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Fresh after the infamous pastagate, Canada's linguistic diversity is stirring up trouble once again.
This time, a couple traveling on Air Canada is suing the company for not providing bilingual serving staff during the flight.
Michel and Lynda Thibodeau apparently asked for 7UP but instead received Sprite during a flight in 2000.
That was just the beginning.
Though even native English speakers have likely run into this problem, the couple sued for $525,000 in damages. They got just over $5000.
They later formally complained about bilingual bus services in Canada's capital Ottawa.
Michel was soon honored by the language rights group Imperatif Francais for his activism.
More from GlobalPost: Quebec language police claim Italian restaurant menu has 'too much Italian'
They then accused Air Canada eight other times of not providing bilingual staff on flights between January and May 2009.
A Federal court ruled in their favor and awarded the couple $12,000 but an appeals court lowered that amount.
Now the Supreme Court of Canada will decide whether or not to uphold a lower court decision to award less money and an apology.
Many of the unilingual flights were between English-speaking Canada and the United States.
Air Canada admitted that in some instances they weren't prepared to provide bilingual services or attendants but that it was not systematic breach of Canadian law.
The Official Languages Act requires Air Canada to provide bilingual services in Quebec, Ottawa and "where there is significant demand for those services in the minority language and where it is warranted by the nature of the office or facility."

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- Cut back poinsettias to two eyes above ground. Grow them outdoors for the summer and bring them indoors again before cold weather arrives.
- Divide and repot old ferns.
- Callas are heavy feeders but they will soon want to rest. Reduce watering and feeding.
- Move African Violets out of the strong sun and to the north or other protected window – not under trees.
- Christmas cactus likes to be pot-bound to encourage blooming. Do not repot unless really crowded.
- Harden off indoor or greenhouse plants about 2 weeks before planting into the garden. Gradually condition the plants to outdoors a little each day, starting with shade moving to full sun over the course of 2 weeks. Return plants to protected cold frame, garage or house overnight.
- Transplant tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, melons, cucumbers, and sweet potatoes after the soil has warmed to 60 degrees F and danger of frost is over. If frost is predicted, protect transplants by covering overnight.
- Plant seeds in the garden of squash, beans, corn, and okra around mid-month.
- Sow more leafy greens, radishes, and carrots for succession of crops.
- It is important to water and weed the garden. Transplants and seeds need water to grow. Weeds pulled before they flower result in fewer weeds throughout the season.
- Sow sunflowers, zinnias, marigolds, cosmos, and other flower seeds. Plant dahlia tubers about a week after the last frost is expected.
- Attract pollinators by planting herbs and flowers such as rosemary, marjoram, mint, sage, basil, thyme, zinnias, sunflowers, cosmos, and bee balm.
- Certify your pollinator friendly garden with Penn State Master Gardeners.
- Inspect plants and garden for pests and disease on a regular basis, identify and treat if necessary.
- Mulch roses with a 1-inch layer of compost.
- Fertilize asparagus beds when the season's harvest is spent (when no stems are fatter than ½ inch in diameter). Use a fertilizer with 5-10-5 or 10-10-10 immediately after the harvest and again in mid-July and mid-August.
- Prepare window boxes and containers using a rich soil. Consider using houseplants such as begonias.
- Provide support for sweet peas before they are too tall and fall over.
- Tender plants such as cannas, caladiums, and all summer bulbs can be set out later in the month.
- Feed all bulbs before or while in bloom with a prepared bulb food or any good vegetable fertilizer. When the flowers have passed, do not cut off or braid the foliage. The plants need all their leaves exposed to the sun, to manufacture food for the next year.
- Remove faded flowers.
- Continue watering newly transplanted shrubs and trees.
- Flowering cherries, magnolias, and flowering almonds should be cut back very sparingly after the blossoms fall.
- Flowering hedges of spiraea, deutzia, or lilac should be cut back when the flowering season has passed to keep hedges in good condition.
- Shape evergreens like arborvitae, yew, hemlock, spruce, and euonymus.
- Mow lawns considering correct height and frequency for your type of grass. See "Mowing Turf Grasses".


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steam distillation
Organic substances are rarely made pure in one single process. Usually the first preparation results in a mixture containing a host of unwanted substances which have to be removed at a later stage.
Distillation often provides the answer. But ordinary distillation has certain drawbacks. Crude chlorobenzene, (C6H5Cl), with its many tarry impurities, presents this problem. Its boiling point is high (132°C), and therefore it must be heated strongly for distillation to begin. Some of the impurities start to char when it is strongly heated. Instead of boiling and bubbling gently, the contents start erupting and bumping and the far-too-hot flask could be cracked by a particularly violent bump.
Instead of heating the distillation flask with a bunsen burner, the flask can be successfully heated by bubbling steam through its contents. The steam keeps the mixture well stirred and at a temperature of around 90°C, a watery mixture of chlorobenzene distills off, leaving the impurities behind. The chlorobenzene is insoluble in water and the two quickly separate out into two easily separated layers.
The crux of the matter is the insolubility of the chlorobenzene in water. Steam distillation will only work for substances that are virtually insoluble in water. For when two substances are immiscible in one another they are capable of quite independent behavior.
Water and chlorobenzene are immiscible. Water on its own, when it is heated, evaporates more and more until at 100°C the pressure of its vapor has risen to that of its surroundings and the water boils. Chlorobenzene on its own behaves similarly, but boils at the higher temperature of 132°C. At a particular temperature, both pure liquids exert their own particular vapor pressures.
Mixing chlorobenzees with water will not alter these boiling points, for the two substances behave independently. At a particular temperature, the vapor pressure of the mixture can be calculated by adding the vapor pressure of the water to that of the chlorobenzene. So the mixture being heated more quickly arrives at the pressure of its surroundings than would either pure chlorobenzene or pure water. And the boiling point of the mixture is therefore lower than that of pure chlorobenzene or pure water. Steamy chlorobenzene is driven over into the condenser.
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By Jim Garamone, American Forces Press ServiceNovember 18, 2010
WASHINGTON, Nov. 17, 2010 -- Everyone's life is a story, and the Defense Department will help 10 servicemembers and an Army spouse tell their stories as part of the TEDxPentagon Web event Nov. 19.
These are human stories, stressed Sumit Agarwal, deputy assistant secretary of defense for outreach and social media. "These are not dry recitations of statistics," he added.
TEDxPentagon is licensed by TED, which stands for Technology Entertainment Design. Speakers talk for 18 minutes and tell stories about their lives, their beliefs, their work or their relationships.
TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to ideas worth spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com.
"It is a great way to connect Americans with their military members," Agarwal said of the Web event.
And the stories are incredible. Sarah Hertig will read a letter to her daughter about being an Army wife. Navy Lt. John F. Pucillo will speak about serving in Iraq. The lieutenant lost his leg in a roadside-bomb explosion in 2006. In August 2007, he returned to full Active Duty as an explosive ordnance disposal officer.
Army Col. Geoffrey Ling will speak about being on the cutting edge of science. Ling works with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Julia Watson will speak about her experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan and her outreach to women in those countries.
Army Gen. William E. "Kip" Ward, the first commander of U.S. Africa Command, will end the sessions with a talk about leadership.
The stories will be widely available on YouTube, and people can watch the speeches as they are delivered at http://www.livestream.com/TEDxPentagon. The sessions start at 10 a.m. EDT Nov. 19.
"We're doing it because the formula and format TED has brought to oratory in the nonfiction realm has created an unprecedented outcome," Agarwal said. "They've achieved more than 300 million views of their videos. It's bigger than any network television, bigger than Lady Gaga. This is huge. You can't get those numbers through traditional means."
DoD views using TED as a 21st century extension of long-standing community relations activities, Agarwal said, noting that the department has long maintained a speakers' bureau -- people who go to organizations and speak about their lives in the military.
"This model TED has established has the promise of getting the DoD story to a much, much wider audience," he said. "We're hoping that the services take advantage of this and move forward."
Others speaking are Cmdr. James Edwards, the captain of the Navy's first littoral combat ship; Lt. Gen. Benjamin Freakley, commander of the Army Accessions Command; Air Force Staff Sgt. Jeffrey W. Schmidt, a tactical air controller; Rear Adm. David Titley, the oceanographer and navigator of the Navy; Air Force Tech. Sgt. Stuart Wilson, a cyberspace defense operator, and Navy Capt. (Dr.) William Todd, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon.


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The official announcement of Mohammad Mursi as the winner in Egypts presidential election is unlikely to put an end to the countrys internal crisis or to the sharp split among the Egyptian people between the Islamists, represented by the Muslim Brotherhood, and the secularists, represented by the Supreme Council of the Allied Forces.
The SCAF was quick to amend the constitutional law ahead of the election in a way that would make it impossible for the country to resume stable governance for a long while, leaving the SCAF as the real ruler of Egypt for the foreseeable future. This move made it clear to the Muslim Brotherhood that its expectation of power-sharing with the SCAF, as was understood prior to the presidential race, was rejected even before an official offer could be made.
The reopened rift between the Brotherhood and the SCAF translated to their Palestinian neighbors, where the gap between Gaza and Ramallah immediately widened.
Ramallah is linked to the SCAF´s anti-Muslim Brotherhood axis, while Hamas is strongly affiliated with the Islamist axis and has offered to support the Muslim Brotherhood not only politically but also through armed resistance. The PLO, on the other hand, used the time to mock the Brotherhoods candidate Mursi by calling him "Mursi with no chair".
Further to Hamas departure from Damascus, the organizations politburo discussed the possibility of joining the Muslim Brotherhood Shura in Cairo. The Brotherhood conditioned its acceptance on the politburos renunciation of its "resistance" character and conversion to a political party during the period when the Brotherhood believed it could overtake Egypt through the ballot box. Hamas, in turn, offered to be considered as the military wing of the Brotherhood but was denied.
However, further to the SCAF s "constitutional coup", the Muslim Brotherhood may have gone back on its policy and de facto accepted Hamas earlier offer. Egyptian media reported that Hamas was involved in planning to commit terror operations in Egypt during the electoral campaign.
Even as the voters were going to the polls, Gaza-inspired militants launched missile attacks from Sinai into Israel, followed by another volley from Gaza itself. Hamas quickly took formal responsibility for the launch after a prolonged period of silence regarding its involvement in the attacks. The timing of the rocket fire was a signal from the Muslim Brotherhood to the SCAF which clearly indicated it could counter the power of the latter with its own militia.
The Muslim Brotherhood may decide to follow Hamas example by forming a body similar to the Al-Qassam Brigades or the Iranian example of the Al-Quds Brigades and the Pasdaran, in addition to its presence in parliament and the government. In either case, heating up the temperatures along the Sinai border will complicate relations between Israel and the SCAF and foil cooperation between the two against Gaza, while increasing the Brotherhoods popularity on the street.
The regime in Ramallah, on the other hand, was one of the only governments left standing after the events of the Arab Spring, including Jordan, the Gulf States, and Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabias Prince Salman, who has been named as successor to the ailing Prince Abdullah, ordered the University of Medina to recognize Hamas after the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo refused to recognize Sheikh Yasseen, while he served as the governor of the holy city in the 1980s.
The prince hoped that that militant Islamic movement would join the ranks of the Sunni Mujahedeen, but instead, it turned toward Shiite Iran. As a result, the future leader of the oil-producing giant has a score to settle with Hamas and is naturally inclined to support Ramallah against it.
Photo: A Hamas sign that illustrates the point (Gaza: Between escalation and the new situation in Egypt)
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Joss Stone and Tara reid are among many to add the excitement of this year's Canadian MuchMusic Video Awards.
Canadian video awards event MuchMusic is not only inviting its native celebrities but also some from international league. British import Joss Stone will join the excitement along with actress Tara Reid and NHL star Sean Avery.
The three celebrities above will each present an award for the winners that will come out of previously announced nomination. Deciding to do this event "all or nothing", the organizers arranged Alxisonfire, Hilary Duff, Belly with Genuwine, Maroon 5 and Finger Eleven to take the stage as performers. They also have the nominated artists such as Stacy Ferguson, The Used and Avril Lavigne on the performers bill.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Hillary Rodham Clinton says she wishes Monica Lewinsky "well," but the affair involving her husband is not something she thinks about.
Clinton says in an ABC News interview that she dealt with it at the time and she has "moved on."
The former secretary of state and first lady says if she could say anything to Lewinsky, she would "wish her well." She says she hopes Lewinsky is "about to think about her life" and find meaning and satisfaction in her life.
Vanity Fair magazine published a first-person account last month from Lewinsky in which she said former President Bill Clinton "took advantage" of her, but that their affair was consensual.
Clinton says it's, quote, "not something that I spend a lot of time thinking about."
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NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. (AP) -- A truck driver accused of triggering a highway crash that injured Tracy Morgan and killed another comedian hadn't slept for more than 24 hours before the accident, authorities said Monday as Morgan recovered in a hospital.
Wal-Mart trucker Kevin Roper is expected to appear in state court Wednesday. It was unclear if Roper, of Jonesboro, Georgia, had retained an attorney. He remained free after posting $50,000 bond.
Authorities said Roper apparently failed to slow for traffic ahead early Saturday in Cranbury Township and then swerved to avoid a crash. Instead, they said, his big rig smashed into the back of Morgan's chauffeured limo bus, killing comedian James "Jimmy Mack" McNair and injuring Morgan and three other people.
McCartney postpones some tour dates to recover
NEW YORK (AP) -- Paul McCartney is rescheduling U.S. tour dates as he continues to recover from a virus he received treatment for last month.
The former Beatles singer announced Monday tour stops scheduled for mid-June will be postponed to October. He was supposed to kick off the U.S. leg of his tour Saturday. Instead, his first show will be July 5 in Albany, New York.
McCartney says he's taking his doctor's advice and will take more time to rest. Last month he cancelled his "Out There Japan Tour 2014" because of his illness.
U.S. tickets for the seven original June dates will be honored at the new dates. The tour wraps up Oct. 28 in Louisville, Kentucky.
McCartney turns 72 next week.
Rapper Lil Kim gives birth to girl, Royal Reign
NEW YORK (AP) -- Lil Kim has a lil one of her own: The rapper is now a mother.
Lil Kim's assistant, Noel Perez, confirms that the 38-year-old gave birth to daughter Royal Reign on Monday. It is her first child.
No more details were given.
Lil Kim's hits include "Crush on You," "Not Tonight" and "Magic Stick" with 50 Cent. She won a Grammy in 2002 for her work on the No. 1 hit "Lady Marmalade" alongside Christina Aguilera, Pink and Mya.
Lil' Kim, whose real name is Kim Jones, released a song called "Haterz" in April.
Berry reaches settlement on child support
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A judge has approved a settlement between Halle Berry and her ex-boyfriend over child support payments for their 6-year-old daughter.
The agreement approved by Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon on May 30 calls for Berry to pay ex-boyfriend Gabriel Aubry $16,000 a month or nearly $200,000 a year to support their daughter. The Oscar-winning actress will also pay for their daughter's tuition, but the former couple will split health care expenses.
The order also calls for Berry to pay her ex-boyfriend a retroactive payment of $115,000 and $300,000 to his attorneys to cover the costs of their custody dispute.
Berry and Aubry, a model, were involved in a custody dispute in 2012, and a judge blocked her from moving their daughter to France.
Gordon's order only affects child support payments.
Berry has an 8-month-old son with her husband, Olivier Martinez.
Celebrity Birthdays
U.S. Rep. Charles B. Rangel, D-N.Y., is 84. Actor Gene Wilder is 81. Comedian Johnny Brown is 77. International Motorsports Hall of Famer Jackie Stewart is 75. Singer Joey Dee is 74. Actress Adrienne Barbeau is 69. Rock musician Frank Beard (ZZ Top) is 65. Animal rights activist Ingrid Newkirk is 65. Rock singer Donnie Van Zant is 62. Actor Peter Bergman is 61. Pro Football Hall of Famer Joe Montana is 58. Actor Hugh Laurie is 55. TV personality Mehmet Oz, M.D. ("Dr. Oz") is 54. Singer Gioia Bruno (Expose) is 51. Rock musician Dan Lavery (Tonic) is 48. Country singer-songwriter Bruce Robison is 48. Actor Peter Dinklage is 45. Country musician Smilin' Jay McDowell is 45. Actor Lenny Jacobson is 40. Rock musician Tai Anderson (Third Day) is 38. Actor Joshua Jackson is 36. Christian rock musician Ryan Shrout is 34. Actor Shia LaBeouf is 28.


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Stephen Kinzer is a former New York Times foreign correspondent and the author of Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq and The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. He teaches at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
Stephen Kinzer: Cutting military spending and focusing on domestic issues could keep Pakistan from becoming a 'nuclear-armed Somalia'
Stephen Kinzer: The would-be New York mayor's pro-Sandinista activism was in America's finest tradition. Where's that political courage now?
Stephen Kinzer: Reconciliation would allow the world to stop fearing a Persian Gulf conflict and get Iran back in the global economy
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Stephen Kinzer: Rather than fund the disastrous war on drug cartels, US aid can atone for Mexico's human rights atrocities of the Calderón era
Stephen Kinzer: To Tolstoy, fighting Chechen rebels in the 1850s, they were a 'hardy thistle' defying suppression. Now, it has seeded itself afar
Stephen Kinzer: Never mind John McCain's jibe at those who challenge the consensus on American 'might is right', the US needs this debate
Stephen Kinzer: The key issue facing Hillary Clinton's replacement at State is whether he can temper interventionist instincts with new realism
Stephen Kinzer: The former Nebraska senator faces fierce opposition to possible nomination as defense secretary from Washington's militarists
Stephen Kinzer: Americans are hardwired to expect their military to fix foreign crises, but we should resist the calls of DC's armchair generals
Stephen Kinzer: Paul Kagame's presidency helped heal genocide-torn Rwanda. But now he must listen to critics, not imprison them
Stephen Kinzer: US foreign policy is stuck in a cold war mindset of imperial dominance. It's time to listen to allies like Turkey and adjust
Stephen Kinzer: Groups such as Human Rights Watch have lost their way by imposing western, 'universal' standards on developing countries
Stephen Kinzer: One message, often buried, comes out loud and clear from the embassy cables: the US should choose its allies more carefully
Stephen Kinzer: A victory in this weekend's referendum on constitutional reform would be a giant step in Turkey's transition to full democracy
Stephen Kinzer: Few people in the world know as many explosive geopolitical secrets as Fidel Castro – but don't expect to find them in his memoirs
Stephen Kinzer: The US and Turkey have many goals in common – and recent spats ought not to obscure that fact
Stephen Kinzer: Brazil and Turkey have brokered a deal with Iran over its nuclear programme that shows the two countries are a new global force
Stephen Kinzer: Opposition leader Deniz Baykal's resignation after a sex scandal removes the main impediment to democratic modernisation
Stephen Kinzer: The title of Mitt Romney's book suggests the US owes 'No Apology', but every nation, like every human being, has sinned
Stephen Kinzer: Amid the finger-pointing, let's remember how Turkey helped push the US Congress committee toward its vote on Armenian genocide
Stephen Kinzer: Was the 1915 killing of Armenians genocide? The question is debatable, but it's not for the US Congress to decide
Stephen Kinzer: The country's president claims that laws against disseminating 'genocide ideology' are necessary to stop a return to violence
Stephen Kinzer: The US policy of engagement with Iran never got off the ground – and now Hillary Clinton has resorted to Bush-era sabre-rattling
Stephen Kinzer: With a social safety net but fewer freedoms, is life better in Cuba than in its capitalist Caribbean basin neighbours?
Stephen Kinzer: Cuba's revolution once inspired the world, but political stagnation has left it a poor, hungry backwater
Stephen Kinzer: The problems ailing Afghanistan began with America's decision to intervene in the country following the Soviet invasion in 1979
Stephen Kinzer: By forcing a flawed model of democracy on Afghans, the US has made Afghanistan less stable and less democratic
Stephen Kinzer: Ankara has healed relations with and between its neighbours. But it cannot bring itself to be diplomatic with Israel
Stephen Kinzer: We didn't talk about the secret nuclear plant, but dining with Ahmadinejad revealed the way forward for US-Iran relations
Stephen Kinzer: As Barack Obama turns 48 today, his foreign policy has presented him with a few gifts – and several challenges
Stephen Kinzer: By reviving memories of an ousted leader, Iran's protesters are signalling they want to win reform without US intervention


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Wallhanging with appliqued sheep. It's got an "old time, Americana" feel to it. It was in a Fons & Porter issue with other Valentine's Day projects.
I see various quilt projects with chickens from time to time, but does anyone else love sheep like I do?
If I were to do this again, I would chose a slightly darker fabric for the sheep so there is more contrast against the background.


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It's coming to that point in the semester when, as hard as it is to believe, classes are almost over and finals are almost here. Yup, that distant sound of crying you heard was me. Seriously speaking, finals (and the weeks leading up to finals) are a stressful time for just about everyone. No matter how prepared you are, something about those last exams just brings about an overwhelming feeling of anxiety, as well as the desire to wear nothing but sweatpants. I've said this in articles before, but I'll say it again and again — dress well, test well. Fight the urge to wear gym clothes and put together a simple, cute outfit and you'll feel better, work better and do better on all your finals. Of course studying helps too, but those are just details.
This Fashionista managed to look cute on a Monday of all days (no one likes Mondays), and inspired me to try to look fashionable in the coming finals-filled weeks. Follow her lead and wear something casual and comfortable, but put a little extra effort in to keep your overall sense of style in tact. I love throwing a chambray button-down over a dress; it's an easy way to keep things stylish and it's the perfect layering piece for the current weather.
Mixing patterns is also something that this Fashionista did well. Don't be afraid to wear multiple patterns in one outfit. If you do it right, then your outfit will be visually interesting without seeming crazy. The key is finding a balance between patterns and making sure they don't clash. It takes some skill and maybe a little practice, but this Fashionista proves that it can work.
I also love that this Fashionista chose to wear glasses. I wear contacts most days, but was inspired to opt for something different when I saw how chic this Fashionista looked in her pair. It's a comfortable, easy and casual look that is perfect for days spent studying on campus. Looking for the perfect pair of specs? Try out different sites to see which style looks best on you. Personally, I love this style, but the possibilities are endless!


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Public Enemies
David Swindle
Grade: C-
Of all the actors that could have been cast as notorious bank robber John Dillinger none make more sense than Johnny Depp. Look! They even have the same initials!
In all seriousness, though, throughout his career Depp has shown a continual affinity toward playing almost all varieties of outlaw characters. Early in his career he starred as a '50s-era greaser outlaw in John Waters' "Cry Baby."
In 1994 he played one of the earliest of "outlaw" filmmakers in Tim Burton's "Ed Wood." Four years later Depp would portray one of his heroes, the outlaw gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson in "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas." He'd finish out the decade by bringing to life another countercultural outlaw hero: Jack Kerouac in Chuck Workman's fantastic beat generation documentary "The Source."
The last decade saw Depp the Outlaw regularly. In 2001 Depp played another real-life criminal, cocaine kingpin George Jung in "Blow." Depp would earn an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of pirate outlaw Captain Jack Sparrow in the wildly popular "Pirates of the Caribbean" trilogy. He would have less success with outlaw aristocrat John Wilmot, the Earl of Rochester in the indie flick "The Libertine." Depp bounced back, though, with his characterization of an outlaw barber in his last picture, "Sweeney Todd."
And of course there are outlaws in his upcoming pictures. Next year he'll do Thompson again in an adaptation of The Rum Diary. And the posters are already up for Burton's version of Alice in Wonderland in which Depp acts as the children's literature outlaw classic the Mad Hatter.
Thus it's a tremendous disappointment that Depp, outlaw actor supreme, would find himself in such a superficial picture that commits such an injustice toward an outlaw icon. Dillinger deserves a far better film than Michael Mann's "Public Enemies."
The picture begins with Dillinger's escape from prison in 1933. Forget any back-story or explanation into the creation of Dillinger the Bank Robber. Mann just jumps right into the action and drops us into the peak of Dillinger's crime spree and its counterattack, the formation of J. Edgar Hoover's (Billy Crudup) Federal Bureau of Investigations. Hoover dispatched Melvin Purvis (Christian Bale,) who'd had previous success taking down "Pretty Boy" Floyd, to go after Dillinger.
During this period Dillinger met Billie Frechette (Marion Cotilliard,) a pretty coat check clerk. The film then concocts a stereotypical romance between the two of them that's rather hard to swallow.
As new laws are passed empowering the federal government to fight crime across state lines the traditional gangster contacts that had once supported Dillinger begin to retract away from him. The laws that are passed to catch him could be used to challenge their profitable crime syndicates. The walls are closing in around him and Purvis is more determined than ever to nab Public Enemy #1.
The film's drama isn't developed enough to produce true dramatic tension. And it doesn't have enough action - or exhilarating enough action - to compete as a pure action film. It's drama-lite/action-lite and thus meets my definition for being considered as a thriller. The film's also inspired by actual people and events from history.
So it falls victim to the exact same problem as the recent Tom Cruise historical thriller "Valkyrie." No tension can be generated from the plot when you know how the story is going to end. Anyone with a basic knowledge of Dillinger knows what happened to him. It's just a matter of waiting for the inevitable execution. A feeling of boredom dominates given the absence of either dramatic or plot-based suspense. It's only punctuated by decent action scenes and Depp being a badass.
I wish just one time - one time! - a director doing a historically-based film would say, "Screw it. Let's make the movie as we wish history had turned out." What if with "Valkyrie" they had made Stauffenberg and company succeed in killing Hitler? How cool would that have been? Then the film would be an alternative history thriller - a genre that has yet to be invented.
So what if Mann decided that Dillinger survived? What if the film ended with him escaping? And then Mann could make an alternative history sequel - or even a trilogy - of Dillinger Outlaw King progressing through the next fifty or so years of American history and dying of old age on top of a pile of stolen cash. Now that would be a movie worth seeing.
But Mann doesn't seem capable of anything as creative and exciting as that. He's just a technically-gifted crime-thriller director. He can set up his action scenes, get the period details, and attract top talent but he's not able to really make the audience care about his characters or the story he's telling. (Or rather he can't do it with this film. He's done it in the past with such films as "Collateral.")
In this way perhaps the film that "Public Enemies" most resembles is Steven Zaillian's 2006 drama "All the King's Men." In both cases we've got a period American drama inspired by real events that's all dressed up with nowhere to go - perfect cast and perfect filmmaking craft all put too waste for empty characters. It's cinema that's as soulless as anything Michael Bay might excrete.
The principle problem of "Public Enemies" is that Dillinger, Frechette, and Purvis are ciphers. I didn't know what drove them. Why did Dillinger rob banks? Why were Purvis and Hoover so driven to stop him? Why was Frechette so drawn to Dillinger? The film gives us no explanation whatsoever to these crucial dramatic questions. It doesn't even offer a genuine protagonist. Are we to root for Dillinger or Purvis? As much as I love postmodernism it doesn't work very well in narrative film. It only means I have no character with whom to identify.
But at least "Public Enemies" has plenty of gun fights and cool Depp lines. Yay.
Depp might make a great outlaw but he doesn't always get the best outlaw scripts. Unfortunately "Public Enemies" doesn't join the esteemed company of "Ed Wood," "Cry Baby," "Fear and Loathing," the first "Pirates," and "Sweeney Todd." It's a younger sister to "Blow" and "The Libertine" - not an absolute failure, somewhat interesting to watch at parts, a decent Depp performance, but ultimately a forgettable pass for all but Depp devotees and fans of the genre.


text: WILL STEPHEN is from Washington DC and attended Yale University, where he majored in English and focused in Playwriting. At Yale, he performed and toured the country with musical improv troupe Just Add Water, co-wrote the annual student-written musical The Yale Show 2011, co-wrote the satirical song "Good Ol' Eli" (added to the repetoire of the Yale Glee Club), and acted in several plays and musicals. He also co-created "Life After Yale", a comedic short film shown at his graduation, as well as Cold Turkey, a three-man musical comedy featured in Ars Nova's ANT FEST 2010. He has trained in improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater and the DC Improv, and his comedic work has been featured on CollegeHumor, The Yale Daily News, and Hot 97.


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The Planned Parenthood Federation of America is about to undergo an investigation by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) which is a Congressional agency. Since Planned Parenthood received $542.4 million (that's more than half a billion dollars!) in fiscal year 2011-2012, there is sure to be a lot to investigate as to what exactly the government got for its money.
In February 2013, Rep. Diane Black (R-Tennessee), Rep. Pete Olsen (R-Texas) and Sen. David Vitter (R-Louisiana) authored a letter to the GAO, signed by more than 65 other members of Congress, which asked for the investigation. The GAO will also be investigating the International Planned Parenthood Federation, the Population Council, The Guttmacher Institute, Advocates for Youth, and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SEICUS).
This is the list of information they want included in the investigation:
The amount of federal funding each of these organizations received or were awarded and within which fiscal year the funds were disbursed Federal agencies, grants, and programs that were sources of these federal funds (including Medicaid, Title X, ACF [Administration for Children and Families], USAID [United States Agency for International Development], PEPFAR [President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief] and any other agency or sub-agency that funds activities that the groups in question may provide) How these funds were disbursed (i.e., block grant) How many health services, including family planning services CHCs [Community Health Centers] and FQHCs [Federally Qualified Health Centers] provide A comprehensive list of all services, including family services that CHCs and FQHCs provide The number of individuals served in each category
Concerned Women for America (CWA) has been at the forefront in pointing out the problems related to Planned Parenthood. In CWA's 2011 report, "Cutting the Cord: The Case for Defunding Planned Parenthood," Beverly LaHaye Institute (BLI) Senior Fellow, Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, detailed the ways in which Planned Parenthood rakes in money and deceives the public as to their true purpose, including on-going investigations for fraud, mismanagement, and misrepresentation. Dr. Crouse wrote, "Planned Parenthood claims that no federal money goes for abortions. Such claims are more than a bit disingenuous; while that statement is technically true, it hides the reality of gaping loopholes. The claim is nothing more than a bookkeeping allocation — federal funds applied to overhead costs, etc., free up other money to enable them to profit from the abortions that they perform."
In April 2013, the group Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) released its report, "Planned Parenthood's Waste, Abuse, and Potential Fraud: Alliance Defending Freedom's 2013 Report on Federal and State Audits of Planned Parenthood Affiliates and State Family Planning Programs," which found — at a minimum — $108 million "in waste, abuse, and potential fraud in Title XIX-Medicaid programs. Yet it is troublesome that all the audits conducted to date have been relatively superficial; none has yet examined more than a small subsection of an organization's billings. Thus, the total amount of waste, abuse, and potential fraud is likely many times that."
One Planned Parenthood affiliate, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast (PPGC) in Texas, is a high-profile current example of fraud; they have agreed to pay $4.3 million to the United States government, a whistleblower, and the State of Texas. The United States Department of Justice "contends that PPGC submitted false claims and made false statements to the United States in connection with claims submitted to" Medicaid, Title XIX, Title XX, and the Texas Women's Health Program.
As CWA pointed out in Crouse's report, Planned Parenthood is committing fraud even though they have been receiving hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars every year for many years. Look at the amounts the abortion giant received in just the past four fiscal years. In 2008-2009 they received $363.2 million; 2009-2010: $487.4 million; 2010-2011: $538.5 million and 2011-2012: $542.4 million. President Obama has been very generous to one of his biggest supporters busy aborting babies. In 2008 Planned Parenthood snuffed out the lives of 324,008 babies; in 2009: 332,278 babies; in 2010: 329,445 babies and in 2011: 333,964 babies were slaughtered. And worse still, this supposed non-profit made huge profits: $63.4 million in 2008, $18.5 million in 2009, $155.5 million in 2010, and $87.4 million in 2011.
What is Planned Parenthood's obsession with money? Do you remember when they shook down the Susan G. Komen for the Cure organization for $680,000 in grants? The Komen organization decided to stop funding Planned Parenthood for the breast health services they were supposedly providing (Planned Parenthood reluctantly admitted they do not perform mammograms), but after threats from the abortion giant, Komen funding was restored. Planned Parenthood went after this charity to restore what is a drop in the bucket compared to their billion-dollar-a-year business (between government funding, clinic income, and donations) all under the guise of promoting women's health.
The GAO report will hopefully identify loopholes and provide the information necessary for Congress to not only close the loopholes, but to defund Planned Parenthood. With more than half-a-billion dollars to track, the investigation will undoubtedly find waste, fraud, and abuse, too, as did the ADF without the authority and means of a government investigation. Taxpayers deserve to know the truth about how their hard-working dollars are spent and be ensured they are not paying for abortions, waste, fraud, or abuse.
Let the examination and probing begin!


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The location as it was only a short walk from the central plaza. We had an interior room and there was a lot of noise from the lobby downstairs in the morning. Also, a couple of the wooden slats used for ventilation in the shower were missing, so it was conceivably possible for someone in the upper floors to see you.


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Not Your Ordinary Oyster Gravy!
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Recipe by janieb
I made this up one night. I was going to make oyster stew and then realized that I did not have all the ingredients. I was craving oysters, however, and came up with this recipe. DELICIOUS. When making this recipe adjust ingredients as needed. These are approximate measurements that I FIND very palatable.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 453.59 g raw oysters
- 226.79 g chicken broth (if using broth, dissolve one chicken bouillon cube in broth or use two bouillon cubes dissolved in w)
- 1 chicken bouillon cube
- 1 small onion, finely chopped
- 29.58 ml butter or 59.16 ml margarine
- 14.79 ml flour (plain or self rising)
- black pepper
Directions See How It's Made
- Drain oysters, reserving juice.
- In medium skillet melt butter until hot.
- Sauté onion until crisp tender.
- Add oysters and cook until muscle is creamy white (or cook for 1 full minute).
- Remove oysters and reserve.
- Mix flour with oyster juice and stir until smooth. adding water as necessary.
- Add chicken broth and flour mixture to skillet.Stir until well mixed. Use medium high heat and boil broth until thickened. (broth covers fork well when dipped). Make sure to stir every 30 seconds or so.
- Add generous amounts of pepper (or as desired).
- Add oysters (juice and all) and cook until hot. Do not overcook!
- This is delicious served on rice or eaten as a soup!


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Barbados Gold Cup to Air on HRRN
Horse Racing Radio Network announced it will host an historic broadcast of the Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup live from Garrison Savannah in Barbados on Saturday, March 5.
Horse Racing Radio Network announced it will host an historic broadcast of the Sandy Lane Barbados Gold Cup live from Garrison Savannah in Barbados on Saturday, March 5.
Kaigun, winner of the Play the King Stakes (Can-IIT) for trainer Mark Casse, heads a field of 11 as the 5-2 favorite for the $1 million Ricoh Woodbine Mile (Can-IT) Sept. 14 at Woodbine.
Claire Novak and Tom LaMarra give you the strategies to bet this talented field of 6 horses in the Fourstardave Handicap and potentially get a nice payout. Learn who Tom thinks is 'key' to the race. watch video
After two subpar efforts to begin the season, Canadian Horse of the Year Up With the Birds returns to his home track at Woodbine with a chance to make amends in the $200,000 Nijinsky Stakes (Can-IIT) on the turf July 19.
Frac Daddy will race at Churchill Downs for the first time since his off-the-board finish in the Kentucky Debry Presented by Yum! Brands (gr. I) when he starts in the $100,000 Commonwealth Turf Stakes (gr. IIIT) Nov. 16.
Well-traveled Charming Kitten drew the far outside post in a field of 10 sophomores as the 7-2 morning-line favorite in the $200,000 Hawthorne Derby (gr. IIIT) on the turf Oct. 5 in Illinois.
With two dozen 3-year-olds overflowing the entry box, the $250,000 Del Mar Derby (gr. IIT) was split into two divisions to be contested on the turf Sept. 1.
WinStar Farm's General Election, winner of the first leg of the Mid-America Triple--the May 25 Arlington Classic--returns to Arlington July 13 to pursue the second race of the series, the $200,000 American Derby.
General Election would not be denied his first graded stakes win May 25 when the 3-year-old Harlan's Holiday colt held off a late charge from Admiral Kitten to win the $150,000 Arlington Classic Stakes (gr. IIIT).
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Big Fix offering bargain prices • The Big Fix mobile spay/neuter clinic is offering surgeries at a reduced cost, including 99 cents for kittens and 50 percent off dogs that are fixed at about 4 months of age. The dates are March 14 and 15 and April 11 and 12, with a Mega Cat Fix on April 27, at West Valley-Taylorsville Animal Services, 4522 W. 3500 South; March 21 at Rockstar Pets, 215 N. Main St., Tooele; March 23 at Kearns-Oquirrh Park Fitness Center, 5624 S. Cougar Lane (4800 South); and April 10 at the parking lot east of Taylorsville City Hall, 2600 W. 5400 South. Call 801-432-2124, ext. 10, to make an appointment and visit http://bit.ly/Z6n5yZ to see if you qualify for a $1 co-payment.
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Learn how to save a life • The Fire Department is offering free CPR classes this month at Fire Station 74, 5545 W. 3100 South. The session will be held at 6 p.m. March 18, 20 and 22; and 10 a.m. March 23. A class in Spanish will be held at 11:30 a.m. March 23.
Celebrate International Women's Day • Expo Mujer, a free event with a Latina flair, will be held 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Utah Cultural Celebration Center, 1355 W. 3100 South. There will be music, food, booths offering services to women and seminars in Spanish from noon to 4 p.m. on health, finances, mental health and other topics.


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|"Rosenthal, Eric S." <Eric.S.Rosenthal@xxxxxxxxxx>
|Re: Direct I/O question: How to get dioinfo using ioctl?
|Steve Lord <lord@xxxxxxx>
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|"'linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx'" <linux-xfs@xxxxxxxxxxx>
|Message from "Rosenthal, Eric S." <Eric.S.Rosenthal@xxxxxxxxxx> of "Mon, 14 May 2001 15:04:22 PDT." <99A560B38BC6D21180020004ACA6B36A031FAF64@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > A couple of earlier threads mentioned this but didn't explain how to do it. > Direct I/O appears to work with the following code, but the ioctl command > returns an error. I'm looking for a command that does the same thing as > fcntl(fileDescriptor, F_DIOINFO, &dioinfo) does on IRIX. But I don't know > if the > ioctl command is running xfs_ioctl like it should. The one missing link here is what error do you get back from the ioctl? And I presume that file is on XFS. > > Also direct I/O is running slower than unbuffered I/O on our machine for > some reason, > maybe because of how the disk array is striped, I'm not sure. That's so you still keep your SGI hardware ;-) No seriously, I have found I need to crank the I/O size on direct I/O up fairly high to get reasonable performance out of it. What sort of speed can you get from buffered I/O vs direct I/O for what block sizes, and what sort of raw device speed can you obtain. One more question - which kernel are you using, things in the CVS development tree have changed in this area due to other kernel changes. Steve > > Thanks, > > Eric Rosenthal > Software Engineer > > Disney TV animation > > > #include <stdio.h> > #include <sys/types.h> > #include <sys/stat.h> > #include <sys/timeb.h> > #include <errno.h> > #include <assert.h> > #include <errno.h> > > #include <xfs/xfs_fs.h> > > #include <fcntl.h> > #define O_DIRECT 040000 > #define O_RDONLY 0 > > extern int errno; > > main() > { int fd; > struct dioattr dioinfo; > int fcntlRetval, ioctlRetval; > struct dioattr da; > > fd = open("/home/origin/erosenth/test/linux/testFile", O_RDONLY | > O_DIRECT); > fprintf(stderr, "File Descriptor = <%d> XFS_IOC_DIOINFO = <%d>\n", > fd, XFS_IOC_DIOINFO); > ioctlRetval = ioctl(fd, XFS_IOC_DIOINFO, &da); > > fprintf(stderr, "ioctlRetval = %d\n", ioctlRetval); > fprintf(stderr, "errno = <%d>\n", errno); > > perror(""); > }
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In the final part in the series, all jersey numbers over 60 are listed. Click here for part six.
60: Jose Theodore (2006-08), former Hart Trophy winner, was acquired for David Aebischer in 2006. Prior to arriving in Colorado, he famously failed a drug test before the start of the Olympics. His positive test resulted from taking Propecia, the hair replacement drug. His three shutouts came against Tampa Bay, Anaheim and Calgary. His last game in Colorado was against Detroit, where he was yanked after three goals in the first period in the playoffs. Stats: 91 GP, 42-39-5, 3 SO, .902 SV%, 2.76 GAA.
62: Paul Stastny (2006-Current), who currently wears 26, wore number 62 for seven games before John-Michael Liles switched his number from 26 to 4. In his first game in his new number, he scored his first career goal against for Avs goalie David Aebischer. He set the NHL record for consecutive games with a point as a rookie at 20 games. He finished second in the Calder Trophy voting, behind Evgeni Malkin in 2007. He was one of the last players in the league to use a wood stick before switching to graphite at the beginning of the 2010-11 season. Stats: 427 GP, 126-248-374, +4, 228 PIMS.
63: Joel Prpic (2000-01), who was born in Ontario, was drafted by Boston in 1993 as the first Croatian player. Despite being 6'6", he never scored an NHL and only tallied three points in his short NHL career. During the 2012 Division II World Championships, his first appearance for Croatia, he led the tournament in scoring with 13 points in five games. Stats: 3 GP, 0-0-0, Even, 2 PIMS.
71: Patrice Brisebois (2005-07) had his best season his first season in Colorado. He totaled 39 points in 80, topping his previous high of 37. His time with the Avalanche was cut short when a back injury against Dallas on Dec. 27, 2006 forced him out of the lineup for the rest of the season. After his playing days where over, he tried his hand at racing. He pulled out of his first race but finished 12th place the next time out. Stats: 113 GP, 11-38-49, -4, 77 PIMS.
77: Ray Bourque (2000-01) was almost not traded to Colorado. Boston had an offer from Philadelphia on the table. Bruins' GM Harry Sinden thought the Avs were the better team and the rest is history. When Colorado won the cup in 2001, Bourque hoisted the cup first, as Joe Sakic handed the cup to him before hoisting it. He holds the record for most games (1,612) played before winning his first cup. Also, he is one of six players to have their number retired with more than one team. Stats: 94 GP,15-58-73, +34, 54 PIMS.
87: Pierre Turgeon (2005-07), alongside Stephane Matteau, was on the Quebec team that finished fourth in the 1982 Little World Series. He is also known for being on the receiving end of the heinous cheap shot from Dale Hunter in the 1993 playoffs. His shining moment in Colorado was scoring his 500th career goal on Nov. 8, 2005 against San Jose. He has a racehorse named after him in France. Stats: 79 GP, 20-33-53, Even, 42 PIMS.
88: Peter Mueller (2010-12) scored a goal in his first game after being acquired from Phoenix in 2010. Unfortunately, concussions cut his time short in Colorado. He sustained one on a hit from Rob Blake late 2010 and another the last week of the preseason the following year. Those caused him to miss all of the 2010-11 season and most of the next one. Stats: 47 GP, 16-20-36, +1, 16 PIMS.
92: Gabriel Landeskog (2011-Current) has already built himself a solid reputation in his first season. He won the Calder Trophy as best rookie, was the only Avs player to play in all 82 games and was named team captain in September. With that, he became the youngest captain in the history of the NHL, beating Sidney Crosby by 11 days. Not only did he lead the team in points, he led the team with a +20 rating. Stats: 82 GP, 22-30-52, +20, 51 PIMS.
94: Ryan Smyth (2007-09), like Mueller, had has time cut short due to injuries. He had his lowest point total since 1998-99 season, netting only 37 points in 55 games in 2007-08. His injuries included head, neck and ankle ailments. The next season, he was tied with Milan Hejduk for team lead in points with 59. He was traded at the 2010 NHL draft to Los Angeles. Stats: 132 GP, 40-56-96, -19, 112 PIMS.
97: Per Ledin (2009) was originally signed by Columbus before having his contract voided by the league due to contractual errors. He eventually signed a one-year deal with Colorado and started the season in Lake Erie. He played the last three games of the 2008-09 season as an injury replacement for Marek Svatos. Stats: 3 GP, 0-0-0, -1, 2 PIMS.
In the future, more numbers will be used so the list will grow. Any new numbers will be covered at Avalanche 101.Tags: Colorado, Colorado Avalanche, Gabriel Landeskog, Hockey, NHL, Paul Stastny, Ray Bourque


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Pain In Pit Of Stomach (Overview)
Pain in pit of stomach could be due to dyspepsia or an ulcer.
What is in boost and ensure that causes pain in the "pit" of stomach even after eating a meal?
? GMO's: I'm not sure why you're reacting this way as most people don't. You're probably sensitive to one or more of the many ingredients. Both of these contain corn, canola oil and soy from gmo sources ; i believe eating gmo's is unwise and hazardous. No matter the cause, if you get pain after these i would not use them. You can find organic protein powders at health food stores. See http://bit.Ly/19xax7e. ...Read more
Pain In Pit Of Stomach (Overview)
Pain in pit of stomach could be due to dyspepsia or an ulcer.
I'm am 22 weeks pregnant and when my spouse and I have intercourse i get very painful sharp pains in my lower stomach what does this mean?
Musculoskel v ctx: This could be due to stretching of the musculoskeletal ligaments of the pelvis, or you could be having contractions or cramping. Be sure to discuss this with your doctor and tell him/her exactly where the pain is, how long it lasts for, is it cyclic or constant. Until you see doctor, no sex. ...Read more
Pain in pit of stomach (Tip)
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Is neuropathy associated with guilain barre syndrome treatable and if so, how do I treat it and relieve the painful symptoms? My neurosurgeon just informed me that I have g.B.S. And had it since may 2011 following a stomach flu i had 2 weeks before my sym
Your : Your case presents a few dilemmas. Gbs is a group of autoimmune diseases targeted at the peripheral nerves and causing acute progressive weakness, usually an ascending paralysis. The history usually entails the following: •upper respiratory or diarrheal disease within previous 1–3 weeks in 50–70%: c. Jejuni (~40%), cytomegalovirus (13%), epstein-barr virus (10%), mycoplasma pneumoniae (5%), or hiv •dysesthesias (painful tingling), paresthesias (tingling) of the feet and hands are usually the earliest symptoms. •pain is common- especially back pain which can radiate to the legs and not usually associated with myalgias (muscle pain). •gait disorder common in all age groups- this is the most common presentation in children •neck muscle weakness, dysphagia, and dysarthria are predictors of respiratory failure. The physical exam frequently reveals the following: •acute, symmetric, and usually ascending weakness of limbs within days of dysesthesias •areflexia (no reflexes) or hyporeflexia( reduced reflexes) and muscle weakness, decreased position and vibratory sensation •respiratory muscle paralysis 30% if untreated •cranial nerve involvement <50%; usually facial weakness, 10–20% ophthalmoparesis (loss of eye movement) •dysautonomia (abnormal autonomic nervous system responses) (50%): labile blood pressure, arrhythmias, ileus (paralysis of bowel function), urinary retention; •miller-fisher variant: ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, areflexia important lab tests •csf: elevated protein and normal white blood cells (wbcs; albuminocytologic dissociation) are characteristic with a normal opening pressure. •emg: this shows a pattern of demyelination with prolonged latencies and a reduced motor compound action potential. The medications usually used are one or more of the following: •immune globulin (ivig) •plasmapheresis or plasma exchange most patients reach the plateau phase within 3 weeks of admission, and muscle strength is expected to improve. The prognosis is: •complete recovery: 50% •some residual disability: 45% •severe permanent disability: 5% hence, the dilemma as you report no improvement and in fact worsening. Furthermore, a lesion within the spinal cord (myelopathy) can present with similar symptoms as the ones you provide. A few pertinent questions to help discern the cause would include whether you have had a lumbar puncture and EMG and what did these results show? I hope this answers your questions. Good luck and well wishes. ...Read moreSee 1 more doctor answer
Iv unbeareble stomach pain. I can't move with how painful it is, the pain just keeps getting worse and im starting to get dizzy? What do I do?
Seek: Medical attention now. Call your physician or go to the emergency room. Severe abdominal pain should not be ignored. Good luck! ...Read moreSee 2 more doctor answers
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I always have this spasm of my stomach and is too painful as well as in my lower abdomen what is this disease? Is there treatment for this?
Go to the Doctor: I am sorry to report but your symptoms could represent at least a hundred different possible problems. Pain means it is time to get a full evaluation with a physician in person. ...Read more
I am having a tingling, painful, burning sensation on the skin epidermis of my right upper stomach. Why is this happening & what is the cure for this?
Burning sensation: A detailed history and complete physical examination may help your physician in establishing a correct diagnosis and adequate treatment for your condition. I have seen similar presentations in patients with early shingles, transverse myelitis in multiple sclerosis and pinched nerves in the thoracic spine. Please contact your physician for evaluation. Hope you feel well soon. ...Read more
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Draw a transverse line through the umbilicus and the upper abdomen includes every part of the belly above this line and below the ...Read more


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Five things I learned at a fistfight with Jim Gaffigan (at which Jake Johannsen did stand-up as part of the NYCF)
Fri Nov 6 2009
1. Jim Gaffigan looks like a bull when charging from the stage to grapple with a heckler. Even while Gaffigan and the drunken asshole are wrestling up the ramp near the emergency exit, some part of you still wants to believe it's a joke. Then the asshole gets Gaffigan on the ground and gets a couple of good shots—at the Hot Pockets guy! Gaffigan talks about food and eating and he's funny and chubby and lovable and certainly doesn't deserve that. The management steps in just as sane audience members and the loudmouth's beefy pals move past their shock to get involved. According to one of the Gotham workers afterward, the guy said something to Gaffigan's wife. So one more piece of learning: Don't talk shit to Jim Gaffigan's wife.
2. A crowd doesn't really recover from a comedy club fistfight very easily. A guy who's hosting a raffle to benefit MS takes advantage of an empty stage to talk about nothing at all. It's a bit chaotic.
3. Before the melee, the crowd got Jon Dore, who is funny and has really interesting ideas and unusual joke structures. "My grandfather survived the Holocaust with his hiding skills," he says, "And by not being Jewish. And by living in Canada his entire life." Postbrawl, L.A. comic Mo Mandel takes an authoritative tone and scores several laughs off the remaining, frightened audience members. He even works in some material about the relativity of bestiality: "A guy fucking a dog, that's bestiality. A guy fucking a lion? Might be bestiality or it might be the X Games."
4. When Jake Johannsen comes out, it takes a while for people to respond to anything other than jokes involving fists, fighting, or fistfighting. But the guy is a pro; he wins them over addressing old oedipal impulses ("Don't wait too long to fight your dad. You won't feel good about yourself if all you have to do is unplug him."), married life and how 2-year-old boys are a pretty good representation of a grown man's inner monologue ("They're like little Vikings!"). By the end of the evening, the laughs are strong and rolling through the crowd like you might expect.
5. Everyone seems to agree that Johannsen is more fun than combat.


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32 mellow songs for relaxing or sleeping. songs that I love old and new. including needtobreath, Lifehouse, Rolling stones, Augustana and many more! enjoy.
let me know if you like the Icelandic song "litla systir" ;)
29 tracks
7 comments on sleepyhead.. easy listening.
i love this mix! you should check out my mix http://8tracks.com/classicbeauty/relax-wind-down cause it seems like we have the same music taste!⃠
I love this mix. I played it while cooking and cleaning the kitchen on a quiet Monday night after work. I am getting over a cold and it's going to be a "sleepy" evening on the couch! Thank You!⃠


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Back in 1992, ABC World News Tonight anchor Peter Jennings told viewers his network would skip coverage of "routine" campaign events, unless they actually contributed new information that viewers could use. In an effort to keep ABC from being used as a propaganda arm for politicians, Jennings declared "there will be less attention to staged appearances and sound bites designed exclusively for television."
He later elaborated to the Washington Post's Howard Kurtz, saying he did not want to be "'seduced by pictures as we've been so easily seduced in the past. I don't think any of us ever wants to be in the flag factory situation again,' referring to a 1988 Bush campaign event."
Evidently, times have changed. On Thursday's World News, ABC anchor Diane Sawyer ran as a "news" item a White House-produced video — complete with schmaltzy background music — of President Obama taking a phone call from a cancer patient who, Sawyer informed viewers "is now able to get health insurance" thanks to ObamaCare.
"This is an honor. I want to thank you, so much," Gail O'Brien told the President.
The video is not even new — Sawyer identified it merely as a conversation that took pace "recently," but "today we got to listen in," indicating that Thursday was the day the White House chose to drop this out there for sycophantic news networks to plug into their newscasts.
For the record, CBS and NBC refused to take the bait (at least on Thursday night's broadcasts).
Here's the transcript of the brief item, which set up a story about how the new provisions would lead to higher premiums for many customers:
DIANE SAWYER: This is the day significant changes in health care insurance go into effect in America. And today we got to listen in on a phone call -- President Obama talking recently to Gail O'Brien, a cancer patient in New Hampshire who is now able to get health insurance.
PRESIDENT OBAMA [On screen: "White House video," background music playing]: Hi, Gail?
VOICE: Hello.
OBAMA: How are you?
GAIL O'BRIEN: I'm doing really well, thank you. This is an honor. I want to thank you, so much.


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UPPS No. 05.06.02
Issue No. 6
Effective Date: 11/22/2013
Next Review Date: 4/01/2017 (E4Y)
Sr. Reviewer: Dean, College of Fine Arts and Communication
The purpose of this UPPS is to provide guidelines for major campus organizations' travel to events or activities at which they represent the university. This UPPS does not apply to internally generated trips or events approved and funded in the budget process.
This policy applies to campus representative organizations regardless of the source of funds used to pay travel costs.
For the purpose of this UPPS a campus representative organization is defined as a student group that travels as representatives of Texas State to perform for entertainment or educational purposes. This includes, but is not limited to, the following:
Music Instrumental Ensembles
Choral Groups and Vocal Ensembles
Strutters and Cheerleaders
Dance Groups
Theatre Productions
Debate Team
A campus representative organization must meet the following criteria in order for it to receive consideration for approval to travel under this policy:
The activity must enhance the image of the university.
Most group members must find the travel costs economically feasible.
The university will give priority for travel to events that are held during non-class time or that involve a minimum amount of time away from academic endeavors.
The university will give priority for travel to events that are held within its recruiting area.
Travel outside of the continental U. S. must meet all of the above criteria except Section 03.01 d. It must also provide a distinctive learning opportunity for students and a significant publicity opportunity for the university.
When a trip is proposed for a representative organization, the group's sponsor must route the travel proposal, as shown on the Request to Travel Off Campus, through the approved reporting channels. Clubs and organizations originating in an academic unit (i.e., music ensembles, choral groups, debate team, theatre and dance groups) need the approval of the department chair or school director. Athletic clubs and organizations, such as Strutters or cheer teams, need the approval of their director or coach. Organizations that report to the Deans of Students office need the approval of the dean of Students.
The campus representative organization must route its travel proposal for approval at least one month in advance of the trip's departure date. The appropriate vice president, as determined by the division that the organization originated in (see Section 04.01), may approve travel proposals with less lead time.
The appropriate vice president must approve all out-of-state travel. Upon approval or disapproval, the vice president's office will inform the sponsor of the group with supporting rationale or instructions.
Out-of-country travel requires completion of FormT-4, Release of Liability and Assumption of Risk for Foreign Travel, in accordance with Chapter III, section 6.(12)3, of the Board of Regents' Rules and Regulations for students and sponsors and any other individuals traveling with the group. The president must approve all foreign travel by state employees on state business. Sponsors must allow 45 days prior to the trip for the president's approval for their travel. Refer to the Texas State Travel policy or log on to the Travel Office's website.
Texas State's Budgeted Accounts - If an organization's travel to an event is funded through that group's operating budget, the account manager will follow normal university accounting procedures (refer to Texas State Travel Office's website) in order to handle payment of expenses. Each individual account should reflect travel expenses shared by multiple Texas State accounts. The account manager may charge multiple accounts against a single travel voucher but should not commingle donated or personal funds with funds in a university account.
Donated Funds - Donated funds may pay a portion or all of the travel costs. University policy allows the deposit of such gifts in a Texas State account with these funds accounted for in the restricted fund group. If a new account is needed, the sponsor of the organization should contact the General Accounting Office and process an account request in accordance with standard university procedures.
If the campus representative organization will use personal funds from its members for travel expenses, it must deposit these funds in a club account.
The Texas State travel policy, as posted on the Travel Office's website, establishes policies for persons not traveling in an official capacity.
Reviewers of this UPPS include the following:
|Dean, College of Fine Arts & Communication
|April 1 E4Y
|Associate Athletic Director
|April 1 E4Y
|Director of Accounting
|April 1 E4Y
This UPPS has been approved by the following individuals in their official capacities and represents Texas State policy and procedure from the date of this document until superseded.
Dean, Fine Arts and Communication; senior reviewer of this UPPS
Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs


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Friday, October 27, 2006
Help Journalists Be HonestVictor Davis Hanson explains the difference between a historian and a journalist:
...the verifiability of source material is what distinguishes history from hearsay -- and what distinguishes the genre from journalism...Journalists could change this with one little word: footnotes. A good argument can be made that footnotes in the paper version of publications would be distracting and costly, but the major impediment to including them in online editions would probably simply be resistance by the writers themselves. Footnotes are a hassle for writers -- but they do have a way if helping to keep writers honest.
Who's with me on this?
Addendum, 10/29: Mark Tapscott has posted a thoughtful response to this idea. I'll respond to his comments in a little while.
Posted by Amy Ridenour at 12:02 AM