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Ohhh! I adore peacocks. The print on these undies is so cute and the olive green is just perfect. The cut is also fantastic for us girl with the plumper bottoms.
The Anchor V-Neck Tee is made from 65% cotton, 35% polyester, and features an oversized pink anchor motif, with allover horizontal stripes. (via website)
Model is wearing a size Extra Small Stretchy V-Neck tank dress with straps that tie at back; 48% polyester, 48% viscose, 4% spandex. By BB Dakota
Great sweater for any season!
I can't decide if this is more hip Girl Scout or crossing guard, but either way, better be prepared!
It's in your face. It speaks to our generation of self-promotion and confidence of our own individual branding. The colors remind me of all the saturated and intoxicatingly alluring banners on the internet.
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Cozy and comfy jacket that looks so snuggly. Made from wool and viscose, its lightweight and has an oversized collar. Sounds good to me! I like the longer length on it, too.
Wow! Great colors.
This new design from insight features stars...you like stars...get it....
Add a little color to the new season with these Turquoise pants. Comfortable and flashy (not necessarily a bad thing), you will have heads turning as you saunter around in these.
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1- Do you have hydrogen peroxide?
Benzonatate is one of the cough medicine we use; usually at doses between 25-100mg. Not seeing any of the pills in the vomit could mean either the pills were absorbed or he did not swallow it. Possible side effects include numbness of the mouth or tongue, tremors and even seizures. I would recommend to observe him, if you do not see any symptoms within the next 12 hours than he will be fine. But, if he begins to act agitated or tremors, have him checked by a veterinarian immediately.
If you have additional questions I will be glad to answer them.
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is it ok to let him eat his regular meal this evening (6pm PT)?
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Kielbasa Bow Tie Skillet Recipe
- 8 ounces uncooked bow tie pasta
- 1 pound smoked kielbasa or smoked Polish sausage, cut into 1/4-inch slices
- 1 jar (4-1/2 ounces) sliced mushrooms, drained
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 2 teaspoons minced garlic
- 1 tablespoon cornstarch
- 1-1/2 cups milk
- 1-1/2 cups fresh or frozen snow peas
- 1 cup (4 ounces) shredded cheddar cheese
- 1. Cook pasta according to package directions. Meanwhile, in a large skillet, saute sausage and mushrooms in butter. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer.
Combine cornstarch and milk until smooth; gradually add to the skillet. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Drain pasta; add to sausage mixture. Stir in the peas and cheese; cook until cheese is melted.
Freeze option: Cool pasta; transfer to freezer containers. Freeze for up to 3 months. To use, thaw in refrigerator overnight. Place in a Dutch oven; heat through. Sprinkle with additional cheese. Yield: 4 servings.
Nutritional Facts
1-1/2 cups: 813 calories, 50g fat (23g saturated fat), 133mg cholesterol, 1624mg sodium, 58g carbohydrate (9g sugars, 4g fiber), 35g protein.
Reviews for Kielbasa Bow Tie Skillet
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"I prepared this recipe tonight. There actually was nothing wrong with the recipe except maybe it was a little bland but it just was not what we cared for. The snow peas were very large and I did try to cut them in halves. This recipe has good reviews so it is just us. Please do try it and you may like it much more than we did."
"I omitted the mushrooms and used fresh snow peas and fat free milk. I also had leftover some wine and cheese sausage, which I used instead of the kielbasa. This turned out really good. I think next time, I'll try a different kind of shredded cheese (just to switch it up). A good quick meal. I will be making this again."
"One of our favorites! I omit the mushrooms, as we don't care for them and use frozen peas in place if snow peas. It's a nice, quick meal."
"Made this for dinner and everyone liked. It was simple to prepare. I like to cook kielbasa sausage and look for recipes that feature it. I left out the snow peas since I didn't have. For some reason mine came out way saucier than the picture. Except for the snow peas followed the directions. Not sure if I needed more cornstarch but it just gave it more of a pasta dish with sauce feel for me."
"This was a little bland for us. I added some chopped pimiento in with the peas and cheese to add color and a little more flavor. I probably won't be making this again as is."
"Loved this recipe......I had no snow peas so I used frozen broccoli instead.....and I used grated parmesan cheese in place of the cheddar cheese b/c I thought it sounded better. My 3 young children (5 yrs. and under) loved this as well. That's always a surefire sign it's good. Will definitely make it again....."
"We absolutely loved this! I will surely make it again."
"I also used fresh mushrooms. It was a delicious and hearty meal."
"I lightened it up a bit by using turkey smoked sausage and 2% milk. As suggested by others, I doubled the sauce ingredients (butter, milk, cornstarch and cheese) and was glad I did. I used fresh mushrooms instead of canned. I also replaced the peas with steamed brocolli florets because not many in my house care for peas. Put in a bit of Mrs. Dash regular. I also saved a bit of the pasta water to add while mixing the sauce and pasta. Honestly, I wasn't sure how all these ingredients would taste when combined, but it was hearty and delicious."
"All I can say is this is FABULOUS!!!! I wouldn't change a thing besides adding 8oz of fresh mushrooms instead of the 4.5 oz jar of mushrooms and add a 1/4 cup more shredded cheddar cheese! This is a GREAT RECIPE and quick ONE!!!!!!"
"This is a wonderful recipe for nights that time is limited takes no time to make and tastes awesome. The kids get excited when they see me pulling the kielbasa out of the freezer for supper"
"This was just okay. I think a different sauce would have made all the difference. It definitely was a quick and easy meal, which I did like, but the taste was only so-so... a little too bland for my taste. I wouldn't make this specific recipe again, but I probably would do it if it had an alfredo sauce or even marinara with parmesan or cheddar cheese on top instead."
"I also added another ring of Kielbasa, (they were only 14 oz. each) and doubled the cheese. This is one of only a few new recipes my husband has requested that I make again."
"We loved this! I also used two pounds of Keilbasa and doubled the cheese sauce recipe. Snow peas are impossible to find where we live so I've used sugar snap peas which are good, but don't double the amount of these! Great weeknight meal!"
"This was really good! My entire family raved about it, even my 9 and 10 yr old kids. You can easily stretch the recipie a bit by adding more pasta to the pot. I would used another 1/2 pound of Keilbasa if doing so as my family likes more meat. Really an excellent dish that reheats well also. Thanks Taste Of Home!"
"It takes a few minutes to add it up, but if you really need to know the nutrition information it's not that hard to do it yourself. Add up the information on your ingredients and divide by the number of servings. No need to shout!"
"I agree, I need to know calories, fat and fiber and serving size. I'd love to make many of the recipes I see here but without nutritional info I can't."
"I did the smoke sausage or the Kielbasa with American fries instead of bow ties. I raised two boys and they just gobble it up. Of course they seperated and removedthe onions before they ate it. Now they are telling everyone they were raised on Kielbasa and potatoes. They never say that they begged for it"
"I cant wait to try sounds delicious and easy."
"I just got done fixing this meal. It was great... super simple and easy. From start to finish, it only took about 20 minutes. I used smoked sausage and canned sweet peas. Definitely a keeper!"
"Kielbasa is really Polish sausage.I love fresh kielbasa over the smoked but am no longer in Michigan and cannot get any good kielbasa here in Georgis. Real lielbasa is not the stuff you by in the supermarkets!"
"What is the difference between Kielbasa, polish sausage, and others? Is it seasonings?"
"I have a box of Bow Tie pasta that I was trying to figure out what to do with it."
"This sounds good and simple. We like Kielbasa and this receipe is something that I have never thought of.Am anxious to try it. Shirley"
"Had kielbasa in fridge but didn't know what to cook with it. Let me tell ya, this recipe isn't even close to "ho-hum" (that's what my husband calls meals sometimes). Made for supper last night, and he ate more than half (he's got a hardy appetite. **Kudos** to TOH for another great recipe."


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I've considered an impala. The jaguar is off completely now. lol. I don't even know how to change oil greg. lol. So I guess that was a bad idea. haha
I've considered an impala. The jaguar is off completely now. lol. I don't even know how to change oil greg. lol. So I guess that was a bad idea. haha
R.I.P Nikko.
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Only one of these is 'cheap to fix'cheap to fix.
hondas, toyotas, fords are ideal.
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People drive hondas because they don't break. Honda (and Toyota) parts are ridiculously priced in North America, due to the importing etc.
If you buy an older honda, it is going to break and you will have to pay to fix it. It is far more expensive to fix an import than it is a domestic, just due to the parts alone. (labour on these things will be roughly the same, other than the imports doing stupid **** with their work)
If you are buying new, go import. If you are buying used, (older than 2003, 2004) buy domestic, unless you can do the work yourself (and have an in for parts)
I'll probably end up buying used. Really my budget is like 3000. I don't think I can get more than a down payment out of three thousand on a new car.
R.I.P Nikko.
Want my honest opinions about CARS and what to trust and what not to trust?
I've been in the automotive scene for almost 7 years now and worked in the field for 3.
Here's my break down of OLDER CARS. With maybe 1995 and older.
Brands to TRUST:
Brands NOT to trust:
THere's more I can add to it later, but those are the popular brands for yes and no buying :P
Honda's are actually manufactured in Canada and the States now, so parts and repairs are cheap.
my first car was a 1987 CRX. It was a WICKED first car, I bought it from a dealership unfortunately, so I overpaid for it, but **** that was a fun car.
I actually trust Hyundai's now, with their 2008 and 2009 vehicles. And take my word for it, I worked for them and worked on the service end with them. Any older Hyundai's I would avoid like the plague. They have come a long way to get their reputation back up on the road.
I would also keep in mind this saying when car shopping:
If it looks too good to be true, IT PROBABLY IS!!!!
Now to cover my butt, my yes and no list are not by my favourites but based on reliability. I love most of the cars on my NO list, so don't take offense if you see a car you own on it
I like fords, but I love their trucks and find their newer cars more reliable than older ones. Hyundai, like i said before, I DO NOT trust their older cars (2005 and older) but their new models and re-redesigns I trust fully.
ETc etc.. I'll post more as I think of it.
Thanks for the post Lauren! Please add more when you can. lol
R.I.P Nikko.
Lauren, the plants here only assemble the vehicles. The parts are made overseas and sent here. When someone needs a new belt, spark plugs, anything that is 'honda', they pay the price that reflects them shipping it from the east.
It is far cheaper to fix an older domestic vehicle than it is to fix an import, and when you are buying old, you're going to be fixing it.... alot.
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I took mine back to the shop and put it up on the hoist to inspect it before I bought it haha
You also get what you pay for. I drive a 2002 Grand Prix (looking for a top swap), and mind you I drive the balls off this thing, I drive it very very hard, and you pay. The age of the car depends exactly what you're going to have to pay in repairs. Model to model it can depend slightly, but overall it's gonna be the same. How you drive will help as well. Just this year so far, on a seven year old car, I've put about $2,500 into it in repairs of wearing parts. (that means no stuff breaking that shouldn't have, all these parts wear out).
Just so you know. You buy a $3,000 car and don't baby it like crazy, you're going to be putting it's value back into it each year in parts.
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Not all parts though. A mirror is a body pannel, not included in wearing parts.
I'm talking about things like the PCM valve, throttle body control, wheel bearings (honda spec, $$$$), belts, etc etc. All those parts come from Japan.
I just had to change the rear right wheel bearing on my car. Total cost: $30. A woman I work with had to change the wheel bearing on her 93 accord, total cost for just the part from the honda dealership: $50.
Domestics are routinely cheaper on parts, that's just how it is. The catch is that they 'break down' more.
True Hondas can be expensive to repair, especially with the new ones.
However, anything older than a 2000 pretty much you can go to any Lordco, Princess Auto, Canadian Tire, or similar stores like that in the states, and pick up parts for next to nothing.
But they're reliable.
Actually.. with this entire thread, as much as I will want to give my opinions, I swear by honda. But I will do my best to give my opinions on everything
True, I'm talking about stealership prices (should watch my words, I know you used to werk for dealers)
NAPA is pretty decent on everything, and again, their import parts are still slightly higher then domestics.
I just bought a new car last week, what a perfect thread. I traded in my '95 Toyota 4Runner (what a serious wreck!) and got a '07 Subaru Forester. So far, I love it.
I had so many problems with my Toyota truck that honestly I would say they aren't made to Toyota car standards. We only had 140K miles on it and we replaced SO many things the last 5 years (and they were expensive). Just the week before we traded it in we replaced the brakes, rotars, and calipers ($550) and got a new muffler ($250). Then we went huckleberry picking 4 days later and got stuck with an overheating, smoking transmission and the **** thing wouldn't start again.
So far I really like the Forester. Plus, it has a warranty...which I like A LOT!
That is great to hear. I haven't ever owned one before, but I did some research and found that they have an excellent reputation. I have always been a Toyota/Nissan girl (I love my Nissan Sentra!), but this Subaru really caught me.
I've been searching on craigslist and I found a few ads and I just wanted to know what you guys thought of them.
There were a lot more ads that I was going to post but didn't want to overrun the thread with them haha.
R.I.P Nikko.
Acura - high insurance rates! really, really high!
Ford Ranger - again, high insurance rates, but I would check. I don't know why insurance is high, but it is, or at least it was when my sister wanted one. That was around '99 and she was 18. They also have bad safety ratings, so that may be why.
Geo Prism - Crap! Pass.
Honda - eh, it is getting pretty old and the mileage is high. I'm not an expert, but you will probably be looking at a new engine in 20 - 30,000 miles. With anything old like that, ask for proof of maintenance. Oil changes are important. I keep receipts for all of mine in an envelope in the glove box so I have them when I plan on selling my car.
What else do you have?
R.I.P Nikko.
What do you guys think of the second set of ads?
R.I.P Nikko.
The grand am might suffice, but it heavily depends on the car and who has driven it
The lexus will be a pain in the *** to fix
the mitsu is in the whole DSM crank walk issues... not sure if you're looking to rebuild it if you got the unlucky one
The stratus is fine, but you're not 50 years old and I doubt you want to get the gas mileage of an army tank pulling a trailer of donkeys.
Again, all of these cars will depend on the shape they're in, and you can't tell that from the pictures.
Learn alot, or find a mechanic buddy to go look at them...
Alright, thanks Greg. My dad and I are going to go look at cars today and tomorrow just to kinda see whats out there and find a car that I like.
R.I.P Nikko.


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This week the sport returns to New Delhi for the second occasion of the Indian Grand Prix, where Marussia will be looking to consolidate tenth place in the constructors' championship and continue to put mileage on its most recent car developments. Once again, Timo Glock has the upper hand in terms of experience of the circuit, while Charles Pic will no doubt relish the challenge of yet another new track in his debut season.
Timo Glock
"India, in my opinion, is a fantastic track. As soon as we did our first practice runs at the Buddh International Circuit last year, I enjoyed it straight away. There are so many special sections to the track, especially Turn 3, which is a very extreme corner. You have to completely turn into the steering wheel, followed by a very long straight. I'm excited to see what we will achieve there this year there, however with the long straight the KERS factor will again play an important role. Of course, we will try to get the best out of our package and achieve a two-car finish."
Charles Pic
"Of the circuits I would be racing for this first time this season, this is definitely one of a few that I have been particularly looking forward to. The track is very interesting with some striking features, and it seems to have been widely praised in 2011. I have done a lot of work in the simulator to prepare and I can appreciate the parallels with Spa; it looks very fast and free-flowing. I think the long straight will be a challenge for us because we don't have KERS, but we did a good job of achieving a good balance across the whole lap in Korea, so we will see how well the package works for us this weekend. This is my first trip to India - again, something I am looking forward to. 2012 has been a year of new and exciting experiences and I still have four new circuits to look forward to."
John Booth, Team Principal
"We were all pleasantly surprised by the Buddh International Circuit last season, when we raced there for the very first time. It's a fascinating blend of some of the very best features from circuits across the whole calendar, most notably Spa. The track is quite a technical challenge in terms of setting the car up and, from a driver's perspective Timo had nothing but praise for it last year. Charles of course faces another Friday of acclimatisation, but he is really enjoying the challenge and is pushing himself hard. So we head to New Delhi this week hoping to benefit from the experience gained in 2011 and optimistic that we can keep delivering strong two-car finishes in the remaining races, to reflect our development progress and help us to keep a firm grip on tenth position in the constructors' championship."


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(CBS News) Gillian Anderson recently revealed that she's dabbled in relationships with women. In a new interview with Out magazine, the actress, probably best known for playing Agent Dana Scully on "The X Files," says that during high school she was in a long relationship with a woman.
When prodded further about whether it was a lesbian relationship, Anderson said, "Yeah, yeah, well it's ... You know, I'm old enough that I can talk about that."Pictures: Gillian Anderson
Through the years, Anderson has dated other women, but she says the majority of her relationships have been with men.
"If I had thought I was 100 percent gay, would it have been a different experience for me?" Anderson, 43, told Out. "Would it have been a bigger deal if shame had been attached to it and all those things that become huge life-altering issues for youngsters in that situation? It's possible that my attitude around it came, on some level, from knowing that I still liked boys."
Anderson has been divorced twice and has a 17-year-old daughter from her first marriage to producer Julian Ozanne. She has two young sons with her current partner.
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For the last 39 years, the New York Islanders have called Long Island and Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum home but that could all change in the not too distant future. On Monday, Nassau County residents voted against a $400 million referendum that would have led to a new home for the Islanders. Many are now speculating that without a new stadium, the Islanders could be the NHL's next victim of relocation.
Residents voted 33,526 to 24,553 in favor of nay in an election that officials said was a low turnout, with only about 15 percent showing up to make their voice heard. Troubles with the Long Island Rail Road and bad weather in the afternoon may have scared some voters away.
The Islanders current home – nicknamed the Coliseum – has been home to the Islanders since the team joined the league in 1972, as an expansion team. For years, owner Charles Wang has been toying with the notion of finding a new place for the Islanders to call home. The push for a new arena came, in part because of how outdated and run down the Coliseum has become. Wang's biggest plan for New York's current home came in 2009 and became known as "The Lighthouse Project." It would have been privately financed and would have cost an estimated $3.74 billion that included a refurbished Coliseum, a minor-league baseball stadium and various other housing, hotels and businesses in the area.
During this past season, the Islanders even asked the county for $4 million for repairs which included fixing the roof, lower-bowl seating and improving the ice surface. The arena needs plenty more than a touch up and the Islander's lease with the Nassau Coliseum isn't up until 2015, so what happens after that?
The team and the league have several different options for what it could do with the team. At the top of that list is the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The arena –which opens next year – will be the new home of the New Jersey Nets of the NBA but will seat an estimated 18,000 fans. There is also a spot adjacent to Citi Field in Queens that could be a potential spot for a new home. A relocation could be another option, as there are a couple of cities in the market for an expansion NHL team.
If the Islanders move west, there are one city that could house an NHL franchise tomorrow, if the opportunity presented itself. As a matter of fact Kansas City, Missouri welcomed the Islanders in 2009 for a preseason game, which could have been the city's way of showing it wants to bid for a team, despite past history. For two years in the mid 70s, Kansas City was home to the Scouts but the team was forced to relocate to Denver due to debt problems.
Las Vegas is another viable option.
The city has long been interested in acquiring a major league franchise and just this year, Mayor Oscar Goodman made it clear he plans to do whatever is in his power to get an arena built in the hopes of luring a major league franchise to the Sin City. And let's not forget, Canada is always an option when it comes to relocating.
And now we wait. We have to wait and see what all the legal mumbo jumbo and politics will lead to in Nassau County but it would be a shame if a team so rich in NHL history had to find a new home.
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02/16/2010 (4:51 pm)
Root, Blind Hog
Democrats are scrambling for explanations for the impending electoral disaster in the wake of Evan Bayh's retirement announcement yesterday, according to Sam Stein at Huffington Post. It's like watching a blind hog rooting for acorns. And we who understand how toxic the Democratic party policies are, hope they continue to root in similar fashion.
Listen to the "wisdom:"
Markos Moulitsas, the founder of the blog Daily Kos, said that the best way for Democrats to salvage the fate of the party before the 2010 elections is clear: "Deliver on their campaign promises."
"No one is asking them to go out on a limb and do something they didn't first run by the American people," Moulitsas said, in an email to the Huffington Post. "The Dems are where they are because they got elected promising to be a party able to govern, and then spent the last year proving themselves wrong."
Absolutely. Attempting to ram a health care disaster down the nation's throats that 65% of Americans believe will make things worse, after declaring a health care crisis in an environment where 85% of Americans express satisfaction with their current health care, is certainly not asking anyone to go out on a limb to do something they didn't run by the American people first. No, sir. You just keep talking, Markos.
And then there's Lanny Davis:
On the opposite end of the Democratic Party spectrum, Lanny Davis, a longtime Clinton confidant and purveyor of the politics of compromise, offered a similar diagnosis.
"I know this will work because of what happened to Bill Clinton," Davis said of the ability of policy accomplishments to turn around a poor narrative. "[President Obama's] failure to pass something showed him to be an ineffectual president. And the absence of effectiveness combined with the cynicism of government because of that absence of effectiveness… is toxic. It is Barack Obama that has to change that dynamic, and do it in a dramatic fashion to show he is an effective president."
Yes, that's it, Lanny. America is disappointed that President Obama did not succeed in passing everything that he has proposed. Keep saying that, Lanny. Please.
Kos Kid again:
"Republicans never doubt their agenda, and will use any tool at their disposal to ram it through," Moulitsas wrote. "Democrats have internalized the criticisms about their agenda… dilly and dally and beg Republicans to join them… instead of following the lead of their opponents."
Fascinating. I wonder what Markos calls midnight meetings, locking out opposition party members, voting on bills that have not even been read, bribing moderates with pork, threatening lack of re-election support, lying, demonizing, and all the rest. What tool did Democrats not use in their attempt to pass health care legislation, military assault? The irony is so thick you can cut it. But please, Markos, please keep talking this way.
Listen to Tad Devine:
Tad Devine, another longtime Democratic hand was just as blunt, advising lawmakers not to be wary of re-introducing voters to the previous White House's record.
"We as Democrats seem to think there was some sort of sunset provision on the Bush administration," Devine said. "That an administration that nearly bankrupted the country… is something that after six months we can't even talk about any more is absurd. We have to be like Reagan and always remind people of the situation we walked into."
Oooooh, yeah. Blame Bush. That'll do the trick. Just keep on telling them that,Tad.
It would be hilariously funny if they were not so completely destructive. It does not even begin to occur to them that somewhere between 60% and 80% of the nation is dead-set opposed to turning more of their lives over to government, and opposed to increasing government spending in any significant way. They're missing the central point: what they believe is the right thing for America, most Americans reject.
Mr. Kos is right on one item, but he does not know it. When he says "deliver on campaign promises," if he meant for Obama to actually become what he promised he was during the election season, it might actually work. He posed as a post-partisan moderate; it was a lie. He's a hard leftist, and has governed as one. The Democrats could salvage some credibility if they dropped their vicious tactics, their vicious rhetoric, their character assassination assaults, their doctored statistics, and actually cooperated in government with opposition party members to produce the sort of economically sensible, limited government most Americans want. But then they'd have to become something they're not.
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Comment by suek
"The Democrats could salvage some credibility if they dropped their vicious tactics, their vicious rhetoric, their character assassination assaults, their doctored statistics, and actually cooperated in government with opposition party members to produce the sort of economically sensible, limited government most Americans want."
I am constantly astounded by the statements made by various Dem supporters. Seemingly intelligent, seemingly honest people make statements that are so inconsistent with the facts that they cannot be judged to be other than either stupid or lying. I know part of this is the viewpoint one holds, but as they say, you can have your own opinion, but you can't have your own facts. Nevertheless, that's what they do – create their own facts.
I don't see how we're going to avoid a major disaster in this country. You cannot compromise with those who are irrational or unprincipled – you can only stand and defend or appease. The Dems keep calling for appeasment. The people are beginning to call for Republicans to stand and defend.
Something is _going_ to give.
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And therein lies the problem. Calling for Republicans to stand and defend. Color me cynical, but there's no opportunity that the Stupid Party can't fumble away. I still haven't seen a coordinated message of what the opposition stands for. You can only be against something for so long before you have to produce an alternative. Given the behavior of the Republican majority earlier this century, I'm not holding my breath. Michael Steele is still in charge, after all.
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>>You can only be against something for so long before you have to produce an alternative. >>
I don't disagree with you – at least not entirely – but when you see the effort by the GOP to offer alternatives, and how those efforts have been dismissed, and how they've been excluded from any negotiations…what should the GOP do?
The reason for the "not entirely" is that sometimes you just have to say "no". You know the old story of "Madam, we are not discussing _what_ you are – we are simply discussing the price"…! Sometimes negotiating is not the answer. If you have principles, and to negotiate requires you to compromise those principles, then the answer _has_ to be "NO".
But…I _do_ wish the GOP would be more aggressive in broadcasting their principles and their reasons for non-negotiation when that's the case.
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PARENTS and school governors are being urged to attend an anti-academy roadshow tonight.
There are fears that more schools in Bolton could break away from local authority control and become state-funded independent schools under government plans to have academy and free schools.
The government says schools which are free from local authority control and run by sponsors drive up standards — while teaching unions say it represents the privatisation of education.
The meetings have been organised by the Bolton branch of the National Union of Teachers (NUT), Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Bolton association of NASUWT — the National Association of Schoolmasters Union and Women Teachers — and Unison.
Julia Simpkins, secretary of Bolton NUT said: "I don't know whether the government has its eye on any particular schools in Bolton but Michael Gove has made it quite clear that he wants schools to become academies.
"We don't have a large percentage of academies in Bolton but that is creeping up.
"New schools now have to be academies or free schools.
"We want parents and governors to attend these meetings and find out what academy schools are all about.
"My worry about academy schools is the lack of accountability.
"They are not answerable to the council."
The first meeting will take place at Green Lane Cricket Club tonight at 6pm with the second meeting taking place on January 27 at Westhoughton Community Centre at the same time.


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20-year old Anthony Harrison is a cancer patient. He went for a bone-marrow transplant but the operation failed and now, he has been told by the doctors that there's not much that they can do anymore. So he has a few days, perhaps months to live and is on the verge of death. So Anthony has created a bucket list on YouTube which includes, among other things, meeting his 'celebrity idol' Katy Perry.
As soon as the video from Anthony reached social media, it has gone viral. A certain group of Katy Perry dedicated fans, called 'Katy Kats', have started sharing and resharing the video on the social media.
A number of blogs dedicated to Katy Perry have also shared the video and are actively encouraging their readers as well as fellow fans to share the video so much so that Perry eventually watches the video and Harrison can realize his dream of meeting her.
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Some have tried asking the question as to whether or not the video is authentic. A Reddit user, actively sharing the video, responded, "If he's real, he'll appreciate the support. If he's fake, we'll leave that to 4Chan."
Currently the whole campaign has been launched under the hashtag #KatyMeetAnthony. Fans of Perry and supporters of Harrison are actively working on the campaign and who knows Harrison may be able to meet Perry after all.
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By Brooke Edwards
VICTORVILLE • One of the top forensic auditing firms in the country now has its own temporary office at City Hall, as an investigation into Victorville's finances by the San Bernardino County Grand Jury moves forward.
The grand jury first began probing Victorville in spring 2009, interviewing a slew of city officials regarding troubled finances, reported handshake deals and more.
In December, Councilman Ryan McEachron requested a forensic audit to specifically look for evidence of any fraudulent activities, after a year in office hearing continued concerns from residents that malfeasance had contributed to Victorville's financial problems.
In January, McEachron suggested having the county's grand jury take charge of the audit, fronting the cost for the cash-strapped city and ensuring that the results would be viewed as completely independent.
Victorville didn't hear anything until May, when, in a request officials said has been made perhaps twice in two decades, the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors approved giving the grand jury an extra $195,000 to hire auditor Kessler International.
On July 1, for the first time in the history of San Bernardino County, six citizens were held over from the 2009-10 grand jury to continue serving with this year's watchdog group, according to Presiding Judge Douglas Elwell.
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'American Idol': David Won
The older, way more arrogant David is our new American Idol. David Cook won Idol last night, in a show that garnered the highest amount of viewers voting to date. This year, the show received 97.5 million votes cast compared with last year's 23 million. Cook won with 56 to 44 percent of the vote, according to host Ryan Seacrest.
David Archuleta's Great Santini of a father was obviously unable to go through with his plan to take hostages at knifepoint until his son was crowned the winner.
Last night's season-seven finale was chock-full of celebrities and performances from this season's past contestants. George Michael ended a medley of his tunes performed by the Idol kids by coming out and gamely attempting to get through "Praying for Time." It made Paula Abdul cry, but people get emotional when they're drinking.
David Cook realized his honky-tonk I'm-never-going-to-sing-anything-this-genuine-ever-again rock dreams when he got to sing "Sharp Dressed Man" with ZZ Top. Archie sang "Apologize" with the extremely generic, future wedding band One Republic.
Mike Myers made an appearance as his next unfunny character to plug a movie that even jokey frat boys are going to avoid.
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Penn-Trafford stages 'It's a Wonderful Life'
You'll hear a bell ring in the Penn-Trafford High School auditorium this weekend.
For the next three days, Bedford Falls and its best-known residents — George Bailey; his wife, Mary; and crotchety businessman Mr. Potter — will take center stage.
The Penn-Trafford Drama Guild will present "It's a Wonderful Life" on Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday afternoon.
The production, based on the 1946 movie starring Jimmy Stewart, follows a suicidal Bailey, as a guardian angel named Clarence shows him what his town would be like if Bailey had never been born.
The film, which started growing in popularity during the 1970s, now is a staple of the NBC holiday schedule, and airs during prime-time hours every year.
Despite the frequent showings on TV, junior Michael Zula said it wasn't until he began rehearsing this fall to play George that his appreciation for the story blossomed.
"To me, now, it's just so much more significant, especially because it's so emotional," he said.
Meanwhile, his on-stage wife, junior Taylor Powell, said she was honored to be chosen to play Mary. Taylor said she has watched the movie several times since she was a little girl.
"I think that Donna Reed, as an actress (who played Mary), is so inspiring," she said.
Stewart's fans credit the film for helping to draw a new generation of people to the Indiana County native's career.
The Bailey character has become so connected with Stewart that the Jimmy Stewart Museum in downtown Indiana has an annual George Bailey Awards banquet.
"Certainly, we take the fictional character George Bailey and run with it," said Tim Harley, the museum's executive director for nine years. "He is kind of that everyman. You see him going through personal and professional dilemmas that everyone goes through.
"That it's become a classic at Christmastime, I think, is really wonderful. That that is the type of film that still has meaning in contemporary culture is encouraging."
Chris Foreman is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-856-7400, ext. 8671, or email@example.com.


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For Simon Gerrans, a record third win in the Tour Down Under on Sunday all but completes the fairytale story of his early season success.
Listen to Gerrans (Orica-GreenEDGE) after he became the first rider to win the World Tour event three times, and you could be led to believe he had ticked all the boxes for his Australian summer.
''To win as Australian champion with an Australian team on Australia Day in Australia's only World Tour event, it is just a fantastic feeling,'' said Gerrans after defending his overall lead to win the tour by one second from Cadel Evans (BMC). Italian Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida) was third at 5s, followed by Australians Richie Porte (Sky) at 10s and Nathan Haas (Garmin-Sharp) at 27s.
However, no sooner had the 33-year-old Victorian started to absorb the joy of his latest professional victory, which added to his wins in 2006 and 2012, than he confirmed his next target - the Tour of Victoria from February 5 to 9, an event he won in 2005 and 2006.
''We will be there and we will be trying to win it,'' said Gerrans, who last year wore the Tour de France yellow jersey for two days but had an early end to his season when he crashed in the Vuelta a Espana and sustained a hairline fracture to the hip. ''It's another important race for Australia, so we will be going for another victory.''
However, Gerrans said that when he started this season, winning the unofficial ''triple crown'' was not his priority. ''I was focused on winning the national title,'' he said. ''Then it was to focus on winning here and next is to focus on the Herald Sun Tour … I wasn't getting too wrapped up in trying to win all three, just one at time.''
For Gerrans and his team, Sunday's final and sixth stage in Adelaide, an 85.5-kilometre inner-city circuit race, unfolded perfectly, especially with the danger of Evans or Ulissi trying to take back their deficits on the three intermediate sprints that offered three-, two- and one-second time bonuses being eliminated when a three-man break raced away to contest them all.
Then when it came to the battle for the stage win that offered 10-, six- and four-second bonuses for the first three places, the sprinters' teams cruelled any chance of an upset by controlling the race, which was won by German Andre Greipel (Lotto-Belissol). Greipel, who won stage four to Victor Harbor, beat Australian Mark Renshaw (Omega Phara-QuickStep) and Briton Andrew Fenn (Omega Pharma-QuickStep).
However, Gerrans, who placed 11th, said the last stage was not as easy it may have looked for him or his teammates. ''It was a pretty nervous day,'' he said. ''The race was there to be won by any number of riders. We stayed at the front and out of trouble. The guys did a fantastic job, not just a pretty good job.
''They took me right up the front there, right out of trouble … to make sure I avoided any splits in the peloton and finished right up front.''
Gerrans said the strong calibre of riders who challenged him for the title, especially Evans, Ulissi and Porte, added weight to the win.
''We have seen one of the best fields ever at the Tour Down Under,'' he said. ''I really feel like I had to fight for it so much harder this time.''


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Brooks KieschnickBrooks Kieschnick. There they discussed the frustration of being sent down to the minors, the transition from college, and what it takes to be successful on both sides of the ball.
Baseball Prospectus: Are you surprised by the coverage you have received in your bid to make the Milwaukee Brewers as both a pitcher and a pinch-hitter?
Brooks Kieschnick: Actually, I am. It's great, and I appreciate it, but it's one of those deals where I'm lucky enough to do what I love to do, and that's play baseball, and also lucky enough for Milwaukee to let me both pitch and hit. The coverage is nice, but I just feel lucky in that aspect.
BP: You've been a part of a number of Spring Training camps, and had a number of different chances to break camp with a team, but you've often wound up starting a season in the minors. How frustrating is it to gear up all winter to make a team, only to find out you're being sent back down?
BK: It's pretty heartbreaking, and it never gets any easier. You come into Spring Training with high hopes every year, and I've only wound up breaking camp (with the major league team) one year, and that was my first big league camp. Every camp since, it's been tough. (You hear) 'hey, we want you to go down and work on this, hey, we want you to get a little better at doing that." It's a tough thing.
BP: Back at the University of Texas, you were a three-time College All-American, both as a pitcher and as a hitter. Back then, did you ever harbor the hope of doing both on the major-league level?
BK: I never thought it would be possible, and I never thought a team would...if you look at the past 20 or 30 years, nobody's ever been allowed to even try it. That's why I thank the Milwaukee Brewers for even giving me a chance to give it a whirl, and hopefully things will work out.
BP: Sitting in the dugout over the years, how many times have you wanted to get into a game and pitch?
BK: There were times even when I first signed where I would come up to the manager and say: "Hey, if you get a blowout game, would you let me pitch?" Of course, they wouldn't let me do it. Then, later on, as I got a little older and played a little longer, there were some blowout games in the minors where I did get to pitch. It was fun, but I never remember being so sore pitching in a college game as I was after pitching in a blowout game!
BP: This winter, did the decision to try and make a team as a pitcher change the way you prepared physically?
BK: Oh, absolutely. This is the first off-season where I actually had to prepare as a pitcher. Yes, I still did some swinging and did things to get ready as a hitter also, but mainly, I had to prepare my body to pitch every day.
BP: What has (Brewers manager) Ned Yost said to you so far this spring?
BK: Just good job, keep up the work, and that's basically it. That's kind of I want to hear. I don't want to hear: 'Hey, we're going to send you down,' or 'Hey, we're going to keep you here.' I'm just going to keep going out and doing my business the right way.
BP: Mentally, is there a difficult adjustment switching back and forth from the mindset of being a pitcher or a hitter?
BK: I don't think so. Actually, I think it might help me. When you go out there as a pitcher, you're focusing and really concentrating on spots. You're thinking, "I need to throw the ball in this spot," or "I need to throw this particular pitch in this count", so when you go up there at the plate, it helps your mind think about (those strategies) also.
BP: You know, Brooks, you might be setting a dangerous trend. Covering the Padres, I know Mark Kotsay was a pretty good pitcher during his Cal State Fullerton days. Will other guys be following in your footsteps?
BK: (Laughing) I don't know...it would be nice to see. I've known a lot of guys who were able to pitch and hit in college and be successful at it, so maybe some teams will start looking at it, I don't know.
BP: Realistically, though, you're fighting for a roster spot as the 24th or 25th man on this ballclub. You've been down that road a number of times before. If you're able to succeed as a pitcher and a hitter, you become both the 24th and 25th man, and you give the manager some real versatility.
BK: I hope so. That's what I'm going for. Not only does it give me a chance to play, but it gives the manager some flexibility with players.
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TEL AVIV (Jun. 18)
Waves of Israeli jets carried out massive bombing and strafing attacks against Jordanian artillery and military positions in the southern section of the Jordan Valley today. The attacks, which lasted more than five hours, followed an earlier aerial sortie against Arab guerrilla positions in northern Jordan opposite the Beisan Valley. The Israeli planes were unopposed by Jordanian aircraft or anti-aircraft fire and all returned safely to their bases, a military spokesman said.
Israeli pilots reported direct hits in the target areas which included an artillery position near Umm Tutz pass and other positions in the southern area from which Jordanian and Iraqi artillery have been shelling Israeli territory for the past few days. An Amman Radio broadcast said the Israeli planes hit Karameh village, which is an Arab guerrilla base, and also the areas around the Abdullah and Allenby Bridges. Several types of planes were reported to have participated in the attack. A spokesman said the attack was not prompted by yesterday's shelling of Kallia beach on the north shore of the Dead Sea in which an American tourist and an Israeli was killed and four others were wounded. He said it was the result of "endless" attacks by Arab artillery.
This morning's air strike was aimed at guerrillas who opened fire on an Israeli infantry patrol in the Beisan Valley, near Tirat Zvi. A half track coming to the aid of the patrol was attacked with bazooka shells. Israeli units returned the fire, pinning down the attackers until the planes arrived.
An Israeli soldier was killed and three others were wounded yesterday in an Egyptian mortar and artillery attack along the Suez Canal, a military spokesman reported. He said the Egyptians opened fire along the central and southern sections of the waterway and briefly in the northern section. Another Israeli soldier died today of wounds he suffered in an Egyptian shelling on June 10.
The Army announced today that five Syrian soldiers were taken prisoner Sunday by an Israeli patrol which intercepted them in the Golan Heights near the scene of recent attacks and mining incidents. The Syrians surrendered after a brief clash in which one of them was wounded. They were believed to be saboteurs but interrogation disclosed that the group consisted of a Syrian Army intelligence unit and its escort, the communique said.


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The Neurophysiological Biomarker Toolbox (NBT) is an open source Matlab toolbox for the computation and integration of neurophysiological biomarkers (e.g., biomarkers based on EEG or MEG recordings).[1] The NBT toolbox has so far been used in three peer-reviewed research articles, and has a broad user base of more than 340 users. The NBT toolbox provides unique features for analysis of resting-state EEG or MEG recordings. NBT offers a pipeline from data storage to statistics including artifact rejection, signal visualization, biomarker computation, statistical testing, and biomarker databasing. NBT allows for easy implementation of new biomarkers, and incorporates an online wiki (the NBTwiki[2]) that aims at facilitating collaboration among NBT users including extensive help and tutorials. The standardised way of data storage and analysis that NBT proposes allow different research projects to merge, compare, or share their data and biomarker algorithms.[3]
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Neuronal oscillations are generated at many spatial and temporal scales of neuronal organization, and thought to provide a network-level mechanism for the coordination of spatio-temporally distributed spiking activity. For an adequate understanding of quantitative changes in neurophysiological signals, such as electroencephalography (EEG) or magnetoencephalography (MEG), as a consequence of disease, experimental manipulations, or genetic variability there is a need to apply multiple biomarker algorithms.
The aim of the NBT toolbox is to make biomarker research easier at all levels. From having raw data, cleaning it, calculating biomarkers, to performing advanced statistics.
The NBT toolbox includes biomarkers, such as:
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The toolbox has a standard template for how biomarkers should be implemented, which makes it relatively easy to implement new biomarkers. Originally the toolbox was aimed at biomarkers based on EEG or MEG signals, recently however the toolbox has moved towards supporting almost any type of biomarker data.
The biomarker data and associated meta information is stored in a Matlab based database; the NBT elements database.
The NBT toolbox works as a plugin to the open-source Matlab toolbox EEGLAB
The development of the NBT toolbox was started in 2008 by Simon-Shlomo Poil and Klaus Linkenkaer-Hansen from the VU University Amsterdam. Later the developer team was joined by Rick Jansen, Richard Hardstone, and Giuseppina Schiavone. The toolbox has also received contributions from many other people.
The toolbox and its associated tutorial website has served as a major part of courses at the VU University Amsterdam; such as, the Human Neurophysiology course (with on average 100 students each year), and the advanced human neurophysiology.
18. April 2012 the first public release of the toolbox was made (release candidate R1). The toolbox has been downloaded more than 590 times (April 2013).[4] The most recent public version of the NBT toolbox is RC3b (released 2 August 2013)[5] .
Scientific publications using the NBT toolboxEdit
- O'Gorman et al., Coupling Between Resting Cerebral Perfusion and EEG, Brain Topography, 2012 [6]
- Hardstone et al., Detrended fluctuation analysis: A scale-free view on neuronal oscillations, Frontiers in Fractal Physiology, 2012 [3]
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Other open-source toolboxes for analysis of M/EEG recordings:
- Fieldtrip
- ↑ Poil, Simon-Shlomo (2013). Neurophysiological Biomarkers of cognitive decline: from criticality to toolbox.
- ↑ (2012). NBTwiki.net. NBTwiki.net. URL accessed on 2013-07-21.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Hardstone, Richard, Poil, Simon-Shlomo; Schiavone, Giuseppina; Jansen, Rick; Nikulin, Vadim V.; Mansvelder, Huibert D.; Linkenkaer-Hansen, Klaus (1 January 2012). Detrended Fluctuation Analysis: A Scale-Free View on Neuronal Oscillations. Frontiers in Physiology 3.
- ↑ Poil, Simon-Shlomo One year release birthday of NBT. poil.dk. URL accessed on 22 July 2013.
- ↑ Error on call to template:cite web: Parameters url and title must be specified URL accessed on 2 August 2013.
- ↑ O'Gorman, RL, Poil, SS; Brandeis, D; Klaver, P; Bollmann, S; Ghisleni, C; Lüchinger, R; Martin, E; Shankaranarayanan, A; Alsop, DC; Michels, L (2013 Jul). Coupling between resting cerebral perfusion and EEG.. Brain topography 26 (3): 442–57.
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As a physician and a Medicare recipient I hold double stakes in the health care debate. And as a father and grandfather, I am interested in bequeathing to future generations the most effective and sensible health care delivery system. • I am a lifelong pro-lifer who opposes abortion in all circumstances except when the physical life of the mother is imperiled, and I oppose embryonic stem cell research. But make no mistake: I am in favor of preserving life, not of prolonging death. • So the ridiculous debate about "death panels" irked me. All the proposal asked for was that physicians be compensated for end-of-life counseling, an activity that already may claim as many as 20 hours a week of any conscientious provider.
In the best American tradition of individual freedom, this counseling allows patients affected by serious and terminal diseases to exercise their autonomy and decide for themselves when the time has come to face death.
Though painful, I consider this counseling one of the most rewarding prerogatives of my profession, a time when I have the privilege to accompany another person to the ultimate threshold of life. Even when it's clear a cancer can no longer be cured, I still have the opportunity to heal the patient.
Healing involves coming to terms with one's own mortality, accepting the fact that our earthly life is finite and perishable even if we are made for the infinite, co-opting death as part of life, in the best Judeo-Christian tradition. Remember Ecclesiastes: "There is a time to be born and a time to die."
As the unknown priestly writer of the biblical text knew very well, we are all doomed if death is the ultimate enemy. The only way to defeat death is to recognize in death a human experience like any other, to make sense of our own death.
A few years ago in a Perspective essay, I told the story of the chief of a disbanded tribe of American Indians, whom I had the privilege to treat for prostate cancer.
He wanted to write the history of his tribe. And he decided to forgo a chemotherapy that might have prolonged his life by a few months but would have left him unable to complete this important duty.
The chief taught me that what makes our life worthy is a sense of mission, of each person's unique calling. Only he could write that history. Each of us has something equally important within us, something only we can do.
A life gains meaning only when it is spent pursuing that special task. And as the chief made clear, it is worth dying for this calling.
Modern medicine now manages death.
Theoretically at least, nobody should die anymore of respiratory failure or cardiac failure or renal failure, thanks to the machines that can substitute for our failing organs, nor of starvation thanks to the ability to provide parenteral nutrition even when our digestive tract ceases functioning.
So modern medicine raises the question: When is it the time to die?
The Indian chief provided the answer: It is time when prolonging our life interferes with our life's mission, with what we have been called to do.
Then, the prolongation of life becomes really the burdensome prolongation of death.
Since ministering to the chief, I have witnessed hundreds of cases where persons came to terms with their own deaths.
Of course they were fearful of the unknown, but all of them died with the peace of mind to have accomplished what was expected from them, to have left a print on this Earth that may be forgotten, but not erased.
Believers and nonbelievers alike felt that they had contributed to the redemption of this world.
A redeemer, in ancient Israel, was the family member who prevented the enslavement of a man and his family by paying that man's debt.
The ultimate goal of life is indeed to pay for somebody else's debts, to use the nightmare of living for the creation of beautiful and lasting testimonies of our humanity, as Octavio Paz wrote in The Labyrinth of Solitude.
While claiming that they want the government out of health care, the mob that decried the so-called "death panels" calls for the government to interfere with the exercise of personal autonomy, with the most meaningful time of a patient-physician relation.
They claim to be true Christians, yet they deny the redeeming value of death, which is the door to immortality in the Christian tradition.
Dr. Lodovico Balducci is a professor of oncology and medicine at the University of South Florida College of Medicine and is director, Division of Geriatric Oncology, at the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center.


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Adil Haider
He's a little embarrassed to admit it, but Adil Haider remembers what made him decide at a very young age to be a trauma surgeon. It was a TV show—Trapper John M.D.—that featured as its hero a surgeon who, Haider says, "could fix everyone." He knew instantly that he wanted to be that guy.
But Haider's decision to focus his research on disparities in trauma outcomes took considerably longer.
After spending his early childhood in the Midwest, Haider and his family moved back to their native Pakistan in the early 1980s. There, in a country where poverty abounds and opportunities for higher education are few, he was acutely aware of how fortunate he was to have parents from educated backgrounds and the opportunity to create his own future. So, when he enrolled in the prestigious medical school at Aga Khan University—which devotes about a fifth of its curriculum to public health—he felt an obligation to do the most good for the greatest number.
He thought: "There are only so many people I'll be able to operate on, but I can exponentially increase the number of people I can touch through public health."
Seeking to decrease the impact of injuries—like those he would see as a trauma surgeon—he made his way to the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Hopkins' Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he also received a master's degree. There, he learned the tools and techniques for analyzing data that he would later apply to outcomes research.
But he didn't discover his niche in trauma disparities until he was completing his fellowship at Hopkins Hospital. Working with former head of trauma surgery Eddie Cornwell, current chief of trauma David Efron and others, Haider discovered that black children with traumatic brain injuries had worse outcomes than white children with equivalent injuries. That was the first of many surprising findings that he's made since.
Hoping to expand this young field of study, in recent years Haider has been helping to train the next generation of disparities researchers through the Center for Surgery Trials and Outcomes Research, which he codirects. Through the center, public health students—who often are also medical students—are paired with surgeons who share similar research interests. Several of these students have focused on trauma disparities.
Those students, as well as two trauma-outcomes fellows from Surgery each year, are giving Haider and others some company in this budding area of study.
"The field of trauma disparities is very underdeveloped," Haider says. "In fact, it's in its genesis phase."


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ST. PETERSBURG — It sounded simple enough.
Gather a group of local leaders to figure out how to build a baseball stadium.
But a week after Mayor Rick Baker and Tampa Bay Rays officials tapped Progress Energy chief executive Jeff Lyash to head the effort, it's clear that his task will be anything but easy.
City, county, business and neighborhood leaders already are battling for a voice on the committee, ensuring politics will dominate the selection process. Everyone seems to have an opinion on how the group should be formed. And even the size is subject to debate — big enough to be diverse but small enough to be effective.
"You have a have a lot of different interests there that have to be reconciled," said Will Michaels, chairman of the Council of Neighborhood Association's baseball committee. "He is going to have to be able to broker compromises, and that is no easy thing to do."
Lyash, who is on vacation this week and could not be reached for comment, hasn't said much about what he plans to do, other than forming a group that is as inclusive as possible.
The idea of a stadium task force was born in the wake of the Rays' decision last week to indefinitely withdraw their $450-million downtown stadium proposal.
Team officials say Lyash will have absolute authority over the coalition's inner workings.
"The first order of business will be putting the group together and deciding what the scope of their charge will be," said Michael Kalt, the Rays' senior vice president of development and business affairs. "Obviously you would want to see representatives from all parts of the community represented on the coalition. Jeff is smart enough to know how to make this thing successful."
Community leaders agree Lyash will have to include officials from north and south Pinellas, and maybe Hillsborough County.
But that's about the only thing they agree on.
St. Petersburg leaders say city officials should comprise the majority of the group and that the focus should be on keeping the team in the city. County leaders, however, say the group should include an equal mix of people from throughout the Tampa Bay area.
And debate over whether the coalition should include elected officials, neighborhood leaders, organized groups for and against the stadium or business owners is even more heated.
"You wouldn't want it to be all chamber people or all members of POWW (Preserve Our Wallets and Waterfront) or all people for the stadium. And obviously, none of the council members should be on it," said St. Petersburg City Council member Wengay Newton. "That would be too much of a conflict of interest."
But Pinellas County Commissioner Bob Stewart said the group should include as many different parties as possible, including activists, elected officials and regular sports fans.
"Along the journey you have to build public support," he said. "You do that through involvement, participation and extensive communication."
Opinions also differ over how the members should be selected.
Council member Karl Nurse said people should be able to nominate themselves.
Jim Lawrence, president of the Barrier Islands Government Council, said Lyash should first figure out the qualities he's looking for.
Some groups have already volunteered their services, including the Council of Neighborhood Associations, POWW and the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce.
"The important criteria is that the members have an open mind," said Steve Raymund, co-chairman of the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce's baseball task force. "This committee had been formed on the premise that we want the Rays to be successful in St. Petersburg for a long time. The other premise is that the Rays will need to find a new home way before their lease runs out. So whomever joins the committee needs to be on board with these two premises."
Cristina Silva can be reached at (727) 893-8846.


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Alpharetta, Ga.-based Flight Display Systems named Tom Austin Jr. president. He joined the company from Cutter Aviation, where he was v-p of aircraft services.
Mineral Wells, Texas-based Meggitt/S-Tec named Michael McMillan president of the company. McMillan was a founding v-p of Piaggio America and had a 21-year career with Raytheon Aircraft.
Mark Vastola joined Nashville, Tenn.-based fractional provider FractionAir as executive v-p of sales and marketing.
San Antonio-based M7 Aerospace named Phil Fletcher v-p of aerostructures manufacturing. He has held executive positions with Raytheon Aircraft, Rohr Industries, Mitsubishi Aircraft International and General Dynamics. The company also named Stephen Penley chief financial officer.
Grapevine, Texas-based Leading Edge Aviation Solutions named Brent Monroe vice president of the company and John McCormick v-p of business development. Monroe was previously sales director for Bombardier Flexjet. McCormick, who will lead the company's new Chicago office, was previously national v-p of sales at Executive Jet Management.
Globalair.com opened a regional office in Rome, N.Y. The office is being led by account executive Christine Blair, who also spearheads the company's Web site aircraft exchange component.
Boise, Idaho-based Western Aircraft named Philip Winters v-p of aircraft sales and William Clarey regional director of aircraft sales. An eight-year Western Aircraft employee, Winters was previously regional sales director for California and Nevada. Clarey was previously regional sales director for the company's entire Beechcraft territory.
Andreas Meisel has been selected to head the aircraft overhaul and VIP jet services department of Lufthansa Technik. Meisel succeeds Wolfgang Gohde, who took over as managing director of Lufthansa Systems.
Ed Stimpson was recently elected chairman of the Flight Safety Foundation Board of Governors. Other additions to the board were Steven Atkins, v-p of product integrity and technical excellence for Boeing Commercial Airplanes; and Ed Bolen, president and CEO of NBAA.
Eric Hill is the new general manager of Million Air Long Beach. He was most recently director of line services for OK3 Air in Heber City, Utah, and manager of the company's Ogden, Utah, FBO.
Englewood, Colo.-based Adam Aircraft named Gen. Wesley Clark to its board of directors. Clark retired from the U.S. Army in 2000 with the rank of four-star general. He is a former NATO supreme allied commander for Europe and was commander of NATO's Operation Allied Force, which saved 1.5 million Albanians from ethnic cleansing in Kosovo.
Stevens Aviation has named Dave Grup a Cessna Citation technical sales representative. He joined Stevens from Cessna, where he was most recently supervisor of service and engine sales at the company's Citation Service Center in Orlando, Fla.
Louisville, Ky.-based Globalair.com named Jeffrey LoParo executive v-p of media sales. He was an aircraft broker and research analyst for a Dallas-based aircraft sales organization.
Jet Support Services (JSSI) named Marjorie DeLong marketing services director. She was marketing communications manager for L-3 Communications Avionics Systems.
Kansas City, Mo.-based Executive AirShare promoted Rodney Goering to director of flight operations. He was director of flight operations and chief pilot at the company's location at Mid-Continent Airport.
Tim Annis joined Portland, Maine-based Northeast Air as assistant avionics manager. He was most recently avionics installation manager for West Star Aviation in Grand Junction, Colo.
Julian Crouch was named operations director at Inflite Jet Center at London Stansted Airport. He was previously quality manager for FlightLine at Southend Airport and cargo planning manager for Antonov Airlines/AirFoyle HeavyLift.
Duncan Aviation named Chris Gress accessory service sales and customer service manager. Gress was most recently sales and marketing representative and propeller technical representative for the accessories, propellers and components group. The company also promoted Randy Wilson to program manager of completions and modifications.
FlightSafety International promoted Russ Axtell to assistant manager for the company's Raytheon Learning Center in Wichita. Axtell succeeded Tom Booth, who was promoted last year to manager of the company's Columbus Center in Ohio. Julie Goodridge was promoted to assistant manager for FlightSafety's West Palm Beach Learning Center.
Malcolm Cox was appointed managing director of Fly BN. Cox joined the company from FLS Aerospace, where he held various engineering and operational support positions.
Norwell, Mass.-based Sentient Jet named John Bax CFO. He was most recently v-p
of planning and analysis at Wal-Mart. The company, a provider of private jet membership, has also formed an independent safety advisory board that will bring together a coalition of aviation industry experts focused on enhancing Sentient's safety practices and standards. Board members include Jane Garvey, former FAA Administrator; Larry Hecht, chief pilot for Flightworks; Andrew Richmond, president of TWC Aviation; and Greg Philips, a former lead investigator for the NTSB.
Gregory Bowles was named manager of engineering and maintenance for the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA). Bowles joined GAMA from Keystone Helicopter, where he was responsible for certification and validation program planning for aircraft modifications.
Larry Batchelor joined Gilbert, Ariz.-based Extex to lead the newly formed general aviation unit. He was previously employed by Dallas Airmotive for 25 years.
Andrew Goldman joined CRS JetSpares as a sales representative.
Midcoast Aviation named David Tidwell manager of completions and modifications. Tidwell most recently served in a similar capacity for a Bombardier service facility.
NetJets Europe named Jonathan Breeze commercial director and Jitte Boutens field manager of the fractional company.
The board of directors of Alenia Aeronautica appointed Giorgio Zappa chairman, Giorgio Brazzelli deputy chairman, Giovanni Bertolone CEO and Antonio Perfetti COO.
J. Philip Jordan, executive v-p of Business Air at Denton Municipal Airport, is the new treasurer of the National Aircraft Resale Association.
Englewood, Colo.-based Aviation Technology Group named Simon Maina regional sales manager of the central region of the U.S. and Canada.
Mike Anderson of Boeing Naval Systems was named v-p and deputy program director of the Bell Boeing V-22 Joint Program Office. He was most recently the Boeing F/A-18E/F program manager, responsible for technical, cost and schedule performance on the Super Hornet program.
Jamail Larkins, an aviation business student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, was named an FAA ambassador for aviation space and education. Larkins will promote aviation and aerospace career opportunities to youth across the country. He will also represent the FAA's aviation and space education division at aviation events this year.
Dr. Kristin Casey joined New York-based consultant company TRC as vice president of administration. She will work directly with the company's Web-based application AirCraftValuator (www.aircraftvaluator.com), which monitors, tracks and reports the value of business jets in real time.
Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Banyan Air Service promoted Lynn Juengel to technical services manager. She was manager of the maintenance division.
Gerald Shaw has been named director of operations for Addison Jet Management.
Flightcraft promoted Chris Brown to line service manager at its location at Portland International Airport. Brown will be responsible for ramp and customer service at the facility.
Herb Schutt, v-p of operations at Pittsburgh-based CJ Systems Aviation Group, has retired. A 20-year veteran of the company, he was the driving force behind many of the company's policies governing flight operations and safety.
Ignacio Nunez Ruiz has rejoined the Sabreliner-Midcoast service and sales team. He was previously regional manager of technical service sales in Mexico.
Awards & Honors
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University space physicist James Wanliss has received the National Science Foundation's Faculty Early Career Development Award. The award recognizes and supports the early-career development activities of teacher-scholars who are likely to become academic leaders. Wanliss, an assistant professor of physics at the university, will receive $410,606 during the next five years to develop local predictions on the effects on the Earth of the magnetic storms that originate from explosions on the sun.
The Robert J. Collier Trophy was awarded to the SpaceShipOne team "for the greatest achievement in aviation in America." SpaceShipOne went into space for the first time last June 21. Last fall, the craft made a pair of return trips to space within a week of each other to earn the $10 million Ansari X Prize. The citation specifically mentions Burt Rutan, founder of Scaled Composites, which designed and built SpaceShipOne; Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who paid for the project; pilots
Mike Melvill and Brian Binnie; and mission control director Doug Shane.
Virgil Williams, retired aviation director of pharmaceutical company Upjohn, received the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award from the FAA for having a perfect flying record for the past 54 years. Williams has never been in an accident or cited by the FAA for safety violations. A former NBAA board member, Williams is manager of the Plainwell Municipal Airport in Michigan.
The University of Nebraska presented the William F. Shea Award for Distinguished Contributions to Aviation to Jack Olcott "in recognition of extraordinary contributions in the field of air transportation."
Avitat Westchester honored three of its staff members with employee of the year awards for 2004. Terry Delorenzo from accounting, line supervisor Charlie Assalty and customer service representative Jackie Perser were each awarded a cruise for two to Bermuda.
The FAA recognized Stevens Aviation employees Tim Kunkle and Charles Jamison as maintenance technician of the year and avionics technician of the year, respectively.
Final Flights
Len Morgan, retired Braniff 747 captain, aviation historian and author, died at the age of 82 on March 11 at his home in Florida after a valiant fight with cancer. His wife of 61 years, Margaret, daughter Kathy and granddaughter Morgan were at his bedside when he passed. Morgan wrote and collected many aviation books (he had one of the few privately held, complete sets of Jane's All The World's Aircraft dating back to the first edition), but he will likely be best remembered for his Vectors column in Flying Magazine, in which he wrote about his flying experiences in an ever non-boastful and engaging way that appealed to a wide audience. When he retired in 1982, his column evolved into reminiscences about his military and airline flying, and observations about how the latter was changing. Morgan's son Terry, a captain with USAir, helped to keep his father up to speed on how the career of airline pilot was evolving. Two words are almost invariably spoken of the man by those who knew Len–"a gentleman."
Harold Botsford Jr., a veteran corporate pilot, was killed in a light airplane crash on takeoff from Greenwood Lake Airport, West Milford, N.J. on February 27. He was 79.
Botsford spent more than three decades in corporate aviation. After serving as a demo pilot in the early days of Learjet, he managed the flight operations for the chief executive of a New York City department-store chain, where he flew both a Cessna 310 and a Learjet. He later flew for Sentry Insurance of Stevens Point, Wis., and American Cyanamid of Teterboro, N.J. In between he formed a flight operation for the government of Liberia with a fleet of piston-powered singles and twins and a Falcon 20 in which he transported the country's top officials.
After retiring from corporate aviation Botsford continued flying in the role of a flight instructor on piston-powered light airplanes and amphibians.
AIN Strengthens Advertising Sales Staff
AIN veteran John McCarthy has been named publisher of Business Jet Traveler, and Nancy O'Brien has joined AIN as advertising sales representative for the Western U.S.
"Reorganizing and realigning our sales force will enable us to continue to develop our newest magazine, Business Jet Traveler, while improving our customer focus with an in-territory representative for the Western states," AIN publisher Perry Bradley said. "AIN's hallmarks are editorial excellence and incomparable customer service, and Nancy's expertise makes her a natural fit with our organization."
"John played a key role in launching BJT," AIN managing director Wilson Leach said. "As publisher, he will broaden his day-to-day responsibility for our newest publication, enabling us to continue to build on the significant momentum of this unique publication."
Over the next several months, McCarthy and O'Brien will work closely on an orderly transfer of accounts in the Western territory. O'Brien will operate from an office in Redding, Calif. She is representing all AIN publications, including the monthly magazine, Convention News, Business Jet Traveler, international airshow editions, and online offerings including AINonline and AINalerts. O'Brien most recently was publisher of Aviation Maintenance magazine.
Business Jet Traveler was launched in late 2003 as a complement to AIN. The publication, which is written specifically for the end-users of business aircraft, offers a unique editorial package related to the acquisition and use of business aircraft. McCarthy played a central role in the launch, managing circulation development and marketing efforts in addition to his advertising sales responsibility.
McCarthy will continue to be involved in the full family of AIN publications by assuming responsibility for advertising sales in the Southeastern U.S. beginning later this year. That shift will enable Anthony Romano to focus on the Northeastern U.S. and MidAtlantic states. Melissa Murphy continues to represent AIN in the Central states, while Bradley is responsible for the upper Midwest and international sales along with Daniel Solnica, AIN's Paris-based representative.


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Junkyard Royalty rules again tomorrow. Stay tuned.
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Junkyard Royalty rules again tomorrow. Stay tuned.
I feel stupid for making Amy & Daniel my team captains. I worried about them since she seemed to have issues with running and because their nice-guy syndrome might cost them other first-place wins but I admired her spirit and wanted to root for her. They had nothing but bad luck in this episode. I was initially going to make the Chippendales my team captains but worried about them overlooking clues. Looks like I should have stuck to my original plans. :(
I'll get scores up shortly. I want to check my scoresheet to make sure every pool team is added. It won't take long to figure scores after that.
I'm sure I'll be making changes to my pool team this week, too.
Amazing Race 21 Pool Results
Episode 2
Natalie & Nadiya finished first, earning 15 points.
Trey & Lexi came in second, earning 14 points.
Jaymes and James were third, getting 13 points.
Abbie & Ryan finished fourth, getting 12 points.
Josh & Brent came in fifth, earning 11 points.
James & Abba were sixth, earning 10 points.
Caitlin & Brittany finished seventh, getting 9 points.
Rob & Kelly came in eight, getting 8 points.
Gary & Will were ninth, earning 7 points.
Amy & Daniel finished last and were eliminated from the race.
Team Rankings
1. BuckeyeGal: 64 points
2. Team Phileas Fogg: 61 points
3. Junkyard Royalty: 56 points
4. The Shady Brow: 54 points
4. Alley Cats: 54 points
5. Watermelonheads: 51 points
5. Team Amazing Bellies: 51 points
6. Trouble in Tokyo: 50 points
7. Two Tickets to Philimination: 48 points
7. martin4au: 48 points
8. Grokking the World: 46 points
9. REMS: 43 points
9. Blonde Joke: 43 points
9.Team Lung Cheez: 43 points
BuckeyeGal had the highest weekly score! She wins an Express Pass to Red Lobster to dine on seafood delicacies. REMS, Blonde Joke, and Team Lung Cheez tied for the lowest weekly score. They'll be prepping the seafood, getting ice ready to keep it chilled for BuckeyeGal.
I'm going to take a chance and replace Amy & Daniel with the Bickersons' (Natalie & Nadiya), also making them my team captains. No more lifelines left for me so I hope this decision works out well! The girls have much better than I thought they would on the first two episodes so I hope they continue at that pace.
No retro points for Episode 1? I thought I was being clever by putting Abbie and Ryan in my pool.
Being a twin, I find the Bickersons (thanks Pikachu) extremely annoying, but less so this episode than the first. They have the express pass, so it may be strategic to swap them into my pool, but I am resisting.
I was thinking about it last night, but would the express pass be best used by a team right at the start of a stage? I think the team would be able to build the biggest lead over team 2 by doing that.
Most pools I've been in on other forums you have to choose your team before seeing the first episode and I hate that! Someone's bio and pre-interview can be really great but then they end up being someone you wouldn't have chosen when you see them in a full episode. That's why I like to let people see the first episode before finalizing their teams.
I finally made an avatar for my pool team! I'm not going to put it up until closer to Sunday. Sadly, my team name is becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Sadly, I'll have to replace Amy and Daniel, too. I'll give it a little thought and let you know asap, pikachu.
I'm happy with my four, even though Rob and Kelley aren't that strong of a team so far. But that's not what I base my picks on. I base them on how epic the contestants are. <3


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Tor Njaa
Tor Njaa (23 October 1912 – 5 September 1944) was a Norwegian resistance member of World War II.
He was born in Flekkefjord, to a mother from Flekkefjord and a father from Time, and had attended middle school and commercial school. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, he joined the resistance movement. He was the leader of Milorg in the city of Flekkefjord,[1] and was an important cooperator of Gunvald Tomstad.[2] He also operated an illegal communication post.[1]
He was arrested in August 1942, and imprisoned at Møllergata 19 until March 1943, except for some time in Kristiansand in early 1943. He then sat at Grini concentration camp from March to June 1943 and October to November 1943. He was then sent to Germany.[3] He died in September 1944, en route to Natzweiler concentration camp.[1]
- ^ a b c Ording, Arne; Johnson, Gudrun; Garder, Johan (1950). Våre falne 1939-1945. 3. Oslo: Grøndahl. p. 423.
- ^ Hansson, Per (1965). Det største spillet (in Norwegian). Oslo: Gyldendal. ISBN 82-05-18367-8.
- ^ Giertsen, Børre R., ed. (1946). Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 252.
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