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Boxer shorts not the key to fertility
A Melbourne urologist believes doctors will be changing their advice to men with fertility problems, following the release of an American study.
Until now, doctors believed loose boxer shorts kept the testes cooler than core body temperature - a key factor in sperm production.
But a New York-based study has proven no difference in temperature between men wearing boxers and men wearing other underpants.
Dr Chris Love says this means changing the advice given to patients with fertility problems. "We thought the temperature of the scrotum must go up with tight underwear and we know that high temperature's bad for sperm," Dr Love said.
"This is saying that the temperature of the scrotum doesn't change no matter what type of underwear; so it's fairly irrelevant and probably not something we need to really talk to patients about as much as we thought we did."


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2010 opened with analysts predicting that the long awaited growth of mobile internet had finally arrived.
The increasing availability of low-to-mid price internet enabled handsets, along with affordable data plans, helped to facilitate mobile internet use in the mass market.
UK consumers led the adoption charge in Europe; at the beginning of 2010 the UK saw 76% growth in mid-tier smartphone subscriptions compared to January 2009.
Smartphone subscribers mid/low tier: January 2010
Smartphone subscribers high tier: January 2010
Source: comScore MobiLens / Ofcom calculations. Age 13+. Note: High-tier pricing model includes smartphones with monthly subscription fees of over £35 in UK and over €50 for Europe territories
Over 11 million smartphone subscribers in the UK
As of December 2010, smartphone shipments were reported to account for 37% of all handset shipments in Western Europe.
There are now over 11 million smartphone subscribers in the UK - this is more than one in six of the UK population, and represents growth of 70% from 2009.
In contrast, sales of standard feature phones have declined by 17%, with a budget price point being their only remaining USP.
Worldwide, an estimated 1.3 billion mobile handsets were sold in 2010. Two hundred and fifty million of these - approximately one in five - were smartphones.
Apple iPhone 4 tops the best-seller charts
At the close of 2010, the best selling smartphone device in the UK was the iPhone 4, followed by the BlackBerry Curve 8520 and the Nokia N8.
The much hyped iPhone 4 was released in summer 2010, and became Apple's most successful ever product launch, according to Apple CEO Steve Jobs.
Other important smartphone models from HTC and Samsung were also released in summer 2010, their impact on the market perhaps obscured by the publicity storm surrounding the iPhone 4.
Nonetheless, the release of a number of new and highly desirable handset models into the UK market was certainly a factor in increased mobile search activity during the second half of 2010.
There was a clear increase in search activity following the release of new handset models through May and June, with only a temporary decrease in mobile search activity during November.
The slight decline in mobile search impressions during November may reflect a preference among many UK consumers to complete this year's festive online transactions via a desktop device, possibly due to a lack of certainty regarding the security of mobile payments.
A UK survey, carried out by Google in the run up to Christmas, found that 23% of consumers were already prepared to carry out Christmas shopping using a mobile internet device.
How smartphone users planned to search with their phones - Christmas 2010
Source: Google/OTX Consumer Pulse Check, 5 October 2010. Base: Those who have a smartphone and have started or plan to shop Christmas 2010. Q: In which of the following ways, if any, do you plan to use your smartphone to do your shopping this Christmas?
Apple and Google Android products drive increase in mobile internet activity. Mobile now accounting for 5% of web visitors
Of the newly released mobile devices through 2010, the iPhone appears to have had the largest impact on overall mobile search volumes.
Latitude performed a study of unique website visitors across a range of sectors through 2010, and found that by Q4 the Apple iPhone alone accounted for almost 3% of unique website visitors.
The Apple iPad - only launched at the beginning of Q3 - contributed an impressive 0.66% of web visitors, with Android devices not far behind.
Unfortunately, visits from BlackBerry's RIM OS cannot be tracked by analytics packages due to a lack of support for the http referrer header, however, even without the contribution from RIM, mobile web visitors in Q4 2010 contributed approximately 5% of total visitors, compared to around 2.1% of visitors in Q1.
Android on the charge in the UK?
Although Apple is leading the way in terms of current mobile internet activity, there are signs that Google's Android is bridging that gap.
Looking at the similar devices of iPhone vs Android, the latter's growth rates in the UK market are significantly better.
2010 has seen an average quarterly growth rate of 107% for Android vs modest growth rates of 17% for the iPhone.
Android vs iPhone 2010 growth rates
Source: Latitude data, sample of approximately 3.5 million unique website visitors per month across retail, insurance, automotive, leisure and service sectors.
Looking towards the US, comScore reports that Google's Android platform has now exceeded Apple's iOS market share.
It seems likely that with increasing numbers of Android devices hitting the market in the UK, market share for Google's platform will increase rapidly and soon catch up with Apple.
This is further supported by the growth rate analysis on the chart above.
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Tomorrow, Latitude will be looking at mobile paid search opportunities.

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The Fourth of July ushers in the dog days of summer. This is great for backyard grilling and swimming pool outings, but also aligns well with some of the starker impacts of climate change — heatwaves, drought, and wildfires.
Setting off fireworks, a treasured Independence Day ritual, happens to be an extreme liability when it comes to sparking an unwanted burn. But with over 15,000 official displays and hundreds of thousands of more independent efforts, fireworks also provide cheap thrills and economic gains to communities across the country.
While the drought-ridden West is taking extra precaution to prevent fires, the fireworks business is booming nationally. This, according to Julie Heckman, executive director of the American Pyrotechnics Association (APA), the leading trade association of the fireworks industry.
In recent years we actually saw a relaxation of fireworks restrictions due to the slow economy.
"Sales of fireworks have dramatically increased over the last decade," Heckman told ThinkProgress. "In recent years we actually saw a relaxation of fireworks restrictions due to the slow economy. Cities and towns got tired of losing tax revenue."
The APA predicts sales of consumer fireworks will exceed $675 million in 2014, an all-time record — one helped along by the holiday falling on a Friday.
Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York have banned all public access to fireworks. Other states have their own guidelines, with California being one of the strictest. The only fireworks legally permitted in the state are ones that don't launch into the air or explode, otherwise referred to as "safe and sane" fireworks. However, just because they are safe and sane doesn't mean everyone will find them fun and desirable. More than 175 tons of illegal fireworks have been confiscated in California so far this year, a perennial problem made worse by the especially tinderbox-like conditions.
People are going to use fireworks on the Fourth of July whether they're legal or not.
"People are going to use fireworks on the Fourth of July whether they're legal or not," said Heckman. "They will cross state or county lines to get them. This is an American tradition — people want to celebrate their independence with consumer fireworks. We just hope Mother Nature cooperates on the Fourth of July."
The drought of 2012 really put a damper on fireworks sales, but so far this year has been better for the industry. However with much of the Western United States caught up in an enduring drought — especially the Southwest between Texas and California — tamping down fireworks displays has become the new normal in many places.
Drought and heat aren't the only weather conditions impacting the sale and use of fireworks. Hurricanes and other extreme weather events exacerbated by climate change can deter people from going all out in their Fourth of July displays. With the first hurricane of the season, Hurricane Arthur, bearing down on the east coast tourism plans could be upended. Not only may fireworks go un-purchased and unused, but local businesses expecting a weekend boom may have to settle for something less memorable.
Differing Approaches In The West
In Texas, El Paso County has banned the purchase, use, and possession of fireworks by residents for the fourth consecutive year. Professional displays put on by cities are not banned as frequently as they generally have supervision by firefighters and are put on by professional pyrotechnicians. Texas has banned public fireworks displays recently — In 2011, Austin cancelled fireworks for the first time in 35 years due to a historic drought gripping the state.
Just across the border in New Mexico, Doña Ana County has banned the use of all fireworks within areas that are covered wholly or in part by timber, brush or native grass. Fireworks can only be used in paved or barren areas with readily accessible water.
Dan Ware, a spokesman for the New Mexico State Forestry Division, said that nearly 90 percent of the 231 fires reported on state and private land so far this year have been caused by people. There are fireworks bans and restrictions in remote and urban areas throughout the state and violations in parts of the state could result in jail time and fines, with authorities implementing a zero tolerance policy.
Fireworks account for two out of five of all reported fires on July Fourth according to the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA), and in 2011 fireworks caused an estimated 17,800 reported fires.
After one of the driest winters on record, all of California is currently in severe drought with most of the state experiencing extreme or exceptional drought. Having already responded to over 2,500 wildland fires this season, about 55 percent higher than an average year, fireworks bans are in place across the state, especially in state forests.
On top of lower-than-average rainfall for consecutive years, summers in the Southwest are also heating up due to climate change — and at a rate faster than the rest of the country. According to a recent Associated Press analysis, the average Arizona summer is now 2.4 degrees warmer than in 1984, giving it the fourth fastest summertime increase among the lower 48 states. In New Mexico summer is 3.4 degrees hotter. Texas summers are 2.8 degrees hotter.
How To Handle Such A Hot Issue
Governors in the Southwest are approaching the issue of weather and risk versus ritual and economy in different ways. In New Mexico, Gov. Susanna Martinez is urging leaders around the state to consider limiting or banning fireworks even after the legislature failed to pass a law to give cities and counties more authority to ban fireworks when fire danger is high. Last year Gov. Martinez banned all campfires and fireworks on state land during a more severe drought over the July Fourth holiday.
The law requires requires local jurisdictions in the highly populated Maricopa and Pima counties to allow fireworks.
In Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer recently signed a bill requiring the highly populated Maricopa and Pima counties to allow the sale and use of fireworks for several weeks around the Fourth of July and New Year's Eve. In a compromise, the bill also allows the 13 other more rural countries across the state to impose their own ban restrictions. Under the formal law, cities and towns across the state had to allow fireworks for just a few days during those two holidays.
"It does not make sense that a state that is so dry, that has had so many catastrophic fires in last decade, would want more flammable materials," Dale Wiebusch, legislative associate for the League of Arizona Cities and Towns, told ThinkProgress.
Wiebusch's organization, a member-based group representing over 90 cities and towns in Arizona opposed the bill because the overall impact will create more opportunities for fire. The Arizona Fire District Association and the the County Supervisors Association also opposed the bill. Phantom Fireworks, a major fireworks wholesaler based in Youngstown, Ohio, was in favor of it.
Wiebusch said lobbyists from the fireworks industry have been pressuring the Legislature to pass a similar bill for years. Fireworks were illegal in Arizona until 2010 when Gov. Brewer signed a bill that legalized sparklers and fireworks that don't explode or go into the air. Previous governors had vetoed several versions of that bill in the 1990s, and Gov. Brewer cited the threat of wildfires in vetoing a similar 2009 version.
"I think the rural legislatures thought their districts would have more control with this compromise," said Wiebusch. "What they didn't take into account was that people can still drive 90 minutes or whatever to Phoenix, buy fireworks, and bring them back."
Wiebusch said that late June and early July are the high fire-danger times in Arizona, before monsoon season kicks in with regular afternoon showers. Having been at his job for eight years, he said he's seen an uptick in fireworks displays being cancelled due to fire hazard, saying "we've been in drought for over a decade, we're already a dry state, now we're even drier."


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An Epic Battle, by Ducky Duckworth
This post is not about how cool my internship is, how much I am learning in class, how little free time I have, or how Mountain View compares to Claremont (there are more trains). This post is about the epic battle that is currently being waged at the Archstone Mountain View at Middlefield Apartments. You are probably thinking, "An epic battle?! I thought Mountain View was safe!" Don't worry Mom; the only weapons being utilized in this battle are tennis racquets.
Allow me to provide you with some details about this nightly tennis, who the players are, and why the matches have turned into battles. Initially, there were multiple players, Mike Franklin, Maddie Bannon, Locke Brown, Carter Wilkinson, and I have all played at one time or another. However, most nights I meet Locke on the courts at 8:30pm. We usually get in two sets before the lights shut off at 10.
Locke and I are not the most consistent tennis players, my racquet often aims shots as though we are playing doubles, and my serve's passionate affair with the net continues nightly. However, Locke and I are enthusiastic tennis players. This combination of enthusiasm and inconsistency fuels our battle. Match scores oscillate wildly, and having a 4-1 lead often results in losing 6-4. I would guestimate that 85% of our games involve at least one deuce, and games with 5 or 6 deuces are not uncommon.
A wise person would say that my nightly tennis matches are teaching me valuable lessons that can be applied broadly to the future of my life. That winning a set after being down three-five, love-forty is teaching me that success can come out of the direst circumstances. Maybe that's true, maybe one day when I am cramming for an exam in medical school or working for my board certification I'll remember back to these nightly matches. For now, I don't see the tennis tradition through this lens of greater meaning. Instead, I go to the court to run around, clear my head, and laugh a lot.
Discovering delight in tennis has inspired me to offer some advice to all you future SVPers. Be ready and willing to find joy in new pursuits. Many of the activities you will participate in up here, whether through your job or on your own time, will be things that are new to you. Don't be afraid to embrace the novel. As Steve Jobs once quoted, "Stay hungry. Stay foolish." And bring a racquet.
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MENIFEE ---- The Murrieta Valley boys basketball team has extended its ownership of the Paloma Valley Winter Shootout.
Junior guard Justin Gudger scored a game-high 14 points and added six rebounds and three steals to lead the Nighthawks to a decisive 64-43 victory over Elsinore in the championship game Wednesday night.
With the victory, Murrieta Valley (11-1) claimed the Paloma Valley tournament title for the third consecutive season. As for this season, Murrieta Valley has won nine straight and two consecutive tournaments.
"We have a reputation to uphold," said Gudger, who was named the tournament's most valuable player. "The previous seniors set the bar high, and we wanted to keep it going."
Despite having just three seniors on the roster, and one in starting lineup, the Nighthawks have kept their winning tradition going so far. Over the past three seasons, Murrieta Valley has won eight tournaments out of nine.
At the Paloma Valley event, Murrieta Valley is 12-0 since the 2007 season.
On Wednesday, Murrieta Valley used hot shooting and tough defense to take control. The Nighthawks shot 53.3 percent from the floor (24-of-45), they forced Elsinore into 26 turnovers and they led by as many as 23 in the fourth quarter.
Junior guard Austin Quick finished with 13 points, seven assists and six steals, and junior guard Mark Tarabilda scored 11.
"Everything is clicking," Quick said. "Our offense, our cuts, defensively we know where to help and where to recover. It's leadership, from our guards to our big men."
For Elsinore (7-3), Virginia-bound senior James Johnson scored a team-high 13 points and was the only player in double figures for the Tigers. Elsinore played without injured starting point guard Earl Twyman, who missed the game with a sprained ankle, and his absence was noticeable.
On top of all the turnovers, Elsinore shot 34.2 percent (13-of-38) from the floor.
"We weren't used to the pressure," Johnson said. "They're a tough team. Skill-wise, they're not amazing, but they just play together so well."
Murrieta Valley hit six of its first eight field-goal attempts, including back-to-back-to-back 3-pointers by Tarabilda, to build a 15-2 lead less than four minutes into the game. Elsinore kept within striking distance until late in the first half, but the Nighthawks took a 35-18 lead in the final minute of the second quarter when Quick buried back-to-back 3-pointers.
In the second half, Elsinore could never trim the deficit any closer than 13 points, as Murrieta Valley cruised to yet another Paloma Valley title.
"We enjoy coming here because it's a short drive," Murrieta Valley head coach Steve Tarabilda said. "But when you win, that makes it even better."


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Ben Foden: Heineken Cup final agony will drive Northampton on
Ben Foden wants Northampton to use the bitter experience of Saturdayâs Heineken Cup final defeat to Leinster to fuel their bid for European glory.
The Saints, unbeaten in Europe all season, had one hand on the trophy after storming into a 22-6 half-time lead with tries from Phil Dowson, Foden and Dylan Hartley .
But Irish giants Leinster, inspired from fly-half Jonathan Sexton , swept Saints aside with a stunning second-half display to win 33-22 and lift their second European crown.
Sexton scored two tries in a personal haul of 28, while Nathan Hines crashed over for the third try as Leinster racked up 27 unanswered points.
Northampton were left desolate on the final whistle, their players strewn about the field, some in tears.
Foden said he had never experienced disappointment like it but the England full-back insisted the Saints would come back stronger next season.
âWe will learn a huge lesson from this game,â he said. âA lot of players havenât been involved in games such as these. Our first taste of major silverware is a bitter one.
âWe play this game to be in moments like this. We had one foot through the door. For Leinster to come back probably makes the taste of victory even sweeter, and for us that more bitter.
âIt builds character. Weâre a young team and this will bring us together.â
Northampton boss Jim Mallinder said: âThese lads have now experienced being in a final. Leinster have been together a long time at the top level.
âWe have come a long way to where we are now. Hopefully we can stay there and we can win a big one.â


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Fresh From The Farmers' Markets
Fresh From The Farmers' Markets returns to RTÉ One for a second eight-part series this week, as food writer and broadcaster Clodagh McKenna visits farmers' markets nationwide, meeting artisan food producers and stall holders and discovering some of Ireland's best produce.
Sponsored by Bord Bia, the series highlights the growing number of farmers' markets in Ireland, the type of produce available at these markets and illustrates the vibrancy of Irish farmers' markets which also offer a community meeting point once provided by the corner shop. From pies and ice cream in Kerry, to cheeses and chocolates in Clare, Clodagh will spend the next eight weeks introducing Irish viewers to some of the best food in the country as she visits many of the 137 farmers' markets in Ireland.
The Cork born presenter introduces viewers to individual passionate food producers as they talk to her about their food and Clodagh then enlists the help of local chefs to demonstrate recipes using local produce, including Jean-Baptiste Dubois and Neven Maguire.
"I'm very pleased to be involved in highlighting the variety and quality of local produce available in farmers' markets around Ireland" says Clodagh. "It's about looking at the importance of families preparing dinner together, and sitting around the table at six o'clock every day and enjoying it together. I believe that really good food should be available to everyone, and I hate food snobbery. I would rather spend €20 at an osteria than €300 on a Michelin-starred meal!"


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Masaki Takeguchi is a Senior Researcher in the Advanced Transmission Electron Microscopy Group, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS). He is also a Manager of TEM cluster in NIMS. He received his D.Eng. degree from Osaka University, Japan, 1993His main research interests include the development of advanced transmission electron microscopy technology such as confocal scanning electron microscopy and in situ observation equipments. He is also interested in characterizing nanomaterials and nanodevices using various TEM techniques.
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The "Bing it on" creative challenges consumers to directly compare Bing's search results with Google's, using a new online tool at www.bingiton.com.
Consumers can make five searches on the site with two separate results pages coming up alongside each other. Users can choose which search result they think is better overall without knowing whether it belongs to Bing or Google, and then is told at the end of the exercise which tech giant they plumped for more.
The campaign is being promoted through video and digital advertising, PR and social activity. Experiential activity will feature actor Dan Jones challenging people on the streets of London to take the trial.
Microsoft claims that blind tests already carried out on 1,000 people using the online tool revealed 53% of people picked Bing over Google, while 34% picked Google over Bing, and 13% couldn't decide.
Brian Kealy, head of Bing for Microsoft UK, said: "Our research reveals that a huge number of British people do things out of habit – 90 per cent said they would be prepared to break their habit of a lifetime if it provided them with a new experience.
"We believe one such habit is using Google by default, so this campaign aims to show that consumers have a choice for the first time in a long time. We've made huge strides with Bing in recent years and Bing is now a genuine challenger to just 'Googling' it.
"We've removed all branding and other visual triggers from the results of the online tool so people's decisions on which they feel are more useful will be based purely on the content delivered to them. We're confident in the quality of Bing's results and we believe many people will be pleasantly surprised by the outcome of the challenge."


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3/4 cup hot sauce (such as Crystal)
1/4 cup butter, melted
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon onion powder
2 pounds skirt steak
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1 tsp salt
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Cheese Sauce: In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Add flour, milk and bleu cheese crumbles. Whisk until crumbles melt. Add salt, pepper and red pepper. Stir well, until it starts to boil. Turn down heat to low and let simmer 3-5 minutes, until sauce thickens. Serve over skirt steak.


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Advisory Council Rejects Restriction on Arts Endowment's Grants
By WILLIAM H. HONAN, Special to The New York Times
Published: August 6, 1990
WASHINGTON, Aug. 5— The advisory council to the National Endowment for the Arts today refused to bar support for any project that ''advocates or promotes a particular political, ideological, religious or partisan point of view.''
The restriction, advanced by Dr. Jacob Neusner, a professor of religious studies at the University of South Florida at Tampa, was defeated by a vote of 10 to 2, with 1 abstention.
Dr. Neusner, who has become something of a gadfly to John E. Frohnmayer, the chairman of the arts endowment, moved for a number of prohibitions that he said were in the guidelines of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Phyllis Berney, an arts patron from Wisconsin, supported Dr. Neusner's motion because, she said, ''we'd better be listening to what Congress has to say.''
Bob Johnson, a Republican state senator from Florida who is a member of the council appointed by President Bush, agreed. ''We have a duty to give Congress a sign that we don't need a hearing aid,''he said.
Dr. Neusner and Ms. Berney were the two council members who voted for the motion. Dr. Joseph Epstein, a professor of English at Northwestern University, abstained.
A Commitment to 'Quality'
Mr. Frohnmayer, who served as chairman of the meeting of the National Council on the Arts, held in the Old Post Office building, said he ''strongly opposed'' the restriction because it represented ''the highest degree of insensitivity to the fact that we have an obligation to use our good sense.''
By a vote of 12 to 1, the council adopted a proposal by Mr. Frohnmayer reaffirming the agency's commitment ''to bring quality art to the American people'' by fair procedures, careful analysis and an opposition to obscenity.
Mr. Frohnmayer said he had proposed his substitute motion because Dr. Neusner had ''thrown down the gauntlet'' and suggested that ''we are not players in the discussion'' of whether Congress should restrict the grant-making of the endowment.
This fall Congress will debate whether to extend the life of the endowment.
The three-day council meeting ended today; it was the first that was open to the public.
Still No Grants for 2 Performers
Yesterday the council declined, on technical grounds, to recommend grants to two performance artists, Karen Finley and Holly Hughes. The performance artists were among four whose applications were rejected by Mr. Frohnmayer last month. The performance artists had been opposed by endowment critics on the grounds that their work is offensive or obscene, or that the Government should not finance work that could be construed as obscene.
By declining to act on the performance-art grants, the advisory council enabled Mr. Frohnmayer to avoid making an immediate decision on the politically charged grants before a divided Congress debates endowment procedures.
The council postponed consideration of five experimental-arts grants because of a possible conflict of interest involving the peer panels that reviewed the applications. The endowment's legal counsel will study whether the endowment's conflict-of-interest rule had inadvertently been violated by the panel recommending the grants, and then the grants will be reconsidered by a reconstituted peer panel with that report in mind. The council would reconsider the applications at its next meeting, in November, after the expected debate in Congress on debate the endowment's future.
Mr. Johnson said in an interview that, given the mood of Congress, it would have been ''suicidal'' for the council to have recommended those grants.
A Pair of Victories
Liberal members of the council took pleasure in the large majority that favored urging Mr. Frohnmayer to eliminate an anti-obscenity pledge that grant recipients have been asked to sign.
They also counted as a victory the unanimous support for restoring two previously rejected grants for the Institute for Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, which they felt had been unfairly penalized by the council at its meeting in Winston-Salem, N.C., last May.
''The council voted against those grants in May simply because the I.C.A. did the Mapplethorpe show,'' said Wendy Luers, a writer, foundation executive and council member. She was referring to an exhibition of photographs by Robert Mapplethorpe, organized by the Institute for Contemporary Art and supported in part by an endowment grant. Some in Congress considered the show obscene.
New York State Senator Roy Goodman, a Republican from Manhattan, said in an interview that he thought the council had grown in the last three days ''from a rubber stamp to an effective operational overseer.''
He cited as examples of the council's new strength the overwhelming majority against the anti-obscenity pledge, and various reforms in the peer-panel system for which, he said, the council has been ''the driving force.''
Both liberals and conservatives on the council expressed concern that 13 of the 23 members of the council reached the end of their six-year terms at the conclusion of this meeting. They wondered if the new appointments, all of which require F.B.I. clearance, will be made in time for the November meeting, and they wondered what ideological slant the new appointees might have.
Photo: John E. Frohnmayer, chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, who supported a proposal reaffirming the agency's commitment ''to bring quality art to the American people.'' (The New York Times)


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By Florence Brainerd, FRA Legislative Advocate
September 2000
The new century elections will bring to the Capitol 21 new senators and 120 new representatives, unless a small number of incumbents win their same seats. In other words, 141 legislative seats are up for grabs, and grabbing it is. In fact, 8 senators and 14 representatives have won without opposition; 12 representatives were decided in the primary; one representative will show in the runoff; and, 13 senators and 93 representatives will be decided in the general election in November.
At the State Cabinet level, Education Commissioner Tom Gallagher is vacating his seat to run for Insurance Commissioner, inviting a contest between former Charlie Crist and George Sheldon for the top education job.
Legislators elected for the 2001 Session will begin working on reapportionment of the state voting districts. Reapportionment to be completed in 2002 will control the shape of Florida politics for decades to come.
At the October conference, the Governmental Relations Committee will present the two contenders for Education Commissioner, former Senator Charlie Crist (R), and former Representative George Sheldon (D). The candidates will be presented at the morning General Session on Friday, October13, and afterwards, join the Legislative Breakout Session attendees to answer questions about their candidacy.
Interestingly, both candidates are attorneys who have worked in and for the government for years. Although neither has taught in the classroom, both have contributed in legislature leadership roles to the learning environment and institution Crist sponsoring education legislation, and Sheldon supporting and lobbying education issues.
Charlie Crist is a supporter of:
Charter Schools Teacher Salary Increases
Arts in Education Bright Future Scholarships
Smaller class sizes for elementary students Increased funding each year for Education
Merit Pay for Teachers
George Sheldon supports:
Jump Start Pre-K to Boost Readiness Bonuses to Teach Troubled Schools
Smaller Class Size in Grades 1-3 Safe Schools
Suspension of Disruptive Students Expanding School Resource Officer Programs
Alternative Schools Parent-Teacher Contracts/Accountability
Pre-session education issues are nil at this time. With new leadership in the House, Senate, and DOE, very little is going on except oversight of previous projects. The Governors education policies are in the developmental phase and are not ready for publication. So, all is well and quiet on the hill for now.
The Governor and the Cabinet of the State of Florida designated the month of September
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By now we've all heard about Hollywood's aggressive move towards spinning decades-old movies into Broadway shows. But why stop at "Animal House," "Back to the Future," "The Sting," "Mrs. Doubtfire," "Tootsie" and "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory"?
Yes, those films are all classics of a kind. But then there are real classics; the kind seen on Turner Classic Movies. When black-and-white was a character in and of itself. When stars had faces. Faces like Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Orson Welles, Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Dick Powell, Myrna Loy, Asta, (if Sandy can do it, why not Asta?) Lauren Bacall, Rosalind Russell and so on. You get the picture.
Who wouldn't want to see Broadway tackle some intellectually challenging yet wonderfully classic films including," Now, Voyager," "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," "On the Waterfront," "Swiss Family Robinson," "The Birds," "The Front Page," "Night of the Iguana," "Vertigo," "The Best Days of Our Lives," "Key Largo," and why not "Casablanca" or "Citizen Kane"?
Granted this is a tall order, and most likely there are publishers' rights to be ironed out. But if film executives are willing to give "Rocky" a moment in the Broadway sun, why not go further back than the last 25 years? It's one thing to be able to watch Bluto demonstrate popping a zit in "Animal House," it would be another thing to see "Citizen Kane" give away that childhood secret in front of a live audience. Eight times a week.
The current crop of Broadway musicals that are still luring in tourists are the ones that have never gone away. I'm talking "Mama Mia," "Phantom," "Chicago" — and each new Disney fare is likely to have legs, with each new generation discovering all over again for the first time, how adorable Sandy is in the latest "Annie" incarnation or "The Lion King" (a musical essentially about procreation and protecting the species), a show that has not aged one bit since opening night. Not to mention "Newsies," whose movie years back then starred a very young Christian Bale. That show is still reeling them in.
I vote for bringing another Disney classic in: "Dumbo," a wonderful story for the entire family — it has pathos and sadness, and I'm sure the racist bits will get expunged without fanfare. It's a wonderful story with heart.
And what about dance successes like "Billy Elliott"? Why not bring in a hoofer doppelganger for James Cagney in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"? It's inspirational, funny, pro-American (nothing wrong with that) and has sentiment without being sentimental.
There are plenty of unknown actors out there just waiting for their chance to shine, even if it means shining light on a story that was told many, many years ago. But some of those stories deserve to be shared with your kids and their kids and so on and so forth.
It they can bring "Big Fish" to the stage, then why not "It's a Wonderful Life"? It would be wonderful for everyone involved, from producers to families in the seats.
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She looks at me every day. Mary Jane Watson. Oh boy. If she only knew how I felt about her. But she can never know. I made a choice once to live a life of responsibility, a life she can never be a part of. Who am I? I'm Spider-man, given a job to do. And I'm Peter Parker, and I too have a job…
So begins Spider-man 2, the next of Sam Raimi's Spider-man series. An exception to most sequels; this one is an improvement in almost every way over the first. While the 3rd is personally my favorite, #2 has many strengths, including a strong story.
The Story
Peter Parker has gotten a job at the local pizza shop as the delivery man. The job gets worse as Peter is continually late due to his usual bad luck and the fact that he tries to anonymously save the world in-between pizza runs.
Meanwhile, his relationships with his friends are crumbling. Peter's best friend Mary Jane falls in love with a young captain. His friend Harry holds Spider-man responsible for his father's death. Though Harry doesn't know Spider-man's identity, the fact that Peter is the Spider-man photographer for the Daily Bugle only causes increasing tension in their friendship.
Though Peter has decided to use his powers for good, he continues to struggle between his two identities: a famous New York hero with super powers, and that of simple Peter Parker. His resulting lack of focus causes him to start failing in his classes. However, he decides to write a paper about a rising scientist being funded by Harry's company: Oscorp Industries.
Dr. Otto Octavius has been researching for years working on a design to initiate and sustain fusion. He finally is ready to test his plans, which include attaching 2 sets of mechanical arms to his body in order to be able to use them in areas no human hand could enter. In the middle of the demonstration, the containment field can't control the amount of energy being released and in the resulting explosions, a chip in Octavius's mechanical arms blows, causing his mind to lose partial control of them. With his wife gone, he concludes that there is nothing left to live for other than the work he started. Confident that his calculations were correct, he decides to rebuild with an enlarged containment field, and begins robbing money in order to pay for it.
Meanwhile, Peter has made the decision that he cannot live as both Spider-man and Peter Parker, and gives up being Spider-man, partly as an attempt to win MJ back. His decision gives him purpose and he starts to do well again in his studies. After turning away from several crime scenes, Pete ends up running into a burning building in an attempt to save someone trapped inside. After saving the little girl's life, he again wonders what he should be doing with his life.
When MJ is captured in order to force Peter to tell where Spider-man is, his mind is made up. As a result, Spider-man is captured by Doc Ock and delivered to Harry in return for the promised Tridium, the final element needed for his next experiment. Harry learns the truth about Peter, also discovering that his father was the Green Goblin.
Doc Ock's again-failing experiment is stopped and Peter saves MJ, where she finally realizes who Spider-man is.
While the final film is my favorite, Spider-man 2 has a clearer storyline. The characters all experience plenty of growth, whether better or worse, reminding us again, that we always have a choice.
Technical Quality
Made in 2004, the special effects have vastly improved over the first one, and there are no scenes that look very poor.
The actors continue to handle their rolls very well, with the excellent addition of Alfred Molina as Otto Octavius.
The music is probably the one thing that didn't hold up to the first. While the themes are still good, there is a lot more filler music, and the score is not really fantastic.
Rated PG-13, for appropriate audiences, there is not too much that I would caution in this film.
There is some bad language, but not much. I just use the filter on it.
Probably the most annoying thing for me was MJ wanting to kiss different guys to find out who she was in love with. :P And I don't exactly approve of ditching your fiancé when he's up the aisle waiting for you...
Good Elements
Once again, the film contains plenty of humor, making these films just a lot of fun to watch.
We get to see a loving husband/wife relationship between Octavius and his wife. Octavius also tells Peter, "Intelligence is not a privilege, it's a gift, and you use it for the good of mankind."
The impression that Pete's Uncle Ben made on him is evident throughout the film as we see the times Peter is trying to figure out what to do. In his mind, Ben is the one arguing for him to make the right choices.
Spider-man 2 continues what these films are best at: demonstrating that we always have a choice, and the wrong choice is never right. With strong elements of sacrifice and choosing to do what is right, this film has earned its place as one of my all-time favorites.


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A creek near Boise, Idaho, has been the scene for a bizarre cluster of mallard deaths. Over 1,000 mallards have died there recently. So far, the cause of the deaths is unknown.
The symptoms — lesions in the lungs and hemorrhaging in the heart wall — likely point to a bacterial infection, not avian flu, said Dave Parrish, regional supervisor for the Idaho Department of Fish and Game....(Link via Little Birdie, a great source for bird news)
Migrating mallards from Canada and their local cousins were still perishing at Land Springs Creek near Oakley, about 180 miles southeast of Boise. Birds stagger and struggle to breathe before collapsing, said Parrish.
"There were dead mallards everywhere — in the water and on the banks. It was odd, they were in a very small area," Parrish said.
The outbreak puzzles scientists because only mallard ducks are dying. Golden eagles, geese, magpies, crows and other birds in the area all remain healthy, Parrish said.
Tissue samples from the ducks and water samples from the creek were sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service national laboratory in Wisconsin, the University of Idaho and Washington State University. Results were expected Thursday.


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If the fostering works out, then the next step is adoption!!!! A donation between $125 and $200 per dog is requested, depending on the specifics of each case, and then the match is permanent.
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Memorial service scheduled for "Baby Boy Horry"
Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:34:14 GMT —
The Horry County Coroner's Office will hold a memorial service for the newborn baby known as Baby Boy Horry, on the one year anniversary of the day he was found.
The body of Baby Boy Horry was found on December 4th, 2008 in the woods off Meadowbrook Drive outside Conway.
The baby's body was found in a Bath and Body Works canvas tote bag similar to the one pictured with this story.
In the weeks following the discovery of the body, police had DNA testing done to try and determine the identity of the baby's mother. The tests did not lead to an ID. A substantial reward is still being offered for information that leads police to the mother, but the amount of the reward has not been released.
Two weeks after the baby's body was found, the coroner's office held a funeral at Hillcrest Cemetery in Conway. About 100 people attended.
The coroner's office will hold the memorial service this December 4th at 3:00pm at Hillcrest Cemetary on Highway 544 in Conway.
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Montce Swim Vagabond One Piece - Mosaic
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This modern take on a retro one piece will surely fill the highwaist swimwear void in your collection. The Montce Swim Mosaic Vagabond One Piece features a beautiful combination of the neutral Sphynx color and Mosaic print. The plunging V-neck swimsuit ties around the neck, in a halter bikini top style which helps to create a lovely fit. The ruched bottom accentuates your womanly curves, making your backside look it's very best. A clasp at the lower back helps this designer one piece swimsuit to hug your body in all the right ways. Slip on a pair of jean shorts for a quick and easy beach babe look.
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What are the details on extending the schema for Active Directory integration into Out of Band Management?
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As a brief explanation, Active Directory allows dividing a domain into substructures called organizational units (OUs). OUs are container objects that can be nested within other OUs. An OU can contain users, groups, and other OUs. OUs are part of the Active Directory scheme for managing privileges and accesses. One of the parameters that must be specified for each Intel AMT device before it can be set up in an AD environment is the OU where it will be installed.
The OU created for holding AMT objects does not need special privileges. However, if the SCS user does not have sufficient permissions to add users to Active Directory, the SCS will not be able to add new entries to the OU. The SCS user needs "Create/Delete Intel-Management-Engine objects" permission in the OU as well as full control over Intel-Management-Engine object.
Schema extension operation creates a new class, Intel-Management-Engine, based on the AD computer object, with the following new attributes:
- Intel-Management-Engine-Version (received in the "Hello" message from the Intel AMT device)
- Intel-Management-Engine-Host-Computer (a link to the platform computer object created when the host joins the domain)
- Intel-Management-Engine-Platform-UUID (received in the "Hello" message)
- Intel-Management-Engine-Host-Computer-BL (added to the computer object class as a back link to an AMT object)
- "Intel-Management-Engine-Host-computer-BL" (added to the top computer object class)
When the SCS performs setup for an Intel AMT device, the SCS service:
- Creates an AMT Object with the first three attributes listed above
- Creates a link between the attribute "Intel-Management-Engine-Host-Computer" in the AMT Object and the AMT Host object
- Creates a link between the attribute "Intel-Management-Engine-Host-Computer-BL" found on the AMT Host and the AMT Object.
- Active Directory will display the AMT Object as the representation of the Intel AMT device itself and show it as having the type Intel-Management-Engine.
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here is some preparation that should be done before the integration with AD can be used.
Here the simple configuration (without SSL authentication for AMT devices)
- Verify that NS server joined into Domain.
- Verify that user, that is used for SCS have as minimum "Domain admin" rights.
- Open (User.jpeg).
- Verify that this "SCS enterprise Administrator" have the "Domain Admin" privilege in AD.
- Now open the "OOB Configuration -> General Page" and check "Integrate with Active Directory" check box.
- Run "Extend AD schema". Dialog appears. In this dialog you should specify the user (DOMAIN\USER format) that have not only the "Domain Admins" privileges, but he also should have the privileges to modify AD schema. i.e it should be in group "Schema Admins" (Shema1.jpeg). (Restart "netlogon" at ns after you add the user in "Schema admins" group)
- If user have correct rights then "Schema extension" should passed correctly.
- After schema extension passed you should go in "AD Users and Computers" snap-in at domain controller, and create the "Organization Unit" (do not use spaces in Unit name) for future AMT clients (Shema2.jpeg).
Seems that is all preparation that is necessary for use the simple AD integration Mode.Associated screenshots:
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HARRISBURG, Pa. - Clovis Crane left the capital of Pennsylvania with a lot of hardware, and he plans on obtaining more in a few months.
The 34-year-old cowboy won the all-around, bareback riding and bull riding titles at the Ram First Frontier Circuit Finals Rodeo on Jan. 11, while also qualifying for the Ram National Circuit Finals Rodeo in saddle bronc riding.
"My main goal heading into the rodeo was to make it to the National Circuit Finals in all three of my events, and I was able to do that," said Crane, who finished second in both the saddle bronc riding average and year-end standings to Casey Maddox. "I only have a few goals left in rodeo, and one of them is to be a national champion."
Crane's total earnings of $12,100 is almost double the amount won by an all-around cowboy this year at any of the circuit finals (which concluded this weekend with the Montana and First Frontier). Paul David Tierney was the closest to Crane, with $6,078 at the Ram Badlands Circuit Finals Rodeo in October.
While Crane says he's qualified for the RNCFR "about 6-8 times," he has only attended the event twice due to the long trip from his home in Lebanon, Pa. But this time he will definitely be in Guthrie, Okla., April 10-12.
"I'll never be a world champion or go to the NFR, because I just don't have enough time with my business to be on the road all year," Crane said of his extensive horse business. "So winning a national title is as good as it gets for me, and I want to win everything I can out there."
Crane won the all-around at the 2009 RNCFR in Pocatello, Idaho, and sets his main goal at being the best overall cowboy once again.
"I consider the all-around an event in itself, and it's the most important thing to me," he said. "It'd be nice to win one of my events as well, but I want the all-around first. I want to be known as an all-around cowboy."
If his performance in Harrisburg was any precursor to what he might do in Guthrie, Crane will need a lot of room in his rig on the way home for prizes.
He started off his domination at the RFFCFR by sweeping all three rounds of the bareback riding en route to winning the average with a score of 226 points on three head. He then won the bull riding average with 215 points on three head, and was the only man to stay on three bulls.
"I don't pace myself when I'm out there doing three different events, and I've never understood why people think doing multiple events is so difficult," Crane said. "My next goal in the circuit is to win the steer wrestling in 2014 and go to the National Circuit Finals in four events next year."
Other winners at the $110,781 rodeo were steer wrestler Joe Brown (37.6 seconds on three head), team ropers Eric Fabian and Derek Carey (27.2 seconds on three head), saddle bronc rider Casey Maddox (222 points on three head), tie-down roper Darren Morgan (34.2 seconds on three head) and barrel racer Nicole Yost (44.14 seconds on three head).


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Indian runner Man Kaur took almost a minute-and-a-half to complete a 100-metre race. Wait! Isn't it too slow in international standards? Not until you know that she is 100 years old. While most people of her would be comfortable staying at home, she is a living example of the popular phrase — "age is just a state of mind". When …Read More »
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Baby Gap Mod Look
Supersize This: Mod Girl
Every time I pass by a Baby Gap, I either have to run by or surrender my credit card, as I know I almost always succumb to buying more than my tot needs. Case in point — this mod outfit. Does my lil girl need it? No. But, it's to die for! Oh fine. . . death may be an exaggeration, but the striped topper, gold buttoned shift dress and hot pink cable knit tights set off cute overload alarms.
If you think your tot has what it's got to be a Gap model, make sure you check out the Gap casting call site to see how to submit your wee one for the job! The only thing that could make this outfit more adorable is your child sashaying around in it.


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Painting Mark Tremonti's New Guitar – Making "Joe" [Video]
This past weekend, WGRD got to go backstage and talk with the members of Alter Bridge, and while we were there, we got to meet Mark's newest guitar, "Joe". The guitar is beautiful, and he'd just gotten it that day, the day of Alter Bridge's show at Rock on the Range 2014.
The artist who created the paintjob is named Joe Fenton, and he released a video that shows the process of painting Mark's new guitar! He shows everything from taking it out of the box from PRS, priming it, painting it, and boxing it back up. Check out this amazing artwork, as it comes together on this beautiful guitar!
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Over the past 10 years, our country has seen a steady increase in the attacks on voting rights sweep across the states. From reductions in early voting opportunities to voter photo ID requirements to attempts to implement restrictions on the voter registration process, the attacks on our voting rights have been relentless. However, 2015 has bucked this trend.
We are now two months into the 2015 State Legislative sessions and as expected we have seen a groundswell of assaults on voters in many states. At the same time, we are happy to report that there are a few states where pro-voter reforms are moving forward.
As many head back to work and the routine of their daily lives following Hurricane Sandy, some are asking about the impact of this deadly storm on next week's elections. We have pulled together a quick primer on what steps elections officials in some of the affected states are taking to help voters. Overall, we are pleased that many states are extending deadlines in an effort to mitigate the effect of the hurricane and its aftermath on the upcoming election.
On Monday, the DISCLOSE Act will come to the floor of the U.S. Senate. We've been working hard to ensure that it overcomes the procedural hurdle known as cloture, and comes to the Senate floor for a full debate.
Now that most state legislatures are out of session for the year the battle against voter ID moves from the statehouse to the courts. The League and its allies were successful in keeping voter ID bills from passing in a number of states including Colorado, Delaware, Iowa, Maine, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon and Virginia.
Voters beware. There is a flood of secret money headed into towns all across America and it looks like there is nothing to stop it from drowning out your voices this fall. But our elected officials can do something to help. They can support full disclosure and tell us where this money is coming from. They can give voters the information they need to cast a vote.
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Alan Woodrow, tenor, was born in Canada. His repertoire includes Sergei in Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk (Shostakovich), Florestan in Fidelio (Beethoven), Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos, Herod in Salome, Aegisth in Elektra, the title role in Guntram, the Emperor in Die Frau ohne Schatten (R. Strauss), Siegmund in Die Wlakure, Siegfried in Siegfried and in Gotterdamerung, Tristan in Tristan und Isolde, the title role in Tannhauser and in Rienzi (Wagner), Don Jose in Carmen (Bizet), the Prince in Rusalka (Dvorak) and many others. He performs at La Scala and the opera houses of Paris, Frankfurt, Treiste, Toulouse, Palermo, Catania, Liege, Seattle, Los Angeles, Toronto, Washigton, English National Opera, Basel, Bern, Munich, San Diego, Tokyo, Madrid, Berlin, Barcelona, Naples, Florence and many others. At the Israeli Opera he has performed several roles including the Prince in L'Amour des Trois Oranges (Prokofiev).


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Including one (probably short-lived) link that appears to be a now-deleted blog entry, and then this [modemac.com].
(From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Scientology_references_in_popular_culture [wikipedia.org])
Whoa. I actually knew about the investigators, but I didn't say anything because I wasn't aware it was public knowledge and I was afraid a friend of mine would get in trouble for sharing that. The story I heard is that basically they were having PIs follow him and his parents and the constant harrassment scared the heck out of them. From that blog entry, though, it sounds like a bit more may have happened. Of course, this is all conjecture and rumor, so let that disclaimer be out there.
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A 52-year-old Elk River man has died as a result of injuries sustained in an Aug. 17 motorcycle crash in Silver Creek Township, according to the Wright County Sheriff's Office.
The initial investigation indicates that a 2008 Harley Davidson motorcycle, being driven by Randal Alan Stevens, 52, of Elk River was eastbound at about 6 p.m. on County Road 123 in Wright County when it failed to negotiate a curve in the road near the intersection of Duffield Avenue and went off the road into the ditch, ejecting the driver and a passenger.
Stevens was transported from the scene by Maple Lake Ambulance to Allina Hospital in Buffalo. Stevens was later transferred to North Memorial Hospital where he died.
The passenger, Rebecca Marie LuAllen, 53, of Elk River was transported to St Cloud Hospital for injuries sustained in the accident.
Neither subject was wearing a helmet at the time of the crash. The incident remains under investigation by the Wright County Sheriff's Office.


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January 30, 2010 from 10am to 10pm – Orlando Florida Ok, JaxSmart members this is the big one! We will meet at the Publix Shopping Center at I-295 & Old St Augustine Rd at 10:00 am and will leave together before12:00 noon for the scenic drive to O… Organized by JaxSmart Group Admin | Type: meeting
January 30, 2010 at 3pm – Central Florida Racing Complex A huge 2nd Ann Event for the Orlando smartcenter to be held at the Central Florida Racing Complex. smart car racing, group photo, door prizes and much much more. See my Blog entry for full details Organized by Ken Wagar-Central Florida Smart Cars | Type: smartcenter, Anniversary, Party
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Stop the Presses! Windows Phone 7 Update!
Now you can call me a page view troll, since I know that the above headline will jump my numbers into the millions. Yes, everyone needs to know that Microsoft is releasing an important update to Windows Phone 7. I guess this is so the dozen or so users can flock to their browsers to find out more. Hey-yo!
So I was greeted on the news run down sheet by story after story about the update to Windows Phone 7. Apparently, some PR person managed to do her job well (I assume "her" in this formula), and a slew of news sites, blogs, and other outlets picked up on this important information and are now parroting it to the public. Apple doesn't even make this sort of announcement and push it.
So where was this PR department when Microsoft was trying to sell the new phone OS? It's pretty pathetic when your only good news is a software update.
What else is Microsoft doing? Let me look at the rundown. Hmmm, looking, looking, looking nothing! Oh wait, the company is doing some cloud initiative, which is getting criticized for being too expensive. I'm also seeing use of the new buzz-term of the month: personal cloud.
When I was a kid a personal cloud was the looming stench you smelled around someone who overdid the patchouli oil. Hey-yo!
Now apparently, Microsoft, among others, is promoting the idea of a personal cloud, which I assume is a disk drive in the sky that can be used here and there as needed. Some people use the capacity of their Gmail mailbox for the same thing. I'm sure someone with a free Gmail account, a free Hotmail account, and a free Yahoo account has more than enough online capacity to take care of these cloud needs. Add to that a free WordPress.com and Blogger.com accounts and you can store all sorts of things within those structures. There are more than a few photo services where you can back up your pics too.
So with all these long-standing, virtual cloud subsystems out there, exactly how is Microsoft, or anyone else for that matter, going to make money from these personal cloud ideas? People already have a slew of personal cloud subsystems in play for free.
Okay, so here is a product idea for some enterprising entrepreneur. I'd do it if I could. The cool little Nimble (Nimble.com) product that centralizes all your social media is kind of doing this, but not with the personal cloud in mind.
Design a program that takes your entire cloudall email, photos, and everything else you store onlineand create a virtual disk drive to make it look like a local drive. You could save and retrieve the same way you would from your C: Drive, but it would all be virtualized and the data would be shipped to-and-fro to your various cloud services, which would all now be acting as mere storage via various mechanisms, such as storing files as email attachments.
The cost would be the simple price of the software package rather than a ridiculous, recurring, monthly fee. And I should mention that individual users who are used to getting a lot of free or low cost software are not going to suddenly change and warm up to monthly fees for stuff they can do for free or with a one-time cost. Some small businesses will buy into this malarkey, but the isolated user generally will not.
But I think Microsoft is getting used to these small audiences for some of its less stellar ideas. After all, it's spending serious money promoting a simple upgrade for Windows 7 phone, right? It may as well make having a small audience a lasting theme.
MSFT Cloud...meet Phone 7.
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text: Posted October 15, 2013 · Report post Hello All, First time poster. I am battling an atrophic scar from a bozo dr who did a laser treatment on my nose for capilarries. Anyways, its been 14 weeks now and I definitely have a depressed (atrophic) scar on my right nostril. Looks sorta like a cigarette burn scar or something. My questions are: How long should I wait to treat this scar aggressively? If I should wait one year before aggressive treatment, what can I do in the meantime? I am thinking of doing this subcision on my own. Sounds crazy I know. But it is just one scar that I can see plainly in a mirror. Can I subcize this scar from underneath? Come from inside my nostril with the needle? This scar sites on my nostril in a way that it is over one of my 2 blowholes so to speak. This would prevent any further damage to the nose ie entry point of needle. I attached a pic. notice it is above my nosehole. I'm thinking needle from up and under. I appreciate all feedback. -Thanks for helping Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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IRVINE, Calif., July 2 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc., today announced that it has completed its filing with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) with the filing of an amendment to the New Drug Application (NDA) for ISO-Vorin(TM) (levofolinic acid, or LFA) for the treatment of osteogenic sarcoma. ISO-Vorin(TM) is the pure active isomer of calcium leucovorin. Calcium leucovorin is used after the administration of high-dose methotrexate in treating osteogenic sarcoma and is also a component of "standard of care" 5-fluorouracil (5-FU) containing regimens for the treatment of colorectal and other malignancies.
"The completion of this NDA continues to validate our risk-reduced business model of identifying promising drug candidates and advancing them through the regulatory process," said Luigi Lenaz, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals. "We had acquired the rights to market ISO-Vorin(TM) in 2006. We also plan to file a supplemental NDA for the additional indication of colorectal cancer and to file an oral formulation of ISO-Vorin(TM) with the FDA. We believe that ISO-Vorin(TM) has the potential to be an effective treatment option for these indications."
The FDA's Oncology Drug Advisory Committee had already recommended ISO-Vorin(TM) for approval, based upon clinical data demonstrating the efficacy, safety and bioequivalency in comparison to the racemic leucovorin form. During a review of the NDA application that was on file with the FDA, the FDA raised questions surrounding the chemistry manufacturing and control section of the NDA. The amendment to the NDA filed today provides manufacturing information and six months stability data on commercial batches, required by the FDA to complete its review of ISO-Vorin(TM) NDA
About ISO-Vorin(TM)
Wyeth, Sanofi-Aventis, and others, currently market LFA in certain parts of the world, including Europe and Japan. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals maintains the rights to market LFA in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. It is estimated that the current annual market of LFA outside North America is nearly $200 million.
About Spectrum Pharmaceuticals
Spectrum Pharmaceuticals acquires, develops and commercializes a diversified portfolio of oncology drug candidates that meet critical health challenges for which there are few other treatment options. Spectrum's expertise lies in identifying undervalued drugs with demonstrated safety and efficacy, and adding value through further clinical development and selection of the most viable and risk-reduced methods of commercialization. The company's pipeline includes promising early and late-stage drug candidates with unique formulations and mechanisms of action that address the needs of seriously ill patients, such as at-home chemotherapy and new treatment regimens for refractory disease. For more information, please visit our website at http://www.spectrumpharm.com.
Forward-looking statement - This press release may contain forward-looking statements regarding future events and the future performance of Spectrum Pharmaceuticals that involve risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially. These statements include but are not limited to statements that relate to our business and its future, Spectrum's ability to identify, acquire, develop and commercialize its portfolio of drug candidates, the Company's promising pipeline, our team's ability to identify promising drugs and move these drugs through development and toward commercialization, that we plan to file a supplemental NDA for the additional indication of colorectal cancer, that we plan to file an oral formulation of ISO-Vorin with the FDA, that we believe that ISO-Vorin has the potential to be an effective treatment option for these indications, and the market potential for LFA, and any statements that relate to the intent, belief, plans or expectations of Spectrum or its management, or that are not a statement of historical fact. Risks that could cause actual results to differ include the possibility that our existing and new drug candidates, may not prove safe or effective, the possibility that our existing and new drug candidates may not receive approval from the FDA, and other regulatory agencies in a timely manner or at all, the possibility that our existing and new drug candidates, if approved, may not be more effective, safer or more cost efficient than competing drugs, the possibility that our efforts to acquire or in-license and develop additional drug candidates may fail, our lack of revenues, our limited marketing experience, our dependence on third parties for clinical trials, manufacturing, distribution and quality control and other risks that are described in further detail in the Company's reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. We do not plan to update any such forward-looking statements and expressly disclaim any duty to update the information contained in this press release except as required by law.
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SVP & Chief Business Officer Porter Novelli Life Sciences
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Manager, Investor Relations
CONTACT: Russell Skibsted, SVP & Chief Business Officer, or Paul Arndt,Manager, Investor Relations, +1-949-788-6700, both of SpectrumPharmaceuticals, Inc.; or Susan Neath of Porter Novelli Life Sciences,+1-619-849-6007, for Spectrum Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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Richland School District chooses bid for Lewis & Clark construction
RICHLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT NEWS RELEASE -- The Richland School District tonight (Tuesday) awarded the general contractor bid for the new Lewis & Clark Elementary School to Fowler General Construction, Richland. Fowler's bid of $15.55 million was the lowest of five bids submitted. The new school will replace the existing Lewis & Clark which opened in 1971.
Fowler is the general contractor for the Pasco School District's elementary school #13 which is currently under construction. Other recent Fowler projects are Olds Junior High School in Connell, and ARC of Tri-Cities in Richland.
"This bid result is positive," said Superintendent Rick Schulte. "Fowler has an excellent track record of quality construction work."
The new Lewis & Clark will be built on the playfield just to the east of the existing school. It will open in August 2015. After the new school opens, the old Lewis & Clark will be demolished and replaced with a new playfield area.
District residents approved a bond issue for the new Lewis & Clark and eight other projects in February 2013. Details on the projects are available at: www.rsd.edu/about/2013-bond-issue.html


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"Maybe I made you think my highlights started at the free throw line and not in the gym."
Facing the facts, everyone is of an opinion when it comes to LBJ "taking his talents to South Beach." Not a day passes where the new Miami trio isn't mentioned and swirl builds up, comments ensuing. While the media mavericks at Weiden & Kennedy may have helped stem a fraction of the detractors and put LeBron's perspective out there with the original "Rise" ad, countless denizens of the Net have even taken the "Rise" commercial as fuel to critique and answering the Chosen One's questions with video responses. YouTube user Tom Hinueber creates "Maybe You Should Rise," a smartly done mashup of Nike's "Maybe" and "Rise" ads and virtually positions Nike branding forefather MJ advising LeBron on what he should do.
In an odd way, even the apparent losing is a win for the athlete and Nike. People love to root against the villain just as much as they cheer for their heroes. They tune in and watch every turn, waiting to see if what mishaps befall the bad guy…but they're tuned in. See how that works?


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A series of public meetings has been scheduled to discuss a proposal to run a 500 kilovolt transmission line across the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, the Middle Delaware National Scenic and Recrational River, and through the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area.
The meetings will be held on January 24, 25, and 26.
The National Park Service has been reviewing a permit application from the Pennsylvania Power and Light Electric Utilities and Public Service Electric and Gas Company. The application proposes the replacement of an existing 230kV transmission line through park lands with a double circuit transmission line carrying both the 230kV (capable of being energized to 500 kV) and a new 500kV line.
While several alternatives have been identified in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement, including the environmentally preferred alternative, the agency preferred alternative will not be selected until public involvement is complete. Public input and participation is essential in deciding the final outcome and is specifically required by the National Environmental Policy Act, as amended.
The DEIS can be downloaded from the National Park Service Planning, Environment and Public Comment website at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/DEWA. A CD or hardcopy of the document will be provided to those who request one. A desk copy is also available for viewing at Park Headquarters located at 1 River Road (off US 209) Bushkill, Pennsylvania. Additionally, hardcopies are available at local libraries.
Public comment is extremely important and will be accepted through January 31, 2012. There are several ways to submit comments during this period:
Online - through the project website shown above; through the mail - send your written comments to:
Morgan Elmer
National Park Service
Denver Service Center
12795 West Alameda Parkway
Post Office Box #25287
Denver, Colorado 80225-0287; or
In person - attend one of the public meetings below and deliver your comments orally or in writing.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
(snow date 1/31, if required)
Fernwood Hotel and Resort
U.S. 209 Bushkill, PA 18324
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
(snow date 2/1, if required)
Stroudsmoor Country Inn - Ridgecrest
RD#4 Stroudsmoor Road
Stroudsburg, PA 18360
Thursday, January 26, 2012
(snow date 2/2, if required)
Farmstead Golf and Country Club
88 Lawrence Road
Lafayette, NJ 07848
Each meeting will follow the same format with an Open House from 2:30 - 4:30 pm to learn about the project, followed by a Public Hearing from 6 p.m.- 9 p.m. to submit oral or written comments into the record.


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Montgomery County students met new performance goals introduced by the state on Monday, which go beyond No Child Left Behind's focus on test scores to measure student growth, graduation rates and progress toward closing the achievement gap for minority students.
But even though Montgomery County Public Schools Superintendent Joshua Starr said the School Progress Index is an improvement, he said he was still disappointed that scores on the Maryland School Assessments factored heavily into the rating and labeling of schools.
"I appreciate what the Maryland State Department of Education is attempting to do; however, what's not clear to me is the purpose of this approach to accountability," said Starr, who recently called for a three-year moratorium on standardized testing.
Under the federal No Child Left Behind law, 100 percent of students were expected to pass their reading and math exams by 2014 -- an unrealistic edict overturned when the Obama administration allowed states to apply for waivers to design their own accountability systems. Maryland now aims to cut the number of students who fall below proficiency in half by 2017, providing unique goals for each of the state's 1,406 schools.
However, state education officials said Monday that schools' ratings would go beyond how many students passed the MSAs. Among elementary and middle schools, 40 percent of a school's standing will be determined by its progress toward closing the achievement gap between racial subgroups; typically, white and Asian students have outperformed their African-American and Hispanic peers on state and national standardized tests. Test scores will still take up 30 percent of the pie, while the other 30 percent will be determined by students' year-to-year growth on the exams.
At the high school level, the achievement gap and proficiency rates were both factored in at 40 percent, with 20 percent earmarked for college and career readiness measures, such as graduation rates.
"This is realistic and achievable -- these are goals that each school really understands," said Bill Reinhard, a spokesman for the state Department of Education. "It won't surprise too many school leaders when they look at their data, because they know what needs to get done at their school, or at least they think so."
Schools are separated into five "strands" based on how many of their goals are met. Sixty-four percent of Montgomery County's schools are in the first two strands, requiring little to no monitoring and support. Only eight of the 200 schools measured in Montgomery fell in strand five, which require intensive support.
While state officials emphasized that the labels were meant to be informative, not punitive, Starr questioned the effectiveness of labeling schools based on test data.
"The data, itself, is instructive and reinforces the need to re-energize our efforts to narrow achievement gaps across the district," he said. "I'm just concerned about how the data is being used."


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Apricot Cream Biscuits Recipe
Melt-in-your-mouth good when warm, these shortcut biscuits with a hint of orange prove that the right mix really can offer homemade taste. —Betty Saint Turner, Attalla, Alabama
- 3 cups biscuit/baking mix
- 2 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1/4 cup apricot preserves
- 2 tablespoons cream cheese, softened
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- 1. In a large bowl, combine baking mix and orange peel. Stir in cream just until moistened. Turn onto a lightly floured surface; knead 8-10 times. Roll out to 1/2-in. thickness; cut with a floured 2-1/2-in. biscuit cutter.
- 2. Place 2 in. apart on an ungreased baking sheet. Using the end of a wooden spoon handle, make a 1-1/4-in.-wide and 1/4-in.-deep indentation in the center of each biscuit.
- 3. In a small bowl, beat apricot preserves and cream cheese until blended. Drop by teaspoonfuls into the center of each biscuit. Sprinkle with sugar.
- 4. Bake at 400° for 10-15 minutes or until golden brown. Serve warm. Yield: 1 dozen.
Nutritional Facts
1 biscuit: 218 calories, 13g fat (6g saturated fat), 30mg cholesterol, 395mg sodium, 24g carbohydrate (4g sugars, 1g fiber), 3g protein.
Reviews for Apricot Cream Biscuits
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"Yum are these good. Golden brown and with the orange peel and apricot jam-soooo tasty. I will definitely be making these again."
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My office was rather warm today and I kind of wanted tea, but the thought of hot tea wasn't doing it for me. So I steeped this up really strong, 3 tsp/10 oz/4 min, added some agave nectar, and then poured it over ice. It was so freakin' yummy! This makes a great iced tea.
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GAITHERSBURG, Md. - An off-duty Montgomery County police officer shot and killed his son as the younger man stabbed the officer's wife at their home, police said Thursday.
The officer fired at his 25-year-old son on Wednesday night after he saw him attack the woman who was also the younger man's mother with a sharp object in an upstairs bedroom of the family's Gaithersburg home, said Capt. Jim Daly, a police spokesman. The woman was critically injured and later died at a hospital. She was 53. Police didn't say what the sharp object was.
"It's a tragic situation, unimaginable," Daly said.
Daly said the officer, whose name has not been released, is a sergeant and patrol supervisor and 27-year veteran of the department. The 58-year-old officer has been placed on administrative leave, which is standard in cases when officers fire their weapons. Police have not yet confirmed whether the gun was the officer's department-issued weapon.
Daly said the family had been engaged in a domestic dispute prior to the incident, reports CBS DC.
"The challenge we have here is there were only three people in the house," Daly said. "We don't have anyone else."
Police say they will release more information after other family members have been notified.
Neighbot Billy Walchalk described the family involve din the incident as "the nicest people you'd ever want to meet," reports the station.
"They're very talkative, very supportive of this neighborhood," said Waclchalk. "We're devastated by it."
The couple reportedly also has two daughters who were not home during the incident.


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ABOUT A LOUSE (told by Ramo
One day a Haždrano – a maneater – came there and said: "I know what kind of skin this is." The rich man asked him to guess. He said: "This skin belongs to the louse that clung to your throat." The rich man said: "Here, take my daughter." The Haždrano took his daughter, and they went to the karst rock under which he lived. The inside was full of human flesh which the Haždrano used for food. He said to his wife: "Bake this meat, because I want to eat." The girl did it. She cut off a piece of meat and threw it under the door. The Haždrano came and said to her: "Are you coming to dinner?" She answered: "I cannot eat any more; I have eaten already." He said: "I will ask the meat. If you have not eaten, you will suffer the consequences." As he ate, he asked the meat: "Where are you, meat?" The meat answered: "I am under the door." He said: "All right." The night came, and they fell asleep. While the girl was asleep, he laid his head on her breast and sucked her blood. She was dead in the morning. He put on other clothes and went to her father, the rich man. Her father said again: " I shall give my second daughter to one who tells me whose skin this is." The Haždrano said: " "The skin belongs to the louse that clung to your throat." The rich man gave him his second daughter. He brought her home under the karst rock. There was human flesh everywhere. He told his wife to bake the meat, and she obeyed. She took the meat, baked it, cut off a piece and threw it in the ashes. He came home and grabbed her, so she would eat the meat with him. She said: "I cannot eat any more, I have eaten already." He threatened her: "If you have not eaten, you will end up like your sister." She said: "I have eaten." He ate the meat and called out: "Where are you, meat?" The meat replied: "I am in the ashes." The night came, and they went to sleep. Once the girl was asleep, he laid his head on her breast and sucked all her blood. In the morning he put on other clothes and went to the rich man again. Once more the rich man nailed the skin to the door. He said: "I shall give my youngest daughter to one who tells me whose skin this is." The Hadzrano also took her with him under the rock.
The rich gathered and talked to one
another. One of them had a louse clinging to his neck. Another rich man wanted to remove
it, but it fell down to the ground. His friends told him that he had had a louse on the back of his neck. He
said: "It couldn´t be." He sent out soldiers to search for the
louse, but they couldn't find it. Some days later, they found it while rumagging in the
garbage. The louse had grown the size of a water
ox. The rich man slaughtered it, skinned it, took the skin and nailed it to the
door. He asked: "Who knows what this is? I shall give one of my daughters to one who tells me whose skin this is." Nobody guessed correctly whose skin it was.
When they arrived home, he said: "Wife, bake the
meat; I will come to eat then." She baked it and cut off a
piece. A bitch passed by. Quickly she laid the piece of meat before her. The bitch ate the
meat. The Haždrano came home and asked her: "Are you going to eat with
me?" She answered: "I cannot eat; I have eaten already." He threatened her: "I will ask the
meat. If you have not eaten, you will suffer your sisters´
fate". While he ate, he asked the meat: "Meat, where are
you?" The meat replied: "I am in a warm stomach." The Haždrano
said: "You are my wife now." But he didn't know that the meat was in the warm stomach of the
bitch. He was sure that the meat was in the stomach of the
girl. In the morning the girl washed her face. She could communicate with
nightingales. She couldn't find paper and used leaves instead. She cut her finger and wrote a message in blood to her
father: "If you don´t rescue me, I am going to die. My two sisters have been
murdered." The girl said to a nightingale: "By the time my father has washed his face, you will have given him this
leaf." The bird put the leaf in the beak and delivered it to the rich man. He read it and sent out many soldiers to fight against the Haždrano. They fought against
him, but he killed them all.
Some days later, a poor, old woman came and begged for flour from the rich man. He asked the old
woman: "Do you have any sons?" She said: "I have seven
sons." He asked her: "Are they alive?" She said: "Yes!" He
said: "Old lady, go and ask your sons what talents they have!" She
said: "Well, if I get ten meters of rope, I will ask my sons." The rich man gave her the
rope, and she went home. She started sewing a shirt. The oldest son came and asked her: "For whom are you sewing this
shirt?" The mother answered: "For you, hold your horses!" She asked
him: "What talent have you got?" He: "I strike once with a
fist, and a ten storey tower appears." She said: "I am sewing the shirt for
you." The second son came. She asked him what he could do. He
answered: "I put my ear to the ground, and I know what is going on in the
world." The third came, and he said: "I can shoot an arrow from the highest height and kill a
snake; it is the evil ones I kill; I never kill the good ones." The fourth could stretch his hands out from the highest height and catch a human. The fifth
said: "I run so fast I can travel the whole world in two
minutes." The sixth said:
"I know how to steal from people; I open doors and nobody
notices." The seventh said: "I know how to do the
following: If somebody is devouring a human, I can pull them out of their mouth
again, and they don´t notice." The old woman and her sons went to the rich man. He
said: "Go and save my daughter from the Haždrano. I shall give you as much gold as I
weigh." The youngest said: "We cannot get her out now, because he is our
Parnavo, our blood brother. In a few days we will get her out." And they
Then they hit the road, and the eldest said to one of the
brothers: "Put your ear to the ground." The brother
replied: "Let us run fast, because the Haždrano is laying down his head on her breast to suck her
blood. In his sleep, while he is dreaming, he is unconscious." As they came near the rock, the eldest
asked: "Where is he who opens the door without anyone
noticing?" He opened the door. When they went in, other brother pulled the girl out of the mouth of the Haždrano and stuck a barrel in his
mouth, so the Haždrano drank water while the others escaped. The Haždrano woke up and chased them. The one who could hear well put his ear to the ground and
said: "He is coming closer!" Other brother struck with his
fist; a tower appeared, and they went in. The Hažrano arrived, but he wasn't able to tear it down because it was made of solid
mud. If it had been made of stone, he would have knocked it
over. The Haždrano shouted from outside: "Parnavo,
blood-brother, make a small hole, as small as the eye of a
needle, so that I can see the girl once again." One brother opened the door a
little. The Haždrano took the girl and they went high up in the
sky. The one who could shoot an arrow didn´t want to shoot. One of them said to
him: "Now shoot!" He aimed. The Haždrano fell down, and one of the brothers caught the girl with his hand.
The brothers went to the rich man and brought the daughter back to
him. The father asked her: "Which one will you have,
daughter?" She said: "I will have the one who caught me with his hand." She chose
him; they went and had a big wedding
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Twenty five years of our community's summer ending festival, Don King Days was held over the weekend.
A large crowd from 18 states and 16 Wyoming counties came to celebrate the silver anniversary at the Big Horn Equestrian Center Sunday and Monday.
Polo, bronc riding, steer roping, and the largest horse shoeing competition to date gave a taste of our heritage to the community and visiting Western enthusiasts.
Named for the the renouned horseman, saddlemaker and Patriarch of the King family, the event is a celebration commemorating our history rich in several genre's of horsemanship and ranch life.
With much gratitiude to the organizers and volunteers, I hope to be around at the 50th anniversary.
Sam Morton