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OBJECTIVE: The objective of this manuscript was to report a case of pseudohypoparathyroidism (PHP) 1a simulating diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis and resulting in spinal cord compression, and discuss the pathogenesis of this disease.
SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA: Spinal cord compression due to PHP is not common, to the authors' knowledge, none of the previous reported cases simulated diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis.
METHODS: The patient's history, clinical examination, imaging findings, and treatment were reported; and the pathogenesis was discussed.
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CONCLUSION: We reported a rare case of skeletal and ligamentous abnormality resulting in spinal cord compression associated with PHP. A multiplane reconstruction of the computed tomography images was very necessary for diagnosis and treatment of this case. The unfavorable neurologic restoration might be due to the severe injury of the spinal cord caused by diffuse ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament and ligamentum flavum.
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BOSTON - The Boston Red Sox hit a home run with the University of Massachusetts 35 years ago when the baseball franchise picked up the option of a young public relations man.
Today a member of two halls of fame - UMass Athletics' and the Sox's own - Richard L. Bresciani is the elder statesman among an intergenerational team of UMass grads who have carved out careers in Back Bay's shrine to baseball.
As the World Series unfolded this week at Fenway Park, Bresciani - known simply as "Bresh" - was all over the park, welcoming "alumni" like Carl Yastrzemski and other members of the 1967 "Impossible Dream" team and answering a myriad of questions from the annals of Sox history for the media. He's working throughout the series to ensure pieces of the team's performance are archived for future generations to enjoy.
Bresciani, who joined the Sox in 1972 as assistant director of public relations, is now vice president of publications and archives.
He's also the man to whom more than one newcomer to the Red Sox organization, like Tim Schmitt, of Amherst, owes a debt of gratitude for introducing them to careers in professional sports.
"He put my name out there, and, thanks to him, I've been able to stay with the organization. He knows so many people in Major League Baseball. Knowing Bresh is a great thing for anybody who wants to get into the business," said Schmitt, a 2004 sport management graduate of UMass.
Schmitt likes to joke that he was the "lucky charm" for the Sox in '04. He landed with the team that May, just after he graduated. A native of Amherst, son of another UMass graduate and grandson of a longtime coach and head of intramural athletics at the university, he's supervisor of the team's Tour Department and works on relationships with past Sox players....
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Updated: Texans' A.J. Bouye celebrates on Dallas Cowboys' star, regrets it later
Updated (1:36 p.m., Friday): A.J. Bouye felt bad about celebrating on the star after the game.
"I wasn't thinking, I was being stupid," Bouye said to ESPN. "It was disrespectful for me to do it, for the team and the other team. I wasn't thinking. … They don't' teach us to do that. For me to even do that was disrespectful."
ARLINGTON — A.J. Bouye is a rookie cornerback who signed with the Houston Texans as an undrafted free agent. But he now has something in common with a much bigger name, Terrell Owens.
As Owens once did in 2000 when he was a member of the San Francisco 49ers, Bouye posed at midfield on the Cowboys' blue star. Bouye's celebration came after intercepted a pass thrown by Dallas quarterback Alex Tanney early in the fourth quarter of Houston's 24-6 victory.
"Well, that's just motivation for us," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "Did they give him a flag for it?"
They did. Bouye and the Texans were penalized 15 yards for unsportsmanlike conduct.
"That's just stupid," Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee said. "I understand having fun, but you know me, I don't like to celebrate too much. I like to worry about winning football games and moving on to the next play. I guess there is fun in having fun out there, but at some point I think that's doing a bit much."


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This guy gets the award for cheesiest sign of the year. Nice ESPNs at the top corners. Also, incredibly clever that you replaced the S's with dollar signs. Innovative!
Of course, this kid is referring to Manny Ramirez's recent comments regarding the possibility of a trade. He says he's "tired" of the Boston Red Sox and they're tired of him. However, he doesn't see a trade in the near future, with the non-waiver deadline fast approaching.
"I'd take a guy that's hitting .500 who's miserable as opposed to a guy that hands out bouquets to his teammates and is hitting a buck 45," said manager Terry Francona. "You move on."The Sox have until November 9th to pick up Manny's $20 million option for 2009. There is also a $20 million option for 2010, with this being the final year of his guaranteed eight-year, $160 million contract.
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Motorola Droid 4 seen live for first time
Motorola's rumored Maserati, better known as the Droid 4, has been spotted live for the first time. The design seen by Droid-Life, which should finally bring LTE-based 4G to Motorola's keyboarded phones, takes clear style cues from the Droid RAZR and may be as thin or thinner than the Droid 3. The phone would go on to bring MOTOACTV syncing, suggesting that it would be ready out of the box to post running results as soon as it's paired up.
The redesign would give an opportunity to once again tweak the phone's often touted keyboard. Inside, it may be very similar to the Droid RAZR with the same dual-core 1.2GHz TI OMAP processor, a 1080p-capable camera (likely eight megapixels), and a Super AMOLED screen, but this is based more on Motorola's tendency to share hardware across devices.
As shown, it's currently running Android 2.3 and looks mostly complete, hinting that Motorola might have the phone out no later than early next year or even before the end of 2011. Conspicuous Verizon branding and preloaded apps imply that it's in late testing. Its timing makes it a strong candidate for a quick upgrade to Android 4.0 either in testing or shortly after it ships.


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MINNEAPOLIS — Bellevue, Washington's Comprehensive Planning Manager, Paul Inghram, AICP, was inducted as President of the American Planning Association's (APA) professional institute, the American Institute of Certified Planners. APA's professional institute is responsible for the certification of professional planners and standards of practice, including ethics.
Inghram began his two-year term as President today during APA's National Planning Conference in Minneapolis.
He will be responsible for leading the eight-member American Institute of Certified Planners Commission and guiding the certification process and new professional development program, Certification Maintenance. This is a volunteer position.
Inghram has more than 14 years of planning experience spanning both public and private sectors. He has served as Bellevue's Comprehensive Planning Manager for more than two years and is a certified planner.
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Can someone explain how to adjust the caliper's inner moving pad? The rotor rides on it, just at the very top which makes it seem like the caliper or rotor is angled very slightly and not sitting straight. Trying to figure out how to adjust it so it does not rub and the rotor is straight. I messed with the wheel and trying to mount it so it was straight but that leads to the same result. I hear there are ways to move both caliper pads in and out and also adjust the angle of the caliper itself but not sure how that's done.
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His reason for being there was love. Love and remembrance.
"I met her here," he said. "I was from Chambersburg but I was up here in Fort Loudon and that's when I met her. She was 14, and I was 17."
Her name was Mary Alice Wigfield. It was not love at first sight, at least not for her.
"I had to ask her out a few times before she said yes," he said. "Our first date was at the Red Bridge Roller Rink in Chambersburg. It took a while for her to warm to him, he said. Even so, he was 17 when he married her. He is 81 now. She died last November.
The couple lived in a now-gone hotel in Fort Loudon for a year or so. He did a turn in the U.S. Army. Eventually, they moved away so he could attend culinary school back east. They retired to Palm Bay, Fla. He knew about the annual festival, and decided it would be a good time to come up.
"I wanted to come up here to remind myself of her," he said. "I want to be where she was; I want to be on the soil where she walked. I miss her terrible."
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Your materials must be professional-looking, which means it must be well-designed and ideally printed professionally…and you must be able to leave this behind.
Note: More often than not, they will also require you to provide them with samples that you will leave behind and not be able to get back and a price list, so be prepared for this.
Appropriate presentation materials can increase your chances of a distributor or retail chain buyer considering your product line for the following reasons:
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Sean Theriault, Associate Professor in the Department of Government at the University of Texas, Austin, will be on campus on Thursday, 2/26/09, as part of the programming for the Council on Inclusive Excellence's Winter Identity theme - Identity: Individuality, Community, Humanity - Exploring our identity to understand ourselves, others, and how we related in the world.
One of Dr. Theriault's campus talks will focus on the role of minority groups in the 2008 elections and thereafter, another will focus on growing up gay in the Catholic Church, and a third will discuss his experiences leading 25 University of Texas students in Rome for a class on "The Politics of the Catholic Church." [The third is a lunch talk by invitation only.] For more information on Theriault and the Winter quarter identity theme, go to http://www.scu.edu/oml/identity .
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Pistons center Viacheslav Kravtsov battles for a loose ball with Jazz center Enes Kanter and teammate Jeremy Evans in the first half tonight in Salt Lake City.
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Ive been riding for about 9 years now, mostly in the midwest and now new england. I have been primarily a freerider and like tall stiff rides for big carves and popping off rollers. My current stick is a Custom X with Cartels and some stiff boots. However, after riding like this for so long I have definitely fallen way behind on switch riding and ground tricks. I plan to dedicate most of this winter to really focusing on butters, presses, 180's and some park riding. I am going to pick up a true twin and Im really intrigued with the rocker style boards, but there are a lot of choices out there. I guess I'm looking for a good midrange rocker board like a Skate Banana, a Push 1985, artifact, or one of the Gnu's with the banana tech and magnetraction. I'm about 5'8" 200lbs. I've also been thinking about the Joystick V-rocker just because I can use my current EST cartels on it, but I would rather have two complete setups.
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He was born in Beech Grove, Tennessee to Morris and Casslenia (Brown) Winfrey on August 3, 1932.
James married Jerlene B. Hall on November 30, 1951. He retired from Marhoefer's Meat Packaging in 1978 as a truck driver, James later retired as a custodian at Muncie Community Schools. James was a member of Fellowship Baptist Church in Muncie and enjoyed fishing..
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|Catheter interventional treatment in Kawasaki disease: A report from the Japanese Pediatric Interventional Cardiology Investigation group.
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|OBJECTIVE: To assess the current status of catheter intervention in Kawasaki disease and to evaluate its efficacy and outcome. STUDY DESIGN: A questionnaire was sent to 55 major institutions in Japan. RESULTS: A total of 58 procedures in 57 patients were reported. The median age at the time of intervention was 12.1 years. The procedures included percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA; n = 34), percutaneous transluminal coronary rotational ablation (PTCRA; n = 13), directional coronary atherectomy (DCA; n = 4), and stent implantation (n = 7). The immediate success rate was 74% for PTCA, 100% for PTCRA, 100% for DCA, and 86% for stents. The interval from the onset of disease to intervention in successful PTCA (n = 25) was significantly shorter than that in unsuccessful PTCA (n = 9). Restenosis after PTCA was observed in 24%. Development of new coronary aneurysms was reported in 3 patients for PTCA, 2 for PTCRA, 3 for DCA, and 1 for stents. Except for the DCA, all new aneurysms were associated with the use of high-pressure balloon inflation. Two deaths were reported as acute complications. CONCLUSIONS: Catheter intervention is a promising therapeutic strategy in the management of coronary stenosis caused by Kawasaki disease. Care should be paid to avoid acute coronary arterial complications and the development of new coronary aneurysms.
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Courage Doesn't Always Roar
From the book "Courage Doesn't Always Roar": " 'Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow". It takes courage to change your style, your opinion, the path you walk, your hat! It takes courage to let go of the weighty parts of your past. It takes courage to find your own voice.' " Mary Anne Radmacher's new book has tips for helping you find the courage to try the things, both big and small, that you're too afraid to do.
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Your Work Is Mine!
Becoming interconnected is no excuse for surrendering to the fallacious notion that our information work must be shared for free.
That's the natural conclusion arising out of the muddled mindset that surrounds Napster and similar Web services, which let millions of people freely exchange their musical recordings. I call it muddled, because it offers all sorts of excuses in support of gratification, while ignoring the central human issue.
I have repeatedly screamed from this column that the "content" of movies, news, books, music and videos that everyone is hyperventilating about is, at 5 percent of the industrial economy, barely one-tenth of the far more important currency no one talks about-information work. The latter represents work proffered by people and machines in medical care, finance, education, entertainment, government, commerce and much more. Information work is huge and will dominate Internet business as it does today's economy. Imagine now that future Web services would let people freely exchange all this information work, in addition to music. Books, newspapers, magazines and movies in their entirety-not just their online versions-would be first. They would be followed by professional service exchanges, for example of a unique and successful program that helps people identify illnesses from symptoms. Should a gifted doctor go to school for more than 20 years, learn complex skills and work for another 20 years to develop this unique program-so that people can pilfer it without her consent?
No more than you and I can get away with stealing a chair! Advocates of Napster argue that information is fundamentally different from physical objects and should be treated differently. It's true that information does not have a unique physical embodiment and can be easily replicated. Also, it's a lot easier to download music over the Internet than it would be to download a chair…at least during this century. Yet both the chair and the diagnostic program are the result of skilled human work (carpenter or doctor) and capital (woodworking or computing and medical equipment). Here is the key point: Somebody has expended a valuable portion of his or her life to produce a good that other people find beneficial. If the chair maker is compensated for his work by those who benefit from it, so should the program maker be, and the musician.


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Homemade Fiddlestix (and Magic Shell!)
I thought I was prepared for summer, the end of school and the start of Stampede this year. I was not. I'm not even used to it being June yet, and it's well into July. (I see a recurring theme here…)
But. Priorities: I have figured out how to make those iconic midway treats I always picked as a kid, when my sisters would opt for cotton candy (mostly air) and candy apples (just a whole fruit, disguised with sticky red stuff – suckers!). The teenage summer staff would make Fiddlestix onsite in their box-sized concessions, opening up a box of vanilla ice cream, slicing it into bars, then dipping each piece into chocolate and rolling it in peanuts before handing it through the window in exchange for $2. I'm sure there's a more mechanized, streamlined version out there now – but I still hold on to a scrap of nostalgia for ice cream that was sliced instead of scooped.
I came across a recipe for homemade Magic Shell – something I remember, but my mom never bought – and it occurred to me that such a thing could be used to dip bars of ice cream. Unlike plain melted chocolate, which is warm in its liquid state and will start to melt your ice cream on impact, magic shell is made with coconut oil, which keeps chocolate liquid even at room temperature and hardens almost instantly on contact with cold. It's a very cool, delicious science experiment.
And it gives me an excuse to buy ice cream in a box. I opened mine up, sliced it into bars with a sharp knife, stuck in popsicle sticks and returned the open box to the freezer, top flap torn off, to firm up and wait until I was ready to dole out ice cream bars to a back yard full of friends.
The basic principle is that the saturated fat in coconut oil (which conveniently has a flavour that enhances chocolate – it won't make it taste coconutty) will turn hard and snappy upon impact with something cold. Most recipes call for dark chocolate and coconut oil in various ratios: Food 52 does two parts coconut oil to three parts chocolate. Instructables does one part oil to one and a half parts chocolate, by weight. Serious Eats adds a dose of corn syrup to replace some of the sweetness that gets lost when you dilute chocolate with coconut oil, and to create a slightly fudgy texture. Their formula is 250 g (1/2 pound) chocolate, 200 g (about one cup) coconut oil, and 125 g (a little more than half a cup) corn syrup.
I read this wrong and did a pound of chocolate (in the form of chips – only because the store was out of big bars of dark chocolate) to 1 cup of coconut oil and a squirt (maybe 1/4 cup) of Roger's Golden Syrup, which I use instead of corn syrup. Melted together in a glass bowl in the microwave, stirring every minute until melted and smooth. It worked beautifully as both magic shell on a scoop of ice cream and as a chocolate dip. So you can see that this is a very forgiving formula.
Let it cool to room temperature and it can sit on your countertop until you need it; once it hits ice cream, it takes about 20 seconds to harden into a substantial, solid shell. You'll be able to tell when it goes from glossy to matte; if you're dipping, let the excess drip off before sprinkling with or rolling in a shallow dish of finely chopped, salted peanuts. I imagine sprinkles would be a hit too – or nothing at all. You could set out dishes of small sweet or crunchy things – gummy bears, crushed Oreos and the like – and do ice cream bars made to order. I saw an older couple in line at the store the other day buying a box of cherry ice cream, which made me wonder why I stuck with plain old vanilla. (Although – there are few better combos than vanilla ice cream, thick slabs of chocolate and salty peanuts.)
Whatever combination you choose (with a bowl of chocolate shell at the ready, it could be a new one every week – or every day), these will undoubtedly contribute to the thorough enjoyment of summer.
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20 Responses to "Homemade Fiddlestix (and Magic Shell!)"
tara on 06 Jul 2014 at 10:53 am #
Slicing the ice cream is BRILLIANT! Also, if ever you don't have coconut oil, clarified butter will work in a pinch. I often have a pot of ghee kicking around, so that discovery was life-changing.
Jan @ Family Bites on 06 Jul 2014 at 10:55 am #
This is brilliant! Love the idea of slicing the ice cream and putting sticks into the pieces. This has just moved high up on my list of foods to make this summer.
jane on 06 Jul 2014 at 11:00 am #
Amazing idea!!
I always find something from you that fits the bill.
Hubby at the lake and me home working!Hubby's birthday next week and me going to lake to surprise him. What to do to celebrate??? Julie to the rescue. (He likes mint chocolate chip ice cream)
Janice on 06 Jul 2014 at 11:15 am #
This is a revelation!! I cannot wait to do this.
Jules @ WolfItDown on 06 Jul 2014 at 11:53 am #
That is such a clever way of rattling up a delicious treat! And it looks gorgeous with the chopped peanuts, yum! x
Jackie H on 06 Jul 2014 at 2:10 pm #
This. is. Awesome!
Annick on 06 Jul 2014 at 4:53 pm #
Last week I was wondering why you didn't see ice cream in a box anymore, if you (or anybody) could tell me the brand that still exist (or is it just around here that it disappear) cause I remember it to be better and I would love to do this treat next time it's hot!
Aga on 06 Jul 2014 at 6:04 pm #
Annick, where do you live? Julie's looks like the house brand from Superstore, but Chapman's also sells ice cream in a carton, and I'm sure Safeway does too.
Julie, this is brilliant. I'm always inspired to do this after a trip to the Stampede (or Purdy's!).
Julie R on 06 Jul 2014 at 7:00 pm #
I must try this! Thanks for the delicious idea!
Annick on 06 Jul 2014 at 7:04 pm #
I live in the the National Capital Region (was living in Montreal before) and the Chapman was in the plastic box, but I will continue to search to do this recipe it looks fantastic!
Barb on 06 Jul 2014 at 8:21 pm #
This does look good!
Heather @ Sarap Life on 06 Jul 2014 at 9:43 pm #
Wow, what a throwback dessert! This screams summer. I had never known how magic shell was made. Knowing that it can be homemade is awesome! I'll have to try it the next time ice cream is in my freezer (aka this week).
Liz on 07 Jul 2014 at 1:22 am #
Awesome recipe! I can't wait it try this!
Kathy on 07 Jul 2014 at 1:48 am #
Those look better than and Fiddlestix I ever saw at the Stampede and the peanuts won't be stale, LOL.
Julie on 07 Jul 2014 at 10:05 pm #
I'm so glad you guys like it! WOW, mint chocolate chip?? are you kidding me?? brilliant! and yes, this was from Superstore – it's actually pretty great ice cream, and $3 per box! And you're right Kathy, the peanuts won't be stale!
Asiya @ Chocolate & Chillies on 08 Jul 2014 at 1:13 pm #
This is pure genius!!!!!
Brenda from Carstairs on 08 Jul 2014 at 4:49 pm #
The only thing that could make these better is to somehow add caramel. Any ideas on how we could do that?
The obvious would be to use caramel swirl ice cream but I was thinking of something like Buster Bars with a lot of caramel.
Lana on 08 Jul 2014 at 6:40 pm #
Wow, so fun! We can't eat chocolate, so made it with white chocolate for one batch, and peanut butter chips for the other. Chopped nuts, rice krispies and skor bit finished them off. Huge hit!!
Julie on 09 Jul 2014 at 10:16 am #
Oooh – great idea Lana!!!
Brenda – hmm.. you could probably do a caramel layer on the ice cream, then freeze it…
Brenda on 28 Jul 2014 at 6:49 am #
I made them yesterday and they were a hit! Our small local grocery store didn't have ice-cream in a box so I had to buy a tub. It was really tricky to get it cut into nice even bars so I would definitely use a boxed ice-cream next time. I used Skor bits and chopped peanuts for coating. Also I had about 1 1/2 cups of magic shell left over so you know what that means…I'll have to make another batch!


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Columbus College of Art & Design's board of trustees confirmed Thomas White, an award-winning industrial designer and branding expert who has positioned organizations for growth in a variety of business sectors, including higher education, as CCAD's new president during the board's annual meeting on June 24.
White, 58, is a passionate advocate for the power of art and design to fuel economic growth and innovation. He succeeds Dennison W. Griffith in leading one of the nation's oldest and largest private colleges of art and design. Griffith, who announced in August that he would retire when his contract expired June 30, was president for 16 years and most recently oversaw the opening of the CCAD MindMarket as a hub for businesses to engage with the college.
"Tom's career accomplishments, combined with his passion for creativity and commerce, made him the ideal next president of CCAD," said Robert P. Restrepo Jr., chair of the CCAD board of trustees and president, chairman and CEO of State Auto Insurance Companies. "He has the perfect blend of experience in academia and business. His expertise in branding, marketing and business development presented a skill set the search committee recognized as key for today's competitive higher education marketplace."
White, who has taught drawing and industrial design at California campuses during his business career, begins his tenure at CCAD immediately.
"This is a college with a rich legacy in an amazing city," White said. "We have unlimited potential to deliver value to a growing population of creative thinkers that seek a quality education. I'm here to build on the value of CCAD regionally and nationally. Collaboratively, we will lead the college into a new era of growth."
White sees the changing global business environment as a call to action for art and design educators.
"We've entered the 'Era of the Creatives.' The financial, legal and technical voices will always be critical to any endeavor, but the creative voice has emerged as the engine for innovation and growth," White said.
Prior to accepting the CCAD presidency, White was vice president of corporate development at Co-Optimum Connect+ in Sherman Oaks, Calif. His business career includes leadership roles in technology design, marketing, advertising and branding with Citicorp and Lockheed-Martin as well as international design firms RKS Design and EDG Visual Communications in the Netherlands. Among White's consultancy engagements was leading the strategic planning effort for the Savannah College of Art and Design.
White earned his undergraduate degree in industrial design at California State University, Northridge, and an MBA at Pepperdine University. In the classroom, White taught drawing in the interior design Extension program at the University of California, Los Angeles, and industrial design at his alma mater, CSUN. He also created the Commerce of Creativity Distinguished Speakers Series, known as C2, at CSUN.
Restrepo said the nine-month search for Griffith's successor was extensive and attracted a diverse pool of international candidates. Board member Jane Ramsey, chief human resources officer for L Brands, Inc., chaired the committee, which worked with search firm Korn Ferry.
"The search committee was very thorough and included a well-rounded group of trustees, faculty and senior staff members," Restrepo said. "We owe them our thanks for the hard work they invested to bring forward such a fine candidate.
"The board is very confident Tom's personal style, strong leadership experience, and clear, concise communication skills will enable him to tell the CCAD story well," Restrepo said.
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He plays the Incredible Hulk on the big screen, but in real life, Mark Ruffalo is more like Captain Planet. The actor campaigns against the use of hydrofracking, a controversial method of extracting petroleum and natural gas that can pollute the water. Thanks to Mark and his nonprofit organization, Water Defense, we're confident that the kids -- and Mother Earth -- will be all right.
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Visit Malta Puma's consistently solid results throughout the 2012 offshore racing season have seen her win the Emily Verger Plate for the best yacht in IRC Class 2 championships. She also finished eleventh in the RORC IRC Overall Points Series (from 283 boats). This is a fantastic achievement, and the herculean efforts of the crew coming second in the gruelling Round Ireland Race in June made all the difference between her and the rest of the class.
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Throughout the 2012 racing season, Skipper James (Chippie) Gair ably assisted by Mate, Leanna Hill, battled hard against a very competitive fleet including ex-RORC Commodore Andrew McIrvine on his First 40 'La Reponse', and the British Army's Archambaud 40, 'British Soldier'.
In addition, Visit Malta Puma has for the eighth consecutive year, won the David Fayle Memorial Cup for Best Sailing School Yacht. This trophy was presented to RORC by Maurice Laing in 1972 in memory of Brigadier LRE Fayle, who was then the RORC Rating Secretary. We are immensely proud of this award, as it shows Sailing Logic are the country's premier Sailing School, and have been since 2005.
Visit Malta Puma have enjoyed a third winning year under the colours and name of the Malta Tourism Authority; Alex Incorvaja, Director of Malta Tourism Authority UK and Ireland comments: 'We are absolutely delighted that our sponsored yacht 'Visit Malta Puma' has once again become the best Sailing School Race yacht in the UK and has also won its class in the IRC 2 Championships. We are very proud of these great achievements, and recognise the huge effort the Skipper, Mate and amateur crew have put in to receiving these awards. The Maltese branding on the yacht has become widely recognised throughout the South coast of England and Ireland, where she has been competing and we are very happy to be associated with a winning team'.
Skipper of Visit Malta Puma, James (Chippie) Gair remarks: 'It's been a tremendously tough season racing offshore, but the highlight for me was match racing with another Reflex 38 for five days on the Round Ireland Race. I am extremely proud of the team especially their heroic efforts in some of the worst conditions the yacht has ever raced in'.
Allie Smith of Sailing Logic enthuses: 'We are very proud of all our teams, but Visit Malta Puma and her intrepid offshore sailors winning RORC IRC Class 2 is definitely the highlight of the year, especially with the series becoming increasingly competitive. Furthermore, finishing 11th overall and being higher placed than many impressive professional crews is an incredible achievement for a Sailing School'.
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Colorado State University President Tony Frank created the panel following a dispute this summer between admissions and athletics officials over eight prospective student athletes who were rejected because of their academic qualifications. Athletic Director Paul Kowalczyk appealed to Frank, who overruled the admissions decision and accepted the students.
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Is there a library of finite groups given by their multiplication tables? can I get this result using the GAP SYSTEM ?
GAP indeed has this functionality in-built. For example, this code will print out Cayley tables corresponding to the two groups of order 6.
It outputs:
The function
The details of which groups are available can be found here.
The SmallGroups library works in Gap, Sage, Magma, and a bunch of other computer algebra systems. The linked page shows you exactly which groups it contains. Note that it's unlikely that any better package will come along any time soon as the number of isomorphism classes of groups increases dramatically for $p$-groups (especially $2$-groups) above order $2000$.


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Casa dei Tajarin Comes to Rome
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One of the most passionate food artisans I have ever encountered is Mauro Musso, the proprietor of Casa dei Tajarin, a small pasta operation he runs out of the ground floor of his parents' home in Alba. There, he makes the traditional pasta of Piedmont's Langhe region using rare flours (sourced from Mulino Marino nearby) and organic eggs. On Thursday November 17 at 8:30pm Mauro will bring his amazing tajarin to Rome. He will be hosting a pasta dinner at Beppe e I Suoi Formaggi in the Ghetto. Mauro sent me the menu yesterday and I'm sure the evening will be a fascinating and carby gastronomic journey through the Langhe. Though some of the tasting will be in Italian I will be there (with Mamma Parla!!) to translate for English speakers. Here's what we'll be eating:
Tajarin di Farro "Monococco" selezione Enkir coltivato in Alta Langa all'olio di Taggiasca e pepe nero
Einkorn flour tajarin with Taggisca olive oil and black pepper
No wine pairing so as not to interfere with the pure aromas of the Enkir pasta
Tajarin di Grano Tenero "Gentil Bianco" al burro di Beppe e tartufo d'Alba
"Gentil Bianco" soft wheat tajarin with Beppe's butter and white Alba truffles
Chauvet Champagne Brut
Tajarin di Grano Tenero "Rosso delle Langhe" al sugo di Stoccafisso
"Rosso delle Langhe" soft wheat tajarin with stockfish sauce
Domaine des Fossiles Chardonnay (2009)
Casarecce di "Segale Bianca" e pesto genovese o alle erbe aromatiche
Rolled pasta of white rye with pesto or aromatic herbs
Weingut Tesch "Unplugged" (2007)
Tajarin di Farro "Monococco" selezione Enkir al condimento di verdure miste
Einkorn flour tajarin with mixed vegetables
I Clivi "Galea" (2004)
Tajarin ai "Sapori Antichi" con ragù di coniglio grigio alla monferrina
Einkorn, spelt, kamut, and rye tajarin with rabbit ragù
Cantina Baldo Rivella Barbaresco "Montestefano" (2004)
Tajarin alle tre varietà di Grano Turgido "Khorasan" con ragù alle tre carni
Three khorasan flour tajarin with three meat ragù
Cantina Giulio Viglione Barolo (2004)
Piccolo ventaglio di formaggi e un dolce
Small cheese tasting and dessert
The cost of the dinner, including wine parirings, cheese, and dessert, is €40 and can be booked directly through the venue. Contact Beppe e I Suoi Formaggi at +390668192210. Come taste Mauro's amazing pasta. And if you can't make it, you can purchase his pasta at Beppe e I Suoi Formaggi and (soon) at Pizzarium. Also look for it on the menu of Open Baladin soon.
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This sounds fabulous! We already made our reservations. See you there, Katie! Seth
Fantastic!!! See you there!
Ciao,se lo senti potresti dire a Mauro che lo sto cercando? Non risponde alla mail…
See you there!!
Ciao bella
Yesss! Can't wait to introduce you to my mamma!
OH MY GOD. these pastas seem amazing.
they are soooo good. mauro's casarecce are made without eggs. and many of his pastas are made with gluten and other intolerances in mind. ill bring you some casarecce on the 19th!!
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Can't wait to taste this pasta…and on my first night back in Roma!
Counting down the hours until tonight!
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AKRON -- Some Akron residents say they're being pushed out of their homes and they don't want to go. But the city says its all for the better.
Those who live here at teh Mayflower Manor Apartments don't want a change of address.
Karen King has lived at the Mayflower for 25 years.
"It's home to me. It's convenient," she said.
Convenient because Karen can walk to Children's Hospital where she has volunteered for 40 years, including as Santa's helper.
But recently she found out she's losing her home.
"I was floored. I'm angry. I'm floored," she said.
Karen and her neighbors met with the city and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The city wants to buy the building and then have a developer rehab it for future use.
At 100 years old, the city says the building needs some serious work. The city says it needs new plumbing and that it's a health hazard for the residents.
But Karen loves this old building and, if she's forced to move, she's worried she'll have to give up working with Santa.
She has her own wish for the city. "Let us live here....leave us alone," she said.
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NEWARK, N.J. (AP) - The Transportation Security Administration is proposing to fire 25 employees at Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey and to suspend 19 others as a result of an investigation into improper screening of checked luggage.
The TSA says the alleged screening failures were uncovered last year after surveillance cameras were installed in a screening room to check for possible thefts.
Eight employees were immediately fired in June.
The latest action raises to 52 the number of TSA employees at Newark caught up in the investigation. It represents the biggest single disciplinary action taken by the TSA at a U.S. airport.
The TSA says the latest group cited includes both screeners and managers who are accused of failing to effectively supervise their employees.
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Heritage Middle School
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About This School
In 2011, Heritage Middle School had 16 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The Georgia average is 15 students per full-time equivalent teacher.
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Heritage Middle School Reviews
love the school i go there... and how did u guys commenting earlier go ther it only opened 9 yrs ago..????
HMS has a serious bullying and harrasment problem that teachers and administrators are turning a blind eye too.... if any parent has had this happen to their child or children ..please take a stand against this ... our childrens lives depend on it!
Out of the schools my son has attended in the last 8 years, this is by far the best, most efficient, and well educated school. He has learned so much and blossomed into such a young man. I look forward to seeing this trend continue as he graduates from eigth grade this year and moves on to Heritage High School. I do not believe a private school could give my son a better education.
i think the teachers have helped my daughter greatly she has made outstanding grades
i went there and now my daughter is going there. The teachers and activities were great. The caring and help after and before school showed how much teachers care
This school has helped my daughter in alot of ways.... Go Generals!!!


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Some of the statistics that rank us behind most states in key areas of well-being are disheartening and need our attention. But it's time to look at what's right with our state because there is much to report - especially on the economic front.
For instance, recent rankings point to Louisiana as an emerging economic leader. This year, Chief Executive magazine ranked Louisiana No. 9 on a list of "Best & Worst States for Business." Louisiana showed the greatest improvement of any state in the U.S. over the past four years, jumping 31 positions from ...


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FARMINGTON — The No. 2 Aztec softball team had no trouble in its first-round matchup.
The Lady Tigers used a six-run first inning to pull away from No. 15 Roswell in a 15-1 win on Saturday at the Aztec Tigers Sports Complex.
"It was nice to come out like that," Aztec head coach Jose Santistevan said. "We had the girls ready after a great week of practice."
Kylie Brown hit a home run for Aztec in the victory.
Angela Minjarez allowed three hits in five innings to pick up the win.
Aztec will begin the double elimination portion of the tournament with No. 7 Bernalillo on Thursday in Rio Rancho.
"We have no reason to doubt that we can't keep it going," Santistevan said. "If you can split with PV, you can win a state title."
Bernalillo advanced past No. 10 Farmington High with a 2-1 victory in Bernalillo.
The Lady Scorps opened the scoring with a run in the third inning after Erika Bradley hit a double and scored on an error.
The Lady Spartans scored one run in the fifth inning and one in the sixth to take the lead.
FHS could muster only Bradley's double on offense as the rest of the Lady Scorps were held hitless.
"Their pitcher threw the game of her life against us," FHS head coach Johnny Curry said.
Jordan Curry took the loss after allowing three hits in seven innings.
Johnny Curry said only one of the hits allowed was hit hard, while the other two were looped just beyond the third baseman.
Curry is looking forward to bringing most of his team back next season and believes the Lady Scorps will be able to make a run in the state tournament.
"The core of the team is all coming back," he said. "We're already excited about our potential for next year."
In other 4A action, No. 14 Kirtland Central had its season come to an end at the hands of No. 3 Centennial with a 10-0 loss in Las Cruces.


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Maturity doesn't come with age or intellectual wisdom, only with love
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We may have thought being mature meant being "grown-up." This meant acting rationally, showing good judgment, no longer exhibiting childish behavior. It's doubtful that we ever considered the expression of love as an act of maturity. However, we are learning that the key to sustained growth is the ability to love one another and ourselves.
It seems so much easier to focus on others' faults than on their assets. In childhood we learned to compete with our classmates, and this taught us to be critical of one another. No teacher tested us on how we expressed love; rather, we worked on spelling and multiplication tables, and we were pitted against other students for the gold stars.
Now we are discovering how much more comfortable life is when we all get gold stars. We are handling every situation more sanely now that we have realized the gift of serenity that accompanies our expression of love.
From the book: A Woman's Spirit by Karen Casey
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Debunking the Five Most Ridiculous Assertions About E-Cigarettes
Assertions about e-cigarettes run the gamut from factual, misinformed, overly positive, and just downright stupid. The latter is the easiest to run with because it's so damn sensational...and easily debunked. Here are our favorites...
John Gilhooley Such little bottles, so much drama...
1. Nicotine Juice is Extremely Dangerous
A recent New York Times article contended that e-liquid is just poison by the barrel, and that title alone sparked E-Fer Madness across the Interwebz. Since then, reams of articles have fretted about hundreds of cases of people poisoned by it, whether from ingesting the e-liquid, puffing like a maniac, or spilling it on themselves in their sleep.
The truth: E-liquid is not for drinking nor is it a topical oil. There's hundreds of chemical products in every American home that if ingested or poured onto the skin would make for a real bummer of a night. Most people poisoned by juice via ingestion are kids. Kids are also known to eat shit and drink Drain-O if left to their own devices.
Poisoning by inhalation is also easily debunked. Puffing on nicotine for three hours straight makes you nauseous? No way! Smoking regular cigarettes for three hours straight will do the same exact thing! That also applies to drinking, marijuana, excessive jogging, oversleeping, playing Grand Theft Auto V , and every other activity if done in excess. Moderation has always been the key, and e-cigs are no different.
One of the few articles to point out this obvious fact quoted someone with little clout these days--a Big Tobacco man. Jason Healy, the president of Lorillard Inc.'s Blu E-cigs Unit, told the Winston-Salem Journal, "The product is for adult smokers, and therefore the responsibility for children's safety falls on the parents, just like bleaches and prescription medications...The focus should be on parenting and education, and not regulation."
2. Exhaled Vapor is Equivalent to Second Hand Smoke
John Gilhooley Oh no! That's not a barrel full of poison, is it?
Oh no! Pull the fire alarm! We don't know the affects of second-hand vapor and we're all gonna diiie!
The Huffington Post wrote a laughable piece on the possible dangers of second-hand vapor, and that's not even counting when they wondered if it's safe to "bogart an e-cig" or why people have "got to" smoke in the first place. They examined an admittedly small study by Wolfgang Schober of the Bavarian Health and Food Safety Authority that found exhaled vapor worsened the indoor air quality and increase the concentration of nicotine, PAHs, and aluminum in the room. Well, sure: if you're hanging out in a vape shop with 10 other people puffing away, it might get a little hazy. But for the average person that doesn't vape, it won't affect them since it dissipates almost instantly and the amount of nicotine released after a person has already inhaled is minute. You'll get more nicotine in your system if you eat an eggplant for dinner.
Time Magazine quoted a study from Nicotine and Tobacco Research that "found...e-cigarettes are a source of second-hand exposure to nicotine, but not of other compounds released when tobacco is burned." They also pointed out that the amount of nicotine was 10 times less than tobacco smoke. Pretty sure that when folks worry about real second-hand smoke, it's not the nicotine they're concerned about.
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The blare of the radio tried to wake me up this morning.� I slowly woke up, Gasp!� I'm going to high school.� I ran out of bed put on my dark baggy jeans, my red tank top, and I threw my brown jacket on.� I tied my hair back with a matching red hair tie with a brown ribbon.� I stole Danny's black happy face tie :p with the red background, it's kind of weird but cool.� I had some cereal like Danny and Devin but Ganina made herself eggs and bacon.� Devin isn't allowed to drive his car so, we got a ride with Danny, he's cool like that.� He has a red ford GT 40, I would normally go with Devin in his black Ferrari, but he stayed out after his curfew with a bunch of girls, so he's grounded for a month.� Ganina has a pink V.W. with roses that I painted on it.� Math is my first class, oh boy, English and social studies I didn't know anyone because I fell asleep.� Now language art is cool, I'm obviously pretty good at it because I'm writing this book. :P
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Craig Rigby of Curtis Lumber in Burlington holds safely packaged used CFL bulbs that are ready for shipment and disposal off-site on Tuesday Dec. 13, 2011. Curtis Lumber will dispose of used CFL bulbs for free. / EMILY McMANAMY, Free Press
Another link in the (food) chain
Small aquatic organisms metabolize and absorb mercury. As they fall prey to larger and larger fish — and finally, to mammals — the concentration and toxicity of mercury increases in a process known as "bio-accumulation" or "bio-magnification."
A publication from the Vermont Department of Health outlines safe fish consumption limits for humans (walleye, for instance, is fine to eat if you limit it to one serving per month — unless you're a woman of childbearing age or a child 6 years old or younger, in which case it's never safe).
Other species that should give gourmets pause: lake trout, chain pickerel, largemouth bass and yellow perch.
Find out more at http://1.usa.gov/VtFishAlert.
Mercury facts online
A plethora of useful (and merely edifying) information about the element known to scientists as "Hg" can be found at the Vermont Mercury Education and Reduction Campaign (MERC), a division of the Department of Environmental Conservation: www.mercvt.org.
Your very own hazmat manual: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency details how best to clean up a mercury spill — and why it's so important to do it right: http://1.usa.gov/MercCleanUpEPA.
Cost savings attributed to florescent light use are tallied at the "CFL Corral" website, sponsored by Efficiency Vermont. The answers pop up in kilowatts, dollars and pounds of coal and atmospheric carbon dioxide.
The website also features an easy locator map that shows where to buy — and return — CFLs. New Bulb in Town: www.newbulbintown.com.
It might not burn out soon. But sooner or later, through age or through fracture, every energy-saving fluorescent light becomes a dud.
Worse yet, its corpse could turn a right-minded person to crime.
Tossing a fluorescent tube or compact fluorescent light bulb (CFL) into the landfill-bound trash is illegal in Vermont — and irresponsible anywhere.
The somewhat-inconvenient-but-virtuous alternative: recycling. But not of the blue-bin variety. It's going to be a pain: extra time and effort; topped, most likely, with an extra trip in a fossil-fuel-burning car.
Who's going to notice if we don't bother?
Our consciences, maybe.
Even the smallest of CFLs, once its luminescence dies, sheds all virtue. What remains is a vessel of toxic mercury — in about the same amount that a compact fluorescent bulb keeps out of the environment from power-plant emissions over its lifetime.
A tiny vessel, to be sure. A common CFL contains far less mercury than an old fever thermometer — and who among us in our careless youth hasn't fiddled with those seductive little blobs?
A dose of mercury from a CFL (about 5 mg) represents, on its own, a reasonably small health threat to adult humans, according to the Vermont Department of Health.
But because mercury's health risks (notably brain and liver damage) build as it accumulates over time in animal tissue, health experts make no bones about urging caution.
What kind of caution? The no-nonsense kind; the kind that drives home the truth that every time we try to improve our stewardship of the planet, we face vexing trade-offs.
Bright enough for Bush
Mercury particles, when energized, give off ultraviolet light, which converts into the visible spectrum when it strikes the specially coated interior surface of a fluorescent lamp.
It's an efficient transaction, one that results in relatively little energy loss due to heat.
Good publicity has spread the news worldwide: CFLs require less energy to shed the equivalent light of incandescent bulbs. Although they often cost more than the older fixtures, they cost less to operate in the long run.
Even President George W. Bush — famously skeptical of environmental causes — found this bang-for-the-buck formula downright patriotic. In 2007 he signed into law the Energy Independence and Security Act, which includes efficiency standards for lighting that effectively would have phased out standard household incandescent bulbs, beginning in 2012.
That phase-out was placed in limbo last week, though, by the GOP-controlled House of Representatives, which passed a budget bill that granted incandescent bulbs a reprieve at least until October.
Benefits by the ton
The savings are expected to add up.
Lighting typically accounts for about 20 percent of our electrical bills — or about $200 annually, according to Burlington-based Efficiency Vermont. Switching a single old-school bulb to a CFL saves about $42 in energy costs over the life of the fixture, according to the renewable-energy organization.
A calculator at the online "CFL Corral" (www.newbulbintown.com), sponsored by Efficiency Vermont, enables the idle to quantify further savings, measured in dollars, percentage of energy budget, pounds of coal and even pounds of atmospheric carbon dioxide, the Earth's most plentiful greenhouse gas.
Switching to fluorescent light could carry a huge impact, according to the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit Alliance to Save Energy. Its coalition of conservation groups, light-bulb manufacturers and energy utilities championed the 2007 energy bill, estimating that the complete replacement of incandescent bulbs with CFLs would save the country $18 billion per year in energy production — or the equivalent output of 80 coal plants.
Proponents of CFLs, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cite an ancillary benefit: Reduced electrical consumption translates into fewer emissions from coal-fired power plants — widely recognized as the world's greatest mercury polluters.
At first glance, the math is simple. The energy demand of a 60-watt incandescent bulb, and therefore its associated release of mercury from a power plant, is about five times that of a comparable (13-watt) CFL.
The EPA estimates that, over the useful life of that CFL (about 8,000 hours), the savings in smokestack mercury emissions would amount to 4.3 mg —about the same amount of mercury sheltered behind fragile glass in the CFL.
If that CFL breaks during its removal, and if its mercury ends up lurking in the air we breathe or the water we drink, some of its environmental savings dissolve.
Human error, as ever, muddies the math with variables.
The dangers posed by airborne mercury are well documented: Tiny droplets of mercury fall back to Earth. Bacteria and other natural processes bind the element into a more formidable poison: methylmercury, a compound that travels quickly through animal tissue and up through food chains to fish-eating birds and mammals.
Mammal fetuses are particularly vulnerable to damage from methylmercury.
However sobering the threat of mercury poisoning might be, most of us trust it to the province of specialists, lawyers and lawmakers.
Until it's time to change a bulb.
"Toxic waste" ceases to be an abstraction when we break a CFL, because, suddenly, we find ourselves holding a piece of a much larger problem — as well as our immediate self-interests — in the palm of our hands.
Really bad
To wit, the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation's Mercury Education and Reduction Campaign (MERC) advises:
Don't touch mercury. It can be absorbed through your skin.
Break a CFL, and forget about the vacuum cleaner or a broom and dustpan: that approach further scatters the poison into the room, warns the EPA.
Mercury evaporates; its vapors are absorbed easily through our lungs.
Break a CFL? Immediately open windows for ventilation; escort all children, pregnant women and pets out of harm's way; close off the room; and turn off fan-driven heating or cooling systems.
The responsible adult will don disposable gloves, and using a stiff, thin piece of cardboard, coax all visible mercury droplets into a jar with a secure lid. Tinier beads of the metal should be lifted off the surface with adhesive tape and similarly quarantined — outside.
Clothes or small rugs should not be washed, but double-bagged and stowed outside until you can haul your mercury-tainted stuff to a solid waste district drop-off center authorized to handle mercury.
Multiple CFL breaks on a large rug? Consider calling a hazardous waste firm.
Yes, really.
Not really exciting
How could this household fixture — whose twisty-ice-cream-cone outline has become a universal icon for planetary goodness — betray our trust so thoroughly?
It need not, responds Mike Russom, market manager of Efficiency Vermont's Residential Energy Services.
For the past several years, several Vermont hardware stores (True-Value, Ace and Do-It-Best) have accepted spent, intact fluorescent tubes and CFLs. The collected units are transported to responsible mercury-recovery businesses.
Russom, through collaboration with state agencies and regional solid-waste districts, has helped expand the service. A law enacted in the state Legislature this year requires fluorescent light manufacturers to join the partnership.
Gary Gulka, the mercury education and reduction coordinator at the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation, is helping negotiate the "product stewardship" agreement.
"The bottom line is that we want to have a convenient way for Vermonters to participate," he said. "We're looking for shared responsibility for the product, over the course of its life."
The disposal process has been getting easier.
A quick navigation through the "CFL Corral" website yields a locator map with names, addresses and phone numbers for participating businesses throughout Vermont.
Craig Rigby at Curtis Lumber on Pine Street in Burlington agreed to a quick demonstration.
"It's not exactly exciting," he warned.
Human error
It wasn't. Rigby opened a five-gallon plastic bucket located beneath one of the cash registers. In it, snugged in sealed and bubble-wrapped envelopes, lay a dozen or so inert CFLs of different sorts.
When the bucket fills, Rigby said, it's FedEx-shipped to a mercury-recycling firm in Fall River, Mass.
Sue McGovern, who works side-by-side with Rigby at Curtis, said contributions were infrequent — most likely because her clientele tended to be contractors, rather than household consumers.
"A lot of them get taken next door," she said, gesturing to the Chittenden Solid Waste District facility, a designated mercury-recovery site. "And I imagine a lot of them just get thrown away."


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Big Love is a great new show on HBO about a polygamous man, his three wives, and seven children. The Church of LDS (aka the Mormons) gave up polygamy in 1890 , but it seems that it lives on in quiet corners of Arizona and Utah.
The Applied Economics Blog is a new blog I've been reading. They put current events in economics, politics, and strategy within the context of advanced undergraduate economics. In their new piece, two girls for every boy, they talk about some of the consequences of polygamy suitable for economic analysis.
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Jonathan Ley's CDT Maps for 2013
The maps below are Jonathan's Ley's latest CDT maps for the 2013 season.
Jonathan Ley is a CDT god. He has spent years creating and meticulously updating his free CDT maps. Without his efforts, we'd all be forced to buy expensive CDT maps from somewhere else (or be lost). Moreover, like an open source project, his maps are constantly being updated by the fresh input from CDT hikers. He annotates the maps with important information concerning water sources, resupply points, and alternate trails. When I yo-yoed the CDT, I survived with his maps alone. I had no guidebook or GPS.
Move your mouse over imageThere are two ways to get his maps.
Jonathan gave me his approval to post his maps on my site. Giving online access to the maps isn't free, because they suck up bandwidth. However, I think it's a useful service to the hiking community.
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Honor code: You're welcome to download and use these maps, but please donate something to Jonathan Ley! There are two ways to donate:
Please visit Jonathan Ley's CDT map page to learn more about the CDT maps.
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Now that you have the maps that you need, you'll need to organize them. Start by looking at this summary page of all the CDT maps. All the maps are rotated to "portrait" to make batch printing easier. For some printing tips, see Jonathan Ley's CDT Map Information page.
While you're waiting for the download, you can start getting pumped up for your hike by reading either my CDT journals or Jonathan's.
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