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How to Master All Day Foreplay
A step-by-step guide to build the sexual tension between you and your guy.
-Kristen Houghton
In my article, "Now That We're Exhausted, Let's Have Sex!", I mentioned that planning when and where to have sex is like having all day foreplay; you are anticipating the pleasure of what you will be doing at a specific time. That is great for your sex life and your mind. Anticipation of something that connects you to your partner in an intimate way is a fantastic aphrodisiac.
There's more to it than just planning of course; you need stimuli and the more the better. But, how do you go about all day foreplay when you're both having your usual hectic day away from each other? What you need is a master plan:
First: Make the date and make no excuses.
Second: Remember that foreplay begins with your clothes still on.
On the planned day, do the following:
1. Before you go out the door, give your mate a real kiss. Make it an arms around each other, pressed tightly together, sweet, deep kiss. Some intimate touching is also a good hint of what can be expected later.
2. Call each other at least twice during the day and say something that is a turn-on for you. Couples have their own code language for sex, use yours. Make it personal. Hearing your lover's voice is infinitely better than a quick text.
Read New Survey Says Guys Want You to Bring on the Toys… In Bed
3. And speaking of texting, why not try a "sext"? It doesn't have to be complete nudity; just something to remind each other of what's in store later.
4. If possible meet for lunch or coffee and act like you did when you first met. Holding hands is personal and more intimate than we think.
5. Send an email that lets your partner know you can't wait to be together. Remind him or her of your date. Make a point of also reminding your partner of past trysts. (Remember the time we…, I can't wait to…, Let's…I want you to…).
6. When you come home, kiss and touch again before you go on to take care of anything else. Be affectionate with each other before you get to the bedroom (or any other room you want to use. Visualize what you're going to do when you are together and then describe it to your lover.
7. Turn off the damned phones! Nothing should be that important, and you shouldn't be thinking about Tweeting, Facebooking, etc. at a time like this.
Sex therapists say that 95 percent of sex is in the mind, so use your imagination to enjoy the aftermath of all day foreplay!
Kristen Houghton is a Lifestyle writer and the author of the best-selling book, And Then I'll Be Happy! Stop Sabotaging Your Happiness and Put Your Own Life First. She is a Lifestyle writer for The Huffington Post and twodaymag.com.


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Vaudeville was a genre of variety entertainment prevalent on the stage in the United States and Canada, from the early 1880s until the early 1930s. Developing from many sources, including the concert saloon, minstrelsy, freak shows, dime museums, and literary burlesque, vaudeville became one of the most popular types of entertainment in North America. Each evening's bill of performance was made up of a series of separate, unrelated acts. Types of acts included (among others) musicians (both classical and popular), dancers, comedians, trained animals, magicians, female and male impersonators, acrobats, one-act plays or scenes from plays, athletes, lecturing celebrities, minstrels, and short movies.
The origin of the term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the expression "voix de ville", or "voice of the city". Another plausible etymology finds origins in the French Vau de Vire, a valley in Normandy noted for its style of satirical songs with topical themes. Though "vaudeville" had been used in the United States as early as the 1830s, most variety theatres adopted the term in the late 1880s and early 1890s for two reasons. First, seeking middle class patrons, they wished to distance themselves from the earlier rowdy, working-class variety halls. Second, the French or pseudo-French term lent an air of sophistication, and perhaps made the institution seem more consistent with the Progressive Era's interests in education and self-betterment. Some, however, preferred the earlier term, "variety," to what manager Tony Pastor called its "sissy and Frenchified" successor. Thus one often finds records of vaudeville being marketed as "variety" well into the twentieth century.
A descendant of variety, (c. 1860s-1881), vaudeville distinguished itself from the earlier form by its mixed-gender audience, usually alcohol-free halls, and often slavish devotion to inculcating favor among members of the middle class. The form gradually evolved from the concert saloon and variety hall into its mature form throughout the 1870s and 1880s. This more genteel form was known as "Polite Vaudeville."
The true beginnings of vaudeville in America probably lie in New Orleans and the "medicine shows" that toured small towns throughout the country, giving small town America a glimpse into the Music Hall culture of Paris and Great Britain.
In the years before the Civil war, entertainment existed on a different scale. Certainly, variety theatre existed before 1860. Europeans enjoyed types of variety performances years before anyone even had conceived of the United States. On American soil, as early as the first decades of the nineteenth century, theatre goers could enjoy a performance of Shakespeare, acrobats, singers, presentations of dance, and comedy all in the same evening. As the years progressed, seekers of diversified amusements found an increasing number to choose from. A handful of circuses regularly toured the country, dime-museums appealed to the curious, amusement parks, riverboats, and town halls often featured "cleaner" presentations of variety entertainment, while saloons, music-halls, and burlesque houses catered to those with a taste for the risqué. In the 1840s, minstrel shows, another type of variety performance, and "the first emanation of a pervasive and purely American mass culture," grew to enormous popularity and formed as Nick Tosches writes, "the heart of nineteenth-century show business." Medicine shows traveled the countryside offering programs of comedy, music, jugglers and other novelties along with their tonics, salves, and miracle elixirs, while Wild West Shows provided romantic vistas of the disappearing frontier complete with trick riding, music, and drama. Vaudeville incorporated these various itinerant amusements into a stable, institutionalized form centered in America's growing urban hubs.
Problematically, the term "vaudeville," itself, referring specifically to North American variety entertainment, came into common usage after 1871 with the formation of "Sargent's Great Vaudeville Company" of Louisville, Kentucky, and had little if anything to do with the "vaudeville" of the French theatre. Variety showman, M.B. Leavitt claimed the word originated from the French "vaux de ville" ("worth of the city, or worthy of the city's patronage"), but in all likelihood, as Albert McLean suggests, the name was merely selected "for its vagueness, its faint, but harmless exoticism, and perhaps its connotation of gentility." Leavitt and Sargent's shows differed little from the coarser material presented in earlier itinerant entertainments, although their use of the term to provide a veneer of respectability points to an early effort to cater variety amusements to the growing middle class.
In the early 1880s, impresario Tony Pastor, a former ringmaster with the circus turned theatre manager, capitalized on middle class sensibilities and spending power when he began to feature "polite" variety programs in several of his New York City theatres. The usual date given for the "birth" of vaudeville is 24 October 1881, when Pastor famously staged the first bill of self-proclaimed "clean" vaudeville in New York City. Hoping to draw a potential audience from female and family-based shopping traffic uptown, Pastor barred the sale of liquor in his theatres, eliminated questionable material from his shows, and offered gifts of coal and hams to attendees. Pastor's experiment proved successful, and other managers soon followed suit.
B.F. Keith took the next step starting in Boston, where he built an empire of theatres and brought vaudeville to the people of the United States as well as Canada. Later, E.F. Albee, adoptive grandfather of the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee, managed the chain to its greatest success. Circuits such as those managed by Keith-Albee provided vaudeville's greatest economic innovation and the principal source of its industrial strength, enabling a chain of allied vaudeville houses that remedied the chaos of the single theatre booking system by contracting acts for regional and national engagement that could grow from a few weeks to two years.
Albee also gave national prominence to vaudeville's trumpeting of "polite" entertainment, a commitment to entertainment equally inoffensive to men, women, and children. Acts who violated this ethos (e.g., using the word "hell") were admonished and threatened with expulsion from the week's remaining performances or with the canceling of their contracts. In spite of such threats, performers routinely flouted this censorship, often to the delight of the very audience members whose sensibilities were supposedly endangered.
A reproduction of this 1913 how-to booklet for would-be vaudevillians has been published. By the late 1890s, vaudeville had large circuits, small and/or large houses in almost every sizable location, standardized booking, broad pools of skilled acts, and a loyal national following. At its height, vaudeville played across multiple strata of economic class and auditorium size. The three most common levels were the "small time" (lower paying contracts for more frequent performances in rougher, often converted theatres), the "medium time" (moderate wages for two performances each day in purpose-built theatres) and the "big time" (possible remuneration of several thousand dollars per week in large, urban theatres largely patronized by the middle and upper-middle classes). As performers rose in renown and established regional and national followings, they worked their way into the less arduous working conditions and better pay of the big time. The capitol of the big time was New York City's Palace Theater (or just "The Palace" in the slang of vaudevillians), built by Martin Beck in 1913 and operated by Keith. Featuring a bill stocked with inventive novelty acts, national celebrities, and acknowledged masters of vaudeville performance (e.g., comedian and trick roper Will Rogers), the Palace provided what many vaudevillians would considered the apotheoses of already remarkable careers.
While the neighborhood character of vaudeville attendance had always promoted a tendency to tailor fare for specific audiences, mature vaudeville grew to feature houses and circuits specifically aimed at certain demographic groups. African American patrons, often segregated into the rear of the second gallery in white-oriented theatres, had their own smaller circuits, as did speakers of Italian and Yiddish. (For a brief discussion of Black vaudeville, see Theater Owners Booking Association.) White-oriented regional circuits, such as New England's "Peanut Circuit," also provided essential training grounds for new artists while allowing established acts to experiment with and polish new material. At its height, vaudeville was rivaled only by churches and public schools among the nation's premiere public gathering places.
There was no abrupt end to vaudeville, though the form was clearly staggering by the late 1920s. The continued growth of the lower-priced cinema in the early 1910s dealt the heaviest blow to vaudeville, just as the advent of free broadcast television was later to diminish the cultural and economic strength of the cinema. (Ironically, cinema was first regularly commercially presented in the United States in vaudeville halls.)
Lured by greater salaries and less arduous working conditions, many early film and old time radio performers, such as W. C. Fields, Buster Keaton, the Marx Brothers, Edgar Bergen, and Jack Benny, used the prominence they first gained in live variety performance to vault into new media. (In so doing, such performers often exhausted in a few moments of screen time the novelty of an act that might have kept them on tour for several years.)
Other vaudevillians who entered in vaudeville's decline, including The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Kate Smith, Bob Hope, Judy Garland, and Rose Marie used vaudeville as a launching pad for later careers, leaving live performance before they had ever risen to the meteoric height of national celebrity.
By the late 1920s, almost no vaudeville bill failed to include a healthy selection of cinema. Earlier in the century, many vaudevillians, cognizant of the threat represented by cinema, held out hope that the silent nature of the "flickering shadow sweethearts" would preclude their usurpation of the paramount place in the public's affection. With the introduction of talking pictures in 1926, however, the burgeoning film studios removed what had remained, for many, the chief point in favor of live theatrical performance: spoken dialogue.
Theatre owners discovered that rental costs of films--when held against the price of performers, newly unionized stagehands, booking fees, lighting, orchestra, etc.--vastly increased their profits. Performers tried hanging on for a time in combination shows (often referred to as "vaudefilm") in which, in an inverse of earlier vaudeville, live performances accompanied a cinema-centric performance.
Inevitably, managers further trimmed costs by eliminating more of these comparatively costly live performances. Vaudeville also suffered in the rise of broadcast radio following the greater availability of inexpensive receiver sets later in the decade. Even the hardiest within the vaudeville industry realized the form was in decline; the perceptive understood the condition to be terminal.
The 1930s, with standardized film distribution and talking pictures, only confirmed the end of the genre. By 1930, the vast majority of theatres had been wired for sound and none of the major studios was producing silent pictures. For a time, the most luxurious theatres continued to offer live entertainment, but the majority of theatres were forced by the Great Depression to economize. The shift of New York City's Palace Theatre, vaudeville's center, to an exclusively cinema presentation on 16 November 1932 is considered the final death knell of the art of vaudeville.
Like the attempts to tie its birth to Pastor's first clean bill, no single event may be accurately considered as anything more than reflective of its gradual withering. Some in the industry blamed cinema's drain of talent from the vaudeville circuits for the medium's demise. Others argued that vaudeville had allowed its performances to become too familiar to its famously loyal, now seemingly fickle audiences.
Though talk of its resurrection was heard throughout the 1930s and after, the demise of the supporting apparatus of the circuits and the inescapably higher cost of live performance made any large scale renewal of vaudeville unrealistic.
The most striking examples of Gilded Age theatre architecture invariably rose from the largess of big time vaudeville magnates. Though classic vaudeville reached a zenith of capitalization and sophistication in urban areas dominated by national chains and commodious theatres, small-time vaudeville included countless more intimate and locally-controlled houses. Small-time houses were often converted saloons, rough hewn theatres or multi-purpose halls, together catering to a wide range of clientèle, though many small towns had purpose-built theatres.
As the genre declined, most performers left the theatre; here the kid hoofer Ray Wollbrinck, once called "the cleverest buckdancer on the vaudeville stage"Some of the most prominent vaudevillians continued the migration to cinema, though others found that the gifts that had so delighted live audiences did not translate well into different media. Some performers whose eclectic styles did not conform well to the greater intimacy of the screen, like Bert Lahr, fashioned careers out of combining live performance, radio and film roles. Many others later appeared in the Catskill resorts that constituted the "Borscht Belt". And many simply retired from performance and entered the workaday world of the middle class, that group that vaudeville, more than anything else, had helped to articulate and entertain.
Yet vaudeville, both in its methods and ruling aesthetic, did not simply perish but rather resounded throughout the succeeding media of film, radio and television. The screwball comedies of the 1930s, those reflections of the brief moment of cinematic equipoise between dialogue and physicality, reflect the more madcap comedic elements of some vaudeville acts (e.g., The Three Keatons). In form, the television variety show owed much to vaudeville, riding the multi-act format to success in shows such as "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar and, of course, The Ed Sullivan Show. Even today, performers such as Bill Irwin, a Macarthur Fellow and Tony Award-winning actor, are frequently lauded as "New Vaudevillians".
References to vaudeville and the use of its distinctive argot continue throughout Western popular culture. Terms as "a flop" (an act that does badly), for example, have entered into accepted usage in the American idiom. Many of the most common performance techniques and "gags" of vaudeville entertainers are still seen on television and on film. Vaudeville, like its dime museum and variety theatre forebearers, also continued and solidified a strong American absorption with foreign entertainers.
In the early 21st century, Vaudeville as a concept has been revived in New York City, notably on the Lower East Side. A number of performers - many associated with the venues / promoters Surf Reality and the venue the Bowery Poetry Club - reference vaudeville when describing their type of performance. Notably, Surf Reality has produced a show called "Radical Vaudeville" for several years on end.
External links
- 1913 Book: How to Enter Vaudeville
- Vaudeville Ventriloquists
- Legends of Vaudeville
- American Vaudeville Museum
- Virtual Vaudeville
- Glossary of Vaudeville Slang
- Listen to the Song "Will It Play In Peoria"
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – J. Willis Sayre Photographs
- University of Washington Libraries Digital Collections – Prior and Norris Troupe Photographs
- University of Washington libraries Digital Collections - 19th Century Actors Photogaphs
- Also see the page [ Vaudeville ] on Wikipedia
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Good day!
Sunshine Friday and quite cold. Highs near 20. Details on page A-10.
Report ready
The annual financial report for Washington Township has been completed for the year 2013 and may be viewed at the home office of Donna Hardy, fiscal officer. For an appointment, call 498-4369.
Soup supper
Main Avenue United Methodist Church will host a soup and sandwich supper from 4 to 7 p.m. on Friday in the activity building.
A variety of soup and sandwiches and desserts will be available for a $5 donation.
Port Authority
The Guernsey County Port Authority is slated to meet at 8 a.m. Feb. 12 in the conference room, 806 Cochran Ave., Cambridge.
Annual meeting
United Way of Guernsey and Noble Counties Inc, will have its annual meeting and final report on Friday, Feb. 14 at Mr. Lee's Restaurant, downstairs banquet room beginning at 3:30 p.m.
Everyone is invited to attend. For information, call 439-2667.
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Dh and I have been reading a lot about unschooling lately, after a particularly miserable stint with classical education. (Dictation and copywork had dd and I both in tears!) So, yesterday dh and I sat down and talked with her about unschooling and just being less restrictive in general in regards to bedtime, food, and video games.
It all went well, she was excited especially when I told her that we'd no longer be doing lessons she didn't want to do. I asked her what she DID want to learn about and she said, "I still want to read Story of the World. I want to learn Math. I want to learn about bugs, space, rocks and animals. I do NOT want to learn about the human body anymore. I want to write stories, learn cursive and listen to everything on librivox." She also asked for a pocket knife, her own binoculars to watch birds and said she wants to learn to cook.
THAT was enormously comforting to me, that she could come up with a list of interests beyond "playing video games".
We also talked to her about listening to her own body in regards to bedtime and food and video games. To my surprise, after the discussion she did not run to the playstation! She had a very full day - she made a mycaenean shield, watched the isopods and millipedes in her critter carrier, pretended to be a minoan bull jumper with her stuffed animals, drew dragons on our white board, read a lot, wrote in her journal, practiced cursive, and played with her playmobils.
Of course, she did stay up until 1am playing animal jam, and today when she woke up she went right to the playstation. I am fully aware it will take her some time to self-regulate but I am really excited about where this will lead.
Any thoughts? Did anyone else transition to unschooling/radical unschooling and can talk about what the early part of the process was like?
That's very exciting!
I just wanted to make a pitch for having follow-up discussions with her that are similar to what you had yesterday. Maybe in a week or two, and every so often after that. In my experience unschooled kids often have great ideas about what they want to do and learn, but life (and video games) can get in the way of them bringing their plans to fruition. If in a couple of weeks you simply revisit her wish-list of things she wants to learn and do, and talk about how it's going, and whether she would like any help in implementing those ideas, or wishes to change tack, or to add new ideas to her list, you'll probably find that she will gradually become more intentional and mature in how she allocates her time. The key is not to impose any judgment, but simply to enquire: "How are things going? Is this something you still want to do? Is there anything I could do to help? Do you have any ideas as to how you might like to do this?"
I'm often amazed when I have these follow-up discussions with my kids. If they haven't bothered to do any work on something, it's usually not that they have lost interest and motivation, but that they didn't realize they would need to make an effort to initiate that learning, or didn't know how to initiate it, or were hoping for more active facilitation from me, or need help creating a structure for themselves or garnering resources. Ongoing discussion helps us whittle away at whatever the obstacles are in a collaborative fashion.
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We've been unschooling from the beginning, but not radical unschooling. In the last couple of months I've allowed DD to regulate her own bedtime which she had not done since she was a little baby. So in a sense it was an experiment in that transition (she is 8.5, by the way).
She's always been a nightowl, so it was no surprise that she chose to stay up late. At first it was often past midnight. Over a period of a couple of weeks it grew up to 3 am. What made this easier to tolerate is that, while in bed, she was busy working on many creative drawing projects that she was interested in. She seemed to almost brag about how late she stayed up, one night even telling me that she'd stayed up the whole night! Her excitement about this was, I think, more about revelling in her freedom and being proud of being able to decide for herself. But as the novelty of the freedom wore off, more practical considerations came to light.
As Miranda said, we talked about it regularly (frequently at first) to see how she was feeling about it. For example, one consequence is that she misses breakfast, so her first two meals of the day are lunch and dinner. By the time she is hungry for her third meal the kitchen is "closed" (as far as me making her stuff) and I'm usually in bed. Then there was the issue of her not having as much time with me for sit-down projects, since I usually do that in the first half of the day; by afternoon I'm getting tired and then there is dinner to start taking care of. Finally, if she does have to get up early for something it's not so much fun to be woken out of a deep sleep. We talk about all these things and I just pass the information on, ask how she is feeling about her current schedule, etc. Lately she has started to go to bed earlier as she realized that staying up too late had consequences that weren't really worth it for her. This process has taken probably about 2 months or so.
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Thank you for the replies!
Yes, the bedtime thing - we are going through that "reveling in freedom" stage now. She can be red-eyed and yawning but still won't go to bed until after us for the mere principle of the matter - she CAN stay up so she WILL stay up! Although, I discussed garage sale-ing with her on Saturday and told her that she may want to get to bed on the early side the night before so she has time to wake up and eat breakfast before we leave and she agreed that she would do that. We shall see.
I like the idea of re-visiting the topic of what she wants to learn.
She seems to be thriving, I am struggling. It will take me awhile to not try to make everything into a "lesson". We were in an elevator the other day and I almost started going on about counter weights and all that crap, but I didn't. lol I guess I am de-schooling as well.
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"UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER BY NY AD AGENCY IN MAINE BLOGGER CASE" boasts the Media Bloggers Association press release.
The decision to withdraw the lawsuit comes on the heels of a withering media campaign orchestrated by the Media Bloggers Association on behalf of MBA Member Lance Dutson. Hundreds of bloggers responded to the MBA's call to arms and were joined by media outlets around the world in highlighting the heavy-handed tactics of the state contractor.
"As it should be, the story of 'Warren Kremer Paino and the Maine Blogger' is now a cautionary tale", said MBA President Robert Cox, "future potential plaintiffs would do well to consider WKP's experience in attempting to silence a blog critic through the Federal courts. Our message is simple: 'Don't Mess with the Bloggers'"
My god they're like Mafia... ;)
Mainewebreports update is here.
Link pointed out by MaryWills in comments.
Ads That suck have an interesting conversation going on in their comments before one knew that the suit was wthdrawn. A commenter there called Joe says: "Yes, blogs give people the power to criticize and that's super. I fully support and take advantage of that opportunity. But there's an attitude among many in the blogging world that bloggers are somehow above the law. The fact is, once you publish something in (semi-) permanent form on a medium with the potential for wide distribution, you open youself up to certain legal risks and responsibilities."
I think that is a good point. I never did see the basis for a libel suit in the Maine blogger case but maybe, perhaps they had a case when it came to copyright infringement as mainewebreport posted the full advert that he criticized. But then again, he was critiquing it wasn't he? Doesn't that fall under the right set forth in Section 107 of the United States Copyright Act, to use copyrighted materials for certain purposes, such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research? Well, I'm not a lawyer - and certainly not a US one so that's all theory.
To end on a high note, spittle and ink suggests this advertising makeover: Maine's Office of Mandatory Tourism


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Published on August 28th, 2012 | by cinderboy3
Nexon America – New CEO packs tons of experience and credentials
[Source] Nexon America announced a new CEO earlier today (effective 1st September 2012), and man his credentials look awesome. His name is Min Kim, and from my past knowledge, isn't afraid to mingle with the crowds at game conventions. He was part of the team to set up Nexon America back in 2005 as well. He replaces Daniel Kim, who is relocating back to Seoul to take on new duties at Nexon.
Min Kim is now Nexon America's Senior Vice President, Live Games, overseeing game production and marketing. Min also spearheaded the adoption of digital content cards at retail, including Nexon America's recently launched prepaid card platform, Karma Koin.
Min currently serves on the board for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, the Americas Advisory Board for the Merchant Risk Council and the board of advisors for the Game Developers Conference Online. Prior to Nexon, Min was an investment banking analyst in the media group of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Mathematics-Statistics from Columbia College.
What I don't understand is why Nexon didn't just make him executive officer to begin with. He's the guy responsible for MapleStory being so popular.
I guess there are always corporate steps to climb, shooting up someone straight to a CEO position from 2 steps down will raise eyebrows.
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3.1 mol - 3 mol = 0.1 mol A mol (mole) is equal to 6.022x1023 atoms so 0.1 mol = 6.022x1024
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Significant digits are just those numbers that carry meaning in the number. That means that things like an extra zero at the end or numbers that are bigger than the original value. That last one means that if a number is ***** one decimal place (like the questions) you would only carry the answer to the same number of decimal places. (I'm not sure in the first one using moles if your teacher is asking for the atoms or the moles and if it's the latter I'm not certain how many decimal places you would need to carry it to. I think that they just want the number of mols though, assuming that this is a lesson on significant figures.)
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Activists participate in a mock force feeding outside the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington on Tuesday to protest the use of force feeding on prisoners held in Guantánamo by the US government. President Barack Obama vowed to close the facility when he first took office in 2009, but four years on the military prison set up in the wake of the September 11 attacks still holds 166 men.
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The World Cup-winner has played almost no rugby this season after leaving Northampton in August because of a dispute over the club captaincy.
"I'm a competitor and I will try to use my experience to help the club," said the 29-year-old, who has 57 England caps to his name.
"It's a new challenge for me and I know I have to find my place in the team."
Cohen left Northampton after losing out to Bruce Reihana for the club captaincy, buying himself out of his Saints contract so he could join Leicester.
But the move broke down because his testimonial earnings from Northampton would have broken their salary cap.
Cohen will be reunited with his former Northampton and England team-mate Steve Thompson in France.
Thompson, who has reversed his decision to retire from playing, told BBC Radio 5 Live: "I know Ben will fit in.
"We've got a great set of lads here and Ben knows what it's all about living abroad. It's great to have him here."
Cohen, England's joint second-highest try scorer with 31 tries, came on as a second-half substitute for the Barbarians in the victory over South Africa last weekend - his first serious action since the end of last season.
He joins a side that is lying bottom of the French Top 14 with four defeats from their first four games.
Cohen has also said that he was keen to get back into the international set-up, despite making himself unavailable for the World Cup in France to spend time with his pregnant wife.
He has not represented his country since playing against South Africa in November 2006.
But Thompson believes that the move could help him reclaim his place back in the England side.
"Yes he can do it," said Thompson. "This will give him an extra edge and the flair of playing here is difficult but the coaches would rather you go for it and run the ball.
"You have to buy into their culture, go with it and enjoy it. I thought the game would be a lot looser over here but the defence in this league is as good as in England. I thought it would be a lot more flowing but it's not at all."
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While conversing the other day with some friends who are fellow "vinyl junkies," the subject of old local record stores came up.
It's very encouraging that sales of vinyl are the highest they have been in more than 25 years. Did you know that most any album, new or catalog, is available in this wonderful, old-fashioned format?
From Pink Floyd to Foo Fighters, you can get it on wax. I just love the way it smells and feels when I break the seal on a record and pull the disc out of its protective sheath. Gently placing it on the turntable, the needle drops and musical nirvana is mine. Sweet.
Often, this reminds me of one of the most absolute most fun rituals of my teenage years just as if they happened yesterday. (No, not that!)
As an older youth, one of the things that I looked forward to the most was my weekly trek to Home Folks News and Record Store on Eighth Street. If Stephen Hawking ever figures out time travel, that's one of the first places that I'm revisiting.
Walking through the front door at Home Folks was like Christmas morning. There were more albums in Home Folks than the number of ways there are to spell Khaddafi! Bins chock full of vinyl would get my pulse racing in anticipation of finding some cool albums that I could play and share with my friends.
Home Folks eventually had many locations scattered around town, but the original downtown store was the bomb. There were even shelves upon shelves of extra albums way in the back of the store which today would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars!
Walking to the back of Home Folks was a little bit weird, as some of the publications they sold featured subject matter that I was certainly not familiar with at all. I never knew that books and magazines featuring all sorts of domestic animals were so popular with "grown-ups."
Home Folks' manager in those days was a real funny older dude named Benny, who, when he wasn't laughing out loud at something or another, always seemed to be eating with his mouth open. But Benny was always patient with my endless questions and he really knew his record inventory … and exactly where it was in the store.
I'll never forget the day some 40 years ago when Who's Next by The Who first came into Home Folks. Seeing Benny's reaction to the famous cover shot of the band photographed after a "pit stop" was priceless, even if I didn't quite get the joke at first. I Won't Get Fooled Again, indeed!
One day after I graduated from high school, Benny called me over to the counter, looked around the store and whispered "Here, Ed, look at this!" Expecting some "Holy Grail" find, like an unreleased imported Beatles album, I was stunned to see that he had some "pre-Sanford and Sons" Red Foxx comedy albums for sale that he kept under the counter that were considered "adults only."
After that day, I knew that I had arrived, especially when I eventually purchased from Benny some "bootleg"' vinyl by Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. They were coming to the early-'70s Augusta nightspot Kittens Korner and I wanted to hear some of their songs.
My mom was not amused (she was a big Brother Dave Gardner fan) so I made real sure never to play the offending humor when she was home. After all, Doug Clark used those banned-in-my-house "curse words" like "damn" and lots of words that rhyme with "Chuck."
Another unique thing about the store was a magnificent painted ad on the Ellis Street side of the building that listed all of the older artists that recorded for the Capitol Records label. It listed Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Stan Kenton and even the Kingston Trio, the only "cool" nod to the pre-Beatles days of the hallowed record label.
Home Folks eventually moved in the late '70s to Broad and Eighth, but with Benny (never knew his last name) gone, it just wasn't the same. Those Richard Pryor and George Carlin albums in plain view of anybody made my old Redd Foxx and Doug Clark LP's seem very tame, which, of course, they were. The downtown store eventually closed as the then-new malls mauled Broad Street businesses. But I will treasure the memories (and records) that I still possess from those days as long as songs are sung and instruments are played.


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JERUSALEM, Nov. 24 (JTA) – Israel's unemployment rate has reached its highest level in three years, soaring to 8.1 percent, according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. According to the bureau, third-quarter figures were the highest since the same rate was recorded in the first quarter of 1994. The number of unemployed rose to 179,000, up from 169,000 in the second quarter of the year. The civilian labor force totaled 2.2 million. Jacob Frenkel, governor of the Bank of Israel, blamed structural reforms in the economy for the increase. He defended the bank's policy of monetary restraint, saying that it was necessary in order to maintain the government's inflationary goals of 7 to 10 percent.
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Are Men Obsessed With Tan Lines?
Last summer, Mark Sanford wrote the following words to his mistress, Maria Belén Chapur:
"I could digress and say that you have the ability to give magnificent gentle kisses, or that I love your tan lines or that I love the curve of your hips, the erotic beauty of you holding yourself (or two magnificent parts of yourself) in the faded glow of the night's light—but hey, that would be going into sexual details…"
I remember reading that and thinking: A) "Wow, this guy is a serious cheesmo," and B) "Wait, he loves her tan lines?" It struck me as strange.
But in the past week, I've been hearing an awful lot about men fixating on tan lines.First, a male friend semi-creeped me out when he pointed to the line of white across my shoulder and said it was "cute." Ooookay, dude. A few days later, a female friend who's a former stripper told me that the girls at her club were asked to wear the same bathing suit all summer so that they'd have extra-crisp tan lines. Why? So that when they took it all off, men would feel like they were seeing something truly forbidden.
Then yesterday, I flipped to a short piece in this month's Marie Claire called "A Guy's View of Summer" by one Scott Frampton. He writes:
"[The sundress] reveals not only your body, but also how comfortable you are with it, and from there, it's a perilously short trip to envisioning what you'd do with it. Especially if tan lines are involved; I've been known to lose my grip at the early-evening sight of them, innocent mojitos plunging to their patio deaths. That contrasting stripe, climbing over your shoulder from parts unknown—unknown to me, certainly—is a tease in the best sense."
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LONDON, March 17 (Reuters) - European stocks were seen opening lower on Monday, with the threat of sanctions against Russia expected to weigh on markets after Crimea's Moscow-backed leaders declared a 96-percent vote in favour of quitting Ukraine and annexation by Russia.
Western powers have said the Crimea vote, which came after Russia effectively occupied the region following the ousting in Kiev of former pro-Moscow Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovich, is illegal and have added it will bring immediate sanctions against Russia.
Financial spreadbetters expected Britain's FTSE 100 to open down by 8-10 points, or 0.2 percent. Germany's DAX was seen falling by 17-34 points, or down by as much as 0.4 percent, while France's CAC was expected to open down by 4-9 points, or 0.2 percent.
"The result probably will not be a surprise to markets as it was widely expected, hence only the muted moves down. Falls are not larger because how this situation develops from here is in the hands of those involved in the diplomatic back channels," Capital Spreads dealer Jonathan Sudaria wrote in a note.
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What started as idea to support Bob Vogelbaugh's annual Thanksgiving dinner evolved into a team effort for 11 Hy-Vee stores in the Quad-Cities.
The stores collected contributions this month at the area stores for "Mr. Thanksgiving's" dinner, which was shared by 2,700
people last week at SouthPark Mall, Moline.
Thursday, the store directors presented Vogelbaugh with a check for $10,194.
He said the money will help with bills now and for next year's dinner.
"We still have outstanding bills but will have some left over for next year, too," Vogelbaugh said. "You can't beat the Quad-Cities and the Midwest for their support."
This year's dinner was the 42nd organized by Vogelbaugh, who originated the free feast in his tiny neighborhood grocery store in Moline. It has grown every year. He said this year, 400 volunteers served 2,200 pounds of turkey and side dishes. He said each annual dinner costs $17,000.
The Hy-Vee fundraiser began last year with the Avenue of the Cities store in Moline selling "turkey cards" and expanded to all stores this year.
"I always thought it was a great thing, and I didn't know how to help," said Sharm Wenndt, director of the Avenue of the Cities store. "I just wanted to help Bob and take some of the stress off him."
Wenndt said the turkey cards were Hy-Vee's idea. Each card displayed a picture of Vogelbaugh, and customers could buy different cash denominations. All proceeds went to the Thanksgiving event.
Store directors said they will continue the fundraising effort next November.
When asked how long he will continue to lead the dinner, Vogelbaugh said "as long as my health is good."


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text: AsiaWorkers injured in Indian nuclear accident Six taken to hospital after hot water spilled from valve during repair work at plant, but no radiation leak reported. 14 May 2014 14:43 GMT | Asia Nuclear plant has faced local opposition and witnessed violent protests in 2012 by villagers [EPA]At least six workers have been injured in an accident at Koodankulam nuclear power plant in India's southern state of Tamil Nadu, a plant official has said. Live Box 2013927135832671882 Hot water spilled from a valve during the repair work, the official said on Wednesday, adding that there was no leak of radiation. The injured were carrying out maintenance work in the turbine building when the incident took place. After being given first aid on the spot, they were taken to hospital, said RS Sundar, the plant's site director. India started pumping electricity from the Russian-built power plant for the first time last October after long delays. The plant has faced local opposition for a quarter of a century and witnessed violent protests in 2012 by villagers who said it was a threat to their safety. Hundreds of millions of Indians still live without power and factories suffer frequent blackouts - an embarrassment to the country's aspirations as an emerging economic powerhouse.Source: Agencies


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Eran Creevy's second feature, Welcome To The Punch, looks set to establish him as a filmmaker to watch. Upscaling from smart Brit thriller Shifty, Creevy's latest unleashes the greatest maestrom of gangster mayhem on London's docklands since The Long Good Friday. Screen Daily has laid its mitts on a first look at the film's protagonist, copper Max Lewinsky (James McAvoy).
Alongside McAvoy, Welcome To The Punch sees ex-con Jacob Sternwood (Mark Strong) return to London from his Icelandic hideout when his son is involved in a heist gone wrong. The pair have bitter history and Lewinsky fancies the opportunity to take down his old nemesis. That's right: it's the carnage-happy stars of Wanted and Green Lantern unleashed on the streets of East London. Remember the Olympics, lads.
Creevy and his crew took time out of last summer's Canary Wharf shoot to tell Big Screen about the film. "I want to do a French Connection, or a Heat, an Infernal Affairs, Hard Boiled-style film, but set in London," the director told The 02 crowd. "I wanted it to be aspirational, make London slick – make it all glass chrome, skyscrapers, and nuanced performances."
Judging by the new still, Creevy has nailed that sharp, neon-tinged aesthetic. This is the most Michael Mann-like thing you'll see this side of Long Beach.
Co-starring with McAvoy and Strong are actress-of-the-moment Andrea Riseborough, Shifty's Daniel Mays, and Peter Mullan. There should be a credit for one Ridley Scott, too. He took time out from Prometheus to lend a hand in the editing suite.
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Mods please move this thread if its in the wrong forum. I didn't see any pellet gun/BB gun sections anywhere so i figured I'd put it here.
I had my Ruger Airhawk out of the stock a few days ago looking at it to see if i could maybe do something cool with it or make a new one. I stupidly pulled on the safety and out it came which long story short led to me having the whole trigger assembly apart and I can't for the life of me get it back together right. When I have gotten it reassembled it will cock back but it wont stay :mad:. Anyone have any experience on this trigger or a place where I can find something that shows how it fits back together? I found an exploded parts diagram on Google but it doesn't show how it all fits back together. :confused::confused:
Here's a pic of all the pieces, if that helps
The exploded diagram would probably be more helpful. Gotta admit this is the first time I've seen a bag O' airgun. Lol
Good luck to you. I hope someone can be of more help.
Found an airgun forum that has the same format as this one (which I like :cool:) and I posted there. Hopefully I'll get some results so i can shoot it tomorrow :D
Well....after finally posting on here and trying to put it all back together a last time it worked......kinda pointless thread I guess but hey I guess I'm just getting my post count up :o:rolleyes:
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Hood River is located in Mt. Hood / The Gorge, home to the towering cliffs and waterfalls of the Columbia River Gorge and the snowy peak of Mt. Hood.
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Back in Version 4 of the game, the Starter Pack was a requirement in order to unlock the Level 50 Cap + additional IGC Cars for purchase. However, in patch Version 4.8, September 12th 2010, the Level 10 Restriction Cap has been lifted. All players who weren't able to buy the Starter Packs were now able to reach Level 50 and buy several cars that cannot be purchased by people who were restricted to Level 10.
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The organization of a committee here to compile and publish a complete dictionary of the Yiddish language was announced today. This dictionary is planned to include all Yiddish words of all countries and regions in which Jews spoke or still speak Yiddish from the earliest period to date. "The Complete Dictionary of the Yiddish Language" will be similar to the academic unabridged dictionaries of other languages. The aim is to gather in the wealth of the Yiddish language.
The editorial board of the dictionary at present consists of Judah A. Joffe, and Yudel Mark, noted Yiddish linguists. Nahum Stutchkoff, author of the "Thesaurus of the Yiddish Language," is secretary. A group of prominent linguists will serve as consultants to the editorial board. The preparation of the dictionary will be made by several scores of contributors, consisting of Yiddish scholars and specialists in various fields. It is estimated that the work of compiling the dictionary will require a minimum of five to six years.


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Damascus: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has sacked his deputy prime minister for being absent without leave and holding unauthorised meetings abroad.
The move follows media reports that Qadri Jamil had met with the US pointman for Syria, Ambassador Robert Ford, on Saturday in Geneva to discuss proposed peace talks.
The official SANA news agency said Mr Jamil was sacked after an "absence without authorisation from his post" as well as "activities and meetings outside the country without authorisation from the government".
According to a political source in Syria, Mr Jamil had proposed joining the opposition delegation to peace talks but Ford had said he could not represent both sides at once.
Mr Jamil himself told the Lebanon-based Arab satellite channel Al-Mayadeen that he planned to return to Damascus, and he defended his meetings abroad.
"Our meetings with international parties to halt the bloodbath in Syria are legitimate," he said.
Opposition National Coalition spokesman Louay Safi said the incident showed that "the regime is in the process of falling apart ... Qadri Jamil perhaps felt the ship is sinking".
A Lebanese newspaper reported that Mr Jamil and his family have been living for the past several weeks in Moscow, where the former member of the Syrian communist party had studied economics.
Mr Jamil's party, the People's Will, participated in peaceful pro-democracy demonstrations in 2011 that escalated into a rebellion after a crackdown by Dr Assad.
As part of the tolerated domestic opposition, he helped draft a new constitution last year and then participated in legislative elections before being named vice premier.
The US and Russia have been struggling to convince Syria's warring parties to attend peace talks in Geneva next month aimed at ending the civil war, which has killed an estimated 115,000 people.
UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi was in Damascus on Tuesday as part of a regional tour to rally support for the talks following a rare US-Russian accord to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons.
The talks remain in doubt, however, with Syria's increasingly fractured rebels having yet to say whether they will attend.
Washington would not "speculate on the meaning or the reasons" behind Mr Jamil's departure, but stressed the US was still working towards try to convene the Geneva peace talks.
The Coalition has said it will not take part in the Geneva talks unless Dr Assad's resignation is on the table - a demand rejected by Damascus - while several rebel groups have warned that anyone who attends will be considered a traitor.
Dr Assad has also cast doubt on the talks, and has said he will not negotiate with any group tied to the rebels fighting his forces or to foreign states.


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@UniWatch nice find at work. 1980 Uniform Specification book for every team pic.twitter.com/EtPmZcvVYe
— Andrew Weatherly (@arwfsu) June 2, 2016
I have a bunch of MLB style guides from the late 1990s and early 2000s, but none from earlier than that. So when reader Andrew Weatherly recently sent me a tweet (shown above) about a 1980 MLB style guide in his possession, that definitely got my attention. I sent a reply asking him to email me privately, which he did.
During our ensuing back-and-forth, Andrew explained that his father had purchased a printing company in Oregon and that the guide had been left behind by the company's previous owner. I asked if he'd consider selling it and he said yes, so we agreed upon a fair price and now the guide has been added to my Uni Watch library.
As you can see in his original tweet, Andrew described this as a 1980 guide. I understand why he thought that, because most of the individual style sheets carry a "10/80" notation in the lower-right corner. That means the specs were finalized in October of 1980, which in turn means that they were actually for the 1981 season, not 1980. Also, the guide was packaged in a binder with removable sheets, and the 1981 style sheets for some teams have been swapped out and replaced with updated sheets for the 1982, '83, or '84 seasons. So the net result is a bit of an early-1980s hodgepodge.
But it's still an amazing document, full of invaluable information and some fascinating anomalies. I'll do a team-by-team rundown in a minute, but first here's some basic info on the guide: (Continue reading)


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The listed insurer said its 30 per cent "quota share arrangement" on the Queensland home insurance portfolio will help limit the net claims costs to between $200 million and $220 million.
The claims, stemming from the floods, follow bushfires that hit parts of Tasmania last month.
Suncorp said natural hazard events in January, including bushfires and storms in Tasmania and Victoria, had cost the company around $50 million.
"Suncorp makes provisions for natural hazards and has an allowance of $520 million for events in the 2013 financial year," the insurance company said in a statement.
For the six months to December, Suncorp's total catastrophe claims hit $147 million.
While Suncorp had never disclosed the party involved with the quota share deal, it is understood Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway has been linked to the arrangement.
"Our immediate priority has been to assist customers devastated by these events, which I witnessed first hand in central Queensland over the weekend," Suncorp personal insurance boss Mark Milliner said in a statement.
"The Suncorp team is working hard to process claims and begin the rebuilding effort."
The insurer's update comes after figures from Roy Morgan Research found that the majority of Queensland businesses have no property cover as they recover from the recent floods.
About 34 per cent of Queensland businesses have property cover and only 14 per cent hold business interruption insurance.
"With the cost of business insurance becoming quite prohibitive in some areas, it is not surprising that fewer businesses can afford to be covered, hence slowing the recovery process for affected businesses when a natural disaster strikes," Roy Morgan's director of business research, Nigel Smith, said.
Insurers have received about 25,800 claims with estimated insured losses of about $290 million at the end of January from the floods, analysis from the Insurance Council of Australia shows.
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Website launched to congratulate Pope Francis on his first anniversary as Pontiff
Would you like to congratulate Pope Francis on the first year of his pontificate? ; ; It's now possible thanks to a website titled, www.graziefrancesco.com ; The way it works is pretty simple. It collects messages posted on Facebook, Twitter and its own website. The goal is to send all of them to the Pope on March 13th. ; ; It's not just about sending a message, but also about sharing it, so users can read the comments others leave as well. To write something one must use the hashtag #ThankYouFrancis, which is available in eight languages. ; ; ; The idea came from an Argentine group known as 'Lindo Lio' which roughly translates to 'Nice Mess.' Its mission is to use to internet to promote culture and charity. ; So, through this website they're inviting everyone, not just Catholics, to send a thank you message to Pope Francis, to mark this unforgettable year in history. ; ; On the first day it was launched the website collected over 2,500 messages. ; ; ; ; AFP/KLH GrazieFrancesco.com VM -PR up:KLH


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Trump USDA Nominee Sam Clovis Claims Marriage Equality Could Lead To Pedophilia
Ian Thorpe, Boyfriend Ryan Channing Call On Australians To Support Same-Sex Marriage
Chilean President Michelle Bachelet To Introduce Gay Marriage Bill Next Week
Aaron Carter Not Interested In Dating Men
Justin Trudeau, Irish PM Leo Varadkar March In Montreal's LGBT Pride Parade
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The Talk co-hosts Sara Gilbert
and Aisha Tyler on Thursday discussed two Supreme Court rulings
related to gay marriage.
The high court released the decisions
on Wednesday. Together they mean that California is likely to become
the 13th state, plus the District of Columbia, to allow
gay nuptials, and that the federal government must recognize those
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her partner, said that reading the rulings she became emotional.
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burst into tears," Gilbert said. "And I couldn't believe … I
think you don't realize how much emotion you have around maybe
feeling like people think of you as a second-class citizen."
Gilbert stressed that despite the wins,
gay couples in 37 states cannot marry.
"The march for equality kind of rages
on," she said.
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Medical Research Centers, Laboratories and Programs
The dedicated Research Centers at Aurora Health Care allow researchers to focus in core areas and offer the best patient-centered research outcomes.
Physicians and scientists seek innovative ways to translate their work to the patient's bedside where new interventions, medications or devices are evaluated to benefit patient care.
Aurora's medical research studies extend into the community where shared knowledge benefits wellness in the community.
Medical research centers at Aurora Health Care include:
Aurora University of Wisconsin Medical Group (AUWMG) Research
The Aurora University of Wisconsin Medical Group (AUWMG) Research Committee supports AUWMG care providers in conducting applied research. Some areas of research include:
- Quality improvement in risk factor measurement and delivery of care
- Epidemiology and identification of infectious diseases
- Technology innovations in advancing health data systems
- Geographic analysis of prevalent health conditions
- Women's health and pregnancy
- Geriatric and long-term care research
- Health disparities in urban health care
- Chronic disease prevention and health motivators
- Substance abuse assessment and screening.
Biomedical Research
This vital, laboratory-based research at Aurora is conducted in three primary areas: cancer immunotherapy, immunology and endocrine research. Aurora Health Care is one of the most experienced organizations in the nation in developing therapies for patients with life-threatening cancers through biomedical research.
The Cancer Immunotherapy work helps create procedures to retrain the immune system to recognize and destroy tumors. Aurora's Immunology Research is focused on identifying the factors that turn the immune system on and off. Endocrine research uses a technique developed by Aurora scientist and Medical College of Wisconsin Professor Hershel Raff, PhD, to determine the level of a stress hormone called cortisol saliva.
Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging
The Sheikh Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Integrative Research on Cardiovascular Aging, focuses on understanding the biology of the aging heart and aging-associated heart diseases and applying this knowledge to improve patient care.
By exploring the molecular mechanisms responsible for the aging heart's decreased stress tolerance, the team seeks to develop novel, evidence-based strategies for early detection of disease susceptibility and new interventions to protect the heart – enabling medical providers to prevent, avert or treat abnormalities before diseases such as arrhythmias or heart failure appear.
Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH)
The Center for Urban Population Health (CUPH) is a collaboration among Aurora Health Care, the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health and the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee. CUPH focuses on identifying what determines health, wellbeing and disease in certain groups, forging partnerships with community health and academic experts to design and implement preventive interventions and measuring those interventions' effectiveness.
Comprehensive Breast Care Center at Aurora Sinai Medical Center
The Comprehensive Breast Care Program at Aurora Sinai Medical Center provides the full spectrum of breast cancer management available within the same campus. This includes women's imaging, medical and radiation oncology, plastic surgery, pathology, genetic counseling, nutrition, psychological counseling, clinical trials, tumor registry, outpatient and inpatient surgery, and physical therapy rehabilitation.
Echocardiograpy Center for Research and Innovation
Aurora Health Care Echocardiography serves communities throughout eastern Wisconsin and northern Illinois within its 14 acute care hospitals and 20 outpatient ambulatory clinics. More than 65,000 echocardiograms were performed in 2012. The organization has a large volume structural heart disease population with experience in over 150 TAVR, 50 Mitraclip, LAA appendage occlusion devices, ASD/VSD closure devices. Echocardiography services provide support in the operating room, cardiac catheterization laboratory and electrophysiology laboratory. Translational and basic animal research is conducted with focus on atrial mechanics, design and testing of cardiac valves.
Personalized medicine (ORBIT)
Open-Source Robotic Biorepository and Informatics Technology at Aurora Health Care is a library of blood samples linked to health information for the purpose of testing new technologies. It is hoped that the knowledge gained from this project will advance Aurora's ability to provide care that meets the specific needs of each patient.
Regenerative Medicine Center
Regenerative medicine represents a new form of medicine that accelerates the body's own healing process to generate new tissue and fully restore the health of damaged tissues and organs. Stem cells, genes and engineered cells/tissue are some of the tools used, sometimes in combination with drugs or devices, to improve function and quality of life in a minimally invasive approach.
The Regenerative Medicine Center is building on more than 20 years of experience in cellular therapy for patients with cancer to research and developing innovative, regenerative therapies to improve outcomes in patients with cardiovascular and neurological disease.
Regenerative Medicine Center programs:
St. Luke's Center for Gastroenterology Research
The St. Luke's Center for Gastroenterology Research leads research programs in interventional gastroenterology, chronic inflammatory disease, and early diagnosis and treatment of gastrointestinal illnesses. The long-term goal of the center is to ease the burden of gastroenterological conditions and diseases on patients and health care resources through the application of biomedical research.


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