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an accordion/cabaret song (learning to use Ardour)
I'm still trying to get off the ground with the whole recording thing, but I feel like I've made it to the point where I could benefit from the advice of people with more experience. So please advise!
The song I'm working on is called Michael Gilhaney. It's based on a character in a novel titled The Third Policeman, and uses accordion, vocals, a tiny bit of midi tuba, and percussion (some supplied by hydrogen, some recorded live). You can listen to it here:
I bought a book called Guerrilla Home Recording, and have had a serious go at recording this song using some of the basic techniques it recommends. So I've compressed the vocals and used TAP TubeWarmth on them. I've done a little bit of stereo panning to separate the bass side of the accordion from the piano side. I used an EQ to bring down the lower mid of the accordion just a bit, so it doesn't outcompete my voice. And I've used a little fader automation to keep the vocals and accordion melody at roughly the right spot.
I'm not going for a sleek or glossy production, here. I want a sort of ramshackle sound, like some of Tom Waits' stuff, or the Denver Gentlemen. But I want it to be, you know, cool. Ramshackle, yes, but not incompetent.
Though I feel like this is a big improvement over my previous attempts at recording (where I just stacked up the tracks and tried to get their relative volumes about right) I could benefit a lot from the advice of fresh-eared people who are accustomed to using these techniques. What are the obvious mixing problems in here? Are the vocals too loud or too quiet? Too compressed? Are there other aspects of the production that are distracting, or interfere with the development of the song?
Anyway. I'm proud of the song, and would like to be proud of the recording of it. Any advice the Ardour community has to offer would be much appreciated. Thank you!
Great Job Goodmanbrown!!! Good mix!! I like the song. Try to use a little of Reverb (without abusing) in the instruments to give them more sensation of space and distance.
Good Bye and again great job!!!
Thanks for the encouraging words, Matias! (It is scarier than I expected to hit "submit" on a post sharing work in progress-- it's nice to get a friendly response.)
I'm still struggling to find an approach to reverb that adds space without making the mix sound mushy. Do you have recommendations for particular plugins or presets that work well for you? Is it the accordion or the percussion that sounds to you to be lacking reverb?
Thanks again for the feedback!
Hi Again goodmanbrown!!!! Yes, gives a little scary sharing a work in progress. But is the best way to learn.
I recomend you to use this 2 reverb:
1-TAP Reverberator by Tom Szilagyi, an amazing plugin, you can select a lot of types of reverbs (Room, plate, hall etc).
2-C* Plate 2x2- versatile plate reverb by tim Goetze, a great plate reverb.
This two LADSPA plugins works very well for me, but all depends of what you want to achieve. For example if you want to give more space and color to an instrument, use a Plate Reverb (without abusing). But if you want something subtle try with a room Reverb.
Again, all depends of what you want to achieve. Sometimes you don't need to use Reverb, sometimes yes.
I hope this helps.
Good Bye!!!
See you!!!
The recording sounds OK, and I´m agreeing about the reverb, but watch out, because most ladspa reverbs are plagued by that tin-can sound, it can easily destroy the ¨natural¨ image (I think) you want to put in.
Have you used JAMin? I strongly advise you to put an instert on the master track, and connect it to JAMIN. To start Jamin, use ¨jamin -p¨, or just start jamin, and disable the default system output. Jamin can do wonderful things to your mix.. Just play around a bit.
Nice song!
@MatíasMac: Thanks for the reverb suggestions. I look forward to getting a chance to try the plate reverb you recommend. I haven't tried any plate reverbs, yet, and am curious to hear the difference.
@roaldz: Thanks for the feedback. I've never even installed JAMin. I guess it's time to fire it up and see what it's about. So freakin' much to learn!
one way to smooth out the reverb is to put it on a stereo bus and use sends (probably post-fader for this) on each track to tie into the reverb (make sure to have the dry signal all the way down when doing this) and put an eq before the reverb plugin and turn the highs down a bit before they hit the reverb.
Nice work! Just good balance, and that cowbell or what ever is great.


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"Honourable speaker, as for resignations, I resign from my seat...I am going back to the people of Pakistan," Dawn online quoted him as saying during a joint session of parliament.
He said that no PTI member resigned willingly. "People did not resign of their own will but I am resigning now," he said.
Earlier, PTI had submitted resignations of 34 lawmakers in parliament in protest against the government. However, Speaker Ayaz Sadiq did not accept their resignations saying he had not been present when they were submitted.
Hitting out at Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Hashmi said, "Why didn't the PM go to the Senate for 14 months?
"Nawaz has been given chances many times...but Pakistan is not in a prosperous state," Hashmi said.
"People wanted to exclude Mujibur Rehman...said they wanted to be rid of Bengalis - how are we better off? Bangladesh is far more prosperous than Pakistan now?"
He also criticised PTI chairman Imran Khan for going back on his promises. "People say why I didn't come out with the truth before but I was trying to convince PTI members. Imran promised me he won't go against the constitution."
Despite his rift with the party, Hashmi said he was still the elected party president. "I thank people of Multan, Lahore, Pindi, Islamabad for all the times they've elected me as representative. I am still the elected president of PTI."
Hashmi claimed Monday that the ongoing political crisis in the country was following a script dictated by the military.
The anti-government protests led by PTI chairman Imran Khan and Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) chief Tahir-ul Qadri began Aug 15 in an attempt to topple Sharif, who is accused of rigging the 2013 general elections.
The protests turned violent late Saturday and Sunday and as a result, at least three people were killed with over 450 protesters injured.

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SQL Express currently does not ship with any sample databases to help keep the size down, we'll be making these formally available on the web in the future but the folks over at ASP.Net have a nice tutorial that includes using the pubs database, so they have a page that shows you how to download and install pubs.
Its here.
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18 CFR 385.714 - Certified questions (Rule 714).
(a)General rule. During any proceeding, a presiding officer may certify or, if the Commission so directs, will certify, to the Commission for consideration and disposition any question arising in the proceeding, including any question of law, policy, or procedure.
(b)Notice. A presiding officer will notify the participants of the certification of any question to the Commission and of the date of any certification. Any such notification may be given orally during the hearing session or by order.
(c)Presiding officer's memorandum; views of the participants.
(1) A presiding officer should solicit, to the extent practicable, the oral or written views of the participants on any question certified under this section.
(2) The presiding officer must prepare a memorandum which sets forth the relevant issues, discusses all the views of participants, and recommends a disposition of the issues.
(3) The presiding officer must append to any question certified under this section the written views submitted by the participants, the transcript pages containing oral views, and the memorandum of the presiding officer.
(d)Return of certified question to presiding officer. If the Commission does not act on any certified question within 30 days after receipt of the certification under paragraph (a) of this section, the question is deemed returned to the presiding officer for decision in accordance with the other provisions of this subpart.
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Quebec's transport minister: 'We need a plan B for Champlain Bridge'
MONTREAL — Provincial transport officials voiced concern that a backup plan is not in place should something cause the Champlain Bridge to close in the next four years.
"Montreal is an island, we need to sit together and prepare for a worst-case scenario," said Robert Poeti, the province's transport minister.
A recent report by La Presse has noted that a closure on the bridge could back up traffic for 180 km.
While the federal government is insisting that the bridge is structurally sound enough to last until its replacement is built, officials for the crown corporation that manages the Champlain and the Jacques-Cartier Bridges would not comment to Global News on Monday.
However, South Shore residents are particularly concerned.
"There's always delays."
"Something with the materials, or delays in construction. It's not going to be finished in four years," said Kathy St-Georges, a Longueuil resident.
The ageing bridge — Canada's busiest — already seen its share of extreme stop-gap repairs.
In November workers constructed the so-called "super beam" after a crack was discovered on the bridge, closing off one of the lanes and jamming traffic.
READ MORE: Champlain Bridge requires super beam – now down to one lane
The super beam was removed earlier this month after the bridge was buttressed with additional improvements.
Provincial officials are also concerned about the future of public transit on the bridge. Poeti said that he does not expect to get information about that scenario until 2015.
While Poeti is urging the public to be patient as the work is done, residents already have learned to describe the bridge emotionally.
"Impatient, angry, upset, every emotion goes through your mind," said St-George.
"When you go on the bridge it's like, 'Oh my God.'"
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She sits with her sales team in a very large space in a very cool area of New York City. Her well-dressed staff is young, enthusiastic and deadly quiet most of the day.
That is because e-mail communication has completely replaced all other forms of communication between her sales staff and her magazine's clients, and it is making her crazy.
"Ari" she said emphatically, "you and I would have never developed the relationship we have if e-mail was around when you called on me."
E-mail communication is one of the biggest contributors to the decrease in face-to-face sales call activity that plagues online and traditional publishers.
Media buyers prefer sales reps send over media kits digitally instead of meeting to discuss the property. They prefer to have proposals sent via e-mail rather than go over them in person and then ask sales reps to "ping them with an e-mail" to check on the status.
This is all very efficient, but at a cost. The cost is the chance for sellers and buyers to communicate face-to-face.
According to Ronni Burns, who has written a terrific book called "Communication Essentials; A Sell-Abration", non-verbal cues listeners share with those speaking are vital to the effective transmission of information. She writes, "Everyone gives off a constant and uninterrupted stream of non verbal signals that tells you what they are thinking and feeling."
These signs simply do not translate through e-mail regardless of how many smiley and frown faces are included. So while sellers and buyers are being more efficient, this form of communication is less effective in transmitting information.
Securing face time with clients is one of the biggest challenges media sales people face today. Most often, this face time comes during the many lunches, dinners, and events hosted by sales reps but rarely, if at all, are client communication objectives ever discussed during this time.
Media sales reps and their sales managers have to do a better job of creating compelling reasons for clients to sit down with them.
This is a two-step process. The first is to continue to develop more innovative ways to secure their audience's attention via new editorial sections or greater targeting abilities, for example. However, more importantly, step two is to make these opportunities relevant to a specific client and a specific communication objective for that client's product or service.
Creating relevancy like this will be rewarded with an opportunity to discuss the opportunity in person or at the very least, over the phone.
E-mail has its benefits, but like any medium, you cannot depend on it alone to get your message across. Media sales people need to spend less time in front of their computers, and more time in front of clients if they want to be more effective and develop relationships that are more meaningful.


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Are pulsars giant 'neutromagnets'?
Dec 13, 2011 8 comments 2011-12-13T11:55:36+0000
Pulsars are created when a star collapses to form a neutron star in which the magnetic moments of the neutrons are frozen in a particular direction – much like the atomic moments in a permanent magnetic. That is the claim of two physicists in Sweden, who believe that their theory can account for many of the unexplained properties of these astronomical oddities.
First discovered in 1967, pulsars are astronomical objects that emit radiation pulses with astonishing regularity. Astronomers believe pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that have very large magnetic fields. Just like the Earth, the magnetic dipole moment of the star is believed to be offset from its rotational axis. Jets of radiation are emitted from the star along its magnetic poles. Because the star is rotating about a different axis, the jet sweeps round like a lighthouse beam that appears as a regular pulse if it happens to strike Earth.
Beyond this basic description, however, little is known about the physics of pulsars and how they formed. One important question is the origin of the magnetic field, which can range from about 104 to 1011 T. That is huge compared with the Sun's magnetic field, which is about 100 µT. Furthermore, the regular nature of the pulses suggests that a pulsar's magnetic field must be extremely stable. In contrast, the Sun's magnetic field is notoriously unstable because it is generated by the rotation of the star's plasma, which is prone to instabilities.
Nuclear force favours alignment
"There is no good explanation for how the magnetic field is generated," explains Johan Hansson of Lulea University of Technology, who put forward this latest theory with colleague Anna Ponga. Hansson and Ponga suggest that the magnetic moments of all the neutrons in the star point in the same direction in a state of matter called a "neutromagnet". This is similar to the alignment of atomic magnetic moments in a ferromagnetic material. The researchers point out that the nuclear force that binds protons and neutrons together in nuclei favours the alignment of spins – an effect that they say could be enhanced in neutron stars, where neutrons are packed even more tightly together.
Hansson and Ponga assumed that the energy gained by two neutrons by aligning their spins in the same direction is about 10% of the total nuclear binding energy of the pair. This gives a Curie temperature – below which all the neutrons in the star align to become a giant magnet – of about 1010 K.
Because neutron stars all seem to have about the same mass, the maximum magnetic field that could result is about 1012 T. This would occur when all the neutrons are aligned in the same direction. However, just like everyday magnets, it is possible that different regions of the star have domains of neutrons – with each domain pointing in a different direction. This would reduce the overall magnetic field and could explain why some neutron stars have much smaller magnetic fields. According to Hansson, this maximum value of the magnetic field provides astronomers with a simple way of falsifying the theory.
Moment is frozen in
Hansson told physicsworld.com that their model also explains the fixed misalignment between the magnetic moment and the rotational axis of a pulsar. "The orientation of the magnetic field is set by the direction of the star's magnetic field at the moment it collapses to form the neutron star," he explains. "The direction is then 'frozen in' by the nuclear force".
However, not all astronomers are convinced. "I don't claim that the current 'understanding' is complete or free of contradiction – the problem is very hard – but I believe that the concept presented in this paper is not nearly as good as the standard models," says Michael Kramer of the University of Manchester in the UK.
The work is described in arXiv:1111.3434.
About the author
Hamish Johnston is editor of physicsworld.com


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You are hereDaniel Schreiber
Daniel Schreiber
"The whole universe Bends attentively above a blooming flower"
Meet Daniel Schreiber
Starseed Gardens is the home of plant-human culture and relationships. Food, shelter, fiber, fuel, medicine, wisdom and beauty are some of the gifts and qualities that this relationship nurtures. We gather seeds and tools, seek objects of beauty, foods that are super, teas sublime for all to share.
Beyond Parroting must be at the Root of Discovery
I believe that we did something unique here. We went into each word and beneath all spiritual bla bla. I felt an energetic shift. It is completely exciting to reach under the carpet of verbal parlance into the nuances of pure creativity.
I feel that we have finally graduated from "Parrot University" and are ready for the uncharted schooling of Now. I hope that it is not too labor intensive and you could go along with it for a while you might become addicted too.


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I know turkey day is coming up pretty soon. But in the meantime take a peek at some realTurkish blogs. Anyone who has been to Turkey knows, Turkish food is a whole lot more than kabobs. Here are three of my favorite sites:
Almost Turkish shares lots of Turkish recipes, and some not-so-Turkish recipes. No matter where the recipes come from, the photos are appetizing. The recipes are also divided into great categories like Eggplant Dishes, Zucchini Dishes and Traditional Turkish Olive Oil Dishes.
Yogurtland is another Turkish food blog where you can find exotic dishes like Mastic Gum Ice Cream and "Noah's Pudding" a dessert made with chickpeas, wheat berries, almonds, apricots and more.
Cafe Fernando has fewer Turkish recipes still, but has a Turkish food category and gives you a great feel for Istanbul nonetheless. Most of the recipes are for desserts.
And don't miss one of my favorite Turkish food posts, ever, Istanbul Street Food from Food Vagabond.
I'm sure I'm missing plenty of others, feel free to link to them in the comments...


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In addition, the Quality Manager is to provide support to customers, and Sales, to assure continuous communication and customer satisfaction is being maintained.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Report to top management on the performance of the quality management system, related company metrics, and any needs for improvement.
Serve as the ISO management representative for ISO 9001 and for the manufacturing operation. Develop and implement systems, procedures, and work instructions to support the Company Management System and other systematic processes.
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Hoist by one's own petard
Few of us like Monday, but The Fifth Official does, for it brings with it a chance for him to point the finger and laugh. Here he pulls out the pretty, the puzzling and the downright pig-ugly from a week brimming with potential victims.
Hoist by one's own petard
This, essentially, is the game AVB had been building towards since he was cut loose by Roman for implementing exactly the sort of personnel and style changes Roman had insisted upon. The same necessary changes Roman abandoned when several of Roman's vastly overpaid and over indulged superstars decided that much like Steven Gerrard, they quite liked Status Quo.
How it must have stuck in AVB's gullet then, that his new team were essentially hoist by his own petard, at the top of which was his old assistant wielding a flag bearing the inscription 'Champions League winner' in fancy, embroidered italics. This table-topping Chelsea, playing this dynamic brand of association football, was supposed to be doing so with an AVB at the helm, not an RDM.
As soon as Gareth Bale excused himself for the birth of his child, Tottenham were seriously lacking in star quality. Chelsea, in the shape of Mata, Oscar and Hazard, were not. This is just one sense in which AVB now finds himself a poorer man, in terms of the wealth at his disposal, the depth in his squad, and even in his basic surroundings too. King's Road is in Chelsea, not in Tottenham, for a very good reason.
Hugh just knew it
It is a route even Ryanair would be loath to take on, but fair play to Arsenal for proving that you can become cloaked in jet lag after a 14-minute flight. Their ludicrous decision to fly to Norwich compounded the misery Arsene Wenger must have felt at turning in their worst performance of the season in what he called an "easy game", as they handed Norwich their first win of the campaign on a plate.
How are they planning to get to White Hart Lane on derby day? Hot air balloon? Norwich is so close from Luton Airport they may as well have bought a human sized slingshot, or built a zip wire. It probably would have been less expensive. 14 minutes? That's only marginally longer than Felix flippin' Baumgartner was in the air. And people say football clubs are out of touch with society. Well, Arsenal have said poppycock to that haven't they?
Given their flight of fancy, perhaps it is fitting the Gunners played like a battered old suitcase aimlessly spinning round and round on a luggage carousel, without ever finding a home. Instead it was the Canaries who ended the game soaring, turning in a committed, proud performance to install a little breath of wind beneath Chris Hughton's wings.
Kick it Out
Call me old fashioned but it seems an odd choice to elect not to support a movement campaigning for racial equality in football, when you are a black player desperately hoping for racial equality in football. There is no doubt, however, the actions of Rio Ferdinand, Jason Roberts, Joleon Lescott and others had a far greater effect on the cause than had they donned their Kick It Out gear.
That is not to say I neither understand, nor sympathise with their statement - that the English authorities still have plenty to do to in order to ensure their actions match their statements of outrage whenever another country is accused of racism, like the shameful scenes in Serbia last week. Is a four-match ban for John Terry really appropriate, given the emphatic verdict of the FA's own panel?
But surely, this is a matter for the players themselves. On a delicate issue that is bound to throw up a variety of viewpoints, this was an approach shared by most of the managers whose charges chose to make their point. Everyone except Sir Alex Ferguson it seems, who was "embarrassed" by Ferdinand's refusal and promised to "deal" with him. It's not often you say so, but the great man is certainly out of step on this one.
Baracas is Caracas
Chieck Tiote and derby games do not go together - it's just basic science. This is the man who competes during a pre-season friendly with Woking as if it is the dying seconds of a World Cup final. So it should come as no surprise the man who looks like BA Baracas started the game as if he was a machete-wielding drug lord from downtown Caracas.
To compound Tiote's stupidity, he committed a red card offence AFTER he'd been awarded a free kick. This by a man who would struggle to contain a sandcastle contest between two toddlers, one of whom was asleep. Martin Atkinson was so far out of his comfort zone in the north east he should have had a lifejacket attached to his silky referee's top.
Tiote's dismissal butchered a promising contest into one that resembled the latter stages of Chelsea's Champions League campaign last season, with one exception: the dominant side got a slice of luck. Sunderland's late equaliser also meant, rather amusingly, that were you to take Steven Fletcher out of the equation, Demba Ba is both Newcastle and Sunderland's leading Premier League scorer. How quaint.
You're out of Lukaku
It's not easy being Edin Dzeko. Yes, he may get £100,000 deposited in his bank account every week but as far as Manchester City's pecking order goes he's firmly behind two Argentineans and an Italian striker whose brain conditioning is questionable to say the least.
But Dzeko may well be Edin up Mancini's striker charts if he carries on like this. Prior to his introduction City's brightest spark at The Hawthorns had been James Milner, which tells its own story. The trouble is, Milner's spark was snuffed out the second he'd hauled down Shane Long and got his marching orders from Mark 'he's only as competent as Battenburg' Clattenburg.
Dzeko scored twice in his 11 minutes on the field, but he should have been outshone by Romelu Lukaku, whose cameo might well have contained a hat-trick, even though his involvement was three minutes shorter. Despite his heroics, Dzeko rejected the moniker of "supersub" leaving this pundit hopelessly confused as to what a "supersub" actually is these days.
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Religious Studies
Susanna Morrill
Associate Professor of Religious Studies
Copyright, Steve Hambuchen
J.R. Howard Hall
Susanna Morrill teaches courses in United States religious history. She received her doctorate in the history of religions from the University of Chicago. Her work in the recent past has focused on how early Mormon women used popular literature in order to argue for the theological importance of their roles in the home, community, and church.
Spring 2017 Courses:
RELS 254: Religion Modern America 1865-1995
Impact of religion in modern America from the end of the Civil War to the present day, emphasizing the interaction between America's many religions and emerging American modernity. The fate of "traditional" religion in modern America; "alternate" American religious traditions; urbanization, industrialism, and religion; science, technology, and secularism; evangelicalism, modernism, and fundamentalism; religious bigotry; pluralism; new religions and neofundamentalism.
RELS 490: Senior Thesis
Survey of the history of cultural appropriations of Jesus through the centuries, ending with the contemporary search for the historical Jesus and its pop culture congeners. A case study in the appropriation of a classical religious figure. Gospel records; evidence of other ancient sources, including noncanonical gospels; early Christian writings; Western cultural appropriations of Jesus; and Jesus in modern film and literature.
Professor Morrill teaches courses in United States religious history up to 1865; United States religious history, 1865-present; colonial American history; women in United States religious history; the body and health in United States religious history; and a seminar focusing on American religions. These courses reflect her interests in researching women in United States religions and, specifically, in finding women (and men) in American history by looking at non-traditional, popular sources—the places in American culture that women were able to safely create and inhabit.
Academic Credentials
Ph.D. 2002, M.A. 1993 University of Chicago
B.A. 1989 Bryn Mawr College


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The Unconscious
by Suzanne Diehl
This is a story of a typical American middle class family.
Typical, in the sense that they are very "comfortable" with
their lives. They have the requisite two jobs, two cars, two
children and a dog and a cat (two pets). They even have two
mortgages (a first, and a home equity loan).
They also have the requisite extended families of parents, brothers,
sisters, in-laws and even an outlaw (the maverick of the family, Uncle
Joe, who was put away for some years for tax fraud). All of whom are just
as typical as our subjects. Well, maybe Uncle Joe isn't typical, but you
get the idea
The comfortable life of this family is very much taken for granted. Their
four bedroom, three bath suburban house is in a fine community with good
schools, low crime and wonderful neighbors. Dad's position as a manager
in a large corporation in the city brings home a six-figure income. Mom's
job as a retail store manager at the local mall pays well enough to make
it worthwhile. The kids are spoiled, yet polite teenagers, whose materialistic
appetites for "stuff" grows from wanting the latest PlayStation game to
the latest cool car.
The family belongs to the local golf club, the Lions Club and a non-denominational
church. They attend church infrequently, mostly on the major religious
holidays. They consider themselves upstanding members of these communities.
The comfort of this family is not affected by those horrors that are
borne daily by the urban poor. No drive-by shootings, no mass layoffs
at the plant that employs 100% of those who work in the "hood". No gang
members and hookers roam their streets and intimidate the seniors who
shop, by necessity, at the corner convenience store. No school shootings,
drug deaths or teenage pregnancies are witnessed. The mantra spoken in
their home when watching the evening news is "Oh, how terrible! That could
never happen here!"
Current events are not high on the priority list of these people. Oh,
sure, they gripe about high gas prices, the cost of utilities, and the
government. Dad puts money away in a retirement account because he doesn't
believe that Social Security will be around when he needs it, but if asked
which political party has the best program for "Saving Social Security",
he cannot tell you what the proposals are. The election to come is a non-event
for Dad. He doesn't feel the need to vote. His candidate is a shoo-in.
Dad is a staunch Republican, feeling that large government programs are
bad for the country and that the term "regulation" should be abolished
from the American vocabulary. Dad doesn't seem to realize that in his
audit manager's position at the large corporation, he is the embodiment
of all large organizations' audit departments, making sure that people
follow the "Regulations" for the good of the corporation.
Dad wants to throw those "tax and spend" Democrats out of the government.
The latest Democratic president was a "disgrace" and a liar. Dad tells
his children that his candidate is a "kind hearted" man who will bring
integrity and honor back to the White House. Dad won't watch any television
news channel except Fox News because all of the others stations are members
of the "liberal media". Dad doesn't choose to remember that his current
affluence and good fortune were gained in the last 6 years. Prior to that,
Dad had been "downsized" from his middle management job, during the mad
days of "mergers and acquisitions", the Reagan/Bush game show.
Mom is a closet Democrat, unable to voice her opinions on the "Women's"
issues for fear of being ridiculed by her Republican husband, family,
friends and neighbors. Mom knows something about sexual discrimination,
being passed over time and again for promotion and each time having to
"familiarize" (i.e. train) her new male boss about his duties.
The last candidate was hired because he his father was the cousin of the
president of her company. His "qualifications" were more impressive than
her 10 years of experience. But Mom doesn't feel the need to vote to support
the candidate of the party that sponsored legislation to end just such
practices. "It's too much trouble", she told her daughter, when asked
if she intended to vote in the election. "I'd have to get up a whole hour
Mom also knows something about a woman's right to choose whether or not
to have a baby. In her college days, she fell in love with a popular jock,
got "knocked up" and suddenly found she was without a boyfriend, let alone
a husband to help raise the child. Since this was a fairly rare occurrence
in those days and family planning clinics were non-existent, Mom spent
the most terrifying weeks of her life attempting to find a way out of
her life-altering dilemma. Luckily for Mom, the college health service
nurse had contacts to a kindly local GP, who took pity on all of the "fallen"
girls in this situation and had a lucrative practice, performing abortions
for big bucks, after hours, in his off-campus office. Mom hasn't forgotten
that soul-searching experience, she just buries it under layers of guilt
and thanks for the two children that came along when she was able to take
care of them. But Mom still doesn't feel a need to vote. They'd never
repeal Roe v. Wade! And besides, she's past worrying about the possibility
of an unwanted child.
The teenagers are completely uninterested in the election. They just
wish it was over, so they could get Dad to stop watching Fox News. It
doesn't make any difference to them which candidate gets the prize. They're
both old and unhip.
In early November, the election is held. Being "too close to call", the
results of the election are contested. Eventually, The election is finally
settled to the satisfaction of most of this family, as well as their friends
and neighbors. Their lives go on as usual.
This typical, comfortable, insulated family will soon have a rude awakening.
The near future is not nearly so bright as the past. The newly "selected"
president has been speaking about "the recession" and the need for a tax
cut. The family hasn't yet felt the effects of this "recession", but support
their new leader, looking forward to the extra $2,500 a year in disposable
income promised. "A vacation in the Caribbean would be nice, wouldn't
it Honey?" Junior puts in his request for help in buying his dream car,
a red Camaro.
The nightmare begins about a month after the inauguration of the new
President. After being called into an emergency meeting, Dad learns he
is being "downsized" for the second time. His immediate superior, a man
with connections to the Chairman of the Board, a member of the Conservative
Right, breaks the news to about 2,000 employees at a teleconference meeting.
Layoffs will begin immediately for 40% of the workforce all over the country.
The company has had trouble meeting their earnings estimates. Although
sales revenues were up last year, the "slowing economy" requires management
to act to aggressively cut expenses so insure future earnings. Severance
packages will be given to all of those employees with 10 years or more
with the company. (That leaves Dad out, since he's only been with the
company for 5 1/2 years.) Benefits will be carried for 2 months. "Please
leave your security badges and washroom keys with the personnel staff
members on the way out the door, and good luck." Dad finds his way out
of the building and into the local bar, drowning his feeling of "why me"
in beer.
On the same day, Mom gets home from work to find the electricity is off.
She finds the flashlight and checks the circuit breaker box only to find
that everything is in the ON position. She makes her way through the darkened
house to the telephone, calling the utility company to come and fix the
problem. "I'm sorry, ma'am. The problem is not in your home, or in the
electric lines. We are currently experiencing rolling blackouts." Rolling
blackouts? "Yes, ma'am. We currently don't have enough electricity to
provide for the demand, so we have had to institute periodic blackouts
of certain communities." So Mom sits in the dark, waiting for Dad to come
home. She also has to put up with the complaints of her teenage children
who don't know what to do with themselves without the television, computer,
stereo, video games and other toys that require electricity. It's a long
The family budget is tight in the next few months. Mom is the only bread-winner.
Dad searches in vain for a new job. The "recession" is preventing all
of the major companies from taking on new staff. Prices for all kinds
of goods are going up, making putting food on the table and paying the
skyrocketing utility bills almost impossible after the mortgage payments
on their beautiful house and two car payments. The two months of health
insurance has expired. Mom's job doesn't offer health insurance.
The kids are fed up with the restrictions that no spending money is having
on their lives. Junior starts talking back, refusing to do simple chores.
He locks himself in his room, talking on the phone to his new best buddy,
the current bad boy of the local high school. The daughter complains constantly
of having to wear last year's clothes.
One day, Mom receives a phone call from the school principal, asking
her to come to the school to pick up her daughter. Arriving at the school,
frantic with worry about some illness that may require hospitalization,
she is confronted with her tearful, yet perfectly healthy daughter. After
asking what the problem is, she is informed by the principal that her
daughter has been suspended for a week for being a "disciplinary" problem.
It seems that a refusal to recite the Ten Commandments in class is cause
for suspension. "The Ten Commandments? What do the Ten Commandments have
to do with school?" It seems that the school board has issued a resolution
that every student must be able to recite the Ten Commandments on demand
- or face disciplinary action. Mom is lectured about her parental responsibilities
to insure that her child "respects her elders". Shocked at the arrogance
of such a statement, Mom gathers up her daughter, informing the principal
that the girl did, indeed "respect" those deserving of it.
Extremely upset about the treatment of her daughter, Mom spends the next
week attempting to enroll her daughter at the local private school. Finding
the tuition ruinous, with scholarships available for only those families
with "assets" of less than $20,000, Mom is forced to return her daughter
to the public schools. The school voucher program that the new administration
has been touting as a way to give parents choices doesn't apply, since
this public school is not "failing", but one of the most respected in
the state. It just happens to be run by "Christians".
Dad's parents, in poor health and living on a small pension, are increasingly
unable to care for themselves. The prescription bills alone are eating
up 25% of their income. The health care reform packages proposed by the
new administration have been approved, but make little difference since
their income level is "above the minimum" required to qualify for assistance.
Unable to perform the daily tasks required to care for their small home,
they reluctantly decide to put it on the market, only to find that the
housing market is "depressed" and can't be sold for what they originally
spent. The home health care worker that is hired from the only agency
in town providing this service costs $18.00 per hour, and she refuses
to drive them to the grocery store or the doctor. The agency is run by
a local christian group. Dad and his brothers and sisters are pitching
in to help, but all have other responsibilities and can't provide the
24 hour care that is needed. After checking into the possibility of an
"assisted living" facility, the extended family finds that the cost is
beyond their means.
Mom and Dad begin to argue constantly, unable to cope with the stress
and sudden uncertainty of their lives. They begin to talk about having
to sell the house to make ends meet. The second car becomes a luxury and
is sold to a neighbor for barely enough to pay off the loan. The club
memberships, cell phones, pagers, and cable TV become things of the past.
Meanwhile, the economy begins to make a comeback. The fourth quarter
earnings results for the Fortune 500 companies are up 80%. But given the
fact that the Consumer Price Index has yet to reflect this turnaround,
expenses for the family continue to be a problem.
Soon, Dad is forced to take a job as a manager of the local retail outlet
store, part of a large chain of stores. He hates the hours, the loss of
control, and lack of "status". He becomes a regular at the local bar,
drowning his misery in alcohol and the company of others that complain
about their troubles.
Mom is tired of trying to keep the family afloat with little assistance
from anyone. She becomes increasingly bitter, snapping at the children,
and her husband when he is home. She watches the news and is disgusted
by the "spin doctors" and "experts" who are increasingly shrill about
what wonderful things the administration is doing for the "people".
The troubles of this typical family eventually end in divorce. The middle-class
lifestyle they enjoyed is gone. Their hope for the future becomes the
struggle to pay next months rent. Mom and Dad are uncomfortable with their
friends, family and neighbors, sensing the disapproval that comes with
the failure of their marriage. The children are bewildered and angry,
unable to comprehend what happened.
Mom finds some solace in becoming involved in several organizations that
are fighting to replace the current administration and legislature. She
finally realizes that speaking up for what you believe in is not just
the right thing to do, it's the only thing. Dad is reluctant to let go
of his long held conservative views, but as a result of all that has happened,
is beginning to consider the possibility that the promises of "compassionate
conservatism" are mostly lies. The children know that the phrase "let
no child be left behind" is an empty campaign slogan. They have been left
The next election is underway. How many typical families will now recognize
the importance of their right to vote?
Learn from this family's experience.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
Beebs Do BSB, Alright!
17 comments:
- Kelli Herrington said...
Now I'm just a singing there songs and doing their dances in my head. What a fun concert. looks like you had a blast girl
- June 12, 2014 at 8:46 AM
- Bridget said...
Backstreets back...alright!!! Summer of 99 was an awesome summer and every memory from that summer floods back to me when I hear 'Larger than Life'!!!
- June 12, 2014 at 8:47 AM
- P!nky said...
AMAZING! So jealous! I love bsb.
- June 12, 2014 at 9:03 AM
- hello erin said...
i think i love you even more for being a die-hard BSB fan!! SUCH a fun concert. i'm totes jealous!!
- June 12, 2014 at 9:03 AM
- ~Dawn~ said...
I'm so freaking jealous of this....#teamnick
- June 12, 2014 at 9:36 AM
- Erin LFF said...
LOL! You guys are too much fun, I'm glad you had a blast! I'm curious though, were most people there our age-ish? Like the people who have been following them for forever?! Or many younger gals?
- June 12, 2014 at 11:15 AM
- J and A said...
So much fun!! you both look fab!
- June 12, 2014 at 4:40 PM
- WinterBenson said...
So jealous!!
- June 12, 2014 at 7:01 PM
- Kayla MKOY said...
I did love me some BSB, but OH WOW I was obsessed w/ N'Sync!!!! ;) glad you ladies had a fun time!!
- June 12, 2014 at 8:29 PM
- Ashley @ Life on the Parsons Farm said...
Love them and N'sync. You look great btw
- June 15, 2014 at 11:28 PM
- Sarah said...
Looks awesome. I was way more of a NKOTB girl, but still looks super fun!
- June 16, 2014 at 5:56 PM
- ajs {of MN} said...
a BSB cruise, tell me more!?
it looked like you two beautiful girls had such a good time!
- June 17, 2014 at 12:26 PM
- Unknown said...
I still blame Chicago on Pauly D!! So glad you can add another BSB memory to your collection. xo m
- June 17, 2014 at 12:49 PM
- Amanda K. said...
i wrote an article about brian littrell for a canadian magazine a year or so ago, and he sang the first few lines of "quit playing games with my heart" and "i want it that way" over the phone to me. it was AMAZING.
my toddler was sick on the couch with a fever and i had to apologize several times for the whining kid in the background.
here's the article: http://www.livinglightnews.org/story3_03.13.htm
- June 17, 2014 at 6:22 PM
- Katie said...
i LOVE that you have been to so many bsb concerts!! i knew you were a girl for me!! hahahaha!
- June 18, 2014 at 1:50 PM
- eliz said...
Hahahah I went to the BSB concert last week...it was outdoors...and omg best concert ever...I loved how I felt 16 again!! :-)Great show to be a part of!
- June 18, 2014 at 9:17 PM
- eliz said...
Hahahah I went to the BSB concert last week...it was outdoors...and omg best concert ever...I loved how I felt 16 again!! :-)Great show to be a part of!
- June 18, 2014 at 9:17 PM


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A Noble Man(2001)
(The sixth book in the Steepwood Scandal series)
A novel by Anne Ashley
Lady Sophia Cleeve dazzled all that Season, but she declared she would not marry a pampered man. Instead, she wanted a worthy man-outside her privileged class! As shock rocked her entourage at this declaration, the sea-worn Duke of Sharnbrook, Benedict Risely, entered the scene and instantly fell for Sophia. To win her, Benedict decided to hide his wealth and take a job as Sophia's personal groom. Soon their interaction took a very personal turn. As their love blossomed, Ben feared Sophia's reaction when she learned he was as noble as she was...
Genre: Historical Romance
Genre: Historical Romance
Similar Books by other authors...
An Inescapable Match
(Steepwood Scandal, book 15)
Sylvia Andrew
His Cinderella Bride
Annie Burrows
The Duke's Secret Heir
Sarah Mallory
Marry in Haste
(Marriage of Convenience, book 1)
Anne Gracie
Paperback Editions
2002 : UK Mass Market Paperback
Title: A Noble Man (The Steepwood Scandal, Book 6) (Harlequin Historical Series #103)
Author(s): Anne Ashley
ISBN: 0-373-30412-9 / 978-0-373-30412-7 (UK edition)
Publisher: Harlequin
Availability: Amazon
October 2001 : UK Mass Market Paperback
Kindle Editions
October 2014 : UK Kindle edition
Title: A Noble Man (Mills & Boon Historical)
Author(s): Anne Ashley
Publisher: Mills & Boon Historical
Availability: Amazon UK
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Enlightened public policy and aggressive advocacy by fresh produce industry leaders have resulted in real business gains in our nation's schools.
The latest step forward is the "Smart Snacks in Schools" proposal the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued in late June. It provides fresh fruit and vegetables easy access to schools' al a carte lines and opens up opportunities to increase sales of fresh-cut produce in school vending machines.
The new school snack standard would complement recent improvements to school meals and bolsters the fresh produce presence in schools established by the Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program. The USDA's Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Program supplies fresh fruit and vegetable snacks to 4 million low-income elementary schoolchildren.
In a similar way, the Let's Move Salad Bars to Schools campaign also shows both the public policy momentum and industry passion to deliver salad bars to schools across the U.S.
The challenge for the industry will be to work with school districts and vending machine companies to provide tasty fresh produce options for students. The shelf life and expense of fresh-cut produce compared with processed foods will have to be addressed, but the potential rewards could be great.
Successful market penetration into schools could predispose young students to become lifelong consumers.
Instead of craving a Snickers, students could covet a clementine or a pineapple spear instead.
That kind of change could only be positive for our nation's young students and U.S. health policy goals.
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"Whose afraid of the big bad book? I am, I am"
I can't imagine what goes into a work of fiction and I respect anyone that invests this much into anything. That being said. This book is awful.
The heroine acts like a spoiled brat. Rebels and does whatever she wants contrary to logic. She is so busy with the "no one is telling her what to do" attitude to show us how "strong" she is that she makes mistakes almost constantly and has to be bailed out by her male counter parts. It's painful. She is supposed to be a werewolf who investigates other werewolves as a job yet she fails to do the most simple things to keep herself and the people around her out of harms way. She is frustrating.
Don't get this book.
Say something about yourself!
"This one took a long time to get into..."
I spent probably the first half the book wondering why I kept listening. After that though, I did finally get it and it did redeem its self. I found myself surprised to be thinking, by the end, that I wouldn't mind giving the next one in the series a try.
My biggest problem with this was that there was a lot of negativity between the two main characters and the reason for it isn't explained. Even once it is explained, the female character comes off as immature (at least to me) in the way she is handling things.
My second biggest problem is that the female character is living with and engaged to one man that she's lying her butt off to and then goes out of town and within a very short time winds up sleeping with another guy. Does so multiple times and then has no intention of telling her fiance about it. That's not the sort of person that I'd generally wish for a happy ending for, so I found that frustrating.
Other than those two things, the plot to the book was decent, the action was good, etc. The narration was a bit difficult at some points because she either had no separation between voices of character or they sounded too much the same. That's not a major problem for me though, it's just something that I know others have problems with.
"Sorry I bought it."
Endless self-pity on the part of the main character, too much rough sex, and general bad behaviour all around. One dimensional, one themed, formulaic characters. Stopped listening. Sorry. I know it's a lot of work to write a book and not much to write a review. Still. Like Sherlock, I didn't want this book in me.
Live, love, laugh...
"A badass she-wolf!"
Maybe the narrator. Aesne Vigesaa sounded tired sometimes and you could only differentiate when Clay was speaking. All other characters sounded the same. The narrator is not terrible but monotonous at times.
I loved that it was about a she wolf named Elena. I looooved that character. She is strong, witty, and is not waiting to get rescued. She takes charge and does with ther life what she sees fit. I really enjoyed the love story because it was not your classic predictable wolf story. The relationship in this story is not perfect but you
The narrator sounded tired and monotonous at times.
Yes it was so worth it. It's a different take on the whole wolf thing. And there was an excellent mix of action and romance. I will probably not get the other books in the series since it is narrated by a different person and the reviews are horrible so I'll probably just stick to the Ebook version of the other books in the series. Ive learned that a narrator makes or breaks an audiobook.
Beware: there are some violent and graphic scenes in this story ( a la True Blood) so if you are sensitive to this keep it in mind. It's not too much or too gross and those scenes are justified with what happens in the story.
If you like the True Blood series or the Sookie Stackhouse books, you will definitely love this story. There are some very sexy, hot love scenes in the forest that are just wonderful and I loved the ending. But if you are looking for Twilight Saga type of werewolves, most likely you will find this book to strong.
"Dry mouth"
The story is not bad if you can get over the reader. Someone please give her a glass of water to keep by her side.
"Why? It is so good"
Why is it when I find a series like this that starts of so good there isn't a second book in the series to listen to. This one is really good. The heroine is smart and strong, the story riveting then when you look for the next book in the series you find out it hasn't been read yet. It really drives me crazy. Kelley is a fine writer and Aasne Vigesaa delivers it beautifully. Even though the second book isn't available yet this one is well worth the price. I only gave it four stars but that is an ok rating. If you are like me you will really enjoy this book, The story is solid and the plot intricate.
Ok, yes, I confess. I'm another paranormal geek.
"Yawn! Boring..."
I gave this book six hours, and each hour felt extra long. The story was so boring, and the narrator didn't help. She was monotone and unemotional. I wasn't excited when it was exciting, nor did I feel the lust when there was some. It was just dull. I'm not entirely sure the book itself would be better, instead of audio, because many of the sentences seem to run on too long. There were also misplaced tangents of history, that were confusing and distracting. Overall, I just did not enjoy this book. I'll be returning it.
I am a reader-reviewer, and love to help out all authors, especially up and coming authors.
"A different twist on werewolves"
*I received this in exchange for an honest review.
I absolutely love shifter books and this was not disappointing. I love how Kelly Armstrong took shifters into a bit of a new direction. There are not a ton of werewolves around, there isn't a ton of packs fighting for territory, and there isn't a bunch of Alpha males seducing women. There is a girl who happened to have been bitten and introduced into a life she knew nothing about. All she wants is a normal life, and she is trying to live that. But things don't just go away if you ignore them and you can't just live a "normal" life if you're not fully human. Give this book a try and go for the ride with these were's. I give this a solid 4 STARS!
miracle collector
"Really annoying heroine."
I love feisty heroines, but not feisty, dense heroines. Geez.
No, but probably won't dip into this series again.
I was pretty fond of the male characters. If she had not been so dense about EVERYTHING, all the way through, I would have found it interesting.
Say something about yourself!
"Glad I took the plunge!"
Listened for Fun (Audible)
Overall Rating: 4.00
Story Rating: 4.00
Character Rating: 4.00
Read It, File It, Get It Done: I have finally took the plunge and started the Women of the Otherworld series. I have to say that Bitten reeled me in hook, line, and sinker. Kudos to Kelley Armstrong for some fab furrballs and kick ass action.


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Andrzej Klimowski tackles 'The Sanatorium of Dr. Vliperdius' set in a world increasingly populated by robots. Our hero visits Dr. Vliperdius' institution, but its patients soon turn against him. Can he escape the sanatorium after learning its dark secret? Adapted from the critically acclaimed works of Stanislaw Lem.


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Theo Angelis definitely puts the hot in hotshot lawyer. Or at least, that's attorney Sadie Oliver's opinion. Even a simple handshake has her weak in the knees. If only there was time to explore the barely contained chemistry simmering between them. . . . But there isn't. Because Sadie desperately needs Theo's help. Her brother lies in hospital facing a murder charge, and their sister is missing. And even Sadie herself is being followed by unsavory looking characters. But Sadie's not about to take it lying down (unless Theo asks, of course). Her solution? To play an active role in the case, disguised as a law student. To anyone looking, Sadie will simply be another of Theo's male interns. But the heat in Theo's eyes never lets her forget she's all woman. . . .
Early To Bed?by Cara Summers
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man...Healthy?Talk about early! Tony Romano and Lily McNeil hadn't even introduced themselves before they were burning up the sheets! But the exercise didn't do Tony's health any good. Since luscious Lily showed up at his hotel, he's had his life threatened-twice! Wealthy? With his hotel falling apart around him, Tony could use a little help. And Lily has some great ideas to save the old establishment. But her family's company is pushing him to sell, and the timing of Lily's arrival is a little suspicious....And definitely wise! Who knew that sleeping with the enemy would be the smartest thing Tony had ever done? Because Tony quickly realizes he needs Lily-in bed and out. But before he can go any further, he has to put an end to all the secrets between them. Then it will be just a matter of seducing her into saying yes....
Flirting with Temptationby Cara Summers
Small-town girl Corie Benjamin is ready for an adventure, ready to experience everything the world has to offer. And one thing she definitely wants to "experience" is a night with journalist Jack Kincaid. He's lured her to the city, telling her he's uncovered information about her long-lost father.... But all Corie can think about is going under the covers with him! Only, when she discovers Jack's
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A year ago, Tracker McBride saved Sophie Wainwright's life, and the sexy loner has been starring in her nightly fantasies ever since. But now Sophie's tired of dreaming. She needs to have Tracker in her life, in her bed. So when she learns she's in danger-and that, once again, Tracker is watching her every move-she decides to take what she wants. And poor Tracker doesn't stand a chance....Tracker isn't thrilled with his latest assignment. For a year he hasn't been able to get Sophie out of his head. But the spoiled princess is way out of his league. Still, guarding Sophie's delectable body has its perks, especially since she's quite willing to share it. So he's going to Plan B. He'll seduce her right out of his system. Only, the more games they play, the more he's hoping they'll end up tied....
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Led Into Temptationby Cara Summers
He's the worst possible man for her. And she wants him with a desperation that borders on obsession. Recently jilted Naomi Brightman has had it with men! Her last boyfriend left her with a broken heart and the FBI on her trail. What she needs now is a place to hide for a while. Only when she gets to the remote resort she owns with her sisters, what she finds is a temptation that could jeopardize a lot more than her good name. Enter dangerously delicious Dane MacFarland. He makes Naomi sizzle all over! But he's off-limits. Really, really off-limits. Still, the passion between them is overwhelming, irresistible-even downright sinful. Or it would be-if Dane was half the man Naomi thinks he is. Contains explicit descriptions of sex.
Lie with Meby Cara Summers
Corfu's exotic beaches are a matchless place to meet true love. . . or at least to have a fabulous fling! And that's exactly what Philly Angelis needs. After all, she's a survivor of unrequited love. . . and an embarrassingly rejected sexual proposition. Fleeing to Greece to soak in its sexy magic--as well as to find a hot guy to take her mind off her longtime crush, Roman Oliver--seems the perfect antidote. Roman can't believe what he's doing. Philly is his best friend's little sister--definitely hands-off! So why is he following her to Corfu? And why is he taking her outrageously delicious sexual proposition seriously? Maybe because Philly's all woman now--a woman who knows exactly what she wants. And, God help him, Roman's going to give it to her. . . .
The Life of Riley and Naked in New Englandby Cara Summers Jacquie D'Alessandro
The Life of Riley by Cara Summers Cop Jack DeRosa's life is going to the dogs. After being out on sick leave, the only way he's getting his beat back is to strike gold on his latest case. The assignment—to investigate pet caretaker and probable thief Riley Foster. Undercover, Jack manages to deal with rambunctious mutts, clinging kittens and opinionated birds. But one look from his sassy suspect and Jack knows he's in over his head.... Naked in New England by Jacquie D'Alessandro Ryan Monroe is finished with women! After giving his latest girlfriend, Ms. You-mean-I-can't-sleep-around?, her walking papers, he heads off to the mountains for a little R & R. The last thing he expects to find in his friend's backwoods cabin is a woman—especially one in her birthday suit! But when a storm leaves them stranded, what else can Ryan do but convince his bathing beauty that it's more fun to be naked in New England—together!
Mistletoe & Mayhem & Santa's Sexy Secretby Cara Summers Lori Wilde
Mistletoe & Mayhem All she wants for Christmas... Librarian Jodie Freemont's New Year's resolution is to get a life! Plain, predictable Jodie is going to turn into a daring, free-spirited femme fatale. And she gets her chance when rugged bounty hunter Shane Sullivan comes to town. Shane's got a reputation for always getting his man. But he doesn't stand a chance when Jodie decides to catch hers-under the mistletoe! Santa's Sexy Secret There are a few surprises under that suit... Working undercover as a jolly department-store Santa is no holiday for Detective Sam Stevenson! He's supposed to be investigating a large-scale theft ring, but instead he's spending more time checking out his gorgeous assistant elf, Edie Preston. The cute little pixie is one giant-size distraction. And thanks to a little mistletoe, Santa Sam is suddenly hearing wedding bells instead of jingle bells!
Moonstruck in Manhattanby Cara Summers
Can a skirt really act as a man-magnet? Freelance writer Chelsea Brockway doesn't believe it for a minute, but the idea is her ticket to getting her own monthly column. Only, once she gives the skirt a test drive, she's amazed to discover it actually works! Suddenly she has men falling at her feet! Even her sexy new boss, Zach McDaniels, is making it clear he wants Chelsea in his bed. Too bad he also wants her out of a job....
No Desire Deniedby Cara Summers
He's turning her fiction into fantasy... Legend has it making out under the MacPherson Castle arch guarantees you will find love. But author Nell MacPherson has a better plan, which is fueling the plot of her next book-tapping into the arch's magic to locate the last piece of a missing family heirloom. And since every book needs a sexy subplot, she'll save some of that magic for hot one-on-one time with her childhood crush.... Secret Service agent Reid Sutherland is determined to protect Nell from the recent threats aimed at her and her family. Which means no fooling around. But damned if the arch isn't doing its thing, because suddenly he and Nell can't keep their hands off each other. With every touch and late-night liaison, they're heading for big trouble...and this time, Nell won't be able to write her way out of it!
No Holds Barredby Cara Summers
Returning to Castle MacPherson was definitely not FBI profiler Duncan Sutherland's choice. But when defense attorney Piper MacPherson is targeted by a serial killer, Duncan knows it's the only place she'll be safe. At least, safe from her stalker. There's no guarantee he'll be able to keep his hands off her....Little does Duncan guess that Piper has always wanted him, too. In fact, years ago, she'd written down her most intimate fantasies-all of them involving on-demand sex...and him. Now though, she wants the real deal. And with a serial killer threatening her life, the best thing Duncan can do is provide Piper with full-body cover-day and night!
No Risk Refusedby Cara Summers
From Newly Wedded magazine: "This castle in upstate New York is the stuff of fantasies! And a kiss under the arch might make your love-or lust-last forever..."Indulging a family request, CIA agent Cam Sutherland has returned to Castle MacPherson for the first time in years to investigate a decades-old theft. But more importantly, it's the place where-in a brief moment-Cam very nearly lost his heart and soul to wedding planner Adair MacPherson.And Adair is still as bewitching as ever. When Cam finds a seven-year-old erotic story written by her-and starring him-his blood damn near boils over. The only solution? To prove to Adair that fantasies are best made into realities...and the best magic happens between the sheets!
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June 30, 2014
Congress, Religion and the Supreme Court's Hobby Lobby Decision
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The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that requiring family-owned corporations to pay for insurance coverage for contraception under the Affordable Care Act violated the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. That act requires that federal laws meet stringent standards if they interfere with religious practices.
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Catholics bide time on cathedral
The Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament has become the Cathedral of the Blessed Mystery. Paul Gorman reports on what has become of the Catholic edifice many consider the leading example of ecclesiastical architecture in Christchurch.
Catholics in the Canterbury-West Coast diocese are used to having a cathedral in the wrong part of town.
Shunned from the centre of the Anglican settlement to a site near the railway line and close to the old gasworks, the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament has still managed to wow visitors and locals alike, providing a spectacle more exotic than the somewhat austere but unsurprisingly better placed Anglican Christ Church Cathedral.
Ironic, then, that as a result of extensive earthquake damage, the fabric of the Catholic cathedral is finding a new home in another industrial part of the city.
The cathedral management board asked The Press to keep the exact storage location secret. The most we can say is it is somewhere in the flat wastelands of far western Christchurch.
To date, the diocese has spent about $3 million deconstructing the damaged parts of the cathedral, on cleaning and saving and numbering stones, windows and unique elements, and on transporting material, at night, to the new site.
Management board chairman Lance Ryan said discussions leading up to a decision on whether the cathedral would be rebuilt or demolished could well be at least six, and more likely 12, months away.
The cathedral's fate had to be considered in the context of it being just one of 20 damaged churches in the diocese. He said there were three options – demolition, rebuilding or mothballing.
The cost of a rebuild could be $100m and would involve several years of work by stonemasons.
Bishop Barry Jones said he would not make that decision until he was satisfied he had all the relevant knowledge.
"Not all the information has been gathered in yet about what is there,'' he said.
"I'm prepared to wait as long as I have to, to get a full picture of what the actual position is."
It has been a tale of two cathedrals. While the angst and the very public bickering about the fate of the Anglican cathedral has commanded hundreds of column centimetres of space, the Catholics have obviously watched and learnt from the "how not to handle a controversial issue" show unfolding in Cathedral Square, taken completely the opposite tack and disappeared largely from view.
Of course, the Catholics have had the benefit of being in a far less public space than the Anglicans.
Ryan said the Catholic authorities' silence about the cathedral did not mean no work had taken place.
The pressure had been on to make the building safe so Catholic Cathedral College and the site-sharing Marian College, in the "fall zone" of the cathedral, had certainty and could be fully functional at the start of this year.
The Press's meeting on Thursday with Ryan and Opus project manager John Craig in a cold, deserted car park on the edge of town had shades of an East German spy swap.
Ryan and Craig took us to a concealed, scaffolded area containing tonnes of lumps of stone, chunks of cornice and other architectural features stacked several storeys high.
Outside lie dismantled copper domes with new flashing, massive building blocks and grubby-looking window frames from the cathedral.
What from the outside looks like a large water tower sitting on short concrete piles and covered with waterproof material turns out on the inside to actually be the cathedral's precious intricate pressed-metal, patterned inner dome.
Craig said the facilities and shrink-wrapping allowed the individually numbered objects to be kept in the "best condition possible". Even if they were not used for any rebuild, they would act as a guide for the design of new elements.
Ryan said the whole diocese had to deal with insurance issues and decisions on assets, which included schools, retirement villages, church halls and presbyteries, as well as churches.
The church had adequate insurance cover with Ansvar, he said.
Deconstruction work had paused, but more material would be transported to the site in the months to come. There was a plan to remove more windows and a special plan would be needed to take out the main organ.
Opus heritage specialist Carole-Lynne Kerrigan was on site giving "a balance" of opinions on what the future of the cathedral might hold, Ryan said.
"Personally, part of me wants to pull it down and part of me wants to say, 'Let's spend 100 years fixing it', because they do that in Europe."
Jones said the wider diocese would be involved in some way in the final decision. "We will need to have a pretty big sounding of what people think. It can't be a mass movement, but we have to have a good idea what Catholics are thinking."
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Bakula On Creating Trek's 'New Sensibility'By Caillan
September 9, 2001 - 10:11 AM
Before Scott Bakula accepted the role of Captain Archer on Enterprise, he wanted to make sure that the series really would represent a departure for the franchise.
"The questions I asked Rick [Berman] and Brannon [Braga] before I agreed to do Enterprise were along the lines of: 'You say you want it to be different, but how will it be different? Will it look different? Will it feel different?'" he told Ian Spelling at Inside Trek.
The actor is conscious of the fact that the series must have something unique to offer fans and new viewers alike. "We will get to create not Star Trek, because that's already been created, but a new sensibility about the franchise," Bakula said. "That was my foremost concern. Rick said, 'We've got to try to make it different. We want to give the fans Star Trek, but we want it to feel fresh and new and invigorating to them, as well as to all of us here.'"
Fortunately, Bakula feels that Enterprise's premise has given the franchise a new lease of life. "The ship, for example, is different," he said. "In a sense, being able to go back to the very beginning of Star Trek has given all of the different departments new gas in their tanks. They're all so excited about the new environmental suits and the new, regular flight suits, and the way the ship works and looks now. It's smaller and more like a submarine, not the high-tech sleekness you see on the other ships. I kept saying, 'Will we see that on the page, too?'"
It may be difficult to gauge exactly what the fans are thinking, but Bakula is optimistic in his hopes for Enterprise. "It's hard for me to measure what the fans' thirst is," he said. "All I can tell is that there seems to be a tremendous and building enthusiasm. There seems to be an underground swell, and I think that's because we're going back to the beginning."
The full interview, in which Bakula also talked about his reasons for accepting the role of Archer, can be found here at Inside Trek.
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March 1, 2017 – Results from a new prospective clinical trial indicate that high-dose-rate (HDR) brachytherapy administered in a single, 19 Gray (Gy) treatment may be a safe and effective alternative to longer courses of HDR treatment for men with localized prostate cancer. ...continue reading "Single High Dose of Brachytherapy Radiation May Be Safe and Effective for Localized Prostate Cancer"
Low-dose Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) with a low-fat breakfast as effective as full dose on an empty stomach, study finds
A small randomized Phase II study for men with progressive castrate-resistant prostate cancer has tested the effects of taking one-fourth the standard dose of Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) after a low-fat breakfast instead of standard dose on an empty stomach.
Taking one-fourth the standard dose with a low-fat breakfast, the study found, can be as effective – and four times less expensive – as taking the standard dose as recommended: on an empty stomach. The finding has significant financial implications.
Abiraterone acetate is a standard treatment for metastatic CRPC. Retail cost is about $8000 per month.
A group of doctors led by Russell Szmulewitz, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago and a specialist in medical treatment of patients with advanced prostate cancer, observed that "despite a large food effect (about a 17-fold increase in CMax with a high-fat meal), abiraterone acetate was administered under fasting conditions in its pivotal trials." ...continue reading "Low-dose Zytiga (abiraterone acetate) with a low-fat breakfast as effective as full dose on an empty stomach, study finds"
9/11 Health Fund Extends Deadline for Prostate Cancer Claims
On December 18, 2015 President Obama signed into law a bill re-authorizing the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010, to extend the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund ("VCF") for an additional five years.
This will benefit individuals impacted by the events of 9/11 including men who developed prostate cancer as a result of exposure to the disaster.
Importantly, the re-authorization extends the deadline for submitting claims. Previously the VCF said it would stop receiving claims on October 3, 2016. This is no longer the case. As of September 2, the new deadline for filing a claim (and all supporting documents) is December 18, 2020.
Full story in our blog.
New tumor analysis method identifies high-risk prostate cancer
Cancer cells' genetic pathways show which patients are likely to develop aggressive types of the disease
Sept. 7, 2016 -- Scientists at Cedars-Sinai have developed a new way to identify which prostate cancer patients are likely to develop aggressive types of the disease even if their tumors at first appear to be lower risk. The new findings could help physicians prescribe the most effective treatments for each patient based on how genes are activated in the individual tumor.
These findings raise the possibility that by determining the gene expression profile of a patient's tumor, physicians may be able to identify aggressive disease at the outset of diagnosis and start treatment earlier," said Sungyong You, PhD, an instructor in the Cedars-Sinai Department of Surgery and the first author of the study.
...continue reading "New tumor analysis method identifies high-risk prostate cancer"
Digital Rectal Exam To Detect Prostate Cancer Usually Unnecessary, Study Finds
Sept. 6, 2016 – Digital rectal exam, the dreaded finger exam to check for prostate cancer, used to be a mainstay of check-ups for older men. With its value now in question, some doctors share the risks and benefits with their patients and let them decide. So, should they or shouldn't they?
"The evidence suggests that in most cases, it is time to abandon the digital rectal exam (DRE)," said Ryan Terlecki, M.D., a Wake Forest Baptist urologist who recently published an article on the topic in Current Medical Research and Opinion. "Our findings will likely be welcomed by patients and doctors alike."
Terlecki said the DRE, referred to by some urologists as a "clinical relic," subjects a large number of men to invasive, potentially uncomfortable examinations for relatively minimal gain. In addition, it may deter some men from undergoing any test for prostate cancer. ...continue reading "Digital Rectal Exam To Detect Prostate Cancer Usually Unnecessary, Study Finds"
PSA failure predicts risk of death only in healthy men
September 6, 2016. A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) finds that a rise in prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in healthy men who have previously been treated for prostate cancer is significantly associated with a 1.6-fold increased risk of death. The team also studied men with prostate cancer who had another illness such as a history of heart attack or stroke, and did not find that PSA failure was predictive of the risk of death in these men.
The new work suggests that it's especially important for healthy men to be given information about the early results of available clinical trials that have been shown to reduce PSA failure, according to the study's authors. ...continue reading "PSA failure predicts risk of death only in healthy men"
Biopsy to Detect Prostate Cancer – when is it needed?
Indications for Prostate Biopsy
|Digital Rectal Exam (DRE)
suspicious for cancer at any PSA level
|PSA above 3 ng/mL
|High Risk of prostate cancer based on multiple risk factors.
|TRUS (transrectal ultrasound) Guided Biopsy. In some circumstances, Doppler ultrasound- guided or MRI-guided biopsy may be preferred or required.
|If TRUS-guided-biopsy not done, follow up in 6 to 12 months with PSA/DRE. Consider testing FPSA, PHI, and/or PCA3 if PSA is between 3 and 10 ng/mL.
|Measure free PSA (FPSA), PHI (Prostate Health Index), or PCA3 in patients with PSA 3 - 10 ng/mL
...continue reading "Biopsy to Detect Prostate Cancer – when is it needed?"
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Calls for Early Support So That Men Can Make Smart Treatment Decisions, Study Says
June 8, 2015. BUFFALO, N.Y. — A study led by University of Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute researchers claims to have identified beliefs and personality traits associated with higher levels of distress in newly diagnosed prostate cancer patients. The study's authors say their findings support the value of emotional and informational support for patients and perhaps early counseling for some who are the most distressed. ...continue reading "Prostate Cancer Diagnosis Calls for Early Support So That Men Can Make Smart Treatment Decisions, Study Says"


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Dubai, Oct 27 (IANS) A 90-year-old man in Saudi Arabia remarried, to honour his dying wife's wish, Gulf News reported Sunday.
The five daughters of Fatees Al Thaqafi, from Taef in western Saudi Arabia, spent three months looking for the right bride for their father, the newspaper reported on its website.
Al Thaqafi had initially refused to remarry after his wife died earlier this year following a prolonged illness, but after his daughters and sons insisted he honour their mother's wish, he agreed.
The couple had five daughters and seven sons.
The daughters did not want a young woman and looked for a mature woman. Eventually they found a childless 53-year-old widow in a remote village who accepted the marriage proposal.
The elderly man paid 25,000 Saudi riyal ($6,665) in bride's price.
A large number of relatives and friends attended the marriage ceremony.