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Location: Oakham MA
Posted: Jan Wed 03, 2007 8:12 pm
Post subject: sleep apnea
Has anyone had any experience with sleep apnea? I am not finding any info in my usual reference files and books. I know they usually tell people to lose weiight, but this young man is very slim and active; early 30s and has gone to a sleep clinic where they diagnosed him with sleep apnea....I am wondering what natural avenues there are, he hates wearing the oxygen mask every night...
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Posted: Jan Wed 03, 2007 11:06 pm
Post subject: Sleep Apnea
If you do a search on the FAQ for Sleep Apnea you would have been led to this post. If this does not give you the info you need, please ask another question
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Posted: Jan Sat 06, 2007 3:38 am
Post subject: Re: sleep apnea
I had success with my husband at one stage by waking him to drink a large mug of water, 2 nights running. This was after I counted 11 missed breaths, I roused him and said you are not breathing! To that he rolled over and continued NOT BREATHING. So after Praying I got the large mug of water, Woke him to put his legs over the edge of the bed, so he would not spill water on the bed. He then drank it ! [ /2 asleep] where normally he could not drink water. So maybe dehydration can be partially to blame. Valerie Then there are some poeple whose bodies do not use water correctly. I think it is HY-C they need. Please share if you get siccess in anyway.
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Posted: Jan Tue 09, 2007 11:44 am
Post subject: Sleep Apnea
I agree with Valerie. I have found there to usually be an endocrine issue such as an adrenal gland imbalance. Adrenals are tied into SO many things such as our respiratory tract, allergies, blood sugar levels, increased inflammation, etc. I would support the adrenals with Mineral Chi, Nutri-calm(Vit. B5/C) and Nervous Fatigue formula. I would take the Nervous Fatigue 4 times a day instead of 3 (e.g. a.m/noon/p.m./bedtime).
If you Muscle test, I would test for these things. A glandular such as Adrenal support may be necessary to add and/or other endocrine support such as thyroid/pancreas/pituitary, etc.
Please keep us posted.
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Posted: Jan Thu 11, 2007 11:56 pm
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Apnea is generally associated with snoring, which is associated with sinus/respiratory issues (that comes from some of my nursing studies). From the few people (that I know)who have tried using herbs/drugs that target sinus/respiratory issues they have reported some relief, but none that I know of have had their diagnosis changed. However, there are some cases of people who snore that do so because of physical abnormalities in their soft palate, tongue, and throat areas. In that case, I am not sure exactly what would help other than perhaps changing sleep positions with the head held in a more up position than lying flat. Hope that helps some.
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Posted: Jan Fri 12, 2007 7:28 pm
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I've been watching this discussion and thought I'd add my 2 cents worth. I have had the sleep study done -- During a 5 hour stretch, I quit breathing 88 times.
Now, they made me lay on my back, which normally, I do not sleep on my back, I lay on my side with a pillow wadded up under my neck.
It could possibly be an adrenal issue -- but, I neither snored or quit breathing until I went into menopause and gained weight. Supposedly, what happens, is that when you fall asleep, the muscles in your throat relax -- (In my case that's what apparently causes my snoring also). It can also close off your breathing, causing it to stop -- which also can cause a snorting type of snore as you subconsciously gasp for breath.
Now, this man that was the topic in the original post was fairly young and lean -- so weight, apparently, was not an issue. What my thought is, could it possibly be muscle tone, tho -- or lack of muscle tone? Just a thought!!!
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Posted: Jan Thu 25, 2007 11:48 am
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I have a regular customer who suffered with this condition and has great results with NSP's SnorEase. It works by shrinking the swelling in the sinus membranes and opening up the airways. It contains Coenzyme Q10 which helps deliver more oxygen and it is believed to improve asthma and allergies. If the SnoreEase dosen't give him relief you might want to try adding a little extra Coenzyme Q10 and/or HistaBlock. Also consider eliminating dairy products for a couple of weeks and see if that helps. Another one of my friends rubs TeiFu Oil all around her husbands ears and forehead before going to sleep and she claims it stopped the apnea problem.
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I don't really care.
Like I know that, as an American, I should care that my Fourth Amendment rights are potentially being violated. But honestly, I had to Google what the Fourth Amendment even was. And considering that we're talking about an amendment written so far before the existence of cell phones that it was fifteen whole amendments before women were allowed to vote, I'm not sure that it's actually being violated here.
In talking to a lot of my friends, I found many of them (except for the extreme righties, who are still protesting the amendment that gave my kind and people of other races the right to vote and who claim creationism is the only thing that should be taught in schools) don't care either.
But Sara, you freaked out over all of Bush's Homeland Security stuff! You're such a hypocrite! You're only saying this stuff is okay because you support Obama.
Well, you're right and you're wrong.
I DO support Obama. I'm the freaking poster child for supporting Obama. I own a sparkly Obama tank top.
And wore said tank top on stage with Bruce Springsteen. Because that's how I roll.
But there are several key factors that I feel aren't being addressed here.
For starters, I'll admit, when the idea of Homeland Security stuff was first introduced, it sounded scary. It felt like the Harold and Kumar 2 version, where the dumbest possible people were going to look for the worst in everyone and we'd all end up with Big Bob in Guantanamo if we even said the word "bomb" within thirty miles of an airport.
Want to know how much my daily life has changed since then?
Not a whole lot. Is it annoying that I have to check my luggage to go anywhere because I'm incapable of packing my toiletries in small enough containers to carry on? Yes. But I don't travel that often. And if we're being entirely honest, that is the full extent to which the NSA has overall interfered with the quality of my life.
So with that said, if the government has already been monitoring my phone records without my knowledge and it hasn't been a problem, I'm fine with them continuing to do so. If they start sending the SWAT team in every time I text my best friend that I'm going to kill my mother (which I would NEVER say, mom, honest! Please don't hurt me!) then okay, I feel my Fourth Amendment rights are being violated.
But, at least as far as we're being told, they're only monitoring who people are contacting, not the content of phone calls or text messages. So the government now knows that my dad calls me every three minutes for approximately nine seconds, that my best friends and I text a lot, and that my mother calls me every single afternoon at the very second that she leaves work/as soon as I start working out. Oooooooh. Seriously important stuff here people!
The truth is though that for law-abiding citizens, cell phone records aren't exactly super incriminating. Sure, you don't want your significant other getting ahold of them if you're cheating. But the government doesn't care if you cheat. The media does, if you're famous, but the government practically condones cheating.Hell, so many people in the government itself cheat that they'd probably cover for you, if that's what you're worried about!
It's also worth noting that anyone who thinks they have any privacy, yet uses a smart phone/has a Facebook or other social media account/uses a cell phone at all for that matter, is an idiot. Even if you DON'T walk around in public having excessively loud cell phone conversations about extremely personal matters (which most of us do), it's super easy for people to hack cell phones. Not me, because A) I don't have those skills and B) I don't care, but people who DO care can hear your conversations if they want to regardless of who they are/if they work for the government. And if you're updating your Facebook with what you ate for dinner every night, you're broadcasting your every move to the world anyway. Why do you really care if the government knows WHO you're talking to when you're putting all that info out there on your own?
And to be totally honest again, even if the government actually WANTS to listen to my conversations and read my text messages, it would be a HUGE waste of their time, but I don't care that much.
Want to know what they would learn?
Here's the conversation that my mother and I have every day.
(Phone rings) Me (without even looking at the caller ID): Hi mom.
My mom: (Depressed Eyore voice) Hi Sara.
Me: What's up?
My mom: Ugh, I'm just leaving work. (Pause) Are you at the gym?
Me: Yup.
My mom: I should go to the gym. But I had such a long day. Blah blah work blah blah feel fat blah blah work blah blah your father blah blah work blah blah blah you're a horrible person and fail at life blah blah.
Me: I actually had something interesting happen today. I—
My mom: I'm pulling into the garage, gotta go, bye!
Me: Sigh.
EVERY SINGLE DAY. I pity the government agent whose job it is to listen to that EVERY DAY. Really. I do. But if they want to, cool. Good for them.
And if they want to read my text messages, they'll see a lot of conversations with Ary about the zombie apocalypse (don't ask), a lot of emoji combinations that are code for "I'm going to jump off a building" and "I super lesbian love you" between me and Darya, messages telling the boyfriend that I'm heading to the gym and asking what he wants for dinner, and ten billion pictures of Rosie. And a bunch of pictures of Rosie pooping, which I send to the boyfriend. Yes, I'm a weirdo. But he laughs every time I send those, so it's really okay. And he even makes up little songs about her pooping. We really are the perfect couple.
But I'm getting off track. If the government wants to see all that, then yes, they too can see pictures of my dog defecating. In fact, I'm happy to send those pictures to them if they want (I even have a few politicians topping my list of people whom I'd like to send pictures of Rosie pooping to! John Boehner, be ready!) Now if they start coming after me to see if I scoop the poop based on those pictures, I'll start yelling about my Fourth Amendment rights, but until then, I'm cool.
Yes, I would be much more freaked if we were still in the Bush years. NOT because I'm a diehard Democrat (see pictures above) and being a hypocrite, but because I trust the Obama administration to not misinterpret what they see in my messages. I'm half convinced that the Bush administration went into Iraq over a text acronym that someone intended to mean, "Where's My Dinner?" or something along those lines. With Obama, at least I'm not worried that an army of NSA SWAT guerrillas will come swinging in through my windows screaming about "Weapons of Terrorist Functions" if I text my best friend and ask her WTF she's talking about when she starts saying where we should hide when the zombies come for us.
Although, maybe the government SHOULD be reading our conversations. I'd rather be safe than sorry when the zombies DO rise up. Which, according to Ary, is happening any day now.
Which actually concerns me more than Verizon's cooperation with the government.


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Hysteria: Wash food to avoid scary listeria
Cantaloupe for birthdays is so much better than a birthday cake. Trust me! It's mouth-watering, crisp, sweet, vitamin-filled, and doesn't add an extra inch to your waistline. I think a goal after the age of 40 is to make sure your waistline measurement doesn't exceed your age.
A good friend recently sent me a fruit arrangement for my 45th birthday. It was very cute with pineapples, chocolate-covered strawberries, grapes, honeydew, and of course cantaloupe on a faux cake. Naturally, I ate all the cantaloupe like a hungry dinosaur. One of my patients in the hallway saw me do this and said, "Do you know there's a Listeria outbreak in cantaloupe?"
"Happy Birthday dear dead me…"
How did Listeria get on cantaloupe?
As of September 24, 2011, eight deaths have been linked to Rocky Ford cantaloupes contaminated with the bacterium Listeria (rhymes with hysteria). Listeria on these not-so-appealing-at-the-moment melons have been found in 14 states, although they were shipped to at least 25 states including Virginia.
Listeria accounts for less than one percent of bacterial food-borne illnesses. However, because the mortality rate of Listeria is 16 percent, it's the number-two killer among US food-borne infections.
Cantaloupe doesn't kill– just to set the record straight. What makes this outbreak of Listeria so unusual is that it usually doesn't affect produce. Listeria outbreaks usually occur in unpasteurized cheese, deli meats, and smoked refrigerated seafood. Just like E. coli and Salmonella, it appears that Listeria is branching out. Perhaps Listeria is just another extension of our growing food contamination problem.
Listeria lives in soil and decaying vegetable matter. So it's found in dust, animal feed, water, sewage, many animals, and of course food for us humans! One to five percent of healthy people actually have Listeria in their stools. Listeria usually affects folks who are immunocompromised (AIDS, cancer, organ transplant patients, diabetics), over the age of 60, newborns, pregnant women, and people on steroids. However, healthy individuals can become quite sick from it.
Symptoms usually start one day after Listeria is ingested. They are typical of food poisoning: nausea, vomiting, and watery diarrhea. Flu-like symptoms include fever, muscle aches, and joint pains.
Pregnant women in their third trimester can have back pain with fever and chills. Listeria can cause premature birth, miscarriage, fetal death, or death of a baby soon after birth.
Listeria can infect the lining around the spinal cord and/or the brain to cause a stiff neck, mental status changes (lethargy, confusion), tremor, poor coordination (not being able to tie your shoelaces or walk a straight line), and even deafness.
Diagnosis is made clinically and through cultures of the blood or the CSF (cerebral spinal fluid obtained from a spinal tap). Treatment is with antibiotics.
But of course the best medicine is prevention. Deli meats are supposed to have gone through post-packaging pasteurization. I know obstetricians who recommend that pregnant women not eat luncheon meats like turkey. Hot dogs should be served hot: a microwave might not cook the whole thing, so be careful. Raw meat, fish, and poultry should be separated from foods that will be cooked, and cutting boards and knives should be washed after handling these possibly contaminated foods.
Listeria can live in soft cheeses which might not have been made from pasteurized milk: brie, feta, camembert, blue-veined cheese, and Mexican-styled cheese. Smoked fish such as lox can also harbor Listeria.
Well, Happy Birthday, me! (I'm fine– really!) But what next? Botulism birthday cakes?
Hook cracks a joke or two, but he's a respected physician with an interesting website, drjohnhong.com. Email him with your questions!


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Is "Theotokos" (God-bearer, translated by Roman Catholics as "Mater Dei", or Mother of God) an adequate title for Mary? Can she be called Mother of the Lord, as Elizabeth called her?
Two very big questions in one short paragraph. You have a gift.
Let's take them in reverse order.
It seems clear to me that the Spirit-inspired gospel writer (Luke) reported Elizabeth's confession (1:43) as a truth we should all confess. There is no hint of disapproval (for an example of which, see Rev. 22:8, 9). It is recorded in Scripture not only because it is true that Elizabeth spoke these words to Mary, but because her words are true: Jesus, even as a pre-born infant, was truly Elizabeth's Lord and our Lord. We may certainly say that Mary was the mother of our Lord.
What about theotokos? This word is not used in the Bible and did not come into use until the Christological debates in the early centuries of the church. What does it mean? Just what you state: God-bearer or mother of God. We cannot say that Mary was the mother of God in any sense that makes her the originator of the deity of her son or implies any superiority over Him. Before Mary ever conceived Jesus (before she ever was born), the second person of the Triune God, the Son, was in existence - even from all eternity, uncreated God of God, very God of very God (John 1:1-3, Hebrews 1:10, etc.). But in the unity of His one person, the man-child in her womb was at the same time the fully divine eternal Son. Deity and humanity united in one person, even from the instant of conception in Mary, so that she truly bore God (the second person of the Godhead) in her womb and the One to whom she gave birth was both man and God (in the one person of Jesus). God did not owe his existence to her, but God was pleased to be borne within her.
These statements are true, but in the history of the church they have often been used in the interests of exalting Mary beyond Scriptural warrant as an object of devotion, worship, and prayer. The problem is not with the truths stated above. The problem lies elsewhere. Mary was a humble servant of the Lord (by His grace) who was given the unique and amazing privilege of bringing the promised Messiah into the world. He is the Redeemer, He is the Lord, He is the One we must worship (John 5:23, 17:3, 16:13, 14, Colossians 1:16-20, etc.). He is the only Mediator between God and men (1 Timothy 2:5). There is no other name given among men whereby we must be saved (Acts 4:12, see John 14:6). Mary, a fallen daughter of Eve, was as much in need of His saving work as we all. By God's grace she played a key role, but she with us bows to worship her Son and give thanks to Him for her salvation.
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The curves of Fenna's breasts were made for Valerie's delicate touch. Fenna feels them cupped in the long fingers that she has so often fantasised about. Sometimes gently, sometimes tightly her breasts and nipples are pleasured. Desire grows in her as she returns the compliment to Valerie.
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So many times in business and life in general, we are pummeled with the negative. I just wanted to drop a quick positive note to let you know how pleased I am with yourself and the entire staff at M Street Dental. My entire family have been patients with you for many years. I don't believe anyone will tell you they enjoy going to the dentist and I will confess I am no exception. M Street Dental however has always maintained a genuinely positive and friendly atmosphere where I feel as though I am among friends. This includes your entire staff. On Thursday, January 17th, I went into your clinic expecting to have a what was left of a tooth that had broken off extracted. To my pleasant surprise you have put me on a treatment plan to basically "resurrect" this tooth. Keep up the great work & kudos to you all.
Brian Buckingham
When I asked for an evaluation of my mouth, I thought I would probably lose all my remaining teeth, and start over. Remarkably you immediately removed the remains of 2 teeth and set up time the next day to make impressions. Your assistant made very good impressions, and made time the next day for your lab people to add to and repair my existing partial plates. A great job by all of you! The fit is amazing, and they work almost as well as normal teeth. They have needed no adjusting and I can eat green salad again, and apples! And the teeth that show in a smile look very natural. Thank all of you for a good job, well done. It is much appreciated! All done in 4 days!! Unbelievable! Thank you very much.
June Cheek
I've been going here for over 20 years. I'm happy with the service and treatment I've had over the years. All of the staff have been there 20-30+ years, and seem really happy, knowledgeable, and friendly. Dr. Carpenter started the place, and now the younger guy, Dr. Cho, is the owner. Same great place, but I notice some updates to the grounds and interior. I will continue to be a patient here, and refer all of my friends and family who are looking for a great dentist.
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Canada Health Act (Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology
The Registered Nurses Association of Ontario (RNAO) is the professional voice of registered nurses in Ontario with a mandate to speak out for health and for nursing. RNAO has a proud tradition of speaking out on provincial and national issues as they impact on healthy public policy.
In fact, during the early 1980s the Association joined with other nurses in Canada in fighting for the Canada Health Act (CHA). We now join with nurses and others to defend the principles of the CHA and to see them extended to those areas of essential health care that are as yet uncovered by the CHA.
Our analysis demonstrates that there is no necessary contradiction between a healthy public policy and a healthy economy. Indeed, if we proceed prudently, each supports the other. In our response we will show that strengthening our publicly funded system and not-for-profit delivery makes sense in both health and economic terms.
There is need for a comprehensive, clear-headed dialogue on health care in Canada. It is time, once and for all, to chart a path to a Canadian solution to the many challenges we now face and those that will come our way.
We want to thank the Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology for the opportunity to present our views today. RNAO also commends the Committee for identifying many of the key issues that need to be addressed as we move to strengthen this cornerstone of our Canadian identity.
Summary of Recommendations
Recommendation 1.
We urge the Standing Committee to identify universal access to health care as being a core Canadian value, and a right to all who make their homes in Canada. We further urge the Standing Committee to reaffirm its commitment to the principles of the Canada Health Act as an essential basis for health care provision.
Recommendation 2.
We urge the Standing Committee to recommend that waiting lists for procedures be rigorously maintained on a province-wide basis, and that placements should be done solely on the basis of relative need.
Recommendation 3.
We urge the Standing Committee to recommend the creation of a permanent national
coordinating body, comprised of health care workers, government and health care providing institutions, in order to deal with health human resource (HHR) issues, such as working conditions, and recruitment and retention.
Recommendation 4.
We urge the government to develop strategies to control the rapid growth in pharmaceutical expenditure, without compromising the quality of health care. These strategies would include
• Developing comprehensive support for effective and cost-efficient prescribing,
• Coordination of national drug purchasing and a national drug formulary, and
• Devising methods of countering the monopoly pricing that the excessively powerful patent laws allow. This could include negotiating a return of compulsory licensing for pharmaceuticals.
Recommendation 5.
We call upon the Standing Committee to urge both levels of government to make credible commitments to health care, in order to restore Canadians' confidence in their health care system.
Recommendation 6.
We urge the Standing Committee to call upon the government to explicitly exempt health care and other essential social services from trade agreements.
Recommendation 7.
We urge the Standing Committee to recommend that all levels of government place a moratorium on privatization in health care funding.
Recommendation 8.
We recommend that Canada maintain its strict ban on user fees for services covered under the Canada Health Act. We further recommend that governments develop strategies for eliminating user fees on other essential health
care services.
Recommendation 9.
We recommend developing a commitment and strategy for a phased extension of the CHA principles to essential services in home care, pharmacare, long-term care, rehabilitation services, public health and truly comprehensive
primary health care.
Recommendation 10.
We recommend the development of a democratic and transparent process for defining medical necessity.
Recommendation 11.
We recommend that both levels of government make substantial and credible commitments to funding health care in a comprehensive framework. For the federal government, this means raising the cash contribution to
provincial health care, ultimately to a minimum 25% of provincial spending. This increased cash contribution must have attached with it an expansion of the CHA to cover those as yet uncovered essential health care services.
Recommendation 12.
We urge the Standing Committee to recommend that all levels of government place a moratorium on transfer of health care activities to the for-profit sector.
Recommendation 13.
We urge the Standing Committee, in addition to their call for healthy, safe workplaces to specifically call for a reduction of casual employment to 30% of total and to call for adequate and stable funding in order to ensure improved working conditions for the nursing profession.
Recommendation 14.
We urge the Standing Committee to recommend the implementation of true primary
health care reform, with 24/7 care being delivered by interdisciplinary teams of health care professionals.
Recommendation 15.
We request the Standing Committee to recommend devoting more resources to the
integration of prevention and population health concepts into our system.
Recommendation 16.
We must reward good practices in health care. We ask the Standing Committee to
chart a staged path to more appropriate incentives, including alternative payment mechanisms.
Recommendation 17.
We recommend much stronger government support for systematic identification and
implementation of more effective and responsive interventions.
Recommendation 18.
We request the Standing Committee to chart a process towards greater public participation in the governance of our health care system along with greater transparency and accountability of government.
Recommendation 19.
We request the Standing Committee recommend devoting resources to improving the coordination and integration of the system. The guiding principles ought to be
• Democratic control. This should include community participation in governance.
• Maintaining universality of access
• Delivery of the best service possible given resources available.
Recommendation 20.
We recommend the formation of a national health advisory council. It should be created jointly by the two senior levels of government, and charged with the following tasks:
• Consultation on health policy
• Provision of a forum for collaboration in defining the scope of medicare programs
• Monitoring of programs
• Facilitation of cooperation in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of health care programs (including setting up an information system that could allow cost-benefit analyses of health treatments) performing an accountability service


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If Congressional leaders carry through on their threat to shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), life for the agency's cybersecurity professionals -- and many others -- will be miserable. Many will be called into work. But they won't be paid, they won't know when they will be paid, and they will be forced to work under less than ideal conditions.
The DHS's mission of protecting life and property will likely ensure that its day-to-day operations continue, but everything that surrounds those duties may stall, including some investigations.
U.S. House leaders would fund DHS if the bill also includes provisions that kill most of President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration. That measure, however, has been stymied in the Senate. If no agreement is reached, te department will shut down on Feb. 27.
"I think it's pretty alarming," said Darren Hayes, director of cybersecurity at Pace University's Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems."The biggest threats are cyber threats today."
The government shut down from Oct. 1-16, 2013 after Congress reached a budget impasse. Many government employees, however, worked without pay during that period.
Something to consider is the "unquantifiable psychological impact" that has on employees, said Hayes.
We need to keep people "motivated and passionate about what they do," said Hayes, "and any kind of sequester is going to have a negative impact into how much effort is put into protecting this country from a cyber-perspective,."
One area that may be particularly hard hit is the U.S. Secret Service, which is key in tracking a lot of financial fraud that occurs. "So having any cutback there will cause, perhaps, businesses to lose money," said Hayes.
At a hearing last Thursday by the subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies, U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the full committee's ranking member, outlined some of the impacts, including to DHS's nuclear protection office, which issues grants for nuclear detection. A shutdown would halt R&D development work on countermeasures to biological threats, on nuclear detection equipment and on cargo and passenger screening technologies, he said.
A large number of DHS employees "will be forced to [work] without pay," said Thompson, "creating a significant distraction and dealing a tremendous blow to a department with already low morale."
Allan Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, said a direct effect of a shutdown would be "the loss of alerts that go out to agencies when their systems are sending unwanted data, which means they are almost certainly infected."
Among those working without pay will be 50,000 Transportation Security Administration workers, 13,000 immigration and customs enforcement agents, and 4,000 Secret Service employees. More than 40,000 border patrol agents will also work without paychecks.
In the 2013 shutdown, DHS kept in operation anything related to safety of human life and protection of property. That ought to include cybersecurity, said Samuel Visner, senior vice president and general manager for ICF's cybersecurity business ICF International, an IT services firm whose work includes homeland security.
The operational or day-to-day efforts to protect the nation from attacks would continue. But a shutdown could diminish or delay development of new proposals, new systems, and payments to industrial partners working in these areas, said Visner.
"They may be consequences over the longer term," he said.


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The big news for this coming week is the concert with Plácido Domingo on Wednesday, June 1 at the AT&T Center presented by San Antonio Opera. Yesterday the Express-News reported that soprano Ana María Martínez with also perform. The photo on the right shows Domingo and Martínez singing together in Madrid. Domingo needs no introduction, but Martínez is a rising star worth attention. Not only has she toured with both Domingo and Bocelli, but she has sung with the New York Philharmonic, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Houston Grand Opera, San Francisco Opera and with many more prestigious organizations. When she made her Metropolitan Opera debut, the Newsday critic said, "A lovely singer, Martínez is something more rare and wonderful besides: a beautiful musician. She shades her smoky, soft-grained voice with finesse, phrasing with unfussy grace and serving up some of the most ravishing soft singing heard at the Met in years. "
The Express-News had this quote from Domingo about the program for June 1, "I have taken care of bringing a bit of a different repertoire this time around. I will always incorporate a little bit of opera because San Antonio has a very large and educated opera audience, but I will also bring a lot of Spanish and Latin music from my heart."
The San Antonio Opera web site reports:
Placido Domingo will perform a romantic concert of opera, zarzuela, tango and Mariachi favorites accompanied by guest artists and a full symphony orchestra.
To purchase tickets to this special concert call 210-225-5972, visit the San Antonio Opera box office at 909 NE Loop 410 suite 636, or visit ticketmaster.com or the AT&T center box office.
Ticket prices are $35.00, $75.00, $125.00, $250.00, $350.00 and $500.00 (The top two price levels are now sold out.)
But, before Domingo, the Symphony has a free one-hour concert with a Memorial Day theme. It will be performed without an intermission and is a perfect concert to introduce symphonic music to kids.
When: Friday, May 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Where: Brandeis High School, 13011 Kyle Seale Pkwy
Price: Free
Memorial Day Concert
Ken-David Masur, conductor
Copland, arr. Longfield Fanfare for the Common Man
Gould American Salute
Alford Colonel Bogey March
Copland John Henry
Sousa Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Cohan, arr. Hermann George M. Cohan Salute
Williams Hymn to the Fallen
arr. Wendel Armed Forces March
arr. Stephenson Sing Along, America!
The final Symphony Classics subscription program of the season are also next week on June 3 and 4.
Jack Fishman
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Works for waterfront, Onehunga, Massey deferred to reduce election-year rates rise.
Aucklanders will have to wait longer to catch a tram from Britomart to Wynyard Quarter to help trim rates next year. Waterfront Auckland is proposing to delay extending the tram to Britomart until the 2014-2015 year as part of a review of the council's $1.8 billion capital programme next year.
Auckland Mayor Len Brown has instructed the council and council-controlled organisations (CCOs) to look at deferring and reducing the cost of projects to further reduce rates in his election-year budget.
Mr Brown has already proposed a rates rise of 2.9 per cent and is seeking to get the figure nearer 2 per cent.
As well as the $8.2 million tram project, other projects to be deferred include the Quay St boulevard ($25 million), the $28 million Onehunga foreshore project and $20.4 million of works this year and next year in West Auckland, including Massey North's town square and street upgrades.
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The full spend on a superyacht facility at Wynyard Quarter has also been put back years after Waterfront Auckland's request for a $16 million ratepayer contribution was cut to $7.2 million in the long-term budget.
Councillor Mike Lee, who has championed the tram extension, was disappointed the project was getting it in the neck when "sacred cows" like the council's new $500 million computer system was untouched.
The tram loop extension to cross the Wynyard Quarter bridge to Britomart, making Quay St a boulevard, and the superyacht facility have been opposed by right-leaning councillors.
A report for today's strategy and finance committee meeting said the proposed deferrals would cut capital spending by $55 million over the current and 2013-2014 financial years.
Council officers did not know how much that would reduce rates next year, but in May said savings of $250 million would reduce the rates increase to 2 per cent. The capital budgets of the two biggest CCOs, Auckland Transport and Watercare, are yet to be reviewed.
Deferred savings
* $8.2m tram extension to Britomart
* $25m Quay St boulevard
* $28m Onehunga foreshore improvements
* $7.2m superyacht facility.


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A woman in the Chilean town of Antofagasta probably won't be quickly reapplying for her driver's license after the road portion of her test went very wrong and applicant, instructor, and vehicle ended up in the Pacific Ocean.
As reported by elmundo.es (artículo en español), the city's Head of Public Safety Julian Requena believes that the woman hit the accelerator instead of the brake pedal during her driving test and panicked, sending the silver pickup off the road and into the water. The woman, unharmed but in a state of complete shock, was rescued from the submerged truck by a saleswoman from the nearby Terminal Pesquero after the less-than-chivalrous instructor escaped, swam to shore, and promptly left the scene.
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Madison Magazine's top nine best local fish fries
By Aaron R. Conklin
St. Louis has barbeque. Chicago has deep-dish pizza. And Madison, thanks in no small part to the hordes of Germanic and Roman Catholic settlers who decided to pitch their tents in the Driftless Area back in the 1800s, has the Friday night fish fry.
Over the centuries, Wisconsin's restaurants have perfected the art of the fry, taking advantage of expanding fish markets to move well beyond perch and cod. But as fish fries have proliferated in Madtown and the surrounding area like fans on a food-trend bandwagon—heck, even fast-food chains are fronting them these days—the truly interesting and delicious ones are finding ways to set themselves apart, by focusing on clever or comfortable ambience, investing in a higher grade of fish or paying careful attention to issues like the sustainability of the seafood they're serving.
Whether you want to take it home, hang with friends at the neighborhood watering hole or bask in the full-on Wisconsin supper club experience, you're going to get your fish's worth at any of these great fry spots. Pass the tartar sauce, willya?
Click here to see our list of the nine best fish fries in town.
Click here to vote for your favorite local fish fry in Madison Magazine's Fabulous Fish Fry Contest.
Aaron R. Conklin is a Madison-based freelance writer and a science communicator at the UW Aquatic Sciences Center.
This article has been revised to reflect the following correction:
Correction: February 25, 2013
An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the Driftless Area as "glacier-flattened."


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A Hosford man is facing fraud charges following an investigation by the Florida Agency for Workforce Innovation.
Chris J. Rosier, 52, has been charged with unemployment compensation fraud after allegedly claiming he wasn't working during a six month period when he actually was employed. Rosier allegedly earned $12,458 during a time when he said he had zero earnings and was accepting unemployment compensation.
Rosier was taken into custody Aug. 16.
Watch for more details in Wednesday's print edition of The County Record.
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Two-Part Special Airs Thursday, November 16 and
Friday, November 17 on ABC
Barbara Walters celebrates 30 years of primetime specials with a light-hearted, poignant and often hysterical two-part special, �Barbara Walters Special: 30 Mistakes in 30 Years.� Walters shares her interviews with world leaders, athletes, musicians and Hollywood icons, chronicling her mistakes and their mistakes. �Barbara Walters Special: 30 Mistakes in 30 Years� airs on Thursday, November 16 (10:01-11:00 p.m., ET) and Friday, November 17 (10:00-11:00 p.m., ET) on the ABC Television Network.
Some of those mistakes are legendary and have turned into classic television moments:
Mistake # 30: �NEVER ASK ANYONE WHAT KIND OF A TREE THEY WANT TO BE�
Such was the case when Walters asked Katharine Hepburn that question � it�s a moment that has dogged Walters throughout her career.
Mistake #26: �ENOUGH ALREADY WITH THE VIRGINITY TALK�
Walters discusses loosing one�s virginity with Patrick Dempsey, Don Johnson, Ricky Martin and Liam Neeson.
Mistake # 14: �DANCING IS FINE � STRIPPING IS OUT OF THE QUESTION�
Demi Moore teaches Walters how to dance like a stripper, and it is not a good idea to teach Barbara Walters how to dance like a stripper.
Mistake # 3: �DON�T CALL ONE FAMOUS CELEBRITY BY THE NAME OF ANOTHER FAMOUS CELEBRITY�
Walters accidentally calls Arnold Schwarzenegger by the name of another famous celebrity.
Funny, irreverent and self-deprecating, this star-studded special includes classic candid moments with Al Pacino, Will Farrell, Jim Carrey, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Jimmy Stewart, Lucille Ball, Patrick Dempsey, Jamie Foxx, George Clooney, Teri Hatcher, Brad Pitt, Halle Berry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Matthew McConoughey, Shrek, Jerry Seinfeld, President Ronald Reagan, David Letterman and countless others.
�The Barbara Walters Special: 30 Mistakes in 30 Years� is executive-produced by Ms. Walters and Bill Geddie. It�s directed by Bill Geddie.


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The mood in Blue Valentine is like the Dave Alvin song "Fourth of July" set to film. It's July 3 for a working couple in Scranton, Penn.: Cindy (Michelle Williams) is a nurse married to Dean (Ryan Gosling), a housepainter, who wakes up in his clothes in the living room to find out the family dog is missing. The parents get their five-year-old daughter fed and taken to school while trying not to fight. That evening, Dean has a bad idea: the two of them will head for one of those honeymoon-themed motels in the Poconos for a romantic getaway.
As they travel, there are flashbacks showing us the way they met some five or six years previously. Dean was once an aimless kid, working at a moving-van company in Brooklyn. On a job in Pennsylvania, he has a chance encounter with Cindy. She was, at the time, a pre-med student involved with a real alpha-male type named Bobby (Mike Vogel). Dean decides that she is his destiny, and it's love at first sight. And now they have been married for five years.
"Welcome to the future," Dean says as they settle down to some serious vodka drinking. Cindy and Dean, on edge already, spend the night in a space-ship-themed vacation room with steel walls, a glowing console and a round rotating bed. The memories come back unbidden, all the way to the hungover dawn.
Blue Valentine's biggest problem is common to films that have been slaved over for a decade, as this one was. Some of the details are still in director Derek Cianfrance's head. The movie's shifts of time grind, even with matching shots. We keep wondering where we are in the story now.
The performances on the outer rings of the film aren't as dense as Gosling and Williams' searching explorations of a troubled marriage. Sylvia Sidney lookalike Jen Jones is memorable as Cindy's grandmother. Ben Shenkman, playing Cindy's boss, would have needed three times as much screen time to develop his character's motives.
That said, Blue Valentine's main point of view belongs to Cindy, who as the dissatisfied party takes over the film. She wants out of the marriage even as Dean clings to it, and cinema always favors the moving over the still: Dean's indication that he's finally made it in life is that he gets to drink beer on the job.
What we start to see, thanks to Williams' acting, is something bigger than this couple's feud, something more like the war of the body and the soul. Williams' body has been fixated on by the film writers, and that's OK because it popularizes an important tragic film. But there's nothing yielding, teasing or popularly erotic about the way Cindy handles Dean's need for intimacy.
So Gosling has tough work as an actor, portraying this man watching the love of his life slip away. His Dean can be childish, or childishly debonair, calling his seething wife a "saucy little minx" as if that'll sweeten her temper. He's insistent, but so is a drowning person. More than anything, the film clarifies what a terrible thing "romantic destiny" would be if it really existed.
Problem-wracked as it is, Blue Valentine may prove to be one of the most ambitious films of the year. And as for Williams, she gives a performance that will likely be difficult to top.
Blue Valentine opens Jan. 14 at Summerfield Cinemas (551 Summerfield Road, Santa Rosa; 707.522.0719) and is currently playing at Century Regency (80 Smith Ranch Road, San Rafael; 415.479.6496).


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Do you ever want to get away from smart phones and e-mails? Need a break from Facebook and Twitter? Would you just like to go back in time when things were easier? Well, you can. In fact you can go back to 1840 nearly every weekend if you just know where to look.
A Black Powder Rendezvous is a living history experience. These popular events have a large and loyal following, but on the other hand, many of us have never heard of them. They are similar to Civil War reenactment or Renaissance Festivals, except these groups focus on the fur trade era and the traders' annual gathering called a rendezvous. They take place all over Minnesota and throughout the country.
Today's rendezvous participants set up their camps, change into costume, then live as if it's 1840 for a weekend or longer. Games and competitions are scheduled as well as craft projects. Those who stay overnight on the grounds stay authentic to the time: they dress in period clothing, camp in primitive tents, cook over wood flames, and shoot period fire arms charged with black powder.
Visitors are usually allowed on a particular day. Last weekend I wandered in to the Goose Creek Rendezvous in Harris wearing clothes made in this century. Luckily, it wasn't a strict rendezvous. Some of them follow rigid rules of authenticity and have period police to make sure everything's in era. You might get kicked out for drinking a can of Coke or having buttons on your shirt instead of ties, but mostly those rules are for participants, not visitors.
Entering the rendezvous was amazing. Eighty different camps were nestled side by side in a large open field. Tents and tipis were outfitted with rugs, cots, piles of wool blankets, and simple lanterns. Awning structures provided a kitchen and dining area complete with furniture. Small iron stoves were hung with utensils hand-wrought by a blacksmith. The blacksmith had his own camp too, displaying his wares with prices marked on a chalkboard sign. Four traders at this rendezvous sold goods to encourage newcomers to join the excitement.
Waiting in line for the communal dinner felt like attending a fashion show circa 1840. Women wore long dresses of small calico print layered with aprons. Men were covered in animal hides, furs and 100 percent cotton broadcloth. More than one person wore a Hudson's Bay blanket coat. The guy in front of me was covered with a beaver pelt vest, buckskin pants, a pleated open-collar shirt, and a bone necklace with turkey feathers. When I asked him if he made his own clothes he proudly exclaimed, "everything but my underwear!"
That evening's dinner included roasted turkey, baked beans, bright orange squash, and corn picked that morning. No small plates, not a piece of arugula in sight; it was delicious. I sat at a friendly table with a couple from St. Cloud who've been rendezvous participants for more than 10 years. Two of their grandchildren were with them. In fact, lots of kids were there. It really was a family event. Socializing and making friends is a big part of the experience. Kids were screaming with delight at tomahawk throwing contests and didn't seem to have any e-toy withdrawal problems.
The more people I talked to about how they became a rendezvous participant the more I realized they were all just regular people who liked camping or cooking outdoors or the shooting sports. I met a pharmacist, a minister, an electric company employee, a woman who lives in an Inver Grove Heights townhouse, people from all over the state. While I did see one piece of polar fleece, most of the rendezvous participants really did enjoy getting away from modern conveniences. When I came back to the city that night the bright lights and noisy streets made me long for wool and the smell of woodsmoke.
Send your escape ideas to [email protected]
There's still time to take in a rendezvous this fall:
Oct. 1–2: Big Island Rendezvous, Albert Lea
Oct. 11–16: Big Muddy River Rendezvous, Winona


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Egypt delays early voting on new constitution
Egypt postponed early voting on a contentious draft constitution, and aides to President Mohammed Morsi floated the possibility of canceling the whole referendum in the first signs Friday that the Islamic leader is finally yielding to days of protests and deadly street clashes.
Tens of thousands marched on the presidential palace after pushing past barbed wire fences installed by the army and calling for Morsi to step down. Thousands also camped out in Tahrir Square, birthplace of the uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak in 2011.
A spokesman for Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood urged the group's supporters to practice "self-restraint" after hundreds gathered in front of a mosque near the presidential palace. He appealed for them not to march to the palace and to avoid confrontation.
The announcement by the election committee head Ismail Hamdi to delay early voting on the charter came as a surprise, and it was difficult to predict whether it will lead to a breakthrough in the political crisis.
The president's aides said the move would ease some pressure and would provide room for negotiations with the opposition.
But Morsi's opponents have rejected talks, saying he must first cancel the referendum and meet other demands. Late Friday, an opposition umbrella group called for an open-ended sit-in in front of the presidential palace.
The crisis began Nov. 22, when Morsi issued a decree that gave him absolute powers and immunity from judicial oversight. It deepened when he called for a Dec. 15 national referendum on the draft constitution hurriedly produced by the Islamist-led constituent assembly. The draft was infused with articles that liberals fear would pave the way for Islamizing Egypt.
Legal Affairs Minister Mohammed Mahsoub said the administration was weighing several proposals - including calling off the referendum and returning it to the constituent assembly for changes. Another possibility was disbanding the constituent assembly and forming a new one, either by direct vote or an agreement among the political forces.
"We have a big chance tomorrow," Mahsoub told the Qatari-based Al-Jazeera network, referring to what he said was a meeting between Morsi and political forces. "There are no deadlines or referendums outside the country. Tomorrow or day after, we might reach a good agreement."
Vice President Mahmoud Mekki also told the broadcaster that he had contacted leading democracy advocate Mohamed ElBaradei to join Morsi in a dialogue. ElBaradei leads the newly formed National Salvation Front, a group of liberals and youths who opposed Morsi's decrees and led the protests in Cairo.
In a televised speech, ElBaradei made clear the opposition's demands: cancellation of the declaration that Morsi used to give himself immunity from judicial oversight and postponement of the referendum.
"The people are angry because they feel their rights have been raped," ElBaradei said on the ONTV network. "If he takes these decisions, he will be opening the door for dialogue. I hope he is listening."
The opposition National Salvation Front rejected talks with Morsi, urging an ongoing sit-in at the palace and warned of assaults on the protesters and more violence.
"We reject the fake dialogue which Morsi has called for. No talks after bloodshed and before holding those responsible accountable," the front said in a statement.
Some protesters expressed optimism after they heard that the early voting for Egyptians abroad, which was due to begin Saturday, had been put off until Dec. 5.
"This looks like the beginning of a retraction," said Dr. Mohsen Ibrahim, a 56-year-old demonstrator. "This means Morsi may postpone the referendum. It looks like the pressure is working out."
But he warned that "if Morsi doesn't see the numbers of people protesting, then he will be repeating the same mistake of Mubarak."
Since the Arab Spring uprising that toppled Mubarak, Egypt has been split between Islamists and mostly secular and liberal protesters. Each side depicts the conflict as an all-out fight for Egypt's future and identity.
The opposition accuses Morsi and his Islamist allies of turning increasingly dictatorial to force their agenda on the country, monopolize power and turn Egypt to a religious state. The Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamists say the opposition is trying to use the streets to overturn their victories in elections over the past year and stifle popular demands to implement Islamic Shariah law.
The tone was one of a battle cry as thousands of Islamists held funeral prayers at Al-Azhar Mosque - the country's premier Islamic institution - for Morsi supporters killed in Wednesday's clashes. A series of speakers portrayed the opposition as tools of the Mubarak regime, or as decadent and un-Islamic.
"Egypt is Islamic, it will not be secular, it will not be liberal," the crowd chanted in a funeral procession filling streets around the mosque. During the funeral, thousands chanted, "With blood and soul, we redeem Islam," pumping their fists. Mourners yelled that opposition leaders were "murderers."
One hard-line cleric denounced anti-Morsi protesters as "traitors." Another said Egypt would not be allowed to become "a den of hash smokers."
"We march on this path in sacrifice for the nation and our martyrs," a leading Brotherhood figure, Mohammed el-Beltagy, told the crowd. "We will keep going even if we all become martyrs. We will avenge them or die like them.
"Bread! Freedom! Islamic law!" the crowd chanted, twisting the revolutionary slogan of "Bread! Freedom! Social justice!" used against Mubarak.
At the same time, the anti-Morsi demonstrators streamed in from different parts of Cairo to the presidential palace in an upscale neighborhood for a fourth straight day.
Many were furious over the president's speech Thursday night in which he accused "hired thugs" of attacking protesters. Most witnesses said Wednesday's clashes began with supporters of the president attacking a tent camp set up by the anti-Morsi crowd.
Video clips emerged showing badly bruised faces of female activists and a man putting his hand over the mouth of one of them, prominent activist Shahanda Mekalad, to try to silence her as she chanted, "We are the Egyptian people." Other protesters were shown stripped naked and beaten up by Morsi supporters.
The violence has fed into the mistrust between the two sides.
Pressure on Morsi also came from his inner circle after he was hit by a string of resignations by some top aides protesting the violence. Criticism is also growing from journalists, including those working for state-run news organizations, over what they say are attempts by Islamists to control the media. Judges are on strike for two weeks and said they are not going to oversee the vote as stipulated by law, something that would erode the credibility of the process.
Salafis rallied Friday in front of Egypt's Media City south of Cairo, protesting coverage by privately owned networks.
Led by lawyer-turned-cleric Hazem Salah Abu-Ismail, with his trademark long, gray beard, the Salafis raised black flags and signs reading "hypocritical media," and brought bedspreads for a prolonged sit-in. Anti-riot police were deployed.
Violence also was reported in cities across Egypt either between members of the Muslim Brotherhood and police on one side and anti-Morsi protesters on the other side in the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria and Nile Delta city of Zagazig.
The sides pelted each other with stones outside the headquarters of the Brotherhood office in Nile Delta city of Kom Hamada, in the province of Beheira. In the Delta industrial city of Mahallah, protesters stopped trains and announced a sit in until the cancellation of Morsi's decrees and the referendum.
In the southern city of Assiut, hundreds of protesters chanted, "No Brotherhood, no Salafis, Egypt is a civic state." Mohammed Abdel Ellah, one of the protests' coordinators, said the secular groups are organizing street campaigns to get the public to vote "no" if a referendum is held.
But Muslim preachers in Assiut mosques called on worshippers to support Morsi. One cleric in the nearby village of Qussiya denounced the opposition as "those with wicked hearts" and "enemies of God's rule."
"The enemies of the president are enemies of God, Shariah and legitimacy" another preacher said, adding that it is prohibited to protest against the ruler.


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Does a "From Dusk Till Dawn" TV series that Robert Rodriguez will be heavily involved in sound awesome to you? I know me too! What if I told you it was going to be on Univision and I was 99% sure it'll be in Spanish? I know I don't know Spanish either but I watch the channel all the time to! I love their stripper/news anchors and the project is just getting off the ground so I think we have enough time to learn the language so we're all going to be good here.
Magnolia Pictures has done gone and picked up the rights to the Israeli film "Big Bad Wolves". The film is written and directed by Aharon Keshales tracks the lives of three men caught up in a series of brutal murders. Keshales also helmed 2010's underground hit "Rabies", which apparently had a lot of really attractive woman in it but also had subtitles so I'm still not sure what to do there.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo , the guy who directed "28 Weeks Later", has been confirmed to direct "Villain", a new film about two brothers who find themselves lost in the woods. Shia LaBeouf is also set to star in the film and he knows robots so I think we got a winner on our hands here.
Olivia Wilde and Mark Duplass are set to start in a new horror flick from Lionsgate titled "Reawakening". The film focuses on a doctor who discovers how to bring people back to life and the events that follow after he uses it on his daughter. I'm sure there's awful results but if something like this ever comes to be I think we all know that Michael Douglas will be the first one on our lists to bring back to life. Miss you man.
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, who directed "28 Weeks Later", arguably the second best of the time later movies, has been confirmed to be directing "The Crow" remake which is full steam ahead after delays out the ying yang. I played football in High School and for one game this kid painted his face like "The Crow" because he thought it would be frightening to the opposing team. Holy crap we harassed that kid to the point of tears. Good story huh? "The Crow"!
Holy mother of god the remake goodness just keeps flowing. Here it is folks, the first stills from the "Fright Night" retelling for your peepers and man are they.... there. I mean look at Evil Ed! He looks so... not evil, I'm sorry I can't do this today. Let's move on.
Javier Bardem, who is my all time favorite air gun murderer, is close to signing on to play Roland Deschain in the "Dark Tower" series that will be spread over three films and a TV series. I never read the books, should we be upset or really excited about this?
I only know Madeline Zima as the girl who likes to punch guys in the face while she makes the nasty on "Californication" but apparently she's done some other things. Things meaning she's signed up for the new people trapped in a bunker thriller "Storage". I've got high hopes for this one people, mostly because it seems like Madeline has no problem getting nude, so I assume this movie is going to be great.


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The Society for Mathematical Psychology promotes the advancement and communication of research in mathematical psychology and related disciplines. Mathematical psychology is broadly defined to include work of a theoretical character that uses mathematical methods, formal logic, or computer simulation. The official journals of the society are Journal of Mathematical Psychology and Computational Brain & Behavior.
William K. Estes (1919-2011)
Dr. William Estes, professor and distinguished scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences in the IU College of Arts and Sciences, died Wednesday, August 17, 2011, at the age of 92, shortly after the death of his wife, Katherine. Estes was born June 17, 1919, in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Estes received his B.A. in 1940 and Ph.D. in 1943 in Psychology from the University of Minnesota. As a graduate student, he worked under the renowned behaviorist B.F. Skinner. Estes was hired by Skinner to join the Indiana University faculty in1946, and attained the rank of Research Professor in 1960. He moved to Stanford University in 1962, to Rockefeller University in 1968, and to Harvard University in 1979. In 1999 Estes returned to Bloomington and Bill accepted the department's offer to join the faculty with the rank of Professor Emeritus and Distinguished Scholar in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences (PBS).
Estes was sometimes called the 'father of mathematical learning theory' and was a pioneer of the cognitive revolution in which observational behavior was interpreted by hypothesized and not directly observable processes of the mind. Estes's early research, centered in animal learning and behavior, was marked by the development, with Skinner, of a still widely used method of measuring emotional reactions (the "CER"). Turning to studies of visual information processing in the 1960's, he contributed to the visual detection method of estimating the information apprehended from brief visual displays. More recently, his research has focused on mathematical and computer modeling of human memory and classification learning. He is credited with being one of the founders of modern mathematical psychology.
William and Katherine Estes were generous donors to PBS and to the university; they were inducted into the President's Circle in 2006. Their contributions and bequests, which total well over $1 million, will be used to establish the William K. and Katherine W. Estes Chair in Psychology and Cognitive Science.
Estes received many awards throughout his career, including the Gold Medal Award for Life Achievement in Psychological Science from the American Psychological Foundation, the U.S. National Medal of Science, the Warren Medal from the Society of Experimental Psychologists, and the Distinguished Research Contribution Award from the American Psychological Association. Additionally, Estes is a Member of the National Academy of Science, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, an Honorary Life Member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and William James Fellow of the American Psychological Society. He received honorary doctorates from Indiana University and the University of Minnesota.
Estes continued working daily on his research at Indiana University well into his 80s. He was a regular and active participant in Professor Richard Shiffrin's weekly lab meetings. He often gave presentations in the Psychological and Brain Sciences "Cognitive Lunch" series.
Professor Robert Goldstone remarked, "Bill and I co-taught a graduate seminar on concept learning and representation, but I definitely felt like one of the students. I learned a lot from Bill about how to make theories precise, testable, and constrained. His own models were simplified but never simplistic. They provided elegant theories based on first principles, and Bill repeatedly used these theories to unify a diversity of phenomena that others had treated as unrelated."
"Estes and his wife were very active within both the academic and Bloomington communities," said Professor Linda Smith, chair of the department. "Bill and Katherine will be greatly missed in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences." They are survived by one son, George, a resident of New Jersey. The department plans a memorial service at a later date.


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Zumaia is located on a privileged spot in the coast of Guipúzcoa, on the shore of the sea and the bay, at the point where the Urola and Narrondo rivers come together. The origins of this town can be traced to its ancient monastery. In the Middle Ages, the people that lived in the Sehatz valley, sick of enduring the continuous attacks of pirates and pillagers, fortified the city. That is why its church has a defensive appearance.
The city has two beaches: Itzurun and Santiago; as well as many interesting places such as the Home-Museum of painter Ignacio Zuloaga, which exhibits works by El Greco, Rivera, Zurbarán and Goya. Right across the street we have the museum of crafts and hand-crafted products of "Laia". Once in the city centre, we find the Basque-style Gothic church of San Pedro. It has a temple with a magnificent reredos by Juan de Antxieta, the only work by this Basque sculptor found in Guipuzcoa.
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The Curse of the Dragon God
China: A land of ancient wonders. A history of tradition, triumph, and tyranny. As it casts a shadow across the entire globe, this once forbidden country awakens as the dominant force in a new world economy.
Business empires will rise, deals will be made, lives will be lost as money changes hands, but one treasure will remain the most precious in all of China: a diamond known as the Eye of Fucanglong, the Dragon God of lost jewels and buried treasures. The diamond is flawless. It is priceless. It is cursed. And it is about to be stolen in the heist of the century.
Can Professor Fathom's team of gay adventure-seekers find the diamond before this perfectly executed crime leads to a cataclysmic event of mass destruction?
From the towers of Hong Kong to the diamond mines of Shandong; from the streets of San Francisco to the deserts of Dubai to the male strip clubs of Beijing; from China's mystical past, to the boardrooms and backrooms of a modern industrial giant, take the high road to China and join in the sizzling action and nonstop adventure of The Curse of the Dragon God.
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- pierre-luc
- 21-07-12
Suspend your disbelief and have some fun
I found this an amusing take on the Bond-genre of novels. The writing is decent, the plot unbelievable (but in a good way, in the sense that the heroes are just as resourceful and lucky as Bond might be, not the bad way that nothing hands together and the reader is frustrated). Going in with low expectations and a willigness to go for the ride, you will find it worth the while. So while it is not moving romance, it's still fun and it's finally time some tough guys who save the world get rewarded by a good stubbly kiss.
4 people found this helpful
- jo
- 30-08-12
so much awesomeness
What about Daniel Carter's performance did you like?
besides reading the book well, and not over-doing the characters which some narrators do, i loved his accent. makes the action adventure story that much better.
Any additional comments?
like watching the bourne identity or mission impossible but with five of them and they get it on with each other instead of some lame girl. well written, fast-paced, exciting, fun, suspenseful and hot. i don't know what else i could wish for (besides that someone would write a bad-ass lesbian equivalent!)
note: this appears to be the third in the "Fathom's Five" series, i didn't realize that when i got it but i didn't feel like i missed much.
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- Tom(C)
- 21-08-16
I never did figure out exactly what was the curse of the the Dragon God.
Killing everyone in China? Killing just the individual mastermind out to steal the diamond? Why didn't the guy who put it on display get cursed? Is the Dragon God satisfied going around without eyes or as just a head?
It doesn't really matter because the story was a fun romp worldwide by allegedly bad guys and allegedly good guys. I think I have figured out. Gay men are the good guys and everyone else are bad guys.
2 people found this helpful
- Paul Scoles
- 08-10-12
Story okay, performance horrible
Complex, barely credible story line, characters seem to trip over each other and are rarely well defined. Daniel Carter's reaading is flat, emotionless and it often seems he's encountering the material for the first time. Probably not worth a credit.
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text: Economy Hotels Checking into one of the many Albuquerque economy hotels doesn t have to mean a lack of amenities and staying privileges. Many economy hotels now offer five star comfort at three star prices, enabling a pleasant stay or vacation replete with special features like turn down service, free internet access, and complimentary meals. It always behooves the guest to call ahead as certain amenities are available only at specific locations.


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The concord grape is one of the few fruits native to North America, and a damn tasty one at that. Similarly, today's Nice Price or Crack Pipe Concord is a native American Motors, however will its price have you fruiting your looms?
Look, I'm just going to come right out and say it, if you didn't like yesterday's 1984 Volvo 245 Diesel and were in the 11% minority that didn't vote its two grand asking a Nice Price win, well then you probably also hate kittens, happy endings to massages, and the way your own farts smell. Regardless, we're going to give it another try today!
American Motors is no longer around, the Kenosha, Wisconsin-based automaker's somewhat sad history of mergers, absorptions, and re-brandings finally coming to an end with French parent Renault throwing in la serviette and selling the dregs to
whore master brand accumulator Chrysler. All that's left of the marque in dealerships today is a few bits in the Jeep parts book.
But before it went quietly into that long, dark night, AMC built a butt-load of cars off its long serving Hornet platform, including today's psychedelic '78 Concord two-door. Offered up by a St Louis dealer — now in 3 locations! — this metallic orange over green over Rallye wheels coupe looks like something Wavy Gravy might drive to the freak out. The hood pins may neighbor awkwardly with the standup hood ornament, but overall the car's fit and finish look appreciably acceptable — you know, if that's your bag.
Over its life, the Concord was made available with everything from a VW/Audi four to AMC's 304 V8. This one, while still rocking an American motor, does not actually have an American Motors motor, get that? Instead it sports a 350-CID SBC to which is bolted an equally GM-eriffic 700R4, while out in back lives a 9-inch axle from the Blue Oval boys. The ad claims but 75 miles on this refreshed drivetrain so it's still got some breaking in to do.
While the exterior and mechanicals may seem wildly customized for a Concord, it's the interior that must be seen to be beilibered. Sporting a chrome and pegged wood wheel, and at least three different additional grains on the dash, the insides fairly shout why yes, I wood! The seats however, shout something else entirely, their orange, black and green vinyl looking like something Beetlejuice may have had in his den. Those with weak constitutions need not apply.
But should you wish to apply for ownership of this amazing AMC, then you might want to check your bank account balance and see if you have the necessary $7,995 that the dealer is asking. What do you think, is this custom Concord worth that kind of cash? Or, is this acid trip of a two-door too expensive by too far?
You decide!
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From Greek archaggeloi, "chief angels" or "angels of high rank." The plural form is not found in the Bible, but in Tobit 12.15, Raphael describes himself as "one of the seven angels who stand ready and enter before the glory of the Lord" (cf. Rev. 8.2). Further information concerning these seven angels is found in 1 Enoch 20, whose Greek version describes them as "archangels" and lists their names as follows: Uriel, Raphael, Raguel, Michael, Sariel, Gabriel, and Remiel, the last name probably corresponding to the "archangel Jeremiel" of 2 Esdras 4.36. In the New Testament there are two references to individual archangels: in 1 Thessalonians 4.16 the call of the (unnamed) archangel is to herald the Lord's return, and in Jude 9 reference is made to the archangel Michael's contending with the devil over the body of Moses. But the paucity of these scriptural references is in sharp contrast to the elaborately developed angelology of the later church fathers.
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Business Tax Policy: Exemption for Certain Foster Care Payments
Certain foster care providers are exempt from filing returns under the Business License Tax and Business Income Tax Laws ONLY when the provider's entire gross income arises solely from certain foster care payments defined in Internal Revenue Code Section 131. The foster care provider loses this filing exemption if the provider has gross income from non-qualifying foster care payments or any other business activity subject to Business License or Business Income Tax Laws. Gross incomes from qualified foster care payments are considered with other business gross receipts to qualify for the exemption based upon gross receipts. The net income as reported in the Federal Schedule C has already excluded qualifying payments. This net income is taxable income for both the City of Portland and Multnomah County if the total gross income of both qualified and non-qualified gross receipts is equal to or exceeds $50,000.
Example: Paul Green, a foster care provider has gross income from qualified foster care payments $56,400 a year and also receives $23,600 in gross foster care payments that are not qualified under Internal Revenue Code Section 131. He has expenses of $15,000 resulting in a net income of $8,600 ($23,600 less $15,000). The foster care facility is located within the County and City.
Mr. Green is not exempt from payment of the City Business License Tax and County Business Income Tax because his gross receipts from all business activity exceed $50,000. He will be required to pay City and County tax upon the $8,600 net income of his foster care business.
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