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Devil---I have long since given up hope that M. Night will ever duplicate his success with Sixth Sense, but I found this movie to be entertaining. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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Devil---I have long since given up hope that M. Night will ever duplicate his success with Sixth Sense, but I found this movie to be entertaining. 3.5 out of 5 stars.
Saw The Company Men today. Just not that good. The idea was good, tyhe actors were good, but the writing was just weak and it just wasn't very well done
True, but he wrote and produced the movie, and probably still had his say on this one in terms of artistic license. I liked Devil about as much as I liked signs---enjoyable but not jaw-dropping in terms of a big reveal or Hitchcockian turn.
OK, drumroll please.......I just watched Hoosiers. First time I'd ever seen it, though of course I'd seen several clips on the jumbotron at the Pacers game. Don't think I can say anything that hasn't been said before, except that I agree that it does indeed belong in any conversation about the best sports movies ever.
Watched Ramona and Beezus - it was a good family movie - would recommend as an option for a family night.
According to this Brian Nelson wrote the screenplay and M. Night did the Story.
Writers: Brian Nelson (screenplay), M. Night Shyamalan (story)
My guess is the screenplay is the actual words and lines........while the story is more about the overall plot structure. So am I wrong that M. Night likely set the story in motion while Brian nelson actually did the work of writing it
Likely, M. Night had the idea and either wrote a treatment for a film (essentially several pages of prose that would illustrate a potential film to a prospective screenwriters, studios or financial backers) or he went as far as to structure the story's beats (outlining the three acts, plot and crisis points, etc of the film) and then commissioned a writer to work from that detailed outline.
The King's Speech.
When they showed Hitler yelling I looked at Kegboy and said, "Is he saying 'Fire O'Brien?'"
No, no, not splitting hairs at all as you raise interesting points...I think the key is actually the producer credit. I've been involved with the production of a couple of locally produced independent movies. Not exactly my day job though, and I'm not suggesting that what I observed actually happens in Hollywood, but in both cases, the producer and director worked very closely with each other and assimilated their ideas nicely into the final product. Now, the title of executive producer(s) I'd be worried about...that title could have been awarded to someone that just contributed financially to the production without having any creative input at all.
The Illusionist (L'Illusionniste) - A little French animated movie up for Best Animated Feature. Don't worry about subtitles; it's basically a silent film. Wow. Great execution, animation (save for some bad CG), sense of history, and ballsiness. This is neither Toy Story 3 nor How to Train Your Dragon, both in scope and in overall quality. However, if you enjoy traditional-style animation for an art house crowd, you'll love it. You won't be able to move as the end credits roll (much like Black Swan). By the same guy who did Triplets of Belleville.
Just watched Iron Man again for like the 11th time last night. That movie is just plain awesome. Didn't really care for the second as much, but it was still decent.
Probably going to see the King's Speech this weekend.
First time in a long time, I've been happy with the team that was constructed, and now they struggle. I blame the coach.
Pandorum. Sci-Fi fans might find it somewhat entertaining, but not a classic.
GET LOW, with Robert Duvall. might be a little slow for some, as it is a drama, but i loved it!! great story, and Duvall CAN ACT!!!
I am number 4.
This movie had every single cliche known to mankind. Honestly this would have been much better as a tv show on the cw than a movie.
This really is nothing more than Smallville & Roswell rolled into a very poor movie.
Night Catches Us - Cool debut movie about a Philadelphia neighborhood in 1976 after the Black Panthers had mostly dissolved. Strong lead performances by Anthony Mackie and Kerri Washington, and good supporting work by Jamie Hector and Wendell Pierce (Marlow and Bunk from The Wire, respectively), though the script could have been rewritten to give them more time. A nice dramatic, Afrocentric, period piece. Some very good contributions from The Roots for the soundtrack as well.
Last night me and the wife watched 3 movies in a row.
Starting with....
It's Kind of a Funny Story: I think Zach Galifinakias is a funny guy so we decided to give this movie a chance. A couple of scenes that made me chuckle but it left me feeling like I've seen this movie before.
Unstoppable: About as much action as you can imagine with 2 people stuck on a train. Denzel plays in a his usual role and Chris Pine didn't do too bad of a job. The side story of Pine's character and his wife and kid didn't really add much to the story for me.
My Soul to Take: This was one of the worst "scary" movies I've seen in a long time. I'm still not sure what happened, as the story seemed so rushed, and the plot twists left me yawning.
Last Friday we also went to see I Am Number Four in theater, and I 100% agree with Peck's take on this movie. I would have liked a little more of a backstory on where they came from. Timothy Olyphant is quickly becoming one of my favorite actors, and he does his role as best he can with a supporting cast of nobodies.
Batman Returns.
Hadn't watched that all the way through in a LONG time. I remember begging my mom to take me to see it in theaters, when I was just done with 2nd grade. She hated it, and she didn't like that I saw it either.
Looking back on it, I can't say I blame her. There's some dark/sick (though still tame in some ways by today's standards) stuff going on in that thing. Of course, 90% of that stuff didn't register when I was that young, so most of that didn't matter at the time.
Fascinating to watch it as my 27 (soon) year old self. One of my favorite things is how a movie or TV show you've seen before, maybe several times before, can seem so different when you reach a different age. I love that.
Anyway, some stupid things, some silly thing, some fantastic things (some of them serious, some of them funny), and every bit as surreal as I remember it being.
I'm a Nolan guy now, but there was a time when I swore by the Tim Burton movies. Then again, at the time my choices were Tim Burton and Joel Schumacher.....
So, these are about the current Oscar odds, via some gambling site:
Oscars Best Director
David Fincher (The Social Network)
Tom Hooper (The Kings Speech)
Darren Aronofsky (Black Swan)
Ethan and Joel Coen (True Grit)
David O. Russell (The Fighter)
Oscars Best Picture
The Social Network
The King's Speech -700
The Fighter +3000
Toy Story 3 +10000
Black Swan +2500
Inception +4000
127 Hours +10000
True Grit +3000
The Kids Are All Right +10000
Winter's Bone +8000
I think I will turn to the dark side on The King's Speech if it wins. I enjoyed it, but it should not be remembered as the best movie of 2010. This feels like Shakespeare in Love all over again (even though I was only, like, 8 when that came out).
You Got The Tony!!!!!!
Even though I've only seen it and Inception, I tend to agree. It was a fine movie, but not exceptional by any means. I felt like I was watching a good Masterpiece Theatre, or more accurately, a play.
Speaking of Inception, I need to find the old thread and bump it with something I discovered last night.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
I think the Social Network and The Kings Speech are by far the two best movies of the year and I'll be happy if either win. The Social Network may be a "better" movie, but I loved the Kings Speech more.
I would say both are near perfect movies - the execution of what they were trying to do is perfect.
I will say the Kings Speech is one of those movies that you feel and if the story didn't touch your heart, then yeah I could see where you might not love it (appreciate it yes, but not love it). For example Fields of Dreams did nothing for me at all, I didn't like that movie, but I know others who loved it
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I Am Number Four was created in a sort of script-factory where James Frey (oprah book liar guy) signs aspiring novelists to sell-your-soul-to-the-devil-type contracts, has them rush out loads of work in ridiculously short amounts of time, and basically takes all the profit and credit for the thing. Number Four is their only success so far, and the author was barred from ever mentioning that he made it. Just an interesting little tidbit I thought I'd share.
The Social Network is a crap movie. I will never understand the mass excitement around it.
Saw Unknown yesterday--not bad. A typical mystery-thriller with little character development, but lots of action, and big goofy Liam Neeson as an action star is oddly compelling.
You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Why didn't you like The Social Network?
I just didn't see anything of merit in the whole thing. It wasn't horrible, and I enjoyed watching it as a pseudo-history of Facebook almost, but as a movie it was just dull and overlong. What did people actually like about it? To me the whole thing was generic Hollywood crap, and I don't see what about this movie was supposed to distinguish it from all the other bland Hollywood flicks released in the past year.
As a comparison point, I thought the movie sucked in the exact way that Benjamin Button did. It was almost exactly the same viewing experience. It presses all the right "Movie of the year!!!" buttons, and passes itself of as a sort of epic, but it is only Hollywood-original in that every move it makes is either trite, bland, or way overdone. You know how people sometimes point out that Donnie Darko is not a "smart" movie, but the kind of movie that makes people think it's a smart movie? BB and TSN are movies that make people think they're great, epic movies.
The rotten tomatoes blurb for TSN claims the movie is a great example of modern filmmaking. It's a shining example of modern filmmaking in the same way that Jonathan Safran Foer's books represent the height of contemporary literature.
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You, Never? Did the Kenosha Kid?
Yeah, I was going to go see it just for Agron and Olyphant, until I found out about all this. No way was I gonna give that guy any of my money.
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
And..... **** The King's Speech.
You Got The Tony!!!!!!


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IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is an workload optimized cloud which combines infrastructure and platform capabilities that allows quick cloud deployment – and support for KVM and multiple hypervisors helps keep costs under control.
Requirements for public and private cloud provisioning have similarities, but there are also key differences. All cloud providers, whether private or public, are concerned with availability and security. But public cloud providers have the added requirement to remain flexible to meet a wide range of customer deployment needs, while at the same time, keeping a firm grip on costs both to remain competitive as well as to ensure their own profitability. IBM SmartCloud Provisioning which was designed specifically in terms of infrastructure-as-a-service can play a role in all of those areas and provide additional capabilities with rapid composite application deployments.
Rather than requiring service providers to build a cloud from scratch using virtualization management tools, IBM SmartCloud Provisioning offers a high-scale, low-touch cloud provisioning system. It is a hypervisor-agnostic, infrastructure-as-a-service solution enabling fast, automated cloud provisioning, parallel scalability, integrated fault tolerance and a foundation for more advanced cloud capabilities. In addition, the private cloud environment offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery from hardware and software failures across heterogeneous platforms.
Support for Open Standards and Hypervisor-Agnostic
While IBM SmartCloud Provisioning was originally built on top of KVM (Kernel-based Virtualization Machine), support has been expanded to include VMWare ESXi, vCenter, PowerVM, HyperV and Xen as well. Support for multiple hypervisors is where we think the industry is going, and the benefit of KVM support in the mix is revealed when you look at the needs of the cloud providers.
Cloud providers are on very tight budgets and they will succeed in terms of selling their services only if they are able to provide IT services to customers at a lower cost than the customers could provide for themselves, so it is very cost-competitive. In order for the cloud service providers to make a profit, the cost of the underlying infrastructure is really important. And then, to retain cloud customers, the reliability, speed and scalability are also very important.
For example, Dutch Cloud is a leading ISP based in the Netherlands, focused on SME customers in a few key industries including healthcare and electronics. It provides a range of cloud based services – from fully managed IaaS through to disaster recovery solutions. Customers select DutchCloud for the quality of service delivered and its service assurance.
Dutch Cloud wanted to improve the delivery of its cloud services in terms of cost, speed, and agility, and minimize administration, as well as scale delivery costs to business volumes. Since implementing SmartCloud Provisioning, Dutch Cloud has been able to deploy new services in seconds rather than hours, and has even deployed hundreds of new VM instances in minutes. Adding the cost efficiency, Dutch Cloud has also been able to move a number of its customers from proprietary hypervisors to the more affordable KVM.
KVM's Advantage
Because SmartCloud Provisioning is hypervisor-agnostic, you can match it with a range of hypervisors including VMWare ESXi, vCenter, PowerVM, HyperV and Xen. There are obviously going to be times when a client indicates a preference for a particular hypervisor. But when there is no specific preference and service is all that matters, then from the cloud provider's point of view the decision plays out this way: If you have got equivalent capabilities in terms of hypervisor, and equivalents in terms of the virtualization management – because IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is available across a range of virtualization technologies – then it comes down to cost, and KVM wins there hands-down. SmartCloud Provisioning's multi-hypervisor support enables the provider to offer a range of virtualization options without locking the customer in, and because KVM is lower cost than proprietary alternative, it opens up a level of affordability that would not be possible otherwise.
And in terms of security, for public sector customers in particular, KVM's Common Criteria Certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4+ (EAL4+) is significant. It means that, like other hypervisors, the KVM hypervisor on Red Hat Enterprise Linux and IBM x86 servers now meets government security standards allowing open virtualization to be used in homeland security projects, command-and-control operations, and throughout government agencies that previously were limited to proprietary virtualization technologies.
KVM also goes beyond competitors in terms of security with SELinux or Security-Enhanced Linux which provides much greater protection and isolation between virtual machines, and enables mandatory access control as opposed to just discretionary access control. With discretionary access control, permissions are based on a user's role, whereas with mandatory access control a user has to be specifically authorized in order to access a particular resource. This means that if a virtual machine goes wrong and attempts to impersonate someone with a high role, then it can get around discretionary access control. But with mandatory access control, if a virtual machine goes wrong, it doesn't matter because it still does not have the permission – so it is very important in terms of military-grade security which is why SELinux was actually developed by the National Security Agency. And, because KVM is based on top of Linux it is then able to use that for the virtual machines.
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There are several things that cloud service providers have to consider in terms of provisioning a cloud. The first is the cost of software, second is the level of virtual machine density that can be achieved – in other words, on a particular piece of hardware how many virtual machines can go on that piece of hardware and still maintain a good quality of service because obviously the more virtual machines on the hardware, the lower the unit costs. And then, it is about what is the overall quality of service that is provided in terms of reliability, and performance, and finally, it is about management. What IBM SmartCloud Provisioning is all about is this: How do you provision high numbers of clouds very quickly with lots of instances of virtual machines on clouds with minimal need for administration – achieving maximum automation, maximum self-healing, and maximum detection of failures and recovery from failures.
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Dr. Carol Stalker
Professor Emeritus
Contact InformationEmail: email@example.com
Languages Spoken
Academic BackgroundPhD, Smith College School for Social Work, Northampton, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 1993
MSW, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, 1974
BA, Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 1969
Dr. Stalker retired from her faculty position in December 2014. However, as Professor Emeritus, she continues to advise a small number of doctoral students and collaborate with colleagues on research projects. Her research interests include learning more about the effectiveness of single-session therapy provided in walk-in counselling clinics, improving the effectiveness of mental health counselling and interprofessional practice in primary health care, promoting sensitive practice by health professionals when they work with survivors of child abuse and improving social work practice with refugees and immigrants. She was the Principal Investigator of a recent CIHR-funded study entitled, "Clinical Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Walk-in Counselling Centres: A Controlled Study" (FRN 119528).
She produced a report of the findings from a pilot project that examined the experiences of patients and physicians in response to the Family Health Team model of primary health care, funded by the Manulife Centre for Healthy Living. She was a co-investigator in a study funded by SSHRC, entitled "Understanding Risk and Protective Factors in Families from Ethnically/Racially Diverse Backgrounds Receiving Child Protection Services". As a member of a Community University Research Alliance (CURA) project, she was a co-investigator in a study exploring the experiences of employees in child welfare and children's mental health workplaces. Dr. Stalker was the principle investigator of a SSHRC-funded study that followed the outcomes of adults abused as children who completed the Program for Traumatic Stress Recovery at the Homewood Health Centre in Guelph. She is a co-author of the Handbook on Sensitive Practice for Health Care Professionals: Lessons from Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse published by the Family Violence Prevention Unit, Public Health Agency of Canada and available on the internet (http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/pdfs/nfntsx-handbook_e.pd
Dr. Stalker has extensive practice experience in the mental health field with expertise in working with adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In May 2007, Dr. Stalker received the WLUAA Faculty Mentoring Award in recognition of her dedication to supporting and assisting her students.
Selected Reports and Refereed Publications
Cait, C.A., Skop, M, Booton, J, Stalker, C.A., Horton, S. & Riemer, M. (2016). Practice based qualitative research: Participant experiences of walk-in counselling and traditional counselling. Qualitative Social Work. DOI: 10.1177/1473325016637910.
Stalker C.A., Riemer, M., Cait, C.A., Horton, S., Booton, J., Josling, L., Bedggood, J. & Zaczek M. (2015). A comparison of walk-in counselling and the wait list model for delivering counselling services. Journal of Mental Health. Published on-line: 15 December 2015. DOI:10.3109/09638237.2015.1101417. This study was funded by Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) FRN 119528.
Hovey, A., Stalker, C.A. & Rye, B.J., (2014). Asking women survivors of child sexual abuse about thoughts or actions involving sex with children: An issue requiring sensitivity. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse. 23,(4), 442-61 doi: 10.1080/10538712.2014.896844
Hovey, A., Rye, B.J., & Stalker, C.A. (2013). Do therapists' beliefs about sexual offending affect counselling practices with women? Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 22 (5), 572-592. doi:10.1080/10538712.2011.539963.
Mandell, D., Stalker, C.A., Wright, M., Frensch, K. & Harvey, C. (2013). Sinking, swimming and sailing: Experiences of job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. Child and Family Social Work, 18(4), 383-393. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2206.2012.00857.x
Stalker, C.A., Horton, S. & Cait, C.-A. (2012). Single-session therapy in a walk-in counselling clinic: A pilot study. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 31(1), 38-52.
Horton, S., Stalker, C.A., Cait, C.A. & Josling, L. (2012). Sustaining walk-in services: An economic assessment from a pilot study. Healthcare Quarterly, 15(3),44-49.
Hymmen, P., Stalker, C.A. & Cait, C.-A. (2013). The case for single-session therapy: Does the empirical evidence support the increased prevalence of this service delivery model? Journal of Mental Health, 22(1), 60-71.
Bhanot-Malhotra, S., Livingstone, S. & Stalker, C.A. (2010). An inventory of walk-in counselling clinics in Ontario. Unpublished.
Stalker, C.A. (2010). How have physicians and patients at New Vision Family Health Team experienced the shift to a family health team model? Final Report.
Hovey, A., Stalker, C.A., Schachter, C.L., Teram. E., Lasiuk, G. (2011). Practical ways psychotherapy can support physical health care experiences for male survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 20(1), 37-57. DOI 10.1080/10538712.2011.539963
Maiter, S. & Stalker, C.A. (2011) South Asian immigrants' experience of child protection services: Are we recognizing strengths and resilience? Child and Family Social Work, 16, 138-148. DOI/10.1111/j.1365-2206.2010.00721.x
Maiter, S., Stalker, C.A. & Allagia, R. (2009). The experiences of minority immigrant families receiving child welfare services: Seeking to understand how to reduce risk and increase protective factors. Families in Society. 90 (1), 28-36.
Smith, C. & Stalker, C.A. (2008). The impact of training on educators reporting of child abuse and neglect. Canadian Social Work Journal. 10(1), 84-97.
Stalker, C.A., Mandell, D., Frensch, K., Harvey, C. & Wright, M. (2007). Child welfare workers who are exhausted yet satisfied with their jobs: How to do they do it? Child and Family Social Work, 12(2), 182-191.
Stalker, C.A. Harvey, C., Frensch, K. Mandell, D. & Adams, G. R. (2007). Confirmatory factor analysis of the Maslach Burnout Inventory: A replication with Canadian child welfare workers. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1(3), 77-94.
Harvey, C. & Stalker, C.A. (2007). Understanding and preventing burnout and employee turnover. In Cameron, G., Coady, N. & Adams, G. (Eds.) Towards positive systems of child and family welfare: Current issues and future directions (pp. 273-320). Waterloo ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press.
Harper, K., Stalker, C.A., & Templeton, G. (2006). The use and validity of the COPM in a posttraumatic stress program. OTJR: Occupation, Participation and Health 26, 45-55.
Teram, E., Schachter, C.L., Stalker, C.A., Hovey, A., & Lasiuk, G. (2006). Towards malecentric communication: Sensitizing health professionals to the realities of male childhood sexual abuse survivors. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 27, 499-512.
Stalker, C.A., Palmer, S.E., Wright, D.C. & Gebotys, R. (2005). Specialized in-patient trauma treatment for adults abused as children: A follow-up study. American Journal of Psychiatry. 162, 552-559.
Stalker, C.A. Gebotys, R. & Harper, K. (2005). Insecure attachment as a predictor of outcome following inpatient trauma treatment for women survivors of childhood abuse. Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic, 69, 137-156.
Stalker, C.A., Russell, B.D., Teram, E. & Schachter, C.L. (2005). The aftermath of childhood sexual abuse: How it can affect the experience of dental care. Journal of the American Dental Association, 136, 1277-1281.
Harper, K., Stalker, C.A., Palmer, S. & Gadbois, S. (2005). Informal social support and self-care practices related to trauma recovery: Experiences of adults abused as children after discharge from inpatient treatment. Families in Society, 86, 217-225.
Teram, E., Schachter, C.L., & Stalker, C.A. (2005). The case for integrating grounded theory and participatory action research: Empowering clients to inform professional practice. Qualitatative Health Research, 15, 1129-1140.
Palmer, S., Stalker, C.A., Gadbois, S. & Harper, K. (2004). What works for survivors of childhood abuse: Learning from participants in an inpatient treatment program. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 74, 112-121.
Schachter, C.L., Radomsky, N., Stalker, C.A., & Teram, E. (2004). How women survivors of child sexual abuse describe sensitive practice from health professionals. Canadian Family Physician , 50, 405-412. .
Schachter, C.L., Teram, E. & Stalker, C.A. (2004). Integrating grounded theory and action research to develop guidelines for sensitive practice with survivors of childhood sexual abuse. In K. Whalley Hammell & C. Carpenter (Eds.) Qualitative research in evidence-based rehabilitation. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone.
Stalker, C.A. & Fry, R. (1999). A study comparing short-term group and individual therapy with sexually abused women. Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, 44, 168-174.
Stalker, C.A., Schachter, C.L., & Teram, E. (1999). Facilitating effective relationships between survivors of childhood sexual abuse and health professionals. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, 14, 176-198.
Schachter, C.L., Stalker, C.A., Teram, E., Lasiuk, G. C., & Danilkewich, A. (2009). Handbook on sensitive practice for health care professionals: Lessons from adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. Ottawa: Public Health Agency of Canada. Also available in French and on the internet.
Recent Research Funding
2012-2014. Canadian Institutes of Health Research Operating Grant (Health Services and Policy Research Institute). C.A. Stalker (P.I.), S. Horton, C.A. Cait & M. Riemer. Clinical Outcomes and Cost-Effectiveness of Walk-in Counselling Centres: A Controlled Study. $165,077.
2011-2012. CIHR. (Meetings, Planning & Dissemination: Planning Grant). Improving Health Care Delivery by Improving Health Providers' Knowledge of Interpersonal Trauma. Catherine Classen (P.I.) with A. Fourt, R. Mason, C. Pain & C. Stalker $24,940.
2008-2010. Manulife Centre for Healthy Living (Faculty of Social Work, WLU). $4,480 (with D. McCready). How do patients and physicians experience the shift to a Family Health Team model for delivery of primary health care?
2003-2006 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. $52,000 over three years (with S. Maiter (P.I.) & R. Allagia). Understanding risk and protective factors for families of diverse ethnic backgrounds receiving child welfare services.2002-2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Community-University Research Alliances program. $393,820 over three years (with G.J. Cameron (P.I.) & seven other co-investigators). Partnerships for children and families - an extension.
2006-2007 Cornwall Public Inquiry. Research contract. $37,219.60 plus travel expenses. Policies and practices of child welfare agencies in response to complaints of child sexual abuse: 1960-2006.


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I have a friend who is struggling with the fact that Ordained Sangha rely almost exclusivley on the lay community for everything. We have all see this is the various monasteries we have stayed in and I can see how for a none Buddhist it does seem incredibly one sided. What are the Monastic obligations to the lay community?
How have others explained this to none Buddhists - explainging it as a 'tradition' didn't wash with my friend as her argument was that a 2500 year old tradition holds little relavance in the West in 2012.


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International Studies
Academic Year: 2009 – 2010
An International Studies minor provides students with the tools necessary to better understand the complex and changing world of the 21st century. Major objectives of the minor are to convey knowledge not only of international relations but also of comparative methods of analysis (i.e., the similarities and differences between and among states, societies, and cultures); and to provide an interdisciplinary approach that integrates the knowledge and methods that history, political science, economics, sociology/anthropology, women and gender studies, and geography/environmental studies have to offer.
To earn a minor in International Studies, students must complete a minimum of 16 semester hours of upper-division course work at the University of Illinois at Springfield. In exceptional cases, a student may petition the International Studies Committee to accept up to eight hours of transfer credit. Transfer students still must take the core course and follow distribution requirements.
The core course is PSC 270 ECCE: Global Issues. Electives totaling 12 semester hours must be taken from two areas: courses that provide an international perspective and courses that provide a comparative perspective.
Students may not take more than one course in their major field of study to fulfill the International Studies minor requirements. Students should consult with an International Studies faculty member to ensure that they are meeting their individual needs and the requirements for the major.
International courses include
ECO 449 International Business 3 Hrs.
ENS 412/HIS 459 World Environmental Thought 4 Hrs.
HIS 443 American Foreign Relations in the 20th Century 4 Hrs.
PSC 473 War and Peace 4 Hrs.
PSC 474 American Foreign Policy 4 Hrs.
PSC 475 International Organizations and Integration 4 Hrs.
Comparative courses include
ECO 421 Comparative Economic Systems 3 Hrs.
HIS 476 Modern China 4 Hrs.
PSC 471 Comparative Politics 4 Hrs.
PSC 477 Russian Politics 4 Hrs.
PSC 479 African Politics 4 Hrs.
SOA 302 Understanding Other Cultures 4 Hrs.
SOA 353/WGS 353 ECCE: Women Across Cultures 4 Hrs.
Other programs associated with international studies include the following:
The Model United Nations Club (MUN) is designed to teach students how the United Nations fosters peace in the international system. The MUN Club allows students to participate in committee simulations where world problems are debated and solutions are presented. Students learn how to operate in a caucus environment while role-playing a country that is not their native homeland. The club is specifically designed to prepare UIS students to compete at the National Model United Nations Conference held annually in New York City.
The Global Experience/Study Abroad Program is designed to provide students with opportunities to participate in seminars organized by UIS faculty such as those in Ashikaga, Japan (UNI 460) and provide students with the option to study at any other university or academic program in the world, such as Southampton University in England and Trinity College in Ireland (UNI 480). For more information on those options, call 206-6678 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Faculty Exchange Program allows UIS and international faculty to exchange teaching assignments in the summer or academic year. Currently, UIS has an exchange program with Heilongjiang University in China. For more information on this, contact the Political Science Department at 206-6646.
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More and more often I come across a problem of deadlocks in mysql. I like to enclose portions of SQL updates, inserts and deletes in a transaction to ensure the operation is atomic and I don't end up with partially executed action if something goes wrong. Transactions also speed things up a bit. But sometimes a query in a transaction ends up with this error:
Deadlock found when trying to get lock; try restarting transaction #1213
I've searched information on deadlocks and I know there are certain steps that can be taken to minimize their occurrence like updating in a certain order, etc. However, as the application grows more and more complex it's difficult to guarantee deadlock-free transactions since there are many different functions, methods, modules, stored procedures, etc. that are executed within various transactions and coordinating all those queries so that they do not cause deadlocks in any used scenario seems like an almost impossible task. Moreover, the MySQL manual says that deadlocks are a natural thing in complex databases and the client simply needs to restart the transaction and if this doesn't occur often then this doesn't pose the problem. So I am now at this stage - deadlocks happen rarely but still they do happen and I want to be prepared for that.
So here's my question - how to restart transactions elegantly in PHP?
One thing I have done so far is I have made the query() method in my Db class detect deadlock error #1213 and retry the query up to 3 times. This was easy to implement because I have a central Db class but it does only retry a single query not the whole transaction. And this helps in many (most) cases. However, not always.
When I start transaction, insert a new row and the next query causes deadlock then the new row can be lost and I can't simply retry the second query and continue. I have to start the whole transaction again. Here is some illustration code:
class Product {
public function save() {
// INSERT new row to product table
// ...
// INSERT a few rows to product_category table
// ...
// INSERT a few rows to product_accessory table
// ...
// UPDATE a table which holds products indexed for search engine
// ...
// DELETE old entries in some other table...
// ...
// some other more db operations involving INSERT, UPDATE and DELETE
// ...
Each of the above operations can potentially end up in deadlock and I'd have to start from scratch. What would be the best method to do this? The only solution I can see is to move the code from each method that uses transaction to another method (e.g. saveWithTransaction() ) and in the original method (save() ) use a for loop to run the transaction method and catch any DeadlockExceptions and retry if necessary. However, this seems ugly and I'd have to litter a lot of my code with mechanisms for restarting transactions in places that should not (I think) have to deal with such issues. Any ideas?
Have you started analyzing your database logs to figure out which table is locked at the time you are attempting a write, delete, or update command?
Because of sheer volume, and the reporting we were doing during business hours, at my prior job, we made 98% of our SELECT queries to utilize WITH(NO LOCK) [SQL Server only], but MySQL does have similar commands.
Once we did that, our deadlocks disappeared quickly, but we still encountered a few of them, which I later tracked down to the code requesting data from the same set of tables repeatedly within a loop (600 times!). Needless to say, writing a better query and updating the code for that situation solved that one.
If you can identify the table being deadlocked, search your code for when and how that table is utilized and ask yourself if it could be improved.
I have logs of all queries that result in an error - there are a few different queries that cause a deadlock. I think I know which table is locked because I see the problematic queries they are trying to affect - if that's how it works.
Are you saying that in your case SELECT queries were causing deadlocks? I've never seen a SELECT causing a deadlock in my case - it's always insert, update or delete.
For example, there was an insert to the product table, then an update on all rows in this table to update a calculated column - the update takes about 1 second but if another thread tries to do the same - insert and then do the update - while the first update is still running the deadlock occurs. I managed to solve this by moving the update after the end of the transaction. Now there are very few problematic queries and I'll be trying to improve them but what I'm asking here is more about dealing with deadlocks and restarting the transactions in the application code.
What database engine are you using for the tables concerned?
No, in my case the SELECT was killed because it had to wait too long for the prior transaction which had a lock on the table to finish. So by telling the SELECT you can read uncommitted data, we got around that issue.
Hmm, you have to update all rows for a table because it stores a calculated result? I've never been much of a fan for storing calculated results (especially ones that have to be updated routinely; unless used for reporting only purposes that can run off hours, or that could be updated off hours instead of in real-time). IMO, that is probably a design issue that should be analyzed to see how feasible it would be to remove that calculated column and do the calculation in the getter of that object's property.
But seeing how, it is what it is, this will not be an easy to avoid situation when you have multiple users invoking similar transactions against your database. As any query that must update ALL rows, is going to lock the entire table, thus preventing a second user from running a similar transaction (regardless how fast it is -- as eventually it will slow down as the number of records grow over time). I've prevented users from being able to invoke simultaneous requests that would be long running by creating a queue and then processing them in FIFO (First In First Out), but that is usually a pretty big over-haul too when working with an existing code base.
The gist of the queue (when I wrote it many years ago was), User sends a request for a known long running or a lock intensive query. They send it to the Queue Manager, the Queue Manager gives them an ID they can use to check if the status of their query (Pending, In Progress, Completed, Failed). The calling application is then in charge of keeping the user updated (think "Please wait while we process your request..." that refreshes X seconds so it can check the status of the queued request). The Queue Manager processes each item in its queue every minute/whatever time frame is acceptable, and updates the ID associated with the last request to Completed/Failed accordingly. The calling application sees Completed/Failed and shows the user the appropriate Success/Failure message.
Granted, you can still have dead-locks with items that are not process intensive and are not using this manager (which is ultimately, why I gave up on continuing it and instead looked into why the queries were intensive to begin with and did they really need to be?). The manager slows down any process that isn't resource intensive, so that isn't cool, so overall, it was never really a good solution, but rather a lesson learned that one should look into why their query/transaction is locking the tables for longer than need be. Updating ALL rows is something that should be looked into.
Hope that helps.
If you're on PHP >= 5.3 you could use anonymous functions as callbacks. Something like
$this->db->transactional(function($db) {
where transactional is something like:
class MyDatabase
// ...
public function transactional($callback)
for ($i = 0; $i < 3; $i++)
try {
} catch (MyDeadlockDetectedException $e) {
if ($i == 2)
// throw exception if happens 3 times in a row
throw $e;
// Also, may want to sleep() for a bit here to give
// db some breathing space
If you ever need to write something like this again you may want to look in to beanstalkd or similar to just keep on processing all the time in a queue with no overlap, guaranteed. And no need for cron-esque juggling of data [/ot]
It was actually a .NET system (the idea can easily cross platforms, but keep in mind, it isn't a guaranteed solution, the issue will likely crop back up somewhere else), and so I used a Windows Service so it could be event driven (something was sent to the queue, timed interval, constant run, etc). I really like Windows Services in .NET, they are a lot of fun to code and can be utilized for all sorts of long running processes.
So I suppose my case is a bit different because I don't see any selects being killed.
I'd be happy to get rid of updating all the rows if I could achieve what I want in a different way, unfortunately doing the calculation in the getter is of no use and it wouldn't even be possible without reading all rows in the table. This is a calculated integer column that I use to simulate the missing feature of being able to order result in a natural sorting algorithm, so for example Product A5 Black comes before Product A10. I have a stored procedure that reads all product names and then updates the indexed name_sort column with a numeric value and then I just use an ORDER BY name_sort and natural sorting is done lightning fast on the live site. Since adding a new product or changing product name doesn't happen very often waiting 1 second for the update is no problem at all - and having other threads to wait until the update is finished is no problem, either. Most probably my mistake was to run this procedure inside a transaction since I can't see how two separate transactions updating all rows can successfully complete when run at the same time (my desired behaviour is for the latter one to wait until the first one finishes).
As a last resort I can implement a much simpler version of queuing - I can create a simple class that - in case of multiple users trying to add or update a product - will cause the subsequent scripts to sleep until the first action is finished, by using lock files.
Hey, that is very clever! I'm on PHP 5.3 so I might actually use that idea, thanks!


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Martinez keeps pace with Kelly in rotation battle
JUPITER, Fla. -- The Cardinals called for patience early in camp, noting that the rotation battle would become clearer the deeper the team played into March. That clarity, however, doesn't look to come from the pitchers themselves, though, who keep matching each other with strong starts.
After Joe Kelly pitched a team-best 5 1/3 innings in his start over the weekend, Carlos Martinez matched him with a start of that length on Wednesday. Within the next 10 days, one of the two will be put into the Cardinals' rotation; the other will open the season in the bullpen.
In the Cardinals' 3-1 win over the Twins on Wednesday, it was Martinez's opportunity to impress.
"I think he thrives on the competition and not so much on the things on the periphery," manager Mike Matheny said. "He's a competitor, and any time someone jumps in the box, he has an opportunity to personally match up. He's done well in those matchups."
Martinez had his spring scoreless-innings streak snapped at 14 but otherwise made few mistakes in his 81-pitch effort. The first pitcher to make a fourth start, he also became the first to surpass the 80-pitch threshold. With the opportunity to build up as a starter this spring, Martinez has been able to showcase his full repertoire of pitches to the Cardinals' coaching staff.
Pitching out of the bullpen for St. Louis last year, he could get by with a two-pitch mix. And he did, as fangraphs.com recorded that 94 percent of the pitches Martinez threw last year were fastballs and sliders. Now, he's also featuring an improved curveball and changeup. The curveball, Matheny suggested on Wednesday, might even end up being a bigger weapon than the slider.
Those are necessary additions for Martinez should he be asked to fill a starting role.
"It's kind of the well-rounded pitcher he is developing into," Matheny said. "He's making great strides forward. He's starting to learn his stuff, but he's also trusting a pretty good catcher behind the plate [in Yadier Molina] who understands which ones he needs to focus on and what pitches are most likely going to give him the chance to get out of a jam."
The Cardinals have not announced their rotation plans for next week, meaning that it has not yet been determined whether Martinez will make another start. He's given the Cardinals plenty to consider already, however, with his 1.76 ERA, nine strikeouts and three walks in 15 1/3 Grapefruit League innings.
"I go out there every day just trying to do my work," Martinez said, with front-office member Tony Ferreira translating. "I'm just trying to make the team and am going out there to do whatever I can. Every opportunity I have, I'm trying to make the best of it."
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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purple planet wrote:Im doing vipasana meditation and i wonder how am i supose to note constantly if the thougts keep getting in the way ? maybe i should do some samtha meditation to increase focus so i can notice the thought eralier ?
what ways are they to stop monkey brain ? and if there are not how am i supose to develope constant mindfulness with it being disrupted by long thougts which their amount or length dosnt go down as far as i see up until now
purple planet wrote:Listen to the first AM recording and the evning they were both really good - but it took me so much time to listen to cause i cant hear him well - or cant understand him well - is there a written version somewhere ?
purple planet wrote:what ways are they to stop monkey brain ?
You could email and ask if he has some of it written down. I've emailed him occasionally, and he is very helpful. Unfortunately, the discussions, which I find very useful, are unlikely to be written down
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge refused Tuesday to order a hearing to disclose details of her decision allowing former Bell city manager Robert Rizzo to plead no contest to 69 charges in a corruption case.
Attorney Harland Braun, who represents Rizzo's former co-defendant, Angela Spaccia, said Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy violated his client's rights by personally negotiating a plea bargain that requires Rizzo to testify for the prosecution during the trial of Spaccia, his former top assistant.
Braun also accused prosecutors of conspiring with Rizzo's lawyer to keep the press from finding out about the plea hearing in what he called one of the biggest public interest cases in recent years.
"It appears the district attorney wanted the case settled and didn't want its fingerprints on it," Braun said.
He objected to a closed-door meeting involving the judge, Rizzo, his lawyer and a prosecutor in her chambers without a court reporter making a transcript of what was said.
The judge insisted she did not negotiate a plea bargain, but she acknowledged the meeting in chambers before she came into court and took Rizzo's plea to all of the corruption charges against him.
She also told him that instead of being subject to a 70-year sentence, he would get 10 to 12 years which would run concurrently with anticipated federal charges. Braun said that was an inducement for his plea.
Prosecutors said they were shocked by Rizzo's decision and didn't notify the press because they didn't believe it was going to happen.
""It was a little surreal," said Deputy District Attorney Sean Hasset. "Even though we did have some notice before the plea, we did not negotiate it."
Judge Kennedy, who is presiding over Spaccia's trial, said the only thing she will require of Rizzo, if he testifies, is to tell the truth. She told Braun that Spaccia had no right to interfere with the plea.
Braun responded that the judge conditioned the plea on Rizzo's testimony against Spaccia, giving her standing to object and to demand a hearing on what occurred in a secret meeting.
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Reliever Value at the Deadline
Baseball lore preaches that a team "can never have enough pitching," but we rarely hear the same thing said about hitting, perhaps because of a sister proverb, "Baseball is 75 percent pitching." Pitcher fragility plays a big part, of course. But sometimes one poor start or relief outing will cause a team to press for more pitchers: a marginal arm blows up, and suddenly the team needs assistance. When a hitter goes 0-for-4 or 1-for-5, on the other hand, the line is common enough that we don't bat an eye.
The "never have enough" axiom seems doubly true for bullpens. Scoreless relief innings are so common that when a reliever allows several runs, it becomes a referendum on the state of the bullpen: we need help, because this shouldn't be happening. We should be seeing that unblemished 1 0 0 0 0 1 box score line every night. But variance can't be beaten.
Despite the abolishment of draft-pick compensation, trades for relievers haven't become less common (I'll show this later). Pedro Strop, Matt Thornton, Francisco Rodriguez, Jesse Crain, Scott Downs, Jose Veras, Marc Rzepzynski, and Joe Thatcher comprise 2013's reliever trade deadline class. Seven of those players went to contending teams. Whether the reliever filled a crucial role or offered peace of mind as depth, teams were willing to part with a prospect to acquire him.
Nonetheless, most teams that featured attractive relievers in their display windows found them new homes. Consider the Houston Astros: for two straight seasons, they've declared a closer at the start of the season and shipped him off by July 31st. Brett Myers procured three prospects for Jeff Luhnow, and Jose Veras netted another.
I wondered how much value these relievers ended up producing, and whether their worth to their new teams could be forecasted. I gathered every July trade since 1995 and filtered for relievers, whom I defined as having over 10 innings pitched with both their old and new teams. I also eliminated pitchers who had more starter innings than relief innings with their new team. Of that reliever set, I took only trades in which the acquiring team was over .500 on the day of the deal to select for contending teams.
This left me with 114 relievers. Pre-trade PWARP per player had a modest correlation (R=0.16) to post-trade PWARP (p=0.083, statistical significance at your discretion). So even for contending teams, which presumably would be trading for good relievers, PWARP with the old team isn't a meaningful indicator. Relievers tend to be very volatile in small samples.
Under similar parameters (minimum 25 PA with both teams), hitters' pre-trade BWARP was a significant predictor of post-trade BWARP (R=0.39). This obviously follows from conventional wisdom about batter and pitcher variability.
Here are the number of relievers who were dealt to contending teams each year:
These relievers accrued 28.5 PWARP in their new homes. A quick-and-dirty division by number of relievers—which doesn't control for talent or usage—says that these relievers averaged a quarter win, plus any playoff value. Not game-changing, but not insignificant. Still, there's always the risk of hurting the team with a below-replacement value performance. Twenty relievers with positive pre-trade PWARPs accumulated a negative PWARP with their new team.
As I mentioned earlier, seven relievers went to contending teams in 2013, no different from in the past two seasons. Teams won't receive any draft-pick compensation for these relievers, so if they're in the last year of their contract (which goes for Crain, Rodriguez, and Downs), they're merely two-month rentals.
An interesting question is whether contending teams pay a premium for a hitter's increased reliability. Given a batter and reliever of equal value, is the caliber of prospect traded away different? These continued transactions suggest that teams believe that relievers are worth the prospects it takes to get them. And they might be—prospects are unpredictable too.
The Braves had a clear role for Downs to fill, Veras made the back of Detroit's bullpen more stable, and in Crain, the Rays stockpiled some late-inning talent. One wonders, though, whether the output of an acquired reliever could be replicated by an in-house promotion or by stretching someone else's one-inning relief outing to two. If so, contending teams might be overpaying to stock their bullpens with name brands.
Andrew Koo is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @akoo
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I would have hoped that the question raised in the last sentence would have been answered, or at least addressed, rather than left to stand unexamined as the concluding thought.
Aug 02, 2013 02:10 AM
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I think it's a case-by-case basis that depends on the perceived value of the reliever and prospect at the time - tough to nail that down.
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Dozier a catalyst for Twins' high rate of DPs
MINNEAPOLIS -- If there's one thing the Twins can take solace in during a rough start to the second half of the season, it's the fact that their infield is operating efficiently.
Minnesota turned five double plays in Saturday night's 5-1 loss to Tampa Bay, one off the team record set in 1990. The Twins entered Sunday fifth in the Major Leagues with 0.96 double plays turned per game, and their .987 fielding percentage was tied for third in the American League.
But there is, of course, a downside to being among the league's best when it comes to turning two.
"There's the old saying that if you lead the league in double plays, that means you have a lot of people on base, which is not good for your pitching staff," manager Ron Gardenhire said. "But at least we're getting ground balls and getting out of them. You can count on those guys, and they're pretty good at it."
The catalyst for defensive excellence has been second baseman Brian Dozier, who Gardenhire endorsed as a Gold Glove candidate.
"He's spectacular," Gardenhire said. "Every day he makes some kind of play. And I do mean that. It's not just here and there. It's every day you see him make a play. He's one of the better ones I've seen out there as far as moving around, agility-wise, and making plays.
"Dozier turns it as well as anybody. That little backhand feed -- he's got that down pat. That's not easy to do. Him and [Eduardo] Escobar work pretty well up the middle."
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Margaret Lindsay and Nancy Coleman in Edgar G. Ulmer's Her Sister's Secret (1946)
As the Laura Grieve wrote on her excellent website Laura's Miscellaneous Musings a few days ago, "Her Sister's Secret is fairly unusual for the mid '40s insofar as it deals at length with unwed pregnancy. There were other films made on this topic in that era, such as To Each His Own (1946), but it was still fairly daring subject matter for the Production Code era. Anne Green's screenplay was loosely based on a novel by Gina Kaus titled Dark Angel. The title of the film has a double meaning, referring to one sister's secret pregnancy and the other's secret adoption of the baby.
Toni DuBois (Nancy Coleman) falls in love with soldier Dick Connolly (Phillip Reed) during a WWII-era Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans, but when he ships out and they lose contact she finds herself in a desperate situation, alone, unmarried, and pregnant. Toni's sister Renee (Margaret Lindsay) is happily married to Bill (Regis Toomey), but they are sadly childless. While Bill is away on military service, Toni secretly gives birth, and the sisters agree to pass the baby off as Renee's. Bill is told that little Billy (Winston Severn) is his son, although it eventually turns out that the kindly man isn't quite as unobservant as the sisters believe.
After giving the baby to Renee Toni stays away for an extended period, but as time passes she can't resist the chance to see the child, triggering territorial conflict with Renee. And when Dick unexpectedly reenters the picture, things become even more complicated. Her Sister's Secret has many positive attributes, including fine performances and gleaming black and white photography by Franz (Frank) Planer. The film has a great sense of mood, whether the setting is a masked party in New Orleans or a comfortable apartment in New York. Coleman and Lindsay are always very watchable actresses, and this film is no exception. The movie also offers a small but attractive role for Regis Toomey as the likeable Bill.
As Jan-Christopher Horak of the UCLA Film & Television Archive wrote of the film, in Noah Isenberg's book Edgar G. Ulmer: A Filmmaker at the Margins, 'for a B-picture, the film demonstrated an unusual sensitivity for the complexity of human emotions, for the giddiness of great love affairs, for the difficulty of motherhood, and for the barely repressed jealousy between siblings.' The film is considered by some critics to anticipate Douglas Sirk's 1950s melodramas, such as Written on the Wind (1956)."
About ten years ago, I was given a 16mm print of this film for a birthday present, and I wholeheartedly agree with Laura's assessment; this is a stunningly beautiful piece or work. For a six day picture shot at the lowest of all Hollywood studios, PRC, the film is not only stylish, but also deeply perceptive, and much more forthright about the position of women during the 1940s, and the social pressures that they faced in their everyday lives. Indeed, the scenario of the film is so progressive that it's a wonder that the MPAA didn't step in and censor the film. Her Sister's Secret is seldom mentioned in conventional film histories, but in many ways, it's one of the most important films of the era; a film that told the truth in an era of evasions.
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RECAP: Everyone Always Leaves the GIRLS, Episode 2
Twenty-somethings suck at lots of things: finding jobs, making doctor appointments, making relationships last, etc.
If there's one thing that they're really bad at, it's the last one. As a twenty-something, I believe I can say this. So I am.
In the second episode of GIRLS' sophomore season, entitled "I Get Ideas," everyone leaves. Relationships end, psychopaths emerge, and the police are called. Girls is evolving as a television show - but it's safe to say none of the Girls actually are.
Dunham, however, is. This latest episode confronts much of the criticism the series garnered in 2012: its narrow view of the world, its considerable Caucasian cast, and the fact that nothing seems to ever happen. Lots of things happen in "I Get Ideas." Lots of characters get ideas. Lots of them are awful.
Hannah has taken to wearing sleeping-bag hoodies while comforting Elijah, whose much older (and frumpier) boyfriend, George, has left after Elijah slept with Marnie. George doesn't want to be with someone who's sexually confused, even though it only lasted for "two-and-a-half pumps." George doesn't care. George is gone.
Adam, however, isn't.
"I know I always said he was sexy in a murdery way - but what if he's murdery in a murder way?" Hannah says. Hannah is, like always, a little bit like that fish always swimming a little too close to the filter. She's always getting sucked in every which way because she can't figure out to just, you know, swim away from the source of your problems.
But that's mainly because she creates her own. In this episode, they revolve around Adam and Sandy.
Hannah has attempted to distance herself from Adam to grow closer to her "kind, sexy, responsible boyfriend," Sandy. Sandy, who's steadfast in his beliefs, who assures Elijah that you "don't need two Republicans to make a Republican," who lies to Hannah about reading her latest essay, is trying. He's really trying. Or rather, Dunham is really trying to disprove critics' theory that she possesses an extremely narrow view of the world.
"If he's not reading your essays, he's not reading you," Jessa tells Hannah. "Life is never going to get any better than this for you."
This idea, that Jessa has and Hannah runs with, reinforces the problem the Girls - and millenials - all seem to have: not realizing that life doesn't get any better until you stop expecting it to.
But Hannah doesn't learn!
In a conversation that seems like a direct response to the diversity criticism Lena Dunham received during season one, Hannah breaks up with Sandy. There's a whole lot of back-and-forth (including a Missy Elliott lyric that definitely doesn't help matters) that ends with Sandy believing Hannah is fetishizing dating an African-American, and Hannah proclaiming she doesn't see the divisions of race. To say it's uncomfortable is an understatement. To say that it doesn't read genuine is unfair.
"I cannot be with someone who isn't an ally to gays and women," Hannah tells Elijah and Marnie as she eats whipped cream with a spoon.
Because the Cool Whip wasn't enough to cool her fiery nerves - Hannah takes to cutting her bangs thanks to the help of a YouTube video. But not before Adam can break into her apartment for a glass of milk and another try at getting her back. She dials 9-11 and hangs up because of the whole 'murdery' thing. Things get real nuts real fast. The police show up: Hannah wants a restraining order against Adam, Adam wants a restraining order against Hannah, and Adam is hauled away for two unpaid parking tickets and two citations for urinating in public.
As for the other girls, Marnie is still the universe's personal porta-potty. The former golden girl, who gave Bea Arthur a run for her money in levels of condescension, lands a job interview. However, she doesn't get the position because she shops at Ann Taylor and might not be fit for the art world. So she takes a job wearing a romper at a high-end restaurant for rich, old white men.
Shoshanna is back with Ray - where they spend their post-coital mornings talking about summer camp and bathing pigs. It's nice to see hymen-less, quasi-innocent Sho, happy.
Meanwhile, Jessa, who has decided getting matching tiger tattoos with Thomas-John is a great idea, is still married. Whatever, I still give it a half-season arc: Jessa's either going to sleep with a hobo, or Thomas-John's going to murder her. Jessa is not this daft, not this uncomplicated, to make a marriage to a toddler in a fedora work.
GIRLS hasn't left Brooklyn, it hasn't left its demographic, but it's opened up its narrow world-view. The series is expanding. Dunham is listening to criticism and making considerations. Many might call it pandering to critics, but would Hannah?
Uh, no.
Hannah would take off her shorteralls, crawl into bed with a gallon of whipped cream, and make the same mistakes tomorrow.


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The stuff kids really need for high school
Here are some easy tips to help you upgrade your childs supplies for high school. more
Fluoride is a natural mineral that helps to protect teeth against decay and can be found in food, water, plants and toothpaste. Brushing with fluoride toothpaste and drinking fluoridated water helps to protect teeth against decay.
When acid attacks the enamel of your tooth, tooth decay can occur. Fluoride works to limit the amount of mouth acid produced, and to help repair any damage that may occur. A regular low-level supply of fluoride gives your mouth its best protection, and this supply can be received from a variety of sources.
While many foods and drinks naturally contain fluoride, it has also been added to:
Fluoride can help to protect teeth by:
Your child's teeth need special protection while they are developing. To encourage good dental habits:
If your drinking water is not fluoridated, ask for professional advice about the best way to ensure that your child is receiving an adequate amount of fluoride.
From under the gums, your child's adult teeth can become stained by high levels of fluoride. This is called dental fluorosis and it looks like fine, pearly-white mottling, flecking on the tooth's surface which is usually quite difficult to spot and doesn't in any way affect the strength or function of the tooth. Once your child's teeth are fully formed, the risk of dental fluorosis disappears forever.
This article was written by Ella Walsh for Kidspot. Sources include Vic. Govt's Better Health Channel.
Last revised: Thursday, 19 June 2008
This article contains general information only and is not intended to replace advice from a qualified health professional.


text: For marathoners, painkillers pose risks down the road By Chicago Tribune October 9, 2012 Story Share McClatchy Newspapers Daisy Carranza takes a short run on Austin Boulevard in Chicago. Carranza, like many runners, takes over-the-counter painkillers regularly. She said she understands there are risks, but she wants to keep running. CHICAGO -- As part of her marathon training, Daisy Carranza has taken an over-the-counter pain reliever nearly every day for the last several months.On race day, she's prepared to pop at least seven Extra Strength Tylenol capsules: two at the starting line, three at mile 18 -- just before the body starts to rebel -- and two at the post-race party, to help with recovery."It's a regular thing," said Carranza, 31, of Chicago, who is entered in her fourth Bank of America Chicago Marathon. "I have a lot of knee, back and shoulder pain, so I look at Tylenol in the same way as protein bars and Gatorade."Like lucky caps and favorite shoes, marathoners often rely on over-the-counter pain relievers to get them through both the endless training and the grueling 26.2-mile race itself. The most popular drugs generally contain acetaminophen -- the active ingredient in Carranza's Tylenol -- or ibuprofen, part of a class of medications called NSAIDs, or non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.The medications can be a godsend when taken as directed: for headaches, fevers or acute injuries, such as a twisted ankle. But both ibuprofen and acetaminophen pose well-documented health risks, especially when they're consumed in large amounts or for an extended time.There's also little evidence to suggest that athletes receive any benefit from taking pain relievers before a race. And emerging research is starting to show that ibuprofen can actually cause inflammation under certain conditions and may interfere with the body's processes of recovery and adaptation."We fall into the assumption that anything available over the counter is safe and that we know how to use it," said Wendy Kohrt, a professor of medicine at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus who has studied NSAIDs' effects on bone formation. "But it's just not true." When taken preventively, pain relievers "have the potential to reduce how well your tissues adapt to the exercise," said Stuart Warden, an associate professor in the Indiana University School of Health and Rehabilitation. "We all know exercise makes muscles bigger, bones stronger and tissues adapt, changing in structure," he said. "NSAIDs block a pathway that's important for that adaptation."Athletes in all sports and at all levels swear by over-the-counter painkillers, especially ibuprofen, which is known by its fans as "Vitamin I." A 2008 survey of participants in an Ironman triathlon in Brazil found that almost 60 percent reported using NSAIDs in the three months leading up to the event, according to a study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Almost half reported taking pills during the race.Another report that looked at medication use by male soccer players competing in the 2002 and 2006 World Cups called the high intake of NSAIDs "alarming." Athletes often take pain relievers to help cope with pain after intense exercise, including a condition called delayed-onset muscle soreness. But NSAIDs haven't been shown to help with that problem, Warden said. Instead, runners should try gentle exercise, such as using a stationary bike or running in water, he said. Sprinting and normal running should be avoided.Ibuprofen (Advil and Motrin) and another NSAID, naproxen (Aleve), are recommended for pain relief and reducing fever. Best tolerated when taken on a full stomach -- rare during a marathon -- they work by stopping the body's production of a substance that causes pain, fever and inflammation.But that substance, prostaglandin, is also important for the synthesis of collagen, Warden said. "Collagen is the main structural material of all muscles, bones and tendons," he said. "That's what gives [them] strength. The drugs can reduce how much collagen you form in response to exercise."Acetaminophen has a weaker anti-inflammatory effect than the NSAIDs and is often classified as an analgesic, or pain reliever. The drug changes the way the body senses pain and has a cooling effect, according to the National Institutes of Health.Both types of medicines have risks and potential side effects, especially when misused. (Experts are less concerned about aspirin, also an NSAID, but say it's best to avoid routinely taking any kind of painkiller before running.) With the exception of aspirin, NSAIDs can increase the risk of heart attack and stroke, and taking them while dehydrated can cause gastrointestinal pains and overwhelm the kidneys."There's absolutely a role for anti-inflammatories like Motrin, Advil and Aleve, but you have to understand when they're necessary and when you should take them, said Dr. George Chiampas, medical director for the Chicago Marathon. "And more is definitely not better."Taking too much acetaminophen -- a common mistake because it's often found in combination products -- can cause liver damage. Last year, Tylenol's manufacturer lowered the recommended daily maximum dose of Extra Strength Tylenol from eight 500 mg tablets to six to reduce the risk of an accidental overdose.Soreness is one of the least welcome side effects of exercise, but the pain is a signal that some tissue irritation or damage has occurred, said Warden. Masking that pain can lead to a more serious injury.By the same token, inflammation is a natural part of the healing process and speeds up tissue repair. A chemical release at the injured site attracts cells that will clean up the area and heal it, said Warden.The inflammation response often is overzealous, Warden said, and drugs can be used to control it. "But once the inflammatory signs are gone, you don't need anti-inflammatories," he said. 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LES MISERABLES is slated for a December 25 release, but in the meantime check out the official just-released theatrical trailer for the highly anticipated film below!
Les Misérables is the motion-picture adaptation of the beloved global stage sensation seen by more than 60 million people in 42 countries and in 21 languages around the globe and still breaking box-office records everywhere in its 27th year. Helmed by The King's Speech's Academy Award-winning director, Tom Hooper, the Working Title/Cameron Mackintosh production stars Hugh Jackman, Oscar winner Russell Crowe, Anne Hathaway, Amanda Seyfried, Eddie Redmayne, Aaron Tveit, Samantha Barks, with Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.
Set against the backdrop of 19th-century France, Les Misérables tells an enthralling story of broken dreams and unrequited love, passion, sacrifice and redemption—a timeless testament to the survival of the human spirit. Jackman plays ex-prisoner Jean Valjean, hunted for decades by the ruthless policeman Javert (Crowe) after he breaks parole. When Valjean agrees to care for factory worker Fantine's (Hathaway) young daughter, Cosette, their lives change forever.
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NEW YORK ( The Deal) -- Tulsa, Okla., energy transporter and propane marketer NGL Energy Partners ( NGL) said Friday, Aug. 2, it acquired the water disposal and hauling business of Oilfield Water Lines, a partnership with High Roller Wells and Dallas billionaire Mark Cuban's Mark Cuban Cos., for $239.2 million. The price included 2.5 million units worth $71.2 million at Thursday's close and $168 million in cash. The consideration may be increased by as much as $60 million if the assets being acquired hit certain EBITDA targets. NGL said the acquisition expands its water services business by adding four high capacity oil and gas water disposal facilities to its water treatment and gathering infrastructure and 90,000 barrels per day of additional disposal capacity in the growing Eagle Ford Shale in South Texas. Jim Winter, NGL's senior VP of water services, said the transaction will boost its number of saltwater disposal wells in the Eagle Ford to 10 from 6 so that it can provide disposal service to producers throughout the area as well as 55 water trucks. Oilfield Water Lines CEO Chris Cooper will join NGL. As a result of the deal, NGL is boosting its 2014 adjusted EBITDA guidance to $255 million to $260 million versus $240 million to $245 million. For the 12 months ending March 31, 2015, NGL expects adjusted EBITDA from the transaction to exceed $35 million. If the assets generate adjusted EBITDA of more than $40 million on an annualized basis during any six month period after the acquisition, the price will be increased by six times the amount by which the target is exceeded, or up to $60 million. NGL was formed in 2010 when Hicks Oils & Hicksgas merged with NGL Supply, a supplier of propane and other natural gas liquids backed by Denham Capital Management. It went public in May 2011. NGL has been a busy acquirer over the years. It picked up Pecos Marketing & Gathering from the Jensen family in November for $150 million, High Sierra Energy from Tortoise Capital Resources in May 2012 for $693 million, SemGroup' s propane business in February 2012 for $300 million and SemStream, the natural gas liquids business of SemGroup, in August 2011 for about $282 million.
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OCOEE, Fla. - Police have yet to locate a suspect in the death of a man who disappeared last Wednesday and whose body was found by firefighters inside a burning house.
The Orange County Sheriff's Office reports that Frank Wright, Sr., 65, left his home at 6:30 a.m. to go fishing, and was last seen alive in the McDonald's restaurant at 2281 Ocoee-Apopka Road, which he frequently visited, an hour later. Investigators believe that Wright made it to a second home near Apopka to unload the previous day's catch.
His body was found a day later, after firefighters trying to extinguish a fire at an abandoned house on Radiant Circle found him inside a stolen Honda Accord that was burning in the garage.
Police found Wright's truck, boat and trailer abandoned at an apartment complex on Lee Road.
"I'm very sad, it's just like somebody in the family," said Wilfred Sanders, a friend of Wright. "Nobody who's got roots around here would do anything like that."
Wright's funeral will be held this Saturday afternoon at the West Orlando Christian Center.
Deputies advise anyone with information that could lead to an arrest in Wright's murder to call Crimeline at 800-423-8477.
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Yerevan, Armenia – The National Gallery of Armenia hosted on April 4 the Best Woman Entrepreneur award ceremony. The event is held annually under the auspices of the Prime Minister of Armenia Tigran Sargsyan with the aim of inspiring and encouraging women entrepreneurs in Armenia. This year the event was supported by the USAID-funded Partnerships for Rural Prosperity Program, implemented by the SME Development National Center of Armenia (SME DNC). In attendance at the event were Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Territorial Administration Armen Gevorgyan, Head of USAID/Armenia Karen Hilliard, representatives of the international donor community, local organizations, and the media.
The ceremony features six nominations for an award: best woman employer; best woman initiator/innovator; woman benefactor; best brand by a woman entrepreneur; best young woman entrepreneur; and best start-up woman entrepreneur. An independent jury selects two candidates – one from capital Yerevan and one from a region – for each category that will receive certificates of honor from the Prime Minister. In addition, donors and international organizations, including USAID, UNDP, UNIDO, GIZ, ADB, and IFC, grant their own prizes to selected women entrepreneurs.
As part of its mission to foster rural entrepreneurship and stimulate women's participation in economic activity, the USAID-funded Partnerships for Rural Prosperity Program (PRP) was pleased to grant certificates and gift cards to two women awardees this year: Anahit Alaverdyan, owner of a bed-and-breakfast in Ijevan (Tavush) as the "best start-up entrepreneur from the region", and Yepraksi Tarverdyan, producer of dried fruits and candied fruits in Azatavan (Ararat), for the "best brand by woman entrepreneur from the region."
The event, through the support of the Asian Development Bank, also featured a film and a brochure with success stories of the women awardees of 2013.
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If Fort Bragg officials and the Mendocino County Waste Management Authority thought last Wednesday's meeting in Fort Bragg would be confined to gathering comments on their proposed Highway 20 solid waste transfer site facility, they were mistaken.
Instead, public attendees are not only largely opposed to the project, but many questioned the region's whole approach to disposing of solid waste, commonly referred to as "trash."
The city and county have identified a 17-acre site at 30075 Highway 20, about three miles east of Highway 1, as the preferred alternative to replace the Caspar transfer station on Road 409. The meeting was convened as an initial scoping session to get suggestions on potential impacts that would need to be considered in developing a draft environmental impact report for the site.
The Caspar site, a former landfill, is a self-haul site for residents to dispose of refuse and recyclables, and is jointly owned by Fort Bragg and the county.
The landfill closed in 1992, and has been operating since in a reduced role as a transfer station a waypoint for gathering coastal solid waste for transfer to Willits, where it is transferred again to longhaul trucks. From there it is trucked about 140 miles to the Potrero Hills Landfill in Suisun City near Fairfield for final dumping.
The new transfer station would capture the self-hauled waste from the Caspar site as well as the coast's commercially-hauled waste. Instead of going to Willits first for retransfer, all the waste would be loaded onto long-haul trucks at the Highway 20 site for hauling directly to the Suisun City landfill.
The Caspar site would then close, but the Pudding Creek site would remain open as a buy-back and drop-off recycling center.
The Caspar transfer station operation has been a "stopgap" measure since its inception, said Mike Sweeney, general manager of MSWMA in presenting the proposal at the Feb. 19 meeting at Fort Bragg Town Hall.
Reducing costs,
helping environment
Currently, 69 semi-tractor trailer loads of solid waste leave the coast for Willits each month. MSWMA hopes to reduce that number to 40 truckloads per month using larger trucks from the new facility. This would reduce costs, as well as reduce greenhouse gas emissions, said Sweeney.
After studying other potential sites, the Fort Bragg City Council and County Board of Supervisors designated the Highway 20 site last August as the best replacement for the Caspar facility. It has the advantage of being on Highway 20, would cost nothing to acquire, and has a physical separation from other land uses, according to a city-county information sheet handed out at the meeting.
Site preparation would include adding turn lanes into the facility for traffic on Highway 20. About four acres of the 17-acre site would be developed. The rest of the property would remain forested to preserve existing vegetation and for visual screening.
The project specifications call for an enclosed building where rubbish is transferred in order to contain odors. The building could include a variety of air filtration and deodorization features. Trucks could have special back-up alarms to reduce those noises using an advanced "white-noise" technology, said Sweeney.
Sweeney then invited public comment to gather comment for inclusion in the EIR so that all project impacts are identified for evaluation. What he received exceeded the boundaries of the scoping meeting and the proposed site itself.
Site, plan and current practices are deficient
While many of those who commented on the project are neighbors of the affected parcel or people who live in the vicinity along Highway 20, others are not. However no one who spoke said they fully supported the project or the location.
Erik Thorbecke, who lives on the west side of the project site, said hazardous fluid from site operations could pollute groundwater supplies. He also expressed concerns that an increase in traffic at that location could lead to accidents, citing a history of collisions at a curve just up the road. He said a better plan would be to collect trash at the Pudding Creek transfer site and take it from there by rail to Willits.
John Fremont said that there are better solutions to consider for the future of waste management than another transfer station. A cogeneration facility could save money and produce jobs and energy, he said.
Fred Zihlich lives about two miles east of Fort Bragg, and said a railroad would save wear and tear from trucks on Highway 20. He also mentioned Sweden's waste-to-energy programs as practices that should be considered.
Lori Hubbart, expressing California Native Plant Society concerns, said there are less than 2,000 acres of Pygmy forest vegetation remaining, and the vegetation community is dependent on preserving its unique conditions of geology and hydrology. She said that other rejected transfer sites should be revisited for better study.
Sue Boecker said she lives miles away but thinks either railroad transport or a waste-to-energy approach would better protect water and air quality.
Jim Gay said a visitor from Canada was appalled at the idea of dumping solid waste in landfills. Canada burns its trash.
The public comments will be added for consideration with the EIR. A draft EIR will be prepared and circulated for comment, after which a final EIR will be prepared for comment and potential adoption by the city and county.
To add your comments, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or mail comments to MSWMA, 101 W. Church St., #9, Ukiah, CA 95482.


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A wild, wild week in the state of Mississippi last week meant that football season is in full force. Top 25 teams going up against each other in week two and they didn't disappoint. West Point put up 33 points on the defending 6A champs but South Panola countered with 55 of their own. Petal and Picayune put up 119 points between the two of them and, most importantly, I made up for my 2-3 scorecard in week one by picking all but one game correct in week two. Here's my tally so far followed by this week's top five games of the week.
Last Week's Record: 4-1
Season Record 6-4
Game of the Week: South Panola vs. Meridian: This week's game of the week features South Panola for the second-consecutive time. The Tigers got a big win over West Point on Friday and moved to 2-0 on the young season. Meridian is closing in on top five status in my top 25 as South Panola sits at number two. Meridian's offense is nearing the effectiveness of what they were with Tyler Russell and Chris Smith in 2008 as junior J'mar Smith and his senior wide out C.J. Hampton who look to make life tough for the visiting Tigers.
In the end, I feel like the talent level at South Panola will be too much for the Wildcats and the Tigers will move on to 3-0.
South Panola
Cleveland East Side vs. Oxford: Oxford has obviously proved me wrong during the first two weeks. Lots of talent emerges from the Chargers and I think they will be a force this season. Their tough schedule continues to get tougher this week with Cleveland East Side coming to town but I'm not betting against the Chargers a third-consecutive week.
Greene County vs. Pascagoula: A big game down towards the south of our great state matches two of my top 25 teams for week three. Goula has built a strong program in the past few years but so has Green County coming in as one of the top teams in their division this year. One of the two will be on the fast track for the top 10 sooner rather than later with a win and move to 3-0 on the year. I think Pascagoula will have too much offensively for Green County and pull this one off in the fourth quarter.
Louisville vs. Noxubee County: Well what can you say about this rivalry? It might be the most bitter in the state of Mississippi. Louisville took a step down to 3A this season but could very well be competing for 4A this season had they stayed. Noxubee County is coming off of an undefeated season in 2012 in which they beat the Wildcats twice. This season, however, Louisville is the team bringing all of the talent back and Noxubee may very well be the one team that can beat them this year. This one is always fun.
Starkville vs. West Point: Both of these rivals come into Friday night desperately needing to win this game. The Yellow Jackets got a big win in week one against Noxubee but blew a 10-point week in a big game last week against Oxford. West Point started their season off with a big offensive performance but nothing to show for it losing to South Panola. Neither one can afford another loss this early and both teams will play like it on Friday. In the end, I think Starkville will have too much for West Point.
Player(s) of the Week: Since this is my post I get to make my own rules, basically. There are two ballgames in which running backs ran wild and cannot be denied players of the week. If I had to choose just one of them, the most eye-popping stat sheet came from the Petal/Picayune game in a 61-58 shootout. Running back Tyus Raine toted the rock just 21 times but for 334 yards and SIX touchdowns. If you're tallying this up, that's nearly 16 yards per-carry by Raine. Also running in that game was the talented running back Preston Dedeaux did his share in the game as well carrying the ball 35 times for 283 yards and two TDs.
The other ball game that had wild numbers was West Point and South Panola at Batesville. West Point's Aeris Williams had such a great game, South Panola coach Lance Pogue commented that he was the greatest running back he had faced in 21 years of coaching. Williams, an MSU commit, rushed 32 times for 194 yards and four touchdowns while taking full control of the offense and special teams. Darrell Henderson returned the favor for South Panola tallying 318 yards total in the game scoring six touchdowns in the 55-33 victory. Wild week.
Now let's take a look at this week's top 25 for the state of Mississippi. There's a little movement here and there, but the top three teams stay the same.
Top 25:
1. Brandon (2-0)
2. South Panola (2-0)
3. Olive Branch (2-0)
4. Petal (2-0)
5. Oak Grove (2-0)
6. Meridian (2-0)
7. Madison Central (1-1)
8. Louisville (2-0)
9. Bassfield (2-0)
10. Pascagoula (2-0)
11. Picayune (0-1)
12. West Point (0-1)
13. Oxford (2-0)
14. Hazelhurst (2-0)
15. Starkville (1-1)
16. Noxubee County (1-1)
17. Gulfport (1-1)
18. Greene County (2-0)
19. Callaway(2-0)
20. Charleston (2-0)
21. Wayne County (0-1)
22. Pearl River Central (1-1)
23. Biloxi (2-0)
24. McComb (2-0)
25. Tupelo (2-0)


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CHADDS FORD, Pa., Oct. 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
Endo Health Solutions (Nasdaq: ENDP) today is hosting an Investor Day in New York City. As part of the presentation, the company will be providing an update on 2012 financial results and projected results for the twelve months ending Dec. 31, 2013.
As previously announced, the Investor Day will begin today at 9:00 a.m. ET and a live audio and slide webcast will be available on Endo's corporate website. David P. Holveck, president and CEO of Endo; Julie McHugh, chief operating officer; Dr. Ivan Gergel, executive vice president of R&D and chief scientific officer; Camille Farhat, president American Medical Systems; Kelly Huang, president HealthTronics; and Alan Levin, executive vice president and chief financial officer, will provide details on the company's long-term strategy to drive growth through a number of opportunities in each of its business segments and across its core therapeutic areas of pain and urology. The meeting will be hosted by Blaine Davis, senior vice president of corporate affairs for Endo.
Endo today will highlight the following among the long-term drivers of its growth prospects for 2013 and beyond:
2012 Financial Outlook Update
Endo reiterates its full-year financial guidance for total revenue between $3.05 billion and $3.175 billion, adjusted diluted earnings per share to be between $5.00 and $5.20 and cash flow from operations between $700 million and $800 million.
Endo also announced today that it has bought back $100 million of its common stock during the third quarter. Endo announced on Aug. 7, 2012, that the Board of Directors had authorized the company to repurchase up to $450 million of its common stock through March 2015.
The company will provide guidance with respect to third and fourth quarter 2012 earnings expectations, and greater clarity with respect to the timing of implementation for its recently introduced expense restructuring initiatives as well as recent sales trends for key products. Endo indicated that it expects third quarter adjusted diluted earnings per share to be approximately $1.25.
2013 Financial Guidance
The Company expects its financial results in 2013 to reflect the performance of a quality group of commercial assets and efficient operations, partially offset by the entry of a generic competitor to Lidoderm® in late 2013. Estimates are based on projected results for the twelve months ending Dec. 31, 2013; reported (GAAP) earnings per share does not include any estimates for potential future changes in the fair value of contingent consideration, certain separation benefits, asset impairment charges or for potential corporate development transactions. For the full year ended Dec. 31, 2013, Endo estimates:
Endo's 2013 guidance is based on certain current assumptions including:
Meeting Details
In person attendance at the meeting is by invitation only. To access the live audio webcast and view the accompanying slide presentations, visit the Investor Relations section on Endo's corporate website, at http://www.endo.com/investors/overview, at least 15 minutes before the presentation is scheduled to begin; click on the webcast icon to register and download or install any necessary software. If you are unable to view the live webcast, a replay will be available on Endo's website after the event's conclusion.
See Endo's Current Report on Form 8-K filed today with the Securities and Exchange Commission for an explanation of Endo's reasons for using non-GAAP measures.


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Hello everyone!
I'm looking for a window company, preferably in the SE, that has been really successful in the EE market. One of our partner contractors is looking to shadow people outside of their competitive area but that they can learn from. Any thoughts?
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So ok, successful dosen't always assume good windows? Im not sure whats in the SE, I haven't found a decent window company from the US, Most of mine have come from Canada and European countries, installers is another issue.
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Perhaps I was a little confusing in my previous post. I have a good window contractor that is selling lots of ENERGY STAR windows but wants to learn from another more successful contractor. He's also interested in learning how to package or get into other additional energy efficient lines of business. I'm looking for a window contractor that also gets into things like duct sealing or air sealing etc.
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