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I went to my doctor, they did an x-ray and nothing showed up. He put me on an anti-inflammatory to hopefully get rid of what he thought was the soft tissue being swollen. My wrist hasnt gotten any better and I am wondering what could be wrong with it.
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In 2003 Dr. Zuellig formally launched the first foreign-invested pharmaceutical distribution company in China - China Zuellig Xinxing Pharmaceutical Company - at an historic ceremony in the Great Hall of the People on Tiananmen Square – thus confirming China's commitment to the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the gradual opening of its service industries. The Zuellig Group has expanded well beyond pharmaceuticals and now has multinational diversified interests in shipping, manufacturing, financing, travel and insurance. In addition to his ongoing corporate responsibilities Dr. Zuellig is a Philippine Honorary Consul General with consular jurisdiction over the principality of Monaco.
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by Marc Bastow | June 14, 2013 2:11 pm
Another solid week of dividend increases included some big names making moves for investors. Construction equipment manufacturing giant Caterpillar (CAT[1]), along with retailer Target (TGT[2]) led our list, while SeaWorld (SEAS[3]) initiated a new dividend.
[4]In all, 7 companies made it onto our list of Companies Increasing Dividends[5] for the week of June 10. (Note: dividend yields are as of June 14.)
Dependable Dividend Stock[6] C.R. Bard (BCR[7]), a manufacturer and distributor of medical and diagnostic patient care devices, raised its quarterly dividend 5% to 21 cents per share, payable Aug. 2 to shareholders of record on July 22.
BCR Dividend Yield: 0.76%
Construction and mining equipment manufacturer Caterpillar (CAT[1]) raised its quarterly dividend 15.4% to 60 cents per share, payable Aug. 20 to shareholders of record July 22.
CAT Dividend Yield: 2.85%
Specialty finance company CYS Investments (CYS[8]) raised its quarterly dividend 6% to 34 cents per share, payable July 17 to shareholders of record as of June 15.
CYS Dividend Yield: 12.58%
Jet aircraft replacement parts and components maker HEICO (HEI[9]) raised its semiannual dividend 17% to 7 cents per share, payable on July 22 to shareholders of record on July 8.
HEI Dividend Yield: 0.27%
Sorbent products manufacturer Oil-Dri (ODC[10]) raised its quarterly dividend 6% to 19 cents per share, payable on Aug. 30 to shareholders of record as of Aug. 16.
ODC Dividend Yield: 2.77%
Theme park and entertainment company SeaWorld (SEAS[3]) initiated a dividend plan[11], starting with a quarterly payout of 20 cents per share per quarter, payable July 1 for shareholders of record on June 20.
SEAS Dividend Yield: 2.13%
Discount retail giant Target (TGT[2]) raised its quarterly dividend 19.4% to 43 cents per share, payable Sept. 10 to shareholders of record on Aug. 21.
TGT Dividend Yield: 2.49%
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AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. - The U.S. Senate's Armed Services Committee will hear from victims of Air Force Academy sexual assaults at a special hearing, Sen. Susan Collins announced Saturday.
''The hearings that Sen. (John) Warner has held already have been very helpful but we haven't heard from victims,'' Collins said in a telephone interview. ''We feel that it is important to hear from those who have actually gone through the experience, particularly since many of the victims believe they were harassed or were victims of retaliatory action.''
An independent investigation of sexual assaults at the academy found that 142 had been reported from 1993 through 2002.
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I'm Disappointed Kristen Wiig Left SNL To Maybe Star In The Anchorman Sequel
Like everyone else, I cried hot salty tears when Kristen Wiig announced that she was leaving Saturday Night Live earlier this year. Even though she was overused by the end, she was easily my favorite part of the show, and especially since Andy Samberg left as well, there's a cold vacant part of my heart where all that stuff used to live. But at least I could console myself that my girl was moving onto bigger and better things. After her time on SNL, Kristen was like the hottest thing in town. In my head, she could walk into any casting agency and be like, "Hey, I'm Kristen Wiig. You can go ahead and cast me now." After all, if she did Bridesmaids while she was still on the show, just imagine what she could do now that she's off it. The opportunities are literally endless.
But instead, I'm hearing rumors that Kristen is being considered for the Anchorman sequel, where her character would be the romantic interest for Brick Tamland, played by Steve Carell. Now I have nothing against the original Anchorman, and you know I love me some Steve Carell, but Kristen can do way better than this. First of all, this movie doesn't need a sequel. The first one was amazing, and it's already been made and quoted to death, so let's just leave it alone. Second of all, if we really are doing it, then let's get Kristen a lead role. She can carry a movie, and we've all been deprived from watching her rubber face do hilarious things for far too long. And thirdly, if we're really gonna cast her just as a love interest, let's go ahead and just hand her the role, yeah? None of this 'being considered' nonsense. I'm in love with this woman, and I demand to see her treated with respect. Which doesn't mean standing around in the background while Will Ferrell prances around in tighty-whities and the fur suit known as his chest hair.
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Ah I had a bit of trouble putting this together. I was going off the art and didn't think to ask about the actual references Mae had for the outfit. So frustration and sewing and thread ripping and throwing out fabric later, we just stuck to what I had done. Of course, I wasn't going to wear it if she didn't approve of how it looked, this was her design.
The gourd is a POM bottle painted.
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I must say, I had fun making people believe I was drunk. I guess my makeup tech worked out! (Since Meiko's "food" is sake, Mae associated her with the drunken fist style of fighting!)
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A Laptop With a New Dimension
With growing interest in three-dimensional movies, videogames and TV, it's no surprise that computer makers now offer 3-D laptops.
I tried the Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV, which went on sale in June for $1,599.99, several hundred dollars more than a similar laptop without 3-D. The 15.6-inch screen laptop offers 4GB of DDR3 memory, 640 GB of storage, Windows 7 Home Premium, a player for 3-D Blu-ray discs and a graphics card from Nvidia.
Photos, videos and games can be viewed in 3-D on the laptop -- but they require special glasses, just like at movie theaters. The Toshiba Satellite comes with a pair of Nvidia active shutter glasses.
How do the glasses work? Each of your eyes views a different perspective, which your brain combines to create depth. Three-D technology tries to simulate this phenomenon when looking at a flat surface, to create an illusion of depth.
The Nvidia glasses achieve this by shuttering the left eye to deliver one frame to the right eye, then shuttering the right eye while opening the left. The glasses synchronize with the refresh cycle of your computer through an infrared emitter. The Toshiba refreshes 120 frames per second, so each side of the glasses shutters 60 times a second.
First, I tried the action-adventure game "Batman: Arkham Asylum" by Eidos Interactive Ltd. Although the colors of the game were dark, the graphics were very vibrant and clear. There was a lot of depth between the characters and the background. I wore headphones, and the glasses focused my vision entirely on the game, making the experience highly immersive. This was especially true for some of the action fight scenes, in which the characters appeared large and close to me.
Next, I played "James Cameron's Avatar: The Game" by Ubisoft, a take on the 3-D movie. The graphics weren't as advanced as "Batman," but the game play was still pretty good in 3-D. There was realistic depth between the main character, other characters and the background.
Both "Batman" and "Avatar" were designed to be viewed in 3-D. But Nvidia representatives say most games released in the past three years will become 3-D when played on the Toshiba laptop and viewed through the Nvidia 3-D video player and glasses because they are "intrinsically 3-D in nature by design."
I watched a clip of the 2010 Masters golf tournament, which was streamed on the Internet in 3-D. The golfers and green looked pretty bright and detailed, but not as crisp and sharp as high-definition TV. The video appeared to slow down and blur during fast action, such as a golf ball in the air. A NASCAR clip that was powered by Nvidia's technology also appeared very pixilated and fuzzy. Crowd shots were very blurry and I couldn't make out anyone.
I also noticed that I occasionally lost the 3-D effect entirely at times, and I could see a flash of light from the corner of my eye. Nvidia said that the glasses may stop working briefly if the battery is weak, or if I turn my back from the infrared emitter that synchronizes the glasses to the laptop. Flashing could be caused by interference from fluorescent lighting.
Additionally, because the glasses are darkened, my eyes strained to see the laptop screen when watching in rooms with low light.
But the biggest drawback for the Toshiba Satellite and Nvidia glasses is the lack of specially made 3-D content. For now, there are only a few 3-D Blu-Ray discs available, and some can only be bought as bundles with 3-D TVs. YouTube and other video sites have some 3-D clips, but they run on Flash, which is not compatible with the Nvidia player, so they don't work on the Satellite A665-3DV.
There is a 3-D photo viewer on the laptop, but it only works with photos taken with a special 3-D camera like the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1. Overall, watching content not specially made for 3-D, such as the sports clips, was underwhelming.
Is the Toshiba Satellite A665-3DV worth it? I enjoyed playing the specially designed 3-D games, which took the gaming experience to a whole new dimension. But with 3-D entertainment still just catching on at movie theaters and TVs, a 3-D laptop seems a bit premature. Until there is more mainstream content available in 3-D, it's not worth the investment.
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Renowned Ghanaian Actor David Dontoh of Accra International Film Festival(AIFF) has expressed the need for full branding of the festival to attract movie producers and directors from across the world in subsequent editions.
Mr. Dontoh who is also Communications Manager for the Festival was reacting to questions about why few movies were screened during this year's edition.
David Dontoh told Joy News. "…this is the maiden event…we want to establish the festival this year and that is why it is not even competitive. Next year we are actually planning on bringing onboard short films, documentaries and even animations".
"We are going to have a lot of films screened next year because…Bill Duke is actually one of the directors of the largest African-American Films Festival in Miami in the United States and they are all dying to be part of this festival next year and he says at least 20 films from America will come next year", he adds.
Osmo Kwame Addo, one of the directors of the AIFF adds his voice to David Dontoh's: "This is the maiden edition of the Accra International Film Festival and we wanted to do something to establish the festival…next year I promise you there will be a lot of films from Ghana, West Africa and International as well".
As part of the first ever Accra International Film Festival Thursday, was the screening of "NO TIME TO DIE" by the legendary director and producer King Ampaw and the "COVER" by popular Hollywood producer and director Bill Duke.
NO TIME TO DIE,is a story about a hearse driver who faces difficulty in getting a woman to marry because of the African superstition attached to people who are involved with the dead.
"Cover", produced and directed by the 'Rambo' star Bill Duke, is a drama thriller film starring Aunjanue Ellis, Razaaq Adoti, Vivica A. Fox, and Leon.
The story is about Valerie Mass (Aunjanue Ellis) a God-fearing housewife and artist who one day finds herself in a situation she never imaged possible, being questioned on murder charges by no-nonsense police detective Hicks (Lou Gossett Jr.) and Simmons (Clifton Davis), a district attorney eager to close this case, as Valerie repeatedly insists she's not a murderer.
Valarie's marriage also starts to drown after she discovered, the truth was more complicated than she could imagine.
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MESA, Ariz. – The Wrigley Field bleachers won't be ready until June?
Say it ain't so, Joe.
Somebody start stocking up on the coffee and Red Bull for new manager Joe Maddon.
"I'm a horrible morning person," Maddon said Monday when asked how he's going to handle the higher number of day games than he's used to. "I don't know. I have to rearrange my mind. … I've always liked night games."
What does that have to do with the bleachers?
"The one thing, the caveat, would be that when you're playing at Wrigley Field, you're going to see, regardless of the game, like 35,000, 40,000 people, right?" he said. "There's an absolute energy about that I would think you would definitely draw from."
Yeah, well, maybe not so much early in the season, considering the loudest, most energetic fans at Cubs games are most often the thousands in the bleachers – which will be completely empty for at least 15 home games and empty at least in right field for 28.
And that's if there aren't more construction delays at the ballpark.
"I'm going to have to figure out ways for me personally just to wake up mentally earlier in the day," Maddon said.
"I've never been that morning dude. But I'm pretty good later in the day. Hopefully, when we get to the bullpen I should be OK."


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One of the biggest components of Dead State is the writing. With dozens of characters, item descriptions, and loads of game text, theres a lot to experience. Weve got over 10,000 lines of branching dialogue to give you some perspective, the average screenplay contains about 1000 lines of linear story. For our dialogue, we need to create reactivity for relationships with other allies, the characters respect for the player, character mood, concerns for events happening in and out of the shelter, and personal requests. As you can imagine, this takes a bit of scripting and time to write, rewrite, and implement and every ally in the shelter has dozens of nodes of reactivity, including some random events.
Another (optional) component of our game involves collecting data. Out in the world youll find phones, USBs, hard drives, and other devices that contain information on them. These will unlock blogs, emails, news reports, and even confidential information that will shed some light on what happened to the rest of the world before the game started. Some of this data is unlocked bit by bit, each segment revealing more of a person or groups complete story. All told, there is almost an entire novels worth of stories and fiction in the game.
THOU SHALT HAVE ACTUAL GAME FOOTAGEHow many Kickstarter projects have 2 unshaven guys talking about how cool their game idea is? Way too many. Unfortunately its a lot harder to executive a concept than it is to chat about it. Images and stills are just as bad. The hundreds of hours that go into modeling and engine creation show us, the consumer, that you have the knowledge and expertise to put your vision into action. DeviantArt is cool and all. but cool images and cheesy videos do not turn into games overnight.


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Heroin is not exactly what you'd like to see when you open your kid's Happy Meal box from McDonald's, but apparently, that is what was being used to sell the drug out of a McDonald's drive-thru in Pittsburg, PA.
Shania Dennis, 26, was busted by undercover agents for selling heroin at work, where she would instruct her "customers" to say, "I would like to order a toy" while she was working her shift at the drive-thru, and she would then pass them the drugs in the Happy Meal boxes.
Dennis then proceeded to deny any wrong doing to gathering reporters as she was led away in handcuffs. Police say they found 10 bags of heroin in a Happy Meal box and got another 50 bags of the drug off of the suspect.
According to the AP, the owner of the restaurant didn't have any idea what was going on and wasn't involved.
"We have no indication the owner knew of this and neither suspect has, to this point, implicated the owner or anyone else at either restaurant," said Mike Manko, who is a spokesman for the Allegheny County district attorney's office in Pennsylvania.
This is the second time this month that a McDonald's employee in Pennsylvania has been busted for selling drugs at work. According to ABC, Theodore Levon Upshaw, 28, was also arrested when an informant bought drugs from him at the restaurant just off of Route 22 in Murrysville.
Upshaw was fresh off an early release from a three-year prison sentence after he was convicted of possession with intent to deliver. He was living in an alternative housing facility.
The same man, Iftikhar Malik, owns both of the stores busted for heroin sales. He has issued a statement saying,
"As an employer and a member of the community, the safety of our guests and employees is our first priority. The allegations related to this employee do not represent acceptable behaviors and are not consistent with my values. As such, we take these charges very seriously and we are fully cooperating with the authorities. We are also conducting our own thorough internal investigation."
Investigators don't, however, believe the drugs sold at either of Malik's restaurants are linked to fentanyl-laced heroin that are being blamed for 22 fatal overdoses in Pennsylvania in recent weeks.
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Mayo and the medical industrial complex
Mayo wants to become a global medical destination of healing, but the marketplace is ever more dependent on poor health.
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As a writer you never set out to return, again and again, to a topic as painful as suicide, or as divisive as the risk of side effects with popular mental health medications, but for whatever reason this very fate emerged in the course of my reporting several years ago and here we are. Unlike so many other pressing health questions in our time, however, the problems with SSRI's and suicide seems no closer to being articulated in the culture at large, let alone resolved, beyond a few ardent voices and the small print on some drug labels that, thanks to the silent skepticism of so many, no one really knows what to think of. And then the questions raised by the topic shows up in the most glaring fashion in the middle of an evening news report on a respected news source, a sensitive, thoughtful outlet that is nonetheless unwilling to connect the dots, or even broach the subject, in spite of all that we now know.
The media is loathe to single out antidepressants, drugs created to funnel billions into the pockets of the pharmaceutical industry. The editors of magazines treat the topic like the plague. Friends and family and neighbors in conversations would rather talk to you about water-boarding. Perhaps people become sensitive to the idea they may be taking a drug for a private condition and that you are raising the fact of data showing the drug is oversold and risky. To which I can only add that I have taken them too, in another life, and I somehow came to peace with their nature, and I can't imagine why anyone else could not do so much more easily. I am a stubborn, emotionally turgid, self-obsessed and defensive man, and yet my thinking was somehow flexible on this one. So this is my reluctant post on a grim reality. I understand if you wanted to go read about something else.
According to a meta-analysis by the FDA, antidepressants raise the risk of suicide in users under 25 and lower the risk of suicide in users over 65. That's the promising version. According to the smarter analyses of the clinical trials, they do not lower your risk of suicide, despite everyone assuming they do, and are linked with more suicides in people on the pills than on sugar pills. It once was controversial but now is largely accepted that they do not even perform better than sugar pills except for the very extremely depressed. They do not lift depression by virtue of their chemical mechanism. They do not reduce suicides. Yet they are called antidepressants. It's a wild notion that somehow cannot puncture the bubble of our times.
The FDA determination came about in 2006 at a moderately publicized yet historic and remarkable pharmaceutical advisory committee hearing I attended in Bethesda, MD. I will never forget the way in which, at that hearing, dozens of families who had travelled from across the country to be there, patiently waited for three alloted minutes at the microphone to tell regulators about their inexplicable loss: previously functioning, non-suicidal children or adults who had been given an antidepressant for an ambiguous condition such as insomnia, test anxiety or agitation, and shortly thereafter took their own life, often in gruesome manner, often as if they were no longer themselves, not caring about who found them, not leaving a note.
And yet it was memorable not so much for its wrenching line of widows, stoic parents of deceased children, brothers and sisters of the deceased, but because of the remarkable sense of disinterest in these stories one observed on the part of both the regulators on the panel and the mental health patient advocacy community also present to testify. These parties appeared determined only to prevent any warning from being issued that might harm the sales or respectability and increase the supposed stigma of taking antidepressants, by then some of the most widely sold drugs in the world. Microphones were turned off after the three minutes alloted, often in mid-sentence, often on leading researchers their to present important data.
What's more remarkable, I would later learn, is how personal the impersonal stance actually was. One of the regulators, Thomas Laughren, MD of the FDA, actually lived down the street from Mathy Downing, one of the grieving mothers in front of him. Candace Downing, a little girl of 12 just down his street, and who had been given Zoloft for test anxiety, had gone from seated in her father's lap and watching Animal Planet to taking her life in her bedroom closet. It speaks for itself — 12 year olds are not tormented little depressed adults on a death wish, they simply are not, and yet nearly to a person, the families I spoke with struggled with the wall of skepticism with which our society greets the topic of SSRI-induced suicide, a skepticism that is not even as widely shared the in medical community charged with dispensing the pills or the earliest researchers involved in their approval.
The condition by which an antidepressant can cause someone to become suicidal is known as akathisia, and it is well-recognized in the pharmacology literature, and it dates back, as David Healy has so very well written, to the first antidepressant — a sedative for high blood pressure called reserpine. The fact that a pill could do this was not considered controversial then as it is today — truly we have lost ground in the area of information acceptance — and reserpine was discontinued due to its recognized danger of causing suicides. (These patients could not be called depressed, moreover — they were merely being treated for high blood pressure. For what it's worth, it was given to Hemingway in the years preceding his suicide, and his Mayo psychiatrist blamed his deteriorating condition on the drug pared with a stimulant commonly used to treat ADHD today).
Yet memory is short and the cultural embrace of the "chemical imbalance" marketing message — it was created in the 1990s within the marketing departments of Pfizer, Lilly and SmithKline Beecham, according to Healy's fine book Pharmageddon– was strong. Critics of these historical if rare dangers inherent to SSRI's were and still are dismissed as anti-psychiatry, cult-members or somehow hostile to the importance of safe and effective mental health treatments. The idea that a drug meant to treat depression could hide a side effect that correlates with depression was simply too much to process.
So here we are, most of the drugs having gone off patent, the much anticipated rise in suicides from a black box warning having failed to materialize, and yet there remains still our shared blind spot to the established, 50 year old fact that certain drugs which manipulate brain hormones can cause a small subset of users to become agitated and emotionally tormented, raising the risk of suicide.
On NPR yesterday, a report intended to promote the importance of physicians asking about the presence of guns in the home when treating patients for depression — still more common sense that we can't seem to agree on — managed to illustrate this very conundrum. A doctor in Colorado "who was doing everything he could " to reduce an elderly patient's chance of suicide, was portrayed as heartsick that he did not ask him about the presence of guns in the home. The doctor had placed the patient on antidepressants for distress over memory problems. Memory problems, of course, have many potential causes, including some believe, popular lipid lowering medications, but surely age is one reason. Depression could be the cause of memory problems as well perhaps, but we don't know what the family doctor did to determine the patient was in need of the drugs. The doctor saw the patient every two months. Somewhere in this timeline he recived word that the man had taken his own life with a gun.
As we said earlier, according to the analysis that informed the FDA warning, antidepressants lower suicide in people over 65. But this is based on drug industry data, and doesn't track with the case reports presented at the hearing, stories of fathers who took their lives shortly after going on the drugs. And indeed, there's no reason why a drug would do one thing at 25 and the opposite at 65. We also know by now that a host of medications can have this effect, including drugs for epilepsy, asthma, acne, nicotine addiction, schizophrenia, and antibiotics, to name a few.
So my question is why distress over memory problems will get you put on antidepressants, despite the fact that distress over memory problems is surely part of life and the drug is not indicated for the treatment of distress over memory problems, and yet when you die of an acknowledged side effect of that drug in younger users, the possibility of that side effect playing a role never comes up. Not by the reporter. Not by the doctor. Not in 177 comments. What is it about this notion that is so threatening, impermeable to reason, off-limits, untouchable. I'm not upset, I've come to accept this is the case in our time. I'm genuinely curious.
I wish Mark Bittman would stick to writing about cooking.
Mark Bittman is a great food writer.
I fact-checked one of his articles a long time ago and can tell you he is a nice guy, too!
But it's been frustrating to watch legions of readers drive his half-right pieces on food and health up the most emailed list at the Times. Last week it was low carbohydrate eating. This week it is milk.
Were we meant to drink milk? Who knows. But unless it makes you feel miserable, which it did to Mark Bittman, high-fat milk has a lot going for it. Throwing it out of your diet seems like inviting the substitution of replacements with even less of a naturalistic entry into the food supply, like milk derived from beans. (In fact, as I wrote in Details last year, its possible that it is skim milk that's making us fatter, not whole.)
This is the second piece by Bittman in the last few weeks to take his gargantuan audience at the Times and blithely wade into some hotly contested nutritional question without a lot of understanding for the politics and tenacity of outdated paradigms in medicine and science. Last time it was whether it makes sense to eat a no carb diet — even though, as a JAMA study discovered, it burned more calories than a low fat or low glycemic index diet — if it raises some surrogates for inflammation (CRP and cortisol) and by extension disease. As I wrote (Surrogates are Not Diseases), surrogates are the big no-no's in the eyes of the medical specialty guideline-writing committees, health panel findings championed by industry and their, umm, surrogates in patient advocacy groups. But they are directives which ultimately serve to getting us hooked on pills of dubious benefit.
That was just my quick take on what was wrong with the thing, but it turns out if you actually read the study, which is above my pay grade on some mornings, it was plainly inaccurate: There's a great post by Peter Attia, MD, here, (The Eating Academy website) about the fact that apparently the Times overplayed even the link between Atkins eating and a rise in CRP. Attia called the assertion "patently false." Apparently, the rise of markers for inflammation in people who ate a no-carb diet was negligible.
"Each group experienced a significant decline in both PAI-1 and CRP, and there was no significant difference between the groups for either marker. However, the trend was (barely) significant favoring the low carbohydrate group for PAI-1 and favoring the low GI group for CRP. Sorry low fat, you didn't win either."
Bittman says milk gave him reflux and I believe him. Fine, drink water, Mark. But he then lets a dairy critic make a host of outdated assertions, like the idea that saturated fat is bad for us (wrong), and neglects something really important about dairy fat — it slows the absorption of carbohydrates into the blood stream, reducing the insulin response and the storage of carbohydrates as fat. Hey, it's why your grandmother gave you a rich creamy glass of whole milk with your cookie.
Surrogates are not diseases.
The popular and reasonable food writer Mark Bittman at the New York Times recently acknowledged some new data showing that high-fat, high protein, very low carbohydrate diets (some people call them "Atkins" diets, but that makes it sound like all you ever do is eat pork rinds, so I respectfully decline to do so here) help you lose weight faster than low fat diets or even low processed food diets — all while eating the same number of calories. In other words, a calorie is not a calorie, or, as Gary Taubes famously wrote back 2006, there are Good Calories/Bad Calories. This is progress, surely, to read in the Times that, as Ludwig says, "the low-fat diet that has been the primary approach for more than a generation is actually the worst for most outcomes, with the worst effects on insulin resistance, triglycerides and HDL, or good cholesterol."
But when it comes to getting rid of carbohydrates in the diet, the vast majority of the commentariat always seems to want to hedge their bets, and Bittman is no different. He highlights the caveat put forth by David O. Ludwig, that the Atkins diet, in Bittman's telling, "raised levels of CRP (c-reactive protein), which is a measure of chronic inflammation, and cortisol, a hormone that mediates stress. "'Both of these,' says Ludwig, 'are tightly linked to long term-heart risk and mortality.'"
And both of these are surrogates, one could add, or stand-ins for disease, risk factors associated with disease, rather than evidence of higher levels of actual disease. At this stage in the game, I would be wary of papers that warn us about surrogates. We have a long history of surrogates being used to prop up the use of pills, or ideologies about disease, in place of actual correlations between diets and disease. LDL is a surrogate for heart disease, and it is a crude, misleading one at that. It is necessary but not sufficient, in other words, like a herniated disc can be the source of back pain, or not. The presence of elevated levels of prostate specific antigen was used to justify widespread use of aggressive prostate cancer interventions that are now being walked back. We could go on and on.
Playgrounds used to be vertical
Last night we had dinner with friends who lived on a golf course. Our kids all disappeared and then we realized they were happily climbing and straddling a stationary 10 foot iron ladder used for golfers to inspect the fairway. I couldn't help but think about how we have scrubbed all the climbing and jumping from our playgrounds, most likely at the behest of lawyers, and then wonder why so many kids are tearing their ACL when the sign up for soccer.


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Perhaps we shouldn't be surprised, but Austin, Texas is having trouble making its transit-oriented development (TODs) work. From the Austin Chronicle (11/26/2010):
"Five years later, Austinites can survey the land surrounding the rail stations they paid for and proudly point to ... a whole lot of nothing.
"Okay, that's not entirely fair. There are a few somethings occurring in the TOD zones around the stations, but certainly not nearly at the level of fully realized visions. There's a nice brewpub. And some mixed-use residential/retail, including a project that has just broken ground. But more common are wide expanses of open grasslands and vacant lots. And strip mall retail. And warehouses. And a moribund mall."
While the faltering economy is one culprit, Texas' housing market has remained relatively strong--down because of the national economy not the housing bubble. Housing projects in weak markets and segments are delayed and cancelled first.
Moreover, the hype around TODs is pretty high, with advocates supporting them with rhetoric that seems to imply these investments are failsafe and immune to larger economic trends. In fact, they claim, TODs are supposed to redirect and spur economic growth. Unfortunately, they simply don't have the economic influence to do that. At least in Austin, local officials are becoming more realistic. Again from the Chronicle article:
"There are a number of plausible reasons [for Austin's anemic TOD economic effect]: The rail line started two years late; it's not on a very good route; maybe the TOD concept isn't as great as urban planners think. But the strong consensus explanation among those whose business it is to work on or monitor the TODs is the most obvious one: It's the economy, stupid.
"I think we've got a really bad case of timing," says Molly Scarbrough, the city of Austin's lead planner on TOD issues. Scarbrough says the city performed station-area planning on three of the nine TOD zones in Austin – Plaza Saltillo, East Martin Luther King Boulevard (near Airport Boulevard), and Crestview (North Lamar at Airport Boulevard) – with the plans being officially adopted in late 2009 and early 2010, "and that's pretty much when the bottom fell out of the development market. ... We continue to have a lot of conversations with developers that have interest in the areas – but, like all over town, it's just difficult for developers to get funding right now to do their projects."
"That's pretty obvious at the Crestview, Lakeline, and MLK stations – all feature enormous swaths of undeveloped fields. For now, there are outside factors governing all the other TOD zones: Saltillo's development is being driven more by its proximity to Downtown than by rail, and the others are not on a rail line; some don't even have zoning boundaries yet, and in the case of the potential Highland TOD, nothing will happen until the mall gurgles its final death rattle. But at Crestview, Lakeline, and MLK, city planners and local developers had real hopes and plans for the TOD zoning."
But, the real lesson here is that TOD economic success depends almost completely on the local economy and local regulation that allows the private sector to capture the value in the land market. Transit provides very little real economic value in most U.S. cities; most transit, rail included, simply doesn't have the ridership--the feet on the pavement--to sustain significant economic development. Transit can be an important supporting player along certain corridors, but (outside of New York) its not enough to drive development or shifts in development patterns.


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Discussion in '1974 - 1978 Mustang II Talk & Tech' started by 77sleeper, Jan 1, 2005.
5.0 guy here and i Love the look of the cobras... I want one
My car is a 1977 Mustang Ghia, factory V8 car, with an auto. I purchased it when I was 16 back in 1996. It's been through countless changes, three engine builds (from the same block!!!) all in the name of being top dog on the street in my little city. The latest engine I built for it is a stroker 302 using a Scat all forged rotating assembly & srp pistons. A mild Crower solid cam (pulls 11 inches of vacuum @ idle), Victor Jr intake manifold, AFR 165 street heads, 850 demon carb, lot of custom made parts from motor mounts to pulleys, I made them all myself. The engine is built tough, with looser piston and ring gaps. What it gives up on the engine due to the looser clearances it makes up for using a shot of N2o. This is a third variant of the engine in my car. It's ran a best 1/8th mile of 7.20 NA, and 6.70 103 using some juice. I hope to get a low 6.6 or high 6.5 out of it. All runs were made in street trim, except for tires. On the street I use Hoosier quick time pro tires out back, the track I use slicks, though I see no traction difference, the switch of tires just makes my street tires last longer. All my runs were made with crappy headman headers, and 2 1/2 inch exhaust. I cruise this thing all the time, with a good cooling system using a griffin radiator, it never gets hot. To help out the street manners out back is a stock 8 inch rear end with 4.11 gears, and a powertrax no slip locker. Most guys run deeper gears for 1/8th mile racing, but I wanted something pretty street friendly.
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Rollbar made and installed by yours truly:
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At the local cruise night, notice the stickers on the window from the drag races... I'm too lazy to take them off!
http://www.cardomain.com/ride/2541957 My cardomain page has all my updated info.
Here she is. Currently jacked up - puttin' new 74 pintowagon springs under 'er.
What mirrors are those? and nice shaved door handles
to be honest I have no clue about the mirrors. everything that's been done to 'er was done by the previous owner.
I'm eventually going to put the cobra mirrors and door handles on 'er. - I'm goin 70s hotrod as a tribute to my dad and the shaved handles don't really fit my style ideas - plus dude took the locks off too so it's not lockable which can get annoying.
Let us know how the Pinto spring swap goes, I'm looking at doing this to my car in the spring.
its been a while since i posted anything, so i figured i would post a couple new pics of the cobra. these were shortly after i finally got it running this past summer. i hope the link works....
Beautiful II
Hey, thought I might join in.
When I bought it:
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$8000 later and 1 trip to the hospital:
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Only one trip? LOL (Your more carefull then me)
I hated these cars when they were new because they were such a departure from the earlier Mustangs, but looking back now, they were not bad looking cars and the ones I see here are really cool. Great job!
I just noticed mine's not in here....
Here's pics of it before it got ran into and then clobbered by an autoshade the following winter.
Nice II Dano, I always liked your yellow coupe too
1977 Mustang II
Here is mine: Purchased in July of 2007, for $1800.00 this stock 77 302 automatic Mustang II was in very good condition and a show winner, but was just too plain. As with all my cars I do all the customizing myself on a VERY TIGHT budget, t.g. for E Bay. Believe it or not, all add ons (spoilers, scoops,vents and louvers) are painted using color matched & mixed rattle cans. The secret is time spent on prep. This has saved me $$$$$ to spend on all the other add ons. All stripes are custom designed by me and a friend on computer and transfered to a viynl cutter, then applied.
Awesome car
heres mine, this car has been in my family for a while, when i got it, it has 60k origanal miles.......and a rod knock.....
i pulled the engine, went .030 over, forged speed pro 9:1 pistons, i used the stock crank because a little short on money, i put in a high volume oil pump, a razor cam from hi-tech performance, edlbrock performer intake, edlebrock #1405 carb, 7:1 ford racing rockers, and a few other goodies, its a project so it still has alot needed, i plan on gt-40 heads, a RPM air gap, holley 650cfm vacum secondary carb, mallory unilite and a msd 6al.........take a look thanks
hey!, i have talked to you a few times on the II network
but i was wondering where you got those wheels, and what size are they?...and the tires?
haha thanks!
Mean 78 your project is lookin' good. Most of the cars here were owner built from nothing.
Like Mine:
hey man that looks pretty good!
mine will be clean like that in no time!


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Rincon is nice place. Do you surf?Kal
Drinking Rum
I'll be up by 3am tomorrow morning, on my way to JFK International Airport to board an early flight to Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Once in Aguadilla, we will rent a small car and drive a few miles to my aunt's guest house, which is situated atop a lovely little hill in the great beach town of Rincon. I will spend the next five days there, drinking rum and thinking about nothing in particular.
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I may be an odd woman out here, but I totally expected a non-elimination round the moment they had two people redance, and one was the person who was injured. IMHO I don't think the judges wanted to eliminate someone in the first round who danced over someone who didn't dance - though I felt Mitchell (?) was better.
Jordan does indeed need to tone down the sexiness aspect... that's all I'm saying.
Was glad that Nick and Ivetta were not up for elimination and they did the fooled you trick. Their dance was really good for a quickstep - especially when one didn't know the dance and does tap, and one of my favorites.
It will be sad next week when four are eliminated, but if they are mostly the same dancers - it may be Jordan and Tadd, though admittedly I didn't see the Broadway sounding individual dance.


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MONTREAL - The Quebec Soccer Federation announced Saturday that it reversed its decision to ban Sikh turbans from soccer pitches and as a result, had its suspension lifted from the Canadian Soccer Association.
The QSF's executive committee unanimously passed a motion on Friday to comply with the international governing body of soccer, FIFA, which allowed male players in Canada to wear head covers, said Brigitte Frot, QSF executive director.
The QSF had banned the turban in 2012 and upheld its ban at the beginning of June, despite an April 2013 CSA directive that instructed all provincial soccer associations to allow players to wear turbans. In response, the CSA removed the QSF's membership rights to the national soccer body. The CSA reinstated those rights on Saturday.
Frot said Saturday that the QSF's intention with the ban was to receive "confirmation" from FIFA as to the rules regarding head covers. The QSF also stated that it had safety concerns with the turban.
Frot said Saturday that she "especially" wanted to apologize to Quebec's anglophone community for saying that religiously observant Sikhs who wished to wear the turban can "play in their backyard."
Frot said that she chose the wrong words.
"I regret (saying it)," she said. "English is not my first language and I was trying to find a nicer word for 'park.' Honestly, it was very, very involuntary."
The ban drew the ire of federal politicians and made international headlines.
Balpreet Singh, spokesman for the World Sikh Organization of Canada, said the QSF's decision was "long overdue."
"I think they had no real alternative at this point but to lift the ban," he said.
However, despite the reversal, young observant Sikhs across the province missed the deadline to register for Quebec soccer teams for the 2013 season.
He said he hoped that soccer associations in Quebec will re-open registration for young Sikhs.
QSF spokesman Michel Dugas told QMI Saturday afternoon that the federation hasn't discussed the issue yet but hopes to work something out,
"If we all act in good faith then we can solve the problem," he said.
Singh told QMI that up until now, he hasn't seen the QSF acting in good faith.
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Who knew Mitt Romney was a Twihard? The former presidential candidate was spotted in San Diego on Saturday night. Romney took his wife Ann to an evening showing of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2, followed by a casual pizza dinner. TMZ leaked fuzzy cell phone photos of the couple during their perfectly normal date night in Del Mar. Our guess is the dinner and movie took place at Cinepolis Luxury Cinemas and Sammy's Woodfired Pizza within the Del Mar Highlands center. Romney owns an oceanfront home in La Jolla, and he clearly hasn't heard of the new ArcLight theater now open at Westfield UTC.
Christmas came early for military spouses. The "Oprah Winfrey Show" may be over, but one of its best holiday traditions lives on. The media mogul flew 29 military wives and one military husband to Washington, D.C. and gifted them with her Favorite Things. Among the dozens of presents were Ralph Lauren sweaters, metallic Michael Kors high tops, a Tory Burch tote bag, and the big daddy, a Fiji island vacation at the Namale Resort and Spa, US Weekly reported. The two-hour special will re-air Friday, Nov. 23 on OWN.
The stars shined bright for the 40th annual American Music Awards Sunday evening at the Nokia Theater in Los Angeles. The AMAs are different from other awards shows because the fans vote for the winners. New this year was a category for Electronic Dance Music which is undeniable in America. The show featured live performances by Usher, Taylor Swift, Pink, Ke$ha and Kelly Clarkson, among other pop acts.
Justin Bieber was the biggest winner of the night, taking home three awards including the coveted nod for Artist of the Year, beating Rihanna, Drake and Maroon 5. The best moment had to be the finale performance from Psy. The real surprise came when MC Hammer took the stage for a mash-up of "Gangham Style" and "Too Legit to Quit."
Complete list of 2012 American Music Awards winners:
Artist of the Year: Justin Bieber
Favorite Pop/Rock Male Artist: Justin Bieber
Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist: Katy Perry
Favorite Pop/Rock Band/Duo/Group: Maroon 5
Favorite Pop/Rock Album: Believe, Justin Bieber
Favorite Country Female Artist: Taylor Swift
Favorite Country Male Artist: Luke Bryan
Favorite Country Band/Duo/Group: Lady Antebellum
Favorite Country Album: Blown Away, Carrie Underwood
Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Artist: Nicki Minaj
Favorite Rap/Hip-Hop Album: Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded, Nicki Minaj
Favorite Alternative Rock Music Artist: Linkin Park
Favorite Electronic Dance Music Artist: David Guetta
Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist: Usher
Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist: Beyoncé
Favorite Soul/R&B Album: Talk That Talk, Rihanna
Favorite Adult Contemporary Artist: Adele
Favorite Latin Artist: Shakira
Favorite Adult Contemporary Inspirational Artist: tobyMac
New Artist of the Year: Carly Rae Jepsen
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Also...if you come early at 5:30 pm, there will be a free family dinner of healthy foods in the fieldhouse as part of Humboldt Park's "Bring The Family to The Table" program.
Below is the draft agenda for tomorrow's meeting and the minutes from January's meeting:
Humboldt Park Advisory Council (HPAC)
Meeting of February 16, 2012 - 6:30 p.m.
I. Welcome and Introductions
II. Approval of Minutes
III. Reports
a) Park Supervisor
b) President
c) Vice President
d) Treasurer
e) Secretary
IV. New Business
a) Introduction and discussion of proposed amendment to by-laws regarding voting eligibility
b) Introduction and discussion of proposed amendment to by-laws regarding Advisory Council member deifinitions
V. Old Business
VI. Announcements
VII. Adjourn
The next HPAC meeting will be held on Thursday, March 15th, 2012
Humboldt Park Advisory Council (HPAC)
Minutes for Meeting of January 19, 2012
Location: Humboldt Park Field House
President Ruth Pena, Treasurer Maggie Martinez, Sergeant at Arms Glenn Brettner, Secretary Brian Hacker, Park Supervisor Cynthia Rosario, Nancy Diaz, Freddy Molina, Amy Vega, David Diaz, Richard Karwowski, Mikey Sanchez, Ramona Gordils, Carmen Diaz
Meeting called to order at 6:49 p.m by President Ruth Pena; attendees introduced themselves.
Minutes from November's meeting were read and approved with changes. Motion made by President Ruth Pena and seconded by Treasurer Maggie Martinez.
- · President Ruth Pena said that she heard a rumor that the Park District may be making changes to their leadership and asked Park Supervisor Jesus Perez if this was true. Jesus responded that he had not heard anything about it.
- · Sergeant at Arms Glenn Brettner said that he noticed a banner hanging on a fence on Park District property outside the stables building advertising an event that is not related to the park and asked if this is allowed. Jesus Perez responded that the Puerto Rican Arts Alliance hangs the banners at that location and the issue should be taken up with them. Amy Vega commented that the question of what banners can be hung on park property is unclear. Ruth Pena said that the banner was for an event that was held at the fieldhouse. Glenn Brettner responded that if anyone is allowed to hang banners it could lead to unwanted advertising, such as for products.
- · Regarding the issue of the December Chicago Cyclocross Cup bike race held in the park, Jesus Perez said that he does not want to see it come back next year because of the damage done to the ground. Amy Vega asked if they were charged a fine for repairs, Jesus responded that he knows a permit was issued for a race but he does not know about a fine. Amy Vega responded that her organization was charged a $7000 fine because of a semi truck that drove on the grass during the Puerto Rican Parade celebration. Jesus commented that the race organizers must put up a waiver of liability and an insurance bond to obtain a permit. Ruth Pena suggested submitting a letter to the Park District from the Advisory Council and Jesus Perez responded that he would find the proper contact to send a letter to.
- Treasurer Maggie Martinez submitted a report of deposits and expenses for the concession stand from the Parkways Foundation. There is a total balance of $13,500 approximately. Glenn Brettner noticed a mistake on the report showing the concession stand insurance as a deposit of $1064.30 instead of an expense. Maggie commented that she will have a full report of the entire balance next month.
- Amy Vega asked if we have a copy of the Advisory Council's fiscal sponsor agreement with the Parkways Foundation and that it might be possible for the Advisory Council to do its own banking and still maintain Parkways Foundation as its fiscal sponsor. Glenn Brettner asked if it would be worth it to approach an accountant on this issue and Maggie Martinez recommended inviting a member of the Parkways Foundation to come to a meeting in the future and said that she will call them to invite someone. Freddy Molina said that the Advisory Council should work with the United Leagues of Humboldt Park to possibly open an account through their organization because they are a registered non-profit.
- Maggie Martinez announced that the Earth Day clean-up in the park is Saturday, April 21 and the Block Club Federation is looking for volunteers and sponsors.
- Maggie Martinez asked Jesus Perez if he expected a restaurant to take over the space at the boathouse. He responded that applications have been submitted but no decisions have been made yet.
- Secretary Brian Hacker submitted a draft of a logo for the Advisory Council and requested feedback from members. Glenn Brettner asked how the logo would look in black and white and a copy of the color version was made in black and white to see the result. There was also discussion of designing a banner for the Advisory Council to hang outside the fieldhouse. Brian Hacker asked about the typical format of banners and Amy Vega responded that they are often three by five.
- Brian Hacker mentioned that he posted a video of sledders in Humboldt Park taken by the Chicago Tribune on the Advisory Council's Facebook page. Amy Vega brought up the possibility of opening the concession stand at Little Cubs Field during times when there are a large number of sledders.
- Brian Hacker announced the Advisory Council members who were eligible to vote according to the attendance requirements established by the by-laws. The list of members who were eligible is Glenn Brettner, Nancy Diaz, Brian Hacker, Maggie Martinez, Ruth Pena, and Lucy Roman. Mikey Sanchez and Freddy Molina objected to this announcement and claimed they had each attended enough meetings to vote in the elections. Brian Hacker stated that the eligibility was determined by reviewing the attendance sheets from the previous 12 months and that they were both one meeting short of being eligible to vote. There was discussion as to whether members of the Advisory Council should be able to send representatives in their places if they are not able to make it. Freddy Molina said that there are times when he is not available to come to meetings and that he should be able to send a representative. Glenn Brettner responded that because the Advisory Council is a citizen board made up of individuals that each individual must attend the minimum required number of meetings to vote or run. Amy Vega said that this is not the way most Boards are run, because they typically allow organizations to send representatives to voice their opinions and vote, and that the Advisory Council Board members do not know what it means to be on a board.
- After comments were finished, Executive Board elections were held for the positions of President, Vice President, Treasurer, Secretary and Sergeant at Arms. The results are as follows.
◦ In the election for President, Ruth Pena was nominated by Glenn Brettner and seconded by Maggie Martinez. She was elected with a total of four votes.
◦ In the election for Vice President, Glenn Brettner was nominated by Nancy Diaz and seconded by Ruth Pena. He was elected with a total of four votes.
◦ In the election for Treasurer, Maggie Martinez was nominated by Glenn Brettner and seconded by Brian Hacker. She was elected with a total of four votes.
◦ In the election for Secretary, Brian Hacker was nominated by Ruth Pena and seconded by Maggie Martinez. He was elected with a total of four votes.
◦ In the election for Sergeant at Arms, Nancy Diaz was nominated by Glenn Brettner and seconded by Brian Hacker. She was elected with a total of four votes.
- After elections were held, there was discussion of the voting requirements and how they could be improved. It was agreed by all members that in the case of a cancelled meeting, an attendance sheet should be provided for anyone who attends to sign in. Those who sign the attendance sheet will then be counted as present for the meeting, regardless of whether or not it was cancelled. Maggie Martinez asked if Advisory Council members are required to re-apply for membership every year. Cynthia Rosario responded that this is not necessary. David Diaz recommended that a member should be able to be represented by another person as long as they are a member. Nancy Diaz recommended that members should be required to attend half of the total number of meetings (10) in order to be able to vote. Jesus Perez agreed with this. Glenn Brettner commented that four years ago, a large number of people would only attend the meeting when the Executive Board elections were held and not come again for the rest of the year. This is why they raised the number of meetings required to vote in the Executive Board elections to six.
- · Nancy Diaz asked if the repairs to the fieldhouse roof that were discussed at previous meetings had been completed and how would it be possible to verify this. Cynthia Rosario responded that patches were made to the roof, but the warranty is expired.
- · Nancy Diaz said that in a recent meeting the United Leagues of Humboldt Park had with Park District Superintendent Mike Kelly, he told her that funds have been allocated to the Park District for seasonal field maintenance workers to maintain the baseball diamonds. Nancy Diaz said that they diamonds are still not maintained and does not believe that these workers were not actually hired. Jesus Perez responded that these positions were cut from the budget. Ruth Pena said that the seasonal workers are assigned where they are needed and work on Little Cubs Field. Nancy Diaz said that the ULHP has had to look into hiring private maintenance workers to drag the fields. David Diaz added that the fields are not maintained and there is not evidence that Park District workers are taking care of them. Ruth Pena recommended that the Advisory Council invite the Park District's Operations Manager to the next meeting.
- · In response to these concerns, Cynthia Rosario said that ballfield laborers were taken out of budgets for most parks and that Mike Kelly was likely mistaken about the budget. The employees he referred to are assistants to the overall city maintenance staff. Humboldt Park has its own devoted maintenance worker and it is lucky to have this. Cynthia continued, two years ago the baseball diamonds were dragged every day but they are now done every other day due to budget cuts and acknowledged that this takes a toll on the leagues that pay to play in the park. Landscape Maintenance is the department to talk to about issues related issues if the ULHP wishes to contact them. Cynthia added that park staff has a calendar of priority for maintenance based on scheduling, but the other responsibilities in the park such as grass cutting and maintenance of other fields draw from the time they have to maintain the baseball diamonds.
- · In response to questions asked regarding Humboldt Park's budget versus the revenue it generates, Cynthia Rosario responded that the park's revenue does not match its expenses and that only one park in the city makes an amount of revenue that is equal to its expenses.
- · On the subject of the privatization of Little Cubs Field, Cynthia Rosario said that she and Jesus Perez are both opposed to it, but if Mike Kelly wants to do it, he is going to do it.
- · Nancy Diaz said that Mike Kelly told the ULHP that all of the lights in the park that were damaged by the hail storm in the summer of 2011 were replaced but she did not see signs of this. Cynthia Rosario responded that he was probably referring to the globes on the lamp posts.
- · Cynthia Rosario said that additional lighting for baseball fields is being planned and that the Park District is currently talking to electricians about the installation. Jesus Perez added that new dugouts were installed on diamonds one, two and three.
- · Maggie Martinez said that the Advisory Council should approach Mike Kelly about the privatization of Little Cubs Field. She said that she does not want to see a private company take the profits and raise the prices of concessions.
President Ruth Pena made a motion to adjourn the meeting at 8:50 p.m. This was seconded by Secretary Brian Hacker.


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New Ducal succession rights for Grand Duchy
Differences between sons and daughters removed.
In September last year a rule decreeing that only male heirs have the right to the Luxembourg throne was put before the Grand Duke's Court.
As of Monday, male descendants are no longer preferred and a Duchess is equally likely.
Once Grand Duke's reign ends, the first born will have the right to the throne regardless of whether a son or a daughter. However although this ruling comes into force, nothing is going to probably change in our lifetime. Next on the hereditary "list" will be Grand Duke Henri's first born, Guillaume.
This constitutional reform has now been put before the Chamber of Deputies before becoming rubber stamped. This is in fact the first time the succession to the throne ruling has been changed since the Family Pact of 1783.


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Average Rating: 5 [Total Votes: 1]
The question to ask yourself is… Are you a victim of Premature Ejectulation?
What I am reffering to is leaving a set prematurely because you "feel" you have been blown out.
I have witnessed a wide range of students now some of them pretty well known amongst the community who will quite happily open a set, get them hooked, and run a decent number of routines generating a great deal of IOI's and then eject, actually saying goodbye.
A key point here is that this should not be confused with capture – recapture. Wherebye you leave the set on a high note at the begining of the night, with a time bridge stating you will probably see them around later on, and maybe they owe you a dance/drink whatever. Just so they don't feel trapped by you early on in the night.
I am talking about having a set hooked late into the evening, and leaving the set for a number of reasons which may seem valid in your head at the time, however upon further inspection you can see that it would have made more sense to stay in set.
The common reasons I have heard are as follows;
a) Run out of things to say b) I was about to get blown out c) It wasn't going anywhere d) I don't know why I did it
Each of these reasons are an assumption based on the ideas of the PUA in question and not the girls in set.
a) If you have run out of things to say, go quiet for a while… but stay in set. I have field tested this and it is amazing how long you can just sit there not saying anything without getting blown out. Try it yourself Catnap did a great game that illustrates this on my first ever meeting with the community where you ask a question and just freeze. The key point is that people are generally too polite to tell you to go away. So as long as when you do eventually speak you say something worth while you just look like you are enjoying the company.
b) How do you know this? if she will blow you out… let her do it. One of my natural friends once asked me if I had ever told the secret to attraction. I asked him what he meant and he said PERSISTANCE! Thinking back alot of the girls I have gone out with in the past before I got into game, I got by being persistant. Persistance can almost only ever exist with confidence. The more you persist the stronger your inner game can appear as long as you don't get too freaky… Stalker stylee.
c) Again see point b above. The only way you will know is to try it out. We almost always only learn from negative experiences. The more you fail the better you become.
d) Again it is highly likely to be a reason from above, or something similar. The only exception i can think of would be a lack of attraction on your part, in which case fair enough. Why sarge a girl you don't like.
So think about it next time you are in set, a little bit of practice and living in that uncomfortable zone and you to can put an end to Premature Ejectulation!
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Gold Coast throw open doors once more
Queensland's richest man, Clive Palmer, has pitched in to aid the state's flood relief efforts by throwing open the gates of Skilled Park for Gold Coast United's A-League match against Newcastle on Saturday week.
In exchange for free entry, club owner and chairman Palmer has asked fans to make donations to assist victims of Queensland's flood crisis.
The entire stadium, also opened up last month for the Coast's match against Central Coast, will be accessible for spectators on January 22.
"What we have witnessed recently in Queensland is almost beyond belief and I'm sure everyone who has been fortunate enough to escape being affected by these floods feels deeply for those who have," said United chief executive Clive Mensink.
Fourth-placed Gold Coast play their next match, against North Queensland, at Skilled Park on Friday night.
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Open lung biopsy
An open lung biopsy is surgery to remove a small piece of tissue from the lung. The sample is then examined for cancer, infection, or lung disease.
How is the Test Performed?
An open lung biopsy is done in the hospital using general anesthesia, which means you are asleep and pain-free. A tube will be placed through your mouth down your throat to help you breathe.
The surgery is done in the following way:
- After cleaning the skin, the surgeon makes a small cut in the left or right side of your chest.
- The ribs are gently separated.
- Tissue is taken from the lung and sent to a laboratory for examination.
- After surgery, the wound is closed with stitches.
- Your surgeon may leave a small plastic tube in your chest to prevent air and fluid from building up.
Preparation for the Test
You should tell the health care provider if you are pregnant, allergic to any medicines, or if you have a bleeding problem. Be sure to tell your provider about all the medicines you take, including herbs, supplements, and those bought without a prescription.
Follow your surgeon's instructions for not eating or drinking before the procedure.
How the Test will Feel
When you wake up after the procedure, you will feel drowsy for several hours.
There will be some tenderness and pain where the surgical cut is located. Most surgeons inject a long-acting local anesthetic at the surgical cut site so that you will have very little pain afterwards.
You may have a sore throat from the tube. You can ease the pain by eating ice chips.
Why is the Test Performed?
The open lung biopsy is done to evaluate lung problems seen on x-ray or CT scan.
Normal Results for Open lung biopsy
The lungs and lung tissue will be normal.
What Abnormal Results Mean
Abnormal results may be due to:
- Benign tumors
- Cancer
- Certain infections (bacterial, viral, or fungal)
- Lung diseases (fibrosis)
The procedure may help diagnose a number of different conditions, such as:
Open lung biopsy Risks
There is a possibility of infection or an air leak into the chest. Your risk depends on whether or not you already have lung disease.
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Convenient to Shang Lake and Yushan Forest Park
Book a room at our Days Hotel Zhong Hui Changshu hotel. Enjoy the outdoors at nearby Shang Lake. We are also centrally located within easy driving distance of area attractions and some of the most scenic spots in the region.


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LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Europe's top equity indexes bounced up to multi-year highs on Tuesday, buoyed by the breach of key technical levels, a crop of upbeat corporate outlooks and prospects of continued stimulus from global central banks.
The European Central Bank, the Bank of England and the Bank of Japan are all expected to stick to ultra easy monetary policy at meetings this week, following on from reassurances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials that their stimulus programme is also here to stay, for now.
A rally in the U.S. Dow Jones Industrial Average to record intra-day highs helped European bourses accelerate gains in afternoon trade, as did stronger than expected data on the U.S. services sector.
The pan-European FTSEurofirst 300 index provisionally closed up 1.8 percent at 1,189.09 points, its highest finish in 4-1/2 years but just short of the February 2011 intra-day peak of 1,191.56 points.
"There are many (European) stocks hitting yearly new highs and that's positive," said Riccardo Ronco, head of technical analysis at Aviate Global, noting particular strength in industrials, consumer discretionary and consumer staples.
"I am not fighting that kind of information because it is very strong. But this is a very messy market ... You should tighten your stop losses and you have to be in the right segments."


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Upcoming events
- Need Lunch? #4 - By MHzFri Dec 1 12:00pm (9 days)
- The Merry Muggle and the Holiday Happening - by foxscoutSat Dec 2 12:30pm (10 days)
- MBGA Board of Directors MeetingWed Dec 13 7:00pm (21 days)
Cacher of the Month - August 2008
- When did you start Geocaching?
- How did you find out about Geocaching?
- What was it about geocaching that got you hooked into the game?
- Have you cached in any other provinces, countries?
November 2006
There was a GeoCaching workshop sponsored by the Friends of Riding Mountain presented in Brandon and I attended, because the subject of GeoCaching interested me.
The combination of outdoor activities with the technical nature of GeoCaching.
Yes, all 10 provinces as well as Minnesota and Florida.
MBGA Board of Directors Meeting - August 12, 2008
Location: Jeffery's Restaurant (N49 56.729 W97 05.203)
Meeting called to order at 19:09 CDT.
Board members present: Sandra (junglehair), Jeff (HoggerJeff & the Piglets), Steven (ertyu), Tim (TurdleEggs), Peter (Peter & Gloria), Dani (dani_carriere) and Paula (MHz).
Board members not present: Ray (slippery_1), Jacques (OHMIC), Georgia (GG+J) and Carmène (Mosaik Voyage)
Members present: Mike (mb0971)
Milestones achieved in July 2008
Congratulations to the following Manitoba MBGA members who have reached milestones during the past month.
If there are any errors or omissions please let us know as we may have inadvertently missed someone.
Cacher of the Month - July 2008
HoggerJeff & the Piglets
HoggerJeff & the Piglets
- When did you start Geocaching?
I started on my own in early 2005 when I discovered the GC.com site while surfing the net. I thought that the idea of searching for treasure using GPS was probably the coolest thing I had ever heard of. The first find was Smokey's Birthday Cache on Jan 28 that year. It wasn't long before the kids started accompanying me on a regular basis on my outings. It was then that I changed the user name from just "HoggerJeff" to "HoggerJeff & the Piglets".
Finders of the Lost Cache
This summer the MBGA is challenging you to find long lost Manitoba caches for a chance to win some cool geocaching prizes.
Each of the long lost caches has been allocated points according to it's age, difficulty and terrain, as well as the amount of time since it was last found. If you are prepared to risk life and limb (or just gas money), find one or more of the long lost caches between July 1 and August 31, 2008.
Find out more at the Finders of the Lost Cache Contest Page.


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Facebook's bid to buy the photo sharing site was officially approved yesterday. The deal is worth much less than the initial billion dollar price tag, and that's because part of Facebook's payment to Instagram was in the form of close to 23 million shares of stock. When the deal was announced the stock was priced at $31 a share. Yesterday's close (insert sad trombones) $19.10, which works out to around $439 million. Add that to the $300 million in cash, and well, you get a lot of money, but not quite the billion. The Wall Street Journal reports:
The transaction drew a great deal of scrutiny due to its hefty size and the lack of any revenue at Instagram, which had been launched in late 2010. Instagram now has 16 employees.
As of now, Instagram is still in the business of losing money (and making all your pictures look like they were taken with an out of focus Polaroid from 1982).


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|Jack Nicklaus 6: Golden Bear Challenge (1999)
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|Star Trek: Hidden Evil (1999)
|Interstate '76: Nitro Pack (1998)
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He's in today's top 5 as I count down the top 5 songs on this day in 1973.
[lastfm link_type="artist_info"]Jim Croce[/lastfm] was one of those guys who became an overnight sensation after years of paying his dues. During his run on the charts in the early 70's there was a revival of 50's rock and roll going on that he somehow tied in with the march king, [lastfm link_type="artist_info"]John Phillip Sousa[/lastfm].


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Rancho Mirage HOA meeting turns into a brawl
Election results spark feud between residents and board members
RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. - Brawls usually happen in bars, not multi-million dollar country clubs.
"These are high class people, wealthy people. These aren't people who get in fist fights with each other," Everett Greeno said.
On Sunday, though, at The Springs Country Club in Rancho Mirage, fists were flying.
"I think you have people getting up in ears on one side, people on the board who begin to think possibly they own the place," Robert Smith, who lives in the Springs but was not at that HOA meeting, said.
The Riverside County Sheriff's Department said Home Owner's Association election results sparked the fight.
"There were two openings for board and the board suggested only two people to run. A third individual who lived here and decided he would run, and that obviously didn't go well," Smith said.
During the meeting, talking escalated to yelling. Authorities say it then turned to pushing, punching, tackling and even chair throwing.
"I've lived in about three areas now with Homeowners Associations, first time I've seen something quite this..." Smith said.
The sheriff's department said they were called to the brawl at the clubhouse around 4:00. Police continue to investigate to see who is at fault.
The Springs HOA released this statement: We are deeply saddened by the events. We are completely at odds with what The Springs is really like.
On Facebook, viewers had a lto to say about heated HOA meetings.
"HOA's are no different than our government," Jarrod wrote.
Shris commented, "People with the biggest egos go for offices in the HOA and have some sort of power trip over their fellow residents."
Two people were taken to the hospital -- one with minor bumps and bruises and one had a seizure.