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President Obama's reelection triggered a ticking time bomb of fed up Americans. Across the country small businesses and large corporations alike are closing their doors or laying off hundreds of employees. The innovators and entrepreneurs of America have been weary of increasing government regulation for quite some time, now. With Obamacare on the horizon those who can leave the market are doing so in droves.
To those of us familiar with the work of Ayn Rand, particularly her much acclaimed novel Atlas Shrugged; we saw this coming. Rand's novel portrays a dystopian America, where the government egregiously encroaches on every sector of industry, exploits productive citizens and picks winners and losers through erroneous regulation and taxation. Atlas Shrugged is a mythological reference to the Greek Titan who held up the known world, when he shrugs and no longer cares about his duty, the world falls apart. The fictional America portrayed by Rand is no longer abstract; we are living out this once unfathomable vision of America.
Families, businesses and individuals across America are now forced to question the fundamental ideas that have made this nation the greatest civilization the world has ever known. America was founded on hard work, hope, freedom and the pursuit of happiness. The Obama administration is systematically destroying our once vibrant profit motive and replacing it with the utopian idea of equality without toil and entitlement without consequence. Hard work is discouraged with disproportionate taxation, and the vilification of the wealthy. The idea of hope has been perverted; hope was once an inspirational idea that through diligence, faith and dedication one could achieve their dream. In Obama's America, "hope" is now subject to government approval and dependent upon government stimulus. Maximum freedom, the foundation upon which this nation was built has now become a burden for the government to overcome, not a guiding principle. Finally, in today's America, happiness is to often pursued through government programs, not personal development.
In the aforementioned novel, the working class removes themselves from society, led by John Galt, they take shelter in a hidden valley, where liberty is held dear. Today, business owners and laborers are searching for their own valley, hoping and praying to endure through to looming fiscal nightmare. Today entrepreneurs and innovators are not dreaming of expansion and success, they are dreaming of mere survival. Without a return to our core principles we are destined to fulfill Rand's prophecy, Atlas Shrugged ends with the lights going off in New York City, symbolizing the final destruction of innovation and liberty. Unless we return to the values that set us on our journey to become that once shining city on a hill, I fear our proverbial lights will go dark as well.
We must stand and fight for a return to our core values and principles. Take the message of liberty to every corner of this nation, implore your friends, peers and neighbors to truly examine the consequences of our entitlement driven society.
America is shrugging. Answer her call.
Sad but true. The people who didn't vote in this election deserve some credit for this mess as well. A wise man once said... "The only thing necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing"
We business owners and innovators need to abandon the country, let it fall just as in Atlas Shrugged then pick up the pieces. Sadly some people won't survive this radical method but any method to eliminate this great satan will result in collateral damage. This evil government cannot survive without the creators. It is the only way to bring them down and we must do it before we get absorbed into a global government.


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SolidariTee is an expression of solidarity, and its remit is simple: each £10 t-shirt which we sell helps to fund legal aid in Greece. So that we can donate as much as possible, we purposefully keep our administrative costs very low, whether that means reusing wrapping paper to post our SolidariTotes, asking students to carry SolidariTees with them to eliminate delivery costs, and working from our dorms. It's particularly important for us that the money from our donations and sales is used particularly effectively — none of us are paid for our time, in any case — and so we tend to choose smaller NGOs which we can help expand and grow.
We at SolidariTee strive to counteract the dramatic decrease in the media coverage of the crisis by loudly talking, and visibly supporting refugees through the wearing of SolidariTees. This year, for example, we have launched a series of infographics and myth busters on our social media to present clear information on the refugee crisis to our followers. At SolidariTee we also maintain a commitment to sustainable change. That's why we support legal aid — by funding a lawyer or a legal adviser, we can ensure that we're dealing with the problem at its root.
By Amika George, founder of #FreePeriods, for Glamour
Did you know that 137,500 girls missed a day of school last year because they couldn't afford menstrual products? One in ten girls have been forced to improvise. 1 in 10 parents have admitted to sending their daughter to school without pads and tampons, and 6 per cent of parents have been so desperate, they've resorted to stealing on occasions they couldn't afford them.
Kenya has repealed tax on menstrual products, and last month pledged to distribute pads to every single one of it's 4.2m schoolgirls in its public schools. Kerala, a state in Southern India, is handing out period protection for schoolgirls in a bid to keep girls in school when they menstruate… Yet, the UK seems to be lagging behind in our will to provide access to menstrual hygiene management.
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This is the highly anticipated version of Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls. 100 stories have made the long list – about 100 amazing people who have made our world a better place, "through compassion, generosity and self-belief". Amongst those featured are:
ACHMAT HASSIEM – who saved his brother from a shark attack by diverting the shark towards him. He lost his leg. After overcoming depression, he went on to swim for South Africa, winning bronze at the 2012 Paralympics.
ALAN L. HART – one of the first ever transgender people to have gender reassignment surgery. He studied medicine and became a bestselling author.
BALDWIN IV – who at the age of thirteen, in 1161, was crowned King of Jerusalem. King Baldwin had leprosy, but that didn't stop him from riding out with his army and fighting alongside his men. He and only 500 men defeated an invading army of 26,000.
CHARLES FOURIER – the (18th philosopher who believed in equality and who invented the word feminism.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS – born into slavery in C19th. He eventually escaped and dedicated his life to fighting to end slavery, for women's rights and Irish independence.
It's a wonderful collection, for boys, girls, kids, grown-ups…EVERYONE!

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If you want to understand the reason PASOK went down in flames in a crushing defeat in Greek elections, simply look at the arrogance and gall of party leader Evangelos Venizelos in a statement following the election.
"We embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation", said PASOK party leader and troika sponsored clown, Evangelos Venizelos.
Ekathimerini reports Election swing leaves Greece teetering.
PASOK leader Evangelos Venizelos and New Democracy chief Antonis Samaras both declared themselves open to the idea of forming a pro-European national unity administration that would include other parties and would seek to renegotiate the terms of the EU-IMF loan agreement.
"All Greeks have to get to know each other again," said Venizelos, who admitted that PASOK had paid the price for carrying the burden of the crisis. "We embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation."
He said that the possibility of forming a national unity government with a "European orientation" regardless of parties' positions on the bailout should be explored.
Samaras said he would seek to form a "national salvation government" to keep the country in the eurozone and pledged to "amend" Greece's debt deal with foreign creditors in a bid to boost growth. He attributed the outcome of the elections, in which voters punished the two main parties, to "the disappointment of the Greek people for dead-end policies that have pushed them to the limits."
However, the possibility of a third group joining such a government looked extremely slim last night. Perhaps the best hope for Greece's two main parties would have been Democratic Left, which maintained a clear pro-European stance during the campaign.
However, party leader Fotis Kouvelis repeated his position that cooperation with New Democracy and PASOK was not in Democratic Left's intentions. "The results show people's frustration and anger," he said.
A failure by PASOK and ND to form a government would leave second-placed SYRIZA, the night's big winners, with the option of trying to form a government. Greece's electoral law means that in case of a hung parliament, the first party has three days to form a government, followed by the second party and then the group that comes in third.
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The idea that Troika sponsored clowns can form the basis of Greek salvation is ridiculous. Furthermore, Venizelos' statement is right up there with other top Orwellian idiocies.
Top Orwellian Comments Of All Times
- An American major after the destruction of the Vietnamese Village Ben Tre: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it."
- Vice President Joe Biden: "We Have to Go Spend Money to Keep From Going Bankrupt."
- President George W. Bush: "I've abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system."(For a discussion please see The Most Redeeming Feature of Capitalism is Failure)
- Nancy Pelosi said "We have to pass the health care bill to see what's in it." (YouTube Video)
- Larry Summers says "The central irony of financial crisis is that while it is caused by too much confidence, too much borrowing and lending and too much spending, it can only be resolved with more confidence, more borrowing and lending, and more spending." (Reuters)
We can safely add "We embittered the people so we could protect the future of the nation" to that list. As I said, Best thing For Greece is Tell the Troika "Go to Hell", and the election proves most Greek voters know it, even though they have been brainwashed into wanting to stay in the euro.
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Excerpt: 'The Healing of America,' by T.R. Reid
Read an excerpt from T.R. Reid's new book on health care in the U.S.
Aug. 24, 2009 -- It's a topic that has dominated the headlines and President Obama's time for months now: health care in America.
While the president's plan has recently come under fire from Republicans and voters alike, author T.R. Reid took a tour of other countries to explore their answers to the health care conundrum and find out how the U.S. could learn from their shortcomings and successes.
By talking to experts, from government officials to doctors, Reid discovered inspiration in the ways some countries can give their people quality health care at an affordable cost.
Read an excerpt of "The Healing of America" below, and head to the "GMA" Library for more good reads.
A Quest for Two Cures
Mrs. Rama came sweeping into my hospital room with the haughty grandeur of a Brahmin empress, wearing a salmon pink sari and leading a retinue of assistants, interpreters, and equipment bearers. It wasn't exactly medical equipment they were carrying, because Mrs. Rama wasn't exactly a doctor. Still, her professional services were considered an essential element of the medical regimen at India's famous Arya Vaidya Chikitsalayam, the Mayo Clinic of traditional Indian medicine.
Indeed, Mrs. Rama's diagnostic work is covered by Indian medical insurance. As she set up her equipment—on a painted wooden board, she carefully arranged a collection of shells, rocks, and statuettes of Hindu gods—Mrs. Rama told me that she was connected to the clinic's Department of Yajnopathy, an ancient Indian specialty that roughly equates to astrology. Her medical role was to ascertain my place in the cosmos; in that way, she could determine whether the timing was propitious for me to be healed. Any fool could see, she explained in matter-of-fact tones, that it would be a mistake to proceed with medical treatment if the stars in heaven were aligned against me.
For all her majestic self-assurance, Mrs. Rama did not immediately inspire confidence in her patient. After asking some basic questions, she shuffled the stones and statuettes around her checkerboard and launched into my diagnosis. "In the summer of 1986, you got married," she declared firmly. Well, not exactly. In the summer of 1986, my wife and I celebrated our fourteenth wedding anniversary; by then we had three kids, a dog, and a minivan. "In 1998," she went on, "you were far from home and were treated for serious illness." Well, not exactly. Our American family was, in fact, living in London in 1998; but in that whole year, I never saw a doctor.
Mrs. Rama kept talking, but I stopped listening. To me, the stones and shells and statues all seemed preposterous. Still, I kept my mouth shut. If Indian medicine required yajnopathic analysis before health care could begin (and Mrs. Rama did eventually conclude that the timing was propitious for treatment), that was fine with me. I was willing to go along, in pursuit of the greater goal. For I had traveled to the Arya Vaidya clinic—it's in the state of Tamil Nadu, at the southern tip of the subcontinent, where the Bay of Bengal meets the Arabian Sea—on a kind of medical pilgrimage. I was on a global quest, searching for solutions to two different health problems, one personal and one of national dimensions.
On the personal level, I was hoping to find some relief for my ailing right shoulder, which I bashed badly decades ago as a seaman, second class, in the U.S. Navy. In 1972, a navy surgeon (literally) screwed the joint back together, and that repair job worked fine for a while. Over time, though, the stainless-steel screw in my clavicle loosened; my shoulder grew increasingly painful and hard to move. By the first decade of the twenty-first century, I could no longer swing a golf club. I could barely reach up to replace a lightbulb overhead or get the wineglasses from the top shelf. Yearning for surcease from sorrow, I took that bum shoulder to doctors and clinics—including Mrs. Rama's chikitsalayam—in countries around the world.
The quest began at home. I went to a brilliant American orthopedist, Dr. Donald Ferlic, a specialist who had skillfully repaired another broken joint of mine a few years back. Dr. Ferlic proposed a surgical intervention that reflects precisely the high-tech ethos of contemporary American medicine. This operation—it is known as a total shoulder arthroplasty, Procedure No. 080.81 on the National Center for Health Statistics' roster of "clinical modifications"—would require the orthopedist to take a surgical saw, cut off the shoulder joint that God gave me, and replace it with a man-made contraption of silicon and titanium. This new arthroplastic joint would be hammered into my upper arm and then cemented to my clavicle. The doctor was confident that this would reduce my shoulder pain—orthopedic surgeons tend to be confident by nature—but I had serious reservations about Procedure No. 080.81. The saws and hammers and glue made the procedure sound rather drastic. It would cost tens of thousands of dollars (like most major medical procedures in the United States, the exact price was veiled in mystery). The best prognosis I could get was that the operation might or might not give me more shoulder movement.
And when I asked Dr. Ferlic what could go wrong in the course of a total arthroplasty, he was completely honest. "Well, you have all the risks that go with major surgery," he answered calmly. And then he listed the risks: Disease. Paralysis. Death.
With that, a certain skepticism crept into my soul about this hightech medical intervention. I departed my American surgeon's office and took my aching shoulder to other doctors, doctors all over the globe. Over the next year or so, I had my blood pressure and temperature taken in ten different languages. I ran into a world of different diagnostic techniques, ranging from Mrs. Rama and her star charts to a diligent, studious doctor (we'll meet him in chapter 9) who told me he couldn't possibly analyze my medical condition without tasting my urine. In Taipei, an acupuncturist twirled her needles in my left knee to treat the pain in my right shoulder. The shoulder itself was examined, X-rayed, patted, poked, palpated, massaged, and manipulated in countless ways. Some of these treatments worked, more or less; as we'll see in chapter 9, Mrs. Rama's colleagues at the chikitsalayam were helpful. Others proved no help at all.
This was not a major disappointment, though, because that aching shoulder was really just a secondary impetus for my medical odyssey. It would be ridiculous, after all, to go all the way to the southern tip of India—not to mention London, Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, and so on—to get treatment for a sore shoulder that isn't, frankly, all that sore. The stiffness is tolerable most of the time. I have another arm to use for changing lightbulbs or getting glasses off the shelf. I don't have a golf swing anymore, but even when I could swing a club I was a rotten golfer.
So the shoulder was not my top priority. Rather, the primary goal of my travels was to find a solution to a much bigger medical problem. It's a national problem—a national scandal, really—that is undermining the physical and fiscal health of every American. With help from many scholars and the Kaiser Family Foundation, I traveled the world searching for a prescription to fix our country's seriously ailing health care system. As Nikki White's experience demonstrates, it's fundamentally a moral problem: We've created a health care system that leaves millions of our fellow citizens out in the cold. Beyond the issue of coverage, however, the United States also performs below other wealthy countries in matters of cost, quality, and choice.
Most Americans can remember when our politicians used to boast—and we used to believe—that the United States had "the finest health care system in the world." Today, any U.S. politician who dared to make that claim—it was last heard in a State of the Union address in 2002—would be hooted out of the room. Americans generally recognize now that our nation's health care system has become excessively expensive, ineffective, and unjust. Among the world's developed nations, the United States stands at or near the bottom in most important rankings of access to and quality of medical care. In 2000, when a Harvard Medical School professor working at the World Health Organization developed a complicated formula to rate the quality and fairness of national health care systems around the world, the richest nation on earth ranked thirty-seventh. That placed us just behind Dominica and Costa Rica, and just ahead of Slovenia and Cuba. France came in first.
The one area where the United States unquestionably leads the world is in spending. Even countries with considerably older populations than ours, with more need for medical attention, spend much less than we do. Japan has the oldest population in the world, and the Japanese go to the doctor more than anybody—about fourteen office visits per year, compared with five for the average American. And yet Japan spends about $3,000 per person on health care each year; we burn through $7,000 per person.
Health Expenditure as a percentage of GDP, 2005
Switzerland 11.6
France 11.1
Germany 10.7
Canada 9.8
Sweden 9.1
Japan 8.0
Mexico 6.4
Taiwan 6.2
Sources: OECD Health at a Glance, 2007; Government of Taiwan.
There's nothing particularly wrong with spending a lot of money on something important, as long as you get a decent return for what you spend. It's certainly not wasteful to spend money for effective medical treatment. If a dentist who was about to drill a tooth offered her patient a choice between listening to pleasant music for free to lessen the pain, or a shot of Novocain for $50, most people would pay for the shot and would probably get their money's worth. And there's nothing wrong with paying more for better performance. Those fifty-two-inch high-definition plasma televisions that people hang on the family room wall these days cost five times what a top-of-the-line set would have cost ten years ago, but buyers are willing to shell out the extra money because the enhanced viewing quality is worth the price.
When it comes to medical care, though, Americans are shelling out the big bucks without getting what we pay for. As we'll see shortly, the quality of medical care that Americans buy is often inferior to the treatment people get in other countries. And patients know it. Surveys show that Americans who see a doctor tend to be less satisfied with their treatment than Britons, Italians, Germans, Canadians, or the Japanese— even though we pay the doctor much more than they do.
You don't need an advanced degree in yajnopathy to recognize that the stars are aligned and the timing is propitious for the United States to establish a new national health care system. As Americans voted in the 2008 election, only 18 percent told the pollsters that the U.S. health care system was working well. Even American doctors, who generally do just fine, thank you, in financial terms, are unhappy with the ridiculously cumbersome and unjust system that has built up around them. And those Americans who want change in our system— which is to say, almost all Americans—are not willing to settle for minor tinkering or small-scale adjustments. Rather, 79 percent told the pollsters they want to see either "fundamental changes" or "a complete overhaul."
The thesis of this book is that we can bring about fundamental change by borrowing ideas from foreign models of health care. For me, that conclusion stems from personal experience. I've worked overseas for years as a foreign correspondent; our family has lived on three continents, and we've used the health care systems in other wealthy countries with satisfaction. But many Americans intensely dislike the idea that we might learn useful policy ideas from other countries, particularly in medicine. The leaders of the health care industry and the medical profession, not to mention the political establishment, have a single, all-purpose response they fall back on whenever somebody suggests that the United States might usefully study foreign health care systems: "But it's socialized medicine!"
This is supposed to end the argument. The contention is that the United States, with its commitment to free markets and low taxes, could never rely on big-government socialism the way other countries do. Americans have learned in school that the private sector can handle things better and more efficiently than government ever could. In U.S. policy debates, the term "socialized medicine" has been a powerful political weapon—even though nobody can quite define what it means. The term was popularized by a public relations firm working for the American Medical Association in 1947 to disparage President Truman's proposal for a national health care system. It was a label, at the dawn of the cold war, meant to suggest that anybody advocating universal access to health care must be a communist. And the phrase has retained its political power for six decades.
There are two basic flaws, though, in this argument.
1. Most national health care systems are not "socialized." As we'll see, many foreign countries provide universal health care of high quality at reasonable cost using private doctors, private hospitals, and private insurance plans. Some countries offering universal coverage have a smaller government role than the United States does. Americans switch to government-run Medicare when they turn sixty-five; in Germany and Switzerland, seniors stick with their private insurers no matter how old they are. Even where government plays a large role, doctors' offices are operated as private businesses. As we'll see in chapter 7, my doctor in London, Dr. Ahmed Badat, was nobody's socialist; he was a fiercely entrepreneurial capitalist who regularly found ways to enhance his income within the National Health Service. Many countries have privately owned hospitals, some run by charities, some for profit; Japan has more for-profit hospitals than the United States. In short, the universal health care systems in developed countries around the world are not nearly as "socialized" as the health insurance industry and the American Medical Association want you to think.
2. "Socialized medicine" may be a scary term, but in practice, Americans rather like government-run medicine. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is one of the world's purest models of socialized medicine at work. In the Medicare system, covering about 44 million elderly or disabled Americans, the federal government makes the rules and pays the bills. And yet both of these "socialized" health care systems are enormously popular with the people who use them and consistently rate high in surveys of patient satisfaction. That's why President Obama has consistently promised to save both government-run systems, no matter what other changes he makes in health care.
So the problem isn't "socialism." The real problem with those foreign health care systems is that they're foreign. That offends the mind-set—sometimes referred to as American exceptionalism—that says our strong, wealthy, and enormously productive country is sui generis and doesn't need to borrow any ideas from the rest of the world. Anybody who dares to say that other countries do something better than we do is likely to be labeled unpatriotic or anti-American; I've run into that charge myself. Of course, this is nonsense. The real patriot, the person who genuinely loves his country, or college, or company, is the person who recognizes its problems and tries to fix them. Often, the best way to solve a problem is to study what other colleges, companies, or countries have done. And the fact is, Americans often do look overseas for good ideas. We have borrowed numerous foreign innovations that have become staples of American daily life: public broadcasting, text messaging, pizza, sushi, yoga, reality TV, The Office, and even American Idol.
The academics have a term for this approach to problem-solving: "comparative policy analysis." The patron saint of comparative policy analysis was an American military hero who went on to become our thirty-fourth president: Dwight D. Eisenhower. That's why this book is dedicated to his memory.
When Eisenhower became president, in 1953, the key domestic issue was the sorry state of the nation's transit infrastructure. Almost all major highways then were two-lane country roads designed primarily to get farmers' crops to the nearest market. Interstate travel was a torturous ordeal, marked by rickety bridges and long stretches of mud or gravel between intermittent paved sections. As postwar America embraced the automobile, it was clear that vast improvements were required. And most of the forty-eight states already had highway plans on the books. For the most part, those blueprints called for networks of two-lane highways that would run through the downtown Main Street of every city along the route. These were perfectly reasonable plans for the time. But Eisenhower, who recognized the value of comparative policy analysis, had a better idea.
As Supreme Allied Commander during World War II, Ike had commanded the long push by American and British soldiers toward Berlin after the D-day landings in June 1944. By the spring of 1945, the Allies had battled their way across France to Germany's western border. Eisenhower's strategic plan envisioned months of painful slogging across a shattered German countryside. But then his forward commanders reported an amazing discovery: a broad ribbon of highway, the best road system anybody had ever seen, stretching straight through the heart of Germany. This was the autobahn network, built in the 1930s, which featured four-lane highways; overpasses and ramped interchanges to avoid intersections; and rest areas for refueling every hundred miles or so. Once Eisenhower's trucks, tanks, and troop carriers found the superhighway, they moved much faster than Ike had planned. By early May of 1945, the war in Europe was over.
Those German roads came to mind when, in 1953, President Eisenhower was presented with rather timid plans for a two-lane highway network across America. "After seeing the autobahns of modern Germany, and knowing the assets those highways were to the Germans," he wrote in his memoirs, "I decided, as President, to put an emphasis on this kind of road-building. I made a personal and absolute decision to see that the nation would benefit from it. The [American plans] had started me thinking about good, two-lane highways, but Germany had made me see the wisdom of broader ribbons across the land." So Eisenhower built those "broader ribbons": a state-of-the-art network designed to a single national standard, with four-lane divided highways; overpasses and ramped interchanges to avoid intersections; and rest areas for refueling every hundred miles or so. There was considerable debate about how to pay for this hugely ambitious engineering project. A giant bond issue was proposed. But in those more innocent times, it was considered irresponsible for the federal government to run up large debts; in the end, Ike settled on a highway trust fund financed by gasoline taxes.
Today, the interstates—formally designated the Dwight D. Eisenhower System of Interstate and Defense Highways—comprise 47,000 miles of road, 55,500 bridges, 14,750 interchanges, and zero stoplights. The system has spawned such basic elements of American life as the suburb, the motel, the chain store, the recreational vehicle, the automotive seat belt, the spring-break trek to Florida, the thirtymile commute to work, and, on the dark side, the two-mile-long traffic jam. It's one of the finest highway networks in the world—and nobody seems to care that the basic idea was copied from the Nazis.
Eisenhower, the pragmatic commander, was willing to borrow a good policy idea, even if it had foreign lineage. In the same spirit, my sore shoulder and I hit the road, looking for good ideas for managing a nation's health care. But where should I look?


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I'm back!!! Sorry for not not updating much over the past few months, I've been busy in the kitchen and I've got loads of delicious new eggless recipes to get up on here, starting with this delicious egg free Victoria sponge cake, I've made it a few times over the past few months and everyone has said it tastes like a normal Victoria sandwich. And it's great to use when it's a few days old in a trifle…that's if you can make it last a few days ;o)
Cooking time: approx 20-25 minutes
Preparation time: 15 minutes
Serves 8
The Ingredients:
For the cake
- 10oz Self raising flour
- 6oz Caster sugar
- ¼ tsp Salt
- 1 tsp Bicarbonate of soda
- ½ pint Milk
- ¼ pint Corn oil
- 3 tbsp Golden syrup
- 1 tsp Vanilla essence
For the filling
- 3 1/2 oz butter, softened
- 5 oz icing sugar
- drop of vanilla essence
- 6 tbsp nice Jam
The Method:
- Pre heat your oven to 180C Gas mark 4
- Line the base of 2 X 7 inch cake tin with baking paper
- Sift the flour, sugar and salt in to a bowl and make a well in the centre
- Mix the bicarbonate of soda with a tbsp of the milk and pour in to the well
- Add the rest of the milk along with the oil, golden syrup and vanilla essence and beat together to make a batter
- Add the mixture to cake tins and cook in the oven for 20-25 minutes (until they bounce back when touched or when a skewer is inserted it comes out clean)
- Remove the cakes from the oven and allow to cool whilst you make the butter cream
- To make the butter cream beat the butter until it's smooth and then gradually beat in the icing sugar until it is all mixed together, beat the vanilla essence in at the end
- When the cakes are completely cool spread the butter cream to the top of the base layer and add the jam on top followed by the top layer. To serve, sieve some caster or icing sugar over the top
- I have found this cake is best kept chilled.


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Clare & Tommy's Back Yard
When we moved in back in 2003, our backyard was just a sloping square of grass. In 2005 we hired a contractor to build 3 level stone terraces and a vegetable area and we've been planting the beds ever since.
Back Yard Flower Close-ups Flower Garden Garden Large (5,000 - 10,000 sq ft.) Stone / Rock
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Your yard is just amazing. Great job.
WOW, what a beautiful big yard you have. I can tell you spend a lot of time on it. I love the 3 levels and your flowers are beautiful. Good job. Thanks for sharing.
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Kurt you have any information on 124379n616431 ? It's a yenko camaro.
Kurt124379L522341 is on ebay right now. Engine stamp doesn't look right to me.http://www.ebay.com/itm/1969-Chevrolet-Camaro-Z28-RS/201887419524?_trksid=p2050601.c100085.m2372&_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20140211132617%26meid%3Df897a930c711497eb63cce1d2bfe46e7%26pid%3D100085%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D201887419524%26clkid%3D3865896910194646695&_qi=RTM2247625
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The clerk's office in Oakland County, Mich., has added an online genealogy search with an index of marriage and death records back to 1941. Older records will be gradually added.
Home to the city of Pontiac, Oakland County is just north of Detroit and considered part of the Detroit metro area.
You can search by name and the year of marriage or death if you know it. Marriage record matches give the couple's names and marriage date; death record matches show the person's name and date of death.
If you find an index entry for an ancestor, you can click to order a copy of the record ($15 for the first copy, $5 for additional copies, plus a $5 "enhanced access fee" for online orders).
If your ancestor married or died in Oakland County between 1935 and 1941, you can order records from the clerk's office online even though they're not yet in the index. If the marriage or death occurred before 1935, you must order records by mail or in person.
Oakland County also has birth records, but Michigan birth certificates created less than 100 years ago are restricted to all but the person named in the record and his or her parents. However, according to the state vital records office website, "an heir may request a copy of a birth record less than 100 years old if they can provide an out-of-state death certificate, or the death information if it was a Michigan death, with the request."


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At the time of writing, there is a group of Cooper Union students protesting the university's decision to charge tuition. They are holding a banner that reads:
Free Education to All
Can this be construed as correct (under any scheme of interpretation)? It seems that "Free Education for All" would be expected, but I wonder if using "to" here is also correct (perhaps with a different meaning).


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I want to help out in a local community/support group for parents of children with ADHD (Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder). To organize the group we need a place to communicate, organize monthly meetups, schedule some dates and collect information.
So is there a free webapp/service that provides (importance in the given order, at least the first three should be met)
- free
- welcome page (static content) for the contact information
- mailing list where everybody can add himself
- News with RSS where the organizers can announce next meetup or related events
- Forum for members to discuss
- Doodle like functionality
- Calender to show the events
- Wiki or some knowledge base solution
I know I could collect free software for forum, mailing list and wiki and set up a server, but it's done on personal time without any budget. Further most members are not technically skilled.
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Chicago teachers vote to approve 3-year contract
Wed., Oct. 3, 2012
CHICAGO (AP) — Members of the Chicago Teachers Union overwhelmingly have approved a new three-year contract that includes pay increases and a new evaluation system, union officials announced late Wednesday.
Union spokeswoman Stephanie Gadlin said the contract was ratified by 79 percent of the union's membership. The contact was ratified by a vote Tuesday of 16,428 to 4,337. The contract now must be approved by the Chicago Board of Education, which is scheduled to meet later this month.
"This shows overwhelming recognition by our members that this contract represents a victory for students, communities and our profession," said CTU President Karen Lewis in a statement. "Our members are coming out of this with an even greater appreciation for the continued fight for public education. We thank our parents for standing with their children's teachers, paraprofessionals and clinicians."
Teachers walked off the job Sept. 10, idling 350,000 students in the nation's third-largest school district for seven days before the union's delegates agreed to suspend the strike and return to classes, pending the outcome of Tuesday's vote.
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has called the settlement "an honest compromise" that "means a new day and a new direction for the Chicago public schools."
The contract includes 3 percent raises in its first year and 2 percent for two years after that, along with increases for experienced teachers. There also is an option of another 3 percent raise if teachers agree to a fourth year of the contract.
The school district also agreed to reduce the percentage of teachers' evaluations based on test scores, down from a proposed 45 percent to the 30 percent set as the minimum by state law. It also includes an appeals process to contest evaluations. The district will be required to give some preference to teachers who are displaced, and will maintain a pool of qualified teachers with the goal of filling half of all new positions with displaced teachers.
The walkout, the first for a major American city in at least six years, drew national attention because it posed a high-profile test for teachers unions, which have seen their political influence threatened by a growing reform movement. Unions have pushed back against efforts to expand charter schools, use private companies to help with failing schools and link teacher evaluations to student test scores.
The teachers walked out after months of tense contract talks that for a time appeared to be headed toward a peaceful resolution.
Emanuel and the union agreed in July on a deal to implement the longer school day with a plan to hire back 477 teachers who had been laid off rather than pay regular teachers more to work longer hours. That raised hopes the contract would be settled before the start of fall classes, but bargaining stalled on other issues.
With an average salary of $76,000, Chicago teachers are already among the highest-paid in the nation. The district's final proposal included an average 7 percent raise over three years, with additional raises for experience and education. But the evaluations and job security measures stirred the most intense debate.
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I had a good feeling coming into Cowboys & Aliens.
As detailed in some of my previous posts, I found both the premise and the surprisingly straight-laced advertising campaign of the film to be provocative to my tastes.
I like cowboy movies.
I like alien movies.
A movie that slams both of genres together, while maintaining some semblance of seriousness should be the stuff of dreams, right?
Well, as it turns out, Cowboys & Aliens didn't really live up to the sum of it's (considerable) parts.
Despite a terrific cast, a solid premise, and one of the goofiest titles to a summer blockbuster this side of Snakes on a Plane, Cowboys & Aliens failed to be little more than "alright" in my eyes.
I won't go into any details of the plot, but I will say this:
It's predictable to the point in which a major character arc was spoiled for me IN THE TRAILERS, and there are more than a few moments towards the end that had me and my friend referencing Independence Day.
We also had a mutual flashback to Total Recall at one point, but that may have just been the 2 of us being weird… And dorky.
The first half is decent enough, with a slow burn sort of pacing that would lead you to believe the second half is going to have some sort of pay-off; only for the climax to come lurching into the view and offer absolutely zero sense of satisfaction to the audience.
Put it this way, if you're looking for good action, or even aliens doing cool shit with cool toys; Cowboys & Aliens is not the movie for you.
Truth be told, that was probably one of my biggest issues with the movie:
The damn aliens turned out to be one trick ponies!
When you think aliens of the technologically advanced variety, inevitably one's mind pictures them using said technology to their advantage.
While it made me happy to see that the aliens featured in the movie weren't complete feebs like some of the "green men" of old, I gotta' say, and this is only a minor spoiler, after watching an alien do his spear/chokeslam combo to a horse for the 50th time inside of 20 minutes, I started to get kind of bored.
Remember, this is coming from someone who would tell you the best part of Inception was when Joseph Gordon-Levitt choked a dude out while hanging upside down.
Don't get me wrong, I likes me some chokeslamming aliens as much as the next guy, but when that's all they ever fucking do; well, it gets old.
There's a reason a chokeslam is a finisher, and that's because it has a lot more impact when it's used to finish people as opposed to all the fucking time.
Long story short, if you saw a trailer for Cowboys & Aliens, congratulations; you've seen every fuckin' trick the aliens have up their sleeves with the exception of spears and chokeslams.
That being said, it needs to be said that the acting of the movie were actually pretty good.
Then again, with a cast that consists of the likes of Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Sam Rockwell, Clancy Brown, Olivia Wilde, Toad Face, and ADAM FUCKING BEACH; it's kind of hard to fuck up in the acting department.
Craig didn't really bring anything to the table in terms of emotional weight or investment, but I gotta' say; the man has the perfect silhouette for a Western.
Seriously man, I don't know if he went to mime school or anything, but the way Daniel Craig hold's his arms, the way he plants his feet just the right distance apart; he really just looks like a savage-ass cowboy hero.
Given the limitations of the script, it's hard to say whether Craig could've done better in the role or not, but in all honesty; I think he did just fine looking the part if nothing else.
Moving on, Harrison Ford growled and scowled his way through the movie as kind of curmudgeonly old, post-war Indiana Jones.
He's quite hammy throughout the film, though never pandering; but in his quieter moments, particularly with Toad Face and ADAM FUCKING BEACH, he manages to steal the show from time to time.
Outside of these 2, the rest of the cast was a little subdued, to the point of being kind of a let down.
Clancy Brown was more Mr. Krabs than The Kurgan, Olivia Wilde may as well have been window dressing, Toad Face was even uglier than he was in The Last Airbender, Sam Rockwell had a funny ad-lib here and there, but was unfortunately cast as a sniveling loser.
Despite this, ADAM FUCKING BEACH managed to have a few good moments, though many of them were squandered by him being cast (as tends to happen when you're one of like 3 Natives in Hollywood) as the stereotypical "Spiritually Strong and Morally Pure Native Dude."
A cowboy movie with stereotypes?
Surely you jest…
That being said, Cowboys & Aliens was far from a let down, but nowhere near as good as I would've hoped.
In general, the movie felt like it was rolling down a hill in neutral.
While I tend to like Jon Favreau as a director, the Iron Man movies and now Cowboys & Aliens have me convinced that the man needs to work on his pacing when it comes to making popcorn movies.
The action scenes were plainly choreographed and devoid of drama, largely amounting to scattered shots of cowboys shooting AT POINT BLANK RANGE, and aliens tackling them shortly thereafter.
By the way, make sure to pay attention to the number of cowboys featured in the finale, as personally; I found that I saw more cowboys die than they actually started out with.
Anyway, the movie was "alright," but nowhere near The Valley of Gwangi in terms of cowboy vs. the monster of the week novelty.
Captain America totally kicked this movies' ass…
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This article, under a different name, was nominated for deletion. The result was that it was moved to the current name and cleaned up. The deletion debate can be seen here. BD2412 T 15:33, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
This article seems to be written as an ultra-right wing Nordic racist anti-Spanish manifesto. 184.108.40.206 23:41, 5 September 2008 (UTC)
Wikiquote no longer allows unsourced quotations, and they are in process of being removed from our pages (see Wikiquote:Limits on quotations); but if you can provide a reliable and precise source for any quote on this list please move it to Spain.
- Almost everyone listed in your imagination to Spain as a beautiful southern region, with the gentle charms of voluptuous Italy, but is, instead, for the most part-if we except some of the maritime provinces, "a rough country and melancholy, of rugged mountains and very broad, treeless plains of indescribable isolation and aridity, which involved the savage and solitary character of Africa
- Washington Irving
- Spanish people are vindictive and hate poisons
- We will leave Spain, which is not going to know or the mother who bore
- Alfonso Guerra ,political
- With Spanish soldier and German command conquer the world
- Adolf Hitler ,Referring to the courage of the soldiers of the Blue Division.
- Having heard a man, it is easy
guess where he saw the sunlight;
if you praise England, is English,
if you speak ill of Prussia, is a Frenchman,
and if he speaks ill of Spain, Spanish
- I love both Spain, because I know
- The national territory is divided into two hostile camps irreconcilable ...
- Spain, evangelizing than half of the world, Spain, hammer of heretics, the light of Trento, sword of Rome, the birthplace of San Ignacio, this is our greatness and our unity ... we have no
- One of the conditions [for escaping the stake during Inquisition in Spain] was that of stating all they knew of other heretics and apostates, which proved an exceedingly fruitful source of information as, under the general terror, there was little he.
- In Spain, attempting to obtain a chicken salad sandwich, you wind up with a dish whose name, when you look it up in your Spanish-English dictionary, turns out to mean: Eel with big abscess.
- An anarchist country in love with the blood: this is Spain
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Millennials face tough slog in job market
Lord, will the Baby Boomers ever get out of the way?
Not only do they have the lion's share of top-paying jobs, they're hanging on way past retirement age, "preventing younger generations from moving into management roles."
This is according to a report out Thursday on how Boomers, Gen Xers and Millennials are doing in the labor market these days. Apart from those lucky enough to work in tech-land, the Millennials (also known as Gen Y, born 1982-2002) are doing the least well.
-- Close to 30 percent "had to move back home with their parents due to financial hardship after starting their careers."
-- They have the lowest levels of "job satisfaction" and "job meaning."
-- They most likely work at smaller (often lower paying) companies.
-- They are least likely to be managing people (which may be a relief to some in the older age groups).
"The economy has delayed their careers and their personal independence and forced them to work harder than previous generations just to catch up," said Dan Schawbel, managing partner of Millennial Branding, a research and consulting firm in Boston, which put together the study with PayScale, on online recruitment and compensation data firm in Seattle.
The report, based on a survey of approximately 1.2 million workers across the three generations, contains a host of other findings. For example, Gen Xers (1965-1981) are more likely to be senior software executives than others. Engineering looks to be the most promising field for Millennials, while Boomers (1946-1964) are especially strong in the medical field.
Boomers are the least happy with their bosses and the least likely to commute in socially conscious ways. The prize in that category goes to the Millennials.
A note of nuance before broad conclusions are drawn: "It is important to note the complexities that each generation possesses, based upon so many economic, cultural and sociological conditions and issues," said Katie Bardaro, chief economist at PayScale.
Free rides: A new Bay Area transit agency held its first meeting in Silicon Valley on Thursday.
The Mountain View Transportation Management Association, a public-private organization whose funders include Google, Intuit and San Francisco developer TMG Partners, will provide shuttle bus and other transit programs for workers and residents in Mountain View to help reduce congestion in the traffic-heavy area. The shared services will connect corporate campuses to Mountain View's VTA Light Rail, Caltrain and downtown Mountain View.
The initiative came out of a "mode share" condition imposed by Mountain View on new office developments. In this case, it was up to TMG Partners, developer of the 8.5-acre Samsung Research America complex in Mountain View, to handle the transit provision. Another member of the group, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, is developing a 1 million-square-foot campus in the city.
Google and Intuit, whose headquarters are in Mountain View, already have shuttle, vanpool and car share programs for their employees. In addition to providing transportation for the companies' employees, a downtown shuttle service for the general public will also be launched.
"The MTMA brings together some of the most innovative minds in Mountain View with experienced developers to pool resources and develop creative solutions to relieve traffic problems for the entire community," said TMG partner Denise Pinkston.
Along the same lines, the Emeryville Transportation Management Association, initially co-funded by TMG, provides free shuttle services - Emery Go-Round - to the city's business district, from the MacArthur BART Station in Oakland to the Emeryville Amtrak station.
Treading water: California charities, including 12 in San Francisco, figure prominently in the Chronicle of Philanthropy's latest list of the top 400 fundraisers.
Stanford University ($1 billion) and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($990 million) are in the top 10 for 2012, at No. 7 and No. 8 respectively. Other local charities in the top 400 include Schwab Charitable Fund ($703 million), UCSF ($330 million), Tides Foundations and KQED.
Some of the top beneficiaries received more than the prior year, like Stanford, the Silicon Valley Foundation and the Tides Foundations, and some less, like Charles Schwab and UCSF.
Overall, it was a slow year. Donations to the top 400 rose by 4 percent in 2012; they are expected to grow by 1 percent or perhaps decline this year. Only about half of the charities listed are raising more than they did in 2007, when the recession started.
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The total value of the worlds real estate is now around $180 trillion, of which 72% is owner occupied residential property. Of the $70 trillion that is investable, and therefore traded regularlyincluding $20 trillion of commercial propertyover half is being bought by private individuals, companies and organisations.
The Savills-Wealth-X report says $5.3 trillion of the worlds total real estate value is owned by UHNWIs who comprise a small fraction (0.003%) of worlds population. Wealth-X forecasts the UHNW population to grow by 22% by 2018 and its combined wealthcurrently $27.8 trillionis expected to total over $36 trillion by 2018.
Whats interesting, European and Asian UHNWIs hold by far the biggest share of all privately-owned real estate, together accounting for almost 80% by value totalling $4.2 trillion. European real estate markets are the largest, having attracted the most inward investment globally , relative to size, with London being the standout global destination for private inward real estate investment.
Apart from the investment trend, what the survey also reveals is a wide disparity in income distribution and investment in real estate. While North America accounts for 35% of world private wealth, the region accounts for just 7% of wealth held in real estate. In contrast, the Middle East accounts for just 3% of global private wealth but holds 26% of real estate wealth. One reason for this could be that the uber-rich in North America have invested their wealth in a diverse portfolio predominantly in financial assets whereas the sheikhs of the Middle East have invested more on real estate than in financial assets. This should be a key take away for policymakers in India, which is witnessing a decline in the ratio of financial-savings-to-GDP ratio in recent years and higher exposure in gold and real estate.


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Pioneers Boulevard from east of Allendale Drive to west of 40th Street will close Monday for rehabilitation and is expected to be closed to through traffic for about six weeks. On Wednesday, May 4 the road closure will extend to just east of 33rd Street. The street from 33rd to Allendale is remaining open through Tuesday May 3 to allow access to South Gate United Methodist Church, a longtime Lincoln voting site.
When this first phase of the Pioneers Boulevard rehabilitation project is completed in early June, work will begin on the replacement of the 33rd and Pioneers intersection.
Nebraska Highway 2 is the suggested alternate route during Pioneers Boulevard construction.
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Abbott and Merck go FISH
April 2012
ABBOTT PARK, Ill.Abbott will collaborate with Merck to evaluate the use of a fluorescence in-situ hybridization (FISH)-based companion diagnostic test to aid in the development of a Merck investigational cancer therapy.
FISH-based companion diagnostic tests are designed to identify specific DNA sequences to help guide physicians in determining which patients are more or less likely to benefit from a particular therapy. FISH technology has a variety of uses, an Abbott spokesperson points out. It can identify whether too many, or too few, copies of a particular gene are present or whether certain genes have rearrangements that play an active role in disease progression.
"The use of FISH to determine genomic status and the link to therapeutic outcome in oncology is one of the fastest-growing applications. In this instance, a FISH assay will be developed to examine copy number of the TP53 gene," she adds.
The Abbott FISH assay will be evaluated in clinical trials to help identify patients more likely to respond favorably to Merck's as-yet unidentified investigational cancer therapy.
Merck evaluated number of potential partners and Abbott was chosen as a partner to develop this companion diagnostic test.
"We have proven capabilities to take a product through the regulatory process, manufacturing, distribution and implementation in a clinical lab setting," the Abbott spokesperson says.
Merck will be responsible for establishing the clinical trial sites with regard to all aspects of patient recruitment and therapy administration. Abbott Molecular will work with Merck to select the FISH testing labs, and then Abbott will provide assay training and monitor the laboratory sites.
"Our goal through this collaboration, and others like it, is to ensure that the right medicine gets to the right patient," says Stafford O'Kelly, head of Abbott's molecular diagnostics business. "As one of the early pioneers in companion diagnostics, we believe that linking genetic testing with drug development at the earliest stages can increase the effectiveness and predictability of medicines and help physicians make more informed treatment decisions."
Abbott's portfolio of companion diagnostic tests includes the PathVysion HER-2 DNA Probe Kit, which represents one of the first examples of innovations in the field of personalized medicine. The test is approved for use in selecting breast cancer patients for whom Herceptin (trastuzumab) therapy is being considered. In addition, Abbott's Vysis ALK Break Apart FISH Probe kit was approved in 2011 for use in identifying non-small cell lung cancer patients for Pfizer's XALKORI (crizotinib) treatment in the United States, Canada, South Korea, Japan and a number of other markets. Global commercialization continues to progress as Xalkori and Vysis ALK receive additional individual country approvals, Abbott notes.
"Our collaboration with GSK was expanded in November 2011. The existing agreements focused on the development of PCR tests to screen non-small cell lung cancer and melanoma tumors for expression of the MAGE-A3 antigen. Under the expanded agreement, Abbott will develop a PCR test for use on the Abbott m2000rt instrument, to screen non-small cell lung cancer tumors for the expression of the PRAME antigen. PRAME is a preferentially expressed antigen of melanoma that is expressed in 69 percent of non-small cell lung cancer cases, as well as in a wide variety of cancer types, including melanoma, breast, ovarian and bladder cancer, with limited expression in normal cells," the spokesperson tells ddn.
Abbott Molecular is a leader in molecular diagnosticsthe analysis of DNA and RNA at the molecular level. Abbott Molecular's tests can also detect subtle but key changes in patients' genes and chromosomes and have the potential for earlier detection or diagnosis, provide information relevant to the selection of appropriate therapies, and may improve monitoring of disease progression.
In an unrelated development, Abbott will collaborate with Genetics Laboratory Inc. (GenLab) on the development of a molecular diagnostic test that will be designed to rapidly detect microorganisms that cause orthopedic infections. Under terms of the agreement, Abbott, in conjunction with GenLab, will develop and commercialize the new assay for use on the PLEX-ID automated microbial identification system. In the United States, PLEX-ID is currently intended only for non-diagnostic use, but assays are now being developed for future clinical diagnostic uses.
PLEX-ID has the ability to rapidly identify a broad variety of microorganisms. The system is capable of generating results within five to six hours in contrast to other methods, which may take several days or longer for positive identification.
"Bacteria, particularly antibiotic-resistant species such as MRSA, are very dangerous in orthopedic patients because the bacterial colonies attach to the artificial surfaces of the implants," says Dr. Gerhard Maale, an orthopedic oncologic surgeon and an expert in orthopedic infections in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
Maale will also serve as the medical director for the Abbott-GenLab collaboration.
"A molecular diagnostic test designed to detect microorganisms that cause orthopedic infections, running on the PLEX-ID, could have the ability to determine which pathogens are responsible for an infection while assessing the genetic composition and potentially antibiotic resistance," Maale says. "This could be a major step forward in diagnosing and treating serious infections in artificial joint recipients, with the potential to provide important information to physicians that they could use to save treatment costs and improve the quality of life for these patients."
According to the New England Journal of Medicine, about 800,000 knee and hip replacement procedures are performed annually in the United States, and complications related to infections occur in approximately 2 percent of those procedures. In addition, more than 70,000 joint revisions are performed annually in the United States, with greater than 15 percent of hip and 25 percent of knee revisions caused by infections. Revisions are often more expensive than the original procedure.
FISH: Navigating the waters of personalized medicine
PRETREATMENT: Cells or tissue are placed on a slide and treated (fixed) to stabilize cellular structures. Chemical and enzymatic procedures are employed to remove membranes, and cytoplasmic proteins that prevent access to the cells' DNA.
DENATURATION: Cell DNA is exposed to high temperature in order to open the DNA, making it accessible to fluorescent-labeled probe DNA.
HYBRIDIZATION: Probe is added to the sample and allowed to combine with complementary sequence of the target DNA.
WASHING: Excess probe is removed post-hybridization, and a counterstain is applied to visualize the individual cells and nuclei.
FISH can utilize more than one fluorescent label at one time to be able to detect multiple genes (or gene loci) in a single hybridization. Colors are counted or enumerated to determine the gene status, amplification, deletion and translocation.
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DEAR AMY:My ex-wife and I have two beautiful, well-adjusted daughters, both in graduate school.
The girls were in middle school when we separated and I began a long-distance relationship, going strong now for several years. My ex and I had some hostility early on, mostly from her end although admittedly I did not always handle things well.
The stars have finally aligned and my soul mate is moving to my town soon. We plan to buy a house together and will probably get married eventually.
My ex and I are now civil and occasionally friendly toward one another. She has always been a great mom. The girls are undoubtedly closer to her than me but our relationships are solid.
Although my girlfriend is the love of my life, in some circles I suspect she is still considered "the home wrecker."
I was slow to introduce her to my daughters, but they gradually got to know and like her. Going forward I anticipate some major things like graduations and weddings will take place, and I can't very well leave my girlfriend at home. I understand that my daughters' wishes take precedence and my concerns are secondary, but is it reasonable to assume that both my girlfriend and I would be invited to events? Should I discuss this with my daughters?
How do I handle the inevitable meeting of my girlfriend and my ex? Would a standard introduction be appropriate? -- Concerned Dad
DEAR CONCERNED: You are overthinking this by a mile.
If this woman moves to your town, moves in with you and becomes your life partner, then she should be included in all family events to which you are invited.
Your daughters should not exclude her, and I suspect that this exclusion might not occur to them unless you introduced the concept.
In advance of this big move, you should call your ex-wife to say to her, "I realize these last few years have occasionally been tough for you and I think you've done an amazing job. Thank you for that. I want to let you know that 'Laura' is going to move here soon. We're planning to live together and I wanted you to hear this from me before you heard it from anyone else."
In the course of your conversation, you should ask for her advice and help with how to tell the girls. She may be helpful in this regard. If not, you'll just have to be straightforward and mature about it. Do not ask anyone's permission. This is your life.
Yes, when the moment comes to introduce these two women, a "standard introduction" is all that's required. The mind reels thinking of alternatives.
DEAR AMY: My boyfriend and I are in a committed relationship and plan on getting married. His family and I recently attended an out-of-town party hosted by old family friends.
His mother kept introducing me as "John's friend," rather than as his girlfriend. When I asked her about it, she said that it was just the proper thing to do, because we aren't married.
She said that people could infer that we are a couple if they talked to us, and that it wasn't a big deal. Her explanation felt dismissive to me. I can't help but feel that she doesn't want or expect us to be together for long. Should I worry about this? -- John's "Friend"
DEAR FRIEND:Many people don't like being labelled "girlfriend" and John's mother was allowing you to fill in the context.
If you read all sorts of hidden motives into what is actually a very polite introduction, then you are going to have a long and dissatisfied road ahead.
DEAR AMY: I am touched by the "coming out" stories in your column. I came out to my maternal grandmother when she was in her mid-90s and she responded with love. I invited my paternal grandfather to my wedding to a man when he was in his 90s and he called my aunt and complained about it to her. She told him point blank that his comments weren't appreciated. -- Happy Now
DEAR HAPPY: Age has little bearing on how people handle this news.
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SILVER SPRING, Md. -- Imatinib (Gleevec) may be used to treat children with newly diagnosed, Philadelphia chromosome-positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the FDA said Friday.
Previously, the drug had been approved as first-line treatment for Ph-positive chronic myeloid leukemia in children, as well as for multiple indications in adults.
The new approval was based on a 92-patient trial in which children were divided into five groups to receive different durations of imatinib therapy along with conventional chemotherapy.
Among the 50 children receiving the longest duration of imatinib, the 4-year progression-free survival rate was 70%, according to the FDA. Increasing duration of imatinib therapy was associated with lower overall mortality, the agency indicated.
Imatinib "should be used in combination with chemotherapy to treat children with Ph+ ALL," the FDA said in announcing the approval.
Neutropenia, thrombocytopenia, increased infections, and liver toxicity were the most common adverse effects seen in the pediatric ALL trial.
"We are pleased that the number of cancer medications for children are on the rise," said Richard Pazdur, MD, director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, in a statement.
"Today's approval is the result of continuous interactions among the FDA, the Children's Oncology Group, and the National Cancer Institute to provide new and better treatments to American children with cancer."


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Menopause is the permanent cessation of reproductive fertility some time before the end of the natural lifespan. The term was originally used to describe this reproductive change in human females, where the end of fertility was traditionally indicated by the permanent stopping of menstruation or "menses". The word "menopause" literally means the "end of monthly cycles" from the Greek words pausis (cessation) and the word root men (month).
The meaning of the word menopause has in more recent times been expanded to indicate the permanent discontinuation of female fertility in many other species, such as some matrilineal whales, despite the fact that such animals experience no menstrual cycles.
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Types of Rum
Rum 101: Why You Should Give the Slandered Spirit a Second Chance
Think all rum is sugary rubbish that practically instills a hangover just from glancing at its bottle? Think again; not only is rum one of the most diverse spirits out there — meaning there's a rum that'll please nearly any palate — but it's also cocktail-friendly and packs a lot of bang for its buck, largely due to the misguided assumption that it's all frat-boy fodder. While one could write a book on the nuances of this often overlooked spirit — the excellent Rum: A Global History ($17) comes to mind — let's start with some basics:
- During the 17th century, rum first came to fruition as an accidental byproduct of sugar processing in the West Indies. Sugar plantation slaves quickly discovered its intoxicating benefits. Since then, the production methods have been refined, leaving us with the nuanced spirit available today.
- In the US, rum is defined as a spirit, distilled from the fermented juice of sugar cane, sugar cane molasses, or other sugar cane byproducts. It ranges in strength from 40 to 95 percent alcohol by volume.
- Nearly every country in the Western Hemisphere produces a brand of rum, leading to a vast diversity in both flavor profile and price point.
Keep reading for a breakdown of the most common categories of rum.
- White or light rum is the lightest in both color and flavor. It goes through a charcoal filtering which strips away impurities and any residual hue and is generally aged only briefly (Flor de Caña is one exception). White rum is most commonly consumed in mixed drinks like the Hemingway daiquiri, mojitos, and piña coladas.
- Dark or aged rum is distinguished by its moody, caramel hue and molasses-like flavor, which partly comes from skipping the filtration process used for white rum. In addition, dark rum is stored in used whiskey casks, which add to its signature intensity of color and taste. Typically aged longer than white (though less than most aged spirits), dark rum is a go-to choice for drinking neat, "watered" (a few drops of water are added to the glass to open up the flavor), or in cocktails like dark and stormys, hot buttered rum, and many tiki drinks. It's also a go-to spirit for flambéed applications like bananas foster.
- Spiced rum gets its characteristic spicy flavor from — you guessed it — spices, and can be made from either dark or light rum, though generally speaking a dark rum base is preferable. Some common additives include ginger, vanilla, allspice, cinnamon, and cloves — though the variations are near-endless.


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OT: Should "Dirty Dancing" Be Remade? (TAKE POLL)
Hey All! I'm curious about what you think of the news on a new "Dirty Dancing" remake? If you haven't heard yet, one of the most loved, iconic dancing movies and classics of all time is in the works. Kenny Ortega is set to choreograph the second as he did the first. His producing, directing, and choreographing credentials are a mile long including the recent Michael Jackson's "This Is It" concert tour and movie. Kenny had this to say about it…
"Patrick Swayze set the bar for men dancing in the movies as Gene Kelly and Fred Astaire did before him," Ortega said in a statement. "I believe everywhere you look there is evidence that the talent is out there and I can't wait to begin the process of discovering the next breakout triple-threats."
Jennifer Grey, the female lead in the first "Dirty Dancing" and Season 11 Dancing With The Stars Champion is excited about the project. When she heard the news, this is how she reacted….
"I'm so excited about this news, and I think there's nobody better to do this than my beloved Kenny Ortega, who is as responsible as anyone for the success of the first one," Grey said. "I can't wait to see what he's going to do with it."
So, what do you think? Do you support the idea of this remake? Will the Dirty Dancing remake be as good and as successful as the first? Do you think a remake is disrespectful to Partick Swayze's memory? Did any of you see "Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights" seven years ago? It was good. I love dancing movies of any kind, but, it was lame compared to the first. Lastly, who should play the leads in the movie? I have not a clue who the female lead should be. But, last night at twitter, several of us were commenting how perfect Derek Hough would be in the Johnny Castle part. I couldn't agree more!! I say bring the remake on!!
EDIT TO ADD: ABC is reporting on the "outrage" over the news of this remake. Also, read below for who the front runners might be for the lead predicted by an Irish Bookmaker. Carrie Ann's tweets are also being reported by the link as well. It appears the promotion for Derek Hough to star in this remake has officially began. 🙂 ;
According to Irish bookmaker Paddy Power, Justin Timberlake is the front-runner to fill Swayze's iconic role, followed closely by "Thor" star Chris Hemsworth and Derek Hough from "Dancing With The Stars."
Hough's close pal from the show, Carrie Ann Inaba, is already leading the campaign for him to win the role.
"If they do a dirty dancing remake – THEY BETTER USE DEREK HOUGH," she tweeted Tuesday.


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