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PORT ORANGE, Fla., Dec. 31 (UPI) -- Thursday was a somber day for NASCAR, as Marvin Panch was found unresponsive in his car.
The 17 time winner in NASCAR's top series and 1961 Daytona 500 winner, was pronounced dead of natural causes according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal.
Panch, who was named one of NASCAR's 50 greatest drivers, never won a cup title.
"He was one of the last of the group of drivers who helped establish the sport," Buz McKim, the historian at the NASCAR Hall of Fame in Charlotte, told the News-Journal. "We have a few left at best."
Rest in peace, Marvin Panch: https://t.co/S41yd3OJtQ pic.twitter.com/YfMYz6EgWO— NASCAR (@NASCAR) December 31, 2015
The 89-year-old's wife also died in 2006. Panch was a resident of Port Orange, FL, according to FOX Sports. He made his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series debut in 1951.
Panch also had two children, Richie and Marvette. Richie died in a plane crash in 1985.


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Dogs could help children avoid asthma
3rd November 2015
Study finds young children who have a pet dog are less likely to develop asthma.
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Dog sniffs out cancer
9th March 2015
US researchers used dog to sniff out thyroid cancer.
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Cancer dates back 11,000 years say scientists
24th January 2014
UK scientists say the world's oldest cancer dates back 11,000 years and arose in a single dog.
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Dog sniffs out C diff
14th December 2012
Researchers taught a beagle to sniff out C diff in stool samples and in infected patients.
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Meet the canine helpers
3rd May 2012
They can call lifts and comfort a child with autism.
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Could Bakewell tart help dementia patients?
27th April 2012
A competition to help develop new ideas in dementia care has seen suggestions range from the aroma of Bakewell tart, guide dogs for the mind, hi-tech wrist bands and internet solutions
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Taking pets to work can reduce stress
3rd April 2012
A study suggests taking a pet to work can reduce stress and make a job more satisfying for other employees too.
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Lyme disease may be more prevalent in the UK than realised.
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The Scottish SPCA struggled to find owners for the diabetic Staffordshire bull terrier, but Roxy now has a new home.
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Princess Of Mykonos
Mikonos, Greece (JMK)
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Double Room Sea View
- Double Occupancy
- One Double or Two Twin beds
Junior Suite
- One Double and One Single Bed
Junior Suite, Sea View (with jacuzzi)
- One Double and One Single Bed
Deluxe Suite, Sea View
- One Double and One Sofa Bed
Suite, Sea View (Princess)
- One Double Bed
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Princess Of Mykonos's restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A poolside bar and a bar/lounge are open for drinks. Room service is available during limited hours. The hotel serves a complimentary buffet breakfast in the restaurant. Recreational amenities include an outdoor pool. Complimentary wireless Internet access is available in public areas and the hotel has an Internet point. For a surcharge, shuttle services include a ferry terminal shuttle and a shuttle from the airport to the hotel. Tour/ticket assistance and tour assistance are available. Self parking is complimentary. Additional property amenities include a coffee shop/caf�, multilingual staff, and gift shops/newsstands. This is a smoke-free property.
Air-conditioned guestrooms at Princess Of Mykonos feature minibars and laptop-compatible safes. Balconies or patios offer sea, pool, or courtyard views. Beds come with Egyptian cotton sheets. Double sofa beds are included. At this 3-star hotel, accommodations include kitchens with refrigerators. Bathrooms feature bathtubs or showers, makeup/shaving mirrors, slippers, and complimentary toiletries. Wireless Internet access is complimentary. Guestrooms offer direct-dial phones. Satellite television is provided. Rooms also include windows that open, blackout drapes/curtains, welcome amenities, and hair dryers. Guests may request in-room massages, wake-up calls, and bathrobes. Housekeeping is available daily.
- This property offers transfers from the ferry terminal and airport (surcharges may apply). Guests must contact the property with arrival details before travel, using the contact information on the booking confirmation.
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Jonathan Adler Origami Melamine tableware
Orange you glad it's summer? The ever clever Jonathan Adler has a great collection of melamine tableware perfect for outdoor entertaining. Inspired by the graphic lines of japanese origami papers, the Origami collection includes platters, cups, bowls, and pitchers. Everything you need to give your patio or picnic some poolside panache.
There's also a great "peacock" print collection if you're looking for a little "Pucci"-esque styling. As with most melamine dishes these days, they are top rack dishwasher safe, but not recommended for microwave use.


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Automotive plants in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt will remain shut tomorrow. Managements of both Hero Motocorp and Maruti Suzuki have declared a holiday owing to the all India strike called by the central trade unions.
Automotive plants in the Gurgaon-Manesar belt will remain shut tomorrow. Managements of both Hero Motocorp and Maruti Suzuki have declared a holiday owing to the all India strike called by the central trade unions. Apart from the heavyweights other component makers like Sona Koyo and Rico Auto will be shut too.
While workers get a day off tomorrow CNBC-TV18 takes a look around Maruti's Manesar factory six months since it was re-opened for production after the bloodiest bout of labour troubles in the company's history.
The 600-acre Maruti facility at Manesar had turned into a war zone for a little over 5 hours on July 18 last year, claiming the life of a senior HR executive and leaving nearly 100 others injured.
Its six months since Maruti finally reopened the factory to production after a month long shutdown. A look around the plant suggests that its business as usual for the majority Japanese owned OEM. Production levels are now 20% more from the 30,000 units-average prior to the violence. The company is now gearing up to open plant c at this very Manesar site in another 6 months. It plans to hire an additional 2000 hands for this.
"We have moved on since the violence. There are good working relations between supervisors and workers," says MM Singh, COO - Production, Maruti. While things look normal, there are a few vexing issues that linger. Twenty six year old Jitendra was one of the 546 workers fired by the company last July. He says life for him now is about running from pillar to post.
"After the July 18 incident, the Maruti management laid off 546 permanent workers. We have met the Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda thrice. We also met his son Deepender also but our problems and troubles continue," Jitendra elaborates.
These laidoff Maruti workers have now formed a provisional committee and would be meeting the Haryana CM at Chandigarh on Thursday. Trade union CITU, which has spearheaded the fight for the laidoff workers, claims another 1800 contract workers have been let go over the past six months.
Satvir Singh State President, CITU adds,"150 workers were arrested by the police without a fair hearing. Its been seven months and they are still in jail."
A lot has changed at the Manesar factory since July 18. For starters the CCTV office that was completely destroyed and burnt to ground has been now been restored. Apart from that there are new look exteriors with a fresh coat of paint. But the question everyone is asking that if indeed worker-management relations have improved why the need extra security with private guards all the time.


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This is Thunderdome, the unmoderated open thread on Pharyngula. Say what you want, how you want.
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You Twin Cities folk will have to drive like maniacs to get here in time, but you can do it: I hear the roads are slick as glass so you can just slide all the way here. At 6pm we're doing another science for the community event, this time with Michael Ceballos talking about biology and biofuels. I'll be heading over in a little bit to set everything up — I get to be the emcee. It does mean I've got a long evening ahead of me, though, and I haven't had a nap.
I took the Are You a Humanist? test, and only scored 90%. They're not going to drum me out of the group, are they?
Unfortunately, the results don't tell me on which of the questions I fell short of the humanist ideal. I suspect one might have been where I said my purpose was to protect the planet for future generations, rather than to increase the happiness and welfare of humanity, but I don't know.
I needed this. After seething over the ghastly McLeroy in The Revisionaries last night, it was a relief to see McLeroy meet Colbert.
There is an organization in the UK called the Christian Medical Fellowship. OK, no problem, you might think — nothing wrong with Christian fellowship, nothing wrong with doctors who go to church or pray together. But you'd be wrong. Religion poisons everything. This is what the 4000 members of that organization talk about: demons.
The New Testament tells us that Jesus has commissioned us to 'drive out demons' (Mk 16:17), and we must be ready to respond to this commission if and when we are called to do so.
Psychiatry, then, is not the only domain within which we need to be aware of demonic influence, and perhaps it is not even the most important such domain. Furthermore, we cannot expect to make a simple differential diagnosis according to certain signs or symptoms of demonisation. However, this does not exclude the need to consider other possible links between demonic activity and mental illness.
Demon possession and mental illness, then, are not simply alternative diagnoses to be offered when a person presents with deliberate self harm or violent behaviour, although they may need to be distinguished in such circumstances, whether by spiritual discernment or the application of basic psychiatric knowledge. It would seem reasonable to argue that demon possession may be an aetiological factor in some cases of mental illness, but it may also be an aetiological factor in some non-psychiatric conditions, and in other cases it may be encountered in the absence of psychiatric or medical disorder.
How about some truth in advertising: I suggest they change their name to Christian Witch-Doctor Fellowship. I would not want to go to a doctor to discover that he would diagnose depression as possession, or that an ulcer was demonic.
Unfortunately, the US has its own national quack, Dr Oz. The New Yorker has an excellent exposé of Oz.
"I want to stress that Mehmet is a fine surgeon," Rose said, as he did more than once during our conversation. "He is intellectually unbelievably gifted. But I think if there is any criticism you can apply to some of the stuff he talks about it is that there is no hierarchy of evidence. There rarely is with the alternatives. They have acquired a market, and that drives so much. At times, I think Mehmet does feed into that."
At times? The man uses his bully pulpit to endorse destructive quacks, and peddles snake oil himself. I don't care if he is a fine cardiac surgeon; he operates, presumably with high competence, on one patient a week, and then misleads millions.
There are many legitimate and articulate opponents of genetically modified products and, for that matter, of conventional medicine itself. But Oz has consistently chosen guests with dubious authority to argue those positions. Joseph Mercola, an osteopath, runs mercola.com, one of the most popular alternative-health Web sites in the country. Oz has described Mercola as a "pioneer in holistic treatments," and as a man "your doctor doesn't want you to listen to." This is undoubtedly true, since Mercola has promoted such alleged experts as Tullio Simoncini, who claims that cancer is a fungus that can be cured with baking soda. Mercola has long argued that vaccines are dangerous and that they even cause AIDS. When Oz says that Mercola is "challenging everything you think you know about traditional medicine and prescription drugs," it's hard to argue. "I'm usually earnestly honest and modest about what I think we've accomplished," Oz told me when we discussed his choice of guests. "If I don't have Mercola on my show, I have thrown away the biggest opportunity that I have been given."
It's bizarre. He thinks his position within the bona fide medical profession means he now has a responsibility to open the door to frauds. It makes no sense…until you discover that the man doesn't have the slightest understanding of science.
I was still puzzled. "Either data works or it doesn't," I said. "Science is supposed to answer, or at least address, those questions. Surely you don't think that all information is created equal?"
Oz sighed. "Medicine is a very religious experience," he said. "I have my religion and you have yours. It becomes difficult for us to agree on what we think works, since so much of it is in the eye of the beholder. Data is rarely clean." All facts come with a point of view. But his spin on it—that one can simply choose those which make sense, rather than data that happen to be true—was chilling. "You find the arguments that support your data," he said, "and it's my fact versus your fact."
Millions worship this guy, and watch his show religiously for medical advice. But his story is to simply throw away evidence-based reasoning.
I told Oz that I was aware of no evidence showing that Reiki works. He cut in: "Neither am I, if you are talking purely about data. But this is one of the fundamental disconnects between Western medicine and what people often refer to as complementary medicine. Not everything adds up. It's about making people more comfortable. I offer things like massage therapy, and offered Reiki if people wanted it. I did not recommend it, but I let people know it was their choice."
Please. Give me medical treatments that are backed up by data, rather than ones that make Dr Oz feel good.
I'm watching this documentary right now, and I have to tell you…every time Don McLeroy or Terri Leo or Cynthia Dunbar come on, I'm snarling obscenities at the screen. What wretched ignorant people.
If you can't watch it yourself, the creators are doing an IAmA on Reddit right now. And, oh, boy — McLeroy has shown up to make an ass of himself. Go chew him out.
The video is temporarily available for streaming on the PBS website.
This is the lounge. You can discuss anything you want, but you will do it kindly. Watch out for the baby pudu — they have nuclear-grade cute.
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Minor point that I wanted to clarify for the benefit of all, since a student just brought it up to me.
When we take pictures of stuff we see on the microscope, it's called photomicrography. We are taking photomicrographs, or photographs of microscopic object.
It is not microphotography. A microphotograph is a teeny-tiny little picture, a small picture of a larger object. You'd need a hand lens to see a microphotograph.
OK? Just a little peeve. You'll sometimes see people using the two terms interchangeably. They are bad people who must be crushed immediately, their remains scuffed into the dust, and their names obliterated from all stelae and funerary urns.
I do photomicrography, and have never ever done microphotography (which is a real thing, it's just not what microscopists do.) If you need help remembering the distinction, just remember my initials are PM, and I do PhotoMicrography. So you don't get pissmisticated when you make a horrible gaffe in front of me.
(The student got it right, by the way, and so I allowed them to live.)
Remember Republican legislator Cathrynn Brown's bill that would have criminalized abortion on the claim that it would destroy evidence? She scurried to retract it after nationwide public shaming, but now she's revised the bill and is trying to promote it again.
Good news! It no longer threatens women who get an abortion after a rape with a felony charge for tampering with evidence! Yay!
Now it only charges the doctor with a felony for facilitating the destruction of evidence. Progress! Oh, wait…it still criminalizes a legal procedure, and still specifically oppresses the victims of violent assault.
I guess that counts as practically no progress at all. How about the next iteration being a bill that criminalizes lawmakers who attempt to make an end-run around women's rights to bodily autonomy?
Cardinal Roger Mahony of the Los Angeles Catholic diocese has been apparently involved in major cover-ups of child abuse scandals during his tenure.He has promoted all kinds of sneaky maneuvers to keep priestly child rapers out of jail.
"Sounds good — please proceed!" the cardinal, now retired, instructed in 1987 after the aide, Msgr. Thomas Curry, cautioned against therapy for one confessed predator — lest the therapist feel obliged to tell authorities and scandalize the archdiocese. The two discussed another priest, Msgr. Peter Garcia, who admitted specializing in the rape of Latino immigrant children and threatened at least one boy with deportation if he complained.
That last sentence jarred me. So the priests are so explicit that they are now specializing in particular flavors of children? They must be parsing Holy Writ very precisely.


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Jeeze! Drunk Han didn't even give Sober Han a chance to respond.
When this 19-year-old Australian girl named Hannah gets drunk, she has a habit of writing notes to herself, intended to be read in the morning after the confusing haze of intoxication has been lifted. These notes are often confusing, sometimes helpful and always funny. Actually, it's kind of like that Keanu Reeves-Sandra Bullock movie The Lake House, except less sappy and really not all that much like The Lake House.
This is only mildly relieving.
She's really her own worst roommate.
It's not uncommon for things to get mysterious when there's a Brazilian involved.
It's touching to see Drunk han actually being selfless for a change.
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Israeli Physicians Join Resident Doctors in Call to Revoke Agreement With Treasury
The number of medical residents resubmitting their resignations rose to 420 on Wednesday.
The medical residents fighting the collective agreement signed by the Israel Medical Association and the Finance Ministry two weeks ago were joined on Wednesday by 120 senior physicians from hospitals nationwide, who called to revoke the agreement.
The number of medical residents resubmitting their resignations rose to 420 on Wednesday, after the National Labor Court ruled on Sunday that their original resignations constituted an illegal collective action.
Meanwhile, the 120 senior physicians - department heads from hospitals across the country - gathered in Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital on Tuesday night to examine ways of thwarting the collective agreement and called for IMA chairman Dr. Leonid Eidelman to resign.
The doctors drafted a call to revoke the agreement with Finance Ministry, support the residents and continue giving hospitals in the periphery preferential treatment and greater benefits.
"We decided at the meeting that any benefit achieved for doctors in the central region must be granted - with an addition - to doctors in the periphery," Professor Zvi Klein, chairman of the Meir Hospital doctors' union, said on Wednesday.
All the doctors at the meeting signed membership forms for the alternative physicians' union set up a few days ago.
At this point, however, they do not intend to quit the IMA, and will do so only if the new union achieves similar benefits to those given IMA members, including professional and medical insurance, and if the new union is joined by more than half the doctors in the IMA.
By law, for this to happen, at least half of the IMA's 20,000-plus members would have to switch unions.
The senior doctors also discussed ways of replacing the IMA leadership in elections when Eidelman's term ends in 2013.
Several doctors spoke out heatedly against having physicians use time clocks, one of the stipulations in the collective agreement that is sparking outrage among senior physicians.
Eidelman said he has no intention of resigning in response to doctors' discontent over the collective agreement.
On Wednesday Health Ministry Director General Ronni Gamzu met with medical residents from hospitals in the center of the country, including Ichilov, to hear about their grievances regarding the agreement.
Deputy Health Minister Yaakov Litzman suggested a compromise, in which the residents would receive additional pay rises and another 1,500 doctors' positions would be added to the public health system. However, the Finance Minister objected.
The largest number of residents' resignations, 140, were submitted at Ichilov Hospital, followed by 70 in Meir Hospital; 62 in Sheba; 59 in Rambam; 38 in Beilinson, 23 in Schneider Children's Medical Center; 16 in Wolfson; and 12 in Assaf Harofeh.
The number of resubmitted resignations is less than half of the 1,067 residents who resigned a month ago. Residents said they are resubmitting the letters gradually - to avoid any appearance of an organized move that could be revoked by a court of law.
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So I just finished the top of the wall hanging. Thanks to some of the suggestions i got got me in the thinking mood. I went with making flowers out of the fabric. I will use the zebra fabric as binding. So what do you think? I attached the fabric my daughter gave me to work with so you can see it again. I will SID and then try to hand quilt the flowers & bird. This will be my first attempt at hand quilting.
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NEW YORK -- After 20 years and some three dozen movies, Aaron Eckhart still manages to fly under the radar.
Eckhart, 45, has played every type of role -- good guy, bad guy, heartthrob, comic book villain -- and now he's playing the President of the United States in Olympus Has Fallen. The movie, directed by Antoine Fuqua, co-stars Gerard Butler as a secret service agent and Melissa Leo as the Secretary of Defense; Eckhart and Leo are taken hostage by North Korean terrorists and tortured while Washington, D.C is under attack.
Even though Butler is the hero of the piece, Eckhart made sure the president got his licks in.


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Finding a website to buy is like buying a new car. So many options you don't know where to start or what website to choose from. It requires you to break down your goals and find out the goal in starting the site and what you are looking to achieve.
Category Archives: Buying and Selling Websites
3 Best Places to Sell Your Website Online
More sites hitting the online marketplace is creating a larger demand for buying and selling websites. If you have been running a site and have been working on growing its web traffic and earnings, the chances are the site is worth more money than what you purchased it or the cost of development. This gives people/online entrepreneurs the chance to sell their website when they are no longer interested in running it and cash out big when they do. TIP: never shut down a website, always list it for sale on auction sites or talk with website consultants to see how you can earn when selling your online business. In this article you will find the 3 best places to sell your website online:
Comparing Options When Buying a Website Business
The demand of online websites is constantly giving consumers and website owners the opportunity to join in on the action of buying and selling websites. Any tradable and sellable asset can make money when it is bought at a low price and sold at a reasonably higher price to earn on your investment.


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YAY my Della Terra order came yesterday, as did my teacups from Verdant! Will try to put some pics up later :) oh and I also tried the Papa Bear's Hibernation Blend from DT but I couldn't find it in the database! Might have to try to add a new tea lol.
So I have this tea again! Hurrah! It's still excellent, lemony and sweet and caffeine free, which I need for my barrage of finals in the coming weeks (caffeine will just increase my anxiety too much, however, going to have a Yixing session later today anyways haha). The lemon is light and sugary today, maybe because I only steeped it for 4 mins, and usually I steep rooibos for 5. Still delicious though!
So happy I have this back in stock! Probably my favorite or second favorite rooibos tea! Oh, and upping rating due to that fact!


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At 28, Crystal Strait is one of the youngest superdelegates. Representing the Young Democrats of America on the Democratic National Committee, Strait has not pledged to support a candidate yet, and the campaigns are pulling out the big guns in hopes of convincing her.
As Strait tells Melissa Block, she views the calls as a chance to make her concerns about the youth vote known.
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James Phillip Meese, of Burton, age 89, passed away Saturday, March 30, 2013 at Genesys Healthpark. Funeral services will be held 4 PM Tuesday, April 2, 2013 at the Plumb-Smith Funeral Home, Pastor Ron Sarbo officiating. Burial will take place later in Great Lakes National Cemetery, Holly. Mr. Meese will lie in state at the Plumb-Smith Funeral Home, G-1208 N. Ballenger Hwy., Flint Township, where friends may call 1-4 PM Tuesday. James was born September 20, 1921 in Houston, Arkansas, the son of Herman and Nancy (Lee) Meese. He served his country in the U.S. Navy from 1944-1946 during World War II. He was a loving husband, father, brother, grandfather, and great grandfather. He was preceded in death by his wife of 66 years, Jesse Louise Meese. He is survived by two daughters, Shirley Cole of Lapeer, and Linda Meese of Goodrich; 2 granddaughters, Gina (Cole) Weigman and Jodi (Cole) Feierabend; 4 great grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews, and other relatives. Online tributes at plumbsmithfh.com
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Who Gets What: the new economics of matchmaking and market design
Professor Alvin Roth, Harvard Business School
Co-presented with the School of Economics, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Tuesday 10 July, 2012
What are markets and marketplaces? How do they work? How do they fail? How can we fix them when they're broken? In recent years economists have stepped forward as market designers to try to craft answers to these questions. These questions are particularly difficult for matching markets, which are markets in which you can't just choose what you want, but also have to be chosen. If a market has an application or selection procedure, it's a matching market, and matching markets determine some of the most important transitions in life. Who goes to which schools and universities? Who gets which jobs? Who gets scarce organs for transplant? Professor Alvin Roth illustrates with examples of recent market designs, in school choice, labor markets and kidney exchange in the US.
Al Roth is the George Gund Professor of Economics and Business Administration in the Department of Economics at Harvard University. He works in game theory, experimental economics, and market design. The best known of the markets he has designed (or, in this case, redesigned) is the National Resident Matching Program, through which approximately twenty-five thousand doctors a year find their first employment as residents at American hospitals. He has also helped in the re-organisation of the labor markets for various other kinds of medical and health care professionals.
He helped design the high school matching system used in New York City to match approximately ninety thousand students to high schools each year, He is one of the founders and designers of the New England Program for Kidney Exchange, for incompatible patient-donor pairs. He is the chair of the American Economic Association's Ad Hoc Committee on the Job Market, which has designed a number of recent changes in the market for new Ph.D. economists.


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Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal must be doing something right, because they've got a hell of a cast for their directorial debut, "The Words", a film that they also wrote. The movie looks fine, but I get the bad feeling its "you stole my story!" angle isn't all that important. I mean, not important in the sense that Jeremy Irons will come after Bradley Cooper with a screwdriver or anything, important. I get the feeling this is all drama stuff, which would be disappointing since the trailers seem to be selling a mystery/thriller of sorts. That's just the sense I get, anyway. Take a look at the latest trailer for "The Words".
Young writer Rory Jansen finally achieves long sought after literary success after publishing the next great American novel. There's only one catch – he didn't write it. As the past comes back to haunt him and his literary star continues to rise, Jansen is forced to confront the steep price that must be paid for stealing another man's work, and for placing ambition and success above life's most fundamental three words.
Starring Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Jeremy Irons, Dennis Quaid, Olivia Wilde, Ben Barnes, and J.K. Simmons, among man others.
Hear the words September 7, 2012.
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Art has a new home in downtown Santa Ana—well, actually, it's Koo's founder Dennis Lluy's home, but art can use it as long as it stays out of the underwear drawer, at least until Lluy finishes prepping his ambitious ScentWalk 2K6 project. And so far, art is really a great roommate: "The Clearing," a duo show by Cal State Fullerton grad students Diana Markessinis and Edwin Maguire, debuted in Lluy's newly unofficial gallery space at the beginning of the month, and it's working out so naturally that Lluy has several future shows waiting at the door. Gallery space adjacent to the Santa Ana Artists' Village—Lluy's wide-open loft is just east of the Santora/Memphis drag—isn't in a shortage, but it is at a premium, says Markessinis, who laughs with Maguire about having to hide the beer and the futon for impromptu student-studio shows of her work. But Lluy's loft space—pressed into service after a chance meeting with the artists at Memphis—lends itself remarkably well to gallery duty, with bright, flattering light, plenty of wide white space and one of the best docents in town (A whiskey? Don't mind if I do!).
Markessinis' installations—scavenged plumbing pipes, reconfigured to suggest the root systems of plants as a meditation on how technology connects to human life—stretch almost to the ceiling in Lluy's now-bare living room, while Maguire's spooky portraiture and nature shots—including one that blips a Union 76 ball into an otherwise primeval skyline—wind along the entry stairs. It's a make-it-work idea that's already got successful precedent in OC: the Office in Huntington Beach knocked out just such a nontraditional niche for itself, and it didn't even have the benefit of location Lluy's loft enjoys, just a wine-wobbly walk from the Grand Central and Santora complexes. The idea is to make an art-show afterparty, says Lluy, and traffic after the opening of Sandow Birk's "Divine Comedy" was encouraging. "In fact," says Lluy, "Sandow was probably the last person to leave."
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"The Clearing" closing reception at Dennis Lluy's loft, 208 Spurgeon St., Santa Ana. Fri., 8-10 p.m. Free.


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Sony Online Entertainment has always been fond of its Easter eggs, and in fact the upcoming open world sandbox zombie survival MMO H1Z1 has a juicy one hidden in a very clever way in its official website, discovered by Reddit users rholk and Super1d.
If you browse to the website and look at the top left of the screen, on the mountain, you'll notice a blinking light. It's actually Morse code. Upon deciphering it, it leads to a shortened link that reveals the stunning panoramic picture below.
I strongly advise clicking on it to enlarge it to its full 3375 x732 resolution. Looks like Sony Online Entertainment has a visual treat in store for us with H1Z1. That enormous forest partly covered by mist, paired with the amazing draw distance, is just what we need to kick off a lovely Sunday.
And the best thing is that we'll be able to explore it soon enough.
In addition to this, the picture of a zombie apparently named "Fred" (That's the file name of the picture, discovered by Reddit user Timskijwalker) will randomly appear upon reloading the page. You can see him below. If you actually browse to the official site, don't do so while drinking your coffee, because if "Fred" appears when you don't expect him, you're going to stain your pants.


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Legal Question in Medical Malpractice in California
Do you have to be in the state of California to file arbitration papers? I live in Florida and will be flying out for arbitration but do not want to fly out to California just to file if I don't have to. Can I do it online? I believe I have a malpractice case..
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Vodka Saves Puppy After Nurse Reveals Stash in Car (VIDEO)
A nurse who had a stash of Vodka in her car saved the life of a mischievous puppy in Australia.
Cleo, an American Staffordshire, weighs only 6.6 pounds. Last week, the dog found herself in a mischievous position. While in a garage, the dog decided to lick radiator fluid off of some spare car parts that had been lying around. Ethylene glycol is a common ingredient found in both radiator fluid and anti-freeze; it is also a lethal poison to pets.
When ethylene glycol poisoning occurs, animals begin to have a reaction that is similar to kidney failure. When owner Stacey Zammit, 27, rushed Cleo to the vet, she was told that the puppy was close to renal failure.
"It was only a [6.6-pound] dog, so it doesn't take much of the anti-freeze for it to become poisoned," veterinarian Scott Hall from Animal Accident and Emergency Point Cook told NineMSN.com. "The owners were straight on top of the money. They realized straight away that things weren't right and came straight to us."
Alcohol is an ingredient known to stop chemical reactions from occurring and while rubbing alcohol is typically used in such circumstances, in Cleo's case, no rubbing alcohol was to be found. One of the nurses at the vet, however, did have a stash of vodka in her car according to reports. The dog was fed more than a third of the bottle via a tube through her nose that led straight to her stomach, a CNN report confirmed.
"If we put it in human terms, for me it would be the equivalent of having seven or eight shots every four hours," veterinarian Matt Pascall told CNN.
Now the dog is back in good health and Zammit is grateful that her puppy, a Christmas present, had been given a second chance to live.


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Just a couple of years ago, I first read one of Georgette Heyer's lesser known—indeed, often thought Lost—works, The Great Roxhythe (of which, read much more here). Set in the latter days of Charles II's reign, it tells of a fictional courtier to the King who helps set in train many of the more notable political events of the day. Now, while this is far from my favorite Heyer—indeed, it is among my very least favorites, and I completely understand why the author herself refused to have it reprinted within her lifetime—it did impel me to do one thing but few of her others have: further research.
Before reading this novel, I knew barely anything about Charles II. I knew he had been sent into exile as a youth (another Heyer, The Royal Escape, deals with this), and that the song "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" is about him. I guess I could also have claimed passing acquaintance with his luxuriant locks, his love of a particular breed of spaniel, and his famous succession of mistresses; plus, I vaguely recalled a Robert Downey Jr. movie featuring him one time. But after reading this novel, I started reading up, learning all kinds of fun facts to know and share: my favorite being that, while he died without a legitimate heir, he had twelve illegitimate kids, one of whom is an ancestor of both Princess Diana and Camilla Parker-Bowles…and that Prince William, should he ascend the throne, will be the first direct descendant of Charles II in the more than three hundred years since his reign. (What? It's interesting.)
Another prominent character in The Great Roxhythe is William of Orange, of whom I likewise knew but little. I knew he reigned as co-consort with a Queen Mary at some point. I knew that there is a university in Williamsburg, Virginia, named for them. Also, I was aware that William was an aggressive campaigner against Catholicism, particularly in Northern Ireland, because when I visited Belfast I was everywhere confronted with giant murals depicting him as either a hero or a villain. (Um, yeah, he's been dead a while now, guys. Just sayin'.). But the fact that he was described so powerfully in the book made me curious about him, too, and so I sought out more information there, as well.
But even when historical figures in historical fiction haven't led me on extensive Google searches, I still often learn a lot about them merely through their presence in the narrative—to be honest, historical novels are pretty much my one and only source into the scandalous lives of history's elite. Fictionalized accounts of these figures' existences are, of course, wealths of information about their subjects (and, likewise of course, disinformation) with authors like Phillippa Gregory, Jo Graham and Nancy Cato, among so many fanciful others, plumbing the recesses of knowledge, indulging in outright speculation, and treating us to possible versions of possible people in a past that is only possibly accurate. There have been miles and miles of prose dedicated to Arthurian Britain and the Biblical Middle East in their infinite uncertainty, and famous historical love stories—Paris and Helen, Tristan and Isolde, Abelard and Heloise, Napoleon and his Josephine—are revisited again and again, given new twists with each new pass at them. It's all very Lifetime movie-esque, the kind of "based on a true story" vague precision often played for effect rather than faithfulness, and films like Alexander and Agora, Braveheart and Rob Roy, The Barretts of Wimpole Street and Bright Star, only serve to further contribute to this idea that other people's real lives must needs be romanticized for our entertainment, centuries or even millennia after the fact.
But in these oft-retold tales, it is the historical figure (or figures) who star. In The Great Roxhythe (1923), on the other hand, it is our titular, fictional lord who is our main protagonist, whereas King Charles and William of Orange and a bunch of other long-dead, have-their-own-Wikipedia-page folks are mere window dressing, the curtain rail onto which our story is hung. Historical fiction abounds with references to real people, and there is a tremendous tendency for novelists of the genre to namedrop the glorious and the great, at times seemingly for no other reason than to earn the authors themselves a little scholarly cred.
Historicals set in the Ancient World—Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc.—are bound to feature, at the very least, a pharaoh or an Emperor of whom we have heard, or perhaps may mention in passing a blind, itinerant storyteller who holds all spellbound with his tales of the gods and the fall of Troy. (Hmm, wonder who that could be?) Mary Renault's Mask of Appollo (1966), a personal favorite, follows one Nikeratos, an actor in 4th-century B.C. Sicily, who befriends Plato and Alexander the Great, among others, and thereby changes the course of history—and it is also chock-full of historically-appropriate man love, which is awesome.
But perhaps you'd rather spend your time in the Machiavellian courts of continental Renaissance Europe? Then of a certain you will encounter at least one Borgia, a Medici or two, the occasional Pope of often questionable piety and hey, maybe even Machiavelli himself. For example, Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolò series, beginning with 1986's Niccolò Rising (it's a different Niccolo) reads like a Who's Who of its chosen period, and very kindly takes pains to explain who, exactly, is whom there…which is one of the many reasons I love Dorothy Dunnett.
A trip to ye olde Scotland more your thing? Well, don't be surprised if you run into William Wallace, Robert the Bruce or assorted chieftans who might well be them, if you squint your eyes just a little. And man, does Mary, Queen of Scots get around! Dunnett also did it here, in her Lymond series, beginning with The Game of Kings (1961), in which the young Mary is something of a central figure in the life of our complex, put-upon hero, Francis Crawford.
Other, real Francises one might encounter in tales set in Tudor times include the diabolical Sir Francis Walsingham, the adventuresome Sir Francis Drake, and even possible Shakespeare-ghostwriter, the multi-talented Sir Francis Bacon. You're also likely to meet or hear much about Henry VIII and/or his plenitude of wives, and/or his less plentiful kids—not to mention Sir Walter Raleigh, perhaps history's most famous brown-noser. Just look at Marsha Canham's bodice-ripper, Across a Moonlit Sea (1996): it mentions most, if not all, of these figures in between raising blushes in a romantic adventure set on the period's perilous high seas.
Jump forward a dynasty and you'll note that any novel set in early Hanoverian times will doubtless be littered with mentions of noted wit Horace Walpole, the notorious Hellfire Club and/or the famous Gunnings sisters, penniless beauties who managed to wed Dukes. Heyer's Georgian-era The Black Moth (1921) was not only her first novel, but was also her first chance to show off an impressively well-rounded education, and it is through her later works that I know of various politicos of the day—your Pitts, your Foxes, etc.—and their various convictions and alliances, among a vast assortment of other notables.
Taking us on through the Regency (my favorite time period to visit, incidentally), Heyer never lets up on the background detail, giving us snapshot images of leading hostesses Lady Jersey and the Countess Lieven, of the wealthy Golden Ball and the disreputable Harriette Wilson, of playwrights like Sheridan and actors like Kean and Kemp and Mrs. Siddons.
In the Regency genre at large, the well-dressed Beau Brummell has probably received the most love, enjoying almost Jay Leno-level cameo appearances, even above the Prince Regent himself. (I know an inordinate amount about George Brummell, and that is due only to my love of Regency romance; before I started reading Heyer, he was merely an enigmatic line in a Billy Joel song). Lord Byron is another frequent flyer in such novels, along with his lover Lady Caroline Lamb, and if you don't encounter at least one member of the venerable, scandalous Devonshire clan then you may consider yourself to have been roundly snubbed indeed. Meanwhile, no novel set during the Napoleonic Wars would be complete without a visit from Old Hooknose, the Duke of Wellington, or from doomed Admiral Nelson. One might even encounter an entirely different William of Orange here, who became engaged to a whole other English princess. (History is confusing.)
Across the pond in America, among Historical Western Romances, a passing sighting of Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Doc Holliday or some other legend of the saloon is absolutely essential. Among turbulent, lascivious Civil War yarns, if you don't sight Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee or General Hooker—with or without his retinue of ladies of negotiable virtue—then something is clearly very, very wrong. And if intrepid pioneer fiction is more your bag, then you are almost guaranteed a meeting with either a famous Pony Express rider, Brigham Young or some other historical Mormon, or the Donner Party; Vella Munn's Daughter of the Mountain (1994), for example, has our heroine, Jessie, rescued from eventual cannibalism as part of that ill-fated expedition by our hero, mountain man Daniel Bear (whom I always imagined in my head as a more buff version of Grizzly Adams).
Heading south of the border? Then prepare to meet up with Montezuma or Quetzalcoatl, Ponce de Leon or Cortes; cf. Samuel Shellabarger's awesome feat of conquistador fiction, Captain from Castile (1945), in which our hero, Pedro de Vargas, joins the quest to wrest Mexico from the Aztecs, and which, if you haven't read it yet, go and do so now.
The question is, do we need all of this incessant namechecking to still enjoy our story, and to still feel a sense of the time? The further back into history we go, the less populated it is with celebrities—with characters, really—and yet novels set in these enigmatic times are still plenty enjoyable. I mean, we don't tend to find recognizable faces in novels set in Prehistory, do we? Perhaps the best known of these, Jean M. Auel's The Clan of the Cave Bear (1980) isn't exactly replete with "Hey, I know that guy!" moments, and yet anyone who has been swept away on those frozen plains, has huddled in furs and mourned with Ayla and her adoptive Neanderthal family, feels just as connected to that alien, unknowable time as anyone who has virtually visited Almack's Assembly Rooms (circa 1816) on dozens of occasions, only to be stared down by the Princess Esterhazy and underwhelmed by the poor quality of refreshments.
In her post Lovingly Researched or Wallpaper: Pick Your Historical Poison, H&H's own Myretta Robens mentions a 2010 Regency, In the Barrister's Chambers by Tina Gabrielle, drawing particular attention to this passage:
"I've been meeting with a group of feminist women and we are currently reading Mary Wollstonecraft's book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in which she argues women are regarded inferior to men because of their lack of education. Even though Wollstonecraft has been dead now seventeen years, her ideas still provide endless fodder for discussion, and we currently are debating her beliefs on marriage."
Myretta's comment:
Yeah, yeah. We can see that the author knows about bluestockings and Mary Wollstonecraft and even (thanks for sharing) how long she's been dead. But does she really think a girl chat about marriage would sound like this? I'm pretty sure readers don't want research shoved down our throats.
No, we don't. And we certainly don't want poor research shoved down our throats. Indeed, your Regency heroine often displays her smarts and independent spirit with a copy of Wollstonecraft in hand, and yet all too often the text itself is misquoted or misunderstood, our authors clearly having heard of the groundbreaking work but never, apparently, having read it. Or what about when Jane Austen shows up, either in person or as the author of a brilliant new novel about which our discerning heroine gushes… and then she is referred to as "Miss Austen," yet the novel is set in a year when her works were still published anonymously? This is, frankly, just unforgivably sloppy. It's one thing to utilize recognizable people of the period to make your history come alive; it's quite another to do it wrong. In her recent, excellent post Zippers, Kohl and Woman-Beating: Anachronisms in Historical Fiction, Kate Nagy ponders the importance of proper research, and suggests that such trivial mistakes, while endlessly annoying, can occasionally be overlooked if the remainder of the story is engaging enough. I tend to agree, up to a point, but I have to wonder: are these novels then properly labeled Historicals, or Alternate Histories?
Some might maintain that discrepancies, inaccuracies or outright speculation presented as reality enhance these stories out of the past, and that the presence of whole phalanxes of long-dead people can only contribute to our understanding of the times in which we play tourist, whether all of this sampling from the Encyclopaedia is really necessary or not. Without doubt, the effectiveness of employing historical personages in fiction is just as much matter of degree as it is of veracity. If the story is set at, say, the Continental Congress and we don't run into at least one of the Founding Fathers, then that might come across as a trifle odd; but if the story is set on a random Mississippi river boat and we just happen to run into Mark Twain, then that could well stretch credulity just a little—especially if the man himself was merrily ensconced in San Francisco at the time the novel is set.
Sure, anachronism can be fun (hello, Moulin Rouge, A Knight's Tale and pretty much everything remotely Steampunk), and weaving VIPs out of history into more recent made-up tales can be as informative as it is entertaining. But it is important, I have come to realize, that we don't start believing fiction is non-, that we don't rely on the "scholarship" of historical authors, and that we don't consider ourselves well-informed or learned just because we read or watch fictionalizations like The Other Boleyn Girl, I, Claudius or Showtime's The Tudors. Much like watching the movie of the book and expecting to ace the English test, fictionalized accounts of historical personages are almost inevitably going to lead you astray.
Sure, it's fun to imagine our Scottish heroine attending the Great Council at Glasgow, our Regency heroine getting the much-prized seal of approval from the Beau, or our Western heroine out-shooting Annie Oakley. But, most of the time we have to acknowledge these things could not have happened. Or, to quote Twain himself when his Connecticut Yankee time-traveled back to King Arthur's Court (though, to be sure, somewhat out of context): "How empty is theory in the presence of fact!"
Charles II (by Simon Verelst), William of Orange (Antonio Moro), and Beau Brummell (by Robert Dighton) images—in the public domain in the U.S.—courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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This opera is seldom performed because a soprano who can and is willing to sing the vocally schizophrenic part of Abigaille, Nabucco's brutal elder but rather illegitimate daughter, is difficult to find. This work is a bel canto opus on steroids, demanding both vocal heft (to be heard over the loud chorus) and florid agility from Nabucco and Abigaille. Richard Paul Fink and Sylvie Valayre delivered their show-lifting parts with aplomb on opening night. Ms. Valayre's convincing low notes and acidic top served well to highlight her character's extreme emotional states. Her middle register remains pleasing and her soft singing during Act II invited sympathy for one of opera's most dementedly vicious roles.
Especially impressive was Mr. Fink, who replaced Zeljko Lucic as Nabucco on three weeks notice. Despite never having sung the part before, Fink came up with a commanding reading of the role on opening night. Susana Poretsky and Arthur Chen were convincing as the milder temper Fenena and Ismaele. Raymond Aceto was a vocally fine if dramatically uninvolving high priest Zaccaria. The SDO Chorus aced most of the choral numbers, while Maestro Edoardo Müller kept the show moving with adroit flexibility from the orchestra pit.


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Dallas, Texas, October 17, 2002—Renowned motivational speaker,
author, businessman, and Dallas-area resident Zig Ziglar received the Silver
Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth from the Boy Scouts of America
at a recent motivational/sales seminar, "Get Motivated," at Reunion Arena in
Scouting's highest-ranking official, Chief Scout Executive Roy L. Williams,
made the presentation to Ziglar before a capacity crowd of more than 20,000
people. Local Scouts from Circle Ten Council performed the flag ceremony and
played the national anthem.
"Zig exemplifies all that is good in Scouting," said Williams. "We feel
fortunate that he has dedicated so much of his life to helping our nation's
The Silver Buffalo Award is presented annually to adults who generously
dedicate their time and resources for the benefit of youth. This award,
Scouting's highest commendation for service to youth, recognizes the
invaluable contributions American men and women have made to our nation's
young people.
Ziglar is one of the many noteworthy recipients to receive this award.
Since 1925, many well-known individuals, including 13 U.S. presidents,
artist Norman Rockwell, artist and film producer Walt Disney, founder
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baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron, have received the Silver Buffalo
"I enjoy the role I play in helping to mold the future leaders of this
country," said Ziglar. "Motivating generations of young people to live
up to their potential has truly been a reward, and Scouting aims to do
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Ziglar's participation in Scouting rounds out his professional and
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RIDGELAND, Miss. — Police in Mississippi say a leader in the tea party movement arrested after photos were taken of U.S. Senator Thad Cochran's ill wife has been found dead.
They are treating the case as a suicide.
Police say the body of attorney Mark Mayfield was found Friday morning at his home in a gated community outside Jackson.
Authorities say Mayfield had been shot, and a suicide note was found.
Mayfield and three other men were arrested last month and face various charges of conspiring to photograph Rose Cochran in the nursing home where she has lived since 2001 with dementia.
The photos were later used briefly in an anti-Cochran political video posted briefly online during the hard-fought Republican primary, which the long-time senator won over a tea party-backed challenger.


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Updated Monday August 22, 9.01am: Following initial rumours that Marc Jacobs is set to replace John Galliano as the creative director of Christian Dior, it's now reported that Celine's Phoebe Philo is set to replace Jacobs as creative director of Louis Vuitton.
Philo's move to Louis Vuitton would not stop her designing for Celine, WWD reports, but it is expected to see the designer reduce the Louis Vuitton ready-to-wear collection.
Rumours of Jacob's move within the LVMH family from Louis Vuitton to Dior emerged after a source close to LVMH CEO Bernard Arnault reportedly told Brazilian website Glamurama that he wetermined to convince Jacobs to take the helm at the iconic French fashion house.
"The two have met often in recent weeks to discuss the matter," it claims. Jacobs, who also boasts eponymous brands Marc Jacobs and Marc by Marc Jacobs, renewed his contract as creative director for LVMH fashion house Louis Vuitton back in January. But it's thought that Arnault would prefer Jacobs to give Dior a new direction following the scandal surrounding John Galliano's departure from the fashion house earlier this year.
Jacobs denied he was in line for the job back in March, declaring: "I haven't been asked".
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|Angie Miller
Sergeant Angie Miller is a Character on DEXTER. She is a Sergeant-Detective within Miami Metro Homicide that works alongside Detective Joey Quinn and Lieutenant Angel Batista in Homicide Investigations. She has some tension with resident pervert forensic-tech Vince Masuka, but only in the sense of being annoyed by his behavior.
Season Seven
She is first seen when Mike Anderson was shot and killed in the line of duty, and was one of the detectives investigating the shooting. She has since begun to fill the role as his replacement, but to a lesser degree. Angie remains in the background, speaking up only briefly on occasion at crime scenes.
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Angie's role broadens, as she appears frequently at every crime scene and speaks on multiple occasions with the main cast. Following Angel Batista's promotion to Lieutenant after the death of Captain Maria LaGuerta and the resignation of Former-Lieutenant Debra Morgan, thus leaving his Sergeant-Detective position open. Two known candidates apply for the position, Miller and Detective Joey Quinn. While Quinn passes the Sergeant's exam, Batista picks Miller due to her "skills" and intelligence, as well as what Deputy-Chief Tom Matthews describes relating to her ethnicity (it would be good "PR" to have an African-American woman in the position).
Following her promotion, Miller seems to vanish and only reappears a few times at the Bicyclist Crimescene and at the bar after Evelyn Vogel's funeral.
- As of Episode 702: Sunshine and Frosty Swirl, she is shown only as a background character and is rarely seen on screen.
- Season Eight gives Angie a broader set of lines, making her appear closer to the main cast and she's even involved in a plotline of becoming a Sergeant-Detective to replace Batista's old position. After she gets the promotion over Quinn, she fades back into the background and has virtually no speaking roles, nor is she seen much at all.
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MBA students serve the local community through Habitat For HumanityOct. 28, 2006
On October 13, the Graduate Business Association (GBA) had the opportunity to serve the Waco community through the local chapter of Habitat For Humanity. The 9-member GBA team consisted of Chad Robertson, Nick Orand, Michelle Nelson, Nobel Macaden, Rakesh Arora, Chad Grief, Sean Haynes, Kent Heatwole and Luke Schmidt. The team's two primary tasks on the day of the project were siding and trim. The students worked with members of the Habitat For Humanity staff in order to complete these tasks.
The students gained a unique perspective in not only service to the community but also what a few volunteers can do to impact other people's lives. The GBA Team had the opportunity to meet the grateful owner of the new home as well as gain an overall understanding of how the Waco Habitat For Humanity accomplishes each and every project...through volunteers, a little sweat, but more importantly teamwork.
The GBA normally completes a service oriented project each semester. Typically, the organization has chosen to raise monies for organizations through special events such as 5K or 10K races. This year, the association elected to utilize a more hands on approach in order to make a more lasting and significant impact in the Waco community. The project was a great success and the GBA team has already discussed the possibility of working with Habitat For Humanity on one of their future projects during the spring semester.
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Pacheco makes second career start at catcher
SAN DIEGO -- The Rockies' Jordan Pacheco made his second career start at catcher Sunday against the Padres, after delivering the game-winning hit in Saturday night's 12-inning victory over the Padres. The Rockies felt catching was the best route to the Majors for Pacheco, the team's ninth-round choice in the MLB First-Year Player Draft in 2007, and moved him to the position early in his Minor League career. But when he arrived last year, the opening was at third base, where he has made 58 starts this season. But with Wilin Rosario recovering from a slight left ankle sprain that he suffered Friday night and with veteran Ramon Hernandez dealing with major bruises on each arm and his ribs that he suffered the last two nights, manager Jim Tracy put Pacheco behind the plate for the first time this season.
Pacheco caught a bullpen session before Saturday's game to reacquaint himself with the position. "I haven't worked there a lot, but we'll see how it goes," Pacheco said, smiling. "Ask me in a couple of hours." Pacheco, 26, whose .306 batting average going into Sunday was tops among National League rookies, received high marks for his catching work during Spring Training, especially with blocking pitches in the dirt. The Rockies hoped that would come in handy Sunday, with left-handed pitcher Christian Friedrich, who likes to throw a curveball that dips into the dirt when the batter swings. Tracy said Rosario, whose 15 home runs lead Major League rookies, did extensive running Sunday morning, but is having trouble pushing off his left leg to go to his right. Still, Tracy believes Rosario will continue to improve and will not need to go onto the disabled list.


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Among recent political events, the one likely to have the most lasting impact on the American electorate has little to do with Fred Thompson or Larry Craig. It is the decision of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) to strip all convention delegates from renegade states that schedule their presidential primaries before Feb. 5, 2008. The party's swift reaction has Democratic insiders predicting that, come 2012, the presidential-primary system that has been in place for the past four decades (since 1968 in current form) could be scrapped. What might replace it, no one can say for sure. DNC rules-committee member Donna Brazile doesn't...
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I'll be running my first full, the Richmond Marathon on November 16, 2013!
RR: Just did 4 miles on the TM, 2 x 1600s at 9:10 and 8:55! Woohoo! And my eight burpees for the burpee challenge. I did those after running - should have switched that up!
NRR: Just work and hanging out with G!
GSD - G started refusing his mid-morning liquid feed (both a bottle from day care, Big D and nursing from me). So now we're down to 4! Also, we have realized that one of G's favorite foods is homemade bean burgers. Last night we had "bean balls" instead of meatballs with spaghetti. He ate all of his and then reached for mine and Big D's. He also loves black bean burgers. What are some of M's favorite foods? We're looking for new things to give to him.
Morning! It's ridiculously cold out here... -4 with windchill!
RR: 3 miles last night... without a walk break. That's 3 runs in a row that I was able to run 3 without stopping (4 on my LR). Not sure what changed, but I like it! Today is a rest day. My right hip feels wonky so I'll go to the chiro after work.
NRR: Last night was kind of a bummer... DH and I argued about money. I feel like he's not cutting back on his crazy spending AT ALL, when we have huge changes coming up, including less income as I go to part time. It's stressing me out because I'm the one that pays the bills and sees our spending, but he doesn't think it's an issue because "he always makes it work". Then he was installing a new thermostat to tie in the whole house humidifyer we just got and dropped it. So I had to order another one which cost an extra $150. Ugh. Obviously he didn't mean to do it, but I had a hard time being sympathetic because it just made me more angry. Sigh.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Sassy - Nice job on the run!! And then burpees after? You are a rockstar!
PRs: 5k - 21:22, half marathon - 1:39:43, marathon - 3:37:16
Happy Hump Day!!!!
RR: Running, probably 3.0 for my 30th Birthday. No way I'm trying to do 30! :-p Then I'll do some push ups and sit ups.
NRR: Work... At least it's a 4 day work week here and we get Friday off! Going out to lunch with DH, and he made homemade mac n cheese (gluten free) for me since it's one of my favorites, but never eat it except on my Birthday. It's become a tradition since I was in high school. Other than that, enjoying the cooler weather here, high of only 70!
Sassy: Great job on your mile repeats!!!
MA: Cross post! Sorry about money issues. Maybe you and DH could try going over finances and bills together so you're both on the same page? I had to do that with DH and start using Quicken to track every dollar so he could better see the charts and how our spending was going. Hugs!
Morning Ladies!
So I went to Boston yesterday to have the "thing sticking out of my side" looked at. One look at it and he knew what it was! This man is a genius! It's NOT a hernia!!! It's something called a Seroma. It's a collection of fluid and plasma that leaks from the cells. It sits very close to the surface of the skin and a hernia is very deep down. Also, a hernia is very soft. this is pretty hard. This is fairly common after surgery--usually occurs after any sort of surgery on the breast. But is also very common with abdominal surgery. Anyway, it goes away in 4-6 weeks on its own. He checked my intracranial pressure as well and everything is good there. So we decided not to turn up the pressure on my shunt. But he gave me "homework." My homework is get 8 hours of sleep each night and rest when I feel I need to. I'm NOT good at this! haha. But I'm so happy it's not a hernia and that it will go away on its own!
Sassy: It's so cold here, too! Stay warm!
MA: I'm so impressed with your running being so preggo! MIss you! I'm coming home this weekend! We'll get together soon!
PO: have great run!
hi ladies! cold one out there!
RR: did 3 miles outside in 5 degree temps. No wind so that helped lots. I just bundled up and headed out. It felt good though i didn't go quite as fast as I'd have liked because I had to be careful with ice. So remember the dog bite last week? Well today, I totally freaked a fellow runner out. it was totally hilarious! I'm all bundled up, including mask, so only my eyes are visible, and the mask is black, and pardon me, but I'm black, and my pants are black. Only my jacket is a dark green. And I'm wearing my head lamp. So I really don't blame her. she screamed, jumped away and then started laughing. She said she saw me as she was running towards me, but then I guess spaced out, and then I was bam! right in front of her, so surprised her. I really wish I had a video camera to capture it.
NRR: work, meetings.... work.... grrrr.....
sassy: yay! G is growing! that's awesome that he likes bean burgers! do you have a recipe? I'd like to try those on M....
MA: sorry about the argument about money with your DH! Arguments like that make me nervous about how M and I are going to handle it when the time comes. you talk about it, but when the rubber hits the road, that's when you know..
RLTW: Yay that it's not a hernia!! So glad you don't have to do anything to make it go away either.
gotta go!
Morning girls!!!
Sassy, does G like sweet potato?? Yumm. You could also try lentil burgers, spit pea soup. Hes so cute!!!
Ma, sorry about the argument last night, but I'm glad you bad a discussion about money and finances. So are you going part time After baby is born?
Lizo, that's funny about the runner!!!!! great run in those cold temps!
TriR, spinning plus ST with PT.
NtriR, tri group meeting tonight after my workout.
Wedding Related. the family drama starts and the true colors of those are shining unshining.... In other news, mom and sis have an appointment with florist today so I hope they can find the colors that I like!!!
Morning ladies! Brrrr, chilly here as well! 4 degrees real temp right now!
RR: Upper body and core ST last night. Rest today because I don't think I'll have time for anything.
NRR: CRF is super sick. He took a half day yesterday and is staying home today with a fever, sore throat, cough, congestion, etc. I don't think it's the flu...I feel bad for him, but whatever he has, I don't want to catch it! Neither of us slept well last night because he was snoring and coughing and restless, and I went out onto the couch. He needs to feel better before Friday (and I need to stay healthy) because our parents are meeting for the first time this weekend! Today is deadline day at work but I am hoping I can get done early so I can come home, relax, and rest.
Sassy: Bean balls sound interesting. Are those just like bean burgers in ball form? Nice run this morning!!
MArunner: Sorry about the argument. I agree that maybe you should sit down with DH and show him the bills and go over the budget together...then maybe he will "get it" more? Finances are so tough.
POrun: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!! Enjoy every minute of it! And mac 'n cheese, mmmmmm.
RLTW: Hooray for no hernia!
Lizo: LOL that's hilarious that you scared another runner and she screamed then laughed. What a funny way to start the morning!!
OK off to work...gotta bundle up to stay warm! And hopefully healthy!
Meli: Ohhhhhhh family wedding drama. I hate that. Sorry you are dealing with it.
MA - sorry about the money conversation. is there any way you can show him your outgoing spending and how you are cutting it close every month? Maybe you can talk to him about setting up a savings account / 529 plan for the baby and so he will see where that extra money "needs" to go? We use Mint.com to track our spending and we re-evaluate our budget every few months, maybe seeing the pie charts will help him realize how much he is actually spending? I'm glad you've had some good runs lately.
PO - Happy Birthday! I love your birthday tradition!! I forgot to say, I hope you get your surgery scheduled soon and htat it goes well.
RLTW - so glad it's not a hernia ... and I hope you can do your homework! It's hard for me to get 8 hours of sleep a night, too.
Lizo - this is the black bean burger recipe I use, http://www.dailygarnish.com/recipes?recipe_id=6000060 except I omit the cinammon because it just doesn't jive with us. We make a double batch and freeze most of them. For "bean balls" instead of meatballs, I do one can of kidney beans + 1 clove of garlic + 1/4 of an onion in the food processor, add an egg white and 1/4 cup of bread crumbs then pulse again. Add salt and pepper to taste (or other seasonings or veggies, it's a great way to use up extra carrots). Then I make little patties and cook them in olive oil on the stove for about 4-5 minutes per side. GREAT JOB on that run in the cold, and that is hilarious about scaring the other runner!!
Meli - sweet potato is one of his favorite foods, hands down. He even eats lentils and loves lentil sloppy joes. He is a good eater, for sure. I'm sorry to hear there is wedding drama with your family. Just stand up for yourself and your DF and make sure that the day is about your love, not your family.
Lucy - kind of, I wrote the recipe to Lizo but it's kind of like a meatball made with mashed kidney beans (or other favorite bean) instead, so with italian seasonings, etc. Sorry CRF is so sick, I hope you can stay healthy! What are you doing with the parents to have them all meet? a meal or another activity? I can't remember what we did to have our parents meet ...
Good morning, ladies!
RR: SRD, I guess. I decided to push off running to tomorrow, when it will be warmer. I'm tired of running the super cold.
NRR: Didn't sleep well..some work stuff is on mind. DBF is still stick, but miracle of all miracles, taking medicine to control his symptoms makes him feel better! Gee, what an amazing girlfriend I am to think of that! Taking the cats to the vet for a check-up this evening.
PO - HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! Enjoy that mac and cheese!!
Lizo - Nice work getting out there! It is possible to run in cold weather - you just have to have enough layers.
MA - Sorry about the argument..I'd be frustrated, too. I'm with the other girls - guys seem to understand things better when you use visual aids.
RLTW - Great news!
Lucy - What do you have planned for when your parents meet?
Sassy - Nice work on the TM run!
Meli - Good luck with the wedding planning drama. I remember my sister was trying to please every single person - that's impossible!


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Two young New Jersey boys whose father is serving in Afghanistan were always able to take comfort in their "Daddy dolls" -- soft, customized dolls that helped them cope with the separation -- but when one of them went missing, a good Samaritan and strangers on social media quickly came to the rescue.
Noah and Judah Gossett, of Manalapan, N.J. each have a doll featuring their father's face and a military uniform. The dolls have helped them to continue feeling close to their father, Timothy, who's serving in Afghanistan, his fifth tour overseas.
The boys' mother, Raynalin Gossett, said Judah, a toddler, was particularly attached to his Daddy doll.
"He sleeps with it, always wants it, carries it where we go," she said.
But the doll went missing during a recent shopping trip at a Target store, setting off panic. Raynalin Gossett said Judah left his doll in the cart, and by the time Raynalin realized it was gone, it was too late.
"I was on the phone with my girlfriend, I was having a heart attack," she said. "I was like, 'Oh, my God. Oh, my God.'"
But a good Samaritan, Michelle McHugh, found the doll and not only brought it to customer service, but then went on social media. She posted a photo of the doll on Facebook and asked people to share it so that the owner could be found. The photo was shared more than 25,000 times in less than a day.
Raynalin Gossett ended up seeing the picture. Stunned, she commented on the post: "Thank you, Michelle, for finding my son's doll! We frantically went back to get him when we realized."
"The waterfall of care I have seen in the past 24 hours of strangers through social media is just overwhelming. What a great country."
McHugh replied: "No thanks necessary. I love a happy story and this made my day! It looked like an extremely loved doll."
Raynalin Gossett told NBC 4 New York: "My faith in humanity is completely restored. The right thing, and so many people cared enough to share it and want to get it back to us."
While the boys love their dolls, the toys can't beat their real dad, who's returning home in the fall.
"I miss him so much," said Noah. "But he's going to be back and we're going to play beastie games!"
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Ex-Mafia dev shows off next-gen RPG
Daniel Vavra and new shop Warhorse Studios offer glimpse of unannounced next-gen medieval RPG due in 2014/15.
There has been much talk of what kind of power the next generation of consoles could hold, with GameStop CEO Paul Raines predicting these machines will provide "unbelievable new capabilities" for rendering and speed, among other things. Now, former Mafia developer Daniel Vavra has given a glimpse into what these new machines may be capable of.
Vavra heads up the Czech Republic-based Warhorse Studios and recently provided a video demonstration of what the company's unannounced medieval role-playing game is capable of. The video is embedded below and the game is due in either 2014 or 2015.
Vavra clarified on Twitter that the demo was running on an "old notebook" with a Nvidia 555M graphics card.
According to Eurogamer (via Eurogamer Czech), the environments in the demo were built on a modified version of CryEngine 3, with the rest of the scenery only a small example of what the technology can achieve.
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BRITISH basketball has received a major boost this week with news that the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four will be heading to the 02 Arena next May.
The performances of Chicago-based Luol Deng and his British teammates at the London Olympics caught the imagination of the nation in the summer.
However, with Britain's premier players plying their trade abroad, the Euroleague final will offer a rare opportunity for British spectators to watch the continent's best in action in May – hopefully paving the way, long-term, for a London franchise.
The Euroleague Final is a three-day championship taking place from May 10-12 and marks the finale of an eight-month competition involving the 24 top European teams.
Euroleague has committed to hosting the season-ending event in London in 2013, with an option to also play the 2014 event at The O2 Arena, as part of a long-term strategy to commit to the development of basketball in the UK.
Paul Blake, chairman of the British Basketball League (BBL), said: "We are really excited about the Turkish Airlines Euroleague Final Four coming to London and the opportunity it will present the sport of basketball in the UK.
"With a long term strategy, I hope to see a British team competing in the league in the future."
Euroleague is Europe's premier basketball competition and, in the 12 years since it was established, it has grown to become the world's second largest basketball competition after the NBA.
The 24 teams compete across 12 major European cities and regularly host pre-season games against touring NBA teams.


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When Seeing Eye puppies reach 7 or 8 weeks of age, they are delivered to the homes of volunteer "foster families" who nurture and care for their charges until they are about 16 to 18 months old. These 4-H Seeing Eye Puppy club families give the dogs abundant affection, teach them basic obedience, and expose them to a variety of social situations they will later encounter as working dogs.
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Oman: The Bunt community hailing from the southwestern region of India, has its presence in Oman for over four decades. The organizing team of the Bunts of Oman is planning a Dazzling Sports day and an exciting family get-together event, "Buntara Vaibhava 2015", showcasing the grandeur of Bunts and their extraordinary cultural heritage. This will be the 28th Annual get together event of the Bunts of Oman.
Speaking to Mangalorean.com, media coordinators of "Buntara Vaibhava 2015" organizing committee, said, "We, the organizing team members of the Buntara Vaibhava 2015, have put lots of effort and planning to present this annual event. Our Bunts culture and heritage will be highlighted during the event. This annual event will be an opportunity for all Bunts in Oman to meet their fellow community members under one roof and share their experiences and joy with each other. On behalf of the organizing committee, we request all Bunts in Oman to come together and be part of the event."
The sports meet will be held on two consecutive Fridays. The first sports day will be Men's cricket event which will be held on 9 October 2015 at the Ghubra Power and Desalination Company grounds (GPDCO), Al Khuwair from 7 am to 6 pm.
The family sports day will be held on 16 October 2015 at the Wadi Kabir Sports Complex grounds from 7 am to 8 pm. Apart from volleyball and ladies throwball, there will be exciting fun games for all age groups.
The annual Bunts cultural event will be held on 13 November 2015 at the Le Grand Hall, Al Falaj Hotel, Ruwi from 8.30 am to 8 pm.
Bunt members in Oman, who wish to participate are requested to contact the below Organizing Committee members for further details on Buntara Vaibhava 2015.
Sharmila Narayan Shetty & Narayan Shetty – 00968 99349792
Shruthi Deeraj Shetty & Deeraj Shetty – 00968 95215279
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Rashmi Prasanna Budale & Prasanna Budale – 00968 99719903
Vindhya Dinesh Shetty & Dinesh Shetty – 0096899426590
Bina Gunapal Shetty & Gunapal Shetty – 00968 99899076
Poornima Shivaprasad Ariga & Shivaprasad Ariga – 00968 99782579
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Sir Martin Sorrell's WPP and France's Publicis Groupe have ruled out mounting bids to buy Aegis's Synovate market research business, although both could be interested in the UK-based group's media buying assets should the sale trigger a full breakup.
Shares in Aegis Group climbed to a four-year high on Monday after the company confirmed talks with French market research group Ipsos about a £500m deal to buy rival Synovate.
Aegis's share price climbed 7% to 152p – a height not reached since April 2007 – as analysts factored in prospective counterbids and the prospect of the group's core media buying networks, which include Carat and Vizeum, being sold.
However, the field of prospective bidders for Synovate will not include WPP and Maurice Lévy's Publicis, which both pursued deals for Aegis Group back in 2005.
Lévy, heading Publicis's annual general meeting in Paris on Tuesday, said in response to a question from the floor that the company was "not a candidate" for buying Synovate.
Shareholders also voted to raise the age limit for members of the management board from 70 to 75 in order to allow Lévy, who is 69, to continue to run the business and find time to adequately groom a successor. Lévy's contract was due to expire at the end of this year.
WPP is also understood to have "absolutely no interest" in making a move, according to a senior executive at the marketing services group.
Sorrell, who is notorious for finding it difficult to keep out of a bidding war for a prized asset, acquired research group TNS for more than £1bn in 2008. A number of City analysts – including Deutsche Bank and Liberum – consider WPP an unlikely bidder due to "significant market share" issues.
The company recently said M&A activity would "focus on small- and medium-sized companies focused on new markets, new media and consumer insight" spending "at least £200m or more per annum".
Potential bidders could include Japan's Dentsu, US-based Omnicom or German-listed research group Gfk, which looked to tie up with TNS before WPP acquired it.
Assuming a deal for Synovate goes ahead many observers believe that will put Aegis Media into play.
In such a case Vincent Bolloré, who is chairman and 33% stakeholder in WPP and Publicis rival Havas, is the kingmaker given he holds a 26.5% shareholding in Aegis Media.
"Bolloré has a stake [in Aegis] and he doesn't do uninvited deals," said one source. "Bolloré is the man in control."
Bolloré has long harboured designs on a deal with Havas – the group lacks the muscle of Aegis's media buying business. However, he recently changed his tone, describing the holding in Aegis as no longer a "strategic" investment but a "financial" investment.
Nevertheless he added that he will "keep his options open" over the future of Aegis. If Aegis Media came into play the usual array of bidders has been speculated including US groups Omnicom and IPG, as well as WPP and Publicis.
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