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A postdoctoral researcher in UB's School of Public Health and
Health Professions has been awarded a Banting Fellowship,
Canada's most prestigious award for postdoctoral
Postmenopausal women who have a history of gum disease have a
higher risk of cancer, according to a UB-led study of more than
65,000 women that's also the first to report an association between
the disease and gallbladder cancer risk.
Assisted by University at Buffalo research, Coolture seeks to
expand beyond the medical device market.
The UB math students competing on NBC's second season of
"Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge" edged out the
competition by six seconds in the second round of the series,
earning a trip to the final night of competition.
The Office of Shared Governance is leading the charge to make UB
a truly smoke-free campus.
Learning from the 'mammalian diving reflex,'
UB researchers have successfully tested face cooling to prevent
steep drops in blood pressure during simulated blood loss, a
prehospital intervention that EMTs and battlefield medics could one
day use to save lives.
Gregory Wilding has been named chair of the Department of
Biostatistics in UB's School of Public Health and Health
Inequity is evident globally, with less than 1 percent of
households in Ethiopia and 96.4 percent in Serbia having access to
soap and water for handwashing.
Twenty-five UB students will receive $25,000 in scholarship and
internship support through fellowship program made possible by the
Prentice Family Foundation.
Alum Jordan Marwin's enthusiasm in encouraging prospective
players steals the show at the hockey league's scouting
Four UB students are competing on the upcoming season of
"Spartan: Ultimate Team Challenge," the hit NBC
competition series featuring a mile-long obstacle course filled
with mud, water and fire.
While tobacco control advocates are pushing for "a kind of
prohibition" on cigarettes, the cannabis community is doing quite
the opposite, researchers say.
Officers who work afternoons are more likely to be fatigued,
which puts them at greater risk for accidents, errors and stress,
according to results of UB-led study that won first place in
national conference poster competition.
Leonard Epstein also has been named to the editorial board of
JAMA Pediatrics, the highest impact journal in pediatrics.
One study will look at the barriers to PrEP usage through
interviews with patients and clinicians, while the other will
investigate a less invasive method for measuring PrEP
$875,861 study funded by the Naval Sea Systems Command will have
applications for military and commercial diving.
Beginning in fall 2017, UB's School of Public Health and Health
Professions will offer three new academic programs: undergraduate
degrees in public health and statistics, and a combined
bachelor's in exercise science and master's in athletic
The School of Public Health and Health Professions' 2017
Step Challenge was a rousing success, with 1,700 participants
taking more than 300 million steps.
James Smist was seven years old when his father, Felix Smist,
graduated in mechanical engineering from the UB School of
Engineering and Applied Sciences.
Speakers and workshop sessions addressed the theme of improving
health literacy for Buffalo's refugee population.
Women at the highest genetic risk for fracture benefit the most
from hormone therapy, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by
UB researchers.
Annual summit convenes scholars, resettlement agencies, service
providers, community support centers, municipal agencies and
refugees to explore barriers and solutions to promote culturally
engaged health care for refugees in Buffalo.
Applications for undergraduate admission at UB are up 7.5
percent over last year, and are expected to top 27,000 for the
first time.
UB-led study is among the largest and focuses exclusively on
postmenopausal women in whom periodontitis, total tooth loss and
cardiovascular disease is high nationally.
UB study may be first to relate children's oral health to
obesity and Type 2 diabetes.
All 52 UB occupational therapy graduates who took the 2016
National Board for Certification of Occupational Therapists (NBCOT)
exam within a year of graduation passed the test.
UB study yields neural crest cells from adult skin cells, and
could lead to new treatments for Parkinson's and other brain
Since taking part in the inaugural SPHHP Step Challenge last
year, UB staff member Michael May has lost more than 80 pounds.
Major national studies provide little evidence that e-cigarette
users move to smoking cigarettes as a result, researchers from UB,
Michigan write.
Freudenheim will present research on periodontal disease and
breast cancer in postmenopausal women as part of the 41st annual
American Society of Preventive Oncology (ASPO) Conference in
UB researcher says public health experts need to be more up
front with parents in explaining that CDC dietary recommendations
may not help children who have been exposed to lead.
Results suggest that product satisfaction, perceived harm or
danger and product type all work together to promote use or
avoidance, researchers say.
R. Lorraine Collins was a member of National Academies panel
that produced a landmark report on the health effects of
FDA ad campaign geared toward rural teens who use smokeless
tobacco products fails to provide public with important information
on relative risks of smokeless tobacco compared to traditional
cigarettes, Kozlowski and Sweanor write.
A study of more than 300 members of the Buffalo Police
Department suggests that police events or conditions considered
highly stressful by officers may be associated with disturbances of
the normal awakening cortisol pattern.
iPad Minis, Fitbits, fitness gear and other prizes are up for
grabs this spring as the Step Challenge sponsored by the University
at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health Professions returns
for a second year.
Researchers will tackle urban infrastructure and groundwater,
air pollution, green infrastructure and stormwater management, and
development of lower-cost solar cells.
Research team led by Jo Freudenheim will examine DNA methylation
differences in e-cig users compared to non-smokers and smokers.
Study of more than 1,500 men highlights need to make treatment
decisions as informed and supported as possible, researchers
Among their findings, researchers discovered that nicotine
levels in 'washed' hookah tobacco products were 236 percent higher,
overall, than the product labeling claimed.
Cigarette smoking, heavy drinking, physical inactivity and poor
diet remain key public health challenges for active duty personnel
and veterans.
Google's Toilet Locator could provide an innovative
solution to India's open defecation problem in urban locales,
but major challenges remain in mitigating the issue in rural areas
where it's most common, says Pavani Ram.
Two projects addressing refugee health issues in Buffalo and a
study on the effects of air pollution on pregnant women in China
have been selected to receive funding through the Community for
Global Health Equity.
Sandro Galea says the decline in motor vehicle fatalities can be
used as a case study for reducing gun violence.
UB researcher, two Buffalo Niagara YMCAs partner to test out new
exercise program that focuses on benefits of exercise.
Sandro Galea, dean of Boston University's School of Public
Health, will discuss the public health issues related to gun
violence in a talk titled "Can We Mitigate the Gun Violence
Surprising results point to several factors that may explain why
this serious condition is on the rise.
It's one of the only research centers in the world that
allows scientists to study extreme environments, from a mile of
ocean depth to nearly 23 miles into Earth's stratosphere, and
everything in between. And it's back up and running in its
home at UB.
Taking place on World Food Day, Oct. 16, session at Habitat III
conference will focus on food systems planning and policy.
Appointment of Jo L. Freudenheim, who served as interim chair
since 2014 and was chair from 2006 to 2013, is effective Oct.
The multi-year study will analyze how emissions may have
impacted the health of area residents and employees.
UB pharmacy and physical therapy students will travel across
Western New York to improve the health of local older adults
through the new Interprofessional Falls Risk Reduction Program.
In a new finding, UB researchers have shown in mice that
glutamate plays a vital role in controlling how muscles and nerves
are wired together during development.
UB developed smartphone app for people living with HIV may help
lead to faster intervention in cases where substance use — or
life in general — get in the way of antiretroviral therapy
Eight-week National Institute on Drug Abuse program introduces
undergraduate students to the field of substance abuse and
addiction research.
Program encourages collaboration among researchers, while
serving as a springboard to external funding.
Consortium of MS Centers recognizes Susan Bennett as pioneer in
comprehensive care of patients with multiple sclerosis.
R. Lorraine Collins was named to committee that will develop a
report summarizing adverse health effects of marijuana use,
drug's potential therapeutic uses.
Panel's recommendations are not warranted until long-term
studies on representative samples of smokers show this is good for
public health overall, Lynn T. Kozlowski writes in new journal
Through the Global Innovation Challenge, teams of UB students
developed actionable ideas to improve water, sanitation and hygiene
— or WaSH — access to schoolchildren in India and
STAC panel members review scientific and medical evidence and
offer recommendations to the WTC Health Program administrator on
member eligibility criteria, as well as WTC-related health
If successful with HCV, telemedicine could be a valuable
approach to treating other diseases where patients face similar
It's time to modernize the decades-old tobacco control
strategies that rely on an "all or nothing" approach
and which are confusing the public, Lynn Kozlowski and David Abrams
The American Association for Cancer Research presented its 10th
annual Team Science Award to the Women's Health Initiative, for
which UB serves as Northeast Regional Center.
UB's Research Institute on Addictions will continue its critical
research training and professional development of addiction
researchers with the support of another five-year, $2 million grant
for training postdoctoral associates.
UB undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students will work in
teams to develop social, economic, technological and public policy
solutions to sanitation challenges faced by schoolchildren around
the world.
Thousands of UB students will don caps and gowns this week as
families fly in from around the world to attend UB's
commencement celebrations.
"I think the new regulations will pose problems for smaller
businesses that make e-cigarettes. These companies likely will not
have the resources to deliver all the information the FDA is asking
for," says UB tobacco expert Gary Giovino.
Some 5,846 students are candidates to receive degrees during
UB's commencement ceremonies from April 29 through May 21.
Millions of people visit the websites of the Mayo Clinic,
American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, among others, seeking authoritative health information.
But are they receiving it?
The University at Buffalo is establishing a new center to
conduct research on the human microbiome, the collective
microorganisms that live on and in the human body.
Post-menopausal women who use metformin long-term for the
treatment of diabetes may be at lower risk for developing certain
cancers and dying from these diseases.
The percentage of African-American high school seniors who smoke
has changed very little over the past two decades, UB tobacco
expert Gary Giovino reports in a journal supplement he
From refugee housing plans to help spur economic development on
Buffalo's East Side, to a health summit and a symposium, UB
faculty and students are actively engaged in refugee efforts.
Issam Smeir is the keynote speaker for UB's third annual Refugee
Health Summit, which runs from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April
2, at the Arthur O. Eve Educational Opportunity Center, 555
Ellicott St., Buffalo.
UB will mark National Public Health Week with events
highlighting issues that are important to improving our nation.
The six-day program, which includes lectures, workshops and
more, kicks off today.
Film screenings, symposia and a health summit will address the
myriad issues related to this global problem.
School of Public Health and Health Professions challenges UB
community to take 16 million steps during April.
Thirteen graduate students in an interdisciplinary studio
offered through the UB School of Architecture and Planning spent
three weeks in India collaborating with partners there to help
develop a much-needed public sanitation plan.
University of Flint-Michigan professor and UB alumna Michelle
Sahli will discuss the Flint water crisis in a presentation Feb. 29
at UB.
The three-decades-old hyperbaric chamber housed in Sherman Annex
on UB's South Campus is being upgraded, and the project will
be handled by a Western New York company whose three generations of
UB engineering graduates know the chamber inside and out.
Partnership to emphasize interprofessional education focused on
safe prescribing practices and culture change.
States should take advantage of the flexibility they have to
adopt different legal purchasing ages, Lynn Kozlowski writes in the
current issue of Issues in Science and Technology.
A study of college students from four upstate New York
universities finds that young adults use e-cigarettes for affective
reasons, such as enjoyment, not for cognitive purposes like
quitting smoking.
You're 25 times more likely to become president than to
win the jackpot, a UB biostatistician says. But unbelievably rare
things happen every day.
Women who report having periodontal disease are at greater risk
for breast cancer, especially if they smoke or recently quit
smoking, according to University at Buffalo research published in
Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
Biostatistics professor emeritus Randy Carter and his wife will
spend six months in India, a place that made a profound impact on
their late son.
Gary Giovino, PhD, is facilitating the development of the
Bloomberg Philanthropies Data for Health non-communicable disease
risk factor mobile phone survey.
UB researchers are studying whether plant sterols can be used as
a natural alternative to drug therapy in expectant mothers who have
high cholesterol.
Jean Wactawski-Wende, dean of the School of Public Health and
Health Professions, is the 88th UB faculty member to earn the rank
of SUNY Distinguished Professor.
UB was awarded $6.2 million for its Women's Health Initiative
Extension Study from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
of the National Institutes of Health.
From modest beginnings to groundbreaking research, the
University at Buffalo School of Public Health and Health
Professions this fall celebrates the 50th anniversary of its
predecessor, the School of Health Related Professions.
UB takes leadership role in NSF plan to use data analytics to
solve pressing societal problems.
The School of Public Health and Health Professions has come a
long way from the early days of basement classrooms on Winspear
Martin Morgan, PhD, joins the University at Buffalo and Roswell
Park Cancer Institute from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in Seattle.
Mood disorders like depression are common among U.S. adults.
Still, such disorders remain challenging for clinicians to diagnose
and treat effectively.
Officers who responded showed PTSD symptoms six years after the
hurricane, according to a study by UB's John Violanti.
Public shows "considerable lack of knowledge" about
the risk associated with different types of tobacco products, UB
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Welcome to the 2005-2006 school year and to Intercom, the faculty, staff, and student information center for Ithaca College. Through Intercom, all members of the campus community can learn about news, events, and developments across South Hill as well as receive notices from their IC colleagues.
Opening Enrollment
Last weekend, Ithaca College welcomed to campus 1,876 new students -- a number that represents 1,704 freshmen and 172 transfers. Coming off a year in which we graduated a very large class in May, we set high expectations for ourselves in our admission efforts and are pleased to have come so close to hitting a bull's-eye on our enrollment targets. The School of Business, in particular, had an exceptional recruiting year. With retention of returning students meeting our expectations as well, we project our overall undergraduate and graduate enrollment to be 6,398 students.
The incoming class has an outstanding academic profile, including among it 37 valedictorians, 30 salutatorians, and 15 national merit scholars. This is also one of the most diverse classes, as a record 10.3% have self-identified as students of color. The gender balance has dramatically improved from last year and is counter to the national trend, with males making up 47.6% of the class versus only 42.8% last year. The far-reaching appeal of an Ithaca education is evident in the geographic distribution of the class of 2009, with students coming from 40 states, 2 U.S. territories, and 32 countries. It is also worth noting that 47 students are children of alumni, 24 are children of faculty or staff members, and 65 are siblings of current students.
IC Up in the Rankings
Ithaca once again has been ranked as one of "America's Best Colleges" by U.S. News and World Report, while The Princeton Review counts Ithaca among the nation's Best 361 Colleges.
Diversity Task Force Report Released
President Peggy R. Williams has released the report from the Presidential Task Force on Diversity, which will help guide the College in addressing the diversity priority of the Institutional Plan.
Special Events
An early-semester highlight will be a campus visit by distinguished journalist Bill Moyers, this year's Park Distinguished Visitor. Moyers will deliver a free public lecture on Tuesday, September 13, then hold a "town hall" meeting the following day exclusively for members of the campus community. Look for more information soon on Intercom.
In 2003 we launched the First-Year Reading Initiative, a program designed to introduce incoming students to the Ithaca College community of learners. This year's selection was Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried, about his experiences during and after the Vietnam War. O'Brien will deliver a free public lecture on campus on Thursday, September 8. Two additional public presentations will be held to further the discussion generated by The Things They Carried.
Intercom: "Series of Public Presentations to be Held in Conjunction with First-Year Reading Initiative"
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What makes Intercom special is that you make it work. The stories are submitted by you and your colleagues so that everyone can know about the latest accomplishments, events, and opportunities taking place throughout the Ithaca College community. And it's updated continually, as new stories are submitted.
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The Intercom team spent the summer working on a number of changes and improvements. You can read all about them in "Intercom Gets More Improvements."
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karol wolicki
there are never events and there are Never Ever events. Anyone who expects that these are more than targets for outcomes, rather than actual enforceable outcomes, has never actually practiced medicine. To expect that you will never get decubiti in a 600 lb patient is ludicrous. Likewise for urinary catheter infections in immobile patients. Likewise for ventilator related pneumonia in life threatening health situations in the ICU. As to sponge counts, wrong site, wrong patient events, these should be amenable to improved protocols. BUT, before claiming the tragedy of 4500 erroneous events, lets see what the denominator looks like. 4500 errors, out of 100 billion decisions, events, medical judgement calls may fall well below the noise threshold of the study. And let's not exclude contributory negligence on the part of the patient for which we cannot be held wholly, or sometimes even partially responsible. Don't expect this to get better when Obamacare expects better results with less money and fewer caretakers! For all its complexity, a commercial airliner is less complex, and less variable than the average human being, so don't extrapolate techniques and goals for error elimination in these two very different circumstances..
Kirkwood RN 57106
I would love to see where Ms.Wolicki got her statistics from. I think mixing her personal political beliefs into this article is poor judgment. As an RN who has worked in several states (hospital nursing) I can attest to the basic premise of this article that ALL hospitals and healthcare personnel need to continually look at and review, institute and follow safety protocols. In one west coast hospital (deemed one of the best) the medication error rate was high. Knowing the department head would be attending a meeting to address what to do about this, I suggested that whenever a medication list was copied over onto another chart page one licensed nurse copy it, and have another licensed nurse double check it and both initial it for accuracy. This procedure drastically reduced med errors in a hospital in Indiana. Her response was, 'That's not the way we do it here'. Gee, I was silly enough to think that this meeting to discuss the high rate of medication errors was to get suggestions on how to reduce them. How does on reduce Physician errors? I would say, from my own observations of doctor relations, is to get rid of all doctors who think they are gods. These are the ones who are dangerous - who cannot explain why they do things their way, who refuse to listen to allied healthcare personnel's concerns about a patient, who blame others for the mistakes they make. If a physician cannot listen to concerns, calmly explain the rationale for their actions and cannot respond respectfully when a patient has concerns, fears or questions then (s)he is better off working in the morgue where they "can do no harm". My apologies to all physicians who do a good job with patient and co-worker relationships. Of course this is not directed at you. All I ask from you is to NOT cover for a colleague that you know or suspect to be questionable in treatment procedures..


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Smart Shay...Don't pick that one!!!
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Smart Shay...Don't pick that one!!!
His sister would just HATE Tierra - wake up studley :lol
AshLee's bringin' it to Tierra.
Well, Tierrable DID open the door.
Oh now Tierra is claiming the others are sabotaging her. What a stupid cow.
Whooooo . . .
Tierra is even more of a bitch than I THOUGHT she was.
A DELUSIONAL bitch, at that.
Shay is a smart cookie. Her daughter has made her feelings about Tierra clear all season.
Men love her. Well, that says it all.
She is bringing up AshLee's age and she is yelling. I hope they can hear her on the beach.
Shay told him not to pick the girl everyone hates. Clue slapping Sean.
Seriously, how hard is it to say good morning to other people?
She thinks she is not rude? She can't control her eyebrow and she sparkles.
Sh*t is about to hit the fan!!!!
:yay Shay is going to meet Tierra
Tierra has a "sparkle," according to mommy and daddy. :rofl
Why does she keep harping on AshLee's age? Is she feeling like the immature idiot she is?


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At the Central Texas SPCA, we treat our shelter pets with the same love and care we give our own, and that means providing them regular medical and dental care, monthly heartworm and flea preventative and annual vaccinations. Our unique shelter provides a homelike environment that focuses on constantly improving our pets' mental and physical well being to ensure they remain highly adoptable and happy while waiting for their new, forever families to find them. You will not find stark metal kennels and harsh environments at the CTSPCA! Instead, you'll discover a clean, spacious, and comfortable environment. Our cats live in communal condos with poles, window ledges for lounging and catwalks to trot about their enclosures. The indoor kennels where our dogs sleep at night and stay indoors during inclement weather have warm beds to snuggle into and many toys for their enjoyment. The outdoor dog runs allow them to buddy up with their favorite canine companion, splash around in pools, toss about a ball or two, or just hang out in the shade of built-in cabanas. With supervision, shelter dogs enjoy the freedom of running off-lead individually over two fully fenced acres during the hours we are closed to the public. This attention to detail and extra effort makes the CTSPCA a happy way station on the path to Finding Forever Families (TM).
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I've been trying to get my apartment in order and of the many unpleasant jobs involved with that is; lining the kitchen cabinets and drawers with contact paper. What a nightmare of a job that is!
I've been putting it off for the whole week and a half I've lived here…it's the last big job I have to do, but somehow I keep finding other tasks that are more important and require more immediate attention, like watching grass grow.
So I finally started this on Wednesday night…it took me over an hour to do 2 drawers and one cabinet, and just as I was getting in to a good rhythm I ran out of contact paper…figures.
Anyway, the first drawer went beautifully and easily…and because of this I had a false sense of confidence in my skills for the process of measuring, cutting and placing the paper in one nice swoop.
The second drawer was not as easy but still manageable….the cabinet…ohhhh the cabinet. After measuring and cutting the proper size of paper I was trying to place the paper in one smooth motion….well that didn't go to well…I had to keep pulling the paper off and retry to orient and place it but then it kept sticking to itself. This got really frustrating really quickly! I was getting really heated so I had to take a little time out and walk around my apartment …that contact paper was not going to get the best of me!
Anyway, after about 25 minutes of fighting with the paper, I managed to get it looking somewhat decent.
So now I'm in the zone, ready to knock out some more cabinets and I ran out of contact paper. What a slap in the face!
The next day I got a couple of more rolls of contact paper and went back at it…at this point I'm completely unenthused.
It of course was not any easier then the day before…if anything it got more difficult as I went on…probably because of lack of motivation and desire for the project!
After spending an hour-ish measuring, cutting, peeling and sticking that stuff to my cabinets; I only finished 3 cabinets…3 CABINETS…I still have 4 to go...I just couldn't do it anymore so I threw in the towel!
I would like to say I will finish the final 4 cabinets this afternoon…but I think I'd be lying to you!
Life Lesson: Do not start this project.
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ST. PETERSBURG — The City Council plans to ban people from stopping in a median for anything other than crossing the street, which could affect myriad groups, from charities to panhandlers, political campaigns to newspaper vendors.
"It's about safety," said council chairman Jamie Bennett. "We don't need people out in the middle of the street."
The police and Mayor Rick Baker endorse the proposal, but community groups already are organizing against it. A public hearing is scheduled for Oct. 2. A second vote is required before the measure takes effect.
"We've always opposed any ordinance that would limit our ability to help needy families," said Winthrop Newton, president of the St. Petersburg Association of Firefighters, which holds regular "Fill the Boot" campaigns for the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
"The MDA and the union will come out and oppose this," he said. "Groups like ours are being safe and the public looks forward to us being there. It's evident by the collection that we take."
The St. Petersburg Times has a contractor who handles street sales in Pinellas County.
"Times vendors have been selling papers at street corners and medians for many years and thousands of citizens find it a convenience," said Andrew Corty, Times vice president and spokesman. "It sounds like the council is solving a problem that doesn't exist."
The council has haggled over cleaning up the city's medians for years. Similar bans were proposed and abandoned because of public opposition in 2004 and 2007. State law bans anyone from standing in the road to solicit a ride, employment or business from a driver, but standing on medians or sidewalks is legal.
Council members say standing in a media shouldn't be legal because it's too risky. Largo and Tampa are considering similar measures this month. But the measure is being revisited in St. Petersburg in part to address concerns about the area's growing homeless population.
Council member Herb Polson said he gets complaints all the time about panhandlers near Tyrone Square Mall.
"There is hardly an intersection in town where you won't find one, two, three, four, five people working the street," he said.
A city ordinance prohibits panhandling downtown, but the city's legal staff said a citywide measure could violate the First Amendment.
"This doesn't mean a person can't hold up a sign and ask for money. You just have to go to the sidewalk to do it," Polson said.
Bennett said he agreed to revisit the measure after recently observing a group of small children standing on a street median selling candy.
"I was just horrified," he said. "They were all running in the road."


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Move over Miley Cyrus and Robin Thicke. Lady Gaga and R&B king R. Kelly have hit the headlines with an awkward but sexually provocative performance on American sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live.
Gaga also guest-hosted the episode, which earned SNL its best ratings of the season, and performed comedy skits and three songs but it was the raunchy live version of Do What You Want that got all the attention.
White-suited Kelly joined Gaga on stage, who was wearing a revealing spangly jumpsuit, about a minute into their joint single. Kelly then threw Gaga over her shoulder, stroked her behind, then straddled her while she was laying on the ground, doing what looked like reproductive push-ups above the singer. R. (which stands for Robert) Kelly lasted as long in that position as it will take you to read this sentence.
Gaga also straddled Kelly while he was standing, but the whole routine lacked sexual sizzle.
Her comic routines on the SNL episode included 'Waking Up With Kimye', in which she played a nerdy Apple Genius Bar employee tricked into appearing on Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's fictional morning talk show. Gaga mocked herself during the sketch, saying "honestly, I don't care about fashion. Sometimes I think that people who try too hard with their outfits are maybe hiding something".
She also made fun of herself in another routine, appearing as a has-been ex-star trying to get recognition from an employee of the apartments she lives in.
Gaga also performed Gypsy and a jazz version of Applause, both off her new album Artpop.
Her performances generated a mixed response on Twitter, where Gaga has the third most popular account, with just over 40 million followers. Many called it "bizarre", "awkward" and one punter admitted being "traumatized" by it.
Writing on website The Daily Beast, critic Kevin Fallon said Gaga "acquitted herself extremely well ... without a hint of the stiffness [shown by Katy Perry]". But where the talented performer "had a potential to win a standing ovation, it concluded to polite golf claps".
"Gaga boasts the triumvirate of attributes that should make for a stellar SNL outing, but the episode never managed to fuse her skillset and with intelligent sketches that properly capitalized on her fearlessness as a performer," Fallon wrote.
Gaga has been hitting the PR trail hard lately to generate attention for Artpop, and arguably draw attention away from the pop world's most visible star at the moment, Miley Cyrus.
Artpop reached number one in the UK album charts and debuted at number two in the ARIA charts, although her new singles have yet to top the charts. Her last number one was Born This Way in 2011.
Last week Gaga announced she would visit Australia next year on a brief promotional tour for Artpop.


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July's jobs report showed that employers added only 162,000 new jobs last month, a sign that the recovery may be slowing down. Economics correspondent Paul Solman breaks down the latest numbers and looks at what they mean for the long-term outlook for the U.S. economy. Continue reading
Does new or increased use of technology have a hand in disappointing job growth? Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the March numbers and some key longer-term job market trends with Lisa Lynch, former chief economist at the Labor Department, and Andrew McAfee of MIT's Center for Digital Business. Continue reading
The latest round of economic reports show consumer confidence at its highest level since 2007. Consumer spending and home sales are up, as well defense spending. Jeffrey Brown talks to investment advisor Hugh Johnson about the new data — good and bad — including exports decline, job growth rates, and the effect on campaigns. Continue reading
Some citizens risked their lives to vote in Afghanistan's weekend elections. The vote counting is expected to be slow and numerous reports of fraud at the polls will be investigated. Gwen Ifill reports. Continue reading
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I'm really excited that I figured out how to import my Etsy listings to my Woocommerce based eCommerce site, VintageReveries. I did this all with free plugins and programs.
Here is what I did to import over 100 product listings on Etsy to my Woocommerce site last night:
- installed WooCommerce CSV Import
- downloaded my product listings CSV from Etsy
- formatted the spreadsheet using OpenOffice. I had to rename and delete various columns. This required a few tries before I got it right! The most difficult thing was importing the product images, because I had to figure out how to merge columns while keeping the data, and having that data separated by |
- to merge the columns, I created a new column called picture (as per the sample csv provided by the plugin) and used the formula =CONCATENATE( O2; "|"; P2; "|"; Q2; "|"; R2; "|"; S2 ) – In a google search, I found this forum post and this forum post on OpenOffice, which gave me the idea to use this spreadsheet forumla.
- then, I copied the formula and hit "paste special" for the other 109 cells in the column…
- at this point, I saved the csv as new, so I wouldn't lose where I was at, incase of failure
- after saving, I deleted Etsy's picture columns which were columns O,P, Q, R, & S in my spreadsheet…. I also deleted the columns not specified by the spreadsheet
- to make the tags pretty, I hit "find and replace" and replaced Etsy's _ with spaces, and I had to replace Etsy's commas with | as per the plugin's example spreadsheet data.
- I saved and uploaded my spreadsheet and waited for a few minutes…
… when I got a 404 error, I wanted to pull my hair out… but just incase, I checked my products. It worked, and all my Etsy products were in Woocommerce! I hadn't categorized them on the spreadsheet, so just used the wordpress bulk edit tool to place them in appropriate categories. This took about 2 minutes.
The main product photos are a little messed up, but I'm thinking this is just a spreadsheet formatting issue.
The hardest part was figuring out how to format the csv spreadsheet correctly, after having not really done anything with spreadsheets since 2007-ish.
Anyway, this saves me a bunch of time in listing Etsy items and keeping my self hosted ecommerce site updated! It was taking me approximately 5-10 minutes per product to manually copy/paste and upload pictures into my ecommerce site from Etsy, or visa versa… and that little bit of extra time adds up, and doesn't make sense for cheaper/lower profit items! Because of that, I was thinking that I'd just switch to selling exclusively on Etsy, turning VintageReveries into a blog with maybe a few featured products… but I'm so happy to change that plan!


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - Tracy Belton and Jamaal Fudge racked up defensive scores on back-to-back series to help key a third-quarter surge, leading the 2013 South Division Champion Jacksonville Sharks (12-6) to a 52-44 victory over the Tampa Bay Storm (7-11) in front of 10,409 at the Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena on Saturday night.
The win allowed the Sharks to reach the 12-win mark for the third time in the team's three seasons as a franchise. The Sharks wrapped up the regular season with perfect records of 6-0 in divisional play and 11-0 against the American Conference. The Sharks are the only AFL team to run the table against its own division and conference this season. The Sharks will be the number one seed in the American Conference after San Antonio upset Philadelphia Saturday night.
Jacksonville starting quarterback Bernard Morris was removed from the game on the team's second drive after being facemasked by a Storm defender, giving way to Kyle Rowley for the remainder of the contest. Rowley led the Sharks to three touchdowns in the first half, hitting Josh Philpart with a perfect touch pass for a 17-yard score in the final minute of the first half, giving the Sharks a 28-21 lead at the break. Worth noting is that Morris remained in full uniform on the Sharks' bench for the rest of the game.
Tampa Bay scored on its first drive of the third quarter, as Shane Boyd hit Joe Hills from 19-yards out to tie the game at 28. On the Sharks' next drive, Marco Capozzoli nailed a 22-yard field goal to help Jacksonville reclaim the lead. At that point, the Shark defense made a series of game-changing plays to change the course of the game.
With the Storm facing a second-and-five from its own 19, Boyd fired a pass to the left. Shark defensive back Tracy Belton jumped the route, snatched the ball from the Tampa Bay receiver and sprinted to the end zone for a 20-yard interception return for a touchdown. It was Belton's third interception as a Shark and first pick-six of the season.
The Storm offense returned to the field with a first-down completion, as Boyd connected with Hills for a 15-yard pickup. On the next snap, Boyd fumbled the snap, and the ball lay on the turf for several seconds before Shark Jack linebacker Jamaal Fudge snatched it up and dashed to the end zone for a fumble return touchdown. Fudge's play made the score 45-28, and also marked the first time since Week 1 of the 2012 season that the Sharks notched two defensive scores in the same game.
Though Tampa Bay racked up 16 points in the fourth quarter, the Sharks cruised to victory in that final frame. Newcomer Shamar Graves capped the Sharks' scoring with just over three minutes left in the game, hauling in an 11-yard touchdown from Rowley one play after Graves recovered an onside kick. In his return to Jacksonville, Graves racked up 108 yards and a touchdown on a game-high total of 13 catches. Graves also notched a rushing touchdown.
After a Tampa Bay touchdown and two-pointer made the score 52-44, Jacksonville recovered an onside kick with 12 seconds remaining. Rowley then rushed the ball forward as time expired to seal the game.
In his relief appearance, Rowley finished the game 13-of-16 for 123 yards and two touchdowns while also scoring once on the ground. Morris completed eight of his 11 passes for 73 yards and notched a rushing touchdown, though he did also throw an interception.
In addition to Graves' work, Josh Philpart totaled 52 yards and a touchdown on his six catches, while Markee White grabbed two receptions for 36 yards.
On defense, Micheaux Robinson led all players with 10 solo tackles and six pass breakups. To go along with his interception, Belton racked up eight total tackles, a tackle for loss and two pass breakups. Fudge totaled five tackles (four solo), two pass breakups and two fumble recoveries, while Derrick Summers notched a sack and a forced fumble.
For Tampa Bay, Boyd completed 27 of his 42 passes for 315 yards, four touchdowns and an interception. He also scored a pair of rushing touchdowns. Joe Hills led the storm with 11 receptions for 144 yards and a touchdown, while Jason Chery added 10 catches for 116 yards and two scores. Rashad Barksdale led the Storm with 10.5 total tackles (six solo), while Donald Smith had two pass breakups and Jean Fanor pulled down an interception.
The Sharks will return to action on Saturday, hosting a first-round playoff game. Kickoff will be at 7p.m., as the Sharks will host the Tampa Bay Storm.
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The claims came as a third was wiped off its share price in the wake of a warning over spiralling write offs.
To add to its woes the firm has also been fined £400,000 after pleading guilty to a health and safety law breach over a derailment in Rotherham.
On Friday the firm's shares plunged 50% after it warned charges, write-offs and debts could top a total of £371m.
The group said charges and write-offs were set to soar to £141m, with debts set to rise to £230m - against £83m last year - as a result of it quitting the rail business.
'Slippery slope'
Banks have given the firm until July to produce a rescue plan, but experts say an assets sale or bankruptcy lies ahead.
Arbuthnot Securities analyst Stephen Rawlinson told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that the firm has been "overly aggressive" for years in assessing the cost and revenues of its projects and "fundamentally its got quite a few of these wrong".
"The banks must actually step in now... The slope is very, very steep and I think we're on the peak of that slope and we're going to go down very rapidly.
"Jarvis in my mind will struggle to get to the end of July."
And he offered little hope to the company and its investors, urging contractors and suppliers to check the terms of their contracts.
Howard Seymour, Bridgewell Securities director of equity research, told BBC Radio Five Live: "I think the banks will be looking for an asset disposal to tell the truth. I think they're going to have to sell off at least a couple of divisions to pay for the bank debt."
He added that by the close of trade on Friday the firm was worth just £40m - not enough to pay its huge debt mountain, of £230m and rising.
Catalogue of problems
Mr Seymour also said that "reputational problems" had recently dogged its accommodation division and other businesses.
Shares in Jarvis ended Monday down 31% or 11p to 24p, but up from day lows of 18p.
That followed Friday's sharp sell-off , sparked by its warning that charges and write-offs after it quit the rail maintenance business have been compounded by problems at its accommodation services division.
On Friday it said costs, related mainly to that division, would exceed £115m.
Two months later it was attacked by Brighton and Hove Council for "unacceptable" work on a £105m contract to redevelop and manage four Brighton schools.
The catalogue of problems triggered the resignation of its accommodation services chief executive earlier this year.
Jarvis also revealed that it would take a £26m hit in relation to its dealings with Network Rail.
Its public image was shattered after a series of train derailments, including the 2002 Potters Bar crash, which saw it pull out of the rail maintenance arena.
Fears surrounding the company have prompted Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman Vince Cable to warn that it would mean "chaos" for dozens of schools and universities where the firm has won rebuilding management and maintenance contracts under Public Funding Initiatives and Public Private Partnerships.
Mr Cable wrote to education secretary Charles Clarke demanding urgent clarification of whether any contingency plans were in place in the event of the group going bankrupt.
"Parents and teachers need urgent clarification that there will be no disruption or crisis within schools or universities if Jarvis is unable to continue operating," he wrote.


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Carrie Underwood Flashes Leg In Dress, 2012 Academy of Country Music Awards, The singer channels Angelina Jolie with a revealing pose at the Academy of Country Music Awards. Country crooners including Carrie Underwood (showing a little leg a la Angelina!).
Carrie Underwood stunned in an ethereal strapless gown at the 47th annual Academy of Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas on Sunday. And from the looks of that pose — very reminiscent of Angelina Jolie's now-famous stance at the Oscars — she knows it! The star will perform her song "Good Girl" at the show and is nominated for Female Vocalist of the Year and Vocal Event of the Year.
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Love is Not Enough: 2Pac's Ex-Wife, Keisha Morris [Feature From Sept. 2011 Issue]
So people basically would say 'Pac married you just for conjugal visits, but those weren't even allowed? And you really were a mental and emotional support to him?
That wasn't even an issue. The thing was, like, we would never do anything like that. He wouldn't do it, and neither would I. And that's what people would say.
What was the relationship between you guys after the marriage was annulled?
It was, like, you know, you move on, I move on, that's it. But the funny thing is that he would still call me and leave messages and say, "Listen to this song," or "How are you? It's Tupac." So he always kept me, like, "It's gonna be all right." I remember him specifically saying, "You don't understand now, but you'll understand later," because he always had this notion that we were gonna get back together. So I remember him telling me he didn't want to damage me. He didn't want me to get hurt in any of whatever was going on with him, so he'd rather leave me alone. Was I hurt? Absolutely. Did I feel like I was used? Absolutely. But I understand now. Am I angry? Absolutely not. But when you're young, you do so many things. You know how many times your parents tell you not to do something, and you do the opposite? It's life lessons. It's growing for you. I knew Tupac. No one can take that away. I really knew him, and he would never hurt me.
Did you ever feel like, Oh, he just wanted some security while he was in jail?
Of course. I've never dealt with a whole bunch of people in jail, but of course they want to keep communication. Remember, I was the one who basically stopped my life when he was in jail. I moved closer to him. I made sure I was on visits. I made sure he had packages. You can't just send a package to prison. You have to go to the store and have the store ship it to the prison. It was like my day revolved around him and what his needs were. So when it was getting closer to him getting released, it was like, Yeah, okay, I don't need you anymore. And that hurt.
I never wanted anything from him. I just wanted to be a friend to him, someone he could trust, someone that he didn't have to worry about telling his business to the media or anything. I was truly, purely there for him. When he moved and he got out of jail, I was actually on vacation when that happened. And when I found out he was being released, he didn't even tell me. I had to call the prison to find out what was going on. He didn't tell me. I was actually out in L.A. at the time. And what happened when I heard that he was released and he couldn't leave the state of New York, I flew back just in case he needed me to do whatever. And a member of his family came and said, "We'll take his stuff. You had your 15 minutes of fame. Now we'll take over from here." I couldn't even express to you the pain.
But somehow you guys still managed to become friends afterward?
Mm-hmm. It was like, "Hey, Keish, what's up?" Like nothing was wrong. Like nothing. And it was like we didn't skip a beat. He would just pick up the phone and act like nothing ever happened. Like, "Oh, Keish, wassup?" And I'm like, "Wait, what? Let's rewind this. Let's bring this back."
When was the last time you saw each other before he died?
He came into New York. I heard he was here, but I didn't try to reach him. When I came off of work, he left me a message and was like, "Keisha, I'm in New York. Call me. I'm at the Hotel Nikko. I want you to come down here." And I was just like, Here we go. We saw each other prior to this, but this was the final time I saw him alive and well. I was like, Oh, no, not again. We were on the phone for half an hour. I was like, "But why? We're divorced. We don't have anything." And he was like, "You will always be Mrs. Shakur." I was like, "Okay." So after a lot of coaxing, after the award show, it was the MTV Awards, I went to the Hotel Nikko. He opened up the door and was like, "Wassup? You look good." And we spoke. It was weird. We spoke, but didn't speak. It was more like he just wanted me to just lay down, and he went to sleep. No intimacy, nothing like that. It was just, like, he just wanted to lay down, and he went to sleep. I got up in the morning; he was still sleeping when I left.
And that was how long before he was killed?
A couple of days before. And then the next thing I heard was that he was shot out in Vegas. As a matter of fact, he went out to L.A., and then from L.A., I heard he was going to Vegas. We would talk, 'cause he would say, "Why didn't you wake me up before you left?" And I was like, "No, you were sleeping so peacefully, and I wanted you to rest." And that was it. But had I known more, I wish I would've went to wake him up.
How do you feel about the fact that it's 15 years after his death and people still are celebrating him?
That's why this is important. I was through doing any other media. Okay, I said what I said. It's done. I've moved on in life. I have my own stuff in my life going on. It is relevant because it's important to keep his memory alive and educate the people, the younger generation, who are interested, who are intrigued, who want to be a part of this industry, to look at the people who started, to see where it is that hip-hop has gone.


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Movies: Zombies.
TV Shows: A lot of them. However, a good crime show will always win.
Music: Everything. I know that's kind of a cop out answer but it's true. I listen to everything from epic hair metal to Bossa Nova. Right now I am obsessed with anything jazzy or in portugese. I love 77 punk, old street punk, jazz divas....whatever.


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Traditional Worship Coordinator/Choir Director - Kearney First United Methodist Church
Title: Traditional Worship Coordinator & Choir Director Position
Quarter time reporting to: Worship Director
Overview: Provide leadership to traditional worship ministries of First United Methodist Church with a particular focus on the Traditional Worship music ministry, so the church can make new disciples of Jesus Christ for the transformation of the world.
Traditional Worship Leadership
- Develop meaningful relationships with the people of First United Methodist Church.
- Responsible for overseeing all special music performances for traditional worship services throughout the year. These special music performances include choral, soloists or small group performances.
- Responsible for preparing choir and/or small ensembles (as called for by the pastor) for special services. May include Ash Wednesday, Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Christmas Eve, etc.
- Selects and orders all music used for the choir, including cantatas and small ensembles, in keeping, when possible, with themes selected by the pastor as well as being responsive to the likes and dislikes of the choir members and small ensembles.
- Make selections and preparations for the Christmas and Easter cantatas, scheduling extra rehearsals as needed.
- Recruit members for the choir and small ensembles.
- Select hymns for congregational singing that coordinate with the weekly theme as set by the Pastor and lead congregational singing on a weekly basis.
- Develop the traditional worship experience while incorporating varying musical styles.
- Adhere to scheduled weekly practice times (i.e. starting and ending on time)
- Manage the choir budget
- Oversee accompanist(s)
- Manage the traditional worship service planning on Planning Center Online
- Schedule media volunteers for traditional worship services
- A dynamic personal relationship with Jesus Christ
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of the Bible and a commitment to Wesleyan theology
- Experience witnessing to unchurched people about Christ's love
- Exceptional musical/conducting ability in choral music
- A self-starter, committed to excellence, experience recruiting, training, and empowering and encouraging volunteers for ministry
- Exceptional relational skills
- Key Attributes: Passion for Jesus, relational evangelistic, Biblically literate, high standards, understanding of choral music
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About The Ministry
Grace Community Church was founded by Dr. Don Householder in 1956. It puts an emphasis on the basics of Christianity. As the name implies, there is also an emphasis on community; there is an "open door" policy between the church and its members, where members are encouraged to seek advice from the church when desired.
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This article was published 30/4/2014 (1211 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A community task force's action plan to end homelessness in Winnipeg over the next decade -- not just manage it -- is the right approach to a complex and hugely expensive problem.
It's roughly based on similar efforts in cities across Canada where homelessness has been reduced through increased funding and a collaborative approach involving all levels of government, the private and non-profit sector, community foundations and others.
Until now, the problem has been tackled in piecemeal fashion, with individual agencies and shelters operating independently and seeking funding for their own needs.
The result has been an appalling lack of detailed information about a major social problem. Individual shelters, for example, know how many people they serve each night, but there's no data on how many were turned away because there was no room, or how many are using multiple shelters.
Some of the down and out may have two case workers from separate agencies, while others have none. There is no data on how many people are sleeping under bridges or in abandoned buildings.
The task force plan would co-ordinate the information from all agencies and government departments, establishing a database on everyone who needs help. Funding and services would also be co-ordinated by a single non-profit group. There is no budget yet, but the new agency would probably need at least five workers, while cash would be needed for operations and services.
The challenge is not the concept or the unknown price tag, but the determination of the partners, particularly the three levels of government, to remain committed in the face of shifting demands and priorities on the public purse.
Social programs are always vulnerable whenever governments are looking to trim spending and balance budgets, the top priority of the entire public sector at the moment.
Some successful programs, such as the Housing First model that has been very effective at helping the homeless, are even now at risk of losing their financial support because they were funded on a temporary basis.
The case for ending homelessness, however, is powerful. Various studies have shown the annual cost of homelessness in Canada is between $4.5 billion and $7 billion, including the cost of shelters, health-care, police costs, the burden on the criminal justice and corrections systems, and so on. Homeless people have also created the impression that downtown Winnipeg is unsafe and unsavoury, a perception that has an enormous effect and cost on the city's efforts to revitalize its core.
Politicians tend to focus on short-term priorities, but ending homelessness is a long-term goal that would yield significant savings for taxpayers. The commitment to end homelessness, then, must transcend partisan politics.
An equally powerful argument for ending homelessness is that it is an affront to our commitment to human dignity. The downtrodden are victims, many of them are suffering, and are entitled to be treated with much greater respect.
It is also unacceptable a high percentage of homeless are aboriginal people, particularly in a city that is about to become a centre of human rights advocacy when the Canadian Museum for Human Rights opens this fall.


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Gabriel Garcia Marquez: 87 years of magic
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, the Nobel laureate whose intoxicating novels and short stories exposed millions outside Latin America to its passions, superstition, violence and social inequality, died at home in Mexico City on Thursday. He was 87.
In this March 6, 2014 photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico City. (AP)
Widely considered the most popular Spanish-language writer since Miguel de Cervantes in the 17th century, the Colombian-born Garcia Marquez achieved literary celebrity that spawned comparisons to Mark Twain and Charles Dickens.
In this March 6, 2014 photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico City. (AP)
His flamboyant and melancholy fictional works _ among them 'Chronicle of a Death Foretold,' 'Love in the Time of Cholera' and 'Autumn of the Patriarch' outsold everything published in Spanish except the Bible. The epic 1967 novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' sold more than 50 million copies in more than 25 languages.
In this 2003 photo released by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, left, is seen in Monterrey, Mexico. Behind is Colombian journalist Jose Salgar. Garcia Marquez died on Thursday, April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP)
His stories made him literature's best-known practitioner of magical realism, the fictional blending of the everyday with fantastical elements such as a boy born with a pig's tail and a man trailed by a cloud of yellow butterflies.
In this 1975 photo released by the Fundacion Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez sits with wife Mercedes Barcha at an unknown location. (AP)
The Mexican government said Garcia Marquez died at 2 p.m. A gray hearse escorted by dozens of police officers in patrol cars and on motorcycles left the author's home about three hours later.
In this Dec. 8, 1982 file photo, Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez shows his Nobel Prize medal after he delivered his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP)
'A thousand years of solitude and sadness because of the death of the greatest Colombian of all time!' Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos said on Twitter. 'Solidarity and condolences to his wife and family ... Such giants never die.'
In this photo Nov. 18, 2008, file photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Nicarguan author and former Vice President Sergio Ramirez, attend a round table discussion on Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes' work at the UNAM national university in Mexico City. (AP)
The first sentence of One Hundred Years of Solitude has become one of the most famous opening lines of all time: ``Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.''
This undated file photo shows Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at an undisclosed location. Marquez died Thursday April 17, 2014 at his home in Mexico City. (AP)
Biographer Gerald Martin told The Associated Press that the novel was the first in which ``Latin Americans recognized themselves, that defined them, celebrated their passion, their intensity, their spirituality and superstition, their grand propensity for failure.''
In this Nov. 24, 2007 file photo, Colombian writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez listens at the opening of the International Book Fair in Guadalajara, Mexico. (AP)
Dozens of journalists camped outside the author's colonial red-brick home in a wealthy neighborhood, swarming the slow trickle of friends who came to pay respects. Three women dressed in black went inside the house separately. Loud crying could be heard from inside.
In this Oct. 20,1995 file photo, PLO Leader Yasser Arafat greets Nobel laureate Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez during the closing ceremonies of the Non-Aligned Summit in Cartagena, Colombia. In the background is Colombian President Ernesto Samper. (AP)
His family said late Thursday, in a statement read by a Mexican cultural official, that Garcia Marquez's remains would be cremated and a private ceremony held at an unspecific time. The Mexican government said it would hold a memorial to Garcia Marquez on Monday in the Art Deco Palace of Fine Arts in the capitol's historic center.
In this Nov. 18, 2008 file photo, Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes, left, embraces Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez during a round table discussion on Fuentes' work at the UNAM national university in Mexico City. (AP)
When he accepted the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, Garcia Marquez described Latin America as a ``source of insatiable creativity, full of sorrow and beauty, of which this roving and nostalgic Colombian is but one cipher more, singled out by fortune."
"Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little of imagination, for our crucial problem has been a lack of conventional means to render our lives believable," he added.
In this Dec.13, 2002 file photo, film director Roman Polanski, left, and Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez speak during the closing ceremony of the Cuban International Film Festival in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
Like many Latin American writers, he transcended the world of letters. Widely known as 'Gabo,' he became a hero to the left as an early ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and a critic of Washington's violent interventions from Vietnam to Chile.
In this Nov. 26, 2002 file photo, Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, and Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez check their watches during the inauguration of the first Cuban National Olympic games at Revolution Square in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
Garcia Marquez, among writers such as Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe, was also an early practitioner of literary nonfiction now known as New Journalism. He became an elder statesman of Latin American journalism, with magisterial works of nonfiction that included the 'Story of A Shipwrecked Sailor,' the tale of a seaman lost on a life raft for 10 days.
This undated file photo of Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is seen in an unknown location. (AP)
Other nonfiction pieces profiled Venezuela's larger-than-life president, Hugo Chavez, and vividly portrayed how cocaine traffickers led by Pablo Escobar shredded the social and moral fabric of the writer's native Colombia.
In 1994, he founded the Iberoamerican Foundation for New Journalism, which offers training and competitions to raise the standard of narrative and investigative journalism across Latin America.
In this 1972 photo released by the Fundación Nuevo Periodismo Iberoamericano (FNPI), Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez seen in an unknown location. (AP)
Garcia Marquez was born in Aracataca, a small town near Colombia's Caribbean coast, on March 6, 1927. He was the eldest of the 11 children of Luisa Santiaga Marquez and Gabriel Elijio Garcia, a telegraphist and a wandering homeopathic pharmacist.
In this March 9, 2007 file photo made available by the Cuba's National Information Agency (AIN), Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez, right, stands with Cuban singer Pablo Milanes in Havana, Cuba. (AP)
Just after his birth, his parents left him with his maternal grandparents and moved to Barranquilla to open a pharmacy. He spent 10 years with his grandmother and his grandfather, a retired colonel who fought in the devastating 1,000-Day War that hastened Colombia's loss of the Panamanian isthmus.
In this March 6, 2014 photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his birthday in Mexico City. (AP)
His grandparents' tales provided grist for Garcia Marquez's fiction and Aracataca became the model for 'Macondo,' the village surrounded by banana plantations where 'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is set.
"I have often been told by the family that I started recounting things, stories and so on, almost since I was born _ ever since I could speak," Garcia Marquez once told an interviewer.
In this May 30, 2007 file photo, Colombia's Literature Nobel Prize winner Gabriel Garcia Marquez sticks out his tongue to photographers as he arrives on a train to Aracataca, his hometown in northeastern Colombia. At right is his wife Mercedes Barcha who accompanied the writer on his first visit to his hometown in 25 years. (AP)
Sent to a state-run boarding school just outside Bogota, he became a star student and voracious reader, favoring Hemingway, Faulkner, Dostoevsky and Kafka. He published his first piece of fiction as a student in 1947, mailing a short story to the newspaper El Espectador. Garcia Marquez's father insisted he study law but he dropped out, bored, and dedicated himself to journalism.
In this March 6, 2014, photo, Colombian Nobel Literature laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez greets fans and reporters outside his home on his 87th birthday in Mexico City. (AP)
His writing was constantly guided by his leftist political views, forged in large part by a 1928 military massacre near Aracataca of banana workers striking against United Fruit Co., which later became Chiquita. He was also greatly influenced by the assassination two decades later of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, a galvanizing leftist presidential candidate.
In this Dec. 8, 1982 file photo, Gabriel Garcia Marquez receives the literature award from King Carl Gustaf at the Concert Hall in Stockholm, Sweden. (AP)
Garcia Marquez lived in Europe for part of the 1950s. After touring the Soviet-controlled east, he went to Rome in 1955 to study cinema, a lifelong love. He later moved to Paris, living among intellectuals and artists exiled from the many Latin American dictatorships of the day.
In this March 26, 2007 file photo released by Colombia's News Service SNE, Spain's King Juan Carlos, left, embraces Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the International Congress of Spanish Language's opening ceremony in Cartagena, Colombia. (AP)
He returned to Colombia in 1958 to marry Mercedes Barcha, a neighbor from childhood days. They had two sons, Rodrigo, a film director, and Gonzalo, a graphic designer.
In this March 26, 2007 file photo released by Colombia's News Service SNE, former U.S. President Bill Clinton, right, speaks with Colombian Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez at the opening ceremony of International Congress of Spanish Language in Cartagena, Colombia. (AP)


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Baku, Azerbaijan, March 5
President of Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev signed a decree on the appointment of Adalat Muradov as rector of Azerbaijan State Economic University on March 5.
The university's rector Shamsaddin Hajiyev has been dismissed from the post in accordance to another decree of the president.
Prior to appointment to the post of rector, Adalat Muradov was the head of the Economic Policy, Analysis and Forecasting Department of Azerbaijan's Ministry of Economy and Industry.
Shamsaddin Hajiyev heads the Committee of Science and Education of Milli Majlis (parliament).
Adalat Muradov was born in 1962 in the Aghdam region.
Muradov graduated from the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev with a degree in Economics in 1990. Adalat Muradov became a Candidate of Economics in 1993 and Doctor of Economical Sciences in 1998. He is the author of more than 60 scientific and teaching aids.
Muradov was an associate professor of the Kiev National University from 1995 to 1999.
Afterwards he worked as an associate professor of the Academy of Public Administration under the President of Azerbaijan.
Muradov is married and has two children.
Translated by L.Z.
Edited by C.N.


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Cube Jigger
aluminum cube has a different size measuring well on each side - the six most commonly used drink measures. just measure and then pour from the corner. Six Jiggers in one!
There's something about clear glass mundane items like this unsealed ziplock bag vase and glass water bottles and milk cartons that I love. It's one part art and one part functionality that equals perfection.Tags: gifts, humor, kitchen, accessories, glass, unusual, kitchen tools, bowls, candyAdded 8 Years Ago from Chiasso


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Complete Security From Terrorist Attacks Not Realistic
"While it would be irresponsible not to take what measures we can against the threat of terror, there is something slightly hopeless about installing security devices aimed at foiling a terrorist plot whose precise shape remains unknown. That is the quandary of fighting terror. Doing nothing risks a repeat performance; doing something merely requires terrorists to come up with different tactics. Innumerable plane hijackings in the 1970s caused airlines to progressively beef up security. When they matched bags to passengers, terrorists hid explosives in the luggage of unaware travelers. The bomb that downed Pan Am Flight 103 was camouflaged by being hidden in a radio; the 9/11 suicide terrorists didn't use explosives at all."
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My life revolves around nature. Hiking, Camping, or just walking through a calm forest on fresh early morning and seeing the sun rays breaking through the trees.
One day I decided to make a terrarium for myself to bring the forest into my home. I loved it so much that I decided to make terrariums for anyone who enjoys nature as much as I do.
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The person who my wife indicates may be the biological father has not seen or been in contact with my wife for 19 months (9 months of pregnancy + 10 months old). He has no idea that he may be a father. So are you saying that to dispute paternity my wife would have to contact this man and ask him to initiate a paternity test? I was intimate with my wife during the same conception period. How accurate are the tests. What test results would constitute a biological father instead of me.
Another side note; let me know if this is of any consequence. My wife and I had been trying to have a baby for about 10 years but had not been successful. 5 months prior to our 10 month's conception my wife was pregnant but this resulted in a short term miscarriage. There is 100% certainty that I would have been the biological father of that baby.
So you are saying if a paternity test is 99.9% accurate, that would legally eliminate me from being the father?


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25 Oct Represent 5-hour ENERGY® This Halloween
Autumn is in full swing. The leaves are changing, days are getting shorter, and before you know it Halloween will be here! If you're attending a Halloween get together you are going to need a costume, but not just any old Halloween costume! You don't want to be seen wearing the same getup as someone else, too many witches, Dracula's or ghosts could get confusing (and boring)! Instead of spending money to buy a costume, why not get creative and make one? We can't think of a better way to energize the spooky season than representing 5-hour ENERGY® on Halloween! If you need a little help getting your creative juices flowing, here are some ideas:
A while back, we asked our fans to show us their 5-hour ENERGY® themed outfits and decorations in the Creepy Costume and Décor Contest. We
had tons of awesome entries, including our first and second prize winners who dressed up as 5-hour ENERGY® shots. If you are feeling up for the challenge, you could try making a bottle costume of your own! Or multiply the fun by getting a group together and dressing up as different flavors of
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Cormac Hawney's costume won him first prize in the Creepy Costume and Décor contest. If you're feeling ambitious and have a little spare time, you can go all out like Cormac with a full body 5-hour ENERGY® shot costume!
What you need:
• 1 garbage can
• Shriner hat without the tassel or other red hat
• 2 bungee cords
• 1 red full body spandex suit
• Blown up image of 5-hour ENERGY® shot label
Dave Rera's costume scored him second place in the Creepy Costume and Décor contest. According to Dave, his costume was last minute and low budget. If you don't have much time or money to spare, you could replicate his life size 5-hour ENERGY® shot costume for Halloween!
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• Poster board
• Lots of glitter
• Paint, paint pens
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• The 5-hour ENERGY® shot flavor you're dressing up as for inspiration and enjoying after you're done creating your costume
If dressing up as a 5-hour ENERGY® shot isn't your thing, there are other ways you can get in the spirit! Here are a few ideas of costume ideas and ways to accessorize with the help of 5-hour ENERGY®:
• Feeling energetic? Dress in all black, strike a running pose and be the Energy Guy
• Share hours and hours of energy! Get a cowboy hat, a badge and a bottle of 5-hour ENERGY® and dress up as Sheriff Jim, one of our popular commercial characters
• Feeling sporty? Dress up as one of the 5-hour ENERGY® athletes like Clint Bowyer, Jim Furyk or one of the members of the cycling team
• What did you do in the last five hours? Write a novel; learn Spanish or anything else impressive? Get energized and be "The Last 5 Hours" guy!
• The Last 5 Hours Guy found Big Foot, so why not go all out and be Big Foot?
• Kick it old school 5-hour ENERGY® style! Save your empty bottles and with the help of some hot glue, fashion them into a festive top hat
• Show off some bling! Turn empty 5-hour ENERGY® bottles into earrings or a necklace
Do you have an awesome idea that we missed? Share it with us! Post a comment or share with us on our Facebook page or on Twitter. Of course, if you represent 5-hour ENERGY® this Halloween, be sure to send a picture our way!


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There are some books, which, try as you might, you're unable to finish. Sure, you've started it a million and one times, yet somehow you stay stuck on paragraph five of the first chapter. Here, four valiant members of ShortList give their accounts on getting to grips with their literary nemeses.
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Little Box o' Horrors
27.03.2008 - 01.04.2008
View Channelling the Cane Spirits in South America on Jeremy T's travel map.
Thursday 27.03.08
Candelaria, where I was staying, is Bogota's oldest barrio, a snaking suburb of low-rise and ancient colonial buildings between the city centre and a mountain range that marks the city's eastern edge. The place is crawling with people during the day: tourists, business people and thousands of university students. Present too in alarming numbers are the police, the tourist police (who visit the hostel nightly without fail), camouflaged army personnel of seemingly every rank and private security dog-handlers. It was the latter that had me most concerned – Why did the government hire security firms for 'on the beat' work? What was with the heavy blind-man-cum-nightstick leash all about? And is that a golden retriever? What is that going to do, nuzzle me to death?
I was collected in the evening by my friend Juan, who I'd met in Iguazu back in August. He took me to the Zona Rosa in the northern suburbs, and it was here I had my first taste of Aguardiente. The name literally means 'Firewater', it's aniseed flavoured and tends to sneak up on you at about 1.30am. Liquor comes in a box in Colombia. Not only do the country's favourite rums, aguardientes and red wines come in 1-litre easy pour Tetra-Paks, but they also come in 250ml fun-size varieties, perfect for slamming down 'on the go' or sucked up with a straw for playlunch. Try swapping that for a peanut butter sandwich!
Despite morning sunshine turning to bitter hail every afternoon, I was positive the good weather would hold out at least until after I had visited Monserrate atop the mountain range. The first thing I'd noticed once the cog-train had climbed the frighteningly steep slope was the complete change in temperature. The second was dark clouds lurking about the place like a bunch of hooded teenagers at 7-11. The general trend would be downhill, I surmised as I snapped a couple of shots and slowly began to ice over. By the time the rain commenced I was already heading off the precipice in a gondola to the station below. I chose the scenic route for the walk home and before long was huddled under a conifer begging a disgruntled canine security guard to share his easement. He refused. Eventually I took advantage of a less sodden spell, but soon the sleet began and I found myself hurtling down a treacherous embankment with a drizzle of other stranded nitwits. The next ten minutes were spent charging from doorway to doorway to escape the worst of it, but I was halfway to 'drowned cuy' when I finally reached the hostel.
It was Juan's birthday party on Saturday night, and we celebrated with his girlfriend Ana and friends in their apartment before a few of us headed to the Zona Rosa again. There was quite the lineup outside 'The Basement', but according to Bacon's Law, we knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who could get us in immediately, but sadly neither that person nor Kevin Bacon himself could let us enter without paying. The club attempted to be everything that every other Latin club was, and for that it was hugely popular. I'd hate to complain about the music selection, but when Salsa is followed by Reggaetón, and then into Latin Rock, Cumbia, Hard Dance and a ballad or two, the whole thing becomes incredibly hard to follow. In times like these I start drinking and looking to the lasers for guidance. This time they told me to go home, and I wasn't in the mood to argue.
Sometimes when travelling you encounter a group of street-savvy folk who are highly motivated to get smashed every single night. I had been spending the week with such a group, including an American named Levi and Daniel from Sydney, but I'd been finishing a magazine edition. In fact it'd been ages since I'd had a good blowout, and on Tuesday night I was ready to cut loose. With Candelaria too dangerous to loiter in at night, the mayhem was confined within the hostel, but when I was finally ready to retire, from outside came a bit of a commotion. The night guard took his nightstick and went to investigate while I scanned the security cameras. Lo and behold, Daniel and Levi had crawled up onto the roof to watch the sunrise, but after breaking a couple of tiles, the cops swooped, yelling "Ladrones!" and pointing their guns. I grabbed a nearby ladder and rescued them from the roof while the hostel guard convinced them not to fire. At the end of it all, we were handed free beers and kicked on until 9am. I wasn't relishing the thought of catching a flight in the coming evening.
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NFL removes crew: Pete Morelli Crew
Published: December 2, 2015
NFL removes crew: Pete Morelli Crew, The NFL has moved referee Pete Morelli's crew off the upcoming Sunday night game between Indianapolis and Pittsburgh.
Instead, the crew will work the afternoon game between the Eagles and Patriots.
Morelli's group was heavily criticized by both sides after the 49ers-Cardinals game Sunday. Arizona coach Bruce Arians said the officials "can't count to three."
There were a combined 20 penalties in the game. During Arizona's first series of the second half, San Francisco committed five penalties, including four pass interferences and an illegal hands to the face, as the Cardinals reached the end zone on their way to a 19-13 win.
The 49ers were flagged 13 times for 81 yards, including a costly roughing-the-passer flag on the winning drive.
"I'm not really too worried about getting fined — I thought those refs sucked," 49ers left guard Alex Boone said in the locker room Sunday.
"If you don't like what we say, then don't like what we say — don't throw a flag for it. That's what I'm sick about this league," he added. "This is supposed to be a man's game. Be a man. That's what pisses me off, because guys like that work in this league and work on that field, and we have to deal with it. Whatever."
On Oct. 12, side judge Rob Vernatchi from Morelli's crew was suspended for one game for not properly keeping track of the game clock in a Pittsburgh-San Diego game. At the time, the league said the error would impact the full-season evaluation of Morelli's crew.
Morelli was also the referee during last season's Lions-Cowboys playoff game in which a crucial pass interference penalty was overturned. The Lions punted after the sequence, and the Cowboys drove to the winning touchdown late in the fourth quarter. After the game, Morelli acknowledged he should have waited longer to announce the penalty. He also announced there was no penalty but never explained why the flag was picked up.
Morelli says "it probably would have been smoother if we got together."
There have been other controversies involving officiating this season. On Oct. 5, back judge Greg Wilson missed an end zone penalty in the final moments of Detroit's loss at Seattle. Wilson was reassigned from his next game and taken off the prime-time matchup of Patriots-Colts.
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Safety restrictions were placed on hundreds of farms amid fears contamination would travel up the food chain via grazing animals.
After the disaster background radiation in Cumbria was 10 times normal levels.
Restrictions were subsequently lifted, but sheep on nine farms are still undergoing radioactivity checks before they can be sold for human consumption.
Alistair Mackintosh, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) former county chairman said that farmers felt the impact soon after the disaster.
"I remember initially that we were put in a total movement ban, which was only supposed to be for two weeks, but was stretched to five months.
"You take any business that can't sell its product for that time and it has quite a financial effect."
Now it is only on nine farms that sheep have to be tested for levels of Caesium-137 prior to being sold.
Farmer David Ellwood said that they do not always pass the test immediately.
"If they are monitored straight after they have come down from the fells there tends to be high readings, especially in summer with the fresh grass coming up.
"They are then brought in for a fortnight or three weeks and it passes through them and they are OK."
Farmers receive a £1.30 payment towards the cost of testing each sheep.
Mr Ellwood added: "It is a lot of hassle but it has gone on so long we are quite used to it."