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Lately I haven't written as much because I found a new TV show that I've been binge-watching. It just goes to show that television really can be a soul-killer, because I've been going through a rough patch, with feelings of regret, irritability, and general blah-ness, which makes sense because I haven't been taking the positive actions necessary for my spiritual growth.
This place that I'm in, I just don't want to be here. So of course I'd binge-watch TV—well, technically it's a computer screen because I don't own a television, but it's a show, an escape outlet. It's not easy for me to find a TV show that I like, so I can get sucked in when there's one as captivating as "Bloodline," a Netflix original series about a family full of secrets and the ways in which they cope, with one of the sons being an addict, and how those secrets shape their future. Ben Mendellsohn plays a convincing addict, a man who leaves home for many years and returns only to ask for money or wreak some sort of havoc. I felt empathy for him in the beginning because of his tragic childhood, and as the show unfolds I see how each family member is responsible in their own way for what happens, and I feel empathy for most of them. The youngest son, not so much, because he's a rage-aholic, and a general pain in the ass, but he has his own difficulties to endure. The dad is just a dick, but he looks like the dad everyone wants, playing his little ukulele on the beach. The oldest brother is Mr. Responsible, a do-gooder, but he's easy to like in spite of his seeming perfection. The sister has relationship issues because no one is ever good enough for her, or it just doesn't feel right. She's played by the beautiful Linda Cardellini, who's only one year older than me. The mother lives in denial. She's played by Sissy Spacek, who was a teenager in movies when I was growing up but has now become someone in her 60s? How did that happen? I thought she was only a few years older than me. Time seems to go by so much more quickly the older I get.
Every family has their secrets, or things they don't want to talk about. Why live in the past? But then sometimes we have to air those things out to get them into the open and move through them, maybe with the help of a therapist or a spiritual advisor. Personally I don't like to think of the past. But sometimes those things affect the way we live today, and we find ourselves reacting to life in the way we learned as kids, in a way that reflects a thought-pattern that the world isn't a safe place, or that I'm not good enough, smart enough, funny enough, pretty enough, rich enough, physically fit enough, wise enough. We find escape outlets like TV, food, shopping, sex/relationships, drugs, and alcohol, to avoid thinking about it. This obsession to get everything I want—the job, the man, the house—it's painful. Wouldn't life be so much more serene if I were grateful for what I had? How peaceful it would be if I knew that I had everything I needed already, or more accurately, if I knew that I had more than I ever wanted, that life has turned out much better than I ever planned or predicted?
Gratitude. Acceptance. Those are the real goals in life. Not, "Life will be so much better when…" Fill in the blank. When I get my own place. Because if I had my own place I'd be alone all the time. My dog wouldn't have someone with her during the day. Or when I find the right man. Because when I get into a relationship, new problems arise. Or when I get a good job, because when I get a job, I'll be full of anxiety about whether I'm good enough or smart enough and when and if they'll fire me. Not that I want to avoid those things, and they'll happen anyway, but happiness can't be found in external things or in other people.
Right now is the perfect opportunity for me to accept life as it is today. Today* I have an opportunity to help a friend with some home improvement projects, because she reached out and asked for help, which is something she doesn't do very often. It will help me to get outside of my head and into the sunshine on this Memorial Day weekend that has gotten me to thinking so much about family, and how so many people spend this weekend with their families, while this year I have to work. Most years I've never cared to spend Memorial Day with my family, but now I'm finding myself wishing I was with them. The good news is that my sister is moving to a town a couple of hours from here in just a couple of months, and I'll have that opportunity to spend with her and the rest of my family, and I'm looking forward to it. Now that is progress.
Life is short, too short to live with the belief that I'm not good enough. What would life look like if I were good enough? Who would I be? What would I do? I would take the actions of a person who believes she's good enough.
To be continued.
*This blog post was written over the Memorial Day weekend and posted/published afterwards.


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Is Samuel a Tasmanian devil or a 3 year old? I'm not sure anymore. I brought him to my mother's house for lunch, before I was going to go to work, and I went in before the kids, figuring they could use a few minutes of fresh air and sunshine. My father was in and out getting the gas grill out to cook some burgers so I figured it was a safe bet. Not two minutes after I came in Jamie comes running asking for Grandma to "come rescue Sammy." I heard Samuel crying in the background, and Jamie saying that he fell. My mother carries him in and hands him to me, I notice blood on her sleeve. She looks surprised. I look and Samuel has blood pouring from the side of his head. After we mopped up with cloths enough to see, he has a 1/4 inch gash in the middle of a knot on his head. Fortunately the bleeding stops. Jamie explains that Samuel climbed into my car and fell out.
Samuel recently discovered how to open the car doors and likes to practice at every opportunity. He of course must climb into the car looking for trouble as well. At my mom's the parking area in the driveway is sloped so that when I park the driver's side is lower than the passenger's side. So when he stepped down from the car he must not have accounted for the fact that he was actually stepping downhill, and lost his balance. So I called the pediatrician's office and they scheduled him in for 1/2 hour later. By the time the doctor saw him I knew he was ok neurologically, he was asking me to read books and pointing to the pictures asking questions. Dr. examined him and pronounced him ok, but needing the wound closed with a suture or staple. But he can't do it in the office. That was a $25 copay wasted.
So I called out from work and took Samuel back for lunch, then to the ER to get the staple. Meanwhile he is racing around like, well, a Tazmanian devil. It didn't even slow him down. Fortunately he was good for the doctor, he was fascinated playing with a blood pressure cuff and she cleaned out the wound without a flinch from him. She asked me if I though she should inject to numb the area and then do the staple, or just go for the quick pinch. Since she would obviously lose his trust with the injection, I opted for the quick pinch. He liked the BP cuff enough that when she put the staple in, he just sort of gave her a dirty look and went back to what he was doing. LOL. He ran around like a nut for the rest of the day.
I missed a shift of work and lost $25 for the copay, ?? for the ER (convenient care section, so like urgent care), and I have to drop another $25 at the doctor's to get the staple removed. (I wish I knew another nurse that could get me a removal kit, so I could do it myself.) Sheesh, that was expensive. And why won't this kid ever SLOW DOWN? I guess I should be impressed he waited until 3 1/2 to visit the ER. Jamie was there right after his 2nd birthday, and had the second visit at 3 1/2. Mom was nice enough to offer us dinner. I brought them home right after and washed Samuel up because his hair was STINKY. Then I put both the kids to bed an hour early. I'm done!
Any other parents out there with first ER stories? Ours have all been lacerations, nothing too serious fortunately. Is this a "boy thing" or just a terrible two's and three's problem. Hopefully they grow out of this!! Meanwhile I will keep my car locked.

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For years I have salivated over the business card designs on Moo.com so when I heard at the beginning of this month that they had integrated with Facebook on a new Facebook Timeline-inspired design and were giving cards away for FREE I jumped at the chance. I ordered my free 50-card sample and it arrived in my mailbox here in Israel earlier this week.
The cards are nothing short of awesome. They feature my profile picture, some of my favorite 'cover pictures' that I've uploaded to Facebook, a fun quote on the back and, of course, my contact details. I can't wait to start giving them away!
These super cool Facebook Cards from Moo are still free for a limited time (though you'll have to pay for shipping and handling). Find out more at http://www.moo.com/facebook-cards.


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The second argument can be used to get the expiration date of the license. This is an array of size three with the date returned as [day, month, year]. Even if the function returns false due to an expired license, the expdate will show that expiration date. A value of a zeroes implies that no license or date was found.


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Note: This was originally posted to Wikinomics.com on May 28, 2009. See here for the original post.
Given how emotional people get about their micro-blogging, I thought I'd include a disclaimer on this post: The views contained in this post are mine, and do not necessarily reflect those of the entire Wikinomics team. While we often disagree on topics of Twitter, I think we can all agree that there are there are opportunities for improvement across the Twitterverse.
The Wikinomics team has many posts discussing the real potential of Twitter for business value. This is how I predominantly use the tool: As an efficient way to find new stories relevant to my research, as well as discover interesting or amusing content, and occasionally peek into the personal lives of interesting people. A good signal-to-noise ratio is critical for this type of usage.
I use Tweet Deck to help filter my updates, but it still becomes a challenge because filtering is by individual, not content. That means if I add someone to my "Main Feed," I have to somewhat trust that they will act responsibly. What do I mean by responsible? The other day I opened Twitter and notice 39 tweets in a row from the same person, most of which were links. Literally 39! That's irresponsible. It's also not a way to get noticed on Twitter, but rather ignored.
Responsible Twitter users abide by four simple rules:
1. You learn something new everyday 2. Twitter is not chat 3. Don't be a needy jerk 4. Ignore rules 1 to 3 if you are in marketing
RULE #1: You learn something new every day There are two key parts of this rule: 1) "Learn" – Share a new discovery, something novel or interesting you learned today. There are a lot of people I'd like to hear from more often, but who rarely post (I'm somewhat guilty of this myself). Everyone has something they can contribute to Twitter. At the same time, it sets the bar slightly higher than posting a stream of consciousness. 2) "Something" – not everything. How much is too much? Think top-10, max. I gave Denis a hard time about this a couple of weeks ago.
In truth, Denis was actually at a conference tweeting insights from various presentations. It's an exception to the rule that I haven't figured out how to deal with yet, so I took him back. He hasn't betrayed my trust since ; )
RULE #2: Twitter is NOT chat There is a reason that the inventors of Twitter had the good sense to include a Direct Message function. No one wants their feed spammed with out-of-context snippets of conversation like, "Sorry I missed you @mybuddy, next time for sure." This is a very simple, yet often forgotten rule.
RULE #3: Don't be a "needy jerk" If you missed it, Vanessa Grigoriadis has a fantastic article in New York Magazine about Facebook. In it, she talks about the declining usefulness of Facebook updates:
"This was the beginning of the end. Suddenly, Facebook began to irk me—the way friends always posted about procrastinating, being stuck in traffic, needing a nap or a vacation, or seemed to formulate their updates in declarative yet vague form, like 'Michelle is upset' or 'Roya is pouting,' thus coming off like a needy jerk and making us take time out of our day to plead with them to answer the burning question: 'Why are you pouting?'"
I couldn't have put it better. There is a lot of this on Twitter and it's exceedingly unproductive. Worse; it's noise that obfuscates the valuable signals we're all trying to get at.
RULE #4: Ignore rules 1-3 if you are in marketing The future of Twitter – especially in marketing – may well be bigger than my "rules." I talked to a company Crimson Hexagon this week that makes a business out of mining user opinions online (including from Twitter) for market research. In fact, marketers love the stream of consciousness because to them it's data, and valuable data at that: "Post all you want about what you had for lunch, just be sure to mention the brand of mustard you used and how it made you feel…" (Note; Rule #4 should have excused Denis from his misstep on Rule #1, since he is our program manager for our Marketing 2.0 program.)
Marketers also don't want to use Direct Message. If you answer a customer question publicly, it not only makes you look good in terms of being responsive, it also potentially saves you from having to answer the same question multiple times, as well as helps boost brand mentions. For more on how to think about your brand on Twitter, see: A potential framework for how different brands are using Twitter.


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It contains an asylum maintained by the provincial government; also saw and grist mills and iron foundries.
After the general election of 1880, however, the Ministerialists, aided by a number of factious Conservatives, passed a third bill repealing the grist tax on wheat (10th July 1880), the repeal to take effect from the 1st of January 1884 onwards.
Next in importance among the state's manufactures are lumber and timber, and flour and grist mills.
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Other important manufactures are: flour and grist mill products, foundry and machineshop products, furniture, patent medicines and compounds, roofing materials, and scales and balances, manufactured especially at St Johnsbury.
Throughout his term of office he was supported by the finance minister Count Cambray Digny, who forced through parliament the grist tax proposed by Quintino Sella, though in an altered form from the earlier proposal.
East Liverpool leads in the manufacture of pottery; Toledo in flour and grist mill products; Springfield in agricultural implements; Cincinnati and Columbus in boots and shoes; Cleveland in women's clothing.
It owes its name either to its early paper and grist mills (Milton being abbreviated from Milltown) or to Milton Abbey, Dorset, whence members of the Tucker family came, it is supposed, to Milton about 1662.
The king was persuaded to forge one-fifth of his civil list, ministers and the higher civil servants were required to relinquish a portion of their meagre salaries, but, in spite of all, Sella had found himself in 1865 compelled to propose the most hated of fiscal burdensa grist tax on cereals.
Ferrara, successor of Scialoja, met a like fate; but Count Cambray-Digny, finance minister in the Menabrea cabinet of 1868-1869, driven to find means to cover a deficit aggravated by the interest on the Venetian debt, succeeded, with Sellas help, in forcing a Grist Tax Bill through parliament, though in a form of which Sella could not entirely approve.
When, at the beginning of March 1876, these contracts were submitted to parliament, a group of Tuscan deputies, under Cesare Correnti, joined the opposition, and on the 18th of March took advantage of a chance motion concerning the date of discussion of an interpellation on the grist tax to place the Minghetti cabinet in a minority.


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I walked in to pick Little Boy up from therapy the other day and heard him telling his teacher, "I got trail mix at home! It's super yummy!" The boy loves his trail mix!
At $6.00 for a small bag, though, it gets pretty costly pretty quickly.
One of his favorite mixes is the Great Value Indulgent Trail Mix. A quick inventory of the ingredients led me to the conclusion that I could mix it up myself for a fraction of the cost and less sodium.
I purchased the following for my mix:
dark chocolate chips
peanut butter chips
peanuts (reduced salt)
almonds (raw, unsalted)
raisins (regular and golden)
Notice there's no prep involved here at all. You're just throwing your ingredients into a mixing bowl. The ratios are entirely up to you. Just play with it to get the taste combo you love. The Indulgent mix has white chocolate chips in it, too, but Girl 1 doesn't like them (Weird, I know), so we left those out.
My batch cost me $16 and easily made 4 times the amount of the $6 bag from Wal-Mart. That comes in at an $8 savings for about 30-seconds-worth of work!


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Glencore Xstrata Top Management Shakeup
Just two weeks ago, the $76 billion merger was completed that created London-traded Glencore Xstrata. Today, shareholders shook up the company's board of directors by booting chairman John Bond and another director.
The company has appointed the former CEO of BP PLC (NYSE: BP), Tony Hayward, as its interim chairman. Hayward is the senior independent director and deputy chairman of Glencore Xstrata.
Bond, who is 70 years old, had already said he would step down as chairman after a search for a new chairman had been completed. Shareholders did not want to wait that long apparently.
Shareholders rejected the original terms of the merger agreement between Glencore and Xstrata, which Bond had negotiated. They were especially unhappy with the generous retention packages being recommended for Xstrata executives. Bond's decision to step down came following that rejection.
A second director, Steve Robson, was also rejected by shareholders in a proxy vote, and he resigned before today's annual meeting.
Hayward presided over BP at the time of the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon, which claimed the lives of 11 workers and dumped millions of barrels of crude into the Gulf of Mexico. Hayward took a lot of heat for the seemingly cavalier manner in which he responded to the disaster, and he resigned under pressure in July 2010. He is currently the CEO of a small oil company with operations in Kurdistan.
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Animal control lacks bodies
July 22, 2014
Despite months of work by the Leash Law Task Force, any changes to the leash laws in Summit County have rolled to a stop.
The reason?
Not enough people to enforce the leash laws or other parts of the animal control ordinance.
At June 16's weekly Summit County Council meeting, the council members discussed beefing up the leash laws. But Director of Animal Control politely Brian Bellamy politely but firmly told the council members, "We cannot do this if we don't staff up." He added, "We're not providing the service we should be providing."
The numbers tell the story.
In 2005, there were 8 full-time staffers in the animal control department in Summit County: one administrator, one field supervisor, four animal control officers and two shelter attendants. Between 2006 and 2010 there were five animal control officers.
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But today, there are only 5 full-time staffers: one field supervisor, three animal control officers, and one shelter attendant.
In addition, in 2012, the administrator's position was axed, so Bellamy, director of personnel, was tasked with becoming the head of yet another department: animal control. He is now doing the jobs of two full-time positions, without the paycheck of two full-time positions.
"I'm blessed with work," he said diplomatically.
The reason for the decrease in animal control enforcement is something that counties across the country had to face in the latter years of the last decade. "The economy really turned south, and as a county we are very financially responsive," said Bellamy, who as director of personnel was intimately aware of the situation. "We had to lay off employees."
Although she kept her job — a job she had now had for 20 years — Delores Ovard was forced to make do with those cuts. As the animal control department's field supervisor, she still does many of the jobs that department administrators, animal control officers, and shelter attendants have to do. "It's really tight right now," she said.
"We are doing the best we can do," Ovard, although she admitted that the department's goal of resolving every matter within 24 hours is often not met. "We do try to get to all of the calls when they come in, but we do have to prioritize."
One duty the department cannot do at this point in time is do routine patrols of neighborhoods, dog parks and trails. Most of the animal control officers' time, especially in the summer, is devoted to responding to calls of barking dogs or stray wild animals.
"Some days we'll get 14 calls," Ovard said. "It's lot more than picking up dogs."
Bellamy plans on asking for funding for two more staffers in the animal control department when department heads' budget requests are solicited by the County Manager later this summer. But even if they are authorized, they wouldn't be added to the department until January of 2015 at the earliest, after the new budget year begins.
Bellamy is optimistic that council members will be receptive to the need. "It looks like I've been given the nod [to hire more]," he said.
Council chair Chris Robinson said that although he hasn't seen other budget recommendations yet, "based on what we know now, I think the consensus if that we need more animal control."
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Hell of a thing when you can be lectured to on fiscal policy by something trying to get its teeth into your credit balance.
The private sector survey number is anemic and Barack Obama has constantly touted those private sector (salaried) numbers saying that he has created over 4mil. in the last 32 months. If he now starts to include the household survey numbers that include non-salaried jobs, independent contractors and self employed then remember that GWB created over 7.2mil of these two survey job numbers during his first term and that was without a huge government infusion of stimulus.
I mean, that's just embarrassing.


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What it would take to stop the Paulson stadiums caper
As we slide from a recession into a depression, readers who share our outrage at the fact that the City of Portland is about to spend $89 million to build a new minor league baseball stadium and radically change PGE Park for "major league" (in name only) soccer are asking what can be done to stop the boondoggle.
We wish we could be more encouraging. Portland ran former Mayor Tom Potter out of office for Creepy Sam, and this is just the beginning of what it is going to get as a result. Potter was criticized for "doing nothing," but compared to this, nothing looks pretty good.
The state legislature could stop the stadiums deal in its tracks, but any law it passed would have to get the governor's signature. This is Governor Ted we're talking about, who's so tight with the people who stand to profit from the thing that he's not even worth talking about in this context. You might as well ask "the Don" Mazziotti, consultant to the Paulson boys and longtime Ted ally, to stop them himself. Won't happen.
Can the voters of Portland overrule the City Council? In theory, yes, but the deck is stacked extremely heavily against them. According to the city's web page on the subject, in order to force a council ordinance onto the ballot, one needs to submit 19,335 valid signatures of legal voters from within the city limits within 30 days after the ordinance is passed. That's roughly one out of every 17 registered voters in town -- a daunting number.
One would think there will be at least a couple of ordinances passed on the Paulson stadiums deal -- the ordinance authorizing the sale of bonds would be a crucial one, but there would seemingly be others -- and a signature effort could spring up after any one of them. But it would take an enormous effort, and there would need to be both big-time money and substantial luck involved. The "business leaders" downtown tried to challenge "voter-owed elections" -- the wonderful taxpayer financing of city-level political campaigns -- this way in 2005, and they came up short on signatures.
That's not to say it's impossible. If the Multnomah County leadership had any pulse whatsoever, it would immediately declare its opposition to Paulson and work, officially or unofficially, to get the voters a crack at this. The dudes who want a Convention Center hotel should chip in, because with this deal the financing for their shangri-la is dead. Throw in the public schools people who will lose lots of money under the Paulson property tax grab, and you might have a shot. But it would have to be one heck of a historic month.
Contrast this with what it would take to put a recall of the mayor or a city commissioner on the ballot. That one takes 32,183 signatures, but you get 90 days to collect them. If you're going to be out there in the rain, why not go after the root of the problem, rather than the latest symptom? Think of all the fun you could have collecting signatures against Fireman Randy from the duct tape people at the Rose Parade -- if it isn't cancelled for streetcar construction, that is. That guy gets you coming and going.
Another possible roadblock could be thrown up by the pending legal action that has the city's Pearl District and "satellite" urban renewal shenanigans on hold. At some point, a judge in that case may decide to make Portland actually live up to the letter and spirit of the state laws on urban renewal -- as opposed to laughing out loud while it freely disregards them. Perhaps such a ruling would put a damper on the Paulson plan.
Last but not least, it might be a good move for concerned Portlanders to start a letter-writing campaign to the "commissioner" of the "major" soccer league, letting him know that the opposition in Portland is bitter, organized, and prepared to make a lot of trouble for any franchise that is brought here. "We will fight you in the legislature, we will fight you with referendum petitions, we will fight you in the courthouse, we will boycott your games," etc. Maybe they'll give the team to some other city. And after all, if Paulson doesn't get his soccer franchise, this whole deal goes away, and probably he does too.


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New York Times Reports - Big Pharma Targeting Poor Children
Poor Children Likelier to Get Antipsychotics
New federally financed drug research reveals a stark disparity: children covered by Medicaid are given powerful antipsychotic medicines at a rate four times higher than children whose parents have private insurance. And the Medicaid children are more likely to receive the drugs for less severe conditions than their middle-class counterparts, the data shows.
This is fertile and very profitable territory for Big Pharma and the Mental Health Industry; They receive hefty reimbursements at the tax payers expense; while marketing and main streaming dangerous and powerful drugs to all children with absurd and dangerously suspect diagnostic criteria and medication oriented treatments.
Those findings, by a team from Rutgers and Columbia, are almost certain to add fuel to a long-running debate. Do too many children from poor families receive powerful psychiatric drugs not because they actually need them — but because it is deemed the most efficient and cost-effective way to control problems that may be handled much differently for middle-class children?
When it comes to Pharmaceutical Corporates; it is all about the MONEY after all.
The questions go beyond the psychological impact on Medicaid children, serious as that may be. Antipsychotic drugs can also have severe physical side effects, causing drastic weight gain and metabolic changes resulting in lifelong physical problems.
Either way, creating life long physical or mental conditions or both; creates a virtual "Gold Mine" for Big Pharma into the foreseeable future. You would think government and the People would at least be starting to get a glimpse of this ugly criminal picture; but it appears those masterful blinders Pharma has created through the investment of hundreds of billions of dollars in major advertising campaigns and in funding advocate front groups has really paid off in this area.
On Tuesday, a pediatric advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration met to discuss the health risks for all children who take antipsychotics. The panel will consider recommending new label warnings for the drugs, which are now used by an estimated 300,000 people under age 18 in this country, counting both Medicaid patients and those with private insurance.
Oh really, such shocking news considering the FDA is rubber stamping these drugs for use in children over and over again in recent weeks. Lots of smoke and mirrors coming from a regulitory body that is pretty much controlled by the pharmaceutical industry.
Meanwhile, a group of Medicaid medical directors from 16 states, under a project they call Too Many, Too Much, Too Young, has been experimenting with ways to reduce prescriptions of antipsychotic drugs among Medicaid children.
Lots of half measures with half truths equaling very little change. Do you actually believe our government or their proxy's will give justice and proper compensation to those poor kids that have been grievously harmed.
If they really wanted to stop this outrageous criminal activity; they would have to publicly question and debunk a medication modality they themselves help create through major financial and influential power brokering Pharma holds in academia, medicine, and research just to touch the surface of this monolith ice berg moving through the waters of our society.
They plan to publish a report early next year.
The Rutgers-Columbia study will also be published early next year, in the peer-reviewed journal Health Affairs. But the findings have already been posted on the Web, setting off discussion among experts who treat and study troubled young people.
We have children being misdiagnosed and being force fed virtual poisons, and they say we are going to get together and seriously talk about this! I'm sorry, but that is just good old fashioned horse shit that only bureaucrats and academia could pull off, to be completely candid.
Some experts say they are stunned by the disparity in prescribing patterns. But others say it reinforces previous indications, and their own experience, that children with diagnoses of mental or emotional problems in low-income families are more likely to be given drugs than receive family counseling or psychotherapy.
Part of the reason is insurance reimbursements, as Medicaid often pays much less for counseling and therapy than private insurers do. Part of it may have to do with the challenges that families in poverty may have in consistently attending counseling or therapy sessions, even when such help is available.Part of the reason is insurance reimbursements, as Medicaid often pays much less for counseling and therapy than private insurers, and who do you think help set those political policies in place? Do you need three guesses, or are you starting to smell the stench of rot seeping under you front door.
"It's easier for patients, and it's easier for docs," said Dr. Derek H. Suite, a psychiatrist in the Bronx whose pediatric cases include children and adolescents covered by Medicaid and who sometimes prescribes antipsychotics. "But the question is, 'What are you prescribing it for?' That's where it gets a little fuzzy."
Let me get this right, we use dangerous drugs on poor children because its easier. then to take it one step further for a home-run hitting out of the ballpark insanity, we have "fuzzy" and different diagnostic criteria for the poor. Don't worry middle class and rich America; once they have ingrained this drugging modality among the poor, they are coming for your children. Greed unfortunately doesn't stop at the upper status gates for Corporations.
Too often, Dr. Suite said, he sees young Medicaid patients to whom other doctors have given antipsychotics that the patients do not seem to need. Recently, for example, he met with a 15-year-old girl. She had stopped taking the antipsychotic medication that had been prescribed for her after a single examination, paid for by Medicaid, at a clinic where she received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
Why did she stop? Dr. Suite asked. "I can control my moods," the girl said softly.
After evaluating her, Dr. Suite decided she was right. The girl had arguments with her mother and stepfather and some insomnia. But she was a good student and certainly not bipolar, in Dr. Suite's opinion.
"Normal teenager," Dr. Suite said, nodding. "No scrips for you."
Pretty scary that a very few Ethical Doctors have the job of cleaning up a massive problem and mess their own profession is helping foster for nothing more than MONEY.
Because there can be long waits to see the psychiatrists accepting Medicaid, it is often a pediatrician or family doctor who prescribes an antipsychotic to a Medicaid patient — whether because the parent wants it or the doctor believes there are few other options.
This is another example of corporate pharmaceutical corporations and their sales representatives dream coming true; those family doctors all ready to hear about the latest ghost written study published in some medical journal that just happens to comes along with some great perks, including even some expert paid propaganda speaking engagements which fills not only their bank accounts, but is a nice professional ego boost.
They may even receive volume financial kickbacks for prescribing these drugs to children. We know of just one doctor in the Chicago area that was worth an estimated 500 millions dollars in sales for AstraZeneca Pharmaceutical Corporate in elderly care alone. Just ask the doctor of death: Psychiatrist Dr. Micheal Reinstein
Some experts even say Medicaid may provide better care for children than many covered by private insurance because the drugs — which can cost $400 a month — are provided free to patients, and families do not have to worry about the co-payments and other insurance restrictions.
"Maybe Medicaid kids are getting better treatment," said Dr. Gabrielle Carlson, a child psychiatrist and professor at the Stony Brook School of Medicine. "If it helps keep them in school, maybe it's not so bad."
When you hear FREE! We should all hold on to our wallets tightly. This is not free by any stretch of the imagination. What they are not saying is; we the People and working stiffs in America are paying for every last cent of this supposed FREE CARE that is rolling into Pharma and medical industry's pockets.
In any case, as Congress works on health care legislation that could expand the nation's Medicaid rolls by 15 million people — a 43 percent increase — the scope of the antipsychotics problem, and the expense, could grow in coming years.
That is the Pharmaceutical Corporate vision for America; to get everyone from cradle to coffin on their products at a very steep cost for everyone of us. Nice to see they are using this millions and upon millions of dollars funneled into lobbying efforts directed at elected representatives wisely.
Even though the drugs are typically cheaper than long-term therapy, they are the single biggest drug expenditure for Medicaid, costing the program $7.9 billion in 2006, the most recent year for which the data is available.
The Rutgers-Columbia research, based on millions of Medicaid and private insurance claims, is the most extensive analysis of its type yet on children's antipsychotic drug use. It examined records for children in seven big states — including New York, Texas and California — selected to be representative of the nation's Medicaid population, for the years 2001 and 2004.
Expensive, ineffective, and damaging! keep those words in your pocket for your next trip to the race track. Smells like a sure corporate winner to so many.
The data indicated that more than 4 percent of patients ages 6 to 17 in Medicaid fee-for-service programs received antipsychotic drugs, compared with less than 1 percent of privately insured children and adolescents. More recent data through 2007 indicates that the disparity has remained, said Stephen Crystal, a Rutgers professor who led the study. Experts generally agree that some characteristics of the Medicaid population may contribute to psychological problems or psychiatric disorders. They include the stresses of poverty, single-parent homes, poorer schools, lack of access to preventive care and the fact that the Medicaid rolls include many adults who are themselves mentally ill.
OK, just stop beating around the bush and say it! They believe poor people are inferior and much more likely to have mental disease. Does that sound just a wee bit like that debunked eugenics movement we fought from the early 1900's until after defeating the NAZI eugenics movement in World War 2.
As a result, studies have found that children in low-income families may have a higher rate of mental health problems — perhaps two to one — compared with children in better-off families. But that still does not explain the four-to-one disparity in prescribing antipsychotics.
Here we go, 2 to 1 odds against the poor, treated with 4 to 1 dangerous medication prescribing. Does anyone else see a problem here?
Professor Crystal, who is the director of the Center for Pharmacotherapy at Rutgers, says his team's data also indicates that poorer children are more likely to receive antipsychotics for less serious conditions than would typically prompt a prescription for a middle-class child.
Yes, mere breathing a serious condition for those less people, they should be double medicated just to be on the safe side correct.
But Professor Crystal said he did not have clear evidence to form an opinion on whether or not children on Medicaid were being overtreated.
What more evidence is needed exactly, before they sit down to spend time maybe discussing options to address this serious problem in another committee meeting scheduled for 6 months from now. Rubber Boots Time Here!
"Medicaid kids are subject to a lot of stresses that lead to behavior issues which can be hard to distinguish from more serious psychiatric conditions," he said. "It's very hard to pin down."
Yes indeed, it's become so difficult to really distinguish the difference between psychiatric conditions and just being poor. In all actaullity it has been very hard for them "psychiatry" to tell the difference between normal young boys behavioral traits and mental illness .
In fact, I'm quite sure the new improved pharmaceutical profit manual DSM-V will address this problem and start billing and medicating for both; while charging an extra fee for poverty and mental health issues combined.
I mean if they were not mentally deficient, why would any one in their right mind be poor. Some pretty twisted and sickening methodology going on here in medical circles you must admit.
And yet Dr. Mark Olfson, a psychiatry professor at Columbia and a co-author of the study, said at least one thing was clear: "A lot of these kids are not getting other mental health services."
This is a nice way of saying; there is a huge untapped market out there just sitting ready to be plucked clean.
The F.D.A. has approved antipsychotic drugs for children specifically to treat schizophrenia, autism and bipolar disorder. But they are more frequently prescribed to children for other, less extreme conditions, including attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, aggression, persistent defiance or other so-called conduct disorders — especially when the children are covered by Medicaid, the new study shows.
I believe by now, the American Public trust what the FDA approves about as much as they would trust their weekly trash man with important medical advice.
You probably don't believe that last statement correct. Then please conduct your own unbiased poll and tell me how it went.
Although doctors may legally prescribe the drugs for these "off label" uses, there have been no long-term studies of their effects when used for such conditions.
Legally prescribe; Pharmaceutical corporations have been marketing these drugs directly to doctors for decades for every condition under the great blue sky off label. "Off Label" is just another way Pharma expands the profitability of already very profitable drugs.
Those patents do have limits; so buying up generic drug maker competition and cheating the system by extending patents by adding "a drop of this and pinch of that" can only last so long after-all.
The Rutgers-Columbia study found that Medicaid children were more likely than those with private insurance to be given the drugs for off-label uses like A.D.H.D. and conduct disorders. The privately insured children, in turn, were more likely than their Medicaid counterparts to receive the drugs for F.D.A.-approved uses like bipolar disorder.
Even if parents enrolled in Medicaid may be reluctant to put their children on drugs, some come to rely on them as the only thing that helps.
"They say it's impossible to stop now," Evelyn Torres, 48, of the Bronx, said of her son's use of antipsychotics since he received a diagnosis of bipolar disorder at age 3. Seven years later, the boy is now also afflicted with weight and heart problems. But Ms. Torres credits Medicaid for making the boy's mental and physical conditions manageable. "They're helping with everything," she said.
This must stop, but who will stop it? Our government appears to be sitting on it's hands, FDA is a nothing body holding a paid for rubber stamp, and the DOJ "department of justice" only makes sweet heart deals with huge mega corporations that commit crimes.
I guess we either accept that we are being targeting as are the children; or we hold them accountable by any means we can including refusing to use their products or frequenting doctors that prescribe them. Either way you choose in this case, poses a grave risk to your Health.
The New York Times and The Chicago Tribune have been doing some excellent work in this area of news reporting as of late. I personally encourage them to continue shining a very bright spot light upon this vitally important topic.
I would suggest you read the comment section of this post; it shines further light upon the expert person's used in this report; that will surely have you humming "conflict of interest carols" all the way to your next holiday bash.


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Sligo New Music Festival 2010
The Sligo New Music Festival returns to The Model from 16th – 18th April 2010 with the early, ground-breaking music of Gavin Bryars, including his classic works The Sinking of the Titanic and Jesus' Blood Never Failed Me Yet. Gavin Bryars will be in Sligo for the festival, and will participate in a public discussion about his work over the weekend. Bryars' long-term collaborators The Smith Quartet will be the guest ensemble for the festival, coming to Sligo from London for the event.
Leading Irish improvising duo Morla — saxophonist Seán Óg and guitarist Simon Jermyn — will provide another counterpoint to the programme. Performing alongside The Smith Quartet for Bryars' Jesus Blood, Morla and The Smiths will also perform a major new work for sextet composed by the duo.
The festival is also proud to present the world premiere of a new work for electric guitar and string quartet by leading Northern Irish composer Frank Lyons.
Championed for offering such a rich and diverse programme of contemporary music each year, the Sligo New Music Festival, produced by The Model and curated by Ian Wilson, has been one of the highlights of the Irish contemporary music calendar since its inception in 2002. An offsite, one-day format for the festival was experimented with during the closure in 2008, and 2010 sees the festival making a welcome return to The Model, and to its popular full weekend format.
"The day's performances… were a model of what the presentation of such challenging music needs to achieve – a sense of absolute identity with the composer's wishes." – The Irish Times
2010 Programme
Fri 16 April, 8.30pm – Opening Concert
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- 31 Dec: Opening Concert: Bryars, Dennehy, Morla
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Today: [Isaiah 53] Who Has Believed the Report? In this chapter, we find for the first time no mention of contemporary events to those Isaiah is writing to. Chapter 53 is purely a Messianic declaration speaking of the suffering of Jesus and the rejection of the Messiah in behalf of all mankind. There is no other sacrifice or substitute we can bring to God other than our faith and our surrender to the one who bled and died in our behalf as Isaiah, speaking by the Holy Spirit so poignantly testifies to in our chapter today.
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[Isa 53:1-12 KJV] 1 Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed? 2 For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, [there is] no beauty that we should desire him. 3 He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were [our] faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. 4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. 5 But he [was] wounded for our transgressions, [he was] bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace [was] upon him; and with his stripes we are healed. 6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth. 8 He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken. 9 And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither [was any] deceit in his mouth. 10 Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put [him] to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see [his] seed, he shall prolong [his] days, and the pleasure of the LORD shall prosper in his hand. 11 He shall see of the travail of his soul, [and] shall be satisfied: by his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many; for he shall bear their iniquities. 12 Therefore will I divide him [a portion] with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
Isaiah 53 is a description of the rejection of Jesus during what is referred as the year of opposition during His ministry that concluded with His crucifixion. This is the first chapter in the book of Isaiah that is purely Messianic in nature without any overtones of reference to Cyrus, the Babylonian captivity or other events contemporary to the people to whom Isaiah is initially writing. Verse 1 asks the question "who has believed our report…" speaking of the coming of Christ not only as a reigning king but as a suffering Messiah. This verse is quoted twice in the New Testament, once in the gospel of John and once in Paul's letter to the Romans.
[Jhn 12:37-38 KJV] 37 But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him: 38 That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Often, we reflect and come to the conclusion that if we had lived in the days when Jesus walked the earth we would have surely believed. The miracles of Jesus were undeniable even by the Pharisees who plotted Jesus' demise on the cross – yet they rejected His message and refused to believe that He was the promised one that should come. Paul gives a very detailed reason why the Jews rejected Jesus, describing a veil of unbelief that rested upon the people of his generation because of their flawed veneration of Moses.
[2Co 3:13-16 KJV] 13 And not as Moses, [which] put a vail over his face, that the children of Israel could not stedfastly look to the end of that which is abolished: 14 But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which [vail] is done away in Christ. 15 But even unto this day, when Moses is read, the vail is upon their heart. 16 Nevertheless when it shall turn to the Lord, the vail shall be taken away.
We see hear that Moses placed a veil over his face so that the people would not see when the glory faded from his face. He didn't want the people to see him in his humanity. He wanted them to think that the glory was always there so that the people would be more manageable and obedient. It was in reality a self-serving religious sleight of hand on Moses' part that doomed generations of Israelites to look more to Moses than they looked to God Himself. We fall into this kind of thinking ourselves when we seek out leaders who are larger than life, who leave us more impressed with the man than we are with the God whom the man is supposed to be serving. The ripple effect of Moses' committing this one act rippled down through the ages and resulted in the devastating unbelief that caused the Jews to cry out "crucify Him!" as they stood on the porch of Pontius Pilate crying out for Barabbas instead of their Messiah.
Verse 2 tells us that Jesus would grow up as a spiritual root out of the dead dry ground of the backslidden nation of Israel in the first century. How very different He was than the leaders of our day. He had no comeliness our outward attractiveness that drew people to Him. To pass Jesus on the street one would scarcely notice Him or consider Him to be remarkable in anyway – we would pass on without a second look. Jesus was not a man of deep oratory. He had no charisma to hold people to Him or to attract them to follow Him. To those of us that are called to follow Him and to leadership in the kingdom this is a measurement for us of the absolute vanity of the cult of the celebrity that typifies the charismatic, larger than life leadership model of the church today. It is anti-Christ and anti-God, completely unreflective of anything redemptive in nature, without affinity whatsoever to the character of Christ that we are called to portray.
Jesus was a man of sorrows, despised, rejected, acquainted with grief. A modern day physician would have thought to write Jesus a prescription for depression or to correct mood swings. He would have been looked down on and pitied rather than venerated or worshipped. He was despised so that we could be accepted. He was acquainted with grief as our substituted so that our joy could be full. He bore our griefs and carried our sorrow so that you and I could have the yoke easy and the burden light that He so often spoke of. To look upon Jesus in His substitutionary work in our behalf was to conclude that here was a man stricken, smitten of God – and in fact He was, for our sake. He was not stricken and smitten as our example, but He was stricken and smitten as our substitute so that you and I could enjoy the life and the life more abundantly that He so strongly declared and prophesied of. We are not rejecting the example of Jesus when we believe for highest and best, we are embracing the substitutionary work of the cross realizing that He suffered so that we don't have to. It is not necessary for us to carry in our persons what He took to the cross, suffering in our behalf.
Verse 5 says that Jesus was wounded for our transgressions. Not only for the transgressions of others, but our transgressions. At every point where our character in word or deed departs from the character of Christ was a stinging blow upon the person of Christ in our behalf. The full wrath and judgment of God was poured out upon Jesus with our name attached to every crushing blow that He suffered. We cannot look dispassionately upon the suffering of Jesus because it was our sin and our transgression that caused it and called for so that you and I could be cleansed and freed from the consequences of our own disobedience when we come humbly seeking the forgiveness that Jesus so freely extends to us. Let us examine ourselves daily so that we never look glibly or without consideration upon the brutal reality of the cross but rather thoughtfully and deeply we constantly bear in mind that all that He suffered was for our sake.
We also see that Jesus took stripes on His body for our physical healing. Theologians today suggest that God is to ineffable, too removed in His glory from the natural world for us to expect Him to care about human suffering and sickness. Still others teach that God allows sickness to come upon us so that we can learn to be more like Jesus, or that some other murky purpose of heaven is fulfilled by God's people suffering the ravages of disease. Isaiah stands 3000 years in the past boldly repudiating all such thinking when he declares by the spirit of God that by His stripes we are healed. Not just healed from spiritual maladies but from every sickness in mind, spirit and body. The promise furthermore is not conditional. He didn't say by His stripes we might be healed, unless some other purpose is being carried out. No, it is a universal promise to whosoever will – by His stripes we ARE healed, a universal promise to all that believe in His name. Peter quoted this verse, strengthening the statement even further when he said:
[1Pe 2:24 KJV] 24 Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
For us in the New Testament we not only have the positive promise of physical healing but we find it as an expression of past provision. There is no other condition than faith believing to receive what God has for you in this area. There are no caveats or exceptions. God will never say no to what the cross says yes to. If it is not God's will to heal then all of God's word is a lie and a deception for this is the plain and unclouded testimony of the promise of God that when we suffer we can look to Him and live, without exception as we believe and draw by faith upon the past provision of the Cross.
The chapter ends declaring that in all of this it pleased the Lord to bruise Jesus and to put Him to grief. It was in God's purpose to offer Jesus up as the lamb slain before the foundation of the world. It didn't just happen because the Jews rejected Him. It was the eternal purpose of God that through the cross Jesus would see of the travail of His soul and be satisfied in seeing salvation made available to us and the possibility of coming into a right relationship with the Father not through religious law or adherence to the demands of shallow Christian cultural conditioning but through the shedding of the life's blood of a sinless Messiah fully poured out that the sin debt might be paid and you and I then by faith would walk free from Adam's judgment.
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With attorneys who live where we practice and decades of land use experience that often pre-dates formal zoning regulations, Cramer & Anderson is uniquely situated to provide knowledgeable land use counsel in northwestern Connecticut. We first explore our clients' goals and provide a frank assessment of the likelihood of achieving them. We develop a strategy for accomplishing these goals and explain at the outset the process involved.
Cramer & Anderson's zoning and land use lawyers counsel clients on the intricacies of detail that local government law requires. The firm has vast experience with local boards and commissions, including inland wetlands commissions, planning, zoning, town legislative bodies and state agencies. We understand the correlations between local and state agency regulations that may apply.
In addition to years of experience serving as municipal attorneys for various cities and towns, we also work with developers on subdivision, site plan, or special exception applications, which often involve calling on our network of surveyors, soil scientists, civil engineers and other professionals with whom we have often worked. The firm has many years of experience with drafting and amending regulations and Plans of Conservation and Development, as well as understanding and explaining the intent of the regulatory schematic. This allows us to guide our clients on the overall vision articulated by the communities and how that vision influences land use decisions by its commissions.
Our depth of experience within the firm in municipal law and land use, environmental law, litigation and real estate transactions allows us to cross-consult and team handle many matters. This happens at the request of the lead lawyer and gains almost immediate in-house response.
Our offices across northwestern Connecticut and in Danbury give us broad geographical representation. Cramer & Anderson has established a reputation for providing land use clients with cost-effective legal services, and our attorneys have represented individuals and businesses before the majority of towns in Litchfield County, as well as towns across Connecticut.
As needed, we litigate appeals from decisions of local land use boards in Superior Court and higher. We have an impressive record of success in those appeals. We also have an extensive appellate court practice to handle significant land use cases taken to the appellate and Supreme Courts of the State of Connecticut.
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New Report: Saturday Mail Delivery Soon a Distant Memory?
February 13, 2013
Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe surprised the nation last week when he announced that the U.S. Postal Service would end Saturday letter delivery starting in August. While reductions in service are never popular, this move could end up saving taxpayers the most money for the least pain to customers, according to our new analysis.
- An unprecedented and continuing plunge in mail demand began in 2007, causing multibillion dollar losses in every year over the period, two defaults to the U.S. Treasury totaling $11.1 billion in 2012, and the maxing out of its $15 billion government credit line.
- In public opinion surveys, two-thirds or more of respondents regularly say they would be willing to end Saturday delivery to avoid a price hike, and in a Rasmussen survey last year, 75 percent opposed retaining Saturday delivery if it would require government subsidies.
- USPS expects that axing Saturday delivery will eventually save $2 billion annually, primarily because fewer mail carriers would be needed if a day of letter delivery is eliminated. Most of the workforce reduction would likely be accomplished through attrition and buyouts.
- Many foreign posts, including those in Australia, Canada, Korea, the Philippines, and Sweden, are on a five-day-a-week delivery schedule. Singapore Post and a few others recently made the switch, and several, including New Zealand Post, are considering dropping six-day delivery.
- Several accommodations will ease the inconvenience for mail users: post offices now open on Saturdays will remain open on Saturdays; post office box service will continue on Saturdays; Express Mail deliveries will not be delayed; and packages will still be delivered on Saturdays.
Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 360, "Saturday Mail Delivery Soon a Distant Memory?" by Dr. Michael Schuyler is available here.
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Vigan tours and travel from Manila usually takes 8-9 hours, but sometimes it takes ten hours to reach the city depending how frequent a travel stop over, the distance between Vigan and Manila is approximately 408 Km, almost double the distance between Manila- Baguio. There are several bus companies that cater transportation for local and foreign guest and visitor when visiting Vigan, Partas is one of the leading bus company that provides transportation, the terminal is situated within the heart of Quezon city, Cubao. Farinas, Dominion, Maria De Leon, Philippines Rabbit, Viron Transit are other Bus company that cater such trasportation. Other means of transportation is by domestic airplane, the travel usually takes an hour from Manila Domestic Airport to Laoag Airport, from Laoag it usually takes 1 1/2 hours travel to reach Vigan proper.
Vigan Tours and Place to Visit :
Baluarte : Baluarte, is an interactive wildlife animal sanctuary and facility. Unlike with the tradional Zoo, guest and visitor are given a chance to play and interact with the animal. The area was established to educate people, conserve and protect endangered species and animals, the area also features natural boulder on the center of green and trees.
Calle Crisologo : Calle Crisologo, "kameztizoan Districy of Vigan" , it features ancestral houses with ancient construction design pattern with Spanish- Chinese - Mexican Architectural design. Calle Crisologo brings back memories of Spanish era due to Kamestizoan District in Vigan is replete with ancestral houses with ancient tile roofs, massive hardwood floorings, ballustrades and azoteas in varying Spanish-Mexican-Chinese architectural styles.
Calle Crisologo brings back the old Spanish atmosphere starting with the cobblestone streets, the beautiful eaves of the ancient houses against the shadows of each other houses, and the clacking noise of kalesa, a horse driven carriage.The street is the most popular site in the city and a visit is not complete unless you experience and walked though this street.
The street is also known as the only surviving street in World War II because of a loved. It is believe that a Japanese General that fell in love with a Filipina made an agreement with the parish priest that he will protect and avoid damaging Calle Crisologo in exchange that the priest will take care for his family.
St. Paul Metropolitan Church : The chuch was constructed on 1790-1890 by Augustinian, the church was built on Earthquake Baroque style to secure the church from earthquake and typhoon, The church was supported by thick beam (butresses) for durability. A separate bell tower is located 15 meters away from the main structure so just in case the main building was damage by an eartquake there is another bell tower structure remain.
Where to Stay in Vigan (Vigan Hotels) : There are a lots of decent and unexpensive accomodation when staying in Vigan, among them are;
- Aniceto Mansion Hotel
- Casa Teofila Lodge
- Codillera Inn
- El Juliana Hotel
- Godion Inn Bed and Breakfast
- Grandpa's Inn
- La Feliza Tourist Inn
- La Fernandina Hotel and Restaurant
- Mom's Courtyard
- Paraiso ni Don Juan Beach Resort
- Playa de Oro Resort Hotel
- Socio Pastoral Center
- Taj Hotel Resort and Bowling Lanes
- UNP Guestel
- Vigan Heritage Mansion
- Vigan Plaza Hotel
- Villa Angela Heritage House


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Update sent out for Microsoft Surface RT users
showed limited access for Wi-Fi connectivity. The update also improves performance with Windows itself, and the volume and power buttons. To see if you received the update, you can click on the upper right portion of the screen or swipe in from the right edge. Click on Settings, and tap on Change PC settings. Then, tap on Windows Update and Check for Updates.
The January update repaired issues with the audio when the tablet was in Connected Standby, and added additional capabilities for firmware updates when the battery is low. The December update was supposed to reduce the scenarios that woukd result in the limited Wi-Fi notice, and also added non-standard-ASCII special characters such as: ñ, ö, ü, á, é to Access Point names.
source: Microsoft (1), (2) via Engadget
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1. Birds (Posts: 1172; Member since: 21 Nov 2011)
I think Microsoft needs to send a refreshed model of the Surface Windows RT tablet with a 1.7 GHz quadcore snapdragon S4 (600) CPU instead of the 1.2 GHz quadcore Tegra 3....Not to say the Tegra 3 isn't bad, but the S4 is just an overal better chipset...
In a refresh of the device, I'd also like to see less hardware limitations...On the software front, I'd want the restrictions taken off of the device that limit the usabilty of RT.....Since I got mine, I've been pleased but.....I reach dead ends at every corner with it....
2. Penny (Posts: 1837; Member since: 04 Feb 2011)
I tend to agree with you Birds. I like my RT, the hardware quality and the OS and the overall package. It works but it could be better.
What I would love to see in my next Windows tablet = stronger processing capabilities and a more unified Windows OS. I like having the apps but more utility still exists in having the desktop side, so I'd like to have the functionality of the desktop side in the modern UI form, for a superior experience in both functionality and user experience.
3. Penny (Posts: 1837; Member since: 04 Feb 2011)
I might note that's where I think Microsoft is headed with Windows anyway, but it's not quite there yet. If you're listening Microsoft, make sure you keep INCREASING functionality while UNIFYING and SIMPLIFYING the experience. Integrate everything.
4. nikenturd (unregistered)
ZUNE 2.0.......major manufacturers like Samsung pulling out, expect Microsoft to cease production in a year or so


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Sasami-san@Ganbaranai Episode 12 [Final]: No Efforts Tomorrow
"We aren't putting forth any more effort today."
Well. As is the case with many of the events in this show, I can't say I saw things turning out quite like what I thought – in particular, Edogawa deciding to suddenly attack Sasami and the Yagami sisters in an attempt to raise an ancient god, Kuzuryuu. I mean, it's been building up gradually, but it seemed so…out of the blue. This show's randomness was hilarious at first, but admittedly its quickly become tedious – maybe it's just me, but there's only so much randomness you can take before it becomes too much. Take Edogawa's penis issue – definitely very…unique, but it seemed arbitrary to try and explain it off. Edogawa's apparently got a former god named Awashima acting as another personality in her body, and I'm assuming she grows a penis when Awashima's in control. That's fine and all, but why was there the need to reveal Awashima's entire character to us? It's the last episode, and he never even had any relevance to Kuzuryuu's summoning. It's the same with Garuda, another one of Arahabaki's minions – Edogawa summoned it, and it was forgotten for the rest of the episode.
Similarly, I think they crossed a line with the summoning ritual, where Edogawa re-enacted history, then promptly changed it and let the new events take their course. I don't think it was necessary for Tama's scene to be that graphic…she's only eight years old (at heart), and she's got a sword through both her palms and her heart torn out by Edogawa, who holds it up triumphantly. All this blood's falling down on Tama and I'm sitting there, cringing at Tama's terrified face and wondering whether I'm watching the right show. How did she even survive? Anyway, Edogawa's a pretty bitter character – she should have given Sasami more of a chance instead of throwing a tantrum and gunning for world domination. She did genuinely have an interest in Sasami after all, so I hoped she'd look at things more rationally.
I'd hoped they would extend the fight between Kagami and Tamamo a bit longer…those two are pretty cool characters as far as this show goes. What was surprising was Kagami's history with Arahabaki – I guess that was the evil group Kagami used to belong to, before Tsurugi rescued her and took her in as part of her family. Kagami's Yata Mirror is a deus ex machina if I ever saw one – I think she used it back in the chocolate incident, but really? A magical mirror that reverts all damage does seem far too convenient. And Susanoo (I think it's Susanoo) turning up at the last minute to defeat Kazuryuu? I'm not even sure what to think any more.
…At least we got a proper, complete solo version of the ED this week. Asumi Kana's voice always makes things better xD
Final Comments
"We aren't putting forth any more effort today." –
Studio SHAFT
In all honesty, I found the first few episodes pretty enjoyable – it was wacky, unconventional and unique. Positive traits that you'd look for when planning to watch an anime series. But then at some point, it got too unique. Maybe I'm just not wise and sagely enough to appreciate the true depth of Sasami-san (and if I am, I apologize for my…extreme inexperience) but suddenly I felt like things were just being tossed my way and I couldn't catch them all. This is one of the cases where the phrase "less is more" really does apply – I'd have loved if they decided to introduce a theme or genre, then stick at it right to the end rather than jumping around with various themes. The one over-arching theme of "putting effort forward" turned out to be pretty ironic, especially in SHAFT's case – they were pretty lazy with the animation sometimes. Heck, this episode they didn't even animate things when Tamamo spoke to Sasami – instead it was a near-static flash RPG screen with text messages being read out. I won't deny that this show is fun though – just don't expect anything too much and you'll be fine. Plus, it's almost worth watching this for the Yagami sisters alone – especially Kagami. Funyaaa~


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Ok ladies and gents. It's time. Time for me to get on the ball and try to lose some weight. I got dressed this morning and had to put on a pair of jeans that just 5 months ago were too big. 6 months ago I lost 30 pounds for my wedding. I have since gained 15 of those pounds back. I guess I am full of love and full of food too! So, I figured that I had to have some type of motivation to just start my weight loss. Since my wedding motivated me to lose 30 I am hoping my anniversary will motivate me to lose 30 again. So here it is, 30 pounds in 5 months. MDWM readers please share your tips on jump- starting a weight loss challenge.
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Vote in the Chain of Eco-Homes Competition
I am in shock. I agreed to be a juror in the Chain of Eco-Homes competition for Greensburg along with a few other outstanding architects, writers, and Greensburg residents and just had a look at the extraordinary quantity and quality of the entries. It is overwhelming; how can we possibly get through all this? Fortunately we have help with the public vote, which counts as an equal juror in the competition. In six days, 16,000 people have voted; Voting closes on the 30th.
Three building technologies have been chosen for this competition, and a winner will be chosen from each. (details of each in a previous post here)
At time of writing, the most popular is the Grasshopper House.
I can understand why; it is a handsome, if restrained, design.
As the site plan notes, it has a vegetable garden, recycling, photovoltaics and more.
I like the pinch in the middle at the stair, bringing lots of natural light into the middle.
The quality of the submissions is extraordinary, far beyond what I expected. Judging it will be a real challenge. Help us out by voting at The Chain of Eco-Homes Competition
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My first conclusion about his statement is that it's so vague and it doesn't really give Agudah any real standpoint other then what we already know: the halachic prohibitions of homosexual acts. For whatever reason, Rabbi Shafran felt compelled to remind us in almost every paragraph of his statement about the halachic problems with homosexuality. The reason all this dialogue, controversy and back and forth is happening is because of that verse in Vayikara (Leviticus), and the insistent reminders of how wrong homosexual acts are according to halacha is only being used as a weapon to ignore people like me and the many other brave souls that were subject to condemnation by so many rabbinic authorities because of our choice NOT to engage in potentially life threatening "therapy" to change ourselves. Rabbi Shafran, don't you get it? This isn't a halachic debate, it never was for me, I know what it says in the Torah about homosexual acts, but I also know that you and many other rabbinic authorities have ignored the harrowing experiences that face LGBT people inside orthodox communities. I'll leave the scholarly ones to debate halacha, I've never disclosed any of my private affairs that are between me and god to anyone, I've only talked about the treatment I faced by my community.
"There have been Herculean efforts in recent years, even by some nominally "Orthodox" Jews, to cast the Torah's explicit prohibition of male homosexual activity as meaning something other than what Jewish tradition has understood it to mean for several thousand years. But those millennia in the end are what matter to Jews concerned about what the Torah says to them rather than what they would like the Torah to say."
" But other mental health care professionals insist that such interventions, conducted responsibly, are not only safe, but also (at least for the highly motivated) effective. And then there are the inconvenient numbers of actual human beings who testify that the therapy has helped them realize their goal to live exclusively heterosexual lives. I have met one such individual — an intelligent, sensitive and even-keeled man — and have corresponded with therapists who have helped dozens of patients control homosexual inclinations and, as a result, live happy, fulfilled, Torah-faithful lives."


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Once landed at the Port of Ischia, you will find Ischia Blu Resort walking along 100 meters, if you arrived by ferry, and 300 meters if you reached Ischia by hydrofoil.
Turn left on the Lungomare Iasolino, turn right and then right again onto Via Iasolino and continue for a few meters. Take a slight left onto Viale Pagoda. You will find Ischia Blu Resort on the left.
If you arrive from other villages of the island, however, just walk about 350 meters from the bus terminus or from the supervised car park and paid, walking in the direction of the Port.


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