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Release date for Simon Green's latest album is set to March 23rd, 2010 (U.S.A.) and March 29th, 2010 (Rest of Planet). Wtf? Right wtf. Anyway, Ninja Tune prepped a Mini Mix for all people waiting out there. He'll be here in Berlin on May 06th, 2010 at the Maria am Ostbahnhof. Enjoy… » Bonobo on […]
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Each week, I am picking the top distressed – foreclosure or short-sale – deal in the Oklahoma City area. This is in addition to the Top 5 Sweet Deals of the Week.
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- Condition of the home.
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This weeks' distressed deal is a short sale in Edmond in the Seminole Pointe addition. It's priced at $109,900 and is about $20/ft lower than the average price/ft for this area.
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David Sanger (profile), 15 Nov 2010 @ 5:22pmSuch anecdotal comments are interesting but it would be more compelling to gather and graph statistics by location, author, publisher and format, and to have such a significant volume of complaints that they could be presented to the publishers to make the case for more flexible publishing practices.
Everyone is frustrated when a book is not available in the desired format, but a more organized advocacy campaign by readers would be more effective.
Lyle, 15 Nov 2010 @ 6:53pmThen there are folks like me that prefer real physical books, which are a well proven technology. The real question to ask is would you buy the book physically or electronically. All be it the physical book will cost more but no electronic glitch can destroy it, just a fire which will do your reader in as well (and more easily).
byteme, 15 Nov 2010 @ 7:54pm
Re:Ah, but you see, one of the complaints about eBooks is that some publishers are pricing the digital version higher than the physical format.
On the plus side, most eBook retailers store your list of purchases and let you re-download them if they or your eReader go "poof."
Anonymous Coward, 15 Nov 2010 @ 7:58pm
Re: Re:That and it's a lot harder to get 30k+ books for free.
eBooks rock for piracy
David Sanger (profile), 15 Nov 2010 @ 9:07pm
Re:Actually Lyle, I see it the opposite way to some extent. I can lose my physical book, but with Amazon I can always redownload a copy (as long as they stay in business.)
Also I can go on a trip and take 10 or 100 books with me, or 500 pdfs, which I can't do with paper.
Agreed though that paper is nice for reading at home and marking up. It is frustrating not to be able to easily note, cut and paste, share and lend with ebooks. The functionality is tightly constrained.
Anonymous Coward, 15 Nov 2010 @ 7:13pm
just another sucks siteSounds like any other sucks site. To be taken with a grain of salt for sure.
byteme, 15 Nov 2010 @ 8:02pmI've wanted an eBook reader for awhile now. They only make sense. Plus, all of my bookshelves are already full and I've got nowhere else to store new ones.
Now that the Kindle is so cheap, it seems like the right time. Too bad the following makes the leap so hard to take:
1 - DRM would lock me to a particular brand...I hate that
2 - The price is too high for a non-physical product...especially when the physical one costs less in many cases
3 - By purchasing books from my local libraries, I can hopefully help to keep a few open -- plus I get the books for less!
Anonymous Coward, 15 Nov 2010 @ 10:37pmI have no problems with ebooks, mostly because I don't go to places where there is restrictions so I get most of it for free without DRM, I buy too but there are so little places to buy things without DRM and free to use that I don't do it that frequently.
By the way the state of the art in voice synthesis is Ivona right now is just impressive although it is a paid one I first heard about it at the Festvox Challenge(or was it Festival Challenge) that gather everyone interested on the subject and rate them, great read(for free).
Curiosity: I read recently a study suggesting that the poor eyesight of people who read a lot have to do with the quantity of light they are exposed to. The study looked at people who expend a lot of time outside in the natural light and people who expend a lot of time inside and found out that the people outside have better eyesight than the people that expend a lot of time inside and the most probable cause was the quantity of light outdoors is far greater then the quantity of light of the indoors.
If you think about it, that just may be true, that is why animals in caves loose their eyes and that may explain why people who are not exposed to higher levels of light have the eyes degenerate faster because they are not using it to capture light.
Direct sunlight__________________32,000~130,000 lux
Full daylight (not direct sun)___10,000~ 25,000 lux
Office lighting__________________320~500 lux
I can see why people who expend a lot of time reading indoors could develop problems.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Nov 2010 @ 6:07am
Re:My optometrist told me a story of how several generations of native peoples of Alaska were studied. Each generation was more educated than the last, and each successive generation's eyesight was worse the more reading they did, basically. Less exercise of distance viewing or something to that effect.
Anonymous Coward, 16 Nov 2010 @ 3:44am
Preaching to the choirI'm not sure such sites really accomplish much.
The "facts" offered, such as they are, are in the "obvious" category. So trying to point them out to an industry that must already know them and has either chosen to ignore then or has reasons of it's own to disbelieve them seems a bitof a waste of time.
IMO the "obviousness" includes:
Price is always going to be a factor - the fact is online book distribution will end up "competing with free" whether it wants to or not and while you can do that there's no way you can charge masses for it. But I don't think that's the major price problem. I think that's:
Perceived profit. A physical book as far as I know has a profit margin of about 10%. Most people are fairly comfy with that I think. But take it online and the profit margin jumps massively - even a massively distributed online server farm is peanuts compared to a physical distribution network and everyone knows it and the publishers also get to take away a whole bunch of overhead - logistics of paper and ink supply chain, storage for large physical media, the overhead cost for books that aren't bought.
Whatever number that actually amounts to, the public perception is "too much you greedy ba****ds"
The other problem is functionality. You could consider it perhaps synonymous with the iPod. You might argue reason the iPod became popular was the ability to cram loads of albums/music/whatever onto 1 small device and that's the same as an e-book reader. Maybe so.
Except that the iPod and other MP3 players were hugely popular before services like iTunes came along. Why? People started by ripping their CD collection to it that's why - it was even legal then (in the UK at least) and easy - 1-click functionality even in early software. File sharing networks largely grew up around people doing exactly what they'd always done with CD's and records - loan them to their mates, who might or might not have "taped" them. They then got out of hand due to the ease of it and the suddenly large circle of "friends" "borrowing" your music but the fact is that an iPod enhanced functionality you already had. E-books restrict functionality and until that stop happening a large chunk of people just aren't going to be interested.
The ones that are are likely to be primarily ones tech savvy-enough to get the functionailty they want for themselves whatever is imposed from the publisher - if it's not offered legally, well... guess what? "Piracy" becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Good beginningThe site is new, so there is still a lot that could be done to better organize the information.
The site owners are constrained by their lack of PHP and WordPress skills. But they know this. In fact, they're asking for PHP coders to help them out:
If anyone wants to help them out (not just with this, but in general), I'm sure it would be appreciated. I'm actually considering it myself - it'd look good on my resume.
If they keep at it, and actually implement user suggestions (e.g. sort by region, by reason, etc), then they'll really be on to something, I think.
I also like that they have a "Found Sales" category, where users enter what publishers did to create a sale. Naturally, it's a lot smaller, since people like to complain more than compliment. Still, it shows that the site does not want to be merely another "sucks" site.
Re: Good beginningusers enter what publishers did to create a sale
Actually, it looks like those are "converted" lost sales, where the reasons for the sale being lost are no longer an issue. E.g. the user wanted a version that is not available, and the publisher later made it available.
Colin, 16 Nov 2010 @ 10:10am
Re: Re: Good beginningI think it would be a great idea to post where they can find easily obtainable/reasonably priced books to promote those who are doing it right.
Richard (profile), 16 Nov 2010 @ 4:15am
If only ...there was a site where the eBooks were cheap and available in any format (including plain text) with no DRM.
The good news - there is..
The bad news - it's all in Russian.
How come they get it right and we don't?
John Dalton (profile), 16 Nov 2010 @ 4:49am
Ebook sellerI was at a seminar in the writers centre here in Dublin recently. One of the speakers was from an Irish company that sells ebboks in most formats at reasonable prices. http://www.directebooks.com/
mischab1, 16 Nov 2010 @ 9:09amIf you are interested in some of the reasons why the site was created, they can be found over at
Bill, 16 Nov 2010 @ 9:33amI would love to get an E-Reader but I just can�t see paying the same price E-Book that is free to make versus the physical copy. I�d loose the right to loan books out to my fiends or to support the used book stores. Pay more money for a gimpy version of the physical book? Cant do it yet.
bshock, 16 Nov 2010 @ 12:56pm
another anecdoteI read numerous ebooks, but I have never purchased one.
To me, ebooks in general are not something to buy. Why should I waste money on something that can be obtained freely? That is, what's the difference between downloading a book and borrowing it from a library? Claiming there is some sort of emergent distinction in media type is just a way of rationalizing a rather feeble scheme to extract money from sheep in human form.
At some point, somebody bought that library book, just as somebody bought that ebook. I'd return a library book, but with an ebook, I can just erase it or forget about it, because nothing physical was taken and I'm not depriving anyone of anything. (I'm certainly not depriving the author or publisher of any more money than I would in borrowing a library book.)
Best of all, with both library books and ebooks, I can take a chance on authors I don't know. I'd have to be a fool to spend money on something I might hate, and I have certainly hated a lot of books I've started to read. When I find an author or series I like, though, I might actually start spending money. If I like the work enough, I might buy (and have bought) physical copies. If the author sells some sort of accompanying merchandise, I might buy (and have bought) some of that. If I really want to read the author's next work and think that it won't be available online for a week or two after Amazon could delivery a physical copy, then I'll order (and have ordered) the physical copy.
You can spend all day trying to fool yourself into believing that "reasonably priced ebooks" would sell better. Maybe there are a few suckers who would buy them. But I either want a free ebook or a reasonably priced hard copy -- nothing in between. I'm not stealing from anyone and I'm not going to be stolen from; don't crap on my shoes and call it Shinola.
Sean (profile), 16 Nov 2010 @ 1:30pm
Re: another anecdoteYou pretty much list all the reasons why some believe it's okay to download music, software, and films without paying.
Not that you're wrong, or even that the concepts are wrong, but they're certainly nothing new.
Personally, if I decide to purchase a book (and I buy a *lot* of fiction), I only purchase new when I'm very sure I'll enjoy the work. If I'm not sure, but the reviews make it seem like I will, I buy used from the cheapest seller on Amazon.
Ebooks are basically a non-choice. I've bought one in my life, and I bought it assuming that since it was a technical book I'd be able to search it. I was wrong and I'll continue buying "real" books for the forseeable future.
On the other hand, if publishers want to throw in a digital copy along with my bound book, I'd pay an extra dollar or two. No more, though.
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Yorkshire Water say there will not be a hosepipe ban this summer, despite the recent scorching weather.
They are keen to ensure water is still used responsibly but are not expecting a ban to be issued for the 18th year running.
Yorkshire's water resources are still looking healthy despite two months of scorching weather but warnings are once again being sounded about the dangers of swimming in reservoirs as the school holidays begin.
Neil Dewis, Yorkshire Water Head of Operations, said: "We are currently in the middle of another great summer and we know that long spells of warm weather can cause people to worry about the threat of a hosepipe ban.
"We're proud not to have had a hosepipe ban in the region since 1996 and don't see that changing this year. Although reservoir levels may be higher than last year thanks to a little more rain we're not complacent. We would still urge customers to use their water wisely and we'll be going around the region explaining our water efficiency campaign in the coming weeks."
The sweltering summer across Britain – June was the hottest since 1910 and the current heatwave is forecast to stay for at least a fortnight – has also prompted Yorkshire Water to join forces with two of the region's emergency services to sound another warning on swimming in its reservoirs.
Mr Dewis continued: "Despite the hot weather we would also like to once again ask people across the region to stay out of our reservoirs. They may look inviting but the temperatures and currents within them can be deadly and we'd hate to have another tragedy on one of our sites this year."


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True story: I have a friend who was working as the on-site press agent for a documentary about the Vatican Library (the largest and most valuable such repository in the world; eat your heart out, Queen Elizabeth!).
The pope, John Paul II, would make a brief appearance in the film. As the crew were setting up, a monsignor minced up to my friend and asked, "Do you want him in his party dress or his day drag?"
Anyone who spent any time at all in the curia can tell stories about the gay mafia that has been running the Vatican since anyone can remember. The recent unattributed news report in an Italian newspaper that a scandal involving a "gay lobby" having undue influence inside St. Peter's is shocking only that anyone can still be surprised by this news.
The Catholic Church by its very nature has always been a hotbed of man-man lust. One of my college classmates, confused about his sexual identity (among other things) decided to take vows and retired to an abbey in the Arkansas Ozarks. He said it was like a bathhouse, with each monk perched in his cell like the habitues of an urban sauna as they waited for the trade that roamed the halls. Well, at least his stay helped him figure out his problem!
Thus it was ever so. A year or so ago, I saw a play about the last castrato, a boy-man who sang in the Vatican choir. (He was recent enough so that Edison recorded his voice.) The plot involved all the machinations of the choir director, a cardinal from Venice (where else?) who picked and chose his nightly favorite play toys. All the boys not only accepted it, they fought to see who would be the chosen one.
All of this would just be juicy gossip were it not for that very evil game that the hierarchy plays. Knowing full well that a multinational corporation whose entire executive infrastructure are unmarried men, the bishops, archbishops and cardinals point to the "infiltration" of gay priests after Vatican II loosened church morals (in their eyes).
Of course, this doesn't explain the widespread sexual abuse that went on well before Vatican II, such as the vicious monks in a pre-War orphanage in rural Quebec: "The orphans endured sexual abuse at the hands of the psychiatrists, Roman Catholic priests, nuns, and administrators," per Wikipedia.
Ireland, where priests hold (or held) great sway, was at one time a floating pedophiliac paradise. Again, per Wiki: "In Ireland, a report (see Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse) was made covering six decades (from the 1950s) noting "endemic" sexual abuse in Catholic boys' institutions with church leaders aware of what was going on and government inspectors failing to "stop beatings, rapes and humiliation." Note, "from the 1950s."
In fact, the entire structure of the church has been built to protect abusers from civil authorities. Wealthy from the nonpayment of taxes and, in many nations still, state support, the church has constructed its own networks of psychiatric institutions, halfway houses, retirement centers and other getaways for its renegade priests.
Read the New York Times summary about the charismatic (charisma and unbounded sexual desire often go hand in hand; Jim Jones and Atlanta mega-preacher and boy-pounder Eddie Long are only two quick examples) Msr. Kevin William. Described in the article as "a towering figure in the Roman Catholic Church in southwestern Connecticut," Williams had set his cap toward a bishop's miter and probably would have kissed the ring were it not that his crystal meth addiction had spun so out of control that he bought one of those roadside sex shops to launder the hundreds of thousands of dollars he was raking in in drug money.
Long before he was finally busted, the rectory staff saw a troupe of men pouring in and out of Williams' quarters. They also had a pretty good idea that Williams was a serious cross-dresser (they could probably tell because his drag wasn't nearly as chic as his vestments) who hosted wild sex parties.
True to form, the priest bounced from priestly rehab facility to priestly halfway house. What really stood out for me, however, wasn't all that meth-infused wild sex; that comes with the territory. It was this: Williams and the bishop of Bridgeport, a desperately poor see, "were close and went to Broadway shows, opera and dinners together. Monsignor Wallin framed the playbills from the many shows he saw. His parish e-mail address became broadwayguy73."
You want to creep upstairs and play hide the sausage with the prepubescent children of parishioners, as the notorious Boston priest William Sheehan did so successfully for so many years, all the while being shuffled between unsuspecting parishes, where he found whole new crops of young male flesh for his pleasure, eventually opening (what else?) a clothing-optional gay guesthouse complex in Palm Springs with the money he made while humbly serving the Lord? Go ahead, it's practically expected of you.
I draw the line at coming in from the suburbs night after night, treating yourself and your bud to a fine restaurant and orchestra seats at Broadway shows and the Met Opera. I don't have anything against a priest being a flaming show queen (I know, I know; redundant). It's good to have an occasional diversion from all that tiny tot diddling. And some field work to keep your act tight and brush up on your sonorous elocution is an integral part of the job.
But for us mere amateur sinners, who have to pay full price for a ticket, or wait with all of those out-of-towners in the Broadway discount ticketing booth at Father Duffy Square (it just had to be named after a Catholic priest) so we get the dregs ("Oh, 'Naked Boys Singing' has a new cast!" "I hear 'Chaplin' isn't nearly as bad as they say it is"), while the priest and bishop sink into the uplift of "Wicked" or the naughty-but-ultimately-uplifting gross-out humor of "The Book of Mormon."
When these queens in their cassoks start muscling in on my territory, they're going to find out that every judo-hat-throwing psycho-bitch Swiss Guard won't be enough to keep me from confronting that hypocritical bleeder of the poor, using the poor box as his private theater concierge service.
Just let me get near the guy. I'll throw water on the witch, watch her melt and take the broom back to Rome. ... Oh, wait. I know this guy. He, un, well, we "met cute" you know. Manhunt, I think it was. Adam maybe. Grindr. Recon.
... Oh well, these priests need their R&R just like the rest of us. Our reward, as we are told so often by the holy men, will be in heaven after we die. Still, can't I just get a teeny-weeny sample of the afterlife by seeing Tom Hanks in "Lucky Guy."


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Gear may be up, but a lot of things seem to be missing completely at the moment.
I'm making a cast page for my comic (finally). With a page editor you can just plunk the pictures into the page, but I know that isn't going to work properly for other people to see. I'm assuming I have to FTP the images so they show up, so where exactly do they go? And do I need to put HTML code into the page editor so the pictures show up where I want them to?
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While Jerry Brown was in East Los Angeles on Friday pitching his plan for school funding, the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst's Office was releasing a report in Sacramento pointing out that the governor's budget proposal fails to address the state's $73 billion teacher pension shortfall.
The unfunded liability at the California State Teachers' Retirement System is, as the LAO has previously noted, perhaps the state's most difficult fiscal challenge. It is certainly its worst pension problem. Failure to address it now will mean dumping more debt on our children.
CalSTRS is the nation's second-largest retirement plan, behind only the system serving state and local government employees. The teacher pension fund now has about 862,000 members, about 2 percent of the state's population.
Thus, ensuring that teacher pensions are adequately funded is not only sound state fiscal policy, it protects large numbers of current and future retirees who need their retirement pay for survival.
Unlike other pension systems, CalSTRS does not control its own financial destiny. When its actuarial calculations show that it needs more money, it must seek permission from state lawmakers to raise rates.
Legislators of course would rather spend money on their pet projects. So they've badly underfunded the teacher pension system. CalSTRS now estimates that if nothing is done, it will run out of money by 2047.
This is a case of pay now or pay much more later. And we're already entering "later." To right the system over the next 30 years would require the state to immediately begin contributing an additional $4.5 billion annually. More delay will only drive up the cost.
Yet, Brown's budget released in January and his update last week contained no plans to address the problem. The silence was stunning. Here's a governor who claims he wants to reform pensions and who brags about retiring state debt, yet he ignores the elephant in the room.
Fortunately, the number-crunchers at the Legislative Analyst's Office have been thinking about this. In reports in March and on Friday, they call for action. Their state revenue forecast is rosier than the governor's, although they acknowledge there are a lot of volatile variables. And, like the governor, they caution against any state spending sprees.
But the LAO is clear that lawmakers should use new revenues to start paying down retirement liabilities, starting with the teacher pension debt. In fact, they say, the CalSTRS debt is more worrisome than some of the loans the governor is proposing to pay off. The reason is that the borrowing costs for the teacher pension debt are higher.
"We believe it is time for the Legislature to establish a plan addressing CalSTRS' unfunded liabilities fully within the next few decades, as we recommended earlier this year. This plan will be expensive, but there is no option to avoid much higher payments" later, the LAO said Friday.
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This extraordinary book clearly outlines and discusses the methods for transforming both body and mind through the highest forms of tantric practice. Highest Yoga Tantra is the pinnacle of tantric systems found in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. Part One discusses the practices common to sutra and tantra. Part Two presents the generation stage of Highest Yoga Tantra. Part Three covers the entirety of the completion stage yogas (i.e., physical isolation, verbal isolation, mental isolation, illusory body, clear light, and union). Part Four compares the Kalachakra and Guhyasamaja stages of completion. Remarkable for its definitive clarity, this exposition of the stages of Highest Yoga Tantra is the first of its kind in the English language and a must for anyone interested in these highest tantras.
"This book is an extremely lucid overview of the generation and completion stages of Highest Yoga Tantra." —The Middle Way
"This book deserves to be a most popular book on Tantra. It captures both the essence and detail that bring these esoteric topics to life." —Jeffrey Hopkins, University of Virginia
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Beckham, Partners Expected To Announce Miami MLS Team Monday
Soccer legend David Beckham and his partners are finally expected to announce their new, Miami Major League Soccer (MLS) franchise next week.
The MLS board of governors recently approved a new ownership group that aims to celebrate the team's first game in an Overtown stadium in 2020. On Monday, the team's name is expected to be revealed, as well as its official colors.
Miami Mayor Francis Suarez and MLS Commissioner Don Garber are expected to be at the event, along with entrepreneurs Marcelo Claure and Jorge and Jose Mas, who are part of the ownership group.
The Mas brothers are the sons of Jorge Mas Canosa, who founded the Cuban-American National Foundation. Claure is the founder and CEO of Sprint.
Beckham was last in Miami for an event with Gimenez in early 2014, when he hoped to secure a stadium deal with Port Miami. But the cruise industry blocked that effort, leading to failed bids for stadiums at the Miami waterfront and next to Marlins Park in Little Havana.
The secured Overtown site sits a few blocks from the Miami River, where Northwest Sixth Street meets Sixth Avenue. The 25,000-seat stadium would be privately financed.
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"My Decision That No One Else Can Understand"
I woke up in pain, a white hospital sheet covering my legs. I pulled back the sheet and I saw it: The lower half of my left leg was gone. I heaved a shaky sigh of relief.
It had taken 10 years to get to this point, beginning that day back in 2001, during my junior year at the University of Maryland in College Park, when a bunch of us tried out my friend's new motorized minibike. On my turn, someone snapped a photo. The flash blinded me, making me lose control as I hit a speed bump. I flew over the bike, which fell over and landed on my left foot. I knew it was bad: Bone just above my ankle popped through the skin, and blood blisters formed all over my foot. I felt a distant pain, but a weird numbness made me realize I was in shock. I later learned I had broken bones in my ankle, leg, foot and big toe. Hours after, doctors operated, putting my foot back together with plates and screws.
I spent the summer recovering at my parents' house in Michigan, and, come fall, I was back in school, hobbling around campus on crutches, my foot in a cast, using a wheelchair for longer distances. But my leg never fully healed; in fact, the pain kept getting worse. During that year, I saw dozens of doctors. One, a sports doc, looked at my X-rays and with basically no emotion said, "This is bad. You'll be on pain meds for the rest of your life, which could damage your liver, and that could complicate your ability to carry a baby. Or, you could amputate." I was stunned. I was 22, and I had things I wanted to do—swim, scuba dive, climb mountains—and I couldn't do them with one leg. I told him, "That's not an option." I left the office trembling. Just the idea of amputation was practically giving me an anxiety attack. I decided the doc was an extremist and tried to ignore his insane predictions.
And although I couldn't ignore the pain, I refused to let it ruin my 20s. I went to Belize and Guatemala to hike the Mayan ruins. I worked as a healing-arts therapist. I went dancing. In 2006, my boyfriend, Dave, and I moved to San Diego, and I started working at a program for at-risk inner-city kids. Life was good—at least when I was out.
But the pain came with me. It lived deep in my ankle, like metal hammering at bone. On the go, I popped ibuprofen and used crutches or a cane. At home, I took prescription pain meds and spent hours icing and elevating my foot. I kept going to doctors; all of them promised they could help me with various cutting-edge techniques. In the decade after the accident, I had 21 procedures, including reconstructive surgeries and office visits to scrape out stubborn, excruciating staph infections. Each time, I told myself I was on the mend, that my crushed foot would find a way to right itself. It didn't.
By the summer of 2008, I was emotionally and physically exhausted. The pain was winning. I was on heavy-duty meds all the time but still crippled by pain—a 9 on a scale of 1 to 10. I often called in sick; finally, after missing weeks of work, I quit my dream job.
That's when it really hit me: I was broken. I couldn't stop the agony, so I started to lose hope. Depression took over. I spent months in bed feeling empty. I didn't talk to my friends; I avoided my parents when they called.
And I felt incredibly guilty for ruining Dave's life. He'd already spent seven years supporting me. Now he came home from work every night to find me sobbing. "This is all there will ever be," I'd say. "We can't have kids if I can't get out of bed. We can't travel. This is it." His response was always the same: "I'm not going anywhere. I love you."
Then, right before Christmas 2008, Dave proposed. He seemed to know we'd get through this. Planning our wedding was a happy distraction from my physical torture (though it didn't go away). I made phone calls and chose flowers and thought about something besides my misery. We got married in 2010, our family and friends around us, and I willed myself to dance that night. Then I went back to our hotel room, weeping. "I'm too young for this," I thought. "This is insane."
Maybe there was another way, I started to think soon after our wedding. My leg was worse than useless: It was destroying my life. That sports doctor's suggestion of amputation started to creep to the forefront of my thinking. We moved to Michigan to be near my parents, and one day I got the guts to Google "amputation." I found clips of Heather Mills doing Dancing With the Stars wearing a prosthesis; articles about amputee war vets doing Ironman events; and the Amputee Coalition and Amputee Empowerment Partners, two support groups. On the groups' message boards, some people said voluntary amputation was the best decision they'd ever made. Others said it had ruined their lives, which scared the hell out of me. But I kept reading.
At first, I didn't tell anyone what I was thinking—that would make it too real, and I worried people would think I was nuts. But when I finally told Dave, he seemed relieved: He could see that the idea reenergized me. I showed him pictures of prosthetic legs. When I had my accident, prosthetics were not great. But now, with so many limbs lost in Iraq and Afghanistan, more money has been spent on prosthetics research. They've become incredible: You can run, climb mountains, swim. I met with a surgeon and prosthetist and said I wanted to scuba dive and ski. "You can," they said. That was amazing.
Still, as excited as I felt about it some days, at other times I felt crazy even considering it. But then I thought about my future. Without my hobbled foot, I could get my life back. I could work, go out with my husband, have children. No more lying in bed all the time. No more doctors. No more pain.
I scheduled the surgery in spring 2011, but before I went through with it, I decided to go to an Amputee Coalition conference in Kansas City. I wheeled myself into the hotel, where hundreds of amputees had gathered. They were happy, laughing, drinking beer. There was a rock climbing wall; an area for gait training and running; "disabled" people doing able-bodied things. At that moment, a calm came over me and my hope skyrocketed. I knew I was going to be an amputee, and I was going to live an awesome life.
I went in for the surgery almost exactly 10 years after my accident. When I woke up, I was in horrible pain. I'd been on painkillers for so long, the hospital's meds didn't work like they should have. Still, I was happy. It was weird to see nothing below my left knee, but that space symbolized my soon-to-be absent pain.
Except it didn't go away—not entirely. I got another infection and needed more surgery. Then I developed neuromas (painful nerve growths). I couldn't wear my prosthesis for more than a couple of hours at a time. I started to slip back into depression. I worried that my biggest fear had come true: I cut off my leg and was still suffering. I lay awake nights, terrified I'd made the biggest mistake of my life.
Then, in March 2012, I had more surgery to remove the neuromas. This time, finally, it went as planned—no infection or out-of-control pain. I got fitted for a new prosthesis, a carbon fiber socket attached to a foot with a shell that looks like my skin. I was so excited that the very next day, I tried it out at an amputee event in Ann Arbor. I climbed to the top of a 45-foot rock wall, something I'd never done with two "real" legs. I was sore and swollen afterward—but happy.
It's hard to be an amputee; I won't sugarcoat it. But every day, I get more used to my prosthesis, and sometimes I even forget it's there. You might think I'd dread having strangers ask questions, but I don't mind—some of them are in a situation like I was, pre-amputation, and I can offer advice. Lately I've been mentoring new amputees and hosting amputee support groups, and it's allowed me to help people, which is what I've always loved to do. In some ways, I had an advantage: I had 10 years to come around to the idea of losing my leg. Most amputees, like those who lost limbs at the Boston Marathon this past spring, don't get the time to decide or mentally prepare.
The best part: I wake up every day with hope. Dave and I are talking about having a baby. Last winter, I skied for the first time in years. And guess what? I was great at it. I consider my prosthesis my "leg." The thing that was there before was just something that held me back. This piece of carbon and titanium has become more than the flesh and blood that it replaced. It's my badge of courage. It has set me free.
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everyone here should read this article. i myself bookmarked it for future reference.
sadly, these battles are still being fought today. when Ullyses S. Grant said...
"Encourage free schools, and resolve that not one dollar, appropriated for their support, shall be appropriated to the support of any sectarian schools."
...all i can think about are the calls for Voucher Programs, and the Louisiana program that is in effect today violating what Grant called for. i'll let Grant finish:
"Resolve that neither the state nor nation, nor both combined, shall support institutions of learning other than those sufficient to afford to every child growing up in the land the opportunity of a good common school education, unmixed with sectarian, pagan, or atheistical dogmas. Leave the matter of religion to the family altar, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contributions. Keep the church and state forever separate. With these safeguards, I believe the battles which created the Army of the Tennessee will not have been fought in vain."
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Sadly, a more apt title for this article would be: "Five People Who Fought the Christian Takeover of America... and LOST!"
Surely these people made great contributions and I am being a bit tongue-in-cheek, but 150 years since Darwin and 100+ years of fossil findings that culmintated in the can't explain it any other way DNA evidence yet we are still fighting creation-science bullshit. People who believe this get elected president, made speaker of the house, etc. even today while non-believers have held which office exactly in the past 150 years? The christians still hold the power. Okay, not as much and their sharia law-like rules have been curbed, but still, there they are. Winning. Its a one-sided ass-kicking that we win with evidence and they somehow come away with votes.
You are so right, Dan. I wish this article could be more widely distributed.
"At crucial points when the church-state wall was most threatened in America, people rose up to defend it."
This is how the article starts. This is what will happen again. They have not lost. I am optimistic that America is not going in the wrong direction, although there are some occasional ups and downs. This view will be vindicated very soon and I predict that in about 50 years of time there will be an atheism wave that will be the biginning of the end of god and religion.
from your lips...well, you know the rest. :)
Thanks for this article!
your welcome. it seems Salon.com has been having more Atheism articles lately.
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One is not asking to "get theological conclusions from science alone." One is asking, what would result if we were to place science also in a theological context?
From: George Murphy [mailto:email@example.com]
Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 9:32 PM
To: Alexanian, Moorad; email@example.com
Subject: Re: [asa] Theological Perspectives Without a Literal Adam
Moorad -
2 things. 1st, a matter of terminology - the phrase "sin nature" should be
avoided. The human nature created by God is not replaced by something else
because of sin. (If Gregory is listening in, I am using the phrase "human
nature" in a traditional sense for simplicity.) We are still creatures of
God and by nature good even as sinners. (In fact Augustine says even that
that the devil is in essence a good creature of God.)
2d, I don't think one can make the jump from "People behave in ways that are
injurious to other people and to society as a whole" to "People from birth
do not have true fear of God and true faith in God." Social & nehavioral
sciences can help us to understand sin when placed in a theological context
but we can't get theological conclusions from science alone.
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From: "Alexanian, Moorad" <firstname.lastname@example.com>
To: "George Murphy" <email@example.com>; <firstname.lastname@example.com>
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 7:56 PM
Subject: RE: [asa] Theological Perspectives Without a Literal Adam
I believe determining the sin nature of man from data that is usually
accumulated by sociology; psychology & c would be akin to inferring design
from observations of the working of Nature. What additional kind of
knowledge, other than that provided by the experimental sciences, would one
have to appeal to to reach such conclusions? Whatever that kind of knowledge
it is, it would simultaneously lead to the existence of sin as well as
From: firstname.lastname@example.com on behalf of George Murphy
Sent: Wed 8/22/2007 7:27 PM
To: email@example.com
Subject: Re: [asa] Theological Perspectives Without a Literal Adam
Bundling a couple of responses to (1) Merv (snipped) & (2) Moorad below:
(1) A distinction should be made between faith in God and theology, the
attempt to think through and explicate that faith. A person can have
genuine faith in the God revealed in Christ independently of what he/she
thinks or doesn't think about evolution. But a theology of creation which
contradicts what science tells us about the world at important points is
badly defective & may undercut any attempts to communicate the Christian
message. Cf. Aquinas: "It is, therefore, evident that the opinion is false
of those who asserted that it made no difference to the truth of the faith
what anyone holds about creatures, so long as one thinks rightly about God,
as Augustine tells us in his book On the Origin of the Soul. For error
concerning creatures, by subjecting them to causes other than God, spills
over into false opinion about God and takes men's minds away from Him, to
whom faith seeks to lead them.
(2) Sin is a theological concept having to do fundamentally with a person's
relationship with God. While sociology, psychology &c can tell us about
anti-social behavior, mental pathologies &c that are associated with sin,
they cannot talk about these things as sin. Scientific theories certainly
cannot tell us that people either are or are not sinners.
Because of this, the type of statement that has often been made, that
original sin is the most empirically confirmed Christian doctrine, is
misleading. Our experience of the world does tell us that people have a
strong tendency to behave in the ways that the doctrine suggests that they
will, but it is only revelation that tells us that such behavior is
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To: David Opderbeck <mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com> ; email@example.com
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2007 12:07 AM
Subject: Re: [asa] Theological Perspectives Without a Literal Adam
In the latter case, the answer to George's question is that evolution or
one's quest to find and build answers in that construct is totally
irrelevant to the world of faith in God. (Or at least it would be if it
weren't for the warfare folks promoting science to the level of theology,
thereby demeaning theology.) If one's preoccupation with science (of any
kind) becomes an obsession displacing their passion and love for God, then
it is idolatry (and always would have been from long before evolutionary
theory). In that case science has strayed out of its subset into wider
faith domain that contains it, and it becomes a matter of faith to deal with
Thanks for this very interesting post. Therefore, we are born sinners
justifies the coming of Christ and His redemptive power via His death and
resurrection. Surely, then scientists cannot answer the question of why we
are sinners since it is a theological rather than scientific question.
However, are there scientific theories that would contradict the sin nature
of man and are not these scientific theories more than mere science?
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2013 Ford Mustang RTR - Ready & Willing
Vaughn Gittin Jr. takes the '13 Mustang from stock to rock
"Do you wanna drive it around the autocross?" When that question comes from drifting superstar Vaughn Gittin Jr. in reference to his personal Mustang, it's an offer you can't refuse. Naturally, I obliged. Vaughn directed me to the keys in the ignition and told me to have fun while he attended to his Mustang Week fans.
The car in question was the prototype '13 Mustang RTR, which was really a re-skinned '11 that was used to create the packaged that came to fruition in the car you see on these pages. In any event, my ride for the week was a V-6, so I jumped at the chance to wheel a real live Coyote on the autocross.
Turning the key, the RTR burbled to life with an exhaust note that is the pride of the car's drifting namesake. He worked with Magnaflow to create his ideal Mustang exhaust note, and it does sound melodious inside the car. It sounded even better as I let out the clutch and sprinted into the first turn on the autocross.
Now, I won't lie—I was worried about going quicker in the GT than I did in the V-6. It was an irrational fear, but it would have been a bit embarrassing. As it turns out, those thoughts were completely unfounded. The RTR was much quicker around the course. On my first spin, it was configured for a comfortable ride, and I actually like a bit of compliance in my suspension. The car reminded me of a Boss with a bit less power.
However, after I finished my lap, Vaughn was there waiting. Naturally, he wanted to know what I thought. I approved, but he wanted me to take another spin after he tightened up the adjustable suspension. On that next lap, the car was definitely tighter, but I was forcing my driving a bit, so it was kind of a wash. However, I can appreciate Vaughn wanting to tune up the car.
It's just that type of desire that led him to create his own line of Mustangs, dubbed Ready to Rock. As Vaughn conveyed when he first launched the RTR program, he wanted to put a new spin on the Mustang to broaden its appeal beyond the traditional Mustang audience, much like he has done for the Mustang in drifting.
"After being involved with the Mustang community for about five years, I felt the majority of aftermarket styling of S197 Mustangs' was traditional, and in my opinion, getting a bit stale. I wanted to introduce something fresh to the Mustang world, something that would open new eyes to Mustang and broaden its reach to a new generation, as well as something that traditional Mustang enthusiast would be into," Vaughn explained.
"RTR is a dream of mine and I'm still working my ass off with my team to continue keeping it a reality. We are all about having fun and we have some awesome things planned for the future. We're really pumped at how we've been received as a brand in the Mustang world. We're just getting started."
As I experienced, the biggest performance change in the car is its handling. That's because the lion's share of the RTR package focuses on the car's handling, with the highlights being adjustable Ford Racing dampers, matched up with RTR-specific sway bars and an RTR Panhard bar. This gear works with the famous RTR wheels and high-performance rubber to create a fun-to-drive package.
"The looks are the most obvious. We've gone away from what you would see traditionally done to a Mustang and tried a new recipe that we feel is unique, tasteful, and aggressive on all specs of the RTR," Vaughn said. "Starting with the Spec 2, we focused a lot on performance—not just traditional power upgrades, but having a fun-to-drive, well-balanced car with good ride quality is priority to us. We spent significant time at the proving grounds making sure the RTR is exactly that."
That performance backs up the swagger that the RTR throws down. Vaughn knows a thing or two about putting on a good show, and he tightens up the '13-'14 Mustang's good looks with a 360-degree makeover that pumps up its persona without being overt. It looks sharp but understated.
"The recipe was pretty relative to '11-'12 in regard to keeping the styling elements we love," Vaughn said. "The biggest difference is that we focused a lot on suspension performance to get what we feel is a perfect balance for streetability and track fun. Most everyone that drives a Spec 2 RTR is impressed—and to me, that is success!"
"Between the adjustable Ford Racing shocks and springs, as well as the RTR Tactical Performance sway bars and optional Watt's link, we've worked with Whiteline so RTR owners can dial their car for their preference of fun. Whether it be street, drift, grip, or drag, there is a great balance to be had for any activity," he added.
"We have a unique sounding exhaust that we developed with Magnaflow specifically for the RTR. It made 9 hp and gets rid of the 'robotic' sound of the 5.0.
"For those that need more power, we offer a supercharger upgrade option as well. We designed our packages with performance and budget in mind so that there is a realistic option for most anyone to get behind the wheel of an RTR."
In short, the RTR takes the already potent Mustang and revs up its looks and performance while adding the panaché of exclusivity. So, if you're looking for a specialty Mustang that you won't see on every street corner, check them out.
"Future plans are to keep having fun and putting smiles on people's faces!" Vaughn shared. "We will continue to offer packages available at Ford dealers, however, you will see a lot of cool new products coming from us in the future. I don't want to get too specific right now, but keep an eye out!" 5.0
Horse Sense: For the new season of Formula Drift, Vaughn has an important new sponsor: Nitto Tire. "In the middle of 2012, I decided I was going to run my own drifting program in 2013 rather then driving someone else's car like I have been for the duration of my career to this point. After my first meeting with the crew over at Nitto, it was obvious we had similar goals here in the USA and also globally. I knew Nitto always had good tires as I have been competing against their other drivers for the past nine years, but after testing both the NT555 and NT05 I was very happy!" Vaughn shared. "Long story short, the partnership just made sense for both our plans—present and future. I have always respected Nitto's place in the market and especially their marketing initiatives and I'm pumped for the fun we are going to have together!"
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Block: Low-pressure cast 319 aluminum w/ pressed-in thin-wall iron liners
Crankshaft: Forged steel, fully counterweighted, induction-hardened
Rods: Powdered-metal forging, I-beam
Pistons: Hypereutectic, short-skirt flat-top w/ four equal valve reliefs; moly friction-reducing coating
Camshafts: DOHC w/ Twin Independent Variable Cam Timing
Cylinder heads: Four-Valve aluminum
Intake manifold: Molded composite w/ constant cross section and long runners
Fuel system: Mechanical returnless
Exhaust: Short-tube, S44100 stainless-steel Tri-Y tubular headers w/ stock midpipe and RTR axle-back
Transmission: Getrag MT82 six-speed manual
Rearend: 8.8-in w/ 3.73 gears
Engine management: Copperhead w/ Ford Racing Performance Parts calibration
Ignition: Coil-on plug
Gauges: Stock w/ RTR badging
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Front suspension
K-member: Stock stamped steel
A-arms: Reverse L
Struts: FRPP adjustable w/ FRPP adjustable strut mount
Springs: FRPP w/ 1.5-in drop
Brakes: Stock w/ crossdrilled rotors
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Federal judge continues to block Mississippi anti-abortion law
JACKSON, Miss. – A federal judge on Wednesday decided to continue to block a state law that threatened to shut down Mississippi's only abortion clinic and make it nearly impossible for a woman to get the procedure in the state.
U.S. District Judge Daniel P. Jordan III temporarily blocked the law July 1 and extended that order Wednesday, though he did not immediately say how long it would last.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that states can't place undue burdens or substantial obstacles to women seeking abortion. The law would require anyone performing clinic abortions to be an OB-GYN with privileges to admit patients to a local hospital. The doctors at the clinic in Jackson do not have those privileges, and the clinic says the privileges aren't medically necessary.
Supporters of the law say it's designed to protect patients. Republican Gov. Phil Bryant says he hopes it will help make Mississippi "abortion-free."
The clinic, Jackson Women's Health Organization, says it has been unable to obtain admitting privileges for its two out-of-state OB-GYNs because local hospitals have not responded to their requests.
Admitting privileges can be difficult to get because hospitals might not grant them to out-of-state physicians, or hospitals with religious affiliations might not give them to doctors who perform abortions.
The clinic said it would face "irreparable harm" if the law were to be enforced because hospitals haven't said when -- or if -- they'll consider the admitting privileges. The clinic wanted the judge to continue to block the law to see if its doctors can get the privileges.
"If they're denied or if the hospitals are dragging their feet, that's going to be more clear evidence that there's a substantial obstacle" to access to an abortion, clinic attorney Robert McDuff said.
The government said the privileges help protect patients by ensuring they have continuity of care if a woman needs to go to the hospital. They also note that while the clinic might have to wait to get hospital privileges, "inconvenience is not `irreparable harm."'
The state attorney general's office declined to comment after the hearing.
The law was passed by the GOP-controlled Legislature and when Republican Gov. Phil Bryant signed it, he said: "If it closes that clinic, then so be it."
The state's attorney had argued that any anti-abortion statements by elected officials were "weak evidence" that the purpose of the law was to prevent abortions.
Terri Herring of the Pro Life America Network lobbied for the law and attended the court hearing. After the judge's decision, Herring said the hospitals should deny admitting privileges for the abortion clinic's doctors.
"There's no vetting process for fly-by-night physicians who come in and perform abortions at the clinic," Herring said.
The clinic uses out-of-state physicians because in-state physicians generally don't want to face the social pressure of having protesters at their offices, homes or churches, clinic employees say.
Opponents of the law say any patient experiencing complications could receive immediate care from emergency room physicians.
The clinic for the past several years has also had a transfer agreement with a local OB-GYN who has hospital admitting privileges. He doesn't perform abortions at the clinic but provides backup help by agreeing to meet clinic patients at a hospital if there's an emergency.
Clinic owner Diane Derzis said since she acquired Jackson Women's Health Organization in 2010, no woman has had to be taken from the clinic by ambulance.
The U.S. Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade decision in 1973 established a nationwide right to abortion. In 1992, the court's decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey upheld the Roe decision and allowed states to regulate abortions before fetuses are viable. But the 1992 decision also said states may not place undue burdens or substantial obstacles to women seeking abortion.
If the clinic closed, the closest clinics to Jackson are about 200 miles away, in Louisiana, Tennessee and Alabama.
Mississippi physicians who perform fewer than 10 abortions a month can avoid having their offices regulated as an abortion clinic, and thus avoid restrictions in the new law. The clinic's owner has said the clinic is unlikely to stay open and perform that few abortions per month. The Health Department said it doesn't have a record of how many physicians perform fewer than 10 abortions a month.
Clinic operators say almost all the abortions in the state are done in their building. They say in court papers that the clinic did about 3,000 abortions in 18 months.


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First Jose Reyes was in the lineup, and then he wasn't. He still can't hit left-handed. However, with Barry Zito going tomorrow, they are hoping Reyes will be able to play.
In a word: Stupid.
Jerry Manuel has butchered this decision unbelievably. How is it hard to figure that if he's not good enough to bat left-handed then he's not 100 percent.
They were lucky Reyes wasn't seriously re-injured Sunday instead of merely aggravating the oblique. This whole scenario is absurd. They should stop listening to Reyes and say he won't play until he's ready. This can't go on any longer.
Here's tonight's lineup:
Angel Pagan, RF
Alex Cora, 2B
David Wright, 3B
Carlos Beltran, CF
Ike Davis, 1B
Jason Bay, LF
Josh Thole, C
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Submitted by the Niagara County Department of Health
November is designated as National Diabetes Awareness Month, a time to remind our communities about a disease that can have serious consequences if not recognized.
The Niagara County Department of Health, along with the Niagara County Diabetes Coalition, is encouraging Niagara County residents to assess their risk for diabetes. The number of Americans who have diabetes is 25.8 million people or 8.3 percent of the population. Of these, 7 million do not know they have this serious disease. In Niagara County, more than 21,000 individuals have diabetes (10.3 percent of the population), and the numbers both nationally and locally are rising.
Diabetes is a disease in which glucose (blood sugar) levels are above normal. Glucose is a form of sugar created from digestion of food and is used by the body for energy with the help of a hormone called insulin. In people with diabetes, glucose cannot easily be used by the body, because of a problem with insulin.
There are several types of diabetes: Type I, Type II and gestational diabetes. The difference between the various types is based mostly on the specific problem occurring with insulin. Insulin is made and released by the pancreas, which is a small organ that is located behind the stomach. In some types of diabetes (Type I), the cells of the pancreas that make insulin are damaged, which leads to the inability to produce insulin. In other types of diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin; however other tissues in the body cannot use it (Type II). Gestational diabetes occurs during pregnancy and can cause health complications in both mother and baby.
Individuals who have persistent high-normal glucose levels may be pre-diabetic. Higher levels of glucose in the blood even in this early phase could be silently damaging vital organs and affecting the nerves and vision of the affected individuals.
All forms of diabetes places an individual at risk for heart disease. Sixty-five percent of people with diabetes die from heart disease or stroke. Simply speaking, adults with diabetes are two to four times more likely to have heart disease or suffer a stroke than people without diabetes. Diabetes also greatly increases the occurrence of kidney, eye and nerve diseases.
Some risk factors for preventing diabetes cannot be changed, such as family history and age. However, there are risk factors for developing diabetes that can be prevented. Maintaining a healthy weight, being physically active and choosing a healthy diet based on the guidelines of the USDA's website atwww.choosemyplate.gov can help prevent and/or assist in the management of diabetes.
Since diabetes is a serious epidemic that threatens the health of our family, friends and neighbors, each hospital in Niagara County has specific diabetes education classes for those with diabetes to learn to manage diabetes and prevent serious health complications. Also, during the month of November, each hospital is sponsoring activities to raise the awareness of diabetes prevention and management through community activities.
More information regarding offerings through our Niagara County hospitals can be found on the Niagara County Department of Health website under "Health Education and Prevention" at http://www.niagaracounty.com/Health.


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Aon Risk Solutions has issued its interactive 2014 Terrorism and Political Violence Map. Mousing over the map reveals a rating for each country, on a scale of 1 to 5, of the overall level of risk from terrorism and political violence to businesses operating within its borders. Users can also view ratings of business risk broken into subcategories: terrorism and sabotage; riots, strikes, civil commotion, and malicious damage to property; and insurrection, revolution, rebellion, mutiny, coup d'etat, civil war, and war. Aon developed the ratings jointly with the Risk Advisory Group plc.
Compared with last year's ratings, this year Aon gave reduced risk scores to 34 countries and gave increased risk scores to only four: Brazil, Japan, Mozambique, and Bangladesh. Brazil's rating rose from medium in 2013 to severe in 2014 because of last year's large-scale and violent anti-government protests, which Aon expects to continue. Japan's risk increased from negligible to low because of increased geopolitical tensions and the nation's rising military spending.
Not surprisingly, the Middle East and Africa remain the areas where businesses face the highest risks. One-third of all countries that received "high" or "severe" risk scores are in sub-Saharan Africa. Although the map does not include breakdowns by industry sector, Aon reports that retail and transportation are the sectors most at risk. Last year, 33 percent of terrorist attacks hit the retail sector, while 18 percent affected transportation.
"The map shows that having the means to understand and stay ahead of terrorism threats and political violence risks has never been more important," says Henry Wilkinson, head of the Intelligence and Analysis practice at Risk Advisory. "Despite signs of global economic recovery, businesses in emerging markets are as exposed as ever to a diversifying array of risks and threats from sophisticated and often highly networked adversaries. New threats can emerge increasingly rapidly, as hostile actors evolve faster and emulate tactics that have an ever-greater impact, be it through mobilizing mass unrest or mounting sustained armed terrorist attacks."


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Despite being a Hawk fan, I've never been to Seattle for all intents and purposes.
I was thinking about taking a road trip up from Sacramento and seeing the Pacific North West. My time span would be 3-5 days, and have about 250$ to 300$ of cash.
What I'm looking for is-
Best Nature Spots
Best restaurants
Anything that's cool to see in Seattle


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February 27, 2013 Knights start play in national championship
Central Penn College starts play in USCAA men's division II
basketball national championship
Entering tournament as fifth seed, Central Penn plays Penn State Beaver on Feb. 28
The Central Penn Knights received a bid to the 2013 United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) men's division II basketball national championship, which takes place Feb. 26-Mar. 2 at Penn State Fayette in Uniontown, Pa.
The Knights have entered the tournament as the fifth seed and play Penn State Beaver in the first round on Feb. 28 at 5:30 p.m. The game will be viewable here. If the Knights win, any remaining games will be viewable from this link. Last season, the Knights played Beaver and prevailed 94-93 and progressed to the top eight in the national championship.
"Penn State Beaver plays the same style of ball that we do, so we are looking forward to the challenge," exclaims Head Coach Dave Baker. "We have nothing but the utmost respect for their program and embrace the opportunity that lies ahead. We are also humbled to be heading back to the national tournament. The support from the Central Penn family has been overwhelming. We hope to improve on our fifth place finish from last year and will represent Knight Nation with pride."
Gaining bids along with Central Penn College in the men's division II bracket are NHTI, Andrews University, Berkeley College-New York, Penn State Beaver, Penn State York, Vermont Tech, Albany College of Pharmacy, Warren Wilson College and Penn State Fayette.
"I'm really excited about this year," says Athletic Director Ed Liesch. "Last year, we left the tournament after the first game, but this year we have developed a talented team that is hungry to avenge last year's loss."
The 2013 tournament kicked off with the USCAA basketball skills competition at the Penn State Fayette Main Arena on Feb. 26, followed by the All-American banquet that evening at Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. The following Central Penn College students were honored:
- Men's Division II All-American
- Devon Dorsey, forward, a sophomore criminal justice major from Wilmington, Del. / William Penn High School
- Women's Division II Honorable Mention All-American
- Jasmine Robinson, guard, a junior corporate communications major from Brooklyn, N.Y. / Liberty High School
- Men's Division II National All-Academic Team
- Conner Arnold, a freshman criminal justice administration major from Harrisburg / Bishop McDevitt High School
- Regis Barwin, a senior accounting major from Dauphin / Central Dauphin High School
- Women's Division II National All-Academic Team
- Marissa Monteiro, a junior legal studies / paralegal major from Belleville, N.J. / Hudson Catholic High School
The tournament bracket is available on the USCAA basketball national championships website.
Central Penn College has been helping students turn potential into career success since 1881, now offering bachelor's and associate degrees in the fields of accounting, business administration, criminal justice, information technology, communications, healthcare, homeland security, legal studies and organizational leadership. The college, currently serving students at its Harrisburg, Lancaster and Lehigh Valley locations, attributes its high rate of student success to a caring faculty and its hands-on learning approach. Based on Central Penn's most recent One-Year Graduate Survey, 82.9 percent of graduates were employed in their chosen field or continuing their education within one year of graduation. Central Penn College is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, 3624 Market Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 (267-284-5000). The Middle States Commission on Higher Education is an institutional accrediting agency recognized by the U.S. Secretary of Education and the Council for Higher Education Accreditation. www.centralpenn.edu


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Announcing Escapist Expo
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Announcing The Escapist Expo, September 14-16!
I'd love to go...if I didn't live in England and thus need to take a long (and costly) trans-atlantic flight.
You wouldn't consider franchising out into a European version would you?
Another exciting chapter of The Escapist Continues!!!
I am SO down for this. You have no idea.
Sounds exciting. And it's close enough that I might be able to get there with a little planning.
Hope to learn more as it gets closer.
I LOVE LIFE RIGHT NOW! I juuuuuuuuuuuust commented on how i never get the chance to go to conventions and now THE BEST POSSIBLE CON EVER(for me) is going to be mere miles from me.....thank you :') thank you Escapist.
x'D i just punched a wall out of excitement...it hurt my hand
*looks at the article*"yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay"
*looks at wallet*"shit!"
Huh. Quite the journey, but that's still some time left to, idk...break some legs, collect some money.
This is going on for my birthday, but it's waaaay out of the way for me. Ahh well, good luck with it.
So is Daystar Clarion going to be one of the celebrity guests? Maybe a food panel is in order.
I'd to go, being in Virginia, but I'm saving up for a con in West Virginia in October, and no way would work grant me 2 full weekends off so close together for 2 cons, nor would my wallet.
God damn, I said it when you talked about this with the pub club and I'll say it again; I REALLY REALLY WANT TO GO TO THIS, but University is starting then and I'll no way have enough for a plane there.
But, if somehow I earn the money by the next time I am available, I will totally go to this should it continue (and there's no real reason it shouldn't, it sounds awesome) and should I acquire appropriate funds in order to go. Would love to meet the people behind this website I love.
Calumon: Maybe I could go too, if people wouldn't try to steal me. :S
If only I was still in NC...
Well, if one of my stepdad's parents dies or something I might end up there sometime during that time... but still a 3 hour drive away...
Eyup, have fun gents, going to have to sit this one out.
We've got our hands full with this one, but it's not something we'd ever rule out. Right now we're waiting to see how this one comes off.
I second this so much.
The worst part is that I have family who live in NC, and we go there for two weeks every year, but alas they're two weeks in December...
We all know this would become the main attraction though ;) But anyway, I'd love to go to this if A) Uni wasn't starting B) Uni wasn't making me poor.
Must... Contain... Excitement D:
You should have a special event for the Moderators. People can come up to our booth and we can hit them with inflatable ban hammers. Then give them cookies to say sorry.
It'll totally work!
<_< >_>
Edit: We may need large amounts of body armour though...
I honestly had no idea y'all were right in my backyard! Hooray for the Triangle!
I'm hoping to go to this, especially if I don't go to PAX Prime. I should be able to unless employment or something whisks me away to a different part of the country.
We should have a section for all the forums, just to see if people act in real life like some of them do on the threads.
But too bad I'll probably be poor by then. Definitely bookmarking this though
sounds nice.
Hahaha i always complain being in Norfolk,VA puts me too far away for any easy con attendance and bam Escapist delivers with a con of epic level mere hours away. Looks like its time to get my planning on.
Awesome! Well get some ice on that hand and we'll see you in a few months! haha
The term is 'rescue'.
Ot have it in Australia. We have better beaches.
Also ot: wasn't there an issue with financing the site last year?
Never been to NC before, and now I get to have an awesome reason to go!
I better start saving my money now since it's quite a trek from where I am now.
This sounds very, very exciting.
I just have one question:
Are you inviting Extra Credits? Because that might be awkward...
that sounds awesome and im so jealous of all those who can attend!
Maybe all of the new ad revenue added up.
"Borrowing", the term is borrowing Calumon.
*SQUEEEEEE* i just moved to raleigh, i didn't know you guys were based here! i a so there!
Addendum; to you need any volunteers? I've volunteered at conventions before, and i have expeirence in audio/video production and set-up.
Woah woah woah, we should be the ones randomly hitting others while shouting "BANNED!"
Pah! I live in Scotland and I'm still going! I'm not going to miss something this awesome because I live on the wrong side of a big lake! :D
That's what I said. :0
we'd be the ones doing the hitting. I ain't letting people hit me D:
Oooh... For some reason I read that as;
"People can come up to our booth and can hit us with inflatable ban hammers"
EDIT: What Susan said...
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Monday, December 10, 2012
This Mom Crap Is A Punch To The Face.
27 comments:
- Debbie Gisle said...
As have I (tuned to mush, that is)...What a very Merry Christmas for them both. Dang Mommy-motions. I hate um. I do. That's beyond precious. Ugh. I'm suppose to be working. Thanks for making it obvious I'm not. :D
- December 10, 2012 at 10:17 AM
- Lisa @ Shine Your Light said...
Motherhood, who knew how much it would wreck your heart and fill it up all at the same time? How awesome is that teacher? So glad your boy has her. Being a kid is so tricky sometimes.
- December 10, 2012 at 10:23 AM
- CaressaRenae said...
I'm dealing with that right now with my kindergartner (and oldest). He's such A GREAT, AMAZING, WONDERFUL, KIND, FUNNY, SWEET, OMGILOVEHIMSOMUCH kid, but we send him to private school and we're on scholarship and as much as it shouldn't already be obvious, IT IS. And he's small for his age, so they think he's younger, automatically. He has to fight for everything and my boy? He's a lover. He said not having friends makes him feel lonely and sad. He's not even 6 yet. IT KILLS ME. All I want for Christmas is a friend for my kiddo. My amazing kiddo.
- December 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM
- WhettenWild said...
I may or may not have cried just as much hearing that story for the SECOND time. Sad kids will break my heart everytime!
- December 10, 2012 at 10:54 AM
- I Am Momma - Hear Me Roar said...
What a sweet story. Thanks for giving me a smile (and a tear) this morning.
- December 10, 2012 at 11:08 AM
- Kathy @ Creative Home Expressions said...
OMG, Mandi, I'm crying here! Thank God I swallowed that last bite of tuna fish sandwich. If that wasn't something meant to be, I don't know what is. I think as adults we are so absorbed in our "tough" lives that we forget just how tough it is to be a kid. That's a great story any time, but especially at Christmas.
- December 10, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- frances said...
aww great story...glad they have found each other and cheers to a great teacher to recognize it. Frances
- December 10, 2012 at 12:40 PM
- Little Oak Creations said...
What a beautiful story... I am so happy your little guy has found a friend, and "Santa" granted his little friend's wish early. :)
- December 10, 2012 at 1:16 PM
- Dharma said...
Having struggled first hand for most of my 16 year old's life with this, I can offer the following: They do find "the one", it might not be until Grade 6 (as in my dude's case) but they find one another. Friends is a minefield for most kids, especially those kids who are sensitive and have kind souls. It happens for each of them I think eventually. I know where you are....and I probably teared up after reading this. I wish my son had a teacher like yours in his tinier days....it would have reduced a lot of my (and his) anxiety. Thanks for sharing :) Off to find Kleenex.
- December 10, 2012 at 1:20 PM
- Kassi Mortensen said...
That does sound like a great teacher! So glad your son and Michael found a friend in each other.
- December 10, 2012 at 1:28 PM
- Bethany @ A Fish Who Likes Flowers said...
It sounds like your son has one smart teacher! Good for her! I hope your son has fun with his new friend
- December 10, 2012 at 2:38 PM
I can relate! Rehave an only child, but not by choice. God blessed us with but one. And, I was running myself ragged taking her plaes so she would make friends. But she never saw he same kinds often enough to make any bonds. And she desperately wanted a friend. I homeschooled her for pre K. She wanted to give "big school" a try, and has made 4 or 5 friends so far. Still trying to figure out the best course of actin for next year, because I gave her a far better education than the public school could give her. I would be tempted to go for a private Christian school...if homeschooling would leave her too isolated...
- December 10, 2012 at 3:16 PM
- Kimbo West said...
what a sweet story! teachers deserve so much more than they get...
- December 10, 2012 at 3:31 PM
- Unknown said...
IM crying thanks!! :)
- December 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM
- Cathy said...
First let me say,I'm not a hugely 'religious' person but I do believe in a wonderful, loving God and I think he may have snuck that paper to the top of the pile :) Great story, thanks for sharing.
- December 10, 2012 at 5:49 PM
- Kelly Marie McKee said...
THANK YOU for sharing this story. It's a wonderful reminder of what the season and life is about.
- December 10, 2012 at 6:01 PM
- Alicia said...
I am teary mush now. Sounds like a great teacher!
- December 10, 2012 at 6:31 PM
- Shelley D. Hartman said...
Awesome story! I can totally relate too.
- December 11, 2012 at 12:29 AM
- Jen said...
I have a huge lump in my throat and my vision is suddenly blurry. I think I'm coming down with something. Crap, now my eyes are watering really bad. I think I have to go now. Bye.
- December 11, 2012 at 1:16 AM
- SueAnn Lommler said...
Lump is now in my throat as well, How sweet is that?
Merry Christmas
- December 11, 2012 at 4:26 AM
- Erin said...
Thanks for making me cry on a Tuesday morning, at work. And no, it's not the pregnancy hormones. That is just the most heart wrenching, yet sweetest thing I have read lately. And my son has the same problem. I hope your son and Michael find a true friendship.
- December 11, 2012 at 6:06 AM
- julie - eab designs said...
Tears rolling down my cheeks! I hope they become the best of buddies!
- December 11, 2012 at 6:48 AM
- Libby said...
What a wonderful moment in mommyhood...wish all the Michaels have teachers like her who have sons like yours to draw from. Sometimes they just have to be introduced.
a button I saw on a Bay City Roller & I love it: "strangers are only friends I haven't met"
I was told when my kids were your's ages: "Kids are either a pain in the neck or a lump in the throat". Still are as adults.
- December 12, 2012 at 7:10 AM
- Evelyn said...
Aw, thanks a lot...now I'm crying. That is awesome. I am so happy for both boys!!!
- December 12, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Spencer & Lorilyn Crum said...
Crap I'm crying now.
- December 12, 2012 at 3:11 PM
- Emily said...
So cute! What an awesome teacher!
- December 14, 2012 at 12:29 PM
- Carrie said...
Too many of us mamas experience the same kind of challenge and worry over our kiddos. It often seems to be that the more intelligent and sensitive a child is the harder the friend thing can be for them. So glad God used a Santa letter and teacher to bring two boys together in friendship! Merry Christmas.
- December 16, 2012 at 8:08 PM


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Jessie J Covers Rihanna's 'We Found Love'
Jessie J delivers an impassioned performance of Rihanna's 'We Found Love' in a new video from her studio session for the Radio 1 Live Lounge series.
The song starts off as an acoustic ballad, with the BRIT Award nominee belting out the opening verse atop an acoustic guitar melody. After the chorus, the song picks up the pace just like RiRi's chart-topping single, though Jessie's instruments, aside from those keyboards, are acoustic.
As her 'We Found Love' cover progresses, it settles back into a mid-tempo groove, with the singer presenting new vocal treatments for the familiar hook, including a fierce "we found la-la-la-la-la-love." The arrangement is very different from Coldplay's cover of 'We Found Love' for BBC Radio a few months back, but it's a perfect fit for Jessie's voice.
Jessie J also played her latest hit, 'Domino,' on the show. The PopCrush Best New Artist of 2011 has already begun recording her second album and has been added as a coach/mentor for the second season of 'The Voice' U.K.
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"Those Old Memories" will include stories, photographs, genealogy, scrapbooking, recipes, and interesting history of my family. Some family surnames: Troyer, Gardner, Moore, Hopkins, Allen, Amsberry, McPherson, Wyatt, Godfrey, Lee, Henley, Cutbirth, Tudor, Gustafsson, Larson, Hellgren, Farley, Harshbarger, Harvey, McComsey, Johnston, Hyndman, and Buchanan.
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