text: Major League Baseball suspended umpire Fieldin Culbreth two games Friday because he was in charge of the crew that allowed Astros manager Bo Porter to improperly switch relievers in the middle of an inning. Culbreth and the rest of his crew — Brian O'Nora, Bill Welke, and Adrian Johnson — were also fined an undisclosed amount, after MLB admitted its umps goofed for the second straight day. With two outs and the Astros ahead, 5-3, Thursday, Houston's Wesley Wright came in from the bullpen and threw several warm-up pitches. Porter then ran out to stop him and brought in another reliever, Hector Ambriz. Angels manager Mike Scioscia argued Wright was required to pitch to at least one batter, but the umpires let Ambriz stay in. The problem in Houston came a day after Angel Hernandez and his crew in Cleveland failed to reverse a clear-cut home run after a video review. MLB vice president Joe Torre said the umpires made an ''improper call.'' . . . The Rangers put catcher A.J. Pierzynski on the 15-day disabled list with a strained left oblique muscle . . . Lefthander Francisco Liriano will come off the disabled list and make his Pirates debut Saturday against the Mets . . . Nationals right fielder Jayson Werth is likely headed to the 15-day disabled list with a right hamstring strain


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Over the last few months, we have had a ton of discussion about the 49ers needs at the wide receiver position. The 49ers have addressed the need to a certain extent with the additions of Mario Manningham and Randy Moss. The team could do good work with the talent in place, but there is always room for improvement, particularly when it can involving adding youth to the depth chart.
As the 49ers consider their skill position needs, the Stanford Pro Day is going on with their host of top talent. Andrew Luck is the big name, but an intriguing name for the 49ers is tight end Coby Fleener. The 49ers have a host of tight end talent, but given the way athletic tight ends can be used in any offense, considering Fleener in the first round is not necessarily the worst idea in the world. Maybe it is not ideal, but if you are looking for receiver help with that pick, there are sufficient reasons to consider Fleener.
At the Pro Day, Fleener measured in at a fraction over 6'6 and 247 pounds. More importantly, this monster of a man ran a pair of sub-4.47 40s. I've seen a range of numbers between 4.41 and 4.46. Whatever it is in that range, those are some filthy numbers. Just for comparison's sake, Rob Gronkowski ran a 4.65 40-yard dash before the draft. The 40 isn't the end-all, be-all of measurements, but it is worthwhile to include in the discussion.
If you are of the mindset that the 49ers need a receiver early in the draft, Fleener could still qualify as a solid option for the offense. Adding a guy like that creates a lot of opportunities for motion before the snap and creating a variety of mismatches. If you line up in a heavy formation and then motion Fleener or Vernon Davis off the line, you could be looking at mismatches galore.
The team might be perfectly content with what a healthy Nate Byham in the third tight end role. However, if they are considering all of their options, adding Fleener into the mix is an interesting way to further open up the offense. Add in the fact that Delanie Walker is a free agent after 2012, and it might not be the worst idea in the world.

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text: this time the Oracle of Omaha came out and said "the prospects for significant inflation have increased, not only here but around the world." [...] The knee-jerk reaction is to buy gold or other "hard assets." But here again, I like to take my cues from the master, who prefers to fight inflation by investing in shares of companies with pricing power.


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A post-Sandy Storm recovery dinner will be held on Wednesday, November 14, from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. at North Babylon High School for all members of the community.
The hot buffet is hosted by the North Babylon High School Students for a Better World and Renaissance clubs in the building's yellow cafeteria
The dinner is a chance for the community to get to know one another and share their stories over dinner.
Donations of food being served are coming from the various schools, school administrators and staff, the Students for a Better World and Renaissance clubs and individuals who have generously donated.
All members of the North Babylon community are invited to attend, including those without children in the district.


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It was just more than four decades ago that Shirley Mabon walked into an orphanage in Western New York looking to lend a hand, not realizing at the time her life was about to change.
Mabon, who had just completed an English degree, was having trouble finding a job and decided to do some volunteering.
"They were starting a school and they asked if I would like to interview for a position. I did, and ended up working at the school for kids with emotional disabilities for two and a half years," Mabon said.
That training would be the catalyst for a career in special education, the last 37 years of which has been at
But when the school year comes to an end this June, Mabon will be saying goodbye to Wolftrap, along with the families she's helped there along the way.
"I have been working for 37 years in Fairfax and it really is time," she said. "I decided I needed to do some other things in life. I'm going to travel, do some gardening, visit family and see daylight a little more."
After leaving the orphanage in New York, Mabon earned her master's degree at the University of Virginia. After a fellowship in Charlotte, she came to Vienna, interviewed at Wolftrap, "and I never left," she said.
Mabon's "gentle and patient nature" has made an impact on countless children, those who have worked with the teacher say.
"She is intelligent, always on top of what is going to be the best learning aid for children and she is very patient," Wolftrap Elementary School Principal Anita Blain said. "Sometimes, working with children and being able to have that is really to me one the of the outstanding characteristics of any teacher."
Wolftrap parent Becky Nayak said Mabon has made all the difference for her second grade son Drew, who has been working with Mabon since he was in kindergarten.
"When he began at Wolftrap, he was not a confident child. His speech delays were affecting his confidence to speak up in class, and he was not meeting the bench mark for reading," Nayak said. "He began working with Ms. Mabon in a small group setting and slowly began to come out of his shell. Now he is a confident and chatty second grader who can't wait to get to school. He looks forward to his time with her each day and will miss her dearly."
In some cases, Mabon has helped entire families, or close to it: parent Kerry Farley, who has seen Mabon work with three of her children, said she feels as if the teacher's dedication and devotion has changed their lives.
"When my oldest child was in first grade, he was struggling quite a bit. He had above average intelligence and was extremely bright, but he just wasn't reading and writing up to his intelligence level," Farley said. "She worked with Matthew and gave him extra support and gave him a safe environment to learn."
Through their work, Mabon discovered the boy was severely dyslexic, Farley said; Mabon was instrumental in getting the Wilson Program, a multisensory reading curriculum, at the school to help. Farley's two other children, upon entering school, were each also diagnosed with dyslexia.
"She went out of her way to bring this to Wolftrap and he blossomed," Farley said. "The Wilson Program prevented my daughter from having to experience the trauma my son had. She has touched my whole family's life."
It's those kind of experiences Mabon says she'll miss the most, though she plans to continue to do some tutoring for kids who are having trouble reading.
"I'm going to miss the day-to-day contact with kids most," she said. "It's been very fun and enjoyable through the years, watching them grow and finding ways to help them with their issues. I love to see them flourish."
"She will be greatly missed," Blain said.


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Ira Sharp and his half brother, Charles Meehan, agree that Ira gave Charles $20 to buy a scratch-off ticket while inside of a Mechanicsburg bar in June of 2013.
Sharp said the two agreed to split any winnings, but Sharp said Meehan kept the money for himself.
He is now suing him for breach of their oral contract.
Meehan said to the jury that there was no reason for his brother to think that they had entered into a pact prior to him scratching the winning ticket.
"There is a saying the the bible that says, 'the love of money is the root of all evil'," said R. Mark Thomas, attorney to Ira Sharp, "We have to prove that there was an agreement; there was nothing in writing. It's his word against my clients word."
He is now suing him for breach of their oral contract.
The trial will continue on Wednesday.


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It happened on Christmas Eve after Tim Tebow and the Denver Broncos were blown out by the Buffalo Bills. Maher tweeted the following...
Wow, Jesus just f***ed Tim #Tebow bad! And on Xmas Eve! Somewhere in hell Satan is Tebowing, saying to Hitler "Hey, Buffalo's killing them"
OK, OK. Maher probably made 15 jokes before breakfast this morning that were more offensive than this. But this one was about Tebow. And well, people are sensitive when it comes to Tebow, on both sides of the aisle.
On the offensive-meter, this one probably falls somewhere between a Michael Jackson joke (pre-death) and a Indonesian Tsunami joke. Maybe the most offensive thing about the joke is that it just isn't that funny.
And to be fair, Maher did give Tebow a hashtag (#) and not Satan or Hitler. So there is that.


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Contests and giveaways have always been a great way to promote your product or website. With the advent of twitter, contests gained the power to flash over the internet in an instant heat wave. Recently (as of this writing recently means two hours ago) a company that I like, SparkFun Electronics, held a giveaway. They pledged to give away $100,000 worth of merchandise in $100 orders. Basically the first 1,000 customers would get $100 of stuff free.
Sparkfun skyrocketed to the top of google trends. They snagged a dozen links from blog posts and the traffic to their site must have been enormous because their servers slowed to a crawl. Yesterday Sparkfun didn't have a single @reply on twitter, today they have over 500. The promotion started at 9am and instantly people started complaining on twitter.
EdwardHeil: Trying to take advantage of #Sparkfun #freeday. Servers are jammed full with people trying to checkout.
The complaints started off as people just being disappointed that they couldn't get their order through. As people got angry they filled the Sparkfun irc chatroom which grew to 2500 people.
justintormey: Third attempt at confirming my SparkFun order… Still no luck.#sparkfun #freeday
An hour and half in and angry people started coming out of the woodwork.
rdmyldrmr @sparkfun Hey I promise I wont buy anything from you ever again. #sparkfail
With all this negative press and angry people, was it worth it for SparkFun? Absolutely. So far today they've occupied 4 out of the top 10 Google search terms for today. If that weren't enough, which I'd say it is, their twitter account has exploded! It's true, they have some people vowing never to order from them but I'm pretty sure these people never would have bought anything anyway. On the other hand, tens of thousands of people who had never heard of their website are all talking about them.
Should their servers have been better equipped to handle the load? Of course. But that's not the point. Just look at their mentions compared to people saying sparkfail in the graph above. They probably paid $70,000 ($100,000 minus a likely 30% margin) to take over twitter and Google for a day. Everyone is blogging about them and their relatively unknown site has been skyrocketed into internet legend. This was a brilliant marketing move. Good work guys.


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July 17, 2007
Thomasville -- Thomasville-native Harris English is in elite company, after winning the Georgia Amateur golf tournament.
"It's pretty cool," says English. "It's kind of hard to compare me to Bobby Jones right now, cause he won the US Amateur, US Open, British Amateur, and British Open all in the same year, and I got a long way to go before that."
At seventeen, English is the youngest player to win the tournament since golfing legend Bobby Jones won the inaugural event at just fourteen-years-old in 1916.
"It's real cool to be the youngest player since him," says English. "It's pretty neat. I've never had that before."
Winning the event has its perks for English.
"It gets me into pretty much any amateur tournament I want in the country," says English, "the Georgia Open is coming up in about a month, but I'm not sure if I'm playing in that. It kinda opens a lot of doors for me the next couple of years, and I'm really excited about that."
The seventeen-year old golfer will join the University of Georgia golf team in less than a month, and is looking for continued success down the road.
English says, "I definitely want to go pro after college, but I'm going to Georgia all four years. I'll probably have the best time of my life up there. I'm definitely doing that, and then see what happens after that."
Harris English is the first golfer from Thomasville to win the Georgia Amateur.
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PowerPlayer: Ray Rickman
Monday, August 01, 2011
All Rhode Island insiders know GoLocalProv's latest PowerPlayer. Ray Rickman is something of a renaissance man; a former State Rep., a successful business owner, a book reviewer, a former talk show host on PBS and an expert on all things Ocean State.
Rickman was kind enough to chat with GoLocalProv to tell us about what he's been up to recently.
1) You've see a little bit of everything in your time in Rhode Island. Tell us about proudest moment in the state?
It was election night and I stood on the stage in Mount Pleasant with the Kennedy family as Patrick Kennedy gave his first [State Representative] victory speech. I was the only State Rep. that supported him. It was a fabulous evening and the experience of a lifetime.
2) Rhode Island is still facing a major financial crisis. You served in the General Assembly. What would you have done differently this session if you were still in office?
I spent more time on legislative issues this year than ever.
• Same Sex Marriage: I met with a lot of people and told them they don't want to be on the wrong side of history.
• Nuclear Reactors: I tried real hard to get rid of nuclear reactions and it knocked me on my butt because no one cared.
• Central Falls: I'm not a lobbyist, I just talk to people. And I talked to probably 25 Reps and Senators and I showed them a map of Central Falls. The northern fourth of Central Falls is empty. We could make a 100 acre piece of land thee on the border of Massachusetts with an exit from I-95. The land would more valuable than the I-195 land [in Providence]. I think we could create a tax base in Central Falls within five years.
3) Take us through a day in your life.
I never know what's going to happen after I leave my house. I like to walk to work and have a staff meeting, where I complain to my staff. We have six clients and everything is determined by the client. I'm old fashioned so my clients are the kings and queens and if I don't love my clients, they aren't my clients. For each one, we try to raise money and do publicity.
I also try really hard to walk every day. My goal is to not use my care more than once a week.
4) You're a prominent leader in the African American community. Where is Rhode Island today when it comes to equal rights for all?
This is one of "glass half full or half empty" questions and the answer is the glass is half full and half empty. Racism is convoluted these days. I think it's kind of a weird time right now. It's a bad time for a lot of people. On the half full side, when I was a kid, you couldn't go into every other restaurant or live in every other neighborhood.
5) Tell us something nobody knows about you.
I love to play bocce and squash. I started bocce when I was 12 and I loved it because everyone was 70 except for me. And squash, I played it when I was young and have always loved it.
Quick Hitters
Role Model: Martin Luther King Jr.
Favorite Restaurant: Hemenway's, outside.
Favorite Beach: Horseneck Beach
Best Book You've Read This Year: Ladies and Gentlemen by Adam Ross
Advice For The Next Ray Rickman:
Now people need to be bigger than life. I think life is small, but it doesn't take much to be big. Something as small as washing dishes at a soup kitchen can make you feel feel big.
Learn Spanish.
Perfect your writing.
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Comment #1 by Jade ellis on 2011 08 01
Then he moved on to PERSONALLY DESTROY THE CANDIDACY OF ANTHONY GEMMA
2 accomplishments that GoLo failed to mention...just an oversight
Comment #2 by Buc Kner on 2011 08 01
"Buc Kner" once again reveals "his" indentured servitude to David Cicilline, who has vowed to to everything in his rapidly waning power to destroy Ray Rickman.
Acting as a man of conscience and vision, Mr. Rickman in 2010 did all in his power to expose David Cicilline for the liar and incompetent that he (Rickman) and now all of us know Cicilline to be is. Mr. Rickman's work for the Gemma for Congress campaign was honorable, effective, and in the highest traditions of the Democratic Party.
Mr. Gemma's loss is attributable to the corruption that lies at the core of David Cicilline, to the unethical and incompetent major media in Rhode Island, and yes, to a Democratic "leadership" that was totally in the tank for Cicilline.
Wait 'til next time.
"Buc Kner," a bought-and-paid-for David Cicilline hack, routinely displays personal cowardice by hiding behind a pseudonym. "His" patterns of anonymous slander and lies are mirror images of what "his" master David Cicilline is all about.
That Go Local Prov allows such a presence on its cyber pages is as distressing as it is inexplicable. Yet I for one encourage "Buc Kner" and all the rest of David Cicilline's echoes to continue their hideous public work.
With each published word, "Buc Kner" -- alias David Cicilline -- further opens the kimono to reveal the disease that is Cicilline.
As for Ray Rickman -- Rhode Island should be proud of and thankful for his honorable, enlightened public service. May it long continue.
Ray Rickamn -- honorable and enlightened. Sort of the Anti-Cicilline.
Comment #3 by Charles Drago on 2011 08 01
btw:#1 I had Gemma signs on my 2 properties but Ray Rickman ruined that candidate...RUINED..RUINED..
#2..thought you gave goLo an ultimatum??
we should be that lucky
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How to effectively complain at work - Filling a complaint at work effectively can be tricky and you don't want to be labelled as someone who is constantly in complain mode, bullied out of ever saying what you feel or just dealing with injustice. Be smart and professional and you should be able to pull it off.
Here is the full article as originally published on the Random Forest here: How to effectively complain at work.
How to effectively complain at work
Probably the biggest reason people don't file just claims in the work place is that they are in a culture that bullies people not to. This kind of environment is common and helps a boss establish a strong hold on the people they treat as 'beneath them' with minions who dish out the bullying and seriously terrible behaviors all around. It may only be subtle but it creates a terrible work environment worthy of complaint in itself.
Complainers often get labelled and mocked as if they 'can't take it' or are just a whinging child in the hard life but the fact is you go to work to earn a salary. You don't deserve to be trodden on, take crap that is outside of your duties or be stressed for no reason. Any complaint or misconduct is worthy of a genuine complaint and needs to be fixed and hopefully if you handle the situation correctly you can rise above the bullying and get some effective action against your issues.
So how do you do it?
It all starts with some organisation. You need to be clear on every step and follow official guidelines.
Start recording everything – Keep a diary of events related to the complaint. Write down dates, times and who is involved.
Find out your companies official procedure – All corporates will have a handbook with official procedures. Ask your boss for a copy if it's not accessible and if they refuse go to human resources and ask them, if they refuse find someone above or unrelated and ask them. At this stage you are not complaining so don't do so, just say you want to be clear on company policy regarding certain scenarios.
Don't rise to anything – You may be seen as plotting something by walking around professional and writing stuff down, don't rise to any taunts or people trying to pry into your business. Keep being professional and keep doing your job.
Schedule a meeting with your boss about the issues – Once you have enough evidence of everything ask to meet with your boss. If the boss is part of the issue then be careful here and I would audio record and take written notes of the meeting, of course inform the boss of the recording and put the recorder (phone, Dictaphone whatever) in plain sight.
Next up, follow the official procedures to go higher – You may find your issues actually being resolved by now but in many cases they may have gotten worse because of the meetings you have had with your boss. Keep recording incidents in your diary and building up a case file and then follow official procedures to climb further up the chain. By now you will have a good solid case and the company should be in a position to try to deal with your concerns. You may keep finding yourself having to go higher and higher until you are above the terrible culture that caused your complaints in the first place but it will give you purpose at work. Just don't let it consume you and keep on doing your job as well as you can.
Good luck, don't give up or shut up and fight for your right to a stress free comfortable work life.
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Former NYC Ballet Colleagues to Reunite for COPPELIA at Scarsdale Ballet Studio, 3/29-30
Scarsdale Ballet Studio, Westchester's premier destination for classical and contemporary ballet training presents Coppélia on March 29 and 30 at the Dance Lab at SUNY Purchase College.
In its 11th season of Concertdance, a conservatory type performance series, 35 students of the Scarsdale Ballet Studio, under the direction of Diana White, have been in the studio for the past five months to stage one of the greatest comic ballets of the 19th century.
Coppélia will be the first full length ballet to be presented since the school opened its doors in 1992. This ballet not only offers great opportunity to aspiring dancers to perform an abundance of solo roles and explore eccentric characterizations and work, but will also grant dancers the opportunity to perform with former New York City Ballet Principal dancer Robert LaFosse as Dr. Coppelius, who will also reprise this same role later this month with New York City Ballet at the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center. White and LaFosse, who danced alongside one another for many years at New York City Ballet, coach students to maintain the authenticity of the story while staying true to its history, all while exchanging fond memories of their times as dancers in this same ballet during their own professional performing careers.
Based on a story by E.T Hoffman, this tale presents a budding romance between Swanilda and Frantz, and the mischievous workings of their neighbor Dr. Coppelius. A favorite role of LaFosse's, he will play a mad inventor who has taken to creating life like dolls, one of which becomes the object of Frantz's infatuation. With the original Swanilda cast in 1870 as a young and promising 16 year old ballerina, White and LaFosse have honed in on this innocence and restore its original intent by casting Caroline Rotante and Kellie Allen, both young students of the school, aged 16 and 15.
"Both young women are technically accomplished dancers who also have that 'special something' to carry a three-act ballet in the main role," says White. "Also, they have the professional attitude, commitment, and maturity that made me trust them to work with Mr. La Fosse. It's so wonderful for me to be back in the studio with one of my former partners, and have my own students working with him as if they were professional dancers."
"I know I am growing technically as a dancer and I am learning a great deal about artistry, " remarks Rotante."It has been a great pleasure and honor to dance with Robert La Fosse and I am looking forward to our performance."
Coppélia will be performed on Saturday, March 29th at 6:30pm and Sunday, March 30th at 1:30pm at the Dance Lab at SUNY Purchase, located at 735 Anderson Hill Road in Purchase, New York. Tickets are $25 for adults, $20 for children under the age of 12 and can be purchased in person at the Scarsdale Ballet Studio, located at 696R White Plains Road in Scarsdale or by calling 914-725-8754.
ROBERT LA FOSSE was born in Beaumont, Texas, and received his ballet training at the Marsha Woody Academy of Dance. He continued his studies in New York with David Howard at Harkness House and Stanley Williams at The School of American Ballet. He joined American Ballet Theatre in 1977, where he danced as a Principal Dancer for nine years. In 1986, he was invited by Jerome Robbins to joined New York City Ballet as a Principal Dancer. Throughout his career, he has danced leading roles in many full-length ballets and originated roles in works by Jerome Robbins, Twyla Tharp, Lynne Taylor-Corbett and Peter Martins. In addition to his work in classical ballet, Mr. La Fosse has also starred in Broadway productions of Bob Fosse's DANCIN' and JEROME ROBBINS' BROADWAY, for which he received a Tony Award nomination for Best Actor. Mr. LaFosse is currently on the faculty of the Dance Department at Barnard in New York City.
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Many cultures around the world have their own versions of this delicious bite-size cookie. They are sometimes called Mexican wedding cookies, Russian tea cakes, or butterballs. I saw these cookies in a 50+ Better Homes and Garden cookbook. Whatever their name, they are truly delicious and very easy to make!
1 1/2 cups butter, room temperature
3/4 cup powdered sugar
4 1/2 teaspoons pure vanilla or almond extract
1 teaspoon freshly grated lemon or orange zest, optional
3 cups all-purpose flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cups finely chopped toasted pecans, almonds, or walnuts
Extra powdered sugar, for rolling finished cookies in
Makes approximately 4-6 dozen wedding cookies, depending on the size of the cookie. Store in airtight container up to one week.
Note: Instead of shaping them into balls, they can be flattened out or even shaped into crescents. Also you can substitute lemon, maple, or orange extract for pure vanilla extract. I use just 2 teaspoons of lemon or orange extract along with the lemon or orange zest.
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Undergraduate students are often asked to supply a recommendation letter when applying to a business program. Many students automatically think of academic recommendations when they come across this part of the application, but there are other types of recommendation letters that can make an impact on business school admissions committees. Sometimes the best letters offer insight into the student's personality.
The sample recommendation letter shown below has been reprinted (with permission) from EssayEdge.com. Named "the world's premier application essay editing service" by The New York Times Learning Network and "one of the best essay services on the Internet" by The Washington Post, EssayEdge has helped more applicants write successful personal statements than any other company in the world.
Though EssayEdge did not write or edit this sample recommendation letter, it is a good example of how a letter should be formatted. It also shows how a letter writer can focus on something besides academics when recommending a student to a college program.
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Carrie Youstis is an exceptional young lady. Most everyone knows of her intellectual acumen, lofty ambitions, dancing abilities, and kindness; indeed, she is a sort of legend in her small hometown of Southwest Plainsfield, NJ, but few know of the struggle Carrie endured during her middle years of high school. Carrie had a close friend, Kaya, whom she had met at summer camp. She and Kaya had grown very close during the first two years of high school.
During the middle of tenth grade, Carrie received news that Kaya was suffering from a rare degenerative disease. It was terminal, Carrie was told but did not cry. She did not even take a moment to worry about how this might affect her. She simply called me, her principal, and asked if she could miss a few days of school, explaining to me the grave situation. I told her that, of course, she may miss school, provided that she make up her work.
Then, before she hung up, Carrie asked me to pray on her friend's behalf, and said, " I can go on without Kaya -- I have many friends and I will mourn but I have a wonderful life. Kaya is suffering so much, though, and when it' s all over, that will be it for her. And she is her mother' s only child. How will she go on?" I was so impressed that Carrie was thinking about everyone affected except herself: Kaya, Kaya' s mother, but not Carrie Youstis. Such maturity. Carrie knew she had a wonderful life, a belief in God, but she felt for others so profoundly.
Carrie visited Kaya often for several months, always bringing her cards and flowers and of course, good cheer. Kaya finally passed away that Spring, and Carrie made sure to visit the mother every week that following summer.
You will read of Carrie's grades and scores and sports abilities, of her awards and accolades; I wanted to relate this episode, as it characterizes what this remarkable young lady is really all about. As she graduates high school, I and all of Southwest Plainsfield are so sad to see her go, but realize that she is destined to effect great things far beyond the narrow confines of a small town in New Jersey.
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Tethered fleximags as artificial cilia
Babataheri, Avin, Roper, Marcus, Fermigier, Marc and Du Roure, Olivia. (2011) Tethered fleximags as artificial cilia. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol.678 . pp. 5-13. ISSN 0022-1120
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Flexible superparamagnetic filaments ('fleximags') are very slender elastic filaments, which can be driven by distributed magnetic torques to mimic closely the behaviour of biological flagella. Previously, fleximags have been used as a basis for artificial micro-swimmers capable of transporting small cargos Dreyfus et al. (Nature, vol. 437, 2005, p. 862). Here, we demonstrate how these filaments can be anchored to a wall to make carpets of artificial micro-magnetic cilia with tunable densities. We analyse the dynamics of an artificial cilium under both planar and three-dimensional beating patterns. We show that the dynamics are controlled by a single characteristic length scale varying with the inverse square root of the driving frequency, providing a mechanism to break the fore and aft symmetry and to generate net fluxes and forces. However, we show that an effective geometrical reciprocity in the filament dynamics creates intrinsic limitations upon the ability of the artificial flagellum to pump fluid when driven in two dimensions.
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…and isn't that a revolting development?
Few things infuriate me more than when unethical conduct by an individual or organization force me to side with the supporters of a position or a cause that I oppose myself. Last year, to cite the most egregious example, I found myself in the same camp with the National Rifle Association, Ted Nugent and worse when anti-gun zealots, uncritically backed by the news media, used dishonest, misleading, irrational and emotional appeals to try to pass more stringent gun ownership regulations on the wave of national horror over the Sandy Hook shooting. Indeed, the more fake statistics and shameless slippery slope arguments ("If we can save the life of only one child…") that were aimed at guns and law-abiding gun owners, the more I saw the wisdom of Second Amendment absolutism.
Thanks to the exorbitant and irresponsible rhetoric by the likes of Diane Feinstein, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, Piers Morgan, Jim Carrey and others—Don't tell ME what I "need" to protect my family and home; there's a possible serial killer on the loose in my Alexandria, Virginia neighborhood at this very moment who has been randomly knocking on doors and shooting people—I no longer trust the government to make rational decisions that affect my options as a potential gun owner. Good work, guys. Before you started using kids as props, lying about the number of shootings, and sounding for all the world like a nation trying to make sure only the government could own legal weapons, I was a supporter of more stringent firearms regulations. You lost me. I am officially convinced that we may need guns to protect ourselves against power-abusing people like you.
Now members of Congress are trying to strong-arm Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder into changing the name of his football team, using the power of the government to pressure him, through the National Football League, into bending to their will on a matter that is absolutely none of their business. Great. Now I have to stand shoulder to shoulder with Snyder, whom we in the Washington area know as a spoiled rich kid, a bully, an egomaniac and a meddling fool who has progressively reduced the region's beloved football team to tragic joke.
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Pats to franchise tag Mankins.
The New England Patriots intend to use the franchise tag to retain Pro Bowl offensive guard Logan Mankins, according to the Boston Herald. Mankins has said previously that he doesn't expect to be back and doesn't want to be franchised. However, it looks like he will be back in New England and assigned the franchise tag. He'll be well-compensated, though. Paid the average of the top five guard salaries as a franchise player, Mankins could make about $10.51 million next season.


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Welcome to the University of Chicago Library's research guide for religion. In this guide I have gathered together many of the tools needed for research in religious studies. If you have suggestions or comments, please let me know.
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Maria Williams, Laurence Warden rejoin Midwest-CBK
February 26, 2013-- Kids Today,
Home décor and gifts manufacturer Midwest-CBK had added two former employees to its senior sales team. Laurence Warden has been named vice president of sales and Maria Williams has been named senior director of sales.
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Warden will oversee the independent and national sales teams and focus on growing sales. He previously held sales leadership roles with Midwest-CBK in both his native England and the U.S. Warden was most recently the director of sales for Kaemingk Associates.
"I had the privilege of working with Laurence when we served together at Midwest-CBK in the 1990s, and welcome his tremendous history of success, energy and breadth of experience back to the company and our customers," said Dick Duff, Midwest-CBK general manager. "His genuine enthusiasm combined with outstanding sales and leadership will serve our customers, employees and the industry well."
In her new role, Williams will be responsible for the day-to-day sales activity working with independent retailers and will manage the field sales team, which includes regional sales managers and account managers. Williams was previously a regional sales manager at Midwest-CBK. Most recently, she was national sales director at Blue Mountain Art, where she worked with Duff.
"Maria is an outstanding leader with a broad background of experience in our industry, and she's the perfect fit for our customers and sales team," Duff said. "I've worked with Maria in two previous roles including when we first served together at Midwest-CBK, and I'm looking forward to working together again and bringing her experience, insight and down-to-earth approach to our talented team and customers."
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Natural Quit Smoking Aid Nicotame is Released by Defiant Innovations, LLC
The Revolutionary New Product Helps to Alleviate Nicotine Withdrawals through a Combination of Vitamins, Minerals and Amino Acids
NORFOLK, Va., July 11, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Defiant Innovations, LLC, a supplement company that offers top-notch products that provide solutions to common problems, is announcing the launch of a natural quit smoking aid called Nicotame. The product takes a unique approach to helping people quit smoking by curbing nicotine cravings.
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I created these lists as much to keep track of my collection for myself as to give others a peek behind the curtain into what I own. The majority of the DVDs contained in these lists I bought because I know I'll want to revisit them more than once. As for the rest, some of them I picked up on the cheap (less than $10) in order to watch for the first time, some were bought for me, some are mine but not "mine".
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Ah Netflix, my primary dealer of films. Now if only I could find the time to watch most of these. Sigh. And if only I'd stop adding to my queues every time I start to chip away at the films contained within. Double-sigh.
At this time I'm only signed up for Instant Watch, hence the title of my DVD queue list. But since Netflix apparently keeps records of my DVD queue, there's always a chance I could switch over at some point.
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Augustana Women's Recap
Augustana women's basketball opened the 2012-13 season with a convincing 104-57 exhibition victory over the University of Minnesota Morris on Monday night in Sioux Falls. Alex Feeney led the Vikings with a double-double scoring 14 points and grabbing 10 rebounds.
Faith Tinklenberg and Sophie Kenney each added 13 points for the Vikings while Cami Koehn added 12 on 4 of 7 shooting and Lydia Nelson picked up 11 points.
Augustana shot 44 percent from the field and was 12 of 25 (48 percent) from 3-point range. Feeney was a perfect 4 of 4 from 3-point range in the game.
The Vikings controlled the boards finishing with 56 rebounds while the Cougars grabbed just 33 for the game. Augustana used its size down low finishing the game with 48 points in the paint.
Emily Mehr led Minnesota Morris with 23 points on 10 of 23 shooting, including 3 of 8 from 3-point range. Kendra Wycoff added nine points for the Cougars. Minnesota Morris was hurt by turnovers, committing 23 in the game. Augustana was able to score 25 points off UMM turnovers.
Augustana shot 48 percent from the field in the first half and took a 32-point lead into the locker room. The Vikings opened up the game missing on four straight shots but went on a 29-7 run in the first nine minutes of the half to take a commanding lead.
Augustana was 5 of 11 from 3-point range in the first half led by Feeney who was a perfect 4 for 4 from 3-point range. The senior forward led the Vikings with 14 points and six rebounds in the half. Tinklenberg added nine points and five boards in the first stanza.
Augustana scored 16 points off of turnovers in the first half after the Vikings forced Minnesota Morris into 13 turnovers. The Cougars shot 32 percent from the field in the first half on 9 of 28 shooting, including 1 of 11 from 3-point range.
The Vikings picked up right where they left off at the break going on an 11-6 run in the first three minutes of the second half.
Augustana added to its lead at the 13 minute mark going on a 12-0 run to take a 71-38 lead.
Koehn kept the Vikings going in the second half scoring all 12 of her points. She finished 4 of 6 from the field, knocking down three shots from 3-point range. Kenney scored nine of her 13 points in the second half going 2 for 2 from 3-point range. Kenney added five assists in 21 minutes on the court.
Augustana Men's Recap
Augustana fought off second-half flurry by Minnesota Morris and came away with a 70-63 exhibition victory on Monday night in Sioux Falls. Cameron McCaffrey led the Vikings with 18 points on 5 of 18 shooting.
Augustana shot 54 percent as a team in the game, but was just 4 of 14 from 3-point range. A lot of young faces saw their first action for the blue and gold on Monday with six true freshmen hitting the floor for the first time at Augustana. Daniel Jansen finished the game with seven points and five rebounds while Casey Schilling and Zach Huisken each added six points.
Evan Pierce was 4 of 4 from the floor and 1 of 1 from the free throw line to finish with nine points.
RJ Dean and Steve Birman led the Cougars offensively and started off the second half on fire leading the surge for Minnesota Morris. Dean finished with 14 points while Birman accounted for 15, including three from 3-point range.
Augustana led on the boards and finished with 36 rebounds to just 25 for the Cougars. Both teams turned the ball over 18 times and scored 23 points off turnovers.
Minnesota Morris jumped out to an early lead, starting off the first five minutes of the game on a 15-9 run behind three buckets from 3-point range. Augustana responded with a 12-0 run n the next three minutes to take its first lead f the game at 21-15.
From that point on the Vikings never trailed to take an 11-point lead into the break. With a 21-17 lead, Augustana hit four consecutive field goals, including a 3-pointer by McCaffrey to take a 30-17 lead.
Augustana was lights out shooting in the first half connecting on 15 of 24 shots (62 percent) to take a 39-28 lead at halftime. McCaffrey led the Vikings in the half with eight points, including two 3-pointers. Jansen was strong in the paint finishing with five points and two rebounds.
The Vikings dominated the paint picking up 18 points and 14 rebounds, including 11 on the defensive side of the ball. Minnesota Morris turned the ball over 11 times in the first half leading to 16 points for the Vikings off turnovers. Dean led the Cougars in the first half with eight points. Birman and Foss each had five points for UMM.
Dean and Birman caught fire to start the second half leading the Cougars on a 14-0 run in the first three minutes of the second half to give Minnesota Morris a 42-39 lead. The Vikings answered going on a 15-7 run in the next eight minutes to take a 55-49 lead with 7:25 to play in the game.
Augustana used its size to its advantage to regain the lead scoring 12 of its 16 points on the run in the paint.
McCaffrey led the Vikings in the second half scoring 10 points making 4 of 6 shots from the free throw line. There were seven ties and seven lead changes in the game but the Vikings took over for good midway through the second half.
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As a colleague of mine said a couple of weeks ago: "if you don't publish it, it didn't happen". Scientific publications are the currency to advance a researcher's career. Looking for a new job? You better make sure your publication list is littered with first or second author papers in good (read: high impact factor) journals. Hoping to have your tenure track lead to tenure? Idem. Publish or perish.
Meanwhile, many bioinformaticians spend huge amounts of time developing software to make genetic or genomic research possible; research that just wouldn't happen if it was not for their custom-written tools, scripts and pipelines. Unfortunately, you often need the find function of your webbrowser or PDF reader to be able to pinpoint the lone bioinformatician in the author list. He's not the first or second author; he works in function of work by someone else.
Just like many others (see e.g. the alt-metrics manifesto), I feel quite strongly about the limitations of impact factors for judging a researcher's contribution to science. What about those papers that are published in "lower" journals but that are actually read more? What about blogs? What about your contributions on FriendFeed, seqanswers, quora, ...? How about all that software you wrote and that everyone can access on github? Don't you think these also have a teenie-weenie little value in the scientific discourse as well?
It will take time to change this skewed way of appreciating a researcher's work. We'll have to fight this from different angles, and subtly. We'll have to rethink what the term "publication" means, and how we can reference each other's work, including data that we made available in repositories and contributions to discussion forums. To start this process and give credit for the work of the computational scientist, BioMed Central launches a new journal today: Open Research Computation with Cameron Neylon at the helm as the editor-in-chief (and I'm grateful for having been asked to act as an editor). The aim of this journal is to provide a venue for programmers in research, who - as Cameron says it in his accompanying blog post - "either see themselves as software engineers or as researchers who code". The focus of the journal will be on making the tools available to the wider community of research programmers, with strict guidelines on code quality, code reusability and documentation.
I can only suggest you read Cameron's post and have a look at the www.openresearchcomputation.com website. The rest is up to you. Let's give the lone bioinformatician a venue to bring his work out in the public.


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The investigation for a Pine Belt teenager is still active 20 years after her disappearance.
Angela Freeman went missing on September 10, 1993. She was last seen at the Pizza Hut in Petal, and her car was later found near the Mahned Bridge in Perry County.
"It's been a long journey," says Angela's mother Deborah Freeman. "We still miss her. Like yesterday, you know, but it's been 20 years."
One of the investigating officers in this cold case is Captain Rusty Keyes with the University of Southern Mississippi Police Department.
"This is a very active case," says Keyes. "We know what Angela's activities were that night, and we're pretty confident on where we are in the case as far as the suspect as well."
Even with the developments of the case, Angela's family says that 20 years is too long to not know more.
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Following a letter from House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Rep. Bob Ney (R-OH) "announced Monday that he will resign his position as chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing and Community Opportunity. … Ney made no mention of whether he planned to remain in office."
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Well, it's that time of year again...
Barrett-Jackson is doing their thing in again in Scottsdale.
There have been a lot of great cars again this year. Lots of Mustangs, GTO's, SS's and some very special Corvette's.
But out of all of those, I saw one particular car that caught my eye...
2012 Galpin/SPX Charity Wide Body Mustang
This is a custom concept car built and sold for Charity to St. Jude's in Memphis, TN.
This is a different type of car than I usually like. Like I discussed here and here.
The modern cars are neat but they don't hold the same interest for me like the classic muscle cars do. This one though, is different.
As you can see, I am still very partial to Mustangs. And there is a nice Mustang Boss 302 Custom Fastback that I would love to have as well.
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Ann Catherine was born in Flamschen bei Coesfeld, Westphalia, Germany in 1774. Her family was poor but faith-filled. From a young age, Ann Catherine wanted to be a nun. Her father opposed her entry into the monastery. While a girl, Ann Catherine began to receive many spiritual gifts from God. When she became an adult, she sought entry into the religious life. Several communites would not accept her, but finally the Augustinian Canonesses at Agnetenberg received her into their
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Yesterday, we took a look at which teams might be the proverbial favorites in the NFC post-Free Agency. I think ya'll presented some good choices. After reading them, I, for one, am a bit ashamed that I forgot the Bears. I'm not necessarily sure where I would work them in, but I think they can be a good, maybe great, team next year.
Anyway, I've been thinking about the 49ers in relation to other NFC teams since then, and now I've worked myself up into a tizzy. I think the 49ers are in great shape for next year. In fact, I think they have a window, now, in which they can lay down some serious foundations for long term success. It's a great position to be in.
That said, I started thinking about what would happen to cause the 49ers to slip up next year. Maybe they still have a good season, but they don't achieve the same success as last year - or even close to it, for that matter. What would have to happen for that?
There are many good answers for this. That's the beauty of the modern NFL: the game is so volatile that anything can happen any given Sunday (which begs the existential question, is it a cliché if it's true...?). A major (or, God forbid, multiple) injury is the obvious reason. We also have a brutal schedule next season. But, and the title gives this away, but I think that last year might have been a touch lucky.
A little explanation after the jump.
I'm not trying to be a downer, and the achievements of last year's team were not inconsiderable. I had many a moment of "out-of-my-chair" excitement. We all did. I don't have to describe this for you. Presumably you all are Niner fans already; you know what I'm talking about (and if you don't, then go youtube the new Prometheus trailer and try to stay seated during the ending of that!).
But if I were to be forced to be Debbie Downer about last year, it's pretty easy to look at the turnovers. Alex Smith threw only five interceptions. Think about that a moment. I mean, this should be mind-blowing worthy. On the Christopher Nolan scale of mind blowing, which officially is measured on a sliding scale of "one" to "Memento" this is worth, at least, an Inception.
Likewise, the amount of turnovers the defense generated was astounding. And again, on a scale of "one" to "ten," how likely is that to happen again? If I'm being cynical, and for some reason this post just reeks of cynicism, then I would have to go with a "five." I mean, we have an elite defense - don't get me wrong. Fumbles just bounce funny, and next year they could all go against us. It could happen.
In regards to sustainability, what about special teams? If the NFC Championship taught us anything, it's that our special teams cannot devolve into Arnaz Battle territory. Kyle Williams used to be a Super Bowl contender, and then he took a football to the knee. Andy Lee may be a god amongst men, but he's only one god amongst men. How will the team handle the loss of Blake Costanzo? I know that special teamers are, like, the definition of replicable in the NFL. I only bring this up because so much of our success last year was predicated upon dominant special teams performances.
What about you guys? Are there other areas of potential unsustainability that are worth pointing out? If you had to be a Debbie Downer, what other possible problems can arise next year?
Look at me, from a post about how we are the favorites in the NFC to a post about how we will totally suck next year. Just don't know what to expect!