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Here's Ed Willes' column on the Lions win Friday:
Given everything that's transpired this season, maybe it's fitting that the B.C. Lions would be brought back to life by a quarterback whose career seemed deader than Joe Pesci in Goodfellas.
And maybe it's fitting that their resurrection took place when they'd reached the lowest point of a campaign in which they were already bouncing along the bottom. And maybe this is the first step in the Lions finally gaining some equilibrium after they stumbled through the regular season like they had an inner-ear problem.
Maybe all that's true and maybe you should ignore that nagging voice that's telling you, nah, it's just not possible.
But here's the thing. Somewhere between the heroic Buck Pierce, Stefan Logan, a rejuvenated Andrew Harris and their defence, you can make the case the Lions are in the process of peaking at the right time; that, in the time-honored tradition of the CFL, the Lions have caught a spark just as the playoffs are about to begin.
And, after their 43-29 win over the Edmonton Eskimos, you can make that point without sounding like a complete lunatic. Maybe it isn't much to go on. But it's more than they had before Friday night.
"Have we played our best ball?," defensive back Ryan Phillips asked rhetorically. "No. But there's nothing like getting that win and getting some confidence. We're definitely moving forward and, now, we'll take that momentum into the playoffs."
See how easy it is? Then why has it looked so hard for this team this season?
The Leos, who've tested the patience of their fan base for the better part of four months, managed to cram just about every aspect of their 2013 season into three bizarre, chaotic and, ultimately, exhilarating hours of football at The Dome on Friday night. On the Eskimos' first play from scrimmage, quarterback Mike Reilly hitting Adarius Bowman with a 71-yard TD pass and it was a testament to the Lions' ineptitude that play wasn't the low point of the first quarter.
No, that occurred when the crowd of 24,545 cheered sarcastically for a Paul McCallum rouge towards the end of the first quarter. The Lions' offence, to that point, had produced one first down under Thomas DeMarco's direction and looked worse than a fat guy at the beach with black knee socks.
And that's when the guy you may remember as Buck Pierce appeared.
The final numbers – 11 of 14 for 141 yards, three touchdowns and no interceptions – were impressive enough. But they told only part of the story. Pierce, who's tougher than boiled ostrich, went four-for-four in a key second-quarter drive and was hit on every play. The coup de grace came on a desperation shovel pass to Harris which turned into a seven-yard touchdown as Pierce was being buried. He also found time to throw a key block on Logan's 54-yard touchdown run that started the Lions' rally. And he ended it with a two-yard touchdown run in the fourth quarter that iced the victory.
Pierce has endured a number of trials in his CFL career – including a few with the Lions where he went from the team's franchise quarterback to the discard pile – and when he lost his starting job in Winnipeg earlier this year, it looked like it could have been the end of the line. But that touchdown represented a powerful moment of personal triumph for someone who was too stubborn to give up.
"I have been through a lot," Pierce said. "You know what? It feels great. It was good be out there and play the game I love to play."
"It was huge for him to come in and do that," said Harris. "You saw a light in his eyes. We're so happy for him."
Pierce, as it turns out, wasn't the only member of the offence to celebrate a rebirth against the Eskimos. Harris, who was starting to look like a forgotten man, ran 76 yards – the team ran for a season high 220 – and caught two touchdown passes. Logan contributed 121 rushing yards of his own on just 10 carries. And Manny Arceneaux caught two touchdown passes and set up another major on a pass-interference call.
"Pressure makes diamonds and tonight, we shone," Arceneaux said.


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BRADENTON — An appeals court has overturned the convictions of two women found guilty of acting as midwives during a fatal home birth.
Linda McGlade and her daughter-in-law, Tanya McGlade, both from Bradenton, were sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison in June 2006 in the first known prosecution of the crime in Florida.
The McGlades aided a relative during a 2004 birth. Mara McGlade, 25, bled to death internally two days after delivering a healthy baby boy named Gabriel at home. She was the wife of a son of Linda McGlade and her husband. Tanya McGlade was married to another son.
The two women represented themselves at trial and later appealed a decision that sent them to a Panhandle prison. They have been on supervised release for more than a year.
"We have let it go and tried to move on, live a normal life," Linda McGlade told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. "But to hear the news, we are just so thankful."
In a decision released on Friday, the 2nd District Court of Appeal in Lakeland determined that Circuit Judge Edward Nicholas improperly instructed the jurors on the charge.
Prosecutors are reviewing the appeals court decision and will make a decision on what to do next, said Chief Assistant State Attorney Ed Brodsky.

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America's 51st state: 'It's a state of mind mostly'
ROSEBURG, Ore. - The locals at Brix Grill enjoy stirring up controversy along with their breakfast.
Lately, the State of Jefferson has been a topic of debate.
"I think there's a lot of validity to the fact that people feel they're sort of pushed aside," said Charley Thompson.
It's a feeling that has gained some traction.
In September, Siskiyou and Modoc counties in California passed declarations stating their desire to withdraw from California and form a 51st state: Jefferson.
Secession isn't without precedent.
Five counties in Colorado symbolically voted to secede earlier this month from that state.
The last state to pull this off was West Virginia, which left Virginia in 1863.
The State of Jefferson is an idea that dates back to the 1940s, and originally included both Douglas and Coos counties in Oregon.
If the State of Jefferson came to be, it would radically change the geography of Oregon. Suddenly, Lane County would become the southernmost point in the state along the border with Jefferson.
The desire to be part of a new, more rural state resonates in southwest Oregon.
"It's a sign of frustration they and many of us feel," said Douglas County Commissioner Doug Robertson.
Robertson said restrictions placed on the timber industry by politicians in Salem have hampered development in the area and cost the county jobs. He periodically hears from constituents about secession, but Robertson said it's a long-shot.
"I wouldn't suggest it's impossible because nothing is impossible," he said. "I think it's very very difficult."
Professor Peter Laufer agrees. The University of Oregon journalism professor just released a book on the subject, "The Elusive State of Jefferson."
Laufer said the 51st state will always be a pipe dream - but one some genuinely believe in.
"There are plenty of people I've talked with throughout the region both in Oregon and California who insist it's not just a possibility, it's going to happen," Laufer said. "It's only a matter of time."
He doesn't expect secessionists to raise a flag or station armed guards at a mythical border like they did in the 1940s, but Laufer said their concerns are legitimate.
"We as Oregonians and Californians need to give a lot of attention to this region because it's suffering economically, severely," Laufer said.
And while it may not be a political reality, some already consider themselves residents of the 51st state.
"I live in the State of Jefferson," Thompson said. "It's a state of mind mostly."


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Eight months ago, I wrote a column calling for a Jewish Warren Buffett or Bill Gates, someone who would dedicate their mega-fortune to saving the Jewish people — and specifically to fully funding the Birthright Israel program. My dream is coming true. Sheldon Adelson is stepping up to the plate.
Adelson, the son of a Boston cab driver, may be on his way to becoming the richest man on earth. According to Forbes, he is already the third-richest American (after Gates and Buffett), with $20.5 billion.
On Jan. 1, he established the foundation which, by disbursing $200 million annually, will be by far the world's largest private foundation dedicated to Jewish causes. It will be giving $30 million to Birthright this year, allowing the program to clear out its waiting list and double to 20,000 the number of young Jews who will receive a free educational trip to Israel.
This is fabulous news. It means that Birthright — the most daring, creative and successful effort of the Jewish world to bolster identity and fight assimilation — may now be fully funded, eventually fulfilling Michael Steinhardt's dream of bringing a majority of every Jewish age cohort to Israel.
Even today, many people dismiss Birthright as a huge boondoggle, wasting millions on giving Jewish kids a free vacation. These critics ignore the research that reveals that alumni show a marked increase in many measures of Jewish identity compared to peers who remained behind on the waiting list. They don't understand that there is no other program that reaches exactly the people that our community had groaned it could not reach — those who, perhaps more by default than by preference, are unaffiliated, disinterested and Jewishly ignorant.
They also don't understand why Birthright has such an impact, and the profound implications this should have for Jewish philanthropy and community action.
The short answer is: Jewish bubbles work. As the introduction to a fascinating issue of the Steinhardt Foundation's journal Contact explains: "It has become clear that one of the most significant determinants of a program's effectiveness is the retreat component. From camping to Birthright Israel, retreats form the basis of some of the most salient programs of education and identity enrichment. Few methods compare with the intensity and authenticity provided by total immersion."
Birthright is a retreat, not a vacation. The act of bringing together thousands of young Jews in a bubble of time and space, and in an encounter with another Jewish bubble, the Jewish state, has the power to change lives.
Judaism itself works by way of bubbles. Shabbat, those who savor it know, is a bubble, or what Abraham Joshua Heschel called "a palace in time." Since those living in Shabbat-observant communities need to be within walking distance of each other, this, too, creates a bubble. When encountered in a bubble, Judaism comes alive. As Yitz Greenberg writes in Contact, Jewish retreats "make the Jewish message central and natural rather than marginal and abnormal, as it is in the majority society setting. … When good, life-enriching Jewish substance is communicated through intellectual and experiential learning, the effect is electrifying."
Greenberg argues that we are at one of those rare moments in Jewish history when our core institution shifts. In biblical times, Jewish peoplehood was organized around our liberation from slavery and God's miracles. Next, the Temple and Jewish sovereignty became the center. Then, over centuries of exile, synagogues, rabbis and Jewish study anchored Jewish existence. Now, Greenberg argues, this generation has the "once-in-a-millennium opportunity" to establish retreat centers as the engine of the "new infrastructure of Jewish life."
All Jewish bubbles — camping, retreats, day schools, adult and early-childhood education — hold enormous potential waiting to be tapped.
This could be the year that, inspired by the leadership and generosity of the son of a Jewish cab driver, the Jewish people decides to save itself.
Saul Singer is editorial-page editor of The Jerusalem Post.


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Two games in the space of 24 hours.
And suddenly, it seems, England need to be France.
To be fair, we'd like to be in the same position, through with a game to play, rather than out.
So, I'd guess, would Spain. And I suspect Italy would swap now, as well.
Certainly, too, Didier Deschamps side looked pretty tasty against Switzerland last night, although I've seen lumps of Gruyere with few holes in them than Ottmar Hitzfeld's defence.
Karim Benzema was flying, Olivier Giroud too, Matthieu Valbuena seems determined to fill the Franck Ribery void, Paul Pogba's display do question one of Sir Alex Ferguson's latter decisions at Manchester United while Yohan Cabaye provided further reasons for getting out of Newcastle and moving to PSG.
Deschamps' men are taking advantage of their soft draw, too. Fair play to them. You can't argue with eight goals in two games, although you can argue with Dutch referee Bjorn Kuipers and his "Clive Thomas" moment which means it isn't nine in two games.
In pictures: Switzerland 2-5 France
But rewind seven months, and could anybody have imagined it?
Remember the chaos of France's play-off first leg defeat in Kiev, with Laurent Koscielny sent off and the nation on the point of another Revolution.
All forgotten now and whatever happens over the next three and a half weeks, the French appear to be, swiftly, re-establishing themselves as a major European power, just in time to play host to the continent in 2016.
Great! In all seriousness, if there is a single lesson, above all, that England must draw as they prepare to sneak into Belo Horizonte, play Costa Rica and pack their bags for the flight home, maybe as swiftly as Tuesday night, it is the one from the French.
That things can change in football, swiftly. But that panic reactions mean that change can never happen.
Many at home will, doubtless, castigate the FA for their reaction to events in Manaus and Sao Paulo.
They will look at all the preparations England undertook, in Portugal and Miami, the huge sums spent on giving Roy Hodgson and his squad all the back-room support staff he could ever ask for, and question:"What was the point?"
In pictures: England vs Uruguay
But if you can't defend a simple hump up the middle from the goalkeeper, you are doomed.
And before Hodgson gets blamed for that, think back to Bloemfontein, 2010. Not the Frank Lampard "goal that never was", but Germany's opener.
From a hump down the middle by Manuel Neuer. Not dealt with by John Terry or Matthew Upson. Four years later, with a different cast-list, the same result.
When it mattered, sadly, England were atrophied by fear. The freedom they had displayed in defeat against Italy disappeared as the pain of defeat, and the prospect of going home, bit too deep into too many of them.
But to decide now that England should revert to the previous incarnations, play 4-4-2, with workmanlike flank men, would be completely wrong.
Those who ignore the lessons of the past are doomed to repeat them, so England, under Hodgson, must seek to rebuild the back-line, try to find a midfield holder who can actually hold. Maybe, we will see, James Ward-Prowse of Southampton (who can take a mean free-kick, too).
France are enjoying the sunshine now, while dark clouds hang over England on the Rio shoreline.
But from the misery, England can begin the journey back to where they want to be. Perhaps not in the seven months it has taken France, yet why not over the next two years?


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Just another reminder that Mix 101.5 WRAL-FM's annual Radiothon for Duke Children's Hospital runs 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday.
The event has raised more than $15 million over the past 18 years to benefit children's programs and support the medical and surgical programs at Duke Children's Hospital & Health Center in Durham. It's an amazing two days that focuses, in large part, on the touching and inspiring stories of patients at Duke Children's. (If you see me tearing up in my car over the next two days, you now will know why).
Duke Medicine, Go Ask Mom's sponsor, offered some ways to get involved this week. Check the earlier post for all the details.
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(This story has been updated with a newer idea here: A Plan for Social Media Sites (and users) to Give Back)
Digg, StumbleUpon, Reddit, Slashdot, Newsvine, NowPublic, Yahoo! Buzz. Between these seven sites, traffic to a particular website can easily exceed 100,000, potentially much higher.
With so much power to drive people to various websites across the Internet, why are none of them greatly involved with charity? I'm not talking about donating – I'm sure that the companies or their executives donate. I'm talking about making a difference. I'm talking about using their power to drive traffic and applying it to charity websites.
The reason that they don't is that they (other than Slashdot) are strictly driven by the actions, likes, and intentions of the users. You could argue that there is a human hand or two manipulating the system from time to time, but that's an entirely different post.
Would it be wrong or unjustified to use the server-busting power of their front pages for an occasional bit of philanthropy? It wouldn't be hard to do at all. There would be those who would cry out "don't preach to me" or "keep your humanity to yourself" but for the most part, I believe the communities would embrace it. Who knows – they might just learn something from time to time that has more substance than lolcats and bacon.
Digg could very easily create a category for charity. They could hire a handful of people to moderate the category more closely than others to keep the spam to a minimum. The threshold could be lowered a bit (if necessary, though it probably wouldn't be) to get a story or two a day on the front page.
As with all categories, if a user doesn't want "charity shoved down their throat" they can always turn the category off completely.
Reddit could adopt a different type of charitable technique. By making a charity subreddit that was featured as one of the primary selections on the front page and making it a default, the subreddit would grow quickly. No need for moderators – the community self-moderates well.
Even better, they can integrate their technology into a new site dedicated to charity, activism, and philanthropy.
Slashdot is clearly more tech-niche-oriented, but their control of the front page is a perfect way to make sure that tech-related stories involving charities (there are plenty) received attention from time to time.
Newsvine and NowPublic have strong communities that really pays more attention to original stories written on the websites by the users than most of the links posted there. It would take the users themselves, especially the "powerful" ones, to take more of a stand and write about charities (then link to them, of course). Still, the sites can help promote it through special sections dedicated strictly to charity and posted on the front page.
Yahoo! Buzz – still a tough one to understand from a traffic perspective, but potentially the most powerful of them all. As with Slashdot, the super-popular stories are hand-picked, so squeezing in a story or two every now and then for the sake of righteousness would be a piece of cake.
StumbleUpon already has a way to implement charity into their system. They have an advertising platform that allows people to buy Stumbles for a nickel. Why not open that up and allow some charities to join in? They could easily send a conservative 500-1000 people a day to a page with a 5 cent discount given to charities. My math is spotty at best, but I believe that comes to a total cost of none, both for the charity and for StumbleUpon. If it does well, the charities can always purchase more than their low daily quota.
Regardless of what they do, it is important and practical that they do something. Times are tough for many. Charitable giving is naturally down as a result. With the power that they wield, it just makes sense that they should use just a small bit of that power to help make the world better.
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We commend Handii for producing the Go10 tablet, but at this price we don't think we'll rush out and buy one. Part of this can blamed on Windows 7: we just don't think its interface is appropriate for a device that only has touch input and a screen this size. At the end of the day the G10 it is what it is: a Windows 7, touchscreen-equipped netbook without a keyboard -- if that floats your boat then you might want to check it out.
The hype surrounding Steve Jobs' 'magical' iPad has led to a flurry of competing products. Some, like HP's webOS tablet and Dell's Streak, are yet to be released, while others, like Handii's Go10 tablet PC, are available now. The Handii Go10 tablet is essentially a netbook that eschews a keyboard in favour of a 10.2in resistive touchscreen.
The Handii Go10 is equipped with a 1.6GHz Intel Atom N270 CPU, 802.11n wireless networking, Bluetooth and a 3G module for mobile broadband (this is an extra that costs $99.95). It also offers a 160GB hard drive, 1GB of RAM (2GB is optional) and a webcam.
Unlike the iPad, the Handii is a fully fledged computer that runs Windows 7. This means that you can install any Windows 7–compatiable program you want, as long as the limited power of the tablet can handle it.
We were able to navigate multiple Web browser windows while playing a high-definition movie file in the background, but it wasn't always a pleasant experience (the video was displayed jerkily, for example). However, the tablet hasn't been designed for true multitasking: chances are you won't want to do more than browse the Web while listening to a few MP3 files, or just watch a movie.
Because the touchscreen is resistive, it's not especially easy to navigate using your fingers. Many recent smartphones, like the iPhone 3GS and HTC Desire, as well as the iPad, use 'capacitive' screens, which don't rely on pressure. A resistive screen is not a bad thing per se: it means that you can use the included stylus, which can be slotted away neatly inside the Handii tablet. We're not fans of trying to navigate Windows 7 on a small screen using our fingers. Most of the time we just used the stylus, although this can also be frustrating thanks to the Windows 7 interface. The stylus will work with Windows 7's integrated handwriting recognition, so it can be used for writing notes. Handwriting recognition is not super-fast, but it will be okay for writing a quick reminder to pick up cat food, for example.
The other text input method on offer is Windows 7's on-screen keyboard. Its keys are big enough to use your hands instead of the stylus, but entering anything longer than a URL can be frustrating (a 30-word Wi-Fi password, for example. Thanks PC World IT guy.) We didn't notice any insensitive spots on the touchscreen during our tests.
Our biggest issue with the Handii is the design: at 1kg it's quite hefty, and it's also not as slim and sleek as the iPad (it's about 2cm thick). The screen is inset into the body several millimetres, which can hinder navigation a little. We still wouldn't mind watching a video on it during our morning commute, although the display is not particularly vibrant and reflections can be problematic. On the other hand, we wouldn't mind using a standard netbook like the Toshiba NB300, either. Unlike a well-balanced netbook (so not one of MSI's Wind netbooks!), you can't just sit it on you lap and angle the screen back. You need to keep a hold on the sides of the screen, although you can always rest the base of the tablet on your knees.
The Handii Go10 is sturdily built, and it feels tougher than the iPad. The chassis does heat up quite quickly, however, and it might be uncomfortably warm if you do decide to rest it flat on your lap. You will also get a warm hand if you are a sinister, left-handed journalist. (The noise of the extraction fan on the right of the tablet can also get a little irritating.)
The integrated 3G module (which is an optional extra) is a great feature; we really love portable devices that include mobile broadband. With mobile broadband getting more affordable, we really hope more vendors include this. Unfortunately the design of the SIM slot for the 3G module is one of the worst we have ever seen; we were too scared to insert one of our test SIMs because it looked like it would be almost impossible to remove it. The bottom of the battery compartment, where the SIM slot is located, felt worryingly loose.
There are features of the Handii Go10 that reminded us of just how ridiculous some of the iPad's limitations are. For example, it has three USB ports and an SD card slot — ports we would like to see on any tablet device. The webcam is a big plus too; there is an integrated microphone just next to it at the top of the tablet. (We should add: we had a few unfortunate up-nostril shots when testing the webcam. Buyer beware.) It also has Ethernet, VGA for connection to an external monitor or projector, and microphone and headphone jacks.
The battery life didn't thrill us: we enabled Wi-Fi, disabled power saving, cranked the screen brightness up, then looped a video file and the tablet only lasted for one and a quarter hours before giving up the ghost. However, when you employ a conservative power management scheme you will be able to get a longer battery life.
All in all, we think the Handii Go10 tablet is an interesting device. We love the fact that it offers more freedom than the iPad (it can display Flash, for example). But as a content consumption device the iPad trumps it. A slimmer, lighter design and a more vibrant screen would go a long way to improving the Handii tablet PC. At the same time, if you are interested in what it has to offer — a very portable form factor, a touchscreen interface and mobile broadband — then it may well suit you. One of our main problems is probably that we just aren't sold on the tablet form factor yet: for most tasks, a keyboard would make using the Handii Go10 easier and not much less portable.
Finally, we really aren't convinced about the price: $895 for the base model is a little pricey. This is more expensive than the base model iPad Wi-Fi + 3G. The comparison is perhaps a little unfair — the Handii is a fully fledged netbook (albeit sans a keyboard) and has 10 times more storage — but it's one many people will end up making anyway. However, if Handii can refine the design, drop the price and perhaps offer an operating system like Google's Android, then we think the company could produce a very interesting device indeed — so watch this space.
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Watching Hurricane (now Tropical Storm) Harvey ravage the western Gulf Coast, with no apparent intention of leaving before the entire region is under water, and feeling helpless? Reasonable. When what people need is to be literally boatlifted from their flooded homes, it's hard to sit hundreds of miles away and feel like there's nothing you can do to make anything better. But you can! There are things you can do to help.
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Rebecca Schmitt, Rashema Mason, Griffin Furlong, and Crystal Tarbell are incredible young people — they endured homelessness and incredible emotional hardship to become valedictorian at their high school and earn college scholarships. Their stories make for inspirational, heartwarming reads — unless you pause long enough to ask, "In what world should a girl and her family end up homeless because they can't afford her mother's cancer treatment?"
Senate Republicans take aim at the ACA, wing it, adjust their stance
Last night, under cover of darkness, Senate Republicans bypassed "roll back and revise" and "repeal and replace" with a third option for addressing the Affordable Care Act: "repeal and go fuck yourself," wherein they repeal the current ACA and replace with jack shit. At 1:00 this morning, following a charmingly named all-night "Vote-a-Rama," the Senate voted 51-48 along party lines to pass a budget measure that's the first step in demolishing the ACA.
The guilt that comes with having no sympathy
A lot of attention has been paid to the mystery of why, God, why, and how, and why again, any marginally intelligent person could support. How has a man who is completely unsuited, in character, temperament, knowledge base, intellect, and home training, to be the president of the United States make it as far as he's made it? The obvious answer is that there are a lot more bigoted, closed-minded, hateful, ignorant people in the electorate than we'd originally thought possible. But we, as a society, don't generally like to think of people that way — for all the whining about "PC culture," we give a lot of passes to be people who absolutely don't deserve them — and so we've sought out other options.
That's where we've gotten ">so many articles profiling the "real" Trump base — salt-of-the-earth, working-class white voters who are stumbling into a new world of multiculturalism, who are suffering from economic woes, and who just want some support for their very real problems. And yet, for all of that, I haven't been able to escape the feeling that they need to cry themselves a river and canoe on home.
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You know, to get rid of swoob (sweat-boob). Yes, the idea of boob deodorant might make you titter, but it's a real thing an actual company is marketing. And that says a lot about our beauty industry.
Invisible Child
This long-form feature and photo essay on Dasani, a homeless girl in New York City, is a phenomenal piece of journalism. And it sheds important light on the many dysfunctions of this grossly economically unjust city.
Republicans use weird, creepy tactics to push college students away from Obamacare
Republicans are pushing college students to opt out of Obamacare, and they're doing it by invading that most sacred of college institutions: the tailgate party.
Generation Opportunity, a Virginia-based group […] will launch a six-figure campaign aimed at convincing young people to "opt-out" of the Obamacare exchanges. Later this month, the group will begin a tour of 20 college campuses, where they plan to set up shop alongside pro-Obamacare activists such as Enroll America that are working to sign people up for the insurance exchanges.
What's killing poor white women in the South?
Feministe friend and former guest blogger Monica Potts takes a look at the decrease in life expectancy for low-income whites in the Southern United States. She doesn't come away with any definitive answers, but paints a picture of desolation, few opportunities and lack of access to decent health care and good food as potential culprits. It is a heart-breaking must-read.
The rise of female breadwinners, and the betrayals of U.S. policy
Over at the Guardian, I'm writing about the new stat that 40% of breadwinners in American families are women. With women making up half the workforce, it shouldn't be a surprise that we're an increasing proportion of primary earners. But the 40% stat doesn't tell the whole story. For starters, the majority of that 40% are single moms — the breadwinners in their families, yes, but not because they're married to men who make less. Those women make an average of $23,000 per year. The third of breadwinner women who are married to men are significantly wealthier, with a combined family income averaging $80,000. And when you look at divorce and marital satisfaction stats, the happiest couples are those who both work, but where the husband makes more money. Stay-at-home moms have higher rates of depression and marital dissatisfaction, and unhappiness comes in again at the end of the spectrum where a wife out-earns her husband. A strong majority of Americans also believe that the best situation for a child is with a mom who stays home (only 8 percent believe the same about a kid with a dad who stays home). These problems are complex, but traditional ideas about gender play a strong role, and those ideas shape the social policies that leave working parents between a rock and a hard place. Our particularly American gender traditionalism coupled with our idealization of individualism-as-freedom (without recognition that such individualism has generally been a male pursuit, enabled entirely by an unpaid female at-home support system) creates major cultural disincentives to implementing the kids of policies that could actually help families. The full piece is here, and a section is below:
Why Partnerships Were All the Buzz at Women Deliver
Does the private sector have a role improving health systems? According to some participants at this year's Women Deliver conference on maternal health, absolutely.
The conference, held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, brought together thousands of health care providers, advocates, politicians, journalists, activists and human rights workers to discuss the challenges, victories and potential solutions in the maternal health field. One of those solutions: Private sector involvement.


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Forest Fires topic of Dubois Museum program tonight at Dennison Lodge
(Dubois, Wyo.) – After the Burroughs Creek and Hardluck fires that burned north of Dubois last year, the U.S. Forest Service is getting ready for this fire season and will hold a special meeting tonight at the Dennison Lodge in the Dubois Museum Complex. The program begins at 7 p.m. and will include a discussion about forest fires in the Dubois area. Firefighting equipment will also be demonstrated. For information, contact the Dubois Museum at 455-2284.


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House bill would prohibit military personnel, low-income women from using their own money to buy insurance that covers abortion services
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree said she would vote against a bill in the House today to that would dramatically limit the rights of women to buy insurance that covers a full range of reproductive health care including abortion services.
"Republicans say government shouldn't be involved in people's personal lives, but it's hard to imagine anything more intrusive than telling a woman or a small business that they can't use their own money to buy certain kinds of health insurance," Pingree said.
Under the bill, a low-income woman who gets Medicaid or a member of the Armed Services would be banned from spending their own money to purchase insurance coverage that covers abortion services. It also bans businesses that take a tax deduction for providing health insurance for employees from offering coverage that includes abortion.
Pingree also said she was concerned with the impact on military personnel.
"Sadly I've met with many women who have been raped while in the military," Pingree said. "This bill would make it impossible for those women to have coverage for abortion services, even if they can pay for it out of their own pocket."
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Calculating the Toronto effect
Have you seen the best picture winner?
No one's gauche enough to actually ask such a question, but it hangs behind the lips of many at the Toronto International Film Festival. It gives urgency to the standard greetings in the waiting lines and theater lobbies: What have you seen? What have you liked? And it reflects the established omnipotence of this self-styled fall "festival of festivals'' on the shores of Lake Ontario. Says film producer Gareth Unwin, "Everyone loves the bragging rights - to be able to say, hey, back in Toronto I picked the winner.''
Unwin should know. Last year, his movie "The King's Speech'' screened in Toronto and was immediately anointed the bright, shining hope of the 2010-11 Oscar race; 5 1/2 months later it won the Academy Award for best picture. The film's journey from TIFF to the
What is it about this festival that so dominates the global film industry's serious season? Why does success in Toronto often result in statuettes? And is this good for the movie business or does it highlight too few films at the expense of too many? At this year's TIFF, which ended last Sunday, the media hoopla focused primarily on high-profile star vehicles such as "The Descendants'' (starring George Clooney), "The Ides of March'' (starring and directed by Clooney), and "A Dangerous Method'' (Viggo Mortensen and Michael Fassbender as Freud and Jung, with Keira Knightley as their patient). Yet it was an unheralded musical comedy-drama from Lebanon, "Where Do We Go Now?'' that flew in under the radar to take the Cadillac People's Choice Award, the audience trophy that's Toronto's top prize.
The success of Nadine Labaki's film - already a hit at Cannes in May and Lebanon's official entry for the best foreign language Oscar - came as a shock to many. All the time that "Where Do We Go Now?'' had been charming Toronto audiences, the cultural conversation online and in print had largely been limited to more mainstream titles and/or movies in English. That's how TIFF is used now by the US film industry and the global media-blogosphere that covers it: as the opening gong to a five-month march of glamorized seriousness of purpose.
It wasn't always this way. Some Toronto veterans, like Sony Pictures Classics co-president Tom Bernard, peg the change to the 2004 decision by the Motion Picture Academy of Arts and Sciences to move the Oscar ceremonies up a month, from late March to late February. Its purpose was to cut short the full-court-press awards campaigns typified by Miramax and Harvey Weinstein. The unintended effect was to entrench Toronto as a seasonal starting gate. "[Before], when you had a movie that you were going to put into Oscar contention, you could put it out in November and you'd have three months of box office that could pay for your Oscar campaign,'' says Bernard. "Toronto was always a tremendous place to launch a movie because of the amount of press that comes here. And when the Academy changed the date, everyone said, OK, we'll start here.''
The festival's role as red-carpet kingmaker goes further back, though, to 1999 and "American Beauty.'' Cameron Bailey, TIFF co-director and a 21-year veteran of the festival, says "that was a film that was unheralded. People didn't really know what to do with it, but the Toronto audience just embraced it and that led to a long campaign toward the Academy Awards.'' Not every year is so cut and dried, but because this festival is the first major gathering of the industry tribes after the long, hot box-office summer, it serves as a bellwether, like it or not.
TIFF does have influential competition. The Venice Film Festival, which just celebrated its 68th edition, precedes Toronto by a few weeks, and the Telluride Film Festival takes place in Colorado between the two. But Venice tends to favor more sophisticated cinema that may not factor into the commercial awards race, and Telluride, a beloved boutique festival that schedules 30-odd titles to TIFF's nearly 300, has come to be an integral part of the Hollywood studios' one-two PR punch. "Telluride is a beautifully curated festival,'' says Anne Thompson, an industry journalist who writes a widely followed blog for indiewire.com. "What they have is audiences from all over the country who are classic art-house audiences. It gives you a shot at recognizing where something is going over.'' Both "Slumdog Millionaire'' and "The King's Speech'' employed Telluride as a staging area to whet the appetite of the subsequent Toronto hordes, a strategy that was used this year for such Oscar hopefuls as "The Descendants,'' "A Dangerous Method,'' and "Albert Nobbs,'' the latter a period piece with Glenn Close in butler drag.
What Toronto brings to the party is people - lots of them, both in the press and in the seats.
Equally as crucial as press coverage is Toronto's ace in the hole: Toronto moviegoers. Unlike Cannes, TIFF is a public festival, and that public can make or break a movie's reputation. Says Bernard, "This is probably the best audience at any festival in the world for getting every nuance of a film. I think Toronto has a cross-section of all the smart US audiences, and they're really into movies here.'' When that public chooses to embrace a film, it can be a heady experience. Producer Unwin remembers how "The King's Speech'' built momentum at Telluride and then came to Toronto, where the floodgates of public acclaim seemed to burst open. "One of the things that the cast and the producers remember was the standing ovation we were given at the end of the film,'' Unwin says. "To be applauded and acknowledged in that way by an auditorium of nearly two and a half thousand people was really mind-blowing.''
The festival and the city itself actively curry favor with those people, locals and visitors alike. TIFF has become a civic bonanza that has buffed Toronto's international cultural reputation and poured money into the pockets of many businesses there. No wonder the festival is supported with private and public money, or that it now takes place in and near the Bell TIFF Lightbox, a dazzling glass theater complex near the lakefront. At its glitziest, the festival has become Canada's premiere red-carpet extravaganza, with celebrities and the global press parading annually before dazzled Torontonians.
It always comes down to the films, though, and this year the message out of Toronto was unclear. Some big seasonal contenders stayed away - the Meryl Streep Margaret Thatcher biopic, "The Iron Lady,'' Clint Eastwood's "J. Edgar,'' with Leonardo DiCaprio as the young Hoover, Steven Spielberg's "War Horse'' - and the reception for such movies as "Dangerous Method,'' "Albert Nobbs,'' and "The Ides of March'' was mixed. "Shame,'' with Fassbender as a sex addict in Manhattan, was widely admired but faces an uphill commercial battle (it will almost certainly be rated NC-17). "The Descendants'' and "The Artist'' (a black-and-white silent charmer that wowed them in Cannes) seemed to be the most broadly loved films to come out of the festival, but Thompson sees as much risk involved as reward. "To be considered the front-runner is often a liability, because the expectations are so high. What happens now is that 'Artist' and 'Descendants' are taking over as the front-runners, and now we have this other batch of late-in-the-year movies that haven't been seen yet, like 'J. Edgar.' ''
In other words, unless you hit a home run at Toronto, as "King's Speech'' and "Slumdog'' did, a best picture win is never a sure bet. Where TIFF does alter the stakes is in the acting categories and foreign language races. Says Thompson, "A little movie like '50/50' can suddenly be pushed to the front of a line that no one thought it was even on. I mean, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is in the race for best actor now. It's a possibility at least; it's part of the conversation.''
And the public's choice of Lebanon's "Where Do We Go Now?'' - a playfully sexy but fundamentally serious drama about sectarian tensions in the Middle East - is a welcome reminder that TIFF and the movies are, in the end, about more than the Oscar podium five months and so many miles away.
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5"4 130 pounds, 3 children, and have been finished breastfeeding for 4 months. Planning on getting implants (I want around 400-550 cc) and wondering if I will need a lift or not?
Breast Implants After Breastfeeding. Do I Need a Lift too?
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Both Breast Implant Surgery and Breast Lift Are Recommended
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Breast lift and implants
There are 2 problems with sagging breasts - the nipple position moves lower on the breast and you loose upper breast fullness (where it is fatter to your chest). This would best be addressed with a breast lift to remove excess skin and move the nipple back up to the middle of your chest AND placing an implant to give you beautiful fullness up top and great cleavage. You will love your new look! Good luck!
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Breast augmentation with a necessary lift.
You will benefit from implants and your result will be superior with a lift. Your nipples need to be raised or else the breast will look saggy.
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Breast Implants After Breastfeeding. Do I Need a Lift too?
Not all women need a lift after they breast feed; however, from your picture you would benefit from a lift. Your breasts are too low to achieve a nice result without a lift. Using an implant alone will give you the "rock in a sock" look and you will not like it. These procedures can be done together if you are not a smoker.
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Do I Need a Lift with My Implants?
Based on this photo, you will need a lift with your implants. If you just have implants placed it will result in a "Snoopy" deformity where your breasts will look like Snoopy's head in profile. This is because the breast tissue will remain low and the implant will be higher. You will need a lift to be able to lift the breast tissue up so it is centered over the implant.
Hope that helps and good luck!
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Lift and implants
The combination of a lift and implants is necessary in the case of someone like you because without it, even though you could lift them in a bra you will not be happy with their overall appearance.
The size of your implants is considerable but that's a different matter. Canadian augmentations overall aren't quite as large as what you've selected but that is simply a matter of taste. Even with a lift you will present with a slight degree of asymmetry but it will be acceptable and your improvement will be great.
Best of luck.
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Implants and a lift
Based upon yoru picture, you definitely some sort of a breast lift with the augmentation procedure. Otherwise they will be too low.
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Best implants after breast feeding – do I need a lift too?
As a consequence of three pregnancies and breast feeding you have developed second degree ptosis (droop) of your breasts and will certainly require a vertical mastopexy (lollipop) in conjunction with your augmentation. This will place the breast mound in the higher position - near your pectoral muscle - and at the same time your areola can be made smaller in size. Even with larger prostheses, with the amount of droop that has developed, you will still require a mastopexy.
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Do I need a lift?
Looking at your photo, I would most likely suggest both an augmentation and a lift. By placing an implant, your surgeon will be able to create a nicely shaped breast mound. Then, the lift will be able to reduce the diameter of your areola (so that they are more symmetric and proportionate), lift the position of your nipple, and shape/tighten the skin on your breasts to create a more youthful appearance.
I hope that helps!
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By Dale W. Eisinger
Justin Bieber can do anything.
That's one takeaway from a massive arena event like Wednesday night's Newark, N.J. stop, on the 2013 edition of his Believe Tour. Give him a backup crew of five and a massive EDM beat and he'll lead a hip-hop dance routine. Strap him into a rotating platform that juts two stories above the some-18,000 screaming fans of the Prudential Center and he'll strum a fragile acoustic version of his song "Fall." Put him behind a drum kit on a riser at the top of his intricate three-tiered stage setup, about 60 feet in the air, and he'll solo to the back of the third mezzanine. Unfurl a slow bass line and he'll rap the Tyga hit "Rack City" over the top. Give him a white grand piano and he'll fold over it to belt his hit "Believe" to close the show, with fireworks and lasers and dancers and strobes.
Maybe he's not a virtuoso of any single stripe, but he's got enough stripes to lead an adoring pop army, even after more than a year of touring on the same concert and album. There's just not enough Bieber to go around, as liberally as he spreads himself.
Thanks to YouTube, fans knew Bieber could do whatever he wanted from an early age. The jack of all showbiz trades had cameras trained on him from the beginning, and a lot of early footage of his life is shown throughout his live show on 100-foot video screens attached to the stage. A toddler-aged Justin dances in a kitchen. A pre-teen Biebs plays a wild drum solo as he emcess for himself. The vibrant confidence and charisma of his early videotapes are part of his success story, one that he continues to push as an achievement of his dreams through hard work, viral marketing and perseverance. "Let me hear you scream if you have a dream, too," he said more than a time or two throughout the night.
Bieber is one of the biggest pop stars on earth, and he's almost always behaved that way. At nearly every step of his life, when there's a camera on him, his incredible self-consciousness leads to some kind of performance—perhaps even when he spars with paparazzi. He seems hyper-naturally aware of even the cameras 100 yards away from the stage, knowing exactly when and where to look directly into the lens with that wounded look, that one of sad puppy eyes but a remarkably unfurrowed brow. He's seen as an unerringly young and prodigious dilettante, and we're made to believe that through practice we, too, could achieve this level of success.
At this point, Bieber's audience proved to be as broad as his skills, even if there were quite a few empty seats. Sure, females dominated the crowd. But the age range was from six to 66. He seemed, in the media, to grow from 12 to 20 within in the span of six months. And somehow his audience has not grown up with him; it has simply grown. His narrative is still fresh enough to be wholesome and inspiring to actual youngsters, yet he's aged enough to be attractive, appealing and attainable to teens everywhere. There's also an admirable, self-starter element to what he's done—anyone could rationalize his ascension.
You have to wonder, as Bieber crosses into adulthood, if a phenomenon like this burns out or if it ever does. The 19-year-old certainly has some kind of bright future ahead of him, especially considering the range of his talents. Beyond the obvious stamina it takes to perform so diversely on such a large stage for so long, video segments during the show included him doing parkour, apparently scuba diving, and on set at fashion shoots. Effectively, he's as versatile an entertainer as Fred Astaire. The problem facing Bieber is his move to a more mature market, crossing from Child Star to Pop Artist with enough personal satisfaction and artistic credibility to stay interesting yet wholly marketable.
The 1998 Oscar-nominated Jim Carrey film The Truman Show centers on a reality television program that's existed since the moment of the subject's birth. Viewers watch Truman Burbank learn everything in life as cameras everywhere broadcast the results, 24-7—kind of like Justin Bieber. The central dilemma is, when the subject of the show discovers he's the center of a manufactured media nebula, does he stay within the comfort of that web, or does he extradite himself? Burbank leaves his show. But Bieber seems to want to go deeper. Instead of thriving on independence and autonomy, he thrives on knowing he's the center and the star. He needs to be watched because he's never known anything else. And we apparently need to watch him. Just how much more will he let on, and through what medium. This is the critical push-pull moment for Bieber: the whole world stares as he becomes a man.


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Comparing how swords were used – the importance of the hilt
It has been on my mind for a while that in the study of medieval and renaissance longsword fencing, the length of the grip is the greatest characteristic when determining how a specific sword can (or should) be used. Many people look at the blade length or the blade profile when thinking about how a sword should be used, but I think this method is misleading to some extent. It is not my intention to say that the blade length and profile have no bearing at all on the handling of the weapon – this would be a wrong statement to make – but rather to suggest that the length of the hilt is the most important factor in choosing a style for using a longsword.
The swords that will be used for reference in this article are as follows:
1) a Hanwei practical hand-and-a-half sword;
2) an Albion Meyer;
3) a standard federschwert made by Peter Regenyei.
4) a standard Rawlings synthetic longsword with a wheel pommel;
5) a standard Rawlings synthetic longsword with a standard scent stopper pommel;
6) a standard Rawlings synthetic longsword with an elongated pommel.
Swords 1 and 4 in this list can fit two hands on the grip without much discomfort, but not any more than two.
Swords 2 and 5 in the list can comfortably fit three hands on the grip (one at the cross, one immediately beneath, and then one more hand below that on the pommel).
Swords 4 and 6 in the list can comfortably fit four hands on the grip (one at the cross, one immediately beneath, one immediately below that, and then one more hand on the pommel).
As anyone will know who has had the chance to handle any of the swords in this list, they all handle slightly differently from each other, and a large part of that comes down to the amount of leverage that can be applied by a combatant's two hands on the grip. If the hands are jammed close together out of necessity, as with the Hanwei and the Rawlings synthetic with a wheel pommel, then there is not much leverage that can be applied to the weapon when striking from side to side; in comparison, when using a Regenyei feder or a Rawlings synthetic with an elongated pommel, a lot more leverage can be exerted upon the weapon, making it much easier, faster and more comfortable to strike from side to side.
A number of months ago, I did some flourishing (or "shadow boxing", or solo movement drills) with the various practice swords I had available to me. I noticed that each sword handled quite differently, and that each sword was more suited to a particular style of flourishing. The Regenyei feder and the Rawlings synthetic with elongated pommel, the two "four hand grip" swords in my collection, were most comfortable when striking from side to side, above and below, using both short and long edges – something very similar to the striking diagrams in Meyer's treatise and to the flow drills developed by Matt Galas.
The Hanwei and the synthetic with wheel pommel, the two "two hand grip" swords in my collection, were very uncomfortable to use in this fashion. Instead, it was much more comfortable and much more effective to strike from a guard position out into an imaginary bind and then flourish from the bind, so to speak, using winding techniques and thrusts and Durchwechseln, rather than just striking at an imaginary target from different angles.
By contrast, the Albion Meyer and the synthetic with standard scent stopper pommel, the two "three hand grip" swords in my collection, were not uncomfortable to use when striking from different angles, but not quite as comfortable as the "four hand grip swords". They were considerably more wieldy than the "two hand grip" swords and allowed for much more striking from different angles, but they were also quite comfortable when flourishing from an imaginary bind and using thrusts and windings.
It might appear to be stating the obvious, but I believe this is something that goes unnoticed by many practitioners: it is a pointless endeavour to try to use a sword like a different weapon with different hilt fittings and dimensions and to expect it to work in the same way. People try to execute techniques like the Zwerhaw (cross strike) and the combination of Ablauffen (running off) and Umbschlagen (striking round) with a Hanwei practical hand-and-a-half, and they find it much more difficult to do successfully than someone who is doing the same techniques with a Regenyei feder.
That being said, for a beginner student, it is simply easier and more comfortable to strike into a bind with a Regenyei feder and then do the Ablauffen and Umbschlagen, striking from one side of the bind to the other, trying to hit one of the undefended openings on the opponent, rather than striking to the bind and working with winding techniques. I must point out that I am not saying that it is difficult or impossible to use winding techniques with a Regenyei feder or with any "four hand grip" sword; what I am saying is that the length of the grip makes it more comfortable to leave the bind and strike from side to side until a student has developed the discipline and control to use winding techniques and remain the bind. Comparatively, if a student or a similar level uses an Albion Meyer instead of a Regenyei feder (or a Rawlings synthetic with a standard scent stopper pommel instead of an elongated pommel), I see more winding and thrusting from the bind, since the grip is shorter and the leverage is somewhat less, and so winding with a thrust becomes a more natural and more comfortable motion.
I believe that the "three hand grip" swords are best suited for studying the earlier sources such as the anonymous gloss (that is often attributed to Peter von Danzig) or Ringeck's gloss, and that the "four hand grip" swords are much more suited for studying later sources such as Mair and Meyer. I think this is also something that should be kept in mind by teacher when recommending swords to students; if a club is studying from Meyer's treatise, then recommending a Hanwei practical hand-and-a-half simply because it is the cheapest option is going to retard the student's ability to perform techniques and develop his or her skills. Likewise, if studying from an earlier source and outfitting a class with Regenyei swords, then care must be taken that students do not rely on the long grip to do little but striking from side to side; students should be encouraged to fight their natural instincts and to use winding techniques, and perhaps more half-sparring exercises and games should be employed to help acclimatise practitioners to a more correct use of the sword.
One might well note that comparing a Hanwei practical half-and-a-half sword to a Regenyei feder is a poor comparison, since there are all kinds of differences. The feder's grip is longer, the feder's blade is longer, the feder's blade is lighter (in fact the feder on the whole is lighter), the feder has a schilt… It is correct that this is not a fair comparison to use in order to prove my theory. However, the Rawlings synthetic longsword blade is always the same; if you simply replace the pommel and try each of the pommel types with the same blade, crossguard and grip, then the test becomes a very fair comparison and is useful to support the theory. The Rawlings synthetics are the best way to test this theory, and the steel swords are useful for helping to illustrate the points in this article.
I will conclude the article with a translation of a quote from a book about Polish sabres. Although the subject matter is a little different, the quote itself highlights the point that the hilt assembly is a very important characteristic for determining how a sword is to be used:
"The hilt assembly says a lot about the specific styles of fencing that are characteristic to particular nations. The hilt of a Polish fighting karabela or a hussar sabre was quite different from an Arab or Persian sabre. They were meant for cuts that were specific to the style of sword, so they had to be different. This is why the Polish fighting sabres that were used for specific cuts (because of a different method of holding the hand on the grip, and following from that, a different way of using the blade) could be used only by a Polish cavalryman or footsoldier, because in other hands, they lost their specific functional qualities. This is why, wherever the sabre was used, the changing of the hilt assembly happened; own national hilts were fitted to foreign blades."
Dzieje szabli w Polsce (The History of the Sabre in Poland), page 21
W?odzimierz Kwa?niewicz, translated by Daria Izdebska
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Marc Jacobs: South Park was an honour
Marc Jacobs says being featured in South Park is the "greatest honour of [his] entire life".
The fashion designer is renowned for his creativity, and is currently rumoured to be the frontrunner to replace John Galliano at Christian Dior. He received the lifetime achievement prize at the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) Awards this year and has since been inducted onto the board.
Despite all this, the thing which really thrilled the designer was having his likeness feature on American comedy animation South Park.
"That was probably the greatest honour of my entire life so far. I am the Muscle Man Marc doll on South Park, and I joined the very great ranks of being one of Cartman's toys - although I get boiled to death at the end of the episode," he told NY Mag's The Cut. "I think [South Park creators] Matt and Trey are just probably the two most brilliant people in the entire world, and it is definitely my favourite program on TV... I have two of Cartman's toys tattooed, one on each forearm - Clyde Frog and the other one is Rumpletumskin."
The designer had no idea he would be included on the show beforehand. He's been shooting scenes for movie Disconnect and while in the trailer a friend told him about the episode.
He immediately downloaded it and was thrilled with what he saw. It made such an impact on the designer he's planning to get a permanent reminder about it.
"Honestly, without hesitation, it is the greatest honour, I mean, way above and beyond the lifetime achievement award, beyond anything. It's like, to be immortalized on South Park, I can die a happy man," he said. "That'll be my next tattoo, the Muscle Man Marc from South Park."
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As a self-proclaimed worry wart, I have a special place in my heart for the anxious child. These days the world can be scary and difficult to explain – i.e. lots to worry about! How can we help the child who seems to worry about anything and everything?
Some people don't know they have a heart problem until a heart attack. And the signs of an attack can be different for men and women. As a cardiologist at the Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute, I recently sat down with King 5 News and explained all of this, plus how you can check your heart's health -- and keep it healthy.
Heart attack, heart failure, cardiac arrest. Recent celebrity deaths have put the spotlight on these conditions, but many people aren't sure how they differ. As a cardiologist at the Swedish Heart & Vascular Institute, I recently explained the differences — and how to check your heart health.
When asked what kind of nursing I practice, I proudly answer that I am the nurse navigator for the Swedish Pelvic Health Program. Without exception the next question is, "So what is a nurse navigator?" Here's a good answer.
Maybe you've seen it – a video of a dresser falling onto a toddler. The video has gone viral and is an example of hidden dangers at home for young children. Learn about the boy's ordeal and about other not-so-obvious dangers from Elizabeth Meade, M.D., chief of Pediatrics at Swedish Medical Center.
When we think about volunteer work, we usually think about helping those in need or our community. But volunteering also can help the volunteer. If you want to find a paying job, test your job skills, stay active or lift your spirits, volunteering may be right for you.
A new study suggests that limiting the number of hours you spend eating each day may help you lose weight. Fran Broyles, M.D., director of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Nutrition for Swedish Medical Group, shares her thoughts on this approach.


text: Wedding planning slump: how do you get re-energized? #Advice#wedding planning May 2 | Guest post by Ocelot Photos Andy Chrisst If you know anything about neurology or brain cells, I'm currently mired in a slump I'd compare to the action potential "undershoot" — the point where the membrane can't do what it's supposed to because the ion channels are inactivated. If you're not familiar with that, let's just say I'm so burnt out on "wedding stuff" that all I can do is loaf about on the couch and whine (or wine). After a whole pile of crazy from family and several friends having weddings this month, I'm so burnt out. I'm getting really sick of talking about wedding stuff. It's kind of lost its novelty. In fact, I've been so burned out on it that it's taken me over three days to compose this post. I could barely get myself to think about how pooped I was… and thinking's pretty much all I do. It's almost a few months before my wedding date and I have a ton of stuff left to do. This is a pretty vital time in planning. Lots of stuff needs to happen NOW, including my most important personal detail, choosing my wedding dress. The dress is so important to me that I've been squirreling away floor-pennies to pay for a fantastic seamstress. And, I just don't have the energy to even LOOK at the swatches or designs she's sent me. Every time I try, I get the urge to take a nap instead. I am so inactivated that I can't find any fun in it anymore. And that worries me! What's a gal to do in this situation? How can I perk up enough to get tasks done? Here's what I've been trying: Spending time with my Mister. Trying to remind myself what this is really about! Dancing my ass off at a hail storm of weddings I'm attending this month. See, weddings ARE fun! Setting up a NO DRAMA zone. I have little patience right now and I'll listen to your concerns tomorrow (or never). Delegating. Even though it's really hard for me to give up control and trust that people do well, there's only so much I can fit in my brain. This is a thing I really need to work on anyway! Napping. Don't know how it's helping, but it's sure not hurting. Doing a little thing every day, no matter how little — reading a few Tribe posts, making a list of shit to remember, making one phone call. It's not exactly POWERING through it, like I would like, but it's progress and that feels good. FEEL GOOD about progress, no matter how little. (It needed a bullet of its own!) It's not ground breaking innovation in bridal motivation. It's just what I've found myself doing to keep from totally giving up or getting overwhelmed. I suppose these are good things to do even if you're NOT feeling burned out. They are pretty easy. Any new suggestions on ideas to help me out of the wedding planning dumps? I can always use more tricks up my sleeve! Get your daily dose of Offbeat AWESOME Reporter Name * Reporter Email * Original text Enter the original text here. Edited text* Enter your suggested copyedit here. Notes You can add a note for the editor here. * Required information. Fix Typo Guest post written by Ocelot I'm a lil' bit of a lot of things! I'm a little bit geek, lil' bit goth, and a large helping of biologist! I like kitties, silly songs, and lemons. I collect glass objects and cake plates. When I'm not up to my neck in genetics, I attempt to bake and get some sunlight. http://tribe.offbeatbride.com/members/ocelot PREVIOUS Vintage and retro-style wedding favors NEXT Cailey & Christian's 1950s BBQ saloon wedding Show/Hide comments [ 24 ] Make yourself a done list. That's helped me a LOT. 12 agree Reply I have been going through a period of being burnt out on planning too! I just had my bachelorette party (a month in advance). It was out of town so I made it a "no planning" fun time with the girls weekend. It helped me re-energize and refocus. 1 agrees Reply I had a long-ish engagement (I guess? 2.5 yrs?). About a year into it I became overwhelmed by wedding "stuff" and looking at wedding stuff and trying to decide on stuff I wanted in my wedding. I'm not talking just about material things, it was everything wedding related, services and all, that I was tired of looking at. Because I still had enough time, I declared a one-month ban on anything wedding related. I put away the magazines, didn't visit the websites, and stopped talking about WEDDINGS in general with people. It was a huge relief to know that I didn't have to look/read/think/decide on anything. After 30 days I felt recharged and was able to really focus on getting it all planned. I told this to a friend who was going through the same thing, but on a tighter schedule. She decided to take only 2 weeks off (she delegated a lot in order to keep things moving), and it helped her too. Reply I'm also having a slump, but for many different reasons. For you, maybe having a crazy workout session will make you feel energized enough to tackle something? Working out always gives me energy, even if it's just playing Just Dance or DDR. 😀 1 agrees Reply A little bit of exercise goes a long way- even if it is just a twenty minute walk. Exercise=endorphins=happy time. 2 agree Reply ugh I'm in the same boat. I have a lot done but there's still so much left to do. And I have trouble cold calling people – even though I'm calling them because I want to buy something from them. There are some major things I still need to get done, but I'm really not motivated to do them. I tend to work well when there's a reward (even if it's just praise – who am I kidding, especially if it's praise!). SO maybe if I tell myself "if I do X this week, then I can go out to play pool" That actually might work. I should also get my fiance, mom and bridesmaids to pile on the praise when I get this stuff completed. lol! 1 agrees Reply Studies show that the brain releases 'happy' chemicals when ever you finish a project, keeping a list of everything you've finished will help you boost that. Finish everything that's mandatory first and you'll realize how unimportant some of the small details are the closer you get to the day of. Obviously everyone's opinion of what's the most important is different but it felt really good to be able to mark stuff off the list because the project was only important to the esthetic, not the over all feel of the day. Not 'making' 120 flowers was one of the best decisions I made in terms of keeping my sanity, and my friends were too enamored with food, drinks and having a good time that most of them don't even remember the centerpieces. 2 agree Reply When we hit a slump we go for a walk or play some Final Fantasy just to keep our minds fresh, or we cook something together, just anything that reminds us why we're doing this Reply To get past my planning slump I created "Wedding Free Wednesdays." I give myself permission to not worry about the wedding for at least one day a week. If I want to do something, I can (like oogle Offbeatbride.com) but there's no pressure on Wednesdays! I also look over my To Do list at everything I've crossed off! It really helps to see how much you've done! 1 agrees Reply Oh, ma'am! Do I feel the undershoot! Though mine is 90% Federal grant writing and 10% wedding. I am greatly pleased that I somehow think I have the big things still on track, but we made a lot of the major decisions early on and that's helped a lot as the wedding gets closer! Reply Can you get an event planner to help you? I'm guessing that your procrastination is coming from the enormity of the decisions that need to made. Does it feel like any decision you make is going to be the wrong one? Having an experienced person to advise you and set some realistic expectations might take some of the load off. If it were me, having someone to say "I've used this ____ several times and everything was great" would help me sleep at night. 2 agree Reply Anne, I think you are on to something. When I find myself in this kind of slump/procrastination mode, I am usually having some apprehension about something having to do with the task(s) at hand. Either I don't feel confident about my ability to do it, or I don't feel confident about a decision or something like that. So sometimes I have to do something to get PAST the apprehension, like get help, or just DO EET, and find out it wasn't that bad, or whatever. 1 agrees Reply OMG I relate to your post so much right now! Reply I made myself a list of things to do each month. Little, big, doesn't matter. Each month I gave myself about 4 or 5 to get done. It showed me ALL the things I already got done and it made me feel like I WAS making progress (although it never felt like I was). Also, go to bed early. I know you want to stay up late and wedding plan, but for real. Go to bed early. It helps. Reply It sounds so simple, but by just stepping back and taking a few deep breaths has done wonders for me. It's all about reaching that Zen in order to keep pushing on! And of course, spending time with your mister as you said 🙂 Reply Honestly, I thought I was really the only one. And I felt bad about it. I just wanted the planning to be over, so when I brought up an idea to my husband and he didn't quite agree, I'd get pissy, then we'd end up fighting about how I'm working my ass off and the house is never clean. I see how bridezilla is born. 5 agree Reply Boy, do I feel this post! My issue is that I'll "complete" things… but not necessarily pay off things. Like, "Oh, I booked the photographer, venue, dress, day of planner, etc.," but then I end up feeling really lazy and bummed because I have to work harder to pay off everything 😛 So I've "completed" a checklist item, but not actually "fully completed" it, so I decided to make envelopes and just put any spare anything in them towards different funds. Is any of it enough to make a substantial payment? No, but it seems to make me feel better than never seeing my direct deposits go out to vendors 😉 Reply thank you for validating that i am not crazy. Reply meditation or a weekend off – totally off – from the wedding can help quite a bit. exercise is a must to oxygenate the brain. scheduling what you have left to do, even if it's in broad general terms can help you focus on one thing at a time. maybe focusing just on the dress will help now, because once you get that done, it may inspire you! for me, when there is something I hate, I try to turn it into something I look forward to – ex: when I have to pay bills, I make a pot of great tea in a lovely pot, set out a china cup and silver spoon, and have something chocolate while I take care of business. burnout is mental, physical, and emotional so do something to help each area. good luck! I'm sure you'll have an aamazing wedding! Reply Being well aware that I am the type of person who will hit this point quite a lot & easily (my wedding is 11 months away so I have plenty of time to hit that wall) I have a few plans to try and keep it off and to help when it does happen. 1. Dinner time my fiancee and I sit at the table and chat (most nights) and I have made the rule that there will be no wedding talk during this time. I think it is important to set aside time which is time for me & my partner to be close without thinking about plans 2. I have a folder that I keep track of all the information, ideas and plans. It also has a pocket where I am keeping the congratulations on the engagement cards (for safe keeping). The very first page of this is the "Completed List", so whenever I am planning wedding stuff I open that folder and I am instantly reminded what I have done. 3. Set aside a time to have non-wedding "me" time. For me that can be drawing, painting, curling up with a (non-wedding) book & a cup of tea – whatever. But each week I have at least an hour for me that I can do whatever I like that is nothing to do with the wedding. 4. I have already talked to my best friend (the Maid of Honour) and when ever I feel in this mood she will help me have a girls night where the wedding topic is taboo. Nothing wedding – just a fun night/day out with a friend or two. Hope this helps – I think a lot of these ideas have been given however I thought Id share my own little slant on how I am dealing with things. Reply Girl…you are in good company! Someone gave me some advice yesterday that hit home. She said "Be decisive." If you don't feel like hunting down your hunny to confirm for the fifth and final time that -yes- yellow napkins are ok. Or -yes- roses would be nice on the ring bearer's boutonniere. Just make the call. Get it over with. Take it off the to-do list. And most of the time, nobody is going to care. And if they do, tough…you're the one doing the work, you get to decide. 1 agrees Reply I'm so glad that I'm not alone. I have lost my wedding mojo, although I'm not sure that I've ever had it…. We have been engaged since 2006 and planned to get married in 2010. We ended up having issue after issue, the venue shut down, the dress was a disaster and there was a few family issues. We ended up cancelling the wedding, as it was just too hard. Two years later we are still not married. I can't bring myself to make a commitment to anything including a date, venue or dress! I'm not excited about planning it at all as the first time was such a mess. Why is it so hard to plan a wedding that is a little different? Any help or suggestions???? Reply Ok, after a tough day I searched "overwhelmed" on OBB and this post came up. The bullets were so so so helpful – even a year later. I'm breathing a little easier. Whew. Reply Perfectly-timed article to pop up on my Facebook feed. Our wedding is in 23 days, and I feel like I've hit a wall. All of the large things are taken care of; now I'm shutting down as soon as I start thinking about the in-between stuff (there's alwayssss something, amirite???). And, while I love every friend/family member/co-worker asking how the planning is going and how excited I must be, I would give my left tit to talk about anything other than the wedding for the rest of this month. I feel guilty for even thinking it, but that's just where my head's at right now. I feel so much better knowing I'm not alone while wallowing in this head space! Reply Join the conversation Cancel Reply Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *Comment Participate in this conversation via emailGet only replies to your comment, the best of the rest, as well as a daily recap of all comments on this post. No more than a few emails daily, which you can reply to/unsubscribe from directly from your inbox. 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"We're just kind of bringing the old meat shop back," said Lori Barrett, Tim's wife and a co-owner of Barrett's Smokehouse. "It's always been my husband's dream to have a store like his grandpa's."
On Friday, Barrett's Smokehouse is opening a second location at 8126 West Main St. in Oshtemo Township, in the same parking lot as D&R Sports.
After careers in construction, the Barretts opened their first smokehouse in 2010 at 9942 Oakland Drive in Portage, Barrett said. "We decided to do a 180 in our lives," said Lori Barrett.
The meat, including pulled pork, beef brisket, 20 different flavors of fresh brats and 35 different varieties of jerky, will still be made, packaged and cut at the original location.
The new store will offer ready-to-eat takeout and a meat counter. Prices range from $2.49 for a homemade smoked hot dog to $16.99 for a full rack of smoked baby-back ribs. Those are only available on weekends, Barrett said. Whole smoked chickens are available Monday to Thursday after 1 p.m.
"We're most known for our smoked hand-pulled pork and smoked beef brisket," said Barrett.
Both are available in sandwiches, wraps, over spinach salad, as a meal or warm by the pound.
The emphasis at the family-owned business – daughter Lauren works with her parents – is homemade. Everything from the cole slaw and loaded redskin potato salad (featuring their own bacon and smoked cheddar) to the barbecue sauce, available in sweet Northern- and tangy Southern-style, is made in-house, Barrett said.
In addition to the meats, Barrett's smokes 13 varieties of cheese.
The jerky, available in beef, buffalo, turkey and chicken, comes in such unusual flavors as Carmel Apple, Root Beer, Chili Cheese and Devil's Breath.
The original location also does deer processing.
The new store's hours will be Monday to Saturday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.
So far, business has been good – with the family being able to expand to a second location just two years after their first, said Barrett.
"We've been blessed by wonderful word of mouth," said Barrett.
The smokehouse has a tribute to Tim's grandfather on the wall.
"People walk in, and we have a picture of Grandpa and his original store and his last store. We get a lot of people that remember the name. They're thrilled to know that the generation is continuing," said Barrett. "They would go to the old general store, and Grandpa would cut meat for them. It's always nice to hear the stories."
Yvonne Zipp is a business reporter for the Kalamazoo Gazette. You can reach her at firstname.lastname@example.com or 269-365-8639.


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For a scientific database holding observed and measured values there are two non-numeric (NAN) legitimate entries: <1 and 'below detection limits.' Is anyone aware of a standard way of expressing these? The problem is that the column needs to be of a numeric type because the numbers will be manipulated mathematically and summarized statistically. So a NAN such as '<1' or 'BDL' doesn't cut it. Any thoughts? Rich -- Richard B. Shepard, Ph.D. | Integrity Credibility Applied Ecosystem Services, Inc. | Innovation <http://www.appl-ecosys.com> Voice: 503-667-4517 Fax: 503-667-8863
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This has me well pleased. You know how it is....you wanna try out and learn something and you run up a Virtual machine but cant quite work out how to do it. TechNet have just released the Virtual Labs at http://www.microsoft.com/technet/traincert/virtuallab/default.mspx. You can learn about Windows Server, ISA, Exchange and more and all the stuff thats in them like the new DFS-R stuff.
Theres even developer ones at http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/tryit/hosted/
Give them a shot and let me know what you think!


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The next three-song track pack to hit Guitar Hero 5 and Band Hero comes from 90's alt-rockers Third Eye Blind. Apparently they released an album last year. I didn't know that, did you?
The track pack runs the gamut, including "Losing A Whole Year" from their 1997 debut, "Never Let You Go" from their second album, and "Can You Take Me" from Ursa Major, the band's new album.
As per usual, the track pack will run you 440 MS Points/550 Wii Points/$5.49. Individual tracks will cost you 160 MS Points/200 Wii Points/$1.99.


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COUNCILS in Oxfordshire paid out more than £4m in salary packages for senior officers last year, new figures show.
The TaxPayers' Alliance also revealed last night there were 32 council officers in Oxfordshire whose wages, pension contributions and expenses came to more than £100,000 each in 2010/11.
The total cost of directors at the county and district councils comes to £4,321,881, the alliance figures show.
It called for council executives to take a pay cut so they had the "moral authority" to make spending cuts.
However the figures did show the directors had not been awarded large pay rises.
Oxfordshire County Council spent a total of £2,834,080 paying 21 remuneration packages that were more than £100,000.
Chief executive Joanna Simons' package was £217,640, including a £182,431 salary and £35,209 in pension contributions.
Spokesman Owen Morton said senior staff members had not received a pay rise since 2008. The council had reduced the number of senior managers by 40 per cent since 2010.
Oxford City Council chief executive Peter Sloman's package was £168,280 – £140,000 in salary, fees and allowances and £28,280 in pension contributions.
Three other senior executives also received more than £100,000.
Spokesman Louisa Dean said the council had saved more than £4m in the past year and this would not have been possible without attracting top staff.
West Oxfordshire District Council chief executive David Neudegg picked up a £101,691 salary in his total package of £145,744.
South Oxfordshire District Council and Vale of White Horse District Council share the cost of their top officers.
The councils' chief executive David Buckle earned £129,092 in salary, plus £1,115 expenses and £21,300 pension contributions to total £151,507. The chief finance officer's package was £123,213.
Councillor Matthew Barber said splitting the remunerations bill had saved money.
Cherwell District Council chief executive Sue Smith's made her package of £112,420, from a £81,458 salary, £5,917 in fees, £6,310 in expenses and a pension of £18,691.
She was the only officer to receive more than £100,000 in the council, which shares costs with South Northamptonshire Council.
Commenting on the city's packages, Ms Dean said the council could not have achieved recent savings "without attracting an able and dedicated top team."
TaxPayers' Alliance chief executive Matthew Elliott said: "Taxpayers will be astonished so many council employees are still getting such a generous deal while everyone else in the public sector is facing a pay freeze."