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I have no idea what it sounds like. It may sound awful or it could transport me to realms untravelled.
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"David Wilson, amateur! That guy just throws a few drivers in a box and wants 200 grand. I could do better than that".
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Gwen Jorgensen Claims USOC's May Athlete of the Month Honors
Jorgensen won her second-straight World Triathlon Series gold in Yokohama, Japan
The U.S. Olympic Committee (USOC) honored triathlete Gwen Jorgensen as its female Athlete of the Month for May following a gold-medal performance at the 2013 World Triathlon Yokohama last month.
Just three weeks after a historic win in San Diego, Jorgensen (St. Paul, Minn.) raced her way to another gold medal and the world No. 1 ranking at the 2013 International Triathlon Union World Triathlon Series Yokohama, held May 10. Jorgensen clocked a time of 1:57:05 on the 1,500-meter swim, 40-kilometer bike, 10K run course en route to her second straight ITU World Triathlon Series win. Jorgensen is the first American to top the ITU World Triathlon Series standings since it began in 2009, and the first U.S. woman to claim the top spot in the triathlon world rankings in nearly a decade.
Paralympic long jumper Josh Kennison (South Paris, Maine) was recognized as male USOC Athlete of the Month, while the U.S. Women's National Water Polo Team won for Team of the Month.
Each National Governing Body may nominate one female, one male and one team per discipline for USOC monthly honors. A voting panel selects the winners from the pool of nominees with online fan voting via Twitter accounting for 10 percent of the total vote.
U.S. Olympic Committee May Athletes and Team of the Month:
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A Poem About "Hope" to Kick Off a Health Conference?
The Institute for Clinical Systems Improving holds an annual conference on health care transformation. In their evaluations, attendees often say the event, which brings together 400 health care and health leaders, gives them hope to go out and do the hard work of improving our health care system.
This year, we found a poem that resonated with ICSI staff, and our President and CEO, Sanne Magnan, MD, PhD, shared the poem to launch our meeting. It was well received. So we want to share it to inspire all of you who are also working to achieve the Triple Aim of better health, better care and better costs.
The Gates of Hope—A Poem by Victoria Safford
Our mission is to plant ourselves at the gates of Hope—
Not the prudent gates of Optimism,
Which are somewhat narrower.
Not the stalwart, boring gates of Common Sense;
Nor the strident gates of Self-Righteousness,
Which creak on shrill and angry hinges
(People cannot hear us there; they cannot pass through)
Nor the cheerful, flimsy garden gate of
"Everything is gonna' be all right."
But a different, sometimes lonely place,
The place of truth-telling,
About your own soul first of all and its condition.
The place of resistance and defiance,
The piece of ground from which you see the world
Both as it is and as it could be
As it will be;
The place from which you glimpse not only struggle,
But the joy of the struggle.
And we stand there, beckoning and calling,
Telling people what we are seeing
Asking people what they see.
Why I Came Home from Hawaii Instead of Working in an Ice Cream Shop
My wife and I recently celebrated 40 years of marriage by going to Kauai. It was a wonderful time of gorgeous scenery, warm weather, and relaxation. As I sat many mornings watching the surf roll in below our rented condo, I also found it a time of contemplation.
If you have never been to Kauai—especially in an April when it was still snowing in Minnesota, once you get there you try to figure out how to stay. There was a job opening at the Tropical Ice Cream Shop near Princeville. I knew it wouldn't pay the bills, but that wasn't the reason I'm back here working at ICSI.
As I looked at the surrounding paradise, I kept thinking everyone should be able to experience it. But most people are not as fortunate as me. I have siblings who cannot afford such a trip.
One of the reasons is the rising cost of health care. Forget exotic vacations. The unsustainable increases in costs are leaving fewer and fewer dollars for education, good housing, jobs, and clean environments that are known to contribute more to an individual's health than health care itself.
ICSI's 50 medical group and hospital members are committed to achieve the Triple Aim of better health, better care and more affordable health care. Some are engaged in programs like Choosing Wisely to ensure physicians and patients discuss appropriate care that improves safety and lowers costs. Others are working to help prevent avoidable hospital readmissions through the RARE (Reducing Avoidable Readmissions Effectively) Campaign. That effort has kept 7,300 people from returning to the hospital unnecessarily, saving an estimated $55 million in the process.
While there was some remorse as we boarded the plane for Minnesota, I was ready to come back to work (that's kind of true). Our community has accomplished much in improving the quality and value of the care we deliver, but it is not enough, as the waves of baby boomers rolling into the health care system are just as constant as the waves off shore in Kauai.
So today I am wrapping up preparations for our annual Colloquium with its theme of "Building a Sustainable Health System." I'm hoping the slate of leaders who will be presenting, and the lessons that 400 attendees take home and implement, will accelerate our efforts to achieve that Triple Aim. Accomplishing that will help others afford health care. And it will help me forget about that mocha chocolate almond ice cream cone.
Social Determinants Helped Determine My Health in 2013
The fifth annual County Health Rankings, prepared by the University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute, recently came out. Minnesota fared quite well nationally. But I was more interested in my county–Washington. We ranked #8, which was near the top among all Minnesota counties.
The report was more relevant to me this year because the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement has been focusing on both health care and health improvement. So I was aware that the University of Wisconsin work estimates that "health care" accounts for only about 20 percent of our "health" and longevity.
ICSI Colloquium–Why you need to tear yourself away from work!
We're all feeling overwhelmed, perhaps threatened, and at times frustrated by what we're seeing in the environment. The military has a term for it—VUCA (Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity). While it originated in the military, it seems totally applicable to the health care systems and communities we serve.
Removing the Stigma of Depression
Recently, I attended a learning forum on ICSI's work to integrate behavioral health into primary care. This forum reviewed five years of Minnesota medical groups implementing the DIAMOND (Depression Improvement Across Minnesota, Offering a New Direction) program for depression, and more recent work supporting the SBIRT (Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment) program to address risky substance use.
As director of marketing and communications at ICSI, usually I lead promotion for these events, or provide recaps of presentations. I played a different role this time—that of a patient with depression.
There's Still Time to Join ShareEBM Research Grant
The goal of this project is to promote evidence-based patient-centered care in the primary care setting. We have developed a set of tools, including decision aids, to facilitate a conversation between the patient and clinician that incorporates the best research evidence and the patient's preferences and values. We have also developed a ShareEBM implementation toolkit.
Our study will have two arms; one arm in which decision aids are passively disseminated and one strategically implemented with the study team assisting the adoption (ShareEBM Plus). Participating practices in both arms will have full access in perpetuity to the decision aids most pertinent to the primary care of patients with diabetes and concomitant chronic conditions (hypertension, depression, statin use, aspirin use, osteoporosis). Learn more about participation requirements and join us today!
Brammer is Second Colloquium Keynoter
Kicking off the 17th Annual ICSI Colloquium on Health Care Transformation — May 5-7, 2014 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre — will be Craig Brammer, Chief Executive Officer of the combined operations of the Greater Cincinnati Health Council, the Health Collaborative and HealthBridge. He will share lessons learned from overseeing the strategy and coordination of that region's community health improvement initiatives. A much sought-after innovator and speaker, Brammer was previously at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, where he focused on the intersection of technology and payment policy, and led a $260 million federal technology innovation program.
He joins Kerry Sparling, our other keynoter, who will provide a patient's perspective on how to curtail the rapid rise in diabetes.
Looking for more reasons to attend? Keep an eye on our website's Colloquium page for all the details as our program develops, including:
- New tracks
- Opportunity to win free trip to 2015 Colloquium
- Tuesday reception
- Mobile app – better than ever
Sparling Will Challenge Colloquium Attendees on How We Address Diabetes
The theme of ICSI's next colloquium, set for the Saint Paul RiverCentre on May 5-7, 2014, is Building a Sustainable Health System.
Kerri Sparling has been announced as one of our keynote speakers. Ms. Sparling, who has had type 1 diabetes for more than 27 years, is the creator and author of Six Until Me, one of most widely read diabetes patient blogs. Her work as a writer and consultant can be found at diaTribe, dLife, and in diabetes outreach like JDRF's Countdown magazine.
As many as one in three U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ms. Sparling will present an engaging patient perspective on how to best meet the needs of this expected tsunami of people living with diabetes. Here is what a past Colloquium Planning Committee Member, Ben Miller, PsyD, Department of Family Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, has to say about Ms. Sparling:
"You want authenticity? You want a challenge? You want to be engaged? If the answer to all three of these questions is 'yes' then look no further than Kerri Sparling. Kerri picks an audience up by their lapels and shakes them around convincing them that there is a patient in healthcare who often gets lost and ignored. She reminds us all of the importance of being truly 'patient-centered' and dispels any myths that focusing on pieces rather than wholes is a good idea for our health. Very few leaders in healthcare are able to address such complicated issues in healthcare as Kerri; and, she does so with grace, precision, and passion."
Save the date and watch for more details as the program develops.
ICSI Hosts Reception for CDC's Tom Frieden
A reception with Tom Frieden, MD, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), was held at ICSI in September in conjunction with Dr. Frieden's visit to our state to learn how Minnesota has achieved the best control of hypertension in the country. Learning Minnesota's best practices, he noted, might help the CDC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services reach the goals of their co-led Million Hearts™ Campaign—prevent one million heart attacks and strokes by 2017 through improved clinical and community prevention, and increase the number of persons in the U.S. whose hypertension is under control by 10 million. Learn more.
Forum Spotlights Integration of Behavioral Health and Primary Care
ICSI brought together more than 60 stakeholders who have been involved with the DIAMOND and SBIRT programs for a learning action forum on September 26, 2013. The "Evolving Integrated Care" forum focused on three areas: celebrating the stakeholders' accomplishments over the past seven years in integrating behavioral health and primary care; engaging stakeholders on the impact of their work to date and opportunities for improving depression and substance use care in primary care; and exploring innovative strategies to sustain successful integrated care moving forward. Learn more.


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|Genre: Drama, Mystery
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|Infusion of E. Coli Lipopolysaccharides Toxin in Rats Produces an Early and Severe Impairment of Baroreflex Function in Absence of Blood Pressure Changes.
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|ABSTRACT: The assessment of baroreflex function since the first appearance of endotoxemia is important because the arterial baroreflex should exert a protective role during sepsis. Nevertheless contrasting results were previously reported. This could be due to the hemodynamic instability characterizing this condition that may per se interfere with reflex cardiovascular adjustments. Aim of our study was therefore to study the baroreflex function 1) since the very beginning of infusion of E. coli lipopolysaccharides toxin (LPS) and 2) in absence of the unloading effect produced by a decrease in blood pressure. LPS was infused in 10 rats for 20 minutes at the infusion rate of 0.05 mg/kg/min. Blood pressure was continuously measured before, during and after infusion and the baroreflex function was evaluated analysing spontaneous fluctuations of systolic blood pressure and pulse interval by the sequence and transfer-function techniques. Plasma concentrations of inflammatory (IL-6, TNF-alpha) and anti-inflammatory (IL-10) cytokines were measured in other 8 rats, similarly instrumented, 4 of which receiving the same LPS infusion. We found that blood pressure levels did not change with the infusion of LPS while inflammatory cytokines increased significantly. The baroreflex sensitivity was significantly reduced 10 minutes after the beginning of LPS infusion, reached values about half those at baseline within 15 minutes after the start of infusion, and remained significantly low after the end of infusion. In conclusion, we documented that septic-shock inducing LPS infusion is responsible for a very rapid impairment of the baroreflex function, independent from the level of blood pressure.
|Alberto Radaelli; Paolo Castiglioni; Maria Grazia Cerrito; Caterina De Carlini; Francesco Soriano; Marco Di Rienzo; Maria Luisa Lavitrano; Giovanni Paolini; Giuseppe Mancia
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Candida And Kidney Beans
Pregnancy The body produces hormones all through pregnancy which raise the blood sugar levels and can modify the pH balance of the vagina. Candida And Kidney Beans the increased blood sugar levels can bring on significantly more growth of yeast home treatments yeast infections men infections. Women often suffer persistent yeast infections for the period of pregnancy. Diabetes Diabetes which is badly controlled or not controlled at all can bring on elevated mild yeast infection natural treatment sugar levels in the blood and urine.
There are microorganisms that make the vagina an acidic environment making the other pathologic bacteria to not survive in the acidic environment. This function is very useful especially in preventing UTI. Usually women can get UTI faster because of the short urethra they have and also due to the anatomical proximity of anus and causes of recurring yeast infections in women the vagina. Candida Albicans is among the microorganisms that is present in the skin vagina and even in the lining of the mouth. Candida albicans is a fungus effects recurring yeast infection that serves as food for other -friendly- bacteria.
Antibiotics eradicate not only bad bacteria but also good bacteria that can prevent an overgrowth of yeast. Recent antibiotic use like for a bladder infection is one of the most common risk factors for getting a yeast infection Taking oral steroids and birth control pills could also amplify your risk. If you have frequent yeast infections talk to your doctor about the medications you take. There may possibly be alternatives available. Personal Care Tips for Preventing Yeast Infections As with most illnesses and infections taking care of your body overall can help you stay healthy. Be sure to: * Get sufficient sleep.
It lives within our intestine and certain mucous membranes the throat
- There are microorganisms that make the vagina an acidic environment making the other pathologic bacteria to not survive in the acidic environment
- They occur naturally but what can happen is your body produces candida faster than what your body needs or can tolerate
- True yeast infections of the vagina penis skin and mouth are often the result of the use of antibiotics which kill the bodys beneficial bacteria
- Taking showers instead of baths will reduce reinfection
- With that said if at any time the contamination stays with no treatment for a while the yeast can change into a fungal type that sinks root-like rhizoids underneath the surface of your mucosa
- Overuse of antibiotics and drugs: If you are taking too much antibiotics and drugs in your body then it can weaken your immune system and this strengthens the growth of yeast fungus
- Some physicians dispute that antibiotics have this impact
- Symptoms include discharge with a cottage-cheese consistency along with genital itching or burning
. One of the main causes of candidasis is that- effect of doctors prescription of antibiotics that kills
the intestinal bacteria that controls candida. Including the symptoms of candidasis there various symptoms of this disease such as fatigue especially after eating depression and feeling of rage specially after eating sugar food thrush abdominal bloating and also irritable bowel syndrome. However we can reduce the risk of this disease by lightening the carbohydrate.
Marigold — A floral that also features anti-fungal properties marigold will be therapeutic and also battles the yeast-causing infection effectively. It's fluid may be terrain and extracted pertaining to other restorative employs which includes and not restricted to aromatherapy. A number of authors promote the diagnosis and treatment of a syndrome they call Candidiasis Hypersensitivity (sometimes also called "systemic Candida" or "systemic yeast infections.
Organ Transplant: The immuno-suppressive medications that organ transplant patients are Candida And Kidney Beans required to take to prevent organ rejection make the body more susceptible to oral thrush. Taking antibiotics or steroids: Antibiotics can sometimes destroy the healthy organisms in the body that prevent infections such as oral thrush. Steroids cause the immune system to be less efficient. Being very young or very old: It's not uncommon for infants to have an oral thrush infection nor for the elderly. Overall poor health: Ill health affects every system of your body including its ability to fight infections. Symptoms The
telltale symptom is a white coating (lesions) on the tongue or other parts of the inner mouth resembling velvet or cottage cheese.
Cause: Person-to-Person Contact If a toddler is still nursing he can get thrush from his mother's infected nipples. He can also get it if an infected person does not practice good hand washing and touches him. Cause: Contaminated Objects If a toddler's younger sibling has thrush the toddler can get thrush by putting contaminated bottles toys or pacifiers in her mouth.
This function is very useful especially in preventing UTI. Usually women can get UTI faster because of the short urethra they have and also due to the anatomical proximity of anus and the vagina. Candida Albicans is among the microorganisms that is present in the skin vagina and even in the lining of the mouth. Candida albicans is a fungus that serves as food for other -friendly- bacteria. The rise in their number can cause Candidiasis or moniliasis. When you have stomatitis caused by Candida Albicans infection include canker sore or ulceration and inflammation on the oral cavity's lining.
Understanding Candida Albicans behavior is important to help you prevent the occurrence of infection. Although Candida fungus live in the human body it is harmless if kept in check however if it became uncontrollable or if it grows rapidly then candidiasis or yeast infection occurs. Candida And Kidney Beans Overgrowth of Candida Albicans is the common cause of oral thrush esophagus candidiasis vaginal candidiasis and penile candidiasis.
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The skeletal remains of a horse head found Monday in a densely populated section of Washington, Pa., were probably dragged there from trash cans by scavengers due to delayed garbage pickup over the holiday weekend, a local police chief said.
"We have no indication of foul play or satanic cults or anything like that," said Washington police Chief Roger Blyth about the remains, found in an alley off of Third Street, about two blocks north of busy Jefferson Avenue.
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|Clinicopathological correlates in frontotemporal dementia.
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|The term frontotemporal dementia (FTD) encompasses a range of clinical syndromes that are believed not to map reliably onto the spectrum of recognized pathologies. This study reexamines the relationships between clinical and pathological subtypes of FTD in a large series from two centers (n = 61). Clinical subtypes defined were behavioral variant FTD (n = 26), language variants (semantic dementia, n = 9; and progressive nonfluent aphasia, n = 8), and motor variants (corticobasal degeneration, n = 9; and motor neuron disease, n = 9), although most cases presented with a combination of behavioral and language problems. Unexpectedly, some behavioral cases (n = 5) had marked amnesia at presentation. The pathological subtypes were those with tau-immunopositive inclusions (with Pick bodies, n = 20; or without, n = 11), those with ubiquitin immunopositive inclusions (n = 16), and those lacking distinctive histology (n = 14). Behavioral symptoms and semantic dementia were associated with a range of pathologies. In contrast, other clinical phenotypes had relatively uniform underlying pathologies: motor neuron disease predicted ubiquitinated inclusions, parkinsonism and apraxia predicted corticobasal pathology, and nonfluent aphasia predicted Pick bodies. Therefore, the pathological substrate can be predicted in a significant proportion of FTD patients, which has important implications for studies targeting mechanistic treatments.
|John R Hodges; R Rhys Davies; John H Xuereb; Barney Casey; Melissa Broe; Thomas H Bak; Jillian J Kril; Glenda M Halliday
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The Oil Frontier
Page 5 of 5
Looking for More
Behind the drillships and platforms, and the superintendent in the WellDecc, are the computer geeks, whose efforts to guess where the oil is are often credited with enabling the deepwater rush. One of them is Barney Issen, the Jerry Garcia of Big Oil. A guy with a beard and long wavy black hair parted in the middle, he happily admits to driving for years with a "Question Authority" bumper sticker on his car. He has questioned how the earth came to be, too. "Most of us ended up here because we had that moment on the mountain, wondering how it all came to pass, and how we could learn more about it," he says. For Issen, that path led to a degree in geophysics – he originally wanted to work on a moon shot – and a job running the computers at Chevron.
To get an idea of where oil is, ships with special air cannons send out blasts of vibration, which travel down tens of thousands of feet and back. The velocity of the returning signals, and their round-trip times, are recorded by sensors on miles-long cables dragged behind the ship. Signals reflected by different strata have different speeds, which helps geologists picture what lies below the ocean floor. The big problem in deep water is the layers of subsurface salt, which refract vibrations in confusing ways. "It's like trying to see things through those cubes of glass, or through the edge of a fish tank," explains Issen.
Every year, Issen gets better at making sense of erratic signals. Computers have been getting faster and algorithms more powerful, and oil companies are beginning to be able to see through the salt with some degree of certainty.
When Chevron gets ready to talk about drilling, it gathers with investors, often other oil companies. They meet in a room they call the Visualization Center, and they all look at Issen's models on an 8-by-25-foot screen. Sometimes the decision makers don 3-D glasses. Other companies have even experimented with projecting models of the seabed on 360-degree surround screens in an environment called a "cave," but, says Issen, "that can be more cool than useful." Investors bring their own models to the conversation, and a consensus about where the oil is begins to emerge. It's still a business that requires guesswork: three out of four deepwater drills are unsuccessful. But not long ago, companies drilling on land hit oil in only one of every ten wells.
As the oil companies get better at finding the oil, though, the oil is getting harder to find. Optimists believe that the march of technology, embodied by Deep Seas, will enable companies to extract more and more oil from previously "depleted" fields while continuing to get better at finding and developing new fields. My visit to Deep Seas, and the time I spent with Chevron's geologists, seemed to give credence to the optimists' view of things. A shortage of oil, it appeared, was only a shortage of ships, computers, and other drilling technology.
But while it is true that a lot of good oil is left in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico – the Minerals Management Service estimates that about 44.5 billion barrels of oil remain to be discovered – deepwater drilling is only a small part of the solution to the oil shortage. Although Chevron considers the 500-million-barrel Tahiti field an "elephant" of a find, for example, elephants aren't what they used to be. Saudi Arabia's Ghawar field, which was tapped in 1951, has already yielded some 54 billion barrels and may have 70 billion more. The United States alone, meanwhile, consumes roughly 20 million barrels of oil every day.
Money will help, though. The higher prices go, the more oil companies can do. While discussing other projects, Siegele mentioned that the economic "breakover" point for mining the tar sands of Alberta was north of $60 a barrel; oil had reached $75 that day. There may be 150 to 300 billion barrels of recoverable oil in those sands. As for Issen, he is looking forward to mapping new territory and using better seismic imaging. "There's a lot of uncertainty, yes," he says. "But clearly, we think there's real potential."
Bryant Urstadt has written for Harper's and Rolling Stone.


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Friday June 19th 2009,
Filed under: Not Your Average,Radio Interviews,Tape Vaults,Video Clips
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Filed under: Not Your Average,Radio Interviews,Tape Vaults,Video Clips
Written by: Robbie Ettelson
Since Muggs has a new Soul Assassins records about to drop, it seems like the perfect time to unearth this Max and Dave interview with him from January of 2007.
DJ Muggs KISS-FM Radio Interview, UK (1997)
Propers to crate digga.
Soul Assassins feat. RZA and GZA video:
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Megaload draws crowds near Mountain Home
HAMMETT, Idaho (KBOI) - The megaload drew crowds Sunday at its parking spot off Highway 78. People went to get a glimpse of the oil refinery equipment, which is making its way to Canada.
"The family wanted to see this major megaload," said Bill Assendrup of Kuna, "and we were not disappointed at all. It's huge."
The shipment is 380 feet long and weighs 450 tons. It's only allowed to move at night.
"I drive pilot cars, so I've done some oversize loads, but nothing like this," said Tammy Gray of Grandview. "I would love to see them moving, actually moving, because I don't know how they do it. It's pretty remarkable."
The megaload traveled more than 80 miles from Marsing to Hammett Saturday night into Sunday morning. It will pass through Mountain Home, then Fairfield and Carey as it heads north to Canada.


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Card Verses in New Baby Parents · New Baby
A Gift
What a wonderful gift from Heaven above
A beautiful baby for you to love
Many Congratulations!
Proud Parents
The washing and the feeding,
Your work has just begun,
Now that you are parents
Of a gorgeous baby son,
The new beginnings of babyhood,
They grow up so very fast,
The endearing, loving baby stage,
Enjoy it while it lasts!
Time for Celebrations!
It's time for celebrations and sharing in your joy,
For you are now the proud parents of a beautiful baby boy!
It's all so very exciting,
It's all so very new,
There are so many happy years ahead for both of you!
From Heaven Above .
A new little baby
With a cute button nose
With 10 tiny fingers and 10 tiny toes
Could only be sent from heaven above
To fill your heart and fill your home
With unconditional love
A New Baby to Care For
You have a new baby to care for,
You have a new baby to love,
You have a new baby that's special,
He's God given, sent from above,
May he be blessed with a wonderful pathway,
May he always be healthy and strong,
May his years always be happy and carefree,
And may his life be rewarding and long.
Precious Little One
May your precious little one
fill your lives with happy days
in many new
and countless ways.
It's hard to believe that your bump,
That grew and grew and grew,
Turned into not one, not two,
But three beautiful babies.
Just how lucky are you!
Congratulations on the birth of your triplets
Mum and Dad
To the lucky pair who now will share
The love of someone small,
To the "Someone New" a welcome, too,
And Best Wishes to you All!
Precious one, so small,
So sweet dancing in on angel feet
Straight from Heaven's brightest star, what a miracle you are!
Baby Shower 1
Whether it be girl or boy
I know it will be such a joy.
Just look at how radiant you've become;
To this child you'll be a really great mom!
New Baby Congrats
Congratulations to you (Name Here),
As we celebrate this child yet to be born,
A gift from the Lord above;
Someone very special, for you to cherish and love.
Your Brand New Daughter!
Your baby girl has just arrived,
How happy you must be,
To have a brand new daughter,
To add to your family,
There'll be lots of pretty things,
Love and laughter too,
But most of all your little girl will bring much joy to you!


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Dr. Mark H. Weichold
Dr. Mark H. Weichold became dean of Texas A&M University at Qatar in January 2007. As dean and CEO, he serves as the chief executive officer of Texas A&M's branch campus to provide it with intellectual and administrative leadership, coordinate priorities and goals with faculty and department heads and support faculty development and quality educational programs. Major responsibilities of the position include academic program management, financial management, external relations with Qatar Foundation and the U.S. Ambassador to Qatar, and promotion of Texas A&M at Qatar in Qatar and in Texas.
Prior to his appointment to Texas A&M at Qatar, he served on Texas A&M's main campus as the University's Associate Provost for Undergraduate Programs and Academic Services since 1998. In 2003, he became the Dean of Undergraduate Programs and Associate Provost for Academic Services. In that capacity he had responsibility for the Office of Admissions and Records and the Office of Student Financial Aid, in addition to the Office of Honors Programs and Academic Scholarships, General Academic Programs, the Career Center, the Student Learning Center and the University Writing Center.
While serving on the main campus, he was involved with the Blinn TEAM Program, the Aggie Access Program, the Task Force on the Undergraduate Experience, Freshman Convocation, the Undergraduate Admissions Advisory Committee, a member of the Qatar Program Development Team and the Minority Recruiting Leadership Team.
Dr. Weichold earned B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Texas A&M University in electrical engineering and has worked for General Dynamics Fort Worth Division, Motorola in Austin, Texas, and the US Army Electronic Technology and Devices Laboratory in Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. A registered professional engineer in the State of Texas, he is also a member of the Board of Directors for Ten X Technologies Inc. of Austin, Texas. He joined the electrical engineering faculty at Texas A&M University in 1982 and now holds the rank of Professor where his research interests include topics related to electron devices such as process development, device design, fabrication, and characterization. He has authored more than 80 journal articles, conference papers, and scientific reports, has been awarded three US patents. He is a senior member of IEEE, a member of the American Physical Society and of the American Vacuum Society. In addition, he has served as president of the Texas A&M chapter of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society, a member of the Blinn College Advisory Board, the College Station Business Development Corporation and the College Station Independent School District Board of Trustees. He has also served the engineering profession as a program evaluator for ABET.
Weichold has been recognized with the Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Administration (2006), the United Way Trailblazer Award (2001), the Texas A&M International Programs Office's International Excellence Award (1997), the TAMU GSC Kunze Award for Outstanding Graduate Advising (1997), the Eta Kappa Nu Outstanding Professor Award (1996, 1991, 1987), the Halliburton Professor of Electrical Engineering Award (1995), the Tenneco Award for Meritorious Teaching (1993), the University Honors Program Undergraduate Fellows Program Award (1991), and the General Dynamics Excellence in Engineering Teaching Award (1989).


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I was fortunate to get my hands on a personal recipe to share, thanks to the concierge at my hotel who hails from a region she feels is known for the best Gallo Pinto!
- 2 cups cooked black beans
- 1/c cup bean stock or ½ cup chicken stock if bean is not available
- 3 cups cooked white rice
- ½ onion, chopped
- 1 bell pepper, chopped
- 2 garlic cloves, chopped
- 2 tablespoons fresh coriander (cilantro), chopped*
- 2 tablespoons vegetable oil
- Heavy cream (sour cream), if desired as topping
- Fry onion and bell pepper in vegetable oil, about 3 minutes.
- Add the garlic and sauté a bit more.
- Pour in the beans and the stock, bring to a simmer.
- Avoid the mixture drying up.
- Add in the rice and stir thoroughly, gently.
- Don't mash the beans!
- Season to taste with salt and pepper.
- Right before serving stir in the coriander (fresh cilantro) and top with heavy cream (sour cream) if desired
*In the United States 'coriander' is the dried version of cilantro. In most of the rest of the world coriander is the combination of the fresh leaves and seeds of cilantro. For this recipe fresh cilantro should be used.
The wildlife of Costa Rica should not be missed. The country is the size of West Virginia and boasts more species of birds than the U.S. and Canada combined. The diversity of their animal species places Costa Rica as one of the most biodiverse countries anywhere in the world. Seeing the animals has been paramount in the trips I've taken and this one was no exception. This time we toured each on horseback and by boat which were great alternative methods.


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Park National Bank announced the promotion of five officers in its accounting department on Monday.
The PNB Board of Directors approved the promotions of Chief Financial Officer Brady Burt and Chief Accounting Officer Matt Miller to the positions of senior vice president.
Paul Turner, leader of the bank's treasury unit, also was named a senior vice president. ...


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Remember sitting under the spreading branches of a tall tree, book unfolded as the characters came to life, letting the afternoon drift by as you read until your mom called you to dinner?
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Remember sitting under the spreading branches of a tall tree, book unfolded as the characters came to life, letting the afternoon drift by as you read until your mom called you to dinner?
Recapture that youthful experience in Pollock Pines — where there are plenty of tall trees — and now there is an outdoor reading area waiting to take you away.
The community has been hard at work creating the outdoor reading area at the town's quaint library and by the end of summer will have the enchanting space completed.
The Library Outdoor Reading Area, or LORA as it is fondly referred to by those involved in its creation, provides a safe and comfortable outdoor space where both children and adults will find a soothing atmosphere for not only reading, but for crafts, study and other work. The space has sturdy, permanent seating and tables, including not only chairs but stone benches and tables.
"We completed Phase 1 of LORA last year with the construction of a short fence, arbor and gate in front of the library," said Becky McIntyre, a member of the Pollock Pines Friends of the Library.
Becky's husband, Bryan, did most of the work on the charming wooden fence that circles the new feature, contributing his labors to the cause.
"Ken Inman helped out a lot," Bryan McIntyre jumped in.
"Inside the fence, we are working on Phase 2 that will include the seating, surfacing and tables," Becky continued. "There will also be landscaping and irrigation to make the outdoor area a truly useful and appealing area for the community. In addition, to make the library more accessible to those with disabilities, we plan to replace the current dirt walkway from the Pony Express Trail side with a surface friendly to wheelchairs, walkers and strollers."
Along with the volunteer hours contributed by members of the Friends of the Library, the Dogwood Garden Club has graciously assisted, and the fully completed LORA should be ready for readers by the end of August.
Additional help still is needed for some of the construction, however, and those who might be able to assist may contact Becky McIntyre at [email protected]
Big project
Lots of fundraising has been involved in bringing the project to fruition, the most recent being the highly successful Spring Fling Tea that saw a great turnout at the Smith Flat House in Placerville.
The event featuring impressive raffle prizes and donated auction items was a sellout at $35 a ticket.
It comes as no surprise that the fundraising tea saw such enthusiastic support, as Pollock Pines residents have been supportive of their library since its inception in 1951.
The first library in the community some 13 miles east of Placerville was begun on the shelves of a coffee shop run by Doris Cloherty. She actually kept the library open at night, bringing her children with her. When the coffee shop eventually closed, Cloherty asked El Dorado County Librarian Edith Gantt whether there wasn't some way to establish a permanent library in Pollock Pines.
Lumberman and community philanthropist Harvey West donated a small building on the site of the present library, and as the community grew, West was asked whether the building could be expanded to meet the greater needs.
"Wouldn't it be better to make a new one?" West reportedly responded, and so the building that exits today was built in 1960.
The structure stands on land that was donated by Otis and Myrtle Carr.
The 1,200-square-foot Pollock Pines Library at 6210 Pony Express Trail might not be mighty in stature, but it is a mighty fine addition to the community, according to residents of the mountain town at the foot of the Sierra. It's knotty pine cabin-like interior is filled with more than 16,000 items, of which the townspeople make great use.
"Once we have everything completed, there will be a stamped concrete path leading to the outdoor reading area," explained Mary Bourn, president of the Dogwood Garden Club that is known throughout the community for its work sprucing up the town and making residents proud.
A lot done
"So much community effort has been put into the project," Bourn continued as she and the McIntyres, along with Friends of the Library President Lajunta Inman and Pat Schoggins, a member of both groups, showed off the progress so far.
In addition to the efforts of the Friends of the Library and the Dogwood Garden Club, many donations of materials and landscaping plants and trees such as Japanese maples have been greatly appreciated, said Bourn. The local Safeway and the Pollock Pines Rotary Club have been stalwart backers as well.
"Fully half the members of the Friends of the Library have contributed to the cause," said Inman.
The area is open now to the public, with one of the stone benches already in place, having been the Eagle Scout project of Jeff Bertotti of Troop 454 back in 2006. Other wooden benches painted a deep pine green (naturally) will be added soon and all the final touches should be done by late summer — but the pleasant setting already beckons the avid reader or those simply wishing to relax.


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this would be better suited in worklogs
OK I just got my first Jetta and I plan to put in a Carputer. I am going to uses this Thead to modivate myself to finish and get some ideas about what i should do.
The picture below is the very rough draft of what I want it to look like when finished. The left side is the wheel well which will hold the computer and the amps and sound equipment (RED) the subs will be in custome Boxes on the sides and the right picture is with the floor back in and the JETTA will be acrylic, the floor will be ebony hardwood and the white lines are aluminum runners so stuff in the trunk does not ruin the wood.
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with a title like that i'm going to hold you to the highest standards :-) make us proud
New System in progress:
Phaze TD1500 ~> Dynaudio MD130
Phaze TD1500 ~> Seas g18rnx/p
Zapco Ref 500.1 ~ 12" tc-9
Behringer DCX2496 ~ Envision Electronics psu
Transflective Xenarc
My Car Pc Install
My Boat Pc worklog
Is the Crossover for the factory speakes in the jetta inside the doors or is it in side the amp? Do i need to get new crossovers for the speakers in the door or is there some way around this.
Also any ideas about how to cover the LCD when not in use and when 5oh shows up, don't want a ticket for unsafe driving because of the screen.
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Things to read on the crapper*:
"We shall deal here with humble things"
The design, culture and politics of the bathroom — and how "this smallest of domestic rooms is linked to the larger worlds of engineering and infrastructure."
Flies in Urinals: The Value of Design Disruptions
How a disruption in routine (potentially by design) can alter the environment.
The Water Underground
A video from the Center for Urban Pedagogy that tracks the complex — and contested — systems of water supply, treatment and waste that serve New York City.
The Most Beautiful Crapper in the World
In 1772, the Antwerp alderman Adrien van den Bogaert purchased a historic property in the center of the city and then hired architect Engelbert Baets to renovate the place.
Flush with Inequality: Sanitation in South Africa
The complex political, social and environmental meanings of sanitation in post-apartheid South Africa.
A self-sanitizing, single-use, biodegradable container for human waste.
Providing sanitation and electricity in a single venture.
Don't Flush Me
Prototype for urban system to detect and prevent sewage overflows
The Art of Solid Waste
A slideshow of photographer Paho Mann's images of post-consumer detritus — a.k.a. trash — part of a new public art project at a solid waste facility in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Red Velvet Art
I'm so excited about this art & craft collective of girls from St. Louis. They have some great DIY projects including an online art journaling classes which they offer periodically on Etsy. What a great idea! Check out their flickr too. I hope we can be pen-pals! Via Uppercase.


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Leather-Trimmed Canvas Messenger Bag
Unfortunately, this item will not be back in stock.
The clean, fuss-free exterior of this denim-blue canvas bag from Mismo belies its extraordinary level of functionality. Kitted with a laptop sleeve, multiple pockets and an adjustable fastening to keep things compact, it will easily stow all of your essentials. The detachable shoulder strap allows you to carry it as a messenger or like a briefcase; stow the flap and use the extra internal handle to convert it into a tote. Shown here with an Our Legacy shirt, rag & bone blazer, Levi's Vintage Clothing jeans, Yuvi bracelet, Miansai bracelet and Oliver Spencer shoes. Designed exclusively for MR PORTER
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Archive » 2009 » January
Senate roll call vote: Taxpayer funding of overseas abortions reinstated
Yes, we can…subsidize foreign abortions.
Culture of corruption, Conyers edition
The walls are closing in on Rep. John Conyers' wife. Maybe he should spend less time chasing his Bush impeachment pipe dream and pay attention to home. Former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick, his father, Bernard Kilpatrick, and City Council President Monica Conyers are the major figures cited in a sludge-hauling executive's account of greed and […]
Holder moves forward: Screw up, move up
The Senate Judiciary Committee cleared the way for AG nominee Eric Holder. Only two nay votes — from GOP Senate Republicans John Cornyn and Tom Coburn. Screw up, move up: Eric Holder's nomination as the first African-American attorney general moved to the full Senate on Wednesday with broad bipartisan support, as Republicans who earlier criticized […]
Kerry and Gore give global warming skeptics cold shoulder
Stimulus stupidity alert: $460,000/Coast Guard job, $1.5 bil "carbon capturing contest," $400 mil chlamydia/HIV tests, $45 mil for ATV trails & more!
Stop, thief! Kill the bill, melt the phones
*Update: Ed Morrissey and Hot Air readers are melting the phones. Join in!* GOP: Time to Get Things Undone by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2008 President Obama thinks he knows what the primary objective of Republicans in Washington should be: To "get things done." Bashing Rush Limbaugh last week, Obama urged GOP lawmakers to […]
The bad economy didn't murder the Lupoe family
The Lupoe children: Brittney (8), Jazmin and Jassely (5), and Benjamin and Christian (2). I think it's disgusting how Los Angeles politicians and the MSM tried to turn the horrific suicide-murders involving Ervin and Ana Lupoe and their five children today into an object lesson about the bad economy. The Lupoe parents lost their jobs […]
Stimulus stupidity alert: $75 million for smoking cessation
Cross purposes.
Now online: Searchable text version of Senate Generational Theft Act; House Dems' package tops $1.1 trillion
Use it!
"Stimulus" you can't afford
Graph of the day.
Senate Dems undermining S-CHIP ID requirements for non-citizens
The open-borders crowd has been pushing to get a piece of the S-CHIP pie for more than a year. House Republicans have flagged the issue repeatedly. The bill is now in the Senate. CNS reports on Harry Reid's diffident attitude about the loosened ID standards: A proposed change to the State Children's Health Insurance Program […]
Another B.O. Republican moment: Specter to support Holder
Some B.O. Republicans gush over Obama meeting; Update: Say cheese!
"New tone!"
President Obama, you can't stifle this dissent
President Obama's new economic stimulus ploy is to declare that no dissent on the need for massive government action exists. He is wrong. Via Cato Institute: Here are 200 economists, including Nobel Laureates, who oppose the Generational Theft Act of 2009. The open letter is running as an ad in the NY Times, Washington Post […]
Robert Reich, quote doctor
You'll be interested to know that Professor Bob has shut down his comment section on his "Open Letter" blog post to me and other critics of his color-coded stimulus earmarks. Perhaps in response to his bogus, Media Matters-echoing accusations that we were twisting his words, someone posted a link to this 1997 Slate piece exposing […]
New CBO report echoes earlier analysis: "Stimulus" too sloooow to stimulate
"[S]pending for new programs has frequently been slower than expected and rarely been faster.
Obama nominee: Taxpayer-funded abortion is a free speech right
GOP Sen. Jim DeMint flags the testimony of deputy Secretary of State nominee James Steinberg, who believes that abortion subsidies are constitutionally protected. From Sen. DeMint's blog: James B. Steinberg, President Obama's nominee to be the next Deputy Secretary of State, claimed in written testimony to the Foreign Relations Committee that Congress cannot constitutionally restrict […]
Palin's church set to reopen after arson attack
Amazing grace.
Question of the morning
From Conn Carroll at The Foundry: "What Is the Spending Multiplier on a Pack of Condoms?" The entire intellectual underpinning of President Barack Obama's spending plan rests on the belief that certain types of government spending creates a "multiplier effect" which raises national income beyond the size of government's initial spending increase. So, for example, […]
Contraceptive funding thrown under Obama's bus
Thump, thump, thump.
Obama's Little Blue Book and the Egg of Power
Schlock value.
The B.O. Republicans who voted for Geithner — and video of Inhofe's statement
Here is the roll call vote on the Geithner nomination: And here are the 10 B.O. (Barack Obama/Bend Over) Republicans who sided with Obama and the Dems: Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Crapo (R-ID) Ensign (R-NV) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hatch (R-UT) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Voinovich (R-OH) Question: Where was GOP Sen. Kit Bond? Update […]
More universal health care art from the kids Pelosi wants to "plan" out of existence
"…because today's children are tomorrow's bright future!"
No more O-Kumbaya: Gunmen attack US embassy in Yemen
The US embassy in Yemen received a warning about this pending attack hours before gunmen drove by and fired shots: Unknown gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint outside the U.S. embassy in Yemen on Monday, hours after the mission said it received a threat, but a Yemeni official said no one was hurt. "Police are […]
Somali-Americans arrested in overseas jihad plots
The thanks we get.


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Nearing the end of another wonderful bottle of Rye:
Michter's 10 Rye
Nearing the end of another wonderful bottle of Rye:
Michter's 10 Rye
¡Geaux Tigers! - ¡Visca el Barça!
"Really though, my hands are sore. The tool was doing it's thing with a flex hose." -Barrel_Proof
Had my first taste of Saz 18 tonight. Cracked the sample bottle and the nose was amazing. The first sip I had was hot, almost too hot. After that though it was just straight up good rye whiskey. Damn you BT! Hawaii is in the US too you know. Send some our way. Oh well, I enjoyed it anyway.
Peggy: Look Al, the rubes think I'm sexy!
Al: So would I if I had whiskey for breakfast.
The wife took me out for my upcoming birthday
some more rye awesomeness today, cannot believe how much this stuff tastes and smells like LDI
Gary (aka 'Country')
"Too much of anything is bad, but too much of good whiskey is barely enough." - Mark Twain
"Because Whiskey Matters!" - David Perkins


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Mad Morro
Debbie, like most mothers, sees her boys through rose coloured glasses. James is just her boy and she wants him home. James in turn wants to be everything his family has hoped, but he knows no other life aside from that behind bars. His aim is to return to some type of normal life - a career, a good woman, a family of his own, and to find peace. It is a search that sees attempted love, a battle with his own personal demons, and both the help and hindrance of his own family. Following James and his family upon his release, this is a powerful, confronting and dramatic story about familial love and bonding, and how the effect of prison can either reinforce or break apart that relationship.


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"OCLC (UK)" means OCLC (UK) Ltd (a private company with limited liability registered in England and Wales under company number 498573) whose registered office is at 861 Ecclesall Road, Sheffield S11 7AE, England;
"Order Form" means the standard form supplied by OCLC (UK) and signed by the Customer to order the Services;
"Services" means the services provided by OCLC (UK) by which access to the UnityUK Services is provided;
"Subscription Year" means a period of one year commencing either on 1 April or 1 May of a year and expiring on 31 March or 30 April respectively of the following year, as indicated on the Order Form and/or invoice;
"TCR" means The Combined Regions Limited, a partnership organisation representing regional public library organisations and other institutions across the UK;
"UnityUK Services" means the OCLC (UK) interlibrary loan solution in the United Kingdom that is offered in conjunction with TCR;
and "UnityUK Content" means the Database and any other data, information, software and materials on the UnityUK Service.
1.2 An agreement (the "Agreement") is concluded only upon (i) the signing of the Order Form by duly authorised representatives of each party, (ii) the performance of the Services by OCLC (UK), or (iii) receipt by OCLC (UK) of payment for the Services, whichever occurs earlier. The Customer shall acquire and OCLC (UK) shall provide the Services in accordance with the Agreement. The Agreement shall be subject to the Conditions, which shall form part of the Agreement and govern the Agreement to the exclusion of any other terms and conditions. In the event of a conflict or ambiguity between the Agreement and the Conditions, the Agreement shall prevail over the Conditions.
Clause 2. Prices and Payment
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2.2 OCLC (UK) reserves the right to adjust its prices annually generally in line with inflation. In addition, OCLC (UK) reserves the right to adjust its prices annually as a result of a change in the Services, the UnityUK Service or any increase in costs for OCLC (UK), no such price adjustment to be made unless agreed with TCR.
2.3 The annual fee for the Services shall be paid in advance and shall be invoiced by OCLC (UK) at the beginning of a Subscription Year. In the event an Agreement is entered into in the course of a Subscription Year, any payment for the period expiring on the end of the first Subscription Year due by the Customer shall be a proportional part of the annual fee. All other fees shall be invoiced by OCLC (UK) and paid by the Customer in accordance with the Order Form or as otherwise agreed between the parties.
2.4 Payment is due within 30 days of the invoice date, provided the invoice is posted to the Customer within 24 hours of the invoice date.
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2.6 In the event of late payment, the Customer shall compensate OCLC (UK) for all reasonable costs and expenses (including legal fees, court fees, fees of debt-collecting agencies, etc.) incurred by OCLC (UK) in collecting or attempting to collect amounts outstanding.
Clause 3. Use of UnityUK Services
3.1 OCLC (UK) hereby grants the Customer for the term of the Agreement, a non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and use the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) and the Documentation within its own organisation for purposes of bibliographic searching and interlending under the terms and conditions of the Agreement (including these Conditions). A licence gives the Customer the right to access the UnityUK Service by one simultaneous user. Except as and only to the extent expressly permitted in the Agreement (including the Conditions) or by applicable law, the Customer is explicitly forbidden, either on its own or by engaging third parties, to copy, reproduce, disclose, modify, exploit or make available in any way, the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) or the Documentation, or any part thereof. Except as and only to the extent expressly permitted in the Agreement (including these Conditions) or by applicable law, the Customer may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, modify or create derivative works on the software, or part thereof, forming part of or connected to the UnityUK Service.
3.2 In addition, in so far as the Customer has subscribed to one of the public access services of UnityUK, OCLC (UK) shall grant the Customer the non-exclusive right to make the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) public to the natural persons who have subscribed with the Customer or who are otherwise authorised to make use of the services of the Customer (together, the "End-users") for the purposes as set out in the Documentation, for personal use only and in accordance with the restrictions as set out in the Agreement and as otherwise notified by OCLC (UK) from time to time. The Customer shall procure that the End-users observe any such restrictions. The UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) may only be accessed on the Locations. Remote access will only be permitted to the extent set out in the Documentation and agreed in the Order Form, and only with use of adequate security measures, including use of a user name or number and password.
3.3 The Customer shall comply with all reasonable standards, guidelines and instructions with respect to the use of the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) and the Documentation, as published or notified by OCLC (UK) from time to time.
3.4 The Customer shall only provide access to the UnityUK Service or the Documentation to its employees who require such access for the performance of their function and, in case clause 3.2. applies to authorised Endusers. The Customer shall take all reasonable technical and organisational measures required to prevent any other persons or third parties from gaining access to the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) or the Documentation.
3.5 Each party shall take reasonable efforts not to corrupt or interfere with the operation of the UnityUK Service or expose the UnityUK Service to any viruses, worms or other computer applications, which might interrupt, limit or interfere with the functionality of the UnityUK Service.
3.6 OCLC (UK) gives no warranty on the availability of the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) or any part thereof. The UnityUK Services (including the UnityUK Content) shall in any event not be available during planned downtime.
3.7 Nothing in the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall give the Customer any right to the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) or the Documentation, other than expressly stated therein.
3.8 The Customer shall hold OCLC (UK) harmless and fully indemnified against any damage or loss arising out of third party claims with respect to the unlawful use of the UnityUK Service or any part thereof, or the use of the UnityUK Service or any part thereof other than in accordance with these Conditions.
Clause 4. Database
4.1 The Customer shall keep the Database (cataloguing data as well as location data) up-to-date with respect to any titles added or removed from library stock. The Customer shall use its reasonable endeavours to ensure that such data are complete, accurate and correct.
4.2 The Customer shall comply with all reasonable standards, guidelines and instructions with respect to the entry, disclosure or transfer of data in the Database, as published or notified by OCLC (UK) from time to time. The Customer shall at all times comply with any data protection legislation applicable to the use of the data.
4.3 All data entered into the Database by or on behalf of the Customer become part of the Database and the Customer hereby provides OCLC (UK), in as far as necessary, a perpetual, royalty-free, transferable, worldwide licence to use and exploit the data without limitation (including, but not limited to, the right to sub-licence the data or otherwise make the data available to third parties). Without prejudice to the licences granted to use the data in the Database, OCLC (UK) shall be the owner of all rights, including Intellectual Property Rights, to the Database (including the data entered into the Database by or on behalf of the Customer).
4.4 OCLC (UK) shall use its reasonable endeavours to keep the Database complete, accurate and up-to-date. OCLC (UK) does however not warrant that the data in the Database are complete, accurate or up-to-date.
4.5 OCLC (UK) shall use its reasonable endeavours to protect the Database from damage to or destruction of data files.
Clause 5. Usernames and passwords
5.1 The Customer will receive usernames and passwords following attendance at a training event. Additional licenses purchased and therefore requiring additional usernames and passwords will be issued following receipt of an Order by OCLC (UK).
5.2 Usernames and passwords shall be kept confidential. OCLC (UK) and the Customer shall take all reasonable measures to prevent any unauthorised access to or use of the usernames and passwords provided to the Customer.
5.3 Should the Customer suspect any unauthorised access to or use of any usernames or passwords, it will notify OCLC (UK) as soon as reasonably practicable. Should OCLC (UK) receive notice of the Customer or suspect unauthorised access or use itself, it shall immediately block access to the UnityUK Service for such usernames and passwords. After the user number and passwords have been blocked, OCLC (UK) shall provide the Customer with replacement usernames and passwords.
5.4 If any unauthorised use of the usernames and passwords is attributable to the Customer, the Customer shall pay OCLC (UK), without prejudice to any other rights of OCLC (UK), a reasonable administrative fee to cover the costs of blocking and replacing the usernames and passwords, as well as the costs of the unauthorised use.
Clause 6. Support
6.1 OCLC (UK) shall provide the Customer with training manuals on operating the UnityUK Services.
6.2 OCLC (UK) offers training events on the use of the UnityUK Service on the terms and conditions as published on the website: www.thecombinedregions.com.
6.3 The Customer may submit questions with regard to the use of the UnityUK Service, in accordance with the support services agreed with the Customer. These questions shall at all times be dealt with as soon as possible during office hours (Mondays through Fridays from 9.00 – 17.30 hours, with the exception of bank or public holidays in England and notified days), by specialist employees of OCLC (UK) .
6.4 OCLC (UK) may appoint a competent third party to provide the support services described above on its behalf.
Clause 7. Intellectual Property Rights
7.1 The ownership of, and all Intellectual Property Rights in, the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) and the Documentation shall at all times vest in TCR, OCLC (UK) or its licensors, as appropriate.
7.2 OCLC (UK) will at its own expense settle or defend any claim brought against the Customer that any Intellectual Property Right in software developed by OCLC (UK) infringes an Intellectual Property Right of a third party and, unless the claim is the result of the use of the Intellectual Property Rights by the Customer other than in accordance with the Agreement (including these Conditions) or the claim is the result of the use of the Intellectual Property Rights in combination with other products not provided by OCLC (UK) under the Agreement, shall pay the Customer the damages awarded by the court or agreed in the context of the settlement, provided that the Customer:
- as soon as reasonably practicable informs OCLC (UK) in writing of a (potential) claim;
- allows OCLC (UK) the sole conduct of the defence to any claim or proceedings in respect of the infringement;
- gives OCLC (UK) such assistance as it shall require in respect of the conduct of the defence; and
- does not make any statements and does not acknowledge any liability, right or fact without OCLC (UK) 's prior written consent.
The rights of the Customer in the previous sentence shall not exist in respect of software in which OCLC (UK) does not own the Intellectual Property Rights.
7.3 Under no circumstance shall OCLC (UK) be liable in respect of an infringement of an Intellectual Property Right of a third party other than as specified in clause 7.2.
Clause 8. Limitation of liability
8.1 OCLC (UK) will correct any material nonconformities between the Services provided to the Customer and the applicable description for such Services, provided the Customer notifies OCLC (UK) of such nonconformities in writing within ninety (90) days after receipt of initial access to the UnityUK Service. Failure to provide such notice shall mean the Customer's acceptance of the Services. Upon nonacceptance of the Services by the Customer, OCLC (UK) shall refund any amounts paid for such Services and access to the UnityUK Service shall be blocked.
8.2 As and to the extent permitted by law, OCLC (UK) makes no warranties, express or implied, including warranties of availability or fitness for a particular purpose of the Services, the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) or the Documentation, and expressly disclaims all such warranties.
8.3 Clause 8.1 sets forth OCLC (UK)'s sole liability with respect to the Services, the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content) and the Documentation, and the quality thereof.
8.4 To the extent that such liability may be excluded or restricted by law, OCLC (UK) excludes all liability for any loss or use, profits, data, business, goodwill, opportunity or anticipated savings and for any indirect, incidental or consequential loss or damage, whether arising in contract, tort (including negligence) or otherwise, in respect of the UnityUK Service (including the UnityUK Content and the Documentation). OCLC (UK) does not limit its liability for fraud or for liability arising in respect of death or personal injury caused by its negligence.
8.5 Subject to clause 8.4, in respect of any liability not excluded hereunder, or if any of the exclusions contained in the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall be held to be invalid and OCLC (UK) is held liable for any loss or damage that may lawfully be limited, such liability shall be limited to the amount refunded under the liability insurance of OCLC (UK), and, in any event, to an aggregate amount of £5,000.
Clause 9. Confidentiality
9.1 Each party shall keep all information with respect to the other party and this Agreement that is reasonably to be considered confidential or is identified as being confidential, including, but not limited to, all source codes, object codes and technical data and/or documentation.
9.2 The parties shall ensure that their respective employees and agents comply with the obligation in clause 9.1.
9.3 The obligations in clauses 9.1 and 9.2 shall continue to apply after termination of the Agreement.
Clause 10. Force majeure
10.1 Neither party shall be obliged to fulfil any obligation if it is prevented from doing so as a result of force majeure. A force majeure event means any event which is beyond the reasonable control of a party under the Agreement and prevents performance by such party, and includes, but is not be limited to, weather conditions, natural disasters, riots, acts of war, acts of Government, acts of terrorism, industrial disputes (not being an industrial dispute only affecting the workforce of the party claiming force majeure), epidemics, fire, hacking, power failures and failures of telecommunication providers. Force majeure also includes a non-attributable failure on the part of the party's suppliers.
10.2 Each party may terminate the Agreement by written notice to the other party if the force majeure lasts for more than ninety consecutive days. The Customer shall pay any amounts for Services performed up to the date of termination.
Clause 11. Term and Termination
11.1 The Agreement shall come into force on the date specified in the Agreement and shall stay in force until terminated in accordance with this clause 11.
11.2 Each party may terminate the Agreement by registered letter to the other party at the end of a Subscription Year, taking into account a notice period of 3 months. A termination notice which is received after the 3 month notice period, will not come into effect until the end of the next Subscription Year. If termination is done in writing by unregistered letter or e-mail the termination needs the written confirmation of OCLC in order for the termination to become effective.
11.3 Without prejudice to any other rights of a party under the Agreement, each party may terminate the Agreement if the other party fails to fulfil a material obligation under the Agreement after it has been properly notified thereof, in writing and with details of the grounds for termination, and has been granted a period of 30 days to remedy the failure.
11.4 Without prejudice to any other rights of a party under the Agreement, each party may terminate the Agreement with immediate effect if the other party (i) becomes insolvent or goes into liquidation; (ii) makes a voluntary arrangement with its creditors; or (iii) an encumbrancer takes possession, or a receiver or administrative receiver is appointed, of any of the property or assets or such party.
11.5 Termination of the Agreement shall not affect the parties' rights to enforce the performance of any obligation arising prior to termination.
Clause 12. Miscellaneous
12.1 The validity, construction and performance of the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall be governed by English law and the parties submit to the non-exclusive jurisdiction of the English courts in respect thereof.
12.2 Should any provisions of the Agreement (including the Conditions) be invalid or unenforceable in whole or in part, the other provisions in the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall not be affected and shall remain in full force.
12.3 The Agreement (including the Conditions) constitutes the entire agreement and understanding of the parties relating to the subject matter of the Agreement and supersedes all prior oral or written agreements, representations, understandings or arrangements between the parties relating to the subject matter of the Agreement, and each of the parties acknowledges that it has not been induced to enter into this Agreement by reason of any representation made by or on behalf of the other party.
12.4 The parties acknowledge that they are not relying on any agreement, understanding arrangement, warranty, representation or term which is not set out in the Agreement (including the Conditions).
12.5 Nothing in this Agreement shall create evidence or imply any agency, partnership or joint venture between the parties.
12.6 No variations to the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall be effective unless it is in writing and duly signed by both parties.
12.7 Nothing in the Agreement (including the Conditions) shall confer or purport to confer on any third party any benefit or right to enforce any term of the Agreement (including any of the Conditions).
Clause 1: Applicable Terms and Conditions, Definitions
The terms and conditions set out below ("Addendum Conditions") are in addition to the above (UnityUK) Conditions. In the event of a conflict or an ambiguity between the Addendum Conditions and the (UnityUK) Conditions the Addendum Conditions shall prevail to the extent of such conflict or ambiguity.
Defined terms shall have the meaning attributed to them in the (UnityUK) Conditions. In addition, the following expressions shall have the following meaning in this Addendum:
"Data" means the total of Customer's holding data and other bibliographic records, including updates thereof, as incorporated in UnityUK;
"WorldCat" means the bibliographic database of MARC records built and maintained by OCLC Inc and its members;
"OCLC Inc" means OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc., headquartered in Dublin, Ohio, USA;
"OCLC" means OCLC Inc. and/or OCLC (UK), as applicable.
Clause 2: Rights and Obligations
1. OCLC will load Customer's Data into WorldCat, add the holdings to WorldCat and expose the bibliographic records and holdings in WorldCat.org.
2. Through the continuous contribution of the Data under this Agreement Customer meets the current requirements for OCLC Membership as established by OCLC. The current version of OCLC's Membership and Governance Protocols is located at http://www.oclc.org/us/en/membership/membership_protocols.pdf. As a condition of obtaining and retaining status as an OCLC member, Customer agrees that Customer will comply with all rules, requirements, protocols, standards and policies applicable to Members established by OCLC.
Clause 3: Fees
1. Customer will not charge OCLC any fee for the supply of data, nor will OCLC charge Customer for the integration of the data in WorldCat.
2. A full package subscription to UnityUK will cover Customer's inclusion in WorldCat and exposure of its Data in WorldCat.org per Subscription Year.
Clause 4: Intellectual Property Rights
Customer will not acquire any copyright, patent or any other right or interest in or to WorldCat as a result of his activities hereunder or any other circumstance.
Clause 5: Term and Termination
This Addendum shall commence on the moment of acceptance by Customer and OCLC and shall stay in force until terminated in accordance with clause 11 of the (UnityUK) Conditions.
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CLEVELAND -- Clevelander Wanda DeSantis never knew about contact voltage until one day last September when she walked her dog in the Cleveland Metroparks.
"It was a piercing yelp. Piercing, and he kinda went limp," DeSantis told the Investigator Tom Meyer.
She said her Yorkie was walking near a lightpole at the Metroparks Bedford Reservation when she believes he was shocked.
"I was very shook up and I reported it to the (Metroparks) ranger, but he didn't seem to care," DeSantis said. She says one of her dog's paws has never been right since the jolt.
DeSantis came forward when she saw a Channel 3 News investigation that found streetlights and sidewalks energized with as much as 454 volts.
Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek, who serves on city council's public utilities committee, called the Channel 3 News report a public service that needs to be addressed.
He said he will raise the issue formally at the next meeting of the committee.
"There's nothing more important than the health and safety of the public," Polensek said.
Cleveland Public Power said it is now considering a formal monitoring program that would look specifically for contact voltage on a regular basis.
Currently, the city only looks for this problem and others during routine maintenance.
"The real question for us would be, 'Is it more expensive for us to do it or should we outsource it?'" CPP commissioner Ivan Henderson said.
James Ferguson, the head of CPP's bureau of streets, says he is looking at all types of technologies that they might utilize to detect this hidden hazard.
"I was alarmed," Ferguson said, in response to the Channel 3 News investigation.


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iBet: Suarez Predicted To Set A New Premier League Scoring Record
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There are bundles of Luis Suarez markets out there at the moment, indeed I highlighted yesterday that I think that Paddy Power's 7/2 offer that the Uruguayan outscores England at the World Cup looks value. I would have him at around 6/4 in that market as I believe England could really struggle in Brazil once they step up a level.
Despite missing the first five games of the season with a ban, Suarez has already notched 17 Premier League goals in 11 games and with Liverpool really beginning to click, spread betting firm Sporting Index reckon he will end up the season with 32 goals. If he does, that would be the best return in a season since Alan Shearer hit 34 back in 1994-95, but that was a 42-game season and since the league was reduced to 20 teams (the following season) only two players – Shearer (1995-1996) and Cristiano Ronaldo (2007-2008) – have hit 31 goals across a league campaign.
Of course with any bet like this the danger of an injury always looms large, but if he does avoid one and carries on at the current rate, he will set a new record. Assuming Suarez plays in all his club's remaining games, if he reaches 32 his average goals per game ratio of 0.96 will be the highest recorded, beating Ronaldo's record of 0.91. Manchester City are the only team in England's top four divisions to boast a 100% home record and have hit more goals at the Etihad than 18 of the other 19 top-flight clubs have managed home and away combined.
Only Liverpool's league total of 39 surpasses the 35 the City attack have smashed in on home turf and Sporting Index have calculated Manuel Pellegrini's side will hit another 28 goals in their ten remaining home matches. That would give them a total of 63 home goals – still five short of Chelsea's Premier League record set in 2009-10. Spread bettors can buy (bet higher) or sell (bet lower) on these predictions.
Home form is going to be key to rock-bottom Sunderland getting out of the mess they got into under Di Canio. However, they have shown a great deal of spirit lately, not least midweek in the Carling Cup, and there are definitely positive signs there. Since Poyet took over in early October Sunderland have beaten Newcastle and Manchester City in the league, drawn away at Villa and West Ham and knocked Southampton and Chelsea out of cup competitions, as well as losing only by the odd goal in the league to Chelsea and Spurs.
It's interesting to note that they have scored in their last 10 home games. They have had some poor results too, but that is going to happen, and on Saturday one might be enough to avoid defeat against a Norwich side that is struggling for goals. Only six teams have scored fewer than Norwich and their goal difference of minus 14 is the third worst in the Premier League overall.
Away from home they have shipped more than anyone – 21 goals – giving them the worst away goal difference of all (-15). It has to be said that Sunderland have the joint worst home goal difference, but they are definitely on the up under Poyet and should at least get a draw. I was going to recommend laying Norwich with Betfair as I thought they would be around 2.9 to lay, but at 4.0 I will leave it alone.betting
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For some months I have been writing about the strange doings in the Liberal Democrats, and warning that a party divided is unlikely to find that people will vote for its candidates.
I am not the only person to have noticed what had been going on. As well known but confused and distressed sitting councillors found themselves having to stand and lose as Independents, it was all rather hard to miss. The electorate certainly didn't fail to take note yesterday. They have voted in massive numbers to punish everyone involved - not just the deselected councillors, but those who tried to replace them AND those colleagues who helped engineering the shenanigans. Thus the local political scene is saying goodbye to Johar Khan, erstwhile coup leader and now de facto Leader of no-one in the Liberal Democrat Group on Waltham Forest Council. (He also failed to make it as a candidate in Enfield Southgate.)
Also rejected in the High Street was the LibDem Membership Secretary Mahmoud Hussain (who polled more than his squabbling colleagues but was 900 votes short of what Labour managed to muster for their third-most successful candidate). James O'Rourke was also swept aside in 58.74% turnout which translated into a torrent of votes for Labour.
Other victims of the Liberal Democrats' pre-election hubris included Bob Wheatley in William Morris ward, who'd allied with Johar Khan in the deselection coup. In fact, to put it bluntly the Liberal Democrats have been wiped out in Walthamstow, winning nothing new and losing all they had, despite the party pouring money into the election campaign that coincided with the general election. Walthamstow is now a one-party state.
If anyone other than the guilty parties wants to conduct a post-mortem on the corpse of local democracy, please let me know.