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Backs against the wall, Giants and A's come through
Oct 10, 2012, 1:47 AM EDT
With four teams combining on just 16 hits and five runs, Tuesday's games were all about the pitching. Facing elimination, the Giants and A's survived thanks to the strength of their rotations and bullpens.
Tied 1-1 for most of the day, the Giants tried emptying their bench as a means to score a run in the eighth after the Reds brought in lefty Sean Marshall. They sent up three straight pinch-hitters, none of whom reached base in the inning. The strategy may have proved very costly in time, particularly with Hunter Pence nursing a leg problem that left him hobbled after he reached base in the 10th. The Giants still had catcher Hector Sanchez available, and they could have put Buster Posey at first base and Brandon Belt in the outfield had the need arisen. But if they had made that move, the bench would have been completely exhausted for the rest of the game.
Fortunately, the Giants were able to win the game in the 10th, after a bad-hop grounder led to a Scott Rolen error and an unearned run against Jonathan Broxton. Sergio Romo, who got his first at-bat since 2010 in the top of the 10th, closed out the game.
After Ryan Vogelsong's shaky first inning, Giants pitchers allowed a total of one-hit to the Reds in the 2-1 victory. Still, one wonders just how differently the game might have gone had Brandon Phillips not gotten thrown out trying to take third in the top of the first. The Reds ended up with three hits and a walk in the inning, yet scored just one run.
That first inning was the only time the Giants were in trouble today. One could say A's pitchers weren't even in trouble the once. The Tigers were able to put two men on just once, doing so with one out in the top of the second. Too bad for them that the wrong part of the Detroit lineup was up in that situation. Andy Dirks and Avisail Garcia both grounded out to strand the runners.
Thanks to a couple of sterling plays by A's outfielders, both on balls hit by Prince Fielder, the Tigers never had an extra-base hit in their 2-0 loss in Oakland. The A's bullpen, which was so disappointing in the Game 2 loss, rebounded to pitch three scoreless innings, with just two hits and no walks allowed. Sean Doolittle fanned all three batters he faced in the eighth. Grant Balfour gave up a single to Miguel Cabrera in the ninth, only to induce a double play from Fielder afterwards.
And thus the Bay Area teams will live to play another day. By virtue of being at home for the remainder of the series, one imagines the A's will have a better chance than the Giants of advancing. Of course, they'll have to keep pitching well, as the offense could be stymied by Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander. The Giants haven't inspired a lot of faith, not with their offense scoring a total of five runs in three games. It's a good bet that the Reds will put up some runs at least one of these next two games, and the Giants might be hard-pressed to match them.
- metalhead65 - Oct 10, 2012 at 10:01 AM
I am sure there was a gay time had by all in the bay area last night.
- Marty - Oct 10, 2012 at 10:29 AM
How many threads are you going to post this shitty comment to?
- metalhead65 - Oct 10, 2012 at 10:43 AM
lighten up Francis!
- Gamera the Brave - Oct 10, 2012 at 11:37 AM
You write that one all by yourself?
Your handle implies you're 47 years old – but since you are clearly 13, the "65" in your handle must refer to something else…
(stops feeding troll)
- metalhead65 - Oct 10, 2012 at 12:27 PM
I'm sorry does your handle say gaymera the brave? lighten up Francis!
- COTorrey - Oct 10, 2012 at 10:21 AM
Like I read in the other HBT post, more baseball is good for everybody.
But come on Detroit, lets knock em out tonight and go on the the ALCS!
- moogro - Oct 10, 2012 at 12:21 PM
Giving true metalheads a bad name.
- mook1987 - Oct 10, 2012 at 1:04 PM
a gay time had by all
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As of Wednesday, millions of American women will no longer pay for birth control pills, pap smears or mammograms — not even a co-pay. Women also have the right to free breast-feeding support, supplies for pregnancy-related diabetes, also known as gestational diabetes, and even screening for domestic violence.
"Women who were not able to get it (birth control) in the past, this is a huge component for them," Raylene Maloy, Director of Nursing at the Portsmouth City Health Department, said. "This is eight key health services for women. It's free of charge and with no deductible or co-pay if they have insurance, such as contraceptives, counseling, diabetes screening, human papaloma testing, counseling for STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) and testing for that. It also has breast-feeding supplies support, domestic violence, things that, in the past, you would have to have a co-pay or a deductible, are now going to be free. So this has a huge impact for women for preventative care."
Maloy said the Health Department will make a concerted effort to inform the public as to the new provisions.
"We're going to make an effort," Maloy said. "We're doing it with the county fair, and with the Rally For Recovery. We're going to encourage the community to sign up to start going to our (Health) Coalition meetings and become involved, because there needs to be more of the public in there - not just agencies and workers. So if they get involved they will know more about what is going on, how to get these services, how to access them. And then all of us are going to be able to expand what services we offer to these women."
Maloy said the Portsmouth City Health Department is already a provider for most health insurance plans and Medicaid.
"We're already set up to do that, and we have a full-time nurse practitioner, now who can see the full spectrum," Maloy said. "So this is just wonderful. We're able to grow. And we've got a health care component to help us grow with that."
Not everyone is happy with the way the component has been mandated. Count among those, Father Adam Streitenberger of St. Mary's Catholic Church in Portsmouth.
"My understanding is that what just went into effect was just for the individual business owners," Streitenberger said. "The religious institutes such as the Catholic hospitals and universities and social work places, I think theoretically they still have a year. And, of course, congregations are exempt, but it's a violation of our conscience and our freedom of religion because it is mandating and pay for something which we find to be immoral."
Streitenberger said the issue goes deeper, because he says the Obama administration is defining what incorporates the practice of religion.
"They say, 'congregations in places of worship, those are free, those are exempt from this,' but our Catholic understanding, and I think everyone's, even atheist's understanding of religion, is, religion is not just worship. It's also the charitable work that is part of that. So in the Catholic understanding, our practice of our religion requires us to educate people. It requires of us to take care of the sick. It requires of us to take care of the poor. So when the government says taking care of the poor or educating people or helping the sick is not an authentic practice of one's religion, then its telling us what is and what isn't part of the practice of our religion."
Streitenberger said the mandate says religion can only be practiced in the church, and the practice is not done in civil society by outreach programs.
Streitenberger also took on the use of contraception.
"The administration says this is a war on women's health," Streitenberger said. "First of all I don't think that contraception is necessarily a good thing for women's health. Obviously I'm not saying they ought to have multiple children, there should be family planning. But we don't know all of the medical effects of contraception and the pill. One of the things that should irritate everyone is that there are clear scientific and medical studies that show's there is an abortifacient affect with the pill. Because if conception has happened, part of the effect of the pill is that it strips the uterine lining, which means that if conception has happened then the embryo is basically stripped out with the rest of the uterine lining. So it does have an abortifacient effect. The Plan B RU-486 is nothing more than an upped-up dose of the common birth control pill."
Plan B/RU-486 is commonly known at the "morning after pill.
The leader of a Catholic organization and a prominent women's group both expressed initial support for the changes announced by President Obama that - "religious liberty will be protected and a law that requires free preventative care will not discriminate against women."
"The framework developed has responded to the issues we identified that needed to be fixed," said Sister Carol Keehan, president of the Catholic Health Association, a trade group representing Catholic hospitals that had fought against the birth control requirement.
"We believe the compliance mechanism does not compromise a woman's ability to access these critical birth control benefits," Cecile Richards, the women's group president, said.
Seven attorneys general trying to block the federal health care law's requirement for contraception coverage saw their lawsuit dismissed last week by a federal judge who ruled they didn't have standing to file it. The suit was filed on behalf of Ohio, Nebraska, Florida, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas. Plaintiffs also included three Nebraska-based employers affiliated with the Catholic Church, a nun and a missionary.
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Posted By Alison On Mar 21, 2008 @ In Celiac Disease,Gluten Intolerance,News & Research,Symptoms | 3 Comments
There has been much research on the relationship between celiac disease and autoimmune thyroid disease, and a new study out of Italy confirms that indeed celiac disease "is significantly increased in patients with thyroid autoimmune disorders."
People with either Hashimoto's Disease (also known as hypothyroidism) or Grave's disease (also known as hyperthyroidism) should be screened for celiac disease, according to doctors and researchers knowledgeable about the relationship between the two disorders.
A 2005 study found that the prevalence of celiac in patients with Graves' disease was 4.5% as compared with 0.9% in matched healthy controls. A 2007 Dutch study found that 15% of people with Hashimoto's disease has positive blood work for celiac disease, and 4.8% had villous atrophy (flattened villi in the intestines), a higher number as compared to the general population.
According to Dr. Peter Green, in his book Celiac Disease, A Hidden Epidemic, celiac disease may predispose a person to thyroid disease, meaning that celiac disease actually happens first, but that doctors will more often test for thyroid disease first. Therefore, celiac disease is being missed in people who are being treated for their thyroid problems. And to make it even more confusing, many of the symptoms of these thyroid diseases can also be symptoms of celiac disease or gluten intolerance — fatigue, feeling run down, feeling cold, constipation, weight gain, weight loss, just to name a few. Interestingly, many of the people with thyroid disease who test positive for celiac have "silent" celiac disease, meaning that they don't have the obvious gastrointestinal symptoms.
Can a gluten-free diet improve thyroid conditions? If a person has celiac disease or gluten intolerance underlying a thyroid disease, then the person must be gluten-free to relieve other symptoms and to lower the risk of developing other autoimmune disorders. Whether or not it will reverse the thyroid disease just depends on the individual. According to one study, most patients with hypothyroidism normalized after a year of following a strict gluten-free diet and so, the researchers concluded, "gluten withdrawal may single-handedly reverse the abnormality."
Related reading:
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He is survived by his wife, Michelle Roberts Hedges; his parents, Randall Hedges, SR and Joan Howard Hedges of Sebree, KY; two sons, Michael Nelson Hedges and wife Jamie of Conway, South Carolina and Daniel Howard Hedges of Lexington; one sister, Fran Floyd of Sebree and two grandchildren, LaRue Hedges and Lane Hedges of Conway, South Carolina.
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Refrigerated and frozen foods contribute important nutrients to an adequate diet. Here are some high protein, high calorie choices to keep in your home:
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The success rate in 2014 was 15%.
Between 1 in 6 and 1 in 7 applicants got a place on a course.
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College of Charleston will travel to Duke for the first round of the NCAA volleyball tournament, as announced on ESPNU on Sunday night.
The Cougars and Blue Devils will face off Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Cameron Indoor Stadium.
The Cougars will face the ACC champion Blue Devils (27-4), while Georgia (22-9) takes on American (32-2) in the other side of the quadrant.
Charleston was selected as the four seed in the grouping, while Duke is the 16th national seed, the lowest-seeded host in the tournament.
College of Charleston is 0-3 all-time against Duke, with the last matchup coming in 2009 in a tournament at Duke.
"I'm excited for our team and pleased with our draw for the tournament," said Cougars coach Jason Kepner. "We're happy to be traveling just a short distance away, and know that we will have a big challenge against the ACC champions. Duke is a great team and we will have to execute well to give ourselves a chance to be successful."
Charleston (25-5) will be making its second consecutive trip to the NCAA tournament, and eighth in the last 13 years, as the Cougars won the Colonial Athletic Association's automatic bid with a dramatic 3-1 win over Northeastern in the conference tournament final.
The Cougars have won 13 straight conference regular season or tournament titles, the second-longest streak in the nation.
The victory marked a dramatic first year in the CAA in which C of C won the regular season (13-1), conference tournament and all major awards with Darcy Dorton (player of the year), Kepner (coach of the year) and Kallie McKown (setter of the year) taking home hardware.
Five Cougars — Dorton, Sloane White, Cara Howley, Melissa Morello and Kerstin Koehler — led all schools on the All-CAA teams, and Dorton was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Player.
Last season, CofC was picked as a three seed in the NCAA Gainesville Bracket, winning the first-round match over No. 23 Miami (Fla.) for the Cougars' second-ever NCAA Tournament victory. CofC is 2-7 in NCAA Tournament play all-time with both wins coming over ACC schools: North Carolina (2005) and Miami (2012).
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Preakness InfieldFest 2011: A minute-by-minute tour
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9:04 a.m.: Big Dumb Drunk Fuckers, or BDDF, is a social club in Cuba, Ill., explains Joe Barnhart, 34, who wears the T-shirt with the name across the front. Minutes earlier, he greeted another man by saying "Fuck you!"
"Fuck off!" the other man responded.
"I'm in the National Guard … and I was off duty today," says Barnhart, of Hanover, Penn. "It's the first time in 13 years I haven't been on duty today."
When asked how he planned to spend his day off, Barnhart responded "drinking beers and hopefully looking at titties."
"At least 20 to 24," He said, when asked how many drinks he planned on consuming Saturday. "Does that include shots?"
Barnhart then posed for a picture with Kegasus, the mascot of the Preakness infield, who wouldn't let him hold up his tail. He did wink at Barnhart after the shot was snapped, though.
9:40 a.m.: Congrats to Joe Mellen, 29, a Preakness infield veteran who is getting married in a few days. His girlfriend was totally cool with this, by the way. Well. Sort of.
"She halfway supports it," says Mellen.
Most repeat Preakness visitors have an infield story and Mellen's is a doozy. Last time he and his buddies were at infield, he says, a couple started having sex in the middle of the field. People started chanting, though he doesn't remember what they said.
"It's one of those things you just have to experience," Mellen says of the infield.
Nathan Kocon of Boston is in Mellen's group; he and his friends have been coming to infield for 10 years.. As we are talking, a man comes up to check on their beers. He works for one of the drinks vendors. "We kind of paid him extra," says Kocon. "You gotta plan for it." The Kocon-Mellen party has chartered a limousine for the weekend. As we are talking, the National Anthem plays.
9:55 a.m.: Kari Walker, 33, has been here before. By "here" we mean pregnant in the middle of a field full of drunk people.
Walker is nine months along with her third child, a boy. She also attended Preakness while pregnant with her 2-year-old son, Colby, and says while the race is "not as much fun," she still enjoys it. She says that she and her husband plan on staying near Top of the Stretch, which is billed as "a deluxe alternative to regular Infield admission," according to the Preakness website.
"I know better than to insert myself into the crowd of crazies," she says.
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10:15 a.m.: Minutes after the first round of the bikini contest, "Amazing Grace" blares over the P.A.
10:17 a.m.: First umbrella hat sighting of the day
10:44 a.m.: OVERHEARD: "Maybe I should stop drinking."
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12:10 p.m.: Phil Vassar is scheduled to start playing on the Jagermeister Stage
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12:23 p.m.: First drunk person collides with a TBD reporter.
12:25 p.m.: "Is there a horse race today?" says Phil Vassar, identified on Wikipedia as an "American country music artist." "I'm not even sure."
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Posted by joey on 03/17/2015
loved the Village branch and even the Wall Street one, but Scandia House is gloomy and its quality mirrored by the skimpy paper napkins! Paper?! At that price ?! Nothing awful about the food but everything seemed below minimal, and tired.
Posted by Anonymous on 02/04/2013
We had a lovely brunch. The food was excellent, and the coffee surprisingly delicious. Service was attentive . The room is bright and modern, without feeling stark. We loved sitting under the huge birch tree - a unique experience in an indoor restaurant.
Posted by Anonymous on 03/25/2010
Seems good at first but upon returning a few times it becomes a bore... The food is fairly OK, there is not much wrong with the service, but the people who work there seem unhappy in their jobs.
Posted by M.J. on 03/13/2010
Great food, Great service, great presentation and great value. Big change from last spring, I think they change a management and now it looks like everything is under control. You even need reservation for lunch, otherwise prepare your self to wait for a table.
Posted by anonymous on 03/22/2009
This place is so nice to have in the hood, easy goin, laid back.. good prices, nice staff.. Go when Marshall is working, he takes good care of us. If your snooty, don't go, this place is for the easy laid back peeps. Kids are welcome. There is movie and dinner packages on Wednesday and Saturdays... Art Gallery on the 3rd floor.. Now they have brunch for $20 ... Go, relax...
Posted by anonymous on 02/27/2009
Such a great addition to the Scandinavia House and Murray Hill... Fantastic food and service. As far as the complainer above, AQ was a cafeteria!!, Thank goodness for this wonderful food and fare. Brunch is amazing!! Thanks Smorgas
Posted by Murry Hill Foodie on 01/28/2009
This place is a joke. When AQ Cafe was there I use to love to go and eat the meatballs or the herring and always enjoyed it. This place has alot to learn about authentic scandinavian food. Forget the "braised Short Rib" UGH!


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By Maj. Rick Peat and Lt. Col. Frederick Rice, USASpecial to American Forces Press Service
KABUL, Afghanistan, March 28, 2005 The new National Military Academy of Afghanistan celebrated its grand opening March 22.
Afghan government ministers, senior U.S. and Afghan military officers, special guests from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, including Dean of Academics Brig. Gen. Daniel Kaufman, as well as numerous ambassadors and other dignitaries attended the opening ceremony.
Maj. Gen. Mohammad Sharif, NMAA commander; Abdul Rahim Wardak, Afghanistan minister of defense; and Abdul Karim Khalili, second vice president of Afghanistan, were featured speakers at the event.
"The role of this academy is vital for the future of Afghanistan, because this academy will produce loyal, professional and true leaders for Afghanistan's future without any ethnic, language and tribal distinction," said Wardak. "These young cadets will be trained in the spirit of national unity and strong military character upon which we can be proud among the respective nations of the world."
Khalili emphasized the excellent reputation the ANA has built among the people of Afghanistan. "The people of Afghanistan appreciate and strongly support the good work of their integrated national army, which represents the true face of the Afghan nation," he said. "Today, we are going to open an institute which will train the future commanders and leaders of our proud army and of this hopeful nation."
During the ceremony, West Point and NMAA officials showed their mutual admiration and respect for each other's institutions through a gift exchange. Kaufman presented a West Point saber mounted in a display case, while Sharif offered a hand-carved wooden plaque of the NMAA shoulder sleeve insignia encased in a presentation box.
Sharif confidently vowed success during his address at the ceremony. "Through this podium, I promise to Defense Minister Wardak that we will do our best at teaching the cadets to international standards and in the spirit of national unity," he said.
The first class of cadets completed seven challenging weeks of basic training on March 17 and began their first day of academic classes the day following the academy's grand opening. The cadets represent all of the major ethnic groups throughout Afghanistan and traveled from literally every corner of the country, across rugged and undeveloped terrain and through blizzard-like conditions, to report to the academy. One cadet was more than 20 days late due to his travel troubles, but was welcomed and immediately integrated into the program.
Modeled after West Point, the academy is a four-year, degree-granting institution that will commission its cadets as second lieutenants in the Afghan National Army. Graduates will earn an engineering degree with an emphasis on civil, mechanical, systems or electrical engineering.
The curriculum focuses on engineering for a good reason. "Our country is war-struck and devastated," said Sharif. "We are in the process of rehabilitating it. We need more engineers, because we need reconstruction."
Planning for the academy began more than 18 months ago, when Army Maj. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, chief of OMCA at the time, and senior Afghan Ministry of Defense leaders agreed upon the need to establish a military academy that would provide the ANA with a highly educated and capable future officer corps. OMCA was ready to assist and quickly enlisted the help of the U.S. Military Academy.
Military academy study team chief Col. Barney Forsythe and Maj. Gen. Mohammad Juma Nassar, the defense ministry's general staff working group director, submitted the initial plan for the academy to the defense minister and the OMCA chief in November 2003.
West Point staff and faculty members then began the planning process, deploying to Afghanistan for several months at a time to write policy, develop admissions standards and determine the curriculum. They completed all steps hand in hand with their Afghan counterparts, ensuring all programs were adapted to meet Afghan standards and culture.
"Our environments are different," said Sharif, contrasting Afghanistan and the United States. "Planners considered all cultural aspects and did not impose anything on us. While the academy will be similar to West Point, it will not be the same."
The most significant challenges involved the logistical requirements of setting up the academy from scratch. "They didn't have so much as a paper clip on hand to get the academy started," said Col. Chris King, a West Point geography professor. "You have to find every little thing you need, things you take for granted."
To fill their faculty positions, the MOD identified 1,023 potential academic professors who possessed the necessary advanced degrees. Military academy implementation team chief Col. James Wilhite, West Point faculty and OMCA members Col. Ray Winkle, Col. Gary Krahn and Larry Butler then narrowed the list to 200 candidates with the desired qualifications to teach everything from world history to physics to chemistry to psychology. The team eventually hired 30 professors to form the academic faculty.
By the end of November 2004, 353 cadet candidates had completed the competitive entrance exam. The defense ministry, in conjunction with OMCA staff, then conducted personal interviews of the prospective cadets. The top 120 young men were offered a place in the first class.
Forsythe, who laid the groundwork for the academy 18 months ago, returned for the grand opening and remarked upon his impressions of seeing the concept turned into reality.
"The academy facility is excellent and represents the excellence that the Afghan government and ANA expect of the officer corps and their service," he said. "This institution could play a significant role for the emerging democracy in Afghanistan, much like West Point played a large role in the emerging United States of America; providing leaders of character who would serve the Army and their people. And at some point in time, when they left their service in uniform, would continue to serve the country in another capacity that further advances the nation."
The USMA corps of cadets recently adopted the NMAA corps of cadets as their first and only cadet corps partnership. They will correspond with each other, exchange ideas and share resources.
To fully care for the administrative and logistical needs of new academy, a 300-soldier NMAA support battalion will be assembled over the next year. West Point will continue to send faculty, administrators and support personnel as needed to assist in forming and training the support battalion and to further develop the NMAA faculty for the specific course work and curriculum being taught there.
More NMAA faculty will be hired as the corps of cadets grows over the next few years. Future classes will have between 250 to 300 students each, and upperclassmen will take on leadership roles in guiding the underclassmen.
Cadets, who are between the ages of 18 and 23, will earn $80 a month as well as receive free books, supplies, housing and food, in addition to their education. For the privilege of attending the academy, they incur a 10-year service commitment to the ANA, twice the commitment length of U.S. Military Academy cadets. But none of them blinked an eye when taking his oath of office.
Wilhite has grown very close to the NMAA corps of cadets during his work with the academy and will redeploy soon. Before the grand opening ceremony he made a point to shake the hand of each cadet and offer his personal congratulations. Later, when reflecting on the significance of this act, he remarked that he was likely shaking the hand of a future general, a future minister, a future president of Afghanistan.
Cadet Jamshaid, the top cadet of the NMAA, said, "As military officers, we will never step back from learning and will always be disciplined and remain faithful and loyal to our beloved country."
Hope and love of country are also shown by the cadets' parents. Cadet Aminullah, from Herat province, said his father provided special advice to him before leaving home to attend the academy. "Be faithful to your country," he said. "Afghanistan is like a mother. If you serve your mother, you have to serve your motherland too."
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Pregnant Kim Kardashian may not have attended the 2013 Grammys — she and her Grammy-boycotting boyfriend Kanye West planned a trip to Rio over that same weekend — but that doesn't mean Kim ignored the big event entirely.
On the contrary, Kim took to Twitter to congratulate her man on his three 2013 Grammy wins. And soon after, she dedicated an entire blog post to her favorites in Grammy fashion.
It sounds like the Grammys were at the front of Kim's mind, even during her romantic Rio trip. "On my way to the carnival I was Googling the awards to see what everyone was wearing!" she wrote on February 11.
"My absolute favs were Rihanna and JLo! Rihanna had that gorgeous long hair. I love how she always changes it!" Kim also gushed about JLo's "sleek" hairstyle, as well as her "fierce" Anthony V dress.
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BAKER — Middle school students here now can use their programming and engineering skills while working with Lego robotics.
Five students in Baker's middle school robotics club are learning how to program and build EV3 Lego robots. The machines perform tasks such as completing a maze or moving objects to certain locations.
The work can be challenging, club members said.
"Not everyone can just program numbers into an EV3 (robot)," Lathem Brown, 13 said. "It takes dedication; if it (was) easy, everyone would do it."
Team members meet after school in their coach, Stacy Burlison's, classroom. Students learned about robotics through the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics curriculum, which is enhanced by the Lego program.
"The computer programming skills, the engineering skills to build the robot are wonderful, but not as great as the fact it teaches them to problem-solve and critically think through projects," she said.
Students must learn how to program a robot's movements, including calculating how far and which angle each robot needs to move.
"Programming is a main part of it," Ethan Nunley, 13 said. "Your turns have to be perfect."
The Baker team's turns apparently were perfect April 12, when they won first- and third-place prizes, along with a new Lego robotics kit, after competing in the first Okaloosa Robotics Invitational Tournament.
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Well, Burlison said the school wants to start an elementary robotics club and compete in the First Lego League, which features teams from Bob Sikes Elementary School and Davidson and Shoal River middle schools. Baker has a high school team.
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After you vacate your home, the best-case scenario if it remains empty is that it gradually falls into disrepair and becomes an eyesore for your former neighbors. The worst-case scenario is that it is damaged and vandalized by criminals and you are held responsible for the damage. If your property violates local housing codes or ordinances, you could find yourself on the hook for those violations.
"Many homeowners leave their homes during the foreclosure process assuming they are doing the honorable and morally right thing," says Glass. "The unfortunate risks they assume are that someone takes possession of their home, damages the home causing additional loss, or that the house lingers in disrepair until it becomes a nuisance to their neighbors and city. All of these things could lead to a greater loss financially for the homeowner, or worse yet potential legal liability," he says.
If you don't respond to the initial notices – which is likely if you no longer live at the property – you may one day receive an unexpected bill, have your tax refund garnished or even be sued by the county or municipality for the cost of any repairs the government made on your behalf. If the house falls into such disrepair that the city decides to demolish it, you could be on the hook for a bill ranging from $10,000 to $30,000.
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Nary a creature stirred in the parking lot where dozens of the world's biggest passenger vehicles languished like whales upon the sand -- awesome, yet helpless.
The Hummer's days are numbered. Soon it will be gone the way of dinosaurs, many of which, in fact, were smaller than the $75,850 Hummer H2 SUV (13 miles per gallon in the city; 16 on the freeway) that swallowed up a feisty share of showroom space at Lynch -- the proverbial gorilla in the living room, one might say. The converted and name-changed High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (Humvee) in-your-face automotive line that General Motors bought from AM General in 1999 is now on life-support. Then again, so is GM, who at one point last summer, was hemorrhaging $118,000 a minute.
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When Jaime asked me to write an article on the KAB Scout Father-and-Son Camping Weekend that took place at Bluroze Farm, Lipa City, Batangas last week, I did not quite know which particular aspect of the activity to write about. This was the second such weekend I was attending, the first having been in 2002 when an elder son, Rafael, now in High 2, was in the third grade. Prior to that, two other sons, now in their twenties, also had overnight camping, but only within the Xavier School campus and the parents were asked to attend just a campfire activity.
Scouting is a fantastic activity for children. In the Ateneo where I did my childhood studies, I was a Cub Scout first, then a Boy Scout, an Explorer Scout and, finally, a Senior Scout. We went on camping trips where we learned scouting lore and the means of surviving in the wild. We learned how to move independently, away from home and the supervision of parents, improvising in situations which our prior experience did not equip us to handle. But most of all, scouting built character. We learned how to be leaders.
I was somewhat surprised to learn from Jaime that only about half of his classmates had joined the camping weekend. Any father who had been a scout in his youth would have jumped at the opportunity of accompanying his ten-year old on a camping trip and passing the tradition down. I was also surprised to hear from the organizers that in traditional Chinese families, fathers tend to keep their sons at a distance when they are young. That certainly did not seem the case with the other fathers and sons who were there last weekend. These pairs were very close and clearly held each other in great affection with a casual spontaneity that indicates closeness. Perhaps Xavier School fathers have moved beyond some of the old-fashioned traditions.
What a pleasant surprise the Bluroze Farm campsite was. Manicured lawns. Clean and plentiful toilets and showers, though no hot water. Well-constructed outdoor activity and teambuilding facilities. Rare and exotic animals. A restaurant that would not be out of place in Glorietta. And to get there, first-class tourist buses. What a far cry from our father-and-son camping weekend six years ago in Morong, Rizal! I was only 51 years old then, and I am 57 now.
Once I had committed to accompany Jaime on this camping trip, I began to feel insecure about being able to keep up with all the younger fathers on the camping activities. Not that I am complaining. There were fathers, or grandfathers, in camp who were a few years older than me. They did just fine as well. Or maybe it is because the younger fathers took responsibility for the more strenuous activities and cut some of us older fathers a bit of slack (thanks Dino, Steven and the others). In Tagalog, pinagbigyan kami. Since Jaime is our youngest, I don't think I will have an opportunity to do father-and-son camping again. But if I ever do so, I will most definitely shift to one of those family-sized tents that some fathers brought with them- the type that you can walk into and stand up inside, instead of having to crawl into and around the tent, then having to rise to a standing position after crawling out of the tent. Try doing this five times in five minutes.
The activities were organized with a heavier orientation on teambuilding. In fact, the activities were almost the same ones that we are made to do in our corporate teambuilding activities. The only difference was that this time, we couldn't tempt or bait any of the teachers to join us in the activities, or to even try them out. The sense of competition between kawans was fun because it was always in our minds, but not too seriously so, except in the cheering and during the campfire the second evening. Speaking for the parents, I think that everyone had a lot of fun, even though camping might not exactly have been a favorite pastime for us.
I would like to congratulate and thank all the members of Xavier School's staff and faculty for organizing the event, and for being there to supervise and coordinate the groups. You all did a wonderful job and you were all so cheerful in doing it.
I was very taken by how excited and happy Jaime was about the whole weekend. Initially, when I very briefly entertained thoughts about not giving up a golf tournament commitment and asking one of my older sons to accompany him instead, I reasoned that while Jaime might forgive me for not joining him in camp, he would never forget that I did not make it. That would never do. It is important for boys to have memories of their fathers, the kind of good memories that will make them good fathers to their sons when their turn comes for parenthood. I have such memories of my father, and it is but proper that we gift our sons with the same kind of memories.
So again, Xavier School, thank you for the opportunity!


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International Journal of Health Geographics - Latest Comments http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/comments The latest comments on all articles published by International Journal of Health Geographics 2015-05-07T23:03:28Z Author correction to a citation http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/14/1/4/comments#2571701
In the manuscript, we cited Auchincloss et al. (2012). We actually intended to cite Fritz C, Schuurman N, Robertson C, and Lear S. (2013). "A scoping review of spatial cluster analysis techniques for point-event data." Geospatial Health 7(2): 183-198.
 Matthew Shane Loop 2015-05-07T23:03:28Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/14/1/4 Loop et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 14 4 Thu Jan 15 00:00:00 GMT 2015 Related slides http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/13/1/10/comments#2334698 Creating self-aware and smart healthy cities http://www.slideshare.net/sl.medic/creating-selfaware-and-smart-healthy-cities Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos 2014-10-28T18:43:20Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/13/1/10 Kamel Boulos et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 13 10 Thu Mar 27 00:00:00 GMT 2014 Vitamin D explains some of the findings http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/9/comments#483685
The epidemiology of sepsis in the United States led to an ecological study finding a role for solar UVB and vitamin D. Characteristics included in that study were racial disparities, seasonality, comorbid diseases, and geographical location.

Grant WB. Solar ultraviolet-B irradiance and vitamin D may reduce the risk of septicemia Dermato-Endocrinology. 2009;1(1):37-42.
(the title should have used sepsis).

Vitamin D also reduces the risk of respiratory diseases such as influenza and pneumonia, in part through induction of cathelicidin, in part through shifting cytokine production away from pro-inflammatory ones.

The high rates of sepsis in the southeast corresponds to the region of highest deaths from lung cancer. Respiratory infections comprise the majority of sepsis-attributed deaths, suggesting that smoking and diet may contribute to risk of sepsis.
 William B. Grant 2011-12-19T11:27:55Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/9 Wang et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 9 9 Mon Feb 15 17:53:20 GMT 2010 OpenNI user experience recommendations http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/10/1/45/comments#543691
A comprehensive set of guidelines from OpenNI / PrimeSense that may help guiding future developments:

http://www.webcitation.org/60aMMzpk8

Kinect Paint offers a good example of a Kinect-optimised experience, with large interface elements and big buttons:

http://www.webcitation.org/60aNlsqx8

http://paint.codeplex.com/
 Maged N. Kamel Boulos 2011-07-31T11:37:35Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/10/1/45 Kamel Boulos et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 10 45 Tue Jul 26 00:00:00 BST 2011 Multiple Testing http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/13/comments#418670
This is a really nice paper, and it is interesting to see how the different methods compare for this data set. The author provides a clear example of the important differences between global clustering tests and cluster detection tests.

For the hypothesis testing part of the kernel intensity function method, it seams that one statistical test is performed for each of the 40x40=1600 grid points (p8). If so, the method does not adjust for the multiple testing inherent in the many cluster locations evaluated. At the alpha=0.05 level, one would expect 0.05*1600=80 'statistically significant' grid points just by chance alone, which is slightly less than the 110 that were found according to figure 5. Whether the difference in 110 and 80 is statistically significant is hard to tell, since the 1600 different tests are highly correlated when the grid points are close to each other. What it means though is that, with this approach, any data set that was generated under the null hypothesis will have many 'statistically significant' clusters that are not actually statistically significant.

With the spatial scan statistic there are even more potential clusters considered, but the method adjusts for the multiple testing. That is, if the data set was generated under the null hypothesis, the probability of seeing one or more statistically significant clusters anywhere on the map is 0.05.

The lack of adjustment for multiple testing explains why the kernel based method has 'statistically significant' clusters while the other methods do not (p14). While the kernel approach is useful for descriptive purposes and the test based on 'the sum of squared log ratios of kernel intensity functions' (p8) is a nice global clustering test, the method should not be used to evaluate the statistical significance of local clusters.

 Martin Kulldorff 2010-07-13T18:25:56Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/6/1/13 Wheeler International Journal of Health Geographics 6 13 Tue Mar 27 19:35:19 BST 2007 Geographic variations in sepsis http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/9/comments#411664
The finding that sepsis mortality varies significantly across the U.S. is important and likely explains part of the healthcare disparities observed with this condition. A previous study using similar methodology reported similar findings regarding geographic variation, but also included analysis of incident cases and linked geographic and seasonal variations in sepsis incidence: see Danai P, et al. Critical Care Medicine 2007; 35: 410–415.
 Greg Martin 2010-05-11T14:57:24Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/9 Wang et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 9 9 Mon Feb 15 17:53:20 GMT 2010 Space-time surveillance in the R package surveillance http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/16/comments#406656
As the review covers software for space-time disease surveillance I would like to point out that the R package "surveillance" has a function "stcd" dedicated to space-time point referenced data not mentioned in the article.

It implements are space-time cluster detection method developed in Assuncao and Correa (2009), CSDA, 53(8):2817-2830 (see manual for details). The documentation & testing of the function reveals, that its implementation is still somewhat experimental which might be the reason for it missing in the comparison/mentioning, but I would like to make readers aware of this option.
Hopefully, the stability and documentation of stcd will improve with time.

Best regards,

Michael Höhle
-author of the R package surveillance
 Michael Höhle 2010-04-27T10:31:47Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/9/1/16 Robertson et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 9 16 Fri Mar 12 18:13:32 GMT 2010 Solar ultraviolet-B doses/vitamin D and ethnic heritage play important roles in breast and prostate cancer incidence rate variations, respectively http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/53/comments#402658
Sir:
The paper on spatial trends of breast and prostate cancer incidence rates in the United States [1] presents interesting data but overlooks a significant portion of the literature on ecological studies of cancer mortality rates in the United States related to solar ultraviolet-B (UVB) doses and other risk modifying factors. A set of such papers is provided here published prior to submission of this paper [2-5]. In addition, there have been more since that paper was submitted [6,7]. These and other ecological studies have been reviewed recently [8,9]. The role of vitamin D in reducing risk of cancer has also been reviewed recently [10,11]. Other factors included in the ecological studies of white Americans [3-7] were air pollution, alcohol consumption, dietary iron and zinc, Hispanic heritage, smoking, urban/rural residence, and viral infections.

As noted in [1], the patterns for breast and prostate cancer have similarities and differences. One of the similarities is related to increased risk for those eating the Western diet [12,13]. However, one of the differences is that vitamin D is not associated with reduced risk of prostate cancer incidence [14] although it is associated with reduced case-fatality rate [15]. Having studied the geographical variation of prostate cancer mortality rates in the United States for a decade, my research turned in a new direction after finding the map of country of greatest ancestry by county in the United States for the year 2000 [16]. Many of the features correlated very closely with features in the prostate cancer mortality map [17]. This finding led to the hypothesis that ethnic background played a very important role in the etiology of prostate cancer and to a paper in which it was proposed that prevalence of Apolipoprotein E 4 was an important risk factor and supported by a multi-country ecological study [18]. Prostate cancer is the only cancer for which cholesterol is a risk factor [19]. This hypothesis will be investigated by researchers who have ongoing cohort studies with tissue samples that can be used for DNA analysis.

References
1. Mandal R, St-Hilaire S, Kie JG, Derryberry D. Spatial trends of breast and prostate cancers in the United States between 2000 and 2005. Int J Health Geogr. 2009, 8:53.

2. Garland FC, Garland CF, Gorham ED, Young JF. Geographic variation in breast cancer mortality in the United States: a hypothesis involving exposure to solar radiation. Prev Med. 1990, 19(6):614-622.

3. Grant WB. An ecologic study of dietary and solar ultraviolet-B links to breast carcinoma mortality rates. Cancer. 2002, 94(1):272-281.

4. Grant WB, Garland CF. The association of solar ultraviolet B (UVB) with reducing risk of cancer: multifactorial ecologic analysis of geographic variation in age-adjusted cancer mortality rates. Anticancer Res. 2006, 26(4A):2687-2699.

5. Grant WB. Hypothesis-Ultraviolet-B irradiance and vitamin D reduce the risk of viral infections and thus their sequelae, including autoimmune diseases and some cancers. Photochem Photobiol. 2008, 84(2):356-365.

6. Grant WB. An ecological study of cancer mortality rates including indices for dietary iron and zinc. Anticancer Res. 2008, 28(3B):1955-1963.

7. Grant WB. Air pollution in relation to U.S. cancer mortality rates: An ecological study; likely role of carbonaceous aerosols and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Anticancer Res, 2009, 29(9):3537-3545.

8. Mohr SB. A brief history of vitamin D and cancer prevention. Ann Epidemiol. 2009, 19(2):79-83.

9. Grant WB, Mohr SB. Ecological studies of ultraviolet B, vitamin D and cancer since 2000. Ann Epidemiol. 2009, 19(7):446-454.

10. Grant WB. How strong is the evidence that solar ultraviolet B and vitamin D reduce the risk of cancer? An examination using Hill's criteria for causality. Dermato-Endocrinology. 2009, 1(1):17-24.

11. Grant WB. A critical review of Vitamin D and Cancer: A report of the IARC Working Group on vitamin D. Dermato-Endocrinology. 2009, 1(1):25-33.

12. Grant WB. An ecologic study of dietary and solar ultraviolet-B links to breast carcinoma mortality rates. Cancer. 2002, 94(1):272-281.

13. Grant WB. A multicountry ecologic study of risk and risk reduction factors for prostate cancer mortality. Eur Urol. 2004, 45(3):271-279.

14. Gupta D, Lammersfeld CA, Trukova K, Lis CG. Vitamin D and prostate cancer risk: a review of the epidemiological literature. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2009, 12(3):215-226.

15. Tretli S, Hernes E, Berg JP, Hestvik UE, Robsahm TE. Association between serum 25(OH)D and death from prostate cancer. Br J Cancer. 2009, 100(3):450-454.

16. Brittingham A, de la Cruz GP. Ancestry 2000. Census 2000 Brief CK2BR-35. U. S. Dept. of Commerce, Census Bureau. Washington, DC. 2004, p. 9. http://www.census.gov/prod/2004pubs/c2kbr-35.pdf (accessed December 16, 2009)

17. Devesa SS, Grauman DJ, Blot WJ, Pennello GA, Hoover RN and Fraumeni JFJ. Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, 1950-1994. NIH Publication No. 99-4564. National Institute of Health, 1999. http://www3.cancer.gov/atlasplus/type.html (accessed April 21, 2010)

18. Grant WB. A multicountry ecological study of risk-modifying factors for prostate cancer: Apolipoprotein E 4 as a risk factor and cereals as a risk reduction factor. Anticancer Res. 2010, 30:189-199.

19. Iso H, Ikeda A, Inoue M, Sato S, Tsugane S. Serum cholesterol levels in relation to the incidence of cancer: The JPHC Study Cohorts. Int J Cancer. 2009, 125(11):2679-2686.
 William B. Grant 2010-04-21T20:20:05Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/53 Mandal et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 8 53 Tue Sep 29 05:04:54 BST 2009 ColorCode 3-D http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/59/comments#376654
Another anaglyph-like system worth mentioning that promises good colour fidelity:
http://www.colorcode3d.com/info/pages/what_is_cc3d.pdf
 Maged Nabih Kamel Boulos 2009-11-06T17:27:59Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/8/1/59 Boulos et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 8 59 Thu Oct 22 13:05:25 BST 2009 Nothing's happening in Arizona http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/64/comments#325616
I think I have the answer to R. C. Hunsaker's query (why so few heat deaths in Arizona). The SHELDUS database only records casualties from hazard events. Here in Arizona, we don't have heat events, we just have heat. (And occasional non-heat events.) That must be why SHELDUS records only 56 heat-event-related deaths in Arizona, compared to 951 in Illinois.

If the study looked at all hazard deaths, the picture would certainly be different. I don't know total numbers for Arizona, but I do know there have been at least 4,000 heat-related deaths of undocumented migrants along the southwest border since the 1990s. (Before changes in federal border policy, there were none -- speaking of contributing factors ...) But neither these deaths nor any other "uneventful" deaths are in SHELDUS.
 Joseph Hill 2008-12-18T10:56:14Z http://www.ij-healthgeographics.com/content/7/1/64 Borden et al. International Journal of Health Geographics 7 64 Wed Dec 17 09:21:09 GMT 2008


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Since getting home from my retreat I looked at the DVR and saw that the Glee tribute episode to Cory Monteith "Finn" had been recorded. Immediately upon seeing the title my eyes filled up with tears and my heart ached. Yes, as a chorus girl I was a glee fan since season one and losing cast member Cory Monteith was a terrible tragedy. However for me personally it hit way closer to home than that. Just months before Cory Monteith died I lost my little brother Jonathan Hart. Jon & Cory were about the same age. They were both good looking, healthy, talented young men with so much going for them in life. Sadly, they both also battled a very serious addiction and ultimately lost battle. Losing my brother has been the most painful experience of my life. I still have moments when I can't even believe that it's true. It is just too much for my heart to imagine that he is gone from this world and I won't see him, talk to him or hug him again. He was the first person in this world I knew since his birth. He was my first friend. Going on in life without him seems impossible at times. The hardest part is that they didn't have to die. This evil drug and horrible disease of addiction stole them from us way too soon. I wish more than anything there was something I could do now to change it all. It feels so helpless that I can't.
The one thing that I can do each day is spread the word of hope. So many of us are struggling with different things. Sometimes we feel so alone. Life is beautiful but also incredibly difficult. No matter what your struggle is please know if there is HOPE. People care. People love you. Reach out. Let someone you trust help you through this. Cherish your life, your dreams, and the people you love every single day. Fight for your life because it is precious. Your life is more valuable than you can even imagine. You can't change the past. You can learn from the past and change the way you live in the future.
Much love to all of you my friends. Thank you for being here and being a part of my life. I am so grateful.
To Cory Monteith's friends and family: You are still on my heart and in my prayers daily. My heart mourns with you. There are no words.
To My baby brother Jonathan Paul Hart: There is a hole in our hearts without you here. You are eternally loved and always remembered always.


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iPad 2 tear down
Right on schedule the feisty folks at iFixit got their hands on an iPad 2 and tore it down to its constituent parts. Doesn't look like there's any word yet on whether or not it uses an ARM Cortex A9 and PowerVR SGX 543 but hopefully that's forthcoming. Highlights include:
The thickness of these components — especially that of the glass — could drastically reduce the durability of the device, especially the glass' resistance to shattering. We'll see in due time if the percentage of folks with broken iPad 2 front glass is dramatically different than that of the original iPad.
Lifting off the LCD exposes the iPad 2′s battery. We found a 3.8V, 25 watt-hour unit. That's just a hair more than the original iPad's 24.8 watt-hours, so any improved battery performance should be attributed to software and other hardware improvements.
We confirmed via software that the iPad 2 indeed has 512 MB of RAM.
The markings on the 1 GHz Apple A5 dual-core processor appear to be Samsung's, but Chipworks will investigate in the forthcoming days to find out for sure.
Other components that power the iPad 2:
Toshiba TH58NVG7D2FLA89 16GB NAND Flash
Broadcom BCM5973KFBGH Microcontroller
Broadcom BCM5974 CKFBGH capacitative touchscreen controller
Texas Instruments CD3240B0 11AZ4JT touchscreen line driver
Broadcom BCM43291HKUBC Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/FM tuner combo chip
S6T2MLC N33C50V Power Management IC
ST Micro AGD8 2103 gyroscope
ST Micro LIS331DLH accelerometer
There's also an Apple-branded 338S0940 A0BZ1101 SGP chip. This looks like the Cirrus audio codec Chipworks found in the Verizon iPhone, but they'll have to get it off the board to make sure!
What you expected or did Apple slap any surprises inside iPad 2?
Video after the break!
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