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DON'T forget to research the salon. When deciding which places are legit, ask a friend to recommend a salon she trusts—or swing by the place to make sure it's clean. You can also use reviews from sites like Yelp to figure out if others had a good experience there. And of course, if you're at a salon, you can always request that the esthetician change the sheet (or whatever you're sitting on) and wash his or her hands before you get started. Better to speak up than risk an infection.
DO avoid exfoliating or drying products before you wax. Although people have varying levels of skin sensitivity, products containing retinol or exfoliating ingredients can make skin even more sensitive than normal—and even prone to burning, says Shahabi. So about a week before you wax, stop using prescription retinoids, as well as OTC retinol products, any alpha hydroxy acids, and exfoliating products like scrubs.
DON'T schedule an appointment the week before or during your period. This is when your body is most sensitive to pain, says Shahabi. Instead, plan to wax within the first two weeks of your cycle.
DO pain-proof your wax. If you're waxing a small area, such as the bikini area, eyebrows, or armpits, consider using an over the counter anesthetic to help numb the area a bit, says Shahabi. You can also ice the spot shortly beforehand and take a pain reliever like ibprophen or acetaminophen. Post-wax, try using an aloe-based cream (which doesn't contain alcohol), and ice the area again to reduce the burning sensation.
DON'T hit the gym immediately post-wax. Sweating increases your risk of spreading bacteria to your newly-smooth skin, so definitely plan your workout for a different time. Also, wearing tight clothes like spandex or yoga pants is a no-no if you've just had a bikini wax (the friction can cause irritation and acne). In other words, you pretty much have to break out your comfiest pair of sweatpants. You're welcome.
DO call a doctor if the waxed area still hurts 24 hours later. If you notice anything funky the next day—whether it's pain, swelling, pus, or a strange odor—make an appointment with your doctor or dermatologist ASAP.
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ESPN's 2014 ACC Labor Day, Thursday and Friday Football Schedule
ESPN's 2014 Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) college football schedule will include a Labor Day prime time contest, five Thursday night matchups, and three Friday telecasts. Additional games will be announced. Highlights:
- ESPN's 2014 Labor Day prime-time telecast Monday, Sept. 1, at 8 p.m. ET will feature Louisville – playing its first game as a member of the ACC – against Miami (Fla.), marking the second straight season a new member of the conference will make its debut in the marquee Monday game (Pittsburgh lost to eventual National Champion Florida State last year). Louisville has won the last two games against the Hurricanes, including a 36-9 win in the 2013 Russell Athletic Bowl and a 31-7 victory in their last regular-season meeting in 2006.
- ESPN's popular Thursday night series — ESPN College Football Primetime – will include five ACC matchups:
- Virginia Tech – which has played more Thursday night games on ESPN than any other program with 27 – will continue its streak of Thursday night appearances with two games: at Pittsburgh on October 16 and against Miami (Fla.) on October 23. Virginia Tech has also played at least one ESPN Thursday night game every year since 2002, marking the longest streak among all teams.
- Defending National Champion Florida State will visit new ACC member Louisville on October 30.
- Clemson, which finished the 2013 season with a 40-35 victory over Ohio State in the Discover Orange Bowl, will visit Wake Forest on November 6.
- Duke, coming off a 10-4 record and appearance in the Chick-fil-A Bowl, will host in-state rival North Carolina on November 20.
- ESPN networks will televise three Friday telecasts involving the ACC, including Pittsburgh at Boston College on September 5, Louisville at Syracuse on October 3 and Virginia at Virginia Tech on the Friday after Thanksgiving.
The 2014 ACC Labor Day, Thursday and Friday schedule (additional selections to be announced):
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David Wroblewski spent part of his childhood in northern Wisconsin, living and working at a breeding kennel run by his parents.
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Yes I got fuel pulse just low voltage. I also would like to add I did check the MFI relay with the battery and meter trick and did test good. also I would like to add something else. I have been reading about the "IGNITION FAILURE SENSOR" but I do not think my car has one.
no the injectors have 12V I have low volts to the coil packs. Yes I pulled the plug and tested for spark.This is my son's car. He come home one day running one pack and I checked and he had a bad coil pack ( the pack close to the timing belt). It looked like it overheated. It had wires exposed on top of it. I changed the pack and now I get no spark.
yes I checked for spark after all that was done. I am showing 5V on the ecu side of the coil and I now would like to add I am getting 3 to 5V on the crankshaft sensor ground. (brown wire)
Yes 5 volts when the key is on and when I try and start the car it bounces all over the place between 1 and 5 V
The computer is a referb. I can connect to it via evoscan software. I am not getting any error codes from the ecu. This is the same reason I replaced the ecu and this one is showing the same problems. Should I be getting voltage from the crankshaft sensor ground (brown wire) ?
the trigger wire is correct. between 1 and 5volts. the coil is not correct. I get between 1 and 3 volts on the coil plug.
I got 12V on it.
I got the same voltage on both sides.Is there a common wire between the pair?
ok I found the splice for the black/white wire any idea on the black? I am under the fuse box under the hood that is where I I found the black/white
1 to 3V . The splice looks good.
I got it tested to the 2nd split. A white wire connector under the dash. I then loose the wire.This wire should go behind the fuse block on the 10 amp fuse? I have tested good from the split to the end of the coil connector.
maybe 8 it does not have many wires coming off of it.
I found the 38 pin connector is that the location of the other end of the wire? It plugs in the back of the fuse panel
The diagram you sent does not look like nothing I see. I am looking at a big white box with wires attached and it plugs in under the fuse area. is your picture the back side if the fuse box? how can I remove it to look behnd it?
The first picture is of the block. is ths the one you are talking about?
and the second picture is of the plate i was talking about.
is the first picture the 38 pin connector? I want to make sure I got it,
is there a way to take the 38pin connector loose from the car? I need to get behind it. I am almost 100% sure that is the problem spot. Oh BTW you are the best!
ok I was wrong I was on the wrong pin on the 38 pin connector.I was on the wrong one.
it had no power on the pin
ok. I will double check. it is hard getting your head in there! do you happen to have a good fuse diragram for this? I would like to double check the fuse as well. Everyone is working just maybe it was put back in the wrong place? Thanks Doug. you have been a life saver!
all the above so I can make sure I got them all seated in the correct location. I checked again on the correct pin. I had to use a mirror and I got no power.
The wire I am testing is in this area. the 1st picture is the front end of the connector that plugs into it the 2nd is the back in I am testing
I am sorry it is really hard to do this by the computer. I am going back to this picture to had me check behind. I have no power on the pin.
so I plug it in and test from the back of the female plug correct? This is the fuse I was talking about. Is there a fuse that powers the black/white wire?
I was on the wrong pin when I had 12V. Keep with me I will edit the price backout. ok. now something new. When I plugged the meter on the black/white wire it starts at 5V and slowly counts down to 0.
buddy. I got it running! wow! I found the wire under the dash! you are the man. If I have anymore problems can I request you to help?


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NEW DELHI, Aug 20: Commonwealth Games organisers on Friday vowed to clean the athletes' village for the Delhi 2010 Games after being rebuked for not paying enough attention to hygiene and cleanliness.
Commonwealth Games Federation chief Michael Fennell criticised the mess around the village on Thursday after a two-day inspection of the venues for the October 3-14 Games in the Indian capital.
"I feel some buildings in the village could have been done better," Fennell told reporters. "The international zone of the village, like the dining room and kitchen, is behind time.
"The sanitation has to improve and the hygiene has to be of the highest standards. There is need to address the roads around the village, the landscaping and the cleanliness."
Lalit Bhanot, secretary-general of the Indian organising committee and chief spokesman, said Fennell's concerns had been passed on to the relevant authorities looking after the village.
"We are giving priority to ensure the athletes do not face any trouble at the village. It will be a world-class facility when they arrive next month," Bhanot told AFP.
Fennell, who also inspected all 17 sports venues for the Games, said he was pleased with the progress that had been made, but that there remained a lot of work to do in the next 44 days before the event opens.—AFP


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A Mecca for hikers, the French Alps have just enough tourist activity to make the towns and villages lively without spoiling them. One of our favourite places is Les Gets where Hotel Alpina is the start, and end, point of this challenging 10-night, high level walk. A chalet style hotel, it offers mountain hiking at its most luxurious! The rooms are beautifully furnished with intricately carved wooden panelling, and most have balconies. There is a covered, heated swimming pool, Jacuzzi, sauna and small garden. Owner-chef, M Hominal, serves exquisite evening meals in his panoramic dining room.
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Community Forums › Forums › Design Tips and Tricks › How to display full posts on Category Blog page
Tagged: Mindstream, Post Format Icons
This topic contains 8 replies, has 2 voices, and was last updated by faith 4 years, 5 months ago.
April 19, 2013 at 4:36 pm #36459
Hi, it seems like there must be a simple solution but I can't find it anywhere. I've created 2 different categories (5 later). Then I created a Category Blog Page for each, then a custom main menu of the Category Blog Pages. Can you help me with the following?
1) The Category Blog page is only showing an excerpt of the post , but I want it to show the entire post including the link to the actual post.
2) The Category Blog page is not showing the post format icon for each post like it does on http://demo.studiopress.com/mindstream/) . The post format icon only shows up when you go to the actual post.April 19, 2013 at 8:58 pm #36501
Hi Faith. I think I know what's going on for both, but was wondering if you had a link that I could check out to verify.
- To get it to show all the content, you can go to Genesis > Theme Settings and change Content Archives to Display post content and all should show.
- The category blog "page" doesn't show the full archives like an actual category archive does. A "page" doesn't show the same as the standard category page. The post archive is where you'll see the post format icons.
If you can provide a URL, I can take a peek and confirm if this is what's going on.
Loving the Genesis Life!April 20, 2013 at 8:20 am #36548
Hi weslinda,
I did set the Theme Settings to display post content and that worked. Thanks! However, I want the Category Blog page to look like it does in the Mindstream demo - see http://demo.studiopress.com/mindstream/, where the post format icon is showing next to each post, and when you click on the icon, it takes you to the actual post. I set my Category Blog page up according to the tutorial http://my.studiopress.com/tutorials/category-blog-page/ and created two example posts in both categories. Did I miss something? Here's the link to my site: http://www.goldpagewarriors.com/April 21, 2013 at 8:36 am #36694
Here is the key, actual blog pages won't show all of the category information like simply linking to the category will.
On your site you are using pages, instead of simply the category archives. Since you're using a page, with the blog template, it's not pulling everything. Compare these two pages on your site.
- Page: http://www.goldpagewarriors.com/take-off-the-mask/
- Category: http://www.goldpagewarriors.com/category/take-off-the-mask/
As you can see, the Category shows the icon as desired. Can I ask why you're using the "page" instead of the "category"? Is it for URL friendliness or other?
Loving the Genesis Life!April 21, 2013 at 9:28 am #36705
weslinda, that did it! And it's working just like the demo now! It makes sense, but I was following the directions on how to create a "Category Blog Page" tutorial, which got me off track I guess.
You made my day! Thank you soo much for your help!April 21, 2013 at 10:21 am #36714
You're welcome! Now, you'll want to delete those two pages, as they aren't needed. If you don't want "category" in the URL then you can use this plugin and it'll make the category URLs prettier.
Loving the Genesis Life!April 21, 2013 at 10:39 am #36717
They made a plugin for that too? How cool is that! Thank you!April 21, 2013 at 11:21 am #36726
They did, and it's one of my defaults. 🙂
Loving the Genesis Life!April 21, 2013 at 11:30 am #36727
By the way, how do I get the Title, Author, Date, and Tags to display, along with a Read More option, for each post on the main category blog page, like on http://blog.freepeople.com/inspiration/ ? Then when someone goes to the actual post page, the whole entire post displays.
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Gymnastics: Wingers show improvement in loss
In its second Missota Conference gymnastics meet of the season Thursday evening, Red Wing improved by more than a point against Chanhassen/Chaska. The Wingers scored 119.575 points, 1.225 more than they scored Dec. 20 against New Prague. Red Wing still came out on the short end, however, as the Storm Hawks totaled 134.10 to pick up the league victory.
Co-head coach Lisa Hanson said she liked what she saw from the young Wingers, who were competing without three members of their usual varsity lineup.
"We are excited that our score continues to go up even without some of our varsity girls," Hanson said.
Red Wing was led by junior Irina Anderson's 7.9 on the bars and 8.75 on the vault.
"That was the first time back on her bars routine and (Anderson) did well," Hanson said.
Junior Morgan Hughes scored an 8.45 on the vault, and a 7.65 on the balance beam. Classmate Jordan Munson "nailed her routine," according to Hanson, with a beam score of 8.05.
With a roster featuring just two seniors, the goal for the Wingers is improvement. And while mistakes are part of the process, Hanson expressed confidence that the team will accept that as part of getting better.
"Each girl had good spots where they shined," Hanson said. "We had a few mishaps here and there with some falls. … None of those girls let those slipups affect her next event. … We have a lot of hard-working young ladies."
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Liz O'Donnell was elected to Dáil Eireann for the Progressive Democrats, representing Dublin South, in 1991. She was opposition spokesperson on Health and Social Welfare from 1992 to 1993, and Party Whip and Justice spokes-person from 1993 to 1997. In 1997 Liz O'Donnell was appointed Minister of State at the Department of Foreign Affairs with responsibility for Overseas Development Assistance and Human Rights.
Liz O'Donnell represented the Irish Government at the multi-party talks at Stormont, which culminated in the Good Friday Agreement in 1998. She was also a member of the Cabinet Sub-Committee on Asylum Immigration and related matters. Liz was re-elected to the 29th Dáil at the 2002 general election as TD for Dublin South.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After nearly upsetting Baylor last month, Mississippi couldn't throw a similar scare into Tennessee.
Ariel Massengale scored 23 points Thursday as the eighth-ranked Lady Vols breezed to a 94-70 victory over the Rebels, who didn't have a single player in double figures. Mississippi has lost its last 25 games in this series since beating Tennessee on Feb. 4, 1996.
Mississippi (9-7, 0-2 SEC) had shown it could challenge a Final Four contender Dec. 18 when it led by 10 points in the first half of an 87-80 loss at then-No. 9 Baylor. But Mississippi couldn't sustain an early advantage Thursday. After the Rebels took a 4-3 lead, Tennessee pulled ahead for good with a 16-4 run.
"Baylor's a little bit better of a matchup for us," Mississippi coach Matt Insell said. "Tennessee, good gracious (they're) so big. We're in there battling, but we're a little bit short. Obviously we're a lot shorter (than Tennessee)."
Tennessee has six players 6-foot-2 or taller and is outrebounding foes by more than 15 boards per game. The Lady Vols (13-2, 2-1) had a 56-40 edge in rebounds and a 10-0 advantage in blocks Thursday.
"You just have to really box them out and go up for the boards," Mississippi forward Tia Faleru said. "You know they're longer than you, so they're going to be coming over you a lot. It wasn't (that) bad. We just have to box out, and we missed some box-outs."
Faleru's foul trouble made Mississippi's challenge even greater.
Faleru, who has been playing through a broken pinkie finger, entered the night leading the SEC with 9.9 rebounds per game and tied for sixth in the conference with 16 points per game. But she picked up three fouls Thursday in the game's first 6 minutes, 45 seconds. She ended up with eight points and nine rebounds despite playing just two minutes before halftime.
Although Insell removed Faleru from the game after her second foul, he put her back in with the Rebels trailing 14-6. The 6-1 forward picked up her third foul 31 seconds later and sat out the rest of the first half.
"Putting her back in with two fouls is just the way we play," Insell said. "We came here to win. We went to Baylor to win, and we've got to get that mentality back in our program. Our program's been down for five or six years, but it's not going to be down much longer. We're just going to keep getting better and we're going to change our mentality and starting going to these games with a mentality that we're going to win these games."
Diara Moore, Shequila Joseph, Gracie Frizzell and Amber Singletary scored nine points each for Mississippi, which shot 9 of 20 from 3-point range but was just 18 of 58 from inside the arc.
Tennessee's Isabelle Harrison had 16 points and 10 rebounds to set a school record with her seventh straight double-double. Andraya Carter had 14 points and Meighan Simmons added 12 points.
Although she was happy with the win, Tennessee coach Holly Warlick didn't like the Lady Vols' energy level at times and said they would need to step up their performance.
"This is a team right now that is very talented, but we're underachieving," Warlick said. "I've gotten mad at them. I've raised my voice. I've threatened them. I've been nice. I don't know. When our backs are against the wall, we generally play pretty hard. But I don't have an answer. We play in spurts and at times we don't look like we really care if there's a game going on or not anything going on."
Thursday's game drew an announced crowd of 10,382, which increased Tennessee's all-time home attendance to 5,006,586.
NCAA spokesman Rick Nixon said earlier in the week it's a "safe assumption" that Tennessee is the first women's program to reach the 5 million mark based on the Lady Vols' attendance history, but there isn't a way to officially verify that because the NCAA doesn't measure each school's all-time cumulative attendance. Tennessee has led the nation in attendance for 10 straight seasons.


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Kyron Mcmaster came in first in the 400m hurdles, at the University of Florida meet.
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Local hurdler champion, Kyron McMaster is now ranked as the second fastest male 400 meter hurdler in the world, following his performance at a recent meet at the University of Florida.
McMaster came in first, in his first race of the season at the University. This was also his first event competing as a senior.
Aiming to qualify for this year's IAAF World Athletic Championships in August 2017, McMaster completed the race in a time of 48.71, shattering the qualifying time of 49.03.
"It feels good. You always want to be in a spotlight in this day, where when you go to a meet, everyone is keen as to how a person will perform," McMaster told BVI Platinum News, adding that his performance will open a lot of doors and opportunities for him to compete against better competitors in events to come.
He noted that his performance will only continue to climb, as he intends to continue working hard.
"It was my first race for the season, so from here on it's for me to progress; that's my mission right now."
He continued, "At London, my aim is to do as best as I can. Its my first year in the senior division and this isn't the easiest division. You have to be on you're a-game at every event. For London, it's just for me to execute and see how far I go."
Just months ago, McMaster was ranked as the third fastest male junior in the 400 meter hurdles, following his bronze medal in the IAAF World Under 20 Championships 400 hurdles race, last June, 2016, in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
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I bet you thought we'd take today off of the roundup, didn't you? But as long as there are reporters out there covering things other the opening of the polls in Dixville Notch and Hart's Location at midnight, we'll be here.
The U.N. Security Council's sanctions committee has added the Haqqani network to its blacklist, says Reuters. Qaru Zakir, one of the network's commanders, has been singled out both by the Security Council and by the U.S., which by adding him to its list of designated terrorists, has made it possible to freeze assets over which the U.S. may have jurisdiction. Here's the official record of the UNSC's decision and the State Department's media note on its designation, and here's Al Jazeera's story.
On yesterday's Article 32 hearing in the prosecution of Staff Sargent Robert Bales, Ernesto Londono provides some new details about the March 11th attack provided by both the prosecution and defense. It seems from the hearing that Bales' defense attorney may make the case that warning signs about Bales' mental state were missed by leaders. Witnesses from Afghanistan will provide their testimony by video. Said the brother of one of the victims: "We are willing to collaborate with the U.S. as witnesses... If the trial is in the U.S., we will go by plane. If it is in Kandahar city, we will go by car. And if it is in Panjwai, we will attend on foot." Kirk Johnson of the New York Times also details the hearing, noting that the Army prosecutor, Lt. Col. Joseph Morse described Bales' demeanor as "lucid, coherent and responsive."
Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times reports on the oral arguments in the Second Circuit appeal of the conviction of four men in a plot to blow up synagogues in the Bronx. In questioning the government's tactics in investigating the plot, the judges were very critical. Asked Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs: "Is there another case that you can talk about where the government's level of involvement in creating and animating and realizing the offense was so all encompassing?" Judge Reena Raggi said at one point: "It would be one thing if the defendant had conceived the crime and then, as obstacles arose, the government removed them. But I think you have to deal with the problem of the full circumstances here. . . . The government comes up with the idea, picks the targets, provides all the means, removes the obstacles."
Over at Jurist, Kent Roach of the University of Toronto Law brings some much-needed attention to the U.K. Supreme Court's decision to dismiss both the government's and Bagram detainee Yunus Rahmatullah's appeals of its circuit court's grant of a writ of habeas corpus. Rahmatullah initially petitioned for habeas corpus in the U.S., and his petition was denied. Ben initially posted the UK Supreme Court's decision here. Roach concludes:
The UK Supreme Court's decision does not reflect well on the reputation of the US either in providing justice for its detainees or honoring commitments it made to the UK with respect to the transfer of detainees captured in Iraq. Substitute justice that challenges US counter-terrorism activities in non-US courts often fails to produce effective remedies. It often proceeds on the fiction that US activities are not being reviewed. Substitute justice is not ideal, but it is better than no justice at all.
Looks like the U.S. and Japan are conducting a military exercise without one of its critical components: an amphibious landing on an island stuck in the middle of Japan and China's tug-of-war. The landing is being left out because it would have antagonized a certain country. Here's Martin Fackler of the New York Times.
A car bombing near a base in Taji Iraq killed at least 27 people and wounded 40. The AP says that the casualty count is high because the suicide bomber detonated as "large numbers of soldiers" walked to and from a parking area on their way to work.
Are you worried Israel's allies (ahem-the U.S.-ahem) might be too afraid to strike Iran's military facilities if diplomacy continues not to work? Prime Minister Netanyahu has some reassuring words for those in support of such an attack: "If someone sits here as the prime minister of Israel and he can't take action on matters that are cardinal to the existence of this country, its future and its security, and he is totally dependent on receiving approval from others, then he is not worthy of leading,... I can make these decisions." Here's Jodi Rudoren's story in the Times.
For those wondering which member of Congress has spoken out most recently demanding a U.S. response to the Benghazi attack, here's Chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Rogers on CNN:
And, in the spirit of today, if you simply must take your national security law news with a splash of election, here's Ramesh Ponnuru at Bloomberg, who says that "The fact that we have barely debated this issue makes it hard to believe that our political system is getting it right, either." And here is Matthew Stevenson, a contributing editor of Harper's, with an op-ed in Politico that concludes:
Neither President Obama nor candidate Romney question the catechism that the military knows best in most foreign matters. Among the countries in the past 20 years where American weaponry or troops have seen action are Libya, Somalia, Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Philippines, Yemen, Sudan, Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Kosovo and Bosnia. How can the next four years not add to such a roster?
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Affiliation: McGill University
Country: Canada
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- Morbidity, mortality, and healthcare burden of nosocomial Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in Canadian hospitalsMark A Miller
SMBD Jewish General Hospital and McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 23:137-40. 2002..To assess the healthcare burden, morbidity, and mortality of nosocomial Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea (N-CDAD) in Canadian hospitals...
- An outbreak of scabies in a long-term care facility: the role of misdiagnosis and the costs associated with controlGretha de Beer
Department of Nursing, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:517-8. 2006..The scabies control costs totaled CDN $200,000, and the facility received negative publicity for a short period after the outbreak...
- Eradication versus control for poliomyelitisKatherine Sturm-Ramirez
Lancet 370:132-3; author reply 133. 2007
- Effect of an educational intervention on optimizing antibiotic prescribing in long-term care facilitiesJohanne Monette
Division of Geriatric Medicine, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1231-5. 2007..To assess the effect of an educational intervention aimed at optimizing antibiotic prescribing in long-term care (LTC) facilities...
- Derivation and validation of a simple clinical bedside score (ATLAS) for Clostridium difficile infection which predicts response to therapyMark A Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Rd, Montreal, QC, Canada
BMC Infect Dis 13:148. 2013..There is currently no validated clinical tool for use at the time of CDI diagnosis to categorize patients in order to predict response to therapy...
- Divergent rifamycin susceptibilities of Clostridium difficile strains in Canada and Italy and predictive accuracy of rifampin Etest for rifamycin resistanceMark A Miller
Clinical Microbiology, Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine Rd, Montreal, QC H3T 1E2, Canada
J Clin Microbiol 49:4319-21. 2011..1%) Canadian isolates. Two new rpoB mutations were identified in rifamycin-resistant isolates. RIF susceptibility by Etest correlated completely with susceptibility to both rifamycins determined by agar dilution...
- Fidaxomicin (OPT-80) for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infectionMark Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2 Canada
Expert Opin Pharmacother 11:1569-78. 2010....
- Health care-associated Clostridium difficile infection in Canada: patient age and infecting strain type are highly predictive of severe outcome and mortalityMark Miller
Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 50:194-201. 2010..We used a large Canadian database of patients with CDI to explore the interaction between these 2 variables...
- The fascination with probiotics for Clostridium difficile infection: lack of evidence for prophylactic or therapeutic efficacyMark Miller
SMBD Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, H3T 1E2, Canada
Anaerobe 15:281-4. 2009..Therefore, the use of probiotics for the prevention and/or therapy of CDI is considered to be theoretically effective...
- Clostridium difficile-associated disease. Epidemiology, morbidity, mortality, and methods for controlM A Miller
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Microbiology, Sir Mortimer B Davis Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Cote Ste Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Postgrad Med 109:39-42. 2001..Among the suggestions for antibiotic manipulation are decreased overall use of antibiotics and use of lower-risk antibiotics such as penicillins instead of high-risk antibiotics such as clindamycin and cephalosporins...
- Clinical management of Clostridium difficile-associated diseaseMark A Miller
Infection Prevention and Control and Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Clin Infect Dis 45:S122-8. 2007..This article will review the current approaches using antimicrobials, probiotics, immunomodulation, surgery, and miscellaneous adjuvants to prevent and treat this infection...
- Simple strategy for direct identification of medically important yeast species from positive blood culture vialsD C Sheppard
Department of Microbiology, Royal Victoria Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Clin Microbiol 37:2040-1. 1999..Direct inoculation of the Auxacolor system was accurate and more rapid than standard identification with the API 20C...
- Clostridium difficile: a formidable foeVivian G Loo
Infection Control Service, Hopital General de Montreal, QC
- A predominantly clonal multi-institutional outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea with high morbidity and mortalityVivian G Loo
Department of Microbiology, McGill University Health Center, Montreal, Que, Canada
N Engl J Med 353:2442-9. 2005..In March 2003, several hospitals in Quebec, Canada, noted a marked increase in the incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea...
- Topical mupirocin for eradication of MRSA colonization with mupirocin-resistant strainsM Semret
Department of Microbiology, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 22:578-80. 2001..4% and 85.7% of those colonized only in the nares. Although a trend to decreased effectiveness was seen for clearing mupirocin-resistant MRSA, this agent can decolonize many patients with resistant strains...
- Linkage of tuberculosis to chromosome 2q35 loci, including NRAMP1, in a large aboriginal Canadian familyC M Greenwood
Department of Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Am J Hum Genet 67:405-16. 2000..The ability to assign individuals to risk classes was crucial to the success of this study...
- Comparison of PCR and culture for screening of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci: highly disparate results for vanA and vanBAnton Mak
Department of Microbiology, McGill University Health Centre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
J Clin Microbiol 47:4136-7. 2009..The positive and negative predictive values of vanB PCR were 1.42% and 99.9%, respectively. A positive vanB result by PCR is poorly predictive and necessitates culture for differentiation of VRE-positive and -negative individuals...
- The Bla2 beta-lactamase from the live-vaccine strain of Francisella tularensis encodes a functional protein that is only active against penicillin-class beta-lactam antibioticsXiaowen R Bina
Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Arch Microbiol 186:219-28. 2006..The resulting shuttle vectors were suitable for recombinant gene expression and complementation studies in LVS and Schu S4...
- Adjuvanticity of an IL-12 fusion protein expressed by recombinant deltaG-vesicular stomatitis virusSheri D Klas
Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
Cell Immunol 218:59-73. 2002..These studies demonstrated that VSVdeltaG-IL12F-infected cells secrete bioactive single-chain IL-12, and laid the foundation for studies using VSVdeltaG-IL12F as a vector for delivery of IL-12F in vivo...
- Prioritization of influenza pandemic vaccination to minimize years of life lostMark A Miller
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Infect Dis 198:305-11. 2008....
- Temporal trends and climatic factors associated with bacterial enteric diseases in Vietnam, 1991-2001Louise A Kelly-Hope
Division of International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Environ Health Perspect 116:7-12. 2008..To better understand their epidemiology, we determined temporal trends, seasonal patterns, and climatic factors associated with high risk periods in eight regions across Vietnam...
- The AcrAB RND efflux system from the live vaccine strain of Francisella tularensis is a multiple drug efflux system that is required for virulence in miceXiaowen R Bina
Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
FEMS Microbiol Lett 279:226-33. 2008..Murine challenge experiments revealed that the acrB mutant was attenuated. Collectively these results suggest that the F. tularensis AcrAB RND efflux system encodes a multiple drug efflux system that is important for virulence...
- Lack of association between group B meningococcal disease and autoimmune diseaseMichael Howitz
Department of Epidemiology, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark
Clin Infect Dis 45:1327-34. 2007..Because systemic infection with GBM induces serum antibody in adults, we investigated whether persons with a history of GBM disease are at increased risk of developing autoimmune diseases...
- Crystal structure of an iron-containing 1,3-propanediol dehydrogenase (TM0920) from Thermotoga maritima at 1.3 A resolutionRobert Schwarzenbacher
The Joint Center for Structural Genomics, California 92037, USA
Proteins 54:174-7. 2004
- Global illness and deaths caused by rotavirus disease in childrenUmesh D Parashar
Viral Gastroenteritis Section, Division of Viral and Ricksettial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop G04, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:565-72. 2003..The tremendous incidence of rotavirus disease underscores the urgent need for interventions, such as vaccines, particularly to prevent childhood deaths in developing nations...
- Review of the cost effectiveness of immunisation strategies for the control of epidemic meningococcal meningitisMark A Miller
Division on International Epidemiology and Population Studies, Fogarty Internatonal Center, National Institutes of Health, Building 16, 16 Center Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892 6705, USA
Pharmacoeconomics 23:333-43. 2005..This includes the meningococcal belt of Africa, the Sahelian region...
- Multinational impact of the 1968 Hong Kong influenza pandemic: evidence for a smoldering pandemicCecile Viboud
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
J Infect Dis 192:233-48. 2005..We further explored the global pattern of mortality caused by the pandemic during this period...
- Enterococcus gallinarum N04-0414 harbors a VanD-type vancomycin resistance operon and does not contain a D-alanine:D-alanine 2 (ddl2) geneDavid A Boyd
National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada, 1015 Arlington St, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3E 3R2
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 50:1067-70. 2006..The D-Ala:D-Ala ligase 2 gene (ddl2) was not present in the strain, though it is found downstream of the vanS gene from the vanC operon in E. gallinarum ATCC 49573 and 19 other E. gallinarum strains tested...
- Synchrony, waves, and spatial hierarchies in the spread of influenzaCecile Viboud
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Science 312:447-51. 2006..A simple epidemiological model, based on the gravity formulation, captures the observed increase of influenza spatial synchrony with transmissibility; high transmission allows influenza to spread rapidly beyond local spatial constraints...
- 1951 influenza epidemic, England and Wales, Canada, and the United StatesCecile Viboud
National Institutes of Health, Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 12:661-8. 2006..Why this epidemic was so severe in some areas but not others remains unknown and highlights major gaps in our understanding of interpandemic influenza...
- Transmissibility and mortality impact of epidemic and pandemic influenza, with emphasis on the unusually deadly 1951 epidemicCecile Viboud
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Vaccine 24:6701-7. 2006..Surprisingly in Liverpool, considered the 'epicenter' of the severe 1951 epidemic, the mortality impact and transmissibility even surpassed the 1918 pandemic...
- Crystal structure of O-acetylserine sulfhydrylase (TM0665) from Thermotoga maritima at 1.8 A resolutionAndreas Heine
The Joint Center for Structural Genomics, Stanford University, Menlo Park, California, USA
Proteins 56:387-91. 2004
- Seasonality of influenza in Brazil: a traveling wave from the Amazon to the subtropicsWladimir J Alonso
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 6710, USA
Am J Epidemiol 165:1434-42. 2007..The direction of the traveling wave suggests that environmental forces (temperature, humidity) play a more important role than population factors (density, travel) in driving the timing of influenza epidemics across Brazil...
- Role of zinc administration in prevention of childhood diarrhea and respiratory illnesses: a meta-analysisRakesh Aggarwal
Department of Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India
Pediatrics 119:1120-30. 2007..The quantified effect of zinc supplementation to prevent childhood diarrhea and respiratory illnesses is unclear. We conducted a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials on the subject...
- Trends for influenza-related deaths during pandemic and epidemic seasons, Italy, 1969-2001Caterina Rizzo
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, CNESPS, Rome, Italy
Emerg Infect Dis 13:694-9. 2007..When comparing northern, central, and southern Italy, we found a high level of synchrony in the amplitude of peaks of influenza-related deaths...
- Review of reported cholera outbreaks worldwide, 1995-2005David C Griffith
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Am J Trop Med Hyg 75:973-7. 2006..We highlight the need for more extensive outbreak reporting to justify investments in new interventions...


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>Hardcore Gamers…
>. . . are all nuts. OK, maybe not all of them but many definitely are. Which I didn't know until I posted a review of Civilization V where I dared (and what a horrible thing to do!) to mention that I like Civilization V and didn't enjoy Civilization IV. Since then, I have been inundated by angry messages from gamers, ranging from mildly offensive to scarily crazy, berating me for expressing my opinion of the game. This is really insane because it's just a game. And probably now I will be hated even more because this is not a sentence any hardcore gamer ever wants to hear.
I have been accused of being paid by the company that made the game to promote it (I wish, but in what universe would they hire somebody like me who only plays a couple of times a month, at best?) and of never even having seen either version of the game and just writing bad things about Civ IV out of spite (yes, because it cheated on me with my boyfriend.)
So, gamers, please stop writing to me, telling me how Civ V's introduction of hexes has changed your life for the worse. If you care about it this much, you probably never had a life to begin with. Maybe now is a good time to get your ass out of that arm-chair and go get one.
P.S. My husband's comment on this subject: "If you spent as much time with gamers as I do, you would know that these people don't have any sex. At all. Ever. Then, you would be more compassionate towards them."


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text: My dad and i was talkin bout the superior court overturning the san fransisco handgun ban and what might happen if it made it to the supreme court. It is very unlikely since the supreme court refuses to hear and 2nd amendment cases. But im wondering if one ever did make it to the supreme court would the supreme court be able to rule on that specific case w/o effecting any other gun laws such as the GCA and NFA. Or would they have to effect all gun laws thus being he reason they have never taken on a 2nd amendment case. In any case i do have more hope with the new justices on the bench that a 2nd amendment case will be heard in the near future.


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ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Attorney General Lori Swanson is advising the Legislature to forge ahead with a bill making clear that lawmakers can't avoid arrest for drunken driving or other crimes during the months of session.
But Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Ron Latz responded Thursday that he's not convinced that a new law is required to resolve what he sees as a misunderstanding of current law.
Swanson's nonbinding opinion issued this week surrounds a hot-button bill that would explicitly revoke any "privilege from arrest" that lawmakers have during session. It's a clause in the Constitution, but how far the privilege extends is a point of controversy. Some lawmakers are pushing legislation to remove any doubt that criminal acts make lawmakers subject to arrest.
Latz says a "coordinated, robust education effort" should suffice.
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Mentor Reception — October 29 at UWSoD
You are invited to the WSDA/Dental Alumni/School of Dentistry Mentor Reception being held on Friday, October 29, 2010 from 6 pm – 8:30 pm at the I Wing Rotunda (Foyer area and Rooms 140-142) in the Health Sciences Center.
The complimentary reception will include beer, wine, soft drinks and plenty of great food, and incudes a short discussion at 7:00 pm about the mentor program and its benefits. Most of the evening is spent socializing with students, Dental Alumni Association leadership, and mentor dentists from the area who are happy to talk and answer any questions that you may have.
The Mentor Program is designed to link practicing dentists with UW dental students, so that dental students have the professional resources that they need and increase awareness of the strengths and values of organized dentistry. You will have the opportunity to sign up to be a mentor if you are not one already. If you are already a mentor to a student, please contact your student and encourage them to attend the reception so that you can have the opportunity to socialize with them.
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What Novartis Sees in Eye CareBy
Persistence may as well be Daniel Vasella's middle name. The CEO of drug giant Novartis (NVS) has tried for years to pry eye-care company Alcon (ACL) from Nestlé. Once he proposed a swap: Nestlé could have Novartis' medical nutrition and baby food business if it would part with Alcon, known for contact lens solutions and all manner of ophthalmic medicines.
The swap never happened. But Novartis has announced that it is finally taking control of Alcon in a deal worth nearly $50 billion, the biggest merger in Swiss history. The ground was set in 2008 when Novartis paid Nestlé $10.4 billion for a 25% stake in Alcon. On Jan. 4, Novartis exercised an option to buy the 52% stake that Nestlé still held in Alcon and agreed to purchase the remaining 23% held by minority shareholders, offering 2.8 shares of Novartis stock for each share of Alcon.
This arrangement isn't without controversy. Some Alcon shareholders are disgruntled because the price of their shares will vary while Nestlé is being paid in cash. If Vasella's plan works, however, the minority shareholders may not be grousing for long. He expects the global eye-care market to grow by as much as 7% annually through 2014 as glaucoma and cataracts become more widespread in countries with aging populations.
That's sturdier than the outlook for prescription drugs. Industry sales are expected to rise by 4% to 6% through 2013, according to research firm IMS Health (RX). The acquisition will also bolster Novartis' existing Ciba Vision lens unit and support its efforts to expand the market for Lucentis, the company's drug for age-related macular degeneration, a leading cause of blindness. Alcon "was always a business that fit well within ours, but it took time and some money to get it," says Vasella.
The deal is the latest in the CEO's 14-year quest to transform a traditional European chemicals company into a diversified global health-care player. Over the last five years, Novartis has spent $59 billion on acquisitions to expand its presence in fast-growing areas such as generic drugs and vaccines, according to Bloomberg data. "Vasella recognized relatively early the importance of moving away from a commodity-type pharmaceutical model where one white pill fits all," says Karl Heinz Koch, an analyst at Helvea in Zurich.
Combined sales of Alcon and Novartis eye products in 2008 were about $8.5 billion, one-third of the $26 billion global market for such offerings. Together, their businesses cover about 70% of the kinds of products and services people with impaired vision need.
The deal should help Novartis make up for sales that will be lost to generics. Beginning in 2012, patents on its two best-selling medicines, $5.7 billion hypertension drug Diovan and $3.7 billion cancer treatment Gleevec, will expire. "The Alcon deal is an insurance policy...that sales and profits remain at these levels," says Luis Correia, an analyst at Clariden Leu in Zurich. "Diovan is a high-margin product, so they had to buy a high-margin business to replace it."
Vasella expects much future growth to come from Asia, where demand for ophthalmic procedures is expected to grow as incomes rise. In China alone, an estimated 60 million people suffer from cataracts—and Alcon is the world's leader in cataract surgical supplies. In 2008, emerging markets made up about $1 billion of Alcon's sales.
The merger brings another benefit: Alcon is less vulnerable to price regulation than Novartis' prescription drug business. That's because a sizeable chunk of its customers pay out-of-pocket for over-the-counter products and procedures such as laser eye surgery. In contrast, sales of prescriptions drugs depend upon the willingness of cost-constrained governments and insurers to pay. "Strategically it makes sense to diversify into other health-care areas to stabilize earnings and reduce the risks," says Koch.


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The driver, who has not been identified, was going south approaching Mae Height Road at about 1:40 p.m. when he veered off the road, troopers said. The 1998 Buick Regal rolled on the south shoulder, where it struck a tree, started on fire and completely burned, troopers said. The driver died at the scene.
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Porto Brandão is a picturesque coastal town that is opportunistically located within industrial routes of the Tejo River. This dialectic of regional industrial routes pushes up against the natural geographic beauty of this town, its monuments, and growing university. One of the difficulties in a comprehensive planning strategy in Porto Brandão is not just this tension between scales of industry but also the complex topography that has naturally caused a polynuclear distribution of built form in pockets of consistent terrain within the city. Instead of an approach of unification, this proposal adopts of strategy of first disconnecting these islands only to reconnect them in a precise manner.
The act of disconnection, allows each of these islands to realize its 'almost' project into an ideal state. A series of strategies are employed to create clear boundaries for each islands — through topography, landscaping, and in select areas, architectural form. By creating a limit on each island, a legible entity emerges that can clarify its own unique identity.
After the act of disconnection, two systems of reconnecting the islands are employed. The first utilizes a cable car system to create a comprehensive method of moving through the city and its complex terrain. Each stop connects to an existing island, with one new additional station proposed — a ferry terminal located in the port. The towers for the gondola stations not only serve as access, they create a series of territorial nodes that provide an overall legibility and wayfinding mechanism through the city, while enhancing the city's pluralistic identity. The towers also provide the opportunity for new programmes —new residences for university-affiliated scholars, hotels, restaurants, parking, observatories and transport hubs, such as the ferry terminal. This consolidates density and new growth at locations that are opportunistically located within the transport network and protect the natural landscape from sprawl. Lastly, these towers act at a scale in concert with the majestic surrounding landscape, reframing the relationship between artificial and natural structures within the city. The second mechanism of connection involves the existing series of fragmented paths through the city. These paths typically fragment in regions of dramatic topographic changes. The towers are placed to not only touch on an island and connect the gondola network, but also to fill in strategic gaps within the existing networks of paths, to create a comprehensive system of moving through the city both on land and in the sky.
The project is made up of two networks for movement through and above the city that use the structural towers as programmatic condensers that provide both an identity to each individual island, and as a collective, provide a new identity to the pluralistic city. As an aggregation, the gondola network structures the city through a territorial constellation. As the stars in this constellation can be read in different ways, forming a series of figures, with an overall figure of the Portuguese "Sardinha" which is always visible from the sky.
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Extra Space Storage Inc., a Salt Lake City-based real estate investment trust that operates in the self-storage industry, said it intends to issue and sell 5.2 million shares of its stock in a public offering.
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Mary Frances (Rodgers) Stanford
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Source: Burnet Bulletin, 15 Oct 1936
Transcribed by JoAnn Myers, Oct 2008
Mrs. J. W. Stanford was called by death at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. Henry Guthrie
near Burnet last Wednesday night, October 7th, 1936. Interment was the next day in Bear Creek Cemetery, with Rev. Buren Sparks, pastor of the Burnet Baptist Church conducting the service.
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She was born August 25th, 1852, in Pike County, Alabama, making her at the time of her death 84 years, 1 month and 12 days of age. She was united in marriage to
W. J. Stanford
on August 25th, 1872. To this union two sons and five daughters were born. The family moved to Texas in 1877 and first located in Titus County. They moved to Burnet county in January 1881, and since that time, a period of 55 years, this has been Mrs. Stanford's home.
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Mrs. W. D. Arnett
of Lubbock,
Mrs. J. C. Arnett
of Lubbock,
Mrs. G. W. Brock
of Paducah, and
Mrs. Henry Guthrie
of Burnet. She is also survived by fourteen grandchildren and fifteen great-grandchildren.
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The Bulletin extends sympathy to Mrs. Guthrie and the other bereaved relatives.
[Transcriber's note: Mrs. Henry Guthrie was
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Hi. I am totally new to WordPress & blogs. Somebody suggested I use WP for an entire site & I plunged into it, & now I am of course having problems, imagine that!
We need a website with static pages + 2 seperate blogs — & the ability to add more blogs as we go along, but with a maximum of say 8 blogs. As per the support articles here, I installed a WP multisite network (based on wildcard subdomains as required by our shared host, OVH), & the 2 blogs are also installed (1st in the root web directory, second pointed to a subdomain). Before driving myself mad with plugins, widgets, theme changes, category calls, etc, I want to ensure that I am actually going about this the right way.
This is what I need:
(1) static pages, having top-bar navigation & perhaps side-bar navigation, all linked to these static pages. This navigation & the general theme need to show up throughout the site, even on the blog pages
(2) a static page on the website (site.org/blogs/blog1) where blog #1 shows up, with side-bar navigation showing categories/tags/archives/search for blog #1 only; with changes to the theme to allow for some blog#1-specific text before the posts
(3) a static page on the website (site.org/blogs/blog2) where blog #2 shows up, with side-bar navigation showing categories/tags/archives/search for blog #2 only; changes to the theme to allow for some blog#2-specific text before the posts
(4) etc
Is all this possible/good using the network install? Any hints on how it should all be installed?
Right now in the Settings | Reading | Front page displays, I cannot set blog #2's front or post pages to a static page from the initial set-up, I am sure there is a work-around, but it is annoying.
Thanks in advance for any help you folks can give me.
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I just wanted to thank you for the response, which did not end up in a void but was not immediately implemented due to various illnesses, trips, client non-deliveries, etc etc.
I never did get that plug-in working, altho I apparently have all the settings correct as the plug-in maker has specified. I ended up making another nav menu by hand that mirrors the main one, & I am hoping we don't get too many blogs!
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Less than 200 m of the slope above Srenjski preval reach up to 45 degrees and the overall difficulty of skiing is rated D-.
See the main page how to reach Srenjski preval. It can be reached with skis either from Konjščica meadow over Jezerce basin or from Rudno polje below the north face of Viševnik.
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First you ascend directly above the saddle. When slopes get too steep for skiing, you must cross a bit towards right (east) on the adjacent slopes, which are tricky, because they end below with some vertical rocks. Don't slide there! This slope ends just below the summit with a more or less narrow ravine and some final rocks. The terrain depends a lot on the amount of snow. If more snow, all these details can not be seen and perhaps you can even do the line up directly above the saddle.
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BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- After years of the University of Alabama's football recruiting expenses rising exponentially, costs declined in 2011-12. Still, $930,997 spent on football again exceeded what Alabama paid to recruit all of its athletes only five years earlier ($857,670) in the final season before Nick Saban arrived.
UAB's football recruiting expenses also declined last year, although the Blazers still spent more than Troy, Jacksonville State and Alabama A&M. Auburn, Alabama State and South Alabama have yet to provide NCAA financial documents containing this information as requested by AL.com. Samford is a private university.
On the NCAA's annual financial reports, recruiting costs are defined this way: "Include transportation, lodging and meals for prospective student-athletes and institutional personnel on official and unofficial visits, telephone call charges, postage and such. Include value of use of institution's vehicles or airplanes as well as in-kind value of loaned or contributed transportation."
Recruiting expenses fluctuate for many reasons, such as a university's financial resources, proximity of a school to major airports, and what part of the country a team's coaches are targeting for players. Also, programs spend money to save money. Some invest dollars into recruiting earlier in the process to better evaluate players and build relationships.
Here's how much state schools are spending to recruit football players:
The Crimson Tide's $930,997 spent on football recruiting in 2011-12 was down from $980,882 a year earlier. Spending had increased by 279 percent from 2006-07 to 2010-11, a period that marked Saban's arrival and Alabama's consistent appearances atop the national recruiting rankings.
Football accounted for 52 percent of all of Alabama's recruiting expenses last year, down from 56 percent in 2010-11. The percentage allocated to football had also been increasing every year under Saban until now, rising from 30 percent in 2006-07.
Auburn spent $950,378 on football recruiting in 2010-11, accounting for 45 percent of the athletics department's recruiting expenses. Alabama and Auburn were No. 2 and 3, respectively, in football recruiting costs among public schools in 2010-11, behind Tennessee ($1.5 million), according to a 2012 article by ESPN.com.
The Blazers spent $108,885 on expenses for Garrick McGee's first recruiting class last year, down from $132,212 in 2010-11. It was a very brief recruiting period for McGee, who inherited many commitments from former coach Neil Callaway.
Back in 2006-07, football recruiting accounted for 40 percent of recruiting costs in UAB's athletics department. Football made up 31 percent in 2010-11 and dipped to 24 percent in 2011-12. Men's basketball accounted for 19 percent last year ($88,091) as UAB's entire recruiting expenses increased by 5 percent even with football down.
No state school appears to put a heavier percentage of recruiting expenses into football than Troy. The Trojans spent $97,427 on football in 2011-12, accounting for 64 percent of all of its recruiting expenses.
Troy sponsored 17 sports in 2011-12, compared to 21 for Alabama, 19 for UAB, and 16 each for Jacksonville State and Alabama A&M. The Trojans spent $138,067 on football recruiting in 2007-08.
Jacksonville State
The Gamecocks, a Football Bowl Championship Subdivision school, spent $82,571 on football recruiting in 2011-12. That accounted for 38 percent of the school's entire athletic recruiting costs.
Alabama A&M
The Bulldogs, another FCS school, spent $31,586 on football recruiting last year. That was 57 percent of the athletics department's recruiting costs.
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