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Hello Beautiful Readers!
It's been a while since I updated this page, but the past few months have been blessedly crazy and busy! I started a new job, moved out with my best friend, and I've been working so much! Doing makeup and hair are my #1 goal right now, so I am staying focused and giving it my all. Because I don't have a whole lot of time to blog right now, I've been trying to update my Facebook page pretty often with pictures of my work. Please check it out and comment, I'd love to reconnect with all of you!
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I hope all of you are doing well, I'm sending you all a big e-hug and hope to hear from you soon!
Hi My Lovelies!
Just wanted to let you know that I created a Facebook page for my makeup work if you'd rather keep up there. Feel free to Like and share with your friends :). Thanks!
Hi Dolls!
I hope you're all having a lovely weekend. I had the pleasure of glamming up a gorgeous girl for her prom yesterday. I offer reasonable rates and travel around the Inland Empire and LA if you ever need some glam in your life ;).
Hope you had a blast, Jenna!
Loves!! I'm so excited to share the first batch of my published work with you :)! Pages 4 and 38-40. That's my sweet friend Autumn modeling, with photography by Michael and Tal B. Vincent. All great people to work with, omg I'm so excited!!
Click here to read the issue free online :)!
Happy Monday!
I cant believe I've been away for so long! I've been crazy busy, in the best way possible. I'm so thankful that I've been getting makeup work all over the place, and I'm actually waiting for three magazine spreads to hit the stands so I can show you my published work. I feel so very blessed and cant wait for even more work an opportunities to come up. I still have to fight back tears of happiness when I think about all of the amazing things I've been able to do and all the makeup jobs I have to look forward to! Here are a few snapshots of recent work:
The music video I worked on in January is up! Check it out :):
Model Nicole Cox. This shoot was for FHM international with photographer Michael Vincent.
Fun with blue :).
Another FHM shoot, this time with model Pamela Noble. Photo by Michael Vincent.
Face paints. The model is my bestie, Liz!
Candy colors :D!
My sweet new friend, model Autumn Brockman (<3 you doll!); this was for a Skinnie Magazine shoot with photographer Michael Vincent.
I'll post the magazine pictures as soon as I get them! What have you all been up to?
Hello Loves!
I hope you all had a great weekend and that Monday took it easy on you. Here are some random recent pics that I couldn't figure out where to post:
My final project in makeup school :). I had to turn my friend into an Anime doll:
Here it is in full cartoon effect:
The bride I glammed up in November:
(my favorite, lol!)
Mod eyes I created:
My makeup for ISSE in Long Beach:
What have you all been up to?


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Microsoft kicked off the People's Choice Award today for the Imagine Cup 2011, a global student technology competition to address humanitarian issues.
Starting from a field of more than 350,000 students, more than 400 of the brightest young minds from 70 countries will travel to New York City, July 8 to July 13, to showcase their innovative ideas for using technology to solve global problems.
Competitors have built some incredible projects this year, using Windows Phones to help disaster relief workers, Xboxes to monitor prenatal health care, Microsoft OneNote to help legally blind students take notes in class and more.
You can watch videos of the teams and cast your vote at www.imaginecup.com/PCA.
The People's Choice Award is the only Imagine Cup prize awarded by the public. The winning team will be announced on July 13, and will receive a $10,000 prize.
Posted by Jeff Meisner
Editor, The Official Microsoft Blog
Tags: Imagine Cup, OneNote, Windows Phone, XBOX

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We have already delighted you with controversy and angst, ranking Dwight Howard in the top ten at the expense of the beloved reincarnation of the Christ child (or the deity of your choice), Andrew Bynum. In the original commandments given to Moses, God warned, "Thou Shalt Not List Any Other Above Andrew Bynum." At the end of the season when Bynum is the MVP with 30.3 PPG, 19.7 RPG, and 5.3 BPG, you can stand and look down at me as I endure the eternal torment of fantasy hell. "How did you like Howard's free throw percentage?", you will cackle at me. "It wasn't anywhere near as nice as Bynum's!" Oh, how you'll laugh. Well, anyway, here's some other players I like better than Bynum:
11. DeMarcus Cousins – I am going to have to go to some Community College English classes (and not just because of all the spelling and grammatical errors in my posts), because I need to come up with many more terrible puns involving romance with Cousins. The Line of DeMarcus-tion just turned 22 years old and has all the promise in the world, including the promise your mother made to you that she would not let anything bad happen to you. Give that back, DeMarcus! This will be his third season in the NBA, so I am hoping for an increase in minutes along with some experience to smooth out some of the rough edges. Frankly, if I was drafting in your league, I would focus my attention elsewhere in the first round and target D.C. as my sniper pick in the second round. Projections: .455 fg/.712 ft/0.0 3pt/20.1 pts/12.4 rbd/2.1 ast/1.3 stl/1.1 blk/3.2 tov
12. Deron Williams – I don't like point guards with uninspired field goal percentages, because it invariably hurts their three point goals. Nevertheless, Of Ron still has an acceptable 3PG line with a delicious helping of assists. The arrival of Joe Johnson could impact his PPG, and his horrific turnover rate would infuriate Gordon Ramsey, but in a position that can get a little squirrely the deeper you go, I like a guy who can provide solid numbers in the stats I want from my point guard – threes, assists, and steals. Projections: .430 fg/.833 ft/1.7 3pt/20.8 pts/3.8 rbd/9.7 ast/1.1 stl/0.3 blk/3.7 tov
13. Andrew Bynum – Ugh, why is he ranked so high? Well, because he's good. I've gone over my reservations here (yes, it is ironic I criticize his FT% considering where I played Howard). Bynum absolutely can be a #1 center as soon as this season. I don't have as short term memory as some people…what? Where am I? Oh, I don't have as short term memory as some people do, however. The guy has spent his career banged up, and in seven seasons, he's only scored more than 15.0 PPG once – last year. If you ignore his first six seasons, Bynum is the undisputed stud at the center position. I just can't do that. I won't ignore history like you Holocaust deniers out there. Is Bynum top 5? Yes. Top 3? Maybe. Top 1? You know, I live across the river from Philadelphia, and since the trade went down, I have heard nothing about Bynum on sports talk radio. Granted, I spend a lot of time in my car scanning every radio station looking for Wide Awake, but only because it is the musical milestone of the 21st Century. When I do listen to local sports talk radio, they're too focused on the Eagles to even toss a belch towards basketball. Hopefully, I can join in and not have to talk about Bynum anymore until the season starts. Projections: .565 fg/.680 ft/0.0 3pt/17.5 pts/11.5 rbd/1.2 ast /0.5 stl/2.0 blk/2.5 tov
14. LaMarcus Aldridge – I have as much love for LeMarcus as I have for DeMarcus, and it's nice they give me such happiness considering their teams bring such sadness. Aldridge will be the focal point of his team's offense and shall continue to deliver positive ratios in FG% and FT%. It would be sweet if he could ever reach 10 RPG, but I'm not seeing that happening, unfortunately. Still, he will be a steady source for boards with a block or so per game. Projections: .510 fg/.800 ft/0.0 3pt/21.2 pts/8.5 rbd/2.5 ast/0.9 stl/1.1 blk/2.2 tov
15. Carmelo Anthony – Melo had some rough patches last season, and he's not in the same tier as our #1 and #2, but he's nothing to sneeze at. He offers comfortably stats across the board, and can offer some Kobe-esque explosions in points. The Knicks always seem to be a mess, but Anthony has positioned himself as the premiere player on that team. He is definitely a nice player to have, and if you have an opportunity to take him, I would. Projections: .448 fg/.844 ft/1.4 3pt/24.6 pts/7.0 rbd/3.6 ast/1.2 stl/0.4 blk/3.2 tov
16. Kobe Bryant – I actually like Bryant, and given his resurgence last year, he should probably be a little higher. He's in a high octane offense, which should allow him to do wonders, considering he takes a ridiculous number of shots. I have concerns about his age and his knee, but you know what, let's wait for Bryant to disappoint us before we start discounting him. Projections: .427 fg/.839 ft/1.5 3pt/25.9 pts/5.3 rbd/4.4 ast/1.1 stl/0.2 blk/3.3 tov
17. Al Horford – I must love big men because my top twenty is loaded with them. They work hard, they play hard. Without Joe Johnson, Horford gains more of the offensive focus, which has its pros and cons. What I am looking forward to is 15/10 with great ratios, some assists and a block. Projections: .555 fg/.790 ft/0.0 3pt/15.2 pts/9.9 rbd/2.1 ast/0.7 stl/1.2 blk/1.7 tov
18. Marc Gasol – It really is preferable to balance the positions in the rankings, but it's hard for me to drop Gasol lower. In addition to the same 15/10 Horford offers, you also get an insane number of assists from a center. The ratios are a little worse, but the two blocks per game make up for it. If you follow the Razzball rankings, you should be walking into the third draft with a center already under your belt. Look at it this way: if half your league has great centers, do you want to be the team with the next best thing? I don't know, I was asking you. Projections: .501 fg/.751 ft/0.0 3pt/15.4 pts/9.5 rbd/2.9 ast/1.0 stl/2.1 blk/2.1 tov
19. Blake Griffin – Man, people sure are tough on Griffin. It seems the greatest fantasy basketball sin is to suck at free throws, probably because it should be the easiest statistic to accumulate. I've heard him described as nothing more than a one trick pony. That's not fair. He will hurt you with FT% and TOV, and for some reason he can't block, but let's look at the positives. He is all but guaranteed to give you a double/double every time out, and his FG% is actually fairly good. Projections: .530 fg/.550 ft/0.0 3pt/22.1 pts/10.5 rbd/3.7 ast/0.9 stl/0.6 blk/3.0 tov
20. Monta Ellis – I originally had Monta Ellis ranked a little lower, but then I realized shooting guard is not that exciting, and the scarcity of top notch talent makes Ellis more valuable. You'll get a couple of threes, steals, a smattering of rebounds and a good chunk of assists from Ellis. I may actually wait for an Eric Gordon or another later pick. Shooting Guard this year seems equivalent to Short Stop or Tight End; it's a position I'm going to target more in the 4th or 5th rounds. I like what will be available later and I don't need to reach too soon for an SG. Still, Ellis is good value, although it's disturbing that he is as tall as me but I consider him short. That's basketball for you. We might have to hike the rim up a foot by the year 2075. Projections: .436 fg/.789 ft/1.3 3pt/18.9 pts/3.3 rbd/6.1 ast/1.5 stl/0.2 blk/3.1 tov


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Whatever you were planning on doing with your Friday afternoon can wait 20 minutes — because the fate of the human race is at stake. The Cylon uprising has begun, and it's up to young William Adama to protect all of us from the robots we created — in the long-awaited Battlestar Galactica prequel, Blood and Chrome.
These first two installments are probably going to be the best of the bunch, even if the rest of the webseries ends up being pretty great — because here we get a concentrated dose of human-on-Cylon action. We see some great new visuals of Cylons living among us, including an adorable childcare Cylon. And then a fantastic bit of VR videogame combat simulator sequence — followed by the cocky Will Adama confronting the unglamorous reality of warfare as a new recruit — who finds out that it's not all "Top Gun in space" — he's stuck driving an old bus instead of flying a Viper. Because the Cylons didn't get the memo that Operation Clean Sweep was a, well, clean sweep. I love the "cocky son of a bitch gets assigned to a milk run" storyline.
And they actually play a version of the original Battlestar Galactica theme tune when we catch our first glimpse of the noble old beast floating in space, ready to give Adama some frakking action. Eventually.
It's kind of too bad this isn't actually going to be a new TV series, but I'm glad we're getting to see it. And here's episode two already!


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piotr_h necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 73 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
tweetline.de provides a tool for people who want to queue tweets to be posted at regular intervals to twitter. It is somewhat similar to tools like tweetlater.com but you don't schedule tweets for a certain time. Instead you just have a queue form which tweets are taken. You can configure intervals like "one tweet in the morning and two tweets in the afternoon" at which tweets are taken from the queue and posted.
We developed the tool for in-house use and now would open it to the general public.
Twitter power users and businesses with planing to do "company tweeting". We generally assume all users of the service to be tech-savvy.
Therefore we like to follow the general playful, uncluttered, blueish approach of pages related to twitter.
See the following pages to get an idea what we mean:
Other pages we (and our audience) like for their clean and simple design are:
Complete design of a Welcome Page (current version at http://skitch.com/mdor/njp9y/skitch…0-092946#), the Main Page (current version at http://skitch.com/mdor/njqd9/skitch…0-103421#) and an simple inner page for Terms of Service, Privacy Policy etc. (no current version available).
Our logo is available in variations at http://static.23.nu/nik/tweetline1-01.jpg#, http://static.23.nu/nik/tweetline2-01.jpg and http://static.23.nu/md/Pictures/tweetline.ai
The winner must provide WORKING, SEMANTIC, VALID XHTML with mock-up content. We will integrate it ourself with out template engine and AJAX functionality.
You have full freedom of designing and placing the elements. In the Main page" please keep space for the avatar icon of the currently logged in user. Also in the "random follower" section keep space for the last tweed of the random follower. See http://skitch.com/mdor/njqex/wuensche for further illustration
Please do only provide a initial design for the startpage to save all of us time. If your design is rated with 4 stars or above you might want to work on the other two pages.
Again: this contest does not only require the winner to deliver PSDs but also 3 working XHTML pages with the related CSS and images.


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Sony's Playstation Network Spring Fever promotion is back for 2014, discounting some big indie titles for Playstation Plus members. [Playstation Blog]
- Awesomenauts Assemble | $8 | Normally $10
- Master Reboot | $12 | Normally $15
- TowerFall Ascension | $12 | Normally $15
- Vessel | $8 | Normally $10
- SteamWorld Dig | $8 | Normally $10
- Luftrausers | $8 | Normally $10
- FEZ | $10 | Normally $13
That's quite the list of indie hits. There will also be sales on the Call of Duty, Bioshock, and GTA series, but the above games are certainly the highlight. We'll be adding these dates to our release calendar, and don't forget to check out the free Playstation Plus games for March.
This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group of deal hunters and product enthusiasts. We operate independently of Editorial to bring you the best bargains every day, share our favorite products with you, and ask you about yours. When you buy something we recommend, we may also get a small share of the sale. We welcome your questions and want your feedback.


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Hope College will present its annual Concerto Aria Concert on Friday, Feb. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The concert features students, who were selected through a competition held last November, performing with the HopeCollege orchestra. This year five students were selected to perform: senior Sarah Ashcroft of Holland; junior Heather Benson of Muskegon; senior John Donkersloot of Zeeland; sophomore Luke Panning of Holland; and freshman James Schippers of Grand Haven.
"All of the competition winners are outstanding students from the HopeCollege music department," said Richard Piippo, who is the program conductor as well as director of the orchestra and an associate professor of cello and chamber music at the college.
To open the program the orchestra will perform the Overture to the opera "Cosi fan tutte," by Mozart.
° John Donkersloot, piano, will then perform the first movement of Prokofiev's "Piano Concerto No. 2."
° Sarah Ashcroft, soprano, will sing "Song to the Moon" from the opera "Rusalka," by Dvorak.
° Luke Panning, violinist, will perform the third movement of the "Concerto in D major," by Tchaikovsky.
° Heather Benson, mezzo-soprano, will sing "Una voce poco fa" from the opera "The Barber of Seville," by Rossini.
° James Schippers, piano, will close the program by performing the first movement of the Piano "Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor," by Tchaikovsky.
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., on College Avenue at 12th Street.


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"I find it fascinating that most people plan their vacations with better care than they plan their lives. Perhaps that is because escape is easier than change." ~Jim Rohn
Do you plan out your day? Your week? Your month? If so, how much do you plan? How far do you take it? I've known people who could easily have PhD's in planning… from Harvard!, and others who wouldn't know what a simple calendar looked like, much less how to use it, if it hit them up-side the head.
So, where do I fit in? Post PhD — I'm the dean of the School of Planning!
Sadly, it's true. And another thing that's true: I AM NOT BRAGGING.
I had to ask myself recently, with all of my views on Trust, on Letting Go, my beliefs on how Life 'works,' my vow to experience What Is, and all of the other very zen qualities I surround myself with on a daily basis, how zen is it to schedule my meditation time on my iPhone?
At what point does our use of calendars, day planners, iPhones, and any other tool slide over from the helpful category to the hinder our growth category? I mean, who is managing who, here?
The Key Is: Balance
(Free tip of the day — Balance is the key to LOTS of things. Life, for one.)
Find that balance within your life. At this stage in the game, my guess is you know yourself well enough to know what works for you and what doesn't.
No? If not, then here's what I recommend:
If you fall into Option 1 above, the PhD planning person, once you've finished your planning ritual, whatever it may be, sit quietly. How does it feel? How do you feel? Deep inside? Do you feel calm, knowing that all i's have been dotted and all t's have been crossed? Do you feel you have the freedom to change and be flexible as things arise unexpectedly? If so, THAT is what balance feels like. Your planning method works for you.
However, if you feel a tight, rigidness inside, that's a clue that you're holding on to something (??) tightly. So tightly that any change of schedule would shatter your world.
Which begs the question: If you're holding your breath, hoping upon hope that everything goes according to your plan, constantly fixated on getting through each task, where's the enjoyment?
This reminds me of a puzzle my mother and I put together the summer my husband, boys, and I were waiting for our current house to be built. It now hangs in our laundry room:
If this is you, one who counts the days or the tasks, and you want to change, I have two examples I'd like to share with you that can be used as your guide.
1) Check out "Cultivating A Spirit of Wander," written by Bill Apablasa, blogger/writer for TheOther999Rooms.com.*
This is a profound post and will likely get you out of your comfort zone in a hurry (which is a good thing here; shock your system!), encouraging you to jump in feet first.
If you like what Bill's suggesting, but don't really know what that looks like, then….
2) Check out "A Day of Pleasure. WITH NO GUILT." for a true life example of a day when I went "off the grid" earlier this year.
I believe there is an art to managing our lives. But as we manage them to be more productive, more efficient, more MORE, let's also make sure we're living our lives, enjoying them to the fullest. Balance.
"I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day." ~E. B. White
TheOther999Rooms is my new WOW go-to spot. I highly encourage you to check out Bill's blog. There is a Start Here tab on top where he begins:
There is an old saying that goes, "We're born into a house with a thousand rooms, but only live in one." This website is about the other 999 rooms.
Bill's writing stimulates my mind and encourages me to see the world differently, something this very in-the-box girl welcomes as a personal challenge. He makes me laugh out loud with his quick wit. I am never disappointed when I visit his site.
And the good, no, wonderful news is, he has just gotten started! If you're like me, I like starting from square one (room one), and proceeding in an orderly fashion, building as I go. Therein lies the beauty — because this site is so new and fresh, your eyes will be some of the first to see it! You can be a part of this amazing journey from the ground level.
I'm very rarely in-the-know about stuff out there, usually arriving late to the party. However, this time, I feel as if I'm sharing a secret with you.
If you enjoy Bill's blog, please consider sharing it on Facebook or emailing it to your friends. Let's not keep this secret to ourselves!!


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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
The University of Toronto, Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, consists of 47 full-time gastroenterologists and hepatologists that include 13 clinician-scientists, 10 clinician-investigators, 18 clinician-teachers, three clinician-educators, two clinician in quality and innovation and one clinician-administrator. Faculty members are located at five University affiliated hospitals: Toronto Western and Toronto General, which constitute the University Health Network; Mt. Sinai Hospital, Women's College Hospital, Sunnybrook Health Science Centre and St. Michael's Hospital.
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Message from the Division Director for Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Residency Training Program
Our program is committed to training gastroenterologists with a strong interest in scholarly pursuits.
Gastroenterology & Hepatology Fellowships
The Department of Medicine offers more than 100 fellowships across our affiliated hospital sites. Eight of those fellowships are through the Division of Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
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Where you'll find everything from trainee schedules, manuals, learning resources and more.
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San Joaquin County farmers report the asparagus beds in and around the Delta are producing a high-quality crop of early season asparagus.
San Joaquin County farmers report the asparagus beds in and around the Delta are producing a high-quality crop of early season asparagus.
But with shipments for this weekend's Easter holiday already in the pipeline and continuing competition from Mexican imports, those same farmers also face a drop in prices that could take out any profits from their harvest, at least in the short term.
Ed Zuckerman, chief executive of Zuckerman Family Farms, said early season prices had been fairly strong, running about $45 per 28-pound carton.
But in the past few days, as grocery retailers finished filling their orders for Easter, prices have headed south of the roughly $35 per carton needed to cover production and packing costs.
The U.S. Agricultural Marketing Service's website reported Mexican asparagus at border crossings in California and Arizona generally sold Monday for about $29 to $33 a carton, with most about $31.
While California asparagus generally fetches a higher price, it's hard to compete against such low-priced imports.
"This week and next, I expect it to be pretty tough," Zuckerman said Tuesday. "Where next week's prices are going to end up, I don't know."
Cherie Watte Angulo, executive director of the California Asparagus Commission, said asparagus growers in the state - mostly found in and around the San Joaquin Delta - have sharply cut back production over the past 10 to 15 years, trying to find a secure market even as imports from Mexican growers rise.
"We've kind of bottomed out and found a place where our supply matches our demand," she said Tuesday.
"This season, it looks like we're right on track to produce about the same amount we did last year - 36 million pounds on 11,000 to 12,000 acres statewide."
That's down from former California harvests.
San Joaquin County reports show in 2000 it alone produced more than 63 million pounds of asparagus from 23,600 acres harvested. By 2011, according to the latest available report, county plantings had fallen to 6,400 acres.
Watte Angulo said consumers should demand California, rather than imported, asparagus.
"The lesson to your readers is, if you do not see fresh California asparagus in your marketplace, ask for it," she said.
Marc Marchini, a Stockton asparagus farmer and the commission's chairman, said that sort of consumer demand would be a boon. And he promised that the California product is certainly fresher and of higher quality than the imports.
But if area farmers can continue to produce the vegetable through the spring, until it gets too warm in Mexico, prices should turn back in their favor.
"I'm just keeping my fingers crossed," he said. "We should have a pretty good season through the month of April, and hopefully we can hang onto it through the month of May.
"We're hanging in there for dear life, and we're going to stay in the business for as long as we can."
Contact reporter Reed Fujii at (209) 546-8253 or firstname.lastname@example.com.


text: Wednesday, January 11, 2012 New in the Literature: Supervised Strengthening Exercises (J Rehabil Med. 2011 Nov 29 [Epub ahead of print]). Physical therapist-supervised rehabilitation with strengthening exercises of the rotator cuff and scapula stabilizers seems to be superior to home exercises focusing on mobility for improving shoulder function after arthroscopic acromioplasty, say authors of an article published online in Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine. Thirty-six participants entered this randomized, single-blinded, clinically controlled study; 13 of the participants in the physical therapy group and 16 in the home group fulfilled all the assessments. For 12 weeks following surgery, participants performed either supervised physical therapy or home exercises. Follow-ups were conducted periodically for 6 months after surgery to evaluate shoulder function, pain (Constant-Murley [CM]), and disabilities of the arm, shoulder, and hand ([DASH] scores), and health-related quality of life. The physical therapy group exhibited significantly greater improvements in CM and DASH scores. After treatment, the between-group mean difference in CM scores was 14.2 points. At the 6-month follow-up, the between-group mean difference in DASH scores was 13.4 points.


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Tigers and Tigerbelles Head to Memphis on Saturday
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – As cross country heads towards the mid-season mark they hope to hit their stride traveling to Memphis for the Rhodes Invitational Saturday.
The Tigerbelles are coming off a solid performance in their first home dual meet with Alabama A&M. TSU boasted the top finisher sophomore Oteia Prince (13:23.59) and the fourth best finisher in Diera Taylor (14:17.09) on the 2.1 mile campus course.
Tennessee State's men's team returns to action after a one week break. TSU last ran on Sept. 14 in the Commodore Classic. Where The Tigers competed in an 8K for the first time this season and was led by Quamel Prince in a time of 28:44.27. Adrian McDaniels was the second to cross the line at 29:58.96 and was joined in the scoring by Jahleel Michael (33:24.32), Theodore Nicholson (34:40.51) and Jason Griffin (35:53.65). Jakeenan Guthrie (36:00.44), Jalon McCutcheon (36:57.09) and Emmanual Thornton (38:25.10) rounded out the Tigers lineup.
Saturday's meet will feature 28 schools. With the meet slated to begin at 10 a.m. at Shelby Farms Park in Memphis, Tenn.


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If you are a fan of the Pepperidge Farms chocolate milano cookies then you must give these a try. A chocolate ganache filling sandwiched between soft, delicate lemon-vanilla cookies. I enjoyed each of the elements separately and together. The cookie would be great on its own with a cup of tea and the chocolate ganache can just be eaten with a spoon! Or maybe with some vanilla ice cream.
My friend Amy & I made these together and we had so much fun! This recipe was very easy so we were able to take our time baking and spend some quality time talking. I left her with quite a few cookies to share with her daughter and husband then I put together a cute box full of these and brought them for my mom to enjoy at work. A nice Friday afternoon pick me up, right?
The July Daring Bakers' challenge was hosted by Nicole at Sweet Tooth. She chose Chocolate Covered Marshmallow Cookies and Milan Cookies from pastry chef Gale Gand of the Food Network. I didn't have time to make the marshmallow cookies but I will definitely try those sometime!
Milan Cookies
Recipe courtesy Gale Gand, from Food Network website
Prep Time: 20 min
Inactive Prep Time: 0 min
Cook Time: 1 hr 0 min
Makes: about 3 dozen cookies
Note: These cookies spread quite a lot so make sure to space them about 2" apart
• 12 tablespoons (170grams/ 6 oz) unsalted butter, softened
• 2 1/2 cups (312.5 grams/ 11.02 oz) powdered sugar
• 7/8 cup egg whites (from about 6 eggs)
• 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
• 2 tablespoons lemon extract
• 1 1/2 cups (187.5grams/ 6.61 oz) all purpose flour
• Cookie filling, recipe follows
Cookie filling:
• 1/2 cup heavy cream
• 8 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped
• 1 orange, zested
1. In a mixer with paddle attachment cream the butter and the sugar.
2. Add the egg whites gradually and then mix in the vanilla and lemon extracts.
3. Add the flour and mix until just well mixed.
4. With a small (1/4-inch) plain tip, pipe 1-inch sections of batter onto a parchment-lined sheet pan, spacing them 2 inches apart as they spread.
5. Bake in a preheated 350 degree oven for 10 minutes or until light golden brown around the edges. Let cool on the pan.
6. While waiting for the cookies to cool, in a small saucepan over medium flame, scald cream.
7. Pour hot cream over chocolate in a bowl, whisk to melt chocolate, add zest and blend well.
8. Set aside to cool (the mixture will thicken as it cools).
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If Tom Campbell had deep pockets, he might be looking down on his opponents today instead of up. Less than a week before the June 8 primary election, the candidate for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate withdrew all of his television ads because of a lack of funds.
Campbell spun his disaster the best he could, saying that the remainder of his efforts would be direct appeals to the voters through telephone town hall meetings and Internet exposure. Sounds good, except that even in wired world, candidates still dedicate 85 percent of their campaign funds to television commercial for one simple reason: they work, especially on voters who have yet to make up their minds.
In Campbell's case, he simply couldn't keep up with the resources of Carly Fiorina, who has dumped nearly $6 million of her own money into her Senatorial bid. That amount is larger than all the funds raised by Campbell and fellow candidate Chuck DeVore combined. The effort has been rewarding for Fiorina, who leads Campbell by 15 percent with less than a week to go, according to recent polls.
The irony is that while Fiorina is ahead of Campbell in the primary vote, polls show that Campbell is the only one of the three Republicans who is running ahead of Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer in a hypothetical November head-to-head match-up. So, like so many times in the past, Republicans are on the verge of leaving their most attractive candidate in the dust.
This isn't Campbell's first tussle with largely self-funded campaigns. Initially a candidate for governor, he repositioned himself four months ago to enter the Senate race after recognizing the impossibility of overcoming the huge financial advantages of Meg Whitman and Steve Poizner. Whitman, the former CEO of eBay, has dumped a record $70 million into her campaign. Meanwhile Poizner, a GPS system entrepreneur who sold his company for more than a billion dollars, has seemed the poor relative by spending only $23 million of his money. As one who has dedicated his entire adult life to public service, Campbell has no such resources.
None of this is to suggest that Campbell's message is as good or better than those of his opponents. But in 21st Century California, increasingly there seems to be two categories of candidates -- those who can pay their own way and those who rely on the kindness of others. If you don't have the means to make your case, you'll never know how good or bad it is.
All of which reminds us of the words offered by the late Jess Unruh, California's notoriously powerful Speaker of the State Assembly, who once described money as the "mother's milk of politics." If milk is the equivalent of political currency, those who own dairies are more likely to succeed than those waiting for handouts at food banks.
Just ask Tom Campbell.
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Generally the temperatures are a bit better when the heatpipes run parallel to the power-connector. But even rotated at 90°, the difference is not as high as you would expect.
We tested this cooler with an AMD Phenom II X4 905e, which gives ample power for gaming but at a reduced TDP of 65W. From the experience we've gathered, CPUs with a higher TDP are possible, although noise may be reason for concern. At 3500rpm our fan did about 50dB(A), which is loud. At a setting of 30% the board regulated the fan down to about 1600rpm, which was inaudible in our closed case. To help to reduce noise further, a 10cm fan can do you good. On the other hand, it may cause trouble especially in some ITX cases because it adds 12mm of height. Environmental temperature was 22.5°C.


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Detroit man arraigned on murder charges in triple slaying
Shadell K. Love arraigned on first-degree murder charges in slaying of 3 in presence of young children
DETROIT – A 21-year-old Detroit man has been arraigned on first-degree murder charges in the shotgun slayings of two women and a man in the presence of two young children.
Shadell K. Love appeared Sunday in Detroit's 36th District Court. The prosecutor's office and police couldn't immediately say if he has a lawyer.
Love faces life imprisonment without parole if convicted as charged.
Authorities say Love fatally shot 25-year-old Lauren Trotty, 20-year-old India Coleman and 20-year-old Curtis Clemens.
The bodies of the three victims were found Thursday morning in a house on Coyle Street. All of the victims had been shot.
Neighbors said the home had been vacant for a couple of days. They believed people were squatting there.
Family says children were inside home
A 5-year-old girl was found inside Thursday morning and told neighbors that she saw a man kill her mother and the others. She apparently had been with the bodies for several hours.
"Now I think she is going to be traumatized for the rest of her life because she saw her mom get killed," said Kenyetta Hunt, the victim's cousin.
A 1-year-old child also remained in the house with the bodies overnight.
Shots ring out in neighborhood
"There was some noise, some shots heard mid-evening yesterday [Wednesday]. And apparently I think some family members were notified and they came to check on them and discovered them," said Detroit police inspector Dwayne Blackmon.
Family members say one of the victims is 24-year-old Curtis Clements.
Previous story: 3 found dead in west Detroit house
"He was just over here partying with some friends. " said friend Mark McSwine, who does not believe Clements was targeted.
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Comparison of State Unemployment Laws
The Comparison of State Unemployment Insurance Laws provides state-by-state information on workers covered, benefit eligibility, methods of financing and other areas of interest in the UI program. It also includes information on the temporary disability programs operated in six states. The Comparison is published annually. This edition reflects the status of state laws enacted as of January 1, 2008.
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Monetary Entitlement
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Nonmonetary Eligibility
Temporary Disability Insurance
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Errata Sheet
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The other day I was catching a flight on a small plane to another airport to board another. Now, the redneck in me should have named this airline "Backwoods Air." I say this because as I boarded this commercial airliner, the seats looked like them old fabric lawn chairs that grandma used to sit in on the fourth of July. You know you're on a small plane when the pilot looks back at you mid flight and says, "hope you don't mind us spraying a few fields on the way." That's when the thought hit me...I wish I had the money to buy this plane. HA! I'm just kidding. I was so nervous I didn't know whether to scratch my watch or wind my butt.
Duck season is right around the corner and we are busy filming new episodes of Xtreme Flyways. This month we will be chasing blue-winged teal, trying to lay down great footage of our hunts (with a few tips and techniques along the way). Filming a duck hunt takes a good amount of patience, which is something that I'm missing. When the season is in, I'm wound up tighter than a jock strap on a preacher. I just can't slow down. But once we get a few hunts under our belt, things seem to run smoother.
The weather has been cool all summer. Now all of the sudden, right here at the beginning of teal season, it wants to get hotter than two hamsters farting in a wool sock. I tell ya, if a cool front doesn't come through up north pretty soon it's going to be tough. But we are so dedicated that we never give up or give in. If the teal won't come to us, we'll go to them. Sometimes you have to press the envelope a little to be a successful duck hunter. A wise man once told me, "Adam, if there is a mountain to be climbed than damn-it, start climbing." I have no idea what he meant by that, but it made me think of all those tough duck hunts that I've had and how great they turned out. If I would have stayed home in the bed on those hot days in September I would not be where I am today.
It's during this time of year that we basically fine tune everything from dogs working, communication in the blind, shotgun techniques to how to cook bacon and eggs while hunting. We do all of this before regular duck season hits so that our mistakes are minimal. Teal only fly for a few hours in the morning so its not so hard to beat most of the heat. Don't stay home. This is the perfect time of year to take your family and kids to the duck blind and enjoy duck hunting. Us duck hunters where born for such a time as this. We will prevail and we will succeed.
Over the next several months I'll use this blog to give updates or journal entries on Xtreme Flyways, where we are hunting, and how things are going. Our Beretta shotguns will be doing most of the talking, but every now and then we'll let you in on how our team is doing in the blind. Until then I hope your season starts well and, for crying out loud, if you are killin' ducks and I ain't, then email me where you are hunting!


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How to Avoid Common Home Theatre Pitfalls
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
|Dave "Master Adjuster" Bar gives you the tools, tweaks, and know-how you need to get top A/V performance.
As an avid, lifelong audio enthusiast and longtime Crutchfield employee, I've set up more than my share of home A/V systems. Usually I'll spend a little extra time fussing over connections and tweaking each setting to ensure that the picture and sound are perfect — a habit that's earned me the nickname "Master Adjuster" among some of my friends. To me, there's nothing sadder than folks with high-quality gear failing to make the most of their system's potential, and getting only mediocre results. Yet this is something I see happening all the time.
For example, a friend of mine called the other day to tell me that he had hooked up a brand new home theater system, and would I like to come over and check it out. Naturally I jumped at the chance — I was delighted at the opportunity to get my hands on his new system.
I should say first that my friend is no novice when it comes to technology. He has configured his own home computer network and does extensive digital video editing for his consulting business. But in spite of his technical expertise, I uncovered quite a few glitches while firing up his system. Even though there were a lot of things he had done right (a fact made more impressive by his admission that he had mostly avoided the owner's manuals), there were some key issues hampering his system's performance.
This got me thinking about some of the common pitfalls that folks encounter when setting up a component home theater system — that is, a TV, receiver, disc player, and a full set of surround speakers. So I put together this basic list of tips to help you avoid potential setup problems and achieve better performance from your components.
Read the owner's manual.
Now, I know that some manuals are as dry as a bone, but the fact is that most contain important clues to the proper setup and operation of your system. At the very least, you should give them a look. Most pitfalls stem directly from this oversight.
Get the sound right — connecting your disc player for audio.
This is a problem I see happen all the time. While the red and white stereo audio cables will get sound to your receiver, the truth is you'll almost always need an optical or coaxial digital audio cable to get discrete Dolby® Digital and DTS® surround sound. Also, most recent DVD and Blu-ray players use a High Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) cable to conveniently transfer both digital audio and video signals with a single wire. However, if your system uses one of these connections, you may still need an optical or coaxial audio cable, since HDMI might not be able to carry audio signals with all disc player and receiver combinations.
|HDMI, coaxial digital, or optical digital — be sure to connect your disc player to your receiver with one of these types of connections for optimum sound quality.
Get the picture right — setting up your disc player for video.
Right out of the box, the default video display settings on your DVD or Blu-ray player will generally get you some kind of picture. But those settings may not always be the correct ones for your specific TV. Choosing the proper aspect ratio in your player's video display menu (usually labeled "4:3 standard TV" and "16:9 widescreen TV") ensures you get a picture that's sized correctly to match your standard or widescreen set. This is definitely key if, for example, you don't want to see an impossibly tall and lanky Frodo or an abnormally squat looking Gandalf.
|Use your disc player's setup menu to get a properly formatted picture on your TV screen.
Set your disc player's audio output to match your receiver's capabilities.
When you first plug your disc player in, it probably won't be set to send the best audio signal to your receiver. That means that even if your receiver's capable of surround sound, and you're using the right connections, your DVD or Blu-ray player might not deliver the correct signal, and you won't be getting the full surround sound benefits you paid for. You'll see a few options in your player's audio setup menu — choose the surround sound setting (usually labeled "bitstream" or "Dolby Digital") instead of the stereo setting (frequently labeled "PCM" or "Digital PCM"). And be sure to activate the player's "DTS" output as well if your receiver has a built-in DTS decoder.
Many Blu-ray discs also have high-resolution audio, like Dolby® TrueHD and DTS-HD™ Master Audio, encoded on them. But getting your Blu-ray player and receiver to play nice together can be tricky. Be sure to check out our article on connecting your Blu-ray player if you're having trouble getting high-resolution surround sound to your receiver.
|By setting your disc player's audio output properly, you'll get the best possible surround sound from your system.
Select the best playback modes from your disc's menu.
It might be surprising, but even if you use the right connections, and set your DVD or Blu-ray player correctly to output surround sound, you may still have to take an extra step to make sure you hear surround every time. That's because most DVDs and some Blu-ray discs don't have surround sound automatically set as their default playback mode. And some Blu-ray discs give you a couple of options for high-resolution surround sound, so you'll want to pick the best one for your system.
In order to get a disc to output surround sound, go to the disc's main on-screen menu by pressing your player's "Disc Menu" button and selecting the disc's audio options, usually labeled "Audio Setup" or "Languages." From there you can choose the best surround format your system is able to support, like Dolby Digital 5.1 EX or Dolby TrueHD, and DTS 5.1 ES or DTS-HD Master Audio. (For more information about surround sound, see our article "Understanding Surround Sound Formats.") Then check the front-panel display on your receiver — you should see an indicator light or text display that shows you if you're listening to true discrete multichannel sound.
On most players, you can change the soundtrack settings on the fly by simply pressing a button on the remote. Try cycling through the various surround sound options as the disc is playing to see which mode sounds best to you.
Don't take your subwoofer's placement and settings for granted.
If your subwoofer sounds incredibly powerful — even while listening to a violin solo — you may need to take a closer look at how and where you have it set up. Location is frequently a matter of necessity. But if you have the luxury of experimenting with placement, you may find that where you put your sub makes a big difference in the quality and evenness of bass response throughout your room. A general rule of thumb is the closer you position your sub to walls or corners, the stronger the bass. But be careful — placement that's too close to room boundaries can result in bass that's boomy or distorted. Most subwoofers (and many receivers) have controls that allow you to fine-tune bass output. Just remember, even though sound quality and bass performance can be very subjective, the main idea is to end up with bass that goes deeper, not just louder.
Calibrate your speaker system's output levels properly.
Simply getting sound from all of your speakers isn't enough to ensure accurate sonic performance. Years of setting up sound systems has taught me that additional calibration of speaker levels can bring out subtle nuances and special effects that our ears might not be able to pinpoint but can nonetheless appreciate — like a sense of three-dimensional space on a multichannel music track recorded in a concert hall, or the realistic sound of airplanes flying overhead during your favorite action movie. I've used an inexpensive analog decibel meter before, and the consistently accurate results I get are impressive. Fortunately for the many folks who don't have that kind of equipment, quite a few receivers now come supplied with their own microphone, and feature a built-in automatic calibration system that can also do a great job.
My friend's system: the diagnosis
My friend had clearly encountered some classic pitfalls while setting up his system. All of his connections were correct, but the first problem I noticed was his receiver failing to go into the proper Dolby Digital or DTS discrete surround sound modes. Plus, the picture on his non-widescreen HDTV looked very squeezed. Frodo's face appeared strange, even for a Hobbit. And I also noticed that bass sounds coming from the subwoofer were booming heavily.
A quick check of the DVD player's menu revealed much of the problem. The picture output was set on widescreen (my friend's TV is not) and the audio output settings were in the conventional PCM stereo sound mode, not a surround mode. After a couple of quick setting changes, everyone in Middle-earth returned to normal and a bright blue light on the front of his receiver glowed proudly to indicate proper, discrete surround sound processing had been achieved. I knew my adjustments had hit their mark when he muttered, "Wow, I've never seen that little blue light before." He also immediately recognized the improvement in the picture as it settled into the correct letterbox mode for his TV.
As for the subwoofer, I simply dialed its volume setting back from the full-on position to somewhere in the middle. There was still plenty of bass, but now it sounded more subtle and better blended with his other speakers. There was no question in my friend's mind; his system now looked and sounded much better than it had just a few short moments before.
So as you can see, a few easy adjustments can make a huge difference in the performance of your system if you know what to look for. I tell this story because it's a great example of what I find in the living rooms of so many smart, tech-savvy people with good ears and eyes. I'm hoping it'll help everyone who'd like to tweak their system and get all the performance they paid for, whether they're A/V beginners or experts.
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mik from Sunderland
Posted on 4/5/2020
My Sony STRDN1040 has never put to DTS indicator or True HD as long as I've had it. Strange they don't ship from the factory with the best surround setting already set. I fiddle and i tweek and it still sound like a receiver I bought twenty years ago not a modern amp. DONT BUY SONY.
Bjarki Svensson from VEDDIGE
Posted on 11/24/2015
The dvd/dvcd/svcd/vcd/cd/mp3/cd-r player in my lenco mdv-3 system has stopped working it just say No Disk 15, how do I fix this? Also my loud mode doesn't make any difference anymore how do I get it to work again.
Dave Bar from Crutchfield
Posted on 8/10/2015
Hi Brian, Like you, I can never leave well enough alone. (But then again, well enough is never good enough, is it?) Just give our Techs a call. I'm sure they can help your retrace your steps and get everything back up and running again.
BRIAN SCHUSTER from United States
Posted on 8/8/2015
i've managed to lose all volume in my H/T set up. Went back to seperate componets for this system. I started with a Marantz AV 7701 pre amp tuner.Which buy the way I purchased thru Cruthfield. It's powered by a Emotiva 5 channel XPA amp. My inputs are a directv reciever, cambridge audio blu-ray player. and a Alienware X51 gaming computer. It sounds great. But I cant seem to leave things alone. Always trying to tweek it and improve the sound. Well Ive tweeked to much. I cant find the problem. Any suggestions?
Dave Bar from Crutchfield
Posted on 7/22/2015
Rick, The video circuitry on most modern AVRs is so clean I really doubt there would be any visible loss of picture quality. However, if you're curious, you could always try hooking it up both ways to see if you can tell any difference. Then go with whatever looks best to you.
Rick from Davie
Posted on 7/21/2015
My direct tv manual recommends attaching the DVR to my TV for the best picture, however I just purchased a new Home Theater and the manual for the AVR recommends that I attach the DVR to the AVR. Will that deteriorate my picture quality.


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(CMT Offstage keeps a 24/7 watch on everything that's happening with country music artists behind the scenes and out of the spotlight.)
I have a stack of gently used iPods, Nanos, iTouches and Shuffles in my basement. And Kenny Chesney has just given me a way to put them back to work. He is out there extolling the virtues of a program called Music & Memory , which he says is a "ray of hope for a lot of people." Chesney says the charity creates music players full of songs that can help reconnect people who are suffering from Alzheimer's with good memories and to people around them. There are countless therapeutic benefits to this kind of music therapy, so I'm glad Chesney is helping them spread the word. Right now, the group has music players in about 60 nursing homes. But if we all send them our old iThings , imagine how much more music we could bring them.


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So, you should understand why a quick skim of this article had me clicking over to Amazon to buy this 3 DVD's worth of "Playboy After Dark," which was a TV show that started in 1968. There are also some episodes of "Playboy's Penthouse," from 1959 -- not quite the 60s, but laying the groundwork, and hence, more interesting to the 60s person than the 1968 show. Hugh Hefner was ridiculously behind the times to a young person in 1968, but he represented the way of the future in 1959. You're wondering if I was allowed to watch "Playboy's Penthouse" in 1959, when I was 8 years old. Let's just say my father was a great fan of Playboy Magazine who had every issue going back to 1953 and always proudly displayed the newest issue on the (kidney-shaped) coffee table (sometimes along with Swank and Escapade!). (I'm really afraid Roger Kimball might read this post and have a convulsion.)
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As [Cy] Coleman's smoothly addictive theme plays over the opening credits, elevator doors part and a subjective camera roams the party, stopping when the pipe-smoking Mr. Hefner turns to introduce himself. Not the most natural of hosts, his sometimes awkward presence nonetheless has its charms: if the editor and publisher of Playboy can appear uncomfortable, there was hope for every nebbishy reader, a fantasy that fueled much of his magazine's success.I love this kind of thing.
''Playboy's Penthouse," produced in Chicago over two seasons, also helped break down racial barriers on television. Black performers don't just entertain and walk off. They socialize. Nat King Cole and Sammy Davis Jr. join the party, chatting, laughing and sipping their drinks. Cole, who does not sing, seems pleased to relax with the likes of [Lenny] Bruce and the novelist Rona Jaffe. Conversations have a natural feel, and Mr. Hefner never rushes anyone.
Bruce is the life of the party, riffing on TV censorship, integration and the definition of a "sick" comedian. And he's funny, relating how executives from another show wouldn't let him tell a story about why a tattoo on his arm might prevent burial in a Jewish cemetery. (Mr. Bruce, who died in 1966, need not have worried. He is buried in a Jewish cemetery in California.)
''Playboy After Dark" arrived in syndication in 1968. Taped in color in Los Angeles, the show has production values that are slicker than "Playboy's Penthouse." But what was elegant and slightly cool about the earlier series here seems forced. Joe Cocker and Canned Heat share the bill — weirdly — with Billy Eckstine and Vic Damone. Instead of Bruce and company, there is Rex Reed discussing "Myra Breckinridge," the legendarily awful film in which he co-starred. Under his dinner jacket Mr. Hefner wears a shirt so puffy it could have inspired a famous episode of "Seinfeld."


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This par-71 course plays to 6,510 yards from the back tees, offering a unique and challenging experience highlighted by the distinctive island-green par-3 opening hole, two sprawling par 5s that come in at 600-plus yards, and a par 3 that requires skill and precision to land on a postage-stamp green. Gentle, undulating slopes and subtle elevation changes, along with meticulously maintained bentgrass greens, fairways, and tees, help create a memorable atmosphere. Multiple tee locations on every hole provide golfers of every handicap level with an engaging and fun experience. Golf Illinois.
Featuring plenty of "breathing room" between holes, and given its appeal to a broad spectrum of golfing abilities, Tanna Farms is a fabulous outing venue. Combine great golf and a beautiful natural atmosphere with the award-winning onsite restaurant T.F. Boonie's and The Pavilion, a three-season venue that accommodates up to 150, and this is an unparalleled choice for your next event.


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The five-day Royal Ascot Meet occurs during the early peak season for most horse. Its races are known to establish the year's form for the horses competing in its wide range of races and distances.
It is suitable, that given 2011 is the 300th Anniversary of Royal Ascot, the QIPCO British Champions Series should start its first Series in the same year having seven of Royal Ascot's races are part of the Series.
Three major QIPCO BCS races are on opening day June 14th.
The Queen Anne Stakes (1m, 4yo+) has lured six-year-old Goldikova back to England to repeat her success last year. She is up against very tough competition against powerful males like Canford Cliffs, Cape Blanco, Citiscape, Ransom Note and Rio Del La Plata. Flash Dance will be her pacemaker.
Given the mess in the Prix de Diane, one hopes Goldikova's jockey remembers that she is 2010 Horse of the Year in both England and France as well as being the three-times' winner of the Breeders' Cup Mile.
The King's Stand Stakes (5f, 3yo+) has attracted 19 of some of the world's finest sprinters - except Black Caviar who will compete in 2012 - and trainers.
Overdose is back for the Czech Republic. Todd Pletcher brought Bridgetown and Wesley Smith brought Holiday For Kitten to be ridden by Zenyatta's partner Mike Smith who is riding in Britain this Spring.
Star Witness is currently favourite and hails from Australia.
The European home team claims the favourites in Sole Power and game Kingsgate Native.
This is the most open race of the three starting the RA/BCS Series.
The St James's Palace Stakes (1m, 3yo) promises to be a thriller with eight taking on Frankel who is the highest-rated colt in the world at 130.
Japan is not affraid of him. It has sent Grand Prix Boss with Dubai World Cup winner Mirco Demuro on board. Dumuro is proving to be one of the world's top jockeys in and out of Italy along with his chum Frankie Dettori.
Dubawi Gold and Wootton Bassett return to the challenge against Frankel along with Dream Ahead, Excelebration, Rerouted, Godolphin's Neebras and Ballydoyle's Zoffany.
Many think Canford Cliffs will beat Goldikova. He may, but my heart is always with her.
I cannot predict the sprint outcome, but I cannot see any colt beating Frankel unless he has his first bad day.
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Nurse Clinical Assessor
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Meridian Business Support are currently looking to recruit qualified registered Nurses (RGN, RMN, RNLD) across the UK for exciting opportunities to become an approved qualified Disability Assessor.
As an Assessor, you will utilise your clinical knowledge and broad-based medical experience by carrying out face to face assessments and examinations on people's disabilities and illnesses in a holistic manner. Such assessments focus on how a person's health condition(s) may impact on their ability to carry out daily tasks. The role will not require you to provide any treatment or advice. Instead, you will compile evidence together from each appointment in order to write clear and concise medical reports based on your findings.
This is a permanent position with both full and part time available. The standard working hours are Monday - Friday, 9am - 5pm. No weekends, nights or bank holidays are required. A full comprehensive training and induction programme is provided for which you are paid your full time salary.
- Starting Salary: GBP35,000 per annum.
- Working Hours: Monday-Friday, 9:00am-5:00pm, 37.5hrs per week (no weekend shifts, nights or bank holidays required).
- Induction and training programme provided (for which you are paid your full-time salary).
- Ongoing CPD support.
- Fantastic career progression opportunities.
Employee Benefits Package:
- 25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays).
- Option to buy or sell annual leave.
- Contributory pension scheme (10%).
- Life insurance.
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- Professional registration fee reimbursement.
- Flexible benefits that you can opt-in to.
- Opportunities for paid overtime.
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Lynn L. Bergeson P'14
Lynn Bergeson is Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), a Washington, D.C. firm concentrating on conventional, nanoscale, and biobased chemicals and chemical products.
She has earned an international reputation for her deep and expansive understanding of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), European Union Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), and especially how these regulatory programs pertain to nanotechnology and other emerging transformative technologies. Her knowledge of and involvement in the policy process allows her to develop client-focused strategies whether advocating before Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or other governance and standard-setting bodies.
For more than 20 years, Ms. Bergeson has counseled corporations, trade associations, and business consortia on a wide range of issues pertaining to chemical hazard, exposure and risk assessment, risk communication, and minimizing legal liability, particularly with respect to TSCA, FIFRA, Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), REACH, and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) matters. Her clients include industrial chemical manufacturers and processors, and agrochemical and biocidal manufacturers and formulators.
Ms. Bergeson served as chair of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources, and has served in many Section leadership positions. She served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute and is on the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association Advisory Board, and is President–Elect and on the Board of the Product Stewardship Society, among other business and law organizations, and lectures and writes frequently on legal, regulatory, and science policy issues. She is on the editorial board for "Nanotechnology Law and Business," "The Environmental Forum," "Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News," "Environmental Quality Management," "Chemical Processing," and "Pollution Prevention Review," among others, and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, Bar Association of the District of Columbia, American Bar Association, Women's Bar Association of the District of Columbia, and The Cosmos Club.
Her rankings and recognitions include: 2011 inductee, American College of Environmental Lawyers; The Best Lawyers in America (2009-2017); Chambers USA: Environmental Law (2005 - 2017); International Who's Who of Environmental Lawyers (2004 - 2017); Law360's Five Most Admired Environmental Attorneys (2010); Super Lawyers (2012-2017).
Ms. Bergeson is also President of The Acta Group, B&C's scientific and regulatory consulting arm, which assists chemical and product manufacturers in marketing and sustaining their products globally, and President of B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C., which helps the chemical industry leverage resources and maximize impact by forming consortia to achieve shared research, testing, regulatory, and access goals.
According to Chambers USA Guide 2012: "The universally highly regarded Lynn Bergeson has a solid reputation in chemical and pesticide regulatory work, with particular expertise in nanotechnology. Peers predict that she is set to become 'one of the most important lawyers in America.'"
Lynn resides in Chevy Chase with her spouse, Ingrid Hansen. Together, they are parents to Claire Hansen '14, and Lorentz Lillian Hansen, Chicago '17.


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Danny McBride is no longer a single man.
The star of HBO's "Eastbound & Down" married his girlfriend, Gia Ruiz, on Friday, a rep for Danny told Access Hollywood.
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Danny and Gia reportedly met on the set of his hit comedy, where Gia works in the art department, according to MTV News.
While Danny just walked down the aisle, the former "Land of the Lost" star may soon be heading to NBC's "The Office'" — if cast-member/writer B.J. Novak gets his way.
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As previously reported on AccessHollywood.com, B.J. told the Associated Press that he's "always been a big believer" in Danny as a replacement for the soon-be-exiting series star Steve Carell, if his "Eastbound" schedule allows.
"Eastbound & Down," which stars Danny as washed-up former professional baseball pitcher Kenny Powers, recently entered its second season on HBO.
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The University of Alabama is still paying ex-President Guy Bailey $535,000 a year, even though he resigned after just two months on the job. Bailey, a linguistics expert, was granted tenure as an English professor when he was hired and could return to the university in a teaching position once the leave ends, she said.
TUSCALOOSA | The University of Alabama is still paying ex-President Guy Bailey $535,000 a year, even though he resigned after just two months on the job.
Bailey, who cited his wife's health in unexpectedly quitting in late October, remains on the university payroll and will be classified as being on "developmental leave" through next August, Kellee Reinhart, a spokeswoman for the three-campus University of Alabama System, told The Associated Press on Friday.
Bailey, a linguistics expert, was granted tenure as an English professor when he was hired and could return to the university in a teaching position once the leave ends, she said.
System Chancellor Robert Witt said Bailey would be a "tremendous asset" to the university if he decided to move to the classroom, and that was part of the reason he was given paid leave.
"To that end, I felt that the right thing for the university to do was to give him the same kind of developmental leave appointment he would receive if he had been here for a longer period of time," Witt said in a statement sent to the AP.
While Bailey's annual pay package was worth as much as $652,000 including incentives, he will receive only the base salary amount until the leave period ends. Reinhart said Bailey's salary would drop to a level in line with that of professors if he remained in a teaching role.
A native of Montgomery and a two-time Alabama graduate, Bailey was hired away from the presidency at Texas Tech University in July and took over at Alabama in early September. He quit about two months later, citing the health of his wife, Jan Tillery-Bailey, a two-time cancer survivor.
Bailey and his wife moved out of the presidential mansion this week but remain in Tuscaloosa, she said. It's unclear when Bailey might decide whether to return to teaching.
"Right now his first priority is to take care of his wife, Jan, and we wholeheartedly support him in doing so," Witt said.
Bailey has not commented publicly on his departure, and university officials have declined to discuss details behind his decision to quit or his wife's health.
The university's faculty handbook says tenured or probationary faculty members can apply for leaves of absence for a period of as long as one year. The school offers several types of paid leave — sick, maternity, military and jury duty leave — plus voluntary leave without pay. The handbook doesn't mention developmental leave as an option, but Reinhart said it was the same as a paid sabbatical offered to faculty members.
The Family and Medical Leave Act provides unpaid leave for some workers to deal with health or other family problems, according to the handbook, but employees must have worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous year and have used all paid sick leave. Bailey likely would not have qualified because of his short tenure at Alabama.
Bailey was replaced by Judy Bonner, a former provost who became the university's first permanent female president. Reinhart said her compensation package is identical to Bailey's.
Bonner, who previously served as interim president before Bailey was hired, is the sister of U.S. Rep. Jo Bonner, R-Mobile.


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Former Army Contractor Charged with Involuntary Manslaughter and Assault After Collision in Kuwait Kills One Sailor and Seriously Injures Another
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WASHINGTON, July 27 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — A former U.S. Army contractor was arrested today in Newport News, Va., for allegedly killing one sailor and seriously injuring another in a vehicular collision in Kuwait, announced Assistant Attorney General Lanny A. Breuer of the Criminal Division, U.S. Attorney Neil H. MacBride for the Eastern District of Virginia and Brigadier General Colleen McGuire, Provost General of the Army and Commanding General of the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command.
Morgan Hanks, 25, of Newport News, was arrested on charges contained in a two-count indictment returned by a federal grand jury on July 13, 2010, and unsealed today in the Eastern District of Virginia. The indictment charges Hanks with one count of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Brian Patton, and one count of assault resulting in serious bodily injury for injuring David Morgan.
According to the indictment, in November 2009, Hanks was employed in Kuwait as a canine handler by Combat Support Associates and Combat Support Associates Ltd. (CSA). CSA provided site security and force protection at U.S. Army bases in Kuwait. The indictment alleges that on approximately Nov. 19, 2009, Hanks was operating a motor vehicle in excess of the posted speed limit on Alternate Supply Route Aspen in Kuwait. The indictment alleges that Hanks attempted to pass an eight-vehicle convoy on the two-lane road while traveling uphill and caused a collision with another vehicle in which Patton and Morgan were traveling. The collision killed Patton and left Morgan with a serious brain injury and multiple fractures.
Hanks is charged under the Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act (MEJA), a statute that gives U.S. courts jurisdiction to prosecute crimes committed outside the United States by, among others, contractors or subcontractors of the Department of Defense. If convicted, Hanks faces up to 10 years in prison.
The case was investigated by the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division and is being prosecuted by Senior Trial Attorneys Micah D. Pharris and Steven C. Parker of the Criminal Division's Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Section (HRSP) and Assistant U.S. Attorney Eric Hurt for the Eastern District of Virginia.
The Criminal Division announced the formation of HRSP on March 30, 2010. The new section represents a merger of the Criminal Division's Domestic Security Section (DSS) and the Office of Special Investigations (OSI).
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On Sept. 17, Walton County Planning Commission held a workshop at the South Walton Annex to hear from the public about proposed changes to the county's parking ordinance.
The commission divided the workshop into two parts: residential parking and commercial parking.
The Walton Sun tackled the residential aspect last Saturday and this week is presenting the commercial concerns related to the proposed changes.
Commercial appeal: Hurting the �little guy�?
New in the commercial realm is the proposal to reduce the amount of compact car spaces, and eliminate shared parking.
Standard restaurants would be required to have one parking space per 100-square feet of gross floor area plus one space per two employees on the largest shift, plus for outdoor seating one space per three seats for booths and tables and one space per two counter seats.
Fast-food restaurants would be required to have one space per 100 square feet of gross floor area, plus one space per two employees on the largest shift plus for all outdoor seating one space per three seats for booths and tables and one space per two counter seats.
Taverns, nightclubs and lounges would be required to have one space per 100 square feet of gross floor area plus, one space per two employees on the largest shift plus for all outdoor seating, one space per three seats for booths and tables and one space per two counter seats.
Walton County Small Business Association spokesman Gary Shipman took the podium first and challenged the inconsistencies in the proposal, pointing out that restaurants located within a development under a DRI are exempt from the new rules and as such, it would be the "little guy" that the new ordinance hurts.
"Not a single restaurant on 30A could meet these requirements," he said. "Only the gigantic chains can buy parking lots. You can count on your fingers the number of large businesses in the county that could do this. If a storm should destroy a small business in this county, none of us could rebuild. Why would we want an ordinance that has the ability to put out of business the majority of businesses in this county?�
Urban Planner Mark Schnell also took the podium.
"No one wants us to be Okaloosa or Bay County," he said. "The rules you are proposing are of a strip-mall environment. That's what we have to the east and west of us. And that's why everyone lives here. We need to create a master plan for Seagrove and then do the same for each of our communities. Each community has different needs. We don't want stand-alone buildings surrounded by parking lots."
Restaurant owner Hanie Nasri said, "If a disaster happens, where will new guidelines put us? I have 26 parking spaces. I would either have to downsize and lose my liquor license or leave as I would then have to have more than 50."
30A resident Steve Springer called the proposed ordinance absurd, and brought up its political aspect, likening it to a communist approach, and suggesting that commissioners elected on the Republican ticket should check their party's platform before voting.
Resident Tony Anderson said every tourist community has parking problems, but the solution is better transportation.
Resident Bob Ward complained about developers close to him cramming in as much in a small space as they can, and said it is dangerous.
The next workshop to hear community input on this issue is Oct. 2 at 1 p.m. at the South Walton Annex off 331N.


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citserver fails to start, saying "Database contains compressed data, but this citserver was built without compression support."
This error can occur when you upgrade Citadel or attempt to port your database to a new host, when the old host has ZLib and the new host does not. Since some of your database contains compressed data, the new host will not be able to understand it.
This is easily corrected by installing zlib on your new host and recompiling Citadel. If you are using pre-built packages, this error will never occur, because the packages declare zlib as a dependency. If, however, you built Citadel from source code, you will need to install zlib (either from its source or by installing an operating system package such as zlib-dev or zlib-devel) and then "make clean" and "configure" again so that the Citadel system is built with compression support.
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President Barack Obama says the US has not taken military action against Iran over its nuclear program off the table ahead of the Israeli premier's trip to Washington.
In an interview with Newsweek on Saturday, Obama made it clear that he did not take any options off the table when asked about war with Iran.
"I've been very clear that I don't take any options off the table with respect to Iran. I don't take options off the table when it comes to US security, period," said Obama.
Iran would be a main topic of talks during Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting with President Obama in Washington this week.
The new government of Barack Obama says it wants to engage diplomatically with Iran to resolve the country's nuclear issue but has simultaneously followed in the Bush adminestration's footsteps by pursuing double-edged policy of carrots and sticks with Iran.
"What I have said is that we want to offer Iran an opportunity to align itself with international norms and international rules," the US president noted in his Saturday interview.
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President Obama once again accused Tehran of being a threat to the region.
The Islamic Republic of Iran could be "a member in good standing of the international community and not a threat to its neighbors," according to the first black leader in the US.
Obama also justified later US government decisions if nuclear talks do not stop Iran's pursuit of the nuclear know-how which Tehran — a signatory to the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty — refuses to relinquish as its inalienable rights according to NPT regulations.
"If it doesn't work, the fact that we have tried will strengthen our position in mobilizing the international community, and Iran will have isolated itself, as opposed to a perception that it seeks to advance that somehow it's being victimized by a US government that doesn't respect Iran's sovereignty," Obama said.
In April, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told US lawmakers that Washington was 'willing' to engage diplomatically with Iran but at the same time threatened Tehran with 'very tough, crippling sanctions' if the desired results were not achieved.
The US president also ruled out making decision for Tel Aviv to prevent the regime from launching a unilateral war against Tehran.
"I don't think it's my place to determine for the Israelis what their security needs are," he said.
"I can make an argument to Israel as an ally that the approach we are taking is one that has to be given a chance and offers the prospect of security, not just for the United States but also for Israel that is superior to some of the other alternatives."
However, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon earlier on Saturday said that he could not imagine any attack against Iran without Washington's approval.
Washington and Tel Aviv — the sole possessor of a nuclear warhead in the Middle East — have stepped up accusations that Iran is amassing weapons-grade uranium.
According to the latest International Atomic Energy Agency figures, however, Iran has produced some 1,010 kilograms of low enriched uranium (LEU) — a level "less than 5 percent."
Only enriched to high levels of above 90 percent, can uranium be used for production of nuclear weapons.


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Talk about procrastinating on a homework assignment.
An Ohio resident finally received her high school diploma 88 years after completing all but one requirement.
Although she'd fulfilled 12 years of schooling, Reba Williams flunked out of Mount Vernon High School in 1925 after refusing to read an assigned book, the Mainsfield News Journal reported.
As for her reasoning, the 106 year old said she'd already read the book once, didn't like it and wasn't going to read it again.
But the centenarian grad doesn't advise students to follow her example.
"I'd tell them what happened to me," she told the Mainsfield News Journal. "If they expect to get anyplace in this world, they have to learn."
Her situation received renewed attention after News Journal interviewed Williams about being the former cook at Malbar Farm.
After seeing the segment, a retired English teacher made it her mission to get Williams her overdue degree. And, on Feb. 18 the board of education unanimously approved.
Donning a white graduation cab, Williams was presented with her diploma on Wednesday.
Despite her belated sheepskin, she praised the Mount Vernon School System for giving students the opportunity for lifetime learning.
"I was learning all the time," Williams said.
Woman Receives Diploma After Waiting 88 Years
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