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Solomon Billy was born on July 28, 1931, in Corinne to Wesley Billy and Nellie Charlie Billy. He passed from this life on December 6, 2011 in Plano, TX, at the age of 80. Sol enjoyed so much, getting up early and cooking breakfast for himself, and whoever was up with him, eat, drink coffee, and talk about news, the garden, or anything in between. He would many times go out on the front porch and sit and drink coffee and watch the goings on.
Jody Brent McCarty was born June 2, 1985 in McAlester to Jimmy Dwayne and Janet Lynn (Butts) McCarty. He passed from this life December 11, 2011 in Ravia at the age of 26. Jody graduated from OSU-Okmulgee with an Associates Degree in Highline Construction with honors. He married Jessica Ann Fluhmann on July 21, 2007 in San Angelo, TX. Jody had many interests & hobbies. He enjoyed watching westerns, reading tool magazines, playing with his dogs, hunting, fishing, & camping. He loved riding horses, and in his younger years, enjoyed roping.
Edward L. Morse was born November 12, 1928 in Rattan to Harry and Eva (Harper) Morse. He passed from this life December 9, 2011 in Rattan at the age of 83. Edward married Alma Ruth Davis on July 28, 1950 in Texarkana, AR. They were married 61 years. Edward worked as a livestock trader most of his life. He enjoyed fishing horseback, 4-wheelers, camping, playing dominoes, pitch, and working cattle. Most of all Edward enjoyed spending time with his family and friends, telling stories.
On Monday, December 12, 2011 the Pushmataha Hospital Auxiliary donated $10,000 to the Pushmatah Hospital to help cover the cost of new monitors for the ER. The Pushmataha Medical Foundation also donated $10,000 to the cause. Pictured from right to left are Mary Virden, Betty Cole, Steven Poe and Linda St. Clair.
Residents of Finley have been going through the steps required to appeal the United States Postal Services closure of the Finley Post Office from taking place the last several months. Residents that go to the Finley Post Office to retrieve their mail, or do postal business, will be rerouted through the Clayton Post Office if the Finley Post is indeed closed.
Over the weekend (Dec. 10) the Lady Cats participated in the Choctaw Nation Invitational Tournament in Talihina. The Lady Cats beat Central Salisa in the Semi-finals to take on Talihina in the final game of the tournament. The Lady Cats walked away from the Tournament with Runner up and had three of their players named to the All Tournament Team. They were aylor Tedder, Railey Gardner and Hailey Garman.
Over the weekend (Dec. 10th) the Bearcats Varsity Basketball team participated in the Choctaw Nation Invitational Basketball Tournament in Talihina. Bryce Martin, of the Bearcats, was named to the All Tournemant Team.
Sports Around The County
(Week of December 12th - 16th)
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Antlers Public School
December 12th: Antlers 7th & 8th grade vs Valliant @ HOME starting at 5:00 p.m.
December 13th: Antlers High School vs Coalgate @ HOME starting at 6:30 p.m.
December 15th: Antlers High School @ Boswell starting at 6:30 p.m.
Moyers Public School
December 13th: Moyers JV @ Lane starting at 3:30 p.m.
December 15th: Moyers JV @ Ft. Towson starting at 4:00 p.m.
Rattan Public School
Jewel Hutson was born November 28, 1925 in Checotah to Edward and Zona Elizabeth (Tow) Lucas. She passed from this life December 4, 2011 in Antlers at the age of 86. Jewel married John T. Hutson on October 14, 1945 in Bakersfield, CA. Together, they raised two children and remainded married until his passing. Jewel loved shopping and flowers, & she enjoyed spending time with family and friends. Jewel was preceded in death by her parents: Ed & Zona Lucas; husband: John T.
Tommy Louis Tuck, of Moore, passed from this life on Friday, December 2, 2011 at the age of 66. He was born September 19, 1945 in Ringold to his parents Coy and Lucy Tuck. He was a retiree of General Motors. He enjoyed hunting, fishing, and spending time with family. Tommy was a loving and devoted father and grandfather, who will be deeply missed. He leaves cherished memories with his: Two daughters, Tracy Pitt and husband Darren, Nicole Woods and husband Ray. Adoring grandchildren: Andrea and Abigail Pitt; Justin, Joshua, Jared, Joseph, and Jessica Woods.


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Scout spiffs up ministry's mission homes, flagstaffWritten by Brigitta Burks | News Editor | email@example.com
The efforts of a local Boy Scout and an Army staff sergeant recently converged for a project at The Open Door Ministry, a transitional housing program for men.
Springfield High School senior Robert Lagger needed to complete his service project to become an Eagle Scout when he contacted Open Door in May. The 28-year-old mission houses about 50 men at its properties on Cherry Street and Sixth Street.
"I just really like what they're doing for these guys because a lot of these guys have been kicked out of their homes; they've slept on the streets and these people give them a place to live. They rehabilitate them; they help them get back their normal lives," said Lagger of Boy Scout Troop 210 in Holland.
After conferring with the mission's staff on its needs, Lagger painted the Cherry Street locations' porches, but he still wanted to do something for the Sixth Street property.
"We asked the guys (at Sixth Street) to come up with an idea and they said how about lighting the flag pole so we fly our flag night," said Dan Gaynor, executive director of Open Door. With the help of staff and a local electrician, Lagger landscaped the area around the flagpole, put down bricks and installed lighting. He and his fellow scouts also had a carwash to raise funds for the project.
Robert Benjamin, a resident, told his son Patrick Benjamin, who is currently serving in Iraq, that the house needed a new flag.
"I called my son and said well, we needed a new flag and he said he had one," Robert said. "It just kind of built."
Patrick, who does field artillery, had a special flag for the house.
On Aug. 9, the last day of his temporary leave, Patrick presented Lagger and Open Door with a flag that had flown at a base in Iraq on Sept. 11, 2011.
"I was just glad to help honestly. Open Door has helped my father overcome his addiction to alcohol and all these guys around here are doing good. Anything I can do to help, I'm bound to do it," Patrick said.
Lagger raised the flag at a special ceremony and said he was thankful to be part of the project.
Gaynor said about a fifth of Open Door residents are veterans.
"They certainly have a special place in their hearts for something like this," he said.
Projects to improve Open Door's houses are important to residents, Gaynor also said.
"These guys keep this property up. We don't have any outside service or anything like that. The men that live here are responsible for the outside/inside upkeep of the property," Gaynor said.
"It's nice, too, for the men who are turning their lives around to live in a place that's nice and looks nice rather than for it just being a dumpy place for them to flop," said Jim Sasse, an Open Door board member.
The project was also important to residents in other ways.
Denny Murphy, program director of Open Door, said, "Other people caring about them, that really makes a difference and this particular case with the soldier, he was talking to me in the office and saying how proud he was of his dad so that's a big deal."
To learn more, visit www.opendoortoledo.org.
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Genital warts are soft growths on the skin and mucus membranes of the genitals. They may be found on the
Condylomata acuminata; Penile warts; Human papilloma virus (HPV); Venereal warts; Condyloma; HPV DNA test; Sexually transmitted disease (STD) - warts; Sexually transmitted infection (STI) - warts; LSIL-HPV; Low-grade dysplasia-HPV; HSIL-HPV; High-grade dysplasia HPV; HPV
The virus that causes genital warts is called human papilloma virus (HPV). More than 70 different types of HPV exist. Certain types of HPV can lead to
Not all types of HPV cause genital warts. Other types of HPV cause warts on other parts of the skin, such as the hands.
HPV infection around the genitals is common. Most people have no symptoms. In women, HPV can spread to areas inside, on the walls of the vagina and cervix. They are not easy to see without special medical procedures.
Important facts about HPV:
You are more likely to get genital warts and spread them more quickly if you:
If a child has genital warts, you should suspect sexual abuse as a possible cause.
Genital warts can be so tiny, you cannot see them.
The warts can look like:
In females, genital warts can be found:
In males, genital warts can be found on the:
Genital warts can also occur on the
Other symptoms are rare, but can include:
The health care provider will perform a physical exam.
In women, this includes a pelvic exam.
An office procedure called
The virus that causes genital warts can cause abnormal results on a Pap smear. If you have these types of changes, you will probably need more frequent Pap smears for a while.
An HPV DNA test can tell if you have a high-risk type of HPV known to cause cervical cancer. This test may be done:
Genital warts must be treated by a doctor. Do not use over-the-counter medicines meant for other kinds of warts.
Treatment may include:
The warts may be removed with minor procedures, including:
If you have genital warts, all of your sexual partners must be examined by a health care provider and treated if warts are found. Even if you do not have symptoms, you must be treated. This is to prevent complications and spreading the condition to others.
You will need to return to your health care provider after treatment to make sure all the warts are gone.
Regular Pap smears are recommended if you are a woman who has had genital warts, or if you partner had them. If you had warts on your cervix, you may need to have Pap smears every 3 to 6 months after the first treatment.
Women with precancerous changes caused by HPV infection may need further treatment.
Many sexually active young women become infected with HPV. In many cases, HPV goes away on its own.
Most men who become infected with HPV never develop any symptoms or problems from the infection. They can still pass it on to current and sometimes future sexual partners.
Even after you have been treated for genital warts, you may still infect others.
Some types of HPV can cause cancer of the cervix and vulva. They are the main cause of cervical cancer.
Genital warts may become numerous and quite large. These will need further treatment.
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Women should begin having Pap smears at age 21.
HPV can be passed from person to person even when there are no visible warts or other symptoms. Practicing safer sex can help reduce your risk of getting HPV and cervical cancer:
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Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). Recommendations on the use of quadrivalent human papillomavirus vaccine in males. MMWR. 2011;60:1705-1708.
American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Infectious Diseases. Policy Statement: HPV vaccine recommendations. Pediatrics. 2012. DOI: 10.1542/peds.2011-3865.
Berman Bm Amini S. Condyloma acuminata. In: Lebwohl MG, Heymann WR, Berth-Jones J, Coulson I. Treatment of Skin Disease: Comprehensive Therapeutic Strategies. 4th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Saunders; 2013:chap 46.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) Recommended Immunization Schedules for Persons Aged 0 Through 18 Years and Adults Aged 19 Years and Older - United States, 2013. MMWR. 2013;62(Suppl1):1-19.
Habif TP. Clinical Dermatology: A Color Guide to Diagnosis and Therapy. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Elsevier Mosby; 2009:chap 11.
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"Creating CLE ethics trainings and presenting at bar associations across South Florida has provided me with a learning experience that is not found in most law school classes. PREP facilitates dialogue across a wide spectrum of the profession—law school students, professors, lawyers, judges, and legal assistants. Every student should have the opportunity to participate in PREP or a course like it and schools that do not offer a similar program should consider creating one." - Danielle Singer, J.D. '14
"The rules of professional responsibility surrounding advertisement and social media are complex in Florida. It was extremely satisfying to see that all of our hard work and research had an impact on the Palm Beach legal community." - Justin Ortiz, class of 2013
"I thoroughly enjoyed interacting with the attorneys [at Legal Services of Greater Miami.] The great thing about the program is that it allows students to not only become knowledgeable about current ethical issues that are plaguing the community, but it also gives us an opportunity to interact with practicing attorneys and become involved in Miami's legal community. This sort of experience is invaluable to law students." - Courtney Daniels, class of 2013
"Visiting FIAC [Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center] was an amazing experience. It was great to hear from the attorneys about their personal experiences with their clients in the day-to-day operations of the center. I will absolutely take what I learned with me to whatever job I have upon graduation." - Kelly Rains, class of 2012
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n. a collection of nerds
Sitting in my cubicle, I saw a shame of nerds pass by.
di ColinSFX 30 giugno 2004
Another word for semen. This definition has a double meaning. Using it as a noun, semen=shame. However, it's usually shameful the way most semen is brought about and it is naughty in nature. Besides, when telling sexual stories, you don't feel as dirty when you say, "I shamed all over her ass!" Some girls should be ashamed of themselves.
1. Girl "Dang, there is still some shame in my hair!"
2. Guy "That girl loved the shame, she couldn't get enough shame!"
3. Guy "Where do you want my shame?"
2. Guy "That girl loved the shame, she couldn't get enough shame!"
3. Guy "Where do you want my shame?"
di ManKitten 12 luglio 2006
is a phrase used when someone makes a fool out of themself
someone falls over....SHAME
di JOHN 17 ottobre 2004
The sting of embarrassment that comes with misrepresenting oneself.
my best time was tomorrow when I fell down straight like I did today
di Ger 22 giugno 2004
A past tense use of shum.
I were having wild sex and it was so good, I shame right there in the bed!
di Eric the Terrible 20 gennaio 2010
Also know as THE shame, when something is shamefull.
Oats: Lisa's not coming to your house now 'cause Dan's got borbons at he's.
Tom: THE SHAME!!! NO! DIRTY! NO!
Tom: THE SHAME!!! NO! DIRTY! NO!
di Beadle 29 settembre 2003
The past tense of the word "shum". Shum, meaning the disgusting soup of semen and poop that you relieve yourself of after receiving anal sex. Coincidently, shame is also what you feel as you evacuate this...um...fluid(?).
Krissy felt more than one kind of shame as she sat on the toilet that sombre Sunday morning.
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36% of Americans believe in UFOs, that is, though most Unidentified Aerial Phenomena are actually explained as such mundane things as misidentified meteorological phenomena, astronomical phenomena, aircraft, and so on, there's ~ 5% that are as yet unexplained and that these unexplained UFOs are machines from somewhere other than Earth.
Have you ever observed a UFO that has never been sufficiently explained? Do you believe that some unexplained UFOs are machines from somewhere other than Earth? If so, why (what are your reasons or arguments for believing so)? What evidence is there to support your belief?
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I'm perfectly happy to change my opinion as well - given evidence. I also know that my senses have fooled me in the past - particularly when I was religious. If I started seeing something totally bizarre I would have to ask myself if there was a possibility that I had been dosed with some groovy sort of drug, or if I had been under a lot of stress - I would try to verify if what I had sensed was real or not and accept that my perceptions were misleading if the evidence was against them.
When I was a child I was convinced that I had seen evidence of ghosts -> looking back, I realize that I was primed with all sorts of superstitious beliefs that lead me to perceive some events incorrectly.
People who want to believe in 'something more' often perceive 'something more'. I've often seen such people embellish their stories and then later other such people claim to have also witnessed the same event when initially they never made such a claim.
To date I've seen nothing that would convince me that interstellar travelers were observing us in incompetent secrecy. Even when people see wild lights in the sky, the odds are much in favour of terrestrial origins over interstellar origins.
You are a paragon of reason - yet so easy to read!!
My thoughts are clearly written in my facial expressions - which is why I only play poker online.
What part of "unidentified" don't you understand?
NO! Absolutely not! The idea that we are being vistited by extraterrestrial beings and technologies so similar to our own is, on its face, utterly preposterous. There are numerous scientific reasons to reject such a ridiculous notion - too many to list in this space. But here are two:
The immense distances between our planet and any other possible inhabited locations in space mean that the time required for such journeys is, to say the least, prohibitive. To believe that little green men are making regular trips back and forth - trips that take millions of years, even traveling faster than our fastest rockets, is nothing but comic-book fantasy/delusion.
The second (of many) reasons is, in fact, a dead giveaway as to the motivations of those who report seeing extraterrestrials. They ALWAYS look like us. They have arms & legs, eyes & ears, and all the other accoutrements of Homo sapiens. Anyone who knows and understands even the most basic principles of evolution (very few Americans do) would realize that, even if we were visited by entities from the cosmos, they would look nothing like human beings or any other life forms we know on earth. Furthermore, isn't it an amazing coincidence, that they just happen to be our approximate size - not microscopic or gargantuan? It's the effect of the limited intelligence of UFO freaks.
Back in 1959, I was driving with a friend across the desert late at night. We were on the desolate stretch between the California border and Las Vegas. There was no moon, nor were there any clouds to reflect the distant illuminations of civilization; so the night was as dark as dark can get. All of a sudden, my friend, sitting in the passenger seat, looked up through the windshield and saw a string of lights, which he described as being at very high altitude, and flying in formation at speeds far beyond the capabilities of all known aircraft. "UFO's!" he exclaimed. I looked through the windshield and was astonished at what I saw. Or, more accurately, what my brain saw.
Now I am, by nature, a person grounded in reality, and I am deeply skeptical of anything that doesn't fit that reality. So I began to look for a logical explanation - the LEAST logical being the one my friend proferred. As I was moving my hand around, experimenting, the lights instantly disappeared; then, just as instantly, they reappeared, at the same altitude, speed and in the same formation. I soon noticed that, every time my hand was in this specific position the lights would disappear, and appear again when my hand was elsewhere. Finally, I looked off to the left of my car and noticed a string of lights on the ground far off - at least a mile - to the west. They may have been street lights of a small community, illumination for an industrial facility, or something else; I'll never know. In any case, they were clearly earthbound and stationary.
What had been happening was that, in the extreme darkness, these isolated lights way off to the west, were shining through my window and reflecting off the curved pane of my windshield; occasionally, my hand would block these lights. The lack of any perspective because of the total darkness, meant that the position and distance from our eyes of the lights were impossible to guage. In other words, the lights were not high in the sky, they were on my windshield. The human brain has this unfortunate flaw: it can only interpret what it sees in terms of our experience and/or our biases. My friend's bias was the credulous belief that there are flying saucers. Mine is that there is ALWAYS a logical explanation of some kind.
I repeat: THERE ARE NO SUCH THINGS AS FLYING SAUCERS, and people who claim to believe such nonsense are either mentally deficient or cynically deceptive.
I agree with everything you say except the time frame for the journey. Just because we lack FTL transit, doesn't mean some advanced civilization couldn't have figured out a way. Even if someone did come up with a means, however, it would still likely require massive amounts of energy that would preclude casual visits.
I had a similar 'UFO' sighting on a city bus once. Just as the bus rounded a corner, a line of glowing saucers dropped into view. The sudden sight of them gave my heart a jolt. In about 3 or 4 seconds I too found I was viewing a reflection during a time in the evening when the light was just right to reflect the illuminated, saucer shaped lights in a nearby parking lot without creating a reflection of the poles supporting them. It was a great illusion and totally accidental.
The immense distances between our planet and any other possible inhabited locations in space mean that the time required for such journeys is, to say the least, prohibitive.
In special relativity, motion through space plus motion through time always equals the speed of light. Thus the faster you travel through space, the slower you travel through time. Once you reach the speed of light, there is no time. So from the perspective of the space traveller, if you can go fast enough, time isn't a factor. Once you reach the speed of light the trip is instantaneous (absent the time to accelerate and decelerate) so in that sense time is not a factor. The technology to pull that off is beyond anything we're capable of doing, but after a million years of technological progress: who knows?
Also, what if advanced technology someday grants us the ability to control how we experience the passage of time? Imagine we can construct machine-like bodies and an enhanced human consciousness that has limitless patience, or that can shut down conscious thought for thousands or even millions of years at a time?
I don't see any evidence that extraterrestrials have visited the earth. But I don't think that means it's completely impossible. It's just highly unlikely.
" they would look nothing like human beings or any other life forms we know on earth"
Maybe. Maybe not. There may WELL be forces at work in the universe which would tend to favour bilateral symmetry, for instance. Binocular vision would seem to have obvious benefits and eyes and ears higher above the ground may also be naturally advantageous.These forces may not yet be identified as having implication in natural selection.
Without the meteorite, dinosaurs were the dominant species - a whole different thing could have happened.
Actually the dinosaurs died off because they were oversexed used too much petroleum jelly and became oil deposits...at least that what I heard last sunday in church. :)
I guess it would depend upon your definition of "would look nothing like". Dinosaurs are bilaterally symmetrical, they have binocular vision, their eyes and ears are on their head - at the top. By "look nothing like" I pictured, for instance, an amorphous blob - creatures that, perhaps, wouldn't see a lot of difference between a dinosaur and a person. All I'm saying is that evolutionary changes are not "random" nor dependant purely upon competition with others. There are immutable physical forces which also played a role in shaping life on earth and because these forces are the same all over the universe, some similarities in life forms would be bound to occur.
Evolution sometimes creates bilaterally asymmetrical animals. Flounders are one example. They essentially spend their adult lives laying on their sides. One of their eyes migrates to the top side. Another example is the blowholes on sperm whales, which are located off center. Depending on how one defines bilateral symmetry, people aren't exactly symmetrical. Most of us have one eye ever so slightly higher than the other, which aids in depth perception. And for any person who's right- or left-handed, this handedness also results in some physical asymmetry.
Not all aspects of animal anatomy and/or behavior have survival value. Some of them make a creature more attractive to a mate, which helps that individual propagate its genes into the future. However, that individuals genes may be quite average otherwise. There's no reason to suppose that a peacock with a particularly spectacular tail has anything but better tail genes, and the larger the tail, the harder it is for the bird to get airborne in case of a predator attack, so the tail would seem to be actively dysfunctional, because of the cock with the smaller tail can't get laid, his genes are going nowhere, even if his genes are otherwise superior and he can get away from predators more handily.


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Hapa is the Hawaiian word for half. Solomon, a 19 year old local boy from Kauai, is hapa Hawaiian & Mexican. In my limited time on the Islands, I have 'discovered' that mixed ethnic boys often have big meaty uncut dicks. Solomon is a beautiful brown Hapa boy with 10 fat inches of uncut canoe between his legs! While filming in the kitchen Solomon spontaneously picks up a pineapple and begins tossing it with one hand while stroking his thick stick with the other. He proudly exclaims that "pineapple is the best fruit on the island." While on camera, Solomon asks me to witness that his hard cock is in fact bigger then the ripe fruit in his other hand! Yes, indeed it is! Don't miss this special moment as Solomon delights in the size of his penis. Watch the joy of this young amateur model as he gets naked for the camera for the first time on Island Studs.
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HI - San Francisco - City Center Hostel
Vintage character, retro cool, and modern amenities – HI –San Francisco City Center's got it all. The City Center hostel started life in the 1920s as a boutique hotel, and while period details like a marble-tiled lobby and mahogany-railed mezzanine still remain, it's the 21st century amenities our guests love most. Connect to fast, free Wi-Fi throughout the building, grab evening drinks and free morning breakfast at our speak-easy-chic café, and enjoy private bathrooms in every room (yes, even dorms!).
The City Center hostel is off the beaten tourist path but still close to it all. Located between the edgy Tenderloin District and the clean marble columns of the city's Civic Center and Arts Districts, our neighborhood is a hub for some of the city's best cheap cuisine, as well as great nightclubs and live music venues. We're just 7 blocks from the Civic Center BART station, making it easy for our guests to get all over the city, as well as to and from the San Francisco and Oakland airports.
Best of all, whether you want to explore the city or chill at the hostel, our staff is here to help. We're always hosting movie nights, group dinners, and tons of other special events on site. We also organize free or cheap activities like pub crawls, walking tours, and museum days to help you experience everything our city has to offer.
On-site amenities include:
*Fast, free Wi-Fi
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*Large, professional-grade guest kitchen
*Free linens and towels
*Daily housekeeping
*Discounted airport shuttle
"A sensational base camp for an assault on the city." – Lonely Planet
Hostelling International is a non-profit membership organization promoting peace through hostelling since 1909. To maintain our low overhead and to be able to offer low-budget accommodations to as many people as possible, non-members will be asked to pay a $3 non-membership fee per night upon check-in.
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By BART: Take a BART train from the airport to the Civic Center station. (Trains run 4 a.m. to midnight on weekdays, 6 a.m. to midnight on Saturdays, and 8 a.m. to midnight on Sundays and holidays.) Exit the station using the UN Plaza exit. Walk across the plaza towards City Hall (the large domed building) and turn right on Larkin Street. Walk 5 blocks north on Larkin, then turn right on Ellis Street. The hostel is the first building on the righthand side.
By Shuttle: Lorrie's Airport Service offers a discounted rate of $14 per person for shuttle service between San Francisco International Airport and HI-San Francisco hostels. Contact the hostel for more information and reservations.
By Taxi: There are usually plenty of private taxis available at the airport. Look for an official taxi stop outside the baggage claim. A ride from SFO to the hostel will set you back about $50.
From the Greyhound Station at San Francisco's Temporary Transbay Terminal, exit and turn right on Folsom. Take your first right onto Beale and walk 1 block. Cross Howard, and find the MUNI bus #38 bus stop at the northeast corner of Howard and Beale. Take the MUNI bus #38 to Geary and Larkin Streets. Cross Geary to walk south on Larkin for 2 blocks, then turn left on Ellis. The hostel is the first building on your right.
The nearest Amtrak train station is in Emeryville, but Amtrak offers connecting bus service to San Francisco. When you purchase your train ticket, select 'San Francisco - Civic Center' as your final destination. From the Civic Center bus stop, walk west across UN Plaza towards City Hall (the large domed building) and turn right on Larkin Street. Walk 5 blocks north on Larkin, then turn right on Ellis Street. The hostel is the first building on the righthand side.
From Van Ness Avenue (US 101), drive east on O'Farrell Street. Turn left on O'Farrell Street. Turn right on Hyde Street and immediately turn right on Ellis Street. The hostel is at the end of the block on your left side.
Park in the loading zone in front of the hostel; front desk staff will direct you to permanent parking nearby. Expect to pay $10 per 12 hours.
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HI-San Francisco City Center is centrally located near City Hall and the Civic Center arts district. Easy walking distance to The Warfield and the Great American Music Hall; SF Opera, Symphony, and Ballet; the Asian Art Museum and the San Francisco Museum of Performance and Design. Also walking distance to Union Square, Chinatown, SoMA, and cable cars. Close to public transit: 1 block from major MUNI bus lines, and 6 blocks from BART trains which run to/from the San Francisco International Airport and the Oakland International Airport.


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2012 Season Review – After the graduation of two key players from the previous season, Bill Schultz and his 2012 team had some holes to fill. The Hawks pulled together and faced that challenge head on. Several first year players complemented the veterans, as they finished the season at 6-21 and broke a few records along the way. The Hawks set a new win-loss record, winning more matches since the volleyball program was established during the 2000 season and scored more set points against opponents who have traditionally dominated the Hawks. Their 2-9 United Volleyball Conference (UVC) league record tied the 2009 NECVA league record, but the 2012 Hawks faced a tougher mix of competition playing against six teams who finished ranked in the top 15 ranked programs in Division III this year.
The royal and white opened their season at the Elmira Tournament with their first shut-out win over CCNY and three three-set loses to Juniata, Thiel and Elmira; a few days later, Thiel traveled to Hilbert and grabbed another victory from the Hawks to close out January. The second month of game schedule started with home matches against cross-town rivals, D'Youville and Medaille. Hilbert took the Spartans to a four-set match while they scared the Mavericks in set one, (27-25 set score) before they surrendered the next two games. The United Volleyball Conference's first cross over weekend was hosted by Stevens University and Hilbert went 1-2 with a five-set win over SUNYIT and two loses to Stevens and NYU. After a road UVC loss at Medaille, the Hawks faced Nazareth College, the 2011 Molton National Champion. The Golden Flyers won the first set, 25-19 before the Hawks captured their first-ever set victory against Nazareth (25-21). Hilbert played with confidence the remaining two sets even though they dropped both by identical scores (25-20). February ended with Hilbert sweeping Wells College and then being swept by Elmira.
The Hawks took their first back to back match victories at Wells when they faced the Express and Lancaster Bible College March 3rd. Hilbert beat Bard College (3-2) in the second UVC weekend cross-over games held at Nazareth College, but fell in the other remaining games on the schedule which produced their 6-21 record.
Something unique about men's volleyball that no other team on Hilbert's campus can experience is that the team has its primary conference (UVC) and a secondary conference (AMCC - based on the athletic program's association in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference). Because there are three other current AMCC institutions that also sponsor men's volleyball, the AMCC offers a one-day tournament to determine the league champion, although this conference champion does not receive a bid to the national men's volleyball tournament. Nazareth College claimed the United Volleyball Conference championship and received the automatic bid to the 8-team NCAA Division III tournament.
Leading the way for the Hawks were first year captains Anthony Blasz and Adam Weaver. Blasz finished second on the team in blocks (32) and service aces (15) and Weaver led the Hawks in Kills (287), Kills per Set (3.30), and Hitting Percentage (.255). After only his second year at Hilbert, Weaver is 38 strikes away from becoming the Hawks All-Time Kill leader. Sophomore Fred Sickau had a big year at the net finishing with 188 kills (2.09 kps). He and Blasz were the only Hawks to play in all 90 sets this year.
Producing good numbers in the middle was junior college transfer, Scott Ross. He led the Hawks with 59 blocks (15 solo) and had the second best hitting percentage (.192) in his first year at Hilbert. Junior Adam Clabo was used as a defensive specialist and finished the season with 131 digs.
Five freshmen contributed to the growth of the program in varying degrees this year. Stephen Phillips is on track to shatter the Hilbert pass-assist record, if he is able to maintain his pace over the course of the next three seasons. He led the Hawks with 625 assists, positioning him in second place on the all-time list chasing the magic 1002 tally, and he finished with a team-best 27 service-aces. Ryan Ratajczak, with 239 digs credited to his name, is half-way there to break the All-Time Dig leader record of 503 set last season. David Mellerski, Andrew Duncan and Ryan Tofil each found ways to help the Hawks reach six wins this season. All three were used in the front line to either produce points off attacks or earn defensive stops with blocks at the net.
Weaver and Ratajczak were both named to an AMCC All-Conference team. Weaver, after being named as the AMCC Player of the Week February 27 and March 26, was honored as a 1st Team All-Conference player while Ratajczak was recognized as a 2nd Team All-Conference contributor. Weaver was named a UVC Player of the Week for his outstanding efforts during the week of March 5.
Hilbert finished the year ranked 19th in the country with 10.08 digs per set and three players were individually ranked by April 29th. Ratajczak, with 2.75 digs per set, finished the highest at 10th, Weaver finished ranked 21st with 3.3 kills per set and Phillips' 7.18 assists per set placed him at 36th in the country.
Coaches Schultz and Nawotka are excited for the 2013 season already. Without losing anyone to graduation and the promising skills of the incoming athletes, the coaching staff and team members will continue to build the program as they focus on the UVC championship and an opportunity to win an automatic bid to the NCAA national championship.
Hilbert College, located in suburban Hamburg, N.Y., south of Buffalo, is a private four-year college founded in 1957 in the Catholic Franciscan tradition. With nearly 1,100 students, Hilbert is a dynamic Western New York college that offers career-focused majors, including one of the top criminal justice programs in the region, and more than 50 minors and concentrations. The college's engaging, student-centered campus community offers numerous leadership, internship, and service learning opportunities from which students launch successful careers while making positive changes in their communities. The Hilbert Blueprint promotes a well-rounded student experience over four years – starting with the Foundations Seminar in the freshman year, followed by Sophomore Service, Junior Symposium, and culminating with the Senior Capstone. Hilbert has expanded its academic offerings with the college's first graduate programs and new Accelerated Degree Programs geared to adult learners.
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Clinical Information Discusses physiology, pathophysiology, and general clinical aspects, as they relate to a laboratory test
Chromosomal abnormalities are the cause of a wide range of disorders associated with birth defects and congenital diseases. Many of these disorders can be diagnosed prenatally by analysis of amniocytes. Amniotic fluid can be safely collected after 12 weeks of gestation, although for optimal cell growth, collection from 14 to 18 weeks of gestation is preferred. This method permits diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities during the second trimester of pregnancy or later.
The most common reasons for cytogenetic studies for prenatal diagnosis include advanced maternal age, abnormal maternal serum screen, a previous child with a chromosome abnormality, abnormal fetal ultrasound, or a family history of a chromosome abnormality.
Useful For Suggests clinical disorders or settings where the test may be helpful
Prenatal diagnosis of chromosome abnormalities (trisomies, deletions, translocations, etc)
Interpretation Provides information to assist in interpretation of the test results
Cytogenetic studies on amniotic fluid are considered nearly 100% accurate for the detection of large fetal chromosome abnormalities. However, subtle or cryptic abnormalities involving microdeletions usually can be detected only with the use of targeted FISH testing.
Approximately 3% of amniotic fluid specimens analyzed are found to have chromosome abnormalities. Some of these chromosome abnormalities are balanced and may not be associated with birth defects.
A normal karyotype does not rule out the possibility of birth defects, such as those caused by submicroscopic cytogenetic abnormalities, molecular mutations, and other environmental factors (ie, teratogen exposure). For these reasons, clinicians should inform their patients of the technical limitations of chromosome analysis prior to performing the amniocentesis.
It is recommended that a qualified professional in Medical Genetics communicate all results to the patient.
Cautions Discusses conditions that may cause diagnostic confusion, including improper specimen collection and handling, inappropriate test selection, and interfering substances
Interfering factors:
-Improper syringes or transport vessels may be unsuitable to amniotic cells. Amniotic fluid should not be exposed to the syringe plunger tip for longer than a few seconds and fluid should be transferred to a transport (centrifuge) tube as soon as possible following collection.
-Transport time should not exceed 2 days.
-A bloody specimen may interfere with attempts to culture cells.
-Inadequate amount of fluid (we recommend 25 mL of fluid) may not permit adequate analysis.
-Improper packaging may result in broken, leaky, and contaminated specimen during transport.
-Exposure of the specimen to temperature extremes may kill cells and severely interferes with attempts to culture cells.
-Contamination of the amniotic fluid by maternal cells can cause minor interpretive problems.
-False chromosome mosaicism may occur due to an artifact of culture.
-True mosaicism is rare and low levels may be missed due to statistical sampling error.
-Subtle structural chromosome abnormalities can occasionally be missed.
Reference Values Describes reference intervals and additional information for interpretation of test results. May include intervals based on age and sex when appropriate. Intervals are Mayo-derived, unless otherwise designated. If an interpretive report is provided, the reference value field will state this.
46,XX or 46,XY. No apparent chromosome abnormality.
An interpretative report will be provided.
Clinical References Provides recommendations for further in-depth reading of a clinical nature
Van Dyke DL, Roberson JR, Wiktor A: Chapter 31: Prenatal cytogenetic diagnosis. In Clinical Laboratory Medicine. Edited by KD McClatchey. Second edition, Philadelphia, Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins, 2002, pp 636-657


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COLUMBIA (AP) — Some South Carolina mothers are holding rallies at the offices of the state's two U.S. senators to voice their concerns over recent votes on gun control legislation.
Members of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America held rallies on Thursday at the Greenville and Columbia offices of U.S. Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott.
Organizers said some member moms are planning to bring their children to the events, which they've labeled as "Stroller Jams."
Group leader Erin Dando said the moms are disappointed that the Republican senators voted against a measure that would have required criminal and mental health background checks for people buying guns online or at gun shows.
S.C. moms rally for gun-control measures
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Before the turn of the 20th century, people began to make the arduous journey to "take the cure" in the natural hot springs of Tassajara Creek. Within a few years, plans for a resort had been presented, and soon stages were leaving the James Ranch on a regular basis to make the 14-mile journey over the 5,000 foot pass at Chew's Ridge. Each stage was led by a fresh team of four horses and on the final, hair-raising decent into Tassajara required a twenty-foot pine tree chained to the rear axel to slow them down. Tassajara Springs Resort, as it became known, had a colorful history, enduring a major fire and several changes of ownership and eventually earning a reputation for fine dining.
When Shunryu Suzuki, the Japanese Buddhist priest who founded the San Francisco Zen Center, was first shown Tassajara in the Spring of 1966, he knew immediately that this was the place for his small but growing group of Western students to study Zen in a monastic setting. Fundraising efforts began immediately, and by July of the following year, the first Zen monastery outside of Asia was established. Since then, life has changed very little at Zenshinji (Zen Heart-Mind Temple), as Tassajara is known formally. And now, from late September until early April, 50-60 students rise before dawn and begin a full day of zazen (meditation), study, and work, following a traditional Buddhist monastic schedule which dates back over thirteen hundred years to the early Tang Dynasty in China.


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INTERVIEW: Ian Garrett Reports on COP15 and the Arts
To get the word on the cultural scene at COP15, Inhabitat asked some juicy questions of Ian Garrett, co-founder of the Center for Sustainable Practice of the Art (CSPA). Garrett also teaches Sustainable Theater and Management Technology courses at the California Institute of the Arts, which makes him the perfect guy to get the green perspective on this massive climate-cultural gathering. Read on to hear his take on creative demonstrating, tipping points, and the paradox of flying to a conference about global warming!
INHABITAT: What were your cultural expectations for Copenhagen?
GARRETT: At this point, I don't know what my expectations are. I'm a big fan of the idea that if you get a lot of people together in one spot, talking about a thing, things can happen. The feeling I have from the news out of here and being in the streets is that there is going to be more civilian change out of this than there will be government change. My hope is that, with this many people of divergent origins, with the efforts being made from a cultural end, that it will reify something at the grassroots level. I can only hope that it makes it upwards, because that doesn't seem like the case at the Bella Center.
INHABITAT: What have been some standout experiences thus far? What artworks have struck a chord, and why?
GARRETT: It's hard to tell right now, there is so much more to see in this next week, but if I chose now my vote is in for wooloo.org's efforts and partnerships. They've got Superflex's sustainable burial contracts, the Yes Men's Coca-Cola Pledge and New Life Copenhagen. Everything they are doing is very much in the spirit of unity and many people doing small things towards a bigger goal. I think that's a message in and of itself. And since all three of the projects I mentioned rely on documentation and masses of people as the documenters I think that it's got the potential to show the most real human aspects of the issues being discussed and the opportunities to work together.
There is the common thread these days of "Changing light bulbs won't save the world." Which is true, but you know, ultimately if everyone change all light bulbs, sure it would do something about energy use. The point being that lots of people making small efforts aren't to be scoffed at. It's those sort of efforts, that when combined, lead to tipping points. We just aren't there yet, and light bulbs have no future as a tipping point for the climate.
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I heard somewhere that "You can't manage what you can't measure". Web Analytics are understanding how a website is being used in order to tweak it performance, or is it that simple? It has been said about web analytics that the tool tells you what is happening on a web site but not why and the why might be more important than you think.
Case – the Bank:
I did a project way back with a bank that offered anybody that opened up an account through the Internet that they would match what people inserted to these accounts a pound for a pound, in my case a kronu for a kronu (with some limit though).
They bought advertisements in the national papers and the largest web portals and started promoting this unbelievable offer, but very little happened, they did no know if people came in to the site or if they did why they did not convert.


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Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Berkeley County has elected a new supervisor, as Bill Peagler won a commanding runoff election victory over incumbent Dan Davis.
Peagler earned 56.2 percent of the vote to earn the Republican nomination for Berkeley County Supervisor defeating the two-term incumbent Davis.
Berkeley County is one of four South Carolina counties to have an elected supervisor form of government.
It was a great groundswell, Peagler said. I said my prayers. We put together a good run over the last weeks.
Peagler credited recent endorsements for the late surge his campaign enjoyed.
Im disappointed but our election process is the best in the world, Davis said moments after conceding the race.The voters have spoken.
Turnout was light Tuesday. Peagler goes into the general election unopposed. Barring a successful write-in campaign, he will be sworn into the seat in January.
District 6 incumbent Jack Schurlknight kept the Republican nomination from former Rep. James Law in a close vote Tuesday.
Im a happy Jack, Schurlknight said. I think the voters are saying that James and myself have a lot of the same philosophy. I was very fortunate to get the majority of the votes to continue working for the citizens.
In the waning days of the race, Davis put up TV ads touting job creation in the county, and Berkeley County GOP Chair Terry Hardesty resigned his post and endorsed Peagler and Law.
Peagler also earned support from former supervisor candidate Jerry Beckley.
With 61 of 61 precincts reporting ...
Bill Peagler 5,424 (56.20 percent)
Dan Davis 4,228 (43.8 percent)
With 19 of 19 precinct reporting ...
District 6
Jack Shurlknight 1,543
James Law 1,478
Polls closed at 7 p.m. Tuesday, as Supervisor Dan Davis and challenger Bill Peagler wait on results of their runoff election in the Republican Primary.
The winner of Tuesdays runoff will be all but assured of securing the countys top political spot in November.
Another race to watch in Tuesdays election: County Council District 6, which features incumbent Jack Schurlknight and challenger James Law.
Continue to check this website for election updates.
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CCCC trustees consider fracking training program
At the same time it's facing significant turnover, the Central Carolina Community College Board of Trustees is also directing the college to plow ahead with two programs that could increase the size and scope of the school.
CCCC President Bud Marchant said at Wednesday's trustee meeting that he has been in talks with people including Jim Womack, a Lee County Commissioner and chairman of the state's commission in charge of writing regulations on natural gas drilling and other energy operations, about starting a new program at the school training students for jobs in energy-related fields.
If and when hydraulic fracturing, the process used to mine natural gas that is more commonly known as fracking, becomes legal, much of the drilling in the state will probably be centered in and around Lee County. Marchant told the board that regardless of their personal or political views on fracking, a controversial subject, it appears likely to occur — and no college in North Carolina currently offers any class training people for the oil and gas industry.
"If we don't do it, someone will," Marchant told the board, seeking permission to, alongside other staff, look into starting a well-maintenance program. He said such a program could have graduates looking at an average starting salary of about $50,000: "... These are, quite frankly, lucrative jobs."
He said he'd like to visit a New Mexico school that offers programs in the field, and he handed trustees a copy of one curriculum while noting that many of the subjects are merely specialized versions of things CCCC already teaches, like engine repair. The trustees unanimously approved a tentative plan for the college to look into starting the program and acquiring the equipment needed to teach it.
"The hand we're dealt is what we're dealt by the legislature," trustee Jamie Kelly said. "... We need to provide the training for these jobs because they're coming no matter what."
Another program the college is pursuing, with backing from local companies and independent donors, is a partnership with the Golden LEAF Foundation. If approved by that group's board, the college would put specially trained counselors in every public high school in Lee, Chatham and Harnett counties — which all host CCCC campuses — who would steer students into free dual-enrollment classes.
According to the college's proposal, only about 5 percent of the nearly 5,000 high school juniors and seniors in those three counties who could take dual-enrollment classes are doing so. If that number increases, trustees said, everyone wins.
Students could earn up to 34 credit hours to use at the college or transfer to a four-year school, and the college would benefit because its state funding is based on how many students it teaches. The proposal states the goal is to have 100 percent of students participate, but even if the students' participation rate only jumps from 5 to 15 percent, the college would net an additional $350,000 per year.
Trustee Tony Lett, owner of Lee Builder Mart in Sanford, said the program seemed like it would be especially helpful for students who don't have plans for after high school.
"We don't want them to be graduating just to be graduating," he said. "We want them to have a trade or a skill."
Lett. however, along with fellow trustees Chet Mann, Jan Hayes and Norman "Chip" Post II, won't be on the board as the Golden LEAF initiative moves forward. All of them — including Post, who was only sworn in on Wednesday — will be forced off the board this Thursday by a new state law introduced by local Rep. Mike Stone.
They were appointed by the Lee County Board of Education, which Stone's bill stripped of its power to name trustees unilaterally. It also called for all the school board's appointees to be removed and not allowed to be re-elected right away. The empty seats will be filled by a joint effort of the Lee, Chatham and Harnett county school boards, but until then, a quarter of the 16-member board will be vacant.
Another quarter of the board is new. The board swore in new members Bill Carver, Patrick Barnes, Brian Bock and Jim Burgin on Wednesday, as well as re-swearing in Clem Medley to another term. Also Wednesday, two Lee County appointees went off the board: Carver succeeded Herald Editor R.V. Hight, and Post succeeded Ophelia Livingston, a local businesswoman.
Both Livingston and Hight were honored at a banquet before the meeting, receiving awards and giving speeches. Livingston encouraged the new and returning trustees to act only to improve the community and its citizens, and Hight urged them to always keep politics out of their decisions and to always do what is best for the college although they are all political appointees.
Julian Philpott, who was re-elected as chairman of the board later in the night with Barnes as his vice chairman, thanked the two for their service.
"It is a much richer college for you being on the board," Philpott said.


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Saturday, September 7, 2013
My three girls go to a private school and as part of their character development, each week of school features a different positive character trait. Teachers encourage the students to practice these behaviors in the classroom and at home.
At the end of each week, each teacher picks a child in their class who did a good job of personifying that weeks' character trait, the names are turned into the office and on Friday, the principal reads the list of names over the PA system for the whole school.
It's an honor for the kids, and I, for one, am a huge fan of looking for good behavior to reward children as opposed to only disciplining them when they misbehave. In my own life, kind words of encouragement have always carried so much weight, so I love that the teachers at the girls' school are constantly watching to catch their students doing the right thing.
Last week's character trait was being Christlike. In a Christian school that would be pretty all-encompassing, being kind to others and endeavoring to do your best. You can only imagine my joy when I received a text from a teacher at the school telling me that two of my three children were chosen as being the most "Christlike" in their class.
Now, let me just say this, to save all those itchy fingers from emailing me: I realize that probably every child in that school did something Christlike that week, and I by no means believe that my child is any more "Christlike" or better than anybody else.
The teachers do an excellent job of finding something wonderful about each child as the school year progresses and making sure that each child gets to have their moment where their name gets announced over the loudspeaker. It just so happened that two of my babies were randomly picked the same week for the same trait.
I assumed it was Aubrey and Emma, simply because Aubrey spends all of her free time reading devotionals and speaking in parables. In fact, on Aubrey's "All About Me" poster she made for Parent's Night at school, for her favorite thing to do, she drew a picture of herself on her knees praying.
Her goal for the school year, "Be a good friend and not leave anyone out." My heart melted.
Emma seemed a shoo-in as well: The child is a born pleaser. In fact, when my husband woke up this morning at 6:15 a.m., Emma was already up. In addition, she was dressed in her uniform, had fixed her hair, eaten breakfast and made herself lunch.
When I rolled into the kitchen about 40 minutes later, she offered to make lunches for her sisters or dress Sadie, which is no easy task. The seams on Sadie's socks must line up exactly so. Her hair must be the right amount of "flippy on the ends." But nevertheless, Emma dressed her without a cross word between the two of them.
So you can imagine my surprise when my teacher friend told me that Aubrey and Sadie had been mentioned as "Most Christlike."
"Well I'll be," I thought to myself.
I could see it though. Sadie smiles that Chiclet smile all day long — she has a joy for life that is catching. She is my only extrovert.
She has never met a stranger, and I could imagine her going out of her way to play and be silly with her classmates. I nodded my head. I could get it and I was proud.
Over the weekend, as expected, Sadie acted like a 4-year-old but still, Zeb and I were proud of our girls.
I went to yoga Saturday morning, as I got in my car and turned my iPhone back on, it buzzed with a series of text messages from Zeb.
While watching television Sadie asked Zeb, "Daddy, will you get me some orange juice?"
"Sure," he said. Zeb walked to the kitchen to get her juice but got distracted doing something else.
He washed a couple of plates, talked to the other girls, and was staring at his iPhone when Sadie walked into the kitchen.
Sadie put her hands on hips and huffed, "You are supposed to be getting me orange juice. What the hell are you doing?!"
I'll stop writing every column about Sadie when she stops being so "Christlike."
Robin Bryant is an author, humorist and speaker.
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Hi Telligent Support,
we are trying to upgrade existing site to Zimbra Community 8.0 version. We have one custom authentication module.
For that module to work some settings are added in siteurls_override.config.
See sample code (siteurls_override.config)
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='controlpanel']" mode="add">
<url name="myGroup_ControlPanel_CustomConfiguration" path="Groups/CustomConfiguration.aspx?GroupID={0}" />
<!--SSO Start-->
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='common']/url[@name='login']" mode="change" name="physicalPath" value="/xxxx/"/>
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='common']/url[@name='login']" mode="change" name="page" value="sso.aspx?action=login"/>
<Override xpath="/SiteUrls/locations/location[@name='user']/url[@name='user_ChangePassword']" mode="change" name="page" value="sso.aspx?action=changepwd"/>
In 8.0 these files are no longer valid(siteurls_override.config, siteurls.config).
Now could you please help us with some samples/code snippets of how to move this values from this file (siteurls_override.config) to the plugins.
If you have samples in telegent.com please provide the link
You can use the cookies auth plugin that replaces the old SSO module,
It has definitions for the login url, but you are own your own for change password. Your custom login page should define this link, not the community platform.
In reply to Patrick Mason:
Thanks for your inputs. I am actually looking for a way to override siteurls using plugin which is mentioned in
if i want to override any of the urls mentioned in the site url config file, how can I achieve it using appropriate site url plugin .
In reply to swapna:
You can no longer override any Zimbra provided urls. In the case of Login/Logout links as you described above, you can achieve similar results in 8.0 through our SSO module as patrick described above.
For custom urls, you need to implement an INavigable plugin - telligent.com/.../40989.inavigable-plugin-type.aspx .
In reply to Alex Crome:
We need to set the homepage to a custom page that we developed, which is [ourdomain.com]/p/custompage. Now that override siteurls is no longer an option, can you provide the steps to accomplish same using the INavigable plugin? There is not much detail on the referenced page.
In reply to Nimbus:
The platform no longer supports overriding core Urls in this manner. If you want to have a custom page then you would have to do one of the following:
1. Have the page be a static page and have your community live in a sub domain or virtaul directory
2. Intercpet the request and redirect either using a widget on the dashboard or a .net level component
3. Rework the user dashboard to be like your custom page and turn off user ability to modify the dashboard
thanks for the suggestions. option 1 is out, because the page incorporates Zimbra elements, so it can't stand alone.
option 2 sounds like the ideal solution, but we have already unsuccessfully tried using a .net level component. we placed a custom page at the root, redir.aspx, and made this the default document. the script we implemented is the following:
<%@ Page Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" %>
<script runat="server">
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
however, Zimbra intercepts the inbound requests and ignores redir.aspx, even though IIS has this set as the default document. is there anything further we need to do within the web.config or elsewhere for IIS to instead recognize redir.aspx as the default document?
The default probably doesn't work becasue our home page is invoked first. That said you can accomplish the same thing by putting a widget on the home page that redirects via widget API or javascript
For widgets its $core_v2_page.Redirect(url)
Its the same code as above
Thanks Patrick. I was able to create a widget with $core_v2_page.Redirect("/p/custompage") and it works great. This also allows me to remove the code vis-a-vis the widget itself, just in case we later want to return to the page from which we're redirecting.
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First major storm of year to hit between Friday and SaturdayThe Associated Press | February 07,2013BOSTON — People in the Northeast stocked up on food and supplies and road crews readied salt and sand Thursday as the region braced for a major winter storm that could bring up to 2 feet of snow to places that haven't seen significant accumulations in more than a year.
The National Weather Service said most of southern New England could see anywhere from 18-24 inches between Friday and Saturday, and some other forecasts cautioned that totals could be even higher. Suffolk County in New York was under a blizzard watch, as were parts of Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island.
New York City was expecting between 4 and 6 inches of snow. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said plows and 250,000 tons of salt were being put on standby to start clearing the streets.
"We hope forecasts are exaggerating the amount of snow, but you never can tell," he said, adding that if bad weather has to happen, it's better to have it on a weekend.
Meteorologist William Babcock with the National Weather Service in Taunton, Mass., says it's looking like it is going to be a very
powerful storm. If everything falls the way it has the potential to it could be among the top 10 snowstorms in New England history.
The storm would hit just after the 35th anniversary of the historic blizzard of 1978, which paralyzed the region with more than 2
feet of snow and hurricane force winds from Feb. 5-7. The last major snowstorm in southern New England was the Halloween storm in 2011, which knocked out power to many with heavy, wet snow.
The snow will start Friday morning, with the heaviest amounts dumped on the region that night and into Saturday.
In Massachusetts, Gov. Deval Patrick was receiving regular updates but had not made any decisions about the state's workforce, a spokeswoman said.
The prospective timing has drawn comparisons with a powerful storm that hit in the afternoon of December 13th, 2007, and paralyzed state highways, turning 30-minute commutes into 3- to 6-hour treks.
On that day, Patrick advised state employees to leave work no later than 11:30 a.m., and private businesses were encouraged to dismiss their employees early as well. Many people, however, apparently waited longer to get on the road and by then, snow was falling at a rate of 1 1/2 inches an hour with virtual white-out conditions. The resulting traffic gridlock made it impossible for plows to clear the roads.
One place people were excited about the snow was at ski resorts in northern New England. Because they can make their own snow, they aren't as dependent on natural snowfall, but when it snows a lot in southern New England people start thinking more about winter sports, said spokesman Dave Meeker of Mount Snow in Vermont.
"When they have snow in their backyards, they're inspired," he said.
At the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, N.H., Dartmouth College senior Evan Diamond and other members of the school's ski team were getting ready for the college's Winter Carnival, which includes ski races.
"We're pretty excited about it because this has been an unusual winter for us," he said. "We've been going back and forth between having really solid cold snaps and then the rain washing everything away."
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WPOS renamed 'Proclaim FM,' reveals new formatWritten by David Yonke Editor, ToledoFAVS.com | | email@example.com
After 47 years and hundreds of thousands of hours of airtime, Toledo's longest-operating Christian radio station has a new sound, a new name and a new vibe.
WPOS-FM (102.3), based in Holland, has been rebranded Proclaim FM and is looking to draw more families and listeners in their 30s and 40s. It revealed its new format Sept. 9 and held a "ribbon-cutting" ceremony later that day at its headquarters on Angola Road.
"We wanted to continue to take care of the current audience, but also start reaching families again," said Craig Magrum, general manager. "So that's what's been driving a lot of the changes and the thought process about what is going on."
When the station first went on the air in 1966, it appealed to Christian audiences of all ages. But over the decades it has become increasingly identified with an older demographic that favors traditional Southern gospel quartets, such as The Cathedrals and The Kingsmen.
Magrum, 37, said he has "just kept running into" the perception that WPOS is "the older Christian station." Changing that image and appealing to broader audiences have been part of the mission since he started working at the 6,000-watt station in June 2012.
While praying about whether to take the job as general manager, Magrum said he felt a need to ask the 12-member board of directors about their vision for the station's future.
"When I got to the interview, I didn't even get to ask the question," he said. "The board told me they realized that they needed to start reaching out to a younger audience."
To shake the stubborn perception that WPOS is for gray-haired listeners only, Magrum realized that major changes were necessary — including a new name and logo.
"The call letters WPOS have always stood for 'We Proclaim Our Savior,'" he said. "And I was just going through those words and the word 'Proclaim' just really jumped out at me."
He discussed it with the station's one other full-time employee, program director Cliff Smithers, whose "eyes lit up," Magrum said. The duo presented the idea to WPOS' board last spring and the name change was approved unanimously.
Smithers, who has been in radio for 24 years and joined WPOS in March 2012, helped choose the station's new playlist and is host of the afternoon drive-time program.
The station is now playing songs by artists "from Casting Crowns to
tobyMac, and everything in between," Smithers said.
Focus groups were consulted to hone the new playlist and to fine tune programming and teaching shows.
Among the notable changes was dropping "Thru the Bible" with Dr. J. Vernon McGee and adding "Walk in the Word" with Dr. James MacDonald and "Family Talk" with Dr. James Dobson.
Magrum and Smithers said Proclaim FM will continue to honor its heritage by playing traditional Southern gospel music, but it is expanding its musical offerings to include contemporary southern gospel, adult contemporary Christian music, and contemporary praise and worship.
Among the artists heard on the station are Jesus Culture, Third Day, Red Roots, Chris Tomlin, Sara Groves, Francesca Battistelli and MercyMe.
With the target audience being families, programs such as the drama "Adventures in Odyssey" offer entertainment for children as well as their parents.
Magrum made a point of saying that Proclaim FM is not competing with YES-FM (89.3 WYSZ), whose Christian rock sound draws a younger demographic.
"Musically, we are not really aiming for teenagers or 20-somethings, because YES-FM is dedicated to that and we respect that," said Magrum, who worked at YES for eight years. "We're partners in ministry, we're not trying to compete with them. So we're mostly going for middle-aged and older adults, but also reaching kids with programs."
He acknowledged, however, that Proclaim FM's quest for Christian listeners in their 30s and 40s will pit the station against nationally syndicated station K-Love (broadcast locally on 96.9 FM WNKL). It was listeners in that age range who helped WPOS get started when the station first went on the air 47 years ago, he said.
"It's a David versus Goliath scenario, definitely," Magrum said of competing with K-Love.
He is confident, however, that even though K-Love is a national station with a big budget and a polished presentation, local Christians will want to support local Christian radio.
"We know the church community a lot more intimately. We know the pastors, we know the congregations. I think all of our staff grew up in this area, so, yeah, we would like the K-Love listeners to come back to Proclaim FM," Magrum said.
David Yonke is the editor and community manager of Toledo Faith & Values (ToledoFAVS.com), a website that provides in-depth, nonsectarian news coverage of religion, faith and spirituality in the Toledo area.
Tags: Casting Crowns, Chris Tomlin, Christian radio, Cliff Smithers, Craig Magrum, Dr. J. Vernon McGee, Dr. James Dobson, Dr. James MacDonald, Francesca Battistelli, Jesus Culture, MercyMe, Proclaim FM, Red Roots, Sara Groves, Southern gospel quartets, The Cathedrals, The Kingsmen, Third Day, Toby Mac, WPOS-FM (102.3), YES-FM (89.3 WYSZ)


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It seems that the years go by in a flash, doesn't it?
'MyStories' is intended to help you record those important happenings in life which you may not be able to pinpoint to a specific date in time. Take the example of your own childhood – you may have lots of memories but they may be about the kinds of holidays you had, or your days at school, rather than a specific 'Event'. It occurred to me that the birth and development of a new baby is one such example of this. My own son is now 10, and I thought he wouldn't mind too much if I use him to help me illustrate how the 'MyStories' section of the website can be a godsend in recording for your children the stories of their own lives as they happen, for when they are grown.
Like you, I'm sure, I had one of those baby books – I recorded religiously his first this and first that, and even remembered to print and insert a few pictures to illustrate the events. Now it is a bit raggy and, whilst I am delighted that I wrote it all down, I wish I had had an easier solution with better longevity, which I could have handed down to George without actually losing the original. I even kept his hospital tags, but I'll spare you the details …. So, I have created his own Lifeline for him on the SaveEveryStep site.
I have added to his Lifeline the dates and pictures of his first tooth, first crawling (backwards), smiles, walking, weaning experiences and anything else which might one day paint a picture for him of how it was to be his mother in the times which he will never remember.
What I love about the Lifeline is that you can store all the unusual things which normally get stored away in shoeboxes, like the kids' artwork and school creations. You stick them on the fridge and make 'oohs and aahs' about them, because you simply don't have the heart to throw any of them away, and they just keep on coming! So I've started to store my own childrens' creative efforts on the site, so that they can look back and appreciate them for themselves later in life, with a more discerning artistic eye… When they start to win awards and take up sports, this can be a great way to record their sporting endeavours too.
And then there are the birthday parties of course. Each year a new theme and a new idea for an ever-demanding group of young socialites. We have had Superhero parties, Star Wars parties, Bouncy Castle parties, even Laser Shooting parties. I distinctly remember hiring the Church Hall and having 15 mini Darth Vaders turn up in full costume, helmeted and identical!
Before you know it, they are growing their hair to look cool and sulking over their homework. The joys of parenting….
And in the blink of an eye my son was 10 years old……Save Every Step whilst you can!


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Whenever girls you don't want want you and your friends really badly, you use it.
Whenever girls you don't want want you and your friends really badly, you use it.
Weird girl: hey guys, you want to go watch a movie at my house this friday?
Guys: HOOP...
Guys: HOOP...
boomclapboomboomclapdesnapによって 2009年06月01日(月)
Acronym for Highly Opinionated Older Person. A HOOP needs little provocation to tell you all about their life and the things that bother them about it. No matter what it is, they have a very specific position on it and will expound on this in paragraphs. They will sometimes ask you for advice on something and then proceed to tell you why your advice is invalid. It often seems as if their existence is based on a steady flow of complaints.
That guy talked my ears off about all his family members and what was wrong with each and every one of them, down to their political positions. Total HOOP moment.
deusdiabolusによって 2011年08月10日(水)
A person with their head so far up their ass, their physical structure implies a circular figure; resembling a large human ring. Also, perhaps, an advanced asshat, or an aggressively annoying simpleton.
"Charlie, I tried to figure out what that hoop wanted, but her head was so far up her ass, you could roll her down the street," said Mr. O'Shea.
Umlaut Tildeによって 2010年05月10日(月)
Contraceptive ring used by females.
Person A: I have another reason to hate the Trojans.
Person B: You should just get the hoop, seriously. This is the 2000s
Person B: You should just get the hoop, seriously. This is the 2000s
Slang term for the toilet.
"Yo, it's gonna be a photo finish, where's the friggin hoop in this place??"
KidTによって 2009年04月18日(土)
The rim of your asshole.
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Actress lost consciousness during takes on recent Oregon shoot (updated)
Updated on Sunday, 8:15 p.m. PST:
Actress Brittany Murphy, who died at 32 on Sunday, had been fired from her last film just two weeks ago, and had lost consciousness during shooting on the set of another film that she'd recently completed.
The actress died suddenly on Sunday, reportedly of cardiac arrest. Several years ago, she told a Wrap columnist that she had a heart condition. But warning signs that Murphy was on a dangerous behavioral spiral were visible to those familiar with her life.
The actress, a charming if somewhat ditzy on-screen presence, had been fired from the horror film "The Caller," directed by Matthew Parkhill in Puerto Rico, just two weeks ago. No reason was given for her replacement.
Fan sites reported that Murphy was replaced with Rachelle Lefevre, an actress from "Twilight," for the role of a troubled divorcee who begins to feel haunted in her own home.
But that was not the only recent mishap in Murphy's professional life. An insider on the production of another horror-thriller,"Something Wicked," an independent film shot in Oregon, said that Murphy was barely able to shoot her scenes and would lose her focus in mid-sentence during a take.
"Her husband was her handler, he shuttled her around. She was barely there," said an individual with knowledge of the production, referring to Murphy's husband and manager, Simon Monjack.
"She'd go in and out of consciousness in the middle of takes."
The individual said Murphy's inability to stay fully conscious caused producers to rewrite her character, a therapist to the two main characters, and her scenes. He said colleagues on the set had presumed she used prescription drugs.
In an interview Sunday, Murphy's "Clueless" director Amy Heckerling talked about a change she saw in the actress during and after that 1995 film:
"Everybody's shaking their heads and going 'drugs,' of course. I don't know what was happening on the last movie. I know that, you know, she seemed to go through a change … on 'Clueless.' Maybe she felt like she was not the, like, skinny, pretty girl, you know? And then the next few movies she was, you know, thinner, blonde … and going out with Eminem and Ashton Kutcher, and, you know, suddenly got more into that whole glamorous scene … I think she felt the pressure to become a different sort of commodity to survive in show business, and I think it was awful."
An email to Murphy's publicist seeking comment was not answered.
Murphy's suspected excessive use of drugs had been the subject of widespread speculation, and was even the subject of a parody sketch on a recent "Saturday Night Live" Weekend Update.
In the sketch, "Murphy" seems unaware that she is not the host of the show, and keeps telling Seth Meyers how happy she is to do so. Meyers mentions her being fired off of "The Caller," and "Murphy" haltingly says she plans to go the premiere and shout, "Boo."
At the end of her segment, "Murphy" introduces the group Blink 182, prompting Myer to repeat: "You are not the host, Brittany Murphy."
* NOTE: An earlier anecdote in this story quoted Murphy from a 2002 interview for the movie "Spun," saying she can't take drugs because of a heart problem she's had since childhood. That quote has turned out to be inaccurate and has been removed.


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Wednesday, September 18, 2013
On a beautiful Sunday afternoon, Swamp Fox Bowling Center in Moncks Corner was packed with people wanting to stay indoors for a good cause.
"Strikes, Spares or Turkeys" was a bowling event to benefit the Special Olympics, specifically some local bowlers trying to raise funds to continue competing.
"The fundraiser served a twofold purpose," said Lynn Scott, area director for the Special Olympics. "To raise funds and bring awareness of Special Olympics bowling to Berkeley County where currently there is only one team."
The Berkeley Strikers roll out of Swamp Fox Bowling Center and are coached by Gail Hurst. The team meets on Saturdays at Swamp Fox and faces rising transportation costs to carry athletes to local games, the upcoming state competitions in Columbia and the Fall Games in Greenville.
A total of 25 Special Olympic athletes comprised 23 teams.
"It was really fun," said Sterling Fiddie, a member of the Berkeley Stags football team and a partipant in Sunday's fundraiser. "Everyone enjoyed themselves and bowled great. It was awesome to help out."
Proceeds from the event benefit the Special Olympics South Carolina Area 6 that includes Berkeley, Charleston and Dorchester Counties with over $7,700 raised.
For more information on how to get involved, either through coaching, volunteering; or to become a sponsor of Special Olympics, contact Lynn Scott at email@example.com">email@example.com.
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