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The action-packed clip features Patrick Wilson as a limo driver who is in desperate need of a quick hunk of cash.
Amping up excitement for its summer release, the first trailer for "Sin City: A Dame to Kill" for hit the web this afternoon (March 6).
Boasting an incredibly star-studded cast, the sequel to "Sin City" follows "the town's most hard-boiled citizens cross paths with some of its more reviled inhabitants."
Stepping out to promote their news flick, the A-list cast of "The Iceman" attended their Hollywood premiere last evening (April 22).
Winona Ryder arrived on the red carpet donning a lovely red velvet cocktail dress as she flashed her coy smile toward the awaiting photographers.
A new poster for the upcoming film "The Place Beyond the Pines" hit the web on Wednesday (January 30).
Starring Bradley Cooper, Ryan Gosling, and Eva Mendes, the crime drama follows a stunt rider who turns to robbing banks as a way to provide for his lover and their newborn child.
Kicking off the week with some promotional duties, Tobey Maguire, Ray Liotta, and Kerry Washington stepped out for the premiere of "The Details" last night (October 29).
The ArcLight Cinema in Hollywood was brimming over with star power as "Pleasantville" stud Maguire worked the crowd before the screening.
With a scheduled release date of November 30, Andrew Dominik's "Killing Them Softly" international trailer is available for your viewing pleasure!
The new clip was released today (October 18) for the film, which features Brad Pitt, Vincent Curatola, James Gandolfini, Bella Heathcote, Richard Jenkins, Ray Liotta, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn, Sam Rockwell, and Linara Washington.
Gathering together to premiere their latest movie, the stars of "The Iceman" were on hand at the Toronto International Film Festival on Monday night (September 10).
Female lead in the film Winona Ryder looked elegant in a simple black dress with open toe heels while her fellow male co-stars Chris Evans and Michael Shannon looked dapper for their red carpet appearance.
Bringing their project to the beautiful city of Venice, Winona Ryder, Ray Liotta and Michael Shannon were on hand for "The Iceman" premiere at the Palazzo del Cinema on Thursday evening (August 30).
While taking part in the 69th Venice Film Festival, the 40-year-old actress looked lovely in an elegant black gown that displayed her fit physique.
He's always a festival favorite, and Brad Pitt was in fine form as he attended the 65th Cannes Film Festival premiere of his new movie "Killing Them Softly" today (May 22).
Joined by his costars, the "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" star looked dapper as he worked his magic on the fans and paparazzi outside the Palais des Festivals prior to the screening.
It's an exciting time in Cannes, France as the 65th Cannes Film Festival is going on, and last night (May 21) Swiss watch maker IWC Schaffhausen held their swanky Filmmakers Dinner.
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A representative for the duo said Solarek no longer has anything to do with Mary Mary either on or off camera. The representative said his replacement is Kenneth Crear (Ciara, Kardashians, Mindless Behavior), an entertainment exec with strong ties to mainstream.
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How do you know?
How do you know if you really are depressed?
I have some symptoms of depression but not nothing major. I rarely cry or have suicidal thoughts. I want to be dead, but I wouldn't kill myself. But that's just because I have nothing going for my life.
I feel sad a lot but like I said I rarely ever cry. I get embarrassed fairly easily, mostly because I'm extremely shy. I sleep a lot, but that's just because I have nothing better to do. Yes, the future seems hopeless to me, but isn't that just my fault for wasting years away doing nothing but complain and moan.
It could just be written off as just laziness or loneliness, so how can you tell, or prove if it's depression. How would a GP see it? How do you see it? How did you know?
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You just wrote a lot of symptoms. Frequent sadness, sleep alot, hopelessness, wanting to be dead. I'm sure there are alot more symptoms that you have that you haven't thought of yet.
You do need to talk to your doctor -- he can refer you to a good therapist. Therapy does work!! If you can't afford therapy or if you don't have insurance that covers it, your doctor can still help you.
I've been thru therapy, and I've also been treated for depression for 40 years! I've been doing quite well, with just a few bumps in the road. So please call your doctor!! Believe me, you won't regret it. God bless and please let us know what happens, okay? Hugs, Lee
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I still haven't sure I am really depressed. I didn't thought I had depression until I went to this doctor.
I don't have all the typical depression symptoms, maybe because I started having it even when I was a child...at first there were only the laziness, the difficulty to start a thought, being very, very shy and secretive, fearing all types of criticism, don't really rely on anyone and having some kind of coping (I still don't know what it is) that makes the world and the reality feel so far away. But my lifes was ok, I had things I enjoyed to do like Reading and maths. Along the way I had some months with insomnia because I feared I couldn't sleep, but after my parents promised me a bike as a reward, everything went fine.
When I entered my teenager years I couldn't accept my body because I feared the others judgement and criticism about it so, I tryed to be more like a boy. Eventualy I could live better with myself the way I was. But at my 12 years old I started having pains all over my body, first at the chest, then stomach, then my head. And in the following 6 years I went to a lot of doctors who always told me I wasn't sick, but I just felt so bad like I was going to die. After this time I couldn't have feelings and make friends any more. But i didn't notice the change.
I started having more conscious at my 15 and I was pretty sure I wouldn't ever get depression because I couldn't become sad. I had this amazing capacity to always forget and distance from the things that possibly bothered me. So I never told anyone my issues, because they weren't issues for me. Once a boy slapped me on the face and I didn't care and I didn't tell anyone. My sister found about, and worried as she was she came talk to me, but I was more embarrased that she had discover that anything else. So any difficulty I had, social fear, anything was never a problema to me and I was always laughing and making fun cause my life wasn't my life.
I'm worse now. But I never developed suicidal thoughts, I never became hopeless because of my amazing capacity to Forget things as they had happened to someone else and because I can't think about future. I never made plans, I never had a single goal in my life and as I naturaly avoid to think about things i just can't imagine myself in a future. I have no eating or sleeping problems. The only thing i notice when I got worse (at my 17) was feeling sleepy all day and I don't feel like this anymore. I never been sad, when I got worse all that I want to do was laugh and rest.
I just feel like my thoughts are stucked and it gets me harder to think, that my memory sucks, that my mind is completly confused. That I can't make a conversation with anyone, that I feel nervous and I start calling me stupid anytime I interact with someone as the grocery's man. And at the end I Forget it once again.
If someone gives me the choice I would stay all my day at computer, getting bothered. I just feel like doing nothing. Every little challange I take at college overwhelms me. What I have to do I complete, but I most of the times i feel on the edge. I can study and sometime have great grades besides everything. And I feel mentally tired almost of the time.
My doctor told me depression can have many diferent forms, maybe there aren't two people with the exact same symptoms. When I was by my own on the web, searching about my disease I find I have symptoms very related to squizofrenia, autismo, squizoid personality disorder, AHDH, and other personality disorders. I think only a good doctor can tell you what you have, because they have experience with all the forms the disease can assume.
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IcrywhoIam, it sounds like you do have a depression, but it may be either situational or chemical. I would see a doctor, and get referred to a psychiatrist. Also if you are in a situation where you can go to therapy on a regular basis, do go. If you can't, try therapetic journaling.
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For me it's just obvious. Plus it's been going on every second of every day for six years, so.
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Supplies the knowledge of American history that any intelligent and educated American citizen should have. Objective is to make the student aware of his or her heritage of the past and more intelligently conscious of the present.
Class description
This one-quarter survey of U.S. history focuses on the themes of immigration, migration, citizenship, and family.
Student learning goals
expand students' comprehension of the history of the U.S.;
improve students' ability to think conceptually and historically;
improve students' ability to read critically, including primary sources;
improve students' ability to express ideas in discussions and in writing;
improve students' ability to identify connections between different sources of information and different eras of history.
General method of instruction
HSTAA 101 will consist primarily of lectures, readings, discussion sections, and an independent research project. Sections will focus mainly on each week's reading assignments.
Recommended preparation
No prerequisites.
Class assignments and grading
Final assignments to be determined, but in previous versions of the course students were evaluated on: a) participation in discussion sections; b) midterm exam; c) final exam; d) a short writing assignment that responds to one readings; and e) an independent research paper that connects the student's family's history (or some other family's history) to broader themes in U.S. history. (Note that students are welcome but not required to write the research paper about their own families. Thus students who come from to UW other countries will have the option of researching and writing about a family from the U.S., if they choose, and will be offered suggestions of texts or other materials on which to base their research.)


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Why does an allergic reaction occur?
An allergic reaction occurs when the immune system attacks a usually harmless substance called an allergen that gains access to the body. The immune system calls upon a protective substance called immunoglobulin E (IgE) antibodies to fight these invading allergic substances or allergens. Even though everyone has some IgE, an allergic person has an unusually large amount of IgE. This army of IgE antibodies attacks and engages the invading army of allergic substances of allergens.
Specialized cells called mast cells also participate in the allergic reaction. Mast cells release a variety of chemicals into the tissues and blood, one of which is known as histamine. These chemicals frequently cause allergic reactions. These chemicals are very irritating and cause itching, swelling, and fluid leaking from cells. Through various mechanisms, these allergic chemicals can cause muscle spasm and can lead to lung and throat tightening as is found in asthma and loss of voice (laryngitis).
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Legend of Legaia
Review by Calamity
"The so called amazing battle system isn't amazing..."
Legend of Legaia is a RPG for the Sony Playstation. It quickly gained a cult following due to it's unique battle system that appealed to many. I find the game and it's battle system mediocre though. Read on to find out more regarding Legend of Legaia.
Graphics:7.3/10:Out of battles the Graphics aren't too good. Expect about FFVII Graphics out of battles. Areas don't look too good and characters are very pixelish. The Graphics during battles are great though. Character designs look very good in battle. Weapons have different designs in battle too which is a nice addition. Animations for attacks are pretty good and enemy designs while not too amazing are done okay. Bosses look fine as well. Overall bad out of battle Graphics, but good in battle Graphics.
Gameplay:6/10:Legend of Legaia is mostly typical RPG fare in terms of traveling. You'll of course, be going from town to dungeon. At towns you'll as usual be upgrading equipment. Also, resting at the Inn to recover your HP/MP. Once, your done at town you watch the event you need in town then move onto the next dungeon. At the next dungeon, simply travel through to the end and face the boss. Battles and exploration is done with a three man party. Legend Of Legaia is a turn based RPG, but with a not so good innovative feature for battles.
The Arts system. Legend of Legaia gets it's recognition from fans due to the Arts system. Basically, during battle you can enter certain commands and combine them to form a Art. A Art is basically a special attack that does more damage then doing a ordinary attack. A fortunately good feature to the Arts system is the Spirit system. In order to make the bar that you enter commands/combine them you must use Spirit. Spirit is where a character charges there power and the next round takes less damage. So, fortunately due to Spirit a little more strategy is added to battles. Now, the problem with the Arts system is the animations. Battles take a lot longer then they should due to the Arts system. Since every battle composes of using Spirit then using your best Arts with all characters. Due to Arts attack animations taking so long battles take a lot LONGER then they SHOULD. Combine this with the fact when enemies are knocked down onto the ground from a attack you have to wait about three seconds for the enemy to stand up. So, due to the Arts system which adds no strategic value and enemies having to stand up after being knocked down battles take forever. Towards the end because of this random battles took at least five minutes. The Arts system adds no strategy at all to the game and makes battles take much longer then they should. Now, there's another problem I have with this game.
Seru which are monsters that grant you magic. You have to capture them in order to gain their spell, but it's very time consuming. What you have to do is kill the a certain monster and pray you obtain it. If you don't then simply have to keep getting into battles and running into the right enemy. Due to this Seru is very frustrating to get. Since you have to usually spend a decent amount of time to get a spell you really need. It gets worse from there though, you have to level up your Seru as well. Yeah, basically you use a Seru a certain amount of times and it level ups. When it levels it has a better effect and costs more MP to use. So, not only is catching a Seru time consuming, but leveling one up is as well. Overall the Gameplay in Legend Of Legaia is mediocre. Arts make battles take longer and add no strategic value whatsoever. Seru you not only have to get lucky to catch, but must level as well. Due to these pointless time consuming major parts of the game you'll mostly be bored.
Story:5.8/10:The Storyline in Legend of Legaia is nothing special really. Your living a peaceful life as Vahn, but one day the "Mist" invades your village. Monsters begin attacking and you must find out the cause of the problem. From, that point on the Storyline never really develops. The three characters you get have nearly no personality as well. Dialogue in the game is written okay, but it could have been much better. Out of the three, Vahn the protagonist is silent as well. So, you only have two characters to really develop on. They only developed on them very little though. Aside, from their introductions you only learn very little about them as you proceed through the game.
I have to admit though, the Storyline made me curious. For some reason, I wanted to find out who was behind the mist as I played through the game. So, that's a positive at least. Overall the Storyline in Legend of Legaia is pretty bad. The characters hardly get any development or say anything interesting throughout the game. Noa, one of the three party members in the game does get some slight development towards the end though. Dialogue in the game is written okay, but it could have been so much better. So, the Storyline has poor characters and the dialogue isn't written too well. The game also has very few interesting events and will never hold your attention often. Fortunately, it oddly makes you curious to find out who's behind all the trouble in the game. As said, before and I will say again the Storyline is very bad, but not absolutely horrible. So, the Storyline gets a 5.8
Music:9/10:The Music in the game is very good. The town songs are pretty good and the battle/boss songs are great too. Dungeon songs are pretty good as well. I don't think this quite deserves a 10, but it is close to a 10 I will admit. Overall a pretty good soundtrack.
Overall:6/10:Legend of Legaia is a mediocre game. The Gameplay is ruined due to the very slow battle system. The Storyline is pretty bad and has nothing really interesting about it. Graphics are bad out of battle, but in battle look pretty good. Fortunately, the game has a good soundtrack. Overall, Legend of Legaia is a very disappointing game in my opinion. So, it gets a 6/10.
Reviewer's Rating: 3.0 - Fair
Originally Posted: 08/29/08, Updated 07/20/09
Game Release: Legend of Legaia (US, 03/17/99)
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A second suspect has been arrested in the theft of $250,000 of cars, bicycling equipment, collectibles and awards during the February burglary of a world-class cyclist's home.
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Both Carlisle and 39-year-old Leopold Howard have now been booked in connection with the case. Police say the two took various items from cyclist David Zabriskie's home. Some of those belongings included two cars, a racing medal, an Olympic ring, 13 bicycles, computers, space legs and seven Marvel comic statues.
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Okay first Trent you have to tell me why someone would be avg 25 mile weeks for a while then do a 100 mile week? Then I would love to know why you have 3 runs on one day! Not just once but several times.
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Anaconda: Success or Failure?
March 20, 2002
By Tommy Ates
While United States General Tommy Franks calls Operation
Anaconda "an unqualified and absolute success," the level
of success and penetration of former Taliban and al-Qaeda
remains to be seen.
On March 18th, the Pentagon announced that today was last
day of maneuvers for Operation Anaconda, the military campaign
to route out the largest known pocket of ex-Taliban and al-Qaeda
fighters near the town of Gardez, in eastern Afghanistan.
The military's view of a successful military operation is
that the enemy either 'surrenders or die.' To which, the holy
warriors produced small arms fire and a downed a U.S. helicopter
early in the battle.
Unlike previous military incursions (largely with assistance
of a new Kabul-based, Afghan army), this U.S.-led battle was
supposed to show the strength of the American military crushing
poorly trained Muslim fighters, instead the result of the
battle was the same as the ending of previous incursions by
Afghan-led troops, the Taliban extremists got away. Therefore,
Monday-morning PR quarterbacking set in, causing Gen. Franks
to utter the grandiose statement of "an unqualified and absolute
success," which even the mainstream press only lukewarmly
Unfortunately for the General, even U.S. intelligence privately
admits that the body count of the Afghan rebels has been small
(only 20 to 30 bodies). This amount of Taliban goes against
the stated number of 700 to 1000 fighters bantered midway
through the conflict, as the United States had to send in
reinforcements to the army troops because of the fierce fire-fight
the former Taliban and al-Qaeda waged. Then, the U.S. air
force delivered its now familiar air carpet-bombing campaign
to soften the opposition.
So, what happened to all those rebels? They should be dead,
right? Wrong. Ex-Taliban was not there and the U.S. ground
troops have only come across tens of bodies instead of hundreds.
Even though I am not an advocate of mass killing, the idea
that the United States can win a battle against an enemy that
is not present when you 'conquer' them (in some form) is mystifying
to many. The U.S. Afghan rebels, which were the strike force
in the campaign, have told war correspondents that they feel
that the rebels escaped, even though U.S. troops were positioned
around the battle area to trap the fleeing al-Qaeda.
Apparently, Operation Anaconda is another example of the
U.S. forces, guided by the Pentagon, over-estimating the resourcefulness
of a native, guerrilla army. The former Taliban and al-Qaeda,
the last diehards of the massive Taliban and al-Qaeda build
up before the fall of Kandahar, have in the rocky terrain
near the Pakistan border found a plethora of potential sanctuaries
and re-grouping points. With some of the rebels being familiar
with the territory and having sympathetic allies with some
of the local, tribal chieftains, they have been able to escape
along ancient mountain passes to and from Pakistan with ease.
In another Pentagon public relations coup, the United States
have managed to get England's Prime Minister Tony Blair to
send 1,700 troops to fight alongside the U.S. in Afghanistan.
The U.K. deployment, based upon a Royal Marines commando unit,
will work to stamp out Taliban and al-Qaeda pockets in eastern
and southern areas of the country. But, without the knowledge
and trust of the local Afghan tribal leaders (which many of
the former Taliban have returned to), will they [the British]
do any better then the U.S. military in eradicating Muslim
This new British campaign is launching as the country (as
well as the European Union) grows ever more wary of entering
a conflict without a visible exit. Tony Blair (the U.K.'s
version of Bill Clinton) already reminds some of conservative
Margaret Thatcher with her unending support of then President
Reagan hard-line cold war positions. The political battle
of U.K. troops in harm's way could be perilous indeed, and
the British press corps doesn't have a tough 'strong-arm'
Bush press office to deal with.
In terms of the war on terror, and Western interests, the
real issue remains that Operation Anaconda cannot hide the
illogical argument that fighting disparate rebels does not
make 'nation-building,' and like it or not it is an idea that
Bush administration must address in order to preserve the
peace in Afghanistan. Pentagon PR maneuvers to calm American
fears of an unending war in Middle East (Gen. Franks' announcement)
and the appearance of an active coalition (the British military)
will not hide the current administration policies of supporting
non-democratic regimes for corporate profit or 'strategic
Operation Anaconda has the illusion of a successful battle
while the real terrorists roam in western countries planning
attacks. Hopefully, the influence of public opinion wanting
peace will change their minds as our military poses for victory.
Tommy Ates loves the left because the left is always right!
He wants to help the underdog become the Top Dog.


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The Glamorous Life of An Internet Marketer
Imagine... working for yourself, having no boss to answer to, setting your own hours... what a GLAMOROUS life! Yeah, well... glamorous isn't exactly the word I'd use to describe it! *lol* I woke up at 8AM and started my 20...
22:20:23 October 11, 2004, Monday (PDT)
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So You Want To Help Others Make Money Online?
What most people seem to forget is, in order to help others make money, YOU must be successful at making money with your own business first : ) Here's an example: how can a wannabe mechanic who has never repaired...
12:18:51 October 11, 2004, Monday (PDT)
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Installing New Movable Type Plugins
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13:55:13 October 6, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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The Decline of Ryze
Dear Ryzer, Remember when you were greeted with notices of guestbook entries and friends requests every time you checked your e-mail? Noticed the lack of action lately? Don't take it personally, it's not you. Here are two major changes implemented...
07:35:45 September 27, 2004, Monday (PDT)
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Today's List: 9/24/04
Sneaking in a post while Joshua's busy with his toys... I'd like to complete these before I close up for the weekend - I know they're not all work related, but, one "to-do" list is all I can handle today...
13:38:42 September 24, 2004, Friday (PDT)
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The SEVEN Ugly Ad Tracking Secrets (#2)
Secret #2 : Traffic Stats are Only the Tip of the Iceberg! Succeeding online is not difficult providing that you are able to see the whole picture. A half-truth is worse than a lie. Stats companies in today's market are...
15:32:18 September 23, 2004, Thursday (PDT)
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14:10:08 September 23, 2004, Thursday (PDT)
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The SEVEN Ugly Ad Tracking Secrets
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22:48:48 September 22, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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12:26:34 September 22, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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00:19:55 September 21, 2004, Tuesday (PDT)
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Face 2 Face Encounter at Borders...
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08:42:33 September 19, 2004, Sunday (PDT)
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Writing 50 Books On One Subject, Sold At Same Price?
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00:31:07 September 16, 2004, Thursday (PDT)
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Pooped Pinky the Sequel
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23:40:09 September 15, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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AimDIRECT Ezine: Get Their Undivided Attention
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22:04:58 September 8, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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Internet "Silver"... For The Mature Web Surfer
With all the craziness around us, it's more difficult than ever to get anyone's undivided attention. Too much information, too many choices, over 999 channels, 87 flavors, 701 messages, 3,589,400 search results... won't somebody PLEASE stop the insanity!?? So, exactly...
23:49:10 September 6, 2004, Monday (PDT)
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No More Traffic Secrets Rebates (Part 2)
Well, it's later... so here are my thoughts on this if anyone cares... I was one of the people offering a cash rebate. I thought I'd give back $100 or so to reinvest in ezine ads, PPC marketing, etc... since...
17:37:51 August 30, 2004, Monday (PDT)
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12:44:57 August 25, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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No More Traffic Secrets Rebates
I'm heading out the door, but, I needed to post this quick note from John Reese, owner of TrafficSecrets.com: If you are offering cash back to anyone that buys from your affiliate link, please IMMEDIATELY cease and desist all such...
12:54:55 August 21, 2004, Saturday (PDT)
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John Reese vs. Gozilla
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22:12:59 August 17, 2004, Tuesday (PDT)
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AimDIRECT Ezine 08-15-04
Latest issue of AimDIRECT Entrepreneur Ezine has been posted. This week, we talk about... My new boyfriend Changes in CarmenApproved.com that pissed off some rich guys Accessing ClickBank.com's Customer Lists for Free Psychological triggers to boost sales If spamming has...
19:58:09 August 15, 2004, Sunday (PDT)
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John Reese! John Reese! John Reese!
On March 2004, 125 marketers from around the world paid $4,500 to attended John Reese's Internet marketing workshop. I wish I could've gone... I was so disappointed :( Then it happened... You'll never guess what I just received in...
20:12:39 August 10, 2004, Tuesday (PDT)
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I Especially Hate This Type of Brown-Nosing...
If you can sincerely, from the very bottom of your heart, say you are not annoyed by testimonials with the words and phrases listed below, I'll personally come to your house and beat you up. Name_Of_Author, you've finally done it!...
19:40:02 July 18, 2004, Sunday (PDT)
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MT Dilemma - How to Rebuild without Re-pinging?
The post previous to this one contained a "ping" to the Brand Autopsy blog... I noticed a typo in my entry, and being the neurotic that I am, had to make the correction, and when I saved the entry, I...
08:57:48 July 15, 2004, Thursday (PDT)
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Test Drive Your Dream Job
From brew master and cattle rancher, to chocolatier and wedding coordinator - now you can take your dream job for a spin - vacation style! Read about this first on Brand Autopsy... VocationVacationsThe only vacation company of its kind that...
22:25:21 July 14, 2004, Wednesday (PDT)
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From: "Bonnie Cole" <>
Subject: [ONT] Fenelon Falls Cemetery - HART
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 16:12:51 -0400
Hello Everyone:
I was looking at the Ontario Cemetery Finding Aid for a George & Margaret Hart and found lots of George's but I don't know what Township or County Fenelon Falls is in.
Could someone let me know that information?
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Source: Oregon State UniversityDate: May 17, 2007
Eat Your Broccoli: Study Finds Strong Anti-Cancer Properties In Cruciferous Veggies
Science Daily It turns out Mom was right you should eat your broccoli. But what Mom may not have known is why broccoli is so healthy, and how its lesser known, younger offshoot may be a powerful anti-cancer agent.
Researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University have found that sulforaphane a compound found in cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli, bok choy and brussels sprouts has strong anti-cancer properties.
Even more promising results have been found in broccoli sprouts. The tiny, thread-like broccoli sprouts sold at stores next to alfalfa sprouts have more than 50 times the amount of sulforaphane than found in mature broccoli.
Emily Ho, a researcher with the Linus Pauling Institute and an assistant professor in the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Sciences at OSU, will describe these dietary inhibitors for cancer prevention at the conference on Diet and Optimum Health, organized by the Linus Pauling Institute. The conference will be held May 16-19 at the Hilton Hotel in Portland. Ho will speak at 10:30 a.m. Friday, May 18.
Hos main area of research is on the dietary prevention of prostate cancer. The Asian diet could be a key in this prevention. White males born in the United States have dramatically higher rates of prostate cancer than Asian men. But when Asian men live in the U.S. for five years or more, their rates of prostate cancer rise significantly, Ho says.
Past studies in Hos lab have focused on dietary elements in cancer prevention such as green tea and soy.
In her new study, which was published in the Journal of the Society of Experimental Biology and Medicine, Ho and her colleagues at Linus Pauling Institute looked at cruciferous vegetables. While many cruciferous vegetables have sulforaphane, broccoli and broccoli sprouts have the highest amount and thus could be a major player in the prevention of prostate and colon cancer.
Ho said drugs classified as histone deacetylase (HDAC) inhibitors are being looked at as potentially preventing cancer. She said their research shows that these same effects of inhibiting HDAC might be obtained by consumption of cruciferous vegetables.
I would say if youre at all worried about cancer or at high risk of cancer, especially of prostate or colon cancer, then increasing your dietary intake of broccoli and other vegetables could be a good idea, Ho said.
It certainly cant hurt. And drugs can have negative side effects and be difficult to administer.
While Ho said the research is not at the point where she can make a specific recommendation on how much broccoli or bok choy to eat, she personally tries to have two servings of cruciferous vegetables a day.
In human subjects, just eating some broccoli sprouts on top of a bagel with cream cheese resulted in HDAC inhibition.
The compound in broccoli may be one of the strongest anti-cancer fighters we have, Ho said.
Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Oregon State University.
Does anybody have any experience/advice for sprouting broccoli seeds?


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From 1905 to 1906 Segall studies at the Beaux-Arts of Vilno.
In 1907, Segall arrives in Berlin and attends the Beaux-Arts lessons during two years.
In 1909, he travels to Amsterdam.
In 1910, he leaves Berlin for Dresden and keeps learning at the Beaux-Arts as a "Meister-Schueler" (Student-Master) with the privilege of having his own atelier. It satisfies his need for independence.
In 1911, he undertakes to go to Brazil for the first time and exhibits there in 1913 only. When war is declared in 1914, Segall, Russian citizen, is sent into exile in Meissen.
In 1916, he is allowed to go back to Dresden and travels for the last time to Vilno. In 1918, he gets married with Margarete Quack and, inspired by the short story of Dostoïevski called Krotkaya, he publishes his first album of five lithographies.
In 1919, he takes part in the group secession of Dresden and the museum of Dresden purchases one of his works. That same year, "Memories from Vilno", an album of lithographies prefaced by Paul Ferdinand Schmidt, is published. In 1920, he helps Marie Wigman to create her dancing school in Dresden. At that time, he meets Paul Klee.
In 1921, he meets Wassily Kandinsky, El Lissitzki, Naum Gabo and Alexander Archipenko. That same year, he publishes an engraving album, "Bubu", inspired by the book of Charles-Louis Philippe, "Bubu de Montparnasse". 1923 is the year of his second journey in Brazil where he permanently settles. He is granted Brazilian citizenship and he gets married for the second time with Jenny Klabin, a Brazilian woman today recognized for her translations in Portuguese of Molière and Racine. They will have two boys.
He arrives in Paris in 1928 and starts sculpting. He often goes to the cafés of Montparnasse and meets the artists of the time. Back to São Paulo in 1932, Segall founds, with a group of friends, the "SPAM" (Sociedad Paulista de Arte Moderna) with which he takes part in several national projects of decoration. Two events leave their mark on him : an exhibition at the Renou and Colle gallery and the publication of a second monography of Paul Fierens. This motivates Segall's second journey to Paris from 1935 to 1938. In 1937, ten of his works are exhibited in Munich for the exhibition "Art Dégénéré".
He spends the Occupation years in Brazil and goes back to Paris in 1956 on the occasion of an exhibition at the National Modern Art Museum for a retrospective of his work. Lasar Segall is already affected by his illness and dies on August 2nd , 1957 in his house of Alfonso street in São Paulo. His works are currently at the Lasar Segall Museum of São Paulo.


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by Bryan Perry | October 26, 2012 8:47 am
Like I've said before[1] — plain Jane REITs that hold only fixed-rate residential mortgages backed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac aren't cutting it in today's market. But that doesn't mean you should get out of the game entirely.
A smattering of negative articles[2] have targeted the mortgage REIT (mREIT) sector and the consequences of QE-unlimited[3]. And it's true: When long-term interest rates fall, REITs have to take on more leverage risk to maintain their sky-high payouts[4].
Slow growth[5] has also raised a caution flag for how mREITs like Annaly (NYSE:NLY[6]), Apollo Residential Mortgage (NYSE:AMTG[7]) and Capstead Mortgage (NYSE:CMO[8]) will be able to maintain their juicy payouts if long-term interest rates fall further.
While this is a very legitimate argument, the recent trend for interest rates has, in fact, been up (see chart). The spread is actually widening and improving these companies' ability to maintain the lofty dividend payouts.
One name that rebounded sharply from the brief spate of reactionary selling last Friday[10] is ARMOUR Residential REIT (NYSE:ARR[11]). It's a hybrid alternative to "vanilla" mREITs that invest only in residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS). Instead, ARR invests not only in fixed-rate mortgages but also in hybrid adjustable-rate and adjustable-rate RMBS. This is a key point because floating-rate loans don't get prepaid like fixed-rate ones do.
ARMOUR's current portfolio of $13.3 billion portfolio of agency securities consists of 78.6% fixed-rate agency securities, 100% of which have 20-year final maturities or shorter. Its portfolio also consists of 21.4% adjustable rate mortgages (ARMs) and hybrid ARMs. The ability to ramp up the adjustable percentage of holdings in the event of increasing interest rates appeals to me. That, and the use of portfolio insurance, is a big plus.
REITs that are structured like this are better suited for the current market that's pressuring the spread of borrowing cheap money short and investing long.
Bryan Perry is editor of Cash Machine[12], a newsletter focused on dividends and income investing. As of this writing, he did not own a position in any of the aforementioned securities.
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Plans to find work for more than 10,000 young Jews who observe the Sabbath and thus are handicapped in business will be formulated at the annual convention of the Council of Young Israel Organizations, which opens here tomorrow at the Hotel Clarendon-Brunswick. Delegates from the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France and Poland will attend the conference, which will close next Monday.
A program of vocational training for young Jewish men and women will be mapped out in an effort to help them secure employment. Delegates will outline a plan to interest Jewish youth in the perpetuation of Jewish faith and culture.
Among the personages who are expected to address the convention are: Rabbi M. S. Margolies, dean of the American Rabbinate; Rabbi Bernard S. Revel, dean of Yeshiva College, New York City; Rabbi Wolf Gold, president of the Mizrachi Organization of America; Rabbi David S. Stern, head of the Yeshivah Torah Vodaath; Dr. David I. Macht, of Johns #opkins University; Dr. Nathan Isaacs, of Harvard University; Bernard S. Deutsch, president of the American Jewish Congress; Samuel Levy, borough president of Manhattan; Peter Wiernik, editor of the Jewish Morning Journal; Jacob L. Andron, president of the Federation of Yeshivoth and Talmud Torahs; and Nelson Ruttenberg, president of the Jewish National Fund of America.


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Re "Federal officials could lift protections for gray wolves" (Tribune, April 27):
Since it is a foregone conclusion that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list nationwide (it almost never significantly changes a draft rule once made public), our state doesn't have to give the $300,000 appropriated by the Legislature to Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife or Big Game Forever to lobby in Washington, D.C., to get the government to delist the wolf and make sure that wolves are not "reintroduced" into Utah.
Nope the job is done. Now those 300,000 taxpayer dollars can be funneled where they should have gone in the first place our ailing school system.
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Peace in the valley (#1)
I beg of you (#5)
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It is no secret (#12)
Blueberry Hill (#8)
Have i told you lately that i love you (#1,7)
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I beg of you (#10,11)
A nice cd but it's not binaural as the title mentioned, but it is in mono. And it's not from the original Bilko label either.
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The cover copy for Melissa Bank's well-written, entertaining first book describes it as 'the spirited marriage of Helen Fielding and Lorrie Moore'. It's unfair to hold the author responsible for marketing inanity, but these sorts of comparisons are unflattering to everyone involved. It's hard to imagine what life chez Fielding and Moore might be like, though at a guess they'd mix a mean martini and never fall out over men. Still, if Bank's heroine, Jane Rosenal, came to stay, she wouldn't necessarily like it. She's not big on drinking, though she could wisecrack them both under the table.
Jane is a supremely likeable narrator, witty, aware and possessed of the self-deprecating chipperness common to bright, well-brought-up young women from the suburbs. Her quest is how to live a good and decent life and how to find love. The structure of The Girls' Guide - stories charting Jane's emotional progress from 14 to thirtyish - has something in common with Wendy Wasserstein's Heidi Chronicles, though the stories do not try to document the social and cultural changes of Jane's times as much as her inner growth.
The title of the book, and the amusing extracts from various how-to guides that preface each story, reflects our culture's obsession with Getting it Right. But Bank wants more for her heroine than this. She boldly begins the book with Elizabeth Bishop's sublime poem 'One Art', which signals one of her themes - get good at losing, because that's the way life goes. This takes Jane into more interesting territory and hints at depths that could have been explored with greater particularity.
Much of Jane's development depends on her relationships with men: young men, older men, fathers, brothers and attachment in general. Women are either solid best-friend types or nasty ex-girlfriends and bosses. The Bad Women share a particularly galling quality: they appear self-possessed. This is, as in life, probably far from the case, but Jane is too unconfident (or self-obsessed) to realise. Grooming, rather than ambition, becomes the issue. When her lover suggests she could learn a lot from her older boss, Jane wonders: 'How does she get her eyebrows so perfect?'
To shift focus on to the book as literature rather than as part of a cultural phenomenon is possibly to see it more clearly. Similar sticking points reveal themselves in finer detail: there is a lot of telling rather than showing. Many paragraphs, many sentences, begin 'I felt like ... ' All this 'me Jane' becomes tiring - you want the picture to include some observance of another's feelings, or some societal aspect. As it is, the cumulative effect is like meeting someone, initially witty and fascinating, who goes on about themselves at such length that you start to think, who cares?
'The Worst Thing a Suburban Girl Could Imagine' is the wonderful title of a key story. Jane's father is ill and she's dating a man the same age, also with health problems - a juicy set-up that's not quite pulled off, mostly because of Bank's reluctance to get down into the dirt with her characters.
The title story is a brilliant example of what can go wrong when we try to squeeze ourselves into false gender roles. In the end, of course, mother knows best. 'Just be yourself' is the advice she has given, and once Jane's figured out exactly who that is, she turns out to be right. The trick to answering 'Who Am I?' is to stop asking. Once Jane has lost her preoccupation with 'growing up', she does. Strangely, I think I preferred younger Jane, pure attitude and curiosity, smart enough to be amused by herself and undampened by life's occasional cold bath.
The Girls' Guide is a marvellous read - especially in small doses. It's only the obvious intelligence at work behind this rather frothy book that might make the reader long for something more.


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The World Trade Organization (WTO) will hold its next meeting of ministers in the Gulf state of Qatar from November 9 until 13, a spokesman said here Thursday.
The dates for the conference, last held in December 1999 in Seattle, US, won approval by a consensus of members at a meeting of the WTO's executive body, WTO spokesman Keith Rockwell said.
It is to be held in Doha ahead of the start of the holy Muslim month of Ramadan, which begins on November 16, and to avoid clashing with a summit on food taking place in Rome November 5-9.
The planned hosting of the WTO ministerial meeting in Qatar has already proved controversial as the Gulf state has strict laws on public assembly.
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Qatari authorities have also vowed to permit law-abiding protests.
The last ministerial meeting of the now 140-member WTO, in Seattle descended into a series of pitched battles between riot police and anti-globalization protestors.
Ministers also failed there to agree an agenda for a new round of trade liberalization talks.
Chile had originally also expressed an interest in offering Santiago as a host for the meeting, but gave up on the idea because of a number of international meets already taking place in the city and elections this year. – (AFP, Geneva)
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The fictional story of Pan Yuliang, a female Chinese artist in the early 1900's. Pan was sold by her uncle into a brothel. Here, however, she made female friends and eventually met a man who appreciated her gift of poetry and art. Eventually, she became the second wife of this man and was able to pursue her artistic talents. After her marriage, she is able to leave Shanghai and go to Paris where she studies with other artists in 1920's Paris. She was especially known for her work painting nudes which was quite a scandal at the time.
The book was interesting, but for me, the character of Yuliang never became real.
Knjiga me ocarala,prati kontraverznu kinesku slikarku od njene 14 godine,rada u bordelu,bjega iz njega preko tadasnjeg muza kojem postaje druga zena,do njenog uspjeha kao prve zene na akademiji umjetnosti koja ce biti upamcena kao slikarica aktova...predivna knjiga
This is a fictionalized account of the life Pan Yuliang, a post-impressionist Chinese painter who was quite controversial in her time—as a woman artist and painter of nudes, including nude self-portraits. Born at the end of the 19th century, she grew up in a time where women were culturally oppressed and when the entire country was undergoing a period of political upheaval. I thought Epstein did a beautiful job of conveying the cultural challenges Yuliang faced and overcame, eventually resulting in her move to France in 1937 in order to continue her painting.
I really enjoyed the first half of the book. There was a richness and depth in the telling of her early years--from orphan to prostitute to concubine. I became vested in her story as I saw her growing from a shy, downtrodden girl to becoming more self-possessed. However the second half fell a bit flat for me with the discussions of art and politics coming off as more an historical lesson rather than blending into the story of Yuliang's development as an artist. I found myself skimming over those sections. Nevertheless, I still enjoyed this novel and have since viewed her artwork on the Internet.
A moving novel re-imaging the life of Pan Yuliang, a Chinese woman who became a well-known artist in Paris in the first half of the twentieth century.
Pan Yuliang was a Chinese artist who gained acclaim in the twentieth century for her paintings. Her style is a mix of European Post-Impressionism and traditional Chinese styles. As a woman painter willing to paint nudes, she was unique and controversial in China. Little is actually known about her personal life beyond the fact that an uncle sold her into a brothel when her parents died. She was freed, married, and studied art in China and Europe. As the Japanese invasion of Shanghai loomed, she left to spend the rest of her life in Europe, where many of her works were created.
Jennifer Cody Epstein is an American woman with a background in international relations. She has lived and worked as a journalist in Asia and now lives with her family in New York City. When she saw Pan's art and learned a little of her remarkable life, she began the extensive research that led to her novel. She delved deeply into the written sources which enabled her to place Pan's story in the historical context of pre-World War II China. In creating a fictional version of her subject's life, she relied on her paintings.
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Fictionalized biography of Chinese painter, Pan Yuliang (1895 - 1977), the first Chinese painter to paint and exhibit Western-influenced works in China.
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Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0393065286, Hardcover)Reminiscent of Memoirs of a Geisha, a re-imagining of the life of Pan Yuliang and her transformation from prostitute to post-Impressionist.
Down the muddy waters of the Yangtze River and into the seedy backrooms of "The Hall of Eternal Splendor," through the raucous glamour of prewar Shanghai and the bohemian splendor of 1920s Paris, and back to a China ripped apart by civil war and teetering on the brink of revolution: this novel tells the story of Pan Yuliang, one of the most talented—and provocative—Chinese artists of the twentieth century.
Jennifer Cody Epstein's epic brings to life the woman behind the lush, Cezannesque nude self-portraits, capturing with lavish detail her life in the brothel and then as a concubine to a Republican official who would ultimately help her find her way as an artist. Moving with the tide of historical events, The Painter from Shanghai celebrates a singularly daring painting style—one that led to fame, notoriety, and, ultimately, a devastating choice: between Pan's art and the one great love of her life.
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A tale inspired by the life of pre-war Shanghai artist Pan Yuliang traces her life in a brothel before she becomes a concubine to a Republican official who ultimately helps her to find her way as an artist.
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|I couldn't find the bolts, are they at the bottom? The gear on the bottom seems really tricky, good after that.
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|TRed this route from the anchors of "The Dogs..." Fairly fun. I didn't see many friendly gear placements on the bottom 20' or so of the route, but then, i don't have have a ton of trad experience.
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