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Scared To Death
Release Date: 07 December 2009 | Certificate: Universal, suitable for all
Featuring: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco and Nat Pendleton
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The legendary Bela Lugosi stars in this B horror film about a woman who narrates the story of her own death from the morgue. SCARED TO DEATH is one of only two colour films Lugosi appeared in, and features an excellent impersonation from its star, and over-the-top performances by the rest of the cast.
Release Date: 07 December 2009
Certificate: U - Universal - Suitable for all
Actors: Bela Lugosi, George Zucco, Nat Pendleton, Molly Lamont and Angelo Rossitto
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
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Sound: Dolby Digital
Running Time: 67 minutes
Production Year: 1947
Main Language: English
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Conditions are Right for Competition at Famous Surfing Spot
The San Mateo County coast is experiencing huge swells and Mavericks surfers are ready. Large breakers are expected to continue for the rest of the week at the famed surf spot just north of Half Moon Bay. "The Chronicle" says although there is no official announcement, organizers spent last night doing preliminary work and contacting the 24 invited surfers for the world-famous competition. Organizers are hoping to hold the event Friday. The National Weather Service issued a high-surf advisory for the Bay Area for Thursday through Friday evening.


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Pilcher named interim coordinator of pest management programs
The new interim director of Iowa State University's Pest Management and the Environment (PME) program and coordinator of the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program is no stranger to agriculture. Carol Pilcher was raised on a farm/ranch in southeastern Colorado and has been involved with agriculture most of her life. She was active in 4-H and completed 10 years of projects including gardening, crops, weeds, and entomology. During the summers, Carol collected insects for her 4-H entomology project and operated a light trap for an entomologist at Colorado State University. This is where she started her entomology career path.
Carol received her bachelor of arts in political science from Colorado State University. She focused on agricultural policy and environmental policy and served as a legislative intern for State Representative Aquafresca (a commercial fruit grower from western Colorado). In addition, she worked in the insectary throughout her entire undergraduate career. After completing her undergraduate degree, Carol changed her focus from political science to entomology. She moved to Iowa and began work on her master's degree in entomology. Carol also completed an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Fellowship during her master's program. After completing her master's degree, she wanted to complete a Ph.D. program that would bring together her social science and biological science backgrounds. In 1997, Carol started her Ph.D. program with a co-major in entomology and agricultural education. Her focus was developing a standardized method to measure the adoption of IPM. She examined growers in Iowa and growers in Texas to determine the current level of adoption of IPM.
After completing her graduate studies at Iowa State University, she taught courses in the Department of Agriculture at Western Illinois University. In addition, she served as a study director at the Monsanto Research Farm in Monmouth, Illinois. These studies focused on the impact of Bt corn on non-target organisms, specifically ground-dwelling invertebrates and foliage-dwelling arthropods. In July 2002, Carol moved back to Iowa and continued her work with the PME program. She completed a postdoctoral program as an IPM specialist and accepted a lecturer position in 2004.
Carol's new responsibilities will be the overall coordination of the IPM program and the Pesticide Applicator Training (PAT) program in Iowa. In addition, Carol is working on the regional and national levels to complete program evaluations for IPM. She is working to develop a framework for conducting outcome level evaluations to measure the impacts of IPM at the regional and national levels. She is examining the economic, environmental, and health impacts associated with the adoption of IPM at the national level.
This article originally appeared on page 153 of the IC-496(13) -- May 30, 2006 issue.
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Help Kitten See a Bright Future
UPDATE: April 2014
People say that besides their unique brindled color pattern, tortoiseshell cats like Quinn have something called "tortitude." Think "extreme kitty attitude," meaning willful, unpredictable, feisty. In Quinn's case, however, there was little evidence of tortitude and every indication of fortitude — because without courage and confidence — and your generous donations — this stray kitten never would have made it.
Born with a congenital condition called eyelid agenesis, in which the eyelids fail to form normally, Quinn was in serious trouble and great pain when she arrived in our care. But thanks to Quinn's spirit, our expert medical team, and Beth Stern's amazing gift for feline fostering, Quinn's eyelids are functioning, her vision is normal, and her attitude is great. She also has a new name, Sunshine, and a new, loving home.
In late February, Cindy, our senior kennel manager, drove to Connecticut with Beth to hand-deliver Sunshine to her new home with Dave, who'd also adopted George and Arnold, two adult cats, the previous July. It was crucial for everyone to know that all three cats could agree to live together.
"Dave's house was perfect for the cats," says Cindy. "There was plenty of room for them to run and play, and by the time we left, Sunshine had fallen asleep on her bed while Dave was playing guitar. Each day the three cats are making progress toward becoming friends."
One month later and the adoption is official. Sunshine is now a part of the family. And who knows? Maybe Dave is serenading her with a few old John Denver's classics. We'd suggest, "Sunshine on My Shoulders," for one.
Have a great life, sweet Sunshine!
UPDATE: November 2013
Quinn had surgery on both her eyes, and we are pleased to report that she came through the procedure very well.
At this point, Quinn appears to have full vision, but we will not for certain until she is completely healed, which will take another week or so. Also, we don't know at this stage whether Quinn's upper eyelids will be fully functionally or whether she will need a second surgery. We will keep you posted.
Once Quinn is ready, we will keep our promise to find her a permanent home where she will be loved and cherished for the rest of her life.
Thank you again to everyone who contributed so we could give Quinn, and other animals like her, the treatment they need and deserve!
Quinn's Story
When a Good Samaritan brought this stray kitten to North Shore Animal League America's Medical Center, it was immediately clear that something was terribly wrong.
The kitten, whom our staff named Quinn, was in severe pain. Our veterinary team quickly determined that her discomfort was caused by a congenital condition called eyelid agenesis, in which the eyelids fail to form normally.
Eyelids perform many essential functions: They not only shield the cornea from injury and infection, they also contribute to the production of tears, which keep the eyes from drying out.
Left untreated, eyelid agenesis causes patients to develop scarring, pigmentation and extremely painful ulcers on the cornea. Without surgical intervention, Quinn may become blind.
But we have a solution: Although Quinn has already suffered some scarring on her eyes, with proper treatment, we are very optimistic that she will have partial and perhaps even full vision.
Will you help this precious kitten receive the intricate surgery she needs?
A specialist in veterinary ophthalmology will perform the procedure, to make sure that Quinn gets only the best in care. Once she heals, we will keep our promise to find her a loving home with an adopter who will treasure her for life.
Please contribute generously so that Quinn, and other animals like her, can receive the treatment they need to live fully, happy lives.
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Have you ever played the game "Five Degrees of Separation?" You link very different things together in five quick steps, like this below.How do you link Nancy Campbell to Katy Perry in five easy steps? … [Read more...]
Laughter Is Good Medicine: Five Degrees
October 8, 2013 by Suzanne Calulu
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The life of St. Marguerite Bourgeoys and over 300 years of her congregation's history has much to teach us even in 2014.
It was not for wealth or fame that this remarkable woman left the comforts of her home in France to come to the New World but to bring the Gospel message to the people of Ville Marie, now known as Montreal. Despite many obstacles, Saint Marguerite never deviated from that purpose as she served the settlers of this land. When Marguerite went to her eternal reward in 1700, she left behind 48 Sisters to continue the work she had begun and by 1887 the numbers increased to 726. Of these, 34 came to Canada's Maritime provinces and dedicated their lives to the education of young women. As time elapsed, male and female students became the norm.
In 1887, St. Joseph Convent, Mabou, became a reality through the inspiration of Father Kenneth MacDonald, the pastor, and the co-operation of the Congregation of Notre Dame. Through the sacrifices on the part of many , including the generous people of the Mabou community, our Sisters were able to keep the school and boarding school functioning until a replacement for an aging building became a necessity and in 1952 was replaced by the present structure. It continued to house girl boarders until 1978. At this point the Sisters decided to discontinue receiving boarders and in September 1979, after prayer and consultation, the doors reopened and our facility was designed to be used for the promotion of human and spiritual development of our people in keeping with the trends following Vatican 2.
Now known as St. Joseph Renewal Centre, the Congregation of Notre Dame continues its presence in the beautiful village of Mabou by providing a "sacred space" to all who hunger to deepen in their spiritual awareness within themselves and those around them. We strive to offer a caring, listening presence for all people who use this sacred space to grow in different ways into God. This is done through offering various retreats, programs and spiritual direction throughout the year to those of various ages who wish to "come away and rest awhile." Our picturesque landscape and quiet surroundings offer opportunities for reflection and deep listening. The centre has welcomed several hundred individuals and groups over the past 35-plus years, all of whom have been received in openness and warm hospitality.
As we live out our call in fulfilling this role we are fully aware that we have received so much more than we had merited. We live today in gratitude for the opportunities given to us to adapt to the times following the example of Marguerite and in gratitude to the providence of God.
Today, as our numbers are decreasing and diminishment is evident, we strive we keep alive the Visitation charism exemplified to us by St. Marguerite in reaching out to others as they and we endeavor to live out our Baptismal call. As Mary went in haste to visit her cousin Elizabeth in time of need, we too find opportunities to be of service in bringing hope, encouragement and prayerful support to those who present themselves seeking answers to their spiritual needs.
Sister Catherine MacEachern is the Coordinator of St. Joseph Renewal Center, Mabou. Carl and Peg Madigan are program directors, and Janet MacDonald is the administrative assistant. They are assisted by the Sisters and staff of St. Joseph Convent, and with the blessings and support of the Congregation of Notre Dame's administration are privileged to be serving in this wonderful ministry. May St. Marguerite's spirit live on!
The Diocesan Voices is written by various members of the Diocese of Antigonish and appears every second week in the Cape Breton Post. The Cape Breton Post welcomes comments on this column by email at email@example.com.


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Tomatillo-Avocado Sauce
This tangy, creamy sauce from chef Geoffrey Zakarian's book, My Perfect Pantry, is delicious served alone as a dip or with egg dishes like huevos rancheros.
Slideshow: Party Dips
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- Servings: 1 cup
- 1 Hass avocado, peeled, pitted and diced
- 4 fresh tomatillos, husked, rinsed and chopped
- 1/4 cup minced cilantro
- 2 tablespoons minced red onion
- 2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
- 1 tablespoon seeded and minced jalapeño
- Kosher salt
- Crudités or chips, for serving
How to make this recipe
Using a fork, mash the avocado with the tomatillos, cilantro, red onion, lime juice and jalapeño to form a chunky sauce. Season with salt. Serve with crudités or chips.
Contributed By Geoffrey Zakarian Published August 2014


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Hop Into The World Of 'DC Universe Online'… For $14.99 Per Month
How much are you willing to pay to become a superhero, one that operates solely within Gotham City, Metropolis and other locations in the DC Universe? I ask you this because the price listings for "DC Universe Online" have just been announced, and you'll want to know more before you get your heart set on a particular pair of tights.
The folks at Massively reached out to Sony Online Entertainment to learn more about the pricing model for "DC Universe Online," with a public relations spokesperson clarifying the following details: "The revenue model will be subscription based, with a monthly fee of $14.99 per month. The PC version will carry a suggested retail price of $49.99 and the PS3 version will carry a suggested retail price of $59.99." Sony would not confirm any details regarding possible subscription fees.Let's assume you purchase the console version of "DC Universe Online," which already rings you up to roughly $60. If there's no discounted subscription fee offered, you're looking at a ballpark of $240 for the first year of playing "DC Universe Online" and $180 for subsequent years – again, assuming no discount and no reduction in price. So, I ask you again: how much are you willing to pay to become a superhero (or villain) in the DCU?
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Harold Ramis's 5 Most Memorable Scenes
Harold Ramis, writer, actor, director and all-around funny man, passed away Monday.
While Ramis's work writing and directing cemented his status as a comedy icon, he was just as comfortable onscreen as off. Here are five memorable scenes from the master of laughter.
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Occupy Spirituality
A Radical Vision for a New Generation
by Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko
"A powerful, inspiring, and vital call to embodied awareness and enlightened actions. Thank you Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko for such a wonderful book."
—Julia Butterfly Hill, environmental activist
In partnership with:North Atlantic Books
Occupy Spirituality: About the Book and Authors
On the two-year anniversary of the Occupy movement, renowned theologian Matthew Fox and sacred activist Adam Bucko deliver a powerful call to action for a new era of spirituality-infused activism.
Read a Book Excerpt: Chapter 1
Adam Bucklo and Matthew Fox
We wrote Occupy Spirituality to encourage and assist these young adults in their spiritual path, a path that combines contemplative quieting of the reptilian brain with the moral outrage that so many people are feeling today.
Praise for Occupy Spirituality
"The monologue of the Religious Right is over. And a new dialogue has begun. This book is a sign of that dialogue." Read what Shane Claiborne, Julia Butterfly Hill, Arun Gandhi, and other spiritual activists are saying about Occupy Spirituality.
Video Q&A with Matthew Fox
Internationally-acclaimed theologian Matthew Fox on the Occupy generation and sacred activism in this exclusive video interview for Patheos.
Read a Book Excerpt: Chapter 2
Adam Bucko and Matthew Fox
Occupy Spirituality: redefining leadership as dynamic, democratic and authentic.
Sacred Activism Book Series
The Sacred Activism Series presents leading voices that embody the tenets of Sacred Activism—compassion, service, and sacred consciousness—while addressing the crucial issues of our time and inspiring radical action.
Christ Path Seminar Blog
Visit Matthew Fox's Patheos blog for more writings from him, Bucko, Andrew Harvey, and other inspiring voices for our time.
Book Roundtable: Continue the Conversation with our Bloggers
Reflections from a Once and Future Activist
Christine Hoff Kraemer
Someday, I'm going to be ready to dream and vision again, and Occupy Spirituality is a book that can stoke that inner fire.
Occupying to Break Open
Jim Burklo
This book is at least as much about "occupying" religion in order to break it open as it is about "occupying" Wall Street in order to reveal alternatives to its assumptions. It stirred my blood.
Spirituality and Social Transformation
Bruce Epperly
We can be contemplative activists and mystics on a mission. Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko give us a road map for joining spirituality and action to change the world.
Occupy Your Own Spirituality
Carl Gregg
This book will both equip you to occupy your own spirituality (to go deeper into your firsthand experience with God or the Universe) and inspire you to go out into the world in the spirit of the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Don't Occupy Mormonism: Occupy the Streets and the World
Chris Henrichsen
What Occupy Spirituality awakened in me is a desire for a social justice-oriented Mormonism.
True Spirituality?
Frank Viola
The book is essentially a blending of Buddhist ideas and practices, Muslim ideas and practices, and Christian ideas and practices. While such syncretism appeals to the natural mind and to post-modern sensibilities, it doesn't square with the teachings of Jesus or Paul.
Join the Roundtable Discussion!
Email us at firstname.lastname@example.com with your 300-500 word reflection on this book.
Selected entries may receive a free copy of one of our future book club books!
Matthew Fox and Adam Bucko at Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
The Forum at Grace Cathedral — The Rt. Rev. Marc Andrus; The Rev. Dr. Matthew Fox; and Adam Bucko from DioCal on Vimeo.


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I have borrowed a copy of Tom Mitchell's (ML dept head, CMU) Machine Learning
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/mlbook.html
and intensely reading for the next 5 weeks. If anyone wants to join me, we could meet and discuss.
 (lecture slides are on the web page but you would have to buy or borrow the book). I'm currently half way through Chapter 2.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Mike Schachter <email@example.com> wrote:

Hey anyone, someone, everyone,

 I'm planning on giving a workshop on SVMs in R about
 two weeks from now, Wednesday June 22nd, 7:30pm in
 the Church classroom. You will learn what support vector
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 classify data. Let me know if this is in conflict with anything!

 Also, I'll be not around for two weeks after that and won't
 be back to ML until 7/13. I have no doubt in my mind that
 throngs of people will clamour to fill the void and attain the
 gloriousness that is to be had by organizing ML meetups
 and giving presentations. I urge you all to stay calm and
 please don't cause physical harm to eachother in the process.

 If you want to give an ML presentation/talk/pow-wow/box social,
 edit the wiki page to add your idea:

 https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Machine_Learning

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Symantec Corp. – Interesting findings in a new Symantec survey of 1,425 small and medium businesses. Bottom line: Small and medium-sized businesses understand security risks, but a high percentage have failed to enact basic safeguards.
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Symantec Corp. released the findings of its 2009 Storage and Security in SMBs survey. The study found that while SMBs are familiar with cyber risks and have clearly defined goals for security and storage, a surprisingly high number have yet to take even the most basic steps towards protecting their businesses, such as implementing antivirus or backing up their data. The study is based on surveys of 1,425 small and medium businesses in 17 countries during the first quarter of 2009.
SMBs Understand the Problem
Our research shows that SMBs clearly understand the importance of security. While they do rate viruses as their top security worry, more than 70 percent also say they are somewhat/extremely concerned about spam and data breaches. Respondents also report that protecting their information, network and servers are their top goals (mentioned as somewhat/extremely important by at least 94 percent).
"Many small and midsized businesses are at a crossroads—aware of the need to strengthen their IT security infrastructure but unsure how to do so with limited resources," said Kevin Murray, senior director, product marketing, Symantec. "As with their enterprise counterparts, security threats to small and midsized businesses are increasing in complexity, number and frequency, and the volume of information they must protect and maintain continues to expand."
SMB Security Gap
Despite understanding the security risks they face, a surprising number of SMBs are neglecting basic safeguards. For example, three of five (59 percent) have not implemented endpoint protection (software that protects "end points" such as laptops, desktops and servers against malware). Forty-two percent of SMBs do not have an antispam solution. Almost half do not backup their desktop PCs, leaving their important information at risk. Finally, one-third of SMBs do not have the most basic protection of all -- antivirus protection.
"Of course SMBs know better, but they are too often focused on business opportunities outside the company to pay attention to the risks they are taking right at home," said Ray Boggs, vice president of SMB research at IDC. "SMBs operate in a world full of risk, but many are taking unnecessary chances by failing to secure their data the way they should."
Simple Protection Could Prevent Catastrophic Loss
According to the study, when SMBs do suffer IT loss, it is likely to be in an area where basic protection measures could have prevented loss. For example, the leading cause of loss reported by SMBs was "system breakdown or hardware failure." Installing desktop and server backup solutions is an easy task and would have provided excellent protection against losses from such a problem.
Staffing and Budget Driving the Gap
The study reveals that staffing and budget are two key factors driving the SMB security gap. Forty-two percent of SMBs don't have a dedicated IT staff--they either have no one managing their computers or they use staff that has other jobs. In fact, the leading barrier to security cited by SMBs was a lack of employee skills (41 percent). SMBs also mention a lack of awareness of current threats (33 percent) and lack of time (28 percent) as chief barriers. Insufficient budgets are also a factor. The median IT security budget was just $4,500 per year.
SMB IT Budgets on the Rise
In a sign that things may be improving, SMBs reported that IT budgets are trending upward. Fifty percent of respondents state they plan to increase IT security and storage spending in the next 12 months. To increase IT security spending in a major recession is a strong sign that SMBs value IT security.
About the Storage and Security in SMBs Survey
Symantec's Storage and Security in SMBs survey was conducted in February of 2009 by Applied Research. The study targeted 1,425 small and medium sized businesses (10-500 employees) located in 17 countries around the globe. There were 200 respondents in the United States. Worldwide the survey has a 95 percent confidence level with a margin of error of 2.6 percent.


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Vanessa Hudgens looks stunning on the January 2013 cover of Harper's Bazaar Arabia. Inside the issue, the 23-year-old revealed the challenges of being an actress.
Speaking about the film "Gimme Shelter," she said, "I had to chop off all my hair and live in a pregnant woman's shelter for about two weeks before we even started filming to get me in my headspace. It was a bit of a shock. It's a world that I've never had a chance of looking into, let alone be a part of, and I remember calling my mom on the first night, and I was like 'Mom, what have I gotten myself into?' It was a lot of fun after I got past those initial feelings of shock at the environment."
Her upcoming film, "Spring Breakers," gave Hudgens the chance to experience something different. "I've never been on spring break, I've never gone to college or had this group of girlfriends to go away with. I became very, very close with these girls. We had such an amazing experience together; it felt like it was our own little spring break. We allowed ourselves to let loose and push each other and see how far we could take it."
Read more in the latest issue of Harper's Bazaar Arabia.


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- Three Things We can All Do To Make Everything Easier
- Planning and Scheduling
- Meals and Food
- Laundry
- Cleaning and Dishes
- Managing Kids and Their Stuff
- Staying Organized
For the complete list of suggestions, click here and read through the 200+ comments. Today we'll discuss Managing Kids and Their Stuff and Staying Organized.
Managing Kids and Their Stuff
If there's a problem area where your kids' random stuff always finds itself (for me it's the family room), give each kid a basket and put it there. At the end of every day - put their stuff in their basket. At the end of the week, they take the basket to their room and put everything away. The Patron Saint of Mommyland also does this and she calls them CRAP BASKETS. Because the kids' crap goes in their baskets and not on the floor and therefore your house appears to be more tidy.
2. Deadlines
Here's how these bad boys work. The kids have something to do, for example - put away everything in their crap basket. They know that they're supposed to do it Friday when they get home from school. Nothing else fun is allowed until they get it done. Wii? NON. Spongebob? NON. Play with the kid from the down the street? NON. Go on the planned sleep-over at best friend's house? Sorry... NON.
Do you know what else this empowers you to do? And some moms do it every day. HIDE THE REMOTE and POCKET THE CELL PHONES. When homework and chores are done, you can have them back. The end.
3. Do as much as you can the night before
This includes laying out clothes, packing backpacks and putting them by the front door, pre-making lunches, etc. Because it appears that even the most organized and together mommies find that the 20 minutes before you have to leave for school is an unmitigated cluster. Is it very wrong that that makes me feel better?
4. Chore charts
These are so, so helpful. When we have little behavior problems at our house, we also sometimes use "Good Choices" charts. I told Guru Louise about that and she was all: "WHERE WERE YOU WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE?!" Here's an example of how one mommy uses a chore chart:
"We have a Chore Chart on the side of the fridge. It's on a piece of paper slid into one of those page protectors. Each day has chores that need to get done on a daily basis (dishes, counters, litter box, cleaning rooms, making beds, etc.). Then each day has one special chore that gets done weekly. (Laundry, dusting, vacuuming, trash, bathrooms). We each have a different color of dry-erase pen, so that when we do a chore we cross it off. That way we know 1) that the chore was done and 2) who did it. It gives a good visual of whether or not everyone is pulling their weight, and who needs to try harder. It also gives the hardest worker an excuse to point out how hard they work, and that they really, really deserve a break. Or some chocolate."
I got this one for about $9 at Target.
Like chore charts, they can be a really useful tool.
"I stole this from my sister in law, but adjusted it for my "not old enough to read yet son." He has a list on his bedroom wall containing pictures of the steps he needs to take to get himself ready in the morning and before bed. For the morning: 1.) a picture of the potty 2.) toothbrush 3.) shirt 4.) underpants 5.) socks 6.) pants 7.) jammies in hamper 8.) a pic of pancakes to remind him to go downstairs for breakfast. At bedtime 1.) potty 2.) toothbrush 3.) pull-up 4.) jammies 5.) pick a story
He still needs occasional prodding to hurry up (I am thinking of getting a timer), but this frees me up to get myself and the baby ready in the morning. Also, it gives him a sense of accomplishment that he did it himself. With older kids, same checklist with words."
A friend told me she had figured out how to stay on top of this. It's a 5 point strategy.
- Tell your kids they can only hand you important papers from school in the kitchen (or wherever is close to your family calendar and/or a trash can). Tell them if they give it to you anywhere except there, IT WILL GET LOST.
- Any dates/deadlines/events go directly onto the calendar.
- Each kid's artwork/school work gets one folder per month. Anything that looks like a keeper or needs follow up goes in the folder.
- Everything else gets recycled.
- At the end of the school year, go through each folder and the keepers will be obvious. The rest gets recycled when they're not looking.
|Sigh... Isn't it beautiful?
We all want a mudroom. With hooks and shelves and cubbies and little lockers with crown molding. Except most of us don't have one. So some very smart mommies decided to re-purpose their hall closets with plastic or fabric hanging shoe holders to serve the same function. It helps organize their kids' stuff and even though it doesn't look all swanky - who the hell cares. It's a closet, close the door.
This idea is genius and I have already done the same thing. GENIUS, I tell you.
"I made a mail organizer from an idea I got from the blog Controlling my Chaos. Mine isn't as cute has Jill's, but it has really helped me feel like I'm on top of things. When it's time to pay the bills, I just grab the folder and I don't have to spend 1/2 hour finding the bills.
Apparently, FLY stands for Finally Loving Yourself. AWWWWWW! I love that. I've heard about this site for years and have read many things on it myself. I know it has helped so many people. It's great for people who are feeling really out of control with their chaos, which she calls Can't Have Anyone Over Syndrome. Is it for everyone? Nope. But nothing is. Lots of people love her and I think her non-judgey, you go girl vibe is pretty badass.
"One word, Lydia: Flylady. Okay, this comment is obviously more than one word, but seriously, check her out. Because I think Flylady understands all about being a boobstain. I certainly do, and her messages really resonate with me."4. Ten Minute Rule
Having just moved, I can't tell you how cathartic it was to just get rid of stuff. Having less stuff means there is less clutter, less to clean, less to deal with, less crap to be overwhelmed by. If you haven't used it or needed it in a year - get rid of it. We've discussed methods for doing this, including our buddies at GoodDonor.org. Here are some of your options:
- Donate it
- For pick-up, we suggest our buddies at GoodDonor.org - you tell them when and they'll come get it. It's awesome.
- Salvation Army and Good Will took about ten van loads when I moved last year
- Sell it
- Freecycle it
- You know someone is getting it who wants it and that its not ending up in a landfill
- Consign it
- Great option for kid stuff and it's that time of year in these parts
- Throw it away
- Some stuff isn't worth donating. Recycle what you can and don't be afraid to but stuff out a day early - I was SHOCKED what people came and trash picked. I was also gratified, though. Because I would much rather people get free stuff that may need it than for it end up getting wasted.
This momma is absolutely right. We're all bombarded with too much information every day and I think it adds to the sense of being underwater with everything.
"Reduce the amount of information coming into your house. Whether it's junk mail, email or RSS feeds, spend a few minutes here and there unsubscribing from these things as they appear. It will make you feel more sane and you'll have a *few* less things to handle each day in the long run. If you miss a sale, a great blog post or an email from someone you actually know, I guarantee another one will pop up again eventually."
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"Everybody's been asking me if I want 40-this or 40-that. But no, I've had this number too long," Figgins said. "My momma, and grandma and granddaddy, everybody in my family has 89 jerseys made."
Figgins is shown wearing that number on the back of the Georgia football team's spring media guide. The fact the Bulldogs decided to feature him, along with a dozen other teammates, is a sign that the move to fullback may already be paying off.
Staying at tight end would have relegated the Columbus native to near-obscurity as he entered his senior year. Orson Charles and Aron White have that position almost locked down, and the Bulldogs also signed one of the nation's top tight end recruits, Jay Rome.
But at fullback, Figgins has a chance to start. The Bulldogs lost Shaun Chapas and Fred Munzenmeier to graduation, leaving Zander Ogletree, who played mostly on special teams as a freshman.
So yes, fullback may be less glamorous than tight end. But when head coach Mark Richt and offensive coordinator Mike Bobo suggested the move, it was an easy call.
"I wasn't getting reps at all at tight end last year. Very few. So when they approached me about fullback I was all for it," Figgins said. "Coach Richt and coach Bobo sat me down and told me the different things they see me doing in the future. So we're working towards that. They're throwing different things at me. I'm getting help from all angles: coordinator position, position coach, running back, so it's going well."
The hardest adjustment so far, according to Figgins, is pass protection. At tight end he was used to just blocking the man in front of him. But at fullback he has to keep an eye out for blitzing safeties or other edge rushers that break through to the backfield.
Richt thinks Figgins is doing pretty well so far.
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Shoulder injuries have hindered Figgins throughout his career. Then players like White and Charles surpassed him on the depth chart. But judging by how his teammates mobbed him after that touchdown catch against Georgia Tech, Figgins is a popular story in the locker room.
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Women empathise, men systemise. So the basic brain function goes. It's only a social problem in extreme cases, though especially for analytical men who lean towards autism, writes Simon Baron-Cohen.
The subject of essential sex differences in the mind is clearly very delicate. I could tiptoe around it, but my guess is that readers would like the theory stated plainly. So here it is: the female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
Some readers will be alarmed. Will this theory provide grist for those reactionaries who might wish to defend existing inequalities in opportunities for men and women? Equally, I can imagine that some readers may be willing to go halfway down the track with me, willing to explore the once-taboo idea that there are sex differences in the mind.
Yet, as we discover the ultimate causes of such sex differences, these readers may find things they would prefer not to see. First, let me expand on the two central claims of the theory empathising (the female brain) and systemising (the male brain).
Empathising is the drive to identify another person's emotions and thoughts, and to respond to them with an appropriate emotion. Imagine if you could recognise that Jane is in pain but this left you cold, or detached, or happy. That would not be empathising. Now imagine you could not only see Jane's pain, but you also automatically felt concern. That would be empathising. Empathy arises out of a natural desire to care about others. There is evidence that the average female spontaneously empathises to a greater degree than the average male.
Systemising is the drive to analyse, explore and construct a system. The systemiser intuitively figures out how things work, or extracts the underlying rules that govern the behaviour of a system. This is done in order to understand and predict the system, or to invent a new one.
Systems can be as varied as a vehicle, a plant, a library catalogue, a musical composition, a cricket bowl or even an army unit. They all operate on inputs and deliver outputs, using "if x is true, then y must follow" correlational rules.
On average, males spontaneously systemise to a greater degree than do females.
Is it possible to systemise a person? Systemising works well if you are trying to understand a system within a person, such as a woman's fertility, or if you are trying to understand a human group as a system, such as the pattern of traffic accidents on a motorway or patterns of voting behaviour.
However, systemising gets you almost nowhere in most day-to-day social interaction. Our behaviour and emotions are not governed by rules to any useful degree. How do you explain that some people feel great after a hard day? Furthermore, the kinds of rules you can extract are of almost no use when it comes to making sense of, or predicting, the moment-by-moment changes in a person's behaviour.
Consider the rule "if people get what they want, they will be happy". Say that you followed the rule and gave Hannah what she said she wanted for her birthday. Why is she still not happy? Systemising just cannot get a foothold into things like a person's fluctuating feelings.
While the natural way to understand and predict the nature of events and objects is to systemise, the natural way to understand a person is to empathise. Although it was Hannah's birthday and she got the present she wanted, it was also the week she was expecting news about her hospital test. Perhaps it wasn't good news. Maybe you should have asked her how she was, and tuned in to her feelings. Simple laws of how people will behave are next to useless even in this apparently simple interaction.
Systemising and empathising are different kinds of processes. You use one process - empathising - for making sense of an individual's behaviour, and you use the other - systemising - for predicting almost everything else. Ultimately, systemising and empathising depend on independent sets of regions in the human brain. They are not mystical processes but are grounded in our neurophysiology.
But not all men have the male brain, and not all women have the female brain. In fact, some women have the male brain, and some men have the female brain. My central claim is only that more men than women have a brain where systemising is dominant, and that more women than men have a brain where empathising is dominant.
I, for example, am a man, but would be unsuited to a job in technical support for any kind of system (computers or otherwise). I was drawn to the helping profession of clinical psychology a female-dominated world. I rely on a woman called Traci for advice on how to fix my computer. And I rely on two top women scientists, Svetlana and Rebecca, for advice on how to understand the biochemistry of hormones.
In 1987, Vancouver psychologist Doreen Kimura asked: "Are men's and women's brains really different?" She continued: "It would be amazing if men's and women's brains were not different, given the gross morphological and often striking behavioural differences between women and men." Kimura is a good example of traditional researchers in this area who have emphasised two different dimensions in defining the male and female brain: language (female superiority) and spatial ability (male superiority).
While language and spatial ability are important in defining sex differences, two neglected dimensions are empathising and systemising. Moreover, language superiority in women may exist because of their stronger empathising ability, and good spatial ability in men may be just one instance of their stronger systemising.
We all have both systemising and empathising skills. The question is: how much of each do we have? One can envisage people with one of three types of brain: those whose empathising is more developed than systemising (the female brain); those whose systemising is stronger than empathising (the male brain); and those whose systemising and empathising are equally strong (the balanced brain). These three brain types account for about 95 per cent of the population.
There are also two less common types of brain. One is the extreme male brain, in which individuals may be talented systemisers but, at the same time, they may be "mindblind". Such people may fit what we call autism.
The extreme male brain theory of autism was first informally suggested by Hans Asperger (after whom a milder version of autism, Aspergers Syndrome, or AS, was named). He said: "The autistic personality is an extreme variant of male intelligence. Even within the normal variation, we find typical sex differences in intelligence. In the autistic individual, the male pattern is exaggerated to the extreme."
Asperger wrote this in 1944, in German, and it wasn't translated into English until 1991. His monumental idea therefore went unnoticed for nearly 50 years, and it took until 1997 for anyone to set out to see if there was any truth to his controversial hypothesis.
Asperger left the term extreme male intelligence undefined, but he probably meant it in the widest sense that there are sex differences in personality, skills and behaviour. The evidence in favour of his theory falls into three areas:
Impaired empathising for example, a person who may not understand that just because they regard someone as their friend, it may not be mutual. Or he may not realise his wife is upset unless she is crying.
Superior systemising imagine a person who is so good at systemising that they notice the same names of cameramen appearing in the credits of different television films. How are they keeping track of so much information in the small print on television?
Biological and family-genetic evidence when one looks at the wider family as a clue to genetic influences, one finds that fathers and grandfathers of children with autism or AS (on both sides of the family) are over-represented in occupations such as engineering. The occupations require good systemising, and a mild impairment in empathising would not necessarily be an impediment to success. There is a higher rate of autism in the families of those talented in fields such as maths, physics and engineering, when compared with those talented in the humanities.
The latter two findings suggest that the extreme male cognitive style is, in part, inherited.
The description of high systemisers strikes a chord among some academic physicists today. It is of interest that one study of the personalities of high-achieving physicists reported them to be less sociable than those in the general population.
Helenka Przysiezniak is in that rare minority of female academic physicists fewer than one in eight academic physicists are women. In an interview in 1998, she discussed her male colleagues at CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research): "They lack basic social skills and some do not take care of themselves . . ." There is one characteristic that she says all physicists have herself included and that is "arrogance". "You want to prove that something is right if you believe in it. That's just how it works when you're discussing the 'truth'," she says.
Przysiezniak suggests that a psychological analysis of the personalities attracted to physics would reveal that physicists are focused, single-minded, obsessive even. They tend to be just as passionate about their other interests. Many of the physicists at CERN are accomplished musicians and concerts are held there almost daily. The mountains and lakes that surround CERN offer the chance for skiing, mountaineering and sailing a chance that many of the physicists seize.
Skiing, mountaineering and sailing all require good systemising skills, as does physics. Moreover, an arrogant assumption that you are right and everyone else is wrong suggests low empathising skills, in failing to recognise that others might have a valid point of view. Sometimes, they are the technical wizards in companies or the innovators in businesses. Either way, a red thread runs through their lives and binds them all together: high systemising and low empathising.
Consider Asperger's words: "To our own amazement, we have seen that autistic individuals, as long as they are intellectually intact, can almost always achieve professional success, usually in highly specialised academic professions, with a preference for abstract content. We found a large number of people whose mathematical ability determines their professions: mathematicians, technologists, industrial chemists, and high-ranking civil servants . . . A good professional attitude involves single-mindedness as well as a decision to give up a large number of other interests . . . It seems that for success in science or art, a dash of autism is essential."
Some people with the extreme male brain end up with a diagnosis of AS because this profile leads to secondary problems, such as loneliness, unemployment, bullying, depression and divorce. But some never need a diagnosis because, despite having the same profile of strengths and difficulties, they find a niche for themselves among people who find their oddities somewhat charming and eccentric, and value their difference from others.
The other less common brain type is the extreme female brain. The empathising ability of people with such a brain would be about the same as, or significantly better than, that of other people in the general population, but their systemising would be impaired. So these would be people who have difficulty understanding maths, physics, machines or chemistry as systems. But they could be extremely accurate at tuning in to others' feelings and thoughts.
Would such a profile carry any necessary disability? Hyperempathising could be a great asset, and poor systemising may not be too crippling. It is possible that the extreme female brain is not seen in clinics because it is not maladaptive.
Those with the extreme male brain do experience a disability, but only when the person is expected to be socially able. Remove this expectation, and the person can flourish. Unfortunately, in our society this social expectation is pervasive: at school, in the workplace and in the home. So it is hard to avoid.
But for those with the extreme female brain, the disability might show up only in circumstances where the person is expected to be systematic or technical. The person with the extreme female brain would be systemblind.
Fortunately, our society tolerates such individuals. For example, teachers at school might simply allow a systemblind children to drop mathematics and science at the earliest possible stage, and encourage them to pursue their stronger subjects.
If a systemblind person's car doesn't work, they can call a mechanic. They can ring for technical support if they need help putting a computer together. And, in evolutionary terms, there were, in all likelihood, equivalent people a systemblind person could turn to for help when their home was destroyed in strong winds or when their spear broke.
The most likely contender for someone with the extreme female brain would be a wonderfully caring person who could rapidly make you feel fully understood for example, a patient psychotherapist who could instantly tune in to your feelings and your situation, who experienced your emotions as vividly as if your feelings were theirs.
However, the contender for the extreme female brain would also need to be someone who was virtually technically disabled; someone for whom maths, or computers, or political schisms, or DIY, held no interest; indeed, someone who found activities requiring systemising hard to follow.
When we find someone with the extreme female brain, my guess is that we will also see that society has made it easy for them to find a niche and a value, without that person having to feel they must hide their systemblindness.
Responsible scientists in this field are careful not to perpetuate the mistaken attitudes of former generations by assuming sex differences imply that one sex is inferior overall. At the beginning of the 20th century, Gustav Le Bon made the mistake of concluding that female inferiority "was so obvious that no one can contest it for a minute".
A hundred years later, it is easy to contest Le Bon's position.
Psychological sex differences are often (though not always) found, yet there are some domains in which women excel compared to men and vice versa. Overall, intelligence is not better in one sex or the other, but the profiles (reflecting relative strengths in specific domains) are different between the two sexes.
We must be wary of assuming that sex differences are due to biology only. To do this would be to commit the opposite error to that seen in the 1960s, when it was frequently assumed that all sex differences reflected socialisation.
Discussing sex differences, of course, drops you straight into the heart of the political correctness debate. Some people say that even looking for sex differences reveals a sexist mind seeking ways to perpetuate the historical inequities women have suffered. I have spent more than five years writing this book . This is because the topic was too politically sensitive to complete in the 1990s. I postponed finishing it because I was unsure whether a discussion of psychological sex differences could proceed dispassionately. Fortunately, there are more and more people, feminists included, who recognise that asking such questions need not perpetuate sexual inequalities.
In fact, the opposite can be true. It is by acquiring and using knowledge responsibly that sexism can be eliminated. My women friends, most of whom consider themselves feminists, have persuaded me that it is time for such a discussion. My men friends are also beginning to recognise this.
So I would weep with disappointment if a reader took home from my argument the message that "all men have lower empathy" or "all women have lower systemising skills". However, the model for my argument remains: in order to explain why these particular women have a gift for systemising, or why these particular men are talented at empathising, we must refer to their particular biology and experience.
Some may worry that my view of the male and female brains risks portraying the male brain as more intelligent than the female brain. I do not think this risk is real, however, because both processes give rise to different patterns of "intelligence". Systemising may be useful for parts of the non-verbal IQ test, while empathising might he useful for the more verbal aspects.
Some may worry that portraying autism as hypermale will trigger ideas that people with autism are super-macho. Again, this would be a misconception, as machismo does not overlap with the dimensions of empathising and systemising.
Neither the male nor female brain is better or worse than the other. Society needs both types, although, at present, it is likely to be biased towards accepting the extreme female brain while stigmatising the extreme male brain. Fortunately, the modern age of electronics, science, engineering and gadgets means that there are more openings now for the extreme male brain to flourish and be valued. My hope is that the stigmatising will soon be history.
This is an edited extract from The Essential Difference: Men, Women and the Extreme Male Brain, by Simon Baron-Cohen, published by Allen Lane, $39.95.
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Natural Trap Cave in north-central Wyoming is 85 feet deep and almost impossible to see until you're standing right next to it. Over tens of thousands of years, many, many animals — including now-extinct mammoths, short-faced bears, American lions and American cheetahs — shared the misfortune of not noticing the 15-foot-wide opening until they were plunging to their deaths.


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(CNSNews.com) – Secretary of State John Kerry and National Security Advisor Susan Rice both expressed appreciation to Cuba on Sunday after Colombia's Marxist rebel group FARC released a former U.S. Marine it had held hostage since June.
The Castro regime was one of several parties they thanked for their efforts in getting FARC to free Kevin Scott Sutay, who was captured while hiking through the jungles of southern Colombia. Others were Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, the Norwegian government, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the Rev. Jesse Jackson.
Kerry said in a statement the U.S. appreciated the Cuban government's "contributions" to securing Sutay's release, while Rice on her Twitter account said its help was "greatly" appreciated.
Kerry also thanked Jackson "for his efforts in consistently advocating for Mr. Sutay's release," while Rice praised his "effective advocacy."
Jackson, president of the Rainbow Push Coalition, made a bid to secure Sutay's release by meeting with FARC representatives in Cuba, but Santos refused to allow a high-profile mediation effort, reluctant to allow the rebel group to benefit from media exposure.
Sutay was released Sunday to representatives of the International Red Cross, and was reported to be in good health.
FARC, or the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, is a U.S.-designated "foreign terrorist organization" that has financed its long and bloody campaign with drug money and kidnapping ransom payments.
Cuba's relationship with FARC has been one of the main reasons the U.S. government has cited as justification for keeping Havana on its list of state-sponsors of terrorism, a designation that has been in place since 1982.
In its most recent annual report on international terrorism, published last May, the State Department in the section on state sponsors cited Cuba's links with FARC and the Basque separatist group ETA, also designated as a foreign terrorist organization.
Late last year Cuba, jointly with Norway, began sponsoring peace negotiations between FARC and the Colombian government aimed at ending the five-decade insurgency.
Sixteen rounds of talks have been held in Havana since last November, with little progress reported. FARC's demands have included the expulsion of foreign mining and oil companies.
At least three previous such peace initiatives over the past 30 years have failed.
After FARC seized Sutay, Santos accused it of violating a pledge, made before the peace talks had been launched, to end kidnappings. For its part the rebel group implied that Sutay had some kind of military or mercenary status and so was a legitimate target for capture. The U.S. Embassy maintained he was in Colombia as a tourist.
FARC offered to release him, first to a leftist former Colombia lawmaker with controversial links to the group, and then to Jackson.
Santos rejected both offers, saying he did not want a "media spectacle." He insisted that the International Committee of the Red Cross should play the key role instead in what should be a discreet handover.
Some past hostage releases, including efforts mediated by the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez – like the Castro brothers, a FARC sympathizer – brought international exposure of the type relished by the rebels.
The highest-profile foreign hostage held by FARC, French-Colombian politician Ingrid Betancourt, was freed after six years in captivity not by a mediated handover but in a daring military operation carried out by the former administration of President Alvaro Uribe in 2008.
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KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Under a dusty hospital tent where doctors yell over the roar of jet engines,
Dr. John York studied an electronic image of a blood vessel in the neck of a soldier wounded by an improvised bomb. It looked like a balloon ready to pop. Too delicate to operate on directly. Dr. York would have to try a procedure that had rarely been attempted so close to a battlefield.
Using a sophisticated X-ray machine, he snaked a tube from an artery in the soldier's leg until it reached his neck. Dr. York threaded in a feathery device that popped open and blocked blood from the ballooning
Today that soldier, Specialist Chancellor Alwin, is an outpatient at the army medical hospital in Washington. His only visible scars from the January procedure are a small one near his neck and another in his thigh. His wife, Samantha, says he suffers from moods swings and lingering nerve damage, "but we are thankful he is alive," she says.
Medical advancements have led to greater survivability of war wounds among U.S. troops in Afghanistan and Iraq, as well as greater complications in caring for survivors. WSJ's Alan Cullison reports from the 451st Air Expeditionary Wing medevac unit in Kandahar Province, Afghanistan.
Every war brings medical innovations, as horrific injuries force surgeons to come up with new ways to save lives. During the Civil War, doctors learned better ways to amputate limbs, and in World War I they developed the typhoid vaccine. World War II brought the mass use of penicillin, Korea and Vietnam the development of medical evacuation by helicopter.
The lessons of Iraq and Afghanistan, medical experts say, are still emerging. One legacy is new ways to control bleeding before soldiers lapse into comas or their vital organs shut down. Thanks to new clotting agents, blood products and advanced medical procedures performed closer to the battlefield, wounded American soldiers are now surviving at a greater rate than in any previous war fought by the U.S.
The rising survival rate, now touching 95% for those who live long enough to get medical treatment, is in turn introducing new problems caring for patients with serious and chronic injuries, including multiple amputations and brain damage. The cost of treating such lasting injuries will be borne by the U.S. medical system for decades to come.
On the medical front lines, however, military doctors often focus just on keeping wounded soldiers alive. In Afghanistan, troops are protected by new generations of armored vehicles, bulletproof vests and helmets that often keep them from getting killed outright in firefights. That leaves doctors and medics to face a dire range of war wounds—limbs mangled and severed by explosive devices, shrapnel and bullet wounds to the face and the neck, and unseen internal bleeding.
"If you can stop the bleeding, you gain time to save a life," says Sgt. Anthony Reich, the U.S. Air Force's equivalent of a paramedic, who flies into battle zones to retrieve the wounded and bring them to Kandahar air field for treatment. "Medical textbooks are being rewritten as we speak."…
Early in the Iraq war, medics supplemented old-fashioned gauze bandages with QuikClot, a clay kitty-litter-like substance manufactured by Z-Medica Corp. of Wallingford, Conn. When sprinkled into wounds, it absorbs water from blood and "stops bleeding like a clogged pipe," says Sgt. Reich, the Air Force medic.
X-ray of the pelvis of a soldier injured in Kandahar Province by an IED reveals shrapnel and a broken femur.
But surgeons at battlefield hospitals often had to pick the gooey granules out of wounds, and the byproduct of the clotter sometimes left burns on flesh. Z-Medica subsequently developed QuickClot Combat Gauze—surgical gauze treated with organic material that helps blood coagulate quickly, doesn't burn the flesh, and "is easy to push down into crevices and is easily removed," Dr. Dunne says…
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WME has signed Australian actress Abbie Cornish, who began taking meetings with the major agencies over the past two weeks. Cornish just finished filming Seven Pychopaths, directed by Martin McDonagh with Colin Farrell and Woody Harrelson. Cornish will next appear in the indie film The Girl, and currently stars in the Madonna-directed W.E. She previously starred in Jane Campion's critically-acclaimed Bright Star, and The Golden Age. Cornish is managed by Michael Lazo at Untitled Entertainment. WME already bolstered its actress ranks today by signing Dakota and Elle Fanning.
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She left Hylda? Wow. On the other hand, she's such an intriguing actress, should have a different career going, so good for her. Still though, wow.
What agency was she with before WME?
She was repped by Hylda Queally at CAA, who reps…well, all the great young talent (she discovered Kate Winslet, she discovered Abbie, reps Cate Blanchett, Michelle Williams, Penelope Cruz). I think it's rare that an actress leaves Hylda but on the other hand, Abbie didn't seem to work much.
That girl is fan freaking tastic.
Some bad luck/ bad choices – but she's a comer.
Abby's family live near me in Australia and I went to school with her… a more likable, down-to-earth person I've yet to meet. Well done Abby.
I love her, it's nice to hear that :)
She's a real talent…great for her.
She's awesome. One of my favorites.
My computer's fans came on the moment her picture showed up on my screen.
And I turned off the heating. It's suddenly too hot in here anyway.
Great sign for WME. Smart move on Abbie's part. CAA has a lot of high profile special actresses. I'm sure it's hard to get feel unique on that list.
What a babe. Can't wait to see more from her!


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Sep 27, 2010
This Thursday, September 30th Ira Glass will participate in the Spelling Beast, a fundraiser for the students of 826 NYC (a great nonprofit that teaches kids writing skills). Fellow competitors Catherine Keener, Dave Eggers and Kristen Schaal will join Ira in bee, which is being judged by the creators of the musical The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
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Understanding texture regularity in real images is a challenging computer vision task. We propose a higher-order feature matching algorithm to discover the lattices of near-regular textures in real images. The underlying lattice of a near-regular texture identifies all of the texels as well as the global topology among the texels. A key contribution of this paper is to formulate lattice-finding as a correspondence problem. The algorithm finds a plausible lattice by iteratively proposing texels and assigning neighbors between the texels. Our matching algorithm seeks assignments that maximize both pair-wise visual similarity and higher-order geometric consistency. We approximate the optimal assignment using a recently developed spectral method. We successfully discover the lattices of a diverse set of unsegmented, real-world textures with significant geometric warping and large appearance variation among texels.
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I did some research and found his facebook page through the links in the descition. Here is a link to his patreon page for anyone who didn't know it was a thing and want to donate! Feel free to check his description as well to find the link to facebook and then patreon if you don't trust me.
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This is amazing and epic but why it has been 8 years without any other episode coming out? I hope Khale is still being worked on because I wold love to see his story continue.
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Real pity you didn't finish the series but I suppose life got in the way. You did an awesome job on these. I still remember them years later sometimes when I think of cool flash videos that I like. Good job. Any more content on the way or is leafworthy fallen down from the tree?
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When I first saw Khale when it was first released my mind was blown by how good it looked, well after all these years it still looks awesome hope Episode 3 comes out at some point in the future.


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101 Central Park WestApt. 18A
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Celestial Central Park and City panoramas, grand-scale terraces and a renovation for all seasons, carefully crafted by a celebrated design team, elevate this dazzling, 3 to 4 BR penthouse duplex to the highest rank of Manhattan residences. A timeless architectural esthetic pervades every aspect of this stunning home. One enters a double-height central gallery flanked by a south-facing library and sumptuous living room, both with WBFPs, and a grand, open formal dining room. Decorative appointments convey the essence of understated elegance. Serving the common areas and providing the last word in gracious entertaining is the wonderful Bulthaup, chef's eat-in kitchen sporting every amenity. Adjacent is a large home office or extra bedroom.Up a grand staircase, one chooses between two oversized masters, both with Park-view terraces, large dressing rooms and marble boudoir baths . Standard-setting white glove service at the Westside's premier address complements a home unique in the City for fulfilling every desire of the most discerning New Yorker.
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