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07/10/2013, Webb Cove, Deer Isle, Maine
We headed back to Deer Isle to meet up with our old neighbors from when we lived in Philadelphia. They are driving up to Maine today to stay with friends of theirs and we will get together, probably tomorrow. The weather is pretty miserable right now. Like yesterday, it's not raining but it is foggy and cold. We only had about a half mile visibility on our trip over here. We motored the whole way. I've posted a picture we took last night from outside the lobster pound. There were no pictures taken today!
Our original plan was to anchor off the beach near our friends' friends' house. Then Bill thought about it a bit more and realized that no one wants to climb into a dinghy from a beach in this kind of cold weather to come out to the boat, you can't really do it without getting your feet wet. He started exploring other places in the area that we could go and found an adventure company that rented moorings. They even have a launch to take you to shore and back to your boat that would be great for our guests. Best yet, they have hot showers! We headed in that direction, winding through the islands and huge rocks that are everywhere around here. That is when I saw the dolphins. There were three of them. I just saw them briefly but they were the first dolphins we've seen since we've been in Maine.
After we got to the mooring we went in to check out the place and take showers. We decided to use our dinghy because it didn't seem to be like the places we've been recently where there are people waiting to bring you the launch whenever you want. We weren't sure what kind of place it was. As it turns out - it's a campground, but oh so much more. It is called Old Quarry Ocean Adventures and anything you might want to do on the water, or the area, they will facilitate it for you. The owner said he will pretty much sell you anything and if you look around this place it is true. They even have fresh steamed lobster available for take out! The main thing we wanted today though was showers. We were very successful with that. The shower was hot and had no time limit, which is something we've become accustomed to now. On our boat the time limit is that the hot water runs out. Other places where we've paid for showers the water stops after whatever time the token they sell you runs out.
Hopefully the weather will be better tomorrow and we can take our friends sailing. Either way we are looking forward to spending time with them again!
07/09/2013, Bass Harbor, Maine
We woke up to a rainy day, but ever the optimists we were sure it would clear up, especially when the rain had stopped by our 7:00am departure time. We dinghyed to the dock and went to wait for the free bus to Bar Harbor. The ride wasn't too long and Bar Harbor seemed like a nice place. We went into the park office and checked in. On our way down the ICW last fall we bought a National Park Senior Pass for Bill, who is over the required age of 60. What a deal, we've used it a number of times so far. It's only $10 for life and he can now get into any National Park for free, and bring three of his family or friends with him.
We talked to the park ranger about the hike Bill had planned and she convinced us that it wasn't a good one to do on a not so clear and dry day. Instead she convinced us to summit Cadillac Mountain. We went off to an overpriced breakfast and then caught the next free bus to the Visitor Center. From there we caught yet another free bus that loops the park and drops people off at the trail heads. We took the North Ridge trail up the mountain. By this point the overpriced breakfast was not agreeing with my stomach. Luckily, even though the trail had 1100 feet of elevation, it was not a very difficult climb. Also luckily we had brought our trekking poles which helped tremendously. The final bit of luck was that there are very nice bathrooms at the top of the mountain. So, not only did I summit Cadillac Mountain today, but I did it under complete distress! Unfortunately it was totally fogged in and we couldn't see any of the views that the mountain offers. Guess we're going to have to go do it again one day. The picture above is at the summit point. The plaque behind us is what we were supposed to be seeing.
The way down the mountain was a little easier. We got down just in time to catch a bus back to Bar Harbor. We had to wait forty five minutes for the bus back to our boat so we were forced to buy an ice cream cone to help us wait. What we didn't know was that the early morning bus we took was an express and the one we took back went into every camp ground between Bar Harbor and Bass Harbor, and there are plenty of them. We sat with a young woman who had been on the bus with us in the morning and we had a good time talking to her about her interesting life.
When we finally got back to Bass Harbor it was just in time to meet Sarah and Holly. Sarah was taking us to the lobster pound, which is a no-frills restaurant where you can get a nice lobster inexpensively. There is no table service, and the food comes in paper plates and baskets, but the lobster was really good. We had a good time and it was a great end to a busy day!
07/08/2013, Bass Harbor, Maine
It was rainy this morning but luckily it cleared up enough so we could leave Blue Hill. Our destination was an anchorage near Mount Desert Island so we could do some more hiking. There was not much wind so it was a motoring day and we set the autopilot to follow the route Bill had laid out. There were not many lobster pots out there and we had already decided we didn't really need to worry about them. We had hit a number of them already and they just bounced off our bottom. A lot of the pots here have a second line attached to the float with another float on that line because of the large tidal range. It's not a good idea to go between them, we knew that but that hadn't been a problem so far either. The picture above was not taken today, it was too dreary out for pictures. The picture, from a couple of days ago, is an example of how bad the lobster pots can be, today it wasn't anywhere near this. We were going along and we heard something hit the boat, we always turn around to look to see what we hit. All I saw was a little piece of white foam floating away, but then I realized the boat wasn't going as fast as it was before. Bill said I was wrong, but I really thought the boat was stopping. Then Bill looked behind us and saw we were dragging a line, which was attached to a lobster pot on the bottom of the bay in 90 feet of water. Luckily the line hadn't wrapped itself around the prop but had probably hung up on our rudder so it didn't take too much effort to get it disconnected. We put the boat in neutral and Bill messed around with the line with our boat hook. The white foam I saw floating away was a chunk of the float we had hit. Now we know we need to be more careful and hopefully we won't catch another pot.
When we got to our destination of Bass Harbor, Bill said something that reminded me that we knew someone here. She is a friend of one of the midshipmen we sponsored years ago in Annapolis. We had met her at the Annapolis boat show a few years ago. According to the business card we had for her she worked right at the yacht makers' shop we were going to anchor in front of. Well, that we tried to anchor in front of, the anchor wouldn't grab. There were lots of empty moorings there and we decided to call her and ask her what the deal was with the moorings. I had her on the phone when some other guys came by and told us just to take a mooring, no charge. It turns out she no longer works in that location, but she isn't that far away so we decided that tomorrow we are taking her and her daughter to a lobster pound for dinner. I have no good idea of what a lobster pound is yet but she says it's a Maine tradition not to be missed.
We went to check out the town this afternoon and after walking around a bit we decided to finally try a lobster roll. Not only have we not had any lobster yet since we've been in Maine this time, neither of us has ever tasted a lobster roll. We've heard a lot about them, and they are certainly very expensive, so you expect that it's going to be incredible. Well really it's just some lobster meat, mixed with mayonnaise and shoved on a hot dog roll. I'm really not sure what the big deal is.
We are going for a hike in Mount Desert tomorrow. We will take the free bus to Bar Harbor, where Bill has already picked out the restaurant for breakfast, and then take another bus to the start of the hike he has planned for us. We are looking forward to it!
07/07/2013, Blue Hill, Maine
Last fall, when we went down the ICW to Florida, we met a couple that were also cruising but had their home base in Blue Hill, Maine. We ran into them several times in South Carolina and finally they had us over to their trawler for dinner when we ended up anchored in the same place in Georgia. They told us to come visit them when we got up to Maine this summer so we have. We got here yesterday afternoon and took a mooring at the yacht club. The mooring comes with a launch service but only until 5:45pm but we made use of it while we could. It was so rare for anyone to invite us to dinner on their boat that I always want to reciprocate when I can. Finally I could invite our friends from the boat Peapod to have dinner on Moonraker. They took the launch over in the late afternoon and we sat for hours and got caught up on all our travels. He likes to go out to breakfast as much as Bill so we made plans for them to come pick us up this morning for breakfast. When they got here they told us they were lending us their car for the day and we could do anything we wanted until the late afternoon when we would go to their house for dinner.
We had already decided we wanted to hike up Blue Mountain. It's been a while since we went on a serious hike with real elevation but we figured we were up for the challenge. It wasn't easy but we managed to get to the summit without too much trouble. It may not be the tallest mountain we've ever climbed but it was still hard. There were some beautiful views from up there, and of course we had to take a picture to prove we made it, as you can see from Bill's smiling face above.
After the hike we went to the supermarket and stocked up on food. We didn't really need too much but these days when someone hands us a car and says there is the supermarket you don't say, no thanks. Add to that that we had the launch take us back to the boat and we didn't have to wrestle the grocery bags in the dinghy and it was a no-brainer.
The yacht club is very nice but there are no showers here. We haven't run the engine since yesterday so we had no hot water left so we did the next best thing. We jumped in the freezing cold Maine harbor and used our special soap/shampoo that works in salt water to wash our hair. After that we used our solar shower that sits on the deck in the sunshine to rinse off with the fresh water that we heated in the sun. It is very warm in Maine today - the car thermometer said 90 degrees! It was not my favorite bathing experience but after that hike we really needed showers.
We finished the day off with dinner at our friends' really cool house. She made an incredible meal and she even let me bring my laundry!! It was a great stop and we will come back and do it all over again in three weeks when we are going to borrow their car again to drive to the airport in Bangor to pick up our grandchildren, who are coming sailing with us for a week.
07/05/2013, Devil Island, Penobscot Bay, Maine
We spent two nights at anchor between High Island and Dix Island. On the Fourth of July we went exploring by dinghy and took a nice walk along the beach on Birch Island, another of the many islands we were anchored close to. Of course we had to barbecue to celebrate Independence Day. There were a lot of fireworks displays we could see from the boat but they were all too far away to really enjoy so we didn't spend much time watching them. This morning Bill got up early and took the great picture, above, of the sun rising with a little fog from the cockpit of the boat.
We left this morning and spent part of the day motoring and part of the day sailing. This afternoon we crossed the track we made coming into Penobscot Bay when we first arrived. I guess we can say we have circumnavigated Vinalhaven, although I don't think that is any big deal.
The area we are in now is so densely populated with lobster pots. It is very hard to avoid them, although we do our best. Luckily our boat's bottom and propeller don't have as much a problem if we hit them as a more modern boat would. We were going through all the lobster pots and had almost gotten to our anchorage and a woman was sailing by in a smaller sailboat and she yelled something to us. We couldn't really hear her very well but she was not going to stop until she was sure we had heard her. What she said was "Watch out for that lobsterman, he is crazy!" I guess she must have gotten too close to some of his pots. Luckily we did not experience the crazy lobsterman!
This anchorage is really beautiful. It is always so amazing seeing the difference in our surroundings at high and low tide. The tide is about ten feet here and that is quite significant but common for this part of Maine. The land next to us which was walkable when we got here at low tide is now three separate islands.
I finally got the chance to post the pictures from our trip from Annapolis to Provincetown. Please check out our Photo Gallery.
07/03/2013, High-Dix, West Penobscot Bay, Maine
We started the day by trying to free our dinghy that was trapped under the mooring balls' line to our boat. Somehow the line got stuck between the dinghy engine and the transom and had managed to pull out the dinghy's plug. It took some maneuvering and Bill getting wet but we finally freed the dinghy.
Once that got resolved we went to have breakfast at Bill's new favorite restaurant, the Home Kitchen Café. Our table for two was very close to the next table for two where another couple had just sat down. The man turned to Bill and introduced himself and asked where we were from. Bill told him we were from Annapolis, Maryland and the man said they were also from Annapolis. Of course he could have also said they were from Rockland, Maine and Stuart, Florida, all places that they live for specific months in each year. So many of the people we meet have such interesting lives and stories, of course they think the same of us. We had a nice time talking to the couple all through breakfast and then they drove us into town so we could pick up a guide book they had suggested on how better to enjoy cruising Maine.
When we finally got back to the boat we took care of some business we knew we would need phone service and Internet for and then it was time to leave Rockland. Luckily the day was somewhat sunny and no fog was in sight. We even had some wind. Bill decided to raise the main sail while we were still attached to the mooring ball and then he decided we could sail right off of the ball. I don't think we ever did that before but it felt good to do it.
Usually we are destination driven. We set off to go someplace in a "direct as is possible" route and if the wind cooperates with that route then we sail. Today the wind was good and the destination was not that far away so we decided to sail the whole way there. That meant tacking back and forth across Penobscot Bay until we got within sight of our anchorage. You probably can't tell from the picture above but we had all our sails up. Once we got close to where we wanted to anchor we finally turned our engine on so we could have the maneuverability it takes to drop your anchor and not hit the rocky shore.
It is really beautiful here, and surprisingly we have good Internet service. We will probably stay a day or so and take the dinghy out to explore the beautiful islands around us.
In case you were not aware of it, Linda Greenlaw of The Perfect Storm and several of her own books lives on Isle A Haute, which can be a very nice stop.
07/02/2013, Rockland, Maine
We've spent four days in Rockland but we are moving on tomorrow. We really like it here. We've managed to get all our supermarket and laundry tasks done and also found some restaurants and bakeries we have enjoyed. There are two different docks we've used, one is close to the town where the shops and marine store are. It's the public dock where you can tie your dinghy up for free and for $2 you can take an eight minute hot shower. Since our hot water heater was having some issues getting the water hot when we ran our engine, we did each have a $2 shower. It was very nice! The other dock is closer to the supermarket, Laundromat, and Bill's new favorite breakfast restaurant. After tomorrow morning we will have eaten breakfast there three times!
We've also been able to watch the ferries come in and out of town. The other day a huge schooner, of which there are apparently many in Maine, sailed through the mooring field, took a turn around all the boats and went back out to the more open water, in the fog! It's been cold, rainy, and mostly foggy the entire time we've been in Rockland. I thought it only fitting that I put a fog picture up today.
This morning it was so rough where we were anchored that we couldn't stand it. We went over to the other side of the town where it was more protected from the wind direction that would be blowing all day, along with all the rain, and cold... This time we tried a time honored Maine tradition. We "borrowed" someone's private mooring. All the mooring balls have names of the boats and their owners and the word PRIVATE written on them. The ball we took is for the boat "Making Waves" but we thought there was no way they would show up on a rainy, miserable, Tuesday - so we are using their mooring ball just for tonight.
They say the weather will be better tomorrow. We will see about that... Not sure where we will end up yet but it is time to move on!
06/29/2013, Rockland, Maine
We saw some sunshine and not much fog this morning so we decided to make a go for it. The fog started rolling in again as we were pulling the anchor up though. It took a lot longer to bring the anchor up because it was so muddy. By the time we got the anchor up we really should have put it down again, but we didn't. The visibility was OK and it wasn't raining. By the time we got out of the harbor the fog warranted using Bill's newest toy. (I can feel our daughter rolling her eyes right now) It's the FogMate Horn Controller. It automatically blows the boat's horn for the right pattern for whether you are motoring or sailing. We were motoring, that means the horn needed to be blown one long blast every two minutes. We heard a couple of other horns out there but nowhere near as many as there were boats. It's important to have some kind of signal because by the time we got out in the bigger water you literally could see less than an eighth of a mile in front of you. We saw a big power boat coming at us at twenty knots on our AIS. Bill called him on the radio but there was no response, we turned out of his way just to be safe.
In retrospect we probably shouldn't have gone but fog is a fact of life in Maine and with radar, AIS, and GPS charts it's not too bad at all. It was cold, and wet, and more than a little exhilarating. Above is a picture of a navigation mark we went by in the fog. We are now anchored in Rockland though, and the Internet is better here at least. It's a much bigger city, which we hope to explore tomorrow. The fog lifted enough for us to find a good anchorage right outside the mooring field. Only problem is we seem to be on top of a lobster pot that is banging on the bottom of our hull. We'll have to move a bit this afternoon so the lobsterman can pick it up in the morning.
There is nothing like sailing in Maine, with the possible exception of Nova Scotia.
Good Luck,
06/29/2013, North Haven, Penobscot Bay, Maine
We've been in North Haven for a couple of days now. We did get to town yesterday, what little of it there is. The picture above is of a really cool house on our dinghy ride. The porch was curved! We tried to figure out what it was but didn't have any luck. They build the houses on the water on top of rocks stacked on top of themselves. There was one restaurant. It's not really the season here yet but the restaurant was crowded - and good! We also decided to pay for the Internet at the Community Center. Unfortunately it didn't reach out to the boat, even with our Wi-Fi antenna so we spent the afternoon sitting in the Community Center with our laptop and iPad. The center also doubles as the town coffee shop.
It's been very cold, rainy and foggy here so we've been staying put until it clears up. That means a lot of naps, reading, and watching movies. Yesterday we didn't even get out of our pajamas. We are hoping it will clear up enough today to go someplace else. It has not been too rough here despite the heavy winds and storms moving through. The only time we really rock is when a boat goes by at a fast speed, and then it takes a while for the boat to calm down.
People told us not to come to Maine in June. They said it would be cold and foggy. The first few days we were here that was definitely not true, but it has been for the last four. June is almost over - let's hope that the Maine weather realizes that!
06/26/2013, North Haven, Penobscot Bay, Maine
We stayed in Seal Bay for a couple of days. We spent some time with the other two boats that were also anchored there. They were both long time veterans of sailing in Maine and gave us lots of ideas on where to go. We also took our dinghy for a long ride. That ride taught me that you can't just rely on the depth sounder to tell you when you are getting into shallow water. There are huge rocks that can pop up in the middle of what looks like safe water!
Last night we had a thunderstorm and rain is forecast for the next few days. We left the anchorage this morning and went in search of some place that had better Internet access. It was just really overcast when we left but we had some periods of low fog. You can see the fog line in the picture above. We headed to an anchorage on the other side of North Haven and dropped our anchor. Bill checked the charts and saw we were much too close to some rocks on the shore. Up came the anchor and we moved to another spot further away. Then he checked the Internet and it was not very good, that is when he decided we would move closer to the town. Up came the anchor and we started to move again, but this time the wind started howling and clearly a storm was coming. We dropped the anchor again! Thank goodness we have an electric windlass that allows us to just stand and push a button with our foot to raise and lower the fifty five pound anchor and all the chain we drop it on! A little while later we pulled the anchor up again and this time we made it to the town. Of course we had a discussion on what side of the Coast Guard boat I should drive on until we realized they were in the process of installing the navigation mark that we clearly had to leave to our right!
There are a lot of moorings that are close to the town but also an anchorage a bit further away. We opted for the anchorage and are now anchored within sight of the town. North Haven looks a lot like we expect a town in Maine to look.. at least from a distance. We may get a chance to go ashore when the weather clears a bit. Right now it is damp and dreary and it's cold!. The irony is that the Internet is not really any better over here. There is a movie under a sleeping bag in our future tonight!


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lts and maybe somebody could figure out why I have been having all these starting problems for so long. -Key turned to "ON" position-no pressure -1st crank-no start -2nd crank-starts hesitantly and chugs until pressure is built. This test was run on a cold engine.
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Death wish: Following in Belgium's footsteps
Belgium is currently discussing two bills to expand its euthanasia laws—one allowing minors the right to euthanize, and the other allowing elderly patients with early Alzheimer's to sign a document authorizing euthanasia once their disease further develops. Though euthanasia is illegal in all 50 U.S. states, efforts to legalize assisted suicide in the U.S. grows every year.
Belgium legalized euthanasia in 2002, after the Netherlands did. The Wall Street Journal reported Friday that Belgium initially allowed euthanasia to help incurable patients who were experiencing "unbearable physical or mental suffering." In 2011, more than 1,100 Belgians had euthanasia requests approved, five times more than in 2002. Now, euthanasia accounts for about 1 percent of all deaths in Belgium.
Activists promoted euthanasia as a caring procedure that would help dying patients make a choice to end their suffering and promote their happiness. But Mary Harned, a lawyer with Americans United for Life (AUL) notes nine out of 10 patients who request euthanasia really have undiagnosed depression. Treating the depression takes away the desire to die. A 2003 Dutch government report also concluded that more than half of euthanasia and assisted-suicide-related deaths were involuntary. The Remmelink Report said at least half of Dutch physicians actively suggest euthanasia to their patients. Harned says families also apply pressure.
Following the example set in Europe, American euthanasia proponents are increasing efforts to legalize assisted suicide here. Ten states reviewed physician-assisted death bills this year. Vermont was the only state to pass an assisted suicide bill, making it the fourth state in the nation to allow assisted suicide, along with Oregon, Montana, and Washington state. Georgia and Idaho passed legislation making assisted suicide illegal in 2012—Massachusetts voters rejected a similar ballot initiative.
Many Americans oppose assisted suicide because they believe it is a slippery slope to euthanasia. Assisted suicide advocates in the United States disagree, saying they support "aid in dying," rather than suicide. Kathryn L. Tucker of Compassion & Choices, an advocacy group for assisted suicide, defines "aid in dying" as "the practice of a physician prescribing medication that a mentally competent, terminally ill patient can ingest to bring about a peaceful death if the dying process becomes unbearable."
AUL says "aid in dying" is simply physician-assisted suicide by another intentionally misleading name.
Another misleading phrase states and countries use to support euthanasia is "death with dignity." Oregon, the first U.S. state to legalize assisted suicide, called its 1994 bill the "Death with Dignity Act." A New Jersey assisted suicide advocacy group, "Final Exit Network," assists people in the US with death by putting an "exit bag" over their heads, inserting helium through a tube, and holding their hands. Their slogan: "supporting the human right to a death with dignity." The group told The Wall Street Journal they have assisted in about 350 suicides so far.
AUL's Harned said, "The best way to preserve someone's dignity when they are terminally ill is to help them live the best life possible, by assisting them with obtaining quality palliative care. Every day of their life is valuable and it should not be cut short because of pain, depression, or the fear of being a burden to those they love."


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Is it on all games, or just a few?
It sounds like it's probably just a case where the game developer was simply lazy, or blew the majority of the game dev budget on the graphics, leaving little for anything else. So, what I'd suggest is you try some game that has the audio mixed rather well. Final Fantasy XIII and Uncharted come to mind. Maybe rent them, borrow them off a friend, or just buy them since they're both great games.
Also, I know on games like Uncharted, there are multiple selectable audio tracks. Since I have a full fledged home theater setup, I make sure to select the DTS 5.1 audio track, but if I were just going to be using my TV speakers, I would want to drop that to stereo or I'd be missing out on everything that wasn't on the L and R channels. So, be sure to check the game options, make sure the audio isn't set to some kind of surround sound track.
But since we're experiencing the same problem with two different consoles and two different TV sets, that really only leaves the game as being the problem.
Have PS3 hooked up via Playstation HDMI cable to Samsung 46" LED HDTV. I actually have two PS3's, both of them hooked up in the same manner, only to different televisions. Both of them are expressing the EXACT same problem. It appears as though the center channel in way muffled and being cut out. The action scenes are significantly louder. i've tried EVERYTHING, at least I think. Configured audio settings both automatically and manually, messed around with dynamic range control, boosted the audio in the PS3's menu to +4. There are So many settings within the PS3, could I be missing something. Something just doesn't sound right, clearly. Both PS3's I have hooked up are exhibiting the same issue, and both are hooked up the same way, via HDMI directly to my televisions. I don't see how this could be a compatability problem, since both are having the same audio problems. Just can't figure out why the spoken dialogue/center channel seems muffled, as though it's being dropped. i know my TV's only have two speakers, so I only have 2 channel selected in the PS3's menu (configured both manually and automatically). I really need guidance here. It's been driving me mad for years!!!!!!!


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We have new information about the standoff in the east this week between police and an armed man.
The name of the man in the Havelock standoff is 26-year-old Michael Stokes Jr., according to the Havelock News. Police said Stokes, armed with a hunting rifle, blocked the apartment's door with a couch and threatened to do harm to himself and his family, according to the paper.
The Havelock News reports the man had recently been put out of the Marine Corps, according to police, and his wife and two children were not in the apartment with him during the standoff.
No charges have been filed yet.
A nearly 2 hour standoff between a gunman and Havelock police ended with nobody hurt.
The City of Havelock says police were called out at 7:46 p.m Tuesday to a domestic disturbance at Havelock Manor Apartments on Shipman Road and found an armed man had barricaded himself inside an apartment.
Police say the man surrendered nearly 2 hours later around 9:30 p.m. and was arrested. The suspect's name nor any details on charges have been released
Havelock Police are still investigating. Nobody was injured.


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Printable Memory Game
In this printable memory game, kids take turns looking under pennies in order to find matching pairs of pictures.
Cardboard Playhouse
Playhouses can be expensive, and they take up so much space. Why not make your own collapsible playhouse instead?
Make Your Own Building Blocks
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The type of treatment your doctor recommends for you depends on the type of cancer you have and its stage — that is, how invasive it is.
Here are some common treatment combinations based on the stage of your bladder cancer:
For stage 0 or stage I bladder cancer, meaning the cancer has not spread much beyond the bladder lining, your doctor may recommend these treatments:
Transurethral resection surgery only
Transurethral resection surgery followed by intravesical immunotherapy or chemotherapy
Partial or radical cystectomy if there are many superficial cancers or if the cancer looks "high grade," meaning the cells look very unusual under a microscope
Internal radiation therapy, with or without external radiation therapy
For stage II bladder cancer, meaning the cancer has spread into the bladder's muscle layer, your doctor may recommend any of these treatments:
Radical cystectomy, which is surgery to remove the bladder and some surrounding tissues
Chemotherapy followed by radical cystectomy
External radiation therapy with or without chemotherapy
Internal radiation therapy with or without external radiation therapy
Transurethral resection surgery (in selected patients)
Partial cystectomy, which is surgery to remove part of the bladder
For stage III bladder cancer, meaning the cancer has spread into the bladder's fatty layer or to the prostate (in men) or to the vagina or uterus (in women), your doctor may recommend any of these treatments:
Radical cystectomy
External and internal radiation therapy
Partial cystectomy (in selected patients)
For stage IV bladder cancer, meaning the cancer has spread far from your bladder, your doctor may recommend any of these treatments:
External radiation therapy to ease symptoms
Urinary diversion to ease symptoms
Cystectomy to ease symptoms
Chemotherapy alone or after surgery or radiation
A clinical trial of chemotherapy
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As the Mets PR staff was clearing out the clubhouse, Pedro Martinez yelled: "Johan is about to put on a show out there!!!''
Martinez was in a good mood this morning.
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Martinez said he felt "great,'' after throwing batting practice this morning.
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Bush v. Gore: Who really won Florida?
I kicked off a bit of a tempest in today's column by zinging the sillier obsessions of both the left and the right. True to form, I got responses from each side claiming they were indeed right and the other side was indeed wrong.
(Obama did pal around with terrorists, for example)
But the biggest blowback was from liberals who insist George Bush stole the election. They took exception to my statment that media reviews indicate Bush would have won any recount.
This was from a USA Today story in May 2001
George W. Bush would have won a hand count of Florida's disputed ballots if the standard advocated by Al Gore had been used, the first full study of the ballots reveals. Bush would have won by 1,665 votes — more than triple his official 537-vote margin — if every dimple, hanging chad and mark on the ballots had been counted as votes, a USA TODAY/Miami Herald/Knight Ridder study shows. The study is the first comprehensive review of the 61,195 "undervote" ballots that were at the center of Florida's disputed presidential election.
And then came a NY Times analysis, which I wrote about , along with some other media projections.
Fun and games. Bottom line is that the butterfly ballott threw the election. But you can't quantify how many people who voted for Pat Buchannan would have voted for Gore, making it a moot point. You can only could the ballots as cast.
Here is what I wrote back then. ..
At last The New York Times finally has weighed in on the disputed presidential election.
The Times apparently spent six months on an exhaustive investigation designed to show that George W. Bush might have won because election officials in Florida counted illegal overseas military ballots.
That's the way we've always elected presidents.
As for the gist of the story, the Times found 680 overseas military ballots with problems such as no postmarks and no witness signatures. But even if these were tossed out, Bush still would have won.
I did my own math to discover that 90 percent of the illegal ballots would have had to go to Bush to have made a difference in the election.
The military may vote Republican, but not by a 9-1 margin.
You would think the Times could have mentioned these numbers somewhere amid the four pages it spent on the project. Instead, it waited well into the story before quoting a Harvard expert as saying he doubted the ballots affected the election.
The Times added that this is "impossible to know."
Sure it is, sure it is.
After spending only six hours on my own exhaustive investigation, I will reveal the true winner of the election: As you may recall, the official tally had Bush winning Florida by 537 votes.
I will toss out the illegal military ballots found by the Times, which brings Bush's lead down to an estimated 245 votes.
But then there are those 5,600 illegal ballots cast by former felons that also were counted, according to a story in The Palm Beach Post. It said former felons tend to vote Democratic, a safe bet given the Republican position on minimum sentencing.
So if I assume 70 percent of the felon vote went to Al Gore, and we toss it, Bush's lead goes to 2,485.
But the Post also reported that Gore would have gained 784 votes in Palm Beach if all those punch-card ballots with hanging chads, pinholes, dings and dimples were counted.
This cuts Bush's lead to 1,701.
Gore gains another 696 votes after an analysis of votes by the Sentinel and other newspapers in Lake, Orange and 15 other counties. Bush's lead is now 1,005.
Now for the intangibles: The Florida Highway Patrol set up a checkpoint near Tallahassee on Election Day that Democrats claim was used to intimidate black voters. But I'll call that a wash when put up against the networks calling the Florida results early, costing Bush Panhandle votes.
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What do you guys use for Tethering
I have a D800 and am considering the following options
Buy a retina mack book pro and use that for tethering - Expensive
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or buy an ipad and use that for tethering - Cheaper alternative
using eyefi
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I created a windows service, that is supposed to check a certain table in the db for new rows every 60 seconds. For every new row that was added, I need to do some heavy processing on the server that could sometimes take more than 60 seconds.
I created a Timer object in my service, that ticks every 60 seconds and invokes the wanted method.
Since I don't want this timer to tick while processing the new lines found, I wrapped the method in a
lock { } block, so this won't be accessible by another thread.
It looks something like this :
Timer serviceTimer = new Timer();
serviceTimer.Interval = 60;
serviceTimer.Elapsed += new ElapsedEventHandler(serviceTimer_Elapsed);
void serviceTimer_Elapsed(object sender, ElapsedEventArgs e)
lock (this)
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Now, I'm wondering -
If my timer ticks, and finds a lot of new rows on the db, and now the processing will take more than 60 seconds, the next tick won't do any processing till the previous one finished. This is the effect I want.
But now, will the serviceTimer_Elapsed method go off immediatly once the first processing was finished, or will it wait for the timer to tick again.
What I want to happen is - if the processing requires more than 60 seconds, than the timer will notice the thread is locked, and wait another 60 seconds to check again so I will never get stuck in a situation where there are a queue of threads waiting for the previous one to finish.
How can i accomplish this result ?
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Suggestions on a name would be appreciated, havent came up with anything just yet.
This project is based on the Lian Li PC - Q08B and a Slim Xbox 360 with an X360 Key.
The Xbox will be placed inside the Lian Li case, some extra storage will be placed inisde the case, a 1 TB hard drive, to keep leagal back ups of my games, i do not encourage piracy, i have a large collection on games and like to keep my investment of games safe. I own all the games i store back ups of.
The games will be played through the X360 Key, its a relatively new product. Thanks to Mod Chips Direct, have a look at there site Mod Chips Direct. Sponser of this project.
The case is pretty much exactly the same height as the original Xbox Slim case. Just wider, I dont want to go bigger, want to be able to keep it on the tv cabinet. IT is a fair bit wider then the Xbox Slim but for everything it can do im not to worried about the width of the case.
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Metolius Vortex Rope Bag Review
Vortex Rope Bag | $49.95 | metoliusclimbing.com
Tarp Dimension: 57 x 57 inches.
Weight: 1 lb. 5 oz.
Volume: 1,800 cubic inches.
Fabric: 600D polyester.
At the time 18 years ago we were ahead of the curve, getting one of the first Metolius rope bags. Our then magazine intern, the French climber Baptiste Briand, had never seen one, and with wide eyes asked if he could qualify for a pro purchase.
Now, years later, that Metolius rope bag is faded a light blue but still perfectly functional. When friends amused themselves suggesting a possible update, I'd ask why. It was fine!
I didn't realize how much better a new rope bag could be until it was in hand. Folding the old one up always meant kneeling on the ground, pulling in the side flaps, and rolling the tarp burrito tight, dust rubbing into my hands. One of my friends says that part always hurts his back and hoped someone else would tackle the chore.
Now, wow. The Vortex bag sits like a basket or large pocket, its rim a foot off the ground. The tarp is broad enough to fit a 70-meter rope. The best is how easily you can grab the tarp corners and shake the rope into the maw, presto.
If you are only moving the bag a few feet to another route, just pick it up by two handles and carry it like a suitcase. To bring it any distance, cinch the rope into the bag with its compression straps and aluminum buckles, and carry it with a padded messenger-style strap. The bag also has an end handle to help load it into a pack.
Other features include loops at each corner, a front accessory pocket that fits athletic tape, phone, sunscreen, keys.
Cons? The rope can get a little tangled when you pull the corners and fold the rope in on itself.
Sometimes we take a star off a gear review only because we have not yet been able to test for durability. I've only been using this rope bag two months, but my last one still frickin' works.
ABOUT THE RATING: Great, deluxe rope bag. The rope can tangle a bit, a minor note, after being folded in on itself. Considering the construction and my previous history with a Metolius rope bag, this one could last longer than I do.
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I def made the wrong choice in phones. This phone is not user friendly, and i've followed the manual in order to put music on it without a blue tooth and nothing. I'm very upset with this and there is no one who seems to be able to help with it. Even simple things to change on this phone are difficult to do.
I have the same problems the manual is pretty useless.I finally got problems fixed by going to the shop where I bought it & insisting they show me a list of things I wanted explained..I wrote everything down and followed their explanations. The makers are definitely COY in putting stuff you need to know into their manual!
you definately have to figure everything out yourself. The only way I could put music on my phone easily is by bluetooth via my comp or micro sd card. Was very frustrated at first, likeing a bit better now. Finally customized to my preferences. No wyfi.... ...big drawback. I have this phone because as I received it as a gift. Would not buy one. It Could have been a good phone if designers thought about it a little more.
ITs a joke of a great phone...manual says it DOES NOT HAVE voice activation....IT DOES....but how to use it is anyones guess and a lot of searching on line does little to help....guess it was a dinosaur before it even got burried...battery lasts less than a day...I thought it was me and finally figured out I had the power save on and no wifi draining the battery...good a first...but then less than a day....not what is advertised.... LG...Lousy Goods....sure glad I didn't pay the 128. Virgin wanted...Virgin ha...they have never been defoiled but defoil everyone else....another Joke Corp.


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How to Look Paler with Makeup
Sometimes, wearing make-up can make you look fairer. There are special ways to do it.
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1Test out some products to see if make-up will help you at all. Sometimes, skin can be so dark that it will be evident you are wearing make-up. To test this, buy make-up that is paler than your skin complexion, which you think will make you look pale. Apply a little bit on your face. If it looks natural, great! If it looks like it is clearly make-up and your true skin shows up underneath, then that make-up is not for you.
2Remember, you don't want anyone knowing that you are wearing make-up. Squeeze small portions of the foundation onto your palm, and dab dots of it on each cheek, your chin, forehead and nose, as well as your neck and spread it with your palms.
3Wait for about five minutes to let the foundation cream set. Next, take a powder puff and set it into some loose powder. Take a brush and apply the powder on your face lightly from the powder puff because if you apply straight from the powder puff or even better yet, just pressed powder in a compact, your skin will look "cakey" and not realistic.
4You want to make yourself look pretty, and make the skin stand out. Wear clear or slightly dark-tinted lip balm, or lip-stick. To stick to the pale side, avoid wearing any blush. On a side note, dying hair darker (such as a dark brown which appears more natural than straight black) emphasizes the skins lightness. In which case, it is important to make brows look darker. To do so, take a brow pencil that is 3 shades lighter than your dark hair, but slightly darker than your natural brows. If you buy a pencil that is exactly the same shade as your hair, it won't look natural. Just trust me. Then, pencil them in (lighter in the front) and more heavy in the back. Comb everything through with a clean mascara wand and set it with a clear mascara. As a side note, to clean up any stray bits of foundation on the brows, take a q-tip and lightly touch the brows. Just do this before the brows are finished as to not mess them up.
5Apply a vanilla colored eye shadow to your eyes.
6Wipe off excess make-up with a paper towel.
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- Be sure to blend evenly around the jaw, eyebrows and hairline. It may help to apply a little foundation to the underside of your chin and blend it into your neck.
- Make sure your hands are clean before applying makeup.
- When finding a foundation or powder shade in a store, apply some of the tester to the back of your hand and go out of the door to view it under natural light. The lighting in stores tends to make colours seem paler and less yellow-toned than they might actually be, which can be deceiving when finding the perfect shade.
- You can lighten your skin permanently with other methods, but be warned that bleaches may damage your skin.
- Try not to use foundation more than two shades lighter than your natural skin tone, or it will be obvious that it does not match. If your skin is not light enough after this, applying a compact powder a shade lighter than the foundation on top will help to further lighten the colour without appearing too false.
- Be happy with your own skin colour. Remember that inner beauty is what matters.
- Never use too much make-up, it can be bad for the skin.
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Dell XPS 15 Review
Over the last 2 years, I have tested and reviewed many Ultrabooks. They are light, elegant and has powerful hardware. But almost all of them has a lacking in common and it's the screen. Almost all of them sport a smaller 13 inch screen. And for the first time, Dell made a difference, with the New Dell XPS 15.
With 15 screen crystal sharp touch screen, amazing 4K resolution and 4th Gen Intel Core i7 processor, Dell XPS 15 is a perfect high end Ultrabook. If I had to chose between the XPS and MacBook Pro, I would definitely chose the XPS. I believe the XPS 15 can easily outguns the MacBook Pro from many aspects. Let's take a look what it has inside and what made this XPS 15 this much desirable. And for those who already want to get one, it is available on Amazon already with a starting price of $1,599.
15 inch touch screen
4k resolution
Long battery life
Great performance
Solid build
Attractive outlook
Amazing audio output
Comfortable keyboard
Bad ventilation system
Unusual keyboard layout
Uncomfortable screen scaling
High energy consumption
Brand: Dell
Series: XPS 15
Processor: Intel Core i7 4702HQ 2.2 GHz
Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4600 & NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M
Memory: 16GB DDR3L SDRAM
HDD: none
Optical Drive: none
Display Type: Ultra Sharp UHD IPS touch display
Screen Size: 15.6 inch
Screen Resolution: (3840 x 2160)
Audio: 2x Waves MaxxAudio speakers
Keyboard: Island style backlit keyboard
Navigation: 4.1 x 3.1 inch touchpad
Webcam: 720p
Video Ports: 1x HDMI 1.4 and 1x Mini Display Port 1.2
Audio Ports: Combo headphone/microphone jack
Total USB Ports: 4
USB 2.0 Ports: 1
USB 3.0 Ports: 3
Media Ports: SDXC card slot
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11b/g/n/ac
Network: none
Bluetooth: 4.0
Ethernet: none
Battery: 91 Wh lithium-ion battery
Battery Life: 8.5 hours
Width: 14.3 inch / 37.2 cm
Depth: 10 inch / 25.4 cm
Height: 0.7 inch / 1.8 cm
Weight: 4.44 pounds / 2.01 kg
Operating System: Windows 8.1 (64Bit)
Warranty: 1 year Limited
Base Price: $1,599.99 on Amazon
Build and Design
If you checked any XPS laptop before, you probably have noticed that the XPS series are not meant to have shiny and eye catching look. Dell has the Alienware series for that. Instead, the XPS series sport an elegant and classic look. Our XPS 15 is no difference. Build-wise the XPS 15 is as solid as they come with amazing finishing. It feels really solid and strong. The exterior of the laptop is a mix of black and silver and has a soft crafted pattern. The lid is made of one solid piece of aluminum, which not only gives a great look but also adds strength.
And the bottom of the XPS 15 is made of carbon fiber composite. It gives a grippy, slightly rubberized feel to it which helps when carrying the laptop without a case. Besides, if you check out the dimension on the specs, it's also quite thin and small for a 15.6 inch laptop.
The keyboard of the XPS 15 is one of the best I've used so far. It is nicely build and the keys provide perfect feedback. They are well spaced, and the caps have a nice concave shape that cups your fingertips. Also with the soft bluish white light the backlit is really pleasing to the eyes. Moreover, you can control the backlight with function keys and it has three modes, off, high and medium. It is the layout of the keyboard which bothered me a little bit.
The XPS 15 sports a spacious touchpad. It has the size of 4.1×3.1 inches and has the same finish as the rest of the palm rest. When I tested the pad, it was able to perform all windows 8 gestures smoothly. However, as I see, the touchpad is not really that much comfortable and accurate. The MacBook Pro has a much better touchpad if you compare.
Like the previous XPS laptops, the XPS 15 supports a wide range of connectivity features.
On the left side there are two USB 3.0 ports, a mini DisplayPort, an HDMI port, and headphone and power jacks.
While on the right, there are 1 more USB 3.0 port, 1 USB 2.0 port and an SD card reader.
The XPS 15 came with an ultra sharp 4k UHD display. The screen has more pixels (3200 x 1800 pixel, 235 5ppi) and higher brightness (365 CD/m²) than any laptop screen I've recently seen. Moreover, because of the IPS panel, the display content looks correct even from sharp angles. Even when running on battery, the panel was able to reach high brightness levels of up to 345 CD/m². However, some programs are still unable to keep up with the high resolution and can only be rendered very small or in a pixilated state. Also, despite its powerful brightness, in outdoor use the Dell XPS 15 is still very uncomfortable. Under direct sunlight, the reflective display surface obscures the screen content. A matte screen could be really helpful in this case.
With loud and clear sound, the speakers of the XPS are really amazing. They are powered by the MaxxAudio Waves and, I believe, they are the best speakers an Ultrabook can sport. It also has a software with four sound profiles: Movies, Music, Voice and Gaming.
The 4th generation Haswell Core i7 4712HQ Processor (6M Cache, up to 3.3GHz) is as powerful as you would expect in a laptop. It has a base clock rate of 2.3 GHz. In turbo mode, the clock frequency can rise to up to 3.3 GHz. Unlike other HQ models from the i7 line, this processor has really low TDP. According to the manufacturer, the chip generates up to 37W of heat, which is 10W less than other HQ processors. The power of this processor is sufficient enough to run almost all regular software and apps open instantly after you click on them. However, without a power outlet nearby, when the laptop is running on batteries the CPU performance will fall drastically.
The version I tested, had 16 GB of RAM, a 512 GB SSD and NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M, They are so far the best laptop technologies currently available. The Dell XPS 15 is a powerhouse and besides the high resolution touch screen display, it has everything a high end Ultrabook need. You will be able to play videos, running scans, browsing the Web and casual game at the same time on this laptop without a single problem.
The NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M graphics and its 2GB of DDR5 video memory in the XPS 15 are strong enough for video editing as well as high end gaming. Though you will have little problem playing next Gen games with ultra graphics.
Heat and Noise
I was praising the laptop all the way, but when it comes to this, the XPS 15 is not really shines. I think, if Dell should've improved anything of the XPS 15, it's the heat dissipation and ventilation system. When I was just listening to the music and browsing the internet, the bottom of the laptop hit around 50 degrees Celsius. Which is 25 degrees more than the usual room temperature and really unacceptable. Even the keyboard was a lot hotter than usual (35 degrees Celsius). So far, the palm rest and the touchpad stay under acceptable temperature. So if you want to game on it or planning to use it for a long duration, surely you will have to get an extra cooling device.
Battery Life
Instead of conventional 4 cell battery, Dell powered the XPS 15 with a rather large 6 cell 91Wh battery. However, the XPS is designed as a work and multimedia device, it is not supposed to last through a whole day without a connection to a power outlet. But it is not a total disappointment at all. When I tested the battery of the XPS 15 by listening to the music, browsing the internet and playing casual games, it was able to last almost 6 hours. Considering the powerful i7 processor and NVIDIA graphics, 6 hours of practical battery life is more than enough.
You won't be able to customize the laptop by yourself, but there are options. Dell offers four different configurations of the XPS 15. The cheapest one has the price of $1,599. And this version contains an Intel Core i5 4200H processor; 8GB of RAM; a 1TB SATA HDD; a 32GB SSD; and a 15.6 inch 1080p touch screen display with Intel HD 4600 graphics.
However, the cheapest model with a 4K display costs $2,149. For that you will get an Intel Core i7 4712HQ processor, 16GB of RAM and an NVIDIA GeForce 750M GPU with 2GB of DDR5 video memory and of course the 4k touch screen.
Other models are almost similar and don't really have much difference.
Wrap Up
Although it is one of the most expensive laptops on the market, it is worth every dollar. It is perfect, from almost every aspect, from the powerful specifications to the elegant and classic design. Usually, there are many areas where laptops can go wrong, the display, the keyboard design, battery life or performance. But the Dell XPS 15 somehow got them all right. With a little better GPU, it could be the perfect gaming machine. Anyway, If you are in need of a premium looking Ultrabook with good specification, and if the price is not a problem to you, the XPS 15 is surely the right choice and there is nothing better!


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Book Your Room Now for The GrammysA year's worth of music comes to a dazzling peak this January at the 56th Grammy Awards, the most exciting awards show in the industry for rockers, rappers, singers, producers, and fans. "Music's Biggest Night" takes place on January 26, 2014 at the Staples Center in downtown Los Angeles starting at 8PM. The most exciting awards given out are those for Record of the Year, Album of the Year, Song of the Year and Best New Artist - however dozens more trophies are handed out in the genres of pop, rock, dance/electronica, alternative, r&b, rap, country, new age, jazz and more. Top news for this year's Grammys includes Jay Z's nine nominations, breakout 17-year old New Zealand artist Lorde and experimental electronic producer James Blake.
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Dr. Michael R. McMullan, former clinical chief of cardiology and director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program at UMMC, has rejoined the Medical Center faculty as a professor of medicine and director of the Adult Congenital Heart Program.
A native of Decatur, McMullan received the B.S. in chemistry summa cum laude in 1987 from the University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg, where he also was a summa cum laude Honors College Graduate. He earned the M.D. cum laude from UMMC in 1991 and had an internal medicine internship and residency here from 1991-94. He also served as chief resident, internal medicine, from 1994-95 and did a cardiology fellowship from 1995-97 at UMMC. He did an interventional, valvular and adult congenital heart disease cardiology fellowship at Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C., from 1997-98.
He originally joined the Medical Center faculty in 1998 as an assistant professor of medicine, where he started the Adult Congenital and Valvular Heart Disease Clinic. He became an associate professor of medicine and director of the Heart Station in 2002. He served as associate director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program from 2000-03, director of the Cardiology Fellowship Training Program and associate director of the Internal Medicine Residency Training Program from 2000-07, and clinical chief of the Division of Cardiology from 2005-07. Since 2007 he has been a partner in the Jackson Heart Clinic, P.A.
A Best Doctors in America selection, McMullan is an active member of several professional organizations, including the American Medical Association, the Mississippi State Medical Association and the American Heart Association, A fellow in the American College of Cardiology, he served as governor of Mississippi for that organization from 2005-08. He has served as course director for the Introduction to Clinical Medicine course, and was selected as the Department of Medicine Teacher of the Year and UMMC Clinical Professor of the Year. He also was selected to the Nelson Order and to the Blake Academy for Excellence in Teaching.


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It was no surprise last January when Fox Searchlight scooped up Sundance coming-of-age comedy "The Way, Way Back" (July 5) from actor-writer-directors Jim Rash ("Community") and Nat Faxon ("Ben and Kate"). The duo memorably shared the adapted screenplay Oscar with Alexander Payne for Searchlight's "The Descendants," when Rash adopted the Angelina Jolie leg pose. It was the "Way, Way Back" script, written eight years ago, that paved the way to writing "The Descendants." Finally, after their Oscar win, they landed backers (Odd Lot Entertainment, Walsh Company, and Sycamore Pictures) for their $5 million summer comedy, which closes the Los Angeles Film Festival Sunday.
This soft lob down the middle for summer moviegoers stars a raft of hilarious scene-stealers, from Sam Rockwell, Amanda Peet, Maya Rudolph, Rob Corddry to the filmmakers themselves, who play workers at New England water park Water Whiz, where 14-year-old Duncan (Liam James) lands a summer job as far away from his mother (Toni Collette), her bullying boyfriend (Steve Carell) and hard-drinking neighbor (Allison Janney) as possible.
Thing is, many awkward adolescents have suffered through summers feeling abandoned by their socializing and often soused and neglectful parents. The underlying pain in this story rings all too true. In fact, the first scene in the movie--when Carell asks the kid what he thinks of himself on a scale of 1 to 10, and tells him he's a 3-- comes from Rash's own life, he admitted in a phone interview: "My stepfather took me apart."
To their credit, the filmmakers cast the believably awkward James as their nerd lead. "A lot of that was a result of finding the right kid for it," says Faxon. "We knew the kid had to start out kind of suffocated. That way by the end he has this rite of passage and can come out of his shell and become his own person. Liam came in and read with Toni, he embodied Duncan's shrunken shoulders and pale skin, but you could tell there was something warm and beautiful underneath. We had confidence that he could make that change."
They landed Carell (Searchlight's "Little Miss Sunshine") to play Trent, the mom's dick boyfriend, by literally shooting the movie down the street from his Marshfield, Massachusetts family summer home. "He understood that Trent's a complex, tragic male character stuck in a bad cycle with himself, and he can't break out of it," says Rash. "He's a person that a lot of people know, who doesn't have the capacity to change." Luckily Carell was willing to embrace the fact that this guy neither has a character arc, nor does he find redemption.
They wrote the role of the Bill Murray-in-"Meatballs" Water Whiz manager Owen with Sam Rockwell in mind, after abandoning various attempts in the eight-year development process to make the character younger. "Sam can do everything," says Faxon. "The character has to have depth, the experience to teach this young kid about life, so to have them so close in age doesn't make sense." They were gearing up to give Rockwell the big pitch at their first meeting, but he was already on board making suggestions on how to play scenes.
Shawn Levy ("Night at the Museum") was looking to direct for Searchlight at one point, "but it was a small picture for him to do," says Rash. They couldn't get a deal or a cast together and the project was shelved. For a time producer Mandate tried to mount a version of the movie, but "the actors didn't feel right," admits Rash. "We wanted it back in our hands."
Of course they learned a lot on the set of "The Descendants," watching Payne direct. So why didn't Searchlight take the movie back then? "I'm not sure," answers Rash. "They knew us as writers, not directors. They wanted to wait and see what we could do before they stepped forward. And they did, in a big way, it couldn't be a better place to land."
Part of the delicacy of this film is the changes in tone from raucous comedy to painfully intimate emotions. There's a fantasy aspect, as the Rockwell character Owen is almost too good to be true--the ideal mentor parent surrogate who's hip, understanding, and supportive in a coolly attractive masculine way. "I don't see it that way," says Faxon. "It's not fantasy. The water park is in the realm of the real. By design we're trying to mirror Trent and Owen. They have two ways to try and help. Trent has a tactless approach to get you to do something, to cut you down. Owen's version is to see something's wrong and build you up...giving reassurance in a positive way."
Rash agrees: "There are people who come to help you, and sometimes there aren't."
The filmmakers had a tight 25-day shooting schedule of five five-day weeks with a budget under $5 million. They fell behind due to rain almost immediately during 11 days shooting at roped off areas of the working water park with many moving parts, noise, water, and extras galore. "They were breathing down our necks to make our days," says Rash. "They were threatening to cut scenes. Luckily Nat and I met 13 years ago doing sketch comedy and knew how to work as actors with actors, teaching and directing at The Groundlings. We were lucky we had a talented crew. We brought what we'd learned as actors on set."
Before coming to Sundance, they showed the film to various small groups of friends for candid feedback. The first screening at the Eccles, the cast hadn't yet seen it. "'Ooooh," they like us,'" recalls Rash. Now the duo wants to try another comedy-drama with fun characters. They're willing to go low-budget again, says Rash: "Small is a nice place to be when everyone's doing it for the right reasons." But they'd be happy with a bigger budget too. They've earned it.
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Raleigh, NC-- Duke Energy's approved rate increase in North Carolina may not be a done deal after all.
Wednesday, the state's top cop, Roy Cooper said he is appealing the rate increase decision. The rate increase was approved in January by the NC Utilities Commission.
Duke Energy had asked for a rate increase of about 17% but after many debates and public meetings opposing the increase, it was approved at seven percent.
Attorney General Roy Cooper released this statement about why he's appealing the decision: "The economic realities faced by North Carolina consumers must be put before company profits," Cooper said. "Hundreds of people have contacted my office to let us know they can't afford to pay much more for electricity in these tough times."
The appeal focuses not on whether Duke Energy should be allowed to recover its investments, but on whether it should be allowed to raise customers' rates in order to make a 10.5 percent shareholder profit in this challenging economic climate.
Cooper said he believes the Utilities Commission failed to properly take into account economic conditions faced by consumers as required by the state's attorney general office.
In the appeal, Cooper argues that the Utilities Commissioners' decision to grant a rate hike is not supported by evidence, particularly when the overwhelming majority of testimony by the public opposed a rate increase because any rate increase right now would be a burden.
"Many families and businesses are already struggling to pay their bills and the court needs to take this into account," Cooper said.
Earlier this year, Duke Energy applied to the Utilities Commission to request that the company be allowed to increase its revenues by approximately $646 million, to be passed along to consumers in the form of higher electricity bills. The rate hike originally proposed would have raised the average Duke customer's monthly bill by approximately 17 percent.


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Corey Brewer came off the bench for 19 points for the second straight game, three rebounds, a steal and a 3-pointer on 8-of-15 shooting in Wednesday's loss to the Hawks.
He's scored between 12 and 19 points in four of his last five games, draining eight 3-pointers along the way, and is now worth a look in deeper leagues. Wilson Chandler's hip injury may be an issue all season, and Brewer is taking advantage.
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Be a Tree
Taking a bit of a break from the housebreaking topic to discuss something else today. I seem to get the same questions in waves, and this one has been at high tide for a while now.
It involves puppies and kids. Two of my favorite things! I always say, though, that the hardest thing is to have a puppy and a two year old because they both jump and squeal and you can't reason with either one of them!
But!. They should be best friends, right? That's why you got the puppy, wasn't it? Well, its not quite working out. Kid runs and screams and waves his arms and that darn puppy tries to jump on him and mouth him! Knocks him over! Makes the kid either cry and be afraid or get more screamy and excited, which in turn gets puppy more excited which…well, its a never ending cycle that drives you insane!
First of all realize that This Too Shall Pass and in a few years, they WILL be best friends, but right now they are just little. That's right, just little, nothing 'wrong' with either one of them.
BUT, it is not up to your toddler child to try and make the puppy behave. That's why kids come equipped with this handy thing called Parents. Yup, its your job to teach them both. So, the first thing you are going to do, is get the kid away from the puppy and teach him to Be a Tree.
Be a Tree means he will stand still, bend his knees a little, give himself a hug, with fists tight against his body and shut his eyes. And you practice this at random times, "Be a Tree!" until it comes automatically to kid.
THEN when you hear that familiar squeal and scream of 'Puppy is getting me!' You know its time to yell, "Be a Tree!". Now kid is calm, puppy is getting no attention – and attention and the excitment of it all is why he jumps and grabs – and will realize kid is now BORING. As soon as you yell 'be a tree' you get up and go tell puppy to do something else. Sit, come, chase your ball.
What this accomplishes is stopping what could be a bad habit of behavior and reaction before it gets ingrained in both of them. It also gives kid a sense of something to do when he's not yet old enough to be a firm commander of the puppy.
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Funcom reported less-than-stellar revenues for the fourth quarter of 2013, citing a drop in the performance of its MMO, The Secret World. In the quarter that ended December 31, 2013 Funcom reported $4.3 million in revenue, down from the $7.8 million it generated in the same period a year earlier. Funcom's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) were $233,000, down from $2 million the prior year. The company also reported a $4.2 million impairment on The Secret World and its underlying technology due to a decrease in its projected revenue.
Speaking briefly on the investigation being carried out by Økokrim, the Norwegian economic crime unit, Funcom confirmed said that no one at the company has been charged following the raid at the end of January. The company said it would continue to assist in the ongoing investigation.
Funcom also revealed that it has secured a new loan of $5.5 million with its main shareholder, KGL Investments. It has already received $3 million of the total amount, with two installments of $1.25 million to follow in the first and second quarter of 2014. At the end of Q4 2013, Funcom said it had $2.6 million in cash.
The company's next major release will be Lego Minifigures Online. The game will go into open beta this summer.
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Center Church has a very open and liberal policy toward weddings in the church. We invite couples that are not part of our church or our denomination to celebrate their marriage in the church with the pastor, The Rev. Dr. Sandra Olsen, officiating. Since we recognize that divorce sometimes happens and that life moves on, we do celebrate the weddings of persons who are divorced. We are also an "Open and Affirming" congregation, which means that we support the full rights and dignity of gay and lesbian persons to marry.
All wedding requests are initially handled by our minister, so you must contact her to discuss your plans. You may reach her at the church, 203 787 0121, ext. 204, or by email, firstname.lastname@example.com. The church's policy is that wedding ceremonies are performed by our minister, but in certain cases, exceptions can be made. However, the decision is the minister's and must be discussed with her.
Once you have spoken with the minister and the date has been set, the church sexton will forward a contract to you to fill out and return. This is most easily handled by email, but hard copies can also be mailed. We ask for a $250 deposit, which will be fully returned should you cancel, unless the cancellation is less than a month before the wedding date.
We have a beautiful Fisk organ, and if you would like organ music, you must use the services of our organist. However, you are free to make other music arrangements. Some people hire string trios or other musical groups. Sometimes a friend or family member provides piano music. We do have a Steinway Grand Piano, which a competent pianist can use without charge. What we do NOT have is a sound system through which music can be played.
A few months before the wedding, the minister will ask the couple to come in for a discussion about marriage. This is not marriage counseling, as much as it is a way for the minister to become acquainted with the couple so she can write a service to reflect the couple's identity. She will also ask questions to encourage the couple to think deeply about the meaning of the commitment they are making. Questions also include: how the couple met; religious affiliation and background, if any; what the family of origin is like---siblings, parents, childhood; strengths and weaknesses of the relationship; hopes and dreams; how anger and finances are handled. She will also go over the order of service, and decisions about readings, vows, etc. are made. Usually this takes at least a few hours, and sometimes a couple will come in more than once to finalize plans.
As anyone can see from the pictures, Center Church is a beautiful space for a wedding. But it is more than a beautiful space; it is a house of worship, where, since 1638, people have been gathering to hear and ponder God's Word and to celebrate and mark the joys and sorrows of life. A wedding is certainly a great joy, and those who marry at Center Church become part of a long history.
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Andy Ponce de Leon, who spent two years on the coaching staff at
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"I have known Andy for the better part of a decade," said Butler head coach Matt Roe, who coached Ponce de Leon at Long Beach State. "He is a tireless worker who brings an exceptionally wide range of skills to Indianapolis. His positive personality and demeanor will be well received in our program and on campus."
The new Butler assistant coach served as a graduate assistant coach at Arizona State, where he played a vital role in the day-to-day operations of one of the NCAA's elite track and field/cross country programs. During his time in Tempe, he managed Arizona State's home competitions in track and field, and assisted in the hosting of the Pac 12 Cross Country Championship. He had responsibility for team travel and apparel, and he was involved in distance events recruiting and fund-raising.
During his two years in Tempe (2010-12), the Sun Devils remained near the top of the NCAA ranks, including a fourth place finish at the 2012 NCAA Indoor Championship. That same year, Arizona State captured the men's Mountain Pacific Indoor Title. After a runner-up finish at the Pac 12 Outdoor Championship, the Sun Devils placed 16th at the 2012 NCAA Men's Outdoor Championship.
A 2006 graduate of Long Beach State, Ponce de Leon joined Arizona State's staff after a highly-successful, two-year stint as Assistant Distance Coach at Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, Calif. In addition to coaching Mt. Sac's men's and women's distance runners, he served as the program's Recruiting and Transfer Coordinator, developing a reputation as one of the top recruiters in the California Junior College system. In his first year, he quadrupled the Mounties roster, securing the deepest and most talented recruiting class in school history.
During his time at Mt. Sac, Ponce de Leon also began building one of the top meet management resumes in the country. He played an integral role in the hosting of the largest high school cross country meet in the United States, the Mt. Sac Invitational, as well as one of the nation's premier track meets, the Mt. Sac Relays.
After a successful running career at Long Beach State, Ponce de Leon began his coaching career at his alma mater in 2006. For two years, he helped coach the school's distance runners, while having responsible for recruiting, monitoring student-athlete progress and meet management. In 2006, he helped Long Beach State to its first conference outdoor championship in 30 years.