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I have been feeling too lazy recently to make my own soup, and Sainsbury's have a great range of soups at the moment, ranging from classics like leek and potato, to this 'meal soup'.
It comes in a plastic pot with a round lid. The pot is clear so you can see the soup inside, and a drawing of a bowl of soup and some vegetables are on the front. I did immediately notice that the soup only filled about three-quarters of the container.
You can heat this up in a saucepan, but it is also microwaveable in the container; you just remove the lid, set it back on loosely and heat for around 5-6 minutes, stirring it once halfway through.
The fact that you can microwave it is great but the plastic container will be very hot when you remove it, and the only way to pour it into a bowl is to use oven gloves or a teatowel. It's a bit awkward doing this but provided you are careful, not too much of a big deal.
The soup is thick and full of vegetables. In my view it almost resembles a pasta sauce more than a soup, such is its thickness. It's a rich, dark, tomatoey red in colour, with visible bits of sausage and veg.
The taste is like a rich tomato and pepper soup. The pepper gives the soup a touch of heat and there are bits of thick red pepper in the soup. There are also whole lentils, large chunks of aubergine which are soft and moist, and smaller chunks of courgette. Aubergine and courgette are two of my favourite vegetables so this was perfect for me! If you wanted you could chuck in your own vegetables too.
The sausage is said to be 'British pork'. There were around 12 decent sized chunks of sausage in the soup which was good. The sausage itself was soft and tasted alright, if a little on the bland side. I must confess that I had some chorizo in the fridge so I chopped it up and mixed it into the soup. It tasted far better than the pork sausage as it complemented the pepper perfectly... maybe I should pitch that idea to Sainsbury's!
Despite the container not being full, this soup was very filling. I like my food but when I finished it, I didn't feel hungry later on. I think this soup would also be nice with some cooked rice stirred through it, just to make it even more substantial. I eat it with crackers but this would be delicious with some crusty bread.
Per pot, this has 249kcal and 2g of saturated fat.
I will be buying this regularly from now on. It's convenient, tasty, cheap and filling. Perfect for the colder nights coming up.


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I am a child from a first marriage. My father remarried & had a child, & has been married for over 30 years to my stepmom. They have always had seperate bank & checking accounts. My father inherited properties from his parents. The land is producing gas wells now, many of them, which means alot of money. It has remained a seperate property. Can my stepmom get any of this money? What if there is no will from him? I believe he kept all these properties seperate for a reason. Can children from first marriage, have claims to her seperate properties she inherited from her parents? If something happens to my Dad, with no POA or will, could we still pay his taxes with his money? I believe this to be alot of money & property. My stepmom wants me, to get my Dad to give she & I,equally,POA over him, is this a good idea? If there is no forced heirship in LA, then could children from first marriage have any claims to property they bought together during marriage? What about properties bought during marriage, but in only my fathers name? My father is in bad health, he wrote out a will in his own hand, and had it witnessed, but she may have found it and through it away. I am so afraid of what is about to happen to my family. HELP!
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For an outdoor knife which steel is better?
1095 is an old steel that is used in a lot of knives, the Ka-Bar Marine, and a lot of the older military knives. I that been given a new life since they added "Cro-van" to the title. Since I assume they are trying to hint they have added chromium and vanadium to it or at least more.
It is amusing to me the prices some manufacturers chage for knives made of 1095. I have some around my shop and have used it quite a bit in knives. It is 'good" but not "great" and it is one of the least expensive steels to buy.
I don't have any experience with 4116 since forging stainless is problematic and I don't care for some of the tempering hoops and the manufacturing characteristics of stainless.
Not knowing what knife/maker your are considering, I would say off the top, that if the model was the same and the price was close I would opt for the 4116, at least you get the rust resistance.
Don't get me wrong 1095 is OK but I could give you chapter and verse on how big the markup is on a knife made of it. there are other carbon steels that IMO are better but most manufacturers have decided you get 1095 or "1095 cro-van" and that's it if you want carbon steel.


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Point Break is a bafflingly unsolicited remake of the 1991 cult classic of the same name. It is directed by Ericson Core, a good filmmaker who directed the 2006 Invincible, a film which is criminally underrated. When I found out that Point Break was being remade I shuddered in fear, but I when I learned that Core was directing the film, I immediately changed my tune, as I hold Invincible in such high regard, as it truly is an under appreciated film for the ages.
Point Break 2015 is grotesque.
I am not inherently adverse to remakes and reboots, and I am not at all a purist, I am perfectly fine with rebooting material and straying from source material if it serves the story well. What had happened here is that the studio has produced a garden variety action movie and slapped a name on it purely for the sake of brand recognition.
The film exceeds expectations in the sense that this a slickly produced action film with a completely rad soundtrack. The camera work, framing and editing leave everything on the proverbial field. There isn't anything new going on here, but it's produced in a professional manner and the action scenes are handled with extreme care.
And along comes the story, instead of our group of guys pulling bank jobs to fund adrenaline junkie lifestyles, the action men of 2015 are self aware crusaders, too cool for school, hipsters on a self imposed mission from God. Every character in this film is ball- kickingly annoying. The problem is that not one of the main characters are in possession of a redeemable quality and their motivations are completely nonsensical, they are all essentially unknowingly pseudo intellectuals.
If this movie had been titles virtually anything else I may have given it a 4 or 5 out of 10, rather than a three, though the unnecessarily and intentionally sanitized PG13 vibe completely disrupts any potential the film may have had in the first place.
It's not good, it stinks.
No sir, I don't like it.
I just saw the first projection at Chiang Mai Thailand. This is one of the most horrible movies i have ever seen. Please don't waste your money. The story makes no sense. The characters are stiff like frozen cucumbers, the purpose and motivations are completely ridiculous. This is a disgrace of a movie. It is as if the director wanted to create the horrible anti point break. Oh My God! Oh My Buddha! Wasted life! There is no logic, the characters are half-dimensional, the star is beyond ridiculous and annoying, the girl is on drugs, the pace is awful they jump from scene to scene like monkeys jump from tree to tree. The director clearly had no vision. I don't know what to say other than STAY AWAY. STAY AWAY.
If you like those 3 or 5 minute GoPro or Red Bull videos of people
doing extreme sports then you will certainly like most of the movie as
a lot of it is exactly that - and to be sure, those moments were pretty
cool to watch and very well done.
Unfortunately, in between all of those moments is a pretty boring plot line with characters that you never really care about.
If you like mindless action (nothing wrong with that) then you will probably like this movie - although most of the "action" is extreme sports, not really guns.
Apparently I have to write at least ten lines of text, but honestly there isn't much more to say about the movie!
A Gen Z update to Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 cult classic, this remake is essentially an episode of Fast and Furious in which the vehicular exploits have been replaced with an assortment of extreme sports sequences. Constructed with an alarming amount of real footage and physical stunt work, the numerous action set pieces are rather impressive; a high octane wing-suit gliding scene and the tension-building rock climbing finale topping the list. Yet the impact of these daredevil stunts is wasted on a film that fails on almost every other level. Stemming from Kurt Wimmer's truly awful screenplay, every second not spent traversing a mountainside, soaring through the air or surfing a mammoth wave is cringe worthy and/or yawn inducing. Wimmer's dialogue attempts to be philosophical and Zen-like, but with clichéd stinkers like "the only law is gravity" and "everyone dies, it's just a matter of how", it's nothing short of unintentionally hilarious. Replacing the eternally cool Patrick Swayze was always going to be tough, however Edgar Ramirez does a solid job as charismatic eco-warrior Bohdi. The same can't be said for low-budget-Chris-Hemsworth hunk Luke Bracey though, who is so wooden as Johnny Utah he makes Keanu Reeves look like Daniel Day Lewis. This modern update boasts a handful of genuinely fantastic action sequences, yet they're not enough to warrant a recommendation in what is otherwise a limp and incoherent thriller.
Imagine the intense stunts from energy drink commercial or Youtube
extreme sport montage while music from Mad Max blares on background.
This is where the second coming of Point Break truly excels. When it
hits just the right velocity, it's bloody breathtaking. Unfortunately,
the narrative is not only poor, it nearly sabotages the movie like a
broken parachute.
Story revolves around Utah (Luke Bracey), an FBI trainee as he investigates a series of heists and their connection to a group of athletes led by Bodhi (Édgar Ramírez). As one might expect, it follows the same trail that Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze has placed. The new leads do what they can, although it's better to watch this without comparing, because it certainly doesn't have the same caliber of star or chemistry.
The plot then dives head first into uncharted territory. It's littered with so much "save the planet" preachy acts as the writing struggles to place FBI agent in the hippie nirvana angle. The motivation is just a mess of random vague one-liners, even the on-screen characters are perplexed by it. There's a romance subplot, but this is mainly to show the attractive Teresa Palmer as eye candy for several short scenes.
The movie is actually better when they just show the crazy sequences instead of forcing its lackluster story. It has plethora of impressive feats, from high heaven wingsuit flying, the climb on hazardous urban streets and natural cliffs, to the surfing of gigantic waves. This is the level of stunt choreography xXx and Fast and Furious wish they had.
When camera pans into the right angle and lighting, as the sounds is muffled by throbbing tune of the fast music, Point Break reaches the zenith. It's miles beyond what typical action flick could offer, but sadly it's repeatedly interrupted by the shoddy story, which feels like an excuse to fly across the globe to do random cool tricks.
If viewed only on the grand mix of cinematography and choreography, Point Break is exquisite, this would have been a great documentary of extreme sport. However, as action movie, the story is so pretentious, it simply serves as speed bump to hamper the thrill.
I sincerely hope the original Point Break is much different than this lifeless, hippy-dippy, overblown Mountain Dew commercial. I've never seen the original movie, so I have no bias towards it. Based on the movie's own merit's, the Point Break remake is laughably awful. In Point Break, a rookie FBI agent tracks down a group of extreme athletes who go around the world carrying out crimes in unusual and life-threatening ways; they plan to do a series of near- impossible stunts called the Ozaki 8 in hopes of reaching spiritual enlightenment. At least, that was the plot for about ten minutes before the movie devolves into a series of party scenes and surprisingly dull extreme sports clips that could have been easily viewed on YouTube, all set to irritating club music. It takes a special director to make BASE jumping and cliff diving this boring. Ericson Core builds as little suspense as possible in his action set pieces and instead films admittedly well-shot highlights reels for the action scenes. Any sort of suspense conjured up is because of the great cinematography because the characters are so flat and annoying that you almost wish they would get killed off. Everyone in this movie acts stoned out of their mind. All they do is spit faux- philosophical nonsense which gets tiring after the first twenty minutes. It gets laughable towards the end of the movie with lines like "Ideas are strong. But not as strong as a whaling ship," and no amount of context will make that line any less ridiculous. The unbearable dialog, muddled plot and dull characters makes this Point Break remake utterly pointless. If you're not a fan of remakes, this will make you reach your breaking point.
I was enthusiastically exuberant about returning to what I've known as a cult classic, the original "Point Break". This reboot, is full of slick stunts and visuals, but the story, or lack thereof, makes this taste like pablum. I very seriously doubt that after two hours from getting out of the theater watching this, that anybody would even remember the name's of the central characters in this film. Why, because the film maker neglected to give us a story where the characters are expounded and fleshed out beyond the 3 minutes for any resolute back-story on any of them. I appreciate the stunts and stunt people for their quality work involved, but stunts don't make a movie. A good story, with quality characters that are inter-meshed with emotions and plots that pull the viewer into the characters' world is what makes a memorable film. I'll stick with the original "Point Break".
The original Point Break was mostly known for its memorable bromance
between Utah and Bodhi and some of its greatest action scenes ever put
to film. Either way, this remake doesn't bring enough justice to the
cult classic. Its new approach, instead of a simple undercover cop
thriller, is now a globe-trotting adventure featuring daredevils who
are pulling off a grand stunt show. Though the stunts are impressive at
times, it still pales in comparison with the original. The characters
are bland, the plot makes no sense and every moment it tries to
replicate with the original is just painfully forced for the sake of
what they believe it's called "fan service." Therefore, there isn't
much reason for Point Break (2015) to exist.
So Point Break is now about the stunts, but just like most action movies today, it also had to strip away personality. So whenever we see the cops, and even the daredevils, interact, it's just not so entertaining. One of the charms of the original, while it had some great action sequences, even the characters are interesting to watch. Even if it's trifle, it's still worth spending your time. Now, it somehow becomes uninteresting filler, especially the love interest. Remember when Utah had to lie about his backstory to earn her trust? Well, now they just easily hook up and nothing else, until some twist happens or something like that. Utah and Bodhi aren't as engaging, either. They're mostly spewing exposition, while Bodhi is basically acting like a parody of someone from a New Age religion. Their intention of becoming Robin Hoods is kind of vague as well, but I guess no one thinks it actually matters.
What's really worth groaning is when it's really trying to replicate the original; not by heart or personality, but by scene. They did the Ex- Presidents, even though one of them is wearing an Obama mask despite of taking place in 2015, but they only did it once, probably because there isn't much room for this fan service. Also the iconic scene involving Utah shooting up the air, which apparently Hot Fuzz did it better. And the epilogue is horrendously shoehorned, like it's nothing more than a tip off the hat, because... it's not Point Break without it, I guess?
However, there are some things to at least like in this film. The action is kind of stunning; the fact that they're visually more realistic to look at than most CG-fest that blockbusters tend to feed us (except for the epilogue which is too obvious.) Maybe the best among them is the rock climbing sequence where it goes from wide shots to dirty hand shots of seeing how much they'd grip. Luke Bracey isn't quite bad as an action hero, but he seriously needs a better material than this. Edgar Ramirez is probably just stuck with a blandly written Bodhi and really stays stick-in-the-mud with whatever he says about nature. Ray Winstone, though a good actor, is just not the memorably delightful Papas that Gary Busey established. And the movie wouldn't be any different if Teresa Palmer's role was written off.
And Point Break (2015) is just another needless remake. There are ideas that could have been utilized more, but it's too burdened by both action movie clichés and the fact that it is being Point Break. It's not a good undercover cop thriller, nor a good bromantic film. And you better off watching an actual stunt show, which at least doesn't make you get through to its drab expositions and the fact that it's more real and not embellished by any special effects. Then again, the effects aren't bad, but that's not the point. You may give it credit for heightening something from the original, but it doesn't do that well either. The fact how unnatural the homages are made for this remake makes it even more frustrating to watch.
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This movie really is unbelievably terrible. It's basically a bunch of
extreme sport stunt shots glued together with nonsensical storyline,
bad acting and awful script.
It's one of those movies that's so bad they can't even keep basic details straight, such as they drive off a boat at night time for a swim, but it's clearly daytime once they get underwater.
There are some scenes that have literally no bearing on the story at all...such as the scene at the pier when the FBI UK guy is randomly pulling a boat out of the water.
The time-line of just about every event makes no sense at all.
The characters have nothing at all about them; they all seems to merge into one hipster bearded blob on the screen and the only way i managed to tell them apart was from their color coded outfits.
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Point Break marks another blockbuster fizzer from Warner Bros., who
after several flops is now in desperate need of a major hit. This is a
useless, money-grabbing exercise that rides the name of an already
overrated cult film as an excuse to stage pointless stunts. I'll say
this once: do not waste your money on this film. If you are a fan of
the original Point Break by Kathryn Bigelow, the film where Patrick
Swayze played a bank robbing surfer who took Keanu 'I am an FBI agent'
Reeves under his wing, watch that film again. If you are in the mood
for crazy stunts and set pieces, open YouTube and watch some extreme
sports videos on there. These are comparatively sound alternatives to
this dreck, courtesy of director Ericson Core who has made his first
film since 2006. It might take another nine years and extensive therapy
to overcome this stain. The film is so bad and amateurishly composed
that it appears someone first listed off a series of extreme stunts and
told Core and screenwriter Kurt Wimmer (Salt) to write the movie around
them no matter how jarring or ill-fitting they may seem. If you're
still wondering, the stunts don't work on their own because the
script's lousiness makes them boring since there's no investment in the
one- dimensional characters and the weak performances of the actors.
No thought went into planning this narrative. It starts with two motocross riders jumping between rock faces. One of them is Utah (Australian actor Luke Bracey), who watches as his friend falls to his death. The film forwards seven years to when Utah has joined the FBI and is under the watch of Instructor Hall (Delroy Lindo), who doubts Utah's commitment and calls him son a lot. Since Utah was once a motocross rider in the extreme sports circle, he magically has the background information about the activity of the dangerous gang of extreme sports criminals Hall is chasing. It's mega stupid and as contrived as the stunts themselves. The gang, best described as a hodgepodge of philosophers, hippies, extremists and Mountain Dew sports stars, is performing a ritual called the Osaki 8. The Osaki 8 involves eight different extreme sports trials, some of which are criminal activities but others are plain stunts including surfing and mountain climbing. The transition between these set pieces is embarrassing. When Utah bombs out in an early surfing attempt, the gang saves him from drowning by bringing him onto their boat. He's recognised as a famous motocross rider from all those years ago but everyone, at least at this point, is oblivious that this not-exactly-inconspicuous surfer dude has been training as a cop and is allowed to freely explore the boat of the gang leader Bodhi (Joy's Édgar Ramírez). The other members of the gang, including Teresa Palmer as a brief love interest, barely register at all so you won't give two hoots about them and they aren't even smart enough to background check Utah before initiating him. More criminal than the stunts is how Ray Winston as Utah's partner Pappas, a potentially good replacement for Gary Busey's comic relief character, is inconsequential through much of the film except when questioning if Utah is overly enjoying the gang life. But since we don't care about the other gang members, what's the point in blurring the two lines of the law?
Does every blockbuster have to be self-serious now because it worked so well in the Nolan Batman films? Whereas Bigelow's film meshed action and comedy, this remake doesn't have a funny side at all. Instead, Bodhi's long, boring monologues about giving back to the earth (what?) are serious delusions this film has about becoming meaningful. But even watching the film solely for the stunts is futile. The film's marketing has emphasised how the stunts are performed by actual stuntmen as opposed to employing special effects. But given the stunts often have nothing to do with the gang's criminal activities, like the surfing, gliding and snowboarding sequences, we're watching a stunt showcase that's completely aloof from the plot. Similarly, the apparent realism of the stunts is malarkey since some are about as plausible as a Looney Tune's cartoon. Driving down mountain slopes ahead of an avalanche, through a dense forest on bikes and climbing mountains with just his bare hands will make you think that the FBI has really intensified its training or Utah has spent a lot of time with the Avengers. The only good things about the film are its brief reference to the bank robber masks of the original and that this boring pile falls under the two hour mark. It's a small victory for anyone who is foolish enough to pay money to see it. I lied and will reiterate: don't pay money to see this because you're only encouraging movies like this with boring action and such carelessness towards the story. It's a black eye to the fans of the original who might have given this disaster a chance.
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Action: Weigh how much you're interfering with employee's private life. Consult your attorney if you have doubts.
The key to deciding whether employees should be paid for "on-call" time boils down to whether that time is spent more for the company's benefit or the employees' benefit and just how much the job interferes with the employees' private lives.
For example, if a worker must stay home and check his computer every 20 minutes, he can't do much else, so you need to pay for the whole time he's on call. If on-call workers aren't tethered to one place, but are required only to leave word where they'll be (or carry a cell phone), the hours spent on call aren't considered working time.
Finally, when nonexempt employees are on site, remember that you must pay them for short breaks or rest periods of 20 minutes or less. Meal periods of 30 minutes or more are not considered work time if the employee is completely relieved of duty.
Recent case: While on call, firefighters in Easley, S.C., had to wear radios but were able to pursue personal activities away from home. Three firefighters sued under the Fair Labor Standards Act, claiming they should be paid for on-call shifts. A federal appeals court tossed out their case, saying the firefighters were "waiting to be engaged," and weren't confined or prevented from conducting other activities. (Whitten v. City of Easley, 4th Cir., No. 02-1445, 2003)


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WASHINGTON - At a key juncture in the Iraq war, the military chiefs conveyed to President Bush on Friday their concern about a growing strain on troops and their families from long and repeated combat tours.
Bush met privately at the Pentagon with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense Secretary Robert Gates in preparation for decisions about how long to sustain the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq, whether to change course this fall and how to save the health of a heavily stressed Army and Marines Corps.
Indications are that Bush intends to stick with his current approach, at least into 2008, despite persistent pressure from the Democrat-led Congress - including some prominent Republicans - to find a new course.
Bush's critics point to mounting evidence that while the troop buildup may have halted the escalation of sectarian violence in Baghdad, the Iraqis are making almost no headway toward political reconciliation.
There are no signs that the Pentagon's top generals and admirals are pushing for an early end to the war, but they are concerned not only about strains on troops but also about the possibility that the heavy focus on counterinsurgency warfare in Iraq leaves the military ill-prepared in the event of a crisis elsewhere.
Bush's new strategy, announced in January, involved sending 30,000 more troops to Iraq to calm the violence so the Baghdad government could gain some breathing room to make political progress, which hasn't happened. Now, there are more than 160,000 troops in Iraq, the most since the war began in 2003.
Without revealing specifics of the Joint Chiefs' remarks, Bush said afterward that they discussed preserving the military's war-fighting capability for the long term and "monitoring the health of our all-volunteer force" - the latter an allusion to fears among some that war strains could break the military.
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Pretty soon you all are going to get tired of me asking these but my mind draws blanks some days.
I'm wanting to put together my quilt, pillow case style I think it's called, where you leave an opening in the quilt to pull it right side out. Ok, here's my question and if you laugh I can hear you ;-)
How do you do this? I've got it laid out, back material right side up, backing and then the top right side up. Do I sew around the entire outside first and then how do I quilt the top? Will it be all puffy? I've been sitting her all morning trying to figure this out when I could be quilting and decided to come to the Board where I always find help.


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Lubbock police need the public's help to identify two men who stole a pair of vamp leather boots from Boot City last year.
One suspect is seen on video removing his boots and putting a new pair on in the store while another man acts as a lookout, police said. The theft was reported at about 3:20 p.m. Dec. 5.
The boots were brown and size 91/2, according to a police report. They were valued at about $250.
Both suspects were described as white between the ages of 18 and 22.
They were seen leaving the store in a Dodge pickup.
Police ask anyone with information about the suspects to call Crime Line at 741-1000 or Detective Richard Calderon at 775-2432. Callers may remain anonymous.
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But there are two metal contacts in the back, near the battery, that connect to the back cover.
Removing the back cover doesn't seem to affect gsm, wifi, bluetooth or gps reception.
So I am wondering if it could be some hidden NFC support and whether there is a way to test it.
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Never too late to see Stars
Experience key in Dallas's 4-OT win
DALLAS - As the third overtime turned to a fourth, more than an hour after Sunday night became yesterday morning, Dallas Stars goaltender Marty Turco could think back to the other two NHL playoff marathons he played and what it was like afterward.
The dead-limbed weariness. The strange sensation of calm after being so intense for so long. The day-after crash from being so physically and mentally drained.
And, worst of all, the sting of losing a 2-games-in-1 thriller.
This time, though, Turco got to find out how the other half lives. Thanks to captain Brenden Morrow's power-play goal 5 hours and 14 minutes after the first puck was dropped, the Stars beat the San Jose Sharks, 2-1, in the eighth-longest game in NHL history. The victory ended their second-round series in six games, earning the Stars a spot in the Western Conference finals for the first time in Turco's career.
"It's nice to be on this side of it for once," Turco said. "We've had some long ones before. But none of them was more memorable than this one. It was 99 percent fun tonight."
Predawn finishes are a big part of Stars lore.
Dallas has been involved in five of the 18 longest games in NHL history, more than any other club. All have come since 1999, the year the Stars won their lone Stanley Cup title - in triple overtime, of course.
Dallas made it back to the finals in 2000, but hadn't gotten past the second round since. Along the way, disappointments have included losing to Anaheim 48 seconds into a fifth overtime in 2003 and losing to Vancouver 18:06 into a fourth OT last year.
Turco was in goal and Dave Tippett was coaching in both those losses, and for much of the post-2000 skid. So for them, finally getting to the conference finals, and getting there like this, is certainly something they'll never forget.
"This one ranks the best for me," Tippett said. "It's way nicer when it ends this way."
Turco came away the unquestioned star.
He made a franchise-record 61 saves, one more impressive than the next, especially in the extra periods. The best was a barrel-roll to smother a puck inches from the line in the third OT, a play so close that several Sharks raised their arms in triumph.
Next up for Turco and the Stars is a trip to Detroit to face the Red Wings, starting Thursday night.
Thanks to their vast experience, Dallas players and coaches knew how to handle their unscheduled doubleheader.
"When you go into overtime, you keep going and going and don't have to think. You go and play," said defenseman Stephane Robidas, who set up Morrow's winner. "I felt great. Everything's good."
The game started at 8:10 p.m. before an announced crowd of 18,532. It ended at 1:24 a.m. before an estimated crowd of 14,000.
Fans were still going strong, too, cranking up a robust chant of "Let's go Stars" just a few minutes before Morrow sent them home happy. But they were in no hurry to leave. Several thousand folks stuck around to holler "Mar-ty! Mar-ty!" as Turco was being interviewed on the ice after the post-series handshake.
To many frustrated fans and league observers, the loss cemented San Jose's place as the NHL's most talented mediocrity, a regular-season powerhouse that consistently makes postseason noise but just can't manufacture the luck or the will necessary for a serious pursuit of the Stanley Cup.
"There's no consolation in how well you played or how long the game went," said veteran forward Curtis Brown. "It's very disappointing. We had higher expectations and higher hopes than what we did this year."
The whole series was great. Five games were decided by a goal and four needed overtime. Dallas won the first three games, then San Jose won the next two and nearly forced a deciding game at the Shark Tank.
But the Stars prevented it.
"This group of players, their will and effort is phenomenal right now," Tippett said.


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Panther Valley Elementary announces Students of the Month
The Panther Valley Elementary School has announced the recipients of the Student of the Month Awards for December 2009 and January 2010.
Certificates of Achievement were presented in each classroom, grades 1-5. As well as the certificates, each student also received a Super Kid Magnet, a Student of the Month bumper sticker and a meal coupon from McDonald's.
Students realize that it is a very special achievement and strive to achieve this recognition.
Grade 1: Kaitlin Sturdik, Elizabeth Surotchak, Lily Jachowicz, Madison Heckman, Tommy Edwards, Louis Clouser and Derek Pavlik
Grade 2: Andrew Hartzell, Desiree Benetich, Ethan Malaska, Keith Hydro, Blake Morgans, Kyanna Dilliard and Cody Sturdik
Grade 3: Kobe Whildin, Molly Williams, Nicole Bogs, Sarah Hood, Amanda Fegley, Christopher Walkinshaw and Emily Evans
Grade 4: Sophie Smith, Megan Weber, Kayla Boswell, Keeana Cruz, Emmanuel Cabrera and Ravyn Zenon
Grade 5: Kiley Boswell, Kelsey Rimsky, Jocillyn Steigerwalt, Ashley Keeler and Alex Lebo.
Miss Forbes room: Marley Hallihan.
Grade 1: Santino Dalessio, Patrick Boyle, Kya Norwood, Evan Fegley, Shelby Hill, Nicholas Ahn, and Kendra Kehrli
Grade 2: Faith Drumbore, Ian Mertz, Lacey Blasko, Cassidy Enlert, Chrystiana Brettle, Brandon Balliet and Phillip Shelton.
Grade 3: Hailey Henning, Dennis Rosohac, Emma Smith, Donald Kershner, Mercedes Weaver, Autumn Coniglio and Abbreanna Smith.
Grade 4: Cassity Dixon, Zachary Nikodem, Chloe Miller, Stephanie Knauss, Grace Ann Williams and Matthew Jungbaer
Grade 5: Brenna Karnish, Brandi Beers, Skylar Francesco, Gabrielle Tout and Sophia Damian
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Shining Armor and Princess Cadence by irishthornsWatch
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Based off the Season 3 episode that recently aired.
can i draw this?
This is cute irishthorns
Very nice art.
lovely work!
Now thats a loving husband... stickiing with your love through thick and thin :3 Id love to have SA as my commanding officer, he's someone who has all his priorities in order ^^
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God's Love and Ours
7Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone
who loves has been born of God and knows God. 8Whoever does not love does not
know God, because God is love. 9This is how God showed his love among us: He
sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him. 10This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. 11Dear friends, since God so loved us, we also ought to love one
another. 12No one has ever seen God; but if we love one another, God lives in us
and his love is made complete in us.
13We know that we live in him and he in us, because he has given us of his Spirit. 14And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. 15If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. 16And so we know and rely on the love God has for us.
God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 17In this way, love is made complete among us so that we will have confidence on the day of judgment, because in this world we are like him. 18There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
19We love because he first loved us. 20If anyone says, "I love God,"
yet hates his brother, he is a liar. For anyone who does not love his brother,
whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen. 21And he has given us
this command: Whoever loves God must also love his brother.
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Let's Get Together
17 comments:
- Beaner said...
I would add to that Mark 3:24-25 "If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand. If a house id divided against itself, that house cannot stand."
We have GOT to come together as a nation before we tear ourselves apart!!!
- Brandon Scott said...
Chris...perhaps you missed the last half of the blog. I will not post rude, un-Christlike remarks. Disagreement is absolutely fine...and expected...but you'll have to look elsewhere to get your hate messages published.
It's always interesting and humorous to me that Mark 3 is quoted by liberals when their side wins. The democrats have failed to embrace that scripture over the years as they have delivered hate speech after hate speech against our Republican president. I've seen more vicious, outrageous hate speech spewed by commentors over at Mike Cope's blog than should have ever been allowed.
It should be a two sided coin. I am deeply disappointed in the election results. I fear for our freedom of religion to be perfectly honest. I'm very concerned that it will be revealed that we gave up our constitutional right to freedom of religion and expression to the Barack Obama Presidency. I hope I am wrong.
I won't on the other hand be disrespectful to a sitting president. I can respectfully disagree and can only imagine what Chris' hateful comments must have said. Whoever Chris is, they need to realize that they do more harm than good to a cause they so obviously believe deeply in when they spew venom.
I fear that we have some serious lessons to learn through this Presidency and they won't be easy to bear. But through it all, God is in control and will never fail to be faithful. Even through the difficult times.
I just wish this euphoria of being united had rung true when the liberals were out of power. Funny how that works. I watched through tears as well, but for much different reasons.
I watched with sadness as well today as the market's plunged with the realization of who is going to the the next president. We will certainly have less and less funds to give to the poor under this administration.
- Brandon Scott said...
Thank you, Ada, for sharing your sincere concerns with us in a way that doesn't water down your stance and yet remains very respectful.
I can see how you're right about the Mark 3 passage. No one is free from guilt there. And, just for the record, as I stated in my blog it bugged me when the dems trashed W. these last 8 years. You are very right in saying that it should be a two sided coin. Party aside...disciples of Christ are called to a different level.
I am so sorry that you are worried over our freedom of religion being removed because of Obama. I hope you'll be able to (and willing) to admit you were wrong about that after the fact.
Either way...if God is in control, whyshould we fear?
- Elizabeth S said...
Love this post Brandon. I, too, have been disappointed in all the Obama-bashing I have seen today. Even if he wasn't someone's choice for president, I don't understand all the disrespect and comments made out of ignorance. I am pretty sure Christ would not react the way I have seen some Christians react.
- courtney said...
I'll admit that politically, I probably don't agree with you; however, I've read your blog for a while now and highly respect you.
Not that it's any more acceptable, but I think part of the reason people tend to get so hateful and emotional about the results is because of the candidates themselves. For months, we've heard jabs from both sides and both sides painting gloom and doom pictures of the term if the opponent is elected. McCain did try to shush the crowd during his speech last night when many of them booed at the mention of Obama's name. However, just the day before, the booing was acceptable and just part of the campaign rah-rah (on both sides!).
I truly hope that our country can find a way to unite.
It's frustrating as a Republican to have listened to the media for the past several years slam our President, and then wake up to the same media today telling us that *now* is the time to unite. Not that I disagree, but could we not have tried to unite during the past 8 years?
I wonder if the message would have been the same if McCain had been elected.
- Brandon Scott said...
I completely agree! It IS frustrating! It has bugged me through Bush's terms. But, I guess, now is the time for Republicans everywhere to either treat "evil" for "evil" or to show what they're made of. I have a feeling it will be the last one. :)
- Stephen Bailey said...
When I saw the title of your post I thought you were going to write about The Parent Trap - "Let's get together yeah, yeah, yeah! We'll have lot's of fun!"
Anyway, Disney movies and politics aside, I'm proud of how far our country has come in regards to race relations. We still have a long way to go, but I was overwhelmed by the historical significance of this election. Regardless of how you cast your vote, please don't miss this moment. I hope my children ask me someday why it was such a big deal for a man of color to be elected president. Wouldn't that be something?
- Phil said...
Christians have to be able to get along. We have to be able to talk with each other respectfully and with love. If we can't even do that with each other who bear the name of Christ together, how can we expect to show Jesus' love to the world?
- MichaelPolutta said...
As I posted on my blog, I hope that Obama's *recent* rhetoric wins over his record. Someone honorable can still be misguided and/or naive. I am personally still unsure of Obama's true convictions.
Regardless, I have worked to defuse any bashing. I have to agree with you, the Obama camp has been every bit as nasty re: Sarah Palin (for example) as the McCain camp has been re: Obama. I get concerned when Obama supporters remain blind to their camp's sins. I get concerned when McCain supporters remain blind to their camp's sins. Or worse, when they use the sins of the other camp to justify their own.
I say folks who put their hope in any political figure are being stupid. And I say that followers of Christ who put their hope in any political figure are being stupid and worldly.
God help us all to remember where our citizenship is - in the Kingdom of God. Period.
"This world is not my home..."
- Chris said...
You remind me a lot of the Democratic congress in that everyone has to agree with you. Do you ever see Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi coming together with the other side?
- Brandon Scott said...
Chris- after many attempts to post venomous comments, you finally were able to offer a comment that wasn't COMPLETELY hateful... So i published it. Having said that, you seem intent on not listening at all, which is your choice. Again, I'll say... I don't mind disagreement in the least. You're welcome to disagree with me all day long. I have never claimed to know everything... in fact, I know that is so hilariously far from true. But, you don't seem to offer much to a rational productive discussion. But... you're welcome here as long as the discussion doesn't get nasty as I have seen you do on countless other blogs... including my mom's. You don't help your cause by acting that way. Surely you can see that by now.
- preacherman said...
I know for me it felt so good to vote and make an historical difference in our nation. Yesterday I saw the racial divide in america fall. It was wonderful to see whites, blacks, hispanics, asians, and other races come together and elect the first African American in our nation. I believe that race can no longer be an excuse for not succeeding in life. The great thing now is that it does matter what race you are that you can dream and become anything you put your heart to and work hard to achieve. I believe the next four years are going to be great for America both domestically and internationally as well.
As believers let us strive to unify our nation and work together to make our country what it has always been, the greatest nation in the world. Let us as believers pray for Barack Obama, Joe Biden and all those in power. I know that that they definately need our prayers.
For those believers who are upset let us all remember that God is still God. He is in complete control of everything. No matter what happens in America we have a citizenship in heaven that we can look forward to one day.
Thank you for this great post. You do such a fantastic job with your blog. You, your family, Zoe, and all your other ministries are always in my thoughts and prayers.
- Donny - MarketingTwin #2 said...
Brandon, appreciated your post. I didn't vote for Obama but that's my choice. The great thing about this country is I can still love people from a different party if I CHOOSE to do so. Sometimes I don't see that in some (both sides create hatred and division) and it irritates me. It's like we let politics override the fact we have something bigger in common. One of my dearest Christian friends is a lesbian Democrat - there I admit it!! HA But the 2 of us admit we are not perfect and that's why we need Jesus.
So, while I hope Obama's 4 years are not successful for him (so we can have a Republican in 2012), I do respect him as the President-Elect of our great country. And he will be so much easier to listen to than Bush OR McCain would have been!!! (I'm a sucker for a good orator)
Regardless, I'm not fearful ... hmmm - sounds like a good title to a CD. What do you think (or am I too late!! HA)
And AMEN to Stephen's comment. Of course, my 7 yr. said he voted at school for Obama because "he was the brown guy who looks like Mace Windu from Star Wars" Hee Hee
While I voted with my head and therefore for McCain (solely on the issues as I see them), I've decided to choose the optimism of what Obama can do if he makes wise choices as our President. While how other countries view us isn't my main concern, Obama does have capital there now that McCain wouldn't have had. I hope he uses it wisely. It also definitely helps race relations in our country. A noted columnist said the other night that we've never elected someone we no so little about, but I'll choose to at this point to not see that as a negative, only a slight worry (again, on the issues).
My hope is that we don't see blame from him on W as we go through these tough times ahead economically and in foreign policy.
Country before party. God before country. I support our President, no matter who it is. May God go with him.
- Wendy said...
a friend posted this on her blog the day after the election. It is a reminder of what we should do and how we should act as Christians in spite of our political affiliations.
"Obama hasn't even been the president elect for 24 hours yet, and already christians around the world are mourning the death of a nation. I mean come on people. Chill out. Did God fall off His throne?????? I don't think so. Are we forgetting what was said in Romans 13:1-2?
"Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves."
God has allowed him to win this seat, and we should pray for and support him. I'm sick of all the "doom and gloom". Don't get me wrong, I didn't vote for him, and I am not defending his beliefs. but what about our beliefs, is our faith so tied to this nation, that we would say the world is over because the man we voted for wasn't elected. God is still in control. God has a plan. We should not hate Obama, or even bash him. We should not live in fear. So this man believes in things that are not Gods heart, God is still in control. Our country is in financial turmoil, God is still in control. So all the doom and gloom should stop. The hateful comments and snide remarks should stop. Instead fall to your knees. Pray. Pray for wisdom and strength for Obama, pray for peace. How will the lost be reached if we as christians are spewing hatred towards a leader that God allowed to win. Where is our faith, our courage, our hope? is it in Obama, or the stock market? The answer should be that it is in the Lord. He is bigger than this country, if it falls, He will still be in control. We will still be safe in His arms. For encouragement read Psalm 91.
And remember the scripture:
Proverbs 21: 1 The king's heart is in the hand of the LORD, Like the rivers of water; He turns it wherever He wishes.
Trust in the Lord, because He does not make mistakes. Pray for our nation, Pray for our leaders, Pray for our unborn, and Pray for our troops. God did NOT fall off his throne last night."
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- Rick J said...
I was at the National Outreach Conference and haven't checked blogs in a few days. Your post makes me glad (once again and for a new reason) that you are my brother. See you in Fresno!


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Today is the final installment of this three-part series on Spiritual Healing and its place as the foundation of all systems of medicine. If you missed the first two parts, here they are:
Spiritual Healing: The Roots of Healing, Part 1
Spiritual Healing: The Roots of Healing, Part 2
(Also, as a quick aside, I'll be on hiatus next week, the week of July 19, 2010, so there will be no articles next week – this will allow you to catch up on this series on Spiritual Healing, along with reading any articles on the website that you've missed.)
In the second article of this series, I discuessed what Lawrence LeShan identified as the two types of healers, Type I and Type 2. Type I healers use spiritual healing methods, while Type 2 healers use intent through physical or mental actions to manipulate another person's physiology or energy flow.
As LeShan puts it, "In Type 2 the healer tries to heal; he wants to and attempts to do so through the 'healing flow.' In both Type I and Type 2 he must (at least at the moment) care completely, but a fundamental difference is that in Type I he unites with the healee; in Type 2 he tries to cure him."
Perhaps the most accomplished healers use a combination of Type I and Type 2. They access higher states of awareness to bring the healing powers forward, and they also channel their own energies. This would be using the advantages of both non-local and local medicine.
Non-local medicine sends a healing message while local medicine sends healing energy. The ultimate healing message that comes from non-local sources is universal love. That, combined with the healer's innate source, may be the correct formula.
To use this formula, and to develop as a healer, the healer must go through their own transformation and do their best to shed the trappings of their ego desires and their heart. If within the healer is a tangled web and hidden agenda of lies, petty jealousies, secret motivations, and so on, the healing message that stems from the Ultimate will be blocked.
Abraham Heschel, a 20th century Jewish philosopher and theologian, once said in an address to the AMA, "To heal a person, one must first be a person." To truly become a person is a commitment to maturity and an evolution of consciousness.
In this way, a healer can then evolve as a person. This evolution can lead to an expansion of LeShan's typology to include a Type 3. This would be the type that I suggested above, where a healer aligns the universal energy with themselves and the patient, and then from the depths of their own heart and soul channels their own clear energy. Some healing modalities attempt to teach this method. Reiki healing and Therapeutic Touch are two energy modalities in which the training of the practitioners include concepts of altruism and compassion.
Barbara Brennan, in her book Light Emerging, discusses the process of healing as a means to shedding the blocks that stop the flow of creative healing energy. Her point is that the more we open ourselves up to the flows of the universe, the more we can channel that source for the benefit of others.
Others say the art of spiritual healing lies in the ability of the healer to elevate their consciousness to merge with the Divine. In the book The Art of Spiritual Healing, the author points out that "anyone who practices spiritual healing must rise above the level of appearances – above the discords of corporeal sense, or personal sense – to a higher plane of consciousness where there is no person to be healed and where there is room only for the Spirit of God."
Qi gong as a healing tool would be another example of Type 3 healing. With qi gong, the practitioner is seeking to unify themselves with the universe. It is believed that when a person is completely relaxed and in a meditative state the body can resonate with the fields of the universe and the two will interact.
In China, qi gong masters do healing sessions where they emit their qi to those in need of healings. One qi gong doctor, Yan Xin, has said, "Early-stage cancer is curable as easily as the common cold. If the patient works with me, I can reduce mid-stage cancer, and control the spread of some late-stage cancer." People such as Yan Xin and other qi gong masters even perform group-healing sessions, where they emit their qi to the entire audience in order to help heal them.
The reliance on others to perform the healings may be an important part of someone's recovery, but if the expectations are for someone else to totally do the healings, an important piece of the puzzle is then absent.
That is the ability for self-healing, to be reliant on our own innate healing capabilities and to use them to the best of our abilities. This self-healing potential can lead to a further expansion of the typologies. We can call these people Type 4 healers.
Type 4 healers would use as their foundational approach spiritual medicine, whereby they align their hearts, minds and souls with the Divine.
Type 4 healers are the types who are classified as spontaneous remissions. These are the people who go through extraordinary healings and remarkable recoveries. These are the people who have been blessed by miracles.
Some denigrate these types of healings, and believe them to be random acts of fate. One prominent oncologist says, "I think you'd have a better chance of getting struck by lightning than of having a spontaneous remission of cancer."
Others are not so smug. In the book The Spontaneous Regression of Cancer, the author William Boyd writes that the term spontaneous regression "has a suggestion of something happening without a cause. That, of course, is absurd, for everything has a cause, apparent or inapparent. On consulting the dictionary we find spontaneous defined as 'without external cause.' If we add the subjective 'adequate,' we have a concept which we can use in our own thinking."
Many of the people who are self-healers find themselves venturing down a path of reconstructing and renewing their life as they head towards self-healing. The inner life becomes intensified, epiphanies large and small are experienced, and cathartic episodes occur. This is what can happen to those who spiritually heal. The old coat is shed and a beautiful swan is born. The connection to the Divine is a trip into the quantum vacuum, where infinite powers reign, and where anything is possible.
Spiritual medicine is not about denying the physical and biological aspects of medicine. Sometimes it's surgery that is the only answer, sometimes it's a drug. From my experience, acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine often can change a situation. At other times, nutritional changes can be the key factor.
But what spiritual medicine can do is unite the disparate forms of medicine into one medicine, a medicine that stresses a binding connection with the Infinite Oneness of the Universe. To connect to this unity takes both the objective and subjective, the cognitive and the intuitive.
In the teachings of Zen it is said "the organism is regulated by the timeless original mind, which deals with life in its totality and can do ever so many things at once."
This timeless original mind that regulates the organism is the realm that spiritual medicine delves into. It contains every potentiality of the universe, it contains the capacity to self-heal, and it contains the capability for self-transformation. With so many people clamoring to touch this realm, and desiring a spiritual connection to life, it is necessary that medicine follows suit and not cut people off from their souls.
In his book, Reinventing Medicine, Larry Dossey states that medicine has always been a soulful endeavor. "Serving people who are undergoing these life-changing events is one reason why medicine has always been considered a priestly function and why becoming a physician has always been regarded as a spiritual path," Dossey writes.
Holistic medicine has always been comfortable wandering down the spiritual path. Western medicine needs to let down its guard and follow suit. When the two paths concur, it is possible they can then integrate. This can lead to a lessening of tension between the two groups. When this occurs, a chasm will be bridged and a healing will have taken place amongst the disparate fields of medicine.
This healing will be a spiritual healing; like all spiritual healings its resonances will be felt profoundly, touching many lives in the process. And this healing can then lead to a transformation both in medicine and in society.


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This bestselling and innovative debut novel from Audrey Niffenegger explores the perfect marriage, one that is tested by challenges the couple can neither control nor predict. An imaginative extension of everyday life, the story asks: What if two people who loved each other deeply, married, and faced a life in which one person remained constant while the other slipped fluidly in and out of time?
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The "Racing With Heart" fundraising campaign being conducted by the California horseracing industry will continue indefinitely at various racetracks and wagering locations throughout the state in support of victims of Hurricane Katrina.Approximately $250,000 has been collected so far in the Racing With Heart campaign. Over the long Labor Day weekend, jockeys, horsemen, and fans at Del Mar – aided by matching funds from the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club – raised $100,000 in the relief effort, including donations mailed to Del Mar, designated for the American Red Cross.Some notable on-going efforts within the industry are:· Collection sites for non-perishable items that will be transported to the disaster areas on Tuesday have been established at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia, Fairplex Park in Pomona, and Bay Meadows Race Course in San Mateo.· Racing With Heart will be part of the larger on-going relief effort during the entire run of the L.A. County Fair in Pomona. More than $100,000 has been raised so far by LACF.· The Oak Tree Racing Association is planning a major fund-raising activity during its upcoming meet, which will include the sale of signed Fred Stone posters.· Individuals within the horseracing industry are continuing to donate some of their prize money to the relief effort.
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by Dan Burrows | December 26, 2012 11:47 am
Benchmark interest rates jumped over the last month but, unfortunately for savers, it helped banks more than borrowers.
The yield on the 10-year Treasury note recovered sharply after a post-presidential election nosedive, jumping to 1.76% from 1.58% as recently as Dec. 6. Although that helped to stabilize rates on some popular savings products, many key rates took a step back over the past month.
Meanwhile, rates ticked up on some of the most popular housing products. So, on balance, the net effect was one that moved against savers — again.
The Federal Reserve's plan to smother the yield curve — keeping both savings rates and borrowing costs at historic lows — broke in consumers' favor back in November, but it turns out that was an aberration. As we've been noting for months[1] now, investors have lots of cash parked on the sidelines — and they're still getting nothing for it.
However, if there's a bright spot, at least savers aren't getting any less interest on their cash deposits. Savings rates appear to have stabilized after months of trending downward. The national average interest rate on a money market account stood at 0.49% as of Dec. 25, unchanged from November or October, according to data from Bankrate.com[2] (NYSE:RATE[3]).
Meanwhile, yields on jumbo money market accounts also stood firm. The national average of 0.64% was likewise unchanged from a month ago. Indeed, the average rate has now held firm for three consecutive month. That follows a three-month downtrend that saw it slip from 0.66% in August to 0.65% in September to 0.64% in October.
Mostly, though, rates were unchanged or declined. Here are rates on other popular savings products as of Dec. 25, according to Bankrate:
At the same time, although rates on some of the most common mortgage products were unchanged or moved in borrowers favors since last month, costs to refinance or borrow on homes were more likely to rise than fall.
Here are the average national rates offered on popular loan products as of Dec. 25, according to Bankrate:
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Just a few hours ago I was watching an episode of Season 2 of Breaking Bad and wondering when we were going to see Krysten Ritter on TV again. As it turns out, we might be seeing her on ABC.
According to Entertainment Weekly, Ritter will be playing the "bitch" in ABC's upcoming comedy pilot Don't Trust The Bitch in Apartment 23. The show would center on a midwestern girl who moves to New York and is set up with a party-girl roommate named Chloe. Dreama Walker is set to play Midwesterner June, while Ritter was cast to play Chloe.
While I loved Ritter as the flaky but mostly-sweet Gia in Veronica Mars and she was great in Starz' shortlived Gravity, not to mention Breaking Bad, I can picture her being funny in a love-to-hate sort of way in a role like this. We'll have to wait and see whether ABC picks it up.
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Contrary to popular belief, meditation doesn't always feel relaxing in real time. When I first came to meditation when I was 18, I was experiencing a lot …
Adam Hoffman, Greater Good Science Center: From the pressures of tight deadlines to anxiety about job security, the stresses of the workplace take their toll far beyond the office, infiltrating our relationships, undermining our thoughts— and often affecting our ability to sleep. In fact, a recent survey found that 85 percent of U.S. workers lose sleep due to work-related stress. And if we're not sleeping well, it's easier to get derailed at work and elsewhere.
However, new findings from a research team in the Netherlands suggest that even a small amount of mindfulness meditation can help calm our hyperactive minds and improve our sleep. …
Sleep Soundly – Guitar Music for Insomnia (CD) Esther Crain, Men's Journal: Not being able to fall and stay asleep at night is frustrating, and there's no shortage of remedies promising to score you the rest you crave, from sleep meds to eye masks and smartphone apps. But the real key to beating insomnia might be as simple as taking up a new trend in meditation. A recent study from JAMA Internal Medicine found that mindful meditation — the practice of being nonjudgmentally aware of the various thoughts streaming into your brain at any given time — successfully helped adult …
Karma: Finding Freedom in This Moment (2 CDs), by Pema Chodron and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Rachael Rettner, Live Science: Meditating may help older adults sleep better, a new study suggests.
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When I find myself awake in the middle of the night, perhaps after a trip to the bathroom or a weird dream, I often practice some kind of meditation to quiet my over-active mind. I'll usually pay attention to my breathing, or do a body scan, and most times this will help me calm down and nod off.
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Mindfulness-based meditation could lessen some symptoms associated with cancer in teens, according to the results of a clinical trial intervention led by researchers at the University of Montreal and its affiliated CHU Sainte-Justine children's hospital.
Mindfulness-based meditation focuses on the present moment and the connection between the mind and body. Adolescents living with cancer face not only the physical symptoms of their condition, but also the anxiety and uncertainty related to the progression of the disease, the anticipation of physical and emotional pain related to illness and treatment, the significant changes implied in living with cancer, as well as the fear of recurrence after remission. Catherine Malboeuf-Hurtubise of the university's Department of Psychology presented the … Read more »
Watch this video. And ask others to watch it.
Of course in a sense our screens are doing no more to us than presenting us with sensory input, or opportunities for sensory input. And so the question is more "what are we doing with our screens," or even "what are we losing while we are attending to the input from our screens."
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Think for a moment about your typical workday. Do you wake up tired? Check your e-mail before you get out of bed? Skip breakfast or grab something on the run that's not particularly nutritious? Rarely get away from your desk for lunch? Run from meeting to meeting with no time in between? Find it nearly impossible to keep up with the volume of
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AN 80-YEAR-OLD woman who died of a chest infection was not classed as an emergency case by a hospital even in the hours leading up to her death, an inquest heard.
Ethel Murray was admitted to Southampton General Hospital after collapsing in her garden in Mansell Road, Millbrook.
Following a two-day stay at the Royal South Hants Hospital for rehabilitation she was transferred back to Southampton General Hospital where she died on August 15, 2010.
But the Southampton inquest heard on her arrival she was not treated by a doctor.
Southampton coroner Keith Wiseman said it would be difficult to fault the frequency of observations on Mrs Murray at the Royal South Hants Hospital and that staff numbers were up at the time.
Delivering today's narrative verdict, Mr Wiseman pointed to periods of time in Mrs Murray's care, notably her monitoring by nurses at the Royal South Hants Hospital, the time spent waiting for an out of hours doctor to attend her rather than sending her back to Southampton General Hospital and her time spent after being admitted to the General Hospital.
He said: "At no time from the morning of August 14 onwards at either the Royal South Hants Hospital and the General Hospital on her return, was Mrs Murray treated as an emergency or even indeed as someone requiring antibiotics and certainly not as someone about to die."
He added: "She had again been admitted [to Southampton General Hospital] as an emergency but almost on a precautionary basis.
"What that sadly led to was that she was not actively seen by a doctor at any time before she was found almost certainly having already passed away."
Although he said the suggestion that, had she been seen in that time, only one dose of antibiotics could have been administered which would have been unlikely to have a significant effect, would not be particularly reassuring to the family.
The inquest has previously heard how staff at both hospitals said they were happy with their treatment of Mrs Murray and said there was nothing to suggest her condition would deteriorate so suddenly.
It has also heard that both hospitals also conducted reviews of her care but no specific problems were found.
Mrs Murray's son Stephen said the family were pleased with the verdict and did not rule out taking legal action against the hospitals in future.
Judy Hillier, Director of Nursing and Quality at the Solent NHS Trust, representing the Royal South Hants Hospital, said: "We are very sorry a life was lost.
"We will be looking in detail at the Coroner's findings to establish how we can make further improvements to our services.
"It is our aim to consistently provide the very best care possible for anyone who uses our services.
"We will always work hard to understand what went wrong or where we can improve when we fall short of expectations."
Gail Byrne, director of quality at University Hospital Southampton, for Southampton General Hospital, said: "We send Mrs Murray's family our sincere condolences for their sad loss and will continue to work with them to address any remaining concerns or questions they have.
"While this was a difficult case which involved a vulnerable patient whose condition deteriorated very suddenly, there is much learning for us as an organisation and as individuals as a result and we will ensure her family are kept fully informed of the actions taken."


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Quoting Vice Pres. Tracy of the Chi
cago Tunnel Co., Oscar Hewitt in the
Herald says the total investment in
the automatic phone plant up to
June 1 this year is $8,482,928; and
that for this the company has eight
exchanges ,with capacity to serve 34,
520 subscribers; that the number of
wires from these exchanges to the
neighborhood of prospective suB
scribers is about 40,600, and that
these should be able to serve 65,000
subscribers, allowing for the ordin
ary ratio of party-line patrons.
In the tunnels the company has 57
miles of conduit or 198 miles of duct.
There are also 103 miles of aerial
cable and 107 miles of underground
This is the property the Chicago
Tunnel Co. wants the .city's permis
sion to sell to the Bell for $6,300,000;
and which the Bell company has
never denied that it intends to throw
on the scrap pile, to junk and put out
of business altogether.
If the city were to forfeit the plant
and take it over we would have as a
starter for a municipal telephone sys
tem a complete plant ready to serve
65,000 subscribers.
But if the city consents to the sale
of this plant to the trust the plant
will be destroyed, the $6,300,000 will
be added to the capitalization of the
Chicago Telephone Co. and Bell sub
scribers taxed higher phone rates to
pay the interest on the $6,300,000.
As it is proposed to sell the Auto
matic to the American Telegraph &
Telephone Co., which is the parent
company and owns 95 per cent of the
stock of the Chicago Telephone Co.,
it is possible the Bell company
might pay $6,300,000 for the auto
matic and then turn around and sell
it to the Chicago Telephone Co. for
$10,000,000 or $20,000,000, or even
more, and add those figures to the
capitalization. In other words, there's
a chance for frenzied finance in the
deal, with a tax on subscribers' to
pay it all.
Keep in mind this differences The
Bell wants to buy the automatic
plant to junk it and destroy possible
competition, while the city wants to
get possession of the plant to operate
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