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Press Release - Concrete Repairs Begin on C-470
July 9, 2009
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DOUGLAS/JEFFERSON COUNTY-- This weekend, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) will begin the concrete repairs on C-470 between I-25 and Santa Fe Drive as part of an American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) project. The $32 million project will repair nine miles of C-470 and then pave the entire length in asphalt. Concrete repairs will also be made along 26 miles of the C-470 bike path between I-25 and I-70.
Crews will begin the concrete repairs on the westbound lanes first and then continue onto the eastbound lanes. Throughout the project, work will take place on the weekends with only one lane of westbound or eastbound C-470 open from 8 p.m. Friday to 5:30 a.m. Monday. The lane closures will be in place in specific areas of C-470 and not the entire project length.
"By working weekends, we can get more work accomplished than we could in five nights and we improve safety and quality," said CDOT Project Engineer Scott Smith. "We will have crews working night and days over the weekend in order to keep the project moving and get the work accomplished as quickly as possible."
Since this is the first week of work on C-470, crews will not work the entire weekend. Instead, one lane of westbound C-470 in various locations between I-25 and Santa Fe Drive will be closed on Saturday and Sunday from 5 a.m. to 8 p.m. each day. There will also be shoulder closures on C-470 between I-25 and Santa Fe Drive from 8 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The weekend lane closures will be in place every weekend, except holiday weekends, until December 2009 or until inclement weather becomes an issue. Once inclement weather returns, the project will shut down for the winter and resume work in the spring of 2010 with the same weekend hours.
Major repairs of the C-470 bike trail will likely begin in August at Rooney Road and move east to I-25. Weekly closures of the bike trail will be required, but access around the work zone will remain open and bicyclists will be asked to dismount from their bicycles to get around the work zone. In addition, there will be daily shoulder closures on C-470 so crews and equipment can access the bike trail.
Castle Rock Construction Co. of Centennial, CO is the contractor for this project, which is scheduled to be complete in July 2010.
In all, Colorado will receive more than $400 million for transportation projects and $103 million for transit projects.
For a list of CDOT's Recovery Act projects, visit www.dot.state.co.us/arra.


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Greek Mythology, ancient Greece used zodiac signs that were identified by constellations of twelve 12 groups of stars, which can be seen at night during different times of the year. Earth, Air, Fire and Water were also associated with the stars. The definition of zodiac is, the circle of animals, referring to all living creatures. Each myth is associated with living beings, either humans or animals, with the exception of Libra. The Gods and Goddesses in Greek Mythology include the following, Ares, Aphrodite, Hermes, Artemis, Apollon, Persephone, Themis, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Uranus and Poseidon.
Symbol Meaning
Goddess Themis is the true image of customs, law and order. Themis means the law of nature. Known for having good counseling capabilities. Essentially when dealing with people, she has great abilities in organizing meetings, and able to manage huge groups of people. Everything seems to be perfect with Themis. It is said she stands by people who follow the rules set by society and also to be known as the divine voice.


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The latest local, state, and regional news is compiled from reports from the KTOO newsroom, CoastAlaska stations, wire services, the Alaska Public Radio Network, and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and can be heard as often as five times each morning during Morning Edition. Related Link: Great Gustavus Wild Animal Festival
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Best of 2008 (So Far) – SEO Guidance, Part 1July 28, 2008 – 6:48 am
22 Considerations for Improving Natural Search Performance by MediaPost Search Insider
Rob Garner provides a comprehensive checklist of key areas to examine and modify for organic search success. In addition to the obvious (e.g., title tags, copywriting and link development) Rob includes more esoteric areas such as canonicalization issues, removing session IDs and sourcing out on-page JavaScript and CSS to external files.
How to hire an SEO Rockstar by Search Engine People
Author Jennifer Osborne offers a useful checklist to use when determining what type of SEO talent you need and then evaluating candidates.
Link Building Campaigns That Work by Link Building Best Practices
Because search engine algorithms are constantly changing, a solid link-building strategy shouldn't be "trendy" but rather balanced between different types of link sites including blogs, forums, directories, articles and reciprocal link partners.
4 questions every web site owner needs to answer by Search Engine Marketing Exposed
A fairly short yet very thoughtful post that is more strategic than tactical. Stepping back and answering some basic questions about why someone would visit your site and what exactly you'd like them to do there provides a helpful starting point for SEO efforts.
The Ultimate Guide to Directory Submissions by SiteProNews
While this article doesn't quite live up to its headline, it's nevertheless an educational quick read for anyone starting link building efforts as well as a helpful refresher for more experienced SEO practitioners.
SEO Your Site in 60 Minutes by Search Marketing Blog Online
Another excellent post with a somewhat misleading title, this piece from Jon Clark is packed with three dozen checklist items to make sure your SEO tactics are on track, divided into home page, site and external activities. Items range from basic (formatting of title tags, use of H2 tags, internal text links) to advanced (setting up a domain name redirect, "link funneling" using insidious nofollow tags). While going through this list will take considerably longer than 60 minutes, but it's a worthwhile effort.
Deconstructing Search Engine Bias by MediaPost Search Insider
This post helps SEO pros understand, at a high level, the "biases" built into search engine algorithms in order to craft strategies and tactics to capitalize on them. These biases include factors like "spamminess," authority, blog buzz and links.
Using Differentiators in Keyphrases: What Every Search Engine Optimization Company Needs to Know by PromotionWorld
A thoughtful piece from Scott Buresh on the value of adjectives for search; using modifiers in search phrases can simplify SEO efforts while delivering more highly qualified traffic. This works with descriptors (e.g. "B2B email marketing" vs. just "email marketing"), location (e.g. "search marketing services Minnesota") and other attributes.
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The main points of contention regarding the DSM-5 include:
The combination of a number of autism-related disorders into a single category called autism spectrum disorder. Although some clinicians believe that placing autism on a continuum from mild to severe will allow for more accurate diagnoses, others are concerned that high-functioning people with autism will find themselves unable to receive services or treatment. This is particularly true of people with Asperger's Syndrome, a diagnosis that has been eliminated from the DSM-5, critics of the new version contend.
"We're concerned that people who have Asperger's -- who have high-functioning autism -- are going to be dismissed as just being different when the majority of adults with Asperger's will need people to assist them in parts of their lives," said Karen Rodman, president and founder of Families of Adults Affected With Asperger's Syndrome.
"We are very concerned that medicine is going to drop the ball again, and the children who need services won't get them," Rodman said. "Fortunately, clinicians and physicians and the public around the world are still going to refer to Asperger's as Asperger's. It's like saying people don't have a right arm anymore.
"Many people with Asperger's are [also] concerned there will be a stigma -- that everyone will be considered autistic -- and when people think of that they think of a child sitting in a corner and spinning," Rodman added.
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Intermodal Facility at Chicago O'Hare International Airport
Autumn Construction Services, Inc. is providing Owner's Representative Services to coordinate the design and construction of the O'Hare Airport's proposed Intermodal Facility which consists of the construction of the three (3) million plus square foot Consolidated Rental Car Facility, Public Parking, and extension of the Automated Train System (ATS) from Parking Lot E to the new CRCF. Autumn's staff previous involvement in the successful construction of Midway Airport's CRCF and experience with a multitude of Capital Improvement projects at O'Hare will enable Autumn to apply specialty knowledge and a pragmatic perspective to the services rendered.
Consolidated Rental Car Facility (CRCF) at Midway International Airport
The LEED© Silver CRCF consisted of a multipurpose five-story pre-cast concrete elevated parking structure which included office spaces, operations and MEP control rooms, and a multi-agency customer service area. In addition, the facility included a separate onsite state-of-the-industry Quick Turnaround Area consisting of a single story building with 9 car wash bays and rental agency office space and an adjacent 36 pump fueling and servicing station. Renewable energy is provided by photovoltaic solar panels and wind turbines. The facility is designed to operate at 23% reduction in energy. The project team, led by Tim Morgan, completed the multi-stakeholder facility under budget and provided a first-class facility. Autumn Construction Services, Inc. provided the construction management and construction administration services for the $54 million dollar multi-stakeholder facility. Autumn also served as the CxA, performing the prerequisite and enhanced LEED Commissioning services.
Chicago O'Hare International Airport Joint-use Consolidated Rental Car/Parking Facility & ATS Station
The project consists of the design of combined Consolidated Rental Car Facility (1,800,000 SF), Parking Garage (1,410,000) and Airport Transit System Station. The project will be designed to achieve LEED Silver. The project energy use highlights includes the incorporation of geothermal energy and a sophisticated Building Automation System (BAS) for the multi-purpose facility. Autumn Construction Services, Inc. is providing the design phase Commissioning Documents and the Commissioning review of the Basis of Design (BOD) for verification that the Owner's Project Requirements (OPR) has been effectively incorporated into the design documents.
American Airlines Owner's Representative Services for Chicago O'Hare International Airport and St. Louis Lambert Airport
Autumn Construction Services, Inc. , provided Owner's Representative Project Management services to oversee construction rehabilitation and repairs on Lambert Airport's Concourse C and O'Hare Airport Terminal 2 & 3.
ORD Bridge Inspection Services
Autumn is performing detailed inspections and evaluations of ramp and bridge structures as part of a team led by HNTB at O'Hare International Airport.
Metra Platform Improvements
Autumn is pleased to be part of the team providing construction inspection services for Metra's Deerfield Commuter Station along the Milwaukee District-North Line. The scope of work includes the installation of retaining walls adjacent to the platform and concrete repair work.
Illinois Tollway's Tri-State Bridge Rehabilitation Project
Autumn is providing Phase III Engineering Services to the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority as part of a team led by Bowman, Barrett & Associates, Inc. The $12 Million bridge rehabilitation project is located on the Tri-State Tollway between the Bensenville Railroad and Lawrence Avenue. Construction began in March, 2009 and is scheduled to be complete by the end of the year. Autumn's personnel on this project include the Assistant Liaison/Resident Engineer and the Document Technician.
City of Chicago's Michigan Avenue Bridge
Autumn is providing project management support services to F.H. Paschen, S.N. Nielsen for the CDOT Bureau of Bridges & Transit's Michigan Avenue Bridge Historic Improvement project. The work consists of the reconstruction of the existing historic railing, replacement of the sidewalk and lighting improvements at the Michigan Avenue Bascule Bridge over the Main Branch of the Chicago River. The project is scheduled to be complete by June, 2009.


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New Albany Middle School is participating in the 2013 BE A CHAMPION READING CONTEST sponsored by the Mississippi Association of Educators. Students read books and work to qualify to win a statewide reading contest. Two winning students (one for MSU and one for Ole Miss) will receive free tickets to the Egg Bowl. Students pictured […]
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"Do you want one big one or five little ones? Katie asked our three-year-old grandson, Major. He shuffled from one foot to the other, then back again. It was a tough decision. "I – I – I want one big one!" he answered with the satisfaction of making the right decision. I was occupied with […]
Super Couponing Tips with Jill Cataldo
The downsizing spiral By Jill Cataldo CTW Features The topic of package and product "shrink" never seems to get old with my readers! I've featured several stories about product sizes being reduced while the price stays the same. My savvy, observant readers have been busy spotting even more smaller-sized items. Dear Jill, This probably won't […]
The Magic Ingredient
By Dr. Linda Mitchell Have you ever tasted something so wonderful you just had to get the recipe, and then when you prepared the dish –just as the recipe directed – it didn't taste quite as special as you remembered? Is your memory at fault or your method? Perhaps it was missing the magic ingredient…you […]
Prolific sunflower
G. A. Hill of the Pleasant Ridge community has managed to raise some many-flowered sunflowers this year. Possibly the best example is this plant, which is about head-high and contains 13 sunflowers. Hill said he did not know what variety they are; he just had the seeds.
Sherman news
By Martha Swindle Congratulations to Alderman Wayne Bullock for meeting the qualifications required to graduate as an Advanced Certified Municipal Official. Bullock was recently notified by the Mississippi Municipal League that he will graduate at the next CMO Ceremony during the 2013 Small Town Conference in Tunica, in November. This achievement is commendable in the […]
Macedonia news
By Lou McQuary On Sunday, Sept. 1, Jed Rucker Long celebrated his fourth birthday at Chuck E Cheese in Tupelo. Friends celebrating with him were Drew Stanton; Lucy and Kylee Anne Jumper; Kinsley and Kelsey Coffey; Garrison Carpenter; Joe Quay, Cole Morris and Luke Willard; John Quitman Brewer; Chloe, Zoey, and Callyn Wright; Ava Grace […]
Hurricane news
By Susan Hooker Signs of the season in September include the final, feeding frenzies of the hummingbirds as they prepare for their trip to more southern climates. The aptly named hummingbird vines covered with red blooms attract them as well as the feeders with nectar. Once you get the vines established, they become a task […]
We want to clarify a point in a recent editorial about the lack of a police officer at New Albany Elementary School. We said the "Board of Aldermen has failed for years to budget for a school resource officer" at the school. Mayor Tim Kent points out that the board had not been asked by […]
Not working for a living
My father used to say that it was a good thing I went to college, because I never would have made it if I had to work for a living. He wasn't kidding, either. By working for a living, he meant physical labor, the kind that he did all of his work life until he […]
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Although, yes, reimagined Borg could be awesome. Using CG to replace or remove body parts (a lower jaw, part of an arm, part of the torso etc), and replace some with machinery would make them look far more scary than just wearing rubber over the top.
Sure but the best Borg stories (Q Who, Best of Both Worlds and I, Borg) worked well although they did not look particularly scary and FC worked not because but in spite of their zombie looks.
I am not a fan of the shift from the Borg as more of an ideological enemy to this Cronenbergian "assimilation is so horrible" stuff.
"BOBW" and "family" portrayed assimilation as pretty horrible. That wasn't exactly a FC revelation.
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A look from above from west gate 3 looking east down Median Street at the World Ag Expo in Tulare. / Steve R. Fujimoto
Joshua Wilson, 6, of Clovis sits atop a grape harvester from American Grape Harvester as visitors stroll among vendors on Tuesday. / Ron Holman
Visitors stroll among vendors on the first day of the World Ag Expo at the International Agri-Center in Tulare on Tuesday. / Ron Holman
Tom Barcellos with Barcellos Farms in Tipton at the World Ag Expo in Tulare. / Steve R. Fujimoto
When President Barack Obama signed a new federal farm bill into law last week, many farmers and ranchers here probably breathed a mild sigh of relief.
The farm bill resulted in changes that included additional money for research on animal diseases and pest problems, but it also reduced federal subsidies on some crops, including corn and cotton.
It even included a provision that would allow California dairy operators to keep their milk quota system, which could open the door for the dairies here to move forward with efforts to switch from a state-run milk-pricing system to a federally-run system.
But just as important as the items kept and changed in the bill is that Congress and the Senate finally approved a finished bill two years behind schedule.
Well, its something we can work with. Thank God, weve got something we can work with, Tom Barcellos said as he visited booths during Tuesdays opening day of the World Ag Expo in Tulare.
Barcellos is a Porterville-area dairy operator and farmer, as well as chairman of the Board for Western United Dairymen, a major California trade group for dairy operators.
Over the two years that legislators failed to agree upon a farm bill, Barcellos said there was frequent talk about what programs might be cut or have their budgets reduced, and that uncertainty was hard on farmers and ranchers.
At least now we have a farm bill, but we need to sit down and analyze the end result, he said.
I think that overall, it has a lot of good things for California, Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, said after taking part in the opening ceremony Tuesday morning for the three-day Ag Expo.
Benefit programs and research dollars remain for specialty crops those that dont widely grow in other parts of the country, including citrus, nuts, stone fruits and grapes, she said.
Those are major Tulare County commodities.
Another benefit of the new farm bill is the inclusion of money for environmental quality incentives, which include helping farmers pay for ways to reduce water consumption, along with low-interest loans to help new farmers get into the business, Ross said.
In addition, she said, the bill includes $25 million a year to pay for research on citrus diseases, which Ross said will be extremely important here because the state and the citrus industry are involved in efforts to prevent the spread of huanglonbing or HLB a bacteria capable of killing trees for which there is no cure.
Swarms of Asian citrus psyllids, an inspect capable of spreading HLB, have been found in Southern California, and small numbers have been found in Tulare County, the states top citrus-producing county.
One thing desperately needed was the reauthorization of livestock disaster programs, Ross said.
Those programs expired two years ago, so South Dakota farmers who lost livestock to extreme cold weather in October couldnt get that disaster aid, she noted. But the new program could help ranchers and dairy operators who may lose livestock from in Californias current, severe drought if it continues, she said.
One of the provisions that many California dairy operators were glad made the final version of the farm bill was maintaining a quota system that allowed some dairies to get an extra $1.70 per hundred weight 100 pounds on their milk. For most of the past four year, California dairies have been getting record-low prices for their milk, which dipped down to the $9 per hundred weight range in 2009.
Many in the industry put part of the blame for the low milk pricing on Ross, whose office sets monthly milk prices in the state. They have accused her of favoring dairy processors by setting prices lower than what dairies in other parts of the country receive under a federal pricing system.
That lead to an effort to put California on the federal milk-pricing system, but a stumbling block was whether dairies that now can receive quota pricing could keep it under a federal system.
The new farm bill allows that, and Barcellos said dairy operators can go forward with a vote on whether California should adopt the federal pricing system, though that it may take a couple of years for that to happen.
Joaquin Content, a Hanford dairyman at the Ag Expo, said he was disappointed that incentives intended to prevent overproduction of milk a major reason why prices fell so low was scrubbed out of the bill. He noted that Speaker of the House John Behner, R-Ohio, was a strong opponent of the incentives, calling them Soviet-style policies.
Content said he also wasnt happy that the Dairy Security Act, a program in which the federal government bought milk if prices went below certain levels, was replaced by an insurance program for dairies.
He said the act hadnt been reworked in decades, and a retooled version would have been a better option than an insurance program.
Barcellos said the new rules of the insurance plan have yet to be written, so whether it will be a good thing or not wasnt clear to him.
Terry Lehenbauer, director of the UC Davis Veterinary Medicine Teaching and Research Center south of Tulare, said the farm bill should provide a financial shot in the arm for the universitys veterinary program though how much wasnt immediately clear.
There has been a significant decline in research dollars available from the U.S. Department of Agriculture over at least the past seven years, he said, noting that the agencys Animal Health Fund allotment for Davis veterinary school is down to about $140,000 this fiscal year, compared to about $500,000 in fiscal 2007-08.
Lehenbauer said the farm bill is providing additional dollars for animal-health research, but he noted that those dollars still have to be authorized by federal legislators, and the amounts could change in that process.
For the most part, only a small amount of the farm bill involves farms.
About 80 percent of the funding in it, nearly $100 billion a year, pays for programs for the needy, including food stamps, which had its funding reduced.
Mark Watte, a Tulare-area farmer and dairy operator said political fights over those programs are a big part of the reason the farm bill was delayed, and he had hoped that Congress and the Senate would have voted to separate them from the farming elements in the bill, but that didnt happen.
As for those farm elements, Watte noted that California farmers and ranchers generally arent as affected by the bill as their counterparts in other parts of the U.S. For example, Watte said, commodity subsidies he and other California cotton farmers get from the federal government tend to be less, so cuts to those subsidies in the new farm bill wont hit them as hard.
Farmers of those subsidized commodities, which include corn and wheat, will have the option to buy insurance to protect themselves in low-producing crop years, he said.


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Unlike other methods of cooking, baking has less room for error. Measurements, equipment and technique do matter, and one mistake can lead to unshapely cakes, bland bread and cookies that fall flat.
As a general rule of thumb, the most important advice we can give is to read the recipe completely before you start baking. Although it sounds simple enough, it happens all too often that we find ourselves half-way through a recipe before we realize we're missing an ingredient or we've skipped a crucial preparation step. We've rounded up 18 more common baking mistakes and show you how you can avoid them.
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How to sift
Sifting aerates flour, powdered sugar and other dry ingredients. If a sifter isn't handy, mixing ingredients with a whisk or fork is the simplest way to fluff up flour. However, ingredients like powdered sugar need to be properly sifted or you risk clumps.
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There are measuring cups and spoons for dry ingredients and ones for liquid ingredients, and they're not interchangeable. Use your dry measures to scoop ingredients until they are overflowing, and then sweep the top with the back of a knife. Liquid measuring cups are clear so that you can check from the side at eye-level.
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Beating your ingredients means to stir them rapidly to incorporate air, and you can do it with a spoon, whisk, mixer or food processor.
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In baking, creaming most often refers to blending granulated sugar with a solid fat like softened butter. Slowly adding sugar to the fat while beating incorporates air bubbles; you'll know it's ready when the volume has increased, the color has lightened and the texture is fluffy.
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When you need to combine an ingredient in a delicate mixture, like egg white, it's important to fold. Take a spatula and gently sweep the bottom of the bowl, lifting the bottom over top. Then twist the bowl 90 degrees and fold again, repeating until combined.
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To knead dough, place it on a floured surface and shape it into a ball. First, fold the top half of the dough over the lower half of the dough toward you, and then gently push into the dough with the heel of your hand. Rotate 90 degrees and repeat. Continue to do so until the dough is soft and smooth, A sign that the dough is ready is when you press into it with your finger and the dough bounces back.
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The zest of citrus fruits add wonderful flavor and aroma to baked goods. To make your own zest, you'll need a grater. Wash your fruit, and then glide it down the grater, applying a bit of pressure to take off its outer surface. You'll want to rotate ever so slightly as you grate, and make sure to avoid the bitter white pith underneath.
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Pumpkin Agnolotti
- 1/2 cup canned pumpkin purée
- 1/4 cup grated Parmesan, plus more for sprinkling
- 1/8 teaspoon sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon lemon zest
- Salt and pepper
- 18 round or square wonton wrappers
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 2 tablespoons butter
- 1/4 cup crème fraîche
- Pumpkin seeds, toasted and shelled
Mash pumpkin purée, Parmesan, sugar, and lemon zest in a medium bowl. Season with salt and pepper. Arrange wonton wrappers on a work surface. Brush edges with lightly beaten egg. Place 1 teaspoon filling on bottom half; fold top half over, gently pressing edges to seal. Boil ravioli in salted water until just tender, about 3 minutes.
Melt butter with crème fraîche in a sauté pan. Add ravioli and 2 tablespoons pasta cooking liquid; toss to coat. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Top with grated Parmesan and pumpkin seeds (pepitas).
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Consider aggressive (etc.) drivers vs. drivers on drugs/alcohol. Tell me how different is an aggressive/high speed/tailgating/not obeying street signs or lights driver, from a person driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol. As far as I am concerned, the percentage of bad drivers has far exceeded people driving under the influence.
Everyday, to get on the road, it's extremely dangerous. It seems the majority are in such a hurry to get where they are going, that they will do anything to get there. They would take out their own family members to get to wherever they think is so important. People need to slow down and smell the roses. Where did courtesy go? What fire are you trying to put out? We need to stop these types of drivers and make much needed money back to the state, or send them back to drivers school. Maybe the state needs to have drivers take a test again.
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Sunshine, Lollipops and Park Laps
The park is tip top nowadays and some sunny park laps does the body good. I went for a few with local shredders Matt Wainhouse, Trey Fornelius, Ryan Browne, Bart Patitucci, Keith Matsumura, and Jake Salvador on a sunny Friday, January 18, 2013. It was fun.
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Highlights of the 2012 Open Season Rail Jam on a super snowy afternoon at Stevens Pass!
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Hayley Williams Admits Something
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Hayley NEVER met someone…why and who?
The Paramore singer said her hit song with B.O.B. called "Airplanes" has NEVER met him..Bobby Ray Simmons and Hayley recorded the song and the video without ever being able to meet. Cool. The song was/is a 2010 summer hit too!
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The longest-serving dean in the history of Santa Clara University's School of Business, Charlie Dirksen was appointed to the business school faculty in 1938 as a professor of advertising, and became dean in 1941. Under his leadership, the School grew in size, quality, and number of educational offerings, developing original programs for business students and the community. As one of the first business educators to emphasize ethical decision-making as part of a business graduate's set of skills, he was honored at his retirement as dean with creation of the Charles J. Dirksen Chair in Business Ethics in 1979.
Among the innovative programs launched during his tenure were the introduction of women students into evening undergraduate business classes (1947, more than a decade before women were accepted at SCU), the creation of the Center for Leadership Development in 1957 (now known as the Executive Development Center), and, in the 1960s, opening of television and computer facilities for students and faculty to enhance the practical side of business studies.
Dirksen's creativity in developing business education was so attractive that (according to Leavey School lore) Hewlett Packard co-founder David Packard asked him to develop an MBA program to keep Packard's top talent employed at the firm while enhancing the company's intellectual capital. Thus, the Santa Clara Evening MBA program was launched in 1959, becoming one of the first Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)-accredited graduate business programs in the nation.
The dean's business acumen was in demand during the post-war boom in Santa Clara Valley as a number of companies such as World Airways and Western Gear Corporation recruited him as a director. In 1972, he and several area business leaders founded the Bank of Santa Clara.
Dirksen's influence on the practice of business and business education was widespread, as he wrote or co-authored more than 15 books and texts and more than 200 articles and research papers. He was book review editor of the Journal of Marketing, board member of Harvard Business School's Intercollegiate Case Clearing House, and California Management Review's advisory board. In addition, he served as AACSB president (1965-66) and sat on the Executive Committee of Beta Gamma Sigma National Honor Society.
Dean Dirksen was born in Springfield, IL, in 1912 and attended St. Louis University for his undergraduate and graduate degrees, coming to California to join Santa Clara in the early 1930s. He died in February 9, 1988.


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Until I interviewed the Dark Ranger (aka Kevin Poe), I hadn't thought much about the seeming disappearance of the stars in the sky. I knew my suburban existence had something to do with not seeing as many stars as I remember as a kid, but I also figured I had romanticized that magical sparkly starry sky of my summer-camp days in the Berkshire mountains of Western Massachusetts. The other time I remember a fabulously star-filled sky was during a honeymoon trip to a pretty remote island – the tiki torches didn't seem to diminish the twinkling of that night sky much at all.
Kevin (who I kept calling Ken during our first interview – Sorry Ken, I mean Kevin! Public apology #2), is a park ranger in Mt. Zion National Park and has made it somewhat of a life's mission to help illuminate (cute, right?) us about why we need to start paying attention to light pollution.
Sometimes terms like sky glow, glare, light trespass, light clutter and over-illumination are used to describe excessive night light's intrusion on a naturally dark sky. Here's the International Dark Sky Association's glossary of relevant terms about light pollution page. Also, if you want to see where light clusters around cities and towns are and what they look like from the sky, here's a great interactive Google 'night lights' map that you can search for your own area and see how it looks from the night sky.
Good reasons to be concerned about light pollution:
Waste of Energy – Let's face it, there is probably a lot of over-illuminating going on, especially here in the US, where we have an obsession with keeping the lights on all night. According to the International Dark Sky Association, we burn up a whopping 22,000 gigawatt-hours of useless light that is pointed up towards the sky! Their math has this at an estimated cost (in terms of money) of $2.2 billion a year. In terms of carbon footprint?
3.6 million tons of coal or 12.9 million barrels of oil is used
to generated this type of lost light
Ecosystems & Wildlife – While light pollution can disrupt elements of the ecosystem in subtle ways that may ultimately have lasting effects, it has a definite and negative impact on nocturnal animals. In general all animals (including humans) have a biological code that follows a circadian rhythm, which is just a inherent natural clock.


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After you install Windows Vista Service Pack 1 (SP1), existing system restore points may no longer be available. Additionally, shadow copies of files may have been removed as part of the service pack installation.
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This issue occurs when you install Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Vista on a computer that is low on available disk space. When you try to install the service pack on a computer that is low on available disk space, the installation process frees disk space by removing any existing system restore points and by creating a single new system restore point.
To work around this issue, free additional disk space before you try to install Vista SP1. The more free space that is available when you install the service pack, the less likely it is that existing restore points and shadow copies of files will be deleted.
For more information about how to free disk space in Windows Vista, see Windows Vista Help and Support. To see Windows Vista Help and Support, follow these steps:
If available disk space on the computer causes existing system restore points to be removed during a Windows Update installation of the service pack, a new system restore point is created immediately before the service pack is installed.
This new system restore point captures the system state after any permanent prerequisite releases for the service pack are installed but before the service pack itself is installed. Therefore, you may be unable to restore the computer to the exact state the computer was in before you began installing the service pack.
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Tampa, Florida- 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series champ Brad Keselowski took a piece of romaine lettuce and held it up. A towering giraffe named Cupid politely latched on and lunched. It was just one of the experiences Keselowski's schedule during a stop in Tampa.
Keselowski and Daytona International Speedway President Joie Chitwood III came to the area, along with the Daytona 500 trophy, to promote this year's 2011 Daytona 500.
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The trip to Busch Gardens was nothing new for Chitwood, who grew up blocks away from Westshore Mall and went to USF. Still, the speedway executive enjoyed feeding giraffes along Busch Gardens' Serengeti Plain and taking part in an up close-up rhino encounter.
Chitwood, by the way, has an extremely unique distinction as one of just two administrators to run both the Indianapolis and Daytona International Speedways.
"I think about coming here when I was a young person, whether I was in elementary school, coming out here to ride rollercoasters and things like that," says Chitwood. "Now, here I am as the president of Daytona with Brad Keselowski, the Nationwide champion, and we're feeding rhinos and giraffes! I'm leading a great sports property and, you know, for me it's been a great run."
Brad and Joie were also invited to Wednesday night's Lightning game against the Capitals where they offered the "Let's Play Hockey" command to start the game.
The 53rd running of the Daytona 500 is February 20th and will also kick off the new NASCAR Sprint Cup Series on a new racing surface. Following the July Coke Zero 400, Daytona International Speedway's entire 2.5-mile tri-oval, skid pad, apron and pit road was repaved for only the second time in history.
Keselowski is entering his second full season at Penske Racing in the Sprint Cup Series and will be taking over the driving duties on the famous No. 2 Miller Lite Dodge, a car that has been driven by Rusty Wallace and Kurt Busch.
"Huge opportunity , that I'm just grateful to have," says Keselowski. "It means so much to the sport, that car's been around for a long time, it's kind of an icon, it's the blue deuce, all the fans know it by name and we want to return it to Victory Lane."
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The Big 12 Conference and A.B.C. Sports have announced that Nebraska's October 1st contest against Iowa State will be televised on a regional basis by A.B.C. Kickoff time for the conference opener for both teams will be 2:30 p.m. central time.
The A.B.C. appearance will mark Nebraska's second straight game on the network after facing Pittsburgh in a regionally-televised A.B.C. game last Saturday. It also gives Nebraska at least three A.B.C. appearances this seaso, as the Huskers' regular-season finale at Colorado November 26th will be televised nationally by the network.
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The first week of games started in the Duke City Soccer League last weekend for the Los Alamos Football Club boys and girls teams.
In the girls bracket, the U12 Hotshots '01 earned a promotion match to move up
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The midfield combination plays between Anna Lemke, Alix Haley and Anna Rose Matuszak combined with the attacking plays of Alissia Hagenstad and Sydney Alexander helped the team stay competitive despite being shorthanded.
The Hotshots lost 3-0 without an experienced goalkeeper but are hoping to stay competitive with the teams in its new division.
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The Lasers tied the Rio Hammers 2-2, with goals scored by Cid Rice and Arthur Steinkamp.
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Are Generic Drugs as Effective as Brand Name? - Not Always!
A number of patients with a history of good results on brand name antibiotics began experiencing difficulties when a generic was substituted. Therefore, if you have prescribed a brand name tetracycline for a patient using antibiotic therapy and have not specified d.a.w. or no substitutions, your patient is probably taking a generic version and may be having a less than significant response to the treatment. Some generic versions have been found to be ineffective for this treatment.
In order to market drugs, U.S. generic manufacturers must have a permit and approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) indicating that the active ingredient is approximately the same as that of the brand name. The determination of drug approval is made according to whether it is pharmaceutically equivalent, bio-available, and bioequivalent.
Pharmaceutically Equivalent
Two drugs are considered pharmaceutical equivalents when they contain the same chemically active ingredient(s) and are identical in dosage form and strength. Tetracyclines such as minocycline are complex with many properties that may play an important part in treatment response in the arthritic patient. The fact that patients in remission (sometimes for years) while on antibiotic therapy saw a gradual return of symptoms when switched to a generic alerted us to a potential problem with some generics. In three test patients, these symptoms began to reverse immediately upon a return to the brand name version of the drug.
Pharmaceutical equivalence may be affected by many things.
1) variations in inert ingredients
2) plants in different parts of the world
may produce ingredients that vary in quality, and by batch and manufacturing methods. Until recently, 80% of drug ingredients came from plants in Western Europe. According to a NY Times article April 11, 1996, that is changing. Many ingredients are now being used from plants in China, Japan, South Korea, India and Eastern Europe where they are produced more cheaply. Bob Milanese, president of the National Association of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers, indicates that only a handful of these plants meet FDA standards. "Some others are questionable" due to the difficulty in finding people and budget to "get over and inspect these plants." Another factor which affects generic quality cited by the same article is the international buy outs and diversification allowing the combination of questionable ingredients into generic production.
3) In oral drugs, capsule content may be 7% over or 7% under the stated content, e.g. a 100 mg. capsule may be as low as 93 mg. or as high as 107 mg.
4) Manufacturers may shift their source of supply.
5) Once a drug has been approved by the FDA, manufacturers sometimes make changes to the formula which was originally submitted.
6) Many arthritic patients are elderly. The age of the patient may be a factor in pharmacokinetics. Digestive tract absorption of an oral drug may be altered by a variety of factors, including higher gastric pH, accelerated gastric emptying, and thinning and reduction of the absorptive surface. Bioavailability may be influenced by the increase (or decrease) in percent of body fat which is common in some with age. It may be even higher in sedentary persons (or persons in pain who are inactive in order to minimize discomfort.) This increased fat to lean ratio results in a reservoir for lipid-soluble drugs which is larger allowing those drugs to stay in the body longer, increasing the possibility of drug sensitivity by prolonging the half-life. Conversely, total water content declines with age. This decline allows a decreased volume of distribution for water-soluble drugs.
In addition to general approval, the FDA rates drugs with codes. All drugs with an "A" code are rated as being therapeutically equivalent; "B" coded drugs are those not rated equivalent Some pharmacies fill with B-rated drugs. At this time, it is recommended that no patient use a version of a drug with a B-rating. Clinical differences or serious bioequivalence problems with B-rated products have been reported for drugs such as prednisone, estrogen tablets, levodopa and phenytoin. In addition to The Orange Book, The Physician's Generix lists available generics as therapeutically equivalent or non-equivalent. Because the antibiotic protocol uses such low doses, leeway between versions which are effective and those which are not may be much more critical.
In bioavailability, it can be assumed that the drug's effectiveness is related to the amount of product absorbed and the speed of absorption. However, in some cases, the pharmaceutically equivalent products can have different bioavailability. They may be absorbed either faster or slower than the brand name drug which may or may not be clinically significant.
The pH-dissolution profile of a product may have clinical relevance. Even if the coating is adequate to prevent release of the enzymes in the stomach where the ingredients are irreversibly inactivated, it may not dissolve at the pH of the duodenum after meals.
In bioequivalence studies, the goal of testing is to determine if the drugs are functionally equivalent. The FDA requires that any approved drug be effective within a 20% range of the original patented or brand name drug. This means that the effectiveness may be 20% greater or 20% less effective than the brand name so that two generic drugs could contain as much as a 40% difference from each other. Therefore, a drug may be legally chemically equivalent but not at the same time clinically equivalent. A study run on a generic of the anti-seizure, Tegretol, found the generic allowed breakthrough seizures.
An example of how the above factors may affect the bioavailability and clinical effectiveness is seen by applying these factors to tetracycline. At one extreme, a 500 mg. dose of tetracycline taken in 2-250 mg. capsules which is 20% lower in effectiveness, 7% low in the mg. amount in each capsule (14% dose total) and which is taken with food, decreasing the absorption rate (<50%), could provide as low as 136 mg of tetracycline that is available to the body. Correspondingly, the same 2-250 mg. capsules making a total dose of 500 mg. which is 20% more effective, 7% over on mg. in capsule and taken without food (increasing the absorption rate to 77%), provides 555 mg that is functionally available to the system. It should be noted the food-drug interaction is less a factor with minocycline and doxycycline as they are absorbed differently.
In addition to the ±20% difference allowed in bioavailability by the FDA and the ±7% of the stated capsule content allowed by the U.S. Pharmacopoeia, there are other considerations which should be considered when using a generic drug.
1) Some drugs lose potency while on the shelf, so drug companies increase the strength so as the drug ages, it will still provide a therapeutic level. This means patients who use the drug soon after production when the dose may be stronger may be getting an overdose.
2) There is a risk that a generic substitution could result in a change in serum concentration
3) Such a change may lead to signifi-cant adverse effects or loss of benefit
4) The risk that patients may receive different generics each time they fill their prescription, changing the response to the drug.
5) Cost of brand names is usually, but not always, higher than for a generic.
6) Blood tests can become necessary to determine adequate concentrations, excessive, possibly toxic concentrations or low, possibly ineffective concentra-tions
7) The cost of the time and effort spent in adjusting the dose (if needed)
Bioequivalence may be effected by the type of study; e.g. two brand name pharmaceutical equivalents were each compared with a placebo in separate trials but were not compared with each other for bioequivalence. Thus while each was effective, it cannot be assumed that they produce the same clinical effect. Bioequivalence studies are performed on healthy volunteers and thus may not account for the full pharmacologic and therapeutic impact of generic substitution on patients with disease.
A pharmacist may legally fill a prescription in the United States with either the brand name or a generic without consulting either the patient or the physician. A prescription may not even be filled consistently with the same generic. To assure continuity for the patient, the physician should indicate on the prescription no substitutions or dispense as written (daw).
The purpose of this article is not to condemn generic drugs for many are as effective as the brand name and even come from the same manufacturing company, but are repackaged and sold by another company as their own generic brand. Our purpose is, however, to provide a warning not to assume that all drugs with the same generic title are equal and will have the same clinical effect, even though many drug reps say they are equal. This is particularly true of the tetracycline family because it is one of the oldest families of antibiotics being first patented in 1953. Since a patent is good for 17 years, the original tetracycline has been available for generic reproduction for some 25 years.
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For insurance companies who will not cover brand name drugs when a generic is available, a blood test to determine concentration may be necessary for those using low dose antibiotics to provide data to require payment for the brand name drug.
To assure continuity for the patient, the physician should indicate on the prescription no substitutions or dispense as written (daw).


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America's Pastime Part II: Outsourcing for Talent
I started this blog series with the notion that baseball is America's Pastime not because of the quality of play on the field or the popularity of the sport (both in decline), but because of the politics and economics that drive Major League Baseball and how eerily similar they are to the politics and economics of our country. One of the most controversial issues in our economic recovery is the outsourcing of knowledge worker jobs by technology companies. The news abounds with stories everyday like this one or this one. Baseball has not only been outsourcing for years, but has been investing in training academies in Latin America which have exacerbated the opportunity gap for Latino and African American prospects in our country. This is now being replicated in tech and the outcomes will be devastating.
In 2010, 28% of players on opening day rosters were born from outside of the United States. The Dominican Republic leads with 86 players in the majors. Venezuela was next with 58, Puerto Rico was third with 21, followed by Japan (14), Canada (13), Mexico (12), Cuba (seven), Panama (five), Australia (four), Taiwan (three) and Colombia, Curacao, South Korea and Nicaragua (two each). I have no problem with foreign born players playing US major league sports, but the Domincan Republic has a vastly disproportionate number of players in the MLB. Why and how does that relate to our American economy?
$18M was spent in 2009 for 30 player development academies in the Dominican Republic operated by major league teams, as well as six in Venezuela and one in Brazil. An additional $3.2M was spent on operating the Dominican Summer League, originally created in 1985 as a development platform for prospects who did not have a visa to travel to the United States. Sounds a lot like the use of H1B visas by technology companies. Silicon Valley is relying on the visa program as opposed to investing in diversifying their workforce from local populations. This is economically short-sighted of these companies and – shameless plug – they should be investing in programs like SMASH (Summer Math and Science Honors) Academy. There is plenty of talent in our country in baseball and in tech, but those who would reap the benefits of homegrown talent (MLB and Silicon Valley in this case) are not investing as much as they can in helping to prepare that talent – particularly talent from diverse populations. Even Mark Zuckerberg's $100M investment in Newark schools is a budget dust for the multi-billion dollar company. I think they spend much more on talent acquisition and retention than this.
Baseball does also fund their RBI program – Revive Baseball in the Inner City. It's been going for 21 years, yet the percentages of African American player has been on a sharp decline. 17% of players 20 years ago were black – now it's just 8.5%. I don't know of a major foundation in America who would keep funding a program with such dismal results. The next post in the series will examine the history of African-Americans in baseball and how they are losing ground – just as they are losing ground in our schools.
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