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I went down to the NYS Rising truck this weekend. Good News is NYS rising will cover non-reimbursed expenses for folks damaged by Sandy.
Bad news, all the applications folks filed, no one is even assigned to look at them. Guess what no funding yet for folks to review files and no case workers.
Ok folks so you are getting money. That is true. If you own the home and are current with taxes by the time grant money comes you are good. BTW that is several years from now. Remember Tropical Storm Lee before Irene where houses had a big mudslide up by Hunter mountain several years ago, well they are still waiting.
Then the list starts in "income" priority and runs till money runs out. Guess they need to take care of them first, then Lee and Irene folks next, then folks with no flood insurance then folks with flood insurance oh yea add in it also goes in application order, so if you have not yet applied you are back of line.
So bottom line go and apply, but unless you have direct storm damage you can prove was not reimbursed by FEMA or Flood and plan on live in house over 5 years good luck. Also If you did not have FEMA pay out over 31,900 or have a SBA appraisal for stuff not covered by flood it gets even harder.
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Tuesday marked the halfway point for our Information On Demand (IOD) conference, but our on the ground reporters, Allison Bianco and Jessica Sharkey, show no signs of slowing down. On Tuesday they were able to catch up with some PureData enthusiasts, as well as a few current and potential customers to get their thoughts on the show thus far.
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I'm not sure if this is a bug, but it seems like unexpected behavior and I cannot figure out when or why it happens.
Most of the time when doing a preauth request via SOAP, we receive a response that contains a SOAP header with the normal refresh/update data. I have one user that in every case, we don't receive any SOAP header in the preauth request. Unfortunately our existing code is expecting a SOAP header in all cases generating some Null Pointer Excpetions (and isn't a header needed to be a proper SOAP packet, even if the header is empty?)
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Chris Brown Is Living The Dream In New Music Video
In his new Don't Wake Me Up video, directed by Colin Tiley, Chris Brown lives out three fantasy sequences: one where he chases his dream girl through a garden maze, another where he follows her through a city in the clouds and a final one where they are racing fast cars through the desert. He finally catches up to his lady love in a virtual reality-inspired twist at the end.
Don't Wake Me Up will be released on his new album "Fortune" arriving on shelves on July 3. And it's just another step towards his comeback, which surely would be a dream come true for the singer who suffered a hard fall from grace after he was charged with beating his then girlfriend, Rihanna, in 2009.
The latest headlines causing a stir, claim he's rekindled a romance with RiRi - rumours have been swirling since the duo released two tracks together, Birthday Cake and Turn Up The Music earlier this year. The frenzy continues with recent reports of the two partying together and "The New York Post" claims Chris has been spotted hanging out with the superstar's family.
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Is it normal for my baby to have dropped @ 33 weeks
I just noticed yesterday that my baby boy dropped down into my pelvic area , because the day before he was high and now he is low i look more like an egg I guess i just want to know if thats normal or if its something I should be concerned about,,,,,,, Thanks
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This could be perfectly normal. Could also be that baby has just shifted positions and not "dropped" all the way. Just keep an eye out for other changes and mention it at your next appt. Good luck!posted 02/20/2011 by BEnright77
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Since high school I have been very interested in mobile development with Android being my platform of choice. Before FHU Mobile I had my own unique SMS App on Google Play - and I used it daily for about two years. Upon being asked to work on FHU Mobile for Android I was delighted to help bring FHU one small step closer to being platform independent and I immediately accepted. Working on FHU mobile for Android consisted primarily of investigating the iPhone app via normal usage and typing source code into the computer. My favorite technical part of the project was working with multi-threading to try to make everything fast. Multi-threaded programming can be very challenging thanks to obscure glitches that can randomly pop up and disappear, but the rewards can be impressive if implemented correctly. Gaining real-world work experience in a positive Christian atmosphere has been an mentor to me both professionally and spiritually.
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Our green robot friend is taking over the world! Okay, that's slightly dramatic, but Android's usage share is increasing by the day. According to Google's Andy Rubin, there are 700,000 Android phones sold per day. Additionally, according to comScore Android currently has a market share of 46.9%, relative to the iPhone's 27.3%. Without a doubt, Android will be very important to the smartphone landscape for quite some time. Because of this, it is very important for Apps to be present on Android as well as the iPhone. If you are reading this blog, chances are that you are well aware that Freed-Hardeman has its very own App, FHU Mobile. What you may not know is that Android is getting its very own FHU Mobile. This is quite an undertaking. In my past work, friends have asked me to bring Android apps to the iPhone. What most people don't realize is that Android is very different from iOS (iPhones, iPods, and iPads.)Imagine you're given a book with many pictures and such that is designed for a very specific culture and language. Your task is to not only translate this book, but also get new pictures and other resources appropriate for the culture you're bring it to. For example, if a Chinese book were brought to America, even if you translate the entire thing to very good English, it's still going to look like a Chinese book. This also holds true for bringing iOS applications to Android.That said, many things in the iOS app will be changed to "fit in" well with the Android system. Android users may be familiar with sliding tabs. With the Android App, plans are to change the news feed list and the admissions page to use these sliding tabs. Additionally, the tab bar at the bottom is removed. Instead, current plans are for the home page to have a grid of options (consider the Google Plus app or Evernote, for example.) In addition, we expect that several other GUI changes will be present, but those details will be finalized at a later date.We expect that FHU Mobile for Android to be released sometime late Spring. Until then, here's a snapshot of the current development!
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THE BOOK OF EXODUS, PART II: After Arab Spring, Egypt Now Seeing Christians Leave
Critics are calling it the first test for Egyptĺs new Islamist government. And, so far, the governmentĺs failing.
As Wendy Wright of Christian Freedom International (CFI) can attest, Muslim persecution of Coptic Christians in Egypt has been evident for years. But the increase in violence has spiked in this past 12 months since the Mubarak dictatorship has been ousted.
Now, while the world looks on, wondering if the Muslim Brotherhood and other newly elected Muslim factions can uphold their promise to be more moderate Islamists and protectors of justice, early signs indicate to the contrary.
In fact, Egyptĺs newest exodus appears to involve ChristiansŚfamilies that are leaving to find refuge in places like the United States (see the link below).
As a guest on your show, Wright can dig deeper into this troubling subject, discussing the likelihood of the new government getting its ômoderateö act together, the implications if it doesnĺt and the disturbing trend of Christian persecution that appears to be on the rise in nations all throughout North Africa and the Middle East.
ôInternational leaders should be in awe of Egyptian Christiansĺ courage in protesting the injustice and violence being perpetrated against them, and insist that Egyptian authorities protect Christians from abuse,ö says Wright. ôAs U.S. leaders are reconsidering the $1.3 billion of aid given each year to Egyptĺs military, the just treatment of Christians should be an essential part of the equation.ö
Call Special Guests now to book Ms. Wright on this outrageous, but widely unreported, development in the glorified Arab Spring.
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3. What are ôreconciliation meetingsö and how do they work?
4. How does this bizarre and bigoted form of justice play out?
5. The Muslim Brotherhood won the most seats in parliament. What does this spell for Coptic Christians going forward? Do you expect even higher rates of violence?
6. What other regions of the world are seeing this attempt by Islamist groups to drive Christians from existence?
7. Tell us more about CFIĺs Christian Winter initiative. What are the strategic goals and tactical elements of the program?
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A History of Genetics
Cold Spring Harbor, NY: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 2001. 174 pages.
As one of Thomas Hunt Morgan's brightest students, Sturtevant was ideally placed to write his History, first published in 1965. Nobel laureate E. D. Miller (and student of Sturtevant) writes in his foreword, "The reprinting of this classic book provides students with one of the few authoritative, analytical works dealing with the early history of genetics. Those of us who had the privilege of knowing and working with Sturtevant benefited greatly from hearing first-hand his accounts of that history as he knew it and, in many instances, experienced it. Fortunately, Sturtevant put it all together in this book."
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Tagline: Open your heart. Find your voice.
Synopsis: A feel-good, heart-warming story about how music can inspire you. Song for Marion stars Terence Stamp as Arthur, a grumpy pensioner who can't understand why his wife Marion (Vanessa Redgrave) would want to embarrass herself singing silly songs with her unconventional local choir. But choir director Elizabeth (Gemma Arterton) sees something special in the reluctant Arthur and refuses to give up on him. As she coaxes him out of his shell, Arthur realizes that it is never too late to change.
Elijah Wood goes on a killing spree, Gemma Arterton teaches choir, and Alex Winter, aka Bill of Bill & Ted, brings us a documentary about filesharing's affect on the music industry. Here's a list of the indies opening this week, with synopses courtesy of the distributors.Read More »
Picked up very early on by The Weinstein Company and selected as the closing entry for the Toronto International Film Festival, hopes seemed to be high for "Song For Marion." A Brit dramedy about old people and singing with cantankerous Terence Stamp in the lead? It could have been a conte...Read More »
One of the most whimsical and enjoyable interviews of our time at the Marrakech International Film Festival came courtesy of iconic British actor Sir Terence Stamp ("Superman II," "Far from the Madding Crowd," "The Limey," among many others), who was in town to present his latest film "Song for Mari...Read More »
Looking for a couple of movies that will warm your heart and not tax your brain? Well, the ever reliable U.K. film industry has a couple of easy to digest, not too difficult movies that go down nice and smooth and there are some pics from both.Read More »
Well, depending on your disposition (and the amount of chemicals you've ingested today), you'll either find the trailer for "Song for Marion" to be hopelessly charming or an absolute disaster that makes you want to cover yourself in bread crumbs and be slowly devoured by a flock of hungry seagulls. ...Read More »
I found this film extremely frustrating; on the one hand it treats its senior-citizen characters as "cute" and then delivers moments of genuine pathos that cause you to tear up.Read More »
There is a certain strain of mid-budgeted British comedy -- films like "Calendar Girls," "Made In Dagenham," "Greenfingers," "The Full Monty" etc. -- that generally tends to find an audience on both sides of the ocean, makes a modest profit, and then lands on specialty cable where it lives on in rer...Read More »
Our network of critics have deemed Cate Shortland's new film, a tale of postwar survival, the film to watch this weekend. Also in this week's edition of Criticwire Picks: a new look at two documentaries and the film from the late '60s that hasn't aged quite as well with Criticwire members.Read More »
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Well, not mine. Okay, they ARE my dietary woes, but only in a roundabout way. Ian seems to have sensitivities to milk and soy products, as well as having highly sensitive skin. So I'm on week three or four of dairy-free life and week two of no soy. Being that I'm already a vegetarian, this has made my life very interesting. It's a little disturbing how much milk and soy products crop up in packaged, ready-to-eat foods. I'm being a good little label-reader like never before.
I've found some great cooking websites, and so many friends have sent me links to others--it's been really helpful. I find myself cooking a lot of Indian food these days. I made aloo gobi last night with chola tikkis as a side dish--good stuff! There's a great website called Manjula's Kitchen that's got a ton of good recipes, plus videos to demonstrate cooking methods.
But trying to find recipes that I can alter for my dairy eating husband and daughter has been a challenge. They only humor me for so long.
And I miss cheese. All the cheese substitutes I've seen (and I SCOURED the fake cheese section at Whole Foods) have either dairy or soy in them. I did happily discover that Earth Balance has made a soy-free vegan margarine that's even hydrogenated oil free! I can even bake with it, and that's cool. It does lend baked goods an odd, corn-like smell that bugs me, but I would much rather have that than no cookies at all! And I've found soy-free dark chocolate, which is awesome. And coconut-milk ice cream is tasty. I wish all this stuff was cheaper, though...
It's just been an adjustment. But Ian's skin look so much better already! I've started using the free and clear detergent and double-rinse all his clothes, blankets, etc. I should buy stock in Aquaphor and CeraVe lotions--we slather him with those a couple times a day. It all seems to help his eczema. Poor little guy was just clawing at his skin, it all itched so bad. Thank god for the internet--it makes researching this stuff so much easier. I've found some really helpful information from other moms with similar issues.
Hopefully he'll outgrow these food sensitivities eventually. That seems to be the case for a lot of these kids. I will have cheese again, I know. I'm making pizza tonight for the fam (I'll just leave the cheese off my portion) and I make jokes about rocking in the corner and crying while they eat theirs. I know cutting out the dairy is probably healthier for me (not to mention better for the cows), but I miss cheese and yogurt and butter like you would not believe. I feel as if I sound vaguely like a meat-eater reacting to my own vegetarian lifestyle: "Yeah, that's great, but don't you miss a good STEAK?" If I had a dollar for everytime I've heard that in the last ten years...
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when is a good time to start a baby on cows milk? or what about something like goats milk?
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The Corban University Jazz Band had heads bobbing and feet tapping with its end of the school year "Sweet Suites" performance.
Hundreds of people crowded into the Psalm Performing Arts Center to hear familiar collections mixed with lesser known works. Corban Band Director Brian Griffiths entertained elicited laughs as he explained the origins of specific works and encouraged the audience to applaud, cheer or otherwise show their appreciation between sections of the suites.
"Jazz suites are much more informal than classical," said Corban Music Chair Dan Shuholm. "The way Brian designed it, each piece was meant to stand alone, yet augment the pieces before and after it."
The evening performance included five suites that paid tribute to tax day, Shakespeare, international flavors, and traditional spirituals. Several students performed solos that encouraged several cheers from the crowd.
Even Claude Bolling's "Suite for Flute and Jazz Trio," which is considered an important crossover composition between classical and jazz music, drew laughter and applause with the music's playful banter between Diane Hawkins' flute and students on the piano, bass and drums.
As he looked back on the school year, Shuholm said he was pleased with the progress made by students in the jazz band and especially their final achievement.
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Arsenal assistant manager Steve Bould has come to the defence of under-fire striker Olivier Giroud.
The Frenchman has yet to break his duck for the north Londoners but this did not deter the assistant manager, who has liked what he has seen so far.
"Olivier did a really good team job for us tonight. He works really, really hard for the team - at set-pieces he is fabulous," said the Arsenal assistant manager.
"He had one chance at the near post that was difficult. Olivier is a really hard-working boy and I am sure the goals will come."
The Gunners assistant has had a positive impact on the side after Arsenal only conceded one goal in the opening four Premier League games but Bould was unwilling to take the plaudits.
"Any coach will tell you it is about having good players and we've got some good players who want to work, so far, so good," he said.
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DeKALB, Ill. - The Northern Illinois women's basketball earned its final win of the regular season Saturday afternoon as it defeated Western Michigan (12-17, 8-10 MAC) on Senior Day, 59-51. Freshman Ally Lehman (Nineveh, Ind./Indian Creek) led the Huskies in the effort with 16 points on 7-of-13 shooting. While the Huskies earned victory, Eastern Michigan earned the upset victory of the Mid-American Conference season as it defeated in-state foe Central Michigan in overtime, 99-85. NIU will be the No. 9 seed in MAC Tournament, heading to No. 8 seed EMU for a Monday evening matchup with the Eagles. While the Huskies earned victory, Eastern Michigan earned the upset victory of the Mid-American Conference season as it defeated in-state foe Central Michigan in overtime, 99-85. NIU will be the No. 9 seed in MAC Tournament, heading to No. 8 seed EMU for a Monday evening matchup with the Eagles."Defensively we did a lot of good things. We knew that (Western Michigan) was going to set a lot of ball screens and when we got down, we came back strong with our defense to hold them down. I'm just so proud of this team right now," said Head Coach Kathi Bennett.After hitting the first basket of the game, a hook shot by Natecia Augusta (Peoria, Ill./Limestone), the Huskies found themselves in an 11-2 hole at the first media timeout. The Northern Illinois defense then clamped down as it outscored Western Michigan 25-20 in the final 15 minutes of the half as NIU attacked the rim, led by Lehman's hot shooting. The Huskies would trail the Broncos at halftime by only four points, 31-27. The freshman finished the period with nine points as she shot 4-of-6 from the field. As a team, the Huskies shot 9-of-21 from the field for a clip of .429. Northern Illinois benefitted from its aggressive play as it drew three fouls in the first half on WMU leading scorer Miracle Woods, who finished the game with four fouls and six points in the effort.In the second period, NIU took over the game as it shot 13-of-25 from the field (.522) while Western Michigan only put up a clip of 30.4 percent (7-of-23) in the half. The Broncos finished 20-of-55 (.364) from the field.While WMU led for 19 minutes of the first half, the Huskies regained the lead on a three-point shot by Amanda Corral (Hobart, Ind./Hobart) with 17:55 left in the contest, 34-33. NIU did not relinquish the lead in the contest, though it was tied with WMU with 13 minutes left, and built its lead to 12 points with two minutes left in the contest.The Northern Illinois defense was so hot in fact that it did not allow a single Bronco player to score 10-or-more points in the first game as Marquisha Harris led WMU with eight points in the contest. It was the first time all season an opponent did not have a double digit scorer.Corral finished the game with 13 points, going 4-for-11 from the field and 2-for-4 from behind the three-point line to become the second Huskie to reach double-figures. Senior Ashley Sneed (Harvey, Ill./Thornton) finished with seven points, shooting 3-of-5 in the contest.Northern Illinois scored 19 points off of turnovers and accounted for 27 points off the bench. The Huskies also outscored the Broncos in paint, 22-18.The Huskies will open the Mid-American Conference Tournament on Monday, March 10 as the No. 8 seed, playing at No. 8 Eastern Michigan. Tipoff is scheduled for 4 p.m. Central time at the EMU Convocation Center. Visit EMUEagles.com for ticket information.


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Bilal Amrohi, who is making his debut with "O Teri", says it's a huge responsibility to be an actor.
"I always wanted to be an actor. It's a huge responsibility to be an actor as you become a public figure. That's why I took a little long to come here (in the film industry) and prepared myself before I joined the industry," Bilal, the grandson of legendary filmmaker Kamaal Amrohi, said here.
The actor says he is very close to superstar Salman Khan's family, and if there's one thing that he has learned from Salman, it is the virtue of honesty.
"Salman told me to be myself and be honest. That's one of the most important thing I have learnt form him. Salman and his family fulfilled my dream to be an actor. I am very close to his family. His charisma and aura is on a different level," he added.
Bilal admits he was nervous facing the camera.
"I was very nervous facing the cameras. We did lot of workshops for this film," said the actor, who features in the movie with Pulkit Samrat, Sarah-Jane Dias, Sara Loren and Mandira Bedi.
Directed by Umesh Bist and produced by Atul Agnihotri, "O Teri" also has a special song featuring Salman.
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Are you a momblogger? An aspiring momblogger?Katie Allison
My friend Sarah Bryden-Brown (who also happens to be the VP for Content and Community here at Babble.com) has just launched what I think is a rather brilliant project.
Sarah is an active supporter and fan of those of us known as "mommybloggers," and she is writing a book, to be called "Momoir," in which she will explore the huge cultural, literary and economic influence now wielded by the mommyblogger ecosystem. While flashier social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter currently get more attention, mommyblogs continue to flourish and gain new readers.
(Sidenote: In googling "momoir" for this blog post, I found out that Wordspy credits me with the earliest published use of the word, in a piece I wrote for Salon about GenX parents, back in 2003. I had no idea.)
In addition to exploring the larger issues related to mommyblogging, Sarah will also be doing personal interviews with quite a few mommybloggers (including me! I am so excited to be part of this.) about our blogging, how we got started, what we do to build audience, advice we have for bloggers just getting started, etc, etc
As part of her "Momoir" project, Sarah is launching a blog and Facebook community of her own. She wants to build an audience from scratch as she writes the book so that she can better understand the process. I think this is a really interesting approach. (I told Sarah that it sounds a bit like that Seinfeld episode with the coffee table book written about …coffee tables 😉 )
Sarah's Momoir project is going to be a Big Deal, both because of her professional status in the online parenting category, as well as her skills in putting the story together. No one has yet written the definitive book on the culture and economics of the mommyblogging "industry," but that's exactly what "Momoir" will be.
If you want to get involved with the Momoir project, and become part of the community, please head over to the brand new Momoir Facebook page, and become a fan. Join the conversation, talk to Sarah about your own blogging experiences, and meet a lot of other great women writers. The Facebook page has already taken off, with some top bloggers chatting with newbies, and a lot of great advice and support being offered all around.
So are you a blogger? Share your blog link and a little about why you blog in the comments below. I love discovering new blogs! And if you've been thinking of starting a blog but haven't yet, what's holding you back?


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Weekend Reading 22/10/10
Welcome reader, to another compilation of Citizen Game's Weekend Reading. We round up links to interesting content from around the web so you don't have to. You're welcome, you ungrateful gits. Regular Gamecast listeners will know just how much Danny and Tamoor love this little feature. If you do too, let us know. Please. I crave approval.
- This one's for Danny. Former comrade Andy Johnson interviews music duo Chromeo on their work with EA and appearance in FIFA '11 over at Resolution Magazine. The self-described "only successful Arab/Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture" chat about working with the games industy, their favourite games and their new album. And their music's not so bad either.
- You know how I always say "PC is best"? I've yet more proof. Super sexy digital distribution platform Steam now boasts over thirty million users. To put that in context, Xbox Live was touting twenty million in January of this year, and you don't have to pay to use Steam's community features, cloud storage or play online. (Even if Steam's store pricing for new titles is still bloody ricockulous.)
- Off the back of Halo: Reach, IGN have put up a massive piece talking about the fiction of the Haloverse and how it's been developed over the years. Halo fans can geek out a little reading this, while everyone else will get some insight into just how much effort has gone into constructing the setting we see in the games.
- Minecraft is now freakin' everywhere (and justly so), and sole developer Markus Persson has been giving interviews left right and centre. MTV's Mulitplayer blog have a nice little Q&A with him this week. And if you still haven't checked out Minecraft itself (and man, what is wrong with you?) get yourself over to Minecraft.net.
- Facebook is also in the news again over more privacy concerns and the popularity of film The Social Network, but the GamerLaw blog has got an interesting post on comments made by Facebook's Deborah Liu recently in San Francisco. Essentially, Facebook is looking to expand its Facebook Credits totally-not-real-currency into a sort of international virtual currency. The blog speculates on the implications and issues.
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Lap-Band Surgeries Halted While LA Clinics are Investigated
The New Life Surgery Center in Beverly Hills and the Valley Surgical Center in West Hills have stopped performing Lap-Band surgeries while they conduct a top-to-bottom review of the medical procedure. These two California clinics are affiliated with the 1-800 GET THIN marketing company and the move to stop procedures comes after Irvine-based Allergan's announcement that it would stop selling the Lap-Band device to companies affiliated with the ad campaign.
The 1-800 GET THIN marketing company has been targeted in state and federal investigations in recent months. The Lap-Band is an adjustable ring that is surgically placed around the stomach in obese patients to reduce the amount of food eaten to spark weight loss. 1-800 GET THIN actually markets to those that need to lose weight and allows them to call or go to the web site to find a Lap-Band provider in the California area. The company offers insurance verification, orientation and will answer any questions you have about the surgery. Basically, this company advertises and markets Lap-Band surgeries through billboards and other traditional advertising methods.
The FDA has recently issued letters of warning for misleading advertising to 1-800 GET THIN and all eight of the California surgical centers affiliated with them. There is a class action lawsuit pending as well for anyone that responded to advertisements by 1-800 GET THIN for surgery. While these ads highlighted and glamorized the benefits of Lap-Band surgery, they didn't address some of the drawbacks of the procedure.


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Republic of South Africa: Wits honours the International Committee of the Red Cross
13-11-2003 News Release
Wits University will recognise the achievements of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) for the outstanding work it has done throughout the world since its inception, by awarding it the University Council Gold Medal.
The award will be received on behalf of the ICRC by its President, Dr Jakob Kellenberger, during the University's Health Sciences graduation on November 18. The ICRC will be the fourth recipient of this prestigious award that honours people who have made a noteworthy contribution to the University or have rendered exceptional service to the community.
Previous recipients of the awards are Prof. Malegapuru Makgoba, Dr JHS Ibrahim and Sam Goodman.
The ICRC is a neutral, impartial, and independent humanitarian organisation. It is mandated, through the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and their Additional Protocols of 1977, worthy successors to the First Geneva Convention of 1864, to protect and assist the victims of armed conflict.
The ICRC owes its existence to the vision and determination of one man, Henry Dunant, who witnessed the horrors that took place in Solferino, a town in northern Italy on June 24, 1859 and decided to take action to care for the sick and wounded of both sides on the battlefield.
As a result of this experience Dunant wrote " A Memory of Solferino " where the ideas of organised relief, leading to the creation of National Societies, as well as the protection of victims and the limitation of the means of methods of warfare, creating international humanitarian law (IHL) in a universal, written and permanent form were born. This was the origin of the ICRC and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement.
The ICRC protects the lives and dignity of victims of armed conflict and internal violence and provides them with assistance. It directs and coordinates the international relief activities conducted by the Movement in situations of conflict and endeavours to prevent suffering by promoting and strengthening IHL and universal humanitarian principles.
Currently acting in 80 countries, in both international and non-international conflicts, the ICRC in 2002, among other activities, visited 488, 063 detainees in 2,007 places of detention, completed 1,635 successful tracing requests and reunited 2,320 people with their families. Aid was distributed to 1.5 million people: 132,000 tonnes of food in 69 countries and assistance was rendered in 67 hospitals in 18 countries, treating 2.7 million patients. Water access, sanitation and construction work was carried out in over 40 countries, assisting up to 14 million people and costing 174 million Swiss Francs.
In South Africa, from 1963 to the end of apartheid the ICRC visited thousands of detained persons countrywide, in relation to the security situation and in times of unrest, assisting their families with food and issuing travel tickets to allow people to visit their detained family members. In particular visits were carried out to those detained on Robben Island, at Pollsmoor prison and various other detention places and police stations across the country. This work was acknowledged during a commemorative reunion of former political prisoners in 1995 addressed by former President Mandela.See also : South Africa: ICRC honoured for work during apartheid era


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Tourists are heading to Naples, the Florida west coast town best known for its upscale beachfront resorts and stunning sunsets, for a brand new reason:
To go grocery shopping.
But this isn't a quick trip to grab bread and milk. Foodies are flocking to Trader Joe's, the California-based market chain with a cult following craving its eponymous-branded eats, funky vibe and colorful reuseable tote bags.


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34-year old Chris Kelly, half of the 90's rap duo Kris Kross, has died at an Atlanta hospital. A local investigator says he was pronounced dead around 5pm at the south campus of the Atlanta Medical Center on May 1, 2013. Authorities are unsure of Kelly's cause of death, and an autopsy has yet to be performed.
Kelly, known as "Mac Daddy," and Chris Smith, known as "Daddy Mac," were introduced to the music world in 1992 by music producer and rapper Jermaine Dupri after he discovered the pair in an Atlanta mall. The duo wore their clothes backwards as a gimmick, but they won over fans with their raps. Their biggest song was "Jump" - which instantly led to a multi-platinum album and global recognition.
The two most recently made an appearance and performed at the star-studded So So Def 20th Anniversary Concert in Atlanta. They were joined by Jermaine Dupri, Bow Wow, Bone Crusher, Jagged Edge and other prodigies of So So Def Records.
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I nead help with that! ben puttin in 90 hr this weak 87 last last minute brick orders,not sure who i am or day of weak.......it will be all worth it though when i get all of november off............
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Latte Lovers Oatmeal
Chocolate Latte Oatmeal
with Peanut Butter, Almonds + Coconut
It started with this: Chocolate granola, peanut butter, toasted almonds, and coconut…..
……and then I stole about 2 tbsp from my milky homemade latte (just coffee with steamed milk from our cappuccino machine) and instant latte oatmeal! It was wonderful.
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- 1 October 21, 2008 at 9:02 am
That looks delish, you've got guts hahah!
- 2 April 14, 2009 at 10:49 pm
totally trying this!
- 3 January 21, 2010 at 5:42 pm
You're oatmeal creations are like (healthy) desserts for breakfast. I love it! Making a list of the ones I'd like to try, this will be very near the top…
- 4 August 17, 2010 at 9:00 pm
Your breakfasts look so scrumptious it's almost too good to be true! Congrats on your healthy, delicious creations
- 5 April 17, 2012 at 11:17 pm
Do you have a link to an actual recipe for this, like what tells you how much of what too add exactly.
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Compiled by Whitney Cranshaw, Colorado State University:
Assassin Bugs
Hemiptera: Reduviidae
Assassin bugs are equally capable predators, that can subdue large insects such as caterpillars and beetles. Most assassin bugs are elongate in form, have a pronounced 'snout' on the front which is the base for the stylet mouthparts, and are spiny. Despite their prodigious ability to dispatch most garden pests, they rarely become very abundant since they in turn have too many enemies of their own (mostly egg parasites).
The largest assassin bug associated with woody plants is the wheel bug Arilus cristatus an inch long species found in SE Colorado. Assassin bugs of elongate body form and stick-lie legs, notably those in the genus Zelus, are most commonly observed associated with trees and shrubs. Distinctive pods of eggs attached to leaves are produced by many assassin bugs.
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This Google ad showed up in the 50+ thread listing this week - don't know if it is new or I just paid attention to it this morning. I haven't the time to study it in depth, but must say I was turned off to see that the thread creator has trademarked the term 'Philadelphia and the Countryside'. I guess that means no one else can use the term without risk of some notice demanding retraction or threatening litigation.
I find it a depressing sign of the times.


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Matthew Robinson is the kind of guy you like to see win – even if you are a little jealous.
He's the first-time co-writer and director of The Invention of Lying, Ricky Gervais' newest and most deftly honed shot at American cinematic movie stardom. The film boasts a joyful cast and cameos that include Ed Norton, Tina Fey, Jason Bateman, Christopher Guest, Rob Lowe and even Phillip Seymour Hoffman as well as Gervais himself in the role of a lovable loser who discovers the ability to lie in a world where no one can.
So how did Robinson score all of this? We'll get to that in a second, but the reason you like to see him win is the fact that, amidst the even-keeled likability of his soft-spoken, cerebral, Russian literature studying nerdishness and his cynical, ultra dry wit, you feel the beating heart of a fella who knows he should give up on hope, love, and mankind, but just can't do it.
He's the first to decry the plausibility of a fairy tale and the one who wants it to come true the most.
That's why the fairy tale that happened to him feels so right. After toiling fairly fruitlessly for a decade as a scripter in L.A., he hit his career nadir and went to his ideas file in search of rescue. What jumped out was a year-old skit he'd penned the morning after watching a Twilight Zone marathon. It focused on a doughy schmo on a date with a fox in a world where no one could lie. Thirteen days later, he had a finished script for The Invention of Lying.
Which brings us back to Robinson's real-life fairy tale. After writing his script, he got it to producer Lynda Obst, who said she'd try to get it to his comedic hero, Ricky Gervais.
"I had put it out of my head because I didn't want to be heartbroken when he didn't respond," recounts Robinson. "I'm in the 11 a.m. showing of Grindhouse at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on a Friday and I accidentally leave my phone on. I see this really long number so I pick it up, and it's Ricky Gervais. He's saying things that you'd be embarrassed to admit to people that you'd dreamed of Ricky Gervais saying to you."
To put an even finer point on Robinson's uncomfortable fondness for Mr. Gervais, he adds, "I had even played that game with my wife where you say, 'If you could have dinner with anyone in history, who would it be?' Hers were like Catherine the Great and Shakespeare and I just very quickly said Ricky Gervais. Boom, done."
Very shortly after that phone call, he was indeed having dinner with Gervais in London and retooling the script with him. Of the dream becoming reality, Robinson says, "There's like a 50 percent chance I'm sitting in a mental institution right now and none of this is real."
He spoke with the Writers Guild of America, West Web site about why the script's first draft came so easily to him and why a world without lying is a bad place to be.
So, to go back in time, a year before your career nadir, you'd written what was essentially a sketch?
Yes, it was an eight-page sketch of two people who had to tell the truth on a date and one of them was a loser. That was all there was to it. And the sketch is unchanged in the movie.
When you ultimately revisited it, was it out of desperation?
Yeah, I returned to my vault of ideas and it was the one I was most excited about. I let it marinate in my head for a few days and came up with a few more scenes, and I came up with the idea that, what if that loser on the date could totally flip it and come back lying?
From that point you were off and running?
Yeah, and the scenes I started thinking up sort of gave me the world. It was literally the easiest thing I'd ever written. It just sort of spilled out.
So after you got a few more scenes and the world you wanted this to take place in, do you then go to an outline?
No, I rarely outline. I just wrote. I just logically tracked each moment to each moment and fluidly went through it organically.
So you essentially had three main moments?
Yeah, and the all happened in the first 40 pages, and I had no idea where I was going after that.
Once you strung those together, did the rest just pour forth?
Yeah, it was unlike other scripts because it was really easy to just say, "Alright, what would you do first? Okay, did those. What would you do next? Oh, you would accidentally do this and that would set off this chain of events." It was very natural, and it seemed very obvious to me what would happen. I [also] had a certain agenda of what I wanted to poke at comedically, and it was very easy to get to those subjects.
I understand the conceptual mechanism of the film, but what for you did this story really turn out to be about thematically?
It came to be about the complete gray area of lying and honesty and the beauty and power of lying. Without lying, there's no fiction, there's no art, there's no imagination, there's no potential. There's no ability to see yourself as anything other than what you are in that moment. There's a coldness and sadness to honesty.
Is this sort of a reevaluation of lying?
I think it will hopefully spur a lot of conversation afterwards. It opens up a lot of good questions in terms of art and religion and love and trust and all of these big topics that can be so contingent upon how you feel about lying and honesty.
If I were to force you to make up a moral to this film right now, what would it be?
It would be a very cold, dark world without lying.
To what extent did you get to go back and forth with Ricky Gervais on this script?
We did four or five serious rewrites together. Ricky's main goal was to get a really great Billy Wilder-esque love story into the film. The love story I had in there originally was very cynical and distant and cold. He wanted to get something genuinely emotional and real and hopefully touching in there.
Did you ever have any secret reservations about that direction?
No. It's great because that's what I love so much about The Office and Extras, and was so in awe of – the facility to keep real emotion on the table without sacrificing seriously funny comedy.
Right, to be dry or even cynical...
And then be able to turn it on a dime and have you crying. I think there are few people who have ever pulled that off the way he has.
So in a sense it was kismet beyond your fan-ship of Ricky Gervais, he did a key thing for the script?
Completely. It was not the film or script before that it was after him. He added so much and gave it a real heart and emotion that was lacking in mine.
On a mechanical level, how would you guys write? Would you sit in a room together or would you e-mail?
We did all the writing in rooms together. I went to England a few times he came here a few times, and we would outline scenes together and then I would go off and write them up. But by the time I left we would have 90 percent of the dialogue. He's really great at sitting in silence for a few moments then popping up and having the whole scene ready and acting everybody's part out in front of you. My job at that point was to type as fast as humanly possible.
Did you come from away from this experience with any lessons that you think are worth mentioning?
The main thing that I really learned from Ricky was integrity. Not that I didn't have it before, but I really learned the importance of the ability to block out the rest of the world and really focus in on what you want to see on the screen. I would think the main ethos behind his creativity is confidence and trust in yourself, to only be concerned with what you would wait three days in the rain to see.
To what extent did this experience reiterate the idea to you that the sort of Chaplain-esque heart and sweetness, even the fictional fairy tale aspect, is still central to why people want to watch movies?
I think that really is one of the main themes of the whole film, questioning that need to have the ideal or romantic notion of something, the prettier lie, and whether or not that actually does create a better world, whether or not that fantasy does become reality.


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02/28/2010, Maple Valley, WA
Well, we're leaving tomorrow, so tonight will be our last night in Jerry and Laura's home. Then it's off to Istanbul (via New York). We have something like a 6 hour layover in New York so we'll be able to see the sights. Hopefully I'll be able to post a blog before we board.
After New york we board a flight to Istanbul. Then we spend a few nights recovering in Istanbul (the flight will be very tiring) before we fly to Dalaman (40 or so kilometers from our final destination). After that, we take a taxi(?) to Marmaris.
But, for now we're holed up in
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02/16/2010, Maple Valley, WA
The reason that I titled this blog "Sunny Seattle" was because it has been quite sunny -- or rather Seattle sunny (which means that it's been raining). Actually, as I'm writing this blog, the sun just emerged! But, you can click here for a NOAA forecast for Maple Valley.
Anyhow, things have been boring but interesting around here. My dad went to a Red Cross class yesterday which is a requirement for his Coast Guard license while we just drove around town doing errands. But other than that, things have been kind of boring.
We've been watching the Olympics as a nighttime activity.
Bye for now!
01/31/2010, Salt Lake City, UT
Well, we're in the U.S. now. We made it! After long flights, connections, and car rides, we're in SLC, Utah. I'm sorry that I haven't been keeping up with my blog lately, but that's how things go, I guess.
Anyhow, Salt Lake City reminds me of Istanbul -- cold and snowy (we got 2" this morning (it's all melted)). But the air here is terrible. If you've ever been to Los Angeles... (The first four of the top five cities with the worst air pollution are in Utah. Salt Lake City's #1. The last city is not even in California.) But the recent snow-storm hopefully will have cleared it out.
It's been fun seeing all of our family on my mom's side. Hopefully we'll continue to have fun! :-)
01/28/2010, Seattle, WA
Well, we made it!! It was a hugely long flight (actually I thought that it was quite short for its length) and we are still very tired. We woke up at 5:30 a.m. this morning (about 3:30 p.m. Istanbul time)!!
But we are flying out to SLC in a couple of hours. (By 'we' I mean me and my mom.) So that should be fun. That's when the vaction starts. Right now we're just trying to get to the vacation! :-)
Ok, see my dad's blog for more updates.
01/09/2010, Marmar is Turkey
Well, tonight's the big night!!!! My dad (not me) has acquired free tickets from Yat Marin office to the kick-boxing match tonight. So he's going, but I am staying firmly planted here on the boat.
Nothing's been happening lately. It's just the old routine of waking up in the morning, getting out of bed, going out of the cabin door, coming into the salon, etc. etc. Pretty boring.
Anyhow, we'll be back in America on Jan. 27 (the 28th actually as we will be arriving late on the 27th).
01/05/2010, Marmarmarmarmarmarmaris, Turkey
Well, I am so sorry that I haven't been able to blog, but here goes...
For an update on what has happened, we've been to Rhodes and not done anything else. Okay, I guess we have done other stuff, like going to movie night and going to the quiz's, on the Sunday's and Monday's of the week, but other than that, thing have been pretty quiet. But, I guess that's what comes with living in a marina. You don't have to worry about you motor cover getting blown off, your dinghy stolen, the sky falling -- life's a lot better.
As for the excruciating boring-ness of this escapade, I feel like now that school's back in, all I do is school, piano, school, and piano. But, to see the sunny side of things, I am getting better at piano (I won't say anything about school:-)).
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Iyi, yazıklanan ki görünüm blog, ama burada giderse ...
*ünkü bir güncelleme ne oldu, tartıžmamıza Rodos'a ve žey. bažka. Okay, sanırım yaptık diľer düdüklerini gibi, için film gece ve giden quiz ve , Pazar ve Pazartesi günkü hafta, ama bažka bir žey, da oldukça sakin. Ancak, sanırım bu ne geldiľinde'da yažayan bir marina. Siz de hakkında endiže you motor kapak havaya alan, your dıžtan çalıntı, gökyüzü düžen -- life'nın lut iyi.
Olan acı veren bıktıran - ness bu kaçamaľı, gidemeyeceľim gibi artık okulu'nun geri, tüm BEN bir okul, piyano, okul, ve piyano. Ancak, bakalım güneç žey, elime daha iyi piyano (küçümsendiľimiz oldu ama evet her žey okul hakkında:-)).
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Why is it sometimes painful to urinate?
I have noticed several times when i urinate that it is extremely painful, feels like a ton of pressure on my lower pelvic area. I am 26 weeks, adn it often feels like a very sharp contraction. Is this possible? COuld this be something else? Just went to use the restroom at work and almost felt like labor!!!!!!!
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thanks, i was thinking pre term as well. My OB has me monitoring how often the contractions are and if need be will have to go to hospital for non stress test, and supposedly now there are so many tests that the dr can do to test forpre term. So hopefully things will be ok, have to go for sugar test and now more blood work due to my constant ill feelings, the dr things something must be going on for me to be constantly feeling sick anyway. thanks for the reply!!!posted 03/09/2011 by only1kathleen
You should tell your doctor that then, so they can make sure its not preterm labor?...I'm not sure what that would be if not a UTIM only your doctor will know...posted 03/09/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
THANKS, I apprecate everyone thinking it is a UTI but from many years of experience with UTI's, this is not it.I know what UTI's feel like, this is not a UTI. My pain was a contraction during urination, not a pain in urination. Sounds confusing, but trust me it was awkward!!!!posted 03/08/2011 by only1kathleen
Sounds like you may have a urinary tract infection, you should bring this up to your doctor so that they could test your urine and get down to the bottom of it.posted 03/08/2011 by carranzd
You should definately bring this up with your doctor. It could be a bladder infection. And until you see them you should drink lots of cranberry juice just in case. It helps cleanse your system.posted 03/08/2011 by a BabyCenter Member
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Bankrupt and broke Americans came up with a new idea to save money, spend 10 hours a week clipping coupons to buy things that will take a few months to consume. Then build an extra room to store all those paper towels and five pound cereal boxes that don't fit in the cupboards. Now that's the way to save! Cable network TLC liked the idea so much, they made a show about it. Extreme couponing is No. 5.
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FNCB files to get back more than $4 million from corruption figures
First National Community Bank continues to seek more than $4 million it loaned to Luzerne County corruption figures years ago for a Mountain Top housing development and Drums law office.
Former Luzerne County President Judge Michael T. Conahan and former law partners, attorneys Robert Powell and Jill Moran, still owe the $4.16 million judgment the bank won against them in 2009, according to "Writ of Revivial" documents filed Thursday.
The judgment stems from loans the bank gave to "W-CAT Inc." for a housing development known as the Sanctuary in Mountain Top and "Big Kahuna Realty" for development of an office in Drums.
Conahan, Conahan's wife, Powell, Powell's wife and Moran were among those who guaranteed the loans. Powell and Moran operated the Powell Law Group, which also guaranteed the loans. Moran was Luzerne County prothonotary at the time.
The law firm has filed a lawsuit against the bank, accusing the bank of conflicts of interest and other "improper acts" that led to the default of the loans.
Powell's empire crumbled soon after his arrest in 2009 for paying $770,000 in kickbacks to Conahan and former Judge Mark A. Ciavarella Jr., both of whom also had an interest in W-CAT and guaranteed the loans. The judges, jailed for lengthy prison terms, were accused of funneling youths to one of Powell's other ventures - a pair of juvenile detention centers - while accepting cash payments. Powell spent 18 months in jail.
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Credit scoring systems don't change because it is the holiday season
Dear Experian,
Do credit reporting agencies use the same criteria to evaluate credit usage during the Christmas shopping season?
For example, a person used 80 percent of his available revolving credit during the Christmas shopping season. Over the subsequent three months he pays 90 percent of the outstanding balances, and this person has done this yearly for the past five years.
In the above example does the person's credit rating suffer temporarily, until the debts are paid down, or is the pattern established over the previous five years considered evidence that the person will likely pay the debts within three months as he has in the past, thus not having a negative impact on the person's credit rating?
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The temporary drop is not related to the season, but rather to how the credit cards are being used during that time period.
The issue is that he is charging a large portion of his available credit in a very short period of time. That is a strong indicator of credit risk, which may be reflected by a negative change in his credit scores. Repaying the debt over the subsequent months reduces his balances and demonstrates he is no longer at risk, so his scores improve again.
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Wrong doxology
When big government becomes a false god it puts true worship out of tune
For a pretty long time, it's been a pretty good fit. Three significant groups of U.S. citizens-with a lot of important issues in common, but by no means everything-have formed a political alliance that even in recent times has sometimes seemed unstoppable.
The three groups are fiscal conservatives, social conservatives, and those who believe in a strong national defense. If you want to oversimplify, you can point to (1) limited government; (2) pro-life and pro-family; and (3) muscular military.
It's hard to say, within that often unwieldy family, which of the three groups is dominant. There's so much overlapping of boundaries, and so many within the larger group who hold to at least two of the three distinctives-and very often to all three. My sense is that in times of war and terrorism, the national defense crowd has the most clout. When such threats subside, fiscal conservatism tends to take over; big government, imposing heavy taxes and regulations on its people, becomes the bad guy. Issues like abortion and same-sex marriage, while critically important to many, probably rank third in this three-part coalition.
For us Christians, that's an irony. Is there any doubt which of the three segments of the coalition has the best developed Bible-based warrant for its positions? You don't have to be a skilled Bible scholar to show someone what God thinks about killing babies or what He has to say about persistent homosexual behavior. It's trickier to cite chapter and verse as a justification for sending troops into Iraq, or for a tax cut or for the dismantling the Department of Education.
But if I'm right that the "limited government" cadre is, year in and year out, the most influential segment of this conservative trio, then there's an urgency in developing a clearly biblical rationale for this group's core principles and priorities. We do that partly out of principle: We want, very simply, to be right. And we want to be biblically grounded in everything we do. But we also do it partly out of pragmatism: Even if others don't care about such biblical groundedness, they will be stronger and their efforts more productive because of our joining them in the coalition.
To that end, let me recommend a good, if admittedly secular, starting point. The "limited government" segment of the trio has no more eloquent-or funnier-spokesman than Grover Norquist, author of a new book bluntly titled Leave Us Alone. Norquist offers a pretty comprehensive catalog of the causes important to folks who fear big government. He helpfully spells out who his allies should be: taxpayers, businessmen and women, Second Amendment voters, homeschoolers, property-rights activists and homeowners, communities of faith and parents' rights, the ownership society, the police, and the military.
Norquist argues like the pragmatist he is. He makes no effort here to provide a Christian rationale for limited government but leaves that instead for those of us who think such a task is implicit in God's assignment to His people. What Norquist does offer is an important and helpful assignment book, highlighting all those venues where we as Christians have hard work to do and careful thinking to engage in.
In the end, big government is wrong for two important reasons: It minimizes the freedom God has designed for His people to enjoy, and it minimizes God Himself. It makes Uncle Sam the object of our doxology.
But that needs to be spelled out-in almost exegetical detail-with one specific issue after another. We need to demonstrate in day-to-day terms how easily big government becomes the false god that the true God of the Bible so regularly warns against.
I'm grateful for and well-served by the pragmatic warnings and signposts Grover Norquist has erected. He's pointing us in a good direction. Now it's time, though, for some faithful folks to spell out for us the biblical principles that speak to the matter of big and overweening government. And thus instructed, it's also time for us to teach that truth to a terribly confused culture.
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We did that with Sophie, although she wouldn't have it that giraffes say baa!We were in the giraffe section, which we had never been in before…..we did however have Ben well prepped though, just in case he got asked 'that' question
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Fab update Vikki! Animal Kingdom theme park at Walt Disney World Orlando has really grown on me. camp Minnie mickey is super!
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Sunday 21st August,
Now, I'm afraid we either didn't take the camera today, or I just didn't take any photos, as there's nothing for today. Shock, horror I know
The children didn't wake up until 7.30am which was practically a mid morning lay in for us, which was wonderful We had a lazy hour or so having breakfast and watching The Karate Kid of all things, while Ben played with some of his new toys. We went round to the pool and I put some washing in. We'd purposefully just taken cheap white t-shirts for the boys as they washed so easily and could be left there if we needed room in the case (which is why you'll see so many photos of them in white t-shirts). I did remember that the washers at the resorts are never up to much, but I could hardly complain as they were free to use, with it being a Disney Vacation Club resort. After a good swim we had a counter service lunch and headed of to the Magic Kingdom for the afternoon.
Ava had fallen asleep so Anthony walked with her around to Splash Mountain to get some FP while I took Ben round on the train. The idea was to show him the inside of SM so he could see it wasn't scary, and hopefully he'd want to give it a go. It was a tip that Anthony had picked up from his guide on the train tour and it worked a treat as Ben was really keen to go on it.
It was a while before our FP time so we went around to Fantasy Land, and I rode Dumbo with Ben. It's much better now the queue is shaded, but it was an incredibly hot day so as soon as we were out of the shade it was pretty intense. There was a family who were in the same pre-boarding area as us who were really annoying us though. We were right at the front and the kids were pushing their way past Ben to get in front of him, generally being really rude, and the adults with them did nothing about it. When we got on the ride they were arguing with the CMs about where they all had to sit, as they had to ensure there were enough adults to sit with the smaller children. It took forever to get it sorted. They were told there were too many of them to sit in the way they wanted so some would have to come off – obviously they didn't like that idea. In the end another family came off and waited for the next ride, just so the ride could actually start, I thought that was very kind of them. Ben is always so funny in these situations though. He just doesn't understand why people argue with the CMs and was constantly asking me why they just weren't doing what they were told to. When we got off though, he did say "I didn't like them, they pushed me. I don't think they should have gone on". I find it so funny how matter of fact he is about some things We could see a bit of the new Fantasyland expansion when we were on the ride, so strange to see it like that though!
We went for a quick drink at Pinocchio's and managed to get a seat near the window so Ben could wave, and Ava could flap at the people going by on IASW
After a stop at the Laugh Floor I went to feed Ava. This was the only time the baby care centre was busy, I had the last rocking chair. Nobody else came in fortunately, but this was the one and only time I've ever seen it busy.
Whilst I was doing that Ben went to ride Splash Mountain with Anthony. He loved it, so we went back for him to ride it again with me. Unfortunately it closed just as we got to the front, so we decided not to bother waiting around, and went to see if we could get our ADR (Advance Dining Reservations) early.
We were at Liberty Tree tavern, which we had only visited once before, when there were characters. The food was exactly the same as before, and we all really enjoyed it….although Ava seemed more interested in trying to eat the table again for some reason! The apple cake dessert was particularly nice – much lighter than it looked.
We managed to get on Pooh and IASM, both children were so excitable and totally up for it which was great fun.
As we were leaving, we did try to get a photopass picture in front of the castle, where they blur the people around, but it didn't come out very well to be honest.
We left Anthony at MK that night so he could do Extra Magic Hour. This is where the baby carrier was an absolutely wonderful thing to have. Ava quite happily sat in there as we walked to the bus. It just meant that collapsing the buggy and getting all of our things, and both children onto the bus was just so much easier. After getting back to the hotel we went up to our room….only to discover we'd gone into the wrong building So out we came and went to the right one The children were asleep in no time, so I decided to treat myself to a Bud on the balcony, watching the world go by before I went to bed myself. The end of another magical dayOur 2006 trip report,our 2009 trip report, our 2011 trip report, our 2013 trip report.
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By Phillip Whitten
The Pan Pacific Championships, to be held August 22-29 at next year's Olympic pool in Sydney, is the pre-eminent swimming competition in the world this year, surpassing the European Championships held last month in Istanbul, and the Pan American Games held earlier in August in Winnipeg.
Times have been fast all season and there are expectations for a superfast meet just a little more than a year before the 2000 Games. For the Americans, hopes are high for world records in several events–the 100 and 200 meter backstroke (Lenny Krayzelburg) and, perhaps, the 400 meter freestyle relay. No American male has set a world record since 1994, when Tom Dolan set the current world mark in the 400 IM.
This is the first article in a two-part series that previews the Pan Pacs. In this article we look at the men's events.
The men's meet shapes up as a two-way battle between the U.S.A. and Australia, with a few Japanese and South Africans expected to swim well. Seven world records are vulnerable, in what may become a veritable orgy of record-setting. Here are the events in which world records may fall:
Men's 200 meter freestyle (1:46.67)
Three men have a shot at the world record in the 200 free, all of them Australian. On March 23, Grant Hackett, better known as a 400 and 1500-meter man, broke the oldest men's swimming record when he carved two-hundredths of a second off Italian Giorgio Lamberti's 1989 world mark, clocking 1:46.67. Several months earlier, his 15-year-old teammate, Wunderkind Ian Thorpe, known in Australia as "The Thorpedo," had come within one-hundredth of a second of the old record with his 1:46.70. Most observers thought it would be Thorpe who would break Lamberti's standard.
The third Aussie in the hunt is 1998 World Champion Michael Klim, who has been swimming very well of late. Any one of these three could break the WR–or all three of them could. I lean toward Thorpe. The U.S. will send up national champion Ugur Taner (1:49.19), Chad Carvin (1:48.78p) and Josh Davis (1:49.72). Taner feels he is ready to swim 1:47.
Men's 400 meter freestyle (3:43.80)
Another battle between the 6'5″ Thorpe, now 16, with his size-16 feet, and his 19-year-old nemesis, Hackett, dubbed "Terminator 2″ Down Under. In head-to-head competition in the 400 over a 50-meter course, Thorpe, the 1998 world champion, has always emerged the winner. At last year's Commonwealth Games, Thorpe clocked 3:43.85, just five-hundredths off Kieren Perkins' formerly invincible world record from the 1994 World Championships. Hackett's 3:45.59 made him the fourth fastest man in history.
However Hackett edged Thorpe in this event at the Short Course World Champs in Hong Kong in April, chopping five full seconds off the world mark. This shapes up as an epic battle between the two young Aussies, both of them capable of lowering the world mark.
The U.S. will put up Carvin (3:49.68) and the enigmatic Eric Vendt, who had a spectacular summer last year but hasn't swum fast since. South Africa's Ryk Neethling also expects to go under 3:50 and could be a factor in the race if he can get out fast enough.
Men's 1500 meter freestyle
This event belongs to the 6'6" Hackett, whose 14:48.63 from the Australian Championships in March makes him the second fastest man in history, behind Kieren Perkins' WR of 14:41.66 set five years ago. Perkins, on the comeback trail, will be in the race and says he fully expects to win, but most observers believe the younger Hackett is the man to beat. South Africa's Neethling, who has a best of 15:02, appears ready to dip under 15 minutes. He has predicted a 14:50 or faster.
Men's 100 meter backstroke
Jeff Rouse's world record, set leading off the medley relay in Barcelona in 1992, stands at 53.86. Lenny Krayzelburg swam 54.00 last week, unshaved and untapered, making him #3 on the all-time list. Though Lenny is better at the 200, it appears he should get the 100 record too. The battle for second should be close, pitting Japan's Keitano Konnai (55.32) against the USA's Bobby Brewer (55.61) or comebacking Neil Walker (55.63). Three Aussies have swum 55-high this season.
Men's 200 meter backstroke
In 1991, Spain's Martin Lopez-Zubero set the wold record at 1:56.57, and there it's remained ever since. Last week, swimming unshaved and unrested, Lenny Krayzelburg came within a whisper of beating it, clocking 1:56.68. The Spaniard's record is ready to fall, with Krayzelburg swimming as fast as 1:55. The #2 American, 1996 Olympic champion Brad Bridgewater, has been erratic this summer, but should swim under 1:59. Konnai and three Aussies have all swum between 2:00.5 and 2:00.9 this year.
Men's 100 meter butterfly
Michael Klim says he is fit and ready to challenge his own world record of 52.15 set in 1997. At a meet in Brisbane three weeks ago, he swam 52.81 unshaved and untapered, the world's second fastest time this year. Australia also has two other sub-53 second flyers: Geoff Huegill and Scott Miller, the newly-married "bad boy" of Australian swimming. Bryan Jones gave US hopes a lift in this event last week, when he clocked 52.90. Neil Walker, the American record holder (52.76) may also swim the event, though he passed it up at Nationals last week. Japan's Takashi Yamamoto (53.12) may be a spoiler, though he's better at 200 meters, while Canada's improving Shamek Pietucha (53.40) may also be in the hunt.
Men's 400 meter freestyle relay
The current world mark (3:15.11) was set by the 1995 US Pan Pac team. This team–either with or without Gary Hall, who was a member of the record-setting '95 squad–has a shot at the record. Hall, however, has told Swimming World he will not swim in any relay finals. Without Hall, the US has Jason Lezak (49.34), Bryan Jones (48.68r), Neil Walker (48.68r) and Scott Tucker (49.69).
Men's 800 meter freestyle relay
Along with Lenny K. in the 200 back, this is as close to a sure thing as there is in swimming. Last fall, Australia set the world mark at 7:11.86–and that was without world record-holder Grant Hackett. No one on that relay split better than 1:47.4. Look for the Aussies to break 7:10.
Other Events
Here's a rundown of the remaining events.
Men's 50 meter freestyle
The meet was denied a match-up between Gary Hall and the world's top-ranked swimmer this year, South Africa's Roland Schoeman (22.04), when the South African federation refused to pay his way to his national championships. Even without the 19-year-old Springbok, the field is very fast. Top bets: Hall, the Olympic silver medalist, who swam 22.13, coming off illness, suspension and fines, and wearing a baggy suit; 1998 world champion Bill Pilczuk, second (22.35) to Hall at the US Nationals; Australia's Klim, bronze medalist at the 98 World Champs; and South Africa's Brendon Dedekind (22.22).
Men's 100 meter freestyle
Klim, the 98 silver medalist at the World Championships, and Chris Fydler carry Australia's hopes. America will go with fast-rising Jason Lezak (49.34) and Bryan Jones (49.43), Scott Tucker (49.69) or Neil Walker (49.80). Gary Hall, who is entered in this event, has told Swimming World he will not swim it.
Men's 100 meter breaststroke
The world's fastest man this year–the USA's Ed Moses (1:00.99)–will not be swimming due to the selection criteria established for the US team; same too for USA's Jarrod Marrs (1:01.80). So the race shapes up as a battle among China's Quiliang Zeng (1:01.89), Canada's Morgan Knabe (1:02.11), Australia's Simon Cowley (1:02.14), Japan's Akira Hayashi (1:02.19) and perhaps Michael Norment (1:01.85 last year) or Perth bronze medalist Kurt Grote.
Men's 200 meter breaststroke
Again, Moses has the fastest US time this year (2:13.41) but he'll be at home when the gun goes off. Six swimmers have gone under 2:15 this year or last. Australia's Ryan Mitchell leads the pack with a '99 best of 2:13.75, with Cowley at 2:14.39. The US duo of Tom Wilkens and Kurt Grote, ranked one-two in the world last year, is looking to get down to 2:11 or 2:12 territory with a rest and shave. Knabe won Pan Ams with 2:14.73 and Norment was 2:14-high last year. Hayashi has gone 2:13 in the past and should not be counted out.
Men's 200 meter butterfly
The edge here goes to Japan's Takashi Yamamoto, whose 1:57.09 ranks second globally this year. The American pair of Ugur Taner (1:58.82) and Olympic silver medalist Tom Malchow (1:59.08) are both swimming well and looking to go under 1:57. Australia has a pair of 1:58 flyers–Bill Kirby and Scott Goodman–who should also contribute to an exciting race.
Men's 200 meter individual medley
This is a race that's up for grabs. America's Wilkins is top seed at 2:02.03, and that was done unshaved and untapered. Ron Karnaugh, 33, was the bronze medalist at the 98 World Championships (2:01.89) and is looking for a drop. Canada's Curtis Myden should go faster than the 2:02.38 he swam to win Pan Ams. The Aussies have two 2:02-2:03 swimmers: Matt Dunn, recovering from an injury, and Robert Van der Zant. Canada's Owen Von Richter is in the picture at 2:02.91, while South Africa's team of Theo Verster (2:03.52) and Terence Parkin (2:03.77), who is deaf, should make this an exciting race.
Men's 400 meter individual medley
With world record-holder Tom Dolan sidelined after a knee operation, this event should belong to Canada's Myden, who set a Commonwealth record in winning the race at Pan Pams (4:15.52). But Tom Wilkens is as tough as they come, and he will be in the thick of it; he says he's ready to go 4:15, 4:14 or whatever it takes to win. Dunn (4:18.24), Von Richter (4;19.62) and perhaps Vendt (4:18 in prelims last year) may also be in contention.
Men's 400 meter medley relay
Last year the Aussies upset the Yanks in this event at the World Champs. It will be close again this year, but the US has the edge, even without Moses. Krayzelburg should give the Stars and Stripes an insurmountable lead, but never count out the home team from the land of Oz.