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July-14-2009 DCA & HMFA Welcome Orange to Live Where You Work Homebuyer Program
DCA & HMFA Welcome Orange to Live Where You Work Homebuyer Program
ORANGE - Orange Mayor Eldridge Hawkins Jr. today joined Department of Community Affairs (DCA) Commissioner Joseph Doria and New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency (HMFA) Executive Director Marge DellaVecchia at Reock Commons, a new condominium development at 57 South Center Street, to announce that Orange is the newest member of the Live Where You Work Program. The city is the 15th municipality to partner with the HMFA on the program.
"Live Where You Work complements Governor Corzine's efforts at revitalizing communities because it promotes homeownership and encourages people to live closer to their jobs," said Commissioner Doria. "Mayor Hawkins and Orange are to be commended for their commitment to the residents of this city and I encourage more municipalities to join the program."
The Live Where You Work Program is a workforce housing initiative that provides low-interest, fixed rate mortgage loans to homebuyers purchasing homes in towns where they are employed. Other benefits include down payment and closing cost assistance for the purchase of a home within Smart Growth Areas and flexible underwriting criteria for the loan qualification process. Homes must be located in a municipality that has become a Live Where You Work partner with HMFA. The Live Where You Work initiative strives to revitalize and build sustainable communities that will provide a greener environment, access to alternative transportation and affordable housing opportunities for residents.
"The HMFA believes that now is a great time to buy a home and Live Where You Work is a wonderful program that can make homeownership a reality for many families," said Marge DellaVecchia, Executive Director of the HMFA. "Participants can receive larger loans than they would otherwise be eligible for because the program understands that the money they will be saving with a shortened commute can now be invested in their mortgage."
As a result of the city's partnership with the HMFA, people working in Orange who are interested in buying a home in the city will be able to take advantage of Live Where You Work program incentives. Live Where You Work is administered by the HMFA, a DCA affiliate. Trenton, Jersey City, Woodbridge, Elizabeth, Atlantic City, Rahway, Morristown, Evesham, Neptune Township, Bayonne, Carteret, New Brunswick, Paterson and Glassboro are all taking part in the program.
"In a time of economic crisis, any program that eases or creates opportunities for people to purchase homes is a great thing and the Live Where You Work program accomplishes this by targeting people who work in our community," said Mayor Hawkins. "That means more of our police officers, firefighters, teachers and other anchors of our community can now live right next door, making the community safer."
To learn about how to get a Live Where You Work mortgage, please call 1-800-NJHOUSE. For more information about how municipalities can join Live Where You Work, please call 609-278-7478. Or, you can visit the Live Where You Work website at www.livewhereyouwork.nj.gov.


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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths in Canada. In 2009, an estimated 22,000 Canadians will be diagnosed with colorectal cancer and 9,100 will die from the disease.
The disease, however, usually grows slowly, almost always arising from benign growths called adenomas (or polyps). If these growths are detected early and removed, the disease is very treatable and curable, and even preventable.
Dr Will King hopes that his research will eventually improve those chances for preventing the disease. With funding from the Canadian Cancer Society, he is studying the relationship between certain genetic activity and the risk for colorectal adenomas.
Specifically, Dr King and his research team are studying DNA methylation, which refers to a chemical modification of the genetic material in cells. The researchers are interested in this process because DNA methylation plays an important role in controlling how cells behave and divide.
Previous research has used animal and human cells to investigate the relationship between DNA methylation and cancer. Dr King's study will be one of the few studies that will involve human populations and is the largest of this kind to date.
The researchers will examine whether markers of DNA methylation in blood and colon tissue predict whether a person will develop colorectal cancer. Dr King's group plans to measure these markers in blood and normal appearing colon tissue samples from 350 participants aged 50 to 65 who are undergoing a colonoscopy at the Hotel Dieu Colonoscopy Clinic in Kingston. The team will compare DNA methylation marker levels of patients with adenomas to those with no abnormality to determine whether abnormal levels of these markers are associated with an increased risk for developing colorectal adenoma.
"If we find a relationship between DNA methylation and colorectal adenomas, I think it would provide us tremendous opportunities for the prevention of colorectal cancer," says Dr King. "Rather than waiting for the occurrence of cancer, we would be able to identify individuals at high risk for colorectal cancer who could be targeted for intervention and screening programs."
DNA methylation is a key mechanism of the epigenome, described as the second genetic code. While our genes act as a kind of blueprint for designing our body – for example determining or hair colour or height – the epigenome provides the instructions by telling our genes what to do, where to do it and when to do it.
While scientists are still deciphering the epigenome, what is known is that numerous chemicals in our bodies control which sets of genes are switched on in any given cell. In effect, these chemicals give cells instructions on how they should function. The epigenome regulates this entire chemical switching system. When this process is disrupted, it can lead to the inappropriate turning on of genes, which in turn leads to inappropriate cell growth and ultimately cancer.
Dr King is at Queen's University in Kingston. His three-year, $372,910 grant is his first from the Canadian Cancer Society.
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His rant makes it seem as though the poor people who lived in these areas before gentrification wanted to stay poor and didn't want a safer place to live or better schools. It's an insult to anyone who lived there.I see it a little differently. While I agree that long-time residents of gentrifying neighborhoods did want them to be safer and they did want better schools, I can understand how frustrating it is to see these types of improvements take place at such a pace after new blood were to move in. I would imagine that it would make the long-term residents feel invisible and that what they wanted and were asking for didn't matter-and that's the true insult.
"I didn't mean to patronize, I genuinely respect and agree with many of the positions you take around here. I just wanted to avoid rehashing all the points I made on the original post since I gathered from your first comment that you had read at least some of those threads and didn't want to engage.
But since you asked...
Spike's argument, such as I understand it, is that basically because the area is of a particular culture/background means that others cannot come from the outside and assert themselves.
Well yes and no...there are a few things wrong with this interpretation. First and foremost the word "cannot". White people seem to always take this word really personally, which again (to me and most Black folk) validates the underlying complaint.
When Spike says "cannot" he means "should not because it's ethically wrong" and/or "cannot while also claiming to be non-racist". Yes, this is about White people asserting themselves in established Black cultural spaces and the reason it's different from most other histories of geographic/demographic shift that do NOT involve White people moving into minority spaces is because of the way White people assert themselves in every other aspect of American life.
Most specifically, this is VERY different from the dynamic 60 years or so ago when Black people first began to settle in what were then predominantly White neighborhoods. The primary differences:
Those neighborhoods were not the only places where White people got to experience being a demographic majority
The Black people moving in did not have a cultural monopoly such that those neighborhoods were the only places White people got to affirm and express their culture without fear of censure and reprisal
The Black people moving in did not have such a relatively advanced cultural infrastructure and economy (we won't get into how that disparity comes about in the first place) that they were able to rapidly cannibalize White-owned business and replace them with ones narrowly-tailored to their own interests
The White people who moved out did so largely because they chose not to live near people for whom they had contempt, not because they could not afford to stay
The Black people moving in were by and large deferential to their White neighbors and went to great lengths to assimilate to their neighborhoods' existing social norms and values (in part because it was absolutely a matter of personal safety)
Speaking of which...nothing even close to THIS has happened to any White person attempting to move into Brooklyn, which makes the dramatic outrage in response to Spike's frustrated rant (mere words) look downright self-indulgent and foolish to the people like Spike's daddy and other longtime residents who stand to be bought out because THAT is the kind of shit they had to go through when they wanted to move to a new neighborhood. That is how White people went about saying "You cannot move here". Not even close to the same.
All of those dynamics are in reverse here, making the issue a lot deeper than "the neighborhood is changing and I don't like it". But White people on the whole have very little understanding of these issues and very little willingness to understand these issues, because it would require them to either make different choices or acknowledge their own lack of ethics and moral character.
So instead, as per usual, the reflexive response is to make it about them and their rights. "This is economically advantageous to me and who are you to tell me I can't have what I want?!! (P.S. - I haven't heard a word you've said about what matters to you and don't care.)"
That same self-serving, covetous, socially-irresponsible attitude colonized Africa, justified the slave trade and native American genocide and as allowed the U.S. to assert a destabilizing influence in numerous countries abroad with little understanding of the damage we were doing until it was too late.
But Spike Lee said motherfucker so he's a monster."
There seem to be more shenanigans as a result of his comments:There was a lot of discussion on Gothamist's post on Spike's comments. A number of them said that Spike was a hypocrite for moving out of Brooklyn. Some other posters countered that Spike moved because his wife did not want to remain in the home since their privacy was breached.
I think "we" will only effectively zone for affordable housing when "we" are unable to fill entry level positions.Sharing apartments like this? I'd rather move further out than to submit myself to that.
At present, we have far more applicants than we do jobs. Low income (but employed....) folks are sharing apartments, rather than move away to places that might be affordable,


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The folder and content item descriptors must define properties that represent the name or path of the items. These properties must be mapped directly to columns of the database so queries can be performed against them.
You can use one of three different techniques to specify how path information is stored in the database:
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This method returns the path of this item, represented as a relative path from the repository's root folder
This is the simplest mechanism. In this mode, the relative path name of the item is used as the ID of the repository item. Your database must then include an ID column that is a string large enough to hold the entire relative path name of each folder item and content item. Put this ID column in your primary table and set the
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folder-id-property specifies the property representing the parent folder of the folder item or content item. From these two pieces of information let you compute the path for a given item by walking up the content hierarchy.
The operation of computing the path for this item is more expensive in this mode, because you query up the folder hierarchy to compute the path for an item rather than get the path from a single property. However, this mode can overcome the problem of the size limitation on queryable columns. Now the column size for the content name limits the size of each individual component of the file name, not the size of the entire path.
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For about $130 for the 500GB version (or $230 for the 1TB version), the Iomega Home Media Network Drive is a sound buy for any home user. Iomega NAS servers are known to be easy to use, and the Home Media Network Drive is the company's easiest so far. Getting it up is a simple task, as is customizing the more advanced settings. Its good performance and support for USB hard drives and printers round out its merits. If you're looking for more advanced features, check out the Editors' Choice winning Synology DS107+ or the Western Digital My Book World Edition.
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Barely larger than a 3.5-inch hard drive, the Iomega Home Media Network Drive is about as compact as a single-volume NAS server can get. The device comes in both a 500GB and a 1TB version. Choose carefully though, the device is not designed to let you to replace the hard drive later if you want to increase its capacity.
The drive includes a Gigabit Ethernet port and one USB 2.0 port, located on the back. The USB port can be used to host a printer or an external hard drive. Also located on the back is a very small fan that, unfortunately, produces a high-pitched sound when spinning. However, it only spins when the drive gets hot, which is only when during heavy loads.
Setting up the drive was as simple as installing the included Home Network Media Storage and EMC Retrospect HD Back Up applications. In our tests, the installation took about 3 minutes. Once finished, the NAS server's share folders are mapped automatically to your computer and are ready to be used.
The Home Media Network Drive comes with five default share folders including photo, backup, music, movies, and public. By default, these folders are set to be publicly accessible by anyone; however, you can use the Home Network Media Storage application to launch the Web interface of the NAS server to further customize the security settings.
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Carmelo Anthony, Mike Woodson downplay shoulder issue
GREENBURGH, N.Y. - Is something wrong with Carmelo Anthony's left shoulder?
It's hard not to wonder when you consider that the Knicks forward has gone 35-for-110 from the floor (31.8 percent), including 2-for-22 from three-point range, in his last four games. But Anthony and coach Mike Woodson insisted yesterday that the shoulder is fine, that it has nothing to do with the fact that it took him 28 shots to score 27 points in the Knicks' 102-95 loss to the Pacers on Sunday in Game 1 of their second-round series.
"My shoulder's all right," said Anthony, who had his left arm pop out of its shoulder socket twice during the Knicks' first-round series against the Celtics.
When asked how it might be affecting Anthony, Woodson said: "If it is, I don't know anything about it. Melo has never been one to complain. He just plays.
"Is he playing the same that he's played? He's having a hell of a season. We're in the second round. I feel good about our chances of getting out of this round with him on the floor. Everybody's got to play better. It's just not Melo. I'm not putting it on Melo's head. This is a team."
It also is a team that would be nowhere without Anthony's shooting skills. He won the NBA scoring title by averaging 28.7 points and nearly 45-percent shooting in the regular season, then averaged 33.0 points in the Knicks' first four playoff games. But in the last three games, beginning with Game 5 of the Boston series -- during which his shoulder first popped when Kevin Garnett tugged on it -- Anthony has averaged 23.3 points.
After Sunday's Game 1 loss, point guard Raymond Felton accused the Pacers of going after Anthony's shoulder. "They're being really physical with Melo," he said. "They're banging him, they're hitting him, they're going at his shoulder."
Anthony, however, said his teammates are just being protective and that he can take whatever punishment the big, brawny Pacers dish out.
"I'm fine," he said. "I'm bruised up, beat up, all year long. As far as those guys targeting the shoulder, I can't worry about that. This is the playoffs.
"I feel like the shots that I take I can make. You might think differently or somebody else might think differently. But I feel like those shots I can make and I've been making. I'm going to keep shooting. I'm going to keep trying to win the basketball game, doing what I've got to do, keep attacking. And we'll be a much better team come tomorrow."
Anthony, who was in foul trouble in Game 1 and took only six free throws, was asked if he's getting respect from the officials.
"I guess I've got to earn my respect," he said. "I don't know. It gets frustrating sometimes out there but I try not to let that negativity sink in. I'm just playing, man. I'm going to keep attacking. My game plan is not going to change. They call it, they do; if not, so be it."


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Albert Paley has been active as an artist for over 40 years. At his studio in Rochester, New York, he employs fifteen full time people. He is the first metal sculptor to receive the coveted Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Institute of Architects, the AIA's highest award to a non-architect. Paley holds an Endowed Chair at the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York and is the recipient of three Honorary Doctorates in Fine Art. Broadly published and an international lecturer, Paley received both his BFA and MFA from the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia.
Commissioned by both public and private corporations, Paley has completed more than 50 site-specific works. Some notable examples are the Portal Gates for the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, Portal Gates for the New York State Senate Chambers in Albany, a 40-ton sculpture for Adobe Systems in San Jose, CA, major entrance rotunda gates for the San Francisco Civic Center Courthouse, and a sculptural relief for Wellington Place, Toronto, Canada.
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In 2010, Albert Paley in the 21st Century was published, and in 2007 PBS aired an Emmy award winning documentary chronicling Paley's construction and installation of The Sentinel for the Rochester Institute of Technology in Rochester, New York.
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Playing the role of Fantine in the upcoming film adaptation of Les Miserables required Anne Hathaway to lose 25 pounds and spend months with a vocal coach so that she could actually sing live during takes. Oh, and then there's the matter of that haircut.
Check out other stars who've shaved their heads
"When I eventually looked in the mirror I just thought I looked like my gay brother," Hathaway said last week at a New York screening of the movie, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Hathaway, who's already getting Oscar buzz (no pun intended) for the role, wore a hairpiece for her September wedding to cover her super-short locks.
Les Miserables opens on Christmas Day. Watch the trailer below:
What do you think of Hathaway's 'do?


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Professor Published in The Journal of Bacteriology
A paper by Augustana's Dr. Paul Egland, Assistant Professor of Biology, has been accepted for publication in The Journal of Bacteriology. The goal of his research is to understand the mechanism and results of communication between bacterial species.
Research Grant Renewed for Augustana
Augustana College has received official notice that the South Dakota BRIN (Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network) grant was renewed by the NIH (National Institutes of Health) for another five years. This summer, the grant is supporting 24 Augustana students doing research.
Argus Leader: Alumna to Teach in Tanzania
Amy (Jorgensen) Caselli, a 2008 Augustana graduate, and her husband Ian are going to spend a year teaching in Tanzania under the guidance of Village Schools International. The nondenominational program sends missionary teachers to small villages in Africa.
Performing and Visual Arts Scholarships Announced
The Department of Performing and Visual Arts at Augustana College recently announced 94 arts scholarships awarded for this coming academic year. The scholarship recipients will begin classes for the 2009 fall semester on Wednesday, September 9.
Alumnus Cited by USD Student Bar Association
Richard Gregerson, Augustana class of 1957, received the 2009 Marshall M. McKusick Award from the University of South Dakota Student Bar Association during the annual meeting of the State Bar of South Dakota in Sioux Falls.
KELO-TV: Yellow Ribbon Grant Pays $18,000
A new grant program will provide thousands of dollars for veterans working toward a degree in higher education. It's called the Yellow Ribbon Program, and at Augustana, those who qualify will receive up to $18,000 dollars for one year of tuition costs.
Alumnus Receives Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching
David Ireland, class of 1981, is the recipient of a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest recognition that a K-12 mathematics or science teacher may receive for outstanding teaching in the United States.
Augustana Joins Program to Help Veterans Attend College
Augustana College once again is reaching out to military veterans looking to advance their education. Brenda Murtha, Director of Financial Aid, said the College has joined the Yellow Ribbon Program, a federal effort to help military veterans attend college.
Alumna Receives Fulbright to Study in Germany
Nora Johnson, a 2005 Augustana graduate and currently a graduate student in physics at Kansas State University, has been awarded a 2009 Fulbright Scholarship to study at the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Garching, Germany.
Four Students Chosen for Sophomore Honors
Four Augustana students have been selected to receive sophomore honors. Sophomore Honors recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement at an early stage of their college career.


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A Japanese-style noodle soup that's full of healthful things: mushrooms, yams, carrots—and even salty, savory, vitamin-and mineral-rich seaweed. For details on the ingredients used in this dish, see "Ingredient Tips" at the end of the recipe.
- Yield
- Makes 4 to 6 servings
- Broth:
- 10 cups Light Vegetable Broth or good-quality canned vegetable broth (such as Swanson)
- 3 cups water
- 1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 1/2 ounces dried shiitake mushrooms, rinsed
- 3/4 cup thinly sliced peeled fresh ginger
- 2 lemongrass stalks, outer dark layers removed, all but bottom 4 inches cut off and discarded
- 2 6-inch strips dried kombu
- 2 teaspoons tamari soy sauce
- 1 teaspoon unseasoned rice vinegar
- Garnishes:
- 2 cups 1/2-inch cubes peeled yams (red-skinned sweet potatoes)
- 5 ounces snow peas, trimmed
- 4 cups 1/2-inch-wide crosswise slices cored Napa cabbage
- 5 ounces slender carrots (preferably assorted colors), peeled, thinly sliced on diagonal
- 10 ounces Japanese-style udon noodles or soba noodles
- 1 cup sliced green onions
- 1/4 cup matchstick-size strips peeled fresh ginger
- 4 to 6 ounces semi-firm tofu, cut into 1/2-inch cubes (optional)
- Sambal oelek
- Tamari soy sauce
- For broth:
- Bring broth and 3 cups water to simmer in large pot over medium heat. Add cilantro, mushrooms, sliced ginger, and lemongrass. Cover; simmer until mushrooms are tender, about 30 minutes. Rinse kombu; add to broth. Simmer 1 minute. Using tongs, remove kombu and mushrooms; discard kombu. Transfer mushrooms to work surface; cut off stems and discard. Cut each mushroom into 3 to 4 strips. Strain broth through fine-mesh strainer into another large pot; discard solids in strainer. Add tamari and rice vinegar to broth. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill mushrooms. Cool, cover, and chill broth.
- For garnishes:
- Bring large pot of salted water to boil. Cook yams until just tender, 4 to 5 minutes. Using skimmer, transfer to medium bowl. Cook snow peas, cabbage, and carrots separately until crisp-tender (snow peas, 30 seconds; cabbage, 1 1/2 minutes; carrots, 2 minutes). Using skimmer, transfer vegetables to separate bowls. Reserve cooking liquid. DO AHEAD: Vegetables can be cooked 2 hours ahead. Let vegetables and liquid stand at room temperature.
- Bring cooking liquid to boil. Sprinkle with salt. Add noodles; cook until tender but still firm to bite, stirring often. Drain; rinse.
- Meanwhile, bring vegetable broth to simmer. Add green onions and ginger strips. Season with salt and pepper.
- Using tongs, divide noodles among bowls. Divide mushrooms, yams, snow peas, cabbage, and carrots among bowls, each in separate mound. Divide tofu, if using, among bowls. Ladle broth over and serve, passing sambal oelek and tamari separately.
Ingredient tips:
Lemongrass, an herb that resembles a green onion, has a mild lemony flavor. Kombu (a.k.a. kelp) is a variety of seaweed thats often used for making stock. It's usually sold dried. Tamari is a dark sauce made from soybeans. Udon is a thick wheat-or corn-based Japanese noodle. Sambal oelek, a spicy chili sauce, is a common ingredient in Indonesian and Chinese cooking. Look for these ingredients in the Asian foods section of some supermarkets and at Asian markets.
Per serving: (Analysis includes tofu.) kcal calories, 6.4 % calories from fat, 2.4 g fat, 0.0 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 62.4 g carbohydrates, 9.4 g dietary fiber, 10.5 g total sugars, 53.0 g net carbohydrates, 12.0 g protein


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The President´s Office
Tore Eriksson, President of CTIF
Tore currently works as a senior executive at the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) in Sweden. He has been the President of CTIF since 2012 and has previously been the chair of the HazMat Commission.
Tore Eriksson was working as an instructor in Fire Behaviour at Sandö College in Sweden in the 1980s and 1990s and has been an instructor in CFBT training hundreds of firefighters in containers and live house burns in Sweden and Valencia, Spain.


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Maths teacher
- Recruiter
- Location
- London/Hertfordshire borders
- Salary
- Posted
- 09 Mar 2017
- Closing date
- 09 Apr 2017
- Industry
- Schools, Secondary teaching, Mathematics
- Hours
- Full time
- Contract
- Permanent
- Listing type
- Job vacancy
An independent school on the London/Herts borders require a Maths Teacher for September 2017. The position would entail teaching Maths up to A level. Assistance with accommodation can be provided.
Essential: Prior experience teaching Maths or applications from strong NQTs or postgraduates would also be warmly received.
Desired: A background in the independent sector would be a bonus, however, this is certainly not essential.
Their last inspection found that "the quality of relationships between staff and pupils, and amongst the pupils themselves is outstanding. Pupils and teachers cherish the ethos of trust which permeates school life." The ethos of the school is one which cultivates an appetite for achievement, a determination to succeed and a lifelong love of learning. Within the classroom, they encourage pupils to strive for the highest academic standards, to seize the many learning opportunities provided and to celebrate their achievements and those of their peers.
A lucrative package is on offer for the successful candidate.
If you would like the opportunity to teach Maths in a dynamic school, please forward your CV asap to firstname.lastname@example.com or please ask for Devra on: 020 7587 5153 for an informal chat.


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Welcome to the Celebrate Children's Book Week Giveaway Hop hosted by Mary at Bookhounds! Every blogger participating in this hop is giving away a children's book or a gift card to purchase one. After entering my giveaway, be sure to hop around to the other participating blogs listed in the linky at the bottom of this post for the chance to win more wonderful children's books!
For my giveaway, I am offering a hardcover copy of a beautiful new children's book called The Knowing Book, by Rebecca Kai Dotlich.
What I love about this book is that it's more than a children's book. It is actually a wonderful gift for a graduate, the newly married, or anyone who is beginning a new chapter in their life. Yes, it's the story about a rabbit who sets off on a journey, but it's much more. It provides life lessons to encourage people to live to the fullest. For example, it tells us:
Open a door. Follow a trail
or a sidewalk or a sign.
Any one of them will
take you somewhere.
You will choose.
Beautifully and simply illustrated by Matthew Cordell, this book is as lovely to look at as it is to read. I hope you'll share this book with your family and then pass it along to someone who needs to hear its inspirational message.
Enter through the Rafflecopter form below. This giveaway is open to U.S. residents only and ends at 11:59 PM EST on May 8, 2016.
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Now hop around to the other blogs in the linky for the chance to win more children's books!
Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book from the publisher, which I am donating and mailing to the winner for this event. This post includes my Amazon affiliate link.


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- Wolf River – One Apple a Pie
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A 'How To' Guide to Picking Your Own Pumpkin at Lapacek's Orchard
I want to start this post out by saying that I'm not trying to be condescending with this post…just trying to make things easier on you. We tend to get crazy busy on the weekend and I am hoping this will clarify a few things for everyone before their visit. We do our best to make your experience fun and fabulous so we've developed a pumpkin picking/weighing/paying process to make everyone's life easier. It's fairly self explanatory but I thought it would be fun to create a picture 'how to' for you before you head out to the orchard. If you have questions, please do not be afraid to ask…we're more than happy to help.
Step 1: Head up to 'the Patch' to find the perfect pumpkin… (make sure it doesn't have a child's name on it before you choose that one…those are our cousins' pumpkins…) or Step 1: Chose a pre-picked pumpkin from the display around the farm. Step 2: Haul your pumpkin to the scale (located just to the left of the entrance to the apple shop). Feel free to use one of the wagons about the orchard or even bring your own. Step 3: Put your pumpkin on the scale to weigh it. Step 4: See what it weighs. Step 5: Look at the Pumpkin Slip next to the scale and determine which price category your pumpkin is in.
Step 6: Mark the box that matches your pumpkin. You can continue to do this for all the pumpkins you choose.
Step 7: Put the pumpkins in your vehicle and just bring the slip of paper to us at the registry. We trust you…we don't need to see your pumpkin…unless you're really excited about your choice and then of course I would love to see it.
Hope you have fun picking pumpkins at the orchard!
Also, lots of winter squash is starting to role in! Don't wait too long to get your favorites an stock up for the upcoming year!


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Natural Dirt Torpedo by Drew Estate
I was given the final product at this year's RTDA in New Orleans. Sitting in the cafeteria with Marvin Samel of Drew Estate, the boys from CI burned through this stout, aromatic torpedo. It sports a dark, espresso-like maduro wrapper leaf from Nicaragua that's rough, yet vein-free. The pre-light aroma will not go unnoticed – it's slightly sweet and hints at a rich, chocolatey smoke waiting. Now picture this, 3 Drew Estate guys and 3 CI guys, sitting at a table, burning Natural Dirt Torpedos. The aroma was incredible, and the flavor hardly played second fiddle. The flavors are deep, rich and enjoyable. Dark hints of mocha swarm my palate with each puff, while a sweet, coffee-like flavor is left behind, lingering, but never overwhelming. From start to finish, I don't remember sitting this cigar down, and I can honestly say I was drawing on it about 75% of the time. With any other cigar, the flavor would have gone as sour as month-old milk. Not once did the flavor turn sour or harsh, rather it remained buttery smooth. (Side note: When you smoke this cigar, I highly recommend you snip the cap on an angle. Just tilt your guillotine when cutting the cigar and then smoke it with the opening pointing down towards your tongue. This enhances the flavor to something special – you'll thank me later.) The strength was perfect for a cigar of this nature, slightly above soft but never really hitting the medium-bodied level. As you probably know, this is not my traditional cup of tea, but it's always nice to stir things up a bit. I've enjoyed the Dirt in the past, because of it's similarity to the Root, but it just wasn't big enough for me. The Dirt Torpedo solves this "problem", an amped up version of the popular Dirt. And that is why you need a Dirt Torpedo. Get dirtier.
It'll be in shortly. Until then, the original Dirt should tide you over. Or, give the Root a go. Either way, you won't be disappointed.


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Merrimack Announces Timing of Third Quarter 2017 Investor Conference Call
The call will cover an update on Merrimack's recent progress as well as a summary of third quarter 2017 financial results. A press release detailing the information to be discussed on the call will be issued the morning of
A listen-only webcast of the call will be available in the Investors section of Merrimack's website, investors.merrimack.com, and a replay of the call will be archived there for six weeks.
About Merrimack
Merrimack is a biopharmaceutical company based in
Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements in this press release about future expectations, plans and prospects for Merrimack constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, as amended. Actual results may differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements. Merrimack anticipates that subsequent events and developments will cause its views to change. However, while Merrimack may elect to update these forward-looking statements at some point in the future, Merrimack specifically disclaims any obligation to do so.
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We love that the Las Vegas Review-Journal has an around-town gossip column, if just because we find it amazing that the author isn't always being shot. Regardless, the paper has a rundown of Wayne Gretzky and his wife's betting limits at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
Hockey icon Wayne Gretzky, under scrutiny after his wife, Janet Jones, was implicated in a sports betting ring, has lost more than $2 million in Las Vegas casinos, an insider said. Gretzky, head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, has a credit line that allows him to bet up to $25,000 per hand but plays well below that level.
The story goes on to explain that Gretzky and his wife typically play $1,000-a-hand blackjack. We love the mental image of Gretzky and Janet Jones sitting at a lonely table deep into the night, with Winstons smoke wafting around them, as some guy — looking like Robert Patrick in "The Sopranos" — tells him how his kids won't return his calls and that he just needs that lucky break, man, my ship's comin' in, I can feel it. Hey, Janet, you ever hang out with Michael Winslow? Love that guy's funny voices.
Gretzkys On List Of Highest Rollers [Las Vegas Review-Journal]


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Dispatch from within the All-Star media swarm
NEW YORK -- My boss told me that attending Monday's player availabilities for media would be, in a word, "fun."
Why wouldn't they be? For 45 minutes, the entire National League All-Star roster was in one room -- the Jackie Robinson Rotunda at Citi Field -- for one reason: to talk to the press.
Turns out that there was a lot of press.
My boss, Jim, had done his best to prepare me for the crush of media that would be converging on the Rotunda. But as I soon discovered, no amount of advice could replace the experience itself.
Jim and I waited in a line of writers, camera people, and TV hosts as we all waited for those double doors to open. And what a line. The Rotunda is directly behind home plate, but the mob of media waiting to enter it stretched all the way down the underground hallway that ran parallel to the baselines.
And then the doors opened. Mayhem ensued as everyone jockeyed for places -- and all I could see at 5-foot-1 were backs of shirts and camera tripods.
Finally, we reached the Rotunda. The players were sitting at tables that were arranged in a circle in the middle of the Rotunda, with curtains separating the outer circle with the inner one.
And it was a mad dash. By the time Jim and I made it into the Rotunda, cameras and lighting, microphones and voice recorders were already staked out at many players' tables. Jim told me to target the players whose tables were less crowded, and I quickly learned how to spot a table where I had a chance.
That usually meant tables with four reporters or fewer. I started to pick up on common courtesy, which meant that reporters allowed one another to pose to a player a threshold of about three questions in a row. After three or four consecutive questions, it was generally time to get aggressive.
I found that pauses -- on the players' end, as well as the reporters' -- were key. They were signals of breaks in the action, and a perfect chance to jump in.
And since four or five people were all trying to jump in at once, I had to act quickly. Saying the player's name and my question quickly and loudly was helpful.
The player availabilities, I learned, was all about being on your feet -- literally and figuratively. While dashing between tables was important in helping to stake your claim, so was thinking outside the box. For example, when my video camera's batteries died in the middle of the availability, I had Jim whip out his iPhone to capture my interviews.
As Yogi Berra said, "Baseball is 90 percent mental and the other half is physical."
The NL player availability had come and gone in what felt like a heartbeat, as Jim had warned me. When it was over, I'd scored interviews with six players: Arizona left-hander Patrick Corbin, Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, Arizona first baseman Paul Goldschmidt, Pirates left-hander Jeff Locke, Reds second baseman Brandon Phillips and Cubs lefty Travis Wood.
And an hour later, the American League players took their places at the very same tables. This time around, I had a stomach full of cheeseburger and a head full of knowledge on how the availabilities worked. I felt much better equipped to handle the mob I'd find as I entered -- but, as it turned out, Jim and I showed up early enough to walk straight in. Forgoing the lines proved to be a huge time-saver; plus, since the entire media wasn't in the Rotunda yet, I could take my pick of players.
So, I was quicker to beeline from table to table and to jump in on an interview any chance I got. Still, I was far from perfect: I wasn't getting good answers when I asked players, "What did you do in the Minor Leagues to help differentiate yourself from everyone else?"
It wasn't a bad question, but in hindsight, Jim and I deduced that the buzzword "differentiate" was making players uneasy. No one wants to seem like a braggart! Instead, I should've asked something to the tune of, "What was one hurdle you had to overcome to get to where you are today?"
I also learned that it was, in general, best to avoid players who played in places with especially big media markets -- like Japan, Boston, and especially, since we were at Citi Field -- New York. Those players, Jim informed me, would be swamped by media who were trying for quotes of their own in cities with multiple newspapers and TV stations.
Even so, I did much better in the AL availability, snagging brief interviews with Blue Jays reliever Steve Delabar, Orioles shortstop J.J. Hardy, Royals reliever Greg Holland, Indians second baseman Jason Kipnis, Rangers closer Joe Nathan, Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia, Twins closer Glen Perkins, White Sox left-hander Chris Sale and Rays utility man Ben Zobrist.
It was clear that I was truly catching on to the entire experience when, toward the end of the AL availability, I began turning to him as I prepared to ask a question and telling him to "Get ready!" with the video camera.
When it comes to these fun, but highly-stressful media availabilities, I'm far from an expert. But it'll sure be easier when I walk into one in Minneapolis next summer.


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2012 might not be the end of the world but it hasn't been kind to these five Canadian newsmakers. We take a look at the biggest losers of the year:
1. The NHL
Photo: NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has been one of the reasons why the NHL remains locked out. (AP photo)
It wasn't long ago that NHL players and NHL owners left fans out in the cold. In 2004, stubborn-headed owners and players forced the cancellation of the NHL season. The Stanley Cup, one of the oldest trophies in professional sports, was not awarded. The previous time that happened was in 1919, when a global flu pandemic swept the globe and North America was still recovering from the First World War.
Just a few short years later, here we are again. The stadiums are empty, the bars quiet, fans' jerseys and face paint still squirreled away. It's clear that the collective bargaining agreement put into force in 2005 was not enough to keep costs down. Or is it because the NHL insists on trying to expand into markets where teams just cannot survive or, worse, cost the league money.
Owning a hockey team in Canada is a licence to print money. It's why the Maple Leafs, valued at a billion dollars, are the most valuable team in the league. It's why money-making Canadian teams foot the bill for teams in the U.S. sun belt. Forbes estimates that more than half the league is losing money while Canadian teams like the Leafs, the Canadiens and the Canucks rake in the cash.
At the other end of the spectrum, there are teams such as the Phoenix Coyotes, a team that has been bankrupt and owned by the league since 2005, or the Tampa Bay Lightning and the Florida Panthers, both money losers.
The league is broken, and it's going to take something drastic to fix it. It might come in the way of revenue sharing, moving teams to stronger hockey markets (we hear Hamilton is dying for a hockey team), or shutting down teams in unsustainable markets.
There are no winners in this lockout. The league had a real chance to make inroads into the U.S. this year. Coming off an improbable championship, the Los Angeles Kings could have made hockey a feasible sport in southern California. The New York Rangers would have been Cup contenders, and the New York Islanders are now in Brooklyn. Meaning the NHL has a bigger footprint in the U.S.'s largest media market. The Minnesota Wild signed two of the most notable American players of their generation in Zach Parise and Ryan Suter.
Instead players are forced to sit out and not do what they do best. Of course there are the fans, who are all but resigned to the fact that the chance of seeing professional hockey dwindles by the day.
— Ron Nurwisah
2. Rob Ford
Photo: Under pressure much? Toronto Mayor Rob Ford has had a tough year. (CP photo)
Welcome back to the list, Mr. Mayor. When you were here this time last year, you were limping after a year of gaffes, many of them self-inflicted.
There was the Mary Walsh incident at your driveway, your tiff with Margaret Atwood, not going to the Pride parade and an open feud with the Toronto Star. All of this left you with a not-so-impressive sounding 37 per cent approval rating. A wiser man or a smarter politician would have changed tack, or tried to play nice with some of his opponents, build bridges and all that. But not you, sir. Not you.
We didn't think it was possible, but 2012 was actually a worse year for you. Early in the year, Karen Stintz, the woman you picked to be your transit boss staged an open revolt and crippled any hope of your pushing through your transit strategy. She has also emerged as a possible mayoral rival when your term comes up in 2014.
There was the incident with Star reporter Daniel Dale at your home in May that revealed again just how dysfunctional your relationship is with Toronto's media.
Your peculiar obsession with football has also got you into a lot of trouble this year. You've been criticized for skipping out on council meetings to coach your high school football team.
There's also some confusion whether you pressured the TTC to divert buses to make sure your football team didn't have to wait in the rain after a game.
Then there's the tiny matter of the conflict-of-interest lawsuit that forced a judge to remove you from office. Legal manoeuvres mean that you're the mayor for now, but it will also mean that you will be in a legal fight well into 2013. We had thought that maybe you could turn things around next year, Mr. Mayor. It certainly doesn't look that way.
— Ron Nurwisah
3. Dalton McGuinty
Photo: Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty and his wife, Terri, the night Premier McGuinty announced his resignation. (CP)
It's an inevitability of every democracy: Leaders and parties lose their lustre. Dalton McGuinty's nine-year reign as premier of Ontario was marked by a certain calmness in leadership style. The press didn't call him Premier Dad for nothing. So when a defeated-looking McGuinty announced in October that he was stepping down as Premier, it took a lot of people by surprise.
After McGuinty and his Liberals managed to survive the last election and claim a minority government, many thought that McGuinty had weathered the storm of scandals and tough economic times that made the 2011 election a difficult one for his party.
McGuinty and the Liberals alienated the province's bureaucrats by freezing their wages, and they angered the province's teachers' unions by ramming through Bill 115, which suspended the unions' rights to strike. The party is still suffering the fallout from both of these decisions.
In the end, however, it was scandal that tripped up the Liberals and gave their opponents so much ammunition in 2012. Throughout the year, the Toronto Star revealed mismanagement and corruption at Ornge, the company responsible for Ontario's emergency helicopter services.
But that wasn't the scandal that would doom McGuinty. During the last days of the 2011 election, the Liberals vowed to scrap a pair of controversial powerplants in two GTA ridings.
The move was seen as opportunistic, not to mention expensive – it ended up costing Ontario taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. That was a scandal that hounded the Liberals and McGuinty for months and eventually led to his resignation.
2013 isn't going to be an easy year for the Ontario Liberals. The eventual winner of a potentially bruising leadership contest will have to deal with the fallout of McGuinty's last move before resigning, proroguing the legislature. They will also have to contend with an emboldened Opposition that will see a rookie leader and a demoralized party as the perfect opponent in an election.
— Ron Nurwisah
4. Bev Oda
Photo: Former minister Bev Oda was a lightning rod for controversy. (CP photo)
The Tory minister with the Roy Orbison sunglasses probably thought that 2012 couldn't possibly be as bad as 2011.
Oda had barely survived the revelation that she directed staff to alter a document in order to deny funding to KAIROS, a faith-based social justice group, and lied about it before a Commons committee.
The "not" affair (for the word Oda inserted into the funding document) was overshadowed in 2012 by an expense scandal that would leave taxpayers enraged and Prime Minister Stephen Harper at the end of his patience.
It started with a Canadian Press story by Jennifer Ditchburn about a trip Oda took to England to attend a conference in London.
Ditchburn revealed that Oda had switched from one swanky hotel to another at more than twice the price. The minister also booked a limousine, at a cost of nearly $1,000 a day, that she would not have needed had she remained at the first hotel.
It was the $16 orange juice, however, that everyone will remember.
At first, it seemed Oda might survive the scandal. She acknowledged that her spending was "unacceptable" and paid back the difference between the hotels and, eventually, the limo as well.
After all, Oda had lived to tell the tale after two previous limo scandals in 2006 and 2008.
But Harper's patience was at an end.
After all, Oda had lived to tell the tale after two previous limo scandals in 2006 and 2008.
But Harper's patience was at an end.
The Tories had campaigned for years on government accountability and fiscal responsibility in the wake of the Liberal sponsorship scandal, and Oda was stepping all over that work.
Harper planned to cut her from cabinet, but she resigned instead. It took just a day for the prime minister to give her job to Julian Fantino.
That wasn't the end of the scandal. Before the ink was dry on Oda's resignation, Sun News reported that she had expensed air purifiers for her office so that she could smoke inside, and The Canadian Press reported that she also claimed as an expense a fine she received for smoking in a hotel room.
But Oda will have plenty of her own money to pay for such expenses in retirement – the Canadian Taxpayers Federation estimates the value of her pension at $800,000.
Regardless, Oda is a loser this year. Her career ended in disgrace and her party was publicly embarrassed.
Luckily for the Tories, voters tend to have short memories.
In November, Oda's former riding of Durham, Ont., elected another Conservative MP.
— Michael Bolen
5. SNC Lavalin
SNC Lavalin, one of Canada's largest companies, was in the headlines this year for all the wrong reasons.
The civil war in Libya that culminated in the death of dictator Muammar Gaddafi may have done more than end a brutal North African dictatorship; it may have started a domino effect that now threatens the reputation — and possibly existence — of Canada's largest construction and engineering firm.
Quebec-based SNC-Lavalin entered 2012 in the midst of an international relations firestorm, and things largely went downhill from there. In fact, the firm had so much bad publicity this year that it would have to have transformed itself into an American investment to have done any worse.
SNC found itself the target of uncomfortable questions when, in November 2011, Cyndy Vanier, a hired consultant for the firm, was arrested in Mexico and charged with leading a plot to help members of Muammar Gaddafi's family sneak into Mexico.
The scandal highlighted SNC-Lavalin's involvement with the Gaddafi regime, a fact that came under increased scrutiny during the NATO war against the North African dictator.
SNC had cultivated relations with the Libyan regime to the point that it was a major contractor for the government. When rebels took SNC-Lavalin's Libyan headquarters last year, the company had been busily building a prison to house those rebels.
As 2011 moved into 2012, the Libya scandal's focus shifted from Cyndy Vanier (who still sits in a Mexican prison awaiting trial) to Riadh Ben Aissa, whom The Globe and Mail described as SNC's point man for Libya.
Swiss authorities arrested Ben Aissa in the spring in connection with a Swiss probe into "suspicion of corrupt practices, fraud and money laundering in connection with dealings conducted in North Africa."
Aissa, who held the title of vice-president of construction at SNC-Lavalin, had resigned from his job several months earlier. His resignation coincided with the discovery of tens of millions of dollars in "inappropriate" payments that appeared not to have been used for the projects to which they were billed.
Investigators reportedly suspected the money of having been used for bribes to land contracts in Libya, Bangladesh and elsewhere. CBC News reported on an unnamed SNC insider who wrote a "poison email" accusing Ben Aissa of funneling hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaddafi.
Estimates about the amount of money involved have fluctuated wildly depending on the source, from a low figure of $32 million to a high of $139 million, recently cited by Swiss authorities.
The allegations could also cause legal trouble for SNC at home, as Canada's Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act makes it illegal to bribe authorities in foreign countries.
The issue of mysterious payments laid low SNC's chief executive officer, Pierre Duhaime, in March. Duhaime, who had strongly argued against an inquiry into construction industry corruption in Quebec, resigned after allegations that he had signed off on payments to unknown agents in Libya.
SNC board chairman Gwyn Morgan said at the time that he did not believe the money Duhaime signed off on ended up being used as bribes. Bribes or not, the payments now had the full attention of Quebec law enforcement agencies, and last month the province's anti-terrorism unit arrested Duhaime. He faces charges of fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and use of false documents.
Nonetheless, like the American investment banks mentioned above, life goes on for the "too big to fail," even when those too-big companies are construction firms. SNC's constant bad publicity didn't stop it from winning a contract to build Ottawa's long-awaited urban light rail, as well as the fourth line of Vancouver's light rail network.
Yet with Vanier, Ben Aissa and Duhaime all facing legal proceedings next year, we don't expect 2013 to be much better for SNC than 2012 was.
And we here at HuffPost sincerely hope the company's experience becomes a valuable cautionary tale that prevents Canadian firms from behaving badly when doing business in the sketchier parts of the world. But with all the contracts Canadian governments have heaped on SNC-Lavalin in recent months, we're not holding our collective breath.
— Daniel Tencer
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It takes something extra special to dethrone Lionel Messi.
That's exactly what Bayern Munich striker Claudio Pizarro did by scoring four goals in a 9-2 rout of Hamburg to knock the Barcelona star into second place in the latest Associated Press global soccer rankings.
The Peruvian striker hadn't scored a league goal since the final day of last season, making his achievement even more spectacular.
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The executive producer of Liz & Dick defended Lindsay Lohan's decision to bail on her Barbara Walters interview and do Leno instead. Kind of:
"You should know that the Jay Leno interview was booked prior to the Barbara Walters incident," Liz & Dick executive producer Larry Thompson tells me. "It's not like she decided not to do Barbara Walters and then she was going to do Jay Leno."
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Ugh, horrible: A Missouri dude was allegedly planning a mass shooting at a Breaking Dawn screening. Luckily, his mom turned him in:
"You'll come across people who will make threats toward people and events, but they don't actually take the substantial steps that he took in planning it out," Ross said. "He got the idea, he purchased the guns, purchased the ammo, went out and practiced using the gun, got his venue, got tickets to the venue, then thought 'Well, maybe if I run out of ammo, I need to pick a different venue.'
"He had taken every step he needed to take except for actually committing the act."
I am never going outside again. [E!]
WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw doused her ex-girlfriend's car in gasoline and then shot it with a gun. [TMZ]
Peter Facinelli was "caught" holding hands with his costar Jaimie Alexander. [ContactMusic]
Here is a description of Ke$ha rehear$ing for the American Mu$ic Award$:
Ke$ha was surrounded by male dancers as she bounced around the stage in sneakers, striped leggings and a torn black T-shirt. She played a giant golden drum, was carried aloft by her dancers and closed the rendition of her new hit "Die Young" by writhing on stage as fireworks rained down overhead.
'Kay. [Yahoo!]
Miley and Liam went out to dinner. [ONTD]
Justin and Selena went to the Four Seasons. [JustJared]
Kendall Jenner Kylie Jenner blah blah blah clothing line blah blah stretch pants blah. [People]
Joe Simpson pleads no contest on his DUI charge. In grimmer news, his hair continues. [TMZ]
A Martin Luther King Jr. movie might be in the works. [Deadline]
Chad Lowe's wife gave birth, and it's a baby!!!!! [Us]
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A Canadian man who was believed to have been in a vegetative state for more than a decade, has been able to tell scientists that he is not in any pain.
It's the first time an uncommunicative, severely brain-injured patient has been able to give answers clinically relevant to their care.
Scott Routley, 39, was asked questions while having his brain activity scanned in an fMRI machine.
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[…]Mr Routley suffered a severe brain injury in a car accident 12 years ago.
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A woman allegedly raped by paedophile broadcaster Stuart Hall when she was 12 has told a jury she did not dream it up.
She said she had a recurrent "nightmare" which would awaken her but it was a memory of what happened to her.
Hall, who was in his 40s at the time, was said to have forced his tongue in her mouth and repeatedly told her "You're special" as he raped her.
He has already pleaded guilty to indecently assaulting her when she was 13.
The former It's A Knockout presenter claims that, despite that assault, he went on to have a consensual sexual relationship with her in the years that followed.
The alleged victim, Girl B, told Preston Crown Court that she chose to keep that assault and the earlier alleged rape a secret as she visited two BBC studios in Manchester where Hall is said to have raped her again up to the age of 15.
She compared her experiences to that of Jodie Foster, who played a gang rape victim in the film The Accused, the court heard.
Girl B had told a therapist: "I remember watching The Accused... I threw up with the violence. Her pleading for it to stop. That has stayed with me."
The court has heard she was working at a stables at the age of 12 when the TV celebrity - a family friend - turned up unannounced on a motorbike.
He took her to a corner of the stables, pushed her up against the wall and then raped her, she said.
Crispin Aylett QC, defending Hall, asked her: "Might you have seen the defendant arrive on a motorcycle and what you are telling us about it now is something that has come to you in a dream?"
She replied: "You are completely incorrect. It is a memory that I dream about and a very, very vivid memory."
Mr Aylett said: "This incident didn't happen at all."
She said: "It absolutely categorically happened."
Explaining the dreams, she said: "It's a recurring dream I have had all my life. In fact, I would change that word to nightmare.
"It's a memory that haunts me. It wakes me up and it has done many times."
Mr Aylett said: "There are times when you dream things that have never happened."
She replied: "I think, if this had happened to you, you know it would have happened."
Hall, 84, has pleaded not guilty to 20 allegations of rape and indecent assault between 1976 and 1981 against two young girls.
He was jailed last year after he pleaded guilty to 14 offences of indecent assault against 13 different girls, aged nine to 17, at the same court and was jailed for 15 months, subsequently increased to 30 months at the Court of Appeal.
Girl B became interested in a career in television and Hall invited her to his then workplace at the BBC studios in Manchester's Piccadilly.
She later visited another studio at Oxford Road in the city.
Hall is said to have raped her at both locations.
Mr Aylett asked the complainant: "Did you ever say to the defendant 'I would rather not have sex today'?"
She said: "No, it was not a relationship. I did not have a choice. I was not asked. I was not invited to comment."
The barrister went on: "Did you ever do anything or say anything to indicate that you did not want to have sex?"
Girl B replied: "I didn't want it to happen. It did happen.
"I felt guilty. I felt responsible. I felt it was my fault."
She conceded that he did not frighten her and was charming. He would tell her that he loved her and how special she was, she said.
Mr Aylett said: "Did you not rather like that?"
She said: "No, absolutely not then. It was hideous."
Mr Aylett said: "Or now?"
She said: "The whole thing was extremely unpleasant. At that age and at that time you have to get through it the best way you can.
"I made that choice. I did not spend time thinking about anything else apart from just getting on with it and, frankly, surviving it."
She added: "I would say he was very successful at getting what he wanted."
She said she did not specifically ask to go to the BBC.
The court heard that she told the police "everyone at the BBC looked up to him (Hall)".
She said the usual pattern of behaviour from Hall was that they would drink champagne in between him going on screen - him drinking the best part of a bottle.
She said: "Stuart drank a lot. The best part of a bottle of champagne would be a glass for most people."
The court heard that Hall and the complainant went on to have intercourse at a flat.
Mr Aylett asked her if it was the case that they "made love" there rather than at the BBC when it was "more hurried".
Girl B replied: "Made love is just insulting... it was not a relationship.
"We did not ever make love. Certainly not from my side."
The jury was told that Hall and the complainant had discussed their sexual contact after it emerged that the defendant had abused other young girls.
She said: "He said 'You are different, it was not the same with any of the others' and I was 'special'.
"I said 'B ut you have done this to these girls'."
Peter Wright QC, prosecuting, asked the witness: "At any time, has he (Hall) ever apologised to you?"
She replied: "No."
Mr Wright continued: "At the time when there has been any discussion between you in terms of what he had done, what was his reaction or demeanour?"
She said: "In recent times, remorseless."
Earlier, Mr Aylett asked the complainant if she intended to make a claim for compensation in relation to Hall's admitted indecent assault on her.
She replied: "I have given absolutely no thought to making a compensation claim. Getting through this is my first thought."
Mr Aylett said: "You are not ruling it out?"
The witness said: "I am not ruling it in. I don't know what the process is."
Mr Aylett repeated: "You are not ruling it out?"
She replied: "I find it very insulting at this moment in time to answer that question.
"It has taken an awful long time to choose to do this."
One of Hall's 13 victims whom he admitted indecently assaulting last year was next to give evidence. She had been a friend of Girl B in their childhood.
It is said she was abused on the same occasion at a dinner party when Hall indecently assaulted Girl B when she was aged 13.
The woman, now in her late 40s, was "stunned" and "helpless" when Hall targeted her in a bath. As he abused her, he would say "You're beautiful and gorgeous" over and over again, the court heard. She said she confided in Girl B the next morning.
She told the court: "I told her what had happened to me and she told me he had gone into her room and did things to her."
She said she spoke to Girl B's mother about it but she was concerned that her husband would kill Hall if he found out, the jury heard.
She said that after the indecent assault Hall sent a "sort of funny poem" to her and a little paperweight with a prickly fish in it.
She said: "He wanted us to remember what had happened and he sent us a note."
The trial continues on Monday.