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Syzran Power Plant is one of the oldest in Russia. It is located in the picturesque bend of the Syzranka river. The capacity is rather modest but it still works being a monument of history and architecture at the same time. It's nice that there are still people who are indifferent to the object.
The plan helps to understand where and what is situated.
1. Syzran reservoir with level 37,5 m and length about 20 km.
2. Spillway part of the dam has 14 bays each 6m wide.
3. Syzran power plant represents a hydroelectric power plant of diversion type.
4. Syzran bend pretty much resembles Samara bend in miniature.
5. Saratov reservoir.
6. Diversion canal.
7. Building of the power plant.
Syzran reservoir looks beautiful in dull winter weather.
Diversion canal bringing water to the head race of the power plant.
This is how it looked in 1929. In 1994-2000 the power plant underwent capital repairs of the hydro systems and the canal, steel plating of the walls.
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Twitter seems less like a point of no return than Facebook, but I'm still wary of it.Maybe I'm just longwinded.
Still it is a public service to list the names here. Happy St. Patrick's Day--though I'm not convinced that your country celebrates it with quite the gusto that mine does.
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The University of Kentucky will host the National Conference on Undergraduate Research on April 3-5, 2014. As many as 4,000 researchers from across the country as well as internationally will come to UK to present the results of their research efforts in the form of poster sessions and oral presentations. In addition, there will be numerous Plenary Speakers, Student Interest Sessions, UK Open Houses, presentations by student organization, special events and entertainment, and more. This will be a stellar opportunity for our undergraduate researchers to showcase their accomplishments and the productivity of the research groups with whom they work.
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Speaker's Corner Brainstorming
Today's blog entry is a goal-free approach to brainstorming.
Brainstorming sessions are useful. The standard approach is one person up front facilitating, while the conversation is single-threaded. To overcome this limitation, some groups use breakout sessions. The problem with this is that they do not allow for cross-pollination of ideas.
To combat these problems, I developed a powerful technique called "Speaker's Corner" – named after the place in Hyde Park London where people can speak on any topic of interest (typically religion, politics and aliens). Instead of one conversation, there are many conversations. Instead of the leader deciding what to discuss, everyone decides what is important.
Here's how it works:
- The group captures (either in the meeting or in advance) a list of topics that are of interest to the individuals
- The group then prioritizes this list down to critical few – typically the number of people divided by 8. For the sake of argument, let's say there are 30 people, and hence four topics/corners.
- We ask for four volunteers (one for each topic) who agree to facilitate a conversation. Each facilitator goes to a different "corner" with a flip chart to capture the ideas associated with their assigned topic.
- All other meeting attendees then wander freely from corner to corner as they see fit. The only rule is to make sure they are either adding value to a corner, or are receiving value from a corner.
- Any person, at any time, can create a new corner around any topic.
- A corner leader can recruit a new leader if that individuals want to participate in other corners.
What you find is that the most important topics with the highest level of energy attract a lot of people. The conversation can continue for quite some time. Topics which fail to attract a crowd wither on the vine (just like in Hyde Park – time to pick up the soap box and call it a day). This is the ultimate "free-market," egalitarian approach to meetings. In one hour, you can capture more ideas than you would from a full day meeting. And each topic benefits from the cross-pollination of ideas from all attendees.
Rather than having a specific meeting goal, let the attendees determine what is of value. Let go of control and you will find unpredictable – and spectacular – results.
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- November 26, 2006 at 9:31 pm
Your suggestions are very similar to open space technology (not IT) for self directed meetings. Have a look at the the wikipedia entry and associated links at the bottom of that article. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology
- November 29, 2006 at 6:05 am
Thanks for your comment.
I am familiar with Open Space. The technique I describe is similar, yet different in important ways.
The main difference is in the selection of the "corners." In Open Space, anyone can talk about anything. I find it to be a bit slow and unwieldy at times.
With Speaker's Corner, it is integrated with more traditional brainstorming work. By gathering lists of topics in advance of the breakouts, and having everyone vote on the most important topics, you get some quick momentum. I use Speaker's Corner when I want results quickly. In as little as 30 minutes, you can generate lots of ideas and build momentum.
My rule of thumb is to get the group generating as many ideas as possible before and at the beginning of the meeting. Then we have them, as a group, select the most popular topics (using a variety of convergence techniques). The number of corners we select is typically the number of people divided by 8. If the group is smaller, you can have more corners. For example, if there are 40 people, we would have 5 corners. If there are 12 people, we might still have as many as 3 or 4 corners.
To be clear, I think Open Space is a great technique. It is truly a goal-free, free-market approach. I find it is perfect when you have more time and when you are working with divergent groups of people coming together. When I work with corporations, the Speaker's Corner section is a small part of the day. And most of the team members can quickly align behind a number of key issues.


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Vet assistant saves 87-year-old man lying on floor 2 days with broken hip
When an 87-year-old widower didn't show up to get his dog's medication one Monday, two employees at the veterinary clinic got worried.
"I got a weird feeling like I need to go check on him," said Trisha Springer, lead veterinary assistant at The Animal Doctor in Ventura.
Each Monday, Robert Jordan and his German shepherd, Cassie, would come to the veterinary clinic so the assistants could fill Cassie's pill container. Jordan has early Alzheimer's disease, and the container helped him remember which pill to give Cassie on which day.
Monday went by with no call from Jordan. Then Tuesday.
"I got worried. I told her (Springer): 'He hasn't called me back yet. I'm afraid,' " receptionist Michaela Otani said.
Otani and Springer knew Jordan, 87, had lost his wife of 60 years in October, so he was living alone with Cassie.
On Tuesday evening, Springer followed her instincts and went to Jordan's east Ventura home.
"The lights were off. The door was locked, but the newspapers were piled outside, which was unusual," Springer said. "I could hear Cassie barking inside. His car was there so I knew he was somewhere, but I didn't know where."
Jordan's neighbors, Julie and Paul Napoleone, had had the foresight to tape their phone number on Jordan's window with instructions to call them in case of an emergency. Springer called, and Paul rushed over with a key and unlocked the door.
The two rushed in to a barking, anxious Cassie. They called Jordan's name and searched the house, discovering him on the floor of his bedroom, where he had been for two days.
"He was really weak. He couldn't get up because he fractured his hip," Springer said. "He could talk, but he was hallucinating quite a bit because he was dehydrated. Cassie was with him. She had no food or water whatsoever in her dishes."
The pair called an ambulance, and Springer was taken to the emergency room.
"I owe my life to Trisha and Michaela," Jordan said this week. "After my wife died, they had my back."
Changing demographics suggest many people may need to be on alert for frail seniors who live alone and may need somebody besides a family member to "have their back."
"This incident is an example of certainly a trend in an aging society with lots of folks living alone," said Mark Beach, California communications director of AARP. "It requires an enhanced approach from all of us."
The U.S. Census Bureau reports that more seniors are living alone as the population skews older. About 29 percent of noninstitutionalized people 65 and older, or 11.3 million, were living alone, according to the 2010 Census. Of those, 8.1 million were women and 3.2 million were men.
Almost half of women 75 and older live alone. By the time they reach 85 or older, 57 percent live alone.
"Before the last century in this country ... many people lived together, but the nuclear family for a large part of America has a greater amount of mobility," Beach said. "The way the extended family is created is different."
Julie Napoleone, 58, said Jordan's wife, Nancy, was "like a mom" to her and that she was crushed when Nancy died at age 85 of a brain aneurysm.
"I decided I wanted to look out for Bob because Nancy is not here," Julie said. "I take him chicken soup because Nancy used to make him chicken soup."
It was the Napoleones' idea to have Jordan tape their number in his window for people to contact if they saw anything wrong. Julie also is in charge of a neighborhood email group in which they check on one another and make sure Jordan is OK.
Bill Nash, Ventura County Fire Department public information officer, said people don't have to be close to frail elders to look in on them.
"You don't necessarily have to be friends with them, but look out for them," Nash said. "If you see mail in their mailbox or newspapers piling up in the driveway, or if you usually see them out walking their dog and don't see them, check on them."
The Silver Circle movement is another way California seniors are keeping track of older neighbors living alone. It was started in 2011 in Ventura by the Congress of California Seniors with a grant from Verizon.
Edie Brown, director of Congress of California Region 5, launched the program in her Ventura mobile home park, where many seniors live alone.
Silver Circles is a group of older Americans in the same neighborhood who create a system of calling and checking in with one another every day. Each senior picks a day of the week on which he or she is responsible for calling the other members of the Silver Circle.
"As individuals live longer, they are often outliving friends and family members and must rely on neighbors," said Brown, 77.
Residents of Mira Valle Mobile Home Park in Ojai launched a Silver Circle after two neighbors died of natural causes. Both died alone.
"We have a fellow that passed away, and we didn't know for two days," said park manager Tanci Valladez, 68. "We had a lady who passed away, and we also didn't know for two days. She fell and broke her leg somehow."
One alert Mira Valle resident saw her neighbor had not put out her trash, so she pounded on the door and called 911.
"She had been on her bathroom floor for 12 hours," Valladez said.
Valladez said some residents say they don't need looking in on because relatives live nearby.
"People say, 'I have my daughter nearby or my son,' but where are they at 12:30 at night when you fall?" Valladez said.
Also, if seniors are being abused by a family member but are afraid to say anything because the family member is there, Senior Circle has a code word that will let the Senior Circle caller know something's wrong.
Nash said the Fire Department answers many calls about frail elders who are in trouble but that they are sometimes hamstrung when the person lives alone.
"When we show up along with the paramedics, there's nobody to help us figure out what happened to this person," Nash said. "We don't know who to contact, who to ask what medication they're on."
The Ventura County Area Agency on Aging offers a "File of Life" to put on a refrigerator. It lists emergency contacts and medication information, Nash said.
Nash said he is looking into pairing with the Area Agency on Aging to create a customized File of Life with the Fire Department.
The Camarillo Health Care District also has resources for seniors living alone, including a new Senior Support Line, 800-235-9980. Seniors may call it if they live alone, feel isolated or depressed or feel at risk of being unable to live alone.
The district can also help seniors with a Lifeline of Ventura County emergency button, which will link seniors with neighbors or emergency personnel.
Jordan had an emergency button he wore around his neck but had taken it off one Sunday night when he went to bed. He woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom and reached out to help himself up.
"I put my hand down on the corner of the table and missed and fell," he said. "I immediately went into shock. I would have died."
During his hospital stay and rehabilitation, The Animal Doctor lead veterinarian Shelly Wilson took Cassie home on the weekends. Springer and Otani took Cassie to visit Jordan in the rehabilitation center and for visits at home until the orthopedic doctor said Cassie could come home.
"I've missed you so much," Jordan said this week when Springer and Otani brought Cassie for a visit. "I lost my wife, but thanks to you guys, I have what's left of the three of us."
Resources for seniors living alone
- Congress of California Seniors: www.seniors.org
- To start your own Silver Circle, call Edie Brown at 676-1877
- Camarillo Health Care District: www.camhealth.com or call 388-1952
- Ventura County Area Agency on Aging: http://portal.countyofventura.org/portal/page/portal/VCAAA or call 477-7300
- Senior Concerns: www.seniorconcerns.org or call 497-0189
- To get a File of Life: www.folife.org or check with Senior Concerns or Camarillo Health Care District
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KINGSTON, RI -- March 20, 2001 -- The University of Rhode Island has recently signed a faculty exchange agreement with the University of Skövde, Sweden, that aims to chart new strategies for international collaboration in graduate education.
After viewing URIs well-established masters program in nursing, the University of Skövde strongly endorsed a formal agreement for collaboration between the two universities. "They were looking to us for leadership in their masters program," said Dayle Joseph, URI dean of nursing.
The agreement would involve core graduate courses that URIs faculty will be teaching in Sweden. The graduate courses are nursing theory, nursing research methods, theories of practice, and advanced leadership issues in nursing. All teaching will be coordinated by Donna Schwartz-Barcott, director of the URI graduate program in nursing.
The exchange would be of mutual benefit for both universities. It would not only provide the University of Skövde with a launching pad for the development of its graduate program in nursing, but it would also allow URI to experiment with internet-based teaching and a chance to collaborate with Skövdes faculty in research and other projects.
Dr. Björn Sjöström, a professor at the Department of Nursing, University of Skövde, and URI Professor of Nursing Hesook S. Kim, developed the concept of an exchange. After having collaborated on several research projects involving cross-cultural comparisons in nursing practices over the past 10 years, Sjöström and Kim began discussing the possibility of an educational collaboration last year.
Upon hearing the idea, the president of the University of Skövde endorsed it immediately. The arrangement was officially announced in a recent ceremony involving URI President Robert L. Carothers.
"In establishing an international joint master of science program in nursing, which I think may be the first of its kind, we are hoping to chart new ways to collaborate in graduate education for nursing," said Kim. "While we have collaborated with many universities in foreign countries in research in the past and on an ongoing basis, this is the first time we are in a formal agreement for a joint educational program."
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Hepatic differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells
Liver develops from ventral foregut through sequential steps. In addition to the inductive signals from the cardiac mesoderm and the septum transversum mesenchyme that together induce the endoderm to adopt a hepatic fate, little is known about the transcriptional circuit regulating early liver development.
The model based on the differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells into hepatocytes is able to recapitulate the known molecular events occurring during mammalian hepatic development and since this system can be genetically modified it can be used to further characterize the molecular processes underlying the specification of human hepatocytes. This is important, under the therapeutic point of view, for the in vitro generation of hepatic cells from embryonic stem or somatic stem cells, for regenerative medicine.
My research interest is to investigate the role of the transcription factor HNF1beta in the hepatic development.
The homozygous mutation of this gene in mouse embryos results in lethality by day 7.5 of development and embryos display a disorganized visceral endoderm and a significantly reduced size suggesting that vHNF1 expression is necessary for visceral endoderm differentiation. The complementation with wild-type visceral endoderm rescues the lethality but reveals an additional phenotype linked to vHNF1 later expression: the embryos show abnormalities in the morphogenesis of different organs.
Among others, rescued embryos exhibit a severe defect in liver development including hypoplasia and reduced dimension of the organ together with a severely disorganized architecture. In particular HNF1beta seems to be required in two different steps of the early hepatic organogenesis in mouse: the thickening of the hepatic bud and the expression of essential hepatic genes. Interestingly, studies in Zebrafish suggest a conserved role of this factor in vertebrates.
The hypothesis of my work is that HNF1beta performs a similar and critical role also in the early human liver development. I am currently investigating this hypothesis using hiPSC lines expressing shRNAs that specifically silence HNF1beta. This approach in combination with the use of molecular assays will make it possible to characterize the role of this factor in the early stages of hepatic specification and to unravel the underlying molecular mechanism, which is mainly unknown so far. In this context I will also inquire about the reciprocal interaction between HNF1beta and HNF4alpha, a transcription factor known to be essential for the establishment and maintenance of liver-specific gene expression.
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Patrick Swayze passed away today at home with his family. He was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2008 and his condition took a turn for the worse earlier this year. He was 57 years old. Swayze is survived by his wife, Lisa Niemi, who he's been with since he was 18 years old. Patrick has a very special place in our hearts for many of his movies, like Ghost and Point Break to name a couple, but perhaps most of all for Dirty Dancing. Our thoughts are with his loved ones, and he will be missed.
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A class act throughout his life. May he rest in peace. Thank you Patrick for your God given talents and your willingness to share. I promise cancer will be beaten, promise!
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The lights are dimmed. The curtain's down. The stage is for a long moment dark. The world laughs and dances with a little less snap. Condolences to the Swayze family. He struggled, and he won. And we won for having him.
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what sorrow i feel ,he was one of the good guys none of that star power for him he was a great person with the same woman since he was 18,that must mean she was a good person also,farewell patrick the pain is over,now its time for your reward.bless you
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Death sentence: pancreatic cancer. Lost a "young" bro-in-law (62) who was with my sister (who is disabled with MS)for 42 years. By the time he was diagnosed, it was too late, just like for Patrick Swayze. No symptoms until late stage...SOOO sad.
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Sad day indeed that we lose a good man to the battle of such an unforgiving cancer. He will be missed greatly for his movies and dance moves, but I can't help to think of the cancer that took his life. I just lost my great aunt to the same disease only days ago. It saddens me that it is diagnosed at such a late stage. But the fact that Swayze and people like my aunt who are able to outlive their prognosis is somewhat uplifting. When they died, it was more of an acceptance of the disease. But for those loved ones around having to watch, it has to be one of the hardest things to witness. Knowing that they are suffering and even with the care of a nurse, it is just fearing that their days are coming to an end that makes it so hard. Prayers go out to his family.
sinsational 5 years
So sad..., loved him a lot, been praying for him every single day, glad he is not suffering any more. All the good ones are leaving us, we are living tough times... My prayers to his family. R.I.P. my dearest!
tastycaramel30 5 years
r.i.p. Patrick!, u will be missed deeply. prayers to your family and friends..he held on to as long as he can..he was one of my favorite actors of all time since "Dirty Dancing". he lived a great life, now he's in peace and will god will rest his soul..
cupcakers 5 years
RIP-so sad, he was such a lovely man. I keep thinking about his wife, they were together for such a long time I can't imagine what she is going through....le sigh
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blondie829 5 years
So sad...cancer is absolutely horrible. :( RIP. He's definitely dancing in heaven. My thoughts and prayers are with his beautiful wife and family.
Ana-V452519 5 years
so sad :(
spicyaroma 5 years
:cry: I feel so bad for his family and friends :( RIP Patrick!
lyrical_angel 5 years
RIP Patrick. I have had a crush on him since I was about seven years old. My heart breaks for his wife and family. Pancreatic cancer is particularly nasty.
care0531 5 years
God Bless him and his family. I am watching Dirty Dancing as we speak! "Nobody puts Baby in a corner!"
Asche 5 years
Marlowe 5 years
Sad news. My thoughts go to his wife. RIP
zawackirz 5 years
Rest in Peace Darling and my kindest wishes and prayers go out to his family. Gone too soon. <3
suziryder 5 years
How sad! He was the first celebrity I had a crush on.
cocom 5 years
RIP Mr. Swayze!
ilanac13 5 years
this is so sad - i didn't realize that he had been even worse off lately - but at least he's no longer suffering. he fought for a long time and will be remembered with some fond memories.
cherryblossom 5 years
This made me so sad to hear, its such a loss condolences to all his family and friends, may he rest in peace.
CaterpillarGirl 5 years
So young, and he will be missed so much. You couldnt turn around in the 80's and earlier 90's and not see a movie with him in it, and every one of them was memorable in its own way (yes even roadhouse!) He was romantic perfection in tight jeans and a dancers grace and my heart goes out to his wife.
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text: Bookmarks Safe driving for teensPrint-Friendly Driving and teenagers; Teens and safe driving; Automobile safety - teenage driversNavigatorLearning to drive is an exciting time for teenagers and their parents. It opens up many options for a young person, but it also carries risks. Young people between ages 15 and 24 have the highest rate of auto-related deaths. The rate is the highest for young men. Parents and teens should be aware of problem areas and take steps to avoid hazards.I Would Like to Learn About:Expand All Collapse All Information Make a Commitment to SafetyTeens also need to commit to being safe and responsible drivers in order improve the odds in their favor.Reckless driving is still a danger to teens -- even with automobile safety features. All new drivers should take a driver's education course. These courses can reduce crashes. Drivers and passengers should use automobile safety features at all times. These include: seat belts, shoulder straps, and headrests. Only drive cars that have air bags, padded dashes, safety glass, collapsible steering columns, and anti-lock brakes.Auto accidents are also a leading cause of death in infants and children. Infants and young children should be properly buckled into a child safety seat of the right size.Avoid Distracted Driving Distractions are a problem for all drivers. Do not use cell phones for talking, texting, and email when you are driving. Mobile phones should be turned off when driving so you are not be tempted to make calls or answer the phone. If phones are left on for emergency use, pull off of the road before answering or texting. Other tips include:Avoid putting on makeup while driving, even when stopped at a light or stop sign, it can be dangerous. Finish eating before starting your car and driving. Driving with friends can lead to accidents.Teens are safer driving alone or with family. For the first 6 months, teens should drive with an adult driver who can help them learn good driving habits. New drivers should wait should wait at least 3 to 6 months before taking friends as passengers. Teenage-related driving deaths occur more often in certain conditions.Other safety tips for teensReckless driving is still a danger, even when using seatbelts. Don't rush. It safer to be late. Avoid driving at nighttime. Your driving skills and reflexes are just developing during the first months of driving. Darkness adds an extra factor to cope with. When drowsy, stop driving until fully alert. Sleepiness may cause more accidents than alcohol. Never drink and drive. Drinking slows reflexes and hurts judgment. These effects happen to anyone who drinks. So, NEVER drink and drive. ALWAYS find someone to drive who has not been drinking -- even if this means making an uncomfortable phone call. Drugs can be just as dangerous as alcohol. Don't mix driving with marijuana, other illegal drugs or any prescribed medicine that makes you sleepy.Parents should talk with their teens about "household driving rules."Make a written "driving contract" that both parents and teens sign. The contract should list the rules and what teens can expect if rules are broken. The contract should state that parents have the final say about driving rules. When writing the contract, take into account all the driving issues that are likely to come up. Parents can do the following to help prevent teens from drinking and driving:Tell their teens to call rather than get in a car with a driver who has been drinking or when they have been drinking. Promise no punishment if they call first.Some children continue to mix driving and drinking. In many states the parent must sign for a teenager under 18 to get a driver's license. 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By JENNA FRYER
Antron Brown started his week at Miramar College in San Diego, where he used his own experiences in urging students not to set limits on what they can accomplish.
Brown had mistakenly done that himself early in his NHRA career, when he figured Pro Stock Motorcycle was the highest level he could reach.
"My biggest dream was always to race a Top Fuel or Funny Car, but I always thought it was way out of reach because we didn't come from money," Brown said this week in an interview with The Associated Press.
"And I began to ask myself, `Why am I settling?' Then when I got the partnership with the U.S. Army, it taught me how to use my tools. I began to use my personality, my drive, my approach to people _ how I never take failure. And that's exactly what I did, and I got myself into a fuel car," he said.
Five years after making the move from Pro Stock to Top Fuel, Brown is poised to become the first black champion in any NHRA pro series. He takes a 65-point lead over teammate Tony Schumacher into this weekend's finals at Pomona.
Brown is not thinking about the milestone, and points out that NHRA has long been the most diverse series in motorsports. Shirley Muldowney was the first woman to earn a license from NHRA to drive a Top Fuel dragster and won three championships, and brothers Cruz and Tony Pedregon, who are of Hispanic descent, both won Funny Car championships.
Earlier this season, Erica Enders became the first woman to win a Pro Stock event, beating four-time champion Greg Anderson in the finals at Route 66 Raceway.
So Brown thinks his success is just another testament to NHRA's wide opportunities.
"Our sport has been so diverse for so long," he said. "The thing that is important about this for me is hopefully I can inspire some inner city kids or some minority kids. If I could open the doors up for kids, get them intrigued and interested, then that would mean something to me."
But this is no gimme for Brown, who was eliminated in the first round at Las Vegas two weeks ago and had his lead in the standings gobbled up by Schumacher. Brown had gone into Las Vegas up by 136 points over his teammate, who advanced to the finals against Bob Vandergriff but fell short in his bid to win his 70th career victory.
Schumacher, a seven-time champion, thinks he's got a shot at an eighth title.
"I always wanted the ball in my hands for the last shot, and I always wanted to sit in a seat and have to win to be the champ, not hope someone else loses," he said. "I think Antron is in a really good spot right now. He's ahead of us, but he's not that kind of guy. He does not want to have to watch someone lose, he wants to close the deal, just like we do."
Lurking right behind Brown and Schumacher is Spencer Massey, who is 70 points out of the lead, and Shawn Langdon, 116 points back.
"There are more great cars than we've ever seen _ great drivers, great teams," Schumacher said. "We seem to have all settled into a pretty good home between the drivers and the crew chiefs, and the battles are incredible. The guy who stands on the podium at the end is going to be well-deserving of the Full Throttle championship because it has been as difficult as anything I've ever seen, I've had to drive better. Antron, Spencer, all of us have had to drive better.
"All the drivers with the experience have had to rise way beyond what we've had to rise to before. And experience is paying off right now. It is incredible. I told the guys last weekend, it has been a number of years since we've seen something so good, such high class of racing. We're not seeing games played on the starting line, we're seeing good, solid, wicked, difficult races."
Meanwhile, only four points separate leader Jack Beckman and Ron Capps in Funny Car, while eight-time Pomona winner John Force will be trying to win a record 135th event.
In Pro Stock, Allen Johnson should wrap up his first world championship title and Eddie Krawiec needs only a few points in the two-wheel category to lock up his third Pro Stock championship.
But all eyes will be on Top Fuel, where Brown has been in position before to win the championship and come up empty.
He doesn't want to see it happen again after this six-win season, and it's been a long two weeks since Las Vegas, which was one of his worst weekends of the year. Brown's 13th-place qualifying position was his lowest of the season, he was eliminated in the first round and scored only 31 points for the event.
Brown and his team stayed in Las Vegas an extra day to test, and he's been counting down the days until Sunday's final at Pomona.
"We absolutely feel like the championship has been there for us to take and we have not done it," he said. "The competition has been that tough and that hard and this is one of those deals where you don't get a mulligan. Once you mess up, there is no second lap, there is no time out. We feel like the Miami Heat. We have all this talent, but we have not gotten the championship yet.
"We are so close. We feel like it is right there in front of us, and we want to get it and see what the blood, sweat and tears has been for all this time."
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An aggravated child neglect trial hit a proverbial brick wall Monday on an issue that could cost prosecutors six of the eight counts they want the jury to consider.
Robert Simons III, 55, and Mary Ella Tittle, 39, of Jonesborough, are charged with a total of eight counts of aggravated child neglect, five that involve a child age 8 or younger and three involving a child under 18 years old.
A jury heard testimony all of last week and one witness Monday. The state and defense rested their cases with no evidence from Simons or Tittle.
But Criminal Court Judge Robert Cupp determined the trial could go no further until he and attorneys in the case — Assistant District Attorneys Dennis Brooks and Erin McArdle, Simons' attorney Matt Bolton and Tittle's attorney Jim Lonon — iron out how to instruct the jury to consider lesser-included charges during deliberation.
All crimes have statutory lesser-included charges, or a less serious offense, that a jury can convict on if they determine the state did not prove the original crime beyond a reasonable doubt. An example would be if a defendant were charged with first-degree murder and found guilty of something less, such as second-degree murder or some type of manslaughter.
The problem with the Simons and Tittle case sits with how the state legislature changed the laws pertaining to the age of a child victim in a neglect case. There are two age cutoffs in the law. One is neglect of a child age 8 or younger and the other is neglect of a child age 18 or younger.
The child victims in this case, Simons and Tittle's five children, ages 13 to 7 during the time frame of the offenses, fit the aggravated child neglect statute, but apparently not the lesser-included charges.
That's because legislators changed the law twice during the last decade, which caused the lesser charges to not apply to the child during the time frame of the offense.
Two of the counts fit all the criteria of the primary charge and all the lesser included charges, but Cupp said at this point in the case those are the only two the jury could consider.
The issue will be moot if the jury convicts Simons and Tittle on the primary charge.
Cupp said Monday he will allow prosecutors to file an interlocutory appeal — an appeal to a higher court while a case is pending in state court — if he rules that the six counts in question cannot go to the jury.
The lone witness Monday was Brenda Jordan, the foster mother to the Simons children.
Much of her testimony mirrored that of her husband, Junior Jordan, on Friday. Both testified the Simons kids are doing much better now, but initially they had to learn basic living skills like bathing, brushing their teeth, using the toilet properly and picking up behind themselves.
"They're beautiful children," Brenda Jordan said.
If convicted of aggravated child neglect, a Class A felony, Simons and Tittle face 15 to 25 years in prison.


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The 4-month-old Belgian shepherd has been overlooked by potential adopters because of a unique birth defect: a snout that looks like two noses.
"It is such a shame to think that this sweet-natured lad may not find the loving home he deserves," Sandra Lawton, manager of the Dogs Trust Rehoming Centre in Glasgow, Scotland, tells the Daily Mail. "We take in hundreds of dogs of all shapes and sizes but I have never seen anything quite like Snuffles."
The sweet and affectionate pooch, who was taken in by the shelter a month ago, has four nostrils and the ability to move each side of his snout independently. But despite appearances, Snuffles only has one nose, clarifies veterinarian Angela McAllister.
"Instead of his nostrils being fused together he's got some sort of split there," she tells the Mail. "I've never seen the condition in my 20-year career."
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WASHINGTON, May 24, 2007 "The Early Show" on CBS took advantage of the New York's 20th annual Fleet Week to share its support and appreciation for the thousands of sailors and Marines enjoying the city, as well as for military members serving around the world.
John Bolaris, who was filling in for The Early Show's regular meteorologist, introduced viewers to the Defense Department's America Supports You program.
"We want to tell you about a special program devoted to the sacrifice that the servicemen and women do for our country and how much the American people appreciate their sacrifice," Bolaris said.
America Supports You connects citizens and corporations with military personnel and their families serving at home and abroad. It began in November 2004, and boasts dozens of corporate supporters and more than 250 home-front groups that work to support servicemembers worldwide.
"You probably understand how important it is for our military men and women to know that America supports them (and) appreciates the sacrifices that they're making," Roxie Merritt, an America Supports You spokeswoman and a retired Navy captain, said. "(It's) hard to tell sometimes when you're overseas and watching the news that you really are truly supported back here."
The program's corporate supporters and home-front groups work hard to make sure servicemembers know just how much appreciation they have from home. Among other forms of support, groups send care packages and provide assistance to deployed servicemembers' families and injured servicemembers working to reintegrate into civilian life.
"America Supports You groups do all kinds of wonderful things for us," Merritt said against a backdrop of sailors, Marines and an America Support You banner. Her comments were met with cheers from the servicemembers gathered outside the CBS studios.
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HTC got off to an early start Sunday night, on the eve of Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona.
With acres of plastic sheeting still on the floors of the Fira de Barcelona Conference Center, ground zero for MWC, the world's 5th largest phone maker used the event to launch its HTC One X phone. The sleek offering, HTC's first with NVIDIA, is powered by the Tegra 3 mobile processor, the world's only 4-PLUS-1 quad-core processor with a fifth battery saver core.
The packed press conference, with more than 500 attendees in a coliseum-size mall opposite Fira, kicked off at 9pm ' not so odd in a city where dinner often doesn't start until 10pm. It featured HTC's CEO Peter Chou, who described the One X, which features Android Ice Cream Sandwich, a 1.5GHz Tegra 3 processor, 1GB RAM, 4.7-inch SuperLCD 2 screen with 1280Ã?720 resolution and Gorilla Glass, 32GB inbuilt storage and an 8-megapixel camera, as a whole new way to record the world around us.
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* Previously App Store Editors' Choice *
"…one of the best endless runner games we've seen in a long time." -- TouchArcade
"Time Surfer is blazing fast." -- Indie Games
"…leaving you with a wide, faraway grin on your space battered face." -- PocketGamer
"The Time Surfer soundtrack is more than just a single piece of music—it's a journey." -- Kotaku
"The most promising runner I've seen in a long while." -- IGN
"From the old school visuals to the thrilling gameplay, you need this title in your life." -- GameTrailers.com
"A great example of how a fun idea can be iterated upon." -- 148 Apps
Two touch gameplay keeps everything easy to reach and easy to play. Touch with your right thumb to dive. Touch with your left thumb to rewind time. It couldn't be simpler.
Dodge spikes, pits and the end of the universe - it's a typical, never-ending day in the life of a trans-dimensional cosmic time god! Pick up speed, magnet and time bonuses! Miss one? Rewind and grab it!
Complete missions to unlock new pets and earn Space Cakes to feed them. Little dudes like Axolotl, Squid Scholar or Robo-Duck will join your surf and give you crazy new abilities!
Transition through beautiful Retina landscapes. Immerse yourself in a starry night as you surf, bounce and fly through various zones with different hazards and scenery!
Psychedelic visuals backed up by numerous references to 80's icons, including a police box, a time-travelling car and the monkey king on a cloud.
Surf through "Hell Zone" and turn the difficulty up to 11 with a spike-infested gauntlet or try the Kepler Run, a surreal flight through a galaxy swamped with black holes. For those who really love a challenge.
A spacey, hand-crafted chip-tune soundtrack from composer Derris-Kharlan. Each track sets the mood and reflects on Time Surfer's inevitable doom yet eternal existence. Living forever is both a blessing and a curse.
== Universal and iCloud Support ==
- Full iCloud support - all pets, costumes and purchases sync across your devices!
- Universal App - play on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPad and iPad mini!
- Compete with Game Center across four varying game modes: arcade, holiday hills, the kepler run and hell zone!
== About Us ==
We also made Bean's Quest! An award-winning platformer for iPhone and iPad. Check it out if you are looking for a classic platformer with elegant controls!
Say [email protected] we'd love to hear from you!
Find us on Facebook: facebook.com/TimeSurferGame
Follow us on Twitter: @kumobius
App Changes
- January 10, 2013 Initial release
- April 15, 2013 New version 1.2.0
- August 29, 2013 New version 1.3.0
- August 29, 2013 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
- September 07, 2013 Price increase: FREE! -> $0.99
- December 05, 2013 New version 1.4.0
- April 07, 2014 New version 1.4.1
- September 19, 2014 New version 1.4.2
- January 29, 2015 Price decrease: $0.99 -> FREE!
- May 08, 2015 Price increase: FREE! -> $0.99


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Arts in Houston
Theater, dance, art, music and books with the Chronicle's arts staff
Monthly Archive for March, 2008
"April is the cruelest month"
So wrote T.S. Eliot. "It is our hope that National Poetry Month lessens that effect," says the Academy of American Poets, which established the celebration in 1996. Share your original work here. [Read More]
Tommy Tune nominations
Episcopal High School's production of Urinetown scored 15 nominations for Tommy Tune Awards, which honor the best of high school musical theater. The nominations, which included those for best musical, best direction and best lead actors, were the most for any of the 41 participating area high schools. Cinco Ranch's Jekyll and Hyde and Memorial's […] [Read More]
Dance Salad, Program 2
Program two of this year's Dance Salad Festival made me think about stamina. By repeating Thursday's two longest works, producer Nancy Henderek made Friday's show a marathon. The Cold Dagger and Among the Mountains are both composed in sections with clear endings — the kind of moments that make you think, "Okay, this is it" […] [Read More]
Neville Marriner to conduct SPA-sponsored Houston concert by the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
Renowned conductor Sir Neville Marriner will be leading the Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, the chamber orchestra he founded, when it plays Houston's Jones Hall on March 25. Marriner is replacing the previously announced Murray Perahia, with rising classical pianist Yuja Wang replacing Perahia as soloist, for the orchestra's 11-city U.S. tour March 25-April 9. Houston […] [Read More]
Adele Anthony replaces Benjamin Schmid as guest soloist for this weekend's Houston Symphony concerts
"You're going out there a youngster but you've GOT to come back a star!" OK, now that I have your attention… This last-minute replacement scenario is nowhere near as dramatic as the one in "42nd Street." Violinist Adele Anthony is already a well-known talent in the classical field, who triumphed in the 1996 Carl Nielsen […] [Read More]
Lindy Hop pioneer Frankie Manning, then and now
Frankie Manning, 93, danced the Lindy Hop at Harlem's Savoy Ballroom during the dance's heydey in the 1930s and '40s. His style was unique: Rather than dancing upright, he leaned forward like a sprinter. He's still at it, too, teaching his pioneering style to new generations of fans. Manning will be at the University of […] [Read More]
Melody Herrera, Principal!
For all its exaggerated cartoonish business, what makes Stanton Welch's Cinderella work is the heroine's loveable lack of sophistication. Even all dressed up, making her grand entrance to the ball, she still wipes her nose with the back of her hand. This gives her considerably more depth than your average fairy tale princess. Further underscoring […] [Read More]
DWDT'S NY Moment
If you ever doubted that New York critics were tough to please, check out Jennifer Dunning's New York Times review of Dominic Walsh Dance Theater's performance last weekend at the Joyce Soho. Perhaps they can be thankful they weren't in London, where critics can be really brutal. Dunning was impressed with the dancers and production […] [Read More]
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In his email to a Facebook group of Mac Pro fans, Tim Cook confirmed that Apple is readying a major update for a 2013 launch. Although the company didn't pay enough attention to its professional tower at the WWDC 2012 opening, Mac Pro users are still important to Apple, CEO wrote. He also noted that the new Retina-equipped MacBook Pro is a great option for many professional users.
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How are you?
This simple question may soon give way to a growing array of more sophisticated queries: What's your cholesterol? Your blood pressure? Your weight? Your PSA? And with increasing health awareness, even these inquiries are beginning to sound quaint, as men ask about LDL and HDL cholesterol levels, systolic and diastolic blood pressures, BMIs and waist circumferences, free and total PSAs.
To men who grew up in a simpler era, it must seem like a tyranny of numbers. Knowing your numbers may stand you in good stead on the 19th hole, but do they really matter for your future health? Researchers have wondered, too — and their answers are good news for gents with good numbers, especially if they also have good health habits. And here's more good news: you don't need the latest sophisticated numbers to know where you stand. Instead, a few simple measurements and health habits will do — and good results in midlife predict successful aging and longevity.
Major studies, major impact
Back in 1999, an extraordinarily large study evaluated the impact of just three risk factors: total cholesterol below 200 mg/dL, a blood pressure of 120/80 mm Hg or lower, and no current cigarette smoking. The participants included 360,430 men between the age of 18 and 59. Men who had all three favorable risk factors enjoyed 50% to 58% lower mortality rates than their peers with less favorable profiles.
A smaller study of 6,342 people in the Chicago area shows the power of four simple cardiovascular risk factors. All the participants were healthy when the trial began. Researchers tracked the volunteers for an average of 26 years to see if risk factors in middle age predict quality of life in older age. The four risk factors in this study were high blood pressure, high total cholesterol, smoking, and the presence of minor EKG abnormalities. People who were free of risk factors in the late 1960s and early 1970s were consistently healthier when the results were tallied in 1996. The more risk factors that were present in middle-age, the greater the chance of illness during the next 26 years. And there's more: the low-risk people maintained better physical and mental function in their older years, and they reported a superior overall quality of life. A companion study of the same group of volunteers found that body mass index (BMI) had a similar predictive value: people who were lean in midlife were healthier and enjoyed a better quality of life in older age.
The Chicago studies included both men and women, but a newer study from Hawaii focused strictly on men. The 5,820 volunteers were between 45 and 68 when they enrolled. To establish a risk profile, each man underwent a detailed medical evaluation that included 29 individual factors. The scientists followed the men to learn if risk factors predicted healthy survival. The results were impressive: men who had no risk factors had a 55% chance of making it to age 85 without any major illness or disability, while men with six or more risk factors had just a 9% chance of exceptional survival. High blood sugar levels, high blood pressure, ever having smoked, and high alcohol consumption shared the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous risk factors; others included being overweight, having high triglyceride levels, being unmarried, having a low educational level, and having low grip strength.
Gripping results
Handgrip strength is not one of the numbers that middle-age men usually worry about, but it has real predictive value. A Japanese study evaluated grip strength in 4,912 people age 35 to 74 when they enrolled between 1970 and 1972. Researchers tracked the volunteers through 1999. The men with the strongest handgrips at the start of the study enjoyed a 48% lower death rate than the men with the weakest grips, even after cholesterol, blood pressure, BMI, smoking, and drinking were taken into account.
Another little-publicized number with predictive value is height. British scientists measured 4,213 men when they were between the ages of 40 and 59, and then repeated the measurements 20 years later. Men who lost more than 1.2 inches of height had a 64% higher 20-year mortality rate than men who lost less than 0.4 inches. Most of the excess deaths were related to cardiovascular disease; height loss remained a significant risk factor even after standard cardiovascular risk factors were taken into account.
Grip strength and preserved height represent surrogate markers for musculoskeletal fitness and physical activity. Indeed, many studies agree that regular exercise and physical fitness predict longevity and good health.


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I have a confession, though I don't know if I can call it a confession since it's painfully obvious to anyone who has ever met me. I am not a country girl. I don't particularly care for nature. My idea of roughing it is waiting for my heels to get recapped when the bottoms are worn out. I will only camp if I'm within a block (note the use of a city term) of a bathroom that has running water and showers. So when we made an excursion to my father-in-law's family farm in Ashby last weekend, I knew there would be a story to tell.
The morning began with me attempting to find the perfect outfit to wear to the family farm (see, I told you I'm not a country girl). This included picking the exact right pair of shoes, otherwise known as my knee high leather boots. My theory was that of the 20 something pairs of shoes I own, they were one of only five pairs that were flat, weren't my running shoes, and would keep my pants from getting dirty. When I asked my husband if they would work, he responded, "They're the closest pair of shoes you own to being farm acceptable." Awesome.
Upon arrival at the farm, the first activity of the day was fourwheeling. So off went my father-in-law with my stepson and two family friends on one fourwheeler. Off went my husband on another. There stood Katie, in her fashionable boots, watching them ride away, attempting not to get dirty and pondering if Ashby had a mall.
After a short while, the boys returned. Summoning my courage and repeating, "I am a good wife, I am a good wife," I asked my husband if he would take me for a ride. He looked like you could have knocked him over with a feather. I hopped on the back and we sped (and by sped, I mean we hit a max of 20 before I screamed, "too fast, we're going to get hurt!" or "I hate gravel roads!") around the farm. As we drove, my inner city girl was replaced by my fall-aholic self.
Intoxicated by the brilliant colors, I heard myself say, "Lets go to the other side of the lake." Now, to get to the other side, you have to drive through an old cow pasture that's protected by an electric fence. Before I could retract my statement, my husband sped off. Now my options were unlocking an electric fence or driving a fourwheeler through a cow pasture (sounds like a city girl's dream right?).
Taking a deep breath, I listened as my husband showed me how to drive the fourwheeler and repeated, "you will not die in the wilderness or in a cow pasture" to myself. Then, in my fabulous farm outfit, I drove the fourwheeler through the cow pasture to the other side. I also made my husband take this picture as proof:
That day I embraced a small part of me that I didn't know I had. And while I may not be ready to fourwheel all over the farm or to traipse around nature, I felt a small little sense of pride, almost like a tiny piece of country girl had made her way into my sparkling city personality. As a side note, that feeling of accomplishment was only slightly diminished when I attempted to throw my husband off the back of the fourwheeler on the way back to the house.
The moral of the story? Nature, while dirty, isn't so bad sometimes. Especially when you have an amazing family to share it with. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go put on a pair of heels and go to the mall.


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"Food is a great 'teacher' when it comes to learning about culture. Is that how you get people excited about all-things-Mexico?
Indeed! It seems to me that there is no better place to share differences, no more joyous and peaceful way to experience other's 'culture' than at the table. The dish, a recipe, is just the start. It is a delicious and edible lid that opens a world of how a people, a country, a community live: how they grow, buy and sell ingredients, how they cook, serve, interact, share, celebrate; ultimately, how their lives are built and experienced."
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