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It's possible to feel sorry for Mitt Romney, as one human being to another. Apparently he really didn't believe he could possibly lose and now he's "shell-shocked." Guess he didn't listen to all the experts who said he was going to lose. Forget Nate Silver: Bob Dylan said Obama would win in a landslide.
But Romney's loss is the nation's gain. In case anybody had any lingering doubts about that, here's a reminder. It's the transcript of an interview I did with Mike Papantonio on Ring of Fire radio about Romney's business practices in the health care field. The discussion was based on a piece called "Sick Money," which covered Romney's and Bain's investment in health care companies that went on to commit fraud and patient abuse.
Romney's investments encouraged precisely the kind of predatory capitalism that's ruining our health care system and driving our costs so much higher than those of other industrialized nations, even though we offer less coverage to fewer people. All the conservatives who claim to be concerned about our national deficit should focus their energy on driving Bain-style investment out of the health care sector.
Here's a transcript of the interview, courtesy of Ring of Fire radio (which is an excellent program). There may be a few typos, but they've gone to the effort to transcribe the talk and we appreciate it:
Mike: We're talking about the very crazy, very dangerous Mitt Romney. Every day it's more evident. It's a man not in control of his brain or his mouth and unfortunately, we don't want to put in control of a bomb.
There's more. Parts of the Mitt Romney story come out every day. Mitt Romney spent a lot of time trying to run away from his record, for example, at Bain Capital. That was a good move for him. It seems likely every week that there's a new story about corruption, incompetence, greed. It shows us the real character of this guy who wants to be involved with international policy in places like the Middle East on days like today. Really?
This week is no exception. Stories emerge telling us how Bain Capital's been hustling the healthcare industry, driving up costs for everybody in America. Richard Eskow is a senior fellow, campaigned for America's future. He's the host of weekly radio show The Breakdown. Richard, tell me this story. It's a fascinating story because we miss parts of stories like this all the time, don't we?
Richard: We do and it gets overlooked. While we've got politicians out there like Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan telling us that we can't afford to continue providing Medicare to seniors or Medicaid to poor people, Bain Capital actually has a very consistent record of being pioneers in a greed-driven for-profit healthcare system that really adds to those costs exponentially.
Mike: Let me set up just a little bit for time purposes. When you leverage buy-out, when you go into a company and you leverage the company, what you do, what Bain did, is they'd go in; they get more loans than the company could ever handle–$607 million worth of loans. They would pay their percentage of being that capital investor but they wouldn't pay the other investors but they would pay the management team. They'd pay the Bain team. Then they would leave that corporation in such bad shape they had to something to raise money. What would they do?
Richard: What they do is that so much money was borrowed to deal with the Bain people that it really put them under incredible pressure to jack-up their revenues which they would do by, for example, tricking doctors into ordering unnecessary Medicare procedures, which one of the CEOs that Romney and his team picked wound up being convicted for doing, being convicted of Medicare fraud. Another team that, from all we can tell, Romney picked to run a drug store chain, they were convicted of investor fraud, and also for fraud in the State of New Jersey for selling things like out-of-date baby formula, out-of-date medications or prescriptions. When you put people under that kind of financial pressure they get desperate to cheat, bend the rules, do whatever they have to do to make their numbers. That's the real Romney Care.
Mike: R.J., I can't disclose too much what I want to tell you. I want tell you how accurate you are, how you hit this. Bobby Kennedy and I have been involved in a campaign; it's an anti-fraud campaign with the Whistle Blower Statute. What we found is we started an ad campaign all over America saying if you want to report fraud, call us. We're doing stories, we're doing follow-up on them. You know where most of the stories are coming from? They're coming from the healthcare industry.
Richard: I'm not surprised.
Mike: We see bundling, we see unbundling, we see … as you point out in your story, it's very interesting. We've seen very similar things. You talk about where they take a red piece of cellophane and put it over the end of a flashlight and then they say this is some kind of special equipment, ultra-ray equipment, and they charge $3,000 for the flashlight. That's the kind of stuff we're seeing right now. This is what you've been talking about for a long time R.J..
Richard: I've worked in this area. I've helped track down some of this fraud. When you have a guy running for President whose entire career is based on pushing people to do the wrong thing, giving them the incentive to do the wrong thing, and then looking shocked when they turn around and do the wrong thing … look, these are people that he hired. These are people that he put into place. These are deals that he set up. He's just a representative of a whole broken system. I'm not at all surprised you're finding it right and left because Romney Care, for-profit healthcare is the reason why we have much more expensive health system than any other developed country and cover far fewer people and offer them far less. It's a broken system.
Mike: What Bain would do, they would find a company, they would say, "We want to do a hostile takeover", basically. Leverage buy-out, it was always a hostile setting. They'd go in. They would fire everybody they needed to fire. They would sell off everything they could sell off, whether machines, cars, copper out of the wall, whatever it was. Then they would go to the bank and say, "Look, give us $700 million. Leverage us $700 million". They would go to their friends. They would leverage $700 million, then they would pay themselves. It might be $20 million, $30 million, $40 million right up front. They would leave the company in a position to where bankruptcy was inevitable, had to take place, there was no way you could pull it out. Taxpayers would then come in and have to pay for that. One of their big focuses was healthcare, wasn't it?
Richard: Yes. Mike, it's not just that the taxpayers have to rescue the bailed out company, your health plan and mine, Medicare, Medicaid … these are only the cases we know about. This overbilling goes on every day; this cheating goes on every day. They're creating part of the system that almost guarantees it's going to take place because that's what desperate people do when they're trying to beat the numbers the next guy's getting.
Mike: Right now what we have … there's another part to it and you picked it up in your story just like we had, just like Ed has so many times. Every time Ed talks about this story, the idea of, "Well, I left Bain Capital in 1999." When you follow these stories that you're talking about, clearly, he didn't. He was making money. He was listing himself as a CEO. He was saying he was the sole shareholder for three years after 1999. Now, as we've said so many times, he was either lying to the Feds with his SEC 10K, which is fraud. People go to prison for that Mitt.
Richard: Exactly.
Mike: Mr. Mitt, if you're listening or any of your pals are listening, people go to prison for that. He was either lying there or he's lying to the American public right now because he's so embarrassed about stories like the one you're telling where he goes into a company like CRC. Tell us the CRC massive debt story so we can understand how he takes money from all of us and puts it in his pocket.
Richard: CRC is a horror story because there you're talking about an organization that was supposed to be, among other things, treating kids. You're talking about leveraging a lot of money for the treatment of kids with problems. Horrible things happened because they were really trying to leverage as much money out of it as they could.
Mike: By the way, I can't even count the number of times they've been sued. CRCs been sued …
Richard: They've been sued over and over again for torturing kids. I mean, the details are horrifying.
Mike: Yes, they are.
Richard: Kids forced to wear clothes soaked in their own urine as punishment because they weren't allowed to change their clothes or go to the bathroom, and just torture and graphic … children 14, 15-years-old committing suicide and this company going out and convincing parents that they could solve their son's or daughter's problem.
Mike: R.J., Mitt knows exactly what goes on there. He knows about the lawsuits. Even though the lawsuits have been hidden from the public, they've been hidden, literally. You have … the lawyers that settle the cases are not allowed to talk about it. The judges seal the records to where we don't see but we know what's happened. They've leveraged the company. They've de-staffed, understaffed, undertrained, they've put any bumpkin in there that'll fill a warm body and they have them taking care of kids that are in such critical, emotional … having such critically, emotional problems that the kids are committing suicide. They're doing the things that you're talking about right now, right as we speak. CRC is alive and well, isn't it?
Richard: Yes. It was put ….
Mike: I don't know if it's well. It's alive.
Richard: They'll hire some minimum wage, untrained person. There was a case where they didn't see the warning signs of impending death in a teenager because they were just minimum wage kids themselves. Then that child died. Again, settled out … details not available. It's a horror story. They'll do what they have to do to make a buRichard: ck, to cut corners because that's the system they represent.
Mike: R.J. Eskow, great work. I mean great work.
Richard: Thanks, man.
Mike: I'm just really impressed with this story because I see it firsthand. We handle Whistleblower cases. We handle people who tell these stories. They call our offices from all over the country. They tell us these stories. You know what? Your story nailed it. Your story is one of the most accurate … it just unfolds exactly like the stories we're told all the time, mostly from the healthcare industry where these 'whistleblowers' come forth and they say, "Look, this is a company that's stealing from the government and so … very important. Keep this work up, okay?


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The 53rd Academy of Country Music Awards are coming up. The host again this year is Reba McEntire. No stranger to hosting, this is McEntire's fifteenth year at the helm. Reba, along with the following nominees, will perform this year: Jason Aldean, Florida Georgia Line, Lady Antebellum, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, and Maren Morris. Oh, and keep an eye out for Thomas Rhett! Want to watch the ACM Awards online? This guide will explain how.
The 53rd annual ACM Awards will air on CBS, April 15 at 8 p.m ET. As CBS is not a cable network, cord cutters will have any easy time finding plenty of ways to watch it. In fact, if you have a digital antenna you won't have any problem watching the ACM Awards live stream right on your television. The following guide will tell you the easiest ways to watch the ACM live stream both online and on your television.
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CBS All Access is the standalone streaming service created by CBS. For just $5.99 a month you have access to all of the CBS shows and a huge selection of classic television. You will be able to watch all of the CBS specials, including the ACM awards. If you live in one of 132 markets (about 80% of the country) you'll have access to CBS content in live stream format. If you aren't in one of these areas, rest assured that live streaming is coming to you soon, but until then you'll be able to watch your favorite CBS shows as soon as the following day. Many times the entire season is added on CBS, so you can catch up if you're a few episodes behind.
You can enjoy CBS All Access on a variety of devices. This is one of the simplest, low-investment ways to watch the ACM awards online. If you'd like to learn more, make sure to check out our full CBS All Access review. If you're a new subscriber, CBS is offering a free 7-day trial, so make sure to sign up for yours today!
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A simple and free way to watch the ACM Awards could mean firing up your digital antenna and watching it on television. If you have a digital antenna you know how easy it can be to watch over-the-air networks. If you don't have a digital antenna we recommend the Mohu Leaf, which will scan for channels within a 50-mile radius. This should ensure that you receive CBS and plenty of other channels to go with it.
If you're not able to watch the ACM Awards when they air, consider pairing your digital antenna with an over-the-air DVR. These great systems work similarly to cable DVRs and allow you to rewind and fast-forward, as well as offering the ability to record one show while watching another. We recommend the Tablo, which is an amazing device that will allow you to move your recordings from your television to any number of devices in order to watch on the go.
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What Should You Do If You Lost Your iPhone
The fact that people lose their mobile devices on a daily basis isn't a strangle one, and the odds are that you probably know a person that lost their iPhone in the past week or so. So considering this the next natural question that anybody should ask themselves is what should you do, not if, but when you lose your precious iPhone.
The information on it!
The idea that we live our daily live through our mobile devices is pretty common, but there is the problem when we lose our iPhones and all the sensitive information gets lost with it. For example you could lose your credit card information, than you would need to block the credit card and go through the trouble of opening up a new one. Another problem are the contact the pictures any many other megabytes of information that goes along with it.
What to do?
At any time you can remote wipe the device that has been stolen or lost, especially if it is jailbroken, this can be simply done by logging in to your iTunes account and follow the procedure. This however will not find your device, it will only erase all the sensitive information which an iPhone may contain. If you are willing to find your iPhone, there are a couple of other options which you may consider, for example the popular find my iPhone application can work quite nicely at times.
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If you got the chance to use the find my iPhone applications, you would have noticed that the application itself isn't that accurate when it comes to pinpointing your devices location. It's because of this that developers all around the world developed application like MSPY which can locate your iPhone's location with good precision (even if it is not jailbroken), so feel free to check some the alternatives out.


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Trekking and hiking in Ecuador is an enjoyable experience. Our tours will take you along spectacular landscapes of great beauty. The country offers several trekking alternatives ranging from easy, soft adventures; to hard, more demanding trips. For our tours we provide first class camping equipment, professional mountain guides, private transportation, and meals.
Day 1: We drive from Quito south following the Pan-American Highway. On the way enjoy nice views of Cotopaxi and Illinizas volcanoes. Stop for lunch in a lovely hacienda. Then we continue our drive towards the town of Pujili and then up to the beautiful highlands of Zumbagua to finally reach the small indigenous settlement of Quilotoa. Overnight in very simple local indigenous houses located at the rim of the Quilotoa crater.
Day 1: Morning drive from Quito towards the Cotopaxi National Park, to the Limpiopungo valley at 3800m. Upon arrival set up camp tents and start hiking west, up to the foothills of the Rumiñahui Volcano. If weather permits we can enjoy great views of the Cotopaxi volcano and Mount Sincholagua.
Starting at the little village of Achupallas and ending at the Inca ruins of Ingapirca, this trek goes along colorful landscapes and offers beautiful views of the countryside. This trail is part of the impressive system of roads built by the Incas which connected Quito, the northern part of their empire, with the south of Chile.
Yanahurco means Black Mountain and it is an interesting, steep, old volcano located in the Western Cordillera of the north of Ecuador. This soft adventure will take us through a beautiful landscape of lakes, streams and high paramos. With luck we will have a glimpse of the impressive flight of the Condor bird, the "King of the Andes".
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The Andean region of the Antisana Volcano gives the trekker a wonderful view of the beautiful Ecuadorian Andes. During this trek we will have the opportunity to observe several species of Andean birds: caracaras, hummingbirds, mountain gals and the impressive Condor, one of biggest flying bird on the world. The tiny colorful flowers as the chuquiraguas, the lancentilla de paramo or the several species of gentians give the area an amazing look.
Day 1: From Quito transport by car to El Tambo on the highlands of Papallacta. From here equipment and luggage is carried by mules and the trek (4 hours) head south-west to the lower plains around the volcano lake. Camp I at 3800m. (LB, D).
This exciting trek will take you up to the highlands of the Antisana Volcano, one of the most beautiful mountains of Ecuador. Later on we will trek to the base of the Sincholagua, an extinct rocky volcano which offers great views of the Ecuadorian Andes.Finally we will arrive to the plateau known as Limpiopungo, a flat valley located at the base of the impressive Cotopaxi Volcano, known as one of the highest active volcanos in the world.
This combination is intended for climbers with very good climbing skills and good basic knowledge of the climbing techniques. This climb has no pre-designed route; the climbers (with the guide) must find the best and most suitable way to reach the summit. Definitely this is a very exciting adventure.
Mount Chimborazo is the highest and largest mountain in Ecuador and for a long time it was considered the highest mountain in the world (measured from the centre of the terrestrial globe, its summit is in fact the highest point on earth!). It has three major summits that can be seen during this trek. Vast areas with paramos and breathtaking views over the country and herds of vicuñas are the main highlights of this adventure.
This program features the same activities as the 5 day trekking tour but with an extra day to climb to the summit of Chimborazo.
Day 1: Early drive from Quito to Urbina train station. Our first 3 hours trek will take us to our first campsite at the foothills of Nicolas Martinez Peak in the vicinity of the impressive Abraspungo gorge. Camp at 3900m. (LB, D).
This is an exclusive and spectacular Andes Adventures trip that will take us along impressive mountain ranges of the Carihuairazo (5020m) and Chimborazo (6310m) volcanoes. Our trek will end at the famous Chimborazo Whimper hut at 5000m.
This trek leads us through some of the most unexplored and beautiful places in Ecuador, the Sangay National Park which contains an incredible biodiversity on the eastern side of the Ecuadorian Andes. The highlight of this trek is the climbing of the impressive Sangay Volcano, one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
These programs are also designed as acclimatization trips before a serious climb. These acclimatizing programs give the climber a better chance in their attempt to reach a high summit.
All these trips start from Quito.
This hike combines a beautiful hike on the Papallacta highlands with the fun and relaxing enjoyment of the hot water springs at Papallacta Thermal springs.
The tour starts with a drive eastwards towards the Amazon region. The road climbs up to its highest point (4100m), from where the trek starts on the highlands of the upper Papallacta Paramos.
After a short drive southwards from Quito, we reach the Pasochoa Forest Reserve. Pasochoa is a dormant volcano, which has formed an open crater where many hiking trails can be found to enjoy the magnificent and unique flora and fauna of this nice area. Through dense bushes the gentle uphill trek rises to the top of Pasochoa. (LB)
Drive west over the Pichincha range until the proximities of the hut located beneath the rim of this active volcano. Hike up to the hut and then continue towards a viewpoint located at the volcano rim. Enjoy the magnificent view over the west side of the volcano.
Morning transfer to the "Teleferico", and from here using the cable car we will be transported up to the top of the hill known as Cruz Loma (3900m). From here we will start our 2 hours hike to the base of the extinct volcano Ruco Pichincha (4974m). The hike is easy with nice views of Quito and of the surrounding volcanoes. With good weather we will be able to see Cotopaxi, Antisana, Cayambe and other volcanoes.
This very attractive lake system lying at 3800m is located in the province of Imbabura, close to the Indian market of Otavalo. Here a nice walk can be combined with a short (3 hours) easy climb to the summit of a rocky peak known as Fuya Fuya Volcano (4200m). (LB)
The tour begins with a drive to the south of Quito towards the little town of Machachi at the foothills of the Corazon Volcano. The trek goes over the foothills reaching a high ridge from where a trail leads to the summit of the mountain. Enjoy great views of Cotopaxi, Rumiñahui and Illiniza Volcanoes. (LB).
The Cotopaxi National Park is located a 2-hours drive southwards from Quito. It offers impressive views on one of the highest active volcanoes in the world. The hike starts at the Limpiopungo valley (3800m) and heads out across the vast plains of the highlands to reach the Rivas Hut at 4800m.
Early in the morning we drive from Quito north towards the city of Cayambe, from where we continue our drive along the hacienda road close to the hut. 1 hour trek will take us to the snow line of the Cayambe Volcano. We hike to the glaciers approx. 400m above the hut from where we can expect a beautiful view over the western side of the Mountain.
We start from Quito early in the morning heading east towards the small town of Pintag. Two hours later we are in one of the most beautiful paramos of the eastern part of Ecuador. The landscapes are magnificent, and here we will enjoy a great hike and the glimpse of many different native highland birds and giant herds of sheep together with a wonderful view of the impressive Antisana Volcano.
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Twins' Comeback Keeps Yankees From Padding East Lead [PHOTOS]
MINNEAPOLIS -- Phil Hughes ran out of gas in the seventh inning and Boone Logan couldn't hold the lead for him as the New York Yankees missed a chance to go up 21/2 games on Baltimore in a 5-4 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday night.
Hughes (16-13) was strong through six innings and the Yankees jumped out to a 3-1 lead. But he left with the bases loaded and two outs in the seventh, and the lefty Logan let one run score on a wild pitch before giving up a two-run double to Denard Span that put the Twins in front.
Joe Mauer followed with his third single of the game to cap the four-run seventh, and the Twins held on to keep the Orioles, who lost to Toronto earlier on Tuesday, 11/2 games back of New York in the AL East.
Nick Swisher homered for the third straight game, Russell Martin also went deep and Andruw Jones hit a pinch-hit solo shot off of closer Glen Perkins in the ninth inning for the Yankees. But Perkins struck out Jayson Nix for his 15th save.
Martin's soaring shot in the seventh off of Casey Fien (2-1) in the seventh was his 19th of the season, which ties a career high, and gave New York a 3-1 lead.
But Hughes ran into trouble in the bottom of the inning after allowing just one run on four hits in the first six. With much better command of his fastball and changeup than he's had lately, Fien retired nine of the next 10 batters after giving up an RBI double to Chris Parmelee in the fourth.
Then things went a little haywire for the 26-year-old right-hander. He gave up a single to Ryan Doumit, walked Parmelee and Jamey Carroll reached on an infield hit with one out to load the bases.
With Hughes at 99 pitches, Yankees manager Joe Girardi went to the lefty Logan to face a string of four straight left-handed hitters in the Twins lineup. Logan's first pitch was wild, getting by Martin to allow Doumit to score. Span followed with the double and Mauer the single to raise his average to .326, just behind Triple Crown candidate Miguel Cabrera (.329) in the American League.
It was a disappointing finish for Hughes, who has won three straight starts and was appearing to pick up steam with the postseason just over a week away. He finished with four runs on six hits and four strikeouts in 6 2-3 innings.
Derek Jeter extended his hitting streak to 19 games with a single in the first inning and Robinson Cano went 3 for 3 with a walk for the Yankees, who could have opened their largest division lead since Sept. 1.
Esmerling Vasquez gave up two runs on seven hits with five strikeouts in six innings for the Twins.
* On Monday night, Curtis Granderson joined Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Mickey Mantle and Jason Giambi as the only Yankees to hit 40-plus HRs in back-to-back seasons. "Especially with the number of guys that have played for the Yankees and put the pinstripes on, at least for one sentence I get to get mentioned with those guys," Granderson said. "That's pretty cool."
* Twins OF Josh Willingham did not play because of a strained left shoulder. He's listed as day-to-day.
* Mauer had only thrown out seven of 56 base runners on the season, but he went 2 for 2 on Tuesday night, getting Ichiro Suzuki and Martin on strike-em-out, throw-em-out double plays in the third and fourth.
* The Twins send RHP Samuel Deduno (6-5, 4.54) to the mound on Wednesday for the finale against LHP CC Sabathia (13-6, 3.47).
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Last week I posted about the purpose of our youth group services, thought it might be good to followup with a post about they "why" of small groups as well. Our overarching philosophy is that we want students not to just be exposed to the purposes of the church (that's the large group) but also have them experience them first-hand. This makes our Life Groups so critical to the discipleship process. Here's a breakdown of why we do small groups:
A couple of weeks out of the month, the small group does significant and intentional Bible study. The leaders prepares a lesson selected from the materials provided/approved by the ministry, and concentrate on helping their students grow in Christian education and faith.
Throughout the month, the small group leader checks in on their students' spiritual disciplines and holds them accountable to growing on their own. The idea here is to gently disciple students to a faith that they can take with them beyond high school. The leader looks for spiritual conversations and opportunities to challenge a student personally. Tons of resources are close at hand to help a student take a spiritual step forward.
At least once a quarter, maybe as often as once a month, the entire group spends time serving together. Care for one of the student's teachers that lost a spouse recently, serve at a local shelter, help someone with yard work, adopt a city block, visit a home for the elderly. The ministry provide tons of options and ideas, but each group has the flexibility and freedom to create their own monthly service project.
Take the night off! Pool party, lazer tag, pizza buffet, world series of poker marathon, sledding – whatever, it doesn't really matter. Just something super fun and community – no agenda, just life on life happening.


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Mr B: the scrubbing one, that was good! I'll use that one again.
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Kathmandu: The first ever joint military drill between Nepal and China -- Sagarmatha Friendship-2017 -- kicked off at Nepal Army's Para Training School in Maharajgunj here on Sunday.
The Chinese Army's squad is participating in the military exercise that will focus on counter terrorism and disaster response. The 10-day exercise will conclude on April 25.
DGMO of Nepal Army General Binod Kumar Shrestha inaugurated the exercise.
Though Nepal and China were planning a big-scale military exercise, the strong opposition from New Delhi given its special diplomatic and military ties with Kathmandu has forced Kathmandu to limit the size and nature of the drill, sources said.
"We hope that such joint military exercise would help the Nepali and Chinese armies to boost their professional capabilities," Gen. Shrestha said.
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On February 19, Major General Zhao Jinsong of the western command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was in Nepal on a three-day visit.
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But it will be tough for her to do without her ice skates.
Wagner's skates were lost by the airline on the way to London, Ontario for the world championships on Tuesday morning. They were in her checked luggage, and with all of the traveling she's done as an elite skater for five years, her bags have never been lost. She now has to wait for the airlines to find her bag, and is trying to remain calm.
"OK, I don't have my skates. I have to relax a little bit. It makes me take a step back and realize it's just skating. It's an event, it's a huge event, but I'll do better that way," Wagner said to USA Today.
She tweeted that fellow skaters have given her workout clothes to wear.
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UPDATE: Huzzah! The skates have been found. Nancy Armour of the Associated Press reports:
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A refreshingly unique story with an unexpected sense of humor, The Rook was an extremely enjoyable listen. Although I've found Susan Duerden's narrations challenging in light of my voice/delivery preferences, she won me over with this one and gave an excellent performance.
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"Myfanwy Thomas awakes in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, her only hope of survival is to trust the instructions left in her pocket by her former self. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization and this person wants her dead.
As Myfanwy battles to save herself, she encounters a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and an unimaginably vast conspiracy."
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This was such a refreshing book. I found the plot and characters unique and engaging and the humor was an unexpected treat. There were almost two stories being told: that of the amnesiac Myfanwy and how she was maneuvering through her own life with absolutely no idea of what to do (except for the background info in a binder left her by her former self) and flashback scenes to Myfanwy's past. Those flashbacks were usually in the form of information contained in letters written by pre-memory loss Myfanwy and the author nicely skirts turning them into info-dumps by making them almost their own story-line. While the transitions between the two worked very well for the first half of the book, they seemed to lose some of their cohesion later in the story. There certainly weren't any whiplash moments of "Wha…? How is that relevant?" It's just that I found it slightly harder to transition later in the audio.
The two iterations of Myfanwy have different personalities and as the amnesiac version begins to get her feet under her and starts to assert herself I enjoyed witnessing her character arc, especially as I could contrast it with the more timid Myfanwy in the flashback scenes. The world-building of this alternate England is smoothly accomplished and the supernatural abilities within the super-secret government group known as the Chequy (and I'm glad I had the audio version to pronounce that and other names for me) are not necessarily your standard superhero abilities and sometimes they're just downright amusing. The structure of the Chequy and the intricacies of how it works unfolded in a pretty organic manner as Myfanwy began trying to uncover who was responsible for her loss of memory.
In terms of both the story-telling (text) and the narration (audio), I was sucked into the moment-by-moment discovery of the character. The pacing was perfect to maintain my interest (other than a brief stutter near the end), the writing is amusing, and the story is original. I recommend this audiobook.
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Dean and Kathryn A. Armstrong to Tonda L. and Dennis E. Smith, 107 Lakeshore Dr., Marion County Park and Lake.
Velma Andersen, transfer on death warranty deed, to Marjorie J. Campbell, 311 N. Vine St., Peabody.
Billy E. and Dorothy I. Broce to Billy E. and Dorothy I. Broce, co-trustees, 2533 310th Rd., Lost Springs.
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Rebecca L. Kaspar NKA Rebecca Williams, quitclaim deed to Charles and Patricia Ayers, 1119 Mustang Rd., Peabody.
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If you'd like to see the slow demise of the snowman, I found a video. The snowman's name is Böögg, because I mean if you had a snowman, wouldn't you name it Böögg? I would.
Anyway, I'm going to post ALL THE PICTURES. I didn't go to the parade this year, but my mom did, and Little Brother did, too, so I'm stealing their photos:
|Mr. Bögg before his fiery demise. He looks so calm and clueless, smoking his pipe. He doesn't realize that in a few hours his head will explode and everyone will be happy about this.
|Be-costumed kids. This is basically the whole parade. Note all the candy bags.
|Horsesssss. Mom likes horses muchly, so there were lots of horse pictures so sort through.
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|More be-costumed kids.
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|The Lady in Plum is looking far too happy today. You should be off kidnapping changelings, why are you even in Zürich.
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And lastly, remember how a few months ago I posted this blog of Little Brother's photos? And you guys were all very nice and cool about it? So he was encouraged to start his own photo-blog, and I think his pictures are great. If you peeked in once in a while, he would think you even cooler.
Bye. :)


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The Mayor of Bogovinje municipality in Tetovo, Hazbi Idrizi was shot dead today after a verbal confilct, which then escalated in gun-shot.The news of the death of the Albanian official was confirmed by sources near the Tetovo hospital. According to Alsat television, the killer is a former employee with Q.A. Initials. Local media say that Idrizi was shot with 6 bullets by his fellow countryman, who after the extreme act turned the gun on himself remaining seriously injured. He was urgently sent to the hospital, but could not survive the injuries he had taken.
Curently there is no official information on the causes of this serious event. The Democratic Union for Integration (DUI) reacted through a press release following the deep shock from the news of the assassination of its member at the time of official duty serving the citizens.
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DUI invited the responsible institutions to clarify the motives of this act.
Idrizi served as mayor of Bogovinje from 2000 to 2005, and then in 2009 local elections was re-elected in the same post./Oculus News
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Riding in public is always an experience. I know, intellectually, that getting a bit nervous is a sign that the event is important to me. I know that I have to practice being nervous, so I see how my brain sabotages my riding. Then I can think ahead of my brain's nervous quirks – forwarded is forearmed and all that. So when Hassler's announced Susanne von Dietze, a position guru, was coming, I figured who better to help me find my riding quirks?
A short aside for the dressage rail-birds that seem to enjoy finding fault with more accomplished riders and horses—I promise you, no horse or rider is perfect. Every accomplished rider knows what her and her horse's weaknesses are. They are actively working to improve those weaknesses every day. For those who enjoy searching for those faults like they are buried treasure, knock yourself out, but know you are not making divine revelations here. Accomplished riders want to ride better, even more than rail birds want to find holes in other people's riding. This sport is hard, and riding in public, with all the perfectionism and pressure we idealistic, type-A dressage riders put on ourselves, is even harder.
Back to the clinic - after last weekend's clinic I'm proud to say two of my quirks are better. I was able to process what she was asking me to do AND remember to half halt most of the time. My hips didn't become stiffer than the white man shuffle. Two of my quirks still need work, though. My hands stopped following, particularly in the canter, and my right seat bone disappeared to some foreign land. As I hoped when I threw my name in the clinic-rider sorting hat, Susanne had exercises to help me with both of those things.
Other than the riding nerves, there's a whole slew of other performance-anxiety quirks that I tested last weekend. The time table I created for arrival/braiding/tack/warm up was busy enough to prevent me from fidgeting, but not so crammed I felt rushed. That worked.
I remembered to order video (thank you Carol at Volte Productions!), as I am usually good about my lesson notes the first day, but the second day when I'm not running on adrenaline, I usually forget to get my notes down. That quirk I gave up on fixing, and just remember to order video.
There are, of course, other quirks:
For some reason, despite over 20 years of working in horses, and 12 years after opening my own business, my ability to feel confident in a clinic comes down to one thing – mascara. I'd really like lip gloss too, but no mascara, that will turn me into a completely incompetent rider, I'm sure of it. Do I wear mascara every day? Of course not, for Pete's sake, I work in a barn. But on clinic days, it's essential.
Then there's my phone. Why, oh why, does the part of my brain that is in charge of keeping track of my cell phone decide to play hide-and-seek when I'm nervous? This used to happen to my keys as well (I was really bad—at one show I had a locksmith come open my truck, only to find my keys were hiding in my jacket pocket. At least I wasn't wearing the jacket while the locksmith was there.), but our new truck has a keypad on the door, so I can just lock the keys in the truck.
Now on to the part you really want to know – what exercises did Ms. von Dietze have that were so helpful for Sling and I?
For my stiff, wall-flower canter hands, she had me ride with both reins in my outside hand. She had me hold my inside arm in front of me as if I were hugging a giant beach ball, then turn my palm away from me, and push forward in the same rhythm of the canter. This worked like a charm. Suddenly my hands joined the party.
For my roaming right seat bone, she had me canter left while holding on to the back of the saddle with my right hand. Again, it worked great. Both exercises gave me a "feel reference" that I could check in with throughout the ride.
For my roaming right seat bone, she had me canter left while holding on to the back of the saddle with my right hand. Again, it worked great. Both exercises gave me a "feel reference" that I could check in with throughout the ride.
She had a couple other exercises that I really liked. I've played with them in lessons and training sessions since then, and found them to be helpful enough to include in my arsenal. Here are the two I've used the most in lessons since the clinic:
Diagonal/straight – in this exercise, I rode Sling out of the corner on a diagonal line. Once all four legs were on the diagonal, I turned him parallel with the long side. Once all four feet were straight on that line, I turned him back on the diagonal, and repeated this cycle until I ran out of room.
This exercise did a great job of putting the responsibility of self-carriage on Sling's plate, instead of letting me help too much. As he had to keep changing direction, he figured out quite quickly that he needed to "stay ready" and not let his weight fall on his shoulders.
5/5/5 – in this exercise, I asked Sling to take 5 steps of walk, 5 steps of trot, and 5 strides of canter. Note that those were steps, not strides, so things come up really quick.
This exercise did a fantastic job of getting Sling quicker with his hind legs. It also got him much more focused on my seat, as I had to use my seat as the primary aid to change the gait. If I used too much leg, it created too much energy, and I couldn't make the next downward transition happen in time.
Today I head out to ride in public again, taking horses to a local schooling show to make sure I have their warm-up routines ironed out before we head to our first recognized show in two weeks. Hopefully I'll be able to keep track of my phone.


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"What about the Greens?" asked Miss Triss "perhaps they might have an idea where the Lost Surplus could be?"
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Vice President Joe Biden confirmed that the President will use his executive powers to impose some form gun control on the American people – however, he did not elaborate on what exactly he and the president had in mind.
UPDATE: Following today's meeting, Vice President Joe Biden said that the Gun Violence Task Force will most likely recommend background checks for all gun buyers and a ban on high-capacity magazines to President Barack Obama by next Tuesday.
"We're here today to deal with a problem that requires immediate action, urgent action," Biden said at a Wednesday press conference before he was scheduled to meet with a group of leaders from high-profile gun control advocacy groups, including Mayors Against Illegal Guns and the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
"The president is going to act. There are executive orders, executive action that can be taken. We haven't decided what that is yet, but we're compiling it all … as well as legislative action, we believe, is required," said Biden, who is leading the President's gun control task force.
The VP then iterated that even if they have to piecemeal gun control reform, in lieu of passing one comprehensive package, the White House will get the job done, "I want to make it clear that we are not going to get caught up in the notion unless we can do everything, we're going to do nothing," he said.
"I have committed to him that I will have the recommendations to him by Tuesday," Biden said, adding that "There is a surprising, so far, recurrence of suggestions that we have universal background checks."
On Thursday (today), Biden is meeting with the leaders of the National Rifle Association while Attorney General Eric Holder (if you're curious to know where he stands on the issue, see video below) sits down with gun retailers, which include the nation's largest gun retailer Wal-Mart, and the following Academy Sports + Outdoors, Bass Pro Shops, Big 5 Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Dick's Sporting Goods, Dunham's Sports, Gander Mountain, and Sportsman's Warehouse.
Leading up to the meeting, the NRA voiced skepticism about the sincerity of the Obama administration in this whole ordeal, NRA President David Keene told Brooklyn GOP Radio on Tuesday, "I think they're being disingenuous. I think that they've seen this as an opportunity to go after the Second Amendment, which they've wanted to do for years, if not decades, and I think they're going to do everything they can to strip Americans of their right to keep and bear arms."
Wal-Mart was also reluctant to meet with the White House, saying that senior leaders had already discussed the issue with Biden's office in advance, sharing its perspective. But that excuse didn't appear to fly with the Obama administration, which – it appears – demanded Wal-Mart to attend.
"We underestimated the expectation to attend the meeting on Thursday in person, so we are sending an appropriate representative to participate," said Wal-Mart spokesman David Tovar said.
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I believe that the White House knows that the NRA will not give up any ground during this debate. The NRA, it appears, will not support an assault weapons ban, a ban on high-capacity magazines, a ban on online ammo sales, laws requiring universal background checks, a national gun registry or any of the other major gun control measures on the table.
As NRA President David Keene intimated, the meeting with the NRA is mainly for show. A way for Biden and co. to say, "See, we met and heard ideas from everyone." Maybe, Biden will make one last attempt to negotiate with the NRA, but it's unlikely that the two sides will agree on how to move forward.
Consequently, the White House leadership will ratchet up the pressure on the major gun retailers, insisting that they comply with the administration's gun control agenda. The pitch will be twofold: (a) you stand to make more money if you support, for example, universal background checks (presumably, more people will buy from stores) and (b) if you refuse to get on board with our agenda, well, Attorney General Eric Holder and the ATF will be breathing down your throats.
The genius of going after retailers is that they're the most vulnerable in this negotiation. For them, it's all about money. If Obama and Biden get the gun retailers to cave in on certain discussion points (either through financial incentives of via fear of ATF persecution), then they gain considerable leverage in the debate. After all, how can the public purchase certain firearms, accessories or ammo if no one is willing to sell them?
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Not so long ago, Ellen Hart Peña had gone the distance as a world-class runner. She placed third in the 10,000-meter exhibition event at the 1980 U.S. Olympic trials, and two years later, she set an American women's record in the 30-kilometer run. But privately Peña was waging a different and more desperate race—struggling against anorexia and bulimia and trying to outrun an image of herself as a failure. "I used my body as a battleground," she says. "Food was my weapon."
For more than 10 years—from her senior year at Harvard through the remainder of her athletic career, law school, her work as a lawyer and her 1988 marriage to then Denver mayor Federico Peña, now Secretary of Transportation, the Albuquerque native warred with her demons. Like an estimated 1 million other Americans who suffer from anorexia and bulimia, most of them women, she veered between starvation diets and bingeing and purging. Through it all, the 5'5″ Peña managed to keep her weight at 110 lbs. and keep the severity of her illness a secret from nearly everyone, including her husband, 48. "Once I understood how serious the problem was," he says, "I had to ask myself, 'Gosh, why didn't I appreciate it earlier?' "
It wasn't until 1990, when illness threatened the birth of her first child, that Peña finally broke free—an achievement she credits largely to years of psychotherapy. Now a full-time mother to daughters Nellia, 4, and Cristina, 3, Peña, 36, talked about her trials with correspondent Margie Bonnett Sellinger at her Alexandria, Va., home.
I REMEMBER EXACTLY THE MOMENT it began. It was January 1980, during my senior year at Harvard where I ran on the track team. My coach had suggested that I lose some weight over Christmas break to help me run faster, and I had worked out every day and gone from 132 to 123 pounds But when I came back from vacation I had a really crummy workout, and the coach said it looked as if I were gaining back the weight.
That was the click. If he'd made the same comment to me a year earlier it probably wouldn't have had any effect. But I was just four months from graduation and at a point where I was scared about being an adult, about being a woman and going out into the world. Until then, my life had been scripted and safe. Now there were changes happening I couldn't control. I was really hurt by the coach's remark and said to myself, "I'm never, ever going to be fat again."
Almost immediately, I began eating very little and spent all my free time running. But then I'd have this uncontrollable, demonic urge to eat ice cream, cookies, doughnuts—anything high-calorie. And I'd eat until I couldn't eat anymore. Afterward, I couldn't bear the thought that it would stay in me and turn into fat, so I'd have to purge. During the worst periods, I'd binge and purge four or five times a day, from the moment I woke up until I went to sleep. By April, I was down to 110, and I looked like a cadaver.
The purging was really painful, and it made me feel horrible, disgusting and wretched. I shared a campus dormitory suite with four other women, and when I went into the bathroom I'd lock the door and turn the water on to cover the sound. But my roommates knew. One of them brought me library books on anorexia and persuaded my coach to make me see a counselor. It didn't help. I just sat there until the session was over. My mom found out that spring, and when I visited her in Albuquerque in April she arranged for me to see a family friend who was a psychiatrist. But in my family, people are private. No one was going to hear of my problem and say, "Enough is enough," and plunk me in treatment. Nobody in my family had ever seen a therapist, and when I stopped going after one visit, my mom and one of my sisters, who were the only ones who knew of my problem, didn't push me further. And I was still in denial and didn't think I needed a psychiatrist.
When I graduated in June I was very depressed, and it was difficult to be with people. I took a job teaching English and coaching soccer at a private boarding school in Colorado Springs but quit a year later when Nike offered to sponsor me as a runner. For the next four years, I tried to make a go as an amateur athlete, first in Boston, then back in Colorado. My eating improved a bit when I was training because I was happy. But whenever I got injured and couldn't run, I'd fall back into the bingeing and purging several times a day for weeks and months at a time. I was dehydrated, I was cold all the time, my hands would shake, and I would get headaches. And I had horrible nightmares that I would just eat and get bigger like this huge blimp.
Most people didn't know I had a problem. In relationships, I would pick men who wouldn't try to get too close to me. And I did a good job of hiding things. No one noticed when I didn't eat—I'd take just a couple bites of what was on my plate and then mound it up all together so it didn't look like much. The bingeing and purging I'd do behind closed doors. But I was trying everything to control my problem. I learned to meditate, I prayed, I went to group and individual therapy and Overeaters Anonymous meetings. Either the techniques weren't right for me or I wasn't ready for them.
Sometimes I was actually sorry that the eating disorder wouldn't kill me, and I'd think, "Please, just let me out of this."
In February 1984, I met Federico at a race in Denver. I placed first among the women and, as mayor, he presented me with the award. I thought he was very down-to-earth and genuine, and we seemed to hit it off. But I couldn't imagine that anyone could like me if they knew about this horrible part of my life. When we started dating, I told him I had an eating problem and was working on it, but I made sure he didn't find out how bad it was. Hiding it was actually pretty easy. Federico was working at least 15 hours a day, and after I started law school at the University of Colorado at Boulder in the fall of 1985 we couldn't spend that much time together.
Several months later I found a therapist who specialized in eating disorders, but I didn't begin to make progress until I started with yet another therapist in 1987. She helped me see how my eating was connected to my perfectionism and my need for control. I remember in grade school going into the bathroom and crying whenever my team lost because I felt I hadn't done enough to make us win. As the second oldest of eight children, I had been a caretaker growing up so I also didn't know how to ask for help. I felt like a failure acknowledging that I wasn't all that strong or capable, and I had been trying to escape those negative feelings by bingeing and purging. But as I began to deal with my fears, my confidence grew. I really believed I could get better, so when Federico proposed in 1987, I said yes.
We married in May 1988.I graduated law school the same month and took a job with a prestigious firm in Denver. Then the following October I learned I was pregnant. I never told Federico the full extent of my eating disorder, and now I didn't tell my obstetrician. For a while I was good about my eating, but before long I was bingeing and purging. Then, six months into my pregnancy, I began to have really significant contractions. That was the moment when I said, "Stop. You have to take care of your body, and your body is now carrying a baby." I'm absolutely convinced that if I hadn't been in therapy for a long time, I wouldn't have been able to turn the corner.
It wasn't easy. I would eat and feel so bloated, and then the old feelings would kick in—eating equals fat equals bad. Keeping in touch with my therapist in Boulder, I just had to take a leap of faith that it was really going to turn out okay. Amazingly I'm still okay. Through Nellia's birth that July and Cristina's birth 19 months later and all the stress of moving to Washington in 1993, my eating problem has not resurfaced. Even when I suffered a miscarriage that July, I knew I was strong enough to withstand the pain. I don't think the lost pregnancy was as real to Federico as it was to me, but when he asked me if I wanted to go back into therapy to help work through my sadness, I told him I had the tools now to deal with pain myself.
Although Federico had attended a few therapy sessions with me, we never had the 3-hour, tearful kind of talk about my illness you might expect because I was too afraid to reveal the depths of my disease. In fact, I don't think he truly understood how bad it was until last fall when I showed him an article I'd written for the Road Runners Club of America newsletter. I think he felt bad that he hadn't understood. My response was that he had done all I had allowed him to do, which was basically to stand by me.
I'm running and even competing again, but for the first time I can run just for the enjoyment of it. I've also learned to manage my weight, which is now 125, without getting totally compulsive and weird. A couple of months ago I gained four or five pounds, but I just said, "Oh well, I'll have to be more thoughtful about food choices." That felt great. There are still times when I'm tempted to binge and purge, and I think, "Maybe just today…" But I'm strong enough to resist it. I'm not walking near that cliff again because going over the edge was my private hell. I can't go back.


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