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EDEN, PRAIRIE, Minn. - Christian Ponder was sacked five times in the Minnesota Vikings' 12-10 preseason loss to San Diego on Friday, tying the most sacks against him in a single game last season.
On Sunday, the Vikings put Ponder through drills in practice that were designed to make sure he's stepping up in the pocket. A day later, offensive coordinator Bill Musgrave discussed the fact that avoiding sacks is not just an issue for Ponder.
"There are quarterbacks throughout this league that are learning every game," Musgrave said. "Tom Brady has mentioned that he's taking too many sacks this preseason too, and that's what the preseason is for.
"It's essential for young and old players, it's essential for coaches. I know I've never walked off a game field or even a practice field without learning something and I think our players are the same way. We learned a lot from each of these three previous outings."
Asked if some of the sacks Friday were caused by Ponder waiting for something down the field to open up, Musgrave said: "There are a number of things that happen on a football field. Sometimes you're waiting for a guy to get open. Sometimes you're waiting for a sight line.
"At times you're a little bit indecisive, at times you're trying to give the chance for the play to actually evolve and develop. We know there's a limited shelf life back there in the pocket, especially against a good pass rushing team like San Diego, it bit us in the rear end."
Ponder will not play in the Vikings' exhibition finale on Thursday at Houston.
Schwartz makes progress
Frazier said guard Geoff Schwartz did "pretty good" in his first practice back after undergoing sports hernia surgery on Aug. 7.
"It looks like we may be able to get some good quality work out of him next week when we start preparing for our season opener (on Sept. 9 against Jacksonville)," Frazier said. "He moved around pretty good in individual drills.
"We didn't put him through any team stuff but individual stuff, the drills, he looked pretty good."
Schwartz was getting reps at right guard before his injury and eventually could challenge Brandon Fusco for the starting job at that spot.
Decisions, decisions
Frazier said the Vikings definitely will hold out a few starters Thursday.
"There may be a few guys who get some reps but we're going to err on the side of caution," Frazier said.
Fusco and safety Harrison Smith are two of the projected starters who could "potentially" play, according to Frazier. But rookie left tackle Matt Kalil will sit.
The Vikings have to cut their roster from 75 to 53 players by 8 p.m. Friday, meaning the turnaround for making decisions will be a quick one.
"I'm sure that Rick (Spielman, the Vikings general manager) and George (Paton, the assistant GM) will be talking to different people getting information about what's going on," Frazier said.
"We'll have to really be on it when we get back in the office and look at our roster and also look at what's going on around the league and see if there are some guys we might be interested in. We'll have some long discussions on that Friday when we get back."
Corner battle
Veteran Chris Carr and rookie Josh Robinson both worked with the first team in the nickel package on Friday night because Chris Cook (concussion) was sidelined.
Carr, who is entering his eighth season and signed with the Vikings as a free agent this offseason, got the start at the right corner. Robinson came in when middle linebacker Jasper Brinkley left the field.
Cook, though, will be healthy for the regular-season opener, meaning Carr and Robinson are competing to be the extra corner at this point.
There is a good chance that competition won't play out on the field Thursday. Robinson will not play because of a concussion, and Carr is dealing with a back injury and also might be sidelined.
"This is another week that is important to the evaluation process to see how guys do," defensive coordinator Alan Williams said. "We haven't made any hard and firm rules in terms of who will make the team, who will start, who will be where. We're still waiting to see after this ballgame how guys play and we'll firm it up at that time."
Williams said Carr does have the advantage of having experience on Robinson, who was drafted by the Vikings in the third round.
Williams also mentioned that Carr can play inside in the nickel but that spot is expected to belong to Winfield, meaning that either Carr or Robinson would play outside on passing downs opposite from Cook.
No pain
Tight end John Carlson returned to practice Sunday after having been sidelined since July 31 because of a Grade 2 sprain of the medial collateral ligament in his right knee.
Carlson won't play Thursday against Houston but should be ready to go against Jacksonville.
"I haven't run a whole lot in the last few weeks, so my conditioning level isn't where it needs to be yet," Carlson said Monday. "But I've got a couple of weeks before that first game, and I'll do what I can to get back to full speed."
Carlson said his knee responded "fine" after Sunday's practice.
Frazier said Carlson looked more comfortable with the brace he is wearing during Monday's practice.
Replacing Simpson
The Vikings did not play wide receiver Jerome Simpson on Friday in order to spread reps around to some of the split ends who will be eligible for the first three games this season.
Simpson has been suspended for the opening three games for violating the NFL's substance abuse policy. That means someone will be needed to replace the player who is expected to stretch the field for the Vikings.
Devin Aromashodu caught three passes for 28 yards against the Chargers, while Michael Jenkins had one reception for 13 yards and Manny Arceneaux caught a pass for 10 yards.
Stephen Burton had three catches for 88 yards in the first two preseason games, including a 52-yard reception on a Ponder pass in the exhibition opener at San Francisco, but he was not targeted on Friday.
"I think we feel confident there," Musgrave said. "We have a good corps of wide receivers, so we're going to be OK until Jerome returns. We'll be excited for his return, but we're going to do our best in his absence to remain effective through the air."
Aromashodu's three catches were his first three of the preseason. He has been targeted 12 times.
Arceneaux, meanwhile, has caught all three of the passes thrown his way for 60 yards. However, he has received little work with the first team.
"Manny does a good job," Musgrave said, "you can count on Manny every day at practice and also every game that he's going to put his best foot forward."
Working with Walsh
Rookie kicker Blair Walsh continued to show his leg strength on kickoffs on Friday, putting two more into the end zone for touchbacks.
But special teams coordinator Mike Priefer said the sixth-round pick still needs some work.
"He'll still wrap his foot a little bit but we call that the power alley, between the left numbers and right hash for a right footer, and when he strokes it good, he may not hit it perfect, but with a good follow through, he's going to get a good 7, 8, 9 yards deep and that's what he did for us," Priefer said. "Even when they brought it out we tackled them at the 17 and that's what we're looking for, either a touchback or a tackle inside the 20 and that's what we keep preaching."
Punt return competition
Priefer was pleased with what rookie Jarius Wright did on punt returns Friday - he averaged 14.5 yards on two returns - but he also made it clear that cornerback Marcus Sherels remains in the mix.
Sherels, however, won't play Thursday in the preseason finale because of an ankle injury.
"Let's talk after Thursday," Priefer said when asked about Wright being the primary punt return man. "We're not quite there yet. He's improved every week, and I am pleased by that and I'm not ready to throw Marcus away either. I think Marcus is going to be a good punt returner as well."
Wright has shown improvement on punt returns in training camp, but Priefer had an explanation for why he might have looked more comfortable Friday.
"As you know, it's a lot easier indoors and he's gotten better," Priefer said. "When it gets outside and gets a little windy, he gets a little squirly."
Frazier said Reggie Jones also will get a shot on punt returns Thursday.
Quick hits
• Ryan D'Imperio (shoulder) didn't do any work in practice Monday and Frazier said he does not know if the fullback will play on Thursday. Safeties Mistral Raymond (back) and Andrew Sendejo (ankle) and Robinson and Sherels all will be held out of against the Texans. Frazier wants to see if Carr can practice Tuesday before making a determination on his status for the preseason finale.
• The Cleveland Browns claimed defensive end Ernest Owusu, who was waived by Vikings on Saturday as part of their initial cut down. New England, meanwhile, claimed wide receiver Kerry Taylor.
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PROVIDENCE — After the bidders made their last and best offers for Landmark Medical Center in Superior Court, Judge Michael Silverstein said he expects to choose the winner "not later than very early next week."
Silverstein is expected to make the final announcement in open court.
That's how three days of sales-pitching for the assets of not-for-profit Landmark Health Systems, Inc., including the 214-bed acute care hospital in Woonsocket and the Rehabilitation Hospital of Rhode Island in North Smithfield, played out yesterday.
The contenders include four for-profit hospital groups, three of whom are offering millions to acquire and strengthen both hospitals. They are RegionalCare Hospital Partners and Transition Health Care, both of Franklin , Tenn., who are offering total investments of $69.8 million and $45.7 million, respectively. Prime Healthcare of Ontario, Calif., is offering some $55.5 million, while Health South of Birmingham, Ala., has staked about $10 million for the rehab hospital only – a condition that may end up excluding the company.
Each of the bids varies in terms of how much of the dollar figure is for long-term capital improvements and other costs faced by the struggling hospital, which has been run by a court-appointed receiver, Jonathan Savage, since June 2008.
Moreover, the contenders have been allowed to modify their bids since the hearing began last Thursday. Silverstein asked for sealed bids with final enhancements by noon yesterday. An hour later he unsealed the bids, read a few details aloud, then offered lawyers for each of parties to make a final pitch before closing this phase of the selection process.
The latest versions were so fresh that even lawyers for Savage said it would take more time to understand the details, and various parties might differ, ultimately, on how they measure up.
"I think it depends on who you ask," said Preston Halperin. "Clearly there are changes."
Halperin said later that some of the nuances deal with the cash the successful bidder will make available up front to settle Landmark's debts, including some $2 million it borrowed from a former suitor, Caritas Christi, plus another $1.6 million from private lenders. Landmark borrowed the money last year as part of a $5 million settlement with creditors backing Landmark's debt.
Still, Halperin said the most significant last-minute bid tweak might have come from Prime Healthcare. The company offered $6.75 million in cash at the closing, $2 million more, on top of paying off all of Landmark's debts. Other bidders offer to supply the hospital with an amount equal to the "net working capital" of the hospital – assets minus liabilities – which was $7.5 million nearly a year ago, but the hospital would have to pay its own debts from whatever a current audit reveals the figure to be.
"The public's interest will be best served by selecting Prime Healthcare to turn around Landmark," lawyer Richard Mittleman asserted in his closing statement for the company.
Silverstein made it clear at the outset of the hearing that the financial investment in the hospital will be only one factor he takes into consideration. He said he would have to decide how the buyer's plans protect the public's interest and access to quality health care in northern Rhode Island.
For RegionalCare, the company's adversarial relationship with the United Nurses and Allied Professionals appears to be an issue. RegionalCare is the only one of the three bidders vying for both hospitals that has failed to reach a collective bargaining agreement with UNAP, which has embarked an an aggressive campaign to paint the company as unfair to labor.
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"I have not." Bishop said. However, he added, if RegionalCare is the successful bidder, "I would hope the union would see it in their best interest to engage in those discussions."
On the contrary, UNAP issued another press release yesterday saying "over 400" union members had signed an open letter to RegionalCare executives urging them to withdraw their bid for the hospitals.
"Despite all your money, it is clear to us that you have failed to (make) the most critical investment investment of all, (in) the skilled workforce at our hospitals, and because of that, you are destined to fail," the letter reads, in part.
In his presentation, Bishop emphasized that RegionalCare had obtained an agreement in principal on a reimbursement contract with Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Rhode Island, a contentious issue the current management of Landmark has blamed for causing the hospital's financial problems. Landmark recently filed suit in Superior Court over allegedly unfair insurance reimbursements, saying Blue Cross has all but starved Landmark to the point of insolvency.
UNAP has approved new collective bargaining agreements with both Transition and Prime Healthcare, both of which the union supports as potential buyers. Of the three, RegionalCare says it would release up to 125 workers, Prime Health 225 and Transition – none.
All of the bidders strove to put their best foot forward – whatever it was – during closing statements. William Fish, a lawyer for Transition, played up his client's pledge not just keep all the employees, but try to boost the employee-to-patient ratio. Even if just 100 health care positions were eliminated, the current ratio would fall below 3.3 to 1, lower than some of the most poorly-staffed, rural hospitals, said Fish.
"Our view of this is somewhat simplistic," he said. "Something has to give. As staffing goes down, quality or services have to suffer."
HealthSouth, meanwhile, made an impassioned plea for the judge not to shut the door on it completely merely because it was vying only for the rehabilitation hospital. Patricia Rocha, a lawyer for the company, said her company has more experience than the other bidders in providing rehabilitative care.
If the hospitals are sold to another bidder, HealthSouth would remain interested in repurchasing, or negotiating an agreement to manage the rehab hospital, from the buyer, said Rocha. She urged the judge to enter a final order that was relaxed enough to allow the final bidder to pursue those interests with HealthSouth.
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Over the weekend, I attempted to reconfigure some of the drives in my Hyper-V server at home. Note that I said "attempted". I ran into hardware issues and ended up having to revert back to my old configuration - but somehow in all of this – I broke my system disk.
Specifically it would not boot any more.
This did not phase me because I knew that the excellent startup repair tool in Windows would soon have me up and running – which it did.
But I was surprised to find that when my system did finally boot – none of my virtual machines started up. When I tried to start the virtual machines manually, I was informed that the hypervisor was not running.
After scratching my head for a moment, I realized what had happened. Startup repair had rebuilt my boot configuration data store to get my system up and running. But it did not know that Hyper-V needs to have some specific settings enabled in the boot configuration data store in order to start the hypervisor.
I quickly opened an administrative command prompt and ran the following command:
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After that I rebooted the system and successfully started my virtual machines.
Cheers, Ben
good to know. i'll file this in my head. thanks
If the system doen's boot anymore, how can you launch the Startup Repair Tool?
About boot configuration data store, i use this scripts
# creating a new VHD boot entry
# -------------------------------------------------------
$description = 'Windows 7 from VHD'
$vhd_path = 'vhds\win7entx64.vhd'
bcdedit.exe /export ".\bcd_backup.bcd"
$res = bcdedit.exe /copy '{current}' /d $description
$id = $res.Split('{}')[1]
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" device vhd=[locate]\$vhd_path
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" osdevice vhd=[locate]\$vhd_path
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" detecthal on
"{$id} entry created!"
bcdedit | out-file .\newentry_log.txt
# creating a new Boot Entry
$description = 'Windows Server 2008 R2'
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" device partition=E:
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" osdevice partition=E:
bcdedit.exe /set "{$id}" hypervisorlaunchtype auto
jim Philips -
You can run the startup repair tool off of an install DVD - which is what I did in this case.
Hi Ben,
I see that hyper-V is supported with sysprep.
You have to recreate the bcd entry when you apply the image but i want to know if the Mac address pool is regenerated ?
Very informative info since I'm new with Hyper-V virtual machines..
so simple solution yet so hidden.. u are the guy!!! cheers!! i now love you! Lol i was about to call DELL and bash them for selling me a bad laptop!
You sir are a genius... been trying to find something "on the google" about this issue for the better part of 4 hours. I lost our BCD store after a raid controller failure. After finally getting up and running after using the r2/win7 boot up repair I found that none of my VM's would spin up (I was only running a test machine and that pesky BES 5.0 on a little app instance).
Thanks again!
Thanks a lot. You saved my life. I had exactly the same issue. Now its working again.
I had that problem too and it fixed it... THANKS
I added disks array to one of my Hyper-V, and run in the same issue (as HDD boot order has changed in the BIOS).
After a Startup Repair, same issue than yours: an EventID: 3112.
Your tip saved me. Thanks.
For everybody, a repaired boot entry in BCD has its description field ending with " (recovered)". So, if you have the issue and a "bcedit /enum" shows this addition in description, Ben's tip will make the job.
Thank you, bcdedit helped me to get my vm's starting again after i had to recover my hyper-v host.
Thanks, this really saved me a compleate reinstall and configuration of Server 08 R2.
Thanks, I got the same issue but with Windows 8 and it's integrated Hyper-V.
Just had the exact same problem after flashing bios on a server which did something funny with the raid config and required a bootrec /fixmbr to get back into windows.
I'd been assuming that the BIOS flash was having compatability issues with VT'd, until I realised that the BCD was wiped!


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Thanksgiving is around the corner, and the holiday season is here. Get into the spirit by shopping for festive decorations and gifts from local artisans.
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Digital airbrushing techniques for cosmetic and fashion adverts and photographs are not new and when an non-airbrushed shoot is published, it makes headline for it's rarity. Two cosmetic campaigns featuring the airbrushed images of actresses Julia Roberts and supermodel Christy Turlington have been banned by the advertising watchdog following a complaint from Liberal Democrat MP Jo Swinson.
Jo Swinson complained to the ASA as the pictures used in cosmetic giant L'Oreal's magazine campaigns were misleading and "not representative of the results the products could achieve" because they had been digitally manipulated.
The Advertising Standards Authority upheld the claim, agreeing that the images – used to promote products from the company's Lancome and Maybelline brands – breached the advertising standards code for misleading and exaggeration.
L'Oreal's two-page advert featuring Roberts, the current face of Lancome, promoted a foundation called Teint Miracle, while Turlington featured in a Maybelline campaign for an "anti-ageing" foundation called The Eraser. Both have now been banned from publication. The MP for East Dunbartonshire, said the two adverts were "particularly bad examples of excessive re-touching" which misled consumers. Speaking on BBC Radio Scotland's Good Morning Scotland programme she said "Even if women do know they are being lied to, it doesn't make it right. We should have honesty in advertising – that's a basic principle of our advertising laws."
L'Oreal answered the complaint admitting post-production techniques had been used and claiming its advert featuring Turlington to "lighten the skin, clean up make-up, reduce dark shadows and shading around the eyes, smooth the lips and darken the eyebrows, accurately illustrated the results the product could achieve." They also said the flawless skin in the image of Roberts was down to her "naturally healthy and glowing skin", adding the product had taken 10 years to develop.
The ASA upheld the complaint as they L'Oreal refused to provide the original photographs taken of the actress and the model. What's your opinion? Is it right that Supermodels and Actresses are deemed not beautiful enough without digital enhancement?
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Pipelines are a critical national infrastructure, with over 2.4 million miles of pipeline in the U.S. that provide 65 percent of the nations energy, with over 20 million barrels of liquid product flowing through them daily.
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The RWU Law community officially kicked off its 20th Anniversary year at the annual Law Alumni Association (LAA) breakfast held in conjunction with the Rhode Island Bar Association's annual meeting. The breakfast brought together judges, lawyers, alumni, faculty, and staff to reflect on the school's milestone anniversary. Deborah Pannullo'97 and Professor Michael Yelnosky Professor and President Emeritus Anthony Santoro with Stephen Bernardo'98 At the gathering, the LAA scholarship recipients were announced. The 2013 winners are Michael Hartley'15 and Meghan Kruger'15. Michael...
Posted by David Logan
08/19/2013 at 02:07 PM
One of the stars of our faculty, Michael Yelnosky, is making quite a name for his empirical work on the judicial selection process. His initial focus was the state level, and a conference he organized critiqued the ways judges have been selected in Rhode Island, reaching some interesting, indeed controversial conclusions. http://law.rwu.edu/story/professor-yelnosky-leads-judicial-selection-forum Now he has turned his focus to the federal level, with an op-ed in the Washington Post that shed light on the lack of diversity on the all-important ABA panel that pre-screens all nominees for...
Posted by David Logan
08/15/2013 at 03:16 PM
The last issue of the RWU Law magazine contained a picture of my bobblehead collection and offered a prize to the entrant with who identified the largest number. Here is the picture and below that is the answer key. 1. Mick Jagger2. Elwood Blues ("The Blues Brothers")/ Dan Akroyd3. Jake Blues ("The Blues Brothers")/John Belushi4. Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg5. Peter Griffin ("Family Guy")6. Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci7. Grandpa Munster/ Al Lewis8....
Posted by David Logan
08/09/2013 at 04:54 PM
Marek Bute '05 was named one of the U.S.'s Best LGBT Attorneys Under 40 by the National LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) Bar Association, an affiliate of the ABA. (LGBT Attorneys Full Listing here) Marek is an associate at Snell & Wilmer, Las Vegas, Nevada. His practice focuses on commercial litigation, construction, foreclosure and collection, insurance, and sports and entertainment. Marek is local counsel for Lambda Legal and co-counsel for O'Melveney & Meyers on the landmark Nevada Marriage Equality case Sevcik v. Sandoval, challenging Nevada's ban on same-sex...
Posted by David Logan
07/25/2013 at 02:59 PM
A session with Justice Elena Kagan of the Supreme Court of the United States A visit from retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor of the Supreme Court of the United States The final round of our Clark Moot Court Competition, held in the Rhode Island Supreme Court A Waterfire Jan Schlichtman (A Civil Action) will deliver the Santoro Lecture Faculty vs. Student Jeopardy A celebration of the 50th anniversary of New York Times v. Sullivan, keynoted by Judge Robert Sack (United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) A symposium on whether the...
Posted by David Logan
07/22/2013 at 12:15 PM
With the start of a new school year less than a month away, I wanted to highlight two signature events hosted by RWU Law. The first is the fundraiser for our unique Pro Bono Collaborative http://law.rwu.edu/pbc. The event garnered attention from Providence Business News (http://law.rwu.edu/story/pbn-pro-bono-collaborative-reception), which noted that the "yearly event raises funds to provide legal services for low-income citizens in Rhode Island by connecting some of the state's larger law firms with community organizations in need of legal aid." From among the hundred-plus...
Posted by David Logan
07/15/2013 at 10:15 AM
I reported last year that RWU Law students praise the quality of instruction that they receive. http://law.rwu.edu/blog/student-satisfaction-their-rwu-law-faculty-remains-high The most recent set of student evaluations (rated on a 1-5 score, with 4 being "very good" and 5 "excellent") is consistent: 1L courses (Contracts, Civ Pro, Property, Torts, and Legal Methods): average of above 4.3 Upper level required courses: average of above 4.0 Experiential Learning: average above 4.8 (with our new In-House Counsel Clinical Externship earning a perfect score of 5.0!). This data confirms that RWU...
Posted by David Logan
07/03/2013 at 01:25 PM
What a beautiful day! With happy graduates, and proud family, friends, and faculty, we celebrated Commencement 2013. We were especially honored that we were joined by Morris Dees, the legendary Civil Rights lawyer and one of the top judges in Rhode Island, Alice Gibney. Congratulations graduates! Directors Stephen Prignano, Judge Will Smith, and Justice Frank Flaherty President Farish, Honorary Degree Recipients Morris Dees and Alice Gibney,...
Posted by David Logan
06/27/2013 at 11:32 AM
It's no secret that our graduates are having a significant impact on the region's legal culture. But three recent alumni appointments – all focused on serving the larger legal and general community – are worth singling out. Lorraine Lalli '01: Judicial Nominating Commission Lorraine Lalli is RWU Law's Assistant Dean of Students. A magna cum laude graduate of Spelman College, where she was Phi Beta Kappa, Lorraine received her J.D., also magna cum laude, from RWU Law in 2001. As a law student, she won numerous awards for academic excellence, and served as President of the Multicultural...
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06/20/2013 at 05:21 PM
One signature event at RWU Law is the 3L reception held at the beautiful Glen Manor Estate, with its sweeping views of the Sakonnet River. Here are some pics from that fun evening for students, faculty, and staff.


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Guyette- Florence M. (Sweet), 91, of Newport, Vt., died December 7, 2011 in St. Petersburg, FL. Interment will be in the spring in Lowell, Vt.
Doremus–– Dorothy Anna, 85, of Barton passed away November 27,2011 in Newport. Services will be held at a later date at her home. On-line condolences may be sent to the family through the funeral home website at www.curtis-britch-converse-rushford.com. Arrangements are entrusted to the care of Curtis-Britch-Converse-Rushford Funeral Home, locally family owned and operated.
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Postgame Thoughts: Hawks Rally Against Bucks…Again
A few thoughts after tonight's 109-104 win over the Bucks:
– There's something about the Bucks that must make the Hawks think they're never out of a game. Atlanta rallied from 10 down in the final minutes to beat the Bucks 103-102 in game one, overcame an eight-point deficit to win game two, clawed back from six down late to win game three and recorded tonight's 19-point comeback to earn the sweep.
– The Bucks were hot early but couldn't sustain their incredible three-point shooting. They finished 17-33 from deep (52%), which is still really good, but they were hovering around 63 percent for most of the first half. The Hawks did a much better job closing on their shooters in the fourth quarter.
– The Bucks are a team that allows opponents to run, and that's exactly what the Hawks did early and often. They finished with 33 fast-break points, just three shy of their season high. Many of those were in initiated by Jeff Teague, who had a fabulous 24-point, 10-assist night.
– Josh Smith was again effective from the field, shooting 11-17 on his way to 24 points. J-Smoove has now shot 50 percent or better in three straight games. It's great to see him getting to the rim and taking quality shots.
– Perhaps the biggest contributor off the bench tonight was Ivan Johnson. The big man scored nine points, including six straight in the fourth quarter when the Hawks and Bucks were trading baskets. If not for him, Milwaukee likely would have pulled away. Ivan has now shot 50 percent or better in 10 straight games.
– Kyle Korver needed just 19 seconds to extend his three-point streak to 72 games. He hit one on Atlanta's first possession, which seriously may have been the quickest I've seen him make one so far this year.
Overall, this was a game the Hawks needed to play as the playoffs approach. With the regulars nursing injuries over the past few weeks and Wednesday's blowout win, Atlanta hasn't played a close, hard-fought game with the starters in weeks. It was good to see them battle back against a playoff team and get a win. Hopefully they can continue building momentum after a few days off when they play Toronto Tuesday.
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From December 2004 to December 2005, total nonfarm payroll employment grew by 2.0 million.
Professional and business services employment increased by 486,000 over the year. Employment in the health care industry expanded by 271,000.
The construction industry added 246,000 jobs over the year. Employment growth in residential building and residential specialty trade contractors accounted for about two-thirds of this gain.
Financial activities posted an over-the-year gain of 188,000. Much of this increase occurred in credit intermediation and real estate.
Mining added 48,000 jobs from December 2004 to December 2005 , with most of the growth occurring in support activities for mining, particularly oil and gas.
Payroll employment data in this article are from the BLS Current Employment Statistics program and are seasonally adjusted. Data for December 2005 are preliminary and subject to revision. To learn more, see "The Employment Situation: December 2005" (PDF) (TXT), news release USDL 06-07.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Payroll employment up by 2 million in 2005 on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2006/jan/wk2/art01.htm (visited October 05, 2015).
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Joe Biden Delivers High School Commencement Address At Marlins Park
Yoel Lapsher and other graduates arrive for the graduation ceremony... NachrichtenfotoAnfang,Ankunft,Bildung,Feierliche Veranstaltung,Florida - USA,Golfküstenstaaten,Horizontal,Joseph Biden,Marlins Park,Miami,Politik,Regierung,Schul- oder Uniabschluss,USA,VizepräsidentPhotographer Joe RaedleCollection: Getty Images News 2012 Getty ImagesMIAMI, FL - JUNE 04: Yoel Lapsher and other graduates arrive for the graduation ceremony were Vice President Joe Biden spoke during the commencement ceremony for Cypress Bay High School graduates at Marlins Park on June 4, 2012 in Miami, Florida. With Florida being an important swing state in the national election both Biden and President Barack Obama along with the Republican challengers are expected to make more campaign appearances before voters head to the polls in November. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)


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Dutch Government Collapses In Re-Emergence Of Europe's Far Right
April 23rd, 2012
(HigginsBlog) – The Dutch government has collapsed as the Prime Minister handed in his resignation following this weekends news of the rejection of austerity measures needed to save the Euro.
Today's bloodbath in global equity markets is about to get worse as news just hit the wire that the Dutch government has collapsed following the resignation of the nation's Prime Minister.
Europe Slumps To Three-Month Lows As Spain Nears 2009 Lows
European equity markets (blue) collapsed today back to Credit's reality and beyond as they broke to 3 month lows…
and IBEX near 2009′s lows…
As I reported on Saturday, the Dutch government was facing collapse after politicians rejected EU mandated austerity measures needed to secure an EU bailout to keep the Euro alive and fight of the contagion that has now officially led to a depression in Greece and has Spain teetering on the brink of collapse.
Making the bloodbath worse are news headlines that the Chinese manufacturing has contracted for 6th straight month in a row.
Combine that with news coming out of France that has the Global banking cartel shaking in fear – The candidate who won the first round of the French elections and is expected to win by a landslide in the upcoming run-off against Sarkozy plans on rejecting EU austerity measures while promising to "rip up France's agreement to the European fiscal pact."
That is truly disturbing news since the entire Eurozone is being kept afloat on the backs of German and French taxpayers.
Remove France from that picture and that leaves only Germany is the sole nation in Europe that can significantly fund the Ponzi Bond bailout.
Then there is the embarrassing secret memo to German Chancellor Merkel that was translated into English and leaked to market watch that could potentially destroy French-German diplomatic ties and even lead to the ousting of Merkel during the next election cycle.
Regardless of the future of French-German relations, Europe is witnessing the rise of far-right nationalism and populism that hasn't been seen since Hitler seized upon such sentiments. In fact, 18% of the first round of the French election went to the leader of what is described as France's "Neo-Nazi" party.
With the collapse of the Dutch government financial Armageddon only grows closer in Spain and the removal of French support for the EU's fiscal pact would be an absolute disaster for the Euro and the emergence of the far right among the masses in Europe spells real trouble for the globalist blanking cartel.
CNN reports on the Dutch government collapse.
Dutch government collapses after far right pulls plugSTORY HIGHLIGHTS
- NEW: Lammakers will meet Tuesday to decide how to go forward
- Mark Rutte's government depended on the support of Geert Wilders' Party for Freedom
- The far-right party did far better than anyone expected in 2010
- The country could hold new elections within months
(CNN) — Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte resigned Monday after a far-right party withdrew its support for his government, a government spokesman said.
The move may clear the way for early elections in the Netherlands, possibly as soon as this summer, the government said.
Lawmakers are scheduled to meet Tuesday to decide how to go forward.
Source: CNN
The secret leaked memo:
In the wake of the first round of the French presidential election, a leaked document from Berlin, conveniently and somewhat revealingly translated into English, has found its way into MarketWatch's hands.
Memo to Chancellor
Bundeskanzleramt, Berlin, 23 April 2012
From [ ] NAME BLACKED OUT
Esteemed Bundeskanzlerin, I am sorry. The results of the first round do not look good. I have to tell you that French elections traditionally propel change in the Franco-German monetary alignment. One of the reasons for monetary union in Europe was, as you may recall, to free us from the old style of doing things. But France is an old nation, and old patterns die hard. The French seem to be becoming more French, just as we are growing more German. So I would get ready, distinguished lady, for another change now. Read our full coverage of the French election.
1. Let history be your guide. Two months after the French presidential elections in June 1969 that brought Georges Pompidou to power, France devalued the franc. In March 1976 a regional election reverse for President Giscard d'Estaing's party prompted the franc's departure from the Snake (the forerunner of the European Monetary System, EMS). In March 1978 an unexpected victory for Raymond Barre in the parliamentary elections catalyzed Chancellor Schmidt and Giscard to press ahead with the EMS. François Mitterrand's May 1981 victory ushered in turbulence and three franc devaluations in the next 22 months. Victory for the right in the March 1986 parliamentary elections brought a franc devaluation one month afterwards.
2. In September 1992 the narrow referendum majority for the Maastricht treaty forced heavy franc selling, where the French only narrowly avoided devaluation after some furious encounters with the Bundesbank. In 1997 President Jacques Chirac rashly dissolved the National Assembly, allowing in a Socialist government under Lionel Jospin in June, undermining France's commitment to the single currency. Need I go on? I believe you get the message.
3. Spreads between French and German bonds will likely rise this week. In any public statements, avoid saying that a rise in French interest rates is a good thing that will force the French to be more disciplined. Leave that kind of thing to Weidmann at the Bundesbank. Anyway, he's more convincing that you are.
4. Consider appointing Hermann Gröhe ambassador to Mongolia! When you made him the general secretary of the Christian Democrat Party, surely part of his brief was not to travel to Paris in January and say you were going to campaign for Sarkozy. Gröhe's attacks on Hollande three months ago for proposing "outdated concepts and left-wing dreams from the ragbag of politics" may have appeared clever at the time. I recall witness you chortling over the choice of words. However you will probably be seeing Hollande as president-elect in just over two weeks. So you will have some explaining to do.
5. Gröhe said Germany needs "a strong France with a strong president at the helm." Tell Hollande we had him in mind all along. Also mention that the reason why you decided you didn't want to campaign for Sarkozy after all was because you wanted to even up the contest and give Hollande a sporting chance. Hollande's a decent man, and he'll have other things on his mind. He may act as though he believes you.
6. Hollande says he will renegotiate your favorite fiscal pact to produce more growth. Tell him that you, too, are in favor of that. The Germans are not masochists! We have added the word "growth" to various European texts (please see various enclosures). Believe me, it works wonders! A lot of people in Germany favor higher wages. And they all have votes! Your big problem will be to get the Bundesbank to pay for it. Ring Weidmann this afternoon and tell him … I mean, ask him, what he thinks of the idea. (But don't tell anyone you're doing it. It's strictly speaking illegal to give the Bundesbank instructions. Come to think of it, it may be time to set aside that bit of legislation. Leave it to me, I'll fix that.)
7. Commentators will emphasize that Sarkozy is the latest European leader to fall foul of the "EMU syndrome." They will say he's a loser. They are right. That's what makes him different from you. Don't forget this. In the German elections next year, you can buck the trend. You may have to call on the support of the Social Democratic Party. My advice is to telephone Peer Steinbrück. After all, as your finance minister in the Grand Coalition a few years ago, he had several furious rows with the French. A good man! Ask whether such a coalition could be put together again. Just in case.
8. If you can get on to the front foot with Hollande, and blame the previous gaffes on someone else, you will have a good chance of building an excellent relationship. Don't forget: All the leading Franco-German alliances since the Second World War have been between men (yes, all men) of differing political persuasions. You can do at least as well as they did.
9. Hollande will have lots of allies in Europe and so you had better get used to speaking to Social Democrats again.
10. Many people will point to Hollande's statement last week: "Germany cannot remain an island of prosperity in the middle of an ocean of recession." Building growth rather than pressing austerity could be an election winner. For you, I mean, not just for him! There's a downside: the Bundesbank will have to tolerate an inflation rate of 3% to 4% for the next few years as well as Germany moving to a current account deficit. You know this. Weidmann knows this. And you know Weidmann. He will have to see eye to eye with you on this. Weidmann can't have changed that much, surely, since he went off to Frankfurt a year ago? For a start, can you ask him to stop talking so much about Target-2? It's getting on everyone's nerves. Shall we speed up that telephone call to Weidmann? Shall I get him on the phone for you, immediately?
Source: Market Watch
My previous report on the Dutch government being on the brink of collapse:
The Dutch government is on the brink of collapse after politicians hit an impasse on implementing austerity measures required to secure a bailout.
As the economic and technical data points to financial Armageddon looming in Spain Dutch politicians are deadlocked over the decision to implement brutal austerity measures to secure an economic bailout or to tell the bankers to shove it and take the path of Iceland.
Dutch politicians have announced they can not come to an agreement on austerity limits required to secure the bailout to save the Dutch economy.
After failing to come to an agreement with the Prime Minister, Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders announced that his party no longer supports the government and is now calling for new elections to be held as soon as possible.
Press TV reports:
Dutch Government On Brink Of Collapse
The Dutch government is teetering on the brink of collapse following the failure of talks to decide whether to adopt austerity measures to cap the country's budget deficit.
Press TV – On Saturday, Prime Minister Mark Rutte and Freedom Party leader Geert Wilders were unable to come to an agreement on austerity measures to meet European Union limits.
Afterwards, Wilders stated that his party no longer supports the government and that new elections should take place, "the sooner the better."
Wilders "walked away at the very last moment," Rutte told reporters in The Hague, adding, "Elections are the next logical step."
The negotiations on a 16-billion-euro austerity package to rescue the Dutch economy began in early March after the economy plunged into recession and forecasts showed the 2013 budget deficit would reach 4.6 percent.
The worsening debt crisis has forced EU governments to adopt harsh austerity measures and tough economic reforms, which has led to social unrest and massive demonstrations in many eurozone states.
The news comes on reports that Spain is about to enter full scale collapse.
Financial Armageddon Approaches: Spain is About to Enter a Full-Scale Collapse
Economic data and technical data coming out of Spain is telling us point blank that disaster is looming and will trigger the dominos to fall across Europe.
The perfect storm of an economic collapse fueled by an all out housing and mortgage crash, a sovereign debt crisis, and a run on the over-leveraged unregulated Spanish banks is hammering Spain right now.
The IMF and the ECB knows that Spain is too big to bail out which is really bad news considering the economic data and technical indicators show irrefutable evidence that Spain is about to enter a full-scale collapse which will in turn send the dominoes falling across Europe.
Last year we were repeatedly warned that if Greece defaulted the result would be Financial Armageddon and even warned America could lose its financial sovereignty.
The when Greece finally defaulted, the media downplayed the ramifications and claimed the debt contagion wouldn't spread.
They lied and there is a reason that Spain has banned all cash transactions over 2,500 Euros and the IMF is raising the alarm that the debt crisis will persist throughout all of 2012.
There is a reason that the IMF is warning of a collapse of the Euro and full-blown financial panic.
Plain and simple, whether the media will admit it or not, Spain is next.
Brace yourself because doomsday is rapidly approaching for the entire global economic system.
Via Zero Hedge, Graham Summers reports:
Spain is About to Enter a Full-Scale Collapse.
A few facts about Spain:
• Total Spanish banking loans are equal to 170% of Spanish GDP.
• Troubled loans at Spanish Banks just hit an 18-year high.
• Spanish Banks are drawing a record €316.3 billion from the ECB
(up from €169.2 billion in February).
Things have gotten so bad that Spanish citizens are pulling their money out of Spain en masse: €65 billion left the Spanish banking system in March 2012 alone.
Source: Alexander Higgins
April 23, 2012


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Dr. Peter Hudson informs PGTC meeting attendees about Red Grouse biology in Scotland.
The Sutton Center has hosted three major scientific conferences in recent years. In November of 2001, the Sutton Center, the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service together hosted the Prairie Grouse Technical Council biennial meeting. Held in Woodward, this northwest Oklahoma town is within the Lesser Prairie-Chicken's breeding range.
About 130 grouse biologists from the U.S., Canada, and even Scotland attended this meeting to share research results and participate in field trips to local ranches which are home to prairie-chickens.
In October 1995, the Sutton Center and the Association of Field Ornithologists joined forces to host the International Conference and Training Workshop on the Ecology and Conservation of Grassland Birds, held in Tulsa, OK. Nearly 300 people from throughout the Western Hemisphere gathered to share information on grassland birds, which as a group are declining faster than any other group of species. Over the three days of the conference, about 60 oral scientific papers were presented.
Additionally, 27 poster papers were displayed. A field trip to the Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve rounded out the activities. The proceedings from this conference were published as part of the Studies in Avian Biology series produced by the Cooper Ornithological Society. To order Studies in Avian Biology 19, send $25 U.S. for paperback or $39.50 for hardcover to Cooper Ornithological Society, c/o Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 439 Calle San Pablo, Camarillo, CA 93010.
Call for availability. The phone number is (805) 388-9944.
The Sutton Center also hosted the 1991 annual meeting of the Raptor Research Foundation, held in Tulsa in November.
Area rancher Dan O'Hair points out Lesser Prairie-Chicken habitat on his ranch during the PGTC meeting.
Conference attendees fan out across The Nature Conservancy's Tallgrass Prairie Preserve, wrapping up the three-day Grassland Birds Conference.
Concurrent paper sessions allowed 60 presentations to be made in two days at the Grassland Birds Conference.
Poster presentations displayed additional original research at the Grassland Birds conference.
As the Grassland Birds conference banquet speaker, Jerome Jackson gave insights into the life and work of George Miksch Sutton.
The PGTC paper sessions took place in the historic downtown Woodward Theater.


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After receiving thousands of reports of complications related to transvaginal mesh, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued warnings related to the use of this mesh to treat two common conditions in women, pelvic organ prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. In spite of these warnings, hundreds of thousands of women continue to receive transvaginal mesh implants, suffering serious mesh complications as a result. A vaginal mesh lawsuit is being prepared to help these women recover damages.
We are now accepting vaginal mesh lawsuit cases across the country in all the following states:
Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
In 1996, the FDA approved transvaginal mesh for the treatment of stress urinary incontinence. The mesh was approved to treat pelvic organ prolapse in 2002.
In October 2008, the FDA issued a public health notification to warn of serious complications related to the implantation of transvaginal mesh to treat pelvic prolapse and stress urinary incontinence. During the three years prior to that warning, the FDA had received more than 1,000 reports of complications related to vaginal mesh produced by nine manufacturers.
The FDA reports that in 2010, approximately 300,000 women had transvaginal surgery to correct pelvic prolapse, while nearly 260,000 had transvaginal surgery for stress urinary incontinence, and a large percentage of these surgeries used mesh to treat both conditions. That's more than half a million women in one year. It can then be concluded that over the past 15 years, millions of women have had these devices implanted, and are now at risk to suffer the side effects associated with transvaginal mesh.
Numerous complications have been linked to transvaginal mesh, the most common including infection, urinary problems, pain, vaginal tissue erosion, and a recurrence of the initial condition (pelvic prolapse or stress urinary incontinence).
Other mesh complications include, but are not limited to bleeding, neuromuscular problems, pain during sexual intercourse, vaginal shrinkage or scarring, and emotional issues.
Some mesh complications are related to, and occurred during the surgical procedures used to implant the transvaginal mesh, and include vaginal scarring, and perforation of the bladder, bowel, or blood vessels, all of which can lead to infection, pain, and a significant decrease in the quality of life of the patient.
If you have had transvaginal mesh implanted, and have experienced complications such as bleeding, pain, a recurrence of the original condition, pain during intercourse, or any other out-of-the-ordinary symptoms, you should consult your doctor immediately to determine whether the complications were caused by the mesh.
Urogynecologic surgical mesh, also known as transvaginal mesh or simply vaginal mesh, is an implant made from either synthetic material that can be absorbable or non-absorbable by the body, or of absorbable biologic material. It is implanted transvaginally to treat urogynecologic conditions, most commonly pelvic organ prolapse, and stress urinary incontinence. When used as a treatment for pelvic prolapse, its purpose is to reinforce the vaginal wall. For stress urinary incontinence, it acts as a support for the urethra or neck of the bladder.
This condition is different from generalized incontinence in that stress urinary incontinence, also called stress incontinence or SUI, is brought about by an activity like exercise, or by a sudden stress imposed on the body by an event such as sneezing, coughing, laughing, or even lifting something heavy. In addition to causing inconvenience, it can be a source of tremendous embarrassment for the women who suffer from it.
Two muscles are related to the control of urine flow in the body, the sphincter and the detrusor. The sphincter is a circular muscle which surrounds the urethra. Squeezing this muscle prevents urine from being expelled from the body, or leaking out when a sudden stressful bodily event occurs. The detrusor muscle is located in the bladder wall, and usually remains in a relaxed state, allowing the bladder to expand as it fills.
Stress urinary incontinence occurs when one or both of these muscles is weakened, causing the body to lose control of urine flow, which can result in urine being involuntarily expelled from the body, especially when you cough, sneeze, or laugh. It is the most common type of urinary incontinence suffered by women, and is often treated with surgery, including the implantation of transvaginal mesh to support the urethra and the bladder.
Other than simply being female, other factors increase the risk of developing stress urinary incontinence, including, but not limited to:
If one or more of these factors applies to you, then you are at greater risk of developing stress urinary incontinence.
To understand this condition, also known as pelvic organ prolapse or POP, it is necessary to first understand that prolapse means to fall down or slip out of place. When the pelvic floor weakens, and it no longer able to support the organs housed in the pelvic area, those organs may slip from their normal positions, resulting in pelvic organ prolapse. This can occur with one or more organs that reside in this area, including the uterus, vagina, cervix, urethra, rectum, and most commonly, the bladder.
It's quite common for the muscles that make up the pelvic floor to become weakened as a result of childbirth. Other causes include, but are not limited to, frequent constipation, connective tissue disorder, genetic predisposition, obesity, or simply age. Many women may have pelvic prolapse and not even realize it because the symptoms are so mild. When the symptoms do present in a more aggressive manner, they can include pain, discomfort, urinary incontinence, sexual difficulties, and most seriously, the bulging of tissues or organs beyond the vaginal opening.
While pelvic prolapse can be treated without surgery, once it progresses to the point of chronic pain, incontinence, or bulging of the internal tissues and organs outside the body, surgery is usually recommended. A surgeon will restore any prolapsed organs to their original positions, and may reinforce the pelvic and vaginal walls with transvaginal mesh in an effort to prevent pelvic organ prolapse from recurring.
The FDA issues its original warning about serious complications related to the implantation of transvaginal mesh in October 2008. This warning was updated and reissued in July 2011, with two major revelations:
Despite the thousands of reports of mesh complications, and the warnings issued by the FDA, there is currently no transvaginal mesh recall in effect.
Several companies manufacture transvaginal mesh implants, including, but not limited to, the ones listed below. If you're not sure what brand of mesh you received, or if it's a brand associated with mesh complications, check with your doctor.
If you have a transvaginal mesh implant, you may be eligible to participate in a vaginal mesh lawsuit. We work with clients across the country for mesh lawsuits. Contact one of our experienced defective medical device attorneys immediately for a free consultation by filling out our contact us form or by calling us toll free at (877) 917-5250.
If you don't have a vaginal mesh implant, you should know that several other defective medical devices have been recalled. Please see our other information pages to find out if you are affected by any other medical device recall:


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Lindsay Lohan has lined up a new gig – as a Playboy girl.
LiLo is posing for Hugh Hefner's Playboy magazine, a source told Access Hollywood.
The source told Access Lohan is disrobing for the spread, which is being shot this week in LA.
When contacted by Access, a rep for the actress said, "I cannot confirm at this time."
A spokesperson for Playboy also had no comment on the report.
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According to TMZ, Playboy reportedly offered the actress $750,000 to strip down. However, she countered, asking for a million dollar payday.
While the magazine would not cough up $1 million, they did reportedly come up from their original offer, which was enough to get the deal done.
In the meantime, Lohan's other gig is community service.
The actress has been ordered to spend 16 hours of community service at the Los Angeles Coroner's Office before her next hearing on Nov. 2, where she'll face the music after a judge ruled she violated her probation.
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She already performed one shift at the Coroner's Office last Friday.
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The Latest TheraBreath Blog Reviews and GiveawaysFriday, August 12th, 2011
Please note: if you have already been lucky enough to win one of these bloggers giveaways, please refrain from entering in order to allow others to win. Thank you!
Healthy Housewife Files has posted her TheraBreath Review. This busy wife and blogger was ideal for testing our products. In her review, she writes "As many of you know, I work as a special education teacher for preschool children with special needs. Specifically, my job is to work with them one-on-one on skills that they are struggling with. They come to my office and sit with me at my table while we work/play. This calls for very close contact. Those of you who have children or who are around them often know that they say whatever is on their minds. They will not hesitate to tell you, 'Your breath stinks.'" Were our TheraBreath toothpaste, oral rinse and mouth wetting lozenges her savior or a waste of her time? You'll have to go here to find out.
Kimberley Moments has posted her TheraBreath review and giveaway. She too tested out our toothpaste, lozenges and oral rinse. She had various opinions on our products, one she didn't like very much at all and we appreciate her honesty. Luckily, someone else loved it. "My fiance Timothy used it and loved it. So it all is based on preferences. He was like 'Babe i'm keeping the mouthwash K?' I was like 'Go at it!'" It's great to see someone in her family did like it! She also was very sweet and shared our lozenges with her uncle. "As soon as I was eating one I was thinking OMG, my uncle Nathan might benefit from these mints. What made me think of that is he is in remit-ion from cancer and having radiation in his mouth killed his saliva glands. His mouth gets super dooper dry. I gave him a handful to try and he was happy about them. They truly did help with his dry mouth while sucking on one." We're so glad that we could help Uncle Nathan with his dry mouth! Go here to read the entire review and to enter her TheraBreath giveaway too!
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Tracey Eaton
Tracey Eaton has been a journalist and photographer since 1983. He was the Dallas Morning News bureau chief in Cuba from 2000 to early 2005. Before that, he headed the paper's Mexico City bureau.
Since 2010, he has taken photos and written freelance articles for the Florida Center for Investigative Journalism, USA Today, Al Jazeera, the South Florida Sun Sentinel and other news organizations.
He travels to Havana regularly. In 2008, he created a Cuba blog called Along the Malecón, and in 2010 he founded an investigative journalism website called the Cuba Money Project.
Eaton received Pulitzer Center grants to support his reporting in Cuba in 2010 and 2011.
In 2014 and 2015, Eaton assisted a Pulitzer Prize-winning team that produced an investigative project called "Plundering America: The Cuban Criminal Pipeline." The South Florida Sun Sentinel published the three-part series in January 2015 after a year-long investigation. It found that the U.S. government's preferential treatment of Cuban immigrants "fueled a criminal pipeline from Cuba to Florida, enabling crooks from the island to rob American businesses and taxpayers of more than $2 billion over two decades."
Eaton, a former Fulbright scholar, has worked for seven daily newspapers, including the Miami Herald. He was metropolitan editor at the Houston Chronicle before moving to Florida.
Eaton is a member of Investigative Reporters & Editors and the National Press Photographers Association.
Eaton has conducted journalism workshops in Guatemala, Bolivia and Nicaragua, and has been an invited speaker at conferences in Mexico, Colombia, Costa Rica and Cuba.
He is fluent in written and spoken Spanish.
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ST. ALBANS, Maine (NEWS CENTER) --- Many people with ties to St. Albans have been taking advantage of one way to 'mark' the town's 200th birthday.
For four days the post office in St. Albans has been using a special cancellation postmark. The mark goes on a piece of mail to show that's its stamp has been used.
The special commemorative postmark was designed using the newly unveiled seal for St. Albans. It features the town's lake, dam and mountains --- all with the year 1813, which is when St. Alban's was first founded.
Town officials say they took a number of submissions for the seal's design. Eventually they choose the work of resident Nekisha Rowe.
The special postmark first became available to the public on June 14th, which is St. Albans official birthday. Postal workers say you can send them a self addressed stamped envelope for the next 30 days if you would like to have the seal as a keepsake.
Simply send your stamped piece of mail to:
Postmaster, 27 Main Street, St. Albans, ME 04971.
For more information, customers may call Postmaster Lary Greaves at (207)938-2865.
Postmaster, 27 Main Street, St. Albans, ME 04971.


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Buddhism is Different: Finding Enlightenment on the Middle Path.
Buddhism is different. So different in fact, that people often wonder what it is. Is it a religion? Or is it a philosophy? Or a science? And if it is a religion, why does it seem to be different from most other religions?
Above all else, Buddhism is . . . a story. And this is not so different from other religions in the sense that all religions are stories. They are stories designed to teach us about where we came from, where we are going, and how to live.
Buddhism tells the story of Siddhartha Gautama, a wealthy prince, who after living a sheltered life of decadence and luxury, discovers the poverty and suffering outside of his palace walls. So he renounces all the pleasures of his life and turns to a life of poverty and asceticism. But after years of semi-starvation and sleeping on beds of nails, he realizes that this immersion into suffering is only another distraction from the impermanence of life, just like his life of luxury and pleasure.
The Buddha (or "awakened one" as he came to be called) finds enlightenment in "the middle path," not denying himself pleasure or pain but becoming attuned to the experiences of life and to the connectedness between himself and all living things. Upon finding this pathway to enlightenment, the Buddha began teaching others, by telling them his story. And so began Buddhism.
But Buddhism is different from other religions in several ways:
- Buddhism is more about life and less about the afterlife. It is less about how we got here, and where we go when we die, and more about how we live while we are here. Buddhism was born from the roots of Vedic Brahamanism where they believed in cycles of reincarnation that explain what happens to our souls before we are born and after we die. Questions of soul and afterlife are important, but the Buddha was focused on understanding how we can release ourselves from human suffering in the course of our lives.
- Buddhism is more about rituals and less about deities. In Buddhism, the rituals and practice of life is more important than the gods you worship, or how you worship them.
- Buddhism is more about truths and less about commandments. The Buddha discovered the four noble truths and the eight-fold path to enlightenment. Unlike commandments and other religious doctrines, these are not rules that must be obeyed to avoid some kind of punishment in the afterlife. They are observations about the way life works and the steps towards living a better one.
- Buddhism is more about getting closer to humanity and less about getting closer to God. While many religions teach about God and how to establish a relationship with our Creator, Buddhism is about feeling our own humanity. In other religions, grace comes from divinity, in Buddhism grace comes from within. Grace comes from the compassion that one feels by recognizing that we are all connected.
- Buddhism and science accommodate each other rather than contradict each other. Psychology research on mindfulness, meditation, compassion, psychological flexibility, curiosity, and acceptance and commitment theory all seem to support the teachings of Buddhism. And the Dalai Lama has said that if science uncovers new findings that challenge the teachings of Buddhism, then Buddhists will need to adapt their beliefs to accommodate what science discovers.
It is not my intention to disparage other religions or to hold up Buddhism as the one, true religion. But I do think other religions could learn from the Buddhist approach to science. As scientific research continues to grow on morality, compassion and spirituality, we are moving into a new era where science and religion could begin to support each other rather than be at odds. I like to imagine a future where you don't have to choose between being religious and being scientific. One day, we will find enlightenment on the middle path.
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Everything has a 'story.' I like how you introduce Buddhism as that, a story….I really like that. It is all the things you mention, but it has a story, and everyone loves a good story
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Thank you for this article, Jeremy. In my own experience, I appreciate the story of the Buddha, but I tend to think of what I have learned from Buddhism as tools. I have never gotten a complete toolkit for peace and happiness that I can use right now from other religions. That fact has made the definition of Buddhism less and less important to me while the practice has become all the more profound and sacred.
Why compare? Why measure? Why do the very thing these various paths advise us against? Science and some aspects of religion may be reconcilable. But ultimately, religion as I understand it, is about transcending comparison and measurement. And, Science may never get its head wrapped around that. Yes, this is a position too. The middle path is not a path.
"No path exists through the air"
"A position is something a Tathagata has done away with" – Buddha
I utterly agree, as I was raised Christian, and now have opted out of any form of formal religion but am at the most spiritual, happy and at peace place in my being as a result of that. I know what I believe, and I know what is right I see no need to argue that one religion is more about this, or more about that….Its irrelevant, what matters, is what you believe and what you know.
my best friend is a phd in neuroscience, we have amazing 'mindwalks' ~ he the biologist, me the buddhist, where we travel on a journey together, gently challenging and deconstructing beliefs and find that 3 hours later we meet in the same place
Ben, thank you for your comments which I think are fair and insightful. I agree with you, I am comparing an idealized version of buddhism to the "institutionalized" (to borrow the phrase from Ozz) versions of other religions. In fact, I think the teachings of Jesus Christ in their original idealized form would not have differed much from the way I described buddhism above (your point about the Kingdom at hand is a perfect example). I think Ozz is right about institutionalization and perhaps the difference in Buddhism is it seems to accept secularization in a way that other religions don't.
Karthik, your comment is beautiful . . . why compare? Personally, I like to do scientific analysis, to compare, to inquire, to understand. But I also realize that sometimes the answer comes from letting go of asking questions.
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Subject: About "Buddhists will need to adapt their beliefs to accommodate what science discovers".
Dear Sir,
I am from Thailand. Directly I like come our main point. The His Holiness Dalai Lama is one of Buddhist Sects Leader.
If he say some thing, It would be acceptable for others sometimes. Buddhism no need to adapt to others. It is beyound to others to understand what is in Tripitaka or holy Buddhist Book. You should read it for your understand than compare with it. About Universe You can read the Buddha's first Sermon The Dhammacakkapavattana Sutra. Mentioned that many universe are there. But Still Scientist can't find out it too. Last time, I heard that they got only 13. I hope you will read Buddhist Holy Books than you compare with it better. Thanks
I can see the importance of not putting focus on such things as reincarnation in an article such as this for consumption for the masses.
Think upon human nature: if they are given the impression karma will be exacted in their next life, what motivation do they have to be mindful today?
That having been said, I agree with the article, as well as statements from both you and Ozz.
They both carry relevant weight, yet, knowing human nature, to have the generalized masses utilize buddhism for its intentions, rather than abused for perceived "benefits", I feel this article may be precisely what is necessary.