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They have shed their shirts to promote women's rights, to support an Iranian woman sentenced to death for adultery and murder, and, most brazenly, to protest a visit by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.
The bare-breasted young women of Femen, about 300 strong, are becoming a fixture in Ukrainian politics. The group, formed about two years ago by Kiev university students, says its main aim is to improve the lot of women in Ukraine's male-dominated, post-Soviet society.
"We want to show that our women have a demeaning role in our society. Their place is seen as in the kitchen or in bed," Alexandra Shevchenko, a 22-year-old economics student who regularly plays a leading role in topless protests, told Reuters.
Femen's initial targets were prostitution and discrimination against women. It has branched out to tax policy, freedom of speech and, as seen with Putin's visit last month, foreign affairs. "We won't sleep with Kremlin midgets" read one of the placards.
The group has become so popular that founder Anna Hutsul, 26, plans to launch a political party and run for parliament.
"If sexuality is used to sell cars and cookies, why not use it for social and political projects," Hutsul tells the Associated Press. "Sometimes you need to show your breasts for ideological reasons."
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Flanders: A Culinary Wonderland
Few countries offer a variety of beauty and texture as rich as Flanders', and few can rival its gastronomy, history and charm. Your stay in Brussels should include a visit to the city's interesting museums, including the Rene Magritte Museum, part of the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musical Instruments Museum.
Brussels is filled with awesome restaurants, and it is impossible not to be impressed with the variety and quality of the food. If you are an early riser, go for a run or a walk, and you will be taken in by the aromas of the freshly baked breads and pastries wherever you go. You can eat your way through the city finding the best shrimp croquettes, frittes, croissants, cheeses, pastries and a variety of over 135 Belgian beers. Some of my favorites were Rochefort, Leffe, Duvel & Chimay.

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- Where I'm At:Starbucks
- What I Feel: geeky
- What I Hear:"Ballad of A Bitter End" The Poems
What's your favorite kind of weather?
Cloudy with a little sprinkle of rain. I like rain. I know that most people find it depressing or whatever, but I like how it makes everything fresh and green. I love the smell of rain, when it's coming and after it's gone. There isn't much air pollution where I live so the rain that comes down isn't gross, so I love to stand outside in the rain, barefoot, with my head tilted back. What's great is talking a walk in the rain, not always with an umbrella, and usually only when it's a sprinkle, a light drizzle.
Other than rain, I love a clear and crisp fall day. No clouds, just the sun, but it's only about 50 degrees, maybe 60 (Fahrenheit)... nope, 50 degrees is best so the air is cool and crisp and clear and you can smell the all scents around you. The smell of the leaves turning colors and drying out. The smell of the grass fading away and the sound of it crunching under your feet.
Apparently I like spring and fall...
- What I Feel: chipper
- What I Hear:"Tighten Up" The Black Keys
Easy. 26 years, 2 months and 3 days. My best friend is my big cousin [by 1 year and 10 days] Liz. She's been there for me since I was born, has been watching out for me all my life. She always has my back, even though I'm sometimes wrong. She never judges me, even when the rest of the family does. She respects my beliefs and opinions and ideas, even when the rest of the family doesn't. She knows me better than any other person in the world, including my mother and my siblings and any boyfriend I've ever had. She trusts my opinion as I trust hers. Most of all, when I'm arguing about something, convinced I'm right only to realize about 15 minutes in that I'm wrong, she never rubs it in, never says "I told you so", just lets it go. Who else will let you do that but your best friend?
- What I Feel: chipper
- What I Hear:"I Wish I Was the Moon" Neko Case
Is anyone else have trouble getting on to OH NO THEY DIDN'T? I haven't been able to get on for 2 days
If you were given the opportunity to spend two weeks in any country in the world free of charge, which country would you choose, and why?
France. I've been there before, but it wasn't nearly enough time (just about a week). I think two months would be just enough time to make it all the way through the Louvre and maybe do some other stuff too. Although this time I'd skip the Mona Lisa because I've already seen it (and think it may be a tad over-hyped btw) and it takes time to get pass the crowd. Although last time people just let me to the front but made Liz wait, I don't know why because we were together.
- Where I'm At:front porch
- What I Feel: chipper
- What I Hear:"Heaven Can Wait" Charlotte Gainsberg and Beck
What was the worst significant purchase you ever made, and why?
my last cell phone. $400 for a piece of crap touch screen slider phone that would call people on its own. I once heard someone's ringback tone playing and, in my quest to find the music, discovered that my phone dialed an ex-boyfriend all on it's own, sitting a good 6 feet away from anyone and anything that could actually dial it. It also answered calls to where I'd hear someone yelling "Hello?" and I'm sitting there like "God? Is that you?" and wondering when exactly I went crazy and started hearing 'the voices'. It also shut off whenever it felt like it, to hell with whatever phone call I was in the middle of. Who cares if I was on the phone with my boss or my brother or my fucking doctor. The touch screen would get stuck and I'd have to take the battery out unless I seriously just wanted to navigate from the shortcuts menu and back to the home screen. It would change my alarms. Sometimes my alarms wouldn't go off. Sometimes it would go off an hour or two before it was supposed to, just in case. My alarm would go off at 5am and when I was all "shit, that was a serious mistake on my part, mistaking a 5 for a 7" I'd check and find out that the alarm is set for 7am, the phone just wanted to fuck with me. Then there's the time I entered all this stuff into my calendar for THE MOST IMPORTANT WORK WEEK OF ALL TIME, so I'd keep appointments and inspections and paperwork due dates straight and still be able to get off on my business trip on time and then back for the corporate retreat on time after that and it didn't delete it all, nope, it changed them all from mid May of 2010 to mid September of 2009! You know, just for fun. Then it started to delete my contact names, not the whole contact, just everything but the numbers so one day I got on the phone to call a coworker to set up a meeting and a friend to set up some post-work drinks and all I had was a GIANT LIST OF 150 NUMBERS that was pretty much useless to me. I mean, the only numbers I knew (know) by heart are my mother's, my best friend's (sometimes, because I have a tendency to invert the numbers) and one of my ex-boyfriend's (yeah, because that's useful. the only reason he's still in there is because we were friends first and so he thinks that gives him the right to legitimately fear my future flat tires, which I don't really have too much of a problem with because he bailed me out of jail once). I had most of family and definitely my siblings and one or two friends in my address book (the one I keep on the shelf above my desk) but a lot of my friends, who I couldn't contact through facebook, are probably wondering why I never call or text them anymore (even though it works both ways bitches). Then there's the time that it started sending the text "the cat is mad" to everyone on my contact list which is a code for something that I'm not going to explain between my best friend and I (and no, it has nothing to do with sex).
I took the phone into Verizon and they were like "Oh my God, you still have this phone? We stopped carrying it because it was such crap" before they updated the software that fixed nothing and sent me on my way. It turned out that not only did they stop carrying it but they also recalled the phone and didn't tell anyone because their policy was to give a different phone of equal monetary value (much better in actual value imo).
I nicknamed the phone "Satan's Phone" until everyone started calling that and I pointed out that it was fine for me to say it but now if sounds like everyone is implying that I am satan because technically it is my phone.
- Where I'm At:home
- What I Feel: chipper
- What I Hear:"Eternal Flame" The Bangles
If you were going on a week-long vacation to a tropical paradise and could only take five items, what would you bring?
I'm going to assume that we're not talking about clothes (because all 5 items would be taken up by that because I'm not a 'low maintenance' kind of girl, I don't pack light) and, like, extras.
Item 1: iPod
I have quite the music addiction so I don't go anywhere without it. I take it on the shortest trips, road trips, plane trips, any kind of trip really. There's no possible way I can go anywhere without it. I have an issue with silence. It makes me nervous if there isn't just the slightest background noise. My brother is the same way. I have a theory that it's because we were, basically, raised in my parents department store and therefore there was a constant stream of music in the background. It makes me really nervous if there isn't music in the car. My former roommate once shut the music in my car off because she had, and I quote, 'been listening to too much music lately'. I freaked out, because I didn't touch the music in her car unless she asked and I would NEVER turn it off completely (of course this could be less out of simple consideration and more out of my own issues). I don't even know how it's possible to listen to too much music. One of my aunts doesn't like music. Seriously doesn't like it. She'll listen to it if it's on but she doesn't buy (or own) any cds and would never consider getting an iPod. I had to teach her how to set up iTunes for my uncles iPod because she had no reason to know. I tried to teach her how to add stuff and how to set up playlists and stuff but he just has a shuffle and probably won't update it all that often because he likes what he likes... so weird. I don't even know.
Item 2: Laptop
I know, most people go on a vacation to relax and 'get away from it all' but the thing is, I'm incapable of that. I would be bored out of my mind within a day if I didn't have access to my email, facebook, livejournal, ontd, netflix, youtube, hulu. I'm not on the internet all the time, but I know it's there if I'm bored. Plus I get bursts of inspiration at really random times and what would I do if I had no way to get it out. And I'm not just talking about writing or whatever, I'm even talking about a sudden realization of the perfect playlist (yeah, I told you I had an addiction). Bonus is that if I'm going somewhere outside my comfort zone, if I'm going outside my norm I'm probably going to discover music that I'm not going to normally have access to so I'll definitely want to add whatever new music I discover while I'm there to my iTunes and then update my iPod immediately. Then there's the obvious want of adding whatever photos I take to my facebook and backing them up on my hard drive. Which brings me to the next item...
Item 3: Digital Camera
I'm not an amazing photographer. I'm not bad either, I'm just not one of those girls that loves taking pictures of everything in some artistic way. I often forget to take pictures at all, even though I used to carry my camera with me all the time. Most events I just hand my camera off to someone more likely to take pictures and forget all about it until the end when my hot pink camera is being handed back to me and I'm like "oh yeah". I'm a strong believer in the 'I remember it' theory. Why are pictures so important when I was there and I have a memory that's way better than the picture that may not capture things correctly, that (unless it's taken by someone with actual talent) won't capture the emotion of the thing. But I am a stickler about vacation photos. I believe in memories if it's of a place where you are a lot, then the place fades away and the memories focus on the events and emotions of whatever. But on vacation the local plays a huge part and can overshadow the emotion and what happened because you can be like "remember the ocean? because I don't remember anything but how beautiful the ocean was" but if you take pictures of it, the photos can remind you of what happened, the new experience, the fun, the emotion.
Item 4: Kindle
I don't even know where mine is. In fact, I'm a little unclear on whether I have a Kindle or a Nook since it was a gift and I've never really taken it out of the box. I don't really like the idea of it. I prefer the weight of a book (I prefer hardback books), the feel of the pages, the smell of the paper, none of which you can experience when it's all in a little electronic contraption. I like turning pages. I like to flip back and forth (I read the back first then I have a tendency to read a couple chapters normally before reading the last couple chapters, going back a couple more and reading the last few and then reading a couple in the middle... it's confusing, and kind of turns all books into a mystery since I'm all over the place, but it's how I read) and I remember page numbers so I can flip back to look things up and I like turning the pages, I like the sense of accomplishment I get when I see the pages changing sides, when thickness ahead of you changes to the thickness behind you. You can't see that in the digital world. But, the advantage about the digital book is that you can carry a whole library with you without all that added weight to your luggage. I'm considering exactly how much lighter my purse would be if I carried that digital library thing with me instead of the book I'm always lugging around (it's my personal policy to bring several items with me in case of a delay or boredom, one of them is a book I'm currently reading). Of course the choice of any book I want at any one time instead nailing down to one physical copy that I can't switch away of whenever I feel like. I have a tendency to do this too... I currently have 7 half finished novels on my bedside table and just started an 8th book. I try to never make it to 10 and usually buckle down at 8 or 9 and finish them all before starting any other books. But if I don't see the pile, what's to stop me from starting and NEVER finishing books? Also, I don't think you can just stick this thing in the freezer and what am I supposed to do when it pisses me off?
Item 5: Sunnies & Sunscreen (which go together in my opinion)
I have really pale blue eyes, so they're really sensitive to light. My optometrist told me once that the lighter your eye color the more light that is absorbed when I told him that things seem to be a lot brighter to me than to a lot of people. So it's the one item I would REQUIRE in a tropical paradise where I assume it's bright and sunny, otherwise I'd have a constant migraine and wouldn't see anything because I'd be squinting the entire time and would require botox upon my return. The sunscreen is inescapable. I'm super pale, like, glow in the dark white. My sister-in-law used to joke that my brother and I could burn watching the sun set on tv (she's Mexican and totally lords her ability to tan over us). I don't tan. Never have. Which is shitty since I'm a quarter native american and supposed to tan really well. But I'm also half Scottish and they don't tan. They're pale. I don't even want to tan, I like my pale skin. I just wish I didn't burn.
I know after the first 4 items one would think that I'd round out the list with some other technology (although in my defense #4 was just because of weight and not tech) like a cell phone. But no, I won't need a cell phone. Anyone that needs to get a hold of me can do it on facebook, otherwise I don't need to be contacted. Of course I can skype on my laptop.... but whatever.
- Where I'm At:home
- What I Feel: bouncy
- What I Hear:"He About to Lose Me" Britney Spears
Okay, so I'm not the biggest fan of Ke$ha, because I kinda doubt her [obvious lack of] talent and I never trust anyone with a dollar sign in their name. But I was a huge fan of Dawson's Creek. That's right, they're now linked because Dawson himself starred in her latest video for 'Blow'. I know that Pacey was my favorite (although seriously, who names their kids Doug, Kerry, Gretchen and then Pacey? What?) but I really did kind of adore Dawson. He was sweet and naive and while I was all for Pacey getting the girl, I still like Dawson (except when he cried, he was a horrible cryer).
We all know that James Van Der Beek has been around town recently with his Van Der Week on Funny or Die but he's also in the new Ke$ha video and he is quite hilarious. Check it out, but I should warn you though, there's unicorns, rainbows and Van Der Beek with a bra.
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We all know that James Van Der Beek has been around town recently with his Van Der Week on Funny or Die but he's also in the new Ke$ha video and he is quite hilarious. Check it out, but I should warn you though, there's unicorns, rainbows and Van Der Beek with a bra.
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- What I Feel: hungry
- What I Hear:"Blow" Ke$ha
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- Where I'm At:home
- What I Feel: excited
- What I Hear:"Hold It Against Me" Britney Spears


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Get an overview of this hotel3.5-star hotel near the beach
Popular property highlights
Offering direct access to the beach, this Agios Andreas hotel is 4.3 mi (7 km) from Peroulia Beach and 7.6 mi (12.3 km) from Koroni Castle. Polilimnio Waterfalls and Methoni Castle are also within 20 mi (32 km).
Hotel Features
When you stay at this beach hotel you can enjoy umbrellas and sun loungers.
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All 13 soundproofed rooms feature free WiFi and room service. TVs, refrigerators, and hair dryers are among the other amenities available to guests.Information missing or incorrect? Tell us!Opens in a new window
Aggelos Hotel
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Unwind on the hotel's private sand beach. Lie back and work on your tan with relaxing beach amenities like umbrellas and sun loungers.
The hotel offers a restaurant. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Onsite self parking is complimentary.
- Total number of rooms - 13
- Number of floors - 1
- Bar/lounge
- Concierge services
- Tours/ticket assistance
- Free WiFi
- Multilingual staff
- Garden
- Restaurant
- Free self parking
- Direct access to private beach
- Beach umbrellas
- Beach sun loungers
- Private beach nearby
- Number of buildings/towers - 2
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- Free Wi-Fi
- Soundproofed rooms
- Refrigerator
Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking
Room Amenities
- Air conditioning
- Soundproofed rooms
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- Refrigerator
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- Television
- Free WiFi
- Room service (limited hours)
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Aggelos Hotel has a restaurant on site.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.
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Check-in time starts at 2 PM
Check-in time ends at 8:30 PM
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At this place the cliffs which overhang the southern bank presented a fine collection of basaltic columns.
No doubt the basaltic mountains once formed the side of the fjord.
The Marquesas Islands are small and, in contrast to the coral and basaltic formation of Tahiti, of volcanic origin.
The walls of the outer Alban crater are of peperino, while those of the inner are basaltic.
Phonolithic or basaltic pebbles made me suppose that we were near to a change of country.
On its outer edge it is fringed by a border of basaltic rocks.
Immediately west of the watershed are two small plateaus covered with basaltic dbris, near el-Jish and Kades.
It is cut up by gullies of basaltic rock, escarpments of which appear everywhere in the hills.
Of such soils, the first to be considered are those of basaltic origin.
The animal remains found beneath the basaltic cap are very numerous, and all of extinct species.
c.1600, from Late Latin basaltes, misspelling of Latin basanites "very hard stone," from Greek basanites "a species of slate used to test gold," from basanos "touchstone." Not connected with salt. Said by Pliny ["Historia," 36.58] to be an African word, perhaps Egyptian bauhan "slate." Any hard, very dark rock would do as a touchstone; the assayer compared the streak left by the alleged gold with that of real gold or baser metals. Hence Greek basanizein "to be put to the test, examined closely, cross-examined, to be put to torture."
A dark, fine-grained, igneous rock consisting mostly of plagioclase feldspar and pyroxene, and sometimes olivine. Basalt makes up most of the ocean floor and is the most common type of lava. It sometimes cools into characteristic hexagonal columns, as in the Giant's Causeway in Anterim, Northern Island. It is the fine-grained equivalent of gabbro.
A hard, dense igneous rock that makes up much of the material in tectonic plates. The part of the Earth's crust beneath the oceans consists mainly of basalt whereas continental crust consists mainly of less dense rocks, such as granite. (See plate tectonics.)


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Are there side effects to statins?
Fish Oil Update
A study that was just completed in March, and reported in JAMA showed that fish oil had no benefits in patients who either had heart disease or who were at risk for getting heart disease. Whether or not eating fatty fish twice a week is helpful or not remains to be seen. Yes, high doses of fish oil can lower triglyceride levels but this, too, will not reduce your risk of getting heart disease. However, it is well known that triglyceride levels greater than 500 will increase the risk of acute pancreatitis, which is an extremely painful disease.
As always, please feel free to discuss any and all supplements that you are either using or thinking about using with us. Do not trust your healthcare to the internet, family or friends.More
Power Plate and Heart Disease
The two leading causes of death in the developed world are myocardial infarction (heart attack) and stroke, both of which are direct consequences of atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. As the arteries lose their flexibility, the heart pumps blood but the walls of the arteries do not move as they should, causing an increase in blood pressure. As the heart pulses and the pressure is higher, the heart has to work harder to contract. The higher the pressure gets, the greater likelihood an individual will have a cardiac incident (heart attack or stroke). Atherosclerosis is primarily caused by chronic dietary habits, but also has environmental and genetic factors.
Here are 4 reports about the benefits of Whole Body Vibration (WBV) and the hypertensive patient:
1. In 2005, researchers in Japan found that the muscular reflexive engagement of the body through whole body vibration (WBV) exercise significantly increased blood flow and oxygenation (Yamada, et al.)
2. In 2008 a different group of Japanese researchers found that WBV (using Power Plate) acutely decreased arterial stiffness with males in their mid twenties. (Otsuki, et al. 2008)
3. In 2012 Dr. Figueroa and his research group showed decrease in arterial stiffness in a young obese/overweight female population. Subjects decreased their arterial stiffness significantly using WBV therapy 3 times weekly over 6 weeks.
4. In 2013, he and other researchers began research using WBV/ reflexive activation with post menopausal hypertension and pre-hypertension patients.
Dr. Figueroa and his research group showed blood pressure reduction with lower leg strength increase.
We have been successfully using POWER PLATE (WBV) for over 4 years at KAIZEN TOTAL WELLNESS. For more information, or to schedule a free demonstration, call 941-315-6182. Our programs are all medically supervised and provided by our own POWER PLATE CERTIFIED physical therapists and trainers.More
Can depression cause heart disease?
The Scientific Statement was published online February 24 in Circulation.
We all know that obesity, high cholesterol, hypertension, diabetes, genetics and smoking are the major risk factors for heart disease. But did you know that DEPRESSION is also linked to heart attacks? According to an American Heart Association panel, depressed patients were more likely to get heart disease than non-depressed people. It is hoped that by treating depression, we can help treat/prevent heart disease. We have known for years that all stroke patients benefit from antidepressants whether they are clinically depressed or not. There have also been numerous studies about quality of life in patients who have diabetes, heart disease, cancer or depression. As you can probably guess, the depressed patients consistently score worse than all of the other patient groups!
Even though depression is more widely accepted now than in the past, there is still a stigma associated with depression. Most insurance companies with NOT even pay the physician if a depression code is listed on the bill! And counseling! Forget about it. Insurance companies don't mind paying hundreds of thousands of dollars for heart surgery, but to pay a few thousand for psychotherapy………..
Sulfonylurea (diabetes drug class) may increase heart disease risk
A study presented September 27, 2013 at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes in Barcelona announced that first line treatment with sulfonylureas (glipizide, glimiperide, etc.) can increase the risk of heart disease 2 fold when compared to metformin. It is interesting because these same concerns were brought up in the 1970s. What is recommended is continuing to use METFORMIN as a first line drug, but adding a "GLIPTIN" (Januvia, Onglyza or Tradjenta) to help control sugars.
This combination is great because it does not cause weight gain nor cause low sugar reactions.
So why do some patients use sulfonylureas? They are CHEAP generics and many insurance plans will not cover the newer GLIPTINS (which came on the market in 2006).


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Chef Rachel Willen has appeared on TV cooking shows and writes a food blog. She's also a heart attack survivor.
"It started to sort of quickly travel up my throat and into my jaw and radiating in my jaw very painfully," she said.
Willen was 56 with no history of heart disease. It turned out she had SCAD or Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection. An artery near the heart tears, blocking blood flow in and around the heart, causing a heart attack. Researchers say the condition is not common, affecting mostly young, healthy women and is highly underdiagnosed.
"The average age is about 42 and it's disproportionately women, so about 70 percent of the cases or greater are women and of those women, 30 percent are in the few weeks to months after giving birth," said Dr. Sharonne Hayes of the Mayo Clinic.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have started the first major study of the condition. And while doctors don't know exactly what causes SCAD or how to treat it, they do know that up to 20 percent of patients who have had one SCAD episode will have another. The study came about after a group of SCAD survivors found each other in an online community and asked the Mayo Clinic for help.
"Hormones are a high area of interest and likely contribute to the cause of SCAD," Hayes said. "But we don't understand the mechanism."
Willen took part in the study, hoping it will lead to answers. Her brush with death has inspired her to live life to the fullest.
"These are my mottos for living now: 'live on the edge' and 'take a whisk,'" Willen said.
She continues to eat right, exercise and hope it doesn't happen again.
Researchers are also looking into whether genetics plays a role in SCAD and they also found a link between SCAD and fibromuscular dysplasia, another rare condition that causes a narrowing in some arteries.
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BUIES CREEK, N.C.-Tune in to the "Sports Blast" on Fayetteville, N.C. based 640 AM tonight, April 30, at 7:15 p.m. to hear Campbell head football coach Dale Steele, who will be a guest on the program.
Hosted by Bill Priestley and Brett Friedlander, the weekly show covers local sports on the collegiate and professional levels.
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Campbell finished 2011 at 6-5 overall and 5-3 in Pioneer Football League play, marking the program's highest win total sine restarting the program in 2008. The Camels led the PFL in rushing for the third straight year (210.45 yards per game), placing 11 on all-conference teams.
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Travellers' Accounts as Source-Material for Irish Historians
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This guide is an aid to Irish historians on the use of travel narratives as source-material. It features a discussion of factors that need to be considered in analyzing these narratives, notably the identity of the traveller, his or her motives for travel and writing, the period and mode of travel, the itinerary followed and the content itself. Part Two of the book comprises detailed annotations of more than 100 selected English-language narratives or accounts of journeys or tours made in Ireland from the second quarter of the 17th century to the middle of the 20th century. *** "The 'Itineraries,' constitute one of the most important and useful parts of the compilation....The mode of travel (walking, horseback, train) might at first glance seem rather trivial. However, as Woods points out in his excellent introduction, the manner by which visitors traveled through Ireland had a profound effect on what they saw or experienced." - Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2015 (Series: Maynooth Research Guides for Irish Local History) [Subject: Irish Studies, History]~
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Join me at Caribana, North America's largest street festival.
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The two are additionally joined by Will Ferrell and Samuel L. Jackson at the special screening of their film in New York City on Monday, August 2.
In anticipation of its U.S. release which will come in less than a week, "The Other Guys" took its cast and crew to New York City on August 2. The stars gathered at Ziegfeld Theatre to attend the world premiere of the movie.
Mark Wahlberg, Eva Mendes and Will Ferrell, who land roles in the film, joined forces to support the Monday's event. The on-screen wife of Ferrell was sandwiched between the two actors when posing on the carpet dominated in black.
Director Adam McKay later joined them before entering the venue. Samuel L. Jackson additionally showed up that night, accompanied by wife LaTanya Richardson. Scribe Chris Henchy also took his spouse Brooke Shields to the special screening.
Lindsay Sloane, Tess Kartel, Damon Wayans, Jr. and Steve Coogan were among other cast members who supported the event. Beside the cast and crew, a lot of celebrities such as Ice-T and wife Coco, Jimmy Fallon, Luis Guzman, Chris Bauer and Horatio Sanz also came as guests.
"The Other Guys" is set in New York City and follows two partnered NYPD detectives who work in the forensic accounting department and rarely see any action. But when an opportunity arises for Allen Gamble and Terry Hoitz to step up, things do not quite go as expected. This action comedy will open wide in U.S. cinemas on August 6.


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Houston Police Elaborate on the Death of 9-Year-Old Girl
Houston's police chief says the discovery of a dead nine-year-old girl in a refrigerator is simply a dead person investigation so far. Charles McClelland says it's too early to call it a criminal case.
"We have to continue to interview witnesses," the chief says, "continue to collect evidence, have that evidence examined and, of course, the autopsy."
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The founding anchor of CNBC's Squawk Box and co-anchor of Squawk On The Street died unexpectedly at his home last night, the financial news network reports. Haines, who was 65, was a "building block" of the network, CNBC President Mark Hoffman said. "With his searing wit, profound insight and piercing interview style, he was a constant and trusted presence in business news for more than 20 years. From the dot-com bubble to the tragic events of 9/11 to the depths of the financial crisis, Mark was always the unflappable pro. Mark loved CNBC and we loved him back. He will be deeply missed."
R.I.P. Mark Haines
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A tragic loss. My heart goes out to his family, friends, and coworkers.
I've always watched Erin and Mark whenever I can. Mark does not pushed away people that he enterviewed for market comments. He always made them finished what they have to say. He's one of the nicest and professinal guy on TV that anyone would respect.
Eternal Rest on you Mark Haines.
This is terrible news. Mark was always a very smart, entertaining and genuine person. He'll be missed by many loyal viewers, myself included.
A great talent and a needed straight shooter in the financial world. Really enjoyed his commentary and how strange that this happened right when his partnership with Erin Burnett had ended.
WOW- what a shame. The guy was a really good anchor who was always honest with his voice. Always hard when its so sudden and unexpected.RIP
My thoughts and prayers are with his family. Unexpected deaths are the worst on survivors. They had zero time to prepare for this. God bless them.
If God ever needed a financial reporter up there , He has one now . Iwill miss him .
Mark, I'm sorry for what your family must be going through. You were a good man. Thanks for being so easy to work with.
Such a truthful man.. I will miss his presence.
I miss Mark very much in the mornings. He could really cone up with some zingers, and made that poor Brit colleague the butt of some funny English humor at times. Ha, Ha.
Wish CNBC could make a deal and bring good ole TED back in the AM. He too was very, very funny and is missed as well. RIP Mark.
SO shocked at this news!!! I loved watching the guests squirm with his direct questioning. CNBC, nay, the world, will NOT be the same without him. BIG LOSS.
We on the west coast were very disappointed to have missed the tribute to Mark Haines yesterday evening. The announcement said it would be presented at 7:00 p.m. and instead we had to see American Greed. I wish we had been reminded that it would be shown out here at 4:00p.m. Pacific time!
MH—thought you were tough and loved the attitude.. such a surprise… you were a real patriot wearing your tie each friday—I am happy you left doing what you love most
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Trans-Siberian Orchestra tickets for this live concert are on sale now for all venues large and small like the Mohegan Sun Arena in Wilkes-Barre, PA, Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma City, OK, BOK Center in Tulsa, OK, Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, TN, Alliant Energy Center in Madison, WI, XL Center in Madison, WI and lots more. Fans can find VIP tickets, TSO Travel packages and special VIP Fan Packages available for most venues while they last at eCityTickets.com.
Trans-Siberian Orchestra is back in a big way in 2013 and will celebrate its first 15 years of touring with the final performances of its multi-platinum rock opera, "The Lost Christmas Eve." For one final year, audiences will get to experience the modern Charles Dickens-like classic live as audiences are taken to a rundown hotel, an old toy store, a blues bar, a Gothic cathedral, and their various inhabitants all intertwined during a single enchanted Christmas Eve in New York City, This year's rock opera is sure to start any TSO fan's Christmas season off right. A complete city tour schedule and TSO tickets availability can be found now by following this link: Trans-Siberian Orchestra Tickets.
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Author's Note: Not to sound petty, Star Wars Instagram, but I thought of this joke about 3 months ago.
Three types of people I generally discourage from following me on social media:
1. Children. Not that my stuff is particularly blue. My sense of humor generally runs PG-13. But with minors, you get parents and that's a can of worms I prefer not to open.
2. The Very Religious. Don't get me wrong. Believe whatever you're going to believe. It makes no difference to me. But I've learned from experience the very pious don't find me particularly funny.
3. Selfie Whores. And by this, I mean, people whose galleries consist ENTIRELY of selfies. What the hell is that? You honestly don't see anything in your daily life more interesting than your own face? Why would anyone other than your close friends care what you're wearing? Why would I care what your bathroom looks like?
So that's where this drawing came from. The notion that Darth Vader would post a selfie on Instagram is funny. His caption would be even funnier, especially if read with James Earl Jones's voice: "OMG, totally just light sabred off my kid's hand. Oops! LOLZ!"


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A pedestrian died after being struck by a car and dismembered Tuesday night in Jonesboro.
The woman was walking across Tara Boulevard at North Avenue around 8:30 P.M. and was struck by a car in an outside lane.
"The pedestrian was dismembered and came to rest in the intersection," said Clayton County police spokesman Otis Willis III.
The driver, who was not identified, is being tested for drug and alcohol use. Police have called in the Georgia State Patrol to help with the investigation.
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Listener Request - August 27, 2011
Hi Bob!
I am a full time single mom and college student working part time to make ends meet for me and my six-year-old boy. I am so thankful for my parents' support, or I wouldn't be able to do it. Recently, I've been hearing your show during my long weekly car rides and it has brought back a lot of old good memories of growing up. My family would always have your countdown on while we did our household chores, and I can remember wishing and praying that my favorite would make it to number one. Well, I'm still listening and wishing for my favorites to make it to number one. One big favorite from the 90's was Reba McEntire's "Take It Back". It would be so great to hear it on your program once again.
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Dear Bob,
When we finished with college, my husband and I were married and began planning our lives. We both wanted a big family, but it just didn't seem to happening for us. We tried, for 12 years, to have children. Then, seven years ago, we were introduced to another young woman who was pregnant and looking for a family who could adopt her baby. She turned out to be a child with special needs. Not at all what we had planned, but it felt just right and our daughter, Addison was born 3 months later. Ever since Billy Currington's "Good Directions" came out, my husband has danced with Addison every time it's come on the radio. And when it comes on in the car, she asks if we can call daddy so he can sing it to her. No question it's their song. Please play "Good Directions"… I would love to watch my husband and his little girl dance together in the living room once again.
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View From Here
September 24, 2002
By Pamela Troy
couple of years ago I worked with a young Iranian woman. She
was a lesbian who had grown up during Khomeini's era, and
she had no great love for that country's theocratic regime.
Nor, as an Iranian who could remember the war with Saddam
Hussein, did she have any great love for Iraq. One afternoon
she made a comment that has haunted me for the past few weeks.
The exact context of the remark is lost - I believe she'd
overheard someone making a flippant remark about bombing Iraq
or some other Middle-Eastern country that had displeased us.
What I do remember is that when we were alone again in the
office, she shook her head. "Americans," she said sadly, "talk
about bombing people without having the slightest idea what
it means."
Unfortunately, that statement is as true now as it was then.
Oh, we've had a taste of it, certainly. On September 11,
2001, we learned about violent death coming out of the blue.
Suddenly the explosions, the rubble, the human loss of what
amounted to a bombing were not abstractions, not scenes in
a movie or news images from a foreign country, but a reality
affecting people who look like you and me, people who could
be our brothers and sisters, our parents, our children, our
friends - people who were our brothers and sisters, our parents,
our children, our friends.
If you want to understand what has been happening in the
Middle East for the past few decades, if you want some inkling
of the loathing and violence engendered there, examine the
fury that resulted here in the United States in the days after
September 11. Look at some of the rhetoric on the Internet
and elsewhere, the hatred and suspicion aimed at people who
either were or appeared to be of Middle Eastern descent. (Yes,
yes, I know. We've been patting ourselves on the back for
over a year now about our "restraint." Only a few people beaten
or killed because they looked like they might be Arabs, only
a little over a thousand rounded up and held incommunicado
for several months...)
Observe the enraged response to anyone who even slightly
demurred, the accusations of disloyalty and treason towards
those few brave souls who dared to suggest that we needed
to think before reacting, needed to consider the causes of
such a bloodthirsty act of terrorism. Remember the full throated,
angry calls for us to do something, anything, even if it meant
going after people who weren't directly responsible, but who
simply looked as though they might be.
Multiply this by ten, by twenty. Imagine not just watching
the horror unfold on television (which is how most Americans
experienced 9/11), but hearing it, seeing, it, experiencing
it. Imagine picking over the rubble afterwards in search of
your own friends and family. Imagine this happening not just
once in a great while, but often.
Then you might have some clue about the origin of the hatred
that prompted the September 11 massacre of several thousand
people who were "guilty" of nothing more than living in the
United States.
So now we are prepared to go to war with Iraq for no better
reason than that we dislike its leader. No convincing evidence
has been offered that this badly-weakened country poses a
threat to us. There is no evidence that Iraq had anything
to do with the 9/11 attack, and certainly no evidence that
Saddam Hussein even sympathizes with those widely considered
responsible for it.
On the contrary, Bin Laden, the man regarded as the attack's
mastermind, considers Hussein an apostate, and Hussein has
brutally suppressed Islamicists within his own country. But
there is oil involved, and an American election coming up
with embarrassing domestic issues that call for distractions.
And besides, we can't find Osama Bin Laden, and we have to
do something.
I've been told that most Americans support attacking Iraq,
though I'm not sure how true this is. Most of my friends are
progressives, liberals, artists and writers, not exactly a
representative sampling of what is considered the average
American, and a lot of the support I see comes through the
prism of a media I no longer consider reliable. But I'm afraid
that on the few occasions when I've spoken about the upcoming
war with Iraq with those outside my circle, I've heard only
confirmation of what my Iranian friend said two years ago.
A few nights ago at a party I got into a discussion about
the upcoming war with an acquaintance, a nice guy, a family
man. We began arguing about Bush's speech to the UN, and I
pointed out that in fact the United States has repeatedly
broken international law and defied the United Nations. If
Saddam Hussien's defiance of international law makes it all
right for us to attack Iraq, to bomb its cities and kill its
citizens, doesn't our own defiance make it all right for others
to attack us?
My acquaintance smiled at me. He sipped his drink and leaned
back in his seat while in the window behind him, the skyline
of the city where he and his wife and children live glowed
in the evening.
"They're welcome to try," he said, a comfortable resident
of the world's one remaining superpower, confident that his
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Welcome to Dragon Cave! Dragon Cave is an online adoptables game. Collect eggs, raise them to adulthood, and then breed them to create interesting lineages. New types of dragons are added regularly!
Dragons are creatures with nearly unlimited life spans. They can survive for long periods of time, and no one has found a dragon that has died of old age. Adolescence is usually marked by the growth of a hatchling's wings, although not all breeds of dragons grow wings and some breeds have other traits that indicate the beginning of maturation. Once they hit adolescence, hatchlings change quickly, maturing to their full forms in only 2 years.
Dragons don't communicate with each other verbally, but they will growl to scare off predators and frighten prey. Young dragons will emit an extremely high-pitched squeal when they are frightened. To communicate, they use telepathy with each other and to speak to other creatures.
Gold-horned Tangars are a brightly colored tropical breed. They are primarily herbivores, and eat a wide variety of fruits and flowers in addition to the occasional bird. Tangars are well suited to life in the trees; their slender bodies make them light enough to be supported by thinner branches and agile enough to avoid obstacles while flying. Their brightly colored horns, found in both males and females, are used to attract mates.
Tangar is a food loving dragon he has made it his goal to try ever fruit and flower there is excluding the poisonous ones obviously. He is a very kind and giving dragon always sharing his discoveries of new food types and sources with the other dragons.


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For all of you who are attracted by the battered price of Facebook, Inc. (NASDAQ/FB), I suggest you keep on reading: Google Inc. (NASDAQ/GOOG) is the top player in the Internet space, in spite of it hitting an all-time record high of $776.60 last Friday, and here's why.
My stock analysis indicates that some of you may feel that, at nearly $800.00 a share, Google is valued at way too lofty a price. Moreover, some may be spooked by the recent collapse of Apple Inc. (NASDAQ/AAPL) on the price chart after trading at over $705.00 a share in September 2012. What I would say to you is that Google is not Apple, and it's definitely a much better company than Facebook, based on my stock analysis.
In fact, I think Google has more of an opportunity to reach $1,000 than Apple. Of course, that is if Google doesn't undergo a stock split. I recall when Google first debuted in August 2004 at $100.00 a share, when I was debating in my mind whether the stock was a highflier or the real thing. At that time, Internet stocks were really still in their infancy.
The stock chart for Google below shows the stock's upward trending channel and strong relative strength. But you need to be careful, as the stock could decline back to the area defined by the blue circle between $715.00 and the current price. A retrenchment into this space could signal a buy, based on my technical analysis.
Chart courtesy of www.StockCharts.com
Knowing what I have learned over the past eight years, I wish I had picked up some shares of Google; but then again, there will always be opportunities available, as my stock analysis suggests.
I look at Facebook with the same reasoning. Could this be the next Google in the Internet space? At less than $30.00 a share, it sure is tempting; but the valuation is too expensive at this time, compared to Google. Now, if Facebook can really grow its mobile advertising business, I may consider the stock a contrarian pick–but not for the time being.
In the case of Google, a $700.00-plus stock is not cheap; but based on a valuation and comparative basis, my stock analysis suggests that Google is still tops.
According to my stock analysis, Google will continue to dominate and gain market share in the Internet space, especially with its Android-powered "Nexus" smartphones and Wi-Fi Internet offering.
And in spite of its higher stock price, my stock analysis shows the stock continues to attract institutional buying, unlike many of the other major technology companies. Institution investors purchased 220,152 shares over the past quarter-to-quarter, which represents a 0.08% rise in institutional ownership, based on information by Thomson Financial. By comparison, institutional investors have sold 4.8 million shares of Apple over the same period.
Short-selling is also relatively muted, with a mere 3.6 million shares short, or about 1.4% of the float, as of January 15, 2013, according to Thomson Financial.
If you are eyeing Google, my stock analysis suggests that you should wait for weakness to enter, as this has been the recent pattern. Alternatively, my stock analysis indicates that you can also buy call options as a risk-controlled trade.
Please be advised that any stock mentioned is meant only for illustrative purposes and should not be construed as a recommendation. You can use these strategies for many different situations.
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SportsInsights is pleased to review this newly-released book on sports betting, appropriately-named, "Smart Money," by Michael Konik. Over time, SportsInsights will review other books that are useful to sports investors. SIs will also create a library of recommended books for our Members. We'll include books on sports investing, sports, financial markets, and other topics of interest.
The information on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. Use of this information in violation of any federal, state, or local laws is prohibited.
Smart Money is a "fast read" and has some interesting "war stories" related to sports betting. The author had the opportunity to work with a sports syndicate for a period of time. We don't want to give the book away — but suffice it to say: Konik got a good look at some of the inside workings of a syndicate. He tells an interesting story and does a great job of weaving in the thinking, problems, and issues that serious sports investors and syndicates need to consider.
Sports Betting Tidbits
Many books do not offer many new ideas or real value. Smart Money is different. The book includes some real insight and ideas that will help most sports investors in their quest to improve results. Some of these tidbits will be familiar to SportsInsights members. Other ideas will get your mind working and thinking about ways of improving. Here are some highlights:
- Computer-based program: The head of the syndicate used a computer program to set the syndicate's own lines and to obtain value versus the sportsbooks.
- Value: the book often discusses value and how the syndicate would only take a bet at a price they wanted. Moral? Shop for the best line!
- The book would also often find value by "fading the public."
- The syndicate would sometimes view games differently, depending on whether the game was a "large public game" (nationally televised) or a smaller regional game.
- Types of cappers and thinking: The syndicate employed a variety of handicappers and analysts — focusing on issues ranging from: (a) late-breaking news and injuries — to (b) matchups and motivational factors — to (c) traditional capping. This will get most serious investors thinking about how they can most improve their handicapping and results.
- Getting money down. Many of the book's colorful stories are based around the syndicate's problem of getting large amounts of money down on a game. Who wants to take a bet from a long-term winner, right? This is a problem that most of us would love to have… In actuality, there are "levels" to this problem. Once you become a successful and winning sports investor, books will shift you to sharper lines or lower your betting limits. Some will even discourage you from betting at their book. This is one of the reasons why SIs recommends sports exchanges. Betting Exchanges
Take a look at "Smart Money" by Michael Konik. It will be one of your better investments!
Visit the "SI Library" for reviews on other books
We do not guarantee that the trends and biases we've found will continue to exist. It is impossible to predict the future. Any serious academic research in the field of "market efficiencies" recognizes that inefficiencies may disappear over time. Once inefficiencies are discovered, it is only a matter of time before the market corrects itself.


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Considering building a Hackintosh out of a DEll XPS 410 Zoe 2008-05-02 17:42:27 UTC
I have wanted to switch to MAC for a while.
Unfortunately I have not been in the position to make what would be for me a potentially expensive move. All new hardware, software, etc… And for the joy and class of a MAC you pay, a lot.
Recently our good friends the HappyCamperBus decided to abandon the work-a-day world to travel around the country (world???) in a VW bus. As part of this goal they were committed to giving up all earthly possessions that would not fit in the van. Much of these items were sold on ebay or yard sales. But some of them were donated to friends and family. Our friend Alan was given the gift of a DELL XPS 410 (duo-core). A big improvement over his now ancient Pentium 4. The DELL however uses the new BTX form factor for the motherboard, and the configuration made it so the motherboard could not be used in Alan's rack mounted computer rig. Thus he took the chip and bought a new motherboard that would work. So I have inherited the case, motherboard, and ram.
This is a great deal for me as it cuts a lot of the base costs for me to build a new computer. Like Alan I had waited so long to upgrade I was going to have to replace most of the internal components such as video card, at least one hard drive, ram, and so on. The video card being the biggest deal as I need a high powered video card with dual DVI out and the best video cards are not cheap.
So it looked like my dreams of switching to a MAC were still somewhere in the future. But as I consulted with one of my business partners he suggested doing a hackintosh install.
A hackintosh install?
From the Wiki:
OSx86 (a portmanteau of OS X and x86) is a collaborative hacking project to run the Mac OS X computer operating system on non-Apple personal computers with x86 architecture processors. The effort started soon after the June 2005 Worldwide Developers Conference announcement that Apple would be transferring their personal computers from PowerPC to Intel microprocessors.
A computer built to run this type of Mac OS X is sometimes known as a Hackintosh, which is a recycled term originally denoting the modified Lisa 2/10 running Mac System.
So I began doing some research. Would this really work? Could I build a MAC for nearly a third of the cost?
That remains to be seen. I have more research to do as I finish buying my components today. If I go ahead with this I will let you know how it goes. Though I am a little leary of the whole thing, mainly due to the fact that the computer used to be a DELL and who knows what kind of funny proprietary drivers might be involved to make the onboard gigabit NIC and audio (7.1 surround onboard – alright).
If any of you have built hackintoshes I would love to hear your stories and see some pics.
I will keep you up-to-date.
Hack Macs image courtesy of Bascht at Flickr under a creative commons license.


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Although I'm sure most of us try our best to forgo plastic bags at stores, there always seems to be a small stash of them hanging around the house, am I right? And usually there's no good place to put them.
I've designed this bag to hold all of those excess plastic bags attractively and compactly in your kitchen or pantry. It holds a surprising number of bags and will expand to meet most of your plastic bag storage needs. You could even make a longer one or wider one, if necessary.
It's a fun, quick and economical knit using only one skein of a springy, soft organic wool. Enjoy!
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Subject: [ONTARIO] Gilchrist and Anderson speaking in Fergus May 5
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 21:45:57 -0400
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A one day conference with two greater presenters on two diverse topics ;
Leslie Anderson will speak about how to use "Ancestry" and all the good
things can be found on their site, while J. Brian Gilchrist will take the
counter-point and talk about why it is not, and maybe never will be all
available online? Presented by the Wellington County Branch of the Ontario
Genealogical Society and Wellington County Museum and Archives
Aboyne Hall, Wellington County Museum and Archives, 0536 Wellington Road 18
How to use Ancestry to search your family tree
Speaker: Lesley Anderson
10:00 am to 12:00 pm
Lesley Anderson has been pursuing her own family history for more than 35
years. (Yes she started as a teenager!) She shares her enthusiasm for
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primary responsibility is to develop strategic relationships with content
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The Information - The Internet - The Implications: Why "it" is not all
Speaker: Brian Gilchrist
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A fourth-generation Torontonian and a ninth-generation Canadian, J. Brian
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It does sort of sound like you want her on a string -- your dh moves 3K mi from his daughter, he doesn't come back for two months, and yet the mom should jump to accommodate whenever your dh makes himself available, in the interests of the child. But not only is that disrespectful of the mother's time and parenting, I think it's a poor thing to teach a young girl. You don't jump because the man you adore has time to kill in your town this week. If he really wants to be with you, well, then let him make that commitment in his life, and get a local address.
I do hear a lot about unavoidable moves. Understand that not everyone sees most moves as unavoidable, regardless of career.
Dear Op, I think it will just take time. I don't think you or your Dh are wanting anyone to jump at your command, he just wants time with his child. And I am one of those people who understand having to move with a job. Not all skills are transferrable. My Dh has very limited but very technical skills and can only work at certain jobs for instance. Just be patient. If you have to go to court again to get things modified, that's what you do. Since you had true 50/50 custody before, there is probably something that can be done. Sometimes here at this site, it becomes more about the birth mom and her feelings than about the child. Your DH has rights and sounds like a loving father. He should pursue whatever it takes to have time with his daughter. The child benefits from contact with both parents.
When I heard the 'if mom is happy, then the kids are happy' rhetoric from advisors encouraging me to move to fulfill my potential (and even to get a darn job in the awful academic job market), I knew they were just plain misinformed.
Trust me, We know how my step-daughter's mother feels. Perhaps it feels similar to what my husband felt when his ex took his daughter away from him one day and moved 1000 miles to another state and wouldn't let him see her for months. My husband gave up his career, friends, and life to move to where she was and fight for joint custody of his daughter who she took away. Don't bother telling me that SHE feels hurt and inconvenienced by the decision my husband made because it can not possibly compare to how he felt when his daughter was taken from him and he gave up everything to be with her.
|Second, the reason he is there for longer than a weekend is because there is a custody hearing for a motion SHE filed, scheduled by HER lawyer for the middle of this week.
|Finally, we didn't move because of someone's career, so no need to apply any of those arguments to my situation.
I'd never ask you to justify it or explain. But for me, I can tell you that unless the move was prompted by a terrible illness -- a biological parent's illness -- and a specialist across the country, I can't imagine a circumstance in which what I'd said would change. In the end, yes, this is about the child, and the child's priority.
She is doing very well with the living situation... she is simply not doing well with her papa being in town and not being able to see him and no one able to give her a good enough reason why not.
It would be helpful if, should you feel like giving me advice, you would start from a place of assuming that we are loving, stable, responsible parents doing the absolute best we can with the hand we've been dealt and putting the interests of our children above all else, with the interests of our step-daughter always above all else... even when it doesn't seem like it from where you are sitting.
The child likely also has a routine in place for school days, and those "extra" days that Dad's there disrupts the routine. I'm not sure I'd be thrilled with that, either. Especially if *I* then had to deal with the fallout.
Is it a shame that the little girl has a more limited amount of time to her Daddy? Sure, it is. But... Daddy's the one who created that limitation.
Angilyn, I'm 40, and went back to work recently after a few years off the market entirely, and before that a long history of part-time work. I work in a field where I had no prior experience. Most low-level admin/mgmt jobs don't require much if any prior experience; that's why you see 25-year-old managers in retail stores. 50s are certainly tougher, esp for men, and esp if there is no BA, but I used to see my community college students swing it. Lose the farm, get a job driving truck and go to school at night to retrain. Accountancy was a favorite, and yes, they got jobs in the end. In any case, it's a bit of a reach to say that any American has to move thousands of miles to make enough to live on and pay c/s. To get a job in a particular field, yes. To get a job, no.
As for the kids' mom, you're sure she'd really want your dh to move out of her kids' daily lives so that she could keep the house? If so, she must not think much of their relationship. There's no love lost between me and XH, but if it was necessary to camp out in a small apt so dd could still have two parents around, that's what we'd be doing.
In my experience, routine is nothing compared to spending more time with a parent. Dss's mother moved away and it broke his heart. The courts told us to get over it. It is what it is. Now, how do we make sure dss is happy and conected to both parents given the fact that she lives very far away, is rather flakey, and shows up randomly? I can't imagine making dss continue on with his routine (afterschool YMCA, karate lessons, Wednesday playdate, etc.) when his mom was in town just waiting to spend time with him. There's nothing he'd want more. Keep in mind, I don't like this woman, I think she is a nut, and it bugs me to no end that she moved away. Still. Dss wants to see her and he is happier with her more in his life.
However, I think the OP's question was how to tell the dss. I guess I'd ask the mother what she'd like me to say. Or, I might say, "That is what the custody arrangement says."
I'm also having trouble with the fact that people who are willing to sacrifice careers, relationships, family, education, financial advancement, and their other children for the sake of their child are not willing to put forth the effort required to help their child manage a change in routine, or to be incovenienced by a change in their own life so the child can see their other parent.
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Actress Rachel McAdams embodies what is an apparent gender gap in New Year's resolutions about going green.
Women feel more guilty than men about not living a greener life and are more determined to take specific eco-measures next year, according to a recent survey by Tiller LLC, a consulting firm on advocacy marketing programs.
Of the 1,000 adults surveyed, 41% of the women say they have "green guilt" compared with 27% of men. Also: 52% of women said they are "very likely" to recycle more, compared with 33% of men; 51% plan to carry their own bag to the supermarket, compared with 30% of men; 48% intend to reduce their household's energy usage, compared with 32% of men.
Conscious of that eco-guilt is McAdams, who co-stars with Robert Downey Jr. in the new Sherlock Holmes movie. She and her friends have their own GreenisSexy.org website, so she's no stranger to eco-thinking. She talks more about it in a recent Vogue interview:
I look at the world through a green lens now, but you can't make yourself crazy. That feeling of green guilt can be really inhibiting. It's about a changing mind-set, remembering to turn off the water when you are brushing your teeth....
I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
Like McAdams, I also look at the world through a green lens, a gradual transformation that accelerated once I sold a 5,000 square-foot home a year ago and began planning to build an ultra-efficient home half the size.
Having spent 10 years in Catholic school, I have a well-developed guilt complex that covers my own efforts to live a simpler, more eco-friendly life. I often feel I'm not doing enough. Here are my own New Year's resolutions:
A year from now, I'll report on how well I did.
Readers: What are your New Year's resolutions?
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


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Slide release
If you press the slide release while there is an empty mag or no mag does this damage the gun at all?
Most pistols should not be allowed to let the slide slam forward on an empty chamber.
When a pistol is functioning correctly, the slide normally slams forward loading another round.
This is when the trigger is held to the most rearward position (which "locks" the works in position).
Allowing the slide to slam forward on an empty chamber is normally done with the finger off the trigger (and the internals are not "locked" in place).
After fixing numerous 1911's that have been so treated by overzealous gun pushers in sports stores, I believe it is a bad idea and a bad habit one should not get into.
you can damage the bolt face or the chamber. 22lr are the exception, there is not enough recoil spring force to cause damage.
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Ideate with Unilever in Health and Wellness
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 from 12:00 PM to 6:00 PM (GMT)
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Are you looking for potential cofounders to work on ideas on the wellbeing space?
Are you passionate about health, sports, beauty or food, and are you looking to identify an opportunity to work in?
Do you want to know what Unilever is looking for in areas such as Health and Wellness?
Founders Fit is running a full day Ideation day with Unilever in the areas of Health and Wellness. The event will bring together talented designers, technologists and business people to explore the opportunities to exploit Univer's API related to health and wellbeing.
In this event, Unilever will show and open their HeartAge API to the entrepreneurs attending the event. During the day, cross disciplinary teams of 4-6 entrepreneurs and experts will generate ideas and design products, applications and services that can be implemented using the HeartAge Tool. At the end of the day, the teams will present the ideas in front of a panel of experts, including some Unilever representatives. The best 10 ideas will be selected to be developed in a hackathon the first weekend in December.
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Participants will have the opportunity to meet innovators from Unilever and from other companies and startups related to health and wellness industry. Teams will brainstorm ideas and present potential new applications using the HeartAge API.
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Founders Fit helps you connect with highly talented designers, strategists and technologists with professional experience who are willing to join you as cofounders. We help you find the right fit based on your skills, interests and stage of startup. Chance meetings with people who can help you can have a significant impact on your startup journey. We help make those chance meetings happen!