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Rubella is an enveloped RNA virus belonging to the Family Togaviridae, genus Rubivirus. Rubella virus infection is generally a mild exanthematous disease associated with lowgrade fever, lymphadenopathy, and a short-lived morbilliform rash also known as "German measles" because it was originally described by a German physician in the late 1800's. Rubella virus was first isolated in 1962 and vaccines are prepared from live attenuated virus.
The average incubation period for rubella infection is 14 days, with a range of 12–23 days. Rubella is usually associated with a generalised, erythematous, maculopapular rash that lasts ≤3 days (Figure 1), lymphadenopathy usually involving the postauricular, sub-occipital and posterior cervical lymph glands, and occasionally arthritis and arthralgia. In adults and adolescents, the rash may be preceded by a 1-5 day prodrome of low-grade fever, malaise, anorexia, mild conjunctivitis, runny nose, sore throat, and lymphadenopathy. Asymptomatic rubella virus infections are relatively common and between 20%–50% of infections occur without rash. Therefore serological testing is critically important in rubella diagnosis especially in pregnancy because foetal infection resulting in congenital rubella syndrome (CRS) has devastating consequences.
The incidence of rubella has decreased dramatically in young children with the introduction of the live attenuated rubella vaccine (either monovalent vaccine or in combination with measles and mumps in the MMR vaccine), but rubella still occurs worldwide with comparatively more cases being seen in older age groups i.e. 20-24 years. Infection is spread by respiratory droplets and infections peak usually during late winter/early spring.
Rubella in pregnancy
When rubella virus infection occurs during early pregnancy, consequences may include miscarriage, fetal death, or an infant born with the constellation of severe birth defects known as congenital rubella syndrome.
Maternal rubella infection in the first 8 to 10 weeks of pregnancy has the highest risk for foetal damage, which may occur in up to 90% of affected pregnancies, and multiple defects are common. The risk of damage declines to between 10- 20% by 16 weeks gestation. After 20 weeks gestation foetal damage is rare.
The characteristics of CRS include intellectual disabilities, cataracts, deafness, cardiac abnormalities, intrauterine growth retardation and inflammatory lesions of the brain, liver, lungs and bone marrow. The most common congenital defects are cataracts, heart defects, and hearing impairment. Other complications, such as neurological disorders and thrombocytopenia, may occur but are relatively rare. Any combination of these defects may occur, but deafness and retinopathy may occur alone following infection after the first 8 weeks of pregnancy. Some infected infants may appear normal at birth, and defects like auricular sensorineural deafness, may be detected later.
Rubella re-infection can occur in individuals who have both natural and vaccine induced antibodies. Occasional cases of CRS after re-infection in pregnancy have been reported but foetal damage is very rare in this situation because there are pre-existing levels of IgG antibodies. It is therefore recommended that all pregnant women with suspected rubella or exposure to rubella should be serologically tested, irrespective of a history of previous vaccination, clinical rubella or a previous positive rubella antibody result. Pregnant women should be advised to restrict contact with individuals with confirmed, probable or suspected rubella for up to 6 weeks (2 incubation periods). Pregnant women with confirmed rubella should be advised about the risk to the foetus.
Serological testing for rubella
Rubella antibody testing remains the main diagnostic tool available to either establish a previous exposure to rubella or rubella vaccination or a current infection/re-infection with rubella.
Acute rubella infection is indicated by presence of rubella IgM or 4-fold or greater increase in rubella IgG 10-21 days apart. Rubella IgM may not appear until a week after clinical symptoms. Sera for IgG testing should be taken 7-10 days after onset of illness and repeated 2 to 3 weeks later. The most recent date of potential exposure should be obtained, if possible, to calculate the potential incubation period.
A number of commercial assays for testing immunity i.e. IgG to rubella are available. Antibody levels determined as per standard ELISA assays are used quantitatively to indicate the result. Unlike rubella IgG measurements, there is no agreed cut off level or standard for a quantitative rubella IgM result and each assay and therefore each laboratory has it's own limits set for a negative, equivocal and positive result as per the manufacturers guidelines. The Table 1 below indicates the World Health Organisation recommended interpretation of rubella IgG and IgM results, alone and in combination.
|Rubella Result
|Levels IU/mL
|≤ 4.99
|Rubella susceptible. There are no significant levels . of detectable rubella IgG antibody. Rubella vaccination is recommended in non pregnant women and on delivery in women currently pregnant.
|Rubella susceptible Rubella IgG levels are l o w and n ot considered protective.
|≥ 10
|Rubella immune The World Health Organisation (W.H.O) cut-off for POSITIVE IgG antibody levels is 10 IU/mL, rubella IgG levels ≥ 10 IU/mL are considered POSITIVE. IgG levels between 10-20 IU/mL are considered low.
A booster dose of rubella vaccine is recommended, particularly in women anticipating pregnancy or at delivery in women who are already pregnant and planning more pregnancies.
|No detectable rubella IgM.
|Low levels of IgM antibodies in the indeterminate range for the test and the laboratory. Further testing is indicated.
|Detectable levels of IgM antibodies that may indicate primary infection, re - infection or response post-vaccination. Further testing may be required.
|IgG ≤4.99 PLUS IgM NEGATIVE
|Rubella susceptible. Rubella IgG antibodies ≤ 4.99 IU/mL are considered NEGATIVE, there are no significant levels of detectable rubella IgG antibody. Rubella vaccination is recommended in non pregnant women.
|IgG ≥ 10 or IgG 5-9.99 PLUS IgM NEGATIVE
Rubella immune. The World Health Organisation (W.H.O) cut-off for POSITIVE IgG antibody levels is 10 IU/mL, rubella IgG levels ≥ 10 IU/mL are considered POSITIVE.
IgG levels between 10-20 IU/mL are considered low. A booster dose of rubella vaccine is recommended, in women anticipating pregnancy or at delivery in women who are already pregnant.
|IgG ≤ 4.99 or -59.9 IgM EQUIVOCAL or POSITIVE And IgG ≥ 10 IU/mL and IgM POSITIVE or Any 4 fold increase in IgG levels 10-21 days apart
|Rubella Infection. Rubella specific IgM may be detected following primary rubella infection, vaccination or re-infection of immune individuals. IgM levels with re-infection are low and transient and generally not associated with Congenital Rubella Syndrome (CRS). Rubella specific IgM antibody in cord blood or infant serum may indicate CRS. A rubella avidity test is recommended to distinguish between recent or past infection. Further confirmatory testing such as PCR may also be necessary.
|IgG 5-9.99 or >10 and IgM EQUIVOCAL or POSITIVE
|Rubella re-infection. Rubella re-infection can occur in individuals who have both natural or vaccine induced IgG antibody. The presence of rubella IgG and IgM antibodies suggests that this is either a secondary infection or late primary infection. Rubella avidity testing is recommended to differentiate between primary infection and re-infection. Please discuss with the Virology pathologists Prof Eftyhia Vardas or Dr Allison Glass.
Seronegative women of child-bearing age that are vaccinated should be tested for seroconversion at least 8 weeks after their last vaccination. A small percentage of women (approximately 1%) will not respond to rubella vaccine by forming IgG or IgM antibodies. All women should be screened for rubella antibodies shortly before every pregnancy or if pregnancy is contemplated, irrespective of a previous positive rubella antibody result because rare reporting errors may result in patients who are seronegative being reported as seropositive.
Serological testing of pregnant women exposed to rubella should always be performed. If the woman has an IgG antibody level below the protective level, or a low level of IgG antibodies and remains asymptomatic, a second blood specimen should be collected 28 days after the exposure (or onset of symptoms) and tested in parallel with the first to demonstrate a rise in IgG titres. If the woman develops symptoms, the specimen should be collected and tested as soon as possible. A third blood specimen may be required in some circumstances.
Rubella avidity test
The serological diagnosis of rubella infection is based on the presence of specific IgG and IgM antibodies. Assays of the avidity of IgG (i.e. the strength of IgG binding to a multivalent antigen of the virus), have been used to distinguish recent from old infections in individuals with IgG levels. At the onset of the immune response (acute phase), the IgG generated by the antigenic stimulus has low avidity (below 39%) because the antibody binds with less strength to the antigen, within 2-4 months after infection, the strength of the antibody-antigen bonds increases and this is reflected in an avidity reading of greater than 60%.
Differentiating between an asymptomatic primary rubella infection and re-infection is extremely important, because under both conditions antibody titres are increased and IgM may be present. The IgG level is important for indicating susceptibility to reinfection. Re-infection is common in women with IgG levels below 10-15 IU/mL. Re-infections, for the most part asymptomatic, pose a low risk to the foetus, but they may develop with the presence of IgM, particularly in the re-infection of vaccinated women. Avidity testing and rubella PCR testing are adjunctive tests used in the clinical diagnosis of rubella. Avidity testing is done with commercial ELISA tests and the avidity index is calculated from the cutoff ratio's obtained on the test. Rubella PCR testing is recommended either antepartum on maternal urine, on amniotic fluid after amniocentesis or postpartum on cord or infant blood in the first few weeks of life.
The current recommended rubella testing algorithm that Lancet has adopted is outlined in Figure 2 including the quantitative cut off's for IgG antibodies used for reporting and clinical decision making.
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I knew the car needed to be returned today after our five-day stint, which included two days of testing and lapping, but only now was it dawning on me that the luscious orange Roadster Sport I'm screwed into needed to be returned this morning so that it could be cleaned up and recharged in time for its next journalist-driver (our pal Aaron Robinson; sorry, Aaron). But after leaving our office last night with enough battery charge for maybe 220 miles, well, what would you do? Return it with a three-quarter-full battery? Ohhh, no. Those miles were going to be put to good and proper use -- all while gradually nearing Santa Monica, of course.
And so, daughter Catherine, age 10, got a ride to school. Her pal, Lukie, who lives down the street, appeared to need a quick jolt of big-g acceleration, and wound up with a smile that could have been painted on. Of course, Lukie's big sister, Edyn, couldn't be left out. And what about Patrick, their dad? We're all kids at heart, you know.
Then, heading up the 405 freeway I realized I'd better do some coast-down tests on a nearby road that's perfect for such things.
Okay, that part sounds strange -- let me explain. You see, for people like me, cars are simultaneously what you normal people perceive -- cool hardware, driving fantasies, and all that stuff. But in addition, hovering above them like floating small clouds, I also see bunches of swirling equations and graphs and vectors, with unknown coefficients just aching to be figured out. Don't see them? Next time stare harder. Among those coefficients is drag, what I'm after with my detour (and unusual for a sports car, the Tesla's front camber is zero to minimize rolling resistance). Oh, and my apologies to the befuddled traffic following me that must have been wondering why this idiot Tesla driver kept accelerating like crazy and then coasting nearly to a stop.
And then -- oh, heck, what's this e-mail on my blackberry? "ETA on car?" Hmm. Gosh, I happened to be really near pal Paul Van Valkenburg's house and if I didn't drop in, Paul would never forgive me.
As I silently rolled to a stop, Paul magnetically appeared as if perceiving an approaching EV. His skill at sensing interesting automotive technologies like this traces back to his days at
where he had a hand in the great Chaparral Can Am cars, and it's still evident in his own top-secret EV project...about which I'd better not say anything more.
"So, a Tesla! What a surprise!" Paul greeted me, and we quickly went for a ride. First off, I explained that this is the new Sport version.
In Sport form -- which adds $19,500 to the standard Roadster's $110,950 base price (including destination charge) -- its motor produces the base unit's same 288 horsepower but at 600 fewer revs (4400 rpm), as well as 295 lb-ft of torque (up from 273) at zero rpm. Credit a hand-wound stator with increased winding density. Its black, Tesla-original forged alloy wheels wear Yokohama Advan tires, sized 195/50R16 up front and 225/45R17 at the rear. And in support of this meaty rubber are 10-position adjustable shocks and three-setting shock absorbers. Moreover, our particular example was kitted-out with generous exposed carbon fiber and a stitched leather interior (pushing the all-up price toward $160,000, though it's eligible for a $7500 federal tax credit). In fact, the interior has evolved quite a bit since my original drive in a roadster (back when it still had a two-speed transmission).
Now, there's a glovebox, transmission selections are accomplished by an easy button push on the center console (the scene of the crime when I mistakenly pressed reverse for a simulated drag race for our video guys -- yikes!), and the multiscreen info display (which does such things as provide recharge scheduling and calculation of your energy costs) is now properly located below the radio.
I showed Paul how all you have to do to access full power is briefly twist the ignition switch to its full throw (though it doesn't ignite anything, of course). And under power, the Sport emitted a strong whine which neither of us could determine to be entirely gear noise or electronics goings on (even after experimenting with coasting in neutral). Regardless, its acceleration is breathtaking. Make that breath-extracting. At the track, we confirmed the car's 3.7-second scream to 60 mph -- but, that's just a number. Three-point-seven -- what's that mean? Felt, it's such an unnatural thrust that it actually brings to mind that hokey Star Trek star-smear of warp-speed. The quick, linear accumulation of velocity makes you smile and hold on, shake your head, and eventually learn to carve unimaginable moves through traffic that's populated by completely flat-footed internal-combustion cars.
While the Tesla's other performance measures are impressive too, they're simply extraordinary instead of unnatural. Yes, the car's lateral acceleration averaged an impressive 0.98 g, but the steering's feedback at the limit doesn't do the number justice; you find yourself regarding tire slide with a hesitant reserve. This wasn't an issue during our figure-eight test, set in a broad asphalt expanse. But on a narrow road, you just don't have enough information at hand (literally) to explore beyond 90 percent or so.
Another curiosity is that while there's a giant amount of regen deceleration when you lift throttle -- so much so that the brake pedal often doesn't need touching in typical traffic -- lift-throttle on the skidpad doesn't illicit the kind of rotation you need to adjust the attitude mid-corner. And that's despite the car's considerable rear weight bias -- 65 percent -- though power-oversteer is almost too easy. A sports car needs to have both tools available, and in balance. Perhaps the front wheels' zero camber accounts for some of this. Or that Tesla thinks its clientele is interested only in acceleration, and maybe they are. But it would be awfully interesting to spend a day tinkering with the car's setup to see what its real handling potential is.
After dropping Paul off, I briefly stopped by our office, then headed to Tesla's Santa Monica dealership to sheepishly hand over the keys. In a drizzle, I noted the remaining range -- still half left, darn it -- then wormed my way out of the seat, shut the carbon-fiber door (the entire body is carbon), and considered its big questions.
What about range? Omitting our testing, the car generally traveled beyond 200 miles per charge, a distance that permits a comfortable degree of freeform driving (even in L.A.) before the eventual range calculations in the brain begin. Our charging was mostly done in our new garage, which is handily fitted with several 240-volt, 50-amp connectors. And there, everything worked without a hitch -- indeed, it got to be commonplace. But typical 120-volt (wall plug) charging is so slow -- about 5 miles of added range per plug-in hour (compared with 32 mph on our 240-volt plug, and as quick as 3.5 hours with an installed wall unit). Well, it's like filling your tank with a straw. All this makes me really question the 100-mile range we're commonly hearing about with the new crop of pure battery electrics (
Nissan Leaf
MiEV). Personally, I'm finding my range anxiety setting in at about 50 percent of battery depletion. The Tesla's 200-plus miles seems to me to be the minimum any EV should provide.
And the cost. At about $130,000 (base price), our Roadster Sport is within pocket change of Porsche's 911 Turbo, which, as a value, is simply a hell of a lot more car for the dollar. Yet, how do you honestly compare the Tesla with a conventional sports car? The Tesla's technology is so different, so early-stage, that it's a bit like comparing the memory capacity of cheap new computer hard drives to the latest solid-state, big flash memories. Flash is expensive, but is it 'worth it?' Not for most, but it depends on your finances and enthusiasm for cutting edge tech.
Last, it's time to start regarding Tesla as an actual car company. With 900 Roadsters delivered,
now owning a 10-percent stake, a federal loan of $465 million, and a new factory being created for the Model S sedan, Tesla is the first maker to crack the EV legitimacy barrier in a century. And as such we're going to start doing the same things with them we do with any other new cars.
So Tesla -- with all apologies about your car's late return -- ah, when can we get it back?
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The word, "blog" pisses me off. Say it out loud a couple times while looking into a mirror. See what I mean? Now slap yourself.
Stupid drivers. When an emergency vehicle is behind you, pull to the....RIGHT!!! Dipshit. You thought I was going to say left, didn't you. If you did, slap yourself. Also, it is legal to turn LEFT onto a one-way street from a red light. Yup, they should have taught you that in driver's ed. If you're one of those people that hold up everyone
After soooo long i finaly decided to tear it up. The starter went out, so might as well pull the engine and tranny!!! I'm washing the head at UAFS tomorrow, and hoping i can get my rings and bearings in soon.
I've been inspired by DreamerTheresa to start a blog about my Metro, so I will. A little back story, in April 2010 I bought my 1995 2-door hatchback 3-cylinder 1.0L 5-speed Geo Metro with 108,800 miles on it from the 2nd owner who only had it for 2 years. It was perfect except for a couple scratches and some clear coat coming off. I gladly paid the asking price of $1200 for it.
Fast forward to today, 14 months later. I now have about 147,800 and the only repair I've had to do
Honestly, i wonder why i bother with the UK Mk3 site anymore - half the posts are all created by the same people and whenever you try and post something technical, you get shat on by the same bunch of pricks, who attempt to make out you don't know what you're talking about. Not to mention we have someone there that refers to themselves as a mechanic, yet the quality of their work is sub-par. Oh, and vendors that routinely RIP YOU OFF, and when you complain about it, you're told to shut up, because


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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) - Crews doing excavation work in downtown Little Rock made an unusual find this week: a military sword possibly dating to the early 1800s.
Workers are excavating ground on Markham Street downtown for the construction of a new parking deck. The site once housed the Ashley mansion, built around 1820 by the prominent lawyer and U.S. Sen. Chester Ashley.
Clark Construction representatives turned over the sword to the Historic Arkansas Museum on Tuesday. Museum chief curator Swannee Bennett says the curved sword is likely of American or European origin.
Bennett tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that the soil-encrusted sword will undergo delicate testing to better determine its age.
Bennett says Union forces occupied the mansion during the Civil War after taking control of Little Rock in September 1863.
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MORROW — Larry Foster almost sounds like a broken record, or a CD with a scratch in it.
Every time he gets asked about the difference between this year's Morrow football team and last season's version, he comes up with almost the exact same answer.
"It really is a time thing," said Foster, entering his second year as Morrow's head coach. "They've had a full year of growth in our program now. Last year, leading up to this point, we were just at two weeks before we got thrown to the Lions."
Or the Spartans, as in the Spartans from Campbell High. Foster wasn't officially hired until almost exactly 14 days prior to the school's season opener against the Region 4-AAAAAA school, and it showed.
After managing to keep pace in the first half, the Spartans erupted in the last two quarters of the game, en route to a 35-6 victory at Tara Stadium.
Tonight, Morrow will make the return trip to Smyrna to face Campbell again in its season opener, but this time with a little bit better grasp of what it may take to come out with a win.
"This is going to be a great game to test us and to see how far we've come," Foster said. "Campbell's the type of team that's very disciplined, and they're going to sit around and wait for you to make a mistake, then pounce on you. That's what happened to us last year. It'll be interesting to see how we respond this year."
So far, the Mustangs have shown signs of marked improvement, starting with a 40-13 victory over Mount Zion in last week's scrimmage —the same Mount Zion team that bested them in last year's preseason contest.
Senior quarterback Courtney Heard rushed and passed for over 100 yards. Fellow senior and starting tailback Larry Hodnit had a big game from an all-purpose yardage standpoint. And Foster didn't try to hide his pleasure for what he saw from his team ahead of Friday's opener.
"Last Friday was very rewarding, and even now it's very rewarding to see all the work these young men have put in to get to where we are," Foster said.
"We're starting to become a program. And the heart that these young men have show, how they still stuck with us through thick and thin, taking all the ridicule from people who called us terrible, and still didn't quit. To me that just shows the kind of heart these young men have. And hopefully it'll start translating into some wins for us."
DeMarcus Loman said he notices the difference in the team as well.
"I think this year, we're just operating at a different tempo than last year," Loman said. "There's more positive energy out here this year. We're coming together a lot more, and we're ready to get out on the field and show what we can do."
Loman, a 6-foot-4 wide receiver who also stars on the Mustangs' resurgent basketball team, is the big play, deep threat target Foster believes will take his offense to new heights.
"He's a big time player for us," Foster said. "He's getting some looks from places like Toledo and Akron, but he's the kind of player that can start attracting more attention."
He's also growing as a leader. And he'll lead Morrow's group of wideouts against a fairly talented Campbell secondary that includes a standout in Central Florida commitment Mike Rogers. The 6-foot-1, 185-pound safety chose the Knights of the new American Athletic Conference, over such schools as Georgia Tech, Missouri, Mississippi State and Syracuse.
The Spartans will also have three year starter Ricky James returning at quarterback.
Both teams will be looking to capitalize on a 2012 season that featured more losses than wins, but also some close games that got away.
But Foster said there will be no revenge factor involved in this game. Just a football team that desperately wants to prove that it's on the path back to high school football relevance.
"We're leaving it all on the table this year," Foster said. "Not just this game, but every game. We have nothing to prove and we have nothing to lose. We just want to win."
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great to see you visited my town! magical photos!
i think these are my favorite photos from your trip! beautiful.
amazing pictures, i like the way you capture the beauty of everyday life
Prague looks so beautiful! I especially love the ones in the church and the skulls and stuff.


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haha.. -laughs- so hru doinng nw? anythng new?
oh ok... bt umm.. i think hving ice cream was gr8! isn't it?
aww.... that's sad.. so wat did u eat all those days?
lol :)
hey! dnt say dat abt urself... bt i think chipmunks r really cute!


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TUESDAY, May 12 (HealthDay News) -- Estrogen has long been implicated as being heart protective in premenopausal women, and a new study suggests that having just the right amount of estrogen might be helpful for men as well.
The study, in the May 13 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that men with heart failure who had the lowest levels of estrogen had about four times the risk of dying as men with average levels and that men with the highest levels of estrogen had more than twice the risk of dying as men with average levels of the hormone.
"Among men with chronic heart failure and reduced left-ventricular ejection fraction, high and low concentrations of estradiol [estrogen] compared with the middle quintile of estradiol are related to an increased mortality," the researchers wrote.
However, Dr. Stephen Siegel, a cardiologist at the New York University Langone Medical Center, said that though the study "raises certain issues on how hormones may be affected or may affect cardiac function and mortality, it doesn't necessarily link cause and effect."
Heart failure occurs when the heart muscle weakens and can't pump blood as efficiently to the rest of the body as it should. As many as 5 million people in the United States currently have heart failure, according to the U.S. National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Each year, about 300,000 Americans die as a result of heart failure, the institute reports.
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Sad story: Recent Sheldon football star dies
Like many others, I was stunned and saddened to see an obituary for Beau Baltzer in Saturday's paper.
Baltzer was a first team, all-Midwestern League linebacker for Sheldon as a senior in 1994. He was also the all-league punter. He is the brother of former Sheldon linebacker and current Irish assistant coach Chris Baltzer, who went on to play at Washington State.
Baltzer was part of a feature story I wrote in 2004 about five Sheldon players who had older brothers that played for the Irish.
I've been told there is a Facebook page with tributes to Baltzer that is getting a lot of responses, so if anyone wants to send along condolences you can do so there. You can also leave any memories or thoughts of Baltzer here on the blog as well.
Here is the obituary that ran Saturday:
Beau Baltzer
A memorial service will be held at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 17, in the Sheldon High School auditorium for Beau Michael Baltzer of Eugene. He died March 11 at age 21. The family chose not to list a cause of death.
He was born Sept. 1, 1987, in Eugene to Keith and Carrie Goodwin Baltzer.
He graduated from Sheldon High School in 2005 and attended the University of Oregon.
Survivors include his parents; grandparents, Shirley Goodwin, Bob and Nancy Baltzer and Russ and Darlene Goodwin; a brother, Chris of Eugene; and a sister, Abbie Baltzer of Eugene.
Arrangements by Musgrove Family Mortuary in Eugene. Remembrances to the Kidsports Scholarship Fund or FOOD for Lane County.
Steve Mims covers Oregon football, men's basketball and baseball for The Register-Guard. He has been a sportswriter at the paper since 1999 and covered high school sports while also reporting on Oregon football in the Rose Bowl and Fiesta Bowl as well as men's basketball during their Elite 8 run in 2007 and trip to the Sweet 16 in 2013.


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The MTA Mess
November 21, 2008
Nicole Gelinas
DON'T buy the idea that the MTA is the victim of an unprecedented, unanticipated fiscal crisis that's nobody's fault: plummeting tax revenues due to the credit crisis, blah blah blah.
Sorry: Where the MTA finds itself today is the natural, predicted and only possible result of craven decisions made by a decade's worth of politicians and their appointees.
The state and city politicians responsible for the MTA are lucky that the credit crisis is providing cover for the agency's downfall.
Indeed, the MTA's budget from five years ago shows that the agency knew darn well that it had to change its ways. In 2003, the MTA was projecting a $1.5 billion deficit by last year if it kept spending as it was. (Which, of course, it did. What saved us last year? The remnants of Wall Street's now-exploded credit bubble.)
Yes, the Wall Street smash-up has been worse than most people expected, but that's like a reckless driver complaining when he crashes into a F-150 pickup instead of a Mini Cooper.
Who to blame?
Start with ex-Gov. George Pataki and his appointees, who let the authority run its debt up to dangerous levels.
In 2002, the MTA spent a little under $700 million on debt costs, or 11 percent of its cash expenses. This year, that bill will be more than $1.5 billion, twice as much, and more than 14 percent of its cash expenses. By financing a record percentage of capital spending with debt, Pataki & Co. avoided spending much on mass transitwhile also avoiding letting the MTA fall apart on their watch.
Then there was the failure to stand up to the MTA unions and reform benefits.
Six years ago, the MTA spent $4.6 billion on labor costs. This year, it will spend more than $6.3 billion, largely due to too-high costs for benefits like health insurance.
In most of the private sector, workers are having to pay a substantial share of their own health costs. Yet, during the 2005 transit strike, New York won only small health-benefits reforms from its workersnot enough gain for the pain that the city went through.
That's Pataki's fault, tooplus Mayor Bloomberg's.
No, Bloomberg doesn't run the MTA. But across all levels of state and city government, it should have been obvious, by nearly a decade ago, that future benefit promises at the city, state and public-authority levels had become unsustainable. Yet no elected official has wanted to do the tough work of standing as a united front with other elected officials to work with, or against, labor unions to change those benefits.
Blaming the unions is too easy. Just like managers at GM and Ford, New York's leaders have long freely signed laws and contracts that gave the unions more political power and financial benefit. (At least the carmakers admitted a few years ago that they had gotten themselves into a mess.)
Former Gov. Eliot Spitzer isn't off the hook here, either. No, he wasn't in office long enough to impact an MTA contractbut he did bash the MTA for last year's perfectly reasonable fare hike, creating a huge distraction from the agency's real problems.
If, starting five years ago, the MTA had held its debt and its labor costs (even excluding the tougher-to-reform pension costs) down to the same as the inflation rate, it would be saving $1.1 billion a year by now. It would still have a deficit this year, but that deficit could be closed through a smaller fare hike than the one on the table. No panic, no crisis, no draconian service cuts.
There's nothing we can do about the past.
But what Gov. Paterson and Bloomberg do now to fix the MTA will likely mean the difference in whether they're someday seen as abject failures or heroic saviors of the city.
The natural result, a few years down the road, of the path that the MTA's now taking will be visibly deteriorated subway assets and service that's worse than today's (already unacceptable) service.
Bad service will drive people away from the cityand subway breakdowns will be seen, as they were 25 years ago, as shorthand for New York's failure.
Yet the solution isn't complicated.
Get the MTA's labor costs under control. No, that doesn't mean slashing workersthat's not real management.
The MTA, Paterson and Bloomberg should stand together on the MTA labor contract that expires in January. Cutting the MTA's non-pension benefits costs alone, through a combination of worker contributions and other savings, by 20 percent, would save the authority $200 million a year, or almost as much as its proposed job cuts will save.
Then Bloomberg and Paterson's people should go through the MTA's expenses line by line and hour by hour, reporting possible cost savings to the public in real time, on line.
The state and city should also try to figure out how to cut costs and deliver better service on things like bus service.
Consider: the Bolt Bus, a start-up of Greyhound, transports people from New York to Boston for $17.50 one way in comfort and style with free wireless Internet. Bolt is making an operating profit doing so, according to a spokeswoman, and offers health benefits to its union and non-union workers.
Yet the MTA wants to charge people $7.50 to ride the express bus from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Clearly, the agency should see if a private company or a few private companies can't do it for a lower price.
Then what?
The only thing to do is to look at what's been sucking money from mass transit for years: ridiculous levels of politically driven state and city spending on Medicaid and education. If the city and state set a goal of cutting this spending by just 10 percent, they'd have $5 billion in savings every year.
Starting this year, even a portion of such future, long-term savings could help close state, city and MTA deficitsand make sure that the inevitable tax hikes and cuts in basic services are smaller and shorter-lived.
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The coming of the Greeks to Provence and Corsica: Y-chromosome models of archaic Greek colonization of the western Mediterranean
1 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
2 Unité Mixte de Recherche 6578, Biocultural Anthropology, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Etablissement Français du S ang and Université Faculté de Médecine - Secteur Nord-Batiment A - Bd Pierre Dramard, 13344 Marseille Cedex 15, France
3 Department of Genetics, Development and Molecular Biology, School of Biology, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, 54124 Thessaloniki, Greece
4 Department of Classics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
5 Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation, Salt Lake City, Utah, 84115, USA
6 Génétique moléculaire de la spermatogenèse, Inserm UMR 910, Faculté de médecine, Marseille, France
7 UMR6130, CNRS, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, Campus Saint-Jean-d'Angély, 24 avenue des Diables Bleus, 06357 Nice Cedex 4, France
8 Dipartimento di Genetica e Microbiologia, Università di Pavia, Pavia, Italy
9 Department of Biology, University "Tor Vergata', Ro me 00133, Italy
BMC Evolutionary Biology 2011, 11:69 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-11-69Published: 14 March 2011
The process of Greek colonization of the central and western Mediterranean during the Archaic and Classical Eras has been understudied from the perspective of population genetics. To investigate the Y chromosomal demography of Greek colonization in the western Mediterranean, Y-chromosome data consisting of 29 YSNPs and 37 YSTRs were compared from 51 subjects from Provence, 58 subjects from Smyrna and 31 subjects whose paternal ancestry derives from Asia Minor Phokaia, the ancestral embarkation port to the 6th century BCE Greek colonies of Massalia (Marseilles) and Alalie (Aleria, Corsica).
19% of the Phokaian and 12% of the Smyrnian representatives were derived for haplogroup E-V13, characteristic of the Greek and Balkan mainland, while 4% of the Provencal, 4.6% of East Corsican and 1.6% of West Corsican samples were derived for E-V13. An admixture analysis estimated that 17% of the Y-chromosomes of Provence may be attributed to Greek colonization. Using the following putative Neolithic Anatolian lineages: J2a-DYS445 = 6, G2a-M406 and J2a1b1-M92, the data predict a 0% Neolithic contribution to Provence from Anatolia. Estimates of colonial Greek vs. indigenous Celto-Ligurian demography predict a maximum of a 10% Greek contribution, suggesting a Greek male elite-dominant input into the Iron Age Provence population.
Given the origin of viniculture in Provence is ascribed to Massalia, these results suggest that E-V13 may trace the demographic and socio-cultural impact of Greek colonization in Mediterranean Europe, a contribution that appears to be considerably larger than that of a Neolithic pioneer colonization.


text: IBM bans employees from using Siri over privacy fears Technology 23 May 12 by Robert McMillan Toshiyuki IMAI / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 If you work for IBM, you can bring your iPhone to work, but forget about using the phone's voice-activated digital assistant. Siri isn't welcome on Big Blue's networks.The reason? Siri ships everything you say to her to a big data center in Maiden, North Carolina. And the story of what really happens to all of your Siri-launched searches, e-mail messages and inappropriate jokes is a bit of a black box.IBM CIO Jeanette Horan told MIT's Technology Review that her company has banned Siri outright because, according to the magazine, "The company worries that the spoken queries might be stored somewhere."It turns out that Horan is right to worry. In fact, Apple's iPhone Software License Agreement spells this out: "When you use Siri or Dictation, the things you say will be recorded and sent to Apple in order to convert what you say into text," Apple says. Siri collects a bunch of other information -- names of people from your address book and other unspecified user data, all to help Siri do a better job.How long does Apple store all of this stuff, and who gets a look at it? Well, the company doesn't actually say. Again, from the user agreement: "By using Siri or Dictation, you agree and consent to Apple's and its subsidiaries' and agents' transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of this information, including your voice input and User Data, to provide and improve Siri, Dictation, and other Apple products and services."Because some of the data that Siri collects can be very personal, the American Civil Liberties Union put out a warning about Siri on 12 May.Privacy was always a big concern for Siri's developers, says Edward Wrenbeck, the lead developer of the original Siri iPhone app, which was eventually acquired by Apple. And for corporate users, there are even more potential pitfalls. "Just having it known that you're at a certain customer's location might be in violation of a non-disclosure agreement," he says.But he agrees that many of the issues raised by Apple's Siri data handling are similar to those that other internet companies face. "I really don't think it's something to worry about," he says. "People are already doing things on these mobile devices. Maybe Siri makes their life a little bit easier, but it's not exactly opening up a new avenue that wasn't there before."But other companies have been pressured by privacy groups over the way they store customer data. Google, for example, has come under fire in the past for the way it handles a massive database of user search data. But IBM doesn't ban Google. Neither Apple nor IBM could be reached for comment Tuesday, but there are a couple of important differences between Siri and Google that may have IBM worried: For one, Siri can be used to write e-mails or text messages. So, in theory, Apple could be storing confidential IBM messages.Another difference: After being dogged by privacy advocates, Google now anonymises search results -- making them difficult, if not impossible, to trace back to an individual user -- after nine months.Maybe if Apple agreed to do something like that, Siri would be welcome over in Armonk, New York.Source: Wired.com Image: Toshiyuki IMAI / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Edited by Ian Steadman Comments This lady is going to shit herself when she finds out what Google does with her searches. Jim Strathmeyer May 24th 2012 In reply to Jim Strathmeyer it's an enormuos difference if apple has access to dictated ibm-meeting-minutes or google knows that she researches footcare-products sev May 24th 2012 This article is completely untrue.Reliable employees of IBM have confirmed that they are still allowed to use their iphones. john May 24th 2012 In reply to john dude.. the article clearly mentions that IBM banned iphone users from using SIRI app.. not the device. Reddy May 24th 2012 In reply to Reddy There is no such thing as a reliable IBM employee Mark Jun 6th 2012 Slow news day at IBM Towers? Charles May 25th 2012 Reply to a comment Name Email Comment Submit » Latest on wired.co.uk


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Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) -- Still riding high on a football victory that brought the coveted Fremont Cannon back to Las Vegas, the top brass at UNLV is resuming discussions on building the team a brand new stadium.
However, the facility would look nothing like Sam Boyd Stadium, where the Rebels currently hit the gridiron. According to the campus Improvement Authority Board, the new stadium is being described as a convention center with a football field.
"The driver will be conventioneering events, things like Republican National Conventions, giant concerts and other special events that support conventioneering in this town," said UNLV President Dr. Neal J. Smatresk.
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Originally Posted by BrianShaw
Please don't.
Even though they've debunked the Palmdale bulge, remember that we are still due "the big one".
Speaking of Bulges, I thought "the big one" was Chris' backside. Is he coming out here to visit?
I do use a digital device in my photographic pursuits when necessary.
When someone rags on me for using film, I use a middle digit, upraised.
Look at the positive side, not Chris backside which he calls Saint Andreas. Come march it should be a fabulous wildflower season in the desert an hour East of Redlands.
Jan Pedersen
Originally Posted by cheesecrackers
Are there any areas around SoCal that would be good to use 3200 film with?
I know the weather isn't so perfect for photography at the moment, but I won't be shooting until next week.
Any places you guys might know of?
I guess this never really got answered.
SoCal is a big place; it would help to know what your interests are, and where you are.
If you really want to shoot fast film, why not shoot at Barney's Beanery in West Hollywood. Interesting place and interesting clientele. Food isn't bad either. If you smile and wink at the bouncer he'll make sure the bruises look manly and no bones actually get broken.
Even Hollywood Blvd at night should be interesting.
- Bill Lynch
Originally Posted by wblynch
Even Hollywood Blvd at night should be interesting.
Oh, yeah. The Sunset Strip, too.
At night or in a bar you could use 3200 but daylight (without a storm) with the smog is usually f11/film speed, on a clear day sunny16.
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Originally Posted by Sirius Glass
Just put a ND8 filter on it and you can use it like Tri-X 400!
Doesn't that kinda defeat the purpose?
You broke the code!
Warning!! Handling a Hasselblad can be harmful to your financial well being!
Nothing beats a great piece of glass!
I leave the digital work for the urologists and proctologists.
Holy Jim Canyon is dear to my heart, I don't think they've had a flood like this since '62
If you've got the 4WD and weather permits, you could go up the road and get some shots of gritty washed out cabins.
They'd look good on any film, but I think storm-ravaged shots on 3200 would be be an appropriate combination.
Eh, I can't get into a bar alone yet.
My very religious aunt has expressed her opinions on taking me to any bar ages and ages ago.
I am in LA, to narrow it down even more, North Hollywood, one street over from the Sunset Strip. If you wanna know more... PM me. ;D


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Weekly Outlook
Wales to Shishmaref
Shorefast continues to extend from Wales to Shishmaref 20-40 miles offshore along the coast. Just south of Wales the shorefast ice is now only 1-2 miles wide. There is open water along the edge of the shorefast ice. Large ice floes continue to drift northward through Bering Strait. Ice concentration is over 70%. Satellite imagery indicates the presence of new and young ice forming between floes, in parts of open water areas, and just offshore of the shorefast lead.
Near St. Lawrence Island
Shorefast ice continues to persist along the north shore of St. Lawrence Island between Gambell and Savoonga. The shorefast ice continues eastward around Northeast Cape. The concentration of the ice north of the shorefast ice is about 70%. It is fractured, consisting of many small floes near the shorefast edge but increasing in size northward where some floes are greater than 20 miles in length. West and southwest of Gambell the ice is not as compacted as the ice east of the Island. The ice consists of a high concentration of broken floes with leads slowly drifting northward. The main ice pack south of St. Lawrence Island has been pushed southward by the continual northerly winds since last week. A week ago, there was open water and young ice south of St. Lawrence Island. However, latest satellite image shows this area has refrozen with new and young ice to within a few miles of the coast due to sub zero temperatures.
5 and 10 Day Outlook April 2 through April 12
Brisk northerly winds over the weekend and into the middle of next week are expected. This should push the sea ice south to southwestward resulting in reversal of some ice flow in the southern Chukchi Sea back into Chirkov Basin. Sea ice is expected to accumulate on the north side of St. Lawrence Island. A mix of open water and young ice should occur well south of the south coast. Even with the continuing northerly winds, air temperatures will slowly moderate to near normal temperatures by mid week and remain near normal through April 12. This will also slow down new ice formation after mid week.
There is considerably less predictability for winds in the second half of the period. A shift to a different weather pattern or a continuation of the status quo are both possible. A series of low pressure systems is expected to move across the southern Bering Sea April 4-5 and April 7-8 and both slowing drift eastward into the northern Gulf of Alaska. As a result, the northerly winds in the Bering Strait will become lighter beginning April 7 and continue to remain lighter through April 12. Winds near St. Lawrence Island will become lighter and westerly on April 5 return to northerly April 7 and remain so through April 12.
Observations and Comments
2 April 2010 - Paul Siluk Apangalook – Summary of ice development in Gambell
Despite the temperatures remaining below zero for longer periods during the month of March, the leads to the northwest remained wide open out to the horizon much of the time with the ice scattered and new ice constantly developing. The sighting of bowheads at times indicates the leads opened all the way to the Siberian coast. Speaking with elders, the reason for that was there wasn't enough thick ice penetrating our area from the north. This seemed to be the case combined with the frequent and constant higher winds prevailing from the north. New large leads opened up often with the developing ice either drifting or breaking up. In mid-March, noticeable swells were seen in the ice; big sections of the tuvaq (shorefast ice) broke off at the west beach.
27 March 2010 - Winton Weyapuk, Jr. - Summary of Ice Development in Wales
Since the middle of March, a mix of young ice, first-year pack ice, and open water along the shorefast ice have been observed off Wales. Ice drift through Bering Strait was mostly to the south, with a few days of drift to the north with the wind turning between March 19 and 25. Open leads were present along the landfast ice for much of late March. Shorefast ice is rough this year off Wales. While a lot of snow fell, it did not completely smooth out the ice, likely requiring some trailbuilding later in the season to haul the boats for access to open water.
Ship-board Observations from the Bering Sea (Rolf Gradinger, with input by H. Eicken)
30 March - 1 April 2010: Ice 100 miles southwest of St. Lawrence Island and towards St. Matthew Island mostly first-year pack ice, 2 feet (0.6m) thick with thin snow cover (2in/5cm). No sign of surface melt. Hardly any shorefast ice around St. Matthew, likely sheared off by ice pressure.
19 March 2010: The ice cover 90 miles (150km) south of St. Lawrence Island consists of vast floes of level ice, about 1.5 feet (0.5m) thick. Floes are broken into small pieces (few tens of feet wide) with flooding of surface along cracks. This pattern and satellite images suggest that break-up was caused by ocean swell coming in from the open Bering Sea, 150 miles (250km) to the South. Such level ice floes of small size (see photo taken at 62deg 17'N 172deg 18'W on right) provide likely good access for walrus.
5 April 2010 - Curtis Nayokpuk, Shishmaref
I have been watching the "GINA" ice sat. pictures and this year the Wales Shoal shore ice is back! Previous 2-3 years it receded and at one time broke off along the northern shore/beach from Wales to Shishmaref. Looks like it has frozen to historic size/thickness and winter/spring south winds have not chipped away at the shoal ice build up. This means that the migrating sea mammals will be farther out from Shishmaref (direct route from Wales to Pt. Hope) and will require longer or more boat trips to find the walrus and Oogruk this year.
30 March 2010 - Brendan P. Kelly, UAF
Looking at the satellite imagery posted on 29 March 2010, it seems notable that ice suitable for walruses is absent along the Siberian coast but concentrated close to St. Lawrence Island. Overall, the northern Bering Sea has considerable open water. I recall sailing from Gambell to Nome on the icebreaker Polar Sea at just this time of year 30 years ago, and the vessel had a very hard time of it. It looks like it would be much easier this year.


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Utica, N.Y. (4/13/2011) – The Utica College men's lacrosse team lost to visiting Ithaca College 20-2 in Empire 8 Conference action Wednesday afternoon at Charles A. Gaetano Stadium. Sophomore Justin Edelstein and junior William Greeley each netted one goal for the Pioneers, while senior captain Kevin Conway and freshman Tyler Gardinier tallied one assist a piece.
Ithaca improved to 6-4 overall and 2-1 in the E8, while the Pioneers dropped to 2-8 on the year and
Freshman Tyler Gardineer registered his first collegiate assist for Utica
remain winless, at 0-3, in conference play. 16 different players scored at least one point for the Bombers, including three players who tallied a game-high four points. Ithaca outshot UC 48-23 and earned a 26-18 ground ball advantage.
The Bombers jumped out to a 6-0 lead in the first 15 minutes of action and went on to add four more goals before the half to take a commanding 10-0 advantage as the first half horn sounded.
The Bombers posted ten more second half goals and were able to hold the Pioneers to one goal in each of the third and fourth quarters to earn the convincing conference victory.
UC's Oliver Barney went 9-of-18 on face-off opportunities and added a team-high five ground balls, while junior captain Mick Krajacic scooped up three ground balls and caused one turnover. Senior goalie Joe Davis stopped six shots in 30 minutes of work and he also added four ground balls. Junior Wilson Mukredechian spent the entire second half between the pipes and stopped five shots for UC.
Ithaca's Andrew Bruce (one goal, three assists), Devin Weinshank (two goals, two assists) and Mike Silipo (three goals, one assist) each tallied four points, while Tom Mongelli added three goals. All-American goalie David Gal stopped nine shots in his sixth victory of the season for the Bombers.
UC returns to action on Saturday when the Pioneers host Alfred University for an Empire 8 Conference contest scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Fans who cannot make it out to the game can follow live video and stats on-line at www.ucpioneers.com.


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Mace Hollis Jones, 88, died Tuesday, October 4, 2011 in Amarillo.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 8, 2011, at Bible Baptist Church with Rev. Leonard Forsythe officiating. Interment will follow in the "Garden of Love" at Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mace was born Aug. 3, 1923, in Soper, Okla., to Jim and Maudie Jones. He was serving in the United States Army during WW II and was a member of Bible Baptist Church.
Bob Coin Thomas, 80, of Fritch died Sept. 29, 2011 at Amarillo.
No services are scheduled. Cremation was by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Fritch.
Bob was born Feb. 3, 1931 at Paris, Texas. He served in the U.S. Army in Korea. He was a heavy equipment operator in the oil industry. He loved to tinker on cars and lawn mowers.
He is survived by sons Roy and wife Karen of Fritch, Bobby Wayne of Gillette, Okla., Tommy Ray of Abilene and Earl Ray of Abilene, daughters, Dory Thomas of Lubbock, Betty Cox of South Carolina, and Debbie Thomas of Lubbock, and nine grandchildren.
Main Street will be abuzz with activity this Friday as the Borger Downtown Merchants host their Moonlight Madness event.
The event will take place on October 7, 2011 from 6 p.m. until midnight.
During this event, there will be a pumpkin carving contest. All entries will be displayed in store windows and voted on by those who attend Moonlight Madness. The winner of the contest will receive a $50 gift certificate that can be spent at one of the participating stores.
After the talk surrounding the state legislature looking into placing Frank Phillips College on the list of community colleges to potentially lose state funding in January, a fair question to ask was, how the negative news would potentially impact the college's enrollment this fall.
During the FPC Board of Regents meeting on September 19th, the college released their head count for the fall semester which showed 839 academic students and 271 career and technical students for a total of 1033.
Back in the 1980s and 1990s, the 5A football district in the Permian Basin area was nicknamed "The Little Southwest Conference" due to the district being loaded with some of the top football programs in Texas.
This year. perhaps District 1-1A Division I needs to be called the "SEC Light" due to having four of the five teams ranked inthe top 25 of TheOldCoach.com football poll and the fifth team just on the outside looking in.
Through their first two games of District 1-2A Division II play, the Sanford-Fritch Eagles have been able to prove they are a lot better than their 0-4 non-district mark by beating Tulia and getting a big win over Floydada last week.
Against the Whirlwinds, the Eagles' offense was clicking on all cylinders racking up 346 yards on the ground while throwing for another 261.
Junior Colton Valle showed why he is considered one of the best running backs in the Texas Panhandle by scoring three touchdowns and rushing for 236 yards.


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Preheat oven to 350º. Sift together flour, salt and baking soda and set aside. Mix together softened butter, sugar and brown sugar until fluffy. Beat in eggs one at a time, then add vanilla. Slowly mix flour mixture into butter mixture until well combined. Then fold in chopped Heath candy bars. Cookie dough should be chilled for at least 30 minutes, up to overnight. Scoop 2 tablespoons of cookie dough, gently form into a ball and place on a parchment covered cookie sheet. Dough balls should be placed about 3 inches apart. Bake for 10-12 minutes, checking after about 8 minutes for browned edges. Once the edges are beginning to brown remove from oven and allow to rest for 2-3 minutes on cookie sheet. Then allow to cool on a cookie sheet.
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Anyone who travels much and has watched the news for the past several years might find themselves taking seriously that old adage, "Sleep tight and don't let the bed bugs bite." Since the late 1990s, those little reddish-brown creatures have infested hotels,...Read more
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How about 18 pages of coverage from this past weekend's AMA Superbike round at Mid-Ohio...? Just a few days after the event.
Check out the coverage in the newest issue of Cycle News...http://cyclenews.coverleaf.com/cyclenews/20110712#pg49
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Paul Carruthers took over as the editor of Cycle News in 1993 after serving as associate editor since starting his career at the publication in 1985. Carruthers has covered every facet of the sport in his near-28-year tenure at America's Daily Motorcycle News Source.


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My life in Gloucestershire by Charlotte Morris , marketing manager at the charity Cobalt
Posted: February 15, 2013|
What's your favourite Gloucestershire day out?
New Year's Day at the Racecourse – a great way to get rid of your hangover
And your favourite place to eat out in the county?
The Langton in Charlton Kings, great for al fresco in the summer and warm and cosy in the winter, delicious food.
What's the worst job you've ever had?
? I had a weekend job, as a teenager, in a delicatessen in Leicestershire and had to pot Stilton to go in the Christmas hampers, it reeked!
Have you got any unusual habits?
No, but I am addicted to Pinterest
Who is your hero and why?
My granddad because he was the most honest, truthful, selfless and lovely man I have ever met
What book are you reading at the moment?
Caitlin Moran, Moranthology, hilarious, social commentary at it's very best.
What was the last film you watched?
Dead Man's Shoes, a gritty and terrifying 2004 British film, with Paddy Considine about revenge, superb acting.
First single/record you ever bought?
Irene Cara 'Fame', as a child in the 80's it was the height of cool to jump off chairs (I know where was the health and safety??) at the village hall disco, singing along to the chorus.
Facebook or Twitter? (And what is your twitter handle/name?)
Twitter definitely, although sadly most of my tweets are about my dog Amber @charlottenamber


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Home > National Historic Sites > Fort Chambly National Historic Site
At the foot of the tumultuous Richelieu River rapids, Fort Chambly stands proudly, having played a defensive role for more than 300 years. In 1665, the Carignan-Salières regiment built the first fort in Chambly to counter the Iroquois threat. Two other wooden forts would later replace it. A fourth, this one in stone, still watches over the Richelieu.
Fort Chambly retraces the twists and turns of colonization and the military conflicts that fill the pages of Canada's history.
To highlight the importance of this fortification, the Fort Chambly National Historic Site invites visitors to celebrate the 350th anniversary of the construction of the first fort through festive and gourmet programming.
Come savour the cuisine of residents of New France while discovering garrison life. The fort has preserved the main elements of its original architecture so that you truly feel like you're walking in the steps of a French infantryman from the 18th century.