text: I can't remember the last time I voted in an online poll. Never really saw the point. But I have been thinking for a couple weeks now about 2013 and how the Rowdies and Flames will coexist in the Bay Area. There is very little chatter anywhere about the VSI plans for 2013 outside of they will exist and play at USF. The nice thing is that the Rowdies and Flames couldn't be further apart from each other in this far flung market if they wanted to be. However, does having USL competition in the area mean that the Rowdies will lose even more Tampa fans? I know which market VSI will concentrate on.....the youth soccer market. Their main business is running academies and camps (at a profit I would suspect) and they do that by forming relationships with youth clubs. They have already linked up with two youth clubs that span both sides of the Bay. Over 5,000 players in those leagues. Youth soccer isn't the magic bullet to a great attendance. Far from it. It is a great marketing tool though, to have your name on thousands of kids' shirts throughout the area. I went down to Lakewood Ranch to watch my nephew play in a Labor Day tournament. It is a mere forty minute drive from Al Lang field. VSI (and Orlando City for that matter) were very well represented at the tournament. Who was invisible? The Rowdies. Now the place was huge, 29 fields, ridiculous really. So there was no way I could cover the whole place, but you would think that the Rowdies would have had some sort of presence there. Nothing. Nada. Zip. Spread the word, I would like to get as many Rowdies fans to vote in the poll as possible. Will the Flames impact the Rowdies?


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Oct 28, 2013, 6:04 PM EDT
You can check Minnesota off the list of teams that could be moving.
It was never likely they would be gone — Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is a former state senator, not the guy likely to turn his back on the state — but a an agreement on a new, $97 million renovation of the Target Center comes with a new lease through 2032, the team announced Monday.
"The new Target Center will be stunning. I am thrilled that Timberwolves and Lynx fans will soon have a first class experience when they come to our games," Taylor, majority owner of the Minnesota Timberwolves and WNBA's Lynx, said in a released statement. "This is a fair and sensible solution. Target Center has a perfect location and good bones, so we're excited about building something truly special on that strong foundation."
As part of the deal, the City of Minneapolis will contribute $48.5 million to the project, the Timberwolves and Lynx will pay $43 million and AEG (which operates the building) will pay $5.5 million.
The renovations will be interior and exterior. Of course, there will be more premium seating as part of the renovation because that is what pays the bills in modern sports economics.
In case you're curious about the next team that could move, it is the Milwaukee Bucks, their lease is up in four years. However, I wouldn't bet on it, especially with Adam Silver taking over as commissioner — he is more committed to market stability than his predecessor.
- saudishot - Oct 28, 2013 at 6:08 PM
"It was never likely they would be gone — Timberwolves owner Glen Taylor is a former state senator, not the guy likely to turn his back on the state"
"In case you're curious about the next team that could move, it is the Milwaukee Bucks"
So, the same logic doesn't apply to Herb Kohl?
- eugenesaxe1 - Oct 28, 2013 at 7:12 PM
- burningrangers - Oct 28, 2013 at 6:47 PM
Problem in Milwaukee is the fact you're going to be hard pressed to pass any public funding referendum for either renovating the bradley center or building a new facility.
- adamsjohn714 - Oct 28, 2013 at 11:57 PM
Smart move Minny fans. Shell out $40 million for no reason at all.
- adamsjohn714 - Oct 29, 2013 at 12:54 AM
It's exactly like renovating the office building of any other privately owned business. I'd love to pay extra in taxes so the CEO of 711 can have TWO fishtanks in his office instead of one!
- asimonetti88 - Oct 29, 2013 at 11:19 AM
I wish taxpayers would renovate my office.
- joshm5683 - Oct 29, 2013 at 10:05 AM
Timberwolves shell out 42,999,999.00 and the Lynx shell out 1.00 which they found in the Timberwolves bathroom.
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It's late August with Labor Day on my mind
Something sharp and indistinct is in the air
I sense it all along my prickled skin
My forehead in my hair
Kids would seem to play more frantically as though to say
"All is quit right after Labor Day."
Denver always has a big parade
It's really not for us
Men have traded guns for overalls
Tanks and silver helmets for baker's builder's trucks
The bands are poor and few plain-shoed players not too fine
The working men keep tipping hats walk in staggered lines
One good thing late August brings
A smell of football's in the air
A roll on churchyard grass –
You're tackled miss a pass
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ARLINGTON, Texas The Eagles and Cowboys had been hurtling down their own bumpy paths toward a primetime date for a while, finally colliding Sunday at the crossroads of crushing disappointment and wildly overrated. If we are being honest, it felt more like a game of "incompetence chicken" than an NFL contest. Eagles: We fumbled away a chance to win. Cows: You think that is bad? We gave up a 98-yard kickoff return in the final minute to give y'all a chance. Eagles: Well, our coach is so bleeping fired. Cowboys: So is ours. Well, he likely is. If the Cowboys had lost Sunday, coach Jason Garrett almost certainly loses his job at season's end and possibly sooner. Why he lives to coach another day is a 38-33 victory against a broken and deflated Eagles team that was more fortuitous than deserved. And I find this confounding. How can beating Philly save anything? Whether The Redheaded Genius deserves more time to fix this Cowboys mess is debatable. Settling this debate, even momen...
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One of Melinda's former friends, Ivy reconnects with her through art and their shared distaste for Andy Evans.
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Melinda's history teacher, he abuses his authority in the classroom to push his own ideas until David Petrakis stands up to him.
Melinda's mother, she works extra-long hours in a clothing store and is always stressed and exhausted.
Melinda's father, he has a less demanding job than her mom and is not always as helpful around the house as he could be.
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Speaking to the New Dawn from his bed at the Phebe Hospital, Mulbah narrated that while he was in the ambulance driving from Palala to the Phebe Hospital, he slowed down due to potholes on the road at which time he heard a wild break check from behind involving a convoy of three army trucks coming from Nimba County.
He said despite heading on an emergency to get a patient, he decided to go off the road to give chance to the three trucks, but the driver of the second truck stopped and dragged him from out of the vehicle, querying him why he had to abruptly slow down before their convoy.
Mulbah said the driver of the truck, a soldier, kicked and slapped him several times, while his colleagues stood and watched the assault, adding that as his boss tried appealing to the soldiers, he was told to distance himself from their action.
"My boss told them we were going for a patient to take to the hospital for treatment, but they said they didn't care" he stated.
The victim narrated that he does not remember the specific officer, who flogged him on Wednesday, but can remember some of the officers, who were on the three trucks. He said he was feeling pain in his legs and his whist and needed serious medical attention.
Although the soldiers, who were said to be in the convoy, are not based at the Camp Tubman Military Barracks on the outskirt of Gbarnga, but soldiers at the barracks, had on several occasions brutalized peaceful citizens.
The latest of such brutality occurred in late November involving a soldier at the Tubman Barrack and a commercial motorcyclist, who was stabbed multiple times and later admitted at the Phebe Hospital.
The incident subsequently led to street riot by commercial bike riders in Gbarnga, who erected roadblocks, forcing the Special Representative of Secretary General of the United Nations here and 10 other foreign envoys, who were on their way to attend the closing ceremony of the Vision 2030 National Conference in Gbarnga to return to Monrovia.
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Miss America 2014: Miss Kansas Theresa Vail on tattoos, bikinis and being an Army Sergeant
One Miss America contestant hopes to break a long-standing taboo when she walks down the runway in her swimsuit. Miss Kansas, Sgt. Theresa Vail, will be the first Miss America contestant to expose her tattoos during the pageant (see a close-up photo of her ink here).
Vail has the insignia for the U.S. Army Dental Corps on her left shoulder and the Serenity Prayer on the right side of her ribs, both of which will be visible when she dons her bikini. "Why am I choosing to bear my tattoos? My whole platform is empowering women to overcome stereotypes and break barriers," Vail tells People. "What a hypocrite I would be if I covered my ink. How can I tell other women to be fearless and true to themselves if I can't do the same? I am who I am, tattoos and all."
Not only will she be overcoming stereotypes by flaunting her ink, she is also the second contestant in the military to compete (Miss Utah 2007 was a combat medic in the Army National Guard). "Nobody expects a soldier to be a beauty queen," Vail says, "but I'm all about breaking stereotypes."
When she entered her very first beauty pageant nine months ago after her commanding officer recommended it, she planned to demonstrate archery for her talent, but two days before the competition, she was told "projectile objects" were forbidden. Instead of dropping out, she worked hard to perfect a new talent. "I'd never sung opera in my life," Vail says. "I had an appreciation for it and I sang soprano in choir back in high school, but I hadn't sung since then and certainly never opera."
That didn't stop Vail: she found a video on YouTube and mastered a song in less than two days, taking home the silver tray in the Miss Kansas talent competition.
Vail hopes to inspire confidence in others through the pageant. "I was bullied when I was a kid. It got so bad that I nearly took my own life ... My dad took me hunting with him and it saved my life," Vail says. "Ever since then, I've been an outdoors girl. My passion is empowering girls through male-dominated outdoor sports. I want to help them develop confidence, to let them know that they have what it takes to accomplish anything they want to accomplish. I know many young girls look at beauty candidates and think, 'What a perfect life they have.' But I want them to know that I haven't led a perfect life and that beauty comes from the inside."


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Why does me call me 'his love' if he has a girlfriend?
My friend keeps calling me his love even though he just got himself a girlfriend! Why does he do this? It's not like a pet name for me...it's just... Show More
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he knows how to push your buttons... and is very attracted to you but doesn't want to risk actually saying with meaning backed up with actions.. so it's much easier and safer to act the way he does and it gets you all riled up too. change the way you react and he will not have this power over you.
Like what for instance....?
I can only be as I am...friendly, flirty (I just AM), and nice. Or..I can ignore him completely and perhaps be even a bit harsh sometimes, which just isn't me!
What do I do then?
You already now know what he means by his actions: he is attracted to you, immature and unable to directly share with you how he feels about you with respect. so, you play cat and mouse and you attract that. If you wanted to be serious with what you want you'd say and act more directly . Just figure out what YOU want and go for it.
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Ugh, the "I love you / I hate you" act is a seriously bad sign. It shows a complete lack of self-control and an inability to form healthy relationships.
Hitting on you that hard when he has a girlfriend is another seriously bad sign. Unless they're explicitly in some kind of open relationship, he's obviously willing to lie to his current gf.
He sounds like an almost certain serial cheater and a drama queen. I'd stay the hell away from him unless you're into that kind of thing!
its obvious he likes ya , I mean that's no ordinary friends jks , I mean I do that but not that much! that's alot
What do you mean 'you do that'? You mean just casually to all your friends who are girls, or just a girl you like?
I mean to all girls I know , I flirt with them somtimes , and ya we say I love you in a silly way(to close 1s) , not in every time I see them ,its like every couple of times I see them(I flirt not say love you every couple of times) or when they are feeling bad or somthing , but not always.
and I once liked a girl I knew , so I flirt with her more in any chance I get , like she got a new look or dress , I go about how beautifull she looks and you know , whenever I get un opportunity to flirt ,
Okay... that is just messed up.
Is he one of those kids that have girls comming and going?
If he is, he is just trying to get laid. Many guys do this. Don't fall fro it.
No... If he's in a relationship...he's in it for a long time! His ex and him were together for a year so... And the one before that a year and a half. He's definitely NOT that kinda guy. But with this girl he's dating now, I don't know what he actually feels for her, all I know is he's acting like he really wants me! ...which I don't get!
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It sounds like he is interested in you and does love you but does not want to be more than friends because he is scared of ruining your friendship and loosing you because if things go further and then go wrong. He will loose you as it will be very hard to going back to just being friends.
Now that he has a girlfriend on the scene I would be careful about your behaviour around him and the amount of time that you spend together. You can still be friends and do things together but you should not be messing around with each other and flirting because that is not respectful to him and his girlfriend and I don't think she will be happy if she found out.
Believe me, I'm careful! But he's still all flirty, excessively happy and hyper around me, and he still calls me his love...so... It's no longer cute! It's WEIRD!
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ABC World News (12/14, story 4, 0:20, Sawyer) reported, "And there was an announcement from the White House today about the President's healthcare reform. The government said 2.5 million young adults who were uninsured now have received health insurance because of that law, which allows children to stay on their parents' insurance until age 26."
The CBS Evening News (12/14, story 5, 2:30, Pelley) reported, "Patient rights advocates like Ron Pollack of the nonprofit group Families USA call this an accomplishment because young adults will 19-25, are the most likely not to have health insurance." Ron Pollack, Families USA: "This is a benefit for those people who are struggling to find a job or who are in an entry-level job and they can't pay for health insurance and now they have the ability to stay on their parents' policy until their 26th birthday."
The Wall Street Journal (12/15, Radnofsky, Subscription Publication) quotes HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, who said, "It shows what a big difference this law is already making in Americans' lives." According to Sebelius, without the option for additional coverage, insurance was a major factor in young adults' career decisions, while others were "a car accident or a surprise diagnosis away from a lifetime of medical debt or worse." The AP (12/15) also quotes Sebelius as saying, "Many of them gained coverage earlier this spring, meaning the law was there for young people as they graduated from college or high school and began their careers."
USA Today (12/15, Kennedy) reports that according to HHS assistant secretary for planning and evaluation Sherry Glied, "the rise in coverage for younger adults came as those between the ages of 26 and 35 remained the same," which "shows it's 'very clear' the increase for those 19 to 25 is because of the new law." Meanwhile, Glied said that "there was no increase in Medicaid coverage for adults ages 19 to 25, which means the increase in overall coverage was driven by private insurance."
The Los Angeles Times (12/15, Levey) reports, "Facing persistent public skepticism, the administration has been trying to highlight early benefits of the law such as the young adults coverage and the expansion of aid to seniors who hit the coverage gap in Medicare's drug benefit known as the doughnut hole."Also reporting this story are the Washington Times (12/15, Cunningham) "Inside Politics" blog, NPR (12/15, Rovner) "Shots" blog, CQ (12/15, Norman, Subscription Publication), Bloomberg News (12/15, Wayne), The Hill (12/15, Pecquet) "Healthwatch" blog, Modern Healthcare (12/15, Daly, Subscription Publication), Politico (12/15, Mak), and Reuters (12/15, Pierson, Selyukh).


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The legacy isn't just about gathering; it's also about preservation of the finds, a pursuit with its own inspired history. On a crisp fall day, while walking in the repository's southern fields past Vaccinium cylindraceum, a shrubby blueberry from the Azores Islands (a Portuguese archipelago), Joe Postman, another of the repository's curators and a plant pathologist, tells the story that has inspired him since he first heard it thirty years ago.
Adolf Hitler, with his obsession for eugenics, was hungry to claim for future plant breeding the nearly two hundred thousand samples of seeds, roots, and fruits stored in a nondescript brick building in Leningrad's Saint Isaac's Square. Between 1941 and 1944, while Leningrad was under siege, hundreds of thousands of people in the area died from starvation. Terrified that the hungry masses might try to break into the bank and steal the bags of wheat, barley, beans, potatoes, and peas (or that the Nazis would confiscate the samples), the staff of what is now known as the Vavilov Institute barricaded the walls and doors, locking themselves inside the dank, unheated building. Starving and numb with cold, they took shifts caretaking the seeds around the clock. When summer broke, they planted seeds in a garden outside in order to maintain viable seed potatoes. With artillery fire exploding overhead, the botanists stood constant guard over the potato plants, scaring away hungry rats and humans alike.
"It was hard to walk'" Vadim Lekhnovich, one of the seed protectors, said years later, as recounted in a book by Gary Nabhan, a renowned conservation scientist and ethnobotanist based in Tucson, Arizona. "It was hard to get up every morning, to move your hands and feet…But it was not in the least difficult to refrain from eating up the collection…For what was involved was the cause of your life, the cause of your comrades' lives."
Nine of Lekhnovich's colleagues died from starvation, shrapnel, or disease during the nine-hundred-day siege. Not one of them ate the seeds under their care.
"You travel around the world where people are doing this work, saving genetic resources, and everybody takes it seriously," says Postman, speaking in his slow, patient way. He adds that seed savers don't tend to burn out. Both he and Hummer have worked at the Corvallis lab for over twenty years. "This is not just a job; it's a passion."
CHAD FINN, a geneticist who runs the USDA's small-fruits breeding program, takes this zest for seeds well beyond preservation. In an effort to get more people eating healthy fruit, Finn is determined to create a cheaper strawberry—one that's not only larger and easier to pick, but sufficiently disease-resistant to reduce the need for expensive pesticides and the cost of replanting fields. As he walks through his lab at the edge of the Oregon State University campus, past dozens of squat glasses with miniature green plants growing inside them, Finn explains the basics of plant improvement.
Taking prime seedlings grown from samples stored at the repository—say, a wild variety of strawberry that's evolved immunity to a specific soil fungus—he doses them with the pollen of one of the large-fruited Chilean berries. The resulting plants end up in the lab's juice-jar collection until they're big enough to transfer outside. Once the plants are in the ground, Finn is able to see exactly what he's created, select the best of the bunch, and start the process all over again. And again. And again. It can take years. On average, it takes as many as twenty thousand seedlings to produce one commercial cultivar, or variety. After sixteen years, Finn has released seven strawberry varieties (not to mention twenty-one other cultivars of blackberries and raspberries), each a step toward his goal. Although he's bred a berry that's bigger and more disease-resistant than others, he complains that it isn't sweet enough and that it's still not immune to certain molds. "I'm always striving for something better'" says Finn, his hands stained the deep-blue color of bruises from sorting blackberries all day. "We've been striving for better varieties for one hundred years. Nobody's ever had the perfect cultivar, but it's like infinity—you're never going to reach it."


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WINTER PARK, Fla. – The Saint Leo University men's golf team slipped one place from Monday's 13th place showing, to finish the Rollins College Invitational 14th. The Lions shot 314 (+26) on the final day giving them a final tally of 904 (+40).
Cole Cisbani finished tied for 25th for the tournament, shooting a third-round 76, finishing the two-day tournament with a five over 221(75-70-76).
Mark McGuire followed the Lions' leader with a third round 79 (+7), giving him a total score of 225 (+9) for the tournament, while tying for 47th. Tom Lynn continued to hit consistent shots, totaling a 78 (+6) on the afternoon and a 230 (+14) for the tournament (76-76-78=230). JP Albuquerque (78-72-81=231) ended the tournament just one shot back of his teammate, ending the day with an 81 (+9). Matt Cornuet (76-75-84=235) closed out the tournament shooting a third-round 84 (+12).
Columbus State (283-284-295=862) took home both the team and individual titles on Tuesday. J.P. van der Walt (-12) was the individual medalist, shooting a tournament best 204 (69-68-67).
SSC competitors Lynn, Floirda Southern, and Nova Southeastern remained in the top five the entire tournament, with Lynn earning runner-up accolades.
The Lions converted two eagle attempts and 164 par tries during the tournament.
The finish of the Rollins Invitational marks the end to the Lions' fall season. The team now sets their eyes to a successful spring season.


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For Frank Carulli, it's not just a cliche anymore. He really is going to be living the dream in a few weeks.
The longtime Maryland Jockey Club handicapper and race analyst is working his final Preakness on Saturday and will finish out the spring meet at Pimlico Race Course before packing up his speed charts and moving to ... well, where else? Las Vegas.


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Is Your Tween Sneaking Onto Facebook?
Today's guest post comes from Staci Perkins, a tech-savvy mom of two social media-using teenage boys, a tween girl who's constantly connected to her cell phone, and a fourth grade boy who is just venturing out to (cyber) space.
About a year ago, my then 10-year-old daughter wanted to get her own Facebook account. All of her friends had one, she exclaimed, so why couldn't she?
Well, aside from the fact that Facebook provisions say no one under 13 is allowed to create an account, I just didn't think she was ready for the journey into the cyberworld; especially its inappropriate content.
A few weeks later, one of my sons told me he found her profile on Facebook because she popped up on his page as someone he may know. Miss Sneaky used her real first name and my maiden name for her last name. She used the family dog as her photo or "avatar." She was so busted.
Some preteens are getting their own social media accounts with their parents' permission. Some, like my daughter, are sneaking on by fudging their ages, unbeknownst to parents at all – so little conversation is taking place about the risks of being on social networks. So what can we do?
SafetyWeb can help parents know instantly when their child creates a Facebook account, as long as the parent knows their child's email address (parents can monitor multiple, unlimited email addresses).
Explain to your child why he or she isn't permitted to create an account. Be prepared to explain why other parents let their children do so. Explain the risks and throw in some cautioning words about online privacy settings too. And sometimes, "because I said so" works when reasoning won't.
We all know that preteens never lie. But just in case, SafetyWeb provides a proactive solution to monitor their online behaviors. Just in case.
Staci Perkins is a tech-savvy mom of four who frequently busts her kids online. Find her on Twitter: @perkista.
Tagged as: facebook monitoring, Facebook Safety, Internet Safety, internet safety for kids, parental control
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Great post. Kids are sneaky! Safety Web is a great way for parents to monitor if their kids are making profiles without their parents knowledge. Communication is also key in this process. You'll always get the "but the other kids are doing it" reasoning, but so long as parents can give solid reasoning why they shouldn't be on these sites yet, then hopefully the child will understand. My biggest tip for parents....be prepared for this convo! If they say "well Betsy has a site why can't I?" Don't respond with.." because I say so". It won't work


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I think Cleo is a tad overused for cats... But we just named one of our foster kittens that, so I guess we're following the crowd... However, our other pets are unique!
The dogs are Shasta and Birdie, our permanet cat is Carmel, and the other foster cats are Indigo, Fozzie, Morrisey, Garfunkle, and Jemima.
I think besides Cleo, the only other overused pet name we've used is Goldie for about five different goldfishes.


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The 2D survival horror game Shattered Haven by Arcen Games was released to the public on the 18th of March, and to celebrate it's release you can pick it up for a welcome 25% off until the 29th.
It is playable on both PC and Mac and you can find it on Steam, GOG, GamersGate, Green Man Gaming and The Arcen Store.
If you're not into this style of game you're probably not going to like this one, but it's a good game and worth a few hours of your time. As an added bonus if you're into creating your own content, you get the level design tools that Arcen Games used when making the main campaign to play around with.
For full details of my thoughts on the game, check out my review here.


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World's First
St. Louis surgeon first in world to implant new stent-graft at St. Anthony's Medical Center
ST. LOUIS – Just before Thanksgiving, St. Louis vascular surgeon Brian Peterson, MD, made history as the world's first surgeon to successfully implant the iliac branch stent-graft.
The St. Anthony's Medical Center patient who received the investigational device was the first one enrolled worldwide in the Gore Excluder Iliac Branch Clinical Study to test the safety and effectiveness of the new stent used to treat aortic and iliac aneurysms.
"This new device allows more patients to undergo a less invasive endovascular procedure, which implants the stent through an artery, rather than open surgery," said Peterson, associate professor of surgery at Saint Louis University (SLU). "The less invasive surgery helps speed up recovery time. This new stent-graft is also designed to preserve vital blood flow to the pelvis by including an additional branch in the stent, compared to the traditional device used now."
In October, the device maker, W.L. Gore & Associates, won CE Mark approval in the European Union for its Excluder iliac branch stent graft, and is available in the United States for investigational purposes only. Peterson believes the device will "absolutely" be mainstreamed expediently.
"The industry sponsor of the trial is actively undergoing site visits and enrolling centers across the country," said Peterson, about the U.S. goal of 49 sites for the prospective, multi-center, non-randomized, single-arm study. "We hope that, within a year or so, we'll have enough patients enrolled in the trial to come up with some conclusions and hopefully make this widely available."
Gore's Ryan Takeuchi said the fully engineered system "fulfills an unmet clinical need."
Peterson concurs. "About 40 percent of patients with abdominal aortic aneurysms also have aortic aneurysms of their iliac arteries," he said. "This allows us to treat those all in one setting."
The 767-bed St. Anthony's Medical Center, one of the largest hospitals in the metro area, with a Level 2 trauma center and four urgent care facilities, became the site of the world's first surgery of its kind.
"We were in a good relationship with our industry sponsor," said Peterson. "Most of my work is done at St. Anthony's, where processes are very streamlined, from the IRB (Investigational Review Board) to the vascular team, which does a high volume of endovascular aneurysm repairs. The industry sponsor of the trial recognized we'd be a good center because of our volume and outcomes. And everything went very smoothly. We set up our site visit in a very timely fashion. We had a couple of patients lined up, and sure enough, ended up being the first ones in the world to implant this device."
Peterson discussed the case at Gore's principle investigators' meeting in late November in New York City. Since then, one other implant has been performed.
"The most exciting aspect for primary care physicians to know about this new device is, prior to the device being available, we'd usually have to sacrifice one of the major blood vessels that supplies blood to the pelvis. Virtually everyone in follow-up had symptoms, as the decreased blood flow most commonly manifested as pain while walking, cramping, and discomfort of the rear. It resulted in the worst case scenario: poor circulation to the intestines. That's all virtually eliminated with this device. It preserves the blood flow to the pelvis, and patients are able to return to work sooner and resume their daily activities quicker in a symptom-free manner."
Since 1984, the Gore Medical Products Division has produced vascular grafts, endovascular and interventional devices, surgical meshes for hernia repair, soft tissue reconstruction, staple line reinforcement and sutures. A consistent "Best Company to Work For," Gore has provided more than 35 million devices worldwide.
Peterson is optimistic about how the Gore iliac branch stent-graft could revolutionize the treatment for abdominal aortic aneurysms.
"There's great interest across the country as the medical community realizes this is an option for patients that will soon be available closer to home," he said.
Medical News markets are well represented in the Gore Excluder Iliac Branch Clinical Study. Among the sites being set up for the prospective, non-randomized, single-arm study to test the safety and effectiveness of a new stent used to treat aortic and iliac aneurysms, and the physicians representing them:
Florida Vascular Consultants
Maitland, Fla.
Robert Winter, MD
Saint Anthony's Medical Center
St. Louis, Mo.
Brian Peterson, MD
Ochsner Health System
Department of Surgery
New Orleans, La.
W. Charles Sternbergh III, MD
University of Alabama Medical Center
Vascular Surgery
Birmingham, Ala.
William D. Jordan Jr., MD
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Division of Vascular Surgery
Jackson, Miss.
Zachary K. Baldwin, MD
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Nashville, Tenn.
Thomas Naslund, MD
SOURCE: W.L. Gore & Associates.


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JUDGES in the US are waking up to the potential misuse of brain-scanning technologies. Last month, Judge John Kennedy of the New Jersey Judiciary rallied 50 of his peers to discuss protecting courts from junk neuroscience.
In September, an Indian court jailed a murder suspect for life, partly on the basis of a brain scan. Meanwhile Cephos of Tyngsboro, Massachusetts, is one of several US companies that claim to be able to show whether someone is lying using a functional MRI brain scan. Ethical issues aside, many neuroscientists say the scans have not been tested rigorously enough to be admitted in court, and that they could produce false positives.
Now judges are coming to the same conclusion. Kennedy's gathering, at the New Jersey Judicial College in Teaneck, agreed that brain scans, if accompanied by the opinion of a medical professional, can reveal if a person is in pain ...
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Hudson, Braves beat Strasburg, Nationals 3-1
- Atlanta Braves infielder Dan Uggla follows through on a throw to first base at Nationals Park on Saturday. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tim Hudson pitched seven innings of four-hit ball, Evan Gattis homered, and the Atlanta Braves beat Stephen Strasburg and the Washington Nationals 3-1 Saturday for their eighth straight victory.
Hudson (2-0) allowed one run, walked none and struck out three in improving his lifetime record against Washington to 15-5. Not only did the right-hander outpitch Strasburg, but he also got two singles off Washington's hard-throwing ace.
Strasburg (1-2) gave up two unearned runs and five hits in six innings. He struck out seven, walked one and hit a batter.
Atlanta took the lead for good in the third inning, when Gattis homered after a two-out throwing error by Nationals third baseman Ryan Zimmerman. It was the fourth homer in eight games for Gattis, who made his major league debut on April 3.
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J. D. Salinger's Last Supper
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On any given Saturday night, just about anywhere in New England, volunteers put on a supper in a church hall or basement. It's a fundraising ritual almost as old as the country, started by women's auxiliary groups during the years after the Revolution, as towns and states gradually abandoned the practice of using levies to pay the local minister. Church suppers vary in size and type from place to place: chowder suppers on Cape Cod, ham suppers in Vermont, bean suppers everywhere.
Many church suppers today are truly down-home events, with no-frills fare made from prepackaged convenience foods and spaghetti sauce from a jar. In some places, though, monthly or annual church suppers are the real deal, not only locally famous but also attracting loyalists from distant towns–anticipated and planned for and well attended year after year.
Here in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, for example, the Congregational Church's annual "Wild Game Supper" in Bradford, Vermont, comes to mind. The out-of-town crowd at that hunting-season event grew so overwhelming–even at $25 a head–that the church recently set a serving limit of 900. The writer Calvin Trillin once called it "the Super Bowl of church suppers."
But another supper in this area, the "Famous Roast Beef Suppers" of Hartland, Vermont, takes the cake, to my taste. People drive an hour and a half or more to make the pilgrimage, and not just once a year or once a month, but some for nine straight Saturdays starting in January–every year. These dinners take place in the basement of "the Brick Church" in Hartland, and no matter the weather. A bad snowstorm or driving sleet might keep servings down to 200 or 250; a good night will feed some 400 people.
Most of them come, as my 7-year-old son and I did for the first supper last January, for the food: slabs of roast beef, mashed potatoes, green beans, coleslaw, pickles, rolls, homemade pie for dessert. The menu and the recipes haven't changed in decades. (The denomination is Congregational, but certain things are still sacred.)
The first hundred people are seated at 4:30 p.m.; the rest are admitted 10 at a time as the tables empty, till 7 p.m. or till the food's gone, whichever comes first. Folks start lining up before 3 o'clock, though, backing up the basement stairwell and crowding down the hall all the way to the piano room, and then circling back up the hallway past the stairs and out the door into the weather.
Some come early to be social, some to make sure they get the full choice of available pies, others to ease their hunger. At $12 for all you can eat, the first hundred or so people in line tend to be "real Vermonters," says Rev. Lucia Anne Jackson, pastor of the Brick Church, which has been putting on these suppers for the past 65 years. "For some folks, that might be their only meal of the day …" After that, families and church members start filing in. By 6:30, there's often still a line waiting.
Technically, the meals are put on by the Men's Fellowship of First Congregational Church of Hartland, but the sheer volume of the enterprise requires a small army of parishioners and other townspeople, mostly women. Larry Frazer, head of the Men's Fellowship and a 25-year veteran of the suppers, helps organize three separate teams of volunteers, who sign up for blocks of three Saturdays each. In addition to 10 servers, three people clearing, and a dozen or so folks helping in the kitchen, some 25 to 30 people on each team volunteer to bake at least two pies apiece for each Saturday: That's about 60 pies each supper, available until they run out.
On opening night last winter, when Virgil and I sat down at 5:30, the chocolate cherry and lemon meringue pies were already gone, but 16 other varieties remained, including apple raisin, pumpkin chiffon, and Judy Howland's own customary to-die-for blackberry pie.
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Real Housewives of Beverly Hills
Mauricio Umansky and Daughter Portia Share a Smooch: Real Housewives' Cute Pic of the Day
Who doesn't like a sexy guy who's great with children?
Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kyle Richards is one lucky lady to have a hunky husband like Mauricio Umansky and the most adorable little daughter on the planet, Portia.
Mauricio made us "aww" at our computer screens when he tweeted this cute picture of his little one welcoming him home from work with a big kiss.
"This is how I get greeted when I get home. Nothing like home. :)," he wrote.
Excuse us while we go and quietly squee in a corner.
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DHS blanks Williston: Midgets score 42 first half points, shut out Coyotes to finish season with win
October 26, 2013 at 2:27 am in Uncategorized
The Dickinson High football team needed a win for its first winning season since 2007.
The Midgets didnât waste any time making sure the win was within sight.
Plus with Halloween right around the corner, the Midgets pulled off a little trickery.
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On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 08:34:14AM -0800, Marc Hasbrouck wrote:
> I'm so confused, at least I didn't miss it or anything
> like that. Oh well, I'll bring those free computer
> bits from Bob on the 20th. They might make a nice
> addition to the free stuff table.
You mean the 21st. ;) ;) The 20th is an Installfest (and a Sunday).
January 2002
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1 2 3 4 5 <-- First Tues. was Jan. 1st, hence no meeting
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13 14 15 16 17 18 19
20 21 22 23 24 25 26 <-- Third Sun. is Jan. 20th. Installfest
27 28 29 30 31 Third Mon. is Jan. 21st. Meeting.
BTW, the next meeting is our anniversary meeting (happy 3rd birthday to us!)
It sounds like the officers will be holding a meeting soon to discuss
what we should do (I'm guessing cake and snacks, as usual :) )
Take care!
When in doubt, visit the website!
http://www.lugod.org/ <-- Includes "Upcoming Events" section
http://www.lugod.org/meeting/ <-- Definitive answer to "When's the
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It's a routine for most people; pulling into a gas station to fill up your vehicle.
These days, with gas prices at around $1.37 a litre for "regular" fuel in Central Newfoundland, it's also a big expense out of any household budget.
One might assume, as well, that the business of selling fuel is a profitable one for anyone who owns a gas station.
That's not so, according to gas station owners and the numbers offered by the Public Utilities Board (PUB).
The $1.37 a litre is shared up between the oil companies, government, gasoline wholesalers and gas station owners.
While not an exact science, Robert Byrne, Director of Regulatory and Advisory Services with the PUB, says breaking down who gets how much money from that sale of a litre of gasoline is a fairly simple task once all the information is available.
The PUB sets some aspects of the cost of gasoline, and calculates the other numbers, based on benchmarks, and information it gathers from world markets.
The first number the PUB considers is the Average New York Harbour Benchmark Price for period.
"That's what's called the NYMEX, or the Commodity Exchange Price - that's what we start our pricing with," said Byrne. "This is the average of seven day's values as reported by the Platts reporting service."
At Jan. 16, that number was at 76.81 cents - which the PUB has no control over, and is based on factors such as the market price of oil, and others.
Next, a mark-up is put on that price in the amount of 14.83 cents.
The PUB decides on the 14.83 cents number, explained Byrne - one of the few aspects of a gasoline price they actually have control over.
"This is the amount of money that's built into the price that either goes to the service station owner that's dispensing the fuel, or to the wholesaler that brings it in, stores it, and transfers it to the retailer," explained Byrne. "Out of that 14.83 cents a litre, 8.58 (cents) goes to the supply chain before the operation - so that would be the exploration cost, the refining cost, the transportation cost, storage cost, and delivery cost."
In the end, out of that $1.37 per litre of fuel, the gas station owner gets 6.5 cents of every litre of fuel they sell, explained Bryne.
The other aspect the PUB has control over is the Zone Differential - the formula that considers the cost of getting gasoline to different areas of the province.
"The cost to dispense (gasoline) is pretty much the same - you've got to have a pump, you've got to have a staff person, you have to have a shop and so on and so forth. But the actual cost to get the fuel to the different areas of the island is what the zone differential is designed to compensate for," said Byrne.
"The wholesale cost is to get it to the wharf, as you were, or from the refinery gate if it comes out of North Atlantic. And then the additional cost to get it from those areas to the outlying areas is what the Differential would represent, and there's various differential prices which is reflected in the different prices that we have that we issue weekly."
For Zone 5, for instance, the Zone Differential is calculated at 3.9 cents per litre, which is tallied into the total cost per litre that consumers pay at the pumps.
With the cost of refining, delivery, zone differential and gas station owner's share added up, the price of a litre of gas is at 95.54 cents. That's what people would pay at the pump if the add-ons stopped there.
So what drives the price up the other nearly $0.42 cents a litre? Taxes.
On every litre of gasoline, the federal government receives $0.10 cents. The province collects 16.5 cents.
Then the HST is added on, to get the final price per litre at the pumps.
Barely making it
Dwayne Rogers says when you break down who gets a share of the money for every litre of gasoline sold, it's a glaring fact just how little retailers are actually making.
Rogers owns the Esso station in Baie Verte, one of only two gas stations in the community. He says that even though his station sells quite a large volume of gas, considering his rural location, it's a struggle for the business owner.
"A lot of us are struggling to get by, actually, because it's been so long since we've seen an increase, and the cost of operations are constantly going up."
Rogers says basic mathematics can determine what a station similar to his is making. He's a privately owned gas station, which means that even though he's flying the Esso banner, he's still an independent business owner, who pays his own way in the day-to-day operations of his station.
"We sold about 1.5 million litres of gasoline last year," he said. "On paper, it looks like we did really well, but when you start to look at it closer, you realize that what we make on gas isn't much at all."
According to the PUB, residents of Zone 5 paid an average of $1.37 per litre for gasoline in 2013, based on analysis of the whole year's gas prices.
Using that figure as a basis for calculation, would mean a station selling the equivalent amount of gas to Rogers' took in a little over $2 million dollars. However, as he points out, that's far from what he would bring home.
On 1.5 million litres of gasoline, based on the PUB's benchmark of 6.25 cents for the retailer, Rogers says that adds up to only $93,750; a very small share of the $2 million in sales.
"It doesn't take a genius to figure it out, does it? The problem is that people see the price of gas on the pump, and if I told them last year I sold 1.5 million litres, they go home thinking I made over $2 million dollars - but that couldn't be further from the truth."
Because his margins are so low, Rogers says he's finding it hard to keep his operation above the waves, especially as gas prices fluctuate weekly.
"Let's say I buy gas at the higher price that's set," he explained. "So on that gas, I have a six cent margin to work with. If the price drops, and I've still got that expensive gas in my tanks, then my margin drops with it and, suddenly, I don't make as much money."
Rogers says he's heard the argument go the other way as well, that if the price goes up, he makes money on his gas. However, he says, based on experience, that doesn't play out in reality.
"If I have the gas in my tank that I bought at a certain price, and word comes out that gas is going down the next day, or whatever, then that's the days I hardly see a vehicle pull into the pumps," he said. "Obviously everyone is going to wait to come by and get the lower price, which means a loss for me.
Now let's say I have the gas in the tank and word comes that the price is going up. Then what happens? I can hardly keep up with it, everyone is coming to fill up before the price goes up, they drain the tanks, and I still end up having to buy the more expensive gas, and losing my chance at making a bit higher margin."
Just how does that margin translate into real-world dollars?
Suppose you pull into a gas station for a $50 fill-up. At the average 2013 price of maximum $1.37 a litre, a person would put 36.5 litres of gasoline in their vehicle. If the retailer is getting the PUB's suggested 6.25 cents a litre, their margin on your fill-up would be 2.28 cents, or roughly 4.5% of the total amount you spent on your purchase.
Rogers says when people realize that, and see what a retailer is expected to do with that money, it's staggering.
"Out of what we make we have to pay for everything from maintenance and insurance on the pumps down to the paper in the cash register," he explained. "It's crazy, really - when you realize what goes into running everything - insurance and minimum wage is going up all the time, maintenance on the pumps isn't cheap, things need to be replaced every so often and . . . it's almost too much sometimes."
One of the biggest dents in his profits, says Rogers, is something that's become increasingly more popular and necessary in running a business.
"Let's say someone fills up at the pump, and they come inside, and they've got a credit card there to pay for their gas," he said. "A lot of credit cards charge 3% of the total purchase in fees - that has to come out of what I make," he said.
On the $50 fill-up, Rogers explains, if a 3% credit card fee is applied that's another 1.5 cents coming off his margin, leaving him with an actual margin of 78 cents to keep everything afloat.
Morris Budgell of King's Point says the low margin is why he shut down his gas station at Baie Verte Junction.
"We just couldn't do it; there wasn't enough money into it," says Budgell.
He told The Nor'Wester they spent a considerable amount of money installing the pumps and making sure everything was up to standards in order to sell gas there in the first place.
"It's not cheap, you know. We put in about $50,000 just to get up and running. Then when we started going, with the low margins you make on selling gasoline, it's nearly impossible, to do anything with it."
Budgell says one of the biggest deterrents he found with selling gasoline from his location was the disadvantage he had of the Zone Differential.
"People would come by and, rather than stopping to my place, they'd go on to Hampden Junction because they'd get it cheaper," he said.
Budgell says something needs to be changed, otherwise more stations like his will have to shut down.
"Look at the number of gas stations you see shutting down," he said. "They just can't make it anymore; there's not enough into it to keep going."
Byrne, with the PUB, says they recognize the trouble that some station owners are having, but says they're in a difficult position when overseeing the entire province.
"It's sort of a difficult thing because you're trying to get a price for a product that fits all retail outlets and not all retail outlets are created equally," he explained. "If you have a guy that's putting through a half-million litres of fuel a year, versus someone who's going through a million litres a week, the return is different, there's no question about it."
However, he says, a number of retailers have brought their concerns to the PUB and he says a review is underway.
"We're doing a review of the margin right now, and that's been underway for the last number of months," he explained. That review would encompass the areas of gas prices the PUB has control over - the Total Allowed Mark-up, and the Zone Differential.
However, one fact still remains that Byrne is quick to point out.
"The vast majority of the cost of a litre of gasoline is outside of our control in its entirety," he said. While he doesn't come out and say it, anyone who looks at the numbers knows that outside of the price controlled by world markets, the next biggest culprit for driving the price of gasoline up is the taxes imposed by Government.
At least one provincial politician is saying the issue runs even deeper than most realize.
George Murphy, the NDP Member for St. John's East, is no stranger to gas prices in the province. As a member of the Consumer Group for Fair Gas Prices, Murphy has been talking gasoline prices for the past number of years. He says the taxes government imposes on gasoline has been a topic of their conversation for a long time.
"The consumer, when he's taxed at the pumps, he's also being taxed an extra 3.5 cents a litre, because of how the province and the federal government figure out their range of taxes after they put the retailer markup on," said Murphy. "All because the provincial and federal governments can't seem to get together at the table to renegotiate the HST agreement they originally signed."
Murphy says the double taxes consumers pay for isn't fair for the people who fill up at the pumps.
"It's part of our platform that we'd change that, so that you're not dinged those extra 3.5 cents," he said.
However, if that can't be done, Murphy says, they have ways they can better spend the money collected.
One of the NDP's suggestion is to put that tax money back into the rural economy, via tax breaks for small businesses.
"For any small business that has a payroll less than $500,000 dollars, (annually) they should not be paying any kind of small business tax in this province," Murphy says. "So our proposal is to reduce it by one percent a year, to the point where you're not paying anything, because you've got small businesses in this province that are running about 40 percent of the economy. So that's somewhere else where we could be helping keep a small business viable."
When it comes to small businesses and gas stations working to get better margins and profits on their products so they can survive, Murphy says, at least for now, it isn't going to be easy.
"It's an uphill battle; because you've got a provincial government here too, don't forget, that isn't doing anything to stimulate rural growth in this province; it wants everybody else on that Trans Canada Highway so it can service everybody or not at all.
"What are they doing to promote economic growth out there in Ming's Bight?" Murphy asks, adding, "The last time I heard a news release on Ming's Bight was ... I can't remember when."
However, Murphy and the NDP's main message seem to be to not give up hope.
"There's got to be a future for rural Newfoundland. It's about every small business in every community out there - how do they grow? You've got to have government initiative . . . guts and brains behind it if you want them to grow or at least give them the foundation where they can express growth.
"If you've got more people spending money in the economy because their childcare is lower, or their household expenses are lower, you'll be able to pour more money into the economy and then you'll have the basis of staying here in the province and working for $19 dollars an hour driving a truck instead for going to Fort Mac and working for $40-50 dollars driving a truck up there just to keep your head above water and pay off the Visa card."
Dwayne Rogers says whether or not the review of the PUB will return any results to help him and other businesses like his, remains to be seen.
"I hope that when they finally do come back, if they have any sort of increase or anything like that, then they'd have something we can work with and get by on," he said.
Rogers says they're the front line workers; the ones who get the products out to the consumers, and take the much of the brunt that comes with the troubles and trials of gasoline economics and politics.
"We're the ones who hear the complaining most, the ones who have to keep up with everything that people need and expect when it comes to getting gas for their vehicles," he said. "If they (gas producers and wholesalers) don't have us, they don't have anything . . . they have no way to get their product out to people who buy it."
Rogers points out that gas stations service not only consumers but also emergency vehicles and government equipment used to service and maintain the province's highways.
"Sometimes we'll get a call that we need to come in to get gas for an emergency vehicle or something like that," he said.
"I guess that makes us an essential service too," he said. "And if we're going to stay around, they'd (government) better start helping us more than they do now."


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CELINA � Clinton Thompson, 72, of Behm�s Landing, Celina, died at 11:25 a.m. June 10, 2013, at his residence.
He was born Feb. 11, 1941, in Lee County, Va., the son of George C. and Laura Smith Thompson. On May 19, 1990, under the arbor he made at their home, he married Lynne Harris, who survives.
Also surviving are his daughters, Tresha (Dave) Backs, of Goodlettsville, Tenn., Anessa (Mike) Stappleton, of Madison, Ala., and Sherri (Sean) Killingsworth, of Huber Heights; their adopted daughter, Chris (Dave) Emmons, of Dayton; his brothers James Thompson, of Celina, and G.C. (Barb) Thompson, of St. Marys; and his in laws Niles Harris, of Deadwood S.D., Sis Harris Coenen, of Ketchikan, Alaska, and Trip (Wanda) Davis, of Lima.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his brothers, L.C. Thompson and Douglas Thompson; sisters, Ruth (Rex) Parsons and Betty (Richard) Belden; and his sisters-in-law, Marge Thompson and Bette Harris Davis.
Mr. Thompson was a house siding installer, truly enjoying his job and never met a home he didn�t like. He most recently had worked for Doyle Homes, Lima. He enjoyed his home at Behm�s, fishing and supplying fish for the neighborhood fish fries.
Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Monday at the Gilberg-Hartwig Funeral Home, New Bremen. Pastor Rodney Ritchie will officiate. Burial will be at a later date in the German Protestant Cemetery, New Bremen.
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Posted: February 24, 2013 at 5:45 a.m.
Rogers High pitchers tossed 202 innings last season, but almost all of that experience has graduated as the Mounties prepare for the this season.
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March 6-8 Best Sports Classic TBD
March 12 Fayetteville (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
March 15 Fort Smith Southside 4:30 p.m.
March 20-22 Millington, Tenn. Tournament TBD
March 26 at Van Buren (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
March 29 at Ozark, Mo. 4:30 p.m.
April 2 Bentonville (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
April 5 Tulsa Bishop Kelly at Bentonville 7 p.m.
April 9 Springdale Har-Ber (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
April 12 at Claremore, Okla. TBD
April 18 at Siloam Springs (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
April 19-20 Lawrence, Kan. Tournament TBD
April 25 at Springdale High (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
May 2 Rogers Heritage (DH)* 4:30 p.m.
May 6 at Fort Smith Northside 4:30 p.m.
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'The amateurs have been my life and I have made many friends'
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"The society were like nomads looking for rehearsal rooms for many years until we raised enough money to fund our headquarters in 1992," says Florence Ellwood, one of the remaining original members of Workington and District Amateur Musical Society.
The society, which celebrates its 60th birthday this year, spent 40 years rehearsing in different venues.
They included the St John Ambulance rooms in Fox Lane, the Hippodrome and Princess Street Ballrooms, Workington Technical College, Victoria School Hall and Princess Street Centre Room.
In 1992 members raised enough money from social functions, raffles, rummage sales and garden parties to build its current headquarters in Gordon Street, on the former site of the Church of the Nazarene.
Set up in 1952 by Ronnie Hunt and his wife Rosa, the group has been going strong ever since.
Members Florence and Ruby Stockdale, who joined the society when it started, were last year awarded medals for 60 years service by Ed McGee, area representative for NODA.
The third original member Alwynne Conaway died three weeks ago.
Outgoing president Margaret McIntyre and members Alan Carruthers, Robert and Brenda Holliday will all receive gold awards later this year.
Florence says: "I can honestly say that the amateurs have been my life all these years and I have made many good friends.
"There only seems to be two founding members who are still active members.
"The other members of my family who were also members have sadly passed away.
"I am proud to be one of the existing members to be celebrating this diamond jubilee and to have received my 60-year medal."
The society has faced many battles, including attracting more male performers, which saw them recruit members from the Marsh Boys' Club.
The cost of hiring professional producers also became a burden and saw members Robert Holliday and Reg Jenkinson start to produce and direct shows.
And the collapse of the ceiling in the Carnegie Theatre in 1975 saw the pantomime Dick Whittington postponed for a few months.
One issue which sparks a lot of memories for outgoing president Margaret was when the Opera House closed in 1962 and the group was unable to do its show that year.
Instead, they pushed on and toured all the village halls in West Cumbria.
She says: "The members were in make-up and costume standing in Central Square waiting for transport to pick them up in all weather, including snow.
"And there was the time when King Rat, having answered the call of nature before he went on, was saved from going on stage with his tail caught in the flies at the front of his costume.
"During the same run, the dame went outside for a smoke. Unfortunately the door closed behind him and there he was locked outside in his underclothes in the freezing temperatures, knocking on the hall windows to be let in."
The society has moved with the times, introducing modern performances such as Boogie Nights, and has tried to attract younger members with fresh ideas.
It now has around 40 junior members involved with lighting, sound and staging, and they produce a show every two years.
A younger group, Stage Stars, was started this year to give five to eight-year-olds the chance to learn singing, dancing and acting skills.
Margaret explains: "The introduction of a junior section has led to many people becoming senior members and taking over activities to ensure the society moves forward."
The group attracted many families over the years, including Florence's husband Bob, her mother Prudence Fishwick and brother Len Conaway with his wife Alwynne, Charlie Parsons and his daughter Margaret Underwood and son Charles, Eleanor Jenkinson and her brother Colin Easterbrook and parents Margaret and Robert, the Uhrig family, Brenda and Robert Holliday and daughter Catherine, and Margaret and Alan Jackson and their son David.
"The society becomes a way of life for the members and their families," adds Margaret.
"It has a family atmosphere and, although there is a lot of hard work, there are social activities to help members relax.
"One has to have a love of theatre and be willing to work together to bring live performance to the local area.
"It is a fantastic achievement and testimony to the people who have worked so hard over the years to ensure the society goes from strength to strength.
"In these days, when there are so many other attractions, it is great to know the membership is holding its own and junior membership is going from strength to strength to ensure its future, which we hope will go on for a further 60 years."
For its jubilee year, the society reinvented and performed a pantomime version of Cinderella in December last year.
The group had originally performed it in the early 1960s.
To mark the anniversary, members will hold a celebration ball at Workington's Washington Central Hotel tomorrow.
First published at 19:19, Thursday, 07 June 2012
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PDP contests Sheikh Nazir's claim on Indra Sheikh accord
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:Srinagar, December 08 (Scoop News) – Rubbishing the claim made by the national conference general secretary that the late Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah was not a party to the 1975 accord Peoples Democratic Party ( PDP) today said denial of their actions was nothing new for the house of Abdullahs. In a statement the party chief spokesperson Naeem Akhtar said such backtracking came naturally to NC leadership as they thrived only in the grey space of Kashmir politics while the people of the state suffered as a result of their acts of omission and commission. He said it is inconceivable that the accord could have been only a handiwork of the late Beg saheb without participation of Sheikh saheb though its only objective was installing Sheikh saheb as chief minister and making way for his successors to the throne.
Advocate Sheikh Nazir Ahmed claimed in an interview to daily Greater Kashmir today that "Sheikh saheb was not directly involved in the 1975 exercise. it was Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg and G parthasarthy who were talking to each other".
Akhtar said the virtual disowning of 1975 accord by the Abdullah family as some kind of an underhand act of the late Mirza Mohammad Afzal Beg was yet another specimen of betrayal of a close associate of the late Sheikh but that was not its only import. " This is an attempt at rewriting history to divert attention from the latest phase of NC seeking salvation and survival as an appendage of congress which obviously raises questions about its claims to a regional character", he said.
The PDP leader said denying a historical fact was nothing new for the NC as the party denied even having been a party to accession after enjoying power without elections for five years raising the banner of plebiscite. He said though during its rule between 1947 and 1953 the NC leadership let loose a reign of terror, exiling and imprisoning opponents on charges of being
Pakistani agents and 'arresting' radio sets, the NC leadership made a volte face and misled people in the name of plebiscite. "The accord of 1975 was another u turn through which NC secured power once again without elections and accepted all the erosion in state's autonomous character. Not only this, the NC leadership even gave away the right to make changes in the nomenclature of the governor and chief minister under state constitution in July 1975, only five months after the accord" Akhtar said.
Akhtar said NC had to make a choice between power and pursuing the autonomy resolution passed by the state assembly and it did not bat an eyelid in making its choice. He said NC continued to whip the autonomy horse even when it was an alliance partner of RSS, BJP, VHP and Bajrang Dal for whom the scrapping of article 370 constitutes basic agenda. Now that the party has declared it's janam janam ka saath with the congress that holds 1975 Accord as the most sacrosanct agreement on Kashmir, denying Sheikh Abdullah's participation in it is an act of such duplicity and brazenness that can be practiced only by a party like the NC, Akhtar added.
Wishing advocate Sheikh Nazir Ahmed a speedy recovery, the PDP spokesperson said the people of the state had by now become used to amusing claims, charges, denials, retractions and apologies by Dr Mustafa Kamal on various issues relating to New Delhi and congress but it seems the entry of Nazir saheb into the discourse is necessitated by the latest round of mun tu shudam by Omar Abdullah with Congress that threatens to dilute NC's very existence. He said Nazir saheb's statement and its endorsement by Dr Kamal reflects either a rift in the family or it is yet another display of the division of labor between its various members to cement it's ties with powers in Delhi by Dr Farooq and Omar Abdullah and the rest trying to fool public in Kashmir through statements that only add to the political confusion and miseries of people.


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A passenger should not need TSA's app to know that a gag gift made to look like a bomb wouldn't be allowed on the plane. (TSA agents confiscated this one in July.) But for more conventional objects such as knitting needles, it provides fast information. (TSA photo)
The Transportation Security Administration has added a search capability to its mobile application home page in hopes of making it easier for travelers to identify what items can and can't be brought aboard aircraft, a perennial problem for the agency.
TSA officials announced the addition a few days ahead of the Labor Day weekend.
The "Can I Bring My ___" function of the MyTSA app searches more than 3,500 specific items in its database. Passengers can fill in the blank with any words they wish in search of a match. Many of the items in the database were suggested by passengers.
TSA's app brings up match suggestions for users after they type the first three letters of an item, and clicking on a suggestion provides an immediate answer on whether it can be taken on a plane.
However, because items have different names and wireless device keypads are not always easy to use accurately, being what they are, the agency said if users don't get any items in a search, or an "item not found" response comes up, they should re-type the name to ensure they spelled it correctly.
Users also have to eliminate unnecessary qualifiers. The app suggests, for instance, that users type "knitting needles," rather than "my knitting needles," or "light saber" instead of "my son's light saber" toy.
Even with the app, TSA continues to encounter plenty of banned items. Loaded handguns, stun guns and inert grenades turn up at airport security checkpoints every week. TSA said it found 44 guns in passenger carry-on bags, 39 of them loaded, during the week of Aug. 26. In July, TSA officers in St. Petersburg, Fla., found a gag retirement gift crafted to look like an improvised explosive device in one passenger's luggage.
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Problem with this stuff is that I watched TSA confiscate a tiny 'pen' knife, while a small drafting set with much more useful (if used by someone with an ounce of training or who watched certain TV shows) tools of mayhem were let through. Just one example of the many disconnects I have seen over the last 10 years or so of travel via air.
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The company launched a test version of its personalized search engine on Monday, part of its effort to tailor its search results to users' preferences. Google also plans to e-mail registered users of personalized search with the results of their queries.
The Mountain View, Calif., company introduced testing tools for its Personalized Web Search and Web Alerts on Google Labs, its public developmental playground.
Google claims that the forthcoming search option will let users more quickly access preferred results. The e-mail alert is meant to complement the service by tracking specific topics and sending search results on a weekly or daily basis, depending on a user's request.
Google representatives identified personalized search as an important step forward in the company's overall strategy of drawing itself closer to site visitors.
"Personalization and Web alerts are all examples of how we're continuing to innovate and provide value to users," said Jen Fitzpatrick, an engineering director at Google.
This is the company's latest personalized service, meant to draw in people by helping them fine-tune their searches. The Web search giant previously unveiled Google Local, which aims to provide geography-specific search results, and also introduced its desktop toolbar search service.
The company may also try to become more portal-like, with a "my" territory that competes with the personalized services of rival search engine Yahoo. Google recently updated a domain name registration of the Web address "MyGoogle.com" with Network Solutions.
Google's Personalized Web Search uses a series of check boxes to help users tailor their searches. Surfers can request a search on "bass" and then specify "fish" so that they do not get results related to music, for example.
Google plans to include in its e-mails relevant information from its news pages and links back to its Froogle shopping site.
Analysts welcomed Google's latest effort at personalization, pointing out that the search and e-mail alerts differ significantly from the customized pages rival My Yahoo offers. Denise Garcia, an analyst at Stamford, Conn.-based research firm Gartner, called the beta "quintessential Google," observing that the company has always favored a tight focus on providing search tools rather than other forms of customizable content, such as those found on My Yahoo.
Garcia said she would like to see Google increase the complexity of personalization it offers. The company could encourage greater use of the system by adding more depth in customization, such as providing more localized options and a larger range of buttons for finding content aimed at children and teenagers, she said. The system currently lets people highlight what state they're most interested in; by taking that down to the city or town level, Google could have even brighter prospects, according to Garcia.
"I could see people using this as an alternative to existing yellow pages and directory listings, if Google pushes it to the metro level," Garcia said. "There's also a huge opportunity to attract more local advertisers when that happens, and as much as this is a tool that caters to end users, I think it plays very nicely into that equation."
Google has yet to place ads on the personalization site, as it is still in test mode, but Fitzpatrick said it will continue its companywide effort to offer greater levels of relevancy to advertisers. The company has not given a launch date for a final version of the new tools.
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- New alerts copy of "Google Alert"?
- Google's new Web Alerts seem to be a scaled-down attempt at copying the popular Google Alert (www.googlealert.com) service that is based on Google's API. The Google Alert service has been around for over a year and in general offers more options and deeper searches.
I wonder if this is a sign of things to come - Google creating services similar to it's own API developers.
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- Perhaps, but that's their prerogative. Also, the Google Alert technology developed by Indigo Systems is not entirely original. Google could've bought Indigo Systems, but it's unlikely they wanted to pay several million dollars when they could just modify the Google News Alerts that has been around for nearly a year.
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- This could be a big step for local search and online reputation. If some one searches for restaurants in their vicinity, and Google gives a list and on one of the listings it shows that John Doe in your circle, said they have horrible service and bad soup, you are probably will not choose that restaurant.
This update increases the stakes for companies to monitor and manage their online reputation.
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In this Thursday, Dec. 17, 2009 file photo, Iranian Vice-President Mohammad Reza Rahimi, right, accompanies President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in his departure ceremony as he leaves Tehran's Mehrabad airport for Copenhagen to attend the U.N. Climate Summit. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi, File)
TEHRAN: Iran's vice president said Monday that Tehran will break the 'grasping hands' of newly re-elected President Barack Obama, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi also said Iran will overcome U.S.-led sanctions against the country.
"We will break grasping hands of Obama and we will be successful in bypassing the sanctions," Rahimi was quoted as saying during a research and scientific exhibition at Tehran University.
Iranian officials dismiss the impact of last week's U.S. elections, suggesting it will have little impact on Washington's Iran policy. On Thursday President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad mocked the cost of campaigning, dubbing the vote a "battleground for capitalists"
Rahimi is known for hardline anti-Western statements. In June, he blamed global drug use on the teachings of Jewish holy texts.
The sanctions have hit Iran's economy hard in the past months. They are imposed over Iran's nuclear program, which the West suspects is aimed at weapons development. Iran denies the charge, saying its program is for peaceful purposes like power generation and cancer treatment.
Ahmadinejad and allies like Rahimi are anxious to play up Iran's confrontation with the West. Conservatives who used to back him, but who turned against him last year over his perceived challenge to the clerical establishment, say he has mismanaged the economy and contributed to the country's woes.
Iran's parliament plans to question Ahmadinejad over the economy, and in the past has accused Rahimi of misusing public funds. The vice president denies the allegations.
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Moroccan Vegetable Tagine
100g CousCous
2 large carrots
2 courgettes (zucchini)
6 new potatoes
300ml vegetable stock, boiling
300g(ish) cooked chickpeas, I use tinned
1 smallish onion
2 cloves garlic
vegetable oil for frying
pinch saffron
2 teaspoons cumin
2 teaspoons coriander
1 tablespoon tomato paste
other warm spices as available
corn flour to thicken, optional
olive oil
This is a sort of authentic recipe, as a tagine should be cooked in a tagine and I cook this in a large saucepan.
Chop and fry the onion in a little vegetable oil and add minced garlic. Then turn down to a low heat and add the spices, keep stirring and let them sweat a little. The saffron is particularly important here, other spices you could use as well are nutmeg, cinnamon, ginger, allspice.
Chop the vegetables into large chunks, up to 2 inches long and 1/2 inch wide. Add the chick peas to the pan once the onions are very soft, then the tomato puree and then the vegetables. Pour in the stock and stir everything in.
Leave on a low heat, stirring occasionally, for about 40 minutes, more time is always good, to get the flavours really infused.
When almost ready, prepare the cous-cous by pouring boiling water and olive oil in a saucepan. Use as much water as stated on packet, leave for 10 minutes then reheat slightly.
You may want a thicker sauce; if so, mix a tablespoon or so of corn flour with a few spoonfuls of the tagine to make a paste then stir back in.
This freezes well, and if thickened, makes a great filling for a wrap/tortilla.
yum! thanks for sharing this - big help for those who are looking for a healthy alternative. Like me, im a yoga practitioner and a diet coach as well that's why i get the value of having the right meal. Today i'd like to share this great yoga shop athletica where i always shop for my yoga sportswear, BaliniSports. they have a wide collection of clothing for bikram yoga, gym clothing and hot yoga clothes. Great choice for those who are into bikram yoga that is looking for a fashionable sweat wear.
Here's the link, you're welcome! :)
When you say 100g couscous how many cups is that? Same question for the chickpeas. Thank you!
I really like this. i just add whatever veggies i have on hand. I also like to add seitan.
I've been looking for a recipe like this since I had a tagine at a someones house once, so this is great 8). Really enjoyed making it.
A nice wee tip: If you can get hold of some, my hostess chopped lots of fresh corriander into the cous cous before serving- it goes nicely with the flavours of the tagine :P.
I've been looking for a recipe like this since I had a turine at a someones house once, so this is great 8). Really enjoyed making it.
A nice wee tip: If you can get hold of some, my hostess chopped lots of fresh corriander into the cous cous before serving- it goes nicely with the flavours of the turine :P.


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Jacksonville running back Maurice Jones-Drew, safety Dwight Lowery and cornerback Rashean Mathis are among the inactive players for Sunday's game in Houston. Jones-Drew will miss his fourth straight game with a sprained left foot. Lowery (ankle) will miss his fifth straight game and Mathis (groin) will sit out for the fourth straight game. Fullback Greg Jones, offensive lineman Steve Vallos and defensive tackles D'Anthony Smith and Jeris Pendleton are also inactive for the Jaguars. Backup running back Ben Tate (hamstring) and nose tackle Shaun Cody (back) are among the inactive players for Houston. Cornerbacks Roc Carmichael and Brandon Harris, tackle Andrew Gardner and guards Cody White and Brandon Brooks are also inactive. Houston activated linebacker Darryl Sharpton from the physically unable to perform list and cut safety Troy Nolan.
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