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Taking on Tourette's: Families Reveal Their Personal Struggles
Four teenagers share struggles with Tourette syndrome in video diaries.
May 22, 2009 -- Nestled deep in the Finger Lakes region of New York State is a summer camp unlike any you've ever seen -- or heard.
Known as "Camp Tic-a-Palooza" -- a sly play on a disorder that has made the children here strangers in their own bodies -- the camp provides a safe haven from the judgment of the outside world. Within minutes, the summer stillness erupts in an odd symphony of grunts, squeaks and screams, accompanied by a grimace and a twitch or two.
Even the strangest behaviors seem common, because all of the campers suffer from Tourette syndrome, a lifelong neurobiological disorder characterized by involuntary vocal and motor symptoms called tics. The National Institutes of Health estimates that one in 1,000 American children suffers from the disorder.
The range of tics -- from constant eye-blinking, and finger tapping to barking and spitting -- even astonishes those with the disorder. "I never knew people could have tics like that. That's really new to me and that's really cool," said Sid, 10, whose own symptoms include sticking out his middle finger.
Amanda Fretwell traveled all the way from Alabama accompanied by her menagerie of vocal tics. "I'll hiss at people, I'll bark at people, I'll roar at people," she explained. Fretwell is one of the four teenagers profiled by ABC News, who documented their daily lives with Tourette in video diaries.
Normally, Fretwell struggles to suppress her tics, but at camp, surrounded by others who share her disorder, she feels liberated. "I haven't ticked this much in a long time," confessed Amanda. "I can tic and not worry about being self-conscious about it."
Like a string of firecrackers, Fretwell's screams set off a chain reaction of tics in the other children, especially 12-year-old Devon, who starts barking uncontrollably. Soon the place swells in a crescendo of ticcing children. One boy, who has Tourette himself, is annoyed by the noise and demands that the screaming stop. His intolerance doesn't sit well with the other children, who feel the sting of Tourette syndrome both physically and socially every day.
Coping With Tourette Isolation
Back in Alabama, Fretwell is isolated by the strangeness of her disorder. While her shrieks even surprise others with TS, she is humiliated by her cursing tic, a rare but well known symptom. Less than 15 percent of all patients have this form, according to the Tourette Syndrome Association. "Just because I have TS doesn't make me a freak. It's just something I do," said Fretwell.
Even when she is interviewing her sister, in one of Fretwell's video diary entries, her raw and even profane tic kicks in.
"Boobies, boobies, boobies" she exclaimed. According to Fretwell, the sexual imagery comes from her mind playing an instantaneous sort of six degrees game.
"There is a person wearing a short skirt in my class and I will think, 'Short skirt,' then, 'Lot of skin showing,' then I'll think 'Naked women,' then 'Whore' will come out," she explained.
According to Dr. Jonathan Mink, a child neurologist, people with socially inappropriate vocal tics are most likely to feel a stronger urge to say them in the worst situations.
"They know this is a setting like a church where I shouldn't do it. It's taboo here, but for some reason that's where it's the worst. 'I've got to do it,'" Mink said.
Fretwell's symptoms sometimes alienate her from her own family. "You cause a lot of problems. Money-wise, family-wise. You're a problem child," her sister said to her.
Trying to Beat the Tics
To overcome her tics, she decided to try a drastic procedure -- Botox. Botox is injected into her vocal cords in an attempt to freeze them, preventing her from being able to do her tic.
Preliminary clinical trials of the treatment have proven successful, with up to 80 percent of patients experiencing a reduction in symptoms, according to a study conducted by the Baylor College of Medicine. Even though Fretwell attempted the procedure six times, the tics immediately came roaring back. They have become so intense that she had to drop out of school this year.
Like others with Tourette, 13-year-old Isabella Constantino has symptoms that mysteriously rise and fall in frequency and severity. Her self-injurious tics can seem so overwhelming that people sometimes overlook the sweet spirit within her. She loves to sing, dance and write poetry and dreams of being an actress.
But each morning begins with a bone-rattling jolt. "Since fourth [grade] I've had this horrible jerking," said Isabella while ticcing. "This is worse has ever been. But I am sort of handling it."
Her seizure-like tics are complicated by obsessive compulsive disorder, a shadow companion of Tourette that occurs in as many as 50 percent of patients. In her case, when something touches her, she has to touch it back.
Between her compulsions and her tics, even simple tasks turn into time consuming ordeals. Breakfast is a staggering undertaking. "My OCD makes me toss a plate up and down. I can't sit in a chair because my knees may hit the table. I had to bang my head as hard as I could against a hard surface. If something didn't feel right I had to punish it by, like, having to hit it," explained Isabella as she continuously stabbed a plate of pancakes.
One morning, Isabella refused to grab a spoon from a drawer, fearing it would trigger her OCD. Her mother insisted that she try, unleashing her compulsion to touch back. First she banged the spoon against the counter, and then slammed the drawer several times before striking herself with the object. Her mother watched in horror, wanting to help but fearing that she would create a crutch for her daughter.
"I feel like I have to make sure she comes out of it an independent kid," Isabella's mother Merry Constantino said after the incident.
Even though there is no known cure for Tourette syndrome, many children take medicine to try and help stabilize their tics. Isabella takes a total of nine pills a day. However, there are many side effects, including massive weight gain, and their effectiveness varies with each child.
Isabella's mother -- desperate for even partial relief of her daughter's symptoms -- has turned to holistic treatments to supplement the medication, including the nicotine patch, allergy shots and a gluten-free diet. So far, the alternative remedies have not been successful.
Though her tics remain as strong as ever, Isabella hasn't let her symptoms hold back her dreams. She pursued her passion for acting and was cast in a small feature film.
"What is so remarkable about [Isabella], is that she's so resilient," commented Mink. "She has some of the worst tics I've ever seen but she hasn't let it get in the way of living a happy and fulfilled life as a teen."
Struggling to Fit In
Dealing with Tourette syndrome within your family and in the privacy of your own home is rough enough, but imagine coping with the disorder in a public school classroom where even the average child struggles not to stand out.
Devon Renoldson, 12, whose symptoms include barking, convulsing and even falling down, has been home-schooled for the past three years, but now she is preparing to return to public school. The night before her first day, a nervous Devon stayed up half the night ticcing. The symptoms continued throughout the morning, as stress is often a trigger for Tourette.
Reluctantly, Devon made her way to school and agreed to give a brief presentation on Tourette to her sixth grade classmates. Unexpectedly, the presentation also became a memorable show-and-tell, as Devon began to bark and convulse uncontrollably.
At lunch, a few of her classmates commended her bravery but also confirmed the biggest fear of every Tourette patient -- social rejection. "It's hard to make friends when people are already making fun of you," said one boy.
By the end of the day, Devon's mood darkened. She vowed never to return to public school again. At home, her tears turned into a tantrum. She even hung up the phone on her father, who called to check in.
Moira Renoldson, Devon's mother, reached the end of her patience. "This is typical [behavior] of Devon. I don't know if it is a symptom of the Tourette or if it's just an 11-year-old attitude," Moira said. That is an agonizing dilemma every Tourette parent must face.
But despite her fears of rejection, Devon returned to school and was able to finish the year with straight As. Overcoming her fear of public speaking, she is now a youth ambassador for the Tourette Syndrome Association where she helps educate other kids about the disorder.
"People think I'm different, but I'm not. I'm just a normal kid. I wish [others would] realize that," said Devon.
TS Kid: 'I'm So Emotionally Tired'
On an alpaca farm in rural New York, the body of a young teenager never stops moving. Despite her more subtle symptoms, 14-year-old Nikki Blowers' rebellious body exhausts her, exacting a punishing emotional toll.
"I can't behave as normal kid. I can't ride my bike, go outside, I'm so emotionally tired," cried Nikki in a video diary. For Nikki Blowers' family, these emotional episodes follow a familiar path -- euphoria followed by frustration, which sometimes end in a meltdown. These episodes are the emotional counterparts to motor and vocal tics.
Nikki claims she has no recollection of these rage episodes where she snaps at her parents, yells at her brother and rolls around on the floor. But for her family, they are hard to forget.
"It's really tough some days having a TS kid," said Nikki's mom, Mary Blowers. "It's an emotional rollercoaster and some days you think, 'I just can't take it anymore.' You just want to walk away."
"A good percentage of kids with Tourette have rage episodes, like a toddler's temper tantrums when something triggers this uncontrollable anger that lasts for 20 to 40 minutes and it's over," said Mink, who treats Nikki. "It's not willful or intentional or calculated behavior. Most of these kids feel remorseful."
Nikki has been able to work through her tantrums, becoming an accomplished harpist and honor student. She has also decided to try and launch her own cooking show.
"If you set your mind to it, and if you concentrate, you can do anything you want. And that's one thing that I believe in," said the teen entrepreneur.
Tourette Teens: Just Like Us
The one thing the four brave girls who lifted the veil on living with Tourette syndrome want you to know is if you look past the screaming, barking, swearing, and twitching and into their souls, you'll meet some remarkable children that, at their core, are just like everyone else.
Fortunately for those with Tourette syndrome, studies suggest that about one-third will outgrow their tics completely and another one-third will have them severely diminished to the point where they no longer seek treatment, Mink said. The remainder will still have to cope with the symptoms.
For more information on Tourette Syndrome, please contact the national Tourette Syndrome Association.


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The 3DS was apparently already cracked within 24 hours of release, and it's now supposedly running piracy devices. Isn't Nintendo going to do anything? You betcha.
Back in July 2010, THQ's Ian Curran said, "What excites me even more [than 3DS games] is that there's technology built in that device to really combat piracy...I actually asked Nintendo to explain the technology and they said it's very difficult to do so because it's so sophisticated."
Fast-forward to 2011. Japanese game retailer Enterking issued a notice that it would not be buying back any 3DS units that were used with a R4-type devices - specifically "illegal or unauthorized devices". The notice states that there seems to be a record of such use left on the system. This would be in line with the rumors that the 3DS keeps a log of flash cart use, which then can be checked.
The Nintendo terms of agreement clearly state that it is possible that the 3DS might not be able to boot up after firmware updates if unapproved or illegal devices are used in the 3DS. You have been warned!

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Dialogue With Clifford Paiva, Principal Analyst, There are a number (at least) two ark-like anomalies on Mount Ararat. The initial story on the CIA and satellite photos of an ark-like anomaly (the "Taylor Site")is described on Noahsark1 and Noahsark4.html. Apparently, the problem with that site is that it appears to be too big! The McGivern expedition which is highlighted on the prior page is an entirely different site than the "Taylor" site. Clifford Paiva, a physicist and former image specialist for the U.S. Navy, analysed the initial declassified photos of the anomaly.Mr. Paiva now works in private industry for BSM Associates, a research company he co-founded and is living in Southern California with his wife and two children. Recently, Mr. Paiva provided us with additional information on the Mount Ararat anomaly.
Initial IKONOS Photos
Clifford Paiva. Retired senior physicist and satellite-imagery analyst for the U.S. Navy's Naval Surface Warfare Center
|See Also Dr. Paiva's Video Analysis of Huge Unknown Aquatic Creatures in San Francisco Bay Shot in January 2004
Ahmet anomaly negative,Copyright Robin Simmons/George Adams .Clifford Paiva This is so...however "God said it, I believe it...and this is good enough for me..." is not very useful in convincing people of the untenable premises of evolution...and that in fact the experimental sciences support the Biblical accounts and the Creation model. And in this context I disagree with you respectively, that indeed the faith of Christians will in fact be very much strengthened with the appearance of Noah's Ark. On the Ark Anomalies Included is SCION Image Processing and PhotoShop results for the Ahmet ark-like object. In this connection the first included image is a negative of the original 1989 photo. This is included to display the difference between the Ark Anomaly and Ahmet's photo of another, more likely candidate...and to which McGivern's expedition is heading. Please notice the correct 6:1 length-to-width proportion ratio of the Ahmet Object; and it matches nicely with the Hagopian eyewitness account (front and side views enclosed).See Story Below.I have also included the Mt. Ararat Anomaly's front view...from the 1949 CIA observation.
.... Ahmet Site, Ararat Anomaly
....... Ararat Anomaly
Sightings of the Ark of NOAH
Throughout antiquities and into modern times, individuals and groups of individuals have claimed to have sighted and or been up close and touched the Ark of Noah.Yet substantiation of these claims in the form of hard evidence remains elusive, but the reports continue. Of the modern day sightings, a few stand out. One of the more intriguing eyewitness accounts of an encounter with the Ark of Noah, comes from an Armenian by the name of George Hagopian. Here is an excerpt of an interview conducted with Mr. Hagopian in 1970. Hagopian Drawing-Side View. He was eight years old, Hagopian said, and it was in the year 1908 when his uncle took him up Ararat, past Ahora Gorge, passing the grave of St. Jacob on the way. As the mountain grew more precipitous his uncle carried him on his shoulders until they came to something that looked like a great ship located on a rock ledge over a cliff and partially covered by snow. It had flat openings like windows along the top and a hole in the roof. Hagopian had first thought it was a house made of stone but when his uncle showed him the outline of planks and told him it was made of wood he realized it was the Ark, just like other people had described it to him. His uncle boosted him up from a rock pile to reach the Ark roof telling him not to be afraid, "because it is a holy ship . . ." (and) "the animals and people are not here now. They have all gone away." Hagopian climbed on the roof and knelt down and kissed the surface of the roof which was flat and easy to stand on. While they stood alongside the Ark his uncle shot into the side of it but the bullets bounced off as if it were made of stone. He then tried to cut off a piece of the wood with a sharp knife and was equally unsuccessful. On this first visit to the Ark they spent two hours there looking at it and eating some of their provisions. When Hagopian returned to his village eager to tell the other boys about his adventure they replied, rather anticlimactically, "Yes, we saw that Ark too." Hagopian died in 1972. Since he was unable to read maps with any accuracy he was unable to pinpoint on a map of the mountain where it was that he had seen and climbed on the Ark. He consistently told his interrogators that if he could get back to Mount Ararat he could lead a party to the Ark. Although his testimony was successfully approved by voice-stress analysis, it is not unusual that reports such as this, from a single person, even if firsthand, have been discredited because of lack of corroboratory evidence from others. But there exists another piece of corroboration connected with Lieutenant (now Captain) Schwinghammer's sighting of a boatlike object on Mount Ararat as observed from an aircraft belonging to the 42Sth Tactical Observation Squadron. In 1983 Schwinghammer had asked an artist friend to draw, under his direction, a sketch of what he had seen before it became too blurred in his memory. Elfred Lee, on his part, while interrogating Hagopian, had drawn a detailed sketch of the reported ship on the mountain which was done in Hagopian's presence and under his direction. Neither Schwinghammer nor Hagopian knew of the other's existence nor of any sketch made of Hagopian's "Ark." Hagopian Drawing-Front View. Captain Schwinghammer had been asked by the author to send a copy of his sketch and, after doing so, Schwinghammer received in the mail almost at the same time and without having requested it the picture of the Lee-Hagopian version. To Schwinghammer's astonishment the two sketches were essentially the same: the Ark was in the same position on the mountain and both pictures showed a rectangular boat or barge on a ledge. When Schwinghammer saw the drawing he said, "That looks just like what I saw. The object had the same angle on the mountain and the position was the same. The only difference is that I did not notice any 'windows' along the top." This is understandable because of the aircraft's speed and altitude and also because the object was partially covered by snow. A number of American pilots saw a shiplike construction protruding from the side of Mount Ararat in the late spring or summer of 1960. These pilots were based at Adana, Turkey, with the 428th Tactical Flight Squadron under the NATO Military Assistance Pact in effect at that time. The pilots had been told about the Ark by the Turkish liaison pilot assigned to them and on several occasions had been guided past Mount Ararat on routine observation flights. These pilots did not have time to make any successful photographs because of their haste to make a quick turn around the mountain before becoming an object of unusual interest by Russian observers on the USSR side of the border. Captain (then Second Lieutenant) Gregor Schwinghammer, now a commercial pilot, was interviewed by the author in 1981 concerning a bargelike object he had seen on Mount Ararat as described in Doomsday, 1999 A.D. He stated that the Turkish liaison officer had accompanied him and another pilot in a counterclockwise swing around Mount Ararat in the course of which they saw "an enormous boxcar or rectangular barge visible in a gully high on the mountain." Captain Schwinghammer specified that it seemed to be banked, indicating that it was not stationary but movable and somehow had become caught there as it slid down the mountain. He remembered that he had later heard at the base club that some pictures had been taken of this object, reputedly by the U-2 pilots prior to the unexpectedly sudden ending of the U-2 program when Gary Powers was brought down over the USSR and captured by Soviet air action. The author, after returning from his own investigative trip to the Ararat area in August 1985, again interviewed Captain Schwinghammer and other former pilots of the 428th Tactical Flight Squadron to ascertain whether some of his memories of the icebound ship on Ararat coincided with other subsequent sightings. Question: What did the other pilots think about what you and they had seen? "We used to talk about it in the bar after flying. Some of the pilots thought it was the Ark and others didn't know what to think. I was not convinced about that but I knew that I had seen a large rectangular building like a barge or a ship high up on the mountain." How far away from the object were you when you saw it? "We were coming down from 5000 feet. I think we were at more like 3000 feet when we sighted it. I remember that we were doing 380 knots. The Turkish liaison pilot said to us, "That's where Noah's Ark is supposed to be. Look! You can see it now!" I estimate that I saw it at a 45° angle. It appeared to be hanging at 45° or 30° degrees down the mountain." Did you take any photographs of it? "No. We were in too much of a hurry. We had two hours of fuel; it took us forty-five minutes to get there in the F-100. We had time enough to make just one pass around the mountain and return. We had to be very careful. The Russians had a radar installation right on the border. A C-130 had recently been shot down. The pilot was a guy named Dick Skiddip." From your memory, where was the object on the mountain ? "You can tell approximately from the map. The point where I place the Ark we saw was about 4000 feet from the top on the southeast slope, perhaps four o'clock from due north." Do you think it would still be there? "I think most of the time it is covered with ice and snow and that we just saw it at a time when part of it was protruding from the snow. I know that I saw a rectangular structure that looked like a ship. It was at a period in time or history and we were there at that time. Other pilots in the squadron remember having taken part in flights over Ararat or having heard that other pilots had seen a shiplike object on the mountain. " Source:whateveristrue.com, Portions are excerpts from the book " The Lost Ship of Noah" by Charles Berlitz
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(CNN) -- Five more states reported widespread flu activity during the second week of January, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, bringing the total to 40 states.
Only 10 states are not yet reporting widespread activity: Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Hawaii, Iowa, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Hampshire, South Carolina and Vermont.
"Widespread" means that more than 50% of geographic regions in a state -- counties, for example -- are reporting flu activity. The designation addresses the spread of the flu, not its severity.
However, the number of states experiencing a high proportion of outpatient visits to health care providers for flulike illnesses is 14 -- Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia -- down from 20 in the previous week.
Ten children died from complications of the flu last week, bringing the pediatric death total for the season to 20. The CDC does not have data on the number of adult flu deaths. Experts estimate the number of flu-related deaths range from as low as 3,000 to as high as 49,000 people each year.
Typically, the flu season begins in the winter months and peaks in January or February, according to the CDC. But it's way too early to know if flu has peaked yet this year.
"As typical of a flu season, some areas are being harder hit than other areas," said CDC spokesman Tom Skinner.
H5N1 kills first person in North America
One of those areas is California. Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director for California's Center for Infectious Diseases, said 45 people under the age of 65 have died during the 2013-2014 flu season, which began in September. This includes two deaths in children.
"An additional 50 deaths are currently being investigated and are likely to be confirmed next week," Chavez said.
He said that a year ago, only five deaths had been reported at this time; there were only 106 flu deaths during the entire 2012-2013 flu season.
"H1N1 is the predominant virus circulating, and we do know when H1N1 predominates, there appears to be more fatalities," Chavez said. "We seem to have a predominance of a more deadly strain."
H1N1 is the same virus that caused a pandemic in 2009, Dr. Michael Jhung, a medical officer in the CDC's flu division, has said. It was dubbed swine flu because it was being seen for the first time in humans.
Since then, "it's established itself very nicely in the human population," Jhung said. H1N1 has been seen every season since 2009 in people and is no longer referred to as swine flu. The strain is so common that it was included in this year's vaccination, he said.
Adult flu deaths are not required to be reported to the CDC, but the government agency must be notified of any flu deaths in children. However, after H1N1 first surfaced, California health officials determined this was not enough.
Chavez said the lesson learned then was that "we needed a better way to determine the impact [of flu] on the community. So we in California made the decision to make deaths due to influenza in individuals under 65 mandatory to report."
What consumers need to know is that it's not too late to take steps to protect yourself from getting the flu, said Dr. Susan Rehm, medical director for the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases.
"People who are young and healthy should be aware that they may get the flu and it could be serious," Rehm said. One of the reasons people often say they don't get the flu vaccine is because they don't get sick. That excuse doesn't hold up, she said.
In addition to getting the vaccine, which can prevent flu -- or at least lessen symptoms, washing your hands frequently and staying home when you're sick can help you get through the flu season. Doctors recommend using antivirals within the first two days of experiencing any flulike symptoms.
Does cold weather cause colds?
CNN's Ashley Hayes contributed to this story.


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How Long Should You Keep Tax Records?
Each person's tax situation is different. For some people, filing their tax return is a simple process of transferring a few basic bits of personal information to the single-page form 1040EZ. For others, keeping records and preparing tax returns is a complex and ongoing necessity. But no matter who you are, you need to keep your tax returns and good records that support your claims of income and deductions.
Consult your tax consultant for specific advice on what records to keep. The following is excerpted from IRS publication 552 regarding how long you should keep tax records:
How Long To Keep Records
You must keep your records as long as they may be needed for the administration of any provision of the Internal Revenue Code. Generally, this means you must keep records that support items shown on your return until the period of limitations for that return runs out.
The period of limitations is the period of time in which you can amend your return to claim a credit or refund or the IRS can assess additional tax. Table 3 contains the periods of limitations that apply to income tax returns. Unless otherwise stated, the years refer to the period beginning after the return was filed. Returns filed before the due date are treated as being filed on the due date.
Period of Limitations
|IF you...
|THEN the period is...
|Owe additional tax and (2), (3), and (4) do not apply to you
|3 years
|Do not report income that you should and it is more than 25% of the gross income shown on your return
|6 years
|File a fraudulent return
|No limit
|Do not file a return
|No limit
|File a claim for credit or refund after you filed your return
|Later of 3 years or 2 years after tax was paid.
|File a claim for a loss from worthless securities
|7 years
Keep records relating to property until the period of limitations expires for the year in which you dispose of the property in a taxable disposition. You must keep these records to figure your basis for computing gain or loss when you sell or otherwise dispose of the property.
Generally, if you received property in a nontaxable exchange, your basis in that property is the same as the basis of the property you gave up. You must keep the records on the old property, as well as the new property, until the period of limitations expires for the year in which you dispose of the new property in a taxable disposition.
Keeping records for nontax purposes
When your records are no longer needed for tax purposes, do not discard them until you check to see if they should be kept longer for other purposes. Your insurance company or creditors may require you to keep certain records longer than the IRS does.


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Rayman: Origins Coming To PC, DRM Free
Well here's a thing. The absolutely superb platformer, Rayman: Origins, is making its way from console to the PC on the 30th March. Michael "Beyond Good & Evil" Ancel returned to the 2D side-scroller he created, and the result is genuinely splendid. You can pre-order it now at the UbiShop for £20, which is half the price it launched at on 360 and PS3 (although the price most places are selling it at by now). Of course, the big question is: Woah, Ubi, what DRM will it come with? We've asked, can tell you that the digital download versions will only have a one-time activation, and retail copies, according to Ubi, will have "no DRM at all".
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It has been reported that the 13 year-long lawsuit by Linda Shelton in an effort to gain funds by accusing Danny Shelton of writing the book "Ten Commandments Twice Removed" while he was married to her--has been won by Danny Shelton.
The Judge gave a strong order that when Danny wrote this book, it was after the divorce.
We praise the Lord for His goodness to Danny Shelton and to 3ABN.
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Disease outbreaks caused by foodborne organisms frequent the news. Each year, approximately one sixth of the population has mild to severe illnesses caused by pathogens in food. How do these organisms cause disease? Read more
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Hospice & HomeCare of Reno County began in September 1981 as Hospice of Reno County, an all-volunteer organization located in the basement of the Hutchinson Clinic. Our founders, Dr. David and JoAnn Bouda, believed it was important to offer care to terminally ill patients based on a philosophy followed in the hospices of France - to provide comfort and preserve dignity when conventional methods fail.
In 1985, the agency became an affiliate of Health Care, Inc., the umbrella corporation of what is now Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. We earned certification as a home health agency and expanded our services to meet both the homecare and hospice needs of Reno County residents.
As a non-profit organization, fundraising is critical to support the services we provide. In 1987 we initiated our first "Tree of Remembering" campaign. Years later it evolved into our "Remember Me Tree" campaign and continues to be a major source of funding for the organization today.
In 1989 we earned Medicare certification and in 1991 expanded our services to include Rice County and a 30-mile radius outside of Hutchinson.
In 1993 we saw a need to develop programs specifically for grieving children. Kids Kamp and Kids Klub have helped area children learn to cope and accept terminal illness and death ever since.
In 1996 we opened the Hospice Residential Care Center on the third floor of Hutchinson Regional, offering care to terminally ill patients who did not have the benefit of a caregiver at home. In the fall of 2002 we moved and expanded these services with the opening of Hospice House, an inpatient homelike setting, that provides end-of-life care for terminally ill patients.
Today, our service area encompasses a 50-mile radius outside Hutchinson. With offices in Hutchinson and McPherson, we are conveniently located and remain the only not-for-profit hospice and homecare organization in the area.


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Litchfield: Stop & Shop developers heading back to land use board with amended project plans
LITCHFIELD >> Stop & Shop representatives are expected to come before Inland-Wetlands in a public hearing Wednesday, Jan. 9 with a revised expansion plan for the Route 202 grocery store. The hearing will be held at the Litchfield Firehouse at 7 p.m.
Meanwhile, PLAN Litchfield, an opposition group that sees a new proposed Stop & Shop as detrimental to the town's rural character, is continuing its efforts to stop the project, and will hold a fundraiser with a raffle at Ditto/ Bohemian Pizza on Friday from 8:30 p.m. until closing.
Proceeds will help PLAN continue its fight against Stop & Shop's application that is currently before the Inland & Wetlands Commission.
Stop & Shop resubmitted its expansion plans in December to the commission. The project calls for construction of a new supermarket at the back of the Village Green shopping center -- plans whose first incarnation prompted the formation of an opposition group that unsuccessfully attempted a land-use maneuver that might have prevented the development.
When the plans were first presented by property owner Mark Greenberg earlier this year, some residents and critics formed PLAN Litchfield, and argued that the existing Stop & Shop on West Street (Route 202) was big enough, and that a new, 39,000 square-foot store wasn't in keeping with the town's defining beauty and historic integrity.
After the town's land-use staff identified compliance issues with the proposal for the new supermarket, the plans were withdrawn, and developers said they would address the concerns. Meanwhile, PLAN proposed an amendment to the Planning and Zoning Commission that would have significantly limited the size of new retail/commercial buildings.
If the amendment had been adopted and taken effect before the Stop & Shop plans were re-filed, it would have effectively meant no new supermarket. Instead, the land-use panel told PLAN that it would have to pay nearly $10,000 in fees for its amendment to be reviewed, a move that one prominent Connecticut land-use attorney called unusual. PLAN decided to withdraw its request for the proposed amendment.
According to the new site plans filed this week, the proposed project would redevelop a portion of the shopping center and create a new grocery store of approximately 38,000 square feet, without having as great of an impact on other buildings in the plaza that the first proposal.
Instead, the new building would be located entirely on land now occupied by a building at the rear of the plaza, and measures would be taken to accommodate existing tenants in other buildings in the village-like plaza.
For example, a 2,500- square-foot addition would be added to "Building B" to enable relocation of some existing tenants in the shopping center, according to plans. The addition would be located in areas that are currently paved and not located in any wetland or watercourse upland review areas.
After completion of the redevelopment project, the two existing buildings that would remain and the new grocery store would have a building footprint of about 55,000 square feet altogether and a total gross floor area of about 61,000 square feet.
In addition, the northerly of the two existing curb cuts on Commons Drive would be closed. The elimination of Building D and the closure of this curb cut will enable the site circulation issues, and parking and landscaping in this area of the shopping center would be significantly improved, according to site plans.
The front part of the shopping center closer to Route 202 would not be changed or modified and a total of 369 parking spaces would be located in the entire shopping center after project completion.
"The proposed improvements to the shopping center will not require significant modifications to the existing storm water detention basins located on the property," according to the site plans.
The new plans say there are several opportunities to improve the existing storm water drainage conditions in the shopping center.
"Stop and Shop believes that this application is superior to the earlier application, and it has specifically addressed the comments that were made during the earlier proceeding," according to site plans.
The revised plans have no structures, impervious surfaces or retaining walls located in the area to the rear of the new building. Other than a small set of stairs providing egress from an emergency exit and a portion of a small retaining wall, no impervious surfaces are proposed in the area to the east of the new building, facing an existing watercourse.
A portion of the proposed building would be located within the wetland and watercourse upland review areas, similar to the existing conditions that include buildings and paved parking areas in the upland review areas.
There will be an overall reduction of paved surfaces located in the upland review areas of the eastern part of the property. Parking areas to the side and rear of the existing Building E are now located in the upland review area.
Some of the paved parking area will be removed and replaced with the new building among other improvements, according to site plans.
The original proposal submitted by Greenberg called for a 39,000- square-foot Stop & Shop in the Village Green Plaza to replace the nearby 19,000-square-foot store, along with other significant changes to the plaza.
The original proposed prompted PLAN to protest at land-use meetings, and then to propose a limit of 12,000 square feet for new retail buildings. The group found the land-use panel's demand for nearly $10,000 in review fees inappropriate and unfair, and a Connecticut land-use expert asked by The Litchfield County Times to assess the issue also labeled the fee request "unusual" given the circumstances at the time.
Reach Daniela Forte at 860-489-3121, ext. 345.


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Paul Joseph Watson
Prison Planet
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
The largest naval deployment since 1991 is unfolding as no less than three U.S. warships make their way towards the Persian Gulf in what observers are calling an "unprecedented" build-up, while Kuwait has activated its highest war alert in anticipation of a potential attack on Iran.
According to reports, the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the USS Ronald Reagan, and the USS Iwo Jima are steaming towards Middle East waters to reinforce the USS Abraham Lincoln and the USS Peleliu which are already in the region.
They will be joined by a British Royal Navy carrier battle group and a French nuclear hunter-killer submarine.
The maneuvers represent the largest movement of warships into the region since the 1991 Gulf War and come just a week after Operation Brimstone, a drill "which saw more than a dozen warships from US, British and French naval forces conduct war games in the Atlantic Ocean in preparation for a possible confrontation with Iran," reports Press TV.
The deployment has fueled rumors that Georgia's sneak attack on Russia in South Ossetia, backed by the U.S. and Israel, was a shot across the bow to warn Russia against interfering in a strike on Iran which could be imminent.
Kuwait has activated its highest priority Emergency War Plan in response to the naval deployment.
"Kuwait was caught by surprise last time, when Iraqi troops invaded the small emirate and routed the Kuwaiti army in just a few hours," a former US diplomat to Kuwait told the Middle East Times.
The Israeli news source Debka File speculates that the U.S. naval deployment could have five alternate implications.
1. The US, aided also by France, Britain and Canada, is finalizing preparations for a partial naval blockade to deny Iran imports of benzene and other refined oil products. This action would indicate that the Bush administration had thrown in the towel on stiff United Nations sanctions and decided to take matters in its own hands.
2. Iran, which imports 40 percent of its refined fuel products from Gulf neighbors, will retaliate for the embargo by shutting the Strait of Hormuz oil route chokepoint, in which case the US naval and air force stand ready to reopen the Strait and fight back any Iranian attempt to break through the blockade.
3. Washington is deploying forces as back-up for a possible Israeli military attack on Iran's nuclear installations.
4. A potential rush of events in which a US-led blockade, Israeli attack and Iranian reprisals pile up in a very short time and precipitate a major military crisis.
5. While a massive deployment of this nature calls for long planning, its occurrence at this time cannot be divorced from the flare-up of the Caucasian war between Russia and Georgia. While Russia has strengthened its stake in Caspian oil resources by its overwhelming military intervention against Georgia, the Americans are investing might in defending the primary Persian Gulf oil sources of the West and the Far East.
This article was posted: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 at 7:45 am


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The 2017 BAMS List: Showbams covered many excellent bands, musicians and DJs throughout 2017 — the following are our favorite performances of the year.
Our favorite performances from 2017
December 29, 2017 by The Bam Team Leave a Comment
Filed Under: Best of 2017, Editor's Picks, Featured Tagged With: 21 Savage, Action Bronson, AFI, Air, Alice Cooper, Alina Baraz, Amber Mark Beach Slang, Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, Animal Collective, Annenberg Space for Photography, Apogee Studio, Atlas Genius, BADBADNOTGOOD, Belle and Sebastian, Best of 2017, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Bleachers, Blonde Redhead, Bob Moses, Broken Social Scene, Cage the Elephant, Car Seat Headrest, Cate le Bon, Chris Robinson, Cigarettes After Sex, Circles Around the Sun, City of Caterpillar, Claude VonStroke, Coachella, Coachella 2017, Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Coldplay, Con Brio, Conor Oberst, Courtney Barnett, Courtney Barnett & Kurt Vile, Crystal Castles, Daniel Caesar, Dawes, Day N Night Fest, Day N Night Fest 2017, Day N Night Festival, Day N Night Festival 2017, Dead Meadow, Deafheaven, Deep Purple, Diet Cig, DIIV, Dirty Dozen Brass Band, Dr. Dog, Dr. Octagon, DREAMCAR, Duke Dumont, Eagles of Death Metal, Electric Guest, Emancipator, Emily King, Empire of the Sun, Fox Theater Oakland, Foxygen, Future Islands, Gabriel Garzón-Montano, Gatecreeper, Girl Talk, Gone Is Gone, Gorillaz, Great American Music Hall, Greek Theatre, Greek Theatre Berkeley, Grizzly Bear, Gucci Mane, Hamilton Leithauser, Hazel English, Hinds, Hiss Golden Messenger, How to Dress Well, Iggy Pop, Isaiah Rashad, J.I.D., Jack Johnson, Jagwar Ma, Jamestown Revival, Jamie Isaac, Jay 305, Jay Som, Jen Cloher, Jessica Hernandez & The Deltas, Jessie Ware, Jim James, Jr. Jr., Julie Byrne, Julien Baker, Justice, k.flay, Karen Elson, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Kaytranada, Kelis, Kendrick Lamar, Khalid, Khruangbin, Kilo Kish, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, Kurt Vile, L.A. Witch, La Femme, LANY, Lauv, Lettuce, Levi's Stadium, Lil Yachty, Little Dragon, Lo Moon, Lord Huron, Lorde, Mayan Theater, Miguel, Miike Snow, Milky Chance, Minus the Bear, Mister Heavenly, MO, Moderat, Music Festival Outside Lands Music Festival 2017, Neon Indian, Nicki Bluhm, No Doubt, Noise Pop, Noise Pop 2017, Noise Pop 25, Noise Pop Festival, Norah Jones, North Mississippi Allstars, NVO, Oh Sees, OK Go, Once and Future Band, Outside Lands, Outside Lands 2017, Outside Lands Music Festival, Pallbearer, Passion Pit, Peaches, Perfume Genius, Petit Biscuit, Phoebe Bridgers, Phono Del Sol, Phono del Sol 2017, Phono del Sol Music Festival 2017, Playboi Carti, Pond, Porcelain Raft, Potrero del Sol Park, PRAYERS, Real Estate, Royal Blood, Run The Jewels, Ryan Adams, Sampha, Schoolboy Q, serpentwithfeet, Sheer Mag, Shrine Expo Hall, Sigur Ros, Silversun Pickups, Sleep, Sleigh Bells, Sofi Tukker, Solange, Spiritualized, Spoon, Styles P, Sufjan Stevens, Sunflower Beam, Talib Kweli, Tank and the Bangas, Tash Sultana, Tei Shi, Temples, Tennis, Tennyson, The Accidentals, The Avalanches, The Band Perry, The Coathangers, The Crystal Method, The Drums, The Fillmore, The Hip Replacements, The Masonic, The National, The Palms, The Radio Dept., The Revivalists, The War on Drugs, The xx, Thou, Thundercat, Tobacco, Tool, Touché Amoré, Tove Lo, Travis Scott, Twin Peaks, Ty Segall, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Vagabon, Vance Joy, Vic Mensa, Warpaint, Weezer, White Fence, Woods, YG, Young The Giant
Lo Moon are officially LA's newest buzz band after their sold-out show at the Troubadour
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Maddon opts for Farnsworth to start eighth inning
TORONTO -- Joel Peralta has been the Rays' eighth-inning guy out of the bullpen for the last several seasons, but Joe Maddon elected to use Kyle Farnsworth to start the eighth in Friday night's 8-5 win over the Blue Jays.
The Rays had just taken a 6-4 lead in the top of the eighth when Farnsworth took over for starter David Price to pitch to Edwin Encarnacion. Maddon explained the move.
"I want to try and get Farnsworth more involved and I wanted him on that one hitter," Maddon said. "He was on Encarnacion, period. Even if he had gotten him out, that was it. So I wanted him to go in there to try and shorten, if you look at Peralta's body of work to this point, it's been rather large. So if I can shorten his body of work in a good matchup, I'm going to try and do that sometimes. And there it was. And Encarnacion versus Farnsworth is a good matchup, according to how we do things."
Farnsworth ended up walking Encarnacion and Peralta came in to record the next three outs.
Farnsworth "got ahead and then he walked him, so what," Maddon said. "But he did make some nice pitches on him. Joel was going to come in for the next hitter regardless."
Peralta has already appeared in 50 games this season.
"I don't want to run him into the ground," Maddon said. "We expect to play a lot longer, beyond the last game of the regular season. I've got to take care of him, he's so valuable. That was the perfect opportunity to do it."
Peralta is behind whatever his manager wants to do.
"I'm totally OK with it, I'm OK with any decision they make with the game and me," Peralta said. "I have nothing to complain about. I kind of like Farnsworth to have more games, because I think the more he pitches the better he's going to be and we need all the help we can get."
In Saturday's 4-3 win over the Blue Jays, Maddon let lefty Alex Torres, who had already thrown two scoreless innings, start the eighth, and he walked righties Jose Bautista and Encarnacion. Peralta replaced him and walked Adam Lind before escaping the jam by retiring the next three hitters, with two strikeouts.


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Longer days? Check. Spring flowers? You bet. Burst of sunshine? Here's hoping.
Summer's just around the bend and with such short-lived sunny weather in Metro Vancouver, it's time to wander outside. To help us kick off picnic season, we followed two chefs and two travel experts to unearth some of the best picnic spots in and around Metro Vancouver. So grab those picnic blankets, it's time to gather, eat and doze off under the sun.
Make-Out Point, Queen Elizabeth Park
This west-facing picnic spot near the top of Queen Elizabeth Park is known as "make-out point" by locals. Chef Robin Kort, who runs culinary events and touring company Swallow Tail Tours, loves this spot for its privacy and gorgeous sunsets.
"It's all trees, that's why I like it. It's a little bit private, not a lot of people go to it, you can take your bike up there and find a spot to yourself usually," says Kort.
To find it, head to the top of Queen Elizabeth Park where you get a view of the city with a circular path that loops down into the garden. Follow that path west and just off of it is a bench surrounded by trees.Clothing's optional at
Tower Beach
Tower Beach, which is just next door to Vancouver's better known nudie hangout, Wreck Beach at the University of British Columbia. Kort (who opts for a bathing suit) is a fan of city picnic spots that feel miles away. This one fits the bill with its pebble shoreline marked by two Second World War gun emplacements. And at the right time of the year, "the fishermen will be out there with their nets," she says.
To reach Tower Beach, take Trail 3 (located east of the Museum of Anthropology) which will take you to the foot of the gun towers. The beach is also accessible by Trail 4 on the north side of the MOA.
For a map, visit the Wreck Beach Preservation Society website at wreckbeach.org/maps.html
North Shore rivers
For those who want to go gourmet, yes, that's possible, too. Kort organizes wild edible tours of the North Shore in which a guide points out the edible plants in our own backyard (no picking, though — that's not allowed in B.C. parks). The wander through the woods is capped with a fine dining meal by the river, complete with table linens and a bounteous table of wild food.
"It's like fine dining in the wilds," says Kort. "We serve wild food, so we do wild mushroom pâté and fiddleheads, wild leeks and we make just a beautiful picnic right by the river."
For more information, visit swallowtail.ca/trips
Spanish Banks
Travel expert and mother of two Claire Newell says her kids love to picnic at Vancouver's Spanish Banks. Not only are the gentle roll of waves relaxing to nod off to, if you need to escape intense mid-day sun, just walk across the road to Pacific Spirit Park.
"It's such an easy one to do, especially if you live close to Vancouver," says the founder of travelbestbets.com.
"You have the beach but across the road you can go into Pacific Spirit Park so you can actually do the picnic in there and sit on some of the trees that have fallen."
Shannon Falls
Dining by the tumbling waters of Shannon Falls is another one of Newell's favourite picnic spots.
"You can do it on a trip to Whistler, maybe to break up the drive. But getting to see the waterfall, and there's lots of picnic tables there, it's just a really beautiful spot and getting there is half the beauty. The Sea-to-Sky Highway is so pretty in the summer," says Newell.
Shannon Falls, which has an adjacent park, is located off of Highway 99, 58 km north of Vancouver and 2 km south of Squamish. To reserve a group picnic spot, visit env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/shannon
Boating from Horseshoe Bay
Jean-Francis Quaglia, chef/owner of Provence Marinaside and Provence Mediterranean Grill, makes it easy to picnic in the city. The French chef, who grew up in Marseille, offers gourmet picnic baskets filled with antipasti, tapenades, cheeses and desserts from his Yaletown or west side restaurants.
"People just come and pick it up [from Provence Marinaside] and then they don't have to walk far. They just can go around the seawall on a piece of grass and just have a picnic and when they're done, drop it off," he says.
But for something a little more special, Quaglia suggests heading to Horseshoe Bay and renting a boat for a picnic at sea or stopping at one of the nearby islands, such as Bowen which has a picture-perfect park right by the harbour.
"The freedom on the ocean and seeing the wildlife that we have around Vancouver, and going to Bowen, where I have a friend. Yeah, I really love it," says Quaglia.
Speed boats can be rented at Sewell's Marina in Horseshoe Bay. For more info, visitsewellsmarina.comBuntzen Lake, with its glassy waters ringed by a deep green forest, draws crowds on summer days. Still, this lake just north of
Buntzen Lake
Port Moody is so picturesque that John Lee, a Vancouver-based travel writer and author of 14 Lonely Planet guide books, says the effort to come early and snag a spot is well worth it.
"I'm a huge fan of Buntzen Lake, but you have to arrive early on summer days to get a good picnic spot near the beach — especially when the kids are out of school. It's my favourite spot because your heart rate instantly drops to deck chair-napping levels as soon as soon as you arrive," he says.
Third Beach, Stanley Park
And, of course, how could we forget Stanley Park? Well, we didn't. But take Lee's advice and come in the evening.
"It's hard to beat Third Beach in Stanley Park — but only in the evening. During the day it's always packed, but after 6 p.m. people drift off and you can pull up a log, unroll some treats and catch a pyrotechnic sunset in peace," he says.


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renegadebuck - I've been doing some troubleshooting on this end and removed some trunnion material where it looked like the AR mag was rubbing. The mag catch is only about an 1/8" from engaging the slot in the mag now. The front of the mag doesn't appear to be binding in the front of the adapter now. Now if I can only figure why the back of the mag is stopping where it is...
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
email sent.
"To show you how radical I am, I want carjackers dead. I want rapists dead. I want burglars dead. I want child molesters dead. I want the bad guys dead. No court case. No parole. No early release. I want 'em dead. Get a gun and when they attack you, shoot 'em."
Ted Nugent - speaking at the NRA convention April 17, 2005
Just an update for those interested in renegadebuck's adapters. I've been using them for quite a while, and am still very happy. I don't get on the forums as much as I would like, but I am still out there shooting. My son recently graduated from the air force academy and we had all our family out for the graduation and vacation. Most are from New Jersey and they never get to shoot. Of course; other than the air force academy, the #1 thing they all wanted to do was shoot guns.
We went through a lot of guns, and the 2 biggest "Fun Guns" for the new jersey family was my S&W M&P15 AR15 and my Saiga 223/5.56. And of course, using renegadebuck's adapter, I was able to mix and match all my magazines. For what it's worth, in 3 days of shooting, the Saiga alone with the renegadebuck adapter went through 1300 rounds. There wasn't 1 malfunction or feeding problem (magazine related). The adapter worked perfectly.
I saw some questions in previous posts, and I will make mention of 2 things for those interested. If you are going to get a thermold or similar molded magazine, the indentation (Instead of a cut out) on the magazine doesn't allow the magazine to stay firmly in the adapter. I suggest a dremel or drill and carefully cut out the notch to provide an actual hole. Or do what I do, and only use the metal USGI magazines with the adapter. I use plenty of thermold 20 round magazines, but I use those in my AR15.
Second thing is if you are shooting from a bench rest, try and stick with 20 round magazines instead of 30 round. With larger magazines, and leaning on a bench, some shooters have a tendency to let the rifle rest on the magazine. This pushes the magazine further up and can cause feeding issues. This has happened with regular AR15 and magazines, and it's more prone with the saiga and the renegadebuck adapter. If leaning on a bench, use 20 round magazines so the rifle doesn't rest on the magazine and push it in further.
But the price renegadebuck charges for the adapter has paid itself back to me many times. I already had AR15/M16 magazines for my AR's. 3 Saiga magazines cost more than the adapter. And I buy AR15/M16 magazines all day for under $10. $8 for 20 rounders. And you can't beat Mike's customer service. I don't receive anything for my endorsement. Simply a very satisfied customer passing the word on. Later... mike...
Hey everyone. If you are expecting to hear from me and haven't in the last 10 days, it's because lightning zapped my computers and phones. Please resend any emails so I have addresses and I'll be glad to respond. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Will this adapter work for a Valmet M76 or a Galil? Also, do you have any updates on an adapter for the 7.62 Galil?
Valmet M76 mags are crazy expensive and I would love to use cheap AR-15 mags instead.
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Can you resend that e-mail from 9-21-12 as I never received it. The last reply I received from you was on the 19th was that you needed me to make some measurements.
I replied asking which measurements on the Valmet stamped receiver you needed. I never received a response.
Sorry, lightning has been reeking havoc with my computer. I've lost 3 surge protectors, 2 modems, a mouse and a router since the strike that took the computer too.
I need the distance from the bottom rails to the inside edge of the magwell, the distance from the center of the front trunnion that the barrel is held in to the same edge on the magwell. A pic of the bottom of your receiver would also be helpful.


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Dark'n'Ion Stormy: Arkane's Dishonored
New IPs? Nah, we don't do that anymore, sunshine. Too risky, see. People only want to buy things they've already heard of. Or is it that publishers are only prepared to invest enormous marketing budgets in what they consider surefire hits already, thereby damning their less-established names to relative obscurity even before they make it out the starting gate? I forget. Bethesda's one of few big publishers still prepared to take a risk. Granted, Hunted was a bit of a misfire and Brink didn't quite scale the heights we were hoping, but that makes it doubly pleasing that Beth are continuing to push new names.
Just as excitingly, this is the highly mysterious new game from Arkane -they of Arx Fatalis and Dark Messiah of Might and Magic. Bonus – they recruited Deus Ex veteran Harvey Smith as co-creative director. Bonus bonus: they also recruited the visual architect of Half-Life 2's City 17, Viktor Antonov. It's called Dishonored. We barely know anything at all about it. We're really very excited.
The game's detailed in the next issue of de facto exclusive-grabber GameInformer, but they've put out the cover and the broadest overview for us to thrill to in the meantime:
"It's a game about assassination where you don't have to kill anyone. It's a game about infiltration where you can set up traps and slaughter the entire garrison of an aristocrat's mansion rather than sneak in. It's a game about brutal violence where you can slip in and out of a fortified barracks with nobody ever knowing you were there. It's a game about morality and player choice where the world you create is based on your actions, not navigating conversation trees."
It sounds like Thief and Hitman and Deus Ex and STALKER and none of them. It looks like Half-Life 2 (quite a lot, in fact) and BioShock and 1984 and none of them.
It's a game, in a year in which we've so far only been told to be excited about things we already know pretty much what to expect from, to be excited about.
It's called Dishonored, it's due on PC and playboxes next year, and it's going to be a real pain in the arse for any games journalist with their word processor set to British English.
Seems like a good time to revisit our interview with Harvey Smith and Arkane founder Raf Colantonio about the legacy of Deus Ex from last year, and pore over it for clues…


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Stab Singles
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Not One To Weep, Julian Shook Off His Dbah Loss And Did This At Bells
One of the cleanest rotes we've seen.
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Italo Ferreira's Full Tilt Power Wrap (Watch On Repeat)
Yesterday at DBah.
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Watch: Mick Fanning And Joel Parkinson Share A Kirra Tube
Two bros one womb!
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Did Cam Richards Just Bag The Wave Of The Winter?
Watch his woolly-as-hell ride from this morning at Pipe.
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With John John On Safety, Eli Olson Caught This Unfathomable Offshore Bomb
We're not ones to get fixated on inches and feet, but is this the biggest paddle wave... ever?
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The GoPro Vision Of The Best Wave Ever Recorded...Ever
Koa Smith wins the internet today... and tomorrow.
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Recipient: John G. Riley House and Museum– Tallahassee, FL
Grant: 2010 Museum Grant for African American History and Culture
Pictured: Marion McGee, the assistant director, and Althemese Barnes, the founder of the John G. Riley House and Museum.
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With indomitable will and intense passion, Althemese Barnes set out to save a cultural gem. The John Gilmore Riley House is the last visible evidence of a once thriving middle-class community, Smokey Hollow, in Tallahassee, Florida. Ms. Barnes envisioned Riley House as much more than the historic residence of a successful businessman, community leader, and pioneering educator. She saw it as a vehicle to keep history alive. Riley House could help present and future generations hear, touch, and explore their rich multicultural heritage. Ms. Barnes led a 20-year odyssey to save Riley House. In the process, she built an innovative museum and strengthened cultural preservation across the state. Then she faced her greatest challenge: finding a leader who could succeed her.
Saving and Showcasing a Cultural Legacy
Ms. Barnes mobilized community support and raised money to buy and restore Riley House. Preservation was the first goal, but hardly the last. In addition to developing and showcasing Riley House as a museum, Ms. Barnes worked across the community to sponsor an oral history program. She partnered with educators to create in-school heritage lessons and a summer camp program.
The museum launched multicultural outreach through workshops, lectures, tours, special exhibits, and cultural events. It disseminated historical publications and established an archival resource center at Tallahassee Community College. It also sponsored innovative activities, including a U.S. Colored Troops regiment that re-enacted the Battle of Natural Bridge to document Civil War contributions of African American soldiers.
The Power of Partnership
Ms. Barnes developed strong relationships with Tallahassee Community College and the Florida A&M History Department. She worked with the Florida Chamber of Commerce and State Legislature. She took partnering national, with the Smithsonian National African American Museum, the National Chamber of Commerce, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
To help save other cultural treasures, Ms. Barnes founded the Florida African American Heritage Preservation Network. The network provides professional development and technical support and sponsors a unique cultural tourism program.
As she explains, "If we succeed, others succeed. Most people who launch cultural preservation initiatives start with tremendous passion. They often don't know what resources are available or how to partner. Through the network, we can reach out to other museums and provide training, information, leadership skills, grant-writing education… We can instill a level of confidence and give them a knowledge base that they didn't know existed."
Preserving the Future of Riley House
For the museum to endure and grow, Ms. Barnes and the museum board recognized they must expand capacity, including facilities and professional staff. The John G. Riley House and Museum received a 2010 IMLS grant to build institutional capacity, by expanding professional resources and developing a succession strategy.
The grant allowed the museum to hire additional staff and provide more professional development. The major challenge, however, was finding the right successor and transferring a lifetime of expertise.
The museum identified a rising leader with partnership expertise, strong understanding of government relations, and superb management ability. Marion "Missy" McGee, a former partnership development specialist with the U.S. Census Bureau, agreed to join the Riley Center through an executive apprenticeship, which will ultimately lead to her taking over as executive director. This apprenticeship approach has been used in corporate settings to prepare professionals for leadership roles that demand specific skills and expertise. Ms. McGee came aboard as an assistant to Ms. Barnes and now has the title of assistant director. This progression allows Ms. McGee to work with the founding executive director and the museum board, directors, and staff to establish a clear vision and plan for the future.
The IMLS grant also allowed the museum to implement an internship program. This helps engage future leaders while teaching the museum to better reach younger generations through vehicles such as social media. Already the interns are helping the museum to improve rapport with local media and draw younger audiences.
The partnerships Althemese Barnes built are now paying off for her successor. "One of the best things, personally, has been the chance to meet other museum professionals, including IMLS grantees, " Ms. McGee notes. "It's a growing peer support group, a chance to meet emerging leaders and to share experience, strategies, and approaches. It's tremendously helpful."
All signs indicate that Ms. Barnes is succeeding, once again, with the museum's succession approach. Ms. McGee explains, "We're finding ways to not just take on the many efforts that Ms. Barnes has performed but also to make her strategies and techniques duplicable, so we can extend responsibilities to volunteers, work-study students, and others. The more we involve younger people, the better we can build active support from emerging leaders, who will be our partners and supporters."
The Riley Center's future looks bright in inspiring rising generations to discover, embrace, and protect their cultural heritage.


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DMEautomotive releases service market loyalty white paper and new demographic findings:
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The Quiznos Pro Challenge today announced five new teams confirmed to compete in the inaugural 2011 competition, including Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) ProTeam Leopard Trek (Luxembourg), and UCI Professional Continental teams UnitedHealthcare Pro Cycling Team (USA), Team Type 1-sanofi aventis (USA), Skil-Shimano (Netherlands) and Team Spidertech Powered By C10 (Canada). These teams will join previously announced Team RadioShack (USA), HTC-Highroad (USA), Team Garmin-Cervélo (USA), BMC Racing Team (USA), and Liquigas-Cannondale (Italy) at the starting line in August.
"We are excited to have secured commitments from such world-class teams in the competition's first year," said Shawn Hunter, co-chairman of the Quiznos Pro Challenge. "We've set high goals for this race and the addition of these teams shows great promise for our future and cycling in the United States."
The newly announced teams include some of the most exciting riders in the world, including Olympic gold medalist Fabian Cancellara (Switzerland), seasoned veteran Stuart O'Grady (Australia), and 2008 World Cycling Championships silver medalist Svein Tuft (Canada). In total, the Quiznos Pro Challenge will host as many as 128 professional cyclists from 16 teams for the 2011 competition. The specific riders who will participate in the Quiznos Pro Challenge will be named in the coming months.
The inaugural 2011 Quiznos Pro Challenge will take place August 22-28, and it is expected to be the largest spectator event ever held in Colorado. The race travels through some of the world's most famous and beautiful destinations, including Aspen, Vail, Avon, Steamboat Springs and Breckenridge. Visit www.quiznosprochallenge.com .
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(CNN) -- Our favorite Sunday of the year will arrive on February 2, and we're already armed with snacks and snark to dissect the best part of Super Bowl XLVIII: its commercials.
There will be the usual deluge of movie trailers -- expect to see clips for Darren Aronofsky's "Noah" movie as well as Kevin Costner's "Draft Day" -- plus the ad spots shilling beer, M&Ms and everything else.
Here are seven clips that we're looking forward to watching all over again:
Budweiser's puppy love
C'mon people. This has small furry creatures, adoption and interspecies bonding. We've long awaited the moment when the Super Bowl gives up on football and just makes the Puppy Bowl the main event, and we consider this Budweiser commercial to be the first step toward that glorious day.
The Muppets steal a car
The Muppets are mostly around for fun, but they often sneak in a lesson or two while they're at it. With their Super Bowl commercial, they impart a very useful one: do not, under any circumstances, pull over for a Muppets bus -- unless you want them to hijack your car. (On the other hand, if your car is hijacked by Muppets, at least you'll get a groovy song out of it.)
Anna Kendrick's 'non-Super Bowl' Super Bowl commercial
We love this Newcastle Brown Ale ad for so many reasons, but we're only going to give you our top three: 1) It stars Anna Kendrick. 2) It stars Anna Kendrick basically giving the "am I beer commercial hot?" monologue we give ourselves every morning. 3) It stars Anna Kendrick giving the only appropriate response to that: "I mean I'm hot ... But like ... beer commercial hot? No. But I love a challenge."
The 'Full House' reunion
We haven't seen Bob Saget, Dave Coulier and John Stamos -- aka "Full House's" Danny Tanner, Uncle Joey and Uncle Jesse -- together like this since "Full House" went off the air almost 19 years ago, so excuse us while we're going to soak up as much of this minireunion as possible. If we're lucky, maybe Saget and Coulier will join Stamos in his Dannon Oikos spokesman duties full-time.
'Draft day' trailer
If the marketing team behind Kevin Costner's upcoming dramedy "Draft Day" didn't find a way to advertise during the Super Bowl, we'd question their devotion to the job. The film, directed by Ivan Reitman and also starring Jennifer Garner and Ellen Burstyn, features Costner as the general manager of the Cleveland Browns as he grapples with the responsibility of having the No. 1 draft pick. We're getting shades of "Jerry Maguire" from this movie, and we like it.
'Noah' trailer
Admittedly, the promotion for "Noah" is a bit of a downer (#TheFloodIsComing? That's a great thought to have during the Super Bowl), but we can't help but be excited to see what Darren Aronofsky's going to do with this classic Biblical story. Stars include Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly and Emma Watson. The film will arrive in theaters on March 28.
Ellen's Beats Music commercial, with bears
Ellen DeGeneres is a self-described fan of the new Beats Music app, and she shot a Super Bowl ad to show just how much she loves it. Playing what appears to be a modern-day Goldilocks who likes to hang out at a place called The Woods (we think we've been there ...), DeGeneres grooves to pop music with some hipster bears.
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Today I had my 4-month dermatology and oncology appointments at Kaiser Permanente Mapunapuna and Moanalua locations, respectively. At dermatology, I was ready for every spot on my body (from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet) to be more melanoma. My right thigh is still numb from the surgeries in the fall of 2015, and I get a tingle in the back of my right knee whenever the top of my thigh is touched. That's where the lymph nodes came out.
Well, I was wrong. Every spot on my body was no big deal. My dermatologist didn't once reach for the CO2 can to freeze something suspicious. No part of my body was punched out and dropped into a specimen cup. She went over every inch of me and it's like I don't even care. Look, find something, get it off me. Wherever it is. But no. So, Yay!
Then I drove over to the hospital for my oncology appointment. My doctor was busy with another patient he had to admit, which takes time. So I saw my physician assistant instead. The two of them tag-teamed me throughout my treatment, so I'm OK with either of them. She walks in and congratulates me for being cancer free.
"I am?"
"He didn't tell you?"
Men and women seem to always have different approaches. I would have liked to have known sooner, but I also tell myself that if there were a problem with my PT scan, I would have heard from them right away. But I didn't, so I was optimistic.
Tonight I showed up at Boca Hawaii for our cycle training. I brought along a fresh new sound track peppered with old school rock for the geezer set (which, I guess, includes me). It was going pretty well, but when Bohemian Rhapsody came on, the coach said "Paula, I need something faster…" So just as he turned it off, the crowd moaned and then started singing the song. Crack me up. Nothing like a little Led Zeppelin with your Ed Sheeran is what I always say.
I decided that I wanted to tell my Boca Hawaii coaches and teammates first about my good news. They really made me feel amazing. I love them all.
Two years ago, after I finished my third Ironman 70.3 Honu triathlon, I made an appointment with dermatology because of this freakish mole at the back of my right knee. It turned out to be melanoma. After my surgeries to remove the area around the already extracted mole and the lymph nodes at the top of my right thigh, it was determined I had melanoma stage 3a because it was found in one of my lymphs.
From December 2015 through December 2016, I was treated with interferon as part of an immunotherapy program. Every other night I injected myself in the stomach with the meds and go to sleep. My reaction wasn't that bad: chills early the next evening, my skin would hurt, I sometimes couldn't move because my body ached so much. I also got very depressed.
I had to stop training for an entire year with my Boca Hawaii family. It was very painful for me to see their fun updates on Facebook! Fear of missing out! I did start up with substitute teaching because most of the time the after effects of my shots didn't kick in until after I got out of school. The only thing that was a drag was losing my curly hair. It came out in patches, so I was very uncomfortable, especially around the students. But they were very gracious and if anyone said anything about it, I didn't hear it. Now my hair is straight and short. I've never had straight hair before so at first it was a little difficult to get used to it, but I truly love it! I'm enjoying it while it lasts, which is supposed to be about a year. Then the curls are supposed to come back.
As for my body, I lost 40 pounds and gained seven back. I started with the bicycle clinic in January and it appears that the gain is muscle. Prior to this, my skin showed signs of atrophy and crinkliness. That's just about all gone.
So now I'm almost finished with my teacher certification program and I feel as though I've been given a new lease on life. I am eager to become a teacher and I hope I end up at a school where I will be most comfortable.
The only thing is this: I have to tell myself I am a cancer survivor. I just feel like plain old me. I tell people to wear sunscreen and a hat and stay in the shade. That's not easy to do when you like to ride a bike all over the place, but I wear sleeves and sunscreen and just make all that part of the new me.


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Big Smoke Saturday Seminars: Tobacco Lands
There is often a disconnect between the smoker and his cigar. Like in the food industry, consumers can be oblivious to the farming and cultivation required to bring their neatly packaged products to the market. The challenges are numerous and the second Big Smoke seminar brought some of the world's largest growers on one stage to discuss the history, agriculture and terroir of their tobacco.
Our panelists included Alejandro Turrent of A. Turrent Cigars in Mexico; Eduardo Fernandez, owner of Aganorsa in Nicaragua; Litto Gomez of La Flor Dominicana in the Dominican Republic; David Perez of ASP Enterprises Inc. in Ecuador and Josh Meerapfel, grower of Cameroon tobacco. Most likely, you have smoked tobacco from at least one of their farms.
"Tobacco is the lifeblood of the cigar industry," said Turrent, "but if you don't have great tobacco, you don't have anything."
The Turrent family has been growing tobacco since 1880. Alejandro is fifth generation and grows a tobacco varietal called San Andres Moron.
"You can get filler, binder and wrapper from this tobacco," he assures. "Sweetness is one of its main characteristics, but it also has some strength, a unique taste and excellent combustion."
For this type of tobacco, Turrent employs a method known as stalk cutting, whereby most of the plant is still attached to the stalk when it is culled. "The juices are still in the stalk and when you hang it [to cure], the leaves get the juice, the nutrients and the flavor," said Turrent who also grows Cuban-seed, Sumatra-seed and Connecticut-seed tobacco in Mexico.
But according to Eduardo Fernandez "Nicaragua is the closest thing to Cuba. The flavor, the aroma and the strength is very unique and it blends well with other tobaccos. Nicaraguan Corojo and Criollo are very sought after."
Fernandez outlined the three major growing areas of Nicaragua: Jalapa, which grows Cuban-seed tobacco spawned from Cuba's famed Pinar del Rio region; Condega for strength and sweetness; and Estelí, which yields a tobacco that burns very white, though is difficult to cure.
If you are a fan of the nutty and subtle spice of quality Cameroon wrapper, you have Josh Meerapfel to thank not only for growing and disseminating it, but for saving the leaf from extinction.
"The French had a monopoly in Cameroon" said Meerapfel. "But by the early 1990s, they no longer wanted it and abandoned the operation. There was a big shortage of the tobacco, so we took over the operation of the French government. The tobacco almost disappeared."
Meerapfel's family has been growing tobacco since 1876. They started in Germany. The Meerapfels have dealt with many tobacco varieties throughout their long history, from Indonesian tobacco to Cuban to Cameroon. They were major players in the world of Cuban tobacco.
Litto Gomez, owner of the La Flor Dominicana brand, does not have such an extensive history.
"I started making cigars in 1994," he said. "By 1997, I needed stronger tobacco from the Dominican Republic and realized that I had to grow it myself. Eduardo [Fernandez] gave me the first seeds for the Dominican tobacco I still grow today."
Gomez grows much of his tobacco on the La Canela farm in the Dominican Republic.
At the foot of the Andes mountains in Ecuador, David Perez grows Ecuadoran Connecticut-seed wrapper, a light tobacco that flourishes under the cloud cover of the region's hazy skies-a widely used alternative to Connecticut shade wrapper grown in the U.S. Perez's family has been growing tobacco since 1890, starting in Cuba.
"In 1960 when Fidel took power, the government offered my grandfather one plot of land," explained Perez. "He said 'You are not giving me land, you're taking it away,' so he left Cuba, taking with him his car and his monkey."
Eventually, Edgar Cullman, former owner of General Cigar, enlisted his father's and grandfather's expertise for growing candela wrapper in Connecticut.
This lead his family to Nicaragua in 1971, until the Sandanistas forced them out.
Now, Perez has 700 hectares (about 1,729 acres) in Ecuador dedicated to Connecticut-seed tobacco from a hybrid.
He also grows tobacco in Nicaragua and Peru, though he maintains a traditional approach to the growing and curing methods. "When technology advances, people tend to lose their jobs. I employ at least 5,000 people in Ecuador."
According to Meerapfel "nothing has changed. We use the same seed, same tobacco, and the same soil."
Between the five dedicated growers, their farms continue to bring an unprecedented variety of tobacco to the cigar market, keeping it interesting, vibrant sophisticated and flavorful.
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