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HILLSVILLE — A parent and coach from a Wythe County baseball team have expressed concerns over how their team was treated by Carroll County parks and recreation officials at a tournament held in Carroll.
Damon Alley, a parent, and Jacob Porter, assistant coach, spoke to Carroll County Board of Supervisors members at their July 10 meeting, on behalf of a baseball team from Max Meadows.
The team advanced to and won a semi-final game for the Southwest Virginia Youth Baseball League, which includes the counties of Wythe, Carroll, Grayson and Floyd.
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ABINGDON – A Carroll County business owner, who paid his employees in cash to avoid paying taxes to the Internal Revenue Service and later lied in a bankruptcy proceeding, pleaded guilty July 20 in federal court.
Acting U.S. Attorney Rick A. Mountcastle said the case involved more than $1 million in cash.
Jones Keith Andrews, 62, of Galax is the owner of the bankrupt Andrews Farming Inc. and the still operating ANDCO Logistics.
In addition to flavorful food, the 13th Annual Smoke on the Mountain Virginia State BBQ Championship this weekend will offer a taste of great music.
The event will be held July 21-22 in downtown Galax, hosted by the City of Galax and the Twin County Regional Chamber of Commerce.
Headliners this year include returning favorites The Tams playing Motown and classic rock on Friday night from 8:30 p.m. and into the night; and the Tangent Band, playing "all-era" rock and roll from 8 p.m.-midnight on Saturday.
By ABBY BODNAR, Staff
A new teen hotline called "Let's Talk" is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, for youth who need to talk about issues they are dealing with.
Jill Burcham, the pastor and founder of Pray Until Something Happens (PUSH) Ministries in, recently started the hotline, which can be reached at (276) 233-7096.
Burcham and Tammy Harmon, the director of the Galax HOPE House and close friend of Burcham's, said they wanted to address issues for youth that were falling through the cracks.
A Carroll County native, who was wanted for attempted murder stemming from a shooting incident in Meadows of Dan, has turned himself in.
Chet Craft Perdue, 22, is being held without bond in the Patrick County Jail.
According to the Patrick County Sheriff's Office, Perdue turned himself in around 2:30 a.m. on July 8.
Perdue was charged with three felonies following a shooting that occurred on June 23 , according to Patrick County Sheriff Dan Smith.
A vehicle fire at Fenders Body Shop on Monday left no injuries, according to Galax Volunteer Fire Captain Mike Ayers.
At 4:04 p.m. on July 17, the fire department was dispatched to the body shop for a reported "structure fire with flames showing." Firefighters arrived to find a vehicle on fire in front of the business.
A hose was quickly pulled by part of the Engine 1 crew, while the other half of the crew checked the structure for the extension of the fire.
By LARRY CHAMBERS, Staff
INDEPENDENCE – The Grayson County School Board has rejected a proposal that would have allowed 6th graders to participate in middle school athletics.
The proposal was brought up at the June meeting to give board members the opportunity to discuss it at the July 10 meeting.
The first question board member Fred Weatherman asked was, "why?"
It was a typical weekday afternoon when the Angels of Assisi rescue van pulled around the curve on Fair Street in Galax, at the regional animal shelter; sending many of the four-legged patrons inside into barking fits as the engine cut off and the door opened.
For shelter dogs, this sound usually means that at least one animal might be about to meet its forever family and get a second chance; but little did they know, second chances on this particular day would be ten-fold.
Has someone decided their rock garden needs a cool new look, or is Galax the starting point of a different kind of rock tour?
Since around July 4, Chestnut Creek School of the Arts has been puzzling over that question.
A series of stones, painted by children during local festivals that the school participated in, have been left out under a tree in front of the school over the past year or so.
No answer
It's amazing that when a controversial decision is made in Grayson County like firing a coach, you can't get the superintendent or the school board members' phones to work. You call and you call and you can't get an answer. Someone needs to call the phone company and fix the phones up there in Independence.
Not fair
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Play or game?
Play as a noun means 'a piece of dramatic writing for the theatre or radio or television':
The students performed a play by Shakespeare and sang some folk songs.
Radio plays are always much better than TV plays – you can use your imagination more.
We use play as a verb when we talk about individual roles in a dramatic production, but we say that someone acts in a play (noun):
Who played Hamlet?
Who acted Hamlet?
McBride acted in over 40 plays.
McBride played over 40 plays.
We use play as a verb to talk about doing sports, music and other leisure activities. We usually don't use an article (a/an, the) when we talk about sport or leisure activities. We usually use an article when we talk about musical instruments:
I played rugby as a child; we never played soccer.
Can you play the piano?
I've never played poker. Have you?
We usually don't use an article (a/an, the) when we talk about sport or leisure activities. We usually use an article when we talk about musical instruments.
See also:
Game is a noun. We use it to talk about sports or other entertaining activities:
Would you like a game of tennis? (or Would you like to play tennis?)
Would you like a play of tennis?
The children invent some fantastic games to occupy themselves.
("Play or game ?" aus English Grammar Today © Cambridge University Press.)
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Makes me think about some doctor/clown, that is pyscho, jumping around while thos plays in the background, but if music can achieve that then it's awesome :3
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I remember this!!
lol this sounds like just like the theme for the twins in ff9, the two evil jesters :D
hehehe i loved them. great job and ty for posting :P
It does sorta sound like them, doesn't it? :3
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Can you say nostalgia?
This song leads me to believe you are related to one of the musical composers who worked on Dynamite Headdy. You're THAT good at this.
Well, the funny thing is - no I'm not. Nor have I heard any music from Dynamite Headdy. :3
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All I can see in my head is Kefka putting poison in my drinking water and laughing.
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awesome "evil clown/jester" style.
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text: GOP fans embers of 6 percent cap as Ritter douses it By on June 6, 2009 By Jason Kosena THE COLORADO STATESMAN The controversy surrounding the Arveschoug-Bird limit — a legislative provision that, for the past 18 years, has allowed the state's General Fund to grow by only 6 percent each year — seems destined to continue forever. Gov. Bill Ritter shakes the hand of Rep. Don Marostica, R-Loveland, while handing […]This content is only available to subscribers. Login or Subscribe Share this:EmailTwitterFacebook Legislative News, Title Item


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Target: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Goal: Delete Aaron Neilson's Facebook page that glorifies the slaughter of animals
Aaron Neilson, a "global hunter," posted more than a hundred photos of himself posing next to dead African lions, zebras, giraffes, water buffalo, elephants, crocodiles, moose, goats, hippos, and more on his Facebook page. According to the Facebook Community Standards, Neilson's photos violate one of the site's rules, which prohibits "graphic images shared for sadistic effect or to celebrate or glorify violence." A Facebook spokesperson had stated, "We reported content that promotes poaching of endangered species, the sale of animals for organized fight or content that includes extreme acts of animal abuse". Photos posted by Kendall Jones, a Texas cheerleader who also posed next to her trophy kills, have been taken down for the same reason very recently, so Neilson's case should be no different.
Some of the animals showcased on Neilson's page are endangered or near-threatened species. As reported by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the African lion has seen a critical population decline of 30-50% per two decades during the second half of the 20th century. The hippos, African Elephants, and Polar Bears on his page are currently labeled "vulnerable" by the IUCN. Neilson's hunting trips range from New Zealand to Africa and North America.
Demand Facebook to delete Aaron Neilson's trophy kill page by signing this petition.
Dear Mark Zuckerburg,
We are calling on you to adhere to your own website's rules and delete Aaron's Neilson's page, which glorifies and celebrates the slaughter of animals. It is clearly evident from the number of photos that Neilson has accumulated that he has spent a large amount of time in Africa, New Zealand, and Northern America hunting near-threatened species as a cruel, inhumane sport. Since Kendall Jones' page has already been shut down, you must remain consistent to your website's rules by deleting Neilson's as well. The slaughter of beautiful animals, whether they are endangered or not, is something that should not be celebrated or spread through a social media platform.
Please ensure that all subsequent kill trophy pages are swiftly dealt with and removed from the site.
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The Mille Lacs County Republican Party has chosen Milaca High School in Milaca as the location for its 2012 precinct caucuses. Caucuses are scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 7, beginning at 7 p.m. All precincts in the county will meet at the same location.
A feature of the 2012 caucuses will be a presidential election straw ballot. All caucus attendees will have the opportunity to vote for their preferred candidate among the seven contenders in the Republican Party primary.
Andrew Mathews, Chairman of the Mille Lacs County Republican Party, expressed the importance of the caucuses.
"Voting in the election is important, no doubt about it," he said. "But you can have a much bigger impact on your government if you get involved in party activities early.
"You can have a say in the candidates your party chooses to run under its banner and you can help shape the party platform. That's critical for establishing the policies your candidates will work for once they get into office."
The primary business of the caucuses is to select delegates to the Mille Lacs County Republican Convention, which will take place later in February. Caucus attendees also can offer amendments to the Republican Party platform by way of resolutions presented to the caucus.
The local Republican Party will hold an informational session for people interested in attending their caucus. The session is scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 28, 10 a.m., at the Princeton Library.


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Am i contages STILL?
I have have the Chicken Pox (mild case) for 7 days now...Am i still contages?
Answer: Yes/bio hazard.
until they scab over you are
Chickenpox is a importantly contagious illness caused by primary infection beside varicella zoster virus (VZV). It generally begins near conjunctival and catarrhal symptoms and then characteristic spots appearing contained by two or three waves, mainly on the body and boss rather than the hands and becoming itchy untreated pockmarks, small open sores which heal mostly short scarring.
Chickenpox has a 10-21 day incubation length and is spread easily through aerosolized droplets from the nasopharynx of ill individuals or through direct contact beside secretions from the rash. Following primary infection at hand is usually lifelong protective immunity from further episodes of chickenpox.
Chickenpox is rarely brutal, although it is generally more severe in adults than within children. Pregnant women and those with a suppressed immune system are at highest risk of serious complications. The most adjectives late complication of chicken pox is shingles, caused by reactivation of the varicella zoster virus decades after the initial episode of chickenpox.
attain well soon
yeah your still contagious until they scab over. hold they? your supposed to wait three days after the scab, and then jump to a privite (you more likley yo spread if its public) and then they will tell you your okay and they volia!


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Portraits of girls and women from around the world
by Vanessa Able
About the Book
In this book is a collection of portraits of women and girls that I have gathered on my travels over the years: working in Iraq, Syria and Turkey, traveling in Iran, India, Thailand and Japan, and working again in Mexico and the Americas.
The truth is that even though I have been fortunate enough to at least briefly meet all of the women pictured in this book, I nonetheless still know next to nothing about the vast majority of them. It's the click of the shutter that briefly united us for a split second without ever knowing each other's names or backgrounds.
And yet, looking back through all the different faces on the pages that follow, it strikes me just how many stories can rise up through the images. I see women working, protesting, holding banners, tending to their children; caked in make up or laughing, dancing, sitting, praying. There are beggars, schoolgirls, nuns, strippers, brides and witches; some that are old, some that are just breaking their first teeth, and some that weren't even born as girls. But I nonetheless see their collective portraits as a strong testament to the powers of womanhood.
About the Creator
After a stint travelling around the Middle East in early 2005, Vanessa Able settled in Istanbul and began to work as a correspondent for the Hewler Globe, northern Iraq's first English-language weekly newspaper. During this time she also started contributing to Time Out Istanbul magazine, and in December 2005 became the Editor-in-Chief of its English edition. In addition to editing the monthly publication, Vanessa started writing about Istanbul for the Observer and Guardian newspapers, as well as other magazines such as Gulf Life, Taste Anatolia, before going on to contribute to Conde Nast's concierge.com travel website. Moving to Mexico City in 2007, Vanessa is now a freelance writer and reporter contributing to Esquire and National Geographic Traveler in Mexico City, as well as the New York Times. She has also worked extensively on two Time Out Guidebooks: Istanbul and Mexico City, and authored a book of walking tours in Istanbul for Insight Guides published in 2009.
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Angry Cat Will Not Let Mailman Deliver Mail [VIDEO]
Mailmen have it rough as it is. They have to deliver the mail in rai,n sleet or snow. What ever the day brings they have to be out there delivering the mail to us. It's been their policy since day one. It's bad enough they have to watch out for big dogs and people trying to rob them on a daily basis. This poor mailman has it really rough. He has to tell his boss that an inside cat has his number, and won't let him deliver the mail without attacking him through the mail slot in the door.


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So how would reform, or regulation, deal with these conflicts?
Others fear that giving them the force of regulation could be more harmful because they would become outdated quickly.
According to one regulation, it would just require the trucks to be an upgrade over inferior IRS-owned vehicles.
Not any new regulation, subsidy, or mandate, but any regulation, subsidy, or mandate at all.
Common-law partnership offers privacy and autonomy in a world of increasing intrusion and regulation.
The character of the naval officers of the United States makes a regulation of this kind wholly unnecessary.
As applied to her, the term: coveralls, regulation, gray was strictly a euphemism.
This regulation brings more of our activities into the daylight hours and so cuts down the use of artificial light.
In other words, they must be subject to rule and regulation.
An enactment that slavery may or may not exist there, is a regulation respecting the territory.
1670s, "act of regulating; state of being reduced to order," noun of action from regulate. Meaning "rule for management" is from 1715. Related: Regulations.
regulation reg·u·la·tion (rěg'yə-lā'shən)
The act of regulating or the state of being regulated.
A principle, rule, or law designed to control or govern conduct.
A governmental order having the force of law.
The capacity of an embryo to continue normal development following injury to or alteration of a structure.
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A SUPERB full set of victories was recorded by North Yorkshire sides in the Northern Counties East League.
Tadcaster Albion, Pickering Town and Scarborough Athletic all bagged three points in the premier division, and there were division one successes for Selby Town and Knaresborough Town.
Pickering edged up to seventh in the top flight table with a 2-0 home win over Maltby Main, with Liam Shepherd scoring two minutes from the break and Steve Baxter netting two minutes from time.
Fifth-placed Tadcaster were 4-0 home winners over Staveley Miners Welfare, having led 3-0 at the interval at Ings Lane.
Albion took the lead through Terry Taylor in the 18th minute, Nick Thompson added a second eight minutes later and George Bissett made it 3-0 on 42 minutes.
Thompson put the seal on the victory with the fourth on 70 minutes.
Scarborough's 7-1 win at home to Long Eaton, which keeps them top, included goals from Ryan Blott (2), Jimmy Beadle (2), Robbie Hawkes, David Brown and an own goal.
Selby stepped up their bid for a great escape at the foot of division one with a 4-0 triumph at Hallam.
Jack Wooley put the Robins on the road to victory with a 13th minute opener and Danny Gray got a second on 25 minutes.
Wooley's second on 66 minutes put the game beyond the hosts and, three minutes later, Sean Dickinson made it four.
Knaresborough hit back from a goal down to win 4-1 at Askern Villa, thanks to a hat-trick from Steve Bromley and an effort by former Selby striker Craig Heard.
Tenth-placed Harrogate Town toppled sixth-placed Worcester 3-1 in Blue Square Bet North at Wetherby Road.
All the Town goals came in the first half, with Paul Beesley scoring twice either side of a Chib Chilaka strike, while the visitors pulled a goal back four minutes from time.
Harrogate Railway Athletic crashed 4-0 at Ramsbottom United in Evo-Stik League division one north.
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- Enable our patrons to explore their personal heritage and enhance cultural awareness of others.
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- Promote library programs and services through partnerships with schools and community-wide leadership.
- Ensure that our facility is adequate for library services and programs.
- Obtain and provide materials that demonstrate this commitment, and provide a facility that enhances lifelong learning.
The Melrose Park Public Library focuses on meeting the educational, informational, and cultural needs of the racially and economically diverse community of Melrose Park, Illinois.
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Former Federal Court judge Michael Moore has been appointed interim administrator to the troubled East branch of the Health Services Union despite strong opposition from the union's leader,
Ms Jackson told the Federal Court on Friday there was a perception that Justice Moore was associated with federal Workplace Minister Bill Shorten and therefore should not be appointed.
"The union is disgusted about the ALP's handling of the Craig Thomson affair," Ms Jackson said, adding that HSU members would have reservations about Justice Moore if he were appointed.
Mr Shorten appointed Justice Moore to a three-member panel that is reviewing Labor's Fair Work Act and is due to report soon to the Gillard government.
Despite the objections, Justice Geoffrey Flick appointed Justice Moore to the role, saying he had decided that "whatever ultimately may happen there's a sufficient basis at present to justify the making of the order".
The administrator will take over the East branch from Tuesday and will take possession of all union property, including credit cards, while overseeing a ban on HSU employees campaigning or electioneering.
This will involve replacing the elected officials, including national secretary Ms Jackson.
She argued that this was unjust to her and to "all the other [union] councillors who have done the right thing."
On Friday morning Ms Jackson dumped her lawyer, David Rofe, QC, who had appeared for her partner, Fair Work Australia vice-president Michael Lawler, early in the week.
He briefly appeared for her before telling the court he could no longer act.
Mr Rofe said that in his 57 years as a barrister, a judge had never given him so little time to obtain instructions from a client, calling Justice Flick's behaviour "outrageous".
Ms Jackson then appeared for herself, asking the judge to stand down on the basis of "apprehended bias" and saying she had not been afforded procedural fairness.
Justice Flick rejected her application to have him removed for bias, but said he would give her until next week to provide more evidence. Ms Jackson said she wanted her original evidence, which had been called scandalous, back on the court file as well as calling "all the witnesses".
She said the fight was between a "corrupt faction and a non-corrupt faction".
The case will return to court on Friday for Ms Jackson to put forward her position.
NSW Finance and Services Minister Greg Pearce has declined to say whether he will appoint an administrator under recently enacted state legislation.
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About the Book
It takes no more than to walk out your door and listen, really listen to your surroundings and the sounds that you hear that have always been there but never heard. Then look in the directions of the sounds and study what you see. The squirrels frolicking with each other, the array of birds singing and calling their mates, and the sound of the frogs after the rains. Then you think, will they be there tomorrow or the next day for our children or their children to see and hear.
My passion for photographing wildlife is selfish because I get to stop, listen and see all the beautiful animals we have and I can preserve those animals in my photographs. The list of nearly extinct or endangered animals grows more numerous everyday. Unless we take care of what has been placed here for us to treasure the only way you will ever know they were here will be through the photographs .
Keith Lovejoy
About the Creator
Keith Lovejoy started his hobby in 1976 while film was prevalent and digital only a working thought. In 2000, he invested in a digital camera and said good bye to the darkroom mess. Since 2004, he has frequented local rodeo events taking pictures for the competitors. Not forgetting his compassion for wildlife you can find him seeking out a critter somewhere to photograph. Traveling and recording memories by photos is the hobby part of the compassion to share his finds with others.
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A day of protest for the liberation of Eduard Kuznetsov will be held throughout Western Europe next month. Kuznetsov's French lawyer, Daniel Jacoby, announced here yesterday that dozens of meetings will be held Jan. 29 to ask the Soviet authorities to release him on grounds of ill health.
Kuznetsov was sentenced to death in the first Leningrad trial in December 1970 for having planned to hijack a plane to leave the Soviet Union and go to Israel. After a wave of world protests, the Soviet authorities commuted his sentence to 15 years in prison.
Jacoby said that Kuznetsov is seriously ill from a stomach ulcer and tuberculosis. Among the American and European writers who have called for Kuznetsov's liberation are Raymond Aron, Simone de Beauvoir, Saul Bellow, Heinrich Boll and Jean-Paul Sartre.
Premier Menachem Begin said Wednesday night that the meeting between Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan and Egyptian Premier Mustapha Khalil will take place Saturday night or Sunday.


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Monday was a big day for hopeful supporters of Barack Obama at La Sierra University. Mike Tyler, Zulema Ibara, and Amanda O'Reilly-- all seniors at LSU-- had barely gotten the materials and resources by which to conduct a rally on their campus.


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The Client Rights Office serves individuals receiving services for developmental disability, mental health, and substance use. Individuals may receive these services in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings, including adult family homes, clinics, community-based residential facilities, facilities operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services, and group homes. Inmates, emergency room patients, and single-person provider clinic patients are not served by the Client Rights Office.
Duties of the Office
The work of the Client Rights Office covers five key areas.
Promotion of Client Rights
Client Rights Office staff monitor changes in client rights laws and rules and, where appropriate, recommend changes for the benefit of all individuals served by the office.
Consultation on Client Rights
Client Rights Office staff provide consultation on many topics and questions concerning client rights from individuals receiving services, their families, advocates, service providers, county staff, policy makers, and other interested parties.
Community Provider Grievance Process
The State Grievance Examiner is a member of the Client Rights Office staff and conducts reviews of grievances from individuals dissatisfied with the outcome of their complaint about services provided in the community. The State Grievance Examiner also may review any complaints about the community grievance procedure itself.
State Facility Grievance Process
Client Rights Office staff receive and process requests for reviews of grievances from patients of facilities operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services dissatisfied with the results of the first two levels of the grievance resolution process.
Approval of Research
Client Rights Office staff reviews all research proposals involving anyone who is served by the office. Recommendations on whether to approve a research project are forwarded to the Administrator of the Division of Public Health, who then decides whether the study will receive final approval from the Wisconsin Department of Health Services.
History of the Office
A 1972 court decision, entitled Lessard v. Schmidt, set forth the rights of mental health patients. These rights were adopted into state law with the creation of Wis. Stats. §§ 51.30 and 51.61 in 1976. The law required the Wisconsin Department of Health and Social Services (now the Department of Health Services) to create administrative rules for a grievance procedure to ensure patient rights. The Client Rights Office was created to oversee the development of administrative rules and the grievance process. Client Rights Office staff drafted administrative rules to implement patient rights and confidentiality.
- Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 94, Patient Rights and Resolution of Patient Grievances
- Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 92, Confidentiality of Treatment Records
The original grievance process rules permitted counties to opt into the state's process or have their own procedure. In 1996, a change to Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 94 required counties to use the state's grievance process.
Mission of the Office
The Client Rights Office's mission is to promote the rights of people receiving services for developmental disability, mental health, and substance use.
One of two primary ways the Client Rights Office does this is through a four-stage grievance process. The Client Rights Office investigates complaints at the third stage and provides quality assurance review and follow-up on the first two-stages of the grievance procedure.
Client Rights Office staff also work collaboratively with individuals receiving services, service providers, and state run facilities to ensure that client rights are fostered. Client Rights Office staff provide support and training to provider staff and at the facilities operated by the Wisconsin Department of Health Services. People receiving services also receive assistance from the Client Rights Office when they inquire about their rights or want to know whether their rights have been violated.
Client Rights Office staff envision a future where providers and recipients of services for mental health, substance use, and developmental disability are knowledgeable about and empowered by client rights and the grievance process and where the relationship between provider and recipient of services is consistently collaborative and results in people getting better.
Laws and Codes
- Wis. Stat. § 51.30 - Records
- Wis. Stat. § 51.61 - Patient Rights
- Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 92 - Confidentiality of Treatment of Records
- Wis. Admin. Code ch. DHS 94 - Patient Rights and Resolution of Patient Grievances
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Your reader Mr. Russ Andrews took exception to my letter to the editor ("Disaster not a bargaining chip," Aspen Daily News, Jan. 19) admonishing our Congressman Scott Tipton for voting against the Superstorm Sandy Disaster Relief bill. Mr. Andrews, in his letter ("Hidden pork and U.S. debt," Aspen Daily News, Jan. 26), incorrectly stated that less than half of the aid bill was slated to relieve victims of Superstorm Sandy and Mr. Andrews went on to list items in the bill that did not relate to Sandy. Unfortunately Mr. Andrews did not receive accurate information regarding the bill. One of his objectionable items was the $150 million for Alaskan fisheries, and after there was justifiable public outcry, this project was actually stripped from this bill and was not in the House bill Congressman Tipton voted on. The other projects Mr. Andrews listed as "non-relief" spending actually were very much for areas which were subject to a direct hit from Sandy. Mr. Andrews may not remember, but Washington D.C. suffered a direct hit from Hurricane Sandy. What was supposed to be a 24 minute storm actually turned into a 24 hour storm, which thereby dealt a great deal of damage to our nation's capitol. I have corrected Mr. Andrew's list by adding the truthful description of each item in parenthesizes:
• $2 million for a new roof for the Smithsonian Museum ("for expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy").
• $4 million for the Kennedy Space Center ($15 million "for repair at National Aeronautics and Space Administration facilities damaged by Hurricane Sandy").
• $8 million for a new car fleet for the Justice Department ($21.25 million for the Department of Justice split between the FBI the DEA the ATF all for "necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy").
• $150 million for Alaskan fisheries (which was stripped from the bill and not in the House bill Congressman Tipton voted on).
• $270 million in new Amtrak spending beyond the $30 million already approved to cover Amtrak's insurance deductible related to Sandy. It provides $32 million for repairs and $86 million for "recovery and resiliency in the affected areas" and "for necessary repairs related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy," for a total of $112 million. It is important to note that "none of the funds may be used to subsidize operating losses."
• $348 million for the National Park Service, which goes to the Historic Preservation Fund for repair of damaged historic buildings and historic materials and "necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy."
• $600 million for the Environmental Protection Agency to mitigate global warming (which is not occurring) — providing $725,000 for environment programs and management, $2 million for a hazardous substance Superfund and $5 million for the leaking underground storage tank fund, all "for necessary expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Sandy," and $600 million to state and tribal assistance grants for "wastewater and drinking water treatment works and facilities impacted by Hurricane Sandy."
• $17 billion for "community development funds" (can you say ACORN?). This one item represents 28.3 percent of the bill and is akin to giving the National Rifle Association $17 billion with which to lobby lawmakers on behalf of its members. ACORN is a defunct organization. $16 billion in HUD community development block grants "for necessary expenses related to disaster relief, long-term recovery, restoration of infrastructure and housing, and economic revitalization in the most impacted and distressed areas resulting from a major disaster."
Mr. Andrews incorrectly chooses to conflate budget negotiations with the federal government's ability to respond to a massive natural disaster that struck our country. Sandy was the second-costliest storm to hit our country, second only to Katrina. It was the largest Atlantic hurricane on record, spanning 1100 miles. When such a disaster strikes, this is a time when we are not 50 individual states, we are one country.
Additionally, Mr. Andrews could not be more mistaken when he accuses me of lacking compassion and foresight for future generations. We are so fortunate to live in this truly exceptional nation, one that cares for the health and well being of all of its citizens. Helping others in their time of need is the most important lesson we can teach our children and grandchildren. Helping the east coast injured and homeless families is the morally correct thing to do, the American thing to do, and is indeed an investment in our country's future.
Blanca O'Leary
Chair, Pitkin County Democrats


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Meeting doors will open at 5:30 p.m. at Folger Stable's Carriage Room Museum in Wunderlich Park, 4040 Woodside Road.
Artwork, commissioned from longtime event artist Nancy Cawdrey, will be unveiled at the meeting. The watercolor is titled "Woodside Day of the Horse."
The actual 10th Annual Woodside Day of the Horse will be held Oct. 11.
The July 9 meeting will also cover the 2014 event theme, "Chinese Year of the Horse," tips for safely sharing local trails, and discussion of this year's new events.
Tickets for the Woodside Day of the Horse raffle will be available at the meeting.
Each year, nearly 2,000 people attend the Woodside Day of the Horse events, including a horse fair and trail ride. The fair has activities for children and adults and more than 20 booths, including one for the Woodside Library.
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To make their case, Dr. María Julia Hernández, director of the Legal Aid Office of the Catholic Archdiocese of El Salvador, will be touring cities in the United States—including Missoula on Oct. 28—to solicit international help in urging the Salvadoran government to live up to its promises of reconstructing areas devastated by Hurricane Mitch, as well as implementing measures to prevent similar destruction from occurring in the future.
Dr. Hernández's goal is to put pressure on international donor agencies who provide economic aid to the Salvadoran government, and to force the implementation of flood prevention measures in areas that continue to suffer from flooding. With the approach of the rainy season, Salvadoran communities are being forced to evacuate due to rising floodwaters that are exacerbated by the government's failure to even warn communities before opening floodgates and submerging their towns.
Dr. Hernández, a vocal critic of the Salvadoran government, is hardly a neophyte to the international stage. Appointed to her position nearly two decades ago by then-Archbishop Oscar Romero to address the growing number of human rights abuses being perpetrated by the Salvadoran military during that country's bloody civil war, she continues to carry on the Archbishop's work, even after he was assassinated while delivering a mass on March 24, 1980.
Hernández has also been a outspoken opponent of the U.S. Army's School of the Americas based at Ft. Benning, Ga., where many Latin American military leaders have undergone training in methods of combat, counter-insurgency and counter-narcotics. Graduates of the School of the Americas have been linked to some of Latin America's worst human rights abuses, including the El Mozote massacre of more than 1,000 Salvadoran children and adults. Hernández herself provided leadership to a forensic team that unearthed the remains of that massacre, which both the United States and Salvadoran governments denied as early as 1981.
The reception for Dr. Hernández in Missoula is being sponsored by the Missoula-based Friends of Ellacuria—San Ignacio de Ellacuria was a city hit hard by the 1998 hurricane—as well as by SHARE, a San Francisco-based human rights and social justice group, and the Jeannette Rankin Peace Center. A potluck dinner for Dr. Hernández will be held at 6:30 p.m. on Oct. 28 at the University Congregational Church.


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Each graphic is "drawn" free-hand on a milling machine. Sometimes a cabochon (or two) is inlaid; sometimes it is a gold coin or a diamond. The variations are as endless as the imagination of the artist. Talented and creative, Lisa L'Eveque-Hague has learned many techniques from Chris and has carried the concept on to new levels. All Unique Graphics are one-of-a-kind and individually created.
- Blade Length: 2.94" (75 mm)
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- Weight: 3.0 oz. (85 g)
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Erie Kitchen 4/18/13
Department of Health and Human Services
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9200 Corporate Boulevard
Rockville, MD 20850-3229
Erie Kitchen
Attn: Site Manager
617 West Erie Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19140
Re: FDA Warning Letter Regarding Tobacco Retailer Inspection Violations
Reference Number: 12PA006287AB
Dear Sir or Madam:
This Warning Letter is notification from the Center for Tobacco Products (CTP), United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), advising you that Erie Kitchen was observed to be in violation of federal tobacco laws and regulations. Violations of 21 C.F.R 1140 were observed during an inspection that occurred on August 9, 2011, and during a two-part inspection that occurred on January 14 and February 14, 2013. Please be advised that additional violations observed during any subsequent inspection may lead to a civil money penalty (CMP), according to the schedule provided later in this document, and/or a No-Tobacco-Sale Order. Your response is requested in 15 working days.
On January 14 and February 14, 2013, an inspector representing the FDA completed atwo-part inspection of the establishment, located at 617 West Erie Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19140. During this inspection the establishment was in violation because you or your employee sold cigarettes to a minor.
This inspection revealed that the establishment sells, distributes, advertises, and/or promotes cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, and/or smokeless tobacco, which requires that the establishment and its owners comply with federal laws and regulations governing such practices. The violation observed during the January 14 and February 14, 2013, two-part inspection includes the following:
1. A minor was able to buy Newport Menthol Gold Box cigarettes on February 14, 2013, at approximately 1:04 PM ET in the establishment.
A retailer must NOT sell cigarettes, cigarette tobacco, and/or smokeless tobacco to a person younger than 18 years of age. Doing so violates 21 C.F.R. § 1140.14(a).
Previously, on October 27, 2011, CTP issued a Warning Letter to Erie Kitchen for violations observed on August 9, 2011. During this inspection the establishment was in violation because it sold tobacco to a minor and failed to check the minor's identification. You are receiving another Warning Letter because the violations observed during your most recent inspection occurred outside the statutory period for FDA to seek a CMP at this time. Please be advised that additional violations observed during any subsequent inspection may lead to a CMP, according to the schedule provided later in this document, and/or a No-Tobacco-Sale Order.
The listed violations cause your cigarettes to be "misbranded" under section 903 of the FD&C Act (21 U.S.C. § 387c).
You should immediately correct the violations listed above. Failure to correct the violations may result in FDA taking regulatory action without further notice. These actions may include, but are not limited to, civil money penalty, no-tobacco-sale order, seizure, and/or injunction.
The violations indicated in this letter may not be a complete list of violations at the establishment. The establishment must comply with all the applicable laws and regulations. For more information on these requirements, helpful resources for retailers, a database of inspections, and free Break the Chain of Tobacco Addiction materials, visit our website at http://www.fda.gov/TobaccoProducts.
You have 15 working days from the date you receive this letter to respond. In your response, explain your plan for correcting the listed violations and preventing future violations. Include a telephone number and address. Note your reference number of 12PA006287AB in your response and mail it to:
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9200 Corporate Boulevard
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Rockville, Maryland 20850
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Third within a 24 month period
Fourth within a 24 month period
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Sixth within a 48 month period
See 21 C.F.R. § 17.2; Guidance for FDA and Tobacco Retailers, Civil Money Penalties and No-Tobacco-Sale Orders for Tobacco Retailers, March 2011 (available at http://www.fda.gov/downloads/TobaccoProducts/GuidanceComplianceRegulatoryInformation/UCM252955.pdf).
If you have any questions, contact Ms. Sashka Mannion at (301) 796-3010 or via email at email@example.com. Have your reference number ready when you call and include it with any email communications.
Ann Simoneau, J.D.
Office of Compliance and Enforcement
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One of the key elements of ISO 27001 certification involves doing a comprehensive risk assessment. In order to combat the risks to your organization's assets, you need to identify the assets, consider the threats that could compromise those assets, and estimate the damage that the realization of any threat could pose. Losing trade secrets, for example, could pose serious threats to your company's financial well being. Some estimates claim that US companies lose $100 billion annually due to the loss of proprietary information. This link will take you to one.
One of the first steps in doing a risk assessment involves identifying the various entities that pose threats to your company's well being -- hackers, disgruntled employees, careless employees, competitors? Not all threats fall into the category of "bad guys". You might also have to consider natural disasters such as power outages, data center flooding, fires, and other events that damage cabling or make your offices uninhabitable.
You then need to identify the assets that you are trying to protect with special attention to those that are most critical. My boss likes to call the most critical information assets our "secret sauce". What gives your company its edge and would be most harmful if compromised? What critical components in your network infrastructure would halt production if they failed? And don't restrict your thinking to computers and online data. Make sure you consider all sorts of assets from automated systems to paperwork stored at off-site storage facilities. Even know-how can be considered a critical business asset.
You also need to consider the vulnerabilities inherent in your systems, processes, business locations, etc. What are the "weak links" in your systems and processes? In what ways might your production lines be broken? Maybe you have old equipment that's going to fail just when you most need it. Maybe you have no redundancy for your web services. Maybe a legacy system has a password that everybody knows, including several people you fired last month. Maybe a critical service is using the default admin password for some particular application it relies on. Make sure your ISO 27001 implementation team considers all the weaknesses they can identify and creates records that you keep in a very safe place! After all, the last thing you want is for anyone outside your small group to be able to access a complete list of all your vulnerabilities.
If you've got a good implementation team with healthy connections to the various parts of your organization, you will probably have a leg up on identifying your most critical assets across the organization. It might be your source code, your engineering drawings, your patent applications, your customer lists, your contracts, your admin passwords, your data centers, your UPS devices, your firewalls, your payroll records ... Start with those that are the most critical or go from site to site or office to office as needed. The end result could be a more comprehensive view of where and how your company is vulnerable than you ever imagined. In my experience, the number of risks not previously considered that staffs uncover is quite significant.
Once you've compiled a fairly comprehensive list of assets and the ways in which they could be compromised, you'll be ready to assign numeric values to those risks. The calculated risk values will provide a basis for determining how much time and money you invest in protecting against the threats that you have identified.
One basic formula that organizations use to compute risk is simply likelihood times impact. Likelihood (probability) is a measure of how likely a loss is to happen. Impact (severity) is how much damage will be done to the organization if the loss occurs. Each of these measures will require a scale; 1 to 10 is generally used. It's a good idea to also tie some meaningful description to each level in your risk rating. Doing so makes it more likely that you'll get the same kind of ratings from different people. For example, 10 might indicate that the likelihood is practically guaranteed while 1 might mean that it's nearly impossible. Similarly, a 1 to 10 on your impact measures might have 10 meaning that the loss would put your company at significant risk of folding while a 1 would mean the loss would be insignificant. The textual descriptions will help those who have to assign numbers to your risks think through the process more clearly. It's also a good idea to have several people involved in the risk evaluation process to ensure that the numbers reflect several points of view and are well thought through. It's extremely difficult to be scientific about assigning the numbers, but your staff will get better with practice and can compare the ratings for various assets to help ensure that they make sense.
Often, a third factor is also used in the risk calculation. In failure mode effects analysis (FMEA), the third factor is a measure of the effectiveness of current controls. You then have the likelihood that a threat is acted on (independent of your precautions against it) times the anticipated damage (impact) times the effectiveness of your efforts in mitigating the risks (controls). With three factors, your RPNs can range from 1 to 1,000. This will give you a better "spread" and an easier time identifying the more prominent risks.
The word "controls" in ISO 27001 speak refers to the policies and actions you take to address risks. For example, you might require that all passwords be changed every few months to lessen the likelihood that accounts will be compromised by hackers. And you might implement measures to make sure that the passwords are changed at the planned intervals. This "control" would reduce the likelihood that passwords would be successfully guessed. You might also have a control that locks accounts after some number of wrong passwords are tried. That would lessen the risk of compromise even further.
The resultant calculation of likelihood times impact or likelihood times impact times control effectiveness is called a risk priority number or "RPN".
When collecting information about your assets and calculating RPNs, make sure that you also record who provided the information, who is responsible for the assets and when the information was gathered so that you can go back later if you have questions and can recognize when the information is too old to be reliable.
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Brian Keeney
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Paul Snethen
Reggie Hutson
Scott Sjogren
Jeff Blauw
Jesse Jordan
Allen Bell
Jason Gross
Formerly the Miami County Bass Club, the East Kansas Bassmasters is a B.A.S.S. affiliated club based out of Paola, Kansas. EKB is a growing club with many local members, as well as members from as far away as the Wichita area. We have a unique tournament format that provides for a competitive season while maintaining a fun and friendly atmosphere. We are also focused on getting youths involved in fishing and promoting the conservation of our fisheries.
Our primary tournament format allows members to fish with a partner of their choice, while still competing individually against other anglers and co-anglers. At a given tournament, each angler and co-angler can weigh in four fish a piece. Sharing of fish is not allowed; each angler must catch their own fish. The weight of the angler's and co-angler's limits is then combined for a team weight for that day's tournament standings and money payout. However, the individual weights go towards the angler and co-angler of the year standings. This format makes EKB an attractive club for members who want to fish competitive club tournaments with their kids, spouses, or buddies. There are times during the year when we will also have draw tournaments, but the weigh-in format stays the same. Our tournaments also feature a youth division, with an award going to the youth who weighs in the heaviest sack of fish.
Interested in joining the East Kansas Bassmasters? Come to our next meeting or tournament and see what we are all about. Watch for meeting times and locations to be posted on this website, or stay updated by following EKB on Facebook and Twitter. Feel free to contact us for more information.
Club Dues Information
For all members, $35 membership due for EKB's club.
Must be a member of B.A.S.S., $35 (magazine subscription) - each member responsible for this on their own
B.A.S.S. Nation Membership is $30 payable to EKB (must be a member of B.A.S.S. first)
Kansas Bass Nation Membership is $30 (must be a member of B.A.S.S. first).
All four required to fish with EKB. This is a total of $95 payable to EKB; the $35 to B.A.S.S. must be paid individually to B.A.S.S.
Further questions, contact the club president Dale Manning at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Arab racism prevents peace / Op-ed: Hebron house dispute highlights Arab desire for Middle East free of any Jewish presence (YNetNews.Com -Yedioth Internet) Giulio Meotti Published: 04.04.12, 11:32)
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The invisible headlines go beyond the settlers who bought a house near Hebron´s Cave of the Patriarchs. The real story is not about home ownership; rather, it´s at the very core of the Mideastern conflict.
While Israel is not Arabrein (Jewish citizens live with their fellow Arab citizens and neither they nor anyone else suggests they are an obstacle to peace), a Nazi-like ideology sees the entire State of Israel as an alien presence among Islamic nations, an undesirable island in an Arab sea that must ultimately be submerged.
This is the real apartheid, which is supported by the West and which emerges from President Barack Obamas de-legitimization of Jerusalems post-1967 neighborhoods.
The concept of removing a religious or ethnic community from a certain region brings back the worst memories of World War II, yet has become mainstream when it is applied to a part of the land of Israel. The scandal is epitomized by the fate of the Arabs who sold houses and land to the Jews. By now, dozens of Arabs have been murdered for selling their homes to Jews.
In 1995, the Palestinian Legislative council voted unanimously in favor of the death sentence. The law was endorsed by the PA on the basis of a Jordanian law that had been in effect until the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967. The PA´s mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Ikremah Sabri, and the Palestinian chief Islamic judge, Sheikh Tayseer Tamimi, issued religious decrees authorizing the killing of Arabs who sell property to Jews and forbidding Muslims from burying them in Islamic cemeteries.
Not even Nazi Germany in the 1930s knew this level of anti-Jewish pathology.
Textbooks promote racism
In that sense, Hebron is a test: The only Palestinian city with a Jewish presence in its midst. It is a safe bet that the ordinary Israeli population will say that given a choice between a Jewish presence in Hebron and peace, they would, with little hesitation, choose the latter. But all the news from Hebron provide proof that no such choice exists. Its an illusion.
The simple fact is that the Arabs consider everything in and around Hebron, as indeed they do everything in the land of Israel, to be sacred Muslim land. Jews had lived in Hebron as dhimmis, second- class residents, forbidden to pray in the Cave and humiliatingly confined to the seventh step leading into the building.
In December 2010, PA President Mahmoud Abbas said that I will never allow a single Israeli to live among us on Palestinian land. Such a state would be the first to prohibit Jews or any other faith since Nazi Germany.
This obsessive logic just drew Abbas to honor with a medal veteran White House Correspondent Helen Thomas, who has provoked a storm in the US after saying the Jews must get the hell out of Palestine and go home to Germany or Poland. However, this is racism that goes well beyond the Palestinians.
Laws hampering Jewish life in Arab countries are the customary condition, not the exception. Saudi Arabia doesnt even permit Jewish visitors, let alone Jewish foreign employees. As a matter of policy, the Jordanians do not permit Jews to be domiciled in their country. This racist view, found Arab textbooks and taught in the schools of all Arab nations, is the ultimate bar to real peace in the area, not the Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria.
In 1942, the Nazis gathered in a villa outside Berlin and adopted the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. Back then, anti-Semites wanted to make the world Judenrein" - Free of Jews. In 2012, anti- Semites want to make the world Judenstaatrein - Free of a Jewish state. (Copyright 2012 © Yedioth Internet 04/04/12)
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TRURO – More than 400 students from Cobequid Educational Centre will graduate Friday night during a ceremony at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre.
TRURO – More than 400 students from Cobequid Educational Centre will graduate Friday night during a ceremony at the Rath Eastlink Community Centre.
The ceremony begins at 7:30 p.m.
Because of limited parking at the centre, the Colchester East Hants Health Centre Foundation is providing free overflow parking for parents and families. The gates to the parking lot across the street at the hospital will be open in the visitor lot, beginning at 6:30 p.m. and remain open until 10 p.m.
Doors to the graduation ceremony will open at 6:30 p.m. and all guests are asked to use the doors at the west side, upper entrance. Guests are reminded to bring their tickets. Those without tickets will not be admitted before 7:15 p.m. Tickets will be collected by ushers and will be available as souvenirs following the ceremony.
Public seating will be available after all ticketed seats are filled, after 7:15 p.m.
There will be designated seats for those who are hearing impaired and need an interpreter. Please call 896-5700 and leave your name with Debbie. There are also seats available for those in a wheelchair on first come, first served basis.
A professional photographer will be taking photos of each graduate as he/she accepts their diploma. Parents can pick up the pictures from the Student Services Office at CEC after noon on July 3. No guests will be permitted onto the ice surface area for photography purposes.
For those unable to attend, the graduation will be live streamed on the CEC website (www.cec.ccrsb.ca).


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So, I have been primal for about a month now. I am not losing but gaining. At first it was a backup issue. I have gotten that resolved though and am still up 3 pounds. I have not gained any inches what so ever anywhere on my body that I have measured. Could this possibly be muscle weight that I have gained or is it fat? Will I ever lose weight on primal? I seem to be maintaining or gaining for that matter. What's the deal????????
No announcement yet.
COuld this be muscle weight???
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COuld this be muscle weight???Tags: None
What are you eating? What exercises are you doing? What are you taking?
Could be muscle, bone density and other good things. Go by measurements and how clothes fit. Throw away your scale or hide it in the closet.Ancestral Health Info
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Primal Blueprint Explorer My blog for people who are not into the Grok thing. Since starting the blog, I have moved close to being Archevore instead of Primal. But Mark's Daily Apple is still the best source of information about living an ancestral lifestyle.
I am eating typically
b- some type of meat. Sometimes I eat bacon and 2-3 eggs, other times I may eat a fritatta with ground turkey or beef with some veggies, 1/4 avocado
l- nice portion of beef, or chicken, or other type of meat I have on hand with some steamed broccoli or other green veggie
d- nice protion of salmon, chicken breast, pork, beef, and more veggies.
I do circuit exercises and body weight exercises, and use dumbbells as well. As far as supplements are concerned, I take a mulit vitamin, fish oil for right now.
I just want to make sure it is not fat.
Measure yourself everywhere. I went through much of the same thing, only after being primal for a little over a year. I threw out the scale as suggested, measured, made sure I wasn't over eating by cutting the snacking and such, and then measured again 2 months later. Lost a ton of inches, but no weight. Still, since I was obviously losing fat by the inches lost, it was a good thing.


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(CNSNews.com) - A liberal advocacy group is asking its members to choose three "big, positive ideas" to form its platform for the midterm elections in November.
MoveOn.org said nearly 10,000 people gathered in living rooms and dining rooms across the nation last week "to talk about the goals we share for our country."
The group said "thousands of inspiring" ideas poured in -- and now it's time for MoveOn members to choose three ideas "that we most want to focus on together in 2006."
MoveOn.org is asking its members to vote on the following ten options, which it described as the most popular ideas from last week's house parties:
A living wage for all
Global leadership through diplomacy
Verifiable, accurate elections
High quality education for all
Balanced federal budget
Health care for all
Publicly funded elections
Preserve our natural resources
Energy independence: clean, renewable sources
Restored constitutional rights
The online voting closes at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday and the official results will be announced on Thursday morning, the group said.
After that, MoveOn.org said it would launch a campaign "to spread the word about the three positive ideas you select. Then, all year, we'll look for key opportunities to work together to turn these ideas into reality."
The idea, the group said, is to "show the nation what we're for, not just what we're against." The group assured members that the "new positive agenda" won't be its only focus: "Together we'll still work to bring the troops home from Iraq and stand firm against radical Republican initiatives."
MoveOn.org said it wants every voter to understand "what progressives will do for our country -- and 3 big ideas is about as many as most of us can easily remember at one time."
It's about "focus," the group said: "We can only fight so many battles and together we must pick which ones to put first."
Republicans (and various political analysts) repeatedly have accused Democrats of failing to advance a coherent political agenda for the midterm elections.
MoveOn.org apparently has decided not to wait for the Democrats but to "move on" by itself.
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John Avlon talks to the duo about the last legal hope of gay marriage in California.
The duo drove to Amsterdam and boarded a plane to Vancouver.
Of course, traditionally the second half of that duo would be a man—Hugh Grant, Benjamin Bratt, Jason Bateman.
Barely Legal Pawn stars the duo as unscrupulous, possibly deranged pawnshop employees.
First, by repealing Obamacare, the GOP duo would reopen the doughnut hole and cost millions of the elderly thousands of dollars.
It is a common speech (but only amongst the unlearn'd sort) Ubi tres Medici, duo Athei.
The duo scrubbed each other daily in—a biscuit tin of water.
Exempla duo, quæ pravitatis humanæ vim animo meo luculenter exhibent, non proferre non possum.
The duo walked to a casucha and after entering it closed the door.
Course I was wise to the fact that Aunty wa'n't arrangin' any duo act with the lights115 shaded soft.
1580s, "song for two voices," via either Italian or French, from Latin duo "two" (see two). Meaning "two people" (especially as an entertainment team) attested by 1887.


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GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing's Alex Gurney And Jon Fogarty Home In California For Next Round Of Championship Battle
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GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing's Alex Gurney And Jon Fogarty Home In California For Next Round Of Championship Battle
GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racingâs Alex Gurney and Jon Fogarty will race at home in California this weekend, locked in a tight GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Championship fight that comes to a Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca circuit that has traditionally been one of the best for the GAINSCO âRed Dragonâ team and drivers.
The 11th and penultimate round of this yearâs 12-race schedule, the featured Continental Tire Sports Car Festival GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series race can be seen live on FOX Sports 1, this Sunday, September 8, at 5 p.m. EDT/2 p.m. PDT.
Just four points out of the championship lead, Gurney, Fogarty and the No. 99 GAINSCO Auto Insurance® Corvette Daytona Prototype team are heading to the right track at the right time in pursuit of what would be their third GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Championship. The BobStallingsCars.com No. 99 GAINSCO squad won two of the last three races at Laguna Seca, back-to-back victories in 2009 and 2011 (GRAND-AM Road Racing did not appear at Laguna Seca in 2010), and finished second last year.
The 2009 Laguna victory was one of four that season that helped GAINSCO win its second championship. The first Daytona Prototype title was earned in 2007.
âThis yearâs championship is so tight at the moment, and so close, that itâs essentially like starting over, having a two race championship and seeing who comes out ahead,â Gurney said. âWe've finished first, first and second in our last three races at Laguna so we feel very good about going there. I've always loved the place, and Jon and I have made each other better each year as far as picking up the little nuances of how to go fast around there.â
In addition to being the home track for California natives Gurney and Fogarty, GAINSCO/Bob Stallings Racing made its GRAND-AM debut at Laguna in 2005. Gurney and Fogarty earned their first podium finish as a duo at Laguna in just their second race together in 2006, and the team has always been strong on the 2.238-mile Monterey road course.
âLaguna is an interesting track,â Fogarty said. âThe car needs to work and itâs difficult to drive around setup issues here. We think we know what works, and hopefully our package works better that the others. I have a lot of confidence in the team to put out a strong car, and Laguna is a good track for the Corvettes.â
Although only four points behind the championship leaders, Gurney and Fogarty rank fourth in the standings with 265 points. Jordan Taylor and Max Angelelli currently top the Daytona Prototype championship with 269 points, Christian Fittipaldi is second with 267 and Ryan Dalziel and Alex Popow are third with 266 markers.
âWe're confident, but the competition level in the Rolex Series has gone up several notches in all departments,â Gurney said. âWe're expecting an extremely tough race.â
As tight as the championship is, it may be difficult for GAINSCO or any other team to leave Monterey with a firm lock on the title heading into the season-ending race later this month at Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.
âWith the level that all the teams and drivers are at right now, I donât think it will be possible to get it done in one race,â Fogarty said. âWe will have to excel both at Laguna and in at Lime Rock to win the championship. Our performance at Laguna has always been strong so I see it as a stepping stone to the title.â
A two-day event, the Continental Tire Sports Car Festival begins with a pair of practice sessions Friday before Daytona Prototype qualifying that afternoon at 5:45 p.m. PDT. Race-day Saturdayâs only GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series action is the featured 2-3/4-hour race that begins at 2 p.m. PDT.
- Gurney is from Irvine in Southern California while Fogartyâs hometown is Portola Valley, not far from Monterey. Both drivers consider Laguna Seca a home track and usually race there with the on-site support of family and friends. âMost of my family will be here this weekend,â Gurney said. âMom, dad, brother, wife, kids, a big group for sure. Pressure is on but in the past they have always been good luck charms!"
- Fogarty knows what would make racing in front of family and friends even sweeter. âThis is the only West Coast event and itâs the only race my family is able to come see, so it is always a big weekend,â Fogarty said. âA win would be extra special, that is for sure.â
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Make a Breast-Feeding Decision
Breast-feeding is a wonderful way for you and baby to bond while you give him or herthe most all-natural nutrition possible. But breast-feeding isn't for everyone; it requires a lot of time, dedication, and devotion to healthy eating and all-hour feedings. Working with your doctor, make a decision about what's best for you and your child.
Provide Natural Foods
Processed foods are often full of sugar, sodium, unhealthy fats, and calories. Avoid making meals for your children using the fake stuff, and opt for fresh fruits and vegetables, whole grains, lean cuts of meat, fresh fish, poultry, and fiber-rich foods like beans and leafy greens. Grocery-shopping tip: Shop the perimeter of the store where the fresh foods are. Avoid the inside aisles where many of the processed foods reside.
Eat the Alphabet
Nearly all children get plenty of vitamins—A, B, C, D, etc.—in the foods they eat every day. A multivitamin is not generally necessary for children. Simply pack meals with vitamin-rich foods, and talk to your pediatrician about a daily multivitamin if you are concerned.
Avoid the "Clean Plate" Rule
Your grandmother had the best intentions for you when she wouldn't let you leave the table before you finished your broccoli, but the truth is that your child knows when he or she is full and needs to stop eating. When children say they don't want any more, they probably aren't trying to skip out on their vegetables; their bodies are just letting them they've had enough. Overeating could lead to unwanted weight gain.
Get Them Off the Couch
Childhood obesity has more than tripled in the past 30 years. Currently, nearly one in five children is overweight or obese—compared to just one in 20 children 30 years ago. Physical activity is very important for children, as it sets the stage for a lifetime of health and nutrition. Public health experts recommend 60 minutes of daily physical activity.
Team or individual sports are a great way to encourage physical activity. Outside a structured sports setting, motivate your children to spend more time playing than sitting. Plan family activity nights or set up play dates with neighbors.
Baby Their Skin
Summers are for kids, but summer sun isn't. Ultraviolet (UV) light can damage the skin and increase chances for developing skin cancer later in life. Babies younger than six months should avoid direct sunlight if at all possible. (If being in the sun is unavoidable, use sunscreen with formulas designed for babies or kids.) Babies over six months and all children should wear a sunscreen with a sun protection factor of at least 30. Reapply every two hours or more frequently if your child is sweating or in the water.
Learn about the healthiest sunscreens for kids and babies.
Create a Healthy Smile
Good dental and oral health goes beyond a cavity-free set of chompers. Tooth decay, which affects more children than any other chronic infectious disease, is a serious concern for young kids. If left untreated, tooth decay can lead to problems with speaking and learning. Fluoride can almost completely eliminate tooth decay in young children. At each of their semiannual cleanings, your children should receive a fluoride treatment. If your tap water doesn't have fluoride, ask your dentist about other ways to get fluoride.


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Forget Metric or American Measures, Just Be Sensible
There is a lot to be said in favour of the American system of measurement (I won't make the mistake of calling it Imperial again)- the units are based on human proportions and activities; zero degrees is really cold and 100 is really hot; why not have a system based on people instead of water. No wonder Liberia, Burma and the United States stand together in solidarity against the onslaught of evil French Metric.
That's why I am having so much fun with SensibleUnits- it translates weights and measures into things we understand, like five pounds equals 1.7 macBook Airs. Or 80 miles equals 2.6 English Channels. Everybody can agree on that! ::Sensible Units via ::Swissmiss