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Progression Evaluation and Genetic Determinants of Hypertension in Chinese - A Follow-up Study of Taiwan SAPPHIRe
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|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Family-Based
Time Perspective: Retrospective
|Official Title:
|Progression Evaluation and Genetic Determinants of Hypertension in Chinese - A Follow-up Study of Taiwan SAPPHIRe
|Study Start Date:
|May 2001
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2005
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2005 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
Blood pressure is a quantitative trait affected by both genetic and environmental factors. It is known that human essential hypertension does not follow a simple Mendelian mode of inheritance. Stanford-Asian Pacific Program in Hypertension and Insulin Resistance (SAPPHIRe) is an international genetic study, which intends to map the major genetic loci underlying hypertension in sibpairs of Asian-Pacific Chinese and Japanese origin. Based on the data generated through year 1 to year 5, preliminary analysis has not shown positive results in the linkage analysis of genome wide scan data, although association studies of some candidate genes give promising results.
Success in genetic studies may depend on many factors including the selection of the patient population, the identification of intermediate phenotypes, the disease subsets, and the genetic strategy and methodologies employed. According to our previous analysis, presented in SAPPHIRe Steering Committee meetings (twice a year), there is heterogeneity among Chinese and Japanese origins.
In order to reduce heterogeneity of the genetic and environmental background, we will focus our investigation on the Chinese population. Furthermore, besides the variables associated with insulin resistance, which were collected and studied in year 1 through 5 of SAPPHIRe, some more variables will be collected and studied in order to identify most sensible intermediate phenotypes and more homogeneous disease subsets.
Our general approach is to continue analyzing candidate genes as well as perform a complete genome search based on the exiting genome-wide scan data together with old and new phenotype variables.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|30 Years to 70 Years (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age of subjects when recruited must be between 35 and 60 years. Subjects over age 60 may also be eligible provided that documentation of their hypertension status prior to age 60 is available.
- Chinese ancestry, i.e. all four grandparents Chinese. Hypertension is defined as follows: systolic BP (SBP) greater than or equal to (>=) 160 mm Hg or diastolic BP (DBP) >= 95 mm Hg or taking 2 medications for high blood pressure (Stage II hypertension). Alternatively the subject could have uncontrolled hypertension, i.e. taking 1 medication for high blood pressure and has either systolic BP >= 140 or diastolic >= 90 mm Hg.
Exclusion Criteria:
- One of the affected sibs is adopted (i.e. no parent in common) or if the sibs have only one parent in common.
- Both parents have been treated for hypertension before the age of 60. If offspring reports about their parents' hypertension status are conflicting, then a single reliable report of hypertension in both parents before age 60 is cause for exclusion. This exclusion criterion, however, does not apply to discordant sib-pairs.
- Diabetic individuals were excluded. Diabetes uncovered as a result of SAPPHIRe lab work does not lead to exclusion however.
- Severe kidney disease (except stones and remote infections) of creatinine > 1.5 mg/dl, unless documented proof that the subject met inclusion criteria prior to increase in creatinine levels.
- A body-mass index greater than 35.
- In addition, the following conditions are considered as cause for exclusion: ongoing (or within the past 6 months) treatment for cancer; terminal illness (life expectancy fewer than 6 months); liver cirrhosis or any other chronic illness; pregnancy or fewer than 6 months post-partum.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00260910
|Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, NHRI
|Miaoli county, Taiwan
|Study Director:
|Chao Hsiung, PhD
|Division of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, National Health Research Institutes
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|National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
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|NCT00260910 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|December 1, 2005
|Last Updated:
|April 5, 2016
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|Plan to Share IPD:
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Vascular Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on September 19, 2017


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CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Kanawha/Charleston Humane Association is actively seeking people willing to foster dogs or kittens — both are in abundance at the shelter right now, employees there say.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) - Apple (AAPL) iPhone sales "performed strongly" in the first calendar quarter of the year, with sales bouncing back in Europe, Japan and Australia. Smartphones with Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows operating system, however, stumbled.
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"Apple regained ground in the first quarter of 2014, primarily due to the strong performance of the iPhone 5S, growing its sales share in Europe, Japan and Australia," said Dominic Sunnebo, strategic insight director at Kantar Worldpanel ComTech in a press release. "By contrast, Windows had a tough start to the year as a result of its entry-level Nokia models facing fierce competition from low-end Motorola, LG and Samsung Android smartphones."
Kantar said Apple has been particularly successful in Japan where, in the past quarter, it has secured 42% of smartphone sales on NTT DoCoMo (DCM), 59% on KDDI AU and 81% on Softbank (SFTBY). The research firm notes that Japanese consumers primarily like the design of the iPhone (30%), followed by its 4G capability (29%) and the belief that it will be reliable (24%).


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What year is this?
The Emmys decided to pay tribute to the 50th anniversary of 1963 this year, which included such Emmy-worthy moments as the JFK assassination. It also celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Beatles' American TV debut on "The Ed Sullivan Show," which technically happened in 1964. To pay tribute, singer Carrie Underwood performed the Beatles' hit "Yesterday," which actually didn't come out until 1965.
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The last tab posted for this song was pretty vague, so I thought I would
clean it up a little bit, and make it easuer to figure out. Also, some of
the chord progressions were wrong, in my opinion.
The song opens up with a really cool slide part. The previous version had
this part right.
Tuning: Normal
This slide part is repeated twice.
Right here the guitar comes in, and starts playing two chords over and over
again. It sounds closest to me if you use first position chords for the
intro, and the barre chords the rest of the song. The two chords at the
beginning are G and the D. Everyone knows them, but I will tab them just
to be thorough.
The main bassline comes in here. It is a series of hammer -ons. On a
guitar it looks like this:
This bassline is repeated twice and then the guitar joins in, playing A, C,
G, and D chords to match:
Listen to the song to pick up the strumming for this part. There is some
string muting between the strums during the A and G chords. (This is also
the progression during the chorus.)
Right before the change to the next chord progression, instead of switching
to the C chord from the A, just keep playing the A chord for two beats.
Then instead of switching from the G to the D chord, just play the G for
two beats.
Alright, here^Òs where I get a little hazy on this song, but I might as well
post what I think the song does.
Jeff changes to a different chord progression. I think that it is A, Bm,
G, E, G, A, but I am not sure. I just play the whole thing in barre
chords, so try it out and let me know what you think.
The rest of the song is a mix and match of the chord progressions above.
Just listen to it while you play.
Here are as much of the lyrics as I can understand. Jeff^Òs words kind of
blend t gether when he hits the high notes, so these are probably wrong,
but oh well.
This is our last goodbye,
I hate to see the love between us die.
But it^Òs over.
Just do this and then I^Òll go,
You gave me more to live for,
more than you^Òll ever know.
This is our last goodbye.
Must I dream and always see your face?
Why can^Òt we overcome this and more?
Baby, maybe it^Òs just because I didn^Òt know you at all.
Kiss me, please kiss me
Kiss me out of desire,
baby, no consolation.
Oh you know what makes me so angry,
Is that I know that in time,
I^Òll only make you cry
This is our last goodbye.
Did you say No, this can^Òt happen to me?
Did you wait for the phone to call? (?)
Is there a voice occurin^Ò in the back of your mind,
Saying baby, please?
I didn^Òt know him at all,
I didn^Òt know him at all,
I didn^Òt know him^Å
That as much as I can understand. I don^Òt know if the actual lyrics are
printed in the CD cover, as I do not own the CD, but they may be.
This file is all my own work. Any errors are mine, and I would like to
hear about them. If you discover a better way to play this song, please
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When harsh winter weather hits,
when the power is out...
a hot cup of tea
makes it all more civil...
pretty floral dishes,
let your mind drift to the spring days ahead...
something as simple
as a bright cheery tablecloth
can lift your spirits...
just let you sigh...
after several long nasty power outages,
we bought a generator...
and we were glad to have it last week...
baking is a favorite luxury,
a generator allows..
and the pay off is two-fold,
everyone likes to gather around a warm oven,
breathing in the sweet scent
and a hot treat is so welcome!
(I think that was three-fold!)
these orange snaps were a new recipe
and pretty tasty:-)
I hope you are staying warm
and snuggly!
Today, I am sharing tea at these lovely parties...
Tea Party Tuesday
Sandi's Two Year Tea Time Anniversary
Sandi's Two Year Tea Time Anniversary
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For me to write of family strikes me as vaguely pretentious if not outright hypocritical. Possibly we all feel like failures in this area, at least to some degree. Those who do not I tend to dismiss, even distrust. That's just me: a walking encyclopedia of neuroses to rival the characters Woody Allen would often portray.
I was born into what would become a relatively large family. With parents, it would grow to ten of us. I was second kid, first son, usurping my older sister's royalty in the eyes of my father. This is something for which she has yet to forgive me, even as we approach or have entered our 60s. It seems absurd; I doubt either of us could identify the origins of our estrangement.
Having lived in close quarters for many years, it is hardly surprising that we, each of us, moved to the far quarters of the country: Maine, California, Chicago, Texas, New York, and Connecticut.
Contact among us is sporadic at best. No real resentments of any significance, just, I think, too many years in too close quarters. Ironically, in 1968 (the year my father died), I joined a rock band and would join many more over the years. Always, it seemed, there was someone at my elbow — in shared houses, cars, or vans, in rehearsals or, of course, performances. A further irony, when communes became popular, I ended up in more than one.
This may go some distance in explaining my value for privacy. This comes in handy in my work as well. I tell myself this.
I recently wrote about my fear of homelessness (I have had the experience) and was taken in by a man I have also written about recently: Christian Cullen. Cullen's is a sober household of five people, one of whom works full time, six counting me, and six cats. The only real contract involved was my continued sobriety. This went well for some time, but possibly the proximity to those in the house, again a brand of neurotic claustrophobia, sent me drinking. More likely it is just the nature of the disease itself, but I suspect the closeness as well, at least to some degree.
This understandably exasperated my hosts and elicited a promise from me to return to a detox rehab program. No doubt necessary but damned inconvenient, as I will not be permitted to work for a time. What I hope will only be a temporary absence of columns will ensue.
I hope this will serve in some small way for the frustration and embarrassment I undoubtedly caused here. I don't believe I did anything excessively outrageous (except for the amount of alcohol I consumed), but I am very poor company, to say the least, when I drink to that extent.
My own immediate family: relationships with my grown son and ex-spouse were somewhat successful for several years, and though I didn't see my son often for many years (until recently), I believe we still maintain a good relationship. The same applies with my ex, but the fact remains that the marriage ended in divorce. I simply no longer wanted to be what I perceived at the time to be Ozzie in Ozzie and Harriet. I was 34 years old and had met a woman at work. My sense of loyalty to family is probably suspect.
I imagine this will appear sometime around Thanksgiving, which usually involved large, mostly Italian family gatherings in my youth. I dreaded these occasions. No amount of turkey or pumpkin pie could ameliorate the sense of discomfort I would experience at the noise, arguments, subliminal disapproval of other family members. At times, hardly subliminal.
Like most people roughly my age, I sometimes wonder who would attend my memorial service and what would be said. If there was little turnout and what was said was along the lines of damning with faint praise, I could hardly blame anyone. I sometimes wonder if I have a retarded or inefficient genetic propensity for family matters. I also have a habit of being a harsh critic of myself (when I'm not being arrogantly egotistical), so maybe I'm a great guy and the ideal sibling, spouse, nephew, etc.
As pathetic as it sounds, I have a real sense of books as a kind of family. I no longer need to be surrounded with thousands of them; a few hundred are fine. And I have never knowingly abused any of them, except for two: I once threw a copy of Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged across a room and once a science fiction novel by Robert Heinlein, Farnham's Freehold, in which, in a postapocalyptic America, a father holds a gun on his son to encourage him to say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Monaghan, salvation is a continuous process, it isn't a one-time shot. Some people need more than one chance to right their kayak, and there isn't any guarantee that it won't turn over again at some point.
You are in my thoughts and prayers, Mr. Brizz.
John, I hope you've found a warm place.
Most of what I've read here is maudlin and would be called "enabling" in addiction recovery circles. What "Mr. Brizz" needs is finally to take responsibility for himself and his actions.
Get well, John. You'll be missed.
Some people simply enjoy kicking a man when he's down, Eric. Monaghan seems to be one of those types.
"I also have a habit of being a harsh critic of myself (when I'm not being arrogantly egotistical)"
Word. Can I ever relate to that one. :)
I've never really 'understood' alcoholism, personally. Food's much more alluring, to me.
I would think being an unrepentant pothead is preferable. They always seem pretty happy. And it goes hand-in-hand with food.
Good luck, Mr. Brizz. Make this the one.
Love you, John.
We all endure a life-long wrestling match with our inner demons. When the demons are strong, you just hope to fight to a draw.
re: #1: What he said, Mr. Brizz. You will be read.
It takes a strong man in order to hurl "Atlas Shrugged" across a room. I read it in two days. It was a train wreck I couldn't not look at. Rand's was a philosophy that tied itself into a knot that I couldn't undo.
You come from a large family, tied into a great ethnicity; I come from a small one, tied into nothing, we are ethnic mutts. With just me and my brother, it limited the culpability, it wasn't so easy to get lost, yet it wasn't claustrophobic.
My father is an alcoholic, currently a recovering one. I thought he would die a decade ago, hospitalized and bleeding from the inside. The doctors called us in one evening, my mother, my brother, and myself, to tell us that they would perform a tracheotomy in the morning and normally this was the beginning of the end. Meanwhile, my father lay, restrained (he kept pulling out his I.V.'s otherwise), detoxifying, hallucinating, living in his own version of hell.
He survived. Somehow, this hasn't discouraged my drinking, only perhaps slowed it somewhat. My guess is that I drink now because I can do something that he can't. Maybe there are other reasons.
Just write, John. Bradbury was right. An author lives so long he is read. You write, and we'll read. And heal well, Mr. Brizz. Heal well.
I second the feelings directed toward you.
You are on a difficult path. I wish you every bit of health and happiness possible.
I know you pretty well, though not so well since alcohol took over your life. The stuff killed my grandfather and uncle, but I always tried to be supportive.
I don't think you have issues of emotional claustrophobia. I think that you have issues with drinking, and a cycle of shame and self justification and despair. In other words, another facet of the human condition.
Robert Frost wrote: "Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in." And that neatly describes the antinomy of family issues. I am fortunate with the family I have now, but it was not always that way. I remember the loneliness very well. We used to talk about those feelings, you and I.
As for what would be said at a memorial for you, hopefully a long, long time for now, would be this: "John was, at his heart, a good and decent man who struggled with demons. Some were of his own making. Some were not. But he always believed in things better and more noble than we could hope of experiencing, and judged himself far more harshly by that criterion than he ever judged another human being. The world is poorer without him. I know I am."
As for "Farnham's Freehold," no, the father didn't pull a gun on his son to force him to say the Pledge of Allegiance. He did so in a fallout shelter, when radiation levels were sky high, and the pampered son wouldn't shut up, and was questioning the father's authority under conditions where everyone's lives were at stake (while the son had done nothing to help with the shelter, and had denigrated and questioned the father at every turn). Did that make it okay? Not at all.
I think that you projected your own love of independence and natural distrust of authority into that book. No reason to throw it. Just shake your head at the scene. And there were far more disturbing scenes in the book than that!
Is John Brizzolara really a "good and decent man?" What does that mean? Has he ever been a friend to anyone? Doubtful. Was he loyal to his wife? No. Did he take care of his son? No. Has he free-loaded off others' charity and goodness for years? Yes. Has he ever taken responsibility for himself? No. Does his writing ever contribute more than ego-centric drivel to the human conversation? No. Are we sorry he is drinking himself into oblivion and rationalizing every step of the way? Yes. Will the Reader spare us from witnessing this trainwreck? I guess not. It must be God's will.
You know, monaghan, my late grandfather used to tell me that there was a world of difference between "honesty" and "tactlessness."
I have known John Brizzolara for over twenty years. I can call him a "good and decent" man because I know him. He has stood by me in bad times when I lived in San Diego, and I him.
On the other hand, I could look at your posts and wonder if you are a good and decent person. Perhaps you are. But the way one treats people who are having difficulties and trials (even when they do not improve their own situation) says nearly everything important about a person.
Don't you think?
Brizzolara's "sharing" by writing about himself ad nauseam is an affront to every blessed person who has suffered addiction and then dragged herself/himself into recovery which, by the way, involves making amends to those one has harmed. If such a person is not working at recovery, I once heard a wise man say, he's on a Down escalator.
re: #8: Christian, I assume by your post that Mr. Brizz might be out on the street. Will you keep us posted on him, and let him know that we can arrange for him to stay at our condo's guest suite for a few days? I'll email you.
re: #10 and 13: monaghan, I've seen enough of your posts to form the picture of a bitter and judgemental type who likes to argue for argument's sake, and cannot seem to learn anything from others. Case in point would be your back-and-forth a few months ago with paul, who frankly kicked your butt every which way to Sunday on a debate over the legalization of marijuana. Instead of bowing out gracefully when you were beaten, you continued to throw out ad hominem attacks rather than meet his thoughtful, carefully laid out arguments with the same, or at the least, thanks for putting much more into his posts than you did your own.
Now you are attacking John Brizzolara for no reason, and it is a bit hard to discern your purpose. Is it jealousy over his writing, and the fact that he has good friends and a loyal readership? Lost a battle yourself with addiction--or perhaps feel you won a battle, and have the right to be smug about it?
Or just more of your typical, aimless moral outrage? Not sure, though you excel at the latter. You and Herr Doktor Burwell should start a misanthropist's support group. Oh, and have a "blessed" day, monaghan ;)
John, we are all a product of our families, education, the decades we grew up in, the people and life we have known. In your writing you have found your life's work, a testament to who you are and your immortality. We all pay a price for our art. It would have been interesting, had you continued in music, to have heard the poignant verses you would have written. I am sorry for many things, one that I didn't get to know you better in the short time we played together and, among too many other things, not having the command of the written word, that you are blessed with. It's hard for me to express how much I knowledge I have gained about you, the person I didn't know, and tell you how much I enjoy reading your views and comments on life, after discovering TGF. I am living in Thailand and have not had much luck here finding your books, but next trip to the States I will try to locate them. Good luck with the rehab,I will miss your TGF while you clean up,I look forward to reading them each wk. Just remember you have people out here,that you never even considered friends or family, that are part of your life through you work.
Ken Minahan
[email protected]
Refried #14 -- You are a generous soul who apparently has had your own tribulations. I appreciate the truth of your remark here. But I hope you don't use alcohol as your dad did or the way Brizzolara does. It is unforgivably cruel to the loved ones.
re: #17: That's a bit more human in tone, and I'm sure many of us can appreciate how hard it is to live with loved ones who are alcoholics, or to have grown up around them. But Mr. Brizz is not responsible for the pain you've been caused, so why try to add to his, just when he clearly needs the support of friends and readers, to whom he has indeed given great gifts of starkly honest humanity? We all give when and where and how we can--and Mr. Brizz's way of giving back to the community has been more than generous; you'll find that regular readers, especially those of us who do write some, can attest to being enriched by his sharing some of the deepest of his despair, his sometime gallows humor, and his seeming endless supply of those little sparks of hope of '...can't go on, I'll go on.'
I hope you can see this, monaghan, and not judge so harshly--and I hope for peace for you and yours. SD
SD, I must say, I love you the more I read your posts. You have a depth clearly beyond any of the usual suspects here. Even in regards to poor monaghan and loony goatfish you somehow find, and more importantly acknowledge, the good in them – scant as that may be…
More to the point of this topic, addiction is a disease, no more, no less, yet it still amazes me that people tack on a moral judgment to it. I can only think this resides with the victims of this disease, those who have suffered the terrible consequences of it all (monaghan I think resides in this group). I myself am intimately familiar with this particular affliction, thus I must reaffirm that relapse is only a symptom and not a moral failure as some might like to attest – would you blame an epileptic for having a seizure as a moral failure?
Anyway, I think I have proclaimed my appreciation for Mr. Brizz and his particular brand of sublime achy musings on many occasions, so I will leave it at that.
Take care.
Thanks, NotQuiteADiva, and can I just say it's nice to see you back? ;)
"relapse is only a symptom and not a moral failure as some might like to attest – would you blame an epileptic for having a seizure as a moral failure?"
I think monaghan might retort that drinking (and subsequent pain caused to others by the drinker) was at least at one time a choice, whereas epilepsy--safe to say--not chosen by anyone. However, your points still stand, NQAD; whether or not it was once an easy choice to make it alkie or non-, choice becomes a difficult matter, and increasingly disappears--in some cases--altogether.
We can talk about the predictable features of the "disease," but if we blame one drinker, like some kind of morality play's "Everyman" for all the failures of drinkers in general, we are forgetting some basics of humanity, and that people are complex individuals with their OWN failures and their OWN achievements.
I say therefore to monaghan, call it maudlin (yes, the word crossed my mind as I wrote my last post), but the sentiment is genuine, as is the hope--if you can find some left in your heart to offer.
Off-point sidewalk psychiatric superintending about monaghan has nothing to do with this subject. My stating facts is neither "blame" not has it anything to do with assessing "moral failure." Indeed, they say relapse is often part of recovery -- a terrifying conundrum -- unless, of course, it's just part of continuing self-delusion and a slow death spiral. Somebody offers Brizzolara a "stay at our condo's guest suite?" Such facile kindness, so unhelpful, so misguided. That's it: I'm done.
"Somebody offers Brizzolara a "stay at our condo's guest suite?" Such facile kindness, so unhelpful, so misguided. That's it: I'm done."
I'm glad you are done, monaghan (a familiar phrase) because you have no grace, and no heart. Best you stay out of it, then.
Thanks, SD
I was going to post something really angry and horrible, but you made me realize how pointless such a thing would be… I get the sense that monaghan is coming form a very vulnerable place. And thus it's best not to corner an injured freak! (I think Gandhi said that). ;)
Yeah, I think the name of the game is preserving as much dignity here for all parties (not sure if Ghandi said that, too, but he may well have). Have an excellent Friday night, dear :)
You know, as I read the posts here, I see different kinds of people. Mostly, they are people who enjoy John's writing (as I do). Some of us know John personally.
But when someone repeatedly shows mean-spiritedness about someone else's problems, why, that says a great deal about them. I could understand sneering and moving on. What I find curious is the necessity to repeatedly defend mean-spiritedness.
There is a great deal going on there more than disapproval of John's writing or choices in life.
The other comments were quite moving. "Maudlin" is one of those descriptors that is infinitely elastic. What I read were posts by people trying to help. Perhaps they can, perhaps they cannot. But the offer matters.
Sneering bile helps no one. Least of all the person with sneering case of the biles.
Wow, EricBlair where were you during the whole "retard" debacale? I don't see you criticizing refriedgringo for all the sneering bile coming from his posts. Funny how you take pity on one you must be personally involved with.All you reader bloggers should just do conference calls, and spare the rest of us.It's kinda like an inside joke.
Let me be succinct, for a change, aquimary: Kindly F OFF.
SD, are you armed with your troll spray? i hope so!! good answer btw, and very nice of you to offer to help mr. brizzolara. NQAD it is nice to see you back!
I have it, magics. AG donated a whole can ;) Just can't understand why people need to swoop in like vultures when they smell blood and a man down--what is that about?! Never mind, don't answer.
LOL i wasn't going to. i know you have it under control ;)
John - get the help you need. It is only found in One...THE ONE...Jesus Christ. You know what I am talking about. He is the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through Him (John 14:6). God loves you. You know what I am talking about. He has recently shown it to you in a tangible way. Not an accident or a coincidence. Make a choice and have victory. Your addiction can be beaten. The decision is yours. The work is God's. He will help you. And I am praying for you.
Re: #9, Heinlein's son is a professor of political science.
Re: #32 Your invisible friend, the one who allegedly turned water into wine, and his maniac "Father", are highly unlikely to even exist...it's an interesting theory, that we're all just the experiment of a psychopathic deity who created us with original sin and then "saves" us from alcohol and drugs while personally intervening on the side of the football team that prays the hardest...but this strange theory is highly speculative to say the least.
Better to go with a theory that has some evidence behind it. Alcohol addiction involves genetic and social factors. By looking at evolutionary biology and psychology, we can identify some of these factors. Some can be mitigated against.
John needs to focus on those factors he can mitigate. He knows what they are. He knows how to do it.
Adding an invisible angry sky daddy and his mythical suicidal son does nothing more to advance the cause of sobriety than sugar pills or any other placebo. And placebos are less likely to work on smart people than dunces.
Since John is smart, he doesn't need your placebo Jesus to help him...and he especially doesn't need spiritual advice from someone who cannot even quote his own scripture accurately.
We knew you'd come through, Fred.
Fred sed: "He knows how to do it."
"To know and not to do is really to not yet know." -- Chinese proverb
God in the sky or God in the bottle. What's the difference? Alcoholics and drug addicts frequently become religious addicts next, not realizing that they're just bouncing from one mood-altering addiction to another. At least the religious addicts seem somewhat happier (even if more annoying).
John is such a great writer, and I hope he gets his demons in check. But all this back and forth he's gone thru...well, it's said perfectly by Stew; one of the most interesting songwriters of all time. Here's his song REHAB:
When she got out of re-hab, for the very first time She was very very very optimistic. First she bought a set of paints,then she started painting saints 'cause in Echo Park that passes for artistic. Then one day her art dealer came by with a sin,next thing we knew she was on the rope again. When she got out of re-hab, for the very first time she was very very very very very very very very very very very optimistic
When she got out of re-hab, for the very second time It was clear that she was painfully embarrassed. She was brimming with clichés, spoke of how she counted days playing checkers with a roadie from Save Ferris. Then she hit Los Feliz with some homemade earrings to sell but the hip gift shop assistant led her back to Hell. When she got out of re-hab for the very second time, she was very very very very very very very very very optimistic.
When she got out of re-hab for the third or fourth time I suspected well, a kind of pattern forming. So I plotted carefully,how i'd bow out gracefully 'Cause i've seen this flick before and it gets boring. Next she's in a band called Star of David Brinkleys, they were ropers one and all but they loved them at the Weekly. When she got out of rehab for the third or fourth time she was very very very very very very very very very optimistic.
When she got out of re-hab for the twenty-second time her new take on life was very deep and empty. She traded mainline for online, then she took up web design. Now she's paid in full and blows the horn of plenty. Once she said "hey listen baby I ain't gonna lie there just ain't nothing I like more than getting high". And funny how the maniacs who took the time to sob seem to not mind a junkie with a well paying job. When she got out of re-hab for the twenty-second time she was very very very very very very very very very optimistic.
John believes in Jesus, and from what I personally saw this morning, Jesus hasn't done John one bit of good. He was a lot closer to the tile floor than he was to Jesus.
Um. For what it is worth, Heinlein died childless. Not that it matters.
Why not just JB well and move on? That isn't so difficult, is it?
Re: #38
Eric (or should we call you "George"?) I admit that after searching for ten minutes online I didn't find evidence for my claim.
However I remember very clearly reading that Heinlein did have a son who later became a professor of political science. It stuck in my head because I loved Heinlein's books when I was younger and also studied political science.
But since I can't come up with proof, I'll provisionally concede.
...and agree it doesn't really matter. Ten minutes searching was enough.
Finally, Eric, I don't understand your second sentence. You're using "JB" as a verb? Huh? I don't get it at all. How does one "just JB well"?
Fred, I surmised that Eric meant to say "wish" after "just" and before "JB" and accidentally ommitted it. It makes sense.
And Heinlein never had any children. He married thrice, and none of his wives ever had a child, by him or anyone else.
Nicely said, RFG. Indeed I skipped a word. Sorry about that.
As for RAH, the new biography (approved by Ginny Heinlein, RIP) will be coming out this year. At last.
I was fortunate enough to correspond with Ginny Heinlein before she passed away. I loved how gently reminded me that RAH was very special to her, but a regular person. And VERY gently prepared me for some of the more unusual parts of his early life that were not apparent from his YA novels. Funny lady, and pretty nice to this particular fanboy correspondent.
One of my most prized possessions when I was younger was a form letter Heinlein sent to me in response to a fan letter I sent him. It was in the form of multiple choice, where he could check the responses he wanted to give me. It was 100% Heinlein. It kills me that I lost it somewhere along the way.
Ah, you never aspired to be Ozzie and Harriet. Your great fear as you dropped your first acid in your teens was that you would end up a Republican. You would lay with your head inches from the tracks as a long freight shook the ground you lay on and ponder the Bohemian life. Well you lived it and lived it well. Be thankful that you have the talent in art, writing, personality and charm to live life on the edge. Most people look back and see little of experience. You look back and see tales upon tales. Pura Vida i Vaja Con Dios mi amigo.
Thoughts from a bottle of saki.
Picked up Dickinson to quote something to someone else, and it opened here:
While we were fearing it, it came-- But came with less of fear Because that fearing it so long Had almost made it fair--
There is a Fitting--a Dismay-- A Fitting--a Despair-- 'Tis harder knowing it is Due Than knowing it is Here.
The Trying on the Utmost The Morning it is new Is Terribler than wearing it A whole existence through.
Hope you are warm and dry this wet and windy night (Wild Nights! ;), John. We'll be thinking of you, and would love to hear how you are doing.


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My idea for a solution for CPAN to automate distributing the full stack of dependencies of modules. So in addition to a "download" link for a module, there would be a "download with all dependencies" option.
Some related pieces:
- Authors should be stricter about which versions of modules they require, and favor the practice of depending on versions they have tested against rather than defaulting to "whatever the newest version of the depending is"... which may not even be released yet!
- For modules that provide Pure Perl and XS alternatives, there should be a standard way for automated tools to build the Pure Perl version.
- Like Ubuntu or Debian, we could make use of a "build farm" that would compile the XS bits on various platforms.
In your case, it would mean that when selected an old version of Moose, you would have the option to download the old version with all dependencies that the old version depended on, instead of getting the old version...and then getting all the newest dependencies.
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We do all the tours - we camp and we fish, so we've got the latest on our area here. We're unique in that we feel that our guests and backpackers should get out there and see taste and touch all that makes Darwin special.
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I had a face lift 9 months ago and my cheeks are still swollen, hard, tingling, numb and at time they hurt. Also the scars behind my ears still hurt and are red and still quite large. My doctor says it takes a year for it all to heal, but I am afraid there is something more. All I want is my smile to be back with out looking like a chipmunk.
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Beijing Municipality Health Department organized an infectious disease emergency drill
Municipal Health Bureau organized health oversight agencies to carry out emergency drills infectious disease prevention supervision
Time :2013 -07-04 Source: Emergency Management Office of Beijing Municipal Health Bureau
In order to improve the city's health oversight agencies in the infectious diseases of public health emergencies in the supervision and law enforcement, and enhance awareness of prevention and response capabilities, standardized procedures for the disposal site supervision, July 3, relying City Municipal Health Bureau Health Authority organized a The city health oversight agencies monitor infectious disease prevention drills.
16 county Health Department Health Authority more than 130 people took part in the drills, the Municipal Health Bureau deputy inspector Zhao Tao, Huang Director of Emergency Office, City Health Authority director Ya Jing, Liu Jinsong, deputy director of the county Health Department and the Health Authority competent director were present.
Sub-field drills and exercises tabletop exercise in two parts. The county Health Department Health Authority after receiving the notice according arrived drill site. City Health Authority inspectors of the exercise was carried out on-site inspections, participating staff dress neatly norms, protective equipment and law enforcement instruments to carry complete compliance with health supervision and law enforcement requirements. The county health inspectors on-site simulation into the epidemic site (contaminated area), followed by infectious disease control measures for monitoring personal protective (removable protective equipment) operating skills show.
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Ya Jing, director of drill commander had commented on field exercises, requiring the county health oversight agencies in the exercise on the basis of their achievement, control walkthrough deficiencies timely summary. Zhao Tao, deputy inspector in the exercise after the end of his speech, are faced with the constant challenge of emerging infectious diseases, health supervision team to strengthen health emergency institutionalization, standardization, standardization of construction, to the exercise as an opportunity to sum up experience, strengthen combat awareness, strengthen job training, and effectively improve the level of health supervision and law enforcement and operational skills, and establish health surveillance team a good social image, Capital Health Authority to promote the sustained and healthy development.
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text: I am wondering about dialects/accents in the United States. I can recognize a southern accent and a somewhat exaggerated New York accent but that is where it stops. Via different reality shows et cetera one is exposed to the local way of talking in different parts of the United States. For instance, I can't hear a difference in the Real Housewives of Orange County's way of talking as opposed to the Real Housewives of New York City's way of talking. I know my flair for reality shows is worse than kitschy but please overlook this flaw of mine. So to my point, what I am asking of you on this lovely and helpful forum is to help me learn the difference between an East cost accent, West cost accent and a Midwest accent. I know it is hard to explain an accent in a forum and if this is not quite possible can you give me examples of known/famous persons who speak either East, West or Midwest accents that I can look up on google video. Since I can't differentiate between the Real Housewives's accents it is best if the person you are refering to speaks his or her accent somewhat exaggerated. If you find any grammar mistakes in the above text please educate me in that matter aswell as the accent matter.


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Im new and at the pretty basic stages of cake making, I tend to only do it for my childrens birthdays, and its my daughters coming up and I am going to make her a wizards of waverly place spell book cake, the only problem is im not sure on quantities of ingredients to use and how to really go about it as i only have a 8inch square silicone cake mould.
if anyone could help me that would be great,
hi i would recomend you try and rent a book cake tin they are grear im at the beguining of a cake corse to and still on the basicks learning how to carv one on wed
Book cakes are very easy to sculpt/build. You should be able to use the pan you already have. Will the book be open or closed?
ETA: here's a good tutorial on a closed book
Thankyou both for replying
its going to be a closed book, I hunted through my cupboards and found two smaller rectangle tins so i have used them and am going to stack them, now its down to hunting through pictures for inspiration on how to decorate it to make it look as real as possible!


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With the world's population officially surpassing seven billion, this institute addressed the crucial and interlinked issues of population and development, particularly as they affect people in the Global South. What are the most significant population issues in the 21st century? How do population dynamics and the policies designed to address them contribute to or detract from equitable development? How can theories and methods in the social sciences contribute to understanding the relation-ship between population and development, and how can this scholarship contribute to better policies and programs? Participants engaged with cutting-edge theory, innovative and tested research methods, and first-rate scholarship upon which to build their own research programs.
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Kippy! Neat! Seattle's first vintage boutique on wheels hits the streets
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In the spirit of all things adorable and sparkly, the Kippy Ding Ding -- Seattle's first vintage boutique on wheels -- is probably the most fashionable 1965 trailer you will ever see.
Local owners Allison Norris and Amanda Linton welcome stylish thrifters every weekend to racks overflowing with floral print, lace and one-of-a-kind items.
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Little Mix star Perrie Edwards took to her Twitter page to announce that she played a prank on her One Direction boyfriend Zayn Malik.
The How Ya Doin? singer took to the social networking site to tell the world that she has given her beau a colourful makeover.
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text: 22 x 30 – This is something different for me. I was inspired by Sherrill Kahn's articles in Quilting Arts and one of her books. I stamped and painted on black background with homemade stamps, molding mats, and lumiere paints; added some small pieces of painted fabrics and couched fancy yarns. I added the distressed fabric beads on a whim, I don't know if they'll stay. I did quite a bit of free motion in the empty areas with brown thread.


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Thu., July 20, 2006, 8:51 a.m.
WorldNetDaily Poll: What Should Israel Do?
Question: If you were leading Israel, what would you do?
1. Admit that the Zionist state is illegal and a mistake, and throw myself into the sea
2. Move Israel to Europe – the Ahmadinejad solution
3. Trade more land for more peace
4. Start negotiating with all parties involved
5. Exercise restraint by responding only with proportionate violence
6. Declare an immediate ceasefire and withdraw to Israel's border
7. Deal a crippling blow to the terrorists and create a buffer zone to protect Israel
8. Do exactly what Prime Minister Olmert is doing now
9. Take this opportunity to totally destroy Hezbollah
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VietNamNet Bridge – As much as 400 ha of protective forest in southern Bac Lieu Province have been encroached on by the sea since 2009, according to the provincial Department of Forest Management.
VietNamNet Bridge – As much as 400 ha of protective forest in southern Bac Lieu Province have been encroached on by the sea since 2009, according to the provincial Department of Forest Management.
Illustrative image. Department Head Nguyen Van Phuc said 4,600 ha of protective forest are located along a 54km East Sea dyke system, from Soc Trang Province to Bac Lieu Province's Dong Hai District, safeguarding hundreds of thousands of households living in the area.
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He said the forest also protected thousands of hectares of aquaculture and salt production facilities from rising tides, waves and natural disasters.
A recent survey found the thickest part of the forest to be in Hoa Binh District (1.3km) while the thinnest lies in Bac Lieu City's Vinh Trach Dong Commune (60m).
It is reported that the forest area in Vinh Trach Dong Commune has reduced by half in terms of thickness compared to 15 years ago due to sea encroachment.
Phuc confirmed his department, alongside the Dyke Protection Department, has called for increased investment in dyke and embankment construction as well as in tree planting to minimize the ocean's effects on the region.
"The impact of global climate change and illegal logging is threatening provincial forests. If relevant sectors do not act in time, the lives of local people will also come into jeopardy," Phuc said.
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text: I recently bought a 1991 Chevrolet 3500 reg cab dually with 5.7 350 V8 4x4 and a 9x7 contractor sides dump box. The truck only has 18,000 orig. miles. I planned to use it for spring and fall cleanups with a leaf box and towing a 20ft open trailer, landscaping and plowing in winter. My concern is how slow it is! I don't need something fast, but 0-60 empty not towing a thing is around 25 seconds, and towing about 3000-3500lbs is around 45-50 seconds. Is this normal for this engine and set up or is something really wrong? Any input would be greatly appreciated.


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Born in Townsville, Far North Queensland, Natalie Weir began her dance training with Ann Roberts and performed with Roberts' North Queensland Ballet Company, the precursor to Dance North. Here she danced in commissioned works created by a range of Australian choreographers. Weir continued her studies at Kelvin Grove College (now Queensland University of Technology) and began her professional career with Maggi Sietsma's Expressions Dance Company. A founding member of Expressions, Weir danced briefly with the company where she received her first choreographic commission.
Weir draws on an eclectic rage of movement sources in her choreography and her vocabulary most commonly blends both modern dance and ballet. As an independent artist she has choreographed works for most major Australian dance companies including the Australian Ballet, the Dancers Company, Australian Dance Theatre, Dance North, Expressions Dance Company, the Queensland Ballet, Tasdance and West Australian Ballet, and for tertiary dance student ensembles across the country. In 1994 Weir was appointed resident choreographer for the Queensland Ballet where she created seven works. For the Australian Ballet she created Dark Lullaby (1998), Mirror, Mirror (2000) and Carmina Burana (2001), and was appointed resident choreographer in 2000. In 2002 she created the contemporary male and female solos for the Royal Academy of Dance's Genee competition.
For some time Weir has worked extensively outside Australia notably at American Ballet Theatre (ABT). Jabula, created on ABT's Studio Company was performed by the main company. Other ABT commissions include a contribution to the Harrison Project Within You Without You and a solo for Ethan Stiefel, which he performed at the International Ballet Festival Mariinsky. In 2003 she created Heaven, danced to John Adams's Harmonium, as the first part of a two act work called HereAfter for ABT's Metropolitan Opera House season.
Weir has created three works for Houston Ballet: In a Whisper (2000), Steppenwolf (2001) and The Host (2004); two for Hong Kong Ballet: Turandot (2003) and Madama Butterfly; and a restaging of Dark Lullaby for Singapore Dance Theatre in 2003. In Germany she has created Icarus for Tanzcompagnie Giessen and in London set Jabula and Unwritten on the Royal Ballet School. She has also created versions of Wuthering Heights and Petroushka for the Queensland Ballet, In Her Footsteps for Tasdance, Lacrimosa for the West Australian Ballet and Orpheus for the Queensland Ballet.
In January 2009 Weir returned to Expressions Dance Company as artistic director. Her first full-length work for the company as artistic director, Where the Heart Is, drew on her 2009 shorter work The House Project and premiered in May 2010. In July 2011 Weir created a major work, R&J, interpreting Shakespeare's play through three couples, each located in a different historical period and place including the Fortitude Valley area of present day Brisbane. Also in 2011 Weir received the Australian Dance Award for outstanding performance by a company with her work Where the heart is. The same work won Weir the Helpmann Award for best choreography in a dance or physical theatre production and Expressions Dance Company the award for best ballet or dance work.
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Scene of the Crime: Photo by Weegee (September 20, 2005 to January 22, 2006) (12)
- The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center (Los Angeles), September 20, 2005 to January 22, 2006
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Frank Pape, Arrested for Homicide
Weegee (Arthur Fellig) (American, born Austria, 1899 - 1968)
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The men, women, and children who commit murders always fascinate me...I will say one thing for the men and women who kill...they are Ladies and Gentlemen...cooperating with me so I will get a good shot of them.
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In this classic Weegee image, sixteen-year old Frank Pape sits in a "pie wagon," accused of strangling a four-year old boy. Weegee often used windows and fences as visual elements to frame and thus draw attention to his subjects. Here, the wagon door's chain-link fencing creates a dominant pattern, brightened by proximity to Weegee's intense flashbulb. The fence seems to isolate Pape's face and hands within diamonds of crisscrossing wire. This draws attention to the youth's lost-in-thought expression and symbolically hints at his narrowing options.


text: Hi, I Am most likely getting an atrix 4g soon. I just have a quesiton or two. I know ICS has been announced for the atrix 4g, But is it available now? Not through a hack or root or whatever, But Is it available for update now, or not? Also, I watch feature videos of what features come with the new updates. Does the atrix get all of these features? Like the face unlock? And does it have that TV effect when you put it to sleep? thanks!


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The Mendocino High School Cardinals tennis team hosted the Fort Bragg Timberwolves and defeated them 5-0 at home on March 14. In singles matches, Cardinals' Scott Duncan defeated Timberwolves' Meghana Kao 6-3, 6-1. Justin Daniel defeated Savannah Whaley 6-2, 6-2 and Quin Fields defeated Trent Barclay 6-0, 6-0.
In doubles matches, Mendocino's Jin Jackson and Isla Bowery defeated Fort Bragg's Lena Philliber and Ty Triplett 6-0, 6-2 and Tessa Dickson and Gabriel Geiger defeated Angie Martinez and Vivian Fontanilla 6-2, 6-0.
In exhibition doubles, Yaa Amissah-Aidoo and Calum Pulido defeated Cheyanne Cooper and Julia Ravella 8-0.
Mendocino's next home match is tomorrow, Friday, March 28 at the Little River Inn tennis courts against Point Arena. On Tuesday, April 1, the Cardinals have a rematch with the Timberwolves in Fort Bragg at the Bainbridge Park tennis courts. Matches start at 4 p.m.


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What with the washout of this year's summer, not to mention the latest reports of food prices rising as a result of said bad weather, it perhaps comes as no surprise that Nyetimber has decided to skip this year's harvest.
The southern England-based winery announced the decision based upon the quality and volume of the 2012 harvest.
'The decision to not make wine from 2012 is a difficult one, not just for me but for our whole team,' said Nyetimber winemaker Cherie Spriggs. 'However, we all know that maintaining quality is paramount. My first obligation as the winemaker is to ensure the quality of Nyetimber's wines, and we have collectively come to the decision that the grapes from 2012 cannot deliver the standards we have achieved in the past and will again in the future.'
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Online civic participation among youth: an extension of traditional participation, or a new quality?
Serek, Jan, Petrovicova, Z, Machackova, H and Macek, P (2012) Online civic participation among youth: an extension of traditional participation, or a new quality? In: Surrey PIDOP Conference on "Political and Civic Participation", 16 - 17 April 2012, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK. (Unpublished)
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Justice Minister Fotis Kouvelis promised Tuesday that as long as he holds office, there would be no extradition of a Palestinian wanted in the United States to stand trial for allegedly bombing a Pan American Airways jet over Honolulu in 1982.
Kouvelis, a Communist, offered his pledge to 15 pro-Palestinian activists, who occupied his office at the Justice Ministry while he was briefing the news media.
The intruders, members of the Movement for Political and Social Rights, are championing the cause of Mohammed Rashid, 34, alias Rashid Hamdan, who was arrested at Athens airport in May 1988 for entering the country on a forged Syrian passport.
He has been in jail ever since, pending a decision on the American extradition request, which may be long in coming.
While the Greek Supreme Court ruled last year that Rashid should be extradited, the final decision under Greek law lies with the justice minister.
In May, then Justice Minister Yannis Skoularikis, a member of the Socialist regime of former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou, decided to defer a decision until after the June 18 national elections.
The Socialists were defeated and replaced by a coalition of conservatives and Communist-led alliance of leftist factions.
The new government appears to have shelved Rashid's case along with two other delicate issues — the future of American military bases in Greece and diplomatic relations with Israel.


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It is official, less than two months until Christmas!!! I have been busy like an elf, making cards for all the good boys and girls :D Now I just need a day off from my weekend card making frenzy (I "whipped up" about 40 cards and 40 the weekend prior too) - I am officially pooped!! Only about 15 more to go!
I feel the Christmas spirit - everytime I made a card that had "Let it Snow" or a "Holly Jolly Christmas" embellishment would (and still does) put me in song.


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Driver's blood being tested after Ithaca Commons disaster
Fri, 27 Jun 2014 20:44:46 GMT —
One week after the deadly crash involving a rig hauling vehicles on the Ithaca Commons, police reveal the driver gave a blood sample and it is being tested. Police observations of the driver, Viacheslav Grychanyi, after the crash do not lead them to believe he was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but the blood test is required under law.
Police now say the rig was operated by a company known as Quality Re-Locating Services out of Spokane, Washington. This company is formerly known as Auto Star Transport. Contradictory to published reports, the truck and trailer are fully insured, investigators now say. Police have learned the rig was in Tompkins County to pick-up another motor vehicle for transport.
The crash killed a well liked bartender at Simeon's Restaurant. Amanda Bush, 27, was the mother of a young child and pregnant at the time of her death.
Seven people were hospitalized after the crash, most of them with minor cuts and bruises. All seven are now out of the hospital.
Investigators have determined that at some point during the descent down the East State Street hill, Grychanyi lost the ability to adequately slow down the truck and trailer. The circumstances surrounding how and why this occurred are currently under investigation. One of the many components of the braking system on the truck and trailer was found to be in need of repair.
However, it is undetermined at this time if the condition of this component was a contributing factor in the collision.
Grychanyi was issued two traffic tickets, charging him with Overlength Tractor and Trailer and Defective Brake Limit Device. He is set to answer the charges in court next Wednesday, July 2 at 11:00 a.m.


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ON PASSAGE OF THE TORTURE VICTIMS RELIEF ACT--H.R. 1678 -- (Extensions of Remarks - May 03, 2007)
* Mr. UDALL of Colorado. Madam Speaker, last week I was pleased to have the opportunity to vote to extend the Torture Victims Relief Act (TVRA). I have been a cosponsor of this legislation since 2003. In the last Congress, the bill became law, but it authorized appropriations only through the end of fiscal year 2007. So it's important that Congress act to renew it before the current authorization expires. H.R. 1678 authorizes for two years additional appropriations for domestic centers and programs for the treatment of victims of torture, for foreign centers for the treatment of victims of torture, and for the U.N. Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture.
* There is no question about the need for this funding. Two-thirds of the world's countries still practice torture. An estimated 500,000 torture survivors live in the United States, and about 1,100 refugees and 400 asylum seekers enter my state of Colorado alone each year. Repressive governments use torture to target the very leaders who share our principles of freedom and democracy. Without their voices, communities are fearful. But torture treatment can undo the legacy of torture and reclaim the leaders who stand with us in promoting human rights and the rule of law.
* I am proud that one of the most effective domestic torture treatment centers is located in Colorado. This year is the tenth anniversary of the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center (RMSC), which has served over 1,000 survivors of torture from over 53 different countries and regions around the world, in 35 languages. The RMSC is working hard to ensure that torture survivors in Colorado become functioning members of the citizenry through its in-house Legal Services, physical and mental healthcare, psychosocial services, and interpreter services. Most recently, RMSC introduced a community development effort to bring the topic of torture and its impact to newcomer communities in Colorado and hear from those newcomers what that impact has been on the larger community, the families of survivors and the survivors themselves.
* The Rocky Mountain Survivor Center also educates providers, healthcare systems, and community members about torture and how to work to heal the wounds of torture, as well as how to work to ameliorate and eradicate torture itself. The RMSC stands firmly as a voice for the voiceless in Colorado and as a beacon of hope for those whose hope has been stolen by torture. Domestic centers like RMSC receive funding from the Office of Refugee Settlement in the Health and Human Services Department and other private sources to assist survivors of torture and war trauma and their families. But levels of funding for the domestic and international parts of this program don't begin to match authorization levels. Domestic torture treatment programs were funded at almost $10 million in FY 2007 (and have been funded at this same level since 2000), fully $15 million short of authorized levels. International torture treatment centers were funded at $8.5 million in FY07, $4.5 million short of authorized levels. And the U.S. contribution to the U.N. Fund for Victims of Torture was funded at $6.5 million in FY07, $1.5 million short of authorized levels.
* The Torture Victims Relief Act is vitally necessary for the work of rehabilitation in this country, but the domestic portion of the bill is woefully underfunded to accomplish this task. There are well over 500,000 survivors of torture in America today, many of whom do not get the services they need because of the shortage of funds. The U.N. Fund and international portions of the bill should also be generously funded to ensure America's leadership in the fight against torture throughout the world through partnerships and building capacity at centers devoted to healing of torture victims.
* When Congress adopted the Torture Victims Relief Act last year, we made a commitment to ensure our population of victims of torture wouldn't be left behind. Now is the time to fulfill that promise and demonstrate that survivors of torture won't be forgotten on our watch.
* So I am pleased that this bill passed overwhelmingly in the House, and I urge my colleagues to demonstrate the same enthusiasm when considering appropriation levels for TVRA programs in the next fiscal year.
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Nairobi, August 1 (IANS) England international Mike Friday has resigned as Kenya's Rugby Sevens head coach.
Friday sent a letter to Kenya Rugby Union (KRU) Wednesday saying he will not be able to continue with his stint, which expires in 2014, Xinhua reports.
"I have not taken this decision lightly. Kenya Sevens team are a fantastic group of players and it has been a privilege to have worked with them. They are precious assets that need to be given the support by Kenyan rugby in order to maximise their potentialy," said Friday in the letter to union chairman Mwangi Muthee.
Friday was appointed coach in May 2012, taking over from Kenyan Benjamin Ayimba. He led the team to one of its best performances in New Zealand in February during the World Series where Kenya wound up third, losing to England 19-24 in extra time.