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Jon Caldara's haunting appeal to raise money for Children's Hospital
Parker Caldara.
Every now and then when someone visits the newsroom they'll stop at my desk, looked at my picture of an adorable little girl with the bluest eyes and ask, "If she yours?" And I say, "No, she's Jon Caldara's daughter."
One day that visitor turned out to be Caldara, who was stunned that I still displayed Parker's picture. In 2001, just days before her 1st birthday, Parker died of a rare form of cancer. She had never even been sick.
Caldara's the political court jester who oversees the Independence Institute, a right-leaning free market think tank based in Denver.
The other day Caldara held off on his infamous one-liners in a fundraising letter that was a sock to the gut:
If we could be jailed for our thoughts, I should have a life sentence. It was a short, sad, news item that came over the radio some 13 years ago. I remember it perfectly to this day. It delighted me then. It shames me now. Along I-70 in the mountains a boulder came loose, fell from a cliff, and struck the passenger side of a pickup truck. The father driving the truck was uninjured. His young son was killed.
When I heard the news report my mind, on even a chemical level, released a one-word, satisfied response — "Good." It gave me immense pleasure.
I wanted everyone to lose their child. Everyone.
Categories: Colorado Politics, Elections, Gun Debate, Health Care
Jon Caldara plays a role in "insane ad" connected to the Jeffco school board
A new ad is a clever play on an earlier spot that attacked the Jefferson County School Board.
Jon Caldara, chief jester for the Independence Institute, says a new ad that manages to link pink plaid shorts, Hitler, haters and the Jefferson County School Board is "easily the best attack ad of the political season."
Of course, Caldara's somewhat biased. He did come up with the clever line at the end: "Paid for by the committee who thinks it's asinine to compare school board members to brutal dictators."
"Think this ad is insane? So do we," the narrator says.
Categories: 2014 Colorado Legislative Races, 2014 Election
Independence Institute celebrates victories during spirited Founders' Night
Among those attending the Independence Institute's Founders Night dinner were: state Rep. Amy Stephens; Gale Norton, former Colorado attorney general and former secretary of the Department of the Interior; and Cynthia Coffman, chief deputy attorney general who is running for AG. (Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post)
Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, and his daughter Piper at the group's Founders' Night dinner Thursday.
The Independence Institute's Founders' Night celebration Thursday was a giddy affair with President Jon Caldara gloating over some of the seismic political events in the last year.
Not all Founders events are so merry, but supporters of the libertarianish think tank were thrilled at the defeat of the education tax hike measure, Amendment 66, and the election of reform-minded school board candidates. In addition, two Democrat senators who supported tougher gun control laws were recalled and a third resigned in the midst of a recall attempt.
Caldara lauded the institute's efforts in fighting Amendment 66 and the gun laws.
Categories: 2014 Colorado Governor's Race, Colorado Politics, Education, Gun Debate
Colorado GOP lawmakers attempt to repeal, revise election, firearm laws
Republican lawmakers are expected to go to the mat today over an elections bill and background checks for firearms sales, making today seem more like Groundhog's Day than yesterday.
Sen. George Rivera
Those measures were passed by the Democratic-controlled legislature last year over objections from Republicans. Democrats still have the majority.
Republicans will roll out a new bill that would put last year's election measure, House Bill 1303, on a two-year time out. The bill creates an all mail-ballot election and allows for same-day voter registration. The House this year already has passed a bill intended to fix unintended election consequences for local governments because of HB 1303. The GOP contention is a law that needs that much fixing needs to be examined.
The GOP lawmakers scheduled to attended a news conference at 11:30 a.m. today about their elections proposal are Sens. Kevin Grantham of Canon City and Kevin Lunderg of Berthoud and Reps. Libby Szabo of Arvada and Carole Murray of Castle Rock.
Also present will be Republican Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who opposed last year's bill, and Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute. Caldara, a Boulder resident, registered to vote in El Paso County last September in an attempt to show how how he believes the law allows a voter to choose which district to vote in, regardless of residency.
Categories: 2014 Election, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics, Gun Debate
Ho, ho, ho! Festive Colorado Republicans excited for 2014
Mary Dambman, president of the Lincoln Club of Colorado, Claudia Beauprez and former U.S. Rep. Bob Beauprez were all smiles at the Lincoln Club's Christmas Party Wednesday night in Denver. (Lynn Bartels/The Denver Post)
Colorado Republicans, who haven't had that much to be merry about in the last decade, were all smiles at the Lincoln Club of Colorado's holiday party Wednesday in Denver.
Among the festivities: raising money by auctioning off lunches with various folks, including the Senate's two newest members, Republicans George Rivera of Pueblo and Bernie Herpin of Colorado Springs. They were elected when two Democratic senators were recalled in September for their gun votes. Former Congressman Bob Beauprez, who served as the auctioneer, won the bid for lunch with Rivera.
Lincoln Club President Mary Dambdam shelled out $200 for the winning bid for lunch with Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute.
"You got hosed," I joked.
Categories: 2014 Colorado Governor's Race, 2014 Congressional Races, 2014 U.S. Senate election, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics
Recall: Gov. John Hickenlooper worries about "making a mockery of the democratic process"
UPDATE: El Paso County Clerk Wayne Williams says he's "excited that Gov. Hickenlooper is now paying attention."
Gov. John Hickenlooper is the latest to weigh in with concerns about Jon Caldara's residency switch Saturday so he could vote in the recall election of Senate President John Morse of Colorado Springs.
Jon Caldara signs an affidavit at the El Paso County Clerk's office Saturday affirming his legal residence is now Colorado Springs. (Photo by Lynn Bartels, The Denver Post)
Caldara, a longtime Boulder resident, said he was was trying to make a point that a new election law passed by Democrats and signed into law by Hickenlooper in May undid residency requirements that had been in Colorado law for years.
"We are hearing disturbing reports that some people are being encouraged to go to the polls, not to legitimately vote, but to disrupt the process," Hickenlooper said in a statement issued today. "That would be unlawful and makes a mockery of the democratic process. We urge the county clerks in Pueblo and El Paso counties to make clear that people engaged in attempting to disrupt the elections are open to criminal prosecution. We've also reached out to the attorney general to help us ensure fair elections take place this week."
Categories: 2013 Legislative Session, Colorado Government, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics, Elections, Gun Debate
Jon Caldara makes personal appeal: Repeal adultery law, binders full of women want me
UPDATE: Caldara testified for the bill, which passed 8-3. Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, noted that the cases that have occurred were in Boulder and Arapahoe County, not in his area. That's because El Paso County doesn't know how to have fun, Democrat Lois Court said.
"We have a lot of fun. We have one of the largest shootings ranges …. ," Gardner said, getting cut off by laughter.
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You've got to love Jon Caldara, Colorado's most irreverent political figure who today weighed in on a bill that repeals decades-old laws banning adultery and criminalizing innkeepers who rent rooms to couples having affairs.
Caldara, president of the Independence Institute but speaking only for himself, said he wants the bill to pass because so many women, "binders of them," want to have an affair with him but are afraid of being prosecuted.
Caldara offered a partial list of the women he plans to "make time with" if the bill were to pass, including Selma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Brady, "the old Sophia Loren" and Margaret Thatcher.
My two favorites from Caldara: "That chick in the bikini from the Tab commercial when I was a kid," and "Aunt Bea, but I've been in therapy for that."
Categories: Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics, Crime and Courts, Social Policy
Political scandals Halloween party returns, find a costume and come on over
The South Carolina governor's scandal provided fodder for Halloween costumes in 2009. Tracy Dunning came dressed as an Argentinian dancer and her husband, political consultant, Eric Sondermann, as a hiker. Gov. Mark Sanford's staff thought he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when he was in Argentina with his lover. (Provided by Sondermann)
After a brief hiatus, it's back, the Political Scandals Halloween party that features politicians and political junkies in all sorts of costumes.
This year is likely to have a triple B theme: Big Bird, binders full of women and bayonets. But the bigger question: Will Secretary of Scott Gessler come dressed as Scott Gessler?
The 2012 Political Scandals Halloween Party will be held at 7 p.m. at the Denver home of Jessica Peck. Other hosts include the Independence Institute's Jon Caldara, Democratic political consultant Laura Chapin and, as the invite reads, "scandal-free community leader" James Mejia. (RSVP to Shawn@ogicolorado.org or 720-628-5756.)
Guests are asked to donate to Minds Matter, a Denver-based non-profit that helps prepare low-income high school students for college.
Categories: Colorado Legislature, Crime and Courts
In defense of Gov. John Hickenlooper
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Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute.
We've got some good news and some bad news for Gov. John Hickenlooper, who's been in the news for back-to-back blown introductions with sexual overtones.
The good news is a high-profile Republican has come to his defense. The bad news is that it's Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute.
"Please don't apologize and certainly don't second-guess your well intentioned, off-the-cuff comments," Caldara wrote on his blog today. "I hate that you are such a popular politician … but your sense of humor is one of your greatest political assets."
Caldara added a P.S. "If anyone is interested in me in the shower, the mayor's wife has pictures. (Um, that's a joke.)"
Categories: Colorado Government, Colorado Politics, Denver City Hall, Social Policy
Jon Caldara, upset about PERA bill's fate, suggests reading "Profiles in Courage"
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Independence Institute President Jon Caldara says PERA needs be reformed.
Colorado's master messenger was in fine form today, reeling off one-liners while criticizing the legislature for its reluctance to reform the state's pension fund.
Jon Caldara, president of the Independence Institute, is livid that Republican Rep. Chris Holbert killed his own bill that would change the agency's health-care plan for retirees.
But, Caldara said, he's glad the Parker lawmaker credited the think tank for being the inspiration for the bill.
"We control the destiny of every bill in the Capitol," Caldara facetiously bragged. "He's absolutely right. It's part of our master plan."
Categories: Budget, Colorado Legislature, Colorado Politics


Aripiprazole tablets with sensor offer a new wireless trackable form of aripiprazole that represents a clear departure from existing drug delivery systems, routes, or formulations. This tracking technology raises concerns about the ethical treatment of patients with psychosis when it could introduce unintended treatment challenges. The use of "trackable" pills and other "smart" drugs or nanodrugs assumes renewed importance given that physicians are responsible for determining patients' decision-making capacity. Psychiatrists are uniquely positioned in society to advocate on behalf of vulnerable patients with mental health disorders. The case presented here focuses on guidance for capacity determination and informed consent for such nanodrugs.
Mr A is a 43-year-old patient with schizophrenia brought by police to the emergency department of an academic medical center. Police stated that he was making threats to harm himself while holding a knife. A neighbor noticed that he was pacing the street and responding to auditory hallucinations. In past psychotic episodes, he experienced similar auditory hallucinations and persecutory delusions of being tracked by government satellites. He believes that a "microprocessor" is imbedded in his right wrist, which he can feel "getting warmer" when the government "turns it on." He has auditory hallucinations of male and female voices warning him to avoid people, especially on the streets, because they are "trying to harm me." He has seriously injured himself in the past, cutting his wrist to try to remove the imagined microprocessor; this injury required extensive surgical repair of his tendons and vasculature.
Mr A's mental status exam revealed an alert, fearful, and minimally cooperative male with poor hygiene, disorganized speech, paranoid delusions, bizarre abstraction, poor insight, impaired judgment, and tactile hallucinations of a microprocessor in his wrist. He was involuntarily admitted to a psychiatric unit due to psychosis and imminent risk of serious self-harm.
Records of prior inpatient care reveal that Mr A tends to improve dramatically after brief hospitalizations and administration of antipsychotics, and on his last admission he was stabilized with oral aripiprazole. Currently, his admission status is involuntary, but Mr A is willing to take medications. His admitting resident psychiatrist contemplates using aripiprazole trackable pill technology to aid Mr A's treatment adherence. Other members of the treatment team raise concerns about its use for this patient—specifically, whether using it would create unintended harms and undermine his trust in them, given the nature of Mr A's self-harm history as it relates to the imagined device in his body.
Antipsychotics have gained broad approval for mental disorders ranging from schizophrenia to major depression, bipolar disorder, and autism spectrum disorder. Various formulations have been developed including oral disintegrating tablets, oral solutions, short-acting intramuscular injections, and long-acting injectable formulations.1 The recent introduction of wireless technology to track patient information such as compliance is a clear departure from existing drug delivery systems, routes, or formulations. For example, aripiprazole is available as a tablet containing an ingestible sensor. A patch is worn on the skin of the abdomen that tracks and records medication compliance.2-4 After swallowing the pill, a patient can track ingestion and activity level data as well as self-reported mood and quality of rest on a smart phone app. The patient can elect to share the collected data with others, including a clinician. Clinicians who have access to the information can be alerted about a patient's noncompliance with the medication. Currently, aripiprazole tablets with sensors have not been shown to improve patient compliance.3,4 Similar drugs are being explored and are referred to as "smart" drugs, nanodrugs, digital drugs, or electronic drugs. Although the technology might prove to be a significant medical advance, it could also introduce unintended harm (eg, increased distress) in some patients, such as Mr A. Specifically, it would be critical for Mr A's team to assess whether Mr A would be at increased risk for self-harm, distrust of psychiatric services, and increased emotional distress if he were prescribed a "trackable" pill and to determine whether he has decision-making capacity to consent to the medication. A critical ethical question is this: Which criteria should be used to assess whether and when this drug is appropriate for patients who don't have insight or decision-making capacity?
Clinicians often struggle with improving treatment adherence in patients with psychosis who lack insight and decision-making capacity, so trackable nanodrugs, even though not proven to improve compliance, are worth considering. At the same time, guidelines are lacking to help clinicians determine which patients are appropriate for trackable nanodrug prescribing. The introduction of an actual tracking device in a patient who suffers from delusions of an imagined tracking device, like Mr A, raises specific ethical concerns. Clinicians have widely accepted the premise that confronting delusions is countertherapeutic.5 The introduction of trackable pill technology could similarly introduce unintended harms. Paul Appelbaum has argued that "with paranoid patients often worried about being monitored or tracked, giving them a pill that does exactly that is an odd approach to treatment."4 The fear of invasion of privacy might discourage some patients from being compliant with their medical care and thus foster distrust of all psychiatric services.2,4 A good therapeutic relationship (often with family, friends, or a guardian involved) is critical to the patient's engaging in ongoing psychiatric services.
The use of trackable pill technology to improve compliance deserves further scrutiny, as continued reliance on informal, physician determinations of decision-making capacity remain a standard practice. Most patients are not yet accustomed to the idea of ingesting a trackable pill. Therefore, explanation of the intervention must be incorporated into the informed consent process, assuming the patient has decision-making capacity. Since patients may have concerns about the collected data being stored on a device, clinicians might have to answer questions regarding potential breaches of confidentiality. They will also have to contend with clinical implications of acquiring patient treatment compliance data and justifying decisions based on such information. Below is a practical guide to aid clinicians in appropriate use of this technology.
First, it should be determined whether the patient has decision-making capacity with regard to antipsychotic medications. The usual criteria for determining decision-making capacity include "factual understanding of the issues," "appreciation of the situation and its consequences," and "rational manipulation of information."6 In most situations, the goal is to facilitate patient autonomy once insight is restored. If poor insight is present (but the patient does not necessarily lack decision-making capacity), a second decision must be made about whether more intrusive and paternalistic methods such as pill counts or changing the formulation to a long-acting injectable antipsychotic might be warranted.7,8 Trackable pills might be considered after careful review of a patient's unique disorder and symptoms. For example, trackable pills might not be appropriate for patients who feel threatened and might therefore carry out actions, including harm to self or others, designed to prevent realization of their fears driven by persecutory delusions.9 If trackable pills are deemed clinically and ethically appropriate, a sliding-scale approach can be used to determine decision-making capacity based on the risk-benefit ratio of the trackable pills (ie, if trackable pills are deemed a low-risk, high-benefit treatment, a patient who refuses the treatment would be held to a higher standard than one who accepts it).6 Finally, if the patient consents to trackable pills, any treatment modifications based on the data collected should be made transparent to the patient. For instance, if the clinician later wishes to hospitalize the patient or to abandon the trackable pill treatment in favor of a long-acting injectable antipsychotic, the patient should be able to consent or refuse.
After rapport was established with Mr A, the above steps were applied to his case. Although he desired to be treated with antipsychotics, his ability to rationally consider the benefits and risks of taking a trackable pill was deemed to be poor. For this reason—and because the trackable pill was determined to be a poor choice for him given his delusions of surveillance and the possibility that it could lead to his further distrust of the treatment team—he was not given information about the new trackable pill. Instead, it was recommended to him and his family that more established antipsychotic and psychotherapeutic treatment options be utilized. He ultimately did choose to consent to a long-acting injectable formulation of aripiprazole. It could be argued that, with proper informed consent, Mr A might benefit from the new trackable pill technology once he is stabilized with standard aripiprazole tablets. However, given his multiple admissions for psychotic exacerbations and the paucity of data on treatment efficacy of trackable pills in patients with schizophrenia, the team decided against this option because Mr A might experience further exacerbations of his symptoms, increased mental suffering, distrust of psychiatric services, and an increased risk of self-harm.
New technologies that offer patients with mental illness alleviation from suffering are certainly desirable. Psychiatrists have a uniquely entrusted position in society that obligates them to be advocates for patients with mental disorders.10,11 Although trackable and other nanotechnologies represent medical breakthroughs for treatment of many diseases, they could have unintended implications and thus their use must be carefully considered in the individual case. The guidelines discussed here offer an approach to determining whether trackable pill technology should be used in cases in which a patient might have poor insight and persecutory delusions.
Madaan V, Bestha DP, Kolli V, Jauhari S, Burket RC. Clinical utility of the risperidone formulations in the management of schizophrenia. Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat. 2011;7:611-620.
Rosenbaum L. Swallowing a spy—the potential uses of digital adherence monitoring. N Engl J Med. 2018;378(2):101-103.
Papola D, Gastaldon C, Ostuzzi G. Can a digital medicine system improve adherence to antipsychotic treatment? Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci. 2018;27(3):227-229.
Moran M. Abilify with new sensor: useful tool or big brother? Psychiatr News. 2017;52(24):1.
Arnold K, Vakhrusheva J. Resist the negation reflex: minimizing reactance in psychotherapy of delusions. Psychosis. 2016;8(2):166-175.
Appelbaum PS, Gutheil TG. Clinical Handbook of Psychiatry and the Law. 4th ed. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2007.
Chaplin R. How can clinicians help patients to take their psychotropic medication?: invited commentary on … Why don't patients take their medicine? Adv Psychiatr Treat. 2007;13(5):347-349.
Swartz MS, Swanson JW, Wagner HR, Burns BJ, Hiday VA. Effects of involuntary outpatient commitment and depot antipsychotics on treatment adherence in persons with severe mental illness. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2001;189(9):583-592.
Freeman D, Garety PA, Kuipers E, Fowler D, Bebbington PE, Dunn G. Acting on persecutory delusions: the importance of safety seeking. Behav Res Ther. 2007;45(1):89-99.
Chodoff P. The responsibility of the psychiatrist to his society. In: Bloch S, Chodoff P, eds. Psychiatric Ethics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press; 1984:306-321.
Lazarus JA. Ethical conduct of the psychiatrist. In: Weissman S, Sabstein M, Eist H, eds. Psychiatry in the New Millennium. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Publishing; 1999:249-270.
Tahir Rahman, MD is an associate professor of psychiatry at Washington University in St Louis, Missouri. He is a member of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and his research interests include antipsychotic drugs, forensic psychiatry, extreme overvalued beliefs, and psych-oncology.


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Q: Display data of the logged user in mvc I am trying to display the details of the currently logged user. For that I am using ADO.Net to fetch the data from the database.
In my database, I have 2 tables with Employeedetails and with Taskdetails. And maintaining relationship via the email id column which exists in both tables.
This is my controller:
string sql = "SELECT TaskDetail.id ,TaskDetail.ProjectID ,TaskDetail.ProjectName  ,TaskDetail.StartDate ,TaskDetail.EstimatedDate,TaskDetail.TaskDescription,TaskDetail.Email FROM TaskDetail INNER JOIN tblEmployee ON TaskDetail.email = tblEmployee.email where  tblEmployee.Email='" + email + "'";

SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(connectionstring);
SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sql, conn);

var Details = new List<TaskDetails>();
                {
                    conn.Open();
                    SqlDataReader rdr = cmd.ExecuteReader();

                    while (rdr.Read())
                    {
                        var ProjectDetail = new TaskDetails();
                        ProjectDetail.ProjectID = rdr["ProjectID"].ToString();
                        ProjectDetail.ProjectName = rdr["ProjectName"].ToString();
                        ProjectDetail.StartDate = DateTime.Parse(rdr["StartDate"].ToString());
                        ProjectDetail.EstimatedDate = DateTime.Parse(rdr["EstimatedDate"].ToString());
                        ProjectDetail.TaskDescription = rdr["TaskDescription"].ToString();
                        Details.Add(ProjectDetail);
                    }
                }

return View(Details);

This is my model:
    public class TaskDetails
    {
        public string ProjectID { get; set; }
        public string ProjectName { get; set; }
        public DateTime StartDate { get; set; }
        public DateTime EstimatedDate { get; set; }
        public string TaskDescription { get; set; }
    }

This is my view:

    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>TaskDetails</title>

@foreach (var ProjectDetail in Model)
{

        @ProjectDetail.ProjectID
        @ProjectDetail.ProjectName
        @ProjectDetail.StartDate
        @ProjectDetail.EstimatedDate
        @ProjectDetail.TaskDescription

}

Here my requirement is to display the detials of the current logged user. Is my Select stament is correct..?? and how to display the details based on the logged user...

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How To Piss Off a Masshole
Jia H. Jung
Welcome to Massachusetts. There's more than one reason why they call us Massholes, and we're actually proud of most of them: grit, loyalty, strength, pride, saying it like it is, and knowing it all. As for the others, well, maybe that side of us would never have to come out if folks didn't do a bunch of stuff to piss us off. Such as:
Say we're bad or unfriendly drivers.
Because (A) we drive wicked good, and (B) we're only unfriendly when you drive shitty, so ponder that.
Don't complain about our roads, either. The one-ways and loop-de-loops date back to colonial times, and the reason our highways can't resemble California's is because we have winters and frost heaves. If you roll in here all spaced out and relying on your Australian-voiced GPS, you're liable to get killed, so you should thank us for swearing at you.
Pretend not to like the word "wicked."
Elsewhere, people have meaningless slang like "eh" and "hella," so no one's gotta single out "wicked." That's like going out of your way to visit P-town (Provincetown is at the tip of Cape Cod, if you didn't know), then whining that it's too damn gay.
Complain that the weather sucks, that things are boring, and that the people are uptight.
Toughen up.
Bring the party.
PS: Go f#$%& yourself.
Comment that "East Coast radio sucks" because you hear 92.5 – The River playing too much Pearl Jam for your taste.
Who's got a problem with Pearl Jam?
Call this iconic sports and concert venue anything other than what it is.
That'd be The Garden.
Wear Yankees paraphernalia and talk a game you can't back up.
Take a look around you, bud. You're in Red Sox nation, not a Jay-Z video.
Become a MLB/NBA/NFL/NHL star, swear allegiance to New England, bring home championships for your team, elevate yourself to god status, then sell out for a few mill more to NY.
We'll keep your victories, but once you leave Boston for New York, you're pretty much dead to us in all other respects.
Trundle around Faneuil Hall or Fenway Park in your fanny pack shouting "Pahhhk the cahhh in Hahhhvahhhd Yahhhd."
First of all, not all of us have that accent. Second, those of us who do don't sound or look so foolish.
Base your preconceived notions of our state on pop culture references.
Particularly:
The Town, in which Blake Lively's impression of the New England inflection makes her sound more like a transexual Latino.
The "my boy's wicked smaht" and "how do you like them apples" scene out of Good Will Hunting, the main flaw being that nobody at Harvard is as good looking as that uppity douchebag with a golden ponytail.
The Social Network, for reasons named immediately above.
Jay Leno and his behavior over the past five years.
Show up demanding alcohol on Sunday or a holiday, and upon finding none on sale, whine, "Back in [lesser state], we can get alcohol anywhere, 24/7!"
Since before the witch trials, there's been no booze sold on the Sabbath or on holidays. We're not always happy about it, either, but if you haven't learned the ropes after about four centuries of law and tradition, you're pretty much hopeless no matter what you drink.
Talk smack about the Kennedys.
The Kennedys are/were saints and public servants, and have sufficiently paid their dues through personal tragedies and public embarrassments. Back off.
Glorify the Kennedys.
They rose to the elite on a foundation of illegal booze sales during Prohibition, and we all know Teddy left a girl in a ditch to drown after he drunk-flipped his car into it. Not to speak ill of the recently departed…
Scorn the Irish for no good reason.
Even the people who aren't Irish around here are still a little bit Irish, so have some respect and kindness. We're gonna get raucous and emotional in our pubs, drink our beers, and play our U2 and wear green and be superstitious and have residual Catholic guilt even when atheist and call our homeboys Sully (but only if his last name is actually Sullivan, so don't be that idiot calling any guy "Sully" out on the streets).
Try to construct some Food Network-fueled argument against either of these two statements.
Boston's Chinatown has the best Chinese food.
The North End of Boston has the best Italian.
Diss a certain franchise by the name of Dunkin' Donuts.
Sorry it's not your Starbucks or gourmet donut joint, but next time you gotta get going at 4 in the morning and keep going 'til midnight, do you see any other place open? Didn't think so.
Badmouth any town in the area defined as the North Shore.
Southie goes without saying.
Say the surf is weak.
Short summer waves are apparently nature's way of keeping barrel-fiending, showboating adrenaline junkies off the Cape when it goes off in winter.
Place a terrorist who bombed the Boston Marathon on the cover of a once-respected rock music magazine that a lot of us were almost beginning to respect as a potential source of decent long-form journalism.
And then get one of our most popular bloggers / journalists to do the ultimate bitchwork of "explaining" these actions with the rationale that the New York Times used the same exact photo on its front page, and that it was therefore totally fine to crop the photo and embed it in the totally different context of mainstreamly alternative pop culture.
Yes, we're talking about the Tsarnev thing, and no, we're not beating a dead horse; the horse is alive, and its wounds as fresh as those on the bodies and minds of those who suffered the incident.
But you can bet your ass we'll stay strong through this and so much other BS.
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Print courtesy of the Academy Film Archive
The Last Movie, the exhilarating cinematic outrage that incinerated Dennis Hopper's career in 1971, might also be known as The Lost Masterpiece—the 35mm print showing for a week at Anthology Film Archives could be the only complete version in existence. Would that it were part of Anthology's permanent collection.
Most simply put, The Last Movie concerns the ill-fated production of an American western in Peru—which is to say itself. Most simply explained, the movie allegorizes the implosion of '60s hopes. One of the craziest (and druggiest) movies ever made, it's also blatantly self-deconstructing and meta to the max, albeit produced years before those terms became commonplace. The closest enterprise to Hopper's is William Greaves's roughly contemporaneous (and long withheld) hall-of-mirrors acting exercise, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm. But that was an indie. Hopper's megalomaniacal follow-up to the mega-success of Easy Rider is the single most radical instance of old "new Hollywood" filmmaking in part because he pushes the notion of "uncommercial" to the far side of the moon.
The Last Movie was actually to be Hopper's first. Inspiration hit him in Durango, Mexico, during the making of the John Wayne western The Sons of Katie Elder—"I thought, my God, what's going to happen when the movie leaves and the natives are left living in these Western sets?" Hopper hoped to make The Last Movie in 1966 but the project fell through when music producer Phil Spector withdrew financial support; his opportunity came in the wake of Easy Rider. Universal gave Hopper $850,000 and total autonomy (including final cut), so long as he stayed within budget.
Hopper planned to shoot The Last Movie in Mexico but feared government censorship—thus the project was mainly shot in the remote mountain village of Chincheros, Peru. Despite difficulties that included the impossibility of viewing his dailies, Hopper finished on schedule— taking 40-some hours of rushes with him to Taos and driving Universal nuts by mulling over his footage for 16 months.
Given Easy Rider's epochal success, The Last Movie was the most eagerly awaited picture of 1971. After winning an award at the Venice Film Festival, Hopper's opus opened in New York and broke the single-day box office record at the RKO 59th Street theater, site of Easy Rider's triumphant engagement. But unlike Hopper's first film, The Last Movie was attacked and ridiculed by virtually every reviewer in America and was withdrawn by its distributor within two weeks. Although it achieved a negative notoriety unsurpassed until Heaven's Gate, The Last Moviewas not a financial boondoggle. Hopper's sin wasn't wasting money—it was something far worse. The Last Movie is an act of visionary aggression that desecrates Hollywood's universal church.
On first viewing, The Last Movie may appear to be a nonlinear, nonsensical string of non sequiturs—many of them an affront to conventional taste. But far from chaotic, The Last Movie involves three interlocking films. The first is a Hollywood western about Billy the Kid directed by Sam Fuller on location in Chincheros. During the course of a particularly violent shoot-'em-up, the actor playing Billy is accidentally killed. Shaken, the stunt man Kansas (Hopper) remains behind, taking up with an ex-whore named Maria and building himself a Malibu-type home on a mountaintop.
Like The Wild Bunch, to which Hopper alludes, The Last Movie is an apocalyptic western set south of the border. But where The Wild Bunch tends to treat whoring around as boyish fun, The Last Movie dwells unpleasantly on the relation between sex, power, voyeurism, and money in a foreign land—it's a critique of American imperialism, cultural and otherwise. Fuller's movie within the movie is a model for a heedless invasion that casually exploits or even destroys the indigenous culture.
Although, ironically, there seem to be no Indians in the Fuller production, they are everywhere around Chincheros— eager to be westernized. Maria feels she must have beauty treatments, demanding a swimming pool, a refrigerator, and a fur coat. For his part, Kansas lives in his own hippie illusion, wandering in and out of the Easy Rider–style lyrical interludes hilariously punctuated with close-ups of flowers and scored to insipid folk rock. It is his further fantasy to develop Chincheros as a production site. The only subsequent movie, however, is conceived by the local Indians.
Having watched the shooting of Fuller's western, they restage it as ritual on the abandoned set. Reversing the original procedure, the Indians use make-believe equipment—woven mainly from wicker—but "document" actual violence. Kansas, who vainly attempts to disrupt this ritual, is designated "el muerte" and chosen to die at the climax of this second movie—thus triggering the third. Narrative evaporates with Kansas's death and The Last Movie turns into a comic documentary of Hopper and his crew. The death scene is played over and over, actors go out of character, the on-set photographer wanders on camera.
This collapse of the fictional story line is superseded by the disintegration of cinematic representation. The movie loses sync, the sound of the camera intrudes, the editing dissolves into black leader, the emulsion is scratched. The shadows refuse to be anything more than shadows, leaving the bemused audience to its own devices. Kansas dies for America's sins but when The Last Movie destroys itself it is to liberate us all—or at least, make Hopper's point that, so far as the movies go, everyone is an Indian.
The Last Movie made the name "Dennis Hopper" marquee death. Finished in late 1971, Kid Blue—an amiable comic western with Hopper as an aging outlaw attempting to go straight—was shelved for over a year. After a New York opening was canceled, the movie was included in the New York Film Festival. This honor proved the kiss of death. Kid Blue's ensuing commercial run lasted four days
— J. Hoberman, The Village Voice
Wed November 2, 2011, 7:00 only, Muenzinger Auditorium
USA, 108 min, 1971, 1.85:1, Color, Rated R


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Album Review: Awaken Me by Kimberly Haynes
Kimberly Haynes is a singer and songwriter whose debut album, Awaken Me (subtitled Songs from the Heart of a Seeker), invites the listener on a soulful journey of discovering the sacred space within and creating a conscious connection with spirit. Co-produced by recording artist and multi-instrumentalist, David Vito Gregoli, the talented virtuoso plays many instruments on this album – including acoustic and electric guitars, South American charango, bass, mandolin, sitar, banjo, piano, synthesizer, udu, drums, percussion, bells, Native American and world flutes, Gopichand and kalimba. An impressive line-up of contributing artists also includes pianist Peter Kater, vocalists Tina Malia and Aeone, Native American flute player Al Jewer, accordionist Andy Mitran and percussionist Byron Metcalf among a handful of others – who additionally lend instruments such as violin, tabla, dulcimer, didgeridoo and hang-drum. Kimberly provides both lead and backing vocals on the album's eleven compositions – drawing much of her singing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell, Shawn Colvin, Alison Krauss and Sarah McLachlan.
The title track opens with the harmonizing sounds of a singing bowl and chimes, followed by Kimberly softly singing an ethereal "Om" mantra. Serving up a seamless fusion of east-meets-west, the composition leads into a repeated phrase of "awaken me" amidst relaxing guitar and ethnic percussion. The earthy and grounding nature of this piece continues on "The Dream" – another lovely number that begins with breezy celestial tones – before leading out into a contemporary acoustic arrangement entwined with eastern percussive elements. Here Kimberly sings a soulful melody accompanied by guitar, shakers, string instruments and additional vocal features. Another one of my favorites is "Great Divide"; this piece initially begins with acoustic guitar and native flutes, which are soon followed by our lead songstress who is eventually joined by harmonious backing vocals. Celebratory and soothing, it particularly reminds me of a song one might perform with friends while gathering around a campfire under a starlit sky. The mesmerizing "Do I Dare" is another personal favorite; here Kimberly sings a heartfelt tune over a diverse array of instruments that include digeridoo, native flutes and exotic percussion. The album closes with an alternate "earth mix" version of this wonderful composition – placing a heavier emphasis on its sacred semblance and trance-like mood.
A blissfully rewarding debut, Awaken Me boasts warmly lush arrangements and richly heartfelt melodies that are conveyed by poetic and down-to-earth lyrics. Many ancient musical elements are deftly woven into these contemporary vocal arrangements of soulful expression and sleek professionalism. There's a folksy quality to much of the music – as it feels set in the countryside and far removed from busy city life – with Kimberly's voice and singing style often reminding me of Joni Mitchell's (especially when she hits the higher notes). A divinely inspirational gift that's evocative of feminine power, I particularly recommend this album to fans of sacred vocal, adult contemporary and world fusion styles of music! ~Candice Michelle
For more information please visit the artist's website. This album is also available at Amazon and iTunes.
Labels: album review, female vocals, inspirational, Kimberly Haynes


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Richard Gott Willoughby, nascido em 28 de outubro de 1938, em Aston Tirrold (Inglaterra), é um jornalista e historiador britânico, cujas obras tratam, principalmente, da América Latina.

Biografia
Ex-correspondente do jornal "The Guardian", Gott é, atualmente, pesquisador honorário do Instituto para o Estudo das Américas, da Universidade de Londres.

A partir de 1960, passou a se dedicar à cobertura jornalística dos movimentos de guerrilha na América Latina. Em 1967, ele cobriu, para The Guardian, a captura e a morte de Che Guevara, ajudando a identificar o corpo do guerrilheiro que ele conhecera em Havana, em 1963.

Obras
 Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution (2005).
 Cuba: A New History (2004).
 In the Shadow of the Liberator: The Impact of Hugo Chávez on Venezuela and Latin America (2001).
 The Appeasers (2000).
 Guerrilla movements in Latin America (1970).
 A Future for the United Nations? (1968).

Referência
 Este artigo é produto de tradução parcial da página sobre Richard Gott, editada pela en.wikipedia.

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Sen. Gary Hooser of Kauai was among the speakers this morning at an observance of the 37th anniversary of the Supreme Court's landmark Roe v. Wade decision — and the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Hawaii.
As senators prepared to vote this morning on a civil-unions bill, supporters of another contentious ruling — the landmark Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade — gathered at the state Capitol for a celebration.
Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii collaborated on an observance of the 37th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision — and the 40th anniversary of the decriminalization of abortion in Hawaii.
"We're so proud that our state led the nation in protecting a woman's right to choose," Katie Reardon, Vice President of Government and Public Affairs at Planned Parenthood of Hawaii, said in a statement.


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delicious, I planted out some more purple asparagus seed, as the seeds I planted outdid the mary washington crowns.
Oh how neat! I'd love to grow asparagus, but I have been a little intimidated by their permanence. I am thinking about re-doing the beds where I would put it, and probably need to wait. I love that yours is purple!
If I had planted asparagus when I first thought of it, I would have been enjoying feasting on it for years now. It always seems like too much of a long term commitment.
Hello Wendy, i didn't know there is a purple asparagus, all i see here are green. I love them, but i can't grow it in our hot climate, it is also very expensive in the supermarket.
This sure does look like good asparagus!


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Premiere: Thomas Keating stays honest in video for latest single, Today I'm Staying Home
He's launching the track with a couple of shows at the start of February.
Posted By Pile Rats 6 months ago
After premiering latest single Today I'm Staying Home yesterday, today we're chuffed to unveil the stirring video clip for Thomas Keating's powerful new ode to self-care. The raw and honest clip, shot around some studio sessions over a couple of days, all tie in perfectly with the track's central themes of being okay with feeling shit, and working through tougher times of stress, anxiety and depression. As said by the man himself: "I've always struggled with being comfortable shooting typical music videos, you know, pretending to sing into the camera as the song plays, for example. So we just decided to bring the cameras and lighting into the recording sessions, and my friend Kieran Gilfeather shot and directed it for us over a couple of days. He followed the band and myself around the studio as we put the song together, so the clip is real – what you are seeing is actual takes of us putting the song down. It was such a comfortable way to make a video."
To celebrate the release of the single (which officially drops on February 1), Keating will be playing a couple of live shows in Sydney and Melbourne (check the dates down the bottom), and they promise to be pretty special affairs: "I've worked really hard on the live show this year and I'm really happy with where it's at... From a young age I was really inspired by the type of guitar playing made popular by Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel and Mark Knopfler… I like to do solo sets and also playing with the band. Both have their challenges. A lot of time and effort goes into creating even just one song, so having the opportunity to share your efforts with others is really something special. It feels fantastic to be releasing new music."
LAUNCH SHOWS
Fri 8 Feb - The Newsagency, Sydney
Sat 9 Feb - Red Betty, Melbourne
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Premiere: Sit back, relax, and enjoy a chill new single from Huey Blue called OutsideTaken from his forthcoming debut solo album, due later this year.
Premiere: Prepare yourself world, Pleasure Coma doth arrive with their debut single, WaitingThe brainchild of Aus' music legend Tasker finally unleash their first salvo.
Premiere: Listen to Skeleton from former Jinja Safari drummer, Berlin Bar Hounds
Like a phoenix rising from the ashes.
Premiere: Slow Turismo return with a soothing new single, You Were Dead
It's the four-piece's first release since late-2015, and will be accompanied with a run of shows.
Go on a deep dive into King Parrot's Instagram with frontman Matt Young
Their upcoming UGLY PRODUCE tour kicks off on December 13 in Perth.
Premiere: Totally Mild share their adventures on the road in Take Today clip
Catch the band in action on an album tour around the country this May/June.
Watch: Violent Soho - Like Soda (Live at The Corner Hotel)
Like Soda is already an instant sing-along.
Halcyon Drive share their tips on making a DIY vid on a tight budget
The Melbourne-based group share their tips on making a brilliant DIY vid ahead of one of their own, for Agnosia, which will arrive soon.
Exclusive: Stream Doko's Debut EP Dezmonia
The EP for your Thursday listening.
By Liam Apter
Premiere: Approachable Members Of Your Local Community are back with new single, Only Friend feat. Tamara Dream
It's the first single since their incredibly named EP, If There's Anything You Need, Please Don't Hesitate To Contact Us.


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Find everything on Bakeca.it with Connexia and Elio
"Bakeca.it gives your classifieds a voice" is the claim of the brand's new social and digital campaign which features the dynamic singing style of Elio e le Storie Tese for its three new digital films, one for each of the macro product/classifieds categories: Home, Work, Buy/Sell.
On YouTube, Facebook and Instagram from August to October, the new campaign has been completely devised, produced and managed by Connexia and features brand-new jingles and irresistible antics to convey the distinctive qualities of Bakeca.it. The Milanese data-driven creativity agency created a creative concept that revolves around the voice and set the Bakeca.it offering to music to highlight the value of its qualities and comprehensive nature. The classified ads platform is now the undisputed "amplifier" of all Italians' classified ads thanks to the voice of a pop group that is adored in Italy for its intelligent witty humour, namely Elio e le Storie Tese.
"Our image has been presented in a totally fresh, new way and yet it is still completely consistent with our history and brand," said Stefano Pavignano, the Managing Director of Bakeca.it. "Bakeca.it wants to be the go-to platform for all free classified ads in Italy, a challenging goal that Connexia has successfully interpreted in an original, disruptive way. The campaign's three music videos tell our story; they are fun and engaging and give a voice to Bakeca.it and to all its classified ads."
Designed and planned for the main media platforms to ensure brand recognition with an appealing aura of fun and light-heartedness, the Bakeca.it video strategy came to life under the creative direction of Riccardo Catagnano, who wrote the jingles with Elio e le Storie Tese.
Following the recent acquisition of the digital experience agency Ragooo, Connexia has an expanding Digital Media area and curated all the media planning to guarantee that all the outputs fully met the best practices suggested by the activated media.
Once that was completed, Connexia calculated the lift in brand awareness by using advanced measuring systems (brand lift survey).
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Flights from Malmö, Sweden to Kaunas, Lithuania
Cheap round trip flights departing from the city of Malmö for the city of Kaunas cost 94.00 EUR in February
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Which are the cheapest round-trip flights from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas?
The cheapest round-trip flights from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas start from approximately 94.00 EUR. The departure flight leaves on February 3 from Malmö Airport and lands at Kaunas Airport. The return flight leaves on February 5 from Kaunas Airport and lands at Malmö Airport.
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A one-way flight from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas starts from approximately 51.00 EUR. The departure flight leaves on February 8 from Malmö Airport and lands at Kaunas Airport.
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The airline Wizz Air has the cheapest flights from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas. The flight starts from approximately 51.00 EUR. This flight departs from Malmö Airport and lands at Kaunas Airport.
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The best airline flying from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas is Wizz Air. This airline is rated an average of 3.6 out of 5 stars by 2,664 passengers. The cheapest flight starts from approximately 51.00 EUR. This flight departs from Malmö Airport and lands at Kaunas Airport.
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The airline SAS offers the best one-way flights from the city of Malmö to the city of Kaunas. The flight starts from approximately 55.00 EUR. This flight takes around 5 hours. The flight leaves from Malmö Airport and lands at Kaunas Airport.
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Dr. Morley Cohen (1923-2005) was a Medical Fellow (1951-1953), Research Assistant (1953-1954), and Clinical Instructor (1955) in the Department of Surgery at the University of Minnesota. He obtained a Doctor of Philosophy of Surgery from the University in 1954.
As an assistant in C. Walton Lillehei's cardiovascular research laboratory, Cohen, along with Lillehei and Herbert Warden, performed the key research that lead to the development of controlled cross-circulation for open heart surgery.
In 1955, Warden joined the Department of Surgery at the University of Manitoba where he practiced until his retirement in 1987. In 1959, Warden was part of the team that performed the first open heart surgery in Manitoba.
"Cog-Col," Photograph Collection. University of Minnesota Archives.
University of Minnesota, "Portrait of Dr. Morley Cohen," Gallery, accessed April 18, 2019, http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/items/show/1820.


2/20/2018 Reminder Cards and emails have been sent out to EMS providers and the EMSVO drivers that are due for re-registration before 4/1/2018. Persons that received the reminder cards should log in to the PA EMS Registry system and reregister their certification. There are job aids and videos under the help area of the top menu bar.
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There has been some recent updates to the system and there were emails sent out about certification expirations. If you have received one of these emails for your EMSVO certificaiton you can log in and choose the Reregistration option form the "Manage My Registration" drop down menu. This is located at the bottom of the "General Information" tab.
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St. Paul cop investigated in alleged off-duty…
St. Paul cop investigated in alleged off-duty assault
By Mara H. Gottfried | mgottfried@pioneerpress.com | Pioneer Press
PUBLISHED: February 9, 2009 at 11:01 p.m. | UPDATED: November 13, 2015 at 4:14 a.m.
A St. Paul police officer is the subject of a criminal investigation for allegedly assaulting a man while off duty.
Police spokesman Peter Panos said he doesn't know details of the case involving Officer Scott Wendell, who has been placed on administrative desk duty. The case has been referred to the Hennepin County attorney's office to avoid a conflict of interest, and a decision on whether or not charges will be filed is anticipated next week, Panos said.
A county attorney's office spokeswoman said she couldn't discuss cases that haven't been charged.
There will be an internal affairs investigation when the criminal case is closed, Panos said.
Wendell became a St. Paul police officer in 1999 and has no record of departmental disciplinary action, Panos said.
He is on unsupervised probation in Anoka County, where he lives, for a misdemeanor domestic assault case.
Wendell pleaded not guilty to the domestic assault charge filed in April. It was continued for dismissal on July 14 with conditions that he not commit assault, abusive behavior, terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and other offenses, according to the court register of actions. His probation ends July 14, 2009.
Mara H. Gottfried can be reached at 651-228-5262.
Mara H. Gottfried | St. Paul crime and public safety reporter
Mara Gottfried has been a Pioneer Press reporter since 2001, mostly covering public safety. Gottfried lived in St. Paul as a young child and returned to the Twin Cities after graduating from the University of Maryland. You can reach her at 651-228-5262.
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Recap: 2016 Vancouver Family Magazine Children's Festival | Schauermann Thayer Jacobs Staples & Edwards, P.S.
Our table at the festival prior to festival opening.
On Saturday, March 5, 2016, at the 10th Annual Vancouver Family Magazine Children's Festival, the Schauermann Thayer Jacobs Staples & Edwards PS law firm, as co-Sponsors of the event, reached out to the Vancouver community with an eye toward promoting safety.
From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., our attorneys and staff members met and chatted with community members and their families and gave away approximately 500 free bicycle helmets to their children. We also raffled off three children's bicycles at the end of the day's festivities.
Our firm gave out roughly 500 bike helmets to local kids.
Most of the firm's partners – Bill Thayer, Scott Edwards, and Scott Staples – and several of its staff members, including Paula Kleven, the firm's Office Administrator, and Katie Maldonado, a paralegal, were kept very busy. Over 300 families stopped by the firm's table display and had their children and grandchildren fitted for free bike helmets.
Cayden and Christian Doss stopped by our booth to admire the bikes in our drawing.
Many folks had questions about the type of cases Schauermann Thayer handles (the focus of the firm's practice is in handling personal injury and wrongful death cases), and there was a surprising amount of interest by folks in signing up for "mock jury" participation. A mock jury allows our firm's attorneys to call on our fellow community members to come in on a Saturday morning to offer their opinions on fact patterns we see in our cases. This helps our attorneys and our clients better understand how a real jury may view certain facts and issues in personal injury cases. We sincerely appreciate those people being willing to contribute their time and opinions.
The Schauermann Thayer team in action at the 2016 Children's Festival.
In all, the 2016 Children's Festival was a great event. We relished the opportunity to get involved, meet many good people, and provide local children a much-needed safety measure.


OFC – Optical Fibre Cable, LPF – Low Pass Filter, FE – Front End, NF – Notch Filter, Temp – Temperature monitoring, PM – Power Monitoring, SBF – Sub-Band Filter, NG – Noise Generator, Amp – Amplifire etc.
Upgradation jobs with respect to antennas : ww antennas with UPS ww antennas without UPS.
E04, E05, E06, W03, W04, W05, W06, S03, S04, S06.
This is the New Correlator Back-end at GMRT in the Broad-band RF Signal receiver chain.
Broad-Band RF From Antenna is taken to the GAB (GMRT Analog backend) through upgraded Optical Fiber. All antennas can be configured and monitored at GAB, and out of which any 32 antennas with Broadband Feed and RF facilities listed above for 1pol or any 16 antennas with dual pol can be chosen for GWB.
GWB-IV (version 4) is the latest release, It accepts 64 input connections. These 64 input connections can be configured as 32 antennas Dual polarization inputs. (either Total Intensity or Full Stokes).
GWB-IV supports various available modes for pulsar, continuum and line frequency observations. Best possible mode, depending on user requirement can be chosen using gwb4calculator.pl on astro8 machine.
The command for the selection has to run from cdsetm file (on shivneri/lenyadri) in the control room.
e) For Full band (250-500 MHz) => RF setting 470.
1. RF 550-900 MHz (Full-Band): 725 MHz.
2. RF 550-650 MHz (Sub-Band): 600 MHz.
3. RF 635-735 MHz (Sub-Band): 685 MHz.
4. RF 720-820 MHz (Sub-Band): 770 MHz.
5. RF 800-900 MHz (Sub-Band): 850 MHz.
** For 325 MHz : use broad-band feed instructions ad mentioned under Para A above.
** For Non Broad band antennas from User need to set Full Band settings, while doing observations with Sub-bands for Upgraded feed.
●Dual Band observations (235 & 610) is not possible for antennas with 550-900 CDF at 610 FPS position is installed.
●Antennas with new Broadband 150 MHz feed installed, 150 MHz and 235 MHz can be used with 150 MHz feed in focus and 150 MHz RF and respective LO values for 150 MHz and 235 MHz frequency band observations.
●Antennas those are not upgraded for 150 and upgraded for 610 MHz can not be used for 235 MHz observations.
●Antennas those are upgraded for 150 and not upgraded for 610 MHz can not be used for 235 MHz observations.
●Note : Satellite Notch Filter (230-275 MHz) Only In CH1 are putted in Rx Room in C06 and E02 Antenna.
●To set 325 MHz Full band use RF= 325 in cdset1-4 or RF = 470 in cdsetm files.
●Noise cal setttings will not work for antennas C04, C06, C10, W01, W04, W06, E02, E06, S02, S04 for Broad band Feed @ 325MHz (250-500MHz).
●"Diesel Generator ON" alarm is enabled in the control room. Whenever a Diesel generator of any antenna(s) is running, control room will get an audio alarm with text message. Text message contains time, sub-array and antenna name. This alarm will works only for E04, E05, E06, W03, W04, W05, W06, S03, S04, S06.
Last Updated on 30th January 2018.


Some coaches will tell you three packs no matter your start weight which is what mine did, but over 250 is 5 packs, over 200 is 4 and everyone in their first week can have an extra. If you aren't doing that it might be what you need. Lettuce definitely gives some bulk but not everyone eats it.
Come to the 100%er thread for much support in staying 100%. These people really helped me through it and helped me figure out how to make it work.
I learned to spread things out some to help with hunger and for some reason warm foods help so I had IP soups for lunch with pureed veggies.
Usually raw veggies satiate me the LEAST. I much prefer them cooked for the more filling effect. I found other creative ways with recipes to remain OP. I posted a zucchini muffin recipe in Recipes #4 that is also really helpful (and yummy with a cup of coffee for breakfast).
The ideas that I got from other 100%ers were invaluable.
My breakfast approx 5 days per week is an IP chocolate pudding packet made into a smoothie with (yesterday's cold) coffee as the liquid. I make the pudding (using the coffee). Into my vitamix goes spinach or lettuce and the pudding shake. Blend & then add ice. This fills 1+ 22 oz Tervis tumblers.
I drink some prior to leaving the house (and coffee) and have the rest about 9:30 or 10. This pushes lunch until 1:30 or 2. I usually include a pickle with my lunch. Somehow eating one is a cravings killer.
Dinner is early and is usually meat on a huge bed of lettuce 4-6 c.
This way I can spread my veggies throughout the day, which reduces my hunger. Last nite I had shredded beef with WF BBQ sauce on the lettuce and added some sliced peperoncini I didn't have any other dressing. Had I needed oil, I would have added it to the BBQ sauce. That became the salad dressing, as well.
Water throughout the day is essential but hot herbal tea in the afternoon is very helpful to stave off hunger.
I decided to stay 100% because I chose IP. Since I chose it, I decided I was going to figure out how to do it right and stay OP. It isn't easy and it is probably not the plan for everyone. But if we want all of the quick weight loss effects of IP, it is worth it to figure out how to follow it.
Another thing that was immensely helpful is getting the Beck Diet Solution book.
It really helps work on the mindset and has taught me that hunger is not an emergency.
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This is a great thread! One of the most informative I've seen! You all provided so much useful information that will help me on my restart! Thank you!!
My coach started me on 4 the first week, then I was down to 3, but I bought RTD Advantage Carb control and use it in my coffee, so I use about half a container a day.


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When everyone is excited about your pregnancy but you
/ By Kellie Scott
Joy of a pregnancy can often be stifled by the fears and concerns that come with it. (Pexels: Negative Space)
Shanae is expecting her first child later this year.
While it was a planned pregnancy, it's taken time for the 29-year-old from Sydney to let herself feel excited.
"There is no human more wanted than the one in my belly. I honestly love [them] so much already and can't wait until they're in my arms," she says.
"But with so many thoughts running through my mind about the safety of this baby, sometimes it's hard to let go and indulge in feelings of excitement."
Shanae experienced a miscarriage last year, and with all the change that comes with pregnancy and impending motherhood, her trepidation is understandable.
Yet the pressure to be jumping out of her skin remains.
"I told my immediate family at six weeks. Over the following weeks I still had to do the NIPT test to test for chromosome disorders, an anatomy scan to make sure all the important bits and pieces were there, and my risk of miscarriage was still quite high.
"My sisters jumped up and down with tears of excitement and happiness. They said to me, 'You don't even seem excited.'
"I was, but we still had so much to overcome."
Dr Nicole Highet, executive director of the Centre for Perinatal Excellence (COPE), says many expectant parents will relate.
The realities of how pregnancy will impact someone's personal life, relationships, finances and more, aren't top of mind for people looking from the outside.
"They just want to ride the wave of excitement … [meanwhile] you are living this fine line of protecting yourself to not be disappointed, not building up expectations, while still trying to be positive at the same time.
"It's a really difficult tightrope."
Your stories of antenatal anxiety
Cassie White was miserable throughout her pregnancy. And after sharing her story, we heard from many other women who could relate.
Why excitement about pregnancy isn't straightforward
As well as Shenae's miscarriage reminding her how fragile pregnancy can be, there is plenty of other pregnancy-related things on her mind.
"You need to be careful of what you eat, because if you contract listeria it could be fatal to your baby.
"You have to put on weight but if you put too much on it could cause problems. If you don't put on enough, you're worried your baby isn't growing.
"You need to exercise, but don't let your heart rate get too high or, again, could be fatal."
Dr Highet says there are many reasons women might not be excited about their pregnancy, including it not being planned.
"This can be quite a shock, coming to terms with this and what this means and decisions you might make," she says.
For those who have experienced pregnancy loss or infertility, it can also be complex.
"You can understand for those people, they are trying to not get too excited and balance hope and expectations."
Economic circumstances and cultural backgrounds can play roles, as does the responsibility ahead.
"The impending consequences of having a baby are significant."
Dr Charise Deveney is a clinical psychologist and perinatal and infant mental health clinician.
She says traumatic stories we hear from other parents, or "mistakes" our own parents made, might make it tricky to feel enthusiastic.
"A lot of that 'Will I be good enough for this?' Will I make the same mistakes?' comes into play."
There are also more obvious concerns like 'What will happen to my body? Am I prepared for these changes? What will happen to my career?'
Women can also worry about the connection they will have the baby, and if they will have enough support.
"Even though we're not consciously going through all of this, subconsciously this stuff gets activated and can really disrupt excitement," Dr Deveney says.
Already feeling anxious, she says some expectant parents may also experience guilt over their lack of joy.
"There's this huge guilt. You feel like there is something wrong, which is just not the case."
If you, or someone you know, needs help:
PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia) on 1300 726 306
Sands (miscarriage, stillbirth and newborn death support) on 1300 072 637
Pregnancy, Birth and Baby helpline on 1800 882 436
Lifeline on 13 11 14
MensLine Australia on 1300 789 978
Beyond Blue on 1300 22 46 36 or online resource Dadvice
Dealing with other people's excitement
If you're struggling with your pregnancy news, Dr Highet recommends holding off telling too many people.
"Once you let the cat out of the bag you will be inundated with questions. So I advise people who are not excited to give themselves time first."
She says often the feelings of excitement will come with time.
You can also just let people know exactly how you feel.
Dr Deveney agrees, saying taking ownership of how you're feeling is empowering.
"Sometimes when we don't speak up, we add a layer of shame into that space. It's not shameful for you to say out loud that you're not excited."
Shenae says she's relaxing into her pregnancy but has also realised the importance of telling people how she's feeling.
"I'm glad this experience will help me to be more empathetic when friends and family announce their pregnancy to me in future.
"Instead of jumping too far ahead, like I would have before experiencing pregnancy myself, I'll let them know I'm so happy for them and ask how they're feeling about everything."
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This is a kinetic novel read-through of "Allusions: A Vampire Story." I like to think of Allusions as a philosophical story wearing in the guise of a children's story. If you plan to watch this video/read this visual novel, I'd suggest looking at the implied meaning of the events, characters and especially the wordplay that I employed in this piece. In the end, I did not reveal anything substantial about my true intent behind this story – even in the included author's notes.


Here is a vintage pic of my Dad and his 1948 Chevy 3/4 ton 5 window truck. This was taken in 1969.
I am not sure when he bought it. He bought it used. He had it as long as I can remember. I was born in 1955. He used it to drive to work, to haul coal to our house, to haul pigs and cattle to the butcher, to pick rocks and corn in the fields. He sold it in the late 70s or early 80s.
There's a pic of this 1942 Mercury at the end of the assembly line, caption says last 1942 assembled. Ford then switched over to building vehicles for the war effort, trucks and Jeeps for example.
Henry stamped an F on every part that went into Ford assembled Jeeps, as he said he wasn't going to warranty ****** parts.
"Man, I don't know what I'm gonna tell her. What are you goin to tell Your Wife?"
Thanks. He was a hard worker. He worked nights at the Wilbur Chocolate factory then came home, slept a few hours, got up did farm work, ate supper with us all, took a nap then went to work at 9:15pm. We had a lot of chickens in the chicken house in the background.
And if I had bought my Dad's Chevy before I bought Grandpa's 54 Ford truck I would not know any of you guys here at FTE!
"I was going the speed limit, them bam - a deer jumped out in front of me!"


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Q: How to stop Javascript execution in Android Webview Scenario: I have an activity containing a WebView. Every time I start that activity, some HTML content is being rendered inside the WebView. I am also injecting Javascript in WebView which has some code including DomContentLoaded event listener.
Problem: The problem is that sometimes Javascript is taking lot of time to execute in WebView. This happens randomly not every time. Most of the time it loads up very fast. But sometimes for the same content it takes >20 seconds to execute. Now in this state if I go back from the activity and start it again, Javascript will not load in WebView as the previous JS execution is not yet finished. I have to kill the app and start it again in order to make the WebView work. How to recover from this state without killing the app? I tried to stop it using the following code but none of them worked. Any other suggestions?
webView.stopLoading();
webView.loadData("", "text/html", null);
webView.freeMemory();
webView.removeAllViews();
webView.destroy();

A: You could try turning off Javascript temporarily and then turn it back on like this:
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(false);
    webview.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

But if you're trying to clean up resources in a WebView the documentation states:

Use WebView.loadUrl("about:blank") to reliably reset the view state and release page resources (including any running JavaScript).

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#clearView%28%29

A: Google says in docs: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/webkit/WebView.html#clearView()
Use WebView.loadUrl("about:blank") to reliably reset the view state and release page resources (including any running JavaScript).
WebView.loadUrl("about:blank")

A: You can use GoBack() to stop execution of all javascript (you'll literally leave that page) and GoForward() to load old content without reloading whole page, which could cause data loss


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Leadership and Reputation – The Biggest Business Risks for 2018
by ImageMaker | Jan 29, 2018 | Appearance, Branding, Career, Career Building, Corporate Branding, Entrepreneurship, Image, Leadership, Personal Branding, Reputation, Reputation Management, Success
By Jon Michail
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently." – Warren Buffett.
I find myself appealing to the wisdom of this quote a lot. Why? Because people still don't seem to get it! I don't know if they ever will.
We live in a time of unprecedented uncertainty and distrust and yet people still fail to recognise that reputation is everything.
Business leaders recognise the need to conduct business risk assessments, but all too often we overlook some major risks. Time and again I see people – smart people – underestimate brand and reputation as major risks. Often I see people fail to recognise brand and reputation as risks at all.
You would think that we would have learnt by now how the personal leadership can affect corporate brand value. You would think we would place it as an equal risk alongside cyber crime or failure to innovate.
At least our banks are starting to wise up to the risks. Did you know the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) will incorporate trust and reputation into the bank's long-term incentive models and, along with employee engagement, this will now account for 25 per cent of long-term variable remuneration for senior executives.
"The world is changing, the risks are changing, and standards of reputation are changing."
If you still don't think a loss of reputation is really all that damaging, just think of the Weinstein Company dumping one of its own eponymous co-founders. Think of Uber getting rid of Travis Kalanick, or the CPA in Australia axing Alex Malley. All these organisations dropped these men like hot potatoes because once their reputations were questioned they did not want the company tarred with the same brush.
If these leaders had been kept on once allegations were made public (whether decision makers enablers in each company knew beforehand is another story) then the organisations would be seen as complicit in their crimes.
Harvey Weinstein poses with actress Jennifer Lawrence. Image: Business Insider
Risk and reputation are both constantly shifting. When Harvey Weinstein was accused by dozens of women of sexual harassment, assault, or rape, the tide quickly turned against him.
But for most of Weinstein's career his behaviour was a very low risk, because he held all the power. That's how men like Weinstein (and many are now being named in what is known as the 'Weinstein Effect') got away with it for so long. Power Over is such an insidious behaviour.
The world is changing, the risks are changing, and standards of reputation are changing. Not fast enough to make the downfall of men like Weinstein inevitable, but at least changing enough to make it possible.
Alex Malley
Former CEO of the CPA, Alex Malley. Image: ACU
Ok, so you're reasonably confident no one at the head of your company will be caught in the Weinstein Effect. Good. But there are other ways to fall.
In June 2017, the Australian accounting body CPA (Certified Practising Accountants) terminated the contract of their CEO Alex Malley. This, despite assertions of nothing but growth under his reign. So why would they oust him? Because he lost his reputation in the eyes of CPA members.
Members questioned why the CEO of a not-for-profit should be earning a salary of $1.8million, and spending excessive amounts of money on self-promotion. Silly boy!
"Loss of reputation for the organisation is a serious risk."
It's really not surprising that an organisation made up of accountants decided to crunch the numbers.
Accountants pay tidy sums for the prestige of recognition as CPAs, so when it emerged that between a quarter and a half of CPA candidates were failing their exams, people understandably wanted to know why.
Courtney Clowes runs a business offering tuition to CPA students, and he told the ABC he believes almost 10 per cent of the CPA's entire revenue comes from failing students having to repeat their studies.
"We believe that's about 18,000 students a year failing, so if they all re-enrol that's $18 [million] or $19 million — a few of those people will leave the program — so you could conservatively say [there's] at least $15 million a year coming in from failed students having to re-enrol," he said.
The CPA has said that the high failure rate is due to its maintaining traditionally high standards, but critics blame the increasing commercialisation of the organisation. If this is true then the CPA may succeed in the area of increased profits, but will lose its reputation as being all about the advancement of learning and the prestige of the profession.
As CPA accreditation and membership is not mandatory (merely a sign of status and competence) loss of reputation for the organisation is a serious risk that should not be underestimated.
The newly-elected CPA chairman has promised a much more inclusive approach to governance in the future, and stresses that relying on the personal brand of a celebrity CEO like Alex Malley "failed spectacularly."
Co-founder, and former CEO of Uber, Travis Kalanick. Image: ABC News
Also in June of last year, Uber CEO and co-founder, Travis Kalanick resigned. Uber's reputation met shaky ground with revelations of sexual harassment in its offices, allegations of trade secrets theft, and an investigation into efforts to mislead government regulators.
Eric Holder authored a report into Uber's "toxic" workplace culture and after finding that the company condoned sexual harassment, bullying, and retaliation against those who reported problems, recommended that Mr Kalanick be released from some leadership responsibilities.
One employee who faced this toxic culture reported on her experiences in a blog post. When programmer and engineer, Susan Fowler, detailed the harassment and lack of response from management, her post went viral, prompting the hashtag #deleteUber.
In the wake of this outrage it is reported that around 200,000 people deleted their Uber accounts.
But that was just the beginning.
Another employee released dashcam footage of an argument with Mr Kalanick over the company lowering prices for its black car service.
Following this Mr Kalanick issued a "profound" apology to Uber employees.
"Kalanick acknowledged the risks of a damaged reputation, and attempted to repair his own. He was too late."
"I must fundamentally change as a leader and grow up," he said in a statement following the video's release.
With this statement, Kalanick acknowledged the risks of a damaged reputation, and attempted to repair his own. He was too late.
In light of the risk that Kalanick now posed to his own company, Uber understandably set out to extricate the company reputation from that of its head. Uber reported that it would search for a chief operating officer with a background in diversity and inclusion.
Dara Khosrowshahi, former CEO of Expedia, now has the difficult task of addressing cultural issues within the organisation and restoring confidence in the $69bn startup. Luckily, in his induction speech he informed Uber staff "I'm a fighter… I will fight with every bone in my body." Khosrowshahi will need to be a fighter – there's an uphill battle before him.
Reputation is not just a risk at a personal level – it has the potential to spread from an individual to infect an entire organisation.
We can rejoice when those in power are held to a higher account, but at the same time, beware. Accountability will be expected of you too.
This is a good thing. No one should think that they can get away with hiding their misconduct. Reputation risk assessment should work in the same way as physical risk assessment – risks should be removed or repaired – never covered-up or ignored.
As we take stock of 2017, we need to do more than shake our heads in dismay. Rather, we need to learn from the mistakes made by the mighty who have fallen, and look ahead to the risks and rewards that 2018 will bring.
The Aon Risk Solutions' bi-annual Global Risk Management Survey uses information gathered from public and private companies around the world, in order to identify the biggest risks at both a global, and country level.
Do you know what came in as the number one risk in Aon's latest survey? Damage to brand and reputation!
The Top 10 Global Risks Are:
Damage to brand and reputation
Economic slowdown / slow recovery
Increasing competition
Regulatory / legislative changes
Cybercrime / hacking / viruses / malicious codes
Failure to innovate / meet customer needs
Failure to attract or retain top talent
Political risk / uncertainties
Third party liability
What do you think? Does your business risk assessment already include reputation and leadership as a factor? If not, why not? I'd love to hear your thoughts.
Jon Michail and his team at Image Group International partner with their clients to achieve breakthrough results with contrarian and disruptive ways to grow and monetise their personal and business brands. A veteran, multi-award winning coach and author with a Who's Who clientele, Jon is the CEO and Founder of Image Group International, an Australian-based corporate and personal brand image advisory and coaching organisation that conducts transformational seminars, workshops and one-on-one coaching in over four continents. He is recognised as Australasia's No. 1 Image Coach.
Originally published at www.bizthinktank.com.au on January 25, 2018.


Kids these days are way more tech-savvy than we ever were – mostly because, of course, there's simply much more technology in their everyday lives. But when five-year-olds start asking for laptops for Christmas and toy companies start making computers and MP3 players geared toward the very, very young…well, that just seems wrong somehow. The iWood "laptop" gets back to basics and gives kids what they really need: an outlet for their natural creativity.
The iWood is a chalkboard that looks just like a laptop. The areas that would normally be occupied by the screen and keyboard both feature chalkboard surfaces, letting your little one write and draw to his heart's content. Kids can create their own fantasy laptop or just use the space to draw whatever happens to be in their heads at the moment.
The space where a trackpad would be on a real laptop functions as a chalk holder on this toy, keeping the writing implements always close at hand. Kids can enjoy hours and hours of unfettered creativity without relying on cartoon characters or mind-numbing video games. But if we're being honest, you'll probably buy this so your kids will stop hogging the TV and video games and let you get back to your own games, right?
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off the ground during this past year. I've met some wonderful people & thoroughly enjoyed working in each & every garden.
If you, or you know someone who would like a gardener too, then please get in touch.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New 2012 Year!
I hope to meet as many wonderful people this coming year as well!
Much HUGS and CHEERS to you and yours.
All the best of the season to you also Jane. Hope 2012 is very successful for you.
It's been so much fun to be a part of the garden blogging community and 'meet' you! I hope you and Tidy Gardens has a fabulous 2012!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and Tidy Gardens. See you in 2012.


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No injuries after fire spreads through attic of Highland Park home
Firefighters work to control a house fire in the 400 block of Groveland Avenue in Highland Park early Friday morning. | Photo: North Shore Updates.
No injuries were reported after a fire broke out in the attic of a Highland Park home and spread quickly early New Year's Day.
The Highland Park Fire Department responded around 2:10 a.m. Friday to the 400 block of Groveland Avenue for a report of a structure fire.
Highland Park Deputy Fire Chief Joe Schrage said that the homeowner was home at the time of the blaze and heard sounds coming from above their bedroom.
Firefighters arrived and found smoke showing from the roof of a two-story single-family residence.
Schrage said the fire was in the attic and firefighters began extinguishing the blaze before realizing there was additional fire further back in the attic.
Flames and smoke became visible from the roofline of the home as firefighters worked to contain it.
The home sustained heavy water damage and the residents were placed in a hotel, Schrage said. A damage estimate was not immediately available.
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No injuries to firefighters or the occupants of the house were reported.
Firefighters from Northbrook, Deerfield-Bannockburn, Libertyville, Lake Forest, Countryside, Lincolnshire-Riverwoods and Northfield also responded to the scene.
The cause of the fire remains under investigation by the Highland Park Fire Department.
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 anOther or Another Magazine, a culture and fashion magazine
 Another (novel), a Japanese horror novel
 Another (film), a Japanese 2012 live-action film based on the novel
 Another (TV series), a Japanese 2012 animated series
 Another River, in the U.S. state of Alaska
 A. N. Other, a pseudonym

See also
 Yet another
 Indefinite pronoun
 English determiners
 Other (disambiguation)
 Others (disambiguation)