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INKSTER, Mich. -
A family member, who did not want to be identified, says Cheryl Fields was returning home from a fish fry last night when she was ambushed by a gunman at her front door in Inkster on Williams Street.
No other information has been offered on the person of interest who police said was in custody Thursday night.
Neighbors heard seven shots and came outside to see what was going on.
The gunman had fled and Fields was dead.
"They got her right in the face," a neighbor tells Local 4. "It looked like this was personal and it looked like she tried to run."
Witness connection?
Police are looking for a man who may have recently been released from prison.
A family member says that man encountered Fields at a party story a few weeks ago and beat her, calling her a "snitch."
Investigators are checking on details that Fields may have been involved in the man's criminal case. They're checking on information that Fields may have helped police in that case which resulted in prison time for the man.
It's unclear if that potential parolee and suspect was being monitored on a tether or had made threats to Fields in the recent past.
"She was the kind of person that would give you the shirt off her back, food off the table, her last dime," said family friend Bertram Johnson.
Johnson also was Fields' attorney and he said he was always impressed by her dedication to her four children.
"I don't think there's anything that suggests she has any enemies and someone might want to kill her," Johnson said.
Hard life
One family member says Fields was "always in trouble."
Bullet holes can be seen in her car another car she owned had been "shot up."
Fields is being described as "disabled."
The family member says she lost use of one of her arms from being shot during a shootout in the past.
Fields' has three boys and one girl ranging in age from 15 to 21.
Fields' family gathered Thursday at a home a few miles away where there are tears and hugs being shared.
"We are grieving." One of the victim's sisters saod. "We don't have anything to say."
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So here it is, Saturday, and im spending my day in the office ranting on Twitter (@WYDUCentral) about going through the monumental amount of auto-tune and grills in the inbox. The good news is that i'm down to 388 unread e-mails, of which i hope to find a few more gems.
Fortunate for me though as i got back to a simple e-mail from March 12th, with about 2 lines of text, I caught this video from a artist named "Chief" song titled "Days I Remember". This was a nice little diamond in the rough. Heres to happy Saturdays!!

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USU Extension Co-Sponsors Diversified Ag Conference
Monday, Feb. 04, 2013
Ruby Ward
USU Extension agribusiness specialist
Utah State University
Phone: (435) 797-2323
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LOGAN ? The 10th annual Diversified Agriculture Conference is held Wednesday, Feb. 20, through Friday, Feb. 22, at Snow College in Ephraim. The conference centers on more than traditional agriculture and is designed to benefit agricultural producers who would like additional tools to help manage their businesses.
This year's conference features three tracks: direct marketing/alternative enterprises, marketing/management and livestock management. Three tours are held on Wednesday from 1 to 5:30 p.m., and participants can choose from livestock and pasture, seeds and hay or turkey industry tours.
"The first Diversified Agriculture Conference was held in Ephraim at Snow College, and we are happy to be back to that location 10 years later," said Ruby Ward, conference organizer and USU Extension agribusiness specialist. "This will be a great conference for anyone with livestock. In addition, it is a great place to learn more about managing a farm or ranch business, and it is always a lot of fun."
Ward said the conference features something for everyone. Students from area high schools are invited to attend to learn about a future in agriculture. Special student registration is available by contacting Ward.
The conference is a result of USU Extension working with many other organizations. Grant funding from the USDA-Risk Management Agency helps keep registration costs low.
Conference registration cost is $40 by Feb. 6 and $60 after and includes Wednesday's tours and all workshops, breaks and meals on Thursday and Friday. For further information including session and tour descriptions, visit www.diverseag.org or contact Ward at email@example.com or 435-797-2323.
The economic development directors for Wayne, Piute and Sevier counties have offered to cover registration for their county residents. Contact Ward or visit the website for details.


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If the slogan on billboards and commercials about Saturday night's running of The Winston at Lowe's Motor Speedway sounds familiar, there's a good reason.
"One Hot Night," this year's theme, was first used to hype the 1992 running of NASCAR's all-star event at the 1.5-mile track in Charlotte. And in that case, the outcome certainly lived up to its advance billing.
The 1992 race was assured of being memorable before it began, since it was the first time the track used its new lighting system for an event -- ushering in a new era of racing and giving The Winston an entirely different character.
"I had always thought of The Winston as being like a Saturday night shoot-out at the local dirt track," says H.A. "Humpy" Wheeler, president of Lowe's Motor Speedway. "And it had always been my dream to find a way to light a superspeedway."
The first step toward making that dream real came at a meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., between Wheeler and other members of the Charlotte track's staff and officials from Sports Marketing Enterprises, the sports marketing arm of R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
The late T. Wayne Robertson, president of SME at the time, and Wheeler had a kindred spirit -- both liked big-time events. The Winston was held at Charlotte in its inaugural year (1985), and returned there after a poorly attended visit to Atlanta in 1986. A five-year deal with Charlotte followed, and as they began talking about the next contract, Wheeler could tell Robertson wanted some ideas about how to make the all-star event special.
Wheeler told Robertson that if the Charlotte track were given another long-term contract to host the event, the track would put up lights and hold the race on Saturday night. Wheeler could tell from Robertson's expression that he liked that idea.
Had he bothered to look at the faces of the others he'd brought along from his own track, however, he would have seen different expressions. That was the first any of them had heard of the idea.
"We got back in the car to come home," Wheeler said. "About 10 minutes outside of Winston-Salem, Ed Clark finally said, 'Have you lost your mind?' I said, 'We're going to do this. I don't know how. But we're going to do it.'"
And they did. It cost $1.7 million and forced the invention of several things that hadn't been developed when Wheeler made his promise at the meeting. But the system that uses lights reflecting off large mirrors to keep the drivers from being blinded by glare was in place in time for The Winston on May 16, 1992.
Davey Allison won The Winston in 1991 and won the pole for the 1992 race driving a car that his Robert Yates Racing team had dubbed "007." It was the team's favorite car.
"When we took it to a racetrack, we'd roll in the gate and competitors would ask, 'What car have you got?'" says Larry McReynolds, now a Fox Sports announcer but then Allison's crew chief. "We'd say, '007.' They'd say, 'Oh, God.' We won so many races with that car."
The car raced five times at Charlotte, winning four times and finishing second the other time. The team had considered saving it for the Coca-Cola 600 a week later because Allison had already won the Daytona 500 and Winston 500 and therefore was in position to win The Winston Million bonus with a victory in the 600.
Allison won the first 30-lap segment, then started last when the field was inverted for the second 30 laps. Kyle Petty won the second segment and started first in the final 10-lap segment, which paid $200,000 to the winner. This year, that total is $500,000.
Petty was in command of the final segment until Darrell Waltrip's spin brought out a yellow flag and bunched the field for a restart. Dale Earnhardt took the lead on the restart and held it until the cars took the white flag.
"We were running third," McReynolds says. "I remember thinking, 'OK, we've learned a lot tonight and we're going to get a pretty good finish out of this.'"
Then, McReynolds heard the crowd erupt. From his position on pit road he couldn't see that at the end of the backstretch Petty and Earnhardt had made contact and Earnhardt's Chevrolet spun in Turn 3.
Petty had to lift to avoid Earnhardt's spinning car. As he did, Allison stood on the throttle in his No. 28 Ford and got a run off Turn 4. "I looked up and coming off Turn 4 we were in first place," McReynolds says.
The cars roared down the frontstretch, with the cheers of more than 130,000 fans building. Allison was on the inside and pushed the nose of his car ahead. Petty tried to hold off Allison's charge, and as they crossed the finish line their cars made contact.
Allison lost control, slid through the frontstretch and then into the outside wall toward the entrance to Turn 1.
Wheeler had moved down just behind the flagstand to make his way across the track for the Victory Lane ceremonies. To this day, he remembers vividly how quickly the roar of the crowd disappeared into a deafening silence after Allison's crash.
As McReynolds watched the workers cut his driver out of the car, he also kept an eye on the scoreboard to see if Allison's No. 28 would be flipped on top of Petty's No. 42, meaning that Allison had won.
"It seemed like it took about two hours, and it was probably two minutes," McReynolds said. "Finally, they flipped that No. 28 up top. It was like, 'Yes!'"
Allison had a concussion and several other injuries. Instead of going to Victory Lane, he rode to the infield care center and eventually to the hospital, where he would spend the night. In the ambulance on the way to the infield care center, Allison asked McReynolds what had happened.
"You won the race, Davey," McReynolds said.
"You're (kidding) me," Allison said.
"No, Davey, you won the race," McReynolds repeated.
"You're not (kidding) me?" Allison asked again.
"Davey, I wouldn't (kid) you about something like that," McReynolds said. "You won the race."
"All year long, we'd been in this pattern," McReynolds says. "We'd win, then we'd wreck. We'd win, then we'd wreck. That night, we found a way to do both on the same night."
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"A picturesque holiday cottage in an idyllic location with terrace, gardens and orchard. A hidden gem!"
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Location: Sandsend
A gorgeous, 'chocoate box' cottage, this lovely property has just been sympathetically extended with additional space on the ground floor, providing superb accommodation with glorious views overlooking the Valley's village green and the stream - an ideal romantic getaway! - with the beach a short stroll.
Stone built, with fragrant climbing roses and a bench at the front for sitting and admiring the view, the cottage has an entrance porch, a lovely sitting room with window seat and superb views, flat screen TV, DVD player and gas fired stove. There is charming kitchen with cooker, fridge/freezer and microwave. A dining area with seating and views over the rear garden - which is a sun trap - plus there's a cloaks/WC.
On the first floor is a smart double bedroom with stunning views across the Valley, the recently refurbished shower room has a shower, WC and hand wash basin.
There are sloping gardens to the front with a seating area and a small orchard and a delightful private rear garden with colourful borders, terrace, quality furniture and gas BBQ - perfect for relaxing, sunbathing and enjoying al fresco meals in the summer months.
All utilities, bedding and hand/bath towels are included, free Internet connection. Shared parking is available in The Valley.
Please also note that this cottage does not accept pets.
The Cottage is located in The Valley, Sandsend accessed via a narrow lane off to the left of the road at the bottom of Lythe bank when travelling north, a few yards passed Wits End Café, or alternatively via a pedestrian only pathway from the southern side of the stream. There is off-street communal parking for the residents of The Valley which is clearly marked.
Within the village you will find an excellent well stocked store supplying all daily essentials including bread, milk, newspapers etc., The Hart Inn – which serves excellent meals both at lunchtime and in the evening, a two AA Rosette restaurant – Estbek House, together with excellent cafes, beach shops and even an art gallery are all available close by.
" We had a lovely time in your beautiful cottage, it was superbly clean when we arrived and we couldn't have asked for any more. we will book again and recommend to all of our friends. Thank you Yorkshire Coastal Cottages you have been brilliant. "
The Wrens - September 2017
" A wonderful property in a wonderful location, thank you to the lovely staff at YorkshireCoastal Cottages who were so helpful. "
Tina Gill - August 2017
" We would recommend this cottage to everyone it is amazing. "
Sue & Dan Smith, Rotherham - August 2017
" Brilliant in every way, thank you! "
Peter & Cath Harris - March 2017
" Thank you so much the cottage was everything you said it would be, what a wonderful location, lovely short walk to the beach. I wish we could stay longer. "
The Firth's - September 2016
" Fabulous cottage with beautiful furnishings, the best we have ever stayed in. "
Anne & Phil Taylor - August 2016
The Cottage is located in The Valley, Sandsend accessed via a narrow lane off to the left of the road at the bottom of Lythe bank when travelling north, a few yards past Wits End Cafe.
The property is an end terrace period stone cottage under a pitched pantile roof, with Yorkshire sash windows and attractive part glazed and panelled entry door. The cottage retains a great deal of period charm, with low beamed ceilings, and a steep narrow staircase to the first floor.
The property is conveniently located close to a bus stop and Sandsend's many amenities – cafes, local inn, restaurant, shops, art gallery, and doctor's surgery.
Transport to Whitby and Runswick Bay
There is a main bus route, with the bus stop a few hundred yards from the property.
There is no dedicated parking for the property but a car park reserved for those properties within The Valley. To reach the property from the car park, there is a small wooden bridge over the stream and c. 15-18 steps up to the property. There is a large council Pay & Display car park to the rear of Wits End Café.
The Cottage is approached by foot over the timber bridge from the car park and then up 21 fairly steep gravelled steps.
The Cottage
To the front is a pleasant paved seating area with views over the valley.
The accommodation is arranged on two floors with the sitting room and dining kitchen on the ground floor, and the bedrooms and shower room on the first floor.
To the rear is a largely flagged garden with three steps up to the main seating area. From there a further five steps lead to the upper area, having wicket gate and side access path.
The Ground Floor
There is an entrance hall with built-in store/cloaks cupboard and low doorway (5ft 9in) to the sitting room.
Sitting Room
The sitting room features a beamed ceiling, exposed stonework, window with fitted window seat overlooking the valley, and a cast iron gas fired stove. There is a doorway to the rear entrance hall, having two steps up to the rear door, and built-in cupboard housing the gas central heating boiler. A further door gives access to the cottage staircase – 11 steps winding back on themselves.
The sitting room contains a two seater sofa, arm chair, padded window seat, coffee table, TV and DVD player. Two steps up to the kitchen.
The Kitchen
The kitchen contains a one-and-a-half bowl sink unit, electric oven and hob, fridge and microwave cooker. The dining area comprises two fitted settles and table. The kitchen is fully equipped with china, glassware, cutlery and cooking implements for the self catering of four people.
First Floor
Bedroom One
With standard double bed, bedside cabinets and wardrobe. Sash window to front and sloping beamed ceiling.
Shower Room
Walk-in shower cubicle – 9in step up, through bi-fold doors, pedestal basin and low level wc. Electric shaver socket
Small paved area with seat – pleasant views over the valley, being west facing and enjoying afternoon and evening sunshine.
York stone paved gardens with borders, providing level seating area having tables and chairs. From the back door there are a total of 8 steps up to the bin storage area and gate to a side access path.
The Cottage is an old property and by its very nature cannot be adapted for the use of wheelchairs and may not be suitable for the very infirm due to the access and layout of the accommodation.
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My ALA started on Friday afternoon with an ACRL Leadership meeting. As the incoming Vice-Chair/Chair-Elect of the Law and Political Science Section (LPSS) of ACRL I was invited to attend. It turned out to be a two-hour fundraising pitch to get money for an additional 75 scholarships for the 2015 ACRL Biennial Conference in Portland, Oregon. I have a lot of opinions about how they are going about doing this but I'll save you my commentary. The benefit of the session to me was a chance to get to know my incoming Chair as well as the Chair/Vice-Chair of the Anthropology and Sociology Section (ANSS) much better. ACRL has made it very difficult for proposals to be accepted for Annual conferences unless you collaborate with other sections, so LPSS and ANSS are busy planning ideas for a co-sponsored program for ALA 2015 in San Francisco.
My Saturday was mostly taken up with committee and membership meetings for LPSS. Our invited speaker was Pat Mulroy formerly of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. She talked about water politics in the lower Colorado River Basin and was FASCINATING. A few interesting facts from her talk:
- In Southern Nevada water is measured in 'acre feet' – that is an acre of land, one foot deep in water.
- Las Vegas recycles 93% of the water it uses
- The Strip, often vilified as an unnecessary drain on water, only uses 3% of the water – most of the rest comes from residential use, primarily people watering lawns.
- Golf courses in Las Vegas are all watered with 'grey water'
- When the drought started (it's now in its 14th year) they began paying people to take the grass out of their yards and replace it with desert landscape – within 6 years they had reduced water consumption by over 30%
On Sunday I presented on a panel put on by the Discovery Services Committee of the Reference Services Section (RSS) of ALA. Four speakers all presented on one aspect of Discovery Services (we have Summon) that we found interesting and then we divided up and spent time in smaller discussion groups. One presenter talked about a side by side comparison they did of discovery services, another spoke about a survey or librarians attitudes toward discovery and the third presented on a communication strategy implemented to keep library staff up to speed on their discover service. I presented on the new way I framed teaching Google and Summon for my LIB210 class and how I think deeper dives into the data Summon provides us can help us in instruction and in site design. I think I found a collaborator or two who may want to research and write about this. I was gratified that many people told me that they did not even know that you could see a list of all the searches done in Summon – so at least they learned that if nothing else. Also learned that Summon is the only discovery service that provides that kind of data (good on you, Proquest).
As usual I spent a good deal of time with vendors during this trip – meeting one-on-one with folks from SAGE/CQ Press (I'm on an advisory board for them) and with folks from ProQuest. Stopped by a few other booths to get some questions answered and discovered the existence (thanks Molly) of The Harry Potter Alliance. Bought a Granger-Lovegood 2016 t-shirt and am already scheming about how we can encourage WFU students to start a chapter here!!
ALA in Vegas was one we all will remember for a while but I suspect none of us want to repeat any time soon. I walked over 30 miles in my four days there (thank you, FitBit for keeping tabs on that) and probably drank 10 gallons of water. The city wears you out physically and mentally while at the same time having an energy that exists nowhere else I have ever been. There is no such thing as subtlety or understatement in Vegas and after about three days I start to crave a place with less sensory overload, so coming home was very welcome.


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I only just bought my 2nd hand Xantia 1.8SX 16V Saloon, so I can't really say anything about reliability apart from that I bought a 1997 (R-reg) model with 72000 miles on the clock and it drives and looks like just out of the showroom. I was fortunate enough to get a top spec model with full electric pack, air-conditioning with climate control, etc. and generally I can only say one thing - a ride in a Xantia is like nothing else. Having owned a number of cars from different manufacturers (such as Nissan, Vauxhall, Ford and Peugeot) I will probably stick to Citroen now - at least until I can afford an E-class Merc or 5-series BMW ;-) The engine is very responsive and quiet at that, the interior is fairly simple but classy (partially probably due to the particular spec, like Alcantara upholstery, leather steering wheel etc.) The car handles fabulously and ride comfort certainly teaches Vauxhall, Ford and consorts a lesson. Fuel consumption is slightly on the higher side, but this can partially be attributed to the air-conditioning (since cars equipped with this feature tend to be a bit thirstier than others) but on the other hand, said air-con certainly gives you something in return, since it takes all but two minutes on the road for the car to be comfortably warm - even in below zero degree temperatures. The only slight drawback I can really think of is the alarm/immobiliser. I don't know if this is just my car but the alarm seems to be much too sensitive - it just keeps going off for no reason whatsoever. If anyone knows how to fix that problem, please leave a comment ant tell me - or even e-mail me, because this is just really annoying.
If I had my own way I would have bought a Ford Puma, but because I look after my dad who is disabled I had to buy a car that was practical. I searched through What Car and visited show rooms, I decided that a Citroen Xantia, would be a perfect buy. It was perfect for my dad and me, for him it has wide doors, so it's easier to get in and out, the seats are big and spacious and there is plenty of room in the boot for the wheelchair. For me it has power steering, electric windows, air conditioning a six speaker stereo, adjustable seats and steering wheel it even tells you the outside temperature. I have the 1.8l and it is fast, it can really shift in any gear even fifth, it's excellent for joining motorways and overtaking. The Citroen is an excellent car it's comfortable even on the longest of journeys, it fast, it looks executive and anyone would feel good driving it. The only drawback is, this is a big car and it can be hard to park it, especially when you just want to pop down to the shops. This car is probably more suited to someone who does a lot of motorway driving, maybe a rep. I've owned my Citroen for a year now, and in that time, I've found it to be a very reliable car. Some people may be put off by the suspension, the cars suspension rises when you start the engine, and you can adjust it to go over high ground, but don't, you don't even realise it's there. I would recommend this car to anyone who is thinking of buying a large family saloon.


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CHICAGO -- The National Automatic Merchandising Association has endorsed the Healthy Choices Act (HR 5209), a measure introduced by Rep. Ron Kind (D-WI) and cosponsored by Reps. Mary Bono Mack (R-CA), Earl Blumenauer (D-WI) and Marcia Fudge (D-OH).
Titled "Healthy Communities through Helping to Offer Incentives and Choices to Everyone in Society," the measure's sponsors state that it is "the first legislation of its kind that brings together the grocery industry, the healthcare industry and government to comprehensively fight the obesity epidemic." Read more.
Its provisions are designed to enhance access to the tools and education to make healthy choices, update nutrition guidelines for child and adult care food programs, increase access to nutritional information and healthy, affordable foods in rural and low-income urban areas, extend opportunities for physical activity on the part of adults and children, and provide more opportunities to participate.
"As the association for the food and beverage vending industry, NAMA has long recognized the importance of offering healthy options for our customers," said Ned Monroe, senior vice-president of government affairs for the association. "Our members know that solutions to obesity require a comprehensive approach. This legislation is a great step in providing choice for our customers to live a better life."
NAMA particularly appreciates the legislation's focus on finding solutions to "food deserts," areas (usually in large cities) where residents cannot obtain nutritious foods conveniently. The association noted that vending can deliver healthy food that complies with the Federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) requirements in underserved communities.Â
"We support the efforts to provide additional education on nutritional information which can help our customers make informed choices," Monroe added. "By also focusing on increased exercise, this legislation helps provide a common-sense solution to the obesity problem."
NAMA president and chief executive Richard M. Geerdes observed that "Congressman Kind and the bipartisan cosponsors are to be commended for this common-sense legislation.
"Our members can provide a wide variety of healthy options in vending machines," Geerdes emphasized. "We have such machines in the White House, for example. This bill recognizes that those same options should be made available to customers in underserved areas of our nation."
NAMA reiterated that it is committed to assisting in this effort, and through its Balanced for Life and Fit Pick programs, is working across the nation to combat obesity. The Fit Pick vending labeling system is currently being used in vending machines to highlight healthier options.
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Mike Coleman and Codi Dantu both know what it's like to live with pain and not have the money or health insurance to do anything about it.
Project Access San Diego
What: A San Diego County Medical Society Foundation program that recruits volunteer physicians and other health care providers to give free care and surgeries to qualifying patients.
To qualify: Patients must have no health insurance, not qualify for public programs, and have an income less than 350 percent of the federal poverty level ($39,000 or less for an individual).
Referral: Patients must be referred by a community health center, which can serve as their medical home and provide follow-up care.
For information: Call (858) 300-2777 or go online, www.sdcmsf.org>
That is, until they found Project Access.
Started by the San Diego County Medical Society Foundation in December 2008, the program recruits physicians and other providers to perform free surgeries and specialty care for low-income, uninsured people who can't pay for the services.
More than 1,800 people have received that free care in the last four years. Several times a year, the program holds Saturday Surgery Days in partnership with Kaiser Permanente and the Carlsbad Surgery Center.
Last March, Coleman underwent a hernia operation at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center, where more than 30 free surgeries were done in one day.
"They took care of me. It was awesome," Coleman said. "They're saints. If they didn't volunteer to do this, there'd be a lot of people out there still hurting."
Coleman, 58, has been a doorman at Coronado Shores condominiums for three years but hasn't been able to get full-time hours, which would qualify him for health insurance. The hernia caused him pain for more than a year, but he figured he would just have to live with it.
Then his doctor at Imperial Beach Health Center told him about Project Access.
"My theory is, don't go under the knife unless you need to," Coleman said. "But the doctor said if my stomach popped through (the abdominal wall) then I'd have a problem and end up in the ER. And I would have to live with trying to pay that bill."
Dantu was one of 11 patients who had free surgeries at the Carlsbad Surgery Center on Oct. 22.
An honor student at Miramar College, the 19-year-old had knee surgery to repair ligament and cartilage damage first suffered on the soccer field when she was a high school senior. She took a year off from her beloved sport, only to reinjure her wobbly knee last summer.
The surgery now done, Dantu still needs physical therapy, which volunteers will provide through Project Access.
"This was a blessing for my family," Dantu said. "With the economy the way it is, my parents haven't been able to afford insurance. To be honest, I don't think I would have been able to get this surgery otherwise."
Dantu's surgery was performed by Dr. Erik Stark, an orthopedic surgeon at Orthopaedic Specialists of North County. Although it was his first time volunteering with Project Access, Stark said he's always believed in donating his services. That's why he's team doctor for the Oceanside High School football team.
"I guess the reason I became a doctor was that I always wanted to be a superhero when I was a kid," he said. "Doing a surgery for someone who needs it, without money being part of it, is really pure and basic. It's why we become doctors, to help people."
Stark is one of more than 620 volunteer physicians in Project Access, plus the many nurses, anesthesiologists, physician assistants, technicians and others who also donate their skills, said Barbara Mandel, executive director of the San Diego County Medical Society Foundation.
"This is a huge collaboration between community health centers, physicians, hospitals, and other service providers," she said.
The program fills a gap for low-income, uninsured patients who don't qualify for government programs such as Medi-Cal or Medicare. Generally, that means the working poor who can get primary care at a community clinic but have nowhere to go if they need a specialist or surgery.
"Before Project Access there was very little hope or resources for those patients," Mandel said.
Patients would often end up in the ER or just live with their ailment. The consequences could be deadly.
Mandel recalled one 35-year-old man who kept going to the ER for undiagnosed stomach pain. Finally, he was referred to Project Access and a volunteer specialist diagnosed the first stage of stomach cancer. Fortunately, the cancer was found early and the man has received care through the program, Mandel said.
Every patient must be referred by a community clinic to Project Access, which then assigns a case manager to coordinate services for them. The patient's records are reviewed by the program's medical director and any needed tests or lab work are done by volunteers.
Since 2008, 516 patients have received surgeries and 1,294 have been seen by specialists for a total of 1,810 patients treated. As part of its effort to diagnose and treat colorectal cancer, Kaiser Permanente offers colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy services during its Saturday Surgery Days to qualifying patients.
Project Access case managers also have helped 772 people qualify for Medi-Cal or other public programs, Mandel said.
"Doctors are not into doing a lot of paperwork," she said. "They love taking care of patients, so we just help them do what they do best."Copyright © 2017, The San Diego Union-Tribune


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Lago had a chance to speak with Obama on Tuesday ahead of the Swedish mayor's scheduled appearance on Capitol Hill Thursday to discuss the Iraqi refugee crisis.
"He said word for word that he was ashamed that the United States didn't take greater responsibility for Iraqi refugees. Then he praised Sweden and Södertälje for how we've dealt with the issue," Lago told the TT news agency.
Södertälje, a town of 80,000 residents, has taken in more Iraqi refugees than the United States and Canada combined, a fact which has come to light in several US media recently, and the motivation behind Lago's invitation to testify before the Congressional panel.
"The senators posed questions about how we in Södertälje can take in so many Iraqi refugees," he told the news agency TT.
Joining Lago at the hearing organized by the US Helskinki Commission were representatives from the US government responsible for refugee issues, as well as the Washington director of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
"I explained that Sweden will continue to have a generous asylum policy and that we need immigration, but I also discussed the difficulties with arranging housing, employment, and schooling when so many refugees come at the same time," said Lago.
The Helsinki Commission is US government agency that monitors human rights and security issues of concern to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and includes members from the US Senate, and the House of Representatives, and US government agencies.
According to Lago, the senators were impressed that Sweden had taken in more refugees than the United States.
"They promised during the hearing to try to increase the number of refugees received to 12,000 this year," he said.
Sweden received around 19,000 asylum seekers from Iraq last year.
Although Obama was not a member of the US Helsinki Commission, Lagos's thoughts returned to his meeting earlier in the week with the senator from Illinois, whom Lagos calls his "favourite candidate".
"He even tried to pronounce 'Södertälje'," said Lago.


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Microsoft continues to outline the future of the Xbox One, authentication and international launches
Microsoft have been trying to make the best of a terrible situation while sitting on the world's stage. Phil Spencer, Microsoft Studios Corporate Vice President was ready to discuss the future of Microsoft in terms of the Xbox One in an interview with GameInformer. Spencer was excited about their new games like Ryse, which use the Kinect in "interesting ways" but were definitely aware of the competition on the E3 floor.
When asked about Sony, Spencer said, "we have more than one competitor. When you think about where they play games today, they play on a lot of different devices. I think it's wrong to think that the universe only consists of two things." Spencer referring to the great shift video games have had in the past few years from being strictly played in homes to almost everywhere. Microsoft have definitely already tried to capitalise on this with their expansion into the tablet market with Microsoft Surface.
Speaking of homes, Spencer was asked about the online authentications which Spencer assures Xbox One authentication will be small data packets. The "license refresh" would send "kilobytes, not megabytes", to authorize your system and you can even "set your console to always have the latest bits in a standby state." However, he also mirrored the words of Don Mattrick from only a few days ago, stating, "if you have no ability to connect to the Internet, the Xbox One is not the console for you." When asked about the viral quote, Spencer assured that Mattrick was a veteran who knew what he was doing. "I know Don. He's been in his industry for decades… He does care about the gamers."
While Spencer was cagey about disclosing various Xbox One features, such as pricing on Xbox One launch titles, but did note that the reason for the slow roll out in different countries was because of Microsoft's Kinect. The international delay was due to the device needs to be prepared to detect different languages and accents to function properly, but Spencer assures that Microsoft want to "make sure the [Xbox One] is fully functional at launch." Spencer even says that Microsoft are already thinking ahead and says that future generations will not be left in the cold when it's time to upgrade to the next Microsoft console.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 27 (UPI) -- In a comparison of mechanical devices versus standard medical care for clot-caused strokes, mechanical clot removal showed no benefit, U.S. researchers say.
Lead researcher Dr. Chelsea Kidwell, a professor of neurology and director of the Stroke Center at Georgetown University in Washington, said the study also found using advanced computerized tomography scans or magnetic resonance imaging prior to treatment did not help identify patients most likely to benefit from treatment.
The only government-approved and research-proven treatment for a blockage-caused -- ischemic -- stroke is tissue plasminogen activator, or tPA, known as the clot-busting drug. It must be given within 3-4.5 hours of the onset of symptoms. For those who arrive later or whose obstructions don't respond to tPA, researchers hoped that mechanical clot removal would possibly result in better outcomes.
"The hope was, and to some degree still is, that if you pull out the clot within a certain period of time and there is salvageable brain tissue, there will be better outcomes," Kidwell said in a statement.
Dr. Reza Jahan, co-principal investigator for the trial and associate professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, said the study found no data that imaging -- CT and MRI -- could help select patients for treatment and did not show an overall benefit of physically removing the clot.
"However, further studies are needed because there are new devices that open up vessels better and faster, and with fewer complications, than the first generation devices used in our trial," Jahan said.
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Blackguards - Chapter III On Early Access
Daedalic Entertainment announce in a new post on Steam that Chapter III of Blackguards is now available on Early Access.
Good news just finished chapter 2 a couple days ago. Twice as long as chapter 1 sounds great as chapter 2 was woefully short.
Also hope the game opens up some, it's very linear and haven't noticed any C&C so far.
A few observations so far,
Would like to see the following-
-More AP for completing quest without being hurt or using terrain or some sort of special condition.
-More detailed combat log and more detailed info overall.
-have Random encounters when resting. Right now as long as you have provisions you can rest anywhere.
First dwarf game is always the same answer might be good to vary it. Also no reward for completing Dwarf games.
Do companions weapons level up at all if not there are all ready better weapons when you get them.
Dice rolls could use some tweaking, failed to cast a spell 3 times in a row despite having 99% chance of success. Come to think of it with my luck that could actually be right.
That's all I can think of now.
Awesome! Thanks for the Info. I already waited for it!!! I finished act 2 a few days ago. Now I know what I will do over the weekend!!! ;)
I really like the fact how Daedalic manages to stick to their schedule. Act three was scheduled for mid of December and was published on December 12th. I think that is what you might call German punctuality! XD
I still haven't beat the louse queen, but I'm going to try again tonight. Hopefully I'll get into some chapter 3 play.
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Request for your favorite sandwhich loaf recipe
What's your favorite sandwhich loaf recipe? The one that has you completely free from buying your typically sliced bread from the grocery store?
What's your favorite sandwhich loaf recipe? The one that has you completely free from buying your typically sliced bread from the grocery store?
And the buttermilk sourdough bread. But I can make the Double Crusty white or whole wheat and it's perfect for sandwiches or toast.
I have made this recipe several times - Susan's Farmhouse White - and it turns out great every time. The recipe makes three loaves (it freezes well). It's super for toast and for BLT sandwiches which we can't get enough of this time of year. Here's the link:
Like you, I started making basic sandwich bread when the prices in store got ridiculous - I buy the store bought kind only in an emergency now.
Enjoy and thanks for a great recipe Susan!
I'm always pimping this one:
Just make sure to dial down the sugar (I went from 1/4 C -> 1 Tbsp, which is about perfect for us). My wife, who's very picky about her bread, loves this one... the unfortunate thing is, we're now ruined and can't go back to storebought. :)
The other great thing about this bread is that it holds up very well to variation. I invariably make it with 10-15% white flour, 65-75% whole wheat, and then make up the rest with other flours (rye, flax, or barley, usually).
I tried this recipe yesterday and we loved it, earlier that morning my 13 yr. old told me he doesn't like home made bread at all, but once he tried this he changed his mind, I did add some dough enhancer, I will bake in oven next time, I used the bread machine but I don't like the hard crust I get in that machine, it happens everytime, I will use it to mix and bake in the oven, I will do another bigger one today.
My weekly bread bake is the buttermilk bread from The Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book (but since I never have buttermilk in the house I just add 4t of lemon juice to the milk and let it sit for a few minutes before continuing.) Oftentimes I'll add about 1t of ground anise and the zest of an orange for a very perfume-y loaf.
People who will bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boots that kick them!
Susan, are you aware that they now sell dry buttermilk? I got it at Fry's or Safeway. No more throwing out the buttermilk I didn't use! No one I've talked to can tell the difference.
People who will bite the hand that feeds them will lick the boots that kick them!
Mike, I recently got a recipe for Cloned Wonder Bread (the OLD one). I finally received the last ingredient (Vital Wheat Gluten). I'm planning to make it in the next day or 2. If you're interested, let me know & I will post the results.
Just adding my two cents about dry buttermilk - it's great stuff! I use it in all my baking. Just keep it in the fridge after opening or it gets hard and lumpy. Micki
I've seen that dry buttermilk on the grocery shelves, but never tried it. You're right about throwing away all the unused buttermilk; that's why I stopped buying it some years ago. Will have to take the plunge and see what the difference is in the resulting bread. Thanks!
One other thing, I generally add it as a dry ingredient - mixed with the flour, salt, sugar, etc. then just plain water. One less container to wash up. Micki
This recipe is the exactly the answer to your question. We like it so much, I have mentioned it here at least two other times! I never buy bread from the store and this is its most common replacement for my children's lunch boxes.
I also cut back the sugar (though, I leave in more than FP does.) The recipe is so flexible, you can use any combo of flours you want, although I find spelt makes it a bit fragile.
I mix it in my KitchenAid and do the first rise in a bowl and the second in the pan. Before I had the mixer, I would use the dough cycle on the bread machine, do the second rise in the pan and bake in the oven. No hard, thick crusts.
Yesterday increased the recipe a bit and did use the dough cycle on the bread machine and second rise in the pullman pan and it worked out great, I asked my older son and his wife to taste test it and they liked it so much they kept pulling pieces off to eat so I sent it all home with them, they were using it to make roast beef sanwiches, I sent them home with out dinner leftovers too. I will be making another loaf today.


text: One thing to keep in mind about Canada geese is that they are excellent eating, and a lot of hunters don't really know what to do with the big birds. Many "breast out" their birds, which is to say they cut the breast out (and skin them!!) and just throw away the huge legs and thighs. Wow; just thinking about can cause depression, given how good those legs and thighs are. If you know anyone who hunts geese regularly, chances are they will have extras and be happy to give some away to an appreciative person. Once they have your smoked goose, your supply is guaranteed! I have been doing geese two ways, with a new approach this year. First approach is to cut up the bird; separate breasts and legs and thighs; so 6 pieces per bird. Brine 8-12 hours. Then smoke until done. Out of the smoker goose is outstanding. Of course the fatty skin has to be on the bird. That fat with the meat is key. Some will cut the fat away later to eat, which is fine, but don't smoke the bird without its skin if you can avoid it. I'll cut the breasts into slices and freeze different portions. This is a gift folks like to get! This one went almost 7 hours. My new and second approach is the same as the first, except that I don't cook the bird through. The best possible flavor is hot out of the smoker, like just about anything else. To achieve that I tried smoking for several hours (4-6); until the skin is browned some and the bird is partly cooked. I stayed at 140-150. Then I freeze the breast pieces. The bird is still not cooked; after thawing I then cook the pieces at 400 degrees, usually for 20-24 minutes, depending on size of chunk. Two things happen with this approach; the bird is sizzling out of the oven, and its smoked! When I give away geese or ducks this way folks who don't smoke now get virtually the same result as if they were at my house when the birds came out of the smoker. That's better than if I gave them a fully smoked and cooked bird that they just had to warm up (and probably overcook and dry out in the process). The legs and thighs; I trim these, and here is some of what results: These trimmings I have been grinding with venison for burgers. (I chop and freeze the trimmings and grind them frozen.) Man that does dress up a burger! I mix the goose/duck trimmings at about 40%, and use a little hand burger press from Target and freeze them all pressed out. A quick thaw and the burgers go in the pan with nothing else since the waterfowl fat melts right out to fry them in. The remaining legs and thighs get grilled over and old Farberware grill (where a pan underneath catches the extra fat), and then they get pressure canned with cabbage or wild rice. You don't have to grill them before canning, but if there is a lot of fat on the skin cooking it out first keeps your jars from getting too fatty. These tougher cuts can beautifully. I've had guys say the smoked canned goose legs rate a 10. I'll do a canning piece sometime. It's really fast and easy to do, and then your stuff isn't all frozen. Just some thoughts on a smoking approach that allows folks to enjoy the benefits of a hot smoked meal, with only having to finish off the cooking part. Similar to a smoked but uncooked sausage I guess. Note that any trimmings used for hamburger, etc., are cut into very small pieces, so I can be sure no pellets sneak by. Any place I see a pellet track I follow it and do my very best to eliminate all pellets. That steel shot can break a tooth. When I slice goose breast I slice it thin enough to accomplish the same thing. The brine I use: 4 cups apple juice (get the kind with no preservatives) 4 cups water 1/2 cup salt 1/3 cup orange juice 1/2 cup maple syrup After you dissolve salt in warm water add other stuff (syrup first as the warm water will clean off your measure) and chill and add birds.


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Living in Seattle, we get some of the best wild mushrooms in the country at our markets, often within hours of being foraged. The bounty of morels, chanterelles, porcini, maitake, and dozens of other varieties is astonishing. Sometimes I forget how delicious cultivated button mushrooms can be.
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Mar 18, 2011 - 5:30 am
Not sure where this is going to go just wondering, have you ever had an experience in your life that seemed odd or other worldly, spiritual and/or unexplainable. I have had a few, one occurred 15 years ago while I was crossing a street with a dear friend as we chatted up a storm while on our break. As we entered the cross walk for no reason what so ever we both stopped walking, stopped talking, completely stopped within seconds a car sped past us so close I could have extended my pinky and touched it, we felt the wind from its force but we were untouched and safe. We continued across the street in silence almost trance like, when we got to the other side I asked her why she had stopped walking when she did, she had the same answer as I did she had no clue. It was so strange, it was as if someone had flipped an off switch in us just long enough to keep us from being ran over by the red light runner. Now, my question is if you have had an odd unexplainable event happen to you what do you think caused it? In this instance I think God intervened because apparently we still had some living to do. Okay the balls in your court, I just want to get your thoughts on this.
Mar 18, 2011 - 11:55 am
I have. The first one was 1968. I've mentioned some of the experiences on here already. Most of the experiences I don't know who was behind it. They can't be explained or proved.
I'm interested in other people's. I've heard a few.
On a radio program once they (I forgot who) said if you have a near death experience you seem to be more sensitive to odd experiences.
Mar 18, 2011 - 12:28 pm
Yes, which might surprise some folks, but, yes.
While on a camping trip with girl friend in college, she went off to take care of personal hygiene and I was at the campsite in the mtns of Virginia, starting a morming fire, when a group of Native Americans came down the trail next to our fire (I had not considered it a trail until then), said nothing, and went away along the trail.
They were not "TV" Indians, not dressed like TV Indians, and I could smell them and see them and nearly reach out and touch them, but they were not there. Most of them were women and children, I recall, and I had the strong sense that they were migrating for the season from the mtns to lower lands.
I had no hesitation in telling my gf about this, and we followed what turned out to be what used to be a trail, after all, before turning back for camp and other activities.
Not a 'hello I'm God!' experience, but an ethereal one, nonetheless. I have no explanation other than hemp, and I don't mean that as a joke... I have no idea.
Mar 18, 2011 - 12:37 pm
Hey Joe,
Mar 18, 2011 - 1:45 pm
I believe I mentioned hemp, carole :). Truth is though, it remains a very real, a very unexplainable episode for me.
Take care,
Mar 21, 2011 - 10:29 am
I totally believe in spirits as well (and I don't mean Jack Daniels spirits either, lol). Sounds like you were camping in Indian territories too, strong spirits from what I have heard.
Or it could have been the 'smoke'.
Mar 19, 2011 - 5:51 am
That is quite interesting Joe. I would have followed that trail as well to see if there may be something I am supposed to be aware of or just to see where they may have gone. Thanks for sharing that!
Mar 19, 2011 - 6:00 am
When my sister was passing we all spent as much time with her as we could chatting and recalling time from days past. We all piled on her bed and were chatting while she rested, she would wake and share or comment occassionally then rest some more, this went on for about 10 days. On the last day of her life (we did not know it was her last day of course) she began a conversation none of us were invited too. She started talking to "someone" early in the morning and continued nearly non stop all day long. We sat on her bed and did our thing while she chatted away (we could not understand what she was saying but it had purpose) occassionally she would stop open her eyes and shush us telling us we are being too loud and giving us the stink eye :-) then she would go back to her conversation. She stopped abruptly at about ten p.m., relaxed smiled and settled down. She passed away at 4:00 that morning. To this day we have all wondered who she was chatting with, she was engrossed in her conversation and was enjoying it, perhaps it was my mom I like to think so.
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Mar 21, 2011 - 4:06 am
Gracie thank you for sharing these very thought provoking events, do you attribute them to anything or do you think they are something that simply occurs during our last moments. I know for me I believe there is an after life and that we glimpse it during our final moments here when we are perhaps between two worlds so to speak. I know my sister was most assuredly between two worlds on that last day, I have no doubt.
Mar 21, 2011 - 10:46 am
The 'unusual' experience I am referring to came to me in the form of a line of heat. This would take forever to explain so I am going to be brief here, kind of diminishes the intensity of the event, but for brevity's sake I will have to condense.
When I was in isolation, trying to get through my bone marrow transplant I had over 18 years ago, I had congestive heart failure. After I came out of the coma from it I was sitting up in bed (had to sit and sleep that way due to pneumonias) when all of a sudden I experienced this 'heat line' that started at the top of my head and went, horizontally, slowly and deliberately right through my body, stopping and lingering around the two sites of my cancers then moving on til the line of heat went right out the bottom of my feet. During the time it lingered on the final site of the cancer I got this strong thought in my mind that said 'this is a healing and it will never be back'. It wasn't like a booming voice from above, just a gentle explanation in my mind and that gave me the peace to go on and not worry about another bout of 'the beast'. I KNOW, like I have never known anything before, a real true KNOWING that this was a healing. I was never, at any time through this event - scared, curious yes and taken aback - yes, but never afraid and that in itself is miraculous at such a sensation. Now don't start thinking that I am a bible thumper, in fact I seldom even attend church during the holidays but I do believe in a higher power, after this healing more than ever. I was not asking for a healing per se just of course praying my face off to get me through this, for my young family more than anything but I never actually thought of a proper healing as they are described , but I seemed to have gotten one anywho. After I had recovered I found out that there were two prayer groups praying for me and I can't help but think that the power of prayer, group prayer especially, was at work at that time for me, in spades.
I can't impress upon you enough that kind of 'KNOWING' that makes it crystal clear that you have been touched by God. I pray sometimes to have that feeling again but feel selfish since I had it once whi
Anywho I took that explanation from a post I did a few years back but thought I would share it with you all again since RE introduced a new category for this kind of thing.
Mar 22, 2011 - 6:07 am
Blue I have heard of folks that have expierenced a healing of sorts and have had the same heat sensation you describe. Thank you for sharing your moment of Knowing, I am sure it was qutie profound when it happened and is so now as well. I don't think God holds his miracles only for the church going, we are all sinners after all in one way or another. My best to you!
Mar 22, 2011 - 10:09 am
Hello RE and thanks for making this discussion possible! All of my experiences revolve around my dad. The morning of my dad's passing, I was sitting with him and he was making me promise him I would not take him back to the hospital. I made him that promise, and he made us shake hands. As I shook his hand, I could feel his strength. I was surprised by this because he was very frail, and weak by this point. I told him....you still have a strong handshake! He looked me right in the eye and said...."That is what the Lord said." That evening as he was passing, he sat straight up, looked straight ahead, his eyes a strong beautiful blue, and reached his arms forward, as if reaching for someone to take him. The next day at the funeral home, our family got to see him one last time before his cremation. As we were all around him there was instrumental music playing in the background. My dad was a huge Elvis fan. The two songs that played were, Love Me Tender, and My Way. Dad always said he did it his way. The last thing to happen is at my parents house. In the bedroom there is the tv. Every so often, at least once a week, the tv just comes on by itself. To me, these are all signs that there is a God, there is a heaven, and my dad is there! Hope my stories make you feel as happy as they do me!
Mar 24, 2011 - 5:30 am
Tina it sounds like Dad is saying hello with the T.V. thing. Elvis, both my mom and sister were huge fans, I am betting that was your dad's way of saying everything was fine. Thank you for sharing your special moments with your Dad.
Mar 22, 2011 - 4:59 pm
Miracles can happen to anyone, church going or not. Many people talk about that ine of heat feeling or some describe it as 'being submerged in water'. Interesting eh?
I had another incident during that same isolation time in hospital. I was sitting up in my isolation room, in bed, and all of a sudden I couldn't catch my breath. I signalled my husband who was sitting in the corner of the room reading the newspaper and when he saw me gasping for breath he ran out and got the nurses who came flying yelling 'crash cart crash cart'. After that I went into a coma and when I came out of it a few days later they said that it was congestive heart failure and I nearly died. I said to them ' good thing my husband was in the room at the time to go get you' at which time they said 'he wasn't here'. 'He was on his way to the hospital we called him to tell him to get down here because we weren'tn sure if you were going to make it'.
Hmmm, then who was that in the corner of the room that looked like my ex? I didn't call the nurses. An Angel is how I felt. What else could it have been?
Interesting time, that transplant.
Take care Re,
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Mar 24, 2011 - 4:15 am
Hi Graci,
Most of the time when I tell people about the strange happenings in my house, they probably think I'm from the "Land of the Loonies". I have lived in this house since 1968 and it still full of mysteries. Several years ago we were sleeping when my husband jumped up and turned on the light. He asked me if I had turned over and shook the bed and I told him I had been asleep. We both looked near the foot of the bed and there were four indentations on top as if a dog had landed on it. We had no animals at the time.
Many times we have both caught a glimpse of a figure going from the kitchen into the hall.
My husband poured a glass of milk, set it on the counter, and as he returned the carton to the frig, the glass literally flew off the counter and broke. I saw this from the opposite side of the kitchen.
The last incident happened about a year ago while he was hospitalized. I decided to dust shelves,etc. and had moved a large heavy Chinese Jade ship from the cabinet to the floor.
I was told when I purchased the house that the former owner's mother had died here. Maybe she wants her house back.
The happenings here are just unusual, the only costly one being the ship. But if the truth be told, I do feel a malevolence here. Just can't afford to leave.
Now, I don't think that we're both crazy, but you know how they say that when two people are together a long time, they start to look like each other, sooooooo. LOL
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Mar 24, 2011 - 6:00 pm
I have copied and pasted a post from Dec, 2008 I posted about an interesting ocurance that happened to me that I had shared with my breast cancer sister's here on csn. As I stated in the post please read with an open mind. In the end I note that I believe it was her reaching out to comfort me as it was the first anniversary of her passing and it was quite difficult for me.
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My sister passed away on Dec 15, 2007 sometime between 2:00 a.m. and 4 a.m. She was fascinated with things that lit up, lite toys, eye glasses that had lights in them to read (she called these her magic eyes and she made sure we all had a pair :-)) figurines that lit up and candles, oh how she loved candles. In her home she had at least 20 candles that she lit nightly, it was always beautiful and of course it smelled lovely. Then there is the gorgeous heart shaped wreath that lights up which I discussed with you all previously.
I have told you this as a lead in to what has been happening in my home over the last week. Please read this with an open mind and heart and know that I am a very happy and stable woman (not a nut job). On my husbands side of the bed he has a touch sensitive lamp which has been there for a year and has functioned properly in all of that time. Well four nights ago it began turning on on its own the moment I would turn out my light to go to sleep; which is in most cases no earlier than 2:30 a.m. Now, I mean that I would close my eyes and the lamp would turn on. I thought how odd the first night and asked him to turn it off, it did it 6 more times till we finally just left it on. In the following days I have checked the light throughout the day and it has remained off. No further light shows occurred until last night, I closed my eyes and on came the light. I shut it off and that was the end of that. Tonight at 3:00 a.m. I turned my lamp out, got comfortable and closed my eyes, ping the room lit up. I asked my husband to turn the light out and he looked perplexed and checked his watch, it was then that I realized it is only turning on in the hours that she passed, in the month that she passed and it is a light and as I mentioned above she loved lights! I sobbed for a few moments and am still tearing a bit. It is just like her to want to soothe my pain of her loss by letting me know she is okay. Please understand that I am not making this up, I am in tears as I write this. I am trusting that you all will understand. I really felt compelled to share this with you because I have shared so much of her with you recently.
I am putting my reputation as a stable person on the line here. I hope this has not offended anyone as it is not my intention to push an spiritual aspect on anyone, it is just what is happening here and I wanted to share.
My sister fought breast cancer twice, had reconstruction, then had to have it all removed due to infections and all redone which took an incredible amount of time and pain . She lived with it done for about six months before she found out she was dying of pancreatic cancer. She lost her husband to throat cancer 6 years previous and our mom the year before that. SO yes, it is a different post for this board but it is in an odd way related to cancer.
I guess that is all I wanted to share, thanks again for listening to me as I deal with my loss. Don't get me wrong, I am not having a horrible month it is December and I love Christmas. As a funny foot note to all this my husband, daughter and I spent two 1/2 hours standing in the cold tonight with my two grandsons who are 2 and 4 so they could enjoy the Parade of Lights that our town puts on each year. How fitting.
Thanks again for listening. I am going to try to get some sleep.
*A FOOT NOTE: It has been more than two year since I wrote this and the lamp has never again done this, it seems once I acknowledged it was my sis it stopped I think because I had understood her reaching out.
Mar 28, 2011 - 2:19 am
I do believe she sent a sign of comfort to you.
I've had several experiences. The most recent was about 3 years ago. I was in the car coming down an intersection close to my house. It was close to 11:00 P.M. and pretty quiet. As I was driving towards it, I almost ALWAYS look towards the left at the Walgreens just to see the activity there. This time, as if drawn, I looked to my right at a white car in the distance. I had the green and was proceding towards the intersection but it was as if I felt compelled to watch this white car to my right. Well as I approached, to my horror I realized the white car that seemed far off was actually speeding about 60mph towards the intersection at the extact same time I was. I immediately braked as it ran the red, never even attempting to stop. It would have blown me away.
I kept re-playing the scene over and over in my head and how I felt strangely "prompted" to be aware of the danger coming my way.
Without a doubt I know it was God. I was just shaken and in awe at the same time by this and was certainly giving Him praise. I've gravitated to this verse and pray it daily thanking Him for His protection:
For He will give His angels charge concerning you,
Mar 28, 2011 - 3:38 am
Sylvia that is one of my favorite verses! Thank you for sharing your moment with us. I know when these things happen they seem to have a different feel to them, an strange awareness that something unique is happening it is our choice to pay attention to it or not. Well in most cases it is our choice, sometimes it just happens and we then are left to wonder.
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Apr 10, 2011 - 4:45 pm
This is my first day here and I feel honored to be with you all.
RE, the lamp coming on, I believe, was your Sis telling you she is with you. My precious Dad did much the same thing...may I share?
My Dad passed in March of '02 and we moved into our new house, in a new town, in August of the same year. I had told him about the new place when he was in hospital but he didn't see it. We had been in the house a short time, a few weeks, when the lightbulbs starting blowing out in the bathroom..everyday 1 or 2 bulbs would go!? By day 3 I had the electrician in to double-check the electrics and make sure we were fire safe...everything was A-OK. This went on for 5 or 6 days until I had a thought..not my thought just words came in my head, a Knowing, " it is your Dad". Hahaha I had a good laugh with my husband standing next to me looking at me as tho I were bonkers!! I said , " It is ok it is Dad, he is letting us know he is with us and OK", my scientist husband has been with me long enough to believe me. From that moment onwards no more burnt bulbs one after another, I think it was months before we had to replace one.
Now it is 2011 and my Mom passed the first week of March. Long story short, 2 days after her passing I said to her if she wanted to let me know she was Ok could she not burn out my lightbulbs as Dad had done that and it was costly and a bit annoying..this was said tongue in cheek ;). I then walked into the kitchen and the roll of papertowelling FLEW off the top of the fridge and whacked me in the upper arm!!! I was Stunned and amazed and shocked and dashed into the music room to my husband who was deep in concentration with his guitar..he looked at me and asked what on earth was wrong??? I finally composed myself and told him what I just told you, he said, " Right on, Betty"...Betty is my Mom!!
I am so thankful for this forum. I am very sensitive, as many people are, and have had an out of body experience and a near death experience. I frequently know what is going to happen next both in real life and in movies/tvmuch to the unglueing of my poor husband. Is anyone else here sensitive like this or in other ways?
It is a pleasure meeting you all.
Light and blessings,
Apr 23, 2011 - 6:47 am
I have written about my two experiences already but you mentioned out of body experience and I had one as well.
It happened to me way before my diagnosis of cancer, in fact when I was very young - in my late teens. I had started to do Transcendental Meditation and it seemed I was pretty good at it - fell into the meditation very easily.
Anywho one day I came home from work and sat down on my bed to meditate and only about 3 minutes into the meditation I experienced my shoulders dropping really fast, sort of startled me. Obviously my tensions were great that day but the meditation level I guess I got down to really fast so the stress was relieved in a significant obvious way in my shoulders fast.
A few minutes after that happened I was just sitting there managing to keep my mind clear, which if of course the goal of meditation when I realized that something was different. I realized that I was looking down on myself mediatating. Ohhhhhhhhh that's not normal. Then I realized that my hands were touching something cold and hard. I looked to my hands and they were presed up against the walls on either side of me and I was what felt like holding myself there and I was up in the corner of the room at the ceiling. My back was up against the ceiling, I was sort of in a fetal position but not on my side, straight up and down with my knees in to my stomach. YIKES. I can still feel the coldness of the walls on my palms when I think about this happening.
As soon as I realized I was out of body I panicked and was immediately pulled back in to where I was meditating on my bed. I stopped meditating and ran out to tell my roommate who of course looked at me as if I was nuts and I have to say I wondered myself. But it did happen.
The thing is that I wasn't expecting or trying to go out of body and in fact had only vaguely ever heard of it happening and not while meditating. Later of course I found out that is a typical time for it to happen but at that time I had no idea. So, I wasn't setting myself up to talk myself into it happening in my mind alone. It did happen to me. I wasn't sleeping, I was awake but in a meditative state. I could have got up and answered the phone while meditating, I was that conscious all the time which makes this experience all the more interesting to me.
I wish I had the guts to have gone with the out of body experience as i hear some people fly to all parts of the world in that state, or zap there or whatever you call it but I was frightened I might not be able to get back itno myself. What a chicken. lol.
Anywho that's my out of body experience. Have never done it since that first time. Cluck cluck cluck. lol.
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the audience thinks like I do. That could be an embarrassment, for me!!!
Relationships 101: It is always handy to have a couple of cuties on your back burner.
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Why did Chris just waste this whole segment talking to the audience? Isn't there enought of the ... you know ... actual love story?
You could be the juiciest, most ripe peach, but there is still going to be someone who doesn't like peaches.
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Last year, City Ballet of San Diego took an expensive risk by supplementing the premiere of its "Carmina Burana" ballet with not only a live orchestra but a 100-voice choir.
Fortunately, the risk paid off handsomely with sold-out houses and a subsequent leap in ticket sales that has yet to subside. This month, the company hopes to repeat that success with the premiere of a new ballet set to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's "Requiem Mass in D Minor." Once again, it will feature new choreography by company co-founder Elizabeth Wistrich, the City Ballet Orchestra and the same choir. Running May 9-11 at the Spreckels Theatre, the 21/2-hour program will include the full "Requiem" and Act II of "Swan Lake."
"We tapped a whole new audience with 'Carmina Burana.' The biggest response we got was from people who had never seen a ballet," said John Nettles, City Ballet's music director and orchestra conductor. "We're trying to get the word out that ballet is a very flexible art form."
Mozart's "Requiem" has been steeped in legend since he died while composing it in 1791. Working with Mozart's drafts and notes, a student finished the hourlong choral Mass for the dead. Ever since, books, plays and movies have probed the mystery of who commissioned the piece and whether Mozart believed he was writing his own musical epitaph.
"It's one of Mozart's most dramatic pieces — very full, majestic, almost operatic in its power," Nettles said. "There is a lot of playfulness associated with Mozart's music, but this has less of that and more of a reverence and gravitas."
Wistrich said her "Requiem" choreography will not be religious in style but will evoke emotions drawn from a few words of each section of the choral libretto. Four solo dancers will be paired with the vocal soloists, and the dancers will transition from restrictive costumes and dance steps in the beginning to more diaphanous costumes and free-flowing steps as the work rises to its conclusion.
The choir accompanying the performances is the same one assembled last year for "Carmina Burana." After the shows last spring, choral director Jim Tomkins-MacLaine moved the choir under the auspices of the San Diego Public Library. Nettles hopes to use the group for many more collaborations with City Ballet.
While the "Requiem" is expected to attract classical music fans, Wistrich hopes the other half of the program — the second act of the 1877 Russian classic "Swan Lake" — turns them into ballet lovers.
"It's a great piece for a new audience," Nettles said. "Tchaikovsky's music is beautiful, and it has all the great tutu moments."
City Ballet: "Requiem" & "Swan Lake, Act II"
When: 8 p.m. May 9 and 10. 2 p.m. May 11.
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The 2004 first quarter net income was $9 million or 2 cents per diluted share compared to a GAAP net loss of $122 million or 33 cents per diluted share in the 2003 first quarter.
"LSI Logic's Storage Components business, which includes Storage ASICs, Storage Standard Products and RAID Storage Adapters, recorded a solid performance in the first quarter," said Wilfred Corrigan, LSI Logic chairman and chief executive officer, in a statement. "In Communications, LSI Logic's sales to enterprise networking customers continued to demonstrate improvement, while telecommunications is expected to resume its long-term growth rate later this year. In Consumer, video game revenues declined seasonally as expected."


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PILI, Philippines, Jan. 1 (UPI) -- A Philippine man killed four people he had held hostage, then killed himself as he sat on a grenade that exploded, injuring several other people, police said.
The grenade exploded while Anthony Zepeda's body was being moved Tuesday evening, the Philippine Daily Inquirer reported. A police officer and three mortuary workers were injured, one of them critically.
A daylong standoff in Pili, Camarines Sur, began Tuesday morning, when a 14-year-old servant fled the house, reporting trouble, police said. Zepeda refused to talk to hostage negotiators.
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Adrian Beltre has been the rare Rangers regular to get off to a slow start at the plate this season.
He's hitting just .125, has just one extra base hit and isn't drawing any walks. It's all enough for some people to suggest that he got dropped from the cleanup spot in favor of the torrid Nelson Cruz.
It's a silly notion. Six games is an unbelievably small sample size to use for a reasonable evaluation, trying to fix something that isn't broken is never wise and the shuffle wouldn't result in a big change in projected runs either. At least the suggestion stops at changing the batting order because extending it to say anything negative about Beltre's value would be monumentally stupid.
Make no mistake, Beltre has had a major impact on the six-game winning streak even without producing runs like he did last season. He's done it with a glove that's been just as good as advertised and has been making the entire team better as a result.
There are the obviously great plays, like the one he made to rob Milton Bradley of a double in the eighth inning on Wednesday. Bradley scorched a ball down the line, Beltre made the play without a problem and then gunned the troubled Mariner down with a one-hop strike that was right on the money.
Does Michael Young make that play? No real need to answer that one.
Web gems aren't the only thing that makes Beltre's defense special, though. Think back to Monday, when Elvis Andrus made a play behind second on an Ichiro grounder and then gunned the speedy one out at first. If Beltre doesn't have such tremendous range, Andrus has to play more in the hole and there's no way he gets to Ichiro's hit in time to make the out. Then Ichiro is on base, Derek Holland has to deal with a baserunner and who knows what might happen from there.
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This is a great week for the University of San Diego women's crew.
Even before the Crew Classic, the Toreros were riding a high.
On Wednesday, the Toreros learned they were ranked 21st among all women crews in the NCAA – marking the first time a local crew has been recognized in the national rankings.
The Toreros capped that news by finishing third Saturday morning on Mission Bay in their heat of the Jessop-Whittier Cup for the elite eights to become one of the few local crews ever to qualify for one of Sunday's co-featured races.
And there's more.
The USD women's four also advanced to its championship race Sunday.
Ditto for the Toreros Open and Novice eights. In fact, only one USD crew fell short – and the Junior Varsity eight came close.
It might be the strongest showing ever by a local crew in the 41-year history of the Crew Classic.
"We've made great progress," said USD head coach Kim Cupini after her elite eight posted the fourth-fastest time of the day against some of the best crews in women's collegiate rowing – and remember, women's crew is a NCAA championship sport.
"This is a huge day. But we're far from done. We want to go to the NCAA finals."
The Toreros won't be favored in Sunday's Jessop-Whitter Cup finals on the 2,000-meter course finishing at Crown Point Shores.
The five other women's elite eights are all ranked higher nationally – topped by heat winners No. 4 Southern California and No. 6 Washington.
USC will be looking for a fourth straight Jessop-Whitter title.
That, however, doesn't seem to bother the Toreros.
"I don't think we're as close to being as good as we're going to be," said Torero senior Brianna Lamb of San Anselmo. "We've been making tremendous gains since I got here as a freshman. It's really exciting to be a part of this.
"Everyone in the boat knows where we were and where we can go."
Cupini is in her seventh season as the head coach of the USD women. A former USD rower, she inherited a struggling program that she has turned into a very competitive team despite some organizational limitations.
Women's crew is a scholarship sport that many universities use as the Title IX offset to football. Many universities put women's rowing on par with the other elite women's sports. Because of its status, women's crew has an edge over men's crew – which is a not a NCAA sport -- at many universities when it comes to facilities and budget as well as scholarships.
USD is not quite in that arena . . . yet.
The Toreros spread a less than a quarter of the allowed NCAA scholarships among its crew. Workouts on Mission Bay commence daily at 7:30 a.m. The USD women's crew shares an on-campus training room, which is unavailable to crew members after 5:30 p.m., with a dance team and rec classes.
"We've outgrown our facilities," said Cupini, who has her eyes on a spot on Mission Bay that would be perfect for a USD boathouse.
USD opened practices last fall with 80 women in the program. Sixty remain.
"We're really a team beyond the varsity boat," said Nneka Anyanwu, a graduate of Westview High who is the lone San Diego high school product currently in the Toreros varsity eight.
"It's really exciting what is going on.
"We knew we could be fast last fall. We hit a rough patch. But we've come together and our boat has gone a long ways."
The Toreros recently finished two seconds behind Yale during a regatta at Texas and performed well at the Pac-12 Challenge meet.
"It's exciting," said Lamb, one of four seniors in the boat. "Every race has been like the next step."
Stanford and California won their heats of the Copley Cup for the men's elite collegiate eights. Defending champ Cal will be looking for a fifth win in six years and a record 13th overall when the elite finals start at 9:55 a.m.


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NORTH-EAST poets encouraged would-be writers to put pen to paper when they visited a Darlington library.
Acclaimed poet Anna Woodford hosted a workshop at Darlington's Crown Street Library while Mark Robinson read from his latest collection How I Learned to Sing, which explores the industrial and cultural transformation of northern England from the Miners' Strike to the advent of the Big Society.
The pair were at the library as part of New Writing North's Read Regional Campaign.
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This year's campaign, which seeks to connect authors from the north of England with local readers, will see around 80 events held in libraries and bookshops around the region.
Other events include an appearance by authors Susan Elliot Wright and Sarah Stovell at Stockton Central Library on Saturday February 8.
Ms Wright will also join novelist Gavin Extence at Darlington's Crown Street Library on Wednesday March 12 while author Rebecca Muddiman will visit Cockerton Library's evening reading group on Tuesday March 18. For more information, visit readregional.com.