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Sub-Mission Plastic Bag Free Week - 21st May
Plastic bags can take between 400-1,000 years to break down, and like all forms of plastic they do not biodegrade. Instead they photo degrade, breaking down into smaller and smaller toxic bits that contaminate soil, waterways and oceans, entering the food chain when ingested by animals.
Many plastic bags end up as waste on our beaches, streets and parks. When a plastic bag enters the ocean it becomes a harmful piece of litter. Many marine animals mistake plastic bags for food and swallow them, with painful and often fatal consequences. Nearly 90% of floating marine litter is plastic.
Darren and I were recently lucky enough to visit an idyllic 'paradise island' in Malaysia and unfortuantely the pollution out there was quite astonishing. We saw plastic bags floating by and at first thought they were jelly fish. It's easy to understand why turtles end up eating so much plastic, mistaking it for lunch!
Sub-Mission Dive Centre customers are being asked to join in the fight and go 'Plastic Bag Free' for 1 week. This small step may not seem like it will make a big difference but collectively we are anticipating a significant response that will send a clear message to everyone.
Do you want to get involved? Well, here's how you can do your bit…
Come into the Dive Centre on Saturday 21st May to register your participation. You'll be given a 'bag for life' to use throughout the week to replace any plastic bags that you may ordinarily pick up. During the week, we'd like you to keep us updated with photos of yourself with your 'bags for life'.
At the end of the week you'll need to pop back into the Dive Centre to 'confess your plastic bag sins' for the week and pay a small donation to Project AWARE per plastic bag sin. Obviously, we want the donations to Project AWARE to be as little as possible (on this occasion) but to congratulate and recognise your efforts we'll add the best photo's to the website with your profile on too.
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Crowdfunding considerations range from the idiosyncratic to others that are emblematic of the industry at-large.
Any entrepreneur looking into crowdfunding must be aware of all the pros and cons before moving forward. As with any other funding method, remember that fundraising is a multi-inning game. Niel Robertson, founder and CEO of Trada, explains this and other ideas in a recent post on crowdfunding.
A company that is fortunate enough to experience substantial growth is likely to need multiple rounds of financing. And if you've sold off all of your equity during early-round funding — whether crowdfunded or not — you're not sitting pretty. Another important fact to remember is that crowdfunding is designed to bring in numerous investors. That can grow into a rather large problem if there's any dissent. For more on the core concerns surrounding crowdfunding, read the full article by Robertson.
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Outfielder Flavien Peron has played for the Rouen Huskies in Division Elite. In 2007, he hit .283/.354/.339 as the main left fielder for the French champions. The next year, the Rouen flyhawk hit .230/.340/.252 as the lightest threat on a Rouen club that repeated as Division Elite champs. He did field perfectly, though, while manning all 3 outfield slots (mostly left). He was the top Rouen batter in the 2008 European Cup in Grosseto, batting .412/.444/.529 with 4 RBI in five games; oddly, as his bat woke up, his glove faded as he made an error. Peron tied for 9th in the Cup in average and tied for 8th in RBI.


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Miranda moves to Nashville to pursue a dream of being a country singer. There she meets, Kyle, Linda (who she moves in with), and James. James is the most interesting of the bunch and the two get married after only a few days together, but soon she starts to question her life there.
Unless the now-shelved thriller Dark Blood ever escapes celluloid purgatory, this will forever be remembered as "River Phoenix's last leading role". Morbid viewers, spurred on by tabloid tales about Phoenix's post-Private Idaho descent into substance abuse hell and reports that the actor was apparently falling down drunk on the set of The Thing Called Love, will no doubt whisk this home to see if they can spot signs of a man clearly operating from the Twilight Zone. Sad to report, they won't have to look very hard.
With the benefit of hindsight, Phoenix's performance is perceivably off-kilter at best strange in a Methody mumbo-jumbo kind of way, at worst downright creepy. Camouflaged as a greasy-haired wreck with a cobra-lidded gaze, he lurches from lucidity to functionally impaired, mumbling throughout. All of this, however, is unfair baggage with which to saddle Bogdanovich's formulaic musical drama, a film which otherwise registers as a wispy but mostly enjoyable romantic fable centring on four twentysomethings trying to break into the Country & Western music scene in Nashville.
Fresh from the Big Apple, aspiring singer-songwriter Miranda Presley (Mathis) heads straight for Nashville's Bluebird Cafe, where "open mike" night attracts hundreds of ten-gallon hatted hopefuls, including "mystical guy" James Wright (Phoenix), East Coast cowguy Kyle Davidson (Mulroney) and bubbly but hopelessly untalented country gal Linda Lue Linden (Bullock). Cute insomniac Miranda moves in with Linda Lue, gets a job waitressing at the Bluebird, suffers for her art, and yo-yos between sensitive songwriter Kyle and broody-but-gifted James.
Peppered with occasionally insipid dialogue "You're an owl goddess," Phoenix tells a baffled Mathis this runs out of steam about two-thirds of the way in after Phoenix and Mathis' shotgun wedding in a 24-hour convenience store. Nonetheless, a string of toe-tapping tunes are pleasingly interspersed throughout, gamely sung with amazing proficiency by the cast, and despite being saddled with an unsympathetically drawn character, Mathis is a sparky presence, while Mulroney stands out as the soulful jiltee.
Thin and predictable, and a flop of awesome proportions in the US, this has occasional bursts of freshness, but mostly leaves you with the nagging impression that Mathis ended up with the wrong guy.


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The slugfest between the Group of 20 and the world's biggest banks over financial regulation appears destined to go a full 10 rounds – and increasingly, it is fellow Canadians who are exchanging the blows.
Bankers used a weekend meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors to amplify their contention that stricter rules are choking the global economy, not to mention their profits.
The politicians were unmoved. When asked if the thought the regulatory push by major countries was hurting economic growth, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty said: "No, I don't, actually. I think this is essential to world fiscal stability."
Three years removed from the Wall Street bailouts that characterized the financial crisis, the debate over financial regulation has shifted to the arcane business of rule-making. In Mexico City, bankers and regulators debated the Volcker rule, the U.S. proposal to limit the trading activities of banks that operate with government guarantees. But that is only one of dozens of technical measures on the table in countries around the world.
Financial institutions say demands that they hold more assets that can be sold easily in the face of a credit crunch will force them to forgo longer-term investments in infrastructure. The list of complaints also includes special surcharges planned for the biggest international banks and definitions of the types of assets that regulators will accept when measuring banks' reserves.
The persistent opposition of the banks is a demonstration of policy makers' biggest fear: an offensive by high-paid, expert lobbyists aimed at slowing down the process. Yet an uninspiring economic recovery is adding new resonance to the bankers' complaints.
What is clear is that each side is losing faith in the other, raising the unpleasant prospect of a protracted struggle between policy makers and the industry they count on to drive investment.
"We seem to have lost trust in each other," David Dodge, the former Bank of Canada governor who is now senior adviser at Bennett Jones LLP, said at conference hosted by the Institute of International Finance (IIF). "That breakdown in trust has been very unhelpful."
Mexico City was the setting for the latest round in this fight, which dates from the G20's pledge in Pittsburgh in 2009 to make the global financial system a safer place. But it could have been Toronto or Ottawa, given the number of Canadians involved.
Mr. Flaherty is a regular combatant, and Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney heads the Financial Stability Board, the international body that is guiding the overhaul of global banking rules. But lining up against them in the Mexican capital were a couple of familiar faces.
Bank of Nova Scotia chief executive officer Richard Waugh was a vocal presence at a conference organized by the IIF, using the opportunity to say new restrictions on lending are stifling enterprise.
Mr. Waugh, who is a member of the Washington-based IIF's executive, insisted the threat posed by the G20's regulatory effort had taken on new urgency.
The IIF sent a letter to the G20 that said the reason that ultra-low interest rates in the United States, the euro zone, Japan and Britain are doing so little to stimulate economic growth is because banks are too burdened by regulatory constraints to transmit the low borrowing costs to consumers.
It was a new twist on an old argument by the bankers. But on the weekend, support for their position came from a somewhat surprising source: Mr. Dodge, who spent the bulk of his career in Ottawa as a senior public servant before becoming the country's top central banker.
Mr. Dodge, who left the Bank of Canada in 2008 and is now a member of Bank of Nova Scotia's board of directors, called the economic impact of the regulatory burden that has been foisted on banks "unhelpful," the same term he once used to describe the Canadian dollar's plunge to below 65 U.S. cents.
The problem, Mr. Dodge said, is that too many jurisdictions are going in too many different directions with rules that are overly detailed. As a result, financial institutions are forced to devote talented bankers to the task of regulatory compliance rather than loan-making and investing.
In some ways, the sight of Mr. Dodge aligned against Mr. Carney and Mr. Flaherty is discomfiting, another example of what critics say is a revolving door between government and the banking industry. Yet the presence of so many Canadians in the centre of the ring holds promise of a faster resolution. The distance between Ottawa and Toronto isn't all that great.Report Typo/Error
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Pocket .380s....
Hi guys I'm in need of some advice... I'm trying to find a reliable pocket da/sa or dao .380 pistol. I've been lookin online nonstop and I think I may have it boiled down to a couple good ones. Feel free to try and convince one way or another! The kahr p380 (cw380 just came out as a less expensive option might go that route) is at the top of my list as of now. It's dao, small, and seems of good reliable quality. Only thing is it only has a 5 year warranty. Should this be a deciding factor at all? Next on my list is the s&w bodyguard .380. I hear they had a firing pin cracking issue? Is this resolved and reliable now? this does have a lifetime warranty but I don't know if rat should count so heavily for it if its not a quality pistol. Besides after 5 years maybe a new pocket pistol is a good idea regardless? Feel free to suggest any others guys and btw, I am not interested in a pocket 9mm. Thank you in advance!
I don't know much about the two you have it narrowed down to. I have a Sig P238 that I really like.
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Have you looked at/handled a Bersa Thunder .380? They have 7, 9, and 15 round capacity models and one that is supposed to be optimized for concealed carry. I had one and loved it, but my sister needed a new purse pistol.
It is not as teeetiny as the Kahrs.
It is SA/DA and has a decocker and an integrated lock in case of kiddies. I really like the flat nickel finish.
kahr has a new CW380 , well it is out but you may not see one for some time. I would not over look the taurus TCP with a SS or black SS slide and 2 mags. They can be bought for 250 to 260 dollars. A far better trigger than other micro 380s and seems to shoot any ammo. You would want a C model. Its in the serial number.
I carry kahrs and like the larger calibers very much in 9mm and 40 but our 380's are a couple tcp. Both are very reliable. Great under 5lb trigger and a slide hold open. My wife and youngest daught cc them as part of there pistols.
lcp is a great choice and is a true pocket pistol. i carry one all the time even have mine in my pocket holster in my pocket as im typing this.
can you get two fingers on the lcp?
yes easily. the grip is very thin but thats a good thing for ccw in the pocket
I would have to give the nod to the LCP. I have a Kel Tec. Yes, mine runs flawlessly after 5 months of shipping the P-3AT back and forth to Florida. Needless to say I can not recommend a Kel Tec. Yes, I have the P-3AT in my pocket right now.
I have owned a BG380 for two years and have had no complaints. I haven't run thousands of rounds, but then none of this class of guns are range guns. It conceals well in pocket or belt holsters. I do not bother with the laser. I also have a PPK and PPK/S in .380 but they are larger and heavier and require a belt holster.
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This is encouraging in that there may be a means to reduce abortions, by prescribing effective birth control. Intuitively this would be the answer. Unfortunately the whole area is tied up in a low of political posturing, but the best thing for the people involved would be to continue the birth control program since teen pregnancies are a huge problem in the US, with life long consequences..
Wow, so the only way women will look after their reproductive health is if they get "FREE" birth control pills. If they have to actually PAY for it out of THEIR OWN WALLETS, forget it. But if it's FREE, that's a different story. What's next? Will they require FREE tampons and FREE maxi pads in order for them to get through their monthly cycle? Will they require FREE soap so they can wash themselves. Hey, what about FREE food, so they can eat right? And don't forget FREE athletic shoes so they can get exercise. Sad that society has ceased to practice "personal responsibility"..
Duh, it is rather obvious that this would happen. And ChasinRabbits, which would you rather pay for? Free birth control which is cheap or unwanted babies or abortions? My guess is you are male. I guess as a woman I should resent Medicare paying for Viagra or Cialis..
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May 10, 1933: The Debate Was Over
A huge Nazi book burning was held in Berlin 81 years ago on May 10, 1933, the opening act of nation wide book burnings in some 34 university cities and towns organized in Germany by the German Students Association and the Nazi Party. Thousands of university students eagerly chucked into the bonfire some 25,000 volumes written by authors considered subversive by the new Nazi regime, which covered most of Western thought before the new era that the Nazis thought they were making for mankind. The young in Germany, by and large, tended to be the most enthusiastic followers of the Nazis, particularly students in institutions of higher learning. Many of them seemed to enjoy having a leader to follow blindly, no longer having the hard work of sorting truth from falsehood on their own. Ideologies that combine certainty, action, violent rhetoric, scape-goating and a charismatic leader provide an easy escape in this Vale of Tears from concerns of morality, justice and self-criticism, and that is often attractive for people of all ages, but especially for the young who usually lack the experience to readily recognize when a bill of goods is being sold to them.
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Todays charismatic leader;
"America is not a Christian nation but one of many beliefs."
"Change America can believe in."
"You can keep your existing health plan."
"We will draft a conscience clause within the mandate (HHS)."
"I am a Christian."
No book burnings..yet, however the History channel I am told, is the next best thing. Our family doesn't use cable or dish services since 2001. I know…the odd ones. No commercial messages from the screen for thirteen years has been a huge blessing. More time to help neighbors. 🙂
"He who would be the greatest among you must be the servant of all." Hitler confined his "all" to the Germanic race, excluding all other people. Hitler would not be comfortable in heaven with Jesus Christ, the Jew, Saint Peter, James and John.
Hitler also believed in "Ice Cosmology", that the super race came from outer space by means of a space ship that was circling the earth filled with frozen people. Could be, but the fact still remains (redundant redundancy) that these super men from outer space came to earth to find and to follow Jesus Christ…and to serve all, for this is eternal life. There are still some Nazi believers, who grow their ego to megalomania without recourse to Justice, human Justice and Divine Justice.
How did the Nazis think (oh they chose not to think) they could debate their adversaries without indulging in their adversaries convictions? So, they burnt their adversaries. Even people from outer space have some sense of propriety. People, even from outer space, thrive on Justice.
I have watched Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade several times and it gets better each time. I believe Sean Connery received the Oscar for best supporting actor in his role as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. "With the Holy Grail, the forces of evil will conquer the earth."…and We, the people will return to earth in a spaceship frozen in time to serve all.
Thank you, Philip, for your collection of indictments against Obama.
Good post!
Most of the 'books' burned on that night were the records of the 'Institute For Sex Research' that was headed up by the infamous Marcus Hirschfield. The institute was actually a gathering place for sex perverts. The research that was done there was the same type of 'research' perverts like Kinsley and Masters and Johnson were to do years later to prove deviant behavior was not so abnormal.
The reason why the Nazi's burned those records was not because they were outraged at the perversions in them, they were covering their own butts. Many members of the Nazi Party were perverts and they went to the ISR for 'treatment'. They were concerned that the data in those files might be used against them someday, so to prevent this, they got rid of them in a faked display of moral outrage. This is all documented in Lively's and Abrams "The Pink Swastika" available from http://www.defendthefamily.com
The frightening thing is that one no longer need burn books. They will just disappear from our Kindles and Nooks or be replaced with "updated" editions. In the low-tech old days in the USSR when Beria fell the authorities had to send a five-page article about to every library and school to be pasted into the Soviet Encyclopedia.
No more.
And of course fewer and fewer books by ungoodthinking authors will be published, strictly because there is no market, of course.
Mary DeVoe.
Your welcome.
His words not mine.
I look at him as a thought-police commissioner, not President of the great Nation called United States of America. The son of Lucifer wishes for division. He, the son, has been doing a bang up job for his father.
Ranting again….not good.
I'll be before the Blessed Sacrament later today asking for a compassionate heart towards all brothers and sisters.
God help our Nation.
No book burnings..yet, however the History channel I am told, is the next best thing
Awesome Philip!
Donald do you think free speech the net will be regulated after U. N. Or so called net neutrality?
I could be totally wrong here, maybe I am, but it's my impression that the Chi-Coms are doing a pretty good job of holding back the digital tide.
That's an uninformed opinion. If I actually bothered to read the piece Donald linked, I might change my mind.
Then again, Vladimir Putin wants bloggers to register –like other media "outlets."
'research' perverts like Kinsley and Masters and Johnson
Little doubt someone who wanted to do this research was peculiar. Little doubt also that Alfred Kinsey was addled by sexual perversions (and some of his associates as well, e.g. Wardell Pomeroy). Masters and Johnson were not admirable human beings (I think there were five marriages between them, or some such), but I am not aware that anyone alleged they were known kinkoids; there more salient problem was incompetence. It became grossly evident by 1987 that neither one had the necessary training to conduct social research, a problem they shared with Kinsey and his associates.
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"Dort, wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man am Ende auch Menschen. " ("Where they burn books, they will, in the end, burn human beings too." — Almansor, Heinrich Heine, 1821)
The History Channel has morphed from being, in essence, the World War Two Network to shows about a pawn shop, antiques dealers and a guy from Detroit in Las Vegas who buys, sells and customizes classic cars and motorcycles. There is no more history on History.
The WWII stuff moved to Military History, but they produce no new programming for that network. The rest of the old history programming moved to another network.
There is a plethora of books and movies and programs about the Nazis. The communists have escaped the same scrutiny.
Stephen E Dalton: Yours is a revelation. Hitler was killing homosexuals and these people were on the list by their own admission. Thank you. Good to know.
"The History Channel has morphed from being, in essence, the World War Two Network to shows about a pawn shop, antiques dealers and a guy from Detroit in Las Vegas who buys, sells and customizes classic cars and motorcycles. There is no more history on History."
That's what happened when the bulk of the educated in this country moved out of the 25-44 advertising demographic.
Last night I viewed on the Public Broadcast Service an enactment of Jian Ping's "The Mulberry Child, A Memoir of China" http://video.pbs.org/program/mulberry-child/.
Interestingly there was a powerful scene of a great book and document burning carried on by the Red Guard abd the fanatical followers of Mao Zedong during the inception of China's Cultural Revolution. The reason for burning the books in China…according to Jian Ping it was to wipe out the old order to make room for the New Order.
MPS' quote makes sense…to wipe out the old order, one must destroy written evidence first, then humans who recall the old ways, and are likely to resist or cause others to resist.
Mao Zedong's communist cultural revolution burned the books and the humans.
While we are on the subject of totalitarians, City Journal last night published The Last Communist City. See http://www.city-journal.org/2014/24_2_havana.html
slainte: "MPS' quote makes sense…to wipe out the old order, one must destroy written evidence first, then humans who recall the old ways, and are likely to resist or cause others to resist."
Euthanasia and Common Core.
Thanks to all of you- I learn so much from you. It really helps me "put things together" to be a part of these discussions. I carry what I learn here to other people and I am certain these insights are all having an impact.


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It is the latest hit for Animal Logic, which has lent its talents to George Miller's Happy Feet and Zack Snyder's Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole. The Fox Studios-based business recently opened a Los Angeles-based production office and signed on for a sequel to The Lego Movie, slated for release in 2017.
If The Lego Movie builds on its strong opening it could push towrads the $30 million mark locally. Happy Feet pulled in $6.6 million on its boxing-day release weekend in 2006 and $31,786,164 in total, making it the fourth biggest Australian movie of all time at the local box office. Miller's live-action and CGI family movie Babe, which took $36,776,544 and is the third-highest-grossing Australian-made film, opened with a relatively modest $1.86 million in December 1995.
The Lego Movie was pipped for top spot at the Australian box office on the weekend, however, by Disney's Captain America: The Winter Soldier. The Marvel Entertainment offering took almost $6.06 million in receipts.
In the first 10 days of showing in the US, the Captain America sequel has pulled in $US96.2million, which is easily more than half the bounty earned by its 2011 predecessor Captain America: The First Avenger during its entire run. The original earned $US176.65 million.
1. Captain America: The Winter Soldier - $6.058 million (Walt Disney)
2. The Lego Movie - $5.711 million (Roadshow)
3. Noah - $2.232 million (Paramount)
4. Mr Peabody & Sherman - $1.068 million (Fox)
5. The Monuments Men - $597,785 (Fox)
6. Ride Along - $274,449 (Universal)
7. Need for Speed - $183,193 (Walt Disney/Dreamworks)
8. 300: Rise of an Empire - $101,565 (Warner Bros)
9. The Dallas Buyers Club - $101,322 (Pinnacle Films)
10. Wadjda - $87,333 (Entertainment One)
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UArts Professor Named 'One of the Nation's Most Influential Theater Critics' by 'American Theatre' Magazine
Longtime Liberal Arts Professor Toby Zinman recognized for her work as a theater critic with 'The Philadelphia Inquirer' and 'Philadelphia City Paper'
November 15, 2011
Longtime University of the Arts Liberal Arts Professor Toby Zinman was recognized by American Theatre magazine as "one of the nation's most influential theater critics" for her work as a theater critic with The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia City Paper.
She is also the regional reviewer for Variety, a regular contributor to BroadStreetReview.com, and has written for the London Times and The New York Times.
Zinman is a professor of English at UArts where she was awarded the prize for Distinguished Teaching. She has published widely and lectured internationally on contemporary American drama and was a Fulbright professor in theater at Tel Aviv University.
She has received five grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Her third book, Edward Albee, was published by University of Michigan Press in the spring of 2008 and her newest book on Arthur Miller's play, All My Sons, was published in June 2010.
Her third career as an adventure travel writer has taken Zinman all over the world, dogsledding in the Yukon, ziplining the rainforest in Belize, walking coast to coast across England and rounding up cattle on horseback in the Australian Outback.


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Fathers Day & Graduation Celebration Cruise: Carnival Conquest Cruise Review by dchi72
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Destination: Western Caribbean
Embarkation: New Orleans
We stayed at the Windsor Court hotel in New Orleans. What an incredibly great hotel. The rooms were huge! This was definitely a highlight of our trip. We showed up in jeans and t-shirts and felt underdressed as a wedding party was just leaving the hotel.
Embarkation - the baggage porter immediately noticed my father-in-laws crutches and got us a parking place within a few feet of the elevator. He was quick, efficient and polite. The check-in was quick. We were in boarding group 1. Glad I did not spring for the FTTF program. My father-in-law and wife were allowed to board directly behind the FTTF folks. We were allowed to board about 10 minutes later. We stepped on board around 11:15 and we were told all cabins would be ready at 12:30. We made it down to our More cabin about 12:45 and all was ready. Our cabin steward was great.
Food - Guys burgers were great! Street tacos were great! Pizza was annoying. The only make pepperoni in advance. You stand in line to order a special pizza (5-10 minutes depending on the length of the line) and then have to wait an additional 5 minutes for the pizza. NOT worth the wait in my opinion. MDR service was great. I have not been on a cruise in several years. This is my first experience with the new staffing system in the MDR. It sucks! Our waiter was extremely overworked trying to keep up with the demands. No more getting to know your waiter as in the past. Despite all of this our waiter did a great job. The food in the MDR was another story. Some nights were GREAT! Other nights were inedible. You could smell our crab cakes from the other tables. They were gross! The first night of prime rib tasted like it was left over from the prior cruise. One night the chocolate melting cake was the best thing ever created the next night it was WAY undercooked. There did not seem to be any quality control coming out of the kitchen.
Jamaica - we went with Jamaica for a Day to the Hilton Rose Hall. Hanif was our waiter. I cannot say enough good things about him or the Hilton. We are seriously looking at taking a multiday trip back to Jamaica just because of this resort.
Grand Cayman - we went with a Carnival excursion to the Turtle farm. MEH. We were on the second tender boat. The Conquest was the only ship in port. No need for FTTF here either. If there are more ships in port, then it could get interesting.
Cozumel - swimming with the dolphins through Carnival. The kids loved it. Probably not a repeat excursion, but definitely worth the time and money.
Shows - I am not a fan of shows but our group wanted to attend. The Brits was boring. I did not like it and the group did not return for any of the other shows that week. Safe to say none of our group was impressed.
Disembarkation - we did not self-assist. We were in the last group to leave. It was shockingly easy and quick. We were off the boat and in our truck within 30 minutes.
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Video: Giancarlo Stanton crashes into outfield wall for impressive catch
Miami Marlins outfielder Giancarlo Stanton made an acrobatic catch in Monday night's game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, crashing into the rightfield wall.
In the bottom of the second inning, Stanton tracked a long line drive off the bat of Josh Harrison and leapt high in the air just before the ball hit off the wall. Stanton slammed into the metal grate covering the out-of-town scoreboard but hung on to the ball. The catch ended the inning and prevented a run from scoring.
According to MLB's batted ball data, the ball left the bat at 92 mph and traveled 339 feet.
Stanton batted third in the top of the following inning and hit a solo home run to rightfield.
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Why I chose Union:
I was drawn to Union's emphasis on undergraduate research, as well as its interdisciplinary nature.
Study Abroad:
Mini-term in Bali, Indonesia and term abroad in Galway, Ireland
Hudson River Museum, Schenectady Historical Society, Museum of Innovation and Science, and the New York Historical Society
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It's too hard to choose just one! My favorite professors on campus are Professor Ogawa and Professor Cox from the Visual Arts department, and Professor Lawson from the History department. All three of these professors have not only served as excellent instructors for me during my time here at Union, but they are also my mentors. They are all always willing to meet with me and have inspired me to challenge myself academically and professionally.
Favorite class:
My favorite class was "19th Century European Art" with Professor Ogawa. Over the course of the term, we each developed a research paper focused on a specific artist, and I selected to study Berthe Morisot. I enjoyed getting to conduct high level research at an undergraduate level and work one-on-one with my professor to revise my paper numerous times. I have since presented the paper I wrote in this class at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.
Favorite activity:
Going for walks in the Stockade District
Favorite place on campus:
The Nott Memorial is my absolute favorite place on campus. Whether I am hearing a speaker on the first floor, taking in an exhibit on the second floor, or writing a paper on the third floor, I am always astounded by the beauty of the architecture. I have studied abroad and seen amazing buildings in Paris, Barcelona, Rome and more, but I still think that the Nott Memorial is the most breathtaking structure of them all!
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I was expecting good days for FTSE in later periods of this week. FTSE is making a long-term bearish pattern which it can trigger below 5000 level and technically it can avoid that by crossing around 6100 level. Lower lows it is making during last 1year is also indicating the trend towards upside but for that it has to first break its initial resistance which is 6000 level.
On the other hand I will be thinking about a bearish pattern for FTSE when it will be dropping around 5650 level, around 5800 is its initial support level. So in early days of the coming week emphasize should be given on 6000 level in the upside.
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In fact, says Swan, local databases are an endangered species.
"Australian databases are weak. It's not because the people who create them don't know what to do, it's because there's not enough support."
Swan lists agricultural, multicultural, family and medical databases as some of the specialist databases that lack of funding.
Another important database, the Australian Earth Sciences Information Service (AESIS), is still in limbo, following the demise of the Australian Mineral Foundation in December 2001. Ownership of the database rests with the liquidators of the AMF and as yet no buyer has been found.
The loss of AESIS is considered a disaster. It covered a wide range of Australian materials, including documentation on exploration, mining, mineral processing and production. It also covered the related areas of environment and rehabilitation, safety, legislation, finance and economics, and land rights.
Millions of dollars have been invested in Streamline over the past 20 years. It was founded in the early '80s by the Federal Government and has been funded by the research and development corporation, Land & Water Australia since 1991.
Until recently, Streamline collected summaries of all published research about water in Australia. But it was expensive work.
A recent funding cut of about 75 per cent has reduced its capacity. New entries will reflect mainly the research and development directly undertaken by Land & Water Australia.
"It's no longer a national database," says Brenda Gerrie, from Infoscan, the company that manages the Streamline database.
"There are lots of things not being coordinated at a national level ... there's no political or social will to fix these things," Gerrie says.
"At Streamline you can search to your heart's content for free. Land & Water Australia has tried to do the right thing even though they had a funding cut. They have tried to make it accessible."
Land & Water Australia has recently tried to get funding from other organisations with an interest in water conservation but, so far, there has been little response.
The Standing Committee on Agriculture and Resource Management, whose members include the chiefs of related Australian commonwealth, state and territory departments, helps pay the bills for two other rural research databases. There is potential for Streamline to be merged with these to create a single service with a combined funding arrangement.
Several sources suggested that efforts are also under way to resurrect AESIS. Observers hope that the national agency, Geoscience Australia, will ultimately provide an appropriate home. Geoscience Australia was unavailable for comment.
"It's a database that lots of people have been asking for," says Sandra Oxley, director of RMIT Publishing.
"Databases are a lot of hard work and it's hard for organisations to see how they are getting value out of it."
However, Oxley says subscription sales are holding, which indicates there could be a resurgence on the way, particularly as internet users tire of searching online content.
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History 233. United States Women, 1790-1890
This course surveys the history of women in the 19th-century United States, exploring changing constructions of gender, race and class during a period of significant economic and political development. The course examines the emergence of the women's rights movement among members of the emerging white middle class as well as the changing experiences of free and enslaved African American women. Students complete original research in diaries held in the Wheaton College Archives and Special Collections.


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NEW YORK (May. 11)
In a City Hall ceremony yesterday Mayor Abraham Beame issued a proclamation officially launching preparations for the biggest one-week drive the New York Jewish community has ever undertaken to provide humanitarian aid to endangered, oppressed and needy fellow Jews in Israel, other countries overseas and in New York.
The Mayor designated the seven days beginning June 6 as "Mobilization '76 Week" in New York City, a period of intensive city-wide activity in support of the United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies Joint Campaign. He termed the effort "an historic manifestation of citizen involvement."
Mobilization '76 Chairman Howard Samuels participated in the City Hall ceremony, accompanied by other leaders of the massive "neighbor-to-neighbor" project that will extend throughout the five boroughs, Westchester and Long Island suburbs.
Samuels outlined plans for 10,000 volunteers to reach out to 200,000 persons in their homes and businesses during Mobilization '76 week to raise $15 million, something never before accomplished in the absence of all-out war involving the people of Israel.
In addition to the mobilization by adults, 80,000 pupils attending Hebre schools and day schools affiliated with Federation's Board of Jewish Education are engaged in a children's mobilization of their own. They were represented at the City Hall ceremony by a chorus from the Solomon Schechter Day School of Long lsland.
According to the plans described by Samuels, whose co-chairman is Mrs. Elaine Winik, Mobilization '76 will get underway the morning of June 6, when thousands of volunteer "bell ringers" will leave approximately 100 mobilization centers–strategically located in the 53 "regions" into which the eight counties covered by the effect are divided–to call at the homes of prospective contributors.
The climax of Mobilization Sunday will be a four-hour television special, with Alan King and Bess Myerson as hosts and dozens of stars of stage, screen and sports among the participants. It will go on the air at 8:30 p.m. on WPIX-TV (Channel 11), as fund-raising parties are held simultaneously in as many as 2000 homes throughout the Metropolitan area.
A volunteer-staffed. 200-instrument telephone bank will be in operation to receive pledges in response to solicitations during the broadcast, as well as reports from the home parties. It is expected the TV special will raise more than $3 million.
Monday morning, June 7, will bring un extension of the mobilization to trades and industries through solicitations conducted in office and commercial buildings with coverage ranging from individual firms to whole industries. More than 80 participating volunteer groups are already being organized, Samuels reported.


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NFL 2011 Season – Week Five Preview
The NFL enters week five of its 2011 season — its first bye week — with just two unbeaten teams: the defending Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers and the upstart Detroit Lions...
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell Wants HGH Tests for Players This Year
NFL players will be tested for human growth hormone this season, if NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell gets his way.
The NFL players' union and the league agreed to the testing as part of the new collective bargaining agreement made this off-season...
Will Ben Roethlisberger Play Sunday for the Steelers?
Steelers quarterback Ben Roethlisberger may be sidelined after suffering a foot injury in a 17-10 Pittsburgh loss to the Houston Texans.
LeGarrette Blount Leads Tampa Bay over Indianapolis, 24-17, On 'Monday Night Football'
LeGarrette Blount scored the go-ahead touchdown on a 35-yard run with 3:15 to play to give the Tampa Bay Buccaneers a 24-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts on Monday night.
NFL 2011 Season – Week Four Recap
It was a record-setting week for several players, and the Green Bay Packers and Detroit Lions are the only remaining unbeaten teams after week four of the NFL's 2011 season...
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The top seven ranked teams asserted their dominance in week five as each rolled to convincing victories. Meanwhile eight ranked teams suffered losses as the list of undefeated teams was trimmed.
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The 2011 NFL season has been unpredictable thus far. After three weeks, a team that missed the playoffs in 2010 is at the top, or tied for the lead, in every division in both the AFC and NFC...
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The NFL will schedule a second regular season game outside North America in 2012, Daniel Kaplan of SportsBusiness Journal reported Tuesday.
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Hours after a 23-20 loss to Pittsburgh dropped them to 0-3 for the first time since 1998, Colts owner Jim Irsay said Monday that star quarterback Peyton Manning, sidelined with a neck injury, will likely miss the entire 2011 season, WISH in Indianapolis reports.
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More than 1,000 letters of support and the threat of a protest march are being credited with the go-ahead being given for a pizza parlour in Malmesbury.
The planning application to convert 2 High Street and 1-1a Oxford Street into a pizza restaurant and deli was submitted by Wild Food Company owner Stewart Shape in December last year.
Despite neighbours and representatives submitting 1,153 letters in favour of the restaurant, and only 16 against, Wiltshire Council took longer than expected to make a planning decision.
Last week, frustrated with the delay, Mr Shape and his supporters were in talks about organising a march from Malmesbury to Wiltshire Council offices in Monkton Park, Chippenham.
Mr Shape said: "We got the result. It was the threat of the march that did it in the end. It's vital for the town and, more importantly, demanded as a business.
"I hope to start building work next week, to be finished by the end of May. The town can breathe a sigh of relief."
The Wiltshire Council planning report said: "The proposed development would be acceptable on its planning merits as it would have minimal impact on the listed building and its setting, would not unduly harm the amenities of neighbouring residents or locality and would not be detrimental to highway safety."
The restaurant's kitchen will be in 1a Oxford Street, with a new door opening through to 1 Oxford Street and 2 High Street. It will also feature a delicatessen.
Mr Shape hopes his Pizza Express-style restaurant will offer Malmesbury residents an alternative to food currently offered in the town, and will bring in people from further afield.
During his wait for planning permission, Mr Shape offered local artists the chance to showcase their work for free in his building. Art from residents including Luke Hollingsworth is on display and for sale.


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67 year old husband diagnosed with Periphial T Cell Lymphoma Feb. 2015
5 rounds of CHOPE chemo put him into remission for 2 years....
June 2017 Relapse....radiation planned
Develops ITP, Low platelets....Hospitalized 3 days to be given Gamma Gloublin....discharged....gave prednisone but forgot to give scripts for that and Klonopin....results in rage from Prednisone.....second time this has happened. Had one instance of it during previous chemo.
ITP recurs....4,000 platelets
New Oncologist called in that specializes only in Lymphoma. He changed Al to Decradon (Sp?), a steroid. So far platelets have stayed up...173,000...Splenectomy cancelled for now.....Radiation starts every day for three weeks then chemo if platelets stay up. If not, splenectomy.
Also caregiver to our 40 year old son who had a benign ependymoma tumor removed when he was 14 years old. 6 brain surgeries.
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Two years after the June 2010 events, Osh is coming back to life. The fresh scars of burned buildings no longer stand out from the background of the rest of the city; some are rebuilt and new, others painted over on the outside, covering the charred burns. In the worst-affected areas, the rubble that made whole sections of the city look like it had been bombarded with artillery shells has been cleared away. Even the remaining unrepaired damage from the June violence has faded into the background of a city losing its battle with time in many neighborhoods, with crumbling apartment buildings and abandoned factories from the Soviet era. The slow disappearance of these scars mirrors the ebb of the hyper-ethnicization of everyday life that followed the conflict and resulted from the conflicting narratives about it, as people deliberately move on with their lives, rebuilding shared trust in everyday interactions with their neighbors. Much like physical marks the conflict left on the city, the damage left in individual lives and on the city as a community is healing in many places—and where it doesn't heal, it seems at least to fade into the background of other scars, other challenges.
During the day the city is far different than it was just a year ago. Not only do residents of different ethnicities now mix much more freely in public spaces, restaurants and social events, there are more people out on the street in general, often with their children in tow. Two years after violence shook the city, it seems almost as if there are more children than there were before. The first day I went back into the city center was Eid-al-Fitr, and walking down into the park along the Ak-Bura river I was surprised to see so many families crowding the shaded sidewalks; the games and rides that had barely functioned the year before now had long lines of excited children. In encouraging ways, the public life of this ancient city is beginning to resemble its old self–a famous melting pot of all and a meeting place of all the Ferghana Valley and Soviet cultures.
The most unambiguously encouraging thing I found on returning this year is that the conflict is diminishing as the master frame for everyday interactions. In sharp contrast, it is no longer the first thing anyone wants to talk about. Often, it's not even the third or fourth thing. While a year ago people would pull me aside on the street, eager for an opportunity to tell an outsider their version of what was usually a story of black-and-white absolute blame for "them" and complete justification for "us," now these hard frames are fading and many are reluctant to talk about the conflict at all. The business of everyday life demands their attention, and many say that they see no point in continuing to focus on the past. As Hamid, whose neighborhood was half destroyed in 2010 put it, "once you go to the doctor and get stitches, you don't keep taking the bandage off and keep looking at it—you have to let it heal. You have to leave it alone and forget. You have to go on with your life."
Moreover, Kyrgyzstan's relatively free media has meant that the descent of Libya and Syria into civil war after the initial euphoria of the "Arab Spring" has become a topic of frequent conversation in Osh. Many informants had put their own conflict into the perspective of bloodshed elsewhere in Muslim World in the past year and articulated both that they felt fortunate that their conflict had not escalated into a full-scale civil war and that, resigned to fate, there was nowhere to go to escape unrest. Many who had emigrated for work elsewhere had now returned, and though economic circumstances might force them to leave again, most—regardless of ethnicity—expressed that Kyrgyzstan was their home and there was nowhere else they felt they belonged, no matter how difficult things may get.
As I re-visited the same people I talked to a year ago, even drastic changes made in their lives that were explained as a direct result of the conflict and mistrust of others then are narrated in a different way now. A middle-aged nurse from a neighborhood unaffected by the violence told me last year that she had quit her job at a hospital because "she couldn't stand to work with "them" anymore, couldn't even look at their faces, because of what they did." A year ago, even though not personally affected by the events, she felt deeply involved in them by virtue of being a member of what she considered the victimized group, and described the others as "animals" (a narrative common among many Uzbeks and Kyrgyz alike at the time). Now, volunteering to explain the same career change, she listed economic reasons for leaving the hospital and working as a private on-call nurse instead: she made more money and didn't have to travel as far to work every day. This year, instead of talking about the conflict, she preferred to talk about her children, to ask me about mine, to speculate that her husband—long working in Russia—had found a new wife and would never return, making the economic perspective on her career choice all the more important because remittances from him had become more and more infrequent.
In the year after the violence, the rumor mills were split into echo-chambers of polarized ethnic camps that re-told narratives of atrocities allegedly committed by the other and negated the veracity of others' stories of suffering. Now, they are busy with everyday political gossip (Tekebaev looting gold bars from the Bakiev mansions) and the occasional conspiracy theory about the great powers' plans to divide up Kyrgyzstan or plunder its natural resources (the U.S. and Russia have reached an agreement to divide Kyrgyzstan in two, with the U.S. taking over the South and Russian taking the North, according to some of the latest scuttlebutt).
More significant than ordinary rumors were the disturbingly graphic viral videos from the conflict that often fueled rival claims about which side's victimization they depicted. As Sarah Kendzior surmised in her excellent essay about the way digital archiving changes collective memory of the conflict, these videos and photos and the narratives about them are not gone, and their persistence continues to make moving on from the conflict more difficult. But as time passes their popularity and urgency have been replaced by other trends that have conflicting explanations attached to them. A popular video of a woman turned into a snake, for example, has a wide variety of moralistic meta-explanations ascribed to it. Uzbeks in Aravan pass the video from phone to phone with the story that she was an Uzbek from the Uzbekistan side of the valley who returned from the Hajj this year and spoke ill of it, for which blasphemy she was supposedly transformed into a serpent (with the usual elaborate chains-of-transmission to add to its supposed veracity—viewers were assured that she was so-and-so's cousin's sister, who filmed it himself). Kyrgyz young people pass the video around too with similar claims but different stories—in reality, a more skeptical web designer in his early thirties told me he had Googled it and discovered the video was produced in Southeast Asia in 2009. He felt that the buzz around this video was a sign that the conflict was fading from the front of everyone's minds, but also a troubling reminder of how inaccurate, unreliable–and readily accepted–even the most high tech mish-mish can be.
One of the most powerful and enduring narratives about the conflict a year ago was the set of rumors about the mayor's "master plan" to remake the city, break up Uzbek mahallas and displace the economic role of the famous Osh Bazaar. The city development plan, which has existed in several iterations since the late Soviet period, is real and progress on it is moving forward—however, the city administration has backed away from early statements about its desire to resettle Uzbek residents in mutli-story mixed ethnicity apartment buildings. The projects implemented so far are limited to extending or widening roads in high-traffic areas. Although the extension of Monueva street to the new "river road" did, as many feared, result in the long-threatened demolition of several homes rebuilt after the violence, these families were given land and some modest compensation to rebuild new homes again above the city in the O'n Adyr district (where Uzbeks who could no longer fit into their family mahallas in the city center have been building for several decades). The deal was a significant—if however imperfect—compromise from the city administration, who have elsewhere left neighborhoods intact, despite harsh resistance last year to issuing permits for rebuilding in areas that conflicted with redevelopment plans. As the construction projects unfold without serious conflict, fears of a large-scale population resettlement seem to have begun to fade.
In the days just before I left, construction began on the central artery that runs through the bazaar. Though some stalls located in the street were torn down and vendors forced out, it caused little stir in the city—many, including Uzbeks—seem to agree that widening the congested road is a reasonable project. The bazaar is bustling again now at something near full capacity, with new container stalls and a few cafes sprouting up around the charred and still unrepaired skeleton of the burned out brick-and-mortar structures destroyed in the violence; few seem to fear that the city administration or anyone else could try to shut it down even if they wanted to.
As the grip of rumor and the fear and mistrust of neighbors that it sparked gradually lifts from the city, life goes on again. Construction has become a steady business as families continue to rebuild and expand their homes as sons and daughters marry and begin new families. But as the anthropologist and Harvard Divinity professor Michael D. Jackson wrote in his reflective study on narratives of suffering and political violence, The Politics of Storytelling, our desire to bend narratives into a happy ending or to fit a desired political outcome–in which the sufferer is redeemed by her pain or a phoenix rises again from the ashes after a city burns—often isn't shared by our informants or by the way they interpret their reality. I read those words the first time a year ago sitting in a cheap oshxona in the middle of the bazaar, looking out at the ruins of so many far richer restaurants and cafes reduced to twisted metal and broken glass. This year, in interview after interview those words came back to me again; not a single person I talked to expressed any real optimism for the future of the city, no one felt they had gained anything from the conflict, or that anyone else had either. As the scars, both physical and psychological, from this short outburst of violence fade they recede into the background of serious economic challenges, the small-scale violence of disorder and everyday life, and the feeling that there is little most people can do to control their fate. Osh is returning to life after the "war," but everywhere are the reminders that this was a war with no winners. The only victory is that life goes on.


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The results for some scales of some psychometric instruments are returned as sten scores, sten being an abbreviation for 'Standard Ten'.
When the population of results for a scale comes from a normally distributed population with known parameters (or those results can be transformed in such a way that this is the case) then sten scores can be calculated for the results for each individual to whom the scale is administered. Sten scores are calculated in such a way that, for the entire population of results, the mean sten score is 5.5 and the standard deviation of them is 2.[1]
For example, suppose that a scale of some notional characteristic is administered to each member of some large reference population and its values are found to have a mean of 23.5 and a standard deviation of 4.2, and to be approximately normally distributed. Then sten scores for this scale can be calculated using the formula, 2( s - 23.5 ) / 4.2 + 5.5.
A mean score is thus 5.5.
There is some ambiguity in the way that sten scores are defined. Some authors use these real-valued scores, possibly rounding them off to the first decimal point as a reflection of level of precisions often seen in psychometric instruments. However, it is much more common for authors to derive scores from the 'raw' scores which assume only the values in the set, {1, 2, 3, ..., 10 }, according to the following scheme:
values less than 2 -> 1 values between 2 and 3 -> 2 values between 3 and 4 -> 3 . . . values between 9 and 10 -> 9 values above 10 -> 10
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A sten score indicates an individual's approximate position (as a range of values) with respect to the population of values and, therefore, to other people in that population.
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I`m a 49 year old woman who walks a little over 3 miles per day. I started this about 31/2 months ago. When I started walking, I had a couple of weeks during which my hands and feet itched, especially in the evening. I mean trying-to-scratch-your-skin-off, bring you to tears itching. No swelling or rednes. In the last couple of days, I have started trying to raise the intensity of my workout by walking as fast as I can for a few minutes 3-4 times during my walk. Lo and behold the itching is coming back in my hands. Do you think it`s related to raising the intensity in activity levels? Could it be dangerous? I try to take my health seriously, have also stopped smoking about 3 months ago and lost 15 pounds in that time, also. Thanks.
This is a relatively rare condition when it occurs chronically but it does occur for short periods in some individuals. There are a number of different problems that can cause itching with exercise or with sweating.
Dermatologic conditions like eczema can cause these symptoms and there are a number of medications that can cause itching with exercise or sweating. Insect bites would be an unlikely cause if the symptoms are present chronically. Contact dermatitis could worsen your symptoms with exercise if you have a mild allergy to detergents, soaps, foods or clothing as well as plants like poison ivy. Also, there are conditions called cholinergic or pressure urticaria that causes hives with pressure on the skin or cold exposure. However, with the absence of a rash, this would be less likely. Hyperhidrosis, or excess sweating, could cause your symptoms. Finally, certain medical conditions such as thyroid problems could be associated with this.
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There are 498 comments on the Cecil Whig story from Jul 7, 2007, titled Indian Acres. In it, Cecil Whig reports that:
"The commissioners don't want to get into it until the decision stands"
Campground not intended for permanent tenants, judge says By Eugene Paik [email protected] A recent court decision could leave hundreds of Indian Acres residents homeless in the winter. via Cecil Whig
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#1 Oct 4, 2007
Does anyone know when these people have to be out?
#2 Dec 11, 2007
Has the Judge made any ruling yet on where his decicion about the permanted people living here all the time.
#3 Mar 15, 2008
Leave the older people alone! The ones who have put $$$ in the park model homes that dont have children vandaling our sites.... We need them there to take care of OUR investments
Not all are dirt balls, living with 4 kids in an RV that has no running water,get rid of them! some of us have very nice properties, SET The rule......no one under 18 permitted to reside in the park! Only people 55 and over year round, It does not take a rocket scientist to figure it out..its MY Property I BOUGHT IT I'LL GO THERE WHEN I WANT! No ONE WILL TELL MR DIFFRENT. Set the rule be done with it, the decent people should not be punished for the "trailer trash"
its my HOME away from HOME!
#4 Oct 24, 2008
not all people with kids are trailer trash.i have always had a beauiful home ,and i have 5 grown kids AND 2 LITTLE ONES LELFED. and it's not fair if one goes they all go.but they should do something with all these drunks ,running around the park.if they want to drink do it in your yard.or gett arrested.
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#5 Oct 28, 2008
5 grown kids, 2 little ones? Come on people this is whats going on in here. Raising kids in a camper. How would you like to be a kid and someone asked you, where did you grow up at?! I visit my place quite often but dont live there and I raised my kids and not in a camp ground. There is pillheads, crack heads, juvenile partying, vandalism, break ins. Lets get real people, if you got kids get them a house in society with water, heat, peace of mind. And watch your kids instead of just letting run around not knowing where they are. Just this weekend I saw kids far from there residents with no shoes or shirts on. Where are your kids?
#6 Oct 30, 2008
to property owner ,hey nut ,no one said i rising my kids in a camp.no this is not going on in here.I own two homes.i live in a 4 bedroom house and rent the other one .and i always know where my kids are.and what about you .are you still in the camp this late in the year.
#7 Dec 27, 2008
Seiously, a lot of you people must not know what goes on in the Acres. I'm an 18 yr old male that resides in teh acres with my mother, and my younger brother of 16. There are all the bad people that live in the acres, but at the same time,y ou cannot blame children for most of the misdeeds done. I've met some people, well into their 30s that get drunk on a daily basis, and end up doing stupid things. And for those who say "Just go out and buy a house," maybe you haven't realized that life is not that simple. Now that the economy is slowly slipping into a recession, it's so hard to get a stable working job to afford such a place. My mom cannot work due to disability, so me and my younger brother have to work jobs just to buy groceries. And to the property owner that said he saw kids with no shoes or shirts on, if you think about it, it was the Weekend, and you were probbaly in the summer, so I don't see what the problem is.
#8 Jan 8, 2009
it's not kids ,it's drunks.do something about the drinking all over the place.this park is for everyone to enjoy ,not just the drunks.
#9 Jan 15, 2009
My former tenants now live there full-time. He works full time and makes a good living. His wife is a druggie whose habit he has to supply. Has her son, his whatever she is and baby living there too. He may also take drugs. That is all I know about the inhabitants of Indian Acres, but it is surely enough to understand Indian Acrees is not UTOPIA.
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#10 Jan 15, 2009
I bought my place in Indian Acres w/ a 30yr. coventional mortgage. Its a park model w/ a nice addition. When the appraisal was done on the property it was listed as a stick built home with manufactured home elements.2 bedrooms with a fenced in yard. How would you like to pay a mortgage on a place and be told when you can go there?
As far as partying and drinking goes well 99% of that kicks in on Memorial Day weeekend. Big deal.Thats where a lot of people go during the summer to party and relax. At least they are not out on the highways indangering peoples lives. I don't drink but they don't bother me.
Btm line, the State made a ruling years ago considering the status of Indian Acres and now the County want to throw out a lot of good people that have made nice investments in the park.
#11 Jan 18, 2009
I want to buy there.but all this talk about drunks ,druggies,i think hard not to.I have kids.
#12 Jan 29, 2009
My wife and I have owned property in Indian Acres for 6 years and have enjoyed the relaxed environment and the "vacation" we get 2 weekends per month. All the talk about drugs and drinking might be happening, but we don't look for it and it's not that "out in the open". I admit on holiday weekends it gets a little crazy, so we avoid going on those weekends. The pool is great, the boating is great, the realxation we get is great...all for an affordable price. If you focus on the good stuff, you won't regret it.
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#13 Jan 30, 2009
I have been to Indian Acres, and it is a nice community. Let the ones who lived there a long time stay, and get rid of the rift raft. I enjoyed visiting my friends down there.
#14 Feb 1, 2009
I found Indian Acres on web a while ago and am curious. I'm wondering if there are any lot owners who would be interested in renting out their lot for a few weeks this summer so I could see if it the place for me before investing in a property. Is there a way to find these owners? Also where else could I go to find lots for sale. The website has had the same listings for ever and I'm sure there are alot of other lots for sale at better prices.
#15 Feb 2, 2009
i was there right before christmas as i've heard that my friend that has been missing is staying in there drugged up. her name is brittany peart and you can google her to look up her case that was in the cecil whig a few times. if anyone has any information on her at all... please contact me or her father jesse. please.. we just want to know that she is alive and ok.
#16 Feb 2, 2009
Indian Acres was zoned for seasonal use (i.e. campground). It was NEVER intended for people to settle year-round. Every few years authorities they go in and send eviction notices, and each time the Indian Acres residents cry unfair.
PA-Camper : Do NOT buy there if you're looking for a place to permanently live. There were even cases of sellers trying to dupe people into telling them it was ok to live there year round. People bought and moved in, then found out the truth.
Who cares about zoning? Anyone who has to deal with zoning themselves. What good is zoning law if nobody is going to follow it?
I don't know if the situation has changed, but part of the problem also was the campground residents were not assessed the same property taxes as someone who was living in the county year-round. Indian Acres residents not only settled permanently but they started sending their kids to public schools from there. So they get a bargain in "seasonal" property taxes while my own home's property tax went up 15% in one year ?!
I know people don't want to hear it, but this place is zoned CAMPGROUND/SEASONAL. It's crazy to think one has some special right to move into a campground year-round.
#17 Feb 3, 2009
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please note: we do not care what she's in to or who she's doing it with. we just want to know that shes alive and safe. we dont want to start any trouble for anyone.<br style="display:none" gauntlet_tokenizer_reserved= ""/> if she chooses to go back to that life, we will let her, but at least we will know that shes ok and that we tried! please help us find our missing friend
#18 Feb 3, 2009
I'm not looking to live there permanently. I am a teacher so I have off summers and I'm looking for a affordable seasonal campground. Buying at IA seems like a good alternative as long as I use it for a few years. Also, at retirement, I plan to spend half my summers up here and winters south so it would be great to have a place to come back to. I would prefer that it was zoned and enforced seasonal/campground. The talk about permanent residents, drugs and drinking are making me nervous about investing at IA. Thanks for your input.
#19 Feb 8, 2009
Indian Acres is for most part occupied full time by seniors who have resided there for many years. Some for 25 or 30 years. They have been allowed permits to build homes there. Enforcement of the zoning laws will put 400 people homeless. They have used all of their retirement money and believed they could retire there. These homes have year long running water and are for the most part beautifully kept - they live just like anyone else. They have no were to go and have made a comfortable life for themselves without relying on government assistance. There are no programs or housing assistance for them. Please let them live out their days without worrying about being homeless
#20 Feb 9, 2009
in the search for my friend i heard from 5 different people, at least, that indian acres was the place to look for someone on drugs or running from the law. while my friend is in no trouble we are not sure if she's on anything either. my guess is it's pretty bad in there if all these people know that's the spot for trouble makers. a man that had to be aorund 50 was all messed up in the gas station down the road and told me that my friend was in there.. that they all go there to get fucked up. the only reason i stopped at the gate was cause i wanted them to look at her pic to see if she was in there.. if it werent for that i could have went right on through. i dont think anyone should be kicked out... but that place obviously needs to be cleaned up of it's drug abusers and all. we feel as though my missing friend may be in there and no one will help us. she needs help and her dad has moved here from florida to find her and no one will give us a definite answer.
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