written by erotica author Bill Brent. "I have two melon-shaped halves. At the bottom of the cleft that separates them is Bill's anus. The anus is held tight by a band of muscle called the sphincter, also known as the 'winky-woo.' It's a good thing that the winky-woo is tight, or humans would shit all over themselves constantly."
DESPITE THE best of intentions, Other couldn't define itself so ambiguously forever. "[The tagline] 'For people who defy categories' seemed a little redundant," admits Anders. "We sort of felt that it confused people — like we were only appealing to people who couldn't fit into any conceivable category or something like that."
Such vagueness also became a logistical marketing and distribution problem, something Newitz says the staff had to confront. "How can we set it up so that we can defy categories, but at least be categorizable so that the poor person in the bookstore who's unpacking these at one in the morning doesn't tear their hair out?"
So Other recently modified its tagline to "Pop culture and politics for the new outcasts." Other also had to poll its readership, so it could try to lure potential advertisers with information on what sorts of outcasts they'd actually be reaching. Apparently, Other draws the young, bookish, drinking, smoking outsider, according to its advertising-rate card: "Our readers are 26 to 35 years old, make $50,000 per year, are college educated, buy six books per month ... spend $50 per week on alcohol, 22 percent of our readers smoke cigarettes."
These days, Anders and Newitz are back in the Bay Area — they returned to the West Coast in June, after Newitz finished her year at MIT. But the magazine still has a handful of contributors here in Boston, and around 70 percent of its subscribers live in the area.
At the end of its first year, Other has a distribution of 3000 copies. It expanded from two distributors to four, sits on the shelves at Tower Records, and appears in approximately 200 stores nationally, in places like Alabama, Nebraska, and Iowa — places Newitz thinks really need it. "I have a friend who went into a wedding in Idaho," says Newitz. "She went into the one alternative record store, and there was a big display of Other magazine. And that's totally what we want. Because in a place like San Francisco or Boston or New York, it's a lot easier to be an outcast and find other people like you who aren't going to make fun of you and who are going to love you and validate you. But if you're in Idaho, you need a magazine like this. Otherwise you feel so alone."
The question is, will the ideas that are at the core of Other ever become a part of the mainstream? "Maybe someday. Maybe we're just way ahead of our time," Anders jokes. "Tomorrow's controversies today."
"Writers with Drinks," featuring mystery writer Jeremiah Healy, comedian Tissa Hami, poet Raquel Evita Seidel, and fiction writer Lise Haines, will be held on December 4, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., at the Lizard Lounge, in Cambridge. Cover is $3 to $5 and benefits Other magazine. For information, visit www.writerswithdrinks.com or www.othermag.org. Camille Dodero can be reached at email@example.com
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Each week thousands of people atempt the perilous journey from the African continent accross the Mediterranean in an effort to find economic opportunities in Europe. The Spanish government has decided to address the issue by focusing on economic development in Africa in an effort to provide work opportunities so that people will not be forced to migrate. Spain is providing over a $100 million to several African nations. Deputy prime minister, Maria Teresa Fernandz de la Vega announced: "With this plan, Spain hpes to relaunch agriculture, fight desertification and promote appropriate management of water resources, along with marketing fish, farming products and renewable energy." She emphasized the importance of helping African nations deal with climate change issues which impair their economic development.
Menawhile, the Andalucia Ombudsman, Jose Chamizo, raised questions whether the detention of illegal immigrants who have not committed any crime, but are only guilty of an administrative offence, is legal. It is estimated about 20,000 illegal foreigners are now in detention centers.
The Spanish effort actually should be part of a massive European Union plan to help develop the economic resources of northern African nations in order to allow their inhabitants an opportunity to find success at home rather than leaving family and friends in search of work.


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Release Date: 1989
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A wealthy Beverly Hills, Calif., resident who has just become a widow, Clare Lipkin (Jacqueline Bisset) temporarily takes on her friend Lisabeth (Mary Woronov) as a house guest. As the two women deal with their upper-class woes, Clare's driver, Frank (Ray Sharkey), and Lisabeth's servant, Juan (Robert Beltran), make a wager to see who can be the first to seduce the other's boss. As the competition gears up, it leads to surprising romantic entanglements and plenty of satirical scenarios.
Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Ray Sharkey, Mary Woronov, Ed Begley Jr., Wallace Shawn, Arnetia Walker, Rebecca Schaeffer, Barret Oliver
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Nearly 100 underrepresented rural and minority high school students from Denver, Boulder and St. Vrain Valley schools will get the chance to be engineering students at CU-Boulder June 21-24 through an expansion of the popular Success Institute.
A hands-on engineering outreach program of CU-Boulders College of Engineering and Applied Science, the Success Institute was piloted in 1998 and 1999 with the goal of expanding the number of underrepresented students who successfully study engineering and computer science. The program has doubled in size this year due to a high level of interest among participants and support from a variety of donors and government organizations.
The programs sponsors this year include Roche Colorado, the Colorado Institute of Technology, the Colorado Commission on Higher Education and the National Science Foundation.
Students entering the ninth-, 10th- and 11th-grades this fall were selected by their teachers to participate in the program, which includes engineering design-and-build workshops in the world-class Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory. Students will stay overnight in a campus residence hall and interact with engineering students and faculty throughout the program.
Ninth- and 10th-graders will be on campus for two days of workshops, while students entering the 11th-grade will participate in a more advanced, four-day program.
Eleventh-graders, some of whom will be returning to the program for their third year, will work in teams to build an electromechanical model house. The students will use their technical skills and imaginations to design rooms incorporating computer-activated functions such as opening doors and turning on appliances.
David Aragon, director of the Success in Engineering through Excellence and Diversity program in the college, said he hopes that helping young students to understand what engineering is all about will get them excited about engineering as a career choice.
All of the students will make technical presentations to an audience of their parents on Saturday, June 24, the final day of the program. Parents also will receive information about college admissions, financial aid and other topics so they will be able to support their students in continuing on to college.
"We are giving these students and their parents hands-on appreciation of math, science and engineering applications and career opportunities so they can make informed choices and prepare themselves if they decide to pursue a career in any of these fields," said program co-director John Matthews.
A retired African-American engineer who previously served as IBM executive-on-loan to the SEED program, Matthews also represents a community-based group of minority professionals and educators who want to improve opportunities for inner-city youth.


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Ted Cruz responded to John McCain questioning his eligibility for the presidency, saying the Arizona senator is secretly trying to boost Marco Rubio's chances at the Republican nomination.
"I think it is no surprise to anybody that John McCain is going to be supporting Marco Rubio in this election," Cruz told Mark Halperin of Bloomberg's "With All Due Respect." "It's no surprise at all that he's trying to do what he can to help the candidate that he's favoring who he thinks shares policy positions with him."…
"The legal question is straightforward and clear," Cruz said.
It was a very wise move that Ted Cruz renounced his Canadian citizenship 18 months ago. Senator John McCain is certainly no friend of Ted!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2016
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 7, 2016
Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz dismissed Donald Trump's latest salvo concerning his citizenship status on Thursday.
"No, it's not anything that's going to happen, and I'm not going to be taking legal advice anytime soon from Donald Trump," Cruz said…
"My response when Donald tossed this attack out was simply to tweet out a video of Fonzie from Happy Days jumping a shark and to move on," Cruz said, calling the current moment the "silly season" of politics.
"I noticed something in the reading that you had mentioned something about Cruz's birth…that he was born in Canada," "Face the Nation" moderator John Dickerson noted during an interview with Trump last month in North Carolina. "Are you saying something there?"
"Well, I'll only bring it up if he's a final two," Trump replied.
And while the GOP primary is far from being whittled down to only two candidates, Cruz has arguably emerged as Trump's strongest rival.
"I was stunned when I heard what John McCain said," Kelli Ward, McCain's tea party-backed challenger, told BuzzFeed News in a statement. "I couldn't believe my ears – he was questioning Ted Cruz's citizenship when he was in a similar situation himself!"…
Ward continued, "This is just one more reason that our next conservative president needs strong reinforcements in Congress. Can you imagine what a President Ted Cruz would have to deal with if we still have a Senator John McCain in the Senate?"…
"McCain has been more critical of Cruz than he has been of Obama. Mr. McCain's disdain for conservatives has gone too far – his desire to cling to the empire he has created for himself inside the Beltway has clouded his vision. The people of Arizona and the US are looking to change DC and the status quo. Questions like this, by a senior senator regarding a top contender for the presidency from the same party, are divisive and unnecessary."
Trump is actually doing Cruz a huge favor. In Trump's defense, he was asked about the Cruz issue, which doesn't mean his intentions are not mercenary, but it also means that the net-benefit has been to prematurely explode the DC Media's planned October Surprise…
How different would the 2000 election outcome have looked had a Donald Trump brought up George W. Bush's drunk driving incident during the primary?…
The national debate over Cruz's eligibility *is* going to happen, and it must happen.
The only question, then, is *when* will this be litigated once and for all in front of the American people.
Who doesn't think now is better than October?
First, it is a settled constitutional and statutory matter. It was settled when Trump said it was settled in September and it was settled when Trump flip-flopped and said it was an issue a few days ago. Cruz's mother is an American citizen, was an American citizen when she gave birth to Cruz, and is, in fact, Cruz's mother. Seems fairly simple. Not only that, American citizens give birth to American citizens, whether here or abroad. That's not only common sense, it is the law. And think about it for a moment — if you follow their stupid argument, babies born of American citizens serving abroad in our military would be non-naturalized citizens ineligible to run for president. That's stupid.
Moreover, we don't need federal judges to tell us what we can discern on our own. We can read the constitution, statutes, history, etc. Just because the Supreme Court has not ruled does not mean the issue isn't settled. And it is highly doubtful the court would involve itself anyway under the political question doctrine. However, Trump is free to bring a lawsuit and "settle" the issue. Crazy lib Alan Grayson has already declared he will do so, even though he has no standing.
Second, the idea that debating a stupid issue like this, where now Trump is joined by Obama and McCain, who are seeking to settle scores, among others, will somehow discourage Democrats from raising it in the general election should Cruz be the nominees is also stupid – or at least naive. Why would it stop them? Nothing is settled when it comes to the Left's tactics. This argument is, well, stupid.
Trump reemerged as a political force on the basis of his own championing of birtherism in 2011; he allegedly bankrolled investigators who he sent to Hawaii to look into Obama's origins, though he never released the results. Even since Obama released his long-form birth certificate, as Trump demanded, Trump has quietly continued to espouse birtherism. Given all that, it would be hard for him to not at least go through some motions on questioning Cruz's eligibility—even if Obama had been born abroad, his mother was an American citizen, which would give him the same claim to citizenship that Cruz does. (Not that Trump has allowed a foolish consistency to be the hobgoblin of his "really smart" mind.)
Moreover, the birther attack gives Trump a good method to attack Cruz, who has recently emerged as his major rival in polling both nationally and in Iowa. But what kind of weapon is birtherism? It is, at its root, an effective way of telling voters that Cruz isn't like them. That he's not one of us. That he's different. In other words, it capitalizes on all of the anti-immigrant, anti-foreigner sentiments that have driven his campaign all along…
Cruz positioned himself for months as someone similar to Trump, in the hopes that when Trump imploded (as was widely expected), he could take over Trump's voters. Instead, Cruz has risen while Trump stays high, which means they're still fighting for those voters. The very particular subset of voters who were susceptible to birtherism are likely also sympathetic to Trump. Emphasizing Cruz's otherness is a good way to keep them in his camp.
Cruz has been laughing this all off in public. It wouldn't be surprising, however, if the Cruz campaign is thinking through this more seriously in private. Trump hasn't put Cruz in a corner just yet but has put him in, shall we say, a spot.
Many Republican primary voters, in large part because of Cruz and Trump's rhetoric this campaign, are inclined to pick up on and feel unnerved by even the smallest whiffs of foreignness. Recall that Cruz, after news of his dual citizenship came out, renounced his Canadian citizenship in 2014. Why did he do that? I, for one, would love to have the option of a second citizenship in Canada, especially depending on the outcome of the 2016 presidential election. But Cruz perceived his Canadian citizenship as a political liability, and now Trump is reinserting the words Cruz and Canada into the news cycle…
It's also worth considering how the rest of the political world has met Trump's hypothesizing. Cruz has a lot of enemies: his rivals for the nomination, Republicans in Congress, Democrats in Congress … pretty much everyone. All of this is well deserved, because Cruz uses every person and institution around him as a prop for his own personal advancement. When Trump started talking about Cruz's birth this week, he was not universally condemned, as he usually is when he says something strange. There's been a surprisingly broad range of actors fanning Trump's statement…
Cruz will treat the questions of eligibility as laughable until he can't, and that point may be coming. Maybe he will end up seeking the declaratory judgment that Trump, ever the pal, has counseled him to seek for his own good. But it would be humiliating, and Trump knows that.
What's remarkable is how much Cruz has tolerated over the last six months when the two were de facto allies, revealing how cynical and self-interested Cruz is capable of being. And their break-up, in turn, reveals the extent of Cruz's isolation in the Republican Party…
Cruz was willing to tolerate Trump's insults to Mexicans and Muslims as well as stalwart Republicans like John McCain. It was only when Cruz himself became the subject of Trumpian fire that he decided enough was enough. Cruz's position is cowardly and self-centered: he refused to have stronger words for Trump's outrages because he didn't want to offend Trump's supporters, and that pusillanimity was in the service of an extremely selfish worldview…
Having broken with Trump, Cruz finds himself almost friendless in the Republican Party. And now that Trump has made Cruz birtherism an issue, many others are eager to join in the pile-on…
Trump questioned McCain's heroic war record, but McCain still hates Cruz much more (even if this is because of Cruz's right-wing grandstanding in the Senate rather than Cruz's alliance with Trump). Whatever the cause, Cruz has many enemies in the Republican Party who are more than willing to help Trump demolish the Texas senator.
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I am (was) the proud owner of a Marantz CD80. Until I dropped something heavy on the tray when it was open. (yes I know very, very stupid). In out mechanism is still working, To my first assessment the right hand side (from front view) white nylon tray bearing (horizontal movement) was snapped. There is no other visual damage. But the thing isnt working anymore (sh !)
I brought the player to my shop that did send it to the Dutch official Marantz repair unit. It came back with the statement no spare parts available anymore. Then I did start searching the web and found this beautiful Forum. Really great know-how you all bring to the party.
Based on the info I found I did a few tests:
Switching the machine on with the play and stop button pressed brings the machine into a kind of testing mode (is there a reset value as well?) It has three elements, one is moving the laser head up-and-down, one enables you to move the laser head laterally, and one switches one by one the relays on the right hand side PCB. When you put a disc in it shows on the front panel ER 03 P123. The laser is still emitting, nice orange.
Without the test mode switched on the CD starts spinning, reverses and the laser head seems to do some head banging.
Is there any chance this once so beautiful machine can be put into normal operation?
Who or what can be of help/support?
I have the manual somewhere...........I'll look up that error code and see what it means.
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03 ERR Radial Start Error ( minimum eccentricity point not found ).
Could this mean that the thing is hit hard at the the head and allignment is gone besirk?
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The CD1-MKII he offered was attached to a non-CD80 board. Being not very well geared up to the electrostatics, I had to take a few very deep breaths before I took the decision to disassamble both PCB's (CD80 and the other) from their CDM's. Chances were that not only the CDM both also the PCB was damaged.
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I build my walls on the floor, plywood them (OSB now) housewrap then stand them.
I normally cut out the windows with a circular saw, snapped lines. Sometimes the lines can be a little off, say 1/4".
Have used a sawzall from the inside and find it hard to not cut on an angle.
Used a router and like it the best but it seems slower to me.
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Sawsall from the inside. If you use a wide long blade you can use the wall stud as a guide.
Really should install the house wrap after the the wall is up and the holes are cut so you can fold in the house wrap around the rough framing.
With circular saw and router you cut out the plywood before putting on the housewrap.
I was using a (very good) framing book that suggested driving a fininshing nail from the inside in each corner of the window. Go outside, snap lines between the nails, cut with a circ saw. Sounded great, until I realized I'd be standing on a 12' ladder. I ended up using a sawzall with a long wide blade, running it along the inside of the RO, from the inside of the room.
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A good quality router with a good quality panel bit is by far the fastest and cleanest way to do it.
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Craftsman is all right. A better router would definitely make it faster.
If I was you I'd use the craftsmen till she burns but and then buy yourself a better one. The Bosch I've got is good... heard good things about Milwaukee and deWalt as well.
If you like wasting time snapping lines to use a skill saw and taking twice as long to save 1 trip to the trailer then go for it!
Dosnt take any work to change your routine and router windows before stapling either.
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Also, pieces cut out with skil saw have a nice enough edge to be used elsewhere. Not likely with the router.
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- Commerce services. GSI already owns a set of assets that qualifies it to be a commerce service provider. True Action, the in-house digital agency of GSI, provides eBay Enterprise with capabilities around strategy, creative, usability, development and customer insights. Coupled with the technology hosting and operations capabilities of GSI, it is certainly fair to say eBay Enterprise should have a shot at competing head-to-head with established commerce service providers such as SapientNitro and Razorfish.
- Marketing solutions. Over the years, GSI built up an impressive set of marketing services through a range of acquisitions (ClearSaleing, e-Dialog, FetchBack, PepperJam and others). Combined, these portfolio firms put eBay Enterprise in a strong position to support enterprise clients with their online marketing initiatives. Unlike other commerce service providers in the market, having this breadth and depth of marketing services under one roof makes eBay Enterprise relatively unique.
- Omnichannel fulfillment and customer care. In the past GSI was perhaps best known for providing outsourced fulfillment and contact center operations for its clients. Under eBay Enterprise, it's business as usual for this pillar of the GSI business. The company continues to invest in its global customer service and fulfillment capabilities, but furthermore it now offers a suite of omnichannel services empowering clients to execute on ship-to-store, pick-up-in-store and ship-from-store initiatives through the services and capabilities of VendorNet.
In days gone by, the technology, services and operations above were typically only available as a complete end-to-end suite (what Forrester has in the past referred to a "full-service" commerce solution). Subsequently GSI was popular with major retailers and branded manufacturers that wanted to expand into the online channel but were not ready to commit to acquiring technology, building out an eCommerce operations role or investing in fulfillment, customer service and online marketing. However, times have changed. Today, online sales account for 11% of total retail sales (excluding food/grocery) and omnichannel commerce is a key part of almost every retailer and branded manufacturer's growth strategy. Subsequently, the appetite for "full service" has dwindled as organizations look to develop core in-house competencies around omnichannel and digital customer experience. The reality is that few customers of eBay Enterprise will need nor want all of these services wrapped into complex long-term contracts; instead they will demand best-of-breed and innovative capabilities on an à la carte basis with flexibility around integration, terms, licensing and pricing. The ability for eBay Enterprise to offer this will ultimately determine the success of this re-branding.
What does this mean for Magento customers?
It's business as usual for Magento. With over 150,000 customers, eBay knows better than to upset or mess with a very loyal and passionate open source user community. With this in mind Magento will continue to operate much the same as before as an independent unit of eBay, although it will certainly also have an important role to play in the suite of technology offerings that eBay Enterprise will peddle to clients. So what of x.commerce (the often misunderstood development platform community)? Forrester expects eBay to kill off "X" in its current state, although the concept will live on under the new umbrella of eBay Enterprise, thus enabling a broad developer and partner community around the new division's technology assets.
I recommend that Forrester clients who have questions or concerns about this evolution of GSI Commerce schedule an inquiry with me to discuss the implications, and as always feel free to let me know what you think in the comments section below.
Ebayenterprise and Intershop partners in the long run?
Comment from Andreas Jawork (not verified) on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 11:19
Thanks Peter for the thoughts about Ebay-Enterprise
My question: What does this mean for "intershop communications AG"?
The ECP (Enterprise Commerce Platform), GSI's now ebayenterprise's new platform, in my opinion significant was create, developed and build in partnership with and by Intershop. (Ebay hold 26 % of shares in Intershop)
Like ebayenterprise also Intershop now is enable to offer his customers the Intershop7 (ECP) build in partnership with GSI, other technologie partners and the market experience of more than 500 enterprise and mid-sized customers around the globe, including HP, BMW, Bosch, Deutsche Telekom and Mexx.
By the way, in my view, also demandware based on intershop, albeit on an older version and not the actual state of the art platform Intershop7.
What do you think, "ebay enterprise" and "Intershop communications" in the long run: partners or competitors?
Andreas, this is probably
Comment from Peter Sheldon on Mon, 06/24/2013 - 11:50
Andreas, this is probably better discussed via inquiry.
Hi my question to you Peter
Comment from Alistar Webb (not verified) on Tue, 06/25/2013 - 01:24
Hi my question to you Peter is, was GCI's intention of partnering with Ebay an attempt to increase trust and brand awareness, or mainly to make use of their resources.
If the intention of this partnership is to create trust, is this trust that people have in Ebay effectively transferred to GCI, and is there any assurance offered to GCI clients, that is similar to Ebay in the way they provide the paypal system that covers any losses up to $20,000.
Ebay Purge
Comment from Rich Vernadeau (not verified) on Fri, 08/09/2013 - 15:04
Why did ebay block, restrict, suspend or outright ban 15,000 sellers from listing earlier this week? What was the purpose of this latest "purge". Ebayers and the general public would like to know.
Let's see. In the past month
Comment from Rich Vernadeau (not verified) on Wed, 09/04/2013 - 22:34
Let's see. In the past month alone, Ebay purged 15,000 sellers, removed the policy compliance thing from sellers' dashboards, admitted to a DSR problem that's been going on for quite some time involving the automatic (or as it turns out not so automatic) five-star DSR that buyers are supposed to get on shipping when they ship same day and upload tracking information. Ebay has admitted that there has been a malfunction for quite sometime which leaves sellers vulnerable to buyers leaving a low DSR rating for shipping when they aren't supposed to be able to leave a DSR at all. Since many of the 15,000 who were suspended by ebay were only out of compliance by 1 DSR star, how many of them were victims of this malfunction? And if a corporation knows about this kind of glitch and how it is impacting customers and doesn't fix it, isn't that an ILLEGAL BREACH OF CONTRACT of the user agreement ebay has with their sellers?
The experiences I had as a
Comment from Rich Vernadeau (not verified) on Mon, 09/09/2013 - 22:00
The experiences I had as a small seller on ebay starting back in April triggered by a couple of low DSRs (1's and 2's) destroyed my faith in ebay and left an extremely bad taste in my mouth. Keep in mind I've been selling here since 1999 (14 years) and have 4625 positive feedbacks. After they slapped 21-day holds on my Paypal funds and put Seller Limitations on me, I lost any desire to "comply' "acquiesce" or "cooperate" with them. When I read much much worse accounts on these discussion boards of much worse experiences happening to other ebay sellers, my resolve was cemented. What I experienced was quite mild compared to what some small sellers have experienced, and I simply want ebay to be held accountable for the adverse impact they have had and are having on many good decent honest sellers, and I am far from alone in this sentiment. Peoples lives have been disrupted in many, many cases by egregious unfair ebay actions. While it is true that Michael Moore going to Flint, Michigan and doing a documentary about all of the laid-off General Motors workers did not result in GM coming back to Flint and rehiring them, it served as a public expose of corporate corruption. I think a number of suspended ebay sellers who have suffered unwarranted and severe financial setbacks because of ebay are entitled to see ebay's corporate corruption exposed.
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When Ross Stevenson steps up to the microphone tomorrow night to launch the Very Special Kids annual Autumn Art Show, it's hoped his presence will remind the audience that they're attending an event that's worthy of their support and donations.
It seems charity events go hand-in-hand with celebrity endorsement. The breast cancer campaign employs a variety of high-profile women, including Terry Bracks, designer Collette Dinnigan and surfer Layne Beachley. The Barnardos children's charity "honour roll" has featured singer Jimmy Barnes and actor Paul Mercurio, while the Australian Childhood Foundation's patron is comedian Tracy Bartram.
The selection of Stevenson as official "launcher" was a considered choice, says VSK public relations co-ordinator Sarah O'Bryan, designed to attract the thinking, community-minded Australian to whom his daily gig on radio station 3AW plays.
"The public have interest in celebrities, and their presence creates a reason to come along - they can have a brush with fame," O'Bryan says. "Ross Stevenson is someone who so many people hear a lot but never see. He was our first choice."
For VSK, the financial reality of supporting more than 750 families who are caring for children with life-threatening illnesses adds up to $3.5 million a year. Government funding provides $780,000, but raising the remainder is reliant on public generosity.
With the fear that the Boxing Day tsunami wiped away most people's philanthropic budget for the year and left many Australians "compassioned out", O'Bryan believes that attracting public interest to charity causes is more important than ever.
Recently, Vanessa Amorosi added her fan-pulling power to a stint at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show for the charity's Flower Power fund-raising event.
Names previously associated with the Autumn Art Show include federal minister Tony Abbott and police commissioner Christine Nixon.
"We sit down with the event organiser and talk about people we want to target. Usually people are happy to help a charity, but they might just be too busy," O'Bryan says. ". . . a lot of people are too busy. It can be hard to find people."
When they're found, though, agrees Emily Menon, from World Vision's ambassador program, having a celebrity head behind the plight of those less fortunate "is very valuable".
Current World Vision ambassadors include Sigrid Thornton, Tracey Spicer, Livinia Nixon, Ben Williams, Adam Gilchrist, Chloe Maxwell and Isabel Lucas. Singer Guy Sebastian and rugby league star Sonny Bill Williams have just joined them.
Just how they come on board, Menon says, is a combination of targeted approaches and the celebrities themselves offering their services. "It may be that they've attended an event for World Vision and discussions have come about that way, or, in the case of Isabel, whose family has sponsored five children with World Vision for many years, she was really keen to support something that she already had a personal involvement with and felt strongly about."
For Gilchrist, Menon says the motivation to become an ambassador last year followed his exposure to poverty while on cricket tours with the Australian team.
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An ok pair of shoes for casual/shorter rides
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Comments about Pearl Izumi X-Alp Seek V Mountain Bike Shoes:
Picked these up on sale, and you do get what you pay for. They're an ok pair of shoes for very casual rides around the neighbourhood and out to coffee, but would not recommend for any long duration rides. I wanted something that looked like runners and was easy to walk in when out with our 2 year old and they do accomplish this. HOwever, I tried them once on a 40k road ride as I only wanted to bring 1 pair of shoes on a trip and the lacing pattern on these shoes is absolutely brutal if you're trying to get in speed and hard uphills. Definitely do not work as a substitute for good x-country or road shoes.
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Good Cycling Shoe for Stationary Bikes
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A great birthday gift to myself since my older cycling shoes were worn out!
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I wear a size 12, I ordered a sized 47. Too small length wise toes are smashed against toe box.
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WOW Hits 2013 Includes Over 30 Christian Artists & Hit Songs; Features 19 #1 Radio Songs; Deluxe Edition Boasts 39 Songs On 2 CDs Available September 25th
(Nashville, Tenn.) September 17, 2012 – EMI Christian Music Group, Provident Music Group, and Word Entertainment announce the September 25th release of WOW Hits 2013. With 19 #1s, 4 top 5, and 3 top 10 Christian radio songs, WOW Hits 2013 marks the 18th two-disc release and the third WOW Hits Deluxe Edition release of the platinum-selling series that compiles the best songs from Christian radio at an incredible value for the consumer. The entire WOW branded series (Hits, Worship, Gospel, and specialty releases) tops 28 MILLION units in sales.
Featuring 30 songs on two CDs, the WOW Hits 2013 compilation provides Christian music fans hit songs from today's top Christian artists including Building 429's "Where I Belong," Casting Crowns' "Courageous," Matt Redman's "10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord)," TobyMac's "Me Without You," Sidewalk Prophets' "Live Like That," Group 1 Crew's "He Said" (feat. Chris August), Britt Nicole's "All This Time," for KING & COUNTRY's "Busted Heart (Hold On To Me)," and Tenth Avenue North's "Strong Enough To Save."
This year's WOW Hits 2013 Deluxe Edition features 6 more hits, with 2 additional #1 radio songs, including Big Daddy Weave's "Love Come To Life" and Mat Kearney's "Down."
Both versions also include 3 bonus tracks from up and coming radio artists, making this year's edition among the biggest WOW collections ever with WOW Hits 2013 containing a total of 33 tracks and the WOW Hits 2013 Deluxe Edition boasting 39 tracks.
Marketing efforts include prime retail positioning throughout the holiday season at all Christian, mainstream and digital retail outlets, radio promotions, and a strong online presence including ad buys at Christian music sites, Facebook, YouTube, and Google. WOW Hits 2013 will be a major traffic driver for retail during the crucial Christmas shopping season.
WOW Hits 2013 Track Listing
Disc 1
1. Courageous - Casting Crowns
2. 10,000 Reasons (Bless The Lord) - Matt Redman
3. Overcome - Jeremy Camp
4. Blessings - Laura Story
5. My Hope Is In You - Aaron Shust
6. I Lift My Hands - Chris Tomlin
7. The Hurt & The Healer - MercyMe
8. Forgiveness - Matthew West
9. We Are - Kari Jobe
10. Live Like That - Sidewalk Prophets
11. Fall Apart - Josh Wilson
12. Angel By Your Side - Francesca Battistelli
13. Trust In Jesus - Third Day
14. Do Everything - Steven Curtis Chapman
15. Someone Worth Dying For - MIKESCHAIR
16. BONUS: Only A Mountain - Jason Castro
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18. Carry Me To The Cross - Kutless
19. Free - Dara Maclean
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2. Me Without You - TobyMac
3. Where I Belong - Building 429
4. All This Time - Britt Nicole
5. Lift Me Up - The Afters
6. Busted Heart (Hold On To Me) - for KING & COUNTRY
7. Hold Me - Jamie Grace (feat. TobyMac)
8. Strong Enough To Save - Tenth Avenue North
9. He Said - Group 1 Crew (feat. Chris August)
10. Center Of It - Chris August
11. Good Morning - Mandisa (feat. TobyMac)
12. One Day Too Late - Skillet
13. The Redeemer - Sanctus Real
14. The Light In Me - Brandon Heath
15. Make A Move - Royal Tailor
16. BONUS: Banner of Love - Luminate
17. BONUS: When Mercy Found Me - Rhett Walker Band
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19. Down - Mat Kearney
20. Feel It In Your Heart - Abandon
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I almost didn't stay at this park due to the previous reviews on this website, but I'm glad I did. The info on this site isn't exactly accurate. We found this park to be one of the best on the coast! They have 2 swimming pools, restaurant on site and friendly staff. I really enjoyed my stay at this park and will visit again!
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Transport Minister Steven Joyce isn't letting the grass grow under his feet.
Here's a minister who's been appointed to Cabinet and is not afraid to use his warrant. The Safer Journeys policy package he announced this week is the Government's attempt to improve the odds of teenage drivers making it to adulthood.
The statistics back up what most of us know intuitively - that teenagers are a menace on the roads. Young drivers make up 16 per cent of all licensed drivers yet they're involved in around 38 per cent of all serious-injury crashes.
Young Kiwis have a fatality rate of 21 per 100,000 of population. Across the ditch in Australia, where many of the measures proposed by the Transport Minister are already in place, the fatality rate is 13 per 100,000 of population.
Critics say that the first two years of a newly licensed motorist's driving experience will always be the most dangerous, be they at 15 or 35.
But a study conducted by the University of Waikato and the Automobile Association, involving 72 teenage drivers at Taupo racetrack a couple of years ago, found that teenage brains are simply not developed enough to drive responsibly.
I can still remember that glorious feeling of being young and foolish. It's incredibly liberating to break free of the constraints of adulthood. There's no carping "what if?" voice inside your head and there is no comprehension of what could happen if your decisions go wrong. It's all about you and living in the moment.
But being behind the wheel of a car on our roads isn't the best place for living out those carefree years. Combine over-confidence with a lack of higher cognitive skills and you get the grim teenage crash statistics.
You've probably seen the footage of the funerals of young kids killed in horror road smashes.
That's sad enough, but when you see their bogan mates doing burnouts in the dead kids' "honour" as the cortege makes its way to the cemetery you realise that no amount of advertising or education - or even real-life examples of what happens when you make poor choices - will change the way some kids drive.
Legislation won't change these kids' attitudes - but at least it gives them, and us, one more year of grace before they're allowed to hit the roads.


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In this week's issue of the Boston Phoenix, out tomorrow, I take a look at the House Democrats under the leadership of Speaker Sal DiMasi. I suggest that there is a remarkable absence of dissent and debate, which I blame on several factors, including the leadership style of DiMasi and his core team; the willing acquiescence of most members; and the timidity of other members.
It is not too extreme to suggest that, if we are going
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