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I went to the dentist the next day, and the dentist took some X-rays. He didn't say much regarding the X-ray. He took a look at the bump, and said asked me questions pertaining to it, he said it was filled with pus and is from an infection. Bacteria has entered deep below, and can be from a tooth that may of cracked or may of decayed a bit.
After he drains it, and gets rid of the excess blood with gauze, he takes a look at it and said the pus was drained. I felt with my tongue and could still feel some pretty mass, but there was no pain, and i felt more of a solid bone instead of a bubble. But this mass was still there and I believe it is due to the current swelling of the gums after the drain.
He prescribes 500mg Amoxcillian and Hydrocodones. Arranges a followup a week after.
So far Day 1 is ending, and I still feel pain from this tooth when chewing, not really any pain from gums.
This tooth has a metal filling on top of it, and i believe these fillings are vulnerable to bacteria over time, or the tooth under the filling has cracked. This tooth seems to move a slight bit as well. when pressed on while chewing.
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Direct Bone Marrow Injections for Avascular Necrosis of the Talus: A Case Report
Authors: Ross A. Hauser, MD & Shelby Ostergaard
Journal of Prolotherapy. 2012;4:e891-e894.
Avascular necrosis (AVN) of the talus is a debilitating condition, often leading to arthritis and arthrosis of the subtalar and ankle joints.1 There are three basic categories of cause for AVN. Approximately 10% of AVN of the talus is considered idiopathic: 15% is medication induced and 75% from trauma.2, 3 The most feared complication of talar injuries is AVN.
The talus has several anatomic features that predispose it to AVN. The body of the talus is wider anteriorly than posteriorly and contains the talar dome, which forms the talocrural joint with the tibia. This joint bears more weight per unit of area than any other joint in the body, contributing to its propensity to get injured with ankle trauma.4The talus is weakest at the neck, where the bone is recessed to allow for dorsiflexion. In addition, the talar neck has a scarcity of cartilage and numerous ligamentous attachments. Talar neck fractures represent 50% of all talar injuries and are responsible for 90% of all traumatic AVN.5
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Potential Fix for Todoist Location Reminders
I believe I have figured out why some users are not getting location reminders. I was having the same issue and had location services "On" for Todoist under Privacy. However, I had Background App Refresh turned "Off" under General for Todoist. Once I turned this on, all reminders worked for both my iPad and my iPhone. Users will need to check both of these because if the background refresh is off they won't get reminders.
Also, I noted an issue with the date for the iPad and iPhone where the date is removed when you advance the screen for any reason, e.g., Projects, labels, etc., so when it returns to the original screen the date field is now blank whereas it used to retain this. Would you put through a fix for it?
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For the date issue I have researched and noted that it appears the issue is different depending on where you create the task and which screens you advance to. For example, if you create a task in the Today view the issue is date reversion back to today's date, but if you create the task in Inbox the issue is that the date gets removed.
Also if you create a task directly in Projects then the date gets removed for some fields but not others (e.g., Reminders but not Labels) and then also it will randomly switch like if you put every day it will switch the date to tomorrow when it returns to the main entry screen from whichever advanced screen you were using.
Hi Patrick,
For the location reminders, we are aware of this setting and have asked users to check this, though thank you for letting us know. We do believe we have found the issues with location reminders and updates are on their way.
So for the date issue, on iOS if you add a task with a date within a project, you save this task? Then when you go back to it, its gone? Or you are still editing it, you go to another menu such as Reminders, and go back, then the date is gone?
Hi Brendon,
Great news for the location reminders and glad that you have solved it.
For the date issue, it is when I am creating the entry that this happens. It appears to be an issue when the screen advances in iOS that it doesn't consistently retain the date field. When you touch the Project, Label, etc. fields in the iPad and iPhone app it advances to a new screen which sits on top of the entry creation form.
When it returns to the main entry creation form then the date selected has been modified. I have been using a fix of just putting the date in last so that it doesn't get overwritten since I've completed all of the screen advance fields before this (e.g., Label, Project) but it isn't in the logical visual flow since I usually input this right after selecting the Project since I complete top to bottom. Let me know if you need anything else.
Hello Patrick,
Thank you for this information, I've been able to reproduce this issue and have passed it to our developers.
Best regards,
Hi David,
Any word on when the update will be pushed through? I am still having the same issue with the date and am awaiting the fix.
We do not have an ETA, but it shouldn;t be that long, sorry for the trouble.
Location reminder on Android device is working perfect :)


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INDIVIDUALSThe days of inexpensive navigation and chart apps
for your mobile devices appear to be numbered with the FAA's
announcement that it will begin charging for downloads that were
previously free starting April 5, 2012. A story in the December issue of
our sister publication Aviation Consumer says the Aeronautical Navigational Products Directorate
(Aeronav), which currently makes the latest charts and other
navigational products available online for free, says it has to recover
the costs associated with developing and hosting the products. That
means charging fees to companies for those downloads and no longer
allowing individuals access them at all. As of April 5, only those with
distribution contracts with Aeronav will be able to download the data.
The most noticeable impact will likely be on the small but increasingly
popular industry segment (like ForeFlight and WingX) that develops
flight-related apps for iPads and other consumer electronics. It will
also have an impact on websites like RunwayFinder that use the data for
their online products, some of which are currently available for free.
How much impact isn't known because the FAA hasn't announced what it
intends to charge for the data. Affected companies have been invited to
a meeting Dec. 13 in Washington to hear details of the FAA's proposal
and offer input to the final pricing structure and the distribution
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ACTS ON UNCOMMANDED INFLIGHT ENGINE SHUTDOWNSThe FAA plans
to impose mandatory fixes for nearly 700 GE turbofan engines Monday
because the engines are unacceptably prone to uncommanded inflight
shutdown due to ice and a 2007 fix didn't work. Government and industry
experts have documented single or dual-engine shutdowns of GE's popular
CF6-80C2B engines on more than 100 Boeing and Airbus jets from the
mid-1990s through 2008, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The
figures far exceed the expected inflight single-aircraft,
multiple-engine shutdown rate of about one in one billion. Following the
FAA directive issued in 2007, at least 10 uncommanded inflight shutdowns
have been reported. On Monday, the FAA will formally propose a new fix.
WITNESS FAILURE, ATC NOTIFIES PILOTSOn March 3, 2011, a Dash
8 operated by Flybe between Exeter and Newcastle, UK, dropped a right
main wheel on takeoff right in front of window-seated passengers, but it
was Air Traffic Control that notified the crew, according to an AAIB
report. The precise chronology of the event is not known, but passengers
seated next to the high-wing's landing gear clearly saw the wheel fall
shortly after takeoff. Tower controllers also witnessed something fall
from the aircraft and alerted the pilot. The pilot then directed cabin
crew to investigate. At that time passengers told the senior flight
attendant what they'd seen. With confirmation, the pilot issued a
Mayday, turned back to Exeter and prepared for landing while at least
one passenger took pictures of the landing gear. More...
IMPLICATES CONTROL SYSTEM IN A330 DIVEThe Australian
Transport Safety Bureau stated that pilots flying a loaded Airbus A330
from Singapore to Perth Tuesday received system messages about the jet's
elevator control system before the jet violently pitched over, injuring
74 passengers of 313 passengers and crew. According to the ATSB's Julian
Walsh, an "irregularity" in the system affected the aircraft's elevator
control. The flight's pilots say they received messages in the cockpit
that something was wrong with the system. (Those messages presumably
came from the aircraft's own systems but that point has not yet been
made clear by investigators.) Then, while cruising at 37,000 feet, the
jet pitched up, climbed 300 feet and sharply nosed over. After recovery,
the aircraft dove again. More...
CHANGES, ECONOMY KILL AIRBUS A340Production of the Airbus
A340 four-engine commercial jetliner has ended, making it Airbus'
shortest-lived production model. The aircraft entered service in
1993, but soon began losing favor with carriers due to the economic
factors associated with feeding fuel to and maintaining four engines.
Demand for the A340 also took a major hit with the expansion of extended
operations or ETOPS. As regulators increased the amount of time
twin-engine aircraft were allowed to fly away from suitable landing
sites under more lenient ETOPS regulations, four-engine aircraft
lost a key competitive edge. And, Thursday, Airbus confirmed that it had
sold zero A340s over the past two years. Meanwhile, some twin-engine
jets from competing manufactures have done quite well.
RUTAN'S NEXT PROJECTIt's just natural to adapt to one's
environment and when you're Burt Rutan in Idaho with too much time on
your hands, that means designing an airplane to take advantage of the
circumstances. "Going out and exploring little lakes and rivers in a
STOL seaplane is a fantasy, I think, for a pilot," the legendary
designer told EAA. "So having something that would be a
high-speed boat, a very efficient boat for Lake Coeur d'Alene, and then
convert into a seaplane to go to the rivers and small lakes and
elsewhere is what I'm trying to do." Rutan admitted he's bored since
retiring earlier this year from Scaled Composites, the Mojave-based
aircraft and spacecraft design company he founded. And if Rutan's
inspiration for what he calls 372-3 is any indication, this could be one
of his most innovative designs yet. More...
FUND DEADLINE DEC. 15Deadline for proposals for the Wolf
Aviation Fund is coming up Dec. 15 and organizers are urging those
with project ideas to get cracking on their applications. The idea of
the Wolf Fund is to provide small grants to folks who have ideas that
foster and promote GA. In the past, grants have been awarded for
everything from helping disadvantaged youth in Alaska learn about
building airplanes to encouraging Chinese women to learn to fly. The
application process isn't complicated or necessarily time-consuming but
there are things applicants need to know, so the first step is reading
that page. More...
ON PLANES? MAYBEWhether it's all just a publicity stunt or
it's been Michael O'Leary's dirty little secret, the flamboyant owner of
Ryanair certainly knows how to stimulate headline writers. The Irish
entrepreneur's latest media bombshell is the suggestion that his
no-frills airliners stream, among other things, porn to the handheld
devices of passengers. He's also thinking about games, gambling and more
wholesome fare like movies but it's the prospect of catching a glimpse
of something creating heat besides the engines that has tweaked the
Times, titillated the Telegraph and seared the Sun. "I'm not talking
about having it on screens on the back of seats for everyone to see," he
told the Sun. "It would be on handheld devices. Hotels around the world
have it, so why wouldn't we?" Perhaps the Sun reporter didn't mention
that hotels have doors with locks on them, too, but the problem with
quoting O'Leary is that it's impossible to tell when he's serious.
INSIDER BLOG: THAT GREAT BLACK HOLE IN THE PANELHaving spent
multiple thousands for new glass, some owners are shocked at how the
database costs add up. And with the FAA poised to start charging for its
heretofore free digital flight data, the needle may be going in the
wrong direction. On the AVweb Insider blog, Paul Bertorelli
opines that this could eventually become a drag on sales and ownership,
if it isn't already. Read
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3Learning to fly the B-25 was a joy to Richard Taylor ...
and also a pain, dealing with a castering nosewheel and crafty
instructor pilots, as we learn in Richard's continuing memoir.
SHOPPING FOR A USED AIRPLANE WITH A ROTAX?As LSAs make more
inroads in new airplane sales, they're also coming up on the used
market. The Rotax 912 and 914 have proven to be reliable, durable
engines, but they have a couple of tender spots. For one, they don't
like to be overheated and if run on fuel that's of too-low octane, they
can detonate, leading to crankshaft issues. In this podcast, Dean
Vogel of Lockwood Aviation Supply tells Aviation Consumer's
Paul Bertorelli what to look for when asking for a pre-buy on a
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was on approach to Ontario, Canada one night in a Pilatus PC-12 with all
the lights on. For those of you that have never seen a PC-12 with all
the various lights on, it is a wondrous sight. From the ground, I'm sure
that a non-aviation person would mistake it for a much larger
Shortly after turning final, I was hit by an intense
light. I immediately reported it to the tower, and, as luck would have
it, there was an Ontario PD helicopter flying close by in contact with
the tower. The tower relayed the location of the light to them, and they
raced off to look for the source. To me, this is a perfect example of
how serious the authorities take this very real threat. I'm happy that
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PREMIER EDITION DIAMOND DA40 FLIGHT TRIALDiamond's DA40 Star is a popular entry-level and
midspeed cruiser, but it lacks air conditioning and other options. Fort
Lauderdale's Premier Aircraft added a rich options list to the airplane,
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JEPPESEN'S MOBILE FLITEDECK (PART 1)Last
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chart manager system for owners who already subscribe to Jeppesen's
electronic charting products. In this video, AVweb launches the
first of three Product Minutes to review the new app. More...
AVweb's "FBO of the Week" ribbon goes to Yelvington Jet Aviation
Inc. at Daytona Beach International Airport (KDAB) in Daytona
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AVweb reader Dave Gillespie
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FBO's manager, Mike Fuller:
We landed our helicopter and were met by a beautiful young lady
marshaller, then picked up by FBO manager Mike Fuller and
delivered to the front door to a waiting Suburban, whereupon we were
given an escort around the airport to the entry gate by two Daytona
Beach motorcycle policmen! We were even given a cell to call for our
return trip. Mike's courteous and exceptional service was the best I've
ever seen in over 35 years flying. He will be missed. He was
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Approach:"Well, our
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Airliner 123:"Oh. Well, our computer says that
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After over a month-long break, the IAAF Diamond League series resumed on Thursday at the DN Galan meet in Stockholm, Sweden. The biggest news is Jenny Simpson's dramatic victory in the 1500.
In the final 50 meters, Simpson passed race favorite Netherlands' Euro champ/world leader Sifan Hassan and then outkicked Genzebe Dibaba to the line. Her victory isn't a complete surprise as it is her second Diamond League win. Simpson came very close to the American record earlier this summer, and it looks like she still might have a shot in a well-paced race this year.
Galen Rupp was less successful after a long break, during which he became the father of twins. He ran aggressively in the 5000m, but faded in the last 500 to 4th place, with 2012 World Junior 5000m champion Muktar Edris taking the race in a world-leading 12:54.83. He was followed by Thomas Longosiwa (12:56.16), Commonwealth and African champ Caleb Ndiku (12:59.17) and Rupp (13:05.97). Some are saying Rupp just isn't a good 5000 meter runner compared to his ability in the 10,000. While that is historically true, he also has some blazing fast PRs in the mile (3:50.92 indoors), 3000m (7:30.16 American Record indoors) and 2 miles (8:07.41 American Record indoors). He clearly has the speed and strength to potentially break Bernard Lagat's American Record of 12:53.60. He was rusty and had a bad race on Thursday. Unless he's still getting up several times a night to help with the babies, he's likely to run much faster in his next race.
The next Diamond League even is Sainsbury's Birmingham Grand Prix tomorrow, featuring elite fields in the men's and women's 2 miles, a relatively rare event. Mo Farah should be the favorite in the men's race, and the women's race features Mercy Cherono, Genzebe Dibaba and Viola Kibiwot. The world record of 8:58.58 is held by Meseret Defar. Despite the talent of the field, it's only a slim chance that it will be broken. With the increasing prize money in the Diamond League races, most of the races are run like championships -- conservatively and uneven with surges meant to break the other competitors, not help drag them to fast times.
While multiple rabbits are usually hired to pace most of the races, if fast times were really a priority, they would offer large bonuses for records. I believe only then would you see runners working together to keep the pace even and quick. No matter what the times, there should be some exciting races coming at the end of the Diamond League season. After Birmingham, there's only Zurich (Aug. 28) and Brussels (Sep. 5). Currently both Mary Cain and Jenny Simpson are on the start list for the 1500 in Zurich. David Rudisha, Asbel Kiprop, Nijel Amos and Duane Solomon are all entered in the 800, and Rupp will get another shot at the 5000 record.
Tony has been a runner for over three decades, competing in cross country and track in high school and college, and road races for various clubs. He's served as team captain for several Corporate Challenge teams at YMCA of the USA, and has informally coached many friends over the years.
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Her Spring 2010 Collection, "Faded Opulence", takes inspiration from historic jewelry and the fallen aristocrats who at some point owned that jewelry. The pieces are combined in a unique, yet beautiful way mixing chains, flowers, crystals, and so much more. Khan created many stories in her imagination of women piecing together the last of their precious jewels in order to create new pieces.
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BF- "Wah wah wah you're pretty much batshit crazy ain't ya wah wah wah."
Me- "Blah blah blah Dude, it's my flippin' HEART blah blah blah."
BF- "Wah wah wah hey crazy lady, try taking a chill-pill wah wah wah."
OK, there may have been a teeny, tiny bit of paraphrasing going on there, but you get the idea.
Basically, my ticker is behaving like…me. Ya know, marching to its own beat. Which isn't necessarily that cool a thing to do when you're a HEART! And, of course, it's as high-strung as I am and REALLY flips-out whenever I stand up or move around. Even shower time becomes an exercise in getting clean before the black spots appear in my line of vision.
So, being the Mistress of Worst Case Scenarios and all, I've become increasingly paranoid about organ implosion/explosion. (Hey, it could happen!) (At least in my imagination it could.)
The truth is (probably) that it's just an odd glitch that doesn't hurt a thing, other than my brain because I'm worrying about it WAY too much!
So next week I get the fun of returning for a EKG to check out its rhythm. If there are any lingering concerns, they'll wire me up for a further 24 hour test. Meanwhile, I'm supposed to relax and not worry about it. Which brings me to he Darker Side of my personality…
Me- "Y'all know it gets worse when I move around….then I get all dizzy and lightheaded and junk."
Hubby- "Honey, just try to relax and not worry about it."
Me- "I've been doing the dizzy, light headed thing during morning bird work. Ya know, if I pass out while I'm out there and land face down in the mud? I'll suffocate. Then you'd find me all dead and stuff, covered in mud and no one will even wanna TRY to give me mouth-to-mouth because they'd get all muddy too. I'd be dead AND groddy!"
The Girl- *"GEEZE Mom! You want me to do the morning bird work? Why don't ya just ask instead of pulling this passive/aggressive stuff!"
Me- "No, no, don't worry about it. I'll PROBABLY be fine. I was just sayin'…By the way, I think I left my glass in the kitchen. Could you grab it for me?"
Yep, spread the paranoia by accident, use it to be even lazier by choice. I am…PURE EVIL!
*The Girl wants it known that she didn't actually offer like THAT. She was much nicer and much less annoyed sounding. Oh, and the passive/aggressive comment was in reality applied to a DIFFERENT tangent I went riding on.
Now my conscious is clear. (She just needs to learn to embrace the whole "writer's discretion" thing!)
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I have so much fun teaching the Create Your Own Stitch Guide Class each year. Canvas Enhancement classes are so popular in shops these days, but why not get the tools to do it yourself? Why not learn on your schedule in your home and, if you like, wearing your pajamas?
That's what you get in this class — the tools to design your own stitch guide, learning from others, stitch guides prepared in the class for selected canvases, and great discussion — all at a bargain basement price of $35!
I get lots of questions so I thought I'd take a minute to answer some of them. You can sign up with the button at the bottom of the post.
Do I have to go someplace to attend this class?
No, all the lessons are sent by email and all discussion is in a private Yahoo group. You can take the class anytime and read the discussion when you like.
How long is the class?
The class is seven weekly lessons starting June 15, 2013. There is also supplemental material on the Yahoo group.
I'm a beginner, can I take the class?
This isn't a stitching class, so any stitcher at any level can benefit from it.
Do I need to pick a canvas to take the class?
Unlike canvas enhancement classes you do not need to have a canvas in mind for the class. For many students it helps to picture things in context, but it isn't needed. You'll see many examples of stitched and unstitched canvases to use as reference.
The one thing I'd say is think about problem canvases you have. These are the hardest to find, but, in my experience, the most instructive. If you take the class and have problem children, please share them with me.
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I am a very small business. The only way I can take credit cards is through PayPal.
Why do you ask me to contact you if I don't want to use PayPal?
I do this for two reasons. First I want to know that you are sending a check, so I have your information and get you registered.
That's the main reason.
The other reason is that I prefer to put my mailing info into a private email to publicly posting it.
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Dec 11, 2012
Smartphone adoption continues to grow across South Africa
With the growing impact of smartphones on South Africans, Deloitte recently conducted a Global Mobile Consumer Survey across the world, with South Africa forming part of this global survey. During the survey process, South African mobile consumers were asked about what important considerations they have when selecting a mobile device.
It is now estimated that there are over 10 million active smartphones in South Africa. Many of these smartphone users are opting for mobile handset brands based on numerous socio-economic factors. For example, the aspiration factors and cost sensitivities are driving the purchase decision for certain mobile handset brands among the youth. We will continue to see brand and social recognition driving uptake of handset brands. Leading this will be closed community initiatives like IM chat services.
From the surveyed customers, the top five features which customers consider most important when choosing a mobile, especially smartphone, device, include:
Table 1: Top five attribute for choosing a smartphone
|Brand is the number one reason for selection of a smartphone by the surveyed customers. Brand of device is often aligned with status, with the customer perceiving that a given mobile device maylift their status amongst their peers.
|The aesthetic design of the second most important attribute for South Africans when purchasing a mobile device. .
|Smartphones still represent a high cost investment for customers even on a subsidized postpaid contract. Reliability is held in high esteem by customers purchasing smartphones.
|With smartphones cameras becoming increasingly sophisticated, many customers are now considering their mobile as their primary photography device. In the purchase decision the quality of the camera ranks fourth on surveyed South African consumer considerations.
|Lastly, the ability to download and engage with applications is an important consideration for subscribers.
As over the top players become more entrenched in providing, for example, IM chat services across multiple mobile device brands, closed community services will start to lose their effectiveness. The reality of mobile device ownership is that subscribers will inevitably migrate to a different brand after their second or third device from their current brand category.
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- Investing in Food Safety Capacity Building Is a Sound Business Decision
The Global Food Safety Partnership, a public-private partnership focused on harnessing investments, skills and knowledge for greater impact in food safety, is now more relevant than ever.
- FDA Builds Teams to Detect and Prevent Outbreaks
When the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's Coordinated Outbreak Response and Evaluation Network began operating in August 2011, it was structured to respond to foodborne illness outbreaks in three interdependent phases.
- On-Farm Practices of Beef Producers and Processors: What Are the Gaps in Food Safety?
Are foods produced close to home by small, independent producers really inherently more safe than—or at least as safe as—foods produced by large companies?
- Food Safety and Language Barriers on the Food Processing Line
Employee attitudes toward specific behaviors have been identified as predictors for overall employee behaviors and food safety.
- World-Class Food Safety in Foodservice
What exactly makes a foodservice company best-in-class or world-class in food safety?
- The Blame Game: Supply Chain Indemnity Agreements
The food product industry faces an escalating barrage of lawsuits—both for alleged mislabeling and for safety violations.
- Leading Food Safety Collaborative Steps Up Services to Health Educators
A partnership of industry, government and consumer groups is working together to ensure that consumers have free access to evidence-based, actionable educational messages and resources.
- The Need for Foodservice Employee Allergen Training
Food allergy and gluten-free training is an important component of any foodservice operation.
- Traceback Investigations: Mapping the Maze
Tracebacks are painstaking efforts that require investigators to be both detectives and scientists.
- Leveraging Ethnography to Improve Food Safety
Applied ethnography, when properly employed, gives us an unbiased and comprehensive understanding of current food safety practices.
- An Astronomer's View of Food Controversies
A physical scientist looks at ongoing food controversies: How can scientists help educate the public?
- Paster Training Adopts New Food Safety Manager Manual
Paster Training, Inc. has begun using and distributing a new food safety manual, the SURE Food Safety Manager Manual. Available for purchase as of Feb. 10, the trainer-tested manual is published by Instruis Publishing Company.
- HACCP Credential Closes the Verification Loop
Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) is an essential tool in the food safety arsenal and is used globally to ensure safe food worldwide.
- Is It Time for Retail HACCP?
Many food safety hazards present themselves in the retail environment.
- Don't Forget about Your Chemical Hazards!
The best approach to protect your product from chemical contamination is to identify the hazards in your ingredients before they can affect your final product.
- It's Not All about the Science
Increased media coverage of food hazards has raised awareness of these hazards and increased vigilance in food-handling practices in the home.
- Economically Motivated Adulteration: Another Dimension of the "Expanding Umbrella of Food Defense"
Intentional economically motivated adulteration activities and initiatives in food defense are highlighted.
- After Acquisition: "Chemistry" Benefits Small Food Companies
The solution for a successful acquisition is to find the right relationship with a partner that shares a similar vision, particularly on food safety.
- Moving Ahead in Food Safety Implementation Measures for Packaging
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- Food Safety Databases: A New Challenge
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University Major
A university major must have a clearly defined unifying principle. This principle must be either a special career goal (e.g., consumer affairs) not provided in an existing major or a special interest that crosses disciplinary lines (e.g., American studies).
The student pursuing a university major must complete no fewer than 60 credit hours and no more than 80 credit hours in the chosen disciplines. A minimum of 50 percent of the credit hours in the university major must be taken at Fontbonne. A minimum of 24 credit hours must be completed at the upper division level and must represent more than one discipline.
At the time of the submission of a proposal for a university major, the student must have a Fontbonne minimum cumulative grade point (GPA) average of 2.5 and must maintain this GPA through degree completion.
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Rabbids Go Home
- Genre:
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- Release Date:
- 11/3/2010 (Wii); 11/3/2009 (DS)
- Publisher:
- Ubisoft
- Developer:
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- Gamesite:
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By: TrueGameHeadz
The Rabbids have kicked Rayman out of the spotlight, and they're finally getting their own game later this year. In "Rabbids Go Home" you'll get to play as the pesky, screaming … rabbit… things… as they try to build a mountain of trash to go home, to the Moon. Yes, the story is actually that wacky, but that's not even the half of it. Ubi's developement team has always been at the forefront of Wiimote creativity, and that hasn't changed at all for "Rabbids Go Home"; the game's customization mode puts you inside the controller with a Rabbids. Yeah, it's actually as awesome as it sounds. Check out Unit's interview with one of the game's developers to see for a look at just what kind of craziness the Rabbids will be getting into when the game comes out this holiday season. Check out http://www.truegameheadz.com for more videos
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Ryan and Jeff of [url=http://www.giantbomb.com]giantbomb.com[/url] take a 23 minute Quick Look at Rabbids Go Home. For more gameplay, check out [url=http://www.gamespot.com/]gamespot.com[/url]'s 14 minute stage demo from E3 09 [url=[make_url]arc:content:gt-authoring:b19630b4-3bcb-438a-b164-eabb47ffccbb[/make_url]]click here[/url]
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A couple clips of Rabbids Go Home gameplay at E3 2009.
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The Rabbids celebrate their 5th birthday in style.
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Another failed attempt by the Rabbids to reach the moon. What cracked me up about this video is the Rabbid chilling out in the background at 0:18 and 0:45.
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Rabbids Go Home game play footage from www.gamespot.com's E3 09 stage show. To see all of the games that they covered on their show, including full press conference coverage [url=http://e3.gamespot.com/live.html?tag=content_nav;live#blank]click here[/url].
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Are the Rabbids in rare form or should they just get lost?
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The big day has arrived!
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"We know that the Flightpath 2050 goals are very ambitious, but their realization will help the aviation sector and thus calls for action."
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Jets offensive line has to step it up against the Ravens
After a rough showing last week against the Bills, the Jets offensive line is going to have to be better against one of the most respected front sevens in the league tomorrow in Baltimore. The Post writes that Rex Ryan made a point of it in the Friday presser.
"Certainly, we got beat on one-on-one battles more than anything, that was the key [in Buffalo]," coach Rex Ryan said. "So, every guy has to step up and has to get better individually. Then, collectively, we missed a couple of calls, slide protection calls or whatever. But the mental part, I have no question we'll improve in that area.
"The physical part, the one-on-one matchups have to get better, and they've been better. Some of our guys have been absolutely terrific all season, and then laid an egg last week. I think we'll rebound from it, and we have to against the type of rushers [Baltimore has].''
Brian Bassett, TheJetsBlog.comNgata has been sidelined much of the week but was finally was on the practice field yesterday, so expect him to play. Brian Winters might be gaining confidence and might be a solid starter over the long-term, but right now he's barely treading water.
With Arthur Jones and Haloti Ngata on the interior, it's hard to imagine that they won't again get the best of Winters. The Jets are going to have to provide protection help for Winters, whether that means extra tight ends to help Brick work the interior or putting Bilal Powell or the team's fullbacks / tight ends in the H-back spot more for interior pass protection.


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Reading "2666", "it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Roberto Bolaño's genius from his excess. Indeed, it starts to seem that Bolaño's genius is his excess", writes Garth Risk Hallberg...
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In his treatise on drama, "Three Uses of the Knife", David Mamet cribs a distinction from Stanislavsky. Some narratives, he suggests, leave us saying, "What a masterpiece! Let's get a cup of coffee," while others ask us to wrestle with them for the rest of our lives. It's a contrast that feels almost obsolete in book publishing. On the supply side, publishers rush to promote "instant classics" before posterity can render a verdict. On the demand side, we feel grateful for the distraction of "a good read." An academic cottage industry has arisen to debunk categories of high and low, obscuring tensions between inspiration and craft, between edification and mere delight. Still, the old Horatian binaries tend to obsess the serious novelist, whose medium lives and dies along the borderline where art and entertainment meet.
The late Chilean writer Roberto Bolaño had a foot in each territory. His long 1998 novel, "Los detectives salvajes" ("The Savage Detectives"), earned one of the Spanish-speaking world's most prestigious literary awards, and its structural innovations credentialed him as a daring avant-gardist. Most of the book's pleasures, however, lay in its unbuttoned exuberance, its evocation of a mid-70s milieu of sex, drugs, and rebellion.
Bolaño, a poet by vocation, had initially (not to say quixotically) turned to fiction as a money-making proposition, and after the success of "The Savage Detectives", he might have settled into a lucrative middle age repackaging his dissolute youth. His next book, "Amuleto" ("Amulet"), a loose, novella-length expansion of a chapter in "The Savage Detectives", hints at the career that might have been. But Bolaño's longevity was far from assured--in 1992, at age 39, he had been diagnosed with a fatal liver disease--and his ambitions for his remaining years were enormous. The climax of "The Savage Detectives", set in a violent Mexican boom-town called "Santa Teresa," would find him already imagining his way into his next grand edifice.
In real life, Santa Teresa was Ciudad Juárez, and by 1998, it was home to the largest serial killing in recorded history. The brutalised corpses of young women had begun turning up in Juárez' vacant lots and garbage dumps in the early 1990s. Many of the hundreds of eventual victims were migrants from impoverished regions further south, who had come to work in low-wage maqiladoras, assembling consumer goods for Norteamericanos. It's impossible to reconstruct what Bolaño felt when he first read news accounts of these events, just as it's impossible to imagine Proust finding Combray in a madeleine. But in the resulting novel, "2666", we overhear a reporter trying to persuade his editor that the killings in Santa Teresa suggest "a sketch of the industrial landscape in the third world... a piece of reportage about the current situation in Mexico, a panorama of the border." In other words, they offer a writer the scale of the magnum opus--a chance to memorialise himself, even as he memorialises the victims.
Now that we English readers have a posthumous version of "2666" before us, in Natasha Wimmer's vibrant translation, there can be little doubt that Bolaño intended it to be his masterpiece, a work to be wrestled with over the course of a lifetime. However, this naked bid for permanence would seem to complicate the more immediate questions--whether and how we should enjoy "2666".
This 900-page book unfolds in five novel-length sections, each with its own characters, style and chronology. The first volume, "The Part About the Critics," begins on a deceptively intimate scale, introducing us to three young men: Jean-Claude Pelletier, Manual Espinoza and Piero Morini. The Frenchman, the Spaniard and the Italian have made their professional reputations studying a reclusive German novelist, a Teutonic Thomas Pynchon with the unlikely nom de plume, Benno von Archimboldi. The narrative conceit that emerges--literary types on a quest for a vanished writer--will be familiar to readers of "The Savage Detectives". In several ways, however, "The Part About the Critics" departs from Bolaño's standard procedure. Where the poets who populated "The Savage Detectives" were aging adolescents, raging against the dying of the light, these critics are settled, self-satisfied and bourgeois.
The prose, too, diverges from Bolaño's earlier work. Where novels such as "Amulet" and "De nocto Chile" ("By Night in Chile") revelled in orality, the opening of "2666" is conspicuously literary. Bolaño deploys free indirect discourse to comic effect, as our protagonists collectively imagine the "downed flags" of rival scholars and "a book that might be the grand Archimboldean opus, the pilot fish that would swim for a long time beside the great black shark of the German's oeuvre." Pompous equivocations signal differences of opinion--characters have a "talk (or discussion)," or speak of "vanished writers (vanished writers or millionaire writers)"--even as they call our attention to the utter triviality of the opinions in question. Unlike some of Bolaño's previous creations, these pedants easier to laugh at than to love.
A funny thing happens, though, with the introduction of a fourth critic, an Englishwoman, Liz Norton. When she first reads Archimboldi, we are told, it is raining:
Oblique drops of rain slid down the blades of grass in the park... Then the oblique (drops) turned round (drops), swallowed up by the earth underpinning the grass, and the grass and the earth seemed to talk, no, not talk, argue, their incomprehensible words like crystallised spiderwebs or the briefest crystallised vomitings, a barely audible rustling, as if instead of drinking tea that afternoon, Norton had drunk a steaming cup of peyote.
Suddenly, and by dint of the same qualifiers and parentheses that have heretofore served as emblems of meaninglessness, Bolaño is straining against the limits of the expressible. Metaphors arrive like seizures, disorienting in their rapidity.
The fever of significance slowly infects the rest of the novel. As the mystery of Archimboldi's whereabouts draws the four critics in, foreboding images proliferate. A plane passing overhead disappears. A hotel toilet is missing a piece, "as if someone had ripped it off with a hammer. Or as if someone had picked up another person who was already on the floor and smashed that person's head against the toilet." In each case, the suggestion of violence works like a radioactive marker, alerting us to some sinister symbolism at work beneath the skin of the text. Just as importantly, the abrupt shifts of mood draw us into sympathy with the characters. Still, an excess of atmosphere cannot compensate for a lack of plot, and it's only at the end of "The Part About the Critics", when the Archimboldian pursuit leads the critics to Santa Teresa, that "2666" really gets going--and, paradoxically, breaks down.
A remarkable sense of place enriches the second volume, "The Part About Amalfitano". Descriptions of houses, "devastated" yards, cinderblock walls topped with brick, factories, cavernous bars and omnipresent black Peregrino sedans are as sinister as they are banal. That Santa Teresa could be any number of burgeoning Central American cities is precisely its horror. In dramatic terms, however, "The Part About Amalfitano," the shortest section of "2666", allows the book's energies to dissipate. In a previous cameo, Óscar Amalfitano, a professor of German literature, has served as the critics' guide around Santa Teresa. Now we see him literally losing his mind. The bursts of paranoia that enlivened "The Part About the Critics" swell and distend into lunatic digressions. Absent any meaningful interlocutors, Amalfitano's thoughts become a prison. Part of Bolaño's narrative method is to imply motion as film does, through the alteration of scene and stasis, but as "The Part About Amalfitano" winds down, the gaps begin to show, and the reader begins to wonder if the novel's momentum has been illusory.
In the third volume, "The Part About Fate", Bolaño begins to offer an answer. The stylistic signature here is hardboiled noir. In the uninflected manner of Raymond Chandler, Bolaño follows an African-American journalist named Quincy Williams (aka, Oscar Fate) to Santa Teresa. Assigned to cover a boxing match in which he has little interest, Fate spends several days adrift in the city, ruminating on September 11th, black nationalism, and the relative merits of VHS and DVD, among other subjects. Even as Fate conceals his disaffection, though, the lingering dread of the "Amalfitano" section has thickened, signalling our proximity to the novel's central trauma.
The Santa Teresa killings surface in overheard conversations, in the news media and in moments of unanticipated weirdness. Some sketchy new companions, for example, show Fate a violently pornographic video attributed to Robert Rodriguez. It ends with these images: "Glasses and a jar of Nescafé. A frying pan with the remains of scrambled eggs. A hallway. The body of a half-dressed woman sprawled on the floor. A door. A room in complete disarray." Like Kafka, a writer he often resembles, Bolaño intuits the homology between laughter and horror--the way each confronts us with our ultimate lack of control. "The camera zooms in on the mirror," he tells us. "The tape ends."
It is Amalfitano's daughter who rouses Fate from his torpor, and eventually brings the tension to a head: Fate comes to realise that she may be the killers' next victim. The old-fashioned plot thus initiated begins to unite the discrete pieces we've encountered so far--Amalfitano's madness, the air of menace, and the connection between Archimboldi and Santa Teresa--the way a the presence of a magnet sweeps iron filings into a straight line.
Which brings us to "The Part About The Crimes." Heretofore, Bolaño's vacillations between order and excess, stasis and motion, and divergence and convergence, have suggested an artist struggling with his subject. Now they reveal themselves as the motions of a surgeon preparing his tools. The flat, declarative opening sentence--"The girl's body turned up in a vacant lot in Colonia Las Flores"--lays bare the logic of Bolaño's circuitous approach. Had this come on the novel's first page, we might have written it off as a mechanism to build suspense. Now, after so long a delay, this murder has become literally central to the novel.
The 300-page tour-de-force that follows both recreates and explodes the conventions of the police procedural. In careful detail, Bolaño documents the discovery of scores of bodies between 1993 and 1997. The repetitive descriptions of victims have a percussive effect on the reader; rather than diminishing the victims, the similarities Bolaño catalogues--of dress, of occupation, of injury--compound the tragedy of their deaths. In between postmortems, we meet corrupt politicians and weary working people, journalists and priests and the drug-lords who seem to be behind the killings. Where verisimilitude made the critics of the first volume somewhat ridiculous, it deepens our engagement with characters like Juan de Dios Martínez, a veteran inspector, and Lalo Cura, a rookie with an unbending code of honour.
More affecting still are this volume's many women: mothers and daughters, lovers and wives, each a potential victim. An undercurrent of machismo can sometimes complicate Bolaño's attitude toward his female characters, but in "The Part About the Crimes", the women of Santa Teresa become the avatars of all of history's anonymous victims. A television psychic named Florita Almada exemplifies their courage:
No matter what I take for my nerves, nothing helps. So I stay up until dawn and I try to read and do something useful and practical but in the end I sit down at the kitchen table and start to mull over the problem.... I'm talking about the women brutally murdered in Santa Teresa. I'm talking about the girls and the mothers of families and the workers from all walks of life who turn up dead each day in the neighbourhoods and on the edges of that industrious city in the northern part of our state. I'm talking about Santa Teresa. I'm talking about Santa Teresa.
Florita Almada broadcasts visions as dark and obsessive as anything that has preceded them, but her voice is also, like the novel as a whole, shot through with tenderness, humility, and good humour. As the pages of her monologue pile up, it becomes increasingly difficult to distinguish Bolaño's genius from his excess. Indeed, it starts to seem that Bolaño's genius is his excess. This impression will find confirmation in the long, wild, final volume of "2666", which returns to that other subject we've been hungry to hear about: Archimboldi.
The structure of "2666" has been parabolic, moving us from Europe to the charnel-pit of Santa Teresa; now, in "The Part About Archimboldi", we find ourselves once again far from the killings, geographically and chronologically. Taking up the style of the Bildungsroman, Bolaño deposits us in the 1920s, in the hermetic imagination of a German boy named Hans Reiter. For Reiter and his family, the "short Twentieth Century" will turn out to be a violent nightmare.
This violence is not purely European, though European culture (including literature) often serves to paper over it. Reiter's journeys as a conscript in the second world war expose him to the Holocaust, but also to the bloody past, and to visions of an apocalyptic future. Elements of the first half of "2666" that had seemed merely digressive now appear, in retrospect, pregnant with meaning. They are entries in an encyclopedia of iniquity that culminates in Santa Teresa. As history takes its toll on Reiter, he becomes more vivid--not the object of irony, but an ironist himself, stunned into detachment. Reiter becomes, in other words, a writer. He adopts a pen-name, and in a set of twists we've been awaiting for hundreds of pages, his own plot discloses its connection with those of the other four volumes of "2666".
This long-delayed concatenation dramatises a running philosophical concern, distilled in the name of one of the novel's hero: Fate. Bolaño's fatalism works in an odd way: it exists, but is invisible to the characters it acts upon. Archimboldi's life now appears, to the reader, to have launched him toward Santa Teresa. And aesthetically, what had seemed a model of postmodern messiness emerges as the kind of modernist masterwork Archimboldi might have constructed himself, polished to a high finish.
Or rather, the conclusion of "2666" posits order and chaos as facets of a single phenomenon, like convergence and digression, the perfect work of art and the spectacular failure. In Bolaño's cosmology, order and infinitude and artistic perfection are imaginary; chaos and digression and futility are merely their earthbound aspects. Which may explain Bolaño's preoccupation with literary immortality: it's as close as we mortals ever get to the real thing. And so, in "2666", he attempted to write a book that would last forever, even as, in reality, the pages ran out.
One way to judge to "2666", then, is to think of it not as a real-world masterpiece, but as an imaginary one--one big enough to encompass any atrocity, one whose ink never dries. Its restlessness and recklessness, its relentless pursuit of the inexpressible, may frustrate readers searching for the finite comedy of Bolaño's earlier novels. But in light of the brevity of his life, and the gravity of his subject, Bolaño's magnum opus resembles an act of heroism. Early in the novel, Amalfitano praises the "great, imperfect, torrential works, books that blaze paths into the unknown." "2666" is imperfect and torrential, as well as upsetting and intricate and unusual. This is not to certify it prematurely as the masterpiece it was clearly meant to be. It is, however, to point out how gaudily improbable--how literary--it is that Roberto Bolaño even came close.
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(Garth Risk Hallberg is the author of "A Field Guide to the North American Family", and is a 2008 New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in fiction. He contributes to the literary weblog, The Millions. His last piece for More Intelligent Life was about Joseph Mitchell's "True Facts".)


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County teams from Yorkshire and Leicestershire won through from the first two quarter-finals of the 2012 Banks Barbados T20 Cup and Plate at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown.
Yorkshire got the better of Derbyshire in the opening match and Leicestershire again proved themselves capable of defending a small total as they withstood the challenge of The Combined Campuses and Colleges to sneak home by just seven runs under the floodlights.
Andrew Gale won the toss for his Yorkshire side and, batting first, made 44 out of a total of 183 for 8. The score was boosted by a typical Jonny Bairstow cameo which was worth 48 from only 30 deliveries faced. Mark Footitt was the pick of the Derbyshire bowlers with 3 for 36.
Ryan Sidebottom, an ICC T20 World Cup winner on the same ground in 2010, effectively settled the contest inside the first four overs of the reply. The left-arm pace bowler claimed three early wickets and returned later to complete figures of 4 for 20.
Derbyshire could only muster 123 for 8, with skipper Wayne Madsen making 43, as they went down by 60 runs.
In the later game Leicestershire could only make 122 for 5 after electing to bat first. Josh Cobb and Jacques du Toit gave the innings some early impetus by scoring 26 from the first three overs but both then fell and only a well-compiled 52 not out from Matthew Boyce averted a complete disaster for the reigning English T20 champions.
With only a small total to defend it was important to make early inroads and Matthew Hoggard and Robbie Joseph obliged to leave the students on 11 for 3 in the fourth over.
Claude Henderson grabbed a couple of wickets during the middle overs but an innings of 62 from Roston Chase almost saw CCC to victory. He fell in the final over, which began with ten runs required, but Wayne White held his nerve to guide the Foxes through to the March 22 semi-finals.
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I just got a road bike (poor thing, doesn't know what's in store for it - I kinda feel sorry for it's nice shiny paint and drivetrain - we'll see if it's so happy after it becomes another Oxberger commuter special ).
Ten miles into my first ride and I get a flat. The tinyest thorn I ever saw let all of my 120lbs of air out in about 2 minutes.
Now on my hybrid and MTB I had great luck with Slime and other such products keeping the air in until I was in the comfort of my work or home (where I could use my nice floor pump). With the MTB I've had great luck with tire liners - they've kept many a thorn or bit if metal tire cord from working a hole in the tube (and let me use the cheapo $2 tubes from performance).
What options for flat-proofing a road bike do I have on a tiny 23 mm tire?
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LAST week some lawmakers and citizens insisted that a state-developed, state-implemented set of academic standards is a federal conspiracy or even a United Nations takeover of education. Voters should recognize these views for the "black helicopter" musings that they are.
The Common Core State Standards Initiative is meant to establish a single set of clear, rigorous educational standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts and mathematics. The initiative has been led by state governors and state education commissioners through the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers. States must individually adopt the standards to participate. Adoption is a voluntary, state-by-state process.
Yet critics, including opponents who recently rallied at the Oklahoma Capitol, insist the standards represent a federal takeover or even "dangerous Trojan horse" tied to the U.N. Nonsense! Under the federal No Child Left Behind Act, the federal government can't enact national curriculum standards, create a national testing system or establish a national student database.
While the federal government gave funds to some states adopting Common Core standards (but not Oklahoma), no one was holding a gun to legislators' heads — unless we missed the machine gun nests trained on Oklahoma lawmakers as they overwhelmingly OK'd legislation in 2010 adopting the standards.
Instead, Common Core standards have been embraced because the idea makes sense. The standards will allow an apples-to-apples comparison of Oklahoma students' performance with that of other states. That's a goal policymakers should embrace, particularly if high standards are maintained.
Past state standards — in Oklahoma and other states — were often watered down to game the system. Rather than honestly grapple with education challenges, policymakers lowered the bar and declared "success" in the presence of abject failure. This is why most Oklahoma students could meet state standards while National Assessment of Educational Progress results simultaneously showed more than 70 percent of Oklahoma eighth-graders were below proficient in reading and math.
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Oklahoma State coach Josh Holliday calmly argued a bang-bang play in the fifth inning of OSU's 5-4 loss to Oklahoma on Sunday, claiming to plate umpire Randy Wetzel that his runner touched the plate before OU's catcher tagged him.
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Three innings later, Holliday became a bit more infuriated after Wetzel deemed OSU outfielder Gage Green had intentionally leaned into a pitch and called him back to the plate.
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"It didn't get ugly with Randy," Holliday said. "I just told him, 'OK, man, you're going to have to throw me out now, because I've been out here three times. We can stay out here and talk about it, but you're going to have to throw me out.' And he agreed. He said, 'OK, if that's how it's gotta be.'"
It was the first ejection for the first-year coach and not something he was necessarily beaming about, despite loud approval from the OSU fans.
"I have too much respect for umpires as men, knowing that they're doing the very best job that they can," Holliday said. "It's never a lack of respect. It's just sometimes in a game … I'm not proud of that. Not at all."
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Researchers discovered a third gene that accounts for previously unexplained forms of osteogenesis imperfecta, a genetic condition that weakens bones, results in frequent fractures and is sometimes fatal.
Osteogenesis imperfecta affects between 20,000 and 50,000 Americans. About 85% of all cases are caused by mutations in the genes needed to make the protein collagen. Collagen functions as a molecular scaffolding that holds together bone, skin and other tissues.
Dr. Joan Marini at NIH's Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) and her colleagues had earlier found that osteogenesis imperfecta could also be caused by defects in the protein complex that modifies collagen before it is secreted from cells to become a part of bone. Mutations in the genes for 2 proteins in this complex—cartilage associated protein (CRTAP) and prolyl 3-hydroxylase 1 (P3H1)—could result in severe and sometimes fatal forms of osteogenesis imperfecta.
The new study involved a collaboration between researchers at NICHD, led by Marini, and at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, led by Dr. Cathleen Raggio. Scientists at the University of Washington in Seattle and NIH's National Institute of Human Genome Research (NHGRI) also took part. Additional support came from other NIH institutes.
The researchers diagnosed a 12-year-old boy and his 4-year-old sister as having a novel form of osteogenesis imperfecta, as described in the online edition of the New England Journal of Medicine on January 20, 2010. The children's parents were immigrants from Senegal living in New York. Although the children's bones were brittle and highly susceptible to fracturing, they did not have shortening of the upper portion of limbs seen in children with mutations in CRTAP and P3H1.
The researchers analyzed the children's DNA and found that they had a mutation in a gene coding for Cyclophilin B that causes a complete lack of the protein. Cyclophilin B is part of the same complex with CRTAP and P3H1. Like the mutations in those genes, the mutation in Cyclophilin B is recessive, requiring 2 defective copies to cause the disorder.
A previous study found that Cyclophilin B was essential for folding collagen into its final form. Marini and her colleagues, however, discovered that collagen from the 2 children was folded into its usual configuration. Cyclophilin B, then, must not be the only protein to have this role in collagen folding.
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Taylor Momsen Blames Parents for Robbing Childhood
According to Starpulse, the 'Gossip Girl' actress and lead singer of The Pretty Reckless said, "Everyone's like, 'Wow, why is she upset and why is she so miserable about things?' My parents signed me up with Ford [modeling agency] at the age of two. No 2-year-old wants to be working, but I had no choice."
Momsen, now 17, continued, "My whole life, I was in and out of school. I didn't have friends. I was working constantly and I didn't have a real life."
Momsen recently stirred up controversy for an interview she did with Revolver, in which she said, "If it's a good sex tape, I'll watch it ... I like some adult stars. I have a couple favorites. But I will say this: That Tommy Lee-Pamela Anderson video wasn't very good. I wouldn't f**k Tommy Lee."
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- Friday 12 NovemberBy phanilo
It is likely a discover,but may every Stars well know,they have
no "real life".Also,the profession makes living,and bring miserable.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy GiaHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
You think your life was so hard?? Try looking around at people who have no parents, no food, no clean water, no roof over their head, no warm bed and get back to me you miserable mess of a person. The thing your parents did wrong was not showing you what you should be thankful for.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy LizHighest Rank Vote downVote upReport this
seriously...this is all an act specifically designed to get her in the news...and the more news you make, the more work you get.. Hollywood is not what you think it is people. This girl is just an attention seeker. Please be critical thinkers and not take everything at at face value. *stepping down from the soapbox* (sorry)
- Friday 12 November
Your dead wrong Liz and your claims which are lies. You don't know Taylor so you can't say that this isn't true unless you know her which you don't.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy howard
my suggestion for Taylor is to sort of drop out
and get the lifestyle YOU want now.
your past is past and like the rest of us
you gotta move on and get to it NOW.
enjoy life
have friends and fun
and live
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Gail
Can someone please call the waaaahmbulance for this poor, mistreated thing? Boo-hoo.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Charlie
What did Charlie Sheen say about girls who wear too much dark eye makeup in Ferris Bueller's Day off? It make you look like a..."Taylor Momsen"
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- Friday 12 NovemberBy Lobo
Poor girl. I can imagine how hard it would be to be working all the time as a child. You can change things now, stop dressing the way you do, go back to school. I know it might be hard, but at some point you have to stop blaming your parents. What they did was messed up, look at other child actors see how messed up they are. Change yourself, dear, you can do it.
- Friday 12 November
puh-leaze. this girl signed with IMG models at the age of 14. if she wanted a childhood and friends and a "normal" life, she could have NOT signed with the modeling agency and gone to school.
SHE decided to audition for Gossip Girl and SHE is the one that decided that looking and dressing like a freak was what she wanted to do. SHE is the one on stage "singing" and flashing the crowd and talking about how her vibrator is her best friend.
get over yourself and shut up. go get a GED if you haven't graduated high school, take some college courses and get a real job. see what the real world is like and how far this self pity gets you.
- Friday 12 November
All your claims which are lies and being on TV and in the movies is a job but you don't get it. You don't know Taylor so you shouldn't judge her.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy 5dogmom
She used to be a pretty young girl, but has turned into something very scary. How can some of these celebrities look in the mirror and think they look good? I hope she can get her act together.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Lisa
Doesn't she have a choice now? Quit the business and be a teen while you still can kiddo!
- Saturday 13 NovemberBy Lhi
You're breaking my heart, sweetheart. Man up kids in Haiti. Man up kids in Afghanistan. Man up kids in the slums of India, Africa and America. Stop crying. We can show you some real heartbreak.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy DAS
Now she is jumping up and down saying "look at me! look at me!"
If she is so unhappy, get out of the business and get a job at Walmart.
- Friday 12 November
She was such an adorable girl when she was making, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas", with Jim Carrey. What happened?!
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Ross
I'm not judging her, just asking if she's taking fashion tips from a raccoon?
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Tree
Sounds as though Miss Taylor had caring parents. She has to find something/someone to blame on how she's choosing to live her "dark" life. Hard to believe that she is adorable little CINDY LOU WHO in THE GRINCH....she needs to turn her life over to God and make something GOOD of her life. God bless you girl....you'll hit bottom soon, if you don't change your herat and life.
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Suz
BOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO BOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOO I need some attention waaaaaahhhhhhhhh
- Friday 12 NovemberBy Arindam
Whatever you do Taylor, don't smile!!!
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