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Ran a little long this week. Sorry in advance.1. Yanks Are Fine at First for a Change (NY Times)
When it comes to manning first base, the Yankees have been dead last: last in the major leagues in batting average, last in R.B.I., last in on-base plus slugging percentage. And the team's first basemen are also near the bottom in home runs, runs and on-base percentage.
But on Wednesday, Matt Holliday, in a cameo at the club's most troublesome position, was the headline maker. Filling in at first for the struggling Chris Carter, Holliday hit a solo home run in the fifth inning to break a 2-2 tie and sparked a two-out rally that carried the Yankees to an 8-4 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Angels.
We've been following the Yankees closely at my house this season. And it's funny because for all of 3rd baseman Chase Headley's struggles, m kids can live with him. But my daughter Hannah especially despises Carter, who's under-the-glove error on Tuesday likely cost the Yanks a win in a game they desperately needed.
Hannah and I have been throwing a softball around our backyard a lot lately, and whenever she fails to get her body behind the ball, I tell her, "Don't be lazy. That's the way Chris Carter always tries to do it."
Been surprisingly effective as a motivational technique.
That said, last night's loss was hardly Carter's fault. Hannah's beloved Didi Gregorius made a costly error, as did Starlin Castro, and even Betances threw garbage when he finally came into the game. Ugh.
2. Valedictorian kicked off stage for unapproved speech got to finish it on Jimmy Kimmel (Chicago Tribune)
From the speech in question:
"Throughout my time at Wyoming Area, I have pursued every leadership opportunity available to me. In addition to being a member of Student Council since I was a freshman, my classmates have also elected me Class President the past 4 years, which has been my greatest honor, and I would like to thank you all for that one final time, it really means a lot.
"However, at our school, the title of Class President could more accurately be Class Party Planner, and Student Council's main obligation is to paint signs every week. Despite some of the outstanding people in this school, a lack of real student government and the authoritative attitude that a few teachers, administrators, and board members have, prevents students from truly developing as leaders.
"Hopefully in the future, this will change. Hopefully for the sake of future students, more people of power within this school, who do not do so already, will begin to prioritize education itself as well as the empowering of students."
"However, at our school, the title of Class President could more accurately be Class Party Planner, and Student Council's main obligation is to paint signs every week. Despite some of the outstanding people in this school, a lack of real student government and the authoritative attitude that a few teachers, administrators, and board members have, prevents students from truly developing as leaders.
"Hopefully in the future, this will change. Hopefully for the sake of future students, more people of power within this school, who do not do so already, will begin to prioritize education itself as well as the empowering of students."
I bring this up because I have a daughter who's done a lot of student council work at her school who's also expressed many of these same frustrations. She told me just yesterday that she's not sure she's going to keep running for student office because she feels like all she ever does is make posters, and that neither takes nor teaches leadership.
"It's a pointless activity," she says.
I don't know what the future holds, but it's clear that there are quite a few teachers out there who are scared to give even smart, responsible kids more than a token voice in their own futures. That's not how we build the future that Americans have come to expect in this country.
3. #AvengersInfinityWar
Lots of little details are leaking out about Avengers: Infinity War. If you read Marvel's Infinity event a few years ago—I did, and it was fantastic—then I think you now have enough information to assemble a basic frame for the movie's plotline.
I'll spare you what I know. I will, however, share some of the tweets I've seen.
Forks, tongs, cans + bottles + a Wong... Help us #healthenet #afeastoffriends #AvengersInfinityWar #beardbros #sciencebros #benedictsquared pic.twitter.com/kjvCmC5Mk8— Robert Downey Jr (@RobertDowneyJr) June 21, 2017
Scarlett Johansson on the scale of #AvengersInfinityWar: "In one particular scene there's 32 (characters)." https://t.co/uXJbUnoGdK pic.twitter.com/b8Xl5HPazK— MCU News & Tweets (@MCU_Tweets) June 17, 2017
The Russo Brothers just shared this photo from the set of #AvengersInfinityWar of themselves with @scottderrickson in the Sanctum Sanctorum! pic.twitter.com/t2QiI5kjim— MCU News & Tweets (@MCU_Tweets) June 22, 2017
4. Mets GM scolds opposing team that relentlessly mocked Tim Tebow (Yahoo Sports)
A lot has been said about Tebow — who is hitting .224 this season — getting chances other people wouldn't since he decided to attempt a baseball career. That's true. Other 29-year-olds who hadn't played baseball since high school wouldn't get this sort of opportunity. But that comes at a cost and you're seeing it.
No other Single-A players will be mocked like this. No other Single-A players will be forced to be bigger than the potshots dreamed up in a minor-league front office. Tebow, no matter what, has to grin and bear it.
I've been covering Tebow relentlessly since he went to the Fireflies, and I think I've been pretty pro-Tebow for a guy who is a) a Yankees fan, b) a Vols fan, and c) a decided not-fan of Tebow's stint as an NFL quarterback.
But. These tweets are funny as Hell.
I've caught the Tebow fever. pic.twitter.com/l0UeNOqHQw— Charlie T. RiverDog (@charlieriverdog) June 17, 2017
We're not sure who IS batting, but we're relatively sure it's not @TimTebow. @MiLBPromos pic.twitter.com/EJIk2XfjdZ— Charleston RiverDogs (@ChasRiverDogs) June 16, 2017
VIDEO: @ChasRiverDogs top @ColaFireflies (and Tim Tebow) 3-0 tonight at The Joe. Charlie T. Tebowing, Tebow bat-flipping, it was a good one. pic.twitter.com/dxhRQm1Ban— Daren Stoltzfus (@DarenStoltzfus) June 18, 2017
VIDEO: Tim Tebow's bat flip and strikeout in HD. Even more impressive when you can actually see how far that thing flies pic.twitter.com/aOYlctOs5X— Daren Stoltzfus (@DarenStoltzfus) June 18, 2017
5. An Unfortunate Army Football Update
The Jeff Monken Era appears to be taking some academic casualties, and given the sizes of some of Coach's recent recruiting classes, I confess that I am not overly surprised. I don't want to shame anyone, but the Black Knights have lost both a would-be starting wide receiver and a previously productive fullback from a 2019 recruiting class that once numbered a whopping seventy-nine kids. Army doesn't typically confirm why kids are leaving, either the football team or the Academy in general, but given the timing—Summer Term Academic Program (STAP) just ended and the Affirmation Ceremony is still months away—academics are by far the most likely culprit. Mind you, that's just a guess.
West Point is geared towards kids who come in with strong academic backgrounds, and the Academy then pushes those kids to be the very best that they can be. The Class of 2017 featured some 27 post-graduate scholarship winners, including Rhodes, Fulbright, and Marshall Scholars among many, many others. At the same time, there are lots of kids at West Point who are truly outstanding in other ways, but who're not at anything like that level academically. The U.S. Army makes fine use of these kids in the Officer Corps, but they still have to slog through Chemistry, Physics, and Calculus, and this is at a school that suffers little incentive towards grade inflation.
Academic casualties are baked into the Academy's acceptance rates. My own class started with just over 1350 and graduated 1006, with approximately 950 in June and another 50 the following December. I have a friend who was a December grad who is today one of the better programmers at the NSA. That's just how life is sometimes.
But I had another friend, Reggie, who was a recruited quarterback out of Alabama, and he had a very different story. I have little doubt that Reggie was one of the best kids at his high school, but he was academically unprepared for West Point's mathematics. He struggled. In truth, I don't think that this was really Reggie's fault. He worked hard, but he'd never seen anything remotely like the math that we had to do as plebes and yearlings, and it hurt him—badly. I blame his high school teachers, if you want to know the truth. They should've known better, but I think that they wanted to push their star quarterback as far as he could possibly go, so they maybe went a little easy on him to make sure he had the right grades. In the event, however, they didn't wind up doing him any favors.
Alas, Reggie tore his ACL as a plebe, and after that, you could see something go out of him. He finally left West Point shortly after the start of our yearling year, and though I knew at the time that he didn't want to leave, I also remember seeing the relief on his face when he realized that he was going to have to find something else to do with himself. West Point was a bad fit for Reggie's particular skillset, and when he finally admitted it, he was ready to move forward again.
That's not a tragedy, except in the moment.
On the football field, life goes on. Army still has its top two fullbacks from last year's offense, and firstie Jeff Ejekam remains Army's #1 wide receiver. The search for a new #2 is liable to take on some urgency this summer, however, and if you ask me, I think Army fans had better hope that yearling Kjetil Cline comes along at a slightly faster pace than he did during his plebe campaign.
Beyond that, I hope these kids hit the books some this summer. I get that not everybody's going to make it, but it sucks, too. More details are available at Army Football Insider.
I don't make it back, you'll at least know I died happy.
That's all, folks!
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Busy weekend ahead. Sally & I are hoping to see a reportedly EPIC Def Leppard tribute band this evening down by the water, and tomorrow is Two Roads Brewery's annual Road Music Fest. Gates open at 2 pm, and they don't close again until 9 pm tomorrow evening.
OMG Road Jam Music Fest feat. @Twiddlemusic @matesofstate at Two Roads Sat tix are selling like WHOA! Get yours now- https://t.co/C6UNEBeGb8— Two Roads Brewing (@2RoadsBrewing) June 21, 2017
I don't make it back, you'll at least know I died happy.
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McKeon: Ignore Labor Department
The House Armed Services Committee chairman has some advice for the defense industry: Don't listen to the Labor Department.
Rep. Buck McKeon is in an uproar over the department's decision to blunt what Republicans consider one of their best planks to turn President Barack Obama out of the White House.
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And the California Republican isn't alone.
Heading into the long summer recess, congressional Republicans were in a frenzy over the issue, blasting the department for signaling to defense contractors that they're not required to send pre-election layoff warnings to their employees.
The department has said it would be "inappropriate" for contractors to alert hundreds of thousands of workers that they're at risk of losing their jobs if Congress fails to avert the $110 billion in automatic spending cuts, called sequestration, scheduled to roll out next year. About half of the cuts would be in defense spending, with the rest coming from other federal programs.
Republicans are counting on the layoff warnings, which would be sent out right before the Nov. 6 elections, to bolster their argument that the economy is badly sputtering under Obama.
Now, Republican leaders are asking the Labor Department to hand over documents backing up its decision, which was laid out in a memo issued last week. They've also pushed for legislation that would require contractors to issue the layoff warnings required under the 1988 WARN Act.
"To think that one of the agencies of the Obama administration would give guidance not to follow the law of the land – a judge would laugh at that," McKeon told reporters.
Rep. Adam Smith of Washington state, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, disagreed. "This is an important and correct interpretation of the law," he said in a statement. "There is no reason to needlessly alarm hundreds of thousands of workers."
The defense industry has been measured in its response.
The world's largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin, had said it would have to send WARN notices to the vast majority of its more than 100,000 employees, even though only about 10,000 of them would ultimately be laid off under sequestration.
Now, Lockheed spokesman Chris Williams says the company is "reviewing" the Labor Department memo "to assess its impacts on our obligations with respect to the WARN Act and sequestration."
And at the Aerospace Industries Association, Cord Sterling, vice president for legislative affairs, said the memo "does not provide companies with an exemption to the WARN Act notification requirements."
"The new Labor Department memo is talking about when and if those workers would have to be notified that they will be laid off," Sterling said. "However, it does nothing to avoid the job losses."


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A Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT) of 220 patients undergoing primary hip or knee replacement compared the use of PICO, the novel Single use Negative Pressure Wound Therapy (NPWT) system, with standard dressings on closed surgical incisions. The research took place over a 12 month period at The Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust (RJAH), Shropshire, UK. Results show significant reduction in; wound exudate distribution within the dressing, the number of dressing changes and extreme length of stay in hospital amongst those patients where PICO was applied.1
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What's the easiest route to the church?
Some people have said that the hardest part about going to Derry Church is getting there the first time. If you're new to Hershey, it may be easiest for you to travel along Chocolate Avenue (rt. 422) until you find the famous "Hershey Cocoa" bushes at Homestead Road. If the bushes are on your left, you're right on track. Continue to head east until you reach Mansion Road (first left past the bushes). Turn left at our road sign on the corner of Chocolate & Mansion Roads, then turn left again when you reach the stop sign at Mansion & East Derry Roads. The church building will be on your left.
Now if the cocoa bushes are on your right as you drive down Chocolate Avenue, you'll need to turn around first. Then, follow directions above.
Where should I park?.
- Park on either side of East Derry Road, or in the flower shop parking lot across from the church and adjacent to the train tracks
- Turn into the parking lot from East Derry Road. You can park along the stone wall by the cemetery – some spaces here are reserved just for visitors. Or, continue straight. At the glass-enclosed log house building, turn right or left -- parking is available in either direction. If you need an elevator or handicapped parking, turn left. If you don't mind a walk, turn right.
- Once in a while it takes more than one pass to find a parking space. If you must exit out of the parking lot onto Mansion Road, you can turn right, then right again into the Hershey Trust parking lot where you can enjoy a scenic stroll through the golf course on your way to church. You'll walk past the small school Milton Hershey once attended, and our fun " Ark in the Grove" play area.
Which door do I use?
It doesn't really matter. All the doors are unlocked on Sunday mornings. And none of the doors open directly into the main sanctuary, so you'll never accidentally interrupt a service or a program.
Some doors are more convenient than others, depending on where you're going.
Easiest way into the Chapel is to use the door that faces East Derry Road. If you can't take stairs, follow directions for "easiest way into the sanctuary," then turn right and go up the ramp.
Easiest way into the Sanctuary is by way of the main entrance through the front courtyard. These doors will take you into the lobby area (narthex). It's also the best door to use if you're going to Fellowship Hall.
Easiest way to the office area and elevator is to drive around the building and park close to the " Ark in the Grove" play area. The offices and elevator are located to the right once you enter the building..
Easiest back door entrance to the Fellowship Hall/gym is the second door you see as you face the back of the building. Enter this glass door, go up a couple stairs, then turn left to get to the Chapel or right to get to Fellowship Hall or the rest of the building.
Where's the coffee?
Available every Sunday morning, you'll find both decaf and regular Fair Trade coffee (and hot tea) in our Fellowship Hall at no charge. Help yourself to a ceramic mug from our large assortment. Coffee is also available during the church school hour (9:00-10:00 am) in the atrium on the lower level.
What happens in worship?
A Sunday morning worship experience at Derry is uplifting and traditional. The worship leaders and choir members wear robes. At the 8am service in the Chapel, two or three hymns are sung with organ accompaniment. There's a time to ask for forgiveness of sins, and to hear an assurance of forgiveness. A passage or two is read from the Bible – usually there are readings from the Old and the New Testaments. One of the vocal or bell choirs will sing or play, and sometimes a guest soloist performs. The pastor reads scripture and preaches a sermon. An offering is collected, and prayers are said. The entire service takes about an hour.
At 10:30 am in the Sanctuary, the service is repeated, and often a few more things are added into the mix. You'll hear a story just for children, who are invited to come forward and sit on the steps at the front of the Sanctuary. Sometimes there is a baptism or new members join. You can expect this service to last a bit longer, an hour fifteen to an hour and a half.
For both services, large print bulletins and hymnals are available. Listening devices are available for use in the Sanctuary. Ask any usher for assistance.
What if I can't attend on Sunday mornings?
"Evening Praise and Communion" is an informal 45-minute service held every Tuesday in the Chapel beginning at 6:45 pm. At this meditative service, you'll sing a variety of contemporary, traditional, and gospel songs. There will be time to reflect on scripture through an interpretive reading or perhaps a dramatization, and communion will be served.
How should I dress?
There is no "dress code" – wear what's comfortable to you. You'll see men in suits, open-collared shirts, khakis and sweaters, and ladies in pants or skirts or dresses.
My kids aren't used to sitting in worship. Help!
While we understand that kids can be restless if they have to sit for a long time, we welcome and encourage them to take part in the worship experience. After all, worship is for the entire family of God – including grown-ups. Kids who like to read or color can pick up a listening bag at the entrance to the Sanctuary, and use the papers, book, and crayons inside to keep their hands busy as they listen to the words and music. We suggest opening the bag about half-way through the service, right before the sermon. The early part of the service has lots of movement, singing and activity that can be interesting and engaging to kids (of all ages). Ushers can provide simplified children's bulletins for those who would like one.
If you have kids who are age four or five or in kindergarten, they are invited to join KIWI ("Kids In Worship Instruction"). This program is available September through May, and kids who participate will leave the sanctuary with a leader after the children's story. They learn about the order of worship, how to find hymns, how to pray, and even have communion together. Kids meet up with their parents after worship, in a lower level classroom.
If you have babies or children younger than four, a nursery is available across the hall from the Sanctuary (near the rest rooms). There is a room for children two and younger, and a room for kids ages two to four. When you sign in, you can pick up a pager that will silently alert you should you be needed by your child while you're at worship.
Some people have found that the lounge at the west end of the sanctuary (through the glass doors) is a good place to hang out with energy-filled kids. You can see and hear the worship service even though you are slightly removed from it.
Am I allowed to take communion?
Any person who has been baptized is welcome to participate in the sacrament of the Lord's supper. You don't have to be Presbyterian or even a member of any church. There is no age requirement. At communion, we remember Jesus' last meal with his disciples, and how Jesus gave his life for each one of us -- so that we will have life even after death.
At Derry, we have communion about once a month. The "elements" (bread and grape juice) are brought to you as you sit in your pew. You can eat as soon as you are served. A little rack with round holes can be found on the pew ahead of you (near the hymn books). It's for holding the small juice cups when they're empty.
Do I have to be a member to participate in activities?
No – all programs and activities on Sunday morning and throughout the week are open to anyone who would like to attend. Most of the programs are listed on this website.
Who do I contact to ask a question?
The church office is open Monday through Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Call 717-533-9667 and the phone will most likely be answered by our friendly and helpful church secretary, Teresa. She can answer your question, or direct you to the right person to answer your question.
Or, send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
On Sunday mornings, go to our Information Center (the large desk in the hallway right by the main entrance and outside the Sanctuary). Or, ask anyone wearing a name tag and they will be more than happy to help you.


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It was 45 minutes after Seattle's logic-defying 28-22 overtime victory over Green Bay in Sunday's NFC championship game, and DeShawn Shead still hadn't shed his uniform in the Seahawks' locker room.
The third-year safety out of Portland State was basking in the glow of the most improbable of wins.
Trailing 19-7 inside the final three minutes of regulation, the Seahawks seemed dead in the water. Then they wriggled free and wrote themselves a ticket to their second straight Super Bowl.
"That was a hard-fought, tough, grind-it-out win," said Shead, who backs up safety Earl Thomas and plays on all of Seattle's special teams. "The greatest thing about it? Everybody still believed when we were down 19-7. Everybody still believed we had an opp (opportunity).
"That will and that belief that it ain't over til it's over? That will won us the game."
Shead was on the field for one of the biggest plays of the game. After Marshawn Lynch scored on a 24-yard touchdown run with 2:09 remaining to cut the deficit to 19-14, the Seahawks — with one timeout left — had an onside kick as their only viable option.
The 6-2, 220-pound Shead was one of five Seahawks lined up on the right side, the direction Steven Hauschka was going to kick the ball.
"The key was to not be offside," Shead said. "That's the worst thing you could do. We had to hold a little bit."
Hauschka's kick bounced off Green Bay's Brandon Bostick and was recovered by Seattle's Chris Matthews at midfield as the CenturyLink Field fans howled their approval.
"I see the ball in the area just as somebody hits me, and that opens up the space for Chris to dart through there to get the ball," Shead says. "Amazing play. Big ups to Chris."
Shead served the same role on the Seahawks team that rolled past Denver 38-9 in the 2014 Super Bowl.
"Honestly, this feeling right now is greater than winning the Super Bowl," the Palmdale, Calif., native said. "Maybe because of how hard it was to fight and grind.
"Last year during Super Bowl week, we knew for a while we were going to win that game. But today's game came down to overtime. It was a matter of just believing in one another, believing in the scheme, believing in our coaches, believing in our brothers.
"It's an amazing feeling to go to back-to-back Super Bowls. It's a blessing. Words can't describe that. This feeling I have right now is crazy."
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Obviously you know about BikeRadar's podcasts by now as we've already recorded some Eurobike and Fort William audio delights. So grab your headphones and cop a lug-full of BikeRadar's John Stevenson and Gary Boulanger chatting to MBUK's Guy Kesteven and What Mountain Bike's Justin Loretz about all things 29er and the developing trend of cyclocross bikes.
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When Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters debuted last year, it went on to gross $55 million domestically and an estimated $170 million internationally. Paramount was happy enough with this performance to request a sequel and they asked writer-director Tommy Wirkola to whip together a follow-up. The filmmaker – who has Dead Snow 2 arriving next month – tells us that as far as Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters 2 is concerned, it's all in the studio's hands.
"I've written the script for it," Wirkola told me at Fantastic Fest. "I've given it to Paramount and it's up to them now. But I don't know what's going to happen. Jeremy [Renner] is so busy these days, I don't know how they're going to juggle all of that, but it's up to [Paramount]. We'll see. Hopefully, I'll get to do another film first. They really liked the script I gave them. The first film was a learning curve for me working in the studio system and the script I wrote for the original was so different. We ended up taking a lot out and altering stuff that first time. I'm smarter now. I tried taking what I learned and still delivered a sequel script that's an R-rated action film."
Wirkola brings up a great point – what will Paramount do if they can't land Renner? I suspect the studio will lose interest and let this sequel fade away…
The original film also stars Gemma Arteron and Famke Jansen and took place 15 years after the Hansel and Gretel's incident at the gingerbread house. The two are now specialized bounty hunters looking to put down the cackling black-hat set.


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Event organizers and surfers representatives decided to call off competition until the next call at 7am on Wednesday, August 6th. EL GRINGO, Arica / Chile (Tuesday, Aug, 05, 2014) - A lay day was called on day 1 of the waiting period for the ASP 3-Star Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour in Chile. The waves at the treacherous reef break at El Gringo, in Arica, were maxing out at an average of 10-12+ ft. (3-4 metres) with only an occasional set that didn't close out. After being put on hold until 10am (local time), event organizers and surfers representatives decided to call off competition until the next call at 7am on Wednesday, August 6th.
"Due to the difficult conditions and a southwest swell at El Gringo, we have come to a decision that the event should be put on hold for 24 hours," stated the head judge at the Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour, Sergio Gadelha. "We have a commitment to the safety of our athletes and waiting for optimum conditions to have our event held under a more level playing field and provide better scoring opportunities on the incredible waves here at El Gringo."
Some of South America's best big wave surfers including Marcos Monteiro (BRA), Edward Portocarrero (CHL) and Gabriel Villaran (PER) were on hand to provide input on the decision of holding off the commencement of the Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour until tomorrow.
Despite their warning, several surfers decided to test the conditions since it was their first time to Arica. One such surfer was Brent Symes (AUS), who quickly got in trouble, lost his board, then spent approximately thirty minutes taking massive sets on the head before barely making it to the beach. Symes then fainted on the beach before being taken to the hospital. He was later released and cleared to participate in the event.
A total of 62 surfers representing eleven different countries will be competing at the 2014 ASP 3-Star Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour. Chile and Brazil contain the largest group of representatives followed by Peru, the USA, Australia, France, South Africa, Ecuador and Uruguay.
Heat 1 of the event will see Gabriel Villaran (PER), Leonardo Acevedo (CHL) and James Fazio (USA) hit the water. Villaran has already won the event in the past as have fellow competitors Guillermo Satt (CHL) and Alvaro Malpartida (PER), who won the event in 2013.
In addition to the Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour event, the ASP South America regional office will be simultaneously running the Red Nose Pro Junior event in Baia Formosa, Brazil. This is the first men event in the ASP South America Pro Junior Series. The series will determine the ASP South America Pro Junior champion and the four highest ranked athletes will qualify for the ASP World Pro Junior event held later this year.
News and webcasts for both the Maui and Sons Arica World Star Tour and the Red Nose Pro Junior will be broadcast at www.aspsouthamerica.com


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Anyway, enough complaining. Here are things I am grateful for:
1. MY HUSBAND!!! He has been so amazing during this whole process. I love him so much. He works so hard yet never gets frustrated with all the slack he's picked up when I'm basically an invalid (which is pretty much all the time lately), and is always there to hug me and comfort me when I need it. Even during my darkest hours, he can make me laugh. I would say we have a really good laugh at least once a day. Those of you going through TSW know how depressing it can be and sometimes it's hard to even smile so being able to laugh feels so good. It reminds me that there are good times ahead.
2. My husband. Lol. Seriously, he is the reason I am able to get through this.
3. My health. This is a funny one because obviously I am sick. I look in the mirror and I see a sick person. But I am not dying, I don't have cancer, my son is healthy, my husband is healthy, what more could I ask for? One day I will be done with this and I will be stronger for it.
4. ITSAN. I don't participate too often in the forum but I know it's there for me if I need it. What better place to get information than from other people going through the same thing?
Picture update:
These first 2 pictures are from a couple days ago after an itch attack. See the oozey part at the bottom of my neck? That's the part that has been killing me lately. It's weird how the places that hurt the most are barely visible.


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I feel like crap. I did not have a good morning.
I overslept and then woke up and gulped down a cup of coffee and grabbed the kids and headed off to the grocery store at 8:25 and arrived at 8:30 to stand in line for 40 minutes for the flu shots that were slated to start at 9:00 but really started at 8:30 because the line started to form at 8:00. I was the only person under 50 there–so nice because the older people grumble about how I shouldn't be getting a priority flu shot and I feel like I should wear a huge red sign on my chest that says "I HAVE ASTHMA" in big letters so that I do not get the third degree from every person after me in line that is annoyed at my presence.
After getting the flu shot and the pneumovax and thus making both arms hurt at the same time and buying doughnuts because the kids had behaved and driving home and bringing in the kids and doughnuts, my necklace chain fell out of my sweater sans pendant that I've been wearing since I was twelve. So the kids ate their doughnuts while I combed through the car and raked the driveway and then I drove us all back to the store and wandered through the parking lot and found my pendant, except the amber had been crushed against the asphalt and so I drove it over to the jewelry shop that I'd swear is a front for the Russian mafia except they at least said they'd try to replace the amber and that's a really small job as the pendant has way more sentimental value than anything else and I'm surprised they're willing to try since the job will pay less than $100 and it's funny that the shop is always empty and anyway.
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Jam Tomorrow
F.M.L. Thompson
- Clichés of Urban Doom, and Other Essays by Ruth Glass
Blackwell, 266 pp, £25.00, November 1988, ISBN 0 631 12806 9
- Cities of Tomorrow: An Intellectual History of Urban Planning and Design in the 20th Century by Peter Hall
Blackwell, 473 pp, £25.00, November 1988, ISBN 0 631 13444 1
- London 2001 by Peter Hall
Unwin Hyman, 226 pp, £17.95, January 1989, ISBN 0 04 445161 X
- The Big Smoke: A History of Air Pollution in London since Medieval Times by Peter Brimblecombe
Routledge, 185 pp, £12.95, March 1989, ISBN 0 415 03001 3
- New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future edited by Peter Salins
Blackwell, 223 pp, £35.00, December 1988, ISBN 1 55786 008 4
- The Idea of a Town: The Anthropology of Urban Forms in Rome, Italy and the Ancient World by Joseph Rykwert
MIT, 241 pp, $15.00, September 1988, ISBN 0 262 68056 4
Time was when planning was the watchword of all radical, progressive or revolutionary opinion. Whether it was a matter of the wall-to-wall planning of the fully nationalised socialist economy, the liberal and pluralist arrangements of the welfare state with Keynesian economic management, or simply the protection and improvement of the environment, all schemes for making the world a better place to live in – or at least the advanced, industrialised world – assumed that this would happen when a body of professional experts were given the power and authority to devise and enforce appropriate blueprints. Then, in the Seventies, planners got a bad name. In Britain, national economic planning, for years ceaselessly battered by the stop-go waves, finally collapsed in a shambles of vacuous incomes policies and relentlessly rising unemployment, to be replaced by the strident invocation of non-planning and by apparently deliberate further increases in unemployment and massive de-industrialisation. In France, central indicative planning, which had seemed almost miraculously successful with the enormous economic growth of the Fifties and Sixties, was discredited when it proved unable to withstand the buffetings of inflation. A little belatedly, the Soviet Union discovered that its planned economy – once feared in the West (though admired by some) for its awesome efficiency as well as its achievement of equality – was ramshackle, corrupt, backward and thoroughly inefficient. The United States, which had not admitted to having any truck with planning since the days of the New Deal, beyond the level of freeways and land-use zoning, found that urban free ways were gumming up and that zoning had neither improved inner-city ghettoes nor prevented the endless spread of subtopia. Above all, planning, to the British public, meant town planning. This was widely perceived to have done little more than create instant new slums in unloved and unhabitable tower blocks, or stifle initiative with the red tape of regulations and restrictions.
Everywhere, the legendary prophets of the earlier 20th century, and the trusted guides who claimed they knew the way to the promised land after the holocaust of the Second World War, have turned into scapegoats for the economic mess and social disasters of the Eighties. Inquests on what went wrong have been legion. Economists, never much interested in institutions and even less interested in history, have concentrated on producing mathematical theories. Half-baked versions, dimly understood by politicians, have provided governments with a series of talismen from Public Sector Borrowing Requirements to exchange-rate target zones, via money supply targets and fiscal enterprise incentives – philosophers' stones which have turned to dust, leaving interest rates as the sole means of communicating to the outside world the presumed intentions of the 'unseen hand'. Regulation by the 'unseen hand' of the market – a market worked by traders of grossly unequal power and wealth – has been erected into a substitute for economic policy. The physical planners, meanwhile, who have never cared much for economic theories or grand economic policies, have tried to ignore all this. They have kept their heads down, hoping that, with a low profile and a less authoritarian touch, they might do a little good here or prevent a little harm there – and perhaps the non planning or anti-planning nightmare would one day go away. They have not thought it their province to think seriously about a planning theory for a free-market economy; nor have they made effective use of the fact that even a commitment to residual planning controls is incompatible with a whole-hearted return to laissez-faire.
Yet the sanctity of the Green Belt is a mainly South-Eastern shibboleth which has been more warmly defended by a vocal public opinion than has any article of faith in a free economy, even though that same public is quick enough off the mark in chasing the best bargain buys in the nearest hypermarket. The Green Belt is evidence not so much of public support for planning restrictions, because they promote the common good, as of the use of planning regulations to protect property values and private interests. It is the British counterpart of an American practice enthusiastically adopted in 1916. These manoeuvres illustrate the propensity of vested interests to appropriate the instruments of planning and incorporate them into the set of rules under which the property game is played.
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Basically, it comes down to this; if you're a big fan of the Strugatsky novels or you just want something a little bit predictable to play then Hard to be a God may just be the ticket for you. With presentation this awful it's also highly likely that the game will be dropping in price fairly quickly too, so you may be able to snag it cheaply if you wait a little bit.
If hacking and slashing isn't your bag though then you'll probably want to look elsewhere for your whinging deities – it's not that the game is especially bad, just that it's like a meal of mediocrity – with a side-salad of ugliness and poor spelling. The basics of the game all work, but never wow and if the Earth took God seven days to make then this probably took him less than seven minutes.


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Sept. 21, 2006
There is no such thing as a moral victory, but Lipscomb Lady Bisons coach Jenger Parrish was proud of everyone on her team, even thought the outcome was not in the win column.
Lipscomb goalkeeper Katie Shelton turned back 13 shots, but Gardner-Webb only needed one goal in a 1-0 victory in the Atlantic Sun Conference opener for both teams at the Lipscomb soccer complex Thursday night.
"We played with heart, guts and confidence at a level I have not seen all year," said Parrish. "I saw that from each player, from those on the field to the ones on the bench who were cheering on their teammates. I couldn't have asked for a better effort."
It was the second highest saves total of the season for Shelton. She stopped 25 shots against Valparaiso in a 3-1 loss Sept. 10.
Kasey Gladhill came off the bench and scored the lone goal of the game at 35:22 shooting a low line shot from the left side the found the wide side of the net on the right. Gardner-Webb recorded 24 shots.
The Lady Bisons are back home Saturday at 1 p.m. to face Campbell in another A-Sun match.
"We are taking some good steps in the right direction," said Parrish. "We played with more intensity and more determination. We were also more organized."
The Lady Bisons had four shots, two on goal. Melissa Chambers led the team with two shots, one on goal. Sasha Sack had the other shot on goal.
The Lady Bisons are 1-9, 0-1 in the A-Sun. Gardner Webb is 8-2, 1-0 in the A-Sun.


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Cosmetic hair implantation surgery
The overall number of people getting hair replacement has significantly increased over the past 10 years. Two out of three males and one in five women suffer from hair problems; most common hair disease is alopecia, which means complete baldness or loss of all hair. In males, the major cause of receding hairline has been found to be stress and depression and congenital and hormonal problems are also found to be the cause of hair falls, which is confirmed by various studies and surveys conducted online and off line. In women, hormonal changes such as menopause can cause hair thinning.
There are a number of hair implantation techniques available, although hair replacement surgeries cannot help those people who suffer from total baldness that means they do not have any hope for regrowth due to no hairs being available for implantation. Candidates for hair replacement must have a healthy growth of hair on the back and sides of the head because the back and sides serve as hair donor areas from which grafts and flaps are taken by the plastic surgeons for hair implantation techniques.
Hair Implantation Surgery:
In the initial consultation, your surgeon will study the pattern of your baldness and provide information concerning the potential surgery, techniques used, and the expected results and outcomes.
The methods described consist of removing a strip of scalp from the back of the head region of the patient. This area has no DHT receptors, so the hair is permanent and does not fall. Micrografts are then obtained (1-3 units of hair) which are implanted in the hairless areas meticulously. This intervention is performed under local anesthesia and is ambulatory, i.e., the patient goes home the same day. The results are natural and for life since this technique involve use of same patient's hair.
The postoperative care is simple and the patients have very little discomfort and may return to normal activities immediately.
It is important for the patient to keep in mind getting 2 or 3 recommended interventions done for best results, which depend on the degree of baldness of each patient.
Hair transplantation procedure complications:
Possible complications associated with hair transplantation procedures may include but are not limited to the following:
Patchy hair growth
Sometimes, the transplanted hair growth looks like a patch of hair, especially if placed next to a thinning area. This can often be corrected with some additional surgeries.
Bleeding and scarring
Tension on the scalp area from some of the techniques utilized while doing hair replacement surgeries can result in wide scars or bleeding.
Occasionally, there is very little chance that the graft will become useless but if it is, then the patient will need a repeat surgery.
As in any type of procedure, hair replacement surgeries also carry a risk of infection.
HubMob weekly topic: Searching for Perfection soni2006's hub #8
Total baldness can't be implanted with hair. Thank u for information.
It could also be due to so much more usage of electronic devices/appliances and the related electromagnetic radiatio.
I had no idea this problem was so widespread. It's no wonder hair loss programs are so lucrative. Peoples hair or the lack of, is extremely important to them.


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Sales Retreat
The iQ Sales team is held their annual retreat in Vancouver this year. Charlotte staff trekked across the continent to enjoy beautiful Vancity!
Sales Retreat
At iQ Vancouver, we are continuously innovating ways to improve experiences! Our SparkLab team is working together (pictured above) to test new ideas by installing beacons throughout the office, giving users the tools to have tangible access to information in their present location.
iQ Perks Update
It's no doubt in the software industry, we have lots of heavy gamers! Each iQ office has its own "Board Game Club" and our cupboards are filled with an array of fun games.
iQ Winnipeg has had an exciting couple of months! After patiently waiting for the completion of the beautiful new Centrepoint building, we were the first residents of the building to move into our bright and beautiful new office located directly across from the MTS Centre, home of our Winnipeg Jets (see above photo)!
-- This blog entry is the winning essay written by Jennifer Cabral, recipient of the 2014 iQmetrix Females in Techology Scholarship --
Staff from the iQmetrix Davidson office recently volunteered (Nov. 7) with Habitat for Humanity in Huntersville, NC.
In January of 2012, a group of iQers got together to get the E going in SLICCE!
On February 28th, a group from the Davidson office volunteered at the Mooresville Soup Kitchen. They serve over 4,000 meals monthly, averaging 150–200 meals per day.
In early February 2013, iQmetrix brought all of us employees (that had worked with the company for at least a year) on a one-week company retreat to Playa del Carmen, Mexico. A day of team building was scheduled as part of the week's activities. But instead of playing games on the beach, we wanted to make a difference.


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The Canadian Association of Perinatal and Women's Health Nurses (CAPWHN) represents women's health, obstetric and newborn nurses from across Canada. CAPWHN aims to promote excellence in nursing practice, leadership, education, and research in the areas of perinatal and women's health care.
CAPWHN Webinars return in early 2019. Recorded webinars are posted on the members only site. There are a number of Canadian Nurses Protective Society (CNPS) webinars that may be of interest. Visit our webinars page for more details.
2018 CAPWHN National Conference
Thank you to all participants, presenters, exhibitors, volunteers, and marketplace vendors for helping to make the 2018 CAPWHN Annual Clinical, Education, Research Conference a resounding success! We couldn't have done it without you!
Huge kudos to the 2018 CAPWHN Conference Planning Committee for their tireless efforts to plan and execute the conference. Your countless volunteer hours resulted in an exceptional conference!
Bookmark your calendar for the next CAPWHN Conference, November 8-10, 2019 in Vancouver BC. Information will be posted as it becomes available.
CAPWHN Newsletter
The September 2018 issue is now available!
Position Statement - FHS Education for Nurses
The CAPWHN Board of Directors has issued a position statement supporting the importance of Fetal Health Surveillance initial education and refresher courses for nurses responsible for the application, interpretation, and response to intermittent auscultation and electronic fetal monitoring during pregnancy and labour. We encourage nurses and their employers to support a process to foster learning opportunities in an interdisciplinary environment.
Diaper Needs Awareness Week
Thank you to all who joined us for CAPWHN's 2nd National Diaper Drive for Diaper Needs Awareness Week held in the fall. Thanks to efforts of CAPWHN members and their colleagues thousands of diapers were donated to food and diaper banks across the country. We all enjoyed the pictures, sent by the various groups, at the annual conference. Please start planning now for the fall 2019 diaper drive so we can see your group's efforts at supporting families in need.
CAPWHN Position Statement
CAPWHN has been profiled recently in an article published by the Huffington Post and a number of Postmedia newspapers across the country. Congratulations to the Advocacy and Health Policy Committee, whose efforts on an exceptional position statement, have increased CAPWHN's profile nationally.
On June 21, 2017, National Aboriginal Day, CAPWHN released the CAPWHN Position Statement on Cultural Safety/Humility. The position statement was authored by three members of the Advocacy and Health Policy Committee (AHPC): Lucy Barney, Sarah Reaburn, and Leah Thorp, and was created in collaboration with the Canadian Indigenous Nurses Association (CINA). The document was reviewed by the full AHPC as well as CAPWHN's Board of Directors. Comments and suggestions were incorporated into the document and the final position statement was approved by the Board of Directors on June 14, 2017.
The AHPC identified a gap, and thanks to their hard work, today CAPWHN will become the first Canadian non-Indigenous nursing specialty association to adopt a position statement in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada's Calls to Action, focused on cultural safety and humility while caring for Indigenous people. The position statement will be released and discussed this morning in Ottawa, in conjunction with the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) Indigenous Women's Health Committee meeting.
The CAPWHN Board of Directors thanks the AHPC for their exceptional efforts and for creating a powerful position statement that will help our members provide culturally safe health care to our Indigenous community.
CAPWHN Awards
Congratulations to the recipients of the 2018 CAPWHN Awards, Julia Imanoff and Martha Paynter. Learn more about the CAPWHN Award for Excellence in Leadership and Rising Star Award and plan ahead for the 2019 nominations!
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Alma Jeppson
Alma Jeppson was born in Sugarhouse, Utah. He is the Founder and CEO of Landmark Home Warranty located in Salt Lake City, Utah. Founded in 2004. Landmark was recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the U.S. by Inc 500/5000 in 2013. Landmark has grown over 200% since 2012, and 400% since 2011. Recently, Landmark expanded to Texas and Oregon, and is planning to enter Nevada in the third quarter 2014.
Mr. Jeppson Personal Background
As the dedicated Founder and CEO of Landmark, Alma Jeppson grew up in Sugarhouse, Utah. Mr. Jeppson spent most of his childhood working to financially support his mother's home. He is not driven by money, but is driven by the joy of seeing others succeed on the job and in their families. He enjoys the greatest satisfaction in life of sending his employees on a dream vacation with their families. Early on in Mr. Jeppson's childhood he recognized that if he wanted anything out of life, then he had to go out and work for it. Growing up wasn't easy for Mr. Jeppson, at a young age he held a paper route, worked at Hunan Gardens as a waiter and at the age of 13 he was a gravedigger at Larkin Mortuary. He began high school at Highland High, but never finished, Mr. Jeppson struggled emotionally and spiritually as a teenager trying to understand life. Alma Jeppson Founder, Owner & CEO, Landmark Home Warranty 2 He was called to serve on an LDS mission in Santiago, Chile and on this mission he developed the ability to create goals and a vision for what he wanted out of life. He understood values and what it meant to spiritually push further than what he thought possible. This mission was a life-changing event for him and upon his return from Santiago, Chile, he began implementing the values he had learned into his day-to-day activities.
Mr. Jeppson Work Experience
As a returned missionary Mr. Jeppson started working in the telecom industry with McLeod USA and as an Account Manager he was given the responsibility to up scale services provided to McLeod's clients. He studied the ways of the CEOs and how they communicated to their employees and he studied what made the employees excited that kept them working with that employer. Mr. Jeppson soon become business partners with a man from Texas. However, it wasn't long before Mr. Jeppson recognized the business partner from Texas had been previously kicked out of doing business with other states for dishonest practices. It was tough realizing the business relationship he had built with a dishonest person. He struggled spiritually and personally as to how he should deal with this conflict. His family had become very good friends with this business partner. Mr. Jeppson decided to leave the business relationship and start his own company.
Establishing Landmark Warranty
By 26 years old Mr. Jeppson decided to create his own business of providing auto warranties, with literally no money behind his name, he recognized the value for establishing credibility and confidence with bankers. Funding the business of personal credit cards, unsecured lines of credit and a new business partner, Mr. Jeppson established Landmark Warranty in 2004. 3 He began calling dealerships to sell warranty parts, he struggled in finding success selling to dealerships. During this struggle Mr. Jeppson was laid off from McLeod and subsequently recruited by Echelon doing door-to-door sales. This was tough for him as he wasn't a door-todoor salesman, but he did value the experience. He had failed at his auto warranty business and his child had been diagnosed with a congenital heart disease. Through the support of his wife he decided to go into the home warranty's business. He had very little knowledge in the industry, but he started researching the basics in becoming a home warranty representative. He researched the challenges for competing in the business and he started finding things out and discovering processes that he could make better in the industry, he created the "welcome call" to new homebuyers and he started doing referrals. Mr. Jeppson completed his first sale in September 2005, he strove to show his clients that he would work his tail off to provide exceptional service, while still working with Echelon at the time. Landmark was dirt poor, struggling and scrapping to get by in the early stages of business, but by 2007 the playing field began changing and Landmark was operating profitably until the 2008 recession. At the height of the 2008 Landmark was losing $60,000 per month. Upon reading an article by Proctor and Gamble about its approach during time of recession, he recognized the value of flooding the markets with a marketing campaign. Landmark quickly revamped its marketing budget and started dipping into its line of credit to finance its marketing campaigns and ultimately, this increased Landmarks revenue by 10% over its 2007 revenue figures. Landmark has nearly 80 employees and 13 sales reps across five states. It understands the value of its employees and the personal sacrifices they go through.
Future Business Development
Mr. Jeppson's business philosophy is that he doesn't tell his employees what to do, rather he talks about different ideas and provides suggestions to what employees should do. He surrounds himself with the most value-centered individuals and operates on three essential values. 1. The Landmark Family. Landmark and its employees are all family. They work together as a family toward the same goal of providing excellent service to clients. 2. Professional plate Spinners. Landmark doesn't ask its employees to be perfect in every aspect of their job. What they ask is for an employee to never let a "plate fall." It encourages employees to be involved in the community. 3. It is not all about work. There is a life beyond Landmark. Landmark works strenuously to support its employees and in return the employees return excellent service to Landmark clients. Technology and customer response times are the biggest inhibitors to Landmark's future growth. Landmark's marketing is dialed in to provide the best quality of service to Landmark's clients. Ultimately Mr. Jeppson wants Landmark to be known by "through Landmark Warranty thousands of lives were blessed, beyond that nothing else really matters. I care about people and try to be a part of changing lives."


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Home → Admin/Commissions → Diocesan Commissions → Youth Service Management Group
The Youth Service Management Group is the group of individuals appointed by the Bishop to direct the strategic policy of the Diocesan Youth Service. It is this body through which the Diocesan Youth Service reports to the Bishop and Diocesan Trustees on a regular basis.
Members: Bishop M Campbell OSA (President); Sr Harriet Thomas (Chair); The Rev J Millar, Deacon Michael Harrison, Mr J Lord, Mrs J Nicholson; Mr N Ransom, Sr A Gemiolo MChr, Mr R Teasdale, Mr P Briers
Minutes Secretary: Mrs L Forster
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When is the last time you did something for the first time?
I read this question last night and it totally stumped me… the last time I did something for the first time was…. Scratch head… um… I can't tell you. I live in a bit of a boring world of routine. You can pretty much set your watch (do people still wear watches?) to what I'm doing and when. I consider it reliable, grounded and expected. Routine, that's what adults do. We are responsible and predictable and… oh my gosh I'm so boring. When did I trade in fun and exciting for boring and repetitive?
I love the people in my life. I'm dating an amazing man who has a fantastic daughter, I have wonderful friends and a little boy that amazes me every single day. Life is good, but I'm in a bit of a rut. I've become an old fuddy duddy. You may as well heat up a TV dinner, serve it to me on a TV tray, sit me in front of Wheel of Fortune and then push me off to bed before the clock strikes 7. I'm 29 going on 90.
It's time for some revamp… the question is, when is the last time you did something for the first time?
How many more firsts can I squeeze into a day, a week, a month? Heck how many more firsts can I have in the next hour? You know that feeling when you heart rate picks up, you're all smiles and you can sit still you are so giddy? I encourage you all to embrace your inner giddy, squeeze as many firsts and exciting things into every moment as you can. We can do the boring ole big kid stuff while having a total blast. Growing up doesn't mean giving up our ability to have fun while doing it.
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distractive prowl
creatures of the night are creations.
followed home by twelve illiterate boredoms, past the people letting off dogs into the park, from the perimeters, like stares.
night falls as a witness upon the boy wrapping paper round the lampposts. everyone i walk past is smiling, perhaps they know tomorrow. it feels innane.
ignore the organized violence that appears to be happening down the slope in the tennis courts. people scuff their shoes to hide the noise.
the bus shelters keep moving, maybe they have no money either.
my friends have all gone away, their rooms hanging like inverted commas without a word.
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Older Woman: Why are the fines so high? (books are .25/day). I bet if Frank were here, he would know the answer.... why can we only check books out for 3 weeks? I've been away from the liberry for a while, but 3 weeks is ridiculous. Can you read 3 books in 3 days?
Boy about 12: Can we sharpen paper?
Then AquaRide shows up... they drive it into the reference office!
Man: If I were to give my extra time on the Internet to someone else, and they downloaded child porn or researched how to make a bomb, the government would know it was my card so they would know it was me.
I explain to him that we don't track anything, and he said, oh yes, the government does track everything. Every phone call. Everything.
Monday, August 18, 2008
Highlights from my first day back from vacation...
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Caster Semenya is finding it hard to get sponsors despite being a world champion, her coach said on Friday.
"It is tough for Caster," Michael Seme told to reporters. "If you look overseas you will see other world champions featuring in a lot of advertising campaigns and you see their faces up on billboards but that doesn`t happen for Caster."
Semenya, who underwent gender verification tests after winning 800 metres gold at the world championships in August 2009, did not have as much financial backing as she would have liked, Seme said.
Caster does receive help from Nike while the Department of Sports and Recreation and the University of Pretoria help out with her education but there isn`t spare money," Seme said in a telephone interview.
"For instance, if she requires special equipment she can`t just go out and get it."
Reports in South Africa about Semenya`s financial situation have sparked a campaign by a group of fans to raise one million rand ($143,600) for the runner by December.
"People love her," Thobeka Magcai, spokesperson for the campaign told to reporters.
"She has been through such a lot at such a young age and we just want to show our support for her and say that we want to see you back on the world stage, winning medals."
Semenya, who is studying towards a sports science degree at the University of Pretoria, pulled out of the recent Commonwealth Games in Delhi because of a back injury.
"Caster`s treatment is going well and she has just started some light training," Seme said. "But we are taking it slow to allow her back to heal properly."
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I am going to call it (please forgive my long winded story but the background is just as important).......
The Donkey Project......
It all started with an interview I heard part of on ABC Radio about 18 months ago, the lady was talking about using Donkeys as protection animals and weed control on farms. I thought it sounded like a great idea and told my husband about it, he agreed it sounded like something we might try but that was about as far as it went.
My mother in law and I talked about it on and off over the next 8 or so months and I tired to get more information on getting a Donkey for our farm but I just couldn't seem to find the right information.
Enter Mic McFarlae from the Hume LHPA (Livestock, Health & Pest Authority, he decided to run a trail project in our area using Donkeys to protect sheep from wild dogs and foxes.
Now this may sound a little odd to alot of you out there... Why do sheep need protecting? What harm can wild dogs do, poor little foxes they are just so cute what harm can they possibly do??????
Lots of questions you may ask like this but to many sheep farmers these 2 pests can literally break your heart and put you out of business. To many people their sheep are their livelihood and a Wild Dog can devastate a herd of full grown sheep in a matter of a few nights especially then when you have lambs around and they are your next generation of income and you cannot afford for them to be killed.
Foxes too may not be a large animal but they can kill many lambs and have a significant impact on a farmers livelihood.
Around 3 years ago we had our first Wild Dog attacks in our sheep, the first ever that we know of in the history of the family farm, it's not a pleasant thing to happen, the dogs are cruel and more often than not the sheep are left in a very horrible state that requires being put down. Then the foxes are something we battle all the time especially at Lambing season.
There are many ways that farmers try to combat these 2 problems, We are lucky to have some very good wild dog trappers in our area and a baiting program that we hope helps with foxes but it's not foolproof.
There are also things like Alpaca's, Llama's, Marema Dogs and then there are Donkeys.
All of these animals are used by farmers by putting them out with their sheep hers and they are supposed to bond with the herd and protect against predators. There is success stories with all of the above animals being used with sheep but it seems that the humble donkey is the next big thing.
We were lucky to be offered 2 donkeys to have on our farm to be part of the project put together by the wonderful Mic who is a superman and very hands on when it comes to helping out the farmers in his area.
So without further ado please meet................
Flip - lighter colour on the left is a de-sexed male
Chip - darker colour on the right is a female who is going to be a mother soon.
They are super smart and they are going to be my project, I will be getting to know them and hopefully in a week or 2 they will be ready to go out into a herd of sheep after a gradual introduction to the herd.


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I created this little card using Tossa with Little Whisper. The image is watercoloured on watercoloured paper.
This is a view of the card pulled out.
I used Prima Flowers, Forest Moss distress ink, EK & Fiskars punches and a stip of Kaiser Craft Pearls. The patterned paper is Max & Whskers, Bo Bunny Double Dot Olive & Bazzil Papaya
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Coming-of-age first novel of a crucial two weeks in the summer of 1950, when Vinny Vesta, teenage street punk from Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen, finds the buddy—and the girl—of his dreams as he becomes a pawn in a crime family war.
One August night, Vinny is sleeping on the fire escape of his parents' tenement and looks across the alley to see a youth reading a book by a flashlight. It's Sidney Butcher, an Orthodox Jew whose health keeps him from attending school. The two improbably hit it off: Sidney recommends Machiavelli and The Great Gatsby, while Vinny protects Sidney from bullying punks. Not long after, Vinny's father, a lieutenant in the Mangano family, gives his son tickets to see Tony Bennett at the Copacabana. Backstage, Vinny literally bumps into Terry Dvorak, one of the hatcheck girls, who drops her cigarette lighter. In a fit of Brando-esque bravado, Vinny finds it, gets her address from the club manager, knocks on her door and spends the next hour in bed. The sex is good—until Vinny quickly learns he'll never be Terry's one and only. Alas, Vinny could have let rest of the summer wind down, but he and his gang have to steal some sable pelts. They don't snag enough, and Luciano family lieutenant Gee-Gee Patrone orders Vinny to raid a warehouse controlled by a rival lieutenant. Unbeknownst to Vinny, the raid will start a complicated mob war as the Vito Genovese will try control of Luciano family. Influenced more by Billy Bathgate than by The Godfather, author Vincent, a vice chairman and executive producer for Aaron Spelling, mixes real and fictional characters, lingering nostalgically over the chinos, T-shirts, Sabrett's and other sights and sounds of bebop Manhattan. He also contrasts Vinny's virile life as a mobster manqué with Sidney's ethereal, redeeming world of books.
Sweet, affectionate, and bloody: a glance backward to a well-spent youth.


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First and foremost, two blog entries in one day is a world renowned record for me so feel free to applaud very loudly. Now, back to the ginormous bottle of Tums that I said you should keep next to your bed during pregnancy, if your pregnancy is anything like mine you can now toss them in the trash. They are now equivalent to Tic Tacs covered in chalk! I've now graduated to Zantac Maximum Strength. 1 pill twice a day and on some days that doesn't even work.
Why am I telling you this now? Because I just had to make myself vomit for some relieve from this Demon spawn sized heartburn that I've been plagued with. I despise vomiting so for me to have to inflict this horrid action on myself is just… *sigh* Not to mention that I had to vomit in the sink because with every gag inflicted episode of torture I would pee on myself.
I honestly love being pregnant but I would be lying if I said I'm enjoying the heartburn that accompanies these last few weeks. If you know like I know, you need to pray to the digestive track god or simply God above that he spares you from heartburn.


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On Tuesday I paid a visit to the Tate Modern. I love it there, and my dad had booked tickets for an exhibition which was a complete surprise. It exhibited the works of two street photographers, and film-makers, William Klein and Daido Moriyama.
I'm a sucker for street photography, but what really interested me with Klein's work was his lack of fear of intrusion. He did not mind shoving a camera in someone's face and photographing their reaction: he has a love for faces, the more faces in the photograph, the better, it seems. Moriyama seems the opposite: he photographs the back of people's heads, using a compact camera so as not to intrude on people and thus avoiding any reaction between the photographer and the photographed. It is this precise reaction that makes Klein's work so interesting; often, at least one person would be looking directly at Klein's obtrusive lens and looking annoyed, or smiling, or posing; there would be some reaction. This is what interested me about his work. It's reinstated a great love for black and white photography I had to go and buy myself a new black and white film for my 35mm pentax.
Klein tells us, in the video below, that his images of New York were not accepted by New York editors because apparently they made New York look like a 'slum'. This honesty in photography is something that is often lost in fashion photography, where all the models are dressed up to look as glamorous as possible - providing an obvious beauty. However, street photography, Klein's in particular, allows the beauty of the world to be visible even against the very grotty backdrops. I've always enjoyed 'art' of some sort which conveys something people would normally overlook, and not see to be terribly 'beautiful', in such a way that allows a different perspective to be had.


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"I used to think I knew. Now I'm not so sure."
I watched a film this morning and I have a feeling it was one of those films that linger in your mind and reserve a spot somewhere in the back of your head. It was also one of the best films I've seen in a good while. Granted, I haven't been watching too many films in a good while, but still.
We Need to Talk about Kevin is a story of an unusual relationship between a mother and a child. That relationship is supposed to be a tender, caring one, full of unconditional devotion, loyalty and love. What if, for some unexplicable reason, it isn't so? What if a mother isn't able to love her own child, as something about that child just seems to be off? Is it the child's fault, or the mother's? Is it anyone's fault? Is it so that the mother doesn't really love the child, because there is something wrong with him? Or is it so that there is something wrong with the child because his mother never really loved him?
The films plays with a lot of questions, but doesn't give any straightforward answers. And you can't really be handing out any absolute truths, when the topic is this. We are so deep in the darkest corners of the human mind, that no one can know for sure what's going on. When a 15-year-old boy does something like Kevin in the film, you can bet everything hasn't been completely okay in the environment he grew up in. On the other hand, you can also bet that some other child growing up in a similar environment wouldn't turn out the same psychopathic way. It's about the balance between nature and nuture, how they both mold a person, and how sometimes the combination of the two results in a sick, violent mind.
You don't hear many stories about the families of the young men who shock and terrify and anger the world with their mindless acts. It's a very difficult subject, because you don't know whether you should feel sorry for them or blame them. Maybe both. I kind of expected We Need to Talk About Kevin to be a story about a poor, poor mother, who despite her best, sincere efforts, couldn't stop her son from doing a horrible thing, because she didn't see it coming. Instead of this (kind of boring-sounding) tale, we get a mother who definitely is not a saint, either. You can see how she's losing it from the beginning, how she just doesn't know how to be a mother to her son. And as he grows up to be, frankly speaking, a completely horrible, manipulative brat, you just know there's no way of fixing the rotten relationship. And everyone suffers.
Tilda Swinton is just magnificent in this film. I can't really imagine anyone else giving such perfect, soul-bearing performance, and conveying the mother's silent suffering like that. Damn, the headwork she must have done, preparing for the role. And we will definitely be seeing more from the young kid, Ezra Miller, who is so chilling and creepy as Kevin that I'm convinced he's actually a psychopath in real life.
It's very interesting to read everyone's thoughts about the film, especially the final scene and how differently everyone has interpreted it. For example, I, as a hopeless optimist, wanted to see a glimpse of sincerety and hope in the final interaction between the mother and the son. Someone else saw the same remorseless Kevin, in another act of manipulation. The beauty of it is that we can't know for sure what was going on. Maybe reading the book might give a hint. I'm definitely going to do that.
It's the night of the day that I began by watching We Need to Talk about Kevin, and my thoughts are still circling around it. I expect this to be one of those films that never quite leave me. And I will see it again. I just need to remember that whenever comes the time when I'll start thinking about having children, I won't be again watching this movie as light early morning entertainment on my day off.


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|The giraffe got wet!
Today the giraffe reached new surroundings...Normally the Lizajdesign giraffe would end up on a newly decorated nursery wall or wrapped up neatly in orange tissue paper ready to give as a gift for a newborn baby, Christening present or a birthday gift; however today the giraffe was found in the water!
Parklands Racing and today Tom was racing locally in Oulton Broad for the Lowestoft Grand Prix as part of the bank holiday weekend (26/27 May) 2013 Powerboat GP RYA British Championship
Tom is competing for the GT30 class in the second round of the British Championship, "hosted by the Lowestoft and Oulton Broad Motor Boat Club at Nicholas Everitt Park, where over 40 team's battle it out for valuable championship points in eight different classes" (quote: RYA Powerboat Racing).
|Tom Yallop
So another day tomorrow, try and spot the giraffe on No.71 on the water, Good Luck Tom!
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Antiemetic Efficacy and Safety of Dexamethasone in Obstetric Surgical Patients
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01028547
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First Posted : December 9, 2009
Last Update Posted : March 26, 2010
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|December 7, 2009
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|January 2010
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|March 2010 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
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|presence of post nausea and or vomiting [ Time Frame: 24 hours ]
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|Same as current
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|Antiemetic Efficacy and Safety of Dexamethasone in Obstetric Surgical Patients
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|Antiemetic Efficacy and Safety of Dexamethasone in Patients Undergoing Caesarean Sections at Mulago Hospital
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|This is a randomised controlled double blinded clinical trial to determine the antiemetic efficacy and safety of either 8 mg of dexamethasone or normal saline (placebo) given 1 hour before induction of either spinal or general anaesthesia in 2 arms (of 150 each).
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