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SALINAS, CA, August 28, 2011: Salinas Valley Memorial Healthcare System has received the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Silver Quality Achievement Award from the American Heart Association, recognizing Salinas Valley Memorial's advanced expertise in providing quality patient care. The award is the result of meeting stringent criteria on important clinical standards for treating heart failure patients. In order to receive the award, Salinas Valley Memorial had to achieve the goal of a minimum of 85 percent compliance to core standard levels of care for heart failure patients as outlined by the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology. This is the first year Salinas Valley Memorial has participated in this part of the Get With The Guidelines—Heart Failure program. It has received the Get With The Guidelines—Coronary Artery Disease Award for the last 5 years. Get With The Guidelines is a quality improvement initiative that provides hospital staff with tools that follow proven evidence-based guidelines and procedures in caring for heart failure patients to prevent future hospitalizations. According to the program's treatment guidelines, heart failure patients are started on aggressive risk reduction therapies such as cholesterol-lowering drugs, beta-blockers, ACE inhibitors, aspirin, diuretics, and anticoagulants in the hospital. They also receive education related to their medication and ways to avoid further readmissions as well as referrals for cardiac rehabilitation before being discharged. "Salinas Valley Memorial is dedicated to making our care for heart failure patients among the best in the country, and implementing the American Heart Association's Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure program will help us accomplish this by making it easier for our professionals to improve the long-term outcome for these patients," said Irene Neumeister, VP/Patient Care and Cardiovascular Services. Under this program, Salinas Valley Memorial's staff develops and implements acute and secondary prevention guideline processes. The program includes quality-improvement measures such as standardized patient education measurement tools. This quick and efficient use of guideline tools will enable Salinas Valley Memorial to improve the quality of care itprovides heart failure patients, save lives and ultimately, reduce healthcare costs by lowering the recurrence of hospital readmissions. According to the American Heart Association, about 5.7 million people suffer from heart failure. Statistics also show that, each year, 670,000 new cases are diagnosed and more than 277,000 people will die of heart failure.
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/* * ds_touch_screen_mood_light.PDE - Arduino sketch - approx 1552 bytes * Read from a touch panel the touch position * Then light up RGB LED using 3 split screen on Y and fading on X * * Hardware used: * Resistive touch panel, 4 wire (DS touch screen) * Arduino board, LEDs * * May 25th 2009 * by Robin Whitfield * * ********* * Original touch screen code: * April 5th 2009 * by Marco Nicolato * ********* */// vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv// Touch panel wiring////When looking at DS screen with connector bottom left they are in order going down as follows://TOP//LEFT//BOTTOM//RIGHT//// Digital connections (used to drive power)#define Lo 2 // LEFT to digital output 2#define Bo 3 // BOTTOM to digital output 3#define Ro 4 // RIGHT to digital output 4#define To 5 // TOP to Digital output 5// Analog connections (used to read the touch position)#define Ti 3 // TOP also to analog input 3#define Ri 4 // RIGHT also to analog input 4//define the LED pins:#define LEDR 9 //set LEDR as pin 8#define LEDG 10 //set LEDG as pin 9#define LEDB 11 //set LEDB as pin 10// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^// vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv// set initial touched positionint touchX = 0;int touchY = 0;// ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^void setup(){ pinMode(LEDR, OUTPUT); //set all LED pins as output pins pinMode(LEDG, OUTPUT); //" pinMode(LEDB, OUTPUT); //"}void loop(){ if (touched()) //if the screen is touched then... { if(touchY < 388) //if x touch position is less then 1/3 of screen then: analogWrite(LEDB, touchX/4 -18); //write brightness to blue LED else //if not, then: if(touchY > 623) //if x touch position is more than 1/3 of screen then: analogWrite(LEDR, touchX/4 -18); //write brightness to red LED else //if not, then: analogWrite(LEDG, touchX/4 -18); //write brightness to green led }}// return TRUE if touched, and set coordinates to touchX and touchYboolean touched(){ boolean touch = false; // Horizontal routine - set L to gnd and R to Vcc // set L = ground pinMode(Lo, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(Lo, LOW); // set R = Vcc pinMode(Ro, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(Ro, HIGH); // T e B high impedance (input mode) pinMode(To, INPUT); pinMode(Bo, INPUT); // wait a bit, then read from Top delay(10); touchX = analogRead(Ti); // Vertical routine - set B to gnd and T to Vcc // Set B = gnd pinMode(Bo, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(Bo, LOW); // set T = Vcc pinMode(To, OUTPUT); digitalWrite(To, HIGH); // R e L high impedance (input mode) pinMode(Ro, INPUT); pinMode(Lo, INPUT); // wait a bit, then read from Right delay(10); touchY = analogRead(Ri); // Only read touch if coords are below 1000 and above 0 (stops errors with certain screens) if(touchX < 1000 and touchX > 0 and touchY < 1000 and touchY > 0) touch = true; return touch;}
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Sometimes, it can be as hard to sit through a good movie as it is to sit through a bad one.
"The Impossible" is based on the true story of one family's ordeal after the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami on Dec. 26, 2004.
As the movie opens, Maria (Naomi Watts) and Henry (Ewan McGregor) arrive at a beach resort in Thailand with their family. They're well-off, though not without their stresses, all of which seem petty compared to what's coming.
Mom, Dad, Lucas (Tom Holland), Thomas (Samuel Joslin) and Simon (Oaklee Pendergast) are playing in the pool when their lives, and the lives of hundreds of thousands of others, are changed by a massive, destructive force.
The camera spends the immediate aftermath with Maria and Lucas, who scramble to reach each other through a torrent of rushing water and dangerous debris. It's the first of many scenes that aren't easy viewing.
The cast and crew do an excellent job of rendering this disaster on screen. The audience is front and center on the family's horrible situation, but the larger scope of the disaster is never far away. Bodies line up on the concrete, the wounded sit on the sides of roads, and the hospitals are overwhelmed by desperate people.
My mind wandered during some scenes as a defense mechanism. I remember creating distance between myself and the action on the screen by wondering how the actors managed to stay in such dark emotional places for so long.
"The Impossible" is a very good movie, but it's also an ordeal, as it slowly reveals the fates of the family members and other characters.
Two thoughts were never far from my mind and affected my experience of the movie: 1) This really happened, and 2) This could've been my family.
"The Impossible" will drag your emotions around, and all of the performances are heart-felt and raw. You've been warned. I give it an A.
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As engineering and biology programs across the country look to revamp how they educate students, Binghamton University has launched a bioengineering program designed to teach students to solve the complex problems of the new millennium.
Kenneth McLeod, professor and chair of BU's bioengineering department, agrees that the United States has been educating engineers for a manufacturing economy that no longer exists. He'll speak to the Harpur Forum at noon Wednesday, January 7, in the Mandela Room of the University Union.
McLeod began his career as an electrical engineer for General Motors, which sent him to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. At MIT, his interests turned to the study of human physiology and he never returned to industry.
McLeod's postdoctoral research at Tufts University School of Medicine enhanced his understanding and expertise in physiology and medicine without losing his training or perspective as an engineer. As a researcher, his contributions are advancing a wide range of fields including cancer, osteoporosis, tissue engineering and preventative and reparative medicine.
McLeod earned his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Kettering University, and his master's and doctorate in electrical engineering from MIT. His postdoctoral work was in cell biology at Tufts.
He taught at MIT, Tufts and Stony Brook prior to coming to Binghamton. His honors include the General Motors Graduate Fellowship, MIT Graduate Fellowship, NASA Space Biology Research Award, Kappa Delta Award for Outstanding Bioelectrical Research, NIH Shannon Award and the Hip Society's Charnley Award.
Holder of numerous patents, McLeod has served as president of the Society for Physical Regulation in Biology and Medicine, a National Institutes of Health reviewer, a member of NIH advisory committees, president of the Bioelectromagnetics Society and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Radiation Effects Review Board.
Lunch will begin at 11:30 a.m. and the program will begin at noon.
The luncheon meeting is open to Harpur Forum members and their guests, as well as Binghamton faculty, staff, students and the media.


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Two items are staples in fall cooking — apples and pumpkins.
And apples are ripe for the picking this time of year.
After getting some fresh apples from an orchard, I was in the mood to bake something with them but wanted something a little different from the norm. A recipe for Apple Snickerdoodle Cobbler sounded perfect.
Apples are good and snickerdoodles are good so this recipe had to be good, too.
An added bonus when making this dish: It includes ingredients that are standard in a baker's pantry. You only needed to add apples.
The recipe suggests letting the dough cool in the refrigerator a few hours before making. Heed the recipe creator's advice because the dough is a bit sticky when first made. Letting it chill helps.
I also got to pull out the apple corer-peeler-slicer apparatus that rarely is used. Many cooks collect kitchen gadgets that have one purpose. I haven't used it in a while so I like opportunities to prove the gadget was a worthwhile purchase.
While baking, the sweet smell of apples and cinnamon filled the house. The aroma was better than any apple spice candle can replicate.
I doubled the recipe to make in a 9-by-13-inch dish because I knew an 8-by-8 wouldn't be enough for the crowd I was serving. They are a hungry bunch.
I took the dish to my weekly gathering of friends and willing guinea pigs. We get together once a week to hang out and watch seasons of television shows or movies. Currently we are watching "Lost" and "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." Some nights, our choice in snacks is completely in sync without even knowing what the others will bring.
On the night I brought Apple Snickerdoodle Cobbler, which took care of the apple side of the taste of fall, Cherie Mingus brought Pumpkin Cake Bars, fulfilling the pumpkin side of fall. And there was celery, which has nothing to do with fall but fulfilled our vegetable requirement for the evening.
The food was enjoyed, raved over and devoured. All that was left in my cobbler dish when I opened the lid at home was a serving spoon, which I have to remember to return next week.
The only thing that would make this dish better is topping it with a big scoop of vanilla ice cream. Next time, I'll remember to stop and buy some.
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Cookie ingredients:
1/2 teaspoon cream of tartar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
2/3 cup flour
1/4 cup unsalted butter, softened
1/3 plus 1/2 cup sugar
1 egg
3/4 teaspoon cinnamon
Apple ingredients:
8 cups apples (6-8 depending on size)
1/4 cup brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
In a small bowl combine first four dry ingredients to make the cookie dough.
In a separate bowl or stand mixer, cream butter and 1/3 cup sugar. Add egg followed by premixed dry ingredients. Mix until dry ingredients are blended well into the dough. Chill dough until easy to handle, at least several hours.
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btw, it's already flurrying up here. **** sucks
Defense played great football tonight.
I'm the same way WeVie. I'm going back to school to work in the Operating room as a surg tech.
Arsenal hasn't been out of his sober-shell in quite a while.
@ NFL Network just making the snide comment, "The Miami Dolphins just celebrated Halloween by dressing up as a football team."
I seriously, just laughed out loud ... Then my drunk arse thought, "**** it" and sang the fight song again.
"Life can be good again this week."
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Elizabeth "Betty" Bunker died peacefully in her sleep on June 23, 2013.
She was born to August and Helen Ostrowski December 28, 1928 in Stevens Point, WI. She lived in "Point" through her school years. After WWII she moved to Chicago. There her winning smile and friendly personality won her many lifelong friends and her future husband Dennis Bunker. She and Dennis lived there many years until a job transfer brought them to Janesville in the mid 1960s. In Janesville she made her home raising four sons and working for Borg Indak in Delavan.
She will be sadly missed by her sons, Mark (Sherrie), Brian, Scott (Amy) and Troy (Lynn). She is also survived by her friend of many years, Joan Francis; her brother, Dave (Valerie) Ostrowski of Appleton; her sister, Marge Traintor of La Jolla, CA; her grandchildren, Matt, Jenny, Sarah (and her children), Amanda (and her daughter, Natalia), Sammy, Tyler, and Katie.
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Oshkosh (OSK) shares soared 12% after Carl Icahn said he would buy the rest of the company at a 21% premium to its Wednesday closing price. Icahn is the truck maker's largest shareholder, holding a nearly 10% stake. He has already attempted to elect his own slate to the board, but shareholders rejected his proposal in January.
"Mismanagement of this company has resulted in a lost decade of shareholder value," Icahn said in a statement. "Oshkosh needs proactive shareholders to bring a proactive management team together to weather a volatile economy."
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Traditionally one would mix vibratoed and dry signal in equal portions to get the chorous effect, while this may lead to a metallic quality of sound.
With the EBC Blend knob you can adjust the mix of these two, and get lot of different tones, from mild to wild.
Electric Blue Chorus (EBC) uses a sinewave generator for more pleasing and gentle liquid wave sound.
The EBC has musical modulation even with stronger Chorus settings, with tones leaning into kind of vibratoed tone that differes it from many other Chorus pedals.
With Depth and Blend knobs, one can also adjust very mild, barely audible Chorus sounds that add some dimension and depth to your tone.
The EBC is also very quiet, and transparent with very little filtering. Traditional chorus pedals often had treble loss, noise or metallic tone specially when used with distortion.
EBC was designed to be used with both clean and distorted tone, and it works both in front of or after a distortion pedal..
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Allergies are an overreaction of the immune system to substances that generally do not affect other individuals. These substances, or allergens, can cause sneezing, coughing, and itching. Allergic reactions range from merely bothersome to life-threatening. Some allergies are seasonal, like hay fever. Allergies have also been associated with chronic conditions like sinusitis and asthma.
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Plan to block Fairbanks St meets with some resistance
The first conceptual drawings of a beautification plan backed by city administration made its debut at the Valdez City Council meeting a week ago Monday, drawing praise from members of the Mayor's beautification task force, and ire from council member Joe Prax and two members of the community that say a portion of the plan will have negative impacts on their businesses.
The plans, which are strictly suggestions at this point, drew the biggest criticism for its town square concept. The suggested location for the area would permanently close a portion of Fairbanks and Chenega Streets to vehicular traffic and make room for a town square for public gatherings, a large public fire pit and other non-motorized uses.
Pat and Peggy Day, owners of the blue building on the corner of Fairbanks and Chenega Streets, appeared before the council to protest the concept. Pat Day complained the plan was created at great expense but with little public input, and no input from businesses adjoining the proposed town square.
David and Sharon Daniels, owners of Tropical Sunsations, the tanning salon across the street, submitted a letter of protest.
"As a tax payer we think the plans for a park or plaza in the downtown area is a waste of our money in times of declining oil revenues," the letter said. " As one of the property and business owners most affected by these plans we wish to make the following clear. We are totally against any and all current or future plans for a park or plaza in downtown Valdez."
Backers of the plan, including Cobb, defended many of the concepts put forth in the proposal, which was created by Design Alaska Engineers and Architects, DAEA , at a cost of $96,000.
"We've been working on this for over a year," Cobb said in an interview Monday.
Cobb noted that the task force has been actively soliciting for new members, ideas from the public and each step taken has been done in the public arena of the city council, the planning and zoning commission and results published on the city's website.
The design plan also includes public archways, directional signage around town on large chunks of native rock and a large snow gauge made of pipe to show visitors the depth of Valdez snow.
It also suggests planting trees and installing urban art along Meals Avenue, a plan critics say is impractical given the town's snow depth each year and problems incurred during the snow removal process.
Cobb said he hopes to bring critics into the fold of the task force so a final plan can be implemented around the design but within the limitations of Valdez geography and weather. He also said he hoped critics would not tear down the plan, but work within its framework.
"Our beautification plan doesn't tell anybody what to do," Cobb said, and issued an open invitation to more public input on the process. "We'll bring in some more community members."
According to the City of Valdez website, the beautification task force will be meeting regularly and interested community members should contact city hall for information on meeting dates and times.
"Where do we go from here?" Cobb said. "We're not quitting."
I agree the town's esthetics need an overhaul. While I personally can't embrace all of the concepts presented as they are, improvements to our landscape would help instill civic pride. It would also help if business owners were given an incentive to improve their existing properties. Many of the tourists I talk to come to Valdez on a lark rather than as a part of their master itinerary. I think more would come (with wallets) if we could offer a better view when its cloudy.
09/04/2012, 2:40 am
As a citizen of Valdez for 5 years, I can tell you that you desparately need an idea like this. Here you have a picture postcard town with ugly butler buildings down mainstreet. Tourists come there and wonder what to do - no significant shopping, nothing spectacular to look at but the mountains and the sea and you can see that in any Alaskan coastal village. The local businesses wonder why the tour boats are on again off again. Go look at Haines, Seward, Ketchikan and figure it out folks!
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This is a Gigapan of the bronze Eastern Airlines Pilots Memorial display located at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport (Domestic) at Atlanta, Georgia, USA. These plaques include a representation of 6,947 names of living and deceased pilots who flew for Eastern Airlines since 1928. Date of hire with Eastern is shown next to the name. Updated on 4/01/2013 . . .
This Memorial is approximately 14 feet wide by 4-1/2 feet high. Each large plaque weighs over 200 pounds with each name etched into the 1/4 inch thick bronze plates. For a more detailed description you can read the small plaque located between the two larger ones.
We have added an ADDENDA plaque representing over 200 pilots who were inadvertently left off the larger plaques. A number of these were names of people revealed to us after the large plaques were manufactured.


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Barbie's life seems so perfect. She has a million great jobs, lives in a mansion, has a handsome boyfriend and just about every type of vehicle you can think of. There's never been a time when Barbie has done anything crazy, but we imagine that a life so perfect has to get boring.
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If Barbie was a real person, every now and then she may have cursed, hit something with her car, or even thrown a party that got a little out of hand. Photographer Ellen von Unwerth actually experienced Barbie in rare form and shot a spread for the spring/summer 2012 issue of Vs Magazine to try and recreate what she saw.
While in L.A., Ellen visited a "Barbie Party" that ended up getting shut down by the police and subsequently a few Barbies and Kens ended up being arrested.
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Unfortunately it would fail the updated U.S. LEV-II standards (too much NOx). The reason MPGs have been dropping in newer cars is because the engine is being tuned to run richer to pass emissions tests.
The best petrol car right now that can pass these tough regs is the Civic HF at 45mpg. And the Chevy CruzeEco at 44. That's very close to what the Civic and Prius hybrids do.


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NARRATOR: Gaylen Gerber.
GAYLEN GERBER: In rotating the artwork on top of my painting, it becomes apparent that my painting is a kind of more stable ground. In some way that's a big part of the content, that it becomes an institutional ground in some way.
NARRATOR: Gerber invited three artists to exhibit their work on Backdrop. Two paintings by Trevor Shimizu will be up the first portion of the Biennial. Later on, there will be one work each by Sherrie Levine and David Hammons. In different ways, all three artists create distinct personas and investigate questions of authorship.
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LONDON (MarketWatch)—U.K. stocks dropped to a nearly four-month low Friday, underpinning losses for a week during which investors wrestled with geopolitical tensions and signs of EU economic weakness.
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The dismantling of Toronto continues, sadly, with the Public Works Committee nixing plans for a beautiful cyclist and pedestrian bridge (above) meant to link Fort York to neighbourhoods and parks north of the rail corridor.
Even though financing for the bridge is already budgeted, Councillor David Shiner, a Rob Ford ally who subscribes to the school of thought that anything that doesn't make life easier for car drivers is too expensive, no matter how much value it brings to a neighbourhood or the city:
The bridge, said Shiner (Ward 24, Willowdale), does not need to be so "fancy" given the city's fiscal constraints and given that it will not carry many people.
"You want to connect the people there, but at what cost? I have a lot of concern that we're so financially tight — just think about what that $23 million could do for bridge rehab, for road repair; think of the community centres it could fix up, of the children's services and child care centres it could provide," he said.
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User: Eula B, May 3, 2012
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The Blackberry Charging pod for the Blackberry Style is very useful for keeping your phone charged up so when you leave the house, itll last throughout your day.
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Stillaguamish Watershed Chooses ¡§Ambitious Alternative¡¨
It¡¦s better to invest in recovery now and make a clear commitment to salmon habitat restoration, the members of the Stillaguamish Implementation Review Committee (SIRC) decided. SIRC is the local stakeholder planning group for the Stillaguamish watershed salmon recovery chapter. The local planning effort is co-lead by Snohomish County and the Stillaguamish Tribe.
The group believes that salmon recovery actions will only get more expensive and difficult to implement in the future given the projected population growth in the watershed, so it is more cost-effective to take aggressive action in the first 10 years of the plan. With that, the SIRC chose its most ambitious planning alternative by consensus.
The three alternatives which the SIRC considered were developed by the committee based on science, community considerations and practical implementation issues. Alternatives were laid out in three categories: conservative, moderate and ambitious. Factors such as landowner willingness, permitting, engineering and coordination were considered in developing the suites of projects for each alternative. All projects are strategically designed to have the highest benefit to chinook salmon.
Projects were developed according to the 2004 Stillaguamish Lead Entity Strategy. This chinook focused strategy was developed by the SIRC and the watershed leads for the Salmon Recovery Funding Board (SRFB) sponsors with planning in mind. The strategy recently received praise from the SRFB Review Panel for its clarity and focus.
The ambitious alternative aims for a robust suite of voluntary projects in priority areas over 10 years. Selection of an alternative is a first step in developing the recovery plan chapter. Next steps include talking with local organizations to gauge their willingness to implement as well as technical review by NOAA fisheries. The specific suite of actions the SIRC selected is:
X Treat two major landslides and 106 miles of forest roads
X Restore 305 acres of estuary
X Place 51 engineered logjams instream
X Enhance 400 acres of riparian buffers
X Restore 30 acres of side channel habitat
Snohomish County used the Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment (EDT) model to estimate the chinook population response to the alternatives. EDT provides a practical, science-based approach for developing working hypotheses as a basis for moving forward with watershed protection and restoration activities.
The EDT estimate is that the Stillaguamish watershed will reach thirty percent of the planning target for both chinook stocks in the first ten years of plan implementation with its ambitious goal. With previous salmon habitat protection and restoration work, the watershed is currently at ten percent of the Shared Strategy target, so the SIRC goal will increase the population three-fold.
SIRC members expressed concern that policy assumptions should still remain more conservative. They felt that local land use and forest practices could degrade habitat while voluntary habitat restoration efforts are making progress. The SIRC affirmed that he ambi ernative is the right approach to take and will look for state and regional leadership on regulatory matters. Their hope is that they stand a better chance of receiving financial help as well as more streamlined permitting from the state and federal government if they from the farming community, forestry industry, the Tribes, County Council, conservation groups, cities, state agencies and citizens at large. The SIRC will seek to present their recommendations to local decision-makers in late May or early June.act to make a significant difference early.
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Each election year, this column spares no expense (by which I mean "spends no money") on a lavish ceremony (by "lavish," I mean "cheesy," and by "ceremony" I mean "a brief printed reference, possibly including a misspelled version of the recipient's name") to honor ("insult") those who best exemplify ("lack plausible deniability") the innovative campaign techniques ("weird public behavior") of Hayes Gahagan.
In 1978, Gahagan, a former-Republican state senator from Caribou, announced he was running for the US Senate as an independent. Soon afterwards, he held a news conference to proclaim that persons unknown had altered his official campaign photograph, inserting subliminal images of sexual organs in his hairline. As evidence, he offered magnified pictures of his scalp, although the result looked suspiciously like dandruff. He lost the election. Gahagan, who now lives in Presque Isle, surfaced again in May, authoring a newspaper op-ed in which he accused the Democratic Party of being a Nazi front. And he has the subliminal images to prove it.
There's nothing a lazy political columnist likes better than slapping a guy who claims to have genitalia on his noggin with a derogatory nickname ("Richard-head? No. How about Ricky-head? No ..."). But sometimes, I have to get my mind out of the gutter — or the hairline — and devote my creative energies to this season's awards.
The envelope, please.
The You-Don't-Get-To-Maine-Too-Often-Do-You-Tourist-Boy Award For Clueless Commentary By An Out-Of-State Journalist goes to Tom Curry of MSNBC. In a May 27 posting on the network's Web site, Curry speculated that GOP presidential candidate John McCain could win Maine's 2nd District this November, thereby snatching one of the state's four electoral votes. (Maine awards an electoral vote to any candidate who wins a congressional district.) Every four years, this same scenario surfaces, although, to date, such a division has never occurred. But that's not Curry's mistake. He claims that campaigning in northern Maine is a bargain — a mere $50,000 can buy heavy play on TV in Bangor, the 2nd District's "biggest city." Except the biggest city is actually Lewiston, which is part of the Portland TV market. Where $50,000 won't buy you as many 2nd District votes as Hayes Gahagan got when he ran for the Senate in '78. An effective campaign in northern Maine requires tube time in Portland, Bangor, and Presque Isle. Even if you skip the subliminal images, it ain't cheap.
The Political-Obliviousness Award For the Reality-Challenged is presented to Project Vote Smart. Every election year, this national nonpartisan group asks candidates to fill out a questionnaire on their positions on issues. Every election year, most candidates refuse. Project Vote Smart then gets all whiny about the brush-off. In 2008, just 12 percent of Maine's legislative primary candidates answered the group's questions. Among congressional primary hopefuls, the number was 38 percent. The response from this state has declined every year since this do-gooder enterprise began in 2000 (when 57 percent responded), because candidates have discovered that while few voters care whether they fill out the form, the sector of the public most likely to make use of their answers is their opposition. Saves a lot of research. Project Vote Smart is a nice idea. Like cold fusion.
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Is there an efficient way to work out how many factors a large number has?
Many numbers can be expressed as the sum of two or more consecutive integers. For example, 15=7+8 and 10=1+2+3+4. Can you say which numbers can be expressed in this way?
Helen made the conjecture that "every multiple of six has more
factors than the two numbers either side of it". Is this conjecture
This challenge is to make up YOUR OWN word-arithmetic challenge.
Each letter represents a digit and where the same letter appears more than once it must represent the same digit each time.
The hard part is to make up some message rather than just using any old letters. Send in your word-arithmetic challenge, together with at least one solution to it.
Another challenge is to discover if the puzzle has just one solution or many. Here are two easy examples; they are just addition sums and you may be more inventive and make up subtractions, multiplications or divisions:
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Our Classic 3 Day Tented Safari Package is perfect for those who wish to enjoy an authentic wildlife experience. It includes flights and is led by a professional guide, who will help you make the most of your game viewing experience. Accommodation is offered in a basic canvas safari tent inside a Kruger National Park Rest Camp.
Spending time on safari in an iconic destination is the dream of many people around the world, but often the cost of the accommodation is inhibiting. For those who do not want a luxury lodge experience but also do not want to camp out in the wild, options are limited. Our Classic 3 Day Tented Safari Package is the best option available; it is led by a professional guide who will share the secrets of the wilderness of Kruger.
Spend a few days out in the beautiful bush of Kruger delighting in exciting wildlife encounters. The guide will help you track Lion or spot some of the region's amazing birdlife. In the evenings tuck into tasty meals at camp. Fall asleep to the sounds of the bush at night.
Tented Safari Highlights
- Big Five safari experience
- Expert guide who does all the driving and cooking
- Basic canvas safari tent on a wooden platform
Day 1: Johannesburg O.R. Tambo Airport to Kruger ParkOn the first morning of the Classic 3 Day Tented Safari you will catch a flight from Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International Airport to the Kruger Mpumalanga Airport in Nelspruit. After landing, you will meet your guide for the trip, before driving into the Kruger where your game viewing experience begins, perhaps spot a herd of Elephant or graceful Impala. Enjoy the stories and intimate knowledge of the guide about the amazing diversity of wild and plant life. You will arrive at your Rest Camp in Kruger National Park in the late afternoon. There will be some time at leisure to go for a quick swim, purchase some gifts or beverages at the camp shop, or just strolling around the camp to stretch your legs. In the tranquility of the dusk gather round the fire, sip on a refreshing drink and chat about the day's sightings. Dinner will be enjoyed at camp. Retire to your comfortable safari tent (which is pitched on a wooden platform) and fall asleep in the peace and quiet of the night. (Dinner included)
Day 2: Kruger National ParkThe early morning knock on your door signals the start of your second day on safari. After a warm cup of coffee and snack, you begin your early morning drive. An early start on safari is the perfect time to spot predators that are very active during that time of day. You will return to camp for breakfast and then have some time to relax during the hottest part of the day.
In the afternoon you will once again set out on a game drive, and perhaps spot an endangered White Rhino or small Steenbok. The guide will talk about the uses of the plants and the interesting history of the region, which really enhances the safari experience. Dinner will be served at camp. (Breakfast and Dinner included)
Day 3: Kruger Park to Johannesburg O.R. Tambo International AirportOn your final morning there will be time for a couple of hours morning game drive in the hope of seeing those last few animals you have not yet ticked off your list. After a delicious breakfast, your guide will drive you back to the Kruger Mpumalanga International Airport, where you will catch a return flight to Johannesburg. (Breakfast included)
Rates & Prices
Maximum 7 people per vehicle ensuring a personalized safari experience.
- Return flight: Johannesburg - Nelspruit - Johannesburg
- Accompanied by experienced English speaking guide for the duration
- Game drives in open safari vehicle
- Bottled water while on game drives
- 2 nights' accommodation in a basic canvas Safari Tent at a main Rest Camp in Kruger Park
- All meals as per itinerary
- Tea & coffee and limited local wine, beer or soft drinks with dinner
- Conservation fees and community levies
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The returning peasants — cloaked in everything from leather gloves to knee-high boots — deftly fought with their swords, heavily grunting as they thrashed the heavy weaponry through the air. One brave individual even fought shirtless. The rookies, however, gripped rulers or colorful light sabers and attempted to keep up with the seasoned veterans.
Men and women were seen jousting on a grassy field as they auditioned for the Sarasota Medieval Fair last weekend, at the Sarasota Fairgrounds. They tried out for stage combat, which takes place twice a day during the main event in November, and the Human Combat Chess Match, one of the most well-attended features of the festival along with the joust.
At 11, Kei Bland is the youngest jouster of the cast, which consisted of approximately 110 members last year. Each year, the Sarasota Medieval Fair scenario is different but is always based on history. It can range from "Braveheart" to "Robin Hood."
"I write the scenarios from history — the stuff you fell asleep to in high school — and make it come to life so you can understand it," said Artistic Director Dean Bowden.
Tara Connelly had been attending Renaissance and medieval fairs her entire life, but never thought about auditioning for one until she moved in 2007 from Baltimore to Sarasota and became best friends with Bowden and his wife, Shannon.
"At first, it was daunting to me because I have no theater background," Connelly said. "I had to learn Scottish and French accents — British is the most common — and always played noble characters. My husband (Gary Conner) was the assistant chess match director. This year we have the peasant revolt, which is so much fun. You get away with a lot more."
The eighth annual Sarasota Medieval Fair takes place from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 12 and Nov. 13 and Nov. 19 and Nov. 20, at the Sarasota Fairgrounds.


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To many people, Thatcham Research are synonymous with vehicle security. Rightly so, given the centre's contribution to an impressive reduction in UK vehicle crime since the mid-90's.
Thatcham's vehicle security team was established in 1992, with the primary aim of stemming the explosion in vehicle crime, which at the time was proving of great concern to the insurance industry.
Today recorded theft of vehicles is less than 100,000 cases per year down, from 620,000 at its height. Whilst many organisations can claim credit including vehicle manufacturers, UK law enforcement and government, Thatcham have been instrumental in driving up standards in both factory fit and aftermarket vehicle security installations and our security testing regime is considered to be one of the most rigorous in the world, acting as a model for crime prevention efforts internationally.
Over the past two decades, Thatcham have subjected almost every new vehicle destined for UK roads to a New Vehicle Security Assessment, (NVSA). In the case of cars and LCVs, the results from the Thatcham NVSA go forward to the insurance group rating panel where, depending on performance, they can affect a vehicle's grouping by up to 2 groups. Find out how your vehicle performs in our 'My Vehicle' ratings section.
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The City of San Antonio's official flag was designed in 1935 by William Herring, deputy commander
of the Texas Department of United War Veterans. Herring designed the flag for the national convention of the United Spanish War Veterans being
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City commissioners unofficially adopted the flag in 1935 and two copies were made, one for City Hall and the other for the Chamber of Commerce. However, no action was taken to formally adopt the flag's design until 1976. In 1992, the City was informed that it was no longer acceptable to have words on a flag. City Council passed a resolution to alter the flag's design to the more practical design that is used today.


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If you were going up in June for King salmon season near Wasilla and Anchorage, what sort of equipment would be recommended?
I'm working on a 12 wt rod but I'm having some difficulty picking out a reasonably priced reel. Can anyone vouch for the Pflueger products... Trion or President? I'm trying to stay under $150 for the reel.
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Thanks a lot you guys. Sounds like you have a lot of experience up there. I think I really lucked out. I was searching ebay for rods and got a St. Croix Premier 8wt for $85 including a decent reel with disk drag and all lined up. Haven't got it yet but its supposed to be brand new. That should do the trick.
Thanks for advice on patterns. We are staying real close to Coopers Landing so I doubt that we'll have trouble getting flies but I like to bring a good supply. If I start tying now, I should have some done by August!
Thanks again.
I agree with the advise posted Previously going with the 8wt. it should give you a little more flexabity especially if your useing a sinking line and or wieghted flies. I've caught fresh silvers on my 5 and 6 but my 7 casts the flies easier especially
the wieghted bunny flies.
I 've never fished the Kenai but have heard stories about the crowds. It May be a little lest croweded in August then earlier in the year. I was in central Alaska around the 17th last year and heard the Kenai got a great second run of reds and almost no one was there to fish it. As far as trout it's my experiance that when the Trout are keying on eggs thats about all they will look at pure protien. If there are no eggs standard trout flies will do along with ESL's and buggers. Do some searching on the internet there is alot of info out there.
Good luck those silvers are FUN!!! hope you hit them
I'd go with a 8wt if you want to buy another. It's seems like the perfect all around Alaskan weight for many. You don't need to spend a ton of cash. My second trip up there I chased silvers and rainbows on a $80 8wt. St. Croix Premier. The trout didn't seem to hold it against me and it performed great. You can get a 4pc now for around $110.
I'd reccomend bringing a fast full sinking line and some good streamers like purple or black egg sucking leeches with some good flash on them(size 6). Even though eggs and flesh patterns work great I've often had better luck chucking streamers. Bring some smaller streamers as well in case you find yourself where grayling are saving the day.
My first trip up there was a road access only trip like yours and it was a learning experience. I'm sure your guide will be able to take you to less hammered areas but prepare yourself for Alaskan Combat Fishing. Since that trip I've always spent the extra money on one more commercial flight from Anchorage to various roadless towns and a bush flight to some solitude. 100 people nailing the same hole just isn't what fly fishing is about to me. Just a heads up. Enjoy your trip! I'll be up there too this August/Sept chasing Charr way out in the middle of nowhere.
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Ok, I'm pretty new at this but I'm going to Alaska next August, to the Kenai and Russian Rivers. Salmon should be running. Will be floating and wading with a couple days wading the tributaries. Guide says, bring two rods range 6-8. I have a 6wt Loomis that's my rod of choice. I have a Winston 9 that I think it too big. Thinking about buying a 7 or 8 backup rod but can' spend much more money. Leaning towards a 7, seen a lot of Winston IBIS on resale going cheap. Heard they're discontinued but still, its Winston. Don't have an opportunity to cast one. Anyone have thoughts on what I should be looking for in weight & brand? Also, I assume that we will be casting a lot of flesh flies and egg patterns in the big water but hope to get into some smaller streams as well. Anyone who's fished up there in August know what other patterns work for the trout?
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Cat 6 lead authors: WU cofounder Dr. Jeff Masters (right), who flew w/NOAA Hurricane Hunters 1986-1990, & WU meteorologist Bob Henson, @bhensonweather
By: Dr. Jeff Masters , 3:35 PM GMT on September 25, 2010
Tropical Storm Matthew continues to dump heavy rains over Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, and neighboring regions of Mexico today. Puerto Barrios, in northern Guatemala, has received 4.57" of rain in the past 24 hours. With Matthew expected to slow down and dissipate by Sunday, the storm's heavy rains of 6 - 15 inches can be expected to cause severe flooding and dangerous mudslides. The rains are of particular concern for Guatemala, which suffered its rainiest August in its history, followed by the landfall of Tropical Depression 11E during the first week of September, which dumped torrential rains on the country that triggered flooding and mudslides that killed at least 48 Guatemalans.
Figure 1. Visible satellite image from NASA's Terra satellite taken yesterday, showing Tropical Storm Matthew approaching landfall.
Figure 2. Forecast rain amounts for the 5-day period beginning at 2am EDT today (Saturday, September 25) as predicted by this morning's 2am EDT (6Z) run of the GFDL. Very heavy rains in excess of eight inches (yellow colors) are predicted for portions of Central America along Matthew's track. Image credit: Morris Bender, NOAA/GFDL.
Tropical Storm Lisa pulled a bit of a surprise last night, intensifying into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds in the far Eastern Atlantic. Lisa's longitude of 27.9W at the time made it the 10th strongest hurricane so far east in the Atlantic. Record keeping began in 1851, but it is likely that many hurricanes stronger than Lisa were missed prior to the advent of reliable satellite coverage in 1974. Lisa is even farther east than Category 4 Hurricane Julia, which earlier this month set the record for strongest hurricane ever recorded so far east. Lisa's glory will be short-lived, though, as strong upper level winds out of the west are expected to increase tonight, bringing high wind shear of 20 - 45 knots over the storm. The high shear may be capable of destroying the storm by early next week. It appears unlikely that Lisa will affect any land areas.
Forecast for the rest of the tropics
Most of the models continue to predict that by Wednesday, the remnants of Matthew, and/or a piece of a tropical disturbance over the Eastern Pacific off the coast of Guatemala, will evolve into a huge and very wet low pressure system that will start spinning over Central America and the Western Caribbean. NHC has been referring to this expected storm as a "monsoon low", and these sorts of storms are very dangerous for Central America and the Western Caribbean, even if they do not develop into a tropical storm. In October 2007, a similar monsoon low I dubbed "the sleeping giant" spent a week spinning over the region, dumping very heavy rains over all of Central America and the countries bordering the Western Caribbean. Rains from this system triggered flooding that killed 45 people in Haiti, damaged thousands of homes in Cuba, and caused havoc in Guatemala, El Salvador, Belize, Mexico, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, and the Bahamas. A similar type of storm is likely to develop on Wednesday and Thursday, and most of Central America and the nations surrounding the Western Caribbean can expect to see dangerous flooding rains develop this week in association with this giant low. Most of the models also predict that this big low will eventually develop into a tropical storm or hurricane that would be drawn northwards over Cuba late in the week, and threaten the Bahamas, Florida, or the U.S. Gulf of Mexico coast. This is an exceptionally difficult system to forecast correctly, and the models have been coming up with some pretty unusual solutions as to what might happen. We'll just have to wait and see what unfolds over the next few days.
I'll have an update Sunday by 2pm.
Jeff Masters
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Every time a strong gust turns our latest flimsy model inside-out, rendering it a decrepit, crippled mess of tangled metal, a single thought comes to mind: Never again. It's time to invest in a legitimate umbrella.
Plenty of umbrella-makers produce personal-sized parasols with a much better build quality than the cheap units for sale on the street or in the corner store. But this spring we're going big. We're testing canopies that span more than four feet across—golf, two-person, and otherwise large umbrellas to help you create a rain-free cocoon as you cruise down the sidewalk.
Price: $89
Length: 37 inches
Weight: 1.9 lbs.
Span: 54 inches
When all these umbrellas are lined up in a row, the Blunt is the one we want to play with. The thick fabric looks more like what you'd see on an upscale camping tent than the shimmery material covering most umbrellas. Propped up, the guts of the thing scream "robust." The thick ribs look like they could withstand a gale. The downside of that girth is that the XL feels heavier than the other entrants here, though its total weight falls in same range. My arm got tired carrying it and I found myself wanting to rest it on my shoulder.
At 37 inches in length, the Blunt is a few inches shorter than the other umbrellas in our test, but just long enough to be inconvenient to carry around when closed. I'm 5'8", and if I hold the XL with my arms at my side, it's just long enough to drag on the ground.
Overall, the XL is the big umbrella for the polite urbanite. Golf umbrellas can be the bane of metropolitan pedestrians trying to navigate an already cramped sidewalk without getting an umbrella point in the eye. The 54-inch span of the XL is a tiny bit smaller than a golf umbrella's, just enough to allow you to pass under scaffolding or to get around other people's umbrellas without much trouble. In addition, we can't say enough about Blunt's aesthetic trademark, rounded edges rather than sharp points where the ribs meet the umbrella's exterior. A few rainy days walking around Manhattan is all it takes to see the civic virtue in carrying an umbrella that doesn't have centimeter-long plastic points protruding from its edges.
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Maybe you've seen her doing pop songs with bluegrass outfit Jerks of Grass on Thursdays at Gritty's. Sure, it's a little incongruous, but Jerk Carter Logan has clearly taken a shine to the girl (he's been teaching at Waynflete for years), and he's helped her create a great introductory five-song EP with producer Jonathan Wyman, drummer Chuck Gagne (the Lucid, Pete Miller), and bassist Stu Mahan (Lost Cause Desperados, lots of other stuff).
On the title track, "Honey," an extremely charismatic mix of sassy and winsome, Logan's pre-teen fiddling daughter Sarah shows up, too, along with Jerk fiddler Melissa Bragdon and the omnipresent Jason Spooner.
But it's not just about the great help she's getting. Amy Allen has a major voice, with style and substance, a blend of Adele and Norah Jones (and I know that sounds like a PR writer's line), and she's got some serious potential for star power. People should flip for this girl.
Sure, a song like "Tomorrow" feels a little creepy when she sings about being 13 and 14 and it's a love song and they're talking about kissing and stuff. Especially if you have a daughter. But the cover of Kanye West's "American Boy" is downright sublime, all the more so for being recorded live in the studio. There are much more experienced artists who wouldn't think of doing that without separate multi-track recording.
Logan's acoustic guitar soloing and the fiddling are really cool sound elements, actually, since this kind of pop would normally have an electric rock guitar and synthesizers and probably manufactured beats, and, well, they rip it up.
It's a little Taylor Swifty at times, sure, but if you want to say you heard this girl when, pick this disc up immediately.
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