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New movie starring Christian Bale debuts this weekend
Pittsburgh goes Hollywood again this weekend with the release of "Out of the Furnace" in movie theaters nationwide.
Academy Award winner Christian Bale stars in the new drama, which was mostly shot in Braddock and the Mon Valley. The top-flight cast also includes Casey Affleck, Zoe Saldana, Woody Harrelson, Sam Shepard, Forest Whittaker and Willem Dafoe.
SLIDESHOW: Pittsburgh's movie history highlights
"Out of the Furnace" tells the story of two brothers in an economically depressed steel town. When one of the brothers gets home from serving in Iraq, he's lured into a ruthless crime ring and mysteriously disappears.
Other filming locations included Raccoon Creek State Park in Independence Township, Beaver County; a former state penitentiary in Moundsville, W.Va.; and the Twin Hi-Way Drive-In movie theater in Robinson Township, which fans may recognize in the opening scene.


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The language of the text is the original used by Wallace Hale. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
"It was kinda like nibbling chocolates, one byte led to another."
When asked what led him to combine his interest in New Brunswick history with his computer savvy, R. Wallace Hale explained that he grew tired of sifting through poorly indexed historical publications while pursuing his various research interests. He determined that he could, and he would, transcribe works that he consulted frequently into html documents - keystroke by keystroke. Incredibly, he chose Thomas Jones' 1000+ page tome The History of New York During the Revolutionary War as his first project.
He didn't stop there. Using the general rule that if he had to thumb through a work more than three times he would transcribe it, his list of html documents grew. Not one to keep a good thing to himself, Hale began to share much of his work online. The eventual result was Fort Havoc, an impressive digital archive of "obscure and little used reference material" unified by its relation to Loyalists who came to New Brunswick and Nova Scotia. With the tongue-in-cheek proviso that the work would be done "as time and ambition permitted," Hale delighted in adding to the site, which has been used by researchers around the world.
Wally's ambition, persistence, and patience are evident as one peruses the site, which features more than 300 documents. Fort Havoc includes Reverend William Odbur Raymond's scrapbook of Woodstock Dispatch articles, numerous items relating to the American Revolution and the settlement of the United Empire Loyalists in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, genealogies of the Sharp, Dickinson, Smith, and Shea families, texts on New Brunswick history, passenger lists for the Amphitrite, Union, and Eagle, as well as miscellaneous other ships records.
Why Fort Havoc? In Hale's own words: "Because Chaos Manor was already taken."
We are pleased that "Wally" has agreed to donate Fort Havoc to the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick so that this outstanding resource will continue to be available to researchers everywhere.
About Wallace Hale
R. Wallace Hale was born on September 16, 1935 at the L. P. Fisher hospital in Woodstock to Robert Judson and Evelyn Pearl (nee Palmer). He describes his childhood in Carleton County as being "divided among a one-room school, the woods, and Cousin Ern's shingle mill. Talk about fun, though!"
Employed by the Canada Border Services Agency, Hale developed a knack for working with computers early on. He was a tester for NBNet, learned how to program, and taught himself the basics of web design. Both his aptitude for technology and his dedication to contributing to genealogical and historical research are exemplified the way he cleverly resolved challenges encountered in writing Early New Brunswick (Canada) Probate Records. The publication was drafted on an Apple 2 computer that balked when the manuscript grew to 256 pages. Determined not to be beaten by a mere machine, he manipulated the computer's coding until it was forced to accept 512 pages of the book. When Appleworks again refused to accept any more, he devised a way to port the document over to an IBM PC running Word Perfect, and completed the work.
Currently enjoying his retirement in Fredericton, Hale remains a self-proclaimed technophile and history buff.
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Southern Carleton County, NB Cemeteries
Queens County New Brunswick Marriages, Volume A, 1812-1861
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QUESNEL — It was Friday, September 24, 1999, and Deena Braem planned to celebrate her 17th birthday that weekend with her high-school friends in Quesnel.
Her father, Jim Braem, knew Deena would stay over at a friend's house, instead of returning home. His last words to his daughter were for her to enjoy her night out.
"That was the last time I saw her alive. I remember saying, 'Happy birthday. Have a good time, beautiful.' I remember seeing her hair flipping around with her backpack on her back," he recalled. The memory is still difficult.
When Deena didn't come home that Saturday, her parents thought it was unusual. She hadn't even phoned to ask for some more money.
By Sunday they began to worry, especially when one of their daughter's best friends called to speak to Deena - she should have been with her.
However, the Braems were certain that by Monday - Deena's actual birthday - they would hear from their daughter. At 10 a.m. that day, Jim phoned the school, only to learn his daughter hadn't shown up for class. He met the bus after school, and discovered none of Deena's friends had seen her that day either.
There would be no birthday celebration in the Braem house that night.
"Instead, we reported her missing on her 17th birthday," Jim said during a recent interview.
When they drove home from the police station that evening, Jim and Paula noticed their daughter's shoes weren't in their regular spot by the front door. They were overcome by an intense sense of loss, one that still haunts them today.
"I never went back to work after Monday, for a whole year," said Jim, who is employed at a local mill.
"I died," his wife Paula added bluntly, her eyes red with emotion.
Police searched the local area. Jim drove his truck to Prince George and back, but didn't even know what he was looking for.
"There's not much else you can do. You really find out how much control you have over your life at times like that. You think you are in control of your destiny, but you're not," he said.
Deena was a typical teenager with a stubborn streak and a mind of her own. She was learning to drive. She was starting to focus more on school, as she planned to moved to Victoria once she graduated. She wrote in her journal that she would like to become an actress.
She had a horse on her parent's property near Bouchie Lake on the northwest outskirts of Quesnel, a city of 10,000 people on Highway 97.
Cpl. Ray Kinloch of the Quesnel RCMP said Deena had been with a group of friends at a four-by-four track southeast of the city earlier in the evening. They then went to another party on the west end of town but Deena didn't want to stay, and decided to hitchhike home despite the pouring rain outside.
A friend she was out with that night, but who stayed at the party, last saw Deena hitchhiking about 4 a.m. Saturday morning on North Fraser Drive, which runs parallel to the Fraser River. People working the early shift at the local mill also saw her standing on the side of the road.
Deena usually phoned her parents for a lift but this time she didn't. She was less than 10 km from home.
Investigators asked the Braems if Deena might have run away, a suggestion Jim rejected outright. He didn't know where his daughter was, but he held out some hope that they would find her.
Paula was less certain their daughter was still alive. "It just wasn't like her. Everything from that Saturday on just didn't feel right," she said.
Unfortunately, Paula's worst fears were proven true.
On Dec. 10, 1999 - two and a half months after Deena disappeared - a hunter stumbled upon human remains buried under a pile of brush in a wooden area near Pinnacles Park. It is about "two miles as the crow flies" between the spot where Deena was last seen and where her body was found, Jim said, but about an eight-mile drive.
Residents in Quesnel raised reward money, and Paula was sure somebody in the community would provide some crucial evidence to police.
"I would have thought someone would have been arrested in a year. But it's been 10 years," she said. "It's exhausting. It takes your life away."
The lack of answers is so consuming, Jim said, that he starts to think of everyone he sees as a possible guilty person.
Jim is frustrated that the police search of the area stopped 50 feet short of where his daughter's body was lying because officers left the area to pursue a new tip. Had they found her months earlier, would there have been more evidence to lead to an arrest? It is those unanswerable questions that haunt Jim, who has not been entirely pleased with the police investigation into his daughter's death.
"People say you get closure," Jim said. "The only thing you get closure on is a door. Every day that goes by it gets worse, it just gets worse in a different way. It's like a bigger bag that you keep dragging around."
Deena's name was informally associated for a long time with the Highway of Tears case, as she was frequently mentioned in media stories about the unsolved cases of highway murders in northern B.C. But she was not included in the official list when the RCMP expanded it in 2007.
At first, the Braems weren't sure Deena's case was similar enough to the others, as she disappeared from a secondary road. But they now wonder about the possibility their daughter was picked up by one of the logging trucks working in that area.
The road Deena was standing on runs parallel to Highway 97 but the two routes are separated by the Fraser River; it is a several-kilometre drive back into Quesnel to get back onto Highway 97, which runs from Prince George to Kamloops.
"I can't rule that out anymore," Jim said of the possibility his daughter's case belongs on the Highway of Tears list.
At least adding Deena's name to the list, Paula said, could give the case more attention and jog someone's memory.
E-Pana, the RCMP unit investigating the Highway of Tears cases, said Deena was not included on the list because of "geography." Although her case met two pieces of criteria - she was female and involved in a high-risk activity like hitchhiking - she did not meet the third criteria: when she was last seen, she was more than a mile from a major highway.
Kinloch said the Quesnel RCMP is still actively investigating the case, but noted there have been no new solid leads in recent years. And Deena's body was very decomposed, so some evidence - such as whether she was sexually assaulted - was lost.
Police continue to search for the backpack Deena was carrying that night and to appeal for new tips.
"I firmly believe that there are people out there that know exactly what happened to Deena Braem, and it's just a matter of time here before they open their mouths and confess to friends and relatives," Kinloch said.
"As to whether it's a local person who is responsible, I don't know. It could be someone from outside the area, it's just a matter of time before that person speaks."
Officers are also still trying to find two young men wearing hoodies who were seen walking along North Fraser Drive the same time Deena was hitchhiking on the road. "They are persons of interest. We'd be interested in knowing who they are and what they know," Kinloch said.
"It's just tragic that [the Braems] don't know what happened to their daughter. I sure wish I could help them out."
Still, even if a killer is caught that won't bring justice, Jim said, it will just "take a little bit off our mind."
"And it won't bring Deena back," Paula added.


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- Comorbidity structure of psychological disorders in the online e-PASS data as predictors of psychosocial adjustment measures: psychological distress, adequate social support, self-confidence, quality of life, and suicidal ideation
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- Al-Asadi, Ali; Klein, Britt; Meyer, Denny
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- 2014
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- BACKGROUND: A relative newcomer to the field of psychology, e-mental health has been gaining momentum and has been given considerable research attention. Although several aspects of e-mental health have been studied, 1 aspect has yet to receive attention: the structure of comorbidity of psychological disorders and their relationships with measures of psychosocial adjustment including suicidal ideation in online samples. OBJECTIVE: This exploratory study attempted to identify the structure of comorbidity of 21 psychological disorders assessed by an automated online electronic psychological assessment screening system (e-PASS). The resulting comorbidity factor scores were then used to assess the association between comorbidity factor scores and measures of psychosocial adjustments (ie, psychological distress, suicidal ideation, adequate social support, self-confidence in dealing with mental health issues, and quality of life). METHODS: A total of 13,414 participants were assessed using a complex online algorithm that resulted in primary and secondary Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (Fourth Edition, Text Revision) diagnoses for 21 psychological disorders on dimensional severity scales. The scores on these severity scales were used in a principal component analysis (PCA) and the resulting comorbidity factor scores were related to 4 measures of psychosocial adjustments. RESULTS: A PCA based on 17 of the 21 psychological disorders resulted in a 4-factor model of comorbidity: anxiety-depression consisting of all anxiety disorders, major depressive episode (MDE), and insomnia; substance abuse consisting of alcohol and drug abuse and dependency; body image-eating consisting of eating disorders, body dysmorphic disorder, and obsessive-compulsive disorders; depression-sleep problems consisting of MDE, insomnia, and hypersomnia. All comorbidity factor scores were significantly associated with psychosocial measures of adjustment (P<.001). They were positively related to psychological distress and suicidal ideation, but negatively related to adequate social support, self-confidence, and quality of life. CONCLUSIONS: This exploratory study identified 4 comorbidity factors in the e-PASS data and these factor scores significantly predicted 5 psychosocial adjustment measures. TRIAL REGISTRATION: Australian and New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry ACTRN121611000704998; http://www.anzctr.org.au/trial_view.aspx?ID=336143 (Archived by WebCite at http://www.webcitation.org/618r3wvOG).
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Although the lynx is now listed as a federally threatened species, winter snow track surveys show there are good numbers of lynx in Montana. "Montana supports the healthiest lynx population in the lower 48 states," said Brian Giddings, FWP"s furbearer coordinator. "Despite the fact that Montana"s lynx population is well distributed and at good numbers, the lynx was listed based on its status throughout the northern portion of the U.S., not on a state-by-state basis." In response to concerns among the states about how the listing will affect their ability to manage other species through trapping and hunting, the USFWS is currently developing a special rule under the ESA that allows for the incidental take or killing of a lynx. For Montana to be included under a special rule, educational and regulatory provisions must be met to minimize any incidental take of a lynx.
FWP recommends that bobcat and lion hunters immediately retrieve their trained hounds and leave the site of an accidentally treed lynx. Shooting a lynx is a violation of the ESA, and will remain illegal under any special rule regarding the incidental taking of lynx. "All bobcat and lion hunters absolutely must identify their target before they shoot," Giddings stressed. Learn more


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Today the United Nations marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. This day provides an opportunity for the international community to focus its attention on the fact that the question of Palestine still remains unresolved.
Of the two States to be created under the General Assembly's resolution adopted on this day in 1947, only one, Israel, has so far come into being. Resolution 181 (II) provided the establishment, in Palestine, of a "Jewish State" and an "Arab State", with Jerusalem as a corpus separatum under a special international regime.
For the Palestinian State, and its people, are yet to attain their inalienable rights, which are defined by the General Assembly as the right to self-determination without external interference, the right to national independence and sovereignty, and the right to return to their homes and property from which they had been displaced.
The Palestinian people, who now number more than eight million, live primarily in the Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967, including East Jerusalem; in Israel; in neighbouring Arab States; and in refugee camps in the region.
In 2012 when Palestine was voted to have non-member observer state status at the UN, many hoped that it would renew efforts in the Israel-Palestine peace process and lead to a stable co-existence of two-states. Unfortunately, violence is still prevalent in the region and the Palestinian people face an array of humanitarian crisis, such as: evictions from their home and land, blockades, restriction of movement, poverty, and shortage of food and fuel.
"This year's observance takes place as Israeli and Palestinian negotiators work together towards the agreed objective of a peaceful, comprehensive settlement on all permanent status issues. I call on the international community to support the parties in this ambitious endeavour to fulfil the two-State solution, bringing about an end to the conflict. All parties must act in a responsible way and refrain from actions that undermine the prospects for successful negotiations. " – Secretary General Ban Ki-moon
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NEW YORK -- Mariano Rivera has spoiled the Yankees over his 19-year career. The future Hall of Fame closer has had 721 save opportunities in his career, and he's converted 89 percent of them.
That's what makes his performance over his last three games so hard to believe.
On Wednesday, Rivera gave up an RBI single to Adam Dunn to blow a save against the White Sox. On Friday, he gave up a two-run home run to Miguel Cabrera to give away a lead against the Tigers. And on Sunday, he gave up two home runs for the fifth time in his career to blow a third straight save for the first time in his career.
"I just try to go out there and do my job," Rivera said after the game. "The last three opportunities, I haven't done it."
Entering Sunday's game with a 4-2 lead in the ninth inning, Rivera gave up solo home runs to Cabrera and Victor Martinez, marking the first time in his career he's given up two home runs in a save situation.
Cabrera became the third right-hander to hit two career home runs off Rivera -- the other two are Edgar Martinez and Evan Longoria -- and the first player to ever hit home runs in two consecutive at-bats against Rivera.
"To Martinez, that ball was just laying right flat up. And also with Miguel," Rivera said. "You're facing professional hitters. If you don't put the ball where you need to, you're going to get hit."
Rivera has now given up five runs on seven hits over his last four innings, raising his season ERA from 1.56 to 2.44.
When asked if there was a level of concern over Rivera's recent struggles, Joe Girardi didn't say a word. He just held up his right hand and formed a zero.
"It's not like you forget how to pitch in a week," the Yankees manager said. "He just had a bad week."
The Yankees wound up losing in 12 innings in Chicago on Wednesday, but they managed to win both games in which Rivera faltered against the Tigers. Center fielder Brett Gardner bailed out the Yankees closer in both, hitting a walk-off single in the 10th inning on Friday and a walk-off home run in the ninth on Sunday.
"That doesn't happen very often," Tigers manager Jim Leyland said. "It's not very often you get Mariano Rivera twice in the same series and don't win either game."
"It's shocking," Yankees starter Andy Pettitte said. "He spoils us all. Anytime you see him blow one, much less three, it's shocking.
"But I don't think it's going to faze him, and it's not going to faze anybody in this locker room," he said. "We'll go out there when we've got the lead, and feel extremely confident when we've got the lead and him going into the game."
Rivera didn't seem fazed after the game. He said he knows he's made mistakes over his past three outings, and he just needs to throw the ball where he wants to.
Besides, even though he blew his third straight save chance on Sunday, the Yankees are 2-1 in those games.
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This delicious frozen Passover holiday dessert can be served alone with whipped cream and berries, or alongside our decadent chocolate mousse recipe.
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- Beat egg whites and sugar; then while still beating, add sliced strawberries one piece at a time.
- Beat for 15 minutes, spoon into a large bowl and freeze. Serve like ice cream.


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Wellington to be renamed for Hobbit premiere
When you've got the year's most anticipated movie premiering in your backyard, you may as well give yourself a makeover.
Wellington, New Zealand's capital and named last year by Lonely Planet as the "coolest little capital in the world," will be shedding its traditional identity to become "The Middle of Middle-earth" for three weeks around November 28, the date of the film's first showing.
"Wellington … has been integral in bringing the fantasy world of J.R.R. Tolkien to life on the big screen so it was only natural to be called the Middle of Middle-earth," said the city's Mayor, Celia Wade-Brown.
The whole city is being encouraged to join in on the Hobbit fever.
Hobbit logos, markets and passport stamps
"The city will be decked out in flags and banners with the Middle of Middle-earth logo," added Mayor Wade-Brown. "The city's businesses and retailers will be asked to get into the spirit of things and dress their shop fronts like something from Middle-earth."
A Hobbit-inspired artisan market will also be held, offering products and crafts from people who worked on the trilogy of movies.
And there is talk that Customs officials are considering Middle-earth stamps for passports of international visitors, like those used during last years' Rugby World Cup.
The New Zealand Herald reports on various other preparations, including a clock on top of the Embassy Theatre, counting down the seconds till H-day.
Previously in the year Air New Zealand also announced plans to launch Hobbit-themed flights, and tours are now on offer around the movie's stunning Hobbiton set.
Also on CNN: Air New Zealand to launch Hobbit flights
Finally, Hobbit fans will get a chance to meet with director Sir Peter Jackson and cast and crew as they take a two-hour stroll down a 500-meter-long red carpet on the way to the movie theater on premiere night.
All this is expected to cost in the region of NZ$1.1 million (US$900,000) and will attract 100,000 people to the premiere.
Also on CNN: Hanging out in Hobbiton, the stunning movie set


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The organization hopes to help educate children and adults alike that as animal rescues and shelters work to save homeless animals, families can save lives by offering a home to a pet in need.
When pets are adopted, they are innocent, voiceless, and rely on their owners for everything from food to pet insurance and care. Pets give their owners years of love and joy, and shouldn't have to suffer when they are sick because of high treatment costs. This is where pet health insurance comes in.
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An April 2011 Reuters report on an American Pet Products Association (APPA) poll revealed that in spite of an economic downturn, pet owners are spending more every year on their pets, including a projected $4 billion more in 2011 than five years earlier.
"Sixteen percent of dog owners and 13 percent of cat owners said their animal's medical treatment would take priority over their own," according to the Reuters report. The report also revealed that the number of yearly vet visits and surgery costs are both on the rise, particularly for cats.
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TORONTO – The MLS Cup Playoffs will expand to 10 teams in 2011, and even bigger changes may be down the road.
MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced the tweaks to the postseason format before kickoff of Sunday's MLS Cup final at BMO Field and explained a new system in which the playoffs will be open to two additional clubs in 2011.
Additionally, Garber delivered an even bigger bombshell: that the league is beginning to investigate moving to an international calendar, which would align MLS with most European leagues' fall-to-spring calendar and would break during FIFA dates for international games.
However, the Commissioner added, those changes are far from happening and the league wasn't near making a decision that would bring the most drastic operating changes in MLS history.
"The bottom line is we're telling the world we're going to begin taking a very serious look at this whole issue and what kinds of things we need to do to determine if it makes sense for us," Garber told reporters.
The immediate changes will take place next October, in which the MLS Cup Playoffs will feature an additional play-in round for the bottom four qualifiers in a 10-team system. Garber said those teams would face off in a knockout format for the right to qualify for the eight-team main field in the playoff bracket.
Garber said the league's Competition Committee had not yet decided whether that meant teams ranked four and five in each conference facing off or whether it was teams ranked seventh through 10th in an overall standings format.
The committee has not yet determined whether those play-in series would be single-game or home-and-away, either, but those decisions would be made in the next 30 days, as would finalizing the MLS Cup Playoffs format.
The league is undecided if it wants to continue to move teams across conference lines in order to ensure the best regular-season teams qualify for the postseason. Garber said he understood fans' and critics' confusion that the current system allowed two Western Conference teams to meet in last weekend's Eastern Conference Championship.
"We've got to figure what that mechanism is," Garber told ESPN at halftime of MLS Cup. "We have to find a way to solve that for next year."
The Commissioner also confirmed that the 2011 season would consist of a balanced, 34-game schedule in which each of the league's 18 teams (with incoming Portland and Vancouver) would play each other home and away. That may require First Kick to be moved up by one weekend, Garber said, with the regular season beginning the second week of March.
A balanced schedule probably won't be possible beyond next season, however, Garber said, as Montreal enter the league in 2012 and perhaps a 20th team in 2013.
A decision on adopting the international calendar is much further away, however, as Garber said he had no timetable on making a change.
He did, however, say one possibility the league was looking at was to begin in late summer, break in early winter, resume in February and conclude in late spring. Such an idea was on the table to avoid playing in harsh winter conditions in MLS markets, similar to the Scandinavian calendar.


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For some, this is what Hell looks like.
It's actually Tiger Woods's first putt attempt, for par, on the sixth hole at the Farmer's Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. That slight dip in the middle of the cup gives you the false hope that you've sunk it and then the little whip around actually propels the ball away, faster than it approached.


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I'm most frantic with trying to handle all the red-hot details of so very much these days. And I'm no different than anyone else who makes an extensive list that helps organize and pull it all together. The process of extracting it from my brain into line by line visuals takes it from a jumbled mess in my head to categorized chaos on paper, and sometimes it helps pull it all together. Sometimes.
And then, inevitably, I just make more in my head and it starts all over again. Or the list is paralyzing in it's length, or breadth and it causes me to stare, incomprehensibly at what I think I should do.
Then I lay there this morning, much as I do every day, thinking about the hours ahead and the things I want to do, and a thought struck me so profound and immense that I sat up, quickly, and reached for my phone. Because in this season of 'To Do' and 'To Decorate' and 'To Bake' and 'To Cook' and all the other 'To Do's we force ourselves to create, I started to think of the 'To Don't' items, the ones that I wish to shut the door on, both this season, and all to come.
They might be something like this:
~~Don't fall in to the hype of a commercialized Christmas.
~~Don't get caught up in piteous little daily things and ignore your coffee when it's hot.
~~Remember, every single day, why we celebrate Christmas. The real reason.
~~Don't buy anything that you don't think you will use for 12 months a year.
~~Don't bake anything you don't like.
~~Don't say 'Yes' unless you absolutely can.
~~Don't forget about you, your son and your husband.
~~Don't wait to decorate if it's what you want right now.
~~Don't think you have to be there when the perfect tree is found. They can do it too.
~~Don't pass by that beautiful light display, glancing at it out of the corner of your eye. Stop the car. And really LOOK.
~~Don't think you can't go for a walk when it's cold; bundle up and suck it up.
~~Don't forget your camera, regardless.
~~Don't ever forget where you came from, ever, when you start thinking you don't have enough.
~~Don't forget that when you gather, it's about the company and community and not about the food,
the treats or anything else.
And oh my word, could I fill these pages with my 'To Don't's. Because, really, this list is never-ending. And it doesn't just apply to Christmas time, with all it's frantic rushing and shoving through my days, exhaustively pressing pencil to paper in an attempt to slow it all down and control it. I have the same 24 hours as anyone on the planet. And no memories are made when I'm racing around in a panic, trying to fit it all in. And in among the massive endless 'To Do" tasks that we think we have to accomplish, something will inevitably get lost, those moments forgotten in a mad rush or 'this' thing, or 'that' thing. And what are you willing to forget, to let go and push aside because some list of stupid tasks is more important?
All we've ever done, since list-making was created was make our 'To Do' lists, scratching out what we think is some semblance of order. For a dramatic change in perspective, I encourage you to write your own 'To Don't' list.
What would be on it for Christmas this year?
It's Just Write Tuesday over at The Extraordinary Ordinary. I'm a bit early this week.


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Some studies point to existence of cognitive deficits in OCD (it seems that these deficits are not comorbid but have the same neurological roots as OCD). Unfortunately I found no studies with positive effects of medication (SSRI etc.) on cognitive deficits/impairment in OCD patients. I found only one study about cognitive-behavioral therapy and improvement of cognitive deficits symptoms in OCD.
Is there any research that indicates medication used to treat OCD (such as SSRIs) can mitigate these cognitive deficits?
Related articles:
Fenger, M. M., Gade, A., Adams, K. H., Hansen, E. S., Bolwig, T. G., & Knudsen, G. M. (2005). Cognitive deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder on tests of frontal lobe functions. Nordic journal of psychiatry, 59(1), 39-44. PDF
Purcell, R., Maruff, P., Kyrios, M., & Pantelis, C. (1998). Neuropsychological deficits in obsessive-compulsive disorder: a comparison with unipolar depression, panic disorder, and normal controls. Archives of General Psychiatry, 55(5), 415. LINK


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First baseman will make big league debut Tuesday night against Halos
HOUSTON -- Only a few weeks after the Astros called up top outfield prospect George Springer to the Major Leagues, the club is reaching back into the farm system for another prized prospect: slugging first baseman Jon Singleton.
The Astros announced on Monday they had signed Singleton to a five-year contract with three club options that could keep him in an Astros uniform through 2021. He is expected to be in the lineup for his Major League debut when the Astros open a three-game series against the Angels on Tuesday.
Marc Krauss was optioned to Triple-A.
The deal will pay Singleton $10 million guaranteed for five years and carries a potential value of $30 million, according to a Major League Baseball source. The deal runs from the 2014-18 seasons and provides the club with options for the 2019-21 seasons.
The deal, which has been in the works since April, is unprecedented, considering Singleton hasn't played one game in the Majors. He reportedly will be paid $1.5 million this year, $2 million a year from 2015-18, $2.5 million in 2019, $5 million in 2020 and $13 million in 2021. The Astros have buyout options of $500,000 in 2019 and $250,000 in both 2020 and 2021, Yahoo! Sports reported.
"It took a while to get to get it across the finish line," general manager Jeff Luhnow said. "I think it really began with the desire to have the deal be good for both sides, good for the player in that the player is given some security and the player knows how important he is to the organization. And good for the organization in that we now have cost control over a player that has a chance to be pretty special and that we believe is going to be a good big league player and potentially a great big league player."
Singleton, considered by MLB.com's Prospect Watch to be the Astros' No. 3 prospect behind shortstop Carlos Correa and right-hander Mark Appel, has spent the 2014 season thus far with Triple-A Oklahoma City. The 22-year-old former eighth-round pick of the 2009 First-Year Player Draft has hit .267 with 37 runs, 10 doubles, 14 homers and 43 RBIs in 54 games.
"The fact he went out these first two months at Triple-A and performed the way he did on top of the fact he went to winter ball and performed there, and his whole history of performance since he was drafted, made us feel comfortable he is going to perform -- maybe not from Day 1 the way [the fans] will want him to, but soon enough," Luhnow said. "He's still young, he's still getting better and I think his future is very bright."
The Astros haven't had much production from the first base platoon of right-hander Jesus Guzman and the left-handed-hitting Krauss, who have combined to hit .181 with a .561 OPS -- the lowest in the Majors among first basemen. Luhnow anticipates Singleton will start against right-handers and left-handers after he hit .309 with four homers and 14 RBIs against lefties this year.
"Our coaches and our scouts believe that he will be successful against both sides and it will allow him to play every day, and defensively he's a very good first baseman," Luhnow said. "He's got power, so he should be a guy that [manager] Bo [Porter] should be happy to write him in the lineup every day."
The Astros haven't been shy about trying to sign their young players to club-friendly deals before they reach arbitration. Last year, they signed All-Star second baseman Jose Altuve a four-year, $17 million contract extension with two options. They have also approached Springer, outfielder Robbie Grossman and third baseman Matt Dominguez about extensions.
A left-handed bat, Singleton was one of four players the Astros acquired in the July 2011 deal that sent Hunter Pence to the Phillies. Two other players from that deal -- pitchers Jarred Cosart and Josh Zeid -- have reached the Majors, and Cosart is one of the Astros' top starters.
"We have a lot of young, exciting players in our organization," Luhnow said. "At the big league level, we've got several, and in the Minor Leagues, we've got several coming. We have to be selective to a certain extent, because there's only so many positions in the big leagues. We do want to evaluate all of our players and see if we think there might be a fit for them and for us.
"It's not something we feel we have to do, but when there's a match and the player values some security and we value cost certainty, it's something we're going to explore."
Cosart's promotion last July represented the first of three top prospects the Astros called up in less than a year, adding Springer and Singleton this year.
Springer is hitting .259 with 10 homers and 29 RBIs in 41 games, including a stretch from May 21-29 when he hit seven home runs in a seven-game span. He batted .390 with seven homers and 17 RBIs during an 11-game hitting streak from May 17-29.
Singleton was suspended for the first 50 games of last season following his second consecutive failed marijuana test and had mixed results upon his return. He spent most of the season at Triple-A Oklahoma City and hit .220 with six homers and 31 RBIs in 73 games.
Singleton admitted during Spring Training he was a drug addict and had struggled with marijuana and alcohol abuse. He said he enjoyed smoking weed and spent time in rehab last year, though he said at the time he hadn't smoked the drug in more than a year.
Luhnow said Singleton showed maturity by tackling the issue head on and working hard this season on the field.
"He did a good job putting the suspension behind him and focusing on the task at hand, which was improving his chances of becoming a big league player and a good big league player," he said. "That was a big step. You're never 100 percent sure there won't be recurring issues, but we do believe he's doing the work to keep himself productive on the field and out of trouble off the field."
Of course, now that Springer and Singleton are in Houston, Astros fans want to know who's next. Hard-throwing right-hander Mike Foltynewicz is having a good season at Triple-A, and Correa could be in Double-A soon.
"We'll see whose name starts to get bandied about," Luhnow said. "There's still a lot of exciting players. Right now, the team we have here -- the bullpen's strong, we've got starters we like, but only have five here now, and the lineup's gotten better. This will be a fun team to watch for the next couple of months, so we'll see what happens."


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All week, Arrowmen from across the country have been living
it up at the National Order of the Arrow Conference in Bloomington, Ind., that
ends today.
What were they up to? The agenda included leadership
development, sports, games, ceremonies, dance competitions, shows, and lots of
pizza. So much pizza, in fact, that it's rumored Bloomington pizza chains sell
more pies during one week of NOAC than during any single month of the year.
Boys stayed in dorms at the campus, living among thousands
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fun, they did some learning, too.
Ceremony teams got the rare opportunity to perform in front
of accredited judges. The evaluations helped improve their performances so that
fellow Arrowmen back home will get a more authentic show.
Also, each participant created a personalized training
schedule that included classes in leadership development, lodge operations,
Indian dance, ceremonies, outdoor skills, and more. There were even classes
designed specifically for Lodge Chiefs and for Lodge Advisers.
All of this while experiencing a taste of college life at
Indiana University. This was the event's 10th at IU, including the
first NOAC in 1948.
Interested in learning more about what went on at NOAC 2009?
Click here for the official site. And get ready for the next NOAC
in 2012. It'll be here before you know it!
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Liverpool midfielder Lucas Leiva believes the partnership of Luis Suarez and Daniel Sturridge is improving with each match - and points to the quality of the goals they score as proof.
Suarez grabbed his first Anfield hat-trick, and his fourth in total for the club, in the 4-1 win over West Brom although there was an argument for Sturridge netting the best effort with a delightful delicate chip to put the result beyond doubt.
The pair already have 14 league goals between them this season - and Suarez was suspended for the first five games of the campaign.
However, Lucas believes that is only the beginning of something special.
"The link between Luis and Daniel is only getting better," he said.
"Last year they didn't have a chance to play many games (Sturridge arrived in January but injuries and suspension had an impact on their partnership) so this season we can see they are scoring goals.
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Suarez claimed all the headlines with his treble, which began with an individual run and nutmeg on Jonas Olsson and was followed by a powerful 17-yard header before nodding in a Steven Gerrard free-kick, but Lucas felt Sturridge's strike surpassed them all.
"I think Daniel scored the best goal to be honest," added the Brazil midfielder.
"Luis's header was a great header and the first goal was typical Luis - the 'meg' and the good finish but I think overall it was four fantastic goals.
"It's just great to see them linking well and we hope this will continue during the season."
Liverpool were coasting at 3-0 before James Morrison's 66th-minute penalty gave the visitors hope and they enjoyed a good 10-minute spell before Sturridge finished them off in style.
"We are disappointed we conceded a goal - I've seen it again and I don't think it was a penalty," said Lucas.
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While the forwards rightly received most of the praise manager Brendan Rodgers felt Lucas also deserved some credit.
The 26-year-old missed last week's draw at Newcastle after the birth of his second child, daughter Valentina, but slotted straight back in.
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We are planning an all out blitz on star parties and astronomy functions for our centennial year. We are sending speakers from the staff to give talks at Stellafane, ALCon 2011, Texas Star Party, Nebraska Star Party, Table Mountain Star Party and NEAIC, the Northeast Astro Imaging Conference. We are also in discussions to send representatives to the Black Forest and Connecticut star parties.
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The financially troubled Burlington Telecom has reached a settlement with Citibank that will allow it to keep its equipment, for now.
Lawyers for the city and Citibank agreed to the deal in federal court in Burlington on Friday.
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The simple principle of expansion of the pellet snacks allows the utilization of a wide choice of starch based raw materials. Cereal flours are the most common ones, followed by root starches like potato and tapioca and cereal starches. A great advantage of the pellet snacks technology is the possibility of making formulas with peculiar characteristics like high fibre content, multi grain or multi coloured. Although the pellet production process generally includes a step to cook the starch matrix, allowing the use of raw flours and native (uncooked) starches which are cheap and widespread, some common raw materials are already cooked, such as the potato based raw materials like potato flakes and granules. Sometimes precooked or par-cooked cereal' raw materials are also used. Pre-cooked materials generally do not require going through the cooking step but only the phases related to shaping and drying.
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Tigers right-hander turns in 1-2-3 first inning in first All-Star Game
NEW YORK -- A year after Prince Fielder helped convince Justin Verlander to throw 101 mph in his All-Star Game start, Torii Hunter mobbed Max Scherzer in the dugout about throwing 99.
That was about the only parallel between the two outings.
The man who preaches about his final 15 pitches of a game being most important didn't even need that many in his first Midsummer Classic. Yet, as his 99-mph fastball over the plate froze the Reds' Joey Votto for a called third strike and the final out, Scherzer looked like he was wrapping up one of those performances.
Scherzer took his usual exit handshake from manager Jim Leyland, took congratulations from Verlander, then saw Hunter jumping and down.
"Yeah, he saw that 99 on the last pitch to Votto and he came in and he was having so much fun with me, because I haven't hit that in a while," Scherzer said. "That's what it's about when you have success, enjoying it with your teammates. He's one of the best teammates in the game. That's what makes these games special."
Actually, there were a lot of reasons for this game to be special for Scherzer -- his first All-Star appearance, his first start, with his parents and fiance watching from the stands. The challenge was to make sure he could still approach it like any other outing.
Tigers coaches figured Scherzer would handle the starting assignment well. While Verlander talked last year after his five-run inning about fans wanting to see him hit triple digits on the radar gun, Scherzer is more high-strikeout than high-power.
Still, pitching coach Jeff Jones said he would talk with him just to make sure.
"I'm going to tell him I want you to come out and pitch the same way you do in the first inning of any game," Jones said during batting practice. "Because I don't think it's going to be beneficial command-wise at the mound to try to do more. There's no sense in getting out of whack while you're here.
"You don't want to change anything. We'll talk about it. We'll keep him calmed down."
Scherzer said Jones didn't have to tell him anything.
"I knew I had to be like that," Scherzer said. "My game's coming out there and attacking you. I was able to do that tonight, attack with all pitches. I thought I showed my best stuff tonight."
After a second-pitch flyout from Cincinnati's Brandon Phillips, Cardinals outfielder Carlos Beltran worked the count full before Scherzer induced a groundout to first, with Scherzer taking the throw from Chris Davis and beating Beltran to the bag.
The at-bat against Votto showed Scherzer at his finest. He used his curveball, the pitch he has honed over the last year to give him another option against left-handed hitters like Votto, to drop a first-pitch strike on the inside corner. From there, he sent down Votto on fastballs -- a 96-mph offering spotted for strike two, a 98-mph heater that Votto fouled off, and finally a 99-mph strike three.
From there on out, he was a fan. Seven innings later, as Mariano Rivera took the mound, Scherzer was standing outside the dugout helping lead the applause.
It'll be the only pitching Scherzer does this week. He'll make his first start out of the break next Monday against the White Sox in Chicago. The memories he takes will last a lot longer.
"It's just fun," Scherzer said. "It's a dream come true. For me to be able to start the All-Star Game and be able to have the success I did, you just take it all in. What can you say? I had such a great day today. I had such a great time with everybody here. This is something I'll never forget."


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