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Trades pushing to package TAG with MBL cap hike to make it more passable.
If the NCUA board's proposed $30 million limit to define small credit unions stands, 1,603 credit unions would be excluded from risk-based net worth requirements and a provision of the interest rate risk rule, according to the NCUA's action memo on the topic.
It's not that the issue isn't important. It's just that it's politics.
MCUL says 46% of state's 309 credit unions now in the member business lending business.
U.S. Reps. Steve Stivers (R-Ohio) and Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) paid visits to credit unions this month to reiterate their support for raising the MBL cap.
Against a backdrop of a groundswell of support to expand business lending authority, one outcome is becoming an unfortunate black eye on those efforts.
NCUA says vast majority of LICUs already were below cap, same with the 1,003 offered the new opt-in.
Between March 2011 and March 2012, credit unions in Oregon and Washington grew their business lending by 9% to nearly $2.5 billion.
CU trades offer measured praise while ICBA blasts administration move as "outrageous."
Of the more than 1,000 small businesses that applied through Biz2Credit in July, loan approvals from credit unions are continuing to slow down.


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Moe The Cat is Awesome At Playing Jenga (VIDEO)
I couldn't stop watching this video as Moe the cat plays the game Jenga with his owner. I'm not sure how Moe knows, but he seems to be able to play the game.
I think cats are really smarter than they let on and Moe just gave away their secrets.
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ACFLS is the Association of Certified Family Law Specialists. ACFLS is an independent non-profit organization, composed of Certified Family Law Specialists, dedicated to promoting and preserving the practice of Family Law.
ACFLS was formed in 1980, after the California State Bar Board of Legal Specialization certified its first group of Family Law Specialists. Since then, ACFLS has grown to more than 500 members.
ACFLS currently has chapters in the Bay Area, Sacramento and Orange County (OC chapter is provisional at present).
For information regarding meetings and programs, please contact ACFLS Executive Director Dee Rolewicz at firstname.lastname@example.com or by telephone at (916) 217-4076.
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RANCHO SANTA FE -- A man and three teenage boys raised a ruckus Tuesday morning by setting off firecrackers outside a Rancho Santa Fe home, a sheriff's sergeant said.
Four people who heard the popping and screaming in the 5000 block of El Secreto called deputies to report gunshots, Sgt. Glenn Giannantonio said.
"It sounded like a shooting with someone being shot," he said.
Eight sheriff's deputies, Rancho Santa Fe Patrol security, a California Highway Patrol officer, a sheriff's helicopter team and firefighters responded to the 11:20 a.m. calls.
Then someone phoned and said kids were playing with fireworks at the house, Giannantonio said.
Deputies discovered 42-year-old John Andrew Frazier, who lives at the home, had joined three youths as they set off several firecrackers on the paved driveway, said the sergeant.
In fact, Giannantonio said, it was Frazier who allegedly told the boys that setting off a firecracker under a pie tin made a louder noise.
While the firecrackers were going off, the teens were running, screaming and chasing one another into the house.
"They were quite apologetic when they saw a line of patrol cars," Giannantonio said. "They did not realize it would cause that much commotion."
Deputies ticketed Frazier for misdemeanor illegal discharge of fireworks. The boys, all about 15, weren't cited.


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Class shows kids how to handle being home alone
At 8 or 9 years old, a child might not know what to do when someone knocks on the door or the phone rings.
Evansville High School senior Ann O�Leary remembers those days. To teach area kids what to do, she�s offering four free �Safely Home Alone� workshops throughout the area.
�I wish I would have had something like this,� she said.
The two-hour workshops are for kids entering third through fifth grade and will be held in Evansville, Orfordville and Albany starting June 30. Registration is required by Saturday, June 27.
Kids will learn how to answer the door and phone, what to do in an emergency, how to entertain themselves and what to eat that�s healthy, O�Leary said.
�It�s kind of the basics about staying home alone and ways to be safe,� she said.
O�Leary, 17, is conducting the workshops as part of her leadership project for 4-H in the Evansville club. She heard about a similar class offered at Fort Memorial Hospital in Fort Atkinson and thought it would be a cool project to replicate.
She attended the hospital�s course and then modeled her own workshop.
�I saw how it worked. I took it from there,� she said.
She plans to make the class a fun, interactive session by first teaching the key points, then letting the kids practice things such as answering the phone.
�Then the first time they are home alone, it�s not strange to them,� she said.
Bonus: There will be food.
O�Leary�s planning healthy snack examples such as ants on a log.
The project is just one of many this summer for O�Leary, who is deeply involved in 4-H and has an endless list of school activities. She shows Jersey cattle and owns two Holsteins. In addition to the many 4-H project�s she�s a part of, she�s the junior superintendent of child development and clothing.
When she�s not playing volleyball or basketball, being the drum major in the band or attending FFA meetings, she�s working on some other school club such as student council.
O�Leary enjoys working with kids and is excited to teach the workshops.
�It�s just a fun, educational workshop for kids to really practice what they�re going to do when they�re home alone,� she said.
What: �Safely Home Alone� workshops for kids entering third to fifth grade. The workshops are designed to educate kids on how to be safe while unattended for a short time. Kids will learn how to answer the phone and door, how to respond in an emergency and different ways to safely entertain themselves.
When/where: 9 to 11 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, at St. John�s Lutheran Church, Evansville; 1 to 3 p.m. Tuesday, June 30, at Farmers & Merchants Bank, Orfordville; 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 8, at St. John�s Lutheran Church, Evansville; 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 14, at the Albertson Memorial Library, Albany.
Cost: Free.
To registerRegistration is required so that enough educational materials, goodie bags and snacks can be provided. Call Ann O�Leary at (608) 882-5900 before Saturday, June 27. Enrollment is limited to 15 children per workshop.
Why: Ann O�Leary, a senior at Evansville High School and junior leader in the 4-H Child Development project, has been preparing this workshop for several months and modeled it after similar workshops that charge a fee. Adult supervision will be provided.
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Story: Curing depression through the human-animal bond
Helpmates, companions, best friends. Dogs have been there for us, possibly for the last 27,000 years or so. Our histories intertwine and we seem to know inherently they are good for us — and now, science backs it up.
But can they literally become an antidote we need to conquer serious illness?
Dog as Healer
Exploration of the dog as healer is at the core of Julie Barton's new memoir, "Dog Medicine."
In brave and honest detail, Julie shares her struggles with depression — discovery through recovery — weaving together reflections and memories to recount the interior life of her illness, and how the connection with a golden retriever called Bunker (above) saved her from probable suicide.
Through rich, evocative language, Julie lures and captivates the reader:
The two of us were braiding our energies. We were tying all of our untied strings together. We lay with each other on warm summer afternoons, slumbering side by side, slowly building a promise to travel this life together. His love for me would not wane. He would remind me, with wagging optimism, of his unbridled love for life, how to be in the present moment and let my troubled thoughts melt away.
I thought of the suicidal plans that used to linger at the edge of my mind. As if a miracle had come, the endless sorrow lost its power with this dog by my side. Something about him began to close that awful chapter in my life."
Finding Love and Self-acceptance
The book's subject is solemn, yet its message is uplifting and hopeful — and relatable for anyone who has been lucky enough to experience the vital force and selfless charity of a "soul dog's" love (I had Haley's).
I couldn't put the book down and devoured it in one sitting — with my dog by my side, of course.
Get Help for Depression
An estimated 350 million people suffer from depression around the world. If you suspect you may be one of them, you can find help at these sites Julie suggested in an email to me:
- Learn about depression here and here
- Therapist directory
- National Suicide Prevention Hotline
- Crisis Text Line
If you're looking for a dog to adopt — or perhaps even just take for walk, please drop by by your local animal shelter.
DOG MEDICINE. By Julie Barton. (234 pp. Think Piece Publishing, $14.95)
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Eyal Golan Testified on Ties to Mobster's Casino Ship
Entertainer Eyal Golan, a prosecution witness in the case against reputed mob boss Hagai Zaguri, admitted during questioning last month that he had accepted credit from a casino cruise ship allegedly operated by Zaguri.
Earlier this week an indictment was filed at Be'er Sheva District Court against Zaguri on charges linked to the murder of Israel national soccer team player Eli Uzan, as well as drug trafficking, extortion, loan-sharking and operating illegal gambling sites.
At his February 21 questioning, Golan told police, "I'm familiar with the ship. I don't come to it to gamble, but to perform, and then I play the games there."
The singer said his manager, Golan Sharabi, regularly accepted credit from Eli Ben Abu, suspected of managing the casino.
Asked about the amount of gambling credit he received, Golan replied, "I don't know how much credit I took or whether a debt remained. Golan Sharabi takes care of it."
Golan was later asked if he still owes money to the casino. "There might have been a time when I reached a $25,000 debt that I had built up on credit," he said, adding, "but I returned that money." The singer said the highest sum he had ever lost on a single cruise was "maybe $18,000."
Golan also told investigators about his links to Zaguri and Rami Ezran, who police say is the alleged mob boss's right-hand man. Golan said he performed on the ship once a month and is acquainted with almost all of its employees, and that he had spoken with Ezran several times by phone but had never met him outside the casino.
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A Florida businessman's trial on charges of masterminding a $2 billion mortgage fraud scheme began Monday in a federal courtroom in Alexandria with defense lawyers saying they might call actor John Travolta as a character witness.
Lee Bentley Farkas, who was the owner and chairman of Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, is charged in a 14- count indictment that alleges he and co-conspirators defrauded investors and banks.
Lawyers on both sides said they would call nearly 70 witnesses. The most well-known would be Travolta, who defense lawyers said lives near Farkas, and might be called as a character witness, as the two men are friends and share an interest in aviation. Other witnesses may include former employees of Taylor Bean and officials at the government agency that oversaw the government's bailout program, known as the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
Farkas's company, based in Ocala, Fla., was once one of the nation's largest privately held mortgage companies. The fraud case against him and several co-conspirators is one of the largest to emerge from the crisis that brought the nation's financial system to the brink of collapse. The government alleges the scheme eventually lead to the demise of Taylor Bean and Colonial Bank in Alabama, one of the nation's largest regional banks.
The trial is expected to last three weeks.
Already, several people who formerly worked at Taylor Bean, including the former treasurer and former president, have pleaded guilty to fraud charges.
Prosecutors allege that Taylor Bean acted as a middleman between lenders and investors. The firm borrowed money from Colonial Bank to buy FHA-insured home loans. Taylor Bean would pool the loans into securities and sell them to investors. Ginne Mae would then guarantee those securities.
But when Taylor Bean began having significant cash flow problems, the government says, Farkas and co-conspirators allegedly covered the shortfalls with money from Colonial Bank. They misappropriated more than $1 billion to cover Taylor Bean's operating losses, authorities said.
The government alleged that Farkas used the stolen money to buy expensive cars, including a 1961 Porsche and a 1963 Rolls Royce, planes and properties.
"This is a case about lying and stealing on a staggering scale," Patrick Stokes, deputy chief of the criminal division's fraud section at the Justice Department, said in his opening statement to jurors.
He said Farkas and his co-conspirators used "brazen schemes to steal money" through Taylor Bean. He called their scheme a "house of cards" that was built on "deceit and massive debt."
"The reason for the conspiracy is simple," he said. "]Taylor Bean] needed money and the defendant and his co-conspirators went out and stole it."
Farkas's lawyers said their client didn't steal and that it is a complex case of mortgage securities and agreements.
"The government thinks they've found a hole at TBW," said Craig Kuglar, an Atlanta-based lawyer for Farkas in his opening statement. "There is no hole. The government didn't do its homework. The government didn't understand the complex agreements before it shut down Mr. Farkas and put 2,500 people out of work."
Kuglar described Farkas's business as the "diamond ring" for the fees it made in the mortgage business. He described Taylor Bean as a business that grew and had employees who answered the phone on the second ring, saying 'It's a great day at TBW. How may we help you?'"
The case, Kuglar told the jury, involves the government's confusion over accounting and Colonial Bank's own failings in the mortgage business.
Kuglar said his client hired executives at Taylor Bean who kept him abreast daily of his main questions: Are we making money? And secondly, "Do we have money and do we have collateral?"
Farkas was told "yes until the very end" on his questions of Taylor Bean's profitability, Kuglar told jurors. "The evidence will show Mr. Farkas did not steal anything."


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Morin and Green
WEDDING -- Taylor Ashley Green and T.J. Morin were united in marriage March 26 during a 3:30 p.m. double ring ceremony performed at the Robert F. Enssllin Armory by Teresa Brown, notary.
The wedding was moved from the Oldest House gardens due to inclement weather.
The bride is the daughter of Melvin (Butch) and Tracy Green, and the bridegroom is the son of Bob and Norma Morin, all of St. Augustine.
Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a halter-style A-line gown adorned with embroidery and fashioned with side gather, with a chapel train and corset back. Her headdress, a tiara, secured a fingertip veil of illusion, and she carried two dozen roses.
Attending the bride were Christy Dowler and Jamie Brown, honor attendants, and Ashley Triebel, Krista Samson, Alayna Samson and Megan Brown. They wore periwinkle blue tea-length dresses and carried bouquets of yellow Gerbera daisies.
Flower girls were Makinley Dowler, Breeana Shugart and Gracie Sanders.
Bob Morin served as his son's best man, and groomsmen were Luke Davis, Brandon Shugart, David Christman, Chris Zampese and Danny Morin, the bridegroom's brother.
Usher was Hunter Green, brother of the bride.
A reception, hosted by the bride's parents, followed at the armory.
The bride is residing in St. Augustine with her parents during the bridegroom's deployment with the Florida Army National Guard.
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The punch lines linger on. Henny Youngman's death last month did not prevent a dozen other comedians from trading reminiscences (and a few jokes) yesterday, on what would have been his 92d birthday.
IRWIN COREY, the disheveled-looking comedian who bills himself as the world's foremost authority, recalled the time he and Henny Youngman were mentioned in a Damon Runyon column. And JACKIE MARTLING, a regular on HOWARD STERN'S radio show, told the crowd at Arci's, a restaurant on Park Avenue South near 31st Street, what it was like to work for the same telephone joke service during the 1980's.
Mr. Youngman was to do his usual rapid-fire one-liners; Mr. Martling was to do racier material that would be heard only after midnight.
They were instructed to do their routines in a conversational voice, as if they were talking personally to the caller, not to a big audience in a theater.
Mr. Martling said that the instructions were lost on Mr. Youngman. ''They turned on the tape and Henny began, 'Is anybody here from New Jersey?' '' Mr. Martling said. ''He was so un-hip, he became hip,'' he said. ''He was so universal. Who would not laugh at him? He was not offensive, and those human- condition jokes, they're funny.''Continue reading the main story


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Not surprisingly, one of the most neglected parts of your lawn are the roots. I am a lawn expert. I have had nine years of experience with lawn repair and aerating lawns. I have also learned a lot about lawns by reading books and by having one. I know grassroots contain a lot of...Read more →


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A woman who works with her hands is a LABORER; a woman who works with her hands and head, a CRAFTSMAN; but a woman who works with her hands, her head and her heart is an ARTIST. ~ Louis Nizer
Saturday, February 28, 2009
How do you like your Sorbet?
8 comments:
- Nicole said...
Very cool paper, Mel. Question for you...how do you just get the front of your card embossed? I've tried, and I don't know what to do with the back half. If I fold it behind, it gets kind of crinkled, and the embossing doesn't go all the way to my fold. I don't have the Wizard, so maybe I'm not able to do it, but looking at that machine, I don't see how it would work any differently. Thanks for any help you can offer!
- February 28, 2009 at 5:58 PM
- Mindy said...
love love love those "buttons"! That chocolate brown looks good enough to eat!
- February 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM
- Cammy said...
What a great card Mel! I remember seeing these papers when you first introduced Paper Temptress on your site. I might just have to get some of this for myself.
- February 28, 2009 at 9:26 PM
- Jan Castle said...
great looking paper...love the colors!
- February 28, 2009 at 10:19 PM
- Stacey said...
Great Card! I love that combination of colors together - Chocolate with Turquoise and Chocolate with Pink are two of my favorite color combinations. I am in the process of redoing my daughter's room with the Chocolate/Pink combination.
Great work on the card and I love the embossing on the front of the card. I would really appreciate a tutorial on embossing the fronts of cards.
- March 1, 2009 at 10:39 AM
- mspiggy7 said...
I do LOVE the DS Sorbet paper I got the sample pack & really like the color combos. Great look for the buttons!
- March 1, 2009 at 7:15 PM
- Donna said...
cool tip! love this card!!
- March 1, 2009 at 9:37 PM
- Carolyn King said...
fabulous...love that beautiful blue...so striking!
- March 1, 2009 at 10:22 PM


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Hensley, Branch play Rock City
Rockland — Rock City Cafe's Velvet Lounge series will present Deb Hensley and Katey Branch Saturday, Feb. 8, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the downtown venue, 316 Main St.
Branch is a healing artist using art, poetry, dance and songwriting, as well as yoga, bodywork and counseling, to connect with the earth and spirit. Much of her art comes from the inspiration of the divine feminine. She has produced two CDs of original music: "Journeys," life songs with backup from friends; and "HeartStones," duets with Geoff Warner.
Following a rich childhood in a real Midwestern neighborhood, Hensley migrated to the Northeast; after raising two sons, she returned to the world of songwriting and music making. Her CD, "Dragonfly" with Jadyn McCune, has received airplay around Maine and the Northeast. Coordinator for the Transformative Language Arts Network and a consultant for early childhood education programs around the country, she co-founded vocal improvisation ensemble Improvox, with whom she performed for more than eight years.
As usual there is no cover; however, tipping the musicians is highly encouraged. For more information on this and other events happening at the coffeebar/cafe, call 594-4123.
Courier Publications' A&E Editor Dagney C. Ernest can be reached at (207) 594-4401, ext. 115; or email@example.com.


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Sunday marked one year since an earthquake in a remote region of Pakistan killed over 73,000 people. The 7.6-magnitude earthquake left another 3.5 million people homeless on the brink of a harsh Himalayan winter.
The Minneapolis-based American Refugee Committee was one of the first international organizations to reach the region. It's been providing relief ever since. Tom Crann talked with the ARC's Pakistan country director, Louise Paterson.


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Ted Wade hasn't cared about politics enough to cast a vote in a U.S. presidential election for almost a quarter of a century, back when he supported Ross Perot's independent candidacy in 1992.
But Republican Donald Trump's 2016 White House bid has motivated Wade to get involved and he plans to support the real estate mogul in Nevada's nominating caucus next month. Trump is a "non-politician" who can fix the "chaos" in Washington, he says.
About one in 10 Americans who plan to cast a vote this election will do so for the first time in years, if ever, and Trump holds a decided edge with them, according to polling by Reuters/Ipsos.


text: In light of the spirit of the holidays, my buddy sent this over to me yesterday and it had me cracking up. He knows I'm a diehard Walken fan and also have donated to the Libertarian party. It's from some movie named Kiss Toledo Goodbye that I'd never even heard of, (which is crazy, because I thought I'd seen all of his movies by now). Anyways, this is a pretty hilarious interaction, happens at around 55 seconds and I thought you guys would enjoy it.


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There's green tea in this?! There's lemon in this?
Great bottle, but I don't know why they're filling it with… whatever factory rejects they're filling it with. Watery. All you can taste is the vanilla and sugar. Occasionally you'll get a burn of ginger as an aftertaste. There is no universe in which this murky vanilla-flavored sugar water is worth almost $3.


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The Guardian
Oct. 1, 2013
A federal judge on Tuesday revisited at a decades-old court settlement restricting how the New York Police Department conducts surveillance after civil rights lawyers accused the department of breaking those rules by monitoring Muslims.
The dispute centers on the restrictions set by the Handschu decree, which was put in place in response to surveillance used against war protesters in the 1960s and 70s. The decree was relaxed following the September 11 terror attacks to allow police to more freely monitor political activity in public places.
"I've come to think of this case as a volcano that's asleep most of the time … but every now and then blows up," District Judge Charles Haight said at the start of a hearing in federal court in Manhattan.
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Mummy Dearest
Utica, N.Y.
The hills of central New York have been alive with the sounds and sights of Egypt this summer. In Cooperstown, the Glimmerglass Opera Festival featured Verdi's "Aida" and the Fenimore Art Museum exhibited costumes from Metropolitan Opera "Aida" productions of the past century. And in Utica, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art is presenting the absorbing "Shadow of the Sphinx: Ancient Egypt and Its Influence."
Shadow of the Sphinx:
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Munson-Williams-Proctor Museum of Art
Through Nov. 25
Comprising roughly 150 objects, paintings, works of art, pieces of jewelry and related items from 30 lenders as well as the museum's own collections, the show underscores the fascination with a multimillennial legacy that has long made Egyptology a staple of museum culture. Moreover, it places its venerable subject within a fresh and notably accessible historical context: The exhibition isn't just about ancient Egypt but about its lively effect on fine, decorative and performing art from the Napoleonic era right through Cecil B. DeMille's brand of Egyptofantasy.
The first gallery, "The Burial Chamber," sets the scene with a vivid selection of antiquities concerned with the rites of death, mummification and burial central to ancient Egyptian culture.
Flanking its entrance are two Ptolemaic-period sphinx fragments of carved limestone (332-30 B.C.), their delicately sculpted features softened by the erosion of countless windblown grains of sand. Taking center stage are a wood coffin lid and its base from the Late Dynastic Period (c. 525-343 B.C.) embellished with meticulously carved and painted human and bird motifs. Its splendid condition reminds us how posterity has reaped the preservative benefits of Egypt's dry climate and the painstaking methods of ancient Egyptian craftsmen and funerary workers.
Many of the objects here would have been buried with the dead to accompany them in the afterlife—brilliantly glazed pottery; diminutive, beautifully wrought amulets and jewelry of cast and beaten gold, carved lapis-lazuli, beads of colored faience. A limestone canopic jar (c. 1070-945 B.C.), to contain the entrails removed from a body as part of mummification, resembles a small coffin with carved face and painted eyes. There's also an actual mummified head from the Roman period (c. mid-second-century B.C. to mid-first-century A.D.), its face masked in gold leaf and given painted features, to imitate the solid-gold masks of royal mummies. And striking a poignant note is a mummified cat. Whether it once enjoyed life as a sacred creature or a family pet, now its eviscerated, sausagelike body is tightly wrapped in linen, with feline features painted on the swaddled head, its two perky ears distinct.
Virtually all of the chosen artifacts embody the colors, shapes and decorative motifs from which European and, afterward, American craftsmen derived their highly imaginative Egyptian Revivals, initially sparked by 18th-century archaeological discoveries. Representing the awakening interest is a fanciful English "canopic vase" produced about 1770 by the pottery firm of Wedgwood & Bentley. Possibly inspired by elements in the "Egyptian" mantelpiece designs published in 1769 by the artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi, this striking piece is essentially a bulbous neoclassical urn with a finely modeled Egyptian head pre-empting the usual pine-cone finial.
The shiploads of antiquities sent back to France during Napoleon's Egyptian Campaign of 1798 incited the first Egyptian Revival craze during the Directoire and Empire periods and England's Regency. And the lure of Egypt and its surroundings fostered an enduring "Orientalist" school of painting, as European artists voyaged to Egypt and North Africa, where they produced exotic views of deserts, pyramids and street life that found a ready market back home. The show features lush Orientalist canvases by such exponents through successive decades asCharles Théodore Frère, Rudolf Ernst and Joseph Farquharson, which document their fascination with "primitive" life still extant in 19th-century Egypt. Works like Edwin Long's "Love's Labor Lost," Frederick Arthur Bridgman's "Cleopatra on the Terraces at Philae" and Gustave Doré's "Moses Before the Pharaoh" attest to those artists' mastery of romanticized, dramatic interpretations of ancient and biblical themes.
The construction of the Suez Canal and its completion in 1869 sparked a second Egyptian Revival, represented here with examples of opulent, imaginative furniture, silver, glass, lamps and other decorations in the Egyptian taste whose obelisk, pyramid and sphinx motifs lent distinctive flair to French Second Empire and High Victorian design.
Taking a spin on the stylized Egyptian scarab beetle, a massive porcelain paperweight shaped like a startled but anatomically correct beetle and a porcelain vase embellished with another beetle (replete with six legs and probing antennae) represent experimental extremes by the inventive English designer Christopher Dresser during the 1880s.
More beautiful, and more dazzling, are ancient and European scarab-inspired jewelry in the "Jewels of the Nile" gallery, the exhibition's visual climax. Among the dazzlers are a scarab brooch of fire opal and enameled gold by Marcus & Co., New York, and a Swiss gold ladies' watch. Articulated beetles-wings covering the watch face are enameled in royal blue and ablaze with 16 tiny diamonds in star-shaped settings.
The final gallery represents Egypt's hold on 19th- and 20th-century popular culture, reinvigorated by the English archaeologist Howard Carter's 1922 discovery of King Tutankhamun's tomb. Film posters and other material document successive "Cleopatra" extravaganzas starring Claudette Colbert and Elizabeth Taylor; George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra" starring Vivian Leigh; "The Mummy" with Boris Karloff and its 1999 remake; "The Ten Commandments," and of course "Death on the Nile." There are vaudeville posters, old souvenir postcards, souvenir pencils, toiletries and other commercial relics that once exploited Egyptian fads.
Most endearing is colorful sheet music for such Tin-Pan Alley numbers as "My Cairo Maid" (1917) and "Ilo (A Voice From Mummyland)" (1921), and the wistful tenor air "Star Light, Star Bright" from Victor Herbert's early operetta hit, "The Wizard of the Nile" (1895). It's a pity that there isn't an accompanying selection of historic recordings to let visitors hear the tuneful melodies behind those inviting covers.
For younger viewers as well as adults, videos and board games introduce aspects of Egyptian culture; bins of flash-cards explain hieroglyphics, Egyptian cats, scarabs and other motifs. There are even "scent stations," whose fragrant boxes of dried seeds and herbs invite visitors to inhale the aromas of "the spicy shores of Araby the blest." Indeed, virtually no stone has been left unturned, as it were, to make this exhibition delightful and memorable.
Mr. Scherer writes about music and the fine arts for the Journal.


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Wendy Cope is as wittily subversive and honest as ever in her sixth collection. She utilises a range of traditional forms, from sonnets and villanelles to pantoums and triolets, not so much as a manifesto of back to metrics than as a medium to explore change, from fading 50s boarding schools to the worn habit of Anglicanism. The book opens and closes with poems that could be sung as hymns to agnosticism: "A Christmas Song", in which the baby cries for all the burdened, grieving and troubled of the world, without tainting them with sin; and the secular "Closedown", in which a solitary announcer – the poet? Each of us? – broadcasts the shipping fore- cast before switching off the light, as if of the school dormitory, or maybe of life. This poem, alongside several on ageing and the reductive agnosticism that many Anglicans reach over time, could be contrasted with the Catholic chanting of Carol Ann Duffy's "Prayer", which also includes the shipping forecast; though to my mind, Cope is ideologically more radical, much as her "The Sitter" went further than Duffy's "Standing Female Nude" by encompassing a female artist as well as subject. Cope the feminist is also encountered in a girlhood ambition to "Found the Women's Merchant Navy" and in her call for "a woman Primate, while I'm still alive".
This feminism can sometimes seem at odds with her relationship with her mother: her difficulty to please and, not least, the decision to send her daughter away to boarding school. But Cope writes with love of her young mother, singing her to sleep with "Brahms' Cradle Song". That said, at boarding school it is her cleaning woman, "Mrs Arnold", whom she imagined "Was kissing me goodnight". Her father gets one mention: a tribute to his love of linguistic accuracy.
Love and compassionate humour fill this collection, from the many celebrations of marital love to the embers of old flames. In "Spared", her elegy for 9/11, she writes, following Emily Dickinson, that "Love is all, is all there is". And at times her agnosticism seems to tip in favour of the God of her mother's lullaby: "Probably. Unless. Unless." In a masterful poem about Edward Thomas, she goes to the heart of the contradiction in Christianity, finding that the spirit that lives on is in his work: "You're dead and gone and speaking still. / Your spirit lives; it brought us here. / You cannot know, and never will."
Her reach extends to those outside the traditional family unit; children of divorced parents at Christmas, or those excluded from the conventional education system, as in "Special Needs": "We monitor them carefully / In case they fall behind: / The dyslexic, the dyspraxic / And the disinclined." This poem sits alongside "Old Boys' Day", where once-cocky and over-certain youths are pictured as vulnerable old codgers.
Cope's wit is deployed in two sharply sustained sequences, one on classical music – "You're not antagonised enough. / It isn't agonised enough for me" – and the other, commissioned by BBC Radio 4, in praise of Woman's Hour and The Archers: "I like The Archers only when it's got / Adulterous behaviour in the plot." She challenges conventional family values and lays bare her own difficult childhood; the reliance on traditional forms is perhaps an attempt to restore a missing inner calm.


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Nine WACO players score in blowout win over Harmony
WAYLAND — WACO had balanced scoring as it blew out visiting Harmony 50-21 in a Class 1A Region 4 first-round game on Thursday night.
Sophomore Aaliyah Brown scored 12 points to lead the Warriors, who had nine players score in the game. Freshman Hannah Black added nine points, while junior Jordan Rodgers and sophomore Jennie Greene had seven points apiece. Junior Jaelyn Unternahrer and sophomore Gaby Wagler both chipped in five points.
Senior Jori Davidson had 10 points and 10 rebounds to lead Harmony, which finished its season with a record of 1-23.
The win was WACO's second win over Harmony in six days. The Warriors also defeated the Rockets 58-20 in last Friday's Southeast Iowa Super Conference Shootout game in Farmington.
WACO (8-15) now advances to Tuesday's regional quarterfinal game at Winfield-Mt. Union (17-5). The rivals split their two regular-season meetings, with the Warriors winning 52-46 in Winfield on Nov. 30 and the Wolves winning 45-28 in Wayland on Jan. 11.


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There seems to be this awesome collection for sale all over the world,
and it's pretty damn cheap once you read what's inside the box -
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There's also this (I have bought this one here in Finland- it's and excellent set.)
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Choosing a good topic from scratch
If you're expected to identify a topic on your own with little or no direction from an instructor then the task may be a bit overwhelming at first. When researching there are so many different categories to choose, from and if you are like most people you want your research to standout, make a point or simply be well worth the readers time. So there may be a bit of anxiety present. The good news is that there are many approaches to selecting a compelling
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Brainstorming is used frequently and may be the #1 method of choosing a topic. Its a popular prewriting technique used by students and writers alike. The process is simple. You want to think through or brainstorm a list of potential research topics and allow each idea you come up with to guide you to another idea.
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*Keep in mind that topics suggested are not yet term-paper ready. More refining and thesis development is required.
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Most likely you will be spending a lot of time either online or in the library gathering information and conducting a great amount of research on your topic-so its wise to choose a topic that will sustain your interest. Additionally, you may also want to look at something that you are passionate or driven about, such as a social problem, (for example, the working poor in Western societies) that you would find satisfying to investigate or examine.
Likewise, "you-topics" may be useful to delve into as they are easy to determine and of a great interest to the writer-which is you! "You-topics" include issues relevant to your experiences, culture and background. For example, if you're parents are from two different racial backgrounds you may decide to study relationships and families similar to your own. The idea is that these topics are familiar and close to home so they should be easy for you to develop and interesting to research.
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Scanning headlines is a good means of acquiring appealing and thoughtful topics to research. In a sense, much of the work has already been done. This is because chances are if topics discussed were not interesting then they would have never been selected for a story coverage.
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Controversial topics are always interesting and challenging to research because they "strike a cord" with us. And often times there is also a lot of information available on these topics, from case studies to personal essays. Examples of a controversial topics would be religion in public schools or interracial adoption.
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This step does not involve any heavy hours of studying or researching. You simply would take your topic or subject manner and begin doing light or casual research either online or with library references. By reading the article topics, keywords, and subtopics you should eventually get a feel for what needs to be studied further on the topic or what would be of interest to you from the information you've gathered thus far.
Focus on one aspect of the topic
This method will give your topic depth and personality. For example, you can take a broad topic such as anorexia nervosa and women and refine it by focusing on either a) a specific age group, race or ethnicity b) a particular geographic location c) or a definite time frame. So if we were to select "a" an example of a refined topic would be as follows; Anorexia nervosa and senior citizens. This topic can be also further refined to a specific location but since the literature on the topic is likely already limited it may be best to keep it as is.
In this process you would write freely about the topic that you've selected and then circle the main idea or most important keyword found in your freewriting. Afterwards you would freewrite about the circled selection and continue in this manner until you identify a polished and suitable topic for research.
For example, if your major topic is private schools, you would start off by freewriting about private schools; "Private schools are schools that are privately funded by tuition or other sources. Students in private schools usually score better on standardized test because of various factors." Here you may opt to circle a number of keywords. If you were to circle "factors" for example, you would then begin writing about which factors may influence standardized test scores. Then continue in this fashion until an appropriate research topic is obtained.
After you've selected and narrowed down your topic you should check for a few 'topic-quality' concerns to ensure that you have a suitable subject for your term paper. (a) Is your research topic manageable and realistic? (b) Are the sources you need available and accessible to you? (d) Can your topic be formed into a
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Hopefully after utilizing some of the above methods and strategies as well as the questions noted for quality assurance your road to paper formulation and construction will be an easy one.
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Viscerally exciting, dramatically riveting, emotionally overwhelming, Patrice Chéreau's Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train definitely is one of the finest works of modern French cinema. That's easily said. The hard part is citing the fact that it's also the greatest gay film ever made.
We all know the drill. To label a film as gay is to automatically confer on it a lesser value. If it's a gay film, then it's about "them" and "their" world. It can't possibly have the universal appeal of a narrative in which heterosexuality is the understood "us." But that's precisely what makes this picaresque tragicomedy about a funeral and its aftermath so extraordinary. It refuses to treat its characters (most gay, some straight, and one transgendered) as cases or types. As a result it confers on same-sex love the passion and grandeur that the heterosexual mainstream has heretofore regarded as its birthright.
The train of the title is en route from Paris to Limoges, home to Europe's largest cemetery. On board are the lovers, friends, and blood relatives of a famous Francis Bacon-like painter called Emmerich (Jean-Louis Trintignant) who, having suddenly died from a heart attack, has left those who shared his disordered life in a more chaotic state than usual. Chief among the mourners is François (Pascal Greggory), an ex-lover who was still part of Emmerich's life despite having moved on to another lover, the younger Louis (Bruno Todeschini), who elected to take up with Bruno (Sylvain Jacques), an HIV-positive street hustler who once had a fling with François.
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This triangle of François, Louis, and Bruno provides the linchpin of Chéreau's Altman-in-a-Cuisinart design. Also involved are Emmerich's nephew Jean-Marie (Charles Berling) and his wife Claire (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi), a couple of drug addicts caught in a can't-live-with-can't-live-without circle of desire and dependency. There's also Viviane (Vincent Perez), an old trick of Emmerich who is now a pre-op transsexual. A scene in which Viviane tries on heels to the delight of Emmerich's straight but equally randy twin brother (Jean-Louis Trintignant again) is one of the film's high points.
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The essence of Those Who Love Me can be found in the scene where Thierry (Roschdy Zem), another controlled-substance abuser (and Emmerich-ex), is driving the coffin to Limoges. "There's Daddy!" says his bratty daughter Elodie (Delphine Schlitz) from the train, pointing at the car with the coffin as it swooshes by, the other mourners on the train watching raptly. Her words are rich in meaning, for while she's referring to the driver, she's also, inadvertently, speaking of the "Daddy" in the coffin. If there's one thing that Those Who Love Me is out to prove, it's that in this era of family values, gays not only have families, but families that are far more emotionally consanguineous than straight ones.
Patrice Chéreau is one of the protean artists of our time. The world of opera is still grappling with his late-Seventies radical rethinking of Wagner's Ring Cycle, performed in Beyreuth and widely shown on PBS. Those lucky enough to have seen his staging of Genet's The Screens and Marivaux's La Fausse Suivante in Paris in the Eighties know the kind of all-out physicality he has been able to create for the theater. And while he has become a familiar face for his performances in films as varied as Andrzej Wajda's Danton, Michael Mann's The Last of the Mohicans, and Claude Berri's just-released Lucie Aubrac, only two of his prior films as a director (the 1983 coming-out drama L'Homme Blesse and the 1994 historical spectacular Queen Margot) have been made available in the United States.
But now American audiences can experience his wonderful talents. With a score that features Jeff Buckley, Gustav Mahler, and "Save the Last Dance for Me," a style of staging that turns a crowd on a railway platform into virtual Valkyries, and an eye capable of making shots taken from a helicopter seem intimate, Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train marks Chéreau as the French cinema's last best hope.
And if you're a gay man who has been to a lot of funerals, you shouldn't miss this one.


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Discussion in 'Funstuff and Inspiration' started by Spitfire, Jul 10, 2011.
Catch Me When I Fall -- Ashlee Simpson
Stand -- Sly and the Family Stone
Stand By Me -- Ben E King
Stand Back Up - Sugarland
I Want You Back -- The Jackson 5
I Want You - Savage Garden
I Want a New Drug -- Huey Lewis & The News
New Divide - Linkin Park
Brand New Day -- Sting
The Day of the Eagle -- Robin Trower
The End of the Road -- Boys II Men
Tenemous Roads - National Health
King of the Road -- Roger Miller
Love that song! [singing]Two hours of pushin brooms. Buys a eight by twelve four-bit room. I'm a maaaaan of means by no means...[/singing]
Me too!!!!
The Long And Winding Road -- the Beatles
Long Gone Lonesome Blues - Sheryl Crow
How Long Has This Been Going On? -- Ella Fitzgerald
What a beautiful classic!
Going Crazy/Tango Letter from the soundtrack of The Love Letter, Orchestra di Roma
Crazy For You -- Madonna
Missin' You Crazy - John Pardi
Crazy Train -- Ozzy!
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Warnings of War
Israel has nuclear weapons, says a senior American general and former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In his new memoir, "Eyes on the Horizon," U.S. Air Force officer Richard Myers describes the tempestuous years before and after the September 11 terror attacks. He offers a succinct description of Israel: "nuclear-armed." Unlike the Israel Defense Forces chief of staff, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is not a commanding officer. He advises the president and the secretary of defense, coordinates between the chiefs of staff of the branches of the military, and commands only the joint headquarters as well as the National Defense University and its journal, the Joint Force Quarterly.
In the latest issue of that journal, which is scheduled for publication early next year, a lecturer on strategy at the U.S. Air Force Academy, Brent Talbot, explains why Israel is capable of attacking Iran's nuclear network, even though at first glance such an operation does not appear reasonable or practical.
Talbot reports that on June 14, he visited the director of Military Intelligence, Major General Amos Yadlin, in his office and interviewed him. "He confirmed that Iranian nuclear efforts are Israel's number one security concern at present and that Iran is considered a much greater threat than Hezbollah or Hamas, both of whom have recently been dealt with, and both of whom Israel feels have been deterred from further attacks in the near term. He believes Israel is capable of dealing with these border threats even if Iran should increase its arms supplies and encouragement to harm Israel.
"Though he made no mention of any plans to attack Iran, one must consider that Iran is the only remaining existential threat to the state of Israel, that reelected Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called upon Muslim leaders to wipe Israel off the map, and that Israel, a state always focused on its security first and foremost, has planned and trained for missions requiring the scale and distance to successfully attack nuclear sites in Iran. Bearing this in mind, one must consider that such an attack could be forthcoming, and if so, the United States and its coalition partners should immediately plan for the aftermath," states Talbot.
The impression left by his conversation with Yadlin is a good example of the pendulum of the Israeli establishment, which swings back and forth between a policy of information and a policy of concealment. It's a twist on the "crying wolf" syndrome: The wolf promises to pounce and makes good, but the target takes him seriously and prepares for the attack.
As far as is known - and we don't know what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said to U.S. President Barack Obama so that he would not later claim to have been taken by surprise - no great disparity exists between the overt and the covert. The country's leaders are not lying when they declare that no decision has been made.
But in another sense, an Israel-Iran war is already under way. After the Yom Kippur surprise in 1973, American intelligence honed the distinction between "war" and "attack." The CIA evaluators assumed responsibility for warning of a pending war, but not an attack. A warning about a war is defined as "the communication of intelligence judgments to national policymakers that a state or alliance intends war, or is on a course that substantially increases the risks of war and is taking steps to prepare for war." A warning of an attack, deriving from a warning about war, entails "the communication of an intelligence judgment to national policymakers that an adversary is not only preparing its armed forces for war, but also intends to launch an attack in the near future."
The Central Intelligence Agency declined to commit to a warning of the second kind. The trouble is that Tehran understands this, and might want to strike before Israel does. From Israel's point of view, Iran's gradual nuclearization is a warning of war but not yet a warning of an attack; from Iran's point of view, the declared Israeli intention - which is sometimes also practiced openly - of preventing its nuclearization is the warning of war. This is an incentive for the Iranians to launch a preemptive strike on Israel through Hamas or Hezbollah.
This is probably what Major General Yadlin was getting at in his remarks about deterrence in the wake of the Second Lebanon War and Operation Cast Lead.
This subject was also a focal point of last week's talks between a NATO delegation and the Foreign Ministry, the defense establishment and members of the Knesset's Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee . The delegation was led by NATO's deputy secretary general, Claudio Bisogniero.
The main reason for the visit was to sign the 2010 cooperation plan between Israel and NATO, which among other things, called for dispatching an Israel Navy missile boat to take part in the alliance's "Active Endeavor" Mediterranean patrolling operation
But the NATO personnel wanted to know how to deter terrorism and wondered if Israel had second thoughts about whether it had used excessive firepower on Beirut, southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. No, their interlocutors replied, the peace and quiet is being maintained thanks to the deterrence achieved against Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas. This has been achieved only because those groups fear that they will "release the Israeli beast from its cage" if they renew the rocket attacks on the Israeli rear. Lebanon will authorize fire only to shoot down Israeli planes flying over the country. This is why attempts are being made to sneak surface-to-air missiles to Hezbollah, a development Israel is determined to prevent.
The Israelis tried to persuade the NATO representatives that taking away the option of acting against fire coming from population centers, in the spirit of the Goldstone report, will increase the complacency of the terrorist organizations, be detrimental to early warning and make future campaigns be larger, deadlier and more destructive.
The new NATO secretary general, the former Danish prime minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, has limited maneuvering ability. He is limited even more by the situation of his deputy, Bisogniero, from Italy. Similarly, the election of little-known individuals from Belgium and Britain to head the European Union and manage its foreign relations reflects a tendency to leave the practical power in the hands of member states.
A secretary general or director general of the United Nations, NATO, the EU, the International Atomic Energy Agency or the Arab League who is too strong threatens those who appointed him. The Six-Day War would not have erupted if the UN secretary general at the time, U Thant, had not hastily allowed Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser to evict the UN force from its positions along the Israeli border, without passing the ball to the Security Council.
Israel prefers bilateral talks with some of the member-states of these organizations, and more specifically with government, intelligence and military bodies with high security clearance. When Bisogniero expresses "deep concern" at Iran's nuclear project, headquarters in Brussels views this as a more significant signal than in the past. When he is asked about the possible contribution of a peacekeeping force on the Israeli-Syrian border, he says no quickly and definitively. The North Atlantic Council has not yet discussed the question. It's a safe guess that when a settlement looms and if Washington makes a request and after NATO forces leave Afghanistan, the answer will be more positive.
In closed talks, Israel flexes its muscles and indicates that Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran would be well advised not to test its seriousness. Israel's behavior in the Gilad Shalit episode contradicts this presumption. If Talbot and other foreign observers are right in thinking that Air Force fighter planes will bear the brunt of the burden in an Israeli operation against Iran, it's necessary to prepare for the possibility that planes will be hit by enemy fire or will experience technical difficulties (as happened to the Phantom navigated by Ron Arad) and that not all the pilots who bail out will be rescued.
If air crew personnel fall into Iranian captivity, they are liable to be placed on trial and sentenced to death, leading to a multi-stage bargaining bazaar. In return for reducing the sentence to life imprisonment, Israel will have to release all the other murderers it holds; then, to bring the captives home, Israel will have to make far-reaching concessions on completely different issues. These could include Jerusalem, or what General Myers calls "nuclear-armed Israel." Will the Israeli public, which implored its government to sign off on the Shalit deal, suddenly dare to refuse? Will Benjamin Netanyahu not fold again, as usual?
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SARATOGA SPRINGS -- Consumer Reports has ranked Saratoga Hospital fourth in the state for patient safety out of 138 hospitals for which such data was collected.
The finding is part of a feature story, "How safe is your hospital?" in the newly released August issue of the magazine. The report marks the first time the publication has rated hospitals for safety.
Six criteria were considered: infections, re-admissions, communication, radiological scans, complications and deaths.
"It's always nice to have public affirmation of the good work you know you're doing," Saratoga Hospital President and CEO Angelo Calbone said. "I think the public would be surprised at how much energy, time and resources are spent here to provide scientific-based, quality care."
At the same time, the report indicates there is room for improvement, locally and at hospitals throughout the United States. America's top-rated facility, the Billings (Mont.) Clinic, got a score of 72 out of a possible 100.
Saratoga Hospital got a 57, the best score among Capital Region hospitals and only four points behind New York's top-ranked facility, Cayuga Medical Center at Ithaca. Benedictine Hospital in Kingston was No. 2 with a score of 60.
Other Capital Region hospitals and their scores are St. Peter's in Albany (56), Albany Memorial (53), Samaritan in Troy (52), Glens Falls (49), Albany Medical Center (49) and St. Mary's in Troy (45). Not all hospitals, such as Ellis in Schenectady, were included in the report.
The magazine based its findings on state, federal and nonprofit information sources. The report rated 1,159 of the 6,268 hospitals in the U.S.
Saratoga Hospital scored above average for not doing unnecessary scans, such as CT, which have high levels of radiation and might contribute to future cancers, a separate study says. The hospital was on par for infections and communicating information to patients, but fell below average for re-admissions.
"Every single infection that comes in this building we analyze," said Mary Jo LaPosta, Saratoga Hospital's senior vice president of patient care. "We're very concerned about transmission of infections in this building."
Hospital officials have already begun meeting to see how their below-average mark for re-admissions can be improved.
The hospital already takes some specific steps, such as making multiple follow-up phone calls to ensure discharged patients are getting the medications and care they need. Also, patients are given electronic lists of medications that tell them what they should take and when. These lists are given to the patient's physician as well, LaPosta said.
Patient safety will be critical to hospitals moving forward under the new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as "Obamacare." In the past, hospitals have been reimbursed simply for providing various treatments and procedures. Now, they must meet new federal quality care standards as well, or risk not getting government payments, Calbone said.
This will encourage hospitals to make sure patients are not only properly cared for in hospitals, but that they get the information and follow-up care they need when discharged to make certain they aren't re-admitted.
"Hospitals that are going to do well have to improve quality, how they measure it and be able to report it," Calbone said.


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August 16, 2016
Everton favourites to sign Liverpool flop Christian Benteke – bookies
"We've installed Everton as favourites to sign Benteke"
Lee Price
Betting had been suspended on Benteke's next club as it looked like a Selhurst Park switch was a forgone conclusion.
But the Blue half of Merseyside has some cash to spend and they are reportedly considering Benteke – but they are not alone.
Lee Price from Paddy Power said: "We've installed Everton as favourites to sign Benteke – having previously closed the market on his next club, assuming the Palace move was a done deal.


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Carriers agree government action is in order
By Peter A. Buxbaum, AJOT
Shipper and rail industry representatives battled it out last month at a hearing before a Senate subcommittee considering issues of freight rail service and capacity. Shippers contended that industry consolidation has reduced competition and service and increased carrier profits. The industry defended itself by saying that its fattened earnings are needed to finance capacity increases.
In the background, although not being directly considered by the subcommittee, is the pending passage of the Railroad Competition Act of 2005, which some see as partially undoing the deregulation effected by the Staggers Act of 1980. Some shippers supported the provisions of the proposed legislation while carriers vehemently opposed it. The rail industry agreed, however, that government action could help with industry capacity problems.
Appearing before the Subcommittee on Surface Transportation and Merchant Marine of the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee on behalf of the American Chemistry Council, John L. McIntosh, President of Olin Corporation, a chemicals shipper, lashed out at rail carriers and the Surface Transportation Board, the agency that oversees the rail industry.
'Railroad reliability and service are critical to our economic success,' McIntosh proclaimed. 'However, that is not what the nation's railroads are providing.'
McIntosh contended that the Staggers Act has not achieved its desired results. 'Competition has largely fizzled out,' he said, noting that the number of Class I railroads serving North America has dropped from 63 to seven since 1977. 'Railroad mergers reduce shipper options. Bottlenecks are extended when lines serving captive shippers are acquired by connecting carriers. Efficient service from independent bridge carriers disappears. Competition for service to new industrial sites is reduced or eliminated.'
He added that the government agencies charged to address competition issues, the Interstate Commerce Commission and its successor, the Surface Transportation Board, have 'not done the job.'
McIntosh singled out rail fuel surcharge practices for particular criticism. 'The manner in which fuel surcharges have been calculated and applied by the railroads has resulted in an over recovery in the range of $1 billion for 2005,' he contended.
John Ficker, president of the National Industrial Transportation League, who testified at the same hearing, agreed that 'many of the carriers' fuel surcharge programs have significantly over-recovered the increased cost of fuel as applied to individual movements.' NIT League initiatives 'to discuss areas where individual carriers might consider improving their fuel surcharge programs,' received positive responses from BNSF, the Canadian National, and the Canadian Pacific, but not from other carriers.
Ficker also criticized the government's regulatory structure. 'The current rate relief process is expensive, time-consuming, complex, and largely inaccessible to most shippers,' he said. 'The League has presented to the STB numerous suggestions for improving the agency's small shipment rate complaint process. To date, however, the STB has not acted on these suggestions.'
Shippers mainly complain, not surprisingly, about higher rail rates, a situation brought about, according to Ficker, by capacity constraints. 'Since 1980, demand for rail transportation has steadily increased while rail capacity has declined,' despite healthy recent carrier earnings, he said. 'Many shippers are facing double digit rate increases along with reduced or deteriorating service. Rate negotiations have become a take-it-or-leave-it proposition for many shippers.'
Higher rail earnings
Edward Hamberger, CEO of the Association of American Railroads, threw a different light on the same facts. 'Rail earnings over the past year have been significantly higher than their historical norm,' he acknowledged, but they are 'still below average withi


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Weather eye: the royal wedding
Although conditions on April 29 in past years have often been good, it is still far too early to make a reliable forecast
Of all the preparations for the royal wedding, the one big uncertainty on April 29 is the weather. Met Office statistics for this date in the past 20 years reveal an average high temperature of 16.6C (61.9F) in Central London. Weather conditions ranged from hot and sunny to chilly, dull and very wet, with temperatures varying from 23.5C (74.3F) in 1994 to only 9.7C (49.5F) in 2004. There is a reasonable chance of dry weather, because rain was recorded only six times in that period, although 32mm (1.2in) fell in 1991.
Tempting as it may be, predicting the conditions for a specific date this year using past weather records is rather difficult. Despite some wild speculation, it is still far too early to make a…


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(NECN: Josh Brogadir, North Attleboro, Mass.) - It's quiet in at Aaron Hernandez's home in North Attleboro, Mass. on Friday night after a flurry of activity these past two weeks, and doesn't appear anyone is in his house anymore, but it's been a busy 24-hour timeline with the investigation.
The end of the second week of the investigation into the murder of Odin Lloyd, now three men are identified by authorities as having a role in the 27 year old Dorchester man's final hours.
First, a silver Chrysler 300 with RI plates wanted by police was found in a Bristol, Conn. apartment complex.
"I went last night and looked and matched the plates with the ones the Attleboro police had released," a woman who did not want to be identified told us.
Through the night in North Attleboro, Boston detectives scoured Aaron Hernandez's home.
Early in the morning, they left before Carlos Ortiz was waiving extradition to go from Connecticut to Massachusetts.
People in Bristol defended him.
"He's just humble. An ordinary person, that's it," said one person.
"Carlos is a dad. All he does is talk about his kids," said another.
Soon after, a third man from Bristol, Conn., Ernest Wallace, was wanted as an accessory to Lloyd's murder after the fact, and arrived at the Miramar, Fla. police dept near Miami.
"1:20 p.m., he walked in, turned himself in, told an officer he was Ernest Wallace and he had seen news reports and wanted to turn himself in," said Tania Rues, of the Miramar Police Department.
Not long after, back in Massachusetts, Ortiz arrived at Attleboro District Court, pleaded not guilty to one count of carrying a weapon without a license on June 17 at Hernandez's home.
His bail hearing was set for July 9. He was then taken to the Norfolk County House of Correction.
"He struck me as being a gentle person who is confused as to how he's in this situation," said Ortiz's court appointed lawyer John Connors.
And then, late afternoon, Ernest Wallace was brought inside the Broward County Jail in Florida.
After a long day and an even longer two weeks, Bristol County investigators say these are three critical pieces to solving this case.
"We now have in custody three individuals who are in the silver Nissan Altima at the time that Odin Lloyd got into the car at approximately 2:30, the morning of Monday, June 17," said Bristol County, MA District Attorney Sam Sutter.
And another potentially explosive piece, that July 2012 double murder in Boston, sources saying Hernandez might be connected.
The same Boston police detective who was on Shawmut Avenue that night was at Hernandez's home Friday morning.


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Guest Archive
These were the guests at FanCon 2016 !
JASON AARON is the writer for current high-profile Marvel titles, Star Wars, Mighty Thor, and Doctor Strange, as well as the creator owned series for Image, Southern Bastards and The Goddamned. Jason Aaron's career began in 2001 when he won a Marvel talent contest for an eight page Wolverine story. He rose to prominence with the Eisner award-winning Vietnam war story, The Other Side, and the critically acclaimed series Scalped, both for DC Vertigo. He went on to write a huge body of work for Marvel, including lengthy runs on Wolverine, Wolverine Weapon X, Wolverine and the X-Men, Amazing X-Men, Ghost Rider, Incredible Hulk, Thor God of Thunder, plus shorter runs on Black Panther and Punisher Max, the limited series Ultimate Captain America and Thanos Rising, and also contributed towards Avengers vs X-Men. Aaron also played a major role in the big Marvel events, Schism and Original Sin, and created the current female version of Thor for the title's relaunch. Undoubtedly, his most prominent work to date is the series writer for Marvel's 2015 relaunch of the flagship Star Wars title, the first issue of which sold over one million copies and which continues to be one of the top selling titles to date. While he was under exclusive contract with Marvel in 2008, and has subsequently renewed his contract with Marvel in 2015, this has not prevented him from working on Southern Bastards and The Goddamned, his creator owned series at Image Comics. Scalped has just recently been picked up by WGN America for a pilot TV series. Scalped and Southern Bastards has been nominated for multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards in 2015, and Southern Bastards was the recipient of the 2015 Harvey Award for Best New Series. Jason Aaron lives in Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
JAMIE MCKELVIE is a British comic book artist and illustrator who works for Marvel and Image Comics. He is an award-winning artist, whose current prominent work is the popular and critically acclaimed Image series, Wicked + Divine. The latter series has been optioned by Universal to be adapted as a TV series. He has worked with frequent writing partner, Kieron Gillen, on various comic series, including a celebrated run on Young Avengers for Marvel, as well as Wicked + Divine and Phonogram for Image Comics. Earlier work includes a short run on Defenders with Matt Fraction, and artist on the original Marvel graphic novel, X-Men Season One. In 2012 he redesigned the costume of long-time character Carol Danvers for a relaunch of the Captain Marvel series. McKelvie also worked on the creator owned series for Image, Suburban Glamour. He has also produced artwork for bands such as CHVRCHES and TEGAN & SARA. Jamie McKelvie lives in London, UK.
IAN CHURCHILL has worked professionally in the comic book industry for over 20 years. Since 1994 he has worked for various publishers, including DC, Marvel, Image, and Awesome Comics. Churchill rose to prominence with a lengthy run on Cable with writer Jeph Loeb, and went on to illustrate Deadpool, Avengers, Red Hulk, and Uncanny X-Men. Work for DC Comics include Superman, Teen Titans, The Ravagers for DC's New 52 initiative, and an extensive run on Supergirl for the relaunched 2005 series. He again teamed up with writer Jeph Loeb for The Coven and Lionheart for Awesome Comics. In 2010 he launched his creator-owned series for Image Comics, Marineman, to critical acclaim, which received an Eisner Award nomination for Best New Series 2010. Interestingly, Marineman is partly set in South Africa. He also worked with Richard Starkings' Elephantmen for Image, and his most recent work for the publisher, The Revenge limited series in 2015, further established him as an independent creator. Churchill is currently working on Marineman volume 2 as well as working for DC Comics, and also has more creator owned projects in development. He has worked mainly with traditional pencils and inks during his career and has recently started to work digitally. His original artwork is available to purchase at ianchurchillart.com. Ian Churchill lives in London, UK.
LAUREN BEUKES is an award-winning, internationally bestselling novelist who also writes comics, screenplays, TV shows and journalism. Her books have been translated into 26 languages and have been optioned for film and TV. Beukes made her comics debut with a short story in the DC Vertigo one-shot, Strange Adventures. She then contributed short stories to various Vertigo anthologies, including The Witching Hour and most recently, Strange Sports Stories. Her first big break came when she wrote the Hidden Kingdom story arc for the acclaimed Vertigo Fables spin-off series, Fairest. She also wrote a Wonder Woman short story for Sensation Comics, giving the character her own spin with a setting in Soweto. She currently co-writes, along with Dale Halvorsen, the DC Vertigo limited series, Survivors Club. An eighties throwback horror tale, Survivors Club has as one of its central characters a South African girl named Chenzira, whose South African background often informs the story. Lauren Beukes lives in Cape Town, SA
DALE HALVORSEN, along with his alter-ego name, JOEY HI-FI, is an award-winning designer and illustrator and works on a variety of projects from book covers to editorial illustrations, comics and t-shirts. His distinctive artwork is clearly influenced by comics, especially the black and white art of the British 2000AD comics he grew up on. A frequent collaborator of novelist and comics writer Lauren Beukes, his art and design graces the covers of all of her award-winning books. The duo made their debut as a writing team on a short story "Chum" for the DC Vertigo anthology comic, Strange Sports Stories. He currently co-writes with Beukes the Vertigo limited series, Survivors Club, for DC Comics. Dale Halvorsen lives in Cape Town, SA.
SEAN IZAAKSE has been working as a freelance illustrator and comic artist for the last 6 years. He has worked on the various Pathfinder series of comics for Dynamite Comics and contributed artwork to various RPG's like Mutants & Masterminds by Green Ronin Publishing. He has contributed creator-owned work to local publications, Insurrection Studio's Clockworx comic and was featured in the Comic Brew Outline comic, as well as work for companies doing corporate comics. Izaakse is the artist and co-creator, along with writer Vito Delsante, of the creator-owned series Stray. The 4 issue limited series received massive support on Kickstarter and was picked up by independent US comics publisher, Action Lab Entertainment, in 2015. Izaakse is currently working on the Actionverse series for Action Lab and continues to work on new creator-owned projects.
In his free time he roleplays with his friends and shows off his roleplaying skills, or lack thereof, on a youtube channel called Bacon Battalion RPG. He lives in Johannesburg, SA with his dog.
ANTON KANNEMEYER is a comic artist and illustrator who is most renowned worldwide as the co-founder, along with Conrad Botes, of the Bitterkomix series of comics in South Africa. First published in 1992, with new issues released periodically, Bitterkomix has become both revered and controversial for its subversive stance and black humour, particularly in the way it depicted Afrikaner culture and racial politics through its trademark deceptively simple cartoon style artwork. Kannemeyer went on to become an arts lecturer at Stellenbosch University, which afforded him the opportunity to tutor and mentor aspiring local comic artists, many of whom contributed towards the Bitterkomix publications. The first 14 issues of Bitterkomix was independently published, with the later issues and compilation books picked up by local publishers. Kannemeyer has solo exhibitions in South Africa and New York, and has participated in group exhibitions in many museums all over the world. He also recently won the best international comic album prize at the Amadora BD Festival in Portugal. Besides the various Bitterkomix issues, compilation editions, eclectic one-shots, and retrospective handbooks, Kannemeyer also has three solo publications under his belt, Alphabet of Democracy, Pappa in Afrika, and its sequel, Pappa in Doubt. He is currently working on completing Bitterkomix volume 17. Anton Kannemeyer lives in Cape Town, SA.
WARREN LOUW is a freelance illustrator and character designer. He is one of the most celebrated artists from South Africa who is self taught and works primarily in digital media. His ability to create images with meticulous detail and imagination has brought his art to various mobile games, publications, advertisements and websites across the globe. Well recognised for his mastery of renditions of beautiful women and a perfectionist in his digital illustrations, his work has been featured in print publications such as ImagineFX Magazine, various UDON Entertainment Capcom tribute art books, Ballistic Publishing's Exotique, Photoshop Essentials, Masters of Anatomy, 21 Draw, as well as UDON's Darkstalkers graphic novel and DC Comics' Power Girl. He has also done conceptual work for Longship Armoury, Phoenix Age Gaming and Bandai Namco. Warren Louw lives in Johannesburg, SA.
JASON MASTERS began his career in commercial advertising and went on to work as a professional comic book artist for DC, Marvel, and Dynamite Comics. Masters got his big break in comics when he met Ethan van Sciver, a prominent artist for DC Comics, at a book signing in Johannesburg a few years ago. Van Sciver passed on his portfolio to his editor at DC, who a few months later, contacted him about working for DC Comics as an artist. Masters' early work includes Human Target and Red, a comic series penned by Warren Ellis, for Wildstorm Studios, an imprint of DC. He went on to work on various Batman titles, including Legends of the Dark Knight, Batman Incorporated, Batwoman, and Nightwing. For Marvel he worked on Guardians of the Galaxy, Wolverine, and X-Men. His biggest gig arrived in 2015, when he was handpicked by comics legend, Warrren Ellis, to handle the artwork as ongoing series artist on Dynamite's high-profile relaunch of the James Bond comic book, the first all new 007 comic series in over 20 years. The series, under the helm of Ellis and Masters, has received popular and critical acclaim and is currently one of Dynamite Comics bestselling new series. Jason Masters lives in Johannesburg, SA.
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Sat 29th Dec at 8:00pm
Monkey Business Comedy Club Christmas Show
@ Sir Richard Steele, London
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Simon is a British Comedy Award nominee, Chortle Award winner, Perrier Award nominee, and Sony Radio Award winner. He's had his own Radio 1 series and several Radio 4 series, along with several cult television series including BBC2's Attention Scum. His most recent television appearances include The Alternative Comedy Experience (Comedy Central), It's Kevin and Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle (BBC2).
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After 25 years of semi retirements, playing nursing homes, Sol Bernstein is back where he belongs: in smoky nightclubs performing to drunks. The foul mouthed Jewish pensioner is at the top of his game!
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I'm A Celebrity...2016 runner-up, international globetrotter, English Comedian of the Year finalist, SKINS contributor and general heart throb, Joel Dommett is known for reducing sell out audiences into bouts of uncontrollable laughter. This five time winner of the Comedy Café competition is not to be missed. He has also appeared on BBC Three's Impractical Jokers, ITV2's Reality Bites, BBC's Russell Howard's Good News and Sky1's Bring The Noise.
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Stand up comedian and regular compere at Monkey Business Comedy Club in Camden.
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Some memories don't die.
For some Edmonton Oilers, the sight of Mike Bishai fighting from inside the Atlanta Thrashers' bench is still vividly clear nearly 190 games later.
In eerie fashion, the Thrashers return to Rexall Place tonight for the first time since that infamous line brawl three years ago today.
"Bishai jumping in the bench and going at it right in their bench, that was the highlight of his NHL stint," cracked Edmonton Oilers head coach Craig MacTavish after yesterday's practice at Millenium Place in Sherwood Park.
"I guess it was another critical time for the Oilers."
That game easily ranks as one of the most memorable regular-season tilts in Rexall Place history.
With just 1:49 left in the third period, bedlam erupted. Five fights broke out on the ice, including the goalies - Ty Conklin and Pasi Nurminen - trading blows.
But the highlight was clearly Bishai - a raw Oilers rookie - stumbling into the Atlanta box before standing up and beating up Serge Aubin, who was standing on the ice.
"I think the fight going on in the bench was something I hadn't seen and probably will never see again," said Oilers captain Jason Smith.
"It was something you used to see a lot in the early '80s, old-fashioned action."
The brawl resulted in 12 fighting majors, 10 game misconducts and 164 minutes in penalties.
It also meant Atlanta had to play the final 1:49 of the game without a goalie because starter Byron Dafoe left the game after the first period with a groin injury.
In total, there were seven fights in the game. Neither Edmonton nor Atlanta has been involved in games featuring seven fights since.
But don't expect to see anything resembling those fireworks when the two teams meet again tonight.
"It is a different era, the way the rules are in the league with instigators and second fights," continued Smith.
"It is more exciting to score goals and rip up and down the rink."
There's also the obvious matter of the rosters being rather different today.
Of the 12 players who fought, Smith is the only Oiler remaining.
Georges Laraque is in Phoenix. Ty Conklin and Jason Chimera are with the Columbus Blue Jackets organization.
Eric Brewer has moved on and plays with St. Louis.
And Bishai is playing senior hockey in British Columbia after leaving Russia.
Andy Sutton is the only fighter left on Atlanta's roster.
"I don't think it will be an issue at all (tonight)," concluded Smith.