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The first round of voting took place on Saturday. It was the first time that Modell had qualified as one of the 125 names on the eligibility list and reached the final 15.
Modell, who was Jewish, died last Sept. 6.
He moved the Browns, which he purchased in 1961, to Baltimore in 1996, where they became the Ravens. Modell sold the team in 2003.
The Ravens are playing the 49ers on Sunday in the Super Bowl in New Orleans.
"Honestly, I'm kvelling over this game," David Modell, one of the late owner's two sons and a former president and CEO of the Ravens, told JTA last week. "I'm not praying for results, I'm praying for the strength and courage of this team, and the rest will take care of itself."
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As an acupuncturist Eugene Oregon, I always get asked the question " What made you want to be in this field?" The short answer is….the hard way. As a college athlete I endured excessive physical stress which resulted in several injuries. At the time, I thought my only option was surgery. Four years and multiple surgeries later, I thought there has to be a better way. As I was recovering from my fifth knee surgery a year after college graduation, I found my answer in an alternative health magazine. I read about a former college athlete, in my same position, who was now an acupuncturist. The article went on to explain her story and the benefits of acupuncture. I was sold! I made an appointment with my local acupuncturist in small town North Dakota and the rest is history.
I attended Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minneapolis, MN where I received a Masters in Acupuncture. While in school I had heard many amazing things about the great Northwest. I made the leap and settled in Eugene. I have grown to admire and love this community that has welcomed me and my practice with open arms.
Almost 10 years after first hearing of acupuncture, I am thankful to have found a profession that I love. At the same time I have found a way to help people facilitate their own healing and give them the knowledge to live a healthier life. It is through my education, life knowledge and passion that I was able to create Well Balanced, an environment dedicated to your health through acupuncture, nutrition and fitness.
In my free time you'll find me exploring our great state of Oregon! In the summer months I love to hike and swim with my dog, Mazi. This year I have taken up gardening, it's amazing to watch life grow. In the winter I try and find the sun on the mountains and I get up to the snow every chance I get. You'll either find me on my snowboard or cross-country skiing.
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After high school, I had no idea if I wanted to continue my education or work so I decided to do both and enroll in community college and work full time. Knowing that I wanted to work with athletes, I started the Fitness Technology program at Portland Community College and got a job at Gart Sports, which is now The Sports Authority.
After three years of off-and-on schooling, and six years of working at Gart Sports, I felt I needed a change in my life. I decided I wanted to continue my education and was accepted into the Human Physiology program at the University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon.
I really enjoyed my classes and my time there, and was focusing on a career in physical therapy and athletic training. However in the winter term of my last year at the U of O, I took a course called Complementary and Alternative Medicines and I was immediately fascinated with acupuncture and Chinese medicine. The following term I began looking into schools for Traditional Chinese Medicine and found the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine in my hometown of Portland Oregon. I applied to OCOM, and after graduating from the U of O with a BS in Human Physiology, found out that I was accepted into OCOM's Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine program.
My exposure to athletics and athletes has also given me exposure to injuries. As Western practices like surgeries and pharmaceuticals can surely help injured athletes, the recovery time with such therapeutics can be long and painful.
I believe that Eugene acupuncture and Chinese medicine can be integrated with western modalities, or stand on it's own to help decrease recovery time from injuries as well as increase performance levels of athletes, and prevent future injuries. Acupuncture and Chinese medicine is a relatively non-invasive and time proven modality that uses the body's own energies and immune system to keep the body in balance and can be a very effective medicine to athletes and weekend warriors.
My clinical experience at OCOM proved to me that acupuncture is a great medicine that can not only treat pain, but can also be effective for people suffering from insomnia, menopausal symptoms, digestive disorders, colds, flu, and allergies.


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Ibrahim, Mohamad Hakimi and Wan Daud, Wan Ramli and Ismail, Mohd Shihabuddin and Meor Talib, Meor Zainal (1997) Equilibrium Relative Humidity-Equilibrium Moisture Content Isotherms of Oil Palm Kernels. Pertanika Journal of Science & Technology, 5 (1). pp. 1-6. ISSN 0128-7680
Equilibrium relative humidity-equilibrium moisture content (ERH-EMC) or moisture isotherms of solids is important in the drying, solid mixing, packaging and storage of such material. ERH-EMC isotherms of oil palm kernels are determined by using a constant environmental chamber for several combination of air relative humidity (30-90%) and temperature (30-70°C). The isotherms are found to fit the Hasley and Henderson equations well.
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I applied online. The process took 2+ months – interviewed at Whitbread in September 2014.Interview Details
Good initial impressions - applied for the role in the summer. A follow-up email came around a month later apologising for the delay and that application was still being considered. This was unexpected and much appreciated.
First interview scheduled. HR communications were quite disorganised. This included providing details of the wrong address (which was corrected in time) and forwarding a chain of emails with details of at least one other candidate.
First interview 1:1 and relaxed - a very good and positive experience.
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Submitted the form in early February 2014, got an email in April inviting me to an online numerical and diagrammatic test. Compared with the Big 4 professional services firms and banks, the test was very very easy. Just to put things into perspective, I failed the numerical test for Deloitte but still got over 90% in both tests for Whitbread. However, I suspect that the deciding factor in hiring you is your CV and not how well you performed in the tests, as my more intelligent friend from the same uni applied but got rejected due to his lack of extra-curricular activities.
Found out I was successful 2 weeks later when HR called me and asked when I would be available for an AC (as most people would be having their June exams at uni). Found out the date 4 further weeks later via an email, which told me about the AC (no first interview for me, although I found out at the AC that other candidates had a first interview via telephone).
The AC process is as follows:
1. Arrive the day before at their Premier Inn hotel near their HQ in Luton. They provided overnight accommodation and breakfast (very generous of them and the candidates where also treated as if we were customers who have paid for the services). In the evening, there would be a drinks reception followed by a meal in the hotel restaurant to get to know the other candidates and the staff. Many high ranking people were in attendance as well as graduates who have just joined the firm. Great opportunity to find out more about their business operations and some trivial facts you may not know about. Make sure you know your CV inside out as ALL the staff seemed to know who I was and the things I said I had done on my CV (which was quite flattering as everyone took time to look over each candidate's background, so it seems like they are trying to find a long term employee who will be loyal to the firm and would fit in comfortably with the firm, rather than what most big city firms do: hire loads, give them the training they need and at the end, if the graduates don't like the firm, let them leave). A few had been working in the Big 4 and one had even been working at an investment bank, but because they didn't like working there, they chose to work for Whitbread so it seems like it treats its staff well.
2. AC started at 9pm. The day was organised by HR and the staff you met the night before will be assessing you.
3. Started with a presentation by the head of finance about Whitbread's past, present and future. Memorising this information won't really help you later on in the interview as it's mostly about yourself.
Then we were split into 2 groups (there were about 14-16 candidates in the AC, selected from 300+ applicants, we were told. Whitbread only runs 1 AC and 2014 was the first time Whitbread has offered a finance internship). My group had a group exercise, in which we had to outline the pros and cons of a project relating to one of the chains owned by Whitbread. After 20mins of discussion, we had to present these to the staff. Make sure you do some research on the economy relating to this industry. There was a Q&A session at the end.
4. Then we had an individual exercise where we were required to compare 3 projects and were given some data on projected income as well as the situation surrounding the options. The task was 45 mins long and we had the option of skipping part of lunch to complete it. We had to present our findings during the interview after lunch.
5. Tour of their HQ.
6. Lunch with the staff.
7. Interview: Most candidates had 1-1 interview, but I had 2 interviewers for some reason. Mostly based on my CV, as well as some standard interview questions like 'where will you be in 10 years time'.
8. Finished with re-testing the psychometric tests. The day ended at 4pm.
All in all, I'm very grateful that Whitbread had given a 1st year uni student like me to experience this process. It's the first time I've ever gone to an interview and the staff were very friendly and very approachable, and from the atmosphere in their offices it seems like a very nice company to work for. Sadly, I was rejected after the AC (was informed 3 days later) but like I said, I'm just grateful for the opportunity.Interview Questions
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The Chicago-based Food Animal Concerns Trust is not swallowing the government's reasoning for asking meat and poultry producers to stop giving antibiotics to their animals to make them grow faster.
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A recent announcement by the FDA, which asks producers to make the change voluntarily, comes two years after the agency declared that using antibiotics in food-producing animals "is not in the interest of protecting and promoting the public health."
"This is a sea change," says Michael Taylor, the FDA's deputy commissioner for foods. "We're finally ready to put this issue behind us."
But the Food Animal Concerns Trust is not buying it. "They'll just stop marketing drugs as growth promoters and instead market them for disease prevention at exactly the same doses and same period of use," says Steve Roach, the Trust's public health program director.
The Trust says an estimated 70 percent of all antibiotics used in the United States are fed to chickens, hogs, and beef cattle.
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is a well established cause of human diarrhea, particularly in young children. Although outbreaks were still frequent in developed countries until the 1940s and 1950s (8), the incidence of EPEC infection in the United States and United Kingdom has since declined. However, EPEC is still responsible for occasional outbreaks in daycare centers and pediatric wards (9). EPEC has remained an important cause of infant mortality in developing countries, with recent outbreaks reporting a mortality rate of 30% (10). Thus, EPEC infection is estimated to cause the deaths of several hundred thousand children per year (2). The hallmark of EPEC infection is the A/E histopathology often observed in small bowel biopsy specimens from infected patients, and seen after the infection of epithelial cells in tissue culture (2, 3). Infection generally causes acute diarrhea, but severe cases can lead to a protracted disease (3). Aside from profuse watery diarrhea, both vomiting and the development of fever are common symptoms of EPEC infection (3). Based on the morbidity and mortality associated with this microbe, EPEC strains remain a significant health threat to children worldwide.
Unlike the nonpathogenic strains of E. coli found within the human intestine, EPEC and other pathogenic E. coli strains contain pathogenicity islands within their genome. All of the genes necessary for the formation of A/E lesions and pedestals are contained within a 35-kbp pathogenicity island termed the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) (2, 5). The G + C content of the LEE is 38.4%, significantly lower than the 50% composition of the nonpathogenic E. coli K-12 chromosome. This discrepancy suggests that the LEE was originally acquired from a foreign source and was subsequently inserted into EPEC's chromosome. The insertion site for the LEE region in the E. coli K-12 genome is at the site encoding the tRNA for selenocysteine. Interestingly, this location appears to be a hot spot for the insertion of several virulence factor genes, including a large but different pathogenicity island found in uropathogenic E. coli (11). The complete LEE region has been sequenced and contains a type III secretion system (2), as well as other genes necessary for pedestal formation. These include several genes coding for type III-secreted proteins, termed Esps (EPEC-secreted proteins), including EspA, EspB, EspD, and EspF, as well as an adhesin, intimin, and its translocated receptor, Tir. Mutation of any of these bacterial factors, with the exception of EspF (12), prevents A/E lesion formation in epithelial cell culture models (3). As with other type III secretion systems, cytosolic chaperone proteins have been shown to be required for the translocation of secreted effector proteins. Two chaperones have been identified in the LEE, CesD for EspB and EspD (13), and CesT that chaperones Tir (14). DNA sequences with a high degree of homology to the EPEC LEE have been found in the other A/E lesion-causing bacteria, including EHEC, as well as the mouse pathogen C. rodentium, suggesting a common pathway underlying A/E lesion formation (2). This pathway is also self contained because the introduction of the cloned LEE of EPEC into a previously nonpathogenic E. coli strain conferred the ability to form A/E lesions (15).
Interactions between EPEC and host cells entail several distinct steps and have classically been viewed as a three-stage process. The first stage in EPEC pathogenesis involves the initial adherence of the bacterium to the host's intestinal epithelium. In this stage, EPEC form dense microcolonies on the surface of tissue culture cells in a pattern known as localized adherence (3). The bacterium is thought to initially attach to the host cell through a plasmid-encoded bundle forming pilus (BFP). Although mutants lacking this plasmid still attach to host cells, they do not form microcolonies and produce fewer A/E lesions than wild-type EPEC ( 5, 16). Even so, BFP remains an important virulence factor because BFP mutant strains show severe impairment in their ability to cause diarrhea in human volunteers (17). This loss of virulence probably indicates that both initial adherence to host cells as well as microcolony formation are critically involved in the ability of EPEC to successfully infect its host. Curiously, the mediators of initial attachment appear to vary among the family of A/E pathogens. The related pathogen EHEC lacks BFP and, unlike EPEC, infects the human colon rather the ileum (3). Therefore, whether bacterial colonization occurs preferentially in the small or the large bowel may be influenced by the expression of BFP and other adhesins as well as by environmental factors regulating the expression of other virulence factors (18).
The second stage of EPEC pathogenesis involves the production of bacterial proteins including EspA, EspB, and EspD. These proteins are translocated from the bacterial cytoplasm to the external environment by a type III secretion system (Fig. 1), encoded by the esc and sep genes, also found within the LEE pathogenicity island. The type III secretion machinery is thought to generate a pore permitting this translocation to occur (2, 5). Type III secretion systems also play an important role during infection by other Gram-negative pathogenic bacteria such as Yersinia and Salmonella, enabling virulence factors to be translocated directly from the bacterial cytoplasm to the host-cell membrane or cytoplasm. Although the majority of the Esps produced by EPEC are necessary for A/E lesion formation, their precise role in EPEC pathogenesis is not well defined. EspA makes filamentous appendages surrounding the bacterium that are transiently present on the bacterial surface (19). These filaments interact with the host cell, possibly forming a translocation tube reaching into the host cell. In support of this theory, EspB is translocated into the host cytosol and membrane by a process dependent on EspA (19). EspD is known to be inserted into the host cell membrane (20). Although the exact functions of EspB and EspD are unknown, their sequence homology to the


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Northeast of Manchester, though not in the direct shadow of the Green Mountains, are Woodstock and Quechee, two cultural hot spots well worth the detour. In Manchester pick up Route 11/30 going east to Route 100 north and watch as sinuous turns give way to awe-inspiring vistas of pastures punctuated by silos and barns and dotted with cows. Take Route 4 traveling eastward into Woodstock, a town whose thoroughfares radiate from a central green like spokes on a wheel. "Ive summered in the Hamptons, done Florida, and seen enough of Colorado to last me a lifetime," says Houston-based decorator J. Randall Powers, who is a frequent visitor, "and none compare to the simple charm of Woodstock." Settled in 1765 and brimming with Greek Revival, Federal, and Georgian houses, the town has attracted wealthy visitors since the late 19th century. Locals tease that the town should be named after the Rockefellersthe oil-refining clan did, after all, donate more than 500 acres to the National Park Service and fund the deceptively historic-looking Woodstock Inn and Resort. They also discreetly buried all of the villages power lines in order to preserve its historic character.
If theres one place in Vermont to splurge, its the Woodstock area. Powers haunts Ken Riney Fine Antiques & Jewelry, the Red Horse Antiques in neighboring Bridgewater (which has a well-edited selection of country furnishings), and the Antiques Collaborative in Quechee (country quilts, rare books, dealers galore). There are countless places to stay overnight in styles from cozy to luxe, with the new ten-room Lauren inn at the top of the list. Outfitted with sleek furniture, high-tech gadgets, and fanciful wall treatments, it isnt the "typical Vermont inn," Powers says, "but it is definitely chic."
Metropolitan modernism may have found a foothold in the Green Mountains, but Deirdre Heekin and Caleb Barber of the towns restaurant Osteria Pane e Salute derive as much inspiration from Italy as they do Vermont. "We have incredible access to local ingredientsorganic produce, humanely raised meats, artisanal cheesesand we draw on our experiences in Italy to present these in a very simple, honest style," Heekin says. Sharing the building with the restaurant is Alléchante, an enchanting bakery with delicious scones; down the road in Quechee, overlooking the Ottauquechee River falls, is the studio, restaurant, and shop complex of the renowned glassblowing powerhouse Simon Pearce.
Traveling up Route 100 into the Mad River Valley, the gentle countryside of southern Vermont turns into a more severe landscape. The valleys grow deeper, the farms bigger, and the snow more plentiful. "This area is not a place to be seen, like Manchester or Killington or Stowe," says Tim Piper, a co-owner of the 12-room Inn at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield. "Its very well-heeled, but its like a good swimming holeyou only tell your closest friends."
The secrets definitely out. The nearby town of Warren has a general store that offers fine wines and cowhide rugs and is also home to the Pitcher Inn, a Relais & Châteaux property featuring 11 rooms, ranging from quirky to rustic. "Were Vermonts version of Brigadoon," Piper says. "There are no traffic lights or chain hotels." There is, however, a vibrant arts scene with professional and community theater groups and numerous art galleries. Veer off Route 100 onto the bumpy dirt road that leads to the Bundy Center for the Arts, a startlingly modern structure designed in 1962 by architect Harlow Carpenter that boasts some of the best viewsand artin the valley.


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Interesting concept and a thoughtful gesture, if it works. I've tried this tactic with one of our kids based on the movies and TV shows watched, but the interest isn't there beyond reading the first few pages. Playing games on the iPad holds more appeal. As you say, there are too many distractions available.ReplyDelete
Nancy, what I'm hoping is that it will reach a few people who never even consider a book. I had an experience recently which involved my recommending the library to someone who was looking for an audiobook and couldn't find it. I asked them if they had checked the library. They looked at me for a moment and said, "Wow. I totally forgot about the library." I think that people forget about books, too, or have acquired the attitude of the ingenue who stated, "A book? Why? I have one of those." Those are the folks who will hopefully be reached.ReplyDelete
I have so many great books to share. Thanks for the heads up, Joe!ReplyDelete
This sounds divine!!ReplyDelete
Kathryn, thank you for planning to participate on behalf of each and all of us out here who love reading and good writing and want to restore it to its proper popularity.ReplyDelete
Traci, I concur! I think it's a great idea and hope it continues even after it (hopefully) no longer becomes necessary.ReplyDelete
Joe, I'm shooting to release my eBook by then. Will that count? I'm sending you one anyway. And how can anyone not like Kinda Blue?ReplyDelete
Jim, I think that they're focusing on physical product but in my opinion reading in ANY medium needs to be championed. And Thank You! I'd love to see your book.ReplyDelete
You and me both, Joe. Yesterday I finished a pass through the book where I was changing the page breaks and the chapter headings. When I arrived at the LAST chapter I realized that for the past two days I had been making changes to an "older" draft. Yowzers!! Took a few tricks and an all-niter to get that half-way straightened out. Now here I am going through another line-by-line edit. During this course I'm finding that I'd screwed up some of yesterday's "fixes." So now I'm refixing the fixes and getting the sensation of moving backward through time. How's that for progress?ReplyDelete
Actually, Jim, I think(for what it's worth) that refixing the fixes, as described, is progress. Absolutely. I probably would have dropkicked my laptop across the room, which would not have been progress.ReplyDelete


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Who's Who in the George Clooney Wedding Entourage
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