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We can't please toddlers for a pretty simple reason: they can be impossible to please.
At just two years old, our son is a mighty force to be reckoned with. He is sweet, so, so sweet, and loving, and kind. He is generous with hugs (I want a big hug, mommy, he frequently asks), and he has me wrapped around his soft little finger.
I am silly putty, molding clay, Play-Doh, a pliable form that bends to the will of this boy of mine with the bright, energetic eyes and the dimpled cheeks I kiss dozens of times daily. He too is an irrational beast of a thing.
Take this excerpt from one recent breakfast:
Child: I want yogourt, mommy.
Me: OK, you can have yogourt.
Child: I want my Buzz Lightyear bowl, mommy.
Me: OK, let's get your Buzz Lightyear bowl.
Child: No! No! No! I don't want my Buzz Lightyear bowl! (Insert desperate crying here as he shoves aforementioned Buzz Lightyear bowl across the kitchen table.)
Me: OK, then you don't have to use it. Here is your yogourt (note: yogourt is served in a non-Buzz Lightyear bowl).
Child: No! I want cereal and yogourt . . . and applesauce! (Insert more desperate crying.)
My internal voice, edited of curse words: Seriously? SERIOUSLY!!? You're acting like a dictator . . . and I am not a friggen grocery store! What the bleep is your deal?! Coo-coo banana, coo-coo banana, la, la, la, la, la, la, la.
And so it goes. It's Ozzy Osbourne's "Crazy Train" (the drug-free, family edition) and The Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want" all rolled into one.
Once the bar has been set, it seems to be the endless job of toddlers to try and raise it again and again, just for the heck of it.
Thankfully, my son isn't big on temper tantrums, but when one does begin to bubble, I try to circumvent it with a hug and kiss or by speaking calmly to him. I will offer to help, find a clever distraction, or ask for his assistance with something, such as bringing a bowl or plate to the kitchen for me.
Sometimes, though, the tantrum state is too far gone and destined to explode into a picture of chaos, complete with a rush of plump tears and a red screaming face and the dramatic climax of him tossing his body to the ground like a political martyr.
Ignore. Ignore. Give him space to let it all out. I remind myself to do this whenever he has entered this whirlwind state of heightened irrationality and nuttiness.
This is harder to do in public, no doubt, particularly when passersby include smug, childless couples or moms out with their perfect, sunny-faced toddlers (moms who've basically lucked out at this particular time, but still think they have a right to be smug about it).
All parents (even smug ones) eventually learn that the toddler brain is a very complex work in progress.
Constantly growing and developing, kids at this age are easily frustrated, while also trying to exert some control and exercise independence.
They are learning how to be guided by us while mastering their individuality at the same time.
These smart little creatures are also learning exactly when and how they can get us to do what they want.
And sometimes we need to bend. This helps send the message that their ideas and needs matter. It tells them they are valued.
"Two more minutes, mommy," my son said this morning as I tried to hurry him out the door to get to daycare.
He had just thrown his shoes across the floor in protest, because putting them on means we're leaving.
"Want to read a book, mommy?" he asked, gently patting the empty spot on the sofa beside him and looking up at me with big, round eyes.
"Here, mommy, come sit down."
He wanted just this one thing—more time with me, his mommy.
There is nothing more important than this, I think.
So I say, "Yes, sweetie, I do want to read a book with you," and snuggle in next to him, for the pretty simple reason that right now, in this precious moment, he is so completely possible to please.
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Jittery with bitten nails, a jumpy heart rate and too many coffee refills, I knew there was only one way out of this state — yoga.
Must do yoga.
It was this thought that prompted me to race around the house one recent morning to try and make a 9:15 class (even though exercising at my own pace on my own schedule is much preferred).
There was just enough time to get there, though it required skipping that next cup of coffee, which wasn't a strong selling point for getting out the door.
Yet, I resisted that coffee, made of freshly ground beans in our swanky new Italian coffee machine, and left for class. For without it, I couldn't think straight (the yoga, I mean).
My head was busy and in need of slowing down. Thoughts were scrambling over one another and in some cases skipping, leaving them completely unfinished.
There was a nasty tension headache caused by teeth grinding that needed dealing with, as did the small space between the eyebrows that hurt from furrowing.
It was Tuesday and I needed it to be Friday.
As a regular visitor to yoga (which to be clear isn't the same thing as being a dedicated yogi but, rather, a person who regularly starts and stops yoga), the benefits, such as improved flexibility, strength, focus and relaxation, are indisputable. However, the slowness of the practice can be difficult for a certain type of person, say a Type A-ish, coffee addicted, deadline driven kind of person, for instance.
The first observation I made after arriving was that the class was filled to the brim, which made me think of coffee.
Then I was annoyed at the students taking up more space than they needed and those who had placed their mats in such a way that disallowed room for others.
While rolling out the yoga mat in an awkward spot at the back near the arm weights, a curse word or two rose to mind.
Soon this was interrupted by a soothing, transcendent voice that carried through the room, guiding the students into a gentle pose.
"Try to identify where your tension is," the instructor said.
OK. It is here. And here. And it is in this spot in the upper back and along the neck, where deadlines live. And it is in this room where nobody makes room for anybody else and out on the streets where aggressive pedestrians hog the sidewalk ... It is everywhere.
"Try to locate your breath," the purveyor of calmness purred. How the hell does she do it? Exist so calmly? Is she rubbing it in?
I went searching for my breath and panicked when I couldn't find it — until I realized it was being held, gated by two tightly sealed lips. It released like a balloon gradually losing its air.
Soon, from behind the hoods of my eyes, tears were forming, though they weren't the kind of tears that would come streaming out right there in the middle of class making everyone uncomfortable.
It was the feeling that arrives when one's breath deepens and connects to the mind, the relief of sifting through all the junk to make a bit of extra room for clarity.
Yoga, as it does brilliantly, had begun its familiar process of ironing out the stress and of lengthening the limbs and the neck — especially the neck. It began to unwind the mind.
Still, nobody would say I was relaxed or ethereal as I rolled up my yoga mat thinking about what had to be done next, but it was a start.
A week later I returned to class without racing out the door. I found a nice spot waiting for my yoga mat. My nail beds were slightly smoother and my mind a little less like a jumpy Chihuahua than it had been.
When the instructor asked us to locate our breath, I found mine right away, eagerly waiting for deep inhales and exhales and, for one full hour, I successfully set aside thoughts of deadlines and to-do lists and yes, even that next cup of coffee.
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"I'll try it for a day or two, but I doubt I'll last a week," I said to my husband.
We'd just arrived, along with our two-year-old son and Maggie-the-dog, to a teeny tiny Georgian Bay cottage we'd rented for a week.
The cottage was 500-square-feet, snuggled into the aptly named Snug Harbour.
Everything was tucked neatly into one square room, all except the bathroom, which was outside, and a far smaller bunkie, where my son and I slept.
But we were in glorious Georgian Bay and I should've been toppling over with giddy exclamation marks!
I was not.
After dissecting the premises, we learned there was no safe way to reach the water to go for a dip.
The cottage, perched high on a craggy rock formation, was certainly big on drama, for other than the boating dock, every point leading to the water's edge snaked down from a vertical drop.
There is something about vertical drops and two-year-olds that just don't mix. Oh, yeah . . . the potential for injury or death . . . that's it!
I looked around and couldn't imagine staying.
What I did imagine was the unimaginable—our son falling off a cliff or wiping out and hitting his head on some rugged piece of granite or teetering into the rocky water below.
As I contemplated the cramped and potentially dangerous getaway that stretched out before us, I could summon up only one descriptive—stress.
What happened next, however, was surprising and nothing short of spectacular. In fact, I had some of the best times I've ever spent with my family.
We puttered around in the motorboat and explored the water, wandered the Pancake Islands, and spent many lazy afternoons at quiet, tucked away beaches accessible only by boat.
From our vantage point we watched a pair of minks scoot by and a family of oily otters dive elegantly under water.
We hiked the stunning Franklin Island, along with the postcard-perfect Snug Harbour Lighthouse, and picked wild blueberries. We leisurely barbecued steak and perfectly salted garlic potatoes and took the boat out to get ice cream cones that melted and dripped down our chins.
We canoed to the marina for dinner one night and drank wonderful wine and made wonderful toasts.
When our son napped, my husband enjoyed good cigars and fished. I read dusty cottage books and magazines—a collection of short stories by Alice Munro, The Wedding by Nicholas Sparks, and old copies of The Atlantic—until my eyes grew heavy and dropped away from the pages and settled into breezy afternoon slumbers.
We snuggled and laughed and watched the sun dip each night, brushing the sky with brilliant shades of orange and red, and in the morning we ate stacks of pancakes slathered in maple syrup.
The days at once lingered and travelled too fast.
As time went on, we felt refreshed and happy, our spirits lifted by the beautiful magic of Georgian Bay.
In that cottage, we had the space to eat, drink, think, and be.
We had each other; we had everything we needed.
A week together there wasn't long enough.
"I don't want to leave. Maybe we could just stay," I said sadly, as we packed our belongings, knowing that we couldn't, and that soon again our lives would become busy and crowded, leaving us to wonder how we were ever going to fit it all in.
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During our Grape of the Night event, where Chateauneuf du Pape Blanc was the star of the night, we found that there was a key taste in most all of these wines. All of the bottles brought were from Southern France thus giving them some commonality in terroir. This would therefore lead one to believe that they would share some characteristics between them. The key feature that was found amongst the attendees was a taste of minerality. The degree of minerality varied between the different wines poured.
The taste of minerality was noted in pretty much all of the wines that were poured. I made a comment which may or may not be wrong in my article on Chateauneuf du Pape blancs stating that the mineral taste is the result of the terroir.
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The term minerality is very often used or misused as a wine descriptor providing a link between a wine terroir or region that a wine comes from and the wine itself. The book, "The Oxford Companion To Wine" that is used by many of us does not even have the term "minerality" in it.
We know that there are minerals such as sulfur, magnesium, potassium, calcium, manganese, iron, copper and zinc in wines but the levels are too low to be detectable by humans. So where do people come up with taste descriptors such as chalk, slate, wet rocks, flint and limestone with certain wines?
Enter chemistry! One of the best answers comes from the research by Denis Dubourdieu at the University of Bordeaux on mercaptans. Mercaptan (thiols) are a sulfur containing organic compound. The key word here is sulfur. Mercaptans are formed by yeast during and after alcohol fermentation if there is a deficiency of nutrients such as nitrogen. What occurs is that due to a lack of nutrients, especially nitrogen during fermentation, the yeast uses the sulfur in amino acids (Cysteine) that are present forming mercaptans. This is what creates the mineral profile that people taste in wines. Since wines such as Chateauneuf du Pape blancs are grown in soil that consists of pebbles and sand with smooth rocks on the surface called galets there may be a nitrogen deficiency. This would answer the question on why we get a mineral flavor profile from these wines.
In looking at my statement on the terroir being the cause, I would not say that I was incorrect. The fact that the soil lacks nutrients can be viewed as part of the terroir making my statement correct. It would be incorrect if the assumption is that the minerals from the pebbles and rocks are being absorbed and concentrated in the grapes.
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PS. That's a two year old foot tattoo.
Stomberg would…
PS. That's a two year old foot tattoo.
I´ve been through way worst. Belive me
I thought it was a hand at first…
Oh I thought it was a hand also.
Wow check out those colours.
2 years? Holy.
I thought it was a hand as well.
ditto #2 & #4
wow 2 years, awesome!
Damn-2 yrs old and looks amazing. I'd definitly trust that doctor ;]
I like that tattoo very very much
Wish my doctor looked that good. *cackles*
wow, i love the colors.
the shading makes it look like a foot indeed, but nice work, really like the colors, especially after two years.
I will add the nurse on the outher foot this year. I took this picture with my cellphone, eriksson k800…
I don't know why but I thought it was a hand at first also.
Anyway, that is a pretty hot tattoo!
yeah, im with the others. totally thought it was a hand. nice colours!
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if more doctors look liked this i wouldn't hate hospitals so much.
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Friday was a busy day at work. We had the holiday party and it was a beautiful thing! I was able to get off a little early and thankfully didn't have a migraine at. all. It was so nice! That evening Josh and I went on a date and finished our Christmas shopping... phew!
I am soooo proud of my sissy! She graduated with her Elementary Education Major and Spanish Minor.
We celebrated at my parents house and they were so sweet to celebrate ME too! What a blessing it is to have such a supportive family! :-)
This weekend also included three photoshoots. It was super full and today I am wipped out. An adorable family session, engagement session & wedding yesterday kept me really going, going. I loved the wedding. It was a fantastic couple, ceremony and reception. Here is one sneak peek:


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Source: U.S. Office of Management and Budget
Release: Fiscal Year Budget Data
Dates represent the end of the fiscal year. Fiscal year series are updated with official OMB figures in January or February. In October, the latest fiscal year is updated with figures from the Treasury Department (September figures from the Treasury's fiscal year to date series).
U.S. Office of Management and Budget, Federal Outlays: Interest [FYOINT], retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis; https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FYOINT, October 2, 2022.
Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
Release: Gross Domestic Product
BEA Account Code: W005RC
A Guide to the National Income and Product Accounts of the United States (NIPA) - (http://www.bea.gov/national/pdf/nipaguid.pdf)
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No sooner do we try to tease out the profit motives of BlueCross in opposing new rules and oversight, than we find that the stakes are even higher than we think.
Lisa Girion at the LA Times has the scoop:
State regulators are investigating whether a $950-million dividend Blue Cross of California sent to its Indianapolis-based parent violates an agreement the companies made to limit such payments to keep premiums down and maintain the quality of healthcare benefits, officials said Friday.
Officials said the parent, healthcare giant WellPoint Inc., should have taken no more than $141 million out of California. They called the higher amount excessive, particularly as Blue Cross, which serves more than 7 million state residents, has continued to raise premiums. The state Department of Managed Health Care also is considering expanding its probe to determine whether there are any other potential violations of the three-year agreement, part of a deal to win the agency's approval for a corporate marriage that created the nation's largest health benefits provider.
Cindy Ehnes, director of the Department of Managed Health Care, said she was shocked to learn of the $950-million payday for WellPoint, whose total profit last year was $3.1 billion on $57 billion in revenue.
The merger of Wellpoint and Anthem in 2004, creating the nation's largest health insurer, was controversial, for everything from massive executive payouts, to the question of whether it would truly help patients, not just profits. Then-Insurance Commissioner Garamendi extracted a series of "undertakings," or conditions that the new insurer would have to agree to, in order for the merger to be deemed in the public interest and approved.
The question is whether California BlueCross ratepayers are paying inflated premiums to finance the business expenses and profits of the parent company, Wellpoint.
Normally, the state doesn't look at such information. But the Department of Insurance (and the Department of Managed Health Care) used the merger as a leverage point to place some oversight over BlueCross' behavior. But that authority to keep BlueCross in check has a three-year expiration date.
Let's see how the regulator use this authority. Let's make sure that health reform includes additional oversight over insurers that won't expire.
The undertakings are here. Here's Blue Cross' 2005 report on its compliance with the undertakings.


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Tolerable Upper Intake Level (UL)
Tolerable Upper Intake Level or Upper Limit (UL) is defined as the highest level of nutrient intake that does not increase the risk of adverse health effects to almost all individuals in the general population. If the nutrient intake increases above the Tolerable Upper Intake Level or UL, the risk of ill-effects on the human body may also increase.
In fact, the term' tolerable intake' itself indicates that any nutrient intake that crosses this level can pose a risk to the human health. Any intake within this limit can be 'tolerated' biologically. The purpose of the UL is not as same as the recommended level of intake. Until now there is no evidence that nutrient intake above the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) or Adequate Intake (AI) is beneficial for human health.
Purpose of Tolerable Upper Intake Level or Upper Limit (UL)
- The main objective of the UL is to inform the general population about the risks of excess nutrient intake.
- It is useful because of a rise in the interest regarding the availability of fortified foods and an increase in the use of dietary supplements to meet the nutrient requirement.
- The UL is based on the total intake of water, nutrients from the food, fortified foods, and supplements. It helps in understanding if any adverse effects are associated with the total intake. If the ill-effects are associated only with the intake of fortified foods and supplements, then the UL is based on nutrient intake from these food sources and not on the total intake.
- The UL may help in preventing the toxicity of certain nutrients and their undesirable effects on overall human health.
Bottom-Line: The need for UL has increased because of an increase in the regular intake of fortified foods and nutritional supplements by significant proportions of the population. Few nutrients are consumed from the natural foods that could cause toxicity. Hence, it helps the people to understand the adverse effects of nutrients if consumed beyond such a limit. (1, 2, 3)
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Interesting Facts About Uruguay
Uruguay is a a country located in the southeast of South America. Here are some interesting facts about Uruguay that you probably don't know.
Interesting Facts About Uruguay
- About 3.5 million people live in Uruguay. Almost half of population live in the capital of Uruguay- Montevideo.
- Uruguay is a democratic country. The president is both the head of state and the head of government.
- About 95% of the population are of 'mostly European' decent.
- Uruguay is a fairly rich country. The United Nations have ranked it the 45th country in the world for 'quality of life'.
- Uruguay declared independence from Brazil on August 25, 1825.
- The official currency of Uruguay is the peso.
- The Spanish arrived in Uruguay in 1516. They introduced cattle in 1603, which was a great source of wealth in the region. Uruguay was at the center of many battles between Portugal, Spain and Britain throughout the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries.
- 54% of the population identify themselves as Roman Catholics. About 1% of the population are Jewish.
- Emigration to the United States has risen over the past 10 years.
- Uruguay has a very high literacy rate- 97.3%.
- Uruguayans are known to eat lots of meat! They especially enjoy beef platters and steak sandwiches.
- The main sport in Uruguay is football (soccer). The national football team has won the FIFA World Cup twice- in 1930 and 1950. It is the smallest country (in terms of population) to ever win a World Cup.
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Meet Valerie Fast Horse, Rezkast.com Founder
Valerie Fast Horse, a Coeur d'Alene tribal member who served a stint in the army followed by a corporate career in computer technology, launched the $3.5 million broadband network Rezkast.com from scratch with her team, reports yesmagazine.org. She wanted to bring an online cultural forum to her Northern Idaho Indian reservation and preserve Coeur d'Alene tribal history, language and culture.
Rezkast.com streams user-uploaded Native American music, video and audio recordings, in addition to featuring photos, articles and games. The site boasts 1,765 members -- not bad for a 2,000-member tribe. Approximately 6,500 people live on the reservation. Reskast-branded clothing is also available for purchase.
Now, Fast Horse is in the last leg of trying to build support and generate funding for a Coeur d'Alene radio station: KWIS 88.3 FM. The deadline to go-live is December 2011. "If we are not on-the-air on or before that date, we will lose the construction permit, call letter assignments, and initial funding. There is a dire need of additional support to accomplish this project," Fast Horse pleads on the KWIS Facebook page.
The Coeur d'Alene Tribe received a construction permit from the FCC to build and operate a new, full-power FM bilingual Native American public radio station in December 2008. KWIS 88.3 FM would serve the entire Coeur d'Alene Indian Reservation and surrounding areas in Northern Idaho.
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At 18, Jesus found himself in state custody as a juvenile offender. He was alone and didn't know where else to go. Jesus was soon referred to our Pathways Transitional Living Program (TLP) in Wichita, Kansas. The Pathways Transitional Living Program is tailored to meet the needs of young adults who might need additional support as they reintegrate back into the community.
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UK inflation up to 0.7% on back of rising food prices
Statisticians say they have seen no evidence Brexit-related custom fees and transport costs had pushed up consumer prices.
Wednesday 17 February 2021 09:05, UK
UK inflation rose last month pushed by higher food prices and less discounting on household goods, official figures show.
The Consumer Prices Index (CPI) increased to 0.7% in January from 0.6% in December, according to the Office for National Statistics.
The figure was ahead of analyst forecasts, with many economists having predicted inflation of 0.5% for the month.
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Jonathan Athow, deputy national statistician for economic statistics at the ONS, said: "Inflation rose slightly in January, with food prices increasing.
"Household goods also pushed up prices with less discounting this year on items such as bedding and settees.
"However, there were widespread January sales, with particular price cuts for clothing and footwear."
Food and drink prices rose by 0.6% between December and January, compared with a 0.2% fall over the same period a year earlier.
Furniture and household goods dropped by 1.5% compared with a fall of 3.3% a year earlier.
Clothing and footwear prices fell by 4.9% on the month - the biggest drop between December and January in seven years - and saw a 3.8% annual fall.
The ONS said around 8% of the prices it would normally collect were unavailable, a smaller number than in November.
Inflation has been stuck below the Bank of England's 2% target since mid-2019 and the COVID-19 lockdowns pushed it close to zero last year as the economy nose-dived.
Earlier this month, the central bank said it expects inflation to pick up quite sharply towards its 2% target in the spring as
last year's emergency cut in VAT ends and global oil prices rise on expectations of recovery.
Economists also think prices of some imported products will rise because of Britain's post-divorce trade deal with the EU, which led to disruption and delays at ports last month.
However, the ONS said it had seen no evidence that new Brexit-related custom fees and transport costs had pushed up consumer prices in January.
The BoE has stressed it will be in no rush to start removing its huge stimulus for Britain's coronavirus-battered economy and said it will wait for evidence of significant progress towards hitting the 2% inflation target sustainably.
Responding to the latest ONS figures, Yael Selfin, chief economist at KPMG UK said: "We expect the pace of inflation to accelerate this year as a gradual economic recovery, rising oil prices and the expiry of temporary VAT cuts for hospitality businesses add to a more inflationary mix.
"Likewise, the impact of Brexit on supply chains is likely to be felt on consumer prices.
"However, overall inflation is unlikely to exceed the Bank of England's 2% target and could reach just 1.7% in 2021 and 1.9% in 2022, allowing for a longer period of low interest rates to support the economic recovery.
"It is not unusual to see negative monthly inflation in January as retailers cut prices after the holidays, but coinciding with a renewed lockdown, prices fell by less than usual as some categories were unavailable as a result.
"While the change in working and consumption patterns triggered by the pandemic caused heavier discounts for some items such as clothing, other items such as furniture saw smaller discounts for this time of the year."


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In In re Kupfer, No. 14-16697, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in an opinion published on December 29, 2016, has determined that the cap on the amount of damages a landlord can claim under Bankruptcy Code Section 502(b)(6) applies only to damages directly related to the termination of the lease and not to collateral claims. In particular, fees related to litigating a landlord's claim for future rent were capped because such fees would not have been incurred absent termination of the lease. But fees related to litigating claims for past rent and for litigating a debtor's claims for breach of lease were not capped because such fees would have been incurred regardless of a termination of the lease.
In Kupfer, the debtors stopped paying rent and the landlord commenced an action in state court for breach of the lease and other claims. Debtors counterclaimed. The matter went to arbitration where the arbitrator found in favor of the landlord and awarded unpaid past and future rent as well as attorney fees to the landlord. Debtors then filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. When the landlord filed a proof of claim based on the total amount of damages awarded in arbitration, the debtors objected saying that the claim amount must be capped based on the calculation provided in Section 502(b)(6) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Bankruptcy Court and the District Court found that Section 502(b)(6) capped past and future rent but not the fees incurred in the litigation.
The Ninth Circuit held that "damages resulting from the termination of a lease" capped under Section 502(b)(6) does not include damages related to claims a landlord would have if the lease had not been terminated. For example, fees attributed to litigating damages for past rent are not capped because a landlord could claim those damages independent of termination. But fees incurred in litigating "claims for future rent are capped, because such claims would not arise were the leases not terminated." The Ninth Circuit remanded the case so the District Court could categorize the claims as directly resulting from termination of the lease or not.
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Not all of us have thicker hair yet desperately wish to have them. You can always wear hair extensions, but it's not the best way to make your hair appear thicker. On some cases wearing hair extensions with thin hair can cause even more thinning out which is clearly the opposite of what you want to happen.
Here are a few tips on how you can make your hair grow thicker without the help of hair extensions. Please remember that growing new hair is a long term project, and to achieve the best results you should follow these tips throughout the process of growing new hair.
Foods for thicker hair
To understand what you need to eat, you must know what hair is made out of – keratin. Keratin is a type of protein that your body produces naturally, but there are also foods that you can eat to make your hair grow thicker.
Here's a few great ideas that you can try balancing your current menu with.
Types of meat like fish, beef or chicken contain a great amount of protein. This is brilliant for boosting your health and hair growth. To get the most of eating meat you should not fry it, but oven cook it without any added oils or fat.
Soy flakes
While some people might not like the taste of soy, you wouldn't believe how much protein it contains. A 100g of soy flakes contains a remarkable amount of 50 g of protein.
To put this in perspective, a 100 g of lean beef steak contains 29.81g of protein. The same amount of chicken breast contains 29.5 g of protein. While soy flakes are richer calorie wise, it's a better choice protein wise. Besides that soy is a vegetarian friendly food, and you can make it taste just like minced meat if you like.
Adding naturally colorful foods into your diet
What are naturally colorful foods? They're foods that are colorful, naturally! This means tomatoes, cucumber, dragon fruit and so on. You can't go wrong with choosing to eat more fruits and vegetables. The best vegetables that you can eat in order to boost your hair growth should contain iron, zinc and biotin.
Some of the iron rich foods are beans, spinach, tofu and kale. Biotin rich foods are bananas, cauliflower, lentils and peanuts.
Food supplements
You can also take food supplements to boost hair growth. Food supplements are tiny capsules that you take next to eating real food, and they contain nutrients that help your body to stay healthy.
You can read about food supplements for hair growth and hair loss here on Hair-Bun.
Bad habits and thin hair
While drinking water is the best thing you can do to make your hair grow thicker, then drinking coffee or alcohol is the exact opposite of it. Even smoking tobacco can reduce the thickness of your hair.
Scalp massages
By massaging your hair when you have free time or doing it during washing your hair, you'd get the blood in your scalp moving. This will again help the hair look healthier and become thicker.
Use the tips of your finger and gently massage the top of your head. Be sure not apply too much pressure.
Shampoo and conditioner for thin hair
The absolute keyword for thicker, longer hair is conditioning. It's important to choose a good shampoo as well but your main focus should be on the conditioner you're going to be using.
Any hair masks that are deeply moisturising and repairing would do only good.
The Bumble and Bumble thickening shampoo and conditioner
I would recommend these two for anyone who's struggling with thin hair, they work incredibly well not to mention the aroma. A lot of people who have bought both of the Bumble and Bumble shampoo and the conditioner say that it does work and helps hair become thicker.
The Bumble and Bumble hairspray lifts the hair from the roots and makes it look thicker. It's suitable for dry, matte, thinning hair, and chemically treated hair. It also helps to soothe down flaky and irritated scalp.
Drying hair
After a shower or a bath you shouldn't dry your hair roughly, just wrap a towel around them for 2 minutes and leave it until the time's up. Doing this also prevents your hair from matting and getting frizzy.
Working with the roots of your hair
When you want your hair to look thicker, you can try drying them in a different way. After a wash bend over and make sure that your hair are hanging over your head, then wrap them in a towel and make sure that the hair are standing up inside of the towel.
It looks a bit funny at first, but it does work. You can add even more volume when you'd blow dry the hair by holding the drier lower than your face and letting the roots of the hair stand up until the roots are dry.
Heat damage
Avoid straightening, blow drying and curling your hair with heat. Heat damage makes the hair weaker and look very fried. If you want to curl your hair without heat you can check out the Hair-Bun guide of how to curl your hair without heat.
Trimming the ends of the hair
This is the number one rule for better hair. Getting the ends of your hair trimmed regularly will make them sprout and grow like flowers do during spring.
You don't need to chop off much in case you're worried, getting rid of the split ends will already make a difference.
Once again I would like to remind that most of these tips are for a long term result, meaning that it takes a few months for your hair follicles to grow out.
These tips are meant to help you grow healthier hair, and also to make your hair look thicker temporarily. Growing hair out demands a great deal of patience, but in the meanwhile you can look for clip in hair extensions to give your hair a bit of a boost.


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The LED Lenser i17r flashlight is a replacement for the very popular and powerful LED Lenser M17R but the i17r is even more powerful as it produces a maximum light output of 1000 lumens and has a beam distance of 450 Metres. The LED Lenser i17r is a industrial flashlight and is for heavy duty use, it is rechargeable through the very handy floating charge system.
The i17r also comes with LED Lensers Advanced Focus System which allows you to easily change from spot to flood beam by simply sliding the head of the torch forward or back.
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Mostly we kept to ourselves. Between classes we kicked the ball, or told each other stories, some true. It's the girls we were interested in, and you were, no doubt, ahead of me.
They looked at us too, we knew, we could hear them giggling. It used to worry me, but not you. It would take me some years to gain the same confidence. Were we gifted? We thought so, I am no longer so sure.
What I know is that I remember your name, out of a few thousand people I have since met, and yours is one of very few names I can now recall. That, and your smile.
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Radical Gay Politics
My community and political work in the gay world started in earnest in the mid-1970's at what was then called the Gay Community Center of Colorado located on Lafayette street in Denver. A fortunate circumstance involving the movie The Word is Out and a lesbian friend named Katherine led to my meeting Harry Hay and John Burnside in 1978.
Harry and John became mentors and guides for me not only in the world of the Radical Fairies but politically and socially in a much broader sense. Harry was convinced that us Queer folk were a distinct cultural minority. He felt we had many unactualized gifts to bring to the human banquet. Our goal as gay people was to address the following questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? What are we for?
This view of gayness continues to direct my LGBT community work. That we are fundamentally different (not necessarily better) in many ways from the heterosexual majority and that it is these differences that define our essence seems patently obvious to me, and rarely do these difference involve what we do in bed.
My spiritual, primarily Buddhist, work over the past couple decades though has led me to the realization that it is all really just one taste. I always liked Harry's analogy about different windows on the world. Gay people may look out of a different window and therefore see things a bit differently but when all is said and done it is just one world.
Index of Articles:
- Community – That Elusive Necessity
- Come Out, Come Out, Wherever You Are
- Community and Movement
- Male Homosexual Cultures!
- A Separate People Whose Time Has Come!
- The Word is Out (note: continued on multiple pages)
- Ripples
- Aliens from Uranus
- The Resort
- The Opera
- Disease and My Deepest Passions
- Falling or Being in love
- Feeling Different
- Halloween
- How I got to Denver
- My Favorite Holiday
- Teacher – SAM
- Depravity
- Queer Identity Politics (30 years ago) (note: continued on multiple pages)
- Down To The River
- Juvenile Crimes
- Communications
- The Drama Queen
- Fingers and Toes
- War, the Draft and History
- Life in the Big City by the Bay
- Reflections on Bayard Rustin for MLK Day, 2013
- A Profound Ongoing Motivation
- Exaggeration
- Keeping the Peace
- What is the Real Spirit of Stonewall?
- For A Good Time
- The Magic of Chelsea Manning
- Summer Camp
- Flying (High)
- Letter to my Younger Self
- Patriotism
- Discovery
- Mushrooms
- Gay Music
- Revelation the Key to Our Revolution
- Camping (it up)
- Competition


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We have just passed the date of the 2012 Arctic sea ice minimum, and the extent of ice is up 47% from that date. Green shows gain, red shows loss since 2012.
Government funded experts, leading journalists, and Nobel Prize winners all say the Arctic is ice-free.
The End of the Arctic? Ocean Could be Ice Free by 2015 – The Daily Beast
Gore: Polar ice cap may disappear by summer 2014
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Arctic summers ice-free 'by 2013′
Why Arctic sea ice will vanish in 2013 | Sierra Club Canada
Arctic Sea Ice Gone in Summer Within Five Years?
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Everyone's favorite sewer-dwelling clown will return to the big screen on Sept. 6, 2019.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema broke the news on Monday following the horror flick's massive success this fall.
The film, based on Stephen King's novel by the same name, has dominated the box office both in the United States and abroad, shattering records and raising over $700 million worldwide in the weeks since its release earlier this month.
So far, screenwriter Gary Dauberman has been confirmed to write the second chapter's screenplay. Though a formal announcement has yet to have been made, THR suspects that director Andy Muschietti, along with producers Barbara Muschietti, Roy Lee, Seth Grahame-Smith, Dan Lin, and David Katzenberg will also join the project.
In the first adaptation, fans watch as the 1989 Loser's Club encounters, and later fights to overcome, Pennywise the Dancing Clown, who makes an appearance in town every 27 years. To follow the book's lead, the sequel will hone in on the now-adult Loser's Club fending off the wicked beast when it returns in the present, while flashing back to the past.
"I always insisted that if there is a second part, there would be a dialogue between the two timelines," Muschietti told Collider, "that it would be approached like the adult life of the losers, [but] there would be flashbacks that sort of illuminate events that are not told in the first one."
As for casting, neither Muschietti or the New Line team have announced who they have in mind to play the children as adults; however, the kids from the most recent film had a few opinions of their own. During an interview with Rotten Tomatoes, Finn Wolfhard (Richie) said he'd want Bill Hader to play him, while Chosen Jacobs (Mike) selected Chadwick Boseman. As for Beverly? Well, Sophia Lillis has her hopes set on Jessica Chastain.
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When I went to clean off an old desktop pc so that it could be reformatted I only really cared about finding one thing before we erased the hard drive … an email that I sent my son, Nick, after he went off to college for the first time.
Here it is.
From: Liz Dyer
Sent: Thursday, October 06, 2005
To: Nick Dyer
Nick, I wrote the following about you and for you on August 14, 2005 after we had dropped you off at college and wanted to share it with you.
"Everyone is too young to have their first child.
I was 32, had been married for four years, was fairly successful in my career, lived a responsible life. I was grown-up "enough." At least I thought I was – right up until the moment I found out I was expecting. That's when the doubts began. By the time I came home from the hospital with Nick there was no doubt about it, I felt like a little girl again. A little girl who had no idea what she had gotten herself into.
Oh, don't get me wrong. I was happy. I was elated. In fact, I was ecstatic. I loved Nick from the moment I laid eyes on him. I loved him like I had never loved anyone in my life. I am not even sure I really knew what love was before I had Nick. At least not unconditional, unselfish love.
I amazed myself with what I was willing to do, to give up, to go through to care for him, to love him, to just be with him.
But still, I felt completely inadequate for the task at hand. To compensate, I read everything about raising a child that I could get my hands on. I asked my mom questions, sought advise from other moms and picked my husband's brain.
Just when I would think I had it down, he would change and enter another stage. Infant, toddler, preschool, boy, adolescence, teenager. The transitions were there and gone before I could catch my breath. I couldn't change gears fast enough.
I left him at college today. That's what got me to thinking about all of this. Mostly, I've been wondering how in the world he turned out so wonderful.
I did a million things wrong. I was too permissive when I should have been stricter, too strict when I should have been more lenient. I remember that time he was just entering adolescence and I didn't know what to do – I yelled a lot. Then when he started to drive I was over protective. And when I wanted him to do well in school I was too pushy.
But, there was one thing I always did well. I always loved him well. And it was real love. Pure love. Good love. The kind of love that makes up for a lot of mistakes. The kind of love that says "even when I am doing the wrong thing, I am trying with every fiber of my being to figure out what I need to do different and better." The kind of love that humbles a person enough to want to change and to admit when they are wrong. The kind of love that strengthens a person so that they never, never, never give up and they are always willing to try again.
Scripture says that love covers a multitude of sins. That brings me so much peace. Because even though I know I was inadequate to shape a life, I discovered I had the ability to love enough to make up for my inadequacies."
I love you Nick. I have since before you were born and I always will.
Thank you for waking up the love in my heart. Thank you for teaching me what it means to love unconditionally. Thank you for being a testimony to the power of love.
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Patent Law Firms Say Goodbye To Donald Dunner, Man Who Started It All
No one can deny the importance of Donald Dunner to the field of patent law. He died Wednesday (10/16/2019) at the age of 88. The man was the dean of the D.C. patent appellate BAR, and worked at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner. Dunner was dedicated to IP law, and enthusiastic about protecting the interests of his many high-profile clients.
Paul Michel, who once worked as a chief judge for the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, described Dunner as "a giant, a colossus in the field of patent law with no equal."
Michel joked that Dunner was "the leader of every organization in the entire patent universe."
It's not difficult to see why Michel had such kind words to say. Dunner argued a record-breaking 175 appeals to the appellate court system. He authored work on Federal Circuit practice. He worked for the Carter administration to build the Federal Circuit court system for patent appeal. He testified to Congress before it was created.
Dunner worked for the Bar Association of the District of Columbia (specializing in IP) from 1964 to 1965. He worked for the American Intellectual Property Law Association from 1979 to 1980.
Dunner was well known for being fair and just in his decision-making. He had a reputation for such actions in court. Gene Quinn reported his death as a direct blow to IP law because "Dunner always had a grace and elegance that set him apart. He was a friend to judges and politicians, as well as a mentor to countless attorneys."
One of his appellate partners, James Barney, wrote: "For more than four decades, Don was a mentor, a teacher, and an inspiration to many of us who sought to learn his craft of appellate advocacy."
He continued, "He was never satisfied with a first draft, a second, or a third. In fact, drafting briefs for Don could be downright daunting. But along the way, he imparted wisdom to those eager to learn, he explained the nuts and bolts of appellate advocacy, and made us all proud to be part of the process. Don was everything I ever aspired to be as a lawyer — and still do."
We live in a world where many of us continue to believe that legal advocates are only truly out for themselves, but Dunner was a man who made his world about showing others the good impacts that law can have.
Dunner was a Brooklyn, New York native. He studied chemical engineering at Purdue University before enlisting in the United States Army. When he got out, he decided to study law at Georgetown University. The rest is history.
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The Scottish budget: what it means for businesses
The Finance Secretary, has set out the Scottish Government's budget plans for the year ahead.
In the face of the chaos and confusion of Brexit, this budget offers stability and protects Scotland's public services.
It's a budget that ensures Scotland is the best place to do business and invest, and that our economy can meet the challenges and seize the opportunities of the future.
Here's how.
- Businesses will continue to benefit from the Small Business Bonus, ensuring 100,000 businesses play no rates whatsoever. This is part of a relief package worth more than £750 million, the most generous anywhere in the UK.
- As part of this package, we will also provide a ten year rates relief for new fibre broadband installations.
- We will provide £1 million per year to support up to 150 people on very low or no income to retrain and gain employment in the digital economy.
- We will provide £130 million towards the establishment of a Scottish National Investment Bank, paving the way for the Bank to become operational in 2020 leading to a step change in innovative and inclusive growth.
- We will create a £50 million Town Centre Fund as part of a wider package of business support measures to drive local economic activity.
- We will invest over £6.3 million to continue the deliver of the National Manufacturing Institute to make Scotland a world leader in advanced manufacturing.
- We will also establish an Advanced Manufacturing Challenge Fund of up to £18 million to ensure all parts of Scotland benefit from developments in advanced manufacturing.
- We will invest £5 million as the first phase of our three-year £20 million plan to boost exports by directly supporting more companies to sell their products abroad.
- We will invest a record sum of over £825 million towards our pledge to build 50,000 affordable homes in this Parliamentary term.
- We will continue to develop and deliver our devolved employment support service Fair Start Scotland, giving individualised support to 38,000 individuals to those facing the greatest barriers to employment.
- This year we will continue to support agreed City Region Deals in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Inverness and Edinburgh, and will secure fully agreed City Region Deals for Stirling and Clackmannanshire and for the Tay Cities Region.
- Overall, £5 billion will be invested this year in infrastructure, including £1.7 billion in our transport infrastructure. This will include expanding electric trains and taking forward our commitment to dual the A9.
- We will continue to support the £150 million Building Scotland Fund to support new house building, develop new low carbon commercial property and support research and development.


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Southern California cities and counties have fallen way behind in approving new housing needed to keep up with growth, especially for low- and moderate-income households, a new analysis of regional homebuilding shows.
With half the time needed to approve nearly 400,000 new homes already lapsed, local governments have approved 26% of the units needed in each income level under the state's Regional Housing Needs Assessment process, according to a report by the UC Riverside School of Business Center for Economic Forecasting and Development.
The report, released Friday, April 12, points out that as of 2017, the region is halfway through the eight-year RHNA program.
"Ideally if you're 50% through a program, then we should have solved 50% of the problem," said Adam Fowler, director of research at the UCR center and one of the report's authors. "We haven't."
And the region is even further behind when it comes to moderate- and low-income housing.
Of those homes already approved, 77% are affordable only to upper-income households, even though just 42% of the allotted housing is meant for affluent or wealthy households. Just 23% of approved housing thus far is affordable to moderate- and lower-income families, the report said.
The report is the latest RHNA analysis the UCR center and Beacon Economics staff have produced.
Beacon Economics, which runs the UCR center, analyzed state housing figures for 2014-17 for the six-county area covered by the Southern California Association of Governments, a region that accounts for just over half of the state's population.
SCAG is made up of Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino and Imperial counties.
Under the Regional Housing Needs Assessment process, SCAG determined how many homes each city and county need by October 2021 to keep up with growth. State law requires local governments to plan for needed housing at all income levels.
As of 2017, the UCR report found:
- Local governments issued permits for just 9% of the low-income and very low-income units needed in the SCAG region. Very low-income households are those that earn 50% or less of the median income for each county; low-income households are those earning 51-80% of the median income.
- Local governments issued permits for 16% of the units needed for moderate-income households, or those earning from 81% of the median income to 20% above the median.
- Local governments issued permits for 52% of housing units needed for households earning 20% or more above the median income.
- Orange County comes closest to meeting local housing needs, with 55% of its allotted housing approved. But again, most of that is for upper-income housing. Just under 50% of moderate-level housing needed had been approved, with 20% or less of low-income and very low-income housing approved.
- In Los Angeles County, 35% of allotted housing had been permitted, but less than 15% of very low-, low- and moderate-income housing received permits.
- Twenty-percent of San Bernardino County's allotment and 15% of Riverside County's allotment received approval, although approvals were around 20% for moderate-income housing and below 5% for low-income categories.
Numbers for 2018 are due to be released in June.
Measuring incomes varies across the six counties when median wages and housing costs are factored in, Fowler said. Los Angeles County has the worst imbalance, with five out of every six units permitted, 83%, in the "above moderate" income level.
Among the key reasons for the lack of housing production, especially for lower-income residents, are local opposition to development and local zoning and land-use laws "that are simply not conducive to developing affordable housing," the UCR center determined after reviewing land-use data from the UC Berkeley's Terner Center for Housing Innovation.
For example, the median lot size in Southern California is 6,500 square feet, compared with 6,000 square feet in the rest of the state. Also, Southern California housing density is lower than in the rest of the state, allowing six houses per acre compared with seven per acre elsewhere in California.
"All of these characteristics … correlate with having a higher percentage of housing units permitted for above-moderate-income levels as compared to the rest of California," the report said.
Fowler said in his statement the search for smaller, denser affordable housing is a challenge statewide, but especially in Southern California.
"A lot of jurisdictions are reporting very strong job growth," Fowler said in an interview. "But part two of that conversation is, where are these people going to live?"
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Jack Chick sez: See what happened to the dinosaurs, and what will happen to you if you reject Jesus!
Here's the problem.
I've only reviewed eight of Jack Chick's tracts, and I'm already out of synonyms for "batshit crazy." And now that I've run across a tract that could have only come from a truly broken mind, I find I have no words to describe it. It appears I shot my hyperbole wad just a little early.
There is a persistent rumor that Chick suffered a stroke in 1996, which would certainly explain the utter bugfuckery of his later works. Case in point: There Go the Dinosaurs.
In this tract, Chick blows the lid off the liberal science agenda and reveals, once and for all, what really happened to the dinosaurs. Hilariously, he even attempts to attribute his theories to the Bible by citing totally unrelated (and somewhat random) verses throughout. Honestly, it's like looking at a psychotic break committed to paper.
We open with a whimsical prologue, in which an oddly effeminate "dragon" is being chased by spear-toting hillbillies. Seriously. I'm not making this up.
The dragon, which actually resembles a brontosaurus with long, fluttering eyelashes, lumbers up a mountain, obviously out of shape as she gasps for air. She tries to hide herself in a convenient cloud, but the prehistoric rednecks prove too wily for her. Haw!
Later that evening, as the modern stone-age families are feasting on "yummy dino-burgers," a hideously deformed monkey boy asks his grandfather why dragons are so hard to find. "They're a dying breed," Grandpa informs the young missing link. "Who knows? You may be eating the very last one!"
And with that cold open out of the way, we are thrust into the moist, quivering loins of Jack Chick's most deranged thesis yet. A misshapen professor with a bow tie and a Hitler mustache is explaining to his class that dinosaurs ruled the world millions of years ago, but they were wiped out by a comet. And as proof, he offers up a drawing of a dinosaur shouting "Yipes!" as a comet barrels down on it.
So is that how the dinosaurs died? Hell, no! Chick isn't having any of it. He explains that the whole dinosaur/comet theory is just a tale concocted by "people who don't trust God." He then offers up his own interpretation of events, which he arrogantly presents as God's side of the story. "And God should know," Chick insists. "After all, He was there."
So here's how the caper really went down. God made man and animals in the same week, which proves evolution is a lie. And among the animals he created were the dinosaurs. Chick tosses out a couple of random Bible verses to back up his claim, but I suspect he actually gleaned most of his information from watching a documentary entitled "The Flintstones."
If you've ever been to Sunday School, you're probably at least passingly familiar with the next part of the story. Although, to be fair, I don't remember there being a lot of dinosaurs in it.
Adam and Eve get booted out of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit. Cain kills Abel. Mankind goes to hell in a bucket and starts sacrificing children to large, angry muppets. And God tells Noah to build his ark.
At this point, Chick informs us that God put "dragons and other animals in the ark." And in a totally hilarious footnote, he tells us that the "dragons" were officially renamed "dinosaurs" in 1841. Probably by the Vatican.
So it turns out that the dragons/dinosaurs survived the Great Flood, and wandered free after the waters subsided. But, and here's the kicker, the flood had destroyed trillions of plants. Without those plants, there wasn't enough oxygen to support the dinosaurs, so "they got slower and easier to catch."
The little monkey boy laments that he never got to see the Garden of Eden, or the world before the flood. "That's the price of sin, my boy!" his grandfather tells him. Which kind of sucks because, as far as I know, the dinosaurs weren't the ones doing all the sinning.
Anyway, Chick must have realized at this point that he didn't have quite enough dinosaur material to fill an entire pamphlet, because he segues into a retelling of the life of Christ. First, he reminds us that God is going to eventually destroy the world with fire. Then he tells us how Jesus came to earth to die for our sins so we can "miss the coming wrath of God."
We finally reach the end of a tract that was, in all likelihood, originally scrawled on Chick's bedroom wall in his own feces. In a desperate attempt to tie the last half of the pamphlet back to the dinosaur topic, Chick concludes with "The real issue isn't where the dinosaurs went… It's where YOU will go when you die."
Praise the Lord and pass the dino-burgers!


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I needed to look at some MRT images but the CDs doctors provide you after your tube ride only contain a windows viewer. So when I clicked on the image data on the disc Ubuntu was recommending Ginkgo CADx to me, which I installed right away.
The first start was however a disappointment. I was able to see a thumbnail of the image but when clicking on it no image was opening an an error message was displayed.
"Unable to open modality MR with transfer syntax 1.2.840.10008.1.2.1"
The Ginkgo CADx web site was also of no help. It seems once upon a time a fix was described but now it is gone. By the way I am using version 2.6 of that program.
Starting the program from command line reveals an error about shared libraries that do not load properly. So in the end editing the .inf files in that directory to load the correct library files fixed the problem for me.
How to fix it
1. Cd to
2. Open up the .inf file in an editor with super user privileges:
>sudo atom lightvisualizator.inf visualizator.inf
3. Change the first line in each of the two files by basically just removing each time the trailing ".2.6.0." as shown below and of course save the changes.
Start the program again and it should work. I recommend to start it from the command line.
Original lightvisualizator.inf file
Fixed file
Original visualizator.inf file
Fixed file
Using Ginkgo CADx
The program is working nicely. Remember it is for free.
Open up the "dicomdat" folder of your CD data, click on the thumbnail to view the real images.
Zoom in and out by turning the mouse wheel.
Hold down the Ctrl key while turning the mouse wheel to flip movie like through the views.
Quite impressive is the 3DTool which combines a series of images taken from one angle into a 3D view. Just try it out.
I prefer to start this program from the command line as it will not exit properly. So issuing Ctrl-C will then exit the program brutally but effective.


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What indicators does correctional labor have in common with slavery? Seth Daire and JJ Janflone look at prison statistics, case studies of prison labor, and the Constitutional "except as a punishment for crime" clause. Is it right to profit from prison labor? Also a look at prison gerrymandering, where prisoners count as residents for political representation while not being able to vote.
Benns, Whitney. "American Slavery, Reinvented." The Atlantic. September 21, 2015. http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/09/prison-labor-in-america/406177/.
Ford, Glen. "Black Agenda Report." Private Prisons, Human Trafficking and the American Way of Punishment | Black Agenda Report. http://www.blackagendareport.com/node/1077.
Herivel, Tara, ed. Prison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration. New York: The New Press, 2009.
Lebaron, Genevieve. "Slaves of the State: American Prison Labour past and Present." OpenDemocracy. April 23, 2015. https://www.opendemocracy.net/beyondslavery/genevieve-lebaron/slaves-of-state-american-prison-labour-past-and-present.
Mauer, Marc. Race to Incarcerate. New York: The New Press, 1999.
McCormack, Simon. "Prison Labor Booms As Unemployment Remains High; Companies Reap Benefits." The Huffington Post. October 12, 2012. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/10/prison-labor_n_2272036.html.
"Penal Labor." Fight Slavery Now! 2015. https://fightslaverynow.org/why-fight-there-are-27-million-reasons/otherformsoftrafficking/penal-labor/.
"The Problem | Prison Gerrymandering Project." Prison Policy Initiative. http://www.prisonersofthecensus.org/impact.html.
Subramanian, Ram, et al. "Incarceration's Front Door: The Misuse of Jails in America." Vera Institute of Justice. February 2015. http://archive.vera.org/sites/default/files/resources/downloads/incarcerations-front-door-report.pdf.
Wagner, Peter and Bernadette Rabuy. "Mass Incarceration: The Whole Pie 2016." Prison Policy Initiative. http://www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/pie2016.html.
Wright, Paul, and Tara Herivel, eds. Prison Nation: The Warehousing of America's Poor. New York: Routledge, 2003.


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Perle d'Aurore Rosé Brut Reviews
Score: Diamond Trophy | February 17, 2017 | Sakura Japan Women's Wine Awards 2017
Score: Gold | February 16, 2016 | Sakura Japan Women's Wine Awards 2016
Score: 88 | November 1, 2013 | Wine Enthusiast
Full, ripe wine, layered with fruits and a dry, more mineral core. The wine has good depth of flavor, strawberries, red currants and a citrus cut that keeps the wine fresh at the end.
Score: Budget Bubbles | June 27, 2010 | NPR
Delicately fresh and lively with fine bubbles, this fruity, strawberry and black currant-infused sparkling wine offers delightful acidity and a creamy texture. Made from a combination of a masterly blend of chardonnay and pinot noir grapes, it is an appealing, dry, sparkling rose.


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District Governor-Elect Brandon's Share – June 2018
As I write you now, I am in Las Vegas taking the final training to serve as District Governor. I'm joining 741 fellow Lions from across the globe who are also taking on this challenge, and proudly serving under the first female International President.
Since I wrote you last, my travels have been PACKED!
I spent a good deal of time with the Powell Lions, who have done a great job of recruiting new, young members. I was honored to attend their annual 5K and install their officers. And no, I didn't run!
The Sevier County Lions and the Tri-County Lions also let me install their incoming leaders. Trust me when I say that our district is in great hands with club presidents like these!
I spent a causal Friday night attending a new project of the Fountain City Lions and was blown away. Their club has started a "Concert in the Park" that's bringing hundreds of attendees. What a great way to fellowship and show others that Lions have FUN!
Other highlights of the last few weeks include helping the Oak Ridge Lions when they set up at the Secret City Festival, and attending the Karns Lions Low Country Boil.
If there is a club event that I can attend with your club, please let me know. I'm here to support your club, your goals, and your service!
In Lionism,
DGE Brandon


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If youre new, Please REGISTER
Ciao everyone and welcome to the EFC. First off I'm going to lay out some guidelines.
There are a few rules of EFC.
- No talking about EFC out of EFC
- I expect every member to check the group every time you log on EF
- Eventually, I want to know if you guys would be interested in giving reviews of current movies (I know AAP already does)
- Each day someone is going to pick a topic (for example best directors of all time), and you may take your stance and argue your opinion.
- At the end of each week I would like each member to list what movies they saw and what they thought of them. (doesn't have to be a review, just a few words and thumbs up or thumbs down is good enough).
also, the group will be the first to see my first short film.
The first discussion we will have is "What is your favorite movie, and why is it such a better movie than everyone else's favorite movie in the group".
Thanks for inviting me Iggy, I am going to think about that and respond tomorrow. It's too easy just to blurt, then regret
Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin
Nostalgic, innocent, funny, silent, poignant, reminds me of a simpler time.
This movie is better in a way that a Vermeer or a Rembrandt is better than any painting of our time.
yeah trex, I figured you knew a bit about movies since you could discuss Bunuel films. I saw "The Cove" a few days ago. It's definitely going to kill food inc for best documentary film of the year.
8 1/2 by Federico Fellini
Never have I seen a film with more emotion then 8 1/2.
It's a classic battle of man vs. himself. In the film, Marcello Mastroianni plays director Guido Anselmi. Guido is a womanizer, and suffers from writers block. As the film goes on he searches hard for the meaning of life. He realizes at the end of the film that he hasn't been the person he wanted to be. He was held back by his own emptiness and inability to love. 8 1/2 switches in between surrealism and real life drama. Fellini beautifully illustrates flashbacks of his childhood that shaped up his life and the dreams Guido had.
When a man looks back and reflects on his life, he searches for a meaning of it all. and Guido Anselmi found that meaning.
I liked the way that "The Cove" appealed to my sense of intrigue as well as my conscience. The spycams, the thermo-sensitive cams, the disguises. It was fascinating! I also liked how it had a broad appeal in terms of exposing the state of global fish stocks, the danger to the (Japanese) school lunch program, and basically examining what we put in our mouths everyday without thinking about the potential consequences.
The Crazies
At a certain point it eventually just becomes a series of action vignettes -- Crazies in the Carwash!, Crazies in the Truck Stop! -- but it's paced quite well and features likable leads. You won't leave the theater contemplating moral quandaries, but it's still a fun horror/action flick and worth the cash. Probably one of the most efficient (in terms of pacing) thrillers since 28 Days Later (which, coincidentally, was a remake of Romero's original Crazies). Ending is different than the original but still worked out well.
which ending in 28 days later ?? it has two
editted: NM I reread the message
its funny u started this group.. i recently started a collection of the best gangster movies of all time..(probably not appealing to alot of u)
i researched it and purchased most of the highest rated flicks
so far i have been very disappointed


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Germany's Greens party has been praised and criticized for suggesting sex services provided by prostitutes for people struggling with severe health conditions should be paid for by the government.
Doctors should be given a right to prescribe sex with prostitutes just like prescribing a drug, Green Party's spokeswoman Elisabeth Scharfenberg told the German "Welt am Sonntag" newspaper.
"I can imagine public financing of sexual assistance," Scharfenberg said.
The people in need would have to receive medical certificates confirming that they can't get sexual satisfaction in another way, as well as providing documents proving that they are not able to pay sex workers by themselves.
"Municipalities could discuss appropriate offers on site and grants they would need," Scharfenberg also said.
The Greens' initiative takes after the Netherlands, where people have been allowed to pay for sexual services as medical expenses with their health insurance for a couple of years already.
The idea has been met with a fair share of scepticism. On Monday, Karl Lauterbach, member of the governing Social Democrats, told German Bild that "we don't need paid prostitution in homes for the elderly, and certainly not on prescription."
Bezahlte Prostituierte im Heim sind falsch. Mehr Intimsphäre richtig. Grüne schlagen Sexdienste für Pflegefälle vor https://t.co/bQktq1kOSL— Karl Lauterbach (@Karl_Lauterbach) January 8, 2017
Professor Wilhelm Frieling-Sonnenberg, an expert in medical care research, was reported by Welt am Sonntag as condemning the idea, saying it was "contemptuous toward human dignity."
The German Patient Protection Foundation said that the people in question have other concerns rather than sex.
READ MORE: Over a quarter of Europeans think sex without consent is justifiable – poll
However, Vanessa del Rae, a sexual adviser for nursing homes, said that sex workers are a "blessing" for sick people.
Prostitution was legalized in Germany in 2002, with brothels openly operating in almost every town. "Night ladies" have recently begun to offer "sexual assistance" to people with dementia, the handicapped and people living in care homes. The services range from "affectionate touching" to sexual intercourse.


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NBC has ordered 8 episodes of "First Dates," an observational
documentary series from executive producer Ellen DeGeneres and Shed
Media that takes a peek at what happens when a couple meets for the first
time and love may be in the air.
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look at a variety of real first dates happening over one night at the
same restaurant.
We're searching for people genuinely looking for love, men and women
ages 18 to 65+ who are currently single.
No competition, no eliminations -- just a First Date. Where it goes from
there is up to you.
Apply now at: wwwww.firstdatescasting.com
Production will begin in July in Chicago. No premiere date is set.


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Demonizing immigrants no longer works
By Eugene Robinson
President Trump created an immigration crisis to stoke resentment and anger among his base. Lacking any kind of moral compass, he makes a show of being pleased with what he has wrought. But you can smell his fear.
Trump is desperate to keep his Republican congressional majorities, not because of anything they might accomplish but because he has cowed them into being afraid to hold him accountable. If his base is not motivated to vote in November, the GOP loses the House and Trump and his entourage of grifters face a lineup of Democratic committee chairmen with the power to subpoena documents and compel testimony.
To rile up his legions, Trump went back to basics.
Trump launched his run for president in 2015 by calling Mexican immigrants "rapists." He began his campaign to survive the midterm election by referring to members of the MS-13 criminal gang as "animals" and attacking anyone who dared defend the gang members' status as human beings. In recent days, echoing language used in the past to incite pogroms and genocides, Trump has accused migrants of coming across the border to "invade" and "infest" the country. He portrayed the anguish of parents whose children were ripped away as "phony stories of sadness and grief."
Trump says he wants to put the focus on immigration. Democrats "just want to use this issue" of family separations, he said last Saturday at the Nevada Republican Party convention, but "I like the issue for [the] election, too. Our issue is strong borders, no crime. Their issue is open borders, get MS-13 all over our country."
Trump was forced to meekly end the sadistic practice of seizing and shipping away the children of migrants caught crossing the border without papers. He vowed to continue the "zero tolerance" policy of criminally prosecuting every single border-crosser, but this will mean holding families together for indefinite periods of time in what amount to internment camps.
Trump seems to know that this will not play well in the courts of law or public opinion. He announced his preferred solution Sunday on Twitter:
"We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents ... "
On Monday, Trump once again tweeted his wish that migrants who cross the border could be summarily expelled. "Hiring manythousands [sic] of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go - will always be disfunctional [sic]," the president wrote. It was more than a frustrated lament for unchallenged executive power; it was an acknowledgment that "zero tolerance" is a logistical nightmare that cannot work.
Trump has to wonder if even his staunchest supporters have the stomach for the kind of cruelty inherent in the family separations and the detention camps. He has to worry that his latest anti-immigration gambit is doing more to energize and mobilize anti-Trump political forces than the Make America Great Again crowd. He has to realize that it is hard to whip up punitive anger toward crying children.
And he has to know that backing down is a betrayal of his carefully cultivated brand of damn-the-torpedoes toughness. Who's the snowflake now?
This was supposed to be a "good" crisis in which only some desperate Central Americans got hurt. Demonizing immigrants has always worked for Trump in the past, but he has to be deeply worried that it's not working now.
Eugene Robinson writes a twice-a-week column for The Washington Post.


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A new magazine is available online for those who are coping with neurological illness and their families. It is an official publication of the American Academy of Neurology. It provides a wealth of information and it is free!
I suppose there is such a thing as too much information, but in at least one case, that information can be a good thing. The US government has just opened a new web site that gives visitors the opportunity to compare hospitals in several important measures: Their treatment of heart attack, heart failure and pneumonia.
In this article from the National Pain Foundation, author Jim Hagen provides information about all those clinical trials you hear advertised, and offers wise advice to consider before participating.
Before you jump on the bandwagon of buying your medications from Canada, it might be wise to visit the web site of the U. S. Food and Drug Administration.
(Dallas/Fort Wort CBS11 News) -- Today the investigative team at the local CBS television affiliate broadcast a report entitled Thousands of Unapproved Prescription Drugs Hit Market through FDA Loophole. It is an important segment on a serious issue, and a major loophole.


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One of the most longed-for franchises from Nintendo's long history makes its glorious return in spectacular 3-D. Kid Icarus is back in a new game designed specifically for the Nintendo 3DS system by Kirby and Super Smash Bros. creator Masahiro Sakurai and his development team at Project Sora.
+ Kid Icarus: Uprising is a fast-paced and action-packed blend of aerial and ground-based shooting built on elegantly intuitive and streamlined play control. Boasting game play that is easy to pick up but incredibly deep, the game is sure to satisfy novice gamers as well as fans who have been clamoring for a new installment in the franchise.
+ The hero, Pit, teams up with Palutena, the goddess of light, who bestows on him the miracle of flight for limited stretches. With this gift, Pit soars through skies, shooting down swarms of enemies along the way, before finally setting down and engaging in frantic ground-based battles against Medusa's underworld army.
+ Kid Icarus was originally released for the Nintendo Entertainment System in 1987, and gamers have been clamoring for a new game in the series for years. Kid Icarus: Uprising is the first installment in 20 years and brings the popular Pit character to life in an action-packed game.


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is a serious
disease. It is one of the intermittent fevers which have a tendency to return again and again to haunt the sufferer. The word
comes from the Italian
, meaning bad air as it was once supposed to be caused by bad air. It is one of the most wide spread diseases in the world, especially in tropical and subtropical regions.
There are three main types of
, depending upon the
which causes it. These are vivax, falciparum and
, commonly called tertian fever, quarter fever and the malignant tertian
. The most common symptom of all types of
is high fever, which may come every day, on alternate days or every fourth day. The fever is accompanied by chill, headache, shivering and pain in the limbs. The temperature comes down after some time with profuse sweating. One of the main effects of
. Other complications of the disease are kidney failure and
is caused by a tiny
called plasmodium. The parasites grow in the liver of a person for a few days and then enter the bloodstream where they invade the red blood cells.
The disease is spread from a sick person to a healthy one by the female anopheles mosquito.
She draws a small quantity of blood containing the parasites, when she bites a person who has
. These parasites then pass through several stages of development within the mosquito's body and finally find their way to its salivary glands. There they lie in wait for an opportunity to enter the bloodstream of the next person. The real cause of
, however, as in case of other
diseases, is wrong feeding habits and faulty style of living, resulting in the system being clogged with accumulated systemic refuse and morbid matter. It is on this soil that the
germs breed. The liberal use of denatured foods of today such as white sugar, white flour and products made from them, as well as tinned foods, strong tea, coffee and alcoholic beverages, lower the vitality of the system and paves the way for the development of
Diet is of utmost importance in the treatment of
. To begin with, the patient should fast on orange juice and water for seven to fifteen days depending on the severity of the fever. The warm water enema should be administered daily during this period to cleanse the bowels. After the fever has subsided, the patient should be placed on an exclusive fresh fruit diet for further three days. In this regimen, he should take three meals a day, at five-hourly intervals, of fresh, juicy fruits, like oranges, grapes, grapefruit, apple, pineapple, mango and papaya. Milk may be added to the fruit-diet after this period and this diet may be continued for a further few days.
Thereafter, the patient may gradually embark upon a well-balanced diet of natural foods consisting of seeds, nuts and grains. Vegetables and fruits , with emphasis on fresh fruits and raw vegetables.
The patient should avoid strong tea, coffee, refined and processed foods, fried foods, condiments, sauces, pickles, white sugar, white flour, and all products made from them. He should also avoid all meats, alcoholic drinks and smoking.
The best way to reduce temperature naturally, during the course of fever, is by means of the cold pack, which can be applied to the whole body. This pack is made by wringing out a sheet or other large square piece of linen material in cold water, wrapping it right round the body and legs of the patient ( twice round would be best ) and then covering completely with a small blanket or similar warm material. This pack should be applied every three hours during the day while temperature is high and kept on for an hour or so . Hot-water bottles may be applied to the feet and also against the sides of the body.
Home Remedies
Certain home remedies have been found beneficial in the treatment of
. One such remedy is the use of grapefruit (chakotra). This substance can be extracted from the fruits by boiling a quarter of the grapefruit and straining its pulp.
Lime and lemon are beneficial in the treatment of quarter type of
fever. About three grams of lime should be dissolved in about 60 ml. of water and juice of one lemon added to it.
This water should be taken before the onset of the fever.
Cinnamon(dalchini) is regarded as an effective cure for all types of colds, including
. It should be coarsely powdered and boiled in a glass of water with a pinch of pepper powder and honey. This can be used beneficially as a medicine in
( phitkari) is also useful in
. It should be roasted over a hot plate and powdered. It should be taken about four hours before the expected attack and every two hours after it. This will give relief.
Preventive Measures
The preventive aspect in
is as important as the curative one. The best way to protect against
is to adopt all measures necessary for preventing mosquito bites. For this purpose, it is essential to maintain cleanliness of surroundings, environmental hygiene and to eradicate stretches of stagnant water. As the mosquito generally perches itself on the walls of the house, after biting a person, it would be advisable to spray the walls with insecticides.
The leaves of the holy basil (tulsi) are considered beneficial in the prevention of
. An infusion of some leaves can be taken daily for this purpose. The juice of about 11 grams of tulsi leaves mixed with three grams of black pepper, powder, can be taken beneficially in the cold stage of the malarial fever. This will check the severity of the disease.
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