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Hillary Clinton claims that Libya is now a successful Democracy
By Brian F. Liberty - April 15th, 2016
(RPF) - During last night's Democrat Debate, Hillary Clinton blamed Libya on President Obama, yet at the same time bragged that Libya has had free and fair elections since the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi. Apparently Clinton was responsible for that so-called "success".
It does leave out any concerns for the current condition of Libya, but apparently
The Establishment Compromise: Cruz/Ryan 2016
By Brian F. Liberty - March 23, 2016
(RPF) - This is a prediction, but the writing is on the wall for all to see. The establishment has gone all in on defeating Donald Trump, and that means putting their weight behind Ted Cruz. The endorsements are coming fast and furious. Jeb Bush and Lindsey Graham have buried the hatchet along with their pride and have backed Cruz. Endorsements are likely to come any day now from Marco Rubio and
The other story in Iraq: Kurdistan independence
June 12, 2014
by Brian4Liberty
Much attention has been focused upon the rapid retreat of Iraqi government forces from several northern cities in Iraq. Those cities include Mosul, oil-rich Baaiji and Saddam Husseins hometown of Tikrit.
As these cites have traditionally been mostly Sunni Muslim, there is little, if any local resistance to the Sunni Muslim group that has taken control of this territory.
We have all witnessed hours of media discussion revolving around the Boston terrorists and the subsequent manhunt, but there is one aspect of the manhunt that has received little attention. It is the use of the shelter in place protocol. First of all, let's review the intent and definition of shelter in place warnings.
Per the Red Cross:
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Legg-Calve-Perthes disease occurs when the ball of the thighbone in the hip does not get enough blood, causing the bone to die.
Coxa plana; Perthes disease
Legg-Calve-Perthes disease usually occurs in boys 4 through 10 years old. There are many theories about the cause of this disease, but little is actually known.
Without enough blood to the area, the bone dies. The ball of the hip collapses and becomes flat. Usually only one hip is affected, although it can occur on both sides.
The blood supply returns over several months, bringing in new bone cells. The new cells gradually replace the dead bone over 2 to 3 years.
The first symptom is often limping, which is usually painless. Sometimes there may be mild pain that comes and goes.
Other symptoms may include:
During a physical examination, the health care provider will look for a loss in hip motion and a typical limp. A hip x-ray or pelvis x-ray may show signs of Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. An MRI scan may be needed.
The goal of treatment is to keep the ball of the thigh bone inside the socket. The health care provider may call this containment. The reason for doing this is to make sure the hip continues to have good range of motion.
The treatment plan may involve:
Surgery may be needed if other treatments do not work. Surgery ranges from lengthening a groin muscle to major hip surgery, called an osteotomy, to reshape the pelvis. The exact type of surgery depends on the severity of the problem and the shape of the ball of the hip joint.
It is important for the child to have regular follow-up with the doctor and an orthopaedic specialist.
Outlook depends on the child's age and the severity of the disease.
Children younger than 6 years old who receive treatment are more likely to end up with a normal hip joint. Children older than age 6 are more likely to end up with a deformed hip joint, despite treatment, and may later develop arthritis.
Call for an appointment with your health care provider if a child develops any symptoms of this disorder.
Canale ST. Osteochondrosis or epiphysitis and other miscellaneous affections. In: Canale ST, Beaty JH, eds. Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2012:chap 32.
Sankar WN, Horn BD, Wells L, Dormans JP. Legg-Calve-Perthes disease. In: Kliegman RM, Stanton BF, St. Geme JW III, et al., eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2011:chap 670.3.

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A YOUNG driver had a lucky escape after his car collided with a lamppost in Cradley Heath this morning (Saturday).
The crash happened on Waterfall Lane, near the canal bridge, at around 4am.
The male driver, from Halesowen, appeared uninjured but was taken to hospital for a full assessment due to the amount of damage done to the car.


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The devil's in the details...
For a great selection of video game action figures and collectibles, check out BigBadToyStore.com, Urban-Collector.com, ClarkToys.com, ToyWiz.com, VNCToys.com, PastGenerationToys.com, HobbyLinkJapan.com, YesAnimation.com, and SuperheroToys.com.
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As reported to you late last week, NECA will be releasing an action figure of DANTE, the hero in EA's third person adventure, Dante's Inferno. To clarify how this figure will be made available for purchase we went to NECA's Head of Product Development, Randy Falk.
The Dante action figure will be available in North America exclusively when you pre-order the game from select video game retailers, including GameStop, GameCrazy, TRU, Blockbuster, and Hastings. This is an added incentive to purchase Dante's Inferno; a free $14 action figure for buying the game, which is great deal. Check with your local retailers and/or the Dante's Inferno website for further details.
The Dante figure will be available by itself in full clamshell packaging outside North America.
NECA is looking at some other possibilities for Spring, but it is too early to elaborate. They should know more by Toy Fair. It's an instance of a you can't please them all, but I think fans who admire the action figure will most likey want to own the game too.


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Ferry close to finalizing deal
Monday, June 20, 2005
Branson Wright
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Auburn Hills, Mich.
-- Former Cavaliers forward Danny Ferry is close to finalizing a deal to become Cavs General Manager, according to an NBA executive close to the situation.
The deal between the Cavs and Ferry is expected to be done following the end of the NBA Fi nals between the Detroit Pis tons and the San Antonio Spurs. Ferry, who will re place former Cavs GM Jim Paxson, is the Spurs' director of basketball operations.
Ferry, who interviewed with the Cavaliers twice last week, said before Sunday night's Game 5 of the NBA Finals his attention is on that series.
Ferry has been in the Spurs' front office since September 2003 after playing 13 NBA seasons. He was selected by the Los Angeles Clippers with the second overall pick in the 1989 draft. Ferry held out and played in Italy before signing with the Cavs, who got his rights from the Clippers following a trade that included Ron Harper.
Ferry spent 10 years with the Cavs. He is the Cavs' all-time leader in games played with 723.
This hire would reunite Ferry and Cavs coach Mike Brown. Brown was an assistant coach with the Spurs for three seasons.
Pistons coach Larry Brown remains the leading candidate to become the Cavs' President of Basketball Operations. Brown has said he will not make any decisions about his future until he visits the Mayo Clinic at the end of the finals. Brown has had bladder-related complications due to hip surgery during the season.
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How wicked is is magnet table CV controller?
"Here is a demonstration of a CV controller that I built. It is a simple pendulum with a magnet at the end. The magnets on the table can be moved and can either repel or attract the pendulum." – artoftravelogue.blogspot.com
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Everyone deals with Valentine's Day differently. For some, it's heart-shaped balloons and single roses. For others, champagne and a sprawling degustation. Others would rather ignore it. For me, it's about cooking something special at home.
Scampi ceviche
This dish is an elegant, composed ceviche, the raw scampi cured in lime juice, resulting in springy flesh. This ''cooks'' the outer layer of the scampi but leaves a sashimi texture through the middle. This is a delicate, detailed and very pretty entree that relies on careful plating to make it sing.
Juice of 1 lime
60ml extra virgin olive oil
Salt flakes
Freshly ground pepper
1 pearl onion (fresh), finely sliced, or substitute ¼ or ½ a white salad onion
1 tsp castor sugar
1 celery heart (the pale-yellow fine stalks and leaves at the centre of a bunch of celery)
10 cloves
1 Lebanese cucumber
4 large scampi, shelled, deveined and split in half (or use fresh prawns)
60g quark, preferably organic
2 radishes, sliced in rounds
10g lumpfish roe or salmon caviar
Mint leaves
1. Whisk the lime juice with the olive oil to emulsify. Season with salt and pepper.
2. Sprinkle the onion with salt and sugar, mix and allow to stand to soften.
3. Pick the pale leaves from the celery heart and slice the fine stalks on an angle.
4. Grind the cloves finely with a heaped tablespoon of salt flakes to make a fine powder.
5. Peel and deseed the cucumber and slice into small chunks.
6. Toss the scampi halves through the lime dressing. Leave to cure for three or four minutes.
7. Lay the cured scampi on your serving plates. Add two dollops of quark to each plate, then top with cucumber, celery, radish and onion, and scatter over some roe. Season with pepper and the clove salt. Finish with mint and celery leaves, spoon over a little of the lime dressing and serve.
Serves 2
Drink Blanc de blancs champagne.
Prawns with lettuce, avocado, anchovies and crisp garlic
Not everyone wants garlic and anchovies as principal ingredients on Valentine's Day, so maybe skip this one if you're just starting out. In truth, frying the garlic takes the sting out of it, and if you don't see eye to eye on anchovies now, you probably never will. This can serve as entree or main course.
100ml extra virgin olive oil, plus a little more
4 cloves garlic, finely sliced
1/2 iceberg lettuce
1 ripe avocado
12 green king prawn cutlets (raw, shelled prawns), deveined, tails left on
Salt flakes
Freshly ground pepper
Juice of 1/2 lemon
1 punnet snowpea shoots, ends trimmed
6 quality anchovies
150ml creme fraiche
1. In a small pan, add 100ml of olive oil and the sliced garlic and bring to frying temperature over medium heat. Stir occasionally to keep the garlic slices separate and so they cook evenly. Fry until very pale golden (don't overcook or they'll be bitter) then remove and drain on a paper towel.
2. Slice the iceberg lettuce finely, chop the avocado into one-centimetre dice and arrange both on a shallow platter.
3. Heat a large frying pan over high heat. Dress the prawns with a splash of olive oil and season with salt and pepper. Fry in two batches for about three minutes each or until just cooked.
4. Place the prawns on top of the lettuce, squeeze over some lemon juice and scatter over the pea shoots.
5. In a small pan, add the anchovies and a little of their oil and mash over medium heat. Let them dissolve slightly, then add the creme fraiche and mix through briefly. Take off the heat and mix thoroughly.
Spoon the dressing over the prawns, scatter over the crisp garlic and serve.
Serves 4
Drink Albarino
Tip Cooking the garlic slices by starting them in cold oil helps them to cook evenly and slowly; burnt or bitter garlic will ruin the dish.
Strawberries with caramel, goat's curd and crystallised ginger
This is a sophisticated play on strawberries and cream. It's perfect for Valentine's Day because once prepared, it doesn't take long to put together. The savoury curd and the tangy sweet-and-sour caramel are perfect for those who like desserts a little less cloying.
250g goat's curd
100g creme fraiche
180g castor sugar
70ml boiling water
80ml red wine vinegar
Salt flakes
3 punnets ripe strawberries, medium size
50g crystallised ginger, diced
1 packet hazelnut meringue finger biscuits or similar, such as cat's tongues
1. Take the goat's curd and creme fraiche from the fridge to bring to room temperature.
2. Pour the sugar into a medium saucepan over medium heat. Shake the pan as the sugar warms through. As it starts to liquefy and caramelise, stir to help it cook evenly. Bring to a dark caramel but watch carefully as it can burn quickly and is extremely hot.
3. Using a ladle, add the boiling water while the sugar is still on the heat; it will spit and bubble. Turn off the heat and quickly whisk in the vinegar. Keep stirring until well combined, with no lumps. Cool in the fridge until cold.
4. Line six dariole moulds (or small ramekins or even a small muffin tin - the mould is just to get a tidy shape) with muslin or other fine gauze-like cloth, with enough extra to tie off the top.
5. Fold the creme fraiche through the curd with a pinch of salt and spoon into moulds. Twist the muslin together at the top and place in the fridge for at least an hour.
6. Trim, hull and slice the strawberries. Mix the strawberries through the cold caramel and leave to marinate for an hour.
7. To serve, place a turret of curd on each plate, pile the strawberries around the curd and drizzle generously with caramel. Top the curd with the diced ginger and place a biscuit alongside.
Serves 6
Drink Brachetto d'Acqui or a young Rutherglen muscat
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I know I know, I see you shaking your head..
Anyway, as the title suggests I've compiled a bunch of code and stitched together something basic. Obviously I've not a clue regarding website creation, but through Dreamweaver CS6 and a smattering of youtube video's I've managed to concoct something I could be reasonably proud of for a first effort - It's not done though!
Because I DON'T actually know what I'm doing, I know for sure that what I have done is so unconventional that it's likely I've painted myself into a corner. The basic layout is there (albeit an utter abortion of mishandled HTML/CSS)..What's left is formatting text and adding a couple pictures here and there.
If someone could take a look at this and tell me where I'm going with it?The main problem Is formatting the text inside the table so it doesn't affect the "box" underneath. If I use padding inside the table then the box loses shape and cuts bits off or adds bits on. I've worked out how to actually format the text but keeping the margins inside the grey box is confusing the hell out of me.
The look of the index page as it is now is basically suitable for me. The idea was to have that same layout on all 5 pages. So you'd click one of the buttons on the bottom and only the text and pictures inside the grey box would change - I've no idea how to do that either...
I'm sure it's a relatively straight forward work around for someone experienced - I have searched but it's a little fruitless because of the technique used to get to where I am at this stage?
1: So how do I keep both text and thumbnail images inside a margin of the grey box, without affecting the placement/layout of the grey box itself?2: How do I limit a text/pic swap inside the grey box for the different pages I'll make? Recreating that page for 5 pages or so seems overkill. The background image is quite large so I'd rather not..
If someone could help me out I'd be grateful, if you can manage that once you're done pointing and laughing, here's the URL anyway... www.inkredible.co.nz
I'm actually a Screen Printer by trade, I'm not unfamiliar with Illustrator or Photoshop - This whole website creation is a new gig and figured I'd take on the challenge. Now that I have done I really have to see it through! :lol:
Hi sonic_attack, and welcome to the forums.
Don't worry - nobody's going to laugh at you, because we all had to start somewhere. Some of us even remember how very confusing it all was. And many of us used tables to layout our first sites. Unfortunately, things have moved on, and that hasn't been the right way to do things for many years. Rather than trying to find work arounds and fixes to make the table layout do what you want, I'd suggest you take the time now, at the beginning, to learn CSS. The basics are really not difficult to grasp and you'll be so glad you did. It will give you a lot more flexibility with your layout - and if you want to change or update it in the future, it will be much easier if it's built on CSS.
You'll find some good tutorials here: http://www.htmldog.com/guides/ and our sister site, Learnable, has a range of courses: https://learnable.com/topics/htmlcss
Anything you don't understand, we'll be happy to help you through.
So before we go any further, would you like to learn how to do this with CSS?
I agree with TechnoBear and you should look at css.
The idea was to have that same layout on all 5 pages.
I belive in Dreamweaver you have a page for each page similar to your current page and you just have different content; when you edit the layout on one page it will have no effect on the other pages - unless you are using css in Dreamweaver. So if you want to change a font for instance you will need to do it on all 5 pages. Dreamweaver also builds very large pages which mean slower to load. It does things like create a span around a space!!
With css the whole page layout can be stored in one file and if you want to change the font on all the pages you only need to do it in one place. You will still have 5 pages and you will need to change the content and links for each page. Again I belive this method can be used in Dreamweaver but you will still end up with a large bloated page.
I would search Google for "single column centred css layout header footer" and see how it is done. There are also layout generators like this one that are very helpful to get you started.
Thanks. Just to be clear, is that file I've created so much a shambles that I really need to scrap it and start again?Good links too, the internet really is awash with jargon and unnecessary fluff when it comes to making a website, it seems fairly easy to be lead on multiple paths.
If you are happy with it carry on. But you already have a couple of problems and by the time you have sorted them out you could start from scratch using a css template. You already have an idea of what you want; have your graphics and can implement them into a css template.
Personally I would go the css route and forget about the tables.
If you save these three pieces of code you can see how a css version works - it needs a few tweeks but it will get you started.
* Eric Meyer's Reset CSS v2.0 (http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/css/reset/)
* http://www.cssportal.com
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td,
article, aside, canvas, details, embed,
figure, figcaption, footer, header, hgroup,
menu, nav, output, ruby, section, summary,
time, mark, audio, video {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
border: 0;
font-size: 100%;
font: inherit;
vertical-align: baseline;
/* HTML5 display-role reset for older browsers */
article, aside, details, figcaption, figure,
footer, header, hgroup, menu, nav, section {
display: block;
body {
line-height: 1;
ol, ul {
list-style: none;
blockquote, q {
quotes: none;
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
content: '';
content: none;
table {
border-collapse: collapse;
border-spacing: 0;
/* Generated by http://www.cssportal.com */
@import url("reset.css");
body {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
p {
padding: 10px;
#wrapper {
margin: 0 auto;
width: 877px;
#header {
float: left;
height: 140px;
width: 877px;
background: none;
text-align: center;
#content {
float: left;
width: 877;
height: 415px;
text-align: center;
#footer {
height: 40px;
width: 877px;
background: none;
clear: both;
text-align: center;
padding: 20px 0;
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NOTE: Your background is one big image which takes a long time to load - in this case use a small image and let it tile. I cropped a bit out of your background and called it 'background.jpg'
Awesome. I'll follow the CSS route. I'd been looking through the links posted already.
Will take your code and implement it in a new file. Thanks for your time and efforts! Much appreciated.
Obviously I'm struggling with a few things here, but one thing that particularly bugs me is screen resolutions - I run 1920X1080 on a 23" monitor. If webpages display too small for me I just ctrl+scroll on the mouse to bring it into something legible.This page I created seems to display well enough down to 1280X1024. Does everyone struggle with this? Designing to accommodate multiple desktop monitors?
I'm understanding the Fluid Grid concept so there's a couple of options between Desktop, Tablet, and cellphone screen res. I'm specifically more concerned with desktop resolution?
As it is now the buttons on the bottom of the page display off the edge when viewed in 1024X768. Is this something I seriously have to consider? Like should I place the buttons up top to account for folk stuck in the dark ages with their monitors/screen res?
Design size is a problem; I am afraid my attitude is I design for a 960 width and that's it. Most of my sites tend to scale well on mobile devices and I think that is because I do not do anything fancy.
I suppose the next step is to design using percents which will help to a certain extent and then have different style sheets for different devices.
I think your buttons look good at the bottom but it would be more practical to have them at the top. I tend to keep things simple and have the logo > buttons > content >footer. Even then I think it is a bit of a problem as logos take up quite a bit of vertical space but its good to have them.
I suppose the best thing to do is have a look around at other websites and get some ideas from them.
I actually had a look on my son's monitor this morning and he has a dicey old square flat panel displaying at 1024X or so, displayed fine, well it was a little squashed but certainly not ridiculous. More importantly the buttons and whatnot were well within the browser frame.
I think the site I have in mind, or what I currently have will be simple enough to switch around or replicate once I learn the CSS way of stitching it all together.
Thanks for your thoughts.


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DETROIT - A Grand Rapids commissioner's 87-year-old mother has become the state's fifth death from West Nile virus.
Walt Gutowski told WOOD-TV that his mother, Lorraine, passed away after being admitted to a hospital with flu-like symptoms. Gutowski said tests later revealed she had West Nile virus.
Michigan Department of Community Health spokeswoman Angela Minicuci confirmed the latest death to Local 4.
On a conference call Wednesday with reporters, MDCH Interim Chief Medical Executive Dean Sienko said there have been 80 human cases of West Nile this year in the state, and in 62 of those, the patient required hospitalization.
In all of 2011, Michigan recorded 34 human cases of West Nile virus and two deaths.
Sienko says Michigan is experiencing an "epidemic of West Nile virus activity."
Experts think a mild winter, early spring and hot summer have helped stimulate mosquito breeding and the spread of the virus.
Read: West Nile outbreak largest ever in U.S.
Read: Family says West Nile virus suddenly killed Metro Detroit grandfather
Read: City of Warren out to kill mosquitoes as West Niles cases are on rise in Michigan
Fight the bite: CDC on West Nile
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A few months ago DJ Shred (Lisa) invited me to a Depeche Mode party called Home. It's a regular thing they do at the Sullivan room in Manhattan. It's been a while since I did a proper flashback night out so last night I was there. I invited Chris Hardwick who was also in the Depeche Mode 101 movie to join and he did. To my surprise the place was fairly packed. As programmed I danced to every song that came out before "Songs of Faith & Devotion" and shunned and complained whenever they played anything newer (which thankfully was not too often). It was nice to be around real DM fans as I still am a superfan myself. The photos above: The flyer for the event, DJ Shred, Miro & Chris Hardwick, DM fans at the Sullivan Room and my mohawked self (Oliver Chesler), Mia Demarco and Chris Hardwick hanging out with Andy Fletcher at the Rosebowl California 1988.
"We are happy to invite you to our next Depeche Mode party back home at Sullivan Room on Friday June 15th. Starting at 10pm with an hour long special video presentation by VJ Johnny_Blitz concentrating more on the ballads of Depeche Mode and featuring the rarely played, down tempo & classic DM music videos and live concert performances, aesthetically altered especially for this event. Following the presentation, DJ Shred and DJ Shunt spin Depeche Mode tracks spiced up with New Wave and Synthpop hits all through the night." – Depeche Mode Fanclub New York
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Three years of legal due diligence, packed into three weeks of trial, and finally we have a verdict after less than a day of jury deliberation: SAP owes Oracle $1.3 billion for copyright infringement in a landmark judgment that will likely drag on through appeals. But this case promises to reach further -- into the tenuous world of third-party support, into law school classrooms for decades to come, and quite possibly into a world of shareholder lawsuits and justice department investigation.
After watching almost every minute of this trial unfold, it was impossible to predict such an outcome, which intellectual property consultant Sam Wiley called "the largest ever" copyright infringement award. Third-party software support provider TomorrowNow, which SAP acquired at the beginning of 2005, downloaded millions of Oracle files, including software, source code and support materials. SAP knew about it before the acquisition, and the practice continued long after, until Oracle filed suit in 2007. The acquisition of TomorrowNow took place just as Oracle was completing its hostile takeover of PeopleSoft (which included JD Edwards).
SAP claimed to have put out an edict to stop the illegal downloading. During the trial, some SAP executives said that they had assumed this put a stop to the practice, but nobody ever followed up, at least according to their testimony. SAP admitted liability, copping to contributory liability just days before the trial began; this form of liability meant that SAP wasn't just taking accountability for TomorrowNow's actions, but included its own negligence in the matter.
The jury had to decide between two methods of determining damages. First, a hypothetical negotiation that would have taken place on the day SAP acquired TomorrowNow, with both sides having full knowledge of each others' intentions. Oracle, then, would have known that SAP's business assumptions included a three-year plan to entice PeopleSoft and JD Edwards customers to TomorrowNow support, get them to purchase other SAP software (like NetWeaver), and then convert them to SAP ERP and other enterprise applications. SAP planned to make almost $900 million over three years through this plan, called Safe Passage.
SAP executives called those assumptions "marketing plans" in an attempt to downplay them (during the trial, both sides displayed the $900 million document countless times, and it became known as The Zieman Document, for its creator, SAP services chief, Thomas Zieman). Instead, SAP wanted the jury to consider a "lost profits" scenario, whereby its damage expert calculated the money Oracle lost in customer conversions, and the profit SAP accrued through its use of Oracle's software. Both sides agreed that 358 customers left Oracle through Safe Passage, and 86 of them became SAP customers. From there, the sides disagreed about pretty much every customer's reason for leaving Oracle.
Oracle's hypothetical negotiation numbers totaled "at least" $1.66 billion; that number had been limited by Judge Phyllis Hamilton during the course of the trial. Oracle's damage expert also calculated a lost profits number of $409 million. SAP's damage expert put the number at about $40 million. Obviously, the final jury verdict was much closer to Oracle's number -- perhaps not a surprise to some, given the excessiveness of the infringement.
In an official statement, Oracle President Safra Catz said: "For more than three years, SAP stole thousands of copies of Oracle software and then resold that software and related services to Oracle's own customers. Right before the trial began, SAP admitted its guilt and liability; then the trial made it clear that SAPs most senior executives were aware of the illegal activity from the very beginning. As a result, a United States Federal Court has ordered SAP to pay Oracle $1.3 billion. This is the largest amount ever awarded for software piracy."
William Wohl, VP of SAP Global Communications also responded to the verdict: "We are, of course, disappointed by this verdict and will pursue all available options, including post-trial motions and appeal if necessary. This will unfortunately be a prolonged process and we continue to hope that the matter can be resolved appropriately without more years of litigation. The mark of a leading company is the way it handles its mistakes. As stated in court, we regret the actions of TomorrowNow, we have accepted liability, and have been willing to fairly compensate Oracle. Throughout this matter, our customers, employees and partners have stood by us and, for that, we are grateful. Our focus now is looking forward, helping our customers be best run businesses, and extending our legacy of industry leadership well into the future. We thank the jury for its diligent service through this lengthy trial and the Court for its supervision of this complex case."
Experts I spoke with believe that there will be a complicated series of motions and appeals that will extend this case indefinitely. Judges are also known to lower awards that they deem excessive; Judge Hamilton has not indicated yet whether she will do that, and it seems unlikely.
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Get an overview of this hotel4-star hotel with free breakfast and restaurant
Popular property highlights
Situated in Praiano, this hotel is within 6 mi (10 km) of Marina di Praia, Emerald Grotto, and Torre a Mare. Church of San Pancrazio and Positano Town Hall are also within 6 mi (10 km).
Hotel Features
This hotel features a restaurant, an outdoor pool, and a fitness center. Free buffet breakfast, free WiFi in public areas, and free self parking are also provided. Additionally, a bar/lounge, a coffee shop/café, and a spa tub are onsite.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Hotel Margherita provides a spa tub and a fitness center. Dining options at the hotel include a restaurant and a coffee shop/café. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Public areas are equipped with complimentary wireless Internet access.
This Praiano hotel also offers a library, barbecue grills, and multilingual staff. For a surcharge, a roundtrip airport shuttle (available 24 hours) is offered to guests. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
- Outdoor pool
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- Total number of rooms - 29
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- Number of floors - 3
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- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- In-room safe
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Where to Eat
A complimentary buffet breakfast is served each morning between 7 AM and 11 AM.
Mama - Overlooking the ocean, this restaurant specializes in Mediterranean cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, dinner, and light fare. Guests can enjoy alfresco dining (weather permitting). A children's menu is available.
Late night fare is available from room service (during limited hours).
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An outdoor pool and a spa tub are on site. Other recreational amenities include a fitness center.
Children under 9 years old are not allowed in the swimming pool or fitness facility without adult supervision.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or nearby; fees may apply.
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Check-in time starts at noon
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- Pets not allowed
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- A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 2.00 per person, per night. This tax does not apply to children under 11 years of age.
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POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY can effectively identify many of the most common cancers, heart and neurological diseases before they can be seen on other tests. PET is a scan that provides information about the body's chemistry; show the physicians the difference between healthy tissue and diseased tissue, or cancerous tissue. PET may help your doctor make an earlier diagnosis. This can result in faster, more effective treatment and may help to avoid other exams or surgeries.
What can I expect when I have a PET scan?
When you arrive for your exam, you will need to register at the MRI suite located beyond the Emergency room of the Main Campus. Your health history will be reviewed. Then a small amount of FDG, a radioactive sugar tracer, will be injected into your hand or forearm intravenously (through an IV) The FDG has no side effects. It takes 45-60 minutes for the FDG tracer to concentrate in tissue so a proper scan can be made. Next you will be positioned on a comfortable table that moves slowly through the PET scanner. You will need to lie still for approximately 45 minutes.Please plan on being at SOMC for 2-3 hours for the exam.
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Benoit sidelined by shoulder pain
SAN DIEGO -- Closer Joaquin Benoit, who went 11 days between appearances recently because of a sore right shoulder, will be sidelined again after the pain in his shoulder returned.
Benoit made two appearances, on Aug. 24 and 26, and felt soreness in his shoulder after the second of those appearances. He wasn't available to pitch Friday and manager Bud Black isn't sure when he'll be back.
But Black is adamant about one thing.
"He'll pitch [again]," Black said before Saturday's game against the Dodgers.
Benoit pitched on Aug. 13 and then didn't appear in a game again until that outing on Aug. 24. He said that he felt good after that appearance but the pain -- similar pain -- returned after his outing Aug. 26 against the Brewers.
"It was good for a couple of days and came back, we didn't give it enough time to let the inflammation go away," Benoit said. "So now we start over."
Benoit, in his first season with the Padres, is 4-2 with nine saves and a 1.58 ERA in 51 1/3 innings. He has been the closer since the team traded All-Star Huston Street to the Angels in July.
The team will use rookie Kevin Quackenbush as closer in the interim with Dale Thayer and Nick Vincent getting chances to set him up.
As for Benoit, he'll wait patiently like he did before.
"It's a situation where you have to let it get better," he said. "But I'll be back on the mound."
Corey Brock is a reporter for MLB.com. Keep track of @FollowThePadres on Twitter. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Infectious Diseases
Hepatitis C
My daughter is dating a boy whose father has hepatitis C. I asked her if her friend had been tested. Her reply was yes but that family members of hepatitis C patients naturally develop an immunity to the disease. Is this true? Should I insist she be tested?
There should not be father to son transmission of Hepatitis C under usual circumstances (there may be some transmission to a spouse). So, unless the son has risk factors for Hep C of his own (such as intravenous drug use), the father's infection should not increase the son's risk. It is not true that family members have increased immunity to Hep C. She should be tested based on standard Hep C risk factors for her that she should discuss with her personal physician.
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College of Medicine
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You got a pink slip. Your head reels from the shock and there's a knot of fear in the pit of your stomach. Figuring out the answer to the question, "Now, what?" seems like the hardest job you've ever faced. Take a deep breath. You can take steps to ensure your financial survival during this period.
Generally you are eligible for a maximum of 26 weeks of unemployment benefits in most states, but the economic stimulus bill signed into law in February 2009 extends the benefit period to an additional 33 weeks through the end of 2009. (Earlier legislation had provided for the same benefit extension but only until March 2009.) The new law also provides for an extra $25 per week in benefits and exempts the first $2,400 from income tax.
"First of all, you've got to tell them that things are changing," says Sharon Danes, professor and family economist in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota. "You don't have to give them lots of detail, but you let them know that mom or dad has lost a job, and what that means is that we're not able to spend as much money. Younger children may not know what's going on, but they're going to sense that something is wrong."
The next step is to gather everyone around the table and talk about how the family spends money, says Gail Cunningham, spokeswoman for the National Foundation for Credit Counseling, or NFCC, headquartered in Silver Spring, Md. Then, for 30 days, Cunningham says, "have anybody in the house that spends money track their spending."
At the end of the 30 days, have a discussion about how the family can reduce spending. "If you can take $10 out of 10 (spending) categories, you'll never feel it," Cunningham says.
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Computer Mix-upLogic Grid puzzles come with a handy interactive grid that will help you solve the puzzle based on the given clues.
Katie, Peter and Thomas were fighting for which computer they would get in the house. Use these clues to find out who got a computer in which room and what game they were playing.
1. The computer in the study was being used by someone playing minesweeper.
2. Tetris was being played by Peter.
3. The dining room was not being used by Peter or Thomas.
4. Thomas was not in the lounge room but was playing minesweeper.
5. Katie wasn't playing tetris.
6. Peter was in the lounge room.
HintYou can do this teaser without the grid-solver but it will be much easier.
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Computer 1.
- lounge room
- Peter
- tetris
Computer 2.
- study
- Thomas
- minesweeper
Computer 3.
- dining room
- Katie
- pinball
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Celtics Trade: Rajon Rondo
Receive: Roy Hibbert, A.J Price
Receive: Darren Collison, David West, Michael Beasley
Pacers Trade: Darren Collison, Roy Hibbert, David West, A.J Price, 2012 1st round pick
Receive: Rajon Rondo, Pau Gasol
Wolves Trade: Michael Beasley
Recieve: 2012 1st round pick from Indiana
Why FOR:
Celtics: Rondo is getting shopped again, they seem to have confidence in Bradley, getting a young all-star center and a lesser point guard should be good enough
Lakers: Trade 1 major piece for 3 lesser starting pieces. I actually think they win this trade.
Pacers: CONTENDERS!
Wolves: They have been asking for a 1st for Beas, as they probably aren't going to resign him.


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Topic: Hello and Greetings to All from a new member
Hi all.
My name is Art and I have been diagnosed last month with late stage CC. Unfortunately the primary which blocked only partially the lower Biliary branch left no noticeable symptoms until a secondary grew big enough to cause a problem for my GI Doc in a routine colonoscopy. He got suspicious and called for a CT scan which lead to the diagnosis. Unfortunately the doctors claim that there may not be symptoms until late stages occur. More on this in another topic later.
A little about myself. I'm a 64 year old Physicist living in the LA area of southern California. I am fortunate to have a great wife and two wonderful sons a daugther in law and two grand chiildren. My sister and nieces and a bevy of friends provide a constant stream of concern and help.
I have been to City of Hope, UC Irvine Chao Cancer Center and I am being treated at a local Oncology group with connections to UCLA. I have just had my second chemo which is the only course of treatment open to me. The components are Gemcitabine (Gemzar) and Cisplatin.
In the mean time tissue samples have been sent to the UCI/Harvard/MassGen study to search for structural abnormalities in the tumor genetics. A chinese study originally estimated that 8.5% of the CC sufferers have the gene type abnormality of the study. Subsequent American studies now ongoing seem to show a lower occurance rate of ~2%. The good news is anyone with this gene marker may be completely controllable with an oral administered drug. It takes 1 month for analysis of samples, 1 month to clear out toxins from chemo and then treatment can begin. The tissue type they are inspecting is an adenocarcinoma which is another selection element. The basis of the study is that this type of cancer is genetically identical to certain lung cancers that have been treated successfully with the drug of this study.
Since chances are slim for anyone to be an element of this group recognized therapies are started at once.
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SAN DIEGO - The San Diego Chargers agreed to terms on a four-year contract with cornerback Derek Cox, who had 12 interceptions the last four years with Jacksonville.
The deal reportedly is worth $20 million.
Cox, 26, had four picks in 12 games last year. He's expected to slide into the starting lineup. Both of San Diego's starting cornerbacks, Quentin Jammer and Antoine Cason, are expected to leave as unrestricted free agents.
Also Wednesday, the Chargers signed former Buffalo Bills guard Chad Rinehart to a one-year, $1.75 million contract.
Rinehart's signing came a day after former Philadelphia Eagles tackle King Dunlap agreed to a two-year contract and former Dallas Cowboys tight end John Phillips agreed to a three-year contract. Dunlap and Phillips signed their deals Tuesday.
Rinehart is being reunited with his former position coaches in Buffalo, Joe D'Alessandris and Andrew Dees. Rinehart was limited to seven games and two starts at right guard in 2012 due to an ankle injury that landed him on injured reserve on Nov. 2.
Rinehart's agent, Leo Goeas, was a Chargers tackle from 1990-92.
Also Wednesday, wide receiver-returner Richard Goodman signed his one-year tender as an exclusive-rights free agent.
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It is remarkable that an industry essentially less than a half-century old could capture the attention of the American wine-buying public to the degree that California has. Powerful consumer interest in California wine is driven by two major factors. The more obvious reason is that California's best wines, which come from grapes grown in a benign climate featuring endless sunshine, very warm summer days, and generally dry harvests, and wonderfully fruity, full, and satisfying, and rarely too austere or tannic to be enjoyed from day one.
California is blessed with an extraordinary range of soils and microclimates, allowing for the successful cultivation of many varieties. In at least three out of four years, the best sites produce healthy, ripe fruits that are the envy of European producers in more marginal climates. The other reason Americans buy so much California wine is that California is the home team. Clearly, a high percentage of domestic wine drinkers are more comfortable buying American wines (and not just wines of California) than imports. Then, too, foreign bottles are generally identified by place name, rather than by the more familiar varieties that American wine drinkers have come to know and enjoy.
Moreover, in much of North America, outside the top 15 or 20 largest metropolitan markets, consumers have limited access to imported wines even if they wanted to buy them.
For many, Napa Valley is California wine, and Cabernet is king in Napa Valley. Meanwhile, the Burgundy varieties Chardonnay and Pinot Noir have gravitated to cooler areas, generally closer to the Pacific, such as the western stretches of Sonoma County, the Anderson Valley in Mendocino County, and the Santa Maria and Santa Ynez valleys within Santa Barbara County. Syrah vines have yielded interesting wines in a range of styles all over the state, in regions as disparate as Mendocino County, the Sonoma coast, Carneros, Paso Robles, and Santa Maria Valley. Very good Zinfandel similarly comes from multiple growing areas, although to date the age-of-vines variable has been almost as important as geography. Zinfandel, though its roots are in Europe, is a true California original and the only California wine imitated abroad. It's also a variety of which there are still significant plantings of very old vines, in some cases dating back to the end of the 19th century.
Cabernet Sauvignon has been the flagship red grape of the California wine industry for decades, and its popularity shows no sign of abating. Napa Valley is the heart of Cabernet Sauvignon production and is clearly an ideal region for creating world-class wines. If any Cabernet-based wine is capable of giving Bordeaux a run for its money, it's Napa Valley's examples. However, due to the extremely high cost of purchasing and developing vineyards in California, and the cachet of Napa Valley on the label, this has largely become a category for the well-heeled wine lover.
At their best, Napa Valley's Cabernets are characterized by fruit notes of cassis, black cherry, and licorice and sweet oak notes of chocolate, mocha, cedar, and tar. Today, most of the best wines are aged entirely or almost completely in French oak barrels, which tend to produce somewhat more refined wines than do most American barrels. (These latter barrels often introduce exotic and pungent suggestions of scotch, bourbon, tar, coconut, and dill.) But the use of expensive French oak is no guarantee of a good bottle: too many wines today, due to high crop levels or insufficiently ripe fruit, do not have the stuffing to support their oakiness and can quickly be dominated or even dried out by their wood component. The best California Cabernets mellow and soften with five to ten years of bottle aging, developing more complex and less fruit-dominated notes of tobacco, leather, and earth, with mellower wood tones. Compared to the top Bordeaux, however, many California Cabernet Sauvignons merely endure in bottle rather than truly become more interesting. There are no shortage of quality producers, even if these wines are rarely values. And it remains to be seen if today's outsized showstoppers, made from superripe grapes and undeniably impressive on release, will reward extended bottle aging or will turn out to have been best suited for drinking in their youth.
Many wines labeled Cabernet Sauvignon contain small percentages of other so-called Bordeaux varieties -- chiefly Merlot and Cabernet Franc but also Petit Verdot and even Malbec (varietally labeled wines in California must contain at least 75% of the variety named).
Cabernet Sauvignon also flourishes in Washington State, Australia and even Chile. In Washington, prices have been creeping up at the high end, with some producers aiming to compete with cult wines from the Napa Valley. Consider Chateau Ste. Michelle and Woodward Canyon. In Australia, look to the Coonawarra and Margaret River regions. Chile can reveal excellent bargains to those who know where to look: Montes makes a strong range of quality bottlings, as does Casa Lapostolle.
As Cabernet Sauvignon is bold and assertive on the palate, it pairs best with foods like grilled red meats. Taken together, the proteins and fats in the food neutralize some of the stronger tannic qualities of the wine, leading to a harmonic combination that enhances both partners.
2009 was an excellent year, with 22 regions scored 95 or above.
The highest scores went to St. Julien / Paulliac / St. Estephe (Right Bank Bordeaux) at 99, Cote Rotie (Northern Rhône) at 98, Pomerol (Right Bank Bordeaux) at 98, and Graves (Bordeaux) at 98.
Other regions that scored 95 points or higher were Pomerol, Beaujolais, Côte de Nuits, Margaux, Medoc, Sauternes, Sonoma, Tuscany, Napa, Port, Right Bank, Alsace, Barolo (Piedmont), Brunello di Montalcino (Tuscany), Chablis, Côte de Beaune, Mâconnais, Mosel-Saar-Ruwer, and Paso Robles.
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Dear Members,
The Buddha praised Sona-Kolivisa Thera to be foremost(etadagga) of those who
strove energetically (aggam aaraddhaviriyaanan).
Sona Kolivisa:Permission To Wear Shoes
[Presented by Dr.Han [email protected] SariputtaDhamma Group/JTN]
Sona-Kolivisa Thera, also called Sukhumala Sona. He was born in Campaa, his
father being Usabhasetthi. From the time of his conception his father's wealth
continued to increase, and, on the day of his birth, the whole town kept
festival. Because in a previous birth he had given a ring, worth one hundred
thousand, to a Pacceka Buddha, his body was like burnished gold; hence his name.
King Bimbisara, hearing of him, sent for him and Sona went with eighty thousand
fellow townsmen. In Rajagaha he heard the Buddha preach, and, winning faith,
entered the Order with his parents' consent. The Buddha gave him a subject for
meditation, and he went to Sitavana, but many people visited him and he was
unable to concentrate. He strove hard, and, through pacing up and down in
meditation, painful sores developed on his feet. But he won no attainment and
was filled with despair. The Buddha saw this and visited him, and by preaching
to him the Vinupamovada Sutta (see Sona Sutta), taught him how to temper
energy with calm. Thus corrected, he put forth fresh effort and attained
After ordination he walked about meditating, his feet bled, and his cankamana
was covered with blood "like a slaughter house for oxen." After Sona attained
arahantship, the Buddha gave him permission to wear shoes with one lining. Sona
said he had abandoned eighty cartloads of gold and a retinue of seven elephants.
He did not wish, as a monk, to have any luxuries which his colleagues did not
share, The Buddha then gave permission to all monks to wear shoes with one
****In the time of Padumuttara Buddha he was a setthi of Hamsavati named
Sirivaddha. It was then that he resolved to win eminence as foremost of those
who strove energetically (aggam aaraddhaviriyaanan), and in this he was
Love Buddha's dhamma,


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*"Selfie" is a term applied to a photograph you take of your self. It is a popular term in some social media circles of photographers.
This and that from my world of Family Research, Yorkies, Photography, RV's and Traveling.
That is very cool. My body is always warm. I can only imagine how red I would be.


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Mail: Southern statues symbolize suppession
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Fall: Good time to spray musk thistle in rosette stage
Robertson and Delsing re-elected chair, vice chair of NWB
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Prairie and native grasslands are disappearing rapidly, taking soil and habitat as well as hunting, ranching and other economic opportunities with them. Congress should ensure that federal farm and crop insurance subsidies dont exacerbate the loss of these vital natural resources.
The Protect Our Prairies Act would prohibit federal payments and reduce crop insurance premium subsidies by 50 percent on newly broken native sod.
The Act also closes loopholes by requiring that newly broken sod be isolated from other crop acres when calculating insurable yields. And, operators would be required to take a percentage of the county average yield for any newly broken native sod until they are able to show a multi-year yield history.
These two provisions are crucial to removing the federally subsidized incentive to bust up native grassland.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Protect Our Prairies will save nearly $200 million over the next ten years, tax dollars that will otherwise be spent to destroy remaining prairies and grasslands.
Sen. John Thune (R-SD) secured the same provision in the Senate Farm Bill last year, and it is expected to remain in the Senate bill this year.
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Baton Rouge and New Orleans both continued to see a drop in the number of nonfarm jobs in October when compared with the year before, while Lafayette and the state again had increases in a monthly jobs report released Tuesday.
The federal Bureau of Labor Statistics report showed Baton Rouge and New Orleans were the only metro areas in the state to report a year-to-year decrease in the number of jobs.
The increase in jobs statewide — led by gains in the leisure and hospitality industries — caused a drop in the Louisiana unemployment rate from 7.1 percent in October 2011 to 6.3 percent last month. These figures are not seasonally adjusted. Curt Eysink, executive director of the Louisiana Workforce Commission, said in a statement that the state's employment gains have been consistent for more than two years and spread across most industry sectors.
"More jobs, more people working and fewer unemployed indicate our labor markets in Louisiana are doing well," Eysink said.
Louisiana had a 6.6 percent seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in October, better than the U.S. average of 7.9 percent unemployment.
Baton Rouge, New Orleans and Lafayette had unemployment rates below the state average.
In the Capital Region, unemployment was at 6.2 percent in October, while in New Orleans it was 6.5 percent and in Lafayette 4.2 percent.
Overall, the number of Louisiana jobs increased by 27,000 to 1.95 million in October.
Some economists, most notably Loren Scott, have questioned the accuracy of the BLS estimates, which are based on sample surveys.
Scott has said the problem is the estimates are based on sample sizes that are too small and notes the numbers for Lafayette are similar to what was reported during the oil boom of the late 1970s-early 1980s.
The results for the state's metro labor markets were:
BATON ROUGE: The Capital Region saw a 1,000-job decrease, going from 369,500 nonfarm jobs in October 2011 to 368,500 last month.
While Baton Rouge saw an increase in construction jobs, there were drops in the number of people working in government, education and accommodation, according to the report.
NEW ORLEANS: Total jobs in the Crescent City fell by 2,300 from October 2011 to 527,400 last month. The drop in jobs was caused by slowdowns in the construction, specialty trades and manufacturing sectors, the report said.
LAFAYETTE: There were 168,900 total nonfarm jobs in October, up 13,200 compared with 155,700 jobs in October 2011. Lafayette was boosted by more jobs in the oil and gas, professional and business services, education and health services industries.
HOUMA-THIBODAUX: The Bayou Region added 2,200 jobs in October from the year before, to come in with 96,900 workers.
LAKE CHARLES: The area gained 2,200 jobs in October, up to 89,600 from the year before.
MONROE: For the second consecutive month, the area gained 1,400 jobs, going from 76,500 in October 2011 to 77,900
ALEXANDRIA: The central Louisiana region saw a gain of 600 jobs from October 2011 to 63,200 jobs.
SHREVEPORT-BOSSIER CITY: The market saw a modest jobs gain in October, up 300 from 2011 to 177,300.


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POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. -- The Dutchess County Department of Health has issued the first documented violation for the sale of an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) in New York.
Though the business that sold the e-cigarette was not identified, the health department said the violation occurred during routine Adolescent Tobacco Use Prevention Act compliance checks last month.
The sale of e-cigarettes to anyone under 18 is prohibited under state Public Health Law, which went into effect on Jan. 1.
The Dutchess County sanitary code requires retailers to have a permit to sell tobacco, cigarettes or cigarette-like products.��
Electronic cigarettes are battery-operated devices that look like regular tobacco cigarettes and work using an atomizer to heat liquid containing nicotine, turning it into a vapor that can be inhaled and creating a vapor cloud that resembles cigarette smoke.


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AT&T invests $5 million in Communities In Schools
AT&T Invests $5 Million, Bringing Total Investment to more than $14 Million.
Dallas, Texas, August 29, 2013
Nearly one in five high school students don't graduate with their class, with a devastating impact on lives and a crisis for our future job force, the economy and U.S. global competition.
AT&T* and Communities In Schools (CIS), the nation's leading dropout prevention organization, are joining forces to address this problem with a proven model for success.
Supported by a $5 million contribution from AT&T, Communities In Schools will expand and strengthen its network that is helping 1.25 million of the nation's most challenged students achieve in school, graduate and go on to college and career success. In addition, AT&T employees will support these efforts as volunteer mentors across the country.
AT&T's $5 million contribution is one of the largest ever through AT&T Aspire, the company's $350 million investment in education to help more students graduate from high school ready for college and careers. Since 2008, AT&T and the AT&T Foundation have provided $14.2 million in funding to Communities In Schools and its local affiliates. With the latest contribution, AT&T is the largest corporate funder of CIS.
The $5 million investment by AT&T includes:
- Total Quality System: $2.8 million to support the CIS Total Quality System (TQS) accreditation standards that help ensure local affiliates are implementing the CIS model to its full potential. Fifty CIS affiliates, serving approximately 700,000 students, are expected to be TQS-accredited over the period of the contribution. CIS research shows that affiliates with accreditation can double positive outcomes and serve more students than those without accreditation.
- Site Coordinators: $2 million to enable CIS to continue its collaboration with Diplomas Now, a pioneering collaborative with City Year and John Hopkins University Talent Development that reaches the most challenged students in the most challenged schools. The program helps CIS site coordinators target community services and high-intensity supports to students showing early warning signs of dropping out, such as poor attendance, poor behavior and course failure in English or Math. More than 25,000 students will be served, including 2,500 with intensive support.
- Mentors: $200,000 will help expand mentoring opportunities through Aspire Mentoring Academy -- the employee engagement initiative of Aspire -- to an additional 4,000 CIS students. The funding will build on successful pilots in North Carolina, Louisiana, Texas and Kansas that took place earlier this year. The initiative will connect more students with AT&T employee volunteers who will share life and career experiences with the students.
Communities In Schools deploys approximately 3,200 school-based site coordinators as the points of contact for providing integrated student support for at-risk youth. They are supported by more than 70,000 volunteers and 15,700 community partners in nearly 200 affiliates across the network. Communities In Schools has earned a four-star rating from Charity Navigator as well as the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance Accredited Charity Seal. CIS continues to be recommended by Philanthropedia, a nonprofit that helps donors give more strategically, and recognized by the Social Impact 100 as a top-performing, evidence-based nonprofit.
"We are grateful for the long-standing collaboration with AT&T. Their support will enable Communities In Schools to continue impacting even more of our nation's youth," said Communities In Schools President Daniel Cardinali. "AT&T's investments of time and resources demonstrate leadership that increases the likelihood students will make positive life choices, succeed academically and finish school prepared to achieve in life."
"Communities In Schools combines the best of what we know works – a caring adult and the effective use of metrics and evidence-based strategies – to drive positive, measurable outcomes for the students they serve," said Beth Shiroishi, vice president, sustainability and philanthropy at AT&T. "This new support will help ensure these best practices are implemented across their national network. Coupled with the commitment of AT&T employees, we will help more students graduate high school ready for future success."
"The collaboration between AT&T and Communities In Schools shows the potential for evidence-based funding in education philanthropy," said Aimee Rogstad Guidera, Executive Director of the Data Quality Campaign, a Washington-based non-profit that promotes the use of high-quality data to prepare students for high school graduation, college and career success. "By collaborating with an organization like Communities In Schools that puts a premium on collecting and analyzing data for constant student improvement, AT&T is helping to change the culture around data use in education."
At the end of the 2011-12 school year, 99 percent of CIS students stayed in school, 94 percent of students in grades K-11 were promoted to the next grade and 93 percent of eligible seniors graduated on time. Research by EMSI, one of the nation's leading economic modeling firms, showed that every dollar invested in CIS returns an average of $11.60 to local communities.


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here's a spicy maguromaki.
it consists of rice, a bit of vinegar, raw tuna and spices.
now, you get how it tastes on my tongue?
i don't ask you to get the similar taste.
i ask you to get the exact taste of the exact maguromaki with the exact positioning on the exact portion of my very tongue.
explain this in words?
forget it in words, i know very well i can't in words. but, i will try my best.
first of all, i need to cut our tongues and transplant them between you and me.


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July 10, 2013 - It's 7:30 and the alarm goes off on a Saturday morning as I prepare to watch the final preparations of Team Takeover and their pursuit of the EYBL Championship.
The Elite Youth Basketball League consist of 40 teams across the USA. There are 24 teams that will convene at the Riverview Park Activities Center in North Augusta, Georgia this week in search of the coveted Peach Jam championship.
The teams competing for the title are some of the top 17 and under teams in the country. Team Takeover from Washington, D.C. is one of the top teams in the league with a current record of 16-2.
Some of the other teams in the running are Houston Hoops (16-2), Indiana Spiece, Indianapolis (15-3), CP3 All Stars
Winston Salem, N.C. (15-3), Expression Elite Boston (13-5), Mean Streets Chicago (12-6), and Howard Pulley Minneapolis (12-6), along with others will be in the hunt for the 2013 title.
Team play will start on Thursday, July 11th. Takeover plays all their games on court one at the Activities Center.
Takeover will play California Supreme from Los Angeles at 9am. Takeover edged Supreme 67-65 in overtime earlier in the tournament. Dion Wiley led all scorers with 21 points in that hard fought contest. Tre Campbell chipped in with 13 points and five assists. At 6pm Takeover laces them up against All Red Ohio (Columbus).
Friday play resumes with a noon game against Team Texas Elite (Dallas). Takeover then faces BABC (Boston) at 9pm.
Saturday in the final day of pool play the Takeover will face EiTi (Orlando) at noon.
"We are working on our conditioning this morning" said head coach and CEO Keith Stevens. "We are looking at our offensive plays and will make some adjustments".
Takeover with a record of 16-2 is considered one of the favorites to advance in pool play. "We have to go down there and keep our focus and just play." said Stevens. "We gotta produce as a team. I have to cram in five or six practices before we play on Thursday. I need everyone to focus".
The one constant in Coach Stevens' program is there has always been a team concept. Some of the players to look for are the 6'4 Wiley (Potomac), Takeover's leading scorer averaging 14.1 pts. and 2.7 rebounds per game. Phil Booth (6'2", Mt. Saint Joseph) chips in 12.2 points and 4.4 rebounds per contest. James Palmer (6'4, St. John's) averages eight points per contest while 6'7 Marcus Derrickson tallies six points each time out. Campbell (St. John's and stands 6'1) leads the team in assists with 63 while averaging 6.5 points per game.
Leading the team in rebounding is at 6.6 each game is 6'8 Martin Geben (St. Maria Goretti); he also scores 7.5 points per contest. Quadree Smith (Paul VI), at 6'6 has been strong on the boards.
Takeover's 16 and under team will start play today, facing The Family (Detroit) at 8:30 am on court 2. Wednesday at 11:30 am they battle the St. Louis Eagles, while Thursday Houston Hoops is faced at 3pm.
Stevens reflected at the end of practice on two of his former players that were drafted at last weeks NBA Draft.
"Both players Victor Oladipo (who was the number two pick in the draft) and Erick Green (picked 46th) were focused and not highly rated. I am pleased with their developments; it's good to know hard work pays off", he said.
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Janette – Suicide Girl of the Day
Meet Janette, a 24-year-old SuicideGirl from Italy. She loves a new pair of shoes, tattoos, and art. On the flip side, she really doesn't like to be told "no," so be careful.
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Toys"R"Us stores in the US will open at 8am on Sunday, October 21st to welcome Skylanders fans. When Skylanders Giants hits retail stores on Sunday, Toys"R"Us will be the only place for fans to find the limited edition Legendary Series of toys, including alternative versions of the new Giant character Bouncer (pictured above) and a Triple Pack (below) of Jet Vac, Series 2 Slam Bam and Series 2 Ignitor - all of which feature enhanced in-game powers.
Skylanders Giants heads to all major retailers on Sunday, October 21st for 360, PS3, Wii and 3DS, with Wii U to follow soon.
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DIilton Marsh villagers are set to get their post office back, with the new owner planning to reopen the store before the end of March.
Matt Lawes is in the process of renovating the shop, which will be called Dilton Marsh Village Store, and he plans to run it himself with the help of around four staff that he hopes to recruit locally.
The 33-year-old, who recently moved from Hampshire to Gillingham, Dorset, got in contact with the Wiltshire Times last year to inquire about the contact details for landlord Chris Brown, after seeing the story about the store's closure in the paper.
The shop, which has a Post Office counter, closed at the end of September, prompting villagers to set up a petition to save both the shop and post office.
Mr Lawes said: "I've been thinking about opening up my own shop for a while and was looking to move to the countryside. I looked at a few options, but this seemed ideal and was in a great area.
"The new shop will be quite modern, but it will also have a traditional feel, with a lot of wooden fixtures and an artisan design. It should look really nice inside once it's all finished.
"The shop will be selling local produce wherever possible and I have sourced a lot of it already. Hopefully, as we make more contacts, we will be able to stock more local products.
"We have been in contact with the Post Office and the service will remain part of the shop. It was an integral part of our plans to have both the shop and post office, as the combination of the two is important to the village."
Mr Lawes said that he is looking forward to opening the shop, which he hopes will be before the start of April, but the Post Office will not be open until a month or two afterwards.
He added: "Even though it sounds cheesy, I want the shop to be at the heart of the community and I have already had lots of positive feedback from villagers passing by. It's really exciting and I'm look forward to getting started."
For more information about the store, visit www.diltonmarshvillagestore.com or www.facebook.com/diltonmarshstore


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Judas Priest, one of the top heavy metal bands of all time, has announced plans to perform at the City National Civic of San Jose.
The date is Nov. 15 and tickets are $55-$70, www.ticketmaster.com.
The band is touring in support of the brand new "Redeemer of Souls," which is its 17th studio album and its first since 2008's "Nostradamus."
Priest, of course, is a powerful live act. And band leader Rob Halford is certainly one of the genre's best vocalists. Plus, it's hard to beat Priest's signature twin-guitar attack, which is currently being served up by longtime hero Glenn Tipton and relative newcomer Richie Faulkner. (Yes, Priest aficionados, I also still miss original ax man K.K. Downing.)
Yet, what makes this concert extra special is the setting.
Most fans are probably use to seeing Priest perform at major arenas and amphitheaters, not a comparatively intimate venue like the 3,000-capacity City National (formerly the San Jose Civic Center).
Priest will rock that place to its foundation.
Steel Panther, the goofy, great glam-metal band from Los Angeles, opens the show.
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- Spousal Lifetime Access Trust (SLAT)
So, you are thinking about making a large gift that is sheltered from gift tax by the applicable exclusion amount. However, you have concerns about losing access to the gifted property or its income; you might not need it now, but what if things change and you do need it later? If you are married, one possible solution might be a spousal lifetime access trust (SLAT).


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Oh my Gosh!
There's no way you're parting with that in one week... absolutely no way!
Oh my Gosh!
There's no way you're parting with that in one week... absolutely no way!
"Enjoy this Reds fans, you are watching a legend grow up before your very eyes" ... DoogMinAmo on Adam Dunn
Orange male cats. I love 'em. They get in so much trouble and they try to act fierce and independent, but they really love attention, and when they bond with you, they're sweeter than almost any other cats.
"I prefer books and movies where the conflict isn't of the extreme cannibal apocalypse variety I guess." Redsfaithful
did you see the paws on that thing.
Geez....teach the cat a curveball or something.
Some people play baseball. Baseball plays Jay Bruce.
My viscious attack cat, Molly. KITT-R-DONE!
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"Sit over here next to Johnathan (Bench)...sit right here, he's smart."--Sparky Anderson
So, I guess the "throw them all in the same pillow case for a few minutes" method of introduction has been deprecated?
Mrs. SC here...
i mean seriously, did he THINK that little ball of orange goodness would last only a week here? did you SEE the pictures?
we are weakened by the cuteness that is Rooney* Callahan Reds Fan
*the proper spelling. so that the announcers know how to say it
Cover the vehicle motor up!!!! I don't know why but thats the first place they go to sleep then when you start the car up.I think you know what happens then!!
I can spell,I just can't type!!
Cats scare the crap out of me. He looks so cute there by the remote, and then in one minute he's going to get up, fly across the room, swat at your eye four times, then lie back down and go to sleep. You just wait.
I don't think I could sleep with a cat in the house.
There is no such thing as a pitching prospect.
My hiking buddy. (Orange cats rock!)
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My little girl, Larkin!!
"You made me hope for something better
And made me reach for something more"
"Love is doing all the little things that don't show up in the box score."
here are some more recent pictures of the Rooney
one sink in the bathroom for me.... one for Roo.
No WONDER my pants have so much cat hair on them!!!
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Here's another pic of my Kitty... KC!
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2017 Reds record when I'm attending: 16-102017 Dragons record when I'm attending: 1-0 FINAL
"We want to be the band to dance to when the bomb drops." - Simon Le Bon of Duran Duran
My Devil cat, Cuba! (Pronounced Cooba)
This is my cat Toast. I just got her about a month ago.
Here, Toast and Macy, my girlfriend's cat, engage in a battle of epic proportions.
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Jackson progressing, cleared for physical activity
DETROIT -- Austin Jackson said Thursday night he has been cleared for physical activity, which he just began as he tries to rehab his way back from a pulled left groin.
It was limited activity -- nothing baseball related -- but he got through it without any pain. He'll repeat that step this weekend before he hopes to progress to some limited baseball activity.
Jackson would like to do some low-intensity baseball work earlier, such as throwing. However, he doesn't have a timetable yet for a return to the active roster.
The Tigers have been getting by at Jackson's leadoff spot just fine in his absence thanks to a combination of Andy Dirks and Omar Infante. Dirks was 13-for-41 with two doubles and two home runs from the top spot before his first-inning single Friday night. Infante's three-hit game Thursday improved him to 6-for-14 in three games from the leadoff spot.
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This thread is from back in July, but I can provide an update since it seems to have resurfaced.
I purchased a used 4" 617, and kept it until about two weeks ago. I probably put 500 rounds or so through it. I found it similarly difficult to keep clean, but that seems to be the case with any revolver.
I had a Hi-Viz red fiber optic front site professionally installed in place of the ramp. This significantly improved the site picture for me. Here it is:
Back in January, a Ruger 22/45 Lite caught my eye at the LGS, and it ended up following me home. I fell in love with it. I put Ruger's after market fiber optic front and rear sites on it (made by a different manufacturer but sold through their site. Got them cheaper from Midway). Green rear and red front, makes it really pop.
The gun is a much closer simulation of my other semi-autos, and a lot easier to reload with the McFadden reloader I picked up. I found myself always packing that along in the range bag, and the 617 getting no love.
I am generally loathe to sell any gun, as I have regretted most of the sales I've made. So I sat on the 617 for a while and thought about it, but eventually decided that it was a lot of money just sitting in the safe not getting used. I couldn't really think of a scenario where I would take the 617 over the Ruger. Possibly for shooting CB Longs and Shorts, but I generally use a rifle for that anyway, and it's not the end of the world if I have to rack the slide to cycle the gun.
So, I let the 617 go, and traded it towards another revolver that I have more use for. While I owned it, I had no complaints with the 617, other than the difficulty in loading those tiny .22 rounds into all 10 of those tiny chambers. The McFadden system really makes it a breeze to load and shoot all day. I think if I was doing it again, and absolutely wanted a revolver, I would probably go for a M63 or an SP101 just because they already have the fiber optic site there.
Hopefully this isn't one I regret letting go of!
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If you like revovlers or grow to like revolvers more, I suspect you will regret selling the M617. The 3" M63 is a nice little 22 revolver and I want one. Just never see them... ever in gunshops. Your M617 was a better gun than the Ruger SP-101 in my opinion.
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I've regretted selling/trading almost every gun I've let go. For some reason, I think this one was a good choice. The semi-auto .22 just does what I want it to so much better.
The M617 is also a premium, high dollar gun, and while I normally am more than OK spending to get the best, the 617 was not getting the attention or love it deserved. A Charter Arms Pathfinder (as recommended to me earlier in the thread), probably would have accomplished the task just as well.
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ok- i don't know what to say except this guy has an invincible stomach and resistance to poison.
i have watched several vids and i don't think they are fake. he simply eats stuff you should not eat and lives to talk about it.
here is one where he eats a stick of old spice deodorant.
or perhaps eating some habanero peppers (done that before) and some icy hot (not a chance- i like keeping my kidneys functional)
he sure is entertaining. one of the hardest working men in internet show business.


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This will make an excellent custom electrical enclosure at a fraction of the price.The 2 back panels and 1 front panel are screw mounted so the are easily removed for hole punches and Pem nuts.Most of the construction is 1mm steel, but the front panel is 2mm.Interior dimensions of the drawer are 15 5/8 wide x 13 5/8" deep x 9 1/8" highThe rails are decent with a soft close feature, but you can't really tell because the soft part doesn't happen until the latch starts engaging
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By a 3-2 vote, members of the FWCS "common wage" committee adopted union-backed minimum wages on the $4.67 million in construction contracts the district expects to award in the next three months – wages non-union firms insist could inflate the cost to taxpayers by 15 to 30 percent compared to the pay scale proposed by the Associated Builders & Contractors.
The contracts in question are part of the district's annual maintenance budget, not the referendum-approved bond. But if the committee makes the same choice early next year when it begins to consider wages to be paid on $119 million, the amount of tax dollars squandered could be staggering, if the ABC's claim is accurate: between $17.8 million and $35.7 million.
And that would be about as far removed from "good stewardship" as any decision could get.
There is no guarantee the board will do that, of course. The three members who Tuesday supported wages reflecting collective bargaining agreements – attorney Jack Morris, AFL-CIO representative Chris Guerrero and former FWCS Board member "Mitch" Sheppard – would have been free to make the opposite decision, FWCS attorney Bill Sweet said.
And that pretty well illustrates the insanity inherent in Indiana's "common wage" law, which requires local governments to establish wage guidelines on construction projects costing at least $250,000. Not only does the law raise the possibility that taxpayers will spend more and get less, it allows committee members on both side of the debate to make decisions that are both self-serving and arbitrary on the basis of guidelines that are murky at best.
ABC representative Ken Neumeister, a former contractor, noted that the FWCS has adopted ABC wages in the past and argued that his organization's wages are most "common" because most Allen County contractors are non-union "merit shops." Guerrero countered that wages established through collective bargaining represent the single most "common" scale, and said unions also provide programs to train apprentices and hire veterans.
"Are we supposed to factor in what good you're doing? I don't care who did what," Morris said, trying to get to the point. "What is the most common wage?"
For the next three months, at least, that question has been answered in a way that is likely to increase costs for FWCS taxpayers. The obvious question, of course is: Why would representatives of a school system that regularly claims to be short of cash willingly do that?
Unfortunately, among all its other shortcomings, this law also invites suspicion – perhaps unfairly. Guerrero's motive was self-evident, as was Neumeister's and that of committee member Al McComb, a non-union contractor. As for Morris, an attorney who serves as executive director of the Allen County Democratic Party, he was supported by unions during a previous campaign for state Senate. And while on the FWCS board, Sheppard had been endorsed by the teachers' union.
So was Tuesday's vote essentially designed to support and reward unions at taxpayers' expense?
"The way I see it, we want to protect workers' wages. They're taxpayers too," Morris said.
"This (law) puts us in a bad position," FWCS Board President Mark GiaQuinta acknowledged. Although he doubts ABC claims of huge potential savings – "why would contractors give those savings to us?" – he would prefer to award contracts to the most responsive bidder, and suspects Republicans in the General Assembly may abolish the law next year.
State Sen. President Dave Long, R-Fort Wayne, said the Legislature may consider labor-related bills in 2013 but was uncertain the common-wage issue will be among them.
"We do need a more consistent approach. (But) just because we'll have a supermajority doesn't mean anything will happen," he said.
This much is certain, however: FWCS officials have indicated they may seek another building-repair bond in the future, but if they refuse to allow the free-market system to work and pay more than necessary for projects covered by that first $119 million, taxpayers should think twice before giving them another cent.


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Furthur wrote:Chuck Kennedy wrote:- Rick Rothstein shot a 21 on hole 12 known as 888 in the second round of the 2002 USDGC. That was the record until Marty Hapner shot 26 on hole 17 in round one of the 2007 USDGC.
Hmm. I'm going to have Rick about this one now.
I thought Jim Conrad broke the record first in 2006 USDGC when he shot a 24 on the same hole?
We gave him so much crap. Anytime someone shot a 6, we yelled Quarter Conrad.


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Topic: Progression of Bile Duct Cancer
What is the progression signs to look for? I am quite a distance from my dad and working so I want to be there as much as I can but I need to unfortunately pick and choose. His cancer is non-operable and he is on pallitive care. They are concerned because they saw some nodules on his omentum.
It appears he is starting to get bloating. Is the ascites the first sign of the end? If so what can I expect...I really want to know how this is going to generally progress.
Ascites...then loss of appetite...then sleeping all of the time....something like that. This is scary for my dad also as he is living it. I want to provide as much comfort as I can give. I was hoping someone could give me a run down of what to expect.