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Three Carbon High students represented Utah in the National Youth Goalball Championships. From Oct. 20 to Oct. 26, three students from Carbon High, Cathy Morgan, Chris Morgan and Stephen Shaffer, went to Florida to participate in a national youth goalball tournament.
Goalball is a sport for those who are blind and visually impaired. Each team consists of three players. A ball with bells is rolled down a court toward the opposing team who tries to block the ball with their bodies before it crosses the goal line. The tournament included a boys' division and a girls' division.
The Utah girls team including Morgan took their first ever first place finish in any girls' national tournament. Morgan along with four other girls from all over the state went unbeaten in the tournament, tying one game and winning the rest.
The gold medal game was a nail biter; it was a very intense, close game. In the end however, our Utah ladies won the game 6-4. "I think we could do better next year even though we took first this year," says Morgan.
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Like most of you, I was only dimly aware of the existence of George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin before last week. And like most of you, my familiarity with the two of them was limited to the bare bones of the case: Some guy shot and killed another guy who was wandering around inside a gated community, and the cops decided against pressing charges against the shooter because no evidence existed to counter his claim that he acted in self-defense. Figuring there was little more to the story—and considering Florida's enactment of the "stand your ground" law which allows citizens to face down attackers with deadly force instead of running like scared bunnies—I didn't give the case of Zimmerman and Martin much more attention.
And then, the Democrats—led by President Barack Obama—not only stepped into the fray; they stepped on a political land mine. As the usual vultures descended on Sanford, Fla., to turn what still appears to be a case of self-defense into a race war, something important disappeared behind the veil of liberal hate: justice.
I don't know much about either Zimmerman or Martin. George Zimmerman, neighborhood watch captain and apparent newest target for hate groups like the Nation of Islam and the oddly ubiquitous New Black Panther Party, is a Hispanic man who may or may not have been acting in self-defense. Meanwhile, Trayvon Martin may or may not have attacked Zimmerman and precipitated his own demise. Zimmerman might be a loose-cannon type who ventured in search of blood and found it; or he might be an everyman hero who rid the planet of another dangerous predator. Martin might have been the next Clarence Thomas or Allen West; or he might have been the next Derek Bell or Al Sharpton. Unfortunately, the liberal swarm which has invaded the Sunshine State didn't bother to find out before they rushed to judgment.
Now, instead of the measured response demanded by these same liberals when Troy Davis zeroed out at the tables, we're treated to left wing blowhards—most of whom are whiter than Sunday at The Masters®—turning rhetorical cartwheels in an effort to make race the only discussion.
The self-serving attempts by some to insert race into this tragedy (and it IS a tragedy—for everyone involved) is particularly odious. A young black man is dead, killed by a Hispanic man who may or may not have been acting in self-defense. That's ALWAYS terrible; for the shooter and the "shootee" alike. What everyone seems to forget when they turn these cases into public referenda is that both are PEOPLE; with families and friends.
Whether it's vile parasites like MSNBC shock-talker Al Sharpton trying to make this into a black-white skirmish (which it can't be, since Zimmerman is neither), buffoons like Geraldo Rivera somehow linking it to "hoodies" (which isn't a far cry from "Of course she got raped; look at how she was dressed!"), the always-ridiculous New Black Panther Party placing a $10,000 dead or alive "bounty" on Zimmerman's head (which introduces an interesting point: if the liberal concern in this case is about a lack of response by the justice system, then why do liberals remain silent on the lack of response by the justice system to terroristic threats from a known hate group?) or Obama guaranteeing race would overshadow right when he stated: "You know, if I had a son, he would look like Trayvon."
Actually, if Obama had a son, I suspect he'd have bigger ears. But what the hell does that even mean? Does Obama mean to suggest that they would look alike because Martin was black (unlike the President, who is only 50 percent black)? Did the President of the United States just suggest that all black people look alike?
If George Zimmerman acted in self-defense, then Trayvon Martin's race is inconsequential. And if Zimmerman is some idiot cowboy—well, that's homicide—and we have remedies for that, too. As a good and wise friend of mine—who is not only a defense lawyer but also a committed Democrat suggested: "Let the law apply itself."
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Our feelings are often unreliable and in any case they cannot determine the truthfulness of God's promised presence. Whether we sense that He is present or not, the Lord is with us to accomplish His will, and we must trust ...Read More
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Matthew Henry comments on today's passage: "Think how Abraham was called when he was but one, and yet was blessed and made many; and let that encourage you to depend on the promise of God." When we are discouraged and ...Read More
The Call of Abram
Jesus says to us: "Any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). The kind of faith that God blesses is the faith that is willing to leave everything behind for ...Read More
Solomon's Wise Request
Solomon's life illustrates the need to persevere in the wisdom of God. Of course, all those who have truly put their faith in His promises through Christ will not die bereft of this wisdom and thus, salvation; but the way ...Read More
The Son Versus the Servant
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The grace of God is large enough to cover all of our failures and sins. This great truth ought not be abused by us (growing callous toward sin); rather, it is to comfort us when we have sinned, for it ...Read More
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False Brothers in Jerusalem
It is the duty of all believers, not just our pastors and other leaders, to contend for the faith. We must be especially wary of incremental steps to undermine biblical authority and the historic Christian faith. Denominations do not typically ...Read More
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Based on the BMI measurement that 25 is considered fat and 30 obese, all four of the men had a BMI between 23 and 27, giving them a body fat percentage of 21%, Dr. Edwards says this is an excellent example of the flaw in the system. "The problem is what we'd really like to know is how much fat you have, how much muscle you have."
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Ree Dolly's father has skipped bail on charges that he ran a crystal meth lab, and the Dollys will lose their house if he doesn't show up for his next court date. With two young brothers depending on her, 16-year-old Ree knows she has to bring her father back, dead or alive. Living in the harsh poverty of the Ozarks, Ree learns quickly that asking questions of the rough Dolly clan can be a fatal mistake. But, as an unsettling revelation lurks, Ree discovers unforeseen depths in herself and in a family network that protects its own at any cost.
"Woodrell flirts with — but doesn't succumb to — cliche in his eighth novel, a luminescent portrait of the poor and desperate South that drafts 16-year-old Ree Dolly, blessed with 'abrupt green eyes,' as its unlikely heroine. Ree, too young to escape the Ozarks by joining the army, cares for her two younger brothers and mentally ill mother after her methamphetamine-cooking father, Jessup, disappears. Recently arrested on drug charges, Jessup bonded out of jail by using the family home as collateral, but with a court date set in one week's time and Jessup nowhere to be found, Ree has to find him — dead or alive — or the house will be repossessed. At its best, the novel captures the near-religious criminal mania pervasive in rural communities steeped in drug culture. Woodrell's prose, lyrical as often as dialogic, creates an unwieldy but alluring narrative that allows him to draw moments of unexpected tenderness from predictable scripts: from Ree's fearsome, criminal uncle Teardrop, Ree discovers the unshakable strength of family loyalty; from her friend Gail and her woefully dependant siblings, Ree learns that a faith in kinship can blossom in the face of a bleak and flawed existence." Publishers Weekly (Copyright Reed Business Information, Inc.)
"If you're going to read 'Winter's Bone,' it's best to plan on reading it twice — once to get the feel of the thing and once to figure out who is who, who's got the power here and what opaque and arcane rules hold this world together. The world in question is Southeastern hill country, the Ozarks, where the population has lived almost as long as there have been white folks on the continent.... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review) The men, lounging in their ramshackle houses or dilapidated doublewides, appear to be feckless, savage, foul-tempered layabouts. If their great-grandfathers made their livings distilling moonshine, they rouse themselves from time to time to cook up a batch of crank. Their contempt for the law is boundless; they treat their women roughly. Their codes of honor and silence and family are as complex (and difficult to negotiate) as a badly written city ordinance. In the hands of a conventionally educated urban author, these characterizations would seem intolerably condescending and elitist, but Daniel Woodrell was born and raised in the Missouri Ozarks and still makes his home in the Ozarks near the Arkansas line. He's not taking cheap shots; he's reporting life as he sees it. Ree Dolly, the heroine, is a tough little girl of 16 who lives across a creek from a flock of slack-jawed relatives up in the mountains, in the middle of nowhere. Her father, Jessup, one of the best crank cookers in the region, has been increasingly shifty and pasty-faced of late. And now he's run off, after uttering these words: 'Start lookin" for me soon as you see my face. "Til then, don't even wonder.' He left as winter was coming on, no food in the cupboards, no money, not even any firewood for their potbellied stove, leaving Ree responsible for herself, two younger brothers and a mother, who's decided — according to Ree — to go crazy so that she won't have to face this impossibly hard life. It could be worse. At least they've got the house that's been in the family for generations. But Jessup has already spent time in jail and is due to be tried again. He's put up the house as part of his court bond, and if he doesn't make an upcoming court date, the pitiful little family soon will be evicted. It's true that when the first people came here, they lived in caves, but Ree doesn't relish that possibility. She must find her errant dad or risk homelessness in the harsh Ozark winter. That's the back story, the setup. The action plays out like an old-fashioned, hard-boiled novel. Ree, like Philip Marlowe or Sam Spade, plays the interlocutor, visiting one mysterious or vicious character after another, asking the same questions: Where is her father, and how can she get him back? Each time, she's warned off by various threats, lies or intimidation. She visits her Uncle Teardrop, who had almost half his face melted off in a methamphetamine explosion. She breaches the frightening compound owned by Thump Milton, who makes her sit on her haunches in a sleeting rain for an hour and then won't see her. And she drives to an actual village with streets to question her dad's old girlfriend. She gets nowhere. The ones who talk don't know, and the ones who know don't talk. But, as Ree is fond of saying, her family name is Dolly, and the Dollys are the toughest clan around. Soon enough, she realizes her dad is dead, but she must be able to prove it or be thrust out into the snow with two small boys and her crazy mom. Meanwhile, Ree teaches her brothers to shoot and gut squirrels. She washes her mother's hair. She scrounges money for groceries. She spends time with Gail, her best friend from before they dropped out of high school. (Gail's married now to a 19-year-old oaf and has a new baby.) And day after day, Ree struggles with all the inconvenience and humiliations of dire poverty. 'Winter's Bone' revolves around questions of grit, courage, authenticity, a willingness to face the pure physical unpleasantness of the way things are. 'Ree Dolly stood at break of day on her cold front steps and smelled coming flurries and saw meat,' Woodrell writes. 'Meat hung from trees across the creek.' It's meat she needs, but it doesn't look like she'll get any. Her half-starving brothers have been crying for lack of meat, but she almost twists the ear off the one who wants to ask for some. When she teaches the boys to shoot, she insists they do their own gutting. When something terrible happens to her, she's reduced to little more than a slab of pounded meat. And by the end of the novel, she must prove herself by holding firm to some of the creepiest, most unpleasant meat of all. That's what her life comes down to. You could ask some carping questions about all of this. If all the people in these hollers occupy themselves making drugs, how come the standard of living isn't higher? If her brothers have been crying for protein and getting nothing but mush, how come Ree hasn't been out and about, shooting squirrel all along? Most important, in a world full of ignorant, antisocial savages, how did Ree turn out to be some kind of rustic Joan of Arc? (You can't say it's because she's a woman, because women commit some of the most heinous crimes in this narrative.) And it certainly can't be how she was raised, because her grandmother beat her with a strop, her father was a philandering dope fiend and her mother is nuts. I think the author just wanted her to be that way, the way Raymond Chandler wanted his Philip Marlowe to be a knight in a world full of craven churls. Still, there's a lot of density and interest here. The author is obsessed by the weirdness of incongruity: the way the little boys watch fancy English ways on public television while their own lives drown in squalor; the way Ree and Gail bicker over processed grated cheese in the general store; the way the most villainous mountain women can be felled not by gunshot but by that most subtle and feminine of weapons — round after round of righteous gossip. I don't know if this is a book that the reader is supposed to (BEG IAL)like or not. Woodrell simply shows us a world, the raw meat of it. If we can't stomach his reality, it's our problem, not his." Reviewed by Carolyn See, who may be reached at www.carolynsee.com, Washington Post Book World (Copyright 2006 Washington Post Book World Service/Washington Post Writers Group)
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"Despite the questionable ending, some teens will be drawn into Ree's story. But the book is not for the young or the faint-of-heart; Ree is not a saint, and this gritty story requires maturity to appreciate." VOYA
"A compelling testament to how people survive in the worst of circumstances." School Library Journal
"[C]ompact, atmospheric and deeply felt....Woodrell's novels...tap a ferocious, ancient manner of storytelling, shrewdly combining a poet's vocabulary with the vivid, old-fashioned vernacular of the backwoods. They're forces of nature." Seattle Times
"[P]acks a kind of biblical, Old West, Cormac McCarthy wallop — hard and deep....To call Woodrell...the Next Big Thing in literary crime fiction only can mean this: We are way behind. He is the current big thing. And not to be missed." Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Woodrell burrows ever deeper into the heart of Ozark darkness, weaving a tale both haunting in its simplicity and mythic in scope....
"[Woodrell's] Old Testament prose and blunt vision have a chilly timelessness that suggests this novel will speak to readers as long as there are readers, and as long as violence is practiced more often than hope or language." David Bowman, The New York Times Book Review
"[A]nother stunner....Diehard fans of the author will not be disappointed with Winter's Bone. Those unacquainted with his work...are in for a unique reading experience that will doubtless send them scurrying off to find more of his novels." Kansas City Star
When Ree Dollys father skips bail, the 16-year-old knows if he doesn't show up, her family will lose their home. Her goal had been to leave her life of poverty and join the Army, but first she must find her father, teach her little brothers to fend for themselves, and escape a downward spiral of misery.
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Dan Woodrell is the author of five previous novels: Under the Bright Lights, Woe to Live On (to be filmed by director Ang Lee, adapted by James Shamus), Muscle for the Wing, The Ones You Do, and Give Us a Kiss — a New York Times Notable Book for 1996. He lives in Missouri.
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Raltegravir Augmentation on Persistent Central Nervous System (CNS) Immunoactivation in Treated HIV-1 Patients
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This pilot study focuses on the persistence of central nervous system (CNS) immune activation that has been observed in the presence of 'effective' combination antiretroviral therapy (cART). Attention to this issue is based on the fear that chronic CNS immunoactivation can cause indolent brain injury that will eventually compromise brain function as patients survive for years on treatment. A leading hypothesis explaining this continued immunoactivation is that viral replication continues within the brain at a level too low for detection in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), yet sufficient to stimulate local immunoactivation. Based on this hypothesis, we propose to use augmented treatment with raltegravir to test whether additional suppression of this hypothesized CNS HIV-1 replication will reduce continued CNS immunoactivation.
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Drug: raltegravir
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Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
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|Pilot Study of Raltegravir Augmentation on Persistent Central Nervous System (CNS) Immunoactivation in Treated HIV-1 Patients
- Change in CSF Concentrations of Neopterin After 12 Weeks [ Time Frame: three months (Rollover subjects were assessed for a second baseline after the initial 12 week period) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]CSF markers of immuno¬activation and inflammation after 12 weeks compared to baseline.
- Change From Baseline in CD8+ T Cell Co-expression of CD38 and HLA-DR [ Time Frame: three months (Rollover subjects were assessed for a second baseline after the initial 12 week period) ] [ Designated as safety issue: No ]Blood CD8+ T cell activation as indicated by percentage of cells in fresh specimens coexpressing surface CD38 and human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-DR.
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|February 2011
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Experimental: raltegravir group
The raltegravir dosing will be 400mg twice daily by mouth. Subjects will continue all of their regular medications throughout the protocol.
Drug: raltegravir
400 mg two times daily for three months
Other Name: Isentress
No Intervention: No augmented treatment
Subjects randomized not to receive augmented treatment will continue in the study with their regular antiretroviral regimen.
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Inclusion Criteria:
- Capacity to provide informed consent.
- Documented HIV-1 infection.
- History of continuous cART treatment (with at least three drugs) for at least 2 years.
- Documentation of 'undetectable' plasma HIV-1 RNA for at least 1 year.
- HIV-1 RNA <50 copies/mL in plasma and CSF at screening visit.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Contraindication to LP (suspicion of CNS mass lesion, bleeding diathesis, etc.).
- Prior experience with raltegravir or contraindication to raltegravir treatment, including medication interactions that might compromise ongoing antiretroviral therapy or treatment of other conditions.
- Active opportunistic infections or neurological diseases.
- Other conditions or treatments likely to interfere with treatment or evaluation.
- Hemoglobin < 10 Gm/dL.
- Pregnant or anticipating pregnancy during study.
- Active substance abuse.
- Subjects taking rifampin, phenytoin, Phenobarbital or other drugs that accelerate raltegravir metabolism and might decrease its tissue concentrations.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00672932
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|Study First Received:
|April 29, 2008
|Results First Received:
|June 18, 2012
|Last Updated:
|May 29, 2013
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Keywords provided by University of California, San Francisco:
central nervous system (CNS)
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It doesn't take a water specialist to know that things are dry and that this past winter had nothing like normal precipitation. But that was definitely confirmed by the Natural Resource Conservation Service experts in their monthly water report.
According to the report, current runoff in Utah is mostly below to much below average for non?regulated stream flow across many areas of Utah. Most rivers are in recession and flows will be at summer base flows quickly.
Snow packs have melted out over the entire state at this point. Much of this year's snowmelt has gone to recharge soil moisture which is currently average in the north and dry in the south. Southeastern Utah is exceptionally dry and this is reflected in the observed streamflows.
May precipitation was below average statewide, in the north (60?80 percent) and in the south (70?90 percent). Reservoir storage overall is 15 percent less than last year, near 73 percent of capacity across the state. This is up just one percent from May's figure of 72 percent of capacity. This fact indicates that the state has used much of this year's runoff as it came into the reservoirs.
Reservoir storage in some areas such as the San Pitch (0 percent), Southeast Utah (56 percent), and the Enterprise area (24 percent) are very low. Poor runoff conditions will and already have had impacts on agriculture across the state with water allocation cuts.
The National Climate Prediction Center forecasts for the area suggest warmer conditions for the next three months. Based on all available water supply data, (reservoir storage, observed streamflow, climate forecasts, etc) agricultural producers and others will have to determine how best to manage current water supplies in order to minimize risk and maximize production in what is now back to back water limited years.
In the local area precipitation in May was near average at 98%, which brings the seasonal accumulation (Oct-May) to 82 percent of average. Soil moisture is at 65 percent compared to 61% last year. Reservoir storage is at 56 percent of capacity, compared to 85 percent last year.
Most importantly because of the low storage the water availability index for the Price River is 20 percent and 19 percent for Joe's Valley. The Surface Water Supply Index (SWSI) is a predictive indicator of total surface water availability within a watershed for spring and summer water use seasons. The index is calculated by combining pre-runoff reservoir storage (carryover) with forecasts of spring and summer streamflow which are based on current snowpack and other hydrologic variables. SWSI values are scaled from +4.1 (abundant supply) to -4.1 (extremely dry) with a value of zero (0) indicating media water supply as compared to historical analysis.
Current storage at Scofield Reservoir, western and central Carbon County's main water supply is at about 55 percent. Others storage percentages in the area are: Miller Flat Reservoir, 62 percent; Cleveland Lake, 75 percent; Huntington North, 76 percent; Joes Valley, 63 percent and Millsite Reservoir, 30 percent.


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Don wrote:Seeing the depth this year is going to be pitching, I expect a position player in the first slot. Unless somehow Cole is available for the Orioles selection I suspect it will be one of three players.
Jackie Bradley Jr.
Bubba Starling
Francisco Lindor
You have that problem that happens in years where one area is deeper than the other, the position players seem like they are better than they really are because of the lack of them. You have to take the best player at #4, and while you can make an argument to take any of those 3, none of them are really worth a top 5 pick when there are some of those star-caliber pitchers still out there.


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Pelican Products, Inc. is the global leader in design and manufacture of both high-performance case solutions and advanced portable lighting systems. Our products are used by professionals in the most demanding markets including firefighters, police, defense/military, aerospace, entertainment, industrial and consumer. Pelican products are designed and built to last a lifetime.
The company's 200,000 square feet corporate headquarters, located in Torrance, California (just south of Los Angeles) now serves as the home office for nearly 1,500 employees worldwide. In addition to operating in 19 countries, with 28 offices worldwide, Pelican maintains seven manufacturing locations in North America, Europe and Australasia: Torrance, California (Corporate) - South Deerfield, Massachusetts - Crottendorf, Germany - Market Deeping, UK - Leighton Buzzard, UK – Melbourne, Australia – Plymouth, Minnesota.
Pelican was founded in 1976 by Dave Parker in a Torrance, California garage. An avid Scuba diver since age 11, Parker recognized the need for rugged flashlights and cases that wouldn't leak or fail. So he set out to build a better product than any other on the market. With years of hard work and sacrifice, Pelican™ Products became a reality with its first product patent, the Pelican Float. The legendary SabreLite™ flashlights and Protector™ Cases soon followed.
Pelican's product line and company grew steadily over the years and, in 2004, the company was acquired by private equity firm Behrman Capital. Shortly thereafter, the company experienced an incredible growth trend under a new CEO, Lyndon Faulkner, who was appointed in 2005. With a rich and diverse background, Faulkner came to Pelican Products from Microsoft Corporation where he served as North American Operations Manager helping to launch industry-changing products such as the XBOX®, Windows XP and Microsoft Office 2000. Additionally he built the compact-disc manufacturing pioneer Technicolor®/ Nimbus into an IPO as they introduced the world to digital media with compact discs (CDs) and digital video discs (DVDs).
After a few years of ramping up the organization, 2008 was a banner year that saw Pelican Products execute an aggressive growth strategy highlighted with international expansion and acquisitions. This resulted in new sales offices and manufacturing facilities across the globe, the creation of Pelican Australia, the launch of the Advanced Area Lighting Group and exponential growth following the purchase of its nearest case competitor, Hardigg Industries, which nearly doubled the company's size overnight and made it the largest manufacturer of equipment protection cases in the world. Most recently Pelican acquired Trimcast Pty. Ltd., an Australian-based custom packaging solutions provider.
Pelican's international expansion continues with the opening of sales office in South Korea, India, Turkey, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and South Africa.
We are dedicated to growing globally by providing quality products and services that add value to our customers resulting in exceptional returns to our shareholders / stakeholders.
Peli Products, S.L. was opened in January 1997 as the European headquarters for Pelican Products, Inc.
Peli was developed to help improve Pelican's business on the European continent. We wanted to provide our existing customers with immediate access to inventory and customer service and to improve our business in new areas. It was our hope that by having a location in Barcelona, we could better understand the unique needs of our customers and the European marketplace. Since opening, the Barcelona facility has been a great success and it services customers in each of the twenty-five European Union countries as well as more than tweny-five countries in Eastern Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Barcelona, Spain was chosen as our headquarters for many different reasons. It has a high-quality "Port" and it is very accessible by various shipping lines. It also has a reputation for having hard working and industrious citizens, and a growing image as one of Europe's most important cities. People from both the private and public sector were very helpful in all aspects of the planning and development of our operation. This gave us the feeling that our business was really wanted here. Lastly, we felt that Barcelona offered a quality of life that would prove to be beneficial to our employees for many years.


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I am a confirmed fan of the Wheel of Time series. It is easy to read, though the plots and subplots are challenging to follow. I read this prequel a..Show More »
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Grand Central Terminal is decorated for its centennial celebrations... News PhotoArchitecture,Arts Culture and Entertainment,Celebration,Horizontal,Majestic,USAPhotographer EMMANUEL DUNANDCollection: AFP 2013 AFPGrand Central Terminal is decorated for its centennial celebrations in New York, February 1 , 2013 . Grand Central Terminal, the doyenne of US train stations, is celebrating its 100th birthday on February 2, 2013. Opened on February 2, 1913, when trains were a luxurious means of traveling across America, the New York landmark with its Beaux-Arts facade is still one of the US largest transportation hubs and is also New York's second-most-popular tourist attraction, after Times Square. AFP PHOTO/Emmanuel Dunand (Photo credit should read EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP/Getty Images)


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Video: Voice of Sabres Honored by Hockey Hall of Fame
TORONTO - Buffalo Sabres play-by-play man Rick Jeanneret received the Foster Hewitt Memorial Award for outstanding contributions as a hockey broadcaster on Monday afternoon.
The award was presented to Jeanneret at a luncheon as part of the festivities surrounding the induction of the latest Hockey Hall of Fame class.
"It's the honor of a lifetime," the voice of the Sabres told reporters.
Jeanneret has called Sabres games since 1971 and may best be known for his "may day" call in 1993, when former Sabres forward Brad May scored an overtime goal to eliminate the Boston Bruins in the first round of the playoffs.
Two On Your Side's Adam Benigni was at the award presentation and will have reports on wgrz.com as well as Channel 2 News at 5:30 p.m. and Channel Two News Tonight at 11.


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By RICHARD SHAWSun Advocate publisher
In a special Carbon School District board meeting held on Friday at 8 a.m., it was announced that under an agreement with the board, Superintendent George Park has resigned.
Park, who had been on administrative leave since August was not present at the meeting.
"This was a confidential agreement between the Superintendent and the board," said board member Jeff Richens. "We cannot reveal the details of the agreement at this time nor can we as board members talk about it."
Park was placed on administrative leave after charges were brought against him by the Garfield County Attorney's office concerning the misuse of public funds that they claimed took place during his tenure as superintendent of the Garfield County School District. However, those charges were dropped in early November.
Park was, however, still under investigation by the Utah Professional Practice Advisory Commission, a division of the Utah State Board of Education. On Monday, lead investigator Jean Hill told the Sun Advocate that they had not finished their investigation and that it wouldn't be done until sometime in January.
The board will be releasing a document next week that will give more detail concerning the agreement with Park via a GRAMA request from the media. That document could come as early as Wednesday, but it may be Thursday before it is released.
The board also voted to make Patsy Bueno, the present acting superintendent, interim superintendent until the position was filled.
When asked about what would happen now, board members said the search for a new superintendent would begin sometime in January.
Park's resignation will be effective as of Jan. 1, 2011.


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By Kevin R. Betts
The Joint Commission, an independent health care oversight group, recently expressed alarm over violence in U.S. hospitals. Russell L. Colling, a consultant who advised the Joint Commission said, "The reality is, there is violence every day in the emergency department." On inpatient units in psychiatric hospitals, violent behavior among patients is often met with forced isolation. A primary goal of isolating these patients is to ensure their safety, as well as that of other patients and staff. However, isolation is also thought by many to act as a deterrent for potential future acts of violence. Having been directly involved in this process as a mental health technician, I often pondered the effectiveness of isolation as a way to combat violent behavior among patients.
Perhaps counterintuitively, research on social ostracism suggests that isolation may promote later aggressive acts (Williams, 2007). In order to understand why this may be the case, imagine yourself in the position of a patient involuntarily committed to an inpatient unit at a local psychiatric hospital. Disagreeing with your involuntary admission, you verbally express your anger to the staff. Told that you may not leave, you become even angrier, perhaps trying to access locked doors. You feel an utter lack of control over your situation. Making matters worse, the staff expresses concern that you may become violent as a result of your distress and "for your safety," escorts you to a locked room so that "you may reflect on your acting out behavior." You are in isolation. Your anger further increases and you find yourself behaving in ways you could not previously imagine, yelling "let me out" and banging on the only door in a windowless room. You think to yourself, "They will regret this once they let me out of here." What you (and many other patients placed in similar situations) are experiencing is an impaired sense of belonging, self-esteem, control, and meaningful existence―direct consequences associated with social ostracism (Williams, 2007). In the eyes of an isolated patient, these needs may wrongly be perceived as restorable through aggressive means.
If isolation can promote violent behavior, what should be done to combat violence among distressed psychiatric inpatients? Solutions that prevent violent behavior in the first place may be most successful. Listening to patient complaints in a timely manner is essential. Empathizing with these complaints, helping patients manage their distress, and ensuring patients that their distress is temporary should also be effective.
Read more:
Violence on the rise at U.S. health care centers (Businessweek)
Williams, K.D. (2007). Ostracism: The kiss of social death. Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 1, 236-347.


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Carbon County, Utah and 19 states across the nation are currently plagued with severe drought conditions.
Water shortages pose serious problems because people are dependent on water for basic survival needs, personal hygiene and economic stability as well as growth.
Cities and municipalities in the United States with limited amounts of the natural resource are steadily tapping out supplies, according to the American Water Works Associations.
Even in the Midwest where the natural resource appears abundant, cities are fighting over water rights and distribution. Like staking claims during the Gold Rush, billboards have started to pop up expressing the territorial rights.
Water shortages impact all residents in Carbon County, the state and the nation.
Rates tend to increase during drought cycles and watering lawns as well as washing cars can be restricted.
Toilets account for 28 percent of all water consumed in private residences and public facilities.
When the focus centers on implementing conservation practices, the positive effects of replacing toilets become more evident.
On Thanksgiving Day 1999, 16.4 million Americans flushed toilets during halftime of the annual football game, consuming 48.5 million gallons of water, according to natural resource data compiled nationwide.
The amount would have been cut in half if consumers had installed low-consumption toilets in the households.
Federal regulations mandate that all toilets operate on 1.6 gallons of water, as opposed to the previous standard of four gallons per flush.
The most common toilet technology is known as gravity-fed. The technology is supposed to deliver water at a rate that creates a siphoning action that pulls the contents of the bowl down the drain line.
The relatively new pressure-assist toilet technology collects built-up energy inside a vessel that compresses air using water pressure from the supply line.
When the toilet handle is depressed, the harnessed energy is released, forcing the water into the specially designed bowl with a jet at the entrance of the trap way and pushing bowl contents down a standard drain line.
Pressure-assist toilets generate almost three times the flow rate of gravity toilets at 70 gallons per minute and can be installed in the same dimensional area as traditional units, according to conservation experts.
The primary difference between the two types of toilets is that pressure-assist systems provide a "push" instead of a "pull," pointed out the water conservation experts. The push function keeps the energy behind the water, forcing it down the drain line to complete the job with a single flush.
A gravity-fed model may be the best choice for Carbon County residents who are happy with the toilet's performance, explained the American Water Works Association.
But local consumers who have experienced poor performance may want to consider opting for pressure-assist technology.
Experience proves that children are harsh on toilets, continued the association. Household items and toys tossed into toilets by youngsters demand powerful flushes to clear the bowls.
Residents should also consider the age of residential plumbing systems since older drain lines are larger in diameter than necessary.
Pressure-assisted technology may resolve plumbing problems, concluded the conservation groups and water works association.


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|The Nebraska Senior Softball League was started with the primary goal to promote softball and improve the physical, mental and spiritual wellness of seniors in Omaha and surrounding communities who enjoy Fun, Fitness and Fellowship. Eligible players of 50 years or over (or turning 50 during the calendar year of play) can sign up. 2015 games are played on Monday and Wednesday evenings at the La Vista Sports Complex at 66th & Harrison. The Fall league begins on August 19th and runs through early October.
For the more energetic and skilled players who want to extend their playing beyond the friendly confines of the Senior League, there are five age group select tournament teams, 50+, 55+, 60+, 65+, and 70+, who compete in local, state, regional, and national tournaments. So, if you turn 50 anytime during the current year, or if you have already passed that milestone, you can join the league right now! You do not have to live in Nebraska to play.If you desire additional information, please browse our website and/or contact our Director of Player Personnel, or any of the other League Directors.


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The Orchestra of Piazza Vittorio (L'Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio)
Focuses on the emotions created by a musical and humanitarian bet:bringing together musicians from all over the world on a single stage. The musicians themselves talk about their own roles in the ambitious project of making the Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio an important reality.
Produced by: Donatella Botti
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I'm not a native English speaker, so please excuse any errors.
I'm a programmer but I'm new to PHP technology and I'm looking for a solution to create pdf reports based on templates.
I mean something similar to what can ben done in other technologies, e.g. JasperReport in Java, that is having a template describing how data will be accomodated on the page and that can be processed feeding data to some engine or piece of logic able to interpret the template.
I need to crete complicated reports, using groups (i.e. repeating tabular data grouped based on some criterion), headers, footer and images, all without having to go through html renderization, because I need to control page breaks too.
I already did a lot of searching on the web and in forums (this one too), but didn't find anything able to do all of this stuff; the solutions I found by now closest to my needs are PDFTemplate (a PHP class I found on another forum, don't know if I can post the link) and SpoolTemplate (http://www.andrioli.com/en/sptpl.html), the latter is a simple report engine, but neither is capable to manage the complexity I need.
I also looked at Smarty template engine (http://www.smarty.net) but it seems to be thought to simplify creation of complex html pages and I need to not render html.
Is there any free, powerful and flexible solution to achieve what I need?
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