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ByEvelyn M. Rusli
At 23, James Proud is a rising Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur who has managed to raise nearly $13 million in funding – none of which is from institutional investors.
His company, Hello, raised $10.5 million from a circle of well-connected angel investors, some of whom wrote million-dollar checks. And in a crowdfunding campaign that ended Friday, he raised an additional $2.4 million on Kickstarter, via nearly 20,000 backers who donated or pre-ordered his flagship product: Sense, a sleep tracker slated to begin shipping to Kickstarter backers in November for $99.
The device, which will eventually retail for $129, is a small orb that sits on your night stand and measures the pollen in the air, humidity, the light in the room, any sounds, and other disturbances at night. It also comes with a small disc, called the pill that attaches to the sleeper's pillow and tracks movement.
Sense didn't break any records on the crowdfunding site. Oculus, the virtual reality headset recently purchased by Facebook, attracted $2.4 million; Ouya, the gaming console, got $8.6 million; and Pebble was the most successful, with $10.3 million raised in 2012.
But Proud's path should give some big venture capital firms pause, as founders like him find there are more ways to raise eight figures without Sand Hill Road. In 2011, at age 20, Proud, was a member of the Thiel Fellows, a group of 20 teenagers paid by billionaire investor Peter Thiel to skip college and pursue entrepreneurship or other projects.
Proud's circle of backers–of the non-Kickstarter variety–include some well-known names in the industry, such as David Marcus, the former head of PayPal, Dan Rose, a Facebook executive, Aaron Sittig, a former designer of Facebook, Shakil Khan, an adviser to startups like Spotify, and Hugo Barra, a Xiaomi executive. According to Proud, the investors are people, often friends, who offered strategic advantages because of their networks or experience. They're also letting the 23-year-old retain significant control.
"If someone gives you the terms you want and the control you want, you take that," Proud says.
That isn't to say he would never turn to venture capital if he ever needed the money down the road to expand, he says.
Proud, a native of South London, says the structure has helped him run his company the way he wants to. In San Francisco' Portrero Hill neighborhood, Hello's cavernous office is filled with 20 employees, half are hardware experts from companies such as Foxconn and Garmin, and the other half are software brains. Sketches of the Sense globe and complex formulas are scrawled all over the white walls. He says a small team, with equal parts hardware and software talent, has helped Hello with speed and flexibility.
Founded in September 2012, Hello spent about 18 months working on a wearable device, but it decided to scrap those plans in March after it became clear from conversations with prospective customers that a sleep-centric device was compelling enough. Four months later, Sense debuted on Kickstarter.
While Proud doesn't consider Kickstarter to be similar to a fundraising round, since most of the money will go to manufacturing, he says the site gave the team negotiating power in dealing with manufacturers and more importantly, a hyper-engaged community to get feedback from. Because of Kickstarter feedback, for example, the product will now let users replace the battery. It has also attracted more inbound messages from institutional investors says Proud.
Several other venture-funded startups have tried the crowdfunding route too, such as fitness-tracking device maker Misfit Wearables home-security company Canary Connect, to help with the launch of their products and gain customer feedback.
Kickstarter "certainly gives people more options," Proud says.


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SFHN Meetup #2
Dan Gailey
Thursday, January 24, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM (PST)
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Hi HNers!
It's that time again! Time for another excellent San Francisco Hacker News (http://sfhackernews.com/) meetup. This time around we found a larger venue, and we've got sponsors for food and drinks!
So come out and meet other Hackers/Designers/Founders/Disrupticonnoisseurs to share a drink and eat some snacks!
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Foreskin's Lament
by Shalom Auslander
To circumcise or not circumcise. That is not the question.
The question is: eight days from birth, your son shall receive the Brit Milah (circumcision) by an authorized Mohel (holy person trained in Brit Milah) else your newly born son will receive Kareth (spiritual excision/divine punishment.)
Notice it's not a question.
Therein lies the basis of Foreskin's Lament, which Spouse so endearingly refers to as "The Foreskin Monologues." (I giggle every time.)
Foreskin's Lament is a memoir from Shalom Auslander, a writer who was raised in an extremely orthodox Jewish family and community. He attended a yeshiva (Jewish school,) he wore the kippah (yarmulke) and tallit with four tzitzits as was instructed by Jewish law. He was forced to strictly observe the Shabbat (Sabbath), and was convinced that death or extreme mutilation would befall anyone he loved if he failed to obey kashrut (dietary laws.) Auslander grew up with fear. Fear that his negligent actions would result in the All Mighty Smiting of those he loved. Fear that his mother (or brother or friend or sister or rabbi) would be killed if he drank milk within 5 hours and 50 minutes of eating meat instead of the commanded six.
Although Mr. Auslander is no longer practicing, he is still terrified of God. He fears God's wrath in every small aspect of his life. That fear becomes exponential when he discovers that his wife is pregnant with a boy, for he must decide what do do about the circumcision. He was raised to believe that an infant boy's salvation was held ransom by the act of circumcision on precisely the eighth day of boy's life. (There's some sunset rules in those eight days, and it depends on what time the child was born. It's totally complicated. I couldn't wrap my head around the concept and gave up understanding.)
Through the book, Auslander provides some insight to his upbringing and traditions. He spent some time is Israel studying, then, with the blessing of his parents married an orthodox Jewish girl. They practiced for some time but decided that their religious traditions were a matter a force. He says, "Isn't tradition just another word for that particular religious, self-righteous, non-thinking inertia that propels so many to extremes they might not ever have engaged in had they stopped to actually consider, to weight, to examine?"
In the end Auslander and his wife decide to circumcise their son just after birth, in the hospital, by a doctor of unknown faith. Auslander's family visits the parents only to chastise and hold the couple accountable for the damnation of their newly-born son. The family leaves and Auslander hasn't spoken to them since.
Some Thoughts on Religion
Here's what I honestly believe about religion, and why I love America: To Each Their Own. You wanna eat kosher? Great! You wanna pray to an Elephant God named Ganesh? Dandy! You wanna wear a scarf to cover your hair? Sweet! You wanna abstain from alcohol and other stuff for religious reasons? Go for it! You wanna believe there is no god? It's your choice! You wanna believe in Jesus on your own terms? Do it! To Each Their Own.
I would call myself particularly involved in my religious persuasion. I do my best to obey commandments and whatnot, and try my hardest to separate some cultural traditions from doctrine. One of the very most important aspects of my religious involvement, however, is that I am doing it all because it is my choice. Not my parents' choice. Not Spouse's choice. Mine. Once I feel that I'm being forced into my religion, I'm out. Luckily, my religion is based on choice. It's part of the foundation. I'm finding that any type of "force" in my religion is a result of expectations from family and the culture.
This book was rather eye-opening to me. You cannot force a belief. You just can't. You can force actions and traditions using fear or bribes of some sort, but when it comes right down to it, you cannot force someone to believe a particular something. The culture in which I live has some serious cultural coercion. Families and churches and schools are inundated with a the predominant religious beliefs. This book helped me realize that no matter my beliefs, it's my role as a parent to make sure my Yahoos have a choice in what or how they worship. They come to church with us now, partly by force and partly because they cannot stay home without proper supervision, but there will come a time that they will choose if it's what they want. And it's my role as a parent to love. Not love them because they are part of my religious club. To quote my favorite person in history, Jesus, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye alove one another; as I have loved you, that ye also blove one another" – John 13:34.
I think that Foreskin's Lament would be a good read for most people within my religious orientation. To illustrate that we cannot force a belief. There's some serious language in this book, however, and I'm not the type to recommend books with swears to people who don't like books with swears.
How This Book Came To Be
I have this friend Megan, who is getting a graduate degree in Creative Nonfiction. She doesn't know this, but her attendance in this program has opened up another whole! new! world! for me (complete with spastic purple genie.) She tells me about some Creative Nonfiction and I read this Creative Nonfiction. Then I become tickled with glee over whats inside. Sometimes, as is the case with Foreskin's Lament, Megan actually sends me the book in the mail. Talk about glee. Few things make me as happy as receiving random books in the mail.
What is Creative Nonfiction?
The Rabid dictionary says that Creative Nonfiction is factual stuff written in an entertaining manner. That is, it's written creatively instead of text booky. Text books aren't fun to read. Creative Nonfiction is fun to read. Creative Nonfiction takes a collection of factual events or ideas and pulls them all together in a creative fashion. Memoirs are considered Creative Nonfiction, but not all Creative Nonfiction must be a memoirs. Creative Nonfiction can also be research-related. For example, Megan told me about her advisor, and how she is writing a book on journals and blogs and the like. I can't wait to read that one.
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A friend forwarded me a message regarding an act reforming congress containing 8 key provisions. I like most of them, but what do you think?
- Term Limits. 12 years only, one of the possible options below:
- Two Six-year Senate terms
- Six Two-year House terms
- One Six-year Senate term and three Two-Year House terms
- No Tenure / No Pension:
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office.
- Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security:
All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people.
- Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do.
- Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%.
- Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people.
- Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people.
- All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/11.
The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves.
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
Parts I don't agree with? Term limits. I agree with Michael Medved that term limits sounds good, but needlessly hamper possibly good congress people who truly excel. A crucial aspect of the American ideal is that we err towards allowing the possibility of wrongs occurring if there is reasonable possibility a right will occur under the same structure. To put it another way: If a law punishing some minor wrong also prevented or excluded some good, that law would be unjust. And so, while term limits would indeed shorten the time of service in congress of many people who probably ought to be there even less time than term limits allow, they would also necessarily shorten the allotted time of those who would continue to be beneficial beyond the limited term.
Everything else I agree with. Congress should never, ever exist on a plane separate from the rest of America. Legally, financially, from beginning to end, they ought to live in the same systems they have created and placed upon the rest of us. This stems from the same root concern that paints convicted unethical congressman Rangel with a severe brush. He considered himself special and above the normal concerns of the average Joe's subject to his whim, for his immoral self-enrichment and failure to report income and pay taxes, the only reasonable response is ejection from congress. This namby-pamby limp-wristed hand slap isn't sufficient to convey the extreme levels of anger we feel at his sense of personal privilege. He considered himself above the law. Let Charles Rangel now feel the weight of the law upon his law-breaking head.
Enough of the soap box, though.
What do you think would be reasonable requirements that ought to be placed upon Congress to help prevent their becoming so disconnected as they have?
Simply prescriptions will not be sufficient. Please provide arguments and reasoning behind your suggestions.
Related articles
- Committee term limits a test of 'getting it' (thehill.com)
- VIDEO: Gov Jindal: 'Make Congressmen Part-time' (redstate.com)
- Charlie Rangel: The Poster Boy For Term Limits (edistojoe.com)
- How Thorough Will Boehner's Reform of Congress Be? (politics.usnews.com)
- Term Limits: Are New Lawmakers Serious About Them? (huffingtonpost.com)
- Richard Greener: The Phony "Congressional Reform Act of 2010" (huffingtonpost.com)
- Dump This Congress In November! (authoron.wordpress.com)
- When Do Washington Politicians Actually Work? Term Limits Would Help! (chicagonow.com)
- A Social Security Proposal We Can All Live With (blogs.hbr.org)


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Anderson Named International Business Leader of the Year
Jacksonville, Fla. — The JAXUSA Partnership, Northeast Florida's regional economic development initiative, today named JAXPORT CEO Paul Anderson the 2012 Individual International Business Leader of the Year.
JAXUSA recognized Anderson for leading JAXPORT's growth, building a solid foundation for the future and helping to increase Jacksonville's profile in the international business community.
Jacksonville Mayor Alvin Brown commended Anderson's tireless promotion of international trade and mentioned his work attracting funding for an intermodal rail facility at Dames Point and the progress being made in removing the Mile Point navigational restriction. During Anderson's tenure, Jacksonville has grown into the highest volume cargo container port complex in Florida.
"I accept this prestigious award on behalf of the talented men and women of JAXPORT and our many valued partners in business and government," Anderson said. "When I came to Jacksonville nearly two years ago, I said port progress couldn't be about one man. I said it would have to be a team effort. Clearly, the business community in Jacksonville has taken that message to heart."
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Place largest cake on cake base. Stack smaller cake on top.
Tint white buttercream teal with icing color. Starting in the top row, at the top of each circle, fill in teal buttercream tip 67 or 352 pull-out leaves. Repeat with chocolate buttercream icing and bottom row of circles.


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Capitalized WordsThese brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Which word in Group B can be added to Group A? Why?
Group A: Mania, Mink, Quit, Roe, Sure
Group B: Bunk, Care, Flank, Gum, Pea, Pair, Sofa
HintThe teaser title is a clue.
AnswerEach word in Group A, when a letter is added, becomes the capital of a country.
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Angels Coach Jimmie Reese Dies at Age 92 : Obituary: During 78 years in baseball he won the friendship of game's greats, regard of legions.
SANTA ANA — He was Babe Ruth's roommate. He was Nolan Ryan's and Reggie Jackson's best pal. But to those close to him, Jimmie Reese will always be remembered for the man he was, not the men he knew.
His love of the game buoyed him through 78 seasons of professional baseball--from batboy for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League in 1917 to conditioning coach for the California Angels in 1994--and along the way he lifted the spirits of countless managers, coaches, players, clubhouse workers and sportswriters.
Reese, 92, died Wednesday morning at a hospital in Santa Ana. He was in his 23rd season with the Angels organization.
"I was very fond of Jimmie Reese," Angels owner Gene Autry said. "He's one of the finest men I've ever known. We will miss him, I'll tell you that. He was a wonderful, wonderful man."
Added Autry's wife, Jackie: "He represented the best part of baseball. . . . He was an extraordinary gentleman. We should get his fungo bat and put it in the Angel Hall of Fame."
A fungo bat, long and thin with an extra-long handle and occasionally one flat side, is used by coaches to hit grounders and fly balls while players practice fielding. Reese was known throughout baseball for his ability to use it to drop a ball on a dime.
Reese broke into professional baseball with the minor league Oakland Oaks in 1924 and six years later was purchased by the New York Yankees. With the Yankees, he roomed with the legendary Ruth, an association that provided Reese with a collection of tales that never failed to mesmerize listeners.
Through the years, he became mentor and close friend of players such as Ryan, Jackson and pitcher Jim Abbott, but few who crossed his path were untouched by his sincerity, his good nature and his uncanny ability to make people smile.
Reese, born in New York City on Oct. 1, 1901, spent three seasons in the majors--two with the Yankees and one with the old St. Louis Browns.
It was as the former roommate of the notoriously fun-loving Ruth, baseball's first great home-run hitter, that Reese gained most of his fame. And he enjoyed every minute of it.
"He used to always tell us," Jackie Autry said, "I didn't really room with Babe Ruth. I roomed with his luggage."
Angels Reese once said that if he lived to be 100--and he didn't miss by much--he would never forget Ruth.
"My friendship with Babe meant that I walked the streets of New York with him," Reese said.
"Everybody wanted to be around him. People would yell his name or just run up and touch him. A lot of times people would ask him for money. Times were hard in those days. Babe would give a guy $10 and say, 'OK, you owe me.' But he knew he'd never see the guy again."
But hanging around Ruth had its price. Once when the Yankees were in St. Louis, Reese said, Ruth's wife ordered him to drive the Babe from the hotel to the ballpark. Make sure there were no stops, she said.
"We went out a side door and got in his 16-cylinder Packard," Reese recalled. "And there was a lady in a parked car. The Babe said we were going to take a little detour.
"We followed her a couple of miles to an apartment. The Babe told me to read a book or two. An hour or so later he came out puffing. He lit a cigar and said we better get to the park.
"Infield practice was on when we arrived. Manager Bob Shawkey said hi to the Babe. But to me he said, 'Where the hell you been, Reese?'
"Shawkey had to come up with something, so he told me, 'Reese, I think you're bad company for Babe to keep.' I all but fell over, but Babe thought it was a howl."
Another of Reese's favorites was Ryan. The former pitcher and Reese became friends when Ryan and Reese joined the Angels in 1972.
The first day of spring training, Reese ran Ryan all over the outfield with his famous fungo bat.
"Who is that guy?" Ryan asked. "He's going to kill me the first day."
They ultimately became close friends, and one of Reese's prized possessions was the baseball Ryan used to complete his fifth no-hitter.
"I have no idea how we became friends," Reese once said. "I must be at least 10 years older than he is."
From the time he was hired as batboy by the Los Angeles Angels in 1917, Reese never missed a summer's participation in the national pastime until 1991.
What doctors called a coronary occlusion threatened his career, but after missing almost the entire 1991 season Reese was back in 1992, celebrating his 76th summer in the sport.
The Angels announced at the time that Reese had been signed to a lifetime contract and would not have to do any more traveling.
In his day, though, he traveled lots. He was a second baseman when he began his playing career with the Pacific Coast League's Oakland Oaks. In 1930, along with another infielder, Lyn Lary, Reese was sold to the Yankees. The price for the pair was $125,000, at the time a record figure.
Reese played 232 major league games, batting .278. He was a deadly pinch-hitter, getting 15 hits in 33 at-bats for a .455 average.


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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - A wheelchair bound woman who has outlived predictions of her demise for more than 20 years spent Thursday wheeling through the halls of the Capitol, seeking to legalize the use of medical marijuana, which she believes has kept her alive.
Cathy Jordan and her husband, Robert, are on a mission in Tallahassee.
Cathy has Lou Gehrig's disease. She has lived two decades since she was given three years to live in 1991.
Both she and her husband believe it's because of marijuana.
"The way I know it works and been keeping her alive," Robert said. "If you take the cannabis out of the picture, she gets sick. You put it back in a picture, she starts getting better again, back to normal."
The couple want to legalize marijuana for medical purposes. They met with lawmakers and staff throughout the day.
"We know it's an uphill battle, but it's a battle worth fighting," Robert said.
"We're finally at the top of the hill," Cathy said.
The couple have formed the Florida Cannabis Action Network. Jodi James says new polling shows the majority in Florida support medical marijuana.
"Seven out of 10 Floridians are saying that they absolutely support medical cannabis and safe legal access to this medicine by Floridians," James said. "It was something we kind of expected."
As the Jordans continued from office to office, their hometown state senator, Bill Galvano, said he isn't convinced yet, but he's willing to listen.
"So at this point, I'm not prepared to change my position, but it is certainly something that I'll look at for my constituent," said Galvano, R-Bradenton.
Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have legalized medical.
The legislation that has been filed to legalize marijuana for medical purposes has been assigned to four committees, and with no hearing scheduled, it remains more than an uphill battle that the Jordans say they are willing to fight as long as Cathy is alive.
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ONE of the most militant hip hop artists in America today is performing in Birmingham next week.
Critically acclaimed and politically outspoken Killer Mike will be bringing a slice of Atlanta to The Rainbow on Tuesday, February 12.
The heavyweight rapper has had spats with everyone from Oprah Winfrey to the Black Entertainment Network which banned his songs for being too political.
As the rest of hip hop disappeared into the world of boasting about bling Killer Mike remains true to the Gil Scott Heron tradition of the genre.
Rapping with conviction about all kinds of subjects over Brooklyn style beats the Atlanta man's appeal has caught the attention of this side of the pond.
However, he has had mainstream success appearing on the Grammy Award winning song The Whole World and has collaborated with Jay Z, TI, Talib Kweli, Immortal Technique, MOP and many more.
Last year's R.A.P Music album, his sixth, was included in Rolling Stone and Time magazines' Best Albums of 2012 list and his live performances often get rave reviews.
His visit to Birmingham is part of a European tour which is taking in Sweden, Germany and Norway.
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There's a famous scene in The Devil Wears Prada where Meryl Streep, as the terrifying editor of a Vogue-like fashion magazine, lectures dowdily dressed Anne Hathaway on the way her "lumpy blue sweater" is, in fact, distantly influenced by the catwalk collections of Oscar de la Renta and Yves St Laurent.
In the same way, are the recent votes of institutional shareholders against executive pay somehow an echo of the Occupy movement's vocal, if ill-focused, protests, from Wall Street to the City of London?
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The St. Louis Cardinals won game three of the World Series over the Boston Red Sox in the most unusual of ways, taking the game on a walk-off obstruction call. As angry as a lot of Red Sox fans are, umpire Jim Joyce made the right call.
The play started with the Cards having runners on second and third and one out in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game. John Jay grounded to Dustin Pedroia, who made a great diving play to throw out Yadier Molina at home. All hell broke lose when Jarrod Saltalamacchia attempted to throw out Allen Craig at third but threw the ball into left field.
Craig then tripped over Will Middlebrooks as he broke for home, and though he was thrown out easily, Joyce had already called obstruction on Middlebrooks.
And he got the call right. He nailed it, in fact.
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THE four finalists for The Mall Blackburn's 'Retail Factor' 2014 contest have gone to the public vote.
The budding entrepreneurs are now trading in the shopping centre's pop-up shop which was officially opened this week.
After three weeks' trading, one of the businesses will be selected as having the commercial X factor based on results and public reaction.
The winner will be in the national final, up against five other hopefuls to win £1,000 and mentoring from business experts.
The finalists are: Irresistible Cupcakes: Fatema Fulat from Blackburn, with 20 years' baking experience, has been running the enterprise since 2013. She produces cakes, pop cakes and printed edible decorations using organic ingredients.
Kease Keyrings: Chorley-based Sue Seddon's business provides a unique solution to the age-old problem of lost keys. It is the only product of its kind in the UK and comes in a variety of colours and designs. Sue launched in 2013.
Tutu's and Tulle: Amanda Logan's love of all things girly led to her launching her business producing bespoke, made-to-order tutu outfits with matching personalised teddy bears. Set up in 2013 and based in her home in Feniscowles.
Krosl: Jack Godden, from Liverpool, met business partner Sam Houghton from Blackburn when they studied in Manchester. Together they founded Krosl, a contemporary creative clothing design company.
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National Lottery organiser Camelot is urging all Tendring players to search their coat pockets, handbags and behind their sofas to see if they have the winning ticket bought on February 2. The numbers were 2, 12, 13, 14, 21, 30 and the bonus ball was 39.
* Young children in a school playground are being subjected to foul language coming from a controversial training ground, according to disgruntled residents.
About 150 people packed out a community hall to discuss the next step in their fight against the Colchester United facility in Tiptree.
* A dog which attacked and killed another dog and injured its owner will be destroyed.
However, magistrates have ruled three others involved in the incident should live - as long as they do not attack again. The four Staffordshire bull terriers escaped from Natasha Wood's garden before running two miles and attacking Josphine Driscoll and her two dogs.
* Highways bosses have pledged to urgently carry out a fresh assessement on the A120 following another serious accident on a notorious danger junction at Great Bromley.
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A MOTORCYCLIST and a car driver have been taken to hospital after a crash near Stourbridge.
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They crop up occasionally -- pleas for a good restaurant in East Kildonan. Recently, though, there's been a different kind of email, rejoicing in the discovery of a good Vietnamese restaurant. Actually, there always have been some good eats in this underserved area, a few of which I'll get to later.
But first, the Watt Street Bistro, the cause of that recent rejoicing.
It's an unassuming, spotless little place, its only stabs at decor the gorgeous colour prints of fish and crustaceans, the kind I've seen in some sushi houses. But sushi isn't the specialty here. And although a small part of the menu is devoted to burgers and pizzas and fries and such, they aren't exactly in short supply in East Kildonan... unlike Vietnamese food, which is the focus of today's column.
The menu isn't extensive. It was even shorter on my first visit in the dead of winter, and although the food was good, I learned that the menu was about to be expanded. So I put off the review for a few months, and yes, the menu has indeed grown. It's still relatively limited, compared to other Vietnamese menus, but it offers local residents an alternative to driving downtown. Not only will they save on gas, they'll also save on the food, which comes in generous portions and costs a little less than many of its downtown competitors.
There are some delicious appetizers, most $4.99 to $7.99, the latter price for 12 deep-fried spring rolls of good quality, slightly garlicky shrimp wrapped in wonton pastry. Our plump, fresh salad rolls were overloaded with lettuce and rice noodles, but two sampled salads were lovely and particularly well dressed -- the chili- and lime-splashed shredded green mango salad (a veggie-only version), and the fish sauce-scented coleslaw with slices of slightly smoky grilled beef (chicken or shrimp, if preferred) and a sprinkle of peanuts.
Phos -- the signature soups of Vietnamese restaurants -- come in a handful of variations ($6.75 to $7.99), and ours was top-notch. The fragrant, long-simmered beef broth was full-flavoured, served with generous slices of tender rare beef, slippery rice noodles and lots of fresh basil, plus hot sauce for those who want heat. For those who want even more heat -- lots and lots of heat -- the delicious Spicy Coconut Chicken Vermicelli Soup delivers a powerful wallop.
Most main courses range from $7.50 to $9.99. I love the Vietnamese way with fried chicken; it may look like your neighbourhood takeout versions but it's worlds away in flavour -- marinated first in a garlicky paste, dredged in flour, deep-fried to an incredible crunch, and moist within. The bed of fried rice -- despite a whiff of fish sauce -- was merely passable.
One of the best dishes seemed more Chinese than Vietnamese, albeit without any starch thickening. Whatever its origin, the flavour-packed beef with bean sprouts, cabbage and shreds of onion was a winner.
Two others were so disappointing they could have come from a different kitchen. The shrimp in Sizzling Honey Shrimp were luscious, but there was no sizzle whatever, and the sauce was more like a cloyingly sweet soup. Spicy Coconut Pork Ribs were tiny and tasteless, with barely a trace of coconut or lemon grass and no other detectable spices in the also soupy sauce.
Service is friendly but can be slow. Closed Tuesday.
Now about those other good eats in the area, a reminder that there are some good, value-priced foods close to home. There are probably more, but I've culled the following from relatively recent reviews.
Famous Dave's barbecues are among the city's best -- not just the ribs, but the roast chicken, brisket and chopped pork as well. All can be ordered la carte, from $14.99 to $26.99, but the Feasts -- which includes three of them -- are excellent value at $74.99 for four to six, or $44.99 for two, with leftovers in each case. Included also are terrific cornmeal muffins, a decent creamy coleslaw and addictive baked beans, as well as frozen fries and so-so corn on the cob, but I'd skip the last two and double up on the muffins and beans. Full service and licensed. 11 Reenders Dr., 204-504-7200.
Charlee's also offers full service and a licence, and its puff pastry-topped chicken soup alone is worth a visit. Other worthwhile choices are a Filipino-style barbecued pork sandwich topped by a fried egg; a superior Reuben with steamed corned beef brisket; and mozzarella-topped, baked penne in a winey sauce with mushrooms and chorizo (nothing over $12). 185 Stadacona St., 204-663-6484.
Sonya's is a simple, cramped little place that is open for breakfast and lunch only, Monday to Saturday. The Czech owners make the most marvellous soups, and they're big on pork too -- a breaded chop, medallions in mushroom sauce or a gravy-soaked sandwich. The turkey for a similar sandwich is house-roasted, the perogies are plump and silky, and the fries are good, but they also do something magical with plain boiled potatoes that I've never been able to figure out. Top price is $11, soup included. 190 Henderson Hwy., 204-661-3643.
The Bake Oven -- a grocery-cum-bakery-cum-café -- offers such rare Dutch treats as brined matjes herring with onions; crisply breaded, creamy-centred beef or chicken kroketten with mustard; hotdog-shaped pork frikadellen in a soft bun with piccalilly mustard and curry ketchup; and, of course, terrific frites with mustardy mayonnaise. For dessert, choose between heavenly crumb-topped rhubarb pie or butter tart square. Average price $5 to $6. Café service from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. 300 Edison Ave., 204-338-0663.


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The rest of the book goes on to explain how you do creative and production work in each of these applications and then move the pieces and outputs back and forth to get the best of both. But you have to buy the book to get those parts. I'm pretty sure that many of you will do just that as soon as you see the value in the introductory chapters.
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DARWEN'S MP has welcomed a new bus service linking Edgworth and Chapeltown to Bury and Bolton.
The wheelchair-accessible service, run by Travel Assist, launched this week after a campaign by My Berry and local councillors following bus provider Arriva's decision to axe a service that went through the village.
The campaign saw 700 people sign a petition, hundreds of leaflets and posters delivered and displayed, and a survey of the area.
The TA01 service (Darwen-Edgworth-Bolton) runs on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday and TA02 (Darwen-Edgworth-Bury) runs on Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Mr Berry said: "I am thrilled that Travel Assist was able to step in and not only provide a better service to Bolton but also a brand new bus to Bury.
"Thank you to everyone who helped with the campaign, whether you signed the petition, filled in the survey, put up a poster or helped deliver leaflets."
Last week, Blackburn with Darwen Council leader Kate Hollern called on the Government to help fund a full-time service.
The council had subsidised Darwen Coaches to extend its service from Darwen to Edgworth to go as far as Bromley Cross, where passengers could catch a connection to Bolton. But the funding will run out in March once the Government's fundign to local councils is cut.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Gov. Rick Scott unveiled his prescription for the future of education in Florida this week as he released details of an agenda that focused on national core standards and putting more faith in charter schools.
Following a listening tour that took him across the state, Scott released details of his legislative agenda for education, one of his few major forays outside economic development since taking office nearly two years ago.
Other than that, the looming elections in the politically deadlocked state overshadowed most issues this week.
After all, Florida played host to the presidential candidates who debated at Lynn University, the last of three debates before voters cast ballots in the Nov. 6 election. Other guests crisscrossing the state included family members and a string of party luminaries who are turning over every rock to find the elusive "undecided" voters who have yet to make up their minds.
There was, however, other news as well.
Echoing the concerns that almost got Scott sent packing from south Florida, the Florida Chamber of Commerce this week objected to legislation passed earlier this year that would block state and local governments from buying goods and services from companies that have business ties to Cuba.
The chamber's position had the not-so-surprising effect of angering south Florida Hispanic lawmakers.
Speaking of south Florida lawmakers, U.S. Rep. David Rivera, R-Miami, added the Florida Commission on Ethics to a growing list of antagonists as he faces mounting investigations and tries to hold on to the seat he has held since 2010.
On the economic front, BP announced this week it was cancelling plans to build a $300-million ethanol plant in Highlands County, ending a four-year commitment to build its first production facility in the United States. The company said it would seek opportunities elsewhere.
Expanding his priority list from attracting jobs and boosting the economy, Scott this week consolidated a series of previous mini-announcements as he put forth a package of education priorities he says will move the state forward.
Arguably the most controversial element of Scott's plan is the increased role of charter schools, public schools that are usually run by third parties and are free of many of the regulations faced by typical schools. Scott's plan would remove enrollment caps on existing charter schools and allow school districts to operate their own charter schools.
Scott's agenda would also make other changes, junking some regulations and giving debit cards to teachers to pay for school supplies, with the hopes that businesses would help support the program.
The agenda would also require the state not to introduce any new testing that doesn't conform to the "Common Core Standards," a national set of curriculum guidelines set to take effect next school year.


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All (Pan) of these words come from the root "pan", which means "all:.
· Panegyric (N): Formal praise.
Synonyms: accolade, acclamation, eulogy, encomium, commmendation.laudation, plaudit, tribute, homage etc.
Pan + "aguris" (assembly or marketplace). The word comes from the idea of a speech at a public assembly.
· Pandemonium (N): Wild tumult, a very noisy place, a place of utter confusion and uproar.
Pandemonium originally meant home of all demons. This word comes from an epical poem by John Milton in which the capital of hell is named as pandemonium.
Synonyms: Tumult, confusion, uproar, bedalm, hubbub, hullabaloo.
Thus the word can be broken as.
Pan + daimon (Lesser god, demon).
· Panacea (N): Cure-all; remedy for diseases.
Synonyms: elixir, Nostrum.
Pan + akos (Remedy)
· Panoramic (Adj): Denoting an unobstructed and comprehensive view.
Pan +horama (sight) (Horan means to "see")
Synonyms: Vista, view, spectacle.
I would like to introduce another word very much related to the aforementioned word.
Diorama (N): Life size; three-dimensional scene from nature or history.
Dia means "through" and "horama" means, "sight".
Cognates of Dia :
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A temple for all the gods where the images or memorials of all gods are collected.
Pan + theos (god)
· Pantomime (N): Acting without dialogue.
Panto means "all" "mimos" means, "mime".
· Pandemic (Adj): Widespread; affecting the majority of people.
Pan + demos (People)
Can you people suggest some more cognates for this root.
All for one, one for all.
A discussion of word histories and origins.
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That comprehensive list took some time, vaibhavd85!
I can only add that I would be pale, monochromatic wreck without my Pantone swatchbooks.
I can only add that I would be pale, monochromatic wreck without my Pantone swatchbooks.
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Such panic need not be pandemic over Pangaea - could as well be a flash in the pan.
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Located at Naama Bay, just a 10-minute drive from Sharm El Sheikh International Airport and 50-minute flight from Cairo. This spectacular property is a luxury boutique low-rise hotel, offering lush landscaping and dramatic pools.
Visit Le Royale's Shopping Arcade, which is located at Sonesta Beach lobby, featured souvenirs, gifts, jewelry and boutiques. Close by is Naama Bay Market with traditional spice shops, local handicrafts and souvenir shops.
At the southern tip of the Sinai, Sharm El Sheikh is known as one of the best snorkeling and diving sites in the world. The area is also popular for fishing, its desert climate and as a place simply to relax. The sulfur springs in Sharm El Sheikh are considered cures for rheumatism and skin ailments.
St. Catherine is one of the most famous monasteries in the world, a Greek Orthodox holy place connected with the prophet Moses and the exodus of the Jews from Egypt. The existing basilica dates from the 6th century A.D. The monastery is known for its huge library of ancient theological manuscripts and collection of icons and access is limited to professional researchers and theologians.
Ras Mohammed is a designated system of parks and nature reserves protected by strict laws. The park is located in the southern Sinai, 40 miles from the town of Eitor. Ras Mohammed is best known for its crystal clear waters, exquisite coral reefs and a wealth of marine life, including sharks and schools of tuna and dolphins. Many believe Ras Mohammed has the most exquisite coral reefs in the world.


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The Crap We Missed – Monday 9.24.12
Welcome to Monday's The Crap We Missed where unintentional comedy mingles with the random vulval pageantry that lacks the gravitas for Fish's penis jokesmithing. That said, we've got the Savages press tour offering up another amazing gem, the Mila Kunis crush getting officially put to bed, Mickey Rourke being the reason those fuckers charge you $9 for insurance when you rent a tux, Bill Clinton getting too old for this shit, ditto for Barbra Streisand (See what I did there?), and finally, that bodyguard already has Heidi Klum fetching his coffee.
I know your pain well, Heidi *wipes tear,*
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HOUSTON - Fans hoping to see the Texans make history Sunday ended up feeling the sting of a bitter loss.
Fans at the Houston Texans Grille in west Houston were glued to the set, but most didn't end up sticking around for desert.
"Even though it's my birthday and they lost on it, I'm still happy they're in the playoffs. Go Texans!" said a Texans fan.
After being in the AFC driver's seat the entire regular season, some speculate Sunday's loss was the biggest collapse in recent memory.
While there were moments of gladness, despair was the overall theme for fans at the Texans Grille.
"All we had to do was win this one, and we had home field Texans playoff games. And this is what they did?" said Ryan McGinty, a disappointed Texans fan.
Even though fans were heart-broken over the loss, many said they still believe in the team.
"We think they're still going to do it," said Erica Soraiz, a Houston Texans fan. "They're just taking the hard road."
"it's not looking pretty," said Max Huerta. "But I'm a Texans fan, I believe they're going to win."
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BUILDING contractor Speller Metcalfe has been shortlisted in a major eco awards scheme.
The company from Enigma Business Park in Malvern is well known for its green projects and has reached the final stages in the sustainable new housing project of the year category in the Sustainable Housing Awards 2014, organised by Inside Housing magazine. It has been nominated for Blake's Hill, one the UK's greenest affordable housing schemes, at North Littleton, near Evesham.
The development of 10 houses, built for Rooftop Housing Group, has met the highest sustainable accreditation available for domestic homes – Code for Sustainable Homes level six – and is one of the first affordable housing schemes in the UK to achieve this.
The properties are all zero carbon, meaning they produce no carbon emissions and energy bills are significantly lower than the national average at around £345 per year. Other features include rooftop PV panels, harvesting rainwater for gardens and a shared allotment for all tenants to enjoy.
The Sustainable Housing Awards put the spotlight on the best green social housing projects in the UK and the organisations responsible for them. The trophies will be presented at a ceremony hosted by Sir Ranulph Fiennes on Friday, October 17 in London.
Emma Maier, editor of Inside Housing, said: "The awards are in their seventh year, and, once again, we have been inundated with entries from the leading organisations who have been behind the most innovative and impressive projects in the UK. It is a brilliant achievement for Speller Metcalfe and the team responsible for the Blake's Hill project to be shortlisted in the face of such fierce competition."


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A HOMELESS charity is appealing for donations of summer clothes ahead of a handout session in High Wycombe.
The WHYcome Project is on the lookout for donations of summer clothes - particularly men's trousers sized 32"-34" – t-shirts, bedding, sleeping bags, tins of dry food and toiletries.
They will be donated to the homeless and less fortunate at the Wesley Methodist Church in Priory Road between 12.30 and 2.30pm on Saturday. Call 07508 514535 for more information.


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The complex structure of the cell was unknown in Darwin's time. For that reason, evolutionists of the day believed that it was perfectly reasonable to answer the question of "How did life emerge?" by saying "Through coincidences and natural events." Darwin suggested that the first cell would have had no trouble forming in a small, warm drop of water. (See The Abiogenesis View, the) But the fact is that 20th-century technology, which made visible even to the tiniest microscopic details, revealed that the cell was actually the most complex structure yet encountered. Today we know that the cell contains energy-producing plants, factories that produce the enzymes and hormones essential to life, a data bank containing all the information about the products to be manufactured, a complex transportation system that carries raw materials and products from one region to another, pipelines, advanced laboratories and refineries that break down raw materials brought in from the outside, and cell-membrane proteins that regulate the entry and departure of various materials from the cell. And this is only a part of the cell's complex structure.
The evolutionist scientist W. H. Thorpe writes, "The most elementary type of cell constitutes a 'mechanism' unimaginably more complex than any machine yet thought up, let alone constructed, by man." 76
So complex is the cell that even today's advanced technology cannot duplicate one. All the research aimed at making an artificial cell has ended in failure. The theory of evolution, on the other hand, maintains that this system—which man has been unable to replicate with all the knowledge and technology at his disposal—once formed by chance on the primeval Earth. This is far less likely, for instance, than even an explosion in a publishing house resulting in the coincidental printing of an encyclopedia.
The British mathematician and astronomer Sir Fred Hoyle offered a similar analogy in the 12 November 1981 edition of Nature magazine. Despite being a materialist, Hoyle stated that there was no difference between a living cell coming into being by chance and a Boeing 747 jet spontaneously assembling itself when a whirlwind hit a scrap yard.77 In short, it is not possible for a cell to form spontaneously, as the result of coincidence.
One of the main reasons why the theory of evolution cannot explain how the cell came into being is the irreducible complexity it possesses. (See Irreducible Complexity.) A cell thrives through the its large number of organelles all working together in harmony. It cannot survive in the absence of any one of these. The cell cannot wait for such unconscious mechanisms as mutation and natural selection to develop it. Therefore, the first cell to appear on Earth must have been fully formed, together with all the organelles and biochemical functions essential for its survival.
In the human body, there are more than 100 trillion cells, some of them so small that a million of them would cover only the tip of a needle. However, biologists unanimously agree that, despite its minute size, the cell is the most complex structure that science has yet confronted. The cell, continuing to harbor a great many unresolved mysteries, represents one of the major dilemmas facing the theory of evolution. The well-known Russian evolutionist A. I. Oparin says:
Unfortunately, however, the problem of the origin of cell is perhaps the most obscure point in the whole study of the evolution of organisms.78
The cell is the building block of any living organism. Therefore, it is impossible for a theory—which cannot even explain the emergence of the proteins and amino acids that comprise the cell—to account for the appearance of living things on Earth. On the contrary, the cell constitutes one of the clearest pieces of evidence that all organisms, including human beings, are created.
Yet evolutionists still manage that living things emerged by chance in the most uncontrolled environment possible—that existed on the primeval Earth. This claim can never agree with the scientific facts. In addition, even the simplest mathematical calculations have proven that chance cannot give rise to even one of the millions of proteins in cells, let alone to a cell in its entirety. This shows that the theory of evolution, far from being rational and logical, is a collection of scenarios based on imagination, fantasy and implication.
Despite holding evolutionist views, the zoologist David E. Green and the biochemist Prof. Robert F. Goldberger have this to say in a paper in a scientific journal:
The popular conception of primitive cells as the starting point for the origin of the species is really erroneous. There was nothing functionally primitive about such cells. They contained basically the same biochemical equipment as do their modern counterparts. How, then, did the precursor cell arise? The only unequivocal rejoinder to this question is that we do not know.79
The perfect harmony and cooperation between cells is just as astonishing as the existence of a single cell. All the cells in a human being come into existence through the division and multiplication of a single embryonic cell. And all the information regarding the present structure of our bodies—their shape, design and all their features—is present in the chromosomes in the nucleus of that first cell, from the very beginning.
The continuity of any human's life depends on the harmonious functioning of the components of the cells and of those cells with one another. Even while the cell works together with other cells in great order, it also maintains its own life in a state of and a delicate equilibrium. The cell identifies and produces a great many substances, including the energy necessary for its survival and to maintain that order and equilibrium. Those of its needs it cannot meet by itself, it selects very carefully from the outside—so selectively that none of the random substances in the external environment can enter by chance without the cell's permission to do so. There are no aimless, unnecessary molecules in the cell. Their controlled exit from the cell also takes place as the result of strict monitoring.In addition, the cell possesses a defense system to protect it from all external threats and attack. Despite all the structures and systems it contains and the countless activities that take place in it, an average cell is not the size of a small city, but just 1/100 millimeters in diameter. Each of the cell's functions listed above is a miracle in its own right. (See DNA.)


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Seonna Hong
I've been interested in writing and illustrating a children's book for some time now and whenever I come across work like this it goes into "the folder" for reference. Seonna Hong has got some great little paintings and she also has an Emmy. How many painters out there can say they've got an Emmy? Ok you're right, anyone could "say" they've got an Emmy (why you gotta argue with me all the time?).


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Trouble Sleeping During Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy Treatments
Trouble Sleeping During Breast Cancer Adjuvant Chemotherapy Treatments
The patient, "TB," is a 44-year-old Caucasian, married woman with three daughters, 21, 18, and 10 years of age. The family lives in a small rural town. TB works full-time on a night shift (10:00 PM–6:30 AM) unloading trucks and restocking shelves at a store. She has been a 1 pack/day smoker for 20 years and was premenopausal at diagnosis. Diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2006, TB takes Synthroid (levothyroxine) at 100 mcg daily. Her husband, a self-employed construction worker, recently had a heart attack and is at home during the day.
In summer 2009, TB noted a lump in the upper outer quadrant of her right breast and was diagnosed with stage II infiltrating ductal carcinoma (T2, N0, M0, ER positive, PR positive, HER2/neu negative). Three weeks after lumpectomy surgery, she began four cycles of dose-dense chemotherapy with Adriamycin (doxorubicin)/Cytoxan (cyclophosphamide) and her menstrual periods stopped. She started Taxol (paclitaxel) chemotherapy shortly thereafter and developed severe hand-and-foot syndrome after the first dose, which led to both dose reduction and delay. She is currently taking Neurontin (gabapentin) at a dosage of 300 mg twice a day for neuropathic pain. Her paclitaxel treatments were switched to weekly doses and she resumed her treatments 3 weeks after the first dose.
At the clinic appointment before her first weekly paclitaxel treatment, the nurse practitioner screened TB for sleep disturbances, and she screened positive. The nurse practitioner referred TB to the Oncology Clinical Nurse Specialist (CNS), who assessed TB's sleep using the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI).[1] TB's ISI score of 14 indicated that she was experiencing subthreshold insomnia (normal value, 7) and could benefit from treatment. TB agreed to have the CNS, who had been trained by a sleep psychologist, assist her to improve her sleep over a 6-week period.
During their first session at the infusion center before her treatment, the CNS interviewed TB regarding her current sleep using the Brief Sleep History.[2] TB's sleep history was complicated by her schedule of working Monday through Friday from late in the evening through early morning, and sleeping during the day. She sleeps until noon on Saturday and then sleeps on Saturday and Sunday nights. When she gets out of bed on Monday morning, she does not return to bed until she returns home from work on Tuesday morning, 25 hours later. TB scheduled her paclitaxel treatments for Saturday mornings.
After TB drives 12 miles home from work, she or her daughter drives 30 miles to the infusion center. She stated that she hopes to nap while waiting for laboratory results and during her scheduled infusions. TB reported no problem falling asleep in the morning, but stated that she wakes up two to three times during the day, usually to go to the bathroom. She said that she usually spends 7 hours in bed but reported that she believes her body needs 7½ hours of sleep. Her biggest issue was that she feels her sleeping problems are "very noticeable" to others in terms of impairing her quality of life.
After obtaining TB's sleep history, the CNS coached TB to develop an individual behavioral therapy plan.[3,4] Her plan included techniques that have been demonstrated to improve sleep in adults with chronic insomnia: sleep restriction, stimulus control, relaxation therapy, and sleep hygiene.[5,6] These techniques have been found to improve sleep in cancer survivors who have completed treatment.[7,8] TB chose the sleep hygiene strategies of stopping ingestion of liquids by 6:00 AM, using the bathroom before going to bed, and taking her Synthroid and Neurontin medications as prescribed.


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It's a Dogfight at Three Form Theatre
Saturday, Jul 12, 2014 06:00 am
Three Form Theatre
July 12 to 19
C103 (formerly Catalyst Theatre)
8529 Gateway Boulevard
Tickets: $20. Call 780-420-1757 or purchase online at tixonthesquare.ca or at door
In the past decade, military stories with covert operations and stealth drones have been great fodder for the motion picture industry.
Theatre, on the other hand, takes a more sublime approach. And so it is with great interest that Three Form Theatre is unveiling the Canadian premiere of Dogfight, a new musical by New York composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.
Coincidentally this young duo�s award-winning musical A Christmas Story is slated as St. Albert Children Theatre�s upcoming November production.
Dogfight takes place in San Francisco on Nov. 21, 1963, the eve before three young marines are deployed to an expanding conflict in Vietnam. Before shipping out, they go for a final boys� night of debauchery, partying and a little bit of trouble.
During the night, the marines attend a �dogfight.� A dogfight is a party where marines compete to bring the ugliest date without the girls� knowledge. Whoever invites the ugliest girl wins the bet.
�I actually talked to men who were part of a dogfight. Back then it was the ugliest girl. Now they try to find the fattest. It�s very humiliating,� says director-music director Curtis Labelle, a voice and piano teacher at Visionary College.
�When you�re away from women and you get one opportunity, you just want to have sex. A dogfight is a custom in the military, a ritual of the brotherhood. There are unbelievably malicious, vindictive things that go on in the military.�
In Dogfight, Corporal Eddie Birdlace (Steven Angove) meets Rose (Jillian Willems), a shy, idealistic waitress who yearns to be a folk singer. He charms and invites her to the party.
It is her first and she�s thrilled. However, when Rose discovers she�s the object of a cruel game, she is devastated and storms out.
Birdlace regrets his gauche actions and tries to find her. After a graceless beginning, an unconventional romance starts to unfold.
Labelle describes the musical as a new style in theatre canon.
�The music is infinitely similar to Sondheim in regards to the chord structure. But the rhythm is very rocky as with Jason Robert Brown. It�s very piano, very violin with bass, percussion and guitar.�
And although the music has a folk feel, it tests the 11-member casts� limits with virtually non-stop vocals.
�It�s very taxing on the voice. The boys have to hit a B and for the girls there�s a lot of belt that�s required. There�s a lot of difficult harmonies and we approach them carefully, but the singers have good vocal chops.�
There are a great many lessons to be learned from this production and Labelle invites everyone to attend.
�It�s fresh. It�s different. It will take you back to the �60s. The music is new and it�s toe-tapping.�
Dogfight runs July 12 to 19 at C103, formerly Catalyst Theatre.


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Icera exit is good news for startups
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Overall Icera's sale to Nvidia is good news for semiconductor startups, particularly in the U.K., argues Rick Clucas.
Congratulations Stan [Boland, CEO of Icera], you did it again! With the news of Icera being acquired, we are sure to be hearing the biggest sigh of relief for a long time from the European venture capital industry.
If you spoke to a VC executive in the last six years, they were either invested in Icera or glad they weren't. As has been widely reported, so much money had already been put in that none of the investors could afford to let it die. The fact that it has had an all-cash exit providing some return must be a huge relief for everyone concerned.
But perhaps the biggest sense of relief can be found at all the semiconductor startups and potential start-ups that for so long have been living in the shadow of the Icera money-pit. All the VCs who were into Icera were rightly keeping funds to maintain their position at the next round. All those who were not were very concerned about the huge amounts of money that was required just to keep one semiconductor company alive – no wonder they did not want to invest in semiconductors.
Unfortunately for many the Icera news has happened too late and they have already died – in some cases the IP may have been bought by someone else and in other cases not. Let's hope the market will now free up and that it will have learnt some lessons.
The biggest lesson surely must be that to be a semiconductor vendor is very expensive and getting more and more expensive, and as Nvidia has demonstrated, in order to compete you need to offer more and more of a complete system. However being an IP company is a lot less expensive and something at which the U.K. has been very successful.
In the U.K. we still have two very successful profitable publicly listed semiconductor IP companies: ARM and the often forgotten Imagination Technologies. ARC, the company that I founded, is now part of Synopsys along with other IP from a company I was CEO of called Ignios, which suffered from the Icera affect. It seems that large IP companies must now offer a whole platform portfolio, and this is where startups come in, and why it is so important that investment funds flow in to them.
Even the likes of Synopsys, ARM and Imagination are buying companies to expand their portfolios and to get new innovation. Large companies require a structure to run them, structure stifles innovation but is great for iteration. If we kill the startups, then the innovation dies and the larger IP companies can't grow and without IP the large semiconductor companies can't bring out new products either.


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Insert one dowel rod into cake straight down to the cake board. Make a knife scratch on the rod to mark the exact height. Pull dowel rod out.
Cut the suggested number of rods the exact same length, using the mark on the first one as a guide.
Now, insert rods into tier, spacing evenly 1 1/2 inches in from the imprinted outline. Push straight down until each touches the cake board. Repeat this procedure for every stacked or pillared tier on the cake.
Plastic Dowel Rods are wider in diameter and offer greater stability and more support per dowel rod; therefore, fewer rods need to be used. They are easy to cut to size with a serrated knife, and many decorators prefer their pure white color. They do take up more cake space, and this should be considered when planning the number of servings.
Wooden Dowel Rods are cut easily and cleanly using wire cutters, sharp shears or a small saw. They are economical and strong.


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ADNAN OKTAR: (about incidents in Syria) …This is a classical implementation of the alleged Ergenekon terror organization. In Turkey there are the leaders of this organization. It is the same; the same system and the same structure. It is a mentality that hates the people, that looks down on them, that despises them, that considers them as, Allah forbid, bugs. This is the communist mentality, the Stalinist conception. Saddam was also of the same mentality.And it seems that the same mentality holds truefor the same regime, you know. We noticed that the same mentality persists also in this regime. The Baath regime; the Suphianist, that is the Suphian regime. This is a system that hates Muslims. It is a mentality that despises Muslims, an inscrutable mentality. It is founded upon mercilessness, sadism and psychopathy. They persecute Muslims severely, torment them and exert violence. Those who advocate the alleged Ergenekon terror organization must see this picture. Those who carry out activities in Syria right now is a wing of the alleged Ergenekon terror organization and they are clearly psychopaths. The organization consists of furious blood-shedders and psychopaths. In contrast, it is an obligation, an urgent duty that Muslims take care of one another, and establish the Turkish-Islamic Union. It is a duty that must be discharged right away.
26 April 2011, A9 TV and Gaziantep Olay TV
ADNAN OKTAR: For one thing, Baath must withdraw from the power. A normal, reasonable ruler ship must be established; the government is socialist and communist. Consequently it is the continuity of the former regime, a slightly modified form of the regime of Hafiz Assad. They need to change the State.
TimeTurk, 16 August 2011
Abdullah Muradoglu, who referred to a Nusairi Ergenekon that settled down on Syria, said that this organization is a crime ring which is eager to move tanks on streets against their people. He also stated that Nusairi Ergenekon had penetrated all social fields and cells of the state and added: "Syria can only relieve when Assad packs and leaves Damascus."


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The presidents and chancellor of New Hampshire's public four-year colleges and universities today thanked Gov. Maggie Hassan for her biennial budget proposal, in which she recommends increasing funding on behalf of in-state students to $75 million in FY14 and $90 million in FY15.
"We are grateful to Governor Hassan for her leadership in re-establishing public higher education as a priority for the future of New Hampshire," said Todd Leach, president of Granite State College, on behalf of the presidents of the four, four-year public colleges and universities. "Our students and their families deserve this investment, and all New Hampshire citizens will benefit. We look forward to working with the governor and the legislature to restore the budget fully as soon as fiscally possible."
In addition to his role at Granite State, Leach will serve as interim chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire when Chancellor Ed MacKay retires March 1.
The presidents of Granite State College, the University of New Hampshire, Plymouth State University and Keene State College have committed to using the funds proposed by the governor to freeze in-state tuitions for the two years of the biennium, as well as to increase substantially need-based and merit aid for students from New Hampshire.
State funding for in-state students at public four-year colleges and universities was $100 million until 2011, when it was cut sharply to $51 million (currently $55 million), or roughly 6 percent of the operating budgets of the four institutions. In real terms over the past decade, the state's subsidy to each four-year public college and university student in the state had fallen by $5,000 to less than $600 per year.
"We have heard a lot from alumni, parents and friends of our colleges and universities who understand the importance of maintaining a strong system of public higher education and who want it to remain affordable," said USNH Board Chair Richard Galway. "We also know from our conversations with businesses that they depend on us to prepare graduates who are ready for the modern workforce. We are pleased that the governor has taken a leadership position on these issues, and we look forward to working with the legislature to develop a bipartisan approach to building and sustaining our investment in the future of the state."
A Granite State poll fielded in August showed that 71 percent of New Hampshire residents favored restoring the state's appropriation to public higher education, particularly if doing so could yield a freeze in in-state tuition during the biennium.
For more information on this topic, contact Tim Kershner, Chief Public Relations Officer, at firstname.lastname@example.com or (603) 535-2476.
Information on how to Advocate for Plymouth State University is at PSU Works for New Hampshire.


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Vida Guerra in a bikini will distract you while I vote
Former FHM model Vida Guerra hit the beach yesterday and, yeah, you got me; I'm posting these so I can head off to the voting booth. But don't worry, I'll be back shortly. In the meantime, I expect a deep, intellectual discussion on the aesthetic properties of Ms. Guerra's large Cuban posterior. (Show your work.) Now, if you'll excuse me, I have an apparently secret Muslim to elect.* To the polls!
*Best endorsement EVER!
EDIT: Bumped Vida up to the top for obvious reasons. – Namely I'm voting twice! MUHAHAHA! I kid, folks, she's in a bikini. 'Nuff said.
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