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Labor Day seems to be a good time to talk about American Made Furniture. At Vermont Woods Studios Furniture, we were excited this week to read that Maine's struggling Moosehead Furniture company has been rescued from extinction and bankruptcy by Maine businesswoman, Louise M. Jonaitis. This 60 year old company, the largest privately owned furniture company in New England provided jobs for 250 workers in 2002 but was shut down in 2007 leaving the residents of Monson ME jobless and with little hope.
Moosehead is just one of the hundreds of small furniture makers across American that have been driven out of business by cheap furniture imports. Why care? I don't think many customers realize this, but most of the furniture you see in the USA is made in China and other third world countries. Even furniture that's specifically labeled, "Made in America" typically has only about 30% American parts in it.
So why has the US furniture industry collapsed over the last 30 years? It's sad, but globalization has enabled the "lowest price" to trump all other facets of furniture shopping, particularly quality. Think about it. In China labor costs are about 20 cents/hour and there's no health care cost added to that. And there's no regulatory costs. So almost all the big companies that used to build American Made furniture (like Thomasville, Basset, Lane and even Ethan Allen) have moved their operations overseas. Because these companies save so much money in labor and they often obtain their lumber illegally, their main costs are shipping, warehousing and marketing. Cheap furniture–FAST is the way they've characterized "American Made" furniture.
At Vermont Woods Studios we've chosen a different path. We know there are plenty of people out there who still value quality and wish to buy furniture that will last a lifetime– something they can proudly hand down to their children and grandchildren. And the benefits of buying American made furniture go far beyond your own home and into the homes of American craftsmen: your decision to buy our USA made furniture means that local Vermont communities have sustainable economies and… the tradition of high quality American craftsmanship lives on. I think it's a win-win for all involved. What's your opinion?
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DETROIT - Wednesday morning will be cool and dry with temperatures in the 50s and low 60s. As high pressure builds, the air becomes more stable.
This means a sunnier and warmer afternoon with highs in the lows 80s. Daytime weather will be perfect for football practice before Local 4's Friday Football Frenzy.
Wednesday evening will be perfect for Tigers' baseball at Comerica Park with the Toronto Blue Jays in town. Overnight lows will be in the low 60s.
Thursday, Friday and the weekend will have plenty of sunshine, and it gets warmer. Thursdays afternoon temps will be in the low 80s.
Highs climb to the middle and upper 80s Saturday and Sunday, and the next chance of rain is on Sunday night and Monday.
The Local 4Casters have your latest weather forecast at JustWeather.com and on Local 4 News.
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Starring: Cynthia Nixon, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker
The power of female sex - S1-E5
Continuity mistake: Carrie is in the hotel bed from her night with the French Architect, who is just leaving for the Airport. There is a shot of the small table by the bed, with the phone sitting on it. You cannot see any envelope at all resting against the phone, or visible at all. But with the next close-up, suddenly there is a large business-size envelope with her name on it resting prominently against the front of the phone. This envelope was not there previously.
Visible crew/equipment: When Charlotte approaches Wyle in front of the fire extinguisher, the boom mic is visible at the top of the screen.
Visible crew/equipment: When Carrie is sitting at the table writing on her laptop after her trip with the girls to the sports bar, the camera comes round and you can see her TV. You can see a boom mic reflecting on the TV screen, and another camera.
Plot hole: In this episode Carrie runs into Aidan, who now has what looks to be about a 6 month old baby (Tate). This doesn't seem possible, as Carrie and Aidan would have only broken up about a year ago, and Miranda was around 6 months pregnant when they broke up. Brady is only about 5 months old at this point in the series, leaving Aidan only roughly 8 months to have this baby - but Aidan lay in bed for about a month and then dated Nina Katz for awhile. Timeline just doesn't seem to fit.
Twenty-something girls vs. thirty-something women - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: While talking to her protege, Carrie stubs out her cigarette twice, right before she runs into Big and Natasha.
Twenty-something girls vs. thirty-something women - S2-E17
Continuity mistake: When Samantha is talking to Carrie on the beach, Carrie lifts her arm up and places her hand on her head. The reflection on Samantha's glasses show Carrie lowering her arm, but the shot changes back to Carrie and the movement she is doing is not downwards but backwards, leading hear hand to the nape.
Secret sex - S1-E6
Continuity mistake: In the episode "Secret Sex," Samantha and Carrie are hanging Carrie's poster in her apartment. In one shot, the whole poster is pinned to the wall and in the next shot, the bottom left part of the poster is curling up. After another shot of Samantha, the poster is pinned perfectly to the wall again.
Continuity mistake: In the scene where Carrie and Miranda are eating cakes outside the shop, talking about Miranda having to be supportive to Steve about his basketball competition, keep an eye on Miranda's cake. She takes bites out of the cake and then when it is down to the last bite, the camera shows Carrie, then shows Miranda again with the cake suddenly full again.
Valley of the twenty-something guys - S1-E4
Continuity mistake: In season 1 "Valley of the 20-Something Guys," Carrie receives a phone call from Samantha and her voice over says she needs her morning Marlboro Light, however, when she picks up her pack of cigarettes, you can see that it is a pack of Merits.
Other mistake: When Carrie, Samantha and Miranda step outside of the hotel so Carrie can have a cigarette, she takes a couple of draws then throws it down on the step. She tries to stub it out with her shoe by twisting her foot on it but she (the actress) accidentally kicks the cigarette down the step, so she has to just pretend to still be stubbing it out.
Continuity mistake: When Carrie is startled by the squirrel and tosses the pie crust onto the counter, the camera cuts to her clasping her legs where she burnt them. In the next shot of the counter the pie crust has vanished; then in the next shot of it, the crust has returned.
Audio problem: When Samantha and Carrie are in their room on the train, Samantha starts to pour herself a glass of champagne. We hear it pouring for a few seconds until it sounds like the glass is full but when she puts the bottle down, there's barely anything in her glass.
Twenty-something girls vs. thirty-something women - S2-E17
Deliberate mistake: In the scene at the beach party, when Carrie brings everyone beers, Miranda says "There's so much foam, I could ski on the head," but the cups are tipped toward camera and you can see there's no foam at all.
Attack of the five foot ten woman - S3-E3
Continuity mistake: The episode 'Attack of the 5 foot 10 woman' in season three, when Charlotte is afraid of the sauna. She is running into the sauna with a towel wrapped around her waist. The towel comes loose and is nearly falling off - but in the next shot it is neatly tied around her waist.
My motherboard, my self - S4-E8
Factual error: A motherboard crash would not result in Carrie's losing all of the files on her hard drive. The hard drive can be removed and placed into a peripheral, which can then be accessed by plugging it into a new computer.
Continuity mistake: At the furniture show, when Carrie is introducing Big and Natasha to Aiden, Carrie accidentally spills her coffee on Big. A coffee spot that splashed on Carrie's upper blouse keeps appearing and disappearing throughout the scene.
Factual error: Throughout this episode, when Carrie talks about the functions of the left vs. right sides of the brain, she has them backwards. The right side of the brain is the creative side, the left is the logical one. Apparently, the writers liked the idea that the "right" side of Carrie's brain would ultimately lead her to do the "right" thing about Mr. Big, but that's not the case. Rational decision are made with the brain's left side. (But then again, Carrie never was very rational when it came to Mr. Big.).
Continuity mistake: When Carrie and Shaun are laying on the floor of her bedroom, she has her left hand resting on her chest. But in the very next shot; her left arm is laying across her stomach, and her left hand is curved around her right waist. No time has passed in between these shots.
Revealing mistake: When Charlotte is putting her diamond ring on in her apartment, there is a close-up shot of it. It is a large, circular diamond on a simple golden band. This is not the same diamond engagement ring she has been wearing previously in the series. That ring had two parallel silver bands, and the diamond looked slightly different.
Continuity mistake: At the bar "Trade" Charlotte is having tape on her upper body in one shot, but it disappears a second later when she sees Anthony. She has no time to take it off.


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Lara pays first visit to Miller Park
MILWAUKEE -- Gilbert Lara attended his first Major League Baseball game on Monday. The Brewers hope it's the first of many.
Lara, the 16-year-old shortstop from the Dominican Republic who signed a record-breaking contract earlier this month, visited Miller Park for the first time and took a round of batting practice. It was general manager Doug Melvin's first look at a player in whom the Brewers have invested $3.1 million, nearly four times more than any other international signee in franchise history.
"Impact bat," Melvin said. "He's 16 years old, coming in here and hitting balls into the second deck. The last round, he said, 'I'm going to go to right field,' and he started hitting line drives to right field."
Zack Minasian, the Brewers' pro scouting director, and special assistant Craig Counsell were among the club officials who looked at Lara in January, when the Brewers emerged as clear favorites to formally land him at the opening of the international signing period on July 2.
Lara was the fourth-best prospect available per MLB.com's rankings.
Because of his age, Lara will not be eligible for the Dominican Summer League until next season, but Melvin suggested that he may be advanced enough to skip that level entirely. The Brewers will make that determination after evaluating him in their instructional leagues -- in Arizona this fall, followed by a similar program in the Dominican Republic over the winter.
Lara was wide-eyed at Miller Park.
"I feel really good to be sitting in a big league stadium with big league players," he said, with Eduardo Brizuela, the team's director of Latin American operations, serving as translator.
Lara wants to stay at shortstop, though some have speculated that as his 6-foot-2, 190-pound frame continues to fill out, he could wind up at third base. Melvin compared his frame with younger versions of Alex Rodriguez, Alex Rios and Juan Gonzalez.
Lara said that he models his game after Rodriguez's.
"He's a very humble young boy," Brizuela said. "He carries himself very well. He comes from a good family, and his trainer, Jaime Ramos, is one of the big agents down in the Dominican Republic. He's a guy that has trained him very well and has shown him how important family is and how you work hard to get where you want to be."
That process formally began on Monday.
"I'm hiding a little bit of my emotion," Lara said. "I'm really happy to be here right now, really excited to be here."
Before Lara, the richest international bonuses in Brewers history went to shortstop Franly Mallen and outfielder Nicolas Pierre, each of whom signed for $800,000 last year. Before that the record was the $750,000, given to pitcher Rolando Pascual in 2005 during a period in which the Brewers closed their Latin American academy and focused on signing fewer but higher-profile players.
Adam McCalvy is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Brew Beat, and follow him on Twitter at @AdamMcCalvy. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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September 10-14 – West Building, Level 1, Rooms W190-W195
Sessions explore innovative and traditional technologies, business development and optimization, plus workforce efficiency and productivity. Topics include materials, manufacturing technology, alternative manufacturing processes, quality/metrology and plant operations.
Motion, Drives & Automation Conference
September 10-11 – East Building, Room E353
Penton Media and the National Fluid Power Association present two in-depth conference tracks on motion control, and hydraulics and pneumatics in automation. They are for engineers tasked with improving performance, productivity, life, efficiency, and environmental footprint of industrial automation systems.
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September 11-12 — West Building, Rooms W183 B&C
This is a comprehensive learning and networking experience that includes keynote speakers, panel discussions, 18 sessions across three industry tracks, and the EHS Today America's Safest Companies awards ceremony.
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CFE Media and Hannover Fairs International present a two-day program aimed at senior-level managers. Key topics in global automation and manufacturing will be highlighted, including enterprise asset management, process optimization, energy management and sustainability manufacturing.
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September 12-13 — West Building, Room W470
Boeing and Rolls-Royce team up to sponsor this two-day session on aerospace manufacturing technology. TRAM³ will deliver discussions on state-of-the-art machining processes, manufacturing methods and the materials that are transforming the aerospace industry throughout its supply chain.
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September 12 — West Building, Level 1, Room W181
This one-day event focuses on technology providers whose products have a reduced impact on the environment through energy efficiency, reduction of waste or pollution, or other means.
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September 13 & 14 — East Building, Rooms E259-E262 & E266
The International Society of Automation (ISA) teams with Hannover Fairs International to bring a variety of one-day training and educational workshops for all attendees at IANA and IMTS.
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Regardless if you are heading out today or staying near home, make sure you know the proper procedure for your town, village or city during a snow emergency. It's important to also know how long your area will be in a snow emergency. Some areas keep a snow emergency in effect for one or two days after the snow falls just to make it easier for the plows to clean up the roads a little more. Several snow emergencies began last night and therefore, are already in effect.


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High on a lush mountaintop in Papua New Guinea (PNG) stands the village of Kora. People live in simple houses made of roughly cut wood and a thatched roof. They raise crops of yams, bananas, and sweet potatoes.
Most of the older people can't read, and they speak only the local language, which we call wontok [one talk]. Teaching them the Bible was a challenge. But your mission offerings have made it easier. Many adults come to the children's Sabbath School to hear Bible stories. We now have flip charts, modern Picture Rolls, to illustrate the week's lessons. These picture rolls were given to us because people around the world gave a special Thirteenth Sabbath Offering a few years ago. The flip charts help focus the attention of children and adults while they hear the stories.
Recently we received MP3 players, audio devices that contain the entire Bible plus children's lessons on them. Because the Bible and the stories are in pidgin, I listen and then translate the story or Bible text into the wontok. For those who understand pidgin I turn up the volume so they can her the story in pidgin, and then I translate it so everyone can understand it.
I teach the kindergarten Sabbath School, and the lessons are on the MP3 player. So if I can't get a Sabbath School lesson quarterly, I can still hear the story and tell the children. To the children, it's like listening to the radio, only they're hearing God's Word.
Another important mission project has vastly improved the lives of the people living in Kora and in similar villages across the rugged Papua New Guinea terrain. Several years ago the Thirteenth Sabbath Offering helped purchase a mission plane for PNG. The plane brings us our Sabbath School supplies, drops off missionaries or other church officials, and sometimes carries seriously ill or injured villagers to the hospital just 30 minutes away. Without the mission plane, it would take days of difficult and dangerous hiking to cross several mountain ridges to the nearest town.
Recently another Thirteenth Sabbath Offering helped raise funds to open medical clinics in several isolated areas. The offering will help thousands more hear God's Word on MP3 players and will help buy Bibles for children to share with their families across the South Pacific.
The people of Kora and across the South Pacific thank church members in places they've never heard of for helping in so many ways to teach them about Christ.
Nelson Urina is Pathfinder leader and Sabbath School teacher in Kora, Papua New Guinea.


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The Women's Tour - does racing turn anyone on to cycling?
The Women's Tour of Britain passed within 5 miles of my home this week and I had decided I wasn't going to bother watching it. It's hard to over (under?) estimate the degree to which I don't care about competitive sport, cycling included.
I'm not sure I have the language for my degree of disinterest. No matter how much I like doing something in my daily life or admire it in yours, the minute you add competition, you've lost me.
I don't know if sporting competition is shorthand for drunken brawls about weird affiliation with people you've never met, or hints at endless PE class misery, but whatever it is, it signals instant disengagement.
It's hard to over (under?) estimate the degree to which I don't care about competitive sport, cycling included."
Elizabeth Barner
CTC Cycling Development Officer for Leicester
I do like new things, though, and am wholly impressed by the things people can do with their bodies and minds. If you want to tell me about your obscure hobby, I'm happy to listen to the specifics of a 1972 double-dyed penny. Double jointed? Good scars? I'm for it. I love the Olympics in what I suspect might align me to old time Freak Shows. It's not the competition I'm after, it's that power lifters and speed skaters make their bodies do extreme things, in extreme shapes. For me it might not be that different from gaping at the two-headed calf or another local attraction, Daniel Lambert's chair, specially made to allow for his stunning bulk.
When the invitation came to accompany nine 10-year-olds on a minibus to Hinckley to see athletes, I had mixed feelings about it. I was personally involved in teaching the accompanying mothers how to ride, and I was still ambiguous about it. I'm passionately engaged with equality and access, and women's rights to their bodies. The fact that the Women's Tour promised prize money and television coverage that equalled that of men's races should be important. The fact that the women who joined us for cycle training can access their city in a way they couldn't before, that they can add exercise to the whirl of parenting life is important. But I was still mixed about going out to see the actual athletes and racing.
I have absolutely no idea if high-level sporting competition leads to healthful exercise amongst the rest of the population. Some studies seem to suggest it does, others that the watchers of sport are unmoved from their armchairs. I'm hugely impressed by Stefan Thomas at Barley Croft school, who took the chance that new experiences and engagement with sport will inspire. It's not easy to get permission to take children out of school for an event, but he did so I went along and supported where I could. We swotted up on local names in the race on the night before and during the half-hour ride in the bus in the hope of being Adults in Authority.
Which is how I came to be in Hinckley with nine children and three mothers to entertain for two hours in the continuing rain. [An aside: I can understand why weather forecasts from 7am are wrong about 7pm. Why is it that forecasts from 7am are wrong about 9am?] I had gone to meetings about the Tour and was pleased to learn from Leicestershire County Council about the access that members of the public would have to the athletes and their team supports. This was written into contracts. On the wet morning of 8 May it was our deliverance. The County Council had arranged for squash and biscuits plus entertainment in a church for school children, but mostly we milled around the very small town centre getting wetter and colder and looking at bunting. There's only so much you can do in a church or a rainy street with a bunch of bored children no matter how festive the atmosphere; waiting is not an appealing activity. When the teams arrived and set up gazebos and sheltered in vans and covered alleys, the kids were interested. I was interested. Waiting for a photo with Lucy Garner (our local hero) was saved by watching her teammates write notes on masking tape and try to attach them to their wet bikes. Autographs were out (nothing dry), but supporting the kids to ask what was on the tape connected us to this experience in a way that just watching athletes couldn't have.
Sheltering from the rain but enjoying the experience of women's cycle racing
He introduced his star rider, who had won the first stage the day before. None of us had the faintest idea who she was, but all understood this was something special."
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Upachara wrote:Are you running retreats in your house?
Yes, as time permits.
Upachara wrote:The replica is wonderful!
May I ask whether you have found meditation teachers to whom you can have face to face access if required to receive guidance in meditation ? Anumodana to you and may all aspirations be fulfilled.
Thanks. We have had Bhikkhuni Vimala, Bhante Saranapala, and Bhante Sujatha lead 3 different retreats, so far.


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...that so many of the prominent Perl sites (at least as far as Google is concerned) are so woefully obsolete/ugly/lacking in updates. It's no wonder we have a reputation problem.
Yes, it is a shame. However, we have to face the fact that many people who run these sites have their own opinion of what constitutes "lacking" and if they won't budge, we have to either accept that or move on. Thus, I need to move on. I'll wait a bit while I see what Moritz, Rockway or others do.
In the case of use.perl, I expect pudge might even be a bit relieved that people who are complaining are leaving. Less stress for him and he can keep using use.perl for whatever he uses it for.


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Danica Patrick will become the first woman to compete in the Sprint Cup Series at Martinsville Speedway when she takes to the track this weekend.
She will become one of many rookies, though, who have had an adventurous experience as she struggles to get a handle on NASCAR's shortest track.
The paper-clip-shaped oval, the shortest on the Cup circuit at 0.526-mile, requires a mix of patience and aggressiveness. It requires patience to resist the temptation to not hit someone in the rear bumper, causing a spin and possibly a multicar wreck in the aftermath.
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But it also demands aggressiveness to pass other cars and to take a position when the door is open just a crack.
"As an owner, I'm going to be very nervous," said Patrick's co-owner Tony Stewart. "As a driver, I'm going to be laughing a lot. I remember my first time (there).
"It was like watching a kid get in one of those air-bounce deals and having somebody else jumping at the same time. You're just jumping along and all of a sudden, a kid will hit at the same time you do and it throws you up this way and off this way. You think, 'What happened?'
"There are going to be a lot of those moments."
The team decided not to test at Martinsville and Patrick didn't race at Martinsville during her 10 Cup races last year. The Nationwide Series, where she raced for parts of three seasons, also does not race at Martinsville, with the Camping World Truck Series serving as the companion series there with Sprint Cup.
So Patrick she will take all the advice she can get going into the STP Gas Booster 400.
"Part of me wants to tell her everything I know and try to help her get through it," Stewart said. "But part of me is like, 'It doesn't matter what you say, you kind of have to go through the first experience of it and get a feel for it on your own.'"
Patrick, 29th in the Cup standings after five races, knows it will be tough for a driver who does not have a stock-car background.
"I am actually really excited about Martinsville," Patrick said. "I like the little short tracks. They are fun. We are going to be close racing a lot of the time. We went testing out at Little Rock (next to Rockingham Speedway) and got a feel for a track like Martinsville.
"I thought we actually made some really big gains that day. It was fun. Is there time to look down at your water and oil temperatures? No, there is not."
There also won't be time for her to worry about everyone who hits her.
"I'm sure there are things that are going to happen in the race she's not ready for," Stewart said. "There's never a race (at Martinsville) where I've never touched bumpers with somebody at some point.
"Ninety percent of the time, it's accidental and it doesn't lead to a wreck, but you get bumped and that's something she's not used to yet."
Stewart said Patrick's first reaction will be that she's been hit on purpose.
"The hard part will be pulling the reins back because somebody will bump into her, and she'll want to knock them through the fence after that," Stewart said. "It's probably just an accident. The spotter is going to have a long, long three days."
The first woman ever to win a pole for a Cup race when she led the Daytona 500 to green, Patrick did not know that she will be the first woman to race a Cup event at Martinsville until she was told a couple of weeks ago.
"Between that and never having a Martinsville hot dog, I guess there is probably going to be lots of firsts there that weekend," she quipped.


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Passionate music and electronic hip hop beats, is what defines the music of Awolnation. The band is a solo project of Aaron Bruno. With just a couple of years in the music industry it has contributed to the alternative rock genre with hit singles like Sail, Not your Fault and Kill Your Heroes. The band is all set to give a rocking concert and to perform to its Billboard Hit Singles live. Sale of Awolnation tickets is already on the rise.
Before forming Awolnation, Aaron Bruno was a part of the famous rock group Under the Influence of Giants. With hands on experience of making good music to the lyrics of different writers, this solo project showed all signs of being a success right from the start. It all began in 2009, when Bruno was approached by a famous recording company, Red Bull Records. It got him into a contract. This was more of a partnership, as the artist puts it. It allowed him to make all the recordings that he desired.
It is not just the music making the artist is adept at, but Bruno also writes the lyrics of his songs with the guidance of close friends, family and famous singers. This has so far worked out quite well for him. His first single, Sail was written casually by him for fun, but it got him instant success on radio as soon as it was released.
The band has launched one studio album 'Megalithic Symphony'. The album instantly gained attention. It is regarded as a breath of fresh air in the music industry. It features singles such as I've been dreaming, Shoestring and Swinging from the Castles. These singles among others were ranked among the Top Ten US Billboard Rock Songs. A couple of them also earned gold and platinum certifications.
Awolnation's success has not just been limited to the music industry but the world of entertainment has also borrowed its music. Well known singles such as Sail, Burn it Down and Break on Through have featured in television serials, namely 'So you Think You can Dance', 'Sons of Anarchy' and 'The Vampire Diaries'.
According to the critic reviews from around the world, Awolnation's music is not easy to pin down to one category. The band is known to cherry pick the genres and takes the songs in different directions. It does not fear to experiment and combine different tunes. Awolnation has set unusual examples of coming up with music belonging to three generations.
In the debut album, Aaron Bruno successfully blended hip hop, electronica and rock music into singles such as Knight of Fame. It got the attention of the listeners for the interesting transitions of music it has. The tunes vividly reflect the band's varied influences. The song All I Need gives a hint of gospel sound which is a pleasant change of genre. In the song Wake Up, the artist jumps back and forth between his signature and tough sounding lyrics and it makes an impressive single.
Awolnation is busy with making more exhilarating music and the fans are expecting different flavors of music from them. It is not just the recorded versions of the songs that are appreciated, but the band's live concerts are looked forward by the fans. Their concerts are known for energetic performances.
The performance with Imagine Dragons and Zeale is one relished by the fans. It was an invigorating one that had the crowd grooving to the music. The exciting tour is still on and the artist is expecting a great response from the audiences yet again. Awolnation tickets are available on discounted rates. The offer is still active and the tickets are selling like hot cakes! Avail it before it is too late!
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I don't have to tell you that Iron Man 2 is huge right now. With the film burning up the screens right now, Hasbro has dumped a massive amount of tie-in product onto store shelves everywhere. Unlike the first time around, the toy giant has fully embraced the 3 ¾ inch scale with dozens of armored figures. Best of all, they're not just "movie" figures; the line includes selections from the comic books as well as newly imagined armors. The Iron Man 2 series is also fairly unique in that it has almost no "bad guys." Almost every figure in the line is a version of Iron Man himself. Today we'll take a look at three of the good guys War Machine from the Movie Series and Deep Dive Armor and Power Assault Armor from the Concept Series.
All of the Iron Man 2 figures share the exact same packaging. They're easy to spot on the pegs, with a huge Iron Man graphic at the top of the card. Check below the movie logo to see what Series the figure belongs to: Movie, Concept, or Comic. The figures are crammed into their plastic bubbles surrounded by accessories, "Armor Cards," and display bases. Most include a shooting accessory of some kind that's advertised on the front of the bubble (like Deep Dive Armor's "Launching Torpedo!"). The back of each card has a hero shot of the included figure using its weapons alongside a strip displaying other available figures. At the top of the card is a brief description of the character/figure, often useful for explaining the more exotic armors.
The Concept Series has all sorts of wacky armor designs created for extremely specific narrow mission profiles. Clearly Stark has both way too much money and way too much time on his hands to imagine worst case scenarios. Need a suit of armor for venturing into the ocean's deeps? He's got it. Have to go into crazy "combat zones?" Yep, he's got that too.
The Deep Dive Armor is big and bulky, slightly reminiscent of the old time diving suits. It's much more substantial than some of the basic Movie Iron Man figures especially, with a good heft to it. Designed to resist the crushing pressure, the Deep Dive suit has a huge, reinforced torso complete with back-mounted underwater mission module. Both the arms and legs are covered in thick armor plating, and the forearms each have dual emitters of some kind (Underwater repulsors? Weapons?).
Like all of the figures in the Iron Man 2 line, Deep Dive has a very good sculpt that's chock full of mechanical details. The chest and legs especially have cool rivets and layered plating, while even the fingers are individually sculpted.
In a sea of bright red Iron Man figures, the Deep Dive armor stands out at first glance just because of its paint job. Mainly a metallic underwater blue, the suit is also decorated with lots of metallic silver on the arms, legs, back, fingers, and smaller details. The eyes and chest-mounted power source are white surrounded by a spread of greenish yellow as though filtering through dark water. The effect is really nice, and goes a long way toward helping place this guy in the shadowy depths.
The Deep Dive armor has excellent articulation with joints at the neck (restricted due to the bulk), ball-jointed shoulders, ball-jointed elbows, ball-jointed torso, ball-jointed hips, double articulated knees, and ball-jointed ankles. The figure comes with the standard display base and three piece set of armor cards along with a massive kid-friendly torpedo launcher that attaches to the figure's forearm and shoots an oversized projectile.
The end of the first Iron Man film made it pretty clear that while cool, the Mark III armor couldn't handle every combat situation. In the Concept Series, Stark makes significant upgrades to that basic design to create the Power Assault suit. It has the familiar round chest-mounted arc reactor and colors of the Mark III, but additional parts are immediately apparent. While the original had a fairly streamlined shape, Power Assault is beefed up with a much heavier torso that includes protrusions in the front and over the shoulders. The armor extends over the shoulders, while the undersides of the forearms have what appear to be heavy weapons.
Finally, the Power Assault suit has reinforced calves and permanently deployed flaps behind the lower legs. Most of these parts are sculpted with the typical crisp attention to detail, and in particular the head and limbs look really good. There's some sloppy work on the chest, though, which looks almost soft in its lack of sharp detail. The hands and their repulsors are quite good.
Unlike the Deep Dive armor, some of the Iron Man figures suffer from poor paint jobs, and Power Assault is one of those. The suit is sure to please the kids, resplendent in metallic gold, red, and silver with bright blue and white details on the eyes, chest, and hand-mounted repulsors. But, look close and you'll see a lot of sloppy seams and paint all over the place. There is a huge variation between individual figures, so make sure to peruse the pegs before you pick the one you want.
Articulation on the Power Assault armor is good, with joints at the neck, ball-jointed shoulders, ball-jointed elbows, wrists, ball-jointed torso, ball-jointed hips, double-jointed knees, and ball-jointed ankles. The style of armor (as well as sloppy paint) restricts some of the movement, but the figure is still pretty poseable. It too comes with the display stand, cards, and an oversized projectile launcher.
While Iron Man flew and fought alone in the first movie, in the second he gets some help from his friend James Rhodes, better known as War Machine! Commemorating that suit's appearance in the film is the Movie Series figure (there's another War Machine in the Comic Series). While Iron Man suits can appear flamboyant and graceful, War Machine is all business.
Its construction is very rigid, with angular armor and pronounced layers of plates. A bulky suit, War Machine has a heavy torso with large shoulder pads, reinforced forearms with built-in submachine guns, and sturdy legs. The War Machine figure has a very good sculpt, with deeply cut lines and lots of tech details. The layering on the arms and the chest are very well done.
Designed for military use, War Machine eschews the bright colors of the Iron Man suits for a somber black and silver paint scheme, with blue accents on the eyes, chest, and repulsors. Because of the relatively simple colors, the War Machine figure looks very good. There's even a light layer of "wear and tear" over the black so it doesn't look too new. The stark white lettering on the figure's shoulders stands out from the darker background, and the aforementioned blues really pop.
War Machine's articulation is good, with the same basic joints as the Power Assault figure. Rhodes has hinged shoulder pads which are slightly articulated on their own, but get in the way of shoulder movement. My War Machine had hips joints so tight that I couldn't move them at all for fear of breaking the toy.
Like the other figures, War Machine comes with a display stand and three armor cards. But, he's a bit different when it comes to accessories. The aggressive suit has two weapon mounts that can be "posed" over the shoulders or further down on his back. Two guns are included with the figure, a normal sized gatling gun and an oversized cannon that can shoot either of two included projectiles. Each weapon can attach to either shoulder post, and the figure looks great thus armed. There's also a silver ammo belt that can connect the figure's back to one of the weapons.
The Iron Man toys are a huge hit right now, and you shouldn't have much trouble finding any of these figures. The Concept Series will be hit or miss with collectors; either you like the weird armor designs or you don't. I really enjoy the Deep Dive armor, especially since it can double as a heavy space suit. The Power Assault was a bit of a letdown, but a better painted one may have done more for me. On the other hand, the Movie Series War Machine is a great (and great looking) figure that I'd highly recommend for all Iron Man fans.
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Review and Photos by Scott Rubin


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I dont follow football to much and dont care about the colts. I am a major pacers fan and that is about it. But wasnt NO rated to have the best offense in the league? So to say their D isnt that good would probally not be the best statement. If the colts come in thinking like that they are going to be in a world of hurt.
The Colts won't think like that, but I will, partially because the Saints played in the second tier conference that was easy to score on and partially because they relied on speed and Soldier Field was a mudpit and it was snowing. Props to Chicago for getting turnovers and winning the games to get homefield, but I think that Peyton can do about whatever he wants against the vaunted Bears defense.
It would be devasting if the Colts lost. This isn't the 2000 Finals where it was clear we were just overmatched in the talent department. The Colts are positioned to win and need to bring it home. Make no mistake, the pressure is still on the Colts and Manning. Beating the Patriots only pulled him equal with Dan Marino. He needs to get that ring. We were never able to get one for Reggie, but I hope fate treats Peyton differently.
To get to the Superbowl you need a talented team, you need a well coached team, and you need a little luck. You have to stay healthy, and more of those bounces off the goal posts or fumbles need to roll your way. The Colts have a wonderful opportunity to make their imprint on football history.
A win would be huge for Peyton's legacy, the Colts, and the city of Indianapolis. History currently views recent years Colts teams as the Buffalo Bills of the past. Good, very good even, but just not good enough.
The frustrating thing for a fan is that there really isn't much you can do. It s put up or shut up time. There is not time for mistakes or excuses. We just need to go and get the job done.
I hope and pray that we do.
Losing would be a crushing blow in my opinion.
When you're playing against a stacked deck, compete even harder. Show the world how much you'll fight for the winners circle. If you do, someday the cellophane will crackle off a fresh pack, one that belongs to you, and the cards will be stacked in your favor.
-Pat Riley
I'm still on the high of finally winning an afc championship here in Indiana. I respect Baltimore, but B-more stats doesnt matter here in Indiana to me. So for me this is a dream come true. I still cant believe im saying the COLTS are in the superbowl.
If they lose, I dont think it would hurt that bad, because I never expected them to really get this far. Trust me Im a big colts fan, but after heartbreak after heartbreak It gets kinda old.
Go Colts!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


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THE first music train of the season will be rolling its way through mid Cheshire on Wednesday evening.
The Time Bandits, Full House and Roy Clinging will be playing and singing on the music train from Chester and at the Golden Pheasant pub in Plumley.
The acts will be promoting Chester Folk Festival being held at Kelsall from Friday, May 23 to Monday, May 26.
There is no charge for the event – just the price of an ordinary train ticket and any food and drink consumed – and a collection is taken for the musicians.
At the end of the evening musicians return on the 10.03pm train from Plumley to Chester.
More details can be found on the music trains section of the Community Rail Partnership website midcheshirerail.org.uk where you can sign up for news about events on the line or contact Michael Ross, music trains organiser on email@example.com.


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Less than two weeks after they released him, first baseman/outfielder Russ Canzler is a member of the Indians again.
The Tribe Wednesday claimed Canzler off waivers from Toronto and added him to their 40-man roster. To make room on the roster for Canzler, pitcher Jeanmar Gomez was designated for assignment. On Dec. 21 Canzler, who was designated for assignment by the Indians, was claimed off waviers by Toronto.
The Indians placed him on waivers after signing free agent first baseman Mark Reynolds. Wednesday the reverse happened, and Canzler is back with the Tribe. Canzler spent most of the 2012 season at Class AAA Columbus, where in 487 at-bats he hit .265 with 22 home runs and 79 RBI. Following a late-season callup by the Indians Canzler hit .269 with three home runs and 11 RBI in 94 at-bats.
The release of Gomez by the pitching-thin Indians was somewhat of a surprise, despite his poor 2012 season. In 20 appearances, 17 of them starts, for the Indians Gomez was 5-8 with a 5.96 ERA. The 24-year-old right-hander spent parts of each of the last three seasons with the Tribe and in 42 games (38 starts) he was 14-16 with a 5.18 ERA.
The Indians are expected to officially announce the signing of free agent outfielder Nick Swisher at an introductory press conference on Thursday.


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My Wayne left me to go see Jesus 20 months today. It has been a rough time emotionally, as wells as financially. I go to therapy once a week, and to hospice group once a week. Very few talk about the financial part, my husband had been disabled since 1988. No life insurance, I did have cancer, and medical through my work. I still have the same on me, but even with this I can't afford the co-pay on my prescriptions. The last 3 months I have been able to get St Vincent de Paul to cover them. I was off Friday and been without medicine for two weeks the first I saw went I went was a man I had not seen there before. First he told me I had presc. coverage, I told him yes, but my deductible is high I can pay it. After him using a curse words, he went and got someone else. This is the lady I have spoke to every time I've been there, I told her of his language it didn't bother her. She actually came out and told me to drop my insurance, go to a mental health clinic, and they would give my medicine for free. By then I was crying, I even tried to get her to call my therapist or hospice lady, no. I finally got out my no suicide contract I have with the therapist, she just about through it to the side. She left out, I picked up all my papers put they in my bag starting to walk out, she stopped me and told me she would do it this time. While waiting I started writing in my journal die, die, die, over and over again. When I finally got to my car, I was crying and started screaming, I was so mad and hurt. To my fortune my daughter got off early and met me about 30 minutes later, if not ????????????????
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Marywood Celebrates Women's History Month
Published on Tue, March 19, 2013
In celebration of Women's History Month, Marywood is presenting a two-part program that focuses on selected topics related to the history of women in the United States.
Wednesday, March 20
4:30–5:30pm, Learning Resources Center, Room 160
A panel on "Perspectives on Gender," featuring Sr. Gail Cabral (discussing gender stereotypes), Dr. Gale Jaeger (pay inequality), Ms. Carolyn Bonacci (women in higher education), and Dr. Laurie McMillian (women in pop culture). A Q&A will follow.
Monday, March 25
7–8pm, Learning Resources Center, Room 160
A presentation of the film Females in Film, followed by comments and discussion with Dr. Brooke Cannon.
Each session is open to all students, faculty, staff and guests. Also, free refreshments will be served at each session.


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This is a small locket size tintype (cut to size CW era) of a Confederate soldier.
His collar clearly has a single bar insignia of a 2nd Lieutenant. Part of the gilt tint has worn away and the bar (or stripe) can be clearly seen below the tinting.
Caution should be exercised when acquiring Confederate images. Several times, I have observed modern tinting on a civilian image to create a Confederate Soldier! Additionally, the often heard adage of gray uniforms or non standard uniforms is often misused to attach a Confederate attribution.
The incentive is great. A standard Sixth plate (tintype) bust shot of a Union soldier is readily available at less than $100. The same shot of a Confederate will start at about $500!
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This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show QuoteWho Is the Offensive Rookie of the Year?
By Bill Barnwell on November 28, 2012 11:43 AM ET
The arrival of Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III into the National Football League could not have gone much more swimmingly. In fact, while expectations were high for the top two picks in the 2012 draft, it's arguable that they've both exceeded whatever lofty expectations they rode in on over the summer. Luck is leading a team that went 2-14 last season on an improbable playoff run in the AFC South, while RG3 has become the league's most exciting player and might even be the best player in the NFC East this year. Fans of the Colts and Redskins and good football have to be ecstatic at what their respective organizations are set up to do over the next 15 years.
Which one is the Offensive Rookie of the Year? Since they're about to spend the next 15 years being compared with each other to figure out which player from the Class of 2012 is the more dominant quarterback, there's no reason for that to start any later than now.
I think the best way to figure that out is to make a case for each player from the perspective of his campaign, see whose case makes more sense and is easier to argue, and put that player in the lead with five games to go. Since I've spent the week hearing from just about every Giants fan I know that they're terrified to play RG3 this Monday night, let's start with him.
The Case for RG3
1. The Numbers To an extent that I don't think people realize, Robert Griffin's numbers as a quarterback of any vintage are ridiculous. Compared to Luck statistically, Griffin looks like an entirely different player.
Player Cmp % Yds/Att TD-to-INT Ratio
Luck 56.8% 7.1 1:1
Those are truly staggering differences. Luck looks like your typical above-average rookie quarterback, a talented player prone to mental mistakes and forcing throws at the wrong times. His rookie year is not much different from that of the franchise quarterback he succeeded in Indianapolis; in 1998, Peyton Manning led the league in interceptions (28) in his up-and-down rookie campaign.
Griffin's performance is basically unprecedented for a rookie quarterback. Pro-football-reference.com uses index statistics that compare a player's performance to the league averages for a quarterback during the season(s) in questions to see how they performed in the context of their day; by those measures, Griffin has the second-best era-adjusted completion percentage for a rookie quarterback with 200 attempts or more, narrowly trailing Ben Roethlisberger. He's fourth in yards per attempt, with only Roethlisberger, Marc Bulger, and Mark Rypien ahead of him (and the latter two were playing after a year or more of sitting on the bench).
The only rookie quarterback since the merger to throw interceptions less frequently or have a better quarterback rating than Griffin, again adjusted for era, is Dan Marino. So, basically, RG3 is right up there with Marino and Roethlisberger as the most statistically impressive rookie quarterback in NFL history and that doesn't even take into account his impact as a rusher.
Not bad, right?
2. He's Had No Receivers Despite Washington's best efforts to spend money this offseason and procure RG3 some weapons to throw to, their receiving corps has fallen apart this year. After shelling out big bucks for Pierre Garcon and seeing him catch that long touchdown pass from RG3 against the Saints in Week 1, Garcon's been injured virtually all season. Josh Morgan has been more notable for costing Washington their game against the Rams than for anything else, and Fred Davis tore his Achilles and is done for the year.
Washington's leading receivers are 33-year-old backup Santana Moss, 2011 third-rounder Leonard Hankerson, Morgan, and 2011 sixth-rounder Aldrick Robinson. Backup tight end Logan Paulsen has taken over for Davis. If Griffin were really struggling this year, we'd be looking at his receiving corps and saying that he didn't have anything to work with, just like we did with Blaine Gabbert in Jacksonville. Instead, he's been brilliant with these very same players.
3. He's Captured the Cultural Zeitgeist We would be naive to ignore that RG3 has become a phenomenon in a way that few young quarterbacks have, especially during their rookie seasons. Washington has a way of turning their star athletes (or their Nick Youngs) into larger-than-life figures, but Griffin would be a superstar in any market. Without a truly dominant team or a player running away with the MVP this year, Griffin's arguably become the biggest story in football. That shouldn't be enough for him to win the award on its own, but it absolutely means something in terms of his case.
The Case for Andrew Luck
1. He's the Big Winner Luck's statistics don't compare to Griffin's, but he's been part of a revolutionized organization that looks to be headed to the playoffs. After going 2-14 a year ago, the Colts are now 7-4 and almost surely on their way to a stunning wild-card berth. The Colts made other changes in their lineup and brought in a new coaching staff this offseason, but it's clear that the biggest difference between last year's team and this year's model is the gap between Curtis Painter and Andrew Luck. While Griffin's Redskins have as many wins now (five) as they did all of last season, they have just a one-in-five shot of making the playoffs.
2. Luck Has Won With Less While Griffin's receiving corps is a group of nobodies, Luck has virtually nothing to work with short of Reggie Wayne. Outside of Wayne, Luck's targets have been rookie third-rounders T.Y. Hilton and Dwayne Allen, along with Rams castoff Donnie Avery and injured second-rounder Coby Fleener. His running game has been virtually nonexistent; while Griffin has enjoyed the services of breakout star Alfred Morris on the ground, Luck has been saddled with the combination of Vick Ballard and Donald Brown. In fact, while Griffin has done far more cumulative work as a runner, Luck has been incredibly efficient in his scrambles. He has five rushing touchdowns, which is more than the rest of his team combined.
Furthermore, while their schedule masks the pain, Indianapolis's defense is truly bad. They're 22nd in points allowed, and the only teams they've been able to hold under 20 points are the Jaguars, Bills, Titans, and Browns. In terms of advanced metrics, the Indianapolis defense is last in the league in defensive DVOA, and they're not good at anything, since they're 31st against the pass and 32nd against the run. You can argue that there's certainly talent there, since Robert Mathis and Dwight Freeney are on the roster, but virtually every impact name on Indianapolis's defense has missed their fair share of time this season, and Luck has been forced to lead the team to victories without them.
3. He's the Leader Had he struggled, it would have been extremely easy to give Luck a writeoff for this 2012 season. Turning around a 2-14 team is hard enough, but once Colts head coach Chuck Pagano was forced to leave the team to undergo leukemia treatment, it would have been totally understandable if a young, talent-poor team treaded water or regressed in his absence. Instead, the team has rallied around their coach, and Luck has become the team's de facto leader in the process.
There's absolutely no reason to criticize Griffin for taking on several endorsement campaigns before and during his rookie season, but I wouldn't be surprised to learn that Luck left endorsement money on the table so he could shave his head in support of his coach. He's not just the face of the franchise; he's its unquestioned leader in a time of serious adversity, too.
And the Winner Is
I certainly don't think that this is a finished race for Rookie of the Year, and I think there are extenuating circumstances that make the case less cut-and-dried on either side, but if the question is simply "Which of these two players has performed better this year?" I think the evidence pretty clearly points to Robert Griffin III. I'm not a slave to statistics when it comes to measuring an individual player's performance the individual stats in football just aren't good enough to trust them that implicitly, whether they're old-school stats or advanced ones but the difference between the two players in that table above is pretty stark. If there were plenty of soft factors pointing toward Luck that Griffin didn't have any reply to, I think it would be fair to call it a toss-up, but Griffin has spent the year throwing to backups and has the lowly Redskins in sight of .500, even if they fall short of the playoffs. I suspect that people who are more wowed with quarterback wins as a stat will see Luck earning a likely playoff appearance and punch him in as Rookie of the Year without giving the idea much further thought, but given each player's contributions to their team, a wild-card berth just isn't enough for me to ignore the chasm in performance between the two players. Barring a notable collapse from Griffin and a five-game stretch of brilliance from Luck, I think RG3 is going to be the deserving Offensive Rookie of the Year.
So this is what the NFL has become, fantasy football is dictating who is having the better year. This is a hack job if I have ever seen one. RGIII's stats are impressive, but I'm more concerned with wins. Luck taking a 2-14 team on his back and taking them to the playoffs should end the debate. Barnwell conveniently omitted RG3's suspect chin and toughness, which I believe is a huge factor for QB's


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If your adolescent child, family member, friend, or student were considering suicide, would you recognize the warning signs? If so, what would you do?
Adolescence is a time of hope and expectancy, as well as extreme disappointment and mood swings. It's normal for teens to experience stress, confusion, and self-doubt. In addition to normal physical, hormonal, and emotional changes, teens confront many of the these additional challenges:
Teens may have fleeting thoughts or fantasies about suicide from time-to-time when they are struggling. But most do not make a suicide attempt or gesture. However, when the pressure seems too great, a teen may feel an overwhelming sense of helplessness, which can lead to serious thoughts of suicide.
How do you know when a teen is really in need of help?
Teen suicide is often due to a combination of factors. These factors may be biological, psychological, and cultural. Family issues also play a role. These factors can interact with a significant life event, like the break-up of an important relationship.
Examples of factors that put a teen at risk for suicide include:
Other risk factors include:
Adolescent behavior is often perplexing, particularly to parents, who may not be able to tell what's problematic and what is normal. The American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry recommends being alert to the following signs that may indicate an increased risk of suicide:
A teen who is planning to commit suicide may:
Pay attention if the teen in your life has any of the above risk factors and behaviors. Take all suicide threats seriously. In the very least, these threats mean that the teen is not coping well and needs help. Never dismiss a suicide attempt as attention-seeking behavior.
The teen who is struggling should be assessed and treated right away. Professional help and ongoing family support are extremely important. In some cases, the time leading up to a suicide may be relatively short. This emphasizes the need to reach out to the teen and connect with mental health services.
If you are unsure of how to get help, you can call:
In addition to reaching out for help, take steps to keep your teen safe at home. For example, remove any guns, knives, medications, and poisons from the area.
Whether you are a parent of a teen or are someone who plays an important role in a teen's life, you can help prevent suicide by developing a good relationship that is based on mutual trust, openness, and healthy communication. Although this is best established very early in life, it's never too late. You can improve your relationship with the teen in your life by:
By being aware of suicide risk factors and warning signs, you can help teens get the support they needs to survive this challenging time in their lives. You can also help teens become more resilient to life's struggles by showing your care and concern.
Mental Health America
Youth Suicide Prevention Program
Canadian Mental Health Association
Canadian Psychiatric Association
About teen suicide. Nemours Kid's Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/parent/emotions/behavior/suicide.html. Updated January 2012. Accessed March 6, 2014.
Child and adolescent suicide. Mental Health American website. Available at: http://www.mentalhealthamerica.net/conditions/child-and-adolescent-suicide. Accessed March 6, 2014.
How to help. Youth Suicide Prevention Program website. Available at: http://www.yspp.org/about_suicide/what_to_do.htm. Accessed March 6, 2014.
Suicide. Nemours Kid's Health website. Available at: http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/feeling_sad/suicide.html. Updated November 2011. Accessed March 6, 2014.
Teen suicide. American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry website. Available at: http://www.aacap.org/AACAP/Families_and_Youth/Facts_for_Families/Facts_for_Families_Pages/Teen_Suicide_10.aspx. Updated July 2013. Accessed March 6, 2014.
Teenage suicide. National Alliance on Mental Illness website. Available at http://www.nami.org/Content/ContentGroups/Helpline1/Teenage_Suicide.htm. Accessed March 6, 2014.
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Role of the Protein Osteoprotegerin in the Bone Health of Women With Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia
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|Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Case Control
Time Perspective: Cross-Sectional
|Official Title:
|Potential Modulatory Role of Osteoprotegerin in Bone Metabolism of Patients With 21-Hydroxylase Deficiency
- Comparison of levels of OPG [ Time Frame: Measured throughout the study ]
- Comparison of bone mineral density [ Time Frame: Measured throughout the study ]
Biospecimen Retention: Samples With DNA
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|April 2008
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|June 2009
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Women in this group will have 21-OHD CAH.
Women in this group will be healthy controls and will not have 21-OHD CAH.
Detailed Description:
Because of the excess of androgen caused by 21-OHD CAH, women with CAH may exhibit some male-like characteristics. Glucocorticoids are a member of a class of drugs called corticosteroids, which are used in hormone replacement therapy. In order to counteract the effects of 21-OHD CAH, women with the disease are given hormone replacement therapy with glucocorticoids beginning at infancy. Glucocorticoids are known to cause bone loss. Despite many years of treatment with glucocorticoids, however, young women with 21-OHD CAH seem to be protected against bone loss. Researchers believe that the increased androgen levels in these women leads to increased estrogen levels, which in turn increases OPG production. The increase in OPG levels may protect women against bone loss. This study will evaluate bone density and OPG levels in women with and without 21-OHD CAH to determine the relationship between OPG and bone loss.
Participants in this observational study will attend only one study visit. At this visit, they will undergo a blood draw; a scan of their lower spine, hip, and forearm; height and weight measurements; and a body fat analysis test. This last test will entail a weak and painless electrical signal being sent from foot to foot. Participants will not attend any follow-up visits for this study.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|20 Years to 35 Years (Adult)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
For People with 21-OHD CAH:
- 21-OHD CAH has been documented by molecular genetic analysis (mutations on CYP21A2 gene on both parental alleles)
- Treatment with glucocorticoid replacement since infancy (begun within the first year)
- Available hormonal data and treatment details over the 5 years prior to study entry
- Premenopausal
For Healthy Controls:
- No diagnosis of 21-OHD CAH, as confirmed by molecular genetic analysis
- No first degree relative is enrolled as a 21-OHD CAHparticipant
- Premenopausal
Exclusion Criteria:
- Medical disorder or treatment with medications known to affect bone density (other than glucocorticoids for 21-OHD CAH patients), including, but not limited to growth hormone, IGF-I, depo-medroxyprogesterone acetate, biphosphonates, oral contraceptives, androgens, thyroxine, or aromatase inhibitors
- Pregnant
- Any smoking within the 6 months prior to study entry
- Cardiac pacemaker or other implanted electronic medical device
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00694525
|Contact: Karen Lin Su, MD
|United States, New York
|Mount Sinai School of Medicine
|New York, New York, United States, 10029
|Principal Investigator: Karen Lin Su, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Maria I. New, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Saroj Nimkarn, MD
|Sub-Investigator: Mone Zaidi, MD, PhD
|Sub-Investigator: Henry Bone, MD
|Study Chair:
|Karen Lin Su, MD
|Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
|Responsible Party:
|Maria I. New, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00694525 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|June 6, 2008
|Last Updated:
|June 1, 2009
Keywords provided by Office of Rare Diseases (ORD):
21-hydroxylase deficiency
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Adrenal Hyperplasia, Congenital
Adrenogenital Syndrome
Adrenocortical Hyperfunction
Pathologic Processes
Disorders of Sex Development
Urogenital Abnormalities
Congenital Abnormalities
Genetic Diseases, Inborn
Steroid Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolism, Inborn Errors
Metabolic Diseases
Adrenal Gland Diseases
Endocrine System Diseases
Gonadal Disorders
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I liked it, but I'm a turn coat so my opinion isn't welcomed very much anymore.
I miss PD1. This board is not yet back to its former pristine condition. I'm preaching patience to myself.
Thanks for all the hard work getting it up this far!
Take me out to the black, tell 'em I ain't coming back. Burn the land and boil the sea, you can't take the sky from me.
It might help me: What else is missing to make it "as it should be"?
I strongly dislike the "pictures on top" look, for one. The login thing is weird. It's odd seeing "apache default" everywhere.
There's about a billion stickies, though, so that makes me feel at home.
This space for rent.
I do like the new "Members who have read this thread" thingy.
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Same here.
You guys don't pay attention much. That was there for a long time. (Members who have read this thread). I'm serious.
Moving on,
I understand the dislike of the "on top vs to the left". I want to give it a true shot this time instead of taking it back like I did once before shortly after deciding to try it. If it just does not grow on people, I'll go back to the way it was. That said, I'm not set in stone either. Maybe I would be if I loved it, but I don't. However, I think it could grow on us all so I want to try it for the sake of something cleaner (smaller avatars) and "new" (on top vs to the side).
I haven't noticed anything different about logging in.
Hell, I've changed my mind. You all are the reason Indiana's still in the late 80's
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Y'all make me sick! Don't say I n'ver did nuttin' for 'ya!
As for the time, I'm talking with Abel about it. I'm assuming it's a server clock issue. The closest thing to a temporary fix is to set your time zone to -12 (that is, if you live on the East Coast). That will only have you an hour ahead.
Now I just need to figure out what to do with my avatar. Kramer was getting old, but South Park Kegboy is better left at PD3, like Anthem's real face.
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FONTANA — Fontana Police investigators said Saturday the girl reportedly sexually abused by a 65-year-old Arleta woman was related to the accused woman.
"The family tried to take care of the matter within the family but only recently came forward to the police to report the abuse," said Sgt. Jim Burton with the Fontana Police Department.
Kathy Guijarro, who runs a day care center out of her Arleta home, was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of lewd acts with a child for an alleged incident which took place on April 3, 2010, according to police authorities and a complaint filed by the San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office.
Both the victim, who was under the age of 14 at the time of the alleged crime, and Guijarro were both interviewed and after conducting an investigation Guijarro was arrested, officials said.
"Because of the time lapse, there really wasn't much fresh evidence so much of it was statements," said Burton. However, he added there was enough evidence to arrest Guijarro.
During the investigation, detectives contacted the Los Angeles County agency that licenses day care centers to inform them of the pending case, Burton said. It's unclear if her day care center is still operating.
The DA's Office filed charges against Guijarro on March 11 in Fontana Superior court.
In a telephone call to Guijarro's day care center Friday afternoon, a woman who identified herself as Guijarro refused to comment on the case but did acknowledge she had been arrested on Wednesday.


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RICHARD GLENN stood as still as a statue, gazing through sunglasses over the piercing white of the sea ice and the deep, flashing darkness of the Arctic Ocean. Three miles from shore north of Barrow, Alaska, he was a sentinel for a group of Iñupiaq subsistence hunters, watching for the spout of a bowhead whale but looking out even more carefully for signs that the ice edge upon which he was standing might break off and float away.
Glenn--geologist, ice scientist, founder of a research group called the Barrow Arctic Science Consortium and leader of an Iñupiaq whaling crew--knew from experience the dangers of an unexpected breakup. In spring 1997, he had been seven miles out on the frozen sea with his crew and more than 150 other whalers when the floes on which they stood began disintegrating. Polar bears moved in for a possible meal, and thick fog rose from the open water, making it impossible for helicopters from Barrow to find the crews. Whalers used the sound of the rotors to talk the choppers into position on handheld radios. The helicopters set down gingerly, half hovering so as not to break or flip the ice fragments. With people riding inside, and snow machines and seal-skin boats dangling underneath, flights continued around the clock until the last hunter was safe ashore.
When I went whaling with Glenn's crew five years later, collecting material for a book on Arctic climate change, the ice had become even thinner and more unpredictable. Glenn and other captains ordered crews to pull back time and again, breaking camp to flee ahead of possible disaster. Then, one morning, he made the call to retreat a little sooner than the others, and his crew was the last to get off the ice before a great crack opened, sending adrift more than 100 whalers and a dead whale. Again the helicopters felt their way through fog and blowing snow. A heroic rescue brought all the people and most of their equipment home safely.
Something unprecedented had now happened twice in five years.
Measures of Change Climate scientists since the mid-1970s have predicted that warming would come first and strongest in the Arctic. For the past 15 years, the change has been increasingly evident, both to scientists and to indigenous people. In Alaska and western Canada, winter temperatures have risen as much as 7 degrees F over the past 50 years. Since the mid-1970s, the floating Arctic ice pack has lost an area the size of Texas and Arizona combined. With a shorter season of sea ice, fall storms batter Alaska's Arctic coast as never before, causing erosion that threatens communities. "We have talked about how change could have detrimental effects on our culture," Glenn says. "Longer distances and riskier journeys to get food. We're coastal people, and the coast is in danger."
Hunters remember how the ice used to be only a decade or two ago. In October, big, multiyear icebergs would run aground off the gravel shore. Flat new ice would form one cold night to connect the icebergs, which would anchor and strengthen the entire ice sheet the way a steel frame holds the skin of a skyscraper. By the time the sun returned from a two-month absence in late January, the ice would have become an extension of the land, a reliable place for pursuing a family's sustenance until the ice broke up sometime in June or July.
Now the multiyear icebergs do not appear in fall, so the shore ice is far less stable. It freezes later and breaks up earlier. The Iñupiat cannot count on it for the spring hunt as they once could. "If we start losing the spring season, we have to totally rethink ice safety," Glenn says. "Things that were true for fathers won't be true for sons."
As the Arctic environment changes, the centuries-old Iñupiaq culture will be forced to change as well, perhaps becoming in some ways as unrecognizable as the new landscape. The elders, who hold the greatest store of old knowledge, were the first to report the unprecedented ecological changes. Thomas Itta, Sr., in his seventies, perceives these changes whenever he goes hunting on the flat tundra around his village of Atqasuk. He sees the accelerated growth of bushy willows and how the shrubs have redistributed the snowpack. He hears the cries of invading sea gulls that have taken the place of some disappearing waterfowl. He feels the mosquitoes on his skin a month earlier in summer. He tastes a change in caribou meat due to an explosion of tundra flowers, on which the animals graze. The very geography of Itta's world is changing: As the permafrost softens near the surface, ponds are connecting with other water bodies through formerly solid shores. "These lakes and ponds, they never used to break into the others or break into the river," he says. "Starting in the nineties, they started breaking."
Seeking Solutions Does it matter where Arctic lakes find their boundaries or how snow piles up in the willows that have sprouted from the tundra?
Scientists say it matters a lot. New research indicates that a warming Arctic can accelerate climate change worldwide. Arctic snow reflects the warmth of the sun back to space. As winter becomes shorter, and snow is redistributed by brush, the ground absorbs ever more heat. Shrubs also absorb more heat in the summertime than does the flat tundra. The thawing soil underneath emits carbon stored for millennia in dead organic matter. Itta's changing lake shores are a signal of that soil thawing.
Climate change affects Arctic people's lives every day. The melting of permafrost, the permanently frozen layer under much of Alaska, has turned solid ground into mush in some places, collapsing roads and even causing supports to tip under some parts of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. In Barrow, changes in ocean waves have washed away ancient archaeological sites, and the bluff that overlooks the sea has crept perilously close to houses. A decision must be made either to move the houses or to defend the coast from waves. Other villages, such as Shishmaref, which sits on a shifting barrier island, have fewer options and less time to decide their future: either disperse their ancient tribe, or move to a new location at enormous cost.
Moving houses is one way of adapting to a changing climate. Another is to change hunting practices. As whaling has become more dangerous on spring sea ice, Barrow whalers have hunted more in autumn, when ice is absent and motorboats are more practical than traditional skin boats. As the warming climate causes autumn waves to rise, Iñupiaq whalers are buying bigger boats with bigger motors to stay safe in pursuit of the 56 whales that the International Whaling Commission has allocated to them yearly.
When working on my book, I sat for weeks with whaling crews on the spring ice while warm weather spoiled their frozen meat, created puddles on the ice trail and brought dispiriting rain that melted the snow. But even in that terrible spring we landed a 54-foot bowhead whale. Some 200 villagers gathered to pull the 100-ton animal from the water with ropes and muscle.
The following fall, I joined Richard Glenn's crew once again. The air of late September on the Arctic Ocean felt even colder than in winter--the dampness cut through layers of down. We patrolled, scanning the horizon for a whale's spout, but the waves were high. Later I learned that the sea ice had shrunk more that season than ever before, giving waves lots of room to build. Most boats went home, because even if a crew managed to take a whale, towing it ashore would be impossible in those seas.
As we rounded Point Barrow, the northernmost point in the United States, I saw a group of polar bears. Several dozen were stranded in the area, having landed from sea ice that then withdrew hundreds of miles from shore. Through the fog and wind, I could see big white breakers tumbling ashore on the low gravel. The bears saw us as well, and one reared up to watch the boat go by. Another charged to the water as if to attack the tumbling waves that had trapped it there.
Charles Wohlforth is a lifelong Alaskan and author of The Whale and the Supercomputer: On the Northern Front of Climate Change. Questions for him can be directed to his website, www.Wohlforth.net.


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Unfortunately, Cinny was heartworm positive, but she breezed through her fast kill heartworm treatment just fine while in foster and is now ready to find her forever home. Cinny will just need to be kept on monthly hw preventives at this point, like any other dog.
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