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An August 22 article in the UK's Times Online gave some insight into the paper's behind-the-scenes views with this headline, "Paris vacates the moral highground to give Washington a helping hand" (h/t Fausta).
For the Times, France's "moral highground" was a four-year diplomatic lock-out with Iraq that began after the "US-led invasion" (and, interestingly, at the end of several Frenchmen profiting from the corrupt UN Oil For Food scam) that Sarkozy broke by sending his Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner to Baghdad yesterday for a three-day fact-finding trip with the goal of helping the Iraqis, through the UN, rebuild and stabilize a country that could easily devolve into genocide without adequate attention.
The Times could have taken its own "moral highroad" by writing a headline that better reflected the article's contents and did not inject anti-Iraq war bias, but, instead, the paper chose to portray France as somehow morally deficient for wanting to help prevent the international spread of religious conflict, the destruction of a nation and Rwanda-like violence and death. Go figure.
The article explained France's use of limited engagement to help Iraq (emphasis mine):
The position had changed since President Chirac led an international coalition against the invasion, he said. "The world knows that the Americans cannot get this country out of its troubles all alone. The more the Iraqis seek the intervention of the United Nations, the more France will help them," he added.
"What plays out here will shape the world," he said, talking of the risk of spreading religious conflict. "We want to be at the side of this large and important country at the birth of its democracy."
Dr Kouchner used his fact-finding visit, during which he met Shia, Sunni, Kurdish and Christian leaders, to press the Iraqis to save and rebuild their nation. President Talabani and Nouri al-Maliki, the Prime Minister, called for French public and private investment in reconstructing their country. Iraqi media said that President Sarkozy was organising an international conference on Iraq, but French officials would not confirm this.
Yep, that's pretty immoral.
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Jake has cerebral palsy, and for years he was living in a nursing home. Several years ago, he, his mom Linda Elliot, and two other men brought a lawsuit against the Maine Department of Health and Human Services. Eventually the state agreed to create a waiver program and a new facility in Bangor called Knights Court.
"Here it is 6 years later and he's finally in his apartment," said Linda Elliot, Jake's mother.
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Chicago, IL--A recent study of FOUNDATION fieldbus installations by the Fieldbus Foundation (FF, Austin, TX) found there were 205,000 fieldbus devices and more than 4,000 fieldbus systems installed worldwide as of June 20, 2002.
Chicago, IL - A recent study of FOUNDATION fieldbus installations by the Fieldbus Foundation (FF, Austin, TX) found there were 205,000 fieldbus devices and more than 4,000 fieldbus systems installed worldwide as of June 20, 2002.
Richard Timoney, FF's president and ceo, added at Oct. 21 press conference at ISA 2002 that the foundation's current registered devices have reached 135 unique registered devices and 183 total devices. These include controllers, transmitters, mag meters, vortex meters, analyzers, valve positioners, data acquisition devices, barriers, terminators and power supplies. ''This represents a 31% increase since January 2002 for a total increase of 52% during the past 12 months,'' says Mr. Timoney.
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19% are used in petrochemical applications
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45% in food and beverage
21.5% in other applications
''And the pulp and paper figure is about increase dramatically because a FF-member company just announced that another 3,500 FOUNDATION fieldbus-registered devices are about to be added to the Cellulosa Araucco pulp mill neat Santiago, Chile,'' says Mr. Timoney.
Mr. Timoney added that the foundation now has eight hosts that are tested and compliant with FOUNDATION fieldbus Host Interoperability Support Test (HIST), as well as four registered High-Speed Ethernet (HSE) linking devices.
In addition, FF's membership has been increasing 12% per year, and now includes almost 200 members worldwide. These consist of 39% in Europe; 37% in North America; and 24% in the Asia-Pacific region.
Also, recent technological developments, such as HSE and flexible function blocks, may soon expand the range of FOUNDATION fieldbus applications into continuous process, batch and discrete automation. In fact, if its board approves the idea, FF could shortly begin seeking to develop a test for hybrid control systems.
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Raptors center Aaron Gray underwent a procedure Monday aimed at preventing episodes of a rapid heart rate that have kept the four-year veteran out of action so far this season. He's expected to return in two weeks. The procedure, known as an ablation, was performed at a Toronto hospital. Gray, who signed a free-agent deal with the Raptors on Dec. 11, played in both of Toronto's preseason games before being sidelined by a rapid heart rate. He was initially cleared to return for Toronto's Dec. 28 home opener against Indiana, but the team decided to get him through a full practice before he returned to game action. A second-round pick by Chicago in 2007, Gray has also played for the New Orleans Hornets. The seven-footer averaged 3.1 points and 4.2 rebounds last season. Goaltender Jonas Gustavsson of the Toronto Maple Leafs underwent a similar procedure in 2009.
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ABU DHABI (Reuters) - WGC-World Match Play champion Ian Poulter has called for a change to the European Ryder Cup qualifying system.
Last year the top four players on the world points list qualified first before the leading five on the European points list not already in the team made up the automatic nine members of the 12-man team that were finally supplemented by three wildcard choices.
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Recently several regular contributors to The Spinning Wheel Sleuth and I organized displays of our spinning wheels in a variety of venues. Sometimes the exhibit was part of a spinning conference, in another case it was in a college library, while others were part of annual state and county fairs. Sometimes the display only lasted for one to three days, another for five weeks, and in one case about a year. The purpose of all of these exhibits was to educate the general public about the many types of spinning wheels developed in many places over the years.
My exhibit was at SOAR, the Spin-Off Autumn Retreat. It is a small three-day conference sponsored by Spin-Off, a national magazine for handspinners. Each year they hold it in a different region of the United States. In October 2011 SOAR was held in Manchester, NH. Since this is just 45 minutes from the my home, I offered to bring some of my rare and unusual spinning wheels for a display. The two tables in the SOAR Market with the vendors provided just enough space for the nine wheels that I brought. There were two categories, simple and elegant, and double components. The simple and elegant were the A-frame wheel, the chair- frame wheel, the Bryce patent wheel, the Swiss upright wheel, and the Danner "cassel" wheel. The double components were a Farnham-style double-wheel and double treadle wheel, a Solomon Plant double-flyer wheel, a Sanford-style double-flyer wheel, and a Turkish, double-wheel spinning wheel.
Simple and elegant
Double components
My main adventure was transporting the wheels. In retrospect I should have rented a van, but I was rescued by my husband, Peter, an artist/engineer. He made special wooden side rails for his small pick-up truck. Each wheel was tied with cloth strips to keep any of the parts from moving. The four wheels that rode in the truck were wrapped in old blankets and mattress pads and placed into very large yellow plastic bags. The bags were tied with rubber bands at the top. Strong rope was stretched across the rails on the sides of the truck to make a "cat's cradle." One bagged wheel was placed in each sector, and then they were tied around the top to secure them. Peter drove very slowly up the highway.
Tied up
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The other five wheels were either in boxes in the passenger seat, or in the back of my Jeep. Everything arrived safely. All the blankets and bags were labeled with the name of the spinning wheel so we were able to pack up everything quickly at the end of the conference with the help of a couple of friends.
Michael Taylor was invited to organize a display in the Legacy Library on the Marietta College campus, in Marietta, OH, where he teaches. The theme of the display, which will be up for about a year, is patented spinning wheels. In most cases they are relatively small and could fit into the locked display cabinet. Michael Taylor is co-author, with David Pennington, of Spinning Wheels and Accessories. [Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2004.]
Exhibit at Legacy Library
Top left is a Daniel Read's "Pleasant Spinner," the patent is ca. 1811. Top right is a J.W. Burkhart patent wheel [1868] with a decal calling it a "Burkheart (sic) Patent Wheel" made and sold by the Hawkins Brothers. Bottom right is a Wilson and Fairbanks patent wheel [1866]. The large wheel at the bottom left center is a Skinner patent wheel that is adjustable in height. The patent from 1818 notes that it "is peculiarly adapted for the ease of the feeble, infirm, and children."
Mary Knox presented an exhibit of New Zealand-made spinning wheels as part of the annual spin-in of the Wairarapa Spinners and Weavers Guild held in Masterton in September 2011. Thirty five wheels were displayed, and only wheels no longer made were included. They were arranged by time period, from the 1930s to the 1990s. Most of the wheels were loaned by members of the Guild and some by The Wool Shed, the National Museum of Sheep and Shearing. Its Web site is www.thewoolshednz.com. Visitors were amazed by the number and variety of wheels. More information about all the wheel makers can be found on Mary's website www.nzspinningwheels.info and in her bookNew Zealand Spinning Wheels and Their Makers.
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Photo 1. 1930s-40s
Harold Martin
John Moore "Karure"
Guy Wagg
John Moore "Miro"
Unknown maker
Photo 2. 1960-70s
Istvan Nagy
Early Baynes
Kenneth Bartlett
Photo 3. 1960s-70s
Sidney Wing
Sleeping Beauty "Thumbelina"
Nees "Homespinner"
John Beauchamp
Photo 4. 1960s-70s
I.G. Mathieson
Charles Tyler "Dot"
Photo 5. 1970s-80s
Philip Poore, Pipy "Wendy"
Keneila "Imp"
Derek Kerwood
Rappard "Little Peggy"
Photo 6. 1970s-80s
Rappard "Mitzi"
Graham Collins "Cherub"
Leo Phelps "Leola"
Ivan McGreevy "Fleur"
Ron Shearman
Kim Caulfield organized a display of sheep and spinning related items at the Tennessee State Fair in Nashville for ten days in September 2011. The display was set up inside two oversized livestock pens. The spinning wheels were mostly from her own and her mother's collections, but she also was able to borrow some. She set the wheels out in a semi-logical order to illustrate the history of spinning. The story began in the first pen with a table holding various types and styles of spindles, and three types of charkhas, small spindle wheels. From the charkhas, it scaled up to the three great wheels, also known as high, walking, or wool wheels. General signs explained high wheels and the use of Miner's heads on them. She also was able to borrow an unusual track wheel from the Falls Mill's Museum of Power and Industry in Belvidere, TN. The next pen was all flyer wheels, both horizontal and vertical, from many countries including a wrought iron parlor wheel and three double-flyer wheels. She created signs to explain how and why spinning-wheel designs changed over the years, as well as individual signs about the history of each wheel. Up front was a table with a spinning wheel from Germany that was donated as a raffle prize. Her aim was public education, as well as the awe and delight of seeing a variety of wheels. The display was indeed a success.
Track wheel
Great wheels
Flyer wheels
German spinning wheel for raffle
Susie Henzie was invited to contribute spinning wheels and looms from her extensive collection to an exhibit called Eclections: The Art of Collecting. It was part of the Los Angles County Fair in Pomona, CA, for five weeks in September and October 2011. Curated by Tony Sheets, there were about 30 different collections in the Millard Sheets Art Building. The aim was to teach people to understand arts and crafts. Susie's spinning wheels, looms, and related tools occupied a long wall under the heading The Henzie Collection. She provided notes for each of the almost 50 items displayed, which were arranged by continent, Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas. Many of the smaller looms and wheels were attached by brackets to the walls. Some of her miniatures were in glass cases. It was an awesome exhibit.
View of wall 1
View of wall 2
Asia and Africa
Europe and Asia
Europe 1
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God doesn't speak through bright lights and fireworks. More often then not, God uses ordinary events, ordinary days, ordinary people.
Through this ordinary croquet ball, God filled me with an amazing desire and need for prayer. I could tell you the story, but it would take away from the point. It wasn't something big.
One little girl looking for something.
One simple prayer.
One prayer answered.
And one person filled with an intense desire for more.Until you have tasted something so sweet as an answered prayer, you don't realize how amazingly powerful and wonderful it is.
A few weeks ago, we found out that my beautiful baby sibling went to sit with Jesus. Our hearts went from rejoicing to breaking. I have never in my fourteen years known such pain.
But it was prayer that lifted us up.
My little sibling has the privilege of being at the throne of God and communicating face-to-face with Him. And we too can have that same communication.
Through prayer.And it was through this ordinary way. This ordinary croquet ball, that I learned to depend or prayer.
It was years ago that the croquet ball event happened. But through that experience, that I didn't think anything of at the time, my redeemer taught me something wonderful . . . that was the only thing for me to depend on in these past few weeks.
Prayer is a beautiful thing. Communication directly with the creator of the universe.
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LOUISVILLE - A Kentucky medical team has painstakingly repaired the disfiguring injuries to a woman's face, caused by radiation treatments for a cancer she never had that caused a gaping hole in her cheek and made her an outcast in a former Soviet republic.
Lessya Kotelevskaya was recovering Tuesday following the 16-hour surgery the day before at University of Louisville Hospital.
Her surgeon, Dr. Jarrod Little, said the procedure to reconstruct her jawbone and cheek went according to plan.
"Lessya cannot wait to get back to her normal life," her cousin, Oleg Sennik, told reporters.
The 30-year-old's life spiraled into tragedy when she was diagnosed with terminal jaw cancer at age 19 in Kazakhstan after she was accidentally elbowed in the face at a basketball game and her jaw became swollen. The damage from radiation treatments made it difficult to eat and talk.
Sennik spent years searching for his younger cousin, and when he found her she was a mere 79 pounds and living in the shadows of life in Kazakhstan, where the Ukrainian native had lived since childhood. By the time she found out the cancer diagnosis was wrong, she had lost her husband and their clothing boutique. She scraped by for years with odd jobs at night so people wouldn't see her. At one point, she lived in the utility room of a car wash.
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What are rhinitis and post-nasal drip?
Rhinitis is inflammation of the inner lining of the nose and it has many different causes. Rhinitis is a very common condition. Symptoms include:
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A significant association exists between rhinitis (allergic), asthma, and chronic sinusitis (inflammation of the sinuses for more than 12 weeks) in some individuals. Some evidence suggests that up to 3 of every 5 patients have multiple conditions.
Post-nasal drip is mucus accumulation in the back of the nose and throat leading to, or giving the sensation of, mucus dripping downward from the back of the nose. One of the most common characteristics of chronic rhinitis is post-nasal drip. Post-nasal drip may lead to chronic sore throat, chronic cough, or throat clearing. Post-nasal drip can be caused by excessive or thick mucus secretions or impairment in the normal clearance of mucus from the nose and throat.
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Rhinitis has many possible causes. Rhinitis can be either acute or chronic, and is categorized into three areas: allergic rhinitis, non-allergic rhinitis, and mixed rhinitis (a combination of allergic and non-allergic).
Allergic rhinitis is the most common cause of rhinitis. It is caused by environmental allergies and is characterized by an itchy or runny nose, sneezing, and nasal congestion. Other allergic symptoms include:
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Seasonal allergic rhinitis (hay fever) is usually caused by pollen in the air, and sensitive patients have symptoms during peak times during the year.
Perennial allergic rhinitis, a type of chronic rhinitis is a year-round problem, and is often caused by indoor allergens (particles that cause allergies), such as dust and animal dander in addition to pollens that may exist at the time. Symptoms tend to occur regardless of the time of the year.


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Making A Difference: During the bishops' fall assembly, several bishops and one abbot walked to an inner city parish to share a simple meal with peace activists -- myself included.
Making A Difference: During the bishops' fall assembly, several bishops and one abbot walked to an inner city parish to share a simple meal with peace activists -- myself included.
Iowa Catholic leaders, interfaith leaders, clean energy advocates and others encouraged Iowans to take action in light of Pope Francis' historic encyclical on the environment, "Laudato Si', on Care for Our Common Home."
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It seems these days there's nary a public procession through New York's streets that Cardinal Timothy Dolan can't get behind.
Nearly two weeks after he said he had no qualms with the decision to allow gay groups to participate in the city's annual St. Patrick's Day parade under their own banners, Dolan took to his blog Tuesday to promote the People's Climate March, scheduled for Sunday morning.
Faith and Justice: A journalist has some failings he'd like to get off his chest, so he goes to see a priest for confession.
Eco Catholic: "We support a national standard to reduce carbon pollution and recognize the important flexibility given to states in determining how best to meet these goals."
Saying the United States has a special responsibility to the people of Iraq, the chairman of the U.S. bishops' Committee on International Justice and Peace called for diplomatic measures rather than a military response to the crisis facing the country.
NCR Today: High school students (again) give witness to mercy, tolerance; Forth Worth shuts lay-run retreat center; Bishop Pates on climate change.
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Folic acid, also called folate, is an important vitamin in the development of a healthy fetus. Although taking this vitamin cannot guarantee having a healthy baby, it can help. Studies have shown that by adding folic acid to their diets, women of childbearing age significantly reduce their risk of having a child with a neural tube defect such as spina bifida. Therefore, it is recommended that all women of childbearing age consume 400 micrograms of folic acid daily. Foods high in folic acid include dark green vegetables, egg yolks, and some fruits. Many foods -- such as some breakfast cereals, enriched breads, flours, pastas, rice, and other grain products -- are now fortified with folic acid. Most multivitamins contain this recommended dosage of folic acid.
Women who have a child with spina bifida, have spina bifida themselves, or have already had a pregnancy affected by any neural tube defect are at greater risk (anywhere from five to 10 percent of the general population) of having a child with spina bifida or another neural tube defect. These women may benefit from taking a higher daily dose of folic acid before they become pregnant.
What is the prognosis for spina bifida?
Children with spina bifida can lead relatively active lives. Prognosis, activity, and participation depends on the number and severity of abnormalities and associated personal and environmental factors. Many children with the disorder have normal intelligence and can walk, usually with assistive devices. If learning problems develop, early educational intervention is helpful.
What research is being done on spina bifida?
Within the Federal Government, the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), supports and conducts research on brain and nervous system disorders, including spina bifida. NINDS conducts research in its laboratories at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland, and supports research through grants to medical research institutions across the country.
In one study supported by NINDS, scientists are looking at the hereditary basis of neural tube defects. The goal of this research is to find the genetic factors that make some children more susceptible to neural tube defects than others. Lessons learned from this research may fill in gaps of knowledge about the causes of neural tube defects and may lead to ways to prevent these disorders. These researchers are also studying gene expression during the process of neural tube closure, which will provide information on the human nervous system during development.
In addition, NINDS-supported scientists are working to identify, characterize, and evaluate genes for neural tube defects. The goal is to understand the genetics of neural tube closure, and to develop information that will translate into improved clinical care, treatment, and genetic counseling.
Other scientists are studying genetic risk factors for spina bifida, especially those that diminish or lessen the .function of folic acid in the mother during pregnancy, possibly leading to spina bifida in the fetus. This study will shed light on how folic acid prevents spina bifida and may lead to improved forms of folate supplements.
NINDS also supports and conducts a wide range of basic research studies to understand how the brain and nervous system develop. These studies contribute to a greater understanding of neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and offer hope for new avenues of treatment for and prevention of these disorders as well as other birth defects.
Another component of the NIH, the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), is conducting a school-age follow-up assessment of prenatal vs. postnatal repair of myelomeningocele. The MOMS2 study, a continuation of the Management of Myelomeningocele Study, will better establish which procedure is best for intelligence and bladder and bowel outcome years after the surgery. Researchers hope this study, called the Management of Myelomeningocele Study, or MOMS, will better establish which procedure -- prenatal or postnatal -- is best for the baby.
"Spina Bifida." National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke. Sept. 2013.


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Paul Tang, M.D., M.S., vice president and chief medical information officer at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation (PAMF), was voted as one of the 50 most powerful physician executives in health care by readers of Modern Physician and Modern Healthcare magazines. Dr. Tang was ranked 11th in an impressive line up of health care industry leaders. This is the fourth time that Dr. Tang has been voted to the list, and the highest he has ever placed.
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Dogs wearing clothes? Really? Yes, really! Dog clothes is not just for toy breed dogs carried in purses. Those dogs are very cute, but today items for dogs to wear come in all shapes and sizes – from Chihuahuas to Great Danes - and for many different purposes. Granted, if you have a St. Bernard or an Alaskan Malamute, your dog isn't going to need a winter jacket. But how about some boots to protect his paws from road salt and other chemicals?
If you browse through a dog supply catalog, either in the mail or online, you'll find many different options for dog clothing and accessories. Most are strictly decorative, of course. A neighbor's daughter has a long-haired Chihuahua who is always wearing clothes; usually little dresses that look like doll clothes. Personally, I think that's a little much, but the dog is happy and so is the teen-aged daughter, so who am I to judge?
Winter clothing can be important for many dogs though, especially in colder climates. Short-hair dogs such as Doberman Pinschers, Jack Russell Terriers, Rat Terriers, Miniature Pinschers, and Greyhounds feel the cold quickly and may start shivering long before we do. These dogs will appreciate a sweater in the house and a jacket outside on cold days and nights.
Rain jackets have become popular for dogs of many sizes and can protect the dog on cold, rainy or snowy days. These offer advantages for you too. If your dog doesn't get quite as wet while walking in the rain, it will take less time for you to dry him off when you get home.
Boots for dogs have been around for many years but have increased in popularity. Boots can be especially important in cold climates, both to protect the paws from salt and chemicals, but also to protect the paws from snow and ice building up between the pads. They can also provide more traction. My dogs have all been introduced to boots, not for the mild winters here in San Diego, but for hot summer days when the asphalt is hot and could burn paws.
Whether you're looking at clothes to keep your dog warm inside, protective clothing for winter wear outside, decorative clothing, or boots for winter wear, make sure the items fit your dog correctly. The clothing should be comfortable for your dog and not constrict his movements. It shouldn't rub under his front legs or in the groin. His tail needs to be free and he should be able to relieve himself.
The makers of boots offer detailed instructions as to sizing the boots and it's important to follow their directions. Your dog will be just as uncomfortable with poorly fitted boots as you are with shoes that don't fit.
Introducing your dog to clothes and boots can be tough if your dog has never worn anything previously. Have some treats at hand and an old tee shirt that is ready to be used as a rag. Drape it over your dog, praise him and pop a treat in his mouth. Remove the shirt and do it again. Just toss it over his shoulders, back, or hips. Laugh, pet your dog, and make a game out of it.
The next day, put one of your dog's legs through the arm of the shirt, praise your dog and give him a treat. Do this with each leg in turn, one at a time, and then put his head through the neck opening of the tee shirt. Again, keep it fun.
Using a couple of old socks (even if they are huge for your dog), place them on two of your dog's paws. Laugh, giggle, pet your dog, and give him a treat. Wrap a scarf around your dog, put some ear muffs on him, or a hat. During all of this your goal is to teach your dog that wearing things like this is fun. You're also teaching your dog that he can trust you.
Then, when you get some boots for your dog or a winter jacket, introduce it the same way. Keep it light-hearted, fun, and use treats to reward him for his cooperation.
When asking your dog to wear clothes of any kind, keep an eye on him. He can get a leg out of the leg hole and get all tangled, the clothes could rub him raw, or he could panic. Supervise him and keep checking that everything fits, is safe, and is worn correctly. Make sure, too, that your dog doesn't get overheated; especially when wearing something in the house. Be safe.
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PHILADELPHIA, Pa. -- University of Michigan ice hockey incoming freshman Dylan Larkin (Waterford, Mich.) became the 18th player in program history selected in the first round of the NHL Entry Draft, going 15th overall to the Detroit Red Wings on Friday (June 27) at Wells Fargo Center, home of the Philadelphia Flyers.
Larkin was ranked 17th among North American skaters by the NHL's Central Scouting Service after a standout season with the United States National Team Development Program in 2013-14. A 6-foot, 192-pound forward, Larkin appeared in 60 games for the USNTDP Under-18 team and finished fourth on the team in scoring with 56 points (31 goals, 25 assists) in 60 games.
In April, he helped the United States earn gold at the 2014 IIHF Under-18 World Championship in Finland, recording four points (two goals, two assists) in six games. Larkin had 27 points (13 goals, 14 assists) in 55 games with the Under-17 team in 2012-13 and played in the Belle Tire Midget Minor (Mich.) program before joining the USNTDP.
Larkin is the first Michigan player or commit to be taken in the first round of the NHL Draft since Winnipeg selected Jacob Trouba with the ninth overall pick in 2012. Larkin is the 10th highest pick in U-M history and the sixth U-M player or commit to be selected by the Red Wings.
The 2014 NHL Entry Draft will continue on Saturday (June 28) with rounds 2-7, beginning at 10 a.m. All six remaining rounds will air live on the NHL Network.
Michigan First-Round NHL Draft Selections
Year Name, Team (Overall Pick No.)
1976 David Shand, ATL (8th)
1987 Bryan Deasley, CGY (19th)
1991 Aaron Ward, WIN (5th)
1992 Ryan Sittler*, PHI (7th)
1994 Jason Botterill, DAL (20th)
1998 Mike Van Ryn, NJ (26th)
1999 Jeff Jillson, SJ (14th)
2001 Mike Komisarek, MTL (7th)
2002 Eric Nystrom, CGY (10th)
2003 Jeff Tambellini, LA (27th)
2004 Al Montoya, NYR (6th)
2005 Jack Johnson*, CAR (3rd)
2005 Andrew Cogliano*, EDM (25th)
2006 Mark Mitera, ANA (19th)
2006 Chris Summers*, PHO (29th)
2007 Max Pacioretty*, MTL (22nd)
2012 Jacob Trouba*, WPG (9th)
2014 Dylan Larkin, DET (15th)
Michigan Commits/Players Drafted By Detroit Red Wings
1982 Greg Hudas* (7th round, 128th overall)
1988 Don Stone (12th round, 248th overall)
1991 Mike Knuble* (4th round, 76th overall)
1993 Kevin Hilton (3rd round, 74th overall)
2014 Dylan Larkin* (1st round, 15th overall)
* Drafted before starting freshman year at Michigan
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I work with customers every day in a very large body shop and I have to tell you that line "every body shop would have some flaws" is the WORSE, you can't getting anymore wrong in something to say to a customer. The guy is a moron. If there is a flaw, something that is not a quality control "part issue" then you FIX IT. Even a factory flawed part gets fixed if it can. Somethings can't like a flawed chrome piece or plastic lense or something like that. We will order another, if it is flawed in the same way, than that is out of our control. But even a poor fitting new GM fender or something like that, we would massage it until it fits, if that requires repainting, so be it. The customer MUST be happy with the work.
When it comes to customer service, even when the customer is wrong, we make it right, PERIOD.
No, every bodyshop wouldn't be leaving parts off.
You know what cracks me up about this guy, when I am delivering a car to a customer and they see something as stupid as the bodyman left the friggin seal out of the door or that foam off, I am EMBARRASSED! I am not about to try and "talk my way out of it". It is a friggin IGNORANT thing for the bodyman to do and I am EMBARRASSED. I WILL make that good, I don't care what has to be done, but it will be done NOW. If the original is lost (likely the foam is lost) then a new one is ordered, if it is days away it is next day aired on our dime. Something as IGNORANT as this, are you kidding me? We take care of it NOW so we don't look any more IGNORANT than forgetting it in the first place!
Does it happen? Yes, I have been delivering cars with stuff this stupid wrong. And YES I am embarrassed and take care of it RIGHT NOW!
Good luck, and I have been amazed at how the GM customer service dept WILL make things happen.
We were working on an SSR and was told by the parts dept that the chrome grille was discontinued. This is a VERY good parts man who will find us just about anything. So if he says it, it's true. So my employer (a lady) gets on the phone with GM customer service and I am thinking "Yeah right, go ahead and waste your time". I walked out of the office for something and forgot all about it. The next day over the production meeting she says that GM called her back and said that some of these chrome grilles had been "released". I called my parts guy, he checked again and the friggin grille was available!
So YES, the GM customer service my very well help you.
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B2 the right of different groups of people to have a similar social position and receive the same treatment(社会地位、待遇上的)平等;均等
equality between the sexes 男女平等
racial equality 种族平等
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Five Things I Don't Believe In
"Those who never retract their opinions love themselves more than they love truth."
Joseph Joubert
I sat down this afternoon to watch the sunset and my thoughts soon had me turning over some conversations and experiences from the first months of this year. Many people I've spoken to recently have been questioning some of their beliefs, which is pretty common as we get older. It got me wondering about some of the things where my opinion has changed, so here is a short list of things I no longer believe in.
Work As A Chore – when I hear people complain about it being Monday or listen to the famous cry, Thank God it's Friday, I feel sad. These sentiments say nothing profound about work itself, they merely reflect poor life choices, or the consequences of limited options. Work is noble, work shapes and civilises us, work is, as Kahil Gibran said, "love made visible."
Community – I believe in family, in friends, even in civil society, but I don't believe in community. I understand and remember the camaraderie that comes with striving to a shared purpose, in a team, club, workplace or church group, but I don't believe in community. Interestingly, some of the people I know who are really successful online and in social media are also skeptical about the idea of community.
Being Discovered – there is no more stupid, disenabling and enfeebling idea living parasitically in the minds of artists and especially musicians, than the notion of getting discovered. We've even carried it into the digital age, which makes no sense, since in every way it is now harder, not easier to discover creative work that is not being constantly pushed to the front of the avalanche of stuff we see every day.
Lifestyle – I'm always more than a little confused when I hear people talk about their "lifestyle." I struggle to believe I once dropped this pointless term into conversations. Lifestyle seems to mean how impressive, expensive and envy-inducing your leisure time is, or sometimes it means personal moral choices which shouldn't need to be justified or explained. Neither of which is a fertile ground for interesting conversation or thought.
The Power Of Ideas – I love ideas, but we live in a post-ideas age. Knowledge is no longer power in an age where access to information is ubiquitous. I grew up having to derive solutions from a limited pool of information I could access, but children today can google anything. Who even needs to take notes?


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Need help finding GM and RM module numbers
Hi guys,
I was recently flooded by hurricane Sandy and my GM module and RM modules got fried under my backseat. I am trying to figure out which numbers can be used to replace mine.
The GM # is 61.35-1 388 523
The RM # is 61.35-1 379 741
Any help would be great as I am a father to 5 at home and have to currently leave my wife without a vehicle in order to get back and forth to work.
How do you know they are fried? If your car got that much flood it's totaled end of story.
I pulled them out and had them checked. The car drives, the windows are all down and the sunroof is open. Other than that the car works but its 48 degrees out on average :-(
I would have helped you but I have a 540I
Hello David. Go to realoem.com. Click enter. Plug in your vehicle information (the last 7 of your VIN). Drill down to the part # you are looking for. Go back to the page where you selected your vehicle.
In red, you will see a part number application search. Plug in the part number and click search. It will bring up all of the models that have the same part number for which you are looking.
Hope this helps and good luck.
Found both parts, Thank you.
If this doesn't fix my problem I will be parting out this car. Anyone needing 1991 525i parts keep an eye open or message me.
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If you read the headline and thought "belts and zippers!" or something along those lines, you're not alone. Final Fantasy designer and Kingdom Hearts mastermind Tetsuya Nomura had the opportunity to celebrate 75 years of Batman and re-imagine the Caped Crusader for a Variant Play Arts Kai figure, and the results are as out-there as you might expect.
There's currently no price or release date, and the version on display at this week's San Diego Comic-Con is a prototype, but you can see what he cooked up in the pics below.
Batman is part of a line of figures featuring original designs by Nomura, so we should be seeing more of his work on it in the future.
Meanwhile, figures-maker NECA has a very different Batman toy based on the 1989 movie's Sunsoft-developed Nintendo game. Like Friday the 13th's Jason and Nightmare on Elm Street's Freddy before it, this figure replicates the color scheme of its NES sprite.
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Reversing a Radical Rewrite: Can Boehner Go Bipartisan?
It's hard to see clearly through the wreckage of the House transportation bill, but Speaker John Boehner's actions last week—saying his chamber would work with legislation put forth by the Democratic Senate, "or something like it," and asking Railroad Subcommittee Chairman Bill Shuster to lead the way—suggest the speaker might actually be looking to win minority votes on a bill he touted as a boon for long-term job growth.
The stunning turnaround came as Boehner at last admitted defeat on the unpopular five-year legislation he and transportation chairman John Mica put forth. Reminiscent of the FAA showdown, which left congressional leadership singed, the current transportation authorization expires March 31st, and has already been extended eight times since its expiration in 2009.
There was plenty not to like in the House bill, which would have paid for transportation in part with a controversial extension of oil and gas drilling and would have exiled transit projects from the highway trust fund, undoing a legacy left by Ronald Reagan. Conservatives complained that the price tag was too high, while moderate metropolitan Republicans chafed at the snub to mass transit funding. U.S. Secretary Ray LaHood, himself a former Republican congressman, repeatedly trashed the bill as "lousy," "terrible," "the worst bill in decades" and "taking us back to the horse and buggy days."
Even had it passed the House, the Boehner-Mica bill's severe provisions would have guaranteed a showdown with the Senate, almost surely leading to gridlock and brinkmanship. This just as independent voters are recoiling even further from what they see as congressional dysfunction and party extremism.
In the absence of consensus among Republicans, Boehner's decision to shelve the bill seems apt. More telling, though, was his move to bench Mica and enlist Shuster. Congressional Quarterly, in initially reporting the decision, painted the hand-off as a rebuke of Mica, presumably for failing to gather and hold Republican support. The speaker's office insists that wasn't the intent, however, and indeed an alternate narrative seems plausible: Boehner is trying to reach across the aisle.
Going bipartisan would be so unusual for House Republicans, many activists fear it's a feign or a trap. But if Boenher wanted to use the week long recess to regroup and try to shore up Republican support, he could have easily stuck with Mica, who authored the bill to Boehner's liking and who has repeatedly bent loyally to the prevailing conservative winds in the House. Instead, the speaker tapped Bill Shuster, a moderate on transportation who hails from Pennsylvania, a half-urban, half-rural state that relies fairly heavily on rail (and which produced the pro-transit Senator Rick Santorum).
Perhaps more importantly, Bill Shuster is a Shuster. His father, Bud Shuster, chaired the House transportation committee from 1995 until he resigned from Congress in 2001—largely because a party policy on term limitations for committee heads forced him to give up his beloved chairmanship. Bill took Bud's seat in a special election later that year.
During the six-year Shuster chairmanship, as with the six-year reign of Don Young that followed, the task of transportation lawmaking was carried out with great bipartisan comity and, not unrelated, rampant earmarking. The chairmen got their pork—Young his infamous Alaskan bridges to nowhere and the senior Shuster the irregularly numbered Interstate 99, now the "Bud Shuster Highway"—but so did their colleagues.
The last two long-term surface transportation reauthorizations happened under these men's watch, and in those votes and several since the players who are today taking center stage showed their colors. When Bud Shuster sponsored TEA-21 in 1998, Mica voted for it, and Boehner voted against it. When Young sponsored SAFETEA-LU in 2005, Mica and Bill Shuster voted for it, and Boehner was one of only nine who voted against it. In 2008, when the new Democratic chairman Jim Oberstar pushed through Amtrak reauthorization, Mica and Bill Shuster voted for that too, and Boehner voted against it.
To his credit, Boehner has been consistent in pining for fundamental changes in transportation funding. In 2005, sore about earmarking in SAFETEA-LU and Ohio's status as a "donor state" (one that pays more into the Highway Trust fund than it gets back from Washington), he argued that "in a perfect world, the states would keep the taxes they collect and the federal government would only get involved in those projects that are inherently federal."
By contrast, Mica spoke in favor of SAFETEA-LU's increased funding, though he wanted more donor/donee equity, then he boasted of the money he brought home. In 2007, after the I-35 bridge collapse, he was thinking big, meeting with President Bush to explain the urgency of a national infrastructure effort. Shortly after, he told the Texas Transportation Summit that the nation's infrastructure needed dramatic overhaul, even mentioning high speed rail and inland waterways, two sectors that probably weren't represented in Texas enough for this to be considered pandering.
As we know, Mica's excitement about high speed rail waned after the 2010 midterm elections made him chairman. He cooperated with his party leadership's efforts to constrain the budget and defeat President Obama's infrastructure initiatives. But Bill Shuster hasn't been quite so loyal. He has parted ways with Boehner and Mica when necessary to support transportation funding, and he has often prevailed. In 2007, Shuster voted against an unsuccessful Republican effort to defund Amtrak by half a billion dollars; the other two voted for it. In 2008, Shuster was the only one of the three to support Oberstar's National Highway Bridge Reconstruction and Inspection Act, which passed the House 367-55.
Shuster's rhetoric has also been maverick -- for a Republican. In 2005, when both Boehner and Mica publicly complained about the federal redistribution of state tax revenues, Shuster actually defended the doner/donee designations, and called out Mica's home state in the process.
"It has been the wise practice in surface transportation reauthorization to take into account that some regions are saddled with greater needs than others and need a larger rate of return to maintain our national transportation system," he said on the floor of the House.
Pennsylvania "ranks third in the amount of through truck traffic that neither originates nor terminates in the State. Pennsylvania receives little benefit from such commerce traveling through our State, yet States such as Florida, which is able to get its goods to the large Northeastern markets, benefit, while we still suffer from the constant pounding and damage caused by this through traffic." Apparently Shuster didn't get the memo.
Given Shuster's moderate views and votes, it's hard to imagine that Boenher would swap Mica for Shuster if the plan was for Republicans to hold their ground and fight. At any rate, Democrats are taking the Pennsylvanian's new prominence as a good sign. Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had kind, hopeful words for Shuster. "His father I knew very well," he told The Hill. "If his son is anything like the dad, it will help get this bill done."
And if the son is shopping legislation that's a little more like his dad's, that'll probably help too.
(Hat tip to the essential Project Vote Smart)
Matt Dellinger is the author of the book Interstate 69: The Unfinished History of the Last Great American Highway. You can follow him on Twitter.


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I do love a dinner with fashion forward kids who know clothes and make clothes and turn their purchases inside out to look at the seams and the finish.
And there was TI at Mazzo when the post #PFW analysis inevitably turned to the season's scandale du success, Saint Laurent FW 13. That offering by Hedi Slimane has certainly garnered its heavy share of abuse but my company, those very fashion forward kids all born circa 1993, poured TI a startling cup of scalding tea.
All that eparter-ing of the bourgeoise. All that gutting of the perfect good taste that spelt "Yves"...well the kids assured TI that this is the new path of the house intent on a radical realignment with the New Digital Youth Culture.
The kids hissed that while SLP SS13 is moving briskly at retail and buyers raved on the exquisite quality control of the pieces, the thought was there was enough bourgeoise perfection on the racks and not enough "contemporary" now culture in the stores. And so while YSL and its cosmetics empire still exists for that woman of good taste, then Saint Laurent is meant to speak to the new kids. With a budget. And a perverse taste in dressing waaaaaay down at premium prices.
Thus the new thrust. Don't expect revivals or any attempt to walk in Yves Saint Laurent's foot steps. The thought is that history is written and can never be bettered.
Better to take the strands of the brand and rewire it as a whole new experience for a whole new generation in the hopes that that will put some extra Ka-ching in the Kering. And that directive is said to be a strategy as advanced by a legendary business mind well acquainted with said brand.
Oh the perversity!