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The Department of National Security Affairs (NSA) is pleased to announce the establishment of the Center for Regional Maritime Strategy (CRMS). The center will serve as the focal point for research and education in the NSA Department. Its purpose is to strengthen the U.S. Navy's awareness and understanding of political, economic, cultural, and strategic issues that affect naval operations, strategy, and policy in critical maritime regions around the world.
The center will draw on the extensive regional studies expertise of the NSA Department's faculty to produce studies, analyses, and course material that inform senior Navy leaders and educate the Navy's next generation. NSA faculty have deep knowledge of regions ranging from the South China Sea to the South Atlantic and from the Mediterranean Sea to the Indian Ocean. The center will facilitate collaboration between NSA faculty and partners at other academic institutions, as well as foster closer relationships with sponsors in the Navy and throughout the U.S. government.
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Separate Maintenance
Under some limited circumstances, one spouse may ask the district court for an order for alimony, property and debt management and division, health care insurance, housing, child support, child custody and parent time without filing for divorce. This is known as a petition for separate maintenance.
Utah Code Section 30-4-1 governs separate maintenance.
You may petition for separate maintenance if your spouse is a resident of Utah and one or more of the following circumstances apply:
- Your spouse deserted you without good cause.
- Your spouse is able to support you but does not.
- Through no fault of your own, you are living apart from your spouse.
- Your spouse is in prison for one year or more and has made no provision for you.
You may also petition for separate maintenance if you are a resident of Utah and your spouse has property in Utah and does not support you.
The court proceedings in separate maintenance are the same as for divorce, but a separate maintenance petition may be filed in any county where either spouse is present.
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Next week in Berlin there are sure to be some new smartphone announcements. It's the annual IFA show there, along with some supplemental press events in New York City and elsewhere. Yup, we'll likely see the new Galaxy Gear smartwatch from Samsung and the company's new Galaxy Note 3, but the star of the show may not be one single device. Instead, it could be a single chip.
At least two companies, if not more, are expected to announce powerful new mobile devices built around Qualcomm's Snapdragon 800 chip.
The market has seen a number of phones and tablets using the current Snapdragon line, but those have all been the 200, 400 and 600 models. The HTC One and some versions of the Samsung Galaxy S 4, for example, use the current high-end Snapdragon 600.
So what's the big deal about the 800? Quite a bit, because it's not just a faster chip: It adds the potential for completely new features we haven't yet seen on smartphones. Of course it will be up to handset makers and software developers to tap that potential, so Sony's Xperia Ultra and LG's G2 may or may not fully utilize the chip's functionality.
For example, the Snapdragon 800 supports much higher resolution video capture: Enough to display such content on a UHD HDTV if you have one. That means stills of up to 21 megapixels or video at 4,000 x 2,000 pixels. The chip can also push a lot of pixels on a screen too, supporting displays up to 2560 x 2048 or sending 1080p video wirelessly through Miracast. A new Adreno 330 graphics chip is expected to boost visual performance by 50 percent from the prior version; when combined with the display tech it should offer some excellent gaming opportunties.
From a wireless perspective, 802.11ac Wi-Fi is natively supported, offering faster speeds and greater range for those with a compatible router. I upgraded to one of these routers earlier this year and see a noticeable boost with devices that support the standard.
Also interesting is potential for a feature we've already seen: Listening for user input through a low-powered, dedicated Digital Signal Processor (DSP). Motorola enabled this on the Moto X and Droid Ultra line by adding a DSP to the phone chips but the option will be available for all handsets thanks to the Hexagon DSP included with the Snapdragon 800. There's no always-watching feature, but another company has that in the works if you don't mind being creeped out a bit!
Qualcomm also includes its Quick Charge 2.0 technology, which it says charges devices 75 percent faster than phones or tablets without the feature. We'll have to see how handset makers implement the chipset in devices though. Charging faster is always nice but getting through a full day — or more — on a single charge is even better.
Instead of the same-old minor advances in new phones then, next week could be a bit of a bigger step forward. Sony's Xperia Ultra Z uses this silicon while LG has already confirmed the chip in its G2 but I wouldn't be surprised if Asus — with a new PadFone — or HTC's One Max also out have with a Snapdragon 800 inside.
This story originally appeared on GigaOm.


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The New York Observer's Irina Aleksander coins a meme: the Cautionary Matron - basically a generation of women disappointed in their lives and passing on their tales of woe to impressionable youth. But can we handle the truth?
Says one of Aleksander's youthful friends of her particular CM, "Rarely do I hang up the phone with her and feel comforted. Usually, I feel anxiety and paralysis about the decisions that I need to make to avoid everything she warns me about." The Cautionary Matron is all about soul-baring, stories of disillusionment, failed relationships, the realities of marriage, the hazards of staying single. They write essays and books and star in sitcoms, and their message is: the reality's not all it's cracked up to be.
Aleksander interviews both a number of these professional confessors, as well as the younger women they've traumatized. Says writer Sandra Tsing Loh, who wrote memorably about her disillusionment with marriage, she and her ilk are moved to bare their souls,
I think because we're really surprised! In our 20s, the world was totally our oyster. All those fights had been fought. We weren't going to be '50s housewives, we were in college, we could pick and choose from a menu of careers, and there were all these interesting guys out there not like our dads. We were smart women who had a lot of options and made intelligent choices and that's why we're writing these pieces. We're shocked!...It must be very confusing...We were the protégés of old-guard feminists: 'Don't have a baby, or if you must, have one, wait till your 40s.' We were sold more of a mission plan and now you guys … Well, sadly, it all seems like kind of a mess. There is no mission. Even stay-at-home moms feel unsuccessful unless they're canning their own marmalade and selling it on the Internet. You just have a bunch of drunk, depressed 45-year-old ladies going, 'A-BLAH-BLAH-BLAH!'"
And, eulogizes one of the author's friends,
They are the first generation of women who were presented with choices...I think they are in the process of reflecting on a half-century of existence and are realizing that 'having it all' was really a lie. Sometimes I think the idea of 'having it all' can almost be more disempowering than 'having it all' because one is never allowed enough time or energy to excel in one area of their life.
So, is this the way of the world? Are things really so bleak? And are we in a creepy, antagonistic us-and-them relationship with women half a generation older? Sometimes it seems that way. After all, why are these writers bent on saying all this, sharing all this, imparting this "advice?" Part of it's the natural instinct towards sharing and guiding, I really do believe. But I also think there's something else at work. This isn't really about helping people make better choices. It's not really about other women at all. Rather, it's about themselves. The same people thought they were fascinating and representative in their 20s, and nothing has changed as their lives have followed a course that wasn't novel when Flaubert and Tolstoy took it on in the 19th century. There was always disillusionment. There was always age. And there was always youth, just not openly deified. Sometimes today it seems like every generation wants to co-opt youth. Our parents did it - never again would Youth Culture match theirs. Now we're being told we'd better not even compete with those a few years older; these few writers have done youth, and it's overrated. If they can't have it, it sometimes seems, no one can.
So. If there's one lesson I think we can learn from this spate of self-congratulatory self-flagellation, I'd say it's not about when you marry or who you marry or whether or not you have kids. At the end of the day, each of these stories is personal and particular and it's the assumption of smug, knowing universality that's most annoying. Because what can you say? As writer Lori Gottlieb tells Aleksander, when younger women don't want to hear these hard truths,
I think it's part denial and part arrogance. I get it because I used to be that way in my 20s. I wanted the fairy tale. I thought that I deserved to have it, that it was my inalienable right! So that's the arrogance, and the denial is that they simply can't acknowledge that they, too, could become these older regretful women who wished they knew what was important in love earlier on. We're not envious-we're wiser.
Hey, she's the one who used the word "arrogance."
First of all, I don't think these women represent their generation, married women, anything. If I were their age, I think I'd quite resent being painted as a disillusioned, embittered casualty of idealism. These are squeaky wheels, and, dare I say it, narcissists who assume that their experiences must be universal. No one objected to Elizabeth Wurtzel's bizarre Elle I-hate-aging piece because we couldn't handle what she was dishing out, but because it was pretty clear her priorities, which she presented as universal, didn't speak for the rest of us. We weren't weirded out by Gottlieb's "Marry Him!" essay in the Atlantic because it burst our ideological bubble, but because it seemed flatly contradicted by so much reality.
And, assuming she is representative, what does Gottlieb want? For younger women to accept her words as law, throw in the towel, have kids/never have kids/settle/not settle and all-around admit that our lives are bound for disappointment? The piece is rife with young women getting depressed by their elders' gloomy prognostications. But, really, this violates every tenet of youth, and I don't really see how it would help anyone, save that maybe we'd crank out fewer personal essays ourselves.But, that said, there is wisdom to be gained. A big danger, to me, seems to be everyone thinking she's the protagonist - tragic, or comic, or romantic. And the truth is, most of us aren't protagonists, we're bit players or sidekicks or secondary storylines, and there's nothing wrong with that. For the most part, surely, our experiences are both unique and common. I don't think people always felt entitled to the spotlight; and maybe Rita Wilson's less glamorous than Meg Ryan's Annie, maybe Celeste Holm is less dramatic than Margot or Eve, but I'm guessing their lives are calmer, happier, or at any rate more private. There are worse things. I'm not a heroine; I'm a best friend, an observer. It's a good deal easier and if that's settling, it's a kind I can handle. (Oh, and let me add here something that Commenter Coreybear said: "What people need to remember is that they're not the heroine of EVERYONE's story, and that seems to be the problem with these women." Much better put, but that's what I meant to say!)
The Cautionary Matrons [NY Observer]
Related: Let's Call the Whole Thing Off [The Atlantic]
Marry Him! [Atlantic]
Failure To Launch: When Beauty Fades [Elle]


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Acute injuries come on suddenly and may be caused by a direct blow, a penetrating injury, or a fall or from twisting, jerking, jamming, or bending a limb abnormally. Pain may be sudden and severe. Bruising and swelling may develop soon after the injury. Acute injuries usually require prompt medical evaluation and may include:
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The following tips may prevent arm injuries.
Arm injuries such as bruises, burns, fractures, cuts, or punctures may be caused by abuse. Suspect possible abuse when an injury cannot be explained or does not match the explanation, repeated injuries occur, or the explanations for the cause of the injury change. You may be able to prevent further abuse by reporting it and seeking help.
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Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Stribild Versus Ritonavir-Boosted Atazanavir Plus Truvada in Human Immunodeficiency Virus, Type 1 (HIV-1) Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Naive Adults
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01106586
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : April 20, 2010
Results First Posted : October 22, 2012
Last Update Posted : November 11, 2015
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|Condition or disease
|HIV HIV Infections
|Drug: Stribild Drug: ATV Drug: Ritonavir Drug: FTC/TDF Drug: Stribild Placebo Drug: ATV Placebo Drug: RTV Placebo Drug: FTC/TDF Placebo
|Phase 3
|Study Type :
|Interventional (Clinical Trial)
|Actual Enrollment :
|708 participants
|Intervention Model:
|Parallel Assignment
|Quadruple (Participant, Care Provider, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)
|Primary Purpose:
|Official Title:
|A Phase 3, Randomized, Double-Blind Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Elvitegravir/Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate/GS-9350 Versus Ritonavir-Boosted Atazanavir Plus Emtricitabine/Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate in HIV-1 Infected, Antiretroviral Treatment-Naive Adults
|Study Start Date :
|April 2010
|Actual Primary Completion Date :
|September 2011
|Actual Study Completion Date :
|September 2014
|Experimental: Stribild
Drug: Stribild
Stribild (EVG 150 mg/COBI 150 mg/FTC 200 mg/TDF 300 mg) STR administered orally once daily
Drug: ATV Placebo
Placebo to match ATV administered orally once daily
Drug: RTV Placebo
Placebo to match RTV administered orally once daily
Drug: FTC/TDF Placebo
Placebo to match FTC/TDF administered orally once daily
|Active Comparator: ATV/r + FTC/TDF
Drug: ATV
Atazanavir 300 mg capsule administered orally once daily
Drug: Ritonavir
Ritonavir (RTV; /r) 100 mg tablet administered orally once daily
Other Name: Norvir®
Drug: FTC/TDF
FTC/TDF 200/300 mg tablet administered orally once daily
Other Name: Truvada
Drug: Stribild Placebo
Placebo to match Stribild administered orally once daily
- The Percentage of Participants With Virologic Success Using the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-Defined Snapshot Analysis as Determined by the Achievement of HIV-1 Ribonucleic Acid (RNA) < 50 Copies/mL at Week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- The Percentage of Participants With Virologic Success Using the FDA-Defined Snapshot Analysis as Determined by the Achievement of HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 96 [ Time Frame: Week 96 ]
- The Percentage of Participants With Virologic Success Using the FDA-Defined Snapshot Analysis as Determined by the Achievement of HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 144 [ Time Frame: Week 144 ]
- The Percentage of Participants With Virologic Success Using the FDA-Defined Snapshot Analysis as Determined by the Achievement of HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 192 [ Time Frame: Week 192 ]
- The Percentage of Participants Achieving and Maintaining Confirmed HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 48 Using the FDA-defined Time to Loss of Virologic Response (TLOVR) Algorithm [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
- The Change From Baseline in Cluster Determinant 4 (CD4) Cell Count at Weeks 48, 96, 144, and 192 [ Time Frame: Baseline; Weeks 48, 96, 144, and 192 ]Change = value of the relevant time point minus the baseline value
- The Percentage of Participants With HIV-1 RNA < 50 Copies/mL at Week 48 [ Time Frame: Week 48 ]
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|Ages Eligible for Study:
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|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Ability to understand and sign a written informed consent form, which must be obtained prior to initiation of study procedures
- Plasma HIV-1 RNA levels ≥ 5,000 copies/mL at screening
- No prior use of any approved or investigational antiretroviral drug for any length of time
- Screening genotype report must show sensitivity to FTC, TDF, and ATV
- Normal electrocardiogram (ECG)
- Adequate renal function (estimated glomerular filtration rate ≥ 70 mL/min according to the Cockcroft Gault formula)
- Hepatic transaminases (aspartate aminotransferase (AST) and alanine aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 5 x the upper limit of the normal range (ULN)
- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL, or normal direct bilirubin
- Adequate hematologic function
- Serum amylase ≤ 5 x ULN
- Males and Females of childbearing potential must agree to utilize highly effective contraception methods from screening throughout the duration of study treatment and for 30 days following the last dose of study drug
- Age ≥ 18 years
- Life expectancy ≥ 1 year
Exclusion Criteria:
- A new acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)-defining condition diagnosed within the 30 days prior to screening
- Receiving drug treatment for hepatitis C, or anticipated to receive treatment for hepatitis C
- Subjects experiencing decompensated cirrhosis
- Females who are breastfeeding
- Positive serum pregnancy test (female of childbearing potential)
- Implanted defibrillator or pacemaker
- Current alcohol or substance use judged by the Investigator to potentially interfere with subject study compliance
- History of malignancy within the past 5 years or ongoing malignancy other than cutaneous Kaposi's sarcoma, basal cell carcinoma, or resected, noninvasive cutaneous squamous carcinoma
- Active, serious infections (other than HIV-1 infection) requiring parenteral antibiotic or antifungal therapy within 30 days prior to baseline
- Medications contraindicated for use with EVG, COBI, FTC, TDF, ATV, or ritonavir or subjects with any known allergies to the excipients of Stribild tablets, Truvada tablets, ATV capsules or ritonavir tablets
- Participation in any other clinical trial without prior approval
- Any other clinical condition or prior therapy that, in the opinion of the Investigator, would make the subject unsuitable for the study or unable to comply with the dosing requirements
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01106586
|Study Director:
|Marshall Fordyce, MD
|Gilead Sciences
|Responsible Party:
|Gilead Sciences
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|April 20, 2010 Key Record Dates
|Results First Posted:
|October 22, 2012
|Last Update Posted:
|November 11, 2015
|Last Verified:
|October 2015
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Right then ladies and gentlemen Who said that retail therapy is only for Ladies, OH NO . no no no Noooooooo it is not .. and Who said Retail therapy works .. OH YES. yessssssss yes yes yes yes it WORKS and worked a treat yesterday for sure and by the looks of it , IT is still working although when the credit card bill comes I am not sure how well it will work then.
Saying that I am a good boy I don't misuse my credit card, since I have a gold card I get lots of points , other benefits , privileges if I use it , so YES I use it for every shopping I do from buying grocery to fuel BUT what I do is at the weekend I make sure I pay the money into it from my Debit account, So usually when the monthly statement comes it is 0.00.
Anyway this is not a gyaan post its on what I did at the weekend, On Saturday I had a phone call from an old old friend Jason who has now shifted to Coventry, hence we don't get to meet often, he was in town with his little daughter and wanted to meet up, The daughter wanted to watch a movie Taken 3, We organised to watch the movie and then sit for a bite later on. Once all that was done, after the good bye's I was walking to my car when I happened to walk by the Nike showroom that had an irresistible offer, Everything in there was on 40% off, I RARELY get excited about sales , don't know why I had this urge to visit, since it was late, the shop had shut by then, I made a mental note that Tomorrow Sunday I will make a trip.
So Sunday afternoon I went to the shop to buy a pair of good shoes, I must tell you here that offer was 40% but because of my job I can get another 10% on it .. so the 50% off was a juicy deal. I was looking for the high-end Lebron or Kobe, But there were none on the shelf, there were some Jordan's-flights etc, But I already had a pair of them so did not want to spend any money, I felt dejected ,walking back I just happened to ask one of the store guy if they had any Lebron or Kobe in size 10 or 10.5, at first he said No sir everything is on the shelves, but later he asked me to wait to go and see in the back.
After about 5 minutes he came back saying yes they have some in stock but they have not been checked yet or tagged, so will go on the shelf only Tuesday or Wednesday, to which I just said I can't come back again , I finish work around 10pm , shops close at 5:30, don't know why or what made him do what he did, maybe my sad-ugly looking face 🙂 , he said wait , he will ask the manager and see if anything could be done, so again I waited..
After another 10-15 minutes he came out holding about 6 or 7 pair of boxes, and believe me when i say that EVERYONE in the shop looked at me, or rather at those boxes being carried to me , I mean I could FEEL THE GAZE of every individual. You know sometimes when you can feel Someone is watching you, a few of the men I could see coming towards and just standing a couple of feet away , looking at each box being opened , so I tried a pair
I liked them, kept that on one side, tried the other one and another one .. For some reason I liked all of them .. and Guess what I did , I bought all of them .. YES you read it right, ALL OF THEM, I am not sure if it was the right decision but I did like all the shoes, could not choose which ones to keep, and the moment I said to the Store guy "I will have all of these".. the horrified look on everyone else around, as if saying HOW DARE I BUY THEM ALL. They were almost going to jump on me or at the boxes after I had chosen. I really felt I was in danger especially after the way PUBLIC had behaved on the Black friday sales in December, People had gone MAD and that too on a sale which is STILL GOING ON TODAY.
I don't know what's wrong with people anymore they are becoming vultures and in-human, TV footage shoes people actually pulling each other's hair, kicking others, snatching abusing each other to get hold of an item that was on sale.
Anyway coming back to me, Yes I bought all the Lebron pairs , a couple of Jordan flights pair.. 7 pairs of shoes I bought.. you can call me STUPID-IDIOT-SHOW OFF anything , and I have no answer to if you ask me , Why I bought them. I just did. The last time I had bought a pair of shoe was in India , Bangalore in 2012. yeah its been that long.
The problem is my shoes don't get spoilt that easy because for work I wear combat Magnum shoes and NOTHING happens to them, I got two pairs that I have been using for a few years now. , The other job of computers is sitting job , so shoes are hardly used for anything. Its only when I go running or to a gym or sometimes if I go to parties etc that I wear good shoes, but since last year I have hardly gone to any parties because of my health and all. So I have so many pairs of shoes, Which again brings us back to the point I have no answer why I bought all the pairs. Maybe because they were going cheap.
So to end the story I had a smile and my heart-felt excited, you know bubbly I cant explain the emotion it was like , I wanted to come home or go to a friends and say come come everyone Look what I bought, see see seeeeeee.. I am sure you all know that feeling of excitedness (is that a word)…
Let me conclude here saying that YES retail therapy works and I woke up HAPPY Today, I had post scheduled to be published for the whole week, I stopped that schedule and Wrote this post. 🙂 🙂 Now I am going to publish this and go to Work wearing my New Shoes, One each day yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
Here have a look at these lovely shoes ..
The bill was whopping .. But 50% off made the smile broader .. I don't know if I did the right thing or not, But then that's ME…..


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The Stats: is the latest from Susane Colasanti, who also wrote and
Keep Holding on Something Like FateSo Much Closer.
The Gist: High school is hard for a lot of people, but it is literally a nightmare for Noelle Wexler. Noelle is every bully's target and is tortured by her peers every moment of everyday. She is the poorest student at a rich school, where you only belong if you have this season's latest trends. She is taunted for everything from the clothes she wears to what she packs for lunch. When Noelle goes home, she must face her neglectful mother, who constantly reminds her that she is the reason behind their poverty. Still, she finds small glimmers of light through her best friend, Sharae, and her longtime crush, Julian Porter. For Noelle, making it to graduation is the only thing that matters.
When Noelle witnesses another bullied student's torture however, she realizes that it's time for things to change—for the better. Slowly, she gains the courage to stand up for herself, her fellow victims, and even faces her own mother.
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Our Favorite Part: Jullian takes Noelle into the city where they share a romantic date. It was a heartfelt moment during a tough time in Noelle's life, reminding readers that there is always hope.
You'll love it if..you love reading an inspirational anti-bullying story. Everyone knows at least one bully in their school, Susane Colasanti shows us that you don't have to stand by and watch them continue their torture.
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Bootleg Flyers, Bobby Messano to perform July 4
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MOUNT MORRIS — Contemporary blues guitarist Bobby Messano will perform at the Mount Morris Band Shell on South Wesley Avenue at 6 p.m. July 4.
Local band Bootleg Flyers will open for Messano at 4 p.m. The venue will also host "A Humorous Encounter with Mark Twain and Will Rogers" at 1 p.m. July 5. The performance features Warren Brown and Lance Brown.
All of the performances are part of the Let Freedom Ring festivities happening throughout Mount Morris from July 2-5. Admission: free. For information: 815-677-5383.


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The FDA Provides The Dos And Don'ts Of Medical Waste Disposal
All medical offices must dispose of medical waste in a safe manner. I closed my office at the end of September, but my last medical waste pickup is the first Friday of December. My dear husband is going to open the office and wait for them.
How have you told patients over the years to deal with their medical waste? Needles? Syringes? JP drains they pull out or that fall out before they get back for follow up?
Last week the FDA sent out a press release announcing the launch a new website for patients and caregivers on the safe disposal of needles and other so-called "sharps" that are used at home, at work and while traveling. Read more »
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In just over a month, the United States will finally elect its next president after close to two years of campaigning, fundraising, scandals, and debates.
Republican candidate Donald Trump is considered an outsider to politics and the party. As a result — and because Trump's views have sometimes clashed with the party's vision — some have wondered whether this election might be less divided along party lines than in recent elections. Despite the division within the Republican Party, most major polls suggest that the majority of states will vote the same as in the past several elections. It seems that a portion of the population will always vote Republican or Democrat no matter who is running for president.
Based on voting data compiled by political news organization Politico and a review of current and historical representation in the U.S. Congress, 24/7 Wall St. created an index to measure the political leanings of U.S. counties' residents. The index is based on the political party of the county's elected representatives to the Senate and House of Representatives through the last five election cycles, as well as the results of the 2012 presidential election.
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Even in the most liberal states there is at least one county that has strong Republican leanings. In Illinois, 57% of the electorate voted for President Barack Obama, the state's former senator. Yet, in Wayne County, less than 20% of those who went to the polls voted for Obama. Wayne, which is in the state's 15th congressional district, has been represented by a Republican for decades.
The racial composition of these counties can likely help explain the Republican leanings of the area's residents. The vast majority of residents in most of the reddest counties identify as white. In 40 states, at least 80% of the population of the most Republican county identify as white. That was the case in just 12 of the bluest counties in each state.
Voters in the reddest counties were almost always more likely than residents of other counties to vote Republican during the 2012 presidential election, and the share of votes cast for then Republican candidate Mitt Romney was almost always greater than 50%. However, in four of the reddest counties — Honolulu County, Hawaii; Plymouth County, Massachusetts; Washington County, Rhode Island; and Essex County, Vermont — a majority of residents voted to reelect Obama in 2012. In these counties, Romney still captured the largest share of votes compared to other counties in the state.
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Hey all--
How are things?.. Great..
This is part two of my 'Introduction to the Net' series. If you haven't checked out part one go here...
This tutorial will center around the commonly known concept of ports. When I searched the archives I noted that there were a bunch of really nice tutorials on what the functions of port numbers do, but none of them really go in and describe...
What the heck a is port anyway?
There are a lot of other questions that branch off that one. I remember when I was a complete n00b the concept of ports was very hard for me to grasp because I allways thought that when you connected to a computer you connected... not the case, hopefully this tut will clear all that up for you if your thinking as I once did. But enough chit chat lets move.
1. <networking> A logical channel or channel endpoint in a
communications system. The Transmission Control Protocol
and User Datagram Protocol transport layer protocols used
on Ethernet use port numbers to distinguish between
(demultiplex) different logical channels on the same network
interface on the same computer.
taken from dicionary.com
Now your probly like, what the? But don't worry I've got a simple analogy for this whole thing.
What is a port? A port is like a door to a house, the house can be either a mansion (web-server) or it can be a middle class one (regular PC). The doors to these houses can either opened or closed, but hold on for a sec. these houses have up to 65,535 doors on them, each. Some opened, some closed, each door you enter is open for a specific reason.
For instance lets say you notice that the door marked 80 is open. Lets all step on in shall we? Ladies first. As soon as you enter you see tons of code being transfered from this house to other houses. This code is known as HTML, this house is most obviously a web-server becasue it is transfering data to other computers so that they may compile and display this servers web-site. Through this journey we can conclude that port 80 is a port used to retrive HTML output of a web-server. There not so bad when you break it down right?
Oh, no but if you don't get a move on your gonna be late for your friends invite to his IRC server. You read the invite and it says something like.
Hey man, come on down to my IRC (Internet Relay Chat) server. The server (or house number) is xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx <--- IP address, and the port number (door number) where we're all gonna be is port 6667. So you make your move from this web-server to your friends IRC server. When you step in here you notice tons of packets containing sentences and phrases being transfered to other computers. Now it's safe conclude that port 6667 on this server is used for chating.
If you haven't figured it out yet each port on a system has a certain function in which it performs and listens on. Here is an excellent list of ports and what certain port numbers listen for...
Now hopefully, you've got a good understanding of what ports are for on a computer and server alike and that you aren't just connecting to another computer but another port on that computer that performs that function that you requested. (Most commonly the HTML code to display another's website.)
If your using windows now a way to see what ports are listening on your computer is simple. Just hit...
Start-> run -> type 'command'-> then in the prompt type 'netstat -na'
After that if your feeling really confident you can have some fun with ports on your own computer with a program called 'Netcat.' Netcat is a powerful tool with many functions, but just to keep things easy we won't go into all that. (This is for windows users only but *nix users can do this to.)
**Warning you ARE putting your CPU at risk to attacks by doing this.***
*First get Netcat
*Now open it and type in...
nc -l -p 12345 -e cmd.exe
The nc, says runs the Netcat program, the -l says listen, the -p says listen on this port, the -e says to execute this shell when someone connects.
Now go to your command and type in... (don't type what's in the ()'s)
telnet xxx.xxx.xxx(<--your Ip address) 12345(<--port number to connect to)
Now you should have connected, and this is where you can have a safe and fun time navigating your computer and do many other things. Yes, you could have done this without the whole Netcat thing but the whole point of this is so you have a better understanding of ports, so there. Don't forget to close up when your done.
To wrap things up, ports are a very important part of all the major internet protocols. It is very important to have a good understanding of them when you go about defending your PC with firewalls. For a list on certain exploits that run on ports go here...
Well, I hope that this tut was as good as the last one I wrote. Hopefully, you'll do something good with the knowledge you've gained. If you told your girl-friend/boy-friend about it all durring a date like I suggested in pt.1 and she/he's still with ya... tell her/him all about this one! I'm sure they'll just love it! heh...heh...


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[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/09/art.keating.agi.jpg caption="Keating is a McCain campaign co-chair."](CNN) - A prominent surrogate for John McCain on Thursday raised Barack Obama's admitted cocaine use as a teenager and said the Illinois senator should speak candidly about it to the American people.
Speaking to Dennis Miller, a comedian and conservative radio talk show host, former Oklahoma Gov. Frank Keating said Obama should be more forthright about his background and what he called his "very extreme" record.
"He ought to admit, 'You know, I've got to be honest with you. I was a guy of the street. I was way to the left. I used cocaine. I voted liberally, but I'm back at the center,'" Keating, a co-chair of McCain's campaign, said Obama should tell voters. "I mean, I understand the big picture of America. But he hasn't done that."
An aide to John McCain said Keating was not directed by the campaign to make the comments.
"We didn't ask him to do it," the aide said. "He didn't clear it with us, but obviously he's read Senator Obama's books."
The Obama campaign has not responded to the comments.
The remarks ring similar to comments made by prominent New Hampshire Democrat Bill Shaheen, a Hillary Clinton supporter, during the primary. Shaheen predicted in December that Obama's drug past would be a major Republican talking point if her were the Democratic nominee. He later apologized for the comments, but stepped down from his role in the Clinton campaign. Black Entertainment Television founder Bob Johnson, another Hillary Clinton backer, also had to apologize after making overt references to Obama's drug use at campaign rally in South Carolina.
In Obama's 1995 book Dreams of My Father, he writes that he was once headed in the direction of a "junkie" and a "pothead. Referring to his emotional struggles as a young man, Obama writes, "Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though."
Obama did speak during his primary campaign about his past experimentation with drugs and alcohol in high school.
"I made some bad decisions that I've actually written about," he told New Hampshire high school students last November. "There were times when I, you know, got into drinking, experimented with drugs. There was a whole stretch of time where I didn't really apply myself a lot."
Bush was drunk till he was 40 years old and had a drunk driving rap, and wasen't a teenager when this occured. Obama was honest and told us about his experience with drugs in the primaries. So what's the big scoop??


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Majority of Canadians they just want all pricing to be fair — and Primus, Virgin, Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw and Videtron etc., so far have been anything but. The consumer abuses by Bell, Rogers, Virgin, Telus etc. they all should be an election issue.. Majority of Canadians they just want all pricing to be fair — and Bell, Rogers, Telus, Shaw and Videtron etc., so far have been anything but. Bell , Rogers, etc are, after all, mostly federally unregulated companies,.. and these bad big businesses get the corporate tax breaks from the Conservatives too.. they should rather pay a higher tax..
I have had the unfortunate task of too many times of being a personal security guard, a witness, a facilitator with senior patients while they were in the hospital,or in old age homes or with their doctors.. and what I have seen now is too often pretentious medicine, doctors and nurses now too doing as little as possible cause not only do they still get paid out of sight next is out of mind.. and cause the pain of others tends not to hurt the doctors.. I can say that the medical services drastically, exponentially improves when I do make I known that I do fully expose, and prosecute all bad medical services I do see. By the way I am realy tired of those pretend, incompetent doctors, the nurses who have such a basic rudimentary medical knowledge that it even tends to be useless, and they tend to go overboard with it as well…. so they too often have have become pretenders, imposters, fools.. Manage better now the health care system and all bad doctors and bad nurses need to go to a jail
And do see also
It is no surprise that the RCMP too often cannot catch the bad guys
THEY ALL PROMISE A GOOD GOVERNMENT and so what!
If you are a senior do not see a doctor alone
Canada's medicare
It should be an election issue – the Bad phone companies
…… Let me be clear as to what I think about the too often no good RCMP and bad politicians as well.. they all do need to be fired, replaced, removed permanently ASAP..
… so now where are the good Ministers???????


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What's it take to get us interested in an FCC filing from Aliph, a company best known for its comparatively stylish but still intrinsically uninteresting Jawbone bluetooth headsets? A name like Nerd Dongle and a bit of mystery, that's what.
The so-called Nerd Dongle looks like a USB stick and the FCC docs show that it's been poking around in the 2.4GHz neck of the woods during testing. Considering that all the previous Jawbones have been Bluetooth affairs, it seems like that's a likely element to the Nerd Dongle, but it's gotta be something more than just a run of the mill Bluetooth stick, right? But what? What? Speculate or just go crazy with 'nerd dongle' in the comments. [Engadget]


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The SCO Group's lawsuit against Linux distributors IBM, Red Hat, and Novell hit a major snag yesterday as Magistrate Brooke C. Wells of the US District Court in Salt Lake City dismissed 182 of SCO's 294 claims. The dismissal is part of a 39-page ruling that comes down hard on SCO for continually refusing to provide specific details about which lines of code in SCO's products were stolen by Linux programmers.
"SCO's arguments are akin to SCO telling IBM, 'Sorry we are not going to tell you what you did wrong because you already know,'" Wells wrote in the ruling. "Given the amount of code that SCO has received in discovery, the court finds it inexcusable that SCO is, in essence, still not placing all the details on the table."
SCO's reaction to the news was predictably unrevealing. "Our legal team is reviewing the judge's ruling and will determine our next steps in the near future," said SCO spokesperson Blake Stowell.
The painfully long and drawn-out saga of the SCO lawsuit started in March 2003, when SCO sued IBM for allegedly "devaluing" their version of the Unix operating system. The lawsuit was extended to include Novell later that year. SCO claimed that both companies had taken code from Unix and put it into Linux. The company was ordered in 2004 to hand over examples of the infringing code in no less than 45 days, but SCO has managed to dither and delay without producing any hard evidence. Clearly, the judges are losing patience.
So will SCO decide to reveal their trump card after all? It seems highly unlikely. In a memo that was leaked last year, SCO's internal code audit from 2002 found no infringing code in Linux. SCO's response at the time was to reveal an 1999 e-mail from an outside consultant that allegedly found "troubling similarities" between Linux and Unix code. However, similarities do not equal stolen code. SCO has even backtracked from their initial assessment, stating that the problem may lie in "methods and concepts" rather than stolen lines of code.
SCO may have known for a while that their case was hopeless, and are simply deciding to see the case through in hopes that they may at least recover a small amount of money through technicalities. The company stated in 2004 that they wanted to concentrate more on new products than on lawsuits. This latest news may force them to do just that.
SCO's stock fell from US$4 to below US$3 on the news, and currently sits at US$3.25.


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Aman Sethi, The Hindu's correspondent in Chhattisgarh, has bagged the international red cross committee's award for best print media article on humanitarian issues, for his March 2011 piece on homes and granaries that were torched by police commandos in three villages in the Naxal heartland.
Tehelka 's Umar Baba took the second place, while the third prize went to Reji Joseph of Rashtra Deepika. The consolation prize went to Anup Sharma of The Times of India .
Bombay-born Sethi, who studied business journalism at Columbia University's graduate school of journalism, worked for the Hindu's sister publication, Frontline, before being posted to Chhattisgarh. His debut book "A Free Man", an account of the life of a homeless, migrant labourer was published recently.
Read the award-winning piece: The Hindu
Read an excerpt from his book: Caravan
Read Aman Sethi's articles: Kafila
Also read: EPW journalist bags Appan Menon award
Rema Nagarajan of ToI bags Nieman fellowship
Mint's Monika Halan among Yale fellows
Chameli Devi prize for Tehelka scribe, K.K. Shahina
Pallava Bagla bags 'Oscar' of science journalism
Saikat Datta bags prize for using RTI for story
India-China friendship award for Pallavi Aiyar


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In all sickness, the Lord said to the waves of pain, "Hitherto shall ye go, but no further." His fixed purpose is not the destruction, but the instruction of His people. Wisdom hangs up the thermometer at the furnace mouth and regulates the heart.
The limit is encouragingly comprehensive. The God of providence has limited the time, manner, intensity, repletion, and effects of all our sicknesses; each throb decreed, each sleepless hour predestined, and each relapse ordained, each depression of spirit foreknown, and each sanctifying result eternally purposed. Nothing great or small escapes the ordaining hand of Him who numbers the hairs on our head.
The limit is wisely adjusted to our strength, to the end designed, and to the grace appointed. Affliction comes not at haphazard – the weight of every stroke of the rod is accurately measured. He who made no mistakes in balancing the clouds and meting out the heavens, commits no errors in measuring out the ingredients which compose the medicine of souls. We cannot suffer much more nor be relived too late.
The limit is tenderly appointed. The knife of the Heavenly Surgeon never cuts deeper than is absolutely necessary. "He doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve His Children." A mother's heart cries, "Spare my child:" but no mother is more compassionate than our gracious God. When considered how hard-mouthed we are, it is a wonder than we are not driven with a sharper bit. The thought is full of consolation, that he who has fixed the bounds of our habitation, has also fixed the bounds of our tribulation.
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While investigators are stumped over the fate of missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370, the lack of evidence as to what happened hasn't stopped speculation as to the fate of the missing jet and its 239 passengers and crew members.
It's not unusual for mysterious or dramatic aviation accidents to catch the imaginations of the conspiratorially inclined – the Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Pan Am Flight 103, and TWA Flight 800 tragedies spurred all kinds of claims of conspiracy, and last week's apparent tragedy in the Gulf of Thailand is no different.
Conspiracy theorists took to social media this week to contribute their own ideas as to why Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared.
1. Aliens are involved: Alexandra Bruce at ForbiddenKnowledgeTV points to records on the flight mapping website Flightradar24 as evidence of extra-terrestrial meddling. She goes so far as to say the "captured signals" could "only be termed a UFO."
Her source? YouTube user DAHBOO77, who posted a video that attempts to recreate the plane's last moments. The clip shows a quick-moving plane and other strange anomalies around the time of the MH370's disappearance from radar.
Loading the logs directly on the site allows readers to easily click and identify the so-called "UFO," which is clearly marked as Korean Airlines Flight 672. Its apparent supersonic speed is likely related to a glitch in the system, not alien intervention, according to the site's CEO Mikael Robertsson.
"[Some] receivers do not provide the same data quality, so sometimes parts of the data can be corrupt [and] generate errors like the one you see on the video," he explained. "For example if Longitude received is 120 instead of 110, that would generate such error."
2. The passengers are still alive: Families awaiting news about lost loved ones have told reporters they are able to call the cell phones of their missing relatives, and have said they can also see their instant messaging service accounts remain active online.
The news has fueled all kinds of speculation, but phones that are turned off do not always necessarily go straight to voicemail. Factors such as location, the phone's network type and its proximity to a cell phone tower can all affect whether a dead phone will still ring on the caller's end.
You can test this for yourself: turn off your cell phone, remove the battery and call your number on another line – most kinds of phones will still ring before you reach voicemail.
3. There's a Snowden connection: Reddit user Dark_Spectre posted an unusual theory on the website's conspiracy boards, related to 20 employees of the Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor who were reportedly on the flight:
"So we have the American IBM Technical Storage Executive for Malaysia, a man working in mass storage aggregation for the company implicated by the Snowden papers for providing their services to assist the National Security Agency in surveilling the Chinese.. And now this bunch of US chip guys working for a global leader in embedded processing solutions (embedded smart phone tech and defense contracting) all together..on a plane..And disappeared.. Coincidence??"
Dark_Spectre goes as far as to suggest those chip experts may have been kidnapped by Chinese or American authorities:
"Perhaps a little fast and furious dive under the radar to a flat water landing to rendezvous with a Chinese ship or sub for transport to a black-site for advanced interrogation, scuttling the plane along with the remaining passengers.(any oceanic trenches in fuel capacity distance?) What would 200 lives be to the Chinese intelligence community for the chance to find out 'exactly' the depth and scope of our intrusion."
"US intelligence got late wind that their flying brain-trust of 21 were going to be arrested/detained and interrogated upon landing in China and the US intelligence community deemed the risk too great to their Asian based espionage programs and took appropriate action to "sanitize" the plane in flight."
So far, there is no evidence of an explosion.
4. Iranians kidnapped engineers: UFO Digest's Tony Elliott points to revelations that an Iranian national was responsible for buying plane tickets for two passengers with stolen passports as evidence that the country was involved, possibly to extract technological intelligence from Freescale Semiconductor employees.
"If the plane is not found in the next few days, or ever, we must assume the plane was hijacked and taken to a nearby country where that government wants to keep the disappearance a secret," he wrote. "If this is the case, the two passengers with stolen passports must be the hijackers."
Elliott concludes that the plane is in East Timor, due to an apparent u-turn made by the plane in its final moments on radar.
"If the Iranian government wanted to hijack the plane, it would have had its hijackers make an abrupt turn and head to the nearest friendly Muslim country," he wrote. "In this case, it would be East Timor, the most likely country, located in the opposite direction from the flight path."
The theory doesn't address why the plane suddenly disappeared from radar entirely – no passenger plane could drop from 36,000 feet to below radar horizon in mere seconds.
5. Passengers were taken to Pyongyang: This map is slightly deceptive – while the trip to both Beijing and Pyongyang appear equidistant, this theory would require the plane fly at extremely low altitudes to avoid radar detection, which – due to greater air density at lower altitudes – would require more fuel to travel the same distance.
6. The Illuminati is involved: "Was looking at the Wikipedia page for the missing Malaysia Airlines, and noticed that it's was [sic] the 404th 777 Boeing produced," Redditor i-am-SHER-locked wrote.
"An HTTP 404 error mean [sic] not found, which in this case is oddly approiate [sic] for the status of the aircraft, or just a concidence [sic]. Coincidence, i think not!"
7. There's a new Bermuda triangle: Though the Bermuda Triangle's status as one of the sea's most mysteriously treacherous zones has been debunked for decades, it doesn't stop some from seeing triangles in the Gulf of Thailand.
8. The plane is in Vietnam, where it is waiting to be used as a weapon: "Conspiracy and prophecy in the news" blogger ShantiUniverse said she has three possible theories about what happened to Flight MH370: A major mechanical error (OK), a terrorist attack (reasonable) or it was whisked away to a secret Vietnamese airport to be used in a later 9/11 style attack (…).
"Flight 370 was last contacted by another unnamed pilot 10 minutes after losing initial contact," she writes. "He claims the plane was deep into Vietnam airspace. Its [sic] possible it was hijacked and forced to land at another airport, where passengers are being held hostage. There is a long list of former airports and proposed airports in Vietnam. Its also possible since the plane had no contact, it could of [sic] managed to get to Cambodia to a former or proposed airport…Why would terrorist want a plane intact? Though this is highly unlikely, but not impossible, the only reason I can think of is they would want the plane to use as a weapon of mass destruction like on the September 11 attacks."
9: There was some kind of miniature hydrogen bomb controlled by an iPhone app and it created a miniature black hole: It's hard to tell whether @Angela_Stalcup's account is the work of a completely unhinged lunatic or a genius, masterful troll. Wading through claims that Donald Trump runs a prostitution ring through Trump University or that Russian President Vladimir Putin is one of 92 clones of Adolf Hitler, you may stumble upon this gem of a theory about Flight MH370:
10. Terrorists employed a new electromagnetic pulse weapon: Such a device snuck on board and activated would cause the plane to instantly lose power and fall into the ocean. Had this been a test run, terrorists in possession of such a device would now know that it works, and we could expect to see a multitude of such attacks in the future, perhaps in multiple planes simultaneously. This, of course, has been challenged by conflicting reports of persistent electronic communication from the plane after its disappearance.
So what really happened?: The truth is, no one really knows. The AP now cites a senior Malaysian military official who reports the country has radar data detecting the plane in the Malacca Strait – hundreds of miles from the last position recorded by civilian authorities.
*Armchair conspiracy theorists have also speculated (on Twitter, of course) that the passengers on flight 370 have landed on a remote, impossible-to-find island a la "Lost."


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Current Theme Song (aka what's playing on my ipod right now): Don't Stop Believing by Journey.
First, my craziness. For the month of February I am going to write a short story every day for a month. Eat your heart out Scheherazade (okay, she has three years plus on me, so never mind). I chose February because HEY! It's the shortest month of the year! Woot. Is that cheating? Of course not. *glances around* Anyone who wants to participate is more than welcome to. In fact, I would seriously love it, and I would love to feature any short stories you write on my blog. I want to do this because I honestly feel that writing short stories can greatly help improve your craft (for you writers out there) and plus, they are a lot of fun to read, especially if you don't have time for a full novel (for all you readers out there). It's like a bite-sized morsel of joy. ^_^ I'm tentatively calling it: February Seems Empty so Short Stories Every Day (no exceptions!) Month, or FebSESSD (like obsessed) for short. If you have any other names, please tell me. Acronyms were never my strong suit. Am I hoping this gets as big as NaNoWriMo? Oh heavens no. That sounds absolutely terrifying. But I do think it's going to be a lot of fun and I would love the company on this venture. Why does this feel like the YA Fantasy Showdown all over again?...
But now onto the contest!
This is it. The moment you've all been waiting for. A contest so big, I am honestly a bit nervous for my postal bill. But that's okay, because I figure, if you're going to do something, might as well make it epic, right? Guts and glory! And all those inside tummy things.
I am giving away books. A LOT of books. Because as much as I love them, I have no where to put them (Literally. It is a dance to not knock things over in my room). So though we are parting, but I know they are going to good homes. Why? Because the book blogosphere has some of the most awesome people alive out there. Yes, better than lemon bars or sliced bread (oh, you know it). And the best part is, there are a couple of ways to win big.
All you have to do is get followers over here (because who doesn't like more friends?). :) You following? That totally counts. You refer someone else? Extra point for you. But it is not "ye who gets the most followers wins" Oh no. You can win as much as you want. I love lists, so we'll break it down thusly:
If you get -
10 followers over here = A poem or short story of your choice written for you. Anything you want.
25 followers = 1 book of your choice
40 followers = 3 books of your choice
60 followers = 5 books of your choice
75 followers = 7 books of your choice
100 followers = I don't know yet, but it is going to have to be something very epic.
I don't care how you get them over here (facebook and twitter are great resources. They're your friends, so they'll forgive you for bugging them, and plus, then they are automatically put into the running too. Thus the love spreads), but if they put your name/email address (or any way of identifying you so their point goes to you and not someone else) in the spreadsheet below -or email it directly to me (heatherzundel AT gmail [dot] com)- you are on your way to winning some very sweet prizes, all of your choosing.
But that's not all.
In conjunction with this contest, there is going to be a separate, UBER prize pack, filled with books, signed book posters, and swag galore. Every time my followers jumps up to a certain level, another book and/or some awesome book-like treat will be added to the stockpile. How will I determine what each new "level" will be? (Are you ready for my total nerd to break out?) :) … The Fibonacci Sequence, baby.
You've never heard of Fibonacci's Sequence? *jaw drops* It's only my favorite part in all mathematics (and I'm none too fond of math, by the way). Simply put, you add one number with the previous number to get the new number. So it starts out 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13.... (1+1=2, 1+2=3, 2+3=5,... and it can go on forever. Sooooooooo cool) Fine, you don't have to geek out with me, but I sure am. It's random like pi, but makes total sense! And it also shows perfection/order in nature. See?
Okay, geekie rant done.
But how it relates to you is every time my follower box reaches a Fibonacci milestone, something new is added to the mix. So you are gonna get a lot of stuff right out of the gate (I mean, I get one follower and there's already two books into the booty. You can't get much more sweet than that). But as the numbers go up, the prizes get bigger. Like, I have an exclusive Catching Fire t-shirt and pin that were released only for the promotion of the second book, completely new and waiting for you. I also have several signed books and book posters I'm throwing in as well (and other awesome swag). Plus there may or may not be a Dr. Seuss plush involved. Epic doesn't even begin to cover this.
Here is the Fibonacci milestone breakdown
So remember, that is for overall followers. So working together gets you to prizes of awesome too (Yay teamwork!). But I will put in the caveat that the referenced followers get first pick of the books, so if you want a guaranteed prize, that is definitely the way to go.
Go forth! And good luck everyone! I honestly have never been more excited for a contest in my life. And hopefully this month of me floundering for a short story a day will bring great amusement to you. There may be cartoons involved.
Contest ends February 28th Midnight PST.


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The L.A. Times reports:
UC Irvine Chancellor Michael V. Drake ... tried to explain [Wednesday] that campus events seen by some as anti-Semitic are actually expressions of constitutionally protected free speech.
Drake met with more than 600 members of the county's Jewish community who expressed concern about what they perceived as anti-Semitic activity on campus, much of it involving Muslim students....
UCI has become a flashpoint in the national Israeli-Arab debate that has created hard feelings between Muslims and Jews. This month, Muslim students on campus sponsored a presentation, "Israel: Apartheid Resurrected," protesting that country's policies toward Palestinians.
It was the latest in a series of events that have sparked tension between the groups on campus, with some Jewish students complaining that the exhibit relayed a message of anti-Semitism and hatred of Jews.
On Wednesday, Drake heard complaints that Jewish students were afraid to be on campus and was challenged repeatedly to draw a line between free speech and hate speech. But he said it was an impractical and impossible assignment.
"Free speech means simply that: free speech," he told one questioner.
To another, he said: "Speech is protected. It can be hateful. It can be wrong. It can be vile." Unlike speech, he added, violent acts are not protected.
The chancellor repeatedly said he found anti-Semitism abhorrent, calling it "the utterance of fools." But he also said the right of free speech allows Muslim students to sponsor speakers with whom he disagrees....
Sounds exactly right to me. If Jewish students are assaulted or threatened for being Jewish or pro-Israel (or anything else), that should be punished -- and if UCI isn't using adequate efforts to do this, then it should be faulted for that. But expression of anti-Semitic views should remain protected, just as expression of other views should remain protected.
As to the quote from "community member Richard Meyers" -- "[The Chancellor] keeps saying that he abhors hate speech, but he's unwilling to take a position on the issue of what to do about anti-Semitic activity" -- it sounds to me like the Chancellor (1) does abhor hate speech, (2) does take a position for punishing anti-Semitic violence, and (3) does take a position against punishing anti-Semitic speech. And these items are perfectly consistent: University chancellors may (and should) protect even speech they abhor, and distinguish protected speech from unprotected violence.
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The University of Kentucky in Lexington, KY is a land grant institution founded in 1865. The University evolved through three stages before becoming the University of Kentucky in 1916: the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky University, 1865-78, a private, denominational institution in Lexington created by an act of the legislature on February 22, 1865; the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Kentucky, 1878-1908; and State University, Lexington, 1908-1916. A statute in 1916 changed the name to University of Kentucky. The new president took up the investigating committee's recommendation to write a constitution, which provided for a faculty-administration university senate. A graduate school was established in 1924. Among the new buildings was a central library. Enrollment doubled the first year after World War I and doubled again in the 1920s, totaling 4,992 in 1932, when the impact of the Depression was greatest. Emphasis upon nonstate funding continued. In 1988-89 $60 million in research grants and contracts and $22 million in developmental gifts were awarded.
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Just when you think it can't get any crazier…
This is a perfect example of what happens when people do not stand-up. We are no safer now than we were before the TSA was created and we all know there are much better ways to do airport safety. We have allowed ourselves… even babies, grannies and nuns to be man-handled as well as naked photos of the public have been stored and even leaked. We allowed the government to buy double the machines to radiate and ex-ray us than they needed, allowing certain members of Congress to make money for themselves on inside deals. We even allow the TSA to scan and man-handle us at ball games and our children at their schools. And now they are ordering travelers to freeze on command and testing drinks purchased at the airport. This will not change, except to get worse, unless we start standing up and make major changes at all levels of government from the President on down on November 6, 2012.
New TSA Policy: Ordering Travelers To "Freeze" On Command?
If you thought the bizarre power trip behavior of the TSA couldn't get any crazier – think again. According to a friend of political commentator Lew Rockwell, the federal agency is now ordering travelers passing through security to "freeze" on command.
Explaining how he had arranged with his family to split up as they were passing through airport security, the correspondent, whose story is posted at LewRockwell.com, explains how he heard a commotion from a different security lane.
We heard a "freeze, freeze" or something like this coming from the output side of (false) security (where my wife was), followed by further barking of commands. From where I was, I couldn't see much."
"It turns out they were doing a new drill. They want all passengers to freeze on command. My wife told me later that she didn't follow this order fast enough, so the subsequent barks I heard were directed at her."
TSA supervisors expressed little other than disinterest when the man's wife complained at being ordered around in such an overbearing manner.
"Last week, my hubby and I were flying out of ATL to Montreal. As we were going through the "security" checkpoint, one of the supervisors suddenly yelled "FREEZE!!!!" Everyone was forced to just stand there for about a minute. We were not allowed to move, fidget, look around, speak, nothing. They blockaded the checkpoint and no one was allowed to leave or enter. It was one of the strangest, most stupid thing I've ever seen at the ATL airport. Then the supervisor walks around and she thanks everyone for their participation in the security drill. It was all my husband and I could do to keep from laughing out loud at this charade. It was ridiculously obvious that the entire purpose of that game was to make people afraid and keep that sense of fear very much alive in the flying public.) …Yasmine (We Won't Fly)
TSA Explains Bizarre New Policy Of Testing Drinks Purchased In Airports
Many passengers have recently complained that TSA agents have approached them randomly after they have passed through the checkpoints, and have demanded to run tests on drinks they have purchased inside the secure gate areas, without explaining what they were testing for.
Travelers interviewed by the news channel KJCT8 condemned the rules as "ridiculous" and "extreme", noting that practice is pointless given that the beverages are delivered securely to the airport in the first place and have already been passed though security checks.
"He who chooses safety and security over liberty and individual freedom rarely gets either!" Benjamin Franklin


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As the son of one American immigrant and the father of another, I find it hard to muster much empathy for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin and his decision to renounce his US citizenship.
Saverin, who was born in Brazil and brought to this country as a child, turned in his American passport last year and moved to Singapore; it is widely assumed that he did so to reduce the taxes he would otherwise have to pay on the billion-dollar gains generated by Facebook's IPO. Saverin denies, not very convincingly, that his expatriation was motivated by tax considerations. "His decision had nothing to do with dissatisfaction here," a spokesman said, "but with his strong desire to do business there."
Well, it takes all kinds to make a global economy, and maybe Saverin genuinely prefers doing business in a quasi-authoritarian society where freedom of the press is unknown. Singapore's economy is one of the world's freest, and its taxes are considerably lower than America's. If such things matter more to Saverin than the blessings that come with American citizenship, it was always his right to leave. At least he had the grace to describe himself as "very grateful to the US for everything it has given me."
Yet while Saverin may not come across as the most appetizing of creatures, he is not nearly as odious as US Senators Chuck Schumer of New York and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania. To hear the two Democrats tell it, Saverin is a virtual traitor, a turncoat who has sinned against America and must be given no quarter.
"It's infuriating to see someone sell out" -- sell out! -- "the country that welcomed him and kept him safe, educated him and helped him become a billionaire," Schumer snarls. "We plan to put a stop to this tax avoidance scheme. There should be no financial gain from renouncing your country." Casey inveighs against "allow[ing] the ultra-wealthy to write their own rules" -- Saverin's departure, he says, is "an insult to middle class Americans and we will not accept it." The senators have introduced legislation that would penalize wealthy expatriates by imposing a 30 percent capital gains tax (double the current rate) on all their future US investments, and bar them from ever re-entering the United States.
Even by the usual standards of congressional demagoguery, this is appalling. Saverin broke no laws. He didn't cheat on his taxes. He certainly didn't write his own rules. In fact, under existing law expatriation vastly enlarged his current tax bill, by deeming most of his investment gains to have been realized and taxable on the date he renounced his citizenship. Far from escaping the taxman, Saverin's Facebook fortune enriched the US Treasury by hundreds of millions of dollars. It is only gains he accumulates after giving up his citizenship that will avoid the reach of the IRS.
But if Schumer and Casey really believe that citizens who pick up and move to improve their tax status should be smeared as sellouts and punished ex post facto, why stop with Saverin? Every year, millions of Americans relocate from high-tax jurisdictions to those with lower taxes. Between 2000 and 2010, for example, Schumer's state of New York, which has one of the nation's heaviest personal tax burdens, experienced a net outflow of 1.3 million citizens. Hundreds of thousands of those ex-New Yorkers now reside in Florida. Many no doubt moved for the weather, remarks Scott Hodge of the Tax Foundation, but how many more preferred the sunnier tax climate in Florida, where there is no individual income tax, no estate tax, and no inheritance tax?
When former Cleveland Cavalier LeBron James, spurning an offer from the New York Knicks, joined the Miami Heat two years ago, it was noted that he had a clear financial incentive to do so: Income taxes in New York would have cost him more than $12 million. Would Schumer call him a "sellout" too? Leaving Cleveland's high taxes behind saved James millions as well. Should Ohio lawmakers pass a law banning him from ever setting foot in the Buckeye State again?
Casey and Schumer both maintain Facebook pages, which together have been "liked" by more than 17,300 people. Thanks to Facebook, their reach is extended and their message amplified -- all at no cost to them. They benefit every day from Saverin's willingness to do something they never did: invest his savings in a risky start-up venture with no guarantee of success. Rather than slamming him for leaving the country, perhaps they ought to be thanking him for what he helped make possible. Or better yet, repairing the US tax code so it doesn't drive people like Saverin to seek economic refuge elsewhere.
Saverin may not be very lovable, but he at least understands economic incentives. Schumer and Casey, by contrast, have yet to grasp that the more governments try to soak their taxpayers, the more likely those taxpayers are to end up somewhere else.


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Continue?9876543210 is a new game from Jason Oda, the guy who made that awesome Zelda/Skrillex mashup earlier in the year.
He describes it as an "artsy, philosophical action game", and it's out on iOS, PC (it's just been Greenlit) and Mac. It looks...pretty neat. Imagine if Wreck-It-Ralph was 100x bleaker. And had a pixel art style. You'll be getting pretty close to this.


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Military creates brain repository to study wounds
- Only one brain sample has been collected
- Officials are determining how best to educate troops about brain donation
- Concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries have long been a risk for troops in combat
The Pentagon has created a brain bank in the Washington suburbs to research the damage that can occur during military service, particularly in combat from exposure to blast waves.
Only one brain sample has been collected so far as officials embark on a lengthy process of determining how best to educate troops about brain donation and their families about consenting to the process after a loved one dies.
"A big part of this is this educational outreach campaign that we have (in preparation) so that families and servicemembers will know that this repository exists and the importance of the work that we do," says Dan Perl, a neuropathologist who is lead investigator for research at the Rockville, Md., site.
Perl says he hopes the donation process will work in a similar way to how many servicemembers agree to donate vital organs to save lives.
"Mild traumatic brain injury is one of the signature injuries of the war," says Jonathon Woodson, the Pentagon's top medical officer. "The brain repository is one way of helping with ... untangling some of the mysteries."
A key goal is understanding subtle changes to the brain, which over time can result in dementia. A small study of four servicemembers' brains completed this year by Department of Veterans Affairs scientists showed evidence of a progressive disorder known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE.
The same disorder — marked by memory loss, aggression and suicidal thoughts — has been found in deceased NFL players and professional boxers who endured repetitive concussions.
Concussions or mild traumatic brain injuries have long been a risk for troops in combat who repeatedly endure exposure to blasts from roadside bombs — known as improvised explosives devices, or IEDs. Studies estimate that several hundred thousand troops may have suffered concussions caused by IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan
Repetitive damage can cause destructive buildup of a tau protein in the brain, evidence of CTE. This can be diagnosed currently only through brain autospy.
"We're particularly interested in the degree and extent to which CTE is a problem for the military," Perl says.
"The whole idea is to understand not only what's happening," Woodson says, "but what magnitude of injury might precipitate this (brain damage) and how we might intervene."
Brains decay rapidly after death and permission to receive a specimen must be gotten quickly, says Army Col. Dallas Hack, who directs military medical research funding.
The brain repository is part of a new $70 million Center for the Study of Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine, a joint project of the Defense Department and National Institutes of Health.


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While acquiring household furniture for your child's place, you ought to do so with lots of discretion. This physical exercise calls for great interest, around something. Moms and dads need to know what exactly they are seeking, like design and storage space and so on. A parent's furnishings selection should fulfil most if not completely of his child's demands.
A child's home furniture retail store has several extras, if reality a range to meet any parent's requirements. If you go to a store to have furniture for your kids, these are the physical objects you could encounter:
o Bed furniture or Bunk Bed furniture
o Laptop or computer Workstations for kids
o Newborn Baby cribs and Cots
o Safe-keeping Containers and Toys and games for the kids
o Young children Seating
o Couches for kids
Also, mother and father ought to keep the protection aspect in your mind before acquiring kids home furniture. The growth rate (actual) for children is faster than an adult's so, it is very important always keep most of these issues in your mind before visiting a child's home furniture retailer.
Normally, children's spaces are small and kids desire numerous items to get saved in that limited space. So, parents can perform well to utilize all the space accessible in the room. Your child's area should be secure, pleasurable and, needless to say, safe.
Also, the advent in the Internet has provided go up of number of online youngsters furnishings merchants. A web-based child's furnishings retailer offers mothers and fathers expediency – the delivery service will take two to five days and nights – at the same time the center associated with preference you gain access to a variety of merchandise sitting in the convenience of your property.
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