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We are a family run business that has supplied a wide range of complementary services to customers throughout London for over 30 years and now offer an unbeatable combination of quality services and quality prices
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No matter how good the service we provide may be, it would all be for nothing if our pricing structure was littered with hidden extras for our customers, so to ensure that we provide all of our customers with the best possible service, our pricing policy has been devised to be fair and clear at all time.
We want to ensure that our customers will know immediately what the charges for the task in hand will be, with no risk of added extras creeping on to the bill at the end.
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Electrical faults are potentially very dangerous and as such we take our safety practices very seriously.
We have the latest fault finding and testing equipment to help trace and solve any problems, it is essential that our customers feel completely safe. It is, for this reason, we insist on our electricians being qualified to a minimum of 16th edition as certified by the IEEE.
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The premier standard of electrician Chelsea has to offer provides a full range of electrical services designed to successfully resolve any electrical issue.
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Home to the iconic King's Road, world-class restaurants, a high-quality football team, numerous shops and galleries, there's far more to the Chelsea than may initially meet the eye.
Chelsea's bound to the south by the River Thames. Its frontage runs from Chelsea Bridge along the Chelsea Embankment, Cheyne Walk, Lots Road and Chelsea Harbour. Its eastern boundary was once defined by the River Westbourne, which is now in a pipe above Sloane Square Underground station. The modern eastern boundary is Chelsea Bridge Road and the lower half of Sloane Street, including Sloane Square. To the north and northwest, the area fades into Knightsbridge and Brompton, but it is considered that the area north of King's Road as far northwest as Fulham Road is part of Chelsea.
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Fourth of a four-part series.PART 1: Cleaning Up: Federal money is expanding drug treatment in Baltimore--and causing providers headaches. 06/22/2010
PART 2: Old Habits: Medicalization is the hot new thing in drug treatment. Just like in 1970. 07/27/2010
PART 3: "We Are Not In the Housing Business": Baltimore's recovering addicts need a clean, affordable, safe place to live. Somebody's making money on it--but don't ask who, or how
Statistically speaking,
Shakarian D. Frazier is a drug treatment success story. A drug dealer and habitual felon, according to court records, the 31-year-old was convicted of dealing for the third (or fourth) time, sentenced to 20 years in prison, and, in December 2007, referred to Baltimore's vaunted "Drug Court" for redemption. Frazier received acupuncture and graduated from his substance abuse treatment program in May 2009.
With a year and a half of successful drug treatment under his belt, Frazier was the kind of person to whom the treatment industry might refer a reporter looking for a good news story. But newspapers carried no good news about Frazier. Eight months after successfully completing drug treatment, Frazier was caught dealing heroin again, charged with gun possession, and sentenced to two years in prison. Released last month after having served about nine months, Frazier was charged with murder on Oct. 27. Police say he stabbed long-time girlfriend Mary Williams to death in front of four witnesses.
In Baltimore about 40 percent of those in drug treatment were referred there through the criminal justice system, and Frazier's treatment got his 2007 prison sentence reduced. But people with substance abuse disorder are not necessarily—and not presumed to be—criminals, and the drug treatment bureaucracy takes no responsibility for the behavior of patients after they leave treatment. They are not tracked that way.
Even during treatment, individuals disappear into a statistical stew. With treatment success measured in days of reduced drug use, percentage of "completers," or counts of those who still attend treatment services after six or nine months, cases like Shakarian Frazier's are quickly forgotten—if they are noticed at all.
Not only are individual patients not tracked comprehensively, but there is no solid number for Baltimoreans who need treatment. According to estimates by Baltimore Substance Abuse Systems (bSAS), the quasi-public nonprofit that directs and monitors much of Baltimore City's drug treatment effort, 74,000 Baltimore residents need addiction treatment. It is a loose estimate, based on telephone surveys, arrest data, hospital admissions, and other indirect indicators. It is also greater than a previous loose estimate of 60,000 addicts that had been bandied about by policy makers since the 1980s. That number was debunked by
The Baltimore Sun
in 2005 but repeated long after by drug treatment advocates seeking to drum up funding ("Scoring Data Points,"
, June 14, 2006).
Taking the quasi-official estimates of 60,000 addicts and 74,000 addicts at face value, a decade of increased funding for drug treatment has resulted in 14,000 more Baltimoreans needing drug treatment.
Where Baltimore's drug treatment industry is arguably most efficient is bringing in and tracking money. A key treatment system priority is encapsulated in the title of a consulting report done on bSAS' behalf and released a year ago: "Baltimore City Substance Abuse: Strategies to Maximize Billing." Asked how bSAS makes sure the nearly $50 million in government funds it receives is not wasted, Carlos Hardy, a bSAS spokesperson, replies that the city hardly ever has to give the state anything back. "Reversion has been less than one-tenth of 1 percent," he says proudly. "We've been highly effective in spending every dollar that we get from the state."
And that's just the state-funded side of drug treatment. There is also an expanding private-pay system in which drug treatment providers answer to the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the managed-care organizations (MCOs) it hires to dispense a mix of state and federal Medicaid funds. The MCOs are paid in part to deny care unless it's proven to be "medically necessary," but successful for-profit drug treatment businesses such as Baltimore Behavioral Health (BBH) have developed a number of strategies to maximize billing themselves.
Neither the state grant systems nor the Primary Adult Care (PAC) program—a sort of "Medicaid Lite" health insurance plan for poor people—are set up to advocate for patients or measure how well they do individually under the various types of care provided. Indeed, the data these bureaucracies generate and work from seem to measure everything except the patients' long-term well-being. There have been recent efforts to tighten fiscal control and introduce more efficient therapies (such as "wonder drug" buprenorphine), along with sometimes heroic efforts from caring people up and down the chain of command. But at its very foundation, Baltimore's drug treatment system is fractured, with each element geared toward its own self-perpetuation. That Baltimore can neither count its addicts with any precision nor document their progress in recovery on an individual basis means that every new treatment and addiction theory and every additional dollar spent funding them is an act of faith.
Over the past six months,
City Paper
has examined Baltimore's drug treatment system, its history and plans, talking to practitioners, addicts, and officials both inside and outside bSAS' network ("Cleaning Up,"
; June 23; "Old Habits,"
, July 28; "'We Are Not in the Housing Business,'" Feature, Sept. 29). Though it is not possible to know everything about a decentralized bureaucracy employing thousands of people, several elements of the system now in place suggest that if the system continues on its current course, Baltimore's addict population will not shrink, and may continue to grow.
The problem begins with
patient tracking.
"Our data is by individual patient but only at two points in time—entry and disenrollment," says William Rusinko, a research statistician for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene who for more than 20 years has analyzed the jumble of numbers collected from drug treatment programs. Improvements in data collection are coming, he says, but right now even urine tests—the alpha and omega of drug treatment accountability—are published in aggregate.
"We can track individual patients, but we can't track each individual service" the patients receive, Rusinko says. "That's why it gets difficult to talk about, 'This level of care does better than that level of care.'"
Indeed, the state's data system is designed primarily to track drug treatment programs and allow them to justify their results. A system that instead tracked the progress of individual patients through various drug treatment programs could help state officials determine which levels of care—in-patient, out-patient, or residential—brought the best and most long-lasting results for the types of clients in a given area. The data show, for example, that suburban drug-abusers tend to leave residential treatment in droves while Baltimore's addicts tend to stay. This is probably because many of the suburban folks have decent housing, while many of the city's addicts are often homeless. But there is as yet no rigorous analysis of which treatment centers, or even which broad level of care, get the most people to stop using drugs.
Figures reported to Rusinko's shop are not always trustworthy either. A 2003 performance audit of the state Alcohol and Drug Abuse Administration deemed four of the five reported performance measures "inaccurate," with the final one still uncertified because, as auditors wrote, "unique client identification numbers were not assigned to each client."
When auditors looked at drug treatment results in another program for ex-offenders in 2007, they found that the Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services' division of Parole and Probation still had not assigned unique IDs to its clients. It had also claimed offenders had "successfully completed" drug treatment programs in which they had never enrolled.
"Specifically, we tested 35 of the 1,237 [Proactive Community Supervision] closed cases for which the offenders were identified as having satisfactorily completed treatment during fiscal year 2007," the auditors wrote. "For 24 of the cases, there was no documentation to establish satisfactory completion of a substance abuse treatment program by the offender. Furthermore, for 16 of the aforementioned 24 cases, the offenders had not been enrolled in a substance abuse treatment program."
That is, in nearly half the cases examined, Parole and Probation workers falsely claimed the offender had completed treatment that they had never even attended.
"As a result of those findings, supervisors and agents were reminded of the importance of certifying the accuracy of the data entered in the Division's electronic case records and hard-copy files," Department spokesman Mark Vernarelli wrote in an e-mail to
City Paper
. "The [Department of Legislative Services] audit uncovered issues within one office concerning the accuracy of the case closing data. The Division does not release internal audit reports or documentation."
While state officials appear to regard such indicators of fraud and mismanagement as minor glitches in an otherwise solid system, that system is becoming even less accountable to its clients and less transparent to taxpayers. The growth of the state's PAC program, promises to expand—and ostensibly make more available—services for patients. It also stands to enrich the larger, more established drug treatment programs that can effectively bill Medicaid. But once a patient leaves the grant-funded treatment centers Rusinko monitors, his or her success or failure is not usually reported. Enrollment in PAC takes drug treatment clients off of bSAS' blurry radar screen, making it harder still to track client outcomes and thereby improve services over time.
It's not as if no one cares. Since his arrival in 2009, bSAS President Greg Warren has made sometimes wrenching decisions to get a handle on quality control. On May 15, 2009, he sent a letter to one of Baltimore's most celebrated drug treatment providers, I Can't We Can (ICWC), telling founder Israel Cason that his nearly $350,000 annual grant from bSAS would not be renewed.
With its political ties, up-from-addiction roots, and in-your-face promotion, ICWC was a star drug treatment program in Baltimore in the 1990s and 2000s, scoring Abell Foundation support and fawning media coverage, including a story in this newspaper ("Can Do,"
, June 12, 2002). As part of ICWC's tough-love, faith-based approach, Cason employed his clients at a family-owned restaurant, deployed them at political rallies, and housed them in often dilapidated, overcrowded homes he and his family owned.
Though nominally still operating, ICWC has not filed a federal tax return since 2007. Previous filings are spotty, claiming, for example, more than $1.9 million income from "rents" between 2005 and 2007, but where the form requests "Kind and location of property," ICWC's accountant provided no list of addresses, instead simply writing "residential."
As of mid-2010, nine homes linked to Cason, his family, and/or ICWC were either in foreclosure or had already changed hands. Cason did not respond to numerous requests for an interview, but his nephew, ICWC's Columbia University and Johns Hopkins-educated former chief operating officer, reluctantly granted one.
"My life is in transition right now," Saafir Rabb says during an Aug. 5 interview, adding that he left his uncle's organization four years ago. "I think they're struggling," he says. "With the loss of support from the city, it's a challenge. This was a grassroots organization that was kind of boot-strapped." (ICWC's struggle has not dented Rabb's career trajectory. The 34-year-old has styled himself a nonprofit business consultant, jetting around the world to lecture on cultural competency and other subjects.)
ICWC record-keeping had been problematic for years before bSAS pulled the plug, and its budget was augmented by political patronage. The program was a favorite of Gov. Martin O'Malley when he was mayor; ICWC even received a $280,000 yearly contract from the Department of Public Works to augment street cleaning in its Northwest Baltimore neighborhood. That contract, known to neither bSAS officials nor the public until now, ended in July 2008, according to DPW spokesperson Kurt Kocher.
Like other local treatment programs, ICWC never documented its success in getting people to stop using drugs, and was never asked to. But the cardinal sin in government contracting is failure to account for the money. Cason responded to bSAS' funding cutoff with pickets outside bSAS.
More than a year after terminating its grant, Warren is still reluctant to talk about ICWC and its imposing leader. "I have a lot of respect for Israel Cason," he says, carefully parsing his words during a Sept. 16 meeting. "To have a contract with [bSAS], you need to have an independent audit every year. You need to show us where you spent the money. The houses people live in have to be safe for human habitation."
BSAS Chief Financial Officer Arnold Ross sums up ICWC's problem during an interview in May: "[Cason] is a nice man and believes in recovery. [But] . . . it took a long time for Israel to put on his corporate clothes. I don't think he ever got them all the way on."
If ICWC's seat-of-the-pants
operation was the way of the past, the precise and professional corporate culture of Baltimore Behavioral Health, headquartered a few miles south in the Hollins Market neighborhood, points the way to the future. Like ICWC, BBH is family-owned and operated, with six of its officers and directors related by blood or marriage, according to a two-part investigation published in
The Baltimore
Sun this week. Unlike ICWC, BBH is beyond the control and oversight of bSAS. Under the new system of PAC-funded care, providers like BBH answer only to state regulators—who have been investigating the company since the spring.
Founded in 1997 on the ashes of a bankrupt, grant-funded drug treatment program, BBH grew rapidly in the 2000s to a size nearly 40 percent of bSAS itself. With several physicians on staff and a sophisticated billing operation on the third floor of its building, BBH received $20.4 million in revenue in 2008. None of it came from bSAS, says Terry Brown, BBH's vice president of community relations.
Instead, BBH billed insurers—mainly Medicaid—through the managed-care organizations (MCOs) the government contracted to disburse its money as medically needed. Medicaid is not mandated to cover drug treatment, Brown says, but it does cover emergency room visits brought on by overdoses and other medical hazards of drug addiction.
During a May interview in his office at BBH headquarters, Brown says he negotiated Medicaid coverage for BBH patients. "It's basic economics," he says. "[The MCOs] realized that the patients were going back and forth to the emergency room. They looked at their bottom line" and realized that the cost of treatment at BBH was easily outweighed by the greater cost of one or two ER admissions, which they'd have to pay for under Medicaid's rules. Drug treatment, in other words, saves money.
Brown says BBH concentrates on "co-diagnosis" of mental illness. Indeed, the rise of the co-diagnosis in drug treatment is widely considered an improvement as it deals simultaneously with two conditions that often feed each other in many addicts. It's a major step toward making drug treatment services medical care, as for any other illness. Co-diagnosis also means BBH often deals with two separate state bureaucracies—one for drug treatment and the other for mental illness. Each one releases money separately, and BBH bills them both for patients receiving both substance abuse treatment and mental health services. Brown estimates that 525 of BBH's 600 patients are co-diagnosed with mental illness.
Brown says the state bureaucracy's separate mental health and drug treatment "silos" are inefficient, and he wishes they would merge. "If we could get $225 a day for someone instead of the $300 we get, that would still be better because we don't have to bill two [agencies]," he says.
Such inefficiencies have nonetheless helped BBH's directors and officers prosper. CEO William Hathaway earned $347,089 in 2008 (up from only $166,000 earned two years earlier and more than three times the pay of then-bSAS President Adam Brickner). His wife Victoria made more than $40,000 in 2008 and $61,500 in 2009 serving as BBH's "recording secretary" for 20 hours a week. Morris and Sandra Hill, BBH's president and vice president for clinical services, respectively, earned $277,992 each.
BBH's mastery of multiple, complex billing systems is the key to its financial success, but it is not total. In 2008, the Inspector General for the state Department of Health and Mental Hygiene went over BBH's bills with a fine-toothed comb, discovering $128,000 worth of billing errors. BBH agreed to repay $108,000 of that. That same year, the Administrative Service Organization that Maryland contracts with to disburse money for mental health care discovered a $2.66 million overpayment to BBH, which has been paying it back at the rate of $65,000 per month interest-free—reduced from an original agreed figured of $110,000 a month—according to documents released to
City Paper
under a Maryland Public Information Act request.
The pay-backs, along with other state budget cuts brought on by the recession, have apparently crimped BBH's ability to provide the promised "high rate of success" for its clients. Many of the recovery houses surrounding BBH have shut down (see "'
In the absence of actual information, theories about BBH's issues run the gamut from fanciful rumors to malapropism. Keith Murchison gives his assessment.
"BBH lost funding 'cause they were messing up. Big time," Murchison says. "I think it was plagiarism."
A few years ago, when he was a BBH patient, Murchison says he would have rated BBH an eight on a scale of one to 10. "If I was to give it a rating, I'd say maybe a three or four now," he says.
It is Sept. 11, and Murchison is in Druid Hill Park for the fourth annual Recovery Walk and Rally, part of Recovery Month activities, a September spasm of marches, rallies, and advertisements sponsored by the federal Department of Health and Human Services to demonstrate that, as its slogan says, "Treatment Works." There are hundreds of people here, and free hotdogs and sodas, a band, and lots of drug treatment counselors mixed in among the clients. Murchison, with a valentine heart tattooed on his right cheek, has the usual life story of long-time drug users, with burglary, armed robbery, assault, and various drug-dealing charges adorning his 18-year criminal record. He's been at the east-side, for-profit, residential treatment center Powell Recovery Center, Inc., for two months, and says it's the best place he's ever been sent. (He is still drug free, as this story goes to press.) "Feels good," he says. "Feels good to get up and not chase. . . ."
Though a drug treatment veteran, Murchison is still learning the aphorisms drilled into substance abuse repentants by their counselors, recovery colleagues, and therapists. But he has one ready for a reporter: He says he once told a psychiatrist who asked him if he had ever considered suicide that, actually, he practices it every day. Murchison says he's tired of the streets and the chancy quality of the heroin available: "You don't know what you get out there."
In Baltimore, you can be sure that in drug treatment, at least, whether you graduate or merely attend counseling sessions for at least 180 days, that your experience will be distilled into numbers and deployed in the mission of expanding the funding and reach of the drug treatment industry. How it best serves you, or how it might serve you better if you relapse, will remain unknown, a matter of faith.
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Bipolar and previously addicted to alcohol and drugs, two months into his recovery Murchison says in September that he is unable to work or seek work at the moment because he's "on blackout" at Powell Recovery. He defines this as "a certain period of time you have to be there so [the center] can pull the money from the state."


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Wolverhampton Racecourse is owned by Arena Racing Company, the largest racecourse operator in the UK. Racing began in Wolverhampton in 1825 and moved to the current racecourse site in 1888, the first race meeting being held on 13 August. We are proud that in 1994, HRH Queen Elizabeth II re-opened the new Wolverhampton Racecourse. Britain's first floodlit racecourse, Wolverhampton Racecourse now welcome 120,000 visitors each year across 80 race fixtures, music live events and conferences.
In 2014, a major investment into a new high-performance Tapeta track was completed, a surface that wasn't yet used in Great Britain. After a three month resurfacing period, the racecourse opened for business again with our first meeting on the Tapeta track, receiving excellent reviews from jockeys, trainers, owners and racegoers.
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Warner Bros. has released the first official photo of Lady Gaga and new proud papa Bradley Cooper in the upcoming film, A Star Is Born. Production of the musical remake began in Southern California on Monday, with some scenes reportedly being shot from a staged country music set at Coachella later this week. The film marks Cooper's first foray into directing and Lady Gaga's major film debut.
Check out the first photo below:
Gaga (who will be credited under her real name Stefani Germanotta) will portray an up-and-coming singer named Ally who gets guidance from a country music star (Cooper) on the decline. From Warner Bros.:
"Jackson Maine, a country music star who is on the brink of decline when he discovers a talented unknown named Ally (Germanotta). As the two begin a passionate love affair, Jack coaxes Ally into the spotlight, catapulting her to stardom. But as Ally's career quickly eclipses his own, Jack finds it increasingly hard to handle his fading glory."
This is the third time A Star Is Born is being remade. The original 1937 film starred Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. It was later remade in 1954 with Judy Garland and James Mason, and then again in 1976 with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson as the leads.
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To: Referring Physicians:
Please review the frequently asked questions (FAQ) and responses below:
It was my understanding the dementia specialist didn't have to wait 90 days to see the patient for follow up. Is there any way that the specialist would eventually be able to input the POST-PET data before this 90 day period since patient would be seen earlier than this time frame?
Two visits are recommended:
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2. 90 day post-PET (mandated in study protocol, to record actual implemented patient management, in person)
The post-PET form is completed at 90 days and not immediately post-PET in order to record actual implemented management, as opposed to the intended management recommended immediately post-PET but not yet implemented. The 90 day post PET visit is expected to be done in person unless extraneous circumstances arise.
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Is it possible to do the 90 day follow up by telephone, rather than in person with the subject?
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Being just a few months younger than him, I'm a huge John Mayer fan. I love his music and I feel like his style is always evolving. What always struck me most was the honesty of his lyrics and how he was able to tap into how our generation must be feeling at a particular stage in life. This fascination with him began many years ago, long before his casual dating and sometimes cavalier attitude gained him a reputation.
Good looking and successful, it was hardly surprising to most when Mayer started playing the field and spending time with some of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. From Jennifer Love Hewitt and Jennifer Aniston to Katy Perry, his most recent love connection, the singer has been accused of womanizing and failing to commit. Some defended his actions but took offense after a particularly noteworthy interview was published.
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He spoke with Playboy magazine in 2010 and, during the discussion, he revealed a little too much about the 10 months he spent dating Jessica Simpson in 2006. He described his former flame as "a drug" and then went on to refer to their relationship as "sexual napalm." Many felt that it was completely insensitive and demonstrative of his lack of respect for women.
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When it was reported that he was dating Taylor Swift, a young woman 12 years his junior, people seemed completely shocked. Women many years her senior with far more experience had been seriously hurt by his dating style and some worried that someone so much younger was at a greater risk of having her heart broken… and then it happened.
Swift has made a name for herself writing songs about failed relationships and the men she has dated so, it wasn't a surprise when their duet "Half of My Heart" was followed up by her solo track, "Dear John." Among the scathing lyrics, Swift wrote: "Dear John, I see it all, now it was wrong / Don't you think 19 is too young to be played by your dark twisted games, when I loved you so?"
At the time, Mayer responded by saying that he was "humiliated" by the song because he felt like he didn't deserve it and that he had become better at taking accountability for his actions. He called it a "really lousy thing for her to do," referred to it as "cheap songwriting" and claimed that he was "really caught off-guard" because she had never told him how she felt personally.
Fast forward to 2013, when his relationship with Katy Perry became more serious, and he began singing a different tune. He sat down with CBS Sunday Morning and admitted that he had been "a jerk" and was sorry for how he treated all of the women in his past, including Swift. It seems that his remorseful attitude has now transitioned into one that simply wants to put the past behind him.
Change of Heart
In a very recent interview with MSNBC's Ronan Farrow, he gave Swift credit for being an artist who has taken a stand against music streaming services such as Spotify. Mayer said that it is "really cool" to have someone as popular as Swift taking action and explained that "artists need the person with the loudest voice to speak for them" and acknowledged how powerful she has become.
In his own attempt to put everything in perspective, Mayer went on to say: "'Look, I can say the name Taylor Swift. She's an artist. I'm an artist. Let's just…everybody stop. Nobody's got an incurable cancer. We're rich people who get to live out our dreams. Let's just stop it.' I'm a musician who's bigger than one song or one record. It's really about the longevity of all the work that goes together, and I'm just not interested in the things that won't last forever."
Deep Reflections
How is this change in attitude possible? He explained that he "didn't have a drinking problem" but, rather, began his career at just 23 years old at the top of the chart and didn't know how to deal with it in the healthiest of ways. He added: "When you invariably do find out that not everything you touch turns to gold, you've got a choice: You either bleed out or you tie off. . . I tied off after I went, 'Alright, dude, you did a couple interviews where you were out of touch and being a ham and basically breakdancing into a nitroglycerin plant. Now you don't even have the chance that everyone's gonna love you – ever again. In that period of time, I would have rather killed myself than been killed. I was never going to wrap my Corvette around a tree. My high-speed crash was an intellectual one."
It seems that those humbling moments were good for him. He now refers to himself as a "recovered ego addict" and keeps a much lower profile. He has openly discussed having an anxiety disorder in the past which, likely, made all of this a little more difficult to overcome and address. Hopefully, this really is the beginning of a new chapter in his life and he can return to focusing on the music that brought him such acclaim and fame.


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AUSTIN, Tex. (INTELLIHUB) — Former U.S. Army Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs attended the Austin 1776 Freedom March on Saturday and gave attendees a kick ass speech.
"You have got to go out under the mindset that you could be attacked for your beliefs," the former Staff Sergeant said.
"Are you going to be a victim […] or are you going to train?"
"We're trained, we're armed, we're vigilant, we know what the hell is going on — and have got to stay like that every fu*kin' day," he said. […] these people will sucker punch you."
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What are swollen eyes?
Swollen eyes are those that present a larger size than usual, for any internal or external cause. Fortunately, most times this anomaly is not related to any problems of the eyes, but it reflects an imbalance in the body, and, once passed, they return to normal.
While it lasts, it can both can cause personal discomfort and a strange physical appearance.
Symptoms of swollen eyes
The main symptoms of swollen eyes are: Reddened eyes, tired eyes, dilated eyes, swollen eyes
Causes of swollen eyes
The main causes of swollen eyes are:
– Eyes diseases: Any disease of the eyes may be the cause of eyestrain.
– Body Diseases: Some physical illnesses are reflected in the eyes as an allergy, or Crohn's disease.
– Bad habits: Adopting bad reading habits, such as working in front of a computer screen, watching television for many hours, working under bad light conditions, etc force your eyes and produce eyestrain.
– Fatigue or lack of rest or sleep: Too much work, lack of rest or problems with insomnia are reflected in the eyes causing swollen eyes.
– Free radicals: A poor diet together with aggressive environmental conditions – smoke, dust, volatile chemicals, pollen from plants, etc. and the oxidation of the body itself produce free radicals, for which the vision is one of the most sensitive organs and one of the worst affected. (See Eyes diet)
– Liquid retention: A bad drainage due to retention of body liquids under the eyes causes swelling to the surrounding tissue.
– Age: Age causes a weakening of the muscles that hold the eyes and skin which involves a very characteristic appearance of eye swelling in the elderly.
– Weeping: Crying produces swelling of the eyes.
Swollen eyes prevention
Among the main advice to avoid or to treat the swollen eyes we have:
– Sleep or rest enough. It is convenient to do so with your head up and with a pillow underneath to help drain the eye area.
– Maintain a proper diet, rich in natural foods containing vitamins (A, B, C, F) and minerals (zinc) and avoiding toxins such as alcohol or tobacco. Salt consumption should have to be avoided or reduced because it could cause water retention.
– Cool the swelling: Wash your eyes with cold water, apply a compress dipped in cold water or apply ice for 5 minutes under the eyes before going to bed to reduce inflammation. Apply this same treatment when you get up in the morning if you are prone to swollen eyes.
– Avoid the contact with flowers or elements that could produce pollen allergy.
– Maintain good habits of taken care of reading and vision care (See more information on this topic)
Diagnosis and treatment of swollen eyes
A swollen eye first requires a previous visit to a specialist for an opinion on the real causes of this disorder.
The natural treatment of swollen eyes implies using some natural remedies to prevent or treat it
More information on swollen eyes and its natural treatment.
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Capitalism is Inherently Long-Term
Capitalism depends upon the accumulation of capital in order to implement more indirect methods of production. Capital makes it possible to build a complex system of production, supporting those who build it and the entrepreneur in the gap between laying its foundation and bringing the product to market. As, over time, production processes become ever more complex the tendency is for the views of capitalists to stretch further into the future.
This view is in contradiction to the general view that capitalism is short term, but that view seems to be more oriented to the financial side of economic activity. Finance, especially in the world of fiat currency, is largely short term as it is not oriented to funding productive processes.


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Hi, my name is Carolyn McCoy. Music has been a Muse of mine since forever. I never had a desire to become a musician, but I did feel a deep need to become part of the scene of music makers. I write about artists, bands or musicians I admire; I write CD reviews of local music I like and I document it all with my own photographs. My blog is my way to show honor to the people who inspire me to create. For art begets art and one must follow the call of the Muse.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Diary Of A Groupie: The First Musician
In my last day's of college before flunking out, I took the liberty of practicing what is commonly called a "California Stop", that's where you don't stop but only slow down at a stop sign. I got a traffic ticket, not surprising. I blame myself and only myself. My displeased parents gave me 2 options: I could either have higher insurance rates or they would send me to traffic school, my choice. So one fabulous, early-summer weekend, I spent 8 hours holed up in a local community center to pay my debt to society.
But with that seemingly sad fate of a restless young woman, I found my destiny. I guess I have to thank "The Lettuce Amuse You Laugh and Learn Traffic School" for setting me up with my very first-ever date with a musician, he was 38, I was 19, hence setting me up for a life-long love affair with dating, romancing and surrounding myself with musicians.
I first noticed this super-cute blue-eyed & blond Music Man smiling at me when I got the fabulous opportunity to play Vanna White in the "Wheel of Traffic" game we played in order to make us all the wiser of the California State driving laws. He invited me to lunch and I found out he played bass, guitar & drums and was a session player for the likes of Carlos Santana, Chris Isaak & Joe Satriani as well as performing in many bands he formed himself. I forgot what his traffic violation was but I guess that doesn't matter.
We talked on the phone for a few days, getting into some great conversations about his life as a musician. The thrill of the stage, the piles of cocaine, the addictions, the groupies, the hard life that the road truly represents. It was all so completely foreign to a little, naïve girl such as myself, but I was hooked on his stories and the idea of the Desperate & Tumultuous Music Romance I wanted with him that played in my head.
But I do remember that after meeting him, even though it was a short-lived romance, I changed incredibly. After hearing his stories & sharing my passion for music with him, I opened. With talking deeply with him about how music can be so ingrained in us it becomes an obsession to contain it or let it explode in us, I began to hear things differently.
I started to listen to recordings he played on, old and new records where he may have been on only one or two tracks. I started to pick apart the music and challenge myself to hear beyond the notes and riffs. I started to listen to a song over and over trying to piece together all the different parts and how they all fit together to make THIS SONG that sounded like no other song ever played, heard or recorded.
My world blew apart after meeting this man. My understanding of music was hugely enlightened because of his influence, and all he really did was make me Rice-A-Roni and tell me I was good kisser.
Moonmama says, "ROCK ON!"
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Spring is Here! Is Your Deck Ready?
Can you feel it? Can you feel the pull of warmer weather enticing you to go outside and enjoy your deck or patio? As the weather improves, the days get longer, and plants start to awaken, we all seem to feel the pull: We want to start grilling, eat outside, and add to our landscaping. During this time most of us also start to think about summer entertaining—a backyard full of friends and family enjoying good food and good company.
With all these things in mind, you step out onto your back deck or patio and realize your builder-grade space is less than inviting. You see perhaps a 10' x12' area with barely enough room for a grill and dining table and quickly realize your outdoor space needs serious help. The team at Tarheel Associates, Inc. are experts when it comes to remodeling and expanding existing homes in New Bern and the surrounding area. They can take a boring backyard and turn it into a haven you and your guests will never want to leave.
Revamp your deck or patio:
It doesn't take long for a home's standard deck or patio to show serious wear and tear. Hours of direct sunlight zaps your wood and extreme weather changes can cause a concrete patio to crack. Now is the time to call in an experienced builder to work with you to remodel or rebuild your worn out deck. Discuss what you'll be using the new space for and how often you plan to use it and he can help you select the perfect design and materials to ensure long-lasting enjoyment. While designing a new deck, consider adding special features such as built-in seating, a water feature, or a fire pit—and don't forget to add extra outlets.
Add cozy comfort with a fire pit:
When a fire pit is added to a deck it is often built under the structure to optimum visual appeal. Your contractor could even build benches around the fire pit, making it much easier to enjoy this feature. Running a gas line to the fire pit is another good idea. No firewood will ever be required and the fire can be easily started and extinguished.
Install an outdoor kitchen:
When you're serious about enjoying your outdoor oasis to the fullest, an outdoor kitchen is a must. When entertaining guests there's nothing more annoying that having to traipse back and forth from your deck or patio and the kitchen—even if it's only a few feet away. An outdoor cooking space allows you to prepare meals with the same ease you would inside. A contractor can make cooking a breeze by installing a grill, sink, stovetop, a frying station, a mini fridge, and more. If your new outdoor kitchen isn't close to your interior kitchen, make sure to include cabinets or a cart to store grilling tools, utensils, plates, and serving pieces.
Wow guest with an amazing dining area:
After cooking in your new outdoor kitchen there's nothing like eating a delicious meal outside in a beautiful and colorful setting. A round table is often best for good conversation and, to be sure guests want to stay for a while, comfortable seating is a must. You can even add pillows to dining chairs to increase comfort. Many designers suggest adding a smaller table nearby as a serving station for food and drinks.
With natural light bathing your outdoor dining space don't be afraid to use bright, bold colors when selecting seating fabrics. To the eye, bright sunlight can often dampen bright colors so don't be afraid to go for yellow, orange, fuchsia, azure, or lime green. After the sun goes down, lighting becomes important. Instead of the standard ceiling fan over your table, try hanging a beautiful chandelier connected to a dimmer switch. You can also add candles to the tables for soft, relaxing lighting at night.
Throw some shade:
Rain, wind, and even extra-sunny days can hamper your use—and enjoyment—of your outdoor kitchen. Make the most of your grilling and dining area by covering and protecting your space with a full roof, a partial roof, a pergola, or an outdoor umbrella. Shade sails are another popular option—especially in coastal areas. Your builder can help you decide which option is best for your home.
Make sure you don't miss the game:
For the ultimate in outdoor entertaining, mount an all-weather television, speakers, and sound system outside. There's nothing quite like enjoying a great college football game with friends and family while also enjoying the great outdoors. This kind of set up sure beats going to a local bar! Why bother with crowds and poor service when you can have a much better experience at home? When the television isn't in use, the sound system can be used to play your favorite tunes.
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G. Lance Binder
Executive Vice President
B.S. in Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 1978. Prior to joining NSAI in 1983, Lance was a Supervising Engineer with Exxon Company, U.S.A. His work includes project coordination, annual reserves evaluations, analysis of secondary recovery projects, and fair market value studies. Lance's areas of specific expertise include the Haynesville and Eagle Ford Shale basins, East Texas/North Louisiana tight gas sands, the Permian Basin, Louisiana Gulf Coast, and the Gulf of Mexico.


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The exact problem was not disclosed.
"Rosanne is expected to make a full recovery and will return to the studio to complete the recording of her debut for Manhattan Records," the web site said.
The surgery will be held at Presbyterian Hospital, but no date was announced for the surgery.
Cash canceled her four remaining concerts this year, but will resume her live performance schedule in the spring and will complete a new book to be published by Viking in early 2009.
She has currently been touring in support of her well-received and Grammy-nominated "Black Cadillac" album.


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Delta Sigma Phi has launched a new assessment model for the 2015-2015 academic year called the Pyramid Program.
The new model is designed to incorporate suggestions taken from students, staff, volunteers, and professionals working with fraternities and sororities, and works to streamline the collection and organization of information in a manner that will enable more relevant coaching for all chapters of Delta Sig.
The 20 components are organized into a pyramid, with the most foundational elements in the base and a new opportunity for chapters to tailor their coaching, called Elevation, at the top. Chapters that come closest to completing 20 components will be considered for a Pyramid of Excellence, the Fraternity's top honor for an undergraduate chapter.
However, there is more to this new assessment than how the components are organized. Here are some changes that will make the Fraternity's assessment process simpler and more dynamic than in years past:
Information Collection: As opposed to chapters submitting a comprehensive Accreditation report at the end of the school year, with the Pyramid Program, Fraternity Chapter Support Specialists (CSS) and New Chapter Support Specialists (NCSS) will mark off and collect documentation for as many components as possible while visiting each chapter. Chapters may also submit documentation to their CSS or NCSS throughout the year. Then, at the end of each academic year, chapters will have the opportunity to submit any missing documentation. Most importantly, Delta Sig will be able to better give chapters credit for what they do, rather than for just what is reported.
Awards: In addition to submitting additional documentation at the end of the year, chapters will also have the option to apply for any of the Fraternity's awards. More information on our award application and new awards will be announced this fall. The award packet will be available for download and from our staff on Sept. 25, 2015.
Assessment: In our old model, two chapters with a 70% score could be at completely different performances levels simply based on which points they missed.
The work of each chapter's Chapter Support Specialist or New Chapter Support Specialist will be to help the chapter complete all of the components of the program. As such, our focus is to work from the base of the pyramid to the top, ensuring that each chapter works off of a solid foundation, is a solid contributor to the community and has a solid support system for its members.
New Components: Most of the components in the Pyramid Program were transferred from the prior assessment tool with minor changes for clarity. Three new components outside of the Elevation Section were added to the new model and include:
- Chapter Advisor Component – The value of volunteers is incomparable. The new assessment includes some simple expectations regarding communication between a chapter and its advisor(s).
- Ritual Education/Training Component – The Ritual is a defining quality of the Delta Sig experience. The Pyramid Program includes expectations on regular education regarding the Ritual and the rehearsal of ceremonies.
- Officer Transition Component – The key to consistent success for any chapter is a strong annual transition between officers. A component has been added with guidelines to encourage better, more consistent officer transitions.
Elevation: The top section of the Pyramid is called Elevation. This section is composed entirely of new components that have been regularly requested or demonstrated by chapters of Delta Sigma Phi. Chapters choose four of the seven components in this section to complete based on the chapter's personality and goals. More components may be added to this section in the future to allow for even greater choice in the coaching and assessment each chapter receives.
Resources: The following will be made available to all chapters, volunteers and fraternity/sorority professionals:
- A PDF with a visual display of the Pyramid Program and a list of the components
- A packet with one page dedicated to each component. These one-pagers will include the required documentation, notes about the component and some best practices from chapters across the country. They will be available online or through the Chapter Support and New Chapter Support Specialists on Sept. 21, 2015.
- Nik Koulogeorge, Director of Fraternity Growth & Support, hosted a webinar on Sept. 21, 2015 at 7 to walk through the program and answer questions. Couldn't make it to the webinar? Watch a recoding of the webinar here.
In 2005, Delta Sigma Phi launched Vision 2025, a bold plan to become America's Leading Fraternity. The Fraternity's assessment model has gradually adjusted to the metrics laid out in Vision 2025, and the Pyramid Program continues that trend and offers new ways to simplify and personalize how chapters are assessed and coached.
In the coming years, components may be adjusted, added or replaced, and new options will be added to the Elevation section to provide chapters with even more choice!
As the Fraternity builds upon partnerships such as utilization of GreekLifeEDU, the participation in the Sexual Assault Coalition and the development of the Transition Experience, and as the Fraternity continues its aim to become America's Leading Fraternity, The Pyramid Program will grow and adapt to fit new expectations for an ever growing fraternity.
If you are an undergraduate chapter member and have questions about the Pyramid Program, please contact your Chapter Support Specialist or New Chapter Support Specialist.
If you are a volunteer, alumnus or fraternity/sorority professional and have questions about the Pyramid Program, please contact Nik Koulogeorge, Director of Fraternity Growth & Services, at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Erickson Air-Crane announced that it has entered into a new $100 million, five-year revolving credit facility with a group of financial institutions led by Wells Fargo Bank and including Bank of the West, Deutsche Bank Americas and HSBC Bank USA.
Erickson said the interest rate under the credit agreement is 325 basis points to 450 basis points over LIBOR depending on the company's senior leverage ratio.
The company said the proceeds under the credit agreement are expected to be used for general corporate purposes.
Portland, OR-based Erickson Air-Crane is a global provider of aviation services to a diverse mix of commercial and government customers. The company currently operates a diverse fleet of 87 rotary-wing and fixed-wing aircraft, including a fleet of 20 heavy-lift S-64 Aircranes.


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University Resources for Aspiring Scientific and Medical Writers in the Research Triangle Park Area
February 22, 2017 | Kathryn Tworkoski, PhD, Clinical Research Scientist II | Medical Writing Services
Finding a job is hard—finding a job in a new field can be even harder. As someone who recently broke into the field of medical writing I'm familiar with the associated challenges, but I can also tell you that the reward is more than worth the work!
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|IMPACT recently created a series of blog posts to help others make similar career transitions by highlighting local resources available to aspiring scientific and medical writers.
Previous posts discussed professional networking tips, how to use social media to make your transition, and professional organizations for emerging medical writers.
In this post, I've compiled a list of useful programs and opportunities provided by local universities in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Italic text denotes opportunities that are available to everyone, even people not affiliated with a university.
Record Numbers of FDA‑Approved Drugs: Recent Trends
March 10, 2016 | Kathryn Tworkoski, PhD, Clinical Research Scientist | Regulatory Affairs, Medical Writing Services, Drug Development Consulting
Everyone knows that getting FDA approval of a new drug, whether it be a new molecular entity (NME) approved through a new drug application (NDA) or a new therapeutic biologic approved through a biologic license application (BLA), can be extremely challenging. But did you know that in 2014 and 2015, CDER approved record numbers of new drugs?
So what do I mean by "record numbers?" And are there any trends in the recent increases in approvals? Let's take a more detailed look.
The Rapidly Expanding World of Rare Diseases
November 4, 2015 | Kathryn Tworkoski, PhD, Clinical Research Scientist | Regulatory Affairs, Drug Development Consulting
When you think about drug development, you probably assume that pharmaceutical companies are most likely to invest in therapies that can be used by a large percentage of the population to treat common diseases. Yet recent years have witnessed an explosion in the development of so-called "orphan" drugs that treat rare diseases.
In 2013, 33% of the New Molecular Entities (NMEs) approved by the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research were orphan drugs and in 2014, 41% of NMEs were orphan drugs. All of which begs the question: what's driving this interest in orphan drug development?
Rare Diseases
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Although an individual rare disease affects fewer than 200,000 people in the US, there are roughly 7,000 rare diseases that impact over 25 million Americans.


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He seized control with a pair of eagles on the back nine, two big pars and a 5-under 67 that gave him a three-shot lead over McIlroy as he goes for his first major in the city where he led undermanned Augusta State to two NCAA titles. He reeled off five straight birdies on the back nine, launching the run with a 24-foot birdie putt at the par-3 12th.
It sure feels like it.
McIlroy shot a 7-under 65 in the third round Saturday to match his lowest score at the Masters, pushing him within three shots of Reed and into the final pairing.
Woods had two birdies and an eagle on the back and looked like he would get to even par for the event.
"It's just kind of one of those things that I've been working on it and trying to tap into Ryder Cups more and more and try to play some solid golf".
Four-time Major victor Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland, seeking a career Grand Slam with a triumph here, sank birdie putts from 16 feet at 15 and 17 feet at 18 in a seven-under par 65 to stand second on 11-under 205 through 54 holes.
A chip that likely would have gone off the green at the par-5 eighth banged into the pin and dropped for eagle. For Reed, this would be his first major championship, but for McIlroy, it would be the completion of a career grand slam. "But there are a lot more players in the spot than just Patrick Reed and I".
He paused to smile when he heard a few chuckles.
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"It was going to be tough, anytime trying to close off a golf tournament is really tough", said Reed, who posted a winning total of 15-under 273. He settled down when he canned a 15-footer for birdie on the third hole and added another red number at the seventh when he stuffed his second shot from 133 yards to a foot for another birdie.
And then on the par-5 eighth, Mickelson hit driver off the fairway to 8 feet and made eagle. He was at 8-under 208.
Nowhere near him are Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, the two names that generated so much of the buzz for a Masters that otherwise is living up to expectations.
The 27-year-old held his nerve to drain a four-foot par putt at the 18th for a final round one-under 71 and end Fowler's hopes of a playoff.
Top-ranked Dustin Johnson and 2017 PGA Championship victor Justin Thomas were on 141.
Woods played the third round with Ian Poulter - they had not played together in a tournament since the Bridgestone Invitational in 2011. He sank a 7-foot birdie putt on 18 to pull within one and keep Reed under pressure to the 72nd hole.
Reed, a former Augusta State star, returned to Augusta with limited Masters success entering the week. He's got a lot of support here.
AUGUSTA, Ga. - The rain came and went and came again.
Blitzboks power into Hong Kong semis
The try by Vatemo Navovo all but ended Shujaa's hopes of winning the Hong Kong sevens after a brilliant run to the final.
McIlroy, too, was playing with rare flair and confidence - until he got to Amen Corner, where he left a birdie putt up at the 11th and had to play out of the bunker at the 12th.
Quote: "I feel like I'm going to go out and try and finish with a solid round tomorrow, hopefully".
Quote: "I've been waiting for this chance, to be honest".
Brooks Koepka will defend his US Open crown in June, with Spieth holding the British Open title while world number two Justin Thomas is the USPGA champion. You're talking about match play to stroke play and you're also talking about you have Rickie [Fowler], Jon Rahm, [Henrik] Stenson, [Tommy] Fleetwood and Bubba [Watson] right behind us.
But he shrugged off any other comparisons, starting with the decorum outside the ropes at Augusta National compared with a flag-waving crowd at the Ryder Cup.
Reed bore the burden of being the stopper, and the pressure of the moment weighed on him.
"I started nine back", Spieth said.
More than any pressure with the Grand Slam at stake, McIlroy has a score to settle.
John Krasinski Insisted Deaf Actress Be Cast In 'A Quiet Place'
A Quiet Place follows a family who live on a haunted farm where the paranormal creatures are attracted by noise. He reached out on Twitter to let Krasinski know that he loved the movie and that he's already seen it twice.


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MOSTON Juniors under 14s edged out Swinton Boys 5-4.
Juniors were behind early in the match, but they quickly replied and by half time they were 3-1 up. The score went to 5-1, but with the match turning into a mudbath Swinton fought back well. Moston managed to hold out despite having two injured players. The Moston goals came from Mark Dove (2), Kane Dillion (2) and John McManus. Steve Kinsey was player of the match.
- GARY Nolan opened the scoring for Moston under 12s, who beat East Manchester 4-1 in a League Cup tie. Nolan claimed his second before half time. East Manchester stepped up a gear in the second half, but Moston's defence of William Hartley, John Reeves, Louis Green and Arron held firm. A neat move involving Craig Brown, Cane Duffy and Mark Reeves set up Nolan for his hat-trick. East pulled one back, but it was only a consolation, as Cameron Barnes sealed a well-deserved win for Moston.
- MOSTON under 9s beat Chaddy End B 2-1 in an away match. Player-of-the-match Josh Eppleston opened the scoring with a great strike. Sam Ireland volleyed the second goal. Chaddy pulled one back, but Dorrian and Kelly worked hard to deny them another goal. Mark Campbell made a brilliant save just before the final whistle.
- A GREAT display of football was served up by Moston Juniors under 8s A and Chaddy End. A cracking match ended with two goals shared. Andrew Mitchell went close to an early goal, while Ryan Marshall, Niall Clancy, and Harrison Jones had shots well saved. Reece Reynolds defended brilliantly, but it took a stunning one-handed save by Dylan Walker to keep Chaddy out. Chaddy pounced on a mistake to take the lead, but Moston levelled with only a few minutes left to play. A shot from Walker hit the keeper, and Mitchell was there to score from the rebound. Reece Reynolds was named as player of the match.
The under 8s B team scored five with only one in reply from Broadway Celtic. The goals came from Jack Nield (2), Shaun Corcoran (2) and Joel Woods who made his debut.
- MOSTON under 7s beat Northside 2-0. Dale Calvin made a couple of full-length saves before Moston got into the game. Ryan Conway opened the scoring after a move involving Ethan Daly and Anthony Bowen. Sam Roden raced clear to slot home the second.


text: David Pierce, now retired, lives in York. He has written books on Yeats and Joyce and on fiction and social class. He has also edited a four-volume edition of Yeats criticism for Helm Information as well as a Reader in modern Irish writing for Cork University Press. His most recent books are Light, Freedom and Song: A Cultural History of Modern Irish Writing (Yale University Press, 2005), Joyce and Company (Continuum, 2006; Paperback 2008) and Reading Joyce (Pearson Longman, 2008).


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A Few Thoughts on Fear.
Originally, this post was going to revolve around the story behind the following quote: "It's okay to be afraid, but never fear." But, as of yesterday, this quote applied to my life — yet again — in a very big way. I dropped my Finite Math course yesterday because there was no longer any chance … Read more A Few Thoughts on Fear.


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Dodging snakes, thorns and wildlife police, a hunter in Western Equatoria swaps traditional traps for guns in his bid to catch big game.
Sometimes Benjamin Wani Khamis spends a month poaching in the Southern National Park and returns home to find his wife has shifted to another man's house.
Khamis, a soft-spoken man in his late 30s, says hunting in the national park is risky and hard. I really don't enjoy it but my conditions force me to track down wild animals," he says.
I admire wildlife officials. Park animals don't even run away from them because of their uniforms – and they do not raise a gun against them."Khamis spends much of his life roaming the bushy environment of the 20,000 square kilometre-wide national park, on the lookout for wildlife. Typically he sets out at 5:30am, heading for the swamps where animals congregate to feed.
Armed with guns, he and other poachers track the wind direction, as animals are highly sensitive to human scent. Khamis and his friends often trek great distances lugging a bundle of smoked wild animal meat weighing up to 25 kilos.
He says he is constantly on high alert: Even selling smoked meat is dangerous because you could be imprisoned if the wildlife authority catches you. As well as park officials, there are natural threats like thorns and snakes.
It is easy to get lost while walking long distances in search of prey," he says, adding that he often gets caught far from home in heavy rainfall during the wet season.
Without any other option, he plans to continue to poach so that his children can attend school and get medicines. He describes rare upbeat moments after he or another hunter have killed and sold an animal. Then they buy alcohol to share.
Before guns came along, Khamis used to trap animals by digging five-meter-wide holes and camouflaging them with grass. He and his father would stab any animal, which fell into the trap. They caught mostly antelope, but also elephant, buffalo, warthog, hippo, rhino, cheetah and leopard.
But in the 1980s, he and many others in his community switched to using guns, which sped up the chase. Big animals raise more money at the local market. There he sells his meat alongside others from the local community, which has long poached for a living.
Some people still use traditional methods like a trap or a net and a bow and arrow, sometimes chasing injured animals for kilometres.
Khamis dons long-sleeved green or dark coloured clothes to resemble a patrolling wild life officer in the hope he will not intimidate the animals. He prowls barefoot through the park, which in places is completely dark because of the thick bush.
In the future he would like to work for the wildlife authority in the park. I admire wildlife officials," he says. Park animals don't even run away from them because of their uniforms – and they do not raise a gun against them."


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This guest post is by Naomi Creek. During Naomi's five years leading the Young Women's Arthritis Support Group (YWASG) in Melbourne, Australia, she witnessed the benefits of people living with arthritis meeting up with others in a social setting. Having people from all over the globe ask her how to meet others who live with similar conditions (or how to start their own support group), she decided to start Chat Rheum!
Naomi directed this post at rheumatologists and other health professionals who treat patients with arthritis-related conditions & kindly allowed us to repost it here. Follow Naomi @chatrheum.
When you see a patient for the first time or during a regular visit, your focus is on treating their current symptoms and providing solutions to give them the best possible future. Discussing other coping strategies such as physical, mental and social activities appears to be overlooked sometimes.
"Feeling alone and frightened"is a phrase often expressed by newly diagnosed patients. Their world as they knew it is now gone and the prospect of popping pills and living in pain is something that is extremely overwhelming for them.
For your patients, knowing there are others out there living well with arthritis and being provided information on how to meet them could be the most important thing they take away from their appointment. Along with their scripts and test referrals, they walk out with a sense of hope.
Enter arthritis support groups.
Arthritis support groups have come a long way since the introduction of social media and the internet. What was once seen as only a place for older people to congregate and talk about their painful knees has now become a thriving hub of friendship and positivity. The tech savvy generation with arthritis has embraced thousands of online forums as places to not only receive comfort and understanding, but also to educate themselves about their condition. There are also many 'real life' groups providing a regular social outlet in an empathetic environment.
Meeting others with similar conditions has positive physical and psychological benefits. Experienced patients can offer those newly diagnosed a wealth of knowledge and support as they manage their life with a chronic condition. Many people joining support groups say they feel a sense of relief finding other people like them.
Other comments from support group members include:
"I thought I had a great support system, but nothing compares to being able to share with people who truly understand what I was thinking and feeling. It's amazing how something so small can have such a big impact on how we cope with this disease."
"Support groups go beyond empathy, they truly understand."
"Information sharing and camaraderie have proven to be just as valued as my specialists."
"In moments of despair my support group pals are always there to answer questions and provide the warmth and friendship I need to keep me strong."
"I leave support group catch-ups buzzing with ideas about how I can help others with arthritis."
There are many different ways you can provide information about support groups to patients:
- Leave flyers and other information brochures in your waiting room for local and online groups.
- Give patients details of their nearest Arthritis Foundation.
- Suggest they go online and Google a site. Facebook is also a good place to start.
- Suggest chatrheum.com to find locals with arthritis or to arrange meet-ups.


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Within minutes of meeting fashion designer Vanda Jacintho, she is casually slipping into bright beach garb in her London studio.
"I'm Brazilian, what do you expect?" she asks, demonstrating the various ways to wear the multitasking panneau that recurs in myriad colourful guises across the eponymous label she launched in 2014. "It's beachwear, designed for a modern jet-setting woman, but my customers also wear my clothes to weddings and parties," says the former Brazilian Vogue fashion editor, who studied at the London College of Fashion while working for the late Tatler fashion director Isabella Blow.
Cross-cultural references abound in her vibrant textile designs, inspired by both European art and the Amazon rainforest. "I grew up in Pantanal surrounded by birds and animals," she says, "but somehow Bauhaus seems to make its way into every collection." The perennially bestselling geometric-print kaftan dress (£350), for example, is a tribute to Sonia Delaunay in silk crepe de Chine, while those large silk square panneaux (from £290) come in eye-catching Mountain and Organic Strokes prints – and can be worn as a skirt, paired with a slouchy silk waist shirt (£469).
This high-summer season sees the introduction of a more fully formed fashion range. "As a stylist, I know how to build a glamorous image, and creating a collection is very similar," explains Jacintho, adding that her ethereal Daniella silk maxi dresses (from £480) and kimono skirts (£465) should not be worn with high heels. Accessories come in the form of big and bold sculptural jewellery inspired by the textures found in nature. There's a definite air of Loulou de la Falaise's maximalist accessorising for Yves Saint Laurent amid the supersized baubles (green and blue four-ball earrings, £425) and bangles (Wave wooden stacking bangles, £485 for three from matchesfashion.com) made by hand in Italy.
Jacintho's new São Paulo boutique is accompanied by an online store, which she is relaunching in November with the arrival of her beautiful 2020 resort collection. Toile de jouy prints inspired by the drawings of Jean Cocteau feature on dresses (from £400) and wraparound skirts (£472), alongside versatile silk shirts (£200) and scallop-edge tunics (£275), segueing insouciantly between exotic holiday glamour and creative urban living.
Alyson Walsh is the author of Know Your Style, published by Hardie Grant, £12.99. She blogs as That's Not My Age. To read more of her How To Spend It columns, click here.


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It's family action week at the Village 8, starting with the big screen adaptation of the cheese-tastic '80s TV show The A-Team .
Rated PG-13, The A-Team watches like a two hour TV show but if you're willing to lower expectations there is certainly fun to be had with lots of crazy-impossible action and acting that is actually pretty top notch. Liam Neeson is a perfect plan-master Hannibal, Bradley Cooper really works it to pull off ladies-man Face, and Sharlto Copley ( District 9) delivers as the insane chopper pilot Murdock. The only weak link is B.A. Baracas, played by mixed-martial arts star Quinton "Rampage" Jackson who has obviously taken a few hits to the head and mumbles his way through much of the film. Jessica Biel also stars as an unrealistically hot army captain in pursuit of the team, who are Iraq Vets now, and have been framed for stealing some U.S. Currency plates.
Besides the misguided romantic subplot (why do they always do that?) and too-frantic editing of the action, our favourite mercs-for-hire deliver a fun but forgettable couple hours at the cinema.
Keeping the kiddie PG theme going, The Karate Kid also opens this Friday. Myself and a ton of other people are gonna feel old when we realize it's been 26 years since the original (shit, I still do the Crane-kick-head-snap move every time I get into a fight at the taxi loop on May long weekend) but time flies, and if Hollywood figures House of Wax is worth remaking then it was only a matter of time until this classic Rocky -for-kids got a remix.
Director Harald Zwart ( The Pink Panther 2, Agent Cody Banks) is pretty well-known for delivering garbage but this time he comes through, although much of the credit should probably go to Jada Pinkett-Smith, who produced the flick with her husband Will Smith as a "make-my-kid-a-star" project for their son Jaden.
Plot-wise, The Karate Kid wisely sticks close to the original (new kid in town, hot girl, mean bullies, ass-kicking mentor) but with several clever updates, including moving the film to China and a nice twist on the infamous fly-chopstick scene. Ralph Macchio was 25 when he played the Kid, at least Jaden Smith is only 11 - and an ass-kicking 11 at that. He does well especially with the fighting and Jackie Chan, who fills the Pat Morita wax-on/wax-off role and utterly shines.
My real beef with The Karate Kid , other than the fact that it should have been called The Kung-Fu Kid and the two-hour-20-minute run time is that it's a bit shallow and misleading. Even though he now lives in China, the Kid isn't spending much time learning about the place or the Chinese people. He's mostly learning how to kick their asses among lots of scenic montages and lessons about family and hard work. Which makes for a pretty entertaining movie but also kinda resembles a Chinese Tourism Board film. Watch Sharkwater and see how the Chinese fin-market decimates shark populations, then watch End of the Line and see how their fishing industry lies about commercial fishing quotas on all the other big fish. Then Google "the occupation of Tibet" and see how the Chinese government has treated the most peaceful people on the planet. It's all pretty disparaging.
Do children's movies like The Karate Kid need to be vehicles of social change? No, I guess not, but glossing over an evil empire with fancy heli-shots of the Great Wall isn't going to help the people of Tibet either. F*ck China.


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