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"The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice"
Rebecca Musser with M. Bridget Cook, September 2013, Grand Central Publishing, $26 hardback,
337 pages
The book is the story of Musser, one of the 67 wives of Rulon Jeffs, prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, an extreme polygamist sect that splintered off the Mormon faith. Musser took the stand as a witness against Warren Jeffs, another prophet who was convicted of sexual assault and is sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison.
"The Sugar Smart Diet"
Anne Alexander with Julia VanTine, December 2013, Rodale, $26.99 hardback, 320 pages
The subtitle boasts, "Stop cravings and lose weight while still enjoying the sweets you love!" Alexander is the editorial director of Prevention; the book presents a 32-day plan to help readers wean themselves from sugars and refined carbohydrates. The publisher says the diet "isn't about banishing sugar from your life forever."
"Moving Target"
J.A. Jance, February 2014, Touchstone, $25.99 hardback, 340 pages
This is the 50th book for Jance, the author of the Ali Reynolds series, the J.P. Beaumont series and the Joanna Brady series. This thriller follows Reynolds, the police academy-trained former reporter, as she investigates unsolved murders on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. She, along with fiance B. Simpson and Taser-carrying nun Sister Anselm, unite in the sleuthing.
"A Field Guide to American Houses"
Virginia Savage McAlester, December 2013, Knopf, $50 hardback, 880 pages
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|A logical approach to the selection and insertion of double-lumen tubes.
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|PURPOSE OF REVIEW: There has been a progressive evolution in double-lumen tubes to separate the right and left lungs. The appreciation of the anatomical advantage of the longer left main bronchus has directed anesthetists to prefer a left tube if possible for lung separation. Understanding the dimensions of the tube as well as the variations in the left main bronchus has improved the process of selection and insertion of the double-lumen tubes for lung isolation. RECENT FINDINGS: Early work focused on the anatomy of the longer left main bronchus. More recent work looked at the tube. This showed that tubes of the same nominal French size were substantially different in the size of the bronchial tube diameter and length. The proposed International Standards Organization standard will more accurately identify tube dimensions. These factors must be considered when selecting a tube for lung separation. SUMMARY: Measurement of patient's airway dimensions combined with knowledge of the dimensions of the double-lumen (tracheobronchial) tube plays an important role in lung separation.
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Fantasy and fashion clashed to create one glamorously whimsical evening at Natalia Vodianova's fairy-tale-themed Love Ball, held at the Chateau Wideville outside Paris last night. Forty-five international designers such as Olivier Theyskens, Calvin Klein, Donatella Versace, Riccardo Tisci and more produced over-the-top, amazingly constructed gowns that were auctioned for Vodianova's charity (proceeds will go to the Naked Heart's program for children with special needs). Our vote for best dressed of the evening goes to VODIANOVA herself. She was a fantastical version of Little Red Riding Hood, thanks to Valentino, who did her dress and loaned his house (because if you're going to go red, Valentino is the guy). The extra-long braid, we can only assume, was a nod to Rapunzel (and perhaps Alexander Wang?)
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Verna Funke
Verna Manson Carpenter Funke, 92, passed away Thursday, June 13, 2013, following a long illness. Private family graveside services were at Taylorville cemetery, Arlington.
Survivors include a daughter, Sheila (Glenn) Belden, Marengo; three grandchildren, Vicki (Lee) Koenig, Daniel (Dar) Belden, Marengo; Curtis (Dawn) Belden, Cedar Rapids; 10 great-grandchildren and great-great- grandchildren as well as a favorite niece, Beatrice Johansen, Aplington; a great-niece, Pam, Guttenberg, plus many other nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two husbands, "Dutch Carpenter and Leonard Funke; two brothers, Bob and Albert Manson; sister, Beula Shaw; granddaughter, Julie Belden; and nephew, Vernon "JR" Shaw.
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These knitted Adirondacks slipper socks made with a Fair Isle knitting make for a great gift or are cozy to keep and wear around the house. These knitting instructions make this seemingly complex design a cinch!
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Finished Slipper Tube Socks fit Women's Shoe Size 6-7½ (8-8½, 9-10).
Directions are for size Small; changes for sizes Medium and Large are in parentheses.
Slipper Tube Socks measure: 8¾ (9½, 9½)" circumference.
- "Full o' Sheep™": 1 ball each 2925 Passionfruit A, 2260 Clementine B, 2640 Thyme C and 2350 Hazelnut D.
- Double Pointed Knitting Needles: 1 set each 4.5mm [US 7] and 5mm [US 8].
- 1 set size 9½ (10, 10½)" Suede Soles from Somerset Designs (www.somersetdesigns.com and www.shopredheart.com).
- Yarn needle, straight pins.
20 sts = 4"; 24 rounds = 4" in St st. CHECK YOUR GAUGE. Use any size needle to obtain the gauge.
Ssk = Slip next 2 sts knitwise, one at a time to right needle; insert point of left needle into the fronts of these 2 sts and knit them together from this position.
A, B , C, D = colors A, B, C, D; k = knit
mm = millimeters
p = purl
st(s) = stitch(es)
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* or ** = repeat whatever follows the * or ** as indicated.
"Full o' Sheep™" Art. T100 available in 3.5 oz (100 g); 155 yd (142 m) balls. (Size 4 Medium)
Slipper Tube Socks (Make 2)
With smaller needles and D, cast on 44 (48, 48) sts. Divide sts among 3 needles as follows: Needle 1: 11 (12, 12) sts; Needle 2: 22 (24, 24) sts; Needle 3: 11 (12, 12) sts. Place marker for beginning of round and join, being careful not to twist sts. Work in K1, p1 rib for 2 (2¼, 2½)".
Begin Fair Isle Pattern Leg
Change to larger needles, and knit Rounds 1 – 32 from chart repeating the pattern until piece measures 16 (16½, 17½)" from beginning.
Shape Toe
Continue in D only and shape toe as follows: Next Round: Needle 1: K to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1; Needle 2: K1, ssk, k to last 3 sts, k2tog, k1; Needle 3: K1, ssk, k to end. Repeat
last round three times more–28 (32, 32) sts Next Round: With needle 3, k across sts on needle 1–14 (16, 16) sts on each of 2 needles. Cut yarn and leave long tail for grafting toe sts together.
Thread yarn needle with remaining yarn. Hold the two needles with wrong sides together. Keeping the yarn needle and yarn under the points of the knitting needles, graft the stitches together as follows:
- Insert yarn needle through first st of front needle as if to knit and slip the st off.
- Insert needle through 2nd st of front needle as if to purl, but leave the st on the needle.
- Insert yarn through first st on back needle as if to purl and slip the st off.
- Insert yarn through 2nd stitch on back needle as if to knit, but leave st on needle. Repeat from * until all the sts are joined. Take care to draw yarn up so that gauge of grafting equals gauge of knitting. Fasten off. Weave in yarn ends.
Carefully pin suede soles to bottom of slippers. With D sew in place using a blanket stitch.
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Twitter released one of the worst-kept secrets in technology last week, further spring-boarding its business into a media company with a standalone iOS app and new subdomain built around music discovery.
Twitter released one of the worst-kept secrets in technology last week, further spring-boarding its business into a media company with a standalone iOS app and new subdomain built around music discovery.
Twitter Music looks like a neatly organized table of album covers that can be arranged by popularity, emergence, suggestions, and the songs or bands that users and their followers are listening to at any moment. The application is based on users' existing Twitter activity, so the artists they follow will automatically appear in Twitter Music and those profiles will provide more detail into the artists they follow or listen to on the service.
Twitter Music offers users a clean, visually rich environment to discover new artists and listen to music from the bands they already follow without leaving Twitter. Because Twitter launched the service prior to arranging any deals with record labels, users will only get to listen to a preview of songs unless they subscribe to Rdio or Spotify and opt to connect their account for access to full tracks.
Twitter gave artists like Ne-Yo, Blake Shelton, Moby, Jason Mraz and Wiz Khalifa early access to the service to help promote the service and drive interest leading up to its full-scale launch. But as much as those artists have a vibrant and massive following on Twitter, very little of their success can be directly tied to what they do on the platform. Most artists don't have the luxury of massive ad campaigns, marketing teams and promoters working behind the scenes and within the machinery of major record labels. For these bands and musicians, Twitter is a lifeline -- a frictionless channel for them to promote, engage with fans and, if they're lucky, sell their art.
Isaiah "Ikey" Owens has straddled both worlds. He didn't have to worry much about self-promotion during his decade-long run as the keyboardist for Mars Volta or when he toured with Jack White's backup band, The Buzzards, last summer. But when he's home in Long Beach, California, or not working as a session recording artist with other bands, Owens looks to Twitter to raise his exposure as an independent artist and producer. Particularly on weeks like this when he is trying to get the word out about the just-released "Chaine Infinie" EP from Free Moral Agents, a project he began as a solo artist in 2003 that eventually grew into the five-piece band it is today.
"I rely on that stuff as an independent businessman. I don't market. I don't take ads out. I don't really like doing that stuff. I've been able to make a career out of just using Twitter and social networking for bands to find me, and for people to hear what I'm doing," Owens says.
"It just makes things easier. That's the big thing when you're touring and you're a musician booking your own tours, which we do… If you're playing with a band in Arizona, you want access to that band's fans and the people that have come to see you, and you can get that immediately with [Twitter]," he says.
"Even when we're not on tour, people can see what's going on and be a part of it, and have that feeling of what our world is even though they may be in Japan or Iowa or wherever," Owens adds.
Twitter is receiving equal enthusiasm from marketers like Rachel Masters, partner and co-founder of Red Magnet Media, which has managed social media campaigns for Linkin Park, Duran Duran, Incubus and Blush.
"For those of us that have been in the digital music industry for a long time, we have been dreaming of various music discovery platforms and algorithms and social graphing solutions. So anything that becomes productized and comes to the market in a big way is exciting to me," she tells ClickZ.
"It's an immersive music discovery experience and that's what I really think has been lacking in the marketplace," adds Masters. "In my mind, there's so much content that's out there and the big problem that's happening today is that most people don't know about it," adds Masters.
With Twitter Music, "I can go into an artist and see who they're following on Twitter and discover new music that way. It really allows artists to be tastemakers and help us see who they're fans of and get to know them better. That's the magic of Twitter in my mind," she adds.
"Twitter's just way more to the point," says Owens. "It's not all this clutter of who's dating who, and whose birthday it is and all that stuff. It's kind of what you have to say that day and here's some music. It's just nice and simple that way."
Knowing how critical Twitter has been for his career, especially over last three years, Owens still shakes his head when bands fail to recognize the importance of being active on social media.
"I work with bands who are like 'I don't tweet,' and then after that they'll go 'how do we get more people to our shows, man? I want to be huge,'" he says.
"If you don't want to tweet, it's not a political stance, it's the world we live in. You can't have it both ways. If you don't want to do any social networking then have fun staying home and playing for all your friends the rest of your life, which is cool. But don't complain when you see other bands taking off and say how unfair it is. They're really good at taking advantage of that stuff," Owens says.
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Gallery viewer IFrame text editing (Signature Galleries)
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Do not show text for each image option:
Rather then edit text for each image by editing the pages in the "gallery_pages" folder, you can turn off or remove the IFrame that shows the text. Open the "image-viewer.htm", find the "var ImageText" and change that from a yes to a no, or remove the code between the "START" and "END IMAGE TEXT DISPLAY".
How does the image viewer work?
The "image-viewer.htm" in templates with text for each image shows one image from the "gallery" folder and one matching page from the "gallery_pages" folder at the same time. This .htm page is inside an IFrame.
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The pages in the "gallery_pages" folder each correspond to an image of the same name in the "gallery" folder. Example, "Fgallery3-5.jpg" in the gallery folder and "Fgallery3-5.htm" in the gallery_pages folder should be edited at the same time because they will both be showing in the "image-viewer.htm" at the same time.
What can I add to the pages in the gallery_pages folder?
The pages in the "gallery_pages" folder are normal HTML pages. You can add any item to these pages including text, links, images, purchase buttons, Paypal forms, audio, video, flash or any HTML web application. Edit these pages like any other HTML page.
The image-viewer.htm is not showing all the items I added:
If you edited an Fgallery page, for example the "Fgallery1-1.htm" and all the text is not showing when viewed from the gallery, edit your .css file and find the "PICTURE VIEWER TEXT AREA CODE" note. Under this note will be some "classes". Usually 3 classes. The ".ImageFrame" class is the height and width of the "image-viewer.htm" text area. You can also turn on the border in this class by making the "0px" a "1px".
Add a border around the text area:
See the above paragraph to add a border around the text in the "image-viewer.htm".
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Open the "image-viewer.htm" for editing and search for "scrolling=". You can make that either "yes", "no" or "auto".
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New Yorkers surely will hope that, over time, a provocative tax-incentive plan will do what is intended: Create businesses and jobs, especially in the hard-pressed areas upstate.
But, once again, Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the majority of state legislators blatantly got the process backward. They approved the legislation, with the public getting a better handle of the ramifications only after the fact. The public deserves far better.
Toward the end of the legislative session, Cuomo pushed hard for lawmakers to approve the creation of tax-free business zones in and around higher-education campuses. Specifically, the program - known as START-UP NY - will allow businesses to avoid paying taxes for up to 10 years if they create jobs and locate near participating college campuses.
It's not a terrible concept, but it needed far more vetting.
Colleges and universities are tremendous economic engines in New York, especially upstate. And with the state closing more prisons and developmental centers, communities need to offset the corresponding job losses with other opportunities, such as offered in this initiative. Far too often, New York also is losing its best and brightest, with students graduating from higher education institutions here but then leaving the state to pursue their careers.
Yet lawmakers ran with the tax-incentive concept without much information and with little debate about how precisely it will work. In fact, when passing it in the last week of session in June, lawmakers had little idea what, if any, impact the START-UP NY would have on the state budget. Last week, they - and the public - were hit with some numbers by the Cuomo administration. New York projects to take in $323 million less revenue as a result of approving the plan, something that wasn't counted on when lawmakers approved the budget in March.
Cuomo could have - and should have - offered up the tax incentive plan much earlier in the session so that legislators could have vigorously debated the matter and crunched the numbers. Or he should have waited and called a special session - after all, few things are as important as efforts to revive the economy. The public, too, should have been given far more chances to weigh in.
Even when the governor and state lawmakers are tackling the right issues, their legislative process continues to be dreadful and far too secretive. Too many ideas are being turned into legislation in haste and rammed through the legislature at the last minute.
Cuomo and legislators should have learned their lessons from the backlash over the way in which they enacted controversial gun laws earlier this year, and the fact that, while the budget was done on time, many of the votes came in the wee hours of the morning.
End results, of course, are critically important, but an orderly, fair and deliberative process are far more likely to produce stronger and better outcomes. The state continues to operate in a woefully deficient manner, and the handling of this tax-incentive plan is just the latest in a string of examples that the governor and the legislature has the power, and duty, to stop.


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Volvo Ocean Race update from Amory Ross, Media Crew Member, onboard Puma's Mar Mostro during the qualifying race.
Ken Read (driving) and Brad Jackson (trimming) focus on staying in front of Team Abu Dhabi, sailing to windward, during the Alicante qualifying race practice racing
The first night was a sleepless one for most of us on Puma's Mar Mostro, and I would have to assume it's a similar story for the five other teams out here. A strong Mediterranean Mistral made for rough but exciting sailing conditions and a violent life onboard. I found myself airborne on more than a few occasions, and once with a bucket full of bailed water (I then joined it, in the bilge).
At daybreak (I thought it would never come) we found ourselves in sight of Palma and several other competitors. It was a quick downwind exit after a scenic harbor-front lap, and we blasted towards Alicante doing 20 knots, waving goodbye to the Spanish spectators who had come to see the early action.
Then came the emergency rudder drill. At 8:45 GMT we had to install—and use—an emergency rudder and tiller for 30 minutes. Fortunately there was no drama and things went on and off without a hitch (no pun intended). On we went into the emerging vacuum of light winds and leftover swell, where we sat for the majority of the day. Now it's night again, and thankfully a beautiful one at that—I have already forgotten last night's troubles—and we're cruising along upwind at 12 knots headed for Puma Ocean Racing's compound in Alicante where the boat will be pulled apart again before the In-Port racing starts on October 29.
Jono Swain (right) and Rome Kirby (left) setup for a jibe onboard PUMA Ocean Racing during the Alicante qualifying race practice racing
Tony Mutter (foreground) looks up to trim the massive Code-0 from the leeward side during the Alicante qualifying race practice racing
Rome Kirby on the foredeck for PUMA Ocean Racing powered by BERG Propulsion during the Alicante qualifying race practice racing
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Easy Ways to Lose Weight Fast
Admit it: if you're reading this article, then you're looking for the easy way out. Losing weight takes work, and if we can get away with doing as little work as possible, then we're all ears.
No matter how many times we tell you, a healthy diet combined with regular exercise, and quality dietary supplements is one of the most reliable and proven ways to lose weight and keep it off. In fact, you've probably seen so many commercials emphasizing this fact, that you could probably quote them word for word.
However, since we can't reach through the Internet void and force you to stop surfing the Internet, turn off the TV, and get outside, we're going to give you the next best thing: how to lose weight while watching the boob tube. You'll still have to get up off the couch on occasion, but at least you won't have to miss out on your favorite episode of Modern Family, the Office, The Bachelor, or Its Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
How to Lose Weight in Front of the TV
Fidget: Although this may annoy anyone else watching your favorite TV show or movie with you, studies have shown that those who fidget are going to burn more calories throughout the day. According to a study in 1986, some subjects burned as many as 3,600 calories a day simply because they couldn't stop moving.
Wiggle your legs, tap your hands, and shift in your seat. You may look like you've got a nervous tick, but secretly you're going to lose more weight.
Compete during a Commercial: For every 20 minutes of show time, there's approximately 8 minutes of commercial if you're watching public television. This means you have 8 minutes of potential exercise time that you can use to burn calories without needing to leave the living room.
Test yourself by seeing how many crunches or pushups or jumping jacks you can do in a commercial. Then, by the next commercial break, see if you can beat that record. Cardio is accumulative, so you can spread out your sessions throughout the day and still lose weight.
Lose the Remote–On Purpose: If you're an avid channel surfer, then the remote may feel like it's an extension of your hand. However, hide the remote and take the time to actually get up every time you want to change the channel or adjust the volume on the TV.
In fact, getting up off a chair and then sitting back down and repeating the process can be the lazy way to squeeze in a few squats, which can tone your legs and butt. If no one is around to watch you, simply get up and sit down over and over again throughout the show so you can burn those extra calories.
Add a little Variety: Although some TV shows are fairly addictive and unless you have an all-day movie marathon running on your favorite station, the common couch potato rarely watches the same show over and over. You like to add a little variety now and again, don't you? For example, you like to watch a documentary one hour, and a reality show the next, just to keep interesting?
Exercise works in much the same way. If you do the same routine over and over, it gets boring and it doesn't have the same effect on your body any more. Feel free to switch up your routine now and then. Opt for crunches during one commercial and pushups during the next. Sprinkle a few jumping jacks into the mix and you've got yourself a fat-burning routine.
Additional Pointers
Although it may take a little extra effort on your part, adding a little exercise into your everyday routine can significantly increase your chances of losing weight. With these easy-to-do tips, you don't have to leave the comfort of your living room in order to start trimming up that beer-belly.
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Kyle Wettengel wrote:create a StatsDemo class
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Michael Vick has found a new team and possibly a new position.
According to ESPN.com, the former Virginia Tech quarterback signed a two-year contract with the Philadelphia Eagles. Under the deal, Mike can immediately start practicing and working out with the Eagles, but he won't be joining them on the field for a more weeks. He'll be fully reinstated around October 18.
"I'm a believer that as long as people go through the right process, they deserve a second chance," Eagles coach Andy Reid said during a press conference. "It's very important that people give them opportunities to prove that they can change. So we're doing that with Michael."
He'll make $1.6 million in the first year of deal that has a second-year option. If he's picked up for the second season he'll earn $5.2 million, and Michael stands to make an additional $3 million in incentives over next two years.
Although they weren't the first team to offer Mike a spot, the Eagles had been one of many teams that said they had no interest in signing him.
Donavon McNabb is the Eagles' lead quarter back, so people want to know which position Michael will play. But before the team tackles that matter, Michael has to recondition his body.
"There won't be a quarterback controversy. We have to make sure he gets back in football shape," Andy said. ""He's an unbelievable athlete, both running the ball and throwing it. I'll think of something for him."
Mike and the Eagles will be going up against his former team, the Atlanta Falcons on December 6.
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Speakers' Soapbox: Bill Wostenberg On BC Exercise Mistakes & President Hoover
In the leadup to the 11th Annual Continuity Insights Management Conference, April 22-24, 2013 at the Sheraton San Diego Hotel & Marina, Continuity Insights asks presenters about their chosen topics, lessons learned from Superstorm Sandy, critical business continuity skills and hypothetical band names. This week Bill Wostenberg, IT Service Continuity Consultant at Pacific Life Insurance, discusses the mistake to avoid when planning BC exercises and President Herbert Hoover's disaster relief efforts.
Continuity Insights: Your session is titled Conducting Effective Recovery Exercises. What is the biggest mistake you see business continuity (BC) practitioners make when planning and executing BC plan exercises?
Bill Wostenberg: Not actively engaging plan owners for all participating operational areas.
CI: What is the number one lesson learned from Superstorm Sandy in terms of business continuity and disaster recovery strategies?
BW: Unlikely but extreme events do happen.
CI: Complete this sentence: To be a successful business continuity professional you must master the risk assessment, the BIA and ___________________.
BW: Two things: maintaining and exercising business continuity plans, and developing business continuity strategies.
CI: True or false: There are some things you simply cannot plan for, e.g. the massive earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011.
BW: False
CI: Which U.S. president, sports person or musician do you think would have made a good business continuity professional and why?
BW: President Herbert Hoover, who was an accomplished engineer and led several humanitarian and disaster relief efforts, e.g. post WWI famines in Europe and the Great Mississippi Flood of 1927.
CI: If you formed a band with other business continuity professionals what would you call it?
BW: Masters of Disaster
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Lake Champlain is largely frozen over, according to the National Weather Service office in South Burlington. The last time the lake had this level of ice cover was 2007. This sunset view from last week shows only a narrow channel open in the ice west of Burlington, and it has since iced over. / ADAM SILVERMAN/FREE PRESS
A high-resolution image from MODIS satellite of Lake Champlain taken Wednesday, Feb. 12. Aside from a few ice-free spots (shown by the red arrows) most of Lake Champlain is ice covered. / US National Weather Service Burlington VT
Lake Champlain looks to be frozen over from one side to the other but dont try motoring across the ice to New York in your Humvee just yet. The meaning of frozen over is a bit imprecise.
Heres what we know, according to the National Weather Service: High resolution MODIS satellite photos show ice pretty much everywhere on the lake, except for a few relatively small patches. Thats enough for National Weather Service meteorologist Andrew Loconto to offer a rough characterization: 99 percent frozen.
This freeze-over likely was consummated Wednesday, he said, thanks in part to low temperatures overnight 11 degrees below zero at Burlington International Airport in South Burlington.
Its the most ice weve seen since 2007, Loconto said. Thats the last year the lake is believed to have frozen over.
Loconto cautioned that frozen over can mean different things. In the past, to some people, it might simply have meant that the Charlotte Ferry couldnt get across the lake.
However defined, freeze-overs are less frequent than they used to be. A century ago, they supposedly happened annually, and in nearly every year through the 1940s, but less frequently after that, and reportedly only three times in the 90s.
On a Facebook page, the weather service posted a satellite photo of the lake with three arrows indicating ice free spots, with this caveat: Our record of Lake Champlain fully freezing over comes from varied sources and several observers. So theres potential for inaccuracy.
The satellite photo doesnt show how thick the ice is, either, so it might not be safe to retrace the ferrys full passage on foot, much less by snowmobile. The lake may be in an uncommon condition, but common sense is still called for.


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Has iPhone 4S battery life got you down? Stop complaining, says CIO's Tom Kaneshige, who says the new iPhone is the torchbearer for battery life among smartphones.
Hurdles remain for iPad use in healthcare
One hospital hasn't jumped on the iPad-in-healthcare craze yet. Critical desktop apps just don't render well on the iPad, while iCloud's security concerns cause "trepidation."
Steve Jobs and the power of inspiration
Art inspires. Humor inspires. Teamwork inspires. A greater purpose inspires. What are you doing to inspire your IT staff?
With apps like Sample Digital's dax|Mobile, the iPad is become a power player on Hollywood sets, according to CIO's Tom Kaneshige.
Apple gets serious about iPad security -- is it enough?
Apple is responding to security concerns among enterprise users about its iOS. But CIO's Tom Kaneshige wonders if the company's newfound interest in enterprise security goes far enough.
iPhone and iPad Security: Four basic tips to stay safe
While waiting for Apple to fix the Jailbreakme.com 3.0 vulnerability, follow these four basic practices to avoid being bitten by malware.
Can the iPad cure what ails us?
Tom Kaneshige of CIO looks at a few ways that Texas Health Resources, a healthcare provider with 24 hospitals, is using the iPad to help clinicians spend more time with patients.
iPhone location tracking draws fire, shrugs
Tech analysts differ on the seriousness of the iPhone location-tracking controversy.
The Masters golf tournament tees off on iPhone, iPad
Golf fanatics can't afford to miss the sporting event unlike any other, so get the official Masters Golf Tournament apps for iPhone and iPad.
iPad in the enterprise: Three worries remain
When something is adopted as rapidly as the iPad has been in some businesses, it often leaves companies feeling more than a little panicked. Here are three pressing questions about the iPad, based on studies by Forrester Research.
Five awesome iPad productivity tools for under $5
CIO.com highlights five tools that will improve your iPad productivity without putting a dent in your bank account.
Toyota's mobile app mandate -- iPhone, iPad first
CIO's Tom Kaneshige looks at Toyota's approach for developing mobile apps and while the automaker puts its focus on the iOS platform first.
Tips and tricks for iPhone newcomers
CIO.com's Tom Kaneshige has some words of wisdom to share with soon-to-be Verizon iPhone 4 customers.
iPad security: How a hospital group treated trouble
Doctors have fallen in love with the Apple iPad, becoming one of the biggest early adopters among professionals, but their IT teams have had to confront new challenges as a result.
When the CEO gives iPads to all: One CIO's story
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Every Tuesday, two Enquirer sports writers will talk sports as if you were listening to them around the office. And just like in real life, no one gets to talk for long. The rules of Five Lines or Less are simple - anything is open for discussion, as long as it can be said in five lines or less.
Today's Combatants
Bill Broderick vs. Nick Buckley
Today's 5LOL Topics
March Madness
Spartans chances
Wolverines chances
Tigers' spring winding down
March Madness
Bill Broderick: Tourney full of Cinderellas. Usually they have too many corns and slipper doesn't fit by the Sweet 16. This year, it seems clock is broken and might never hit midnight.
Nick Buckley: No clear-cut favorite has made for a wide-open tourney. Gonzaga one of the worst No. 1 seeds ever. Florida Gulf Coast goes by 'Dunk City,' but 'bracket ruiner' seems better.
BB: Florida Gulf Coast was already the best No. 15 seed before it won a game because the coach is married to super model - coach is first-ever No. 16 seed getting a No. 1.
Spartans chances
BB: MSU isn't going to throw in the towel, as long as there's the kind fight that has them throwing towels at each other. If Spartans treat teammates like this, what chance does Duke have?
NB: In-fighting among Spartans is nothing new to Izzo's program, and it sparked team vs. Memphis. Freshman Gary Harris is becoming a tournament darling. He might be the X-factor.
BB: Duke, then Louisville. Awful tough road to Final Four. That's three of the four coaches on the college hoops' (active) coaches Mt. Rushmore. Sparty will need rock-solid effort to move on.
NB: MSU can't let Kelly get going outside, Duke can't let Nix get going inside. Hopefully, MSU won't have to put the game on the bum shoulder of Appling. I like Sparty.
Wolverines chances
BB: Michigan's bull has crashed the NCAA china shop and sent a couple of pretenders home. Can Wolverines' big boy McGary do the same when U-M faces the real big boys from Kansas?
NB: U-M has arguably the most talent left among the 16 teams, but that doesn't always translate to wins. McGary is one to watch, but Jayhawks might not be able to stop Burke.
BB: That talent is really young. However, Wolverines do have best backcourt in this matchup and guards win in March. Think U-M is looking ahead, rooting for Florida Golf Coast?
NB: U-M won't look past a storied program like Kansas (looking at you Google - what does Rock chalk, JayHawk even means?). Too much talent for U-M not to be Elite.
Tigers finish up spring
BB: Tigers have to be tired of Florida, but maybe not since they are looking at an opener in snowy Minnesota and then return to chilly Detroit late next week. Do Tigers need a hot start?
NB: This team could challenge '84 Tigers' 35-5 start. They definately won't be like the 2008 team that was picked by many to win the World Series, only to finish last in AL Central.
BB: Whoa, young fella. The '84 Tigers and 35-5 start is sacred ground. Were you even born then? I'll take a little better than Sparky's 20-20 start and go 25-15 and move on from there.
BB: I missed the '84 World Series by 21 days. Thank goodness I grew up in the internet age, where I can watch YouTube clips of all the Tigers' great 80s staches.
Do you care?
BB: Since starting to date Lindsey Vonn, it seems Tiger Woods' personal life is no longer breaking the record for men's downhill. Woods will be No. 1 in the sport. Do you care?
NB: Golf is better with Tiger in the conversation. With Miami Heat on a 26-game winning streak and your historic iron man streak for sick days recently coming to an end, what is the most impressive streak in sports?
BB: When LeBron keeps winning, or even comes to work for 17 straight years without a sick day, I'll be impressed. But Heat will break NBA record and then win another title. Not to take this conversation on a left turn, but more rubbin', racin' and fightin' in NASCAR - do you care?
NB: Stewart gets mad because Logano blocked him. Smoke throws a tantrum and Logano throws a water bottle. That's enough drama for me to care.


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State Police Degree Team Confers Master Mason Degree
On April 20, area Freemasons gathered at the Masonic Temple on Wyoming Street as Corporal Michael T. Sniscak III of Troop N, Pennsylvania State Police, Hazelton, received the Master Masons degree in Freemasonry and became a full member of Azalea Fellowship Lodge No. 687.
The Pennsylvania State Troopers degree team (bearing no official affiliation with the Pennsylvania State Police) consisted of Cpl. John Madison, P.M., of Quakertown, conferring Master; Sgt. Homer Jones, P.M. of Pocono Lodge No. 780, Senior Warden, and Trooper Dean Deem of Tamaqua Lodge No. 238, Junior Warden. Cpl. John Richards, who coordinated the event, was Cpl. Sniscak's Guide.
The other State Police who assisted in the Degree Work were Troopers Dick Armbrust, Robert Caprari, Mark Michael, and Thomas Getz. The Troopers conducted themselves with characteristic dignity, respect, aplomb, and professionalism, as was particularly conveyed by Bro. Homer Jones when he delivered The Charge at Raising.
Several of the degree team members journeyed from as far as the Allentown, Bethlehem, Quakertown, and Wilkes-Barre areas.
The solemnity and profundity associated with conferring a Master Mason Degree was underscored in the closing ceremony as Cpl. John Richards presented a Bible to the newly made Master Mason. The soliloquy, threaded with State Police themes, was delivered with eloquence and passion by Cpl. Richards.
Thus was Cpl. Michael T. Sniscak welcomed as a Master Mason that night.
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Results: Various strategies using electronic technologies have been proposed to improve standards of care for diabetic patients, but their long-term effectiveness is still questioned. We investigated the effectiveness of an internet-based glucose monitoring system for controlling changes in HbA1c levels over 30 months.We conducted a randomized clinical trial involving 71 diabetic patients at the outpatient clinic at Kangnam St. Mary's Hospital. The intervention group was treated using the monitoring system for 30 months, while the control group received conventional outpatient management. Measurements HbA1c and other laboratory tests were performed at the beginning and at the end of the study. We performed follow-up tests for HbA1c levels at three-month intervals.The intervention group, with a basal HbA1c ≥ 7.0%, showed markedly lower HbA1c levels than the controls during the first three months and maintained stable levels below 7.0% during the whole period. The control group, with a basal HbA1c < 7.0% showed a characteristic bimodal distribution. Although there were no significant overall differences in basal HbA1c levels, the mean HbA1c of intervention group was significantly lower that that of control group in both the fractions of HbA1c ≥ 7.0% and < 7.0%. The AHFA index (monthly cumulative percentage HbA1c fluctuation from the average) of the intervention group was also significantly lower than controls. Thus, the intervention group showed better glucose control pattern than the control group.We demonstrated the long-term effectiveness of this internet-based glucose monitoring system, and believe that this system deserves wider application for controlling diabetes.
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WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Symphony No. 2 in g, "Song of a New Race"; Symphony No. 3, "The Sunday Symphony"; Wood Notes – Fort Smith Sym./ John Jeter – Naxos
Published on September 26, 2012
WILLIAM GRANT STILL: Symphony No. 2 in g, "Song of a New Race"; Symphony No. 3, "The Sunday Symphony"; Wood Notes – Fort Smith Sym./ John Jeter – Naxos 8.559676, 61:39 ****:
This is the concluding release of the complete symphonies of William Grant Still on Naxos. This is the first release Audiophile Audition has covered, but they have been critically very well received in other places. This disc is no exception. While his first symphony, "Afro-American" is probably his most famous, I think the Third Symphony recorded here is one of his best even though it is not well known at all.
But we start with a wonderful suite called Wood Notes. This piece takes its inspiration from the poetry of American Southerner Mitchell Pilcher. The piece is very pastoral and subtly evocative, and got praises at its inception for its "pleasantness". If I had to issue a description I would say sit back and imagine the folksiness of Dvorak coupled with the descriptive prowess of Delius filtered through an elemental American harmony. Well, I tried. But the piece is quite lovely and very satisfying to hear.
The Second Symphony, "Song of a New Race", was received after the Stokowski premiere in 1937 in rapturous terms. I don't think time has been kind to it; while the idea of associating jazz and more popular idioms with Negro identity might have been characteristically identifiable at the time, today it feels contrived and a little shallow. Despite the plethora of fine string writing and easily followed tunes, and the obvious advancements in form and substance, one cannot help but disassociate the title of the work from its intended meaning and instead listen to the music as a feint and quite less substantive American in Paris. There are some memorable moments, like the very moving slow movement, and the whole symphony is hardly a failure, just not living up to initial expectations.
But when we get to the Third Symphony many things begin to fall into place. The sense of dramatic urgency beginning with the daybreak of a Sunday progressing through a church service, joy at the gathering of family and friends in relaxation, and the steady and heady resolve to conclude the day and find the strength for the next one. Though the program itself seems trite and uninteresting (and is the only symphony not performed in the composer's lifetime) the music is anything but, a model of energy and repose, carefully wedded to the most intimate moments of life on a day very important to the composer, and joyously optimistic—anyone hearing it will come away better for it.
John Jeter and the Fort Smith Symphony (Arkansas) conclude their trilogy of discs with excellent performances of all three works here, sumptuously recorded at Arkansas Best Corporation Performing Arts Center. This series surpasses the polished but somewhat superficial Jarvi recordings on Chandos and should be an easily affordable way to collect the Still symphonies at a very digestible price.
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Tributes pour in after popular St Agnes Hotel dog Molly dies
Posted: January 09, 2014|
The landlords of the St Agnes Hotel are mourning the loss of their "great companion", Molly the dog.
Diane and Bill English have revealed that their chocolate Labrador lost her battle with cancer last Wednesday, the day after her eighth birthday.
Molly, who was born in Gloucestershire, was brought to Cornwall when she was eight weeks-old.
Since then she has been a loving pet and friend to both her owners and the people of St Agnes.
Mrs English said: ""We have so many fond memories of her. She was just a great companion and she was so knowing. She was so much a part of us and a part of the village.
"She was my companion she could sense your moods. She was so accepting and loved everybody. She was such a sincere and lovely dog."
The landlords have said that she will be greatly missed by their regulars who used to treat her to biscuits and nibbles from the bar.
Tributes have also been pouring in for Molly on the St Agnes Unofficial Guide Facebook page.
Lorraine Holden from Port Isaac wrote: "So sad, she was always there to greet everyone. She'll be missed. "
Amanda Nicholls posted: "Rest easy beautiful Molly. We will miss those pretty eyes watching hopefully for a share of our pasty. Such a lovely friendly girl. Sending lots of love to all at the hotel."
Molly has now been laid to rest in Mr and Mrs English's garden.


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|Predictive factors of solid food intake in patients with malignant gastric outlet obstruction receiving self-expandable metallic stents for palliation.
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|Aim: As for self-expandable metallic stents (SEMS) for malignant gastric outlet obstruction (GOO), some predictive factors of stent patency have been reported, although re-canalization of GOO by SEMS does not necessarily lead to favorable food intake. Therefore, we analyzed the predictive factors of oral food intake following SEMS placement. Methods: A total of 97 consecutive patients in whom SEMS were placed for malignant GOO in five hospitals were included in this retrospective study. Clinical outcomes and predictive factors influencing solid food intake were analyzed. Results: The technical and clinical success rates were 97.9% and 87.6%, respectively. The mean gastric outlet obstruction scoring system (GOOSS) improved from 0.39 to 2.24 after SEMS placement (P < 0.01). The median eating period was 2.1 months (95% CI, 1.1-3.0 months), and the median survival time was 3.1 months (95% CI, 2.0-4.2 months). A Karnofsky performance status of ≤50 (odds ratio, 3.65; 95% CI, 1.17-13.1; P = 0.03) and ascites (odds ratio, 3.28; 95% CI, 1.23-9.05; P = 0.02) were identified as statistically significant independent poor predictive factors of solid food intake. Conclusion: SEMS is an effective treatment for patients with malignant GOO. Ascites and a poor performance status were poor predictive factors of solid food intake.
|Takashi Sasaki; Hiroyuki Isayama; Yousuke Nakai; Osamu Togawa; Hirofumi Kogure; Kazumichi Kawakubo; Suguru Mizuno; Yoko Yashima; Yukiko Ito; Natsuyo Yamamoto; Naoki Sasahira; Kenji Hirano; Takeshi Tsujino; Nobuo Toda; Minoru Tada; Masao Omata; Kazuhiko Koike
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|Title: Digestive endoscopy : official journal of the Japan Gastroenterological Endoscopy Society Volume: 24 ISSN: 1443-1661 ISO Abbreviation: Dig Endosc Publication Date: 2012 Jul
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Kaitlin Eakes' double to left-center field drove in Megan Brown with the walk-off run in the seventh inning of Lebanon's 3-2 softball win over visiting Cookeville on Thursday.
The hits came after Brown walked and Hannah Simmons singled to make a winner of Kasey Squires, who allowed 10 hits but persevered as Lebanon improved to 7-4.
Cookeville scored single runs in the fourth and fifth innings before Lebanon got two in the sixth as Squires and Autumn Baldwin drove in the runs without benefit of a hit.
Jones had a double while Eakes and Brittany Nagelhout each had two of the Lady Devils' seven hits.
Lebanon will play host to Gordonsville at 4:30 p.m. Monday before the Lady Devils travel to Wilson Central on Tuesday.
Hamlet homers as Watertown whips RBS in 8-A opener
RED BOILING SPRINGS — Watertown rolled past Red Boiling Springs 14-1 in the Tigerettes' District 8-A opener Thursday.
Shelby Hamlet homered as she and Hailey Lasater each drove in four runs and doubled. Mallory Josey tripled as she and Bailey Griffin doubled as part of the Tigerettes' 15-hit attack.
Tomlinson allowed two hits and a walk in four innings while striking out seven before Brittney Pryor worked the fifth as the Tigerettes moved to 6-4.
Watertown is scheduled to play host to Clay County in a noon doubleheader Saturday at Three Forks Park.
Rain prompts DA coach to pull team in 5-5 tie with FCS
NASHVILLE — In his years as Friendship Christian's softball coach and even more seasons as a baseball player and coach, Jody Atwood said he had never seen anything like it.
With his Lady Commanders and host Davidson Academy locked in a 5-5 tie in the top of the 10th inning and rain falling, longtime Lady Bears coach Stacy Swinea pulled her team off the field citing concerns about the safety of the players with rain falling.
Since it was a coach pulling her team off the field and not the umpires stopping play, Atwood would probably be within his rights to declare a forfeit win.
"I'm not one to take a forfeit like this," said Atwood, a Lebanon native who starred in the Kiwanis Little League, Lebanon High School and Cumberland University before a coaching career which has taken him to Wilson Central and FCS. "She was doing this to protect her players."
Atwood said he talked with Swinea later and plans to call her next week to try and find a date to resume the game, which would have Jordan Burton on first base following a single and Kelsi Dickey batting with no one out in the 10th.
Friendship scored single runs in the first and fourth innings and three in the fifth. Davidson had two-spots in the first and third frames and one to tie the score in the sixth.
Burton, who banged out three hits, led off the game with a triple and scored on Dickey's double.
With Friendship trailing 4-1 in the fourth, singles by Brice Dabbs and Brittany Petry set up Kaylee Davenport's RBI double to right-center field.
In the fifth, Burton, Dickey, Tana Whited and Brice Dabbs singled [with the latter two driving in a run apiece] before Dabbs sent a sacrifice fly to center to put Friendship in front 5-4.
Kendall Kelsh pitched the first five innings for Friendship and singled before Whited worked the next four, allowing just one hit while striking out four.
Petry picked up two singles while Courtney Petty doubled as the Lady Commanders collected 13 hits to Davidson's five.
Friendship will travel to Chattanooga today for the Choo-Choo Tournament at the Summitt of Softball. The Lady Commanders will face Hixson at 6:30 p.m. CDT and host East Hamilton at 8. Mt. Juliet is also participating in the tournament at another park.


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Eligibility Criteria :Open to members, who are working under a strength and conditioning coach in the school's athletic department as a student assistant or volunteer or graduate student, and pursuing undergraduate or graduate study. Also considered are grades/ GPA, courses completed, overall academic achievement, strength and conditioning experience, NSCA involvement (must be an NSCA member for at least 1 year prior to application deadline; high school students may sign up for membership at time of application), essay (clarity, expression, goals, lucidity, grammar, and articulateness), and recommendations.
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The Capitals, the Predators, and a Fan Divided
A fan's perspective of what it's like to write about the Predators while cheering for the Capitals.
Four Things To Watch for When the Capitals Return
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People with ADHD are quite familiar with the Buddhist concept on 'monkey mind'. BJ Gallagher at the Huffington Post wrote a brief post titled Buddha: How to Tame Your Monkey Mind that explains more.
Buddha described the human mind as being filled with drunken monkeys, jumping around, screeching, chattering, carrying on endlessly. We all have monkey minds, Buddha said, with dozens of monkeys all clamoring for attention. Fear is an especially loud monkey, sounding the alarm incessantly, pointing out all the things we should be wary of and everything that could go wrong.
Buddha showed his students how to meditate in order to tame the drunken monkeys in their minds. It's useless to fight with the monkeys or to try to banish them from your mind because, as we all know, that which you resist persists. Instead, Buddha said, if you will spend some time each day in quiet meditation — simply calm your mind by focusing on your breathing or a simple mantra — you can, over time, tame the monkeys. They will grow more peaceful if you lovingly bring them into submission with a consistent practice of meditation.
That sounds so easy – "simply calm your mind by focusing on your breathing or a simple mantra." For those with ADHD, it is not easy , but it can be done. I decided to try meditation and breathwork for one month to see how it worked for my specific brand of ADHD (combined). I was pleased and surprised to find that I could write coherently without taking my meds and my blood pressure dropped by over 20 points. All of this in just one month – the results began within one week. Check out this study – it had amazing results.
So, here's a prescription for you from a non-doctor. Meditate in the morning and evening for 15-20 minutes. Keep a log or journal of objective measures you would like to monitor – blood pressure, mood, sleep, eating, energy level, attention/concentration, impulsivity and so on. Try it as an experiment – see if you notice changes. If you need more instruction, read more articles in the Mind/Body section of the blog. This article has links to some of the best CDs and downloads I've found: http://www.adultadhdhelp.net/2011/08/adult-adhd-behavior-modification-to-manage-symptoms-pt-ii/ .
Will you take the challenge? Twice a day for one month – 15 minutes in the morning and 15 minutes in the evening. I am starting a new month today. Join me – and come back here to report on your progress. It will be our own online social experiment. You will see your monkey mind begin to shift as your practice changes your brain chemistry, building new neural pathways for those terribly important neurons to fire differently.
Check back here for an update and share your progress. Happy meditating!


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The government could harness big data if it improved information gathering from UK citizens, according to research from market research firm YouGov and business analytics software provider SAS.
The 'Communicating with the Citizen' survey took into account the responses of 2,160 British citizens. It found that 82 per cent of Britons have never knowingly provided false information in a government agency form, suggesting that the public sector could collect a central repository of reliable and valuable data.
To do this, YouGov and SAS have encouraged the government to maximise its response rates to official communications. Respondents suggested that the government could maintain or improve communication by clarifying what information is being asked for, using simpler language and having the ability to complete forms and payments online.
"In a document we tend to see significance in the way things are arranged and in their relative prominence. The high volume of participants who listed these as improvement areas for the public sector to focus on, is evidence that simplified government agency forms will make the process of gathering and providing information easier for everyone," said Gerry Leonidas, senior lecturer in typography at the University of Reading.
The study also found that the channel of communication was also highly relevant for maximising data capture and that despite the growth in online and mobile in recent years, a hard copy letter (50 per cent) is the favoured method for receiving general government agency communications, followed by email (37 per cent).
Bernard Baker, director, public sector at SAS UK & Ireland, explained that if the public sector adjusts its methods in line with the survey's responses, it will improve the value of the data being collected, and this information can then be analysed to help the government to improve services.
"By sourcing data of such a high calibre, individual agencies and central government will be better equipped to segment data, perform better profiling of citizens and improve overall citizen intelligence through high-performance analytics.
"Gaining the ability to identify subgroups within the community and then pinpoint the best methods to communicate with those specific demographics will put public servants in a much stronger position to provide citizens with improved services," he said.
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Calvary and head coach John Bachman were recently informed that Bastrop and its head coach, Thomas Bachman (son of John), would have to pull out of the Battle on the Border matchup scheduled for Sept. 11 at Independence Stadium as part of Week 2 of the high school football season.
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Wow, lame. Agreeing to exchange statements and then not responding to the other person's statement when they respond to your's. I just don't want anyone else to agree to an "exchange" with this guy.


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Tour a Restored 19th Century Farmhouse
Mixing period antiques with current-day style, this Georgia designer lovingly restored an 1852 farmhouse where Southern tradition lives on.
With its original heart-pine siding stripped and repainted, along with new landscaping, designer Jamie McPherson and Tra Raines' mid-19th-century home, Vinewood, is set to face a new millennium.
Jamie McPherson created an inviting entry in his central stair hall with a burled-mahogany, bow-front chest and faux- bois patterned rug.
Beautifully framed by the underside of the entry stairs, the cased opening to the dining room reveals a glimpse of the homeowners' period antiques.
The sun-filled dining room doubles as Jamie's design office. Leo, the family pug, is never far from the action.
The Empire sideboard is a focal point in Jamie and Tra's dining room. Its large size makes it an ideal spot to display art and china.
In case you haven't noticed, Jamie is a big fan of pheasant and bird motifs. Appropriately, the pine hutch in the breakfast room is full of plates with this theme. "I tell my clients the same advice I follow: Find a pattern and stick to it," explains the interior designer. "It becomes a fun pastime to hunt down a specific piece, like a compote or soup tureen, that matches your other dishes."
The kitchen, added in the 1940s, once served as an outdoor hitching station. Jamie updated the room with whitewashed cabinetry, marble countertops, and a generous island.
Jamie designed a mantel-like whitewashed hood to top the commanding stainless steel range. A favorite work of art, displayed on its ledge, adds warmth to the space.
Jamie paired soothing gray-green walls with stained, original woodwork (like the eye-catching mantel) to set the stage in the living room.
The living room's 1 of 2 re-upholstered wingback chairs, along with separate pillows created from an antique tapestry, demonstrate Jamie's mix of old and new fabrics for a cohesive look.
The glass cocktail table and somewhat abstract parrot print create interesting counterpoints to the antebellum, rosewood-veneered piano in the living room.
Jamie and Tra not only admire the beauty and craftsmanship displayed with Empire furniture, but also take a flexible approach when it comes to picking the right piece for a room. A prime example can be seen in their master bedroom, where a graceful bed side table is actually something else. "It's a card table," Jamie admits. "It worked better upstairs than in our dining or living room, so that's where we put it."
Softening the walls and ceiling with calming off-white, Jamie turned the master bedroom into a true retreat.
Created from unused attic space, the master bath glistens with white subway and reproduction hexagonal tile.


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Even though hunters will soon be able to register deer electronically from the field, the DNR will probably have to keep offering in-person registration as an option. / Patrick Durkin/For Wisconsinoutdoorfun.com
To preview what Wisconsins new deer-registration process might look like this fall and beyond, we could look next door to Minnesota, which switched to 100 percent electronic registration in 2008.
As you probably know, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources in January adopted a recommendation from our deer czar, Dr. James Kroll of Texas, to replace mandatory in-person deer registration with online or phone-in registration. E-registration is assumed to be cheaper and more convenient for hunters, and a generator of real-time harvest data the DNR can monitor and share with the public.
Personally, Ill miss the story-telling and picture-taking at busy deer-registration stations, especially on opening weekend. Ill also miss the perspective each visit provided. When you sit on one stand, watch a relatively small chunk of land, and count gun-shots to assess the hunt, you dont get a regional let alone statewide sense of the hunt.
But when you visit bustling registration stations after dusk on opening day, you see the hoofs, heads, antlers and split chest cavities of countless deer atop car trunks, pickup beds and hitch-hauls. All those carcasses make you realize this is an actual herd, one requiring miles upon miles of woodlots, marshes, forests, fields, plants and crops to sustain its many mouths.
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Each registration station is merely a stockyard where deer start changing from majestic creatures to sausage and venison roasts. Meanwhile, the herds main body continues roaming the surrounding countryside, the does already carrying the herds next fawn crop.
Then again, if Minnesotas registration system signals what to expect, the demise of Wisconsin deer registration stations might be exaggerated. Wisconsin will likely offer in-person registration for years to come.
The Minnesota DNR started offering e-registration as an alternative to paper registration in 2005, and went fully electronic in 2008. Even so, nearly 30 percent of its 2013 deer registrations were submitted by clerks at registration stations. Hunters walk in with their license, tell the clerk what they shot, and the clerk files the information electronically for them.
Like it or not, some people arent comfortable taking orders from automated voices and punching phone keys. Still others dont own a computer or refuse to use one. They still write letters by hand, fill out order forms in mail-order catalogs, and pay their bills with checks. How quaint, right?
Still, e-registration is becoming more popular in Minnesota. In 2010, 44 percent of deer registrations were walk-ins. That dropped to 39 percent in 2011, 32 percent in 2012 and 29 percent in 2013.
Internet registrations accounted for nearly all of that change. Phone-in registrations were basically 30 percent all four years, while Internet registrations rose from 24 percent in 2010, to 36 percent in 2011, 39 percent in 2012 and 41 percent in 2013.
Lou Cornicelli, Minnesotas wildlife research manager, said hunters who register deer electronically praise the systems convenience. In all my years in the DNR, including 10 years running our deer program, Ive never heard so many compliments from hunters, Cornicelli said. Im used to answering the phone and getting chewed out. When I answer the phone lately, theyre calling to say thanks.
Cornicelli also thinks the agency receives its most accurate deer information when it comes straight from hunters, not through store clerks, tavern-keeps or gas-station attendants. Unlike Wisconsin, which has required clerks to verify each kill and personally attach the DNRs metal registration tag, Minnesota has never required clerks to go outside.
Where we see the difference is in buck-fawn registrations, Cornicelli said. Walk-in registrations consistently come in 2 to 3 percentage points lower than phone and Internet registrations for buck fawns, but 3 or 4 percentage points higher on adult bucks. Somethings lost in translation. Hunters typically dont say they shot a buck fawn. Theyll call it a little buck or a nubbin buck. We think some clerks just mark it down as a buck. When hunters register it themselves electronically, they choose the buck-fawn box.
And what does the Minnesota DNR do when needing tissue samples for disease monitoring? We can cut off electronic options in specific deer-management units and make hunters register deer in person until we get enough samples, Cornicelli said. A recording or message tells them what to do. We don't leave them wondering if its just a malfunction.
In other words, in-person deer registration will probably continue at some level in Wisconsin for years to come. Meanwhile, e-registration might not deliver the immediate cost-savings some envision, but it should be more convenient and less time-consuming for the DNR and hunters alike.
Patrick Durkin is a freelance writer who covers outdoors for Press-Gazette Media. Email him at email@example.com.


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Artist David Thomas Smith uses heavily manipulated satellite images of major cities as a vehicle for revealing humanity's excesses.
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The DIY route costs significantly less than hiring a pro. But how hard is it really? And was this intrepid reporter successful?
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Time to complete: 15 minutesTurn yourself into a paper doll
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Instructions:Make yourself and your friends into paper dolls. With an adult's help, cut out a picture of yourself. Or, you can cut out a picture of a person from a magazine. If you use a magazine picture, try gluing it to a thicker piece of paper before you cut it out so it stands up better. Now tape a pencil or a stick to the back of the picture for a handle. Make a puppet play staring you!
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The Yaswen laboratory studies how intrinsic and extrinsic factors interact to cause malignancy in human epithelial cells that line the cavities and surfaces of structures throughout the body, and also form many glands. Most human cancers are epithelial in origin and show steep age-dependent increases in incidence. These sharp increases are thought to be due to accumulated changes in gene expression and function that over time favor the development of growth autonomy and invasiveness in susceptible cells.
One of nature's notable tumor suppressive mechanisms is cellular senescence - a viable growth arrest characterized by the inability of affected cells to proliferate in the presence of appropriate mitogenic factors. Abundant published evidence now supports the concept that senescence is a primary impediment to malignancy, and that it is ordinarily very stringent. Despite the resiliency of the senescence response, however, it is prone to failure to varying degrees, depending upon genetic/epigenetic context. Moreover, additional evidence indicates that processes, such as oncogene activation, telomere dysfunction, and DNA damage, that ordinarily result in senescence, can contribute to malignancy- and drug resistance-favoring changes in cells in which senescence fails. One goal in the Yaswen lab is therefore the elucidation of mechanisms that enforce senescence in the expectation that such knowledge should lead to measures that prevent or reverse its failure in susceptible pre-malignant and malignant cell populations without limiting the regenerative abilities of normal stem/progenitor cells.Another goal is to use cultured human breast cells to develop and use tissue specific risk models of carcinogenesis. While it is not currently possible to simulate cancer progression in its entirety using cultured human cells, assays employing such cells under conditions in which aberrant differentiation and self-renewal can be detected may be important surrogate endpoints that can be used directly in estimates of cancer risk.
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Nguyen-Ngoca, K-V., Cheung, K.J., Brenot, A., Shamira, E.R., Gray, R.S., Hines, W.C., Yaswen, P., Werb, Z., and Ewald, A.J. The ECM microenvironment regulates collective migration and local dissemination in normal and malignant mammary epithelium. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA) 109:E2595-604, 2012.
Littlepage, L.E., Adler, A.S., Kouros-Mehr, H., Huang, G., Chou, J., Krig, S.R., Griffith, O.L., Korkola, J.E., Qu, K., Lawson, D.A., Xue, Q., Sternlicht, M.D., Dijkgraaf, G.J., Yaswen, P., Rugo, H.S., Sweeney, C.A., Collins, C.C., Gray, J.W., Chang, H.Y., and Werb, Z. The transcription factor ZNF217 is a prognostic biomarker and therapeutic target during breast cancer progression. Cancer Discov. 2:638-51, 2012.
Horiuchi, D., Kusdra, L., Huskey, N.E., Chandriani, S., Lenburg, M.E., Gonzalez-Angulo, A.M., Creasman, K.J., Bazarov, A.V., Smyth, J.W., Davis, S.E., Yaswen, P., Mills, G.B., Esserman, L.J., Goga, A. MYC pathway activation in triple-negative breast cancer is synthetic lethal with CDK inhibition. J Exp Med. 209:679-96, 2012.
Bazarov, A.V, Lee, W.J., Bazarov, I., Bosire, M., Hines, W.C., Stankovich, B., Chicas, A., Lowe, S.W., and Yaswen, P. The specific role of pRb in p16INK4A mediated arrest of normal and malignant human breast cells. Cell Cycle 11:1008-1013, 2012.
Krig, S.R., Miller, J.K., Frietze, S., Beckett, L.A., Neve, R.M., Farnham. P.J., Yaswen, P.I., and Sweeney, C.A. ZNF217, a candidate breast cancer oncogene amplified at 20q13, regulates expression of the ErbB3 receptor tyrosine kinase in breast cancer cells. Oncogene 29:5500-10, 2010.
Bazarov, A.V., Hines, W.C., Lee, L., Bassett, E., Beliveau, A., Campeau, E., Mukhopadhyay, R., Lee, W.J., Melodyev, S., Zaslavsky, Y., Rodier, F., Benhattar, J., Ren, B., Campisi, J., and Yaswen, P. P16INK4A mediated suppression of telomerase in normal and malignant human breast cells. Aging Cell 9:736-46, 2010.
Mukhopadhyay, R., Costes, S., Bazarov, A., Hines, W.C., Barcellos-Hoff, M.H., and Yaswen, P. Promotion of variant human mammary epithelial cell outgrowth by ionizing radiation: an agent-based model supported by in vitro studies. Breast Cancer Res. 12:R11, 2010.
Bazarov, A., Hines, W.C., Mukhopadhyay, R., Beliveau, A., Melodyev, S., Zaslavsky, Y., and Yaswen, P. Telomerase activation by c-Myc in human mammary epithelial cells requires additional genomic changes. Cell Cycle 8: 3373-3378, 2009.


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The Des Moines Registers political reporting team Jennifer Jacobs, Jason Noble and William Petroski interviewed each member of Iowas delegation during the August congressional recess. This special report, Congress: Big Decisions, continues through Friday.
Issue: Is Congress doing enough as a watchdog on national security and intelligence issues?
All six members of Iowas congressional delegation, Democrats and Republicans, say no.
Top-secret information leaked by a former intelligence contractor identified in June as Edward Snowden revealed a massive government surveillance effort that can track phone numbers dialed and how long and how often those numbers were called; emails; websites being visited; words being searched; and other Internet traffic. More news has broken since about the breadth of the governments tracking efforts.
Why should Iowans care?
The revelations have triggered concerns that unchecked power invites abuse, and worries about violations of constitutional rights, Iowas federal lawmakers said.
What's expected to happen?
Action to change any aspect of federal government surveillance is unlikely, Jonathan Allen, Politicos White House bureau chief, told the Register.
The truth is that its very difficult for any legislation to make it through Congress in any year, and that is even more true this year. They cant even get the basics done, Allen said. There is no clear consensus on what if anything to do about NSA (National Security Agency) surveillance, which makes it even less likely that anything will happen this year. While theres a lot of outrage on the right and on the left, many Americans are comfortable with the NSA, and many are not even aware of what its doing, so this is not the pressing issue.
What's notable about Iowa's delegation
On this topic, theres rare harmony.
Even Democratic U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin sounds like a hard-charging civil liberties activist, saying: I think Mr. Snowden has rung the alarm bells for the American people in terms of our individual liberties and our individual freedoms. This is one place where I connect with Steve King and some others. Im telling you, this is not good for our country to have all of this meddling by the government into our daily lives and personal effects. This is not good. And we have to nip this in the bud.
Republican U.S. Rep. Steve King, who attends some classified briefings as a member of the House Judiciary Committee, said a government with so much surveillance capability is creepy.
Right now, the federal government has the authority, whether it is constitutional, statutory or case law, or at least an argument of the executive branchs attorneys, to do this, he said.
King said he wants to see which requests for search warrants the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court rejected and why.
Republican U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley last week asked the inspector general of the National Security Agency to provide additional information about the intentional and willful misuse of surveillance authority by NSA employees. He also asked for as much unclassified information about these cases as possible.
Jason Noble and William Petroski contributed to this report.


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05 Nov 2011
Back Country Prospectors Grand Opening - AZ, USA
Come and join us for our GRAND OPENING!
After 10 years and two traveling locations Loye Blackburn and Back Country Prospectors has found a permanent home in the gold rich Arizona high Desert.
Loye and Minelab Americas invite you to join us in welcoming him to Stanton Arizona during the Back Country Prospectors Grand Opening Saturday November 5th at his new Showroom. Located just a few hundred feet from the entrance to the historic town of Stanton Arizona . Here Loye has built a prospectors wonderland showroom featuring everything a modern prospector needs to find the elusive yellow metal.
There will be prizes and seminars throughout the day and free Barbeque and Burgers served between 12 and 2pm.
Grand Opening hours are from 10am to 6pm Saturday November 5th
Directions are simple From Highway 89 turn East onto Stanton Road (North of Congress or South of Yarnell ) travel Stanton Road 6.2 miles to the showroom located at the intersection of Stanton and Buzzard roads. See you there!
When: Saturday, November 5, 2011
Where: 15935 West Stanton Road, Congress, AZ 85332
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Police seek driver in hit-and-run that injured bicyclist
SAN ANGELO, Texas - Police are looking for a driver they believe fled the scene of a hit-and-run involving a bicyclist.
About 11 p.m. Monday a vehicle described as a late 1990s or early 2000 model dark-green Dodge Durango failed to yield at a stop sign, police said.
The car crashed into a person riding a bicycle at Campus Boulevard and Avenue J, injuring the cyclist.
"The vehicle was last seen traveling west on Avenue J," according to a police news release. "The suspect vehicle could have damage to the front left and/or left passenger side of the vehicle."
Anyone with information about the identity or location of the driver or vehicle can call Officer Steven Quade at 325-657-4253.
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Jim Nill, responsible for drafting and developing players for the Detroit Red Wings, is finally ready to take a general manager job.
The Dallas Stars are expected to name Nill their new GM as early as Monday, according to TSN.ca's Darren Dreger. That means that Joe Nieuwendyk is on the way out.
The timing of the report is interesting; it came about five minutes before a game between, you guessed it, the Stars and Red Wings. Detroit can clinch a spot in the NHL playoffs for the 22rd consecutive season with a point.
Nill has turned down several jobs in the past; apparently Dallas was the one that made him jump. Detroit, largely because of him, has turned several low-profile picks into championship cogs. Nill was in the Wings' front office for Stanley Cup wins in 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2008. Detroit will miss him.
Nieuwendyk, meanwhile, lasted a little less than four years as GM of his former team. He'll best—or worst—be remembered for trading James Neal and Matt Niskanen to the Pittsburgh Penguins for defenseman Alex Goligoski in 2012. Goligoski, a puck-moving defenseman and power-play quarterback, has been fine, but Neal has grown into one of the league's elite goal-scoring wings, and Niskanen has matured into a reliable second-pairing defenseman himself.
Nieuwendyk did manage to stockpile some good young defensemen; Jamie Oleksiak, the 2012 first-round pick, saw some NHL time this season and made the AHL All-Star team. Brenden Dillon was one of the best rookie blue liners in the league. Joe Morrow, acquired from Pittsburgh for captain Brenden Morrow, was also a first-round pick.
Nieuwendyk's plan to get the Stars back to playoffs this season, though, failed; he signed veteran wingers Jaromir Jagr and Ray Whitney in the offseason in the hopes that they'd help a core of players led by All-Stars Jamie Benn and Loui Eriksson reach the postseason. That didn't happen, and Jagr was dealt to the Boston Bruins before the NHL trade deadline.
Ultimately, the trades are likely what did in Nieuwendyk—Morrow-for-Morrow wasn't bad on paper, but involved a franchise icon during a playoff chase. The Neal deal speaks for itself. Nieuwendyk also added salary in a trade that sent productive Michael Ryder to the Montreal Canadiens for Erik Cole. Couple that with a new ownership group led by Tom Gaglardi, and a willing, highly regarded replacement, and it's easy to see why Nieuwendyk will soon be looking for work.