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Simply Ming "Jamie Bissonnette & Breaking Down A Chicken" On this episode of SIMPLY MING, Ming shows you one of his top techniques for a home cook to master, breaking down a chicken. "Buying a whole bird is so much cheaper than chicken parts", says Ming. With the help of Boston Chef Jamie Bissonnette, a nose to tail specialist, Ming shows viewers how much more mileage you can get out of a whole bird. D
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Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co.: Our Food Heritage "Famous African-Americans" Louisiana is home to many famous African-Americans. Tiwanna Simpson introduces us to "King" Oliver, Mahalia Jackson, Fats Domino and Louis Armstrong. In West Africa, chicken was a festive dish served to honored guests. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "European Travel Skills, Part 3" As Rick brings his 3,000-mile trek to its finish, he reinforces the skill he calls the most rewarding of all - connecting with the locals, not forgetting essential skills such as eating and sleeping well and packing light. Part 3 of 3G


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Man in Oriental Dress, Rembrandt van Rijn, 1635
Rembrandt manipulated light in a highly personal way. Here, the man's turban and the right side of his face are brilliantly illuminated, while the left side is in shadow. Exotic character heads like this – they are not portraits – were extremely popular in the 17th century; early on, they were widely copied and imitated. They were known as 'Turkish tronies'.

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Sarah Drew won't need much help from the prop department: she's pregnant!
The Grey's Anatomy actress is expecting her second child with husband Peter Lanfer, her rep confirms exclusively to PEOPLE.
The couple, who are already parents to 2½-year-old son Micah Emmanuel, will welcome their new addition in December.
"Peter and I are delighted to announce our pregnancy," Drew tells PEOPLE. "We can't wait to introduce Micah to his little brother or sister."
On the season finale of Grey's, it was revealed that Drew's character, April Kepner, is expecting her first child with her onscreen husband Jackson Avery, played by new dad Jesse Williams.
And while she'll be busy balancing her expanding family with the upcoming season of her hit show, Drew recently admitted her son makes motherhood look easy.
"He does have tantrums now and again, but for the most part, he's incredibly sweet and funny and such a good boy," she said. "He's a lot easier than a lot of toddlers. I'm very, very lucky."
— Anya Leon with reporting by Julie Jordan


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If there were thoughts that Miss America has had her day, ABC doesn't agree.
This year, the network returns the competition to broadcast television after a three-year run on TLC (which also had a reality series with the given year's contestants attached to it). ABC's three-year deal for the pageant begins Saturday, Jan, 15, with Chris Harrison ( "The Bachelor") and Brooke Burke ( "Dancing With the Stars") serving as hosts at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas.
The upcoming event marks the contest's return to ABC, home to its last over-the-air telecast six years ago. Country Music Television carried the pageant for the two-year interim between ABC and TLC, but for many years previously, Miss America was very much an NBC tradition.
Along with that, Bert Parks established a close association with the pageant as its host. He filled that role from 1955 (the first year the competition was televised) to 1979, and his crooning of the coronation song, "There She Is, Miss America," became as much a trademark of his career as anything.
The 2011 judging panel features some very familiar faces, several of them with (not surprisingly) close ties to ABC. "The View" co-host Joy Behar is the chosen "expert" in the area of interview, "Desperate Housewives" creator and executive producer Marc Cherry represents "star power," and "Dancing With the Stars" veteran Tony Dovolani -- who was paired with Audrina Patridge ( "The Hills") in that series' most recent season -- covers expertise in fitness and dance.
Community service and instrumental talent will be handled by Dr. Debbye Turner Bell, the CBS News correspondent who was Miss America 1990. Actress Marilu Henner ( "Taxi") is the representative for health and beauty, shoe designer Taryn Rose speaks for the field of fashion, and country music star Mark Wills will symbolize vocal talent.
All the expected elements will be factored in again, then, as Miss America makes her broadcast return. And there she'll stay ... at least for a while.


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All APIs handle paging a little differently. In this tutorial, you will learn how to implement paging in the Slack API. Paging with the Slack API, or at least the method you are using, as not as intuitive as some other APIs. When working with other APIs, you may find that the paging data is actually provided for you.


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By Sruthi Ramakrishnan
(Reuters) - Omnicom Group Inc, the largest U.S. advertising company and home to agencies such as BBDO Worldwide and DDB Worldwide, reported a better-than-expected fourth-quarter profit on higher revenue in its domestic market.
Many of the macroeconomic problems cited by advertising companies over the last few quarters, including instability in the euro zone and a slowdown in China, have been easing.
Omnicom said it expects modest growth in 2013 but cautioned that uncertainty in some markets would continue to put pressure on advertising spending.
"While the macroeconomic environment appears to be stabilizing and even improving in some areas, issues in several markets remain unresolved," Chief Executive John Wren said on a conference call with analysts.
"We are cautiously optimistic as we look into the latter part of 2013 and into 2014," he said.
Advertising companies had also been concerned about the impact on advertising spending of the rancorous negotiations over the U.S. fiscal cliff during the fourth quarter.
Omnicom, the first of the major advertising companies to report results, said revenue in the United States rose 5 percent to $2.03 billion during the quarter, accounting for about half of the total revenue.
"Surprisingly strong U.S. organic growth helped buoy continued weakness in Euro markets," Jefferies analyst Will Smith wrote in a note.
Smith said Omnicom's strong U.S. revenue was a positive for WPP Plc, the world's No.1 advertising company, and Interpublic Group.
Omnicom shares, which have risen 18 percent in the last three months through Monday, rose as much as 2.5 percent to a life-high of $56.75.
Omnicom said many markets in Europe remained weak and growth was likely to be slow in the region for some time as governments continue to operate with fiscal restraint.
"Our large European markets like Russia continued to perform largely well while the UK, France and Germany remained weak and in aggregate the euro zone markets were down 3.7 percent," Chief Financial Officer Randall Weisenburger said.
"Some of the revenue decline from the region could be tracked to specific client reductions rather than the economic situation," Wren said.
Total international revenue slipped 0.3 percent, weighed by the weakness in Europe.
Net income rose to $307.1 million, or $1.13 per share, in the quarter, from $271.9 million, or 96 cents per share, a year earlier.
Revenue rose 2.4 percent to $3.94 billion.
Analysts had expected earnings of $1.09 per share on revenue of $3.93 billion, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
(Reporting by Sruthi Ramakrishnan in Bangalore, Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty)


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Phillip of PhillipVN Photography shot this incredible wedding between a professional hula hooper and electronic music maker. Veronika and Torin had a whirlwind, two-week romance before getting engaged, and later tied the knot at the Burning Man music festival. The official ceremony took place at a private estate in the Bay Area of California, surrounded by a circle of their friends and family. The couple stood in the center of two golden hula hoops for their vows, while Torin's musical creations played over the speakers.
The bridesmaids' sweet yellow dresses were customized for each girl, from lace details to peacock feathers. Veronika made her beautiful button and ribbon bouquet with pieces from her family's generations-old factory. Veronika's friends gave starlit performances, including fire breathing and fire dancing. The bride topped off her night by dancing in a pair of handmade gold heels and spinning her LED hula hoop.


text: Report: Email volume rises 13% in Q3 Published on December 18, 2013. New York—Overall email volume increased by 12.7% in the third quarter compared with the year-earlier period, and unique open rates rose 6.0%, according to a new report by Experian Marketing Services. The study revealed in particular a rise in open rates when a brand's name was included in the subject line of transactional emails, such as shipping and order confirmations, order cancellations and return confirmations. In addition, unique click rates for shipping confirmations rose 13.5% when they featured some form of personalization, compared with 8.3% without personalization. Among other metrics tracked, invitations to join loyalty programs when sent along with order or shipping confirmations prompted click rates to rise as much as 26.0%. Most Popular In this article: BtoB


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Comprehensive immigration reform is critical to secure the workforce needed by Florida's agriculture industry, said Tom Vilsack.
Comprehensive immigration reform is critical to secure the workforce needed by Florida's multibillion-dollar agricultural industry and would benefit the broader economy, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said in an interview with The Gainesville Sun.
Vilsack has been on a media blitz with reporters in farm states to emphasize the need to get something done on the immigration reform bill before the House goes on a monthlong recess at the end of the week.
The Senate passed a bipartisan reform bill in June to secure the borders and provide a path to citizenship for an estimated 11 million immigrants who are in the country illegally. Republican leadership in the House plans to split the legislation into five or six component parts for a possible vote in October, said U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
"The House may have thoughts to improve the bill. That's what the process is about," Vilsack said. "But we can't get to that point until we have competing bills. If the House has to do it in bite-sized pieces, they need to get it done. I don't see much in the way of floor action."
Having enough agricultural workers is a problem in states such as Florida that have a lot of fruit and vegetable production that relies more heavily on noncitizen labor, he said.
According to a report issued Monday by the White House, 59 percent of the workers in Florida's $7.8 billion farm industry are non-U.S. citizens, the third-highest rate in the nation behind California (73 percent) and Washington state (60 percent). Of that 59 percent, probably 60-70 percent are in the country illegally based on Department of Labor surveys, Vilsack said.
Some farms already have faced a labor shortage of noncitizen workers because of increased border security, deportations and fears of crackdowns, he said.
The result is lost economic opportunity as farmers cut down on production or lose crops already planted while production moves overseas, Vilsack said.
The loss of noncitizen labor would result in crop losses of $560 million to $1.01 billion in Florida, according to the report.
"That's why a comprehensive immigration bill is important as uncertainty about immigration law makes it harder to secure the workforce because people are not willing to come out in the open and work," he said.
The Senate bill would create a "blue card" program specifically for an estimated 1.5 million agricultural workers, spouses and children that allows them to work legally while paying taxes. After five years, they would apply for permanent resident status and eventually citizenship.
The bill also would phase out the H-2A temporary agricultural visa in favor of a new W3 visa for agricultural workers with a contract for employment and a W4 visa for workers with an offer for employment.
Quoting federal estimates, Vilsack said providing a way for noncitizens to pay taxes would reduce the federal deficit by $850 billion and keep the Social Security system solvent for an additional two years.
U.S. Rep. Ted Yoho, whose district include Alachua and Marion counties, has called the immigration bill "ill-conceived" and said he favors reform on a smaller scale.
He said reform should start with increased border security, saying the current bill would do little to stem the flow of immigrants coming into the country illegally.
Yoho said he favors reforming the agricultural guest worker programs to include national identification for workers who would pay taxes.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.


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Lepido Sitemap Debugger Contribution
The Sitemap Debugger offers an Eclipse based GUI to trace the processing of the Cocoon sitemap. It consists of two main parts: An Eclipse plugin and a cocoon extension. For Cocoon 2.1.8dev there is a patched version of the treeprocessor which adds debugging support. Cocoon 2.2 provides a debugging interface which makes it easy to add a the debugger. A default implementation, which works with the provided debugger, is included in the profiler-block. The debugging interfaces should be backported to Cocoon 2.1.8 if they are finished to ease the development.
Current Functions
- request based tracing of the sitemap
- display sitemap variables
- supported sitemap elements:
- matcher
- generator
- transformer
- serializer
- ...
- supported Cocoon Versions: 2.1.8dev and 2.2dev
- supported Eclipse Verison: 3.1
- add support for the missing sitemap elements
- add support for chanding sitemap variables
- discuss if it usefull to port it to the Eclipse debugging infrastructure
- dicsuss new features
- backport the sever-side debugging-interaces to Cocoon 2.1.8dev if they are finished
- extend the documentation
Dev Info
Eclipse Client
The basic function of the Eclipse debugging client is rather easy: read a message from the server, parse the message and update the views, send the next command to the server. But the code in fact is in some cases not so easy to understand
Here is a short overview what the classes do:
package org.eclipse.lepido.debugger:
DebuggerPlugin: Main plugin class, provides some functionality for logging. BrowserControl: Helper to launch an external browser (should be replaced with the SWT browser stuff).
package org.eclipse.lepido.debugger.sitemap
DebugView: Main view of the Plugin, displays the sitemap and provides the controls to start, stop and configure the debugger
MessageBroker: Provides functions to process the incoming messages
Perspective: The Eclipse perspective
RequestThread: Reads a stream from an URL, used if you don't want to view the result in the browser
Sitemap: Holds the sitemap as a dom4j-object
SitemapContentProvider: provider for the treeview to display the sitemap
SitemapLabelProvider: provider for the treeview to display the labels
SocketControlerThread: Thread to start and stop the server, to read and send messages
StartDialog: Dialog that pops up if you want to start the debugger
StatementMessage: Represents a <sitemap-element> message
StatementPropertySheetEntry: PropertySheetEntry for the information values of a statement-message
StreamView: This view displays the processd streams
ViewRunnable: Forwards method calls from the SocketControlerThread to the DebugView
XMLMessage: Represents a XML-message from cocoon
package org.eclipse.lepido.debugger.xmlsourceviewer:
This package contains a simple source viewer to display nice colored xml in the StreamView
Cocoon Extension
The Cocoon extension for 2.1.8 is a patched TreeProcessor with some modified sitemap classes. Have a look at the treeprocessor package and search for references of the Debugger class.
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Cocoon 2.2 provides a debugger interface for the TreeProcessor. A default implementation is provided in the profiler block. The source can be found in the org.apache.cocoon.profiler.debugging package (Debuger.java and RemoteDebuggingSitemapExecutor.java)
The debugmode is invoked via a special request parametert: http://server/cocoon/test?remote-debug=host:port
If the connection is established Cocoon sends the sitemap with the first message:
<message> <sitemap src=".."> <!-- Here is the sitemap --> </sitemap> </message>
The following message is send for every processd sitemap element:
<message> <sitemap-element> <information> <!-- Result from the previous element --> <values> <value name="...">___</value> </values> </information> <statement type="..."> <!-- type is match, generate... --> <!-- type specific information, one element for each attribute: --> <src>___</src> ... <parameters> <parameter name="..">...</parameter> </parameters> </statement> </sitemap-element> </message>
If a stream is processd (generator or transformer) the result will be send to the client:
<message> <stream> ... </stream> </message>
Finish messagen::
<message> <finished/> </message>
The client will only send short status messages:
<message> <status>0</status> </message>
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Welcome to the ODWC Lesser Prairie Chicken Development Planning webpage.
The products served on this page collectively comprise A Spatially-Based Planning Tool Designed to Reduce Negative Effects of Development on the Lesser Prairie-Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) in Oklahoma.
This is the result of a Multi-Entity Collaboration to Promote Lesser Prairie-Chicken Voluntary Habitat Conservation and Prioritized Management Actions and was developed by the following partners:
Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Playa Lakes Joint Venture, The Nature Conservancy, George Miksch Sutton Avian Research Center, Oklahoma State University, and Office of the Oklahoma Secretary of Environment.
Before downloading or using any of the model outputs, users should first read and understand the Model Description (available here) for a detailed description of the model, including how it was created, its intended uses, and detailed instructions in how to use the model outputs.
The Oklahoma Lesser Prairie-Chicken Spatial Planning Tool (OLEPCSPT 2010) is a spatially explicit model designed to assist development planning by avoiding, minimizing and mitigating negative effects of development on the lesser prairie-chicken in Oklahoma. The model and all associated products are specific to the lesser prairie-chicken and Oklahoma.
It is extremely important to understand that the Oklahoma Lesser Prairie-Chicken Spatial Planning Tool does not address, or attempt to address, any other potential concerns to natural resources within the modeled area except the LEPC. There may be additional natural resource concerns (e.g., public conservation lands, rare or sensitive habitats, state species of concern, federally listed species, and others) within the area that was modeled requiring developer's consideration and evaluation to ensure compliance with appropriate state and federal laws and ongoing conservation initiatives. Some sources for additional spatial tools and wildlife planning resources are located here (link to additional resources). If any uncertainty exists regarding potential for effects to natural resources, the appropriate state or federal authority should be contacted.
Ultimately, it is the responsibility of those involved with the planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance of proposed developments to complete all appropriate assessments, determine the likelihood of effecting natural resources, and pursue the appropriate course(s) of action in coordination with the appropriate statutory authority for a given resource.
The products on this page are no longer valid, and have been replaced with the Rangewide Lesser Prairie Chicken Conservation Plan (http://www.wafwa.org/documents/2013LPCRWPfinalfor4drule12092013.pdf) and the SGP Crucial Habitat Assessment Tool (http://kars.ku.edu/geodata/maps/sgpchat/).
User feedback, questions and or comments should be addressed to:
Russ Horton, Research Supervisor
Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation
PO Box 53465
Oklahoma City, OK 73152
(405) 202-5901


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TOKYO, JAPAN, AND CAMBRIDGE, UK - July 1, 2004 - Aplix Corporation, a global leader in deploying Java technology in mobile phones, and ARM [(LSE:ARM); (Nasdaq:ARMHY)] announced today a technical and marketing agreement under which the companies are working together to improve Java performance in next-generation, ARM Powered® wireless devices.
Aplix has ported its JBlend technology, a platform for deploying Java applications and services in mobile phones, to the ARM® RealView® Versatile Platform, which includes the ARM Jazelle® Java acceleration hardware as well as the PowerVR MBX graphics acceleration solution from Imagination Technologies. Aplix's collaboration with ARM enables it to offer designers a solution that exploits the performance potential offered by the Jazelle technology.
Maximising the performance of the Java platform will vastly improve the experience of consumers using mobile devices for popular Java-based applications such as 2D and 3D games. The integrated technologies will also create a platform capable of supporting the next generation of Java-based applications such as Web services, location based services and video streaming.
"Consumers are demanding a wider array of rich content and applications from their mobile devices while service providers continue to deliver new applications that will bring value to their customers," said Ryu Koriyama, CEO of Aplix. "Partnering with ARM will enable us to ease the transition for wireless device manufacturers seeking to meet the demands of consumers and service providers."
"We have witnessed explosive growth in the deployment of mobile Java applications. The continued evolution of mobile Java applications will require that developers have a firm foundation upon which to build their applications," said Mary Inglis, Director, OS & Alliances, ARM. "Our work with Aplix has resulted in a fully integrated platform that will shorten the time-to-market of next-generation Java platforms."
About Aplix
Aplix Corporation is the global leader in deploying Java technology in mobile phones, and was first-to-market with a Jazelle enabled mobile phone. The company's JBlend technology has been licensed by 13 handset manufacturers and deployed in mobile phones offered by wireless operators around the world. In its domestic market of Japan, JBlend technology is used in all Vodafone K.K. and KDDI Java-enabled handsets and ships in Java-enabled handsets by Sharp and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications for NTT DoCoMo. Aplix has leveraged this domestic success to create significant international business, seeing its JBlend technology successfully deployed by Motorola in the US and Alcatel in Europe. In the overseas market, JBlend technology is incorporated in handsets from 15 different wireless operators including Vodafone in Europe, and Sprint PCS in the US. Aplix was first established in 1986 and has been a Sun Java licensee since 1996. The company is headquartered in Tokyo with subsidiary operations in San Francisco and Munich. For more information: Aplix Corporation: www.aplixcorp.com
About ARM
ARM designs the technology that lies at the heart of advanced digital products, from wireless, networking and consumer entertainment solutions to imaging, automotive, security and storage devices. ARM's 16/32-bit RISC microprocessors, data engines, peripherals, software and tools, combined with the company's broad Partner community, provide a total system solution that offers a fast, reliable path to market for leading electronics companies. More information on ARM is available at http://www.arm.com.
ARM, RealView, ARM Powered and Jazelle are registered trademarks of ARM Limited. All other brands or product names are the property of their respective holders. "ARM" is used to represent ARM Holdings plc (LSE: ARM and Nasdaq: ARMHY); its operating company ARM Limited; and the regional subsidiaries ARM INC.; ARM KK; ARM Korea Ltd.; ARM Taiwan; ARM France SAS; ARM Consulting (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.; and ARM Belgium N.V.
Press Contacts
Akiko Sharp Doi
Aplix Corporation
Email: email@example.com
Phone: 415.558.8800
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Despite concerns that one of the newer forms of birth control pill might carry a higher risk of gallbladder disease, a new study suggests that is not the case.
It's been known that compared with other women, those on birth control pills have a higher risk of gallstones and other gallbladder disorders, such as gallbladder inflammation.
However, media reports of gallbladder problems linked to a newer version of the Pill -- sold under the brand names Yasmin and Yaz -- have prompted worries that the contraceptive carries a higher risk than other Pill formulations do.
So far, there have been about 3,000 lawsuits in the U.S. against the products' manufacturer, Bayer AG.
But until now, there had been no studies on whether gallbladder risks vary with different Pill formulations, according to lead researcher Mahyar Etminan, an assistant professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and a scientist at Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute in Canada.
Despite that lack of hard evidence, he said, the lawsuits have generated "fear" among women about the risks of the newer birth control pills.
"I think at least on the issue of gallbladder disease, our study is reassuring," Etminan said.
The study, reported in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, looked at rates of gallbladder removal among more than 2.7 million U.S. women who used birth control pills between 1997 and 2009.
Overall, the risk of needing gallbladder surgery was not significantly higher among women on pills with newer versions of the hormone progestin -- including drospirenone, the progestin used in Yasmin and Yaz -- versus women on pills with an older progestin called levonorgestrel.
Of more than 495,700 levonorgestrel users, 1 percent had gallbladder surgery over an average follow-up period of about one year
The rate was the same among the more than 448,000 women on pills containing drospirenone.
When Etminan's team weighed other factors -- like obesity and smoking habits -- there was a small statistical increase in the risk of gallbladder surgery related to drospirenone and two other newer progestins, versus levonorgestrel.
But those small differences are unlikely to be "clinically significant," the researchers say.
"Strictly on the side effect of gallbladder disease with these drugs, it appears from our study that the risks are pretty much the same amongst different agents," Etminan told Reuters Health.
Other risks common to all birth control pills include blood clots, heart attack and stroke. Those side effects are rare, but relatively higher among smokers and women older than 35.
And some studies have found that the risk of blood clots appears higher with newer Pill formulations, including Yasmin and Yaz, versus pills with levonorgestrel.
Obesity is one of the general risk factors for gallbladder disease, so one way to limit the risk with Pill use is to maintain a healthy weight, according to Etminan.
He also suggested that women on the Pill be aware of the potential signs of gallstones or other gallbladder problems, including severe abdominal pain and nausea.
Most cases of gallstones, however, do not cause symptoms and need no special treatment.
The study was funded by Canadian health agencies. Etminan and his co-authors report no ties to Bayer or any other conflicts of interest.


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As the only public academic health science center in the state, UNMC embraces the responsibility to reach out to all Nebraskans.
Whether it is patient care, education or research-related, UNMC extends its health care experts to the community through pediatric behavioral health clinics, Science Cafes, cancer screenings, distance education and more.
UNMC strives to be a source people can trust. With programs like CHIRS, (Consumer Health Information Resource Service) all Nebraska residents have free access – pending or following a diagnosis -- to the latest medical information through UNMC's McGoogan Library of Medicine.
Access for all is a priority at UNMC. With health disparities a statewide concern, UNMC takes a proactive approach to recruit students and residents to practice in rural, underserved areas through the Rural Health Opportunities Program (RHOP) and the Residency Rural Training Track.
UNMC fully supports any and all programs that lead to affordable and quality health care, education, information, resources and services for everyone.


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Comedian Jim Gaffigan compared Christmas traditions to the odd actions of a drunk man – bringing a tree inside and putting lights outside – so how did these traditions come about? Here are the answers to this holiday riddle.
Christmas Tree:
This tradition probably began thousands of years ago, though it was adopted by Christians for the Christmas celebration in the sixteenth century.
Fir trees have long been worshipped and used during the winter solstice. The Christmas tree was likely adapted by German and Scandinavian druids who brought the tree indoors to show hope for the forthcoming spring.
Martin Luther is said to have decorated trees for Christmas with lights during the 1500s.
The tradition was brought to the US by German and Scandinavian immigrants during the 1800s and has spread to become a national tradition.
Nativity Scene:
While the idea behind a nativity scene seems pretty self explanatory, it wasn't always a tradition. After a trip to the holy lands, Saint Francis of Assisi created a living nativity scene to bring the holy lands closer to those who couldn't experience it on their own. It quickly became a tradition throughout Europe in the thirteenth century.
Today, nativity scenes can be found almost anywhere in the US.
Christmas Lights:
The tradition of hanging lights to decorate the outside of a house began when people started decorating the inside of their house.
Electric lights were first used on the Christmas tree and were so impressive inside, people began decorating the outside of the house.
Now, decorating the outside of the house has become a mainstream activity. Contests are held and some people even go so far as to synchronize music with their lights to create an impressive display for the holidays.
Santa Claus:
Next time someone tells you Santa Claus isn't real, point out that Saint Nicholas is very real and very old.
He was born in 280 AD and was a rich Turkish bishop. Women who could not provide a dowry in his town would awake to find gold in their socks the next morning.
He was such a kindhearted man that he was made saint of children, sailors, Russia and Greece. His red suit comes the tradition of saints, since saints traditionally are dressed in red. He was also the third most beloved figure in the Church behind Jesus and Mary up into the fifteenth century. He even had his own celebration on Dec. 6.
He evolved into Father Christmas during the sixteenth century thanks to a poem titled "A Visit From St. Nicholas" by Clement C. Moore. This poem modernized Santa Claus into the jolly old man we know today.
Christmas Carols:
Carols can be sung all year round and are not exclusive to Christmas.
However, Christmas does own a controlling stake in the carolling business.
Carols were first sung during the celebration of the winter solstice, but quickly changed to songs of celebration for Christmas.
Traditionally they are sung door to door on Christmas Eve, but more recently singers have decided to perform carols all throughout the month of December.
December 25:
There is always a big debate surrounding the day in which Christmas is celebrated.
Most historians believe Jesus, the man behind the holiday, was born in the spring or early summer.
Christmas wasn't celebrated in early Christian history – unless it was clumped together with epiphany celebrations.
The date was debated among the church for a long time before they finally settled on Dec. 25 at about 300 AD.
Pagan holidays already celebrated the birth of several Gods during that time and the Winter Solstice. The date was chosen to introduce a new festival.
Even after the date was chosen, it was a long time before the Christmas we know today began being celebrated. Different calendars and traditions pushed the date forward and back, but the Dec. 25 celebration is now recognized worldwide.
Candy Cane:
The candy cane is a tradition that has its roots in seventeenth century Europe. The candy at that time was all white and given to children during the longer nativity services.
It was shaped like a "J" to reference a shepards cane. Many today believe the "J" represents Jesus.
The red stripe was added during the 1900s, though its origin isn't immediately clear. It was also during this time that the traditional peppermint taste of the candy cane was added. Symbols have been suggested for the red and white color since then – red signifying Christ's blood and white His purity.
Humans have been kissing under the mistletoe since before Jesus was born.
The mistletoe was a worshiped plant in ancient times, thought to bring good luck and strength. It is said to have cured sterility and to be an antidote to any poison.
In Norse myths, coming across a mistletoe during battle meant that you would lay your arms down until the next day. This tradition likely sparked the kissing tradition, only back then it was a little different than what we see today.
Mistletoes were used as a platform for kisses, but only so long as the berries were still on the twig. For every kiss, a berry was plucked, until no more were left. Now days we don't care much for the berry part of this tradition.


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For 2013, ProWein, the International Trade Fair for Wine and Spirits, held annually in Düsseldorf, Germany, has a series of exhibits, seminars and other special events planned that are designed to deliver value specifically to American attendees.
A scene from ProWein 2012.
ProWein structures events in two formats, small, intimate "pop up" seminars on the trade floor itself, as well as events in areas specially set up to focus on subjects that are high-interest hot buttons.
"The Central Tasting Zone" is a case in point of the latter. According to Michael Degen, Director of ProWein, International Trade Fair Wines and Spirits, "About 1,000 wines will be available to taste in an efficient, self guided process customized to the individual's interest." Whether it's Georgia, Turkey or Tasmania, thousands of wines from countries around the world are on exhibit. Whether they are new wines from old countries or familiar varieties from new countries, the range of what's on exhibit is extraordinary.
With China now making big waves in the wine world, ProWein's Asian connections will give attendees the opportunity to explore vinous innovations from the country tagged to become one of the largest markets—and producers—in the world. The Chinese group exhibit will feature 10 companies, including the Changyu Pioneer Wine Company, which built the French-style Château Changyu-Castel and recently announced plans for construction of an "International Wine City" in Yantai.
Biodynamic and organic have certainly become more mainstream, and visitors will be able to experience one of the largest collections of biodynamic and organic wines. For example, reps from Demeter will be on hand to explain the genesis of the biodynamic movement from its founding by Rudolph Steiner in Austria in 1924 to its widespread adoption around the world.
And let's not forget spirits. ProWein has an entire hall dedicated to spirits. Looking for that new product concept that might become the next breakout cocktail ingredient like Jägermeister or St-Germain? The spirits exhibition in Hall 7a is someplace you've just got to see to believe. Another highlight will be the FIZZZ-Lounge, where renowned bartenders will reveal their recipes.
Walking the booths, you'll commonly see what look like an impromptu seminar with people, chairs and microphones coming together to focus on one specific topic. These are set up to be intimate gatherings where exhibitors and attendees not only listen, but also get to talk and learn about what's specifically important to them. Whether the subject is international Rieslings, or top somms reporting on trends from the front of the house, ProWein seminars are the place to invest a little bit of time for a lifetime of education.
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2012-13: Raced in five races throughout his junior season … sat in the #3 seat of the Varsity B boat in a number of regattas: the Head of the Charles (10/21), Princeton Chase (10/28), against Holy Cross, Dartmouth and Columbia (4/06) and against Williams, WPI, Franklin & Marshall and Connecticut College (4/13) … raced in the #1 seat in the B boat against Trinity, Colgate the University of Rhode Island (4/29) and in the regatta against the Boston University and the University of Wisconsin (5/04).
2011-12: Competed in five races in the #1 seat … rowed as a member of the varsity boat at Columbia (3/31); against Boston College, Trinity, and Bates (4/7); versus Harvard and Princeton (4/14) and at the Eastern Sprints (5/13) ... saw action in the MIT freshman four A boat against UMass (4/21).
Off The Water at MIT: Majoring in aerospace engineering … Space Grant internship at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory … Air Force ROTC.
High School: A 2010 graduate of St. Francis High School in La Canada, California … Valedictorian … National Merit finalist.
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By Samuel P. Jacobs
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This is a golden era for political consultants - well, except for those Republicans still smarting from the November elections.
But Americans' political tastes tend to run in cycles, so there is always a mix of hope and wariness when consultants at both ends of the ideological spectrum gather, as they did in Washington last week, to toast the profession's top operatives.
Five months after Mitt Romney was thumped in the race for the White House - a loss that some placed at the feet of the small group of men and women who advised the Republican presidential challenger - the meeting of the American Association of Political Consultants threw together Democratic and Republican operatives who have dedicated their lives to undoing one another's work.
Even those whose clients lost in November feel they have plenty to celebrate in a business that boasts of increasing sophistication as well as profits.
In a video message played at the conference's Hall of Fame luncheon on Thursday, President Barack Obama paid wry respects to an industry that is populated by over-the-top personalities but seen by many Americans as fathering the bitter and costly ways of U.S. politics.
"There is nothing political consultants love more than celebrating their own genius," Obama said.
The 2012 election left many of the Republican campaign professionals feeling less like geniuses after their candidate was outmaneuvered by a sitting president they had believed to be vulnerable.
"Elections make you look smarter than what you are, and more stupid," said Ed Goeas, president of The Tarrance Group, a Republican strategy firm. "This was not an election for Republican consultants that made us look smarter."
After the loss in November, complaints among the Republican activists directed at the party's consultant class have been at full boil.
Appearing last month at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), a gathering for influential right-wing activists, former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin blasted party leaders such as Karl Rove, the former George W. Bush adviser, who she said have led the Republican Party astray.
"Now is the time to furlough the consultants, and tune out the pollsters, send the focus groups home and throw out the political scripts, because if we truly know what we believe, we don't need professionals to tell us," Palin said, calling for more staunchly conservative candidates.
(Never mind that Palin's own political action committee doled out hundreds of thousands of dollars to consultants in 2012.)
CPAC also featured a panel with the indelicate title: "Should we shoot all the consultants now?"
Dale Emmons, a Democratic strategist from Kentucky and president of the consultants' association, said Republicans should hold their fire.
"To those who want to shoot all the consultants, I don't advise they do that," Emmons said. "I know the abilities of the people I compete against are strong."
Emmons said that perhaps no collection of advisers could have steered Romney around an incumbent president with a superior organization on the ground - one that was well positioned to take advantage of the nation's growing minority vote, which went heavily for Obama.
Few consultants or top aides who worked with the Romney campaign appeared at last week's gathering, which featured two days of panels - several dissecting the campaign's failings.
Former Romney press secretary Andrea Saul, a routine presence for the campaign on cable television, and Alex Lundry, a top data researcher for Romney, did participate.
For Obama advisers, the meeting was something of a victory lap. The president's pollster, Joel Benenson, began the conference with comments about the strength of the Democratic campaign's polling program and the weakness of various public surveys.
His colleagues David Axelrod and David Plouffe, top strategists for Obama's two winning presidential runs, were inducted into the association's Hall of Fame on Thursday.
"At first, I wondered whether this was a real organization or something that Axe and Plouffe made up last week," Obama said during his videotaped remarks.
A quartet of Republican strategists known for steering Republicans to victories in past elections - Arthur Finkelstein, Lance Tarrance, the late Bob Teeter and the late Lee Atwater - was honored.
Atwater, who died of cancer in 1991, is best known for orchestrating often-controversial campaigns that helped turn the South increasingly toward the Republican Party in the 1980s.
His aggressive campaign style inspired a generation of Republican consultants and led critics to accuse him of race-baiting, particularly for his work as George H.W. Bush's campaign manager in the 1988 presidential campaign.
On Friday night, the consultants handed out dozens of awards, celebrating the year's best in advertising, fundraising and mailing.
The consultants are sensitive to the criticism that they profit from the dysfunction of U.S. politics and were eager to stress their influence on candidates who they believe can help change the country for the better.
Plouffe, who managed Obama's 2008 campaign, said their lives amounted to putting a hand on the "wheel of history."
On his way out the door Thursday, Plouffe stopped to chat with a fellow consultant. Plouffe warned about the potential cost of the presidential election in 2016. Last year, each side of the presidential contest spent more than $1 billion.
"By '16, it's going to be $2 billion," Plouffe said.
The consultant sure hoped so.
"From your mouth," he said, "to God's ears."
(Reporting by Samuel P. Jacobs; Editing by David Lindsey and Eric Beech)


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11 January 2013
Address books are a form of family history -- at least the old-fashioned "print" ones!
A Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) post titled Address book is a family history, bound by tradition, by Will Kenny, caught my eye and opened my eyes!
Unknown to me, I had, in a way, been keeping a mini family history in my address book. See, I am one of those people, who, though uses the "contacts" element of Microsoft Office Outlook 2003, still keeps an old-fashioned address book at Christmas time.
Every since I have been doing Christmas cards, I've used my address book. Or, I should say books. I think I'm on my 3rd one now (started December 1998 as noticed on the flyleaf) and I have put the others into "memory boxes" over the years. Basically, after about 15 years, the typical address book has so many cross-outs and white outs and a run on list of years where cards were sent/received as to become a bit unworkable.
I've often hoped that maybe in the future, a descendant will open the saved boxes and check out my scribbles, including those of the old address books!
When I read Will's article, a light bulb went off! When I look through my current address book (not the electronic kind) you can see where I have noted those who died, those who were born, those who have moved and those whom I've stopped sending Christmas cards to.
It's kind of nice to know that one of my habit's actually benefits my genealogical and family history research!
Do you have some gems of information hidden in your or an ancestors "print" address book?
Is your address book, whether print or electronic, a form of mini family history?
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No wonder that it's a bull market for investment alternatives, especially hedge funds. The demand for these products is sure to increase substantially in the years ahead as the crowd grapples with the harsh reality of the future. But in intelligently assessing hedge funds, all the usual caveats still apply, namely: separating the alpha wheat from beta's chaff is crucial. "Alpha" is the value added by brainwork, or accurate manager decisions. "Beta" is the manager's natural habitat, the collection of exposures to economic and broad market factors.
Newly relaxed hedge fund advertising rules could entice the unwary. Beware the hype.
Here's where I see hedge fund evaluation going in the years to come.
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We shouldn't pay much for exotic hedge fund betas (risk profiles) because they are readily manufactured, but we should put a premium on superior human intellect, because it is very rare. We can know the difference if we abandon simple-minded performance benchmarks like peer groups and indexes, and replace them with smart science.
Ten years ago, Dr. Harry Kat proved the deficiencies of hedge fund peer groups and indexes in his paper 10 Things That Investors Should Know About Peer Groups. Unfortunately Kat's message has been largely ignored.
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Andy Schachat On the Run: Runners take pride in their jacketsANDY SCHACHAT
February 16. 2013 2:48AM
Even though a few races are already under that Granite State road race belt, it will be a few weeks before the New Hampshire schedule kicks into high gear. That's why there is still time for local runners to look ahead and make decisions about their 2013 road race goals. Those looking for new goals and new motivation might want to try one of the road race series that will be taking place in the state this year.
Signing up and taking part of a road race series has become very popular in New Hampshire over the past few years. It has given many runners something to focus on throughout a calendar year. Participating in a series creates a sense of accomplishment.
The reason for the growing popularity in New Hampshire road race series' has been the prize at the end of the tunnel. Each series provides souvenir jackets to those that complete whatever the requirements are for completion. Each series consists of a number of races and each series requires runners and walkers to finish a specific number of those races. One hundred percent completion of the races in not required, giving participants some flexibility scheduling races.
The prize for each series is a souvenir jacket. The jackets serve as a badge of honor, a statement of "look at what I have done." To outsiders the jackets may not seem like much. To series participants, a jacket serves as one of the most valuable rewards a runner or walker could earn. No other piece of sportswear is considered more valuable to runners or walkers than a jacket that was earned through effort.
There are currently four major road race series in New Hampshire. A couple of already gotten underway but let's take a look at each series and what the requirements.
MILLENIUM RUNNING SERIES: The series started on New Year's Day with the Millennium Mile on Londonderry. There are nine races in the series, all based in the Manchester area. The distances range from one mile to 10 miles. Participants must complete six of the nine races so those that missed the Millennium Mile can still sign up for, and finish the series. The series also includes an end of the year party that will take place in December, most likely in Manchester.
Participants must be at least 12 years old. That's because runners or walkers who are under 12 are allowed to participants in the races for free but are not eligible for a series jacket. (millenniumrunning.com)
WILL RUN FOR BEER SERIES: This series also got underway on New Year's Day with a 5K/10K event in Lowell, Mass. The second event will take place on Feb. 24 in Hampton, the Half at the Hamptons Half Marathon. The Half at the Hamptons is sold out but don't fret. There are still five events left on the schedule that runners and walkers can sign up for. There won't be much margin for error because completing five of seven events is required to earn the souvenir jacket.
Despite a couple of the races taking place in Massachusetts, most of the events are based in the Seacoast area of New Hampshire. There is one more half marathon, the Great Bay Half in Newmarket, with a couple of 5Ks, a 6K, and a four miler also on the schedule.
As its name indicates the emphasis on this series is having fun and having a beer. Most of the races are followed by a big post-race party complete with live music and adult beverages. (willrunforbeer.com)
CAPITAL AREA RACE SERIES: The first race in this series will be the Gilmanton 5K on March 30. As the name indicates, the races will take place in the Concord area. There will be seven races in the series between the Gilmanton event and the Canterbury Woodchuck 5K on July 27. Six of the seven races are 5K's with the Bill Luti Five Miler the other race, so no one has to run or walk more than five miles. To earn a souvenir jacket six of seven races must be completed. There are also prizes for top finishers in both overall and age group categories. (capitalarearaceseries.com)
SEACOAST SERIES: This will be the last of the four series that will get underway in 2013 with the start date on May 4 at the Children's Museum 5K in Dover. This series will include eight races in New Hampshire and one trip to York, Maine. Five of the races are 5K's, one is a five miler, and two are 10K's. To earn a souvenir jacket runners and walkers must complete six of the eight events and two of the races completed must be longer than a 5K.
The Seacoast Series is the oldest of the four series. It was an instant hit with the Seacoast running community with hundreds signing up for the races that have been part of the series. It was the success of the Seacoast Series that led to the creation of the other series. (proportsmouth.org/SeacoastSeries.cfm?size=3349)
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RUNNING SHORTS: Timing is everything. The blizzard that took place in New England on Feb. 8 and 9 forced cancellation of a number of races. On Feb. 10 the sun came out and Sam Daly of Bedford and Karin Biskovich of Amherst won the Snowflake Shuffle 5K in Bedford. The race had 818 finishers in its first year. ... Turning the clock back a couple of weeks, Casey Carroll of Dover and Abby Wood of Laconia won the 4th Down and 4 Miler in Concord on Feb. 3.
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One of the dubious pleasures of having an engine that will run for 40 years is that parts can be hard to find, and when you do find them, they're expensive.
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One of the dubious pleasures of having an engine that will run for 40 years is that parts can be hard to find, and when you do find them, they're expensive.
She's a tired old barge but she's paid for!
I guess I'm getting off lucky--
We bought our SkipperLiner in June 2006. My yearly slip fees were $600 until 2 years ago when a new owner bought the harbor, since then $900. I pay about $40 a month for power for 6 months. I burn less than 100 gallons of gas a season...
Maintenance- a few bucks for oil changes and pink antifreeze every year. I've replaced the impellers once, they were already on the boat when I bought it. I've bought one pair of props for $120 each. Full bottom painted once, $600 for paint, borrowed a steam cleaner to help with prep. Partial bottom paint once, $400. Painted the hull and topside, $700 ($500 was labor because a friend needed the money). Paid $160 for 165' of cheap outdoor HD carpet for the top, still have enough to do the top 2 more times.
Repairs done: Had to remove and replace a 3 x 6' section of roof that rotted via invisible cracked gelcoat (courtesy of a PWC dropped on the roof by the PO), whole repair cost me about $200. Had to replace one starter, $130. Had to replace a plastic plumbing Tee in the basement, and a water faucet. No other repairs in 9 seasons needed to the engine, outdrive, generator or cabin. I DO have repairs and maintenance to do once I get the boat pulled (been in the water 3-1/2 years)-- Starboard drive needs a hydraulic hose, and the gimbal bearing is starting to make a bit of noise. I'll probably change both bearings and u-joint sets. I'm going to change the risers on both engines. The roof is getting stripped and resealed with 2-part roll-on EPDM. And the big project, sandblasting and refinishing the hull (which I'll be doing most of myself)...
My new dock neighbor bought a 5 year old Chaparral Signature 270 cruiser earlier this year. He's already spent over $7000 in upgrades, maintenance and repairs on the thing. I have absolutely NO complaints with my houseboating expenses!
1988 SkipperLiner 53x14
1995 Tracker Party Cruiser 32
2002 Regal 2860 Commodore
1987 Sea Ray 21' Seville midcabin
2000 Allegro Bus 40' DP
Tell me about it. My Sea Ray is 42 years old and has the original engine, never rebuilt. Fortunately it's a rather common GM 250. The made millions of them and parts are readily available, even marine parts, but they aren't cheap.One of the dubious pleasures of having an engine that will run for 40 years is that parts can be hard to find, and when you do find them, they're expensive.
Welcome to the hole-in-the-water club!
Peter D. EIkenberry
Don't tell I can't. Tell me how I can.
Mine is an old Perkins... 1000 hrs since rebuild. Runs great but does need a bit from time to time; of course everything marked "diesel" is that much more expensive. Finally sent the bad piece back to TAD (who built it for me) and they replaced the part, for about half what the local shop wanted. The engine and I are both happy.
She's a tired old barge but she's paid for!


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Student Service Projects
Year 8s Support Foster Hope
Foster Hope is an organisation that works to improve the lives of children in foster care. Many of these children arrive in foster care with only the clothes on their backs. Each year Foster Hope runs a new pyjama drive leading up to winter. Year 8 students felt that they would like to support this very worthy cause, as knowing someone has shopped especially for you, is a huge boost to self-esteem. To this end, they are asking for donations of NEW PYJAMAS for children aged 8–17 years old. Pyjamas can be brought into the Middle School office, where there will be a box to put them in. We thank you in anticipation for supporting us.
Student Fundraising
Community Service Fundraising
- Monday 27 March - UNESCO Race Unity - Food Sale
- Tuesday 28 March - Nepal Trip - Bake Sale
- Tuesday 4 April - Fair Trade - Morning Tea
- Friday 7 April - Harvest Festival
- Friday 19 May - Starship Hospital - Sausage Sizzle
- Friday 16 June - Ronald McDonald House - Sausage Sizzle
- Friday 30 June - Red Socks Day - Junior School
- Friday 11 August - Starship Hospital - Sausage Sizzle
- Friday 25 August - Daffodil Day
- Friday 1 September - Ronald McDonald House - Sausage Sizzle
- Friday 20 October - Salvation Army - Sausage Sizzle
- Friday 10 November - Ronald McDonald House - Sausage Sizzle
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Upcoming Events
Victoria University Presentation
Monday 24th September
Year 7 Formal
Monday 24th September
Mufti Day
Tuesday 25th September
Year 8 Formal
Tuesday 25th September
AUT Presentation
Wednesday 26th September
Year 9 Formal
Wednesday 26th September
Year 10 Formal
Thursday 27th September
Masterclass – Self-regulation with Dr Stuart Shanker
Thursday 27th September
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Liverpool boss Brendan Rodgers has set his sights on another young addition at Anfield, with Josip Basic reportedly on the Reds radar.
TalkSPORT claims the 16-year-old Hadjuk Split starlet – who remains on Scholarship terms with the Croatian club – could sign his first professional deal on Merseyside if the club are successful in their pursuit.
Jutarnji List, a national paper in the player's homeland, claims Liverpool have been 'observing' the player, and have taken a shine to the captain of the nation's U17 side.
Basic would join a long list of talented youngsters at Anfield if he made the move to England, with Raheem Sterling, Suso and Andre Wisdom all getting their chance in both the Premier League and Europe.
Indeed, all three players are set to be offered new contracts after impressing at the start of the season for the Liverpool first team, and their progress suggests that Basic might be able to earn a senior chance if he joined the Rodgers revolution.
Liverpool are expected to name a team packed full of teenagers in tonight's Europa League clash against Udinese at Anfield.
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If you're really concerned about the scratch, don't buy them the day they come out.
...I might nab the Padawan girl or something, probably mail-away for Rex too, but at this point I don't plan to go all out for figures and I don't feel real bad about it.
But even then if they are TOO animated in style, I still may not pick them up.
QuoteBut even then if they are TOO animated in style, I still may not pick them up.I'd have to agree with that too Sal... If that Padawan girl looks very animated, why bother? She won't look right on the Clone Wars shelf with AOTC Troopers I have already, my Assajj figures, etc. So forget about it... I'm not happy entirely, but why pay $8 for something I know I'm gonna look at and just feel it's out of place.Is that OCD? I dunno...I just know if something looks "off" on the display shelf, I tend to want it gone... I almost dread the idea that the heads are just a hair realistic, and a hair animated, like that Armored Obi-Wan figure... I mean, then I'm just probably sucked back in to liking the line. We'll see though.
I think we'll have a much more clear picture of what our collecting habits will be for this line in about 72 hours...
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|2012-12-11, 23:15
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Regarding Kinzo in Turn, perhaps Battler is in fact lying about seeing Kinzo do to his new found belief in magic he obviously didn't see butterflies. Perhaps when he accepts magic and becomes Beatrice's furniture he is actually because an accomplice to Beatrice and therefore hides the fact that Kinzo is dead.
|2012-12-12, 00:14
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|2012-12-12, 04:05
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|2012-12-12, 05:35
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That interview sure is interesting, because Ryu is saying not that she couldn't choose between the three, but more that she was unwilling to let the any of the romances fail. It's like suicide was her plan all along, but she can't let a character die until their goal is achieved. Shannon can go at any time, as she gets the ring, Kanon does often die after a touching scene with Jessica and Beatrice dies once when she gives up and then once when Battler completes her.
Also while saying she sacrificed herself to keep everyone else on the island alive is sweet in the theory of the story, in practice it is a little bit bonkers.
FURTHERMORE, did he say Battler was fished out YEARS later? What?
|2012-12-12, 06:06
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A side note, but I have to say dealing with Yasu's name has always been a bit difficult, because Yasu isn't Shannon or Kanon or Beatrice or Ikuko or anything. It's just the name we gave to the ultimate controller of that person's body. In Ikuko=Yasu, Ikuko is not really Yasu any more or less than Shannon or Beatrice is... Then again, even the personality structure of Yasu is a subject of debate and discussion.
|2012-12-12, 09:34
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|2012-12-12, 17:48
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Just wondering... it goes on like in the first part through all the video?
Because it's terribly... verbose in the beginning. He could have said the same thing using the 10% of the words he used...
The dialogue between Beato and Shannon is interesting. Shannon says she doesn't want to use Beato's magic to get George's love because as of now everything has been peaceful and Beato's magic would change it and Beato agrees. If Shannon doesn't do as Beato says, nothing will change, everything will stay as it is and she'll never have a chance at love.
It really seems an inner monologue between chosing if doing something and just letting things as they are but, with the implication that doing something maybe will give Shannon's George's love but it'll also will cause lot of troubles.
The following parts are also interesting.
Shannon gets to be with George and be happy thanks to Beato but then Beato confesses she did it only on a whim and with the purpose to tear them apart.
If we consider Beato and Shannon are the same person it means more or less than Yasu longed for love (confirmed by Ep 7 in which she says it doesn't matter where it is as long as she's welcomed and loved) so she tried to have it with George because she had the chance to pursue it however she didn't really plan for a long term relation possibly also because she believed a long term relation would work as Kanon insists. In fact he too confesses he would like to pursue love but refuses to believe it oculd work.
I mean, there's who says that statistically girls prefer stories with a tragic ending, like let's say Titanic or Romeo and Juliet.
The scene in which Beato drown herself is likely not the exact truth on how things went. Before it Featherine threw a rose in the sea and the text said:
So the whole weird talk about girls' preferences doesn't apply to choices in life but to choices in how to end a fantasy story. Ryukishi assumes for a girl like Beato it'll be more romantic to write a tale in which all the three love be fulfilled in the golden land, for Beato to drown herself satisfied she just had Battler's feelings (similar to how Shannon in Ep 2 said for her it was enough to have George ask her to marry him) instead than just have Beato live a happy life with Battler and who cares about Shannon and Kanon's love story (he seems to link this choice with also part of the truth of Rokkenjima being revealed... I wonder if this means that, since Beato could only live on Rokkenjima, due to the set of rules she herself created, in order to leave she would have to turn into her true form or something like that).
Which is opinable (I would have preferred Beato and Battler to leave together and I'm a girl) but it could have some basis in how many girls like tragic love stories (not that they want to live them though) and, as far as I'm involved, is more acceptable than saying that, in real life, all girls are satisfied with just souls joined together. It can be fine and dandy in a story but, in real life, that's nowhere near enough.
After all Beato too is the representation of the rules of the gameboard and Will also seems to represent another set of rules.
Maybe the sidestory about Cornelia tells us more about Dlanor as well but as far as i know it hasn't been translated yet... or has it?
|2012-12-12, 18:08
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I just realized that KNM's "living human bodies" = "people" definition doesn't work, because then "These 6 people are dead" becomes "These 6 living human bodies are dead", which contradicts itself.
|2012-12-12, 19:24
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I mean I don't like red twisting either, but I don't think you can demonstrably prove the red is referring to bodies when it says persons, especially since Erika felt compelled to force Battler to be specific about it.
|2012-12-12, 21:27
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Can somebody explain what the hell is wrong with the time in EP 1?
Eva and Hideyoshi were in their room at 7 (so said the TV).
The smell of Kinzos corpse was noticed at 6:30 according to the Clock in the hall.
Important or just a mistake from Ryukishi?
|2012-12-12, 21:43
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I'm assuming that you're talking about the anime since you mentioned "clock in the hall, so I can't check right now (no episodes at hand at the moment). Assume it was an (yet another) error from DEEN.
|2012-12-12, 22:18
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Cause of Death.Yup fits.
Murder by another person:
I asked that before regarding being killed by others and it was answered that it was ambigious in japanese being brought up that Beato was denying herself which is the same as suicide in her case.
Same one where Maria draws 6 people into the sand when the 9th Twilight was brought on the Beach by Battler..Natsuhi,Battler,Maria and Rosa are clearly visibly drawn by Maria.The other 2 remained unfinished yet shortly before its indicated Maria drew 2 tiny circles into someones face when the others had dots as eyes.
Followed by:
"Everyone dies noone survive" and a wave destroys the drawing at the same time that was said.
|2012-12-13, 01:28
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The Japanese is 楼座と真里亞の二人は他殺です the word tasatsu (他殺) means the act of killing by another person than the one being killed. So a (too) direct translation would be, "These two people, who are Rosa and Maria, were killed by another person than themselves."
Concerning Beato it is rather the other way around as well.
When asked about the locked room chain in the same Episode Beato refuses to repeat the sentence "All 6 were murdered by another person", then admits "None of the 6 commited suicide" and was only stopped by Ronove when trying to repeat "None of the 6 died through an accident."
She also refuses to repeat "Kanon was murdered by another person" in EP4 during the final duel about EP1, which leads Battler to assume that he died through an accident because that is neither murder nor suicide.
|2012-12-13, 02:46
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It's pretty silly that so many people can't believe Shkanon just because of that red.
|2012-12-13, 04:07
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Location: Gnawing away at Rokkenjima
KnownNoMore's fundamental flaw... well one of them... is that he doesn't view red as communication between characters, but rather an absolute, perfect word of God from Ryukishi himself. It's like red is the bible to him, which is ironic because he's- you'd know this if you watch some of his other videos- extremely atheistic.
|2012-12-13, 05:29
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Speaking of exists, I had a question.
In the VN, whenever anyone (including Maria) says Beatrice exists, it's always written as " Beatrice 'exists' "
Is this the same in the Japanese version, and if so, does it have the same implications as in English? Because if I were to use air quotations (which admittedly are written as ") in a sentence, it would usually mean that I am adding an emphasis to the word to imply that I am either using the meaning a bit loosely, acknowledging that what I am saying is probably a lie or outright pointing out that while I am agreeing to use that word, I know %100 it is false (ie, oh sure, the "Cat" ate all the chocolate).
This would be fine if most people used it, but Maria too?
|2012-12-13, 06:36
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I think it is because Onscripter lacks the possibilty of using bold and italics for example, and the only way to emphatize a word is like that. They actually aren't using air quotes, but putting emphasis on the word "exist", like they mean: Beatrice exists, but not in the same way I or you exist.
|2012-12-13, 08:11
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In Japanese there is a distinction between existing as an object or concept (ある=aru) and existing as a being (いる=iru), so by marking it "i"ru it is less a question of whether Beatrice exists in general terms but rather being vague about whether she exists as a being or simply as an object or concept on the island.
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Hospital CFO Insights from Craneware Summit
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
Today I had a chance to attend the Craneware Summit in Las Vegas. The Craneware Summit gives me a nice view into what's happening in the financial world of healthcare. The Summit kicked off today with Todd Nelson speaking about the hospital CFO. Here's a look at some of the insights he offered:
Listening to Todd Nelson VP at @hfmaorg kicking off the @craneware summit. #cwsummit pic.twitter.com/tjRAKjHDBD
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
Todd Nelson is a former hospital CFO that is now a VP at HFMA.
Value Equation: Value = Quality/Payment #CWSummit #HFMA
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
Is this equation too simple?
If the meaningful use dollars go away, hospital CFO's better plan accordingly. #CWSummit
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
I don't think that meaningful use money will go away, but it's worth considering. Would your organization survive if the rest of the meaningful use money were pulled out from underneath you?
EHR implementation budget turns into EHR optimization budget. The EHR budget doesn't go away like many CFOs might think. #CWSummit
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
This is often forgotten. It's "easy" to get the billion dollar EHR implementation budget, but many forget to include the ongoing EHR support and optimization budget. In my experience this is often just bad planning, but in a few cases it's done deliberately in order to allow the EHR project to go forward. They figure they can always ask for the support and optimization budget later.
If you're in a hospital you have accountants. You don't have actuaries. In the value based world u need to find actuary skill sets #CWSummit
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
This was an interesting comment coming from an accountant and former hospital CFO. He was willing to admit that he doesn't have the skill or at least the desire to be the actuary for the hospital. However, as we shift to value based reimbursement, hospitals are going to have to become good at actuarial analysis.
Cash is still one of the most important things to the hospital CFO. That means revenue cycle management is still very important. #CWSummit
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
Todd Nelson also extended this comment by saying that you can survive a long time even with losses as long as you have the cash. If you've worked with a hospital CFO, you've probably seen the cash focus first hand. That hasn't and probably won't change.
"Hope is not an effective strategy for change." -Tom Atchison You can't just "hope" the budget will get better. #CWSummit
— EMR, EHR and HIT (@ehrandhit) October 22, 2015
This is great advice as hospital executives evaluate how to approach the changing healthcare reimbursement environment. Hope is not a strategy.


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Barely a day seems to go by at the moment without some great new psych music arriving on Spotify, Bandcamp, YouTube or (gosh) vinyl. So I have rounded up 10 of the best recent releases (plus one bonus one) and included videos, embeds or links if they exist.
So without further ado – here you go.
The Sudden Death Of Stars – I'll Be There – One of the stand out tracks from the French psychsters ace new album Getting Up, Going Down which is out on June 10 via Ample Play. Love the subtle strings and the Rupert's People vintage 60s organ.
Hounds Tooth – Canary Island – Lovely summery slice of floaty psych from the Portland US based band. Love that extended guitar coda. Their album Ride Out The Dark" will be out in July on No Quarter Records
The Magnetic Mind – Maybe The Stars, Maybe The Sun – Really exciting new North London band whose debut single is the nearest thing anyone has ever come to The Peanut Butter Conspiracy in four decades. Bet they are amazing live.
The Shadow Kabinet – Nostalgia For The Future – Lovely floaty psych from the always superb Shadow Kabinet. The Camden band's new album – this is the title track – is out on high quality download is already gaining some amazing reviews.
The Young Sinclairs – Engineer Man – The Virginia based folk rockers have made a series of great albums and singles. On Engineer Man they add a Who/Powder power pop undercurrent. It is available as a vinyl single with the equally excellent Problems – very soon
The Parlour Flames – Manchester Rain – The new band of Vinny Peculiar (who was responsible for the third best ever song with Louise in the title – which is a massive compliment) and Bonehead once of Oasis. This is one of many 60s influenced tracks on the pair's inspired debut album.
Morgan Delt – Barbarian Kings – Syd Barrett/Electric Prunes influenced dreamy psych with a killer chorus from the mysterious Morgan Delt. The band's six track mini album Psychic Death Hole is a hugely trippy affair.
West Coast Gnome – As Real As Real – Inspired cover of The Three O'Clock's 80s classic As Real As Real by the paisley shirted gnome from America's west coast. There are some great tunes on his Soundcloud page that hover somewhere between The Searchers and British 80s jangle pop.
Heaven's Gateway Drugs – Black Lady – A key track from another album that a lot of psych fans seem very excited about. Heaven's Gateway Drugs certainly know a thing or two about making the most of The Brian Jonestown Massacre songbook. The album, which you can hear on Spotify, is very strong and has a hint of British 80s bands Like The Stone Roses too.
The Solar System – Surveillance Cam – Chris Oliver has been making some intriguing lo-fi psych for a while now. With this new release he has a proper band in tow and has delivered his best selection of tunes so far. The title track mixes an uplifting melody with some lovely Beach Boys style harmonies and a bonkers guitar.
and finally…
Hidden Masters – Nobody Knows That We're Here – Very fine Scottish band who may have just issued the best psych album so far this year in Of This & Other Worlds. You never know quite what will happen in a Masters song. This one has a whiff of both Dantalion's Chariot and The Mike Stuart Span.
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A Chicago real estate lawyer was arrested on charges he sexually assaulted a Minnesota woman inside her Streeterville hotel room Tuesday after she left the door to her room open, prosecutors said today.
Anthony Bergamino Jr., 49, was charged with one count of criminal sexual assault in the early morning attack at the W Chicago Hotel at 644 N. Lake Shore Dr. Cook County Judge James Brown set his bail Wednesday at $350,000.
Prosecutors said the 24-year-old victim had slightly propped open the door to her room because she was expecting a friend to stop by momentarily. Shortly before 2 a.m., Bergamino entered the room and sexually assaulted the woman, prosecutors said.
The woman told her friend about the attack and notified police and hotel security.
While Chicago police were at the scene, she saw Bergamino in the hallway and identified him as the assailant, Assistant State's Atty. Angela Carlisle said.
The woman was treated at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Carlisle said.
Bergamino, who appeared in court in a disheveled white dress shirt and blue jeans, earned his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1988 and has worked as a real estate lawyer and investor for about 25 years, according to his court-appointed attorney. He lives near to the hotel, also in the 600 block of North Lake Shore Drive, according to public records.
Prosecutors said Bergamino has no past criminal convictions.
"We are certainly cooperating with the police as they conduct their investigation," said Heather Steenge-Hart, the hotel's general manager, who declined further comment on the alleged sexual assault.


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