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Woodsman Chainsaw Carrying CaseWoodsman carrying case. Unique, removable bar scabbard has built-in tool holders to carry tools to the cutting site. Fits MS 170 to MS 460 M with 20" bar.
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Woodcutter Chaps - 6 LayerWoodcutter Chaps - 6 Layer from STIHL are made from rugged, 400-denier nylon and feature the same UL® classified protection as our other chaps. Just snap them over your pants and you're ready to go. Sewn into the legs of the chaps are six layers of Avertic® Pro by Engtex®, a cut-retardant material designed to clog the sprocket and stop the saw chain on a gasoline-powered chainsaw in case of accidental contact with the rotating saw chain. The open-back design of these chaps makes them a great choice for hot working conditions.
Woodcutter Helmet SystemThe lightweight STIHL Woodcutter Helmet System is an excellent choice for budget-conscious non-professional users with chainsaws and pole pruners. Designed for comfort, the vented shell provides cooling air during use, and the 6-point mount suspension provides comfortable support. The STIHL Woodcutter Helmet System is Class G certified and includes NRR 22 hearing protection.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are meandering near the break-even point as budget talks hit another snag in Washington.
General Motors surged after the government announced plans to shed its ownership stake in the company.
Shortly before midday Wednesday, the Dow Jones industrial average was down six points at 13,344.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index was down two at 1,445. The Nasdaq composite index was up three at 3,057.
The White House threatened to veto House Speaker John Boehner's backup plan for averting automatic tax increases and government spending cuts that are set to take effect Jan. 1 if no deal is reached on cutting the government's budget deficit.
The S&P 500 index gained more than 2 percent over the past two days in part because of optimism about a deal.

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Kira started daycare a few weeks ago. She's two and a half years old now. Time flies by so quickly. Well… until she brought home the plague.
It was bound to happen of course. I'd been home for pretty much eight months straight while out of work and then starting a work from home job so I wasn't bringing home other people's germs anymore. Kira rarely got to play with other kids (which is the main reason for putting her into daycare) so she was hardly ever exposed to anything. So yeah… two days of daycare later and we were all sick.
We got over it; we got better. A week or so passed and sure enough – sick again. I seemed to get hit with the worst of it first and was miserable. Constant drainage which led to a sever sore throat after a few days. The weird thing was that it was only really bad at night. I don't mean when I laid down to sleep… no, I mean at around sunset. Soon after Kira started showing signs and we both got on antibiotics which helped me immensely and Kira is recovering still. Michelle was spare for the most part… for a few days.
Now Michelle has it worse than any of us had it. I think it was the plague just waiting for her to utter the words "I guess I got lucky" because a day later she was miserable. That on top of everything else and she has been miserable. Now I'm just hoping that it doesn't mutate and infect me again. Ugh….


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The price of the typical home on Martha's Vineyard fell for the first time in six years in 2006, as buyers left the market and sales figures dropped by nearly 30 per cent.
The median price for properties was down to around $690,000 in the third quarter of 2006, a fall of almost six per cent compared with a year earlier when the median price was around $732,000.
Further emphasizing the slowing, the time most homes are on the market before selling has blown out considerably to eight months, which is two months more than last year and double the time of 2001.
Over the first three quarters of the year, sales were down 24 per cent on the previous year. Land sales were down 35 per cent compared with 2005 and more than 50 per cent compared with 2004.
And while complete figures for the fourth quarter are not yet in, industry experts are expecting the market to continue to trend down or at best stay flat.
Meanwhile, agents' inventories of properties for sale were up around 30 per cent throughout the year.
All are signs of a slowing market, but it is the median price which is most significant, said Eleanor Wilson, the owner of Link listing service, which compiles price and sales figures for the Island.
"That's really the indicative number," she said. "That's the physical middle. Half the properties sold above that price and half sold below. That's the number that says what the market is really doing.
"Inventory numbers have been climbing for the last five years. Sales numbers have been sporadic, with different towns showing different things," she said.
"But the median price . . . just about every quarter in every town those numbers have gone up. With the exception of 2006."
Median is a better indicator than the average price, which can be easily skewed by the sale of one or two top-end properties, given the Vineyard's relatively small housing stock.
Furthermore, top end sales appear to be holding up.
"The high end is selling, low end is selling, the slowing is most apparent in the middle," Ms. Wilson said. Her assessment was echoed by other agents and bankers.
"The top and the bottom are going," said Sharon Purdy, owner of Sandpiper Realty, and a 35-year veteran of the Island market's ups and downs.
"Take the middle as $1 million to $3 million, that's where it's softening," she said, adding:
"We have seen a definite change over 2006. But things have been going up for eight or nine years. It had to end sometime."
But Mrs. Purdy said she sees no signs of a bursting of the housing bubble, rather a slow deflation, which was on balance healthy and not comparable to the boom and bust of the late eighties and early nineties.
"That was an amazing time. You could double your money in six months or less. But many buyers were investment buyers, loyal to the investment, not the Island, and when that market turned, it was because the stock market took a turn.
"When that happened, people had huge debt service costs and they'd lost a lot of money on the stock market. That pushed them into sales; they were ready to take lower prices," she said.
"That's not the case now. There is really no outside economic factor playing into the real estate market. There's still a lot of money around. The Wall Street bonuses were great, interest rates are still very reasonable, people are not so leveraged."
This time around agents say it is not a rout but a standoff, with owners not pushed to sell and buyers putting themselves on hold, waiting to see what happens next.
As evidence of this, Mrs. Purdy cited the rental market, saying the experience at her agency was it was up about 25 per cent over the year.
"People are waiting to buy and renting instead. Until that stalemate comes to a conclusion we will remain dormant for quite some time. I don't expect anything much to happen in the next six months, unless something happens in the broader economy, like a downturn in the stock market," Mrs. Purdy said.
Her generally sanguine view of the market was shared by the president of Dukes County Bank, Chris Wells, with the caveat that the bank is keeping a close eye on the cash flows of speculative investors.
But he said so far the rate of delinquency has not increased, despite the fact that properties were taking much longer to sell.
"Things are definitely slowing," Mr. Wells said, adding: "The last solid sales quarter was probably the second quarter of 2005, and after that it steadily dropped. In the third quarter last year, 122 properties sold; third quarter this year it was 88.
"This is the first year since at least 2000 that we've seen a decline in the median price."
The median in the third quarter last year was $732,000; in the fourth quarter it dropped to $725,000. In the first quarter this year it was down to $705,000; the second quarter it climbed to $761,000 and in the third quarter it dipped to $693,000.
"The median number of days a property is on the market was 246 as of quarter three this year. That's almost double what it was in the third quarter of 2000. In the third quarter of 2005 it was 184 days," Mr. Wells said. He continued:
"It's a classic standoff. The sellers want their price and the buyers want their price and the two have not come close yet.
"But I think this correction is different in that leverage is less and there's a lot less speculation in the market than in the last significant downturn, in 1987 to 1991.
"Jobs data are good, wages are up, interest rates are stabilizing. So perhaps this slowdown will not be long. But the trend is still down."
Ms. Wilson said if the downturn reflected anything longer term, it was probably the growing wealth disparity between seasonal Islanders and year-round residents - a fact emphasized by the fact that top end properties still are selling well.
"It's not that pricing is so high so much as it is that it's high relative to the incomes of the people who are trying to buy the housing," she said.
"If you go to the suburbs of Boston, you can't find a house for what you can on the Vineyard. The difference is people here don't make the income to support those housing costs. They're not making $150,000 a year."
Mrs. Purdy agreed: "The simple fact is our values got very high - in many cases unaffordable for the people who live and work here," she said.
"The affordability factor is very difficult here for many of our year-rounders, which is why we can't attract year-rounders as we did once."


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We can immediately recognize the challenge presented by my first subject, the persistent low-level nonviolent offender. An individual who is arrested for a relatively minor offense-like possession of a small amount of marijuana, shoplifting, disorderly conduct, fare beating or unlicensed vending-too often takes a plea, receives a minimal sanction, and upon release simply starts the process all over again. Make no mistake: today there are thousands of offenders like that in our courts. In the New York City Criminal Court alone, nearly two-thirds of those arrested and prosecuted last year had a prior arrest history. Over 30,000 had 10 or more prior arrests, and over 10,000 had 20 or more prior arrests. And the picture is not appreciably different outside New York City, where more than half of the low-level offenders who are arrested also have a prior arrest history.
Repeated low-level crime is, after all, not just a problem for society. It swells our dockets and is therefore also a problem for the courts.
To begin, we know for a fact that drug addiction is a major force fueling this revolving door. Simply put, the courts have a drug problem. Studies show that in urban areas 75 percent of all arrestees test positive for drugs. Close to half of all felony filings involve drug offenses, more if you include crimes resulting from drug abuse. Drug offenses now account for nearly one-half of all prison commitments. Twenty years ago they were only one-tenth of the total. That is precisely why we recently appointed a high-level Commission on Drugs and the Courts, chaired by Robert Fiske. I am confident that their recommendations will help us craft additional sound approaches for dealing with the courts' drug problem.
Another step is to enlarge our misdemeanor trial capacity. Last year each judge sitting in the New York City Criminal Court, on average, handled nearly 5,000 cases. With calendars that huge, the system is reduced to a plea bargain mill, with no true trial capability offering balance to the process. It's no secret. Everyone--including the repeat offender--knows this.
In no area is this more vital than the provision of civil legal services. Currently, because of funding cuts and waiting lists, many poorer citizens are forced to go into court on their own to protect the very necessities of life-shelter, income, food and health services. We are doing what we can to assist self-represented litigants, but we still know that the scales of justice balance best when both sides have equal access to legal representation. That means we need a reliable system of civil legal services, including a secure source of funding. We achieve that by establishing a structure that can meet the need.
Finally, our efforts to promote equal access to justice cannot be limited to funding issues. The magnitude of unmet needs also requires exploration of alternative sources of legal representation, including the expansion of pro bono programs. While many members of the bar have generously supported pro bono work, a court system report last year found that less than half of New York attorneys provided pro bono services. The most frequently cited reason was a lack of time. To address this concern, and provide even greater incentive, we will amend our Continuing Legal Education rules, becoming the third state in the nation to allow partial CLE credit for pro bono work. Through this amendment, we hope to materially increase pro bono services Statewide without the need for mandatory pro bono.
Each year in New York State, we summon more than 600,000 citizens as jurors. Despite hours in front of the tube watching the likes of Judy and Gerry, and Ally and Amy, for many of these citizens jury service will be their first real-life encounter with the courts. That's more than 600,000 opportunities every year to show the public our system at its best. Talk about challenges!
The second major element of the Year 2000 Program that I want to touch on today is our plan for direct outreach to the community to inform and educate people about the courts.
I cannot close without a word on a subject that is of paramount importance to us: restructuring, or court merger.


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The devastating tornados that passed through Alabama April 27 caused so much destruction and left our little town of Arab was without power for days.
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I want to send a special thank you to the Owen Electric Company. Being a native Kentucky girl from Nelson County, I can't tell how thrilled I was Sunday afternoon to see the caravan of trucks and men from Kentucky roll through our town. I was the one waving and throwing kisses.
Thank you so much for your help. Words cannot express our gratitude for all you did.
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twizzle wrote:southeastD wrote:Oh, I have tried everything, oil, grease, loosen the screws. The screws on mine barely touches the cleats and I still have issues clipping in. It's ridiculous. The store are happy to give me a replacement and I might do that. I suspect the cleat supplied may have had a circlip that's overly too tight out of the factory.
Didn't put the C-springs in upside down, did you?
Are you sure the base plate is flat?? Use a straight edge to check it mine are really easy to clip in and out of. Something is not right. Mine are zeros.
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EXERCISE OF FOOT MUSCLE: By using foot muscle almost same as barefoot walking, exercise of foot muscle and finger pressure effect for sole are available.
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Our Perspectives
Development at the crossroads: reflections from the Arab Region
10 Jun 2014 by Kishan Khoday, Practice Leader for Environment and Energy
Recent years have seen dramatic changes in the Arab region and two aspects in particular are important for the region's relationship with issues of development finance.
First, the expanding role of the region itself as a provider of official development assistance (ODA), with the Arab Gulf countries providing more than $3 billion to countries around the world each year - Saudi Arabia alone provided over $100 billion to almost 90 countries since the 1970s.
While the volume of Arab ODA has attracted attention, important issues for the future will be a growing focus by Arab partners on development effectiveness, alignment with post-2015 priorities like sustainable access to energy and water, and applying social and environmental quality standards to manage risks in recipient countries.
Furthermore, while most Arab ODA has operated through bilateral cooperation channels and Arab multilateral platforms in the past, there are benefits to connectivity with other Southern donors. The centre of gravity in the global economy is shifting East at speed, and this means shifting lines of development cooperation as well.
Strategic alliances between Asian and Arab donors could be a powerful force for the common goal of supporting new development solutions in Africa, with both Arab and Asian donors expected to scale up support to Africa in the post-2015 era. New partnerships across these three regions could reconnect age-old routes of trade, cooperation and innovation, forging a 'new silk road' of development solutions.
Second, a focus in post-2015 debates on the need for aid to adapt to the drivers of change worldwide, such as the rise of middle-income countries (MICs) and the growing power of social movements both issues of special relevance in the Arab region.
The Arab region has experienced in recent decades some of the world's fastest progress on development indicators such as health and education. However growing social and economic gaps have accompanied this process. Issues of social exclusion and inequality fuelled the wave of social movements that took shape in 2011. Such movements, in the region as globally, have become a new disruptive force in development, demanding a fundamental rethinking of our approaches.
Development finance into the region must go beyond engaging communities as mere recipients of charity, and civil society must be engaged as an agent of change, with greater transparency, accountability and participation in decision-making by national and international development partners.
Development institutions should help partners move beyond the linear, autocratic march to economic growth, to a more contextualized approach that engages, rather than side-steps, the social, historical and cultural forces that characterize the state of development in the post-2011 Arab region.
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My favorite part of the story is when Amelia Bedelia jumped in the lake and she got wet. My favorite character is Amelia Bedelia because besides being funny she does almost everything wrong.
This story does not bring back memories because. I have never gone camping, but some of friends have gone and told me that it is lots of fun.
I love to read books about people who are funny like Amelia Bedelia. She? s very funny. I recommend this book to second and third grade children


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CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's military spokesman says the country's naval forces have captured three scuba divers who were trying to sabotage an undersea Internet cable in the Mediterranean, while telecommunications executives blamed a weeklong Internet slowdown on damage caused to another cable by a ship.
Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali says in an announcement on his official Facebook page on Wednesday that divers were arrested while "cutting the undersea cable" of the country's main communications company, Telecom Egypt. The statement said they were on a boat. It did not further have details on who they were.
Egypt's Internet services have been disrupted since March 22. Telecom Egypt executive manager Mohammed el-Nawawi told the private TV network CBC that the damage was caused by a ship, and there would be a full recovery on Thursday.


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They had Bob Mackenzie on the team 1040 at lunch when I was grabbing a bite to eat. He think the mystery team might be Edmonton??Hockey Widow wrote: And maybe that was the whole point of the MG comments. Just pissing on everyone to keep them puzzled and guessing.
Yeah I'm sure Luo would waive his no trade to play in Edmonton!
Unless it's a three way deal that sends another tender Edmonton's way the Canucks and Oilers are not dealing any time soon.


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Our tour of the Marianas begins SW of Guam. In this area the volcanoes are submerged and make up a region known as the Southern Seamount Province. Our first stop is Tracey Seamount, which lies 30 km west of Guam. Tracey is a ~2 km tall cone and volume of ~45 km3 It is one…


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Faculty Bio–Michele Gribbins
Michele Gribbins joined the Management Information Systems department at UIS in 2005 and has been an Online Learning & Faculty Development Specialist with the Center for Online Learning, Research & Service (COLRS) at UIS since 2012. She previously taught in the Department of Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) and was employed by Lake Land College as a Computer Training Specialist in their Center for Business & Industry. She has a BS in Finance from Illinois State University, an MBA from Eastern Illinois University, and has completed doctoral coursework in Business Administration (Information Systems Concentration) from UIUC. She is presently pursing an Ed.D. in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University.
Michele's research and teaching interests are centered on the fit and effectiveness of technologies, particularly technologies that are used in the online classroom. Her research has been published in the Journal of Information Technology, the Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Electronic Markets, and the International Journal of Management Theory and Practices. She has authored two book chapters and has over forty presentations at international, national, and regional conferences.
At COLRS, Michele designs and delivers faculty development in theory, pedagogy, and best practices of effective online teaching and learning. She also supports and guides faculty members in their development and delivery of online courses. She is a Certified Online Learning Administrator and has been on the project team for two Massive-Open Online Courses (MOOCs) offered by UIS: One Patient-One Team: Palliative Care Approaches Across the Continuum and The Emancipation Proclamation – What Came Before, How It Worked, and What Followed. She is the Treasurer of the Illinois Council on Continuing Higher Education, and is a member of the Capitol Chapter of the Association of IT Professionals, the University Professional and Continuing Education Association, the Online Learning Consortium and the Beta Gamma Sigma Business Honor Society.


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Dr. Charles Romig
Professor of Marriage and Family Therapy
Ph.D., Purdue University
M.A., Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
B.S., University of Illinois
Dr. Chuck Romig joined the faculty at John Brown University in 2008 after serving as a faculty member at Wichita State University for 23 years. He earned his bachelor's degree in psychology from the University of Illinois, his master's in counseling from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School and his Ph.D. in marriage and family therapy from Purdue University. He is a licensed marriage and family therapist in Arkansas, a Registered Play Therapist, and has been a clinical member and Approved Supervisor with the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy since the early 1980's.
Chuck has published articles on forgiveness and adolescent identity development as part of his past research efforts. His current interests relate to early childhood mental health issues and use of play therapy with preschool age children. Recently he has made presentations at the Christian Association for Psychological Studies, the American Association for Christian Counseling, and the Arkansas Counseling Association on Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, Schema-based Play Therapy, and Handling Values Conflicts in Counseling.
Dr. Romig has been married to Kim for 37 years. They have two sons and four grandchildren. Kim and Chuck have been to Lithuania three times, having taught at Lithuania Christian College. Besides being grandparents, they enjoy the beauty of the area by hiking the woods and kayaking local lakes and streams.


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The Legacy Project
The Legacy Project: Lessons for Living from the Wisest Americans was established by Cornell Medical School Professor of Gerontology Karl Pillemer. The project records the wisdom of American elders collected from interviews on a variety of subjects. In text and video, the oldest living generations of Americans share their experiences.
The website offers the opportunity for viewers to browse interviews by topic, ranging from money to faith and spirituality. You will be touched by the tenderness, humor, and authenticity of these elders.
Read and listen to these stories with your students, and reflect on how the lessons can be incorporated into this generation's values. We've selected a few favorites.
READ 73 year old Tony promotes the joy of life-long learning.
LAUGH Arnold, 95, recommends, with humor, the importance of listening to the youth.
SUCCEED A priest advises the value of saying "Yes."
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UPDATED: Old Exeter Town Hall heavily damaged in morning fireBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
April 09. 2013 7:48PM
EXETER— The old Exeter Town Hall was damaged by fire, smoke and water on Tuesday morning after a fire broke out on the second floor of the historic brick building where Abraham Lincoln once gave a speech.
The fire was reported just before 8:30 a.m. and was knocked down within 30 minutes by the nearly 50 firefighters from Exeter and other towns who responded to 9 Front St. building
Fire Chief Brian Comeau said firefighters found fire and thick smoke on the second floor, but the building's sprinklers kept the fire from spreading and gave firefighters extra time to set up hose lines to attack the fire, Comeau said.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation, but Comeau said it's not considered suspicious.
The town hall was built in 1855 and was once visited by Abraham Lincoln, who spoke to Republicans there during a visit to Exeter in 1860.
The building may be closed for at least the next two weeks, Town Manager Russ Dean said.
The fire was contained to a small area in a storage room on the second floor. The building is used mostly for storage and houses an art gallery on the second floor.
Community events are also held inside the building on occasion.
The only town department located in the building is the finance office housed on the lower level; other departments are located at the town office building across the street.
Doreen Ravell, the town's finance director, was alone in the finance office when the fire began. She said she had been at work for about a half-hour when she heard smoke alarms going off.
Ravell said the phones weren't working inside at the building at the time of the fire, so she used her cell phone to call 911 before leaving the building.
"I didn't smell any smoke. The only thing that happened was the fire alarms went off," she said.
Some town financial records may have been lost due to water damage in the office. Officials said the extent of the damage needs to be determined.
"We know that some records were water-damaged on the lower level, but we're allowing them to dry out and then we'll go through them," Dean said.
Ravell and other office staff have been moved to the Exeter Town Office building across the street.
The fire also forced the Oyster River Players to begin scrambling to find a new venue for the group's performance of "Romeo and Juliet."
The nonprofit theater company planned performances at the building on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Troupe members arrived after the fire to check their costumes and other props for damage and move everything out.
Director Kelly Eggers wasn't sure where the performances would be held, but said the group was seeking a new location.
Comeau said the bulk of the damage to the building resulted from water. He didn't have an estimate on repair and clean-up costs.
At one point in the morning, Gov. Maggie Hassan, who lives in Exeter, stopped briefly at the scene and thanked firefighters for their efforts.
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Rich and Meg Morenz, formerly of Moberly, have plans to reopen Community Lanes on Oct. 4.
The new proprietors are renaming the long-time Moberly fixture Memory Lanes. The couple hopes to have community involvement as they collect memorabilia and pictures to decorate the new center.
The Morenzes plan to update the equipment within the next few years. The entertainment that was offered previously will still be available. Leagues, open bowling, party packages, billiards, video games and the snack bar are all staying. The center will have a new feel, though, which includes a smoke-free atmosphere.
The Lanes first opened in 1957. The building is currently owned by Orscheln Industries.
Prior to the Morenzes, the Community Lanes were managed by Steve Divers and Shirley Grapes. Divers said that he and Grapes are both moving on to other ventures, despite being offered back positions at the alley, and said that there are no hard feelings regarding the change in management. Divers even went so far as to say that Rich Morenz had worked at the Lanes prior to his leaving Moberly, so he knew the establishment was in good hands.
"Meg and I truly appreciate the efforts of the Orscheln staff, as they went above and beyond to [not only] make our dream a reality," Rich said, "but more importantly, to ensure that the sport of bowling remained a part of this community.
"We are grateful for the opportunity to provide this area with a source of entertainment, while upholding some of the long-standing traditions of the past and creating new ones for the future. We look forward to working with and serving the residents in the local area."
Rich and Meg are both Moberly High School graduates. The Morenzes left Moberly while Rich was serving in the Air Force for 23 years.
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- Ask your boss for a stand-up workstation. Some ergonomically designed desks can electronically adjust to varying heights.
"The potential adverse health impact of prolonged sitting (which is something we do on average for more than half of each day) is only just being realized. Even small changes, which could be as little as standing up for one minute, might help lower this risk." – Dr. Genevieve Healy, School of Population Health, The University of Queensland, Australia
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"If you are in middle age and begin to exercise at a moderate intensity, which means you're sweating and a little bit breathless for 30 or 40 minutes a day, three to four times a week, you will push back cognitive decline by 10 to 15 years. Some studies say the same kind of regimen can cut the incidence of Alzheimer's disease in your life by about a third." – Dr. John Ratey, associate clinical professor of psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, and author of Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
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RESEARCHERS HAVE A FORMULA that compares various physical activities with the energy cost of quiet sitting. Measurements are in metabolic equivalent of tasks (METS). The more METS, the better.
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- Watering lawn or garden … 1.5
- Fishing from boat or canoe … 2.0
- Washing / Waxing car … 2.0
- Playing fold or classical guitar … 2.0
- Kitchen activity … 3.3
- Painting house (interior) or furniture … 3.3
- Power yoga … 4.0
- Golf … 4.8
3) VIGOROUS ACTIVITY (more than 6 METS)
- Bicycling to and from work … 6.8
- Carrying groceries upstairs … 7.5
- Running, 6 mpg … 9.8
- Swimming laps, freestyle, fast … 9.8
- Boxing … 12.8
Source: Medicine & Science in Sports and Exercise, 2011 Compendium of Physical Activities
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TWO-THIRDS OF DOG OWNERS take their pets for regular walks, according to the 2011 report from Michigan State University. Nearly half (46 percent) of dog walkers exercise an average of 30 minutes a day, five days a week, while only one-third (38 percent) of Americans without dogs meet those standards.
Which is best, walking with your spouse or your dog? Experts at the University of Missouri compared human and dog walking companions and found that dog walkers showed much greater fitness improvements.
"There appears to be a strong link between owning and walking a dog and achieving higher levels of physical activity." – Epidemiologist Mathew Reeves, Michigan State University
THIRTY MINUTES A DAY give five days a week, 150 minutes a week. For years we've been told that's the bare minimum we need to get our hearts pumping if we want to reap any real health benefits from exercise. Anything less just doesn't count. A report published last summer in Britain's prestigious medical journal, The Lancet, cut that Olympian effort in half. Researchers tracked the health records of 416,175 active and inactive people for 12 years and discovered that people who exercised a mere 15 minutes a day had a 14 percent lower risk of death during the study than their couch potato peers. Surprisingly, just a quarter-hour workout a day extended life expectancy by a whopping three years. There's more good news for those who'd rather burn their calories on the go than sweat their way through a punishing session of cardio boot camp. New studies show that everyday activities such as gardening, moving the lawn and climbing the stairs also contribute to cardiovascular fitness, even if these takes last just a minute or two at a time. So the next time you have to dash through the airport to catch a flight, imagine how great that little micro-burst of exertion is for your heart. And whenever that infomercial for the Enormously Expensive Elliptical Exerciser comes on, why not save your pennies and walk the dog toward a healthier life?


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Filthy, Rich & Catflap: 25th Anniversary Edition (UK - DVD R2)
The Wilson Bros review the missing link between The Young Ones and Bottom
When The Young Ones invaded BBC2 back in the early 1980's, the viewing public were thrown off-guard by the heady mixture of vulgarity, satire, music and graphic violence. People who "got" the show loved it dearly, but those who hated it were forced to grudgingly admit that that was - at the very least - innovative. It wouldn't be overstating things to say that this was the start of a comedy revolution not only for the BBC, and the waves of these changes from the smug, middle-class sit-coms are still being felt today.
A crucial part of the The Young Ones'[ freshness came from it being the product of three very diverse writers: Ben Elton, Rik Mayall and Lise Mayer (or four, if you count Alexi Sayle writing most of his own material). The way this multiple-way writing effort succeeded was in the way that interlocking nature of Lise Mayer's writing took the edge off some of the more testosterone-driven moments, those which occasionally threatened to let the whole thing degenerate into an anarchic mess. But when the idea for a continuation of The Young Ones was mooted, it was going to proceed without the all-important participation of Lise Mayer, meaning that there was no feminine aspect to balance up the frenetic male-driven writing. But it wasn't just that Meyer was missing, Elton seized the project and all but shut out Mayall from the writing, who took his name off the credits for the little of his work that remained. The result was a very different kettle of fish.
Taking its title from the surnames of the main characters, Filthy, Rich and Catflap chronicles the pathetic existence of life on the bottom rung of the showbiz ladder, encompassing those the egos on stage and the scumbags off it. Richie Rich (Rik Mayall) is a washed-up has-been (or never-was) who still thinks that he is a star – to the point that he employs a violent, drunken minder, Eddie Catflap (Ade Edmondson) to look after him from the heaving crowds he deludes himself will harass him. Most of the action takes place in their squalid flat, where the pair are at each other's throats whilst Richie waits around for his agent, Ralph Filthy (Nigel Planer) to call with news of impending work – either by phone or coming around personally to scrounge fags and plunder his clients' alcohol. The following line perfectly illustrates the charming qualities of Mr Filthy, as he talks to one of his "stars" on the phone:
"Now look, Squeaky, I've told you before. Balloon-bending is no longer a saleable commodity. The public want sex.
Squeaky, two round balloons and one long one thin one
does not constitute sex…"
Squeaky, two round balloons and one long one thin one
does not constitute sex…"
We remember Ben Elton once mentioning that he was very depressed whilst writing Filthy, Rich and Catflap – we even recall that he said he wrote some of it whilst on the lavatory, a claim that he went on to very publicly deny on The South Bank Show. The sense of rage and frustration levelled at the BBC and showbiz in general is very much in evidence, even going so far as to have Ritchie rescuing his copy of the complete works of Shakespeare from the toilet when up for one of the Bard's finest, relieved that the play in question had not yet met with a messy fate. The Daily Mirror lead the charge as it railed against the crudity and (their words) juvenile nature of the humour, with the TV review column becoming exponentially bitchy each week, with one of the earlier barbs reading: "If they edited out all of the swearing, the violence and the lavatorial humour, it would be a perfect (if short) show for young children".
The surreal elements that made The Young Ones so very different from anything else that was around at the time was replaced with vicious rants and satirical swipes at admittedly easy targets. A good example comes with Elton shocking the establishment by directly addressing kids watching to tell them that Santa Claus isn't real. The shock-value of statement might have been more potent if Gremlins hadn't have done it two years earlier, armed with much more spite and panache. Naturally, Thatcher still got the bashings she richly deserved, where a glowing tribute describing her as: "…A wonder-woman workaholic who needs no sleep and works a 36 hour day" is countered with the retort of: "She needs 36 hours a day to screw things up the way she does!" Speaking of which, one of our favourites has got to be:
"Honestly, just because I own a chain of discount brothels,
every seems to think I am a dirty old man…my leisure
establishments are totally allowable. I get the kids
off youth training schemes. The Iron Lady looks
after small businessmen like me…"
every seems to think I am a dirty old man…my leisure
establishments are totally allowable. I get the kids
off youth training schemes. The Iron Lady looks
after small businessmen like me…"
With all the showbiz satire which has followed in the wake of this particular show, it's doubtful that any will even shine the shoes of Filthy, Rich and Catflap for pure venom, and all utilising and insiders knowledge of the BBC to really put the boot in. Some footage from an episode was used as documentary footage in the recent Inside Television Centre show on BBC4, such was the access granted to Elton and co when making it. If you remember the Young Ones' "Sick" where a rant about The Good Life was followed by a lengthy spoof of everything it holds dear, then this gives you good idea of the entire run of the follow-up series. We were in possession of the video releases for a while (somewhere in our vast video archive, we even have an episode or two recorded during the original (and only) terrestrial broadcast. Casting a critical eye over the series, it is easy to see why the Beeb were less than keen on repeated the exploits of Richie, Eddie and Filthy Ralph, as Elton was obviously not a happy bunny during the writing process, and committed his feelings to paper. This unflattering look up Auntie's skirt would only be rivalled a few years later when Peter Jackson & Fran Walsh sat down and wrote Meet the Feebles to vent their spleen about being burned in "the biz". The kind of no-holds-(or holes)-barred assault on showbiz seen in Filthy, Rich and Catflap is calculated and almost seems like Elton is the TV equivalent of Penn and Teller by gleefully giving away many secrets and taking away a vast chunks of showbiz magic in order to get some laughs.
"'Allo, Nasty John's cock and dog fights? I understand you are putting a bunch
of myxomatosed rabbits up against a three-legged cat? A fiver on the moggy.
No, wait: a fiver on each goolie. Have you got any children fighting today…?"
of myxomatosed rabbits up against a three-legged cat? A fiver on the moggy.
No, wait: a fiver on each goolie. Have you got any children fighting today…?"
Let's take a look at the episodes:
EPISODE ONE: Richie accidentally murders the milkman and has to use all of his thespian know-how in order to impersonate the late dairy-deliverer – after deciding to give his milkman character a limp and a northern accent, he proceeds to nonchalantly enter the dairy, dragging one of his legs like it was caught in a bear-trap and uttering "Eeeh, bah gum, ecky thump…"
EPISODE TWO: The Nolans! Probably the most consistently funny episode sees our hapless thesp roped into appearing on innuendo-laden show Ooer Sounds A Bit Rude, only to destroy the light-entertainment show by literalising the crudity it desperately cloaks. Angry and annoyed, he ventures into The Nolan Sisters' dressing room and dresses in their clothes to get his kicks. Unfortunately, his cross-dressing is captured on film by the singing quintet and Richie is soon the victim blackmail, as they threaten to sell the pics to the papers. Eddie makes a splash in the trendy art-scene, championed by none other than the great P'farty and N'bent.
EPISODE THREE: Ritchie plans a dinner party for the golfing mafia (Tarby, Brucie, Lynchy), but how will the boys get the vital ingredients to host such a lavish banquet? The smell of shoplifting is in the air, and before the dinner party goes ahead, Ritchie has to fulfil a contractual obligation by appearing as a compare at peepshow between strippers.
EPISODE FOUR: Ritchie's father is dying, leaving him not only with one less direct relative, but with a brilliant idea to get him back in the public eye: he will be the face of Bloody Flora, the UK's biggest flower company. Trouble is, Dad is getting better and the deal is going down the toilet. What can he do? Arrange to have his father killed, of course. When he screws up trying to hire a contract-killer, he decides to do the job himself…
EPISODE FIVE: A boring game of Trivial Pursuit marks time before the break Richie has been waiting for: reading the papers on TV-AM! But can the boys resist the temptation of the dreaded "Lager-Frenzy" as they kill time en route to Anne Diamond at the studio?
EPISODE SIX: Banned from showbusiness, and with Filthy under sentence of death, Richie becomes a journo to maintain gainful employment. His plan is simple: libel everyone in the light entertainment industry so he will be the only one left with an untarnished reputation to front TV.
Some of the soft targets satirised include then-household names in light entertainment, including John Inman, Molly Sugden and Rod Hull and Emu. Although they are not mentioned by name, the caricatures presented on the show are so thinly veiled that they almost transparent. Elton seems to take sadistic pleasure in ripping them apart and publicly deflating their mystique - a prime example is when the "John Inman" character sticks his head right in front of a TV camera and shrieks "I'm a homosexual, isn't it hilarious?" - pricking the carefully crafted bubble that had been formed over more than a decade of Are You Being Served?
At the time, the list of guest stars might have seemed none-too-prestigious, but looking back, the mixture of up-and-coming & established stars is quite impressive - Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, David Baddiel, Mel Smith, Hale and Pace, Harry Enfield, Chris Barry, Linda Bellingham and Anne Diamond. The final episode features two British comedy legends - John Wells as an aged High Court judge and John Bird as Dingo Wukka, an unsubtle caricature of Rupert Murdoch, giving Elton the material for a well-honed rant about that way the unions were dismantled during the eighties - for all of the satiric dialogue in Bird's scenes, the funniest line has to be when he earnestly (and lecherously) asks Richie and Eddie "how do you spell tits?" The caricature of Murdoch is so on the money that he probably shares the same convenient memory lapses when asked about wrongdoing at his newspapers. Speaking of casting, the other main cast member of The Young Ones, Christopher Ryan, did not appear in the show; considering the furore which surrounded, he probably thought that he was better off out of it – but that same year, fate stepped in and Ryan had the misfortune to star in the unspeakably awful A Small Problem, which was never repeated, even on satellite TV and never released on video.
"If you won't take the rap, Filthy, I'll tell the world
about your so-called stage-school…"
about your so-called stage-school…"
There is a term used in film and television – breaking the fourth wall. This comes from the fact that a set is usually constructed from three walls, with the camera standing in as the fourth, allowing the viewer to feel as though they were actually present in a room, watching the action. Breaking the fourth wall occurs when something is done to deliberately shatter the illusion of realism, usually when talking directly to the camera/audience. Matthew Broderick did this in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Michael Caine also did the same thing in Alfie. With Filthy, Rich and Catflap, it was as though the pretence of the fourth wall had been scrapped entirely – characters talk directly to the camera, at times even directly to the audience, usually mugging shamefully as they do so. Though this had been done in The Young Ones, it could not compare to the frequency with it took place in Filthy, Rich and Catflap, to the point of even questioning the intelligence of the audience – when Richie and Eddie are playing Trivial Pursuits, it is debated whether the audience would appreciate jokes about the game, Eddie bluntly remarks that in order to play the game "you have to be able to read, which counts most of our lot out from the start" – such remarks did not exactly endear themselves to many viewers.
"Now look, Immoral Timothy, I don't deal in drugs.
Well that's why I sold you two ounces of
scouring-powder. Well, look on the bright
side: you'll have the cleanest nose in Clapham…"
Well that's why I sold you two ounces of
scouring-powder. Well, look on the bright
side: you'll have the cleanest nose in Clapham…"
The second episode shows Filthy, Rich and Catflap at its best, and we'd go so far as to call it perfection. It is thirty minutes of unadulterated laughs, combining potshots at all of Ben Elton's favourite targets, as Richie is blackmailed with cross-dressing photographs by the Nolans, all after a disastrous appearance on a gameshow which mercilessly destroys Blankey Blank. Everything in this one works perfectly, to the point where if you played it to someone today, they would assume that it was part of a series deemed a comedy classic, and helps to counter the first episode, which plays like a pilot and contains all the pitfalls of such an exploratory venture. The first few scenes of the initial episode are a non-stop barrage of put-downs and one-liners, as though Ben Elton had a load of them written for something else and chose to deploy them all to get them out of the way, possibly figuring that such an exhaustive volley would be enough to ensnare the Young Ones audience he often underestimated. In any case, the first episode at least contains an almost young-looking Arthur Smith, reminding us all just how good he was as a deadpan comedy actor rather than the miserable malcontent he has been for almost a couple of decades. Anyway, we defy anyone not to see the Nolans one and not declare it a work of genius - it all ends with the girls singing "I'm In the Mood For Dancing", for the love of God!
One cannot review the series without praising the design of the main set - the living room of Richie's flat just screams mid-eighties, right down to the heavy use of red plastic for fixtures and fittings. There are numerous theatrical props, such as stage signs above doors and various posters for plays that have been crudely altered to make Richie seem like a high-profile celebrity, instead of the talentless has-been he actually is. There are several framed pictures of his favourite celebs, such as Jimmy Tarbuck, but the most amusing one has to be a picture of Bernard Manning with Richie's head frantically looming behind the sizeable Manning in a desperate attempt to appear in the same photo as an established celebrity.
Elton's desire to shatter televisual illusions like a sledgehammer-wielding manic-depressive in a hall of mirrors is brought to it's logical conclusion during the rolling of the final episode's end credits - this sees Eddie literally smashing the living room set as the Richie sits transfixed at the TV and Filthy Ralph books a flight to Rio. The final shot sees the screen of Richies' television being smashed - a symbolic end to a series written for the purpose of destroying much of the magic of television. You could wax all pretentious and draw to attention to the fact that The Young Ones' first episode was entitled Demolition, which saw the cast destroying the set of their house, and that having Filthy, Rich and Catflap bookend it by finishing with the destruction its own house set was closing the book on Elton's involvement with anything related to his previous show. Maybe that's navel-gazing a bit too much…
Filthy, Rich and Catflap was originally dumped onto DVD with all of the prestige and presentation of a fry up at a greasy spoon café, seeming rather obvious that the BBC washed their hands of the show completely and allowed Playback, a subsidiary of Universal (we shouldn't slag them off, we've worked for them!) to finally release it on a single shiny disc. Now the rights have passed to Acorn MediaUK and they have affixed a 25th anniversary edition moniker to it. With this in mind, we'll turn our attention to the big question: OK, so how do they look?
Well, considering that they were filmed 18 years ago, this is probably as good as they will look, short of letting the Doctor Who Restoration Team get their hands on them. Most of it was shot on videotape and has a tendency to look better than most filmed stuff for BBC TV shows during the seventies and eighties. The image is solid and there is little in the way of drop-outs on the videotaped sections - there is a little chroma noise over the image, but this was probably down to the original recording. When the US released a box set of The Young Ones (loathsomely subtitled Every Stoopid Episode), the bonus disc in the set contained the first episode of Filthy, Rich and Catflap - we are pleased to report that image quality of the UK set cleans the floor with this episode: the picture is considerably sharper and brighter & the colours are significantly stronger. That the show looks so good is probably because they have only been screened once and (badly) duped for video and a single UK Gold airing.
The mono audio is fine; the aforementioned rendition of The Nolans' I'm In The Mood For Dancing is full-bodied enough to have you tapping your toe in spite your best instincts to maintain the illusion of coolness. There are no gremlins to be found here, and all levels are faithfully kept to how it originally went out.
As per the original release, on the back of the box should have been the dreaded legend "for contractual reasons, certain edits have been made." Once again, several lines of dialogue containing lyrics to songs have been removed because of copyright problems, these instances being where they either couldn't get permission to use on DVD or were not prepared to pay the amount that the owners of the publishing rights were asking. One of the most obvious omissions comes when Ritchie decides to try his luck at pick-pocketing, breaking into a certain song from Oliver!
After the best part of two decades, this could have been the perfect opportunity for the creative forces behind Filthy, Rich and Catflap to have their say about the intention of the show - although coaxing the shy and reserved Ben Elton to talk about something at length would have been a little hard to do. It's a damn shame to say they there really is very little to justify the pop and ceremony of calling it a "25th Anniversary Edition", coming with only a few basic, text-based extras. We're sure that certain parts of interviews could have been licensed for inclusion, but it wasn't to be. Let's focus on what we do get:
Cast Profiles: The main three cast-members have completely up-to-date listings of all their screen work, and there were a few we'd completely forgotten about, and sure that they had hoped would remain in the shadows themselves.
Picture Gallery Given the lack of enthusiasm or expectation which the show was met with, it is unsurprising that there were very few photographs taken during the production, and that half of these were utilised for the packaging drives home the point. All eight are here for your delectation, and it's nice to see them all together in the one place.
The packaging is better than the Playback edition, and it's certainly not as dire as the BBC VHS releases, where they eventually gave the three main cast cartoon-like bodies seen on the kiddies' TV favourite Bod - when the series was quietly released on video in the nineties, about the best that the copywriters could muster for a slogan to sell the show was "Arrgh! The Young Ones have grown up! It's horrible!" Sure, it would have been nice for them to include a booklet chronicling the history of the show, but sadly there is nothing, but given the public humiliation the show generated for Auntie Beeb, it is amazing that they have even seen the light of day again, let alone with such frills.
If Rik Mayall had been allowed to contribute more material to the script, and if the show had employed a director who was able to reign in the more over-the-top mugging of Mayall and Edmondson, then Filthy, Rich and Catflap may have been eligible for the kind of reverence that The Young Ones attained - in recent years, even Bottom has become regarded as a classic sitcom - but in the end, Filthy, Rich and Catflap was a missed opportunity, whilst an entertaining and interesting one, still something of a disappointment. There are still a lot o' laughs to be found, and the accurate destruction of the Light Entertainment industry is utterly breathtaking, probably even more so when viewed today, begging the question - "How the hell did they let them get away with that?" There is enough bile and spite directed towards both middle and working-class entertainment to remind the those brought up on Frankie Boyle and Russell Howard that the combination of bile and shouting existed long before they ever took to a stage.
For those of you that thought Bottom was the heir apparent to The Young Ones, the BBC eventually released the imprisoned prince from his tower to take his rightful place in the palace of British comedy, and although this 25th Anniversary Edition comes with damned few extras, it is best looked upon as a way of owning a tremendously entertaining romp without having to fork out a fortune for it on Ebay. Filthy, Rich and Catflap is the black sheep of BBC comedy, but its butchering by the critics only proved that it can make a tasty kebab that can really hit the spot. We heartily recommend picking this one up without delay!
It is worth pointing out that after the last episode aired on BBC2 back in early 1987, a title card appeared on screen and a voiceover announced that "And there'll be another series of Filthy, Rich & Catflap in the autumn". It's twenty-five years later, and it is pretty safe to assume that there isn't going to be another one…
Review by Wilson Bros
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Wow guys - such an excellent and in-depth review!
I bow before the masters!
I bow before the masters!
Faltskogian - Thanks for the kind words. You can't help but wonder if the Golfing Mafia had a hand in preventing the show being repeated, but the show was looked upon as a critical and ratings distaster.
otisberg - Yeah, the cuts are a real bummer. The pity is that a year or two back, the Beeb worked out a deal with publishing companies over usage of songs and lyrics in BBC shows. It's more than likely that the original DVD masters were just used here, rather than there being a barrier to using the lyrics. Oh, as two Donner Superman enthusiasts, we love your username.
Kevin & Nick W
otisberg - Yeah, the cuts are a real bummer. The pity is that a year or two back, the Beeb worked out a deal with publishing companies over usage of songs and lyrics in BBC shows. It's more than likely that the original DVD masters were just used here, rather than there being a barrier to using the lyrics. Oh, as two Donner Superman enthusiasts, we love your username.
Kevin & Nick W
Great news. Sad the Oliver! cuts are still in there. That WAS a great scene.
Excellent review of a imo of course excellent series, was amazed when it was first shown how hard it put the boot into the likes of Tarby and Brucie etc.
Can't quite see it standing a cat in hull's chance of being repeated anytime this century, but thanks to magic of betamax it's legacy will live on...
Can't quite see it standing a cat in hull's chance of being repeated anytime this century, but thanks to magic of betamax it's legacy will live on...
Suitable only for persons of 15 years and over
Disc Details
Release Date: 3rd September 2012
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: PAL
Aspect: 1.33:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: English Dolby Digital 2.0
Subtitles: English
Extras: Cast Profiles, Picture Gallery
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Paul Jackson
Cast: Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmonson, Nigel Planer
Genre: Comedy
Length: 206 minutes
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I do my best work in long, romantic getaways. I like vacation spots surrounded by the beauty of nature. I leave with Misses Universe to a chalet in the snow-covered mountains of Colorado. That's where we can be alone together. We Relax in the hot tub, maybe with a bottle of wine -- dry off in the warm glow of the fireplace.. and go wherever the evening takes us.
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