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Michaela honeymoon murder trial told of woman's shouts of pain
A witness revealed that he heard the voice of a woman "shouting in pain" from the hotel room where Michaela McAreavey was found murdered.
Star witness Raj Theekoy told district magistrate Sheila Bonomally that he heard the victim shouting on three distinct occasions during the brief spell he was around room 1025 at Legends Hotel on the holiday island of Mauritius.
He also admitted that he saw both|murder co-accused, Sandip Mooneea|and Avinash Treebhoowon, near room 1025 minutes after he heard shouting.
Prosecuting counsel Mehdi Choony told the court that the witness had been granted total immunity from the prosecution by the director of public prosecution.
At first Theekoy thought that a couple were "fighting" in hotel room 1025, he told the hearing. Treebhoowon was |assigned the same block of rooms together with Theekoy and he later met Moonea who seemed "stressed".
Theekoy described the moment he saw hotel director Brice Lunot running towards room 1025.
Theekoy told the court: "At |that moment Mooneea said, 'I think there is a problem, let's go there'."
Theekoy, Mooneea and Treebhoowon went towards room 1025 but they stayed outside the room.
He added: "The door was opened. We stayed outside.
"I saw a body there. Mr Brice was administering cardiac massage to the woman.
"Her husband was crying."
The hearing will continue on Friday when the chief police |medical officer, Dr Sudesh Kumar Gungadin, will give evidence.
It was Dr Kumar who conducted the autopsy on Ms McAreavey.
Michaela McAreavey was found strangled in the bathroom of her hotel room in Mauritius in January.
She was on honeymoon with her new husband, Down GAA player, John.
The young teacher was the daughter of Tyrone Gaelic football manager Mickey Harte, and thousands attended her funeral.
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Reiser Guilty of First Degree Murder
Hans Reiser was found guilty today of first-degree murder. Reiser appeared shocked as the verdict was read, he looked at the crowd and then mumbled to the bailiffs as he was led out of the courtroom.
A moment of suspense filled the courtroom as each juror was shown the verdict form and asked if it represented their ruling. It wasn't until after all 12 jurors saw the paper did the judge declare the verdict out loud.
Reiser was wearing a blue suit jacket and white button-down shirt. Before the verdict, he chatted with his attorney William DuBois before the jury arrived in the courtroom. While Reiser appeared nervous, the jury appeared cheerful as they could be heard laughing before entering the courtroom and some had smiles on their face as they sat in the jury box.
Meanwhile, the gallery was filled with reporters and members of the Alameda County District Attorney's office, including District Attorney Tom Orloff.
The verdict will ends a trial that lasted more than six months, in which the prosectution presented a mountain of circumstantial evidence against the 44-year-old computer engineer while the defense pointed to a lack of direct evidence that linked their client with a murder that has never produced a body. The story of Hans and Nina Reiser began in 1998 when Reiser was visiting Russia to hire computer engineers for his burgeoning file system software company. Reiser took to going to marriage agencies, trying to find Russian women looking for American men.
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Jon 'Bones' Jones Pleads Guilty to DUI; UFC President Comments on Arrest
Jon "Bones" Jones, the 24-year-old Christian UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, recently pleaded guilty to a DUI charge while acknowledging that he made a poor decision.
Jones was arrested earlier this month after hitting a telephone pole with his 2012 Bentley. On Monday, he entered a guilty plea in a Binghamton, N.Y., courtroom which may result in a fine and completion of an alcohol abuse and dependency assessment before his sentencing takes place, according to Sports World Report.
Although the fighter took to his Facebook page to apologize and vent about the situation, his message to fans, supporters and critics was later deleted.
"Man I haven't added anyone new to my Facebook page in like three years and right now I'm so glad that I haven't. It has literally been sickening to have so many people try to kick me while I'm down," Jones said. "At the same time, I totally understand, I gave them the leeway to. I screwed up, big time."
Despite the criticism he received as a Christian athlete who was caught driving under the influence of alcohol, Jones thanked his supporters.
"Always having to deal with so many critics, haters and fickle mma fans, I almost forgot how strong of a home base I had (607 and people that knew me before I was a champion fighter)," Jones wrote on Facebook. "Although the hell that will come with this hasn't even started yet, I want you guys to know how much better you've all made me feel, not only about this situation but about life, everything."
Some people took to Twitter to express their disappointment in Jones' choice to drive while intoxicated.
"Bones Jones first statements about his DUI crash has pretty much lost the points he's earned from me," one fan tweeted. "Right Jon, how DARE they hate on you."
Another person said they lost respect for the fighter.
"Jon Bones Jones arrested with DWI," another person tweeted. "Lost all respect."
Although Jones admitted to being frustrated with the situation, he apologized to fans for his behavior.
"I'm truly sorry to those of you that I may have embarrassed in any way, to those of you with kids that I may have let down. I will prove to them as well as to myself, that no matter what is happening in life, we can always work our way back and make things even better than before," Jones wrote. "Reading you guys' uplifting comments was a great reminder for me to not give up on who I am or all the hateful people. I'm not gonna allow this situation to outweigh the positive."
Still, Dana White, president of the UFC, seems to have forgiven Jones mistakes.
"He's a good kid. He made a stupid mistake," White told Inside MMA. "Everybody was at that age where they jumped in the car, drove home and the next day they said I can't believe that I drove home last night. I know for a fact Jon has learned from this and hopefully he can educate other people."


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PLEASANTON — The library is inviting the public to a fundraising gala next month to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
The evening is scheduled from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 15.
The gala will include dinner, dessert, drinks, prizes, a silent auction, a wine raffle and entertainment provided by a swing band. It will be held at the Pleasanton Library, at 400 Old Bernal Avenue, between Main and Augustine streets.
All proceeds will benefit the library and will go toward the purchases of books in the children's section.
Tickets cost $65 each, and may be purchased at the library or at Towne Center Books, at 555 Main St. in downtown Pleasanton.
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Human embryonic stem cells, now obtained from embryos, soon may be routinely produced from a much less controversial source: Skin cells. Certain chemicals and genes added to the adult human cells reprogram them to an embryonic-like state.
The reprogramming breakthrough, announced last November, has since been confirmed by scientists around the world. Top researchers, including those in San Diego County's large community of stem cell scientists, say they're increasingly confident that use of these reprogrammed, or "induced pluripotent cells", will replace stem cells derived from embryos.
And perhaps most significantly, this advance removes the biggest ethical objections to stem cell technology: the use of embryos, which many consider to be human life. The new technology doesn't use embryos.
"My personal feeling, and the scientific evidence so far, is that making human stem cells will in fact take over the embryonic stem cells space," said Jeanne Loring, a noted stem cell researcher at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla. The cells are of interest for their potential in treating now incurable diseases and injuries.
Use of reprogrammed cells has already been accepted by the Roman Catholic Church, a leading opponent of using human embryos for research. And because skin cells are far easier to get than embryos, scientists say a major research bottleneck will be removed.
Stem cell scientists will be busier than ever exploring the new possibilities, said Evan Snyder, a prominent stem cell researcher at the Burnham Institute, also in La Jolla.
"Right now, I would say nothing is off the table," said Snyder.
Snyder said he was skeptical of the technology, and still has residual doubts. He urged researchers to go back and re-examine earlier studies that ruled out adult cell reprogramming.
"These guys were not stupid and they're not lying," Snyder said of those performing the earlier studies. However, perhaps some errors or faulty assumptions crept in.
That expanded research agenda implies a lot of money will be needed, and California's $3 billion stem cell program is preparing for the challenge. It has already asked for researchers to submit funding proposals to explore the new technology.
Many scientists think embryonic stem cells, the "ancestral" cells that turn into the specialized cells of the body, could be used to make replacement tissue, such as insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, or nerve cells to heal a damaged spinal cord. They could also be used as "screens" to test the effect of experimental drugs on human cells before they are tested in human patients.
Until the skin-cell breakthrough, these cells only were obtainable from embryos.
Removing a bottleneck
But limited availability of embryonic stem cells and funding restrictions have hobbled research. Available embryos are hard to come by, for one thing, and the consent of the parents generally must be obtained. Most embryos used are leftovers from in vitro fertilization.
Citing ethical concerns because human embryos are killed to get the cells, President Bush has allowed only very limited federal funding of this research. That prompted voters to approve California's $3 billion stem cell research program, which until last year was itself hobbled by court battles over its legality.
With the program's legality established, and an infinite new source of embryonic stem cells likely, those concerns are fast being resolved. It is morally permissible to use the reprogrammed cells, said Stephen Napier, a staff ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center, which reflects official Catholic teaching.
"In the case of embryonic stem cells, a human embryo is destroyed to derive the stem cell lines, whereas in induced pluripotent stem cells, never at any point do you have a human being," Napier said.
However, researchers Snyder and Loring said that while the artificial embryonic stem cells appear to act like the natural kind, this has to be further confirmed before they can be ethically used in people. That means natural embryonic stem cells must be tested against the artificial kind until all doubts have been resolved.
Moreover, other ethical questions about embryonic stem cell therapy will arise as research gets closer to human treatments, said Arthur Caplan and Michael Kalichman, two experts on bioethics.
One is ensuring that the poor have access to the treatments,especially in California, which is spending public funds on theresearch, said Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at theUniversity of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
A second concern is balancing the concerns of medical science with the desire of desperately ill patients to get these treatments as soon as possible.
"People are going to say, 'I don't need to go through all those animal studies. I'm dying. Let's go,' " Caplan said. It's important to continue studying these treatments in a "controlled" fashion so doctors learn about any potential negative effects, he said.
"Even if you're dying, you can die faster," Caplan said. "Even if you're dying, you can die more miserably. We need to know that."
Like Snyder and Loring, Kalichman said research with natural human embryonic stem cells will be needed for some time to validate the artificial stem cells, and that means the ethical concerns over using human embryos will be around for that duration.
"Scientifically, we don't yet have an end run," Kalichman said. "The only way you can develop any reasonable confidence about what you have will be to compare … We're not done yet."
Other ethical questions arise when human stem cells are implanted in animals, a necessary part of research to determine how these cells work in a living creature, Kalichman said.
"If I really want to know if my pluripotent stem cell really can become a liver cell, or a kidney cell or a brain cell; it's going to be very hard to put that into a human as your first experiment," Kalichman said.
However, creating such a mixed-cell animal, or "chimera," has caused ethical objections in some quarters. In his 2006 State of the Union address, President Bush asked Congress to ban human-animal hybrids.
Business competition
Despite the numerous ethical issues, a growing number of biotechnology companies have formed around stem cell therapy.
Many are developing alternatives to using natural embryonic stem cells. These include Oceanside's International Stem Cell Corp., which has produced act-alike embryonic stem cells from parthenogenetic, or unfertilized, human egg cells.
Other companies are avoiding embryonic stem cells entirely, by working with stem cells found in adults. These include Cytori, a San Diego-based company that harvests stem cell from fat cells.
A new company working on induced pluripotent stem cells, iZumi Bio Inc., announced a research agreement with the San Francisco-based J. David Gladstone Institutes last month. The company is funded by the renowned venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Kleiner Perkins has been involved in biotechnology for decades. Three decades ago, it funded a biotech startup called Hybritech, San Diego's first biotech company.
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- 3/4c dried strawberries, chopped
- Line 9x9 pan with wax paper.
- Melt chocolate chips in microwave.
- Mix and heat up frosting in microwave for 30 seconds.
- Combine chocolate and frosting.
- Stir in cookies and strawberries.
- Spread into wax paper-lined pan and chill in fridge.
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Like I said: a wonderfully sweet and crunchy bite of summer in the midst of the cold of winter. If you need a treat to brighten your surroundings, this is the one to make.


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Cedric Everson was a promising University of Iowa defensive back headed toward a possible pro-football career before being accused of sexually assaulting a female student-athlete after she passed out in a dorm room.
Now the 21-year-old Everson finds himself in a Johnson County courtroom while a jury deliberates whether he is guilty of sexual abuse for the 2007 encounter.
Jurors are expected to start a third day of deliberations Thursday morning. His attorney, Leon Spies, said his client made bad choices that he'll have to live with the rest of his life, but insisted he did not commit a crime.
Prosecutors, however, contend he and teammate Abe Satterfield took turns assaulting a woman who says she woke up bloody and naked after a night of drinking.
Everson is charged with third-degree sexual abuse. If jurors find him innocent on that charge, they could convict him on one of two lesser included offenses - assault with intent to commit sexual abuse and assault - or acquit him altogether. If convicted of third-degree sexual abuse, he could be imprisoned for up to 10 years.
Miller on Tuesday threw out the most serious charge against Everson, second-degree sexual abuse, which carried a maximum penalty of up to 25 years in prison. He said he found "insufficient evidence" that Everson was aided and abetted by Satterfield, an element essential to justify the charge.
Everson was a highly recruited defensive back who went to high school in Michigan. Iowa coach Kirk Ferentz testified he visited Everson at his home as part of the recruitment process and saw him as a promising prospect, both athletically and academically. Everson at one point committed to Michigan State before deciding on Iowa.
Spies repeatedly pointed out to jurors that Everson was one of the few freshmen on the team who saw playing time. That ended when Ferentz suspended Everson and Satterfield in October 2007 after the woman reported she was assaulted to the athletics department. They both later transferred schools.
Both sides agree that the woman had been drinking before she ended up in an empty dorm room with Satterfield. The woman, who was also a scholarship athlete, testified that Satterfield forced her to have intercourse. Satterfield, who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault, testified it was consensual. The woman said she didn't learn for weeks that Everson had also had sex with her.
Prosecutor Anne Lahey told jurors Satterfield and Everson "traded places" while the woman was passed out. Everson entered the room, told Satterfield to get out of bed, and had intercourse with her before leaving and telling Satterfield to get back in bed to cover up his actions, she said. She said Everson bragged the next day to teammates that he and Satterfield had "trained" a woman.
Everson's defense attorney, Leon Spies, told jurors the woman consented to have sex with Everson and doesn't remember because she had been drinking heavily earlier that night.
District Judge Paul Miller, who is presiding over the trial, rejected a request from the jury on Wednesday to review the video testimony of Christine Kuczek, a former Iowa swimmer and friend of the alleged victim. Miller told jurors they would have to rely on their memories of the testimony.
Kuczek testified that she was drinking with her friend hours before the alleged assault and that her friend told her the next morning she had been raped. Kuczek drove her friend to the hospital.


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CIMdata, Inc., the leading global Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) management consulting and research firm announces that the first CIMdata PLM Certificate Program for 2012 is to be held in Atlanta, Georgia. The program will take place from February 6-10, 2012. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is the flagship offering of CIMdata PLM Leadership — the PLM industry's most comprehensive non-biased education and training offering available for today's PLM professionals.
The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program prepares PLM professionals at several levels to successfully address the challenges inherent in PLM implementations. This assessment-based certificate program includes an intimate classroom experience, individual and team-based exercises, and individual evaluations of achievement. Additionally, the program provides participants with intensive and extensive exposure to a team of CIMdata experts. Upon successful completion of the program, each participant receives a CIMdata PLM Certificate and becomes a member of CIMdata's global PLM Leadership community.
According to James McKinney, CIMdata's PLM Leadership Practice Manager, "We have designed our 2012 schedule to address the needs of PLM professionals throughout Europe and North America and are excited to bring the first program of 2012 to Atlanta."
PLM Certificate Program participants can register online for either the 3-day or 5-day program. This certificate program is available to industrial companies who are considering or implementing PLM, and to PLM technology and service suppliers. The CIMdata PLM Certificate Program is built on CIMdata's more than 28 years of extensive worldwide experience guiding industrial companies in successfully defining and implementing best-in-class PLM strategies and tactics. Please refer to CIMdata's website at http://www.cimdata.com/services/education/plm_certificate.html for detailed information about the CIMdata PLM Certificate Program, and how to register to attend.
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The US technology firm sold 14.6 million iPads during the quarter, compared with 17 million in the same period last year.
It sold 3.8 million Macs, down from four million between April and June last year.
However it sold 31.2 million iPhones in the last financial quarter, up 20% and a record for the three-month period to June.
That figure beats the 26 million handsets sold in the same period last year but is down on the 37.4 million devices sold between January and March this year.
The third quarter results beat analysts' expectations and shares surged in after-market trading.
Overall, the company's quarterly sales totalled $35.3bn (£23bn). The figure was $300m (£195m) up on the same period last year and $200m (£130m) above analysts' expectations.
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The California-based company faces strong competition from Samsung, which is growing on the back of the popularity of its Galaxy S4 handset.
Samsung also makes many of its own components.
In April the South Korean manufacturer posted a 41% leap in earnings in the first quarter of this year - in the same week Apple reported its first annual slide in a decade.
Samsung made a net profit of 7.15tn Korean won (£4.2bn) for the period, up from 5.05tn won (£2.9bn) a year ago, attributed largely to a surge in sales of smartphones.


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I do like the Tombo mono multi glue though. That stuff works very well. I use the tip side and just a little will hold my card or pages, even embelishments. One little container lasts me a long time. I buy it in bulk and it comes out to be about $2 a bottle.
I also use the scor tape and really like that stuff too. But I don't use it on my cards, unless its got a lot of embossed layers, cause it holds those types of things very well. And I like the scor tape better than the red line because I can tear it, don't have to cut it. I find it on blogs for sale (bulk buys) and its really a good deal.
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I still have the tombo snail though, but I only use that for little things. Its not my go to glue any longer. And when I do use it, I run the snail very slowly because it goes on better and then rub rub rub on the item to make sure it secures it.
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Some diseases can be spread through contaminated water. These include dysentery and cholera. Carbon absorbs impurities present in water making it much safer to drink. The carbon filter is inside the earthenware container and filtered water is poured out of the tap at the bottom. This large filter measures 425 mm high and was probably used in the home or in the workplace to provide fresh water.
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A dead dolphin washed up on shore Monday morning in North Myrtle Beach.
The juvenile dolphin was discovered around 8 a.m. in the area of North Ocean Boulevard and 1st Avenue North near the Ashworth condominium complex.
Animal Control officers responded.
Pat Dowling, Public Information Officer for North Myrtle Beach, said officials believe the dolphin might have been dead for three weeks when it washed up on shore. It is five feet long.
As of December 10, 48 dolphins have washed up along the South Carolina coast, according to Wayne McFee with the National Oceanic and Atomospheric Administration. Read more here.


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Week 3 is over and everything is on fire. What was a disgusting but potentially survivable ordeal on Sunday night instantly became the nightmare scenario and ultimate comeuppance for Roger Goodell on Monday night. The man got owned by the Lingerie Football League. People all calling for the league office to mandate a reversal of the result. People are calling for The Rog's head, more so than usual, only more pitched and with pointy objects.
Some folks undoubtedly clocked out before the madness ensued at the very end. Can't entirely blame them. Though it was a close contest throughout by virtue of sound defense and sputtering offense, it was an extremely sloppy affair. There were a ton of penalties, half of which seems to be incorrect calls. Even without the catastrophic ending, there would have been plenty to rant about in regards to the scab ref performance.
The best moments are a mixed bag of reactions to the screw job itself, as well as some lighter fare from the game. You remember the rest of the game, right? Y'know, the stuff that happened before "the shield" by got a scabkkake facial. Let's get to 'em.
Via Awful Announcing, here is the Packers radio call of the final play. It's a nice slow boil from confusion to outright frothing rage.
To think, without the ending, the instance where the scab ref called a personal foul on the wrong team and the actual offending player had to come over to correct him would have been the biggest scab derp of the night. That's not sufficiently depressing. If not this, it could have also been the ridiculous pass interference call on Sam Shields or the ergregious uncalled hold on Bruce Irvin. It's beside the point now to quibble with any individual bad calls from the first 59:54 of that game, not only because there were so many of them , but because it's like going over your footwork in a knife fight after getting stabbed.
I railed against Mike Tirico for apologizing for the scab refs during the Broncos-Falcons Monday night game, but he redeemed himself after the disaster last night, when the Packers were forced back out on the field for a pro forma extra point attempt. Tirico hailed their classy behavior in the face of being indefensibly jobbed. Sure, it would be difficult to not come to that conclusion at that point, but we can think of more than a few media whores who might try.
Golden Tate straight up has a Ray Lewis "oh dip, I didn't see nothing" moment when asked by a reporter if he committed offensive pass interference on the final play, which he clearly did. But damage control is underway, both from the league and the winning team. As they say, deny deny deny.
Oooh, the searing contempt of Mike McCarthy after that game. Richer and thicker than the middle of one of his signature butter sandwiches. Presuming that is ESPNWisconsin beat writer Jason Wilde he's lashing out at.
The ending obscures what was either a breakout night for Seattle's defense or another great depantsing of the Packers offensive line. Either way, Aaron Rodgers was sacked eight times in the first half. He was able to stay upright a little more in the final 30 minutes. The Brandon Mebane dance you see followed a sack that was negated by his own facemask penalty against Rodgers, which is a shame because it was my favorite dance of the night.
In things not related to Scabocalpyse, Gruden was eating Skittles in the booth. Or his usual cocktail of uppers disguised as candy. Either way, nice catty comment by Tirico.
At first, I thought this was another horrible Gruden creation, but apparently the Seahawks secondary willingly applies to "Legion of Boom" nickname to themselves. That's not quite the worst on a night like this, but consider yourself getting off easy. I did enjoy Gruden called Earl Thomas the "Road Runner" because Gruden once approached him in a furry coyote suit and he ran off.
As an obnoxious Steelers fanboy, I have a undeniable fondness for the long-tressed mid-'90s era Kevin Greene, who was an absolute monster of a pass rusher. I don't care that he won a Super Bowl as a coach with Green Bay against Pittsburgh. There's no not loving Kevin Greene, who should really be cutting '80s wrestling style video promos before each week's games.
Aaron Rodgers slipping on the turf and being angry. Football is dead but schadenfreude lives on!
Before the game, Cris Carter picked the "Seabags" to win. When the NFL has to rip itself apart and form a new league, I move for Seattle to be called the Seabags if they still can't be the Seattle Scampi.
Failing that, I'm just use the Seabags name for douchebag Seahawks fans. These guys are definitely Seabags.
Mike Tirico tried out an always appropriate duck analogy for offensive and defensive coaches. One of them is above water while the other is below. Also, if you shoot Mike McCarthy in Duck Hunt, don't expect that dog to try to hoist his massive corpse. That's not right.
Fans! Being happy! Enjoying the game they love! Not having qualms about whether they should continue to watch it until the scabs are gone! We were so innocent once.
Ed Hochuli is supersetting with glee
How can someone have "off the charts intangibles"? Aren't intangibles, by their very definition, non-quantifiable, making them un-chartable?
Punch Rockgroin
Tirico tired of the size thing.
Brings it up.
Mike McCarthyism
"Man he's got a quick trigger" the things you learn on the Gruden Bang Bus
Mike Martz Colors Dont Run
Can someone combine that slip gif with the derpthrow he made in game 2 against the bears so I can just fap to it all night long?
Hokie Wartooth
Geico commercial casting is amazing. That circus peanut's Eddie Money impression is spot-on.
I am gonna make action figures of Marshawn Lynch and Bruce Irvin and sell them on ebay and become a millionaire and buy season tickets to Seattle games and it will be SO MUCH FUN!
Depressed Dolfan
Dave Wannstedt would have an orgasm with all this punting
Randall "Brian Dennehy's dirty sheriff character in Silverado was also named" Cobb. Man, Boomer's getting esoteric
Bulaga wants to walk home
Marshawn Lynch will run the ball until the day the defense tears him in half. The buttom half will keep running and the top half will eat skittles
Holy shit. Can't wait to read "Flutie-like" arm in Monday's PKakke
Rodgers won't be coming back for this half. Irvin snuck into the Green Bay locker room in a Packer jersey and snapped his neck. Ray Lewis has taken this as a personal challenge
Depressed Dolfan
I want this game to go into OT. So We can all hear Russell gurantee a win.
DJ Dr Fluffers
This game would go a lot faster if the refs didnt have to discount double check every call they made
Why thank you Eddie Murray Sparkles
I feel an awful similar Aaron Rogers=Andy Roddick "lost my mojo" thing happening here.
If I were a coach, I'd just chuck it down the field on every play. What's the worst that could happen?
Depressed Dolfan
BREAKING NEWS: Golden Tate signed by Miami Dolphins to play DB.
Golden Tate realizes he's not playing volleyball, right?


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Thank you to the volunteers
8:30am Wednesday 1st January 2014
8:30am Wednesday 1st January 2014
AS we come to the end of 2013 I'd like to pay tribute to the many hundreds of volunteers who have shown remarkable dedication and commitment to helping thousands of youngsters enjoy the fun, challenge and adventure that comes with being part of Scouting.
Without our adult leaders and helpers, the exciting programme of activities that are run across the county just would not happen.
This year has seen Cheshire once again increase its membership figures with more than 11,000 people actively involved every week.
Many of those had a weekend to remember when Chief Scout Bear Grylls visited the county and stopped off at three locations to a rapturous welcome.
With more adult support we could reduce our waiting lists and enable even more young people to share in the experiences that our members currently enjoy.
If you would like to play a part in helping us grow even further in 2014, when the highlight of our year will be the Chamboree international camp in the summer, then we'd be delighted to welcome you on board.
Just go to cheshirescouts.org.uk to find all the information you need about volunteering with us.
Graham Phillips County Commissioner Cheshire Scouts
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By now everyone who reads this blog knows how much I miss Delhi winters and if u read my list of things that I miss Sarsoon ka saag and makki ki roti is out at the top somewhere. Every year in winters (I know there are no winters in Bangalore, I meant Dec-Jan ok) I try and recreate their magic at home.. Sometimes I get fresh sarsoon and I am in seventh heaven and sometimes I dont… this year was the one where I didn't. Anyone who can help me find fresh sarsoon in Bangalore will be treated with it cooked by me promise… Anyways even if I didn't get sarsoon I thought there is nothing that stops me from making makki di roti and than I got fresh organic and home ground makki ka atta from the farm of the friend where we did camping for new years eve.
- Mix all the ingredients together and add warm water little by little to make a soft dough, dont overknead the doguh if u do that the rotis will not be nice and soft (note this dough can't be kept after making, so make it just before u start making)
- Now the thing with makki ki roti is the difficulty to roll it, u can't easily roll it out so here is what I do
- Cut a zip pouch or any other polythene cover from all sides apart from one, place the dough ball in the middle and than roll it out. Don't roll it out very thin. Its slightly thicker than the normal chapathi
- Cook on a hot tava on both sides with 1tsp of oil
- Enjoy hot as we didnt get sarsoon we had it with the next best thing,dal makhani and aalo roast
And did u check out what my fellow foodie marathon buddies are upto? Priya Suresh,Jay, Valli, PJ, Priya Vaasu, Azeema, Reva,Ayeesha,VeenaSoumya.


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At the Library
Yes, we are waiting. Waiting on spring. Waiting for the grass and flowering trees! I can't wait much longer! I guess I could make use of the time by getting organized, cleaning a few drawers, closets, etc. I could read by a sunny window, or out of the wind outside. Speaking of outside, the library has books on hiking — the Kewash Trail is nice right now or the trail at Marr Park. We have books on kites — the wind is cooperating! We also have books on tree houses — it is easy to get up in there before the leaves bud out.
While you are outside, please walk up to the library and see what is happening!
The following new materials are available at the library
Adult Fiction
A Beauty So Rare by Tamera Alexander, Distortion by Terri Blackstock, Missing You by Harlan Coben, Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, Under the Wide and Starry Sky by Nancy Horan, An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin, The Woman Upstairs by Claire Messud, A Sensible Argument by Tracie Peterson, Raising Steam by Terry Pratchett, The Auschwitz Escape by Joel C. Rosenberg, Swamplandia! by Karen Russell, An Amish Garden by Beth Wiseman
Large Print Fiction
King's Mountain by Sharyn McCrumb, Power Play by Danielle Steel, Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe
Juvenile Fiction
August Acrobat by Ron Roy, July Jitters by Ron Roy, June Jame by Ron Roy, May Magic by Ron Roy, October Ogre by Ron Roy, September Sneakers by Ron Roy


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(Tune: "All the Way My Savior Leads Me")
Jesus Christ, my sovereign Savior,
Prophet, Priest, and King, Thou art;
Trusting only in Thy merits,
Thou Who rules within my heart.
Righteousness, and peace, and glory,
All these blessings full and free;
And I know by sovereign mercy
In His presence I will be.
Everlasting consolation,
Law and justice satisfied;
Righteousness has been established
By my Lord Who lived and died;
He is risen, let us glory
In His righteousness alone.
Saved and sure for heaven's glory
Based on what my Lord has done.
Today's Speaker: Brother Randy Wages will conduct the 11:00 am service today. Pray for him as he delivers God's word.
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Birthdays: Jane Margeson – June 8th * Kelsey Jones – June 10th
Smith Flynn – June 11th
What Kind of Love is This?
As mere mortals, we willingly engage all that we are, every attribute and faculty of our being to insure the well being of those we truly love. Consider for a moment a young mother and her toddler enjoying a sunny afternoon lounging around a swimming pool. Suddenly the toddler stumbles into the water and is on the verge of drowning. The mom, a former lifeguard, immediately makes a wise judgment to dive in and rescue the child she so dearly loves. Can you possibly imagine this young mother, wise and capable enough to save her child, opting not to do so? That's exactly what today's popular misconception of how God saves sinners implies about God. It says that He fails to save many of the objects of His love. This accuses God of one or more of the following:
1) He loves those that perish, but isn't wise enough to foresee the obstacles to their salvation
2) He loves those that perish, but isn't powerful enough to overcome the obstacles and difficulties in order to save them.
3) His love is certainly not infinite. Actually, it is worthless – for although He is infinitely wise and powerful, He opts not to intervene and engage Himself to insure the well being of the objects of His love, allowing many of them to perish. God forbid!
Excerpt taken from "To My Friends, Strait Talk About Eternity"
By Randy Wages
The Lost Sheep Restored
Our first view of this peculiar people shall be in the place where God finds them. "My people," He says, "have been lost sheep." They do not become sheep by being found, nor do they cease to be sheep by being lost. They were sheep eternally in the mind of God; and their becoming lost did not alter nor destroy their character of being sheep any more than the wandering of a sheep literally and naturally from the fold turns it into a goat. It may be lame, sick, or diseased; it may stray away miles from the fold; its fleece may be torn with briars or soiled with mud, and its whole appearance so altered that the shepherd can scarcely recognize it; but it is a sheep still, and ever will be a sheep while it continues to exist. And thus the elect being sheep eternally in the mind of God, and as such possessing an eternal union with the Son of God, could not cease to be sheep by falling in Adam, nor do their personal, individual falls, slips, and transgressions destroy their original, unalterable character.
--- J.C. Philpot
"yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant"
The dear children of God are liable to various temptations of Satan; and sometimes are prevailed upon to do those things that are disagreeable to their heavenly Father: yet covenant interest remains. "Although my house be not so with God, yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant." David had his temptations. We have mention made of a very sore one; Satan stirred him up to number the people of Israel (1 Chron. 21:1). He fell in the temptation, he suffered much, and his people too, through it, but still covenant interest remained. The best of men are liable to temptations. Peter was. Simon, Simon (says our Lord), Satan hath desired to have thee; to have thee in his hands; to do with thee as he would; to harass, distress, and confound thee, but I have prayed for thee that thy faith fail not. The great apostle of the Gentiles, had a messenger of Satan sent to buffet him: and extremely distressed he was with it. He besought the Lord thrice that it might depart from him; so it is with all the people of God at one time or another. Those very persons, the Corinthians, whom the apostle describes as being washed, justified, and sanctified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of God; he intimates, in the following verses, that they were liable to the temptations of Satan. Thus the best of men experience his temptations. Nay, even the Son of God himself did, he was in all points tempted as we are (Heb. 4:15); and that as violently as ever any of the people of God were; for what greater temptations can they be harassed with, than those with which he was assaulted? But, notwithstanding all the temptations of God's people, yet covenant interest remains. Our Lord has a sympathizing spirit with them, and rebukes the tempter. He says, the Lord hath chosen Jerusalem to rebuke thee. "Is not this one that I have chosen? is not this one that I have called by my grace: snatched as a brand out of the burning, and saved from everlasting ruin? and shall this dear child of mine fall by thy hand? the Lord rebuke thee Satan! What hast thou to do with him? he is one of mine." The Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations, he knows the fittest time to do it, and he does do it: though he suffers the enemy to go about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour, yet he does not suffer him to destroy any of his own children. What is the reason of all this? Covenant interest continues. Yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant.
--- John Gill


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The three major unions at American Airlines are among nine groups that threatened a legal challenge Monday against a proposal to allow small knives on planes.
The unions -- representing American's pilots, flight attendants and ground workers -- are part of a coalition including airport security agents and air marshals demanding the government keep all knives from passing through security checkpoints.
The Transportation Security Administration announced in March it would no longer forbid knives with blades up to 2.3 inches in order to focus on explosives and other dangerous items.
The decision drew immediate criticism from flight attendants, major airlines and even many passengers.
Amid the backlash, TSA administrator John Pistole temporarily shelved the plan last month but did not take it off the table.
Monday's legal challenge is aimed at keeping knives off planes permanently, arguing they are a huge safety risk.
"A TSA-approved knife could be used to stab or kill a passenger, crew member, federal air marshal, gate agent or TSA Security Officer by a terrorist, mentally ill person or drug or alcohol-impaired passenger," the coalition said in a news release. "A TSA-approved knife could be used to hijack a plane."
Laura Mayo, communications director for the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, told NBC 5 the group is awaiting a response from TSA.
"Our fear was they were going to institute it," Mayo said.
TSA said it was studying the group's letter, which threatens legal action but is not an actual lawsuit.


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Sadat plays Europe
He is anathema in much of the Arab world for his dealings with Israel, but there are still plenty of places where Anwar Sadat is considered something of a model statesman. Last week the Egyptian President went to Western Europe and came away with bravos ringing in his ears. He was given a standing ovation by the European Parliament, then a red carpet reception by French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing.
Sadat had been invited to address the European Parliament in Luxembourg. With customary acumen, he seized the occasion to endorse a...
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October 27, 2011
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Mayor, Boston EMS Celebrate
Academy Graduation and Recent Promotions
Mayor Thomas M. Menino and BPHC Executive Director Barbara Ferrer joined Boston EMS to celebrate the Academy graduation of 18 new EMTs and the promotions of Superintendent Tim Holland, 2 Deputy Superintendents, and 1 Lieutenant.
"When you wear that uniform, you represent the care and respect that the City of Boston has for our residents and visitors," Mayor Menino said. "Not just anyone has the right to wear the shirt and badge of a Boston EMS EMT. It has to be earned, and you have earned it today."
Each graduate has their own reasons for joining Boston EMS and several had previously taken the department's Community EMT course. EMT Robert Grueter of Roslindale decided to work in EMS after witnessing a bad car accident and signed up for an EMT course a week after. "I wanted to be challenged. I wanted to work with the best in the field doing the hardest work," he said.
EMT Candice Harper of Mattapan said the intensity of the Academy was what stood out. EMT Mark Keith of Dorchester agreed, saying, "the constant pressure to do and be the best has already made me feel like I'm ready to do excellent patient care out in the field."
Chief James Hooley told the graduates, "Remember that this is only the beginning. Stay true to your training and the motivation that brought you here. You have chosen this profession. Starting today you bear as much responsibility to further your profession and the future of Boston EMS as any one of us."
EMT Michelle Chu and Field Training Officer EMT Miguel Diaz made news on Columbus Day when they helped deliver a baby girl on the side on I-93. The mother, Ena Elhadidy of Norwood, and the baby were on hand to reunite with the crew and congratulate the new graduate. The crew presented the family with a pink "Delivered by Boston EMS" onesie.
The Boston EMS Academy is a rigorous 6-month training program that consists of classroom work, field instruction, exercises and drills to prepare our EMTs to deliver unparalleled service. Those enrolled in the accredited Academy are already state certified EMTs. The training recruits receive ensures that they are physically and mentally prepared to deliver high-quality medical care to the citizens and visitors of Boston.
Also recognized for promotions were Timothy Holland, promoted to Superintendent, he currently oversees Professional Development and Community Initiatives, Edmund Hassan and Susan Schiller for their recent promotion from Paramedic to Deputy Superintendent, and Virginia Famolare who was promoted from EMT to Lieutenant.


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Afleet Alex Sets Stakes Record in Sanford
Afleet Alex remained unbeaten in three starts with an impressive 5 1/4-length victory in Thursday's Sanford Stakes (gr. II) at Saratoga. The 2-year-old Northern Afleet colt set a stakes record in the process, running the six furlongs in 1:09.32. The previous record, 1:09 2/5, was set by Elocutionist.


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A spectacular one-wheeled fund-raising drive was the highlight at the annual RNLI Blackpool lifeboat station open day.
The family fun day played host to an incredible attempt by 11-year-old Bobbie-Sue Byrne, who rode 100km on a unicycle during the day to raise funds for the charity.
Accompanying Bobbie-Sue was eight-year-old sister Morgan who rode alongside her, also on a unicycle.
Together they rode from South Pier to North Pier and back again repeatedly to complete the mammoth distance and raise the cash.
Former Thames Primary School pupil Bobbie-Sue, who is due to start at St Mary's Catholic College, said: "I like to pick a charity every year and the RNLI is a great cause.
"The ride was a little bit hard but loads of fun and it was nice to have my sister with me, too."
Dad Pete Byrnes, of Bond Street, South Shore, said he was proud of his daughters, adding: "It all started three years ago, they are both very active kids and wanted to try something new.
"I enrolled Bobbie-Sue for the Blackpool Circus School where she learned to spin plates and ride a unicycle. They both now ride 20 km every day. Bobbie-Sue even won second place in the under 16s unicycle national championships."
Ian Butter, voluntary station chairman for the RNLI Blackpool, said: "Saturday was a fantastic success and we had wonderful day.
"I would to thank everyone who came to our family fun day and supported our volunteers.
"The RNLI is a charity and we can't save lives at sea without the support of our local community.
"I would also like to congratulate Bobbie-Sue on her tremendous effort, 100km on a unicycle is an impressive feat at any age but at 11 years old it's incredible."
Bobbie-Sue completed the challenge in eight hours and 15 minutes.
And given that North Pier to South Pier and back again is only 6km, Bobbie had to make the trip 17 times with the occasional pit-stop.
Despite the early rain, people got involved with Saturday's open day and the opportunity to explore the lifeboat station and look inside the boats as part of the day.
RNLI volunteer crew members and fund-raisers were also on hand to meet the public and answer their questions about the RNLI, with live music and dancing performed throughout the day.
"Everyone at the station is looking forward to next year already," added Ian.


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It's probably wise not to expect too much from a movie based on a manga comic book, or even if it has that manga-inspired feel to it. The Japanese action movie "Versus" and the Hong Kong film "A Man Called Hero" prove this notion out. Maybe in their original forms (if one existed) the stories had a deeper meaning, even a more extensive background. But in movie form, too many subplots and exposition are hopelessly condensed — or just missing altogether, giving the feeling of incompleteness.
"Princess Blade" stars Yumiko Shaku as Yuki, the last heir to a troupe of elite assassins who still uses swords instead of modern weapons. Although the assassin Byakurai (Kyusaku Shimada) is in command of the gang, it's Yuki and her bloodline that the rest of the gang honors. But when Yuki learns that Byakurai was responsible for killing her mother, who had wanted to dissolve the organization for good, Yuki flees her former comrades. She finds shelter with Takashi (Hideaki Ito), a footsoldier in a terrorist movement determined to bring change to the present government. After some mutual distrust, Yuki and Takashi eventually comes to depend on each other, but of course, the past is not easily abandoned…
True to its pedigree, "Princess Blade" is high on style. Act One is all action, as Yuki discovers Byakura's secret, tries to kill him, fails, and flees with the rest of her gang in pursuit. Act Two pulls a fast one and lowers the action level to almost none; it's really a 20-minute interlude where Yuki and Takashi learn to come to terms with their past and discover their commitment to each other and a future without bloodshed. Act Three brings the action back to the forefront, ending the film in a flurry of blood and slashing swords.
The action in "Princess Blade" was choreographed by Hong Kong action star Donnie Yen ("Iron Monkey"), whose signature is all over the swordplay and high-flying stunts. Although much of "Princess" is kept ground-leveled, the use of wireworks does creep in every now and then. For the most part the action is very exciting, and there are two scenes that just scream brilliance. One is early in the film when Yuki battles a gun-wielding would-be-target who fires his gun at her; director Shinsuke Sato shoots the sequence in a way that the camera shakes as each bullet slams home — this, while Yuki is spinning in the air and deflecting bullets with her sword. Good stuff.
Despite its good points, "Princess Blade" nevertheless feels incomplete. Takashi's story, in particular, seems grossly thin. The whole subplot about Takashi's involvement with a shadowy and untrustworthy terrorist organization feels short-changed, and I would have liked to see Takashi do more than just talk about what he's done, and what the organization plans to do. There's no action, no "showing" — there's just a lot of "telling." As most screenwriters are taught very early on, when writing action you should "show, not tell."
The film's Act Two, which could have been problematic in a film sold as an action movie, is actually very welcomed. Shaku and Ito plays off each other well, and their relationship as two wounded souls hoping for a chance at a better tomorrow, is easy to cheer for. The violent Act Three, when it finally comes to break up the ray of light established by the peaceful Act Two, effectively shatters our slim hope for our two main characters. Yumiko Shaku deserves praise as the sword wielding Yuki, who kills because she's never been taught to do anything else. And Hideaki Ito compliments her with his hesitant and emotionally wounded Takashi.
Alas, I wanted to know more about the world that the characters inhabit. Besides one CGI-created scene where Takashi drives through a cityscape, the bulk of the film takes place in the countryside. There are many sequences in a forested area, which could be just about anywhere in the world. There were a lot of questions that I asked that weren't answered, and one of them was this: What kind of world is this that makes Takashi and his fellow terrorists want to change so much they're willing to blow people up to do it? There is a brief radio segment featuring propaganda nonsense by "the State", but that's not nearly enough to give us a firm grasp on the "world" of "Princess Blade."
I wanted more, but there was not more coming. At just 90 minutes, it's easy to guess that a lot was chopped off for pacing. Which makes me wonder if there's a longer version available — a sort of Director's Cut. If there were, it would certainly be worthwhile to seek out.
Shinsuke Sato (director)
CAST: Hideaki Ito …. Takashi
Yumiko Shaku …. Yuki
Yoichi Numata …. Kuka
Kyusaku Shimada …. Byakurai
Yoko Maki …. Aya


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From Seattle, Ruby De Luna looks at a fast growing niche in photography-pregnancy shots.
Officials from the European Union sit down with OPEC representatives today to discuss ways to stabilize the world oil market. Alisa Roth reports.
A new Web site offers a clearinghouse of information for consumers concerned about the safety of nanotechnology. Janet Babin reports.
The retail giant's efforts to improve its image don't appear to be working. A new survey shows 56% of respondents think Wal-Mart "is bad for America." Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.


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By Mark Mattison-Shupnick, ABOM
As an opticianry educator and trainer, I often ask eyecare professionals who attend my classes whether their patients are more satisfied with the vision, performance and value of their digital lenses. Their answer is an overwhelming "yes." But why?
The answer is actually simple. Ordinarily, any time we ordered eyewear for patients, the standard toric lenses supplied in the frame were shaped and worn differently from the lenses the doctor used to develop the prescription using a phoroptor or refractor. That changed two things. First, it made small changes to the effective power of the lens, i.e., it no longer "saw" as the prescription that the doctor wrote.
Secondly, vision in the periphery changes significantly. This results in a smaller, clear field of view and depending on the amount of cylinder and its axis, a misshaped one as well. You can simulate this if you wear glasses; just tilt the lenses by lifting the temples to an extreme angle (Fig. 1). The result is a new effective power and a change to clear peripheral vision. For low prescriptions the effects are small; for higher prescriptions the effects are larger. However, our patients have been able to use these lenses adequately. That's because patients learn to adjust to and use the available clear field of view. But in progressives, there's another effect.
In standard front surface progressives, lenses get steeper from top to bottom. That creates the add power. However, in the periphery and especially below the 180 line, the vertical curve of the lens front changes faster than the horizontal, creating unwanted astigmatism and power error. The result is blurring. Add a cylinder prescription, ground on the back of this traditional progressive and the result is a combination of the front and back cylinders for a new effective prescription. That explains why some patients tell us that the temporal side of one of their lenses is clearer than the other. What can be done?
Design and cut each lens to deliver the prescription as the effective power, centrally and peripherally for the way that the patient will wear their lenses. That's it—digitally enhancing a lens' performance. If we can understand the error created for a lens in the way that the patient will wear it, the lens can be designed and its surfaces cut to create the least errors. We may not be able to get rid of all the errors, but it can be significantly better than before and it can in fact deliver the optical lens designer's intent. Typically, when compared to their previous lenses, patients say they "see" better. Seeing better is the result of a larger, clearer field of view.
Here's an example. In Fig. 2, start at the right most lens circle. This is a premium front surface progressive design made into a +3.00-1.50 x 135. The patient is wearing this lens at 12 degrees tilt and 12 degrees wrap. (That may be unusual, but we'll use this extreme for the example.) The map shows the effects.
Unwanted astigmatism created by the lens creates blur. It's the result of the front and back surface combined and worn with tilt and wrap. The intended design is changed dramatically. However, this is the lens that any of us would have delivered to the patient. In fact, it would be similar to most other lenses that this patient wore before. Vision is probably adequate.
But what if the back surface were made atoric, i.e., not a standard toric surface but aspheric in each of the principal meridians as a way to improve peripheral vision? Each meridian would have the correct asphericity for the power in that meridian. The Atoric map shows an improvement, fewer contours in the periphery (less astigmatism/blur) and a wider near but still not really clear (white) in the full distance, midrange and reading zone.
In the map labeled "Optimized," errors have been compensated when making the lens but uses an assumption about the way the lens fits, i.e., 9 degrees tilt, 7 degrees wrap and 13.5 mm vertex distance (default fitting values). This makes a real difference in the lens delivered and in fact, this and the atoric design is what most of our patients are commenting on when they say that simple sentence, "I see better."
Finally, this patient wears his lenses more tilted and wrapped than the default fitting values. If the actual fitting values were used, when ordering the lenses, the lab software would incorporate them when calculating the design surfaces, and the results are shown in the Customized map. This is quite a difference from the standard base curve design. What's the message here?
First, digitally enhanced lenses help improve a patient's vision and that's merchandisable. Develop a marketing plan and advertise on your website, on Facebook and by e-mail to patients about the new digital lenses now being used in your office. Report the reactions of patients with a few of their words and their smiling photos in the new eyewear (with their permission), especially on Facebook.
As seen from the illustration maps, these lenses can deliver benefits in a good, better and best form that fits any patient's budget. It also makes it easy to implement the use of digitally enhanced lenses in your practice. There's no lack of manufacturers and brands.
The best of these new highly sophisticated designs also require a new set of measure ments and you should be able to say, "This office is specially trained" in taking them. Call your lab reps to try the variety of desk, floor and iPad-based measuring devices that quickly deliver vertex, tilt and wrap. You want every patient saying, "No one ever did this before."
For high prescriptions (more than 3D in sphere power), order optimized designs. It's virtually a guaranteed success. Order two to four atoric jobs for single vision and flat tops for patients with a 1.25D cylinder (they're your target) so you can get some fast experience. This will also enable patients to see the benefit. Then consider changing the patient's entire standard design platform to atoric designs, which would represent "good" in a good-better-best scenario.
Talk to your lab about the availability of atoric jobs and place the order. When you deliver the job, watch what the patient says about how they see. These lenses will deliver a definite improvement at a small increase in price for the wearer. Visit opticianshandbook.com for more information.
Your lab is now a very important choice since they have become the manufacturer of the lens design. Be sure to order from a lab that has experience processing free-form lens designs. Many labs today not only offer brand name lenses, but also offer their own house brand digital lenses, which usually offer good optical performance for a lower price.
By understanding the basics of digital lens performance, providing your lab with the proper patient measurements and selecting an experienced lab, you should be able to deliver the latest lens technology to your patients. It's a proven recipe for patient satisfaction.
The Challenge of Digital Design Starts with the Exam
Lens designers make certain assumptions when they create any lens design. These assumptions must be clearly understood for the best digital outcomes. Of course, the ophthalmic prescription begins in the exam room. Doctors need to set up their testing appropriately if they want the very best that digital lens technology has to offer.
The lens designers assume that the testing is done with the lines of sight at 90 degrees to the plane of the lenses. To achieve this in the vertical, you can simply use an inclinometer (also used to measure the pantoscopic tilt of frames). Some inclinometers can be pressed against the refractor lens apertures to take a reading, others are used from the side with a sighting line. Also the refractor should be oriented so that it is neither turned to the right or left with regard to the chart. The easiest way to do this is to put the refractor's near point rod down and be sure it is pointing at the chart. The chart must also be at the same level as the patient's lines of sight.
Another assumption is that the lines of sight are passing through the optical centers of the test lenses. To assure this is the case, use pinholes in both refractor cells and a dissociating vertical prism at the start of the subjective refraction portion of your testing. If the patient does not see two charts, ask him to move a bit until he does. Then ask him to hold that position. After your subjective refraction, replace the pinholes and dissociating prism, and watch closely to be sure he doesn't have to move in order to see diplopically.
If you use a short (e.g., 10-foot) refracting room and compensate your prescriptions, having the chart too high or low by a few inches will be a greater error than if the same discrepancy happened at a longer distance. The easy way to check whether the chart is at the right height is to place a vertical (held flat against the wall) mirror at the height of the chart and ask if the patient can see his own eye. If he can, his lines of sight are level. This will work with mirrored refracting rooms also, but getting the plano mirror exactly vertical is more challenging.
Manufacturers begin their digital calculations with the prescription you send them. Using this data can be a problem for strong Rxs (e.g., power > +5.00). You may need to compensate the power if the frame vertex and refracting distance are not the same. For free-form and individualized lenses, these calculations should be rounded to 0.05 diopter rather than to 0.12 or 0.25. Your lab should be able to do this upon request if you supply both the refracting vertex and the frame vertex. If you use a lab with knowledgeable consultants, you should be able to easily deal with these and other digital challenges. Digital and particularly individualized lenses are a huge step forward when properly used.
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For most people that read this... I would probably not use a boresnake in your sit.
Boresnakes (and otis) are excellent field cleaning tools. OTIS were issued for M40s in our Bt last time I was there. Amazing how everyone swears that "you can't use anything other than a brass or nylon coated one piece rod for a precision rifle..." but M40s (or any other military issued weapon) are cleaned to death with OTIS kits and 240 punch rods, yet they still hold their serviceable equipment required 1 moa.
For normal use, because I'm not deployed for 9 months or in the field for 3 weeks at a time anymore, I use the a 1 piece cleaning rod because It's of no burden to me. I do have a boresnake thats packed in my bugout kit though. Should Mexico invade (that's supposed to be a joke) and we are called to defend the homeland (finally) then I will have an effective field expedient tool to clean the bore of my rifle.
Boresnakes are not the worst thing you can do to your rifle barrel. Lack of cleaning and allowing the carbon/moisture/copper fouling to corrode your barrel is. Further, I fail to see how a thick nylon rope with a brush built into it will damage the crown of a rifle anymore than a cleaning rod with a brush, or a bullet for that matter. Especially if you punch the bore correctly (from the breech, not the muzzle).
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'Mark's Law' WINS Key Committee Vote
Bill Inspired by Killing of Cape Vincent EMT Clears First Legislative Hurdle
State Senator Patty Ritchie's legislation known as "Mark's Law," which would apply the stiffest penalty allowed by law—life imprisonment without the possibility of parole—for the murder of an emergency first responder, was approved by a key Senate committee today, the first step on its path top becoming law.
The Codes Committee approved the bill, S.4717A, which was introduced in memory of Mark Davis, the emergency medical technician who was shot to death while responding to a call for help in Cape Vincent in 2009.
The bill amends the Penal Law to include emergency responders, emergency medical technicians, firefighters, volunteer firefighters, ambulance drivers, paramedics, physicians or nurses involved in a first response team as victims of first degree murder.
"Last year, over 1,000 firefighters, first responders and supporters of our volunteer and professional emergency services community signed my petition showing their support for Mark's Law," Senator Ritchie said. "Many of them, like me, wanted to make sure that something good came out of this senseless tragedy."
"That's why we owe it to them to give them every protection the law will allow," Senator Ritchie said. "I want them to know that when they go into danger to help the people of New York State that anyone who would threaten or harm them will know that they will face the toughest penalty allowed by law."
Right now, that penalty is reserved for the murder of police officers, peace officers, uniformed court officers, parole officers, probation officers, employees of the division of youth, and corrections officers.
"When Mark Davis was senselessly shot to death while responding to a call for help, many people in the emergency medical service community vowed that his sacrifice would never be forgotten," Senator Ritchie said. "Shortly after I took office, it was pointed out to me that our existing laws do not provide the kind of protection for emergency responders that I believe are necessary. After discussions with Mr. Davis's family, the District Attorney and others in both the criminal justice and the emergency services community, I decided to introduce Mark's Law to try to prevent future tragedies of this kind."
Under current law, the maximum charge the killer of an emergency responder could face is second degree murder, with a sentence of 25 to life in prison.
Senator Ritchie's bill was drafted with the help of Jefferson County District Attorney Cindy Intschert, who prosecuted Mark's killer, and the District Attorneys Association of New York State.
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Calgary is proud of its history and yet embraces change. One of the early 20th Century lions that marks the entry to downtown Calgary contrasts with the new construction of the 21st Century Bow Building and the mid 20th Century Calgary Tower.
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A conglomerate company is a big company that consists of diversified portfolios of products and services and which produces and sells non related products and services. They basically have operations in multiple regions round the world. UK has been very much ahead in terms of producing conglomerates from the very beginning. Here is a list of top 10 conglomerate companies of UK by Revenue.
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Guayusa this morning! I mixed it with spearmint and peppermint because I was in the mood for something earthy yet refreshing. It was quite perfect, and I enjoyed two delicious steeps before I headed in to the office for a bit. No tea at work today, since I had no idea how long I would be there and I knew I'd have to get groceries on my way home. Ugh.
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Mallika Sherawat seems to be out of her hibernation and ready to work. She's back in the country and it looking more stunning than ever. Mallika Sherawat spent the past year in Hollywood, doing some cameo roles in the Hollywood movies. Last year when Mallika Sherawat got an offer to act in a Hollywood movie she was screaming it out loud that "I am going Hollywood" as if she would never be back again. Mallika even developed a fake accent to make it big in Hollywood.
But I guess that didn't happen and now it seems like Mallika Sherawat's Hollywood fever has gone down, so she's back and looking for work. But ask her if Hollywood is her next destination ad she says, "Bollywood movies is and always will remain my first preference. The reason I was in Hollywood because I got some very interesting projects there. Bollywood is my home so how can I live without my home. My next will all be Bollywood projects."
Mallika Sherawat is whose more infamous for her bold and sensual scenes in Bollywood movies; on a friendly one-to-one went on praising fellow actress Vidya Balan for her 'sensual and hot portrayal' in 'The Dirty Picture' the actress believes that 'sensuality' is just "an extra importance that people give to me."
Modesty is definitely not Mallika Sherawat's cup of tea and isn't one of the many virtues of Mallika, who feels court cases and controversies are but a part of being a 'true Bollywood star'. Mallika Sherawat herself has been involved in many controversies. Right from the rumors of being divorced and her family drama to her bold and hot scenes in movies likes 'murder' and 'khwaish' in which she kissed her co-star 17 times. This news created a lot of stir in the world of Bollywood.
Mallika Sherawat is more into item songs in various movies. She currently is the highest paid item performing artist because she gets paid around 60 lakhs for her 20 minutes performance on stage. She already has done a number of item songs which have been immensely popular among the audiences. The recent one being 'Jalebi Bai' from the movie 'Double Dhamaal': This took her popularity to newer heights.
Mallika Sherawat has always been referred to as a motor-mouth. Mallika Sherawat doesn't think before saying anything, she just goes on with no matter what; which in return creates a lot of controversies. But people in way like this thing about her and so she has gained in popularity and fan base in the past few years. Even the item numbers that she does in movies have gained popularity and have become huge hits, adding to her star value.
Recently at a press conference Mallika Sherawat said that meeting the US President Barack Obama was one of the most memorable moments of her life. Mallika Sherawat is excited about starting work on her next Hindi film 'Kismat Love Paisa Dilli' in which she will play a Delhi bases Punjabi Bombshell opposite Vivek Oberoi.


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Dumb Joke Told by Drunk Wife is Totally HILARIOUS! [VIDEO]
Well the joke itself may not be that funny, but what the husband did with his recording of it made us laugh out loud… for real! Take a look at the short video he made.
He recorded his wife telling a joke after a bottle of wine… the end result… a lot funnier than you would think!


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Under the weather, Hamilton starts anyway
Under the weather, Hamilton starts anyway
ARLINGTON -- Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton was in the lineup on Tuesday night, although he was still suffering from an upper respiratory ailment. "It's not any better. I just feel bad ... a sinus infection or a nasal infection," Hamilton said. "But I'm playing, that's all that matters." Hamilton has been bothered by the condition for over a week and did not play on Monday against Mariners. Manager Ron Washington put him in the lineup on Tuesday, although it was contingent on how Hamilton felt going through batting practice.
"You get paid to play baseball, so you go out and play," Hamilton said. "You go play and hopefully do something. I'm not going to get any worse. You always try to figure out a way to deal with it, whether you're sick or injured. It will be fine. Hopefully I can stay not dizzy and catch the ball." Hamilton made it through batting practice without any problems. "He looked good," Washington said. "He didn't tell me anything. I guess he is all right."


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Should Kobo be Counted as One of the 3 Major Ebookstores?
Not once - not even as an afterthought. All the authors and publishers on the panel talked as though there was a binary choice: Kindle vs Nook, and that tells me something about Kobo's market presence. Admittedly, my experience could just be a marketing fail for Kobo, but it could also be a sign that they are not nearly as important as we give them credit for.
I think that the discussion I witnessed was an accurate reflection of how the panelists viewed the ebook market. Kobo isn't even on their radar. At the very least, I would have expected Kobo to be mentioned as an alternative to Amazon on the international market but they weren't. This leads me to wonder if the trifecta of "Kindle, Nook, and Kobo" is really a valid statement.
I'm beginning to suspect that we call Kobo one of the major ebookstore because of the perception that they are important, not because they have a major market share. If I'm right, then the perception that Kobo is a major player comes from the echo chamber that is the publishing press. Everyone has heard enough times that Kobo is a major ebookstore that we have just come to accept it without actually looking at the numbers.
And what limited figures I have for Kobo's market share independently support this idea. I'm told that Kobo has around 2% to 5% of the US market, with the vast majority of the market taken up by Amazon and Barnes & Noble (and Apple coming in third with around 10%). And this figures aren't estimates; they're based on what publishers are discussing off the record.
What do you think?