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August 29, 2013
Kaskaskia Island Church Picnic is this Sunday
The annual Immaculate Conception Church Picnic will be held this Sunday on historic Kaskaskia Island.
A new attraction this year is a Static World War II Exhibit. The exhibit will be open from 10am to 4pm.
There will be games, a lot of good food, a country store and more this Sunday. A Cash & Quilt Bingo will be held beginning at 1pm and the Picnic Raffle Drawing will be held at 7pm.
A tractor/truck pull will be held during the picnic along with a horseshoe tournament.
No food or drink will be allowed to be brought in to the fairground but lawn chairs are welcome.
Those attending the picnic are reminded that if you use "H" Road in Missouri to drive to the island, a portion of the road is closed and a detour is in place.


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Art Show Benefit for Marginal Way Skatepark! Mission in West Seattle Thursday June 12th 8pm 21+
Silent auction featuring: Tait, Paul Fujita, Q. Quigg, Bruno, LJ, Jesse Edwards, Aaron Filion, Chris Adams, Ego, Roy Wonder, Bobcat, Manbeast, Curtis Alton Jr., Romero Taylor, Eric Holt, Caveman, Leon, Jay Meer, and Lafferty Brothers.
DJs: VerseOmega, Treva, Hightower.
Videos, Footage and Slide Show featuring Jay Meer's Archive.
Raffle: All the goods! 100% of proceeds goes to Marginal Way Skatepark!
Mission 2325 California Ave. SW Seattle, WA 98116
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College students receive free admission to these two museums. See the details…
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Enjoy an entire evening Downtown on Thursdays for around $40 to $50, for TWO people, including parking and tips!
Every Thursday afternoon, Community Human Services will be offering free yoga at 374 Lawn Street.
$5 matinees at The Harris Downtown.
$3 admission and $2.50 craft beer specials make this night of comedy one great deal!
The ToonSeum offers unique entertainment with reasonable admission prices.
Pay what you can yoga classes.
Salsa Pittsburgh offers salsa events all around the city… some of which are FREE!
Redbox offers nightly movie rentals for $1 with multiple locations around the Pittsburgh area.


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All Hail King Disick
King Douchebag Disick and his minions were spotted leaving a millinery. No doubt he was being fitted for his crown. Seriously, someone needs to pop Scott Disick's ego before it explodes. Under no circumstances does he need to wear a brocade, fur-lined cape. And the cane? As a person currently suffering from a foot injury, I take issue with vanity canes. It ain't right. [Buzzfeed]


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For people who want to learn more about the Lap Band, information seminars are the first step in learning about the Lap Band and deciding if the Lap Band surgery for weight loss may be right for you.
We used to seminars at a conference room in a local hotel, however many people who travelled had difficulty making the meetings. So we now offer the film you see above to offer an online video serminar.
This video seminar is also helpful if you have family members such as a spouse who wants to learn more about the LapBand and see the doctors before you come in for your office consultation.
When you call our office and set up a consultation, we will also provide you with access to another online video program. The video is made by Emmi solutions and shows many of the steps before, during, and after surgery.
The Emmi video program also provides you with opportunities to mark areas that you have questions about, so that you or your family member can review this with the doctor when you come in for your consultation.
Our support groups are a vital component of our program. Topics discussed during our support groups include post-operative nutrition, exercise therapy, emotional support and adjustments. These support groups are provided for our patients' benefit. We also encourage patients who are about to undergo the Lap Band procedure to attend support groups.
Support groups are typically held the second monday of each month in our office at 7:00 P.M.
Some months there are additional support groups in other outlying areas, such as Magnolia, AR, and Broken Bow, OK. Call our office to check the support group schedule.


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Issyk-Koul Region, Kyrgyzstan (AFP) Sep 07, 2005
Perched on his trainer's arm, Duman, a great golden eagle with a two-meter wing span, patiently awaits the chance to launch into flight over Kyrgyzstan's Issyk-Koul lake and seize his prey before admiring eyes of falconry fans.
The hares are set loose, and the trainer takes off the leather cap that until now blinded the bird -- which instantly homes in on the fleeing animals.
At a signal, Duman rockets into the sky, makes a small reconnaissance circle and then plunges down onto one of the sacrificed hares, seizing it by the throat and pinning it to the ground.
Dozens of tourists from as far as the United States and Japan travel in late August to this picturesque region of eastern Kyrgyzstan to take part in the festival dedicated to birds of prey -- especially the golden eagle, whose training is highly prized in this part of the country.
Ishenbai Kydyrov, Duman's owner, is one of an old family of golden eagle trainers which has lived on the banks of Issyk-Koul for centuries.
Himself a businessman, he pursues the family tradition in his spare time.
"Sometimes it seemed to me that my father could speak the eagles' language, so deeply they understood each other," Kydyrov recalled.
"My father taught me that the most important thing in taming the eagle is to be as gentle as possible with it, as if dealing with a baby. Later, when the bird gets used to you, it becomes very close, like a brother."
Kydyrov has dozens of apprentices to confide his falconry secrets to.
"One must search out birds to train directly in the nest, or catch them later with a net. The true raptors have strong talons and powerful wings," he explained.
"The trainer must place a cap on the eagle's head and keep it perched on his arm for hours without the bird falling asleep. This way it gets used to its future master," the Kyrgyz expert said.
Then the trainers teach the bird to eat from their hands. An average raptor eats about a kilogram of raw meat a day.
The training takes nearly a month.
"One must not, for any reason, cry or frighten the bird. An eagle never forgets a slight and can fly away and never come back," Kydyrov warned.
Duman, who weighs nearly 10 kilograms (22 pounds), is capable of snaring an animal weighing up to 15 kilograms (33 pounds) -- at the beginning of the hunting season he had seized six foxes.
The golden eagle is Kyrgyzstan's official emblem, and the small mountainous republic's people treat it with a particular reverence.
"For the Kyrgyz, it is a sacred bird which brings good fortune," said Talbat Shaibyrov, a young trainer also present at the festival.
By his side, 58-year-old Asset Radjanov proudly recalled how his grandfather's bird saved his village's inhabitants from starvation during the second World War.
"It was a powerful bird, capable of lifting a mouflon (wild sheep) three meters above ground. It would drop its prey from that height and my grandfather had only to pick it up. Thanks to its hunt, my people managed to survive," Radjanov said.
In the wild, eagles can live up to 100 years, while in captivity their life expectancy rarely tops 45 years -- which is why Kyrgyz trainers generally give them back their freedom after a decade of loyal service.
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Indonesian white curried chicken
- 4 teaspoons each of ground coriander and cumin, mixed together
- 1 teaspoon ground cloves
- 4 teaspoons sambal oelek (hot chilli paste)
- 4 teaspoons cooking oil
- 4 onions, sliced
- 5 lb cubed chicken meat
- 4 stalks lemon grass
- 3.5 pints coconut milk
- 4 tablespoons lemon juice
- Cooking oil
1) Mix the coriander, cumin, cloves and sambal oelek with four teaspoons of cooking oil to make a curry paste.
2) Fry the onions in four tablespoons of oil until softened and add chicken along with curry paste. Cook for ten minutes.
3) Add lemon grass and coconut milk. Bring to a gentle boil and simmer for 50 minutes until chicken is tender and sauce has thickened.
4) Remove lemon grass and stir in lemon juice. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve with rice or coconut-rice and your choice of vegetables.
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Leadership Team
Michael J. Clarke
President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Clarke was named President & Chief Executive Officer of Nortek and appointed as a member of the Board of Directors in December 2011. For the previous seven years, he served as Group President, Integrated Network Solutions at Flextronics International, Ltd., a publicly traded, global provider of design and electronics manufacturing services to a wide range of end markets. From 1999 to 2005 he served as President & General Manager at Sanmina-SCI Corporation, and prior to that he held progressively senior positions at Devtek Corporation and Hawker Siddely. Mr. Clarke has more than twenty-five years of senior executive, business development and operational experience managing global companies in a myriad of industries, including electronics, telecommunications, industrial, aerospace and automotive. He was educated as a Mechanical Engineer at Bradford Polytechnic, England, with enhanced professional development programs from University of Western Ontario and Columbia University.
Timothy J. Burling
Senior Vice President, Finance & Operational Excellence
Mr. Burling was promoted to Senior Vice President, Finance & Operational Excellence in November 2014. He joined Nortek as Vice President, Operational Finance in March 2012. Prior to joining Nortek, Mr. Burling spent twelve years at Flextronics International, a global Electronic Manufacturing Services (EMS) company, most recently serving as Vice President – Finance, Integrated Network Solutions group. Prior to Flextronics, he spent more than twenty-five years in various manufacturing and operational finance roles, including a period as a factory general manager for Dover Corporation, manufacturing electronic components. Mr. Burling graduated from Keble College, Oxford in 1980 with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. In 1983, he gained his Chartered Accountant qualification from the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.
Kevin W. Donnelly
Senior Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary
Mr. Donnelly was promoted to Senior Vice President in September 2011. He joined Nortek as Associate General Counsel in 1988 and was promoted to Vice President & General Counsel & Secretary in 1989. Prior to Nortek, he served as in-house counsel for Exxon Corporation and The Yankee Companies. Mr. Donnelly is a graduate of Boston College (undergraduate and law school) and the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
Bruno Biasiotta
Chief Operating Officer, Air Management
Mr. Biasiotta joined Nortek in April 2016 as Chief Operating Officer, Air Management, responsible for Nortek's Residential & Commercial HVAC and Custom & Commercial Air Solutions segments. Prior to joining Nortek, Mr. Biasiotta served as Chief Executive Officer of Philips Lighting Americas. Earlier in his career, he was with Johnson Controls where he built a strong foundation in operational leadership while driving significant growth in the business that he managed. His experience also includes marketing and operational leadership roles with Brewer-Garrett and Xerox Corporation. Mr. Biasiotta holds a Bachelor of Business degree from Cleveland State University.
Mark E. DeVincent
Group President, Custom & Commercial Air Solutions
Mr. DeVincent joined Nortek as Group President of its Custom & Commercial Air Solutions segment in May 2014. He has more than 20 years of experience in manufacturing operations and sales management. Prior to joining Nortek, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Flextronics International. Prior to Flextronics, he served as Director, Account Management at Sanmina-SCI and Director, Western Region at HADCO Corp. Mr. DeVincent holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Nichols College.
David J. LaGrand
Group President, Residential & Commercial HVAC
Mr. LaGrand is Group President of Nortek's Residential & Commercial HVAC segment. He has been with Nortek's subsidiary in this segment, Nordyne, for over twenty years serving as President since 1997 and CEO beginning in 2001. He currently serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of the Air Conditioning Heating and Refrigeration Institute (AHRI). Mr. LaGrand graduated from Hope College in 1974 with a BA in Business Administration, and from Michigan State University with an MBA in Marketing in 1976.
Jeff Mueller
Group President, Air Quality and Home Solutions
Mr. Mueller joined Nortek in August 2014 as Group President of Nortek's Air Quality and Home Solutions segment. Mr. Mueller joined Nortek with over 25 years of manufacturing, sales and marketing experience in the kitchen and bath products industry. He had been with Kohler Co. since 1991, serving in a number of leadership roles including president of Global Faucets and managing director of KB Latin Americas, where he built the business through production localization, distribution expansion, importation and brand building. Mueller previously served for four years as president of Kohler faucets worldwide. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA from Marquette University.
Mike O'Neal
Group President, Security & Control
Mr. O'Neal joined Nortek as President of Nortek Security & Control (formerly Linear) in 2011. Prior to joining Nortek, Mr. O'Neal was president of North American operations for Gibson Guitar, and was earlier CEO of several high-tech electronics corporations including Phillips Accessories and Peripherals and Gemini Industries. Mr. O'Neal has served as a management consultant to governments, businesses and not-for-profit organizations, helping them pursue strategic changes and new market opportunities.
Mr. O'Neal holds a B.A. and M.A. in Political Science from The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ.
Peter R. Segar, Ph.D
Group President, Ergonomic & Productivity Solutions
Dr. Segar has served as Group President of Nortek's Ergonomic & Productivity Solutions segment since January 2013. He has been with Nortek's subsidiary in this segment, Ergotron, since 2004, serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Technical Officer of Ergotron-Branded products until his promotion to President of Ergotron-Branded products in 2010. Prior to Ergotron, he served in various management positions for Seagate Technology from 1994 to 2004. He began his career with IBM's Storage Systems Division in 1989. Dr. Segar holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in Chemistry from the University of Colorado.
Michael H. Botelho
Vice President, Strategy and Investor Relations
Mr. Botelho has been a Vice President at Nortek since August 2012. He has been with Nortek since 1996, starting as a Financial Analyst and most recently serving as Senior Manager, Business Development and Strategic Planning. Prior to joining Nortek, he was an auditor with Price Waterhouse. A Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Botelho is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a degree in Accounting.
Scott B. Campbell
Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer
Mr. Campbell joined Nortek as Vice President & Chief Supply Chain Officer in October 2012. He has more than twenty years of supply chain management experience. Prior to joining Nortek, he served as Operating Partner at SK Capital. Prior to SK Capital, he served as Vice President of Global Supply Chain for W.R. Grace & Co. Before joining W.R. Grace, he was the Director of Global Indirect Materials and Services with Polaroid Corporation. Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University.
Robert J. Casagrande
Vice President & Chief Information Officer
Mr. Casagrande joined Nortek as the Vice President & Chief Information Officer in September 2012. Prior to joining Nortek, he served as Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Rexel Holdings USA since 2006. Prior to this, he served at General Electric for sixteen years in Engineering and Information Technology positions. Mr. Casagrande is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic.
Matthew W. Hughes
Vice President, Treasurer
Mr. Hughes joined Nortek as Vice President, Treasurer in April 2014 with responsibility for Treasury, Tax and Risk. Prior to joining Nortek, Mr. Hughes spent eighteen years at GTECH Corporation, most recently serving as Chief Financial Officer of GTECH's products and services division. Prior to GTECH, he performed various finance roles at Gartner, Inc. Mr. Hughes holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Central Connecticut University and a Master of Business Administration degree from Bryant
Andrew W. Prete
Vice President, Business Development, Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant Secretary
Mr. Prete has been Vice President, Business Development, Senior Legal Counsel & Assistant Secretary since September 2011. He has been with Nortek since February 2001, starting as Associate General Counsel. Prior to joining Nortek, he was an Associate in the corporate department of the law firm of Adler, Pollock & Sheehan. Mr. Prete is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and Roger Williams University School of Law.
Donald W. Reilly
Vice President, Corporate Controller & Chief Accounting Officer
Mr. Reilly joined Nortek as Vice President, Corporate Controller & Chief Accounting Officer in November 2011. He is a senior financial professional with over thirty years of diversified experience in manufacturing, technology, financial services and a variety of specialized industries. He came to Nortek from Evergreen Solar Inc., where he served as Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Mr. Reilly held senior level roles with GTECH Corporation, Amtrol, Inc., A.T. Cross Company and Ernst & Young. He is also a Certified Public Accountant and a graduate of Providence College.
Liam Weston
Chief Human Resources Officer
Mr. Weston joined Nortek as Chief Human Resources Officer in January 2015. Prior to joining Nortek, he was at Invensys plc where he served in a number of HR leadership positions over nine years, including Chief Human Resources Officer. Mr. Weston has led significant HR and business transformations, coordinating decisions and change management activities in over 50 countries and across multiple businesses. He has worked for a number of different organizations in his native UK and in the US, including a UK Police Service, and prior to Invensys, Wrigley in Chicago, IL. He holds a Master's degree in Human Resource Development from Thames Valley University in the UK.


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But UCI president Pat McQuaid has said that he now wants all cycling team members to sign the charter.
After a string of scandals, race organisers requested DNA samples from riders and asked teams to sign a pre-Tour anti-drugs pledge.
The Tour starts in London on Saturday, 7 July and ends in Paris 22 days later.
Tour de France director Christian Prudhomme had stressed that any rider who had not signed the charter by Saturday would be excluded from this year's race.
McQuaid said: "In the past weeks, we have concentrated on the riders but as of next week, all the teams will be asked to do the same.
"It's for all the team's personnel, the manager, the doctor and the mechanics. The wording is slightly different.
"They will have to say they are not involved in any doping practice or that they are unaware of any doping practice in the team."
With the on-going Operation Puerta doping investigation hanging over the sport, and with last year's Tour winner Floyd Landis awaiting the result of his own prolonged case, organisers are desperate to crack down on drugs in the sport.
As well as giving DNA samples, the charter stipulates all riders must lodge a year's salary, which will be forfeited if they are convicted of any doping charges.
Meanwhile, the number one bib, usually worn by the defending champion has not been awarded for this year's race.
The numbering will now start with bib 11, which is to be given to a rider from the Caisse d'Epargne team.
It will be worn either by 2006 runner-up Oscar Pereiro of Spain or by compatriot Alejandro Valverde.


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Hobbies include board games, tv/movies, making videos, and wasting time online. And talking to people if that counts.
I'm non-monogamous/polyamorous. I'm not specifically looking for something serious, but I'm definitely not closed off to the possibility.
Favourite Quotes:
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind." - Dr. Seuss
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." - Albert Einstein
"The point for me is to create relationships based on deeper and more real notions of trust. So that love becomes defined not by sexual exclusivity, but by actual respect, concern, commitment to act with kind intentions, accountability for our actions, and a desire for mutual growth." - Dean Spade
"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy'. They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life." - John Lennon
"One's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes
Music: I like most music. There is something in pretty much every genre that I enjoy, although I'm not usually a fan of metal/screamo/etc.
Food: Again, not very picky. My favourites are probably Italian and East Asian cuisines.


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3A Car Supply / Switch
3amp car supply which senses your ignition and safely shuts down the Pi / Pi 2 / Pi 3 when your car turns off. This unit comes with two USB ports (next to each other, not stacked) which are switched simultaneously. The unit communicates with the Pi over two GPIO wires and uses an easy to install script on the Pi. You must wire the unit to your battery and switched 12V source (ignition). Comes with 18inches of ground and power wire (18gauge).
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Cast: Nicole Bexley, Maya Bijou, Olivia Kasady, Amy Parks
Join The Party That Never Ends!
Oil Wrestle
Amy Parks submitted her video that had her colleagues showing how much fun it is to be in college. They started a little thing called wrestle fest. They got together to see which horny girl could take down the other. Once the oil hit there was no need for their little outfits. They locked lips and started a whole new game. next thing there was a cock in Amy's face while the other two were face deep between some legs. This little fun wrestle fest turned into a hot and slippery fuck party!
Celebration Time
Nicole Bexley, Olivia Kasady, Maya Bijou and their friends were dressed in white, red and blue. First the girls started to pop balloons with their butts. The boys were throwing confetti and spraying colored strings at the girls. The boys decided to check if the girls' underwear was also patriotic and ended up undressing the girls. Now it was time for the big blowjob competition. Who was the best deep throater? When 6 people are fucking at the same time it is sort of hard to keep track of all the positions.
Camp Bang Out
Roasting marshmallows inside seemed to be an aphrodisiac for those cute girls as they quickly decided to show off their boobs. Soon it was time for more. This paragraph is too short to describe all the fucking and sucking that was happening in that single dorm room. Luckily people kept the camera rolling so there is all the evidence for you to see, including two facials towards the end. Finally camping is fun even for city kids.


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Top 3DS downloadable titles will have their prices cut by 20 per cent over the next fortnight, Nintendo has announced.
The promotion is divided into two week-long sales, designed to celebrate the eShop's one year anniversary.
Week one offers 20 per cent off of 9/10 Nintendo gem Pullblox, plus Virtual Console classics The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX and Super Mario Land.
Week two includes savings on Ninendo-made cowboy tower defense title Dillon's Rolling Western and creature creation game Freakyforms. Game Boy classic Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins will also be discounted.
Full sale details lie below:
22nd - 28th June
- Pullblox - Ł4.30
- Zen Pinball 3D - Ł3.60
- Let's Golf! 3D - Ł4.30
- The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX - Ł4.30
- Super Mario Land - Ł2.90
28th June - 5th July
- Dillon's Rolling Western
- Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!
- Fun! Fun! Minigolf Touch!
- Mighty Switch Force!
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|Draft Animal Cloning Risk Assessment
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Mr. Ben Willis
|Date & Time:
|01/04/2007 10:01:02
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|Mr. Ben Willis
|Category :
|Individual Consumer
|Issue Areas/Comments
| Good call. Agricultural industries have been cloning products for years, it's about time cattle industries get in on it too.
This move will improve quality and affordability of American meat & dairy long term. I can't wait till prime meat is available at all meat counters from this move.
I'm concerned fear and ignorance has taken over this topic and hope logic will prevail. Thanks for allowing me to comment.
Ben Willis


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Is Steve Ballmer worried for his job?
Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) has been fined €561 million by European regulators. It failed to comply with a monopoly-busting agreement to offer a browser ballot screen in Windows 7. The first service pack broke it, 'by accident.'
In IT Blogwatch, bloggers break out the popcorn.
Your humble blogwatcher curated these bloggy bits for your entertainment.
Gregg Keizer reports:
It was the first time that Europe's regulators had punished a company for shirking an antitrust agreement. ... The settlement reached in late 2009 stemmed form a complaint by Norwegian browser maker Opera Software. ... Microsoft agreed to show European users of its Windows operating system a "browser ballot" [with] download links to rivals' browsers [but] failed to display the browser ballot to users of Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (SP1) for some 14 months...saying it had been purely a "technical error."
...Microsoft itself not only reported that all was working as it should as late as December 2011 -- deep into the time the ballot was absent -- but its support personnel knew of the problem...in March 2011. MORE
But the latest Robert X. Cringely calls it an "itty-bitty fine":
Microsoft quietly replied, "Thank you, sirs, may we have another?" ... this fine is so infinitesimal relative to the $51 billion in cash Microsoft has amassed from its European operations alone...that it amounts to a small service charge.
...Boy, the E.U. commissioners sure showed Microsoft, didn't they? ... Fines don't work. They might be a way for bureaucrats to demonstrate they're earning their...salaries, but as a deterrent they're less than useless. ...you need to put a few of them in orange jumpsuits and leg manacles and make them do the perp walk for the cameras. MORE
Preston Gralla sees through the story:
[The fine] may be a black eye and financial whack for Microsoft. But the real loser may be Google.
...Microsoft may even have agreed to pay the fine as a way to curry favor...because the company has been asking the E.U. to take action against Google for...anti-competitive search practices. ... The investigation focuses on whether Google uses its Internet search results to give its own service an illegal, unfair advantage over competitors. ... The financial implications can be staggering. ... Google could be fined...$5 billion. ... In addition, the E.U. would want Google to change the way it ranks search results. ... Microsoft may have lost the battle as a way to hope to win the war. MORE
And Kevin Morrill follows the money:
Now Microsoft will spend thousands more man hours developing and testing silly stuff the EU wants that has nothing to do with customer benefit. Instead of $700 M being returned to shareholders, it can now be frittered away by EU on agriculture subsidies (aka votes). MORE
Meanwhile, this anonymous coward waxes sarcastic:
Can't believe their arrogance.
...the audacity to think it can still get away with bundling its own browser! ... You'd never see this sort of behavior out of more responsible corporations like Apple. MORE
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Hello Anna,
This can be pulled muscle; though a pulled usually gets better on lying down and aggravates on standing or sitting and doing some work (especially with the back movements). A degenerative disc disease is more likely to cause pain during lying. Though this too is self limiting and gets better usually in a week or 10 days. So you may wait for this much duration, especially since he is feeling better.
Following measures would be helpful;
1) Back care in the activities of daily living, which is an integral component of the treatment of back problems. Back education is one of the most important thing which teaches the basic body mechanics, like correct posture for standing, standing at a desk or drawing board, sitting, brushing teeth, washing the face, pushing and pulling a weight, lifting a weight, getting in and out of bed, sleeping, getting into and sitting in a car. The training for these routine activity helps in preventing the spasm of the muscles. One needs to consult an occupational therapist or physical therapist which can educate about the proper and improper behaviors when back is painful in case they have to sit, bend forward, lie down, walk, cough, or sneeze. Following more need to be done:
a) Avoid activities which increases the pain.
b) Rest intermittently
c) Avoid bending at 90 degrees
d) Pushing and pulling should be avoided till pain subsides
f) Avoid prolonged sitting and standing
g) Avoid sitting or sleeping on floor
2) Anti-inflammatory analgesics like ibuprofen, other analgesics and muscle relaxants
3) Local analgesic gels or sprays / ointment
4) Hot fomentation
5) Electrotherapy like trans cutaneous electrical nerve stimulation: done by physical therapist. Other thing are ice packs, heating pads, electrical stimulation, phonophoresis, iontophoresis, relaxation, and biofeedback.
6) Good supervised physiotherapy: The exercises consist of abdominal bracing, modified sit-ups, double-knee-to-chest or low back stretches, seat lifts, mountain and sag exercises, knee-to-elbow exercises, hamstring stretches, extension exercises, and extension flexibility exercises. Swimming exercises (pool exercises) are best for back pain. Initial stretching and later strengthening exercises are taught.
7) Lumbosacral corset or support or brace
8) If obese or over weight, reduce weight for long term benefit.
You can start the following exercises;
1) Straight leg raising: Lie on the bed with your back and remain in a relaxed position. Slowly raise one of your legs upward and keep it as straight as possible. Count up to ten, and slowly bring down the leg. Do the same with the other leg. Repeat this exercise ten times.
2) Curl ups; lie on the back with knees bent, fold arms across the chest, tilt the pelvis to flatten the back, and curl-up lifting the head and shoulders from the bed / couch. Hold for ten seconds, then slowly lower to starting position. As strength builds, aim to complete one sets of ten curls. The exercise should be done twice a day (both the sets).
This is a slide show for the exercises (he can pick up your own set, which suits him);
It is privilege assisting you.
Dr. Arun


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It's only called "Boot City" because "Boot, Jeans, Belt, Hat, Dresses, Outerwear, and Accessories City" takes up too much space. But really, there's no better place to get in touch with your inner urban cowboy. Cavender's has western gear for the whole family, and with decent prices, you won't have to worry about them lassoing your wallet. We're talking Larro, Stetson, Wrangler and plenty more. We especially love the Rock & Roll Cowboy line. Whether you want to dress to impress at the rodeo or just don't feel right without a quality pair of boots on your feet, look no further than Cavender's.
There's no "let's take a quick look around" with this one. Beyond the neon-green door in the historic Houston Heights, you'll find — by way of a collective of individual vendors — two stories stuffed and overstuffed with vintage, reproduction and retro garb. Looking to win the ugly Christmas sweater contest at work? Headed to an '80s Dynasty party? Want to win his heart with a retro-chic '50s halter sun dress? Retropolis has it all, plus an extensive collection of gently used cowboy boots for when rodeo season comes around. It might take a little digging to find that perfect piece, so bring a friend, grab some lunch along 19th Street, then take a trip down memory lane through Mom's or Grandma's attic.
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If your life is an endless stretch of staring at screens all day, treat yourself to a dose of chiropractic work: Your neck will thank you. Susan Bradshaw at Lone Star Chiropractic will work your body in ways that will not only start helping with your issues but will also give you some much-needed relaxation. Even if you're not feeling any pain and just love to pop your joints, you haven't lived until you've heard what your spine and neck can do in the right hands.
Whether you're a pro looking for a high-performance racer or a newbie wanting to ride the trails, the staff at Blue Line Bike Lab has you covered. With bikes hanging from the ceiling and stacked on two-tiered racks, the store looks like a giant bike garage, and the staff wields pumps and ratchets in the back for full-service repairs. Not sure what kind of cruiser you need? Just chat with the staff and they'll point out the best ride for your height, experience and price range. On that note, Blue Line offers a layaway plan to help you afford the bike of your dreams.
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With five locations, the comic aficionados at Bedrock City know how to spread the love around town, but we're giving props to the Westheimer store because of its size, selection and staff. It's got floor-to-ceiling games, graphic novels, statues, model kits, toys, posters, tees, back issues and so much more. On Free Comic Book Day, the staff handed out 10,000 comic books, bringing in artists, celebrities and bands to turn it into a party. Plus, there's always something going on like ladies' nights and Doctor Who Comics Day, and the shop's DC Rebirth and Civil War II #3 launch parties were epic.
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If you long to be a modern-day Fred Astaire, Tap Happy will teach you the moves. This adult tap dance studio started out in 2008 with just a beginner class, but now founder Sara Draper offers options for all levels. All the teachers use Draper's standards, meaning you'll learn with tried-and-true techniques. Whether you already can perform a soft-shoe shuffle with the seemingly effortless grace of Bill "Bojangles" Robinson or are just now living out your childhood fantasy of becoming the next Ginger Rogers, Tap Happy has a class for you.


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Lisa Kleiner Chanoff, co-founder of the Catapult Film Fund, is in town for the Tribeca Film Festival and she is coming to WMM to talk about the Fund. Join Lisa and have a glass of wine with us to inaugurate the first workshop in our new offices!
In the current landscape of funding, very few organizations are willing to give you money to help you get your documentary off the ground. Catapult, which was founded in 2010, is one of those few who believe in you before others do. They provide development funding to documentary filmmakers who have a compelling story to tell, have secured access to their story and are ready to shoot and edit a piece for production fundraising purposes. With two submission deadlines a year, their mission is to enable filmmakers to develop their film projects to the next level at a stage where funding is hard to find. Projects they have supported include The Genius of Marian which is premiering at Tribeca as well as ANITA: Speaking Truth to Power , and upcoming such upcoming films as THE E-TEAM by Katy Chevigny and Ross Kaufman and SIMPLE JUSTICE by Marian Lipschultz and Rose Rosenblatt. They have a great record of supporting women filmmakers so this is a great opportunity to meet a representative of a new and welcome addition to the documentary field! Seating is very limited so register early!
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What a difference Child-Friendly Schools make!
By Daisy Serem
When he returned to Western Province, the head teacher decided to put what he had learnt in theory into practice. He trained the school's teachers on the Child-Friendly School concept and together they began transforming the school.
Kyaume Primary School in Machakos County saw its mean score in the Kenya Certificate of Primary Education examination improve steadily from 229.34 in 2009, to 235.62 in 2010 and 248.34 last year.
Wholesome developmentThe Child-Friendly School concept was introduced in Kenya in 2002 and implemented on a pilot basis by the Ministry of Education, with the support of UNICEF, in 11 districts: Nairobi, Turkana, West Pokot, Kwale, Isiolo, Marsabit, Moyale, Mandera, Wajir, Garissa and Ijara. In 2010, the ministry rolled out the programme on a national scale.
The concept aims at encouraging child-centred learning by addressing all facets of education, including the environment, issues of equity and equality, and the wholesome development of the child.
"To make our schools truly child-friendly we need to address the child in a holistic manner," says Elias Noor, UNICEF Education Specialist. "We must go beyond academics and even recognize head teachers not only for producing impressive KCPE results, but for improving on the thematic areas of CFS, such as creating equity and equality and promoting hygiene and sanitation in schools".
In Githioro Primary School in Central Kenya, for instance, students and teachers have focused on improving the school's environment. They have set up a tree nursery and planted trees in the compound, where each student adopts a tree and cares for it. From the sale of seedlings from the tree nursery, the school has been able to sponsor three students to secondary school. In addition, pupils are taking the lessons home by planting trees in their compounds.
Nonetheless there have been some challenges faced in taking on the spirit of a Child Friendly School. Some schools have not been able to create strong linkages with the community and partners, especially in areas where poverty is high. Others are struggling with trying to enhance equity and equality, particularly in trying to attain gender parity and establish disability-friendly schools. The head teachers have however vowed to tackle the challenges head-on.
Creating a safe learning environment
Disaster Risk Reduction is also a critical area that needs to be included when implementing CFS standards in the country. Early response and management of risks and hazards in schools was addressed in the training as head teachers reflected on how to mitigate disasters in their schools.
"In the last two decades, Kenya has been facing rising vulnerability to risks which turns into disasters and hazards," said Secretary of the Teachers Service Commission, Gabriel Lengoiboni, as the training came to an end. "Schools are predisposed to disasters due to factors like poor discipline and management, bad structures, poor hygiene and natural disasters like floods and drought. As head teachers you have to be at the forefront in averting disasters.'
As the training drew to a close, the head teachers were motivated anew to keep the Child-Friendly Schools mantle burning and put in place measures to ensure schools provide a safe and friendly learning environment for the child.


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This will be music to some of your ears: the lead designer of Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter, making a Kickstarter-funded, hardcore, tactical, co-op shooter and namechecking Rainbow Six and SWAT while he's at it. CLEAR!
That game is Takedown: Red Sabre, and Christian Allen's studio Serellan has teamed up with 505 Games to launch the game on Steam and Xbox Live this Friday, 20th September. A PS3 version has also been mentioned, but it doesn't have a release date yet.
Ian had a chance to play the game online with Allen and some of the Serellan team, and you can view his exclusive gameplay footage, with commentary from Allen, below. It pretty effectively communicates the tension, teamwork and realism of this tactical FPS. Also, Ian meets an undignified and very poorly timed end. CLEAR!


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Tribal History
It has been said that any reference to tribalism in the twentieth century brings Africa to mind and with a dark and nasty connotation. However, the Oxford English Dictionary asserts that the word tribalism was coined only in 1886 in connection with denigrating Celtic culture as unable to aspire to "civilisation".
Clans (long before the attributing of any national unity) of the Bantu tribal groupings known today as Tsonga, Sotho and Venda have inhabited the Central Lowveld region since the first millennium. Carbon dating of pottery evidence has shown settlements in the Tzaneen foothills of the escarpment dating back to 200BC.
The lingua franca of the present day Central Lowveld is generally Sotho and to a lesser extent Tsonga (Shangaan) in its easterly and southerly regions. This is a generalized description of two languages whose proto-origins date back some 5,000 years to the cradle-lands of the Benue Valley and the grasslands of western Cameroon.
The natural drift south and eastwards of these people took generations; this natural drift has been estimated to have taken place at a speed of 22km per decade in the equatorial forests. It took 600 years to cover 1000km.
However, once in the Savannah regions, the rate of expansion accelerated, bringing the first people to the lakes region of Central Africa around 2,500 years ago. In little more than 3,000 years Bantu-speaking peoples had virtually colonized the entire land mass of sub-Saharan Africa, and bringing with them with their settled farming an event unmatched in world history.
Of huge importance to the understanding of cultures and ecology in the south eastern Savannahs and indeed central to the overwhelming success of Bantu settlement patterns was the role of iron. Evidence of copper smelting has been found in the Air mountains of Niger dating back 4,000 years leading theorists to postulate that metal smelting technology could have co-evolved in Africa and the Near East concurrently.
In any event, the metal industry in South Africa with its complex geological deposits of tin, copper and iron seems to predate that of the Zimbabwe plateau industries. Significantly, it is also known that the Phalaborwa industry predated Mapungwes zenith, which in turn predated Great Zimbabwe - all of which is attributed to indigenious Bantu knowledge aeons before European penetration and exploitation of Africas hinterland.
The people making up the majority of the local Tswana and Sotho cultures are not of a common stock. History shows the Sotho to have been an extremely mobile group, roaming extensively across the lands now forming Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the north of South Africa. They combined this tendency to roam with an appetite for subjugating the peoples they found in their path, who then took the Sotho name and perpetuated their itinerant lifestyle.
Hunter-gatherers such as various tribes of the San were subsumed, along with herders such as the Khoi-Khoin, themselves formerly the rulers of large swathes of the south of the continent and composed of a number of distinct tribal heritages. Genetic lineages split rapidly as the groups continually settled, fragmented and dispersed, accounting for the striking physical differences and variation in language between today's Sothos in the region.
One of the major ecological drivers of this constant state of motion has been the harshness of the Lowveld environment, with its previously endemic malaria continually threatening settlers, and periodic cycles in the populations of the tsetse fly carrying a sleeping sickness lethal both to mankind and his attendant cattle.
A near continuous state of Zulu-inspired warring in the Highveld also created a constant stream of refugees into the region. Small chiefdoms were quite happy to increase their populations and political strength by absorbing these refugees.
In the last four hundred years, and reaching its zenith around 1700, the systematisation and commercialisation of slavery by westerners trading from enclaves on the coast such as Delagoa Bay (present day Maputo in Mozambique) imbued the region with terror. These slave traders created a huge demand for people to be exported to the sugar plantations of the new world as forced labour.
This demand was happily met by both local and Arabic slave traders in the interior, whose caravans raided and imprisoned entire communities, trading them in return for European commodities at the coastal markets.
These ecological and commercial imperatives placed increasing pressures on local populations to find sustainable land and resources away from the trading routes and slave-raiding parties, and enforced the requirement to be able to move on swiftly.
The higher-lying lands of the Drakensberg were Tsetse fly free and well-watered and, as such, were more or less continuously occupied. Around them, the more marginal lands of the Lowveld were repeatedly populated and depopulated and served as a cultural mixing pot between different tribes eking out their survival. As tribes moved en masse, incumbent populations were either absorbed or chased away.
The modern "northern Sotho" people consequently represent a wide variety of geographical and cultural origins. As an example, the oral traditions of the local baPhalaborwa tribe say that their forefathers came from Bokhalaka (the present Zimbabwe) under the leadership of a chief called Malatshi, and to this day the tribe has an alternative name, the baMalatshi.
It is uncertain when the migration from Bokhalaka began, but early Portuguese records are said to show that during the 17th century the tribes of the so-called Monomotapa empire were driven southwards by waves of Rozwi invaders from the north. It is likely that this represents a continuation of earlier, similar movements.
The first known local settlement was at Sealene, which is only three kilometres from the present town of Phalaborwa, and about four kilometres from Loolekop, and here they continued the smelting of iron and the manufacture of hoes, axes, spearheads and arrowheads.
The kraal of the chiefs of the tribe was built on the slopes of the koppie Sealene, and this is a place much revered by all baPhalaborwa. Over the centuries 25 chiefs and sub-chiefs were buried on this koppie. The present chief still regularly conducts the traditional ceremonies of appeasement of the ancestral spirits here.
It is still the belief of the baPhalaborwa that a "commoner" (i.e. someone who is not a member of the chief's family) who climbs Sealene will become lame. This koppie and Kgopolwe have been declared national historical monuments by the National Monuments Council, and will be preserved for all time. The koppies were presented to the nation by the Phalaborwa Mining Corporation.
If proof were needed that the Phalaborwa tribesmen were dedicated iron workers, it must surely lie in the fact that they chose to settle in this area. Black-water fever and bilharzia were rife, compounding the miseries of malaria and sleeping sickness, and the annual rainfall, at an average of 450 mm a year, was so low that they grew crops with difficulty.
Yet, despite the deterrents and the hardships they faced, they declared that Phalaborwa was "better than the South" (the literal meaning of the name). That suggests that the smelting and working of iron was their main occupation-and a profitable one. A question to which the archaeologists have not yet found an answer, is the unsolved mystery of who were the first inhabitants of the district to mine the volcanic vent.


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|By Gayle Brandeis
January 2009
She thought it was a miracle pregnancy, like Mary's. She thought she was carrying a savior, a bodhisattva, maybe an alien. She thought she was heralding the Second Coming. Lord knows she hadn't been coming, herself.
She thought it was early menopause at first. Some of her friends were going through it, too. Missed periods. Hot flashes. Bone-deep exhaustion. But their hair was falling out and hers was growing more lush. Their skin was getting dry and hers was growing more supple, taking on more of a glow. Her friends accused her of sneaking off to get chemical peels, Botox injections, a prescription for Rogaine. She was as mystified as they were--she didn't use moisturizer; she picked the cheapest shampoo at the store. Why should she be the one to bloom?
Pregnancy never even crossed her mind. She hadn't had sex in over eight years. The only penis she had seen since Larry left was her son's, but the last times she saw it, he was seven, and he was thirteen now. She hoped he was still pulling back his foreskin. He used to be scared to do ithe thought his glans was a little ball that could fall out and roll away if he pulled the skin back far enough. She had to do it for him when he was very young. It always freaked her out to feel his tiny penis grow erect between her fingers, firm as a fresh green bean.
When her doctor told her she was pregnant, she laughed and laughed.
"Impossible," she said.
He showed her the computer print out. "Pregnancy: Positive" was listed right underneath "Blood type: O".
"You switched my blood with someone else's," she said. O was a common enough blood type. It would have been easy to make a mistake.
"We don't do that here," he said.
"I haven't slept with anyone in ages," she said.
"The rabbit died," he said. "And no one murdered it but you."
She went home and called her friends and laughed some more at her ridiculous doctor. She drank a bottle of Zinfandel. She watched sitcom after numbing sitcom. When her son came home from baseball practice, she was half-asleep on the couch.
"You used to be inside me, you know," she murmured. Even in the dark room, she could feel him blush, but he bent down anyway and let her wrap him in her arms.
Her pants started to get tight. Some of her other friends were experiencing this, tooa bloating, a pooching of the area beneath the navel. Time to retire our hip huggers, they said. Time to get liposuction. Time to invest in some figure-controlling undergarments. But their pooches were soft and hers was firm. Theirs reached a certain point and stopped, and hers kept going.
When she started to feel little flutters inside, little kind-of-like-gas-bubbles-but-more-like- someone-shuffling-a-deck-of- cards flutters, she felt dizzy. She went to the pharmacy and purchased every single home pregnancy test on the shelf. She peed into cups, peed onto strips. She watched the windows of the little plastic wands, watched the ones that were supposed to turn pink, turn pink. She watched the ones that were supposed to turn blue turn blue. She watched the plus signs emerge, the lines and dots emerge, the fact that she was pregnant emerge and emerge and emerge.
Her friends had all sorts of theories.
"Maybe you were raped and you're blocking it."
"Maybe you walked in your sleep. Maybe you picked someone up in your sleep."
"Maybe you were really drunk and just don't remember. You blacked out that one time, after we went to Rockadiles, remember? Maybe you blacked out and you screwed someone and you just don't remember."
"Maybe you have a split personality. Maybe your other personality is a prostitute. Wouldn't that be cool if your other personality was a prostitute?"
"Maybe your doctor drugged and inseminated you. Maybe he's impregnating all his patients. Doctors do that sometimes, you know."
"Maybe a UFO beamed you up and aliens probed you and are using you as an incubator for their genes. Maybe you're going to help them regenerate their species and repopulate the world."
"Maybe it's a miracle."
"It could be a miracle."
"Maybe it's a miracle."
She started looking into immaculate conception. An elephant touching the thigh of Buddha's mother with his trunk. Zeus falling in a golden rain over the mother of Perseus. Zarathushtra spilling his seed into Lake Kans so he could impregnate three bathing virgins during three different millennia. She put her hand to her belly and felt something huge stir inside her.
When she told her son she was pregnant, he blushed again. His cheeks seemed to be developing a semi-permanent ruddy stain.
"I didn't know you had a boyfriend," he said.
"I don't," she told him.
"Then who's the father?" he asked.
And she, she who didn't belong to any major religion, she who had never sent her son to Sunday school, who had never given him any reason to believe in a higher power, said, simply, "God."
She didn't know how the word got out, but it did. People showed up on her lawn with flowers, candles, bowls of milk. People came up to her crying in the supermarket, wanting to touch her belly, wanting her to touch their hot, dry foreheads, the tops of their skulls. People dropped their cans of corn, fell to their knees at the sight of her. She kind of liked it. Especially when the gifts began to arriveten cribs, seventeen strollers, one festooned with rosary beads, countless sets of baby clothes. And money. Lots of money.
News vans began to arrive. The phone rang constantlytalk shows, churches, the Vatican. They all wanted a piece of her, a piece of the action. They asked for interviews, appearances, a private audience with the Pope. She had always wanted to travel to Rome, but didn't know if she should fly during the pregnancy. She didn't know if she should leave the house at all. Her yard was clotted with petitioners now, clotted with people seeking her touch. Seeking her baby. Banging on the windows, climbing on the roof, waving banners and singing and crying and praying at the tops of their lungs. She hired security guards to stand outside around the clock. She enlisted a midwife who would deliver the baby at home. She asked her friends to bring groceries, paper products, movie rentals. She told her son he couldn't go to school, couldn't go outside, at least not for a while, not until all this blew over.
"This isn't going to blow over, Mom," he sighed. "People are still talking about Mary, and it's been 2,000 years."
The house began to feel very small and stuffy. She kept the curtains shut. The garbage piled up. The laundry piled up. Her son spent all his time online. She spent all her time watching TV. Whenever her face or the front of her house appeared on the screen, she changed the channel. She knew she should be eating well, should be trying to nourish this messiah-baby, but all she craved was junk. She ate Pop Tarts and TV dinners and jars of Fluffernutter at strange hours of the day. She began to resent the baby, maybe even hate it a little. Why couldn't God have chosen a more willing womb? She stopped talking to her son. She unplugged the phone, just nodded to her friends when they came by with the latest bags of Fritos and grape soda. What could she say? The baby, the pregnancy, was a lot louder than she could ever be.
She hadn't taken a shower in a week. She was starting to notice her own smell, a ripe, rank, stench. It was time to do something about it. The bathroom door was closed, but not locked. She swung it open just in time to see her son ejaculating into her bath towel.
"Oh my God," they said in unison, him smashing the towel to his crotch, her putting a hand to her belly. Hers was usually the only towel on the rack; her son always left his bath towel crumpled on the floor of his bedroom. She remembered feeling something sticky on her towel on occasion, but always imagined it was some spilled lotion, some misplaced conditioner. She never imagined it could be her son's seed. Her son's seed that maybe got inside when she toweled herself off. Her son's seed that maybe could be half a person growing inside her. Her own grandchild growing inside her. Maybe it would be a virgin birth, after all.
At least he's pulling his foreskin back, she told herself. She took his hand and pressed it against her belly and watched the color drain from his cheeks. They stood there together in silence, their own small family, their own new trinity, the Mother, the Son and the Holy Ghost.
Gayle Brandeis is the author of Fruitflesh: Seeds of Inspiration for Women Who Write (HarperSanFrancisco), Dictionary Poems (Pudding House Publications), The Book of Dead Birds: A Novel (HarperCollins), which won Barbara Kingsolver's Bellwether Prize for Fiction in Support of a Literature of Social Change, and Self Storage: A Novel (Ballantine) as well as the forthcoming novels, Pears (Ballantine, 2010) and My Life with the Lincolns (Holt, 2010).
Gayle's fiction, poetry and essays have appeared in dozens of magazines and anthologies, including Salon.com, The Nation and the Mississippi Review, and have won several awards, including the QPB/Story Magazine Short Story Award and a Barbara Mandigo Kelly Peace Poetry Award. In 2004, the Writer Magazine named Gayle a Writer Who Makes a Difference. Gayle is on the national staff of the women's peace organization CODEPINK and is a founding member of the Women Creating Peace Collective. Mother to two teenagers, Gayle teaches creative writing at UC Riverside and Antioch University. You can find her at www.gaylebrandeis.com.


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Ski Areas Hope To Break 4 Million Mark
Vermont ski areas are hoping what's been the third-snowiest winter on record will nudge the skier-visit total over the 4 million mark.
Vermont Ski Areas Association's Parker Riehle says ski areas are trending in that direction, but he's not speculating on a final figure. There are still six weeks of skiing left.
The Times-Argus of Barre says Vermont's 18 ski areas enjoyed three strong holiday periods - Christmas to New Years, Martin Luther King and Presidents week. There's been lots of snow, including last week's storm that broke a record for March with 25.8 inches.
The National Weather Service in Burlington calls this winter the third snowiest on record with over 124 inches.
Magic Mountain in Londonderry says skier visits this season are up by 15 percent. Stowe Mountain Resort also reports a double-digit increase over last season.


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Aftab Alam
Brave Syrian - Poem by Aftab Alam
Surely it will end, the forty years theme
O, Syrians! Sacrificed or will sacrifice
The life for democracy, it won't go in vain,
I am seeing thy victory coiled by your dream.
Hands of humanity rose for supplication
For your success, be firm and strong, but I fear,
You should not kill innocent and will not create terror
After you succeed, it's against Islam
May Allah accept your meditation!
Islam neither needs Laden nor Mullah Omar
To intoxicate the society, they are created
By the enemies of Islam to defame,
I prithee! You will follow the Straight path
You should not be guided by the act of
Anti humanity "the barbaric way "
Sow the seeds of peace and harmony
To avoid the Heavenly Wrath//
Comments about Brave Syrian by Aftab Alam
Ozark Mountain Homegrown (9/5/2013 1:07:00 PM)
My prayers of peace go out to the Syrian people especially now...I am very distraught by all that is happening at this time...I wish our words would be heard by those in power...War is never the solution... Never... (Report) Reply
Wahab Abdul (2/25/2012 9:45:00 AM)
A very brave poem, a very inspiring for all specially for the Syrians, i like the poem, keep writing.100/100. (Report) Reply
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Music Review: Raaz The Mystery Continues
The first Raaz had some great music by Nadeem-Sharvan…but in part 2 Mukesh Bhatt has promised that the music will be better than that of the the original's. In fact his exact words were… "The music is 101% better than Raaz". Quite a bold statement considering the first one was one of the great albums by the one and only duo of Nadeem-Sharvan! So we were more than a little intrigued to see what this music would be like and how it would fit into the film. It can quite often be the case that sequels never live up to the original, don't you think? If you are using a fast speed internet connection, perhaps the latest O2uk Broadband , then you are able to check out Nadeem-Sharvan's music. You can remind yourself of why it is so great and what we can expect from part 2.
Raaz TMC has in it 5 songs and 4 musicians!
Maahi is composed by Sharib-Toshi; O Jaana and Soniyo are composed by Raju Singh; Kaisa Yeh Raaz is composed by Pranay M. Rijia; and Bandaa Re is composed by Gourov Dasgupta.
Maahi (Toshi) – As the year comes to a close, we get the best song of the year right here….this one only takes one listen to get hooked on…the singing, the music, and the lyrics are perfect. This is one of those songs I wish I could give more than five stars to!! Rating:
Soniyo (Sonu Nigam, Shreya Ghoshal & Neeraj Sridhar) – Sonu Nigam is not able to save this mediocre song with his singing…the usually dependable Neeraj Sridhar is is faced with singing in English and he brings the whole song down. It just doesn't work! Rating:
O Jaana (KK) – The more you listen to it, the more catchier this track gets! O Jaana is a trademark Emraan Hashmi song that sounds familiar yet is…different. Rating:
Kaisa Yeh Raaz Hai (KK) – The song starts off like something spooky….then it becomes a typical track from the Bhatt camp…the moment the part "chehra hai kya, yeh meri aankhon mein" comes you get a feeling that this song might be something special…but unfortunately after that brief moment of hope the song fails to live up to expectations. Did anyone else notice the "kaisa yeh raaz hai" part is a copy of SRK's "Bas itna sa khwaab hai" from Yes Boss? Rating:
Bandaa Re (Krishna) – Total waste. Very disappointed that the album ends with a song such as this! Rating:
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Raaz part 2 consists of a gem in Maahi and another potential chartbuster in O Jaana…aside from that the album disappoints and can in no way considered better than the original Raaz!
Star Cast: Emraan Hashmi, Adhyayan Suman and Kangna Ranaut
Director: Mohit Suri
Producer: Mukesh Bhatt


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For a dynamic, dialectical view of the relationship between individual and society:
"to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit for the profit of all... For as the body is one, and has many members, and all the members of the body, being many, are one body... When one member suffers, all the members suffer with it. Or when one member is honored, all the members rejoice with it." (12:7-12:26)
(Hat tip to Patrick J. Deneen.)


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Ireland Baldwin Defends Girlfriend Angel Haze
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