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Marco Werman: You've probably seen this next item making the rounds on the internet. It's an invention that could change the way you and I ride a bike. An invisible bike helmet. Terese Alstin came up with the idea as part of her master's thesis in Sweden. Terese, how can a bike helmet, first of all, actually be invisible?
Terese Alstin: Yeah, that was a tricky part to solve.
Werman: I'll bet.
Alstin: It started out with us talking to a lot of cyclists about why they are not using conventional cycle helmets, and they were all asking for something really discrete and something preferably invisible, and something that would not destroy their personal style, or hair for that matter. So that's how we started thinking about, "Is it possible to develop a cycle helmet that is not placed on your head at all, but instead it would be around your neck?"
Werman: Right. So what'd you come up with?
Alstin: The invention is a collar with an airbag system inside. The airbag is folded up inside the collar, so you don't actually have anything on top of your head until you end up in accident, and then the airbag is triggered to inflate in a tenth of a second around your head.
Werman: So you wear this collar, and the helmet airbag thing is kind of stuffed into it. How does the collar attach to your clothes?
Alstin: No, it's not attached to your clothes. You put the collar around your neck, and then there's a zip at the front of the collar that you zip it up, and then there's also an on/off button that you need to activate the system with. So you push the on/off button and then you will hear a sound signal that says, "doodle do dit," and then you know that it's on.
Werman: Have you personally tested the airbag helmet, and crashed with it, to see what it's like?
Alstin: I've tested it many, many times, of course. I've actually not crashed it myself, although my cofounder, Anna Haupt, was in a crash just a few weeks ago and had the collar on, and it inflated.
Werman: What was that like?
Alstin: Well, most people who are in crashes, it's really a scary situation to be in. You get really scared. It happens so very quickly, so they don't really realize until after the accident that the airbag is inflated around their head. But to describe how it feels... it goes so, so quickly. It's up in a tenth of a second, and when the pressure is on, it's stiff like a football almost. So it just goes really quickly and suddenly it's there, around your head, and after the accident it slowly starts to deflate again.
Werman: So anyone, here in the US, who's got a bicycle and a bicycle helmet, knows that inside the helmet there's that Department of Transportation Approved sticker. Has the Swedish government approved this?
Alstin: Yes. In order to sell a bicycle helmet within Europe, you need a CE marking. So it has gone through a massive testing procedure.
Werman: Will you be marketing this in the US, and have you started to go through the approval process here?
Alstin: No, we have not started with the US introduction. That is a bit further down the road. I think, for now, we have enough to handle with the European market. We just need to take everything one step at a time, and coming up next is actually the Japanese market.
Werman: Alright so, Terese, here comes the real bitter pill. How much does this invisible helmet cost?
Alstin: It costs 399 Euros.
Werman: So about 500 dollars.
Alstin: Yeah, that's right. Of course it's more expensive than conventional helmets because it's airbag technology, it's very advanced technology. It's not easy and cheap to produce, so that's why there needs to be a higher price. And of course you always have the possibility to choose a conventional helmet, if that's what you prefer.
Werman: What if you hit a bump or something, is there any accidental way the helmet could be deployed?
Alstin: Oh, when it's not supposed to?
Werman: Yeah?
Alstin: No, that is what we have been working so hard... I mean, the biggest challenge, technically, for us in the development, was to get it right. To get the trigger function right. Completely accurate in when to inflate and when not to inflate. And in order to get that right, we have been using test cyclists who have been wearing the collar in their everyday life, collecting data on how their body moves. We've had to simulate all known cycling accidents, then develop a mathematical method to... that can distinguish those two, separate those two categories of body movements.
Werman: That's impressing. Are you wearing your own product, are you wearing this invisible helmet now?
Alstin: Oh yeah, I would never go cycling anywhere without it. I know too much about what can go wrong in cycling accidents, so I know everything about how you can get seriously injured from just a minor crash. And yeah, I would not wear any other protection.
Werman: Designer Terese Alstin in Malmo, Sweden. Thanks very much, and best of luck with this new invention.
Alstin: Thank you so much! Bye bye.


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Steve Wilson '06 organized what may be the most surprising success story in the brief history of Quickstart Tennis, an instructional program recently launched nationwide by the United States Tennis Association.
The pilot program in Springfield became the largest of its kind in the nation, attracting more than 260 children ages 6-10 for eight Tuesday evening sessions at Wittenberg's David and Georgiana Albright Tennis Complex between June and August. Wilson, the head tennis professional at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base Tennis Club, said the Springfield QuickStart Tennis program exceeded the previous high registration figure by approximately 30 percent.
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And yet there's nothing about being sexually attracted to women that forces one to wear a mullet or jorts or to so studiously roll those shirt sleeves up. So why do it?
My theory was that it's a case of in-group signaling. Since it's not really practical to go around all day saying, "I'm gay," it may be more efficient, not to mention subtle, to communicate that through fashion. I think that not only accounts for the mullets, but for pretty much any gay stereotype out there, from the lisps to the overly dramatic theatricality.
This pretty much confirms my view:
When I came out in college, I was lucky enough to do so in the company of three highly experienced lesbian roommates, all of whom advised that I reconsider the long, shapeless locks I'd carried over from my high-school days. One of the gang, as odds would have it, owned all six seasons of The L Word on DVD -- 24 discs of the kind of soft-core, girl-on-girl action that only Showtime could get away with -- and we scoured each episode for hair inspiration.The joke I've often used is that these women go to the hairdresser and say "I'd like to look as gay as possible." Of course, I always thought that was a joke, as in it's funny because it doesn't happen like that. But now I'm not so sure. Now I think there may actually be some "queer" hairdressers out there who have "The Gayest Haircuts In Town" printed in big block letters on their business cards as a selling point.
I eventually settled on Shane's cut, the only style on the femme-heavy show that looked queer enough to help me land a date. I printed out a photo and brought it to a hairdresser in Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.'s original gayborhood, to take my first physical step toward assimilation into the all-welcoming queer community I imagined was waiting for me.
And that's sad, I think. What's also sad is that the overall effect of reading this lady's piece about her gayborhood, my impression wasn't one of understanding or even empathy. I felt more isolated and disconnected with every word.
Queer this, queer that. Thirteen times she used that word, sometimes as a noun, sometimes as an adjective, but never as a pejorative. She can do that. She's a lesbian. The straight guy using the word "queer" thirteen times in a 950-word piece? Well, he should be careful.
Because he's a straight man and he just doesn't know....


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It's just a fact. The Atlanta Braves are going to have a hard time finding a team that will take Dan Uggla in a trade.
Still, that won't stop Frank Wren from shopping him at the Winter Meetings next week, but he'll come at a steep price. The Braves are reported to be willing to pay $20 million of the $26 million Uggla is owed over the next two years, but there are already teams balking at wanting him.
For example, the Miami Marlins have already shot down the idea of bringing back Uggla. It's hard to blame them for that when his .179 average was the worst for a starting player since 1900. Uggla has also recorded more strikeouts than hits in all three years with the Braves, topping out at 171 last season.
The Braves can pretty much just hope teams become less picky once the likes of Robinson Cano and Omar Infante have cleared the free agent market. They may also attempt to land Brandon Phillips, who has severely strained relations with the Cincinnati Reds.
Until that happens though, the Braves will find it nearly impossible to move Uggs. He has just been too bad for anyone in their right mind to want him.
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New Hampshire, site of the traditional first-in-the-nation presidential primary, will play host to Sen. Rand Paul in May, making the Kentucky Republican the first potential 2016 presidential hopeful to visit the Granite State.
Paul will headline the annual New Hampshire GOP Liberty Dinner May 20. His trip to the state will come a week and a half after a trip to Iowa – home of the first-in-the-nation caucus – where he'll deliver a keynote at the state GOP's Lincoln Day dinner.
"Senator Rand Paul has been a leader in the fight for smaller government, lower taxes and fiscal responsibility in Washington. He has taken a strong and principled stand against intrusive government and fought to preserve our constitutional liberties and personal freedoms. I am honored that Senator Paul has agreed to address our party and I look forward to welcoming him to the Granite State," NH GOP Chairman Jennifer Horn wrote in a statement.


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Today's Inside the Vault = Fred Zeleny, designer.
What's your job at Bethesda?
I'm a Quest Designer, which means I spend most of my time writing quests, dialogue for characters, and occasionally get to have a hand in systems and mechanics designs. "Designer" is a very vague term, and every company defines it differently. The only part of the job description that every company seems to agree on is that designers have two vital tasks:
- Making sure the player has an enjoyable experience while playing the game.
- Disagreeing with other designers about how to do #1.
What other games have you worked on?
Nothing that ever saw the light of day. I had a lot of experience with interactive media design and from my college courses and previous work as a Flash designer, but those weren't really what you'd call games. I made pharmacy training software, which was about as dull as it sounds, but it paid well.
Most of my game-making experience actually came from tabletop RPGs and as a national storyteller for live-action roleplaying games. For clarification, I was one of the weirdos who dressed up like a vampire and played rock-paper-scissors, unlike the other type of live-action roleplaying weirdos, who dress up like knights and hit each other with padded weapons.
It's right down there on the geek hierarchy with writers of erotic fanfic, but it was great training for making the sort of hugely open-ended plots we used in Fallout. After all, these stories had to be general enough to be run in dozens of games across the nation, while still being personal and distinctive enough to appeal to each player individually.
What is the best part about working as a designer? The worst part?
The most amazing part of design work comes at the beginning of a project, when you get to brainstorm all of the brilliant things you want to do in your game/expansion/quest. The world is an empty vessel, and you can fill it with every good idea you've ever had, along with the unexpected ideas from the rest of the team, until you have a chest full of brilliant design gems, all gleaming with cleverness and potential. It's a playful stroll through the fields of creativity, and it makes you giddy.
Then you're off on the real work of game development – taking all of those idyllic plans and making them actually work in the game. Writing all of the dialogue, testing all of the logic, putting in the late hours to play and revise your work to make sure it connects with the player and feels right. It's not glamorous, but it's satisfying work. But no matter how much you like it, it's not a playful stroll anymore — it's a hike, and the more ambitious your goals were at the start, the heavier the baggage you'll be carrying.
And all too soon, you come to the worst part of being a designer, when you have to decide what baggage to drop. You have to pick and choose what you can actually get done, and done right for the project. You only have so much time and manpower to implement things, and every good idea has a lot of nasty surprises that'll show up during implementation. You dread making the cuts, because removing a good idea is like chopping off a finger, but the sooner you pinpoint what you can't get done right, the easier the whole process will be. And if you try to do everything, all the time, you'll miss deadlines, make shoddy work, or burn out entirely.
Everyone who wants to be a game designer always thinks of the fun part, the here's-a-brilliant-idea part. But the real test of being a good game designer is how well you can manage your baggage and how long you can do the real work of implementing them. And that means you have to know when to cut an idea, even though it hurts.
How did you get into the industry? Do you have any tips for breaking in?
I've got four pieces of advice for getting into design, and I know they worked because they're how I got in. It took me almost seven years from graduation, and a few false-starts, but it worked:
- Know someone on the inside — Sure, there are lots of other ways you can increase your chances, but none of them will get you in the door like knowing someone who already works in the industry. It won't magically get you a job at the top or anything, but it'll help you get yourself into the industry, and once you're already in the club, it's easier to move up. And talking with them will give you priceless insights in how the industry works, and even if it's really what you want to do.
- Have social skills — The days of major games being the work of lone auteurs is gone. These days, anything larger than a small flash game is the work of a team of designers, programmers, artists, and testers, and the quality of that game is directly related to how well the team communicated and worked together. Companies that care about good games know this, and how well you can work in a team is at least as important to them as the quality of your individual work. You can be a genius, but if nobody wants to work with you, you're not getting hired for the team.
- Work your way up — Don't be afraid to start at the bottom and work your way up. I got my start in the industry proper as a tester in QA, and before that, I did unpaid testing for tabletop and card games. Don't let your ego get in the way, work as hard as you would in your preferred game job, and always keep learning more about the process of making games. My time as a tester gave me a lot of experience with common mistakes in mechanics and sticking points in stories, all of which has helped me become a better designer.
- Play games! Critique games. Then make your own! — It's the three-part cycle of any art: experience other people's work, find what you do and don't like about them, and then make your own material. Then repeat. Each step reinforces the other two steps: playing other games will give you insight into the variety of possibilities. Critiquing work will help you realize what you want to see more of in games, and what doesn't quite work, and why. Making your own games will show you how difficult it is to avoid some of those problems, and what really goes into making good ideas work. Whether you're making games out of index cards, homebrew RPG rules, or your own modifications in the GECK, don't neglect to make your own games.
What would you say is your personal favorite game of all time?
That's like asking what my favorite food of all time is — it depends on what I'm hungry for at the time. But here's a few favorites that have inspired me, in chronological order:
- The Bard's Tale: I grew up on my father's knee as he played the Bard's Tale games on our Commodore 128 (along with just about every Infocom game that ever came out). At first, he played, and I watched or occasionally mapped a dungeon. But as the games went on, I took over playing and mapping, with him helping at the puzzles. Who says videogames are bad for families?
- Fallout: Yeah, it's an obvious one, but it showed me whole worlds of potential in video games. I had already been a lifelong gamer at the time, but it wasn't until around the time Fallout came out that I realized I wanted to make them. I never would have predicted that ten years later, I'd be working on the franchise!
- Jet Grind Radio, and its better-known sequel Jet Set Radio Future: One of the first games I played with a truly consistent and pervasive sense of style, with its ebullient movement, popping beats, and playful visuals. My personal guideline for when a game becomes art is when it changes the way you think and see the world, and silly as they were, these games changed the way look at space and movement, always looking for clean lines and smooth flow between areas and ideas.
What games are you looking forward to?
At the moment, I'm still working my way through good games from Christmas. One of the terrible truths of working in game development is that you spend so much time making your game, you have trouble finding time to play anyone else's. It hasn't helped that there are so many good games coming out nowadays.
But, truth be told, although I'm looking forward to a couple big name games coming out, I probably spend the most time playing little Flash games on Kongregate.com, or indie games from all over. So many independent developers are playing with new styles and free to try crazy ideas because they don't have to worry about losing a million dollars if the game doesn't catch on. I think these sorts of games are the real strength of PC gaming, because anyone can make a browser game, but that's not always an option for the consoles.
What makes you get out of bed in the morning?
I'm lucky if I make it into bed in the first place. Normally, I fall asleep at my desk reading something, or on the couch playing a game, or in a chair in the middle of taking off my shoes after a long walk. Or occasionally, on the floor after too much whiskey. When you can fall asleep almost anywhere, beds seem too obvious.
But nothing gets me up on my feet again quite like the promise of some kind of adventure, whether it's wandering through a new town, meeting new people, or learning a new skill. As long as it ends with a good story to tell, then it's well worth it.
Worst job you've ever had?
Back in my spotty youth, I was an actual, honest-to-goodness door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman. I traveled around the tri-state area, trying to get perfectly rational people to let me into their home, dump crud on their floors, and then sell them a tool to fix it. I thought I'd be okay at it because I'm all too cheerful and good at talking with people, but it wasn't until I tried that I realized I couldn't in good faith ask them to part with money, for something they didn't really need.
So even though I enjoyed getting to meet new people and have odd conversations with them, every day was a little more miserable because I hated the entire point of the work. In my three months, I only sold one vacuum cleaner, and that was to my grandmother, who took pity on me.
And in all that time as a traveling salesman, I never met one farmer's daughter. What a waste of a summer!
Any other hobbies and interests? What do you enjoy doing in your spare time?
Just about anything and everything. Martial arts, hiking, social games, charcoal drawing, massage, cooking, programming, etc. I'm always willing to learn new skills and try new experiences, because you never know what you'll learn and how you'll be able to apply it to other parts of your life. It's especially important for writing to have a variety of experiences, because it gives you more perspectives for your characters and stories! And that applies to making games, too!


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I like to country dance. A lot. I like when a guy will ask me to dance, actually knows how to two step (with any country song) and knows how to spin and do all the tricks. I am a country girl at heart, I like hunting, fishing, camo, I love the feeling of shooting a gun (I feel powerful) boots are my love. :) However, this isn't to say I don't like a guy who isn't country. :)
Big bang theory. NCIS, NCIS LA. Repo Games. Golden Girls. Say Yes to the Dress. Mythbusters.
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ACCRINGTON Stanley boss James Beattie fears a lack of training facilities could have a detrimental effect on his side.
The Reds were using pitches at the manager's old school, Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Blackburn, for much of last season.
But after QEGS discovered they were putting substantial grant money required for drainage work in jeopardy, Stanley had to seek alternative arrangements.
That meant using their home pitch towards the end of last season.
With the season only just under way they want to preserve the quality of their home surface for as long as possible, but they are struggling to find a new suitable training arena.
"Every morning we come in and try to find somewhere to train," said Beattie.
"I'm trying to tap into the local independent schools who have got excellent facilities that are well maintained.
"But I have to put that job of finding facilities in a line of the other jobs that I have to do.
"I'm always striving to get them the best of what I can physically provide and what's available.
"It's tough at the moment. I could do with some help."
Stanley have trained predominantly on council run King George V playing fields close to the Store First Stadium, but poor weather has rendered the surfaces unsuitable at times, including after a morning downpour on Thursday, hindering preparations for this afternoon's game at Cheltenham.
"At QEGS, where we were training last year, we didn't realise how lucky we were having that," said Beattie.
"If they have a professional team training on their ground they lose a grant of £60,000-£70,000, which they're going to use to do the drainage on the pitches.
"It first happened when I was at school there, which was about 20 years ago, so it needs doing again.
"One of the things we spoke about when we first went in there was that we would try to raise half the money – I think it was about £90,000 they needed – and they were going to raise the other half from events.
"But none of that ever materialised.
"I suppose if they can get a grant for £70,000 and not have a professional football team training on their pitches they're going to accept it."


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Scarlett Johansson has signed on to star in historical drama "Mary Queen of Scots."
Again nabbing role in period piece after her recent inclusion in "The Other Boleyn Girl" cast, Scarlett Johansson has given her agreement to take part in "Mary Queen of Scots", a new project from 2929 Entertainment, The Hollywood Reporter revealed.
The beauty, widely known for her role in "Lost in Translation", is billed to play the title character, who was beheaded in 1587 after being declared guilty of treason for her involvement in the so-called Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I. The movie itself will depict the antagonistic relationship between the two queens with Elizabeth trying to undermine Mary's rule.
Budgeted at around $25 million, the historical drama is scheduled to start filming by the end of summer 2007. Jimmy McGovern is penning the script while Johansson's mother and manager, Melanie Johansson, is set to produce alongside Alexandra Milchan and Donna Gigliotti.
Johansson, a 2002 graduate of Manhattan's Professional Children's School, was recently seen playing opposite her boyfriend Josh Hartnett in thriller drama "The Black Dahlia." Her next film feature, "The Prestige", will open in theaters on October 20 this year.


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Poland might be an ocean away from most Hall County residents, but for two North Georgia College & State University seniors, the country is right next to their hearts.
Belinda Sauret did not want to follow in her sister's footsteps and become a Spanish teacher.
For Judy Bowers, teaching is about compassion.
The future looks optimistic for the state's poultry industry, agriculture leaders announced Thursday at the annual Georgia Ag Forecast.
More than 40 percent of Hall County students are overweight, according to data obtained by the school system.
ATLANTA - Shiny machines, colored plastic egg crates and even some transport vehicles filled the Georgia World Congress Center on Tuesday as the poultry industry kicked off its annual trade show.
Scoliosis is a scary word for most middle schoolers.
There will be some new courses added to Hall County's curricula next year, pending board approval tonight.
When Georgia passed House Bill 87, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Reinforcement Act of 2011, the agriculture industry struggled with a sudden labor loss statewide.
America has a labor conundrum: Its unemployment rate continues to rise and yet some industries can't find enough workers.
ATLANTA - In a time of constant change and technological advancements, the world of education has stood relatively still. Now it's playing catch-up.
Kindergartners at Mount Vernon Elementary School heard quite the tale Thursday morning - a tale of a tail, to be exact.
Hall County and Gainesville teachers can breathe sighs of relief: there are no furlough or reduced work schedule days on the 2012-2013 calendars yet.
School officials are concerned about the safety of teachers and students on the road connecting Gainesville High School, Centennial Arts Academy and Wood's Mill High School.
A handful of area schools were recognized Tuesday for their students' performance on standardized tests.
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Lindsay Goes International
The soft cover book features title text reading Lindsay Goes International, as part of a color illustration that includes a globe surrounded at the bottom by ripe olives, a gourd, a lemon, and salt and paper shakers. Above the globe in a separate section of the drawing is a ripe olive on an olive branch. The design is framed in a brown, decorative border. The back cover features a letter Lindsay Product Manager Janett S. Dzuibak, thanking customers for ordering Lindsay's new cookbook. Letterhead at the top includes a black and white drawing of a can of Lindsay California Pitted Ripe Olives, Large. The background of the front and back covers is beige. Inside pages of the book include recipes organized according to: Snacks & Appetizers; Soups & Breads; Sandwiches; Entrees; Vegetables; Sauces & Dressings; Salads; Pasta & Pizza. The final page of the book features a Calorie Count for the different sizes of ripe olives.
Donor: Sliker, Shirley Brocker
Brand Name: Lindsay
Publisher: Lindsay International Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.)
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Language: English
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- Appetizers
- Baked Goods
- Breads
- Fruits
- Main Dishes
- Pasta
- Recipes
- Salads
- Sandwiches
- Vegetables
- Snacks
- Charts and Tables
- Soups and Sauces
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Citation: Lindsay Goes International. The Alan and Shirley Brocker Sliker Collection, MSS 314, Special Collections, Michigan State University Libraries. Available at http://www.lib.msu.edu/exhibits/sliker/detail.jsp?id=7515


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PITTSBURGH - Opening the door wider for consumers to access discounted prescription drugs, Giant Eagle Inc. here is adding about 100 prescription drugs to its popular $4 generic prescription drug program, boosting the program to more than 400 medications.
The chain is coupling the move with another round of price reductions, this time dropping prices about 8 percent on 275 health and beauty care products. The tandem tactics further strengthen Giant Eagle's commitment to the health and wellness of its customers, said chain spokesman Rob Borella during a media conference call yesterday.
The supermarket chain first launched the $4 generic drug program in late 2006. It covers commonly prescribed dosages, of up to a 30-day supply, of participating generic drugs.
Beginning today, Giant Eagle extends the discounted prescription program to products to related to allergy and asthma, heart health and vitamins, as well as classes of medications for cholesterol management, family planning, and oncology.
Randy Heiser, the chain's v.p./pharmacy said, the new program represents "the most extensive $4 generic drug program in the U.S." Borella said the program has proven to be "extremely successful" with tens of thousands of the chain's pharmacy customers.
The enhanced generic drug program also reduces prescription prices to $9 on 12 new drugs, including clomiphene citrate (family planning), methyldopa (heart health) and benzoyl peroxide cream wash (skin conditions). Heiser said generic drugs account for about two-thirds of the prescriptions filled at chain.
Giant Eagle links the new program to its Giant Eagle Pharmacy Rewards program, which also offers participating customers priority flu shot and immunization scheduling, free blood pressure testing, and free store tours and educational materials with a focus on nutrition counseling and food education.
The concurrent price cuts for 275 common drug store items comes less than two months after Giant Eagle lowered prices on hundreds of grocery items to help customers develop quick and easy meals.
Borella said the drug store price cuts will save customers roughly $2 million in annualized savings, building on the approximately $4 million in annualized savings Giant Eagle expect it will deliver via the expanded $4 generic prescription program.


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Nintendo's DSi: Everything You Need To Know
Say Cheese: The most obvious change to the DSi just from looking at it is the addition of a .3 megapixel camera. Did you know the DSi actually has two cameras, though? During the Nintendo of America press conference in San Francisco Thursday morning, president Reggie Fils-Aime revealed that the new portable device has both the obvious camera on the shell pointing at the outside world but also one on the spine that looks at the player. Pictures taken with the DSi can be manipulated and edited via the touch screen, including combining multiple pictures, distorting images, or even slathering them with graffiti. And once you've finished messing around, your images can be instantly shared with any other DSi users in the area.
Size Matters: Though the DSi is actually thinner than the DS Lite, its screen is larger. At 3.25 inches, the screen is just enough bigger than the DS Lite's to be noticeable.
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Impressionist superstar Augustine Renoir (Bouquet) struggles to maintain his creativity vitality in the face of his advancing years and the ravages war has wrought on his family.
Painter biopics so often revert to tortured artist melodrama, so Gilles Bourdos' hushed portrait is something of a middlebrow relief. Set on the French Riviera in 1915, the film offers two Renoirs for the price of one: fading arthritic impressionist Augustine (Michel Bouquet) and son Jean (Vincent Rottiers), convalescing from the Great War and falling for one of his father's models (Christa Theret). While Bourdo captures the master at work in intimate, delicate detail, as drama it's a little unsure of itself, its sensuality lying in its pastoral vision of Renoir's Riviera and its languid, trance-like pace.
As pastoral as the great painter's works, if unlikely to be as enduring, this biopic has a pleasing gloss and fascinating studio scenes to commend it.


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Thiruvananthapuram, Aug 18 (IANS) After almost four years of hard work by successive governments in Kerala, the first state-supported Sharia-compliant financial institution, Cheraman Financial Services Ltd (CFSL), has become a reality.
The authorised capital of CFSL has been pegged at Rs.1,000 crore.
The company will not indulge in any interest-based funding nor in activities prohibited under Sharia, including the liquor business, gambling, movies or tobacco.
CFSL has also decided that individual investors cannot exceed nine percent contribution, and the total foreign holding shall not exceed 24 percent.
T. Balakrishnan, one of the directors of CFSL, told IANS the office officially started functioning from Saturday at Kochi.
"All the mandatory licenses from the Reserve Bank of India, Securities and Exchange Board of India and the Wakf Board have been received, and hence the long-awaited financial institution has finally come into being," said Balakrishnan, who recently retired as additional chief secretary of the state.
CFSL is the apex body; in it are three verticals which include the non-banking financial company, a venture capital company and an infrastructure company.
The share-holding pattern of the company would be 11 percent for the state-owned Kerala State Industrial Development Corporation (KSIDC). The company has 12 directors, of which 10 are private high net worth individuals. Two directors are from the KSIDC.
"The NBFC will be the company that will take care of deposits, received only from high net worth individuals. The minimum amount has been now put at Rs.5 million. We can go public only after we receive the permission for an initial public offering," said Balakrishnan.
He added that the joint venture arm of CFSL would be funding start-up companies.
"We will secure equity in start-ups after assessing their credentials, and based on their profitability. The proceeds from these would be reinvested into the corpus to fund new start ups," Balakrishnan said.
The Kerala government will partner CFSL to promote this new venture by holding road shows in the country and the Middle East.


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A recent grad makes her first place her dream place
Thursday, November 4, 2010
When Heloise McKee moved to the District after college, she packed her car with the essentials: five bags of clothes, an alarm clock and a folder filled with tear sheets from shelter magazines.
Like many 23-year-olds who flock to the area after graduation, McKee was gearing up to start a new job, begin graduate school and support herself for the first time. The highlight of this heady transition was finding, and decorating, her first apartment.
"I was excited about moving to D.C., but I was more excited about decorating," the Memphis native says in her charming Southern drawl. "I knew what I wanted my place to look like before I moved in."
McKee says her three roommates are equally enthused. The four young women can talk about decorating for hours, she says. They often sit together and pass around home furnishing catalogues, folding down page corners and pointing out pieces they want.
They are having so much fun outfitting their Burleith rowhouse, McKee says, that at one point they decreed: "We're not going out, we're not eating, we're just decorating!"
Today's 20-somethings are more design-conscious and design-savvy than previous generations: They grew up with 24-hour decorating cable TV channels, they read design blogs and online shelter magazines, and they shop at retailers that offer good design at budget-friendly prices. They know that decorating is not only about aesthetics; it's about expressing who they are.
For McKee, it's also about independence. "This is the first time I get to choose everything," she says.
In the weeks leading up to her move, McKee started the process by listening to her mother. "I took my mom's advice to go through magazines and pull pages with things I liked," she says.
She ended up with a pile of pages that featured rooms with a predominantly white-and-beige palette, salon-style walls with framed photos and art hung in large groupings, shelving that displayed perfectly placed books and accessories, and creative storage solutions, such as a tall glass cylinder filled with different-colored belts.
Next, she called on an expert.
Her aunt, Catharine Roberts, lives less than three miles away from McKee's new neighborhood. She is one of three co-owners of Catharine Roberts, Oliver Dunn and Moss & Co., a shop in Georgetown that sells a mix of old and new American, French and Swedish furniture and accessories. McKee affectionately refers to Roberts as "auntmother."
"Heloise knew what she wanted and what she didn't want," says Roberts. "I shopped with her and helped her place furniture."


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Welcome to THT Fantasy's Roster Doctor. If you'd like your team to be analyzed by one of our fantasy baseball experts, please send your full roster to this address. Also be sure to include your league's player pool (mixed, AL-only, NL-only), number of teams, scoring format (roto, head-to-head, points, etc.), categories, whether or not it's a keeper league, and any other pertinent information. If your roster is selected it will be analyzed in a future Roster Doctor column.
Today, I'm picking back up my important-looking lab coat, plastic stethoscope, and monocle (not at all doctor-related, but it makes me look both authoritative and awesome) to play Roster Doctor.
Player Pool: Mixed
No. of Teams: 12
Categories: Traditional 5×5
Scoring Type: Roto
C – John Baker
1B – Carlos Pena
2B – Chase Utley
3B – Aubrey Huff
SS – Jhonny Peralta
OF – Matt Kemp
OF – Jason Bay
OF – Shane Victorino
UT – Mark Teixeira
BN – Nelson Cruz
BN – Derrek Lee
SP – Dan Haren
SP – Josh Beckett
SP – Erik Bedard
SP – John Danks
SP – Jair Jurrjens
SP – Scott Richmond
RP – Heath Bell
RP – Scott Downs
RP – Jim Johnson
DL – Kelvim Escobar
The first thing I notice is that you have a couple of excellent bench hitters and a few weak spots in the starting lineup. Cruz should be starting on your team, and right away I'd bench either Pena, slide Teixeira over to first, and put Cruz into the UT spot, or simply bench Victorino. After that, I'd start shopping an outfielder or Pena. If you can get a guy with some speed in return, I probably like Victorino least, but who I trade would depend upon the return. Pena would probably provide the most value in a trade right now.
I think SS is your weakest offensive spot, and I might make a play for Michael Young. I mentioned before the season how he was often my SS target if I missed out on Reyes, Hanley, or Rollins, and he is tearing it up this year. He is hitting the ball a long way, and his power thus far is not looking fluky. If his owner thinks it is, he might be looking to sell high. We're still looking at a small sample size, and I'll talk more about him at a later date, but he makes a good target. A Victorino(or Pena)/Peralta for Young/Pitcher deal would probably benefit you.
Baker really doesn't cut it at catcher, though having an elite catcher in this format isn't necessary either. If Matt Wieters is on the wire, I would try to make bench room for him until he gets called up. In the mean time, I'd drop Baker for someone like Mike Napoli (probably not available), Kenji Johjima (most likely available), or a guy like Yadier Molina.
Lee's not having a great year so far, but that's at least partially bad luck and he doesn't belong on your bench. Neither does Pena, though he and Lee are your two bench hitters now (unless you trade an OF or bench Victorino). I'd begin seeing what Pena could fetch in a trade, and once Lee puts together a good couple weeks, I'd try to trade him as well. They'd have more value to you upgrading another spot (third base! third base!) than they would on the bench.
As to your pitching, Haren is having a great year—just as CAPS thought he would. This owner expressed concern over Beckett, but I wouldn't be too concerned. He's walking too many batters, but we're looking at a small sample and he's been excellent over the past few years. His ERA is mostly bad luck (absurd .398 BABIP and 59 percent LOB%), so I'd keep trotting him out there.
Bedard is pitching excellently, rewarding you handsomely for your investment, but he remains an injury concern. Depending on your penchant for risk, I might consider trading him. Ricky Nolasco is probably the best buy-low pitcher in all of baseball right now, so trading Bedard for Nolasco and a sizeable upgrade elsewhere would be a profitable move.
Danks is very solid, and Richmond has been pitching well so far. His MLEs have never been this good, though, so I might see what he would fetch on the trade market. Bell is great—hang onto him—and Downs is terrific if he can hold onto the job once Ryan returns. Johnson was likely a recent pickup, and I think it's a good one. He's been Baltimore's best reliever (ERA wise) of the three in contention for the closer role, and his gmLI is much higher than Ray's. His skills haven't been great in the past, but he's fine to hang onto over the next week to see if he lands the closer's job. If he does, look to trade for any other established closer.
Overall, a good team, but there is a good deal of waste and also some risk on the pitching side. I'd spread your talent out some more by making some trades, trying to make two-for-one deals where you get to upgrade a spot, particularly shortstop, third base, catcher, or a pitcher spot.


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On Monday, Wizards President Ernie Grunfeld, Vice President of Business Operations Greg Bibb, Mystics player Matee Ajavon, Wizards mascot G-Wiz, Wizards players and the Wizard Girls piled onto a bus to visit five D.C. families. They came with presents and holiday cheer.
The first stop was with the Curtis family in Northeast. John Wall, Martell Webster, Chris Singleton, Bradley Beal, Jordan Crawford and Nene gathered in a small room shared by most of the family's six children. The room had almost no furniture, so the players stacked the gifts in the corner as the wide-eyed children sat on the room's only bed.
"This means so much," said Lavern Curtis, the childrens' mother. "For these kids to have this, have [the Wizards] show this love, it means the world."
As the group piled onto the bus after a tearful goodbye, the looks on their faces said they knew that this wasn't just about bringing presents to community children.
"The most important thing is for that mother to know we see her working her butt off to provide for her children," Webster said as the bus headed to the second of five houses they visited. "But she can't quite give them everything that she feels like they deserve. And we step in to let them know that they're not forgotten."
At the next stop, they met the Flores family, followed by the Short family. A few neighbors stopped at the unexpected sight of six Wizards players getting off a bus in Northeast. There were pictures and handshakes, everyone in tow becoming more emotional as the day's stories got deeper.
Wanda Yates-Glenn, the matriarch of the day's fourth stop in Southeast, said she suffers from a number of health conditions, including high blood pressure, diabetes and seizures. She suffered a stroke in 2009 and was in a coma for several
months. At one point, she was on life support and not expected to live. She shares her apartment with her children and grandchildren: 3-year-old Curtis, who requires a feeding tube, and 1-year-old Kameron, who suffered a seizure and stroke at 5 months old.
"You've gotta understand. You just don't know what life is like," said Yates-Glenn, who fought through tears to express herself. "I never thought I would live to see the day. Not only for me, but to have something this exciting happen for these kids. This is just amazing."
As Nene put an arm around her shoulder for support, she added: "It's just so hard. But I am so blessed today."
Robin Young, the fifth and final stop of the day, is the grandmother of five children. She was given custody after her son was killed in 2005. She also has permanent custody of her great nieces after their mother was entered into hospice care with a fatal disease. As the bus pulled up to the house in Southeast, 10-year-old Bryan watched from the front porch with wide eyes and a dropped jaw.
The sight of his favorite athletes walking in the door was too much for the child, who has had a difficult adjustment since losing his father. As Nene walked in, Bryan threw his arms around the waist of the Brazilian big man and started sobbing. Nene passed his armful of presents over to a teammate so he could return the embrace.
When he was able to pull away, I asked Bryan why he hugged Nene.
"He's a basketball player," he said, wiping his eyes with the back of his hand. "He's a superstar."
If there was a common thread among each house, that was it. All of these children felt like they were visited by superstars. Perhaps 8-year-old Jason Flores summed it up best.
"Thank you for the presents you gave us," he read aloud from a thank-you card he had made for the players. "This makes us feel special."
There was a brief pause before Webster filled the silence.
"Well, you are special," he said.


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"Now, George, you must divide the cake honorably with your brother Charlie."--George: "What is 'honorably,' mother?" "It means that you must give him the largest piece."--George: "Then, mother, I should rather Charlie would cut it." ["Smart Sayings of Bright Children," collected by Howard Paul, 1886]
As an epithet before the name of a peer, Church or civil official, guild officer, etc., from c.1400. As a noun, "honorable person," late 14c. Alternative adjective honorous (Old French honoros) seems not to have survived Middle English. Related: Honorably; honorableness.


text: Released only a few months ago, the new wonder-drug Viagra is providing hope for thousands of impotent stand-up acts across the U.S. "Could you imagine if Godzilla took Viagra?" said Chuckle Factory emcee Tony Campanelli, one of the many struggling stand-up performers whose sense of comedic vitality and virility have been boosted by the drug. "That Statue Of Liberty had better watch out." Chicago-area improv-troupe member Bobby Childs agreed. "We just ask the audience to suggest a popular new medication, and someone always yells Viagra. A laugh riot never fails to ensue," Childs said. "Medical science has truly blessed us with a second chance at pleasing audiences."


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House Republicans reelected Marty Seifert at House Minority Leader. Rep. Tom Emmer was also running.
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Ben Affleck took Violet, 5, and Seraphina, 2, to the farmers' market in Pacific Palisades, Calif. on Sunday (October 23). He let the girls eat brownies and bought fruits and flowers to take home to Jennifer Garner.
A sweet moment was when Seraphina hugged her dad and received a kiss from him.
Busy with the filming of Argo, Ben already has a new project lined up. He is set to adapt and direct Stephen King's The Stand.


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Our major call here at Mizpah is to keep the fire of the altar burning 24/7 through worship, intercession and the word ministry. We have people who have devoted themselves to stay here full time, others join us on a daily basis , weekly and even monthly. Their core role is to minister at the altar. This is because we believe this is a fire place where people come to be refined and refreshed. You can choose to be part of the Keepers of the Flame by commiting to be part of the musicians, prophetic intercessors or the prophetic worshippers. This is the season of the restoration of the terbanacle of David, Amos 9:11, Acts 15:16, dont be left behind
If your answer is yes, we extend this invitation. This is an opportunity for all those who would love to partner with us in Prayer and financially.We are opening the door for you to make a monthly contribution of Sh500 or sh1000. Alongside this, your are welcome to partner in prayer through the WatchmanKenya, Keepers of the Flame, Mizpah Community church or Bride of Christ Prayer Movement. This is all geared to ensure that the fire of the altar never goes out. Your financial support will support the full time keepers of the flame that serve here at Mizpah. For those who are commiting to give 500 per month we will offer you a free night in the dorms per month and for those who give sh1000, we will offer you one free night in the cottages because this is your home. God bless you as you join us in Keeping the Fire Burning/
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Berlin (May. 16)
Emanvel Reicher, famous German artist and theatrical director, died here today at the age of seventy-five, from heart failure. Mr. Reicher, who started his theatrical career in the Yiddish theatres of Galicia and Hungary, grew to considerable fame through his work there. In later years, on the German stage, he was one of the first to introduce Jewish stage types for other than comedy purposes. He won much praise in artistic German of roles for his work in this respect. He recently returned to Germany from America where he had spent several years in directing Schnitzer's Jewish Art Theatre, and the New York Theatre Guild. He left a son, Franls. Reicher, who is a well-known actor and director in America.


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Financial Management (SMBA6004)
This unit of study will provide students with insight and understanding of the role that financial management can play in developing and executing effective strategies for change. Drawing on research in finance and management accounting, this unit of study will give students an understanding of key financial management tools and techniques that can be used to drive and support change and give them the opportunity to apply these financial management tools to real world case studies. In addition, students enrolled in this unit of study will have the opportunity to gain practical insights from leading industry practitioners, including CFOs, into the financial management practices they use in their organisations.
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Fundamentals of Corporate Finance
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blanche4521 on Aug 19, 2017
Gorgeous and versatile necklace--worn by itself or with other baroque pearls.
StoneTreasures on Aug 19, 2017
Always beautiful and perfect!! Thanks
StoneTreasures on Aug 19, 2017
Always beautiful and perfect!! Thanks
Kelly on Aug 16, 2017
These bells are perfectly bumped, dinged, and used. Shiny parts, patina parts, nice soft low tones, and wonderful shapes. I see earrings in their future. Beautifully packaged in a nice sturdy box to insure no new dings. Thanks so much. Made my day.
Color, texture, design, unique: most designs handmade by Helena Nelson - Reed
Selling on Etsy allows me to reach a global market, rather than one limited to my geographic region, or those who know my name. Thanks to Etsy, my work now sells to clients and galleries located in places as diverse as Abu Dabi, Dubai, Russia, the EU and UK, Finland, Iceland, Congo Basin and Kyoto.
This isn't so much due to my creativity as the fact Etsy allows people in distant places to meet in a common cyber - market place.
Through Etsy I've been built my business one bead at a time to a sustainable level via private label clients and online sales. Designing and selling necklaces is different from selling my art (I've 0 tolerance for bullshit & despise people attempting to low ball or get free image use as if my art is only so much compost with which they can fertilize their own garden) ), and I enjoy the marketplace atmosphere as well as some nice partnerships and friendships that have resulted.
My husband is supportive of my work. While not interested in beads or necklaces, he helps out in many ways. Shipping and receiving, filling out customs forms, packaging unwieldy items, and teaching me how to use tools for metalwork are just a few examples that make a big difference to somebody running a micro business, like moi!
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1. ***Of late I've been scolded by several viewers regarding high postal rates in my shop ( due to increases in USA and International shipping rates). I hear you! In response whenever feasible, items are now shipped First Class Mail, wrapped using all recycled materials, carefully packaged but sans extra luxury touches contributing weight and dimension to shipping fees and cost of the item itself. FRAGILE OR RARE ITEMS WILL ALWAYS BE SHIPPED PRIORITY MAIL FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES.***
2. YES! I ship internationally, email if your country isn't listed as a destination.
Please note that International shipments can be mailed Priority International or First Class Mail ( takes a little longer but haven't lost one yet!) . Priority International has a tracking number, but not all countries scan packages. You may prefer regular First Class International mail, which is just as secure.
3. INSURANCE: This is YOUR responsibility and an option. I don't insure items unless requested or its noted on the listing. Convo me for an insurance estimate, and upon approval Ill adjust your shipping fee ti include it.
4. DAMAGED AND LOST GOODS: I wrap everything as if its being tossed from a 3rd story window, but there's no way of controlling what happens to shipments once they're launched into the postal system, especially internationally. Priority and Express mail allow us to track shipments so if something is lost or broken, I provide any tracking information, dates or address information needed.
5. If your shipment is damaged in transit I am not responsible but will work with you and the USPO in order to track down missing shipments or collecting insurance SEE ITEM 3 !!!!
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I want you happy with your purchases and gladly accept returns postmarked for return within 3 days upon receipt. The items should be returned in the original packing materials, in the same condition as when I sent them.
**I reserve the right to retain 10% of the purchase price ( if the item requires cleaning and staging, photographing and relisting)...this decision is made after the returned item is in my hands**
PLEASE: If the returned item smells of perfume, smoke, perspiration, is stained or broken, refund reflects my cost of having that item repaired or cleaned.
The cost of shipping returns are the responsibility of the customer.
If you return more than 3 necklaces, I reserve the right to discontinue selling to you, unless we've discussed the matter before hand and have an agreement. A few individuals purchase necklaces, wear them to an event ( or try to resell them at an event) then want to return them afterward.
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I price my creations fairly. Because I haven't the costs associated with brick & mortar stores, traveling the art & bead show circuit, or paying staff and assistants, some of my goods may be priced less than comparable items offered on Etsy.
NO LOW BALLING. I can't say it any clearer than that! ...if I don't respond to an offer, that's why.
TALK TO THE HAND: NO DEEP DISCOUNTS. NO LOW BALLING. I can't say it any clearer than that! My talent, ideas, work, time and materials are worth A FAIR WAGE. There's no underpaid assembly line churning out necklaces. Only me, designing and constructing them one at a time.
SALES AND SPECIAL OFFERS: In fairness to customers I rarely have sales, but I have added a "GOING GOING GONE" category. Maybe once a year I'll will put a few things up at a reduced price, before dismantling to use in new designs. Some years I don't even do this.
The reason for not having sales is that A. My pricing is already more than fair and B. My clients needn't worry that the item they purchased could have been purchased for less if they'd only have waited for the sale.
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[Rating: 2/5]
I absolutely loved Silvain Chomet's 2003 film, "The Triplets of Belleville," so much so that I watched it twice in one evening. It was such a beautiful mix of unusual animation, humor, creativity and pathos. So when I heard that Chomet was working on a new film, this one from an unproduced Jacques Tati script, you can imagine my excitement.
Sadly, "The Illusionist" is a big disappointment, and the ways it fails highlight what was so special about "Belleville." For all its quirk and humor, "Belleville" had a plot straight out of a summer blockbuster. A grandson gets kidnapped by mobsters, and a doggedly devoted grandmother chases his captors across the ocean and attempts a daring rescue. "Illusionist," on the other hand, doesn't have much of a plot at all. An aging magician slides down the ladder of performing arts, from the big stage to performing at pubs to eventually exhibiting kitchen items and undergarments as a sort of living mannequin in a store window. Along the way, he picks up a young lady, who might maybe believe that his magic is real, and one way or another, enjoys his willingness to procure new shoes, jackets, handbags, and jewelry for her. I understand that this is a cartoon, a sort of fantasy, so I shouldn't ask too many questions about their relationship, but it just stretches past the point of believability. This is a weakness of "Illusionist" in contrast to "Belleville;" while the love between a grandmother and her grandson can go without saying, the relationship between an older man and a younger woman is incredibly complex, and needs to be talked about.
But where "Belleville" effortlessly communicated everything without words, "Illusionist" stretches, and often breaks in its attempt to do so. There are scenes here where you just wish the characters would flat-out SPEAK to each other, instead of engaging in the ridiculous game of hand signals and little verbiages they use instead.
"The Illusionist" meanders, wanders, tries to recapture the magic, achieves some funny and charming moments, but never adds up to much, and fails far more often than it succeeds. It is all the more reason to believe that "The Triplets of Belleville" is a very special film, and not one to be duplicated.


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From Our 2011 Archives
Health Tip: Managing an Anxiety Disorder
Latest Mental Health News
(HealthDay News) -- If you think you may have an anxiety disorder -- characterized by an intense fear of a person, place or situation -- you should visit your doctor to have your condition evaluated and confirmed.
Once an anxiety disorder has been confirmed, the U.S. National Institute of Mental Health suggests how to manage:
-- Diana Kohnle
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Getting everything ready for the SF expo, a week from now, has been nuts. That said the 51 porteur build on the sunflower Rambler is done. I finished off the grips this morning, headed out for a test ride around the neighborhood and then back to the computer.
Now to wrap up the Kickstarter video, get the posters ready, finish detailing out the blur 63 Rambler and what I can of the red 57.
Never a dull moment, but still squeezing in rides where I can, just short ones.


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Should Older Folks Retake Their Driver's Test? – Survey of the Day
Eighty-seven-year-old Kenmore resident, Richard Hildebrand, allegedly drove the wrong way on the 190 straight into a head-on collision that killed three young passengers early Monday morning. We've heard the jokes for years about elderly drivers, but Hildebrand's story officially made this real serious. What do you think?


text: What makes the human brain fascinating is our ability to learn from everyday experiences and have the option to better ourselves. Due to the organic nature of the brain, our brains constantly re-wire and prune unused neural connections in effort to keep cognitive functions that are truly necessary for our everyday use while "losing" neural circuits we no longer need. This is exactly what is happening at a neurological level when we find ourselves "rusty" in a language we haven't used in years. Our brains assume we no longer have use for the language due to lack of use, and it prunes those connections it deems unnecessary to "make room" for more relevant stuff.


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Korea Herald Feb. 21, 2007
First foreign listing likely delayed to June
The listing of the local stock exchange's first foreign company will likely be in June at the earliest, the Korea Exchange said yesterday.
Huafeng Textile International Group, which is already listed in Hong Kong, filed an application in December for a secondary floatation on Korea's main bourse. Lee Young-tak, chairman and CEO of Korea Exchange, said in January that he expected the firm to be listed as early as March.
"The application is still under review. Any decision will likely be made late next month," said an official at the KRX.
Given that the listing process usually takes two to three months, the much-anticipated debut of a foreign firm on the local stock market is likely in June at the earliest, KRX officials said.
Huafeng Textile is a middle-sized fabric processor based in Shishi city in China's Fujian province, with a market capitalization of HK$8.8 million, or about 1 billion won ($1.1 million).
It reported 80 billion won in revenues and 10 billion won in net earnings last year.
The KRX has been trying to attract foreign companies and conducted 15 promotional tours overseas.
According to industry insiders, a dozen foreign firms are expected to knock on the doors of the Seoul bourses soon. Eleven more Chinese firms and a U.S. firm are said to have signed underwriting contracts with local brokerage houses to prepare for a listing on Korea's stock markets.
Among them, 3NOD Electronics Co., a Shenzhen-based manufacturer of multimedia speaker systems, is likely to be the first to be listed on the tech-loaded Kosdaq exchange.
"We expect the firm to apply for the floatation sometime in May," a KRX official said.
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Steelers notebook: Team holds rare practice at soggy Heinz Field
There was a surprise waiting several of the groups who toured Heinz Field on Thursday — a real live Steelers practice was taking place, something that never happens during the season. Part of the workout featured red-zone offense drills. Coach Mike Tomlin likes his team to work out once every spring in their home stadium. And, unlike some NFL coaches who automatically move practice indoors during rainy weather, Tomlin decided to practice outside on a wet day.
"Oftentimes in the fall and winter when we are working in our stadium (on game days), it is less than ideal weather conditions," he said.
Tomlin didn't offer an update on quarterback Ben Roethlisberger, who had right knee surgery Wednesday to alleviate discomfort. He won't practice again until training camp. "There's nothing new to add," Tomlin said. "He's resting comfortably at home. We will get him in the building next week and proceed."
• Thursday's ninth OTA session — a 10th was canceled Monday — wrapped up that portion of the Steelers' offseason work. They will have a three-day minicamp Tuesday through Thursday on the South Side before breaking for six weeks in advance of training camp.
• The Steelers placed cornerbackJustin King on the injured reserve list. The move ends his season. The former Gateway High player was a fourth-round pick out of Penn State by the Rams in 2008 and joined the Steelers late last season but didn't play. To replace King, they signed free agent cornerback Nigel Malone, who was first signed by the Colts as an undrafted rookie free agent from Kansas State this spring.
• A limited number of tickets for the Steelers' eight regular-season and two preseason home games will go on sale through Ticketmaster beginning 10 a.m. on June 15. Fans may buy up to four tickets, in any combination, for any home game. A majority of the tickets will be priced at $66 or $70. The Steelers have sold out every game for decades but set aside some individual game tickets for fans who do not have season tickets.
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PODCAST: The Stray Birds
May 31, 2012
It was a snowy evening in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, when 2011 alumna Maya de Vitry first played with guitarist Oliver Craven.
De Vitry, an award-winning songwriter, had just returned from several months of itinerant fiddling in Europe. Craven had recently wrapped up a tour with Grammy-nominated artist Adrienne Young.
Together, they found the sensitive bass playing of Charles Muench was the perfect anchor for their voices. The trio has just released their first record, Borderland, and is touring constantly through spring of 2013. At noon on June 7, 2012, they will perform in Cambridge's Kendall Square as part of the Berklee Summer Concert Series.


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Some CEOs quit Trump's advisory councils before they were disbanded on Wednesday. Most waited until after.
U.S. stock futures are lower on Thursday.
Apple will makes donations to Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League
The Fed and retail drive markets on Wednesday.
Bread soup bowls all around for the Business Advisory Councils.


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Brussels - The European Union and Ukraine initialled an agreement on Friday to establish greater political and economic integration, but EU officials said it would take effect only if the political climate in Kiev became more "European".
The deal marks the end of technical work to draw up an association agreement, including what the EU calls a "deep and comprehensive" free trade agreement.
This covers trade in goods and services, investment and movement of capital, as well as areas such as intellectual property, a senior EU official said on Thursday. It requires Ukraine to adopt many EU regulations.
The 27 EU governments and the European Parliament have to sign the accord before it comes into force. That is currently unlikely because of EU concern about the former Soviet country's judicial system, the arrest of opposition leaders and the perceived absence of free and fair elections.
A particular problem is the seven-year jail sentence that former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko is serving for abuse of office - a case criticised by the West as politically motivated.
"The personal fate of Yulia Tymoshenko is the tip of the iceberg," said the senior EU official. "It's about the impartiality of the judicial process in general ... We expect the adoption of European values."
No timetable has been set out for the process of ratifying the accord, and the EU official said it was a political process that would not automatically move forward. "There is not automaticity. It will be very much influenced by the political situation in Ukraine," the official said. - Reuters


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In this day and age of economic downturn, people are holding on to their hard-earned greenbacks. For some, the $60 price tag on new gaming software is a bit too rich for their blood and – as if sensing their trepidation – Signal Hill analyst Todd Greenwald says it might be on its way out. Greenwald points to this trend using retail and publisher-supported price reductions during the past holiday season (Mirror's Edge, Madden NFL 2009) as examples of what could become stationary in 2009.
Consumers might be smugly smiling at the possibility of future software price cuts; however, such a move to counteract slowing sales would only be a brief riposte. In the long run, it would cut the industry deeply and would be "devastating for margins." That means more of this and less of that. In the end, it's a double-edged sword for both the industry and consumer alike.


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PARROTS feature in the top 10 most common birds in Bexley, according to the RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch.
In a surprising list of results, the ninth most-sighted bird in the borough during the birdwatch in January was the ring-necked parakeet.
Figures revealed an average of one of the bright-green parrots was sighted in 37 per cent of gardens.
An RSPB spokeswoman said: "The ring-necked parakeet is a tropical species found in Britain only because it has escaped or been released from captivity.
"Parakeets have lived in the UK in the wild for a long time, but they only started to breed since 1969 in Kent.
"Since then, the population has steadily increased and it's estimated as many as 20,000 individuals live here today."
The house sparrow was the borough's most common bird.
January's birdwatch encouraged Bexley homeowners to spend an hour recording the different bird species and their quantities in a park or garden.
Top 10
House Sparrow
Blue Tit
Feral pigeon
Ring necked parakeet


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HBO has released another trailer for Aaron Sorkin's new series The Newsroom. Multigenerational cast includes Jane Fonda, Jeff Daniels, Sam Waterston, Emily Mortimer, Dev Patel, Chris Chalk, Adina Porter and many others. Debuts June 24:
TV Teaser: Aaron Sorkin's 'The Newsroom'
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"I mixed up Georgia, the state, with Georgia, the country."
"You thought the Russians invaded Atlanta?"
"In retrospect, it seems farfetched."
Character: a cute blonde female working in news even though she's a complete dumbass.
What a total Corky Sherwood ripoff. Fire up the "Murphy Brown already did it!" engine.
Sometimes I get so frustrated with Deadline when a comment makes me giggle and I can't show my appreciation by hitting the 'like' button.
Simple truth is, Sorkin writes a killer show.
He knows dialogue.
Political leanings aside, he makes engaging TV.
Looking forward to this.
Dialogue alone will not make a show great. You need the actors to pull it off. We all know about Sam Waterston, Jeff Bridges and Emily Mortimer. The rest are Broadway actors that no one has heard of mostly. I still don't know why the cast Olivia Munn.
EXPLAIN Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip?
Wow, this not only looks kinda boring but surprisingly dated. A show about how TV news needs to become more relevant? Pardon the pun, but this feels like old news.
Maybe Sorkin think he's doing 'Network'?
And didn't he sort of already do this show? It was called 'Sports Night.'
My thoughts exactly. My first immediate reaction when watching the trailer was Network. He did thank Paddy for the Oscar after all…
I agree. Good night and good luck with that. It will be some great challenge to elevate the premise and setup to remarkable, given that many people no longer watch or have any respect for tv news. The daily missteps of actual tv news people — bogus editing, etc., will be hard to top. Add to that "journalists" or really content writers, don't seem to ever leave the internet to actually research anything. no wonder Jon Stewart is the current Walter Cronkite.
You just explained the entire purpose of why the show is relevant and necessary in today's world. Journalism is broken, the protagonist sees and understands this and attempts to overcome the system and it's inherent problems/conflicts.
Dated? When the incidents depicted here are clearly based on something that happened last year? Are we that jaded? I just hope Jeff Daniels' Will McAvoy doesn't go out the way his real life counterpart did.
That last bit in the control room was very Matthew Albie.
And that opening where Jeff Daniels apologizes, on air, for how bad the news is feels very Judd Hirsch. Who was, of course, channeling Peter Finch. Still, no one writes dialogue better than Sorkin and his shows are always a lot of fun. Will wait to see it before passing any kind of judgement. As if Sorkin cares.
Too true!!
That was taken from an old IBM commercial.
I can't wait to watch this it's going to be great because it's smart and funny. Props to HBO for this and Veep they are on a roll. You broadcast network execs are dinosaurs and you will all soon go the way of Terra Nova. Television is only good now because of the cable networks. Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Newsroom, Veep. Do you see the difference between good shows and shitty shows? Probably not which is why you continue to make the same crap.
Couple thoughts: God, has Jeff Daniels aged! The scripts will be amazing and the cast will deliver but HBO better not count on True Blood-size ratings. As for the comment above about ripping off the Corky Sherwood character, I couldn't disagree more. I think all Aaron Sorkin did was watch a few minutes of the blonde airheads on KTLA to get his juices flowing.
It looks like an immense waste of an awful lot of talent.
Oh and how can you satirize cable news when it's a joke that everybody is already in on.
How much better than the Daily Show/Colbert Report can it be?
Looks great!
Aaron Sorkin adds clever insights and brilliant, witty dialogue to any project he tackles. But his weakness is in picking the projects to do. The West Wing and The Social Network were home runs because the subject matter was fascinating to both Sorkin and everyone else. But Newsroom, along with Studio 60 on Sunset (or whatever), may suffer from a premise that's way too insidery for normal viewers to care about. With Studio 60, the major conflict in each episode was basically "will we get the show on the air against all these far-fetched obstacles put before us?" What seemed really important to the characters just doesn't seem important to anyone else. The same may be true about Newsroom — the problems may seem too white-collar and abstract for viewers to commit. Sorkin is the best writer for the "FirstWorldPains" generation.
One and done. HBO has the oddest scheduling. Why is this show after True Blood? I doubt fans of True Blood will watch this show. The show would do better after Treme or Boardwalk Empire.
The Georgia thing was terrible, not least because I can't believe any character Allison Pill played would say/do something that dumb.
This show looks amazing. Aaron Sorkin on HBO? How can that not be a winner. My real question is not whether this show will be successful, but rather once it is, will it spark a network to decide that an actual balanced news program that reports actual news could be successful. Every day I check FoxNews, CNN and MSNBC and all I ever see are stories either ripping the political party that leans the other way than the network, or stories about horrible things that people do. It's sad. Seems to me there are other things going on other than child abuse, rapes, kidnappings, racist incidents, etc. It's time someone starts reporting the good in this country and not just the bad.
Looking forward to a really intelligent show. And Sorkin is going to deliver.
Love Mad Men — it just keeps getting better and better — but 'The Newsroom' is going to kill!


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Consider swapping the bag of fast food you'd normally grab at lunch to help ensure a senior neighbor has lunch.
That's the notion behind the Wise County Committee on Aging's Sack Senior Hunger fundraiser this week. Instead of eating out for lunch Thursday, the group encourages community members to bring their lunch from home and donate what would otherwise be spent dining out to a circulated paper sack.
"This may be $3, $5, $10 – any amount will help feed our children of yesterday," said committee member Megan Adams.
Adams and other members of the Committee will collect the sacks in the days after, and the proceeds will help fund the various, imperative services the committee offers the senior community. Perhaps the largest of the ventures is the delivery of 25,000 meals a year through Meals on Wheels.
Nationally, 8.4 percent of elderly households are food insecure.
"This means they sometimes do not know where their next meal will come from," Adams said.
The statistic is apparent on the local level, too. Donna Brown, executive director of the Committee, said most of the 90 or so clients who receive assistance from Meals on Wheels are at the poverty level or below.
Each meal costs $7.50, which makes mel delivery the organization's largest expense once you factor in the four drivers, four cars and the associated gas, maintenance and upkeep.
But that's not all the Committee on Aging offers. The group also logs about 700 trips in transportation services a year and helps community seniors with miscellaneous expenses ranging from dental work for a veteran, to replacing a septic system in the home of an 87-year-old woman, to prescriptions.
"We can't afford to do a lot, but we do try to help in any way we can," said Brown.
In all, the Committee operated on a $230,000 budget last year – of which $210,000 was public support in the form of donations and grants.
However, the entity faces an 8 percent cut in federal funds – which translates into close to $10,000 – in addition to dwindling donations from the community due to the economy, Brown presumes.
"We understand that all the non-profits are hurting, and everyone's doing what they can to help," Brown said. "But we have to help ourselves, too."
So Brown and the rest of the Committee have brainstormed innovative ways to not only raise dollars but also awareness of the organization's efforts.
"We're going to try to do something every couple of months, but not just fundraisers," Brown said. "We also want to put ourselves out there and let people know we're here. For some seniors, it's real hard to ask for help. Most don't want to ask their kids – again because of the economy – and most want to be independent.
"But we want all of the seniors of Wise County to know we're here to help as we can. Although we mainly do Meals on Wheels and transportation, we try to help in other ways."
And committee members know the possibilities are more concrete based on successful campaigns such as Sack Senior Hunger.
"The Board of Directors is revamping in various ways," Adams said. "We want to bring more services to the aging population that are offered by area Agencies on Aging in other counties. Because of this, we wanted to develop a fundraiser idea that is far-reaching in regards to publicity and in regards to raising actual dollars, like (Sack Senior Hunger).
"Simply make this information available to your co-workers by making an announcement or hanging this sheet in your office. Then, on Jan. 31, pass around the brown paper sack provided and ask everyone to donate the money they saved by bringing their lunch to work … 'One of our board members will come pick up the donations by Feb. 1.
"We hope this is a jumpstart to a very successful year of fundraising."
For a sack to pass around your workplace or any other information, call Adams at 940-626-0586 or the Committee on Aging at 940-627-5329.


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In watching the news coverage of the murders at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut, I noted that commentator after commentator grappled to explain this horrid event by essentially saying that evil had visited that community.
This is surely true. But it is also revealing. For what is evil but a contrast to God's law? Yet it is God (and the Ten Commandments) who has been systematically driven out of American public life, especially the schools, beginning in the 1950s and accelerating ever since.
If this had not been the case, I have to believe that there would have been far few of such atrocities. If the killers believed that a quick bullet to their head did not end their responsibility for the evil they've done but just began it, perhaps that would have stayed the trigger finger of many of them.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 30/8/2013 (1454 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
There are truly good and kind people in New Orleans. We have been attending the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival over the years and have thoroughly enjoyed the event.
This year something truly wonderful happened. I left my purse in Elk's Elite Cab. I realized that, I looked back just in time to see the cab drive off.
In dismay, I thought I would never see it again.
A week later it arrived in my office in Winnipeg, completely intact with everything in it. I couldn't believe it. I am so grateful.
If you ever have a chance to get to New Orleans, be sure to choose Elk's Elite Cab and in particular, look for driver Jacques Lemassi (cab #766). He is a wonderful person.
In a world filled with bad news, this story has brightened the day of everyone I tell.
I am so happy to share it with your readers and salute the lovely people in the Big Easy.
— Evelyn Jacks