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Ryan Phillippe (born Matthew Ryan Phillippe on September 10, 1974 in New Castle, Delaware) is an American actor and director. Growing up in Delaware, Ryan attended New Castle Baptist Academy, before enrolling into the Barbizon Modeling and Talent Agency. Ryan's early acting career started in 1992 with the role of Billy Douglas on the ABC soap opera, One Life to Live, portraying the first gay teenager on a daytime soap. Ryan used this success to move to Los Angeles and find roles on TV shows Matlock and Due South. He also appeared in the films Crimson Tide and White Squall. His breakout role came in 1997's I Know What You Did Last Summer, which cast him alongside Sarah Michelle Gellar, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Jennifer Love Hewitt. His next hit would be 1999's Cruel Intentions. In the 2000s, Ryan appeared in critically acclaimed films Gosford Park, Igby Goes Down and Crash. Ryan returned to television in 2011, appearing on the fifth season of the show, Damages. He continued to work in television, starring in the 2015 show, Secrets and Lies.
Ryan is best known as an actor for his roles in I Know What You Did Last Summer, Cruel Intentions, and Crash, as well as his television work on shows like Secrets and Lies.
Ryan met actress Reese Witherspoon during a party for her 21st birthday in 1997. They were engaged in 1998 and were married in 1999. They divorced in 2006. Together, Ryan and Reese have two children together – daughter Ava Gardner and son, Deacon Reese Phillippe. Ryan began dating Australian actress Abbie Corning in 2007. The two split in 2010. Ryan and model/actress Alexis Knapp began dating in 2010. Alexis would give birth to their daughter, Kailani Merizalde Phillippe-Knapp in 2011.
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Abbie Cornish and Ryan Phillippe are dealing with their recent breakup in very different ways. While Abbie takes comfort in her pals, Ryan is taking HIS comfort from a new woman: Sports Illustrated model Jessica White! "Ryan was sexy dancing with [Jessica] at the SNL afterparty at Matsuri," an eyewitness tells HollywoodLife.com.
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3 years ago, if you would have told me that I would be writing a 2007 Best of List that didn't include a rap/hip-hop album, I would have probably spit beer in your face. I could go into a whole rant on why the current state of Hip-Hop didn't allow me to praise the genre, but I've already done that. Instead here is a short list of the great, new music I've discovered this year. Some of my opinions have changed from previous reviews, but that is bound to happen after repeated listening sessions.
#10 Georgie James Places
After a late 2007 release, Georgie James crept into heavy rotation with their fetching album Places. The album has enough addictive indie rock to arm Impact89FM playlists for months with james like "Need Your Needs", "More Lights", and "Look Me Up".
#9 The Rosebuds Night of the Furies
Raleigh, North Carolina's The Rosebuds added a risky electronic touch to their 3rd disc, Night of the Furies and it paid off. I was hooked by the dark, yet danceable "Get Up And Get Out", while "I Better Run" and "Hold Onto This Coat" made for a solid album.
#8 Tegan and Sara The Con
Though the Quinn sisters caught some flack from fans for a more commercial sound, The Con featured some of my favorite songs to date by the twins. The title track and "Back In Your Head" are particularly cathy, but "Knife Going In" and "Dark Come Soon" showcase the duo's unique story-telling abilties.
#7 Band of Horses Cease to Begin
Although I was late to jump on the Band of Horses hype machine, I soon found Cease to Begin was a near perfect fall album. Spectral sounds and loud riffs on "Is There A Ghost?", "Detlef Schrempf", "Marry Song", and "No One's Gonna Love You" made for a bright album in the dark months ahead.
#6 Spoon Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga
Terribly titled, but Ga Ga Ga Ga Ga is Spoon's six album and could easily be the band's best. "You've Got Your Cherry Bomb" and "The Underdog" were infectious enough to grace my i-pod countless times this year. "Don't You Evah" and "Don't Make Me A Target" were breezy, indie rock gems that rounded out the album's upbeat sound.
#5 Amy Winehouse Back to Black
As if teleporting from the past, Amy Winehouse burst onto playlists everywhere with the retro-infused album, Back to Black. While her troublesome offstage antics caught the attention of many, her soul & jazz influenced album won over critics and bloggers most. "Rehab" burned up the pop charts, while "You No I'm No Good", the title track, and "Love Is A Losing Game" gave a feel of '60s Motown nostalgia.
#4 The Bees (Band of Bees) Octopus
One of my earliest reviews was of The Bee's (or Band of Bees in the US) stand out album, Octopus. 8 months later, my opinion hasn't changed. The Bees' eclectic musical offerings from the '60s rock stylings of "Love In The Harbor" to jazzier fare on "Got To Let Go" made for an amazing album. The musings on "Who Cares What The Question Is?" could easily make for the best bluegrass impressions of the year.
#3 The New Pornographers Challengers
Canada's "super group", The New Pornographers jumped the front of the list with Challengers. With that many great musicians contributing, how could the results not be amazing? "Mutiny I Promise You" and "My Right Versus Yours" dropped light political messages, while the title track, "All The Old Showstoppers", and "Go Places" were simply great indie rock.
#2 Feist The Reminder
Leslie Feist crafted an impressive indie pop breakthrough with The Reminder. While Apple and Verizon capitaled on the sounds of "1,2,3,4" and "My Moon My Man" for marketing campaigns, "I Feel It All" and "The Water" were equally ear pleasing. I was lucky enough to see her genius in Ann Arbor this fall and The Reminder was just as perfect live.
#1 Arcade Fire Neon Bible
In 2007, Win Butler and company crafted a hauntingly good follow-up to The Funeral. Chilling vocals and an eerie pipe organ made songs like "Intervention" and "My Body Is A Cage" creepy in a good way, allowing "Keep The Car Running" and "No Cars Go" to light up the album with '80s-esque energy. Neon Bible blessed more ear drums than any other album this year. Let's hope the band's recent success and sightings with Bruce Springsteen fuel more inspiration for another smash album.
Honorable Mention: Bright Eyes Cassadega, K-OS Atlantis: Hymns For Disco (US Release in 2007), Arctic Monkeys Favourite Worst Nightmare, Jay-Z American Gangster, Modest Mouse We Were Dead Before The Ship Was Sinking, Kanye West Graduation, Bloc Party A Weekend In The City, Editors An End Has A
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Riding the Pyongyang metro was a great opportunity to interact with some of the locals. Here, I'm sitting next to a group of school girls, who are getting nervous while practicing their english skills.
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Keppel Philippines Holdings, Inc. (KPH) was incorporated in July 1975 under the former name of Keppel Philippines Shipyard, Inc. KPH is an investment holding company. KPH shares are publicly traded in the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE).
Keppel Philippines Holdings, Inc. has two core businesses: namely, investment holdings and real estate.
Subsidiaries under real estate industry are:
KPSI Property, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary that owns and leases office space in Country Space 1 Building in Makati City.
Goodwealth Realty Development Corp.(GRDC), 51% owned by KPH, owns and leases parcels of land and improvements in Batangas.
Goodsoil Marine Realty, Inc. (GMRI), wholly owned by GRDC and effectively 51% owned by KPH, owns the land in Bauan, Batangas, used by Keppel Philippines Marine, Inc. for the construction and repair of all types and classes of vessels together with the related services and operations of a shipyard. GMRI is a PEZA-registered Ecozone Developer/Operator since August 2007.
Consort Land, Inc. (CLI), 25% owned by GMRI and effectively 13% owned by KPH, owns the land in Subic, Zambales used by Keppel Subic Shipyard Inc. for their construction and repair of all types and classes of vessels. CLI also manages and operates the Subic Shipyard-Special Export Processing Zone and distribute power to locators in Subic Shipyard Marine Industrial Park.


The Weminuche Wilderness is a wilderness area in southwest Colorado managed by the United States Forest Service as part of the San Juan National Forest on the west side of the Continental Divide and the Rio Grande National Forest on the east side of the divide. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) south east of the town of Silverton and about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of Durango. At 488,210 acres (1,975.7 km2), it is the largest wilderness area in the state of Colorado. Within the wilderness can be found three fourteeners of the San Juan Mountains; Mount Eolus, Sunlight Peak and Windom Peak, in addition to numerous thirteeners and other peaks of note.
Looking north on the Continental Divide Trail between the Palisade Meadows cutoff and the Knife Edge.
Abandoned mine shack near the Continental Divide Trail.
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We've collected your stories, photos and videos about what schools and communities did for Attendance Awareness Month 2019. Submit your stories and photos through Share Your Story! Your activity may be featured here, in an AAC newsletter, on our Twitter (@attendanceworks) or AAC Facebook pages.
The Alabama Department of Mental Health has joined with the Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) to celebrate and help promote Attendance Awareness. The two state departments are partnering with community mental health authorities and local schools to bring mental health programs directly to students so challenges can be addressed and appropriately supported, to help students be more prepared to learn.
The Little Rock School District kicked off its annual "Feet to the Seat" campaign at Cloverdale Middle School. Cloverdale was selected to host because of its improved attendance last year. The campaign will feature weekly attendance reminder calls to parents, social media contests and a district-wide community walk/school activity on September 21. Beyond this, the effort includes professional development and coaching that incorporates data and evidence-based strategies for all schools, led by the Arkansas Campaign for Grade level reading, and a new task force comprised of educators, parents and community members.
Administrators at Anaheim Union High School District in California are greeting students every morning at school entrance points, which are hung with posters that say: "Glad You're Here! Our Attendance Matters!" The district's "Unlimited You" campaign is emphasizing that students are important.
Administrators at San Ramon Valley Unified School District kicked off the year with a "We Want You Here" campaign to create a welcoming culture. Administrators and teachers created videos, created door signs, and made social media posts telling students "We want you here because ____." The district is also piloting School Attendance Review Teams and writing friendly, helpful letters home to address chronic absenteeism in a restorative way.
Cobb County School District created an attendance initiative at Riverside Intermediate called "I'm here! Attendance counts." Students volunteers worked on the lyrics and choreography of the dance moves for the video, which is shown during morning announcements each week.
Attendance Awareness in Troup County School System is a community effort! A big example is the partnership local high schools have with automotive dealerships. Three high schools hosted a lottery for students who met certain criteria, and three cars (one per high school) are given away at the end of the school year. Callaway High School Principal Jonathan Laney was excited to tell students "Since the incentives have been put into place there has been a 45% reduction in absences."
The Local Investment Commission of Kansas City is helping put Attendance Works methods into action this Attendance Awareness Month. This organization is collaborating with districts like Hickman Mills School District as well as nonprofits like Turn the Page Kansas City and the Greater Kansas City United Way.
Clark County School District hosted "The Family Quiz Game Show: An Interactive Attendance Matters Workshop," a 45-minute question-based family experience aimed at decreasing absenteeism rates. The quiz is a fantastic mixture of District attendance data and easy tips for families. The quiz is part of the district's Family and Community Engagement Services (FACES) programming.
Pitt County School District in North Carolina is collaborating with community partners and the District Attorney's office to launch the #PCSStriveForFive campaign. The district sent letters to families with information about chronic absenteeism and encouraging students to strive for five or fewer absences this school year. And they created a Strive for Five campaign video.
Shout out to Sage Elementary School, Redmond School District, for kicking off the year with the message, "Every Day Matters!" As students arrived for the first day of school, staff, including librarian Suzanne Yeakey pictured here, wore EDM t-shirts and greeted families in the hallways with smiles and words of encouragement. Fourth grader Carter Bower came home from his first day and asked for a t-shirt because, as he said, "Every day of school really does matter when you're in school!"
The York County Truancy Prevention Initiative is promoting attendance in many ways. They are hosting supply drives for local school districts, running a social media campaign using hashtag #gotoschoolyork, and hosting guest readers in early learning centers to read children's books about attendance.
First Philadelphia Preparatory Charter School in Pennsylvania is recognizing students with perfect attendance during the first week of the school year. The school will also recognize students with at least 90% attendance after 60 and 120 school days.
Hawkins County Schools in Tennessee is holding contests and promotions for attendance awareness throughout the month of September. Educators have added an attendance essay contest for middle and high school students, and they are looking for more ways to promote attendance throughout the school year.
Goochland County Public Schools in Virginia are using student-led attendance teams to promote attendance awareness. Elementary schools are rewarding perfect attendance through contests to win prizes like certificates, trophies, and bicycles! The high school attendance team is raising awareness by creating original PSA videos.
Putnam County Schools (PCS) is raising public awareness about attendance awareness Campaign with local press releases and a social media campaign. PCS hosted its annual student Attendance Awareness Billboard Contest. Winners are honored with certificates, gift cards, and their own billboard design on display in Putnam County. This year's winners are:
Jessica Lafferty, George Washington Middle School; Rylee Holland, George Washington Middle School; and Emma Luikart, Buffalo High School


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Fewer Cars but More Accidents; What You Need to Know About the Pandemic's Effects on our Roadways
Since the Covid-19 pandemic began in March of 2020, surprising data has surfaced regarding traffic trends, car accidents, and car crash-related deaths. Due to stay-at-home orders and nationwide state shutdowns, fewer people have been commuting to work and school. With this in mind, researchers were expecting to see statistics indicating fewer car accidents and road deaths; what they found defied their expectations.
Fewer cars on the road
Statistics from the United States show a 17 percent drop in vehicle miles traveled between the months January and June of 2020 during the height of the pandemic. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported fewer cars traveling during this time. According to the news outlet Axios' statistics, total traffic volume fell a total of 16 percent on roads in the United States during the first six months of 2020.
Decreased accidents during the beginning of the pandemic
During the first quarter of 2020, states such as California saw a decrease in overall accidents. In San Francisco, a typical week would have about 260 calls made to 911 regarding car accidents and traffic collisions. During the week of March 17th through March 23rd, there were just 110 total calls regarding traffic collisions. For San Francisco, California, this was the fewest number of car accident calls during a week in over 17 years.
Even outside the United States, countries were seeing similar statistics during March. Autoplus reported 250 people dying due to traffic collisions in France during 2019, but in March of 2020, this number dropped to only 130 car accident-related deaths.
Frontline workers, a vulnerable community
As many people found themselves working from the comfort of their own homes, there was a community of unseen frontline workers who were required to stick to their daily work routines. According to research released by the Huffington Post, the number of road deaths and vehicle-related injuries for professional drivers such as truck drivers, UPS, FedEx, etc., did not change.
The rise of reckless driving
Mental health experts believe that the pandemic and social isolation may directly correlate with reckless driving and substance abuse behind the wheel. During a time when people are dealing with uncertainty, frustration, and loneliness, perhaps blowing off some steam by taking a quick drive would seem like a good idea to some. However, these careless driving tendencies have proven to be fatal for many car accident victims.
A study conducted by NHTSA during April, May, and June discovered that drivers who were seriously injured or killed by car accidents had taken part in high-risk behaviors such as speeding, driving under the influence of alcohol, being impaired by drugs, or simply not wearing a seatbelt. This research also indicated that during these same three months in 2020, individuals consumed a greater amount of alcohol, cannabis, and opioids than their use before the pandemic.
These accidents may have been caused by a desire to feel liberated after weeks and months of isolation prompted by the nationwide lockdowns. Reduced presence of law enforcement may have also had an effect on this rise in reckless driving and car crash-related fatalities.
As reckless driving increases, so do fatalities
Being on the roads with reckless drivers is anxiety-provoking for both professional and everyday motorists. The dangers that come with irresponsible driving habits can be fatal. In the United States, fatality rates have increased to 30% during the months April, June, and July of 2020, leaving people uneasy and uncertain of the risks that come with hitting the road.
The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic has been vast at both the national and global level and has already disrupted the lives of millions of people. People must drive responsibly to keep other motorists safe and be aware of the consequences of reckless driving. If you have been involved in a traffic collision during these unprecedented times, reach out to Houma Injury Lawyers to seek legal guidance and representation. Slowing down, adhering to local speed regulations, and practicing safe driving habits has the potential to save thousands of lives this year alone.
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increased amount of stool or diarrhea – from overeating and hyper-motility (increased movement of the intestine). Often there is a malabsorption and maldigestion syndrome associated with these changes in the gastrointestinal tract that can cause diarrhea. But with overeating the food in being consumed faster than it can be digested and causes an upset in the bacteria in the intestines.
Elevated phosphorus (hyperphosphatemia) with concurrent low calcium (hypocalcemia). The elevated T4 causes skeletal bone resorption which causes changes in the minerals and possible uremic gastritis which can lead to ulcerated stomachs and intestines.


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IPSA bzw. ipsa steht für:
 Ipsa childreni, Kaurischneckenart, einzige Art der Gattung Ipsa
 Institut polytechnique des sciences avancées, französische Hochschule für Aeronautik
 International Political Science Association, internationale politikwissenschaftliche Fachvereinigung

Ipša ist der Familienname folgender Personen:
 Kristian Ipša  (* 1986), kroatischer Fußballspieler

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The new jQuery UI build is ready for testing.
You can try the build by switching to the unstable channel from your account.
Warning: This is a complete re-write from the ground up so expect bugs and make sure you have file back-ups before using.
It's mostly a re-implementation of the stable build where everything has been refined and re-implemented.
There are a few notable new features.
A file compare tab where you can compare the differences between two open tabs (available from "new tab").
Colour-coded tab icons to help identify which files belong to the same site.
Changes to preferences now take immediate effect.
Lots of new themes to choose from. You can use the jQuery UI theme roller to create a new theme, then submit a PR to github and if it's good it will be included.


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Amanda Palmer Covers Nick Cave's "The Ship Song" (Cover Me Premiere)
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Amanda Palmer has referred to herself as a "girl anachronism." Nowhere is this more brilliantly displayed than in the trajectory of her prolific career, which more strongly resembles the chanteuses of days gone by than any of her contemporaries. Her output is nearly as steady as Ryan Adams, except that one need not dig around the Palmer catalog for the diamonds in the rough. Palmer proves decisive and deliberate, even while she is spontaneous. She has little regard for what is common or expected, whether in her solo work or with the Dresden Dolls and Evelyn Evelyn. And, clearly, she loves covers and does a fine job of them, having released an album of ukulele-only Radiohead covers last year. This approach has always paid off for the listeners because she's a music lover herself. Each piano keystroke or ukulele chord or belted chorus is a love letter to anyone who hears it and to the music itself.
Cover Me is pleased to premiere yet another of those love letters today. The godmother of "Brechtian Punk Cabaret" does not try to reinvent the wheel with her cover of "The Ship Song" by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, which is to be released on upcoming album Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under. She is singing Nick Cave's song and she is loving Nick Cave's song and it is precisely this that makes it Amanda Palmer's song after all.
What's more, she makes it look easy: simultaneously giving us both a stripped piano cover walking in the footsteps Cave left on the track, and a piece that is distinctively Palmer, dancing in every bootprint. In this live recording, her voice rips through the music hall, yet she still maintains the subdued poise of the piece. The crowd is silent from the second it starts and then exploding the moment it finishes.
'Amanda Palmer Goes Down Under' drops January 21. Check out more Amanda Palmer on her website or Twitter.
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Named for its convivial atmosphere, Kith is where great coffee, delicious fuss-free fare and friends gather. The key guiding values of simplicity, sincerity and honesty guide Kith across all considerations, from its menu, service to design.
The shape of the logo comes from the irregular shape of its very first shop space, reduced to scale. The texture is a representation of the classical check pattern used to symbolize the fabric of a community that come together for a common purpose, to come together and enjoy the combination of good food over shared conversations.


Sacristans assist in preparing the Church for the Eucharist. They see that the vestments, vessels, candles, bread, and wine are ready. They also are in charge of opening and closing church before and after liturgies. Call the Parish Office if interested.
Vocalists and instrumentalists are encouraged to participate in the Church choir at all Celebrations of the Eucharist. The choir practices half hour before Mass, as well as occasional evening rehearsals.
Readers proclaim to the assembly the Word of God as found in the scripture readings of the Celebration of the Eucharist. This service is critical to the spiritual growth of our community. Readers are needed at all the Masses: Saturdays, Sundays, special feasts, and weekdays. To become a reader one must be a registered and active parishioner, participate in an orientation and ongoing training, and have the ability to proclaim clearly and with understanding. Orientation sessions are announced in the Parish Bulletin. Contact the Parish Office is interested.
Registered and active parishioners are needed as extraordinary ministers who help with the orderly distribution of the Holy Communion at all Celebrations of the Eucharist for weekdays, Saturdays, Sundays and special feasts. Ministers are asked to participate in a training session. Sessions are announced in the Parish Bulletin.
Boys and girls may assist at the Masses, funerals, weddings, and special liturgical celebrations. All youth from registered Immaculate Conception Church families who have received their First Eucharist and are at least in the third grade are eligible. Call the Parish Office for the next required training date.
Our greeters welcome people as they arrive at the church for Celebrations of the Eucharist. They offer the hospitality of the parish to members and newcomers alike. Our liturgy really begins at the greeting and continues until the conclusion of the Eucharist. The primary responsibilities of greeters are welcoming each person and choosing gift bearers for the Offertory gifts. Orientation sessions for registered parishioners are announced in the Parish Bulletin.


There are not many things in the NFL new to Tom Brady at this point in his career, but the Patriots quarterback faces one such issue this weekend.
FOXBORO � There are not many things in the NFL new to Tom Brady at this point in his career, but the Patriots quarterback faces one such issue this weekend.
For the first time, he will play a game in Seattle, where he will have to work against one of the loudest crowds in the league.
The Patriots played Seattle 12 times in a 14-year stretch in the 1980s and �90s. But New England has gone to Seattle only once since 1993. That was in 2008, the year Brady was injured. He did not even make the trip for a game the Pats won, 24-21, behind Matt Cassel, with Deion Branch scoring two touchdowns for the Seahawks.
Brady said Wednesday that he is excited to get the chance to play at CenturyLink Field.
�I think anytime you go on the road, you expect it to be loud. We practice with that. I know this is a very [loud place]. It gets some attention around the league for how loud it is,� he said. �I�m actually excited to get out there and play in a place I�ve never played.
�I think what makes it loud is that they�re very good. So, when they make plays, the crowd is into it and they get a lot of support,� he said. �They�ve certainly been making a lot of them at home. They beat two very good teams at home, Dallas and Green Bay. It�s going to be a big challenge for us and I�m excited to go out there and see what we can do.
The Pats will do all they can to prepare so that the crowd does not interfere with the no-huddle offense.
Branch played for the Seahawks from 2006-10, between tours of duty with the Patriots. He feels there is no doubt that the Seattle fans have earned their reputation.
The subject of Wes Welker�s sense of humor came up again Wednesday. This time it was Brady being asked about it.
Welker, of course, got into a bit of hot water after Sunday�s game with a joke about �sticking it in Bill�s face� once in a while, in reference of course to head coach Bill Belichick.
Bill Belichick made a bit of a joke himself Wednesday. The only people who might not like it are those from Seattle. But they would have trouble complaining, since Belichick is only talking about reality.
It was raining, of course. The funny thing is that Seattle actually has gone through a dry period recently. But rain is expected for the game on Sunday.
Seattle coach Pete Carroll spoke fondly of his three years as Patriots coach. The Pats went 27-21 from 1997-99 before he was fired to make way for Belichick.
�I loved living there and representing those fans,� Carroll said. �I thought they were awesome. They were so intense and loved the team so much. I mean in all sports, not just football. I loved being connected with them. I appreciate it more the tougher they got on us because I knew how much they loved it, how much they cared about it.
Four Patriots did not practice � Steve Gregory (hip), Julian Edelman (hand), Michael Hoomanawanui (concussion) and Tracy White (foot).
Brady (right shoulder) Welker (ankle), Aaron Hernandez (ankle), Rob Gronkowski, Logan Mankins (hip), Sebastian Vollmer (back) and Dont�a Hightower (hamstring) all were listed as limited, as were Brandon Bolden (knee) Brandon Deaderick (ankle), Justin Francis (ankle), Nick McDonald (shoulder), Sterling Moore (knee) and Shane Vereen (foot).
Guard John Moffitt (knee) did not practice for the Seahawks.


Live adult moths photographed at Winfield, Illinois, USA.
This is one beautiful moth – especially if you can get up close to see the iridescent multicolored scales on the wings and the iridescent blue-black body. The lovely deep orange "collar" is one of the most striking examples of this color in nature. A very active diurnal moth, I've found the scape moth nectaring on just about every flower we have here.
Moths, including scape moths, pollinate many species of plants. Moth-pollinated flowers tend to have a strong, sweet scent and are white or pale in color. Gardens planted with these flowers may attract several kinds of sphinx moths, including the hummingbird and bumblebee mimics. While eating the nectar of a flower, moths receive a dusting of pollen by brushing against anthers, which produce pollen. Their fuzzy bodies are excellent pollen carriers. As a moth sips nectar from another flower of the same species, it transfers pollen from the previous plant. This cross-pollination is necessary for many species of plants to produce seeds.


Statik Selektah, Action Bronson, and Joey Bada$$ have released a clip for their "Beautiful Life" collaboration from Statik Selektah's recently released Lucky 7 LP. Directed by Slick Jackson, the video was shot in Croatia at the Fresh Island Festival and features the three living the so-called beautiful life on a boat. You can check it out below.
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How do I switch to Intel graphics (e.g. disable ATI graphics)?
The weird thing is that the laptop fan is very quiet, which means one of two things: dynamic switching is now enabled (If that is a software thing, and Catalyst 12.3 brought it); or the AMD graphics is disabled, but I don't see that in Driver Manager in Windows.

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A: You should install the driver what your Vendor gave you. By vendor I mean HP. Look at HP's website. Check the support section. You should have some driver which lets you switch.
OR you can switch in the BIOS permanently.

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Overview of the 3 Levels of Traumatic Brain Injury
Wounds from traumatic brain injury (TBI) are most often not visible and, being injured brain cells do not heal the same way other bodily cells may heal, it is hard to predict how the injury will affect a person in either the short or long-term. There are three levels of TBI.
Behavioral Effects After a Traumatic Brain Injury
Cognitive injuries can emerge in a number of ways and one of the most prominent ways it occurs is through behavior. People who have been injured, and their loved ones, sometimes notice after a TBI occurs their behavioral functioning has changed.
Why No Two Traumatic Brain Injuries are Alike
Each individual travels a different journey when a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is acquired. While there are some similarities in the immediate aftermath and the subsequent road to recovery after experiencing a traumatic brain injury, the reality is, just like no two people are alike, no two brain injuries are the same either.
Coping with Family Life After Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury is extremely hard and bewildering for the person who has been injured, but it also is a difficult adjustment for the family. It's common for the person who is injured to emerge from the injury with a new personality and acts like a 'different' person. Coping with family life can be a challenge.
Long-term Consequences of Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) afflicts millions of people every year. These injuries are unlike other types of injuries because, for many, life will never be the same. Even for those who do not experience dramatic life changes, the reality is after any head injury occurs, the brain is not exactly the way it was before nor will it ever function precisely the same as it did before.
Cognitive Challenges Associated With Traumatic Brain Injury
While all of the effects from a TBI can pose challenges, one of the hardest things a TBI victim has to contend with are those unseen injuries which impact cognitive abilities.
Traumatic Brain Injury in Children
Traumatic brain injury, or more commonly known as TBI, had long been known as the "silent epidemic" because of its nature to not be instantly recognized when a head injury has occurred. Brain injury in children can occur from many incidences, a blow to the head, shaken baby syndrome and anoxia are some of the more common ways a child can acquire a TBI.
How Does TBI Affect the Learning Abilities of a Student?
The special education departments in schools should gain a thorough understanding of TBIs because they are not always visible injuries. And the impacts will vary greatly from child to child.
How to be a Good Parent Advocate for a Child With TBI
Dealing with special education laws can be both daunting and confusing. In order to effectively advocate for a child with TBI, or any other learning disability, it helps to understand both federal and state laws, any special education jargon and acronyms, and how to participate in the inevitable individualized education program (IEP) meeting.
What is Anterograde Amnesia and How Does it Affect Daily Life?
There are different types of amnesia a person can suffer. One type is a classification called anterograde amnesia. Those who suffer this condition are not able to form new memories.
How Meth Addiction Hurts Communities
The manufacture of methamphetamine has long-reaching effects in society and claims many innocent victims in its path. It has lead to injuries, deaths and sicknesses. The addiction is a powerful one and law enforcement considers methamphetamine to be the #1 problem drug in the United States and is increasingly becoming a problem in other countries.
What is Prosopagnosia? ('Face Blindness')
Prosopagnosia is a condition that is classified as a neurological disorder. Its primary characterization is the person afflicted by it cannot recognize faces.
5 Ways Schools Sometimes Fail Special Needs Children
For the most part, most schools do succeed in their mission, but unfortunately there are times where a school fails to provide an appropriate education for a special needs child. It may be the school does not provide the right necessities for special needs children to succeed in the school setting.
Bear Mountain Zoo - A Sanctuary for Native Animals
Within the park is Trailside Museums & Zoo, but most locals refer to it as the "Bear Mountain Zoo". It only houses animals native to the Hudson Valley and surrounding region. The majority of the animals have either been injured or orphaned and cannot survive without human intervention.
Origins of National Bike to School Day in the U.S.
National Bike to School Day is a day set aside once a year in the United States where everyone is encouraged to ride their bikes back and forth to school. It promotes healthy living, community bonding and highlights safe journeys for kids as they commute to school every day.
Expanding "Black Friday" Into Thanksgiving
Once again, "Black Friday" seems to be just right around the corner. And this year, much like previous years, in the United States, it's starting earlier than last. In September, many of the stores began to decorate for the holidays and eagerly attempt to spread plenty of retail Christmas cheer. But it wasn't always this way. The "Black Friday creep" continues.
How to Stop an Ongoing Argument
Did you ever find yourself in the midst of an argument with a friend or family member that you just want to end but it seems to go on and on? If so, you may wonder how to stop these kinds of arguments before they spiral out of control.
Does Round-the-Clock News Increase Public Fear?
There is a lot to be afraid of, and we know this because these fears are being fed to us through constant daily news feeds. That being said, perhaps the real question is if whether or not there is truly more to worry about today than there was in days of yesteryear? Or is it just we are more aware?
What is Naegleria fowleri? What to Know About This Rare Infection
Naegleria fowleri is a rare and deadly parasite that can lead to a water-related infection caused by the single-celled organism. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), this organism is also commonly referred to as "brain-eating amoeba" or "brain-eating ameba".
Avoiding Post-Disaster Repair Scams
"Storm chasers" are people who seek to get work, but end up ripping consumers off. They either don't deliver the services promised or they ask for payment before starting work and then go MIA, taking the cash with them.


WHMIS.ca offers training that is accepted nation-wide. The WHMIS GHS Online Training and WHMIS GHS/TDG Online Training Bundle courses (below) can be taken by any one in Nova Scotia and if they relocate to another province or territory, their certificates will be honoured there. Each course requires only 90 minutes to complete. You print your own certificate. Your certificate is available to re-print any time plus you can re-take any course as a refresher as often as you want.
A WHMIS GHS program is required in all Nova Scotia workplaces that may have controlled products. Employers must provide workers with information regarding safety and health hazards in their workplaces. Employees have the right to know of potential dangers that can affect their work and health.
Each province and territory establishes WHMIS GHS employer requirements within its own jurisdiction. In Nova Scotia, these requirements are set out in the Workplace Hazardous Materials Information System (WHMIS) Regulations (N.S. Reg. 64/89) of the Occupational Health and Safety Act. The Department of Labour and Advanced Education provides provincial enforcement of the WHMIS GHS regulations.


Cause UK is working with the Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership, who are on the look out for some enthused volunteers to help open up an exciting new heritage site – Wath Mill – after completing restoration works.
The Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership is seeking volunteers to ensure an exciting heritage site opens to the public.
A team is needed to open Wath Mill over four Saturdays this summer, with full training provided for volunteers in April.
The Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership recently restored Wath Mill's features, including the four sets of millstones and associated machinery.
Wath Mill is a late 19th century mill with a long and interesting history. It nestles between the Sportsman's Arms and a terrace of early 19th century cottages in Nidderdale. The significance of the mill is twofold, firstly in the survival of the machinery, specifically the Hurst Frame, millstones and waterwheel, and secondly in the role it plays in the story of the social history of the mills in Nidderdale.
The Upper Nidderdale Landscape Partnership, with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Yorkshire Dales LEADER programme, helps people get involved in the historic landscapes, cultural heritage and wildlife habitats in the region. It has been working at a number of flagship heritage sites.
Volunteers will receive full-training and valuable experience working in the heritage sector.
Volunteers need to offer at least one half-day of their time to open the mill, and be able to attend a training session in April. Volunteers are needed on the first Saturday of every month from May to August.
To register interest, contact Louise Brown, the Historic Nidderdale Project Officer, on Louise.Brown@harrogate.gov.uk or call her on: 01423 712950 for a chat.


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Federal Judge Halts D.C. Law That Would Allow 11-Year-Olds to Get Vaccines Without Parental Consent
Ava GarciaMarch 22, 2022
It appears some U.S. courts still function properly after all.
The preliminary injunction prohibits the mayor of D.C., the D.C. Department of Health, and D.C. public schools from enforcing the D.C. Minor Consent for Vaccination Amendment Act of 2020 (D.C. Minor Consent Act) until further order of the court.
"This is a major legal victory for children, parental rights and informed consent," said Rolf Hazlehurst, senior staff attorney for Children's Health Defense (CHD) who argued the case.
"Government overreach such as this has dire implications for children's health and the constitutional rights of citizens," Hazlehurst said.
The D.C. Minor Consent Act would allow children as young as 11 to get vaccinated without their parent's knowledge.
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As reported by The Hill, the case was brought before a federal judge due to two lawsuits started by parents last year:
"The decision, issued Friday, comes as health officials debate the merits of recommending additional COVID-19 booster shots, and as regulators and drug companies continue to analyze clinical evidence for COVID-19 vaccines for children under 5 years old.
Under the law, children whose parents objected to vaccines on religious grounds would have access to their own medical records, and providers would be allowed to seek reimbursement directly from the insurer without parental knowledge or consent.
The law was initially aimed at allowing teenagers to have access to the HPV vaccine and the meningitis vaccine, as it was passed prior to COVID-19 vaccines becoming available. The law applies only to vaccines that are approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
Parents brought two separate lawsuits in July that challenged the law.
One lawsuit, brought by the father of a teenager at a public charter school, alleged that the District created a "pressure-cooker environment, enticing and psychologically manipulating" their child to "defy their parents and take vaccinations against their parents' wills."
The father alleged that his child was "medically frail" and developed autoimmunity, alopecia (severe hair loss), asthma, and eczema after receiving vaccines. As a result, he said he is of the sincere religious belief that "he should not inject a foreign substance into his son's body that may harm him," and objects to the COVID-19 vaccine as well as all standard childhood vaccines."
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In this episode of Harp Tuesday I conclude a look at some of my favourite Etudes. I talk about Hasselmans "La Source" or "The Brook" and Felix Godefroid's Etude de Concert.
Stay tuned at the end of the episode for a short bonus clip of the conclusion of the Godefroid etude.


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How To Keep Up With Financial News?
By joseph / June 14, 2022 June 14, 2022
What should I read daily for investing?
Where do traders get their news?
Who is the best financial Youtuber?
What is the best business news channel?
Who gives the best stock advice?
How do you become smart in stocks?
How can I be successful in stock market?
Is now a good time to invest in the stock market 2022?
Is now a good time to invest?
How do you read stock news?
How much cash should I keep at home?
What is the safest investment with highest return?
How can I make $200000 in the stock market?
How do you avoid loss and earn consistently?
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What news feed do day traders use?
How do you swing trade news?
What is the fastest news source?
Who is the best YouTube stock Advisor?
What TV channels talk about stocks?
Which app is best for business news?
What are financial channels?
Where can I watch business news?
Can You Trust stock analysts?
News about the Financial Markets Updates from online news sites may be trusted 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The world is always evolving. Use an RSS (Rich Summary Site) reader to keep track of what you're reading. Subscribe to Google Alerts. Use online resources that compile all of your news. Install an easy-to-use news ticker. Subscribe to a few podcasts.
Similarly, How do you keep up with investment trends?
The five suggestions below might assist you in effectively managing your time and assets. Interest Rate and Commodity Trends are the main topics of discussion (Daily) Keep up with the latest market developments (Weekly) Examine your financial statements (Quarterly) Funds or firms should be contacted or interviewed (Once or Twice a Year) Conference Calls Can Be Heard (Yearly)
Also, it is asked, What is the best channel for financial news?
The top stock market news app and TV channel is Bloomberg. The Economist is the finest for business, money, economics, and politics, while MarketWatch is the top free stock market news channel.
Secondly, How do you keep an eye on the stock market?
Websites that provide news. You may keep updated by following or subscribing to thousands of news websites. Many of them also have social media accounts and newsletters that you may sign up for. You have the option of visiting local news sites or visiting English-language news sites from across the globe.
Also, What to watch to keep up with stocks?
4.SEC: Make a list of questions. The Wall Street Journal is a newspaper published in the United States. MarketWatch. Kiplinger. Money on MSN.
People also ask, Where should I put money 2021?
Savings accounts with a high rate of return. In comparison to a regular bank savings or checking account, online savings and cash management accounts provide better rates of return. Deposit certificates. Money market funds are a kind of mutual fund that invests in the Bonds issued by the government. Bonds issued by corporations. Mutual funds are a kind of investment vehicle. Index funds are a kind of mutual fund that invests in ETFs (exchange-traded funds) are a kind of mutual fund that is exchanged
We've identified the best seven financial journals for knowledgeable investors to read here at Investor Junkie Since 1889, The Wall Street Journal has been a go-to source for financial news. Barron's. The Economist is a publication that focuses on economic issues. Kiplinger's. Investor's Business Daily is a publication that covers the business world. Bloomberg Businessweek is a publication that focuses on business. Forbes. Money
The primary television networks are CNBC, Bloomberg, and Fox Business. We suggest them because we use them every day for breaking news and in-depth analysis of significant transactions.
Bigger Pockets recommends 10 personal finance YouTube channels to follow. Stephan Graham. Joe Fairless is a character in the film Joe Fairless. The Economic Diet. The White Coat Investor is a kind of investor that wears a white coat and Jeff Rose is the Wealth Hacker. BeatTheBush. His and Her Cash
Websites for Business News in the Top 60 CNBC is the world's leading provider of business news. Financial Times. Fortune. Stock Market Quotes & Financial News | Investing.com Alpha is on the prowl. The Music Industry Around the World The Economic Times is a newspaper published in the United Kingdom. Finance » Yahoo News
The Motley Fool's Rule Breakers are a group of people that break the rules. Rule Breakers, another premium stock selection newsletter from The Motley Fool, is the next stock advice subscription I suggest. Zacks Investment Research. Alpha is on the prowl. Morningstar Premium is a premium version of Morningstar. InvestTech Research is a company that specializes in investing in technology. Kiplinger's Investment Newsletters: 7. Yahoo!
5 Stock Investing Tips You Should Know 5 investing ideas for the stock market. Leave your feelings at the door. Leave your feelings at the door. "Success in investing has little to do with IQ. Choose corporations rather than ticker symbols. Prepare for stressful situations ahead of time. Gradually increase your position. Overtrading should be avoided.
1: Always have a trading strategy in place. 2: Approach trading as if it were a business. 3: Make use of technology. 4: Safeguard Your Trading Capital 5: Research the Markets 6: Only take risks that you can afford. 7: Create a trading strategy. 8: Always have a stop loss in place.
In 2022, there are many reasons to be cautious about the stock market: Interest rates are rising — The Federal Reserve began increasing interest rates in early 2022 in an attempt to combat inflation, and more rate rises might be on the horizon shortly. While this may help to curb inflation, it may also lead to another recession in the United States.
So, regardless of what's going on in the markets, if you're wondering whether now is a good time to purchase equities, advisers say the answer is simple: Yes, as long as you're investing for the long haul, beginning with tiny sums via dollar-cost averaging, and investing in a well-diversified portfolio.
Breaking down six sections is the key to deciphering stock tickers. Symbol for a ticker. The symbol is the initial section of a ticker. Volume should be shared. The number of shares traded in the most recent deal is shown in Share Volume. Price has been exchanged. Shift your focus. Amount of change Color of the ticker.
The general consensus is to have some cash on hand, but not too much. Prakash suggested that the $1,000 cash amount be held in tiny denominations at home. "Small banknotes, such as twenty, are preferable since certain businesses will not take bigger amounts," she said.
9 Low-Risk Investments with High Returns Deposit Certificates. Money Market Accounts are a kind of savings account. Bonds issued by the Treasury Department. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are securities that are protected against inflation. Bonds issued by municipalities. Bonds issued by corporations. The S&P 500 Index Fund/ETF is a mutual fund that invests in the S&P Stocks that pay dividends.
Darvas described his methods in the book How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, which he published at the age of 39 after amassing his money. The book details his one-of-a-kind "Box System" for buying and selling stocks. Darvas' work is still considered a classic in the field of finance.
examination of the fundamentals Loss avoidance. Investing in stocks. Purchasing and reselling. The Portfolio is being built.
Identifying your objectives and risk tolerance — either on your own or with the assistance of a financial advisor – is the first step to effective investment. There is no assurance that your investments will provide a profit.
Reuters, Bloomberg, Market Watch, and the Wall Street Journal are among the finest sources. ForexFactory is another excellent source for Forex traders; however, it is late in reporting real-time news, but it offers excellent historical charts and a large database of data.
Important Points to Remember Many market-moving events, such as earnings announcements and economic updates, are pre-planned. Rather of responding on the fly, plan your approach ahead of time. The majority of news events benefit one asset class while harming others. Losses are mitigated by hedging your investments. Avoid responding to the mood of the audience.
"Twitter is the world's quickest news source," Vala Afshar said about Twitter. Twitter, for example.
On YouTube, who is the finest stock advisor? Sven Carlin, who has over 200 thousand followers on YouTube, is one of the top financial counselors.
CNBC covers the stock market, business news, financials, and earnings.
In India, Yahoo! Finance is one of the finest business news applications. It provides you with free stock quotations, breaking news, portfolio management tools, worldwide market data, and social networking opportunities. It allows you to keep track of the markets and the economy.
In finance and economics, a channel may refer to: a distribution channel, which is a system of intermediaries for the flow of an item or service between producers, suppliers, customers, and so on.
ET Now (ETNow) is a budget, business, and financial news channel that broadcasts live. The Times Network owns and operates ET Now, India's No. 1 Business News Channel.
While research analysts are highly compensated professionals with a penchant for stock market decision-making, their views are often untrustworthy as the foundation for objective investment judgments, as you'll see below.
The "financial news for dummies" is a blog that provides you with the latest financial news. It has many different topics, such as stocks, bonds, and investing.
The "financial times" is a publication that provides comprehensive coverage of the global financial markets. It is published by The Financial Times Limited, which is an unincorporated association.
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It takes 30 days to push the reset button on your health and change your relationship with food. This is the concept behind Melissa and Dallas Hartwig's Whole30 program. By eating non-processed whole foods and ditching grains, dairy, and sugar, you will reduce inflammation in your system, clear up your skin, and revitalize your energy stores. These are just a few of the benefits this program boasts.
Following the paleo diet can be pricey. Inexpensive and healthy non-meat protein sources like soy and beans are off-limits, and a recent BMJ Open study shows that healthy meats like lean ground beef and boneless, skinless chicken breasts cost an average of 29 cents more per serving compared to less-healthy ones, such as high-fat ground beef and chicken drumsticks. Even switching from peanut butter to paleo-approved almond butter will cost you—it goes for up to $13 a jar.
Hello there! I am loving the meal plan. Our whole family, 5 of us, started today. I do have a question regarding the shopping list and the recipe portions. Does the shopping list account for doubling recipes? I'm looking at the Chicken Bacin salad which says it's for 2. I assume I double it for 5 of us, but did I buy enough to do that? I shopped already and followed the shopping list. Thanks!! And sorry if you've answered this already!
Let the apples and onions cook down for a bit until they begin to become translucent. When they do, add juice of 1/2 lemon, ½ tsp cinnamon, 1 tsp nutmeg, salt, pepper, 1/2 tsp garlic powder, and 1/2 tsp onion powder and mix thoroughly to help combine and let caramelize. Turn the heat down a notch or two and continue to cook down, stirring occasionally.
If you find that you eat more than you planned at dinner, and don't have any leftovers, my fallback is always Chicken Salad, tuna salad, egg salad, or a simple green salad. Something simple and you can't go wrong with any of those. I didn't include ingredients in the Grocery List for these extras, but maybe something to keep on hand just in case, you know?
For instance, the fat allowance of the diet may be problematic. "My biggest hang-up with the paleo diet is all of the saturated fats it promotes with all of the meats," explains Holley, noting that you could look for a locally sourced meat, whose origin and method of raising you're aware of, as a healthier option. Saturated fat from meat has been linked with an increased risk of early death. (9)
A study published in the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research entitled "Crossfit-based high intensity power training improves maximal aerobic fitness and body composition" followed 54 participants for 10 weeks of CrossFit training. The study said that "...a notable percentage of our subjects (16%) did not complete the training program and return for follow-up testing." The authors said "This may call into question the risk-benefit ratio for such extreme training programs..."[62] In 2014, CrossFit, Inc. filed a lawsuit against the National Strength and Conditioning Association for publishing this study, alleging that the data were false and were "intended to scare participants away from CrossFit."[63] The NSCA denies CrossFit, Inc.'s allegations[63] but has issued an erratum acknowledging that the injury data were incorrect.[64] In September 2016, the District Court ruled in favor of CrossFit Inc.'s claims that the injury data were found to be false, but not that the NSCA was commercially motivated or that the publishing of the study was defamatory as the NSCA no longer stood behind the study.[65] In February 2017, CrossFit filed for sanctions against the NSCA after one of the NSCA's witnesses admitted to falsifying statements during deposition.[66] In May 2017, the Court issued 17 issues sanctions against the NSCA, writing that the organization did have a commercial motive to falsify the data, had published the false data knowingly to disparage CrossFit, and had misled the public with their erratum.[66] CrossFit was awarded $74,000 in legal fees and allowed to continue investigating the NSCA. If the neutral-party analysis of the NSCA servers turns up any further misconduct, CrossFit may file an amended complaint for further sanctioning and compensation for lost revenue.[67]
On that spring day across America, the CrossFit faithful gathered--and toiled. There were hundreds of thousands of them, certainly. Maybe a million, maybe two. In an old industrial facility in New Orleans, they hoisted themselves on gymnastic rings and did dips up there. In a strip mall in Santa Cruz, California, they threw 20-pound medicine balls against a wall over and over again. In a business park near the Dulles airport in Virginia, they pushed weighted barbells above their heads, first once a minute, and then as fast as they could for three minutes straight--or until they couldn't lift their arms.
Glassman attracted a little flock. "I was looking for a trainer, and a friend of my wife's went to Spa Fitness," says Ben Elizer, who today is CrossFit's chief information officer. He went to Spa Fitness and was told he had his pick of two: "one guy who is really nice and not that good, and another guy who is really good but super-opinionated and arrogant"--Glassman, of course. Glassman's crew was tight-knit. He even ended up marrying one of his clients, a hairdresser named Lauren Jenai. When the Spa Fitness owner inevitably showed the CrossFitters the door, and they leased a corner of a jujitsu studio, Lauren would manage the books and teach CrossFit classes herself. Soon they outgrew that space, and the Glassmans took their motley little group of cops, jujitsu fighters, and tech-company commuters to a 1,250-square-foot truck garage on a remote road three miles out in Soquel. In 2000, a number of clients asked if Glassman could put the WODs online so they could do them when they traveled, so he put up CrossFit.com.
All this said, I still think it's worth buying if you are looking for more variety in your Whole 30 meals. I think the least complicated section is breakfast and lots of them look delicious. However, anticipate that this cookbook may surprise some people who were used to the recipes and format from the 30 Day Guide. This one is definitely more work. I would love to see one like the 30 Day Guide, with more one pot meals, "make it a meal" options, etc...
Richard Nikoley has the blog Free The Animal. He loves meat eating. His diet is near paleo, with the addition of some gray-area foods that he likes. These days most of his posts are on food. One recent trend in the paleo community is trying to optimize the proportions of the foods eaten. If you've read my definition you'll know that I simply define the diet as foods in and out. One of Richard's posts: Optimality: A Fool's Errand? has produced a long discussion of this trend.
He also makes a concerted effort to avoid new streams of revenue. (See "CrossFit Doesn't Want Your Money.") CrossFit makes most of its money from training seminars: Every weekend, it certifies hundreds of people as trainers, at $1,000 a pop. It also collects registration fees for the CrossFit Games, royalties from Reebok for CrossFit apparel, and annual affiliate fees. The affiliate fees, which top out at $3,000 a year, are locked in at their original rates. Joshua Newman, who runs a big, successful box called CrossFit NYC, told me he pays just $500 a year.
Overall, my biggest Whole30 lesson is that mindful eating is possible. I don't have that urge to eat everything in sight, but I also know I don't need to deprive myself or worry about food 24/7. There's a happy medium where I get to decide what I really crave, weigh whether it's worth the bloat or restless sleep I might experience after eating it, and then say yes or no. I've caught myself thinking like this more, and so the ultimate goal of Whole30 has worked: I've changed my relationship with food—for the better.
The aspects of the paleo diet that advise eating fewer processed foods and less sugar and salt are consistent with mainstream advice about diet.[1] Diets with a paleo nutrition pattern have some similarities to traditional ethnic diets such as the Mediterranean diet that have been found to be healthier than the Western diet.[3][6] Following the paleo diet, however, can lead to nutritional deficiencies such as those of vitamin D and calcium, which in turn could lead to compromised bone health;[1][20] it can also lead to an increased risk of ingesting toxins from high fish consumption.[3]
CrossFit programming is decentralized, but its general methodology is used by thousands of private affiliated gyms, fire departments, law-enforcement agencies, and military organizations, including the Royal Danish Life Guards,[27][28][29][30] as well as by some U.S. and Canadian high-school physical-education teachers, high-school and college sports teams, and the Miami Marlins.[14][31][32]


1. It is demonstrated that the Stela of Nekresi depicts the Moon Sun pagan calendar, which started functioning on the 24th of June of the year 81 C.E., when Sunday, the summer eclipse and the new moon coincided with one another.
2. The calendar is definitely secret, which means that it's should have been known only to the wide circle of the priests.


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Archive for April 2016
It's hard to fathom that it's been decades since David Cronenberg was actually a horror-movie director. Yes, some of his films of recent years have had horrific elements — say, 2014's Maps to the Stars — but The Fly, released thirty years ago, represented Cronenberg's farewell to a certain type of sci-fi/horror movie he'd practically patented, the icky bio-horror film that treated bodily mutation not as a threat but as a source of fascination — even self-realization. Movies like Shivers, Rabid and The Brood were 101 courses; The Fly was Cronenberg's doctoral thesis, and it turned out to be the biggest hit he would ever have.
For a brief moment in the summer of 1986, the mass audience bought what Cronenberg was selling — a doomed romance packaged as a dare-you-to-sit-through-it gross-out. The Fly was the perfect vehicle to introduce Cronenberg to the larger mainstream, which he then wasted no time alienating (Dead Ringers, Naked Lunch, M. Butterfly, Crash). Seth Brundle (Jeff Goldblum, never more charismatic) is the foxiest and most attractive of the Cronenberg avatars, a genius whose motion sickness has driven him to develop a means of teleportation. Seth shows his work to science reporter Veronica Quaife (Geena Davis in a sharp early performance), though it isn't quite ready for prime time — the "telepod" has trouble with organic material like flesh.
Cronenberg readies us for the nausea to come when an early experiment involving a baboon goes haywire. The Fly goes incredibly fast — Cronenberg's regular editor, Ronald Sanders, clips the scenes to a bleeding edge, and it's not long at all before Seth — jealous because his new lover Veronica still has contact with her old lover and magazine editor (John Getz) — gets drunk and decides to teleport himself. Of course, a fly stows away for the ride, and when Seth is re-integrated in the other telepod, the molecular-genetic structure of the fly has fused with Seth's. He becomes Brundlefly, and he gains superhuman strength and speed before deteriorating into a lumpy, grotesque creature who has to vomit on his food to digest it. (Emetophobes are, understandably, not among the movie's fans.) Eventually Seth begins to lose his humanity and pass over into insect consciousness, leading to his frightening monologue about "insect politics," which serves to explain his personality change. "I'm an insect who dreamed he was a man and loved it," Seth clarifies (sort of), "but the insect is awake."
Aside from having a Fox-produced (and Mel Brooks-sponsored) big-movie sheen — and Howard Shore's most dramatic score this side of Lord of the Rings — this may be Cronenberg's most emotionally accessible film, and it really only has the three characters, other than sidebar figures who drift into Seth's path briefly. It's fast, and it's also stripped down; you're out of there in less than ninety minutes, but by then, you might be ready to go. The Fly also marks the beginning of Cronenberg's second phase of films, the terribly sad meditations on the fragility of sanity (his next, Dead Ringers, is among the most depressing movies ever made). The movie follows Seth through the twin breakdowns of mind and body.
The transition wouldn't work nearly so well, of course, without Geena Davis convincing us that she still loves the man underneath the monstrosity, and without Jeff Goldblum persuading us the man is still there. There's none of Goldblum's later grinning, apartments.com-hawking smugness in this hyperverbal turn. Seth maintains a lively scientific interest in his own grotesque transformation, more for his own edification than for posterity. Cronenberg was right to keep Seth restlessly eloquent right up to the full transformation — Seth crests on his own ersatz insights, like someone on a cocaine rush, and then collapses into rage and lust, while Veronica looks on helplessly. (Without being condescendingly dumbed-down — she does know her way around a lab, after all — Davis's Veronica is the audience's stand-in, staring aghast as Seth riffs mumbo-jumbo about "the plasma pool.") Seth has a way of dancing rhetorical circles around his topic, then focusing his ire abruptly on his listener and spitting vituperation. Nobody can keep up with Seth; he's the foremost expert on his condition because he's its only host body.
The emotions as well as the intellect carry us through the gushers of goop. At its best, the movie comes close to the power of classic tragedy — the moods are exaltation, dread, disgust, grief. Some have taken it for an allegory about AIDS or cancer, but Cronenberg means it to be less ripped-from-the-headlines and more timeless: a meditation on anything that changes us physically, and the corresponding mental changes. After The Fly, there was really nowhere else Cronenberg could take his body-horror obsessions. It's a remarkably economical distillation and commercial apotheosis of his pet themes, and it works brutally well in the realms of heartbreak and skin-crawl. It's a full package.
Categories: adaptation, cronenberg, horror, one of the year's best, remake, romance, science fiction, Uncategorized
David Lynch's masterpiece Blue Velvet, which is getting a limited 30th-anniversary re-release in theaters this year, has lost very little of its juice or shock in three decades. Since it wears the sheep's clothing of fifties retro, not much ties the film to the mid-'80s, either (other than the Aqua-Netted hair on some briefly seen high-school girls). It's just this angelic/satanic hybrid reality, full of dichotomies and abstracted imagery and behavior. Like Lynch's Twin Peaks, the film has a mystery at its center, but Lynch just uses it as an excuse to swim around inside his own obsessions, which become — and this is his artistry — our obsessions, at least for two hours.
The mystery here activates when college student Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), walking home through a field, finds a severed human ear. At one point, Lynch's camera travels into the earhole, and the rest of the movie could be said to be a walkabout inside Lynch's head. The ear leads to a drug ring, a kidnapped father and child, and the ultimate sadist and masochist — Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper), who seems to be made out of profanity, and Dorothy Vallens (Isabella Rossellini), who seems to be his not-quite-unwilling sex slave. I really have zero interest in summing up the plot, though, because if there's one movie that is resolutely not about its plot, Blue Velvet is that movie.
Soaked in Freud and Jungian dream logic, the film proposes a split between darkness and light in which both sides are absurdly, almost cartoonishly heightened. It's either picket fences or industrial rust, colors that pop in the sunshine or shadows that hide secrets and kinks. Even the dialogue echoes with oppositions: "I don't know whether you're a detective or a pervert"; "I don't want to hurt you, I want to help you." (With both these examples, the movie proves that there's no reason both can't be true.) Frank, enacting his ritualistic tryst with Dorothy (in which conventional coitus, including penetration, seems off the table), flips between being "Daddy" and "Baby" — infantilized by his own thirst for macho domination. Hopper is certainly ferocious as this rough beast, but then he goes beyond that into a weird heartsick sensitivity. Face to face with Jeffrey, his opposite number, Frank taunts him by whispering "You're like me" and then plants some lipsticky kisses on him. The movie is, in part, about how Jeffrey recognizes this kinship to Frank but then rejects it. The question is whether such kinship, once recognized, can be rejected.
Frank's violently sexual/sexless relationship with Dorothy and his tweaking of Jeffrey seem to proceed from the same impulse that brings him to Ben (Dean Stockwell), a "suave" and fey criminal of some sort. Frank takes Jeffrey, Dorothy, and his amusingly bedraggled posse of ne'er-do-wells to Ben's for a brief business meeting, and also so that Dorothy can see her little boy, who apparently rejects her. (Is it because he can sense that Jeffrey has "put his disease" in her?) Ben's pad is full of matronly women with cat's-eye glasses and bouffants; whatever else it is, it's the least likely place of criminal business anyone has ever seen. Frank, who abuses and yells at everyone, seems to respect the effeminate Ben, and stands mesmerized and agonized as Ben lip-syncs Roy Orbison's "In Dreams." Frank seems to need this song as much as he needs whatever he huffs from his gas mask; his blasted, hopeless shard of a soul reaches towards the tune. He's a bastard and a maniac but also infernally human.
Lynch and his invaluable sound designer Alan Splet turn Blue Velvet into an apocalyptic, chthonic noise-scape, wedded to Angelo Badalamenti's lush, minacious score, whose main melody seems an extension of Bernard Herrmann's looping music for Vertigo. The movie is perhaps the most conventionally plotted of Lynch's weirder work — it has clues, narrative beats, a resolution — and that might be why it ranks as many people's favorite Lynch film, but I think its undeniable technical sophistication also helps put it over for those who would have little patience for Lynch's later puzzles (Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive). It walks and talks like a classically structured movie, and yet it doesn't; it's decayed and curled at the edges in so many ways. The movie's eroticism — the dangerously intimate bits between Jeffrey and Dorothy that pass over into rage and release — is probably still unsurpassed, except perhaps by Buñuel's Belle de Jour. Rossellini possibly isn't quite acting; she gives physically of herself totally, and her spiky emotions derive from her literal nakedness.
One of Blue Velvet's last images, famously, is of a (fake-looking) robin with an insect in its beak, calling back to the vision of Sandy Williams (Laura Dern), the local detective's daughter and Jeffrey's sometime helper on this "case," of the arrival of robins to dispel the darkness. The equally famous opening of the movie, with its hyper-bright flowers and fire truck giving way to Jeffrey's dad's stroke (I always think the kinked-up garden hose somehow causes the stroke — does anyone else?) and the subterranean black bugs, seems to be the entire movie in miniature, all its themes laid out in pictures — even the TV playing in Jeffrey's house foreshadows things to come.
The fake robin may or may not triumph over or devour the insect it's carrying. Entire books could be (and probably have been) devoted to that one bothersome image. But the very final image is of Dorothy, still wearing her fetishistic performer's wig, in what you'd think is a moment of reunion and rapture, except that something seems to remind her of her bombed-out rendition of the movie's theme song, and for a moment her expression becomes troubled. Even if the insect is vanquished by the robin, there are many more like it hiding in the grass, in the shadows under the white picket fence. I think Lynch sincerely wants to believe in Sandy and her vision, but Blue Velvet's position during the "morning in America" Reagan era is neither an accident nor a coincidence; Lynch wants us to look under the shiny surface, as he did at greater length in Twin Peaks. Days are not always sunny, but nights are always dark.
Categories: cult, film noir, lynch, one of the year's best, thriller, tspdt, Uncategorized
Elstree 1976
A friend of mine collects Star Wars action figures, including custom-made figures of the more obscure characters, and likes to have the figure "cards" signed by the actors who played the obscure characters. I was with him at a local convention when he got an autograph from a guy who played, I think, some Imperial commander (I'm sure he'll correct me if I'm wrong). People like that actor are the focus of Elstree 1976, a documentary about the bit players, masked heavies, and helmet-wearers who added texture to the tapestry that was the first Star Wars film. Extras, of course, have been the subject of other projects, including Ricky Gervais' show of the same name, but the extras from any Star Wars movie, it seems, have the edge over any other extra. Thirty years from now, nostalgic fortysomethings will stand in line to get autographs from the guy who played the stormtrooper who bled on Finn's helmet in The Force Awakens.
A crowdfunded effort from director Jon Spira, Elstree 1976 is largely a matter of talking heads, some of whom are more interesting than others. Most of the budget probably went to the rights to use clips from Star Wars that illustrate where, exactly, in a crowded frame a particular X-Wing pilot is, a nonspeaking role whose portrayer dines out on it to this day. At least the X-Wing pilot had his face on camera. Many others didn't, including Paul Blake as Greedo, the green goblin who infamously shot first in George Lucas' 1997 second draft of the dust-up between him and Han Solo. (The clip used here is the "special edition" Greedo-shoots-first version. If you have no idea why that's an issue with fans — and there's no reason you should — Elstree 1976 might not be for you.)
Spira's biggest "get" is David Prowse, who wore the helmet and cloak of Darth Vader (James Earl Jones provided the voice). Prowse could probably anchor a documentary of his own, since his odd career straddles many fandoms (he worked for Stanley Kubrick and Terry Gilliam, played the Monster in two Hammer Frankenstein films, and appeared on Doctor Who, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and Benny Hill). Like all the others here, he seems amiably resigned to having Star Wars on his gravestone, though there's apparently no love lost between him and Lucas. The second biggest name here is Jeremy Bulloch, the man under Boba Fett's helmet (he's the only one from The Empire Strikes Back, making his sections of the documentary Elstree 1979). Most of you would recognize neither man if you tripped over him, yet they both make a living from signing at conventions for starstruck acolytes.
A note of discord is struck when Angus MacInnes, probably the most steadily working bit player to come out of Star Wars, sends some darts of resentment towards those who work the autograph circuit without having received a screen credit for the film. (He played Gold Leader, in case you were curious; I wonder if my friend has his autograph.) Mostly, though, the folks in Elstree 1976 (including a lone woman, Pam Rose, who played an alien in the cantina scene) are friendly and grateful for the opportunities their glancing brush with film history has afforded them. They seem happy to bring some joy to fans, and I suppose it's better to have been Third Rebel Soldier on the Right in Star Wars than to have been Third Civilian Casualty on the Left in Batman v Superman.
All these people are part of something larger than themselves, and so someone like Garrick Hagon (who played Luke Skywalker's mostly-edited-out friend Biggs Darklighter) has something in common with, say, Harrison Ford, although Ford will never need to make ends meet by signing posters in hotel meeting rooms. None of them, including Ford probably, had any idea that the thing larger than themselves would become so large as to dominate multiple industries. But so it has, and so here we are, living in a Star Wars world where the already-hyped Rogue One: A Star Wars Story is coming this Christmas, and perhaps the extras in that film will want to have a long cold look at this documentary and their futures.
Categories: documentary, star war, Uncategorized
Packed in a Trunk
It's bad enough when artists die in obscurity; it's far worse when they are condemned to live in obscurity for much of their existence. In Packed in a Trunk, which hits DVD and various streaming platforms on April 26, we learn about Edith Lake Wilkinson, whose misfortunes were threefold. Edith had the bad luck to be a woman, an artist, and gay in an era, the late 19th and early 20th century, that had little respect for any of those attributes. After her parents died, Edith had an inheritance, which was allotted to her a little at a time by an unscrupulous family lawyer who had a large degree of control over her. This lawyer discouraged her from living in Provincetown, forever a place of tolerance for artistic gays, and from living with her lover Fannie. Most damagingly, he saw to it that she was admitted to an asylum; Edith spent 32 years locked away, until her death in 1957 at age 89.
Probably none of us would have heard of Edith if not for her great-niece, Jane Anderson, who'd grown up surrounded by Edith's paintings in her childhood home. Now in her fifties, Jane has a career of writing and/or directing quirkily feminist movies (When Billie Beat Bobby; Normal; The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom). Like her great-aunt, Jane is artistic and gay. She feels a connection to Edith, and wants to rescue her from darkness. Her goal is to get Edith's work shown at a Provincetown gallery; spookily, a gallery owner reaches out to Jane, and his gallery building is the same one that once appeared in a painting of Edith's.
The title, of course, has dual meanings — not only Edith's art was packed in a trunk. If she'd been allowed to carry on as she wished, her "white line" wood block technique might have been recognized as innovative and influential. Her work is fresh, unpretentious, and increasingly colorful as she found her groove in Provincetown, surrounded by all that Cape Cod beauty. The movie, however, doesn't really try to recast Edith as a LGBT martyr. Jane Anderson doesn't want to wallow in the unfairness of what happened to Edith; she wants to air Edith's work, let it speak loudly and beautifully for itself. And it does; many people come to see the paintings, many more will see them via the movie, and all that will be remembered of her attorney and persecutor is that he was a bastard. Posterity wins this time.
Packed in a Trunk is sometimes a little iffy technically — it has occasional problems with camera focus. But the essence of Jane's mission stays clear and readable, and we are pleased to see the Provincetown community's embrace of its lost daughter. As luckless as Edith's life seems to us, there is also a fair amount of good luck: here was a woman whose work happened to wind up in the home of a girl who would grow up into a position to rehabilitate Edith's reputation. How many other artists, male or female, white or otherwise, have been denied us forever because they were gay in the wrong place and time, and did not have a distant relative to tend to their work a century later?


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St. Louis loss caps of a tough week in the A-10
By Rob DausterNov 15, 2012, 12:11 AM EST
The Atlantic 10 has had better weeks.
It started with Butler losing to Xavier during Marathon Madness. Actually, 'losing' probably isn't the correct word to use there. Smacked seems more appropriate given the 62-47 final and the fact that the Bulldogs simply did not look very good. There could be an explanation for that, however; Butler wouldn't be the first team to run into a buzzsaw at the Cintas Center.
And couldn't we have all just underrated Xavier? I mean, maybe the impressive win was simply a result of the Musketeers playing great as much as it was a symbol of Butler's downfall. And, since Xavier and Butler are now conference rivals, that could be taken as a positive sign for the league as a whole, right?
Well, that argument doesn't hold water for VCU. The Rams, who were picked by many to be the league champion in the preseason, lost to Wichita State at home on Tuesday night. The Shockers were one of the more underrated teams in the country last season, but they lost quite a bit to graduation. They aren't the same team as last year, the one that beat Creighton by two full games for the MVC regular season title, but they still beat VCU in Richmond.
The roughest loss came on Wednesday night. St. Louis, who was, at one time, thought to be the best team in the conference, got drubbed by Santa Clara, losing 74-62 in a game wasn't nearly that close.
The Billikens are playing without Kwamain Mitchell, their starting point guard and most talented player, and that's a loss that certainly hurts this group. But whether or not Mitchell is in the lineup doesn't change the fact that Rick Majerus isn't coaching this team, and after a less-than-stirring, 17 point win over USC-Upstate in the opener, that looks like it could be a major issue.
So for those scoring at home, three Atlantic 10 favorites lost in the span of about 30 hours. That will be costly for the league as a whole, as it could end up hurting the league's RPI. A strong non-conference RPI — bolstered by strong non-conference performances by the league as a whole — is the quickest ticket to those last couple of at-large bids.
Rob Dauster is the editor of the college basketball website Ballin' is a Habit. You can find him on twitter @robdauster.