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This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: BONNERS
List entry Number: 1296461
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
County: Hertfordshire
District: Dacorum
District Type: District Authority
Parish: Flamstead
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Grade: II*
Date first listed: 26-Jan-1967
Date of most recent amendment: 19-Mar-1987
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Bonnor's Farmhouse)
Farmhouse, now a private house. C16 rear range, early C17 front block, restored in 1930s. Timber frame exposed, on red brick sill with later red brick infill. Red brick casing with grey headers to ground floor of front block. Steep old red tile roofs. A large T-shaped house facing S at a bend in the lane. Lower 2-storeys 5-bays older rear range has narrow middle bay with large chimney serving the room to S of it, and 2 diagonally set square chimney shafts above roof. Casement windows and plank doors. Structure characterised by jowled post, clasped-purlin roof with collar, straight wind-braces and straight braces to tie-beams and wallplates. S bay became a passage and dairy when taller symmetrical front block erected. 2-storeys, cellar and attics, internal-chimney, 2-cells, lobby-entry plan with stair to rear of stack rising out of parlour on W of entrance with cellar below (now entered externally). Symmetrical S front with narrower central entrance and chimney structural bay. 2 3-light casement windows on both floors with rectangular leaded glazing, the upper windows flanked by small high 2-lights ovolo-moulded mullioned windows. Panelled door up 3 steps in hip-roofed tile and brick porch. Blocked window over porch. Large central chimney in narrow red brick with 3 diagonally set shafts with corbelled caps. Interior has flint walls to cellar, ovolo moulded axial beams in floors, straight corner braces in walls, parlour fireplace of Totternhoe stone with depressed 4-centred arch head, very high lintel, moulded jambs with high stops. Similar arrangement on 1st floor. Small timber framed outshut in NE angle on half-level. Plank doors with old iron fittings. Roof structure of 3-bays clasped-purlin type with very heavy purlins to span the long end-bays. Heavy, inverted-wedge-shaped, inclined queen-posts carry purlins. Squint-butted scarf joints to wallplate. (VCH (1908)193: RCHM Typescript).
Listing NGR: TL0791816702
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By Mike Bridgen
4:34pm Friday 30th May 2014
By Mike Bridgen
FARMERS have been warned to be vigilant after fraudsters conned farmers in North Yorkshire out of thousands of pounds.
Five farms near Selby were targeted over ten days – one victim lost their entire life savings.
The criminals claimed to be part of a bank fraud investigation team and coldcalled farmers, saying someone had tried to cash a cheque on their account for £11,500. They were urged to move their money into a "safe account", but in fact it was a scam and once transferred, all their money vanished.
Cash was switched using internet banking or the conmen told their victims to go to the bank and not mention the reason for transferring the cash to bank staff – claiming they too were under investigation.
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I received a free e-copy of Inheritance from the publisher for my honest review.
About the Book:
The name Doc Holliday conjures images of the Wild West and the shootout at the OK Corral, but before he was a Western legend he was a Southern son, born in the last days of the Old South with family links to the author of Gone with the Wind. Now this amazing story is told for the first time in a trilogy of novels entitled Southern Son: The Saga of Doc Holliday.
The story begins with Inheritance, set during the turbulent times of the American Civil War, as young John Henry Holliday welcomes home his heroic father and learns a terrible secret about his beloved mother. His only confidant is his cousin Mattie, his childhood sweetheart who shares his memories of plantation life and better days before the War. But Mattie isn't around to comfort him when tragedy strikes and John Henry's young hero-worship turns to bitter anger.
As the Confederacy falls, John Henry becomes a troubled teenager and joins in with a gang of vigilantes trying to chase the Reconstruction Yankees out of their small Georgia town. But when a murderous plot brings threats of military prison, he vows to change his reckless ways and leaves Georgia to attend dental school in Philadelphia, hoping to come home as a respected professional man worthy of asking for his cousin Mattie's hand.
However, when he returns from two years in the North to begin dental practice in Atlanta, he finds his courtship beset with challenges. There are family intrigues, lies and revelations, rivals for Mattie's affections, and a violent encounter that changes everything.
Inheritance is the first novel in an epic tale of heroes and villains, dreams lost and found, families broken and reconciled, of sin and recompense and the redeeming power of love.
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I knew next to nothing about Doc (John Henry) Holliday until I read last year's fantastic book Doc by Mary Doria Russell. If I had not read that book I would not have been interested in reading this one. Learning about the man behind the legend was fascinating. Inheritance is the first of a three book series detailing the man. This volume deals with his life from his early years through his run West after he commits a very reckless act.
His early life was dominated by an overbearing father and a sick mother. She had what they called consumption but what was really tuberculosis. (This is where he was infected but they didn't know at the time how contagious it was or how it was transmitted.) John Henry was heavily influenced by his uncle, a doctor, so he at first looked to go to medical school but found himself working for a dentist and found he had an aptitude for the fine work involved so he decided to push for the dental college in Philadelphia despite his father's objections.
His father saw him as nothing short of useless and treated him as nothing more than free labor. Nothing John Henry could do would be good enough. His father also saw any kind of illness as weakness and felt that a person could fight it instead of giving in to so this was instilled into John Henry's thinking – much to his future detriment.
John Henry spent his adolescence in love with his cousin, Mattie. He did everything for her; to provide for their future together. When she ultimately refuses his proposal it rocks his world and drives him to an act that will change his life very dramatically.
This is a very detailed and fascinating book about a truly complex man. Most of us know Doc Holliday as the man from Tombstone and the OK Corral. I had no idea of his backstory until my reading of that first book and now this far more in depth second novel. Ms. Wilcox obviously did significant research to present a story so detailed and so interesting. It is full of anecdotes both simple and complex expounding on the life of this very complicated character. So much went into the man who became the legend and it is a very compelling read. I can't wait for the next two books in the trilogy even though I know exactly how it will end.
The writing style is easy to read and the characters and very well developed leading the reader into a complex, antebellum South.
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You can purchase Inheritance at Amazon.com
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Dear Responser: My lower jaw has some deflexion to the upper jaw and some frontward shape. I don`t rememner any accident or crash that causes this problem. i can hear a sound at the end of my jawbone when i`m opening my mouth. The doctor`s said that they will operate my jaw to remove the problem and after that they will implant the titanium pin`s in my jaw to hold the bones. (My mouth will be close for nearly 2 weeks) I would like to ask, is there any probability that the deflexion come back by growthing the jawbone(My age is 21 year`s and 3 month`s old). And whats the harms for this operation and is there any other work that i can do.
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I would recommend an evaluation by an orthodontist prior to surgery. Sometimes a component of growth discrepancy can be the cause of these problems and a combined orthodontic/surgical treatment is the best option to eliminate this problem.
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He was far more talented than he'll be remembered for. I followed his professional career from the beginning and was extremely impressed with his ability to avoid punches, the angles he used, his hand/footspeed and later on his power.
The problem was that after winning his first world title from Steve Robinson he seemed on a steady decline. He had barely lost a round up to that point......but then the rumours started about him training at perculiar hours, neglecting roadwork, problems with his trainer Brendan Ingle.
He started relying on single punch 'rocket launchers' rather than his combinations and his once elusive style became far more exploited by his foes. Dropped by Alicea, hurt badly by Medina, dropped by Tom Johnson, dropped several times by Kevin Kelly. Hamed became more of a banger than a boxer. He couldn't be saved by Manny Steward after ditching Ingle either who was humiliated by having to to corner work on odd rounds, switching between Oscar Swarez!?
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THE Pentagon plans to extend some benefits to the spouses of gay and lesbian troops.
The decision is expected to be formally announced within days, before outgoing Defence Secretary Leon Panetta retires this month, said officials on Tuesday, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
But the officials could not say which benefits would be provided to same-sex couples.
Since the Pentagon lifted a ban on openly gay recruits serving in uniform in September 2011, it has grappled with questions about benefits as it must comply with a law prohibiting the federal government from granting same-sex marriages legal status.
But officials have been looking at ways to extend some benefits without violating the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act.
The Pentagon move is in keeping with President Barack Obama's inaugural address last month, in which he signaled a push to ensure equal rights for "our gay brothers and sisters."
Rights advocates have called for offering gay spouses military identification cards and access to family service programs and military shops.
The issue has been under review for several months by the chiefs of the armed services, who have been studying a proposal on providing benefits to spouses of gay troops.
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The upcoming film adaptation of the 1920s book, The Great Gatsby, may be set in the roaring '20s, but it's getting a modern twist, thanks to... Jay-Z?
The hip-hop superstar has been tapped by director Baz Luhrmann to score the film. It came after Hov's and Kanye West's Watch The Throne track, "No Church in the Wild", was used as the music for the film's trailer, reports The Hollywood Reporter.
The rapper's producer/songwriter, The Bullitts (real name: Jeymes Samuel), broke the news on Twitter.
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Just recently, my husband and I visited a zoo. Not long after we arrived, I began to feel very uncomfortable. This was unexpected, as I had been looking forward to going and it was such a glorious day. The feeling persisted, so I found a quiet place to connect to Creator and ask what was going on.
The first part of the answer was what I had first thought- that, as I am now so connected to Mother Earth and the all, I pick up on the energies of living things much more readily. The second part of the answer came as a surprise while also making perfect sense- the feelings of entrapment that I was sensing were actually reflecting my own feelings of being trapped and restricted in my current situation. I am at a crossroads with new opportunities opening up to me, while still needing to fulfil certain commitments and not always enjoying them. Once I had acknowledged this truth, I was able to enjoy my day while sending the animals, and myself, light and love as I went.
Mind you, the animals all looked very content and were well looked after. It is not the intention of this article to condemn zoos, because all zoos around the world are doing an amazing and very important job in animal conservation. We could lose a lot of animals world wide if we didn't have zoos to protect and breed them. I am simply retelling this story to highlight the fact that it is possible to feel what other living things, not just humans, are feeling, and it is highly likely that these feelings will be reflective of what is going on in our own lives. This is the most important point-if something or someone is pushing our buttons in any way, they are not who we need to hold responsible. We need to look within to examine what beliefs or trauma we are holding onto that is making us feel that way.
The energies of Mother Earth and all her living souls, be it plant, animal or human, are becoming more tangible as the ascension of the planet assimilates into our cells. Every living thing on Earth is connected and one – there is no separation. It is therefore not surprising that, when a collective group of living things – whether it be animals in cages, humans in detention centres, plants that are lacking water or refugees in a shelter – emit the same kind of energy, sensitive and empathic people are affected by it. After all, it is not just humans who emit emotions that go into the universal collective consciousness.
It wouldn't be helpful to ignore the feelings that arise such as the ones I experienced at the zoo. In fact, I consider it a wonderful gift, because I would otherwise not have had the opportunity to reflect on the truth of how I was feeling, or to be able to then act upon it. Being in your own truth means that you can see any situation that you find yourself as a result of previous choices and decisions that you made. It also means that, while there may be a shared responsibility for consequences that you are facing, you also know that the only person who can change your circumstances is you. When we blame others, we step out of responsibility and into denial. We step out of our inner truth and into illusion. Who are we kidding? Only ourselves.
I am grateful for what I have, but I know that I need to do more, not just for myself but also so that I can continue on my path of helping others. I also am far enough on my spiritual path to be able to trust that all is as it should be, even if things aren't moving as fast as I would like or don't always go my way! So, when Spirit brings things to my attention, such as happened at the zoo, I pay attention and take action. I am so grateful that my connection is so strong and that I am being helped so much. Admitting that I am responsible, or share responsibility, for the problems that arise in my life is not always comfortable. However, it is also empowering to know that I can change my life by being in my truth, speaking my truth with love and stepping out of blame. I can't say that I am always successful at doing this, or that it is easy.
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Bhubaneshwar, July 6 (ANI): Yoga guru Baba Ramdev on said here that the Congress party is a burden on the nation and should be thrown out of power.
Addressing the media here today, Baba Ramdev said: "At least 20 lakh crores came through the Foreign Direct Investment out of which eighty percent is black money. They have been cheating the country ever since India got its independence. It is now time to throw them out of power. It's now or never. If this does not happen then our country's future is dark," he added.
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Ryan will be ready to join Falcons' offseason workouts
Published: February 26th, 2010 | Tags: 2010 NFL Scouting Combine, Atlanta Falcons, Matt Ryan, Mike Smith
INDIANAPOLIS — Falcons QB Matt Ryan, who sustained a right turf toe injury in Week 12, has resumed running and will be healthy enough to join the team in offseason workouts when they begin March 22.
Ryan played the final three games of the season with the injury after missing two games, but he spent most of his offseason staying off the foot until recently.
"We don't anticipate him having any setbacks between now and when we start March 22," Falcons coach Mike Smith said Friday at the NFL Scouting Combine. "He's actually back running."
Smith said Ryan was initially supposed to be sidelined for six weeks, but the QB returned in two to start — and win — the final three games. He wore a special shoe to protect the injury.
The Falcons were eliminated from playoff contention shortly after Ryan's return, but he declined to shut down his season in order to help the franchise post its first back-to-back winning seasons since its inception in 1966.
"That says a lot about the type of man Matt is," Smith said.
Atlanta finished 9-7 after posting an 11-5 record in 2008, Ryan's rookie season.


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For nearly 20 years, photographer John Ganis has traveled America, documenting what he terms its "over-developed/under-respect lands." More than 80 of these sumptuous color images have now been collected in Consuming the American Landscape. Along with the photographs, the book contains a critical essay on Ganis by Robert Sobieszak of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and poetry by the late anthropologist Stanley Diamond. George F. Thompson, president of the Center for American Places, has also contributed an afterword to the volume.
Consuming the American Landscape
John Ganis
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The book is handsomely produced with a panoramic view of Badlands National Park in South Dakota on its cover, making it definitely suitable for coffee-table display. Delving inside, however, quickly reveals the disconcerting subterfuge Ganis brings to bear in adopting the landscape genre to capture his subject matter.
The first image in the book is of an observation deck overlooking the vast open gash of a gold mine, also located in South Dakota. In the foreground is a concrete platform completely fenced off from the surrounding environment. To the left is a coin-operated viewer like those found in tourist spots the world over. The middle ground contains the terraced step-back of the mine pit, rising up on either side of a road paved with "red dog" upon which an industrial-yellow dump truck moves. The background is filled with "pure nature" in the form of hills covered with pine trees, scrub and prairie grass rolling back to the horizon under a canopy of crystal clear azure blue sky. The image is a picture-perfect metonym, as it were, of Ganis's project, which is to investigate the dialectic of nature and culture by seeking out and recording places where the threshold between the two is most starkly and ironically visible. Other images include decrepit outdoor theme parks, toxic waste sites and real estate developments under construction, all rendered with the color saturation, detail and finesse of Eliot Porter.
Picking up on the contradictions of the images, Sobieszak's essay seeks to establish Ganis's art- world credentials within what he terms the "new American Pastoral" in contemporary photography. The essay's epigraph observes: "Any landscape is composed not only of what lies before our eyes but what lies in our heads." Thus Sobieszak's argument rests on the very postmodern idea that, as Federic Jameson put it, "culture has become second nature," that is, that we simply can't escape the acculturation we always already inscribe upon the land by our very perception of it as so-called civilized beings. The beauty of Sobieszak's essay is that it covers so much theoretical terrain without any of the tangled thicket of jargon that so often keeps similar analyses from ever revealing the forest for all the gnarly trees.
It is with the notion of the "acculturated natural" in mind that the book's cover photograph becomes resonant. In the center of the frame of the expansive landscape, standing on the edge of a hilltop, a family can be discerned from behind looking out onto the scene. Running across the top of the ridge leading to the lookout is a well-worn path. In the lower right of the foreground, jutting out from under a bit of brush, is a drainpipe running down the side of a canyon. The composition echoes "picturesque" paintings of primordial wilderness chasms and forests of the early romantics, such as Wanderer above the Sea of Fog from 1818 by Caspar David Friedrich. Only now, the wilderness has been completely tamed. Or has it?
Diamond's poems, placed intermittently throughout the book, are more evocative than Sobieszak's art-historical workhorse essay, providing another creative avenue into the issues Ganis exposes as to the sustainability of humanity in relation to the environment. "A culture/is its refuse," one poem begins, taking the long view of what future archeologists will eventually unearth and study. Yet the poem ends with the vision of a more vengeful Gaia, observing that of humanity's endeavors all that may remain are dust and desolation "At which/Only the roach will one day wonder." Hence in the end nature wins. (As Buckminster Fuller once said: "There are two histories, the one humans think they are writing and the real one, which is called evolution.")
Sobieszak notes that Ganis's photographs register the fault that runs between the "idyllic" and the "apocalyptic." On the one hand is the idea of "natural beauty" filtered through the lens of the aesthetic. On the other is the sublime, the terror experienced before the power of true nature, whose still ineffable forces ultimately can't be controlled. It's the split between mind and body at the center of Western civilization's ill-fated attempt under technocratic reason to rule over all things which Ganis's photographs seek to repair.
Ganis, who studied with Larry Fink, Lisette Model and W. Eugene Smith, makes photographs of uncompromising beauty. That their troubling subject is the ugliness perpetrated by humankind in pursuit of profit through myopic exploitation of the natural environment makes them all the more memorable.
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A collection of Python Machine learning open source projects.
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scikit-learn is a Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.It features various classification, regression and clustering algorithms including support vector machines, logistic regression, naive Bayes, random forests, gradient boosting, k-means and DBSCAN, and is designed to interoperate with the Python numerical and scientific libraries NumPy and SciPy.Official source code repo: https://github.com/scikit-learn/scikit-learn
The Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing (NuPIC) is a machine intelligence platform that implements the HTM learning algorithms. HTM is a detailed computational theory of the neocortex. At the core of HTM are time-based continuous learning algorithms that store and recall spatial and temporal patterns. NuPIC is suited to a variety of problems, particularly anomaly detection and prediction of streaming data sources.
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Pylearn2 is a library designed to make machine learning research easy. Its a library based on Theano
Ramp is a python library for rapid prototyping of machine learning solutions. It's a light-weight pandas-based machine learning framework pluggable with existing python machine learning and statistics tools (scikit-learn, rpy2, etc.). Ramp provides a simple, declarative syntax for exploring features, algorithms and transformations quickly and efficiently.
Milk is a machine learning toolkit in Python. Its focus is on supervised classification with several classifiers available: SVMs, k-NN, random forests, decision trees. It also performs feature selection. These classifiers can be combined in many ways to form different classification systems.For unsupervised learning, milk supports k-means clustering and affinity propagation. r
Skdata is a library of data sets for machine learning and statistics. This
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Its a library consisting of useful tools and extensions for the day-to-day data science tasks.https://github.com/rasbt/mlxtend
A collection of sample applications built using Amazon Machine Learning.
REP is environment for conducting data-driven research in a consistent and reproducible way. It has a unified classifiers wrapper for variety of implementations like TMVA, Sklearn, XGBoost, uBoost. It can train classifiers parallely on a cluster. It support of interactive plots
This is an implementation of the Extreme Learning Machine in Python, based on scikit-learn.
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The belly button is a new entry point for one of the most common surgeries among women.
A Scripps Health surgeon recently performed the region's first two robot-assisted hysterectomy surgeries that use a single incision in a patient's belly button for access.
The procedure is gaining traction nationwide because it creates fewer scars than other techniques, though debate continues about whether it yields meaningful health gains over other minimally invasive surgical techniques. Health providers also note that not every patient is a good fit for the belly-button surgery.
Heather Wilson of San Diego, one of the first two women to undergo the procedure locally, said her recovery has been quick.
"I stopped taking painkillers and I have zero pain," she said two days after her surgery. "The only discomfort I have is from the incision itself, and I'd say that feels like it would if you cut your finger."
Dr. Bobby Garg, an obstetrician and gynecologist, performed both procedures at Scripps Mercy Hospital in Hillcrest. He said a small incision in the belly button — off to one side or right down the middle — can provide enough room for a newly designed set of robotic tools, including a high-definition video camera, that allows him to perform a hysterectomy with no other external incisions.
A robot-assisted hysterectomy generally requires four incisions, one each for the robot's long thin arms tipped with a range of miniature surgical instruments from scalpels to grippers.
Garg said in addition to being small enough to fit through the belly button, the newest tools offer excellent dexterity, allowing him to make more accurate approaches to the multiple blood vessels linked to the uterus.
"You really end up doing a much more precise surgery and, when it's healed, the scar is often not visible," he said.
A hysterectomy, the surgical removal of a woman's uterus, is the second-most-common surgery among women after the Caesarean section. The operation is necessary in cases ranging from cancer to chronic pelvic pain.
Scripps is not the only health system in San Diego County to use the new technique. Doctors with Sharp HealthCare are scheduled to use belly button access for a hysterectomy this week. Sharp already uses the navel for access in some gallbladder surgeries.
But not everyone favors the belly-button method for hysterectomies.
Jacqueline Carr, a spokeswoman for the UC San Diego Health System, said the organization has performed other surgeries through the belly button — such as for kidney and obesity-related conditions — but has decided against that approach for the hysterectomy.
She cited a statement by the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists that recommends a different technique, one that enables a surgeon to remove the uterus through a small internal incision at the top of the vagina because it "is the least invasive and least expensive option." The university's health system uses this trans-vaginal method, Carr said.
Dr. Barbara Levy, vice president of health policy for the OB-GYN congress, said there is not much evidence that robot-assisted surgery for hysterectomy yields significantly better results than other types of minimally invasive surgery.
"The reality is, we have little or no data on the outcomes," Levy said. "It's doable with the equipment that they have, but whether it has any advantage for patients, I don't think we have adequate data to tell us yet."
Garg, the doctor who performed the two operations at Scripps Mercy, said he agrees that the vaginal technique can be a better option for some women.
"The vaginal method is fantastic, but it can't be done on everybody. It's the lowest-cost option, so when someone is a good candidate, we go for it," Garg said.
He added that robot-assisted techniques, whether or not they use the belly button for access, can be preferable to traditional surgery depending on a patient's weight, previous surgeries, past pregnancies or ongoing medical conditions.
As far as the notion that robotic hysterectomies do not have a lot of data backing them up, Garg said using a robot gives him clear advantages with some patients.
"The high-definition camera and the instrumentation do provide more control and precision," he said.
But that extra precision comes with a price.
Levy said performing a hysterectomy with a robot costs about $2,000 more per case than using a laparoscope, and about $3,500 more than the vaginal variant.
Wilson, the recent patient at Scripps Mercy, said after doing her homework on the types of hysterectomies available, she believes there was a significant benefit to her belly-button procedure — and the extra cost versus other methods was covered by her health insurance.
She had suffered for years with painful menstrual cramps, and now she is happy with the results and the added benefit of less scaring.
"What I have told people is that I used to have to plan my life around my period," Wilson said. "Now I just get to plan my life, period."
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by Jake Aryeh Marcus Find Sustainable Mothering on Facebook and Jake on Twitter.
Hands Across the Sand is a movement with a simple message: NO to offshore oil drilling, YES to clean energy. In the literal wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, there seems no better time to join hands at the waters' edge in solidarity with others who wish to protect the world's oceans.
I am spending a few weeks with my family at the New Jersey shore. Knowing a Hands Across the Sand event was planned for yesterday, my eldest son and protest buddy came with me in search of a gathering. We had to do a bit of searching – knowing only cross streets and that we would be looking for some unknown number gathering at 11 a.m. and holding hands beginning at noon (local time) the world over. We has just about given up when we saw this:
It looked like perhaps six or seven people off in the distance but we ran toward them and as we got closer, they looked like this:
And when we reached them, they looked like this:
My son and I joined the line and as it grew closer to noon, the line grew longer.
The mission for this event was to join hands across the sand silently for fifteen minutes, 12 p.m. to 12:15 "draw[ing] a line in the sand and embrac[ing] a clean energy future." We held hands and even though none of us had signs or chanted anything, people asked, "Is this about the oil spill?" Strangers saw a line of strangers holding hands looking out into the Atlantic Ocean and knew: yes, this is about the spill and drilling and protecting the oceans. And more people joined the line. And then it looked like this:
And at 12:15, we all walked into the ocean together still holding hands.
No fliers, no banners, no bull horns, no singing. By 12:15, we were fifty or so strangers, most of whom didn't know this had been planned, who, as "Hand Across the Sand" founder Dave Rauschkolb says, "draw metaphorical and actual lines in the sand; human lines in the sand against the threat oil drilling poses to America's coastal economies and marine environment."
What is Hands Across the Sand?
Hands Across the Sand is a movement made of people of all walks of life and crosses political affiliations. This movement is not about politics; it is about protection of our coastal economies, oceans, marine wildlife, and fishing industry. Let us share our knowledge, energies and passion for protecting all of the above from the devastating effects of oil drilling.
While Hands Across the Sand began in Florida just this past February (and before this most recent horrible oil spill), yesterday's event was international and co-sponsored by a long list of environmental and other activist group including MoveOn.org, Greenpeace and Clean Water Action.
And I was there wearing this T-shirt from We Add Up. Ten dollars of your purchase of this limited edition BP Oil Spill T-shirt goes to the Gulf Restoration Network.
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text: These scripts, if I remember correctly, were done by Miss Debbie Scales. I am sure she would be intersted in helping because she had a real servent's heart. However, we cannot ask her because she moved on to a different plane of existence a few years ago. Someone plese correct me if I am wrong on the authorship of the scripts. The old scripts can still be found in the program section up on http://www.jfwlite.com/programs.html hth Doris At 09:51 AM 5/1/2009 +1000, you wrote: >Hi Chris & Doris and david. > >right. ok, well please pardon my ignorance upon that one. >and Thanks for setting us straight about the different purposes for the two >types of spyware applications. > >Since you also seem to be aware of the existence of Scripts for previous >versions which david has referred to before if memory serves, >Are you perhaps aware of the identity of the author's of those scripts, with >the view to asking them personally if they are interested in any ongoing >development for them? although I suppose if they had been, then scripts >supporting the new versions of spyware blaster would've been readily >available from wherever those previous ones had been gotten. >Since you are obvoiusly users of this program, and have managed to drive the >program successfuly using the jaws Cursor, perhaps you and david could >communicate personally >as regards this, since there seems to be significant enough difficulties >there that I don't believe this is the first time David has sought >assistance with operation of this program? > >It just seems to me david, that if all this is not forthcoming, it might be >worth for you, either: >A. tracking down the developers of spyware blaster itself, and finding out >how aware they are of accessibility issues, and seeking to highlight for >them, some of the issues your facing as a blind user, and in doing so, >seeking to gage their interest in helping make their program more accessible >from the, "back end," where of course the most joy/benefit would be gained, >for them as well as for wider community, >if their interest/motivation as regards >increasing accessibility to their software for the most people, was excited. >Rather than tracking down a script based solution, which of course is >continually going to break every time a new version of the software is >released, especially if the developers have no idea as yet, about >accessibility issues or concerns. > >B. find another program which does a similar job, (there'd have to be stacks >I'd have thought,) that might be, "out of the box," more accessible/drivable >for you, than this program obviously is? >have you as yet sought to follow either of these A or B tracks, as outlined >above? > > >geoff c. > > > >Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 10:34 PM >Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Are there jaws scripts for spy ware blaster? > > > > Spyware Blaster and Superantispyware are two different programs with > > different functionality. > > > > Superantispyware detects and removes spyware while spyware blaster > > prevents installation of a lot of spyware in the first place by using > > a sort of blacklist to prevent spyware from getting into the computer > > in the first place. > > > > There used to be jaws scripts for it but the interface of the program > > has changed so that the scripts no longer work. It is possible to use > > the program by using the jaws cursor, hthough. I am not sure if this > > is scriptable. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Doris > > > > At 10:26 PM 4/30/2009 +1000, you wrote: > > >David. you always use the jawsCursor, if you want to simulate a mousClick >on > > >anything. the jaws Cursor is the same as the mouse. so when your >navigating > > >with the jaws cursor, you are moving the mouse around the screen. > > > > > >But this will very often not identify controls as buttons etc, if the tab > > >key doesn't do so. So you still need to know where this button is, or >have > > >some way of knowing what potentially numbered graphic, which it might > > >identify itself as, is the next button etc. > > > > > >Have you thought of trying superantiSpyware? it's a very accessible >program > > >out of the box it seems to me. > > > > > >--- > > >From: "david ingram" <dingram269@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > >Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 1:22 PM > > >Subject: [jawsscripts] Are there jaws scripts for spy ware blaster? > > > > > > > > > > Hi list members, i'd like to know if there are jaws scripts for spy >ware > > >blaster? If so, where can i get them from? > > > > The reason why i ask this question is because i'm having a problem >with > > >going through the tutorial when i need to choose the item that says >manual > > >updating, But i'm not sure if this is a dialog or a button. There is >also a > > >next button, but i'm not sure what cursor that i need to use to semulate >a > > >mouse click for that button whether it should be the jaws cursor, pc >cursor, > > >or the invisible cursor. I would appreciate any information that any one > > >might have about this, thank you. > > > > __________ > > > > Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository >http://jawsscripts.com > > > > > > > > View the list's information and change your settings at > > > > http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > > > > > > > > >__________ > > >Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > > > > > >View the list's information and change your settings at > > >http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > > > __________ > > Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > > > > View the list's information and change your settings at > > http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts > > > >__________ >Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com > >View the list's information and change your settings at >http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts __________ Visit and contribute to The JAWS Script Repository http://jawsscripts.com View the list's information and change your settings at http://www.freelists.org/list/jawsscripts


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I am an out of town patient, so I have not seen my plastic surgeon since surgery coming up 7 weeks healing now. My quesion is I think that I have some scar tissue build up in my right breast, but none in my left breast. My doctor has me massaging and I just recently went back to work so I a mmoving my arms more. My right breast is tender, so do I keep massaging?? I heard it was bad?? Also my areola on same breast is not as centered, will that change?? What do I do now at 7 weeks? Thank you!
What To Do About Scar Tissue After Breast Augmentation/implant on One Side? (photo)
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Scar tissue
Seven weeks is a little too early to say whether this will be a problem or if it is just a little difference which will improve as a bit more settling takes place over the next several weeks. I agree with massage and I have my patients massage although there is no scientific evidence to support the fact that it will reduce or eliminate the possibility of encapsulation.
I would keep in touch with you plastic surgeon. I often have my out of town patients end me photos so I can keep track of how they are progressing.
Thank you for the question and best of luck.
What to do about scar tissue after breast augmentation/implant on one side?
If unsightly scars are still present after approximately a year's time, other things that your surgeon may consider are intralesional steroid injections, laser, or just surgical revision of the scar itself. It appears as if you had a breast lift at the same time? Depending on the time from the procedure, some of these modalities or laser therapy may help. However, scar revision may certainly be entertained, which could be performed at the same time as any revisionary procedure, if you are unhappy with the result.
Hope that this helps! Best wishes!
Early Capsular Contracture
It is hard to tell this early whether you have a capsular contracture. I would recommend a followup exam with your plastic surgeon to evaluate this. . Capsular Contracture is one of the main risks of breast augmentation. Classic signs are:
1. hardness/tightness of the implant
2. change in implant position (typically migrates towards the collarbone)
3. increased pain and stiffness on the associated side.
Based on your description, you should see a board certified plastic surgeon for evaluation of capsular contracture. If present, I would recommend a capsulectomy (removal of scar tissue) and implant exchange.
Factors to consider:
1. If your implants are above your muscle, you may want to consider switching to underneath the muscle, which lessens the risk of capsular contracture.
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Breast implant issues
It is best to address your concerns in person with your surgeon. There is always some asymmetry between the two breasts. As for tightness, one may feel tighter. If you are concerned about a capsular contracture, and exam would be necessary.
What To Do About Scar Tissue After Breast Augmentation/implant on One Side?
Photos posted are slightly helpful. Best to be seen in person by a boarded PS in your area, if you can not see the original surgeon. But I would continue massages and possible external ultrasound therapy. Also a before photo might should your asymmetry if it was present. Follow up please.
7 weeks after breast augmentation
One can only tell so much from history and photos, without being able to do an examination. That said, your photos seem to demonstrate appropriate, symmetrical implant position. The soft tissue envelope seems to be a little tight - probably due to this early point post-op and small firm breasts pre-op. I recommend that you continue with implant massage as directed, send your surgeon the same photos you posted, and try to get in for a follow-up visit. I suspect this will all get better with time if you simply stick with the program.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Supporters and foes of Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi are to hold mass protests in Cairo on Tuesday over a constitutional referendum that has already brought violence to the streets.
Morsi has ordered the army to support police in keeping security during the protests and until results are given from the referendum, which is due to take place on Saturday.
Last week, clashes between the rival camps wielding metal bars, petrol bombs and handguns left seven people dead and hundreds injured, and prompted the military to deploy tanks and troops around the presidential palace.
Since the weekend, concrete barriers have also been erected outside the palace, one of the main rallying points for demonstrations.
The Coalition of Islamist Forces supporting the referendum will kick off Tuesday's protests.
Their members -- dominated by partisans of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood -- are to gather in the Nasr City district just two kilometres (one mile) from the palace around midday (1000 GMT).
One Salafist group in the coalition, the Al-Nur party, is not taking part to prevent tensions spilling over.
At 4:00 pm, the opposition coalition, the National Salvation Front, is to hold its own rally starting at the city's Tahrir Square, the focus of the popular uprising that toppled former president Hosni Mubarak last year, and heading to the palace.
Each demonstration is expected to draw tens of thousands of people. The risk of violence is real.
The opposition, made up of secular, leftwing and liberal groups, has vowed to scupper the referendum and the draft constitution, which was largely drafted by Morsi's Islamist allies.
It sees the draft text as weakening human rights, the rights of women and religious minorities, and the independence of judges.
Late Monday, 23 Egyptian human rights groups, including the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies and the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression, warned it could put the country on the path to a fundamentalist Islamic state like Iran's, where media, civil and human rights are routinely suppressed.
The draft constitution "opens the door to the establishment of a theocratic system similar to the Iranian 'Velayat-e Faqih' model," or rule by a clerical overlord, they said.
Morsi's supporters, though, argue that it is now up to Egypt's voters to decide the referendum.
The United States called for the protests to remain peaceful.
"We also want to see the Egyptian government and security forces respecting that freedom of peaceful expression and assembly and to exercise restraint," US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said.
Analysts believe the broad support Morsi still enjoys among Egypt's poorer classes, and the proven organisation skills of the Brotherhood, will result in the controversial constitution being adopted.
If that happens, the divisions could become entrenched, paralysing the country's fragile democracy and setting up a long-running struggle between Islamists and liberals, they warn.
"'Islamists' and 'non-Islamists' may hate each other, but, on substance, the gap isn't currently as large as it might be... In the longer run, however, the consensus that so many seem to be searching and hoping for may not actually exist," said Shadi Hamid, an analyst at the Brookings Doha Centre.
The army's role in the crisis could prove decisive. Thus far, it has sought to remain neutral.
But Morsi seems intent to co-opt it by giving it police powers of arrest and ordering it to protect "vital state institutions for a temporary period, up to the announcement of the results from the referendum".
Nobody in Egypt forgets that it was the military that ruled the country following Mubarak's February 2011 ouster, up to June 2012 when Morsi was elected with a slender mandate.


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Time: July 14, 2012 at 7am to July 15, 2012 at 11am
Location: Watkins Glen International
City/Town: Watkins Glen, NY
Website or Map: http://www.flwinefest.com/?ho…
Event Type: track, meet, wine, festival, weekend
Organized By: SkippyThorson
Latest Activity: Jul 25, 2012
Same here - Friday/Saturday sounds good.
I got a call back from Mike at Watkins Glen, promptly at 1:00. :) I have all of the details for the event, and he's really excited that we chose Watkins Glen for the event.
He said they are doing Pace Car laps around the track for general admission folks throughout the event, but he would sure love to give the group of Smarts their track time as one big group. The best time to do it would be around 9:00 or 9:30 in the morning. Sunday would be better, but Saturday would work fine too, it would just be busier. We would receive a discounted group rate for combination Wine Festival passes and Track Time tickets.
Everything is usually purchase in advance for groups, but I mentioned that others may straggle on in last-second, and he was more than happy to accommodate those that do if they choose. We'll be exchanging emails and hammering out the details.
He also offered to have us all stop on the front stretch, around the Start/Finish line for a group photo and snapshot opportunities which is pretty cool, and he also said that he had an idea in mind where we would all have an infield place to park our cars, creating a little car show.
Everything seems to be clicking together very well. He said any Smart that makes it is guaranteed track time rain or shine. I don't know about anyone else, but I'll be there!
Should we chop the event down to just Friday / Saturday or Saturday / Sunday? If track time is at 9:00am on either Saturday, we'd probably leave Saturday evening, and if it's on Sunday, we'd all arrive on Saturday. Any votes on which day we'd want?
He mentioned that at end of April, he was just about to send out a Newsletter for a for car club meet. All sorts of car clubs from all over usually gather for a show, and all of the money goes to charity - one of those being JDRF; the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
SO... If this Wine Festival takes off, and we get a good crowd, I'd love for this to be the Inaugural event, and any subsequent annual events could gather at the Car Club Meet! :)
So it looks like we're going to keep the Wine Festival dates. I'm fairly hopeful we'll still get on the track even considering the event going on. The Festival website also suggests both camping in the infield and hotel lodging. Everyone will be accommodated!
No, no no - I'm up for the wine fest weekend! After the 3 laps around the track it's off to sample some of the grape. :D
XCAPEPOD, the laps around Watkins Glen for the $25 admissions is 55mph. I know, a little depressing. A pack of racing Smarts would be too exciting to miss, though!
Really?! That's actually way too funny!
Should we instead plan the event for Saturday the 14th through Monday the 16th so we can get track time on Monday and still participate in the Wine Festival? I know that people typically don't like taking Mondays off.
So - we could either gather at the Wine Festival or have our own weekend - from Friday July 27th through Sunday July 29th.
Same weekend as the Finger Lakes Wine Festival!!!
I posted this on Club Smart Car as well - should be a reasonable drive for those in the Toronto and Ottawa areas.
Sounds great! Will there be speed limitations on the laps (like the Indy event)?


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Ultra strong, ultra soft sheet for larger one designs and keelboats, your hands will love this soft and exceptionally strong single braid constructed of Dyneema SK75 plus spun filament polyester.
|Product Description
Ultra strong, ultra soft sheet for larger one designs and keelboats, your hands will love this soft and exceptionally strong single braid constructed of Dyneema® SK75 plus spun filament polyester.
• Low elongation.
• E excellent hand/grip.
• K knik-free, spliceable.
• Mainsheets.
• Genoa Sheets.
• Traveler Lines.
Part Number: NESAL08
Sunlight/UV: Very little degradation from sunlight. Can be used outside over long term if inspected regularly.
Chemicals: Polyester has good resistance to most chemicals except 95% sulfuric acid and strong alkalines at boil. HMPE has good resistance to most minerals, organics, acids, and weak alkalines. HMPE also has excellent resistance to bleaches and other oxidizing agen
Heat: Polyester melts at 480°F with progressive strength loss above 300°F. HMPE melts at 300°F with progressive strength loss above 150°F.
Dielectrics: Good resistance to the passage of electrical current. However, dirt, surface contaminants, water entrapment, and the like can significantly affect dielectric properties. Extreme caution should be exercised any time a rope is in the proximity of life circuits.
Sheaves: Recommended sheave diameter to rope diameter is 8:1.
Working Loads: No blanket safe working load (SWL) recommendations can be made for any line because SWL's must be calculated based on application, conditions of use, and potential danger to personnel among other considerations. It is recommended that the end user establish working loads and safety factors based on best practices established by the end user's industry; by professional judgment and personal experience; and after thorough assessment of all risks. The SWL is a guideline for the use of a rope in good condition for non-critical applications and should be reduced where life, limb, or valuable property is involved, or in cases of exceptional service such as shock loading, sustained loading, severe vibration, etc. The Cordage Institute specifies that the SWL of a rope shall be determined by dividing the Minimum Tensile Strength of the rope by a safety factor. The safety factor ranges from 5 to 12 for non-critical uses and is typically set at 15 for life lines.


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The most recent short interest data was recently released by the NASDAQ for the 10/31/2013 settlement date, and Apache Corp. ( APA) is the #199 most shorted of the S&P 500 components, based on 3.49 "days to cover." There are a number of ways to look at short data, but one metric that we find particularly useful is the "days to cover" because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares typically traded. The number of shares short is then divided by the average daily volume, to express the total number of trading days it would take to close out all of the open short positions if every share traded represented a short position being closed.
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Brisbane must try to defeat the Roosters minus both first-choice props but the presence of rising star Corey Oates has given the undefeated Broncos fresh impetus as they host the premiers on Friday night.
After two rounds of helter-skelter football, Brisbane has adapted as well as anyone to the faster pace of play, holding off the Bulldogs and Cowboys to be one of the early improvers in a season in which many feared for their prospects.
Scrambling defence and superior conditioning, partly thanks to the recruitment of ex-Storm conditioner Alex Corvo, has been a feature of their two victories but it all goes up a level against the Roosters, who surged back to form last week with a 56-4 demolition of Parramatta.
That task will be made all the more difficult by the absence of big men Ben Hannant (hamstring) and Josh McGuire (suspended), whose departure will see former Rooster Martin Kennedy go toe-to-toe with his old club from the start.
But it is the return of Oates that will provide plenty of intrigue. The hulking 19-year-old will return from a knee injury and gives coach Anthony Griffin size, versatility and punch off his interchange bench.
After making his debut in round 17, Oates scored eight tries playing as a winger, although the 192cm, 105kg teen is equally at home in the back row or the centres.
There remains immense buzz at Red Hill about his NRL prospects, although Griffin was yet to decide how he would be deployed.
"Corey was pretty close to playing last week but we gave him another week and he's been doing full training now for a month," Griffin said.
"He gives us a bit of versatility, he can play in the backs or forwards so he covers a lot of spots there for us. He will get some time, I just don't know where at the moment."
The other question for Brisbane is how Kennedy will react to any taunts from his old clubmates, who are unlikely to give him an easy time of things in the middle of the park.
Kennedy had his buttons successfully pushed by Michael Ennis in round one and the Roosters could follow suit. But Griffin said the 25-year-old would be able to take care of his business and not react.
"It (Kennedy's temper) is something they have made a point of," he said of the Roosters. "Those type of things get played out more in the media.
"It adds a bit of anticipation to the contest. But it was like the Ben Barba thing (against the Dogs).
"That turned into a fizzer (after the Bulldogs said) what they were going to do to him, what they weren't going to do to him."


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The texture and the expression is very pixie, however the hair is much longer than in the classic pixiecut. While the back is graduated and short, the top hair increases in length gradually to enable the luscious long fringe to extend all the way below her cheekbones.
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Lady GaGa on Susan Boyle: 'I Would Love to Work With Somebody of that Talent'
According the UK's The Sun, Susan Boyle has found herself an unsuspecting supporter in another breakout star of 2009: Lady Gaga. Says the Just Dance singer "I love Susan Boyle. She is my woman of the year. She has achieved more in this year than most artists will in a lifetime...This time last year nobody even knew who she was and now she is knocking the world's most established artists off the album and singles charts.
On a potential SuBo/GaGa collaboration, the star says, "Our styles are different. I don't know if we could work together, but never say never. It would be great to work with somebody of that talent."
To read the full article on a potential Susan Boyle/Lady Gaga collaboration and her other supporters in The Sun, click here.
As previously reported, one real upcoming collaboration for the Scottish songbird is a duet with opera tenor Andrea Bocelli, who has sold a record 70 million albums. They two will team up to perform as part of a new British TV talent show called Pop Star to Opera Star, on which pop singers are trained to sing arias. Though there is no word yet on the song selection, it is expected that they will perform on of Grammy-winning Bocelli's most famous numbers -Time to Say Goodbye or The Prayer, which he last performed with Celine Dion.
Boyle's arrived in Japan on Tuesday, where she will perform on the country's top-rating TV show on New Year's Eve.
Susan Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream has held the #1 spot on the Billboard charts for fourth consecutive weeks, nearly 3 million copies worldwide.
Boyle's I Dreamed a Dream, debuted at number 1 on the charts, remained at number 1 in it's second and third weeks and has also received RIAA-Triple Platinum Certification for shipping over three million units to retailers nationwide. 'I Dreamed A Dream' continues to break records by becoming the biggest selling album released in 2009. Also as previously reported, "I Dreamed A Dream: The Susan Boyle Story," which premiered exclusively on TV Guide Network on Sunday, December 13 became its #1 rated television special in history. The television special, which delivered a 1.0 coverage rating (788,500 HH) for the 8:00 p.m. telecast, also over-delivered with the network's key demos. It achieved a triple digit increase (404 percent) with persons 25-54 over the prior year, and the combined 8:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m. telecasts reached 4.1 million households and 4.8 million viewers (p18+).
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After an audition for "Britain's Got Talent," in which Susan immediately impressed the judges, the audience and then anyone with access to YouTube's expectations by singing her way through a version of "I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables. A tornado of rumination and amazement grew around Susan Boyle feverishly, with over 300 Million YouTube hits and nearly two million Facebook friends to prove it.
'I Dreamed A Dream' was recorded during the summer of 2009. Susan first entered a recording studio in July in Edinburgh, picking songs that resonated with her. The final results shocked both her and veteran producer Steve Mac with its beauty and musical impact. "It was important that I could feel everything I was singing," she says. The 12 track collection features Susan Boyle performing signature songs such as "I Dreamed A Dream", "Cry Me A River," as well as her haunting
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My favourite literary couples
My favourite literary couple when I was a teenager was...surprise, surprise, Romeo and Juliet. That powerful, insane, head-rush crush lasted for about a year, until I discovered Heathcliff and Catherine, Scarlett and Rhett, Abelard and Heloise.
It seems like the key ingredient that makes for the most memorable literary couples - the ones with the touching, haunting stories that will leave you with tear-soaked pillows and a sigh in your heart - is a tale of impossible love. The fictional world is full of star-crossed lovers, and though some of them come to happy endings ("reader, I married him") - it's not often so.
Below are a list of my favourite literary couples, some likely, others less so. Spoilers ahead!
Ammu & Velutha - The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy
She loved by night the man her children loved by day, and what a high price Ammu would come to pay for that love. Velutha is an "untouchable", which means that their love is not just impossible, but forbidden by centuries-old social strictures. It's a tragic tale but also one filled with beauty, especially when the lovers, knowing they have no future together, try to find comfort and meaning in the "small things" of the title.
Ennis del Mar & Jack Twist - Brokeback Mountain, Annie Proulx
"I wish I knew how to quit you" may be one of the truest lines in literature. It's the lament of the broken-hearted everywhere, as voiced by Jack, one of the gay lovers in this beautiful short story which was made famous by the movie starring the tragically short-lived Heath Ledger. You can't help but think, if only, if only, if only...the hallmark of a great love-that-could-have-been story.
Jimmy & Oryx - Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood
I can't help but feel great pity for poor Snowman (Jimmy), trapped in a post-apocalyptic world after watching his one true love get snuffed in front of his eyes. Jimmy is essentially rather unlikeable, his one redeeming feature being his love for Oryx, who Atwood deliberately keeps as a poorly-sketched character, implying that Snowman projected a lot of imaginary qualities onto her. It's still sweet though, in that puppy dog, first love, pitying kind of way.
Buttercup & Wesley - The Princess Bride, William Goldman
This is again, another story that's more popular in movie form (idea for the next blog post?), but I love Buttercup and Wesley as a couple mostly because they are equals in all the ways that count. It's one of those rare love stories with a happy ending, but the adventures that take them there makes the book worth reading. "As you wish!"
Chiyo & The Chairman - Memoirs of a Geisha, Arthur Golden
The bittersweet ending of this tale of forbidden love, set in pre and post-WWII Japan, doesn't take away from the fact that Chiyo and The Chairman were meant to be. Most of the book is filled with longing looks and incidents that conspire to keep them apart, plus there's a whole "will they, won't they" dynamic that will leave readers on tenterhooks.
Anne & Gilbert - Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery
All young flame-haired temptresses should be required to read this series of children's books, which actually has quite a dark ending. But Anne and Gilbert are one of my favourite literary couples because they show the power of the slow burn when it comes to romance. What is it they always say? Love is friendship set on fire, how very true!


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A Flushing man was arrested after verbally and physically attacking a fellow tenant in his apartment lobby.
Police said Yong Hung Wang, 36, allegedly pushed and grabbed John Derouvian by the neck and threw him to the ground. The April 4 scuffle occurred after Wang accused Derouvian of not living in the Leavitt Street building, cops said.
Derouvian said Wang screamed, "Get the f— out of here. You don't f—ing live here. I'm going to f—ing hurt you," according to court records.
The complex's surveillance cameras also show Wang later blocking Derouvian from entering the elevator until police arrived.
Wang was charged with second-degree harassment and third-degree assault. He was arraigned on April 4 and released without bail.


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Olympics: London 2012 chief defends budget hike
London 2012 Olympics supremo Sebastian Coe has defended a controversial budget hike for the Games' opening and closing ceremonies, saying it will make for the "largest piece of television ever".
The British government last week agreed to more than double the budget for the ceremonies to 81 million pounds ($127 million), sparking criticism by Olympians such as world-record-holding marathon runner Paula Radcliffe.
"The government saw what we have created in the main ceremonies and wanted to invest more in this unique promotion of Britain to four billion people around the world," Coe told reporters in Beijing on Sunday.
Coe -- in the Chinese capital for an international meeting with the Paralympic movement -- said criticism by Radcliffe, who called for the extra cash to be spent on grassroots sports, was misguided.
"Paula is a great friend of mine but I think grassroots sports funding through the National Lottery and through government activity is higher than it has ever been," said Coe, the chairman of the London 2012 organising committee.
Around 20,000 performers are set to take part in the Olympics and Paralympics opening and closing ceremonies, which are expected to net billions in advertising revenue.
"With regards to perception of London and the UK and a tourism legacy you could say that they will be priceless," Martin Sorrell, head of advertising giant WPP, said earlier this month.
"Slumdog Millionaire" filmmaker Danny Boyle has the task of producing the main opening ceremony, although few other details about the shows have emerged.
Early rumours suggest former Beatle Paul McCartney and pop giants Take That will kick off proceedings.
Sports Minister Hugh Robertson last week also defended the budget hike, saying it was for "the benefit of the country".
"We hope it's an impression that people will say 'we want to come back here, do business and spend tourism money'," he added.


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Businesses beef up security after burglaries
Thu, 14 Apr 2011 01:42:55 GMT —
Business owners said they are tired of being burglarized. Southway Crane has been hit by robbers several times over the past three years.
"It's getting out of hand," said Southway Crane Owner James Simons.
The thief got away with very little cash but he left a hefty bill for the owner. James Simons is now taking security measures so that the robberies won't happen again.
Although Southway Crane was already equipped with alarms, motion detectors and a video system, the owner is adding more protection.
"We gone put metal in the walls so that no one will be able to come through those walls again," said James Simons.
Amanda Matthews, Central Monitoring spokesperson, said people should take as much precaution as possible. She said adequate glass break and motion detectors can be used so that no matter where crooks enter, they can be caught by censors. Video is also a good safety measure.
"Once you get them on video, it's easier for the police department to identify them," said Central Monitoring Spokesperson Amanda Matthews.
Another way to protect a business is by checking the outside structure. If the company has metal siding attached with screws that can easily be removed, try using a lock bolt.
Lock bolts are a type of screw that can't be removed, unless drilled out. This drilling process can take time and slow down a criminal.
Albany Police are still investigating the burglaries that happened over the weekend. They have no suspects are the time.
Southway Crane and the Darsey Oil Company are offering a reward for an arrest of the suspect.


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Joan Marie Vellequette, a resident of Los Altos, California for 51 years, passed away peacefully on November 13, 2012. Joan is survived by her loving husband, Murlin Vellequette, her sister Margaret Bouthillier (& husband Conrad), her brother-in-law Roger Vellequette, her sister-in-law Bernadette Hall, and her eight children: Joseph Vellequette (& wife Suzy), John Vellequette, David Vellequette (& wife Mary), Mayr Singleton (& husband D.J.), Ann Frates, Mark Vellequette (& wife Mary Beth), Michael Vellequette (& wife Kim), and James Vellequette. Joan was blessed with 21 grandchildren, and 4 great-grandchildren - all of whom she loved deeply. Joan had a knack for remembering everyone's birthday, graduation, and anniversary - while making it all look easy.
Born Joan Marie Lynch in Chicopee, MA, her family later moved to Michigan where she attended the University of Detroit as a Chemistry major graduating in 1951. Joan dated Murlin Vellequette in college and they married in 1952. Over the next 9 years, they lived in Huntsville, Detroit, Fort Wayne, Cincinnati, and then moved to California in 1960 when Murlin accepted a position with Fairchild Semiconductor. In Los Altos, they bought one of the first homes in the Highlands area, where they made many close friends in that great neighborhood. Recently, with family and some long-time friends, Joan and Murlin celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary, a true milestone of enduring love.
Early on, Joan worked as a Chemist for Ethyl Corp., and then devoted herself to the whirlwind of raising eight children. Joan returned to college and obtained a Master's degree in Counseling Psychology from Santa Clara University in 1977. She also volunteered for many years with the St. Simon Catholic Parish ministries, the El Camino Hospital Auxiliary, and for St. Francis High School. Later on, she enjoyed being the office manager and psychological testing coordinator for the Behaviordyne Pyschological Corp. in Palo Alto, and she also acted as the bookkeeper for the family business.
Joan's personal interests varied from celebrating and quietly helping her family, to frequent travels, to being an extremely avid reader. Her travels included India, Europe, China, Australia and many trips with family to destinations all over the US. Annual summer trips to Myrtle Beach were a favorite, and no one will ever forget seeing Joan and Murlin parasailing together – way up in the sky - during one terrific Vellequette & Bouthillier Family Reunion. Joan was always selflessly full of life and love, and she will be dearly missed by all who knew and cherished her.


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At LAST! The Scotsman (2 November) contained a sensible, well thought-out comment on the disaster that is Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
Carole Ford has voiced clearly and succinctly what so many teachers have been thinking since the "very large, very shiny, green folders" arrived on desks.
Of course CfE is narrowing and dumbing down the curriculum; of course literacy and numeracy should have been laid at the doors of primary schools, not secondary, when it is too late.
Of course the aims and objectives are completely wide open to interpretation, being so vague; of course you will find no mention of rigour and high standards in CfE.
I can only agree with Carole Ford that CfE will not achieve the very thing it set out to – excellence.
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Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor has been promoting the importance of civic education in the classroom. She is the co-chair of the Campaign for the Civic Mission of Schools, a coalition of 40 organizations committed to improving the quality and quantity of civic learning in American schools.
The Campaign's goal is to increase and improve civic learning in grades K-12 by working for policies that implement the recommendations of the Civic Mission of Schools report. This includes efforts to bring about changes in national, state, and local education policy.
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Have your students read the graphic novel that inspired the new Watchmen movie, opening March 6?
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WASHINGTON DC (NEWS) - Today, Congressman Luke Messer (IN-06) addressed a packed house at the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) briefing on national student privacy law and policy on Capitol Hill. He and Congressman Jared Polis (CO-02) were asked to speak about the Student Digital Privacy and Parental Rights Act (H.R. 2092)—a bill they worked on together and introduced in the House in April.
WASHINGTON DC (NEWS) - Today, seven members of the Indiana Congressional delegation announced support for the state's request to extend Indiana's Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) flexibility waiver. The waiver would allow Indiana to continue work on state-developed plans designed to improve education outcomes instead of following federally-mandated one-size-fits-all education requirements.
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I'm going to be 63 years old in a couple of weeks, and I don't suppose it's uncommon for people my age to reminisce about how things have changed over the years. There isn't much that hasn't changed. Sometimes a lot, sometimes a little, sometimes for the better, and sometimes for the worse. And probably sometimes, it just all depends how you look at it.


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Comment from Sayer Ji of TestingTheWater.org on September 5, 2010 at 12:12 a.m., EDT in response to Naples-area water testing shows "chemical compounds that can only come from Corexit 9527″:
Our tests did not show indication of Corexit use in Naples because we did not test for it. We did find 1 ppm of oil, but again, nothing indicating the presence of 2-butoxyethanol or propylene glycol. We will continue to monitor the water, and will continue to report our findings at http://www.testingthewater.org.
FOSL contacted Mr. Ji on September 5 about his comment. He responded:
Thank you for contacting me on this matter. Also, I would like to say thus far - everything you have put out there has been very helpful and accurate.
I did speak briefly with Dr. Tom [Termotto] on this interview and he said, regretfully, the interview got pulled into a confusing direction, and some misinformation apparently was generated.
Ji's response to the question: "What is incorrect with Mr. Termotto's statements?" [During a recent radio interview, Tom Termotto said he spoke to chemist Bob Naman that day and was told a sample was "showing levels of different chemical compounds that can only come from Corexit 9527.″ He specifically said it was the Naples/Bonita Springs area sample(s) from his friends at testingthewater.org.]
As to what was incorrect about Dr Termotto's statements apparently some wires got crossed during the interview. The audio piece went from talking about the finding of 50ppm in a Tampa pool to talking about Testing the waters and our tests of water in the Naples Bonita area, without proper differentiation. I think Dr. Tom did misspeak at one point indicating that markers for Corexit were found there [near Naples].
[From an email by Dr. Termotto: "I did speak to Bob Naman about the Corexit found in sample of the coast of Alabama. He never indicated Corexit in the South FL samples; that was my mixing up two different issues."]
Ji's response to the question: "Have you spoken with Mr. Naman about the samples that Mr. Termotto referred to which contained the Corexit 9527A markers?"
I have been in contact with Bob [Naman, chemist] since the beginning, and can confirm the accuracy of the reports in Tampa [actually an hour north of Tampa in Homosassa].
I also am the one who contracted him to do the tests for Bonita, Naples, Tampa and Sarasota. I am absolutely certain that no such marker has been found THUS FAR. We are still doing ongoing tests, so this may change soon.
The real technical limitation is that it [tests for Corexit markers] can only go down to 5ppm in sensitivity. We would have to have a relatively high concentration in order to find what we are looking.
Ji graciously added, "I am sorry for the confusion that has been generated."
Dr. Tom Termotto affirmed the facts pertaining to the Naples/Bonita Spring samples are as Mr. Ji stated.
FOSL strives to provide the most accurate and up-to-date information possible. Thank you to the parties involved for helping to clear this up.
Further important updates are on the way regarding this matter. Stay tuned.