6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Quick weight loss is not for people of huge weight, only for otherwise healthy. Any person seeking to slim down permanently needs to make more of a lifestyle change, and not only seek out quick weight loss diets.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #3d85c6;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">6 foods for quick weight loss:</span></span><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVHQ048RzLvRH6T0qTKZS1csXswQXiyrmtC9XkOhrdtd9cngORos4nHC4ybdWY5PRr2_WWQULAmTauqyiuQd4zak1Xhil0oLW65WwrJfqE8csW1517iiqhtEpMn4Ha_v5RgspkT2vWuyw/s1600/6+Best+Foods+for+Quick+Weight+Loss.jpg" title="6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </br><center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* LargeInPost_waysforweightloss_300-600 */ google_ad_slot = "6695176472"; google_ad_width = 300; google_ad_height = 600; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center></br><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Dark chocolate:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Chocolate can slow down digestion which means you really feel full longer and eat less at your subsequent meal. Also the antioxidants in the cocoa will keep anyone healthy.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Apples:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Apples are a excellent food to obtain fiber, does not exceed 100 calories. It will keep you full for a while and offer some energy. Should you eat organic apples.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Mushrooms:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Mushrooms are much lower in calories than beef, so you can change mushrooms for beef in some meals.</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Vegetable Soup:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eating vegetable soup for losing weight is a great way. Vegetable Soup help reduce body fat, increase the fiber content of the foods you eat and  you will be likely to eat fewer calories overall. Vegetables soup that help weight loss include cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, cucumber, lettuce and spinach..</span></div><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Eggs:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eggs are a great source of protein, help you to building muscles. Also eggs contain an ingredient that can help to cut down calories consumed during each meal.</span></div><br /><br /><span style="color: #073763;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Chile Peppers:</span></span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Eat spicy chile peppers before a meals, help curb your appetite, so you will feel less hungry.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div> <center><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-5028478688240504"; /* inPost_waysforweightloss_336-280 */ google_ad_slot = "6975892477"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"></script></center>

Foods Quick weight loss 6 Best Foods for Quick Weight Loss

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Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #4

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qmNX6BB-iUW-yYDLmM_-5TrNMDH4KRtzD75wFytnQZKI9dfiaq1f50tYG3yBn71cdxPHAXhg_ZyO2TKGhYtxTPHgj3uQ8ggpgpCtbRFJwJE7rU-KMP-sSzjSw0qz5Whc2eI1iQnj-U/s1600/school1.bmp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="464" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi63qmNX6BB-iUW-yYDLmM_-5TrNMDH4KRtzD75wFytnQZKI9dfiaq1f50tYG3yBn71cdxPHAXhg_ZyO2TKGhYtxTPHgj3uQ8ggpgpCtbRFJwJE7rU-KMP-sSzjSw0qz5Whc2eI1iQnj-U/s640/school1.bmp" width="640" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><br /></b></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>:</b> Hello Sarah Jane.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: It's you Doctor. Oh my god, it's you isn’t it? You've regenerated.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Half a dozen times since we last met.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: You look... incredible.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>So do you.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: I got old. What are you doing here?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Well, UFO sightings, school gets record results. I couldn't resist. What about you?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: Same. *</span><em style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">They both laugh.*</em><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> I thought you'd died. I waited for you and you didn't come back, and I thought you must have died.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>I lived. Everyone else died.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: What do you mean?</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><b>The Doctor</b><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><b>: </b>Everyone died, Sarah.</span><br style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;" /><strong style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Sarah Jane</strong><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">: I can't believe it's you. *</span><em style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">Mickey screams.*</em><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"> Okay, now I can. </span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 20px; text-align: center;">School Reunion (2006)</span></span></span>

David Tennant Doctor Who Doctor Who 50th Anniversary Tenth Doctor Quotes Tenth Doctor Month: Quote Of The Day #4

The Doctor : Hello Sarah Jane. Sarah Jane : It's you Doctor. Oh my god, it's you isn’t it? You've regenerated. The Doctor : Hal...

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September scenes along the Blue Ridge Parkway

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwyFVelB1Iaa7Jbu_6vgoAfP9I4PemlOc06aea3XWx_PVgFYiFHy_gT2SQmYv3XoffXxRj4o7ACKGyGOM8A8knNOfMRFmtXRKVUBWpgUTC7oL50VMPVsBKurFKK3_BTJ_S8Hdliej0BRa/s1600/14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimwyFVelB1Iaa7Jbu_6vgoAfP9I4PemlOc06aea3XWx_PVgFYiFHy_gT2SQmYv3XoffXxRj4o7ACKGyGOM8A8knNOfMRFmtXRKVUBWpgUTC7oL50VMPVsBKurFKK3_BTJ_S8Hdliej0BRa/s400/14.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">The government shutdown has closed all attractions, restaurants, restrooms, and visitor centers along the Blue Ridge Parkway but the roadway itself is still open. Here are some scenes from Monday, the last day before the shutdown, as SWAC Husband and I drove from North Carolina back home to the Shenandoah Valley.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiEOtE-YDgwMxRp2-QtSufTb5rx08ltBmoWQROOX7BlGAi-pUY4CpSxDmKDnRT6lmQH6xMq9mz7TJbqaxoSYmlBDJZTzceJ0JOepjuUc_rfmTUxZYgSxTGc5zgrp12XN2vaN73ARWtspP/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTiEOtE-YDgwMxRp2-QtSufTb5rx08ltBmoWQROOX7BlGAi-pUY4CpSxDmKDnRT6lmQH6xMq9mz7TJbqaxoSYmlBDJZTzceJ0JOepjuUc_rfmTUxZYgSxTGc5zgrp12XN2vaN73ARWtspP/s400/1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Mabry Mill and the restaurant are closed due to the shutdown. We enjoyed visiting with historical interpreters including the blacksmith who had visited the <a href="http://www.frontiermuseum.org/">Frontier Culture Museum</a> in Staunton and was impressed not only with the museum's blacksmith but the entire site.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKM3pP6vGVhdqKatqxowMrzzrzY_Rz0yl8mpiu8OuyOc_YwD47nfUgiWsEh64pGS-O0h19ti5sJ-jRb-Qv7k_50g-eRdsWsbkpNLm29O-TSoZvt2SStrFp38tRMnjWvLfooRJcKp51WEp6/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKM3pP6vGVhdqKatqxowMrzzrzY_Rz0yl8mpiu8OuyOc_YwD47nfUgiWsEh64pGS-O0h19ti5sJ-jRb-Qv7k_50g-eRdsWsbkpNLm29O-TSoZvt2SStrFp38tRMnjWvLfooRJcKp51WEp6/s400/6.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYTPDPiLxImQuGE8hzKzzAfP1be1IAE8fYZ0knWJwU-7MjZw53vyP7hX7ue7d7XFG5ah44Lr0dOSerOs4Z1CyCkBS-S9Uqr2aJ2qYpkUfqH_Ad9XxE2ScOsn4e68P60VlxdupryjE4jBN/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbYTPDPiLxImQuGE8hzKzzAfP1be1IAE8fYZ0knWJwU-7MjZw53vyP7hX7ue7d7XFG5ah44Lr0dOSerOs4Z1CyCkBS-S9Uqr2aJ2qYpkUfqH_Ad9XxE2ScOsn4e68P60VlxdupryjE4jBN/s400/7.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1jut1Z2sc91Hp_yuBEJLuPyvzRlSmJ9LKdMhAZPMg-KV0LBT2Q4h6amSqW4-5Pup-8_0WEbSheb7YGpFyuBMPTSq1Spvay4p28klAggu6kZWFkr4B__gJbq8h9stDUJxCQoXQlwv3coM/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiT1jut1Z2sc91Hp_yuBEJLuPyvzRlSmJ9LKdMhAZPMg-KV0LBT2Q4h6amSqW4-5Pup-8_0WEbSheb7YGpFyuBMPTSq1Spvay4p28klAggu6kZWFkr4B__gJbq8h9stDUJxCQoXQlwv3coM/s400/8.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKRX6twfUCLqyqdH8N_DdT2MAfysbwDCfdX6g2jl3MCkGE5ULR3FjmVqCzw6cKIOBUEw-O5r1Ab9queQYIXQNEACOlIs9GUCrQrwqgU7-5ITxo2B5PZd4L32uee0WH5R5VmFZb7y_T-8j/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZKRX6twfUCLqyqdH8N_DdT2MAfysbwDCfdX6g2jl3MCkGE5ULR3FjmVqCzw6cKIOBUEw-O5r1Ab9queQYIXQNEACOlIs9GUCrQrwqgU7-5ITxo2B5PZd4L32uee0WH5R5VmFZb7y_T-8j/s400/9.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWJWm2qSMk338Jos-E8mwZI-_fApuGqnwSJM2uhL8xzyEa_cPl62jXsIrExrCeedCw8wiGu_Df5xsywW9xq0W-3NYogW0x-vGNJozho3jXrUXVFF2N8jHl_1kbWnKEBeg1BzA8i5Tffkq/s1600/13.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCWJWm2qSMk338Jos-E8mwZI-_fApuGqnwSJM2uhL8xzyEa_cPl62jXsIrExrCeedCw8wiGu_Df5xsywW9xq0W-3NYogW0x-vGNJozho3jXrUXVFF2N8jHl_1kbWnKEBeg1BzA8i5Tffkq/s400/13.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpXqFjG-BFXA2JkvSpR6p4Xuj3H40pnkg9Ovvih54VL8cQfBTWT-_11boH2ekzgntl-T6bhDKw9KdQuuvCF1nfYLTDZsVuYPjhL0PjIiTXmwHdL2kCSqiXvJntWJeP-9nXDxqULShP6nA/s1600/24.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigpXqFjG-BFXA2JkvSpR6p4Xuj3H40pnkg9Ovvih54VL8cQfBTWT-_11boH2ekzgntl-T6bhDKw9KdQuuvCF1nfYLTDZsVuYPjhL0PjIiTXmwHdL2kCSqiXvJntWJeP-9nXDxqULShP6nA/s400/24.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />Photos by Lynn R. Mitchell<br />September 30, 2013

Blue Ridge Parkway government shutdown Mabry Mill North Carolina Virginia September scenes along the Blue Ridge Parkway

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LTE: 'Bill Bolling, we need you'

Letter to the editor in today's <a href="http://www.roanoke.com/opinion/pickoftheday/2268636-12/step-up-bill-bolling.html"><i>Roanoke Times</i></a>:<br /><br /><div id="storyDate">Friday, October 4, 2013</div><br /> <div id="storyBody"><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">Bill Bolling, where are you?</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">I know that you have been lieutenant governor for two terms. You have served with a governor who has moved Virginia forward. You know what Virginia needs to stay the great commonwealth that it is.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">We have no choice for governor this November. We need you.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">You said yourself on TV that you should have run. It is not too late; run as an independent or write-in. </div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">The people of Virginia don’t even know where the candidates stand on issues. All we have heard is negative commercials from both sides.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG">We need you to led Virginia for the next four years, so we can be proud of the wonderful state we live in. And keep Virginia moving forward.</div><div class="Editorial-LettersBIG"><br /></div><div class="Editorial-LettersSigTown">CHARLOTTE CREASY<br />ROANOKE</div></div>

2013 gubernatorial election Bill Bolling Roanoke Times write-in campaign LTE: 'Bill Bolling, we need you'

Letter to the editor in today's Roanoke Times : Friday, October 4, 2013 Bill Bolling, where are you? I know that you have been li...

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Today's Teamster News 10.04.13

<a href="http://www.teamster.org/content/teamsters-across-washington-support-local-grocery-store-workers" rel="nofollow">Teamsters Across Washington Support Local Grocery Store Workers</a>  teamster.org   ...The Joint Council of Teamsters No. 28, which represents more than 50,000 members and their families across Washington, Alaska and Northern Idaho, says it will honor a grocery worker strike if one occurs...<br /><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-north/franklin-park-has-contract-706014/" rel="nofollow">Agreement reached with public works, police talks go on</a>  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   ...Public works and parks employees, who are represented by Teamsters Local 249 in Pittsburgh, have reached a contract with the borough of Franklin Park, Pennsylvania...<br /><a href="http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/306815-report-suggests-commercial-waste-management-reform/" rel="nofollow">Report Suggests Commercial Waste Management Reform</a>  Epoch Times   ...“Growing up, jobs in the sanitation industry were good paying jobs with good pension plans. Now the majority of private owners pay very low wages and little in benefits. Many break the most basic health and safety regulations,” said Sean Campbell, a former garbage truck driver and current president of Teamsters Local 813...<br /><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/01/real-wages-down_n_4023869.html?utm_hp_ref=business" rel="nofollow">Corporate Profits Are Soaring, But You're Not Feeling It</a>  Huffington Post   ...real wages have declined by nearly seven percent in the past seven years, while, corporate profits have increased by 18.6 percent over the past year...<br /><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-10-03/democrats-balk-at-obama-s-fast-track-push-on-pacific-trade-talks.html" rel="nofollow">Democrats Balk at Obama’s Fast-Track on Pacific Trade</a>  Bloomberg News   ...Some Democrats in Congress, whose support <a href="http://topics.bloomberg.com/barack-obama/">Barack Obama</a> needs for trade accords, want to put the brakes on a Pacific-region deal just as the president prepares to meet with leaders of nations drafting the pact... <br /><a href="http://americanmanufacturing.org/blog/sorry-charlie-american-made-tuna-claim-questioned" rel="nofollow">Sorry Charlie? American-made tuna claim questioned</a>  manufacture this   ...”Foreign flag vessels, using who knows what gear type, no traceability, canned in Samoa. Hilarious..."<br /><a href="http://www.ttnews.com/articles/basetemplate.aspx?storyid=33089&t=FMCSA-Taking-Comments-on-Mexican-Truck-Program-Applicant" rel="nofollow">FMCSA Taking Comments on Mexican Truck Program Applicant</a>  Transport Topics   ...The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration is allowing the public to comment on an application by Transportation and Cargo Solutions S de RL de CV to participate in the Mexican cross-border trucking pilot program...<br /><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/02/thousands-march-to-mark-anniversary-of-infamous-mexico-city-protest/" rel="nofollow">Thousands march to mark anniversary of infamous Mexico City protest</a>  AFP   ...Protesters clashed with riot police in Mexico City, leaving dozens injured as thousands of people marched to mark the anniversary of the 1968 massacre of students...<br /><a href="http://www.alternet.org/economy/happy-100th-birthday-income-taxes-or-how-rich-have-gamed-system-pay-smaller-share" rel="nofollow">Happy 100th Birthday Income Taxes! Or How the Rich Have Gamed the System to Pay a Smaller Share</a>  AlterNet   ...October 3 marked the 100th anniversary of the federal income tax. That is, the income tax that we have today – the first US tax raised on earned incomes was a temporary one imposed to help pay for the War of 1812. Another helped pay for the Civil War, but was allowed to expire in 1872...<br /><a href="https://theconversation.com/google-and-exxonmobil-run-rings-around-outdated-tax-laws-18845" rel="nofollow">Google and ExxonMobil run rings around outdated tax laws</a>  The Conversation   ... ExxonMobil (has a) ... Spanish subsidiary (that) operated for a while from the same address as its auditors PricewaterhouseCoopers. The Spanish company apparently had one employee on an annual salary of €55,000, but it reported net profits of €9.9 billion for the period 2009 to 2011. The key to this was a strategy designed to take advantage of Spanish laws for attracting foreign investment...<br /><a href="http://oilprice.com/Energy/Coal/Coal-Use-Falling-Proof-of-Progress-to-Low-Carbon-Future.html" rel="nofollow">Coal Use Falling, Proof of Progress to Low-Carbon Future</a>  Oil Price   ...The vehemence in this pace of growth has led the IEA to project that coal consumption will challenge oil as the top global energy source by 2017. From this point, however, its reign will wane as an increasing emphasis is placed on other more clean-burning fuels...<br /><a href="http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/10/government-shutdown-causes-blood-shortages" rel="nofollow">Now the Government Shutdown Is Stopping Blood Drives</a>  Mother Jones   ... in just two days, four federal agency blood drives scheduled by one DC-area health care system have been canceled. The regional Red Cross has had to cancel six others in the Washington region...<br /><a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2013/10/the-republican-hardliners-arent-conservatives-theyre-radicals/280217/" rel="nofollow">The Republican Hardliners Aren't Conservatives, They're Radicals</a>  The Atlantic   ...The legislators driving the direction of the GOP aren't interested in smart, limited government. They're aiming to eviscerate even the parts that work well...<br /><a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/02/nsa_director_admits_to_misleading_public_on_terror_plots/" rel="nofollow">NSA director admits to misleading public on terror plots</a>  Salon   ...The Vermont Democrat then asked the NSA chief to admit that only 13 out of a previously cited 54 cases of foiled plots were genuinely the fruits of the government’s vast dragnet surveillance systems...<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/04/us/politics/debt-limit-impasse.html?hp&_r=0" rel="nofollow">Treasury Says Mere Prospect of Default May Harm Economy</a>  New York Times   ...The debt-limit impasse could cause credit markets to freeze, the dollar to plummet and interest rates to rise precipitously with catastrophic effects, according to a Treasury Department released Thursday...<br /><a href="http://www.moneycontrol.com/news/world-news/apple-now-hoards-10us-corporate-cash_961919.html" rel="nofollow">Apple now hoards 10% of US corporate cash</a>  Money Control   ...After the technology sector, the healthcare and pharmaceutical industry is the next most cash-flush sector, according to Moodys. Pfizer for example, is sitting on a USD 50 billion cash pile...<br /><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/bp-wins-appeal-of-spill-claims-ruling/2013/10/02/5009ff70-2bcb-11e3-b139-029811dbb57f_story.html" rel="nofollow">BP wins appeal of spill claims ruling</a>  Associated Press   ...A federal appeals court on Wednesday revived BP’s claims that a judge’s interpretation of a settlement over its 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico could force the company to pay billions of dollars for bogus or inflated claims by businesses...<br /><a href="http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/10/02/3666091/florida-prison-healthcare-providers.html" rel="nofollow">Florida prison healthcare providers sued hundreds of times</a>  Miami Herald   ...The Florida Department of Corrections awarded a five-year, $1.2 billion contract to provide medical care for thousands of state prisoners in North and Central Florida to a Tennessee company that was sued 660 times for malpractice in the past five years...<br /><a href="http://www.democracy-tree.com/rtw-battles-michigan-ontario/" rel="nofollow">New RTW Battles in Michigan and Ontario</a>  Democracy Tree   ...Two new right-to-work threats to report: one in Michigan against the non-union, dues-based State Bar of Michigan, and another across the border in Ontario. Michigan attorneys are firing back against the shadowy forces behind RTW. The Koch brothers should be warned: Don’t piss-off 43,600 lawyers...<br /><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/02/basic-services-staggered-in-bankrupt-detroit-/2912231/" rel="nofollow">Detroit residents cope with bankruptcy in daily lives</a>  USA TODAY   ...Here are some far-reaching effects of the city’s lack of operating funds on both its citizens and workers...<br /><a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/business/labor_and_unions/20131003_Trade_unions_rail_against_non-union_worksite.html" rel="nofollow">Trade unions rail against non-union worksite</a>  Philadelphia Inquirer   ...Philadelphia Trade unions have taken their dispute with developers Michael and Matthew Pestronk to a new level, producing a sleek documentary that accuses the brothers of safety and health violations at their signature project, the unfinished Goldtex building...

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Study: Antibiotic overuse still the rule for sore throat, bronchitis | CIDRAP

<div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Despite many years of efforts to reduce overuse of antibiotics, needless prescribing of the drugs for sore-throat patients hasn't declined in 13 years, and overprescribing for acute bronchitis has stayed about the same since 1980, according to research released today.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Using survey data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Boston researchers reported that the proportion of sore throat patients who received antibiotics stayed at about 60% from 1997 to 2010. Only about 10% of sore throats should be treated with antibiotics, they said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition, the researchers said about 73% of bronchitis patients continue to be treated with antibiotics, even though acute bronchitis is rarely caused by a bacterial infection.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The findings were presented today at IDWeek, the annual conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of America and several other medical societies in San Francisco. The sore throat study was published today by <em>JAMA Internal Medicine</em>, but the bronchitis study has not yet been published in a journal.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The studies were conducted by Michael L. Barnett, MD, and Jeffrey A. Linder, MD, both of Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The authors mined data from the CDC's National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey and National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey. The nationally representative surveys collect data on physicians and practices, including patient demographics, reasons for visits, diagnoses, and medications.</span></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Sore-throat prescribing gets costlier</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the sore-throat survey, the authors counted visits by adults to primary care physicians or emergency departments (EDs) for treatment of sore throat from 1997 through 2010. Patients with injuries, immunosuppression, or concomitant infections were excluded.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The survey data included 8,191 such visits over the 14-year period, which suggests a total of 92 million visits nationwide during that time, according to the journal report. Antibiotics were prescribed at 60% of the visits (95% confidence interval, 57% to 63%), a figure that didn't change over the 14 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">In addition, "We found that there was a significant increase in the rate of prescribing broader-spectrum, more expensive antibiotics such as azithromycin," Linder said at an IDSA press teleconference today. The latter drug was prescribed at 15% of visits by 2009-10.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The only common cause of sore throat requiring antibiotics is Group A<em>Streptococcus</em>, accounting for about 10% of cases, according to the report. Penicillin remains the drug of choice for strep throat, Linder said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It turns out that the bug that causes strep throat is resistant to some of those newer, more expensive antibiotics, but never resistant to penicillin," he said. He and Barnett found that penicillin was prescribed in about 9% of sore throat cases, a figure that was stable over the 14 years.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The rate of antibiotic use for sore throat, once as high as 80%, was about 70% in 1993 and dropped to 60% by 2000, where it has remained, the journal report says. "I'd characterize that as moderate to marginal improvement and painfully slow and far from what it should be," Linder said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The analysis also showed that the share of primary care visits prompted by sore throats dropped form 7.5% in 1997 to 4.3% in 2010.</span></p><h3 style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Bronchitis data flat since 1980</span></font></h3><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">For the bronchitis study, the authors used the same data sources and general methods but covered the years 1996 through 2010. They identified 3,667 adult medical visits for the problem during that time, suggesting a total of 39 million visits nationwide, according to an IDSA press release.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">They found that antibiotics were prescribed at 73% of the visits overall. In EDs, the rate actually increased from 69% to 73% over the period. The appropriate rate is probably close to 0%, Linder said at the press conference.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"The really bad news is that it [the overall rate] didn't change at all over the course of the study," he said.  "Going back to 1980, the prescribing rate has essentially not changed at all."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The study also revealed that the number of visits for bronchitis to primary care doctors increased significantly, from 1.1 million in 1996 to 3.4 million in 2010.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Linder said he and Barnett had hoped for more signs of improvement, in view of the efforts to prevent overprescribing over the past 10 to 20 years. "For sore throat we're moving the needle ever so slowly, and for bronchitis we're not moving it at all. So we were surprised," he said.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Antibiotic stewardship programs have helped reduce the misuse of antibiotics in hospitals, but the findings suggest that the message isn't reaching the community, according to the IDSA press release.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Linder observed in the release that taking needless antibiotics exposes people to adverse drug reactions, allergies, yeast infections, and nausea, with no benefit.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He suggested at the teleconference that physicians need to take time to discuss the issue with patients. "The doctor assumes the patient wants an antibiotic," he said. Yet, "Other work we've done shows that patients don't actually want antibiotics as much doctors think they do."</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><strong>Barnett ML, Linder JA.</strong> Antibiotic prescribing to adults with sore throat in the United States, 1997-2010. (Research letter) JAMA Intern Med 2013 (Online publication Oct 3) [<a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1745694" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">Full text</a>]</span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><strong style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">See also:</strong></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Accompanying <a href="http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=1745693" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: none;">editorial</a></span></p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/10/study-antibiotic-overuse-still-rule-sore-throat-bronchitis">http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2013/10/study-antibiotic-overuse-still-rule-sore-throat-bronchitis</a></div>

Study: Antibiotic overuse still the rule for sore throat, bronchitis | CIDRAP

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Or should I say fiddle around.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsKen4FfSdaM709-YPl8zsLzg4sdWvMX53zmD50hb4wZxztiiGN3T0iKwe1LBCVxOVf1e0RKY-2jOoB4hRvAJef_O3aiYon3VcM90kknw9qJeVm4OcS9N8IeWWc_FfdG9meuculFBofUS/s1600/1.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRsKen4FfSdaM709-YPl8zsLzg4sdWvMX53zmD50hb4wZxztiiGN3T0iKwe1LBCVxOVf1e0RKY-2jOoB4hRvAJef_O3aiYon3VcM90kknw9qJeVm4OcS9N8IeWWc_FfdG9meuculFBofUS/s640/1.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzl0IWkqdzdxZRh6eGUNR8HTZFib3ZHvmtw_mnml9WvlBr6e0pj0Cojwogdj6VUmQmxM3XfhcPOPjTb3EGV_d6FgaPchVadS5EWTkvQD-mdCtBbeszaLr6hK_jA6Qe2lOMIczaCznRIRM/s1600/2.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmzl0IWkqdzdxZRh6eGUNR8HTZFib3ZHvmtw_mnml9WvlBr6e0pj0Cojwogdj6VUmQmxM3XfhcPOPjTb3EGV_d6FgaPchVadS5EWTkvQD-mdCtBbeszaLr6hK_jA6Qe2lOMIczaCznRIRM/s640/2.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8c9drxWy6GXqswf2tbc0SLledDEo00OKum9CSo1xZ03-pJHoaynJSlV7HVPs_AohqIJZ_uIwALJuDwvzDKsLfO9WqMyEl9nI_f3MbqCUwd71yF5I2bGhHIQ9DLzSA5SSeNEWhpqN6wZ_/s1600/3.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEik8c9drxWy6GXqswf2tbc0SLledDEo00OKum9CSo1xZ03-pJHoaynJSlV7HVPs_AohqIJZ_uIwALJuDwvzDKsLfO9WqMyEl9nI_f3MbqCUwd71yF5I2bGhHIQ9DLzSA5SSeNEWhpqN6wZ_/s640/3.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszEflfh8pijpazlJBEYeYBeiKJFIvaPxxVjEj_cDxXKJArC12x3yyOxP5cigD3PzQGJ96ryRgDjZ3XYF6maEU-EfmCeuiS_pd9RXK0H3PmzFIGtwsFwINuyaMBHK9_mR92dCIzx5Sz3PU/s1600/4.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiszEflfh8pijpazlJBEYeYBeiKJFIvaPxxVjEj_cDxXKJArC12x3yyOxP5cigD3PzQGJ96ryRgDjZ3XYF6maEU-EfmCeuiS_pd9RXK0H3PmzFIGtwsFwINuyaMBHK9_mR92dCIzx5Sz3PU/s640/4.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX49PXzv3okM-1pghWjwNBKFVYRzDoCPYzbuYvHsZfjOES_1JfDR0BjgPeL2jY5PbbQBqyVVAV5Eh6zESLYU0AfDqa0HOY4EJaXdHTpcl3JckQ6Ylk3gRXcJTUYy7j0-i_140DgL1t6PhD/s1600/5.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgX49PXzv3okM-1pghWjwNBKFVYRzDoCPYzbuYvHsZfjOES_1JfDR0BjgPeL2jY5PbbQBqyVVAV5Eh6zESLYU0AfDqa0HOY4EJaXdHTpcl3JckQ6Ylk3gRXcJTUYy7j0-i_140DgL1t6PhD/s640/5.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lCLp-M2WfeIzScGxLNGQk-6NOYnU_tvBHplA05wQramKMf-eAxNTRJAvS0FnZ-0JzvJGSMc8tEv4MhGg0-pKi4oZ8-qJtDixI60Q3ur5Ivkk5TVdojJ2iNk5Saz-ZcK0gQtjVrDmf4AJ/s1600/6.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2lCLp-M2WfeIzScGxLNGQk-6NOYnU_tvBHplA05wQramKMf-eAxNTRJAvS0FnZ-0JzvJGSMc8tEv4MhGg0-pKi4oZ8-qJtDixI60Q3ur5Ivkk5TVdojJ2iNk5Saz-ZcK0gQtjVrDmf4AJ/s640/6.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwKAYmms0_1p0w1AdVy08_8YI7BSl4sEAzx5b00t2e16CxduZLa_3mB9jj0TqsF_r8izxsWli4j7YKIEvCrA-72OaNVSUxiai6RInfyxmTz9OITIltCqkk5G_0VM1Hlkn7pL1-kuvC6H6/s1600/7.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQwKAYmms0_1p0w1AdVy08_8YI7BSl4sEAzx5b00t2e16CxduZLa_3mB9jj0TqsF_r8izxsWli4j7YKIEvCrA-72OaNVSUxiai6RInfyxmTz9OITIltCqkk5G_0VM1Hlkn7pL1-kuvC6H6/s640/7.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Pretty sweet.<br /><br />I stumbled on these images completely by accident looking for something completely different but liked them so much I lifted them from some guy named Duncan at <a href="http://-duncan-.tumblr.com/page/2">Duncan's Tumblr</a> page.<br /><br />Let me tell ya, if you or someone you know is into newer and vintage Warbirds or old WWII pictures of ships, tanks, howitzers, you name it, this guy has some real beauties.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjJxyXkw-iEKZXZA3qMzlhUUJV6aT_lUHi4Yg0AiwIa6zPRsEtW3jdGMejZi4yENuWKD7aNC8vXuhk374sRXLUR3KWc7l-vrXAPTsVSZbxrdZnylpw9VNeuhSTfL2XwVc4yIKSD8dJGn/s1600/8.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOOjJxyXkw-iEKZXZA3qMzlhUUJV6aT_lUHi4Yg0AiwIa6zPRsEtW3jdGMejZi4yENuWKD7aNC8vXuhk374sRXLUR3KWc7l-vrXAPTsVSZbxrdZnylpw9VNeuhSTfL2XwVc4yIKSD8dJGn/s640/8.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkeHFY01j-gBou75Jj0YQ1Hwd2iFGNyoPR2x5rrDa4aNRFJMJiGNLu4AIyemMnFpQE7wxnnApBwkRIf6ctyoBdjjkMC0c8nxePb-ohxbbc3JBi4-8IlgLg5OLzpYjsGFWTjZcWcN-ru14/s1600/9.jpg" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnkeHFY01j-gBou75Jj0YQ1Hwd2iFGNyoPR2x5rrDa4aNRFJMJiGNLu4AIyemMnFpQE7wxnnApBwkRIf6ctyoBdjjkMC0c8nxePb-ohxbbc3JBi4-8IlgLg5OLzpYjsGFWTjZcWcN-ru14/s640/9.jpg" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />

Makes Me Want To Learn The Fiddle

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fess up friday - make me up

Anyone who has read this blog more than a handful of times might suspect I have tunnel vision when it comes to design (and good cocktails). And it is true, I do. I'm not holding back on you. There isn't some big other chunk of my life that I just don't share on here. Sure, I do other things with friends and family and there are large portions of my day that involve permission slips, lunch boxes, laundry and the rare date night that make life normal. But by and large, I voluntarily consume myself with design.<br /><br />And that won't change. Not ever. Given a choice, I will always and forever spend money on something for my house rather than for myself (not including child needs of course).<br /><br />But as I get busier with work, I would like to start to take a bit more time for myself and give myself a facial, moisturize or even possibly, hold on to your seat here, put on makeup. Crazy talk! I've never been much of a makeup girl, just some lipstick and mascara - and always good nail polish, but as mamma gets older she could use a little spruce.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0HK9Xo16QeJP6YRrNw2Mzlwp8YYvWgi6VkjpZl_bhZfzQwdeXA-EKm8Ww4V7JNoC55jX8OG8D0FIWhgdzbS-o2vlQUfQrZj1q38PtCsLhrF8uszqIifAjJ9bBCqbHl1mbLBOUM4hdO4v/s1600/42c6366a7e75a2fd77660c0bb28dcdff.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="287" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgT0HK9Xo16QeJP6YRrNw2Mzlwp8YYvWgi6VkjpZl_bhZfzQwdeXA-EKm8Ww4V7JNoC55jX8OG8D0FIWhgdzbS-o2vlQUfQrZj1q38PtCsLhrF8uszqIifAjJ9bBCqbHl1mbLBOUM4hdO4v/s400/42c6366a7e75a2fd77660c0bb28dcdff.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />So share with me. Teach me. What products do you use? Tell me what you love? What do you recommend? What do you wear everyday? How do you treat yourself? How many questions can I ask in one paragraph?

fess up friday - make me up

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Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/04/2013

<ul class="diigo-linkroll"> <li> <p class="diigo-link"> <a href="http://connectededucators.org/connectedcem-cafe/">Connected/CEM Cafe | Connected Educators</a> </p> <p class="diigo-description">Most weeknights of Connected Educator month #cem13 there are Connected Cafes with many online leaders in education. They are free and will be great conversations. I'm on October 3 at 7:30 pm and we're talking about connected leadership with Dean Shareski and moderated by Steve Hargadon. Take a look at the calendar to see more. October 4 is Larry Ferlazzo and Angela Maiers, October 8, Ira Socol and Kathleen Cushman and many more.</p> <p class="diigo-tags"> <span>tags:</span> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/education">education</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/news">news</a> <a href="https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher/cem13">cem13</a></p> </li> </ul><p class="diigo-ps">Posted from <a href='https://www.diigo.com'>Diigo</a>. The rest of my favorite links are <a href='https://www.diigo.com/user/coolcatteacher'>here</a>.</p>

Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 10/04/2013

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Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s1600/symbaloo.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcdQNVLsw2-w8vkvuWD1VobJ_cuMxTkKmh0boo4E3A9T_74pdDEKfxKfCldgCw63hfdEoE4FEzw0nNiuAwK10tCYc2wwHXCKTWUZNcIJ1LGBTuuWxXAVbASnM0gtW17uHkyk7vTGZ1zfQ/s320/symbaloo.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One of my favourite people to follow is Matt Gomez who has a Kindergarden blog </span><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. He shares amazing ideas for the Foundation Phase classroom on his blog.   Through him I was introduced to the potential of using Symbaloo in the classroom. Last year I wrote a post entitled ‘</span><a href="http://e-blogschool.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-symbaloo-symbaloo-is-great-free.html" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get to know Symbaloo as a bookmarking or curation tool</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">’ which explained how to create a Symbaloo mix.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In this post I want to highlight some of my favourite Symbaloo mixes for Foundation Phase learners. I found these wonderful Symbaloo collections on the Kinderchat Symbaloo webmix site. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat">http://www.symbaloo.com/profile/kinderchat</a>. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On this site you’ll find great selections of free e-books, online stories, songs etc.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just click on the image (or the link) below to be taken to the actual mix where you can listen to or watch the various media. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">1) National Geographic e-books</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/natgeobooks"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDQEJ0H4Jb56at4Txzz7adX-UQmoyMHdACuv6VkvfnQUs59vVGZ_xzPuCZlaz3_vgvmb2tsWGSTvdAeSRSCgXnXR7qZQh6y2QLyGY9F3x9MILdUlO0GYkUefr07yTRI5fiaxPUOO-BWB0/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">2) Online stories</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/bnonlinestorytime"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAJMr1BE6L9d6IvYB9PtHCTp7ZBud0BinVoNb3EsnycIKEYHuh2y2neNsujOqzcIP8b3Cbv5XU4LRVF5N_yYFlPved8WpPYVVKqaIo0uItfmi9IdXdTk_nM6b1ZaVySpOcJuN5kkeaij4/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">3) Sesame Street popular videos</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet</a></span></b><br /><b><br /></b><b><br /></b><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/sesamestreet"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrpEmz3rwWXAkyAVOerKF9MKk6GWXQ-GOcOh-FAZumiXV9zLBf0IrUXFQMFpg-cZ_rcQD8_-4wnytYvlHlnqaadeHFxGnuT166XfSM7OFQmxsj77n9Dd-7i-_-5cAOL4d3KuvWvxL7eHY/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></span></a><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">4)  Letter sounds</span><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds">http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds</a></span></b><br /><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><a href="http://www.symbaloo.com/mix/storybotslettersounds"><img alt="image" border="0" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0QjdjCVNKVBEHn_8twX8NpRfDBudI56TE0m1iAorpETkWsPZC5Ihq_yH6BhFLbReywLt7S_XzGWupqh8VPlDbnzIQEV3Q4Z_J82O1uTPc6Q3oaUfslwIvbUiaSKMFBtRgzyLyhRlipAc/?imgmax=800" style="background-image: none; border: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px;" title="image" width="400" /></a></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong></strong><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></b><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Uses for Symbaloo in the classroom</span></b><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1) You can find out what other Symbaloo users are doing and learn from them using the easy Share and Gallery options.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">2) You can create a starter page of Intenet sites for your students to use on a project – or your students can create their own.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">3) Symbaloo opens its tiles in a new window so that the original always remains as a reference point. It can be used really well with webquests. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">4) As a teacher you can save your favourite tools so that they are always handy for you to use.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">5) You can use it an Index post for a number of blog posts you have created around a topic. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">6) I love the way this teacher uses Symbaloo in his kindergarden class. </span><br /><a href="http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://mattbgomez.com/just-dance-video-webmix/</span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">7) Listen to this Grade 7 student from the post <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does with Symbaloo <a href="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/" title="http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/">http://fishingforedtech.com/2012/03/01/4-ways-to-use-symbalooedu/</a> showing what she does using Symbaloo</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/YEls3tq5wIY" width="420"></iframe> </div>

Symbaloo Web tools Wonderful Symbaloo mixes to share with your Foundation Phase Learners

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Worms? We Don't Need No Stinking Worms!

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Not Quick Enough, Slick

Kinda neat, an infra red camera view of a Formula 1 car getting a Boo Boo.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pB0t0M2F1Jbdstf4Px8iyftIxkDBVulPnnyms4TeRGc3s303LVqBFEI_5qwE0ge6bfnm-bjqJAMiXfUeY9J_S8Fvl-nItvr3agD2Jt9W-za7ypUINuE1K9OjhIegpSlDe3oAPT2VRUty/s1600/i3bRb9xQPAdZ1.gif" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-pB0t0M2F1Jbdstf4Px8iyftIxkDBVulPnnyms4TeRGc3s303LVqBFEI_5qwE0ge6bfnm-bjqJAMiXfUeY9J_S8Fvl-nItvr3agD2Jt9W-za7ypUINuE1K9OjhIegpSlDe3oAPT2VRUty/s640/i3bRb9xQPAdZ1.gif" /></a><br /><br />

Not Quick Enough, Slick

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Available To Pre-Order Now: RSC Richard II Music & Speeches CD Featuring David Tennant

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l7lVcqqYFZpA-014o8pifR7CdDDVhHEAbKWXte9dtVXT9LTw6ZQidfG_Mw8WK-8iXhsPQkolAJYubQ9D0tpxsLFFa1bdHXVzhxoZN4PM9CBHCarhkFNxetVKuKcEBaaMRLc0xfY1tK8/s1600/dick2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8l7lVcqqYFZpA-014o8pifR7CdDDVhHEAbKWXte9dtVXT9LTw6ZQidfG_Mw8WK-8iXhsPQkolAJYubQ9D0tpxsLFFa1bdHXVzhxoZN4PM9CBHCarhkFNxetVKuKcEBaaMRLc0xfY1tK8/s1600/dick2.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Get a taste of what is to come from the </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Royal Shakespeare Company Winter 2013 production of </span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Richard II. </i><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A new CD featuring music and speeches from the play</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> is now available to pr-order from the RSC shop. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This CD features music from the new production composed by Paul Englishby, along with speeches performed by cast members David Tennant, Jane Lapotaire and Michael Pennington It also includes music composed by Ralph Vaughan Williams from the 1913 RSC production of <i>Richard II</i>. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Track listing</span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1. Lacrimosa (Paul Englishby)<br />2. Richard (Paul Englishby)<br />3. Finds brotherhood in thee no sharper spur? (speech Act I Sc ii Duchess of Gloucester - Jane Lapotaire)<br />4. In Paradisum (Paul Englishby)<br />5. Methinks I am a prophet new inspired (speech Act II Sc i John of Gaunt - Michael Pennington)<br />6. True Born Englishman (Paul Englishby)<br />7. Sicut Cervus (Paul Englishby)<br />8. Of comfort no man speak (speech Act III Sc ii Richard II - David Tennant)<br />9. Bolingbroke (Paul Englishby)<br />10. Requiem Aeternam (Paul Englishby)<br />11. Eased with being nothing (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />12. Greensleeves (arr. Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />13. In weeping after this untimely bier (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />14. Agnus dei (Ralph Vaughan Williams)<br />15. Pie Jesu, Amen (Paul Englishby)</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The CD is released on October 18th and costs £5 or £4.50 for RSC members</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/item/62328-richard-ii-music--speeches-cd-2013/"><span style="color: blue;"><b>Pre-order your copy here</b></span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.rsc.org.uk/shop/category/fc90cd87-1926-4da6-8738-9990cbde8b63/"><span style="color: blue;">Click here</span></a> to view the full range of Richard II merchandise from the RSC shop</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Richard II</i> will open at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, <st1:place w:st="on">Stratford-upon-Avon</st1:place> on 10th October 2013 and will run until 16th November 2013. It will then transfer to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city> from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. The production is directed by Gregory Doran and stars David Tennant as King Richard and Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The play will be filmed and streamed live into <st1:country-region w:st="on">UK</st1:country-region> cinemas on Wednesday 13th November, and then into cinemas in locations worldwide in broadcasts running until February 2014. <a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more on the RSC Onscreen site</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Keep up to date with all the Richard II news on our website</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

David Tennant Music Richard II Royal Shakespeare Company Theatre Available To Pre-Order Now: RSC Richard II Music & Speeches CD Featuring David Tennant

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Runner Runner: A fouled hand

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b><i>Runner Runner</i> </b></span></span></span></span></span></span><b>(2013) • <a href="http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/fox/runnerrunner/" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">View trailer</a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif;"><b> </b><br /><b>2.5 stars. Rating: R, for profanity and occasional blunt sexual candor</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><b>By <a href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/12885694730612878577" style="color: #27a9c5; text-decoration: none;">Derrick Bang</a></b></span></b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:WordDocument> <w:Zoom>0</w:Zoom> <w:TrackMoves>false</w:TrackMoves> <w:TrackFormatting/> <w:PunctuationKerning/> <w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridHorizontalSpacing> <w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing>18 pt</w:DrawingGridVerticalSpacing> <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery> <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0</w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery> <w:ValidateAgainstSchemas/> <w:SaveIfXMLInvalid>false</w:SaveIfXMLInvalid> <w:IgnoreMixedContent>false</w:IgnoreMixedContent> <w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText>false</w:AlwaysShowPlaceholderText> <w:Compatibility> <w:BreakWrappedTables/> <w:DontGrowAutofit/> <w:DontAutofitConstrainedTables/> <w:DontVertAlignInTxbx/> </w:Compatibility> </w:WordDocument></xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <w:LatentStyles DefLockedState="false" LatentStyleCount="276"> </w:LatentStyles></xml><![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 10]><style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ascii-font-family:Cambria; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Cambria; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} </style><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <br /><div class="MsoNormalCxSpFirst"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some movies defiantly wear their movie-ness like an ill-advised badge of honor.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The premise is so contrived, the characters so ill-defined, their behavior so random, that all we can do is shake our heads in resignation, thinking, What can we expect? It’s only a movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHuURKt_Xx-er_NxMYONtPfK_H_TYbKFGP_RzYzeipdQssTzICvUVryGfgflutHy8Tk5ikWK50kXmiwCxmABbFbuCWWxxuXv-lmB_gJcmcykLp4Jq24dD5ja9NaJhIVE5cWPUYtHRl8/s1600/Runner+Runner+blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="265" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceHuURKt_Xx-er_NxMYONtPfK_H_TYbKFGP_RzYzeipdQssTzICvUVryGfgflutHy8Tk5ikWK50kXmiwCxmABbFbuCWWxxuXv-lmB_gJcmcykLp4Jq24dD5ja9NaJhIVE5cWPUYtHRl8/s400/Runner+Runner+blog.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">It's every teenage boy's dream come true: Richie (Justin Timberlake, left) couldn't be<br />happier when Internet gambling tycoon Ivan Block (Ben Affleck) accepts him as a<br />protégé. Of course, Richie fails to heed the slightest trace of common sense, branding<br />himself as the biggest sucker of all time: an attitude without which we wouldn't have<br />this film. Which might have been a good thing.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Runner, Runner</i> fits that bill.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The script, credited to Brian Koppelman and David Levien, is absolutely ludicrous. It opens with a behavioral howler and just gets worse, its central character — our <i>de facto</i> hero — ignoring common sense to a degree that makes it impossible to sympathize with him. Frankly, he fully deserves the consequences that he eventually struggles so hard to escape.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Let him hang, and move on.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But no, that would defy the revenge scenario that Koppelman and Levien so clumsily stitch together, from one bewildering moment to the next. Director Brad Furman, perhaps recognizing the weak hand he has been dealt, does his best to dazzle us with Costa Rican scenery and the wretched excess of an opulent casino gaming community. <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Indeed, cinematographer Mauro Fiore lingers so long on such a setting, when our young hero initially enters this hedonistic realm, that I began to wonder if Furman had forgotten what to do next.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Runner, Runner</i>, set in the world of Internet gambling, is an echo for Koppelman and Levien. They made their bones back in 1998 with <i>Rounders</i>, a slick suspense thriller also involving high-stakes poker and a protagonist — in that case, Matt Damon — who gets in over his head. Clearly obsessed with gamblers and intricate stings, Koppelman and Levien subsequently created the short-lived TV series <i>Tilt</i> and brought the Danny Ocean series to a satisfying conclusion with <i>Ocean’s Thirteen</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things since then haven’t been nearly as satisfying, with two failures — <i>The Girlfriend Experience</i> and <i>Solitary Man</i>, both in 2009 — that were outside their comfort zone. No doubt Koppelman and Levien viewed <i>Runner, Runner</i> as a means of returning to what they know best.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well guys, they say you can’t go home again ... and that’s certainly the case here.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richie Furst (Justin Timberlake), a Wall Street up-and-comer who lost everything when the market crashed, has started over as a Princeton grad student. Lacking a respectable means to fund his education, he has been earning a commission as a shill for Midnight Black, an enormously successful Internet gambling site.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Alas, Princeton’s dean (a small but well-played role by Bob Gunton) thinks little of Richie’s clandestine operation, and orders it shut down. With no other means of earning tuition money, Richie goes “all in” one night by yielding to the very temptation that he has professed, during his smart-alecky narration, to be smart enough to avoid: playing online poker at Midnight Black. Naturally, he loses everything.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But suspiciously.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><a name='more'></a><br /> <div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Richie knows poker odds, and during his all-nighter determines the “tells” of his online opponents, at least one of whom made impossible bets. A subsequent mathematical model of the night’s activities point to certain chicanery. (Gee ... ya <i>think?</i>)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We momentarily pause, to contemplate the bone-deep stupidity of <i>anybody</i>in the real world who would believe, for a moment, that these online gambling empires <i>don’t</i> cheat. How the hell would you ever know?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But I digress.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Most people would chalk up this experience as a valuable lesson learned, but not our Richie. He immediately hops a plane to Costa Rica — we can’t help wondering how he funds this trip — in order to confront Midnight Black’s owner/tycoon, Ivan Block (Ben Affleck, appropriately smooth and smarmy). Mind you, Richie never has been to this country, knows not a lick of Spanish, and has no six-degrees-of-separation connections to Block.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And yet, within a single day, he crosses paths with Midnight Black’s ultra-sultry COO, Rebecca Shafran (Gemma Arterton), and then wangles a face-to-face with Block himself.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A-<i>ma</i>-zing.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Like I said: It’s a movie.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Block, impressed by Richie’s savvy — and by the fact that our hero kept his accusation on the low-down, rather than blabbing the details all over the Internet — immediately offers the younger man a job. (You’re just the sort of guy I need at my side, blah, blah, blah.) Richie, unable to believe his good luck (!), immediately accepts ... naively taking Block at face value, and convinced that he’s made a new best bud.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As introduced, Richie is too smart to be this stupid.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Granted, the world is full of stupid smart people, particularly when gobs of cash are involved. But fiction has the added responsibility of <i>persuading</i>us that such behavior is reasonable, given a set of circumstances, a task at which this film fails completely. Koppelman and Levien’s script isn’t sufficiently thought out — it’s an overblown pot-boiler, at best — and Timberlake’s limited acting chops aren’t able to fill in the blanks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, we go with the flow: Richie becomes Block’s apprentice because, well, the script <i>says</i> he does. And Richie stays at his new mentor’s side, despite increasing evidence that the sailing, well, isn’t quite as smooth as Block keeps insisting.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For openers, Richie soon gets braced by FBI Special Agent Shavers (Anthony Mackie, unpleasantly shrill), who wants Block for racketeering, extortion, bribery and probably a few other niggling charges. Trouble is, Costa Rica is beyond Shavers’ jurisdiction — hence no chance of extradition — and Block has the moolah to buy all the local cops and judges he might require.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Naturally, Rebecca is too much of a stunner for Richie to ignore, despite the fact that her relationship with Block seems more than purely professional. (All the willing female flesh on hand, and of course Richie wants the babe that common sense insists he shouldn’t pursue.) And, just as Richie never questions Block’s slick patter, he similarly doesn’t think twice about Rebecca’s come-hither advances. Like, after all this time with Block, she’d suddenly decide to fall in love with somebody else, and this eager-beaver Princeton grad student would be The Guy?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Oh, puh-<i>leaze</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">(Given the high-rolling self-indulgence on display, this film is surprisingly chaste: not a bared breast in sight, let alone any of the erotic sexual antics one would expect. But I digress again.)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Things get increasingly sloppy, with folks apparently changing their allegiances as a given scene demands. One sidebar character gets killed off-camera, except that he doesn’t; we’re later told that he was merely badly beaten, but is okay ... not that we ever see him again. Mind you, the narrative, as presented, demands that said individual <i>should</i> have been killed ... but that’s just the way Koppelman and Levien roll.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">John Heard is memorable as Richie’s deadbeat father, a gambling addict who wants only that his son not follow in his footsteps. Heard is understated, his Harry Furst a sad remnant of a man, and this low-key performance is a welcome relief from the feverish pitch at which everybody else operates.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furman’s directorial approach feels less like a film, and more like the overstated “acting” we generally get from the pixel avatars in first-person-shooter computer games. The overall tone is that heightened, that exaggerated, that manipulative.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sidebar Costa Rican characters, whether in the local underworld or the local constabulary, are so poorly developed that it’s impossible to tell them apart. Some get assaulted; some do the assaulting. The details are irritatingly vague.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">By the time we reach the mildly clever climax, we’re long past caring. And, even as the film concludes, fresh questions remain unanswered ... such as, What the heck happens to Richie’s father?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furman, relatively new on the Hollywood scene, has two previous films to his credit. 2007’s <i>The Take</i> was stillborn, but he did a reasonably slick — if somewhat overwrought — job with 2011’s adaptation of Michael Connelly’s <i><a href="http://derrickbang.blogspot.com/2011/03/lincoln-lawyer-sloppy-defense.html">The Lincoln Lawyer</a></i>. The result was engaging enough to suggest that, allied with competent writers, Furman could rise above hack-dom and carve out at least a minor career in B-flicks.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This limp exercise, however, won’t do him any favors.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just in passing, “runner-runner” is a poker term that refers to a Texas Hold ’em hand made by hitting two consecutive cards on the turn (fourth) and river (fifth) cards. The odds of such success are, as you might imagine, extremely slim: an apt description of this maladroit flick’s chances at the box office.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormalCxSpMiddle"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ya gotta know when to fold ’em.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><!--EndFragment-->

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Runner Runner   (2013) •  View trailer   2.5 stars. Rating: R, for profanity and occasional blunt sexual candor By  Derrick Bang ...

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Ireland goes to the polls

On the 4th of October 2013 there is a referendum vote here in Ireland.<div><br></div><div>We vote on whether to abolish our second house of government the Senate (Seanad).  The second referendum is whether to create a Court of Appeal.<div><br></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qXqzvuSqrewoCGNYlgb3RA0zJVXJTSM7N2zLD5QNVGjHVz-DJvkK7UPfhyxdcb5WCCQM3jBv9EJU5JKDw7_KQd6GRDc0ZQKyOL6ENGE8_-0WEnJpFXqkr6sE69DLzM2do3bMsnaKJfdK/s640/blogger-image-896139671.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0qXqzvuSqrewoCGNYlgb3RA0zJVXJTSM7N2zLD5QNVGjHVz-DJvkK7UPfhyxdcb5WCCQM3jBv9EJU5JKDw7_KQd6GRDc0ZQKyOL6ENGE8_-0WEnJpFXqkr6sE69DLzM2do3bMsnaKJfdK/s640/blogger-image-896139671.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjlTf44S5uDDoYZlewpQrPFobT5_A0bPoBPaTCVpu3ZPBueOaHHNvngEGkt_JfBYJOB5x4rUEXRYdizn9hiQOYPA5TAufZjF3TcwUJuZ-eeUHHru6n-NUGmHJfQMzZT3EM3_c_YiWy7E5/s640/blogger-image--1554165214.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzjlTf44S5uDDoYZlewpQrPFobT5_A0bPoBPaTCVpu3ZPBueOaHHNvngEGkt_JfBYJOB5x4rUEXRYdizn9hiQOYPA5TAufZjF3TcwUJuZ-eeUHHru6n-NUGmHJfQMzZT3EM3_c_YiWy7E5/s640/blogger-image--1554165214.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Outside what I would have called the polling station but are now called polling places in some areas with signs saying "Polling Place Ionad Votala"</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bh3LFEY0Fs-M5OzSGl_noWu6KZSezzM3w_yCs5Ecv30e5c0dJwapKAEyxki61GR-W_HNzK91KPK5Zm25UZQBjpuF4q9beV-Ii2oBEbnxnM2Jk2rSQ8I1OpFo0M0S_QFfeztuScKdFKm-/s640/blogger-image--144269281.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3Bh3LFEY0Fs-M5OzSGl_noWu6KZSezzM3w_yCs5Ecv30e5c0dJwapKAEyxki61GR-W_HNzK91KPK5Zm25UZQBjpuF4q9beV-Ii2oBEbnxnM2Jk2rSQ8I1OpFo0M0S_QFfeztuScKdFKm-/s640/blogger-image--144269281.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Our "Polling Station" in the Multi-Denominational School in Ranelagh</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8INO_k1LKUBWoC0VSJNQ2eowqRDQ9bqfn6l9WDBggTXar_uA9RxKIttOhj8x89R63r1g5e_51OTiMTDXOTvx0V_Ai2gR03KOLOA3qdW0APqpOqc9lq-pshpXJUvZrISz_0iMBTV-djGf/s640/blogger-image--195699886.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgl8INO_k1LKUBWoC0VSJNQ2eowqRDQ9bqfn6l9WDBggTXar_uA9RxKIttOhj8x89R63r1g5e_51OTiMTDXOTvx0V_Ai2gR03KOLOA3qdW0APqpOqc9lq-pshpXJUvZrISz_0iMBTV-djGf/s640/blogger-image--195699886.jpg"></a></div>Above is the "Polling Place" in Ballsbridge</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">We did not receive Voting Cards but received this letter instead. Voting stations are open from 7am until 10pm.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQADuumVfhyTds6NB3FNG9smLVYZCC_OB2Pr24CrKi0Ax2hWedrscnqTevb5erwHsqI1G6lPwPjusHp8QIu7ndzCcy-OBqSpS8H4-YoV4DZRdJ1rHQNuOB6XsZKwCGI7NhcJzSohFxasVT/s640/blogger-image--441085725.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQADuumVfhyTds6NB3FNG9smLVYZCC_OB2Pr24CrKi0Ax2hWedrscnqTevb5erwHsqI1G6lPwPjusHp8QIu7ndzCcy-OBqSpS8H4-YoV4DZRdJ1rHQNuOB6XsZKwCGI7NhcJzSohFxasVT/s640/blogger-image--441085725.jpg"></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Picture of my voting slips before I voted </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigncV2Sd-c5sqrU-2FDbGPMCEMBuIEFYFZ8kTE68S70j6V6aUn-FS_Q9ZjMCkaPPeyqFQD3DfFrhSG18GYUxBcB_iy1ZRVF-MvnNpGkg0qvbvorqz-ApxpezxvWf4Bo0wX2lXfoPsY8JKz/s640/blogger-image-1187312234.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigncV2Sd-c5sqrU-2FDbGPMCEMBuIEFYFZ8kTE68S70j6V6aUn-FS_Q9ZjMCkaPPeyqFQD3DfFrhSG18GYUxBcB_iy1ZRVF-MvnNpGkg0qvbvorqz-ApxpezxvWf4Bo0wX2lXfoPsY8JKz/s640/blogger-image-1187312234.jpg"></a></div><br></div>All official documents are written bilingual in English and Irish </div><br></div><br></div><br></div></div>

Ireland goes to the polls

On the 4th of October 2013 there is a referendum vote here in Ireland. We vote on whether to abolish our second house of government the Sena...

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A Night With A Vampire Read By David Tennant Concludes Tonight

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZ9alhhS95TvIhgG7-P4L7cQFfcRG1WL2J0DXZ6wxUWgbliPWllKaUTqTZC1LgI_Eq0Cv0ptBePINr2ponvxu-Xl9tAEPJ7MrssyEpPQNJ49Yf0zifugIknZn4VSUX5__hYx1xr2zSG0/s1600/davidobserver.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwZ9alhhS95TvIhgG7-P4L7cQFfcRG1WL2J0DXZ6wxUWgbliPWllKaUTqTZC1LgI_Eq0Cv0ptBePINr2ponvxu-Xl9tAEPJ7MrssyEpPQNJ49Yf0zifugIknZn4VSUX5__hYx1xr2zSG0/s640/davidobserver.jpg" width="464" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The final instalment in the repeated series <i>A Night With A Vampire</i> can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra this evening. The series of five short Gothic horror stories is read by David Tennant.<br /><br />The fifteen minute story will be broadcast at 6.30pm BST today with a repeat at half past midnight </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Friday 4th October<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Clarimonde</i> - Theophile Gautier</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest his eyes glance to heaven - and sees leaning over the sanctuary railing - a young woman of extraordinary beauty. And so begins a sensational struggle for his soul......</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The series was originally broadcast in November 2010 and was produced by Clive Brill for Pacificus</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/bbc_radio_four_extra"><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Listen in worldwide via this link</span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Each episode will be available to play for 7 days after broadcast via BBC iPlayer</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

A Night With A Vampire BBC Radio 4 Extra David Tennant Radio A Night With A Vampire Read By David Tennant Concludes Tonight

The final instalment in the repeated series A Night With A Vampire can be heard on BBC Radio 4 Extra this evening. The series of five short...

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Amazing GLOW IN THE DARK Doctor Who T Shirts Available For The Next 7 Days

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcOPpx3vghGdM4GmrD-iwEYNBDf7hN053cmESZ4unzasCW90ttAfEV8pJF8zEaMFDhXc7NJu2m8WSQBU8NVbK0bAWRKXemzJZ5xKAJBxINj5OyLamzNSjRon0XSdZLzaqHD6S1gZoVyA/s1600/dual700b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrcOPpx3vghGdM4GmrD-iwEYNBDf7hN053cmESZ4unzasCW90ttAfEV8pJF8zEaMFDhXc7NJu2m8WSQBU8NVbK0bAWRKXemzJZ5xKAJBxINj5OyLamzNSjRon0XSdZLzaqHD6S1gZoVyA/s640/dual700b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our pals over at Weeky TShirts have got a couple of amazing Doctor Who T shirts up for sale for the next 7 days.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Tees, which would be perfect for Halloween, feature Glow In The Dark ink to ensure you really stand out in a crowd!</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can order them online at the links below:</span><br /><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Bite-of-the-10th-Doctor/78b25c0d35dfeb6ad51c47278df47597/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></a><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Bite-of-the-10th-Doctor/78b25c0d35dfeb6ad51c47278df47597/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Click here for Bite Of The Tenth Doctor</b></span></a><br /><a href="http://www.weeklyshirts.com/Scary-Weeping-Angel/503cd32ffc367cfb84a21569cfdaf5e7/10033/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Click here for Scary Weeping Angel</b></span></a><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">They are just $12 each or $20 for both. Worldwide delivery is available.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-uf-ejW2Auq8hwxIMf5bNb9eytX8mxDh_molZHhC22mh1WspX54xPqd3ETqBVkoMjgi-aTPIEiZ0E5zRPKg25aHoPIPB0ebdnKDUMflQ5eRd7fiWPmziBOaHuFMtghPQwd6S-J0tGn0/s1600/scary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU-uf-ejW2Auq8hwxIMf5bNb9eytX8mxDh_molZHhC22mh1WspX54xPqd3ETqBVkoMjgi-aTPIEiZ0E5zRPKg25aHoPIPB0ebdnKDUMflQ5eRd7fiWPmziBOaHuFMtghPQwd6S-J0tGn0/s640/scary.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMWXb4jruDke5frzjtzfEuwy8PCcfzk6dyDs5_ieSy7vIDnRod6naw7Go3th9zytGbrQq2dL4ps9DB_UCwpLI-WtEZUwEQ7FKkT44RzzyHz9DUDtdugscERh2wkvdD0psynVy7G-LmIQ/s1600/bite.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbMWXb4jruDke5frzjtzfEuwy8PCcfzk6dyDs5_ieSy7vIDnRod6naw7Go3th9zytGbrQq2dL4ps9DB_UCwpLI-WtEZUwEQ7FKkT44RzzyHz9DUDtdugscERh2wkvdD0psynVy7G-LmIQ/s640/bite.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

Doctor Who Merchandise Amazing GLOW IN THE DARK Doctor Who T Shirts Available For The Next 7 Days

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Random Shout Outs to Miley's Boobs and Shitty People

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="MsoNormal">Hola y’all! Let’s. Get. Random! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Congressman Randy Neugebauer (R-eally Big Shit Bag) who went out to the WWII memorial and berated a member of the Park Police accusing HER of closing the memorial. Uh sir, YOU voted to close the government and unlike that Park Police officer YOU are getting paid. What a fucking piece of shit you Congressman. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to all the people who are focusing only on the fucking WWII memorial or the Panda Cam and are completely ignoring all the people who have been furloughed or are having to go into work every single day without pay. You guys are the worst fucking people on Earth. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUVhBkAyGBwtWSkZHnur05cMGOLVY2dXVCLDP6bC8Re9Uly4b5yQVzf8oFgpOq-ZCxPf4xbcg_nZNRyYZXACTuV6LZc4fUvLGqcjBKMSXJwTLI0hCUM3T7BMQldOMWWdRvKnVkOGTdM5d/s1600/Ted+Cruz+Nazi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjUVhBkAyGBwtWSkZHnur05cMGOLVY2dXVCLDP6bC8Re9Uly4b5yQVzf8oFgpOq-ZCxPf4xbcg_nZNRyYZXACTuV6LZc4fUvLGqcjBKMSXJwTLI0hCUM3T7BMQldOMWWdRvKnVkOGTdM5d/s1600/Ted+Cruz+Nazi.jpg" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to the 873,902 people on Twitter and Facebook who have posted the “If a government employee is listed as ‘non-essential’ then why do they have a job to begin with???” as if they are the first person to ever make that joke.<o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">Hey-OOOOOOOOO!  That’s freaking hilarious! And so original too! BTW, 99% of the people who posted that joke are listed as “non-essential” by their employer too. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Another shout out to the 1,744,820 people who posted the equally unoriginal “Do I still have to pay my taxes during the shutdown?” joke as if THEY were the first to ever think of that one! <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">Damn, you guys were killin’ it this week! <yawn> <o:p></o:p></yawn></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to all the republicans who blamed the Sequester completely on Obama. Yes, it was the worst idea ever, but not only are the republicans now celebrating and taking full credit for the Sequester, they have all but assured that it will become permanent. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Miley Cyrus for getting naked for that photo shoot so American can go bonkers over a boob. I love it when people do that. It’s amazing how many people in this country have never seen boobs before.  <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ETESfiLswfpSr32CmG47VLIO6CLxtquGp5Wg8rlc-hxRltklfn1VjI6OO6fQRHENuCUXnXX66vG3v6u94L_zno42BzgsYQALp0xw26TJf5kWWAUBfiAWx7oMcoVZ4pySel4I37KRowhE/s1600/Miley+Cyrus+Nude+Boobs+Topless+See+Through+Slutty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4ETESfiLswfpSr32CmG47VLIO6CLxtquGp5Wg8rlc-hxRltklfn1VjI6OO6fQRHENuCUXnXX66vG3v6u94L_zno42BzgsYQALp0xw26TJf5kWWAUBfiAWx7oMcoVZ4pySel4I37KRowhE/s640/Miley+Cyrus+Nude+Boobs+Topless+See+Through+Slutty.jpg" width="425" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Sinead O’Conner for writing an “open letter” to Miley. There’s nothing more pathetic than a self-important, washed up, loser celebrity writing an open letter to someone. Don’t you need to shave your head again? <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Congressman Todd Rokita (R-eally Smarmy) for condescendingly calling CNN anchor Carol Costello “beautiful, but you don’t know what you’re talking about” today. That will help the GOP with their minority and women outreach efforts immensely. Also, he’s wrong. She’s not beautiful. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to Buddy, the mutt I saved from running out into traffic last week for a totally unappreciative owner. When I was leaving today just as I walked around the building Buddy was outside again and he came sprinting up to say high to me again. At least Buddy appreciates me. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to the 23 people who have followed me on Twitter since Monday. I have no freaking idea why or where they all came from or anything, but that’s cool. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out the person who told me I won’t be getting into Heaven this week. I responded by saying “luckily for me, you aren’t the one who gets to make that decision.” She promptly defriended me because obviously she IS the person who decides who gets into Heaven and who doesn’t. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_zAuMuHeBK1cRvIS-us9PMpZDcoBN-sUOeMPPwJ8SmaXffvwPptZGBux3e5LoYk7LBcs-8ZaR-4_1hIegnZ38B920w-AJwBgPRW0Brgb2cvsCVfP_p0SkR-TNXSvJ9TbBvcT7_6jLL6v/s1600/ted-cruz-westboro-baptist-church-bigots.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG_zAuMuHeBK1cRvIS-us9PMpZDcoBN-sUOeMPPwJ8SmaXffvwPptZGBux3e5LoYk7LBcs-8ZaR-4_1hIegnZ38B920w-AJwBgPRW0Brgb2cvsCVfP_p0SkR-TNXSvJ9TbBvcT7_6jLL6v/s1600/ted-cruz-westboro-baptist-church-bigots.jpg" /></a></div><o:p><br /></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal">- Shout out to my upstairs neighbor for either jumping or falling out of bed at 3:30 am last night. It was one of the few nights where I actually fell asleep fairly early and was snoozing away. Of course, after he woke me up I had to get up and pee and then check out the windows to see what was going on outside and by then was awake and unable to get back to sleep for a couple of hours. Asshole. <o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><a href="mailto:Jayman3768@gmail.com">Jayman3768@gmail.com</a><br /><a href="http://facebook.com/jayman68" target="_blank">Facebook</a><br /><a href="http://twitter.com/jayman_iws" target="_blank">@Jayman_IWS </a><o:p></o:p></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div></div>

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Available For Today Only: Doctor Who Stowaway" T Shirt

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUK9F4xAI__Syt51-V0sKH2O_bHxpeLgPNWO1LUQGuAl_ZYtPUn_RpjpCY8ITQqZT51-2A80e7-xMvpDCnL5EahvUZ9WwtQl6zJUVAo3lcXDu2RaSjobKS3YhJQiKvaNIeKm6rFVf7qA/s1600/tinkerbelltardis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="584" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHUK9F4xAI__Syt51-V0sKH2O_bHxpeLgPNWO1LUQGuAl_ZYtPUn_RpjpCY8ITQqZT51-2A80e7-xMvpDCnL5EahvUZ9WwtQl6zJUVAo3lcXDu2RaSjobKS3YhJQiKvaNIeKm6rFVf7qA/s640/tinkerbelltardis.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;">Our friends at TeeFury have a cool new Doctor Who  T Shirt design, featuring a sweet picture of Tinkerbell in the TARDIS light, available for only 24 hours!</span><br style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;" /><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"></span><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;">The 'Stowaway' Design is JUST $11! And DELIVERY IS AVAILABLE WORLDIDE!</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span></span></span><div style="background-color: #fafafa; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b style="text-align: justify;"><a href="http://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=310481&u=744749&m=32833&urllink=&afftrack=" style="-webkit-transition: color 0.3s; display: inline; outline: none; text-decoration: none; transition: color 0.3s;" target="_blank">Click here to order</a></b><span style="background-color: white; text-align: justify;"> </span></span></div>

Doctor Who Merchandise Teefury Available For Today Only: Doctor Who Stowaway" T Shirt

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Field Applications Engineer (Semiconductor | MEMS ) (# 110021)

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Job Title:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Field Applications Engineer<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Location:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Milpitas, CA<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Duration:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> Fulltime<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsibilities:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Responsible for providing technical applications support for the development and implementation of KLA-Tencor Candela products for customers in the North American Territory Organization.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1) Interface with new and existing customers to provide operations training as well as resolve complex problems and determine actions required to resolve problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2)  Respond to customer requests and provide the high quality support with effective communication<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3) Work with sales and marketing to investigate customer requirements, competitive situations and changes in market conditions<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4) Proactively engage with existing and potential customers to understand their particular challenges work with divisions to provide a solution to address their challenges and provide a positive customer experience<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Preferred Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">1) PHD or MS / BS with at least 3-5 years’ experience of Semiconductor / LED / MEMS manufacturing or equivalent combination of education and experience in engineering applications<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">2) >2 years of KT relative tool set knowledge/experience is preferred<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">3) Independent worker, self-driven.  Ability to set priorities and delegate tasks during critical situations where multiple issues must be handled simultaneously<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">4) Strong presentation, written, and verbal communication skills<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">5) Ability to travel with short notice, some overseas travel may be required<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Minimum Qualifications:<o:p></o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Master's Level Degree with at least 4 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">OR<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Bachelor's Level Degree with at least 5 years of experience.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Ability to travel at least 75%<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Kindly send your resume to <a href="mailto:raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com">raju.balaji@kla-tencor.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></b></div></div></div>

Field Applications Engineer (Semiconductor | MEMS ) (# 110021)

Job Title: Field Applications Engineer Location: Milpitas, CA Duration: Fulltime Responsibilities: Responsible for providing technical ap...

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