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A Day to Remember
Penn State College of Nursing's Nikki Hill wants to improve the lives of people living with memory loss. An app she's developing with the College of Engineering's John Hannan might offer a solution.
From time to time, forgetting to pay a bill, misplacing car keys, or searching for reading glasses (while you're wearing them) can be an irritating, yet normal, part of life. But for people over the age of 60, memory loss that encroaches into daily living—like habitually forgetting to take medications or missing appointments, for example—might have more serious consequences.
Nikki Hill, a postdoctoral fellow in Penn State's College of Nursing who works with older adults, wants to improve the lives of people living with memory loss. She's developing an app that might offer a solution.
"Even some level of memory loss or cognitive impairment can have a big impact on a person's life."—Nikki Hill
For the two million people over the age of 65 living in Pennsylvania—a state that boasts the fourth highest percentage of older adults in the nation—this could be a real brain boost.
The iOS app My Day, which will soon undergo preliminary usability testing for a clinical trial, is designed to be a way for adults over 60 to remember and keep track of important tasks. Its calendar, to-do list, and journal features are designed to be easy to use for those with memory loss who, from day to day, might also have trouble remembering how to use the app itself.
"Even some level of memory loss or cognitive impairment—I'm not talking about dementia at this point—can have a big impact on a person's life," Hill says. "Changes in memory can impact the way an individual is able to complete important tasks and how independent he or she can be. On an emotional and psychological level, people begin to perceive and internalize these symptoms, which can cause fear, anxiety, and even depression."
As part of the study, Hill will work with each participant to create a personalized plan for how to use the app based on a goal he or she would like to accomplish. Many participants need help with health management, while others have more social needs. Whatever the goal, Hill's hope is that the app will help them maintain their independence and quality of life.
Each day, participants have access to a new to-do list, calendar page, and journal entry, which displays information about what they need to do that day. They can review the calendar, get alerts about upcoming medical appointments, or check off to-do items for taking medication or paying bills.
For some participants, remembering the names of individuals in their social groups is challenging. So, to alleviate anxiety before going out with friends, they can use the app's journal feature to review information they've previously added about their friends, including names and notes coupled with photographs.
Though paper-based agenda programs have proven useful in the past, Hill wanted to use technology because of the interactive capabilities it can offer.
"[G]iving people an easy way to feel more in control of their symptoms and helping them maximize their functional abilities now might have long-term implications on their cognitive health."—Nikki Hill
In addition to digital photos, the app can send audible alerts and notifications—something a traditional paper-based planner cannot. Someday soon, Hill would also like to make it possible for a participant's spouse, child, or caregiver to share access to the app, if needed, to check in on completed to-do items and add appointments to the calendar.
"We know older adults who have memory loss are at a greater risk for developing dementia later on," Hill says. "So giving people an easy way to feel more in control of their symptoms and helping them maximize their functional abilities now might have long-term implications on their cognitive health."
John Hannan, an associate professor of computer science and engineering in the College of Engineering, helped turn Hill's vision into a reality.
Since My Day isn't the average calendar or to-do list app available for download at the iTunes App Store, Hannan has designed and developed it specifically for people who are not only experiencing issues with memory, but who also have varying degrees of technological know-how to begin with.
"Some individuals in the study have their own iPads, while others have never even held one or used an app," says Hannan, who has also helped build such Penn State apps as Dining@PSU and the Engineering Penn State Newsstand app. "Again and again, we asked ourselves, 'How do we design this so it's going to be accessible to this population?'"
Hill and Hannan had to carefully choose each font, color, and page layout to make the app easy to read and navigate.
"What seems normal to the tech savvy could potentially cause a big problem for someone who hasn't used this type of technology before," says Hill.
For these reasons, scrolling is limited, fonts are large, and each screen is color-coded and free of visual clutter. Actions like swipes and pulls that are intuitive for daily tech users aren't so obvious for many older adults. And if a participant is idle on a screen for too long, on-screen prompts can guide them through what they should do next—like choose a date or pick a time.
So far, it's been a rewarding experience for Hannan, who admires the strides apps have been making to address the needs of a diverse mix of people, including the visually impaired.
"It's nice to develop an app that can potentially have a real impact on bettering people's lives," he says. "And this particular project is also a great learning experience that I am able to extend to my students."
In the upcoming first round of testing, which is funded by the National Hartford Center of Gerontological Nursing Excellence, Hill will collect data about how easy the app is for people to use and if it helps them meet their goals. If all goes well, she'll pursue a pilot and clinical trial in the years to come.
"Again and again, we asked ourselves, 'How do we design this so it's going to be accessible to this population?'"—John Hannan
As a gerontological nurse and researcher, it might seem unusual that Hill has turned to app development, but for her, it's just a new way of helping people.
"John [Hannan] and I see the possibilities for using technology more and more to improve the lives of older adults," she says. "We're always asking ourselves how we can integrate tech into their lives in a way that is meaningful and that really addresses a need they have."


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In my recent article about Jean Sablon, I mentioned the name of Dick Todd, one of the many singers of the 1930s and 1940s who were influenced by the sound of Bing Crosby, so I thought it would be a good idea to begin this new installment of the Vintage Records Review Desk by spotlighting one of the precious few CDs currently available by this crooner once hailed as the "Canadian Crosby." The moniker was not without justification, since Todd often reminds us of Bing's husky voice from the 1930s, but it certainly has had a damaging effect on his legacy, as Todd has gone down in the history of pop music—when his name is brought up at all, that is—merely as one of several Crosby imitators. In his early years as a solo act, Frank Sinatra recorded a parody of "Sunday, Monday, or Always" for a V-Disc which went, "I'll soon become a wreck / They're breathing down my neck / Dick Haymes, Dick Todd, and Como." If anything, this is ample proof of Todd's popularity at the time (he had actually begun his recording career slightly earlier than Young Blue Eyes) yet unfortunately, his popularity began to dwindle in the late 1940s, and by the 1950s, he was a relic of the past, forgotten and unable to make any sort of comeback. However, even a superficial listen to the two-CD set Orchids for Remembrance (Jasmine, 2003), containing 52 sides cut for Bluebird during Todd's heyday, between 1938 and 1942, reveals how unfair his fate was.
"I'll Be Seeing You," "Polka Dots and Moonbeams," "How About You?" and "Say It Isn't So," to name but four. After several years of inactivity and personal problems, Todd was almost penniless when he passed away in 1973. Mr. David Lobosco remembers Todd in a rather detailed article published in his blog, A Trip Down Memory Lane, which you can read here.
"Sweet Lorraine," "Just You, Just Me," "Caravan" (with the benefit of composer Tizol's trombone), and "I Know That You Know." The ballads ("Blame It On My Youth," "You're Looking at Me") are moody, and there are also some nice surprises in a lovely, violin-laden reading of "When I Grow Too Old to Dream" and the lesser-known "Don't Let It Go to Your Head." This is essential listening for any jazz aficionado, and the 1999 CD reissue adds six more tracks to the twelve on the original LP. The most interesting of these are a pensive ballad treatment of "You Can Depend on Me," usually associated with blues shouter and big band singer Jimmy Rushing, and a swinging take on Johnny Mercer's "Candy."
"Like Young" and "Just in Time," the introspective treatment of Erroll Garner's "Misty" that features a celesta, the appealing Italian tune "(I Don't Care) Only Love Me," and the lyrically updated readings of "The Lady Is a Tramp" and "How About You" on My Buddy. Cut five years later, On Stage! seems to leave more room for Greco's piano playing ("Get Me to the Church on Time," for instance, includes a very engaging solo from him, while "It's Such a Happy Day" is an instrumental version of a rather lackluster tune written by Jackie Gleason) and also has its highlights, among them "The Best Man," "Dreamy," a magnificent extended reading of "I Can't Get Started," and the bluesy "The Best Is Yet to Come" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out." This Collectables CD reissue also includes Greco's minor hit "Mr. Lonely," and even though the sound is good, the notes by Mark Marymont, while briefly outlining Greco's career, do not offer any information about the two albums contained herein, which is strange to say the least.
"I Had the Craziest Dream." Unfortunately, Deauville was involved in a car accident, following which his life depended on an iron lung for more than a year. This, together with his problems with polio and the fact that he was wheelchair-bound from then on, was a blow from which his career, sadly, never recovered. But Smoke Dreams remains a truly forgotten gem of 1950s classy pop singing that it is high time to rediscover. Fortunately, this is now possible thanks to The Vocal Touch of Ronnie Deauville (Sounds of Yesteryear, 2012), a very welcome British CD reissue that includes Deauville's wonderful 1956 LP, augmented by tracks from his 1948 radio broadcasts with Beneke and 1950 studio recordings with Anthony. The liner notes by Michael Highton are a little short but offer an overview of Deauville's tragically brief career, and if anyone is interested in reading some more about his life, there is a neatly written article on him here.
title track (coincidentally, one of the songs on Ronnie Deauville's Smoke Dreams), "When Your Lover Has Gone," "It's the Talk of the Town," "Angel Eyes," "Glad to Be Unhappy," "The End of a Love Affair," and the somewhat under-recorded "Dinner for One, Please James." There is also a sort of tribute to Crosby with the inclusion of "Easy to Remember" and "(I Don't Stand) A Ghost of a Chance," and overall this is an excellent, well-rounded album that, albeit often overlooked, is one of the high points of Jeffries's career. And yes, that beautiful lady in a nightgown on the cover is, indeed, a young Barbara Eden, about eight years away from becoming the star of the NBC sitcom I Dream of Jeannie! Who knew???
|The original cover of Ronnie Deauville's 1956 album Smoke Dreams

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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Tea Party Republicans led the charge against President Barack Obama's intention to use military force against Syria. Obama announced on Saturday that though he has decided military action was needed, he would first seek congressional authorization.
Palin simply said Obama should let "Allah sort it out," using a line she has used before on the Middle East. In a blistering Facebook note on Friday, Palin wrote, "So we're bombing Syria because Syria is bombing Syria? And I'm the idiot?"
"President Obama wants America involved in Syria's civil war pitting the antagonistic Assad regime against equally antagonistic Al Qaeda affiliated rebels," she wrote. "But he's not quite sure which side is doing what, what the ultimate end game is, or even whose side we should be on. Haven't we learned? WAGs don't work in war."
After writing that "our allies in Britain" have already said "no" to military strikes against Syria, Palin said "the American people overwhelmingly agree, and the wisdom of the people must be heeded."
Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA) sent a letter to President Barack Obama demanding that Congress have a say, and it has "gathered 140 signatures – a third of all House members – including 21 Democrats," according to The Hill.
As The Hill reports, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Obama was merely interested in "saving face" and that was not "enough reason to go to war." Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) said it was "unacceptable" that the British Parliament would vote on the matter before Congress.
Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) tweeted, "Why don't Pres Obama & leaders in Washington want Congress to vote on attacking Syria? Because the vote would fail."
Palin noted America "didn't intervene when over 100,000 Syrians were tragically slaughtered by various means, but we'll now intervene to avenge the tragic deaths of over 1,000 Syrians killed by chemical weapons" and noted that punishing "evil acts in the form of a telegraphed air strike on Syria" will not be a deterrent, especially since "our invasion of Iraq wasn't enough of a deterrent to stop evil men from using chemical weapons on their own people."
She slammed Obama for giving Syrian dictator Assad "enough of a heads-up that he's reportedly already placing human shields at targeted sites" and again emphasized, "We have no clear mission in Syria. There's no explanation of what vital American interests are at stake there today amidst yet another centuries-old internal struggle between violent radical Islamists and a murderous dictatorial regime, and we have no business getting involved anywhere without one."
"Bottom line is that this is about President Obama saving political face because of his 'red line' promise regarding chemical weapons," Palin said.
Eventually, after reportedly much indecision, Obama decided he would seek congressional authorization even though he said he believes he had "he authority to carry out this military action without specific congressional authorization."


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Trusted Connects Parents and Child Care Pros with Layer Messaging
Trusted launched in September 2015 as an on-demand service enabling parents to find immediate child care from a targeted selection of vetted and trained professionals.
However, Trusted isn't just a niche job board. Instead, the focus is on creating a channel for parents to quickly connect and stay in contact with child care professionals whom they can come to trust. From discovery to scheduling through service execution, Trusted is an end-to-end service that gives parents peace of mind paired with the convenience necessary for a busy lifestyle.
The core of Trusted's on-demand platform was always going to be in-app messaging—but implementation posed several challenges early on.
The Problem: Rich In-App Messaging Capabilities Without the Development Overhead
From the beginning, Trusted planned to have all communication between parents and caregivers go through messaging. At the same time, the Trusted team knew it couldn't rely on traditional messaging services like SMS or Facebook Messenger to get the job done. There wasn't enough control over the conversation experience when it came to third-party communication channels.
Parents need to know that their concerns and wishes are being heard when communicating with caregivers, so granular read and delivered receipts were always going to be a critical part of the Trusted experience. Maintaining privacy and boundaries was also important for both sides of the marketplace, so keeping communications in a dedicated app and outside of their normal phone number or social accounts was important in making everyone feel comfortable. Finally, if Trusted let communications between caregivers and parents occur outside their core experience, they would lose ownership over that conversation, both from a strategic lock-in perspective and from an analytics and reporting perspective.
Matching caregivers and parents over SMS would not have allowed Trusted to give users the experience they demanded. Trusted realized that building a full-scale messaging service in-house would be the best approach, but was held back by how costly and time-intensive the process would be.
"Building messaging in-house would be a pretty monumental effort. Layer saved us at least six weeks of development time and added experienced support with their engineering team."—Trusted CEO and Founder, Anand Iger
After reaching out to the developer community for help, Anand Iger and the Trusted team moved forward with Layer to reconcile its rich messaging needs with its lack of internal resources.
The Solution: Fast Time-to-Market with the Layer Customer Conversation Platform
Unlike some brands that build out a product and need to implement messaging over the top at a later date, Trusted was launching with messaging at the core. As a result, the company had an aggressive launch timeline.
With the help of Layer's customizable core messaging framework, Trusted was able to achieve usable integration in just over two weeks. This framework gave Trusted capabilities and features such as:
- Live video streams in the conversation between parents and caregivers
- Ability to share photos and videos in real time within the conversation
- Chat bubble interfaces that mimic the consumer messaging apps customers are used to
- Typing indicators to boost engagement
- Multi-party threads for added convenience
- Read receipts (without exchanging numbers to maintain confidentiality and security)
- And more
After initial integration (and before launch), the Layer support team worked with Trusted developers to add push notifications via web hooks. These push notifications are essential for building trust in the parent/caregiver relationship because they initiate a service that calls the sitter if a pending message isn't replied to within 5 minutes.
Advanced capabilities like these push notifications were included when Layer messaging was fully integrated, which took about 6 weeks in total.
"Thanks to Layer, a Trusted member who's in the military is still able to use our service from an underground bunker without cellular reception—connecting Wi-Fi to keep in contact with her sitter through layer messaging integrated into our app."—Anand Iger
Now, thousands of parents in San Francisco and New York City use Trusted to schedule qualified, on-demand child care services. On average, conversations contain 30 messages from end-to-end, which Trusted saves on the backend to create a historical dataset that child care professionals can refer to and optimize services.
Every customized feature in the Trusted in-app messaging experience is meant to build greater trust between parents and the caregivers they're hiring. And without a flexible framework to build on top of, Trusted would be forced to sacrifice some of their product plans.
If you want to learn how you can implement a customized in-app messaging experience without the costs and effort of in-house development, contact us today for a free demo of the Layer Customer Conversation Platform.


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Published January 14, 2015
Police officers used a Taser to stun a student after a fight broke out at a high school basketball game in Monessen, Pa., MyFoxDC.com reported.
The incident happened outside the gymnasium at Monessen High School during a game with Washington High Friday.
Two girls from competing schools began fighting in the hallway, MyFoxDC.com reported.
Officers say the fight escalated to the point where players became involved.
After reviewing video taken during the fight, police are expecting to file disorderly conduct charges.
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1 yard of neutral fabric, 1 yard of assorted solids (5" each, at least)
1. Take two strips of fabric - one solid color, one neutral - both measuring 5" by WOF.
2. Fold the solid strip (RST) along the length into half and iron it to create a crease, see picture below. Repeat for the neutral strip.
3. Place the two strips (one solid and one neutral) RST and stitch the two strips together, along the length using a 1/4 inch seam. Iron the seam open. Make sure that you maintain the creases created in Step 2.
4. Stitch the solid to the neutral on the other side (to form a tube) using a 1/4 inch seam. Once again, press open the seam.
It is very important to press the seams open and maintain the crease. Your finished tube should look like the picture below
Do you see that the opened seams are in the center of the tube and the creases to the edges? That is what you want.
5. Using a 45 degree ruler, cut the tube like shown in the picture below.
You will get two types of blocks - Dark Centers and Light Centers.
6. The finished block should be just over 6" and you can trim it to 6", if you like. At this time, please starch and iron your blocks. I am sure that you can now see why it was important to maintain the crease. Opening the seam reduced the bulk when cutting the tube.
There are so many ways to arrange this block. You can use just the Dark Centered Blocks to make Xs and Os quilt. You can use just the Light Centered Blocks to make Wild Geese pattern. You can also mix them to make a Zig-Zag quilt. See below for layout ideas
Hope you enjoy this and find it useful. Let me know if you have any questions.


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IT was made famous by Winnie the Pooh and attracts hundreds of participants each year – it's time for the World Poohsticks Championship.
The annual event, which involves people dropping a stick from a bridge and following it downstream, will take place in Little Wittenham, near Abingdon, on Sunday.
It will come as a big relief to fans, after last year's event was cancelled due to heavy rain.
Michael Saunders, president of the Oxford Spires Rotary Club said: "Everything is going ahead fine.
"There are two weeks to go and the river is looking good, preparations are going well and we are all hoping it will be a fantastic day."
The championships began in 1983 when a lock keeper noticed walkers recreating Pooh's pastime on the River Thames. It soon took off and for the past 28 years, the vent has attracted up to 3,000 people every year.
Organiser Karen Eveleigh, from the Oxford Spires Rotary Club, said: "This year we are expecting at least 20 teams of four people and then maybe 800 individual competitors.
"Together with all the spectators, that will make around 2,000 people on the banks of the River Thames."
Heats and finals will be held during the day to determine the world and team champion.
There will also be stalls, games, refreshments and a BBQ.
Miss Eveleigh said: "We have tried to keep everything like it would have been in a traditional village fete."
Attractions will include a coconut shy and fancy dress.
Money raised will go towards the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, Little Wittenham Church and charities supported by the rotary clubs.
Competitors have come from as far away as the United States of America, New Zealand, Japan and Australia.
Miss Eveleigh added: "It is just a good fun day out for the whole family so even if it is wet, we want to encourage people to come along.
"And people don't need to bring their own sticks. We have hundreds of coloured sticks that people can pick up on the day."
Teams are asked to register with the Rotary Club before the event.
For more information and to register, visit pooh-sticks.com or call 07910 318878.


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Being an attendee at any event can be a great time. On the opposite end, planning that event can be stressful and frustrating. A lot goes into planning an event, and sometimes it may be best to hire an event planner. Event planners are qualified individuals who have the knowledge and the vision to make ideas come to life.
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Once you have a list of names, do some checking online. Look for business pages to see what kind of work each planner has done for past clients. See if there are any reviews from past clients on how the event planner worked on how the end result was received. Doing your research beforehand will save you time and energy so you are not interviewing more event planners than you have to.
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We moved a lot growing up...to the point that the only constant from year to year was family and the only playmates we could be sure to count on were siblings. I happen to have three of them - two of which are older, one of which is younger - and I love them to death. The relationships are not perfect - there have been many screaming matches, months of silences, and moments where I could have killed them (and vice versa) - but in the end none of that matters.
That said, O wouldn't be O without a little mischievousness going on. Her new favorite thing is to tell me all of the things that C has said to her (did you know that my genius baby can talk?). O likes to tell me "mom, the baby called me a poopy head" or "mom, the baby said she doesn't want to go to the supermarket" or my personal favorite, "mom, the baby told me that she doesn't like you." Yep, she's trying to get her infant sister in trouble - that sounds about right for a sibling relationship.


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Based on Terje's earlier comments, I've discovered that I can at least mirror the validator code to the shell account of my ISP; if I make changes on my Windows box, I can move the changes to my personal space on my shell account and run CVS commands there. For future reference, my question is, is the output from 'cvs diff' useful for contributing patches? I've tried using rdiff to make a patch file, but rdiff seems to only work against what files are actually in the repository? (As I've said in the past, bear with me on my UNIX skills...) I thought adding the 'l' switch to something like: cvs rdiff -l -r 1.78 -r check validator/httpd/cgi-bin/check would generate the patch against my local copy of check, but I get back a 'cvs [server aborted]: no such tag check' error. Am I missing something here? Or is it simply not permitted to generate a patch file? Or am I just clueless? Honesty is appreciated... Brian Gilkison email@example.com on Wednesday, 28 February 2001 12:08:10 UTC
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Ahead of the NSW State Election on Saturday 28 March, the NSW ACT Alcohol Policy Alliance (NAAPA) is holding an election forum giving communities an opportunity to raise important questions about alcohol policy.
The forum will feature a panel of political representatives – including The Hon. Sophie Cotsis MLC (Labor Shadow Minister for Local Government and Shadow Minister for Mental Health), Dr John Kaye MLC (Greens spokesperson on Health Services), and Reverend The Hon. Fred Nile MLC (President of the Christian Democratic Party).
Don't miss the chance to find out what your local politicians intend to do if elected to prevent alcohol harms in NSW.
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When you're angry shift your attention away from your child and concentrate on yourself.Forget about teaching your child lessons unless you're in a state of love and can teach lovingly. A teachable moment is always when both people are receptive and positive. If either of you are triggered then your brain is not as receptive and in your child's case probably quite shut down.
What if your child's behaviour requires discipline?Discipline means guidance.Your guidance will be a lot more effective once you're calm. It's our job as parents to be our child's role model in handling emotions constructively. That means never acting on our anger from that "fight, flight or freeze" place where our child looks like the enemy and we have to "win" while our child has to "lose."
- Practice, practice, practice. There is always plenty of opportunity to practice finding that moment of freedom between the stimulus (your child's behaviour) and your own response. Noticing is what gives us a choice next time.


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Workshop on the position of men and women in society
OPAWC members participated in a two-days workshop arranged by the Afghan Women Network (AWN) in Kabul.
The objective of this workshop was to enhance the understanding of the role of gender among the participants in order to recognize the role of men and women in the community under the aspect of equal rights.
The participants came with many useful issues about gender, what is the appropriate role of gender? How dose one distinguish between the responsibility of men and women? How and in which ways can women reach a position to understand their rights, how do you struggle to empower women and to eliminate the existing injustice and inequality in the country.
Seminar on Advocacy
OPAWC members participated in a three day seminar held by the Afghan Women Network (AWN).
In this seminar OPAWC staff learned the concept of advocacy: how to pursue justice, how to eliminate the exemption of abusers and criminals form, how to give psychological comfort to the victims and how to secure a safe community and implement the law. They were instructed in the three aspects of advocacy: Advocacy for the affected people, advocacy with affected people and advocacy through the people.
Workshop on medical tips
A one day workshop on medical advice was held for women in the VTC.
This workshop was run jointly by the staff and some outstanding students of the center.
Topics covered were benefits of drinking water for the kidneys, damage to bladders due to not relieving urine for long time periods, harm form the use of non-prescription medicine and others.
The workshop was simple but very useful for the women; they took part in discussions and were happy to learn new issues.
Global Uprising of One Billion Rising (OBR) on Violence against Women
Global Uprising of One Billion Rising (OBR) on Violence against Women
14th February is the day where all civil societies and human rights institution raise their voices in solidarity with the victims of violence around the world.
Afghanistan joined this campaign formally in 2013. Therefore on 14 February, this event was celebrated in Afghanistan like in other countries.OPAWC, whose target groups are women,also participated widely to show its solidarity with women victims and raised its voice to eliminate all kind of violence and harassment against women throughout the country.This event was held and celebrated simultaneously in 34 provinces of Afghanistan by AWN (Afghan Women Network).
Beggar Women in Afghanistan
The BBC persian service held a debate between the Deputy Ministries of Social Affairs, Women Affairs and an OPAWC representative in Kabul.
Latifa Ahmady, the representative of OPAWC, said in this debate that the number of beggar women in Afghanistan increases day by day. The representatives of the Deputy Ministries argued that most of the women beggars are professionals and that they developed the habit to beg; Latifa Ahmady rejected this and said that no women is interested in going for begging and self abuse in the streets, that we must find the true reasons for begging and we know that it's because of poverty, unemployment, insecurity, inequality corruption in the country, which has led the majority of women and children to beg.
Men's Engagement in Women's Empowerment and Rights Achievement in Afghanistan
OPAWC participated in a conference "Men's Engagement in Women's Empowerment and Rights Achievement in Afghanistan" on January 28, 2015.
The conference was arranged in a collaboration of Checchi & company Consulting Inc. and the Afghan Women's Network.
Women's Conditions in Provinces and Districts
Psychological problems, self-immolation, no access to health care, gynecological difficulties, illiteracy, drug addiction, unemployment, poverty and financial problems have worsened the conditions of women in remote provinces and districts such as Badakhshan, Nooristan, Farah, Bamyan and others.
Workshop on HIV
A two day workshop on HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) was held in the Vocational Training Center (VT C). The Workshop was presented by Nabila Mohammad Khalid, a 14 year old student of OPAWC center.
The workshop was held in both sections of the VT C. Nabila presented documents with information on HIV she had gathered: What is HIV, how it effects humans, what are the ways to prevent and treat this Virus. The information was very useful for the women and they participated with interest.
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An on-demand recording of this webinar is now available at: psnc.org.uk/fluwebinar
PSNC will be holding a webinar on the Flu Vaccination Service 2016/17.
On the night Alastair Buxton, Director of NHS Services at PSNC, and Sunil Kochhar, PSNC Regional Representative and community pharmacist, will explain how the Flu Vaccination Service works, showing you how to ensure that you and your team are ready to make the most of the opportunity. A must watch for community pharmacy contractors and pharmacy team members who will be involved in the service, the webinar will help you to:
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Unit: 6th Lincolnshire Regiment
Rank: Sargent
Commemorated: Loos Cemetery France
The son of Mr. W. and Mrs. S.J. Lickorish, sickness James was just 21 years old when he died. Formerly of Kirkleys Cottages Woodhall Spa, James was a pre-war member of the 4th battalion The Lincolnshire Regiment, a Territorial Battalion. His parents were never officially informed their son was killed for some time. Unofficially, they had received a letter from Pte. R.Belton stating James had been seen on the 13th October "close to the German trenches throwing bombs. He was wounded then and no one saw him after". James' parents therefore assumed the worst.
Under the Army reforms introduced by the Secretary of State for War, Richard Haldane, of 1907, the existing Yeomanry and Volunteer forces were to be combined into a new organisation to be known as the Territorial Force. In 1908 the 3 existing volunteer battalions of the Lincolnshire Rifle Volunteers, were re-organised to form the 4th and 5th Battalions of The Lincolnshire Regiment. On the outbreak of war in August 1914, the territorial force was immediately mobilised and, as part of the 46th Division, the 4th battalion went overseas. On the 1st March 1915, both the 4th and 5th Lincolns disembarked at Havre; thus the 46th Division gained the distinction of becoming the first territorial division to arrive in France. Between the 9th and 26th March the 4th Lincolns proceeded by stages to the front line, arriving at Ploegstreert for instruction in trench duties.
The Regimental History for the Lincolns records the events of the period 13th – 19th October 1915. By this time the 4th Lincolns had become accustomed to trench warfare. By the 4th October it had become known that the 46th Division were to take part in the attack on the Hohenzollern Redoubt, and on the 6th both the 4th and 5th Lincolns marched to Hesidigneul, remaining here for 6 days. On the afternoon of the 12th, the battalions marched to Sailly la Bourse and, after having their evening meal, collected rations and ammunition for the next day. They then relieved the Guards Division in the line during the night of the 12th – 13th October. Operation orders directed the 46th Division to capture the Hohenzollern Redoubt and Fosse 8, the division attacking on the right. The 4th Lincolns were in support of the main attack. They were to follow the assaulting battalions one hundred yards in the rear. They were to clear, by bombing, all trenches passed over by the front line. At 12 noon the British bombardment began and at 2.00pm the first, second, third and fourth lines of attacking infantry left the trenches. The fighting continued for the remainder of the day and until the battalions were relieved on the 14th. During this period the 4th Lincolns suffered casualties of 10 Officers and 385 other ranks killed wounded or missing, of which James was one.


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What's your diary like for April? How about investing one of your spare days in training for you and/or colleagues on Office 365, with a focus on strengthening your customer conversations about the transformation from traditional desktop software to cloud-delivered software services?
On 28th April 2014, we're hosting a Drumbeat Sales Readiness day for our partners' sales & pre-sales teams at the Sydney Hilton. Selling Office 365 requires a new way of selling, so in addition to sharing Microsoft best practices, programs, and selling tools, we will also present insights into the cloud services market and the opportunity for partners who invest in growing an Office 365 practice.
There continues to be a fast adoption rate of Office 365 Education, with schools, TAFEs and universities opting to use Office 365 as the platform for many new services to their staff and students. The result is that opportunities are growing for Microsoft Education partners to deliver services to implement Office 365, and to add business value after implementation through integration, process simplification, and collaboration services.
Sydney Drumbeat Agenda
It's a free, full day event, that includes many different scenarios for Office 365, and will guide partners through the pre-sales conversations surrounding Office 365, that will help you to deliver the Microsoft solution with your implementation and ongoing services to help customers get the best value from their Office 365 deployment:
- Introducing the new Office and How to Demo
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- Selling Office 365 – Why Use the Customer Decision Framework (CDF)
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- Selling Office 365 – Office 365 FastTrack
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You don't hear much about guys having a comfort food. Mostly it seems to be the girls who can escape in the taste of chocolate or ice cream or something. As I type this, I'm eating my comfort food… apple sauce. It was the food I relied on as a kid to get me through an upset stomach. Today my stomach isn't really upset, but I am pretty exhausted… simply because of the number of details eating away at my mind with us leaving for camp tonight. Apple sauce has done it again… for some reason I feel better and I know that everything will be ok.
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It is weird but I have been into cottage cheese lately. No idea why, but for some reason it is so good…
btw i made it to #1 on google today for Ben Breit!
I have cottage cheese phases. I won't want it for a while and then suddenly I want to get it every week.


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"Will man rob God? Yet you are robbing me. But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In your tithes and contributions. You are cursed with a curse, for you are robbing me, the whole nation of you." - Malachi 3:8-9
I think I may have blogged about this perhaps a year or two ago, but in continuation of yesterday I'm remembering learning about tithing in a Sunday school at church. The man who was teaching was quite compelling, and a successful businessman. As I recall he was taking his team of salesmen to Las Vegas to celebrate a particularly profitable quarter.
Then after he was almost done sharing about tithing and the value for it, he mentioned, "I think it's a really good idea to tithe 10%, I don't tithe 10%, but I'd like to. 10% is a goal my wife and I have."
I was mortified, why was this the person chosen to teaching on giving if he wasn't giving? Are you stealing from God? "Will man rob God?"
"Bring the full tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. And thereby put me to the test, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open the windows of heaven for you and pour down for you a blessing until there is no more need." - 3:10
And in all our stupidity we presume to rob the Lord when He promises to open up heaven and pour down blessing. "Put me to the test," He says, and see if He won't fulfill His promise to give back.
Choosing not give generously is a financially and personally stupid choice.
Put the Lord to the test, and allow Him to give back. Watch as heaven rains down blessing.


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The University of California center in Washington D.C. (UCDC) has established a Science Policy Internship Program (SPIP). Students enrolled in science, engineering, and mathematics majors are encouraged to apply to SPIP to experience how scientists and engineers play in an important role in national policymaking, government regulation, and other activities at the interface of science and public policy. Internships can be performed at a variety of organizations including the American Chemical Society, Environmental Protection Agency, Health and Human Services Administration, and many others (see list below.)
Summer Session Academic Program
Many science internships are available year round, but the SPIP combines experiential learning with a science policy curriculum. Summer science students will have the opportunity to enroll in a course in science policy. The course will be taught by Washington-based experts knowledgeable in science policy.
Topics in American Politics: The Politics and Policy of US Science (draft course description)
The US government plays a major role in promoting and nurturing science in America. In turn, these investments are expected to help drive the economy, improve public life, and inform and guide policy decisions, ranging from public health to national defense. Science funding, including topics such as energy, green technologies, and basic research are just a few areas the US government invests in and regulates. The US funds the natural sciences and engineering in many ways including peer reviewed grants, national labs, agricultural stations, private contracts, and even Congressional earmarks. This course will look at the role of the federal government in science including both the support of science and the interpritation of scientific information in the policymaking process. Topics will include patterns of science funding, the debate over government- vs. private sector-driven technology development, stem cell research, military research, climate change policy, and the like. Enrollment will be open to all students, but natural science and engineering students who want to gain a better understanding of how the US political system impacts scientific activities are particularly encouraged to take this course.
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Science students admitted to UCDC that are interested in applying for a fellowship should ask that their application materials be forwarded to Prof. Seth Cohen, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, U.C. San Diego. Students in any science, engineering, and mathematics major will be considered, with a preference for those in the chemical sciences. Fellowships can be used to help defray travel and housing costs during the quarter or semester spent at UCDC as part of SPIP. Fellowship support is provided by a generous grant from the Division of Chemistry of the National Science Foundation, with administrative support from the University of California, San Diego.
Students admitted to UCDC and SPIP are eligible to perform their internship at various government and non-government agencies. A special program has been established with the American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Public Affairs. The ACS is located just steps from UCDC, offering both a convenient and exciting opportunity for SPIP participants. Applicants are encouraged to inquire about the ACS program upon admission to SPIP.
For information on the American Chemical Society internship program visit their policy web site.
Click Here for more information Science Fellowship, including application instructions. Deadline to submit applications is April 10, 2015.
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Horns, pentagrams, and the elements. I wonder if there is any tie-in to the single. Any one have any idea what's written above the pentagram on the t-shirts? "World No. 1 Idol," like on the light sticks? (lol) I can't even tell if it's English or Japanese.
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Startup competitions can be that one opportunity that could launch your dream into reality, but contrary to popular belief, one does not need to win the competition to reap the benefits of participating in one. Each competition in Oklahoma offers cash prizes for winners, but also a chance for resource development, networking, mentorship and more. In Oklahoma, startup competitions range from collegiate business plan contests, student-centric pitch competitions to professional level ... Read More
Si66: Initiative Aims to Help Rural, Tribal Entrepreneurs in Oklahoma
With the popularity of do-it-yourself home-makeover television shows, Kelly Michelle thinks she has the perfect business idea: help customers learn to design and create their dream spaces in their homes. "I help them discover their inner flair and help them decide what to do and how to do it," she said. But over the last year, Michelle, who lives in Duncan, a city of about 25,000 people, found herself struggling to get the business off the ground. "I'm struggling to know if this is a ... Read More
Si66: Five Biggest Social Media Pitfalls for Startups
For startups looking to gain a foothold in a new market while working with relatively small budgets, the use of social media is now less of a unique marketing tool and more of a priority. Sites like Twitter and Pinterest have become vital parts of lead-generation, customer-service and brand-awareness strategies for new businesses, but few entrepreneurs understand how to maximize social media. No matter what stage your new business is in, growing a social media audience is vital. In addition, the ... Read More
Si66: How a $5,000 Lemon & a Failed Used Car Dealership Fueled an Auto Industry Innovation
When Steve Soroosh owned a used car dealership in 2012, he learned the hard way that even when a vehicle looks perfect, it can be fatally flawed. Buying cars at auction is always a crapshoot, he admits. Dealers have mere minutes to evaluate a vehicle before bidding on it, trusting that their knowledge is enough to catch whether a vehicle is treasure or trash. A sparkling little 2006 Mini Cooper proved to be Soroosh's downfall. It looked perfect. It was as bright and shiny as a new ... Read More
Si66: OKC's Monscierge Offering Local Recommendations to Hotel Guests Throughout the World
While in London, Marcus Robinson of Oklahoma City struggled to find recommendations on local places to eat, pubs to visit or nearby attractions. Tasked with starting a European branch for the firm he worked for, Robinson stayed in London hotels and in other cities around Europe. Like many visitors, he would wait in line at the hotel concierge desk to ask questions about restaurants, tourist attractions or even services. Though digital advertising signs were placed in the lobby, touting ... Read More
Si66: Resilient Solutions 21 Maps Data to Improve Municipal, Social Services to Vulnerable Populations
In the business world, the words 'big data' have almost become synonymous with business intelligence. But as companies and entrepreneurs scurry to find ways to harness all that potential for profits, an Albuquerque start-up called Resilient Solutions 21 is layering data into new applications that could also have broad implications for public safety and social and economic change. Imagine first responders being able click on a button to see a 3-D map of their town with accurate ... Read More
Si66: WeGoLook Taps New Market as the 'Uber' of Inspections
Sometimes a simple question leads to a great idea. Robin Smith of Oklahoma City was a marketing and digital freelance consultant for local car dealerships when a friend asked a fateful question that would change her life. About to purchase an item off eBay, the friend asked her if she knew anyone who could go "check it out." "I didn't. It shocked me that this service didn't exist," said Smith. "It was just a simple idea, but no one was doing it. That's when I started ... Read More
Si66: EquiSeq Gene Test Can Eliminate Crippling Disease In Horses
Editor's note: This is the third and final installment of a three-part series on the growing field of genomics and bioformatics in the Silicon66 region, which includes Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, New Mexico and Arizona. The series included an examination of genetic research being done at Oklahoma's Langston University to help goat producers, and a look the work of Agric-Bioformatics. Lexi Palmer can tell when a horse is suffering, how it nips and bucks when ... Read More
Si66: EDD Donna Kennedy on How Tempe Keeps Getting on Those 'Best Lists'
'Best lists' are a prize for every A+ entrepreneurial city. Lately, Tempe, Arizona, seems to have a golden ticket to the land of superlatives. What's its special magic? To find out, says City of Tempe Economic Development Director Donna Kennedy, simply arrive one sun-splashed afternoon and watch the city change right before your eyes. That's the hour when the population almost doubles, when a wave of Tempe's highly educated, highly paid workforce returns. "We're the workforce for the ... Read More
Si66: OK's Agric-Bioinformatics Makes Livestock Nutrigenomics, Gene Expressions Easier for Producers
Editor's note: This is the second installment of a three-part series on the growing field of genomics and bioinformatics in the Silicon66 region, which includes Oklahoma, the Texas panhandle, New Mexico and Arizona. Through this series, we are taking a snapshot look at not only the industry of genomics, but at some of the region's tech startups delving into this field. When Sean Akadiri moved to Oklahoma from Nigeria to attend college, he planned to be a doctor. He did ... Read More


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Welcome to this weeks episode of the I Hate Critics Podcast. This week we have four theatrical movies. Zootopia won the weekend and pissed Josh off. London Has Fallen and The Other Side of the Door pissed Sean off. Then Whiskey Tango Foxtrot salvaged the weekend.
Our Top Five this week is movies about modern day wars. We talk about films such as Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, and American Sniper.
Our Undisputed Classic is Three Kings
In 1986 Highlander, A Room With a View.
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This week we've got five new movies. Four of the new movies bombed including The Last Witch Hunter, Jem and the Hollograms, Rock the Kasbah and Steve Jobs. Steve Jobs however according our resident film critic is the best movie in the last three years. The other three are pretty bad. Then we were invited by A24 to screen Room, so we sent Josh to Chicago and he thinks it was good but was hoping for great.
Top Five this week is biopics. We talk Raging Bull, Amadeus, Shindler's List, Good Fellas, The Social Network, Love and Mercy, Straight Outta Compton, Good Night and Good Luck, Lawrence of Arabia, Frida, Milk etc
Our Undisputed Classic this week is Oliver Stone's The Doors.
In 1985 we take on Krush Groove.
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On this episode of I Hate Critics we've got two new movies: Ant-Man came out this week opposite Trainwreck, Minions, Jurassic World, Inside Out. It still managed to bring in $60 million which people are saying is good bad, but really it's pretty good. It's not Guardians of the Galaxy, but who would really complain about a $60 million opening. The other movie to come out was the Amy Schumer/Judd Apatow vehicle Trainwreck. Ant-Man was fine, but Trainwreck is the best comedy of the year so far. If you're a fan of Amy Schumer and or Judd Apatow then Trainwreck is a must see.
Our Undisputed Classic is Breakfast at Tiffany's. We spend the whole segment bad mouthing women who like this film. Breakfast at Tiffany's is a highly racist film that we were unable to get into or understand why people like.
In 1985 The Coca Cola Kid starring Eric Roberts came out and we probably spent more time on this movie than any of the other movies.
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On April 23rd 2019
Gordon Fick passed away at the age of 83 years old. He was still very much involved with the company and the decision making coming in for a couple hours about 4 days a week, he had a real love for his company, employees and especially his family. He left us with a ton of knowledge and his stories will stay with us forever, he will be forever missed by all. If anyone ever really knew Gordy you would know that for every "how are you" Gordy's response would be...."FANTASTIC"!
June 2018 purchase of new Leader Mac LMC-630SP 12" molder with capability of molding up to 12" wide
with plans to offer more drawer parts to our customers
As of October 1st, 2018 we have moved into our new building, we have had a few glitches but overall we are very happy with the builders and we now have room for expansion and a state of the art bright new 100 x 250 SF Production building.
Our new address for this facility
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Luck, Wisc 54853
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Purchase of a Dubois UV Roll Coat Finish Line
On December 28th, 2015, St. Croix Valley Hardwoods signed the PO to purchase a new finish line to aid in giving our customers an added value to drawer box components at very competitive pricing. St. Croix Valley Hardwoods is very excited to add this offering to our current and future customers. We are always looking at ways to enhance our offerings to meet all of our customers needs.
Sale of Dry Kilns Division
October 2015, St. Croix Valley Hardwoods, Inc. has separated from our Dry Kiln operations and has been sold to McDonald and Owens Veneer and Company out of Sparta, Wisconsin. This in no way affects our current manufacturing business, for more information on the sale of the Dry Kilns Division please contact customer service.
Retirements and new staff
Jim Giller retired August of 2014, and we welcomed Vern Knauber as his replacement. Vern has worked at SCVH since 1991 and worked himself up to production supervisor of moldings, SLR, DET, and more. Vern is very knowledgeable in our production capabilities and is a great resource. please don't hesitate to call him for all of your manufacturing questions and quotes.
Sale of Forest Products Division
September 2011
St. Croix Valley Hardwoods, Inc. has sold the Forest Products Division to Aetna Plywood. The sale was put into place effective September 30, 2011. In no way does this effect the current business operations out of our Dry Kiln and/or Wood Component Divisions in Luck, Wisconsin. For more infomation on the sale of the Forest Products Division please contact customer service.
Luckwood Products
June 2008
St. Croix Valley Hardwoods introduce over two years ago Luckwood paneling and flooring. Luckwood comes with the same assurance of quality provided in all our products, and every panel and board is guaranteed to meet your satisfaction out of the box. We can make such a guarantee because we control all aspects of the lumber process, from the tree to final delivery. In the end, you receive a product that wows your customers and makes your work stand apart. For more information on Luckwood call (715) 472-8994 and we'll get information out to you right away.
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Dearest Jack,
This is Cameroon wishing you a very Happy Birthday. My darling, you have made me feel so complete and happy that I owe you every bit of everything for giving you any gift for your birthday. I convey you every bit of warmth and love that we share through this letter to you. Also, I have enclosed a small gift for you along with this letter and I hope against hope that you like it, considering your choosy choices.
Jack, many say love is eternal sea, many say it is lifelong tree and many say life is love; but I have found nothing else but you. You are my eternal sea of love and also my lifelong tree of love. Let us pray together, on this auspicious moment, to the Almighty to bless us that we shall live to experience the eternal love within us for each other for ever and forever.
Your love,


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Today is my last day as Editor in Chief of Down East Magazine. I am stepping aside to focus on my novels. The November issue, out in a few weeks, is officially my last.
For years people have asked me how I have managed to balance both careers (the answer is "by sacrificing everything else"), but the time finally came for me to choose. Fans of Mike Bowditch will be seeing a lot more of him as a result. Happily, I'm staying on at the magazine in the newly created position of Editor Emeritus which mostly means I will be an on-call editorial consultant and troubleshooter.
But this is a day of departure for me, made more sweet than bittersweet by good news from the International Regional Magazine Association. Down East dominated this year's awards, winning more than any other magazine.
Which brings to mind an episode of "Seinfeld":
JERRY: "Showmanship, George. When you hit that high note, you say goodnight and walk off."
GEORGE: "I can't just leave."
JERRY: "That's the way they do it in Vegas."
GEORGE: "You never played Vegas."
JERRY: "I hear things."


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Drinking Game
Take a Drink: anytime the planet Inspiron is mentioned
Take a Drink: if you can discern a lack of interest or sadness in the eyes of the talking dogs
Drink a Shot: for the puns
Drink a Shot: for low-rent CGI
Community Review
Movie Review
By: Oberst Von Berauscht & Señor Cojones (Six Pack) –
-Oberst: A group of kids and their look-alike puppies find themselves wrapped up in a comic book mystery come alive. The dogs find magical rings which give them each super powers. Meanwhile, an evil alien searches tirelessly for the rings, hoping to exploit them in his bid to take over the universe. As the evil alien closes in, a good alien assumes the form of a dog, and becomes a super hero alongside a comic book writer, whose tales of their exploits become a major selle… I wanted a movie to review, and for my sins, they gave me one. Streamed it up to me through Netflix. It was a real choice movie, and when it was over, I never wanted another.
–Señor Cojones: The movie is sold early on with two disparate storylines. As it progressed I found myself being more drawn to the untraditional hero's tale concerning a boy coming of age with his shapeshifting alien dog. I figured that when the stories finally merged it would set the stage for an action packed throwdown against a plundering technology-powered fiend!
A Toast
–Señor Cojones: I am going to stay positive…the film has an underlying message of comic book appreciation and celebrates the joy of children being willing and able to read REAL comics. Super Buddies can stand tall like such great works of cinema as The Neverending Story or The Pagemaster as a family feature that encourages reading!
-Oberst: Ever since seeing the movie I've been experiencing frequent blackouts, I will just be in the middle of a normal conversation and suddenly will wake up and two hours have passed. Anyway back on topic, Super Buddies is the latest in a series of Buddies movies, which were offshoots of the Air Bud franchise, involving a Basketball playing dog. The various Bud/Buddies series has been a cash cow for Disney, resulting in a dozen films, mostly released straight to DVD and streaming services. This latest film features a cast including such icons as John Ratzenberger and…It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what a horrible movie means. Horrible… Horrible has a face… and you must make a friend of horrible. Horrible and artistic terror are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies.
–Señor Cojones: Umm…okay honestly it was rather horrible. This is the type of feature that really challenges you to distance yourself and not ask those deeper questions. Like why does an alien in the form of a dog form a close pet/owner bond with a human boy? As a higher life form wouldn't he be above such trivialities as performing tricks and licking?!
Beer Two
-Oberst: There are many issues with the film's storyline, stemming from the screenplay. One of the "Super Buddies" is named B-Dawg, and spends most of the film spouting generic ghetto stereotypes. The children characters are mostly human stand-ins for the puppies, and more or less exist only as a form of exposition, or to make questionable hand gestures…
The screenplay also features such brilliant lines such as "Pepperoni! If you are what you eat, then I'm about to become super spicy-salty."
–Señor Cojones: The film paints everything in broad strokes and spells out for you who is good and evil. The acting fails to elevate any of the performances beyond simple stereotypes and borderline offensive caricatures! The monkey being a plainly obvious exception…
Beer Three
-Oberst: I find it particularly worrying that the filmmakers chose to CGI only the mouths of the dogs. The eyes are kept more or less unedited, which makes for some interesting clashes in mood when the dogs are reading upbeat dialogue in scenes where the dogs are clearly tired or totally disinterested.
-Señor Cojones: As a morbid alternative, I would suggest watching the film on mute and providing your own dialogue. I envision a scenario where the puppies are being enslaved by their cruel human wardens.
Beer Four
-Oberst: I have this theory that John Ratzenberger owes a small fortune to creditors, because he's giving far more effort than this kind of film requires. Not that I mind, he does manage to be the best actor in the room in just about every scene. But when he dons the Grandpa Man costume the film is best experienced with the mindset that the entire film is taking place during Ratzenberger's bad acid flashback
-Señor Cojones: I'm left wondering if the screenwriters have so distanced themselves from the everyman that they truly believe that "Grandpa Man" is a real thing?! Like there are patriarchal families in which the leader not only invents a hero for the youngster's birthday, but he would actually don the persona to attempt battle against a superior alien life form?
Beer Five
-Oberst: I was rather shocked to learn that the actor who plays Sheriff Dan wasn't in any way related to the film's producers. His performance ranks as one for the ages… and by "ages" I mean that it is for the ages of 0-8 years old, because nobody older would possibly find it convincing.
I think the filmmakers are going for some kind of reference to Sheriff Rosco and his dog Flash from Dukes of Hazz-I felt like he was up there, waiting for me to take the pain away. He just wanted to go out like a professional, standing up, not like some poor, wasted, rag-assed renegade filmmaker. Even the Producers wanted him dead, and that's who he really took his orders from anyway.
-Señor Cojones: I don't know his performance when under the influence of Drex was a marked improvement. If I was really going to criticize a performance it would be the candy store burglars…
Beer Six
-Oberst: Oh lord the puns, the puns… I watched a movie… crawl along at the pace of a freezing glacier… That's my dream… that's my nightmare… to watch a movie crawling, slithering along at the pace of a freezing glacier… and to survive.
-Señor Cojones: BUDdy YOU said it!! I found the overa-BUD-nance of puns to be un-BUD-ieveable!! I mean, who talks like that?! Barking out forced clichés with such rapid intensity!
-Oberst: the horror… the horror
-Oberst: Warning to all parents; the brain damage caused by this film is not worth the temporary reprieve it will buy you from having to actually control your children…
-Señor Cojones: Only see this movie if you work for Purina, have a death wish, or have a significant other who is REALLY into superheroes, dogs, and Cheers.


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- AnonymousSeptember 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Hi Wen,ReplyDelete
May I ask if your fur balls are given any supplements or vitamins? Should we give Shih Tzu's some supplement for heart? I was told by a friend that her shih tzu takes a tablet each day to keep heart disease away. But my friend is in malaysia and not able to tell me what tablet the vet gave her dog.
Hi Sally,ReplyDelete
I don't give any supplement to my shih tzus. I just make sure they are fed with a good brand of dog food that give them all the daily nutrients they need.
If you are keeping your shih tzu in long coat maybe you need some supplement for the skin and coat.
If not you can check with the vet the next time you bring your dog to for annual vaccination, the vet can access your dog condition and advise you on the supplement/vitamin to give.
All look grumpy but still cuteReplyDelete
Hi – Will you please post a link to your Blog at The Shih Tzu Community at vorts.com? Our members will love it.ReplyDelete
Members include: Owners, Breeders, Rescues and Lovers.
It's easy to do, just cut and paste the link and it automatically links back to your website...
You can also add Photos, Videos, Rescues and Classifieds if you like. Post as much or as often as you like.
Email me if you need any help or would like me to do it for you.
The Shih Tzu Community: http://www.vorts.com/shih_tzu/
James Kaufman, Editor
Hi Wen. Your Tzus look great as usual and love hearing your updates. I am still so sad that Win Win is gone, I can't even imagine. Are you and your Shih Tzus on Facebook, by any chance?? I am thinking you are probably too busy for that, but if you are, I'd love to follow you there. Take care, hugs and kisses to the Tzus.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousOctober 12, 2012 at 11:40 AM
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- AnonymousOctober 12, 2012 at 11:43 AM
There's a Shih Tzu Community in Facebook! This group is a place where people who love Shih Tzu can gather together to chat and discuss the breed, share experiences and offer advice. I think is very useful for all Shih Tzu lovers!ReplyDelete
They looks so clean and happy. I can really feel the bond that you have with your pets with all these photos and blogposts. I cannot stop reading your blog.ReplyDelete


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"It's exciting and quite scary to try and do something where you don't know what you're going to play before, there's no repetition, you try and base everything you play on either responding to what other people have played or trying to lead everybody else. It's quite difficult, it's completely out of our comfort zone, but it's a good experience to try it." David Brewis
When Warm Digits released their Keep Warm. . . with the Warm Digits album, it tickled BBC Radio 3 Late Junction's interest enough for them to invite them for a session. Their sessions are unique, one-off collaborations between musicians and bands who haven't worked together before. So in early December, they spent a day at BBC Maida Vale Studios with multi-instrumentalists Field Music. Armed with an array of guitars, two drumkits and keyboards that were freshly plundered from the Maida Vale cupboards, they composed and recorded four completely new pieces of music together on the day, and these formed their session for Late Junction, originally broadcasted on 26th January 2012.
You will, surely, all know Field Music: Sunderland's David and Peter Brewis from, who've released a chain of glorious, uniquely coiled and beguiling melodic pop albums over the last seven years with their latest, Plumb, being their best yet. Marc Riley says they're currently the best band in the country, and that sounds about right to us. Warm Digits are "krauttronic blizzardwave" duo Steve Jefferis and Andrew Hodson, who have had rave reviews from the likes of Andrew Weatherall for their astounding multi-sensory live performances, debut album, and remixes for UNKLE, Maximo Park and Yeti Lane.
The first track, Elements of the Sun, is based around how their debut album was made. Built around an arpeggiated Moog bassline, the four jam over the top, "discovering" the song as it plays; it's reminiscent of Cluster remixing Fleetwood Mac. Travelodge Blues is based around Igor Stravinsky's octotonic scale; a brooding melody is constantly retained throughout a metronomic structure, slowly becoming more manic, urgent and discordant, before drenching itself in intricate fuzz. Snow Watch is the foursome's effort at creating a drumless track, keeping it as minimalistic as possible, but still retaining a harmonic hook, and leaving plenty of room for chance, as well as staying melodic throughout. Higgs - untitled at the time of the session - is the most groove-based of the four tracks on offer. Again, it originates from a synthesized bass loop, with an added dash of improvised melody and a double-drumkit rhythm section, rounding off a fantastic and varied session on this limited release.
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