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Bilirubin testing checks for levels of bilirubin in your blood. Bilirubin (bil-ih-ROO-bin), an orange-yellow pigment, is a waste product of the normal breakdown of red blood cells. Bilirubin passes through the liver and eventually out of the body — mostly in feces, a small amount in urine.
Before reaching the liver, bilirubin is called unconjugated, meaning uncombined. In the liver, bilirubin combines with certain sugars to create a water-soluble form called conjugated bilirubin. Conjugated bilirubin passes out of the liver, and in the colon, it is converted back into the unconjugated form en route to being excreted from the body.
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All Items : Lamps and Lighting : Pre 1960 item #1047981 (stock #11454)
Kenora`s Li`l Antique Shoppe
Very rare lamp indeed and with its original shade. Large in size and very heavy. Zebra standing in front of a cactus. Possibly art deco era or maybe from the 1950s but almost one-of-kind. Some paint flaking on base and less so elsewhere. No breaks or cracks and it works perfectly. Stands a full 31" high to top of glass finial. Shade is 16 inches wide.
All Items : Books and Publications : Pre 1970 item #1032537 (stock #tr5t57)
Kenora`s Li`l Antique Shoppe
A complete album of the highly collectable Red Rose/Blue Ribbon Tea/Coffee Cards - "Canadian-American Songbirds" (1965). Album # 9 - has ALL the cards inside in good condition. Cards have a single small staple affixing them to the page. There is some glue residue on the cards but overall this is a wonderful and complete find. Why pay $1.00 to $3.00 per card plus the cost of the Album when you can get it complete for a fraction of the cost. We found these at a local estate...
All Items : Lamps and Lighting : Pre 1970 item #1047979 (stock #45589)
Kenora`s Li`l Antique Shoppe
Genuine black panther television lamp with a planter. Probably circa 1950s or early 60s. Approx. 21 inches long in full working condition - just add the plant.
Kenora`s Li`l Antique Shoppe
Here we have a nicely painted porcelain bird figurine. We think this was probably made in the 1930s or 1940s. Very nice quality painting and with a beautiful majolica-like finish. The piece is unmarked.
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A compact, easy-pitching shelter with the versatility of our DryPitch? set-up. A spacious backpacking tent for two. DryPitch technology lets users pitch the tent three ways: fly only, canopy only or a complete tent.
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LAKE SUCCESS, N,Y., November 30, 2010 – With businesses and IT professionals across the country seeking to uncover and reduce the costs associated with managing information and improving information security, Canon U.S.A., a leader in digital imaging, today announced the availability of the Nuance® eCopy® ShareScan® 5 document automation software application. Featuring an array of user-friendly functions, eCopy ShareScan 5 adds innovative, personalized scan and workflow features, including automated document and forms processing – allowing office workers the ability to turn paper into automated digital information.
eCopy ShareScan 5 takes full advantage of the capabilities of Canon's imageRUNNER ADVANCE multifunction products and imageFORMULA ScanFront 220e/220eP scanning solutions by giving knowledge workers the flexibility to automate repeatable business activities by extracting the important information contained on paper and processing it electronically through the appropriate back-end system.
"With many businesses seeking new ways to reduce costs and improve productivity, Canon is pleased to offer the latest version of eCopy ShareScan 5," said Sam Yoshida, vice president and general manager, Imaging Systems Group, Canon U.S.A. "As a result of Canon's long-term relationship with Nuance, the new version achieves a deep integration with Canon's office solutions resulting in greater ease-of-use and more efficient end-user performance for our customers."
eCopy ShareScan 5 key features include:
The new eCopy ShareScan 5 also adds a variety of tools aimed at speeding and simplifying deployment across enterprises utilizing a mix of eCopy ScanStation, imageFORMULA ScanFront or MEAP-enabled imageRUNNER devices. Administrator features include:
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As the flagship offering among the eCopy product lineup, eCopy ShareScan Suite provides Canon MFP customers with a powerful "scan-to-process" solution. A user can scan, extract, classify, index and convert paper information into digital information that flows effortlessly into, and through, the electronic channels of their business, allowing them to start and finish their everyday tasks directly from their device. This offering is ideal for those customers that want to utilize the latest document processing capabilities. In addition to the core scan and distribution functionality, and a single seat of eCopy PDF Pro Office desktop software, eCopy ShareScan Suite includes the eCopy Document Extender and Forms Processing Excenter, and lets users select up to three eCopy Connectors to back-end systems.
Ideal for the general office for everyday document collaboration and archival, eCopy ShareScan Office allows users to move hard-copy documents into electronic office workflows with ease. They can simply integrate that paper-based information with their back-end repository alleviating the burden of manually re-keying information or filing paper documents. eCopy ShareScan Office includes the core "Scan To" functionality, one seat of eCopy PDF Pro Office desktop software and gives users the choice of one Connector. Additional Connectors and Document Extenders are available for purchase.
Designed for customers who value the kiosk configuration that includes the ergonomic ScanStand with full-size keyboard, mouse pad, and 10.5" color LCD touch screen, eCopy ScanStation includes the eCopy ShareScan Suite software configuration, but does not include eCopy PDF ProOffice or other desktop software applications.
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Utah's economy continues to post some of the strongest growth in the state's history.
Utah added 50,400 jobs during the latest 12-month period, representing an expansion rate of 4.4 percent.
But the employment growth rate is down from the 4.9 percent annualized peak reported statewide in June.
All of Utah's 11 major sectors added employment opportunities, led by gains in construction, professional and business services, natural resources, education and health care, and manufacturing.
Job gains in a state or community are primarily driven by the demand for workers, pointed out the latest Insight report compiled by economic consultant Jeff Thredgold and published by Zions Bank.
However, the supply of available labor can influence overall employment gains.
In Utah's case, job growth has slowed modestly in recent months as fewer potential workers are available, explained Thredgold.
Utah's unemployment rate averaged 3.2 percent during the last three month and registers at 3.5 percent to date in 2006.
Only three states currently have a lower jobless rate than Utah.
The demand for workers remains high due to the fact that an adequate supply is not available, noted the economic consultant.
Tight labor availability remains a major issue despite the strong level of net in-migration from around the country.
Labor shortages are most pronounced in the state's transportation, construction, education and health care sectors.
The forecast of slowing job growth in 2007 is tied primarily to the shortage of available labor, indicated the economic consultant.
The Utah economy is likely to slow next year as tight labor markets limit employment growth statewide, predicted Thredgold.
However, the economic consultant expected Utah to continue to rank among the top 10 states in job gains.
The residential real estate market is strong, with solid price appreciation likely to continue in 2007.
The state's overall outlook remains very favorable, added the economic consultant.
According to Thredgold, highlights for Utah's economic outlook include:
In 2006, Utah's net in-migration will likely to approach the record level posted in 2005.
Last year, Utah reported a net increase of nearly 41,000 residents marked the largest statewide influx experienced in 60 years.
Net in-migration is the difference between people moving into Utah versus residents moving out of the state
Utah offers a relatively low cost of doing business as well as a more affordable cost of living.
The August 2006 Utah "cost of doing business" estimate of Economy.com was 94 percent of the United States' average.
The average Utah home value rose 15.17 percent during the 12 month period ending June 30.
The average home value ranked Utah at 10th place of the 50 states.
In contrast, Utah was the nation's weakest home price appreciation market in 2003. The statewide five-year increase was 33.39 percent, suggesting additional potential for growth in 2007.


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Students Urged to Apply for Financial Aid by March 2nd
February 23, 2010
By Dean Kulju
Director, Student Financial Aid Services & Programs
Reminder for all CSU students, both current and prospective:
Tuesday, March 2, 2010 is the priority deadline for the state of California processing with the Free Application for Federal Student Aid Form (FAFSA) and for Cal Grant consideration. Because some program funds are limited, students should apply by this date to be considered for all potential financial aid. Students who apply after the March 2nd deadline may receive limited financial aid.
While the CSU remains affordable, all students are encouraged to apply for aid, especially given today's economic times. Don't miss out on the variety of federal, state, and CSU programs that are available to assist you. Apply early for the best opportunities.
The application is free and can be completed online at www.fafsa.ed.gov.
Why is it important to apply for financial aid by March 2?
More than half of all CSU students receive some form of financial aid to assist with meeting their educational expenses, and 45 percent of undergraduates have their fees fully covered by grants or waivers.
On average, CSU financially-needy undergraduate students receive grants covering 100 percent of the State University Fee if they are:
1) Dependent, undergraduate students from families with incomes less than $70,000, or
2) Independent, undergraduate students with family incomes less than $20,000
Students with higher income, and dependent students with higher family incomes, may still qualify for many forms of aid including grants, scholarships, work-study and subsidized or unsubsidized loans.


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The big fires that gutted at least eight apartment buildings in Lewiston this month are not the only time the inner city has faced the trauma of dozens of displaced residents or the challenge of rebuilding. Two dozen years ago a similar string of fires had the city on edge. And as Susan Sharon reports two of the people affected then are central figures in the city's handling of the fires today.
Back in 1989, Deputy City Administrator Phil Nadeau's family ran a popular grocery store at the corner of Bartlett and Walnut originally known as Nadeau's Market, and later, Friends' Deli. They also owned other buildngs in the neighborhood.
The deli is no longer there, but the location is less than a block from where two recent fires broke out and left dozens of people homeless. Surveying the scene earlier this week, Nadeau recalled how in 1989 it was the scene of another big fire that destroyed his family's business.
"It was a tough year. Tough year for my family. Tough year for a lot of families," he says. "That fire took four buildings, damaged that one over there and that displaced about 40 people in that fire. The building ended up collapsing on itself and almost injured and probably almost killed a couple of firemen. It was a pretty scary fire."
The fire marked the beginning of a string of arsons that rattled the city of Lewiston that year. For a long time Nadeau and his parents assumed that the first fire had started in their building by accident. And then, six years later there was a startling development.
"Strangely enough, months before the statute of limitations came up, then Police Officer MacDonad - I can't remember what his grade was - whether it was Detective or Sergeant - they made an arrest," he says. "They arrested someone for starting the fire. It was arson."
Police Officer MacDonald is Robert MacDonald, the current mayor of Lewiston. Both men joined Gov. Paul LePage on his visit to the fire scene this week. And both are involved in renewed efforts to crack down on nuisance properties in the area.
At least one of the recent fires was started in a condemned building, one of about 70 in the city. Mayor MacDonald may no longer have arrest powers, but he says the city is serious about getting tough with landlords who don't follow the law.
"They're gonna start taking care of their property, OK?" he says. "If we go back to that house x number of times during a month, then these people are going to be cited. They're going to be fined."
Two 12-year-old boys have been arrested separately in connection with two of the fires. Both are scheduled to be formally charged on Monday afternoon. Also on Monday, between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. in Kennedy Park there will be a gathering for "community healing" after the fires.
Deputy City Administrator Phil Nadeau says both he and his parents understand what fire victims are going through. Nearly 25 years after they were burned out, the memory is still fresh in their minds.


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Carol ChanningSinger / Actor
Born: 31 January 1921
Birthplace: Seattle, Washington
Best known as: Broadway star of Hello, Dolly!
Carol Channing's fame comes from two smashing successes on Broadway: as Lorelei in 1950's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and as Dolly in 1964's Hello, Dolly!. Although she didn't get the film roles (the roles went to Marilyn Monroe and Barbra Streisand, respectively), Channing was associated with the characters her entire career and performed the plays thousands of times. She has appeared on TV and been in a handful of movies (notably in 1967's Thoroughly Modern Millie and 1994's animated Thumbelina), but her career as an entertainer has been focused on the stage. Her distinctive appearance and voice have made her a favorite of both male and female impersonators. In 2002 she published her memoirs, Just Lucky I Guess.
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Her son is Channing Lowe, an editorial cartoonist for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel... Channing's signature song is "Diamonds Are A Girl's Best Friend" (though her version of "Hello, Dolly!" is as famous as Louis Armstrong's)... Channing is a Christian Scientist (a member of the church founded by Mary Baker Eddy)... In 2003 the 82-year-old Channing married Harry Kullijian, her former middle school sweetheart.
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I once saw a throw pillow that read Give a man a foot and he'll think he is a ruler. This may or may not apply to the folks in your neighborhood. In this New York household, the throw pillows read Give a man two feet and he thinks he is a Sasquatch:
DEAR ABBY: My husband of eight years will not resolve his foot odor problem. We live in a small apartment, and it's humiliating when we have company and half the apartment smells like stinky feet.
He refuses to wear socks, and his solution in winter is to open all the windows and turn on the fan as soon as he returns from work. The "airing out" never completely gets rid of the smell — and I freeze! How can I get him to change? — FED UP IN MANHATTAN
DEAR FED UP: You obviously can't change your husband, but you don't have to risk getting pneumonia, either. Shoe repair shops sell deodorizing products in the form of sprays and powders. Or buy a large container of baking soda, and when your husband removes his shoes, dump a cupful into each one. They next day the smell should be gone.
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Last week, we allowed one half of the winning team from our in-house brewing competition, QA Supervisor Rick Blankemeier (you may recognize him from his work on the Stone Stochasticity Project), to tell the first half of he and Team Spröcket partner Robbie Chandler's U.S. tour, during which they introduced their first place black rye Kölsch, Spröcketbier, to the masses. Follow along as Rick closes out his cross-country tale in style (and if you haven't already tried he and Robbie's amazing beer, find it and fix that immediately).
Stop #4: Coloradical
Denver is a fun city. Now, I'm extremely biased since I grew up in Aurora, just southeast of the Mile High City, and went to college at CU-Boulder (Go Buffs!). Despite all that, Denver really is a rad city with lots of activities to keep you entertained and full of delicious craft beer. My wife (and fellow member of Team Stone), Jessica, flew in early to visit friends so we could have a long weekend together in our old stomping grounds. She picked us up from the airport and drove us to our first unofficial event at Hops and Pie. Before that, we stopped by a liquor store to pick up bottles of Spröcketbier to hand out to all of our local friends. It was admittedly weird to buy a bottle of the beer that had my name on it and we definitely gave the checkout person something to talk about for a while. She checked our ID's and noticed our names matched those on the bottle, then kind of freaked out a bit. Yes, this made us freak out (or maybe the more apt term is "geek out") a bit, internally.


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SDSU Soccer Coaches Clinic
The South Dakota State women's soccer coaching staff is conducting a coaches clinic on Saturday, Feb. 16.
The clinic is scheduled for 1-3 p.m. at the 5th Street Gym and is free for all registered teams and their respective coaches, as well as the public.
Events scheduled for the clinic include handouts, a model training session with Jackrabbit soccer coaches and a question and answer session with the SDSU student-athletes and coaching staff.
In the model training session, SDSU coaches will use current SDSU student-athletes to demonstrate a training session and critical coaching points. Coaches will receive handouts on the session and coaching points that are recommended by SDSU soccer for player development.
Players can learn by watching current college players train and will have the opportunity to ask questions following the session.
The clinic is hosted in conjunction with the Cubby's Indoor Futsal Tournament, a youth soccer tournament in Brookings.
Schedule of Events
1 p.m. - Introduction and handouts
1:30-2:30 p.m. - Model training session (coaches demonstration)
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A card shuffler that really works! Although produced by modern design, this patent pending item is based on time tested principles. Featuring metal gears, large knob and fits 3-4 decks.
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The Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah, College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, and Zions First National Bank will host a free family event in conjunction with the opening of a new lobby exhibit - Traveling Treasures: The Nature of Pattern - at the downtown Price branch of Zions Bank, 45 S. Carbon Ave. The event will be Thursday, Aug. 17, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
The general public is welcome, and families are especially encouraged to come and enjoy this free event. The lobby display is a four-case exhibit of 20 different objects that is traveling the state, stopping at Zions Bank branches in many locations.
The evening's event will include viewing dozens of fascinating, colorful butterflies from around the world, some of which are rarely seen. Christy Bills, museum entomologist and curator for the museum's thousands of butterflies, will be on hand to show these beautiful insects.
Other activities include panning for gems, minerals and $1 coins; making dinosaur fossil molds; planting sunflower seeds; learning about shells and animal skulls; solving the puzzle of the prehistoric pots; handling real objects from the Buffalo Box; and face painting. There will be 10 activity tables for the entire family.
"As Utah's oldest community bank, Zions is proud to sponsor and host the new Traveling Treasures exhibit and free family event because it brings to mind some of the natural wonders in our surroundings, especially in the Castle Valley area," said Erroll Holt, manager of Zions Bank in downtown Price.
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COLTON Tina M. Miller has taken over as the towns sole assessor, after years of having three part-time elected officials on the job.
The town council changed the law in November to create a sole full-time assessor who is appointed rather than elected. This is how the assessor is chosen in most nearby municipalities.
Ms. Miller, who served as chairwoman of the three assessors before this year, took the reins Jan. 1.
She said she plans to keep things much as they have been.
Colton has one of the lowest state equalization rates of any municipality in St. Lawrence County at 4.21 percent. This means that properties are assessed at 4.21 percent of their actual value.
Ms. Miller said low assessment values mean a higher tax rate, while raising the assessment would lower the rates and keep the total amount of money brought in about the same. The low assessment values have little impact on taxpayers or the town, she said.
There are, however, arguments against very low rates of assessment.
The equalization rate is applied to the assessed value of property to determine what residents pay for county and school taxes. This is supposed to allow everyone to pay his or her fair share, even if an assessment is well beneath the actual value of a property. This applies as long as all assessments are equitable, St. Lawrence County Real Property Director Darren W. Colton said. However, going for a long time without a revaluation can lead to skewed property values.
I believe towns need to update on a regular cycle in order to keep equity in their assessment roll, Mr. Colton said.
Most St. Lawrence County municipalities have had a reassessment in the past five years, according to state records. Colton has not done a full update of its tax rolls in more than 35 years.
Inequitable assessments can lead to costly court challenges for municipalities, state Department of Taxation and Finance spokesman Geoffrey T. Gloak said.
While it is possible for communities to have low assessed values while remaining equitable, state statistics indicate that Coltons taxes are less equitable than the national average, according to Mr. Gloak.
Its more likely that some are too high and some are too low, he said.
There are no plans for Colton to have a revaluation of town property, but this may change depending on the results of a lawsuit with Erie Boulevard Hydropower.
The company is challenging assessments at its plants in municipalities along the Raquette River, including Colton.
The case has not been resolved, but town officials are in settlement talks. Ms. Miller said she could not comment on the possible outcome of the litigation, or how it could affect the assessment of town properties.
The decision to move to one assessor was made to save town money and because the other two are retiring.
The town has budgeted $28,000 for Ms. Millers salary in 2013, a savings of more than $2,000 from 2012.
Colton also hopes to save on travel costs. Every assessor in the state requires at least 12 hours of mandatory training annually and this soon may increase to 24 hours. When Colton had three assessors, the town was fronting the cost for travel and hotels.
Her term expires in October, at which point she likely will be reappointed to another six-year term.
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If you think you have to tackle all your clutter at one time it will feel overwhelming and chances are you won't do it. Start with one pile, one corner, one closet, etc. Each step will bring you closer to your goal of being organized.
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To help you figure out what you wear and what you don't, turn all your hangers the opposite way (hook facing out.) When you wear something hang it back up correctly (hook facing in.) In a few months anything hanging on hangers that are facing out you know you aren't using and could donate.
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BRASHER FALLS - Voters didnt come out in droves on Tuesday, but those that did overwhelmingly supported St. Lawrence Central Schools plan for a $375,000 capital project to address security issues in the district.
When the polls closed at 7 p.m., 106 residents had voted yes, while 28 said no. Two absentee ballots were voided.
That means the district can now move forward with plans to beef up security at the high school and elementary school by tightening access to the buildings.
Once the project is complete, which Superintendent Stephen M. Putman said could be this fall, visitors to the schools will be able to enter the outside set of doors, but theyll need to check in and present identification at a transaction window before theyre buzzed in by school personnel through the interior set of doors.
As part of the project, theyll need to create the transaction window between the two sets of doors at the high school and elementary school and a slot where visitors can provide their identification before entering the school. The entrance to the middle school will not be accessible during the day, and the entrance near the superintendents office is kept locked.
The high school will not require much change for the new configuration, according to Mr. Putman, but the elementary doors will need to be moved further toward the cafeteria to provide the room they need between the exterior and interior doors.
They will also need to reconfigure the elementary office area to relocate the secretary to what is currently a conference and meeting room.
With the project, teachers will also be able to lock their doors from the inside, a capability that is not currently available on all the classroom doors. Once locked, teachers will still be able to open the door from the inside, but it will remain locked from the outside.
Now that voters have approved the project, Mr. Putman said architects will start drawing the plans for submission to the state Education Department.
I dont think itll take the architects very long. Bidding shouldnt be difficult. Im hoping we can get this into state Ed and approved and completed by the fall, he said.
Mr. Putman said 98 percent of the project will be covered by state aid and the remaining 2 percent will be covered by EXCEL aid that the district still has remaining.
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Utah's 2010 general rifle bull elk hunt kicks off Oct. 9, and permits for the hunt are all but gone, the Division of Wildlife Resources reports.
On Sept. 21, 2010, about 1,500 permits to hunt on any-bull units were still available, but they're selling fast. Permits to hunt on spike-only units sold out on Sept. 27.
You can buy an elk permit online at wildlife.utah.gov. Permits are also available at Division offices and from hunting license agents across Utah.
"The weather over the past seven years has been excellent for elk," Anis Aoude says. "Most of the state's herds are doing great."
Based on surveys this past winter, Division biologists estimate the state has more than 67,000 elk. That's only about 1,800 animals shy of a statewide goal of 68,825 elk. Aoude says some of the largest elk herds are found on the Central Mountains (Manti) and Wasatch Mountains units in central Utah; the South Slope, Yellowstone unit in northeastern Utah; and the Plateau, Fish Lake/Thousand Lakes unit in south-central Utah.
He says plenty of elk are also found on the Morgan, South Rich unit in northern Utah. But this unit is almost entirely private land. You must obtain written permission from a landowner before hunting on it.
Most of Utah's elk hunting takes place on units that are called spike-only units. Spike bulls are the only bulls you may take on these units. Plenty of spike bulls are available on these units. But once the hunt starts, the animals can be tough to find. "The success rate on spike-only units averages about 16 percent," Aoude says. "Fortunately, you can do several things to increase the chance you take an elk."
Unless it gets cold and snowy before the hunt, Aoude says elk will be scattered at higher elevations when the season opens Oct. 9, 2010. He says the key to finding them is to get off the roads and into the backcountry.
"Elk are smart and wary animals," Aoude says. "And they're sensitive to hunting pressure. As soon as the shooting starts, they head into the thickest cover they can find. To find success, you have to head into the backcountry and find them."
The rut (breeding period), which occurs right before the general rifle hunt starts, can also make it challenging to find spike bulls. During the rut, mature bulls gather groups of cow elk to breed. If one of these large bulls sees a spike bull, he'll chase the spike bull off.
Being chased into cover by the bigger bulls makes the spike bulls, which are already nervous, more apt to head back into the cover once the bullets start to fly. "The larger bulls scare the spike bulls as much as the hunters do," Aoude says. "Unless you get into the backcountry areas where the spikes are hiding, you're probably not going to see many.
"The good news is, if you do get into the backcountry, there's a good chance you'll be among the 16 percent who take a spike bull this year."
Aoude has an important reminder for elk hunters who will be using off-highway vehicles. "It's critical that you obtain an OHV riding map for the area you're going to hunt," he says. "These maps are available from the agency that manages the land you'll be hunting on. That agency is usually the U.S. Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management."
Aoude says the Division is receiving more and more complaints about OHVs being taken into areas where it's not legal to take them. "Taking OHVs into these areas damages the habitat the elk rely on, disturbs and scatters the animals, and ruins the hunting experience for other hunters."
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The Appalachian State University baseball team hopes to keep its championship hopes alive Friday against Furman in an elimination game in the Southern Conference baseball tournament at Riley Park in the Charleston, SC.The Mountaineers survived Thursday morning as they defeated UNC-Greensboro, 6-4. Jack Myers and Nathan Hyatt were among the heros for ASU. Myers set the table for Daniel Kassouf's RBI grounder in the first and he knocked in the game-winning run with a single in the seventh.
Hyatt carried ASU (32-26) into the seventh inning before he was lifted. Hyatt gave up four earned runs, walked one and struck out four in 6 1/3 innings. The Paladins (24-32) got blasted 7-1 by Samford Thursday afternoon.
Our coverage begins at 2:40 pm Friday afternoon. The winner gets Samford Saturday morning at 9 am.
Elon, the No.1 seed, was eliminated by College of Charleston Thursday afternoon. The Terriers (37-21), who dropped a 10-7 decision to Western Carolina in a 20-inning marathon Wednesday night, were bested 4-3 by the Cougars.
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- October 23, 2014, 01:40
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To many Iowans, the first thing that comes to mind when talking about our fish and wildlife resources might be deer, pheasants, walleye, ducks, catfish, turkeys, muskrats, crappies and other traditional game or sport fish species. The vast majority of wildlife species in Iowa are not hunted trapped or fished for, however, but instead are sometimes called "nongame" wildlife. This includes shorebirds, raptors, songbirds, many small mammals and bats, most amphibians, reptiles, many small fish, butterflies, dragonflies and more - a very wide diversity of wildlife, indeed.
Beginning in 1981 with a staff of two assigned to the Wildlife Bureau's research section, the Wildlife Diversity Program (first called the Living Resources Program) was created to serve the needs of this largely unrecognized wealth of wildlife. Early WDP efforts concentrated primarily upon restoring a few rare creatures, such as peregrine falcons, trumpeter swans, barn owls and river otters to Iowa's landscape, while also conducting various surveys for birds, frogs and toads, and other nongame species, along with public outreach and education. Funding was limited and relied mostly upon public contributions and the "Chickadee Checkoff" donation line on Iowa's state income tax forms. This small income stream allowed the program staff little room for growth, even though responsibilities mushroomed over the ensuing two decades.
While adding little to the WDP's annual operations budget, two new sources of funding have opened many new opportunities for increased program effectiveness. Since 2001 Congress has provided annual appropriations to states in the form of "State Wildlife Grants" that may be used to target specific nongame research and management needs. These grants require a state or local match, which has been provide by Iowa State University, Audubon, Pheasants Forever and several other partners. More recently, a portion of the annual income from the sale of Iowa's popular Natural Resource license plates has been dedicated to provide some of this match.
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Mazama Brewing out of Corvallis is coming into town and taking over the joint! Be here from 7 - 9 for the fun. Big Yellow Taxi is playing from 1 - 10! From 7.30pm we'll have some give aways courtesy of Mazama! Don't miss it!
Thursday, February 26 from 7pm to 9pm.
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Come on in see what Erin Grey (formerly from Stone Brewing) has in store for us all! The current seasonal is Phobos Single Hop Red Ale, hopped entirely with citrusy, tropical Azacca hops. Can't wait!
Tuesday, March 3 from 6pm to 8pm.
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Thursday, March 5 from 6pm to 8pm.
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I caught the fish in PA at Little Wills Creek, about 10 mins away from Jennings Run in Maryland.I spent the day fishing with my dad Mike Cornachia. I love trout fishing and enjoy spending time on the streams with my dad. I have fished with my dad since I was a little girl and this was the biggest trout I have ever caught.


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The Arena of AnnihilationEnter and complete the Arena of Annihilation scenario. Afterwards, collect your reward from Wodin the Troll-Servant.
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DescriptionAh, I can still remember running fights out of a muddy hole in the ground back in Nagrand. We've come a long way, eh, Wodin?
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By RICHARD SHAWFocus pages editor
The differences between their styles are striking. Yet they have lived together for over 20 years.
He writes a narrative type of poetry, based on historical fact and often about obscure characters from our nation's past.
She composes her poetry about her life and times.
Together they make up a dynamic duo of poetry that both fascinates prose aficionados and delights those that seldom hear rhyme.
Their story is one that reaches clear across the country, from Bayonne, N.J. to Poland, Ohio to Price, Utah. Stops in between included Iowa City, Iowa, Tucson, Ariz. and time in Salt Lake City as well.
Jan Minich and Nancy Takacs smile about their beginnings and their travels, but they call Wellington and the College of Eastern Utah home. They both teach at the small Price school, but their repertoire of poetry is large and far reaching.
Minich just had his second book of poems, The Letters of Silver Dollar, published. His first book, History of a Drowning, was a book about his fascination with water.
"I always find myself drawn to subjects concerning rebels from society," said Minich sitting in his upstairs library puffing on his pipe. "Particularly rebels that were women. Think how hard it must have been to be a woman in those days and be a rebel too."
Those days that Minich speaks about are times when women had few rights and were treated more like property than people. His fascination with historical figures that are women include Etta Place and the Utah women that followed the Robbers Roost gang around as well as Mary Reed and Ann Bonny, women pirates of the early 1700's who ran around with and contributed to the booty that Calico Jack Rackam and his band collected.
But this latest book isn't about someone with an outlaw or pirate background, but a woman who was born wealthy and died nearly a pauper; Rose Mary Echo Silver Dollar Tabor or as she was more commonly known, Silver Dollar.
Her father, Horace Tabor was known in the mid to late 1800's as the silver kind of Colorado. His wealth came to him from grubstaking two miners who discovered the Little Pittsburgh silver mine in Leadville and then ever increasing wealth from the Chrysolite and Matchless mines.
His life, a monetary success, Tabor divorced his wife, Augusta and married a much younger Elizabeth McCourt (known as Baby Doe) in a ceremony in Washington D.C. that attracted everyone from U.S. senators to the President of the United States at the time, Chester A. Arthur.
Two daughters were born of the marriage, Silver Dollar and her sister Lily. People at the time considered them so lucky because of their wealthy father, but in 1893, a financial panic took place and Tabor lost his entire fortune and was working within a year in the very smelter he built for $3 per day. He died in 1899 and by 1902 the girls and their mother had moved to a miners cabin near the Matchless mine which the Tabor widow still owned and worked, but it never was a paying proposition again.
Silver took a hard path of being her own person, becoming a writer for the Denver Times and even wrote a novel called the Star of Blood. She later moved to Chicago and tried to make it as a journalist there but ended up dancing in clubs where she became quite well known. At 35 she died under suspicious circumstances in a cheap boarding house in the Black Belt district of the city.
The little girl who had come into life in such luxury passed away in almost squalor, laying on her floor with her last words purportedly being harsh words to the buildings supervisor to "shut the door or my cats will get out."
Minich became fascinated with her life while on a sabbatical leave a few years ago from CEU. He was looking through a bookstore in Leadville and came across a photo of Silver Dollar shaking hands with Teddy Roosevelt.
"There was so much in that photo," says Minich. "It just fascinated me."
The photo portrays a young Silver Dollar presenting a song she had written to the president called "Our President Roosevelt's Colorado Hunt." Up to that point Minich was thinking of writing a historical biographical novel about the Tabors. Instead he decided he needed to explore the life of this woman more.
The only real history of her day to day life was in the hundreds of letters she and her mother had exchanged over the years after she moved from home. Minich went to a Denver museum to look these letters over and became absorbed by the tale they told.
He found himself however, taken by her ideas and her thoughts as much as the history of her family. As he began to write something happened to his thoughts.
"Her voice came through and the poetry began to flow," says Minich. "Silver could have had the safe, comfortable and middle class life her sister had found with family in Wisconsin, but she wanted more. She wanted acceptance as a writer, but only found acceptance as a dancer."
Minich was raised in the countryside of what now is a bedroom community to Youngstown, Ohio. After graduation from high school he went to the University of Arizona and got a BA in English. His original goal was to be a biologist and went to Bowling Green University for a while, but found that writing was his real love. From Tucson he went to the University of Iowa where he obtained a masters degree in creative writing and that is also where he met Nancy.
After that he and she both taught at Youngstown State University for a couple of years and then he came to the University of Utah to work on his Ph.D. In 1983 he finished that degree and the two of them moved to Carbon County to work at CEU.
Takacs, on the other hand gains her inspiration from every day life and what goes on around her.
"There are poems from various periods of our life together," she says. "There are poems from years ago about my son when he was five weeks old (he is now 17) up to the present time. Many of the poems are family poems, about both this family and my family."
Takacs has a way of looking at things in Carbon County from a different perspective, since she grew up in New Jersey right across the river from New York City.
"I went to St. Anthony's all-girls Catholic school growing up in New Jersey," she says laughingly.
That experience molds her thoughts at times.
"Like all writers, I produce a lot of biographical stuff," she said. "Usually it's about the friends I had or about old boyfriends. A lot of it is about growing up in New Jersey. Actually some of it is really funny."
She also likes to write about nature, particularly of eastern Utah. But there are other things here that make her happy, too.
"I like Price. I know it sounds funny, but actually Price reminds me socially of Bayonne where I grew up," she states. "There are so many ethnic groups here, just like home. I think that may be why it is so easy for me to write; I feel so comfortable here."
Bayonne, N.J., is named after the city France because of all the water that surrounds it. Located on Newark Bay, the city is industrial, but the neighborhood Takacs grew up in was her world when she was a child. Her geographical world was almost the opposite of the countryside Minich was raised in.
"There were probably 300,000 people in a three by two mile area," she said. "But it was still nice. In fact it's still nice today. It hasn't changed all that much."
Takacs knows about being ethnic in an ethnic town. Her grandparents came from Hungary. She grew up in a two family house with her grandparents, aunts and her nuclear family.
"What was interesting about all that is that there was always someone there," she said. "My grandparents never learned to speak English very well so it was hard to get to know them. But there was always someone there when I came home."
The immigrant family experience made a mark on her life.
"Everyone worked in the family just to pay for that house," she said smiling. "My grandparents could not really afford it alone so my aunts and my father really paid for the house. Neither of my aunts ever got married, because they were too busy working."
After Catholic school, Takacs worked in New York and attended New Jersey City University, where she got a bachelor's degree in English.
"At first I wanted to be an artist, like a water color artist," she stated. "But I was not very good. In fact I was pretty bad at that. I took a creative writing class. The instructor liked my poetry and I said to myself I think I want to continue with that. So I asked her where the best place to go on with my education would be and she said I should go to the University of Iowa."
So she ended up at the graduate writing programs on the banks of the Iowa River in the old capitol of the Hawkeye state, Iowa City.
"My family thought it was weird," she said laughing. "They all thought I should just stay home and work. They didn't want me to leave the house much less move to Iowa. I guess they wanted me to pay for the house too."
After she met Jan and they moved to Salt Lake Takacs worked at Sperry-Univac as a tech writer and she taught night classes as adjunct faculty at Westminster College, Columbia College of Salt Lake and the university. She also substitute taught in many of the school districts around the Salt Lake area.
During that entire time, however, Takacs was writing poetry as well as working.
When Jan was almost through with the doctoral program, he found that a professor at CEU was leaving for a year on a sabbatical. He applied for the position and was hired. When the person on sabbatical decided not to come back, he was able to get on permanently. That was 16 years ago and it meant a new life for both of them. Takacs had to find employment, too.
"I had applied for several full time jobs at CEU and didn't get hired," she states. "Then my son was born and I was kind of happy that I didn't have a full time job for the first couple of years of his life."
In the meantime, Takacs worked part time at the college teaching adjunct and as a stringer for the Salt Lake Tribune.
"That didn't work out too well," she explained. "They would call me up and say I needed to go here or I needed to go there, about any time of the day. Well they wanted me to go right when they called, but I didn't have a baby sitter to take care of our son. Besides, for the hassle the money wasn't worth it."
Then she got a half time position at the college which eventually led to a full time professorship. For several years, she and Jan made up two-thirds of the English department at CEU since there was only one other professor, Larry Severeid.
"Then the college started to grow again by leaps and bounds and the department grew along with it," declared Takacs.
But poetry was always important in her life.
"When I actually began writing I was writing fiction. Before I ever took a creative writing class I would follow my friends around and write stories about our experiences in high school," she states. "When I look back I realize that I had probably always wanted to write, but all of my friends thought I was weird. They felt that way mostly because I would write stories about what we would do and be very truthful about it. They didn't like that truth part too much; it told to many secrets. "
When she took a creative writing class at college, the instructor said her fiction wasn't very good.
"But she really liked my poetry," reveals Takacs. "So I decided to write more of it and I liked writing it. I had done some in high school and hated it, but this was different because she wanted us to do free form poetry and I really like it."
Takacs sees poetry as a snapshot of a place in time.
"I like to capture a moment in time," she explains. "I write a lot of autobiographical poetry. For instance, I have a poem about my son that is called 'Thirteen.' It's about when he was 13 years old, but it is only based on the experiences I had with him when he was that age and anyone can relate to it if they have had a child that was thirteen. In it I tried to capture him at that age so I will always have that part of him. Actually I try to capture the simplicity and the complexity of the subject at the same time."
In a sense, the poetry she writes is truthful, but not factual.
"I'm trying to gain truth in poetry by taking a complex subject such as my son and putting down the truth on paper in simple terms that people can understand," she states. "It's almost as if I'm afraid of losing time. I sometimes want to retrieve something from the past, such as some facet of the relationship I had with my mother, and I want to put it down in front of me and experience it again. I get that not only through the process of writing about it, but it is there anytime I want to go back to it."
Emotion is a factor in her writing.
"I don't go through too many emotions when I am writing most of the time. But when my mother died a few years ago, I was having a hard time then," she says. "It was almost like there was this barrier and I couldn't write anything about anybody. I tried, but there was just something there that I couldn't break through. I find I do writing better in retrospect rather than at the time of the occurrence I am writing about."
Poets write not only to express themselves, but so others can share their thoughts.
"A problem I see with poetry today is that people who come into our classes think that poets write their poetry so it is inaccessible to others," she says. "Poetry is not written so you can't understand it. Why would an author do that? They want others to read it and to interpret it. All you've got to do is think about it and feel what the poet is saying."
Then there is the subject of what she writes her poems about. She often talks about her "New Jersey poetry" and her "Utah poetry."
"The New Jersey poems are a different chapter in my life," she states. "They have to do with growing up in a metropolitan atmosphere and my Hungarian background. Everyone there drank a lot; that ties in with family gatherings and friends. Drinking was a part of life for everyone I knew, old and young. Some of my poems deal specifically with that aspect of life."
Utah poems tend to be more about nature and the way life proceeds. Her poem "Owling" captures a time when she, Jan and their son went down the road to see some baby owls that sat on the powerline wires. The adult owls would take off and fly around them, but the babies would watch because they had no fear of humans. One day the owls were gone. They found out kids with BB guns had killed the birds because the little ones would not move when people came around.
Takacs still writes about nature, but also about women's issues and love. She has written thousands of poems.
Takacs first book of poetry, Pale Blue Wings, was published by Limberlost Press in Boise, Ida. last year. Consequently it was recently reviewed in the Salt Lake Tribune and got a very good rating from that papers review editor.
The fact is that poetry is not a money making endeavor. Published books usually number at most in the hundreds, but the art that is produced by poets such as Takacs and Minich is timeless.
Two poets and two ways of creating the art they love coming from one life together.
That's almost poetry in of itself.


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/sbin/modprobe ip_tables
eth0 = 216.x.x.x real connection to the internet. Working
eth1 = 192.168.0.1 gate to lan / win word
I am trying to get iptables to work on slack8
I used the script from the PET section on sharing.
Thats script gets called at boot time by rc.local.Code:#!/bin/bash # Load the NAT module (this pulls in all the others). /sbin/modprobe iptable_nat /sbin/modprobe ip_conntrack_ftp /sbin/modprobe ip_nat_ftp # MASQUERADE the connection (-j MASQUERADE). /sbin/iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -j MASQUERADE # Turn on IP forwarding echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward
After I reboot i do iptables -L and get error see below.
Any ideas. I am coming off of ipchains.Code:root@serverx:~# iptables -L iptables v1.2.2: can't initialize iptables table `filter': Table does not exist (do you need to insmod?) Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. root@serverx:~#
Thanx fellas
/sbin/modprobe ip_tables
ran that same error.
added that to my script to call at boot time and same error.
Anymore ideas.
Are you sure that iptables support is compiled into your kernel ?
Not sure.
I installed it via pkgtool off of the slack install cd.
How can i check.
That was what made me realize I needed it compiled in properly. Recompile with the proper options included. AFAIK, these are not options that can be made as modules, just turned on/off in the kernel.[quote author=groundzero link=board=4;threadid=3614;start=0#36768
Code:Perhaps iptables or your kernel needs to be upgraded. root@serverx:~#