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Never let your Form I-20 expire!
- The results are very serious! What is it? Immigration regulations require you to file for an extension of time when you are not able to complete your program of study by the date that appears on your Form I-20.
- To complete this requirement you must apply for a "Program Extension Notification" 30 days before your Form I-20 expires
- If you work on campus, your I-9 Employment Eligibility form will need to be updated.
- After you pick up your new Form I-20, take it and your passport to the Financial Aid Office to have your I-9 personal identification section updated.
- Never let your Form I-20 expire! If it expires before you have completed your studies, you will be in violation of your F-1 status. Violations of status can have serious penalties.
How do you qualify?
If you do not plan to leave the U.S. before your Form I-20 completion date expires, you may qualify for a Program Extension Notification to USCIS through the International Student Advisor office. You qualify for this notification procedure if you have continually maintained status and one of the following reasons caused the delay in completing your program:
1.Important compelling academic reasons, such as needing more developmental English than you expected, a change of major, a change of research topic or unexpected research problems.
2.Documented medical reason. Attach medical evidence from a medical doctor or psychologist on official stationery that states the nature of the illness and the period of time you were ill.
A delay due to academic probation or suspension is not an acceptable reason for a program extension according to USCIS regulations. If your delay was caused by one of these reasons, you should make an appointment with the International Student Advisor to discuss applying to USCIS for "Reinstatement" of your F-1 status.
How do I apply?
1.Complete the following form 30 days before the current program completion date:
Request for F-1 Program Extension. If necessary, have the form certified by your faculty advisor or attach any required evidence of illness or medical condition.
What is the application process?
1.The International Student Advisor will review your Request for Program Extension Notification. If the reason for the delay in completing your program meets USCIS requirements, your program extension will be authorized.
2.USCIS will be notified and your Program Extension Form I-20 will be prepared, and you will be called in to sign it.
3.Your new Form I-20 will be given to you showing that the procedure has been completed.


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SPRINGFIELD — The Illinois Senate today approved an expansion of health care for 342,000 low-income residents under legislation that embraces President Barack Obama's signature program to give medical coverage to more Americans.
The party-line vote showed all 40 Democrats favored the bill that backs Obama, a former member of the Senate, and all 19 Republicans voted against the measure. It now goes to the House.
Under the proposal, all adults ages 19 to 64 at or below 138 percent of the federal poverty line would be eligible for Medicaid—a program currently offered only to disabled adults or adults with dependent children.
Any new participants would be funded entirely by federal aid through 2017. Federal reimbursement would drop after 2017 but remain at 90 percent after 2020.
Senate President John Cullerton, D-Chicago, called passage an "important step in taking care of our most at-risk constituents."
"Access to quality health care is a fundamental right," said Democratic Gov. Pat Quinn in a statement, saying the federal law will "improve the health of hundreds of thousands of people across Illinois, strengthen our health care system and create thousands of good jobs in the health care field."
Republicans expressed caution over whether the federal government will stick to the promise of funding the vast majority of these people's benefits.
Even if that commitment comes to fruition, Illinois taxpayers will have to pony up an estimated $3 billion over the next six years, said Sen. Dave Righter, R-Mattoon.
"Our system is already overburdened, our system is already still … unaffordable," said Righter. "This is absolutely the wrong time to add people to this program."

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Federal officials said Thursday they hoped a new "rescue pen" would help reduce the death toll from overdoses involving prescription painkillers.
Available until now only by syringe, naloxone has been a workhorse drug in emergency departments battling the relentless rise in painkiller overdoses over the last decade. Some communities also have experimented with making naloxone available as a nasal spray to first responders, such as paramedics and police officers.
But the FDA's blessing of the rescue pen, granted after a fast-tracked deliberation of just 15 weeks, marks the first time the medication will be available on a broad basis in a prefilled hand-held auto-injector that can be used by laypeople.
"Today's announcement will help make naloxone even more accessible," Michael Botticelli, acting director of President
A huge increase in the use of narcotic painkillers has been accompanied by a rise in addiction and overdoses, which are now responsible for more than 16,000 deaths each year. The surge in painkiller-involved overdoses has pushed drugs ahead of traffic accidents as a leading cause of death in the U.S. and prompted the
The rescue pen is part of a widespread campaign by public health officials, healthcare professionals and the pharmaceutical industry to find ways to promote the safe use of the drugs and reduce deaths.
A 2012 Times investigation of nearly 4,000 deaths involving prescription drugs in Southern California found that most victims overdosed at home, often with family members or friends nearby.
The rescue pen, to be marketed under the commercial name Evzio by the Richmond, Va., firm Kaleo Inc., is modeled on devices such as those that deliver epinephrine to patients with anaphylactic reactions, or insulin to diabetics. It delivers 0.4 milligrams of naloxone, which can be injected into muscle or just under the skin. Like an automated external defibrillator, the Evzio kit also provides instruction in the use of the injection.
Physicians who prescribe the pen can train caregivers and family members to recognize the dangerously slowed heartbeat, depressed respiration and loss of consciousness that suggests someone taking opioids has overdosed. The Times' examination of hundreds of coroners' reports found that loved ones often reported signs of an impending overdose, such as hearing an unusually loud snore from victims.
Making this product available for use beyond an ambulance or hospital "could save lives by facilitating earlier use of the drug in emergency situations," said Dr. Bob Rappaport, director of the division of anesthesia, analgesia and addiction products at the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
The use of Evzio is not without risks. Among the opioid-dependent, a shot of naloxone can prompt sudden and severe opioid withdrawal, which can cause nausea, vomiting, accelerated heart rate, increased blood pressure, seizures and cardiac arrest.
Repeat doses may be needed, as opioids can outlast naloxone's reversal effects, and the FDA cautioned that Evzio is not a substitute for emergency medical care. In fact, officials noted, the last instruction the pen gives is to call for medical help.
The FDA's approval of Evzio was billed by the agency Thursday as part of a multipronged approach to address the epidemic of painkiller addiction and overdose.
In recent years, the agency has sought to reduce the abuse potential of narcotic painkillers, also known as opioid analgesics, and tightened prescribing rules. However, the FDA recently approved marketing of a new extended-release opioid painkiller, Zohydro, in a formulation that activists, emergency physicians and the agency's own advisory panel have warned could be diverted and misused.
Such decisions, FDA Commissioner
In a briefing, Hamburg called the goals of reducing opioid abuse while preserving access to pain relief "compatible," and said that "actions to address one should not be at the expense of the other."
"While the larger goal is to reduce the need for products like these by preventing opioid addiction and abuse, they are extremely important innovations that will help to save lives," she said.


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Litigation Release No. 20926 / March 5, 2009
Securities and Exchange Commission v. Diversified Lending Group, Inc., et al., United States District Court for the Central District of California, Civil Action No. 2:09-cv-01533-R-JTL
On March 4, 2009, the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Central District of California against Los Angeles-based Diversified Lending Group (DLG), Applied Equities, Inc. (AEI), and their principal, Bruce Friedman. The SEC alleges that DLG, AEI, and Friedman are perpetrating an ongoing $216 million real estate investment fraud. The court entered an order halting the alleged fraud and freezing the assets of DLG, AEI, and Friedman.
The SEC's complaint alleges that DLG, AEI, and Friedman raised at least $216 million from hundreds of investors nationwide, many of whom are senior citizens, by promising guaranteed high returns through real estate-related investments. Instead, the complaint alleges, Friedman diverted substantial investor money to ventures unrelated to real estate, and also misappropriated at least $17 million to support his lavish lifestyle, including purchases of a luxury home, cars, vacations, jewelry, and designer clothing for himself and an alleged girlfriend, who is named as a relief defendant.
The SEC's complaint charges Friedman and his companies with selling securities in the form of one- or five-year "Secured Investment Notes," representing that DLG pools investor money and invests it 70 to 80 percent in real estate property and 20 to 30 percent in mortgage lending. Once investors invested in the Notes, defendants continued to represent to them that their money was being used as represented, that DLG's investments were profitable, that their money was safe, and that returns of either 9 percent or 12 percent were guaranteed. In fact, as alleged in the complaint, Friedman and his companies did not invest DLG investor proceeds as represented. Instead, they diverted a substantial amount of investor money to undisclosed business ventures unrelated to real property or mortgage lending, including Friedman's charitable foundation and businesses operated by affiliates and Friedman's family members and friends. Friedman and his companies only recently changed their written disclosure to mention these additional business ventures to DLG investors, even though DLG investors had financed them for years. Friedman also misappropriated substantial investor money for his own personal purposes.
In its lawsuit, the SEC obtained an order (1) freezing the assets of DLG, AEI, Friedman, and the relief defendant, Tina Placourakis; (2) appointing a temporary receiver over DLG, AEI and their affiliates; (3) preventing the destruction of documents; (4) granting expedited discovery; (5) requiring accountings from DLG, AEI and Friedman; and (6) temporarily enjoining DLG, AEI, and Friedman from future violations of Section 17(a) of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 thereunder. The SEC also seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions, disgorgement, and civil penalties against DLG, AEI and Friedman and disgorgement from Placourakis. A hearing on whether a preliminary injunction should be issued against the defendants and whether a permanent receiver should be appointed is scheduled for March 10, 2009 at 10:00 a.m.
The SEC acknowledges the assistance of the Arkansas Securities Department, the California Department of Corporations, the Michigan Office of Financial and Insurance Regulation, and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).


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An astonishing final leg by Louise Watkin guided the British 4x100 metres medley (34 points) relay to silver in the final event of the penultimate night of the Aquatics Centre.
The quartet - made up of Heather Frederiksen, Claire Cashmore, Steph Millward and Watkin - were well down when she took over.
Still fourth at the final turn, Watkin overhauled both Russia and the United States to touch in four minutes 53.98 seconds.
Australia won as Jacqueline Freney claimed her eighth gold medal of the Paralympics.
Millward admitted missing out on gold was tough to take.
She told Channel 4 "We really did want the gold so we're all going to cry later. The gold we thought was within our reach and it was about point-nothing away which was a shame.
"I'm quite happy. Second is nothing to be upset about really."
Cashmore said: "It's fantastic. I feel privileged to be part of such a great team. My last swim tonight so it's pretty gutting. To be so close, to be points of a second off is hard but we did an amazing job and I don't think we could have done any more."
Frederiksen added: "We're a good solid team and we gave everything that we had. We're pleased with it."
And Watkin said: "I just wanted to finish it that so badly and I just wanted to bring it back for the team."


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As any true TV addict knows, the true meaning of Christmas is to give your fave shows the once-a-year opportunity to get all preachy and filled with holiday cheese, er, cheer. You may want to turn on the boob tube for a good laugh — but at Christmastime, you're going to learn something, darn it! The following seven Christmas-themed sitcom classics are some of the most awkwardly awesome ones out there.


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OROVILLE — Money, money and more money issues will be thrown at City Council tonight.
Councilors will be asked to point staff in the direction they want to take to close the $1.55 million budget deficit.
Council will also consider awarding a $198,570 contract to upgrade the fire station, transferring grant income between accounts, and approving a new Target Employment Area for the Enterprise Zone.
At 5 p.m., council will discuss several items in closed session, including appointing a permanent city administrator.
This will be the second closed session on appointing an administrator, and action could reportedly be taken and announced in open session tonight.
Council appointed Peter Cosentini as interim administrator to fill a vacancy left after former City Administrator G. Harold Duffey resigned to take another job.
In open session, Cosentini has asked council to advise him and the finance director of options they want to take to close the budget deficit before staff starts preparing next year's budget.
Cosentini told council at the last meeting they need to make the necessary cuts or revenue increases to come up with a balanced budget that will go into effect July 1.
Cosentini said that it's critical to the city's financial well-being to cut the deficit before it eats up reserve funds.
Budget options would include either across-the-board 12.9 percent cuts from each department, or selective cutting. Those decisions will be made tonight.
At the last meeting, Cosentini said he would lay out some options.
Staff will only work toward budget balancing options that are approved by at least four of the seven councilors, according to the staff report.
The meeting will be open to public comment.
During a public hearing, council will look at a new community Development Block Grant Program income reuse plan.
Program income is the money that comes back to the city from CDBG activities such as loan repayments and interest.
In the past, the city has used the income for a variety of things that weren't funded by the general fund, including buying a new fire engine.
Council will look at transferring about $1.2 million of the public facilities revolving loan account plus additional interest and income from January and February from two accounts to the microenterprise revolving loan account
Council will also look at transferring $243,488 from the microenterprise account to the Fire Department and Chinese Temple program income waiver project.
If the plan is approved, 100 percent of program income will be deposited in the microenterprise account.
Council will also consider awarding a contract to the lowest bidder for the Fire Department remodel.
The remodel has been discussed for years along with a new arrangement for sleeping quarters for the firefighters. A few years back, the department installed temporary walls to divide the sleeping areas.
This project would remodel the fire stations sleeping and living quarters and tear down and rebuild two restrooms with showers.
The new restrooms would comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act.
In other business, council will consider approving the following items:
New employment area for the Enterprise Zone.
Fee agreement with Petaluma Ecumenical Properties.
Recipient of the Sam Norris Award.
Agreement for levee assistance grant.
ADA information and community outreach.
At the beginning of the meeting, Mayor Linda Dahlmeier will acknowledge and welcome six businesses and issue a proclamation declaring Feb. 21 as California Ripe Olive Day.
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(Reuters) – British author Salman Rushdie, who lived in hiding for nine years under a death sentence from Iran's supreme leader, said in an interview published on Thursday that something had gone wrong at the heart of Islam.
Rushdie told Le Monde newspaper that his years fleeing the 1989 fatwa from Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini had forced him to pay close attention to a radicalization of the Muslim world.
"Something has gone wrong at the heart of Islam. It is quite recent. I remember when I was young, many cities in the Muslim world were cosmopolitan cities with a lot of culture," he said in an interview published in French.
"For me, it is a tragedy that this culture has regressed to this point, like a self-inflicted wound. The Islam in which I grew up was open, influenced by Sufism and Hinduism, and not like the one which is spreading rapidly at the moment."
The fatwa, in response to his 1988 novel "The Satanic Verses", made Rushdie synonymous with the tussle between freedom of expression and the need to respect religious sensitivities. A memoir of his nine years in hiding following the fatwa was published this week.
The interview was conducted on September 12, just as a film mocking the Prophet Mohammad sparked violent protests across the Islamic world. These included a deadly attack in Libya which killed the U.S. ambassador and three embassy staff.
The California-made film, and a series of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad published by a French satirical weekly on Wednesday, have revived international debate over free speech, religion and the right to offend. Many Muslims consider any representation of Allah or the Prophet Mohammad blasphemous.
"There is a limit beyond which you cannot blame the West any more," Rushdie told Le Monde. "Having said that, if there was the slightest sign that Muslim society was able to create an open democracy, I would change my opinion."
This week an Iranian religious foundation increased its reward for the killing of Rushdie, in response to the film mocking Mohammad.
(Reporting by Daniel Flynn; Editing by Robert Woodward)


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Dear Editor,
I see the PPP is playing a troubling game. Clearly, it does not want elections with the numbers from its own pollster at Freedom House and from its own activists in the streets telling it that it will lose votes and get a smaller plurality. So, it will delay and deny and play silly games to avoid facing the electorate. The concern I have is this calculated PPP campaign to discredit the constitution and the law in order to avoid the looming no-confidence vote. I am no lawyer or constitutional expert but I can read the constitution and can interpret what I read. Article 106 is straightforward and quite clear. It does not provide for judicial review of a successful no-confidence vote. This was an illegal constitution written by a regime seeking to maintain power illegally. So, if the PNC intended to make article 106 subject to judicial review, it would have done so. It didn't. Article 106 is explicit and indisputable. The President and Cabinet and government must resign and new elections must be called within three months.
The pro-PPP backers are claiming there must be special elements to the wording of a no-confidence motion. That is nonsense. That old parliamentary democracy in the UK which gave us our Westminster model passed a no-confidence motion on March 28, 1979 to defeat the minority government of James Callaghan. The motion read, "That this House has no confidence in Her Majesty's Government." In Canada, as recently as November 28, 2006 an opposition motion brought down the government. That motion read, "That this House has lost confidence in the government." That was all. Nothing more. There was no resort to judicial review. Elections were promptly called. 23 no-confidence votes have been brought in UK parliamentary history. UK governments have lost four no-confidence votes since 1895 (June 21, 1895; January 21, 1924; October 8, 1924; March 28, 1979). In two cases, the Prime Minister resigned and the Leader of the Opposition formed a government. In the other two cases, the Prime Minister called general elections. There is no specific wording or formulation. Mere mention of no confidence suffices as the UK's successful March 28, 1979 motion established. Unambiguous and direct communication to the government that it will be brought down in a vote – like the opposition has publicly done in this instance – is enough. Any opposition is entitled to vote on a lack of confidence in the government with the intent to bring down the government.
Judicial review as proposed by the PPP is not a genuine attempt to get the court's opinion but, given the sloth of our legal system, a blatant attempt to deny and delay elections thus ensuring the PPP remains illegally and unconstitutionally in power. The attempt to raise Article 180 which deals with removal of the President following an investigation is another red herring. The argument is that if investigation is necessary under Article 180 then it is necessary under article 106 before a no-confidence vote succeeds. An investigation is not judicial review. This is unadulterated codswallop. If the constitution framers wanted Article 106 to be the same process as Article 180, they would have done so, particularly when the constitution was framed to maintain dictatorial power. In any event, Article 180 applies to acts of gross misconduct particular and specific only to the President. The tribunal is not a court of law. It is an internal tribunal. Before the tribunal is appointed, the National Assembly is allowed to vote, without debate, to proceed to the tribunal. So, there is a vote without debate to proceed to the tribunal. There is no procedure of judicial review of the findings of the tribunal. The findings are voted on by the National Assembly and if successful, the president is removed from office. Now, if there is no avenue for external judicial review in Article 180, how could the intellectual charlatans contend that judicial review is a god-given right in Article 106? A no-confidence vote is dramatically different from the impeachment of the President. One is based on very specific allegations of wrongdoing by the president while the other is a loss of confidence in the government and president and cabinet in their governance of the country. It is this stark and fundamental difference that explains the difference in how Article 106 and 180 are worded, framed and must be interpreted. To impute the procedures from one article in the other when they are both explicit in their procedures as they pertain to different situations is cheap and laughable constitutional and legal tomfoolery.
No one is entitled to use the excuse of judicial review in cases of unequivocal constitutional rules to remain in power illegally. That blatant course of conduct will plunge this country into severe constitutional crisis. Now, there is the other puerile position parroted by a senior PPP functionary that all members of the National Assembly must be present for a vote of no-confidence to have legal effect. The thinking is that if the PPP stays away and the entire opposition votes for the no-confidence motion, that motion has no legal effect. Article 106(6) states, "The Cabinet including the President shall resign if the Government is defeated by the vote of a majority of all the elected members of the National Assembly on a vote of confidence." The vote of the majority is all that is required to defeat the government, cabinet and president. There is no requirement that all elected members of the National Assembly must be present. If that was required, it would have explicitly stated such. The majority of all of the elected members could simply show up and vote and the no-confidence motion has full legal and constitutional effect. Incidentally, in all of the voting provisions of Article 180, there is no requirement for all elected members of the National Assembly to be present.
It is absurd to think that a constitution and its provisions dealing with a critical issue of loss of confidence in a government and the need for new elections could be so simply and injudiciously subverted by the offending government simply staying away from the vote. If this is acceptable, then the PPP would stay away from parliamentary sittings from now until eternity and in doing so avoid the no-confidence vote, postpone elections indefinitely and hold onto power illegally and unconstitutionally using this bizarre stratagem. Clearly, one can see the preposterous illogicality of this adventure. Isn't engaging in this prolonged absence from the National Assembly in fact abandoning the government's constitutional duty to represent the people's interests? Doesn't this naturally undermine the legal and constitutional authority to govern? Doesn't this fracture the state irrevocably causing even more problems for the electorate? Do the people at Freedom House thinking one thought at a time without regard to comprehensive analysis and grave consequentiality ever consider the full repercussions of their macabre ideas and how they could unfold to their own demise? It is one thing to pander to their captive constituencies, but it is another to peddle dangerous ideas as legitimate, legal and constitutional when they threaten the very security of this country.
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This is an even-numbered year, so the Giants will win another World Series, right?
If only it were that simple. The Giants are coming off a 76-86 season, a stunning collapse one season removed from their second championship in three years. Injury, fatigue and a lack of new blood on the roster were the most common explanations.
The 2014 Giants will feature a few new players, but they largely are pinning their hopes on bounce-back years from players who, just 16 months ago, paraded through downtown San Francisco with another trophy.
Naturally, a team that collapsed so quickly is fertile ground for questions. As the Giants prepare to open spring training in Scottsdale, Ariz., on Friday, here are the top five:
-- Is their pitching deep enough? Last season, Giants pitchers had the worst park-adjusted ERA in the National League. General manager Brian Sabean promised an overhaul. But the only new pitchers with major-league experience in 2014 are starter Tim Hudson and swingman David Huff.
It is wrong to say the Giants did nothing because nabbing Hudson and re-signing Tim Lincecum, Ryan Vogelsong and Javier Lopez was definitely something. But the question will remain at least until the trade deadline: Will they be better able to withstand an injury than last year, with Yusmeiro Petit and a bunch of young starters and relievers as Plan B?
Rather than toss more money around in free agency or trade prospects, the Giants are wagering that an uptick in performance and health will be enough. It's a risky bet.
-- Is this the Panda's Giants farewell? Pablo Sandoval's time in San Francisco could end with the slimmer Panda having a monster year and pricing himself out of town, or it could end with another season of injury and weight gain, and the Giants washing their hands of the still-popular third baseman.
But Sandoval's time in San Francisco does not have to end in 2014. The Giants might take an enormous gamble on Sandoval's maturity and sign him to a contract extension before the season, or wait until the end of a bounce-back year and lavish him with Hunter Pence-style millions to keep him from free agency.
The Giants hope they face the dilemma of what to do with a productive Sandoval. If he stays healthy, a skinnier Panda should give the offense a huge lift, because no matter his size the guy can plain rake.
-- How can they get to 700 runs? In 2010 and 2012, the two championship seasons, the Giants scored 697 and 718 runs respectively. In 2011, the year Buster Posey got hurt, they plunged to 570. Last year's losing team reached 629. All seasons are different, and there are no hard and fast rules, but 700 runs seems to portend good things.
How do they recover the 75 or so runs they need to reach the plateau? They need to avoid devastating injuries such as Angel Pagan's hamstring tear, while Sandoval, Posey, Hunter Pence and Brandon Belt produce in the middle of the lineup.
The question within the question is whether Michael Morse - if he stays healthy - can provide the pop in left field that the Giants need so desperately.
-- Does Brandon Belt become a star in 2014? Belt's numbers in his first 500-at-bat season were pretty good: a .289 average, 17 home runs and an .841 OPS. Had the Giants contended last year, the Baby Giraffe would have been noticed.
Even with those numbers, Belt would be the first to say that 2013 was not a year in which he put it all together. He still needed to adjust his grip and stance. When he did, he took off.
Skeptics say Belt fattened his stats in non-pressure situations. If the Giants contend, Belt will be able to prove them wrong,
-- Will any kids make a big impact? They better, because management's conservative player-acquisition strategy this winter depended on it, especially on the mound.
It's not just starter Edwin Escobar, a 21-year-old lefty who could make the jump to the majors soon, but also relievers Heath Hembree, Jake Dunning and Derek Law. The first two got a taste of the majors in 2013 and showed promise. Law walked one and struck out 45 in 22 games at Class A San Jose and will get a long look this spring.
This has to be the make-or-break season for 2010 first-round draft pick Gary Brown, a center fielder who has busted his tail trying to master hitting in the minors, with disappointing results.
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We use syntactic foam on many of our deep-sea vehicles. It's the white material on the outside of Alvin. The titanium sphere and frame are Alvin's structural backbone. The foam isn't structural; it's for flotation. It's made of tiny, hollow, glass microspheres mixed with epoxy to make hard blocks. The microspheres are so small they look like talcum powder. When they are packed tightly together with minimum amounts of epoxy, the foam is strong enough to withstand high compression but still be buoyant in water. The mixture is then put into molds, like a big bread pan, and mixed and allowed to cure, to make blocks of foam.
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Instead of the usual procedure of testing small samples from random blocks, we tested all of the foam in a pressure test chamber to a minimum of 12,100 psi, which is 1.25 times 9,677 psi. We used transducers that were built to monitor microcracking on structures like bridges to 'listen' for small implosions or microcracking in the foam that would indicate that it was failing. As long as we didn't hear it start cracking, we knew it was strong enough. One hundred percent of our foam was tested, and we have great confidence in it.
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Alvin is owned by the U.S. Navy and operated by WHOI. The current upgrade was funded largely by the National Science Foundation, with support from private donations to WHOI.


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Mr. Newbery's Little Pretty Pocket-Book
John Newbery was the first printer to see a market for children's books that both instructed and amused children, so he invented the genre. His first book of this kind, A Little Pretty Pocket-Book: Intended for the Instruction and Amusement of Little Master Tommy and Pretty Miss Polly was published in 1744, and is considered a landmark in children's literature. Interestingly, no copy of the first edition has been found.
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book contains several pages of games and amusements.
At the top of each of these pages is a letter of the alphabet, below which
is an illustration of the activity, a verse describing it, and a small verse
with a moral lesson.For example, the book contains the first known mention
of "Base-Ball."
The Ball once struck off,
Away flies the Boy
To the next destin'd Post,
And then Home with Joy.
The description of the game is followed by the verse:
Thus Britons for Lucre
Fly over the Main;
But, with Pleasure transported,
Return back again.
This isn't exactly the modern American game (note the posts instead of bases),
but it looks pretty close. The illustrations and verses in Little Pretty Pocket-Book
help historians research games of the past.
Newbery knew how to market to children and their parents. A Little Pretty
Pocket-Book was sold with a ball (for boys) and a pincushion (for girls).
Contained in the book was a letter from Jack the Giant-Killer describing the
proper use of these toys. Newbery's books, bound with covers of Dutch floral
paper and gilt edges, were designed to delight the eye. His books appealed
to parents who embraced the popular Lockean ideal of education by amusement,
and they set a standard for quality of writing and presentation.
A Little Pretty Pocket-Book was the first of many educational children's
books published by Newbery. He appears to have written several books himself,
but well-known authors were also willing to write for him. Sarah Fielding,
for example, wrote, The Governess or Little Female Academy, and Oliver Goldsmith
almost certainly wrote Little Goody Two-Shoes. Newbery's The Newtonian System
of Philosophy, also known as The Philosophy of Tops and Balls, was an introduction
to what we would call science today, presenting astronomy, physics, geography,
and natural philosophy in an appealing way. We can credit Newbery with the
first English version of Charles Perrault's Tales from Mother Goose. By the
time of his death in 1767, Newberry had published a long list of children's
titles. The Latin motto on the frontispiece of A Little Pretty Pocket-Book,
"Delectando monemus," had become his life's mission-instruction
with delight.
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Cat losing fur near mouth, with brown dots
I recently discovered that the underside of my cats chin and the side of her mouth were developping these brown little spots that made it look like her mouth was just dirty. Only a little while ago I noticed some hair missing from there as well, Im guessing due to her scratching or something because Ive noticed her scratching too. It looks irritated now Im just wondering what it is. Im so worried for my little baby, I hope everythings alright..
If anyone knows anything it would be much appreciated, Thanks!!
Here are a few pics, sorry they aint that good.
Here are a few more pics if that wasnt enough !!
You need to bring your cat to a vet to find out what is going on.
Hi mialove1;
Welcome to the forum. Hopefully some of us will be able to give you some ideas on what you are dealing with. From what I can see in the photos I would suspect Feline Acne. It can be quite sore as it progresses, and with her scratching at it it will start to bleed. There are topical ointments on the market that can be purchased and applied that will clear the problem up. Do not use acne treatments for humans on a cat - they can have adverse reactions.
If you are using plastic watering dishes, and feeding dishes - switch to glass. I found this very helful in helping to treat Acne. Plastic has a tendency of breeding bacteria that causes Acne, and the glass is easier to keep clean. I find that the Corelle dishware works best as it will withstand moderate bumps without breaking. Stress and poor quality food can factor into some of the cause for Feline Acne.
One other thing that it might be is Ringworm, and it isn't what it sounds like. It's a fungal infection, and it's contagious. It will spread to humans. I don't think it is but I can't tell from the photos. The best thing to do would be to go to the vet and get his opinion, or someone who is knowledgeable, and can see it firsthand and make a diagnosis.
Animals are such agreeable Friends.
They ask no Questions. They pass no Criticisms.
Hi mialove1 ! Welcome to the forum!
I strongly suspect that what you're dealing with is a type of allergic reaction commonly seen in cats.
Sometimes it's a reaction to a food ingredient, sometimes (as Reg mentioned) it's associated with using plastic dishes (glass/stoneware/stainless steel are preferred), and sometimes it's the result of a brush with some transient allergen.
If you haven't made any food changes/additions before the time these spots first appeared, then investigating a food allergy would not seem needed.
Cats' immune systems are particularly watchful when it comes to the skin.
This is NOT something you can treat successfully 'at home'. Mia will need to see a competent feline Vet (most general practice Vets do poorly with feline health issues...particularly when things get finicky).
Here's a plain-language coverage of what's most likely going on (from a reliable site!): http://www.marvistavet.com/html/eosi...granuloma.html
If you read carefully through there, you'll understand that this condition, once started, will go on and on in a never-ending circle until the immune system is told to put the brakes on by using the steroid, thereby giving the itchy area time to heal up....and stop itching.
If you have a 'general practice' Vet, this might be an opportunity to find a cat-only practice. Post back if you need help with that.
the more i learn about (some) people, the more i luv my cats
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Sioux Falls Woman Agrees to Plea for Running Over South Dakota Higway Patrol Trooper
The woman accused of running over a South Dakota State Trooper while drunk in 2012 has made a plea deal and faces 40 years in prison.
26-year old Rachel Coleman changed her plea to guilty Friday (January 10) in connection with the assault on Trooper Andrew Steen in the early morning hours of October 17, 2012.
Coleman said in court Friday that she has no recollection of that night. Several hours after the incident, Coleman's blood alcohol level was just under the legal limit which led the judge to say that he believes she was well over the limit at the time of the incident.
Steen had attempted to pull Coleman over in the strip mall at 57th & Western after pursuing her for about 20 minutes. Steen got out of his car to approach Coleman's when she accelerated, running the Trooper over.
Steen sustained traumatic brain injury along with other serious injuries and spent two months in the hospital. Steen has recently returned to work with the Highway Patrol at a desk job while he continues to rehab.
Coleman pleaded guilty to Aggravated Assault on a Law Enforcement Officer and Felony DUI 4th. She faces a maximum of 42 1/2 years in prison. She will be sentenced in March.


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SANTA ANA – A Stanton man convicted of murdering a woman and a string of rapes is a "gentle, soft-spoken" person who grew up in a dysfunctional home without parental guidance and should not be put to death, a defense attorney told an Orange County jury Wednesday.
In her opening remarks to jurors who last week found Waymon Livingston, 29, guilty of the murder of Melissa Ann Gonzalez, 21, of Sacramento during a sexual assault, attorney Gassia Apkarian told jurors to look at her client's life before making their decision.
"What he did with these women is out of character," she said.
Livingston was also convicted of a penalty enhancement that he committed sexual assaults on multiple victims and the aggravated assault of a fifth woman. The jury deadlocked on one count of rape.
The verdicts set the stage for a penalty phase that began Wednesday in which the same jury must determine whether Livingston should be sentenced to death or life without the possibility of parole.
Livingston grew up with a mother who could not cope with raising four children on her own, his absent father never acknowledged him as his son, and he suffered from serious learning disabilities, Apkarian said.
His IQ of 83 is in the lowest 13 percentile, and even though he graduated from high school because of his athletic abilities, he was basically illiterate, she said.
"One teacher even wrote a paper for him. … They babied him, to his disadvantage," Apkarian said.
While coaches said he worked hard, he could not be taught, she said. Livingston dreamed of playing college football but soon was out of Santa Ana College because he could not maintain the minimum grade-point average.
He worked at an adult shop and then fathered a son, whom he wanted to be there for, unlike his own father, Apkarian said.
"You might not see any value of Waymon to society," she said to jurors. "But you must realize he has value to (his son)."
Deputy District Attorney Howard Gundy called Gonzalez's grandmother, Betty Sigala, to testify.
"You're not supposed to be burying your children or grandchildren," Sigala told jurors. "That was my baby; she didn't deserve to die in that manner."
On her headstone at a Sacramento gravesite is a picture of a smiling Gonzalez and a palm tree, the kind of trees she loved.
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Maryland governor derides tea party, urges unity
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley introduced himself to California Democrats Saturday with a scathing indictment of the tea party and a call for a stronger middle class to move the country forward.
The potential 2016 White House candidate, speaking to hundreds of Democratic delegates at a party convention in Los Angeles, said he's weary of the cynicism and government-by-obstruction that frequently stalls work on Capitol Hill.
He singled out tea party Republicans for espousing "a small view" of America that he compared to the "trickle-down economics" of the Reagan era.
"We call it selling America short," said O'Malley, who received a standing ovation after the speech.
"How much less do we believe would be good for the country?" he asked. "How much less education would make our children smarter?
"We will not solve our problems, my friends, by doing less. We must do more."
The Democratic governor has said he's considering entering the 2016 contest. Early polls have shown Democrats favoring a run by Hillary Rodham Clinton, who has not said if she will enter the race. She carried California in the 2008 presidential primary.
For Democrats, O'Malley said "it's about jobs. It's about a stronger middle class."
O'Malley pointed to his own state as a blueprint for success. Maryland had put a freeze on college tuition for four consecutive years, had the fastest rate of job growth in the region and was going to boost the minimum wage, he said.
"These things do not happen by chance. They happen by choice," O'Malley said.
States "are all going to the same place" and must work to together for progress, he said.
"We will rise or we will fall together," the governor said. "We cannot allow ourselves to become the first generation of Americans to give our children a country of less."
"Enough finger-pointing. Enough obstruction," O'Malley added.
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A group activity for everyone
While your members' boots may not be made for walking (unless they're hiking boots), their athletic shoes certainly are. So what are you waiting for? Walking programs are perfect for practically anyone. Even my 1-year-old, who is testing her wobbly legs out for the first time, is starting to get the hang of it, and will (unfortunately for me) be off and running very soon.
With a few tweaks here and there — and a little imagination — you can offer a walking program that meets the needs of a wide range of people: the very fit, new exercisers, the elderly, dog owners, nature lovers, you name it. You can conduct the program on a group of treadmills or outside. You can combine the program with running for interval training, encourage members to bring pets for a walk, tour through historic areas, hike through the woods…well, you get the idea.
To see what twists other clubs have offered with their walking programs, Club Industry spoke with some industry high steppers whose programs are off and running…I mean, walking.
- Self-directed walking
With 220,000 members, Multnomah Athletic Club in Portland, Ore., offers a large variety of walking programs. Self-directed walking, one of the more popular programs, allows members to set yearly mileage goals for themselves and keep track of their progress. When a member reaches her goal at the end of the year, she receives a reward.
"We have people who walk 2,000 miles a year and some who walk 200 miles," notes Linda Starr, Multnomah's walking and hiking program coordinator. "The whole point is to be individually motivating and self-directed."
- Outdoor excursions
Every Wednesday, Multnomah's members can enjoy the great outdoors during a group walk or hike. Sometimes they walk through the city, and other times they hike in the hills and mountains. Either way, the treks always include some kind of historical tour or scenic value.
Occasionally, the club adds some excitement by planning special trips and events around the group walks. For example, members kayak to the hike's starting point or take a scenic train ride to the walking trails.
The walks/hikes vary in difficulty — anywhere from six to 18 miles. The advanced walks/hikes always include a less-challenging option.
- Hound hikes
When Laurie Cingle came to the Maryland Athletic Club in Timonium, Md., she created a dog/fitness walking program out of a necessity: She was new to the area and had to socialize her two dogs.
Cingle started the program with two participants. Now, four years later, she has about 25 members who walk their pooches with her every Sunday morning. Participants meet in the park at 9 a.m. and hike 3 to 4 miles.
Participants have to be able to walk for 30 minutes at a 3 mile per hour pace and a 4 percent incline, and their canine pals have to be able to walk uninterrupted for an hour. "We are out in the woods hiking,…going over rocks and streams, and up steep inclines, so you have to be in fairly good shape," explains Cingle.
Half way through the hike, participants stop at a pond so their pooches can swim and run around. This provides an opportunity for the dogs and owners to socialize — the main goal of the program.
"I don't run it as a fitness program, although it is," Cingle explains. "I bill it more as a 'let's get together and socialize our dogs,' and the people show up for the dogs. It is probably one of our more successful group exercise program."
- Pedometer program
The Fitness Company West End in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the Obesity Center at Columbia Hospital, offers the 10,000 Lifestyle Activity Program, which is based on the theory that people can maintain a healthy lifestyle by taking 10,000 steps every day.
In the program, members wear a computerized pedometer that stores every step they take all day long. Participants then plug their pedometers into a computer port and upload all the information via the club's Web site, explains Dave Ruff, national fitness director of The Fitness Company, Gaithersburg, Md. Each person in the program gets his own Web page where he can check out his progress.
Ruff believes one of the main benefits of the program is that members can work on their own and everything they do counts toward their 10,000 steps. They don't have to be at the club every day to check their progress or to work out. It's perfect for people with busy lives or people who are self-conscious about exercising in front of others.
Another benefit: Since participants upload the information, club professionals can check on their progress and let them know whether they have to pick up their pace to meet their goals or back off because they are overdoing it.
- Group treadmill classes
You say you don't have an indoor track, and your weather is not conducive to an outside walking program. Fear not! If you have treadmills, you can still offer your members a walking program.
Members at Hatfield Athletic Club in Hatfield, Pa., can take part in a group treadmill class that allows people of all physical abilities to exercise together. According to Jeff Garber, Hatfield's fitness director, group treadmill classes are safe, effective, fun cardio workouts. Done to music, the program features instructors who coach participants through various "terrains" (visualized) and teach them how to train at personally challenging intensities.
An hour long, Hatfield's treadmill class incorporates stretching and abs. While it is a group exercise class, the program is completely individualized. Members are taught their target heart rate zone and how to achieve it.
While elite athletes may need to run to achieve their target heart rate, most participants at the Hatfield Club walk during the class and manipulate the incline and speed of the treadmill to increase the intensity.
- Outdoor adventure racing/boot camp/power walking/Tai Chi all-rolled-into-one program
If you want to take walking to a new level, and really excite and challenge your members, try FitTrek, a new outdoor group exercise program that combines the rigors of boot camp, the action of adventure racing, the pleasure of power walking and the mindfulness of Tai Chi. (For more information, contact fittrek.com.)
Taught by certified FitTrek instructors, the program includes ergonomically designed trekking poles that participants use to increase upper-body involvement. They also use the poles in agility activities that simulate other outdoor adventure activities like cross-country skiing. And as participants' fitness levels increase, they add weighted gloves and light-weight backpacks.
Crunch currently offers the FitTrek program, which lasts an hour, according to Donna Cyrus, the chain's national group fitness director. The class starts with five minutes of stretching, alternates every 10 minutes between walking, agility moves and strength training, and ends with 10 minutes of self-awareness activities, including breathing and balancing exercises.
Cyrus claims that anyone can do the program anywhere at any time. For example, in New York, Crunch takes the program into Central Park, while, in Miami, Crunch members go to the beach for both day and evening FitTrek classes.
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Former Miss USA Tara Conner told a group of recovering men and women that if she had heard her story when she was 14, then her life wouldn't have become such a mess.
A resident of Los Angeles, the model, actress and singer/songwriter traveled through Virginia this week to promote hope for those recovering from alcohol and drug addiction. She made a stop in Bowling Green and had Kodak moments with dozens ranging from local pastors to recovering men and woman. She spoke upstairs in the Caroline County Recovery Community Center.
"Tara turned down a $1 million offer to pose for Playboy" magazine, said John Shinholser, president of The McShin Foundation, Virginia's leading non-profit, full-service recovery community organization.
Tara, now 27, was crowned Miss USA in 2006. During December of that year, she entered the Caron Treatment Center in Pennsylvania and completed 30 days of treatment for alcohol and drug addiction, said Tony Spencer, Caroline County's commonwealth's attorney. Spencer supports the Caroline recovery program because he would rather send non-violent criminals to recovery than jail, he said.
Tara will celebrate 7 years of sobriety next week. The group sat in a circle and Tara told her story and noted that all of her alcohol use was underage drinking. She took her first drink when she was 14 while on a cheerleading trip. "By the end of that year, I was hooked on morphine. It's God's wonder that I'm alive today. I got busted my freshman year.
"I thought it was normal to hang out with my friends and do drugs on the weekends."
But she got a new attitude toward life when she competed in beauty pageants and won her first pageant at 14. She was a featured model on the HDNet series "Bikini Fantasies" in 2004 as a teen-ager.
She was Miss Kentucky Teen USA 2002, Miss Kentucky USA 2006 and then Miss USA. Suddenly, "I was on the red carpet with celebrities and I had my own stylist and driver and I had a salary." She was on national TV news shows. That wasn't bad for a small town girl from Kentucky.
But living in New York City as Miss USA put her in with the wrong crowd and she got involved with guys, drugs and alcohol. "I had wanted to be famous and now I was famous but I was unhappy," she said.
She noted that she first had thoughts of suicide when she was 16, and those thoughts were back while in New York. "I wanted God to take me out."
In late 2006, she was in the national spotlight when news reports claimed she had been drinking underage and tested positive for cocaine use while living in Trump Place apartments in New York. Donald Trump held a press conference and said he was willing to give Tara a second chance. She was allowed to retain her title.
She "turned sober the week before turning 21," she said. "I've never had a legal drink." She went to Caron Treatment Center in Pennsylvania. "It was fascinating to be with a group of people who I could relate to and they could relate to me. I threw myself into the 12-step program. I did everything they said to do," she told recovering young men and women around her. They went around the circle and introduced themselves. One said he had been clean since 2006. Another started his recovery on Jan. 16, 2013 and another started Oct. 13, 2011.
"If not for being Miss USA, I wouldn't have been able to afford a treatment like that," Tara told the group. "Recovery is No. 1 in my life. But there have been ups and downs in life. Stuff happens, man. For three years, I was living out of my car. I was able to eat, and if I needed a place to stay, it was there. You can't save your face and your butt at the same time.
"But at least I know how to dream again. I know how to be a good daughter and a girlfriend. I never went without hope or faith."
During a question and answer session, local pastor David Upshaw asked Tara what is the best way to educate educators and others on seeing signs of drug and alcohol use to "catch it early."
Tara noted that many parents don't believe their children could be using drugs or alcohol. "But by middle school, kids are introduced to drugs and alcohol," she said. "If I'd heard my story when I was 14, I would have had a little bit of hope."
Spencer noted that she had gotten on the road of recovery at an early age, and Tara said, "I was put in a great place for recovery."
When asked if she would consider having a movie made about her life, she said she wanted to first write her memoirs. When that is done, she might be open to a movie, she said.
When asked if she prays regularly, she said, "I feel like my God is on call all of the time." She prays before she speaks and asks God to help her stay out of the way of the message he is getting out to people.
Through her work, she hopes to raise awareness that addiction is a disease and that many people go on to lead a healthy, productive life in recovery. She especially wants educators, families and professionals to know that sobriety at an early age is achievable and that it greatly enhances life's possibilities.
This week, she also visited the Henrico County Jail, the Rubicon (a men's treatment center in Richmond), Virginia State University and the Virginia War Memorial. She spoke at The McShin Foundation's annual holiday party/auction.


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