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I'm wondering because on Wednesday nite my son scratched his eye trying to get something out . Well, his eye looked pretty bad and I said to myself if his eye still like this bad in the morning I will let him miss school.
Instead his eye was looking better , he wasn't complaining of pain, itchiness and there was no discharge .
So I thought it was safe for him to go to school to only get a call from the school thinking he had pink eye and telling me to come to get him even though I said No it's Not Pink eye he just hurt his eye by trying to get something out of it .
They still told me to come and get him . We brought the doctor diagnosis to school stating scratched eye not contagious .
So then I was thinking I should have put a note in the backpack about it but then I kept on wondering since over the phone I mentioned the reason why his eye was like that but still they had me come to get him.
So then I wonder if a note would have did any good.
I can't imagine that my kids would've been sent home for that. But, I would've given the school a heads up by sending in a note or calling the teacher. Since you didn't prepare them, they could only assume the worst. I think preventative measures can go a long way.
I'm an unintentional weasel feeder and I suck at proofreading.
Do your school have an RN or was this just the teachers opinion?
Our school has an RN. I can't imagine she would ever send a kid home just because of an irritated looking eye without other symptoms, especially after the parent explained. On the other hand I do keep her in the loop so I would have shot her an email letting her know what happened in case it did get worse during the day.
The communication is really good at our school. We often get "heads up" emails- like a case of lice was detected in the upper school, there are 3 kids with strep in lower school, etc along with a list of symptoms or what to watch for. They are not very knee jerk and actually were pretty calm during the whole swine flu debacle. The things I was hearing form parents at other schools had me
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If they suspect pink eye they don't let the child back in unless they have been on antibiotic drops for 24 hours or have a note stating it is not pink eye and it is not contagious (and it really has to be very clear about the NOT part, maybe and probably doesn't work). It is not fun to have to go through the stress of going to the doctor, but pink eye is a nasty thing that can keep going around, you don't build up immunity and it spreads quickly in school settings. And with so many parents giving bogus stories about why their kid is not sick when it turns out they actually are they really have to treat everyone the same way no matter how much they believe them. The nicest parents try to squeak by even for the nastiest diseases and they ruined it for everyone.
Sending a copy of a doctor's note in the morning would be helped, but just a note from you probably wouldn't have. Schools have to be very careful with infectious illnesses.
My son's school asks for a note from the doctor certifying that he can attend if the eye appears to be pink.
Thanks for the input . This was the teacher & secretary opinion not the RN.
I just wished they would have waited for input from the RN especially after I had told them it was just a scratched eye .
But no they were nearly begging me to come & get him .
So I'm like this is just great my son gets to miss school because he scratched his eye & the rest of them are too jumpy thinking he had pink eye .
I know plenty people do send kids when they are ill but not me . I never thought they would have reacted like this because his only symptom was a Pink Colored eye ! No other symptoms & they have asked if his eye hurts he responds No .
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Extended Interview: Ed Fouhy
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TERENCE SMITH: If you look at the evening news broadcasts on the networks today, versus 10 or 15 years ago, what strikes you?
ED FOUHY: Less content, less serious tone, more commercials — a lot more "news you can use," lighter features, more personality, more use of the word "crisis," when the word ought to probably be problem, not crisis.
TERENCE SMITH: Describe them as they were at the height of their influence, these evening news broadcasts.
ED FOUHY: I think the phrase the "electronic hearth" has been used. It's not original with me, but there was a gathering of the family after dinner to watch Frank Reynolds or John Chancellor or Walter Cronkite tell you what had gone on in the world. And the family structure and the family hour was a lot different from what it is right now. And I think it was probably the dominant news medium in the country at the time. It was pretty serious. It was a man sitting in a studio in New York and introducing pieces from correspondents around the country and indeed around the world. And the tone was objective, and there was a lot of effort to make it right, and it was very competitive, and I think it was pretty serious.
TERENCE SMITH: And it was the central source of news for Americans.
ED FOUHY: And still is for 30 million Americans every night. Let's not lose sight of the fact it is still the dominant news source by far in the country. Whether or not it has the same place in our society is a totally different question.
TERENCE SMITH: Although the numbers they draw today are far fewer.
ED FOUHY: Well, the number of viewers has gone up, so that is to say the overall audience is much larger. So the proportion is smaller, but the absolute numbers are roughly the same.
TERENCE SMITH: What's different about the structure of the evening news today?
ED FOUHY: Well, it's loaded with commercials. There's more commercial, more promotional material. There's a lot more personality-driven [news], far less foreign news. I think there is an effort to really do a very good job on the story of the day, and it dominates the news. There is far less on the second, third, fourth, fifth most important stories of the day. They go quickly to the features, as if they're almost ashamed to be in the hard news business.
TERENCE SMITH: Why?
ED FOUHY: That's something that I can't figure out, Terry. I think part of it, to be perfectly fair, is everybody in the news business, whether television, print or cable, is trying to figure out what their role is in a world where more and more people, particularly young people, the ones the advertisers really want them to reach, are getting their news from the Internet.
TERENCE SMITH: And so they're in search of a mission?
ED FOUHY: That's one way to put it, yeah. I wouldn't argue with that. They are in search of a role in the society that is as important as it used to be, and so far I don't think they've found it.
Look at it this way. The evening news is essentially the same form now that it was 38 years ago when Walter Cronkite sat down for a half an hour in a studio in New York and introduced the correspondent pieces — 38 years of the same format. Now, I would say to you there are very few things in the world that are unchanged over the last 38 years, and particularly the audience that they're broadcasting to. The audience is far, far different. The structure of family life is different, and the society is much more diverse.
TERENCE SMITH: How much is that the explanation for their diminished audience — this change in lifestyles and personal schedules?
ED FOUHY: I think that there's a combination–the lifestyle change and a huge proliferation of other sources and, most of all, the fact that the United States of America is at peace and is very prosperous. There's no trigger-happy Russian who might hurl a missile down your chimney tomorrow. Let's remember that all through those years of the Cold War one reason we turned it on was to see whether or not something really awful had happened in the world during the day while we were working.
TERENCE SMITH: How much have these broadcasts been influenced by the 24-hour news cycle and the ubiquity of news on cable news networks and things like that?
ED FOUHY: Not enough. I think if they really thought about it, they'd reinvent the whole form or someone would. I think that they are, in many ways, behaving as if they still had the nation by the ears and the eyes, the way they did when that form was invented 38 years ago.
TERENCE SMITH: Is that the explanation for why they do what you've described earlier — a quick, fast, hard look at the news and then features, lifestyle pieces, celebrity pieces for the bulk of the broadcast?
ED FOUHY: I don't think so. One of the things that all of the studies show is that what people really care about is local news, and the networks, by their very definition, are not in the local news business. So they have to go, to some degree, when there's very little news, which there generally is, frankly–let's be serious about it — on most days that affect everybody in the United States, particularly if you define news only as conflict. And that's, generally speaking, the frame that they use, is a conflict frame.
If you broaden that frame, if you'd redefine it, if you'd get out of the towers in Manhattan, where most of them are produced or the white buildings here in Washington where they define a lot of the news, particularly the conflict that is happening, you'd see that there is a lot of news out there in the country that people really care about that affects their lives — health care, education, things like that. But I don't think that they've ever reinvented their model of what the news is. It is not totally conflict.
TERENCE SMITH: Has there been, from the fact that the networks have been bought out by huge conglomerates, big companies that look to the bottom line?
ED FOUHY: Very important point. The three networks are now owned by very large conglomerates that have many, many economic interests. General Electric, certainly one of the largest companies in the world, owns NBC. Disney owns ABC. Viacom owns CBS.
I get the feeling that journalism is not very high on the agenda of the people in the corporate boardrooms. Is it their fault? I'm not sure that it is. In many ways, I think it's the fault of the journalists who work for those people. They haven't been very successful in educating them about what journalistic values are. So they're treated as just another profit center.
I think journalism is much more important than that. It's sort of like having a Fire Department. A Fire Department is intrinsically not very cost effective, but if your house is on fire, you want the fireman to be there. So you're going to pay them when they're not fighting fires. I think there's a bit of that in the news business, but trying to make that case to a corporate executive is hard to do, but it's something journalists have to do.
TERENCE SMITH: Are these evening news broadcasts profit centers? Do they make money?
ED FOUHY: Oh, yeah. Sure, they do. They make good money. But one of the problems of being only a small part of a giant conglomerate is that the parts of the conglomerate that are making money are subsidizing the parts of the conglomerate that are not doing so well, so that the stockholders, in the long run, are the winners, but I think we, the citizens of the democracy that is not getting very good information, are maybe the losers.
TERENCE SMITH: Has there also been an effect from what you could call the O.J. factor? Scandal coverage is another huge growth area.
ED FOUHY: I don't know what to say about that. You can't ignore the O.J. Simpsons of the world. You can't ignore the Monica [Lewinsky]s of the world. Those are major stories.
I think the problem becomes when it's all O.J. all the time or it's all Monica all the time or it's all Elian [Gonzalez] all the time. That's when you put your limited resources — and they have much more limited resources now than they used to — on one big story that you know the public cares a lot about, and there's an economy that drives this. And so you've got all of these people down in Florida, so you're going to do another Elian story tonight just because they're there. It doesn't always track with the news of the day.
TERENCE SMITH: What do they still do well, in your opinion? What is the evening news and, by extension, the network news divisions, best at?
ED FOUHY: They're good at covering fast-breaking, intrinsically pictorial stories. They're good at covering the Middle East because they've been at it so long, and that story really hasn't changed very much, and they all have bureaus over there. They're good at spotting people who are coming on into the news, usually in a conflict mode, as the [president's] Cabinet choices are, for example.
What they're not so good at is doing original reporting, investigative reporting and reporting on news that really I would put in the category of trends that are going to affect everybody in the country. For example, the crisis in, at the moment, in California, that really is a crisis. Is that going to affect the rest of the country? Well, it could. A very tough story to tell. All you've got is a picture of a high tension wire, and that's not very compelling television, but it's very important to the people who live out there, and eventually to the rest of us.
TERENCE SMITH: What's happened to foreign news coverage? It's way down.
ED FOUHY: Way down. Two things I think drive that. The first, and very, very important, is economics. When I was an executive at CBS News, every decision to cover a foreign news story was basically a $25,000 decision because you were sending people and equipment by air to a distant place, and then you're buying satellite time and so on.
TERENCE SMITH: Is there still room for three network news broadcasts in the evening?
ED FOUHY: The affiliates will always drive the answer to that, and the affiliates' answer is, yes, there is. Whether there's an audience for it or not, I don't know, but the affiliates make most of their money and make their reputations covering news. We forget that the networks have a rather small part of the day. The affiliates have a very large part of the day that they devote to covering local news. And as part of the image that they want to project in the community, they want to have Peter Jennings saying, "Be sure to watch Terry Smith tonight at 6 o'clock for your local news followed by the network news." That's important. That's prestigious. That's part of the overall news image that they want to project in their community.
TERENCE SMITH: There has been speculation that one of them may go. There has been speculation that, in the next five years, they may move these broadcasts from, say, 7:00 in the evening to 10:00 in the evening and essentially morph them into news magazine broadcasts with a little hard news at the top. Do you find it hard to imagine that sort of change?
ED FOUHY: No, I don't find it hard to imagine it at all. I don't think that either one of the scenarios that you outlined is good economics, and it's economics that's at the heart of this.
TERENCE SMITH: Then what's the right formula for these broadcasts as they look at the next five years?
ED FOUHY: I think to take a very hard look at the way that they define the news. Is it all conflict-driven? I don't think so. I don't think that people see the world that way. I think I'd like to see a questioning of whether or not having a middle-aged man sitting in a studio in New York and introducing correspondent pieces is the only approach to the news. There must be other ways to do that. There must be other people who ought to be doing that or joining those men who've been there for so many years doing it.
I'd like to see them define some of the topics that they cover a little bit differently, maybe some more expository journalism, trying to help us understand how an increasingly interconnected and very complicated world works. I think that would attract an audience. Those are some of the elements that I would look for in a reinvented network news that I think would attract and hold an audience.
ED FOUHY: They've got to find a better way to integrate what they're doing on the air with what they're doing on the Internet. There's a lot of flailing about right now. Actually, some of the best is done by the PBS Web site, where they directly relate, and I think ABC has come along and they've imitated that, and I think they're doing a pretty good job too. But there's a lot to go.
Because when you look at the studies, people under 30 are going to the Internet for their news. If you don't engage that generation, you're going to lose them because the people over 50, unfortunately, our mortality is pretty high.

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BACKGROUND People with obsessive-compulsive disorders (OCD) are widely treated with a combination of medication and behavioural techniques. The success rate is 50-85%, but both relapse and drop-out rates appear high. The use of cognitive therapy (CT) for the treatment of OCD has been suggested. The empirical evidence supporting the use of CT for OCD is examined.
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Whenever a butterfly flutters by, April Fenton says a silent hello to her late daughter, Brandi.
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TROY – Jonas Gustavsson might have had a better opportunity to play more with another team, but the man dubbed "Monster" wasn't deterred by the Detroit Red Wings' stability in net with workhorse Jimmy Howard.
That is why Gustavsson needed only minutes to decide on signing a two-year deal with Detroit worth $1.5 million per season when free agency began on July 1.
Gustavsson won't have as heavy a workload as he did in Toronto, where he appeared in 42 games as a rookie in 2009-10 and 42 last season. But, at age 27, he is not content to morph into a career backup.
"Obviously, Howard is a real good goalie," Gustavsson said. "I want to push myself and try to push him and help the team as much as I can. If I'm playing a lot of games or if I don't play many games, we'll see. It's all about keep developing and help the team, and then we'll see what's going to happen."
Gustavsson watched several of his new teammates skate at their informal practice Thursday at the Troy Sports Center. He hopes to be on the ice with them for the first time Friday at Joe Louis Arena, if his equipment arrives in time.
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"I just want to keep developing. You can do that in practice, too," Gustavsson said. "Of course, as a goalie, you want to compete and try to get into games. At the same time, you understand you have a role, and for me it's all about trying to perform as good as I can and help the team, and we'll see what happens."
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By Chris Zeller
From: Boulder, CO
May 3, 2007
I climbed this route on 5/2/07.
We did it in three pitches, as in the Roach book.
We started at the lowest point on the rock and climbed right on slabby rock ~5.2 about 1/2 pitch up to the base of the north side. From here, you can belay from trees back on the dirt and climb the vertical north face. This pitch is fun and steep with great holds and has good pro for a Flatiron route. There is a bit of lichen to contend with and 5.5ish. Climb over the hump and up to a small tree. From here, it's one pitch of fourth class scrambling to the summit.
To get off, backtrack a few yards from the summit and squeeze under a boulder tunnel. A tree in a slot makes a great rap anchor. Rap 50-70 feet to the ground.
By George Bell
From: Boulder, CO
Oct 1, 2008
|The description says "Start at the N.W. Corner of the rock". Shouldn't this be "Start at the N.E. Corner of the rock"? This would jive with my memory and the photo (also the route name!).


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As Math Scores Lag, a New Push for the Basics
By TAMAR LEWIN
Published: November 14, 2006
For the second time in a generation, education officials are rethinking the teaching of math in American schools.
The changes are being driven by students' lagging performance on international tests and mathematicians' warnings that more than a decade of so-called reform math -- critics call it fuzzy math -- has crippled students with its de-emphasizing of basic drills and memorization in favor of allowing children to find their own ways to solve problems.
At the same time, parental unease has prompted ever more families to pay for tutoring, even for young children. Shalimar Backman, who put pressure on officials here by starting a parents group called Where's the Math?, remembers the moment she became concerned.
''When my oldest child, an A-plus stellar student, was in sixth grade, I realized he had no idea, no idea at all, how to do long division,'' Ms. Backman said, ''so I went to school and talked to the teacher, who said, 'We don't teach long division; it stifles their creativity.' ''
Across the nation, the reconsideration of what should be taught and how has been accelerated by a report in September by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, the nation's leading group of math teachers.
It was a report from this same group in 1989 that influenced a generation of teachers to let children explore their own solutions to problems, write and draw pictures about math, and use tools like the calculator at the same time they learn algorithms.
But this fall, the group changed course, recommending a tighter focus on basic math skills and an end to ''mile wide, inch deep'' state standards that force schools to teach dozens of math topics in each grade. In fourth grade, for example, the report recommends that the curriculum should center on the ''quick recall'' of multiplication and division, the area of two-dimensional shapes and an understanding of decimals.
The Bush administration, too, has created a panel to study research on teaching math. It is expected to issue recommendations early next year.
Here in Washington, Gov. Chris Gregoire has asked the State Board of Education to develop new math standards by the end of next year to bring teaching in line with international competition, and a year later to choose no more than three curriculums to replace the dozens of teaching methods now in use. Ms. Gregoire, a Democrat, also wants new math requirements for high school graduation.
In Utah and Florida, too, state education officials are re-examining their math standards and curriculum.
Grass-roots groups in many cities are agitating for a return to basics. Many point to California's standards as a good model: the state adopted reform math in the early 1990s but largely rejected it near the end of the decade, a turnaround that led to rising math achievement.
''The Seattle level of concern about math may be unusual, but there's now an enormous amount of discomfort about fuzzy math on the East Coast, in Maine, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and now New Jersey is starting to make noise,'' said R. James Milgram, a math professor at Stanford University. ''There's increasing understanding that the math situation in the United States is a complete disaster.''
Schools in New York City use a reform math curriculum, Everyday Mathematics, but some parents there, too, would like to see that changed, a step they are advocating through NYC HOLD, a group of parents and teachers that has a Web site with links to information on math battles nationwide.
A spokesman for the New York City Department of Education said that Everyday Mathematics covered both reform and traditional approaches, emphasizing knowledge of basic algorithms along with conceptual understanding. He added that research gathered recently by the federal Department of Education had found the program to be one of the few in the country for which there was evidence of positive effects on student math achievement.
The frenzy has been prompted in part by the growing awareness that, at a time of increasing globalization, the math skills of children in the United States simply do not measure up: American eighth-graders lag far behind those from Singapore, South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and elsewhere on the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, an international test.
Parental discontent here in Washington State intensified after the announcement in September that only 51 percent of 10th graders passed the math part of state assessment tests, far fewer than showed proficiency in reading or writing.
''Math is on absolutely everybody's radar in the state right now,'' said Ms. Backman, whose Where's the Math? group drew hundreds of parents and math teachers last month to a forum on K-12 math.
Many parents and teachers remain committed to the goals of reform math, having children understand what they are doing rather than simply memorizing and parroting answers. Traditional math instruction did not work for most students, say reform math proponents like Virginia Warfield, a professor at the University of Washington.


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Federal Housing Enterprises:
Operations of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight
T-GGD-98-25: Published: Oct 30, 1997. Publicly Released: Oct 30, 1997.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO discussed the operations of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO) and the status of OFHEO's efforts to fulfill its mission of helping to ensure the safety and soundness of the two largest government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
GAO noted that: (1) OFHEO has not fully implemented its statutory safety and soundness responsibilities for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and faces considerable future challenges in doing so; (2) OFHEO does not expect to complete a stress test and risk-based capital standards for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac until 1999, though it was to be completed by December 1, 1994; (3) OFHEO has not fully implemented a comprehensive and timely enterprise examination program, resulting in its limited ability to lower the long-term financial risks to taxpayers associated with the enterprises' activities; (4) GAO has identified a number of reasons for OFHEO's inability to comply with the statutory deadline for completing the stress test and risk based capital standards; (5) GAO believes that strong congressional oversight of the development process is necessary to ensure that OFHEO completes the process as quickly as feasible; (6) OFHEO has not been able to fully implement an enterprise examination schedule that it established in 1994, has taken 3 to 4 years to examine the major risks facing the enterprises, and reduced the planned coverage of the most recently completed risk examination; (7) among other factors, limited resources allocated to the examination office and staff attrition contributed to OFHEO's inability to fully implement the 1994 plan; (8) OFHEO officials said that they planned to reassess the examination cycle and implement an annual examination cycle by early 1998 to cover all enterprise risks; (9) without a reassessment of resource requirements and potentially a reallocation of resources to the examinations office, OFHEO may not be able to fully implement an annual examination cycle; and (10) although Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been consistently profitable in recent years, GAO believes it is essential, given the enterprises' outstanding financial commitments of approximately $1.5 trillion at year-end 1996, that OFHEO implement its safety and soundness responsibilities as quickly as feasible.
Sep 13, 2017
Rural Housing Service:Additional Actions Would Help Ensure Reasonableness of Rental Assistance EstimatesGAO-17-725: Published: Sep 13, 2017. Publicly Released: Sep 13, 2017.
Aug 1, 2017
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:Actions Needed to Strengthen Oversight and AccountabilityGAO-17-784T: Published: Aug 1, 2017. Publicly Released: Aug 1, 2017.
Mar 1, 2017
Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:The Role of SyndicatorsGAO-17-285R: Published: Feb 16, 2017. Publicly Released: Mar 1, 2017.
Jan 9, 2017
Troubled Asset Relief Program:Status of Housing ProgramsGAO-17-236: Published: Jan 9, 2017. Publicly Released: Jan 9, 2017.
Nov 17, 2016
Federal Housing Finance Agency:Objectives Needed for the Future of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac After ConservatorshipsGAO-17-92: Published: Nov 17, 2016. Publicly Released: Nov 17, 2016.
Oct 31, 2016
Home Mortgage Guarantees:Issues to Consider in Evaluating Opportunities to Consolidate Two Overlapping Single-Family ProgramsGAO-16-801: Published: Sep 29, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 31, 2016.
Oct 3, 2016
Elderly Housing:HUD Should Do More to Oversee Efforts to Link Residents to ServicesGAO-16-758: Published: Sep 1, 2016. Publicly Released: Oct 3, 2016.
Jul 13, 2016
Credit Programs:Key Agencies Should Better Document Procedures for Estimating Subsidy CostsGAO-16-269: Published: Jul 13, 2016. Publicly Released: Jul 13, 2016.
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Low-Income Housing Tax Credit:Some Agency Practices Raise Concerns and IRS Could Improve Noncompliance Reporting and Data CollectionGAO-16-360: Published: May 11, 2016. Publicly Released: Jun 8, 2016.
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Subject: self punishment - how we do it
Self Punishment - How We Do It
In this third article on self-punishment, we're going to be
looking at the specific ways we punish ourselves.
HOW we do it.
These are the things we actually DO to punish ourselves.
1. We deny ourselves the fun and success and happiness that life
has to offer.
Because we've been programmed so intensely to believe we're
supposed to suffer, and because we're not supposed to enjoy our
lives, this method of self-punishment is very common.
I mean, come on, how many people do you know who are both
successful AND happy? We've all learned you can have one,
or the other, (maybe!) but certainly not both.
And what does it mean to have fun? Usually, we default to the
adolescent's version of fun, which often involves inebriation
to excess.
"Let's see how much we can drink! Let's see who pukes first!
What fun!"
I would say fun could best be defined as - "feeling the wonder
of being alive".
And how many people will let themselves feel that? For most
of us, life has become a drudgery of getting through the day.
So we can somehow get through the next day.
And speaking of success... sometimes we'll ALMOST let ourselves
succeed, and then at the last second, everything falls apart.
We almost get there - then we end up being denied. This is a
classic symptom of shame, and it's also a way we use to punish
When we want something so strongly...
When we work so hard to get it...
When we do everything we can possibly think of...
and we still fall short - it's often due to shame and
And what ends up happening? We 'learn our lesson' - and stop
trying, stop wanting, stop desiring, and end up cynical and
We might not give up wishing, but usually that's as far as it
goes. We'll fantasize, but we 'know' it's not really going to
Then we end up becoming "the person who never has any fun, the
person who's never happy, the person who can never succeed".
We tell ourselves these types of stories, and use those stories
as a container to hold the bitterness, the pain, the suffering,
that comes from this type of self-punishment.
"I probably didn't deserve it anyway."
Those types of statements become the receptacles of our pain.
Because our pain always needs a receptacle. It's always held
in some sort of container.
2. We embrace self-ridicule, self-rejection and humiliation.
I'll put myself down before you have a chance to do it to me.
"Look how stupid I am!"
Or, I'll humiliate myself. Or else I'll just outright reject
myself. Reject my thoughts and feelings, my desires, my
imagination... Reject my dreams. Reject my worth. Reject
any number of things about myself.
Because maybe then, if I reject myself, it won't hurt as bad
when you reject me. Or so I believe.
This all goes back to punishing myself as a way to avoid the
punishment (or rather - to avoid the THREAT of punishment) from
others. I get so afraid someone else MIGHT punish me, that I
do it to myself first.
3. Another similar form of self-punishment involves the DIRECT
avoidance of the punishment of others.
For example, we may get caught in the maze of projection and
identification - where every person becomes mother or father,
and I become the child.
Or we get caught in the downward spiral of always seeking the
approval of others.
Or maybe we get stuck in the trap of outside validation, where
we need the trappings of success - money, cars, a nice home - as
a substitute for our esteem. Or we need the perfect body or the
perfect mate or the perfect kids or the perfect friends.
And finally, we can get caught in the web of addiction to excess -
whether it's work or drugs or drinking or any number of obsessions
that end up punishing ourselves as a way to avoid the potential
punishment of others.
4. We inflict outright pain on ourselves.
This is very common. Many people end up hurting themselves in
some way, either through emotional, physical, or mental pain.
Often times, we'll create unpleasant or unbearable situations in
our lives, so it seems like it's not our fault. Then we can always
point a finger at the other person or the outside event as the
'cause' of our own pain.
Some common examples include working a job your hate, being with
someone who creates problems in your life, and living in a place
that doesn't suit you.
We can create bad situations and then say we DIDN'T create them -
and therefore, we can't possibly change them!
That's why it's so vitally important to remember...
Sometimes, (but NOT always!) the best option is to move, or quit
that job, or leave that abusive person.
That way, you can have the time to clear your head, get some
space, and start honestly looking at your present patterns.
So you can change INSIDE.
One of the best ways to begin that inner change is to learn the
'ins and outs' of reality creation. Then you can see clearly
WHAT you're doing to keep that present pattern in place.
For more information, go to -
5. We deny our self love and the love from others.
This is similar to the first two methods of self-punishment.
We just will not let in the love. But because love is everywhere,
it's like being in a submarine under the water. We know the water
is out there, but we can't touch it. Besides, if we sprung a leak,
it could kill us. We'd drown at the bottom of the sea. To stay
'safe', we must stay in our submarine.
Usually, the denial of love starts early in life. As a child,
we develop many beliefs about and around love. Love means I
suffer for others. Love means I sacrifice. Love means I don't
get what I want, so someone else can get what THEY want. And
sometimes, sadly, love means I get abused.
We often attach ugly meanings to love.
"Well why should I put up with all that? I think I'll just
stay away from love."
I end up denying love because I've come to believe love equals
something unpleasant. Then it becomes like - "damned if I do,
and damned if I don't". I can either punish myself by denying
love (because I equate it with pain) or else I can punish myself
by embracing a painful twisted version of love.
6. We deny our Creator and spirituality.
If this is our preferred method of self-punishment then we may
talk the talk, but we don't walk the walk. It's easy to say
you're a spiritual person, or a religious person, but still
lack the personal relationship with any type of divine energy.
It's easy to turn your place of worship into a networking
opportunity, or some sort of duty and obligation - going
through the motions but not really touching the WONDER of
your Creator.
Also, it can be downright hard to let in the help from above,
for so many reasons. We can say the words, but not really feel
the energy. We can end up denying a living, breathing
spirituality - which is always a two-way street. Meaning -
We give, and we also receive. And our Creator gives to us and
receives from us.
From my experience, true spirituality is something you can almost
taste in your mouth - because it's so plump and juicy and rich
with energy. To deny yourself this energy has to be self-punishing.
Because spirituality is such a personal experience, there's not
much more I'd want to say about it, except this: it's never too
late to start developing a relationship; it's never too late to
ask for help.
And as for the other self-punishing actions, I'd suggest learning
how you're already creating your own reality. That way you can
make adjustments as needed. Just go to -
Next time, we'll look at how to a few more details on how
to end the self-punishment.
Anyway, as always, if you're interested in a little help, I'll be
glad to work with you personally. Not with the spirituality,
but with all the other reasons why you might punish yourself.
Just go to -
all the best,
Mark Ivar Myhre
The Emotional Healing Wizard
PS - Imagine what it's like to talk to someone who's already
been through what you're suffering from, and has found the
way out. Just go to -


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Baby Dedication Book Cake
Cake is frosted with IMBC icing. Tuxedo and dress are made from fondant. Side of the cakes are airbrushed with old gold luster dust while some of the fondant decorations are airbrushed with super pearl dust. The cake was ordered for 2 babies dedication (boy & girl) + to celebrate boy's mom bday. This is my first time using IMBC as frosting & create conelly lace... although IMBC tasted good, I had some hard time to make it smooth (especially on the top). Not really happy with the connelly lace either.


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NEW YORK, NY--(Marketwire - Nov 30, 2012) - Tremor Video, Advertising Age and Creativity have announced that Ford Mustang, Miller Lite, Air Wick and their respective ad/media agencies have won the 2012 Super Creative Video Ad Challenge.
"These brands and their agency partners deserve a huge congratulations for their innovation," said Creativity Editor Ann-Christine Diaz. "All of them are helping to raise the bar of digital creativity by bringing fresh thinking to a category that's not typically known for exciting ideas. We look forward to celebrating their work on December 4 at a special event with members of the ad community." (Details below.)
The goal of the contest, launched in July, has been to inspire brands and agencies to think beyond standard pre-roll advertising on digital screens.
"Digital advertising is the perfect interactive medium -- it gives people the opportunity to engage tactilely, play, learn and explore," said David Sanderson, Tremor Video's senior director of creative strategy. "With this contest, we wanted brands and agencies to go way beyond the repurposing of TV ads on digital screens. It's time to take full advantage of the interactive possibilities of digital video, and it's great to see big brands making the leap."
How the Contest Worked
The contest was open to any brand or agency that wanted to challenge itself to think beyond the 30-second spot and experience the capabilities of interactive pre-rolls such as the Tremor Video Super Pre-Roll. Of the 113 submissions, 47 met the key criteria of having enough digital assets to create a Super Pre-Roll, which incorporates interactive elements into a brand's existing TV spot.
The Winners
- Ford Mustang and agency Team Detroit won the Judge's Choice award for an interactive ad unit to support the Mustang Customizer contest. The 13-person panel of judges, representing Ad Age/Creativity and Tremor Video, considered several criteria: creativity, strategy, level of interactivity, and final execution of the unit. The award package consists of 5 iPad 3s, a $1,000 donation to the charity of the team's choice, and a trophy.
- Miller Light and agency Olson won the People's Choice award, garnering the highest number of votes and highest average score among the 2,739 people who cast votes on 47 submissions posted on the Super Ad Challenge website. The interactive ad unit supported Miller Lite's fan-based art contest tied to Mexico's Chivas soccer team. The award package consists of a $1,000 bar/restaurant tab or a $1,000 shopping spree for office supplies and decorations; a $1,000 donation to the charity of the team's choice; and a trophy.
- Air Wick and agencies Telemetry and Havas won the Special Mention award for having the second-highest average score among the people's votes. The interactive ad unit supported Air Wick's campaign promoting scents inspired by the National Parks. The team will be recognized with a trophy.
December 4 Event Open to Ad Community
Winners will be recognized at a special event on December 4 at Arena on West 41st Street in New York City. Members of the advertising community are invited and can RSVP by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com.
About Advertising Age and Creativity
Advertising Age is the leading global source of news, intelligence and conversation for marketing and media communities. The 83-year-old media group produces more than 15 original rankings each year, including the coveted 100 Leading National Advertisers, 100 Leading Media Companies, Digital A-List, and annual Agency Report.
Creativity-Online.com, originally Creativity Magazine, launched in 1986 and is one of the most recognized resources for the advertising and creative community, showcasing the best creative work, talent, techniques and trends that shape consumer culture and cultivate new ideas.
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ccw reccomendation
hey im working towards my ccw and while im only 20 years im getting the tests done now so they day i turn 21 ill be able to apply for it immediately, but my question to you all is what is your reccomendation for which pistol to carry? the only pistol that i have right now is my colt .45 which while is quite nice is well..... a little bit hard to conceal and ill admit my slight hesitation with having to carry a single action pistol around with a cocked hammer for as i was instructed in my class when carrying, you carry ready to go. So let me know what you all think, compacts, revolvers, calibers, full sized, semi autos, glocks, smith and wesson, ruger, colt?
I carry a Ruger P95...but I also open carry...here in Va its legal.
Sig 239 (single stack)
sig 229 (double stack)
Choose your caliber. Both are great for ccw. Sig is known world wide for their quality.
They can be pricey. Don't be afraid to buy these guns used.
I carry a Smith & Wesson M&P40c. Plenty of stopping power and conceals pretty well.
There are lots of options based on your budget and firearm preferences.
hell strap a short barrel, pump action 12 gauge to your back and carry on.... wait you may get looks.....:confused:
What kind of Colt .45? A 1911?
I carry a Kimber Pra Carry 2 cocked and locked. Draw and slip the safety doen with one hand very quickly.
Too many to suggest. You need to be specific on what you want and what price range.
You say you have a Colt .45. I'm going to assume it's a 1911 and tell you that a full size Colt Series 80 was my first carry gun. These are very concealble and hide better than just about any other full size auto. They are single stack and have one of the thinest profiles of any gun on the market. A 5" 1911 can be a bit on the long side but this is easily handled with a good leather ITP "In the Pants" holster. Pick up a dual mag pouch for your weak side and your good to go. My Colt is now a SAFE QUEEN but only because I was able to afford a 4" Kimber which does carry a bit easier than that 5" Colt.
I own a Sig 226 and an XD .45, love to shoot both of them but for good CCW in a FULL Size, FULL Power gun, you can't beat a 1911...:)
i took the test and now i have just have to do 3-5 hours range time to be approved to get my certificate then i can go apple for the ccw because we are required to take an 8-10 hr class for it. and yea sorry forgot to say its and orginial 1911 clone, single stack 8 rounds of .45 stopping power
If you want to stick with a 1911 format, you can find smaller guns from a lot of companies.
If you want something different, the market is wide open.
I understand your concern about carrying cocked and locked. I was afraid of it for a while. I used to carry a bunch of different guns. All were double action. At the advice of another shooter I carried my 1911 unloaded around my house for several hours for several days. My fear was that I would find the safety accidentally deactivated. That never happened. The 1911 is a very safe gun. They are designed so that the grip safety must be depressed, the thumb safety in the off position and pressure on the trigger to go off. Even after a hundred years of inovations in firearms, it is difficult to find a pistol with a higher level of safety. I don't count stupid stuff like safeties that stop the gun from shooting when the mag is released.
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THE agent who completed the controversial transfer of Gavin McCann to Bolton Wanderers has denied hijacking a rival agent's deal.
Jeffrey Weston had previously represented Mr McCann from 1998 to 2003 but signed transfer papers as Bolton's representative for the £1 million signing in 2007.
Mr Weston is a former employee of The Sport and Entertainment Media Group (SEM), the firm being sued alongside Wanderers and chairman Phil Gartside for allegedly cutting agent Tony McGill out of the deal.
Martin Budworth, Mr McGill's counsel, quizzed Mr Weston over how transfer papers were backdated and whether he had been guilty of "switching" — representing the club while actually being the player's agent.
Mr Weston told the High Court, sitting at Manchester Civil Justice Centre, that he was Mr McCann's agent when he moved to Sunderland in 1998 — but when the player moved to Aston Villa in 2003, Mr Weston was the club's representative on paperwork.
Mr Budworth said: "It is a clear example of a switch is it not?" Mr Weston denied this.
The court also heard how Mr Weston filled the dates and his own signature onto one version of a backsheet of McCann's paperwork for the Bolton deal — which Mr Gartside had already signed.
Mr Weston admitted it was his handwriting but denied backdating the paper.
Mr Budworth asked: "Did you make a mistake and write eight and then went back to correct it?"
Mr Weston said he could not remember. He said he also could not recall when in 2003 he stopped being Mr McCann's agent.
The case continues.


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Skitzo come and take me away, All the children cried that day.
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I dont think for once hes freaked out his eyes are white he has frowned a bit in the vids, but if they were red i would be surprised
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hm,for once skitzos freaked out.and waz skitzo rally a cartoon from the 1920s?
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This must be Skizto brother and they should appear together just killing.....and killing......and killing
Actually Joe is a Weasel haha and he was a character who died after only 2 paintings. And then years later when I started the creation of Skitzo and his story and looks...I was looking at Joe and liked his design but not really his character (he was a stressed pushover in the rat race of society) but he did end up being an influence during the creation of Skitzo. So they arent really brothers haha since Joe is dead now. But HEY I suppose he could be considered a step in Skitzos first development stages and creation/evolution.


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Cinemawares Wings and other great classics now available for BlackBerry PlayBook and BlackBerry 10 smartphones
Special BlackBerry Z10 launch price break from $ 2.99 to $.99 for a limited time
Cinemaware® and Amiga are bringing their famous titles to BlackBerry
MIAMI, Florida/SEATTLE, Washington, USA. --- March 14, 2013 --- Amiga, Inc. and Cinemaware (the company which originally introduced cinematic storytelling into games) are working together to bring the entire Cinemaware catalog of Amiga games to the latest BlackBerry® devices.
"In partnership with Amiga, we are excited to announce the availability of our titles for BlackBerry devices and to be part of the launch of the new BlackBerry 10 platform," said Oberst Leermeister, a corporate spokesperson for Cinemaware. "These fun and very addictive games can now be played anywhere, by anyone with a new BlackBerry 10 smartphone."
Amiga is proud to announce the immediate availability of Wings. More than just a simulator, Wings features genuine arcade action and an emotion packed role playing experience. This will be followed by many more classic Cinemaware titles including Defender of the Crown®, Rocket Ranger, Lords of the Rising Sun and It Came from the Desert. The first Amiga computer shipped in 1985 and was an immediate hit with game developers and publishers. Many of today's best known game publishers got their start on the Amiga. The high-quality production of games from the likes of Team 17, Ocean, EA, Factor 5, Lucas Arts, Bitmap Brothers and Cinemaware, to name just a few, coupled with the state-of-the-art hardware made an unbeatable combination. Today Amiga, Inc. is working with these publishers to make many of these amazing games available to play once again.
Calling all classic Amiga game developers and publishers... If you hold the publishing rights to a commercial Amiga game or application, or know somebody that does, then we are seeking to get in touch with you. Amiga are bringing classic games written for the original Amiga hardware to life on Blackberry devices using our new Amiga Anywhere platform. Please contact us at email@example.com
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The Brad Paisley tour is coming to Gexa Energy Pavilion on Friday, September 5th!
Leigh Ann will have WIN THEM BEFORE YOU CAN BUY THEM tickets to this show all next week.
Paisley will be joined on tour by Randy Houser, Charlie Worsham & Leah Turner.
The Country Nation World Tour is Presented by KRAFT Cheese.
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Wilder, F.O.The F.O. Wilder Company was established sometime around 1850-1855. His factory and warerooms were located on Mason Street in Polo, Illinois. Wilder started out in the music publishing business, then soon started building his own square pianos, melodeons, and harmoniums. The firm was a small-scale manufacturer, and they never produced instruments in great volume. Instruments by F.O. Wilder are exceedingly rare and of museum caliber today. There is no mention of the firm after about 1870.
F. O. Wilder Advertisement Mid-19th Century Advertisement For The F.O. Wilder Piano Manufacturing Company, Circa 1860


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Research:Triplets 1937/7/01 No.3
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|Culver City CA, USA, 34n01, 118w23
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American triplets born two months premature. The first triplet, 5:18 AM PST was fraternal; the following two were identical.
First triplet: Born with Cerebral Palsy, lived to age 52.
Second triplet: 6:29 AM PST, survived, healthy, lived a normal life.
Third Triplet: 6:40 AM PST, died during birth. Her chest was crushed during delivery and she died within a half hour. If the birth had been C-Section she would have survived.
- sibling relationship with Triplets 1937/7/01 No.1 (born 1 July 1937)
- sibling relationship with Triplets 1937/7/01 No.2 (born 1 July 1937)
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Zip Dobyns in Mutable Dilemma Pisces/1991
- Personal : Birth : Twin, triplet, etc. (Triplets)
- Personal : Birth : Premature (Two months premie)
- Personal : Birth : Infant mortality (Lived a half hour, chest crushed)


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SANAA, Yemen — Yemeni soldiers killed six al-Qaida-linked fighters in a southern city on Saturday, a security official said, raising doubts about the government's claim to have retaken control of the area after months of fighting.
The city of Zinjibar, which is the capital of Abyan province, was seized in May by Islamic militants taking advantage of the turmoil surrounding the popular uprising against President Ali Abdullah Saleh to expand their reach beyond Yemen's remote hinterlands. Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula has used Yemen as a staging ground for attempts to strike U.S. targets.
Islamic militants are still holding ground in the east of the city, said the security official, who the Associated Press reported spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to brief reporters. Six soldiers were wounded in the fighting, he said.
The months of violence there forced more than 100,000 residents of Zinjibar to flee to neighboring provinces, with some seeking refuge in schools.
It is one of several places in the south seized by the militants during the spiraling unrest, which began in February with protests calling for Saleh's ouster after 33 years ruling the Arab world's poorest country.
Saleh's critics accuse him of allowing the militants to take over the cities to support his argument that without him in power al-Qaida would take control of the country.
The United States views al-Qaida's branch in Yemen as the terror network's most dangerous and has carried out airstrikes against al-Qaida targets there.
Violence continued to shake Yemen's second-largest city, Taiz, on Saturday as anti-government tribesmen clashed with members of Saleh's Republican Guards. No injuries were reported.


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In 2010, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan sat beside the armed forces chief at an annual meeting to decide on appointments in the military command. On Monday, he sat alone at the head of the table, a symbol of civilian authority over the generals whose top commanders resigned last week in a dispute with the government.
The symbolism of the seating scheme delivered the message that Turkey's military, which once staged coups and presided over the writing of the constitution in the early 1980s, had lost another battle in a power struggle with a government with strong electoral support.
The body language said the same thing, too. Journalists were briefly allowed into the meeting room at military headquarters in the capital, Ankara, and Erdogan sat with his fists on the table while the generals flanking him kept their hands below and out of sight.
The emphatic imagery helped settle the public mood in Turkey, where an earlier era of instability dwells in the national psyche, despite political reforms and major economic and diplomatic advances under Erdogan since 2003. Turks recall a 2001 meeting in which the president lobbed a copy of the constitution at Erdogan's predecessor during a quarrel, spooking the markets amid a financial crisis.
On Friday, the nation's top four military commanders, including the chief of staff, resigned in protest against the arrest and prosecution in the past few years of hundreds of retired and active-duty military officers in alleged coup plots. Some observers feared Turkey was on the brink of a new crisis, but in removing themselves from the scene, the commanders effectively yielded to the government.
It was notable that the top brass announced their exit after the markets closed on Friday, suggesting they were wanted to avoid inflicting financial chaos on the country in case the currency plunged. The Turkish lira dropped, but it was trading flat on Monday.
Erdogan's roots in political Islam have alarmed hardline secularists in the military and other institutions, and some Turks fear he is backtracking on reform pledges despite the electoral triumphs of his ruling party and vows to draft a new, more democratic constitution.
The opposition Republican People's Party, which is associated with Turkey's old, secular guard, has said the military should stay in the barracks but accused the government of seeking to "defame and discredit" the armed forces, and manipulating the judiciary for political ends.
The prime minister, who has presided over an extraordinary surge in Turkey's international profile, has handled the military upheaval with the same forceful style. The military council meeting that he chaired on Monday will appoint new commanders, and Gen. Necdet Ozel, until recently the military police commander, was poised to fill the vacuum by becoming the new chief of staff.
Ozel, appointed as army commander on Friday, is also the acting chief of staff. The seats of chief of staff of the navy, air force and military police are also vacant. The appointments process, which could include dismissals or trigger more protest resignations, was expected to take several days.
One of the commanders at the meeting is ensnared in the coup plot investigations. Turkish prosecutors on Friday issued an arrest warrant for Gen. Nusret Tasdeler, army head in the Aegean Sea region, along with 21 other suspects, including six more generals, in an alleged Internet campaign to destabilize the government.
Tasdeler's appearance at the meeting with Erdogan suggested he was in a defiant mood or felt that he had done nothing wrong, though other implicated generals have eventually turned themselves in to prosecutors without resistance.
The Turkish military is involved in NATO operations in Afghanistan and Libya, though it is not directly involved in combat. It is also fighting Kurdish rebels concentrated in southeastern Turkey, where militants on Monday killed three soldiers and wounded four others in an attack on a military vehicle in Van province.
Rebels affiliated with the Kurdistan Worker's Party, or PKK, have killed more than 20 Turkish soldiers in intensified attacks over the past two weeks in their campaign for autonomy in southeastern Turkey.
Meanwhile, Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Sunday that he expected an "orderly transition" following the military resignations in Turkey.
Speaking to reporters traveling in Afghanistan with him, Mullen said the U.S. and Turkish armed forces have enjoyed a strong and critical relationship, noting: "I've seen no indication in any of this that the (military) relationship has been affected by this at all."
Stratfor, a U.S.-based analysis group, said in a report that "a norm of accepting civilian supremacy over the military is beginning to take root," but predicted that the military would likely continue to press its views on national security issues, and that the ruling party would acquiesce for now.
On a day of symbolism Monday, Erdogan also showed solidarity with the generals, accompanying them on a wreath-laying ceremony at the mausoleum of national founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, a former army officer and war hero who replaced Islam, a pillar of Ottoman rule, with a state creed of secularism. The prime minister, in a blue suit and sunglasses, walked ahead, no companion at his side.
The generals trailed behind.
Selcan Hacaoglu contributed from Ankara, Turkey.


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Dec. 16, 2007
Recap | Final Stats | Photo Gallery
Allyssa DeHaan, with her five blocks, surpassed Kristen Rasmussen to become MSU's all-time leading shot blocker. DeHaan now has 198 career blocks in just 44 games. Rasmussen had 194 blocks in 118 career games.
Courtney Davidson scored a career-high 18 points and made a career-high six field goals...she was 6-for-12 from the field with three 3-pointers...Davidson's previous career high came earlier this season at Old Dominion when she scored 17.
Alisa Wulff recorded career highs in points (14), field goals (five) and 3-pointers (four), and she tied her career high with five rebounds...she scored MSU's first eight points of the game and had 11 points in the first half...her previous career high came earlier this season against Northern Illinois.
Oklahoma was limited to a season-low 17 points in the first half, but scored a season-high 49 points in the second half.


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Scientists Shinya Yamanaka of Japan and John Gurdon of Britain have won this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for breakthroughs in stem cell research.
The pair discovered that mature and specialized cells of the body can be reprogrammed into stem cells. The Nobel Prize winners hope the discovery can be used in treating diseases like Parkinson's or diabetes.
The prize committee at Stockholm's Karolinska Institute said the discovery has "revolutionized our understanding of how cells and organisms develop."
The Nobel Prize for medicine is the first to be announced this year. The prize, established by Swedish industrialist Alfred Nobel in his will in 1895, also recognizes achievements in chemistry, literature, peace and economics.


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Any sleazy cinephile worth their weight in Betamax tapes has a sweet spot for Donnie, Walter, and of course, the Dude. The Coen Brothers cult hit The Big Lebowski seems to transcend genres and unite midnight movie goers regardless of their tastes in cinema. To celebrate this celluloid achievement burlesque starlet Clams Casino plans to shake and shimmy the night away in the Big Apple at Joe's Pub in Manhattan.
Here's the Official Press Release:
NYC's favorite burlesque duo brings you a tribute to the one and only Dude himself. Coming to Joe's Pub, Friday February 24th at 11:30pm, The Sticky Situation brings you It Really Ties The Room Together Burlesque: A Tribute to The Big Lebowski.
It'll be a night of mistaken identities, kidnapping, handsome strangers, bowling references and shut up Donnys, complete with a White Russian drink special! This is no acid tripping dream sequence. This is real people!
Believe me, you want to just drop in to what condition Joe's Pub's condition is in on February 24th, when stars like Adam RealMan, Amber Ray, Anita Cookie, Chris McDaniel, Clams Casino, Hard Cory, Gal Friday, and Runaround Sue will perform to an eclectic soundtrack, all for one reason only. Because the rug really ties the room together, man!
Clams and company have celebrated other films with their tribute to Bruce Campbell and the eternal glory of John Hughes and John Carpenter. Their past shows prove that this will be a helluva a good time and will sell out quickly.
Visit Joe's Pub online to reserve your tickets today!
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Peter Capaldi's Doctor considers the mystery of his recurring face in debut Doctor Who episode
Where do the Doctor's faces come from? And why do they seem so familiar? Capaldi's new Time Lord asks the same questions after his regeneration
"Have you seen this face before? No? Are you sure? It's funny because I'm sure that I have…"
When Peter Capaldi's new Doctor first spots his reflection in a mirror in debut Doctor Who episode Deep Breath, there's more than a hint of recognition.
The same will go for dedicated Who fans who have seen Capaldi pop up twice before in the Who universe – as Roman merchant Lucius Caecilius Iucundus in series-four episode The Fires of Pompeii and as Home Office permanent secretary John Frobisher in Torchwood: Children of Earth.
Showrunner Steven Moffat is certainly not dodging the issue of Capaldi's recurring face and has previously suggested that he might one day tackle it by calling on a solution formulated by his predecessor Russell T Davies.
But Deep Breath contains the strongest hint yet that Moffat intends to explore the mystery of the multiple Capaldis – and the wider question of where the Doctor's new faces come from – sooner rather than later.
"You know I never know where the faces come from, they just pop up," says the newly regenerated Doctor to himself as he peers at his reflection.
"It's covered in lines. But I didn't do the frowning… Who frowned with this face?
"Why this one? Why did I choose this face? It's like I'm trying to tell myself something. Like I'm trying to make a point. But what is so important that I can't just tell myself what I think?"
What indeed? The Time Lord may not know yet but Moffat seems determined to find out. Parts of an interview he did last year could almost be a rough draft of the Doctor's words…
"The big fun question is, we know that the Doctor when he regenerates, the faces, it's not set from birth, it's not that he was always going to be one day Peter Capaldi," Moffat told Nerd3. "We know that's the case because in [Second Doctor story] The War Games he has a choice of face and all that. We know it's not set so where does he get those faces from? They can't just be randomly generated because they've got lines and they've aged. When he turns into Peter he'll actually have lines on his face (sorry Peter) so where did that face come from?"
It came from Scotland. Beyond that, only time will tell…
The Doctor Who issue of the new Radio Times iPad and iPhone edition features an exclusive animated cover and photo galleries, a 68-page bonus magazine looking back at the 10th anniversary of Doctor Who, an interview with Peter Capaldi and Steven Moffat's series-eight episode guide
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text: Statehouse beat: Job not all it's cracked up to be By Phil Kabler October 13, 2013 Story Share CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Being licensed as one of the 37 limited video lottery operators in the state would seem practically to be a license to print money.Operator is the Lottery's term for LVL machine distributors -- the companies that install and maintain the state-sanctioned slot machines in bars and clubs and take a 23.5 percent cut of the profits. (With the state and localities getting 50-plus percent and the bar owner the other 23.5 percent.)With LVL running gross profits in excess of $200 million a year for the past few years, distributing LVL machines would seem to be a lucrative enterprise.So it was somewhat surprising to learn that in the audited financial reports presented to the Lottery Commission by the accounting firm of Gibbons and Kawash that five LVL operators are running operating deficits through the first six months of the year.Some of the five are small, like Viking Vending of Arthurdale, with assets of $58,587 and income deficits of $251 through June 30 and $125,241 in 2012. The largest operator running a deficit is Clay Music in Belle, with assets of $1.88 million, but operating losses of $81,121 in 2013 and $122,707 in 2012.However, even LVL giant Derrick Video, with assets of $27.97 million and operating income of $1,386,167 for the first months of 2013, reported an income deficit of $732,457 in 2012.That's primarily because the late Jerry Derrick panic-bid after getting shut out in the first two rounds of bidding when the 10-year LVL licenses came up for renewal in 2011, and ended up paying a total of $7.2 million for 550 licenses.Derrick Video wrote off the expenditure as $3.6 million in liabilities in 2011 and 2012, creating the 2012 operating deficit. In addition to costs of licensing, and equipment costs (new LVL machines run between $12,000 to more than $16,000), the business is somewhat labor intensive, with the 37 operators employing 270 licensed service technicians to do maintenance, repairs, and cash sweeps on the machines.Figures for other key players in the LVL market include Advanced Lottery Technologies, based in Keyser, $7.03 million in assets, $838,247 income in 2012, $767,980 for first six months of 2013; Random World of Bluefield, $11.44 million assets, $326,200 income in 2012, $22,463 in 2013; Shaffer Amusement, Clarksburg, $8.42 million in assets, $2.2 million income in 2012, $758,261 in 2013; Southern Amusement of Logan, (51 percent ownership by Vicki Ferrell, wife of former Delegate Joe C. Ferrell, convicted in 2011 of racketeering and tax fraud for the company's running illegal gray machines), $14.69 million assets, $1.12 million income in 2012, $764,015 in 2013; Wheeling Coin, $11.5 million assets, $878,996 income in 2012, $256,079 in 2013.***Speaking of limited video lottery, Lottery Director John Musgrave hosted a meeting of operators and retailers Thursday, drawing a packed house to adjoining conference rooms at the Civic Center. The primary issue is the 2017 shutdown of an obsolete communications protocol that will effectively render some four-fifths of the 7,400 LVL terminals in the state as useless.Options are to let the machines go dark, losing four years' of value on the 10-year licenses; buy new machines at $12,000 to $16,000 a pop; or buy conversion kits that will run anywhere between $1,200 and $3,600, depending on the machines and software upgrades ordered.The conversion kits are a gamble, in that the operators would be putting them into 15 to 20-year-old Game King machines for which replacement parts like motherboards and CPUs are no longer available. In one case, it also means replacing current games with software containing different games that may or may not be popular with the regular patrons.Though the meeting was civil, it was clear the operators and retailers are not happy about the circumstances. One commented, "We just spent millions of dollars on our licenses, and halfway through, you're telling us our games are obsolete."***Howard Mullens, who had been deputy secretary of Transportation, last week transferred over to the Department of Revenue in the newly created position of special assistant and legislative liaison.Apparently, a sexual harassment complaint at the Department of Transportation prompted the transfer. Mullens didn't return calls.*** Finally, the entourage for the 13-day state trade mission to Europe, which continues through next Tuesday, includes Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin, two State Police troopers (I wouldn't go to France without two bodyguards, either); Hallie Mason, the governor's director of public policy; Commerce Secretary Keith Burdette, state Development Office international development director Steve Spence, and international economic development representative Angela Mascia.Mascia, who is fluent in five languages, made headlines some years back regarding her involvement with then-Gov. Bob Wise.Reach Phil Kabler at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-1220. Story Share Story Share Trending Now 1 Philanthropist Betty Schoenbaum of Shoney's fortune turns 100 2 Derek Redd: Marshall thinks outside the cable box for broadcasts 3 Parole hearing set for Putnam man who claims wrongful sex assault conviction 4 Deer in 8 WV counties found dead from EHD 5 Capital High to reopen Monday after shut down by mold Charleston church to host forum on human trafficking Previous Story Winning life built on passion for sports Next Story


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TAMPA — A candle had burned near the door, red wax splattered and collected in a pool.
It was a grim reminder Tuesday of where 21-year-old Derek Anderson's blood lay a week ago after he was shot to death at his apartment building.
A memorial had sprung up with nine candles. "We miss you dawg," "Homies 4 Life" and "The good always die young" adorned the walls in green and blue marker.
"Our baby is in heaven," said Mary Watson, Anderson's grandmother. "My baby knew the Lord, so I'm not worried about that."
Police say Anderson was shot dead by a would-be robber, but the investigation has stalled.
Now the family is asking witnesses to step forward to help find his killer. Police detectives think someone saw something that can help.
"We need a witness to come forward," police Detective Mike Kirlangitis said while standing near the complex Tuesday. "Help us to help the family and solve the case."
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Police said Anderson went to a friend's house May 18 to do laundry and watch a basketball game. He returned to the Kenneth Court Apartments, 5715 Steven Court, and was shot at 11:28 p.m.
Someone from the complex performed CPR, but Anderson was pronounced dead at Tampa General Hospital.
Police initially said he was shot while standing on the second floor near the apartment he shared with his mother, and ultimately where he died. But because of conflicting witness statements, police aren't sure where he was when he was shot.
On May 19, blood could be seen on parts of the stairs leading up to where he was found. A smaller pool of blood collected near the door of the apartment.
Kirlangitis and other detectives canvassed the apartment complex again Tuesday, looking for new leads. He declined to release any new information, fearing it would taint potential witnesses.
Previously, police said a group of men were involved in the shooting, then said it was one man dressed in white with a bandana covering his face. Kirlangitis wouldn't go into any new details Tuesday.
Although Anderson had a couple of misdemeanors on his record, he hadn't been arrested for any violent crimes.
Kirlangitis said the investigation has led to one conclusion: "This was a good kid."
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Anderson was known as the "kid in the backpack" because he always carried one, family and authorities said. Detectives hadn't encountered anyone at the complex who had trouble with Anderson.
His family said he was quiet. He didn't like crowds. He had a 4-month-old son.
He had a job interview the day he was killed.
"I could understand this if he was a bad person," Watson, his grandmother, said of his killing. "But he wasn't."
Watson was surrounded by friends and family members as she sat in front of a condominium about 3 miles from where her grandson was shot. The family wanted to draw more attention to the investigation. Someone needs to come forward, they said. They need to tell police what they saw.
Clarence Jones, 21, a family friend, said too many problems are being addressed with guns.
"You're killing our own kind, our black brothers," he said. "If you have problems, take it to God. Not guns."
Watson said her family has already forgiven whoever shot Anderson. They have to, she said, because they are Christians.
"But may God have mercy on their souls," she said, "because God is going to deal with them. And they will get caught."
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Dave, after reading the latest issue of BusinessWeek, your Intuitive Life Business Blog and a bunch of other sources, I'm ready. I want to learn how to create, design and maintain a blog that's interesting, engaging, and helps me promote my business online.
The problem is, while I can find lots of classes and seminars about why to blog, there just isn't anything about how to blog. Any suggestions for me?
What a great question! I don't know if you're aware, but just last week I ran a standing-room-only workshop on The Case for Business Blogging. As I reviewed the feedback from that workshop, however, it became clear that your question is a universal one: as much as everyone attending the event knew that they needed to learn about why their business should be blogging, everyone also wanted to learn how to blog!
I've taken all this feedback to heart and am pleased to announce my How To Blog hands-on workshop, June 2nd, here in Boulder, Colorado. It'd be perfect for you, if you can get out here to beautiful Boulder for a day…
Here's what'll be covered:
- A Survey of Weblog Solutions
- The advantages of Typepad for your first blog
- Signing up for a Typepad account (hands on)
- Configuring your Typepad account "just so" (hands on)
- Picking a template from the many available and installing it to customize the look and feel of your new blog
- Using Technorati and Google to find existing Web pages on your topic and how to figure out their "permalinks"
- Writing your first weblog entry!
- Including a link to another Web page in your blog entry
- Uploading pictures to Flickr, and integrating Flickr pictures into your new weblog
- Publicizing your new weblog
- Questions and Answers. Lots of them.
Why focus on Six Apart's Typepad product? Because it's built atop the same platform as the industry-leading Movable Type (which powers this very weblog), it's industrial strength, powerful enough for professional users (for example, you can map your existing domain name to your new Typepad blog), but easy enough for anyone to get started with and, most importantly, it runs on its own server so you can jump right in.
Frankly, even if you already have a weblog with a competing service like Blog Harbor or Blogsite, or are hosting your own weblog with Movable Type or WordPress, you'll still get a lot out of this course.
FURTHER BIG IMPORTANT NOTE: The How To Blog workshops are limited to 30 attendees. That's about half the number of people who attended the Business Blogging workshop, so if you'd like to actually build a Weblog of your own with expert assistance and some fun networking too, please do sign up ASAP so as not to lose out on a spot and end up on the waiting list.
Not sure about whether this kind of workshop would be of value to you? Thinking that maybe you can just muddle through getting started with Typepad on your own? Before you decide this isn't for you, read through a few of the testimonials I received after the business blogging event:
If you've been thinking of dipping your toe into the blogging pool, whether professionally or just as a hobby, this four hour workshop will undoubtedly be the smartest, fastest and most enjoyable way to get out of the pit and onto the racetrack!


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This week more than a thousand delegates are converging on the Ugandan capital, Kampala, for a crucial meeting to review the performance of the International Criminal Court (ICC) eight years into its existence. The delegates will also consider making amendments to the Rome Statute that established the court.
The ICC matters, not least because it is the sole independent permanent court with the mandate to try genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Already, 111 states are parties to the Rome Statute, and the court has three trials underway.
But critics say that for its €100 million a year budget, the ICC needs to have more to show. Besides, they point to the court's inability to finalize a single trial thus far. The ICC's first trial, of former Congolese leader Thomas Lubanga, started in January 2009 and is expected to end later this year.
Ambassador Christian Wenaweser, president of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute, defends the court's record, pointing to systems it has created and the support it has garnered from states parties.
"The Court is yet to conclude a trial, and we as states would have sometimes wished that proceedings are faster and more efficient," he said in an interview with journalists this week. "But most importantly, this Court has made it clear that there is no longer impunity for the most atrocious crimes under international law. Justice is an inherent part of all discussions on international relations now."
And so lined up for the ICC Review Conference in Kampala is an agenda lasting two weeks. Besides the mainstream program, several civil society organizations have organized side activities on various issues on the conference agenda—and even some that are not. The gathering is taking place at Speke Commonwealth Resort on the shores of Lake Victoria, from May 31 to June 11.
To kick off the conference, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will feature in an exhibition soccer match, along with Ugandan president Yoweri Museveni and victims of armed conflict from various countries. Among the spectators will be hundreds of victims of the Lord's Resistance Army, whose decades of insurgency killed hundreds of Ugandans and displaced more than a million others.
How the ICC has worked with victims will indeed be one of the issues the conference will audit. The Open Society Justice Initiative, together with the Human Rights Center at the University of California at Berkeley, will host a side panel to highlight innovative approaches to outreach to victims and affected communities.
The role of civil society organizations in the development of the ICC is also on the stock-taking agenda, as is the issue of cooperation of states in the arrest of indictees and implementing the Rome Statute at national level.
Cooperation has been a major challenge: the ICC has an arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al Bashir, but several African and Arab leaders won't honor it. Similarly, former Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, and Lord's Resistance Army leader Joseph Kony and some of his lieutenants have had arrest warrants on their heads for years but remain at large.
But most debate is expected to center on the addition of provisions that would allow the ICC to exercise its jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. Some say this would represent a significant step forward in the development of international law and an important extension of the court's jurisdiction.
Others contend that the ICC is still a young court which needs to grow its capacity to deal with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity before more is added to its already thick docket. These critics also argue that the ICC would become politicized if it were to now handle the crime of aggression as well.
In the lead-up to the conference, what the delegates arriving in Uganda seem to be agreed on is that this is a landmark event whose outcome will shape the ICC and international criminal justice for several years to come.
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May be it is time for an impartial evaluation of the Courts' achievement of its objectives and impact so far. Stocktaking by interested parties (e.g. ASP, NGO's, organs of the Court) is a very good starting point. It would be good to see either ASP or the Court itself commit to an independently-run evaluation process. Such an evaluation could bring together all the research related to the ICC performed by many different actors - and still be a participatory process, involving the many interested parties (or stakeholders of the Court).