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ROME, Italy ― Earlier this week Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's usual woes ― a sluggish economy, his own trials for corruption and abetting prostitution ― were compounded by something new: electoral defeat.
Voters rejected Berlusconi's favored candidate on what is basically his own doorstep: Arcore, a quiet suburban town of about 20,000 inhabitants a few miles from Milan.
Arcore, though small, is familiar name to every Italian: It is the home of the prime minister's private residence, the 18th-century Villa San Martino. This is where, according to prosecutors, Berlusconi held his infamous "bunga bunga parties."
Now Arcore's citizens have elected a woman, Rosalba Colombo, a 53-year old housewife, as their new mayor.
"I have won in the wolf's lair," Colombo told reporters after her victory. She used the contrast between her unglamorous appearance and the high-heeled, scantily-clad girls who used to attend the prime minister's parties as an asset in her campaign.
When in February women across Italy took to the streets to protest against Berlusconi, a small but well organized crowd filled Arcore's main square, recalled Fabiana Camolese, a 29-year old teacher who has lived there for three years.
"I don't know much about [Colombo's] program, but after all what a mayor has to do in a small town such as Arcore is pretty straightforward," said Camolese. "But I am proud that a woman has been elected here in Arcore. It feels like a small revenge."
In local elections across Italy in the last 15 days, the center-left opposition has gained ground, and especially in the wealthier north, previously Berlusconi territory.
The most symbolic blow against the prime minister came from Milan, Italy's second city and economic capitol, where the media tycoon made his first millions in real estate in the 1970s.
After 18 years of center-right administrations and a bruising campaign that Berlusconi himself depicted as a referendum on himself and his government, the Milanesi elected Giuliano Pisapia, a mild-mannered lawyer from a formerly communist far-left party, as mayor. In the run-off Sunday, he crushed the incumbent, Letizia Moratti, with a 55.1 percent majority.
Naples was another key defeat. There, Berlusconi's candidate expected to breeze into office against an outgoing center-left coalition tainted by the mismanagement of a waste-disposal crisis that left tons of uncollected rubbish in the streets. But he was defeated by Luigi De Magistris, a former anti-corruption judge from the fiercely anti-Berlusconi "Italy of Values" party.
The prime minister's coalition lost in several other mid-size towns across the country where, according to polls, it had been safely in the lead until a few weeks ago. Now, the junior party in his government, the separatist Northern League, has intensified its maneuvering to distance itself from Berlusconi. Analysts predict that his already shaky government might fall.
What seems to have changed is voters' sympathy for the prime minister.
Despite the scandals that surrounded him in recent months, Berlusconi had remained popular with the Italian public. He cast himself as a martyr, persecuted by "Communist judges," accusing the left of trying to bring him down in court after being unable to beat him at the polls. Now, it seems, voters aren't buying it.
"Arcore is usually a toss-up," said Giuseppe Civati, the local opposition councilor for Arcore in the regional assembly of Lombardy. "We win it in the good times and we lose it when the wind is against us." Berlusconi's scandals might have proven the decisive factor this year for many moderate voters. The town, Civati said, has a love-hate relationship with Berlusconi.
For one thing, locals have noted the increased security around the prime minister's estate, said Camolese, the teacher: "My boyfriend was questioned by police just because he paused near his villa to make a phone call."
It would seem locals' sympathy is wearing thin.


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Don DeFiore is an early riser, and the way he figures it, if he's up, he might as well go to work. He often arrives at the City of Denver's wastewater building a good ninety minutes before the start of his 7 a.m. shift, using the extra time to relax and read the paper or get a jump on his paperwork. It's a habit he's developed after 26 years on the job.
Still, DeFiore isn't always the first to show up; until a few months ago, there was a running joke around the plant about who'd arrive earlier on any given day--DeFiore or Richard Brady, an equipment specialist who'd worked at Wastewater Management a year longer than DeFiore. Brady was frequently ensconced in a corner of the work bay, drinking a cup of tea and listening to country music on the radio when DeFiore got in.
In the early hours of January 17, however, DeFiore pretty much had the office, a gothic hulk of a building that sits on West Third Avenue just west of Interstate 25, to himself. The 56-year-old Brady was nowhere to be seen. And at 5:40 a.m., when janitor Lawrence Mason rushed frantically through the building calling for help, DeFiore was the first person he came across. Something was wrong with 27-year-old security guard John Adamo, Mason told DeFiore. "He said he was bleeding and that he didn't want to go back and check him by himself," DeFiore remembers. "I said I'd go and that maybe he needed an ambulance."
DeFiore and Mason took the elevator to the sixth floor. "As the elevator opened, I saw his feet first," DeFiore recalls. "[Mason] said, 'I can't go out there.' So I told him, 'Just hold the elevator.' I thought [Adamo] might have fallen. But once I looked at him and at all the blood, I realized he was dead.
"The cops came right away," DeFiore adds. "They separated me and Lawrence--I don't know why they do that--and then the cops questioned me for about an hour. They asked me about Richard [Brady]. They said, 'What do you know about him? Is it possible he could have done this?' And I said, 'No, no. You're barking up the wrong tree.'"
It seemed to DeFiore that Denver police detectives were jumping to conclusions, placing too much importance on the fact that, a day earlier, Brady had been placed on temporary paid leave following an argument with Adamo. After all, Brady was a hardworking family man, the father of four grown daughters and the guy who manned the barbecue at company picnics. In all his years working alongside Brady, DeFiore had never known him to have trouble with his co-workers. "He got along with everybody," DeFiore says.
But even as DeFiore was being interviewed, police were closing in on Brady. Just hours later, faced with mounting evidence, Brady allegedly confessed to shooting Adamo after a series of on-the-job confrontations.
The homicide has shaken many of the Wastewater department's 300 employees, particularly those who knew both Brady and Adamo. People have been taking sides, says one employee who asks to remain anonymous, and there's been a great deal of misplaced anger and blame. "We're all still in shock after five months," says Reza Kazemian, Wastewater's director of operations.
Compounding the tragedy is the fact that Adamo's murder occurred just two weeks after Wastewater employees had begun receiving training on violence in the workplace. They were taught how to identify threats and what measures to take with an employee who appeared to be on the edge.
Even so, nobody was ready for what happened. "It was so extreme," Kazemian says. "It's beyond anyone's imagination. No matter how much training you receive, you're never ready for something like this."
Workplace violence has become a numbingly familiar phenomenon. "Going postal" is part of the American vernacular, and according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, homicide is now second only to accidents as the leading cause of death in the workplace.
Many of those murders are the result of robberies or domestic disputes. But violence that pits one employee against another has become so prevalent that counselors and therapists hired by employers spend much of their time trying to head off such outbreaks.
"This sounds awful," says Loveland psychotherapist Art Barker, who serves as a consultant to numerous large businesses. "But I think we are more accepting of violence than we used to be. What I mean by that is that violence has become a viable option for many people as a way to problem-solve."
Concerned about the growing predicament--and worried that a failure to provide a safe workplace could expose them to legal liability--many large organizations, including the United States Postal Service and some metropolitan governments, have begun developing preventive strategies. In 1994 Denver psychologist John Nicoletti teamed with the Mountain States Employers Council to publish an employers' handbook on the subject. In February 1995 Denver Mayor Wellington Webb issued Executive Order 112, outlining a policy of zero tolerance for violence--or even the threat of violence--at city job sites.
As part of that executive order, the city arranged for its Career Service Authority to provide "trickle-down" training for personnel officers, who would attend in-depth classes and then train employees under their direction.
"It was '96, maybe late '95, when we got together," says Rama Mallett, human-resources director for the Department of Public Works. "We had a couple sixteen-hour sessions with professional trainers, and we talked about dispute resolution. There is a video series on violence-in-the-workplace issues, and Career Services bought some of those tapes and gave some out to each of the agencies. They also developed an eight-hour training session."
Mallett attended the lengthy training sessions, along with members of her staff and Manager of Public Works Bruce Baumgartner. But it was decided that the department couldn't afford to provide a full-day class for each of its 1,300 employees. "We condensed it into a two-hour training, with extra training for supervisors on how to manage violent situations and what their responsibilities are," Mallett says.
Employees were to be given booklets that included step-by-step instructions on how to report threats or violence, as well as phone numbers of persons to call if they believed that they or a fellow employee might need counseling. Lists of early warning signs were prepared. And workers were scheduled to sit through a 25-minute videotape that hammers home the importance of early intervention. The star of that tape, now required viewing for Public Works employees, is Oklahoma prison inmate William Cartwright, who is presently serving a life term for killing his boss and then slashing the throat of his boss's wife with a hunting knife the couple had given him for Christmas.
Mallett and her staff began training Public Works employees in the fall of 1996. By late December they'd worked their way to Wastewater Management.
"As I understand it," Mallett says, "we were just finishing up the training when it happened."
Richard Brady was 29 when he started working for the city. From the beginning, he was seen as devoted and hardworking. "Richard had to be pretty sick to miss work," DeFiore says. "Richard came to work every day. If he called in sick, you knew he was probably dying. And he was never late. Never."
Brady's dedication to his city post was particularly praiseworthy given that it wasn't his only job. "He worked three jobs to support his family," DeFiore says. "He was a janitor in the schools for a long time, I think maybe ten years. He'd get off at 3:30 p.m. and then go off to his other job.
"He wanted the nicer things in life for himself and his family," DeFiore continues. "He bought a house. A beautiful house."
Brady's job was to run a high-powered jet that cleaned out sanitary sewers. His specialty was working the lines that run through people's backyards. Each morning a supervisor produced a route for Brady to follow, and he and a utility worker would head out on a truck mounted with 1,000 feet of hose. Brady would run the hose down a manhole, attach to it a specialized jet (the largest, known as "the big bomb," sprays out water at a force greater than a firehose) and let rip.
Brady took a great deal of pride in his work, DeFiore says, but he was set in the way he did it, sometimes to the point of bullheadedness. "If you left Richard alone to do his job, he did it," DeFiore says. "I don't think he was truly hepped up on authority, because he felt he didn't need it. Maybe he didn't need it.
"He ran this equipment for a lot of years, and I'm not the type who'd try to tell him how to set the truck up. If I had an idea, Richard would listen, but maybe if I left, he'd do it his own way. He had a definite idea about the way the job should be done."
Brady, DeFiore and another Wastewater worker named Vic Padilla started their jobs at roughly the same time and remained friendly, if not always close. Padilla quickly got on the fast track, working his way up through the agency. He's now deputy manager for operations at Public Works, one of the department's top posts. DeFiore's rise was more modest, though he was made a supervisor nine years ago. Brady, however, never rose above the level of equipment operator specialist.
About five years ago, when an opening came up for an operations supervisor, Brady decided to go for it. "He didn't pass the test," DeFiore recalls. "And Richard, he's not dumb. But he said he had a problem with tests. And he studied."
When he learned he wasn't on the promotions list, Brady resigned himself to sticking with the same job he'd held for decades. "He got a good wage, and he didn't have many bills," DeFiore says. "I believe he was happy with that."
If Brady wasn't happy with his job, he was at least content to stay with it. He would have been eligible for retirement this year, and some of his co-workers thought he would take advantage of the opportunity. But DeFiore says Brady wanted to stay on until he turned 62 so he could get a bigger pension while also drawing Social Security. "I think he wanted to pay off his RV."
Brady's recreational vehicle was the key to his life outside work. He liked to fish and he liked to travel. "I know that one year he and his wife drove down to Branson, Missouri," DeFiore says. "One year they went to New Orleans, and one year to Vegas, though he wasn't much of a gambler."
He wasn't much for partying, either. "As far as going out and having a couple beers after work, Richard wasn't that type," DeFiore says. "I used to take the crew out to dinner or drinks one day a year, right around Christmas time, because they do me a good job. [Brady] would have a ball. That was one day of the year he really looked forward to."
Aside from those details, Brady's personal life was a mystery to his co-workers. They describe him as a family man, but some can't remember if he has three grown daughters or four. He pretty much kept to himself and to his rituals, sitting in a certain seat in a corner of the first-floor work bay every morning, drinking tea and waiting for 7 a.m.
According to San Francisco clinical psychologist Chris Hatcher, who helped make the Cartwright videotape used in Denver's violence-in-the-workplace training, many people believe a violent employee is someone who simply snaps. But the idea that a person is a regular guy one day and a killer the next is a myth, says Hatcher. "That's rarely the case."
Experts say perpetrators often give out warning signals, perhaps by making veiled threats. They may have a preoccupation with weaponry and a history of violence or substance abuse. And contrary to popular belief, the employees are rarely new to a company. They may also be articulate and bright. In addition, Denver's training manual notes, "individuals who commit workplace violence almost always have had some degree of success, both in the workplace and in their personal lives...However, these individuals do believe that something very important (a job promotion, raise or transfer, for example), has been unfairly taken from them...If the organization does not give this to them, they are willing to risk everything to strike back at the organization, even where there is the possibility of injury to co-workers or themselves."
Barker says that despite the fact that experts use profiles to identify high-risk individuals, "no one can predict with any kind of accuracy if they will commit violence. There are plenty of people who rate high on the scale but still don't do violence."
The incidents themselves, though, follow two basic scenarios. "First," says Barker, "there's the personal. A guy follows his estranged wife to work and shoots her after finding out she's going with another guy. On the other side, you've got someone who's experiencing trouble at work. They're being disciplined, terminated, fired."
The common denominator, Barker says, is that the perpetrators believe an injustice has been done to them. All the incidents, he says, "have a flavor of people having gone over the edge, because what sets them off are things we have to deal with all the time---being fired, falsely accused, going through a divorce. People just don't go home and lock and load.
"My own belief," the therapist continues, "is that most people have other avenues to help them deal with situations. Some people have religion, some have family, some have an internal belief that they're going to be okay no matter how badly the world is treating them.
"Other people feel helpless. They don't believe that anything is going to change. They don't believe they can start over and continue on. They just don't have peace--or if they had it, they lost it."
The Wastewater Management building sits along the Platte River near land that has become home to the homeless. The tents and shanties of transients are set up by the water, behind a barnlike structure that city employees call "The Butler Building." Vagrants have been known to wander onto the Wastewater grounds, steal city property and break into cars. For that reason, the city hired a security company to watch over the building and grounds after moving into the new headquarters building in 1993. A lone, uniformed officer made the rounds. Because Wastewater was not considered a dangerous post, the guards were unarmed.
John Adamo had been working for Wells Fargo and patrolling the Wastewater building for nearly a year when C&D Bonded Security Service won the city contract in November 1996. Adamo could have stayed with Wells Fargo and taken a post elsewhere, but he liked what he was doing, says C&D general manager Troy Thames. So Adamo accepted a job with C&D and stayed on the graveyard shift at Wastewater.
He patrolled the building from 11 p.m. until 7 a.m. for the grand salary of $8 an hour plus benefits. Adamo was allowed to sign up for the life-insurance program, but he turned it down, opting instead for the equivalent amount in pay. "He was a young guy, not married," Thames says. "They don't think about dying."
Adamo didn't have much contact with Wastewater employees; though cleaning crews were in and out of the building at night, he was usually getting off work as the city's morning shift started.
Adamo didn't plan on being a security guard forever. He wanted to go to college "and buy a house some day," says Thames. But while Adamo was at Wastewater, he was determined to be as good a guard as he could. Some employees appreciated his diligence. Some didn't.
"This man carried the job too far," Wastewater construction crew supervisor Anthony Aragon says of Adamo. "He took his job too seriously. If you pull up to the [entry] gate and the other guards recognize you or your car, they'll open it. But this guy, you had to get on the intercom. He thought he was a policeman, not a guard."
Over the years, longtime employees at Wastewater had become accustomed to taking little liberties with city property. Aragon, for example, pulled his car into the garage on a couple of occasions and used the air hose to fill his tires. Others washed their vehicles in the truck bays, where water jets made the job quick and easy.
On or about January 9, Richard Brady pulled his own pickup truck into the bay to rinse off the road salt. He babied that old truck so much, says Aragon, that "you'd think it was new. That's how good he took care of it." Officially, employees weren't allowed to use the bays to wash off their personal vehicles, and when Adamo spotted Brady in the bay, he told him to stop. Brady, however, reportedly continued washing his truck until it was clean.
Adamo noted the incident in his report the following morning. It was a minor infraction, but Brady's immediate supervisor did speak with him about it. "They just told him not to do it again," DeFiore says. That would have closed the book on the incident. But Brady wouldn't, or couldn't, let the matter drop.
On Friday, January 10, according to an incident report Adamo wrote and filed with the building supervisor, Brady stormed into the guards' office and pointed a finger at Adamo. "You're a little rat motherfucker," Brady reportedly said. "You and I are going to war."
The confrontation unnerved Adamo so much that he told his father of his concerns. "That weekend," John Adamo Sr. later wrote in a statement to detectives, "he said he had been threatened again, but this time he was very shaken by the way this man went about the threat. Many rough, verbal and physical gestures. My son was scared. I asked him to just quit, or to ask for a transfer to another location, but he said he couldn't do that."
Supervisors warned Brady to keep his distance from the guard. Kazemian says he spoke to Brady for half an hour. "I heard that management was going to let this go if Richard would just leave the gentleman alone and let him go by the wayside," DeFiore says. "They knew what caliber of man [Brady] is."
Brady apparently did leave Adamo alone for a couple of days. "The last time my son talked to me about this man that threatened him," John Adamo Sr. wrote in his statement to police, "he told me that this man did not even acknowledge his presence; it was as if my son was not there. My son told me that he felt very relieved and that he could live with this. He told me not to worry because, 'this looks like the end of it.'"
But on January 14 Adamo filed another report, accusing Brady of threatening him yet again. "He told me, 'If you're going to write something...you need to get it right,'" Adamo wrote. Brady then left, only to return to the guards' office a short time later to tell Adamo to remove his motorcycle from the garage, where the guard had been parking it.
By the following day, DeFiore had heard about Brady's troubles with Adamo and decided to speak to him about it. "I told him, 'I can't believe you're taking this thing to heart; just let it go,'" DeFiore recalls. "He just told me, he said, 'This guy has no right doing what he's doing.' He said, 'I wasn't hurting anybody, Donnie.' I said, 'You don't want to jeopardize what you have here.' And he said, 'I don't know if I want to let it go.'"
Wastewater maintains records of disciplinary actions against employees for five years, says Kazemian. Brady's record from 1991 through 1996 was clear. Still, Kazemian decided he couldn't allow the situation to escalate further. "I personally told him that I wanted to separate them so he could cool off," Kazemian says. "I said, 'You are not going to lose your job over this.'"
Nonetheless, Kazemian decided he had to place Brady on investigative leave. The paid suspension was to last four days, from Thursday, January 16, to Tuesday, January 21, at which time Kazemian would conduct a fact-finding hearing.
By Tuesday, the issue of a hearing was moot.
Denver homicide detectives summoned to the Wastewater building by DeFiore's 911 call found a particularly brutal crime scene. Adamo had been shot six times, in the head, face, leg and hands.
Less than four hours later Denver officers showed up at Brady's Northglenn home and asked him to come downtown for questioning. Brady went willingly.
Initially, Brady asserted his innocence, according to police reports. Shortly before noon, he signed a consent form allowing detectives to search his house and car. He also submitted to a gunshot-residue test, which is used to determine if a person has recently fired a weapon. When officers told Brady they'd found a box of .32-caliber shells behind the seat of his truck--the same caliber used to kill Adamo--Brady tried to explain it away by claiming that he collects ammunition to sell at flea markets. The questioning dragged on. At 4 p.m. Brady agreed to submit to a polygraph test.
Denver detective Don Vecchi testified at Brady's February 18 preliminary hearing that the polygraph indicated Brady's answers were deceptive. The gunshot-residue test came back positive. When detectives confronted Brady with that information, Vecchi testifed, their suspect began to talk.
"He said he went to the Wastewater building and that he saw Adamo get on the elevator," Vecchi testified. "He got on, too, but he said he didn't say anything, because he knew he wasn't supposed to. He said Adamo said to him, 'I don't care what you say, I'm still going to park my motorcycle in the garage.' And Brady said, 'The hell you are.' And then Adamo hit him or shoved him with his [hand-held] radio."
Vecchi said Brady told officers that in the ensuing struggle, "he heard his gun go off but did not remember pulling the trigger."
According to a police report, Brady added that he "kept thinking to himself that he could not believe what he had just done and the number of lives he had ruined."
After the alleged confession, officers placed Brady under arrest. The day after the murder, according to a police report, Brady told another detective in a jailhouse interview that he'd tossed his gun into the Platte River. Although Brady reportedly provided detailed directions to the site, police officers and the fire department's dive team were unable to find a weapon.
Brady, whose lawyer has instructed him not to talk about the incident, has since pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder. Defense attorney Phil Cherner is now trying to get Brady's statements to police thrown out, claiming that officers didn't read Brady his rights until several hours after they began questioning him and allegedly ignored a faxed request from Cherner that they not talk to his client. Brady's trial is set for July 22.
At Wastewater, news of Adamo's death and Brady's arrest was met with astonishment. "I could not believe it," DeFiore says. "I didn't believe it. I didn't believe that a man I knew could do that."
Many employees were given the day off, Kazemian says. When they returned to work the following Tuesday (Monday had marked the observance of Martin Luther King Day), they were met by a crisis team from Denver Health Medical Center and, later, by a counseling group set up by John Nicoletti and the city's employee-assistance program.
"When the psych team came in," says a Public Works employee, "Denver Health warned us that the natural process of dealing with this would be as diverse as how people deal with the grieving process. But they did tell us some things to look for. It turned out to be so accurate that it was frightening.
"They said there would be a lot of frustration, and that some [workers] wouldn't want to blame the suspect and that they'd have to blame someone else," adds the employee.
People are bound to develop allegiances after years of working alongside each other, says Chris Weimer, director of the city's Office of Employee Assistance. "I know it was uncomfortable for many people, because they didn't know who to be angry at," notes Weimer. "And often, their anger is misdirected. As people try to make sense out of things that are senseless, they sometimes do that by pointing fingers. They go for the biggest target. And the city is the biggest target."
At the counseling session, says the Public Works employee who was present, "some of the guys were reacting violently, stirring up the group. The psychological team said they were using the situation to further their own agenda. They were saying stuff like, 'I knew this was going to happen.' You could tell their comments were not meant to be constructive. They were meant to be destructive."
Some employees "absolutely" blamed management for what happened, says DeFiore. "Some people felt Richard was getting a bum rap. They'd say, 'He'd been down here 26 years. Why was he placed on investigative leave?' You know, 'Why'd they do this? Why'd they do that?'
"Some people still harbor a grudge," concedes DeFiore. "But they might carry a grudge against management no matter what."
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The city declared a moratorium on violence-in-the-workplace training for a month after Adamo's death. When the program started up again, some employees were quick to point out what they saw as similarities between Richard Brady and the prototypical perpetrator described in the training materials.
"Hindsight is twenty-twenty," Kazemian says. "There were people who'd say things like, 'He always sat in one chair, like it was his own little domain.' I don't claim to be a trained professional psychologist--I'm a professional engineer and manager--but I never saw a problem. He was the hardest worker I had here."
Tempers have cooled since the homicide, but the violence that shook the agency has left its mark. Today there are not one, but two security guards on the graveyard shift at Wastewater Management. Both of them are armed.

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The newest Haunted attraction to hit Milwaukee
Sep. 9, 2008
This haunted location is underneath Paulo's Pizza. There have been reports of zombie activity and the creation of a powerful hideous monster. This is sure to be the newest scary place to visit! Plus, you can enjoy your last meal at Paulo's Pizza right before entering the fate that awaits below.
Monster Mayhem opens Friday September 26 and closes after Sunday November 2. Their hours of operations are Friday and Saturday from 6pm to midnight, and Sunday 6pm to 11pm. It costs $13.00, you can get a dollar off by bringing a non-perishable food item. They are located at Paulo's Pizza, 5121 W. Howard Avenue.
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On a busy Friday afternoon last week, a line of customers proved the value of a smalltime meat market, as they waited patiently for two apprentice butchers who chopped, sliced and wrapped cuts of beef, pork and fowl in stark white butcher paper.
Karana, an Iraqi native, came to the United States after the first Gulf War. After working in Detroit for a few years as a butcher at various stores, he came to Lansing for the opportunity to run his own business. He bought Nineteen Ten four years ago.
Although he doesnt process whole animals, Karana said his shop offers the vast majority of cuts from beef, pork and chicken. Want ox tail? Nineteen Teen will it cut any way you want; its good for soups and stews.
"Each meat has different taste — New York strip is different from T-bone and ribeye," Karana said, while explaining the array of flavors found in cuts of beef. "The meat by the side of the bone is more tender. And when you cut the cow from the shoulder, these cuts of meat are different from cuts on the side."
Although Karana does minimal processing on site, the enormous slabs of uncut bacon in the display case hint at the possibilities customers have to fashion their meat the way they want. Karana said if you want 20 strips of bacon cut thick and 20 thin, that's what you'll get. "At (supermarkets) theres a package right in front of you — you want it, take it, you dont, leave it." Karana said. But it's different at Nineteen Ten. "You ask for what you need, we do it for you."
Part of the appeal of a shop like Karana's is the opportunity to learn more about the food you buy and experiment with the knowledge you gain, whether its which steak is your favorite or what type of sausage suits you best.
Karana works to keep his suppliers as close as possible to ensure freshness; three of four hail from the Midwest, with one from Flint and one from Detroit. Orders and shipments are starting to pick up now that warmer days point to grilling season.
When it comes to his own backyard grill, Karana isn't very picky. "I like the meat all," he said, laughing. So do his customers. And they especially like Nineteen Tens attention to detail. Karana once cut 150 steaks 4 inches by 2 inches and a half-inch thick and wrapped them individually for a special order. "Anything the customer asks, we do it for them," Karana said. "People like what they want."
Nineteen Ten Meat Market, 2203 W. Holmes Road, Lansing. 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Sunday. (517) 887-0404.


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After the fight over statewide redistricting created two delays, election day in Texas is finally here.
There isn't a contested presidential primary to capture the fascination of voters. But there are some interesting, potentially historic contests on the state and local scenes.
Here is a final pre-election analysis of the top races.
U.S. Senate
Everyone knows Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is the front-runner to replace retiring Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison in the GOP primary.
Will he win without a runoff?
Former Texas Solicitor General Ted Cruz has appealed to tea party activists across the state. He's tried to brand Dewhurst as a "timid career politician" who has hung on too long.
Cruz's success depends on voters actually believing that Dewhurst is less than conservative.
Texas is a state where nearly every GOP officeholder is more conservative than your average Republican elsewhere, including Gov. Rick Perry.
So to force a runoff, Cruz and his opponents have to get support from voters aligned with the Texas political establishment and hope that Dewhurst doesn't get backing from tea party members.
Former Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert has made a valiant run but needs a big turnout from North Texas supporters to finish in the top two.
Craig James, the former ESPN analyst who was once part of SMU's famed Pony Express football backfield, got in the race too late to have a major impact.
33rd Congressional District
With 11 candidates in the Democratic primary, there will be a runoff.
It's likely that at least one candidate from Tarrant County makes the July 31 second round.
In the two-week early voting period, Tarrant County voters outpolled their counterparts in Dallas by more than a 2-1 ratio. That's good news for state Rep. Marc Veasey, who raised more money from individual contributors than any candidate in the race.
Veasey targeted black voters in the district. They clearly went to the polls at a higher percentage than Hispanics in early balloting.
What's more, about 40 percent of voters were inside the district Veasey currently represents in the Texas House.
The high Tarrant County numbers are also good news for Fort Worth council member Kathleen Hicks, who hopes her name recognition and connection to some of the voters in the district will pay dividends.
Former state Rep. Domingo Garcia of Dallas has had a broad campaign that appealed to voters on both sides of the county line. He hopes to do well, not only with Hispanics and some blacks in Dallas County, but also with voters in Tarrant, where he opened two campaign offices.
With candidates in the race like former Dallas council member Steve Salazar and Tarrant County Justice of the Peace Manuel Valdez, Garcia has to not only dominate the Hispanic vote, but hope for a stronger election day turnout from his base than he got during early voting.
Retired dentist and businessman David Alameel was nearly a recluse during the campaign but spent more than $2 million to flood mailboxes and airwaves with advertising. He could be a spoiler of sorts for somebody.
30th Congressional District
Incumbent Eddie Bernice Johnson is being challenged in the Democratic primary by state Rep. Barbara Mallory Caraway of Dallas and Taj Clayton, a DeSoto lawyer making his first bid for office.
Clayton has become something of a star, getting buzz from inside and outside the district.
But Johnson has been endorsed by President Barack Obama and has the Democratic establishment behind her.
Polling shows that Johnson remains the most popular Democrat in North Texas, even with her stumbles in 2010.
In a low-turnout election, it's hard to imagine that she won't cruise to victory.
Dallas County Commissioners Court District 3
If incumbent John Wiley Price doesn't win without a runoff, it will only be because multiple opponents were in the race.
None of his rivals has emerged to take control of what could be the runner-up slot. With all the choices, voters are likely to remain with Price, regardless of the fact that he's the subject of a federal investigation.
One of the worst jobs in the world last weekend was calling voters on behalf of a political candidate.
Phone bankers from several campaigns reported more than the usual number of hang-ups, curse-outs and answering machines.
That's what happens when you have a primary the day after Memorial Day.
Valdez is hoping for big validation
Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez has only token opposition in Tuesday's primary.
Yet, she has goals.
"I want at least 70 percent of the vote," she said. "No, make that 90 percent."


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Online retailer Micksgarage is gearing up for a big international expansion. It already ships car parts and accessories to 70 different countries but is set to grow its presence in Europe and the US significantly.
Managing director Ciaran Crean says that the company moved into "multi-channel mode" late last year and has been selling on eBay and Amazon.com in a lot of European countries, including France and Germany. Mr Crean says the company has been using the move as a revenue generator but also as a market research tool, adding that the French and German markets are proving to be very receptive to their product. To this end, the company is in the process of launching a micksgarage.de and micksgarage.fr sites to complement those launches. He says he believes the name will travel well, adding that the company would be happy to rebrand if the need arises.
Mr Crean says the company is expecting a 60% increase in turnover this year, as it sees a "phenomenal" repeat business rate. He says that e-commerce is on the rise as it continues its relentless march higher, adding that the company is not just riding the rising wave of e-commerce but is pushing aggressively in terms of customer acquisition and customer experience worldwide.
MORNING BRIEFS - The real estate investment trust Hibernia has purchased a large warehouse site in Newlands Cross for €10m. Real Estate Investment trusts are tax-efficient, publicly quoted funds that take in money from investors to buy commercial property. The Gateway site is located within the Dublin commuter belt alongside the Luas and close to the M50 and it brings Hibernia's spend to €128m since it listed on the Irish Stock Exchange in December. The Gateway site was sold by An Post at the peak of the property market in 2006 for €107m.
*** Aryzta, the Swiss/Irish baked goods company, has completed the acquisition of Canada's Pineridge Bakery. The €730m deal to buy Pineridge and a US food company called Cloverhill Bakery was announced by Aryzta last month. The Pineridge portion of the acquisition has now been cleared by regulators in Canada.
*** There has never been a bad time to own a Prada handbag but now is not necessarily the best time to own the company's shares. They fell 9% after the Italian fashion house issued a downbeat growth forecast alongside its annual results. Prada reported a strong rise in sales for last year but pointed to softening demand for luxury goods in Europe and flagged a likely slowdown in sales growth in China - its key market.
*** Amazon shares are also down overnight, albeit only slightly, following the announcement of its new Fire TV device offering streaming television and film content. Amazon hopes the device will boost subscriptions to its Prime streaming service a rival to the likes of Netflix and Hulu which currently has 20 million active users. One problem Amazon had not anticipated, though, is that FireTV apparently shares its name with an adult website which has already caught out unwary consumers looking for more details on the new product.


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- Youth violence secondary prevention initiatives in emergency departments: a systematic reviewCarolyn Snider
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CJEM 11:161-8. 2009..We conducted a systematic review to identify the success rates of any interventions, the populations likely to benefit and the outcome measures used...
- Intimate partner violence: development of a brief risk assessment for the emergency departmentCarolyn Snider
Emergency Department, St Michael s Hospital, and the Division of Emergency Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Community-based participatory research: development of an emergency department-based youth violence intervention using concept mappingCarolyn E Snider
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A workshop for all area 4-H volunteers will be held on Wednesday, April 10 beginning at 6 p.m. at the West Central Research and Extension Center auditorium, in the Snyder Building at 402 W. State Farm Rd. in North Platte.
Spath is also from Lincoln.
This volunteer training opportunity is supported by grant funds from Monsanto and is free to the public, whether you are current 4-H volunteer or have an interest in becoming a 4-H volunteer.
The opening session will be about "Providing a Safe Environment for Youth and Managing Risk," with highlights of some of the Youth Safety Policy changes.
There will then be time for hands-on activities centered around signature outcomes, including animal science; agricultural literacy; science, engineering and technology; citizenship and leadership; healthy living; careers; child and family development, that leaders could easily take back to their clubs.
A light meal or snacks will be provided to all participants. Youth ages 12-18 can also attend the youth session on animal science and leadership, and have a chance to do hands-on activities too.
If you are interested in attending, please call the Extension Office at 308-532-2683 by noon on Wednesday to register and be included in the meal count.
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"Civic engagement is multi-generational. Whatever your age, you develop a sense of ownership and feel invested in the outcome when you are involved in making it happen," said Mark Wheetley, mayor of Arcata, after a successful volunteer workday in Arcata.
A collaboration of the Fish Action Council, the Arcata School District and the city of Arcata's Environmental Services, 38 volunteers showed up on March 29 despite the threat of rain to help place crushed rock on top of weed matting to cover a winding path of newly-revealed soil after volunteers chopped away at a long-established grassy area. Volunteers came from Humboldt State University's Natural Resources Club, a Humboldt State fraternity, California Conservation Corps' Fortuna Center and Arcata Elementary families.
"I come at this from my career being in coastal and watershed management," said Wheetley. "The value of volunteerism cuts across all age groups. I have worked with many community-based groups in the past where many of our hard-working volunteers were retired people with a wide range of skills."
In collaboration with the National League of Cities, the Corporation for National Community Service, and Cities of Service, mayors across the country are spotlighting the impact of volunteers and thanking those who serve by participating in the second annual Mayors Day of Recognition for National Service.
Proclamations were presented to the Retired Senior Volunteer Program by Eureka Mayor Frank Jager, Arcata Mayor Mark Wheetley and Crescent City Mayor Rick Holley designating April 1, 2014, as National Service Recognition Day.
There will be two RSVP Volunteer Recognition Events in April thanking volunteers for their many hours of service to their communities. In Del Norte County, RSVP volunteers will be recognized at a brunch at the Elk River Casino on April 19. The following weekend, Humboldt RSVP volunteers will be celebrated at the Morris Graves Museum on April 27.
The mission of RSVP is to engage citizens who are 55 and older as community resources in planning for community improvement. Retired volunteers put valuable skills and experience back into their community by volunteering with RSVP. Volunteers are matched with organizations that fit their interests. Currently, there are 63 active "stations" where RSVP volunteers help out with a multitude of community needs. Between the two counties, there are 377 active RSVP volunteers.
Mayor Wheetley encourages community members to continue volunteering for the restoration and trail-building project at Arcata Elementary School. Finishing the trail, removing invasive plants and establishing an outdoor learning area are the goals. Work on the 250-foot interpretive nature trail will resume on April 26. Wheetley said he is hoping for another good turnout of volunteers.
"We place a high value on volunteerism. We couldn't do many of the things we do in our forest, at the marsh and with our creeks without volunteers. We recognize that this attitude needs to be built in at a young age. We want to encourage and engage youth as well. They are to become ambassadors of the city."
Wheetley said he feels this can set a standard for all citizens throughout their life. "You're never too old or too young to be a volunteer," he said.
For more information about the workday on April 26, call 825-2163. For more information about RSVP or Volunteer Center of the Redwoods, call 442-3763.
Maureen McGarry is the project director for VCOR and RSVP, programs of the Area 1 Agency on Aging.


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Funeral services for Mrs. Maude Griffiths, who died Wednesday at a Nampa hospital, will be conducted at the Community church in Homedale Sunday afternoon at 2 p. m. with the rev. Joseph Urshan of Caldwell officiating. Burial will be at Wilder. The deceased, who was 52 years old, is survived by her husband, H. R. Griffiths of Homedale and six children, William Moran of Roseberg, Ore., Lena Bertman of Marshall, Mo., Basil Moran of Rockbridge, Ill., Oliver Moran of Homedale and Dale and George Moran also of Homedale.
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at this time im being referd to a trill clinic in jursy to have a conference about a new keymo tretment .were the tumer is located cuold do serious problums or death. befor the operation thy try"d other stroung keymo treatment that did"nt work so i like to know if thairs other thing you can surgest , like urbes or food ext.oh and my condition well remain the same untill thay find a way to stop it ?
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In this edition of Live 365! I discuss my top 3 tips for healthy weight loss...check it out, you may be surprised!
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by Bryan Caplan
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"Married men make a lot more money than single men. In the NLSY, married men make 44% extra, even after controlling for education, experience, IQ, race, and number of children. How is this possible? There are three competing economic explanations. Each of the three may be partly true." (02/28/12)http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2012/02/what_is_the_mar.html


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Two weeks ago, Jason * quit the high school track team because the meets and practice times conflicted with his online "guild quests" and "raids." The trumpet he used to love to play now sits in the corner of his bedroom collecting dust. Instead of being at track practice or band rehearsals, Jason spends his free time playing an online computer game. He often stays up so late at night playing his game that he has begun to sleep through early-morning seminary.
Or consider Michael, at his typical spot after midnight: in front of the computer, headset on, playing an online adventure game with his "friends," none of whom he has actually met. When his wife, Jenny, gently reminds him, "It's late, and we haven't read our scriptures or prayed together," he replies, "I can't come right now. We're right in the middle of a raid, and my guild needs me."
Then there's Sara, who discovered online gaming ** about a year ago. She was a top salesperson in her department, winning prizes and earning bonuses for outstanding performance. Online gaming, however, has negatively affected her work. She now plays most evenings and weekends, and she has stopped attending singles activities in her stake to make more time for gaming. She often leaves church early so she can continue her online adventures.
Jason, Michael, and Sara are representative of the growing number of people who demonstrate compulsive behavior in playing massive multiplayer online role-playing games (or MMORPGs). In these games, social networking meets virtual computer fantasy to bring players into exciting, collaborative quests. Tens of millions of players are active worldwide, with new players joining every month. The growth of the activity shows that an increasing number of men and women enjoy MMORPGs as a relaxing, recreational activity. But some people (like Jason, Michael, and Sara) are letting recreational, virtual life interfere with their actual lives.
Although many online gamers do not become addicted or even compulsive players, prophetic warnings about the use of our time in this mortal life indicate that online gaming is an activity that warrants caution. Of course, MMORPGs are not the only form of recreation that have the potential to cause problems. There are many activities that can become so absorbing that they rob participants of spiritual, intellectual, and social development. We hope that the explanations, suggestions, and prophetic counsel included in this article may be helpful to individuals and families as they seek the guidance of the Spirit in finding balance in their lives.
Why Are These Games Cause for Concern?
Professional counselors are seeing an increasing number of individuals "hooked" on video and computer games, especially the online "quest" variety. Individuals most commonly seek help at the urging of friends or family members who are concerned with the excessive nature of their game playing. Many of these players recognize the emerging imbalance in their lives and earnestly seek help to restore a healthy balance. Others resist the idea that their online gaming is a problem, insisting that they are only relaxing, or that since they play with other people, it's a social activity. Still others argue that since it's a game, it cannot be addictive.
The fallout from compulsive gaming can be temporally and spiritually devastating. News reports include stories of broken marriages, lost employment, failed health, even children removed from parents because of criminal neglect caused by the parents' excessive online gaming. 1 We personally know of young men who have forfeited mission opportunities because, they say, their online gaming group needs them, and they simply cannot be gone for two years.
How Are Online Role-playing Games Different Than Other Video Games?
MMORPGs are different from traditional stand-alone computer or console games in two primary ways:
The virtual world of the game moves in real time. When a player logs off, the game continues. There is no pause key.
Characters in the game are controlled not by the computer but by actual people scattered around the world. Most online role-playing games encourage the formation of teams, or "guilds," that band together to carry out quests or challenges. Membership in a guild creates social pressure on players to be present when other guild members are playing.
These unique characteristics make the games more demanding as well as more socially stimulating, which has led to greater addictive tendencies.
Why Are Online Role-Playing Games So Compelling?
One reason that online role-playing games may potentially be more addictive is that they are essentially a social network with an exciting graphical interface. They fill social needs that may be unmet in the real world. For instance, a teenage boy may not feel popular or successful at high school, but in the online world, he gets a fresh start and a new set of friends. His problem-solving skills and intelligence make him socially important in his virtual community. He steps into a role in which he feels needed and successful.
Another draw is that online gaming provides an unending source of goals or objectives. Unlike games installed on a home computer, MMORPGs prevent players from ever actually winning the online game because each victory brings yet another task, goal, quest, or skill level to be obtained.
Moreover, as players perform quests and rise in their achievements, the time investment for each skill level normally rises. So while players may gain 5 or 10 levels in their first few days playing, the next week may bring only one or two new levels, with each new level after that requiring longer and longer time investments. Players who have spent significant time attaining a certain skill level tend to be reluctant to walk away from the game and lose their investment.
Finally, the collaborative nature of online role-playing games can result in a strong form of peer pressure. Each person's involvement matters not only to himself or herself but also to guild or team members, so a player who cuts back on playing time or fails to show up at agreed-upon times may face criticism or rejection from fellow gamers.
How Do I Avoid Problems?
A critical element in avoiding problems is to understand the importance of balance in our lives. Leaders of the Church have been clear in their counsel about doing things in "wisdom and order" (Mosiah 4:27). For example, Elder Donald L. Staheli of the Seventy has warned: "Distractions and discouragement are some of Satan's most effective tools. He finds ways to help us make excuses about why we can't do this or that. He gets us involved in wasting our time and resources in things that lead us away from improving our lives and developing our talents. He blurs our focus by diverting our attention. This can happen to the very best of you." 2
One way to protect ourselves is to follow the counsel given by Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles: "We need to limit the amount of time our children watch TV or play video games or use the Internet each day." 3 Of course, this counsel to limit the time we dedicate to media applies to parents as well! We can do this by establishing reasonable time constraints for online recreational activities. Then, if the attraction of the activity begins to pull us beyond our own guidelines, we can recognize a potentially dangerous situation and stop participating in the activity. As Elder Ballard counseled, "Virtual reality must not become [our] reality."
Restoring proper balance in our lives is something we decide to do. As Elder Donald L. Hallstrom of the Seventy has taught, "When we are out of balance, we have a choice. We can delay making changes and experience the tragedy of a failing family or the sorrow of losing our own spirituality; or we can be attentive and continually nudged by the whisperings of the Holy Spirit to make necessary adjustments. Seeking balance among the essential responsibilities of life is preparatory to salvation." 4
The choice to overcome a distraction or diversion may be very difficult because an addiction is much more than a "bad habit" to be overcome by willpower alone. In fact, "many people become so dependent on a behavior or a substance that they no longer see how to abstain from it. They lose perspective and a sense of other priorities in their lives." 5 President Boyd K. Packer of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught this idea when he said, "Addiction has the capacity to disconnect the human will and nullify moral agency. It can rob one of the power to decide." 6
As you think about the compelling nature of online role-playing games, you might also consider your own potential for addiction. Some studies have shown that online gaming addiction may be correlated with other emotional challenges. 7 In addition, if you have struggled with other forms of addiction, including Internet-related addictions (such as pornography), you might be more vulnerable than others to an online gaming addiction.
Where Can I Find Spiritual Help and Hope?
But even cases of addiction are not without hope. The scriptures teach that the Atonement of Jesus Christ is sufficient to help us overcome the "natural man," whatever unhealthy or unbalanced forms our "natural" tendencies may take. (See Mosiah 3:19.)
President James E. Faust (1920–2007) taught, "While some addictions require professional clinical help, let us not overlook the spiritual help available to us through priesthood blessings and through prayer. The Lord has promised us, 'My grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them' (Ether 12:27). Let us remember that the power to change is very real, and it is a great spiritual gift from God." 8
Spiritual help is available through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. Such a promise can be especially poignant for those caught in a trap of obsessive online gaming. Hope in the Atonement, coupled with the guidance of the Holy Ghost and counsel from inspired leaders, will help individuals as they seek to apply principles of balance and move toward a life—an actual one and not merely a virtual one—that is rich and full.
Elder David A. Bednar of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles recently spoke at a Church Educational System Fireside about the influence of technology and media. See "Things as They Really Are," available under the firesides link at ldsces.org.
Don't Waste the Days of Your Probation
"One of the ways Satan lessens your effectiveness and weakens your spiritual strength is by encouraging you to spend large blocks of your time doing things that matter very little. I speak of such things as sitting for hours on end watching television or videos, playing video games night in and night out, surfing the Internet, or devoting huge blocks of time to sports, games, or other recreational activities.
"Don't misunderstand me. These activities are not wrong in and of themselves (unless, of course, you are watching salacious programs or seeking out pornographic images on the Internet). Games, sports, recreational activities, and even television can be relaxing and rejuvenating, especially in times when you are under stress or heavily scheduled. You need activities that help you to unwind and rest your minds. It is healthy to go onto the soccer field or the basketball court and participate in vigorous physical activity.
"But I speak of letting things get out of balance. It is not watching television, but watching television hour after hour, night after night. Does not that qualify as idling away your time? What will you say to the Lord when He asks what you have done with the precious gift of life and time? Surely you will not feel comfortable telling Him that you were able to pass the 100,000-point level in a challenging video game.
"One devastating effect of idling away our time is that it deflects us from focusing on the things that matter most. Too many people are willing to sit back and let life just happen to them. It takes time to develop the attributes that will help you to be a well-balanced person."
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, "Be Strong in the Lord," Ensign, July 2004, 13–14.
Am I Addicted?
A good measure to use when determining the value of a hobby is if it adds to or takes away from your sense of balance. Healthy activities help you feel revitalized, refreshed, and ready to tackle your challenges. Destructive activities leave you feeling drained and empty inside and less able to cope with the struggles of real life. Destructive activities also tend to leave you feeling compelled to continue rather than feeling in control of your decisions.
Although there is no specific test for addiction to online gaming, the following are factors that, taken together, may indicate an unhealthy involvement or addictive tendency.
Do you play compulsively?
Do you play for long periods of time (often longer than you had planned)?
Once online, do you have difficulty stopping?
Do you play as often as you can?
Do you sneak or violate family rules in order to play, even when facing punishment or loss of privileges for doing so?
When you are not playing, do you obsess about the game, plotting and planning your next opportunity to play?
Do you sacrifice real-world things for your online world?
Is your gaming negatively affecting your relationships with family members or other non-gamer friends? For instance, if you are a parent, does it cause you to neglect your children's needs? If you are a child, does it cause you to distance yourself from your parents and siblings?
Do you consider other online gamers (even those whom you've never met in real life) to be among your best friends?
Is your school or work suffering because of the time and energy you spend gaming?
Are you having a difficult time deciding to serve a mission because of the extended break from the game that will naturally result?
Do you neglect personal hygiene?
Have your sleep patterns changed since you became involved with online gaming? Are you staying up extremely late or getting up in the middle of the night to play?
How Can I Help Someone Who Is Struggling??
If someone you love is struggling with a compulsion to play online games for inordinate amounts of time, recognize that the person's problem is real and that the risks are significant, even though it is "just a game."
Consider spending time with your loved one while he or she is playing the game, paying particular attention to the communication taking place between players. (Many games use a "chat" form of communication, similar to instant messaging. Others support the use of headsets with built-in microphones for real-time audio communication between players.) If you are looking to find out more about the game your son plays, you might, for instance, ask him about how the game is played, the nature of his role or character, his interaction with other players, what he likes about the particular game he plays, and how he feels when he plays it. Spending time and asking questions will not only help you be educated about the nature of the game, it will also help your son feel understood. If he refuses to let you see the game being played, it may be that he feels defensive around you or is embarrassed by the nature of the game (or both).
If your loved one plays excessively, to the point of neglecting important aspects of his or her life (such as school, work, family life, church attendance, and church service), intervention may be merited. Seek counsel from priesthood leaders or professional counselors to know how best to approach your loved one. Since every situation is unique, these people can be a valuable resource as you prayerfully seek the Lord's help.
Professors in the Brigham Young University School of Family Life recently published a study, "More Than Just a Game" in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence, available at springerlink.com.
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The names mentioned in this article are those of composite characters, based on the experiences of actual people.
The term gaming may appropriately refer to either gambling or computer game playing. In this article, we address only computer game playing.
Please see the following URLs for examples: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/26/AR2006052601960.html; www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR2006081700625_2.html; http://virtualmentor.ama-assn.org/2008/01/jdsc1-0801.html; www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19354827.
Donald L. Staheli, "Achieving Your Full Potential," Ensign, Feb. 2009, 58.
M. Russell Ballard, "Let Our Voices Be Heard," Ensign, Nov. 2003, 19.
Donald L. Hallstrom, "Seeking a Balanced Life," Ensign, Aug. 2003, 57.
LDS Family Services, Addiction Recovery Program: A Guide to Addiction Recovery and Healing (2005), page v.
Boyd K. Packer, "Revelation in a Changing World," Ensign, Nov. 1989, 14.
Please see the following for examples: "Shyness and Locus of Control as Predictors of Internet Addiction and Internet Use," Katherine Chak, Louis Leung. CyberPsychology & Behavior 7, no. 5 (2004): 559–70. See also "The Relationship between Online Game Addiction and Aggression, Self-Control, and Narcissistic Personality Traits," Eun Joo Kim, Kee Namkoong, Taeyun Ku, and Se Joo Kim. European Psychiatry 23, no. 3 (2008): 212–18.
James E. Faust, "The Power to Change," Ensign, Nov. 2007, 124.


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Thandie Newton - High Hair Updo
British actress Thandie Newton was out of this world at the premiere of "Pursuit of Happiness" in Los Angeles on December 7th, 2006. The molten gold mini dress did not require any further accessories and together with the high hair and ponytail makes us wonder if she is getting ready for a part at the spaceship Enterprise.
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Women who don't particularly cotton to Super Bowl Weekend and all the hype that goes with it have an alternative combining cross country skiing, a film festival, and the universal language of women: chocolate.
The Women's Winter Tour takes place at Crystal Mountain, in northern Michigan, the weekend of Feb. 4-6. It's billed as the Super Bowl of women's winter getaways, and for good reason. It's always been held on Super Bowl weekend as an alternative outing.
"We were the first national women's event to bring together an alternative tradition to Super Bowl weekend of cross country skiing and chocolate, and we are still going strong," event organizer Kaye Krapohl told OnTheSnow. "And, new this year is a chance for participants to try a paint-ball biathlon."
The Tour, now in its 13th year, is a celebration of women, winter, and chocolate. Attendance in past years has been well over a thousand like-minded women that want to experience being spoiled, enjoy one of northern Michigan's premier winter resorts, and frolic in the snow.
A two-hour snowshoe tour of the Michigan Legacy Art Park takes place Saturday morning from 10 a.m. to noon, and a LunaFest Film Festival - an evening of film shorts created by women for women - takes place from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Crystal Center. Registration for the snowshoe tour prior to the event is $10 and $15 day of the event. The film festival is $15 prior to the event and $20 at the door.
The original Women's Winter Tour, complete with great food, wine, and chocolate stops along the trail, takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are cross country tours of 3, 5 and 10 kilometers. It's all about fun, camaraderie and chocolate baby. Registration for the event is $35 through Feb. 3 and $45 after. Seniors (65+) and teens (13-17) are respectively $30 and $40. Children under 12 are $10 anytime.
The Women's Winter Tour benefits the local Traverse City women's shelter, the Michigan Legacy Art Park, and National Breast Cancer Fund.
The Crystal Spa is offering participants in the Women's Winter Tour a menu of seasonal treatments at special discounted rates.
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Our hometown paper ran one of those "and the news is?" stories on the front page this week: Food manufacturers are sneakily shrinking both packages and contents. Anyone who hasn't noticed this has not schlepped a handbasket down a supermarket aisle in the last couple of years (in Manhattan I rarely drive a cart).
My cynicism set in the first time I washed out a Hellmann's jar for recycling and noticed a huge indentation in the bottom. That "quart" jar now contains only 30 ounces. And it costs more than it ever has.
By now I'm so inured to not getting what I think I'm paying for that I actually came home with my first box of butter from Whole Foods the other day and weighed the oddly shaped sticks. They did add up to 16 ounces, as the label promised. And that was the surprise.
Maybe the real news was in the letters to the editor today. How could I not have noticed cat food cans are less full these days? It's one thing to dupe we who can read. It's another to try to trick a hungry feline.


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ISLAMABAD: The commission investigating the killing of Osama bin Laden during a raid in Abbottabad last year will present its investigative report to Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, DawnNews reported on Monday.
The report stated that Dr Shakeel Afridi had been paid $10,000 to provide United States intelligence agencies with information on the Al Qaeda chief's whereabouts.
The report was compiled by the Abbottabad Commission after reviewing statements of 300 eyewitnesses and 3000 documents.
According to the report, bin Laden was living in the compound in Abbottabad from 2005 to 2011 and never left the compound. The report added that he watched Al-Jazeera TV in order to keep himself updated with Al Qaeda's activities.
The commission's report said that the bin Laden told his family to remain calm and recite the 'Kalma Tayyaba' during the operation.
The report also states that the American agency CIA had rewarded Dr Shakeel Afridi with $10,000 to help them find Bin Laden. Dr Afridi had attempted to gain access to the compound thrice but remained unsuccessful. But with the help of a colleague, Dr Amna, he managed to get the DNA of the children in bin Laden's family on the pretext of hepatitis vaccinations. They matched voice samples of Osama's wife as well.
Following the verification of the DNA tests, American authorities asked Dr Afridi to shift to the US.
The report added that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) provided the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with four telephone numbers belonging to Osama and all letters mailed at the address of the compound.


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Whoever posted the tip about saran wrap was spot on! I rolled my fondant out thing, overlayed the plastic wrap and then pressed over that. Nothing to clean and no actual tapping! Thank you so much to who originally posted that tip. I can remember who it was but it is a fantastic tip.
It was sillywabbitz
Thank you!
ooh! I will have to try that!
I can't wait to try that! IT took me an hour to cut out my letters for a cake last month!
I need to do that, I never use my funky tappits because I can't get them to work any other way.
I actually thought I got the hang of Tappits only to have the next 5 letters be a problem for me. Tappits are a tease! Do you get a clean edge though? Some of those letters have such a thin edge? Will try it though. Wondering if you have to also get the very thin plastic wrap and not a heavy one.
I did get a clean edge. I didn't at first but then I added a generous dose gum-tex to the homemade MMF because it was a bit soft. I also used Duff's at the same time and it was working straight out of the tub. I cut the letters all at once, then removed the outer all together. Let them sit for 5 minutes and applied. I am in disbelief but it really worked fantastically.
Wha?!?! I'm so excited! Let me get this right....Roll out fondant, cover with layer of Seran/Plastic Wrap, then use the tapit? The plastic doesnt bunch or affect the shapes?
Mfattore, So glad it worked for you. I can't claim credit for the brilliant idea. Someone else posted it here on cc and I too worried it would bunch or crease but it worked great. So well actually, that I just bought another set of tappits in a different font
Can't wait to try this! Thanks for sharing.
No real clean-up needed on the tappits either! Thank you Sillywabbitz and whomever else has posted this. I was so scared I would hate my Tappits but last night was my first time and voila! perfect!
Great idea-thanks for sharing.
I have to remember that! I have tappits in 3 fonts, and I never use them, I am always running late and I never have time to try to pick my letters out with a pin, only to have them stretch and tear...My piping is getting better though, lol!
GREAT! I'm going to try this too! YAY! Thanks!
I use Tappits all the time with no problem at all.
I only use flowerpaste to make them with as I have found this to be the only medium to work with them.
Roll out the flowerpaste nice and thin. With Trex or any white fat put a small amount on finger and rub over the letter.
Press and cut out. Works every time.
Hope this helps
Definitely going to try the plastic wrap idea. Thanks!!
Thanks for tip!
Cake_Karen is right they work great with a gumpaste recipes. Ednas recipe works great (designmeacake.com) I usually use some corn starch but will try the shortening as suggested.


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Hear my voice, the voice of Croatia
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As Croatian ambasador in Macedonia, I represent the voice of Croatia in Macedonia and I'm writing this article in the name of all Croatians... but I'm writing this article as Macedonian too because I'm tired to see how my allies, for which I fight every single day, insult Macedonia.
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I can't understand something... how one country can insult another country
calling her by other name, just because they are from different alliances ?
Perfect example is Macedonia, member of ONE alliance, but for many members of EDEN countries Macedonia is F*ROM, not because they don't like each other in RL, but because they belong in different alliances... I really don't understand.
I understand why greeks call us (Macedonia) F*ROM (but it's still wrong), we don't like eachother in RL, just because of our past and our present problems, but I can't understand why EDEN countries which don't have anything in common with Macedonia in RL, or they haven't even heard about Macedonia, insult Macedonia by referring to us with the reference F*ROM... Every country deserves to be called by it's name, Macedonia in this case
I'm still looking for an explanation, why Macedonia is called F*ROM from so many EDEN countries ?
Is that because Greece is your ally ? Is this just the way you lick greek's ass ? I know that they are a good ally and you want to have a good relationship with one of the best allies, but I, as eCroatian ambasador in Macedonia, in name of all eCroatians I say Macedonia, not F*ROM, and every member of E/T should say Macedonia instead of F*ROM!
As always, not every eCroat will agree with me, not in this game, but I know that only 0.0000000.......1% of you use F*ROM in RL.
Thats all from me, Regards.
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Hear my voice, the voice of Croatia
I don't have any problems with calling Macedonia Macedonia, with all respect to Greece.
in game your fyrom for me... what about RL? i think this is not place to discuss about RL..
hail greece
oh my dear, flausino said attention whore to someone : D this is epic
flausino cCc 500 years cCc
and btw we dont have that FYROC in our name and anyway i don't care if u call me like that
embeca..you retarded boy,i don't make fun on that,i really don't know what means FYROM
What is the problem ? UN recognize FYROM as state. I do not see any problems when people call state with legit name FYROM.
You know he's right when his argument is a speech by George W. Bush.
Because they are so scared, if they have guts, why just you don't say that in our FACE!
Come in Macedonia and say to someone f*romian, you mommy wont recognize you at home, we will change your identity.
SO dont pretend that you are thought guy!
И кој кур е поентава на статијава ?
Збирно место на сите малоумни националисти на играва ?
some in rl say lets call it north "macedonia" but if we see their culture and language "western bulgaria" would be more appropriate i think .... if we remove a third of the "country" which is "eastern albania" of course
maybe because until u come to an agreement with us this is your official name?
Yes this must be it,,,
eeeeeee sad sam se ziv usro !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i zasto se svi vi kao makedonci nesto bunite kad je velika vecina stanovnistva u FYROM su albanci. jos malo pa vi kao neki makedonci necete imati pravo glasa.
prvo se morate rijesiti svoje vecine albanaca u drzavi ili cekate srbe da vam rijese taj problem !!!!!!!!!!
mi e gajle kako me vikaat,ja si go znam imeto ako TI ne si go znaes,pa od kogo baram priznavanje cccc
machiato FTW
treba da odis da se ispitas malku, zosto koga ti gi citam komentarite isti se kako onie glupi vicovi, "Si bile 2 avtobusi, 1 bil crven drguiot trgnal za Ohrid"
P.S. poretardirana faca neam videno od tebe... i da definitivno treba da se ispitas od ljubov ne za drugo
HAIL F.M.R.O.G (Former Macedonian Republic of greece)
jebiga kad se gledamo preko nišana. al sam siguran da u RL večina hrvata podupire makedoniju kod njenog imena i evropskih integracija.
What is this?You are reading an article written by a citizen of eRepublik, an immersive multiplayer strategy game based on real life countries. Create your own character and help your country achieve its glory while establishing yourself as a war hero, renowned publisher or finance guru.