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Lindsay Lohan's Trout Pout is Back
October 1, 2009 in Celebrity Plastic Surgery by Lisa Stern | 2 Comments
Former President George W. Bush famously tried to say, "Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me." Make Me Heal says shame on Lindsay Lohan for getting fooled by bad lip injections at least twice.
Although 23-year old Lindsay hasn't been on the big screen in quite a while, she's still been in front of the paparazzi lens quite a bit and lately her lips have been looking over-inflated. Again.
Plastic surgeon Dr. Sherrell J Aston says, "It appears that Ms. Lohan has had injections in her lips again. Someone should tell her she is attractive without doing injections."
While the first time, some speculated that Lindsay's large lips could be due to temporary lip fillers, it seems that this time around they are certainly inflated due to over injections of a filler like Juvederm or Restylane as she is taking her "trout pout" with her from New York to Singapore. (See Make Me Heal's story on Lindsay Lohan's lip injections).
Manhattan plastic surgeon Dr. David Shafer says, "Lindsay Lohan's lips appear swollen again – presumably from dermal filler injections. Hopefully the injections were recent and this is just swelling and not the final result."
Lindsay's lip augmentation must have seemed like a good idea to her little sister, Ali Lohan, who also got lip injections, despite her young age (See Make Me Heal's story on Ali Lohan's lip augmentation).
Ocbody.com Surgeon John Di Saia MD says, "She seems to be a frequent flyer to the lip filler shops and seems to like the Trout Pout outcome."
On his Truth in Cosmetic Surgery blog, Dr. Di Saia surmises that Lindsay must, "want to look 'supernatural' in the area of lip fillers."
Dr. Paul S. Nassif, a Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and Rhinoplasty Specialist in Beverly Hills, Calif., said, "Lindsay Lohan is a very pretty girl and it appears she did have some filler injected around her lips. This does not make or break anything, as she looks great no matter what. But it is arguable that she looks better natural, without the filler, and may not need to resort to filler to enhance her already glamorous look."
Make Me Heal hopes that Lindsay has learned her lesson this time as we are getting tired of reporting on the actress' talent for plastic surgery rather than acting.
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2 Comments so far
Arlena on
October 2, 2009 2:17 am
Why do celebrities get bad surgery, when they can afford the best?! I guess sometimes it just goes wrong. I'm considering surgery and wondered if anyone has had any. If so could you review your surgeon on http://www.thegoodsurgeonguide.co.uk, its free and would really help me, and others out. xXx
George Richard Wilkes on
October 2, 2009 6:16 pm
I think that lip injections often show self-disrespect.
In particular, I've had the idea that white people, getting into the "black is beautiful" idea, have been getting plumped-up lips to look more "black" (since black people typically have thicker lips than do white people).
As with tanning — if you're white, it's okay to be white, and you don't NEED to "look tan" — lip injections by some white people indicate that they are, for some reason, either ashamed or embarrassed to be white. This is a wrong attitude — rather, please respect yourselves and who you are — INCLUDING your race!


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I wrote a logon script to help us migrate to our new wireless ssid from the old. Below is a copy of the script:
Netsh wlan add profile filename="pathtonewprofile.xml" Netsh wlan connect name="newprofile" interface="Wireless Network Connection" Netsh wlan set profileorder name="newprofile" interface="Wireless Network Connection" priority=1 Netsh wlan delete profile name="oldprofile" key=clear
The script is a logon script, and is on the default domain policy that we have (applies to everyone). My problem is that when some people logon (and thus run the script), sometimes it does not fully add the profile - that is, it still needs the passphrase for the new profile but it does remove the old profile. Anyone got any ideas?
Dec 27, 2012 at 16:55 UTC
You have no inheritance blocking setup do you?
What happens if you run a gupdate /force from one of the clients that didn't update properly?
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Dec 27, 2012 at 16:55 UTC
You have no inheritance blocking setup do you?
What happens if you run a gupdate /force from one of the clients that didn't update properly?
Dec 27, 2012 at 17:09 UTC
Run a rsop on a computer that the script isn't working for, see what it says.
Dec 27, 2012 at 17:19 UTC
Well I guess what is happening is that when the policy deletes the old profile, it removes access to the wireless. It should be adding the new profile before deleting the old, but I don't think it is. This means that gpupdate /force wouldn't work unless I manually set up the wireless (which is no problem here in my office but deployed computers have more issues with it.)
My colleague thinks that it might fix my problem if I create a new GPO and just set the scope for the specific people (which will, eventually, be everyone).
Dec 27, 2012 at 17:26 UTC
The policy was clearly linked and applied to the system. rsop confirmed. Just tried the new gpo on a couple of test machines. About to try one more time before attempting to deploy across the network. Haven't been able to recreate the problem yet.
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Back in the day Hollywood cranked out movies like a factory. They stuck to formulas and by 1967 the formulas got old. Risks needed to be taken which meant breaching controversial topics like sex, race, and violence. Audiences wanted to see their changing world and values reflected on the screen. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, for example, was released only months after 17 states' anti-miscegenation laws were ruled unconstitutional.
Studios also tried giving more control to filmmakers in an attempt to draw in a more artistic-minded audience that had turned to foreign art films (which I might write about separately). I assume those audiences were really insufferable but they happened to be right. Moral uncertainty, heightened realism, ambiguous resolutions, shooting and editing to fit the mood, and soundtracks with popular music brought excitement back to American movies. In a few years this movement known as New Hollywood would hit its stride and take over for good.
In the Heat of the Night
When a wealthy man planning on building a factory in a small Mississippi town is killed, a racist cop picks up a black stranger at the train station as an obvious suspect. When that black man ends up actually being an experienced Philadelphia homicide detective, both men are ordered by their superiors to work together to solve the case.
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Cool Hand Luke
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Despite all this, I don't care about it. Everyone in it kind of sucks. Maybe if I see it again (it's been several years) I'll get more out of the technical aspects but I'm not planning to.
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A "catastrophic" ice storm wreaking havoc in the American South is now poised to pummel the eastern seaboard, say forecasters.
More than 350,000 people are reportedly without power and 3,300 US flights have been cancelled due to ice and strong winds.
Nearly empty roadways were reported as many heeded warnings to stay indoors.
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WARSAW — The Croatian Parliament has approved the contract to acquire 16 Bell Helicopter OH-58D Kiowa Warrior helos from the US military surplus, the country's Defense Ministry said in a statement.
The deal, which covers the acquisition of the copters, three training simulators and related equipment and services, is estimated to be worth some 286.5 million kuna (US $41 million).
The procurement will enhance the copter capabilities of the Croatian Armed Forces, the statement said. It will also increase Croatia's air strike capacity, as the helos' weapon pylons enable four standard weapon combinations configurations of the machine gun, the semi-active laser Hellfire missile, the Air-to-Air Stinger (ATAS) missile, and the 2.75" Folding Fin Aerial Rocket (FFAR), according to the Croatian ministry.
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Rooms at Maxwell Owusu's planned $14m (£7m) hotel in Accra are unlikely to come cheap.
But there are not that many 4 star hotels to choose from in Accra, so visiting businessmen, tourists, airhostesses and diplomats are unlikely to complain too much about the price tag.
Mr Owusu's track record as a hotelier has enabled him to get on with the project.
But in general - although there is a shortage of hotel rooms - getting long-term finance for major developments is difficult, even for established business people.
Mr Owusu will raise some of the money from banks, but he is also putting his faith in one of the city's few venture capital funds, Fidelity Capital Partners.
Around the world, venture capitalists are known for taking equity in new, struggling and growing businesses in return for cash.
For Mr Owusu and others, their existence is key for Ghana's and Africa's development.
Without them, the new businesses needed to sustain the West African country's growth would struggle to get off the ground.
Enter the venture capitalists
For visionaries with a dream, or simply businessmen with a plan, raising long-term finance is not easy in Ghana.
Few banks are likely to offer the 15-year term ideal for a hotel project.
Most would offer a maximum of seven years, according to Mr Owusu.
"In Europe, you get long term funding for construction. It is a typical mortgage," he says.
"We don't have these facilities."
Getting the right kind of finance can make or break a project.
"It is crucial. A lot of good projects fail because the type of funding is wrong," says Mr Owusu.
"You may have a hotel which, if you have 20-year loan is very good [while] if you have seven-year loan is a bad project."
Risk and reward
Mr Owusu is currently in talks with Fidelity Capital Partners, one of only three venture capital funds in the country.
The most recent arrival is the government-run Venture Capital Trust Fund, which started operations earlier this year.
With $25m to invest via its five finance partners, it is part of a government initiative to kickstart the country's venture capital industry.
"The government saw a vacuum and is trying to fill it," says chief executive Nana Osei-Bonsu.
"Business demands [for long-term cash] are not being fulfilled. The government saw a need to establish an institution."
The slow birth of the country's industry has its roots in bank caution as well as the wariness of local businesses, Mr Osei-Bonsu adds.
A depreciating currency means that early venture capital funds were unlikely to be successful, says Steve Antwi-Asimeng, managing director of Fidelity Capital Partners.
"It would have been magical to achieve any meaningful return.
"Venture capital is a high risk activity, investors require good returns. You needed exceptionally high returns to compensate for the risk."
Poor transparency
Ghana is now one of the most stable countries in West Africa, politically and economically, so venture capitalists may feel confident to look at the market.
But local businesses, often family run, are reluctant to open their books to provide the level of disclosure wanted by venture capitalists, whose only security lies in the quality of the firm they take a stake in.
Assessing people's true worth can be difficult, says Mr Nana Osei-Bonsu.
"The problem is documentation and ascertaining the claims that people make. There is no source of data."
Many businesses need to be made more professional, says Fidelity's Antwi-Asimeng.
"There is little structure by way of management. They hardly keep any good records. They are an amateur business.
"We have more than enough demand. Do we have enough that meet criteria? Yes, we do. We still have some we need to take through a process."
Nervous investors
But few of the venture capitalists that have dipped their toe into Ghanaian waters are really prepared to take risks, says Mr Owusu.
"They are not prepared to take on visionaries, they are already looking for success stories.
"It is not real venture capitalists [like those] you get in Europe or America. Most of the projects are already successful businesses."
For the dreamers and adventurers, getting the finance needed to take that first step on the capitalist ladder is likely to remain as difficult as ever.
For them, says Mr Owusu, it remains "impossible" to get funding.
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JERUSALEM — Prime Minister Shimon Peres summoned Labor Party ministers for consultation today amid frantic efforts by the nation`s religious parties to prevent the firing of Ariel Sharon and probable toppling of Israel`s coalition government.
Peres`s office said the prime minister would send a formal letter of dismissal sometime today to Sharon, the Israeli trade minister who was forced out of the Cabinet after the massacre of refugees in camps in Lebanon.
Peres, who announced at a special Cabinet meeting Wednesday he would fire Sharon, said the dismissal would be carried out unless Sharon made a ``public, explicit and unambiguous`` apology for bitter personal attacks on Peres` offer of direct peace talks with Jordan.
Sharon, a member of the government`s right-wing Likud faction, apologized for the remarks and said he supported the government`s basic guidelines during Wednesday`s three-hour Cabinet meeting. But he failed to express confidence in the leadership of Peres.
``I don`t think the apology given by Minister Sharon was accepted by the prime minister,`` Cabinet Secretary Yossi Beilin said. ``The prime minister didn`t change his mind.``
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Mindy Kaling graces the cover of New York magazine's new issue, out on newsstands now!
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Also pictured: Mindy with her Mindy Project co-stars Ed Weeks and Stephen Tobolowsky at the Fox Fall Eco-Casino Party held at The Bookbindery on Monday (September 10) in Culver City, Calif.


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(Here is) one we have been able to procure. After mixing, all that is necessary is to press it firmly into a wax-lined mold and let it stand at least 36 hours before serving. The longer it stands, the better it becomes.
Cook 1 pound prunes in scant amount of water. Pit and dice. Blend with 2 cups diced candied peel (orange, lemon and citron) and 1 cup dates cut in pieces with scissors.
Cream cup butter with 1 cup strained warm honey.
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon allspice
1 teaspoon mace
1/2 teaspoon cloves
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons vanilla
Combine with fruit mixture and let stand 1 1/2 hours to soften the fruit.
Blend 10 cups of graham cracker crumbs with 1 cup of broken nut meats (any kind). Mix thoroughly with softened fruit mixture. Place in a mold lined with waxed paper and press down firmly. Let stand at least 36 hours before serving.


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The award is being published in the magazine's September 2016 issue. Following the award, Corporate Vision magazine featured Intetics President and CEO Boris Kontsevoi on their September 2016 issue cover and interviewed Kontsevoi about the company's latest software and technology innovations. Kontsevoi spoke about the state of software services today and the company's new software development process called Predictive Software Engineering.
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"Just a breath ago, my four-year-old learned to walk. In a few months no matter how hard I try to slow time down, he will go to kindergarten. Last week we went to kindergarten orientation where he practiced riding on the school bus, like he'll do every day starting in August. As I watched him riding the bus, he seemed so big, and I wanted to capture the moment. One day, I'm sure I'll look back at this photo and realize how small he really was."
—Allison McDonald of No Time For Flash Cards
Courtesy of Rachelle Doorley
"My youngest daughter, an ambitious one-year old, wanted to ride her trike like a big girl. Which meant I pushed her along while she "rode." Four blocks into the ride, she spotted some beautiful maple leaves, abandoned her trike, pulled herself to the ground, and much to her big sister's dismay, started a leaf collection. We lingered with the leaves. Eventually, we headed back home, our baskets filled with red, yellow, and green leaves. I took this photograph to capture the moment in which the awe of nature filled my youngest daughter's face. It has to begin sometime. It began that day."
—Rachelle Doorley of TinkerLab
Courtesy of Allison Waken
"My oldest had NO interest in learning to tie his shoes in Kindergarten. First grade came and went—no shoe tying. Unexpectedly, when second grade started, he decided it was time to learn. So I tried every possible trick and rhyme to teach him but nothing worked. One day, we were getting ready to go somewhere when I looked over and saw him on the floor, tongue out of his mouth, tying his shoe. Just like that. He was so proud. It was a perfect moment of rewarded perseverance."
—Allison Waken of All For the Boys
Courtesy of Dave Taylor
"Being a single dad with three kids, 8, 11, and 15, there's always an amazing moment just around the corner; though to be fair, sometimes it masquerades as a challenge. Still, with a sense of humor, a healthy sense of the importance of everyday hiccups and a foundation of mutual love and respect, we seem to muddle through. My favorite moments are the childhood artifacts, the things the kids leave for me to find in some sort of cosmic reimagining of the quests of Indiana Jones. Like this morning, when I opened up our new carton of eggs to find my 8-year old daughter had left her mark . . . for me to discover. Fortunately, the eggs tasted just fine and, rather amazingly, weren't broken or cracked."
—Dave Taylor of Go Fatherhood and Ask Dave Taylor
Courtesy of Crissy Page
"In honor of my son Evan's 2nd birthday, my husband and I took him on his first trip to the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in Columbus, Ohio. Evan's first glimpse of the manatee exhibit overwhelmed him. With a little support and encouragement from his father, he soon walked up to the tank on his own, fears left behind, excited by the bright colors, the beautiful fish, and the enormous manatees. Six months later, Evan still remembers this day and asks about the manatees. Perhaps something about overcoming his fear, and finding the beauty in these creatures, stayed with him this whole time. And with me, too."
—Crissy Page of Dear Crissy
Courtesy of Jamie Reimer
Three-and-a-half-year old Henry surprised me one day at his chalkboard. He picked up a piece of chalk and wrote his name! We haven't focused on writing at home so I never imagined he knew how to do it. Not only did he impressme with his ability to write the letters of his name but, he knew the order, and wrote in left-to-right direction. What an amazing moment!"
—Jamie Reimer of Hands On: As We Grow
Courtesy of Ann Marie Detavernier
"This is day Daddy comes home! My kids, Jacob, William, and Madeline, wait, filled with anticipation. When the music starts to play a little louder, the crowd begins to cheer, and my children strain to look for any sign of movement. And, soon it's really true. Daddy is home. There's nothing like watching my children at this most special moment."
—Ann Marie Detavernier of Household 6 Diva
Tara Ziegmont
"It drives me crazy when my kids fight. The 13-month-old is the aggressor. She attempts to take whatever toy her 4-year-old sister is enjoying and madness ensues. This happens at least seventeen times each day. Yesterday, I was holding one child, when the other approached. I braced myself for the fracas. But instead, my daughter sat down next to us, put one arm around my neck, the other around her sister's and squeezed. We hugged, rocked, and giggled for many long minutes. It was perfect. And it made every sibling squabble forgotten."
—Tara Ziegmont of Feels Like Home
Courtesy of Nichole L. Smith
"It was my birthday—another year older with more gray hair on my head. To top it off, it was a rainy day, and I had no birthday plans. Through the kitchen window, I watched my 5-year old son play outside, stomp in the driveway puddles with great delight. As he splashed happily, I remembered that life is about enjoying the small things like the wonder of puddles. It turned out to be the best birthday I've ever had: a day of stomping in puddles with my son.
—Nichole L. Smith of The Guilty Parent and Chaos in the Country
Courtesy of Stacie Haight Connerty
"My daughter Laurel, born with a heart defect (Tetralogy of Fallot,) had open heart surgery at 4 months old. Just four years later, I watch as she masters pumping on our backyard swing. And I count myself lucky to share the moment with a happy, healthy girl."
—Stacie Haight Connerty of The Divine Miss Mommy
Courtesy of Michelle Sybert
"She looked high up to the twirling whirling chairs, let out a little breathless giggle, and said, 'I want to do it.' It wasn't the first time she rode a theme park ride, but it was the first time without me. Unprepared for her sudden burst of independence, I will never forget that moment and my a-ha—my little girl was not so little anymore."
—Michelle Sybert of Muffin Tin Mom
"Each winter over the last few years, we have traveled as a family to ski in Colorado. With boys ages 6, 8, and 10, I have spent the majority of my time on the bunny hill teaching them to ski. (Not my perfect restful vacation to be sure.)
Tips together!
Slow down!
But this winter was different; as I looked at my 6-year-old sitting next to me on the chairlift, I didn't see another lesson for me to teach, I saw a ski companion."
—Holly Homer of June Cleaver Nirvana
Courtesy of Melissa Atkins Wardy
"My daughter was just over two years old when she spotted this rope ladder on a playground. I told her she was much too small to do it. But, she ignored me, ran to the ropes, and began a very determined climb straight to the top, not looking back once. When she reached the 15-foot high platform, she dusted off her hands, and triumphantly turned to give me a thumbs-up. She sure showed me, and I won't underestimate her again."
—Melissa Atkins Wardy of Pigtail Pals
Courtesy of Jean Van't Hul
"The day I took this photo, my toddler, Daphne, poked uncooked spaghetti into a ball of playdough, sculpting carefully. A few moments later she looked at me, pointed to her spiky creation, and said, 'I made that, Mommy.' I watched the joy of a job well done on her face and I, too, was filled with happiness to see my daughter fully engaged in exploration and creative discovery. 'Yes, you did,' I answered back. 'Yes, you did.'"
—Jean Van't Hul of The Artful Parent


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DUCTING specialist Eximo has introduced lightweight flexible PVC ventilation ducting for air-conditioning and ventilation in heavy-duty environments, cooling and heating of IT tents, and the suction of dust and solvent fumes.
Already used by the Australian Army for temporary ventilation, TempVent has extremely good flexibility, is flame retardant, allows good compressibility and has an outerwear strip profile.
Its PVC-coated polyester fabric is 0.6mm thick on the walls, is generally available in the colour of safety yellow (although customised colours are easily supplied), and it has a temperature resistance of -40°C to +80°C.
Single links are available are in 3m, 5m, 6m, 10m, and 12m.
Variants are also possible: TempVent is available in combinations of cuff ends for fixing to spigots, and end rings for joining individual links with quick-release clamps.
The product is extremely lightweight and, depending on the diameter chosen, weighs from 1.2kg per metre to 3.3kg per metre.
Bend radius ranges from 140mm to 350mm, maximum work pressure bar is 0.550 up to nor 0.20, and maximum vacuum bar ranged from 0.05 to 0.03.
TempVent is also available in a completely antistatic version which is black in colour.
Eximo Asia-Pacific region sales and marketing manager Morris Short said the Australian Army was using the product to ventilate its IT tents.
"Whether in training or in combat, the army is likely to operate a series of mobile logistics tents that would contain much of its IT equipment to manage these strategies," he said.
"Therefore, there is every good reason to ventilate these tents to maintain air temperature and safeguard technical equipment and provide a comfortable operating environment for the staff.
"For this application, TempVent has been provided in the colour of army green, yet it can be customised for any use - especially for hire companies that want to maintain a corporate colour.
"TempVent is exclusively sold to NATO in Europe for similar uses as those by the Australian Army," Mr Short said.
"There are cheaper versions around that claim to fulfil this function, but performance for these types has always been a problem.
"Eximo TempVent is designed to be dragged around and treated ruggedly and is expected to outlast the lifespan of competitors' products by about 10 times."


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WASHINGTON — In December 1974, Congress passed a law seizing control of all Nixon White House tapes and documents and calling for regulations to open those with historical significance for public inspection.
``At the earliest reasonable date,`` the law said, any documents that shed light on ``the abuses of governmental power popularly identified under the generic term `Watergate` `` should be released.
A decade later, none of the Nixon White House documents and only 12 1/2 hours of the tapes have been made public.
The delay has resulted from two lawsuits by former President Nixon and one by 29 of his former aides, three legislative vetoes of public access regulations in the 1970s by Democrats in Congress and the slow pace of the Reagan administration in issuing new regulations.
The lawsuits illustrate the lengths to which people in Washington will go to prevent others from learning what they say about them when they are not around. The bureaucracy continues to grind along, however, and the National Archives issued a new set of proposed regulations Thursday providing for ``public access`` to some of the 40 million pages of documents and 4,000 hours of tapes.
Generally, the new regulations would establish procedures for the archives to make materials public after screening them and after giving interested parties a chance to raise legal objections.
But this is the sixth batch of regulations proposed since the law was passed, and it could sink into the same seemingly bottomless pit of litigation that swallowed the last one.
Some Republicans in this town do not want confidential materials such as candid comments they made while in the Nixon administration about some other people, including members of Congress, to come to light. Skillful lawyering has been their instrument.


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30 Jan 2014 08:15:31 AM
Gambling Addiction Enabler: 'UFC 169: Barao vs. Faber II Edition'
("It's OK Eddie, you're still the king of the invisible motorcycle dance." Photo via Getty)
By Dan George
The UFC returns to lovely…Newark, New Jersey this weekend with UFC 169, featuring a pair of lighter weight title fights and what *should* be a loser-leaves-town fight between Alistair Overeem and Frank Mir that you know who seems unwilling to commit to. There's also a few badass Russians, a hard-hitting Canadian, and a surging TUF alum thrown in for good measure, so it should be a hell of a card.
And with each UFC pay-per-view comes the p4p best gambling advice on the internet: The Gambling Addiction Enabler. So join us below as we dissect UFC 169 and determine where the best opportunities to make some serious bank lie, because let's be honest, we've all got child support payments to make. What? You don't have any illegitimate children? I feel like I don't even know you guys anymore.
The Good Dogs:
John Makdessi (-165) vs. Alan Patrick (+145)
At -165, Makdessi earns the right to be the favorite against undefeated Alan Patrick, who will be looking to make it 2-0 in the UFC. Both fighters are coming off first round knockout wins and while Makdessi has earned his stripes against better competition, it is hard to ignore "Nuguette's" (?) winning formula thus far in his career. There is no denying that Makdessi is the more talented striker, but Patrick mixes up his striking with takedowns very well which may present problems for Makdessi if he is unable to stop the larger man from taking him down early and often. Against Hallman, "The Bull" showed that his Achilles heel is the ground game and this is where Patrick at +145 is worth some consideration based on what we have seen from him throughout his career.Read More DIGG THIS


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Thanksgiving is one of the hardest holidays as an American-born expat. I'd say it is harder than the Fourth of July – it is getting close to winter and the daylight hours are waning, often pitch dark not long after school pickup.
It is that awkward time of year when the temperatures haven't dipped low enough for Jack Frost to cast a shimmering spell over the rooftops, it is just cold and grey and gloomy.
Every year I make an effort to preserve the Thanksgiving tradition. When I was working fulltime, I would take the day off and spend it in the kitchen.
I'd order a turkey from the butcher, and sneak a Pepperidge Farms stuffing mix, Libby's pumpkin puree and Oceanspray cranberry sauce out of my reserves of food from home – a stash of treasures that had travelled more than 6,000 miles in my suitcase, carefully wrapped between socks, pajamas and T-shirts.
Once my sister, who was living in Finland at the time, imported a 23 pound frozen Butterball turkey in her suitcase on a trip from New York. But those were the good old days of yesteryear, when there were no luggage restrictions and heightened security.
Imagine my delight when cranberry sauce started appearing in the grocery stores across England. Sometimes I even spot FRESH cranberries in the produce aisle – shiny red rubies amongst the green lettuces. Then Christmas turkeys started to make an early entrance, just in time for our Thanksgiving feast.
But the icing on the cake was when I was in Waitrose a couple years back. Tucked between the evaporated and condensed milk I spotted a straight line of Libby's pumpkin puree. I felt like little Charlie in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, I had found my golden ticket! But it was August, and too early to be thinking about pumpkin pies, so I tucked that bit of info in the back of my mind.
This year I am having Thanksgiving with an American friend. She is bringing her southern hospitality and I my pumpkin cheesecake, made from a recipe in the San Diego Junior League cookbook. We are planning a grand dinner, but no matter how hard we try, it just won't be the same.
You can't recreate the build-up that starts on the Friday before, the last day of work because you have taken the week off, or the traffic jams on Wednesday evening, as people shut off their laptops early and head to their relatives. The college football in the background, the family members you haven't seen in ages, the nice weather. There's a buzz in the air.
Here it's just another day.
So I stopped off to pick up a few last minute items for our feast.
Who the hell bought all the Libby's pumpkin puree at Waitrose?
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Detroit, (July 20, 2017) – The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) today announced the hiring of Jill Elder as Vice President and Chief Development Officer, effective August 29, 2017. Ms. Elder comes to the DSO from the American Cancer Society North Central Region, where she was Vice President, Distinguished Partners, serving communities in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia. At the DSO, she will oversee a team of advancement professionals and volunteers and direct strategy for DSO's fund development initiatives.
"Jill's addition to the already excellent DSO team will provide our institution the catalyst it needs to leverage all that's been accomplished over the past few years as we drive to financial sustainability," said Mark Davidoff, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the DSO and Michigan Managing Partner at Deloitte.
"We were all so impressed with Jill's warm personality, depth of experience, and consistent track record of success," said DSO President and CEO Anne Parsons. "We are excited to welcome her into our one DSO family and can't wait to get started together! I wish to thank my fellow members of the search committee for their time and dedication to this important endeavor."
"It is an exciting time to be a part of the resurgence of Detroit, and the Detroit Symphony Orchestra is a critical contributor to the cultural life of the city and a key stakeholder in its future," said Ms. Elder. "The role that the DSO plays in uniting people, connecting communities, and enhancing the education of the next generation impacts the entire region. Community building is at the core of who I am and what I have facilitated during my nearly twenty years at the American Cancer Society. My career was launched in this great city, and I am eager to play a role in its rebirth with the DSO."
The search was led by a committee of DSO stakeholders including Chacona W. Baugh, Officer at Large, DSO Board of Directors; Ric Huttenlocher, Chairman, DSO Board of Trustees and Managing Director at J.P. Morgan & Co.; Glenn Mellow, Viola; Haden McKay, Cello; Anne Parsons, President and CEO; Erik Rönmark, Vice President and General Manager; and Linda Lutz, Vice President and CFO. The Aspen Leadership Group and Ron Schiller served as consultants on the search.


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Ordinary office type PC under Win2K-SP4, about 800Mb RAM, 1K AMD processor.
Believe it or not it's now 6 months that I've been not able to burn a CD. With Nero or any other burning program everything goes through the motions as if all was well until at least 50% of the simulation burn. The progress then stops for an "unknown reason". Even more interesting the burner works great on my second HDD under Linux Red Hat.
Last night I decided that I really should dtry to do something about this and found that in Administrative Tools / Services I didn't have IMAPI CD-Burning COM Services. To my knowledge I have never wiped this. Not having found anything else wrong I'm wondering if this is the problem even when using a "3rd party" burning program? The only other thing I've checked is the registry setting at << HKEY_CURRENT_USER,Software, Microsoft, Windows, Current Version, Explorer, CD Burning and Drives >> which is set at "2". I even tried taking the newish LG 8525B burner out and putting my old Plextor burner back in but I only got an I/O device error. Must have upset Win2K?, anyway the LG is back in its' place.
Is it possible to extract ththe IMAPI thing from the CD? If so would someone please type out the cmd. line as I haven't done an extract for about 5 years, since Win98B.
Thanks and Best Regards
Reinrev in Nice, France


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Susan Prows
E-mail: Susan
Phone: 503-346-0375
Current Appointment: Adjunct Faculty, Division of Management
MPH, Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine
PhD, Public Health, University of Massachusetts at Amherst School of Public Health
Dr. Prows PhD, MPH is Vice President of Applied Science for Insignia Health (www.insigniahealth.com), based in Portland Oregon. To OHSU's Division of Management, she brings a unique blend of experience from academia, public policy and commercial endeavors. Susan also teaches public health to undergraduate students at Western Oregon University. Before joining the leadership team at Insignia, Susan served as the Program Manager for Oregon Health & Science University's Program for Medical Innovation. In 2007 and 2008 she served as a faculty member for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative — providing research and technical assistance to the 14 grantee communities throughout the US.
Susan served as the Senior Director of Research & Policy at FACCT – Foundation for Accountability. In this position she directed the consumer research division and led the RWJF funded CompareYourCare™ initiative.
In the policy arena, Susan served as the Director of Health Policy Research under the appointment of Governor John Kitzhaber. In this role, Susan's efforts were integral to the monitoring and evaluation strategies for the Oregon Health Plan and led efforts to measure health care access and quality via the Oregon Population Survey.
In 1998, Susan received the Top Prof award from Oregon State University and was honored with a President's Award from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation for her original research in maternal smoking cessation and incentivized social supports.
Susan earned an MPH from Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine and a PhD in Public Health from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst School of Public Health. She serves as a volunteer CASA (court appointed special advocate) for Multnomah County.


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- adj. Without speed.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- adj. Being without speed.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no speed; slow; sluggish; not prosperous; unfortunate; unsuccessful.
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It was a speedless two-wheeler and provided very little resistance or exercise.
The consciousness of this whole issue was at work below her thoughts; and her thoughts, from joy and dread, to the discomfort of doubt, raced faster than the car, speedless and headlong.
That hat, as she could see in the first sure speedless survey, had got the droops.
But the $1 middle infielders - and quite a few of the $10 MIs - are a powerless, speedless group.
#prayforjustin to be hit by an elephant travelling at speedless than a minute ago via webandrew helloitsandrew
a vanguard of fugitives from the field of battle, weary, broken men, many of them wounded, all of them terror-stricken, staggering in speedless haste with the last remnants of their strength into the shelter which it was their vain illusion the town would afford them.


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FAQ. 10.3, Figure 1. (a) Simulated changes in atmospheric CO2 concentration relative to the present-day for emissions stabilised at the current level (black), or at 10% (red), 30% (green), 50% (dark blue) and 100% (light blue) lower than the current level; (b) as in (a) for a trace gas with a lifetime of 120 years, driven by natural and anthropogenic fluxes; and (c) as in (a) for a trace gas with a lifetime of 12 years, driven by only anthropogenic fluxes.


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The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has agreed — grudgingly — to feed deer in a number of areas in the northern part of the state.
The decision Wednesday — a reversal of the agency's prior refusal to feed deer amid an increasingly severe winter — came as pressure from deer hunters mounted. More on that in a bit.
And that mounting pressure comes as a wide chorus of deer hunters, dissatisfied with the deer population in many areas of the state, pushes the DNR to increase deer numbers. This follows three years of falling deer harvests and a fall that saw the fewest number of deer killed by hunters in a decade.
Dissatisfied deer hunters, coming together under the banner of the Minnesota Deer Density Initiative, now have a slogan, which, like all good slogans, needs no elaboration: "More Deer, Better Hunting." (They should think about keeping the slogan and ditching the MDDI mouthful.)
If everything goes as planned, their discontent will be evident at a pair of public meetings starting Wednesday to discuss deer population goals for southeastern Minnesota. In other parts of the state, deer hunters will have opportunities later this winter to sound off on DNR officials in a series of yet-unscheduled meetings co-sponsored by the Minnesota Deer Hunters Association.
Slogans, initiatives, dissatisfaction. Few deer shot and fewer seen from the tree stand. And deer dying in the deep snow. That's a recipe for something.
"I think they've gotten to an all-time low from a public relations standpoint," Mark Johnson, executive director of the Deer Hunters Association, said of the DNR. "It's not because they're bad or the commissioner is bad. It's because of years and years of not addressing things. The impression is the DNR is not out to protect the interests of the public."
DNR brass say they're listening.
"We're hearing that message," said Paul Telander, the DNR's wildlife section chief.
But we're a long way from singing "Kumbaya" at deer camp amid freshly killed whitetails, as evidenced by the deer feeding debate.
Generally speaking, wildlife biologists nationwide oppose feeding any wild animals. The DNR is no exception with regards to deer.
"It's inadvisable," said Telander. "It doesn't have a significant impact on populations and it can increase the potential for disease to spread." Deer, which can reproduce as young as their first year of life, are resilient, Telander said, and evolved to handle Minnesota winters. And it's unlikely that a feeding operation can reach more than 20 percent of the deer in any given area, he said.
So why agree to the feeding now?
"We feel we need to act in good faith on the account that deer hunters have been putting money into," Telander said.
That would be the "emergency deer feeding and wild cervid health account." It was first established — foisted on the DNR, really — by the Legislature in 1997, following back-to-back severe winters that saw an estimated 30 percent of the herd perish in 1995-96 and an additional 8 percent die in '96-97.
The Legislature ordered the agency to feed the deer back then, over the wishes of the DNR. The account, in which 50 cents of every dollar from deer hunting licenses is placed, was set up for future deer feedings in emergencies. It's since been expanded to allow feeding of other cervids like elk and moose, and disease monitoring and control.
In other words, Telander can justify the dichotomy of his agency's opposition to feeding this way: Biologically, the DNR is dead-set against it, but by law and a duty to the hunters who paid into it, it must feed the animals this year.
And there's the pressure. The reversal came after Johnson spoke at one of several recent meetings with Commissioner Tom Landwehr, pleading his case.
"I can't disagree with them," Johnson said of agency officials' opposition to feeding. "What they're saying is correct, but you need to look at it from a different perspective. It's like saving for retirement: It's a few dollars at a time, but it matters. Let's say you go into a deer yard (wintering area in harsh winters) with 36 deer. Let's say if you don't do anything, six of them will survive the wolves and the winter. If you can go in and save even 12 of them, the difference in population — that local population — is significant. What's wrong with that?"
The DNR has since spent $10 million to deal with chronic wasting disease in the southeast and bovine tuberculosis in the northwest parts of the state. In both cases, the diseases are believed to now be at "undetectable levels," with no deer testing positive for TB since 2009 and for CWD since 2010.
So, success. But costly.
Those diseases spread via saliva, such as that left behind when deer crowd over a pile of feed — but less so when they browse naturally on scattered buds and berries in the woods.
But Johnson, whose MDHA chapters will administer the feeding, said those concerns will be addressed. "It will be spread over the ground on packed snow, not in troughs or feeders," he said.
A pellet mixture will be used that winter forest- feeding deer can handle. (Deer stomachs accustomed to woody food can't handle a sudden diet of corn; it can kill them.) Telander said he wasn't sure when the feedings will start, but it will likely take more than two weeks, perhaps more than a month, to procure the food.
The feeding will be done in areas where the winter severity index, which accounts for snowpack and sub-zero weather, reaches 100 by Saturday, Feb. 15, and where deer numbers are believed to be below the DNR's goal. Thirteen deer permit hunting zones will likely qualify.
Telander said he'll allocate $170,000, which will allow $600,000 to remain in the account to respond to any new instances of disease.
And moving forward: "After this winter passes, we need to have a discussion about long-term feeding policy in deer," he said.
That's another way of saying he wants to convince deer hunters — and ultimately the Legislature — that feeding is inadvisable.
To that, Johnson responds: "I understand their position. But when they do their population goal-setting, they take into account more than biology. They take into account social impact, and that's what we're talking about here."
Which brings us back to the larger question of dissatisfaction, and the DNR's dilemma of being a group of mainly biologists serving more than the demands of science. There are more than 500,000 deer hunters in Minnesota, and they can't be ignored by the DNR — because they won't be ignored by the Legislature.
Brooks Johnson, president of Minnesota Bowhunters Inc. and the guy spearheading the "More Deer, Better Hunting" groundswell, has said he wants the DNR, not the legislature, to accede to hunters' demands. For several weeks, he's been urging hunters to attend public meetings on southeast Minnesota deer populations, which are being held as the DNR starts its planned review of population goals. They are:
— 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at Lake City Lincoln High School
— 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the St. Charles Elementary High School auditorium
The meetings co-sponsored by the DNR and MDHA have yet to be scheduled but will likely take place in late February or March and are intended for only deer hunters.
In addition to packing meeting rooms, Brooks Johnson also wants hunters to email DNR officials, as well as elected officials.
He knows they're watching at the Capitol.
Dave Orrick can be reached at 651-228-5512. Follow him at twitter.com/OutdoorsNow.


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16 Jul 1877 - 01 Jun 1934
Wife of James M. Massey (marr. 21 Feb 1906); daughter of James H. and Manervia Julia Gilbert Gibbens
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