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Thunder Update: Osterman helps guide National Team to World Cup gold
The Rockford Thunder were off last week, but that didn't stop Cat Osterman from making national headlines with the USA Softball Women's National Team.
Osterman has missed the last 10 games with the Thunder because of her commitment with the National team, and the Thunder have felt the absence of their ace as they have fallen eight games behind the first-place Chicago Bandits.
Team USA faced off against Australia in the championship game of the World Cup, which was played in front of 4,737 fans at the ASA Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Starting pitcher Monica Abbott led team USA to a 3-1 lead, until she was taken out in the top of the sixth inning with two runners on base and nobody out. Team USA looked to the Thunder's own Cat Osterman to record the final three outs and lock down the win for team USA.
Osterman did what she does best as she struck out the only three batters she faced, giving herself her second save of the season, and team USA the gold medal.
With an 18-0 record, the USA Softball Women's National Team finished its season with two gold medals—in the Canada Cup and the World Cup.
Osterman will return to the Thunder as they travel to Philadelphia to take on the Force in a five-game series. Osterman's presence with the Thunder will be sure to improve the team's slumping record. Even after missing 10 games, Osterman still holds the record for most strikeouts this season with 69 and will look to add to that total against the Force.
The Thunder have three series left, all of which are on the road, and they will take on the Force (6-20), the USSSA Pride (8-14) and the Bandits (20-6).
Time is running out on this season, and the Thunder need to make a run before the playoffs begin in Akron, Ohio.
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On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin was also set to visit athletes settling into the Olympic villages as the authorities rushed to make the finishing touches before Friday's opening ceremony in the Fisht Stadium.
Putin has vowed that Russia will ensure hospitable and top class Games for everyone but the $50 billion project has long been overshadowed by Russia's law outlawing "gay propaganda" to minors.
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Putin assured International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Thomas Bach the day earlier that all guests would feel comfortable at the Games.
"The main task is to make the Sochi Games a celebration for all sport lovers in the world," Putin added.
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We laid my mom to rest today
I don't think I have ever been so physically, emotionally and spiritually drained.
Mom had alzheimers and was in a nursing home for the past 5 years. I feel they cut her life short (even if she was 91 yrs old).They told us she had UTI and they were giving her iv fluids. Next she fell out of her wheel chair, not once, but three times.When asked why she wasn't taken to the hospital they said that if she could move her arms and legs and her little hips weren't out of alignment she didn't need to go. They called my brother and said she had fallen out of her chair again and had a bruise on her head.
It wasn't a bruise she had a 3 inch gash. I went down there and came home and called my brother cause he is a lot farther away than I and he came up and told them he wanted her in the hospital.
The hospital did xrays and she had a skull fracture and possibly a broken wrist.
The Dr. in the hospital sent her to hopice house on Sunday. No way were we going to let her go bsck to the nursing home.
She took a turn for the worse on Monday morning and fought a brave and hard fight till Thursday afternoon.
I miss her so much and am so angry (at the nh) that I can't stand it.It hurts cause we promised dad we wouldn't put her there. The Drs. did, but I still feel so guilty and I know my dad is in Heaven with her,but I hope he can forgive me.
Sorry this is so long and rambling, but all I am right now is a bundle of nerves.
Thanks for letting me vent.
Patty, I'm so sorry you lost your mom. You truly will miss her. I hope you can do something to remember her--plant a rose bush, make a special photo album. It helps. I still miss my mom a lot, and she's been gone 5 years. I often thing she would be so surprised at how some things have turned out.
Heartfelt condolences.
Patty, I know or think I know how you feel. The guilt is not productive and you will let that go eventually. Losing our parents no matter the age is difficult. 91 is ripe age, but having alzheimers is so difficult. My mama was blind and I always thought that was horrible for her, and it was. But she had her mind and I think losing your memory is even worse. Don't beat yourself up over the nursing home. It does sound like they are severely negligible and you certainly could entertain a lawsuit after your emotions calm a bit. I know your mom is happy and at peace in a wonderful place now with your dad! Take comfort in that and take care of yourself.
Patty, I'm so sorry for you. My great-grandfather had alzheimers and was in nursing homes the last couple of years of his life, too. In fact two of my great-grandfathers had that happen to them. (I was born with 5 great-grandparents. I just lost my last one, a great-grandmother, two weeks and one day ago). I'm sorry that this happened to you and I too would be very upset with the nursing home. That's horrible that more caution wasn't taken with her, especially after the first time she fell.


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Again we retrace our steps back to the main route and carry on to Panther Junction. At this point we have a tough decision to make. Do we take the third and final scenic drive, a 50 mile round trip or do we head north out of the park to find a bed for the night? As it's getting on for 5pm we decide that, as much as we want to do the scenic drive, it would mean ...
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CALGARY, ALBERTA -- (Marketwire) -- 12/11/12 -- The climate science critical review organization, Friends of Science, denounces the on-going waste of resources and "climate science dogma" of the recent COP-18 Doha talks, spawned in 1992 by the UN United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the related UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
"We've been reviewing the peer-reviewed climate science for a decade," says President Len Maier, "but the phenomenal waste of financial and energy resources have turned our group into something of an environmental green-wash watch-dog as well."
Friends of Science are a group of retired atmospheric and earth scientists who dispute the commonly accepted theory of human-made 'global warming' as being the result of the use of fossil fuels. Friends of Science claim 'carbon reduction' is unnecessary and irrelevant as the sun is the main driver of climate change. Temperatures and carbon dioxide levels are well within historic norms of climate fluctuations.
"The 'anthropogenic global warming' theory has not stood the test of the Scientific Method," says Maier, "yet countries, industries and citizens are frantically trying to reduce their 'carbon footprint' when this will have no impact on climate."
Friends of Science specifically condemn the 'climate cult' that has indoctrinated youth with a catastrophic view of the future - leading many youth into deep depression and a sense of helplessness.
"Human beings are capable of magnificent scientific and technological accomplishments. We should be inspiring our youth to stand on the shoulders of the giants of innovation - but most important we must dismantle this "climate change crisis cult" and stop wasting resources on this green-wash and rent-seeking."
FACTS - The UN Climate Change predictions are:
1. Incomplete. The UN/IPCC reports exclude the overwhelming scientific evidence that the sun is the main driver of climate change. Not CO2. 2. Inaccurate. Climate Change prediction models done on computer have been wildly inaccurate; when accurate data is entered about actual recent temperatures, the computer models cannot accurately 'hind-cast' (calculate temperature patterns in reverse). 3. Based on assumption. Some UN/IPCC -allied scientists have assumed that CO2 drives temperature - but this has not been scientifically proven. For the past 16 years, despite a rise in CO2, the UK Met Office reports there has been no global warming. 4. Out of context. Global temperatures began being recorded in the late 1880's. But historic human records of temperature change date back centuries and geological evidence dates back at least 500 million years. In context, today's climate and weather are perfectly normal. 5. Wasting resources. Fear of CO2 emissions has lead to a "rush to renewable." But 'renewables' like wind and solar are unreliable energy producers. They require 24/7 back-up power generation by gas-fired plants. This is wasteful and very expensive for no energy benefit. It's not 'free' energy at all. 6. Factually incorrect. The climate change crisis cult has made people believe that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a toxic gas in large quantity that threatens human life. In fact, CO2 is the essence of life - without it there would be no oxygen. CO2 is plant food, and more CO2 increases plant growth and crop yields. CO2 is a trace element in the atmosphere- occurring at about 0.04%. 7. Economically devastating. Citizens of Western nations have been plunged into fuel poverty in the UK, Ontario, Spain, and California as extreme 'carbon reduction' measures were enacted, driving consumer and business energy prices sky-high while doing zero for the environment (see point 5. Above). Clever investors get rich on carbon taxes/trades called 'climate wealth' while crushing consumers. 8. Based on one-sided research. Billions are spent on climate change research dedicated to the unproven theory of man-made global warming through use of fossil fuels; very little is spent on understanding more significant modifying natural factors like the sun, volcanoes, ocean currents etc. 9. Rife with conflicts of interests. Agenda-driven ENGO's have invaded the UN Climate organizations at all levels; scientists have been co-opted to be 'climate witnesses', wealthy speculators lead the charge, capitalizing on carbon taxes, subsidies for renewable, and carbon trades at your expense. 10. Environmentally destructive & expensive. $1 trillion dollars spent in a decade on 'carbon reduction' - biofuels take up valuable food crops, and have no net positive production of fuel. "Renewables" wastefully consume energy resources for limited power generation in return, creating different kinds of pollutions, emission, and human/wildlife damage - and no net benefit.
1. Changes in solar activity correlates well with earth's temperature as shown in numerous studies. This graph shows a good correlation between 400 years of northern hemisphere temperatures and solar irradiance, which is used as a proxy for all solar changes. Note the low solar activity periods occurring during the Little Ice Age (Maunder Minimum 1645 to 1715 and the Dalton Minimum 1795 to 1825). Longer term, here is a correlation of a solar proxy to a temperature proxy for a period of 3000 years. See "Sun Activity Correlates with Temperature" here.
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2. Climate modellers have given up trying to match their models to the observations. They ignore that fact that there has been no warming for 15 years so their surface temperature projections greatly diverge from the measurements as shown here. A primary reason the models fail is because they predict an enhanced warming rate in the upper atmosphere which does not appear in the measurements as shown here and here. The latter graph shows the climate model temperature trends of the mid-troposphere, using 57 runs from 23 climate models, are four times larger than observations from satellites and weather balloons. Much of the earth's heat is stored in the oceans. The GISS climate model over estimates the ocean heat content warming trend of the top 700 m from 2003 by a factor of 6 compared to measurements from 3300 ARGO buoys as shown here. The north to south pattern of climate change as measured by satellites bears no resemblance to the climate model projections. The climate model seas surface warming trend at the equator from 1982 is 6 times higher than that measured by satellites as shown here. The graph here shows the northern hemisphere sea surface temperature measurements and the climate model hindcasts for the period 1910 to 1944. The actual temperature rise was 4.5 times greater than the modeled trend. The models cannot replicate the measurements because they do not include natural causes of climate change. See "Computer Models Fail" here.
3. The UK's Daily Mail published a graph from the Met Office here, showing no global warming for 16 years. The climate models assume that increasing temperatures would cause an increase in water vapour in the upper atmosphere, and fewer clouds, which would amplify the small direct warming effect from CO2. Radiosonde and satellite data shows that both of these assumptions are false. Upper atmosphere water vapour and clouds act to reduce the CO2-induced warming. See "Water Vapour Feedback" here and Cloud feedback" here.
4. The temperature and CO2 concentration history of the last 600 million years is shown here. The Vostok ice core temperature record over the last 400,000 years is shown here. The temperature history during the last 10,000 years is here. See "Climate is Always Changing" here.
5. An article here shows that wind power is a ludicrously inefficient and expensive way to generate electricity. A study of wind power in the Netherlands here shows that wind power cause extra fuel consumption instead of fuel saving, when compared to electricity production with modern high-efficiency gas turbines only. See FoS Policies and Economics here.
6. The increase in CO2 emissions has caused increased crop yields and faster growing plants and forests, thereby greening the planet. Crop yields have increased about 16% due to more CO2. The chart here shows that a 50% increase in CO2 causes a 10% increase in wheat yields in wet conditions and a 23% increase in dry conditions. See "CO2 Greatly Increases Plant and Forest Growth" here and the FoS Climate Sciencegreater than greater than CO2 and Plant Growth section here.
7. A survey in 2011 shows that 6.3 million households in the United Kingdom, or 24% of all households were in fuel poverty due to rising energy costs, see here. These households spend more than 10% of their incomes on home fuel use.
8. The US Government has spent $79 billion from 1989 to 2009 on climate research and technology as shown here. The 2010 budget request was 6.7 billion, see here.
9. Donna Laframboise, author of "The Delinquent Teenager who was Mistaken for the World's Top Climate Expert", an expose of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, presented her findings in Calgary at the Friends of Science 9th annual luncheon. Her presentation is here. She finds that the 2007 IPCC report contains references to 5,587 non-peer-reviewed articles, including newspaper articles and Greenpeace propaganda documents. Two-thirds of chapters where authored by at least one scientist affiliated with the lobby group, The World Wildlife Fund.
10. The USA and the EU have instituted mandates and subsidies to stimulate the production of bio-fuels in a miss-guided effort to displace fossil fuels. The diversion of corn from food consumption to biofuels has increased food prices and poverty. A study here shows that biofuel production over 2004 level has resulted in 192,000 excess deaths from malnutrition and poverty in 2010 in developing countries. Ethanol added to gasoline reduces fuel efficiency. About 30% of the US corn crop is used to make ethanol, see here. The mining of rare earth mineral used to manufacture the magnets for the wind turbines has caused an ecological catastrophe in northern China, see here. Wind power has a huge land footprint because it is very dilute and intermittent. It requires extensive networks of roads, transmission lines and turbines. Wind turbines are very dangerous for the workers who must maintain them and for the public. Lumps of ice and broken blades get flung off them. One blade was flung into a house over 5 km away. Wind farm also deadly to bats and birds. Wind turbines at Altamont Pass, California were killing up to 4,000 birds annually, including over 1,000 raptors such as golden eagles, hawks, falcons and owls, see here. Feed-in-tariffs in Ontario is costing consumers $4 billion per year, with solar power costing 49 cents/kWhr, about 5 times the conventional rate, see here.
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I applaud the 6 pocket standard, each cargo pocket has an additional cell phone pocket, I find extremely helpful. Cell phone in one and door access card in the other is perfect for production facilities. Button is sewed on well. Only con is the zipper is a little weak, and the waist band seems to run a bit larger than the shorts themselves.
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Fantasy League
I have launched my fantasy hockey league on Yahoo!
I originally wanted to do it on Sportsline, they do a better job but they decided to charge $120 this year so that is out.
12-team league with HUGE rosters...
We start 4 LW, 4 C, 4 RW, 6 D, 2 utility guys and 2 goalies. You can have a maximum of 28 players on your roster.
Our scoring system involves: Goals, Assists, +/-, PIM, PPG, SHG, GWG, GTG, Faceoffs won/lost, Wins, Losses, Ties, GAA, SV %, SHO.
It is a head-to-head league just so you know.
I debated the rotissere and then debated the points system and I hate rotissere and figured head-to-head was better than a points sytem.
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Washer leaked on newly refinished floor
The contractor took the washer and dryer out to refinish the whole kitchen/family/powder room/laundry room area. They reinstalled them and the washer promptly leaked all over the floor, warping the newly redone floor. The repair guy is here now and the contractor said to wait a bit and the curled up boards might "lay down." Huh? Does that happen? He will have the floor people come back if needed though, he did say that. If the boards need to be replaced will the fiinish match? The whole area is connected, how should that be handled? What should I expect him to do?
How badly are they cupped? Can you feel it in bare feet? They can sand them down and refinish without pulling boards out, but you will want to wait until the wood is completely dry. "A bit" can mean months. They use moisture detectors to see if any moisture remains. Our washer overflowed onto our hardwoods for about 30 minutes, so I wouldn't think your hardwood is that damaged if they were able to clean it up quickly. Our insurance adjuster could see the cupping, but we couldn't, so we chose not to go through the disruption of refinishing. However, insurance paid for it anyway, along with all the other damage to carpet and sheetrock.
Yes I can feel it in bare feet and see it. It is an area of about 8 square feet. I will talk to the contractor about the amount of time and have a promise in writing. Thanks for the advice.
The repair was made today - it was a cracked drain pump. I asked the repair person if moving the washer could have cracked it or if it was a coincidence of timing. He told me they probably set it down too hard and cracked it; the pump is made of plastic.
This happened to me. My entire main floor is hardwood. I had it refinished (several 1000 dollars) and when the floor guy pushed the frig back into it's recess the valve body for the icemaker water cracked and leaked. Not really anyones fault. We noticed the floor damage several days later.
My homeowners paid to have the damaged area replaced and the entire floor refinished. I told ins. adjuster I didn't want a mismatch right after paying to have the floor redone and ins. company approved it.
Note: This kind of event is why I absolutely will not let my granite installers mess with any plumbing, even something as simple as disconnecting stuff for a tear out.
Same thing happened to me with a refrigerator water line that got crimped and started to leak. I had a parquet floor which got cupped . I was told to wait because it would eventually flatten out again and sure enough it did. After about three months.
He needs to turn it in to his insurance carrier. Hopefully he has liability insurance.
I would not take a wait and see approach. I would get a rep out to assess the damage. If you don't and you decide later that his insurance does need to "fix" the problem, they may say that you did not mitigate the damage and refuse to pay.
Seriously, I would not have hardwood in my laundry room. If you have to replace it...maybe consider tile.
Besides a dehumidifier, possibly the type of fan that the water restoration/carpet guys use. We have a floating wood floor in our basement & the pros used that and a dehumifier to dry it out, which worked. I'm not sure if a fan would be used on a site finished floor. Best to talk to the floor installer/refinisher.


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Watched this in church this week.Truly amazing!
Chapter 11 of the book entitled, Truth vs Tradition, has established Scriptural evidence for the month of June as the birthdate of our Lord Jesus Christ. The Magi visited Jesus Christ when he was approximately 18 months old rather than an infant. It was at this time that the little boy, Jesus, and his parents were directed to Egypt. Check the evidence in Truth vs Tradition and see if you agree!


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Celebrities get hate from a lot of people on the web because that's just the way Hollywood goes. However, for one fame-hungry teenager who recently shot to the charts, Giovanna Plowman - the girl who sucked on her own tampon, is rubbing elbows with celebrities the wrong way.
Thank Twitter for Plowman's desperate ways for attention to make celebrities notice her. Here's a list of Hollywood celebs that blocked the "Tampon Girl" off their Twitter.
Plowman, the girl who sucked on her own used tampon, is making waves on the web. Days after releasing a video of her sucking on a used tampon, Plowman has gone from no one to someone. Well, Giovanna appears to be enjoying the attention that much but all the fame doesn't seem to be enough. In fact, Plowman has been sending out nasty tweets to a few celebrities on Twitter for them to take notice of her.
First of was Ariana Grande of Nickelodeon's "Victorious." Ariana, like a few other netizens, had been curious about the "tampon girl" video and had watched it along with everyone else in the web. Grande was quite horrified about the video that she sent out a tweet to Giovanna questioning her reasons to the act.
Replying in a negative way, Giovanna used this opportunity to pick a fight on Grande. The "Tampon Girl" had gone on to question Grande's popularity. Giovanna's hateful tweets towards Ariana continue and despite all these, Ariana still hasn't blocked her off Twitter.
Yet, that wouldn't be the same case for a few other celebrities who had blocked of Plowman before she could send out anymore tweets. Cher, after being called ugly, had replied to a fans' outraged tweet aimed at Giovanna before blocking the "tampon girl."
Despite sending out a tweet to Miley Cyrus asking for help for the hate she was getting, Giovanna didn't earn a nod from the former Disney star. Instead, Miley had blocked off Giovanna off her Twitter account. A few other celebrities who had blocked off the attention seeking teenager were Snooki of "Jersey Shore", Ellen DeGeneres, Chris Brown, Demi Lovato and Jasmine Villegas.
With the attention now on Alyssa Rosales, the girl who had "f*cked" her dog, it'll only take a few weeks before Giovanna Plowman becomes "just another" internet sensation. By then, celebrities like Ariana Grande won't have to bother with all the spiteful tweets.


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One of those books that you look forward to listening to. You want the story line to continue.
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Very weIl written but the ending was terrible. I listened twice thinking that I somehow missed something. You don't need to tie up all the loose ends but closure would have been nice.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2013
19 comments:
- O Docker said...
Motel rooms that rent by the hour?
- 4:03 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
Good answer. Do sexagenarians have sex at Motel Six?
But not what I was thinking of.
- 5:59 PM, February 12, 2013
- George A said...
After age 60 the social aspect becomes simpler, for women, as men deduct themselves from the equation.
- 6:43 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
Deduct? What do you mean? Men die? Or they are too busy running marathons and sailing Lasers to be chasing the chicks in the nursing home?
- 7:05 PM, February 12, 2013
- George A said...
Basically we die. The mortality curve takes a steep up tick. If you look at the oldest of the old (supercentenarians), women outnumber men roughly 10 to 1:
(Surf City, here we come--10 girls for every boy) Now if we could just remember what to do and when to do it...
The odds are against us, so live it up while you can!
- 7:30 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
True George. In my mother's nursing home the women outnumbered the men at least 5 to 1. But the men still didn't look too happy about the situation.
But we digress.
What service or product does this slogan describe?
- 7:34 PM, February 12, 2013
- George A said...
Maybe it's a slogan for a hiking stick company: simply attach our 60 inch stick to your tiller and watch your social standing go up.
- 8:33 PM, February 12, 2013
- Baydog said...
Easy, online recipes that can be prepared in your kitchen, surrounded by your contemporaries, in an hour or less. Because these folks are clearly over sixty. And as of yesterday, I'm less than eight years away....
- 10:05 PM, February 12, 2013
- "Clark" said...
- 10:23 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
Happy Birthday Baydog
- 10:44 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
Well done Clark. At last somebody got it. The Sunfish is 60 years old this year and I see that LaserPerformance are using the slogan SIMPLE.SOCIAL.SIXTY on their Facebook page to publicize the Sunfish. See https://www.facebook.com/LaserPerformanceSailboats?ref=ts&fref=ts.
- 10:47 PM, February 12, 2013
- Tillerman said...
The SIMPLE and SOCIAL messages were very much a part of my post on 10 Reasons Why Sunfish Are Better Than Lasers.
- 10:50 PM, February 12, 2013
- Baydog said...
Thanks, Tillerman. I'll try to cheat that nursing home, but I won't do it by eating bacon.
- 11:30 PM, February 12, 2013
- George A said...
Baydog: You've got Tillerman's favorite weapon for nursing home cheating--dust her off and go for a mid-winter sail!
- 8:07 AM, February 13, 2013
- Tillerman said...
Actually today is a perfect day for a midwinter sail in Rhode Island. I might just go for it.
- 9:17 AM, February 13, 2013
- "Clark" said...
Tillerman you have a great blog and you are ok in my book if you mention the mighty fish every now and then. Reading you blog even has me eyeballing a Laser on craigslist to add to the Gulf Squadron...I too have an affliction with the small boats, following in the footsteps of my wife, the real sailor in the crew.
Cheers, "Clark" Kent
- 6:50 PM, February 13, 2013
- my2fish said...
I'm a tad late to the comment party, but considering I posted sunfish at sixty the previous day, I had a good feeling that the slogan was referring to the Sunfish.
- 6:57 PM, February 13, 2013
- Tillerman said...
LOL. Thanks for holding off on giving the right answer until we had had some fun with it.
- 8:56 PM, February 13, 2013
- Baydog said...
Clark, here's an old beauty you may consider.
- 11:01 PM, February 13, 2013
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Six months after the United Nations Security Council declared Ebola a threat to international peace and security, the Emergency Telecommunications (ET) Cluster in Sierra Leone is providing Internet connectivity for 65 medical institutions in the country. That number continues to grow every week.
10 March 2015
Although progress has been made, we are not out of this devastating crisis yet. WFP and its partners continue to remain vigilant and provide the support needed to achieve zero cases across all Ebola-affected countries. You might have not seen much about Ebola in the media of late. Here is, in brief, our latest news:
23 February 2015
Due to the Ebola outbreak, public schools in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone remained closed after their July-August 2014 break, depriving five million children of their education. On 19 January, public schools in Guinea began to gradually reopen, and WFP has begun to resume its school feeding programme on the last week of January.
4 February 2015
Early in the morning we boarded a flight operated by the World Food Programme in Conakry. This service flies humanitarian personnel to areas affected by the Ebola virus in Guinea. Our destination was Kissidougou, around 600 kms away.
28 January 2015
What happens when you combine a hundred thousand individuals, the World Food Programme, the China Foundation for Poverty Alleviation (CFPA) and one of the world's largest Internet companies? They set a new GUINNESS WORLD RECORD within a day!
15 January 2015
Have you ever been inside an Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU)? Neither has 99.999% of the world. You can bet that the Emergency Telecommunications (ET) Cluster team is part of the 0.001% that has.
12 November 2014
During emergencies, coordination is essential for the success of relief operations. The Logistics Cluster is a group of humanitarian organizations who work together to ensure efficient and effective logistics in emergencies. Because of its expertise and field capacity, WFP was chosen to lead the Logistics Cluster. In Ebola-affected countries, the Cluster is working to support the United Nations Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER) and the humanitarian community.
9 October 2014
WFP is scaling up its response to the Ebola virus to provide assistance to around 1 million people affected by the outbreak in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, delivering food alongside the health response. WFP is also assisting the wider humanitarian community with logistics, helping other organisations to get aid workers and critical supplies into the affected areas. Donate here
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The Ebola response is requiring the support of the entire humanitarian community. WFP is assisting UN agencies, NGOs and Governments with critical logistics support.
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- Japan gives Guinea US$5.8 million for health Source: Afrique En Ligne
- GUINEA: Climbing out of the donor funding gap Source: IRIN
- UN to Shutdown Critical Air Service to West Africa Source: VOA News (USA)
- Guinea's humanitarian flights may be grounded Source: Afrol News
- Guinea: Child malnutrition - moving beyond stop-gaps Source: IRIN
- Impact of West Africa Ebola Outbreak on Food Security and Staple Food Prices
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- Guinea - mVAM Bulletin #11: Borders reopened but negative coping levels remained high, January 2015
- Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone - mVAM Regional Bulletin #3: Households are using fewer negative coping strategies in Freetown and Monrovia, January 2015
- 30 October 2014 How WFP Supports Ebola Response In Guinea


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In signs of more trouble for the Reddy brothers facing Opposition heat over illegal mining issue, a group of about 13 ruling BJP MLAs on Friday met Karnataka Chief Minister B. S. Yeddyurappa and demanded action against them.
Led by Excise Minister Renukacharya, a dissident-turned Yeddyurappa loyalist, the legislators met Mr. Yeddyurappa and pledged their support to any possible action against the three ministers - Janardhana Reddy, his brother Karunakara Reddy and their associate B. Sriramulu.
Sources close to the MLAs said they held the Reddy brothers and Sriramulu, all mining magnates from mine-rich Bellary in the State, responsible for forcing the Congress to launch the padayatra against illegal mining.
The legislators, sources said, told Mr. Yeddyurappa that certain actions of the Bellary trio had dented the image of the party and its government in the State.
The MLAs also told Yeddyurappa that they planned to launch "hatao Bellary ministers and save BJP" campaign next week.
Renukacharya and other legislators were part of the dissident group controlled by Reddy brothers when they revolted against Mr. Yeddyurappa last October before switching sides.
Some of the MLAs rallying behind Mr. Renukacharaya are aspirants for ministerial slots in the proposed ministry restructuring likely to be taken up by Mr. Yeddyurappa next month.
Reddy brothers and Mr. Sriramulu have been targeted by the opposition Congress and JDS on the illegal mining issue but Mr. Yeddyurappa has given a clean chit to them and ruled out a CBI probe on the mining issue.
Countering the Congress padayatra, the three ministers have also launched a similar programme ignoring party's advice against it. Mr. Yeddyurappa said today that he was personally against the padayatra by the ministers.
Keywords: Karnataka, Illegal mining, CBI probe, Congress, Padayatra, BJP MLAs, Yeddyurappa, Reddy brothers


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Freezing drizzle, rain, ice, sleet, snow moving into Hubbard County
Goodbye beautiful hoarfrost.
A pip of a winter storm is heading to Hubbard County, carrying a potpourri of precipitation, eventually culminating into 6-10 inches of snow.
"Look for some freezing drizzle this morning," said National Weather Service meteorologist John Hoppes.
"There should be more precipitation tonight starting with some freezing rain and sleet that will be changing over to snow probably by Saturday morning.
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roof drain downspout ice melt question
I have a flat roof and two roof drains that exit the back lot of the building about 10 feet in the air with 2.5"(i think) PVC pipe. I have 8 Watt/foot heat cable inside of each drain in a loop (so "double" the cable inside the pipe). the pipes open end is about 3 feet off of the ground. the water drips out and freezes on the driveway, forming an enormous icicle which grows all the way up to the pipe and freezes the inside of the pipe as well. the heat cable simply cannot keep up with the ice, and the junction of where the pvc meets the metal drain inside the ceiling will end up blocked, and water will overflow out the plastic trap door (plumbing access) in the ceiling. how to avoid this?
1) Code doesn't allow for the water to stay inside the house and drain into the sewer system
2) I don't know if 1" foam pipe insulation will help much, since the pipe is open on the bottom anyway. Maybe a $300 gamble
3) A heat mat on the driveway will be $100, plus just be more electricity
4) More powerful heat cables such as easyheat SR81 would be at least another $1,000 including labor, and don't know if it would make a difference
5) Sealing the junction of the PVC and metal drain pipe inside the ceiling would cause the water to sit on the roof, and then if that froze, it would rupture the seam between the drain and the rubber roof and be catastrophic. at least water coming out of the ceiling into a bucket is a relief valve of sorts
6) Knocking the icicle away and banging on the pipe with a hammer is the low-tech solution, but the icicles don't take long to grow back
We had a small commercial building in Michigan with a flat roof and all the drains ran inside the building envelope and then into drywells in the parking lot.
a. Extend the drain pipe and heat tape to run into the ground and then into a drywell.
b. Shift the drainpipes inside, eliminate all heat tapes and exit underground into a drywell.
In the north country you don't really want to dump water on the drive in the winter.


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- Web banner for Croatian Battlefield 3 Clan forum ( gerijatrija.forumcroatian.com).They call themselves Gerijatrija (Geriatry) because there are bunch of "older" guys (up to 45 years or so) who play this game. And as I am informed, they are very good at that - they've "beaten" all other clans in Croatia :) I was asked to illustrate and design banner which will represent them in that manner and with a little bit of humor. So there ... :)
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After giving birth to her beautiful daughter Maddisyn, Tammy Stewart found herself in the same position as many mothers, finding the extra baby weight she gained during her pregnancy wasn't that easy to shed. With 11-year-old son Braeden and an infant to take care of, the hectic days and restless nights weren't... well, ideal for weight loss.
But for Tammy, an accountant by trade, being out of shape while seeking the energy and stamina to keep up with her life wasn't adding up -- in her mind, it was time for some much-needed subtraction.
"I really started making losing the weight my mission on February 28 of this year (about four months after giving birth), and reached my 'ideal' goal on July 4, so it took just over four months," says the 33-year-old Edmonton, Alberta resident.
Tammy hit the weights four days and cardio five times weekly, following a bodybuilding-style split with legs on day one of her split, chest and triceps on day two, back and biceps on day three, and shoulders on day four. "I usually do three sets per exercise, decreasing the reps from 12 to 10 to 8 as I increase the weight set to set," she explains.
Meanwhile, she also overhauled her diet, monitoring her carbohydrate and protein intake and eating cleaner to fuel her workouts and her weight loss. But sticking to such a stringent regimen wasn't easy -- at least, until she found her secret weapon in her body-transformation quest. "I was headed to the gym one evening and needed something light to eat before my workout," Tammy recalls. "Along the way I stopped into a supplement shop. I was in the protein bar aisle and saw the Supreme Protein bars, and decided to try something new."
Consistent workouts, a sensible meal plan and Supreme Protein were a perfect combination for Tammy, with the bars lending an assist on the other two fronts. "(After adding Supreme Protein to my diet) I noticed improvements in my physique," she says. "I also enjoyed increased energy levels at the gym. The bars are truly great tasting, and when I have one I actually feel satisfied until my next meal. After incorporating them into my day, I noticed that cravings for sugars and sweets subsided. It has enabled me to stick to my diet plan, even after I reached my initial goal."
In addition to Supreme Protein, some of the key foods that Tammy relies on include chicken, turkey, beef, salmon, brown rice, yams, baked potatoes, pasta, rice cakes, fruit, protein shakes, veggies and salads, to name a few. "I do allow myself one cheat day a week," she adds. That cheat day is important, as it doesn't allow the body to adapt to a lower-calorie regimen, thus keeping the fat-burning engines at full throttle.
The results of all of her hard work in the gym and kitchen -- as you see from the photos -- speak for themselves, as Tammy lost an amazing 40 pounds in just over four months, getting down to 110 at a height of 5'3". "That's 15 pounds less than my pre-pregnancy weight," she points out proudly.
Now, Tammy has plenty of energy and stamina to keep up with her kids, and do the things she enjoys most: Working out, watching movies, reading, cooking, rollerblading, rock climbing and family vacations. Where does the fit and focused single mom see herself in five years? "I would love to offer advice to other moms in the areas of training, fitness and nutrition," she says. "Many of us struggle to lose baby weight, or to just lose weight period. We tend to put ourselves last on the list of people to take care of, and at the end of the day it's easy to feel exhausted and fall into couch-potato mode."
With her positive attitude, smart training and nutrition strategies, and Supreme Protein in her corner, we can't see Tammy falling into "couch-potato mode" anytime soon.
Tammy Stewarts Training Split and Cardio Routine
DAY 1: Legs
DAY 2: Chest and triceps
DAY 3: Back and biceps
DAY 4: Shoulders
Cardio: 5 days per week, either for 30 minutes before breakfast or after weight training in the early evening.


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Scenes from Saturday's United Bacarreneos of America's annual membership meeting conducted at Stonebridge's Sangalang Park in Lathrop.
Manteca is receiving at least $4.8 million in federal stimulus funds with efforts underway to secure even more.
LATHROP – Not even the drive from Elk Grove would have kept Loyd Helmick from his chance to meet some of the stars of the FX action/drama 'Sons of Anarchy.'
On the opening night of the 2009 Manteca Idol's debut at Chez Shari restaurant, the trio of Robin Glover, Judi Hoagland, and Katelyn Johnson impressed the judges enough to earn themselves a spot in the next round.
The bleakest stretch of the Tidewater Bikeway that doubles as a 34-acre linear park through Manteca's heart may soon sport 250 trees.
The Highway 99 at Main Street overcrossing in Manteca will have ramp delays next weekend to accommodate Caltrans landscaping work.
LATHROP – You aren't going to find the California city of Charming by looking on any conventional map.
Photos from the vigil held Sunday at First Baptist Church for Tevanie Deanne Lutz.
RIPON – It's been almost a decade since Charles Harris first approached the Ripon City Council with the idea of using a 23-acre parcel he owns as a water bank and recharge station to replenish the groundwater supply in the area outside of Ripon's city limits.
Low-income residents of San Joaquin County will be able to obtain free government-surplus food, Thursday, Aug. 20, at locations throughout San Joaquin County. Distribution will continue until supplies are exhausted.
Pedestrians no longer have to walk on the edge of travel lanes to avoid large pools of water during the rainy season or cross rutted ground during dry weather while walking on the northern side of East Yosemite Avenue between Cottage Avenue and Powers Avenue.
RIPON – Federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funds will help make traveling Highway 99 through Ripon safer.
RIPON - Dollars don't stretch quite as far as they did when Ripon Police Chief Richard Bull first took over the reins of the Ripon department.
The Harvest Festival at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church is scheduled for next month.
Former Manteca City Council member and current Seniors Helping Area Residents and Police captain Jack Snyder hosted Saturday's free Manteca Senior Center breakfast.
Leonardo Resendiz made a methodical point in the shooting death of a mock trial that's long been a staple of Joe Waller's Careers in Law Enforcement classes.
There's a leak at Lathrop City Hall.
It looks like almost early summer on the Stanislaus River watershed.
They are Weston Ranch's power couple. But Dale and Jill Fritchen don't see themselves as such, and never have.
The working alignment for the contentious proposed extension of a dry levee south of Manteca is directly behind parcels on the north side of Fig Avenue between Airport Way and Oleander Avenue.
Kai Burburn rocks back and forth nervously on the lip of the bowl at the new Lathrop skate park.
Free Weston Ranch. That's the rallying cry of this small community in South West Stockton.
The second annual Mother &Son Dance at St. Anthony of Padua School will be held Friday, Feb. 6, from 6 to 9 p.m.
Manteca's next municipal building could go up on Daniels Street.
Manteca in 2014 had its biggest year for single family housing starts in eight years.
It took less than a week for a jury to convict Michael Roessler in the murder of 51-year-old rural Manteca Michael Lawrence.
The Manteca Kindred Arts has been bringing top-notch musicians of national and international caliber to Manteca for nearly three decades. Perhaps less known is the fact the non-profit organization has been offering other entertainment options every year for the public's gastronomical pleasure, among other things.
Public employee retirees are living longer.
Maddy Hudson made the cut.


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