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Santa Barbara County firefighters are mopping up a brush fire southeast of Santa Maria, near Sisquoc.
The 20 acre fire was reported off of Tepusquet Road at around 1:30 yesterday afternoon. At its peak, some 200 firefighters were fighting the fire. The blaze is now 95% contained.
Firefighters were able to get the upper hand on the fire before sunset yesterday, although there were two minor flareups overnight.
No structure damage was reported, and no evacuations were ordered. One firefighter was injured, when his leg was burned by the blaze. Fire investigators say exhaust from a tractor started the fire.


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- Venue
- St. Georges Square
- Location
This event, one-off budget 'spectacle' only compounded Kirklees' problems. It was a misuse of public art funds if there were any.
'That meant war' commented one audience member. Was it the rocket connotation, the percussive dirge of bells rung out , the council's firework finale that prompted his response? Local press spoke of a living bell tower by Transe Express.
The company, acrobat-musician-actors in French Revolutionary costume, played amid the capacity audience and on platforms above head height with flaming torches. A Cirque du Soleille for the regions, one clown held a prosthetic penis and mock urinated on the crowd.
A few days on I suggested to another poorly-housed tenant that we might have been better off if a Festival of Darkness were billed. That light had some top heaviness to it. Who, what committee commissioned it? Whose agenda were they serving?

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INDIO ---- The 11th edition of the eclectic festival was announced early Tuesday morning and three-day pass tickets will go on sale Friday morning.
The festival, which is slated for April 16-18 at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, features headliners Jay-Z on April 16, Muse on April 17 and Gorillaz on April 18. Thom Yorke and recently reunited Pavement will be joined throughout the weekend by bands such as MGMT, Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, Public Image Limited, the Specials, Echo & the Bunnymen, Gary Numan and legends such as Faith No More, Sly and the Family Stone, De La Soul and Grace Jones.
For the full lineup and ticket information, visit here .


text: Well Cottage, one of two converted farm buildings, is situated in Thornage in North Norfolk. The property is an ideal place from which to explore the coastal villages of Cley with its nature reserve and centre, and Blakeney where boat trips to Blakeney Point can be taken, as they are only a ten minute drive away. Holt, a market town with art galleries, restaurants and a country park, is not far away.


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Neuer, Robben, Ronaldo up for UEFA's Best Player in Europe Award
Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, Bayern Munich winger Arjen Robben and Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo have been nominated for UEFA's Best Player in Europe Award for the 2013-14 season, FIFA announced Thursday.
The winner of the award will be announced on Aug. 28 in Monaco, where the draw for the group stage of the UEFA Champions League is being held. The award is given to the best player who plays for a European club.
More: Luis Suarez's four-month suspension for bite upheld
Last year, Bayern Munich's Franck Ribery won the award. On Wednesday, Ribery retired from international play.
The winner will be decided by a jury made up of journalists from the 54 member associations of UEFA.
Ronaldo's Real Madrid won the Champions League and Copa del Rey during the 2013-14 season. Bayern Munich, which fell to Real Madrid in the Champions League semifinal, won the Bundesliga title as well as the DFB-Pokal.
More: Yedlin seals Tottenham transfer
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Multicenter Study on Fibrotic Valvular Heart Disease in Patients With Parkinson's Disease Treated With Dopamine Agonists
The recruitment status of this study is unknown. The completion date has passed and the status has not been verified in more than two years.
Verified April 2011 by German Parkinson Study Group (GPS).
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
Recruitment status was: Recruiting
German Parkinson Study Group (GPS)
Competence Network on Parkinson's Disease
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Last updated: March 16, 2012
Last verified: April 2011
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Fibrotic valvular heart diseases are known as rare complications of long-time therapy of Parkinson's disease with ergot-derivatives including some ergot-dopamine agonists. The aim of this study is to assess the incidence of valvular heart disease, which may be an ergot-drug agonists side-effect or an overall complication of all dopamine agonists. Incidence, prevalence and addiction of dose or intake duration are not known so far. The reversibility of the changes is unknown too. To answer these questions the present study is designed as a cross sectional study followed by a 2 year follow-up prospective cohort study.
|Heart Valve Diseases Parkinson's Disease
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|A National, Multicenter Study on Fibrotic Valvular Heart Disease in Patients With Parkinson´s Disease Treated With Dopamine Agonists
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MedlinePlus related topics: Heart Diseases Heart Valve Diseases Parkinson's Disease
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|Estimated Enrollment:
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|March 2005
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|December 2013
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
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|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
Study Population
PD Patients
Inclusion Criteria:
- Age > 18 years
- Diagnosis of Morbus Parkinson
- Written informed consent
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients with a history of carcinoid syndrome
- Patients with a history of post-inflammatory (rheumatic), degenerative (calcified) or ischaemic coronary heart or valvular heart disease
- Previous medication with ergot-derived drugs (eg. Methysergide, Ergotamine) except dopamine receptor agonists or anorectic drugs (eg. Fenfluramine, Dexfenfluramine)
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Grant 01 GI 0201/01 GI 0401
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Keywords provided by German Parkinson Study Group (GPS):
Parkinson´s disease
fibrotic valvular heart fibrosis
ergot dopamine agonists
non-ergot dopamine agonists
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Parkinson Disease
Heart Diseases
Heart Valve Diseases
Parkinsonian Disorders
Basal Ganglia Diseases
Brain Diseases
Central Nervous System Diseases
Nervous System Diseases
Movement Disorders
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Dopamine Agents
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Physiological Effects of Drugs
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Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Repainting a room makes it feel new again, much like blowing it up or pumping it full of bees. Surprise yourself with this Groupon.
The Deal
- $99 for interior painting for one room up to 12'x12'x8' (a $400 value)
CertaPro Painters of Rockland County, NY
When the company's dedicated painting crews travel to residential and commercial locations, they treat each building with respect and do their best to depart without leaving evidence of their visit. Before working on interior painting projects, they carefully move furniture and accessories to the center of the room and cover the floors with drop cloths. After making minor repairs to the walls and ceilings, they evenly apply fresh coats of paint to brighten the scene. For exterior projects, they clean surfaces by hand or with a power washer before painting them in the client's choice of color. They also perform meticulous cleanups at the end of each day, until they finish the project. The company's color experts can meet with clients to make color recommendations that would suit the building's style and surroundings.


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East Valley girl bitten by rabid batPosted: Updated:
An East Valley girl is getting treatment for rabies after she was bitten by a rabid bat. Health officials are now reminding parents to warn their kids to stay away from bats at all cost.
They may look cute and fuzzy but you're going to want to stay away from these critters.
"It's just important that nobody touches the bat. Especially bats that has fallen down on the ground that are in the swimming pool, or a pet has caught. Those are even more likely to be positive for rabies," said Maricopa County Public Health Department physician Dr. Rebecca Sunenshine.
The 7-year-old girl knows all too well how dangerous these creatures of the night can be. She was playing at her grandparent's house when she stuck her hand into a bush and was bitten by a bat.
"She wasn't looking for the bat, or playing with the bat. She just happened to become exposed to it," said Sunenshine.
Luckily, the bat was captured and sent to the lab for testing. The little girl was rushed to the hospital where she started her rabies treatment.
"This particular bat is the first rabid animal Maricopa County has seen this year but over the last decade we've had over 120 animal test positive for rabies," said Sunenshine.
She said all bats should be treated as if they have rabies. If you're bitten and not treated in time the disease could be deadly, Sunenshine said.
Health officials say bats pretty much everywhere, all over the state and all over Maricopa County.
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Sentinel Staff Report
Members of the Sentinel's Sports staff put their names on the line to pick what they think will happen, and why, in Sunday's Super Bowl XLVII between the San Francisco 49ersa nd the Baltimore Ravens.
SF has loaded arsenal
Jim Seimas, Assistant Sports Editor
The 49ers will win their sixth Super Bowl -- aka, HarBowl -- on Sunday.
Fleet-footed and sure-armed 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick has too many weapons around him and will win MVP honors. He's got tough running back in Frank Gore, a burst of adrenaline in speedy back LaMichael James, talented tight ends in Vernon Davis and Delanie Walker, and an improved receiver corps headlined by Michael Crabtree and Randy Moss.
San Francisco's defense is equally star-heavy with lineman Justin Smith, a second-to-none linebacking corps, including Aldon Smith, NaVorro Bowman, Patrick Willis, and some game-changers in the defensive secondary.
Prediction: 49ers 21, Ravens 17
49ers are similar to past Super Bowl winner
Andrew Matheson, Sportswriter
The parallels between the 2001 Patriots and the 2013 49ers are about as crazy as football parallels get when specifically comparing two teams from the 2001 and 2013 seasons.
Both teams were anchored by their defenses. Both teams were led by their quarterbacks -- each of whom took over mid-season after the starting QB in front of them that many felt couldn't win a Super Bowl anyway suffered an injury.
The coaches aren't all that different, either. Both led their respective teams to the Super Bowl in their second season. Both love answering postgame questions.
Just pray the game doesn't come down to a David Akers field-goal attempt, because he is no Adam Vinatieri. The parallels end there.
Prediction: 49ers 34, Ravens 24
Ravens underdogs for a reason
Julie Jag, Sports Editor
This is going to be painful. Yes, the game as much as the pick.
Super Bowl XLVII is going to be smash-mouth, we-have-something-to-prove football. It's going to be grass stains and grit, bloodied bodies and broken noses, sacks and skirmishes.
Unfortunately for the 49ers, that's the kind of game the Ravens thrive in. They'll do everything they can to dull the sparkle and shine the 49ers have conjured every time they've gotten on this big stage.
And believe me, they don't want my pick. If there's anything the Ravens like, it's to be an underdog.
I wish local boy Brendon Ayanbadejo, a Baltimore linebacker, all the best. So, I'm not going to give it to them.
Prediction: 49ers 17, Ravens 14, OT
Kaepernick will have Ravens on the run
Jacob May, Copy Editor
The Ravens have seen the read-option offense before, back when they faced the Redskins and Robert Griffin III nearly two months ago. The result? A 31-28 OT win for the Redskins. While the Ravens have improved since then, the 49ers offense and defense operate at a far superior level than the 'Skins.
The game will come down to a constant guessing game for the Ravens' defenders, wondering if Colin Kaepernick will hand off the ball or keep it for himself. Here's guessing they'll be wrong more often than not.
Prediction: 49ers 31, Ravens 21


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Babs misses Obama at Kennedy Center
Once a dedicated Clinton supporter, good 'ol Babs now has eyes only for Obama. To her credit, the Democratic switch hitter had a ready endorsement for the President elect as soon as he won victory in the primary, and her devotion hasn't wavered.
Honored for lifetime achievement in performing arts at the Kennedy Center this past weekend, Streisand said she wished Obama was there, watching from the balcony. The White House substitute was Condoleeza Rice, who hosted the six honorees—which also included Morgan Freeman, George Jones, Twyla Tharp and Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey of the Who—at a private dinner at the State Department.
The gala will be broadcast on CBS on Dec. 30.
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Miniature golf is much more popular than miniature mountain climbing, which is just driving a flagpole into an anthill. Have big fun playing small golf with this Groupon.
$14 for One Round of Mini Golf for Four (Up to $28 Value)
Groups of four putt across bridges and around ponds and fountains at this 18-hole course.
Drakes Creek Activity Center
Drakes Creek Activity Center entreats groups and families to explore its numerous, family-friendly activities. Nine batting cages hold batters as they practice their homeruns, as an 18-hole mini-golf course strewn with fountains challenges putters. Meanwhile, an outdoor laser-tag area spans five acres, as others sup on soft serve or play aeroball, a mix between volleyball and basketball played on trampolines.


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just a happening
Hi, well, I was at home using mandrake 8.2 when one of my sisters friends came, well, she saw that it wasn't windows, she never had seen something different.
-What is that?-mandrake-linux
-?¿?¿ what?- well, windows is a O.S, and this is another one
stoned face- there's something else that isn't windows!?!?
-where is the outlook here? -erm...
-and the explorer?-well, there are some...
-some what?, some explorers?-some web browsers...
-?¿?..., where is the explorer?
I opened netscape
-this doesn't work, looks different-cause it IS different, you're trying to get to your account in hotmail pressing enter, and in netscape you have to click.
and more, and more questions and sentences like (this doesn't work, why do you say it is better!?!?, etc)...
Well, I just mean that there is not information outthere about linux, and if someone knows something, they think that it is difficult to use, without even trying it.
The mass media and microsoft have done their job very well, most people think that computers work only with windows-xx.
There's still a lot of work to do.
I find the best defense is layed out in stuff like the Linux Advocacy mini-HOWTO. Really helps prep for combatting MTD's (that's Micro soft Transmitted Diseases).
Btw, isn't it time you translated that basque sig? :-]
Ok, ok, thanks for the link,
And well, this is an aproximated translation of my signature, sorry, my english is not the best:
A language is not lost because the ones who don't know how to speak it don't learn it, it is lost because the ones who can speak it don't use it.
Artze is the one who wrote the sentence.
It doesn't sound as well as in basque.
If someone writes a sentence with the same meaning but in a proper english I will add it to my sig.
That's why I never say that this OS is better than this "unfinished, crappy, put-together-from-stolen-code software", when a friend of mine (not a computer lieterate) saw Enlightenment running on my box he said:"I know how you'd done it, you deleted all the icons and took a screenshot, I heard it you can do it with computers, and made it your screen" - author's edit: wallpaper, I just said: "It is much simplier than that, no need to fool people...".
Yep they do need to start having ads for linux
Yeah people don't realize that Windows or MS is fairly young and that UNIX has been around for quite awhile. It seems to me that most people think that there are only Windows & Macs out there (and some think that a Mac is a version of Windows), I feel that this due to MS controlling the press. I tried Linux back in April of 2002 and since then I have told everyone I could about it and I get alot of "What is Linux?" questions then they misunderstand the "FREE" part. MS has done a good job with their marketing crap and creating a monopoly of the market but one day they will fall.
A language is not lost because those that do not know how to speak it do not learn it, it is lost because those that can, do not use it.
Thanks Thymox, I added the english version to my signature,
well, 99% fine..., everyone can understand what my sentence means but your version of the translation sounds better.
Here it is.
I guess I cheated: one of my housemates (my bro's girlfriend) is Basque and she has very good English, so I got her to translate it for me a long time ago (well, when I first read it in your sig) :D
you... :D,
ha, ha, ha, we are all over the world!. Say "kaixo"=hello to her from me.
Well, anyway I heard that there are a lot of foreigners in Devon, and there are also basques among them as I see.
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Steel Authority of Indian Limited (SAIL), Durgapur Steel Plant (DSP) Hospital has announced notification for Proficiency Training programme for Nurses at DSP Hospital. The selection process will consist of written test and interview.
Programme : Proficiency Training for Nurses.
Number of vacancies : 50.
Duration of training : 18 months.
Eligibility : Applicants must have B.Sc Nursing / Diploma in General Nursing and Midwifery.
Stipend : Rs. 8000 per month.
Age : Not more than 30 years.
Candidates are required to send their updated resume through email at : email@example.com along with required necessary documents. Last date for the submission of application form is 30th September, 2015. Interview will be held on 4th, 6th and 11th October, 2015.


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The great debate that never was
What happens when a university tries to bring two prominent educational figures together to discuss school reform?
Well, apparently, nothing.
Lehigh University confirmed Wednesday that the College of Education's plans for a debate between former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch, a leading critic of school choice, and former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools Michelle Rhee, a leading proponent of school choice, have fallen through.


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$1,200 gold bars donated to Sioux Falls Salvation Army
SIOUX FALLS (AP) — Two gold bars valued at more than $1,200 each were dropped in kettles in Sioux Falls, the Salvation Army said.
Charity spokesman Steve Cook told the Argus Leader one bar was dropped this week in a kettle wrapped in a note that read, "Bell Ringers are Special People."
The other gold bar was dropped in a kettle in Sioux Falls about three weeks ago, he said.
The Salvation Army received $1,230 for the first gold bar, and Cook expects to receive a similar amount for second one.
It's been at least two years since a donation of that value was made to the Salvation Army, he said.
"Were always hopeful for something like that," Cook said. "We've had lot of people drops things of value in there and we take every donation serious because it goes towards helping those in need."


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Photos from the NRA Museum
There are almost 200 so I just posted them to my facebook , If your curiosity is sparked here is my link - enjoy -http://www.facebook.com/Mobile.Marine.Service?sk=photos
Bad link MM.
MM You do know that by posting pictures on Facebook In your album Facebook by their policy owns the copyright to them now.
Also dude you need to change your privacy settings as anyone can get your phone number.
Its kinda a company / personal profile sooo
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OkayThis powder does not irritate my super sensitive skin, it is very fine and silky in texture, and impressively keeps the shine away all day in my slightly oily t-zone without reapplying. The color matched my light/med. skin tone (there are no dark options--yet). This is not my favorite, though. I felt it was too matte (Clinique powders give more of a glow) and really settled in and emphasized my...read more pores and wrinkles. I use a brush to apply my powder most of the time, but was disappointed that it did not come with a sponge or anything. I like pressed powder only because it is convenient to pop in my purse and use on the go (but not without a sponge). You can by the sponge separately and maybe that is in the long run better being more environmentally friendly and maybe you are more apt to replace it when it gets yucky. I will use and might buy it because it is on sale, but it is definitely on the top of my list. — 8 years, 5 months agoThorne | 456 reviews
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Perfect finish!Love Paula's Choice Pressed powder. I have always used a powder before and never being completely satisfied. Always somthing...not the right color, too cakey, not enough coverage...thought I'd give Paula a try. I love it. I have been using the neutral for the past couple of months and apply with a powder brush and use the healthy tan as blush/bronzer. Both give me a natural look which I love. — 7 years, 10 months agoLabnick | 2 reviews
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Wired: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown (attfail)
This weekend in between the many activities I got a chance to sit down with my Wired magazine and read an article that has just been posted online, Bad Connection: Inside the iPhone Network Meltdown.
An excerpt from the article:
For iPhone fans, it really was too good to be true. A pair of Apple executives had just described the latest model of the iPhone — the 3GS — onstage at the company's Worldwide Developers Conference in June 2009. The audience loved it. The 3GS was twice as fast as its predecessor, it included a camera that shot video, and the updated iPhone operating system enabled multimedia messaging and tethering — the ability to use the phone as a modem. Just one problem: While many customers in Europe and Asia could enjoy all those features, AT&T, the iPhone's sole US carrier, wouldn't allow video messaging or tethering at launch. In other words, the most advanced features wouldn't be available to AT&T customers. What's more, some current iPhone users who wanted to upgrade wouldn't get the subsidies that new customers enjoyed. Incensed iPhone fanatics vented their fury on Twitter. "AT&T has been one disappointment after another." "Is AT&T trying to squeeze more money from us poor suckers?" And they punctuated their complaints with a hashtag — the Twitter convention for grouping conversations — that became an eight-character protest slogan: #attfail.
Overall a recommended read, the article is well written and thorough in analyzing the relationship since inception.
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A SENIOR finance executive has been appointed to help advise the Scottish Government on its options for Prestwick Airport.
Romain Py is the managing director of infrastructure investor Baobab Capital and a board member at Turkish port operator Global Ports Holding. Prior to that he was a founding member of the JP Morgan Infrastructure Group in Europe, which made an unsuccessful bid for Edinburgh Airport.
Mr Py, who holds qualifications from Lyon Business School and Paris-Dauphine University, has also held posts at HSBC and Société Générale with his experience in the infrastructure sector going back to 1999.
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A Transport Scotland spokesman said "We can confirm Romain Py has been appointed as a senior adviser at Glasgow Prestwick Airport for a period of three months. His role will be to inform the TS Prestwick HoldCo board and ministers on the longer term options for future business development and management of the airport."
Mr Py's contract is understood to run until May 10 and no other advisers have been appointed to help in the process. No details on how much he is being paid are being released.
The future of Prestwick, which the Scottish Government bought from Infratil for £1 in November last year, has been the subject of much debate with business leaders from Glasgow keen to ensure a level playing field between the city airport and its Ayrshire neighbour.
That comes at a time when the ownership of both Glasgow Airport and Aberdeen could change with Ferrovial and a consortium backed by the Strathclyde Pension Fund among those thought to be interested in the assets.


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The Writing Center offers workshops and seminars in the following categories:
• Essay Writing
• Research Writing
• Citation Formats (MLA, APA, and CM)
• Editing for Grammar, Punctuation & Mechanics
• Transfer Essays
• Creative Writing (includes a Veterans' Writing Group)
• Study Skills
Critical Thinking in Reading
Reading and Studying Patterns. Learn how who you are affects how you understand reading text material. This is an interactive session in which students will examine their histories and discuss comprehension strategies. Outcome: Awareness of personal and cultural influences on learning.
Reading as Thinking--How to really "Get" What You read. Students will learn and use metacognitive techniques for understanding what they read. Outcome: Ability to decipher the patterns of a textbook or other academic text, and then use those patterns to better comprehend the material.
Reading with a Pen. Students will learn how to use Reading Logs, Annotation and Concept Maps. Outcome: Ability to apply note-taking strategies when reading, studying and researching.
Going Deep. This session will help students probe text material deeply. Students will learn Close Reading techniques. Outcome: Ability to use critical thinking when reading and to holistically analyze texts.
Taking Lecture Notes: Discover ways to improve your effectiveness in taking lecture notes.
Discover Your Learning Style: Participants will assess their individual learning styles (Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic) and develop ways to make use of multiple styles in learning.
Critical Thinking in Writing
Who You Are When You Write – Identifying Your Writing Habits, Skills and Style. Students will share their writing histories in order to identify strategies and skills that are effective. Outcome: Awareness of the holistic factors affecting writing and ability to consciously apply effective strategies.
Getting started on an Essay. Students will learn how to think about topics and assignments as a writer, and will practice questioning techniques that help them to write on any topic assigned. Outcome: Ability to generate ideas and to develop them into written text.
How Writers Think (Reading as a Writer). Students will examine several texts to discern discipline specific traits, challenges posed by various rhetorical strategies, and the strengths that result in clear writing. Outcome: Awareness of effective writing skills across the curriculum, and ability to select appropriate strategies and tone for a discipline.
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Punctuation Review—Commas: Knowing where to use a comma not only can help a writer clarify his/her intent, but also can help a writer avoid errors such as run-on sentences, mixed sentences, and comma splices. Learning Outcome: Ability to use commas appropriately.
Punctuation Review—Semi Colon, Colon, and Dash: These commonly confused marks of punctuation lend style and tone to writing; additionally, when used well, they can help writers avoid comma grammatical errors. Learning Outcome: Ability to use semi colon, colon and dash appropriately.
Detecting and Correcting Run-On and Comma Splice Errors: Run-ons and comma splices are the most common errors seen in the essays brought to the Writing center. Students in this workshop will identify these errors, correct them, and then learn how to avoid them. Learning Outcome: Ability to identify, correct and avoid run-on and comma splice errors.


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Sting operations such as these have now become quite common. Female police officers wearing recording devices document offers by prostitution offenders and, once enough evidence is collected, seize their personal items, including photos and money. Police hope that the missing money as well as the citation and summons for court sent to their home addresses will help deter repeat offenses.
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- Development and pilot testing of an online case-based approach to shared decision making skills training for cliniciansRobert J Volk
Department of Health Services Research, Unit 1444, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX 77030, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 14:95. 2014..Using a novel case-based strategy, we developed and pilot tested an online educational program to promote shared decision making (SDM) by primary care clinicians...
- Is a prostate cancer screening anxiety measure invariant across two different samples of age-appropriate men?Suzanne K Linder
Department of General Internal Medicine, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
BMC Med Inform Decis Mak 12:52. 2012....
- The promise and pitfalls of systematic reviewsPatricia Dolan Mullen
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, School of Public Health, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Annu Rev Public Health 27:81-102. 2006....
- How can more smoking suspension during pregnancy become lifelong abstinence? Lessons learned about predictors, interventions, and gaps in our accumulated knowledgePatricia Dolan Mullen
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 6:S217-38. 2004..Studies were international, with diverse candidate predictors, intensity and timing of interventions, theory, designs, and measures of quitting and of maintenance postpartum...
- Jails as important but constrained venues for addressing women's healthPatricia Dolan Mullen
The Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, University of Texas Health Science Center Houston, 77030, USA
Fam Community Health 26:157-68. 2003....
- The influence of subjective social status on vulnerability to postpartum smoking among young pregnant womenLorraine R Reitzel
Department of Health Disparities Research, M D Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas, Houston, TX 77030 4009, USA
Am J Public Health 97:1476-82. 2007..The goal was to identify how subjective social status might influence the risk for postpartum smoking and to elucidate targets for intervention...
- Relationship between English language use and preferences for involvement in medical care among Hispanic womenGuillermo Tortolero-Luna
The University of Texas Houston School of Public Health, Houston, Texas, The University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas 77030, USA
J Womens Health (Larchmt) 15:774-85. 2006..To assess how English language use by Hispanic women affects their preferences for participating in decision making and information seeking regarding medical care...
- Computer-based decision support for pediatric asthma management: description and feasibility of the Stop Asthma Clinical SystemRoss Shegog
Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research, UT School of Public Health, 7000 Fannin, Suite 2668, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Health Informatics J 12:259-73. 2006....
- Meta-analysis of the effects of behavioral HIV prevention interventions on the sexual risk behavior of sexually experienced adolescents in controlled studies in the United StatesPatricia Dolan Mullen
School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston 77030, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 30:S94-S105. 2002....
- Preventing postpartum smoking relapse among diverse low-income women: a randomized clinical trialLorraine R Reitzel
Department of Health Disparities Research, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, Unit 1440, P O Box 301402, Houston, TX 77230, USA
Nicotine Tob Res 12:326-35. 2010....
- Correlates of mammography screening among Hispanic women living in lower Rio Grande Valley farmworker communitiesRichard C Palmer
University of Texas Houston, School of Public Health, 77030, USA
Health Educ Behav 32:488-503. 2005..In addition, efforts to increase their self-efficacy in obtaining a mammogram and to counter negative attitudes and opinions by stressing the positive prognosis associated with early detection are warranted...
- Contraception or abortion? Inaccurate descriptions of emergency contraception in newspaper articles, 1992-2002Sandi L Pruitt
Department of Health Promotion and Health Education, The University of Texas Houston Health Science Center School of Public Health, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Contraception 71:14-21. 2005..Media portrayals of emergency contraception (EC) may influence public health policy and the public's acceptance of this reproductive health option...
- The meaning of health for women with physical disabilities: a qualitative analysisMargaret A Nosek
Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Center for Research on Women with Disabilities, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77046, USA
Fam Community Health 27:6-21. 2004..Barriers included certain disability characteristics, stress, inadequate social support, societal attitudes, and lack of resources...
- Continuing medical education: what delivery format do physicians prefer?Nancy Stancic
Department of Behavioral Science, University of Texas M D Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd, Box 243, Houston, TX 77030 4730, USA
J Contin Educ Health Prof 23:162-7. 2003..Nicotine Dependence Across the Lifespan was developed as a continuing medical education (CME) program to teach and encourage physicians to deliver effective tobacco prevention and tobacco cessation counseling...
- A protocol for the analytical aspects of a systematic review of HIV prevention researchWayne D Johnson
Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 30:S62-72. 2002..This framework may be useful for meta-analyses of prevention research in other fields, particularly when primary research features diverse outcome measures and methods of analysis...
- A profile of U.S.-based trials of behavioral and social interventions for HIV risk reductionSalaam Semaan
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 30:S30-50. 2002..This sizable portfolio of evaluated interventions contributes to effectiveness reviews and to considerations of transfer to program practice...
- Feasibility of implementation of a Dutch smoking cessation and relapse prevention protocol for pregnant womenMartijntje J Bakker
Public Health Fund Fonds OGZ, The Hague, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 49:35-43. 2003..E.=0.25, P<0.001). These results were confirmed by data collected among clients. This easy-to-implement program is recommended for broad dissemination. Further investigation is needed to improve the partner and postpartum component...
- The effects of smoking cessation counseling by midwives on Dutch pregnant women and their partnersHein de Vries
Department of Health Education, University of Maastricht, P O Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
Patient Educ Couns 63:177-87. 2006..Smoking during pregnancy is an important problem in the Netherlands. We tested the effectiveness of a health counseling method by midwives using a RCT...
- Introducing the community guide's reviews of evidence on interventions to increase screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancersRosalind A Breslow
Division of Cancer Prevention and Control, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S14-20. 2008
- Methods for conducting systematic reviews of evidence on effectiveness and economic efficiency of interventions to increase screening for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancersRoy C Baron
Community Guide Branch, National Center for Health Marketing, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S26-33. 2008
- Client-directed interventions to increase community demand for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer screening a systematic reviewRoy C Baron
Community Guide Branch, National Center for Health Marketing, CDC, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:S34-55. 2008..e., flexible sigmoidoscopy, colonoscopy, double contrast barium enema). Specific areas for further research are also suggested in this report...
- Alternatives to the randomized controlled trialStephen G West
Psychology Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287 1104, USA
Am J Public Health 98:1359-66. 2008..g., need, merit, risk). In observational studies, treatment assignment is unknown and presumed to be nonrandom. Major threats to the validity of each design and statistical strategies for mitigating those threats are presented...
- Predictors of perceiving smoking cessation counselling as a midwife's role: a survey of Dutch midwivesMartijntje J Bakker
Municipal Health Institute The Hague, PO Box 12652, 2500 DP The Hague, The Netherlands
Eur J Public Health 15:39-42. 2005..The aim of the present study was to identify relevant factors that hamper or promote the provision of effective smoking cessation advice and counselling...
- Psychiatric distress in incarcerated women with recent cocaine and alcohol abuseMary M Velasquez
University of Texas at Austin, School of Social Work, Austin, TX 78712, USA
Womens Health Issues 17:264-72. 2007..This study aimed to determine how preincarceration abuse of alcohol and cocaine affected current psychiatric distress among female jail detainees held for 10-14 days...
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What's the bet that Ford has a whole room full of MBA's who do nothing more than scan the tea leaves of the U.S. economy and powerpoint their prognostications to the Powers That Be? If so, you gotta be a little worried, 'cause Ford CEO Alan Mulally doesn't seem to be. Despite the ongoing slide in American home values (a.k.a. the mortgage crisis) the soaring price of oil (cresting $86 a barrel) and the current downturn in new car sales ('07 looks to be the slowest year since '98), Reuters reports that Big Al sees 2008 U.S. light vehicle sales between 16.3 million and 16.5 million units. In fact, "We've laid out our plans to handle that kind of volume." Yes, well, however theoretical, a rising tide doesn't lift all boats. As Reuters points out, Ford has lost roughly one percent market share per year since the turn of the century, and is set to shut 16 plants and cut more than 50k jobs. Here's hoping The Blue Oval Boyz know something we don't.
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guyincognitoOctober 16th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Well when you look at all the new models Ford is going to release this year you can really get a sense of where this confidence would come from….
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October 16th, 2007 at 8:34 am
I somehow doubt that Ford will benefit too much from an increase in car sales.
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OrianOctober 16th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Yes, that 8 year old new Focus certainly inspires hope for increased sales compared to its competition.
Can I have some of the drugs they are using?
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KatiePuckrikOctober 16th, 2007 at 8:49 am
This could be a case of "CEO's head up arse" syndrome. It's common amongst Detroit's CEO's (I read in a magazine that Rick Wagoner was 'surprised' that Cadillac isn't taking off in Europe. He was quoted as saying "I thought it would only take a few years to do").
I really do hope that the Ford boys do know something we don't, but I highly doubt it.
Even if the market does upturn, it'll be for nothing if Ford don't have better cars to sell. Lincoln Navigator, anyone?
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raastOctober 16th, 2007 at 8:49 am
Drugs? What drugs??
I figure they are reducing pollution by piping exhaust from test vehicles directly into the board room.
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AKMOctober 16th, 2007 at 8:51 am
I'm an MBA, and I spend a lot of my personal time scanning said tea leaves (my job is more hands-on, so I do forecasts for fun).
I really don't think our little crisis will be over within a year. Within 2 probably, but 2008 will be a tough ride.
Will Ford do better than other automakers in those difficult times? Then they'd better have a better product line than what they currently have. Even the fusion is getting dangerously outclassed.
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October 16th, 2007 at 9:54 am
I'm not an MBA, I'm a chump who's probably upside-down in his house and working at a big corporation that thinks a 2.8% yearly pay increase is unfathomable generosity. The housing market is still crumbling, people are still losing their homes and the average American is still making about as much or less as they did in the year 2000. Ford might think this is a recipe for increased car sales, but they also apparently think the new Focus is an acceptable aesthetic contribution to America's roadways.
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hltguyOctober 16th, 2007 at 12:57 pm
Make that $88 a barrel for oil, $100 is hovering. Fuel price are heading north again, and how is that to help Ford? Exactly what product(s) are they going to be selling for such optomism? Trucks? SUV's? Small Cars? Oh, the crossovers, all 200,000 of those per year.
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FreeManOctober 16th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Folks, don't forget that UAW negotiations are just around the corner for Ford. This is nothing but posturing and grandstanding for the negotiations. I'm not sure where they're headed or what Mullaly's thinking, but that's got to be all this is.
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KevinOctober 16th, 2007 at 4:51 pm
So Robert, why exactly are you bashing him? This year looks to come in at 16.1 or 16.2 million. So Mulaly's statement would imply a stagnate 1% growth next year. That is not at all unreasonable, it is very conservative — that would in fact be a disappointing year by historical standards, wouldn't it?
It's not difficult to imagine a true bounceback of much greater magnitude, if you want to get all crazy.
In fact Mulally must've hacked onto my laptop, because my spreadsheet says roughly 16,350,000 next year, and that bit of prognostication actually is one of the things I get paid to do. (Except sorry, I don't have an MBA).
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RobertSDOctober 16th, 2007 at 5:01 pm
Well, if the market stays flat to slightly up with the Flex, Fusion, F-150, MKS, MKZ, Milan and updated powertrains in the Escape, Ford's not going to be doing that bad throughout the year. I'm confident that Mulally understands the industyr and his company far better than anyone who posts on this board or is associated with this website. Just because he is CEO of Ford does not mean he has turned into Jac Nasser.
Check your stats on the remaining job cuts Ford has to do. They don't have another 50,000 workers to let go because they've already dismissed 40,000 of them this year.
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KevinOctober 16th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
By the way there's an interesting aspect to these declining cars sales. There are two components to the market: a growing component and a shrinking component. The growing segment, for 2006, included Toyota, Honda, and most Asian companies (except Nissan) and the European independents. The shrinking segment included mainly Detroit and Nissan.
In 2006, the growing segment was 33.3% of the pie, and the shrinking segment was 66.7%. (Almost exactly 1/3 vs. 2/3, oddly).
This year, the players are the same but the growers are bigger, and Nissan has rejoined the growing group. Thru 9 months of 2007, the growing component is 43.6% of the market; the shrinking component is 56.4%.
Get it? Capisce?. The growing piece of the pie is rapidly getting bigger and the shrinking piece of the pie is quickly getting smaller. At this rate, a year from now the growing part of the market might even be the majority part of the market.
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Terry ParkhurstOctober 17th, 2007 at 1:50 am
The market for credit is so shakey a cabal of banks have to come together to ensure that it stays relatively stable, oil hits about $87 (USD) a barrel and gold has gone up $100 an ounce since the start of September (and seems poised to go even higher as the dollars and the Canadian Looney, go head-to-head). In this market, at this time, Alan Mulally thinks Ford and the American car market are going to come roaring back?
For the sake of the beleaguered American worker, would that it were true. From my far-from-scientific research, it seems that the only reason anyone considers shopping a Ford store, right now, is because they figure they can get a bargain (at invoice, at least, and probably below that).
At key points in Ford's history, and in America's history, the company that Henry Ford founded came back with product that broke from the ranks and expressed what people wanted. 75 years ago, it was the "Deuce" coupe and roadster. In 1949, it was the "shoebox" Ford. In spring of 1964, it was the Mustang. In 1981, it was the five-liter Mustang, followed four years later, by the first generation Taurus. The Lincoln TownCar of 1990 was a home run. And then, there really wasn't much to crow about until the Mustang of 2005.
What Ford needs is a car – not a truck, not a SUV, not a crossover, but a car – that has everyone 18 to 45 years of age, talking about owning, and those who can, signing a contract to do just that. I think they can do it, but time is running out on the clock.
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Despite the fact that it's set in the here and now, or at least in the L.A. and now, there's a strong dose of '60s nostalgia in director Steven Soderbergh's The Limey. Terence Stamp, looking very fresh for all his 60 years, plays Wilson, a jaunty British criminal, one who probably saw his most productive days back in Swinging England.
But it's the late '90s when we meet Wilson, just out of prison and winging his way to Los Angeles, out to avenge the death of his daughter, Jennifer (Melissa George), apparently at the hands of Terry Valentine. He is played by Stamp's fellow '60s icon Peter Fonda, who actually plays a '60s icon. His Valentine is a legendary and extremely wealthy record producer from the good ol' days.
Valentine is rich enough to keep himself stocked with much younger girlfriends. Wilson's daughter was among their number until she apparently fell asleep at the wheel when leaving Valentine's hilltop mansion, missed one of the hairpin turns and was killed in a car crash.
The Limey.
Rated R.
Only Wilson doesn't figure his little girl as one to die so carelessly. He wants to avenge her death and find out how she really died, and not necessarily in that order.
To accomplish either task, however, Wilson first has to reconstruct the life she lived in California. They were very close as she grew up. But when he refused to grow up, to give up his life of crime and frequent prison absences, she bugged off. About a last job, a failed heist, she had warned him he would be "nicked" and that this time she wouldn't be around when he got out.
Father and daughter were completely out of touch by the time of his release. Only when Wilson gets a Los Angeles newspaper clipping, carrying the terse notice of his daughter's death, does he learn anything about her. In L.A., Wilson looks up Ed (Luis Guzmán), a burly, living-by-his-wits Latino who sent him the clipping and who had been one of his daughter's few California friends.
The Limey won't win any awards for the originality of its ideas, but it does offer large and small pleasures. The dramatic good looks of silver-haired, black-clad Stamp, along with the effortless glee he takes in speaking the jargon of his character's subculture, is well worth the price of admission. The man looks too good, really, unless British prisons have been transformed into involuntary spas. But never mind that. His character is in Hollywood, so he can look as good as he wants.
But the film offers its small, deft observations as well. When Wilson asks the rather scruffy Ed how he met his daughter, Ed casually answers, "In acting class," as if to say, "where else?"
Ed's reluctant help quickly puts Wilson on the trail of Valentine. Wilson first takes a beating from Valentine's goons, who don't take such a geezer seriously enough to kill him. Then Wilson gets the last laugh, making a bloody mess out of a group of his henchmen. He lets one of the goons survive, to run to Valentine.
"Tell him I'm coming," Wilson roars after the fleeing hood. The contrasts between Wilson's precise good looks and the blood now smeared across his face, and between his intelligence and his rage, mark the film's high point.
Too bad that Soderbergh and his cohorts never reach this fever pitch again. That's largely because Fonda's Valentine is a spineless, nearly featureless opponent for Wilson, and there's little payoff in the film's later confrontations.
Fonda can't make much of Valentine, a man who had it all and who turned to crime when he was threatened with losing just part of his holdings, part of his prestige. If Valentine's hunger to stay on top had been more palpable, Fonda would've had more to work with, but his character plays defense, wanting no part of the rough stuff. He turns that work over to his No. 1 henchman, the intriguing Avery (Barry Newman), a smooth-looking character even older than Wilson. Avery is a modern samurai who serves his boss loyally, even when the boss doesn't quite deserve his devotion or perhaps even understand it.
In modern L.A., as opposed to medieval Japan, it's hard to see Avery sticking by a figure as gutless as Valentine, even if the record exec were paying him a ton of money. You'd think Avery could stick a gun in his face and get two tons.
So the setup in Lem Dobbs's script is out of whack. And the story he tells is essentially so simple that Soderbergh apparently felt compelled to complicate the storytelling, so the film is fractured by near-incessant flashbacks. The best of these go back to domestic scenes between a much younger Wilson and little Jennifer, and were taken from an early Stamp (and Ken Loach) film.
Some potentially interesting characters drift around the story's edges. Lesley Ann Warren (looking suspiciously like Marcia Clark) has an underdeveloped role as Elaine, friend and counselor to the dead daughter and accusatory chorus to Wilson. "She told me her father was dead," Elaine tells Wilson when they first meet. Luis Guzmán's Ed has a touch of Sancho Panza as he plays sidekick to Wilson's irrational avenger, although Guzmán keeps him credible throughout.
But the film's ultimate success or failure rides on Stamp's shoulders. For his closely observed but still larger-than-life performance, I'd recommend The Limey. Too bad he didn't have someone his own size to pick on.
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A qualitative approach was adopted and data were collected through individual interviews, focus group interviews, and observations of classroom practice, with individual follow-up interviews and a workshop. We worked with ELT practitioners from Europe who have experiences teaching across the globe.
One of the key findings of this project is that teachers develop their assessment practices through their own experiences. The observations of practice would suggest that teachers engage in a variety of assessment practices successfully, but consider these practices to be part of good teaching and not assessment. This study will be of interest to teachers, teacher trainers and academics seeking insights into language teaching, testing and assessment.
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Is Blake Cheating on Miranda?
It's no secret Blake has cheated before, that's how he and Miranda got together. Blake was married when he met Miranda and it didn't take long for him to file for divorce. Now the rumor mill is hard at work claiming Blake has returned to his cheating ways.
His alleged fling is with a sexy blond who has a killer voice (clearly Blake's type of women) and considering Blake works closely with this women, this actually doesn't seem too far fetched. If you haven't already figured it out, the supposed mistress is his fellow judge on 'The Voice' Christina Aguilera. Apparently it is pretty well known that Blake has always had a crush on Christina, it started way before Miranda. But that was just an innocent crush…until they got hired to work closely together on the same reality television show and the opportunity presented itself.
A source backstage on 'The Voice' set claims "Christina is always coming on to Blake, and he just eats up the attention…they drink together on the set. They slip into each others dressing rooms and lock the door behind them…"
Another source said "Miranda should be worried…" Apparently she has found out about the fling, and as you would expect she is "steaming mad!"
We are just going to have to wait and see if this turns up to be true, but so far it sounds pretty legitimate. I feel terrible for Miranda if this is in fact the case, but at the same time, she was once the other woman in Blake's life, so how could she really think he wouldn't do it again.


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Banker survey points to more economic growthApr 19, 2013 From The Associated Press
A monthly survey of bankers from Wyoming and other states says strong agriculture income continues to boost the economy in rural areas of 10 Midwest and Mountain states.
The overall economic index for the region grew to 58.3 in April from March's 56.9.
Creighton University economist Ernie Goss oversees the survey. He says agricultural businesses and energy-producing firms continue to thrive in the region.
But the continued growth in farmland price index that hit 66.9 in April remains a concern for smaller farmers.
The index ranges from 0 to 100, with 50 representing growth neutral. Any score above 50 suggests economic growth in the months ahead.
The index is based on a survey of rural bankers in Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota and South Dakota.


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Ishak, Maizul (2006) Development of online speed trap system (DOSTS). Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Electrical Engineering : Electrical - Electrical Power Dept..
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By generating TTL square wave of the output of a Doppler speed sensor principle and its' datasheet specification of DRS1000, connected to frequency to voltage converter circuit, PIC 16F877 micro controller with Analog to Digital converter circuit and web camera, a prototype of the Development of Online Speed Trap System (DOSTS) which being created and programmed to detect the signal and calculate the vehicle's speed. All the data will be sending to GUI (at PC) through serial communication interface (RS232). A development programming of Visual Basic (VB) GUI will gather all the important of information or data as usual as required by the police traffic department for displaying it on the PC monitor. The work in this project is to study, evaluate and compare the output of Doppler principle especially DRS1000`s output, detecting for speed of the vehicles will be the main focus. The study of the output Doppler principle will lead to be used in the VB GUI. As a conclusion, the speed and image of car models using the same of output of DRS 1000, Doppler sensor is verified via programming of VB GUI in term of various speeds
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Greenville is a town on the northern border of Greene County, New York, United States. The population was 3,739 at the 2010 census.[1]
The town contains a hamlet and census-designated place also named Greenville.
The area of the town was first settled around 1774. The town was established in 1803 as the "Town of Greenfield" from the Towns of Coxsackie and Durham. It briefly changed its name to "Freehold" and assumed the name "Greenville" in 1808.
In 1810, the town population was 2,300, but by 1900 it had fallen to 1,362.
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Last autumn Justin Rutledge re-mastered and released on vinyl his remarkable first album, No Never Alone (2004). In doing so he re-encountered the purity of the soundscape and the youthful quality of the songwriting of that album. He describes fifth album Valleyheart as a conversation with that younger self.
The result is a work of quiet confidence, sure in its use of measured tempos and reflective lyrics, held lightly together with spare rootsy arrangements and a gentle but determined lilt. It's an album that fits the current zeitgeist, when amidst the destruction of markets, economies and livelihoods, Rutledge grounds himself in a small corner of a vast continent to cherish memory and mental photographs of small moments.
No Never Alone was a gem of youthful exploration, a kind of wintery emotional travelogue from a young man at various points away from home and alone, trying on different ways to feel and think and seeing if they fit. Valleyheart is more of an explicit physical travelogue, taking in snapshots of the US as well as his native Canada, but it is emotionally more secure and able to look at itself with curiosity.
Opening track and single 'Amen America' establishes the spacious feel of the soundscape. Deceptively simple guitar chords and deft and delicate vocal lines underpinned by soaring harmonica convey a father and his daughter, a huge continent, isolation and the need to cling onto what you love on the journey.
Next up 'Four Lean Hounds' feels like a reference to earlier songs, considering precious moments as photographs not clouded by memory, "Just the weight of the light on the leaves", with an upbeat measured tone and engagingly twangy guitar.
'Getting away' uses travel to dig deep into an elusive relationship and examine it from a distance – "You've got a way of getting away from me", he concludes. 'Out of the Woods' is at the heart of the record and, with its dark archtop guitar chords, slide guitar and banjo, tells the misremembered and misheard fragments of a relationship, asking edgily "Is it true what has happened to you?". 'Travel Light' continues the theme over six lines, "I'm not saying I'll leave you/I'm just saying I might". 'Kapuskasing Coffee' evokes a memory of love, Northern Ontario and billboard posters as a nagging memory – a tune that dances along with soaring fiddle lines.'Through with You' declares the unrealised possibilities of love, bringing the past together with the present with a fine vocal performance as he seeks to persuade.
Finally, 'Heather in the Pines' begins with the quietest acoustic arrangement, looking back reflectively at a character from No Never Alone, toying with the past and holding it as a thing of wonder. The album ends with a fading banjo line, just like No Never Alone did all those years ago.
As strong as Neil Young in his prime, but clearer and more consistent, Valleyheart is a record of quiet strength, affirming the small power of an individual in a huge landscape. It's a record that is exactly right for our time, and is surely Rutledge's best yet.


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COMMITTEES The committee members are listed in italics under the committee heading.
• Determine free health clinics throughout the State
• Procure public health statistics regarding Hispanic/Latino Health
• Create a list of Hispanic/Latino Health Care Providers
• Partner with other Hispanic/Latino health organizations
• Procure data on the educational condition of Latinos in the State
• Identify all schools with the greatest number of Latinos enrolled (k-12)
• Create Aspira Clubs at the High School level for Latino children
• Communicate with Upward Bound programs throughout the State for Latinos
• Communicate with Head Start Programs for Latinos
• Create and promote Scholarships for Latinos
• Support programs that lead to the GED
• Identify/create innovative programs in science and the arts
• Contact colleges and universities to increase Hispanic/Latino student enrollment
• Contact colleges and universities about hiring Latinos on faculty and administration
• Become a resource for social/economic support
• Identify and communicate with all city/county Human Relations Commissions
• Identify contact sources for employment of Latinos statewide
• Create an Hispanic/Latino Chamber of Commerce Center
• Establish communication with all Latino Churches in SC
• List Latino Churches on the website
• Identify State and County agencies and commissions that affect Hispanics/Latinos,
such as: SC Human Rights Commission, SC Minority Affairs Commission
• Identify legislation that affects Latinos
• Communicate with Legislators
• Encourage political awareness and involvement of Latinos
• Promote voter registration drive
• Provide guidance/direction for visas and naturalization services
Tom Turnipseed, Interim Chair
• Establish programs in visual arts, theatre, cinema, dance and creative writing
• Communicate with various arts centers about including Latino programming
• Support and/or partner with other Multi-cultural/Latino arts organizations
• Support local Latino artists as a sponsoring organization
Ivan Segura, Chair
Organizational Advancement:
• Identify grant sources
• Apply for grants
• Identify State and National Foundations for funding
• Contact SC State businesses for support
• Create fund raising events
Ivan Segura, Chair
Public Relations:
• Create a SCHLC brochure
• Publish a quarterly e-newsletter
• Identify all the Latino Radio Stations, Latino Newspapers, all local TV programs
• Place Public Service Announcements
Special Events:
• Continue the Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Luncheon Event
• Support other Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month Events Statewide
• Create an Annual Conference featuring: Health, Education, Socio-Economic &
• Political/Legal/Legislative
Membership Procurement:
• Create a Membership package
• Create a list of benefits
• Establish a membership drive campaign, both individual and corporate within each
congressional district
• Determine the issues and areas in most need of attention and assistance in immigration matters
• Cooperate and collaborate with other organizations that are in the front lines of assisting in immigration issues and matters
• Conduct Town Hall meetings to inform the Latino community about current immigration issues and matters
• Serve as a resource for understanding government policy and legislation regarding immigration concerns and the dissemination thereof
• Collaborate with the following organizations on matters of immigrant legal justice:
- South Carolina Appleseed Legal Justice Center
- American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Serve to assist in immigration emergency relieve work
Website Management:
• Maintain Website
- Structure
- Aesthetics
- Graphic Design
- Content
• Post current relevant information/data/reports on Latino matters
• Inform the public about matters of importance to the Latino Community
• List resources of importance to the Hispanic/Latino Community
• Maintain a calendar of Hispanic/Latino Community events
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Crying is sexy, but only if men do it
By Shampa Dhar Kamath | Published: 10th November 2012 11:38 PM |
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It's happened. The last nail has been hammered into the coffin of the stiff upper lip. For the second time in a week, the man formerly known as 'No Drama Obama' turned on the tap on Friday. The world first saw tears dripping down the US President's face at his final campaign rally in Iowa; then it watched him tearing up while thanking his campaign staff and volunteers in Chicago. This from a man who's often been criticised for lacking emotion. Just shows that no one's safe from the teary trend.
In this age of the sensitive new man, even hard-baked cookies crumble sooner rather than later. Remember Russian President Vladimir Putin—yes, the toughie with the inscrutable expression and fondness for hunting and judo? He shed copious tears on winning a difficult election back in March.
And now we have James Bond joining the club. The sudden death of M in Skyfall wasn't as shocking as the government-sponsored assassin's blubbering at her demise. The national outpouring following Princess Diana's death back in 1997 had prepared us for a new Britain that has abandoned its stiff upper lip in favour of a trembling one, but surely its most famous secret agent should be exempt from the epidemic. It's only spies and ladies that 007 is licenced to kill; not long-prized notions about restraint and decorum and the belief that strong men don't weep.
But now, they all seem to. Even the man playing the part is infected. Daniel Craig, who has been acting as James Bond for a while now, says he wept after hearing the film's theme song by Adele for the first time. "From the opening bars itself", the Skyfall song filled him with emotion and tears. Would old-school Bond Sean Connery have been so shaken, or stirred? Actually, one can't say. Elderly rockstar Rod Stewart was spotted doing damage control with a hankie the other night after the Scottish football club Celtic, which he supports, beat super-club Barcelona. Soon, I fear, we'll have men dissolving in tears over a beautiful moon or, maybe, the buttery feel of a new silk kurta.
Because turning on the tap is working well for the guys. No sooner did Obama begin swatting away his tears that everyone in the room erupted into applause. Putin was mocked by some old-fashioned rivals but his standing with women went up. Stewart's face-dabbing is being explained as a reaction to the gallantry of sport. The crying would have probably earned even better dividends if it happened in the privacy of a bedroom. Women worldwide have professed to find a man "who is not afraid to cry" very, very sexy.
Unfortunately, it doesn't work the other way around. Men not only dislike women's tears, they're sexually turned off by it. It's a scientific fact.
In a paper published in Science early this year, two neuroscientists from Israel presented evidence that odourless chemical compounds in a woman's "weeping" tears (as opposed to "eye-protecting" ones) actually squash sexual desire in men. Apparently, one whiff of his lady's tear-stained cheeks can dampen the lover's libido faster than a cold shower. Testosterone production is momentarily halted and the man instantly finds the female face in front of him "less arousing".
Could life be more unfair? The discrimination is enough to make a woman cry.


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Happy 69th Birthday, David Bowie
Can this be true? Is our beloved David Bowie really 69-years-old today? Major Tom must be spinning in his tin can.
Leave it to the Thin White Duke to celebrate his birthday by giving us a present. Jan 8, 2016 also marks the official release of Blackstar, the Dame's latest studio album and the first since The Next Day, released on Bowie's birthday in 2013.
Rare is the artist who remains vital in the autumn of his or her career, but David Robert Jones is the rarest of artists. Since first cracking the charts with 1969's "Space Oddity," Bowie has zigzagged his way across musical genres ranging from the straight-up pop "Let's Dance" to the Philly soul of "Young Americans" and the German expressionism of Bertolt Brecht. Listening to his extensive catalog is like a master class in popular music from the last fifty years.
His newest incarnation finds him entrenched in a sort of Scott Walker seclusion, letting the music (and longtime friend and collaborator Tony Visconti) do the talking for him. It's a rock-solid album, entirely its own yet firmly anchored to the great musical legacy it follows.
The internet turned out in force to help the great man celebrate, including several all-star tweeters. Here are a few:
It's David Bowie's birthday and it's Elvis Presley's birthday. What the hell else do you need?
— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) January 8, 2016
Happy Birthday @DavidBowieReal !!! This is happening on Tuesday in your honor #Boston https://t.co/YQESKWkj5X — Lake Street Dive (@lakestreetdive) January 8, 2016
From a complete stranger… Happy Birthday (and album release day) to this awesome man https://t.co/t3mBwF9ty5
— BASTILLE (@bastilledan) January 8, 2016
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This December, everyone's a VIP at the Maynards Funsunzi Beach Festival. Six days; three beaches and infinite fun!
East Coast Radio will be broadcasting live from 9am to 3pm on each day of the festival at Margate Beach on the south coast, Suncoast Beach in Durban and Willard Beach in Ballito.
Watch The Breakfast Stack, Makhosi Khoza and The Drive teams take each other with a Maynards finalist to see who makes the biggest juiciest Ka-Boom at each beach for a"splash-a-thon". Damon Beard and the Drive team will be turning up the heat, and jumping on Margate Beach on 19 December. The guys from The Breakfast Stack will be at Suncoast Beach on 21 December and you can get to meet Makhosi Khoza at Willard Beach on 23 December. We'll also be bringing you our chart shows live from the beach on Saturday 21 December and Sunday 22 December from 10am to 2pm.
There will be tons of cool prizes to be won and fabulous fun activities including touch rugby and beach volleyball. The kids can get involved with sandcastle building competitions and sweet-eating contests as well as dance offs. Among the highlights of the festival is the Mr and Miss Funsunzi Beach Festival. So don't miss out on what promises to be an awesome experience on these east coast this end-of-year holidays.


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Impressive, pigmentedNYC Showtime Glitter Eyeliner is not only super affordable, but the smooth consistency really makes this a luxury product on a drugstore budget. I am in love with how the liner applies very smoothly without any tugging, and how the minimal glitter specs turn this standard basic black eyeliner into something very glamorous! This liner is a bit different than some other drugstore liners because of ...read moreits smooth consistency, and its ability to gently glide on without any discomfort. Although the liner does take a long time to dry, it does maintain its strong pigmentation throughout the day, and I love the soft texture which basically makes the whole lining your eye process a quick snap. It is definitely easy to use, a perfect product when on the go, or running late, simply glide on and walk out the door. In addition, the sparkles are very minimal and not rough at all. The packaging is very standard for pencil liners, it is not mechanical which is actually something I prefer simply because you can sharper the pencil to your liking as dull or as sharp as you wish. The pencil itself comes with a clear plastic cap which fits perfectly and snug. Also, the pencil's actual "body" has small glitter spots all over it which makes it very girly and very glam. Overall I am very impressed with this liner, NYC really has some great products and I already love a lot of their liners, but by adding the small glitters it really glamorizes the typical black liner. I would recommend this product to anyone who is on a budget yet is looking for a liner that will last pretty much all day! This product can be purchased at any drugstore near you for $2.99. — 4 years, 8 months agoGlitzGlamBudget | 135 reviews
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Worst liner of all time.I enjoy purchasing budget-friendly products from NYC from time to time as I have found some great inexpensive buys featured in the brand. This, however, was not one of them. I bought this product a year ago, and, a year later, I have regretted it almost every time I wear it. Whether tightlining my upper lash line or applying the product on the lower lashes (waterline, lashes, below the lashes, you...read more name it) this pencil WITHOUT FAIL ends up slipping down below my lower lashes. Even with light application, even setting it with an eyeshadow, by the end of the day, I have had to wipe under my eyes several times. It is wonderfully pigmented, and the glitter is a nice subtle accent. Many drugstore glitter cosmetics have rough, chunky glitter, but this product's glitter is fine and smooth. However the amount of slipping is absolutely and overwhelmingly ridiculous. The only way I have discovered to make this product work is to use it on my upper lashes only, above my lashline and blended thoroughly. Despite how much of the product slips down, I have found that enough of it stays where initially applied to keep the originally intended look. If you are willing to clean up under your eyes throughout the day, this product could work for you, but I prefer liners I don't have to worry about. The pencil applies smoothly and blends well, and a little goes a long way. It doesn't tug at or irritate the eyes at all. But despite these few pros and the low cost, this is not a product I would recommend to anyone. I am trying to use it up with no intention of repurchasing. Overall, this product is the most slippery pencil liner I have ever purchased and was a massive disappointment. — 3 years, 2 months agohanana | 35 reviews
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