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I want a puppy but am having the hardest time, I mean I would like to adopt one but not alot of places are around to check out. My friend just got a free puppy from a lady she knows and they were all gone when I asked! why do I have this luck? I can't afford to pay like $900 for a puppy so either free or adoption are my only options. So this is my first time here and I don't know if I am even in the right place to be saying this!
Can anyone help?
How much experience do you have with dogs? Have you raised puppies before and know how much work they are?
Go to www.petfinder.org
On the left, put "Dog" as type of animal you are looking for. Unless you want a specific breed, just put "Baby" for age, and don't fill out anything else if you don't care about size, etc.
Put ON for location. There are a ton of puppies listed - many breeds and mixed breeds!
Hi there and welcome!
A lot of people are in your situation--it does cost a lot of money to have a puppy. However, what a lot of people don't know is that the actual price you pay for the puppy is the cheapest expense of all!!! I'll break it down for you just in case you don't already know (you may know this though..I don't know!)
In the first year, a new puppy will run you well over 1000 dollars in extra expenses, if not much more.
For example, if you were to adopt a puppy from a shelter or humane society, you would pay about 300 for the actual dog. This would include having it spayed or neutered. Then, you would need take the dog for its first vet check--pay the vet fee, any fees for meds he or she may need (which is typical really). This could run you about 250 for the first visit. Then, your dog will need its shots if you want it to ever go outside. These shots will run you about 100 a piece for the visit and the shots--you get this done three times in the first year.
So--now you are at 850 in expenses so far for the first year. This however does not include food, toys, a crate, leashes, doggy coat and booties if needed, any special treats, doggie dish, doggie x pen, and training. This will run you about 500 in the first year.
So again, now you are up to 1350 in the first year. Keep in mind however, your dog may need its nails clipped--if you aren't planning to do it yourself--this will cost about 15 bucks a shot--every three months or so. Your dog may also need its hair cut--about 4 times a year. This will cost you about 35 dollars each time.
Now that being said, if you think you can afford the expense of a dog--and account for the numerous blips like ear infections, eye infections, etc that cost you even more money in meds and vet care...then you can check out www.petfinder.com to find a listing of all the animals awaiting loving homes in your region!! There are SO many of them just waiting to be loved by an who is there to give them a home and a life.
Also just wanted to add the cost of the vets if your dog is sick,hurt,needs surgery.
"A dog can express more with his tail in minutes than his owner can express with his tongue in hours."
You may want to consider a young rescue dog, breed depending on your experience. My tobias was adopted at 8 months he is now 15 months. Our expenses included, Vet bills, neutering, food, treats, a couple of socks, several shoes, part of a couch, and countless of other goodies. It took two weeks to re - house break him, that was the easy part.
Now I start all over with a baby in five weeks, I hope you are patient, these suckers will give you nightmares. Oh did I mention the sleepless nights in the first few weeks after leaving mother?
Hello puppy lover and welcome......
After all that has been said.....have you thought of being a cat lover? Still expences but not as many....maybe a goldfish ....now they are cheap,,,,,lmao
"Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs and cats you wanted to."
PuppyLuver, Let me say I love animals period, dogs, cats. I just lost my little cat to old age. I have mentioned to my wife over the last few years that I want a dog also. I have had three cats over the years and have seen first hand that except perhaps even though I know someone that does you cant walk most cats . They will give you all their love and attention, each one that I have had were lap cats wanting your love. Cal
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- 1/4 cup milk, at room temperature
- 1/4 cup tangerine juice
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 egg yolk, at room temperature
- zest of 1 tangerineTa
- Preheat oven to 350. Line or grease and flour 6 wells in a cupcake pan. In a large bowl, cream the butter, zest and sugar. Add the egg, mix thoroughly. Add flour, baking powder and salt to the butter mixture. Add the milk and juice to the rest of the batter and beat until well combined. Fill each well 2/3 of the way full. Bake 12-15 minutes or until a toothpick inserted the center of a cupcake comes out clean or with just one or two dry crumbs. Cool briefly in the pan, then remove cupcakes to wire racks to cool completely before icing with tangerine frosting and topping with a candied tangerine slice.

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He was a multi-tasker who could negotiate a college baseball scholarship for a player while coaching his team in a championship game, those who knew him said.
More than 500 people attended a memorial service Friday for Michael Spiers, who guided many young, local baseball players into college scholarships or jobs with Major League Baseball.
The service was at San Manuel Stadium. People who came to remember were in the stands. And at home plate: loved ones, flowers and photos.
Spiers, who owned San Bernardino-based ABD Baseball Academy, died from heart failure on Jan. 18 at Loma Linda University Medical Center.
He was 51.
John Totten, 25, now living in the Bay Area, started with Spiers at age 11 and continued with him until graduating from high school.
Spiers helped him get a baseball scholarship to San Francisco State.
"He was always figuring out a way to help is students go to college," Totten said. "As for being a baseball coach, a student could pay for a half-hour lesson on batting at 4 p.m. and at 8 p.m. Spiers would still be working with them. He wouldn't quit until they learned to do it right."
When his students would enter college he'd be checking up with them to make sure they were focusing on studies, said Totten, who majored in economics and statistics.
"He was the first guy I ever met with a Bluetooth (headset)," Totten said.
Rocky Collis said Spiers "taught us skills for baseball that we could use later in life."
A pitcher on the Cornell University baseball team, Collis said Spiers taught his students "how to compete ... how to battle adversity."
Spiers taught his players the importance of "bouncing back from a mistake," said Collis, who was law review editor at Georgetown University Law Center, and who practices sports law in Washington, D.C.
St. Louis Cardinals player Allen Craig said Spiers "really cared about his players" and "believed in them, even if they didn't believe in themselves."
Spiers is survived by his daughter, Jasmine, 36, of Moreno Valley; Mike 27, of San Diego; and a brother Mitch, who lives in Carlsbad.


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[Verse 1]
Ghettos, America. U.S. to the izzay
Killa in the citywide sprizzay
Where there's sunshine in the shizzade
Judge won't pull him out the pen like a grenade
For acting out their fears like a charade
Til they blacking out their tears like it's lights out
Bring em out the black like a lighthouse
And wave to em before they wiped out
Lifesaver, threw em, hope they catch it
But it's so Titanic to be iced out
That's just scratching the surface like Triple Axels
Want to roll around that Bentley like Crystal Castles
In addition to the chain
That's just to take the attention from the pain
Or is it the mission of the man
Audubon Ballroom, Motel Lorraine
Now white people, you can't say nigga
So I gotta take it back
Now black people, we're not niggas
Cause God made us better than that
[Verse 2]
No break, all wake
Little mayhem for your All-State, nay ham, all steak
Get a good ball great like a golf grade
Make the ball break
Just one swing, no putting
That's how I try 'n does things, always
Especially when your past is
Martin, Baldwin, Audubon Ballroom
Turn the glass ceiling to a glass floor
Make a trampoline out of trapdoor
On that gasoline when I was back poor
Loudly crafted out my dream underneath a tap floor
Backpack battle-cat underground rap lore
Anonymous but dominant -- what's a Mac to a hacker?
In other words, we lyrical Zuckerbergs
Pimp you may move a mouse, but what's a rat to a cat store
It's like a gig to an app store
I rap Black history, you can only see my past if you fast forward
Now white people, you can't say nigga
So I gotta take it back
Now black people, we're not niggas
Cause God made us better than that
[Verse 3]
Black Panthers, black anthems, black blues
With black answers for black stanzas: Langston Hughes
Breaking rules, ain't it cool?
Took it old, and made it new
Black painters, musical black anger
Black mothers, beautiful black anchors
So lets hear it for 'em! Let's hear it for 'em!
Lets hear it for 'em! Lets hear it for 'em!
Black America! Trap America!
'80s Babies! Crack America!
Rap America! Bad as Erykah!
From the era of family tearing up
But we just won big, can't be undid
Form a whole culture in just one kid
Miami dope boys, Oakland militants
Harlem Renaissance it's our deliverance
Now white people, you can't say nigga
So I gotta take it back
Now black people, we're not niggas
Cause God made us better than that
The Audubon ballroom was a theatre and ballroom located on Broadway at 165th Street in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Upper Manhattan, north of Harlem in New York. It is best known as the site of Malcolm X's assassination on February 21, 1965.
Malcolm X was an influential African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist. He is often referenced by rappers like 2Pac
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Cakespy: Pumpkin Pie in a Chocolate Chip Cookie Crust Recipe
Quirky, cute, sometimes controversial, always delicious recipes from Jessie Oleson.
Note: We love pie. And so does Jessie Oleson (aka Cakespy). She will drop by with a delicious pie recipe every Wednesday in November. Check out more Cakespy recipes here.
Pumpkin pie and chocolate chip cookies are pretty much baked good soulmates. They're both considered all-American desserts, both are the result of bakers making do with ingredients available at the time, and both seem to inspire a primal instinct in bakers who are constantly seeking out the best recipe.
"Pumpkin pie getting punched in the face by a chocolate chip cookie."
But what happens when you bring these star-crossed sweets together? Set on finding out, I tried baking a batch pumpkin pie filling in a cookie dough crust, and found myself with an instant Thanksgiving masterpiece. The rich, buttery cookie taste infused the pumpkin filling while baking. One taster described is as "pumpkin pie getting punched in the face by a chocolate chip cookie—but you know, in a good way."
Pumpkin Pie in a Chocolate Chip Cookie Crust
- For the crust:
- Note: this will likely yield more crust than you need; the extra dough can be baked as cookies.
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup packed brown sugar
- 1 cup butter, softened
- 1 egg
- 2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 teaspoon baking soda (note: after feedback in the comments, one tester tried the recipe witout baking soda, and it turned out fine)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1 package (12 ounces) semisweet chocolate chips
- For the filling:
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 eggs
- 1 can (15 ounces) pureed pumpkin
- 1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk
Heat oven to 350°F.
Prepare the cookie crust. Mix sugars, butter and egg in large bowl. Stir in flour, baking soda and salt (the dough will be stiff). Gently fold in the chocolate chips with a wooden spoon, stirring only until incorporated. Let the dough rest in the refrigerator for two hours. Using floured hands, press the cookie dough very firmly into a well-greased 10-inch pie plate, ensuring that it is of an even thickness and goes all the way up the sides of the plate. It works best to make the crust fairly thick, perhaps half and inch, so that it doesn't get too crispy. There will probably be some extra cookie dough after you press the crust; feel free to use the dough to bake as cookies.
Prepare the pumpkin pie filling. Mix sugar, cinnamon, salt, ginger and cloves in small bowl. Beat eggs in a separate, larger bowl. Stir in the pumpkin and sugar-spice mixture. Gradually stir in evaporated milk, until the entire mixture is fully incorporated and homogeneous. Pour directly into the cookie dough crust. It should fill the crust to the very top--be very careful when putting it in the oven to prevent spilling.
Bake in your 350°F oven for 45 minutes. Reduce temperature to 325 and bake for for 20-30 minutes or until pick inserted near center comes out clean (it's ok if it is a bit longer, just make sure the middle has set). The sides of the crust will be crispy and a bit darker than you'd probably bake a cookie. It is OK though--the pumpkin filling will soften it a bit. Cool on wire rack for at least 1 hour so the filling can set. Top with whipped cream before serving.
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In colonoscopy and sigmoidoscopy, a gastroenterologist uses a special kind of endoscope (long, flexible, lighted tube) called a colonoscope or sigmoidoscope to view the inside of the large intestine (large bowel or colon). The doctor inserts the scope, which is about the thickness of a finger, into the anus and advances it to the rectum and colon. (See illustration.) With this instrument, the specialist can examine the colon, looking for cancerous areas, polyps, or other abnormal growths, for inflammation, for ulcers, for bleeding, or for other conditions. The gastroenterologist can see the lining of the rectum and colon, can remove samples of polyps or other tissue for evaluation (biopsy tissue for examination in the laboratory), and sometimes treat problems nonsurgically. For example, polyps are sometimes precancerous conditions and the specialist may remove them altogether, as a cancer-prevention step.
Specialists use sigmoidoscopy primarily to access the lower or descending section of the colon. Using the longer colonoscope, they can access the entire colon, including the transverse and ascending sections.
These procedures are the most important diagnostic for a number of important and common conditions, such as colorectal cancer, inflammatory bowel disease, and diverticulitis. These tests are performed as part of routine screening or in response to symptoms such as bloody stool or rectal bleeding or pain, change in bowel habits, or persistent diarrhea. Sigmoidoscopy and colonoscopy are more accurate than barium x-rays in detecting small abnormal areas.
In order to prepare for this test, patients go on a clear liquid diet for 24 hours prior to the procedure and take a bowel-cleansing preparation. Patients taking blood-thinning medications, antiplatelet medications, or arthritis medications will need to discuss with their physician the need to stop these medications several days prior to the procedure. The staff places the patient under mild sedation just prior to the procedure.
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10 Scientific Laws and Theories You Really Should Know
Scientists have many tools available to them when attempting to describe how nature and the universe at large work. Often they reach for laws and theories first. What's the difference? A scientific law can often be reduced to a mathematical statement, such as E = mc²; it's a specific statement based on empirical data, and its truth is generally confined to a certain set of conditions. For example, in the case of E = mc², c refers to the speed of light in a vacuum.
A scientific theory often seeks to synthesize a body of evidence or observations of particular phenomena. It's generally — though by no means always — a grander, testable statement about how nature operates. You can't necessarily reduce a scientific theory to a pithy statement or equation, but it does represent something fundamental about how nature works.
Both laws and theories depend on basic elements of the scientific method, such as generating a hypothesis, testing that premise, finding (or not finding) empirical evidence and coming up with conclusions. Eventually, other scientists must be able to replicate the results if the experiment is destined to become the basis for a widely accepted law or theory.
In this article, we'll look at 10 scientific laws and theories that you might want to brush up on, even if you don't find yourself, say, operating a scanning electron microscope all that frequently. We'll start off with a bang and move on to the basic laws of the universe, before hitting evolution. Finally, we'll tackle some headier material, delving into the realm of quantum physics.
If you're going to know one scientific theory, make it the one that explains how the universe arrived at its present state. Based on research performed by Edwin Hubble, Georges Lemaitre and Albert Einstein, among others, the big bang theory postulates that the universe began almost 14 billion years ago with a massive expansion event. At the time, the universe was confined to a single point, encompassing all of the universe's matter. That original movement continues today, as the universe keeps expanding outward.
The theory of the big bang gained widespread support in the scientific community after Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered cosmic microwave background radiation in 1965. Using radio telescopes, the two astronomers detected cosmic noise, or static, that didn't dissipate over time. Collaborating with Princeton researcher Robert Dicke, the pair confirmed Dicke's hypothesis that the original big bang left behind low-level radiation detectable throughout the universe.
Let's stick with Edwin Hubble for a second. While the 1920s roared past and the Great Depression limped by, Hubble was performing groundbreaking astronomical research. Hubble not only proved that there were other galaxies besides the Milky Way, he also discovered that these galaxies were zipping away from our own, a motion he called recession.
In order to quantify the velocity of this galactic movement, Hubble proposed Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion, aka Hubble's law, an equation that states: velocity = H × distance. Velocity represents the galaxy's recessional velocity; H is the Hubble constant, or parameter that indicates the rate at which the universe is expanding; and distance is the galaxy's distance from the one with which it's being compared.
Hubble's constant has been calculated at different values over time, but the current accepted value is 70 kilometers/second per megaparsec, the latter being a unit of distance in intergalactic space [source: White]. For our purposes, that's not so important. What matters most is that Hubble's law provides a concise method for measuring a galaxy's velocity in relation to our own. And perhaps most significantly, the law established that the universe is made up of many galaxies, whose movements trace back to the big bang.
For centuries, scientists battled with one another and with religious leaders about the planets' orbits, especially about whether they orbited our sun. In the 16th century, Copernicus put forth his controversial concept of a heliocentric solar system, in which the planets revolved around the sun — not Earth. But it would take Johannes Kepler, building on work performed by Tyco Brahe and others, to establish a clear scientific foundation for the planets' movements.
Kepler's three laws of planetary motion — formed in the early 17th century — describe how planets orbit the sun. The first law, sometimes called the law of orbits, states that planets orbit the sun elliptically. The second law, the law of areas, states that a line connecting a planet to the sun covers an equal area over equal periods of time. In other words, if you're measuring the area created by drawing a line from Earth to the sun and tracking Earth's movement over 30 days, the area will be the same no matter where Earth is in its orbit when measurements begin.
The third one, the law of periods, allows us to establish a clear relationship between a planet's orbital period and its distance from the sun. Thanks to this law, we know that a planet relatively close to the sun, like Venus, has a far briefer orbital period than a distant planet, such as Neptune.
We may take it for granted now, but more than 300 years ago Sir Isaac Newton proposed a revolutionary idea: that any two objects, no matter their mass, exert gravitational force toward one another. This law is represented by an equation that many high schoolers encounter in physics class. It goes as follows:
F = G × [(m1m2)/r2]
F is the gravitational force between the two objects, measured in Newtons. M1 and m2 are the masses of the two objects, while r is the distance between them. G is the gravitational constant, a number currently calculated to be 6.672 × 10-11 N m2 kg-2 [source: Weisstein].
The benefit of the universal law of gravitation is that it allows us to calculate the gravitational pull between any two objects. This ability is especially useful when scientists are, say, planning to put a satellite in orbit or charting the course of the moon.
As long as we're talking about one of the greatest scientists who ever lived, let's move on to Newton's other famous laws. His three laws of motion form an essential component of modern physics. And like many scientific laws, they're rather elegant in their simplicity.
The first of the three laws states an object in motion stays in motion unless acted upon by an outside force. For a ball rolling across the floor, that outside force could be the friction between the ball and the floor, or it could be the toddler that kicks the ball in another direction.
The second law establishes a connection between an object's mass (m) and its acceleration (a), in the form of the equation F = m × a. F represents force, measured in Newtons. It's also a vector, meaning it has a directional component. Owing to its acceleration, that ball rolling across the floor has a particular vector, a direction in which it's traveling, and it's accounted for in calculating its force.
The third law is rather pithy and should be familiar to you: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. That is, for every force applied to an object or surface, that object pushes back with equal force.
The British physicist and novelist C.P. Snow once said that a nonscientist who didn't know the second law of thermodynamics was like a scientist who had never read Shakespeare [source: Lambert]. Snow's now-famous statement was meant to emphasize both the importance of thermodynamics and the necessity for nonscientists to learn about it.
Thermodynamics is the study of how energy works in a system, whether it's an engine or Earth's core. It can be reduced to several basic laws, which Snow cleverly summed up as follows [source: Physics Planet]:
Let's unpack these a bit. By saying you can't win, Snow meant that since matter and energy are conserved, you can't get one without giving up some of the other (i.e., E=mc²). It also means that for an engine to produce work, you have to supply heat, although in anything other than a perfectly closed system, some heat is inevitably lost to the outside world, which then leads to the second law.
The second statement — you can't break even — means that due to ever-increasing entropy, you can't return to the same energy state. Energy concentrated in one place will always flow to places of lower concentration.
Finally, the third law — you can't quit the game — refers to absolute zero, the lowest theoretical temperature possible, measured at zero Kelvin or (minus 273.15 degrees Celsius and minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit). When a system reaches absolute zero, molecules stop all movement, meaning that there is no kinetic energy, and entropy reaches its lowest possible value. But in the real world, even in the recesses of space, reaching absolutely zero is impossible — you can only get very close to it.
After he discovered his principle of buoyancy, the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes allegedly yelled out "Eureka!" and ran naked through the city of Syracuse. The discovery was that important. The story goes that Archimedes made his great breakthrough when he noticed the water rise as he got into the tub [source: Quake].
According to Archimedes' buoyancy principle, the force acting on, or buoying, a submerged or partially submerged object equals the weight of the liquid that the object displaces. This sort of principle has an immense range of applications and is essential to calculations of density, as well as designing submarines and other oceangoing vessels.
Now that we've established some of the fundamental concepts of how our universe began and how physics play out in our daily lives, let's turn our attention to the human form and how we got to be the way we are. According to most scientists, all life on Earth has a common ancestor. But in order to produce the immense amount of difference among all living organisms, certain ones had to evolve into distinct species.
In a basic sense, this differentiation occurred through evolution, through descent with modification [source: UCMP]. Populations of organisms developed different traits, through mechanisms such as mutation. Those with traits that were more beneficial to survival such as, a frog whose brown coloring allows it to be camouflaged in a swamp, were naturally selected for survival; hence the term natural selection.
It's possible to expand upon both of these theories at greater length, but this is the basic, and groundbreaking, discovery that Darwin made in the 19th century: that evolution through natural selection accounts for the tremendous diversity of life on Earth.
Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity remains an important and essential discovery because it permanently altered how we look at the universe. Einstein's major breakthrough was to say that space and time are not absolutes and that gravity is not simply a force applied to an object or mass. Rather, the gravity associated with any mass curves the very space and time (often called space-time) around it.
To conceptualize this, imagine you're traveling across the Earth in a straight line, heading east, starting somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. After a while, if someone were to pinpoint your position on a map, you'd actually be both east and far south of your original position. That's because Earth is curved. To travel directly east, you'd have to take into account the shape of Earth and angle yourself slightly north. (Think about the difference between a flat paper map and a spherical globe.)
Space is pretty much the same. For example, to the occupants of the shuttle orbiting Earth, it can look like they're traveling on a straight line through space. In reality, the space-time around them is being curved by Earth's gravity (as it would be with any large object with immense gravity such as a planet or a black hole), causing them to both move forward and to appear to orbit Earth.
Einstein's theory had tremendous implications for the future of astrophysics and cosmology. It explained a minor, unexpected anomaly in Mercury's orbit, showed how starlight bends and laid the theoretical foundations for black holes.
Einstein's broader theory of relativity told us more about how the universe works and helped to lay the foundation for quantum physics, but it also introduced more confusion into theoretical science. In 1927, this sense that the universe's laws were, in some contexts, flexible, led to a groundbreaking discovery by the German scientist Werner Heisenberg.
In postulating his Uncertainty Principle, Heisenberg realized that it was impossible to simultaneously know, with a high level of precision, two properties of a particle. In other words, you can know the position of an electron with a high degree of certainty, but not its momentum and vice versa.
Niels Bohr later made a discovery that helps to explain Heisenberg's principle. Bohr found that an electron has the qualities of both a particle and a wave, a concept known as wave-particle duality, which has become a cornerstone of quantum physics. So when we measure an electron's position, we are treating it as a particle at a specific point in space, with an uncertain wavelength. When we measure its momentum, we are treating it as a wave, meaning we can know the amplitude of its wavelength but not its location.
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Romanesque basilica of St.George is the oldest preserved building of the Prague Castle. It was founded aroung 920 during the reign of Vratislav I as a single-naved church from which only the foundations were preserved. The building was enlarged during the reign of Boleslav II in 973 as the Prague Bishopry and the Convent of St. George were established; a short triple-naved basilica in a pre-Romanesque style was founded. Until 1005 the basilica served as the official burial place of the Přemyslid family. The basilica was elongated into its present length after a fire in 1142 when the towers were built (northern one named Eva and the southern one called Adam) and a triple-naved crypt under the main choir too. In the first half of the 13th century the Chapel of St. Ludmila was built-on. The western façade is from mid-14th century and in 1657-80 it was restyled in early Baroque style by F. Caratti; the façade is quite simple and moderately decorated. The last part of the building, the oval Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk based on a plan by F. M. Kaňka was built in 1718-22 on the occasion of St. John's beatification. At the turn of the 19th and 20th century the church was renovated based on a purism plan by E. Mach. The minimalistic interior hides the tombs of its founders – princes Vratislav I and Boleslav II, St.Ludmila, patron of the Czech state, is buried in the chapel of St.Ludmila. The most precious part of the church decorations are partially preserved Romanesque frescos of Heavenly Jerusalem on the choir walls or a fresco and a painting by V. V. Rainer in the St. John of Nepomuk Chapel. Three-part Romanesque relief of Madonna with Jesus was originally placed in the tympanum of the main portal of the basilica but now is found in the crypt by the alter; is it is one of the most precious artefacts of Czech Romanesque sculpture. The church is used as a concert hall.
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Developers have long since had to context switch between two IDEs, Visual Studio for application code development and SQL Server Management Studio for database development. While this is accepted, especially given the richness of the database development feature set in SSMS, loading a separate tool can seem a little overkill.
This is where SQL Connect comes in. This is an add-in to Visual Studio that provides a connected development experience for the SQL Server developer. Connected database development involves modifying a development sandbox database, as opposed to offline development, where SQL text files are modified independently of the database. One of the main complaints of Data Dude (VS DBPro) is that it enforces the offline approach. This gripe is what SQL Connect addresses.
If you don't already use SQL Source Control, you can get up and running with SQL Connect by adding a new project to your Visual Studio solution as follows:
Then choose your existing development database and you're ready to go.
If you already use SQL Source Control, you will need to link SQL Connect to your existing database scripts folder repository, so SQL Connect and SQL Source Control can be used collaboratively (note that SQL Source Control 184.108.40.206 or later is required).
Locate the repository (this can be found in the Setup tab in SQL Source Control)…
…and create a working folder for it (here I'm using TortoiseSVN).
Back in Visual Studio, locate the SQL Connect panel (in the View menu if it hasn't auto loaded) and select Import SQL Source Control project
Locate your working folder and click Import.
This creates a Red Gate database project under your solution:
From here you can modify your development database, and manage your changes in source control. To associate your development database with the project, right click on the project node, select Properties, set the database and Save.
Now you're ready to make some changes. Locate the object you'd like to modify in the Solution Explorer, and double click it to invoke a query window or table designer. You also have the option to edit the creation SQL directly using Edit SQL File in Project.
Keeping the development database and Visual Studio project in sync is as easy as clicking on a button.
One you've made your change, you can use whichever mechanism you choose to commit to source control. Here I'm using the free open-source AnkhSVN to integrate Subversion with Visual Studio.
Maintaining your database in a Visual Studio solution means that you can commit database changes and application code changes in the same changeset. This is desirable if you have continuous integration set up as you want to ensure that all files related to a change are committed atomically, so you avoid an interim "broken build".
More discussion on SQL Connect and its benefits can be found in the following article on Simple Talk: No More Disconnected SQL Development in Visual Studio
The SQL Connect project team is currently assessing the backlog for the next development effort, and they'd appreciate your feature suggestions, as well as your votes on their suggestions site:
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"I would taste any food at least once," says Stephen Brooks, cofounder of Kopali Organics and host of the Travel Channel show "Edible Adventures." "That's why I opt not to be vegetarian or restrict my diet in a finite way. For me part of getting to know a culture is trying the food."
Though many bizarre foods served around the world inspire comparisons to the chilled monkey brains shown in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, national dishes aren't meant to frighten away foreigners. On the contrary, in the planet's esoteric back alleys of gastronomy, indigenous and ethnic groups proudly narrate themselves through flavor. If you choose not to indulge, you're missing out on a crucial travel experience.
While many of these culinary ambassadors may seem bizarre to us, they're often delicacies in their homelands. It's not always our fault that we find them strange. Ethnic specialties are often made more palatable as they travel overseas. We may think we know everything about a country's cuisine, but our domestic versions may barely resemble the originals.
"Many of the foods we identify as Korean or Mexican or, say, French are in fact an American interpretation of food from that culture," says Brooks. "And they might even be frowned upon by the originators. The Chinese have never heard of General Tso's chicken or fortune cookies."
Take comfort, hesitant eaters. "Strange" goes in both directions. Dairy, for example, isn't widely consumed in Asia. One interesting exception is Mongolia's airag, a carbonated alcoholic drink made from fermented mare's milk. It's the Budweiser of Ulaanbaatar.
It's not just "exotic" or "remote" cultures that have strange national dishes. Black pudding — also known as blood pudding — is a sausage-like combination of blood and fillers that's served alongside eggs, beans, tomatoes, and mushrooms to create the quintessential "full English breakfast." No Englishman worth his salt will start the day until he's had his morning fry-up — and black pudding is part of the deal.
Some national dishes are products of a gastronomically restrictive environment. Muktuk has been vital to the traditional diets of Greenland's Inuit for thousands of years. Made from the blubber and raw skin of whales (and particularly of the narwhal, sometimes called the "unicorn of the sea"), this local delicacy is usually eaten raw — but may also be frozen, boiled, or even fermented.
These national dishes may seem strange (at best), but keep an open mind. When you travel to a new place and eat a strange local dish, you are experiencing nothing less than the interconnectedness of the human race.


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Penn State to host career fairs for students, area residents
Penn State to host career fairs for students, area residents
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Pennsylvania's unemployment rate is 6 percent, the lowest it has been since 2008, so now is a great time to check out job opportunities in the state. Penn State is offering two free career fairs that can help.
The Central Pennsylvania Regional Career Fair will take place from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday, May 19, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in Innovation Park. It is geared toward Penn State students and central Pennsylvania residents who wish to stay and work in this area. The Working in Pennsylvania Online Career Fair will run from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 20, and is for Penn State students and Pennsylvania residents throughout the state.
So far, nearly 60 employers have registered to attend the seventh annual in-person fair. The online career fair, now in its second year, expects to have about 30 Pennsylvania employers participate.
"Even if you have a job, attending one or both career fairs will enable you to learn more about the job opportunities that are out there and what industries are hiring," said Penn State career counselor Liz Lasher. "Talking with employers and networking can help you keep your job search and interview skills sharp."
Sherry Rice, career fair coordinator for Penn State Career Services, said, "Both of these Pennsylvania Career Days events are open to Penn State students, as well as Pennsylvania residents. The in-person career fair is for Penn State students and area residents who are looking to stay in central Pennsylvania. It offers a great opportunity to meet with lots of employers in one spot and network. Students and employers who cannot come to the Penn State University Park campus, can network virtually during the online career fair."
Lasher offers three career fair tips:
-- Visit the career fairs website (http://careerfairs.psu.edu/Pennsylvania/) often. Employers are added daily. Choose the employers you want to network with and learn more about them.
-- Create a 10- to 15-second elevator pitch about yourself, your education and skills and what you can offer an employer.
-- Write your résumé for your future — from the employer's perspective, highlighting the skills that match the employer's needs.
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Career portal wins UNDP's 2013 Innovation PrizeSep 23, 2013
The 23 year-old Salton Massally, founder of www.careers.sl, received this years' 2013 UNDP Innovation Award at the first Social Good Summit in Sierra Leone, hosted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the University of Sierra Leone this Monday, September 23.
Under the theme: How can ICT empower Sierra Leone youth, a total of six entrepreneurs presented their initiatives and highlighted how their work helps empower young people in Sierra Leone in front of over a hundred and fifty students and development organization representatives. The showcased projects ranged from Splash, the country's first mobile payment system; to ICT nationwide trainings supporting economic development; to Massally's job-search engine wherein employers can publish their job adverts and receive applications from job-seekers.
"ICT can be a great tool to promote socio-economic development in Sierra Leone. It is very fulfilling to see how many people are using our portal every day and how we can help the disadvantaged to get access to the job market," Massally explained his motivation behind starting this website and maintaining it with a team of three other young entrepreneurs, despite the fact that it hasn't been financially sustainable so far. "This summit has helped me to raise awareness for careers.sl and find partners who believe in it as much as I do and possibly are interested in supporting it financially."
Careers.sl won the $1000 award after receiving the highest number of votes from participants as well as a distinguished jury composed of Jamie Bedson, Country Manager of Restless Development, Ziad Safdar of the World Bank as well as Mohamed Abchir, UNDP Deputy Country Director.
"Young people are our current and future leaders and innovators who are the connectors to this new era, the era of technology," UNDP Director Sudipto Mukerjee pointed out in his opening address. "Every young Sierra Leonean citizen has something to contribute to the transformation and improvement of the country."
A partnership of the United Nations Foundation, the United Nations Development Programme, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and others, the Social Good Summit gives a global platform for national and international innovators to discuss how Information and Communication Technology can contribute to global development. This year, the summit has taken place in over 120 countries and for the first time since its inception in 2010, Freetown has participated.
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Essentially, the M13 allows you to set up 12 "Scenes." When you step on the switch marked Scenes, the twelve scene names are shown in the four LED windows up top— three per window. Choosing a scene—by stepping on one of the three corresponding footswitches in that row—can instantly turn on up to four preset effects. Another eight are at your beck and call through the remaining eight footswitches. Only four can be on at a time, but each scene can have its own separate set of twelve effects, putting 144 preset effects at your disposal.
Unlike most multi-effects, when you tweak any of these preset effects, the adjustments are automatically saved—just as if you were modifying the parameters on a stompbox. If you prefer, you can set the M13 to return the effect to a default setting when you switch to another scene. I found that the stompbox-like Autosave feature made the M13 extremely adaptable to differing gig and room acoustic situations, neatly side-stepping one of the main complaints about multi-effects.
These effects benefit from the latest generation of Line 6 R&D for products like POD, Vetta, and TonePort. How much you like them will depend on your feelings about modeled sounds versus the real thing. I found that the modulations and delays were more on a par with analog pedals than the distortion and filter effects, but all were recognizable and useful. There is no debating the convenience factor: imagine being able to tap tempo not just delays, but your modulation effects— tremolo, phasing, and some filter effects like the Seeker (a Zvex Seek-wah-type effect), or being able to instantly recall twelve different settings of octave fuzz. Tricks like these are impossible with the "real thing."
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I am working on a code that would make talking in a made up language easier, and my problem ends up being right away in my Main class. For a simple test run to see if it would work (and would at least progress to the class instead of getting stuck), I used a simple "language," which is just the words constructed backwards.
import java.util.*; public class languagedecode { public static void main(String [] args) { Scanner in = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.print("Enter coded phrase: "); ArrayList<String>coded = new ArrayList<String>(); while(in.hasNext()) { coded.add(in.next()); System.out.println("1"); } backwards code = new backwards(coded); System.out.println(code.decode()); } }
Pretty basic stuff. When I have the print line in my while loop, it prints out the number of words, as I expect. However, when I move the print line outside of the while loop, it doesn't print any ones. This means that my code never reaches outside of the while loop.
When the print line is in the while loop, here is the output:
Enter coded phrase: i nac llits daer ti tuo duol
But when I have the print line on the line after the loop finishes, the output reads as:
Enter coded phrase: i nac llits daer ti tuo duol
In both instances, I am unable to proceed. I am assuming it has something to do with my while loop, but I don't see my problem with it.
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(The Root) — With the highest per-screen average of any movie playing this past weekend, Ava DuVernay's Middle of Nowhere might be the forerunner of a new genre in black film: one that favors slow-boiling drama over deep-fried histrionics.
Opening in only five markets, Middle of Nowhere pulled in "a healthy" $13,000 per-location average, according to Entertainment Weekly. On Friday the film got a heavy stamp of approval from Oprah Winfrey, whose Facebook page read, "I saw the film and was so moved by it. I think you will be too."
Winfrey also happens to be a big supporter of Hollywood's most bankable black entertainer, Tyler Perry — a very different filmmaker from DuVernay, who won a best director prize at the Sundance Film Festival. The creator of the Madea franchise — who, for his part, is ditching the housedress for a detective badge in this month's thriller Alex Cross — found success by employing a far more melodramatic flair in his films.
But will DuVernay's critically acclaimed Middle of Nowhere provide a middle-of-the-road route to success that has been blocked for black dramatic filmmakers and actors seemingly stuck between extremes: period dramas and Perry's melodramatic stage plays-turned-feature films, or gangster tales that haven't changed since Hollywood Shuffle, Robert Townsend's 1987 send-up of cinematic stereotypes?
Praising the familiarity of the film's main character, Ruby, a woman who drops out of medical school to help her jailed husband, the New York Times' Manola Darghis writes: "Ruby lives in a recognizable world of familiar pleasures, disappointing setbacks and everyday struggles. Ruby also lives in Compton, a city directly southeast of Los Angeles and probably best known to most Americans as the backdrop for gangsta entertainments.
"The Compton in 'Middle of Nowhere,' " continues Darghis, "by contrast, is an ordinary, nondescript place with the usual sad swaying palm trees and working people nodding to one another while they wait for a bus."
Buses play a huge role in the film, driving Ruby, played by Emayatzy Corinealdi, from one dead end to another — first to a job in place of a career and then to a jail in place of a marriage. It isn't until she meets Brian (played by David Oyelowo) that the motif of moving finally gives Ruby's story some inertia.
Brian, who drives one of the buses on Ruby's regular route, hits the pause button on her cruise control. He forces her, with little force, really, to stop and take a look at the life she hasn't been living. But Ruby is hesitant: "You see my ring, right?" He does: "A ring doesn't always mean … " And the space in that unfinished statement — what's left to hang — is the room Ruby needs to breathe.
But there are more obstacles as Ruby tries to get from point A to point B. Her mother is the biggest speed bump. Played with casual ferocity by Lorraine Toussaint (most recently seen guesting on ABC's Scandal), Ruby's mother is a bulldozer just doing its job: trying to clear out the dilapidated to make room for new construction.
When Ruby needs money for her jailed husband's attorney, her mother doesn't hesitate to write the check or lay on the guilt. But when she sees her daughter's head bowed with the weight of it all, she demands, "Hold your head up," then exits stage right without another kind word. Eventually the two will come to emotional blows, with Ruby finally going off like a tea kettle.
As I sat in the theater, I kept thinking of how many Rubys there are — how many women who go about their lives quietly, taking on huge burdens and asking for little more than equal passion from the people they're fighting for. And how those women are depicted in films from American Violet to Precious as somehow born into the holes they have to climb out of.
But in this muted film about love and liability, DuVernay tells Ruby's recognizable story without any of the tired tropes about black women, single mothers or dreams deferred. DuVernay gives the audience no straight lines — only poetic glimpses of what life could be if only.
It's almost revolutionary that Ruby's choices are just that: choices. Bad decisions followed by desperate decisions followed, hopefully, by a few good ones. That's what lends the film its unobtrusive ingenuity, this idea that regular ol' people cause themselves regular ol' drama — no matter their race. There are no histrionics — just the story of what happens when your life goes off the rails, and how to get it back.
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.
Helena Andrews is a contributing editor at The Root and author of Bitch Is the New Black, a memoir in essays. Follow her on Twitter.


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We worry about what a child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
- Stacia Tauscher
It's never too late, in fiction or in life, to revise.
- Nancy Thayer
Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.
- Danny Thomas
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
- James Thurber
Positive, continuous action toward your goals is the very best antidote to worry.
- Brian Tracy
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.
- Harry S. Truman
Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
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Thursday, July 11, 2013
celeb updates
the latest celebrity substance abuse news from
Farrah Abraham Enters Rehab for Alcohol
Former "Teen Mom" cast member and recently enhanced sex tape star Farrah Abraham has decided to participate in an outpatient treatment program in Florida to deal with alcohol abuse problems. The 10-day counseling program could be related to her March arrest in Omaha for drunk driving, which she originally denied.
Cocaine Cited in Hernandez Search
When Massachusetts State Troopers requested a search warrant for former New England Patriot star Aaron Hernandez's "secret flophouse," cocaine was cited as the target, among other items. Hernandez has been arrested in connection with the execution-style murder of Odin Lloyd, a 27-year-old Dorchester amateur football player.
Chris Kelley Died From Overdose
"Mac Daddy" died from a drug overdose. Chris Kelly, who was half of the 1990s rap duo Kris Kross, had drugs in his system when he was found unresponsive in his Atlanta home on May 1, according to a toxicology report by the Fulton County Medical Examiner's office.
Lil Scrappy Checks Out Of Rehab
Rap artist Lil Scrappy has been clean for a month. The crunk-style rapper checked himself into a rehab program May 30 after failing at court-ordered drug test. He completed the treatment program on June 29.
Georgia Kicker Arrested for BUI
If it's summertime, someone on the University of Georgia football team must be arrested. This time it was placekicker Marshall Morgan who was arrested by a Georgia Department of Natural Resources officer for operating a watercraft under the influence and towing a skier without a life preserver on board.
New York Pot Mom Released on Bond
A New York soccer mom who was arrested for growing thousands of marijuana plants to help support her family, has been released from jail on $500,000 bond, after pleading not guilty. Andrea Sanderlin was charged with having a warehouse in which 2,800 marijuana plants were growing.
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Monday, July 1, 2013
Monday quotes
Learning is finding out what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know it just as well as you. You are all learners, doers, teachers.
- Richard Bach
We look into mirrors but we only see the effects of our times on us - not our affects on others.
- Pearl Bailey
Where is home? Home is where the heart can laugh without shyness. Home is where the heart's tears can dry at their own pace.
- Vernon Baker
There is never time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment; the time is always now.
- James Baldwin
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
- Lucille Ball
Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.
- Honore De Balzac
If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you'll end up not doing anything for anybody.
- Malcolm Bane
In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.
- William Barclay
Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.
- Carl Bard
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
- James M. Barrie
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself.
- Ethel Barrymore
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BOSTON, Dec. 10, 2012 -- Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and a subsidiary of PAREXEL International Corporation (NASDAQ: PRXL), today announced that it has opened a Customer Care office in Shanghai to service biopharmaceutical researchers in China and Taiwan who are using Perceptive's technology solutions. The launch further strengthens PAREXEL's footprint in Asia and demonstrates its long-term commitment to accelerating drug development in the region.
Perceptive's Customer Care office staff will initially be responsible for supporting clinical studies using ClinPhone® RTSM (randomization and trial supply management) and Datalabs® EDC software and services, and will be the first point of contact for clinical site staff, CRAs and sponsors who have an IVR/IWR system questions on a live study. All Customer Care staff in Shanghai will be bilingual Mandarin/English speakers, with Mandarin being their native first language. The intent is to provide immediate help desk support without any additional need for translation services.
"China has a thriving pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry and is a priority market for many pharmaceutical and biotechnology sponsors. When sponsors work with Perceptive, they can expect high-quality service, locally supported by staff in the region," said George Hunnewell, Corporate Vice President, Operations, Perceptive Informatics. "Through our experience in running hundreds of global clinical trials, we have identified that a robust, native-language help desk is critical to ensuring the smooth and successful implementation of clinical trial technology. This valuable service enables us to meet the evolving needs of our new and existing customers in the rapidly expanding Asian markets."
In addition to the new customer care office in Shanghai, Perceptive has a dedicated team of professionals in Japan located in Tokyo and Kobe to support Japanese investigators, CRAs, and biopharmaceutical clients. Globally, Perceptive customer care is committed to uniform response times and quality, thereby providing seamless issue resolution for all users, irrespective of geography.
About Perceptive Informatics
Perceptive Informatics, a leading eClinical solutions provider and subsidiary of PAREXEL, is focused on helping customers to accelerate the product development process through innovation. Perceptive enables customers to maximize the benefits of clinical trial technologies by providing flexible software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications and leading technology services. The Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite is built on extensive medical and clinical expertise, as well as a deep understanding of the regulatory environment. The suite includes Randomization and Trial Supply Management (RTSM) technologies, Medical Imaging, Clinical Trial Management Systems (CTMS), Electronic Data Capture (EDC), and Electronic Patient-Reported Outcomes (ePRO). The Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite blurs the boundaries among systems that traditionally have been used in isolation, resulting in simplified workflow, improved efficiency and enhanced productivity. For more information about the integrated solutions in the Perceptive Informatics eClinical Suite visit www.perceptive.com.
About PAREXEL International
PAREXEL International Corporation is a leading global bio/pharmaceutical services organization, providing a broad range of knowledge-based contract research, consulting, and medical communications services to the worldwide pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical device industries. Committed to providing solutions that expedite time-to-market and peak-market penetration, PAREXEL has developed significant expertise across the development and commercialization continuum, from drug development and regulatory consulting to clinical pharmacology, clinical trials management, medical education and reimbursement. Perceptive Informatics, Inc., a subsidiary of PAREXEL, provides advanced technology solutions, including medical imaging, to facilitate the clinical development process. Headquartered near Boston, Massachusetts, PAREXEL operates in 70 locations throughout 51 countries around the world, and has approximately 13,330 employees. For more information about PAREXEL International visit www.parexel.com.
This release contains "forward-looking" statements regarding future results and events, including, without limitation, statements regarding expected financial results, future growth and customer demand. For this purpose, any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing, the words "believes," "anticipates," "plans," "expects," "intends," "appears," "estimates," "projects," "will," "would," "could," "should," "targets," and similar expressions are also intended to identify forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements in this release involve a number of risks and uncertainties. The Company's actual future results may differ significantly from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements contained in this release. Important factors that might cause such a difference include, but are not limited to, risks associated with: actual operating performance; actual expense savings and other operating improvements resulting from recent and anticipated restructurings; the loss, modification, or delay of contracts which would, among other things, adversely impact the Company's recognition of revenue included in backlog; the Company's dependence on certain industries and clients; the Company's ability to win new business, manage growth and costs, and attract and retain employees; the Company's ability to complete additional acquisitions and to integrate newly acquired businesses or enter into new lines of business; the impact on the Company's business of government regulation of the drug, medical device and biotechnology industry; consolidation within the pharmaceutical industry and competition within the biopharmaceutical services industry; the potential for significant liability to clients and third parties; the potential adverse impact of health care reform; and the effects of exchange rate fluctuations and other international economic, political, and other risks. Such factors and others are discussed more fully in the section entitled "Risk Factors" of the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2012 as filed with the SEC on November 8, 2012, which "Risk Factors" discussion is incorporated by reference in this press release.
The Company specifically disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements in the future. These forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing the Company's estimates or views as of any date subsequent to the date of this press release.


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The goal is; their was no family or friends or support or schooling; nothing! I had a television and an imagination; other then that; I was completely alone; but did not know what that meant until about the age of 9, when my full life was being destroyed or pulled out from under me!
What do I do know! I came from no home town, no family, no real friends; they just used me when I was young! Ive been around the middle classes; I dont trust anyone! Ive seen what they do to anyone who does not fit into their economic background; I dont exist; worse, Im turned into a monkey as if Im in a zoo, and expected to play an ape subservient roll around this filth; and I refuse! I want no part of these murder's!
I could not live in a house or a neighborhood ever again because of what these people did to me!
The point; What do I do now! Im slowly working through the past, and it shows I am nothing and come from nothing, Im completely alone! I was alone at birth! Looking back from the beginning of my life and the beginning memories; Im completely alone but dont know it!
When looking at the evidence of my life; at the beginning of my life; I see myself playing in a yard, I see my father; but now; as an adult, I look back and realize, he's not interacting with me! in fact, in other memories; I see my mother in a kitchen talking to someone or I see my father outside with a sprinkler adjusting it in the front lawn; I see my father fighting with my mother in their bed room; I see myself in a closet, looking at the shadows! I see my mother vacuuming while going by me! However, never do they interact with me!
later, when Im about 4 years old; my father puts me on the back of his motor cycle outside his house! And yet, looking back, Im not really interacting with anyone!
I see myself getting into a car when Im 6 or 7, and these people are taking me to their relatives! it appears we are a normal family going to thanksgiving dinner! but something is wrong! Theirs no real interactions; and later i find out the whole thing is fake. These relatives dont have any connection to my father; they dont want him on their property! he was asked to leave years and years before because they wanted nothing to do with him! They are not family! Not anyones family!
When at these relatives house; Yes, I eat the dinner prepared for me and others; but the others are real relatives of these people; we are not; Im not sure we were ever invited! My father bossed his way into their lives and showed up at their doors demanding attention and recognition as being a relative; he claimed he was normal; " look at my family" "Ive got a family"; he never said this; but it was implied!
The relatives were in fear of him; his relatives! They were afraid he would come back at night and vandalize their homes if they did not let him in for a few hours to play out this fantasy!
At the age of 9; I realized I had no family, no extended relatives; it had all been a lie!
I was completely alone, the relatives on my mothers side; my mother was a psychopath; her parents created her! My father knew this and would not go near them! I went to their house and was sexually abused or harassed; in small ways; if you can call it that! harassed; later it will be much worse, when I have to live with them! I noticed how fake my mother acted around them; she acted like them; like her father; or step father! It was weird programming; my mother was pre programmed to act like her father and converse like him ; exactly like him; it was all evil!
I had no idea I was not safe on any level with anyone, including the 2 brothers I had! These 2 individuals were being destroyed from neglect; completely! and I did not know when young! later, they will turn on me or I will find out they never thought about me in the first place! I meant nothing to them; I was like a ghost but didnt know!
later, everything will be stripped from me; all resemblance of a family system; all gone; all things; physically things will be taken from me; anything associated with my life; all things stripped as if I had never been born! family house, neighborhood, town; all gone! meaning, I was pulled out of these things and thrown away!
The mother of this; a psychopath; had children because it would please her husband; she would please her husband because she wanted his family money; when it all fell through and she realized he was going nowhere in life; he did not have the family money and would not be apart of it; she sold everything and moved away; no remorse or conscious! I was left with nothing; as if non of this had ever happened, as if I had never been born and the whole events of a family system never existed; I was completely erased along with the evidence of ever being apart of anything! This is not abnormal for the psychopath; they erase the evidence of their crimes! *mod edit* The psychopath has an agenda, they feel nothing for humans! humans are insects to them; nothing more! They will use a human for their interests then discard them!
I was thrown away on all sides from everything! my schooling was destroyed from the first day! I did not know what was going on in this situation until much later! later in recovery!
The point is; all my memories; the innocent way I viewed them was all false! meaning, I saw things from the point of view of an innocent child; in reality, I was in danger the whole time and being destroyed! I do not want to give any credit or remembrance to anything dealing with this filth! I want it all gone; all of it; everyday of it! everything! nothing was as it appeared; I was being used! The only reason I have any memories I like because I was to innocent to know that I was actually in a bad situation I should have been feeling apprehension.
I can go back to ages 3 to 4; anything beyond this is a lie! my life had been confiscated, captured, held captive and used; and thats all that really happened! I had no hope; nothing; but I did not know! later, also things would come to an end; along with me!
It is not uncommon for children who are disposable throw aways to erase themselves. They were erased by society, and finally they in turn erase themselves by killing themselves; society doesn't care and doesn't want to know or hear about it! Society creates this madness!
Im attempting to grab onto anything I can for identity! I am working with God, source energy for identity and hope and purpose! The first thing I have to do is get rid of all physical memories of my past, for it was all false and dangerous and corrupted! Their is nothing to remember, I come from nothing; even the stop over neighborhoods I lived in were fake! I was being used for entertainment purposes!
None of this is easy! The goal is safety; is their a place I can go that is safe! At one point, for many years, the only place that was safe was death! and now; I dont believe that anymore; but it's a fight working with God to try to understand all of this; this broken life and try to come out into a new life with purpose and feeling safe again! Most of my work is with God!


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Isla Fisher packs one-two summer-movie punch
LAS VEGAS -- Now you see her -- twice.
Yes, that's Isla Fisher appearing in two of the first major films of the summer-movie season: the latest adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's "The Great Gatsby" as well as the crime caper "Now You See Me."
"It's really exciting," Fisher says. "I guess I don't feel any pressure because I'm not the lead in either movie."
In "Gatsby," she's the ill-fated Myrtle Wilson -- logging precious, but little, screen time. In "Now You See Me," Fisher plays one of a quartet of magicians who use their talents to take back money from immoral millionaires and return it to the people they bilked. The film boasts an all-star cast, including Morgan Freeman and Woody Harrelson. "And Mark Ruffalo is chasing after us, and Melanie Laurent and Michael Caine," she added in a recent interview. "(It's) basically a lot of people nominated for Oscars -- and then me, a SAG member, committing these heists."
During filming of "Now You See Me," Fisher (whose first name is pronounced "EYE"-luh) had a close call.
"I was chained under water," the 37-year-old Australian-raised actress recalled. "I had a quick release on my wrists and a quick release on my feet, but the chain that was tying my wrists to my ankles ... It got looped around the bottom of the tank. I'd already been under for two-and-a-half minutes, and I couldn't get up for air. And I did have a moment of, just, 'Oh my gosh. Not in a swimming costume. No one wants to go in a swimming costume."
Fisher, who has two children with actor-husband Sacha Baron Cohen, seemed poised for name-above-the-title stardom after a breakout performance in the 2005 comedy "Wedding Crashers" and headlining the 2010 comedy "Confessions of a Shopaholic," which grossed more than $100 million worldwide.
But that success did not catapult her to leading-lady stardom. Instead, she's stayed steadily employed as a working character actress. "I naturally gravitate towards people who don't mind getting ugly," FIsher responded. "That's why I think I've not really enjoyed the 'ingenue' road, or at least it has not been offered to me, because I'm willing to pull a bad face, and to sweat a bit. Or glow."
"The Great Gatsby" opened Friday. "Now You See Me" opens May 31.