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Network's Programming Attracts Advertisers Looking to Reach Women
New York, NY – March 1, 2007 – WE tv, the only cable network dedicated to helping women connect to one another and the world around them, announced today that Masterfoods USA has signed a sponsorship deal of the network's new original series, Designer to the Stars: Kari Whitman. The eight-part, half-hour series follows the life of interior decorator Kari Whitman as she not only redesigns celebrity homes but also leads her non-profit organization, Ace of Hearts, a foundation that rescues dogs. The series premieres on Saturday, March 3rd at 10PM EST and Masterfoods USA will be promoting its premium pet food brand, Cesar® Canine Cuisine, on-air through tagged tune-ins and branded billboards as well as online through logo presence, banner ad, link and inclusion into the WE newsletter distributed to its registered users on a monthly basis.
"WE tv's increased slate of original programming offers our audience original and compelling programming enabling us to attract key advertisers like Masterfoods USA," said Arlene Manos, President, Rainbow national network advertising sales. "With Kari Whitman's involvement in Ace of Hearts, Masterfoods is appealing to an audience of animal lovers who are the key decision makers in purchasing products for the home."
"Cesar represents high-style living for small dogs and their owners, so our partnership with WE tv is an ideal match," said Rob Leibowitz, vice president of marketing, Mars Petcare U.S., maker of the Cesar brand. "We know special moments between pets and people happen in the comforts of home. We imagine our style-conscious animal lovers will enjoy the show in the company of their beloved canine."
Designer to the Stars takes a unique look at Kari Whitman's life in front and behind the camera. Viewers will witness Kari closely with celebrities including Jessica Alba, Mario Lopez and Virginia Madsen as she redesigns their home to reflect their taste. Kari also squeezes in her dating life and her Foundation, Ace of Hearts where she rescues dogs placing them in loving homes. To date she has rescued over 1500 dogs.
Past examples of the network attracting advertisers looking to reach a predominantly female audience included Maybelline New York's support of WE tv's original series Dirty Dancing, L'oreal Paris's support of Style Me with Rachel Hunter and Payless Shoe Source's support with She House Cinema.
WE tv is the fastest growing Women's Network as it is the only women's network to show double digit increases in HH RTG, W18-49 and W25-54 deliveries. It is the #1 Women's Network for Demo Delivery Growth with W18-49 (up 23%) and W25-54 (up 27%) among all female targeted networks and a Top 10 Network for Delivery Growth among W18-49 and W25-54 in ad-supported networks.
Source: Nielsen Media Research, Prime M-Su 8p-11p Average Monthly % Change 04/05 Season (9/27/04-9/25/05) vs 05/06 Season (9/26/05-9/24/06); Original Program Minutes as a % of Total Day M-Su 6a-6a Minutes 12/26/05-9/24/06
About WE tv
WE tv is the only cable network dedicated to helping women connect to one another and the world around them. With quality original programming including the hit series "Bridezillas," unique movie packages like "Cinematherapy," topical specials and its public affairs initiative WE Empowers Women, the network supports women and appeals to their interests in pop culture, relationships and personal style. WE tv is a division of Rainbow Entertainment Services and is currently seen in over 61 million homes.
About Rainbow Media Holdings LLC
Rainbow Media Holdings LLC is a subsidiary of Cablevision Systems Corporation (NYSE: CVC). Rainbow Media creates and manages some of the country's most compelling and dynamic entertainment brands including popular national and regional television channels AMC, fuse, The Independent Film Channel (IFC), WE tv, and three FSN affiliated regional sports networks managed by Rainbow Sports Networks. The company also manages Mag Rack and sportskool, two original on-demand networks; VOOM HD Networks, the largest and most diverse suite of high definition channels available anywhere; IFC Entertainment, its film distribution, production and exhibition division; Rainbow Advertising Sales Corporation, its advertising sales division; and Rainbow Network Communications, its full service network programming origination and distribution company.
About Masterfoods USA
Masterfoods USA, the United States pet care, food, snack operations of Mars, Incorporated, is one of the world's leading food manufacturers. With more than $5 billion in annual sales, the combined food, snack and pet care segments are a symbol of excellence for quality brands. Headquartered in Hackettstown, NJ, Masterfoods USA employs more than 8,000 associates in the United States, with 39 facilities nationwide. The company owns some of the world's favorite brands including PEDIGREE® Brand Food for Dogs, CESAR® Brand Canine Cuisine, WHISKAS® Brand Food for Cats, M&M'S® Brand, SNICKERS® Brand, and UNCLE BEN'S® Brand.

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Motherwell Football Club is showing its support for lesbian, gay, bi and trans players and fans by backing the Rainbow Laces campaign.
Rainbow Laces is Stonewall Scotland’s awareness project to change attitudes in sport and make sure that LGBT people are welcomed and accepted at all levels of the game.
Sadly, many lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people have a poor experience in sport and have experienced discrimination because of who they are. Research shows that almost half of LGBT people think that public sporting events, such as football matches, aren’t a welcoming space for them.
As well as our continued backing, our players will show their support on the pitch during Wednesday’s home match with Celtic.
“Football is a place where everyone should be accepted,” Motherwell captain Peter Hartley said of the campaign. “As a club, we want LGBT people to feel safe and welcome, both here and everywhere else in the game.
“Discrimination should not happen. We must all be role models and stand united to remove the stigma, stop abusive behaviour and make sure football is a welcome environment for all.”
Colin Macfarlane, Director of Stonewall Scotland, said: “We are delighted that SPFL clubs are supporting our Rainbow Laces campaign, and by doing so, standing with LGBT football fans across Scotland.
“We want to see fans make similar commitments and become active allies to LGBT people by creating a welcoming environment and challenging abuse. Many LGBT people want to take part in football, either as players or fans, but abuse from a small minority makes many people feel unsafe.”
We can only stop homophobic, biphobic and transphobic behaviour and language from happening in football by showing that it is not acceptable, at every level of the game.
We are dedicated to eradicating any forms of homophobic, biphobic or transphobic behaviour and making sure our club is a place where LGBT fans can be safe and accepted. We need everyone to stand with us as allies to LGBT people.
Follow Stonewall Scotland using @StonewallScot or get involved in the conversation on Twitter via #RainbowLaces.
You can find out more about Stonewall Scotland at stonewallscotland.org.uk.

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It’s one thing to draw or paint a character you like, and another to model them in high definition—as Nimlot26's version of Éomer (his version of the Karl Urban version of Éomer) shows.
Confused why Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor left "Lord of the Rings" out of its name? Well, lead designer Bob Roberts just explained to Eurogamer that the omission was a deliberate choice to make sure the game was seen as "clearly its own thing" by keeping it "separate" from established LOTR franchises. Mystery solved!
Rangers of Gondor! Middle-Earth: Shadow of Mordor is upon us. The time has come to stand up to Sauron's evil forces. But you know what they say about not simply walking into Mordor and so forth. So here are some useful tips to get your and Talion's quest started.

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For two months now, Raj Sathiyan has been depending on a bore-well that his father built in 1995, for his primary source of water. Sathiyan and his brother, their wives and three children live with their aged mother, in a duplex, in Chennai’s upscale Anna Nagar East neighbourhood. A 9,000-litre sunken tank at their bungalow has remained dry in the last two months. The family has two options: buy corporation water, or fall back on their 100-foot bore-well.
“Initially we began using our bore-well as a back-up water source,” Sathiyan told CNBC-TV18, “But we soon discovered massive amounts of sediment in our groundwater. The water also began getting more saline as time passed.”
The incident was not surprising. Most homes in the vicinity, contending with near-stoppage of corporation water, have begun using their bore-wells at the same time. Usage of groundwater has become the new normal. This means that increased salinity and sedimentation is a byproduct of increased usage.
Reservoirs Run Dry
A look at water levels across Chennai’s four reservoirs can provide some perspective to what millions of homes in Chennai are contending with, every day. On June 11, 2019, the Cholavaram Reservoir had officially run dry, according to the Chennai Metro Water website. It had a capacity of 1,081million cubic feet (MCFT).
The city’s Red Hills Reservoir reported storage of 1 MCFT, in its 3,300 MCFT storage capacity. Chennai’s largest-ever reservoir, Chembarambakkam, had water levels at a similar 1 MCFT, with a total capacity of 3,645 MCFT. Almost exactly a year ago, Chembarambakkam’s water level was 1,108 MCFT.
Some relief has been provided by the Poondi reservoir whose 34 MCFT storage (capacity: 3,231 MCFT) is accounting for a lion’s share of the 36 MCFT that Chennai is left with, of a total capacity of 11,257 MCFT. Simple math tells you that Chennai’s reservoirs are just 0.32 percent full. That bleak statistic summarizes the magnitude of the situation.
Government Sets Up Monitoring Committee
After the Madras High Court pulled up the Tamil Nadu Government for not doing enough to fight off the water crisis, the state’s policymakers decided to set up a monitoring committee, which it hopes will keep a watch on the deteriorating water situation in the state.
“The issue is quite simple. Chennai’s daily demand for water in 950 million litres, while its supply is only 750 million litres,” said a Metro Water official, “This 650 MLD supply — ‘MLD’ refers to million litres per day — also includes 200 MLD supplied by private tankers.” So, in essence, the government is able to provide for just about 450 MLD through desalination plants and existing reservoirs.
On setting up of the monitoring committee, the state government also announced that this supply will be stepped up to 525 MLD and will be continued till the onset of the Monsoon in late October. “The Government has been providing water supply, but there are issues that need to be addressed,” said SP Velumani, Tamil Nadu’s minister for Municipal Administration and Rural Development.
Reacting to stray reports that IT firms had asked employees to work from home, Velumani said that it was a routine practice to work from home, and it wouldn't necessarily be put down to the water scarcity. “If some IT companies are facing water supply issues, we are ready to solve them,” he added. Earlier this year, 24 districts across Tamil Nadu, including Chennai, were tagged as drought-hit.

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Baruch S. Blumberg Institute Hosts 15th Annual Regional Biotech Conference
Record crowd gathered at PA Biotech Center to discuss cost and process of drug development
DOYLESTOWN, Pa. (November 2015) – A record crowd gathered at the Pennsylvania Biotech Center of Bucks County recently for the 15th annual Regional Biotech Conference, organized by the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute.
The institute, which is the research arm of the Hepatitis B Foundation, hosted more than 100 of the area’s life science and biotechnology leaders for the conference, which focused on ways companies can work to reduce the cost and improve the process of drug development.
The average process to develop a drug from the laboratory through FDA approval to patient use can cost $2.6 billion and take more than a decade, said Dr. MaryAnne Rizk, Vice President of Global CRO Partner Business for Oracle Health Sciences. Conference speakers discussed ways to mitigate those costs and to improve the efficiency of the drug discovery process.
One promising approach to improving that process lies within the growing philosophy of translational medical research, which facilitates speedier clinical adoption of best practices and treatments discovered in the laboratory. This “bench to bedside” approach strives to improve collaboration between researchers and health practitioners, thereby speeding new treatments and therapies, particularly for orphan diseases and conditions that currently lack effective treatments.
“Nurturing translational biotech research is the reason the Blumberg Institute was founded to begin with,” said Dr. Timothy Block, president and co-founder of the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the Hepatitis B Foundation. “Building this critical mass of researchers and companies creates an environment of collaboration, which, in the end, means better treatments for patients.”
Now in its 15th year, the Regional Biotech Conference continues to grow, offering life sciences researchers and company leaders the opportunity to learn from and support one another.
“The greater Philadelphia area is now a hotspot for leading biotech companies, and the growth of the annual Biotech Conference is a reflection of that,” said Lou Kassa, chief operating officer of the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the PA Biotech Center. “The biotech industry is vital not only to the improvement of human health, but to our economy as well, as it creates the science-based, high-paying jobs this region needs to succeed, now and well into the future.”
The 2015 Regional Biotech Conference was hosted by Dr. Bill Kinney, director of the Natuaral Products Institute of the Blumberg Institute, and Wayne Yetter, Founding CEO of Astra Merck, Inc. and CEO of Novartis Pharmaceuticals U.S. and a member of the board of directors of the Hepatitis B Foundation. The presenting sponsor for the conference was Univest.
Speakers included Pennsylvania state Rep. Marguerite Quinn; Dr. Gary S. Jacob, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Synergy Pharmaceuticals; Vivek Ramaswamy, Founder and CEO of Roivant Sciences Ltd.; Dr. MaryAnne Rizk, global Vice President, Oracle Health Sciences; and Dr. Robert Zivin, head of Translational Research & Alliance Management at Medgenics Inc.
About the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute: The Hepatitis B Foundation established an independent, nonprofit research institute in 2003 in order to conduct discovery research and nurture translational biotechnology in an environment conducive to interaction, collaboration and focus. The research center was renamed in 2013 to honor Baruch S. Blumberg, the man who won the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the hepatitis B virus.

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I had an email directing my attention to the spelling of ‘Cumbrae’ on the Chasing Samuel Ford page; A Statistical Account of the Isle of Cimbrae.
The general consensus is that the correct spelling is ‘Cumbrae’, but there are many references to other spellings. Below I have provided a further reference illustrating some of the spellings back in 1797.
Just to clarify, in relation to the particular spelling ‘Cimbrae,’ it should be noted that the reference indicates a particular title of an article, highlighted by italic text, which can only be identified by the printed title as appearing on the work itself. This is a technical area that is surrounded by copyright laws and offences concerning plagiarism. However, if a spelling mistake appears in a quoted text from a referenced article the error can be corrected when contained within square brackets [sp.] indicating that the one is aware of the mistake. A good example appears in the textual quote itself.
It is frustrating, to say the least, that there appears no record of Samuel Ford’s parent or where he may have been born. But is that the end of the matter? Surely Not. What can we glean from the record that might assist in tracking down the Illusive Samuel Ford?
I added some thoughts on the matter. For my latest additions see Chasing Samuel Ford.
James Ford married Elizabeth Muir in Waikouaiti (later became Otago) New Zealand in 1864. Elizabeth’s father, Robert Muir was a contractor working in the area and was present at the marriage. It appears that James was working for Robert in road construction in the surrounding district at the time.
Robert Muir was declared ‘fraudulently insolvent’ and a police warrant was issued for his arrest. Further details can be found on the James Ford New Zealand page.
I have been trying to find the actual reference to the felony and have just received the following image of the Otago Police Gazette dated May 1, 1866 from the researcher at the Hocken Collections at the University of Otago. I have included the full page along with an enlarged image of the relevant reference to Robert Muir.
The reference gives a good description of Robert Muir and a reference to a brother in law name Ford.
William Kinsey Bolton married Mary Ford, daughter of James and Elizabeth Ford. He survived the war and went on to serve in the Victorian Legislative Council.
For more, visit William Kinsey Bolton.
I have, for some years, been searching for the birth certificate for Robert Wright, the father of Margaret Wright who married Samuel Ford. All these searches failed to locate Robert. But today .. success .. I located his OPR. For the details go to the new Births page.
The next episode in Scottish Mists and Wallaby Tracks takes us back to Millport in Scotland.
James and his young family are ‘on the Wallaby’ making for the goldfields. It’s early morning and while waiting for his family to stir James ponders over the past.
James’ father died before he knew much about him, and there was something of a conspiracy of silence surrounding his father which, on his birthday, and with some trepidation, James decides to address.
To those who received a recent email with something like ‘250’ in the blue bar .. please ignore and delete post,
I was trying something out earlier this morning which did not work so I deleted the post.
Sorry for the inconvenience.

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There’s An Alternate Version of “Right Back At You”
Although Schott Free helped set up the successful collaboration between Mobb Deep and Wu-Tang, he also set up a not-so-successful collaboration between them and another act from Staten Island.
At the time, Hype Da Madman was an up-and-comer in the hip-hop scene who was cool with Free. He was featured on the original version of “Right Back At You.” “P was just like, 'I want him to say something else,’” said Free. “‘Just tell him to come to the studio and lay down this other shit.' Hype—being the type of dude he was—was like, 'Fuck that. Fuck you. I’m not changing shit.'
Due to their creative differences, Hype’s verse was scrapped and Free kept it Shaolin, recruiting Raekwon and Ghost to replace him. Betcha Hype wishes he would have just changed his verse.

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Statesman writers honored
Three American-Statesman staff writers placed in the top five nationally in their respective categories of the 2009 Associated Press Sports Editors contest.
John Maher and Eric Dexheimer's project on obesity and other weight issues among today's high school football players finished second in the explanatory reporting category. Mike Leggett's story about the mysteries around a 2002 hit-and-run boating accident on Lake Buchanan finished fifth in the feature writing category.
Two more Statesman writers — Kirk Bohls and Alan Trubow — received honorable mention awards for finishing in the top 10 nationally.
Bohls' honorable mention was in column writing, for a portfolio of three columns from 2009. Trubow's honorable mention came in game stories, for his story on the Texas baseball team during last year's College World Series.
All of the awards came in the 100,000-250,000 circulation category.

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A new, posthumous Prince EP is set to come out this Friday (April 21), but it doesn't appear to be an official part of the late singer's legacy.
The six-song Deliverance EP appeared late Tuesday (April 18) on iTunes and Apple Music with a release date timed to the one-year anniversary of Prince's death. The title track is already streaming, even though there's legal contention over the ownership of the unreleased material.
Prince’s estate and Paisley Park have filed a suit against George Ian Boxill, the sound engineer who's apparently behind the release of the tracks. Prince and Boxill wrote and recorded the tracks together from 2006 to 2008, but they never saw the light of day. Now Boxill is attempting to release them as an EP on the independent label RMA (Rogue Music Alliance), claiming it's what Prince would have wanted.
Prince's estate, however, seems to disagree. The lawsuit demands that Boxill turn over the Deliverance masters, and claims he's violating a contract made with Prince before his death.
Whether Deliverance comes out on Friday or not, it seems unlikely that this will be the last conflict regarding Prince's unreleased work and his continuing legacy.


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Piano tunes fluttered out of the window
and we children stopped playing to listen.
Who lived there? We never saw anyone
but soon we were told not to enter that space.
We walked on in the brightness of summer.
One day a black car stood in front of the place,
few people were gathering dressed in black.
A funeral shuffled, the house had died too.
The quisling was gone, the unseen traitor.
We grew up surrounded by different music.
I walk near that house many years later.
Though much has happened to windows and walls,
his name is still of whom we don’t speak.
The rain cries over lost shame and fear
as echos remain of piano tunes flutter.


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Learn more about the soils on your land.
Learn more about accessing the USDA NRCS Web Soil Survey (WSS) and how you can use this information in your operation.
Visit USDA NRCS Web Soil Survey
The USDA Web Soil Survey provides basic information on soils to help you determine their suitable uses and understand how to best manage them. You can create a report to save or print without charge.
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Storytelling in the Age of AI
Around the world, citizens are actively engaging in civic tech, social robots are tweeting, and veteran storytellers are capturing and curating stories in new and dynamic ways using virtual and augmented reality. This explosion of tools, sources, voices, and data is indicative of a new, more collaborative era for storytelling. But is the public getting quality stories? Join award-winning storyteller and entrepreneur Davar Ardalan for a dynamic look at the intersection of emerging technology, transparency, and inclusivity in media. The founder and storyteller-in-chief of IVOW, a cultural storytelling startup powered by artificial intelligence, Davar believes that in order to best tell stories that reflect all of us, AI algorithms must be culturally sensitive and informed by a diverse, cross-sectional range of inputs and structured data. Come learn about the future of storytelling in AI and how we as software professionals can address the critical lack of quality and inclusive data.


The Mahoning County court just offloaded a whole bunch of old documents, according to Vindicator. About 800 pounds of space-wasting dead tree material was shredded by a mom-and-pop Cortland outfit that specializes in erasing the antiquated public record for $160 a ton.
The material isn't gone for good. The country transferred the paperwork to microfilm, so historians and journalists in the future can confirm that yes, Youngstown was actually a real place, not just admonitory bedtime story older cities once warned younger cities they might become if you don't diversify their economies in a globalized environment and plan green spaces in an urban landscape.
Also, don't fret, eco-heads. This particular shredding company will turn around and sell the ripped up historical documents to a Wisconsin paper mill. Soon enough, it'll be toilet paper and paper towels. So everybody's a winner here — the world, the county, the people in need of cheaper toilet paper.
The whole story made us realize Cuyahoga County's own document disposal policy is a little out-of-date. We've included some of the guidelines leftover from the previous administration


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The Moon is talking down to the Boy this time, he says: Pedal your bike, Boy.
He says: We watch you while you sleep.
He goes: It’s me, Demos, Phobos, the hands under your bed; we know you’re tempted to tell your mom about us, but you better not. Just don’t. Trust me. You won’t like what happens if you do. So don’t.
Just pedal your bike instead, Boy, because the summer is here and the nights are wet and warm, and because above all else John Smith has told you to be young. That’s what he said:
Fuck him. Let me tell you something about your little hero there, Boy: I’ve got something special in store for him.
Heh. Smith. He’s your hero. Right? You look up to him, do you Boy? And what’s wrong with your old pal the Moon? Huh? Couldn’t you see yourself up here, with us–or do you not believe in the salutary nature of a light so bright it sears you?
Understand that we want you to be with us, up here, in the extremes, and we won’t stop until we’ve got you.
Is that something you’d like to do? Be up here? With us? You can choose to do so, too, if you want. You can always make that choice before we do. If you want.
Look: I think I can help you to understand me a little bit better. I think that someone’s filled your head with nonsense and outright lies concerning me, but hear me out: I can help you. Help you to understand my wisdom, to appreciate the symbolism of the craters that mar my face. Would that you’d let me, I could induct you into the sect, welcome you into the fold–have you up here where even the rocks know enough to scream for some mercy, and the souls of the dead in orbit are rent with great horrors for their sins. I’d teach you to breathe such that dust tears at the lining of your lungs, so that those desiccated things thereafter are torn in their own eruptions, emitting into low gravity plumes of mist, ruby-red, so that choking on nothing your chest heaves up twisted chunks of clotted tissue and gore. A powerful lesson there, Boy, one given freely and from the goodness of my heart.
But, you don’t like that? And yet you like John Smith!…
Okay. So it’s to be like that. Well then here’s my face. And hear my voice: Pedal, you little shit. Pedal because–

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We aimed to simplify information from food frequency questionnaires (FFQs) in a single parameter that allows for rapid identification of quality of patient diet and its relationship to cardiovascular risk and pulse wave velocity (PWV).
The sample from the EVIDENT study, consisting of 1553 subjects (aged 20–80 years) with no cardiovascular disease selected by random sampling among those attending primary care clinics, was used. The EVIDENT diet index (range 0–100) was calculated based on the results of a FFQ. Evaluation of dietary habits also included adherence to the Mediterranean diet (MD). Cardiovascular risk was estimated, and carotid-femoral pulse wave velocity was measured.
Mean subject age was 54.9 ± 13.8 years, and 60.3% of subjects were female. The mean value of the EVIDENT diet index was 52.1 ± 3.2 points. Subjects in the third tertile (the highest score) had the greatest adherence to MD and the highest energy intake, with greater amounts of carbohydrates, protein, and fiber. The best cut-off point of the EVIDENT diet index for predicting good adherence to the MD is 52.3 (0.71 sensitivity, 0.61 specificity). In a multiple regression analysis, after a complete adjustment, it was estimated that for each one-point increase in the EVIDENT diet index, cardiovascular risk (CVR), blood-pressure, waist circumference, and PWV decreased by 0.14, 0.43, 0.24, and 0.09 respectively (p < 0.05, all).
The diet quality index developed is associated to CVR and its components, and also with arterial stiffness, as measured with PWV. This index is also a good predictor of adherence to MD.


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The kickboxing scene these days is pretty dominated by Glory, but they are not the only game in town. K-1 is still alive and kicking, and while it would be a lie to say they are going strong, they have continued to produce sporadic shows and even crowned a Heavyweight Grand Prix champion earlier this year in Mirko Cro Cop. Right now, they are in the midst of their K-1 MAX Grand Prix, and you can watch it live online.
The K-1 MAX Grand Prix Quarterfinals Part 1 will air in a live stream from Foshan, China this weekend. The show airs Saturday night in China, which translates to a 6:00 a.m. ET start time Saturday morning for those watching in the US. You can watch the entire event on a live stream PPV through Epicentre.TV. The K-1 live stream PPV costs $20.
K-1 already held the round of 16 for this year's MAX Grand Prix - Andy Souwer and Buakaw Benchamek (that's the name Buakaw Por. Pramuk is now fighting under if you missed it) are the only particularly notable names to move on to the quarterfinals. This weekend's card is highlighted by two quarterfinal fights. The remaining quarterfinals will be held January 11, with the Grand Prix semifinals and finals taking place in early 2014. The Foshan show also features a China vs. Thailand series, highlighted by the Muay Thai great Saenchai.
Here is the fight card for this weekend:
K-1 MAX GRAND PRIX QUARTERFINALS IN FOSHAN:
Shane Campbell vs. Christopher Mena (K-1 MAX GP Quarterfinal)
Buakaw Benchamek vs. Zhou Zhi Peng (K-1 MAX GP Quarterfinal)
Kong Hong Xing vs. Saenchai
Li Ning vs. Soutane
Han Kai Hu vs. Chengrob
Zhang Kai Yin vs. Rachen
Xie Lei vs. Pasol


You’ve heard of a tempest in a teapot, now meet a maelstrom in a Jetboil. Two blueprints that would ultimately decide the future of skiing and public transportation in Utah’s Wasatch Range are roiling public opinion. Here’s what you need to know about One Wasatch and Mountain Accord.
Cue the dueling banjos.
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Try Aquatic Therapy in Lutherville, MD
You may have heard of or even tried traditional physical therapy, but have you tried other forms of treatment after your surgery or accident? At Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy, we bring a range of treatment options to suit our clients’ individual needs, even incorporating water-based physical therapy, when necessary, into your care for low-impact ways to improve your range of motion and strength, that wouldn’t be possible on land. Learn more about this and other physical therapy options available to you with our team of licensed physical therapists by calling the Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy location nearest you today.
Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy
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Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy’s Lutherville location is available for convenient appointments throughout the week.
9475 Deereco Road Suite 102 Lutherville, MD 21093
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North of the I-695 belt highway, Lutherville-Timonium residents can avoid the commute to central Baltimore thanks to our convenient location at 9475 Deereco Road, Suite 102 . Please call us at (410) 308-3543 to schedule an appointment time, and if it’s your first visit, head to the New Patient Forms page to print and fill out some basic health history intake information prior to your session at Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy.
If you live closer to Baltimore, or any of our other neighboring suburban locations, choose the location page most convenient to you. We offer all our physical therapy services at each location, so you’re able to get the customized treatment you need from any of our conveniently located facilities.
Using Aquatic Therapy for Degenerative Conditions
Aquatic Physical Therapy is a low-impact method of building and strengthening muscles that would normally be too painful on a hard floor. With an increased range of motion and flexibility while in water, you’ll be able to address chronic pain from arthritis, osteoporosis, and other degenerative health conditions. Contact the Chesapeake Bay Aquatic & Physical Therapy location nearest you to find water-based relief today.


• Maintain and improve the systems functionality, without putting in risk the operation of the company, all this through technology innovation.
• Provide support in a timely manner and with quality to all users.
• Develop changes and improvements related to Sharp and master print.
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Possible travels to USA and France.
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Former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, running to reclaim his old seat as a Democrat, told HBO’s Bill Maher Friday that he believes the Cuban travel embargo didn’t work and should be “taken away.”
“[Cuba] has been held hostage by a small Cuban community in Florida for a very long time,” Maher said, adding that if politicians had the courage to stand up to those exiles, college kids would be going to Cuba for spring break next month.
Crist agreed, saying it was the right thing to do.
“I mean, the embargo has been there, what, 50 years now?” he said. “I don’t think it worked. It is obvious to me that we need to move forward, and I think get the embargo taken away. Really. I believe that.”
Gov. Rick Scott didn’t take kindly to Crist’s characterization of Florida’s Cuban community.
“The suggestion that Cuban Americans need to be ‘stood up to’ is insulting,” Scott said in a statement. “Our Cuban community needs to be stood up FOR. Our nation is great because we were built on a foundation of freedom and democracy. That is not true in Cuba and we should not pretend it is. The importance of maintaining the embargo is that it stands for the Cuban people’s right to be free.”
State Sen. Rene Garcia, R-Hialeah, who was born and raised in a Cuban community in Florida, also found Crist’s words offensive.
“As the son of Cuban exiles, who are the victims of the Castro regime’s oppression, I am deeply offended by Charlie Crist’s shameful comments,” he said in a statement issued from his office. “Our community has endured great pain to now have to endure Crist’s disrespectful statement. Note to Crist: The U.S embargo on Castro will not be lifted until Cubans are no longer accosted in the streets of Cuba or tortured in Castro’s gulag; until the day that Cubans can assemble without fear and a free press exists; and until the day that they can cast a ballot knowing that they will not be physically beaten or intimidated.”
Garcia said it was embarrassing that at a “moment when the Cuban people need the most solidarity,” Crist was on the “wrong side of history.”
Watch Crist’s appearance on “Real Time with Bill Maher” here:
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George Michael has been confirmed to perform at this year's Black Ball in London in aid of the charitable foundation Keep A Child Alive.
The 'Faith' singer will appear at the ball at London's Roundhouse on June 15, alongside previously-confirmed hosts Alicia Keys and Mark Ronson, as well as further musical performances from Paloma Faith and Tinie Tempah.
"I've been a fan of George Michael for as long I can remember. He is a legend and an inspiration. His work raising awareness and funds for those suffering with the HIV virus has spanned three decades," commented Keys in a statement.
"I'm honoured that George has lent his voice to our KCA cause and I'm so excited that he's singing for us at the Black Ball in London. It's going to be an amazing night!"
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Michael recently announced details for a European tour called 'Symphonica', which will see the star rework a selection of tracks from his back catalogue for an orchestra.


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Over our lifetimes, Disney has
done a magnificent job bringing fairy tales to life with movie animation.
So we really can’t blame them if they want to
play around with one of the old familiars, Sleeping Beauty, and turn the
emphasis into something completely different.
After all, fairy tales, belonging generally to
the entire culture, are told differently by everyone who re-tells them, kind
of like familiar bible stories, right?
But I digress.
The central character here is
not Sleeping Beauty at all, but Maleficent, the fairy who put the curse on
Sleeping Beauty that caused her deep sleep because of the pinprick in her
finger from a spinning wheel.
This is more Maleficent’s story.
Maleficent (played compellingly
by Angelina Jolie, who can act convincingly even while wearing horns on her
head) is a fairy. She’s
born into a magical land, called The Moors, with Pixies and all manner of
whimsical creatures, who live in peace and harmony “because they need
neither king nor queen” (never mind the political commentary). The
neighboring people are the humans, but their king is cruel and vicious, and
the two realms live uneasily apart until one day a human boy, Stefan,
happens to meet the young girl Maleficent, and they form an unlikely
we would love to have a romance like in “The Little Mermaid,” between
the mythical and the human, and we almost do, but human aggression and greed
gets in the way (never mind the social commentary).
The militant king decides he
wants to conquer the land of The Moors, and shows up with a resplendent army
of knights in shining armor, banners waving and menace unfurled.
The formerly kind and benevolent Maleficent is
forced to defend her homeland using her magic, which introduces her to her
own violent side. The
defeated king, in a rage of revenge, promises his very kingdom to the one
who can defeat Maleficent, and Stefan tricks her into taking a sleeping
potion, and then cuts off her wings and presents them as a trophy to the
Maleficent wakes up horrified at
her own disfigurement, and now really gets in touch with her dark side.
She now protects her realm with dark magic, and
enlists the aid of a spy helper, Diaval (Sam Riley), whom she can change
from human to crow and back again at will.
Meanwhile, Stefan (Sharlto
Copley), now king himself, becomes even more malicious than his predecessor,
but despite his malevolence, manages to have a sweet baby girl named Aurora
(Elle Fanning). Maleficent
puts a curse on the girl, that on her 16th
birthday, she will prick her finger on a spindle and fall into a deep sleep,
and can only be awakened by true love’s kiss.
The twist here is that the
baleful Maleficent no longer believes in true love, since she has become so
ensnared in her own brokenness and vindictiveness.
But the child Aurora, who’s supposed to be
hidden, comes to the attention of Maleficent, anyway, and Maleficent can’t
help but be charmed, despite her acidic self.
Yes, we now introduce the themes
of repentance, and redemption, and salvation, though of course those words
aren’t used, and we certainly wouldn’t want to espouse any particular
religion here. Suffice
it to say that the meaning of “true love” can be expanded, as can the
concept of peace between neighbors.
All in all, it’s a visual
delight, and Angelina Jolie’s superlative acting somehow keeps it from it
from tottering into silliness.
“Maleficent” is perhaps a little dark for
the little ones, but with enough substance to maintain the interest of older
children, as well as the inner child in all of us.
Dr. Ronald P. Salfen, Minister,
St. Stephen’s Presbyterian Church,


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BEIJING — When the pandemonium of the Cultural Revolution erupted, he was a slight, softly spoken 13-year-old who loved classical Chinese poetry. Two years later, adrift in a city torn apart by warring Red Guards, Xi Jinping had hardened into a combative street survivor.
His father, a senior Communist Party official who had been purged a few years earlier, was seized and repeatedly beaten. Student militantsransacked his family’s home, forcing them to flee, and one of hissisters died in the mayhem. Paraded before a crowd as an enemy of the revolution and denounced by his own mother, the future president of China was on the edge of being thrown into a prison for delinquentchildren of the party elite.
Visiting the United States this week, Mr. Xi, 62, has presented himself as a polished statesman, at ease hobnobbing with American capitalistsin Seattle and attending a state dinner at the White House in his honor, set for Friday. Yet his first immersion in politics came on the streets of the Chinese capital during the most tumultuous era of Communist rule, when Mao Zedong exhorted students “to bombard the headquarters” of order.
“I always had a stubborn streak and wouldn’t put up with being bullied,” Mr. Xi recalled in an interview in 2000, one of the few times he has spoken about his experience as a teenager in Beijing. “I riled the radicals, and they blamed me for everything that went wrong.”
Mr. Xi has often discussed the seven years he spent exiled to a rural village during the latter part of the Cultural Revolution, including in a speech in Seattle on Tuesday, casting that chapter of his life as anuplifting story of a city boy who discovers the suffering of ordinary Chinese in the countryside and resolves to make a difference.
But Mr. Xi has rarely spoken in public about his experiences from 1966 to 1968 at the tumultuous start of the Cultural Revolution, and his close contemporaries refuse to talk to foreign journalists aboutthose years.
An examination of memoirs written by them and by members of Mr. Xi’s family, though, offers an unusually vivid look at how a shy, bookish youth, raised in the bosom of party privilege, was tested and changed by the chaos that unfolded after Mao’s decision to turn the masses against the party establishment.
Mr. Xi started his transformation in the equivalent of the seventh grade in the August 1 School, a cloistered boarding school largely reserved for children with parents in the senior ranks of the party and the military. When Cultural Revolution militants shut it down, heended up at the No. 25 School, which was a hotbed of discontent with the party elite, said Qian Peizhen, chairwoman of the school’s alumni association.
But as order broke down, Mr. Xi, like many youths, spent little time in class. Mr. Xi and a friend “would hang out all day,” Ms. Qian said.After fleeing their home, he, his mother and his siblings took refuge at the Central Party School, an academy for officials. “We grew up in a highly abnormal environment,” Li Xiaobing, a classmate at the August 1 School, recalled on a school alumni website.
The purges, zealotry and mass strife that Mao unleashed during the Cultural Revolution left a lasting mark on every Chinese leader whohas succeeded him. But Mr. Xi stands out because he is the first party chief from the generation of the Red Guards — the youth who served as Mao’s shock troops — and because he fell so far before beginning his trek to power, from a family in the party elite to an unmoored life as a teenage political pariah.
Some of Mr. Xi’s critics argue that his experiences during the Cultural Revolution inform his authoritarian ways. But the imprint of that time was more complex than that, said Patricia M. Thornton, a professor at Oxford who is researching the Cultural Revolution and its legacy.
习近平的一些批评者认为，他在文革期间的经历为他如今的专制作风提供了注解。但那个时期对习近平产生的影响实际上更为复杂，研究文革及其遗产的牛津大学教授蓝梦林(Patricia M. Thornton)表示。
Mr. Xi’s generation venerated Mao, she said, but his family suffered in the violence that Mao unleashed, and Mr. Xi’s outlook is rooted in an elitist rejection of that turmoil.
“Xi got to see both sides of that time, which is one reason I think he’s such an interesting character,” she said, “but that’s also why he’s so difficult to read.”
Unlike some youths from elite backgrounds, Mr. Xi did not turn against the party or Mao, but learned to revere strict order and abhor challenges to hierarchy, said Yongyi Song, a historian and librarian in Los Angeles who has long studied the Cultural Revolution.
“He suffered much under Mao,” Mr. Song said, “but I think that actually increased his belief that those who are ‘born red,’ those children of the party elite, earned the right to inherit Mao’s place at the center.”
At the August 1 School, Mr. Xi and other students were expected to be exemplary servants of the socialist revolution. “We took the children to clean out latrines, and they did a really fine job,” a former teacher, Tang Yuhua, said in an interview for the school alumni association. “The children of officials did what they were told.”
But Mr. Xi and his brothers and sisters were vulnerable when the Cultural Revolution began because Mao had turned on their father, Xi Zhongxun, a revolutionary veteran and vice premier, four years earlier. He lost his post and was sent to work in a factory in central China, while his wife, Qi Xin, kept her job as a party cadre in Beijing.
Many of the first Red Guards who embraced Mao’s call in August 1966 to purge society of ideological enemies and traitors were the children of party officials. But Mr. Xi could not join them because he was too young and had been tainted by his father’s fall.
Instead, he became a target of abuse, Ms. Chen said.
“He told me of one incident, in which a primary school sports teacher with a very poor attitude bullied him when the wave of physicalassaults in the Cultural Revolution was spreading,” she said. The sports teacher, she recalled, mocked him as “child of a black gang,” aterm for toppled officials.
Radicals accused students at the school of betraying Mao by defending their parents and privileges. A journal published by Red Guards described the school as “a cradle for pampering the sons of senior cadres” that had “bred a successor class of the bourgeoisie.”
Violence was encouraged and widespread. In August and September of 1966, nearly 1,800 people died in attacks across Beijing, according to party estimates issued in 1980.
Mr. Xi lost an elder sister, Xi Heping, his father’s first daughter through an earlier marriage. Official accounts say she was “persecuted to death,” leaving out details, but a historian familiar with the party elite who spoke on condition of anonymity said she probably took her own life under duress, as many targeted by the Red Guards did in those years.
Mr. Xi’s father, who had been exiled to a factory in central China, was seized by Red Guards, who took him to Xi’an, a city in northwest China, where they paraded him around on a truck, beat and interrogated him, and made outlandish accusations that he had used a secret radio set in his home for clandestine foreign contacts.
As the Cultural Revolution spiraled into mayhem, Mr. Xi learned to fend for himself.
“We were the ‘blackest’ in the class, and the others all despised us,”recalled Nie Weiping, a classmate at the No. 25 School whose father had also been purged. “They wouldn’t come near us, and we also despised them.”
One day, he, Mr. Xi and another teenage friend with a purged father, Liu Weiping, were among a large group ambushed by radical Red Guards outside a school hall. “Hundreds of them came rushing out, waving clubs and yelling, and they beat whomever they saw,” Mr. Nie said in a memoir.
“Xi Jinping and I moved fast and escaped,” he said, “but Liu Weiping ran a step slower, and almost suffered a concussion from a beating.”
In the interview published in 2000, when he was still a provincial official, Mr. Xi recalled being singled out and detained by the radicals because of his refusal to yield. “They all believed I was a leader,” he said.
“They asked me how bad I thought my crimes were,” he said. “I said that they should make a guess, was it enough to deserve being shot? They said it would be enough to be shot 100 times over. I thought,what was the difference between being shot once and 100 times?”
“Afterwards,” he added, “I recited the thoughts of Chairman Mao every day late into the night.”
At one point, militants paraded Mr. Xi and five adults on a stage before a rally, according to an associate of Mr. Xi’s father, Yang Ping, citing conversations with the father and family. Mr. Xi had to use both hands to hold up the cone-shaped metal hat he was made to wear.
“The mother had no choice but to go to the struggle session and sat below the stage,” Mr. Yang wrote. “When they yelled, ‘Down with Xi Jinping!’ on the stage, his mother was forced to raise her arm and shout the slogan along with everyone.”
By late 1968, Mr. Xi’s record of defiance was enough that he was ordered to a juvenile detention center for the children of purged officials. But he was spared imprisonment after Mao issued a call for urban youths to go to the countryside.
He did not see his father again until 1972, when Premier Zhou Enlai arranged a family reunion.
The father, battered and disoriented after years of isolation and interrogation, “looked at his two grown boys, and totally failed to recognize them,” according to his father’s biography, citing an interview with Mr. Xi. The older man wept and Mr. Xi offered him a cigarette.
“He asked me, ‘How come you also smoke?’” Mr. Xi said. “I said, ‘I’m depressed. We’ve also made it through tough times over these years.’
“He went quiet for a moment and said, ‘I grant you approval to smoke.’”


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150 g DODONI feta cheese
800 g courgettes
70 ml olive oil
2 garlic cloves
1 pinch salt
60 ml apple cider vinegar
Freshly ground black pepper
Wash the courgettes, dry and slice them in any shape you like, and place them in a bowl.
Add the olive oil and apple cider vinegar to the bowl, grate the garlic cloves, add the salt and pepper, and toss to thoroughly marinate the courgettes.
Place a grill pan or regular frying pan over medium heat and cook the courgettes until they are still firm when pressed with your finger. Put them in a baking pan and cover with plastic wrap so they can finish cooking in their own steam. They can be allowed to cool, or served as a warm salad.
Serve on a plate, crumble some DODONI feta cheese over the top, and sprinkle some fresh thyme. You can also drizzle some olive oil over the top.


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Well, I can’t say that I wasn’t warned. L0nely Planet flat-out states it in their text. Vang Vieng is, at best, backpacker hell! A small little town that seems to exist solely for tourism and nothing else.
So what is to draw people here, you may ask? Well, the surrounding karst scenery. But unlike Yangshuo, the town is totally devoid of charm. And the scenery really doesn’t hold a candle to the Chinese equivalent.
Let me be clear as to why I hate Vang Vieng. There isn’t really an escape to the tourist madness. Every way you turn, you hit another restaurant serving the exact same crappy food for the exact same price (overpriced, if you ask me), with TVs blaring American sitcoms. The two most common include “Friends” and “Family Guy,” with the occasional episode of “The Simpsons” popping up. Choosing a place to eat becomes an exercise in which show would you rather sit through. And of course, they’ve devised a nice lazy way to watch…a variation on breakfast in bed, perhaps?
But much like Yangshuo, nobody comes here for the town itself but for what’s around it. Tubing down the Nam Song (Song River) is one of those “must-do” activities on the Southeast Asian backpacking circuit, which I plan to partake in tomorrow. It certainly is hot enough here to warrant it!
(Add to my misery with the town: the loads of Westerners who have just returned from tubing and are wandering the streets in nothing but their swimsuits and making giant fools of themselves because they are absolutely intoxicated! Rumor has it the river is lined with bars…)
Getting From Luang Prabang to Vang Vieng
In getting here I opted for a minivan over the bus (it was in fact cheaper, explain to me how that works!). 13 tourists squished into a van…it was certainly faster than the bus, but with far less personal space (though plenty of opportunities for meeting over travelers, including a South Korean fellow seated beside me). The road from Luang Prabang was nearly as windy as my last road trip, but thankfully minus the construction!
Along the way we had to break to avoid hitting the following animals just wandering across the street: A family of chickens (why DID the chicken cross the road?), a pregnant pig, and a herd of cows who was just wandering and actually succeeded in getting into a head bunting fight in the middle of the highway!
Speaking of highway, the Lao variation on an “interstate” is roughly what would be considered a residential street in the U.S.
I couldn’t help but notice as we passed the freshly singed grass that large-scale slash-and-burn agriculture was being practiced, with entire mountains up in flames.
Now that I’m here, I’m really hoping that Vang Vieng proves to be more interesting tomorrow. If not, it will be off to Vientiane, the capital, the next day!
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Following the unexpected trade that sent quarterback Brock Osweiler from the Houston Texans to Cleveland, Browns general manager Sashi Brown seemed happy.
Well, it seems like Brown isn’t necessarily thrilled about acquiring Osweiler, which isn’t that surprising because he didn’t pan out in Houston. No, instead, Brown is really pumped about that 2018 second-round pick Cleveland got in the trade:
This quote from Browns GM Sashi Brown tells you everything you need to know about this trade. pic.twitter.com/9WCYeGJ8BA— Andrew Siciliano (@AndrewSiciliano) March 9, 2017
“We’re really excited to acquire a second-round draft choice in this trade,” Brown said.
His comment on Osweiler was kind of an afterthought.
“We are intent on adding competition to every position on our roster and look forward to having Brock come in and compete,” Brown said.
The Browns hold three first-round picks and five second-round picks, including the one acquired from the Texans, in the 2017 and 2018 drafts. That probably is more exciting than the prospect of Brock Osweiler starting for the Browns next year. Just ask Texans fans.


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A/N: This is what The Legend of Korra world would be like if Aang hadn?t beat Ozai, and the Legend of Korra characters are fourteen in the beginning of the story.
Sometimes, good loses to evil. That was the case long ago, when Avatar Aang fought The Phoenix King, the next Avatar hasn?t been found. Aang passed fourteen years ago, The Fire Nation has been searching for the next Avatar for fourteen years. They haven?t found the next Avatar yet, but they have a way to show Fire Nation supremacy, they send kids, starting at age fourteen, to boarding schools. There are two boarding schools in each town, one for fire-benders and non-benders, then there is one for water and earth-benders, why not air you ask, there are no air-benders, they?re extinct, for good this time. I?m turning fourteen this month, and I?m being sent off to the boarding school. I have always hated the Fire Nation, they ruined my life, mine personally. My parents went against them, they saw a problem, and they fixed it. I?ve stolen to survive, and the Fire Nation has been trying to get rid of me for a long time. I ran up to a small Fire Nation market. I pulled up the hood on my jacket, shading my face. I ran up to one of the tables out front, I grabbed as much stuff as I could stuff into my jacket, then ran. I ran to the small shed on the outskirts of town. I jumped in the trapdoor at the top.
?Yay! Harisii?s back!? One small girl ran up to me.
?Yep!? I said, handing her some fruit I stole. ?Pass that out to the others in your room.? I commanded. I gave her a piece for herself as well.
?Hey, hows it going Harisii?? A laid back teenager asked me as he walked up, hands in his pocket.
?Good, I just robbed a store, I didn?t get caught.? I laughed.
?I think that those Fire Nation people are about as bright as half a melon. We just got a report of a small child, no more than four, she?s an earth-bender, the Fire Nation just destroyed her parents. Me, Solar, and Rainy are going to go get her. Want to come?? He offered.
?I can?t, I?ve got to pass out the rest of this food.? I sighed.
?I can handle that. Silver! Pass out this fruit, make sure everyone gets a piece, but try to save some for me, Solar, Rainy, and Harisii.? The guy said.
?Okay, Arctos!? Silver said, she was about my age, a month younger maybe. By the start of the next school year, me, Silver, and Arctos would be shipped off to boarding school, leaving all the other orphans with Solar and Rainy in charge, they were hardly ten though.
?Lets go.? Arctos grinned. We left, each of us had an oversized jacket with a hood that pulled down to cover our faces. We ran through the rainy streets, we got to a small alley way, there was a small girl sitting in an earth tent.
?Why did the fire-benders take my mommy and daddy?? The small girl cried.
?It?s okay, come on, follow us.? I smiled gently. I grabbed her hand and helped her up.
?Why are you dressed like that?? The small girl squeaked.
?The fire-benders don?t like us. But we can help you.? I assured her.
?Okay.? The girl said, she followed us, we went back to our hideout.
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?Thank you, ma?am.? The girl bowed.
?Whats your name?? I asked gently.
?I don?t remember, the fire-benders made me hit my head.? She said.
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"Take the boy to the prison, execute the girl." A fire-bender roughly yanked me by the back of my shirt and dragged me to an all too familiar place. She looked around, when she was young she had been brought here and almost executed for theft, assault, and treason, but she had just been protecting a young girl whose parents were attacked by fire-benders.
"I bet you recognize this place." A fire-bender sneered, he was familiar.
"You tried to defeat that girl four years ago." I snarled, trying to keep my mind straight, I was still hurt and it was getting hard to focus on looking for a way to escape.
"Yes, but she was a traitor too." The fire-bender tried to make his horrible actions seemed justified. I tried to punch him, but he dodged. Soon we came to the gallows, they were going to try and hang me. I saw an escape route, and took it. I ran, and got away. I was out, but I was going back for Ender. My feet slid on the ground, and I almost fell. I caught my balance and ran on until I came to Ender's cell. I picked the lock. ender followed me and I ran out the way I came. Our feet skidded across the ground as we ran through the halls. Once we got outside we made it to a cliff, with fire-benders in close pursuit. Ender got away, thinking I was following, but realized I couldn't a moment too late. I waved for him to go, and he nodded and went. I turned to the fire-benders and sneered, "Try and fight me, you might get lucky."
"Oh, you'll be the one needing luck!" A younger fire-bender rushed forward, only to be grabbed by his partners. They dragged him back and one whispered into his ear. He nodded, and then they charged. I backed off of the cliff, and dropped. I bent water out of the air and used it to slow my fall, but hit the ground pretty hard.
"Ow." I laughed, glad I was still alive.
"She's dead, she couldn't of survived that fall." One of the fire-benders laughed. I wanted to climb back up there and slap him in the face to prove I was alive. I slowly stood, and limped off in the direction I knew home was in.
CHAPTER 12 "Harisii!" A familiar voice rang through the blackness around me. "You have to be okay." I could feel a slight pressure on my hand. I tried to open my eyes, but everything felt like it was stunned, I couldn't move a muscle.
"Will she be okay?" I heard another voice, that was familiar.
"It's hard to say, but I can say that if you three hadn't found her when you did, she would be dead." An unfamiliar voice confirmed.
"Harisii, you have to be okay! You can't die now!" The first voice cried.
"I just got the news, is Harisii okay?" A new familiar voice asked, rushed and scared.
"We don't know." The second voice stated sadly. This all felt like a dream. Then I realized something, I remembered my whole life! I had my memory back! With this much as encouragement, I let myself relax, and my mind drifted off.
"Guys! Harisii is coming to!" I heard Arctos exclaim. My whole body hurt, and my limbs felt heavy. I looked around, wondering where I was.
"What happened?" I asked, seeing all my friends, plus Korra and a fire-bender I didn't recognize, crowded into this small room.
"We couldn't beat the Fire Lord, he was too strong." Arctos was leaned sadly against the wall.
"Yeah." Silver looked sadly at the ground, she was close to Arctos, who wrapped his arm around her shoulder and pulled her close. Hot anger burned my mind, I saw Lillabell and Bolin standing towards the corner of the room. The closeness between Bolin and Lillabell was nearly as close as Arctos and Silver, that look in their eyes when they were close to each other. I waited until the others left, I was going to get out of here and beat the Fire Lord, and Prince Aden. Once they were all gone, I slipped out of the hospital and made my way to the capital city. It took me most of the night, but i finally got there. I slipped through the city and got to the palace. I slipped through, and once I got to the throne room, I saw the Fire Lord, and Aden. I had never told anyone, but I could blood-bend, I was a blood-bending prodigy. I lifted my hands, and began to blood-bend Aden and the Fire Lord. I stopped their blood, ad killed them, all my anger was taken out on them, I felt no remorse for what I had just done. I ran, but got caught by the guards.
"This is the girl Aden almost killed a month ago." One of them said, roughly shoving me into a truck. A month, I was unconscious for a month?! The dark truck was damp and smelled of wet smoke, like a fire doused by water.
"So, you got caught too?" A voice laughed. A flame lit up the truck to reveal a scrawny fire-bender.
"Ender?" I recognized him, he tried to help me when I was at the school.
"Hey Harisii." He smiled. "What happened?"
"I killed the Fire Lord and Prince." I explained, a cruel smile curving my lips. The truck stopped, and we were yanked out.
I tried to wiggle free, my face hurt and my gut burned. I wanted to break free, I needed water or something! Trying to kick him in the leg was a bad idea, that just got me smashed into a wall. I tried to break free, but now I was stuck between him and a wall.
"Why are you here, if you're a water bender?" He questioned, tilting his head quizzically.
"None of your business." I growled.
"It is my business, if I'm going to be the Fire Lord one day." He smiled. I tried even more desperately to break free, but it was no use. I sure hope the others are okay, that they don't get caught. "I said, tell me why you're here."
"I said, none of your business." That response got me thrown to the ground and kicked clean across the room. I slid into the wall, gripping my arm in pain. I bent water out of the air and healed my arm. I hope the others get here soon, and safe.
"I'm gonna ask you one more time before I have to ruin that pretty face of yours." The boy growled, fire formed in his hand. "Why are you here?" His voice was dangerous.
"Prince Aden! A group of benders has attacked your father!" A guard ran in.
"Leave, send guards to protect him." Aden growled, not taking his angered eyes off of me.
"Yes sir." The guard bowed before leaving.
"Now, tell my why you've come." Aden growled, lowering the fire close to my face, holding me up by my hair.
"No." I squeaked, trying to get out of his grip. The heat from the fire was so close, I didn't even need to open my eyes to tell it was less than an inch from my face.
"I would have let you go without hurting you, but you've made me do this." Aden whispered in my ear. I felt the flame brush the tip of my nose in it's wind driven dance. I squealed in pain before trying to break free again. "Tell me, and I'll do no more harm." Aden soothed.
"No." I said, my voice strengthening. I quickly stood, ignoring the pain that burned through me. I punched him. In horror, I watched him form a string of lightning. He shot it at me, I tried to dodge, but it hit my arm. It added to the pain of a broken bone in that arm. Even if I didn't remember why I was fighting this hard, I knew that the old me would be proud. I kept fighting, sending spikes of ice at Aden.
"Stop, this is stupid. Why should I fight you on my father's command." He said, surrendering. I let the ice melt and drop to the ground. "I'm sorry for this." He apologized.
"Oh, it's okay." I stuttered.
"I'll escort you safely out of the city." He smiled. I grinned and followed. As we were walking, he fell behind. I heard the crackle of lightning. I felt a hot sting on my back, and everything faded to black. "You shouldn't have trusted me."
If the Avatar wasn?t here then we did all this for nothing, so our hopes were up. We were only going to test the fourteen year old water-benders here. There were four. Three guys were fourteen year old water-benders, and one girl. We tested them all, and the girl was the Avatar.
?We finally found the Avatar!? Arctos laughed, he hugged Silver, whose face turned dark red. I felt a deep anger about Arctos hugging Silver, I don?t know why though.
?Korra, will you help us fight the Firelord?? I asked.
?Yes.? She nodded.
?We?re leaving tomorrow. Be ready.? I said darkly. I knew this was it. Apparently I had dreamed of finding the Avatar and fighting the Firelord for years, this would be enjoyable if only I remembered. The next day we set off on the journey to the Fire Nation. Korra had a pet polar bear-dog, named Naga, that could carry two more of us, plus Korra. ?Come on!? I called, leading the first wolf-bear. We spent the next week traveling to the Fire Nation capital city. As we got closer, a long sleeping goal woke. This was my reason. This is why I had been born, orphaned, and found my friends. Soon the tops of buildings came into view, not the type there were back home, from what I remember, but skyscrapers! This was amazing! Red, gold, orange, yellow, everywhere! It almost hurt, my eyes to look at it all! Banners, posters, people, shops, smells, sights, everything was overwhelming!
?Whoa.? Arctos whispered. ?I always imagined the capital city would be impressive, but this impressive??
?This is, amazing? I whispered. ?But we can?t stare at it forever. Lets go.? I added abruptly.
?Okay.? The others agreed, following. We decided to leave the creatures we were riding just outside the city.
?I?ll go this way.? Lillabell whispered, her long, black hair braided back.
?We should split up, but we need a signal for if we find the entrance to the palace.? I agreed.
?How about sending up a flare of earth or water.? Arctos offered.
?Sounds great!? Silver agreed, giving Arctos those lovey-dovey eyes I noticed and hated.
?I?m going that way.? I growled, jerking around and going off. I looked all around, wondering what the entrance to the palace would look like. Soon I came to a big wall with heavily guarded gates. I had a feeling, this was it. I sent up a flare of water and hid.
?Where did that come from?!? A guard shouted, I tried to press myself against the wall, but they found me.
?A water-bender, so far from home?? One guard smirked.
?Let me go!? I growled, biting his hand as he tried to drag me towards the gate.
?Ow!? He growled, punching me in the face. Everything went dark, and when I woke up the room was dimly lit, with the sound of boots on rock.
?I hear you gave my guards some trouble.? A voice snickered as I was yanked into a siting position by the back of my shirt.
?Only as much as they gave me.? I smirked, bad move on my part.
?I never told you to speak!? The boy growled dangerously, kicking me in the gut and lifting me to eye level by the front of my shirt.
I walked across the room and gently picked up the infant. I moved on to the next room. In the corner a girl cowered, hugging a dead shape close and crying.
?Who are you?? She asked harshly.
?My name is Arctos.? I said. I stepped closer and a spike of metal speared from the wall. I was hit with it in the side. ?I?m not going to hurt you. Me and my friends are against the Fire Nation too.? I said, putting a heavy hand over the cut along my side.
?I?m sorry.? The girl whispered. The body she was holding looked as if it was her brother, twins probably. The girl gently set the body to the side and limped over, helping me up.
?What happened?? I questioned.
?The fire-benders attacked. My parents refused to send me away. They got rid of my brother, my sister, and my parents.? The girl burst into tears.
?I understand. The fire-nation took everything from me when I was six.? I said. We got outside, the girl squeaked when she saw the others. ?They won?t hurt you. They?re my friends.?
?O-okay.? The girl stammered. Soon Lillabell had healed me, and she had healed the mystery girl?s burns.
?Whats your name?? I asked the girl.
?I?m Emerald.? She said.
?Thats a nice name.? I smiled.
?Thanks.? Emerald said.
?We should all get some sleep.? Lillabell said, it was late and we had a small campfire.
?Shouldn?t someone stay awake, incase fire-benders find us?? Silver fretted.
?I?ll stay up.? I offered. We all agreed and the others went to sleep. I looked at the line of trees on the horizon, hopefully tomorrow we?ll make it that far and we?ll have some cover.
(A/N: From here till the end we?re going to Harisii?s POV)
The next morning we set off. I was sad I couldn?t remember much, and Arctos seemed nice. I wish I remembered more about him. Our new friend Emerald was still sad about her family, I guess I would?ve understood before I lost my memory. I tried my hardest to remember them all, but I couldn?t. I tried to remember so hard it made my brain hurt, which I guess isn?t that hard because some might call me stupid. We made it to a forest about half way through the day. The sun was high over head and the thick, green canopy did little to make the air cooler. It was humid, sticky, and disgusting. We kept walking. Weeks passed, and we just kept walking. We didn?t stop at towns, villages, anywhere. Soon the landscape changed from thick forests and occasional fields to thin forests with snow covered trees. And soon the trees dissipated to stunted bushes and dwarfed trees. We were in a tundra by now. We finally made it to the Northern Water Tribe. We checked around for a month, checking with every water-bender, testing them in any way we knew. Everyone cooperated, but none of them were the Avatar.
?The least we can do for you going to this trouble is give you an animal to help you along.? The leader of the Northern Water Tribe bowed his head respectfully, motioning to a wolf-bear.
?Thank you.? We all said, the wolf-bear was big enough for half of us. But they also gave us another wolf-bear. We continued on our journey. With the help of the wolf-bears we made it to the Southern Water Tribe two times faster.
Since it was Saturday there was no school, I hid in the trees waiting for my friends. I wasn?t going to the building today, I would wait and if they weren?t here in time I was leaving. I spent the day training in the trees, and soon I saw a few figures making their way to the trees. Lillabell was leading Harisii, who looked better but somewhat confused and tired. Bolin and Silver were hanging back behind Harisii and Lillabell, ready to protect them, and Clairet was following close behind.
?Hey guys.? I greeted warmly, jumping from the low tree branch where I had been perched.
?Hi Arctos.? Lillabell smiled.
?Hello, Arctos?? Harisii said, she turned the last part into a question as if she didn?t remember my name.
?Hello, Harisii.? I nodded, somewhat sad that her memory wasn?t fully restored, but at least she wasn?t completely fire blanked anymore. After the hello?s and hi?s we set off.
?Uh, Arctos do you think we could go to the fire bendier school and get my brother?? Bolin had caught up with me at the front of the group.
?I don?t think that would be a good idea, Bolin. More than likely they?ll have discovered we are gone by the time we could reach the school. They?ll probably have everyone on high alert looking for us.? I pointed out. ?I?m sorry, Bolin, but no.?
?It?s okay.? Bolin said, looking sadly at the ground and taking his protective spot at the back of the group.
?Arctos, can you tell me about before we came here?? Harisii asked gently. She had walked up to me and I hadn?t even noticed, I flipped out because he surprised me.
?Sure.? I smiled. She looked intently at me. I explained how we met, then how we started saving other kids like us. I finally got to how we had always enjoyed tricking fire-benders, and always got a good laugh out of their stupidity. I missed those times, just Her, Silver, Rainy, Solar, and I, we were unstoppable. I had always known the day would come when I would have to go to school, but I never imaged it would turn out like this. We made the rest of our way through the thick trees silently. We were going to the North Pole first. We made many animal friends.
?Harisii, what do you think of the ocelot-jaguar?? I laughed as a small spotted cat followed Harisii.
?It?s cute.? She squealed. The cat purred and pressed its head into her thigh. Soon we made it out of the jungle, and made it to a large area of fields. There were a few trees and bushes, but not many. For two days we walked until we saw an overgrown brick building.
?What is that place?? I quizzically turned my head looking at the building from two angles. We walked over to it, the tall grass pressed down by our feet. The door of the building was hanging on by one hinge, the other was busted clean off. Windows were smashed and melted, burn marks covered the structure. ?Stay out here.? I commanded firmly as I pushed the door, it creaked and fell to the ground. I walked in over burnt rubble and pieces of the upper floor that had fallen. ?STUPID FIRE-BENDERS!? I shouted, punching the wall sending sparks down.
Actros is my favorite he is really sweet and cares for his friends. This is a good story keep going I love it! HURRY POST THE NEXT CHAPER BEFORE I EXSPLODE I CAN'T WAIT!!!!!! your loyal reader ~Zuko2435 just an Airbender looking for a place in a non-bender world~


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Chairman's White Rum, St. Lucia Distillers
Sugarcane arrived in St Lucia in the 18th Century, and its molasses byproduct continued the growth of the Caribbean’s thriving rum trade. By the 1950s, however, most Caribbean rum producing islands had slowed their pace, and St Lucia was no exception – only two producers remained, in Dennery & Roseau, and soon the two joined forces under the Barnard family banner of the St Lucia Distillers Group. The operating distillery now remains in Roseau; featuring extensive environmental initiatives, Chairman’s Reserve distills outstanding rums in a St Lucia style using molasses sourced primarily from Guyana, after a 24-30 hour closed fermentation period.
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“The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? . . .” (Psalm 27:1, NKJV)
I love this Psalm. Psalm 27 is one of my “go to” Psalms when I am being attacked spiritually, physically through sickness or verbally. Every verse in this psalm gives encouragement and reassurance that, no matter what the situation, I will always be all right.
Just a simple note for you today.Make this verse, Psalm 27:1, your declaration over every enemy.Including the enemy of worry.Declare it, “The Lord is MY SALVATION.”When any attack comes against you, “The Lord is MY SALVATION.”When trouble invades your life, “The Lord is MY SALVATION.” In the midst of this Coronavirus pandemic, “The Lord is MY SALVATION.”When you are falsely accused, “The Lord is MY SALVATION.”Even when the accusations against you might not be false.Though what you are accused of may be true, even then declare it, “The Lord is still, MY SALVATION.”


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Yea the younger ppl do seem to be more liberal. And I think a lot of them are like me and really don't give a damn what other ppl do n their own lives. That's what I do lol. I'm jus like ok, well if u wana be gay then go ahead. I don't have to agree. I think there are way less racist young ppl. Probably because ppl are more open to learning about others. All blacks and whites aren't the same. And ppl atr realizing that.
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Mud Pies and Other Recipes
Marjorie Winslow ~ illustrations by Erik Blegvad
NYR Children's Collection, 2010
Oh my goodness. Tucked up among some other titles in the attic ~ so small I almost missed it all together ~ was an old friend I haven't seen in years. Many a summer day was spent mixing rainspout tea and dandelion souffle, while a mud pie baked in the sun. If you look closely at these pictures, you will even see my own childhood mud stains still clinging to the pages of this dear, dear title after all these years. So special is this book to me that I am copying the forward here in full...
This is a cookbook for dolls. It is written for kind climates and summertime.
It is an outdoor cookbook, because dolls dote on mud, when properly prepared. They love the crunch of pine needles and the sweet feel of seaweed on the tongue. The market place, then, will be a forest or sand dune or your own backyard.
You can use a tree stump for a counter. The sea makes a nice sink; so does a puddle at the end of a hose. For a stove there is the sun, or a flat stone. And ovens are everywhere. You'll find them under bushes, in sandboxes or behind trees.
Cooking utensils should, whenever possible, be made from something that would otherwise be thrown away. Cutting the side from an empty milk carton leaves a perfect loaf pan, while slicing an inch or two from the bottom of another makes a good square cake pan. The bottom half of a heavy cardboard egg carton does nicely as a muffin tin and as a mold for individual cakes and pies. Empty frozen pie pans are very useful. So are frozen orange juice cans, cupped milk bottle tops, small flower pots, pop bottle caps and coffee cans.
Doll cookery is not an exacting art. The time it takes to cook a casserole depends on how long your dolls are able to sit at table without falling over. And if a recipe calls for a cupful of something, you can use a measuring cup or a teacup or a buttercup. It doesn't much matter. What does matter is that you select the best ingredients available, set a fine table, and serve with style.
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The Last of the Wizards
The Diamond in the Window
Plenty of Fish

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| I use NASA data every day, even though I don’t work for NASA. They have many detailed and rich datasets available for reading/viewing by the general public. The problem though is that they are often published in archaic formats buried under hard to use interfaces. But with a little ingenuity, anyone can get their hands on amazing data about the universe we live in.
| In the time it took you to read this sentence, NASA gathered approximately 1.73 gigabytes of data from our nearly 100 currently active missions! We do this every hour, every day, every year – and the collection rate is growing exponentially. Handling, storing, and managing this data is a massive challenge. Our data is one […]
| This article is cross-posted from ESA’s Living Planet Program blog here. For more information about the App Camp, go to the main page here. This week’s ESA App Camp didn’t see canoeing or campfires. Developers worked diligently despite the Mediterranean heat to create applications for mobile phones that bring Earth observation and GMES services to […]


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" In Shakespeare’s works, you find the verse in plenty and it is for you and me, for all. He had a genius for verse" said theatre personality G.K. Govinda Rao
Students should enjoy reading the works of Shakespeare instead of forcibly studying his plays to pass examinations, G.K. Govinda Rao, theatre personality, told the students here on Monday.
Inaugurating an exhibition on Shakespeare held by students of the English Association of the University College, he said: “Don’t be frightened of him (Shakespeare). Read him. Go and meet him on the stage, in the library and in the room.”
He told the students that it would be difficult to get away from his works once they began appreciating it. People say that it is not easy understanding Shakespeare’s plays and that they were written long ago, in unfamiliar language. He said it may be tough to get a visa to the world of Shakespeare’s works but with access to his works, it was tough to leave as there is no exit visa. One could not be unhappy reading the works of Shakespeare. He said that students should read his plays and learn to enjoy them.
“But these wretched examinations ask you questions such as ‘Sketch the character of Macbeth,” he said.
Everyone appreciates nature and was in search of language. “We all have experiences but no words. In Shakespeare’s works, you find the verse in plenty and it is for you and me, for all. He had a genius for verse,” he said. For Shakespeare, nature was his university, said Mr. Rao.
Much was being written in India about culture and about what was acceptable and what was not. Some people say one should not speak this way or that one should not write that way. However, there were some poems written by Shakespeare, which some people might find shocking. If one could get to know what was in the mind of another person, it could be shocking or even disgusting.
He illustrated his talk on Shakespeare with several lines from Macbeth. The Merchant of Venice is a comedy yet it has characters such as that of Shylock. “We all have multiple dimensions to our personalities,” he said.