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Whenever you start a new type of treatment, it's important that you are really comfortable with the person providing you with the care.
Massage therapy is quite an intense and personal experience. You need to feel confident that your therapist is ethical and respectful, and that you're in safe hands. You want to feel welcomed, calm and at ease every time you step into their work room.
For this reason, I would always recommend that you try out a few therapists before you settle on one that you see regularly. This will give you the opportunity to see a few different styles in action.
Some massage therapists will be very friendly, open and excited to get to know you. Others will be more reserved and simply get on with the treatment. What you enjoy really depends on your personality, and what kind of experience you want to have each time you go in for a massage.
Regardless of what kind of personality you want in your therapist, there are a few things that should be non-negotiable:
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- You should always feel safe and secure. If there is even a hint that anything is sleazy or untoward, get out of there. You're under no obligation to explain yourself and you owe it to yourself to make sure every massage is as relaxing and effective as possible. Find a therapist who makes you feel totally comfortable and at ease.
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Rothschild's Brooklyn, An Historic Moment: While on the road, The Bearded Man got on the horn and made an usual call or should I say cry for us to finalize the details of the event he was planning before he left for his road trip. Cancellation was not an option. Details to an event? What event? Thought we cancelled the event, but it definitely wasn't cancelled, not at all, the event was important and must happen. Gabe and Colin jumped on the case, finalized the details and just hours from his road trip, Ouigi was his jolly hosting self, welcoming the beautiful faces who were lucky enough to join to us this past Sunday.
What exactly were we celebrating? Black History month, the Oscars, All-Star Weekend, good relationships? Yep! All of the above. Little did we know we would also be celebrating the end of an era. The closing of one of our favorite restaurants on Atlantic Avenue, Rothschild's. Wow! Our favorite gumbo spot with the staff from Cheers is officially closed. We are absolutely going to miss that place "where everybody knows your name and they're always glad you came". But like they say in New Orleans, which was a big influence on our favorite little restaurant, "Laissez les bons temps rouler" Let The Good Times Roll. The good times must go on as we search for a new venue to host our monthly social, but we want to send a special thank you and well wishes to everyone from Rothschild's, we are certain that you will re-appear, stronger and better with our full support. BKc, Style + Character & The 100 Year Plan . . .

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The Apache Foundation has announced a new version of the Cassandra NoSQL distributed database. Cassandra, which was originally developed by Facebook, is designed for storing massive quantities of data efficiently, which has made it popular as a database solution for Big Data number-crunching.
According to Apache, "Cassandra powers massive data sets quickly and reliably without compromising performance, whether running in the cloud or partially on-premise in a hybrid data store. Its fully distributed architecture provides unparalleled fault tolerance to ensure applications will not go offline, and its linear scalability allows them to reach massive sizes while successfully handling thousands of requests per second."
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Recently we are hearing news about various M&A's in the MSP industry where VCs played a predominant role and the recent one being Kaseya which was took over by Insight Venture Partners – The same group that has also invested in companies like GFI, Acronis, and Parallels etc… Just weeks before that we heard news about AVG buying Level Platforms for an undisclosed amount and Solar Winds acquiring N-Able for $120 million. Everyone started to speculate on whether standalone RMM / Managed services is dead and market is heading towards platform diversification.
We see it otherwise. Companies that got bought simply peaked in their ability to grow fast. People who have been in the MSP industry for quite some time understand that this part of channel segment (MSP) can scale only up to a certain level and after which you hit a roadblock – That is because the service providers they in turn target as customers don't have the urge to grow faster. Vendors backed by VCs reach an inflection point here as they try to 'Grow Faster' while service providers are trying to grow their business organically. At this stage companies are left with no other option other than to focus more on business segment directly which is kind of anti-channel – a trend we are already witnessing with few companies.
I am recalling an interview by Gerald Blackie to MSPmentor where he stated his intention to remain self-funded and create a "lifestyle business" and by maintaining control, Kaseya could focus more on customers (MSPs) rather than VC demands. That was in 2008.
In 2011, on a different interview, Mark Sutherland, (formed president of Kaseya) states that "Kaseya enjoys watching rivals (A) get acquired or (B) pursue IPOs because those paths can make a company lose its focus"
Fast forwarding to 2013 things have changed a lot w.r.t Kaseya – we all know what happened. We have already blogged about a similar instance with another company and time in again it proves that fast growth through VC funding' business model doesn't scale well in the MSP segment. Off late we are also seeing many Enterprise vendors jumping in the MSP market targeting service providers. We all know – this market is not yet ready for Enterprise play.
There is also an possible confusion amongst MSPs on what they should expect from a event something like the Kaseya's acquisition by VCs. Though they are hoping for the best from some of these deals as they don't want any trouble with their present service offering. Here is an MSP talking about what he thinks on Kaseya's acquisition – "I hope it doesn't get worse. If it gets worse, then that will be a problem for me, but I do think it will be pretty stable" – Said Chris Wise, CEO of TechSquad IT in an article to SMBNation
When serving MSP market segment it is important to maintain a business model similar to that of MSPs where we grow organically. That is one reason why Vembu remains private and independent .There is no pressure for us to grow fast and hence we constantly evolve and serve the channel with new enhancements on a regular basis. We will be here to serve the channel and come up with new innovative products for our customers. As long as we constantly innovate and provide quality products to customers at an affordable price point and remain dedicated and focused, we are confident on winning big in the long run.
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MORE job opportunities for residents, more companies to trade with and millions added to Worcestershire's economy are just some of the benefits for Redditch from building the high speed rail link HS2.
Andy Taylor, the project's spokesman for the West Midlands, told a meeting of Redditch business leaders once the link between London and Leeds was completed in 2037 the borough would be just an hour from London and Manchester, opening up opportunities for companies and individuals.
He said by shrinking travelling times it would increase the workforce companies could recruit from by 8.4 per cent, increase the number of businesses to trade with by 20 per cent and boost the county's economic output year on year by between £214million and £375million.
He acknowledged the concerns of those living where the line would be built, such as those in parts of neighbouring Warwickshire, but said the London to Birmingham phase would only directly affect 330 properties.
"Ultimately the country needs this kind of infrastructure. As small a number of people as possible will be affected but we believe in terms of the number of jobs it creates, the opportunities it creates, making sure young talent, skills and jobs can exist in all cities not just in London and the South East, we do think it is worth it," he told the Standard.
Mr Taylor was asked to address business leaders at a meeting at the Abbey Hotel by Redditch MP Karen Lumley as part of a new drive to promote the benefits of the £45billion project for the whole country. He said the current rail and road network was overloaded with the Redditch branch line alone experiencing an 86 per cent increase in passenger numbers over the last ten years.
Mr Taylor admitted there were other rail infrastructure upgrades which could be carried out but none would deliver the step change HS2 would.
"What we do is take 18,000 people an hour off the existing railway that releases enourmous capacity for local and regional services and using the current long-distance services for new regional routes," he said.
"By putting in one element that takes out all the long distance traffic you can support towns and cities across the West Midlands region in one go."
He also dismissed claims the line would only be affordable for wealthy businessmen and women.
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NEW ORLEANS - More than 100 candles lit Friday night outside police headquarters served as a sign of hope for Terrilynn Monette's family.
Family, friends, and community leaders gathered to pray for the Jefferson Parish teacher's safe return, nearly five weeks after she went missing.
"She's not just our daughter, she's a daughter of New Orleans," said Monette's father, Terry. "And to see the mayor and police out here, we greatly appreciate everybody that's coming out here today showing that they're concerned about our daughter and we want to keep this fire burning for her."
Mayor Mitch Landrieu has reached out to Monette's family over the phone in the past, but for the first time Thursday attended one of half a dozen vigils that have been held for Monette.
"I just wanted to assure the family that people here really love here and and care about her and we're not going to forget about here. We are all going to do everything that we can to find her, hopefully safely," said Landrieu.
Monette was last seen in the early morning hours of Saturday, March 2nd. A traffic camera shows she turned left onto Marconi from Harrison Avenue after leaving Parlay's Bar in Lakeview. No one knows what happened next.
"It's been a difficult time, it hasn't gotten any easier," said Monette's mother, Toni Enclade. "I went through Easter without my baby and it's very hard it's very hard."
Search crews have combed areas like City Park. Thursday, our partner MidCityMessenger.com learned three different teams of dogs hit on the same clearing. But investigators turned up only cooking oil. The dogs responded to a false positive, a police spokesman told Eyewitness News.
Detectives said there are no leads, but the active investigation now spans several states.
"We are going to find Terrilynn," said Third District Commander John Thomas. "I have committed to that 100 percent."
The vigil grew especially emotional with a sup rise visit from a family who understands, perhaps, better than anyone. The family of Shane Fell, who has been missing from Jefferson Parish for nearly two years, embraced Monette's family.
Students from Southern University of New Orleans also attended the vigil.
Dr. Victor Ukpolo, SUNO Chancellor, said he received a call from the chancellor of Monette's alma matter, California State University at San Bernadino, Friday morning.
Within hours, Ukpolo and his staff rallied dozens of students to fill a bus and show their support.
"I'm touched, but I'm not surprised because that's what the school is about, to try to reach out and do what we can to try to make the community a better place to live," said Ukpolo.
Monette's immediate family flew in from California for a second time early Friday morning to continue to spread the word about Monette's disappearance. While Monette is a native of California, her mother grew up in Plaquemines Parish.
Now Enclade's plea remains the same.
"I just pray, please help me find my baby. Please," cried Enclade.
If you have any information, call Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111. You don't have to leave your name and could get a $5,500 reward.
A golf tournament will be held Sunday, April 7th at Belle Terre Country Club in LaPlace to raise money for the reward.


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I was outside in my groom-to-be's truck listening to music and I got out about to go inside and I looked up because I heard a very faint whirring sound coming from above.
I figured I might have been imagining it like it was maybe a helicopter or something, but I wasn't imagining it and it was NOT a helicopter.
I watched this for duration of a minute when the first one disappeared. The first one was round like a disk and went in a southeast path, went straight, then turned and went straight southwest.
The second one came literally about 50 seconds later; almost a minute and lasted for approximately 1 minute and 30 seconds. It was a boomerang shape with a light on the front and one on each end.
It looked like a triangle of lights, and was moving very fast. This one made a whirring sound, but there was no way of telling where it was coming from.
Once it made its pathway just about a minute and a few seconds later, it was gone. Please tell me I'm not crazy.
I wish I would've caught evidence. I will definitely be prepared next time.
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I have heard & seen very similar from my mom's house in Las Vegas,before it was all built up like it is now. We suspected they were some type of military air crafts flying near the mountains. We may never know,but used to enjoy the light shows. We often saw several at a time,and they changed direction like no known aircraft can that I'm aware of. They would hang around sometimes,and then would take off, change directions at extreme speeds. We looked into it & sometimes we would see UFO reports in local rag papers,but stillsuspect it was something military,even though the papers said they contacted the base at Nellis, yet were told it was not theirs & the base suggested it might be a helicopter. These were certainly not helicopters...they were far too big & far too fast to be.
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If it made a "whirring sound" there is the possibility it was not a "genuine extraterrestial vehicle" because the EVIL CONSPIRACY may be trying to "imitate" flying saucers and there are "crude imitations" that are based on "fans" which lift entire vehicles into the air, kind of like drones, only they have a "saucer shape" to make people believe they are "from out of this world" when in reality they are not, NO, I DO NOT THINK YOU ARE CRAZY, but you may have witnessed a "fake UFO" from a "wicked conspiracy" that wants to drive people crazy, by creating these "whirring UFOS" so that they can "discredit" the UFO phenomena and claim we are "cattle slaughterers" which as I stated I do not know any "ET" civilization that would have any incentive to "slaughter cattle" in order to "use for research" or other purposes, we "do prosecute" such events, therfore if you can "shoot a cattle rustler down" that would be "very helpful" indeed, but be careful you do not shoot at any "innocent bystanders" or utility helicopters, make sure they were actually rustling your cattle, before you shoot them! I think you might even be "covered by federal law" if they are over your property, after all they are "intruders" and "honest aliens" from outer space will not "violate your property rights" I can assure you of that, they would "purchase the cattle" before they used it for any "scientific investigation" etc, but then again the US government has so many "dark operations" it is hard to believe!
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Critical Essay on "Proem"
The difficulty one finds in approaching a work like Alfred Lord Tennyson's "Proem" is one that troubles anyone practicing literary criticism and, in fact, anyone trying to understand life: how much should be examined at any one time? Even with an average poem, possibilities abound, since there exists any extent of background information that could be useful for helping readers comprehend the lines on the page in front of them. Biographical information is often referred to, and so are similar poems from the poet's canon, or poems written around the same time, or poems that clearly influence the subject matter.
"Proem" has all of these elements. It is the introduction to a longer piece, In Memoriam A. H....
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Alfred Tennyson
More than any other Victorian writer, Tennyson has seemed the embodiment of his age, both to his contemporaries and to modern readers. In his own day he was said to be—with Queen Victoria and Gladstone—one of the three most famous living persons, a reputation no other poet writing in English has ever had. As official poetic spokesman for the reign of Victoria, he felt called upon to celebrate a quickly changing industrial and mercantile world with which he felt little in common, for his deepest sympathies were called forth by an unaltered rural England; the conflict between what he thought of as his duty to society and his allegiance to the eternal beauty of nature seems peculiarly Victorian. Even his most severe critics have...
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Tennyson's In Memoriam as Love Poetry
Most of the few modern explanations of In Memoriam have, like E. B. Mattes' In Memoriam: The Way of a Soul and Graham Hough's "Natural Theology in In Memoriam", concerned themselves principally with the source and precise meaning of the poem's intellectual speculations. While inevitably admitting Tennyson's ultimate subjectivism, critics have concerned themselves little with the nature of the subjective experiences underlying the poem or the literary conventions governing their presentation.
In Memoriam is indeed in one sense a philosophical poem: it must have been amongst the works which prompted Jowett to say to Tennyson, just before the latter's death: "Your poetry has an...
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The 'Way of the Soul'
It is a fashion at present to ascribe the great popularity of In Memoriam entirely to the 'teaching' contained in it, and to declare that its peculiar position among English elegies has nothing to do with its poetic qualities. This is equivalent to an assertion that, if the so-called substance of the poem had been presented in common prose, the work would have gained the same hold upon the mass of educated readers that is now possessed by the poem itself. Such an assertion no one would make or consciously imply. The ordinary reader does not indeed attempt to separate the poetic qualities of a work from some other quality that appeals to him; much less does he read the work in...
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PORTLAND, Ore. — The mail shipment contained video footage of a player Terrence Williams was told to study. And that player was Paul Pierce.
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The International Association of Lighting Designers (IALD) awarded eight lighting design projects with prestigious IALD recognition for their outstanding and innovative lighting solutions during its 21st Annual IALD Awards Presentation held on April 1 in Las Vegas.
At this year's judging, the IALD awarded eight projects that represented five of the seven categories. Four projects earned IALD Awards of Merit, one in the academic/institutional category, two in retail/entertainment and one in corporate. Three IALD Awards of Excellence were earned: one in corporate; one in site/façade; and one in monumental structures/public spaces. Overall, the selected winners were chosen based on their aesthetic value and appropriate integration of the most effective and advanced lighting techniques. Winning designs were also recognized for incorporating low-energy lighting solutions with designs achieving high-levels of sustainability.
The IALD bestowed one Radiance Award, three Awards of Excellence, four Awards of Merit, and one Special Citation. IALD's highest honor, the Radiance Award, was presented to Award of Excellence winner J.K. Yao of Architectural Lighting Design located in Taipei, Taiwan for his work on the CKS International Airport, Terminal 1 Lighting Renovation, located in Tao-Yuan, Taiwan. The IALD gives this award to the project earning the highest point score among winners. This project demanded the lighting designer include a new ceiling plan, and required construction to take place among normal ticketing/check-in routines.
Two IALD Awards of Excellence were presented for Post Tower in Bonn, Germany, and the MetLife Building in New York. The Post Tower was designed by Michael F. Rohde, Raik Kaczmarek, Nadia Kugler, Nils von Leesen, and Andreas Voigt of L-Plan Lighting Design in Berlin, Germany. The Met Life Building was designed by Scott J. Hershman and Charles G. Stone II of Fisher Marantz Stone in New York, NY.
Four IALD Awards of Merit were presented for: Brown Fine Arts Center at Smith College in Northampton, MA (Francesca Bettridge and Marty Salzburg of Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design in New York, NY); the BMW Group Autocenter in Munich, Germany (Gerd Pfarré of Lichtplanung in Munich, Germany); Finsbury Avenue Square in London, UK(Mark Ridler, Rob Honeywill, Kevin Theobald, and Petra Kleegraefe of Maurice Brill Lighting Design Ltd. of London); and the Galleria Mall Renovation and Expansion in Houston, TX(Alfred R. Borden, IV, IALD, and Gail Beck of The Lighting Practice in Philadelphia).One Special Citation for passive daylighting was awarded to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, TX (Brian Stacy, Andrew Sedgwick, Florence Lam and Matt Franks of Arup Lighting in New York).
The IALD Lighting Design Awards program, established in 1983, honors lighting projects that display high aesthetic achievement backed by technical expertise. IALD entries are submitted into one of seven categories: Academic/Institutional; Corporate; Hospitality; Monumental Structures/Public Spaces; Residential; Retail/Entertainment; and Site/Façade. A panel of award-winning lighting designers and architects review the projects.
This year, the IALD received 133 submissions from 11 countries. The IALD, established in 1969, is an international organization dedicated to the profession of architectural lighting design. Based in Chicago and comprised of over 700 members throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, the IALD's role is to set the global standard for lighting design excellence.
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The folks at Calhoun Air Center at Calhoun County Airport (PKV) in Texas, have put together a video looking back at the great progress made at the airport and business in 2011.
Calhoun Air Center celebrates 2011, looks ahead to 2012
SEF adds new benefits for companies that relocate
Florida's Sebring Regional Airport (SEF) has modified its Foreign Trade Zone Act to provide a new benefit for businesses that locate within the service area of the Foreign Trade Zone, [Read more...]
Marinvent and Embry-Riddle expand R&D relationship
Marinvent Corp. and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University have expanded their long-standing relationship, and will now cooperate on the development, testing, and certification of new avionics concepts and technologies that will become part of the FAA's NextGen system.
Let silence reign
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport.
My local newspaper, The News Chief, ran a piece in its Reader's Rants and Raves section this week that read as follows; "Where are the clear-thinking Winter Haven leaders who are looking out for the everyday residents? We are saddled with an enormous airport – a white elephant that serves not even the pilots…"
Now the News Chief is owned by the New York Times Co., which means that a national audience could be exposed to this sentiment. Then again, the News Chief is available online, as most newspapers are these days. You can read the piece yourself on their opinion page if you'd like. So can anyone else. And what do I propose we, the aviation friendly public, do to correct this skewed perspective in the public mind? Nothing. I suggest we do nothing at all.
Let me explain. [Read more...]
Coming clean in the TSA era
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport.
The conversation turned to the TSA at my morning coffee gathering today. Pretty much everyone at the table flies for business or pleasure, at least occasionally. So it is no wonder that scattered amongst the chatter about local, state, and federal government shenanigans, the recently implemented grope-fest going on at airports all across the United States should come up.
Opinions differed as to how each person felt about the latest security measures. Eventually the focus shifted to me, the pilot in the group. Which caused me to admit publicly what I seldom speak of. The truth is this: I don't fly commercial. Not ever. Not for any reason. I just don't. [Read more...]
Building a winning team
Jamie Beckett is a CFI and A&P mechanic who stepped into the political arena in an effort to promote and protect GA at his local airport.
Powerful allies can pop up out of the blue, if you're open to recognizing the opportunity. Since my basic rules of advocacy lean in the direction of the more the merrier, I am always on the lookout for either new converts, or old stalwarts, who are willing to join the campaign to make general aviation more readily accepted, and better understood.
Persistence pays off
Like so many GA airports, mine faced a problem that was brought into sharp focus by the recent capture in Santa Barbara of those two wily desperados, John and Martha King. If nothing else the incident made it clear that emergency response workers (including police, fire and EMT crews) do not necessarily have a clear view of how aviation works on a day-to-day basis. Certainly the differences between VFR and IFR operations were not well understood on the law enforcement side of the equation.
One thing leads to another, and another…
With Oshkosh in full swing, the eyes of the aviation minded are on Wisconsin. But here in central Florida there is one city commissioner who has just become a major fan of aviation, thanks to a husband and wife who restored a Stearman and shared the excitement with him. I love it when the fever spreads.
It was only a few weeks ago that I wrote about Elizabeth Amundsen, a CFI and IA who was busily restoring a Stearman to its former glory along with her husband, Jonathan. That story may have been the impetus for the local newspaper here in Winter Haven to run a story about the same couple as they prepared to get the last few details completed in preparation for their departure for AirVenture 2010.
That newspaper story gave our new interim airport manager an idea. It stood to reason, she thought, that if one couple was headed off to Oshkosh for the big wing-ding, maybe others from our field were making the trek, too. What if the city's staff and commissioners showed up at the airport to provide an official send-off? That would be great!
Building a more aviation friendly future
Success is an elusive goal. In order to be truly successful you have to first define what success is. It's only with that definition in hand that you can establish a plan to achieve the goal. Jumping to Step 3 without first taking Step 1, and Step 2, is a sure path to failure. Unfortunately, failure on those terms has been an unwritten policy for many municipalities when it comes to operating an airport.
Unlike a pickup truck, a book, or a chocolate milkshake, all of which are tangible, easily identifiable items, success is subjective. Each of us has a slightly different definition of what success is, and understandably, we all have a somewhat different idea about how we might reach our goals. In order for us to move forward it is imperative that we have an open, honest discussion and make some significant decisions, however.
The first step is to define the playing field. Here in Winter Haven, Florida we've embraced that reality in an organized and deliberate fashion – finally. After literally decades of running our airport as an after-thought, the city commission has begun asking difficult questions about the way this publicly owned facility is being run, and is making demands that affect our methods in the future.
It started simply enough. Two candidates for the city commission (myself included) ran on a platform that included the airport as an integral part of the city's financial responsibility. My contention was that safety and customer satisfaction should be Job Number 1, and Job Number 1A, respectively. Anything less was insufficient. I was a strong proponent of the idea that the status quo had to change if we were going to turn this under-performing jewel of an airport into a facility that lives up to its potential. [Read more...]


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The Palo Alto Knights' Jr. Midgets football team has a history with its counterpart Oak Grove of San Jose. The teams have met in the NorCal Championship game in each of the past three seasons, with Palo Alto winning all three and advancing to the national playoffs.
Read the full story here Web Link posted Tuesday, October 16, 2012, 3:03 PM
on Oct 17, 2012 at 3:50 pm
I know what it takes to be a Waterboy, and the secret to the success of the Palo Alto Knights Junior Midgets is their Waterboy. I do not know his name, but you can tell that he respects QUALITY H2O!
on Nov 19, 2012 at 9:47 am
This was NOT the Division 1 Nor-Cal Championship game! The Championship game was yesterday vs. the Vacaville Bengals!!!!!! The Bengals won 32 to 24! You need to take this article down!
on Nov 19, 2012 at 10:05 am
All the best teams go top play Vacaville and then get beat?
That doesn't sound correct. There's lots of really great teams in the area, right here on the Peninsula.


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Plot Driven: Alan Cheuse's Top 5 Fiction Picks
This is always a promising season for readers. As leaves fall, good books pile up on your winter reading stack. But is my good your good? Most of the time when I read, I know almost immediately whether a book will represent only a pleasurable few days or something I'll want to return to again someday.
As a child, I knew what I liked to read: adventure, sea stories, space-travel tales, mysteries. And even as my tastes have broadened, my palate seems to have remained true. Although I love the wit and mood of introspective (and lyrically composed) fiction, I'm nearly always drawn to thoughtful, well-plotted books — everything from Ulysses to The Man Without Qualities, Cervantes to Murakami, and Faulkner and Hemingway and Woolf in between. Given all this, 2011's best books made me a happy reader.
Telling Stories: Hear 5 National Book Award Finalists
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Every year, on the night before the National Book Award winners are announced, the finalists are celebrated in an evening of readings from all the nominated books. NPR was there Tuesday night to record the proceedings.
In a little annual celebration of our own, we now offer for your listening pleasure the performances of the fiction finalists. The nominated works this year are five sober and splendid books that, curiously enough, seem to be in conversation with each other, each exploring how the life of the individual intersects with the life of the nation.
The Sojourn
by Andrew Krivak
Paperback, 191 pages
A mother flings her child into a freezing river — not to kill him, but to save him. It's this act, riddled with ambiguities, marked by great love and great violence, that opens and sets the tone of The Sojourn, a slim, brutal fiction debut from Andrew Krivak, author of The Long Retreat, a memoir of his years in the Jesuit order.
After a devastating tragedy, the Vinich family abandons its efforts to make a life in a small Colorado mining town and returns home to rural Austria-Hungary. When World War I breaks out, the Vinich boys enlist as sharpshooters in the kaiser's army. They endure a trek across the frozen Alps and, later, are captured by their enemy. Based on the author's own family history and encompassing divided familial and national loyalties, a fracturing Europe and an aborted American dream, The Sojourn is a harrowing read leavened by the assurance and beauty of Krivak's prose.
The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht
Paperback, 337 pages
The wunderkind 26-year-old Tea Obreht had one of the splashiest literary debuts of the year. The author, born in the former Yugoslavia and now based in New York, was named one of the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 writers, and her novel, The Tiger's Wife, garnered her the Orange Prize — much worldly success for a book whose charm is decidedly so otherworldly and, in its own way, so subversive.
When a young doctor named Natalia Stefanovic begins to investigate the death of her beloved grandfather, she finds clues in, of all things, his beloved, battered copy of The Jungle Book and in the folk stories he used to tell her. Obreht juxtaposes straightforward stories from the present — of Natalia inoculating war orphans — with fabulous contemporary fairy tales, giving us an alternative history of the Balkans told through myth, magic and allegory.
The Buddha In The Attic
by Julie Otsuka
Hardcover, 129 pages
Julie Otsuka's highly anticipated follow-up to When the Emperor Was Divine is a group portrait of Japanese "picture brides," young women who traveled by boat to California in the 1900s to marry men they had only corresponded with. It's a classic immigration story — struggles to master a new language and culture are followed by the heartbreak of children who reject old customs. But there's a twist: The women recount their story collectively and with all the power and fury of a Greek chorus ("This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry. And we would be wrong").
Trained formally as a painter, Otsuka brings precision and subtlety to her description of the picture brides' efforts to survive their marriages to strangers, the backbreaking labor in the fields or in the kitchens of their white employers — and the final indignity of internment during World War II.
Binocular Vision: New & Selected Stories
by Edith Pearlman
Paperback, 373 pages
Featuring 18 prize-winning stories and 13 new ones, this story collection is a capstone of a celebrated career. Edith Pearlman, recent winner of the PEN/Malamud Award, takes readers around the world and through history — czarist Russia, the London Blitz, present-day Manhattan — returning to relish her pet characters (the laconic New Englander, cultivated Europeans) and themes (motherhood, diaspora). Although Pearlman's work has consistently been lauded in the Best American Short Story anthologies, she has flown under the radar. These stories — her finest from three previous collections — are small miracles of observation and empathy, and the collection is both a fine introduction and a tribute to Pearlman's body of work.
Salvage The Bones
by Jesmyn Ward
Hardcover, 261 pages
Set in a fictional town in Mississippi 10 days before Hurricane Katrina struck, this fierce novel explores the responses of a poor black family on the verge of destruction. The coming of the storm gives the book an innate, propulsive pace, and the pitch-perfect collisions of character and fate endow it with the scope and impact of classical tragedy. The protagonist, 14-year-old Esch, is unforgettable, as canny and observant as any of Carson McCullers' heroines and blessed with a singular gift for making language all her own. Author Jesmyn Ward has been celebrated for her essays and one previous novel, Where the Line Bleeds, but Salvage the Bones is poised to be her big breakout book.
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Tea Obreht makes her sparkling debut with the folkloric Tiger's Wife, and another new author, Cara Hoffman, holds her own with the creepy but elegant So Much Pretty. A Jay-Z biography falls short, but Jonathan Coe's Maxwell Sim, a humorous novel about Internet loneliness, provides an acerbic glimpse of modern times.
The Tiger's Wife
by Tea Obreht
In The Tiger's Wife, Tea Obreht deftly weaves the past with the present, fantasy with reality and superstition with the cold hard facts of war and its aftermath. The book is set in a country presumed to be the former Yugoslavia and draws on the rich folk culture of that region. When the novel opens, Natalia, a young doctor, learns that her beloved grandfather has died alone in a remote village. As she tries to find out more about his death, she learns more about his life through two fables: the story of the deathless man whom her grandfather claims to have encountered several times during his life, and the story of the Tiger's Wife, a richly imagined tale of his encounter with an escaped tiger that haunted the village where he grew up. These stories are told against the backdrop of Natalia's own life. As Obreht follows her protagonist across borders that once did not exist into a country that was only recently enemy territory, she creates a vivid sense of the complexity of a region ravaged by civil war.
If you grew up reading fairy tales you will love this book. If you are drawn to stories that are steeped in the real world, you will also find much to love in The Tiger's Wife. The relationship between Natalia and her grandfather anchors a story that encompasses both rural village life in the years during World War II as well as life in an unnamed city before during and after the civil war. Obreht left Belgrade with her family at the age of 7 to escape that war. But her understanding of the culture of her homeland is deeply ingrained. Though only 25, she writes with extraordinary insight about an inbred world that thrives on distrust and superstition but can also be elevated by the power of myth and the strength that comes from stories handed down from one generation to the next. - Lynn Neary, NPR books and publishing correspondent
Hardcover, 352 pages; Random House; list price, $25; publication date, March 8
Empire State Of Mind
How Jay-Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office
By Zack O'Malley Greenburg
Empire State of Mind tells the story of rapper Jay-Z (aka Shawn Carter) and his rise from drug slinger to tape slinger and, later, to corporation runner. The best-selling musician, who has had more No. 1 records grace the Billboard charts than Elvis (second only to The Beatles), no longer makes all his money from rapping — and he hasn't for years. According to author Zack O' Malley Greenburg, he invests in brands and then boosts their sales by dropping their names into his music. He ensures that his partnerships are as profitable as they can possibly be with savvy product placement and cross-promotional deals. Carter is also very good at realizing when the brands he invests in or represents are at the top of the market and cashing out (see: Armandale Vodka, Roc-a-Wear). Greenburg even suggests that Jay-Z's marriage to Beyonce is something of a corporate merger, and that any children the couple might have would allow both of them to move into more markets and make even more money.
In the introduction to Empire State of Mind, Greenburg floats the idea that Jay-Z's business acumen is so sharp partly because when other people attempt to make money from his work (or even his persona), he insists on the biggest cut possible of their profit. Greenburg suggests that's why Jay would not consent to an interview for this book — he even says that's why Jay took his long-shelved autobiography, Decoded, off the shelf, rushed it to publication a couple months ahead of Greenburg's book and gave interviews all over the place to promote it (listen to our Fresh Air interview here). I felt the absence of Jay-Z in this book acutely. No matter how often Greenburg inserts lyrics from Jay's songs to reveal his innermost workings, Greenburg hasn't managed to peel back even the first layer of the rapper's motivations or intentions. Despite Greenburg's experience covering music and finance for Forbes since 2005, he simply cannot tell us what goes on behind closed doors or nondisclosure agreements. Relying on songs that Jay-Z wrote as entertainment, to sell, even in combination with interviews with people close to Jay-Z over the years, is a poor substitute for the man himself. It can't stand up to an autobiography. — Frannie Kelley, editor at NPR Music
Hardcover, 240 pages; Portfolio; list price, $25.95; publication date, March 17
The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim
By Jonathan Coe
It was only a matter of time before someone wrote a novel examining the psychological impacts of social media and Internet addiction on our lives, and that person (this month, anyway) is Jonathan Coe, a British novelist who deserves more attention on these shores. His latest, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, is a meditation on loneliness and disconnection as it relates to the Internet era. Maxwell Sim, his schlumpy, downtrodden narrator, has 70 friends on Facebook, but no real shoulder to cry on when his wife leaves him. He decides to take a trip offered by a friend to drive a Prius to a remote British isle (as part of a promotional gig for an organic toothbrush company), and along the way he falls in love with the voice coming through his GPS system. Feeling as lonely as ever, Sim decides to court his ex-wife online by adopting a fake Web persona, an act that — as you can probably guess — does not have the intended results. Maxwell Sim is funny, acerbic and, most of all, a novel that could not have been born at any other time than the present.
Author Jonathan Coe manages to portray a lonely man's misery and sense of worthlessness in a very funny short novel that never disappoints. Coe brilliantly tells the story in the voice of a man who declares himself to be a "non-writer" and says he's reluctant to narrate. He does so anyway, continually reminding us of his incompetence as a writer. Cute. But in lesser hands, this could prove a bit too cute. Coe's strength is his ability to make his character — and Sim's indifference to the very things the likely reader of this book might cherish — believable. I found myself completely satisfied by page after page of compelling observation and plot. The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim is an adventure story in a familiar landscape of freeways and fast-food restaurants, and Coe navigates this territory with a comic brilliance I fully embraced. - Art Silverman, senior producer, All Things Considered
Hardcover, 336 pages; Knopf; list price, $26.95; publication date, March 8
So Much Pretty
By Cara Hoffman
So Much Pretty is a haunting, gloomy novel that defies genre — it is one part crime thriller, one part ambitious novel, one part prose poem. Hoffman's debut tells the tale of a series of horrific events that take place in Haeden, a small town in upstate New York, drawing on multiple perspectives to glimpse all sides of the same story. Two girls go missing in Haeden — first, waitress Wendy White. Recent-transplant journalist Stacy Flynn — who wants to get a big scoop and get out of town — decides to cover the White case with a controversial angle, using the girl's murder as a chance to ask big questions about assault, women, blame and deceit in a small town. Fifteen-year-old Alice Piper, a local brainiac and the daughter of Gene and Claire (who narrate much of the novel), reads Flynn's story and decides to do some probing of her own into the White case, connecting several dots and nearly discovering the killer — until she too goes missing. So Much Pretty raises questions about denial, violence against women and when a citizen should speak up, even if it puts another at risk.
I am not the kind of reader that goes in for gimmicks or noticeable literary devices — I also don't tend to read anything that could find its way into the "thriller" section of the bookstore. I should have picked up So Much Pretty and put it right back down again. But I didn't! I stayed up all night reading it, and then the next day, I found myself so sucked into Hoffman's world that I forgot to eat lunch. Sleep and nourishment aside, I don't regret taking a chance on it — I am already anticipating Hoffman's next book so I can do it all over again. Criticisms first: Hoffman does employ a kind of debut novelist's gimmick here. She writes each chapter from a different point of view, giving the book a "Greek chorus" feel (another sign of a first writer: She uses invented court documents and letters to fill in plot holes in her characters' knowledge) — but I didn't mind it after a while and found myself happy to hear several voices take on what in the voice of only one observer may have felt like an insurmountable tragedy. So Much Pretty is certainly a thriller (it made me double check my door locks), but it is more challenging than that would imply; Hoffman uses terrifying events to scratch at some darker issues beneath the surface, and like any promising novelist, she does so with more showing than telling. She points out the ways in which small-town communities rally around their own after a crime, and often let the truth (and in this case, women's rights) fall to the wayside. As the young Alice writes in a letter before her disappearance, "I think I have fallen through the hole in all the logic in the entire world and I can see now that nothing holds up and I am going to keep falling." This is, in essence, what reading So Much Pretty feels like. - Rachel Syme, books editor, NPR
Hardcover, 304 pages; Simon & Schuster; list price, $25; publication date, March 15
Magical Realism Meets Big Cats In 'The Tiger's Wife'
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In The White Album, Joan Didion writes that "we tell ourselves stories in order to live." Though many of today's stories may be limited to 140 character tweets, Tea Obreht, in her novel, The Tiger's Wife, shows how shared mythology (where history meets speculation) is essential, particularly in times of war and loss.
The Tiger's Wife takes place in an unnamed Balkan country — closest in character to the former Yugoslavia, where Obreht was born. Natalia, a young medical student, is on her way to an orphanage in enemy territory when she learns that her beloved grandfather has died. Though his wife had no idea he was sick, Natalia was his confidant — not only was she aware of his cancer; she was privy to his many incredible adventures, the two most fantastic being the stories of the Deathless Man and the Tiger's Wife.
These myths are fresh on Natalia's mind in the village of the orphanage, where superstitions take precedent over medical science. A family of gypsies suffering from a mysterious illness digs away in a vineyard, looking for the bones of a long-lost cousin who was supposedly buried there, albeit haphazardly, in a past war. One family member explains that his spirit, or mora, "doesn't like it here, and he's making us sick. When we find him we'll be on our way." Their insistence gets Natalia thinking about her grandfather. It turns out he died alone in a clinic nearby in Galina — the town where he grew up. As Natalia travels there to collect his belongings, she realizes it was his search for the Deathless Man that brought him back to his birthplace.
Galina's history is also intertwined with the tale of the mythical Tiger's Wife. In the spring of 1941, disturbed by continuous bombing, legend has it that a tiger escaped from the local zoo and came to call the woods near Galina home. Natalia's grandfather, then just a boy and a lover of The Jungle Book, found the tiger beautiful, but the other villagers, terrified, enlisted a slew of hunters to kill it. The tiger found another ally in the battered (and deaf-mute) wife of the butcher. When she became pregnant even after her husband's suspicious disappearance, the villagers took to calling her the Tiger's Wife, convinced she had made a pact with the devil.
The novel shifts back and forth, chapter by chapter, between the story of the tiger and the gypsies, with brief interludes back to Natalia's experience at the orphanage. This constant movement is difficult to adjust to at first, but any discomfort quickly wears off — Obreht has a knack for making these fantastical stories seem entirely plausible. She keeps the reader engaged not only with the Deathless Man's harrowing fate (doomed to roam the Earth for eternity), but the humor in it.
Man or myth, all of the characters in The Tiger's Wife are lovingly rendered. They could be the subject of their own novels — from the Deathless Man to the apothecary down the street. In fact, the only character in The Tiger's Wife we never really get to know is Natalia, who functions less as an active character than an interpreter of her grandfather's life.
The Tiger's Wife rests securely in the genre of magical realism, inciting comparisons to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and even Kafka. In terms of structure and pacing, Obreht still has a way to go — the conclusion of the novel comes at the reader too abruptly, leaving us startled. But her attention to detail in creating a believable world — in spite of its magical elements — is the work of a mature storyteller.
Natalia's conclusion at the end of the novel explains that the truth of these stories is less important than the symbolism they provide. She wonders: "If the situation had been different, if the people of Galina had been more aware of their own ephemeral isolation, more aware that it was only a matter of time before war tightened around them — their regard for the Tiger and his wife might have been more cursory. Isn't it strange, they might have said, here is a kind of love story, and then moved on to some other point of gossip." Similarly, whether The Tiger's Wife is the product of Obreht's personal history or her active imagination, it doesn't matter. She has lifted an entire world steeped in tradition and superstition and placed it securely on the page, leaving no detail unwritten — quite the accomplishment considering The Tiger's Wife is her debut.
Jessica Ferri is a writer living in Brooklyn. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker's Book Bench, The Economist, The Daily Beast, Bookslut, Time Out New York, Bookforum and more. She is currently at work on her first book, on women and horror movies.


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2. Patch the critical vulnerabilities under active attack
Microsoft could selectively patch only the critical bugs that are being exploited by hackers. Presumably, that would be a subset of the complete XP patch collection assembled each month.
Some analysts have picked this option as a possibility. Last December, Michael Cherry of Directions on Microsoft posed just such a situation.
"Suppose ... a security problem with XP suddenly causes massive problems on the Internet, such as a massive [denial-of-service] problem?" asked Cherry at the time. "It is not just harming Windows XP users, it is bringing the entire Internet to its knees. At this time there are still significant numbers of Windows XP in use, and the problem is definitely due to a problem in Windows XP. In this scenario, I believe Microsoft would have to do the right thing and issue a fix ... without regard to where it is in the support lifecycle."
3. Charge users for XP patches
Although Microsoft would much rather book revenue from the sale of a newer OS, it may realize that some will refuse to upgrade, and try to make money rather than give away fixes.
It's unlikely that Microsoft would be able to charge $200 annually for post-retirement patches, as it does with Custom Support customers, but it may be able to get away with $50 a year for individuals and small businesses, perhaps with a maximum machine cap at, say, five PCs per customer.
Traditionally, Microsoft's not charged for support, but it could cast this as a special situation caused by the longevity of XP, which was due to the delay of Vista and secondarily, that OS's subsequent flop. In late 2007, when Microsoft extended XP availability to OEMs by several months, it cited Vista's delayed launch for the unusual move. (It added another extension in 2008 that kept XP alive on new "netbook" PCs, the then-popular class of cheap laptops, until mid-2010.)
And Microsoft has talked up a transformation to a "devices-and-services" company; a pay-for-support plan would mesh nicely with the latter half of that strategy.
4. Heavily discount Windows 7 or Windows 8.1 to XP users
For several months late last year and through January 2013, Microsoft sold Windows 8 Pro upgrades for $40: It has not revived the cheaper prices since.
Microsoft might try another discount to nudge XP users off the creaky OS, pitching them either Windows 8.1, the update slated for a mid-October debut, or less likely, the option of moving from XP to Windows 7.
The latter would violate Microsoft's standing policy of shutting down retail sales of the preceding edition a year after the launch of a successor, but it might be worthwhile to backpedal to squeeze some money out of the XP situation without facing the backlash when customers complain that they're being pushed to adopt the radically-changed Windows 8.1.
Some revenue, in other words, would be better than no revenue, even if Microsoft had to eat crow and offer Windows 7 as an option.


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I've had my 135L for 4 years, love it. Probably never sell it. However, color rendition isn't necessarily its strongest asset. It's really just part of the whole package that makes it such a great lens. The color balance itself is a tad cooler than I like, and sometimes too green, so I compensate with some magenta bias in-camera. In my opinion, bokeh smoothness is its strongest asset. Sharpness, and both global and micro-contrast, are all a close second. I will find it hard to believe any current or future lenses in the 135mm focal length, will be a better overall lens. An f/1.4 or faster zoom of some kind, could possibly be a better overall lens, but would be pricey and hard to design and build. I find that much of the wildlife I like to shoot, needs such fast aperture for the low light...that none exist.
I certainly would be interested in a replacement with IS (which would be huge for my event work), and I wouldn't mind if they could tighten up the CA a bit. It isn't as bad as my 85mm f/1.8, but still shows it on occasion. It's interesting what you say about color. It probably is a bit cool, which is ironic, since I'm partial to my Tamron 24-70VC which is probably on the warm side.
Canon color rendition overall, is generally considered to be "cool". I've read it many places...but certainly not all Canon lenses have a cool temperature. Interesting you mention CA. My copy really doesn't have any, or if it does, I haven't found it. One troubling thing I'm noticing with the 6D, is that with the 135...sometimes AF is slower than my 70-200 f/4...especially in servo mode. Hard to believe. Also seems to hunt a bit more in very low light, than the "slower aperture" f/4 zoom. Very odd.
As far as color goes, I have never seen a color rendition and spectrum, as good as the 200 f/2L that I rented. I want one...but again, would prefer something a bit shorter that is an even faster zoom, with identical optical performance. I think it could be done, but if Canon did it, it would cost $15k !!
The Zeiss 100mm f/2 I rented, might have the best color for fall foliage, or possibly even green foliage. However, it also had some weird contrast, where it didn't go "black" enough...yet the bright end seemed very contrasty. The red end of the color spectrum was really alive and "analogue" looking.


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San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Marco Scutaro and Brandon Belt hit RBI singles in the eighth inning Wednesday to lift the San Francisco Giants to a 4-3 win over the Colorado Rockies in the finale of a three-game series.
The Giants erased a 3-1 deficit with runs in the seventh and eighth innings and won two out of three to take the series.
Hunter Pence and Pablo Sandoval knocked in the other runs for San Francisco.
Guillermo Moscoso (2-2) threw two scoreless innings for the win and Santiago Casilla worked around a single in the ninth to earn his second save.
Yusmeiro Petit started for the Giants five days after taking a perfect game into the ninth inning and went 5 2/3 innings, giving up three runs on six hits and two walks. He struck out seven.
Nolan Arenado had two RBI for the Rockies, who dropped to 1-5 on a nine-game road trip.


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OIL CITY, PA-Clarion University's Industrial Technology program, offered through its Department of Applied Technology that is located at Clarion University-Venango Campus, was awarded national accreditation by the Association of Technology, Management, and Applied Engineering (ATMAE) on November 10, 2009, at the ATMAE Board of Accreditation hearing in Louisville, Kentucky. ATMAE is recognized as the premier professional association for the accreditation of industrial technology programs in colleges, universities, and technical institutes.
The organization is also responsible for the promotion of industrial technology in business, industry, education, and government, as well as certification of industrial technologists and recognition of their continued professional development.
ATMAE accreditation ensures that the university has met a series of national standards to provide industry with highly competent employees and assures the graduate of an ATMAE-accredited program that they are receiving a marketable degree through relevant curricula. Clarion University's Industrial Technology program's accreditation followed a rigorous and comprehensive evaluation process, which included a three-day onsite visit by an ATMAE team of external reviewers in April, 2009.
"The Department of Applied Technology was developed in 2003 in response to a critical need in the region for specialized technical training identified in the Bosworth Study," said Dr. Christopher M. Reber, executive dean of Venango Campus. "The report led the university to develop the innovative model that utilizes educational partnerships to provide opportunities to enhance and expand programs, extend outreach, share resources, and meet the changing needs of the Commonwealth and its workforce. It is very gratifying to see that the department has matured to the point that it has earned national recognition from experts in the field."
The Department of Applied Technology offers 21 concentrations of study in Industrial Technology, and concentrations in insurance and office technology under its Administration Technology program. Under a unique partnership model, students complete general education and business courses at Clarion University-Venango Campus and the technical component of the degree through licensed, certified, accredited and/or otherwise approved technical education providers. Graduates receive an Associate of Applied Science in Industrial Technology or Administration Technology degree from Clarion University. Over 100 students are currently enrolled in the Venango Campus' applied technology programs and graduate job placement exceeds 93%.
According to Dr. William Hallock, chair of the Department of Applied Technology, "We are very happy to have earned this accreditation and grateful for the ongoing support and guidance of our Industrial Technology Advisory Board. The future of the department is virtually limitless, with possible expansion into fields such as agile robotics, wind energy technology, and others. The design of the degree enables the university to respond to the needs of industry not only in developing curricula to meet educational needs, but in providing that education when and where they need it. We are currently offering three concentrations of the associate degree in industrial technology in the Ridgway/St. Marys area and are considering further expansion."
Clarion University-Venango Campus, located in Oil City, is the oldest regional campus in Pennsylvania's State System of Higher Education. The campus provides high-quality educational programs and personalized services to help students succeed. Students can begin any of Clarion University's 90+ bachelor's degrees at the Venango Campus, earn an associate degree, a bachelor's or master's degree in select areas, obtain a one-year certificate or participate in a variety of professional development and personal enrichment courses. The campus is home to Clarion University's School of Nursing and Allied Health, the Department of Applied Technology, and the Venango Department of Arts and Sciences. Clarion University-Venango Campus is committed to serving the needs of the community.


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My 9 yr old son has Autism so I decided to get him a puppy. This is Winchester! My son, Harley & Winchester are inseperatable. They are best friends. Since getting Winchester Harley has really come out of his shell. It's amazing how it works.
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Pet Supplies Plus in Bloomfield Hills will be open for 48 straight hours from 4:00 p.m. August 9th through 4:00 p.m. August 11th to help find homes for 200 cats and kittens.
The Felines come from the Oakland County Animal Control and Pet Adoption Center in Auburn Hills. Adoption counselors will be on hand all 48 hours. Adoption fee of $60 includes spay/neuter, health checks and vaccinations.
For more information on The Cat's Pajama's adoption marathon, click HERE.
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Mindfulness and Meditation Lunch
In this experiential workshop, you will learn mindfulness skills that can help with your adjustment and transition to graduate school. Whether you are a new or returning student, a smooth transition can set the stage for a successful academic year. Learn simple techniques that will help you adapt to change and enjoy positive experiences and emotions. Facilitated by Shefalika Gandhi, LCSW and Kathy Wagner, MPH. Location: Library, Campus Club. A healthy lunch will be served. The event is free. Sign-ups are strongly encouraged but a number of walk-ins will also be allowed. Sign up with Olivia at email@example.com. Sponsored by University Health Services and the Graduate School.
Location: Campus Club
Date/Time: 10/05/10 at 12:00 pm - 10/05/10 at 1:30 pm
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DescriptionHelp Landon become a happy, hefty sheep. Direct his leaps from cloud to cloud feeding him free food falling from the sky. But watch out, the more you feed him the heftier he gets and speedier he leaps. Your mission is to help him grow into a full, fluffy, freakin' huge sheep! Watch him grow before your eyes!
Challenge your mind's memory and reflexes and gain a fantastic rating based on your skill. In "Kindy School Level," Leapin' Sheep Landon provides a cute, fun and exciting approach to teach your KIDS how to count.
Note: This is a free "LITE" version. Full version will contain 9 extra levels which will cost $.99
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Police are warning the public of two robberies that occurred Saturday on the Near West Side.
A group of males approached the victims and took their property by force, according to an alert from Area Central detectives.
The robberies occurred at 3:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of West Monroe Street and at 7:10 p.m. in the 400 block of South Racine Avenue, the alert said.
The suspects are described as four black males, 16-20 and between 5-feet-4 to 6-feet-1, the alert said. One of the suspects had hazel eyes and dreadlocks.
Anyone with information should contact detectives at (312) 747-8380.
Police are investigating the murder of a homeless man who was beaten to death in an alley in Logan Square.
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