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|The late gestation fetal cardiovascular response to hypoglycaemia is modified by prior peri-implantation undernutrition in sheep.
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|PMID: 19103677 Owner: NLM Status: MEDLINE
|Undernourished late gestation fetuses display asymmetric growth restriction, suggestive of a redistribution of nutritional resources. The modification of fetal organ blood supply in response to acute hypoxia is well characterized, but it is not known whether similar responses occur in response to acute reductions in nutrition, or if such late gestation responses can be influenced by early gestation nutrition. In pregnant sheep, total nutrient requirements were restricted during the peri-implantation period (PI40, 40%; PI50, 50% of total, days 1-31) or in late gestation (L, 50% total, days 104-postmortem). Control animals were fed 100% nutrient requirements. Fetal organ blood flows were measured at baseline, and during acute fetal hypoglycaemia induced by maternal insulin infusion at 125 dGA. Baseline heart rate was increased in PI40 fetuses. During hypoglycaemia, an initial rise in fetal heart rate was followed by a slower fall. Fetal femoral artery blood flow decreased, and adrenal blood flow and femoral vascular resistance increased in all fetuses during hypoglycaemia. These changes were accompanied by increased fetal plasma adrenaline and cortisol, and reduced plasma insulin levels. The maximum femoral artery blood flow response to hypoglycaemia occurred earlier in PI50 and PI40 compared with control fetuses. The late gestation fetal cardiovascular response to acute hypoglycaemia was consistent with a redistribution of combined ventricular output away from the periphery and towards central organs. One element of the peripheral vascular response was modified by peri-implantation nutrient restriction, indicating that nutritional challenges early in gestation can have an enduring impact on cardiovascular control.
|Deborah M Burrage; Lucy Braddick; Jane K Cleal; Paula Costello; David E Noakes; Mark A Hanson; Lucy R Green
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|Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't Date: 2008-12-22
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|Title: The Journal of physiology Volume: 587 ISSN: 1469-7793 ISO Abbreviation: J. Physiol. (Lond.) Publication Date: 2009 Feb
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|Created Date: 2009-02-02 Completed Date: 2009-05-06 Revised Date: 2013-06-02
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Adrenocorticotropic Hormone
Blood Gas Analysis
Blood Glucose / analysis
Cardiovascular System / embryology, physiopathology*
Catecholamines / blood
Fetal Nutrition Disorders / blood, pathology, physiopathology*
Fetal Weight
Fetus / physiopathology*
Gestational Age
Hydrocortisone / blood
Hypoglycemia / blood, chemically induced, embryology, pathology, physiopathology*
Hypoglycemic Agents / pharmacology
Insulin / blood, pharmacology
Lactic Acid / blood
Prenatal Nutritional Physiological Phenomena*
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New Study Claims Men and Women Can't Be Friends After All
It's the question famously posed in the classic rom-com 'When Harry Met Sally': Can men and women just be friends if they find each other attractive? A new study claims to have the answer: no.
Who's Smarter — Men or Women? [POLL]
For the past century, women haven't done as well as men on IQ tests, lagging behind by as much as five points. But it seems all that has changed — the fairer sex is now getting higher scores than guys are.
What's the Biggest Dating Tip for Men These Days? Get a Job!
Are Men Happier When They Do Their Share of Housework?
Why Do Female Doctors Make Less Than Male Doctors?
Do Men or Women Have the Germiest Offices?
You may already know where to find the dirtiest places in an office, but when gender is considered, whose offices are more germy — men's or women's?
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Actually this happened before the Internet as well. The big mail order companies hit the small photo shops quite badly we tend to forget this.
Jessops did a lot of very efficient mail order....I recall their large folded lists in tiny print, which seemed to include every conceivable product from every manufacturer, many of which also undercut the list prices which the small shops charged. As you say, other big companies seemed to follow (Jacobs comes to mind? And some selling just film with discounts for bulk buys.).


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"Guerrilla Advertising is an unconventional way of performing promotional activities. Usually very funny or subtle, it's a great way to promote a business with a low budget and generate buzz. But you'll need lots of creativity.
Here are some great guerrilla ads examples. They are simply brilliant."
Vacuum cleaner ad:
Inventive mobile carrier ad:
See more at Funnymos (Thanks Tracey)
To promote business with a LOW budget? These adds seem pretty expensive to me .. Cool adds !
very clever…but i dont think i'd have a favorable impression of a product i was peeing on! 😀
I don't like the intisement of ads nower days.
Turns the Human population into a consuming robot.
Yes they are clever, maybe we should apply this creativity into our own being.
That vacuum cleaner add is ingenious and the dropped call ad is very good.
This is a genius idea! I love the vacuum advert. Definitely more eye catching than your garden-variety bill-board ad. Think of what they could have done with the election posters using these.
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Guerrilla means no budget. When that movie "pi" came out they sprayed stencils of the pi symbol on the streets around manhattan. That's both guerrilla and subliminal
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- Montevideo man "Bucky" Rogers pleads not guilty to bomb possession charges
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A 25-year-old Montevideo, Minn., man was sentenced to more than three years in prison Monday for possession of illegal weapons in a case the FBI initially characterized as domestic terrorism.
Buford "Bucky" Rogers was sentenced to three years and four months in prison in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Minnesota Public Radio reported, after pleading guilty to one count of possessing a firearm illegally and one count of possessing an unregistered destructive device, namely "two black powder and nail devices," which he admitted he made himself.
Acting on a perceived threat to blow up the Montevideo police station, dozens of FBI agents and other law enforcement officers converged on an area mobile home park last May and arrested Rogers, who belonged to a tiny local militia.
Authorities found a cache of weapons in the May 3 search -- including Molotov cocktails, suspected pipe bombs and firearms -- and the FBI said at the time that it had thwarted a terror attack in its planning stages. But Rogers was never charged with terrorism, and his attorney said the case, which came three weeks after the deadly Boston Marathon bombings, was overblown from the start.
Prosecutors wanted Rogers sentenced to more than five years in prison. Rogers' public defender asked for two years or less.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a man condemned to die for killing his estranged wife and her friend in 2004.
Duane Short was convicted of shooting Donnie Sweeney with a sawed-off shotgun in Short's wife's yard in Huber Heights in suburban Dayton, then going inside the house and shooting the wife, Rhonda Short.
The court rejected arguments by the 43-year-old Short that he was improperly denied the right to present evidence that could have led the jury to consider a different sentence.
The court noted that Short said on the record during his trial that he didn't want such evidence presented.
The court also noted that Short's attorneys still managed to present some evidence during their cross-examination of witnesses for the state.
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Contest deadline has been extended
The national contest for The National Family Partnership's 27th annual Red Ribbon Week has been extended one more week because of Hurricane Sandy. The online voting period is now Nov. 10 to 24.
Red Ribbon Week is a drug prevention campaign that families can get involved in by entering a contest to promote awareness in their neighborhoods and win a drug prevention grant for their schools. The wining families will receive $1,000 for their local kindergarten through 12th grade school and an iPad for their home.
To participate in the contest, families and students can decorate the front of their homes with this year's message: The Best Me Is Drug Free. Then, they should take a photo of the family with their Red Ribbon Week decorations and upload it by Nov. 9 to www.redribbon.org/contest or www.facebook.com/RedRibbonWeek. The person to upload the photos must be 18 or older. Family and friends can then vote for entries at www.redribbon.org/vote Nov. 10 to 24. Ten winners from regions across the U.S. will be named. Winners will be announced at events at their winning schools in December.
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ST. GEORGE - Coldwell Banker Premier announces that Michelle Rolfsness is the winner of a high-definition TV that was up for grabs at the company's booth at the Huntsman World Senior Games. Rolfsness was presented with her new HDTV by Michelle Merrill and Sam Sampson with Coldwell Banker Premier.
Exchange Club names Students of the Month
ST. GEORGE - The following students were recognized for their outstanding contributions to their high schools and selected as the October 2012 Student of the Month by the St. George Exchange Club: Jessica Peterson of Pine View, Kaleb Caplin of Desert Hills, Shalynne Seegmiller of Dixie, Madeline Berger of Snow Canyon and Kadan Holt of Millcreek.
All the students that are honored throughout the year are seniors and are recognized for their scholastic achievements, community involvement and leadership at their respective schools. One student from the eight students honored from each high school throughout the school year as a Student of the Month will have the opportunity to become Student of the Year from their school and receive a scholarship to the college of their choice from the St. George Exchange Club.
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Any fan of the arts can tell you that chance collaborations lead to great things — from a group of four Liverpudlians making teenage girls scream through the 60s, to a frazzle-haired director helping girls of all ages swoon through 30 years of Johnny Depp movies. Currently on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, […]
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Four nationally recognized comics will be taking the stage at Act II Playhouse in Ambler. Between the four performing comedians they have appeared on NBC, ABC, MTV and Comedy Central… just to name a few. This performance is destined to be gut-bustingly funny. The stand-up comedy weekend runs from January 11-12 and encompasses three separate […]
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Being a lowly assistant to an onerous boss can be a real drag, or it can be the source of scathing wit, as happens with Assistance, an Off-Broadway hit that begins an uproarious one-month run at The Wilma Theater on January 2. This sharply written show makes keen observations of office politics as seen through […]
November 26, 2012
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The story of Cinderella gets a fresh spin when Arden Children's Theatre presents this classic tale, starting on November 28. In this version, Cinderella is extremely feisty, the stepsisters are twins, the prince plays a larger role than usual and Mozart makes an appearance. When it comes to children's fare, the Arden Theatre Company looks […]
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100 years ago, on April 15, 1912, the world's largest ship of its time sank into the depths of the ocean after colliding with an iceberg, tragically claiming more than 1,500 lives and bringing to a halt the world's unshakeable confidence in modern technology. The Franklin Institute is honoring the centennial anniversary of one of […]
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In the 1980s, while the younger generation was busy collecting Cabbage Patch Dolls and Care Bears, Linda Lee Alter began working on a collection guaranteed not to share an eventual eBay fate. Dissatisfied with the lack of representation of female artists within public institutions, Alter, a Philadelphia artist, collector and founder of the Leeway Foundation, […]
January 2, 2013
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Now that the Christmas presents are unwrapped and the pine needles are collecting on the living room floor, it's time to take the wreaths down and unplug the strings of lights. If you're looking to recycle your Christmas tree in an eco-friendly manner, you're in luck. Philadelphia is once again providing the city with Christmas […]
November 7, 2012
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The next big exhibition to hit Philadelphia is Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition, opening at the Franklin Institute this weekend, Saturday, November 10. In honor of the centennial anniversary of the sinking of the world's largest ship of its time, the exhibition features 300 artifacts retrieved from the wreck site of Titanic. There's a really cool […]
January 28, 2013
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Knit Wit is hosting a shopping event that will make sure you're sporting the latest trends. From February 7-15 head out to Knit Wit for their Philadelphia Fashion Incubator pop-up shop. The Philadelphia Fashion Incubator is a non-profit organization that aims to give attention to deserving designers and help them launch their business. Support up-and-coming […]
October 19, 2012
Posted on October 19, 2012 | Allison Stadd
The highly anticipated Prohibition exhibition at the National Constitution Center is finally here! American Spirits: The Rise And Fall Of Prohibition opens to the public today, Friday, October 19. The 1920s come roaring to life in the form of a 5,000-square-foot exhibit featuring more than 120 rare artifacts from the era. Before you check it […]


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WISER Announces Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grant Winners
Posted: 12/13/09
IIT's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) has announced it will fund four research projects as part its new Interdisciplinary Seed Funding Grants (ISFG) program. As designed, the program will provide seed funding for new and innovative multidisciplinary research concepts that are expected to attract significant external funding in areas of national interest related to energy and sustainability. The four winning proposals were selected by the ISFG Program Faculty Review Committee from among 14 proposals submitted it response to an RFP issued September 2009. Program funding will begin Spring semester 2010.
WISER Co-Sponsors Chicago-Kent Sustainability Conference
More than 100 members of the Chicago legal and environmental communities gathered at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law on July 22 for a sustainability conference titled "Moving the Midwest Forward: The Benefits of Building a Low-Carbon Economy."
The program, co-sponsored by IIT's Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER) and Jules F. Knapp Entrepreneurship Center, and the Chicago law firm of Foley & Lardner LLP, brought together entrepreneurs, policymakers, environmentalists and scholars for three panel discussions on timely topics in energy and sustainability.
Henry R. Linden Endowed Chair in Engineering Investiture
Chemical engineeering professor and the Director of Wanger Institute for Sustainable Energy Research (WISER), Hamid Arastoopour was invested as the Henry R. Linden Endowed Chair in Engineering at a ceremony on April 30 in the MTCC.
The Henry R. Linden Endowed professorship was established in 2000 by Roger W. Sant, chairman emeritus and co-founder of the AES Corporation, to honor and recognize the accomplishments of Linden, an IIT professor, director of the IIT Energy and Power Center and the co-founder of the Gas Research Institute (GRI). The award preserves and expands Linden's legacy at IIT by supporting the teaching and research of an individual who will assume a leadership role in industrial ecology and design for the environment.
Arastoopour served as chairman of the chemical engineering department from 1989 to 2003 and as dean of Armour College of Engineering from 2003 to 2008.
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Tony Himebauch, of Port Huron, sorts clothing before it is bound into bales at Goodwill Industries of St. Clair County.
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The warehouse at Goodwill Industries of St. Clair County once was a haphazard maze of boxes, piled floor to ceiling.
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Leather is large on fall runways, and it's not just for bikers anymore. Or is it?
Although having a motorcycle is no longer required, leather will always have its most practical fashion application here, as those who've skidded a few times along the highway of life can testify.
Leather is not for the frail or faint-hearted. It's not for accountants, and it announces to the world you're not Sally Soccer Mom. Men, you have to look like you could and might, and ladies, like you already have. If you're no real threat to anyone, don't put it on. We all have to be accountable for what our clothes are saying.
Never settle for less than the real thing. There's a big difference between those who wear leather and those who wear naugahyde. Leave faux leather to children, and contrary to what you might think, older people can wear leather, too. There are bad old people. Rolling Stone Keith Richards, for instance.
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"Stepmom" is a dirty word in LeAnn's book. While her husband, Eddie, has two sons, Mason and Jake, with his ex-wife, Brandi Glanville, LeAnn says that her stepmom status doesn't make her a lesser parent. "Eddie has always encouraged me to look at us as a family, and a part of our family are the two beautiful boys that we share with their mother," the singer blogged in September 2011. "One thing that I know is, I will never replace their mother. I would never try. I will however love them with all I have and do everything in my power to help raise them in a loving, safe and proper environment." And it seems that Brandi agrees, recently telling Us Weekly, "At the end of the day, we are a family."
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The water board has disconnected supply to 23 defaulting industrial units in Landhi Industrial Area over the non-payment of Rs130 million in dues.
The Karachi Water and Sewerage Board spokesperson on Wednesday said the Landhi Association of Trade and Industries – the representative body of the industrial estate – was informed about the decision before the step was taken.
"The legal formalities were completed including the issuance of the final disconnection notice to the defaulting industrial units before we took the step."
The spokesperson added the KWSB's engineering and revenue departments jointly carried out the operation.
"The water utility has been serving the Landhi Industrial Area, which is spread over a vast piece of land up till the National Highway, and providing uninterrupted water supply and sewerage facilities to the numerous industries in the area," the spokesperson remarked.
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Rossi is The youngest rider ever to win the world title in all three classes. At the age of 22 years old, Valentino Rossi became the last true worldchampion of the 500cc and reached his goal of winning in the 125cc, 250cc and 500cc class. In 2002 Valentino Rossi was the first rider ever, at the young age of 23 years, to win the MotoGP class.
Valentino loves everything that goes fast, off-road, rally or road Live racing; he's a genius on wheels. As a kid Valentino spends lots of time into the paddock as his father, Graziano Rossi was a works rider. Valentino Rossi started his career on a minibike at the coastal resorts near his home, Tavullia. He switched to 125 Sport Production to win the Italian national title in his second attempt in 1994. In 1995 he was the youngest ever Italian 125cc champion, and third in the European championship. He moved to the GP's in 1996.
Valentino Rossi won his first grand prix at the grand prix of the Czech Republic in his debut-season. His second year in the 125cc was very successful. With 12 grand prix victories and only missing out on the podium twice all year Valentino Rossi became worldchampion for the first time. Valentino Rossi amassed a huge amount of fans because of the way he celebrates his victories, his style and sense of humor.
After his 125cc world title Valentino Rossi moved up to the 250cc class on a factory Aprillia and by the end of the year he seemed to have achieved dominance, with four grand prix victories in a row and a second overall standing in the championship. The season of '99 started slowly, but after two races Valentino Rossi caught fire and dominated the rest of the year. With nine victories he became worldchampion in the 250cc.
Valentino Rossi moves to the 500cc to achieve his goal; become worldchampion in all three classes. Valentino Rossi swaps from an Aprillia factory bike to a Honda factory bike. He rides for pretty much the same team that took Mick Doohan to his world titles. Just like the previous classes Valentino Rossi needs one year to learn and one year to win the world championship.
In the year 2000 Valentino Rossi gets ten podium places and even two grand prix victories. With his second place in the championship Valentino Rossi becomes Rookie of the year. In the year 2001 'The Doctor' completes the trilogy with winning the championship at the age of 22 years. With taking this championship, Valentino Rossi is the last true 2-stroke worldchampion as in the year 2002 the 4-strokes will enter the MotoGP.
With the new class entering the grand prix in 2002, a new goal was set for Valentino: winning the MotoGP Class. Valentino started off the season with winning the first GP in a new area. The Honda 4-stroke of Valentino Rossi has been dominating all season, only finishing 2nd once in South Africa and crashing in the Czech Republic . In Brazil he wrapped up the championship after 10 victories this season.
In 2003 Valentino Rossi completely dominates the MotoGP class and adds another MotoGP world title to his name. But Valentino Rossi isn't satisfied; the worldchampion is up for a new challenge. To every one's disbelief he signs up with the less competitive Yamaha team. Valentino Rossi proves in his first ever race on the Yamaha M1 that the rider on the bike does matter by winning the grand prix of South Africa. Honda does everything to stop Valentino Rossi, but the doctor is simply unstoppable. Valentino Rossi writes history by winning the MotoGP world title on the Yamaha.
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Ollie on a Skateboard | Pierre-Luc Gagnon, six-time X-Games vert gold medalist
The first time you practice an ollie you can do it without even rolling. You want to bring your front foot pretty close to the middle of the board. With your back foot, your toes should be at the center of the tip of your tail.
When you jump, you want to push down with your back foot so your tail hits the ground. But you want to be light on your back foot once your board hits the ground -- if you're too heavy, the board won't come back up.
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ATLANTA (AP) -- A big peanut harvest is likely to reduce prices on peanut butter and other products for consumers stinging from high grocery prices.
U.S. farmers expect to bring in two-thirds more peanuts this year than they did in 2011. Armond Morris farms 1,000 acres in south Georgia, and he says farmers are getting more peanuts off each acre this year than last, when many peanuts dried up in the ground in unusual heat and drought.
That sent prices skyrocketing, which prompted farmers to plant more peanuts. Then they had almost perfect weather.
As a result, the U.S. Department of Agriculture predicts this year's harvest will be about 3 million tons, compared with last year's roughly 1.8 million tons.
Experts say that means peanut butter prices could fall 10 percent or more.
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Johannesburg - The government has written off R1 billion spent on buying and building an IT system to run across its departments' computers after the nearly complete project was scrapped in favour of an entirely new one which could cost at least another R3bn.
According to information seen by The Sunday Independent, less than 10 percent of the R1bn already spent on the Integrated Finance Management System – a consolidated IT system – could be reinvested in the new project.
And, to add to that, the canning of the project could also leave the government's embattled IT arm – the State Information Technology Agency (Sita) – with a hefty legal battle if it fails to negotiate its way out of contracts with several service providers before the new tender is awarded to a single company.
According to Sita's website, the tender, which was advertised in March and closed on April 23, is still pending.
The decision to scrap IFMS comes nine years after the cabinet agreed that the Treasury, the Department of Public Service and Administration and Sita should contract service providers to provide some of the software systems, and Sita should be financed to build some of the software solutions in-house.
By last year the project, according to several sources, was 80 percent complete. But this week Treasury's spokesman Jabulani Sikhakhane speaking on behalf of both the Treasury and Sita, said the decision to change the solution was a "strategic" one between both departments and Sita.
He said a steering committee from the three departments nominated Sita to lead discussions with all existing service providers on the basis that they had been working closely together in the past.
"Sita, in turn, appointed a legal firm, Edward Nathan Sonnenbergs, to support them with this process," he said.
Sikhakhane said the discussions were ongoing and would be resolved in the near future. He disputed that the R1bn would be written off.
"A large portion of the amount spent to date was allocated to preparation activities, upgrade of integration capabilities and specification of business requirements. While some implementation work has been undertaken on the previous solution's architecture, the decision to change is deemed reasonable in the course of a programme life cycle, and therefore not construed to be fruitless and or wasteful," he said.
Sikhakhane said the cabinet approved the decision to migrate to the new IT system at a cabinet meeting on November 20 last year.
But a statement issued by the Government Communication and Information Systems a day after the meeting does not mention the decision.The IFMS was seen as a consolidated approach to ensure all government department systems used the same financial management system interface. It was intended to replace the ageing and fragmented management systems used in national and provincial governments.
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Actor John Rubinstein has to learn a new part in the duet "War is a Science." The song is from "Pippin," the Broadway musical that will visit Minneapolis' Orpheum Theatre in February.
In the original Broadway company of the show, which opened in 1972, Rubinstein played Pippin, who performs "War is a Science" with his father. In the national tour that is coming to the Orpheum, Rubinstein will play the father.
Also featuring the songs "Magic to Do" and "Morning Glow," "Pippin" is the story of a young man on a phantasmagorical search for love and meaning that, in the Tony Award-winning revival, involves tightrope-walking, gymnasts and other circus elements. -- Chris Hewitt


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It's vital to train the next generation of cancer researchers
At Cancer Research UK, we've set ourselves some ambitious goals for beating cancer. One of them is that we will continue to support the development of young scientists, so that we can continue our research work.
But how do people become scientists? And how does Cancer Research UK support their development? In this post we'll look at how we help train the next generation of research stars.
Starting off in science
We fund more than 300 PhD students in our Institutes and in universities across the UK, working on all areas of cancer science. They learn from the head of the research group and from the other staff in the team, receiving training in how to design and carry out experiments.
Students need to learn the language of their research area and absorb as much information as they can. By the end of this apprenticeship, they have to produce a piece of their own research, and show that they have contributed something original to their research field.
People doing PhDs might be classified as students, but they certainly don't fit the stereotypical view of a student. They have to work very hard to pack in all the training they need to do, as well as producing work that is original and important – long hours and short holidays are part of the package.
So if you want to be a scientist, you have to be completely committed and be prepared for a tough apprenticeship.
Developing a career
The next step is to join an existing research team as a post-doctoral research assistant, usually known as a 'post-doc'. Post-docs are typically employed for a fixed period of time to do a particular project. We fund lots of post-doc posts in our Institutes and through our various grant schemes.
What do you need to achieve as a post-doc?
First, you have to broaden your knowledge. As a PhD student, you focussed on one piece of research. Now you have to show that you understand the bigger picture.
You also have to broaden your experience of doing research. You have to learn about the different ways of tackling the big unanswered questions in your field. You need to know how to handle lots of different research techniques and understand the state-of-the-art ways of solving problems.
Most post-docs move around and work in several different research teams during this part of their careers. Before you start generating your own ideas, you need to learn what other people think, absorbing and analysing lots of different ideas. Only then can you can be sure where your own interests lie and where you can make a decisive contribution.
For many scientists, this is a really rewarding part of their career. There are opportunities for post-docs all over the world, and so you can experience new cultures as well as new ways of doing research.
Whilst you're a post-doc you might also start to learn some of the other skills needed to be a professional scientist. This could include teaching, training junior researchers or writing papers.
But one of the most important things at this stage of your career is to publish your work in scientific journals. Published papers are the most important currency for a scientist. They demonstrate that you can spot problems in your area of research, ask the right questions, design the experiments to get to the answers, and then carry out those experiments carefully. You won't get far in a research career unless you publish the work that you do.
Stepping out on your own
To do this, you need three things. First, you have to persuade someone to give you a job and some space to work. Then you need to find the money to pay for the research. Finally, you have to recruit a team of people to help you do it.
The two main places that our researchers work are in universities and in research institutes. To get a job as an independent researcher, you need to show that you have interesting ideas about how to solve an important problem, and that you've got the skills that you need to get the work done.
If you convince them of this, the university or the institute will give you space to work. They will usually pay your salary and give you some money to get you going. The next thing you need to do is find the longer-term support that you need to carry out your research.
This is where organisations like Cancer Research UK come in. Scientists write to us with their ideas and, if they are good enough, we will award them money to carry them out. Sometimes we award small grants that pay for a specific project for just a few years. On other occasions we will award bigger grants to support a whole research group. Some of our grants are designed for people at the start of their careers and give them time to get established and build up their research group.
Once you're independent, you decide what research you do, but you don't have to do all the work by yourself. The final step is to use the money from your grant to recruit students, post-docs and technicians to help with the projects.
Moving from working on your own project in someone else's research group to being the boss of your own team can be quite a daunting prospect. Fortunately, there are opportunities to get the training in management that you need to take on these responsibilities. Cancer Research UK helps support a management course especially for scientists to help them lead their team.
And so the training comes full circle – it's now the job of these newly-independent researchers to help train the next generation of scientists.
What else does Cancer Research UK do?
For instance, we run an intensive two-day training course in science communication skills for PhD students. This helps them get to grips with some of the key rules for communicating clearly with the public.
One key part of doing research is to share results with other experts in their field. This is why going to scientific conferences is such an important part of being a researcher. A conversation over coffee, or a comment in a talk, might spark an idea that leads to a whole new avenue of research. We organise regular meetings for our scientists to help them build partnerships and learn from each other's experiences.
Filling in the gaps
For example, we realised that there could be a real shortage of medicinal chemists over the next decade. These scientists are crucial for designing and perfecting the drugs that treat cancer patients. They need a special set of skills, combining chemistry with an understanding of cancer biology and pharmacology. We were able to set up a scheme that will train 60 PhD chemists at six universities.
How do I become a cancer researcher?
You don't have to decide at university exactly what research you want to work on – there is time to change fields and work in different areas during your training as a PhD student or a post-doc. But it is worth finding out as early as possible what sort of research is happening in cancer. You could look at our website or see what other funders are doing.
We believe that our training schemes offer some of the best opportunities around for developing new researchers. These are the people who will be vital to the future of cancer research. If you're a young person interested in a career in research and want to know more, have a look at our website.
Simon Vincent, Head of Personal Awards and Training
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The Iowa Department of Natural Resources recently made improvements to the Whitebreast Recreation Area. In an effort to add fish structure around the lake several rock reefs were added this fall. Those who fish in the Whitebreast area should be able to access these reefs both by boat or on foot and should be able to catch some large fish. Once the Red Rock Dam drawdown process is completed and the lake returns to normal water level, the reef will be submerged approximately five feet below the surface. The DNR says they are considering adding similar reefs to other locations depending on the amount of state funds available.
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Minnesota Vikings crowded the field as backup guard Seth Olsen was carefully tended to by 10 medical professionals about 15 yards away.
It wasn't clear if Olsen was attempting a low block or falling forward, but he took a knee from Tennessee Titans linebacker Scott Solomon to the head and landed helmet-first on the turf.
Olsen suffered a concussion, but he returned to the Vikings locker room after the game. He was not available to comment because he needs to pass the NFL's concussion protocol first. He indicated to several teammates, though, that he was fine.
The play occurred on a screen pass in the second quarter.
Players waved for trainers to come onto the field and a cart was immediately called.
During a five-minute break, the medical personnel placed him on a stretcher and carted him off. Olsen lifted his left hand as he exited the field, drawing an ovation from the crowd.
"It was very scary," Vikings receiver Joe Webb said. "I am very glad to see him walk around the locker room."
Sherels shines
Former Gophers cornerback Marcus Sherels, who missed the preseason game last Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers to attend his father's funeral, shined against the Titans, setting a Vikings record with a 109-yard kickoff return for a touchdown and intercepting a pass.
"I always try to make plays," Sherels said. "Today I had my chance, and I took advantage of it.
Sherels said he appreciated coach Leslie Frazier supporting his decision to attend his father's funeral and miss the Niners game.
"He was the one that basically told me I need to be with my family," Sherels said. "He would have done the same thing, and I am glad I made that decision."
Frazier noted that Sherels "played with a heavy heart."
"So to see him make those plays, our whole sideline was just jubilant to see him come out and play the way he did," Frazier said.
Wide left
Vikings Pro Bowl kicker Blair Walsh was wide left with a 42-yard attempt in the fourth quarter of the Vikings' 24-23 victory over the Titans. Later, he kicked a 25-yard field goal to clinch the win.
Walsh took the blame for the miss, even though rookie holder Jeff Locke bobbled the ball as he set it down.
"Honestly, I put that one on me from the right hash. I've got to make that," Walsh said. "We needed it."
Asked if he was being kind for not criticizing Locke, Walsh said, "No I'm not (being kind). I really think I should have made it. We'll continue to get better. We haven't had many reps this preseason, which doesn't help us. But we'll be fine. We'll get it down."
Walsh noted that last preseason, when he was a rookie, he had a dozen field-goal attempts to work out any kinks with former holder Chris Kluwe.
"Two things last year. We had 12 attempts, which helped, and Chris had been doing it a long time, and Jeff is fairly new to holding," Walsh said, adding he had only six attempts this preseason.
Winning drive
McLeod Bethel-Thompson, playing most of the game at quarterback for the Vikings in their 24-23 victory over the Tennessee Titans Thursday night, guided a 71-yard drive that ended with the winning field goal with 1:38 to play.
Bethel-Thompson hit 19 of 26 passes for 187 yards, including an 11-yard touchdown pass to Joe Banyard, who had seven receptions and ran for 62 yards.
"The O-line played absolutely fantastic," Bethel-Thompson said. "Joe Banyard ran the ball like heck and the receivers were catching everything. I owe it all to them. They were playing great and made my job easy. Hopefully, I'll get another chance sometime in the future."
Cornerback Bobby Felder and defensive end D'Aundre Reed both suffered ankle sprains. Tight end Chase Ford injured his right wrist but returned to the game.


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A lost fusion classic from the early 70s – one of the only records cut under the leadership of drummer Horacee Arnold, but a heck of a great little set with a soaringly righteous sound! The style here is plenty full-on, but a bit less rock-leaning than some of the other Columbia fusion of the period – thanks to a spacious vision on Arnold's part, and the inclusion of a fair bit of sounds from world music. Players on the set include Art Webb on flute, Sonny Fortune on soprano sax, John Abercrombie on guitar, David Friedman on vibes and marimba, Dom Um Romao on percussion, and Jan Hammer on moog and electric piano – and although there's a fair bit of guitar in the mix, the other acoustic elements are kept nice and high too – for a blend that's almost like some of the best Brazilian fusion from later years, touched by a slightly funkier sound! Tracks really stretch out nicely, allowing for plenty of solo space as they roll on, in a way that's almost a cross between Strata East and some of the more familiar mainstream fusion modes of the time. Very hip stuff, with titles that include "Benzele Windows", "Tales Of The Exonerated Flea", "Euroaquilo Silence", "Puppet Of The Seasons", "Sing Night Jar", and "Delicate Evasions". © 1996-2015, Dusty Groove, Inc.
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But Evanovich isn't in it for the money or the fame. The now bestselling author once languished in obscurity as a struggling romance writer for a decade, because, she says, she was unwilling to place business and financial needs over her craft. "I had the attitude that you create art for yourself and if someone else sees something in that, that's fabulous," she said. "But after 10 years, it wasn't getting me anywhere and it probably wasn't who I was. At some point you realize you could be the most fabulous writer in the world, but if no one is reading it, it isn't any fun."
With her latest release Wicked Appetite now in stores, Evanovich discusses with mediabistro.com the challenges of being a woman in the business, her new co-author program and why she feels the media 'lies' about her.
With the eBook revolution threatening to overtake print books permanently, what are your thoughts about how this could affect your revenue?
Yeah, I love eBooks. I think they're great, and I'm not sure how they are going to affect my revenue. I'm not sure anybody knows. I think we're going to have to wait and see how it shakes out. What I know is that they are not going to go away. The kids have come up being so comfortable on the screen, and now even all ages are buying into the Kindle and iPad. eBooks are here to stay. I think that anything that expands the market, anything that encourages people to read, anything that enhances the reading experience, makes it easier, makes it cheaper, makes it more interesting -- fabulous, I just love it. I think we haven't even seen the beginning of eBooks. All kinds of great things are going to come out of it.
|"I go to NASCAR races, and I hang out with my crazy relatives, and I prowl South Beach. I think that stuff kind of gets moving around in your head and helps to give you new ideas."
Today's authors stand to make dramatically more income by self-publishing and publishing directly on formats such as Amazon's Kindle. Have you given any thought to doing the same for your future titles?
Actually, I have given it some thought, and then I've said, "What? Are you nuts?" It's not that simple. I think that there are a lot of people out there self-publishing and who have the ability to get their work out now because of the Internet, but it has lots of limitations: distribution, publicity, marketing. There are just many, many components that for me, at least at my level, just don't work for me. I am actually really happy to have help from a publisher. It's enough to keep my ass in the chair and keep writing without taking on that also. And I mean, I have my whole family working for me and they're all doing their own jobs, and I can't imagine one more job added to the list.
You've written somewhere close to 45 books, some under a pseudonym. How do you keep your writing fresh?
I think that you have to continue to live and get new experiences that relate to the people you are writing about. I spend a lot of time in bars and shopping centers, and I go to NASCAR races, and I hang out with my crazy relatives, and I prowl South Beach. I think that stuff kind of gets moving around in your head and helps to give you new ideas. I have a family, we are very close, we are like a little herd. We all live together within three minutes of each other, and when I am running out of ideas, somebody always has one.
You recently switched publishing houses from St. Martin's to Random House. What were your former publishers not providing that you felt your new publisher will be able to?
Well, I don't know. We are going to wait and see, aren't we? I think that sometimes... just a change is refreshing. I loved St. Martin's; I could not say anything bad about St. Martin's. My editor, my publicist, my publisher are all my best friends and when I go into New York, it's girls' night out. We just loved each other, and I still do. I think they did a fabulous job for me, but we had some differences about moving forward, about the projects that I felt very strongly about in the future, and that really was not so much a matter of money, it was a matter of a vision. I just had a slightly different vision than St. Martin's. So, I just felt like maybe I needed a change, maybe I needed some new ideas. Sometimes you are the new girl on the block, and there is just a lot of enthusiasm and there's a lot of energy. You all of a sudden have this rush to do something fabulous.
|"If you are a guy and you make a lot of money, you are a success. If you are a woman and you make a lot of money, you are a bitch."
Reports in media had you asking for more than $50 million for your next deal. For the record, is that what your new publishers gave you and how were you able to justify such a high asking price?
Yeah, I think the word was "demanding", and it was not true, I don't know where that figure came from. I have no clue, but that was not accurate. Now, having said that, I do make a decent amount of money, but not only was that not where the negotiations were stalling but the figure was wrong. Possibly at some point that was said in jest and floated out there. But no, it was not a serious accurate figure. Everybody lies about that. You can't put too much stock in any of those numbers that come out of that. Either they are inflated or they are lessened, because you know if you are a guy and you make a lot of money, you are a success. If you are a woman and you make a lot of money, you are a bitch.
You've made the 'Janet Evanovich' brand very much a family affair, with key members of your family, such as your son, acting on your behalf. How do you feel your family has better served you over those who are not blood-related?
First of all they are very, very talented. They are very bright and we're all very different. My son is brilliant, he is our finance officer. He also is my agent now. He is an amazing negotiator, he's just the nicest guy but very, very smart and Peter just gets along with everybody. He can ease you into a contract and everybody's happy with it. He also helps edit the books for me, and then my daughter is a little bit more on the other half of the brain. She graduated as a film and photography major and then came on board and created our website. Alex does all of that for me. She sits on top of the co-author program. She has an editor working under her, but she's the bottom line person for that.
Tell us more about this co-author program.
Several years ago I did some co-authored books with Charlotte Hughes; then Charlotte decided that she wanted to go off on her own and the program kind of died out. Then, last year we realized that we were missing the co-author program. We would like to have, maybe three or four co-authors that we're working with and bringing them out in hard cover. It's one of those situations that if you find the right person, everybody wins. There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences. So, for these writers out there, it gives them an opportunity to get a much larger market. If somebody's interested in being part of our co-author program, they should contact my son, Peter Evanovich or they can send me a letter. My post office box is on all my book covers.
Some have complained that the Stephanie Plum series just rehashes the same plots over and over. What do you say to those naysayers?
I ignore them. I think, first of all, you never go on Amazon and read the reviews because they're demoralizing, and I try to do the best that I can everyday. And sometimes I feel like I write better books than other times; that's just the way it goes, and sometimes it is true that the books are similar. Some people like it because it meets their expectations, some people get tired of them. If you're one of those people who are tired of them, you should stop reading them, move on. I am serious, move on to someone else. Maybe after a year or two you might want to come back, because it will be fresh.
It isn't that I don't listen to what critics say, it's just that you have to make up your own mind at that point if it's valid. Sometimes it is and you try to correct things, and sometimes you decide that it isn't. When I get up in the morning, I don't just sit down and say, "You know, they are paying me a lot of money. What the heck! I'm just going to knock out a hundred pages." I don't know of anybody writing a book, painting a picture, creating music who does that. We are all dying to do the very best that we can everyday.
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The last theater in town
Powell River, Canada
By Andy Clark
As far back as I can remember, history has always fascinated me. Though my specialty as an amateur historian has been military history, just about anything that occurred prior to my birth has had my undivided attention. Recently while having a coffee with a friend, he mentioned he had been to a town north of Vancouver called Powell River and had happened to visit a local movie theater. He went on to say matter of factly, that the theater had been continuously running since it was built many years ago.
"Stop right there," I said. "Did you take any pictures of the place?" Yes, he had and he pulled out his laptop to show me.
The gunfighters
Aldergrove, Canada
By Andy Clark
The hot mid-day sun beat down as the fellow nervously checked his Ruger Blackhawk single action revolver. Spinning the chamber and checking the hammer mechanism several times he then slipped the gun smoothly in and out of his holster sitting low on his hips. Adjusting his Stetson he looked up and said "I may be nervous, but I am ready". Stepping into position he slightly bent his knees and placed his partially open right hand over the holster, while his flattened left hand crossed over his stomach and balanced just above the hammer of the gun. Only yards away his opponent stepped into his position and took a similar stance. A split second later there was a deafening and almost simultaneous boom as both guns spit fire, creating a large cloud of blue smoke that hung in the air. It was over. There lying on the ground was not some poor soul but rather the tattered remains of two yellow balloons, both gunfighters checked their guns, holstered them and prepared for the next round.
As you have gathered this was not some scene from the late 19th century in a dusty town of the American wild west but rather, a modern day competition, taking place at the annual Canadian Open Fast Draw Championships in Aldergrove, about an hour east of Vancouver, British Columbia.
Canada charges two in al Qaeda-inspired plot to bomb Canada Day event
SURREY, British Columbia (Reuters) – Canadian police said on Tuesday they foiled an al Qaeda-inspired plot to detonate three pressure-cooker bombs during Monday's Canada Day holiday outside the parliament building in the Pacific coast city of Victoria, arresting a Canadian man and woman and seizing their home-made explosive devices.
Police said there was no evidence to suggest a foreign link to the planned attack, which targeted public celebrations outside the parliament building in Victoria, capital of the province of British Columbia.
The turkey shoot
Vancouver, Canada
By Andy Clark
It was a cold, damp autumn day, as I remember it, sitting in a cinder block bunker terrified I was going to loose my hand as I loaded black clay disks into the machine in front of me. Seconds later I would hear a muffled voice shout, and the machine's springs and mechanism would suddenly and violently let go, flinging the disk out of the bunker followed by another muffled boom, boom. I would then quickly lean down, take another disk from the box and gingerly place it in the machine. It was at this point my fear would take over, worried one of the distant voices would shout too soon and thus catch and propel my severed hand out of the bunker instead of the disk. Of course this never happened and once I got the rhythm, my fear slowly subsided, well sort of.
I think I was about 12 years old at the time and I was helping out at the annual Thanksgiving Turkey Shoot at the local Trap Shooting Club just outside Ancaster, Ontario. Each year the contest was held on the weekend before the holiday as a dozen or so members, including my dad, all vied to hit the most clay pigeons and go home with a freshly cleaned turkey donated by a local farmer. Though my dad and grandfather had versed me well in the handling of guns by that age I was still too young to take part so was therefore drafted to load the machine.
Tales from a rare bookstore
By Andy Clark
The book immediately caught my eye. It was small, about the size of a deck of cards, but twice the thickness, and there was no question it was very old. It sat in a pile of other aged publications that had just arrived at MacLeod's Books in downtown Vancouver. It looked fragile as I picked it up and opened to the title page. "Wow!", I said.
I had been in MacLeod's Books about five or six hours at that point, not to search for any rare or out of print books but to do a day in the life photo essay on the 50-year-old used book store. The store originally opened in the early 1960s but in 1973 a young Don Stewart bought the place and has been there ever since.
High octane and a Princess
By Andy Clark
Swatting away a swarm of pesky summertime mosquitoes, I walked down a quiet country road shaded by rows of elderly trees. You could say, it was any ordinary rural road except for one thing. Parked amongst the trees was a collection of battle-scared and brightly colored stock cars. All tethered onto trailers and pulled behind pickup trucks, the collection of road warriors and their owners waited patiently for the gates to open for another Saturday night at Agassiz Speedway.
Built in 1970 the speedway is a quarter mile oval track nestled into the side of Agassiz Mountain about 90 minutes drive east of Vancouver, British Columbia. Owned and operated by the non-profit Kent Raceway Society the track hosts about 12 races a season beginning in April and running through to late October.
Old people and their parents
By Andy Clark
Arriving outside the main gates I couldn't help but notice there were no crowds of spectators milling around or scalpers shouting their prime seat tickets for sale, in fact all was very quiet. It was roughly 7:45am and besides a couple of birds singing in the trees and a dog barking somewhere out of sight it appeared I was completely alone. My sudden fears of the wrong day and or wrong place were soon quelled as I entered the gates and walked down a small path. There before me was the field of play and scattered across it were the players warming up and preparing for the first day of competition at the fifth annual Pacific Cup Croquet Tournament.
Yes that is correct folks, I said croquet. Several months ago I was searching for a website totally unrelated and for reasons only Google knows, up came a page with a detailed list of the 2012 croquet tournaments across North America. Before I could click the page away, I remembered seeing some interesting images from a tournament at least 25 years ago and thought, I wonder. Sure enough listed halfway down the page was the Vancouver Croquet Club's fifth annual Pacific Cup.
A close encounter of the equine kind
By Andy Clark
"Hey bud, don't blink or you'll miss it," the guy behind the counter said after I answered his query as to where I was headed.
I had stopped to grab a coffee along highway 97, about a five-hour drive north into the mountains from Vancouver. My destination was the town of Falkland, named after a career British soldier, Colonel Falkland GE Warren who had settled in the area in 1892. The reason for my visit was to photograph an annual event very popular with those living in the area, named the 94th Annual Falkland Stampede. One of the oldest rodeos in Canada, the stampede began as a community picnic in March of 1919 to celebrate the end of the First World War months earlier. Each year as the event grew, area residents gathered to enjoy local cowboys riding broncos and in 1969 the little stampede was sanctioned as a professional rodeo.
The Gulf War remembered
I bolted up from a deep sleep to the sound of my phone ringing in my hotel room in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia.
I looked at my clock it was 4am. I fumbled for the phone in the dark knocking it to the floor. After at least three more rings I finally got my hand on the receiver and answered. The calm voice at the other end was Photo Editor Herman Beals on our Washington, DC Picture Desk. "How ya doin?" he asked "I have been trying to get through to you for an hour". I have no recollection of what my rebuttal was. "Andy, they are bombing Baghdad", "Uhhh??" was my only answer. Crap!!, I had just slept through the first two hours of the Gulf War.


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NEW YORK (November 4, 2013) Firefighters rescued a 19-year-old New York University student who ended up trapped between two buildings in lower Manhattan.
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In TNG "The Enemy", it took a modern Warbird five hours to cross the RNZ at supposed maximum warp...
Since the Romulan Neutral Zone exists, and a NZ has been mentioned in the Klingon context as well, we are well excused for thinking that the Federation always wants a Neutral Zone on all of its borders. That is, no clear-cut line where one nacelle can be on the Fed size and the other on the enemy size, but always a nice and thick buffer region that gives plenty of early warning about (uncloaked) invasions and spy activities and smuggling attempts.
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Kharkiv - Serena Williams defeated Lesia Tsurenko 6-3, 6-2 on Sunday to send the United States back into the Fed Cup World Group with victory over Ukraine.
The US now holds an unassailable 3-0 lead in the best-of-five series after singles victories for Williams and Christina McHale on Saturday.
Williams was making her first Fed Cup appearance on foreign soil in more than a decade.
Tsurenko frustrated Williams early on with accurate hitting from the baseline. After giving up a break, she pressured Williams' serve, but couldn't convert two break points. Williams broke again to take the set.
The Ukrainian battled hard in the second, but Williams' powerful returns led to three more breaks to secure the win. - Sapa-AP
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BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — The growing focus on testing in New Yorks schools is sickening students, bewildering parents and threatening to undermine public confidence in the states education system, speaker after speaker said Tuesday at a public hearing on the states reform agenda.
Jeanette Deutermann, a mother of two from Bellmore, said she had to take one son to the doctor last year because he was so stressed out by test preparation.
I dont care about the data; I dont care about the statistics, she said. I care that I want my son to like to learn.
Deutermann, who started a Facebook page for parents on Long Island wanting to pull their children from state-directed tests, was addressing the state Senates Education Committee. The committee Tuesday held the first of four planned hearings on the states ongoing reforms: the Common Core learning standards; new teacher evaluations; tougher state tests; new student data systems; and more.
State Sen. John Flanagan, R-Long Island, chairman of the committee, said it was the first opportunity for the public to comment on the reforms. A few hundred people filled a small auditorium at Suffolk County Community College, cheering loudly as parents, teachers, senators and others questioned and ridiculed the state Education Departments agenda.
Deutermann called on the seven senators in attendance to rein in the states reliance on testing.
We are not going to allow our children to take part in this, she said. We need help.
Many speakers questioned the results of the new state tests in English and math given in April. The state found that majorities of students across New York in grades 3 to 8 were not proficient in their subject matter.
You should rethink your methodology, state Sen. Jack Martins, R-Long Island, told Ken Wagner, associate state education commissioner. I question statistics that say that 50 percent of our kids arent college-ready.
Many also questioned the numerous pre- and post-tests students have to take for the new teacher evaluation system. The tests are designed to show student progress during the school year, which helps determine part of a teachers grade.
Marianne Adrian, a parent of three from Levittown, said that young students are affected when they take pre-tests that are really designed to show how little they know in September. Many students are taking such tests over the next few weeks.
Once you break their confidence, it is really hard to build it up, Adrian said.
The soft-spoken Wagner, a well-liked former school psychologist, was on the defensive from the start. Standing in for Education Commissioner John King, he was peppered with questions about the states rush to roll out new standards and tests.
There always has to be a year one, he said. Wagner conceded the state has to more effectively explain its goals to teachers and parents.
Several people also questioned the states plans to feed extensive student data to a nonprofit company creating a database for several educational programs. Lisa Rudley of Briarcliff Manor, a mother of three representing NYS Allies for Public Education, said that people arent aware of how much information is being collected or why.
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Sean Hall's love of soccer dates back to his teen years.
In 1990, as he graduated with the last class of West Hardin High School, he might have left the sport, after playing three years. But more than two decades later, he's still eyeing goals.
Hall, 40, has served as president of Elizabethtown Youth Soccer Association since 2009.
Now both his daughter and son play the sport.
"Both of them are eat up with soccer," he said of his children.
The NFL season started with an obvious issue of performance under pressure. The NFL used replacement referees for all preseason games and three regular season games. This performance challenge started as a labor dispute between the NFL and referees usually employed by the league. There was no contract between the two groups and replacement referees were needed.
A stint in the Army and a Robin Williams movie serve as the inspiration for Mick Kennedy's desire to write poetry and teach at Elizabethtown Community and Technical College.
Originally from Clarksville, Ind., Kennedy served in the army from 1986 to 1990. During that time he got his first taste of teaching when instructing new recruits. That also was when he saw a film that made him fall in love the idea of poetry and education, "Dead Poet's Society."
Chris Bauer recalls his parents teaching him that whatever he does should be done right and he should leave things a little better than when he arrived.
The Central Hardin High School assistant principal and athletic director takes that philosophy seriously and tries to instill that attitude in his students.
"I want the spirit of 'We need to thank and give back to the community that has done so much for us,'" said Bauer, 42.
Andre Beaugrand's life reads like novel.
At age 90, he looked back on his life and said, "It's been a good one."
"A lot of things happened," he said. "It's almost one century."
He began his life in France. His mother was a part of a Brie cheese making tradition of more than 360 years.
At age 19, Beaugrand fought Germans in the French underground during World War II. He and his brother snuck out of the house to join the underground and one of their friends was killed that night.
Helping military veterans and their families is a passion for Radcliff resident Leon Faulk.
"I kind of wear two hats," Faulk said, explaining he is the president of Vietnam Veterans of America, Gold Vault Patriots Chapter 1051, and commander of the Disabled American Veterans, Radcliff No. 156.
I have three pictures on my desk at work and several more near my constant companion at the office — my computer.
There are two photos of my wife and me with our soon-to-be 2-year-old granddaughter, Madeline, on the beaches of Gulf Shores, Ala., from a family vacation in June.
There's one of our son, Tanner, in his Central Hardin High School baseball uniform and another from when he was in fifth grade and he and a classmate, Lance Baker, had a long snake wrapped around their shoulders.
They were brave youngsters.
Award-winning ophthalmologist Dr. Barry Lee has become a standout in his field as he restores patients' sight.
He lives in Georgia, but remains connected to his roots in Elizabethtown.
The son of Dr. Bill Lee, Hardin County coroner, and Bonnie Lee, he graduated from Elizabethtown High School in 1990 and keeps in touch with many lifelong friends from his years in high school.
There is a performance technique of an unusual origin present in tennis, music, theater or any environment where people want to be their best when it matters most.
The performance issue concerns the mind getting stuck on mistakes and continually ruminating over them. This rumination is detrimental to any type of performance as it creates a destructive distraction for the performer. The performer is stuck in the loop of continual focus on mistakes.
A lifetime of work in politics and government began for Radcliff resident Les Dawson when he was growing up in West Point.
Dawson, 83, recalls being as young as 7 when his grandmother — who he described as a "strong Democrat" — would take him along with her on local government visits.
"She knew everybody in the courthouse," he said of his weekly trips there.
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Thomas Gilbertson
Thomas Russell Gilbertson, 93, of Prairie du Chien, died Monday, June 10, at Prairie Maison, Prairie du Chien.
He was born on July 18, 1919 in Woodruff, Wis. to Otis and Bertha Martina (Erickson) Gilbertson. Tom graduated from Chilton High School in Chilton, Wis. and attended two years of college at University of Wisconsin in Madison.
Tom and Marjorie Mueller were united in marriage on June 23, 1944 at Bethel Lutheran in Madison. Two children were born to this union. He worked at Gisholt Machine as a Machinist for 30 years in Madison, and then Ohio Medical for 15 years.
Tom is survived by his two children, Patricia (Richard) Hamann of Prairie du Chien, and James Gilbertson of Cottage Grove.
Tom was preceded in death by his wife, Marjorie in 2009; his parents; four brothers, Guilford, Orin, Gordon and Elder and three sisters, Gladys Dempsey, Myrtle Rohrdanz and Evelyn Snow.
Funeral services were Friday, June 14, at St. Peter Lutheran Evangelical Church in Prairie du Chien, with Pastor Nick Barootian as the officiant. Burial will be held at a later date.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be directed to St. Peter Evangelical Lutheran Church for side door project or Prairie Maison Activity Fund in Tom's name.
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