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City Hawker Food Hunt 2013 Awards Presentation
The 6th run of the City Hawker Food Hunt has come to a successful closing with our Awards Presentation held on 10 November 2013 at Boon Lay Place Blk 221A/B Hawker Centre! We had the honour to invite Acting Minister for Culture, Community & Youth, Senior Minister of State (Communications & Information) and Member of Parliament for West Coast GRC, Mr Lawrence Wong, to grace our ceremony. Many distinguished guests from National Environment Agency, Boon Lay Hawker's Association and CCC, as well as celebrity gourmet Mr Moses Lim also joined us in the joyous occasion.
Awards were presented to all 40 winners for the 4 selected dishes this year: Kway Chap, Prawn Noodles, Nasi Padang and Oyster Omelette. The winners for the Most Authentic Hawker Food, Cleanest Hawker Centre, Most 'Healthier Choice' Hawker Centre and My Favourite Hawker Centre were also crowned. In support of community development, City Gas also donated $3,000 to Boon Lay Hawker's Association for their community activities.
This year, we introduced 2 new contests in line with the "I Love Hawker Food" campaign, the "101 Reasons Why I Love Hawker Food" contest and the 'Singapore Hawker Style' video contest. Response was overwhelming as many people came forward to show their love and appreciation for our hardworking hawkers and the delicious food they serve!
Here are some of the winning entries for the "101 Reasons Why I Love Hawker Food" contest:
"I love hawker food because the vibe of a hawker centre reminds me of my childhood and is able to display the identity of Singapore. The food in the current hawker centre is able to provide food from all over the world, such as Korean and Japanese food. The price of the food is affordable as well." – Chua Kaijun Jason
"熟食中心的食物种类繁多,能让人以大众化的价格大快朵颐。熟食中心没有约束,没有时间或衣着上的限制。摊贩都是各食物的强中手,本着刻苦耐劳的精神守住岗位!" – New Swan Sim
To view the full list of award winners and the top 10 submitted entries for the "101 Reasons Why I Love Hawker Food" contest, please click here.
The 'Singapore Hawker Style' Video Contest unveiled 4 very meaningful and heartwarming stories of our hawkers. Click on the links below to view them:
Grand Award: TeoChew Pau by Chen Heliang & Valerie Lua Yu Ling, Republic Polytechnic
Merit Award: Mutton Soup by Oswald Gerard S/O Emmanuel and Valerie Priya D/O S M Danapathi, Republic Polytechnic
Merit Award: Chicken Rice by Alvin Choo, Esmeraldo III Comia Intervalo, Nadira Bte Mohamed Zolfakur and Nur Nazeera Bte Shaul Hamid, Nanyang Polytechnic
Merit Award: Hawker Champs by Alvin Choo, Esmeraldo III Comia Intervalo, Nadira Bte Mohamed Zolfakur and Nur Nazeera Bte Shaul Hamid, Nanyang Polytechnic

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Hi everyone!
I am new to gui creation in Matlab and have just worked through the simple Gui tutorial.
What I want to do is the following:
load an image -> drag multiple (e.g. 3) rectangles over the roi using imrect with a specific size (e.g. 32x100 px) and then get the coordinates to process the image only in the specified region by an edge detecting algorithm I programmed.
I am loading and displaying the image using a pushbutton
handles.img_in=imread(load_im()); guidata(hObject,handles)
and I know I can draw a rectangle and get the position via another pushbutton
h=imrect; rect=uint16(getPosition(h));
can someone help me with the next step that is fixing the size of the rectangle and how to store the data for every instance I click the button and place a rectangle properly?
Every help is appreciated!
Best Wishes, Chris
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I don't think you can constrain imrect(), rbbox(), or getrect() to work with fixed size rectangles and not allow the user to change the size of the rectangle. The workaround is to have two scroll bars, one for vertical movement and one for horizontal movement. The slider callbacks will calculate the new position of the box sides and draw it using plot(). Then the user clicks an OK button. In fact I do this for some of my apps.
The alternative is to use dragrect(). I haven't used this before. Here is the description from the help:
Drag a rectangle that is 50 pixels wide and 100 pixels in height. waitforbuttonpress point1 = get(gcf,'CurrentPoint') % button down detected rect = [point1(1,1) point1(1,2) 50 100] [r2] = dragrect(rect)
dragrect returns immediately if a mousebutton is not currently pressed. Use dragrect ina ButtonDownFcn, or from the command line in conjunctionwith waitforbuttonpress, to ensure that the mousebutton is down when dragrect is called. dragrect returnswhen you release the mouse button.
If the drag ends over a figure window, the positions of therectangles are returned in that figure's coordinate system. If thedrag ends over a part of the screen not contained within a figurewindow, the rectangles are returned in the coordinate system of thefigure over which the drag began.
Note: You cannot use normalized figure units with dragrect.
do you know if the dragrect uses some coordinates different than the image?
If I drag a rectangle and then give the coordinates to
it always plots somewhere else than the drawing area!
I haven't used it yet. But a common problem is confusing x,y with row,column. The order is reversed: x,y = column,row, not row,column. Could that be the problem?
actually it was my mistake because I segmented the image in a wrong way previously!
Thank you for helping it works quite okay now! :)
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My cousin in Japan has asked me to bring back inexpensive "California" wine. (She wants California wine only.) But since I don't drink, I have NO idea as to what to get. I need 6 different brands and the budget is up to $25/each. Could anyone help me with this? I would be really greatful if anyone gives me a list.
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UK government jobs website exploited by hackers
Hackers have been able to exploit security flaws in a new government jobs website to steal personal information about job applicants
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Hackers have been able to exploit security flaws in a new government jobs website to steal personal information about job applicants.
The Universal Jobmatch website has been described as a "scammer's paradise" in a Channel 4 News investigation, which uncovered security flaws that enabled access to data including passport scans.
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The new site was launched on 19 November to replace the Jobcentre Plus website, which was shown to be vulnerable to hackers in 2011.
According to reports, a fake job ad placed by a group of hackers seeking to draw attention to the site's security flaws was able to harvest the personal details of more than 70 jobseekers, the report said.
Such information could be used for identity fraud or illegal access to email, bank accounts and other online accounts of job applicants.
No security checks are carried out on advertisers, which means anyone is able to register as an employer and publish job vacancies without any vetting taking place.
The website's security vulnerabilities have been reported to the UK's privacy watchdog, the Information Commissioner's Office, which is tasked with enforcing the country's data protection laws.
In a statement, the Department of Work and Pensions, said: "The site clearly advises jobseekers not to give out personal details such as bank accounts or National Insurance numbers until a job offer has been made. Anybody seeking to acquire personal data by publishing fake job adverts should be aware this is potentially an attempt to commit fraud and that is a criminal offence.
"The security of a claimant's data is of the utmost importance to us and we have a number of checks in place when employers register to use the site. Sadly, there will always be a small number of cases where people seek to get around these checks. If someone is being asked for personal information or details beyond their CV we would recommend they alert Jobcentre Plus immediately."
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FTC attorney Jonathan Cohen appeared in court today, despite the government shutdown, because today was "an important moment in the case". And it was.
Judge Gettleman ordered pitchman Kevin Trudeau back to jail indefinitely because, as he said, "I'm at the end of my rope on this one."
The FTC, receiver and defense attorneys spent an hour debating whether or not Trudeau has been truthful about his assets and income, including recent discoveries that five years ago, that Mr. Trudeau purchased $100,000 in gold bars, another $100,000 in gold coins and $12,000 cuff links.
Speaking on his own behalf, Trudeau denied to the judge that he has hidden bank accounts or vaults with expensive art.
"There are not. There simply are not", Trudeau said. "I am willing to do anything ... the receiver asks. I can't prove that I don't have something."
Trudeau says any money his company has made in the last 2 months since the receiver was appointed, has been spent on operating costs. But it wasn't enough.
"I don't have another alternative but to incarcerate you," said a clearly exasperated Gettleman. "When I ordered the receiver, I thought it sent a message loud and clear."
Referring to Trudeau's complicated web of finances and numerous offshore accounts, Gettleman said, "The point we're at today, is exactly what Mr. Trudeau has been planning for years."
Gettleman ordered Trudeau incarcerated indefinitely until he meets four conditions, which include paying back the $37 million he owes to the FTC or that he cooperates fully with the receiver.
"It really saddens me Mr. Trudeau. You're a smart guy. Maybe too smart. Perhaps you've outsmarted yourself. I can't allow this to keep going on," Gettlemen said.
Trudeau will not spend Wednesday night in a jail cell. He is at home, because Gettleman is giving him until Tuesday at 9:30 am to report to the MCC. The reason? So Trudeau can attend his own Legal Defense Fund Dinner being held in Washington, D.C. on Monday night.
"I'm giving you a chance to raise money for your defense. I'm very reluctant to do that," Gettleman said.
When the FTC asked to have him jailed immediately, Gettleman responded, "What's another 6 days?"
Outside of the courthouse, where Trudeau will enjoy six more days of freedom, he said, "I feel good."


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Here's information on Federal Contracts for Paper Shredding Services from FY2000-2007 from the federal government itself. Notice anything about it? Expenditures on paper shredding have increased six-fold since Bush took office. It's now $3 million a year (note the 2007 bar is for just the first 3 quarters).
Notes from Howard's Sabbatical from Working. The name comes from a 1998 lunch conversation. Someone asked if everything man knew was on the web. I answered "no" and off the top of my head said "Fidel Castro's favorite color". About every 6-12 months I've searched for this. It doesn't show up in the first 50 Google results (this blog is finally first for that search), AskJeeves says it's: red.
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Nowadays, it is no longer sufficient to just tear the paper into small strips. Identity theft is on the upswing and it is necessary to cut paper into the pieces measurable only by millimeters. Shredding security levels one to six range from 12mm sizes to .8 mm sizes.
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People Admit They Steal Their Neighbor's Wi-Fi
Do you have a password on your Internet connection at home? I'm guessing a few of you are saying "yes" . . . more of you are saying "um, maybe?" . . . and plenty of you are saying "thank goodness my neighbors don't use a password on theirs."
According to a new nationwide survey, 32% of Americans . . . or ONE out of THREE . . . admit they're stealing their neighbor's Wi-Fi Internet connection.
In other words . . . if you don't have a password on your wireless Internet router, there's a pretty decent chance someone in the area is leeching off you.
In 2008, only 18% of people said they were hopping on a neighbor's Wi-Fi connection. Then again, a lot more people have high-speed Internet today than back in '08.


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I'm not sure why the folks behind the never-say-die "Paranormal Activity" franchise didn't manage to get the film into theaters this October like they've been doing for the last four years. Either someone screwed up somewhere along the way, or they're trying to shake things up. That last part seems highly unlikely, if you know anything about how Hollywood does business, which essentially boils down to, "Keep doing it until it breaks!" And the "The Paranormal Activity" movies haven't broken yet (at least when it comes to its fans), so I can only assume it's taking them longer to shoot and cut this movie than they thought.
Here's the trailer for "The Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones". It certainly looks like they took the time to write an honest to goodness script and all that this time around. Or a script-ish, anyway. Even if the actors still look and sound like amateurs. I guess that's the, uh, charm of the franchise?
Anyhoo. Check out the first trailer for "The Marked Ones". It's about a bunch of kids who get in trouble with some gangster types in the barrio and then one of them gets possessed by the devil or a demon or something. Seriously, I'm not a very big fan of Found Footage, and an entire franchise based on Found Footage is like the worst thing I could possibly devote any amount of time to besides the 20 or so minutes it just took me to put this post up here on the Interwebs.
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Nice man ! this is really cool , i like how all those things move down there ! :0
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Magic Slide Puzzle Free 2 - - In this copy, the package of the 6 photos is complete, have fun!!
- Install the other versions for more fun.
- Compact and Ergonomic interface
- The game is deployed on many packages
- Simple and educative, with a collection of 6 photos for each package.
- Each collection is oriented to a subject (Animals, Flowers, Pets, Wild Animals, etc...)
- Improve kid intelligence and knowledge
- 3 Sizes (3x3, 4x4, 5x5)
+ The Martin Luther King and the liberty statue images are distributed under the Creative Commons License.
+ The dove image is distributed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
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+ The hippies van was taken from a public image on the web.
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You've missed one. Wait I'll see if I have some left.
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I loved this fabric when I first saw it. If I had more than a 10" X12"
piece left, I'd send it to you. Actually if you could use this little piece, you're welcome to it.
Nice fabric!
Beautiful fabric.
Like the turtles also.
Have you looked at Hawaiian fabrics? Some of them have really cute turtle prints. Trentex and other brands.
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"The entire race, I was determined and told myself, 'Override, override, don't trust your mind, override, believe, one foot in front of the other, you're going to finish that 44th race, no matter what,'" Zech told SF Gate. He finished in what was his slowest time by several minutes.
After the race, Zech, still thinking he was suffering a severe case of acid reflux, took three Tums. When he continued to feel bad, he went to a hospital. Zech was told he had had a heart attack that morning. He received an angioplasty that night.
Although Zech told SF Gate he intends to run his 45th Dipsea next year, he also cautioned fellow runners, "Listen to your body. Do not repeat what I did. I was extremely fortunate."
Zech's fondness for the northern California race is understandable. It runs from Mill Valley to Stinson Beach through challenging but always beautiful scenery. You can watch a course tour in the video below.


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Carmona solid, but Tribe's bats quiet
Carmona solid, but Tribe's bats quiet
CLEVELAND -- Fausto Carmona's face didn't show any signs of frustration following Wednesday's loss. But after yet another solid outing without a win, no one would blame him for getting a little upset. Carmona pitched well for the third straight start, but just like in the other two games, he was unable to get enough run support for a win as the Indians fell, 5-0, to the Rangers on Wednesday in front of 18,794 at Progressive Field.
"I want to win like everyone else," Carmona said through a translator. "But I'm happy that I've been able to keep my team in the game." After an early June banishment to Arizona, Carmona has looked much more like the pitcher that won 19 games in 2007 rather than the more recent version that has struggled to keep his emotions -- let alone opposing hitters -- at bay. And despite his first loss since being called back up July 31, Carmona took another step forward Wednesday. He once again found himself in tough jams that would have unraveled him just months ago. But just like he has in the previous starts, he showed a new-found maturity that allowed him to limit the damage. In the second inning, he gave up a leadoff double to Josh Hamilton, who then moved to third on a groundout by Hank Blalock. Jarrod Saltalamacchia then grounded out and Omar Vizquel flied out to end the inning. "He did a great job of controlling damage a couple different times," manager Eric Wedge said. "His stuff was good again tonight." In all, Carmona pitched six innings, giving up two runs on five hits with three strikeouts and three walks. It was his second straight quality start and he now has a 2.65 ERA since returning to the Majors. While Wedge stopped short of calling it Carmona's best effort of the season, he said he was impressed with his starter's improvement nonetheless. "It's tough to judge, because they've all been a little different." Wedge said. "But I think that's probably a good thing. With his stuff, you know it'll go out and play if he pitches, and I think that's what you're seeing. He's a better pitcher than he was before." The Indians had won Carmona's two previous starts while scoring a total of eight runs. But many of the runs came long after Carmona had handed the ball off to his manager. This time, the Indians didn't score regardless of the pitcher. The Tribe's best opportunity to score came in the first inning when Grady Sizemore and Asdrubal Cabrera led off with back-to-back singles. But the Indians were unable to score either runner and didn't do much the rest of the way against the Rangers' 6-foot-3, 255-pound right-hander, Tommy Hunter. The Indians would get just two more runners in scoring position the rest of the way against Hunter (5-2), who posted a 2.23 ERA in nine Major League starts this season. While Hunter was buzzing through the Indians' lineup, Carmona continued to dance his way out of a few early-inning jams. But he finally tripped up in the third. Carmona hit Elvis Andrus then allowed a double to Julio Borbon and a single to David Murphy to load the bases. With two outs, Josh Hamilton delivered the decisive blow, a double that scored Andrus and Borbon to give the Texas a 2-0 lead. That would be all the trouble Carmona would get into the rest of the way. "With Carmona, he has that turbo sinker, so you have to make him get the ball up," Rangers manager Ron Washington said. "He broke some bats and we found some holes." The Indians remained in striking distance of their 14th win in their past 20 games, but the Rangers tacked on three more runs in the eighth off the trio of Jess Todd, Rafael Perez and Jensen Lewis to seal the game. "You have to try to keep the game at 2," Wedge said. "But I can't keep throwing the same guys out there every night."
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How Often Do You Have to Wash Your Beach Towel?
Dr. Oz has the answer.
Q: How often do you have to wash your beach towel?
Oz Says: It's OK to be pretty casual about it — flipping your towel over a porch railing at the end of one day and grabbing it the next — as long as you make these other moves, too:
Hang it in the sun: "The sun's ultraviolet light kills 90 percent of germs," explains Kelly A. Reynolds, PhD, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona. So if you use the old drape-it-on-the-porch trick up to three days in a row, the bacteria will remain at levels low enough to reduce your chance of getting sick from them, she says. (Yes, bacteria will be there, since seagulls and other birds use the sand — or the pool deck — as their toilet.)
Or dry it out another way: Tossing it in the dryer has a similar germ-killing effect. Leaving it in a crumbled heap on the bathroom floor? Dampness is an engraved invitation for bacteria and fungi to grow, which can potentially lead to skin infections, says Reynolds.
And be ready to actually do some laundry (yes, even if you're on vacation): If the towel is visibly soiled (as in, splotched with seaweed or salsa), you can't depend on the sun to clean it for you. Cue up the washer before you use the towel again.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - MIT's squash team dropped a trio of matches this past weekend, falling by similar 9-0 score lines to Tufts University, Northeastern University and Middlebury College. The contests were the first hosted by Tech in the 2006-07 season, as well the first since the recent dedication of court No. 5 of the Al and Barrie Zesiger Sports and Fitness Center to 1990 graduate and squash alum Nasser Aziz Ahmad.
While the losses leave the Cardinal and Gray's record at 0-4 on the young season, the effort that the team has put in has not gone unnoticed by the coaching staff. Assistant coach Jim Taylor noted that, despite the setbacks on the scoreboard, "the team worked hard."
Sophomore captain Saad Zaheer was one player whose hard work nearly paid off in terms of results, as he posted wins in games one (9-2) and three (9-6) from the No. 5 spot against Middlebury before falling valiantly in the weekend's only five-game match.
Freshman Andrew Yoon (against Northeastern) and sophomore Balaji Sridhar (against Middlebury) were the other Tech competitors who forced their matches beyond the minimum three games.
The Engineers will return to the court on Friday, Dec. 8, when they travel to Lewiston, Maine to take on Bates College in a match that is slated to begin at 6:45 p.m.


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That childhood icon of holiday mischief, Macaulay Culkin, has struck again—not with Rube Goldberg-esque hijinks, but with the demo recently released by his new band, The Pizza Underground.
The group consists of Culkin (percussion, kazoo, and vocals), Matt Colbourn (guitar), Phoebe Kreutz (glockenspiel), Deenah Vollmer (pizza box), and Austin Kilham (tambourine). The motley crew covers the songs of Lou Reed and The Velvet Underground, with a twist—each song is reworked to feature pizza, front and center.
According to Dangerous Minds, The Pizza Underground has only released one track so far (recorded live at Culkin's house in November), a medley of songs with titles like "Papa John Says," "Take a Bite of the Wild Slice," and "I'm Waiting for Delivery Man." Hear the full demo below or check out the groups' page on Bandcamp. This may not be the first musical ode to pizza, but it's certainly one of the most thorough we've seen in a while (we also love all of these...).


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What do you mean 12 is an abnormally high number of cemeteries for a town with a population of less than 40,000? That would seem perfectly normal, if you'd grown up in Sunnydale. Here are 14 other signs you call Sunnydale home.
'Breaking Bad' is almost back! We're excited to have the show back, but we're extra-excited for the quantity of Aaron Paul in our lives to increase. You should be too. Here's why.
You might think you're a Charlotte or a Miranda. But you're not. Nobody is. Everybody is actually a Costanza.
If you've ever had to take your dog to the vet to have quills removed from his face, you're probably not the biggest fan of porcupines. This could be the video that wins you back.
If you thought you couldn't handle the end of 'Homeward Bound' before, just wait til you watch this video.
Summer doesn't have to be all sticky fingers and screaming in outrage at overly buoyant straws. It turns out it's actually quite easy to enjoy the best season of the year -- all you need are these few simple life hacks. (And to man up and increase your tolerance for high temperatures.)
Are you having a rough week? Does the fact that it's not Friday yet make you want to ram your face through a plate glass window? Did you spend your morning commute grinding your teeth to keep from telling the person snapping their gum next to you that they don't deserve to be loved? Here, have some Calming Manatees.
Regardless of your politics, you have to admit this is a class move by former President George H.W. Bush.
If Congress doesn't want to redefine marriage, the Oxford English Dictionary will just do it themselves. After all, that's their job.
It started simply enough (as these things tend to do), with a redditor posting this picture with the headline "Tried to get a photo of our proposal ... nailed it!" On its own, it's pretty hilarious. But the internet wasn't done with this photobombing guy. Not yet.
Ahhh, the ocean. So calm. So relaxing. So ABOUT TO BE EATEN BY ENORMOUS WHALES AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHHHH!!!! Thanks goodness these divers have friends to record their near-death experience, so that we can all watch this horrifying video. This is why we stay in the shallow water, where only sharks can get us. Good grief.
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It couldn't have come at a more significant time, really, but the Leafs are as hot right now as they've been at any point in the Ron Wilson era.
By prevailing in the wide-open sprint that Monday's 6-3 win over the Edmonton Oilers turned out to be, the Leafs have now won five of their past six giving them a huge early push in the playoff race.
That lone loss, the frustrating shootout failure to the Penguins last Tuesday in Pittsburgh, still allowed them a point, giving them a big 11 in their past six contests.
Such a streak has only happened once since Wilson started here in the 2008-09 season. The Leafs got similarly hot from Feb. 22,
2009 through March 5, 2009 in a late-season playoff push that ultimately fell short. This streak, clearly, has far more significance.
"We're playing confident and we're playing well," said Leafs centre Tyler Bozak, whose second-period goal stood up as the game-winner. "We just want to worry about our next game.
"We don't want to get too overconfident here and think it's going to be too easy, we just have to stay consistent."
Consistent has been the hallmark of this team throughout as they've avoided long losing streaks. And a run like the current one has them in perfect position for the stretch drive.
The Leafs penalty-kill streak is now up to 15 games, but the stat got padded in bizarre fashion as neither team recorded a penalty. It was the first penalty-free game for the Leafs since March 28, 2001 … The Oilers were without rookie star Ryan Nugent-Hopkins in the third. Official word from the team is that RNH aggravated the shoulder injury … Phil Kessel's two goals — one into an empty net — gave him 91 as a Leaf and moved him into 55th on the team's all-time roster. With 29, Kessel would seem a cinch to crack 40 for the first time in his career … Yes, that was Tim Connolly getting an assist on Kessel's first goal, the centre's first point in seven games … You know the trade deadline is fast approaching and the market heating up when the list of scouts causes a minor overflow in the ACC press box. Officially, 30 were listed as been in attendance Monday with two from the struggling Blackhawks … Oilers star Jordan Eberle just missed his first career hat trick in the third when he rang one off the crossbar with eight minutes left in the third … The young Oilers sure can score, but for the third consecutive game they allowed a minimum of four goals. Time to draft a D-man?
While white-hot Oiler Sam Gagner continued his scoring burst with an assist on Eberle's first goal just 21 seconds in, a number of streaking Leafs continued their production. Kessel (two goals, one assist) surpassed 300 career points (302) and has six points in his past two … Next up, rookie defenceman Jake Gardiner, with his second goal of the season, has five points in his past five … Moving on, how about centre Bozak, whose brilliant individual effort on a steal in front of the Oilers net has five points in his last four. With 31 points (10 goals, 21 assists) Bozak is just one shy of the career high 32 he recorded last season … Moving right along, Clarke MacArthur's 17th goal of the season improved his point streak to five games. His assist on Kessel's empty netter gives him five goals and four assists in that stretch … And finally, no Leaf is hotter than Mikhail Grabovski. The speedy centre's two-assist night — including an electrifying rush to set up Gardiner's goal, extended his points streak to six games where he averaging two a night (three goals and nine assists). Grabovski was arguably the best player on the ice, giving up no speed to the young, hotshot Oilers.
Wilson is particularly impressed with Gardiner's play of late after a break in early January. "It's simple, he kind of just ran out of gas," Wilson said of the wall the rookie seemed to hit earlier. "Now he just seems to be energized again. His whole game is skating. If he's not skating, he gets in trouble." … The Leafs probably should have headed to the first intermission trailing 3-2 after an apparent Ryan Smyth goal was emphatically waved off for what at best was marginal goaltender interference … A blind clearing attempt by John-Michael Liles from behind his own net led to Brad Petry's weak goal from the point in the second and allowed the Oilers back in the game … The Leafs came out on their heels early in the third allowing the speedy Oilers a number of good chances. James Reimer arguably made bigger saves in that period than he did in either of his shutouts the previous two … Reimer's shutout streak ended at 138 minutes and 57 seconds … Leafs defenceman Mike Komisarek is just three games away from his 500th career NHL game. He'd be there by now if he wasn't a healthy scratch for the past three games, his longest streak in the press box this season.


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Brokers are more likely to obtain an interest-only loan for borrowers than lenders, the review found
The Melbourne-based finance broker has been sentenced to five years in jail for using false documents in loan applications
Aussie Home Loans' John Symond has urged the RBA to further reduce the cash rate next Tuesday.
Following a rate cut last month to 3.25% and a cut on every Melbourne Cup day since 2006, Symond said market conditions demanded similar action from the Reserve Bank next week.
"Australia continues to be susceptible to economic shocks from overseas and small retailers and businesses are doing it tough as we head into the crucial Christmas retail season," Symond said.
"A rate drop will boost retail sales and the rest of the economy – especially employment - providing much needed confidence to consumers."
Data released by RP Data yesterday showed a sudden reverse in previous capital city dwelling value gains.
With an overall value reduction of 1% across all capital cities, even markets that were supposed to form the vanguard of a revival suffered falls, including Sydney with a -0.9% change.
RP Data research director Tim Lawless said the results highlighted how delicately balanced the housing market is ahead of the RBA decision.
"Whether the October decline is a blip on the path to a recovering market, or a sign of further weakness is yet to be seen," he said.
"Despite the cash rate being only 25 basis points higher than the emergency lows seen in 2009, we are yet to see a real improvement in consumer confidence or housing market transaction volumes.
"Until we see optimists outnumber pessimists in consumer confidence surveys, a recovery in the housing market is likely to remain precarious," Lawless said.
John is right on the money...reduce the rates... devalue the Aussie dollar and lets get some domestic growth !
Consumer confidence is at an all time low with property values still bouncing along the bottom. Some States have incentivised buyers to construct or buy brand new homes and latest statistics are being touted as showing a recovery in the sector. The developers and vendors have simply jacked up their prices to take full advantage of the increase in grants. Just watch what will happen in a couple of years when young people who manage to squeak in to these properties at highest LVR, maximum servicing and with minimal savings (relying more on the grants than cash in bank) start the sad treadmill of divorce and separation. They will find that they own negative equity and the whole incentive programme will end up in tears as the banks foreclose and hound them personally for the shortfalls.
Didn't Aussie only pass on .18% of the .25% rate cut last month?? This 'chorus' calling for more rate cuts need to ensure that they are all singing from the same song chart!!


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The Kymin
The Kymin, or Kymin Hill, is a hill overlooking Monmouth, in Monmouthshire, Wales. It is located approximately one mile east of Monmouth, on the eastern side of the River Wye and adjacent to the border with Gloucestershire's Forest of Dean and England. The summit of the hill, about 800 feet above sea level, is known for its neo-classical monuments, built between 1794 and 1800. The site is a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The Roundhouse
The Roundhouse is a white round tower, in two storeys with a crenellated roof, similar to a folly. It was constructed in 1794 on the wishes and from the pockets of a group of Monmouth's gentlemen, the Monmouth Picnic Club or Kymin Club, led by Philip Meakins Hardwick. The subscription list was headed by the local landowner, the Duke of Beaufort, and eight Members of Parliament. The members of the Kymin Club were drawn from "the principal Gentlemen of Monmouth and its vicinity", and met each week "for the purpose of dining together, and spending the day in a social and friendly manner". They wished for a venue suitable for their regular meetings, dining and events, especially in the summer months. To this end it was designed and built with kitchens on the ground floor and a banqueting room above, with powerful telescopes fitted on the roof in season to fully take in the views. The house was made available, for a fee, for use by other appropriate parties.
It was claimed that nine counties could be viewed from the roof (Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire, Breconshire, Worcestershire, Herefordshire, Radnorshire, Shropshire and Somerset). A bowling green was laid outside, and there were also stables. On the steep wooded escarpment beneath the house was laid out the Beaulieu Grove, a series of walks provided with seats from which to contemplate the views. Access to the site was improved by the construction, after 1799, of a new carriage road up the hill. The bowling green was later used for other sports, including hockey, and as a showground during major celebrations such as that for the centenary of the Battle of Trafalgar in 1905.
The Roundhouse is a Grade II* listed building as of 27 June 1952.
The Naval Temple
The hill has a Naval Temple on its summit, constructed by the Kymin Club in 1800 to commemorate the second anniversary of the British naval victory at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and in recognition of sixteen of the British Royal Navy's Admirals who had delivered significant victories in other major sea battles of the age around the globe to that date. The memorial is classical in design, topped by a bronze seated figure of Britannia (now a replica). The Temple was dedicated by the Duchess of Beaufort, the daughter of Admiral Boscawen, one of those commemorated in the building.
The square Naval Temple has round plaques or medallions, four on each face, for each Admiral and the victory with which he was most closely associated and its date. The named Admirals are:
Vice Admiral Charles Thompson (admiral)
Rear Admiral Adam Duncan, 1st Viscount Duncan of Camperdown
Vice Admiral Edward Boscawen
Vice Admiral Sir Samuel Hood, 1st Baronet
Admiral Howe
Admiral John Borlase Warren
Admiral John Gell (was retired locally near Crickhowell when this was built.)
Admiral Lord Nelson
Admiral John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent and also Admiral of the Fleet
Vice Admiral George Rodney
Admiral Hawke who was also First Lord of the Admiralty
Vice Admiral Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
Vice-Admiral William Cornwallis
Admiral Sir Peter Parker, 1st Baronet another Admiral of the Fleet
Admiral George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith
Admiral Andrew Mitchell (Royal Navy officer)
Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson himself visited Monmouth in 1802, along with Lady Hamilton and her husband, Sir William Hamilton, who was to die by April 1803. They travelled down river on theRiver Wye from Ross-on-Wye to Monmouth to cannonades firing, the town band playing and being greeted by the mayor accompanied by all the local dignitaries of the county and local crowds. Staying in Monmouth for just a couple of days, Nelson visited the Naval Temple and the Roundhouse on Kymin Hill, where he breakfasted and admired the views. He was struck with the Naval Temple, saying that "it was the only monument of its kind erected to the Royal Navy in the Kingdom".
That this should be done not in one of Britain's major naval ports but in a small provincial county town in Wales far from the sea and with no great naval or seafaring traditions stayed with Nelson. This was of course three years before his own glorious victory, and death, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and Nelson's Column would not be built until 1843. The Britannia Monument, to Nelson, in Great Yarmouth would not be built until 1817. Monmouth has its own Nelson Museum in the town centre, started by the collections of Lady Llangattock, mother of Charles Rolls.
According to researcher Peter Borsay, the monument's design, and its location overlooking the border between England and Wales, were symbolic of the formation of Great Britain. It was built at the time of the Act of Union with Ireland, about a century after that with Scotland, and at a time when the United Kingdom was engaged in a war with France which was helping to define, and being used to define, what it was to be British.
Up until 1797 Britannia was conventionally depicted holding a spear, but as a consequence of the increasingly prominent role of the navy in the war against the French, and of several spectacular victories, the spear was replaced by a trident. It is this that the Kymin Britannia wields. The navy had come to be seen... as the very bulwark of British liberty and the essence of what it was to be British... It was therefore entirely appropriate that the temple should be a naval one, that the heroes celebrated should all be naval officers, and that battles commemorated ones fought at sea." In building the temple, Monmouth staked its own claim to be the centre of British identity as the birthplace of King Henry V, of whom a statue was placed on the Shire Hall in 1792. Within two years of the battle of Waterloo in 1815 the name of the town's market place had been changed to Agincourt Square "in order to celebrate a victory of Henry V's that seemed as famous as Wellington's.
The Kymin is accessed by a winding road climbing up off the A4136 Monmouth to Forest of Dean road. The area is managed and conserved by the National Trust and there is a car park near the summit with an easy walk to both the Temple and the Roundhouse. The views on a clear day are magnificent.
The landscape features incorporated within the woodland at Beaulieu Grove were apparently destroyed early in the 19th century. The Woodland Trust is undertaking research into the history of the area, and provides access to the woods.
The Kymin Dash is a cross country running hill race which used to take place annually as part of Monmouth's carnival and festival fortnight in July. The course covers about 7 miles, circling the town and both ascending and descending the Kymin by forest tracks, field paths and minor roads. The course record is 38 mins 54 secs, set by P. Wheeler in 1985. After a short break, the Kymin Dash is set to return with a new course and new date in April 2013.


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Robin Burcell, a trained forensic artist and former police officer for 27 years, will speak about her career and the process of writing romance, police procedural and thriller novels on Tuesday in the Community Room of the Lodi Public Library at 7 p.m. Admission is free.
The event is sponsored by the Lodi Branch of the American Association of University Women. Burcell was Lodi's first policewoman and homicide detective. She was an FBI-trained forensic artist in addition to working as a hostage negotiator and with child and sexual abuse cases. She has published seven novels to date.
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Conveniently located on the first floor at Winship Cancer Institute, the resource center is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. The resource center provides a comfortable, relaxed atmosphere where you and your caregivers can find:
- Information about cancer, from specific diseases to treatment options. Our materials include conventional as well as holistic resources, materials targeted toward children, and materials available in several languages.
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MILAN, Italy, APRIL 7, 2008 (Zenit.org).- A Milan exhibition of L'Osservatore Romano is giving an inside look at the principal events of Italy and the Church in the last 147 years, since the Vatican's semi-official daily first began.
The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart opened Sunday a "rereading of history from the point of view of the Holy See and 11 pontificates — from Leo XIII to Benedict XVI — that cannot but provoke surprises and clear up errors," announced the paper in a communiqué.
Similar displays were presented in Rome, in 2006, and in Messina the following year.
Among the documents in the exhibition "From Rome to the World: 147 Years of History Seen Through the Pages of the Pope's Newspaper" is included Pope Pius XI's encyclical about the economic crisis of the '30s and the alarming statements about the consequences of the first persecutions of the Jews in Nazi Germany.
Pope Pius XII's message at the end of World War II is included, as is Pope Paul VI's appeal to the Red Brigades in the context of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro.
Pages of the newspaper and published photographs also form part of the exhibit, prepared by two L'Osservatore reporters, Raffaele Alessandrini y Gianluca Biccini.
The display begins with July 1, 1861, the first edition of L'Osservatore Romano, Rome's oldest daily. The exhibit continues through the publication of Benedict XVI's two encyclicals.
The most recent portions of the exhibit reflect the graphical changes implemented in the paper since Giovanni Maria Vian took over its direction last October.


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What's a rock-and-roll guy to do after the hits have faded and the big major-label record deals are over? Perhaps scale down and sign the band to an indie label. Make a solo record and strike out touring on one's own. Maybe find a liquor company that wants to target the rock audience, and work with them. Possibly recruit new songwriting collaborators. Or, do as some media figures are these days, and run for political office.
For Pat DiNizio of The Smithereens, the answer is all of the above, though not in the usual fashions, mind you. He's currently on a unique solo tour promoting the first Smithereens album in five years, God Save The Smithereens, on the independent Koch label, booking himself into people's living rooms for house concerts at $2,000 a pop. He's also been working for Jim Beam, helping administer a fund that gave away $75,000 last year to aspiring musicians (including Dallas-area artist Jodi Nelson), and hiring himself out to the public via the Web as a songwriting collaborator. In addition, he's the Reform Party candidate for senator from his home state of New Jersey.
As we talk about it all on the phone, DiNizio's driving across Oklahoma toward the West Texas Panhandle. "It's really pretty to me, because I've never seen the country from this perspective, from behind the wheel," he notes. "I've always seen it from the inside of a bus. And a lot of times you really don't see anything. It's like the Beatles said: They saw the back of a van and the back of a bus and the inside of a dressing room and backstage -- they really didn't see much. By driving myself cross-country on this tour, I'm really seeing a lot of neat things."
Pat DiNizio
February 26
House concert in Arlington
Limited tickets may still be available:
DiNizio comes off as fascinated, if not nearly obsessed, with seeing things anew. But the good thing about God Save The Smithereens is that it's the same sort of smart pop-rock album -- his Beatles reference above is most apropos -- they've made all along, if only stronger and deeper and wiser. Which is what DiNizio seems to be as well. And even though he put out a solo album, Songs and Sounds, in 1997, this tour on his own is to promote the band's latest disc, in lieu of a tour that might make sense for all four members of the band, which these days means more fairs and festivals than clubs. Because, as DiNizio notes, the musicians and their fans are all older, and often have families.
So why not go to where they live? After all, the folk scene has cultivated an entire circuit of house concerts. He's already enjoyed the ancillary benefit of such touring from a month or so of shows late last year out of the 70 dates he will eventually play. "I've made, in most instances, very good friends from virtually every show I've done," he says. "It's expanded my world, certainly. I think what this is about for me, on one level, is redefining what that whole concert experience means to me.
"I just want to bridge the gap between artist and audience, and en route to that goal or dream, I am rediscovering what I am all about," he continues. "That's a big part of this thing. That's a big part of why I'm doing it myself, why I have to be alone doing it, why there's no driver or handler or tour manager or companion. I'm not planning it. There's no itinerary. I don't know where I am staying tonight. Sometimes I stay with the tour sponsors, if it feels right. Sometimes I'll drive till I can't drive anymore, and then I'll pull into a Best Western or Super 8."
DiNizio carries a suitcase-sized Fender Passport PA, and in addition to living rooms and back yards, the shows are also taking place in everything from a public library to a firehouse to a houseboat. On February 26, he plays the home of the similarly named Jim Dimizio, a Jersey expatriate who lives in Arlington.
DiNizio booked the tour via The Smithereens Web site (www.thesmithereens.net) and is bullish on the Web as a means to create a new relationship between performer and audience. He now not only has 65 of his home demos up for preview and paid download with Liquid Audio, but has also solicited songwriting work with amateurs via his www.psychocollaborations.net Web site.
"Initially it was just a kind of crazy idea that I wanted to see what kind of response I'd get to it," he admits. "But I must say that virtually all the submissions I've received are serious as a heart attack and very well thought-out. The contributors, or my online songwriting partners, are very sincere, and I have to honor their commitment as best I can with these things. What I am saying is that they're no joke; they're real songs." He eventually hopes to release an album of such songs (titled Strangers on a Refrain), perhaps through the Internet, or to stores, or maybe both.
As we talk, DiNizio is heading for the West Coast to meet with Danny Goldberg, former top honcho for Atlantic, Warner Bros., and Mercury Records, about a new Internet program called patronet.com. He's slated to be among such initial artists as Ornette Coleman, Les Paul, Patti Smith, and Todd Rundgren (who developed the program). Fans can subscribe to the service and get new songs and other goodies and features on an ongoing basis. It's much like the old patronage of musical composers by the rich and royalty, but with syndication.
It's all about seeing new things and discovering new means, DiNizio explains as he rolls down the highway. Then he's suddenly distracted. "Wow, there's three jets flying in formation maybe a 100 feet off the ground," he exclaims. "What the hell is this? Where the hell are we? Are we near Area 52?"
But back on the subject, he notes, "You have to have a life to write about. Music is certainly the major part of my life -- writing songs, performing, making records, working with other people. But it isn't the only thing in my life, and I don't think it should be. I've never lived in that sort of vacuum."
At the same time, he's searching for new means of survival in a business "where you have to sell a million records or they'll drop you," he observes. "I am furious that [Capitol Records] merely lent us money to make the records and got it back, yet they own the records in perpetuity. It's a really lousy business. I have no sour grapes, because I'm one of the ones who hasn't had to go back to a day job, thank God." After all, he was a garbageman before The Smithereens hit big.
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"We led an insular lifestyle for years, where we were just on the bus and did the shows. And we did everything that rock stars should and shouldn't have done," he adds. But while DiNizio explains how he's sure that Smithereens drummer Dennis Diken "doesn't want to be riding around the country for months at a time in the back of a bus anymore," Pat is savoring this road stint. "I just like to be out there. I'm on the road because I like doing this. I don't need anyone to hold my hand or change my guitar strings or tune my guitar or check me into a hotel or drive me. I had that for years. I am very capable of doing all that."
Since we recently had a president (the elder George Bush) who had no idea that supermarkets read prices with scanners, nor how much a quart of milk cost, such a back-to-basics approach from a former rock star may also help qualify DiNizio for his other cause: upstart political candidate.
"I'm certainly the most unusual candidate to ever come out of the state of New Jersey," he says of his run this year for a seat in the U.S. Senate (see www.dinizio2000.org). "My main concern is community and family and values and ethics. And the simple notion of telling the truth and being kind to your neighbor. It's mainly an ethics campaign. It's going to be an Internet-driven campaign the likes of which you've never seen before, and a cable TV campaign, and a lot of getting out and shaking hands.
"I started as an independent, but got picked up by the Reform Party. I'm certainly an unlikely candidate, but everyone I speak to in the state says, 'You know what, I'll vote for you.' So we'll see what happens."


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It reminds those of us who have a personal relationship with Jesus that it is indeed His birthday (and it is our earthly Daddy's b-day also)! We are reminded of the hope, the sacrifice and the joy that goes along with the birth of our Savior. It is a time to rejoice in the best gift ever given to all of us. I love that...we all share the same gift....we are all equal.
For many of us it also reminds us of the added, fun and extra part of Christmas - Santa Claus. Growing up we always had Santa at our house. We knew the reason for Christmas was Jesus, and Santa was just a nice fat man who kept us on our toes all year. I loved Santa and the mystery of him. I still believe in some ways. It is most fun that way.
For all of us it reminds us of gifts. Some of us give big, some of us give little, some of us give all we have and some of us are greedy with what we give. Yet, we all give. We grew up in a house that gave what was reasonable and what would make the other person's face light up with joy on Christmas morning. We still give like that, and I love that the most. We didn't base our love on the price tag, or vice versa...the gift was only a token, and always a nice one.
For everyone, it reminds us of food...and usually lots of it. homemade goodies galore and big meals are abundant. We all have our favorite thing. Mama and Julie love the oyster stew, Sarah and I love the garlic cheese grits, Randall loves the white almond covered tins full of goodies, The fab four love the sausage balls, Daddy loves the boiled custard, Stephen loves the divinity, and my mother-in-law loves the egg nog. We all have our favorites and they all make our pants fit a bit more snug by the year's end.
Love. Sadly, this is not the same for all of us and of all things listed, this should be the same for all. Everyone should feel loved this time of year. Jesus was born to show us real, true love...all of us. Rich, poor, nice, mean, smart or dumb. We are all loved. We all see those people who look lonely, sad or bitter. They are desperate for love. They need to feel the love of the Savior. Whether it is neighbor, a co-worker, friend, family member or sales clerk at Walmart - Show love...on your face, in your actions and with what you say. I need to hear this as much as the next person. It has been convicting me the last few days and I thought if it is convicting any of you, you might like to know you are not alone. It is so easy to love and it is sad that we make it so hard. Love is what Christmas is all about! Instead of making Christmas the stress it has become, let's strive to make it a blessing in the coming days. Be a Christmas blessing to someone else.


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Topoisomerase Inhibitors for Chemotherapy
Topoisomerase I inhibitors
Topoisomerase II inhibitors
Topoisomerase (say "toh-poh-eye-SAHM-uh-rays") inhibitors are chemotherapy medicines used to treat several types of cancers, including testicular cancer, leukemia, and some lung cancers.
How It Works
Topoisomerase inhibitors interfere with enzymes called topoisomerases. This affects the growth of cancer cells and causes them to die.
Why It Is Used
Topoisomerase inhibitors slow or stop the growth of cancer cells in the body.
Irinotecan is often used in combination with other chemotherapy drugs, making the other drugs more effective than they are by themselves.1
How Well It Works
Topoisomerase inhibitors are effective antitumor medicines. But the type and extent of a cancer determines how effectively these medicines slow or stop the growth of cancer cells in the body.
Side Effects
All medicines have side effects. But many people don't feel the side effects, or they are able to deal with them. Ask your pharmacist about the side effects of each medicine you take. Side effects are also listed in the information that comes with your medicine.
Here are some important things to think about:
Call your doctor right away if you have:
Taking topoisomerase inhibitors can increase your chances of getting an infection, so do your best to stay away from sick people. It may also keep your blood from clotting normally, so be very careful when using sharp objects.
Common side effects of this medicine include:
Treatment with topoisomerase II inhibitors (such as etoposide) can increase your risk for getting acute myelogenous leukemia (AML).
See Drug Reference for a full list of side effects. (Drug Reference is not available in all systems.)
What To Think About
These medicines can affect your blood cells and your liver function. Your doctor will check your blood cell counts and your liver function while you are taking these medicines.
Talk to your doctor before taking these medicines if you have an infection or kidney or liver disease. And let your doctor know if you have had shingles or chickenpox (or have recently been exposed to chickenpox).
You may not be able to get pregnant or father a child after taking these medicines. Discuss fertility with your doctor before starting treatment.
While you are taking this medicine, don't get any "live" vaccines. Also, stay away from anyone who has recently had a live vaccine.
Women taking this medicine may experience menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes and vaginal dryness.
Taking medicine
Medicine is one of the many tools your doctor has to treat a health problem. Taking medicine as your doctor suggests will improve your health and may prevent future problems. If you don't take your medicines properly, you may be putting your health (and perhaps your life) at risk.
There are many reasons why people have trouble taking their medicine. But in most cases, there is something you can do. For suggestions on how to work around common problems, see the topic Taking Medicines as Prescribed.
Advice for women
Do not use this medicine if you are pregnant, breast-feeding, or planning to get pregnant. If you need to use this medicine, talk to your doctor about how you can prevent pregnancy.
Follow-up care is a key part of your treatment and safety. Be sure to make and go to all appointments, and call your doctor if you are having problems. It's also a good idea to know your test results and keep a list of the medicines you take.
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A good few years ago now I was at my friends house and sat on the sofa and I noticed a hot pink cushion next to me. I picked it up and felt it and realised it didn't feel like a normal cushion at all....I loved it and my friend obviously took the hint as she bought me an identical one for Christmas!
The cushion in question is a squeezy love therapy pillow. The one which I have is a hot pink colour and in the shape of a love heart. Now this cushion isn't filled with padding like a normal cushion and it is in fact filled with small micro polystyrene powder and covered in a stretchy, almost lycra feeling material. This makes the cushion feel incredibly soft but what I love the most about this pillow is the fact that whilst I sit with it I will sometimes have it on my knee and just pull and squeeze it and it almost works as a stress ball type effect and is very relaxing indeed.
I have used this pillow at home for when I am laying either in bed or on the sofa watching television to rest my head on but I wouldn't try and actually sleep on it over night though I am sure it is possible and possibly comfortable too as your head just sinks in to the pillow when you lay on it. I have also taken this pillow to work when I am feeling sore and will support my back with it, or more recently would prop it under my knee to rest that as advised by my physiotherapist. The pillow really is transportable and so I would say you could just take it along pretty much anywhere with you and I think it would make a perfect pillow for in the car should you be a passenger on a long journey.
The pillow can be machine washed using a delicate cycle but I do like to just sponge clean mine and that is all I have needed to do in the five years or so I have owned this cushion. In all that time, with the amount of use it has had by both myself and my son there is only minimal cosmetic damage to the pillow by way of a few bobbles and things which I think is excellent quality really.
Having looked online you can pick up these therapy pillows for around the nine pounds mark and I think for the longevity as well as the comfort provided by this pillow it is an excellent price and certainly something I would recommend!
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A dramatic vision for renovating the area around the dying Valley View Center took its first public reality-check questions Thursday.
More than 400 people overfilled a conference room at the Westin Galleria Hotel to hear Dallas officials and consultants offer details about what they're calling Dallas Midtown, an ambitious reworking of about 450 acres that stretch from the parking lots of Valley View to the towers of Galleria Dallas.
People in the crowd, many of whom are property owners, peppered the presenters with questions.
How will the already overburdened local roads handle the new traffic?
The plans include more roadway inside the redevelopment, consultant Tip Housewright said. He didn't address the impact on roads outside the area.
Other grand redevelopment plans in Dallas, notably a project at Walnut Hill and North Central Expressway, never moved from drawings to construction. What makes this plan different?
Developers are eager to get started on the Valley View project, said Bruce Bradford, head of the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce. The mall's owners hope to start construction as soon as next year, though the mall will likely survive for another two or three years.
What happens to the thousands of residents living in relatively inexpensive apartments in the redevelopment area?
Residential developments that are funded in part by special taxing districts are generally required to set aside about 20 percent of units for affordable housing, said Theresa O'Donnell, the city's director for sustainable development and construction.
The tone was similar hours earlier during a presentation to the Dallas Plan Commission. Commissioners sounded impressed with the plan, with a touch of skepticism.
"This vision includes a whole lot of property owners who may not have the same vision," commission member Betty Culbreath said.
The plan includes replacing rows of two-story apartments, small stores, a couple of pawnshops and a pool hall with a large park. High-rise residences would take the place of fast-food restaurants. Office towers would spring up along LBJ Freeway. The mall would vanish, except for the movie theater, and be replaced by an "entertainment" center with some retail. Roads would be lined with trees and incorporate bike lanes.
Almost 10,000 apartments or condos would create the equivalent of a new town in the elbow of the Dallas North Tollway and LBJ Freeway. For some property owners, the plan could mean huge profits. For others, not so much.
Stanley Peskin owns land along Montfort Drive where a strip shopping center now sits. Under the plan, that property would become a park.
"I'm one whose ox is being gored," Peskin said.
After the morning meeting, Peskin's attorney, Kirk Williams, said that it wasn't the vision of the project that he had a problem with so much as how fast city staff wants to push through zoning requirements. Those could come to the City Council for a vote as soon as May 22.
"We're nervous, and we need to see the details," Williams said. "This is like an onion. We've only seen the first layer and we don't know what it smells like in the core."
But everyone agrees the plan would take decades to become reality. The city would need to find tens of millions of dollars to pay for roads, water and sewer lines, and other amenities. Developers would need to come up with plans.
And there's the question of how the city would assemble the parcels for a park that would stretch longer than five football fields. City officials say the park is vital for the plan to succeed.
But where would the money come from to pay owners like Peskin for his property? City officials offered ideas but few details.
"That park is key," plan commission member Michael Schwartz said. "I just want to understand how we get there."


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As the director of exhibitions at the Art & Cultural Center at Fallbrook, Mary Perhacs admits she's not a motorcycle fan, but she still loves the center's new show, "Wheels of Desire," an exhibit of motorcycles and motorcycle-related art.
"I must admit I'm having a lot of fun with this," said Perhacs. "They're kind of sexy. A huge chopper just drove through the front door of the art center and it was incredible."
The idea for the show came from a similar exhibit at the Guggenheim Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Since that show proved to be the biggest moneymaker in the museum's history, an art center volunteer suggested a similar exhibit in Fallbrook.
"I wanted to do something different than the Guggenheim," said Perhacs. "That's why we added the photographs and posters. It's more like a museum show than a motorcycle show, with the history of each bike printed and posted near it."
All the artwork, which includes etchings, original oils and vintage photos, is from regional artists. The artwork mostly features motorcycles and the people who love them.
Among the artists featured are Vista motorcycle enthusiast John Gage, who manipulates images of motorcycles on his home computer. Interestingly, Gage is also a Zen priest, Perhacs said. Also featured from Vista is Brandon Lendak, a Palomar College freshman who designs chopper-style motorcycles on his computer.
Three Fallbrook artists are in the show as well. Brett Stokes, is an American Indian artist who paints vivid acrylic images of motorcycles, including the popular Indian brand motorcycle, which he once owned. Fallbrook watercolorist Toni Inman is showing images she painted from the veterans' parade in San Diego last year (featuring vets on motorcycles). And Fallbrook newcomer Igor Koutsenko, a native of Russia, who has several etchings of classic motorcycles in the exhibit.
"I also like to bring in the humanness of art," Perhacs said, "so these are pictures of people riding motorcycles and displays such as boots that have been worn out."
To put the show together, Perhacs and the center staff worked with Richard Pearce of Rainbow. A former racer and a collector of motorcycles, he contacted other collectors to lend their bikes. As a result, the show features a wide range of historic street and racing bikes, including an 1899 Peugeot, several Harley Davidsons (1917, 1946, a KR Roadracer and an Ascot Flat Trucker), a 1946 Vincent Racer, Notrons, Indians, BMWs, Triumphs, Ducati, Suzuki, Excelsior Board Track Racer, Rudge, AJS 7R, Matchless, Motoguzzi Falcon, Vespa and others.
"There's something about these machines -- they're raw and cool," Perhacs said. "Maybe it has something to do with the smell of oil in the air, but there's an energy about all of it. There's something anti-establishment about motorcycles."
To promote the show, the center has contacted many Southern California motorcycle clubs -- 143 in all.
"I hope all the Fallbrook merchants will forgive me, because the streets will be roaring with motorcycles," said Perhacs. "But then, I really enjoy shaking things up. Art shouldn't be boring, and these machines are beautiful in both function and design."
There's no fear this show will be boring.
"Looking at these bikes is addictive and mesmerizing," she said. "We've hung a lot of great shows in this gallery, but these bikes are just so amazing."


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Lights Out for Another Cinema
The Dizengoff movie theater, hidden in the basement of the Dizengoff shopping center in Tel Aviv, will close its doors in the coming months. The theater - which opened 24 years ago with festive screenings of "Kiss of the Spider Woman," "Three Men and a Baby" and "Ran" in its three halls - is about to join the wave of movie houses closing in city centers and shopping malls, making way for multiple-screen megaplexes on urban outskirts, as well as more parking and commercial space.
The screens in the Dizengoff halls are small, and the sound equipment can't compare with that found in new theaters. Still, many are sorry to say goodbye to these familiar places, to movies made available in the heart of Tel Aviv, to the possibility of watching a film in the morning, and the homey feeling evoked by ticket sellers who are often the same people opening the doors and tearing your ticket in half.
"It's an unfortunate loss. I've seen tons of movies on these screens," says director and cinematographer Yachin Hirsch. "The closing of any movie theater saddens me. I'm all for urban movie houses; I view film as high and not popular culture. It's true that the Dizengoff halls were small, and the screens were not gigantic, but Dalia Shapira [the theater's owner] brought in excellent films. True, there are many movie screens in the Tel Aviv area now - some 20 in Cinema City and many more at Yes Planet - but they are not within walking distance. You have to get into a car, and if you don't have a car, it's a big deal to get there. I imagine that after the Dizengoff theater is closed, as happened in Ramat Aviv, the walls will be torn down and they'll sell shirts. I don't understand, how many shirts does the world need?"
However, in contrast to what happened at the Ramat Aviv and Azrieli malls, at the Malha Mall in Jerusalem and at many others, it is not mall management pushing the theaters out to make way for retail stores, but a decision by the owners, Shapira Films, to close the movie house.
"The decision to close stemmed from a consideration of the changing viewing habits of the audience," a company spokesman said. "The audience prefers to go to large complexes, and we must adjust to the spirit of the times. Nonetheless, we are searching for the correct alternative for the future." According to the spokesman, when the theater closes in a few months (an exact date has not been set), the space will be rented to the Neopharm drugstore chain.
TV killed the movie theater
Journalist and film researcher David Shalit explains that during the first decades of the state, movie houses were located in buildings in city centers which offered large halls that could seat hundreds. In those days, everyone went to the movies. "The high point of movie attendance was reached in 1966, when the population of Israel numbered 2.5 million," Shalit says. "That year, 51 million movie tickets were sold. But the numbers have gone down ever since."
At the end of the 1960s, television entered the picture and damaged the standing of movies. Eventually many people began to watch films on video, DVD and on computers. In response to the rise of television, video equipment and pirated TV via cable, neighborhood movie houses began to give way to those located in shopping malls; in the wake of home movie systems and the ability to download films from the Internet, giant entertainment centers (or megaplexes) rose at the expense of the smaller mall-based movie theaters.
"It's a kind of evolution. I see it as the movie version of 'Had Gadya' - they came and ate them," Shalit says (referring to the Passover song about a cumulative chain of consumption, starting with a baby goat being eaten by a cat).
Shalit says he is not among those crying over the closing of the Dizengoff theater. "The damage is not great," he says. "These tiny halls offer an experience which has long ceased to be collective. When you buy a home screen at 40-something inches, and watch movies on a large screen in the right proportions - not with a cutoff frame as in the past - it's fun. It is for all intents and purposes a privatized communal-collective experience - you watch films with other people at home."
When the Dizengoff theater first opened, it was extremely successful, recalls film critic Shmulik Duvdevani. "It was impossible to get tickets. But the trouble started the moment other theaters changed the viewing experience, with larger screens and advanced sound equipment. The Dizengoff theater never modernized to keep up with the times," he says. "There are halls in other places intended for smaller crowds, but this seems to be disappearing in Tel Aviv. The Dizengoff audience was composed mainly of older people who attend morning and afternoon shows, retirees. Shapira Films has declined in the quantity and quality [of its offerings] recently, and the theater depended on films distributed by other companies."
Duvdevani, who grew up in Tel Aviv, remembers how the opening of the Dizengoff theater took place during the same period that the neighboring Chen cinema opened on Dizengoff Square and the Lev Cinema opened on the top floor of the mall. (The Chen has been renovated over the years, divided into six halls and changed its name to Rav Chen; it closed recently for more renovations.) It was a time when a movie theater with several halls was considered a promising innovation.
"I used to visit the theaters under renovation, while they were being worked on. I asked for permission to go in. I smelled the new seats, saw the new screen," Duvdevani says. "And so I think I was one of the first to sit in a Dizengoff movie theater chair, before the opening. The theater aimed to be Parisian, with its reddish colors and rounded lines."
So there's no more room for Paris in Tel Aviv? "Apparently not," he says. "It's a fact that the Paris theaters have closed, too."
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