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- Joseph J. Beninato, 24, of Mount Vernon, was arrested at 11:45 p.m. Friday on charges of seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance, a misdemeanor, and possession of a hypodermic needle, a misdemeanor, in an incident on Route 59 in Clarkstown. He was released pending a Clarkstown Town Court hearing.
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Michael Russo of The Star-Tribune reports the team's top prospect, Mikael Granlund, will return to action with the AHL Houston Aeros on Friday night after missing 12 games with an ankle injury.
Granlund and fellow top prospect Jonas Brodin were each injured in the same game against Oklahoma City, Edmonton's affiliate, just over a month ago. While Granlund is back, Brodin's injury was more significant and he's still a month or two away from returning to action.
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A teen who stole a cab in downtown Traverse City, then died in a crash on Front Street, is identified as Jeremy David-Paul Schwierking of Traverse City.
Schwierking, 18, lived on Glenview Drive.
He previously lived in Rapid City.
Traverse City police said Schwierking stole a cab in the 100 block of South Union Street on Saturday at 2:30 a.m. While police were investigating, the cab crashed in the 600 block of East Front Street in front of the Holiday Inn. Schwierking was ejected from the vehicle and died at the scene.
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By Keith Gushard
Meadville Tribune
The two kids were laughing as they misused a cell phone on their school bus — having a great time as they repeatedly dialed the 911 emergency service number and screaming obscenities at whichever 911 operator who would answer.
They didn't find it as funny when Pennsylvania State Police and the Maplewood Elementary School principal were waiting for them when the bus arrived a short time later at the school, according to Kevin Nicholson, director of the Crawford County 911 Center, the centralized dispatching center for emergency police, fire and ambulance services.
In another instance, an elementary student called after normal school hours to say he was in his school's science room and said the room was on fire, Nicholson said. When the call was traced back and determined to be a prank, the child and child's mother went before Magisterial District Judge Amy Nicols of Titusville to discuss the matter, Nicholson said.
The lesson is simple: Misuse a cellphone and you're going to get caught — quickly, in most cases.
That's why prank calls like the above students made to Crawford County's 911 emergency phone system are practically nil these days. The calls are easy to trace thanks to improvements in telecommunication technology in the last 20 years, Nicholson said.
A 911 dispatcher sees the phone number of the device making the call, as well as the phone's location, he said. Though the technology wasn't designed to catch people misuing the 911 system, it's a benefit since it "allows us to call people back and locate people if they're in need of help," Nicholson said.
The students who made the prank calls weren't prosecuted due to their young ages, Nicholson said, but they learned their lesson.
Nicholson also gives high praise to the parents of the kids involved and how they reacted when informed of what their children had done.
"The parents were extremely responsible," said Nicholson. "The parents made (the kids) do community service for making that call," Nicholson said of the obscenity call.
The student who made the prank fire call had to visit the 911 Center to see the operation, then had to write apology letters, Nicholson said.
While prank calls aren't a problem for the Crawford County 911 Center, unintentional calls can happen during the 50 to 100 calls that come in during an eight-hour shift, said Nicholson. The total number of calls to 911 will vary depending on factors like time of day, weather and road conditions, he said.
Though estimated by the county at less than 20 percent of all 911 calls, unintended calls can become a problem when there is a real emergency, Nicholson said. The county has no firm figure on unintentional 911 calls.
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The majority of unintended 911 calls are due to someone accidentally hitting the 911 call button on their cell phone or the cell phone being jostled in a pocket or purse, triggering 911, said Dave Amy, a dispatcher.
"We've listened to people walk down the street," said Amy. "We try to get their attention by talking so they know."
Other unintended calls may come from a toddler who has been given an old, unused cell phone to play with, but the phone still may dial 911 if the battery isn't removed; or recycled cell phones given out for emergency use that have no phone numbers of their own and are pre-programmed only to dial 911.
"On those phones (the 911 pre-programmed ones), you can't call the person back because you don't have a phone number," said Amy.
Prank 911 phone calls began to fall sharply in the 1990s as communication technology evolved, giving local 911 dispatchers the ability to see the telephone number of the call coming in to 911 and, later, the physical address location of the phone, Nicholson said.
As telephone communications switched more and more to mobile phones during the last decade, 911 technology changed as well, giving 911 dispatchers the ability not only to know what was the cell phone number making the call, but where that phone was located, Nicholson said.
Crawford County District Attorney Francis Schultz said he can't recall having to prosecute a prank 911 call case during his 15 years in the district attorney's office.
Schultz said his office would treat it as a serious matter with persons charged with either false alarms to agency of public safety, which carries up to five years in jail, or false reports to law enforcement, which carries a two-year jail sentence. The charges would depend on the circumstances of the case, he said.
If a prank 911 call were made during an actual emergency that diverts personnel away from the emergency, a person could face a third-degree felony that would carry a maximum of seven years in jail, he said.
Thankfully, the county has had relatively few problems with prank 911 calls, according to Nicholson.
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The Turk in Italy
Take two pairs of lovers, mix them up and introduce a clash of cultures for added color in Rossini's The Turk in Italy
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Nov 1
The Elixir Of Love
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Aug 11, 13, 15, 19, 21, 23, 27, 29
Three outstanding singers go head-to-head for this bold production, based on Shakespeare's play Othello.
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Master of Animal Science
The information on this page applies to future students. Current students should refer to their faculty handbooks for course information.
The rapid growth of technological and scientific innovation in genetics, biotechnology, conservation biology, reproduction and nutrition has resulted in a need for further training for scientists across animal industries in all areas. The Master of Animal Science offers you advanced technical training in a focused area of animal science: genetics, nutrition or reproduction, biotechnology and animal production. Undertaking electives from a range of units of study, you will be equipped with advanced skills applied in a variety of industres including poultry, wildlife, pig, aquaculture, dairy, companion and pedigree animals, sheep and beef. The course is designed to enhance your research skills in managing the planning and implementation of a successful research project and in designing, conducting and writing-up a research project.
Units of study
For full information on Units of Study available in this course, please visit the Sydney Courses website
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Full units of study list
- VETS7025 - Leadership,People and Organisations
- VETS7026 - Leadership: Managing Change
- VETS7027 - Project Management
- VETS7028 - Leadership Skills
- VETS8004 - Advanced Animal Genetics
- VETS8005 - Advanced Animal Biotechnology
- VETS8006 - Advanced Animal Nutrition
- VETS8008 - Advanced Animal Reproduction
- VETS8013 - Special Topics in Animal Science
- VETS8014 - Advanced Anatomy and Physiology A
- VETS8017 - Technologies of Animal Reproduction
- VETS8018 - Advanced Anatomy and Physiology B
- VETS8022 - Animal Science Research Project B
- VETS8023 - Animal Science Research Project C
- VETS8024 - Animal Science Research Project D
- VETS8031 - Animal Health and Disease Advanced
- VETS8032 - Advanced Dairy Production & Technology
- VETS8034 - Food Safety Assessment and Management
- VETS8035 - Feed Technology
- VETS8039 - Aquatic Animal Health
- VETS8042 - Advanced Sheep and Beef Production
- VETS8043 - Advanced Pig and Poultry Production
- VETS8044 - Advanced Animal Behaviour & Welfare Sci
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A candidate for the Master of Animal Science will satisfactorily complete units of study granting 48 credit points (cp), including core and elective units of study, which may include up to 24cp towards a supervised research project and must include at least 12cp of supervised research.
Capstone experience
A capstone experience comprises one or more units of study designed by the faculty to provide students with an opportunity to draw together the learning that has taken place during the award, synthesise this with their prior learning and experience, and draw conclusions that will form the basis for further investigation, and intellectual and/or professional growth. For the Master of Animal Science all students complete a 12 to 24 credit point research project as a capstone experience.
Course outcomes and further study
Graduate opportunities
Completing the Master of Animal Science at the University of Sydney provides an excellent path for graduates to pursue careers in animal science, research and a range of animal industries. Employment opportunities are available in diverse locations with production animals, companion animals and wildlife.
Career opportunities may include: careers in primary production and agribusiness, aquaculture, ancillary and support industries (veterinary and feed supplements), quality assurance of food and feed products, food safety, feed technology, overseas aid in food production, animal nutrition and animal health, careers in government/research: biosecurity and quarantine, animal welfare, regulatory, advisory and policymaking positions, animal health and diagnostics, consultancy, laboratory and field research in the animal sciences and tertiary education, careers in genetics/biotechnology: medical research, native animal genomics, molecular biology (animal and human), genetics and biotechnology companies and assisted reproductive technologies (artificial breeding and IVF).
Further study
Postgraduate coursework at the Faculty of Veterinary Science provides an opportunity for students wishing to progress to a higher degree by research in veterinary science. The following research degrees are offered in the Faculty of Veterinary Science:
Master of Veterinary Science, Master of Veterinary Clinical Studies, Master of Science in Veterinary Science, Doctor of Philosophy
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Coursework units of study may be taken on a non-award basis for students wishing to explore a specific area of interest or support their research.
Admission requirements
A successful applicant for admission to the Master of Animal Science will:
(a) hold a bachelor's degree (with Honours) or higher award with a minimum credit average from the University of Sydney, or equivalent qualification, in veterinary science, animal science or agriculture; or
(b) have completed the requirements of an embedded graduate certificate or graduate diploma in this discipline from the University of Sydney, or equivalent qualification.
It is assumed that applicants have statistics knowledge at an undergraduate level.
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Doctor of Business Administration
An an advanced, rigorous degree for those who want to pursue a career in academia, research, or at the top levels of the business world.
The Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) provides an opportunity for working professionals to advance their career with a doctoral degree while still working in their field, also in the areas of consulting or teaching. GGU seeks doctoral candidates with strong intellects, proper educational preparation, breadth and depth of managerial or professional experience, and the capacity for disciplined scholarly investigation. In keeping with our commitment to working-adult professionals, we have one of the few accredited doctoral programs in the Bay Area that allows you to complete doctoral studies on a part-time basis and accommodate your work schedule by attending evening and weekend classes.
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In the program, students examine current theories, practices, and issues in business; train in research methods; and study the relationships between business and social and global issues. Doctoral students must be adept in all these areas to be successful contributors to the expansion of knowledge and improvement of business practices. For the dissertation, students conduct original research on a topic of current importance and personal interest. The dissertation should impact and help illuminate the strategic issues faced in a student's profession.
The DBA program has been designed with a focus on the "practitioner educational mode," which distinguishes Golden Gate University from other institutions.
This focus is consistent with the position adopted by the Association of Business Schools, which can be summarized as follows:
- The DBA is therefore a professional practice doctorate and is concerned with researching real business and managerial issues via the critical review and systematic application of appropriate theories and research to professional practice. This may be contrasted to the Ph.D. which places more emphasis on the development of new knowledge and theoretical perspectives.
- The DBA may often be interdisciplinary in approach and/or content.
- It is further intended to provide opportunity for considerable personal development, such that the participant achieves a greater level of effectiveness as a professional practitioner or manager.
- Whilst the DBA like the Ph.D. may have a program of complementary studies, it is a student-driven degree, as its primary mode of assessment is through the production of a dissertation/thesis.
- Not withstanding the above difference in orientation, the DBA is a true Doctoral program designed to be equal in status and rigor to the Ph.D. It should thus share the same position as the Ph.D. in any national postgraduate typology.
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- The tools to perform original applied research that advances knowledge.
- An appreciation of cultural, ethical, and global issues and their impact on business theory and practices.
- The ability to make effective decisions in complex environments through integrating theories, insights, and practical knowledge.
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- Educational preparation: A master's degree from a regionally accredited US institution or comparable foreign institution will usually meet this requirement. A minimum grade-point average (GPA) of 3.5 in the master's degree is required. We will consider candidates who only have a bachelor's degree with a 3.5 GPA.
- Successful completion of ECON 202 Economics for Managers (or equivalent) and MATH 240 Data Analysis for Managers (or equivalent).
- Experience: Applicants with responsible managerial or professional work experience will be given preference. A professional resume is required.
- GMAT or GRE examination: you are required to take the GMAT or GRE examination (within 10 years prior to application to the program) and have the test score results forwarded to the university.
- English language proficiency: If your native language is not English, you must supply evidence of English language proficiency, such as a score of 550 or higher on the TOEFL or other evidence
- Recommendations: Three written recommendations attesting to your ability to succeed in a doctoral program are required.
- Statement of purpose: A statement of purpose of approximately 1,000 words is required. This statement should address your goals and your reasons for seeking the doctoral degree.
The admission decision is based on the full range of your skills and accomplishments as shown in the application materials. Strength in one of the above areas can offset weakness in another area.
DBA Courses: $4,160 per 4-unit course
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FOUNDATION CURRICULUM -- 12 units
After the foundation curriculum course work is completed, a qualifying examination is required. This integrative examination will test your mastery of the skills and disciplines of doctoral-level research methods and analysis.
You must choose two of the following DBA seminars from business areas closely related to your dissertation research topic, in consultation with the DBA director:
You may register for DBA 899 Dissertation Research only after having first completed all required doctoral seminars and having passed the qualifying examination. Successful completion of the dissertation is the final step in your program.
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This regular column is for Dungeon Masters who like to build worlds and campaigns as much as I do. Here I share my experiences as a DM through the lens of Iomandra, my Dungeons & Dragons campaign world. Even though the campaign uses the 4th Edition rules, the topics covered here often transcend editions. Hopefully this series of articles will give you inspiration, ideas, and awesome new ways to menace your players in your home campaigns.
If you're interested in learning more about the world of Iomandra, check out the wiki.
MONDAY NIGHT. Over a thousand islands comprise the Dragovar Empire, a sprawling and decadent dragonborn dominion of undisputed power facing threats external and internal. The heroes have just overcome an external threat posed by the Far Realm by thwarting the machinations of Starlord Evendor and freeing the enslaved Myrthon Regency — a Dragovar vassal state — from Evendor's mind flayer allies. However, some military leaders within the Dragovar Empire aren't ready for the war to end. Even though the Myrthon Regency no longer poses a threat, they seek to press the attack and take their fleets deeper into Myrthon waters. Why? Because the Emperor is believed dead, the Dragovar capital is in chaos without strong leadership, and these dragonborn officers are hungry. They need a war to nourish their bloodlust, and they need the spoils of war to satisfy their draconic greed. For all the damage Starlord Evendor and the illithids have inflicted, they call to Bahamut for justice and Tiamat for vengeance, yet the gods do not answer their prayers.
Ardyn, a silver dragon who seeks to overthrow the corrupt Dragovar government, has a small but powerful group of Bahamut-worshiping knights at her command. Conversely, the Vost Azaan, a sinister offshoot of the Dragovar secret service, serves Tiamat's interests by covertly seeking vengeance against the empire's enemies, in particular those responsible for enabling Starlord Evendor's rise to power. Between these two secret groups stand the heroes — the ones who can tip the balance, if they dare. The problem is, unlike Ardyn and the Vost Azaan, the heroes are not entirely convinced the Dragovar Empire is worth saving.
he truth is, when it comes to my D&D campaign, I draw more inspiration from nonfiction than fiction. I find the stories of real people infinitely more fascinating than their fictional counterparts, even though fictional characters are often based on real people. There's something to be said by going right to the source.
For example, when I was creating the Iomandra campaign, I wanted to model the Dragovar Empire after ancient Rome, and so I read books on the subject — not stories set in a fictional version of Rome, but biographies and histories and encyclopedia entries describing Rome and the actual people who lived there during one of the most romanticized periods of human history. I studied Roman philosophy, government, conflicts, and key personages whose accounts are fairly well documented. My goal wasn't to become an expert on ancient Rome, but to plant some ideas in my brain . . . ideas which would hopefully bear fruit and become adventures or key NPCs in my campaign. That was five years ago, and I'm unsure of the extent to which all that reading has sustained my campaign or informed the choices I've made. However, were you to ask my players what they think of the Dragovar Empire, they'd tell you that it feels like ancient Rome, riddled with corruption and internal strife and teetering on the edge of oblivion. But unlike ancient Rome, the Dragovar Empire has powerful heroes to save it.
One of my more recent inspirations is a book titled A Short History of Nearly Everything, written by Bill Bryson and first published by Broadway Books in 2003. The book is a gripping account of history going all the way back to the birth of the universe, and though it presents fascinating explanations for many truths that govern our existence, I find myself drawn to the human stories contained within — the accounts of the people who've made history with their discoveries and theories. Some of these people are celebrated and renowned, while others have been overlooked and nearly forgotten . . . or, in some cases, all but erased from the annals of history by their rivals.
Early on in his book, Bryson tells the story of an English country doctor named Gideon Algernon Mantell, who I'd never heard of before. Chances are you've never heard of him either, but his story (as told by Bryson) is so spectacular and tragic as to warrant brief mention, for purposes of illustrating a point:
In 1822, Mantell stumbled upon a walnut-sized stone that later turned out to be a fossilized tooth belonging to a rather large creature from the Cretaceous period in Earth's history. In short, he made the first dinosaur fossil discovery on record. However, Mantell was an amateur paleontologist at best, and he was strongly urged by an acquaintance to research his discovery in more detail before submitting a paper to the Royal Society, leaving open the window for said acquaintance (a Reverend Buckland) to steal Mantell's thunder and be credited as the discoverer of this ancient line of Earth creatures.
Mantell's life continued to be riddled with failure, for though he began collecting more fossils and publishing papers, no one paid him much notice. This preoccupation ultimately harmed his practice and ruined his family. Mantell was forced to sell his fossil collection to make ends meet, and his wife and children left him.
While Mantell wallowed in destitution and obscurity, there arose a star in paleontology named Dr. Richard Owen, who coined the now-famous term dinosaur. In his book, Bryson describes Owen as "gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama," and "the only person Charles Darwin was ever known to hate." For all his education and gifts, Owen was fond of taking credit for other men's discoveries and ruined the lives of people he disliked. In 1841, the entirely unsuccessful Gideon Mantell fell from a carriage, became entangled in the reins, and was dragged some distance across rough ground. The accident deformed his spine and left him crippled. As Bryson puts it, Owen seized upon this opportunity to expunge Mantell's paleontological contributions from record, renaming species that Mantell had named years before and claiming credit for their discoveries. Just as the carriage accident all but destroyed Mantell's body, Owen all but destroyed Mantell's body of work.
Owen's "transgressions" (as Bryson so eloquently puts it) were becoming the subject of much debate within the Royal Society, but even a tarnished reputation couldn't stop him from becoming the father of London's Natural History Museum. As for Mantell, he took his own life in 1852. Following his death, Mantell's deformed spine was removed and sent to the Royal College of Surgeons where, ironically, it was entrusted to Richard Owen and kept for all to see in the college's Hunterian Museum.
A statue of Richard Owen stands in the main hall of London's Natural History Museum. Alas, the same cannot be said for Gideon Algernon Mantell.
The devious Richard Owen and the sad story of Mantell's spine inspired an NPC villain in the Iomandra campaign: Zarkhrysa, the dragonborn leader of the Vost Miraj (the Dragovar Empire's secret service). Several sessions ago, the heroes stormed the Vost Miraj headquarters in the Dragovar capital city and made their way to Zarkhrysa's office. There, atop Zarkhrysa's desk, they found the skull of her dragonborn predecessor. Did Zarkhrysa have a hand in her predecessor's demise? Perhaps. The skull might be a trophy and a symbol of her rise to power, or it might just be a reminder of what happens to those who aren't careful in her line of work. The heroes also found several scrolls in Zarkhrysa's desk, each one bearing a Speak with Dead ritual. From this discovery, the players concluded that Zarkhrysa was using ritual magic to learn her predecessor's dark secrets . . . and now the heroes could learn them as well.
Truth inspires fiction. In particular, Richard Owen and Gideon Mantell inspired me to create a villain who not only kept the skull of her unfortunate predecessor but also used it to further her dark agenda. Now the skull has fallen into the player characters' hands, and there's no telling what they might learn from it.
If you're a Dungeon Master searching for inspiration to keep your campaign afloat, you can do worse than steep yourself in history, for within history's vault are countless stories that will tickle your imagination and spark ideas. You can do much worse than pick up a copy of Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, which has lots of human stories to plunder. For instance, did you know that the man after whom the Geiger counter is named was a Nazi who betrayed his Jewish colleagues to the Third Reich, or that the man who invented chlorofluorocarbons (which Bryson calls "just about the worst invention of the twentieth century") was strangled to death by another of his not-so-great inventions? Yeah. Go read the book.
Until the next encounter!
—Dungeon Master for Life, Chris Perkins


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|element (ˈɛlɪmənt)
|Compare compound any of the 118 known substances (of which 93 occur naturally) that consist of atoms with the same number of protons in their nuclei
|one of the fundamental or irreducible components making up a whole
|a cause that contributes to a result; factor
|any group that is part of a larger unit, such as a military formation
|a small amount; hint: an element of sarcasm in her voice
|a distinguishable section of a social group: he belonged to the stable element in the expedition
|the most favourable environment for an animal or plant
|the situation in which a person is happiest or most effective (esp in the phrases in or out of one's element)
|the resistance wire and its former, which constitute the electrical heater in a cooker, heater, etc
|electronics another name for component
|one of the four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the universe (earth, air, water, or fire)
|(plural) atmospheric conditions or forces, esp wind, rain, and cold: exposed to the elements
|(plural) the first principles of a subject
|geometry a point, line, plane, or part of a geometric figure
|a. any of the terms in a determinant or matrix
|b. one of the infinitesimally small quantities summed by an integral, often represented by the expression following the integral sign: in
|maths, logic one of the objects or numbers that together constitute a set
|Christianity the bread or wine consecrated in the Eucharist
|astronomy any of the numerical quantities, such as the major axis or eccentricity, used in describing the orbit of a planet, satellite, etc
|one of the vertical or horizontal rods forming a television or VHF radio receiving aerial
|physics a component of a compound lens
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Our Living Language : When Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev devised the periodic table in 1869, there were 63 known elements. Mendeleev classified the known elements by atomic weight, and arranged a table listing them with vertical rows corresponding to shared chemical characteristics. Gaps in the table suggested the possibility of elements not yet discovered, and indeed elements were later discovered, or in some cases, artificially created, that filled the gaps and had the expected chemical properties. The striking correlation between the atomic weight of an element and its chemical properties was later explained by quantum mechanical theories of the atom. The weight of an atom of any given element depends on the number of protons (and neutrons) in its nucleus, but the number of protons also determines the number and arrangement of electrons that can orbit the nucleus, and it is these outer shells of electrons that largely determine the element's chemical properties. Currently, 115 distinct elements are known.
In chemistry, any material (such as carbon, hydrogen, iron, or oxygen) that cannot be broken down into more fundamental substances. Each chemical element has a specific type of atom, and chemical compounds are created when atoms of different elements are bound together into molecules. There are 119 chemical elements whose discovery has been claimed; 92 occur in nature, and the rest have been produced in laboratories.
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We travel, we craft bucket lists, we read about exotic destinations that will open a window on the world, but do we actually retain anything?
Here's a chance to find out. Napa Valley-based freelance writer Bob Ecker created the Travel Quiz 2012 for his travel column at Examiner.com. It has 25 brain-busters that will leave you thinking, singing and maybe embarrassed about how few you can answer. The answers will be posted next week (though I've already seen them).


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LYLES, Tenn. – Evacuation orders remain in effect for hundreds of residents in Hickman County as firefighters make progress on a large industrial fire.
Hickman County Mayor Steve Gregory said Thursday morning that firefighters are trying to smother the blaze by covering it with dirt. Officials with the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency said the blaze was 95 percent contained on Thursday afternoon.
Gregory said firefighters restarted efforts to fight the blaze around midnight after backing off earlier due to concerns that two propane tanks could explode. He said officials later determined that the tanks weren't a danger.
Mayor Gregory said they hope to have the blaze contained by Thursday night or Friday, at the latest.
"Simply because the weather is about to change, the winds are picking up. They're calling for a possibility of heavy rains tomorrow (Friday)," Mayor Gregory said at a news conference Thursday.
The fire at Industrial Plastics Recycle on Plant Road has been burning since 10 a.m. Wednesday.
A four-mile radius of the plant remained under evacuation orders Thursday, including homes, schools and businesses. Mayor Gregory said they hope evacuated residents may be able to return as early as Thursday afternoon or evening.
"I think we've made the right decision in doing the evacuation, just to be on the cautious side," said Mayor Gregory.
The Environmental Protection Agency has placed several air quality monitoring stations in the area, including at the fire site, one mile away, and possibly two mobile units.
"The concern with the smoke has been the irritants, the particulate matter. There are not chemical concerns with the gas or with the smoke because it's been burned off by the fire," said Jeremy Heidt, a spokesman for TEMA. "What that is it's going to come down as soot, and it's going to be inhaled, going to be an irritant to anyone with respiratory issues, like the elderly, the infirm, children."
Once the evacuation order is lifted, TEMA advises residents to hose down their property with water to get rid of the residue.
Hickman County Sheriff Randal Ward said Thursday that they were working to keep people away from the site, due to health and safety concerns from some smoke still lingering. His deputies arrested one looter Wednesday night, catching him as he tried to steal things from the area.
"As of right now, our main concern, as far as my department, is the safety of the people," Sheriff Ward said.
Sheriff Ward cautioned "sightseers" from trying to get close the fire, and said they have blocked off roads going into the area.
Officials will give another update at 4 p.m. Thursday on the status of the fire as well as the evacuation order.
Officials said Thursday that approximately 300 people were evacuated. The Red Cross said only five residents stayed a temporary shelter overnight at the Fairfield Church of Christ on Highway 100 in Centerville. They closed it Thursday afternoon, but said they will provide another night of lodging if residents are unable to return home Thursday night.
Four schools in the radius, East Hickman Middle, East Hickman Intermediate, East Hickman Elementary, and East Hickman High School, remained closed Thursday, upon recommendation from the EPA, TEMA, and other local agencies, due to the heavy air pollution. Officials said Thursday they hope students can go back to class on Friday, which was previously scheduled as a half day.
There were no reports of injuries.
The Red Cross in Nashville said they coordinated with Hickman County Emergency Management Agency to determine how they can best assist those who have been evacuated. An emergency response vehicle filled with snacks and water went to the area to provide food and shelter as needed.
Emergency workers were initially concerned over potentially toxic fumes rising from the plastics recycling plant located on a contaminated federal Superfund site. Crews are keeping a close eye to where the smoke is going.
"The biggest concern is the wind and if this smoke and all gets blown low to the ground. Right now it's doing OK but if it gets down to the ground we got another problem I think we are going to have to evaluate," Mayor Gregory said Wednesday afternoon.
A large smoke plume could be seen for miles when the fire started.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency spokesman James Pinkney said someone from the agency was headed to the scene to assist. Superfund sites were created for the cleanup or removal of areas in which hazardous toxic waste was dumped.
The EPA website said the former Wrigley Charcoal Plant, located northwest of Highway 100, was placed on the National Priorities List in 1989 because of contaminated debris, ground water and soil in the county of about 24,000. The Superfund area includes a 35-acre primary site and surrounding areas comprising about 300 acres.
Industrial Plastics Recycling, a small-scale recycling facility that works on metals and plastics and there is waste product storage on a portion of the primary site.
According to the website, the EPA and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation have investigated conditions at the property and taken steps to clean up the site "in order to protect people and the environment from contamination." The investigation and clean-up are ongoing.
TDEC spokeswoman Kelly Brockman said state environmental officials will have to wait until the fire is out before they can assess possible public health and environmental implications.
According to the EPA website, the Superfund site was home to various industrial operations, including iron, charcoal and wood distillation product manufacturing, beginning in 1880. Contaminants of concern include wood tar chemicals, metals and volatile organic compounds.
(The Associated Press Contributed To This Report.)


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I have always loved politics. In high school, I was very involved in Get Out The Vote campaigns, ran for treasurer of the school (my immitation of George Bush in my campaign speech and not my ability to manage money helped secure me the nod) attended the Republican National Convention (some of my teacher friends just fell over in their chairs as they read that). Eventually, I was a politicial science major at Rutgers University - or as I would like to call it, a lawyer in training.
Maybe it was my time at the State University of New Jersey that caused me to grow a bit disillusioned with the political process. Then again, maybe any 30 minute segment on any national newscast that would have done that. Either way, I always considered going into politics to make the world a better place for my fellow citizens. The whole law school thing didn't work out either (sorry, mom).
On June 26, I was given the opportunity to make my voice heard by meeting with my legislators in Washington, D.C. and letting them know about something that is very important in my life; beating pancreatic cancer.
To give you a little background, I lost my father to pancreatic cancer on July 2, 2002. For those doing the math at home, this is the 10th anniversary of my father's death to this insidious disease. If you're friends with me on a social media outlet, you're probably well aware of this since I have posted it almost as much as some of your friends have alerted the populous about what their Farmville community needs, what your horoscope is for today, or what random things they're doing in the bathroom.
I have three letters for you: TMI.
When we lost my father to a disease that has a 5-year relative survival rate of ONLY six percent, my family's life was jolted like we were hit by lightning (not that I know what it's like to get hit by lightning...I was hit with a kickball once
and even that sent me to the nurse).
So, rather than sit back and let others pick up the slack, I decided to try and do something about it, joining a new affiliate of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, the national organization creating hope in a comprehensive way through research, patient support, community outreach and advocacy for a cure. I've become very involved with the organization, and the Northern New Jersey affiliate which won the award for Large Market Affiliate of the Year in March.
Our national color is purple and I have slowly transitioned my wardrobe from blue and yellow to purple.
I almost feel like I'm a Barney groupie.
In my five years with the affiliate, I have tried to take my family's misfortune and tried to make a positive out of it. I've helped arrange (including one on Sunday, July 15) walks, golf outings, purple days at my school, silent auctions, and more. Basically, I am taking lemons and making lemonade. Purple lemonade.
One thing I had never done was advocate on Capitol Hill. And now I finally had my chance.
Nearly 650 people from 49 states (Alaska gets a pass...the largest state is quite a ways from D.C.) attended the Sixth Annual Pancreatic Cancer Advocacy Day. Many of the people in attendance I have known due to my involvement with the national organization. I was excited to see some new faces like pancreatic cancer survivor Charlotte Rae from the 1980s show "The Facts of Life" and 15-year-old prodigy and award winner Jack Andraka.
We were all there for the same reason: to tell Congress "It is time to pass the Pancreatic Cancer Research & Education Act (S. 362/H.R. 733)!
This legislation would require the National Cancer Institute (NCI) to develop a long-term comprehensive strategic research plan that would help develop early detection methods and treatment options for patients and would ultimately increase survival rates for pancreatic cancer. Unlike other cancers, incidences of pancreatic cancer have actually increased and five years from now, approximately almost 200,000 Americans will have been diagnosed with the disease, but only 10,000 of them will survive beyond five years.
If you haven't heard much about pancreatic cancer, it makes sense. With no early detection tools or effective treatment options, pancreatic cancer is usually
diagnosed at a late stage, taking the lives of many public figures like Michael Landon, former New Jersey Nets coach Chuck Daly, actor Patrick Swayze and Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Heading into Advocacy Day, we had 247 members of the House and 50 members of the Senate signed on to the bill. All of the New Jersey Representatives except two (Rep. Rob Andrews in District 1 and Rep. Scott Garrett in District 5) had co-sponsored H.R. 733. By the end of the day on Tuesday, Rep. Andrews had signed on. Rep. Garrett? Not so much.
We were able to meet with aides from Sen. Frank Lautenberg and Sen. Robert Menendez's offices. Both have co-sponsored S. 362. In addition, I had the opportunity to speak directly with my Congressman, Rep. Leonard Lance (NJ-7), who is the lead author of the bill in the House! His leadership on this issue is absolutely incredible and I feel lucky to have him as my Representative.
Despite the strong support from the New Jersey federal delegation, the bigger issue is getting Congress to actually vote on it. Even with the support of a majority of both houses of Congress (now over 265 members in the House and 55 in the Senate), we need the committees of jurisdiction to mark up the bill and bring it up for a vote.
While almost no members of Congress seem opposed to it, some of the most powerful leaders in Washington do not want to see this legislation move forward. One of the arguments against the bill is that no specific disease should have its own bill. Well, cancer itself is terrible, but pancreatic cancer is unique in that there are no early detection methods or effective treatments for fighting the disease. Further, while the five-year survival rate for all cancers has gone from 50 percent to 67 percent over the last 40 years, the survival rate for those with pancreatic cancer has remained virtually unchanged at a meager six percent.
Another argument is that in this difficult economy more money should not be spent. But this bill does NOT call for an increase in spending for pancreatic cancer research; it simply requests a strategic plan within the National Cancer
Institute (NCI) to oversee existing pancreatic cancer research funds.
Currently, the NCI allocates just 2 percent of its funding for pancreatic cancer research. So if this was a Thanksgiving meal, we wouldn't be allowed at the adult table or the kids table. We'd probably be told to linger outside in the cold, taking advantage of any scraps left for us by the others. Obviously, this is not acceptable for any of the more than 37,000 people who will die of this disease this year.
I left Washington, D.C. with mixed feelings. While I am glad my voice was heard, it is very upsetting that a few elected representatives have so much influence over what bills get through and which never see the light of day. We've all had cancer touch our lives in some way, but I guess those afflicted by pancreatic cancer can truly realize the devastation of this disease.
We still have plenty of work to do to beat this thing. Our group has a baseball game with the Somerset Patriots on July 15 at 5 p.m. (Tickets are $10 apiece and can be purchased by this link ) and a walk in November (pancan.org/newjersey).
With the current session of Congress about to come to a conclusion, I am hoping the hard work that thousands around the country have put in to get this passed hasn't gone for naught.
We have too much to gain and are too close to let this chance slip away.


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