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Archive for February 12th, 2010
Greetings, folks. Thanks to my trusty, awesome colleague Liz Whitehurst, I haven't been around but it's nice to be back!
We have a few dispatches from LA and the Families Conference, which is currently in it's last day in sunny California. After 3+ days of speakers, workshops, keynotes, and plenty of weather/travel trouble, Alliance staff will be returning from the land of beachy sunshine to the snowy aftermath of our east coast blizzards.
Which isn't to say that they haven't had their share of troubles. Turns out, weather troubles on the east had a noted impact on the west! Stranded speakers led to some creative thinking for the staff!
Amanda Krusemark, our newly-promoted Programs & Policy Associate – shares her dispatch from the conference after a long couple first days…
Waiting for…airplanes…
I'm lucky I didn't have any trouble with the airport. I spent frantic hours on Monday trying to change my flight on Tuesday so that I wouldn't get stuck in the snowstorm. I ended up leaving Dulles at 8 a.m. on Tuesday and made it out with no problems whatsoever. I'm lucky I was able to get out so early, ahead of the storm.
Our colleagues, though, – Sharon, Sarah, and Steve – ended up getting in a car and DRIVING to Richmond chasing a flight! It turns out they were able to get on the plane, make a connection, and got to Los Angeles by 1 a.m. Tuesday night.
I think it was a VERY long day for them.
BUT despite escaping the snow in DC, we landed in LA only to find rain and wind! FAIL. It was kind of disappointing, actually. That was Tuesday, though, but it has been sunny every day since, and I think it will be nice tomorrow, too. Thank goodness for the small blessings.
One the ground and working it out…
My moderator, Andrea White, got stuck in NYC and wasn't going to be able to lead an advanced rent assistance workshop. She was going to lead a really deep discussion about targeting rent assistance. Luckily, our colleague Sharon was able to step in and fill her spot. Unluckily, though, I managed to misplace (or maybe even leave in the office on Thursday before the first of the snow hit?) my notes for the workshop. So, I couldn't find my notes and I/we had to brief Sharon on what the workshop would be about, what her role should be, some of the key questions we planned to ask, etc. Luckily, Sharon is really knowledgeable about this stuff and she and the other speakers (who are all true experts) and me were able to recreate and slightly modify the plan.
It worked out pretty well, actually. But that was AFTER I spent 30 minutes running around the hotel asking everyone if they had seen my notebook and spending another 30 minutes trying to jot down notes from memory!
Keynotes & Highlights…
Mercedes Marquez, Assistant Secretary for community planning and development at HUD – the department that oversees all the homeless programs – was the keynote, and I thought she made some great points.
She really highlighted some key parts of the president's budget and how HUD is working to increase intra and inter-departmental coordination and collaboration. She pointed out that most programs were NOT designed to work together when they were created. HUD is working to change that, though. They are trying to be really intentional in incorporating coordination and collaboration into the program design for some new and current programs.
I also met some really interesting folks today!
I really think that's one of my favorite parts of the conference – seeing who comes and hearing all of the interesting things that people are doing and what their perspectives are on the issues and the solutions.
That's really the purpose of Alliance conference in the first place, you know? We create a space where people who work in our field are able to come together, learn from each other, network and collaborate, and meet our collective ends. It's what makes me feel so good – even if we're exhausted! – after our conference. This is a key part of the Alliance's contribution to the conversation.
"Never has there been a more salient time to discuss the pressing issue of family homelessness," said Nan Roman. "We're faced with economic instability, rising unemployment, and an anticipated rise in homelessness. At the same time, we see increased attention to the crisis, both from the mainstream media and from the federal government. Now is the time for a serious conversation about systematic change; now is the time to face our challenges head-on."
There's a tidbit from the Alliance's National Conference on Ending Family Homelessness, going on now in LA. PATH Partners' Joel John Roberts reports on the event here.
As we gathered in LA, some leaders in the field of permanent supportive housing got some much-deserved press this week. Jennifer Ho, who recently joined the federal Interagency Council on Homelessness, discussed the transformation of services in Minnesota. In an interview with Good Magazine, Roseanne Haggerty says: "Communities willing to work on getting people housed instead of letting the homeless drift between shelters, hospitals and jails can solve homelessness." Couldn't have said it better ourselves.
And while we've been focusing on the federal this week, folks at the local level have been making some major progress: with youth in Worcester, for veterans in Utah, for chronically homeless people in Alaska (great analysis in this piece), with housing in South Dakota.
There's also been some significant research findings out this week. One finds that despite an increase in public aid programs – TANF and SNAP benefits, for example – for struggling families, many still lack access to assistance they need. Another examines the impact of rising unemployment on NYC's families and the programs designed to mediate it.
In the blogopshere, the Coalition for the Homeless Central Florida posted a moving piece on their clients' New Year's resolutions, while on the Change.org End Homelessness blog, David Henderson talks about homeless service providers working themselves out of business.
Here in DC, business is slowly returning to usual after this week's snowpocalypse, but I'm still thinking about the impact the snow had on the District's most vulnerable residents. Reports from NYC and Philly describe a shelter system stressed to the breaking point. Here's to a weekend that's safe and warm for all.


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You Give Love a Bad Name
This is my favorite song even now here in 2012. I love listening to it and playing on guitar hero. I think this should be his top song. I never stop listening to it, I probably never will. I mean livin' on a prayer isn't that great. I listen to it non stop on the bus.
One of the greats- you gotta love this song- the beat is brilliant and it's more likeable when you can relate to it. The tune's good as well- can't get better than this.
Listen. Livin on a Prayer is cool. But it will NEVER match You Give Love a Bad Name. That little guitar riff Richie does is simple yet AMAZING. Best Bon Jovi song.
Such an amazing song overall, every part of it, from the instruments to the lyrics, the chorus and just everything. Not to mention that it has a great energy.
One of the best rock songs ever written, along with Bohemian Rhapsody ~ Queen, This song is catchy and so clever, a really good song live as well... : D
I listen this song everywhere every time, n this song the best in my opinion cause this song so gentlemen and romantic rock forever and ever
This song I s to Bon Jovi what jump in to Van Halen. Slippery when wet has the top 3 Bon Jovi Songs ever & this is the gold medal winner!
This one and wanted dead or alive are just classic love them to death when I didn't have this album it was wanted (pun intended)
The sort of song that makes you want to drunkenly sing along while playing guitar on the piece of wood you glued to your hand...
I thought for sure this one would be the first, or at least the second. This is one of my favorite songs of all time, it's awesome.
My favorite song ever. I listen to this every day and still adore it. This song should be rated #1 in all charts for Bon Jovi
The sort of song that makes you go "yeah. Life is awesome". Definitely the best by Bon Jovi and my favourite song ever.
THIS SONG IS SO THE TOP. If you don't think this song is good, your insane, the electric solo beats all! GO BON JOVI!
This is the best bon jovi song! It should be number one even though it's not as famous as livin on a prayer
This song is one of the songs on my get psyched mix... Awesome song... Deserves to stand first on this list..!
The most kick ass song of all time. When you hear it you just get that super psyched feeling rising up in your chest and you want to shout and dance and be awesome. I love everthing by Bon Jovi but this is definitely the best.
The guitar in this song is epic! Best song, awesome lyrics... It gives you so much energy!
The very beginning really makes an impact. It's great from the start and is simply awesome.
I wasn't partial to this song at first, but it grew on me. Now, it's one of my favourite songs.
Living on a prayer = 1
Its my life = 2
You give love a bad name = 3
People who vote on here aren't fans, that's why livin on a prayer goes straight to one because they have only heard of that song and act like they know everything
More clever lyrics, better instrumentals, and stronger solo than "Livin on a Prayer. "
Great bon jovi it's the song on How I Met Your Mother
This song is amazing! Best rock music in the 90s! This should be number 1!
They say "it's my life" is the best but this completly false just a full classic Bon Jovi track like "You give love a bad name" can be their best. A true classic old, but gold Bon Jovi song what is their best!
This song is absolutely amazing I hear it way to the school everyday!


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Brain hemorrhage might explain the actress' sudden death, doctors say
THURSDAY, March 19 (HealthDay News) -- With results of an autopsy on Natasha Richardson expected later Thursday, many are wondering how the acclaimed actress apparently suffered devastating brain damage after a seemingly minor fall on a beginner's ski slope in Canada.
The New York City medical examiner was performing the autopsy. The 45-year-old Richardson reportedly suffered a head injury after falling Tuesday during a private lesson at a resort in Quebec, according to the Associated Press. She died Wednesday.
"If you take the name Natasha Richardson out of the picture and ask how a neurosurgeon would think of a case where someone has a fall which seems fairly minor and then deteriorates a few hours later, quite a few things would go through the surgeon's differential thinking," explained Dr. Arno Fried, chairman of neurosurgery at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey. "It's not an uncommon scenario."
A worse-case scenario would be bleeding either on the surface or deep inside the brain, Fried said.
And this does fit with many of the details of Richardson's accident that are known at this time. According to news reports, the award-winning actress fell during a beginner skiing lesson Tuesday afternoon at the Mont Tremblant ski resort north of Montreal. She was not wearing a helmet.
Richardson suffered no immediately apparent injuries and was able to walk and talk right after the accident. "She was awake and alive and laughing and breathing," Catherine Lacasse, the public relations supervisor for Mont Tremblant Resorts, told Bloomberg News. "She refused to see a doctor. She said she was fine and everything was OK."
However, Richardson reported a headache about an hour after the mishap and her condition deteriorated. She was taken by ambulance to a nearby hospital, then transferred to Ho
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Hansen Clarke speaks to a Free Press reporter at the newspaper in Detroit on Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. / PATRICIA BECK/Detroit Free Press
WASHINGTON U.S. House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi released a statement Wednesday thanking U.S. Rep. Hansen Clarke for his service the last two years in Congress.
The statement comes a day after Clarke, a Detroit Democrat, lost in the primary for U.S. Rep. Gary Peters of Bloomfield Township. Clarke won the seat two years ago after defeating former U.S. Rep. Carolyn Kilpatrick in the Democratic primary.
By winning the primary, Peters is considered the overwhelming favorite to win the general election in November.
From his first days in the House, Congressman Clarke made his presence known as a fierce fighter for the rights and protections of homeowners in Detroit and nationwide hardest-hit by the foreclosure crisis, said Pelosi, a former House speaker and California Democrat. He worked to ensure that manufacturing jobs stay on our shores and pay our workers a decent wage, and he acted to invest in new technologies.


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Presents highlights of a symposium sponsored by NIDA in October 2008 to discuss adolescent brain and cognitive development and consider the impact of drug abuse on young people.
Highlights an animal study involving the self-administration of nicotine among adolescent and adult rats to gain understanding of their potential vulnerability to the substance.
Describes findings from an animal study showing that cocaine lowers availability of dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia, an area of the brain that includes portions of the reward system.
December 2008
Remembers Henry I. "Hank" Yamamura, an eminent neuropharmacologist who pioneered radioligand binding assays, contributing valuable knowledge about neurotransmitter transporters and receptors.
Reports on an animal study showing that methadone, normally used as a therapy for opioid abuse, may prove to be an effective treatment for cocaine abuse.
Highlights a computerized intervention that reduced new mothers' drug abuse in the first 4 months postpartum as reported in a clinical trial of 107 women who abused drugs.
Reports on research showing that increasing the mandatory drug court monitoring sessions for high-risk drug offenders can enhance program success rates.
Reports on a link between mental disorders, including mood, anxiety, or personality disorder and nicotine dependence in pregnancy women.
Reports on study results indicating a medication prescribed for schizophrenia and manic phases of bipolar disorder shows promise as a cocaine addiction treatment.
Highlights results from a pilot study suggesting that lofexidine, an anti-hypertensive medication, can enhance success rates among patients taking maintenance naltrexone to avoid opioid relapse.


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I stumbled onto a new trail snack ,fried green peas from nutty guys.com at an albertsons store. A serving is 30 grms slightly less then a half cup. 120 cals,3 gms fat,18 gms carbs,7 gms protein,5 gms fiber, and 10 grms iron.Which isn't too bad a balance, real crunchy. Haven't tried tossing them into anything [I ate the whole bag].They also have a wasabi flavor.
Similar item I've enjoyed for years: wasabi peas - one of my favorite trail snacks. Usually available in the Asian aisle of the grocery store (Hapi brand is my favorite - no MSG).
10 grams of iron per 30 gram serving: it must contain nails!
Sorry, I just copied the nutritional value label without thinking what 1/3 iron might mean. I did just check their website and it doesn't elaborate further so it must be, duh, a label error.
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Larry,How do you use your compass with a belly full of these peas? Maybe the iron is where they get the "crunch".
Edited by redleader on 05/16/2007 14:32:28 MDT.
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How your friends really are richer, happier and more popular than you
Researchers have revealed first mathematical proof explaining the reason it might always seem like everyone else is doing better than you, claiming that it's not just our own insecurities and aspirations that make us look longingly at our peers.
Researchers at universities in France and Finland claimed that their discovery is based on the "generalised friendship paradox", the Independent reported.
It was revealed that most people have only a small number of friends, but, a few people have a significantly greater number of pals and it is this second category that distorts how you regard your friendship group as a whole.
Young-Ho Eom at the University of Toulouse and Hang-Hyun Jo at Aalto University in Finland said the paradox can be understood as a sampling bias in which individuals having more friends are more likely to be observed by their friends.
The pair established that positive characteristics within networks, like wealth, apparent success, and even happiness, will on average be experienced more by other people.
They found that these so-called "network characteristics" followed the same mathematical patterns as the network itself.
The duo suggested that while we will naturally be biased towards thinking ourselves "worse" when we compare ourselves to our so-called "better" friends, the same still applies "comparing to the average friend".
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Jon Stewart Calls Out NBC News For Not Reporting on GE's $0 Tax Bill (VIDEO)
While the article got a ton of play across the media, Jon Stewart and 'The Daily Show's (Weeknights, 11PM ET on Comedy Central) crack team of video-watchers found that there was one particular media organization that completely ignored this stunning revelation on the day the news broke.
And that would be NBC. Which is owned by ... GE.
NBC News Chief Defends Jeff Zucker
While the NBC broadcast network hemorrhages cash, NBCU's cable consortium makes money in buckets. Even in the NBC microcosm, NBC News is making money with 'Today' and the 'NBC Nightly News' while the entertainment and sports divisions aren't doing well. Which is why it's not surprising that news president Steve Capus defended his boss to Jon Friedman of Marketwatch.com.
Even a takeover can't save NBC
Comcast has been looking to buy the financially troubled NBC from General Electric, but Wall Street insiders say the deal won't be good for Comcast's stock.
Even confirmed reports of a takeover bid can't save the network in the eyes of the almighty stockholder. What would make NBC more profitable in Wall Street's eyes?
Review: 30 Rock - Into The Crevasse
(S04E02) "This isn't the auto industry, Pete. The auto industry was run by a bunch of out of touch white guys selling consumers a product they didn't want. We're GE damn it, and we're going to make a giant, flimsy microwave." - Jack
It's funny how Liz Lemon wrote the book titled Dealbreakers (a plot from last season they've continued this season). You can actually picture a book like that getting published. There must have been a hundred humor books like that released in the past five years, so this doesn't seem like one of those "crazy" fake books that a TV show comes out with. Actually, I'm surprised NBC hasn't actually published a book to cross-promote the show. Hey, Castle did it.
I just hope that the book that Tina Fey is writing isn't like that.
Al Roker, NBCU and the Weather Channel
It was all really uncomfortable, obvious and out of place when you are tuning in for news, politics, some pop culture and get NBCU corporate cheerleaders in full pom-pom mode.
Okay, enough ranting; there is some news to report. If the deal goes through -- and it will -- Today weatherman Al Roker may be relocating or he'll be repurposed, becoming the face of The Weather Channel.
Eight real world moments in reel TV
1) Cowboy Up Time
Remember the episode of Lost when Ben wanted to convince Jack that he was in communication with the world outside the island? To prove that he was telling the truth, he showed Jack a video of the Boston Red Sox winning the world series in 2004. You can't get more real than that, right? And yet it was used in one of the most out of this world shows on the air. In fact, using Lost's own terminology, the Red Sox video is a constant truth in a universe that's a complete fiction.
Harvey Pekar does Letterman - VIDEO
First, some background:
Harvey Pekar is best known for writing the comic book series American Splendor about life in his hometown of Cleavland, Ohio. Robert Crumb offered to illustrate Pekar's stories after the two men struck up a friendship.
Pekar became a minor celebrity (well, minor in the "mainstream" sense) and it afforded him a few appearances on NBC's Late Night with David Letterman. In one of the show's most memorable moments, Pekar had more than a few nasty things to say about General Electric, the company that owns NBC. The incident got him booted from the show for awhile, but eventually he was asked to come back.
Wired looks at the history of the TV set
If I could pick my dream television set, and it would appear magically in my living room, maybe delivered by Jeannie or Samantha Stevens or some other TV character that could wave her hand or twitch her nose, I would take one of those cool sets from the 50s, with the insides being modern, of course. I want the look of the 50s, but I don't want to be stuck with the four or so stations they had back then. (And yes I know there are companies that sell them, but they're out of my income bracket.)
Thursday was product placement night on NBC
The first one was when we saw The Office's Kevin going nuts over the Staples MailMate shredder. "This shreds eveything," he says with a sense of childlike wonder. "It shreds CDs. It shreds credit cards..." The look on his face after he realized he shredded his own credit card is priceless, as was the salad he made with the shredder right before the credits. Oh, and by the way, Staples had an ad for the MailMate during the "supersized" episode.
Bravo launching gay & lesbian channel online
Outzone is the third broadband broadcasting project for Bravo. Last year, the company announced it was shutting down Trio on the air and putting it exclusively on the web. It also created a spin-off web channel, BrilliantbutCancelled.com, which currently offers episodes of only one show, EZ Streets, starring Joe Pantoliano.
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Where did they get the wig to fix her fivehead?
Bangs. Excellent choice.
Bad casting. Everyone knows that all women in the '60s had great racks.
She used to have a fantastic rack…then she became retarded and got rid of it.
Vanishing Ricci curvature! Ho ho ho and Goodnight.
That can't be Christina Ricci, Christina Ricci is only 5 feet tall
She's using Dinklage's trailer.
Hairstyle: "The Big Bangs Theory" by Moe Howard.
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Not shown in photo, TALENT.
Betty Rubble isn't too happy about how her life has turned out since Barney left her for a little green man and she was forced to leave Bedrock in shame.
I didn't even recognize her without the forehead.
I still don't.
Forever haunted by the script of Casper 2.
Yeah, because a terry cloth robe is so flattering, guys.
Almost vaj shot.
Stupid maid…forgot the mop outside again.
She looks like she's made out of Bakelite.
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Game Day's Corso never minces words
Having covered Lee Corso's 1976 Indiana University team for the Indiana Daily Student, I'm not surprised Corso made it big in television. He is wrapping up his 21st season with ESPN's "College Game Day" — a Saturday morning show that gets more popular every year.
Corso will join Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit for "College GameDay," 9-11 a.m. Saturday, to preview the Big 12 Championship game on a stage outside the Alamodome. Corso was a colorful, although losing, coach (41-68-2) in his 10 seasons at IU. For his debut in 1973, he brought his team in on double-decker buses from Assembly Hall. Unlike many coaches today, Corso was overflowing with colorful quotes and went out of his way to be friendly to the media. For a junior journalism major writing for the Indiana Daily Student — which basketball coach Bobby Knight caustically referred to as The Daily Dissident — that approach was welcomed. Corso never minced words back then. Questioned about freshman running back Mike Harkgrader, he jokingly called him a "competitive litte (expletive)." In my feature story, I quoted him verbatim — without the (expletive). Corso never complained about my journalistic indiscretion. Although I liked Corso, I never thought he was much of a coach.
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US credit card debt is up or down, depending upon media source
If you've ever felt like you're getting mixed messages from the media when it comes to how the U.S. is handling its consumer debt, you aren't alone. Bankrate cites a recent report by CreditKarma.com that notes that U.S. consumer credit card debt was down 8 percent from December 2011 to January 2012. Yet according to the Federal Reserve, credit card debt jumped 4.5 percent over the past quarter. While it may be possible a quarterly spike followed a nine-month decrease, the indication is that personal finance media doesn't know which end is up.
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Holiday credit card debt is shrinking in the U.S., claims CreditKarma.com. Released Wednesday, the CreditKarma study indicates that U.S. credit card debt was down 8 percent in January, to an average of $6,069 per person. Average credit card balances were down across the nation, save for in Wisconsin, where the average consumer credit card debt load was up by 4 percent, to $5,266. Perhaps Wisconsin is simply trying to catch up to the rest of America.
[Behind on bills and facing emergency car repairs? Installment loans catch you up.]
On the other hand, states like Arkansas, Nebraska, Iowa, South Dakota and West Virginia moved credit card debt numbers in the other direction. Each of these debt-conscious states slashed average consumer credit card balances by 15 percent or more.
Which states have the largest amount of credit card debt per consumer? According to Bankrate, Hawaii leads the pack at $7,524, followed closely by Alaska ($7,514) and Connecticut ($7,344). On the back end of the survey are Mississippi, Louisiana and West Virginia, with average credit card balances of $4,544, $5,070 and $5,110, respectively.
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Late credit card payments and habitual delinquency lead to wage garnishments and bankruptcies. According to the CreditKarma survey, seven states were in the red when it comes to being at-risk for credit deterioration. The rest of the country is reportedly in "good shape."
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Here's where things appear to go awry. A recent report by the Federal Reserve notes that credit card debt was up nationwide by 4.5 percent. It has – according to the Fed – climbed to $801 billion nationwide, after a 2 percent dip last quarter. As if that weren't enough to soil the consumer debt picture, non-credit card uses of consumer credit climbed as a result of surging automotive sales. Such alternate forms of consumer credit were up 9 percent to nearly $1.7 billion. Across the board, consumer credit went up by $19.3 billion over the last two quarters, to $2.5 trillion.
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Vietnam | Glory Obscured Beta Tester: Popular Vietnam War fan, and has been for a few years. I also like real time strategy games, such as C&C Generals Zero Hour. But over time the online got boring, so I decided to look into game mods. Then I came across V|GO. It was excellent. After a month or two of playing the mod I decided to apply for Beta Testing. A few days later, I was accepted. Then the next month, I began Testing. That's where we are now.
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I'm back, and have passed my JNCO course for the AAFC with a credit, and a recommendation from the Course Commander to take part in a SNCO course in the near future. Anyways, here's the results:
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I got promoted to Cadet Corporal in February. I got promoted within 3 weeks of completing the course. :P
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The first Young Surgeons panel discussion during the Clinical Congress was held in 1971. In 1980, the Young Surgeons booth at Clinical Congress made its debut and in the same year the CSRYS name was changed to the Committee on Young Surgeons. In 2009, that Committee became the YFA. According to a 2009 Bulletin of the American College of Surgeons article on the formation of the YFA, "The realization that many talented, energetic young people have had limited opportunities to participate in the American College of Surgeons' activities promoted the Committee on Young Surgeons (CYS) to propose the formation of a new Young Fellows Association (YFA)." 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Much like many other artists before him, Lil Wayne is also promoting his upcoming album by announcing it's his last. Indeed, the 30-year-old rapper is planning to retire, he says in a new interview with MTV News.
Speaking of "I Am Not a Human Being II," which comes out in February, Lil Wayne says the album might as well have been called "Carter V," the fifth installment in his musical franchise, because it feels like an integral part of it.
Asked why he doesn't just opt for a name change then (that is, rename the album to "Tha Carter V"), Lil Wayne says that, if he did, everyone would know it would be his last.
"Because I know y'all want me around for a little bit, and Carter V is my last album. Man, I've been rappin' since I was 8 years old. I'm 30 now, man. That's a long time, man," he says.
It's not like he's set a deadline for himself, by which time he should be retired, but it feels like he's been in the game long enough to know when the time comes to stop. It's come, apparently.
Then there's also the thought of going out with a bang, before he gets to put out an album that disappoints. The saying quit while you're ahead seems to apply in his case.
"I signed my contract at 11, I went platinum at 14. I'm 30 now. Thank God I haven't put out an album that hasn't went platinum," the rapper says.
"To just keep it goin' like that, I think not only am I being greedy, I'm fooling myself to think that it will continue to be that great," Wayne muses.
Then again, he's also focused on other things than music and, as it so happens, they're also things that he's very passionate about.
"When I love to do something, I'm fully focused on it and it only. And music sometimes is not that 'it'," Lil Wayne says.
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One thing that I actually want anyone that has had a failed marriage to do is to begin to see things from a positive angle. I mean when a door closes on a relationship, it's because it's destined to end that way-not necessarily because you failed. Even if there were shortcomings on your part…mistakes are there to be learned from.
It is not a time to start giving in to 'self-pity' or despair. Love can happen to anyone at any age. The problem is that some of us get so scarred by unpleasant experiences that we become perpetual pessimists. That is rather a defeatist attitude. By all means, take your time to heal but most importantly do not remain down, when you should be up and never use your unpleasant experience with one or two persons to judge everyone that comes your way…it is rather unfair on them. Give each person the benefit of the doubt.
However painful your past experiences have been, the most important thing is the lessons therein. What positive adjustments have you made from it all? Has such helped you become a better you or are you perpetually living in the past? Your scars should change and not reduce you.
There comes a time when the lemon that life throws at you should have you asking 'what can I make out of this' instead of 'why me?' Turn your regrets into lessons and begin to live again.
I keep telling anyone that cares to listen that no situation in life should be powerful enough to take away your laughter permanently. You must get to a point where you not only make up your mind to live, you should also choose to laugh and even love again. It is your right. Take responsibility for your circumstances and move on. Don't allow the opinions of those that have not walked in your shoes to 'condition' you.
"Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay-then it's not the end'' –John Lennon. Every incident in life has a purpose and they always turn out to be blessings in the end…you just take the 'lessons' with you.
This is life and we often do not end up with what we want; there is nobody that life does not throw bricks at. The brave are the ones that have refused to be kept down. There is life after a divorce; it needs not be the end of happiness for you. Take back your life and make the best out of what's left of it; shedding every toga of bitterness as you embrace the life ahead.
Your experiences should make you redefine your values. Now you are wise enough to know what never worked for you and may probably not work for you. As we get wiser, whatever we do in life should carry a touch of substance and not superficiality. There is a need to avoid swallowing every pill that comes your way, out of 'desperation/ loneliness' or the erroneous belief that you are a 'second hand'(whatever that means).You will always be someone else's 'new'-don't ever forget that!
One interesting thing about life is that there is someone that when he or she walks into your life, your only regret will be why your paths did not cross earlier than when it did. So, if you recognise that every 'ending' can also be the 'beginning' of something (even) better, then you should begin to count it all joy as you embrace life again…dusting 'the past' off yourself, as you move on!
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Automation is a great thing. It makes online marketing easier and Twitter less time consuming. It can also cause problems and even public relations nightmares.
Businesses rely on stable hosts, and they expect their websites to be ready to serve visitors, customers and potential customers. Downtime can result in huge revenue losses and other missed opportunities.
The hosting company I use for my site was experiencing unscheduled downtime recently. Customers were not happy because the company provided little information about why the sites were down.
When my site went down and my host company site was unavailable, I turned to Twitter to ask them directly about the problem and was surprised to find a pre-scheduled, poorly timed tweet that read:
How valuable is your data? Do you have a backup plan? You should! The tweet included a link to an article that presumably contained more information about backing up. However, since the host site was down too, the link simply returned an error page.
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This isnt a good tweet to send out when youre having outages ha ha, read one tweet. STOP tweeting links that dont work AND GET OUR SITES BACK UP! read another.
I understand that many people use pre-scheduled tweets. Social media management dashboard services like Hootsuite come with the option included. Excellent third-party scheduling tools like Buffer base their entire business models on pre-scheduling.
In my book, New Business Networking, I write that it is fine to pre-schedule tweets. However, this should be done sparingly and mixed with plenty of regular interactions such as real-time tweets, replies and retweets. I recommend my clients never schedule tweets very far in advance, because one forgotten tweet can cause you major headaches.
If you are aware of what is scheduled, you can quickly adjust your plan should it suddenly become necessary, as in the case of a Radiohead concert in Toronto. Tragedy occurred when the stage collapsed and killed an attendee and injured others. The concert organizer failed to stop their scheduled tweet that read:
Help us create a @radiohead photo album from the show! Share your Instagram photos from the show tonight with the hashtag #RadioheadTo.
The angry replies were swift:
Well done managing your pre-scheduled tweets
PR 101: Cancel your scheduled Tweets.
Wow You might want to check in on your scheduled tweets for tonight. NOW. #SocialMediaFailOnThatLastTweet
Are you guys ******* stupid? Heres your photo you thoughtless *****. The tweet included a link to a photo of the collapsed stage.
Scheduling tweets is fine, but if the tweet is important, it is wise to rely only on real-time tweets. Never schedule too many tweets or tweets too far in advance, or you could forget what you have coming.
Do you have scheduled tweets queued up? Take a moment now to review them and consider my advice.
Dave Delaney is a digital marketing consultant in Nashville. His book, New Business Networking, is available from nbnbook.com. He can be contacted on Twitter @davedelaney or from davedelaney.me.


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SAN FRANCISCO — There are a thousand tiny moments in a baseball season, several thousand more in a baseball career. Most fade into summer nights, becoming part of the makeup of the men who play this game, generally unnoticed. Others, though, come in the crispness of October, with towel-waving, full-throated fans surrounding a diamond on which every play will be analyzed.
The San Francisco Giants' overwhelming 9-0 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the National League Championship Series on Monday night was a compilation of so many men, each enjoying his moment. Matt Cain, the veteran starter, pitched the Giants into their second World Series in three years with 52 / 3 innings of scoreless ball. The Giants got hits from all nine of their starting players, runs from seven of them. Four relievers allowed the Cardinals little hope.


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The Dubois County Leadership Academy's steering committee has issued its call for applicants for its third annual class.
In its third year, the Leadership Academy is, again, seeking emerging leaders in Dubois County businesses, corporations, local governments, and schools. There are no age requirements.
The Dubois County Leadership Academy will meet at a minimum of six four-hour sessions at various locations across the County from late March to early August.
Past class topics have included leadership essentials, problem solving, government and public service, communications, and religious and civic leadership. In 2013, the Steering Committee will add entrepreneurship to that list in the form of a seventh class or by adjusting one of the other sessions.
Each academy culminates with a graduation ceremony and the presentation of capstone projects.
Now participation in the Dubois County Leadership Academy requires a "buy in" from the participant's place of employment, as meeting times, typically, will be either in the morning or afternoon during normal business hours of operation.
If chosen as a 2013 Leadership Academy participant, a $100 fee will be due at the first meeting with checks made payable to the Town of Ferdinand.
Applications may be submitted to Marc Steczyk at firstname.lastname@example.com or postal mailed to the Town of Ferdinand, Attention: Marc Steczyk, 2065 Main Street, P.O. Box 7, Ferdinand, Indiana 47532.
Applications must be submitted by Friday, March 8, and can be found online at www.ferdinandindiana.org.
The Dubois County Leadership Academy is a county-wide initiative sponsored by the Leadership Pillars of the Ferdinand and Jasper HomeTown Competitiveness initiatives, the City of Jasper, the City of Huntingburg, the Dubois County Community Foundation, and Vincennes University Jasper Campus.


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The 2003 Reserve Claret is a blend of 67% Merlot and 33% Cabernet Sauvignon that achieved 14.4% alcohol. An exquisite candidate for wine of the vintage, it comes from a vineyard high on the summit of Spring Mountain. Eighty-three percent of the fruit comes from Sonoma and the rest from Napa County as the vineyard sits astride the county lines. Its dark plum/garnet color reveals a slight lightening at the edge. A beautiful nose of cedarwood, forest floor, red and black currants, kirsch and plum is followed by a full-bodied wine with great freshness, a rich, textured mouthfeel and sensational concentration with no heaviness. This is an uplifting, quintessential mountain Cabernet Sauvignon that outperforms the vintage. Just entering its plateau of full maturity, it can be drunk now and over the next decade.Drink Dates: 2013-2023
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Sarcomas in hereditary retinoblastoma
1 Epidemiology and Biostatistics Program Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
2 Human Genetics Program, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, 6120 Executive Boulevard, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Clinical Sarcoma Research 2012, 2:15 doi:10.1186/2045-3329-2-15Published: 4 October 2012
Children diagnosed with the hereditary form of retinoblastoma (Rb), a rare eye cancer caused by a germline mutation in the RB1 tumor suppressor gene, have excellent survival, but face an increased risk of bone and soft tissue sarcomas. This predisposition to sarcomas has been attributed to genetic susceptibility due to inactivation of the RB1 gene as well as past radiotherapy for Rb. The majority of bone and soft tissue sarcomas among hereditary Rb survivors occur in the head, within the radiation field, but they also occur outside the radiation field. Sarcomas account for almost half of the second primary cancers in hereditary Rb survivors, but they are very rare following non-hereditary Rb. Sarcomas among hereditary Rb survivors arise at ages similar to the pattern of occurrence in the general population. There has been a trend over the past two decades to replace radiotherapy with chemotherapy and other focal therapies (laser or cryosurgery), and most recently, chemosurgery in order to reduce the incidence of sarcomas and other second cancers in Rb survivors. Given the excellent survival of most Rb patients treated in the past, it is important for survivors, their families and health care providers to be aware of the heightened risk for sarcomas in hereditary patients.


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Some people are born to be storytellers, and their yarns and tall tales aren't limited to children. They often regale adults with their creative narrations, and a friendly bar or boisterous camping trip only intensifies the renditions.
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In the eyes of brother-and-sister duo Sihasin, music is a powerful tool with the potential to transform lives -- or that's their hope, at least.
Photographer Tailinh Agoyo believes that even though adults are destroying the earth, children will be the ones to fix the mess they've inherited.
Today, the population of Evansville is around 120,000, give or take a few thousand, but in the time before European settlement, this same area was home to several distinct Native American cultures spanning thousands of years.
Oklahoma is a thriving farming utopia that years later would be discovered and once again the "white man" would betray his words by making it part of the frontier.
This past summer, DC politicos and residents woke up to a surprising sight: Cowboy ranchers and Native Americans sharing an encampment on the Nationa...
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Successful ballet dancers all share one trait: a relentless determination to improve. To close out 2012, Pointe reached out to dancers we covered this past year to find out their resolutions for the next one.
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As a great lover of everything art, the title of the book interested me a great deal. The novel had a very impressive plotline with a Carravagio painting at its heart. My sister and I have know more about Da vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael and of course Carravagio than the latest fashion styles or the games just released. Carravagio's painting "Cardsharps" which plays a very important role in the novel, going by the title, was painted by the famous artist around 1954. The parallel story about Carravagio in the novel impressed and interested me a lot.
The story follows Vincent Ward, an employee at a London art gallery as he saves his gallery from a day light robbery and is then sent to Rome to acquire a journal which is claimed to be Carravagio's and can lead to the whereabouts of any of his hidden paintings which he created when he was on the run from Italy. The changing of locations from busy London to peaceful Rome was subtly done. The observations made in the great city of cathedrals were intricate and minute enough to let us imagine the hero walking through them even though we have never been there. I love Rome and its buildings, its long pebbled roads with houses neatly lined up along its various hills. The authors detailing helped me imagine them in my mind's eye.
Though i loved the prologue, it could have been more personal and touching. The novel begins with an awkward and stilted narrative tone but grows comfortable and professional as you start the third chapter. The pace too increases and the chances of not keeping the book down till you are done with it increases too!
The story can remind you a bit of Dan Brown's Robert Langdon series and though the usual knowledgeable man-beautiful woman can bore you, it is actually refreshing here in the novel as it is difficult to see Vincent braving out in the open against mafia gangs and notorious pirates alone.
The character of Jennifer was rather good but was not as elusive as she was meant to be. The little surprise about the herine waiting at the end was an icing on the cake, though I had a teeny bit of suspicion about it.
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How many hours a day are you not writing? Frankly, the answer should be none. Most writing is done far away from the desk as you soak up the minutiae of everyday life. Whatever you're doing, wherever you are, your senses should be primed, eager to interpret the sights, sounds and smells around you. That sky isn't just blue – it's watery or silvered or glassy; dragonflies don't just fly – they dart or hawk or skim; nothing smells just nice.
Get into the habit of really seeing things, observing tiny detail, the nuance of all you encounter, as if you were a child seeing it for the first time. The veins in a leaf, the actual hue and texture of blood, the taste of fresh coffee. Don't write about your memory of these things - which will be laden with clichés - go and experience them first hand. (Except the blood; wait for that to come to you.)
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My friends, I've been keeping a secret from you. It took me over five years to finish my dining room, and when I say 'finish' I mean install a much needed countertop, a backsplash, and some hardware on the built in cabinets. Truth be told, there was just a piece of plywood as a countertop sitting in this little nook for many years that I would cover up when company came. Seasons passed, I procrastinated and procrastinated until just a few weeks ago. The time had finally come to finish the job.
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SONG OF NORWAY [Masterworks Broadway/Arkivmusic]
It is interesting to note how an indifferent or otherwise unsatisfying original cast album can knock a musical off your list of shows worth listening to. As for instance, Song of Norway. Edwin Lester established the Los Angeles Civic Light Opera in 1938 with a well-received production of the beloved 1921 Shubert operetta Blossom Time. (That's Shubert as in the Brothers Shubert, who took a 1916 Viennese operetta derived from the music and fictionalized life of Franz Schubert and had Sigmund Romberg Broadwayize it, to monumental success.) Lester quickly expanded his operations to San Francisco, following those Schubertian blossoms with Romberg operettas The Student Prince and The New Moon.
Realizing that West Coast audiences liked these easy-on-the-ears, nostalgic operettas, Lester determined to grow one of his own. Songwriters Robert Wright and George Forrest had made a name for themselves with screen adaptations of such operettas as Romberg's Maytime, Rudolf Friml's The Firefly, and Victor Herbert's Sweethearts. They had also lent a hand to Lester's 1941 stage adaptation of Herbert's Naughty Marietta, so when Lester was ready to produce an operetta from scratch he set the boys to work on the work of Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg (1843-1907). The book, roughly — but very roughly — based on said composer's life, was written (or perhaps basted together?) by Homer Curran, Lester's San Francisco producing partner (and namesake of the Curran Theatre). Song of Norway opened in July 1944 to a resounding reception in Los Angeles and San Francisco, resulting in an immediate transfer to Broadway. It arrived at the Imperial on Aug. 21, 1944, entertaining war-weary customers for 860 performances — or almost twice as long as the competing but non-nostalgically modernistic On the Town.
Decca Records had thus far monopolized the Broadway cast album field, which it would continue to do until Columbia and RCA jumped on the bandwagon in 1947 (quickly relegating the smaller label to the background). Decca added Song of Norway to its fast expanding catalogue, which already included Oklahoma! One Touch of Venus and Carmen Jones, and had yet another strong seller. Which leads me back to my opening sentence; unlike the aforementioned Decca cast albums (and the soon-to-come Bloomer Girl, Carousel, and Annie Get Your Gun), the original Decca cast album of Song of Norway has always left me cold. Or more specifically, bored. I dutifully listened to the LP reissue — I wasn't around for the 78 RPM era — and gave the show another chance or two when it appeared on CD, but simply found the thing dull. And mind you, I listen repeatedly to other Wright & Forrest operettas like the Borodin-derived Kismet and the Rachmaninoffonian Anya.
I never did listen to the revival cast album; I suppose I saw the LP in second-hand record stores over the years, but why would I wish to submit myself to another hearing of this stodgy Grieg soup? Said item has finally made it to CD, via a digital release from Masterworks Broadway (and also available as a disc-on-demand from Arkivmusic). And what do you know? It turns out that this Song of Norway is a song worth hearing. No, it doesn't supplant the raucous Kismet or the occasionally rhapsodic Anya in my estimation; but it won't sit on my shelf unlistened to for decades. Grieg contrived glorious tunes, I suppose you can say, and the highlights of Song of Norway make perfectly listenable entertainment. Although I for one am glad that I came to the score wholly familiar with the Piano Concerto in A Minor; otherwise, I suppose, the Song of Norway derivations might ruin it for me.
The Jones Beach production, which opened in June 1958, was a massive undertaking and reportedly an impressive extravaganza. The recording, though, is not exactly an original cast album. It appears that the decision to record the show came about when Lombardo determined to revive it for the summer of '59; with 8,000 customers a night, why not have an LP to sell in the lobby (or, rather, lobbies and parking lots)? But three of the five main performers chose not to return for the 1959 season; the men all left, presumably content to stay on dry land. Stephen Douglass, of Damn Yankees and The Golden Apple, was replaced in the role of Grieg by John Reardon, a City Opera singer who thus far had appeared on Broadway in the chorus of The Saint of Bleecker Street and as one of the minor New Faces of 1956. Robert Rounseville, who in 1956 had starred in the title role of Leonard Bernstein's Candide and played Mister Snow in the film version of Carousel, was replaced as Rikard by William Olvis, who had played the juicy but considerably smaller Candide role of the Governor of Buenos Aires ("Bon Voyage"). And Erik Rhodes, of Cole Porter's Gay Divorce and Can-Can, was replaced in the comedy role of the Count by Hollywood veteran Sig Arno. No loss here, as Arno had created the role back in 1944.
The recording was made in March 1959, at which point Reardon and Olvis had neither performed in nor rehearsed for the production. What's more, Frederick Dvonch — musical director of both the 1958 and 1959 stints — was not around to conduct the recording or coach the new stars. Or the band and chorus, which might have contained some Jones Beach holdovers but was surely much smaller. Dvonch was off in Boston with the tryout of First Impressions, so Lehman Engel — who spearheaded Columbia's series of studio cast recordings in the 1950s — did this one as well. The liner notes feature a photo of Engel conducting the recording session; he wears a dark-colored short-sleeve sweater with a light colored stripe across the chest, and looks like he is about to alight and take flight across the fjord. The orchestra, meanwhile, is dressed in traditional dark suit-and-tie garb.
So all that this recording retains of the Jones Beach production, in effect, are the two leading ladies (along with a third actress in the small singing role of Grieg's mother). The musical arrangements and orchestrations are presumably the same as used on the lagoon, but appear to be derived from the original 1944 set by Arthur Kay (with ghosting from several others, including what appear to be Don Walker charts for two of the big show tunes, "Strange Music" and "Freddy and His Fiddle"). Featured pianist is jazz musician Stan Freeman, who went on to serve as co-songwriter of two failed musicals, I Had a Ball and Lovely Ladies, Kind Gentlemen. He serves as soloist on the big climactic Iceberg Ballet — mountainous canvas icebergs floating across the lagoon, that sort of thing. Freeman plays a six-minute reduction of the Piano Concerto, with many cuts and some obviously missed notes.
This is not to minimize the presence of the ladies. Brenda Lewis plays the purely fictional and purely musical comedy role of the Countess who intrudes on the young lovers. (This was originally played by Irra Petina, but recorded for Decca by Kitty Carlisle due to contractual entanglements.) Ms. Lewis is delicious here, positively feasting on her big solo "Now"; she apparently pretty much stole the show, and one can hear why. This is the very same Brenda Lewis who was highly praised in our recent column discussing the Broadway Masterworks release of Marc Blitzstein's Regina. Listeners unfamiliar with Lewis are in for a treat if they now discover her from these two long out-of-print recordings. (She is also prominent in the 1954 Sigmund Romberg-Don Walker Broadway operetta, The Girl in Pink Tights.) Let it be added that the Regina column brought forth an email from a friend of the singer — now in her late 80s — who told him that the Regina recording was made following a performance! And following the performance and recording session, Blitzstein took Lewis into a private booth — paid for from his own pocket — to re-record some of the high notes.
The Nina of the occasion, singing those Grieg-inspired love songs, is Helena Scott, who had played the title character in Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1953 musical Me and Juliet. Not one of the leads, mind you; merely the role of Juliet in the play within the play, as a result of which she did have the privilege of introducing "Marriage Type Love."
At any rate, Ms. Lewis and Mr. Reardon spark this recording of Song of Norway, with Ms. Scott and Mr. Olvis acquitting themselves adequately. Wright and Forrest's operetta-style reduction of Grieg sounds suitably grand, and it all makes a far better case for the show than that obsolete old Decca original cast album.
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Fall Concert of the Arlington Philharmonic Orchestra at the First Parish, Unitarian Universalist, 630 Mass.Ave. 3:30pm This will be the farewell concert for Walter Pavasaris, our maestro of 33 years. He will conduct Symphony No.8 by Antonin Dvorak as well as two works featuring soloists: Permelia Sears in the Organ Concerto No.1 in F Major by Josef Rheinberger and David Sears in the Piano Concerto K107 in D Major by Mozart after J.C.Bach's Piano Sonata Op.5. Walter Pavasaris, conducting
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