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My cat has a scratch on his paw and there is green stuff coming out. My cats paw is also swollen and the scratch smells.
The scratch has been there for about 6 days and it has a lot of puss around it and also a green substance coming out of it,when we found this we put it into some salt water to clean it.After a little while the scratch started to smell and got redder and much worse.3 days after this his paw has swollen up and is much bigger than his other paw,the green substance is still there,it's red and still smells.
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You need to call the vet before this goes any further and the poor thing loses his paw from this horrible infection. Would you even question this if it was a scratch on your own hand oozing puss and smelly green stuff? No, you would go the the ER.
Allie answered on 4/25/11. Helpful? / 0
Allie is right. If you can afford the Internet and a computer, you can afford to take this baby to the vet. He has a massive infection. The salt water is not a disinfectant or an antibiotic and probably hurt like heck when you put it on his wound. You can't seriously think that we would be able to do anything for him through a computer. He needs medication and fast or, like Allie says, he will lose his paw and quite possible his life.
Izadore (Izzie) answered on 4/25/11. Helpful? / 1
I agree with Allie and Izzy. Your cat needs to see a vet ASAP. It definitely sounds like he has a severe infection in his paw/leg. Please understand, we are NOT vets here, only people who love cats. Even if we were vets, no one could diagnose or treat your cat over the internet. Good luck at the vet, and please post an update.
Linus (Dreamboat #72a) answered on 4/25/11. Helpful? / 0
Oh, dear, why hasn't it occurred to you that green, smelly pus is NOT something that's going to go away on its own? Your kitty needs antibiotics, at the very least. Antibiotics are cheap, but chances are that the wound will have to be drained, and that follow-up visits will be necessary. If you don't get your kitty treated by a vet, the likelihood is that it is going to die of a systemic infection. If you wait too long to take him to the vet, he may need to have his paw amputated, and THAT will cost even more. As the other posters say, take him to the vet NOW.
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The seven principles of Lean Software Development; eliminating waste, creating knowledge, respecting people, building quality in, deliver fast, optimizing the whole, and to defer commitment are concise principals that appeal to many developers and managers, as they are pivotal in achieving delivery of high quality software systems on time.
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- Deferring Commitment (contradictory to Eliminating Waste) - 'If we leave decisions to the last minute, we will have people sitting around not working!'
- Knowledge Sharing (non-intuitive to a successful product) - 'If we share our issues with the customer they will lose confidence in our ability to produce a successful product!' or 'If we share ideas outside of the organization someone will copy our idea and we will lose the intellectual property and the advantage of time to market!'
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"Cease Inspections" does not mean stop all code reviews. Code reviews are useful and create knowledge. What this concept is telling us is to eliminate large reviews at the end of a development phase.Large reviews invariably lead to bugs being found, but at the expense ofdelaying the project, in some cases up to several weeks or months.
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Another practice that can provide continuous, real-time inspection is pair programming. The code is continually inspected by at least one other person and therefore defect rates are lower and design decisions are questioned at code-time (Build Quality In). Communication is enhanced and more team members share knowledge of the system thus creating knowledge.
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If I have three hours free, I sometimes sneak off to the local movie theatre. And I've discovered that the movies I see on my own always make a lasting impression. When you see a film with a group of people or even with just one friend or partner, a certain democracy rules the selection process. It needs to be something everyone will enjoy which, as far as I'm concerned, rules out the most interesting ones. Looking back at those I've viewed alone, they comprise an unsettling mix of holocaust themes, sci-fi and horror.
My taste in movies has always trended towards the more gruesome end of the spectrum. My husband, on the other hand, prefers lighter entertainment; he can't see the point of paying good money to be sickened, frightened or downright repulsed. He still hasn't forgiven me for telling him we were about to see a comedy as we settled in to watch The Silence of the Lambs back in the early nineties.
I've never understood why a movie's success is gauged by its box-office takings. Surely that's just a sign of either great marketing and PR or a bankable star not a true reflection of the quality of the movie. I find rottentomatoes.com which collects reviews from many critics to be a fairly reliable guide to a movie's worthiness.
One of my earliest lone viewings, Cube (with a 61 per cent Rotten Tomatoes rating) taught me the downside of not having a viewing companion: there's no one to explain the bits I don't understand. It was a 1997 sci-fi movie about people trapped in a network of cubes. When it was over I held the door open and waited for the only other theatre-goer and shared my ignorance by asking: "You know at the end? Did they all die?"
I was flying solo when I saw the much-hyped The Blair Witch Project (84 per cent Rotten Tomatoes score) in 1999. Amateur film-makers had made a low-budget movie that went viral and became bigger than the sum of its parts. It was memorable for me because I had a mild hangover. The dark of the theatre was a comfort to my head but the hand-held camera-work took me right to the edge of barfing.
It was a quirk of the online booking system that led me to see The Bridge (2006, 67 percent rating) on my own. I tried to book two tickets but was informed that only single tickets were available. I duly purchased one then went back through the system to buy the other only to be advised they were now sold out. So I toddled along to a documentary incorporating live footage of people jumping off San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. There were helpful flyers and counselling on offer for any audience members with suicidal tendencies, and I felt like an A-grade loser being at this particular movie on my own.
In 2008 I saw The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (64 per cent on Rotten Tomatoes) and The Reader (62 per cent rating) alone. I think I prefer contemplating the holocaust in solitude. Any words or shared reflections are likely to be so trite and inadequate that unremitting silence somehow seems the most appropriate response.
My taste in lone movies hit an all-time low last year when I saw The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (49 per cent rating). I couldn't shake its gruesome premise from my head for weeks. Let's just say it's about a mad doctor who experiments on humans, and leave it at that. I've never been more thankful not to inflict my choice of movie on an unsuspecting companion.
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VIRGINIA Holdener Kimbel traveled from Illinois. Carol Stith Zahn came overland from Montana. Carmine DeFillipis Felt came from Washington. I live 10 minutes away, and I was a no-show. My horse came up lame, which is as lame as saying I graduated Vaca High 62 years ago so I can't be expected to remember anything. Truth is, I didn't want an oldtimer squinting at my nametag saying, "I didn't know you were still alive." A reunion of three Jurassic Vaca High classes — 1952, '53 and '54 — came home Saturday to Fuso Bistro. Maryann Groulx and friends issued the call. With 70 or so in each class, a turnout of about 20 from each wasn't bad because it's been 60-plus years and, you know, life happens. Those who did got high marks for showing up so they could replay ball games and rerun Friday night drags on Winters Highway. I was a grad of Fightin' '52, the last class to metriculate from the Disney-like castle on the Andrews Park hill. I attended a few landmark reunions along the way, I think. The next big one is our 70th, in eight years, in 2022. By then I will be... forget it. Semper fi, Vaca High.
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SPEAKING of senior moments, it isn't "Kobe," it's Bode. All the rest is the same. A couple of letters got transposed in last week's item about Kyle and Erin DeVans' first born: Bode Chandler DeVan, a 6.9-pound future NFL All-Star. We've all followed Kyle's NFL triumphs, but big Bode tops them all. Just ask grandma Sherene Chandler Parsons and his grandpa Ralph DeVan. Somewhere, great-grandpa Mac Chandler is running a tab. As for the late great-great-grandpa Lloyd Chandler, for years Vaca's furniture-appliance king of Main St., cigars wouldn't do it. He would have given everyone a new refrigerator.
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WHAT was the name of Leisure Town Rd. before the retirement community was built? Who cares? Fred and Debbie Whitcomb do. I passed their query on to county surveyor Stanley Schram. He found the answer. LT Rd. was established in 1866 as Road 131, later Road 168. In 1920, it was named William Raymond Rd. Later, that was changed to Orchard Ave., no relation to the Ave. in town. Stan is the keeper of plats and maps. He knows where the lines are drawn and skeletons are buried, so to speak. Amid his collection of transits and tripods, his ledgers go back to when Sem-Yeto, renamed Chief Francisco Solano of the Suisun tribe, roamed our golden hills. I digress. What was the original question?
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We motored to hear Jenn Seybert Stith sing the National Anthem at Raley Field Wednesday, and a baseball game broke out, River Cats vs. Albuquerque Isotopes. Isowhat? It was a double-header coincidence: Vacan Jenn sang the anthem for her seventh time at Raley. It was my first-ever visit. Unexpectedly, former Bulldog pitcher Drew Carpenter took the mound for the Isotopes for four innings. Jenn is an anthem singer for fun. The River Cats take it seriously. A singer has to contact them. If they respond, singers audition on the field, a capella, for judges. If they get picked, they're given possible dates. The Stith in her name is the same as in Stith Chevrolet, for years a family dealership on Dobbins St. and M. Vista. My first new car rolled out of there in 1951, a two-door coupe for $1,800. Raley is what our Steelheads park might have been. We scarfed 'dogs and rooted for Cats. But first, "Rise for the National Anthem." Jenn nailed it.
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LET the (ingenious) marketing begin. ICON Aircraft flew its first production model on July 7. Soon they'll be stamped, "Made in Vacaville." They have 1,000 on the books. Order one today, and get it in four or more years. To fan the flame of hype, this week they put ICON A5 No. 30 on an auction block web site, with countdown clock to the final day, Sunday, Aug. 10 @ 4 p.m. High bidder will be moved up to a 2016 delivery date. A portion of the proceeds, the site says, will be donated to the Veterans Airlift Command, a nonprofit that provides free air transport to post 9/11 combat-wounded military. Retail for an A5 is near $200,000. For fun, I decided to be a player. I made a bid. I was outbid in two hours. Thursday, with a week to go, high was $240,000. Want to bid it up? You know the old saying, it's not how you play the game, it's whether you win or lose.
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Official: THE NANCE to Be Recorded for PBS' LIVE FROM LINCOLN CENTER Series
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Nathan Lane Will Go On in THE NANCE Tonight Despite Foot Injury
Earlier today, BroadwayWorld confirmed that 2013 Tony nominee Nathan Lane was injured during a performance of THE NANCE last night and had to be replaced by his understudy, Stephen DeRosa. BWW has now confirmed that Lane will indeed go on in tonight's performance at the Lyceum Theatre despite his injury. more »
Nathan Lane Injures Foot & Leg During NANCE Performance
BroadwayWorld has confirmed that 2013 Tony nominee Nathan Lane was injured during a performance of THE NANCE last night and was unable to complete the show. A Lincoln Center Theater representative told BroadwwayWorld: 'The status of his injury is unknown for now, but he is at home resting today.' more »
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a lady called me claiming that her husband and her were moving to KY to take care of her ailing parents. She told me that she has already spoken to our controller (called her by first and last name) and that she told her that she needed to talk to me and that she was interested in post its and highlighters. She told me that she was selling everything at her cost to get rid of things. Her name was Jamie Strong (I bet). I asked our controller and she hadnt talked to anyone about office supplies. I started to think I may have been duped at that point. I received 5 boxes about a week later with a packing slip from a place called SOS, Inc. I opened the boxes and OMG there is a hole box of paper clips, a hole box of sharpies, a hole box of highlighter, oh and the two complementary staplers that she told me about (mentioned in someone elses complaint). So I called the phone number that was on the packing slip and got an older gentleman on the phone and asked him to please send me an invoice. He told me that I should receive it in about two weeks. Still no invoice to this day after numerous voicemails messages. I found another phone number today on the UPS labels on the boxes so I called that number and got the same man on the phone. I told him that I knew this was a scam and I wanted to let him know that I would be shipping everything back to him. He asked if the boxes were intact and I said yes they are. He claims that he will send me UPS labels via email today. I highly doubt that I will get anything from him. Don't really know what to do with all of this sh*t but I guess I will have to figure that out.
BE AWARE OF THESE OFFICE SCAMS!!! I am the go to person here for telemarketers! I can always get rid of them and see through them but this time I got duped!
Guess I will just go back to being rude to everyone who calls trying to sell stuff!
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Kyle and Chevalier stepped back to the walls of the barn and watched.
Emily wrapped her hands around the mare's neck, "Good morning, Girl," she whispered. Patra bit at
Emily's long red hair and she laughed.
After a few minutes, Kyle and Chevalier left the barn and met Travis at the door.
"Stay by the door, don't go into the barn unless there's trouble," Chevalier told Travis.
Travis nodded and turned back to watch the barn.
It wasn't long before Emily felt the old exhilaration that working with the animals brought her. She let
the horses out into the corral and watched the colt play for a while before going in to grab some hay for
the cows. She felt her neck wound pull painfully as she lifted the bale of hay and cursed when she felt the
bandages. Blood was soaking through them. She decided to deal with that later and loaded a new salt
lick by the hay. The ATV ride was always fun and she enjoyed it today, as well. She inhaled deeply and
Chevalier came out of his office and looked around the castle. Things were going smoothly. Nothing had
happened to cause concern in over two months. He headed up to Emily's room to see if she was there. He
had trained his senses enough not to feel the common emotions she experienced, which lately, was
constantly. He was also able to hear voices from her dreams, and found it fascinating.
She wasn't in her room, but the heavy curtains were tied to the side and bright sunlight filtered in from
the balcony door. He stepped onto the balcony and looked out over the grass, then froze as his eyes fell
onto the three figures on the lawn.
Emily was lying down on her back on the thick green grass. Travis was on top of her, his teeth at her neck
as Kyle stood aside and watched. Fury raged through him as he jumped from the second story balcony


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Industrial Activity - August 2008
Industrial Activity
August 2008
Transportation and Trade
Energy Production
Automobile Production
An increasing share of industrial contacts reported that production and volume of shipments were down in July 2008 from year-earlier levels. Many contacts continued to report cutbacks in employment or work hours, and nearly all reported paying higher prices for raw materials. Two-fifths of contacts noted high and steady export orders. Kennesaw State University's Southeast Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) for July 2008 declined to 50.7, down from 52.3 in June, and 5.6 points below July 2007 levels. (A PMI over 50 indicates expanding manufacturing activity, below 50, contracting activity).
Trucking and Railway
The American Trucking Association's national truck tonnage index for June was up 1.3 percent from May levels and 5.1 percent higher than a year earlier. Regional industry contacts reported modest increases in trucking activity. Freight demand for regional rail companies continues to be weaker than last year. Overall carload readings through mid-August were down from year-earlier levels. Shipments of automotive and construction materials continued to drop, offsetting some gains in coal, minerals, and farm product shipments. Intermodal shipments were lower than year-earlier levels. Overall, rising fuel prices and soft freight demand continue to trouble the industry's outlook.
International Trade
The value of international shipments passing through District ports continues to exceed 2007 levels. For the 12-month period ending in June, exports rose 26 percent, with all District ports posting double-digit gains. This increase has reportedly created logistical problems for some regional ports because of the shortages of vessel capacity and containers. For the same period, the value of regional imports rose 12.7 percent, mostly driven by higher import prices. Through June 2008, while import values across regional ports were still rising, import volumes declined from year-earlier levels. Exports to Canada and Mexico, the top-ranked and third-ranked regional markets, increased 7 percent and 4 percent, respectively. Regional exports to Brazil, the United Kingdom, Germany, and China climbed sharply as well.
The Energy Information Administration (EIA) reported a 10.8 million barrel rise in Gulf Coast crude oil inventories the second week of August, marking the largest weekly increase since October 2002. Oil inventories are now in the middle of their five-year-average range. After hovering well above their average range for the first half of the year, motor gasoline inventories in the Gulf Coast have fallen 12 percent since the end of June. Gulf Coast gasoline inventories are now below year-earlier levels for the first time since February.
Production and Refining
According to the EIA's short-term outlook, national crude oil production will remain largely unchanged in 2008 relative to 2007, with output growth in the Gulf Coast compensating for declines in other parts of the nation. The region's crude oil production year-to-date has averaged 34,000 barrels, or 2 percent, below the same period last year, mostly because of large declines in January and February. According to the Baker Hughes Rig Count, roughly 66 rigs operated in the Gulf Coast during the first three weeks of August, seven rigs fewer than in August 2007. Gulf Coast refineries operated at 89 percent of their operable capacity in April, up from 87 percent a month earlier.
Through early August, vehicle production in District states was much weaker than earlier reported. Only the Mercedes plant in Alabama reported higher production levels when compared to the same period in 2007. About four-fifths of the vehicles assembled in the region are truck or SUVs—the vehicle segments most affected by rising fuel prices and shifting consumer demand. The short-term outlook for regional vehicle production is uncertain given a sluggish economy and the final closing of GM's Doraville, Ga., facility in September. Other plants have recently announced output reductions of slow-selling trucks and SUVs to work off high inventory levels.
The District's longer-term auto production outlook was brightened by Volkswagen's selection of Chattanooga, Tenn., as the site for a $1 billion auto factory. The plant will assemble 150,000 midsize sedans per year with production starting in late 2010. Kia Motors and Toyota will also begin new vehicle assembly production in 2009 and 2010 in West Point, Ga., and Blue Springs, Miss., respectively. Toyota recently reported that because of the shift in demand for fuel-efficient cars, their Mississippi plant will assemble the Toyota Prius instead of the initially planned Highlander CUV.


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Wigs on the Green (1935)
by Nancy Mitford
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15 Novemeber 2015
I did enjoy this, the two restarts are more about my awfully scattered reading habits these days. The satire is on fairly thick and biting, as I expect from Nancy Mitford and I got a few in-jokes from reading the massive biography of the Mitford sisters a few years back but I'm sure I missed a great deal of them.
Some, including the author, felt that light-hearted humour about 1930s British fascism (and Nazi Germany, by extension) was no longer funny in a post-WWII universe. Being prone to gallows humour, I didn't have qualms on that front, feeling also that the era in which this was written sufficiently justifies the barbed, Woodhousian pastiche approach. That said, this isn't 'Springtime for Hitler' funny, and it's the patchiness of the writing that left me ultimately only moderately impressed.
An early novel which Mitford chose not to reissue after ww2. It's an affectionate send-up of her sister Unity, who was infatuated with Hitler and fascism, but there is an unsettling ambiguity and ambivalence to it given the outcome. It's quite understandable she wanted it suppressed for while it is clear she is making fun of the 'Jackshirts' there is no doubt in my mind had she had the least idea of the outcome of the war, the seriousness of Nazi violence and aims, she never would have written a book so 'light-hearted'. Plus ole Nancy was kind of a snob - it's muffled in her later books somewhat - but here it is front and center, creating an odd vibration between the fascists, the Hons, and well, everyone else, as a mad Duke at the exclusive residence Peersmont (modelled on the House of Lords) for mad titled persons, says to a nephew, "It appears that every year a few thousand totally unimportant persons are killed on the roads, and that lunatic Gunnersbury, supported by some squeamish asses on the Labour benches* brought in a bill to abolish all motor transport. These Socialists put a perfectly exaggerated value on human life, you know. Ridiculous." It was a bit like looking at one of those flat pictures that if you tip it one way it is funny, tip it another and it is thoughtless and even offensive. Nonetheless Mitford's cleverness and wit are everywhere evident and it is an interesting novel. By a coincidence I have been listening to a book on poisonous plants and the author mentions Mussolini's men tracking downn 'leftists' and to pour castor oil down their throats as a punishment. Mitford had evidently picked up on this and there are many mentions of castor oil or ex-lax, that I would not have known the significance (reference to Mussolini) until now. It sounds so teen-aged prankish and idiotic. ***
* in this pseudo House of Lords, the Hons spend their time putting forward bills and voting and etc.
Wigs on the Green was written as a satire of British fascism, and specifically a satire of the members of Nancy Mitford's family that partook of the movement. Sir Oswald Mosley, Nancy Mitford's future brother-in-law, formed the British Union of Fascists in 1932 and by the mid-1930s, when this book was written, the BUF had aligned itself with the Nazi party in Germany.
Mitford regretted writing this book and worked to suppress copies of it from getting out to the public (not surprising, honestly). The plot focuses on a young woman named Eugenia Malmain (based on Unity Mitford); and two young men who come to the town of Chalford with mischief on their mind. Eugenia is a rather idealistic young woman who works tirelessly on behalf of a political party called the Union Jackshirts (a play on the word "Blackshirts," the uniform of the BUF), and the plot contains a lot of witticisms and attempts at humor. The meaning of the title comes from an 18th century saying that signifies that a brawl is about to break out—a brawl so forceful that it would knock men's wigs off. The culminating moment of the novel is an 18th-century-themed pageant, hence the literal, and satirical, meaning of the title.
I definitely found humor in the characters that Mitford gives us. But I think that, because the author was so close to the subject that she pokes fun at, she didn't have a chance to distance herself from her characters. So there's not much in this novel that's truly fictional; just an exaggerated portrait of the people that Mitford knew (she originally meant the book to be a satire of Sir Oswald Mosley, by centering the plot around a character named General Jack).
This is certainly not one of Nancy Mitford's best books; it's hard to satirize fascism and so the book falls flat in many places. Its dated theme isn't particularly funny now, and it certainly wouldn't have been funny at the time it was written. As Dorothy Parker, a vehement anti-fascist, wrote in 1939, "I don't think these are funny times... I don't think I can fight fascism by being comical, nor do I think that others can." I think with the hindsight of 70 years, the book might have actually been better with the mythological three chapters she apparently got rid of in order to appease her sister Diana. As such, there are holes in the novel; it seems like a rough draft at times. It's easy to see why, in the political climate of the 1930s and 1940s, Mitford didn't want this book reprinted.
Being rather a fan of The Mitfords, and having read several biographies and letter collections as well as some of Nancy's later, better known novels, I was very curious when I heard Wigs on the Green was being re-issued. Having been out of print since not long after it first appeared, it is easy to why it caused such disquiet among her family. The introduction by Charoltte Moseley casts an interesting light upon this, and apparently Nancy took out 3 chapters which particularly mocked Sir Oswald Moseley. There is plenty of Nancy's famous wit in evidence here, but this is really no scalding satire. The novel is light and frothy, funny and very tongue in cheek, and yet even now after all these years it is hard to see the humor in fascism. There is plenty of Wodehouse like jolly japes - a lovely country house, eccentric relatives and impoverished young men looking to marry money. All in all a 1930's cosy read - albeit a slightly uncomfortable one politically.
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Andrew was born near Liverpool and has been acting since he was at school, joining a drama group while studying for his A-Levels. In 2010 Andrew graduated from the Oxford School of Drama, winning the Spotlight Prize in July of the same year.
He is probably best known for his role as Nick Cutler, the vampire solicitor in season 4 of Being Human. Other projects include Dr Andrew Mullery in Monroe, and the lead role of Victor Frankenstein in BBC Three's live musical production of Frankenstein's Wedding, broadcast live from Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds. He has also played Sherlock Holmes in CBC's Murdoch Mysteries featured in Showtime's The Borgias and played the part of Lord Strange in the BBC's The White Queen. He will next be seen in the role of Caligula in NBC's biblical drama A.D. The Bible Continues.
Stage credits include Seiffert in Conquest of the South Pole at the Arcola Theatre (touring to the Rose Theatre in Kingston) and Charlie in Terror Tales at the Hampstead Theatre. He has also played William/Lupin in the radio production of The Diary of a Nobody.
Andrew is a huge music fan and has recorded several tracks with his band, Emerson, as well as performing some of the tracks during the Frankenstein's Wedding performance.


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- 2 tablespoons all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon ground Sichuan peppercorns
- 1/4 teaspoon five-spice powder
- 2 pounds chicken wingettes and drumettes (see Note)
- 2 1/2 tablespoons red hot sauce, preferably Frank's Red Hot
- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
- 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
- 2 tablespoons honey
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons scallions, white and light green parts only, thinly sliced
Preheat the oven to 500°. Line a large baking sheet with foil and spray with vegetable oil. In a bowl, mix the flour with the salt, Sichuan peppercorns and five-spice powder. Add the chicken and toss to coat. Spread the chicken on the baking sheet in a single layer and spray with vegetable oil. Roast the chicken for 45 minutes, turning once or twice, until browned and crispy.
In a bowl, whisk the hot sauce with the butter, soy sauce, honey and ginger until combined. Add the chicken wings to the sauce and toss. Sprinkle with the scallions and serve.


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Jay Koenigsberg needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 89 designs submitted by 42 freelance designers.
Long Island NY based commercial real estate broker with Logo seeks to give existing identity a makeover. http://www.aiprops.com
American Investment Properties, Inc
The existing graphic logo has gained some recognition in the market but lacks a grahic and is a bit "tired." This is acutally a birthday gift for my brother.
- More energy
- A bit of color- fresh.
loss of existing identification


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Report: David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez on PED List
|07.30.09 at 12:53 pm ET
The New York Times is reporting that both David Ortiz and Manny Ramirez were on the list of 104 Major League Baseball players who tested positive for performance-enhancing substances in 2003. The report cites lawyers familiar with the results of the tests.
The tests were administered as part of an agreement with the Players' Association with the provision that positive tests by at least 5 percent of the players would trigger a testing program with penalties. The results were supposed to be kept confidential and subsequently destroyed as part of the agreement with the Players' Association. But they were not, and the federal government seized the results.
Ramirez was suspended 50 games earlier this year for testing positive for a female fertility drug that can be used as a masking agent for steroids. At the time, he said that he had passed several tests over the previous five years during the time of mandatory drug tests (though perhaps conveniently omitting any 2003 tests).
Ortiz has never been suspended for the use of performance-enhancing substances. A Times reporter asked Ortiz about the report today.
"Ortiz shrugged," the article said. ''I'm not talking about that anymore…I have no comment."
The Red Sox clubhouse was closed prior to the game by the time the report was published.
Ortiz has said repeatedly that his success has been achieved 'the right way,' especially when he set a Red Sox team home run record in 2006 with 54 longballs. Indeed, unprompted, he commented on that very thing on Sept. 21, 2006, the night that he hit his 51st homer to set a new Sox record.
"This is something that might change people's minds and let them know that there are still a lot of good athletes still playing the game and still working hard and preparing themselves to play the game the way it's supposed to be," he said. "A lot of people out there, a lot of players, that have a lot of respect for the game. I know there are some guys that have been caught using illegal things, but people should know that not everyone is like that.
"Somebody does whatever they do for a reason, but the most important thing is knowing that there are guys out there capable of hitting homers and doing everything in the right way."
This spring, his association with Dominican trainer Angel Presinal came under scrutiny. Presinal had worked with Alex Rodriguez of the Yankees after being banned from MLB clubhouses for his association with steroids.
At the time, Ortiz stated that Presinal is a trainer at the facility where he and several other baseball players work out in the Dominican Republic, and that while the trainer offers guidance about exercises and conditioning, that Presinal has never pushed him towards steroids.
'No, no, no. Not at all,' Ortiz said when asked whether Presinal had steered him towards PEDs. 'I've known him for a long time. He teaches how to keep our body ready, working out, teaching you how to do the right exercises, things like that. He's not just teaching baseball players. He's got guys that run in marathons, volleyball players, basketball players, everybody'¦.We all work with him, a group of guys that wants to be ready in spring training. That's about it.'
As Ian Browne of MLBlogs pointed out on his excellent Brownie Points blog, Ortiz also spoke out strongly this spring on the need to penalize PED users in an effort to clean up the game.
"I would suggest that everybody get tested, and not randomly," Ortiz said on Feb. 16. "You go team by team and you test everybody, three, four times a year, and that's about it. You do what you've got to do … ban them for the whole year [if they test positive]. You're going to get respect from the players when they know they're going to get tested. Let's test the whole team, three or four times a year. I know they can do that. Believe me, if someone was using steroids, it would show up. Because the way they test you, it's not a joke."
Yet while he came out strongly against the use of PEDs, Ortiz also spoke during that spring training media session about the need to move on from the past.
"There's been a lot of players who have been in federal court and being judged like they just killed somebody or they robbed somebody," Ortiz also said on Feb. 16. "I don't think all that is supposed to be happening. If you admitted that you've used stuff [in the past], boom, don't use it anymore. It's not good for you. You know it's not good for the game. Let's move on, you know what I mean? All the drama of bringing guys to court and acting like they are serious criminals, it doesn't look good for the game. What is happening right now is about something that happened in the past. It's not something that is happening right now. Everything was banned in, what, 2004?"
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Sorakake is Sunrise's exploration of the random.
Not content with battling space colonies and shit, Sunrise is going the extra mile by putting headless walking suits of armor as well as leviathans in the show. Dear god, how much more random can Sorakake get?! And why is so compelling to watch?!


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She then lent forward and took my in her mouth I could hardly stand my legs were shaking as she gave me one of the best blow jobs I think I had ever had I must say Pat is good but not this good god it was mind blowing how she licked the head of my cock and pushed her tounge down my slit and how she took the whole of it from tip to the bottm into her mouth.
This was the first time we my wife (Pat) and I had been able to have our friends round for a meal with out our teenage kids around our son had gone of to a party and our daughter is away on Holiday.
Our friend Karen and John came round and we had our meal along with a bottle of wine and after clearing up we sat on the sofa to wath some TV and have a chat, Pat my wife sat at on end John in the middle and his wife Karen on the other side of him I sat on the floor resting against the sofa between my wife legs.
It was a pleasent evening but after half an hour or so there was not much on TV so I said what about a DVD they all agreed and Karen said dont suppose you got a porno film we could watch Dave, I said yes we had but was she playing about, Karen said know John and myself love to watch porno I did not need telling again and found one that they said they had not seen so I pushed play and settled down to watch the film back on the floor resting my back on the sofa between my wifes legs.
We got though another bottle of wine and after about half an hour I could hear this soft moaning at first I thought it was Karen but then realised it was my wife she was saying in a soft sexy voice 'O' John thats good god thats good, i looked round to see that john had the two ladies leaning in against him his arms up around there neck's and had one hand needing my wifes tit and twicking her nipple though the top, and doing the same to his wife with his other hand.
When he saw me look round he pulled his hand away but I just said if Pat likes it keep going mate and John replaced his hand and started to feel my wifes big tit again.
after a while my wife started to move around a bit for a minute or so then setled down again and then I heard her moans getting louder as was Karens.
I looked round and found the why my wife had been moving around was hshe had completely removed her top and sat there with her Big breasts in John's hand, Karen was the same and she had small but great tits her nipples were hard the hardest I had ever seen they must have been over a inch long and I took a deeo breath at the site of then Karen smiled at me and as she did so placed one nipple into Johns mouth.
I could not stand any more I wanted in on the action and stood up in front of them and just striped off my Cock sprang into view fully hard standing at just over 8" and 4" thick Karen took a gasp and said god you got a great cock there Dave I said it's all yours if you want it and John dose not mind Joh siad nothing as he now had Pat's nipple shoved into his mouth and his now free hand was disappearing up under Pat's skirt.
Karen stood and came over to me and bent her head forward and kissed my chest and licked and sucked on my nipples I felf her hand curl round my cock and hold it tight she started to move her hand up and down my cock, i just closed my eyes and took in deep breaths as she bit my nipples after a while Karen droped to her knees and said god you have a wonder ful cock I am going to enjoy having that inside me soon.
She then lent forward and took my in her mouth I could hardley stand my legs were shaking as she gave me one of the best blow jobs I think I had ever had I must say Pat is good but not this good god it was mind blowing how she licked the head of my cock and pushed her tounge down my slit and how she took the whole of it from tip to the bottm into her mouth. I placed my hands on the back of her head and slowly moved her head back and forth as I did not want to come just yet.
While this was going on I opened my eyes and looked at what my wife was up to now they were both naked and Pat was sitting with her bum on the edge of the sofa her legs were up over John's shoulders and her was giving her a great licking out but the way Pat was shouting and moaning as John licked her clit and stuck his tounge inside her.
Pat was shaking and I knew she was on the verge of coming and I saw her legs grip either side of John's head as she came into his mouth, I could hear John sulrping her cum up as it flowed from her John did not stop he just carried on licking and I was him ram two fingers up into my wifes cunt and she shouted out Yes John Finger Fuck me go on as hard as you like.
I had to stop Karen by pulling her head away from my cock or I would have shoot my load there and then I told her to stand up and I took her over to the table and told her to lie back accross it so her bum was on the edge I placed two chairs either side of my so she could rest her feet on them as she was doing this I looked back over at my wife and John was still thrusting his fingers into her but now it was four fingers my wife was cumming again and again Johns hand was dripping with my wifes cum and she was still screening YES YES THATS IT FUCKING HELL THAT IT FINGER FUCK ME HARD over and over I was Johns cock for the fist time and it was only about 5" long but what it lost in it's lenth made up for in the thickness I knew my wife was going to enjoy that thick monster as it looked at least 5 or 6" round.
But back to Karen I took hold of her hands and placed one on her brest and she started to play with it and I placed the othe ron her clit and she started to play with that to I lent forward and sucked the other nipple into my mouth and Karen took a deep breath and I niped it between my teeth and filcked it with my tonguee Karen started to moan and her body was shaking I kissed slowly down her body until I was kneeling on the floor and my mouth was just a inch away from this shaven pussy shining with cum as Karen still flicked her clit she carried on as I placed my mouth over her finger and licked her clit and ran my tonguee over her slit I pushed her legs open a bit more and force my tongue into her she cried out with pleasure as my tongue entered her and she pushed her self hard into my face so my tongue was as far into her as I could get it I was licking for all I was worth drinking down her cum which tasted so different from Pat's.
Karen removed her finger and I placed my mouth over her clit and entered two fingers into her curled my fingers up so to hit her G spot and as my fingers started to move over it she shouted YES YES GOD YES she started to shake as I finger fucked her until she came again and again I took my hand from her and Karen graped hold of my arm pulling my hand to her mouth and licked her cum from it , We could still hear Pat moaning away in the background and knew she was still enjoying the fuck. I stood up and looked over at John and Pat, Pat was still resting on the edge of the sofa but now John had hold of her ankles and had her legs pushed back as far as they would go and he had his think cock well and truly bedded into her cunt and he was fucking her hard she was grunting with every stroke God knows how many times Pat had cum but she was still cumming by the sound of it.
I replaced Karens hand on her Clit and she started to rub it again and I placed the tip of my cock up against her stip and let it run up and down the whole lenth of her cunt karen tried to push forward so my cock entered her but I moved back just to keep her on the edge then with out warming and with one hard push I entered her my cock opened up her pussy lips and forced it,s way into her until my body slamed into her and the full lenth was burried into her she shouted you fucking sod, that was great now please fuck me I want tit bad fuck me please how could I refuse I started long slow thrusts into her, she said that she could feel me right up inside her and she had not had a cock this long before, John must have just filled my wife with his cum as I heard he grunt and shout YES take that you bitch that will fill you up, my wife was saying YES YEs fill me go on fill up fuck me OOOOOOOO fuck thats good .
I could feel Karen's pussy walls tighten as she came again and I could feel her cum run down my balls. I took hold of her legs and raised them up so they rested on my shouders and I started to fuck her hard and fast as I knew I could not hold back much more, Karen was shouting thats it fuck me fuck me hard I saw Pat and John watching as I fucked Karen hard I slamed into her faster and faster she came again and with one last thrust I filled her full of my hot cum Karen dropped her legs and wraped them round me making sure I was inside her as far as I could be.
After a while I dropped to my knees and started to lick karens pussy my wife got under the table and started to lick me clean and john placed his cock into Karens mouth, we fucked again later and plan to again very soon I will write about that once it has happened.
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text: Well guys, I thought things were going exceptionally well with my Caddy, unfortunately, the car has died on me. No warning of anything wrong, went out in the morning, no problems, no misfires, fuel in the tank, gets home, decide to go shopping some 20 minutes later, car absolutely refuses to start. Oh starter motor turns over fantastically but the engine just wont fire up. Got fed up, call Cadilliac AA assist. AA man duly turns up to spend the next hour and 45 minutes trying to diagnose the problem on the drive. Finally discovered that it appears there is absolutely no fuel pressure although zero trouble codes show up. He had no choice but to give up. End result is, AA have informed me they will take the car the 60 odd miles to Birmingham so the Caddy dealer can hopefully sort it. Absolute pain in the you know what! It will be interesting to see what the Caddy dealer says on Monday when I tell them mine is on its way. Hopefullly it will be sorted under warranty. If anyone has had a similar problem, perhaps you could give me a clue?


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Tips, tricks and announcements about teaching and learning with technology
Sunday, August 21, 2011
At the 2011 Distance Learning Conference I attended one of Tonya Joosten's workshops on social media. She is Associate Director of the Wisconsin – Milwaukee Learning Technology Center and teaches in the Department of Communications She maintains a blog and is an active Tweeter @tjoosten. I'm...
Friday, August 12, 2011
Using intelligent tutoring systems, virtual laboratories, and simulations, the Open Learning Initiative (OLI) at Carnegie Mellon University creates open web-based ...


text: How old is it when a male dog will start to lift his leg and mark territory? I have a 21 week old Yorkie, and would like to get him neutered at the right time so he does not start marking inside my house. I have heard the best time is to neuter right when the testicles drop, but I really have no idea..Help!


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Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
School of Medicine > Otolaryngology > Faculty and Staff > Faculty Mentoring
School of Medicine > Otolaryngology > Faculty and Staff > Faculty Mentoring
Mission Statement
The Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Mentoring program was created to promote the professional and personal development of its faculty members at all levels. The goals of our program are to support career advancement and satisfaction which leads to faculty retention, and ultimately enhancement of the department's clinical, education, and research programs.
Dr. Dianne Durham
Department of Otolaryngology faculty sponsor
Faculty Mentoring Program
The Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery has developed a mentoring program with the goals of supporting all of its faculty members for promotion and retention. Criteria for career advancement and promotion have been developed for both tenure and non-tenure tracks, and faculty members are informed of their progress towards promotion through feedback as well as educational programs specific to career advancement.
Each academic year, the Mentoring Chair and committee reviews the Dean's CV (curriculum vitaes) of all faculty members and provides a summary to the Department Chair. This review includes the faculty member's term of appointment, status on current track, and identifies individuals who are ready for promotion on either tenure or non-tenure tracks. The committee provides open lines of communication with the faculty as well as the chair in preparation for application for promotion. Department specific guidelines have been established by the Department P & T Committee, and faculty members have availability to this information at all times. The Mentoring Committee members consists of junior, mid-career, and senior members so that needs of all faculty regardless of career status are addressed.
Each faculty member has an annual review with the Department Chair during which he/she has provided a summary of the academic achievements for the previous 12 months. Goals set from the previous year as well as goals set for the next year are reviewed. Publications and research efforts are also reviewed at this time, and the Department Chair provides feedback regarding faculty member's performance in both clinical duties and teaching responsibilities.
Professional development for our department faculty in areas of teaching and assessing medical students occur formally at our Annual Department Educational Retreat, where faculty and residents experience actual didactic program as well as open discussion in group setting regarding issues of career development, managing career burnout, fatigue, professionalism, and leadership. Women faculty who quality or are interested are supported to apply to the AAMC Early or Mid-Career Women Faculty Professional Development Seminar and if accepted the Department has provided financial and time support to the faculty for attendance. Faculty members are informed and encouraged to attend all available programs such as grant writing, leadership, work/life balance, and mentoring established by the Professional Development Faculty Affairs from our School of Medicine. In addition, we identify and nominate our faculty for the Faculty Leadership Academy (FLA) program, which is a joint effort of the University of Kansas School of Medicine and the University of Kansas Hospital created to help improve the management and leadership skills of physician and basic science faculty members. We have had several of our faculty complete this 2 year course.
The Otolarynglogy-Head and Neck Surgery Mentoring Program provides formal and informal structures to support every faculty member to realize their full academic potential and experience a total engagement of their academic career through excellence in clinical care, teaching, as well as scholarship manifested through not only traditional research but also curriculum development and innovation regarding education and leadership. Mentoring efforts are not limited to the traditional "senior" faculty to "junior" faculty, one-on-one approach, but we recognize the importance of "Co-Mentoring" or "Peer-Mentoring" especially for mid-career faculties.
The Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Mentoring Program will focus on:
•· Helping faculty develope a successful clinical practice and reputation of clinical excellence regardless of his/her area of expertise or subspecialty
•· Understanding the various academic ranks, tracks, and criteria for promotion for tenure and non-tenure tracks
•· Support faculty to develop a regional and national visibility in both the otolaryngology as well as each faculty's subspecialty through academic leadership, research, and service
•· Help faculty achieve improved work/life balance through open dialogue, peer-learning, and practical curriculum
Faculty Mentoring Program Committee
•· Dianne Durham, PhD
•· David Kriet, MD
•· Hinrich Staecker, MD, PhD
•· Jim Lin, MD
•· Carrie Francis, MD


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2 adults, 7 children escape house fire unharmed
JONES VALLEY, Calif. - A 12-room, two-story home was ravaged by fire Saturday afternoon.
Fortunately, the two adults and seven children who lived there all made it out alive and well. Five of those children were asleep when the fire started, according to fire officials.
Emergency crews initially got a report that an outbuilding was on fire at 13653 Kitty Hawk Lane at around 4:50 p.m.
When they arrived at the scene, they found the outbuilding fully-involved, and the home about 50% involved.
After determining that all the people inside got out, they immediately began defensive operations, which means they fought the fire from the outside because the home was too dangerous to enter.
All told - more than 75% of the home was lost.
The Red Cross is assisting the family.
Investigators are still looking into the cause.


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(Update 10:30 p.m. EST 1/30: Al Jazeera Says its Cairo Bureau Has Been Shuttered By Egyptian Authorities)
Qatar-based cable news network Al Jazeera is not available on United States cable systems — except in local markets in Vermont, Ohio and Washington, D.C.
But that hasn't stopped the major American news outlets from relying on the international news network for critical reportage on the growing unrest in Egypt.
Al Jazeera has more journalists on the ground, in-country, than any American news organization.
"Al Jazeera Arabic and English have seven teams in Cairo plus multiple reporters in Alexandria, Suez and Ismailia," a company spokesperson said.
"The revolution is not being televised, it's being streamed," the rep added.
In order to make the news available worldwide, Al Jazeera has decided to make its content available for "other news sources to use through their Creative Commons website," the company said. That means news outlets are free to use the organization's reports and live footage, without getting permission, so long as the borrowers give credit.
Al Jazeera is popular in Egypt, as it is throughout the Arab world. But the 30-year strongman President Hosni Mubarak's regime is no fan of the network's coverage, and Al Jazeera says the regime has tried to disrupt the organization's reporting.
On Thursday, Mubarak's regime pulled the plug on Egypt's internet service, making Al Jazeera's multiple streams of coverage inaccessible to Egyptians.
Al Jazeera's management says it is committed to global journalism and free speech.
"Braving the same violent attacks by policemen against demonstrators, including physical assaults, rubber bullets, and tear gas, Al Jazeera journalists were on location, doing their jobs, and capturing the scene faced by the Egyptians to help carry their voices to our audience around the world," Al Jazeera management said in an internal email to staffers today.
Al Jazeera's website saw a 2500% increase in traffic Friday, with over 50% of that spike coming from the US alone, a company spokesperson said. The company's servers crashed earlier today, but it has taken steps to beef them up.
Al Jazeera is streaming live reporting out of Egypt on its website.
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Aleva Stores recently learned they were named to Internet Retailer's Second 500 list.
Internet Retailer is a monthly national business magazine that is at the core of the leading retail information web site, an e-commerce conference and five directories that serve the retailing community.
Internet Retailer's definitive ranking and analysis of America's 500 up-and-coming e-retailers is based on annual 2010 Internet sales, researched by Internet Retailer and confirmed by retailers. This report includes company financial, operational and performance data, as well as vendors in key categories.
Aleva Stores ranked on the list at 601, finishing just outside the top 500. Even more impressively, they ranked seventh overall in the Health/Beauty category.
The news of their inclusion arrived just after their big warehouse move. The growth and excitement just continues to build for Aleva Stores as they make strides to always improve and become the best online retailer possible.
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PM embarks on Japan visit
Aug 30 2014 , New Delhi
On his first bilateral visit outside the subcontinent as the Prime Minister, Modi has a substantive agenda during the five-day trip which he hopes will "write a new chapter" in the bilateral relations and cooperation in the fields of defence, civil nuclear and infrastructure besides commerce.
Underlining the importance of the visit, the "excited" Modi said on the eve of the trip that Japan has "paramount importance" in his vision for India's development and progress.
In the first leg of his visit, the PM will travel to Kyoto, the 'smart city' of Japan, to see the experiment there considering that he intends to build 100 smart cities in India. In a special gesture, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will fly to Kyoto to receive Modi there.
The two leaders will have substantive summit meeting in Tokyo on September 1 during which the two sides will look at ways to take the Strategic and Global Partnership forward.
India has "great expectations" from the visit, the External Affairs Ministry has said.
Cooperation in the fields of defence, civil nuclear, infrastructure development and rare earth materials is expected to top the agenda of the discussions.
Some agreements, including in defence and civil nuclear sectors, are expected to be signed. Among the agreements to be signed is one on joint production of rare earth materials.
"I am keenly looking forward to my visit to Japan at the invitation of my good friend, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, for the annual summit between India and Japan," Modi said in his pre-departure statement.
Noting that this will be his first bilateral visit outside the immediate neighbourhood as Prime Minister, he said it underlines "the high priority" that Japan receives in India's foreign and economic policies.
"It is also a reflection of Japan's paramount importance in my vision for development and prosperity in India and in peace, stability and prosperity in Asia at large," Modi said.
"I am confident that my visit will write a new chapter in the annals of the relations between Asia's two oldest democracies and take our Strategic and Global Partnership to the next higher level," he said.


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I have a question on lengthening sleeves. On my first cardigan, with sleeves knit in the round, I simply did all the increases as the pattern called for them and then knitted the upper part of the sleeve a bit longer than said.
Now, is there a more proper way to lenghten sleeves? Should I space the increases out after calculations? Or is that overkill?
Any thoughts?
Any sleeves I've done have been done the same way. Increase as far as the pattern says, or as wide as I want them and then knit straight, which is usually only an inch or two.
When I've knitted sleeves onto a sweater, I've just decreased ever 4 or 5 rows all the way down until it's as wide as I want it at the wrist. My arm length usually just has me decrease all the way down. If the sleeve is too wide at the top, I've decreased more dramatically until it gets to where I want it to be.
Thanks for helping out, Ingrid!
IngridI have fat upper arms, both large arms with a lot of base Muscle, and I M overweightI am about to start a Neck down sweaterand I will need longer arms, so I was thinking of adding a few rounds of st st in between a couple of the first decreases instead of at the end ofthe arm where it will be thinner. For someone slender like my Eldest daughter, I would add rounds to the lower end of the sleeve
is my thinking sound?
Sounds right to me. This way when you divide for the sleeves you'll have wider shoulders and upper arms to work with.


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Must Be The Sand
Dear Editor;
Life's a beach, or so it seems in Rockaway. I've been living here for five years, and am still trying to understand this beach mentality. "I love it here," my husband says, "If I had a million dollars, I would still live in Rockaway" Well, nowadays, you would need a million dollars to buy a home in Rockaway. But what is it that seems to draw people here?
Is it the water? Many other places have water. There are lakes, rivers, creeks, ponds and streams, so why here? Maybe its salty water. Salty water can make you sick if you swallow enough of it. It can make your ankles swell and cause you to become the object of ridicule among your friends. Salty water also smells like fish. Fish have an offensive scent and are, for the most part, unattractive, scaley creatures. Salty and fish-scented, its probably not the water.
Maybe it's the waves, the majesty of a wave as it reaches its crescendo and crashes against the shore. It's hard to talk on your cell phone when the waves are being majestic. The majestic waves are powerful. They can knock you off your feet, short circuiting your cell phone, making you swallow lots of salty fish-scented water, causing your ankles to swell and making you the object of ridicule among your friends. It's probably not the waves.
Could it be the sand? The beach has lots of sand. Sand sticks to your calves after the majestic waves knock you down, short circuiting your cell phone, making you swallow lots of salty fish-scented water, causing your ankles to swell and making you the object of ridicule among your friends. It exfoliates your bare feet as you run back to your chair, disheveled, to get your towel.
Sand does not discriminate. It's in your towel, on your food, in your clothes, on your shoes, and always in your house. Summer in Rockaway is waking up to feel the grits and grains beneath your feet as you make your way to the bathroom. Constant reminders of the water, the waves, the sun, the surf, and the lifestyle that defines Rockaway.
I think it may be the sand.
Responds To Mossa
Dear Editor:
In reference to Mr. Mossa' s letter, the release of the USA prisoners, held captive in Iran, only a few days after Mr. Reagan's inaugural day, was not a credit to Mr. Regan, as Mossa hints, but to some obscure event or, as I sincerely believe, it was in defiance to his predecessor, Jimmy Carter.
During his tenure as President, Reagan was a key factor to another release of USA prisoners, this time, I believe, held hostage in Lebanon.
Although I sincerely believe that he didn't do it for political advance, Reagan dealt the release of them through an obscure, infamous agreement.
He sold arms to the terrorist Ayatollah in exchange for the prisoners.
In the final analysis the President gave in to terrorists; he sold them arms and lied to the Congress and to the America people. It was only towards the end on his second term that he publicly admitted the secret agreement.
The Iran-contras ignoble event is a matter of congressional record.
Mossa states that in 1981 Reagan came to rescue the economy of the country. We still remember that under Mr. Reagan's tenure, many banks collapsed and who doesn't remember the mortgage rates at double digits?
I remember it well and how. We had active equity in our homes that became passive over night. A friend of mine wanted to move from the city, but he couldn't sell his house because he needed $30.000 to sell it.(the market value went below his mortgage value) Through his "voodoo economics" he cut the income tax rates for the "upper 1%" one of the reasons that, when he left office in 1988, we had the biggest budget deficit in history, forcing his successor, George Bush, Sr. to enact huge tax increase, proved to be the main reason of "Mr. read my lips, no new tax" political downfall.
With an economy rescue like that, who needs an economy slum?
Do we forget that as a president he fired 11,000 air traffic controllers for the sole reason they dared to strike? Those 11,000 people never regained their positions. That much said for a defender of the laborers' s rights.
Do you forget that when 240+ Marines were killed (I believe in Beirut in 1983) the "Gipper" didn't do a thing to punish the responsible, setting (perhaps, I say may be) the pace for other terrorists attacks to go unpunished?(oh, yes,
I do remember that he assumed all the responsibilities for the attack (sic)
Do you forget that a "stars/palm reader" Nancy had great influence over some of his routine presidential decisions?
Mossa "assumption" that we live in a better world because of Reagan' s vision is the understatement of the year.
As for the lion and the lamb living peacefully together, I agree with him 100%. they should, but that feat can't be accomplished with a "strong military arm", as he asserts, but only when the lamb gets a fair share of the "action"
Jones Was Good For FRHS
Dear Editor;
Far Rockaway High School lost an excellent principal when Cheryll C. Jones retired this June. She came to Far Rockaway High School before there was a Department of Education. Before she came to our school, she discussed with Superintendent John Lee her 5-year plan. This was her third year. This year we graduated 50% more seniors than last year. Our passing rate on the regent's exams was improved. We were experiencing success with our community's children when the Department of Education came along. Why was the principal forced to retire?
It was Far Rockaway High School in the beginning of the year that brought to light the city's failure to implement a "superintendent suspension" system that existed before the DOE was formed, but never recreated. That is why the Chancellor chose Far Rockaway High School to have a press conference about "beefing up" security and suspensions in schools. By coincidence, one of the children at Far Rockaway High School began acting out and became disorderly, and with the press (both television and newspaper) present, was arrested. The chancellor, in my opinion put Far Rockaway on the list as one of the 12 worst due to this activity. How could he not when there was all this activity right in front of him and the reporters? This event put the principal on the chancellors 'B' list and did not endear her to the Regional Superintendent either.
Another event that probably put a nail in the principal's coffin occurred in the school's auditorium. The Regional Superintendent came to speak at an assembly of students. There she told them that although she has not been at Far Rockaway very much, she feels very strongly for Far Rockaway and thinks of us often. The kids laughed at her. That probably put the principal on the 'C' list.
One-day the superintendent addressed our faculty to announce that we were going to be blessed with a small school within our building. It seems that our building is under-utilized and we would have to give up some of our classrooms for another school to come in. This school (Fredrick Douglas Academy) will have only 100 students, seven teachers and a principal. Rather than give Far Rockaway enough money for creating smaller classes and other student services, the DOE decided that they would do to Far Rockaway what they did to Andrew Jackson and create multiple schools in one building. Anyone who knows about the schools knows that this model does not work. As a matter of fact, the four schools at Campus Magnet have such problems; the building has a 5th principal to oversee the other four principals. Seems to me that too much money is being spent on supervisors and not enough on the children. The Superintendents announcement to the faculty was not well received. This probably helped put the principal on the 'D' list.
The principal's supervisors were calling her at home, during weekends and during vacations. Everything they wanted her to do she did. All procedures they wanted us to put into place we already had in place. What our school did not have were the personnel to help clear the halls and get the children to the classrooms. That is what we got when we became an impact school. The additional agents allowed the school to get the children to class faster, more of them on time, and as a result, more of the children had success this year.
But do not be misled, the school's success was not only due to the additional agents. We were able to establish a "twilight school" for the most disruptive students, thus eliminating the need to divert administrative attention to those few students who caused much of the problems. We were able to establish a "late room" that was staffed and allowed the school to deal with students who were late on a routine basis. The teachers were able to start classes on time, more instruction was accomplished and the teachers, working with and under the guidance of the principal made the school better. The most amazing thing is that we had more success this year despite the constraints put on us by the DOE.
We must remember that we are working with children. Not all children react and respond to the same teaching methods. The DOE wanted to 'assembly line' the education process. We were told to do 4 square writing in every class, have read aloud's, implement the Region 5 workshop model (10 minutes of instruction, 20 minutes the children work together and then a 10 minute wrap up by the teacher and class) and 'ramp up'. Teachers become teachers because they want to have an impact on the child's life that will benefit the child. Mechanizing education prevents the teacher from utilizing teacher's "special skills" that each teacher brings to this profession. You know what I am talking about. Think of your favorite teachers from your days in High School and you will realize that the most memorable teachers had their own special styles that reached your soul and brought out something special in you. If you tie the teacher's hands, you demoralize the teacher and prevent the learning process from occurring. But I digress. This is about the principal.
It's only my opinion that she was punished by the superintendent because the regional superintendent did not like the reception she would get when she would come to the school. I think I should know. I spent many hours in the principal's office, on the floors of the school's hallways, at the student's entrance and in the superintendent's office. I wear many hats in the school, one of Dean, one of Teacher and one of UFT chapter leader. I worked with the parents, the children and the regional superintendent. No, the regional superintendent did not tell me this was the reason, but there can be no other. Ms. Jones did a wonderful job at our school and was forced to retire.
Now, we are facing a 1.5 million dollar cut in our budget. The extra agents will be pulled out of the school in September and we will have another school operating independently and cooperatively within our school. If I were a parent of a child who attended Far Rockaway High School I would be made as hell. How dare they reduce our budget? How dare they take away our security? How dare they make our classes 34 yet the new school will have 25 in a class? Why is the city trying to destroy our school? Removing a successful principal, (since the 1980's we have not had a principal stay more than five years) one who had the support of her staff, respect of the parents and children and who has shown improvement in all of her three years only sets the tone for a school re-routed to failure. The next principal is coming into a very difficult situation. I wish the new principal all the luck and success in the world. After all, my main concern is the children of Far Rockaway High School. The children should be all of our concern. Let the city show it cares about Far Rockaway. Talk is cheap and easy, doing the right thing is not. The only right thing the city has done for Far Rockaway was to add the extra agents and personnel to help the school run. Now they plan on taking all that away. What's next?
Bush Must Go In November
Dear Editor,
The Republican party of New York should be ashamed of itself. Why do they back a President who has caused our brave members of our armed forces to be killed? There is no need for our troops to be in Iraq any longer. Why put our young people in danger?
I call out to all Americans not to vote for the President in the upcoming election. Make him retire to his ranch in Texas. He did not win the election in an honest way in Florida. He bought the election, which alone makes many Americans not trust him. Now, with his big mistake in Iraq, it shows us that he is not a President that should be in office. He is only going to cause the United States of America to go down with his leadership.
Flatow Confronts Wohl
Dear Editor,
Your Editor's Desk report about Steve Wohl's terrible experience with the hindrance of beach access by authorities reminds of his confrontation with Flatow, Manhattan Coordinator of The Jamaica Bay Task Force.
Steve is one of Rockaway's strongest advocates of beach access as well as for conservation of natural areas and especially in the Arverne Urban Renewal Area. He proved it with his ticket blitzing experience-indeed a brave warrior for the cause!
Steve was confronted at a recent Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting by Eugenia Flatow, who tryed to have him cease one of his lengthy tirades against the rape of Averne and for conservation and beach access. He looks fierce but accepted a gentle tap on the back from her-after leaving her seat- to catch his attention wihou any reaction other than to look at her as in photo with Don Riepe (TheBay Guardian) looking on a bit stunned. It was exciting - especially for me who recognized the irony of the confrontation. She played a leading role in drafting the NYS Coastal Management Program(the NYC program an insert) and access and conservation are important policies of the programs. So after over 40 million dollars of federal funds to the programs since 1978-1982 (when eh programs were drafted) Rockaways' access problems continue and Arverne is being raped (and opinion given absence of water dependent and related developments and insufficient conservation). Steve's protest was more than valid. Thank you for your kind attention.


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Delcam Plc Managing Director Clive Martell announced that Delcam, the developer of the PartMaker, PowerMILL and FeatureCAM ranges of CAM software among others, has been selected for membership in Okuma America's Partners in THINC. This is a collaborative network of more than 40 companies that service the metalcutting and manufacturing industry with specialized software, equipment, expertise, and a commitment to solve problems and increase productivity for end users. With Okuma's open architecture, PC-based THINC-OSP control as its nucleus, Partners in THINC strive to provide the best possible integrated solutions to end users.
Delcam's CAM solutions are used by a variety of leading Okuma customers across a broad spectrum of industries and applications.
"The opportunity to partner with Okuma in this manner is a unique opportunity for both of our organizations" Martell says. "By joining forces with Okuma in this manner, we will have the opportunity further improve our products' integration with Okuma machine tools and controls while allowing Okuma users to become even more productive with their machine tools."