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Women with epilepsy who take anti-seizure medication while they are pregnant are more likely to later report delays in their child's development and autism symptoms, according to a new study from Norway.
The findings probably won't change the conversation too much between women and their doctors in terms of managing epilepsy during pregnancy, because it's already understood that the medications carry some risks, said Dr. Lewis Holmes, director of the Antiepilepsy Drug Registry at Massachusetts General Hospital, who was not involved in the research.
However, studies like this are badly needed, he added, because women are often asking about risks to their children's development, and "it hasn't really been mapped out."
The researchers could not prove that the anti-epileptic drugs are to blame, but the findings add to other evidence linking the medications to effects on children's development.
Seizure medication taken during pregnancy is already tied to a higher risk of physical malformations in the baby, and the drugs are linked with a greater chance of complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
One study from Denmark earlier this year also found that women who took the epilepsy drug valproate during pregnancy were three times more likely to have a child with an autism spectrum disorder.
"The risk of other effects on fetal development, that is, development and behavior, is less clear," said Dr. Gyri Veiby, lead author of the new study and a researcher at the University of Bergen in Norway.
She said that among all pregnancies, about three to five women out of every 1,000 use anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy.
"It is reasonable to assume that most (anti-epileptic drugs) have the potential to harm the developing fetus. On the other hand, seizures should also be avoided during pregnancy," Veiby wrote in an email.
"In order to assess whether antiepileptic drug treatment during pregnancy is justified, we need to know as much as possible about the potential risks for the fetus," she said.
Veiby and her colleagues examined data from a large survey of mothers across Norway.
More than 108,000 women filled out a questionnaire asking about the behavior and development of their children at 18 and 36 months of age.
The survey included questions about social, physical and verbal skills, mannerisms, aggression and other traits.
Among the women in the study, 634 had epilepsy and 333 of them took epilepsy medication while they were pregnant - that translated to about 46 percent of the children of epileptic mothers having been exposed to one or more of the medications.
Children whose mothers took epilepsy drugs while pregnant were more likely to score outside the normal range on several developmental measurements, the researchers report in the journal Epilepsia.
For instance, 3.3 percent of three-year-olds whose mothers did not have epilepsy did not meet milestones for physical skills, whereas 7.5 percent of kids exposed to epilepsy drugs in utero failed to meet these milestones.
In addition, 4.8 percent of three-year-olds whose mothers did not have epilepsy scored abnormally on their ability to form sentences, while 11.2 percent of the children whose mothers took anti-seizure medication were delayed in their sentence skills.
The kids whose mothers took epilepsy medication while pregnant were also more likely to have autistic traits - 6 percent - compared to just 1.8 percent of the kids who mothers did not have epilepsy.
A mother's epilepsy itself did not appear to contribute to the heightened risk. Mothers with the condition who did not take any medication were no more likely to have a child with delays than mothers without epilepsy.
Dr. Cynthia Harden, a neurology professor at Hofstra-North Shore LIJ School of Medicine in Hempstead, New York, said it's possible the findings could be explained in part by something called "selection bias."
Mothers who take epilepsy medication while pregnant, for example, might be more concerned and therefore looking out for developmental delays, so they could be more likely to report them.
But Harden also said it's possible the drugs themselves have a negative effect on babies' development.
"There might be something real going on here, but it's possible that the magnitude of the effect is exaggerated by selection bias," said Harden, who is also the director of the Comprehensive Epilepsy Care Center at North Shore-LIJ Medical Group in Great Neck, NY.
Holmes said the findings support parents taking action on cues that their child might have a delay.
"Because there are concerns about subtle effects, I think it's smart to go ahead and think about obtaining some formal testing...as a way of making sure that everything is OK before first grade," Holmes said.
Harden agreed that the study doesn't change the discussion about epilepsy management during pregnancy too much.
Already, patients and physicians are aware of the potential hazards of the drugs, yet "seizures are dangerous, and we cannot permit our patients to have seizures during pregnancy," she said.
Physicians try to reduce the dose of the medication, trim back the treatment to one type of drug if possible, and avoid the use of valproate.
Veiby added that another way to minimize the risks during pregnancy is to plan ahead to figure out the safest treatment strategy, and to avoid unplanned pregnancies.
"Unfortunately, many women on (anti-epileptic drugs) do not receive the appropriate pre-pregnancy counseling," she said.


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tune your tv to TLC at 6pm (if you have satelite) or 9pm on wednesday. It is within the last 5 minutes of the show.
Dude is kiting at what looks like kite beach Maui?? and tries to show off for the crowd. Loses his edge on the board and gets 20+ feet of air to a sweet shoulder plant on the rocks. The guy is pretty much unhurt. I loved the guy being interviewed by the camera and someone off camera says to him "Dude you need to get a helmet".
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Ray Wylie Hubbard (who put on a great show at the Cedar) called in to chat today. Plus, Rebakah Pulley from Tampa and The Harris Brothers from North Carolina all paid us an in-studio visit. Flo & Eddie performed a medley of Elvis songs; new music by Jerry Miller (Eilen Jewell's guitarist) and the Kenneth Brian Band. Plus, Flaco Jiminez, Andre Williams, Scotty Moore & DJ Montana with Steve Earle & Lee Rocker, Gurf Morlix, Toni Price, and assorted other tunes. To see the full playlist of songs, click "Episode Details". You'll be able to link into the archive of the show from there, too. Thanks for listening.
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The Faculty of Natural and Technical Sciences was established in 2002 at the Berzsenyi Dániel College, (today the Savaria Campus of the University of West Hungary).
Although the Institute of Natural Sciences, its predecessor, started work in 1992, teaching in most courses had begun much earlier. Students choosing education as their profession were taught maths from 1972, technical subjects and physics from 1983, and biology, geography and chemistry from 1984 on. For the present the spectrum of training offered by the faculty has been expanded with courses on the environment, business management, industrial products and design in applied arts and also technical management.
The faculty intends to offer fundamentals for natural, technical and economic sciences for master courses in teacher-training and other types of education for M.Sc. degrees, also to add an interdisciplinary school for a doctoral program. It aims at educating specialists who can manage industry, agriculture, education civil or institutional areas of society, or can get along as business entrepreneurs with suitable fundamental knowledge of natural and technical sciences, in the field of informatics and business studies.
The faculty created wide ranging connections to private companies of the West Transdanubian region to enhance practice-oriented education of the fundamental courses, and for the practical training of the students. The students can do their professional practice at 16 companies: e.g. Bükfürdő Curative Thermal Bath, Markusovszky Hospital, BPW Hungária, General Motors Powertrain, and Isel Hungária Automatisation, etc.
Instructors and researchers of the faculty's four institutes (the Institute of Biology; the Institute of Geography and Environmental Sciences; the Institute of Mathematics and Information Sciences; and the Institute of Technical and Economic Sciences and Informatics) are always active and are surrounded with busy students. Students in the different courses organize special days and nights and participate in field practices, study tours and astronomical observations. Students interested in research work are involved in the students' scientific clubs, guided by their instructors.
Many scientific conferences and other special events organized by the faculty are linked to its vibrant research activity, including regional conferences on natural sciences and on karst formation, sessions of the Hungarian Society of Ornithology, or a congress of European Arachnology, and a settlement geography conference.
The mainstream of scientific work on fundamental levels is represented by karst formation research and ecological investigation, while applied research on the faculty includes anthropology, neurobiology, plant biology, environment protection and land development, information technology, company planning and management.
Besides the faculty's own scientific publication, titled "Scientific Proceedings of Savaria Campus – on Natural Sciences," the individual departments also have their own periodicals, such as "Karst Development," "Kanitzia," and "Folia Anthropologica." They play an important role in the regular exchange of information with other partner institutions.
Many instructors of the faculty participate in doctoral programs of other Hungarian universities (ELTE, SZIE, PTE), and are members or heads of several national and international scientific groups, take part in scientific research cooperation, such as the Hungarian Society for Geography, BirdLife Hungary, and the South-East Bird Migration Research Network.
The faculty has scientific cooperation with European and overseas institutions (Department of Applied Geography, University of Bordeaux, France; Department of Human Biology, University of Punjab, India; Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, USA; Astronomical Observatory of Hurbanovo, University of Lodz, Poland; Nanoscience Technology Center and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Central Florida, USA).
Since 2000, the faculty has spent more than 200 million Hungarian Forints (gained from tenders) on infrastructure development. The funding was mostly allotted to providing background facilities for teaching new technical and business courses, and information technology. An astronomical observatory station, a laboratory for geology and mineralogy and one for neurobiology were also established at that time. Facilities for several special classrooms have also been improved.
Besides teaching astronomy and propagating science, the Kövesligethy Radó Educational Observatory, located in the attic of the faculty building, serves the instructors' scientific work, in particular the joint research program with the Slovakian Central Observatory (SUH) on solar physics. After the faculty's laboratory is developed, it will be involved in the program for observation of small planets. (The traditional visual direct observation is made possible by means of a 6" and f"/16 D&G achromatic refractor, on a FORNAX 50 with a coordinator 2000 drive, while the surface details of the sun, the moon and other planets are taken by a special USB camera.)


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Whether it is the task to outfitting your planter to handle conditions where tillage didn't get done, to understanding how to manage nitrogen across your fields, there's no blanket answer to tackle these challenges.
That's why Ken Ferrie partnered with Farm Journal Associate Field Agronomist Missy Bauer to develop the Winter Semester Corn College. This one-day event will provide take-to-the-field knowledge for the coming year's challenges.
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(StatePoint) Nearly a third of American parents feel they are not spending enough time with their family, according to a 2013 Pew Research Center study, and with cooler weather bringing hectic schedules for most families, quality time is in short supply. The kitchen is often considered the hub of most homes, so involving the entire clan in a culinary adventure is an easy way to create special memories together.
Transform family members into dessert chefs while enjoying fun times together with easy recipes that satisfy everyone's sweet tooth. Create a semi-homemade dessert without too much fuss by transforming a store-bought snack cake into a confectionary treat using just a few simple ingredients. It's an inventive way to be creative in the kitchen without breaking the bank.
"For families in a rush, coming up with delicious desserts that are simple to make is essential," says Meredith Butler, brand manager for Mrs. Freshley's, an award-winning line of snack cakes and pastries. "Keeping the ingredients and price to a minimum, while maximizing flavor, provides hustling households with the best of both worlds."
To help active American families create sweet treats, Mrs. Freshley's is offering semi-homemade recipes using their snack cakes.
Bake up something warm during cooler months with delicious dessert recipes such as Honey Bun Bread Pudding.
• 4 Mrs. Freshley's Honey Buns
• 2 cups milk
• 2 eggs, beaten
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• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon
• Cut Mrs. Freshley's Honey Buns into bite size pieces.
• Place honey bun pieces in greased 2-quart baking dish.
• Beat milk, eggs, sugar, and vanilla in small bowl.
• Pour egg mixture over honey buns and sprinkle with cinnamon.
• Bake at 350 degrees Fahrenheit for 30-40 minutes, or until golden brown.
For a quick and simple shortcake with big flavor the entire family will love, try this recipe for Dreamie Strawberry Shortcake.
• 1 1/2 pounds fresh strawberries, washed and hulled
• 3 tablespoons granulated sugar
• 6 Mrs. Freshley's Dreamies, sliced
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• Cut strawberries in half and add to bowl.
• Stir in sugar.
• Refrigerate strawberry mixture for at least 30 minutes to develop juices.
• Place Dreamie slices into serving dish and top with strawberry mixture.
• Add whipped topping, serve, and enjoy!
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Magpul Industries is moving its corporate headquarters to Texas and manufacturing facility to Wyoming from Colorado, where the state's legislature last year approved gun-control measures that were met with outcry from residents and outdoors industry companies.
Magpul made the announcement Jan. 2. It is relocating manufacturing, distribution and shipping operations to Cheyenne, Wyo. Magpul is leasing a 58,000 square foot manufacturing and distribution facility during the construction of a 100,000 square foot build-to-suit facility in the Cheyenne Business Parkway. The Wyoming relocation is being completed with support from Gov. Matt Mead, the Wyoming Business Council and Cheyenne LEADS.
"Wyoming and Magpul are a great match," said Gov. Mead. "The state is looking to expand and diversify its economy. Bringing an innovative and growing manufacturing operation to Wyoming is a significant step for the state. We offer Magpul an attractive tax environment, stable and reasonable regulations, not to mention a firm commitment to uphold the Second Amendment."
Magpul is moving its corporate headquarters to Texas. Three north central Texas sites are under final consideration. The transition to the Texas headquarters will begin as soon as the facility is selected. The Texas relocation is being accomplished with support from Gov. Rick Perry and the Texas Economic Development Corporation.
"In Texas, we understand that freedom breeds prosperity, which is why we've built our economy around principles that allow employers to innovate, keep more of what they earn, and create jobs," Gov. Perry said. "I'm proud that Magpul is the latest employer to join the ranks of companies that call Texas home."
"Excessive government regulation undermines a culture based on personal responsibility and creates a detrimental business environment," Magpul CEO Richard Fitzpatrick said. "Texas supports personal freedoms and our company will thrive in that environment."
Gov. Perry has reached out to more than 30 firearm manufacturers in states across the country that are considering restricting sales and manufacturing in the industry. Magpul cited the Lone Star State's business-friendly environment, predictable regulations and consistent respect for the Second Amendment as key elements in its decision to relocate.
"Magpul made the decision to relocate in March 2013 and has proceeded on an aggressive but deliberate path," said Doug Smith, Chief Operating Officer for Magpul Industries. "These dual moves will be carried out in a manner that ensures our operations and supply chain will not be interrupted and our loyal customers will not be affected."
The company began a nationwide search for a new base of operations after legislation was enacted in Colorado that dramatically limits the sale of firearms accessories – the core of Magpul's business. Magpul plans on initially transitioning 92 percent of its current workforce outside of Colorado within 12-16 months and will maintain only limited operations in Colorado.
"Moving operations to states that support our culture of individual liberties and personal responsibility is important," Fitzpatrick said. "This relocation will also improve business operations and logistics as we utilize the strengths of Texas and Wyoming in our expansion."
Founded in 1999, Magpul was launched to manufacture an innovative device to aid in the manipulation of rifle magazines while reloading under stress. The company's name comes from the original product called the Magpul. Over the last decade Magpul has continued to grow and develop into additional product areas using much the same mission and process with a focus on innovation, creativity, and efficiency.


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We believe that patient- and family-centered care (PFCC) is an essential part of every family's experience at St. Louis Children's Hospital.
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Patients, families and healthcare providers always working together to create the best quality of care ensuring a superior patient and family experience.
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Strengthen partnerships between patient and family members throughout St. Louis Children's Hospital. Integrate the patient and family perspective into all aspects of hospital planning, implementation, and evaluation of programs and services. Everyone is responsible for caring for children and families.
The PFCC Program commits to:
- Involve families always, early, often
- Have a strong foundation
- Create the environment and tools for progress
- Promote understanding and acceptance of families values, needs, environments, culture, faith, resources and strength
- Ensure resources are available to assist families so they can continue their role of supporting their child
- Maintain open and honest communication
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One of the best ways we can embody the principles of patient- and family-centered care is by listening to your feedback and incorporating it into our policies, procedures, and daily operations. We take great pride in the partnerships we create with families, and utilize your feedback to help us monitor the quality of the care we provide. Please help us by sharing your experiences of what went right and what we can do better. We want to hear your ideas.


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September 20, 2012
This article was provided by the U.S. Positive Women's Network.
"The U.S. Positive Women's Network (PWN), a national membership body of women living with HIV, is devastated to hear the tragic news that a young woman living with HIV in Dallas, Texas, was murdered for disclosing her HIV status to a partner. PWN calls for immediate action to eliminate HIV stigma and violence against women living with HIV.
"On Thursday, September 6th, 28-year old Cicely Bolden was brutally stabbed to death after disclosing her HIV status to a sexual partner. Bolden's body was found by her two young children later that day when they came home from school ..."
Are We Really That Different From Cicely Bolden?
By Kat Griffith, from The Feminist Wire
"I will go ahead and take the unpopular, but needed step to state that there are many -- too many -- HIV-positive women whose lives are endangered. Studies have shown that HIV-positive women experience a greater degree of violence upon disclosure than men. And yet, many HIV-specific programs, policies, decision-makers, and communities tend to generalize experiences of all people living with HIV and operate on an assumption that people have the same ability to negotiate safer sex or even have conversations around sex at all."
She Didn't Deserve to Die
By Precious Jackson, from The Feminist Wire
"I'm saddened to hear about Cicely Bolden's murder at the hand of her intimate partner when this did not need to happen. [...] Maybe she didn't feel comfortable enough to disclose her status earlier. Maybe she felt she would be stigmatized, judged, and/or looked upon as 'damaged goods,' [...] Maybe Cicely and her partner had protected sex, which can significantly reduce HIV transmission. Maybe Cicely was on treatment [...] Maybe Cicely had bad experiences disclosing her status in the past and was still stigmatized."
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SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Suspected al-Qaida gunmen dressed in fatigues and riding in military trucks overran a key army base in eastern Yemen on Monday, security officials said, holding captive high-ranking officers and soldiers inside in the latest bold attack by militants there.
Security officials said the base in the large but sparsely populated province of Hadramawt is supposed to be protected by several checkpoints leading to its main gate, but that no security was posted outside the military compound when the attack took place.
The military sent in reinforcements and troops are now surrounding the compound, intermittently clashing with the attackers, the officials and a Defense Ministry statement said.
The Ministry said it has managed to evacuate the building but other security officials say there are still an unknown number of officers and soldiers inside.
The attack underscores al-Qaida's ability to exploit security lapses in Yemen, despite a dramatic rise in the number of U.S. drone strikes on militants there — including in Hadramawt — since President Barack Obama took office.
The group was blamed for an assault earlier this month that killed 38 soldiers in the nearby province of Shabwa.
In the Monday attack, authorities believe at least 15 militants stormed into the base on the eastern outskirts of the city of Mukalla.
The Defense Ministry statement said the militants rode in on two military vehicles, one of which was a car bomb that blasted through the main gate of the compound. They then gunned down security guards before taking over the facility after a brief firefight inside, officials said.
Officials have not released a death toll. The Defense Ministry statement said some of the attackers were killed and wounded, without giving specific numbers.
A colonel who works at the base but who was not there when it came under attack says he received phone calls from comrades inside who alerted him to the attack.
The officials and colonel spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media.
For a time, al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, as the group is known in Yemen, was perhaps the network's most powerful offshoot in the region. In 2011, during political turmoil in Yemen, al-Qaida fighters temporarily seized control of a string of cities and towns in the south, where they remain active.


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Say What?
Four bewildering remarks from the Bush administration.
The world might be less stressful if the president of the most powerful nation didn't so frequently convey the impression that he has no idea what's going on.
Here are three recent examples of his bewildering remarks, plus one from his secretary of state.
1. "If we leave [Iraq] before the mission is complete, if we withdraw, the enemy will follow us home."
This was from a speech by George W. Bush in Lancaster, Pa., last Aug. 16. That's not so recent, but the comment was repeated just this month by Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and by Ohio Republican Rep. John Boehner; so someone up high still seems to think it's true or at least catchy.
In fact, it makes no sense whatever. First, it assumes that "the enemy" in Iraq consists entirely of al-Qaida terrorists, when they comprise only a small segment of the forces attacking U.S. troops. Sunni insurgents and Shiite militias are not likely to "follow us home."
Second, if terrorists wanted to attack American territory again (and maybe they do), their ability to do so is unaffected by whether we stay in or pull out of Iraq. It's not as if they're all holed up in Baghdad and Anbar province, just waiting for the fighting to stop so they can climb out of their foxholes and go blow up New York. If al-Qaida is a global network, its agents can fight in both places.
Third, this is a hell of a thing to say in front of the allies. It's a crudely selfish message, suggesting that we're getting a lot of people killed over there in order that nobody gets killed back here. What leader of a beleaguered nation, reading this remark, would seek America's protection?
2. "What we do know is that the Quds force was instrumental in providing these deadly IEDs to networks inside of Iraq. … And we also know that the Quds force is a part of the Iranian government. … What we don't know is whether or not the head leaders of Iran ordered the Quds force to do what they did. But here's my point: Either they knew or didn't know, and what matters is, is that they're there. What's worse—that the government knew or that the government didn't know?
There are two things worse—that the U.S. government doesn't know whether the Iranian government knew, and that the American president doesn't seem to care.
This may be unfair; he probably does care. So, what's really worse—judging from this passage from Bush's Feb. 14 press conference—is that he doesn't seem to be doing much to find out.
One way to find out might be to open up talks with Iran. Many former officials, of both parties, have urged the Bush administration to engage with Iran on a number of issues, for a number of reasons affecting national security. Here's one more. If these particularly lethal IEDs known as "explosively formed penetrators" are being supplied with the Iranian government's knowledge, maybe a deal can be struck to stop the flow; if they're being supplied without high officials' knowledge, maybe a deal can be struck to crack down jointly on the rogue agents.
One thing is clear from this: The Bush administration doesn't want to talk with the Iranians on principle. Maybe the Iranians don't want to talk with us, either. It wouldn't kill us to find out. (It didn't kill us to find out, finally, with the North Koreans.)
3.Speaking of not talking to nasty regimes, here's a remark by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at House hearings on Feb. 16:
"We don't have an ideological problem with talking to Syria. … [T]here just isn't any evidence that they're trying to change their behavior."
Rice was responding to a heartfelt plea from Republican Rep. Frank Wolf of Virginia. "I beg of you," he said, "if we're going to ask a young man or woman in our military to go to Iraq three different times, it's not asking too much … to send somebody to engage with … the Syrians."
The secretary's response was a replay of Bush's response to a similar question at a press conference last August: "We've been in touch with Syria," he replied. "Colin Powell sent a message to Syria in person. Dick Armitage talked to Syria. … Syria knows what we think. … The problem is that their response hasn't been very positive."
He was referring to a trip that his former secretary of state took to the Middle East back in 2003—and, though Bush didn't mention this, Syria's response was positive. Ariel Sharon, then Israel's prime minister, had asked Powell to get Syrian President Bashar Assad to crack down on Hezbollah—and Assad did, for a little while, anyway.
Then, as now, a follow-up question might have been: How do you know what the Syrians are willing to do until you talk with them and offer them some incentives?
Again, maybe the Syrians don't want to talk with Bush. Maybe they figure that this lame-duck American president shows no sign of changing his behavior, that he has nothing useful to offer them.
4."George Washington's long struggle for freedom has also inspired generations of Americans to stand for freedom in their own time. Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life."
On Feb. 19, to celebrate George Washington's birthday, President Bush gave a speech at Mount Vernon comparing himself to the father of our country and the Iraqi war to the Revolutionary War.
In the past, George W. Bush has likened himself to Harry Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy.
He should stay away from historical analogies. The crises and wars that he's invoked don't really correspond to his predicaments, or to the extent that they do, the comparisons tend not to flatter him. Washington is particularly ill-cast as a Bush stand-in.
"On the field of battle," Bush said at Mount Vernon, "Washington's forces were facing a mighty empire, and the odds against them were overwhelming. The ragged Continental Army lost more battles than it won" and "stood on the brink of disaster many times. Yet George Washington's calm hand and determination kept the cause of independence and the principles of our Declaration alive. … In the end, General Washington understood that the Revolutionary War was a test of wills, and his will was unbreakable."
Sound familiar? It's obviously meant to, but it shouldn't. Here's an awkward question: By Bush's own description, which side in the Iraq war most resembles the "ragged Continental Army" and which side the "mighty empire"? I don't mean to draw moral (or any other sort of) equivalences, because there is nothing at all equivalent about those two wars, or these two presidents, and it degrades the serious study of history to pretend there is.
But dragging Washington into Iraq is especially perverse because it's hard to imagine a war that he would have found more dreadful. Bush quotes him as having once said, "My best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom."
Yet Bush leaves out the context in which Washington made this remark. It was when the French foreign minister presented him with France's new tricolor flag. That is, it was in celebration of the French Revolution.
It was not, in any way, an endorsement of going to war to "spread freedom" around the world. To the contrary, in 1793, during France's subsequent war with much of Europe, Washington issued a Proclamation of Neutrality, forbidding American citizens from taking any action that would help one side or another.
Nor did Bush say anything about Washington's Farewell Address of 1796, in which the first president, stepping down from two terms, elaborated his views still further. Washington urged his fellow citizens to avoid "overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty." He cautioned against "excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another." And he advised, "The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
At the conclusion of his Mount Vernon speech, Bush said of Washington, "His example guided us in his time; it guides us in our time; and it will guide us for all time."
Does Bush really believe that, or was he just yakking? And, as he might put it, what's worse?


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If your little girl loves Belle, Ariel, Cinderella, Aurora, Rapunzel, Snow White or Tiana, a new technology available at Disneyworld in Orlando, FL will turn them into a princess figurine. D-Tech Me, an imaging technology at the theme park will scan the faces of girls and use these computer images for processing onto the face of a figurine of their choosing.
According to the blog announcing D-Tech Me on the Disney site, the process takes approximately 10 minutes and girls' faces are scanned using multiple cameras and different angles. The end result will be the little girl's likeness that is created onto a 7-inch keepsake. Here's what an example Rapunzel doll looks like:
D-Tech Me is available for girls aged 3-12 and costs $99 (plus $15 for shipping and handling). The figurines take approximately 5-6 weeks to create and send out, according to the blog.
People on the Disney blog seem to be very excited about the launch of this technology, judging by the comments, but are equally disappointed that there is an age limit. Seems there are many "princesses at heart" out there who wish the technology was available to people of all ages. If you were visiting Disneyworld, would you get this for your daughter?
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Once a month I write a film review for Iceland Review Online. As a lover of the arts, I enjoy writing my monthly review as it gives me the chance to watch a film of my choosing, whether recent or old.
But there is one TV drama I never get to cover in my film review because this particular TV drama does not fall under the category of being a cinematic product in the artistic sense.
I'll give you a few hints.
It's a soap opera. It runs all day long and every single night the local media gets involved in the dramatic events of the day. I think my last clue will clarify the confusion if you haven't worked it out yet... It's reality TV and it's as real as the beating heart keeping you alive day after day.
I know you already worked out that I am talking about Alþingi og Bessastaðir, known to the English speaking population as Parliament and the President.Alþingi. Photo by Páll Kjartansson.Bessastaðir. Photo by Páll Stefánsson.
The actors and actresses are real people. Their monthly salary is pretty damn decent and some of them even have a driver to take them to work and back home. In fact, the guy who plays the president, he is so good he's been called the Dalai Lama of the North. Their employer is the State, and between you and me, they are the State.
They get to make a lot of important decisions that directly affect the audience; a reality theater at its best is definitely the kind that directly affects the viewer. Physically, financially and emotionally, the audience shivers before the awesome power of the cast – sometimes in rage and sometimes in rare gratitude for the cast's attentiveness to the viewer's needs – and the consequences of each decision.
As employers of the State, one would think they should be neutral and inactive in business and professional affairs their decisions may affect. But no, one of the hottest plotline is when a cast member is discovered to be an affiliated party in scandalous affairs, affairs that sometimes even offend the sensitive nerves of the already-too-sensitive-from-the-direct-exposure-to-the-show audience.
Man, it's hard to recall all the pivotal points during which the naive viewer was absolutely certain this and that cast member would get the boot. Affiliations with business transactions in the gray area; delayed resignation for financial gain; convicted criminal activities; former affiliated friend of villains turned hero returns to save the poor viewer from the corrupt cast and crew but only as long as he wants to.
You can see why we're hooked on the drama. It never ends.
Last night, I watched a dramatic episode of the soap. Man, the dialogue. As a writer I wanted to be one of the scriptwriters (let's face it, reality TV is scripted) whose intellect clearly is at a level far superior to mine.
For a while, I lost track. I couldn't work out what point half the cast was trying to make. My soaring head was bewildered by all the confusion in this urgent matter.
The episode was called Eagle's Silver and the pivotal subject was a Script of Propositions produced by this council called Stjórnlagaráð or the Constitutional Council, a script the cast and crew has decided we the audience can vote on, at least a clause or two.
Alas, the vote of confidence in the meager audience!
Anyway, to get on with my story, I should introduce the four stars and the interviewing guest star, the Holy son of the Eagle.
How he battled for words against the seasoned players of Alþingi; the snide laughter of the right-wing Villain in the Back Seat; the Fair and Just Mediator; the Python in Disguise (who like the villain, wants to get a minister role, preferably the role of the Prime Minister); and the only female in the group, the Good Witch in the Front Seat who just happens to be in with the gang in power. They call themselves the Government.
I was their captive at sea.
The Villain fought the Good Witch for the metaphorical front seat, after all, since his gang lost the popularity contest in the 2009 drama, he has been barking up walls, one after another.
The Good Witch used lewd left-wing logic to shoot down the snide interruptions slipping out of the never-lost-for words Villain in the Back Seat. The Holy Son of Eagle tried to calm down the heated fight between the two while the Python played the he's-sort-of-right-but-my-deliverance-of-party-politics-is-super-polite-so-I-am-right card.
The Fair and Just Mediator offered soothing words to soothe the rising anger of the polar oppositions.
If you didn't see this episode you missed out. The mockery, the offense taken, the taste of blood, it was all almost tangible in the weekly news program.
It's a pity that I can't review Parliament and the President in my monthly review. The material is pure gold and the excitement never goes away. To feel the weight of reality TV on your very shoulder is a rare TV experience. But I can't review reality, can I?
When the party-to-party bickering is all too real, when important issues are delayed with long speeches from the opposing party for reasons of political antipathy to perhaps much needed bills to be passed, something is really wrong in society of men.
And the worst bit of news is that as an individual dependent on Parliament and the President to make good decisions – or one would think they'd want to for the salary we pay them – my opinion means nothing.
Whether I am a grad-student with an overdraft every single semester I borrow from the student loan funds, have a double mortgage to my name, lost my car to a company that in the dark of night took possession of it with everything I might have left in it, or a senior citizen who paid my dues to pension funds for half a century and get naught but a slice of the pie, I don't count.
My vote doesn't even count because no matter whom I choose, I don't have a saying in who is going to be in the party leadership once elected.
I bet the cast and crew at Alþingi, Iceland's millennium old parliament, would find snide remarks in response to my criticism, if I dared raise my voice and ask to know what role the president I choose to give my vote in June is expected to serve during his or her four years in office.
After all, they expect me to vote a president the same day I am to vote in favor or not in favor of constitutional clauses concerning the presidential office.
The political farce continues…
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As I mentioned in the paper today (buy one, it's an incredible value), Jason Avant's agents also handle Marlin Jackson, the Colts CB/safety who will visit NovaCare after stopping by Baltimore today. Jackson didn't sign with the Ravens, and I'm told he'll be at NovaCare by 3 p.m. Updating: The Eagles have announced Jackson will speak to reporters tomorrow at 11 a.m. I wouldn't be at all shocked to see him end up signing here, ACL issues notwithstanding -- as your presumptive starting free safety.
Yes, ACL recovery is tricky, but everyone is not Stacy Andrews. I understand Jackson will be able to go hard by training camp. It would be a gamble, but an interesting one. I am led to believe the Birds have exhibited very strong interest. We'll see, as Andy Reid likes to say.
The first commenter below mentions the Peter King blurb about Jackson this week. Here it is, from si.com, under the heading of three decisions PK thinks should happen soon: " 3. I'm doing a thorough physical on free agent cornerback Marlin Jackson, dumped by the Colts. And unless I think his knee won't allow him to start the season, I'm moving aggressively to sign him. He's now missed much of the past two years with injuries, but he's a smart 26-year-old corner the Colts thought so highly of that they picked him in the first round five years ago. Worth the risk. He'll visit the Eagles and Ravens this week, and I'd be surprised if he were unemployed Friday."
Somebody mentioned this last night, but I have no quick and comprehensive way of checking it out -- didn't Jason Avant just become the highest-paid No. 3 receiver in football? My take is, teams yak all the time about team values and leadership, it's nice to see the Eagles actually paying like they really value those things, for once. But I always get nervous when a role player gets a lot of attention and compensation, to the point where expectations exceed the size of the role ... kinda the Aaron McKie Principle, if not the Peter Principle.
Iggles Blog allays those fears a bit. It would be interesting to see what would happen, particularly in the red zone, if they really went to Avant, instead of making him an emergency check-down. I suspect he wouldn't quite get open enough for a QB who really likes his separation. But I wouldn't mind seeing the Eagles give it a shot.
Also, if you're wondering what Avant's contract does to the potential DeSean Jackson renegotiation, I'm thinking nothing. As Drew Rosenhaus well knows, there's a 30 percent rule in effect for renegotiations. DJax can't make more than 30 percent above what he made last season. The commission from that deal would hardly keep Drew in hair gel.


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Controversial immigration rule changes, health care needs and a changing produce shopper provided fodder for a forum at the 2005 Texas Produce Convention, held recently on South Padre Island.
Susan Combs, Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, moderated the forum discussion. She emphasized how a troubling health crisis in Texas and the rest of the nation could be in part remedied through an effort by vegetable and fruit producers to promote their healthy products.
"One of the best things — and it's actually a bad thing in itself — for your industry is the new focus on healthy nutrition for kids," Combs said. "Obesity in children has doubled in the last 20 years, while 35 percent of Texas children are now overweight. If you are an obese kid, you have a 50 percent chance of being obese as an adult, and if you are obese at age 20, you'll lose 23 to 27 years of your life."
Combs said about 50 percent of adults in the Texas Rio Grande Valley have been diagnosed with type-2 diabetes. Meanwhile, the state government spent millions of dollars on health care two years ago pertaining directly or indirectly to overweight adults.
"We have very sick people in Texas, and that's why partnering with producers is important," she said. "Fruits and vegetables are a fabulous, important part of children's diets and they don't get enough of them."
Combs said Texas government has recently begun an aggressive campaign toward promoting healthy diet habits in classrooms across the state, which targets 2.2 million school children. Such efforts have resulted in distributing posters published in English and Spanish.
She said the overall theme is dubbed: Good food and good exercise equals good grades.
"There is an absolute relationship in how these kids eat and their grades. And there are lots of nutrition education materials dealing basically with your industry," she said.
Doubling consumption
"It's really important for you to be talking about the relationship between healthy children and fruits and vegetables — whether it is at the USDA farm bill level, or at your local school, restaurant or grocery story. It is a tremendous pairing I hope you work on."
Tom Stenzel, president and chief operating officer of the United Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Association, said health benefits linked to fruits and vegetables and promoted to help fight cancer could have more success with the emerging fight versus obesity.
"We just don't seem to think about what is going to happen to us 30 years from now," Stenzel said. "But obesity is personal and it is immediate — unlike the cancer fight — and when you talk about impact today, we have more personal motivation than we have had before."
He said a recent government survey estimated the obesity problem cost more than $75 billion in Medicare and Medicaid expenses.
Stenzel is convinced that the opportunity for fruit and vegetable growers as a means to prevent obesity could double domestic consumption, increasing its estimated current value of $80 billion annually to $160 billion annually.
Together, the public health sector is joining hands to tackle this issue, Stenzel said, while the agricultural changes looming in the next farm bill, currently under legislative reconstruction, will have a major boost.
While the fruit and vegetable sectors have never benefited from subsidy payments from farm legislation, he said, those two markets — which represent about 25 percent of all agricultural farm gate receipts — should get more focus.
"It's critical that all of you understand how important this is going to be," he said. "That merging of the public health needs together with the changes in ag policy, I think, will give us an opportunity that requires us to step up to the table and take advantage of it."
Labor issues
Monte Lake, a labor and immigration lawyer in Washington D.C., called on farmers in the audience to quickly become familiar on the plethora of immigration proposals swirling in Congress thanks to a fiery debate on the issue playing out in the media.
Because of the threats of terrorism, he said, attention has shifted to guarding the country's borders and how to handle illegal aliens already living here. Yet, Lake said the agricultural sector of the economy has long been dealing with the issue.
He said ag industry leaders knew a decade ago that 70 percent of its workforce held fraudulent citizenship documents.
"The political dynamic is that people say we've got to get rid of the aliens and we also must punish the employers who hire them. So there is going to be pressure for bills that are basically going to increase the penalties and fines, and finally make the (existing) immigration law work," Lake said.
Because of the far-ranging cultural issues associated with the problem — from education to health care to labor laws — Congress has been reluctant to tackle illegal immigration directly, he said.
"Between 10-12 million people are now working in this country illegally. We can ignore it or tackle it," he said. "But if we eliminate the immigrant workers, who is going to pay for our Social Security? Who will do the work? Who will pay the taxes?"
Lake said efforts to deport existing illegal aliens immediately would be the "death penalty" for the agriculture sector and also have a ripple effect on the rest of the nation's economy.
"The economic study shows that for every field worker you have, you create four to 10 other jobs. These exist because of these people and all of these industries would otherwise suffer significantly."
Proposed solution
Lake suggested that one ag-promoted proposal being channeled through Congress could be a solution. It's one that loosely follows a similar guest worker program held during World War II, one that conditionally permitted Mexican workers while Americans fought overseas.
"We have spent billions on the border, yet illegal immigration has increased. It's not working. Right or wrong this is happening and the way to control it is to have a legal means for them to come and go back," he said.
Lake said a solution will take time to install a revolving, legal means for immigrants to come to the United States for seasonal work and return home. It will also necessitate capital investments in housing infrastructure for them.
"If this is not on your radar screen, understand it and get your congressman engaged," he said.
New shopper
Jason Duran, southwest regional buyer for Austin, Texas-based Whole Foods Market, which promotes whole foods and organic foods in its national chain of stores, said it is adapting to a new shopper demographic.
"We have been concentrating the past year on trying to understand the new generation of shopper," Duran said. "These tend to be a second and a third generation of transplants into this country. So, they are looking for ethnic foods."
Duran said these shoppers are tired of going out of their way to seek them out in ethnic stores and want to see them in the general grocery markets.
Thus, the objective for growers and retailers is to identify the best produce choices for the ethnic shopper and move it into the produce isles.
Duran also said Whole Foods management has determined that it's not economically prudent for stores to offer transitional produce. These categorized food items derive from a farm undergoing the 3-year mandatory certified period from traditional farming to organic farming, even though no pesticides or chemical fertilizers have been applied in production.
"There is a lot of explaining to do with this and it doesn't seem to warrant the higher costs," he said.
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School board gets sneak peek of Nashua's new logoBy KIMBERLY HOUGHTON
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July 16. 2013 10:29PM
NASHUA — A preliminary draft of what could become the city's new logo and tagline was inadvertently disclosed to school officials this week, causing concern among some aldermen.
According to Thomas Galligani, economic development director for Nashua, a work-in-progress version of the city's new logo and tagline — a significant part of Nashua's rebranding initiative — was prematurely unveiled during a Board of Education work session on Monday.
"We didn't want to see it out in public yet," Galligani told members of the aldermanic Planning and Economic Development Committee on Tuesday, acknowledging the error.
A consultant working with school officials to develop a new school district website had previously spoken with the city's consultant for its branding efforts, at which time the preliminary logo and tagline was shared.
The collaborative exchange, according to Brian McCarthy, president of the Board of Aldermen, unfortunately could end up hurting the branding campaign.
The logo and tagline have not yet been trademarked, and could give competitors an unfair edge or advantage now that it was exposed during a public meeting, said McCarthy.
It is important to note that the design that was presented to the Board of Education on Monday may not be the final logo and tagline, said Galligani, He said it must first be approved by the advisory group formed to help with the branding campaign.
"I am a little frustrated that this is out there but we can't see it," said Alderman-at-Large Barbara Pressly, questioning the harm in viewing the various options for the city's new logo.
"It may or may not be what we choose to use," said Galligani, adding it is not how project organizers wanted to unveil the new logo and tagline.
Officials hope to launch the new branding material and implement the branding campaign in September, according to Galligani.
Pressly asked whether there was any truth to rumors about the city crest being changed as part of the branding efforts.
Galligani said that is an false rumor, adding the consultants have no authority to change the city seal.
The city crest, which has been around for about 175 years, has not been used in any capacity as part of the branding campaign, he said, adding consultants are working to create something entirely new, not change what already exists.
"The goal is to shine a bright light on Nashua — a positive light on Nashua," said Galligani.
Last year, the city hired North Star Destination Strategies of Tennessee and MESH Interactive Agency of Nashua to spearhead the city's new branding campaign and help create a tagline and logo to market Nashua.
The project is a joint effort by the city and the Greater Nashua Chamber of Commerce. It is costing more than $100,000, with each of the two entities sharing the cost.
Also recently hired was New Sky Productions of Nashua, which has signed a contract with the city to create two promotional videos as part of the branding initiative.
The branding campaign is designed to create a clear, strong brand identity that represents various sectors of the community to promote businesses, residents and visitors to the city, while also highlighting Nashua's strengths and attractions.


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The Oakland Raiders have narrowed their coaching search to three and Eagles offensive coordinator Marty Mornhinweg is not among them, according to CSNBayArea. The Associated Press has filed a similar report.
A person with knowledge of the situation said the Raiders are down to Broncos defensive coordinator Dennis Allen, Green Bay assistant head coach Winston Moss and a "mystery candidate." ESPN says the team is negotiating with Allen to fill the job.
Mornhinweg and Saints offensive coordinator Pete Carmichael Jr. are no longer in the running, according to the source. Former Vikings head coach Mike Tice, scheduled to interview today, will not be interviewed.
Moss, a former Raider who has ties with new general manager Reggie McKenzie, has been presumed to be the front-runner all along.
Scuttlebutt at the Senior Bowl still has Mornhinweg as a possibility in Indianapolis, although the Colts have not asked permission to talk to him. Owner Jim Irsay has said that the Colts are expected to have a coach in place by the end of the week.


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LAKE IN THE HILLS, ILLINOIS--(Marketwire - Jan. 25, 2013) - CapGain Properties Inc. (TSX VENTURE:CPP) ("CapGain") is pleased to announce that it has formed a strategic alliance with Win Capital Group, LLC ("Win Capital") in an effort to gain access to substantial commercial real estate purchasing opportunities at very attractive prices. These opportunities may be comprised of outright purchases, partnerships, joint ventures, partial equity interests, and lending. Win Capital, through its founder and managing director John Taylor and others on their experienced management team; have developed very significant relationships with banks, special servicers, and other institutions; all of which hold considerable distressed and performing real estate portfolios that are often available to Win Capital at attractive pricing.
Win Capital has developed the Community Bank recovery Program which provides targeted loan portfolio restructuring, acquisitions, and re-capitalization to certain community banks in need of capital assistance. This re-capitalization of banks results in the ability for the community banks to afford to certain bank assets well below market value. Given the analogous nature of Win Capital and CapGain's business models, and in an effort to locate purchasing and lending opportunities and, in some instances, participate together in those opportunities, was logical to form a strategic alliance with Win Capital and should prove to be mutually beneficial.
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Oakland Raiders SS Tyvon Branch (ankle), OT Menelik Watson (calf) and C Steve Wisniewski (knee) did not practice Friday, Oct. 11, and have been declared out for the Week 6 game against the Kansas City Chiefs.
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The Oakland Raiders could move OG Steve Wisniewski to center next season if the team does not need to re-sign impending free-agent C Samson Satele.
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The Oakland Raiders have retained assistant offensive line coach Steve Wisniewski but his role is undetermined at this point.
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Oakland Raiders assistant offensive line coach Steve Wisniewski could be retained as part of head coach Dennis Allen's staff.
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The Oakland Raiders hired former Pro Bowl OG Steve Wisniewski Thursday, Jan. 27, as their assistant offensive line coach, according to CSNBayArea.com. "I'm a Raider for life. I'm thrilled to be working for the Silver and Black and helping to shape the future of the offensive line," Wisniewski said.
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Monday, January 20, 2014
Paris Cookin' Tarte Tatin
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Looks delicious! Did you move the tarte after you cut the first piece to show the "bistro de Paris" so perfectly? When I checked the ingredients for the pastry last year, Picard was using butter vs. shortening in the Monoprix offerings.ReplyDeleteReplies
Monop offers a pure beurre version too. I used that one.Delete
In that last shot, how ever did you manage to cut that slice in exactly the right spot to showcase "Bistro de Paris"?ReplyDelete
Comfort food! Going on my to do list....ReplyDelete
On the menu for tomorrows lunch, I think I saw some Ratte potatoes in my local supermarche, I better get some quick. i hope you had someone to share your tatin pomme de terre. with.ReplyDeleteReplies
I wish I had...where were you?Delete
Easy AND delicious? What more could a girl ask for?! This goes on the menu to-night! Thank you for sharing…x KatieReplyDelete
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text: Kiva.org is excited to announce our partnership with Kraban Support Foundation in Ghana:Kraban Support Foundation is a local development-oriented NGO with the aim of eradicating rural poverty through community education. The organization deeply shares a philosophy of commitment to help fight poverty by facilitating improved quality of human life in the communities we operate in in Ghana. Our mission is to develop innovative strategies and programs that enhance the capacity and productivity of vulnerable groups in our target deprived communities. Kraban Support Foundation's ultimate aim is to operate to enhance the access of small-scale entrepreneurs to sustainable financial services. The organization accomplishes this through strong and viable Cooperative Savings and Credit Societies (CSCS). The NGO facilitates savings-deposits and offers small-scale loans in addition to business development services in a cost effective and sustainable manner. To provide lending, Kraban retails credit to clients in a linkage banking arrangement. However, the responsibility for loan appraisal and approval, entering into loan agreements, disbursement and loan recovery solely rest with our organization. Kraban sensitizes community-based groups through its Training, Education and Credit for Health (TEACH) methodology. We are very excited to give our lenders the opportunity to fund businesses in Ghana through Kraban Support Foundation, and we look forward to seeing the businesses on the website this coming week.


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Gordon Graham introduces and provides commentary on four issues public safety employees and their families may need help with – financial stress, domestic issues, suicide, and substance abuse. Safe Call Now – Savings the Lives of Those Who Protect Us – Make the Call: It takes a special kind of person to protect the lives and property of others. You can't do this job if you don't take care of yourself. Safe Call Now is a 24-hour crisis referral line for public safety workers and their families; a safe place to turn to get help from individuals who understand the demands of the job and who may have endured the same struggles. Peace Officers finishing this course can receive 1 hour of credit toward mandated training when completion is logged on an agency's internal training record.
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Florida's ban on gay marriage clouds effects of high court ruling
TALLAHASSEE - Landmark U.S. Supreme Court rulings on same-sex marriage Wednesday will not overturn Florida's constitutional ban on those unions.
But the court's decisions - negating the federal Defense of Marriage Act and upholding lower court rulings invalidating California's constitutional ban - open the possibility of future legal challenges of Florida's prohibition against same-sex marriages and signals growing momentum for change even in states with conservative leaders, like Florida.
"It's an incredibly exciting day," said Rep. Joe Saunders, D-Orlando, who was one of several openly gay lawmakers elected in 2012 - a first for the state. Saunders said the federal court rulings represent "a sea change in the way that the country is thinking about gay and lesbian families and the contributions that they make every day."
But Saunders and other supporters of same-sex marriages said the future in Florida - one of 37 states that bans gay marriages - is more unclear.
"In Florida, it's a much a more complicated story now," Saunders said. "I think the cards are stacked in favor of gay and lesbian families. But the reality in Florida is that there is a constitutional amendment that bans marriage for gay and lesbian families."
There is also a "defense of marriage" law in the state statutes.
Same-sex couples - even if they were married in states where the unions are legal - will "have to navigate the waters that are still very murky," Saunders said.
Florida's top leaders say the ruling is clear in one regard: It does nothing to change the state constitutional ban that was approved by 62 percent of Florida voters in 2008.
Gov. Rick Scott said he will defend Florida's ban against same-sex marriages if it is challenged under the new rulings.
"It impacted federal law, not state law," said Scott, who is a lawyer. "In 2008 Florida voters amended our constitution and said we are a traditional marriage state, marriage is between a man and woman. As governor of the state I will uphold the existing law of the land."
Asked if he was open to changing his position, Scott added: "I've been married since I was 19. I believe in traditional marriage."
Attorney General Pam Bondi offered a similar opinion.
"It has no effect on Florida," Bondi said. "This is a federal law."
"I believe in traditional marriage," Bondi added, when asked about her personal beliefs. "I am sympathetic to same-sex couples in the event of death or catastrophe who cannot receive benefits."
Even supporters of same-sex marriages said Wednesday's rulings are not likely to offer immediate relief to Floridians.
They are "a major step forward for the country, but for Floridians they fall far short of justice and are more than anything a call to action," said Nadine Smith, executive director of Equality Florida, which advocates for gay and lesbian rights.
She noted while Floridians can go to other states - representing roughly one-third of nation's population - and have a valid same-sex marriage, they "return to Florida legal strangers in our home state."
Nonetheless, the Supreme Court decisions come as attitudes are changing among Floridians about same-sex marriages.
Five years ago, more than six of every 10 voters backed the constitutional ban against same-sex marriages. But a Quinnipiac University poll late last year showed only 45 percent of Florida voters opposed same-sex marriages. Other polls have shown a majority of voters supporting same-sex unions.
The evolving attitudes have led to changing positions for some Florida leaders.
U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, reversed his position and endorsed same-sex marriages earlier this year. On Wednesday, Nelson said he supported the court decision noting the ruling held the U.S. Constitution "prohibits discrimination of lawfully wedded same-sex couples."
Yet, Nelson's Republican counterpart, U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, was firm in his opposition. He said the nation's highest court made "a serious mistake."
"The court should not have second-guessed the will of the American people acting through their elected representatives without firm constitutional justifications," Rubio said. "The sweeping language of today's majority opinion is more troubling than the ruling itself as it points to further interference by the court in the years to come."
Another supporter of the 2008 amendment who has changed his mind is former Gov. Charlie Crist, who has switched to the Democratic Party and may challenge Scott next year.
In May, Crist praised several states that had backed same-sex provisions on his Facebook page. "I most certainly support marriage equality in Florida and look forward to the day it happens here," Crist wrote.
Crist's position will provide one of the many contrasts with Scott if the two square off in a gubernatorial contest next year.
Even staunch opponents of same-sex marriages acknowledge movement in public opinion.
State Rep. Dennis Baxley, R-Ocala, a former chairman of the Christian Coalition in Florida, called Wednesday's decisions "disappointing" if they represented a shift away from states setting their own policies on marriage.
But just as the supporters of same-sex marriage want to use the ruling to press their cause in Florida, Baxley said supporters of the existing law will have a new reason to defend their position.
"The movement to change the definition of family has been very assertive and very aggressive," Baxley said. "It has had some impact on public opinion. I still think that in Florida you would find support for the traditional concept of marriage, mainly because once that doors opens you don't know what all it is opening to.
"I look for a strong effort to try to keep our authority and our state policy," Baxley added. "And I think that public opinion will still support a traditional marriage and understand it as a foundational concept for our society."
As chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Baxley is fairly representative of the conservative legislative leadership, which has shown little interest in gay rights legislation.
As a sign of the difficult political terrain facing same-sex marriage supporters in Tallahassee, the most significant achievement in the 2013 session was a Senate committee narrowly endorsing a statewide domestic partnership registry that could extend some legal protections to same-sex couples.
But the bill stalled after that and was never heard in the House.


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Never thought I would see the day when I would be taking up a bloodtrail in an attempt to find a whitetail shed. Well, that's exactly what I did today.
Unfortunately, I didn't find the shed.
This was truly a first for me. I left the house this morning simply to get some fresh air after spending the last two weeks pent up in hotel rooms and convention centers. It is way too early to be thinking about finding sheds, but I thought I would do some investigating anyway. The morning went by quickly. I walked the equivalent of 4.5 miles through the woods, meandering through hardwood ridges, a couple of swamp holes and some thick (deer friendly) pine plantations. And that's where it started. I was nearly at the end of my foray when my eyes did a double take of what lay atop the snow near a fresh set of buck tracks.
At first I didn't think anything of it. I actually blew past it and kept going. Then I stopped and literally said out loud, "Wait a minute!" Yeah, it took a couple of kickstarts to get my mind thinking about what actually caused that deer to bleed.
I backtracked the blood to the buck's tracks and followed a drip-here-drip-there blood trail for about 75 yards. He had come up out of a small hollow before I found that blood. To my surprise, the blood got steady as the buck was down in that hollow. At one point, he bled quite heavily as he stood at the base of that hill. Some detective work showed that he fed on berry brush and grasses at that spot. Despite trailing his backtrack for more than hour, I could find no antler. I did, however, find the spot where buck had started bleeding. I'm not real good at identifying my weeds, but he had been feeding on something that looked like goldenrod or yew — something like that — when he must have bumped his head (perhaps intertwining it) on a tangle of berry brush. The ground was pawed up, and there was a splatter of blood on the snow in that spot. It looked as though someone took a cup of blood and sprayed it across the brush and snow.
I can make one of two assumptions here … the buck either had already lost his antler and reopened the wound while foraging, or he bumped the pedicle enough to make it start bleeding without actually losing the antler.
Either scenario is possible, but the first (having already lost the antler) would only be plausible if he had lost the antler very recently. Knowing what we know about deer physiology, I do know that deer are incredibly rapid healers. It takes but a day or two for the open wound from a freshyl exposed pedicle to scab over to the point where the buck won't bleed much, if at all, even if he bumps his head.
Deer can thank their high levels of Vitamin K1 and K2 for that marvel of nature. These vitamins (which are at their highest in summer and fall because of the green vegetation) allow a deer's internal system to literally be a working hospital. Healing is quick and clean. It is what helps deer survive the myriad things that Mother Nature serves up over the course of the year.
We also know that, even though deer can bleed profusely, they don't feel pain, really, in the way that we do. High levels of B-endorphins within their bloodstream allow them to deal with high trauma. That's precisely why a buck can run so far after he's been shot by a bullet or arrow.
Absolutely amazing stuff, in my opinion. Well, I didn't find the shed in this case, but that doesn't mean I won't stop trying.


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Looking for family members of the Gooding's from Ohio in the Killbuck and Millersburg area
Looking for anyone or family member that can Identify the actual background of Ralph Lewis Gooding. Parents were Clifford Edward Gooding, (unsure about Mother) could be Helen Marie Rowe-Gooding.
The family lived in Killbuck, Millersburg area, Ralph L. Gooding was born in Akron, Ohio.
Most of the family tree's have been a real secret to us kids, never really knew anyone but two of the closest to our Father.
Thanks for any help.
Where can I find a GrandFather no one admits existing
The man did exist or my Father would not have been born, (Clifford Edward Gooding), somewhere in Ohio, GrandMother was Helen Rowe if the information given was correct. Father was born in Akron Ohio in July 1932.
Never knew either GrandParent because of the odds they all had.
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Sheer high-low skirt, gorgeous color and back cutout make this bebe high-low dress a flirty summer essential. Try it with a pair of wedge sandals and a crossbody bag for an instant day look.
- 100% polyester
- Center back to hem: 33" (84 cm)
- Dry clean
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- Model is 5'9" and is wearing a US size S
Zipper High Low Dress is rated out of 5 by 7.
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Date published: 2013-07-13
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Date published: 2013-07-12
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Date published: 2013-06-22
Rated 5 out of 5 by Fashionjunky from Sweet & Sexy!! This dress is adorable!! I bought it in black and fell in love. Its true to size and has a little stretch just in case you want to indulge on cake. I wish it came in fuchsia purple or fiery red however the coral is just as nice. Make sure to rock your highest heels for a good runway sway. Its a definite a breeze catcher.
Date published: 2013-06-04
Rated 5 out of 5 by Iloveshopping from Cute & flirty! Very comfy, feminine & flirty dress! Dress it up with a belt & jewelry for an entirely different look from day to evening. That little black dress with a unique edge. True to size. I usually wear a medium & the medium fit perfect.
Date published: 2013-05-29
Rated 5 out of 5 by PEPE from This dress is beautiful I love this dress! It is a nice dress to wear to a wedding or an outing, or even a date. It is sexy, yet still classy. I would recommend getting a smaller size then normal because I got a small, but it was a little too big (just a little). I would also recommend wearing a waist belt with it!! Overall, I think you will love it.
Date published: 2013-05-29


text: Kenyon's Grist Mill is nestled along the banks of the Queen's River in the village of Usquepaugh. They are the oldest manufacturing business in Rhode Island, and the second oldest continuously operating business in the state. Although the current building dates back to 1886, we've been grinding meals & flours continuously on site since 1696. Kenyon's Grist Mill is always looking for new sources of locally grown grain, especially the rare crop of Rhode Island Flint Corn. Although they try very hard to purchase grains as local as possible, it is also important to consider the farming methods used. As always, they do not use, or source grain with any additives, pesticides or preservatives.


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Former John Edwards aide Andrew Young has signed a tell-all book deal, and it sounds as though he has a lot to tell. To begin with, Young now admits that Edwards, not he, is the father of Rielle Hunter's child. No surprise there–Young and his wife invited the pregnant Hunter to come live with them. No wife is that understanding.
But Young does have one shocker–Edwards and Hunter made a sex tape, which Young discovered among Hunter's possessions. As the New York Daily News puts it, the tape "show[s] [Edwards] taking positions that weren't on his official platform."
Young also says that Barack Obama told Edwards that he would be Obama's Attorney General if he wasn't the Vice-presidential choice. That's been reported before and can't be considered surprising. It is interesting to consider whether the country would be better off with Edwards or Eric Holder as AG.
Young's book contract exemplifies one of the basic rules of life in Washington, D.C., as in Hollywood and similar precincts. Young was absurdly loyal to Edwards–even claiming, falsely, to have fathered Hunter's baby–as long as he thought Edwards was in the big time and could do something for him. Once it all unraveled and Edwards' career crashed, everything was different. The formerly loyal Young now will write an expose about his relationship with Edwards. It is, I guess, the last service Edwards can do for him.
Via The Corner.
PAUL adds: The problem with books like this — in addition to the fact that they deal with matters of no interest to me — is that there isn't any reason to believe anything that someone like Young reports. If he is to be believed now, Young lied about fathering Hunter's baby. So why should he be believed now?
This story keeps going from bad to worse. According to the article John linked to above, Elizabeth Edwards suspects Young of stealing the baseball card collection of her deceased son, Wade. As bitter as Ms. Edwards may be, I'd credit her suspicion before I'd credit an Andrew Young assertion or denial.
Fortunately, we need not waste our time deciding whom to believe about what in this sordid tale, and I hope that Americans will take advantage of that opportunity.


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FWIW apparently the thing to do now is to do the whole thing as 1 long pitch... I can't believe you don't get a lot of rope drag tho.
Nice report Al!!!!! Avoiding the Columbus day rush and gunking it up the weekend after!!!! I have some unfinished business with Double Clutch
Ah yes...Double Clutch! It looks like a beast. Over my head I'm sure...
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Teresa Heinz Kerry's condition was upgraded to fair from critical on Monday, a day after the wife of Secretary of State John Kerry was rushed to the hospital with an unspecified illness, the State Department said on Monday.
Earlier on Monday, a source said her family believed Heinz Kerry, 74, might have suffered a seizure before she was taken a hospital on the Massachusetts island of Nantucket and then flown in her own plane to be treated at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital.
"After conducting tests overnight and this morning, doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have upgraded Mrs. Teresa Heinz Kerry's condition from critical to fair," Kerry spokesman Glen Johnson said in a written statement.
"She is undergoing further evaluation, and Secretary of State John Kerry, her son, and other family members remain with Mrs. Heinz Kerry at the hospital in Boston, as they have been since she became ill," Johnson said.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, a source close to the family had earlier said family members "saw her exhibiting symptoms consistent with a seizure" on Sunday but stressed that her condition was still being assessed by doctors.
Heinz Kerry, a philanthropist and heiress, was born in the southern African nation of Mozambique and was married to Republican Pennsylvania Senator John Heinz III, an heir to the Heinz food fortune, until his death in a 1991 helicopter crash.
In 1995, she married Kerry, who at the time was a Democratic U.S. senator from Massachusetts, on Nantucket.
Kerry's second wife, she is the chairman of the Heinz Endowments and the Heinz Family Philanthropies. She is active in environmental issues, has served on numerous boards and has been awarded 10 honorary degrees, according to the Heinz Endowment.
(Reporting By Arshad Mohammed; Editing by Bill Trott)