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Nearly a month after the latest revision of the OpenSolaris operating system was to be released, the people awaiting it are asking what exactly it is that Oracle is doing. Nerves are on edge and many are losing interest in a fight. Some are switching rather than fighting, to a Linux distribution, or perhaps a BSD variant. Others are using another "F" word.
It is a four letter word, but you can say it in polite company. The word is fork – meaning that the current code would be taken and no direct correlation would ever be worried about between Solaris and OpenSolaris again. In effect, it becomes something else entirely, like two animals with a common ancestor.
Oracle is the entity that will cause this, and right now, the no-news attitude is not good news. People are upset, and wondering why Oracle is doing this after certain promises were made.
From a story on ComputerWorld Thursday, we have a few details, and not much in the way of solid evidence that the outcome will be a good one.
Frustrated by Oracle's delay in releasing the latest version of OpenSolaris, the OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) is growing uneasy over Oracle's lack of communication regarding the future of the Unix OS code.
At least two members of the board have even used the divisive "F" word, saying that they would be open to forking the code base from the Oracle version.
The latest version of OpenSolaris OS, version 2010.03, was set to be released on March 26. As of almost a month later, it has yet to appear. And OGB, hounded by OpenSolaris users, can't get information from Oracle as to when it will be released.
"It is sad to watch people asking about some OpenSolaris … release called 2010.03 when we are well into April now," wrote board member Dennis Clarke.
While the volunteer-led OGB organizes efforts to develop code for OpenSolaris distributions,
Sun Microsystems retained the trademark ownership of the name OpenSolaris itself. Oracle, which finalized its acquisition of Sun in January, makes the final decisions as what to include in the code base of its official distribution (though the code base can be reused at any time as the basis for other distributions).
Since January, company officials have appeared, at least to some to be ambivalent about OpenSolaris, even as it has boosted support for its paid version of the Unix OS, Solaris. For instance, earlier this month, the company ceased offering free OpenSolaris install CDs, although the distribution can still be downloaded.
This change in management style has made some OpenSolaris users jumpy. In his e-mail message Clarke expressed a willingness to fork the code, as did Schilling. "We [should] not ignore the current situation and thus be prepared to fork in case this is needed," board member Joerg Schilling wrote.
Several other members of the list, who were not board members, quickly showed enthusiasm for the idea as well.
"If Oracle is NOT going to keep developing OpenSolaris as an open source project … a fork might be the only solution for people who care," wrote a developer on the mailing list.
Overall, the board members urged a more cautious approach, however.
Establishing regular contact with the Oracle would be a first step, Schilling said. OGB has no official contact within Oracle, and only one of the board members, Teresa Giacomini, works for Oracle, and not in a role related to Solaris.
"We don't even know whom to talk with," admitted Schilling.
Board member Simon Phipps noted that "the time to fork hasn't arrived yet" and seconded another poster's point that it wouldn't be a good idea to fork the code base given that Oracle still does much of the development work, and provides the supporting community Web sites.
Phipps also noted that the company may not have formulated its plan for OpenSource, which given the load on Oracle head Larry Ellison's agenda these days, is quite understandable.
In an e-mail to IDG News Service, Phipps noted that Oracle has a different, more controlling, style of communicating with the open source world, compared to Sun's more open approach. This certainly can be seen in Oracle's approach with MySQL as well.
"Given Oracle's style, I have seen no concrete triggers for concern yet," Phipps wrote, in the e-mail to IDG.
Oracle did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
While the rabid may do alright with a non-Oracle sponsored version, in the real world, things like this rarely do well, as people lose focus, and interest. I am reminded of the Darwin project, which promised to bring OS X to the X86 architecture (back when for the Mac it was on Power PC) and for everyone, with no strings attached. I think we know where that went…
Even if Oracle ends up being a good guy in this, and continues support, the lack of response, and letting users twist in the wind will not endear the company to many. Oracle is large, and Mr. Ellison may think that this style of managing the project is acceptable, but many will find that for them it is not, and move elsewhere.
I have been interested in OpenSolaris, though I have not done much with it because of time constraints. However, if I see that the project forks, or that Oracle leaves it as a semi-nebulous project, with no clear lines of communication, I could easily go back to FreeBSD. It is also a "real" Unix, and, as far as I can tell, that is what has attracted many to OpenSolaris.
perhaps the only places we will find anything related to Solaris soon…
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Luol Deng is open to discussing a contract extension with the Cleveland Cavaliers, but he also understands why the Cavs might want to put off those talks to first focus on trying to sign another All-Star small forward.
LeBron James.
"He's a great player, why wouldn't you look at him?" Deng told Yahoo Sports. "If he wants to come back home, that's great for him and great for this organization. He's a great player. Why not?
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"In 1792, when he was forty-seven, the Spanish painter Francisco de Goya contracted a serious illness which left him stone deaf. In this extraordinary book Julia Blackburn follows Goya through the remaining thirty-five years of his life. It was a time of political turmoil, of war, violence and confusion, and Goya transformed what he saw happening in the world around him into his visionary paintings, drawings and etchings. These were also years of tenderness for Goya, of intimate relationships with the Duchess of Alba and with Leocadia, his mistress, who was with him to the end." "Julia Blackburn writes of the elderly painter with the intimacy of an old friend, seeing through his eyes and sharing the silence in his head. Goya never stopped working, producing paintings 'between two cigarettes', and Blackburn captures his ferocious energy, his passion and his genius."--Jacket.
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Cambodia reports 3 new bird flu cases in 2013, 2 fatal
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Published Friday, January 25, 2013 7:37AM EST
Last Updated Friday, January 25, 2013 9:46AM EST
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Cambodia on Friday reported three new human cases of bird flu, two of them fatal, in the first three weeks of this year. That's as many cases as the Southeast Asian country reported in all of 2012.
The cases are among the first reported in 2013 for the virulent H5N1 virus, which the World Health Organization says has killed 360 other people worldwide since surfacing in 2003.
WHO and Cambodia's health ministry announced that a 15-year-old girl in a village in southeastern Takeo province and a 35-year-old man in central Kampong Speu province died after being hospitalized with H5N1, better known as bird flu. An 8-month-old boy in the capital, Phnom Penh, was treated and survived.
Cambodia reported three cases last year, all of them fatal. Since 2005, it has recorded 21 cases, 19 of them fatal.
The disease remains hard for people to catch, but experts fear it could mutate into a more deadly form that spreads easily from person to person. So far, most human cases have been linked to contact with infected poultry.
On Wednesday, international scientists who last year halted controversial research with the deadly bird flu virus said they were resuming their work as countries adopt new rules to ensure safety.
An outcry had erupted when two labs -- in the Netherlands and the U.S. -- reported they had created easier-to-spread versions of bird flu. Amid fierce debate about the oversight of such research and whether it might aid terrorists, those scientists voluntarily halted further work last January.
Those scientists announced Wednesday they were ending their moratorium now that health authorities have had time to determine how they will oversee high-stakes research involving dangerous germs. Several countries have already issued new rules.
In letters published in the journals Science and Nature this week, scientists wrote that those who meet their country's requirements have a responsibility to resume studying how the bird flu might mutate to become a bigger threat.
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Sofia Vergara, Nick Loeb end house search, may have broken up
There's another round of rumors saying Modern Family's Sofia Vergara is splitting up with fiance Nick Loeb, mostly because they've stopped looking for a new mansion in Beverly Hills. Did getting into that fight in Miami really cause such a problem?
Besides reportedly going to counseling together, the couple gave up the house-hunting very recently: "They were looking at mansions in Beverly Hills and Westwood, but Nick's Realtors just called it off, and were saying they were breaking up," a source told the New York Post's Page Six. Another source countered, "They are currently still together and are trying to work things out — but it is rocky."
There's always the possibility that Nick, who once was considering a U.S. Senate run before almost dying in a vicious 2010 car accident, may be considering another run in Florida politics, but that's just us guessing. More likely is there really has been a fight of some sort, and this all needs some time to blow over. Or, you know, it won't.
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This year's Utah State Amateur marks 10 years since Todd Miller conceded the championship match to Clark Rustand. Here's a quick look at the historic golf tournament's last 10 champions.
Jeremy Golf & Country Club
Perhaps it was only fitting that one of the most unusual State Amateur golf tournaments ever — thanks to the inclusion and success of Annie Thurman, the event's first female golfer — should end in bizarre fashion a day earlier than expected.
Instead of the usual scene of a large crowd cheering on the new champion in the middle of the final green Sunday afternoon, just a dozen or so people stood on the patio Saturday afternoon in front of the clubhouse where Clark Rustand was awarded the large State Am trophy in an impromptu ceremony.
Rustand, a 24-year-old BYU student from Tucson, Ariz., defeated defending champion Tommy Sharp 2 and 1 in a semifinal match. He would have faced Todd Miller, who beat BYU teammate Clay Bingham 6 and 5 in the other semifinal, today at 7:30 a.m. in a 36-hole final.
The only problem is, Miller wasn't going to be there under any circumstance.
No, Miller isn't sick or injured or leaving on vacation. It's just that he makes it a policy not to play golf on Sundays and not even the prospect of winning the most prestigious amateur title in Utah is going to make him change his mind.
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Not even a rare hole-in-one by his opponent could derail the hopes of young Michael McRae.
After getting off to what he called an "awful" start in the stroke play portion of the tournament, the 18-year-old from Salt Lake City found his groove in match play and knocked off four opponents, including defending champion Clark Rustand, before defeating Jon Morgan 6 and 5 in Sunday's finals.
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Amid a lot of sun and a little rain, Tony Finau duplicated Daniel Summerhays' feat of winning the State Am as a 16-year-old by beating the now-22-year-old Summerhays 3 and 2 in the scheduled 36-hole final.
"It feels awesome to win," said the strapping 6-foot-3, 190-pound Finau, who hits the ball a mile. "I played great and feel like a worthy champion, especially beating Danny, a two-time champion. This will be a big boost for me."
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Nelson, who graduated from neighboring Lone Peak High School, edged Scott Clark 1-up to take home the Utah State Amateur crown at in his first-ever attempt.
Soldier Hollow State Park
The 30-year-old Sandy resident and Willow Creek Country Club member's battle with the 23-year-old Devin Daniels, a senior for the Utah State Aggies, was one that even the Utah Golf Association veterans are calling one for the ages. Combined, the two finalists made 21 birdies and an eagle on the Silver Course in a match that began at 8 a.m. and ended just after 5 p.m.
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Ever since he can remember, Zac Blair has had a golf club in his hands. That's was happens when your father is one of the best golfers ever to come out of Utah and owns the golf course across the street from where you live.
Even when Zac was 3 years old, his father, Jimmy, used to take him to big tournaments he was playing in and let him ride on the back of the cart as long as he kept quiet.
Sunday afternoon at 1:58 p.m., in perhaps the earliest State Am finish ever, those vibes paid off for Zac, who joined his father as a winner.
Alpine Country Club
Parkinson became the second straight 18-year-old, slightly built, BYU-bound golfer to win the State Am, following in the footsteps of 2009 winner Zac Blair.
Soldier Hollow State Park
Evans has been around golf his whole life, growing up at the Cedar Ridge Golf Course as the son of longtime Cedar City professional John Evans.
He's the youngest of six children, but according to his dad, he's the hardest worker and that paid off.
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Don't tell Wright he was supposed to win.
The 41-year-old Salt Lake native has been hearing that for the last several months from his fellow members at the club, which he joined four years ago. Perhaps because he has won four club championships in the past six years everyone thought it would be a walk in the park for him against the state's best amateurs.
Soldier Hollow Golf Course
Winning medalist honors at the Utah State Amateur used to be the kiss of death. That's because the medalist has rarely gone on to win the match play portion of the tournament. It's only happened a handful of times over the past 50 years.
That didn't mean anything to Cole Ogden, the 21-year-old BYU junior. This was his week — from the time he won medalist honors on Tuesday to his 6 and 4 triumph over 2011 champion Jeff Evans in the final Saturday.


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I had my surgery in December when I was put under. Since Mid- January until now, late April, I have had migraines and gone through so many tests. I am on prescriptions to control them and everything. It just seems to be so coincidental that these severe migrains that have left me hospitialized on several occasions started occuring right after the interaction with anesthesia. Can undergoing anesthesia have something to do with this 24/7 pain I feel? And how long could it last if it does?
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Examining the Positives of the Daniel Bryan-Wyatt Family AllianceJanuary 8, 2014
Daniel Bryan's recent heel turn and alliance with the Wyatt Family is not a bad thing, no matter how much you may have convinced yourself that it is.
It may be the latest attempt by WWE management and its crack creative staff to try to kill some of the overwhelming babyface support Bryan has elicited over the last year, but that does not mean it is bad or that it will not work.
See, one of the most common complaints about today's WWE product is that the babyface stars are booked so similarly and so boringly. They are often compared to superheroes because no matter the obstacles or the villains put in their path, they manage to overcome them and send the fans home happy.
It is cookie-cutter booking that goes back to Hulk Hogan and the first big wrestling boom of the 1980s.
Now, wrestling fans have been presented with a morality play of sorts, a test of will and spirit.
After fighting so hard since August to achieve his goal of becoming champion and a top star in the industry, Bryan was beaten, battered, bruised and defeated to the point where he could no longer take it—physically or emotionally.
Rather than continuing to fight and carry the burden that comes with being a hero to millions, he broke. "The machine" never allowed him to take the spot he worked so hard for. He turned to the dark side as so many great characters in mythology, comics, film and television have in the past.
The booking decision may not be popular, but it makes for very intriguing television.
On Monday's Raw, Bryan told Luke Harper and Erick Rowan that he wanted to become a monster like the two of them. That statement opens up a plethora of opportunities. Will we see Bryan finally adopt the ruthless aggression that was missing during his feud with The Authority? After all, no matter how frustrated or exhausted he may have become during that period, he never really did a great job of portraying his anger.
The recent storyline development should allow Bryan to discover that edge to his character that was missing before, that meanness that will allow him to show greater intensity and show emotion to the audience, which has been his biggest weakness.
It also gives the heel side an established Superstar, one who is seen as a top star by the majority of the audience, who can carry matches from a work-rate perspective. Outside of Randy Orton and Alberto Del Rio, the roster is sorely lacking legitimate main event heels. Sure, The Shield has been outstanding and the core Wyatt Family members have been impressive, but Bryan is a legit worker who can be thrown into a pay-per-view main event and do 30 minutes without hesitation.
Is Bryan's heel turn counterproductive in terms of listening to the audience and giving them what they want? Yes, of course. No argument will change that fact.
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Mr. KYL. Mr. President, last Wednesday marked the 1-year anniversary of the deeply flawed health care bill. The worst aspect of that bill is that it will lead to health care rationing by the Federal Government. That is the delay and denial of care in order to control costs. The words ``ration,'' ``withhold coverage'' and ``delay access to care'' of course are not found anywhere in the bill. But new Federal rules that aim to reduce health care costs will inevitably result in delayed or denied tests, treatments, and procedures deemed too expensive and in less innovation in the development of drugs, devices, and treatments. Many of the decisions will be based on information provided by a new entity called the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, sometimes referred to as the PCORI. That will conduct comparative effectiveness research.
Comparative effectiveness research weighs the effectiveness of two or more health care services or treatments. The goal is to provide patients and doctors with better information regarding the risks and benefits of, for example, a drug versus a surgery for a particular situation. The problem is not with the merits of the research but whether the research should be used by the government to determine treatments and services covered by one's insurance. The health care law actually empowers the Secretary of Health and Human Services to do just that, to use this comparative effectiveness research when making coverage determinations.
Section 6301 of ObamaCare states:
The Secretary may [.....] use evidence and findings from research conducted [.....] by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute.
That means the government, not patients and doctors, has the power to make health care decisions that affect you. A bureaucrat decides if your health care is an effective use of government resources
without regard to the patient's individual needs and medical history. The end result is the government inevitably interferes with access to care. That is rationing, and it is wrong.
While ObamaCare includes limited safeguards for how this research may be used--appreciating the dangers involved--there is nothing that prohibits the government from taking it into account when, for example, making Medicare coverage decisions.
In fact, when asked whether the Federal CER agency should be involved in cost determinations, Donald Berwick, the President's recess-appointed head of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid, responded:
The social budget is limited.
Ask citizens in Britain how well the system is working in their country. Britain's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence--called NICE--routinely uses comparative effectiveness research to make cost-benefit calculations.
Last year, NICE rejected a cutting-edge drug, Avastin, used to treat bowel cancer because it said the drug's limited effectiveness for extending life--they said 6 weeks; but up to 5 months according to the chief executive of the organization, Beating Bowel Cancer--they said it did not justify the cost. As Mike Hobday, head of policy at the charity, Macmillan Cancer Support, told Britain's Daily Telegraph:
We think this is devastating news for cancer patients with metastic colorectal cancer, especially as this drug could have a significant impact on peoples' quality of life. Although a few extra weeks or months might not sound much to some people it can mean an awful lot to a family affected by cancer.
Likewise, in August 2008, NICE recommended against coverage of four expensive drugs for advanced kidney cancer. NICE considered the drugs clinically beneficial in specific situations but concluded they ``were not cost-effective within their licensed indications.''
Health care in Britain is also routinely delayed. Several years ago, the country's National Health Service launched an ``End Waiting, Change Lives'' campaign--``End Waiting, Change Lives.'' The campaign's goal was to reduce a patient's wait time to 18 weeks from referral to treatment. That is 4 1/2 months, and that is an improvement.
Government-run health care systems that ration care are the reason many Europeans and Canadians come to the United States each year to get treatments denied to them in their own countries.
Access to the highest quality care and the sacred doctor-patient relationship are the cornerstones of U.S. health care--the very things Americans value most and that the health care law jeopardizes.
So I will join Senators Coburn, Barrasso, Roberts, and Crapo in introducing the Preserving Access to Targeted, Individualized, and Effective New Treatments and Services Act of 2011. That is also known as the PATIENTS Act.
The PATIENTS Act does not prohibit comparative effectiveness research; rather, it is a propatient firewall that protects patients' access to high-quality care by prohibiting the Federal Government from using comparative effectiveness research to delay or deny care.
Additionally, the bill would require comparative effectiveness research to account for differences in the treatment response and preferences of patients, genomics and personalized medicine and the unique needs of health disparity populations and it would clarify that nothing shall be construed as affecting the FDA Commissioner's authority to respond to drug safety concerns.
All Americans deserve personalized treatment and should be able to get the care they and their doctors decide is best for them. No Washington bureaucrat should interfere with that right by substituting the government's judgment for that of a physician.
The administration has repeatedly promised that the health care law will not result in rationing. Well, if that promise is true, they should have no problem supporting the PATIENTS Act.
I urge my colleagues to join us in cosponsoring this important legislation.
I suggest the absence of a quorum.
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The LA Galaxy lost two defenders to injury in a chippy draw at Real Salt Lake, both from contact, and one of the confrontations has them seething.
They're unhappy with Álvaro Saborío's 63rd-minute foul on A.J. DeLaGarza, which drew a yellow card that, they believe, should have been another color (WATCH IT HERE).
"Trying to figure out how it's not a red card," Landon Donovan told reporters after Saturday's 1-1 tie at Rio Tinto Stadium. "You see his leg and you see the intent and how nasty it that was. I'd be very surprised if there's not further action taken.
"It's OK to be tough and physical, but you don't want to be nasty, and that was a pretty nasty one."
DeLaGarza, who was back in his old spot at center back, was sending a ball forward. Saborío, coming late from DeLaGarza's right, angled his run to rake the defender's left ankle.
The Galaxy defender went down, received medical attention, returned to the field and departed for a good nine minutes later after the ailing ankle was aggravated in contact with Olmes García.
James Riley, playing on the right – DeLaGarza's primary position these days – also left with a knee injury after a Ned Grabavoy challenge in the 30th minute. There was no foul called, and there could have been, but the Galaxy considered it, as Donovan put it, "a little bit of a fluke play."
Head coach Bruce Arena said the players needed to see doctors in Los Angeles before he'd know how significant the injuries were.
"DeLaGarza's probably just got a contusion from a bad tackle," Arena said. "It was a bad tackle. I'm sure the league will be looking at that."
DeLaGarza told the LA Galaxy Insider after the game that he hopes "it's not that bad, but right now it looks bad."
Omar Gonzalez, DeLaGarza's partner in the middle, thinks a suspension is warranted.
"I think that was pretty dirty on his part," Gonzalez said. "He was definitely, intentionally trying to hurt A.J., and I think he succeeded in that."
Scott French covers the LA Galaxy for MLSsoccer.com.


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Robyn Crawford, Whitney Houston's former personal assistant, had been the singer's secret lesbian lover for many years, claims gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell. Although, this may be difficult to read now that she is gone Tatchell theory could explain alot that might have been going on with the troubled singer. Was it fighting a feeling for women and her love for Christ that created a war inside of Whitney? It was rumored back in the day that she was gay during her relationship with Eddie Murphy, who's sexuality has always been the subject of conversation and is said to have dated Johnny Gill for years. No one will ever know the truth or what caused her to turn to drugs and spiral downward. However, everyone knows the pressure of trying to live up to an image and ideal that someone else has of you can become overwhelming.
Peter Tatchell claimed Whitney Houston attended an AIDS event in London, in 1991, with a gay partner. Though he declined to identify her, the organizer – respected gay rights and equality consultant Vernal Scott – said that Peter Tatchell was referring to Robyn Crawford.
Feisty Robyn Crawford and Bobby Brown – who is a volatile product of the Boston ghetto – apparently once fought for Whitney Houston's affections.
So, if they will meet again in the febrile ambience of the singer's funeral, one shudders to imagine what might happen, but that did not happen. As we all know Bobby Brown left after getting upset about setting arrangements and Robyn Crawford was not invited from what Mr. Obnoxious has been told.
Another person that is not welcomed at the funeral is Whitney Houston's "wicked step-mother", Barbara.
Barbara Houston married John Russell Houston Jr., amid much familial rancor, just months after he and Cissy were divorced in 1992.
At the time Barbara was a single mother in her mid-20s, and John Russell Houston Jr. was 71, and their relationship began when she worked as his cleaner. After his death, eight years ago, Barbara sued Whitney Houston for the right to remain in the plush apartment the singer had bought for her father. The case finally resolved, in a defeat for Barbara Houston, only a few weeks ago.
The great irony – and perhaps the greatest tragedy – is that at the peak of her fame in the 80's and early 90's, Whitney Houston was held up as the ultimate female role-model.
Whitney Houston was also seen as a unifying force, the trailblazer for the color-blind, classless society that then seemed to be evolving on both sides of the Atlantic. Her appeal transcended not just musical tastes but ethnicity and age, and she was hailed as the first "crossover" pop-star.
When Whitney Houston starred opposite Kevin Costner (who will deliver a eulogy today) in the $400-million-grossing movie The Bodyguard, their mixed-race screen affair was heralded as a ground-breaking cinematic event that would change perceptions forever.
During the early 90's, when people started to recoil at her saccharine-sweet image, Whitney Houston attempted to enhance her "street-cred" by recalling her tough upbringing.
"I'm nobody's angel," Whitney Houston proclaimed.
"I can get down and dirty."
Robyn Crawford (right) did not say whether she had a lesbian relationship with Whitney Houston and she has never commented on the rumors
However, her mother's lucrative singing career and her father's keen business nose afforded Whitney Houston a comfortable upbringing.
Soon after the riots of 1967, Houston family fled burnt-out Newark for nearby East Orange; now plagued by drugs and crime but then a thriving, middle-class town.
Whitney Houston attended the best school and hoped to become a teacher or a vet, singing purely for joy with her mother in the gospel choir before her celestial voice came to the notice of recording executives. She also landed a modeling contract with a top New York agency, when she was 16.
Her formative years seem to have been so perfect. Those who knew her then say she was remarkably modest. She worked prodigiously, obeyed her parents, dressed demurely, and was always impeccably behaved.
Was it all a façade? Certainly that is the view of Robyn Crawford, who became inseparable from the 16-year-old Whitney Houston when they did summer work together at a community centre.
"When my mother first met her, she laughed and said: <>. And she wasn't," Robyn Crawford recalled wistfully this week, speaking about their close relationship for the first time.
"People thought they had to protect her. She hated that. She was always the one doing the driving. Nobody kept Whitney from doing anything. She did what she wanted to do."
Whether this extended to having a lesbian relationship, Robyn Crawford did not say – she has never commented on the rumors, which began after she was employed by Whitney Houston (rising to become her omnipotent "creative director") and were aired most compellingly in Kevin Ammons' unauthorized biography of the singer, "Good Girl, Bad Girl".
Kevin Ammons is the boyfriend of Whitney Houston's long-time publicist, Regina Brown, whose silence Whitney is said to have bought with fabulous gifts, including a gold Mercedes, diamond-jewellery and rent-free apartment.
He also claimed Cissy Houston was distraught by the relationship, and urged her daughter to end it.
If Whitney Houston was secretly gay, or at least bisexual, and felt forced to live a lie, this might – as Peter Tatchell suggests – have led her to take refuge in the drink and drugs that killed her.
Whitney Houston Was A Lesbian–Details Of Relationship With Former Assistant Robyn Crawford–Plus Evil Much Younger Step Mother Barbara Houston Was Not Invited To The Funeral!!!
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Longboat Key, Florida, USA – Today, Frans van Houten, Chief Executive Officer of Royal Philips Electronics (NYSE: PHG, AEX: PHI), will give a presentation to investors and financial analysts at the Electrical Products Group (EPG) Conference in Longboat Key, Florida, USA.
In his presentation, Mr. Van Houten will discuss the opportunities and near-term actions to drive performance improvements at Philips in its journey to become a leading diversified industrial group in the field of health and well-being.
The presentation starts at 12:30 PM local time or 18:30 CET. There will be a webcast of the presentation available as well as the slides that will be used during this presentation via this link.


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State health officials have announced the state's first death this year due to West Nile virus.
"Although we're past the normal peak season for West Nile virus, which was in August and September, there's still a risk of becoming infected on warmer days when mosquitoes are biting," said Jennifer House, DVM, director of zoonotic and environmental epidemiology at the Indiana State Department of Health.
Mosquitoes are typically not very active below 60 F, however until there is a hard freeze (approximately 30 F), there is still a risk of being bitten and becoming infected with West Nile virus. House said Hoosiers should continue taking precautions.
Health officials say the following steps will help protect you from West Nile virus:
- Apply insect repellent containing DEET, picaradin or oil of lemon eucalyptus to clothes and exposed skin;
- Install or repair screens on windows and doors to keep mosquitoes out of the home;
- Avoid places where mosquitoes are biting; and,
- When possible, wear pants and long sleeves, especially if walking in wooded or marshy areas.
West Nile virus usually causes West Nile fever, a milder form of the illness, which can include fever, headache, body aches, swollen lymph glands or a rash. Some individuals will develop a more severe form of the disease with encephalitis or meningitis and other severe syndromes, including flaccid muscle paralysis. Anyone who thinks they may have West Nile virus should see their health care provider.
There is no vaccine and no cure for West Nile virus, Saint Louis encephalitis or Eastern equine encephalitis for humans.
So far this year, no mosquito samples in Indiana have tested positive for St. Louis encephalitis or Eastern Equine Encephalomyelitis.


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What's Right with the "Tiger Mother"
January 24, 2011
In a guest column on Boston.com, Wheelock Associate Professor Janine Bempechat weighs in on the debate over Amy Chua's controversial parenting memoir, Battle Hymn of a Tiger Mother. Bempechat makes a case for preparing children for the increased challenges that schooling brings as they get older, even at the expense of their happiness. She writes, "To my mind, as both a parent and developmental psychologist who studies family, school, and cultural influences on learning and motivation, the heated national discourse about Chua's memoir have obscured the fact that she has delivered a well-deserved blow to our national obsession with children's happiness and self-esteem."


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It wasn't supposed to be this way. I was supposed to graduate from college, don a Mad Men suit complete with skinny tie and trench coat, then trundle off to work for a respectable (bank, firm, conglomerate…). I would stay at that company until fully ripened at the age of 65, when I'd receive my gold Rolex and a hearty congratulations. Then I'd live out my days playing golf and eating dinner at 4:30 in the afternoon.
That's the way it was supposed to be, but the universe has a way of interrupting plans. On average our parents worked one or two jobs in a lifetime, but now Americans have worked ten different jobs before they turn 40. I have one colleague who claims to have had 50 separate, distinct jobs and he's only 49. On average, he has changed employers every seven and a half months since college, meaning he's been FICA'd more than Warren Beatty.
I'm a bit of an aberration. I've been at my main job at WLS for 20 years, but I've been what is now known as a "gigger" the whole time. Giggers are those who out of financial necessity—or in my case, inability to sleep—work two or more jobs simultaneously. In fact, the trend has been given the almost ludicrous name "gigonomics"—and polls bear out that more and more professionals are joining my club.
It would be easy to blame the current recession for this latest trend in multitasking (with the Bureau of Labor Statistics reporting that the number of people working part-time for economic reasons has almost doubled in the past two years), but it really started during the last major downturn almost 20 years ago when American corporations became international corporations and jobs moved offshore. Blue collar, white collar, green, pink, mauve…. Corporations decided that American collars of any color are expensive.
And now that we've experienced a superrecession, it's that much worse. Who among us hasn't heard a boss say, "We need to do more with less?" And for better or worse, that's exactly what is happening. Profit margins are at historic highs and per-capita productivity is the best it's ever been. But the downside of that equation remains: More and more Americans have joined the ranks of the Accidental Entrepreneur (AE). Having told (or been told by) their corporate masters to "shove it," the new AE is armed with a BlackBerry, a silver laptop and a case of Red Bull.
When we first moved into our house four years ago, it was a house. Now it's more like an office building. Between the two of us, my wife and I operate three small businesses out of our fourbedroom. Actually, we could probably function without ever leaving our bedroom, but that would just be gross.
My wife's online handbag consignment operation (bagambition.com) now shares space with the studios for "The Roe Report," a nationally syndicated daily radio feature, and actually, all the Prada and Chanel serves to dampen the echo in the converted storage space. Our home office, once a desk in the corner where bills were paid and Spider Solitaire played, is now the nerve center controlling online retail operations, broadcast production and even stud scheduling for a Kentucky horsebreeding partnership. And it all happens under the same roof where only our own stud scheduling should occur. But that's life in what we now call— with all summoned bravery—the new normal.
No, it wasn't supposed to be this way, but given the uncertainties of big business and the certain desire for the American Dream from which one never fully wakes, I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Building a Better Mousetrap
Little did I imagine, as a graduate student anticipating an academic career during the late 1970s, only a decade later I would be running the residential sales division of a major real estate company, or that a few years after that I would actually BUY it. Coming as I did to the business of business by the seat of my pants, it took me a while to learn the ropes and figure out my personal philosophy. But over the years I have arrived at some conclusions about what is right for Warburg:
* If you don't have your word, you don't have anything. Often, my agents will come to me, lay out a situation, and ask me what I think is the right thing to do. My answer usually is "You already know the right thing to do. If you are struggling enough to want my opinion, it's because something is getting in the way of your doing the right thing." More often than not, that "something" is money. Don't get me wrong, I like making money as much as (and maybe more than) the next guy. But it never takes precedence over doing what's right. It has been my experience, over and over, that doing the right rather than the expedient thing repays you 100 fold, both in how you feel and what you earn over the long haul. Always acting with integrity is the best possible business plan.
* The customer must always be respected. As the President of a real estate brokerage firm, I have two layers of customers to whom I am answerable: internal customers (my agents) and external customers (our buyers and sellers.) These constituencies have different needs, but each always deserves the fundamental respect of being listened to and taken seriously. There is no room at Warburg for denigrating attitudes or comments about either our agents or our clients. My customers may not always be right (who is?), but they are always heard and their concerns are always paramount.
* A service business requires that you perform the service. How is it that so many agents, when you e-mail them for an appointment, decline by saying, "I will be there next Tuesday at 10, can you come then?" The answer is no! Similarly, how is it that the exclusive agent unlocks the door for you, takes a cell phone call, then chatters away for the next ten minutes while you are left to show the customer around the apartment, which neither of you has ever seen before? The owner hires an agent to perform a service, and two big pieces of that service are availability and courtesy. Accommodation, of buyers, of other agents, of appraisers, of managing agents, is (along with providing expert analysis and advice) what we do. An agent who thinks accommodation and/or politeness are an inconvenience is an agent who should find a different career.
* In business, you change or you die. I am not by nature an agent of transformative change, but I have had to learn! The pace of change in our business (and in every business) has accelerated since technology first swept through our sedate lives in the mid-80s. Computers, the fax machine, the Internet, handheld devices, cloud computing, social media – one after another they have resculpted our landscape such that many aspects of it are unrecognizable today. Failing to embrace the opportunities of the digital age in their ever-evolving glory leaves established companies prey to younger, hipper models as we all compete for the next generation of agents. I am proud of Warburg's cutting edge digital and Web 2.0 focus, in which I feel we have been leaders. But this race is never over.
* In the end, it's all about relationships. The service Warburg provides to its agents, and they provide to our clients and customers, revolves around one of the most personal, financially significant, and life-defining choices in people's lives: the creation or change of a home. Most people need to feel a relationship with the person who will assist them in this process. Everything I have described in the four points above comes together here: great agents are trustworthy, they are attentive, they are responsive, and they are fast on their feet – all in the service of creating a genuine agent/client bond. It is my aim to create that same bond between the company and the agents who carry our card. No matter how much the world changes, a sense of personal connection remains the key to successful relationships: between me and my agents, between them and their clients, and between our brand and the world.


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A free preview of several interviews to come from the incoming freshmen, many of whom expect to contribute this season. Among them -- Dayton (Ohio) Chaminade-Julienne cornerback Brandon Harrison, one of the more personable and confident in the class of 2009. Those with Quicktime 7 installed can watch here, compliments of TheWolverine.com.
Here's Harrison:
On his nickname:
"Scrappy --- that's what my dad always called me. People say I'm short, I've got a chip on my shoulder, I'm just always out there ready to scrap with somebody."
On how his style will translate at the collegiate level:
"I'm just always going to walk out there with a chip on my shoulder ready to play, ready to hit somebody … ready just to make that play. I want to make that hit where everybody says, 'ooh' – I want to hear that whole stadium say, 'ooh, look at that hit.'"
On how speed, finesse and toughness figure into his game:
"I'm from Dayton, Ohio, and in Ohio it's power football. You've got to be mean to play in Ohio. Taking whippings when I was little, you've got to be tough-skinned; you've got to be mean. You've got to come out and intimidate and smack people. Most DBs are like what would you rather have, an interception or a big hit? They'll take the interception. Me, I'd rather have that skull crushing big hit."
On what it will take to crack the lineup as a freshman:
"Be consistent. You've just got to be consistent and make plays in practice. That's one of the things that Coach Carr talks about – if a player is consistent, he'll play. Just come out and knock heads off."
On what he's learned from the older guys:
"Everything you've had in high school and all the awards and everything, when you get here they say it doesn't mean anything. You start brand new. You've just got to come in with a clear mind, ready to learn what you've been coached, listen to the coaches and just do what they say. You have to have faith in your coaches and they'll have faith in you."
On how he's done playing himself in football video games:
"He's had a couple picks in the game, took some back. Been on kickoff and punt return, played a little wide receiver, too. It's been fun. Hopefully that will happen in real life."
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About VISN 5
The VA Capitol Health Care Network (VISN 5) was established in October 1995, and serves Veterans from economically and demographically diverse areas within Maryland, the District of Columbia, and portions of Virginia, West Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
Additional VISN 5 Resources
The Network includes VA Medical Centers located in Martinsburg, WV; Washington, DC; and Maryland. The VA Maryland Health Care System is comprised of the Baltimore VA Medical Center, the Perry Point VA Medical Center, and the Baltimore Rehabilitation and Extended Care Center. In addition, the Network also includes Community-Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) in Cambridge, MD; Charlotte Hall, MD; Cumberland, MD; Fort Belvoir, VA; Fort Howard, MD; Fort Meade, MD; Franklin, WV; Frederick, MD; Glen Burnie, MD; Greenbelt, MD; Hagerstown, MD; Harrisonburg, VA; Loch Raven, MD; Pocomoke City, MD; Petersburg, WV, Suitland, MD; Washington, DC; and Winchester, VA.
The region's Community-Based Outpatient Clinics are health care facilities that enable the VA to make care more accessible in areas where many Veterans live, or in remote areas where other health care services are not available. Our outpatient clinics offer Veterans coordination of care by a primary care provider, physical examinations, general outpatient medical care, psychiatric screenings, and preventive health and education services. Demand for care is great in the cities and in the rural counties of West Virginia and Southern Maryland. As expected, the majority of Veterans using our services reside close to our facilities. The estimated Veteran population in our geographic service area is 765,000 Veterans, and during fiscal year 2013, we provided care to over 134,000 individual Veterans.
All staff within VISN 5 are committed to providing quality clinical care to Veterans, both on an inpatient and outpatient basis, with emphasis placed on outpatient primary care. Through the dedicated efforts of our staff, the VISN had six of its clinical programs recognized by the Veterans Health Administration as "VA Clinical Programs of Excellence." These are:
- The "Seriously Mentally III Program" (a Network-wide initiative)
- The "Health Care for the Homeless Program" (Washington DC VA Medical Center)
- The "Home Based Primary Care Program" (VA Maryland Health Care System)
- Epilepsy Center of Excellence (VA Maryland Health Care System)
- Maryland Exercise and Robotics Center of Excellence (VA Maryland Health Care System)
- Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Center of Excellence (VA Maryland Health Care System)
VISN 5 has one of two centers for the study of war-related illnesses, the War-Related Illness and Injury Center, located at the Washington DC VAMC.
VISN 5 also has a Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC) and a Mental Illness Research, Education and Clinical Center (MIRECC) located at the VA Maryland Health Care System.
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Hi there and thanks for your question. Sorry to hear that your dog is not well!
While I can't say for sure what is going on with your dog, what you have described certainly sounds like something called an aural hematoma.
Often we can't find the cause of an aural hematoma, but sometimes it can be there because the dog has been shaking her head because of an ear infection.
The swelling is actually a collection of blood that forms between the skin and the cartilage of the ear. This is actually quite a painful thing to have.
The next question is what to do. Really, she does need to see the vet. Dogs who are not treated for this will eventually have the swelling go down, but we will end up with quite severe scarring on the ear. Also, it may take some time and she will be in pain for most of this time.
Most vets treat this by doing surgery to remove the fluid and then suture the skin to the cartilage in several spots so there is no chance for fluid to accumulate again. However, some vets (including myself) are finding that these hematomas will often resolve when the dog is given oral steroids. This is much less expensive and seems to work fairly quickly. You can talk to your vet about all of the options.
This is really crummy because there is not much that I can recommend for you that will give her relief without a vet visit.
The only over the counter pain reliever that I ever recommend is aspirin. However, one of the main negative effects of aspirin is that it can cause an increase in bleeding. As your dog likely has a collection of blood in the ear, if we give aspirin we could actually make the hematoma worse!
The ear medication that you have may add some slight relief, but only if there is an underlying infection.
If you do decide to go to emergency, you can tell them that you are not interested in having surgery, but ask if they could prescribe either some prednisone (steroid), or at least another pain reliever until you can get to your regular vet.
The Rimadyl is a good idea!
If anything, if she will allow a cold compress (i.e. frozen peas) this may help. A hot compress will open up the blood vessels more and may contribute to more bleeding, but cold will help with the swelling. However, most dogs would not allow us to do this!


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When I heard Toro y Moi at a free show at Vacation Gallery & Boutique in January, I had never heard of the guy and was really only going to have something to do. The space was tight — I was squeezed up next to a rack of vintage dresses — and some technical problems cut the show short after only a couple of sets, but… it. was. awesome.
It's not often that I like an artist after the first listen, but Toro y Moi is one of those exceptions. As one commenter on the YouTube page for the video above pointed out with surprising clarity, "Theres some music that human beings cant resist" [sic].
Tomorrow night Toro y Moi will open for Caribou at The Earl, whose schedule declares emphatically that tickets are SOLD OUT!
(Learn more below about Toro y Moi and how indie bands should use promotional products to support word-of-mouth marketing.)
The Columbia, South Carolina native is already getting press on Pitchfork, and I predict within a year he'll go the way of Passion Pit, who was playing 2:00 p.m. slots at secondary festival stages last May, and will headline a Tabernacle show in a month for which tickets are priced at $35. Toro y Moi already sounds a little like Passion Pit, grounding unearthly soprana notes with a steady, tribal backbeat.
The best promotional products for an artist at this point are the little things that aid word-of-mouth: Hang posters around town to advertise shows or album releases. Sell buttons and stickers at shows for a modest price or give away with the sale of a record. I've been to a lot of shows where the artist ran out of albums to sell, so make sure to bring cards with your contact info for fans to follow up. Give them a free keychain or something just so they don't forget about you.
But be prepared for people to catch on. More and more, bands like Of Montreal are using promotional products to induce people to buy the album instead of the digital download. And when, as an artist, your popularity tips, fans will be looking for products to identify themselves as your supporters. So be ready for them at your $35 Tabernacle shows with t-shirts, bags, and, who knows, maybe even a Walkman cassette player.
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Jennifer Aniston Stars In True-To-Life Film 'The Baster'
Because artificial insemination is a timely topic for her, newly single Jennifer Aniston is starring in a romantic comedy called The Baster. As in, the thing you use to flavor a turkey or, in this case, fill with semen and stick up your vagina. Feeling romantic yet?
But wait – there's a plot twist. Jason Bateman – who plays
Jen's "best friend" – pulls a fast one on her and switches out the
donor's sperm with his own. Why, you ask? Well, because it's a stupid
movie, for one thing. For another, you can never trust a friend who
also happens to be a straight man. Unless he's Ed Westwick.
Much like Aniston's businesslike approach to childbirth, the Baster's
casting crew is skipping the formalities. Per their Craigslist ad, they want
"a heavy set women who is able to ride a bike and comfortable in
provocative wardrobe who is comfortable having profanities shouted at
her." Instead of asking for a grammar tutor next, they requested an acne-covered teenage boy and "a woman with a round face, small eyes, and
upturned nose who is comfortable having profanities shouted out at her." Don't all send in your resumes at once.
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Already a grudge match, this game will be spiced up by the presence of former Union hero Sebastien Le Toux in a Red Bulls shirt.
|New York Red Bulls (4-3-1-2): Gaudette; Barklage, Holgersson, Conde, Miller; Ballouchy, McCarty, Lindpere; Henry; Le Toux, Cooper.
OUT: MF Teemu Tainio (R knee sprain); FW Jose Angulo (R knee sprain); DF Heath Pearce (R hamstring injury); DF Jan Gunnar Solli (R hamstring injury); DF Rafa Marquez (L calf injury)
QUESTIONABLE: GK Ryan Meara (R hip injury)
|Philadelphia Union (4-3-3): MacMath; Williams, Okugo, Valdes, G. Farfan; Adu, Carroll, Lahoud; Hoppenot, McInerney, Pajoy.
OUT: FW Krystian Witkowski (concussion)
DOUBTFUL: DF Michael Farfan (R groin strain); DF Bakary Soumare (R knee menisectomy recovery)
QUESTIONABLE: FW Chandler Hoffman (L big toe fracture)
PROBABLE: DF Cristhian Hernandez (L ankle sprain); GK Zac MacMath (R ring finger avulsion); DF Sheanon Williams (R big toe avulsion); DF Chris Albright (stomach virus)
- The Red Bull's newest signing, Sebastien Le Toux, is Philadelphia's all-time leading scorer, with 25 goals over two seasons. Former Union manager Peter Nowak traded the Frenchman to Vancouver before the 2012 season.
- The Union have failed to win a game when allowing the first goal this year, going 0-8-1. They are the only team yet to record a comeback victory.
- New York has the all-time advantage between these two sides. The Red Bulls are 4-2-0 all competitions against their Pennsylvania neighbors.
- Goalkeeper Bill Gaudette, acquired by New York from the LA Galaxy the day before the match, started in the 2-2 draw with Seattle on Sunday and also in the 1-0 win over Chicago on Wednesday. Rookie Ryan Meara had played every minute in goal in the first 18 games for New York.
- One player from each club will represent MLS as part of the all-star team that takes on Chelsea FC next week in Philadelphia. Thierry Henry will fly the flag for New York, and captain Carlos Valdes is the Union's representative. Heath Pearce was included in the initial list but dropped out due to injury.


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Updated from 10:24 a.m. EDTHell froze over Wednesday night, right before a squadron of flying pigs took to the sky. These things must be true because the U.S. drug regulators also approved Vanda Pharmaceuticals' ( VNDA) treatment for schizophrenia. The surprising -- some would say shocking -- approval of Vanda's drug Fanapt by the Food and Drug Administration sent shares of the company leaping more than 800% in Wednesday's after-hours trading session to just under $10 a share. And no, that's not a typo. 800%. You read that correctly. Wall Street had long ago left Fanapt for dead after the FDA rejected the drug in July 2008. The "not approvable" letter issued by the FDA at that time raised concerns about the efficacy of Fanapt and asked Vanda to conduct a new clinical trial and collect additional safety data. Vanda didn't run a new clinical trial for Fanapt, choosing instead to resubmit the drug to the FDA last November with additional data from its existing clinical trials. To say that investors considered this strategy to be long shot would be an understatement. Vanda's stock price fell well below $1, which valued the company at less than its cash on hand. Analysts either dropped coverage or downgraded the stock to a sell. The company was forced to lay off employees and cut back on other drug research programs. On top of all that, activist hedge fund Tang Capital Partners bought up 3.96 million Vanda shares, or just under 15% of the company, and started a proxy fight for board seats in order to force Vanda to shut down and liquidate the remaining assets back to shareholders.
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Piano teacher runs for diabetes
Natasha Wakaruk pulls several gadgets out of her purse, explaining how she checks her blood sugar. Then the 27-year-old demonstrates how she uses a lancet, a small pricking needle, to obtain blood from her finger.
In May, Wakaruk, a piano teacher in North Vancouver as well as a music therapist, will join Team Diabetes Canada in Edinburgh, Scotland where she'll run 21 kilometres to raise money and awareness for diabetes.
Wakaruk was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes two years ago. She'd been feeling quite ill for several months but didn't know why. It turned out that she has an auto-immune disease that stops her body from being able to produce and regulate insulin.
"I hadn't been feeling well for a while," said Wakaruk.
Now healthy and fit, she's continued her running hobby, something she's been doing since high school.
This is Wakaruk's second half marathon, her first being about four years ago with her mother. This time she'll be carrying her sugar pills and keeping an eye on her hydration during the race.
"I figured this would be such a great way to get back into running," she said.
Since registering in December, she's been running about four times a week in preparation for the event.
Diabetes affects almost 10 million Canadians and it's often costly to manage the condition.
"Diabetes is not cheap," she said.
Thankfully her employer's insurance plan helps cover some of the cost of lancets, insulin, testing strips, as well as an insulin pump she used for about a year.
The annual cost of managing diabetes in B.C. can range from $475 to over $2,000 depending on the patient.
"I'm pretty lucky to be diagnosed in this day and age," Wakaruk said, citing the advancement of diabetes treatment in the last 50 years from an almost unmanageable condition to something that is much easier to control.
"[Diabetes] definitely forces me to plan more... It's always in the back of your mind."
Playing it safe, she checks her blood sugar often, about 10 times a day, including before and after meals.
"It was not an easy adjustment by any means," she said.
It's not just sweets Wakaruk has to be wary of. Each time she eats or drinks anything containing carbohydrates she has to calculate and dose her insulin. "People think 'Oh, diabetics can't have candy,'" Wakaruk said. "It's more [than that]."
"Her dedicated efforts will accomplish more than just raising money; they will inspire diabetics to tackle challenges in their own lives that they experience living with the disease," said Ethan Ribalkin, a friend of Wakaruk. "They may not be inspired to run a half marathon, but they may decide to tackle a challenge that they may have originally felt was too difficult."
Despite having to manage her condition, she says that her quality of life hasn't diminished. "There's nothing I can't do," Wakaruk said. To date, she has raised $7,700.
To donate visit: diabetes.ca/get-involved/supporting-us/team-diabetes/
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Why Phil Costa remains a good fit for the Cowboys going forward
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Phil Costa
Position: Center
Height: 6-3
Weight: 313
Years Pro: 3
Years with Cowboys: 3
2012 recap: It's never a good sign when an undersized center misses the majority of training camp with a bad back. That's how Costa went into the season. By the time it was over, he was able to play in only three games. The Cowboys spent in free agency to put more size on either side of Costa, convinced those bigger guards would make life easier for Costa in the middle. It never materialized.
Why he's likely staying: The Cowboys still like Costa. He's solid technically, battles and can play center in addition to guard. He will be given the chance to compete for a starting job. If he doesn't land one, he can still help this team's depth in the front line. Given the fact he only played in three games this past season, he will be reasonably priced.


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Ellsworth, Prescott baseball teams both winners last evening
The second showdown between No. 2 Ellsworth and No. 7 Prescott on the baseball diamond isn't until next Thursday in Prescott. And both prep squads are making sure that contest will again be another important one in the Middle Border Conference.
EHS stayed undefated in MBC action with an 11-0 win at Osceola Tuesday while Prescott also won by shutout, 8-0 over Durand at home.
Ellsworth pitcher Brady Yanish struck out 11 batters in seven innings and held the Chieftains to just one hit. The Panthers had 11 hits with Isaac Hines, Dennis Schutz and Eric McGregor each having two. Nick Taranto led EHS with three RBIs.
The current standings in the Middle Border Conference are as follows:
Middle Border Conference Baseball
Ellsworth 10-0
Prescott 8-1
New Richmond 5-4
Osceola 5-4
Somerset 5-4
Amery 3-6
Durand 1-8
Baldwin-Woodville 0-10
Prescott is at Somerset this Thursday while Ellsworth hosts Amery in Hager City. Prescott will play a rescheduled contest at New Richmond on Friday.
Ellsworth's game at Somerset was rescheduled to May 27. The original game on that date, Ellsworth at St. Croix Falls, was cancelled.


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Below you will find a list of the antique stores in Canyon Lake, CA. These 12 antique stores are organized by their distance from Canyon Lake. The closest businesses to Canyon Lake are Today's Attic on Railroad Canyon Rd (Canyon Lake), Mora's Antiques on N. Main St (Lake Elsinore), Rose's Recollections on N. Main St (Lake Elsinore), Tom & Jerry's Antiques & Collectables on N. Main St (Lake Elsinore) and The Home Interiors of The Chimes on W. Graham Ave (Lake Elsinore) in the category Antique Dealers.
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Growing up in Ohio, you would naturally think my pro football team loyalties would gravitate to either the Browns or the Bengals, and after writing those two teams down while vomiting in my mouth, let me tell you that they don't. No, my life-long loyalty has been to the Pittsburgh Steelers and even though fantasy football muddies up all loyalty, the Black & Gold are still my team, no matter what. And my favorite Steelers player of all time is hands down, Hines Ward.
Ward, at his height (which isn't a pun directed at his short in football standards 6 feet), was the most fierce receiver to ever play the game. This cat would put the fear of the Almighty into defenders with his viscous, questionably legal hits that would knock people out of games. He would secure the edge like no other, allowing backs to break away for large chunks of ground at a time. Heck, whenever Jerome Bettis breaks into the HoF, he should send Ward flowers for the extra yards he got him with his fierce blocking.
Oh, and Ward could catch balls as well.
Ward has exactly 1000 receptions for over 12,000 yards and 85 touchdowns in his career. He is a 4 time pro bowl recipient, a SuperBowl MVP, and is the Steelers career leader for receptions, receiving yards, and receiving Tds.
All that being said, and however much this pains me to say, it's time for the Steelers and Ward to part ways.
Hines Ward will always be revered in Steelers lore and he will be in the Hall of Fame when it's all said and done (that's a discussion for another time) but for the here and now, his time with the Steelers should be at an end.
Look, the reality of the situation is that Ward doesn't have much left in the tank to contribute to the offense. Never much of a burner to begin with, what speed Ward had is gone and with it went his ability to be a starter for this team. With Mike Wallace, Emanuel Sanders and Antonio Brown, Pittsburgh has a trio of receivers that are far superior to Ward as he is now.
With those three receivers now ahead of them, that would relegate a potential returned Ward to fourth on the wideout depth chart and a fourth receiver is expected to play special teams, something Ward is not equipped to do anymore.
No, even with a heavily restructured contract, a Ward return next season just wouldn't make sense for either side. Now is the time to be looking forward for both parties involved, and that direction shouldn't involve my favorite player as a member of the roster. Personally, a perfect scenario for me would be for Ward to retire and them be hired on as a wide receivers coach. Hines has a lot to offer young players through teaching and that would be where he would be best right now.
The hardest part about being an athlete, more so one of the caliber Ward is/was, is deciding when it's the time to hang it up. Many stay to long and their memory is somewhat tarnished with a few sad final years.
I'm hoping that Ward's isn't like that. I'm hoping that reality sets in for him, because it's time to hang them up now, number 86, and move on to the next phase of your life.
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In four other cases, the justices reaffirmed and clarified the Miranda rule, that police must tell suspects of their rights before interrogating them. In the first case, Fellers v. United States, a unanimous Court speaking through Justice O'Connor, said that police could not question suspects, even those had had already been indicted for the crime, without advising them of their constitutional right to have a lawyer present. Nebraska police "deliberately elicited" incriminating statements from John Fellers, an alleged dope trafficker, when they arrested him at his home. Since Fellers was already under federal indictment, his right to a lawyer under the Sixth Amendment was in effect, and he could be interrogated by state or local police only if he waived the right to have his lawyer there. The Court did not, however, deal with another question of whether statements later made by Feller at the jailhouse, when he had waived his lawyer's presence, could be used, since those questions derived from his first set of incriminating statements. The case now returns to lower court where that issue will be resolved.
In the second case, the Court by a 5-4 vote held that police officers may not deliberately avoid warning suspects of their right to remain silent before beginning questioning. The Court denounced a police tactic of interrogating suspects twice -- once before reading them their Miranda rights and then again after. Writing for the majority in Missour v. Siebert, Justice Souter said that a Missouri woman's statements about her involvement in a murder plot were inadmissible, because police had arrested her at three o'clock in the morning, elicited a confession, and only then advised her of her rights. She subsequently incriminated herself again. In effect the decision establishes a right to remain silent, and is a logical development from recent cases reaffirming the Miranda decision.
In the third case, United States v. Patane, a 5-4 majority ruled that physical evidence gathered as a result of a suspect's statement made without a Miranda warning did not have to be excluded from a trial. A federal agent began advising Samuel Patane of his rights when Patane, a convicted felon, interrupted, declaring that he knew his rights. He then directed the agent on where to find a pistol. Later Patane sought to have the gun excluded from evidence at his trial.
Justice Thomas said that excluding physical evidence from an unwarned statement would be an unlawful extension of Miranda, but only Chief Justice Rehnquist and Justice Scalia joined the opinion. Justice Kennedy, joined by O'Connor, concurred in the result but not in the reasoning, thus depriving the case of a specific constitutional rule.
While civil liberties advocated praised the Siebert ruling for ending the double-questioning of suspects, at the same time they worried about the results of the Patane decision, since it could be interpreted to mean that police could avoid Miranda if they were seeking physical evidence, the position warned about by the four dissenters. "It's a very mixed message," according to Christopher Dunn, the associate legal director of the New York Civil Liberties Union. "On the one hand, the Court has wisely closed the door on police strategies designed to induce improper confessions. On the other hand, the Court may be encouraging similar strategies in cases where they care less about a confession and more about the evidence they can obtain through a coerced confession." While a coerced confession could be thrown out, apparently any evidence resulting from it could stay.
In the fourth Miranda case, a 5-4 majority split over whether police had to take extra care when questioning juveniles about crime. The case, Yarborough v. Alvarado, resulted when police interrogated Michael Alvarado, then 17, for more than two hours at a police station while his parents were forced to wait outside. Eventually Alvarado confessed to taking part in a murder at a shopping mall in Santa Fe Springs, California, and was sentenced to a term of 15 years to life. Police contended that they did not have to tell Alvarado his rights because he was not in custody and could have left the station. The narrow decision by Justice Kennedy only held that the Court had never said that police had to make special concessions to younger suspects under Miranda. The police claim, that Alvarado could leave anytime he wanted, made no sense to the four dissenters. "A reasonable person would not have thought that he was free simply to pick up and leave in the middle of the interrogation," wrote Justice Breyer for himself and justices Stevens, Souter and Ginsburg.
Some commentators wonder whether the line-up in the Alvarado case is a prelude to how the Court will respond when it takes up the constitutionality of executing underage killers in the October 2004 Term.
While suspects may refuse to talk to police without an attorney present, no one, it appears, has the right to remain silent if the police ask your name. The case, Hiibel v. Sixth Judicial District Court, grew out of a 2000 incident when a deputy sheriff stopped near Larry "Dudley" Hiibel's truck on a rural Nevada road. The police officer was investigating a passing motorist's report that a man in the truck had been hitting a woman. Hiibel's adult daughter was sitting in the truck. The deputy, Lee Dove, asked Hiibel eleven times for identification, and Hiibel, saying he had done nothing wrong, refused to give his name and challenged Dove to arrest him, which he eventually did. (The incident, captured on videotape by a camera in the squad car, is available at www.hiibel.com.)
Hiibel was subsequently convicted for violating a state law making it a misdemeanor to refuse to identify oneself if stopped by a police officer based on "reasonable suspicion" of wrongdoing. In 1968 the Supreme Court, in the landmark ruling of Terry v. Ohio, gave police authority to briefly detain, question, and conduct a pat-down search of someone whose activities gave rise to a reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing. Given the passing motorist's report of violence, there is no doubt that deputy sheriff Dove's attempted investigation constituted a "Terry stop." About twenty states have laws similar in one way or another to that of Nevada.
By a 5-4 vote, the Court said that no constitutional right exists to simply refuse to give one's name to a police officer when asked. Writing for the majority, Justice Kennedy noted that "asking questions is an essential part of police investigation. In the ordinary course a police officer is free to ask a person for identification without implicating the Fourth Amendment." Kennedy conceded that the ruling left the door open for the unusual case in which revealing a name would in fact be incriminating. But generally, disclosing an identity is "so insignificant in the scheme of things," a sentiment not shared by privacy advocacy groups that condemned the decision.
In a Fourth Amendment case, a unanimous Court ruled that the Constitution does not require that police officers wait more than 15 to 20 seconds after they knock and announce their authority before breaking down a suspected drug dealer's door. North Las Vegas police officers and FBI agents arrived to serve a search warrant on LaShawn Lowell Banks, a suspected drug dealer. They knocked on the door to his apartment, announced who they were, and after waiting between 15 and 20 seconds and hearing no response, broke down the front door with a battering ram. They found Banks, dripping wet, outside his shower. The masked officers handcuffed and took him to the kitchen, still naked, for interrogation. During their search they found crack cocaine, a scale, and several firearms.
Speaking for the Court Justice Souter wrote that although "this call is a close one, we think that after 15 or 20 seconds without a response, police could fairly suspect that cocaine would be gone if they were reticent any longer." The decision does not add to the wide exceptions the Court has carved out for "no knock" entries when the police have good reason to think they would be putting themselves at risk by waiting, or that evidence could be destroyed imminently. This case dealt with what constituted a reasonable amount of time that police should wait before forcibly entering a premise, and the Court adopted essentially a common sense approach. As Souter observed, police searching for a stolen piano need not hurry for fear it might be flushed down a drain, but drugs are a different story.
In a Sixth Amendment Case, the Court dealt with an issue that comes before it only rarely, defendants' right at trial to be confronted by witnesses against them. In a case that had been closely watched by both prosecutors and defense lawyers, the Court unanimously set aside the conviction of Michael D. Crawford of Olympia, Washington, who had been serving a 14-year sentence for stabbing a man who he apparently believed had tried to rape his wife.
The case began in 1999 when Crawford and his wife went to find Kenneth Lee at his apartment. The two men argued and fought, and Sylvia Crawford saw Michael Crawford get a cut on his hand that required 12 stitches to close, while he seriously wounded Lee, stabbing him in the stomach. Sylvia did not testify at Crawford's trial, but prosecutors did play a tape to support their claim that her story did not match that of her husband. Michael Crawford's lawyers did not have an opportunity to cross-examine his wife.
"That alone is sufficient to make out a violation of the Sixth Amendment," Justice Scalia wrote for a unanimous Court in Crawford v. Washington. While all nine justices agree to overturn the conviction and return the case to a lower court for retrial, seven of them also overturned an earlier 1980 case that laid out complex rules for when statements can be used without the opportunity for cross-examination. According to Scalia, the earlier case, Ohio v. Roberts, needlessly complicated a fairly straightforward part of the Constitution. "By replacing categorical constitutional guarantees with open-ended balancing tests, we do violence to their design. Vague standards are manipulable," he wrote. While that "might be a small concern in run-of-the-mill assault prosecutions like this one," the Framers had in mind the darker specter of state trials such as that of Sir Walter Raleigh in 17th century England. According to Scalia, Raleigh demanded that the judges "call my accusers before my face," but they refused and sentenced Raleigh to death for treason. Alluding to the 1980 case, Scalia concluded that "Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty. That is not what the Sixth Amendment prescribes."


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After a wild Masters Weekend and the Pacquiao-Bradley fight card, the Sport Swami is back to work. Armed with some rising prospects in the boxing and MMA world, plus a recap of the Pacquiao-Bradley super fight, its another jam packed two hour show of Wavlite.com presents; LAST CALL on http://www.cyberstationusa.com/. This week's guests include;
-Undefeated Light Middleweight Jamel Herring makes his debut on the show as he prepares for his next big fight in early May. The 2012 US Olympian opens up about being a US Marine sand serving a overseas, competing in the Olympics and the experience of walking out with fellow US athletes, signing with Golden Boy Promotions and what they bring to the table, overcoming odds during his amateur career, and training with Adrien Broner and Coach Stafford.
-Top Rank Promotion Light Middleweight Glen Tapia returns to the show on the heels of some major changes on his boxing career and his life in general. The New Jersey native talks about the James Kirkland fight, the final two rounds and telling the truth on what happened after the fight, the decision to sign with Freddie Roach, his future fight in June for Top Rank, and his thoughts on the criticism of his amateur trainer and why he has stuck with him.
-UFC Heavyweight Soa "The Hulk" Palelei returns to the show as he gets ready for his big UFC Fight Night against Ruan Potts in Cincinnati. The Australian wrestler/striker talks about his big win over Pat Barry, the reaction he got from the fans and atmosphere in Australia, what he has seen out of Ruan Potts, his win streak and second chance in the UFC, the Krylov fight and why he went into the fight injured, plus his thoughts on challenging for the title down the line.
-Top rated Light Welterweight Thomas Dulorme returns to the show on the heels of his big win over Karim Mayfiled on HBO last month. The pride of Puerto Rico sits down to discuss the fight with Mayfield and the style that he brought to the fight, the criticism he has gotten from holding in the fight, changing trainers and promoters before the fight, the reason for choosing Robert Garcia, and who he wants to fight next.
It's all this plus MMA & Boxing recaps only on Wavlite.com presents LAST CALL on www.cyberstationusa.com. Friday April 18th from 10 p.m. to 12 a.m. ET/ 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. PT.