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LIBYA: A FAILED STATE

11:57 AM Tukiyooo 0

<br /><br /> <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUbLjEFsgYHn0W1dc7sucijEAJviWQkfCaScHYiv0zuNA71YL7NgXGJLDLDJTAe3-HHCM6HhOg1HMWAQWgA5SCXbidcQLUKwrToTmw7zn_0Sg3AuAhlV9SINsEJA6FDYHlyIGUqfLnxf8/s1600/Wallpaper+new+Flag+of+Libya.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjcUbLjEFsgYHn0W1dc7sucijEAJviWQkfCaScHYiv0zuNA71YL7NgXGJLDLDJTAe3-HHCM6HhOg1HMWAQWgA5SCXbidcQLUKwrToTmw7zn_0Sg3AuAhlV9SINsEJA6FDYHlyIGUqfLnxf8/s400/Wallpaper+new+Flag+of+Libya.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">DON’T BE FOOLED BY LIBYA—THIS IS A FAILED STATE</span></b></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">By James Stafford <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt;">Via Oilprice</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Gunmen seized LIBYAN Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel in central Tripoli, releasing him shortly afterwards, but making it clear that post-Gaddafi LIBYA is a failed state and that the government is incapable of taking full control over its oilfields and export terminals. </span><br /><br /><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Read related article:</span></i><br /><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name"><i><span style="color: #134f5c;"><span style="font-size: large;">LIBYA - THE WILD WEST OF NORTHERN AFRICA  </span></span></i></h3><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/libya-wild-west-of-northern-africa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/libya-wild-west-of-northern-africa.html</a></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While the markets have been responding lately with unfounded optimism over LIBYA, anyone who has been privy to the intelligence briefings and executive reports would know that announcements of progress emanating from the capital Tripoli are hot air. There are too many roving militias who want their piece of LIBYA’S fossil fuels largesse—and the government is impotent.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5BepeMN-rVQz_8nh8YVX0znEsRt9pOIXLYXtUBs40gYOVE1xsev_YV3-9DXMmm1fW-c03waj0p_sa_QiXObkskHELpcgLas3rct7jMpZzb43U9FL3T_TIufmsju3aO2PpyNafy6LpRaH3/s1600/0001311435-08-000008_SJ20F07LIBYA.GIF" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5BepeMN-rVQz_8nh8YVX0znEsRt9pOIXLYXtUBs40gYOVE1xsev_YV3-9DXMmm1fW-c03waj0p_sa_QiXObkskHELpcgLas3rct7jMpZzb43U9FL3T_TIufmsju3aO2PpyNafy6LpRaH3/s320/0001311435-08-000008_SJ20F07LIBYA.GIF" width="200" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Nothing demonstrates this more clearly than the seizure of Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from the Corinthia hotel in central Tripoli. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">More to the point, the prime minister was apparently seized by militias linked to LIBYA’S Interior and Defense Ministries, which makes one ask whether he was kidnapped or arrested, or indeed whether it is even worth getting into the semantics.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His arrest was not about oil, specifically, it was in retaliation for the US special-forces capture of a LIBYAN al-Qaeda suspect in Tripoli over the weekend. Militant groups—many of whom control various branches of the impotent government—were angered over the US capture of <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/10/10/ali-zidan-prime-minister-libya-kidnapped/2957313/">Abu Anas al-Libi</a></span>, wanted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in KENYA and TANZANIA, in which more than 220 people were killed.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Look no further than LIBYA’S National Congress, which was adamant that the US return the captor, which it labeled as a kidnapping and a violation of LIBYA’S national sovereignty. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">OIL CANNOT FLOW IN AN NOT FUNCTIONAL STATE </span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Upon his release, Prime Minister Zeidan took to the international media, calling on WESTERN powers to step in—again. In an interview with <span style="color: blue;"><a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24451180">BBC Newsnight</a></span>, Zeidan said the country was being used as a base to export weapons across the SAHEL and that “the movement of these weapons endangers neighboring countries too, so there must be international cooperation to stop it.”</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">WHY THE SAHEL IS CRUCIAL TO EUROPE'S NEIGHBORHOOD – AND ITS SECURITY STRATEGY.</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Read entire article at:</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/07/eu-involvement-in-mali.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/07/eu-involvement-in-mali.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 5.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Regardless, the situation should be clear even for those LIBYAN enthusiasts who are under the impression that this is a functioning state. Ali Zeidan’s days are numbered without another direct Western intervention.  </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the same reason the oil cannot flow as planned. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">VOLATILE SAHEL REGION</span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The crisis began two years ago with the overthrow of Muammar Qaddafi, but in August things took a definitive turn for the worse, with armed groups seizing major oil export terminals and demanding autonomy for the eastern region. (See Background information below) Now the crisis has reached the west where other militant formations ominously charged with guarding the country’s pipelines and oil fields are seeking to profit on the momentum of the strikers and protesters in the east. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><br /></div><div style="border: solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Background Information</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">: </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">According to some analysts this instability could also be triggered deliberately by certain foreign entities who invested heavily in LIBYA’S oil and fossil extraction prior to the military intervention in LIBYA. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">When coalition forces decided to intervene in LIBYA they did not consider the consequences such intervention would have on the geopolitical landscape. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFMRxuFmCAvQFvvY2zuVdmGUlE7f9o_KsqLC_giskzFPDDDm9GJxlgYUVYvbbryFreMRK82CoK9bgiAdUmAcWKlsGPWORsMCS2gLWYvgAtLwnz1LTMaIZiKAGlYjRRYwaU2_UL6DQNBC4/s1600/libya-oil-companies.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIFMRxuFmCAvQFvvY2zuVdmGUlE7f9o_KsqLC_giskzFPDDDm9GJxlgYUVYvbbryFreMRK82CoK9bgiAdUmAcWKlsGPWORsMCS2gLWYvgAtLwnz1LTMaIZiKAGlYjRRYwaU2_UL6DQNBC4/s400/libya-oil-companies.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">With the aim to gain control over Libya’s oil reserves WESTERN coalition forces thought they could outwit CHINA and RUSSIA who also invested heavily in LIBYA’S lucrative oil industry. Lured into voting in favor of the UN resolution which in the end paved the way for Military Intervention in LIBYA, RUSSIA and CHINA expected to receive their fair slice of the “energy cake” once the intervention was concluded, instead they were left out of the equation, losing millions of dollars of investments in LIBYA, for all energy deals RUSSIA and CHINA inked with </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Muammar Qaddafi</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> prior to the military intervention suddenly became void, leaving the USA, FRANCE and BRITAIN the sole benefiters of the entire operation. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Read also:</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/libya-wild-west-of-northern-africa.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/libya-wild-west-of-northern-africa.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/chad-and-its-oil-reserves.html">http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/10/chad-and-its-oil-reserves.html</a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="border: none; line-height: normal; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-padding-alt: 1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt; padding: 0in; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The interim government cannot manage this crisis. It’s already been forced to compromise, agreeing earlier in September to a 20% wage hike across the board for civil servants, and including oil security forces in this mix. At the same time, the government has issued warrants for the arrest of strike organizers in the east. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">While the government will not be able to enforce these warrants, the blowback for this still will be severe and will result in a violent upheaval unlike anything else in the past two years. This will reverberate throughout the already volatile Sahel region, threatening security in TUNISIA and ALGERIA most immediately. It is also leading to a tightening of world oil supplies.</span></div>

LIBYA: A FAILED STATE

DON’T BE FOOLED BY LIBYA—THIS IS A FAILED STATE By James Stafford Via Oilprice Gunmen seized LIBYAN Prime Minister Ali Zeidan from a hotel ...

Steven Moffat On The 50th Anniversary: How Do The Tenth And Eleventh Doctors Get On?

11:32 AM Tukiyooo 0

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEG98y9RrlPivLVYvdpOUZuI2TAqb-1EQ4Sw08lXORJwXX5oKzLZ2KZJpCgRJ_sYuc7mVXLU2cji6my832sDjya4QhENb_glJp90yaY8Bpwzx5dj1nfC47MSZRZ3eWgHB1iqvTVuZiKWC/s1600/DotD1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKEG98y9RrlPivLVYvdpOUZuI2TAqb-1EQ4Sw08lXORJwXX5oKzLZ2KZJpCgRJ_sYuc7mVXLU2cji6my832sDjya4QhENb_glJp90yaY8Bpwzx5dj1nfC47MSZRZ3eWgHB1iqvTVuZiKWC/s640/DotD1.jpg" width="640" /></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;">Steven Moffat has been talking to SFX magazine about how he envisaged the relationship between the Tenth and Eleventh Doctors when he was writing the 50th Anniversary Special, <i>The Day Of The Doctor</i>. David Tennant will be returning to the TARDIS alongside the current Doctor Matt Smith for the celebratory edition.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Steven says that he saw friction between the two incarnations of the Time Lord.</span><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“When you’re talking to yourself there are no limitations, there’s no holding back," he explained. "You wouldn’t be kind or courteous. At the same time, because they are two lovable, madcap, caffeinated Doctors, they’re also quite fanboyish about each other. They think it’s quite cool. They’re not broody, upset Doctors – it’s more ‘There’s two of us! Brilliant!’”</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;">However, he also adds that a lot has come from David Tennant and Matt Smith's own relationship and how they played the scenes.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“…they were having such a good time together that they brought that out. They get giggly with each other. It is, by lovely accident, a tremendous double-act. They’re naturally funny together. Enough alike and enough dissimilar. Matt said it was like Laurel and Laurel, as if Hardy didn’t show up – except he does in the form of John Hurt!”</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;">On the similarities and differences between the Doctors he says, "Where they are similar is funny, because they're practically in unison, and where they are different is David is a cheeky, sexy, genuinely cool Doctor, up against a Doctor who thinks he's sexy and cool but is woefully wrong on that subject!"</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;">Steven reveals that Matt and David were both quite nervous of the readthrough and though they had barely encountered one another previously they became great friends while filming the special.  </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;">He also addressed the challenge of meeting fans' wishes while accepting that it would not be possible to bring back all of the previous Doctors to the special. </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;">"They're all brilliant, they're all terrific, but that time has passed," he explains. "I think it would be beyond the dignity of all those very fine actors to want to force themselves back into a costume for 20 or 30 years ago."</span></div><br /><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The full interview is published in the new edition of SFX, in shops now</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>The Day Of The Doctor,</i> starring Matt Smith, David Tennant, John Hurt, Billie Piper and Jenna Coleman, will be simulcast by TV broadcasters around the world on Saturday 23rd November. The 75 minute special will also have a worldwide 3D cinematic release.</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://david-tennant.com/2009/id205.html"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more about the 50th Anniversary Special here</span></a></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>

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Federal judge on voter suppression: Oops, these ARE bad laws

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXdZ39pOezxMaYjoorO-YNlsUUAFY1jqpTC_epO0dahH3ZneFySSAz04RLKytu9YcaQg_cl_tzhqT0Ng28fw7daKJqv6LvDVbNN2Q5YOpMtZ3jbV6qCWzrvOBTH8HLk6Q7eQwgh7BjFh2/s1600/voter_suppression.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHXdZ39pOezxMaYjoorO-YNlsUUAFY1jqpTC_epO0dahH3ZneFySSAz04RLKytu9YcaQg_cl_tzhqT0Ng28fw7daKJqv6LvDVbNN2Q5YOpMtZ3jbV6qCWzrvOBTH8HLk6Q7eQwgh7BjFh2/s1600/voter_suppression.png" /></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;">Former federal judge <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Posner" rel="nofollow">Richard Posner</a> wrote a new book saying laws that suppress voting are a really bad idea.<br /><br /> Well that’s pretty obvious. But six years ago Posner didn’t think so. He wrote the majority opinion in a case defending voter suppression laws that use unattainable ID </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">requirements to disenfranchise working-class voters. Posner’s arguments in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crawford_v._Marion_County_Election_Board" rel="nofollow">Crawford v. Marion County Election Board</a> unleashed a wave of strict voter suppression laws in states all over the country.<br /><br />Now Posner, a Reagan appointee, says <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/us/politics/judge-in-landmark-case-disavows-support-for-voter-id.html" rel="nofollow">he was very wrong</a>:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a new book, “Reflections on Judging,” Judge Posner, a prolific author who also teaches at the University of Chicago Law School, said, “I plead guilty to having written the majority opinion” in the case. He noted that the Indiana law in the Crawford case is “a type of law now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than of fraud prevention.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">In an interview last week, Posner was asked more bluntly if he had gotten the ruling wrong:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“Yes. Absolutely.” Back in 2007, he said, “there hadn’t been that much activity in the way of voter identification,” and “we weren’t really given strong indications that requiring additional voter identification would actually disenfranchise people entitled to vote.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">In other words, Posner said he didn’t realize how dangerous voter suppression laws could be. But plenty of other people did, including dissenting Judge Terrance Evans:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The dissent by Judge Evans, who died in 2011, began, “Let’s not beat around the bush: The Indiana voter photo ID law is a not-too-thinly-veiled attempt to discourage election-day turnout by certain folks believed to skew Democratic.”</span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">T</span><span style="font-family: inherit;">here were many others making the same point. John Nichols at <a href="http://www.thenation.com/blog/176641/judge-who-framed-voter-id-laws-constitutional-says-he-got-it-wrong" rel="nofollow"><em>The Nation</em> writes</a>:<blockquote class="tr_bq">Judge Posner should have paid closer attention to the detailed amicus brief filed in 2006 by the Brennan Center for Justice, which explained how the Indiana law threatened to “<a data-ls-seen="1" href="http://www.brennancenter.org/legal-work/crawford-v-marion-county-election-board" target="_blank">exclude many eligible voters from participating in our democratic process</a>.”</blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq">Because voter ID requirements have been <a data-ls-seen="1" href="https://www.aclu.org/blog/tag/voter-id" target="_blank">widely criticized as weighing more heavily of specific classes of voters</a>—people of color, students, low-income voters, the elderly—legitimate concerns have been raised about equal protection and a host of other constitutional concerns.</blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Crawford case was a gift to Republican extremists and groups like <a href="http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed" rel="nofollow">ALEC</a> that have been trying to block likely Democratic voters from the polls for years. </span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the heels of the Supreme Court gutting key parts of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_Rights_Act_of_1965" rel="nofollow">Voting Rights Act</a>, extremist lawmakers have aggressively pushed voter suppression laws in states like Texas and <a href="http://teamsternation.blogspot.com/2013/08/nc-governor-signs-voter-suppression-bill.html">North Carolina</a>, citing the Crawford case to justify their schemes. While they claim the laws are aimed at stopping voter fraud, they <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/election/2012/06/25/505953/pennsylvania-republican-voter-id-laws-are-gonna-allow-governor-romney-to-win/" rel="nofollow">can barely conceal their real agenda</a>, which is to use <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poll_tax_(United_States)" rel="nofollow">poll-tax</a>-like restrictions to rig elections they can’t actually win.</span><br /><br />As <a href="http://www.salon.com/2013/10/14/voter_id_judges_shocking_admission_we_got_it_wrong/singleton/" rel="nofollow"><em>Salon</em> reports</a>:</span><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq">In Texas, according to the <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9177">DoJ’s analysis of the state’s own data</a> supplied to them, “Hispanic registered voters are more than twice as likely as non-Hispanic registered voters to lack such identification.” In South Carolina, where the DoJ <a href="http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9007">blocked a similar law there last year</a> under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, they <a href="http://bradblog.com/Docs/Justice-Department-Letter-To-South-Carolina-Blocking-Voter-ID-Law_122311.pdf" rel="nofollow">found</a> that — again, according to the state’s own data — “minority registered voters were nearly 20 percent more likely to lack DMV-issued ID than white registered voters, and thus to be effectively disenfranchised” by the state’s new Photo ID restriction law.</blockquote>Even though the judge who authored the Crawford decision has now changed his mind, anti-worker radicals who support voter suppression certainly haven’t changed theirs. So the fight for voting rights continues.

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Richard II Starring David Tennant To Be Released On DVD

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT215VQK2KI3tLuv8JgQrOfWsLCfpIB7hznJXGCr8kZ64lPGlW4QwlYrl5lhFh_ooz7-YidT5RPGKg_4SLOybFIuUrdd5hbAodAJCzqxwefBiuDojs5KFUVh4PQIp_AQd6ZWvGnUIscOUv/s1600/WoS2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhT215VQK2KI3tLuv8JgQrOfWsLCfpIB7hznJXGCr8kZ64lPGlW4QwlYrl5lhFh_ooz7-YidT5RPGKg_4SLOybFIuUrdd5hbAodAJCzqxwefBiuDojs5KFUVh4PQIp_AQd6ZWvGnUIscOUv/s1600/WoS2.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;">The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of <i>Richard II</i> will be released on DVD. Director Gregory Doran made the announcement this evening during the Director's talk at the Royal Shakepeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The production, which is currently in previews, opens in Stratford on Thursday night. It runs until 16th November 2013 before transfering to the Barbican Theatre in <st1:city w:st="on">London</st1:city>from December 9th 2013 until 25th January 2014. David Tennant stars as King Richard with Nigel Lindsay as Bolingbroke, Oliver Ford Davies as the Duke of York, Michael Pennington as John of Gaunt and Jane Lapotaire as the Duchess of Gloucester. John Wyver of Illuminatio</span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ns will be producing a live stream of the play into cinemas across the UK on Wednesday 13th November; this recording will also be broadcast into UK schools and cinemas worldwide during the following months.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.david-tennant.com/2009/id194.html"><span style="color: blue;">Find out more about Richard II here</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More information about the DVD release will follow as soon as we have it.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span>

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Selecting The Right Austin Health Coach

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<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawbyline'>By Rhea Solomon</div><br /><br />  <div class='uawarticle'>Dealing with various wellness concerns is often quite difficult for anyone to manage. Many consumers suffer from specific conditions and issues with their well being that may be too difficult to overcome without the use of a trained professional which often leads them down the path toward finding professional guidance of some kind. Anyone that is focused on this particular need should know the basics of choosing the right Austin health coach in an attempt to receive effective guidance.<br />  <br />  Health coaches are trained in working with individuals that are struggling with their wellness levels and are searching for tailored support. People often discover that using qualified professionals is useful in making sure their specific concerns are improved on while others are simply looking for guidance in maintaining their current state of healthiness. Choices made from all available professionals are completed with a great deal of caution.<br />  <br />  People in Austin that are focused on this kind of professional assistance are offered plenty of viable options in which to consider. Consumers are usually unable to sort through all that is necessary when making sure they are making the most productive and viable decision available. The right coach is usually hired when various factors are considered.<br />  <br />  People concentrate their initial attention on considering any physical referrals they are offered. Referrals offered from a primary care doctor are often simple to amass as they are based on discussions about the wellness levels that one is trying to improve upon while trying to go beyond each medical appointment that is offered. Doctors are often well connected in their communities which can create an effective base of insight for consumers in need.<br />  <br />  An additional factor that receives quite a bit of attention from consumers is making sure the professional is equipped with the appropriate credentials. The entire wellness improvement industry of professionals is filled with a multitude of disciplines that are able to be studied and used for their clients which can be useful to match to any particulars that are needed. Professionals usually market their credentials heavily which can be put to great use in making an informed selection.<br />  <br />  The format of service offered from the coaching provider should also generate interest. Many providers are focused on virtual and teleconference guidance while others are much more direct and involved in the lives of their patients while both are quite effective when considered. People are typically interested in making sure they are offered access to both forms of guidance as part of being able to successfully overcome their difficulties.<br />  <br />  Long and short term solutions are also focused on by consumers in need. Dealing with short term complications is pertinent in feeling better while having access to long term guidance helps with maintenance and sustainability. Long term and less direct forms of oversight should be offered as part of a package form the professional to ensure enhanced well being is readily attained.<br />  <br />  When selecting the right <A href="http://www.choose.tsfl.com/explore">Austin health coach</A> consumers are additionally interested in their pricing. Paying for this form of professional attention is usually quite difficult for the consumer to manage when making sure they are offered the most viable forms of attention in addressing their needs. The right professional is able to offer the lowest prices for the best strategies.<br />  <br />  </div><br />  <div class='uawresource'><br />  	<div style='font-style:italic;' class='uawabout'><br />  		About the Author:<br />  	</div><br />  	<div class='uawlinks'>You can visit the website <a href="http://www.choose.tsfl.com/explore">www.choose.tsfl.com/explore</a> for more helpful information about Hiring The Right Austin Health Coach </div><br />  </div><br />

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Army Ranger Josh Hargis' 'salute seen around the world' ... this is what a hero looks like

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48NyVnV8CC0u0LzITc8LqOBdfYngQr5W9rKkjAW4NDp5pZ27DglXGDRLmlAMpG1aTCcZq3pOT2Ie3tpySQ3UE-bnbWPL_W_4osWXh14YLZlcgBHKWcL-9rZ-T6VM9YCdJELM_I1yX6ztB/s1600/Army+Ranger+Josh.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh48NyVnV8CC0u0LzITc8LqOBdfYngQr5W9rKkjAW4NDp5pZ27DglXGDRLmlAMpG1aTCcZq3pOT2Ie3tpySQ3UE-bnbWPL_W_4osWXh14YLZlcgBHKWcL-9rZ-T6VM9YCdJELM_I1yX6ztB/s400/Army+Ranger+Josh.jpg" width="400" /> </a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>This is a photo taken by Josh Hargis' wife, originally published in the <a href="http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20131015/NEWS/310150099/Cincinnati-soldier-delivers-salute-seen-around-world-?nclick_check=1">Cincinnati Enquirer</a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>Army Ranger Josh Hargis was severely wounded by multiple IUDs during a  mission in Afghanistan. During the ceremony to award him the Purple  Heart prior to his medevac to Germany, though medical staff said he was  unconscious, Ranger Hargis rendered honors to his Commander as the  citation was read. A GENUINE AMERICAN HERO.<br /><blockquote>... as the Purple Heart presentation began, Josh Hargis struggled to  move his right hand and lift it into a saluting position. Military  protocol calls for a soldier to salute when he receives the Purple Heart.</blockquote>Freedom is not free....<br /><br />USA Today: <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/10/15/salute-seen-around-world/2988755/">Soldier delivers 'salute seen around the world'</a><br /><br /><i>H/T to Bill Janis </i>

Army Ranger Josh Hargis' 'salute seen around the world' ... this is what a hero looks like

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ADFF 2013

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Tonight is the kickoff of the 2013 <a href="http://adfilmfest.com/ny2013/">Architecture and Design Film Festival</a> at Tribeca Cinemas in NYC. Between today and Sunday 25 short and feature-length films are being screened in the festival's fifth year. <br /><br /><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/ny2013/"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjl_kSFsWMItzcMdaVGsVd0UCE-a7W7xeHYEl9uzwQRMgyS9IJJsxIsb6FEEd_peYHYCeJp6dCJ-qFrSh_ZzQD-7REOXc1QWAyJFGTB1hIONQY45-MDxMyLr4q2DewKAm0MpVaqPhZ7MR/s1600/ny2013_right.jpg" /></a><br /><br />Some choice films include:<br /><ul><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1500"><i>The Absent Column</i></a>, on the (unsuccessful) fight to save Prentice Women's Hospital; </li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1477"><i>Archiculture</i></a>, on architecture school;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1462"><i>Built on Narrow Land</i></a>, on modern houses by Gropius and others on Cape Cod;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/films_ny2013/1444"><i>The Human Scale</i></a>, on architect and planner Jan Gehl;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1472"><i>The Interior Passage</i></a>, on the realization of SANAA's Rolex Learning Centre;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1494"><i>Oyler House</i></a>, on Richard Neutra's house designed for a working-class gov't employee (now owned by celebrities);</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1453"><i>Sagrada - The Mystery of Creation</i></a>, on what else;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1453"><i>Social Life of Small Urban Spaces</i></a>, the classic William H. Whyte film;</li><li><a href="http://adfilmfest.com/portal/index.php?mid=films_ny2013&document_srl=1503"><i>The Vision of Paolo Soleri</i></a>, on the "prophet in the desert."</li></ul><br />And here is an <a href="http://www.houzz.com/ideabooks/18561674/list/A-Film-Festival-Explores-Buildings-and-the-Lives-They-Touch">Ideabook at Houzz</a> that I put together on the film festival:<br /><div id="hzroot4922132" style="border: 0; font-size: 12px; margin: 0; padding: 0; text-align: center; width: 620px;"><div style="border: 0; margin-bottom: 3px; margin: 0; padding: 0;"><iframe border="0" data-hzvt="MjAxMzEwMTY6MTc1ODp2aWV3R2FsbGVyeQ==" frameborder="0" id="HouzzWidget6452393" name="HouzzWidget6452393" scrolling="NO" src="http://www.houzz.com/jsGalleryWidget/gallery/18561674//new_window=yes/title_on=yes/width=620" style="border: 0 none; height: 490px; width: 620px;"></iframe><style type="text/css">#hzfooter4922132{overflow:hidden !important;transition:height 0.8s ease 0.5s;-webkit-transition:height 0.8s ease 0.5s;} #hzfooter4922132:hover{overflow-y:auto !important;height:51px!important;}</style><br /></div></div>

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Commonwealth of Virginia: We're #1! Oops, not in a good way

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Daily Press government shutdown loss income Virginia Commonwealth of Virginia: We're #1! Oops, not in a good way

Out of 50 states, the government shutdown is affecting Virginia more than any others. We're number one ... only this is not a contest we...

Ken Slack as VDOT spokesman

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-RXvIg5ZyraKR_FmTA3tmw_CBQfNhNS4d0qr5qSABegIfk55_YHUoeyeIKNYmpjSah3rdF3faTXlr2pByR9ud0kvWGxIi1HuBLSVhb_XeN0zY8LNaa9ky0cNVn-igxiM3B2RcNVADoCf/s1600/Ken+Slack+2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ-RXvIg5ZyraKR_FmTA3tmw_CBQfNhNS4d0qr5qSABegIfk55_YHUoeyeIKNYmpjSah3rdF3faTXlr2pByR9ud0kvWGxIi1HuBLSVhb_XeN0zY8LNaa9ky0cNVn-igxiM3B2RcNVADoCf/s1600/Ken+Slack+2.jpg" /></a></div><br />It was good to see a report from former longtime <a href="http://www.nbc29.com/">NBC-29</a> reporter Ken Slack last night while watching the 11:00 news in his role as spokesman for Virginia's Department of Transportation. In a news story about repairs on the I-81 sinkhole in southern Augusta County, <a href="http://www.whsv.com/">WHSV TV-3</a> had reached out to VDOT for a comment. It was a reminder that Ken has been missed in the evening news and at events around the SWAC area in his role as reporter.<br /><br />Back story: <a href="http://swacgirl.blogspot.com/2013/04/nbc-29s-ken-slack-to-join-vdot-other.html">NBC-29's Ken Slack to join VDOT</a>

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It was good to see a report from former longtime NBC-29 reporter Ken Slack last night while watching the 11:00 news in his role as spokesma...

Uganda Fights Stigma and Poverty to Take On Breast Cancer - NYTimes.com

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">KAMPALA, Uganda — Mary Namata unbuttoned her dress in an examining room at Mulago Hospital, revealing a breast taut and swollen with grape-size tumors that looked as if they might burst through the skin.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"How long have you had this?" a doctor asked gently. Ms. Namata, 48, an elegant woman with stylishly braided hair and a flowing, traditional Ugandan dress, looked away, shamefaced.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"About a year," she murmured. The truth, she admitted later, was closer to four years.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Such enormous tumors, rare in developed countries, are typical here. Women in Uganda, trapped by stigma, poverty and misinformation, often do not see help for breast cancer until it is too late.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">For Ms. Namata, though, there was still hope that the cancer had not yet spread beyond the breast, her doctors said. Treatment could prolong her life, maybe even cure her — if it started soon.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But would she be treated in time? Women in Africa often face perilous delays in treatment as a result of scarce resources, incompetence and corruption. Would Ms. Namata wind up like so many women here, with disease so far gone that doctors can offer nothing but surgery to remove rotting flesh, morphine for pain and antibacterial powder to kill the smell of festering tumors that break through the skin?</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Cancer has long been neglected in developing countries, overshadowed by the struggle against more acute threats like malaria and AIDS. But as nations across the continent have made remarkable progress against infectious diseases once thought too daunting to tackle, more people are living long enough to develop cancer, and the disease is coming to the forefront. Given the strides poor countries have made against other health problems, they should also be able to improve the treatment of cancer, public health experts increasingly say.</p><div class="nytmm-ss-target videoPromo nytmmModal" id="videoPromoBox" data-src="100000002499063" data-img="http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/images/multimedia/bundles/projects/2013/BreastCancer/video.jpg" data-title="Jessy" data-caption="Jessy Acen, 30, who has advanced breast cancer, contends with her own poverty and with Uganda's limited resources in her fight to stay alive." data-credit="Video by Nichole Sobecki and John Woo; Cover photo by Lynsey Addario" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">Two years ago, the United Nations began a global campaign against noncommunicable diseases — cancer, diabetes, heart and lung disease — noting that they hit the poor especially hard. Worldwide, at least 7.6 million people a year die from cancer, and 70 percent of those deaths occur in poor and moderate-income countries, according to the World Health Organization.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Breast cancer takes a particularly harsh toll. It is the world's most common cancer in women and their leading cause of cancer death, with 1.6 million cases a year and more than 450,000 deaths.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Survival rates vary considerably from country to country and even within countries. In the United States, about 20 percent of women who have breast cancer die from it, compared with 40 to 60 percent in poorer countries. The differences depend heavily on the status of women, their awareness of symptoms and the availability of timely care. At the same time, scientists' deepening insights into the genetic basis of cancer have introduced a complicated new dimension into the care of women globally.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Uganda is trying to improve the treatment of all types of cancer in ways that make sense in a place with limited resources. A new hospital and clinic, paid for by the Ugandan government, have been added to the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, though they have not yet opened, for lack of equipment. A research center is being built.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But women like Ms. Namata, with breast cancer so advanced that there is just a tiny window of time, if any, in which to save their lives, will be among the toughest challenges here.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"The terrible part about breast cancer is that if we just did what we already know how do in other places, we could make major shifts in survival," said Dr. Benjamin O. Anderson, who heads the Breast Health Global Initiative, based at the <a title="The center's Web site." href="http://www.fhcrc.org/en.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; ">Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center</a> in Seattle.</p><div id="g-graphic" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); "></div><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">There is a pressing need for action because breast cancer is "escalating," the initiative says, predicting that incidence and death rates in developing countries will increase by more than 50 percent in the next 20 years.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The breast cancer rate in Africa seems to be increasing, though cervical cancer kills more women in the sub-Saharan regions. It is not clear whether breast cancer is actually becoming more common, or is just being detected and reported more often, but physicians consider it a looming threat. Compared with breast cancer patients in developed countries, those in Africa tend to be younger, and they are more likely to die, in large part because of late diagnosis and inadequate treatment.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Doctors also suspect that more aggressive types of tumors may be more common in young African women, as they appear to be in young black women in the United States, though there is not enough pathology data from Africa to know for sure. Among women who die young (ages 15 to 49) from breast cancer, 72 percent are in developing countries, and many leave small children.</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">"The story of breast cancer here is a miserable one," said Dr. Fred Okuku, an oncologist at the Uganda Cancer Institute in Kampala, which treats about 200 women a year for breast cancer. "There is little information for the people who need to be helped. Only a few know how to read and write. Many don't have TV or radio. There is no word for cancer in most Ugandan languages. A woman finds a lump in her breast, and cancer doesn't cross her mind. It's not in her vocabulary."</p><p itemprop="articleBody" style="color: black; font-size: 1.2em; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 24px; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; ">More ...</p><div><br></div></div><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/health/uganda-fights-stigma-and-poverty-to-take-on-breast-cancer.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/16/health/uganda-fights-stigma-and-poverty-to-take-on-breast-cancer.html</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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<base href="data:"><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It may take members of our parents' generation (and our own) a long time to get over thinking of hospitals as refuges of safety and operating rooms as harbingers of better days ahead. 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"Something about undergoing anesthesia, the surgery's physiological assault on the body, impacts older people much more than we think," said Dr. Emily Finlayson, a colorectal surgeon at the University of California, San Francisco, and lead author of a<a href="http://journals.lww.com/annalsofsurgery/Abstract/2011/12000/Major_Abdominal_Surgery_in_Nursing_Home_Residents_.13.aspx" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">recent study published in The Annals of Surgery</a>.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In fact, the study, which compared mortality risks and subsequent interventions for four types of major abdominal surgery, found that even compared with adults of similar age who had the same number of chronic illnesses — but who weren't in institutions — nursing home residents fared sharply worse.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Bluntly put, surgery is much more likely to kill them.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Dr. Finlayson and her colleagues used national Medicare claims and nursing home surveys to identify nearly 71,000 nursing home residents who had surgery from 1999 through 2006. They compared them with more than a million elders who underwent the same four procedures but did not live in a nursing home. The researchers chose operations frequently performed on older adults: removal of an infected appendix (appendectomy), removal of an infected gallbladder (cholecystectomy), surgery for a bleeding ulcer in the upper part of the intestine, or surgery for noncancerous colon diseases like diverticulitis or colitis. These are painful conditions requiring immediate decisions, as opposed to diagnoses like breast or prostate cancer, in which a patient and his or her family can take a few days to figure out the best course.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Typically, Dr. Finlayson explained, the surgeon gets a call from the emergency room, frequently at 3 in the morning: an 85-year-old nursing home resident is being admitted with acute appendicitis. The response is almost always: Prepare the O.R.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But after an appendectomy, 12 percent of nursing home residents died, compared with 2 percent of Medicare recipients who weren't in nursing homes. Gallbladder surgery was also more dangerous: an 11 percent mortality risk for nursing home residents, versus 3 percent in elders who weren't institutionalized.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">The risk of dying rose sharply for the other two operations. For colon surgery, it was nearly a third for nursing home residents, and 13 percent for others. Ulcer surgery proved the most dangerous; 42 percent of nursing home patients died, compared with 26 percent of others.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Even when the researchers matched these two groups of patients by age and by the number of other diseases they had, those in the nursing home group (and in this study that meant long-term residents, not those in temporary rehab) were significantly more likely to die in each case. Just by virtue of living in a nursing home, "they've demonstrated they don't have the strength and mobility to live independently," Dr. Finlayson said. "They don't have the energy and vitality" — in doctorspeak, they lack "physiologic reserve."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">But even those who survived surgery — and they're a majority, in some cases a large majority — weren't out of the woods. Nursing home residents were far more likely to undergo "invasive interventions" afterward; they required mechanical ventilators for days to help them breathe, feeding tubes inserted in their abdomens when they couldn't eat, venous catheterization (known as a central line) to monitor their hearts. Each of these painful procedures presents additional risks, of course.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">We know that a substantial proportion of older people who enter hospitals will never fully regain their physical or mental capabilities, even when the illness that brought them there is successfully treated. (More on this syndrome later.) These interventions, which typically also keep people in bed, even though getting out of bed is critical to their recovery, may help explain why.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"Surgeons are very resistant to hearing this," Dr. Finlayson said. "We're focused on 30-day mortality. If patients leave the hospital alive, that's success. We don't see what happens three months down the road."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">So here's a key question family members can ask before the surgeon starts scrubbing, especially if their older relative is frail enough to require nursing home care: Is there any alternative to surgery we could try?</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">"We think of appendicitis as a surgical disease — you take it out," Dr. Finlayson said. "But if you get appendicitis in England, it's often treated with antibiotics, whatever age you are." Gallbladder attacks can also be treated with antibiotics, or sometimes with a drain inserted under local anesthesia. A stent inserted by a gastroenterologist can relieve a bowel obstruction.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">In each case, the treatment is less of an assault than surgery with general anesthesia. And if it doesn't work — if a 24-hour course of intravenous antibiotics, which can be administered in the nursing home, avoiding hospitalization, can't overcome the infection — surgery remains an option.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">It might take a confident surgeon (because invasive surgery can provide protection against lawsuits, even if it's hard on patients) and a persistent family to pull off this alternative approach.</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">Surgeons, like most other physicians, are trained to save lives. "But with older patients, there's less length of life to protect," Dr. Finlayson pointed out. "So the other variables become way more important: maintaining cognitive status, living independently, caring for yourself. Quality of life."</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-size: medium; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.7em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.375em; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); position: static; z-index: auto; "><em><a href="http://www.paulaspan.com/" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); text-decoration: none; ">Paula Span</a> is the author of "When the Time Comes: Families With Aging Parents Share Their Struggles and Solutions."</em></div></div><a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/avoiding-surgery-in-the-elderly/?pagewanted=print">http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/avoiding-surgery-in-the-elderly/?pagewanted=print</a><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 14px; color: black; text-align: left; "><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div>

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One note before we get started - I am lucky enough to participate in the Take Two series over at <a href="http://www.designpostinteriors.com/2013/10/take-two-little-black-door.html" target="_blank">designPost</a> today. Make sure to check it out <a href="http://www.designpostinteriors.com/2013/10/take-two-little-black-door.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br /><br />We are at the half way point people! (click <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/p/one-room-challenge.html" target="_blank">here</a> if you missed week 1 or 2) And what am I still doing? Painting. I am sure you are as sick of here about my painting as I am of actually painting. But we are in the home stretch, so stick with me. I promise good things.<br /><br />Last week we were left with a nice bright, white room and a primed staircase.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczee_J27WUXOhXlYwzVZwqT6wrlGQpTKI9EzrRaWqJf_aN9-SNk8IKFt0sfOsXlLIS4KxNCZLJftMJRd9Idf2GpAPEUP-8UGC9YR8HKzy5NB0lHiiLaw9hnUcZIyelHi3WiFIG6vtc_XX/s1600/IMG_2065.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjczee_J27WUXOhXlYwzVZwqT6wrlGQpTKI9EzrRaWqJf_aN9-SNk8IKFt0sfOsXlLIS4KxNCZLJftMJRd9Idf2GpAPEUP-8UGC9YR8HKzy5NB0lHiiLaw9hnUcZIyelHi3WiFIG6vtc_XX/s640/IMG_2065.JPG" width="480" /></a></div><br />But those of you who know me know I can't leave a room white for long. I am, after all, a color girl. Enter those mystery stripes I mentioned on the inspiration board.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15TkDO9BFPSV4ewBDyOq4g3esnK-HwNIbtYw_QDQJUOKvHBUV6qFpaTJt-M_QmAwgaCftiwFXShLVqYx0BDMEZmWvqOD4XyRhwPxMWlWbJd47d52LY6t2tIkrOSg9KItudxZD-lMASM5F/s1600/LBDFamilyRoomOneRoomChallenge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="368" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg15TkDO9BFPSV4ewBDyOq4g3esnK-HwNIbtYw_QDQJUOKvHBUV6qFpaTJt-M_QmAwgaCftiwFXShLVqYx0BDMEZmWvqOD4XyRhwPxMWlWbJd47d52LY6t2tIkrOSg9KItudxZD-lMASM5F/s640/LBDFamilyRoomOneRoomChallenge.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The painter's tape came out and I got to work on one of my very favorite "I want to do that some day" <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/pin/6896205651922760/" target="_blank">pins</a>, a painted stair runner.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSopscuucq8Hf8QjlxHUAunY96H5W7Bj4iG9D80ZDpjxIZKOVeZficZ2gpwNLZRlhXjivLGHnuBJrSrGIrOd9iuSJZOuNJOa5tVnbHnfo0jG_Fs-m_tbAtqmupSAB5PG958lzMSeCNxwCP/s1600/paintedstairsprep.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSopscuucq8Hf8QjlxHUAunY96H5W7Bj4iG9D80ZDpjxIZKOVeZficZ2gpwNLZRlhXjivLGHnuBJrSrGIrOd9iuSJZOuNJOa5tVnbHnfo0jG_Fs-m_tbAtqmupSAB5PG958lzMSeCNxwCP/s640/paintedstairsprep.jpg" width="594" /></a></div><br />And I can't leave the stairs all alone so I thought some stripes on the floor would be fun too.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5N-ZWerr0B37EE_M6Ymozt9dx9Q8JZB8G1ur9xvKBk1_9srbbHWf-oYWuvmecpF2SXjv1UTVRArZYdzCodG0nvwLLOhD6m9lG_TMfRi507zmfBZ7SnF81bSklTIL8I2luKiXR7ULAbf5/s1600/stripedfloorsprogress.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhA5N-ZWerr0B37EE_M6Ymozt9dx9Q8JZB8G1ur9xvKBk1_9srbbHWf-oYWuvmecpF2SXjv1UTVRArZYdzCodG0nvwLLOhD6m9lG_TMfRi507zmfBZ7SnF81bSklTIL8I2luKiXR7ULAbf5/s640/stripedfloorsprogress.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The floors were simple to tape out. I just measured the length of the room, randomly choose a width for each stripe by eyeballing what 'looked good' and then divided the width out by the total length. Easy peasy.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTTsWi8NB-YxgnzIOBjBbOJ1pgEigUPn_HU242j3bIBP4SJPoAGh09UKqqoRo6EBjkztSbdUZdkvHCTdVqJOAQYL-YpIT1uaKdMTzS4NEw9hi1fNtXFL8I2124RJoYvxZa8rluH_53VSR/s1600/paintedrunnerprogress2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQTTsWi8NB-YxgnzIOBjBbOJ1pgEigUPn_HU242j3bIBP4SJPoAGh09UKqqoRo6EBjkztSbdUZdkvHCTdVqJOAQYL-YpIT1uaKdMTzS4NEw9hi1fNtXFL8I2124RJoYvxZa8rluH_53VSR/s640/paintedrunnerprogress2.jpg" width="406" /></a></div><br />The stairs were a bit trickier. These stairs, along with everything else in my charming old home, are not level. In fact, I think if you tried to put a level on these stairs you would actually be able to hear laughter coming from the treads. So trying to measure would just result in a trip to the sanitarium. So I trusted those eye balls of mine.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjOKAasDMCLEbpHeJYWM-L5lOjT_mHhsfwmcLlE-yZnmjyHiW9_u_YBVo1EzUZ8HM5eCotsvzqgl9MHvCEbqRnrDNr3MF3_76KFqeiQXWNSPFa9ML9OyGqt9sK2Us4QasKxQ0omv1-n21/s1600/stripedfloorsprogress2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsjOKAasDMCLEbpHeJYWM-L5lOjT_mHhsfwmcLlE-yZnmjyHiW9_u_YBVo1EzUZ8HM5eCotsvzqgl9MHvCEbqRnrDNr3MF3_76KFqeiQXWNSPFa9ML9OyGqt9sK2Us4QasKxQ0omv1-n21/s640/stripedfloorsprogress2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Using the same <a href="http://www.sherwin-williams.com/homeowners/products/catalog/porch-floor-enamel/" target="_blank">Porch and Floor paint from Sherwin-Williams</a>, I painted the navy stripes. I went one shade lighter than the navy I used on the <a href="http://news-these-days.blogspot.com/2013/03/high-gloss-dresser-tutorial.html" target="_blank">girls' dresser</a>. And thanks to excellent paint, the floor only needed two coats. It helps to watch Orange is the New Black while you paint floors, in case you were wondering.<br /><br />As for the stairs,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8ToQ-KGBY9Ns95qOZynnI72y9C-fZ21yJ0xg56t8YcGDu2Qy1_jMFkl_-FVlC_G157JLb9OdHI8n0Z2HaBBYFCwoHuuliow2gXgCEx-4dVp3cBR0QHKbbWYZaGx9hEAklEPdHOtSudtX/s1600/paintedstairrunnerprogress3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8ToQ-KGBY9Ns95qOZynnI72y9C-fZ21yJ0xg56t8YcGDu2Qy1_jMFkl_-FVlC_G157JLb9OdHI8n0Z2HaBBYFCwoHuuliow2gXgCEx-4dVp3cBR0QHKbbWYZaGx9hEAklEPdHOtSudtX/s640/paintedstairrunnerprogress3.jpg" width="376" /></a></div><br />they need a little clean up but for the most part I am thrilled. My eyeballing would have been perfect if I hadn't decided to make the skinny lines just a tad bit thicker. I didn't overlap my tape perfectly on the left there, so mamma has some touching up to do. No worries.<br /><br />And one word of caution if you are thinking of painting stairs: unless you have multiple stairwells in your house leading from one floor to the next, this is a task that can cause some grumpy tenants. When you look at those cute pictures on Pinterest you forget that said stairs need to dry for long periods of time, aka you can't walk on them. Laundry is then sitting, waiting, unable to be reached as though it is on a deserted island. And some people can't go downstairs and watch sporting events on their big TVs and they find this frustrating. Which some other people don't really get because the couch isn't down there anyway. But I digress. Also, painting stairs can cause you to contort your body in weird Cirque du Soleil ways. Just an FYI.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FvZwIQAyd9M68vqE3WvqVQ8qy92cf676O2tvEB-3qQTM8HdHzRx8ZfPo2DIqUJkmnJxTlrIrcVqRdPsoRThrWR-V2VTZ2gWY9tHhewu2wVCJnCjIVip3Ko131ldb_F-KRP3e2KirqomH/s1600/stripedfloorsfinish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7FvZwIQAyd9M68vqE3WvqVQ8qy92cf676O2tvEB-3qQTM8HdHzRx8ZfPo2DIqUJkmnJxTlrIrcVqRdPsoRThrWR-V2VTZ2gWY9tHhewu2wVCJnCjIVip3Ko131ldb_F-KRP3e2KirqomH/s640/stripedfloorsfinish.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />The floor stripes however didn't give me an once of trouble and they look just like I wanted them to. Look at those straight lines! Raise the roof with me people. This picture is right before I put a coat of sealer on so the floor now has just the slightest glow, a happy floor glow.<br /><br />And in other news, I found the perfect rugs to go on this smashing floor. Some of the outdoor variety and some of the vintage flavor.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3LbZfivxiAf9Sykh5coSW4OSoKS9TJZ7R-zBHsvVZyl0dsyJszhhMI58bkOuH7QbgdTvZApgd-o6JQCGB70cBau782X0dz811OMC8fcIS6PUeJs_p6tyMowtexzsk33bHLXjKGrwVWTn/s1600/vintagerug.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjW3LbZfivxiAf9Sykh5coSW4OSoKS9TJZ7R-zBHsvVZyl0dsyJszhhMI58bkOuH7QbgdTvZApgd-o6JQCGB70cBau782X0dz811OMC8fcIS6PUeJs_p6tyMowtexzsk33bHLXjKGrwVWTn/s640/vintagerug.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />A sneak peak.<br /><br />And one last update,<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pAPMk_F83zSoRwEBLW0eoP3YxGl3jgjGa2F9khndVhl3dCF7xSTR8HB8x9mNx0-H9wXWY8diP0m4fLBIUnBKJ3fMNXjccqjmHMs1DWckzPNMpEFGKMICJMCWCiHQrTOyLegp-fF-N6Nf/s1600/P9024255.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7pAPMk_F83zSoRwEBLW0eoP3YxGl3jgjGa2F9khndVhl3dCF7xSTR8HB8x9mNx0-H9wXWY8diP0m4fLBIUnBKJ3fMNXjccqjmHMs1DWckzPNMpEFGKMICJMCWCiHQrTOyLegp-fF-N6Nf/s400/P9024255.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br />this is happening.<br /><br />So I'm moving forward. I also found a few things for the room and am currently in the middle of a fabric do-over conundrum. I'll keep you posted.<br /><br />What can we cross off the list this week?<br />- <strike>Rip up gross carpet (floor and stairs) and replace flooring</strike><br />- <strike>Paint and plank walls and bookshelves</strike><br />- Recover estate sale chairs<br />- Create some sort of art station for the girls<br />- <strike>Paint chairs and table</strike><br />- Repair and paint coffee table<br />- Create toy storage that doesn't involve the words 'pink' or 'plastic'<br />- Get some art on those walls<br />- <strike>Find rugs</strike><br />- New Lighting<br /><br /><div>Be sure to check out how everyone else is progressing:<br /><br /></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.callingithome.com/" target="_blank">Calling it Home</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://chinoiseriechic.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Chinoiserie Chic</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.classiccasualhome.com/" target="_blank">Classic Casual Home</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://cottageandvine.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Cottage and Vine</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://designaddictmom.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Design Addict Mom</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://design-crisis.com/" target="_blank">Design Crisis</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://designindulgence.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Design Indulgence</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.designmanifest.com/blog/" target="_blank">Design Manifest</a> </span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.theenglishroom.biz/" target="_blank">The English Room</a> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><div><a href="http://chattafabulous.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: white; color: black;">The Green Room Interiors </span></a></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.henhurstblog.com/" target="_blank">Henhurst Interiors</a> <span style="font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"> </span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.maddiegdesigns.com/blog/" target="_blank">Maddie's Nest</a> </span></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.mixandchic.com/" target="_blank">Mix And Chic</a> </span></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://mynottinghill.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">My Notting Hill</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://pawleysislandposh.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Pawleys Island Posh</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://blog.thepinkpagoda.us/" target="_blank">The Pink Pagoda</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://shelterinteriordesign.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Shelter</a> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://simpledetailsblog.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Simple Details</a> </span></div><div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.thevaultfiles.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">The Vault Files</span></a> </span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.800000190734863px;"><br /></div>And don't forget that you too can participate in the weekly <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2013/09/do-you-want-to-play-orc.html" target="_blank">One Room Challenge Link Party</a> every Thursday at <a href="http://www.callingithome.com/2013/09/do-you-want-to-play-orc.html" target="_blank">Calling It Home</a>.</div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Now spill it - have you ever painted stairs before? Did you remember to pick your phone off the dryer and put it in your pocket <i>before</i> painting yourself out of the basement for two days? I know I did, I was just checking.</div>

one room challenge - family room week 3

One note before we get started - I am lucky enough to participate in the Take Two series over at designPost today. Make sure to check it ou...

World of Warcraft: An Idea

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<p><a href="http://lh4.ggpht.com/-HqJlqeXk_r8/Ul5a1KLRyGI/AAAAAAAADHw/YcLdPWajIYQ/s1600-h/WoWScrnShot_101613_015325%25255B4%25255D.jpg"><img alt="WoWScrnShot_101613_015325" border="0" height="527" src="http://lh3.ggpht.com/-js5KeT6jeP8/Ul5a1vi-OwI/AAAAAAAADH0/DfbVeLuTOaA/WoWScrnShot_101613_015325_thumb%25255B4%25255D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline" title="WoWScrnShot_101613_015325" width="763"></a> </p> <p align="justify"><font size="3">I can’t sleep so I fired up WOW and a couple of things are bugging me at 2AM.  First at level 72, a priest should not have been able to easily kill an elite level 80 dragon in Coldarra.  Second, and I’ve been thinking about this for a long time now, why can’t the development team over at Blizzard implement a hard mode option similar to what Guild Wars had way back when?  The button would slow down questing to non-nerfed rates (i.e. before the release of the latest expansion made past content irrelevant) and returned mobs, bosses, and fights to higher hit points and difficulty levels.  This option would let those that want to rush to end game do so and those of us that want to experience more challenging content at level appropriate questing to do so.  I want the danger back when doing awesome quests like rescuing Winterfin tadpoles.  I don’t need to two-shot everything along the way.</font>  </p> <div id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:bf7e5f26-5f3d-4f86-8779-e7710d9f82af" class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" style="float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/WOW" rel="tag">WOW</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/World+of+Warcraft" rel="tag">World of Warcraft</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Blizzard" rel="tag">Blizzard</a>,<a href="http://technorati.com/tags/Guild+Wars" rel="tag">Guild Wars</a></div>

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I can’t sleep so I fired up WOW and a couple of things are bugging me at 2AM. First at level 72, a priest should not have been able to ea...

Illuminations Blog Post By John Wyver: 'Words, Life And All'

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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9xUwlpT4sbMtuAEIJwBn5PA1PNuzlXc9WxFnT5tOFMkfBolOinBhUKJ8ouC-bW_3JKS_suvTGkQ_tKTwW4tX_hlueCQ2M7MG9KZj8_WhmHKSyRUgtrA3whMCY8_zZbx7InGwvdUgTOIQz/s1600/re3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9xUwlpT4sbMtuAEIJwBn5PA1PNuzlXc9WxFnT5tOFMkfBolOinBhUKJ8ouC-bW_3JKS_suvTGkQ_tKTwW4tX_hlueCQ2M7MG9KZj8_WhmHKSyRUgtrA3whMCY8_zZbx7InGwvdUgTOIQz/s1600/re3.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;">In the latest Richard II production blog posted by John Wyver on the illuminations website, John explains how he will be, from now on, compiling a collection of responses, reviews and supporting articles gathered from around the web relating to the new RSC staging of the play.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/2013/10/words-life-and-all/"><span style="color: blue;">Visit the Illuminations website here to learn more or suggest additions</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The production starring David Tennant and directed by Gregory Doran is now reaching the end of its week of previews at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: opening night is this Thursday. </span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">John Wyver and his team will be working with the RSC to produce the live broadcast of the play. The production will be streamed live into UK cinemas on Wednesday 13th November and will subsequently be broadcast into cinemas worldwide.</span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://onscreen.rsc.org.uk/richard-ii/default.aspx"><span style="color: blue;">Visit the RSC Live From Stratford-upon-Avon pages for more details</span></a></span><br /><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><br /><br />

Illuminations Blog Post By John Wyver: 'Words, Life And All'

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In the latest Richard II production blog posted by John Wyver on the illuminations website, John explains how he will be, from now on, compi...

For Miss K

12:14 AM Tukiyooo 0

For Miss K

A little Old School Canadian Rock, eh?