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Difficulty Chewing [1]
Difficulty chewing occurs when pain in the mouth, stiffness or pain in the jaw muscles, or problems with the teeth make it difficult to eat certain foods, especially hard foods. It is important to work with your health care team to find ways to manage difficulty chewing because it may cause you to avoid certain foods or to eat smaller amounts of food, which can keep you from getting the calories and nutrients that your body needs.
Difficulty chewing often results from physical changes to the mouth, jaw, or tongue caused by cancer, especially oral and oropharyngeal cancers [3]. It may also be a side effect of cancer treatment, such as chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or surgery. Side effects of cancer treatment that can cause chewing problems include:
- Mucositis [4], which is soreness, pain, or inflammation in the mouth
- Xerostomia [5], commonly called dry mouth, from radiation therapy, chemotherapy, or some antidepressant and pain medications
- Gum disease, tooth decay, or tooth loss, which are possible long-term side effects of dry mouth, radiation therapy, or high-dose chemotherapy
- Infections of the mouth after radiation therapy or chemotherapy
- Pain and stiffness in the jaw muscles, either as a possible long-term side effect of radiation therapy to the head and neck or from jaw clenching or tooth grinding
- Mouth pain, which is caused by nerve damage from some types of chemotherapy
- Tissue and bone loss in the jaw, which is a possible long-term side effect of radiation therapy to the head and neck
- Physical changes to the mouth, jaw, or tongue from surgery
- The inability to wear dentures because of pain or swelling in the mouth or gums
Relieving side effects, also called symptom management, palliative care [6], or supportive care, is an important part of cancer care and treatment. Talk with your health care team about any symptoms you experience, including any new symptoms or a change in symptoms, especially because chewing problems interfere with eating. Before starting cancer treatment, it's important to visit your dentist to find and correct any issues with your teeth and/or mouth that might affect your ability to eat. If your cancer treatment plan includes surgery on your jaw, you'll want to talk with your doctor about the options that are available to help you maintain your ability to eat.
To learn how to chew more easily, especially if surgery has changed the structure of your mouth or tongue, you may need to see a speech therapist. A speech therapist is a professional who specializes in helping people use the muscles in the mouth and throat. You may also want to continue visiting a dentist, so that tooth, gum pain, or denture problems can be treated and to avoid more complex dental problems. If radiation is part of your treatment plan, a special fluoride gel or mouth rinse to help prevent tooth decay or gum disease is usually recommended. Taking good care of your teeth and mouth with proper brushing and flossing will also help prevent dental problems.
In addition, your doctor or dentist may prescribe medications to reduce pain and inflammation. Some pain medications are mouth rinses used directly before eating. People with mouth infections, such as a fungal infection like thrush, may be given medication to treat the infection.
Chewing problems caused by jaw pain and stiffness are usually treated with muscle relaxants and physical therapy that may involve massage, jaw exercises, and moist heat. Rarely, surgery may be recommended.
Diet and eating tips
Depending on the severity and cause of chewing problems, certain approaches may work better for some patients than for others. Try different types of foods with the goal of eating a nutritious diet that has enough calories, protein, and vitamins and minerals. Here are some more tips.
- Eat soft, smooth foods, such as yogurt, pudding, or ice cream.
- Mash or blend foods, or add blended vegetables or ground meats to casseroles or soups.
- Moisten dry foods with broth, sauce, butter, or milk.
- Take sips of water or other liquids while eating to keep the mouth and food moist.
- Try softer versions of your favorite fruits or vegetables, like applesauce or pureed carrots; switch to softer fruits and vegetables, such as bananas or peas; or consider eating baby food.
- Cut food into small bites, and chew slowly and thoroughly.
- If you are losing weight [7], eat smaller, more frequent meals that are high in protein and calories, such as eggs, milkshakes, casseroles, and nutritional shakes.
- Avoid dry, coarse, or hard foods and foods that need a lot of chewing.
You may also ask your doctor about meeting with a registered dietitian for additional help on eating a balanced diet [8].
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How to contact me
I hold regular Advice Bureaux for constituents within the Hall Green Ward.
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LEONARDTOWN, Md. (WUSA9) -- A man was arrested and charged for creating a fake baseball league, St. Mary's County authorities said.
Michael S. Erdolino created the league, recruited players and even held practices, according to police.
"Erdolino, age 38, of no fixed address, self established an organization named Southern Maryland Athletics Youth Baseball and actively recruited children for his team which would be based in St. Mary's County. Erdolino established a $500 registration fee per player and held multiple fund raisers at various locations in St. Mary's and Calvert County to fund the team," police said.
With the $500 registration fee, victims told police they were promised practices, insurance, instructors, uniforms and even equipment, police said.
Police said the victims didn't get anything in return, except for a few practices.
"On February 7, 2013, Erdolino met with detectives and was unable to produce any documentation of the accounting for the alleged organization he had created. On March 7, 2013 Erdolino was arrested in Hollywood, Md. and charged with Theft $1,000 - $10,000, Theft Scheme $1,000 - $10,000 and 4 counts of Theft under $1,000. Erdolino was transported to the St. Mary's County Detention Center," police said.
Erdolino was released on a $5,000 bond.


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WASHINGTON (WUSA9) -- DC Police released the video below in hopes that someone can identify the suspects of a burglary.
Officials say two men broke into Maury Elementary School in the 200 block of Constitution Ave. in Northeast on Sunday.
The suspects were captured on surveillance video as they roamed the halls, entered classrooms, and removed property belonging to the school.
If you have any information about the suspects contact police at (202) 727-9099 or text your tip to the Department's TEXT TIP LINE to 50411.


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Buck's Birthday Celebration
A handful of Royals alumni are stepping out in the community to help celebrate the memory of Buck O'Neil during a special birthday fundraising weekend!
On Monday, Nov. 12, former Royals Jeff Montgomery, Al Fitzmorris, Kevin Seitzer, Brian McRae and Paul Splittorff will make early appearances at area First Watch restaurants to help raise funds for the Buck O'Neil Education and Research Center. All nine First Watch locations will donate their profits for the day to helping make Buck's Center – and dream – a reality.
Here is a rundown of the First Watch appearances:
First Watch – Pinnacle Village at 119th Street
12040 Blue Valley Parkway, Overland Park, Kan.
8-9 a.m.: Jeff Montgomery and Al Fitzmorris
First Watch – The Shoppes at Corporate Woods
9916 College Blvd., Overland Park, Kan.
8-9 a.m.: Kevin Seitzer and Brian McRae
First Watch – Independence
19321 E. Highway 40, Independence, Mo.
8-9 a.m.: Paul Splittorff
First Watch – Old Westport Shopping Center
1022 Westport Road, Kansas City, Mo.
8-9 a.m.: Former Negro Leagues players Jess Rogers, Ulysses Hollimon and DeMorris Smith; Former Negro Leagues umpire Bob Motley.
The First Watch Monday event follows the special birthday bash "Remembering Buck" at the Gem Theater on Saturday. The "Remembering Buck" event also benefits the Education and Research Center and will feature a musical tribute with performances by Bobby Watson, Brian Kennedy, the McFadden Brothers and others, plus a big performance by Morris Day and The Time. Tickets are still available for the fundraising party – call the NLBM at (816) 221-1920.
In related Buck news…the 2008 Buck O'Neil Legacy Seat nomination form is up on royals.com and we are accepting nominations all offseason. If you nominated someone last season and they were not chose, please resubmit that nomination for the upcoming season.


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(WUSA9) -- The park honoring the late Godfather of Go-Go is closer to becoming reality Thursday. D.C. Mayor Vincent Gray, Chuck Brown's family and band will host a groundbreaking ceremony for the Chuck Brown Memorial Park.
They will unveil designs for the renovations of part of the Langdon Park on 20th Street NE that will honor Brown's memory.
According to the mayor's office, "The design includes a memorial wall encircling a new public plaza as well as outdoor toy drums that will link the memorial to an existing playground. The plaza can be used for entertainment, with surrounding grass for sitting or dancing. Other renovations to be made to the surrounding park include new benches, trash receptacles, more lighting and enhancements to the dog park."
Thursday is Chuck Brown's birthday and last year, Mayor Gray designated August 22 as Chuck Brown Day in the District.
Thursday night, the Chuck Brown Birthday Bash takes place at the Howard Theatre. The Chuck Brown All-Star Band (Frank "Scooby" Marshall, Chuck's daughter KK, D Floyd, Sweet Cherie, the Horny Horns, Kenny "Kwickfoot" Gross, Mighty Moe Hagans, Marcus Young, and Karlston "Ice" Ross), Buggs from Junkyard, Sugar Bear from E.U., and Michelle Blackwell of Chocolate City will honor the Godfather of Go-Go on his birthday. The celebration is standing room only. Tickets are $20 (http://on.wusa9.com/175CkMB). Doors open at 6 p.m. but the show starts at 8 p.m.
A quick note: Howard Theatre and Ben's Chili Bowl also celebrate birthdays today.


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May 29, 2016
Meridian's Redline community is planning another meeting to discuss concerns in the community.
A meeting was held on October 22nd to talk about crime that has plagued the area over the past few months and to begin the process of setting up a neighborhood watch. Meridian Police also spoke to the residents about how they can help combat crime.
The next meeting is Monday night at 6:30 and will once again be held at the Jubilee Mennonite Church.
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Man of faith, Man of the hour
Minorities, social conservatives, and war proponents hand George W. Bush a historic win-sending a GOP incumbent back to the White House for the first time in two decades.
After a long, bitter campaign fight-and a seemingly endless election night-no one wanted to miss the moment of victory. They'd crammed into the Ronald Reagan building the night before, all those well-dressed, well-scrubbed Bush loyalists, hoping for a victory speech that never came.
So by 1:30 p.m. on Nov. 3, before John Kerry could even make his concession official, the faithful in Washington already were lined up three deep outside the Reagan building, anticipating the moment they'd worked so hard for. Supposedly, only campaign volunteers and invited guests from the previous night's abortive celebration would be allowed into the tightly secured hall, but hardcore Bush fans weren't about to let that stop them. They toted Blackberries and whipped out printed e-mails from friends working on the campaign-anything to prove they had some connection to the winner.
Once inside, huge TV screens showing Fox News riveted their attention. There was a grim-faced John Kerry, saying the words this crowd had waited so long to hear. It was official. It was over. And the Supreme Court hadn't even gotten involved.
Despite dire warnings of dirty tricks, contested ballots, and razor-thin margins, the election of 2004 produced a clear winner within 15 hours of the first poll closings. Though the Electoral College map shifted almost imperceptibly from 2000, Mr. Bush swamped his opponent by 3.5 million popular votes, achieving the first outright majority in a presidential election since 1988.
But the relative ease of his win belied the deep divisions in the country. In his congratulatory phone call at 11:00 Wednesday morning, Mr. Kerry twice pressed the president to bridge the divide that separated the parties-and Mr. Bush twice agreed it was important to do so. Hours later, in his public concession speech in Boston's Faneuil Hall, an unusually emotional Mr. Kerry made his point explicit. "America is in need of unity and longing for a larger measure of compassion," he said, after choking back tears in thanking his supporters. "I hope President Bush will advance those values in the coming years."
Within minutes, the president delivered a bridge-building speech of his own, asking for the support of Democratic voters: "A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole country," he said.
After an unexpectedly strong win, however, many cultural conservatives were in no mood to talk about reconciliation with the liberals. Mr. Bush's margin was big enough to count as a mandate, in the eyes of his most fervent supporters.
"Today, the president owes the pro-life movement a huge debt," Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said in a statement just moments after the Kerry concession speech. "Mr. President, you have been given a mandate to end abortion in our nation by the American people who cast their votes for you. Please move forward aggressively to appoint pro-life federal judges, and when the time comes, appoint Supreme Court Justices that will strike down the scourge of Roe v. Wade."
Moments later, the Christian Coalition cranked out a similarly aggressive-sounding news release pressing for passage of the Federal Marriage Amendment and a new Houses of Worship Free Speech Restoration Act. "Radical liberals have used every trick in the book to try and silence the church. The sleeping giant has been awakened and will refuse to be intimidated by secular fundamentalists."
Despite the hyperbole of some on the right-perhaps induced by euphoria mixed with lack of sleep-there was widespread consensus that Mr. Bush owed his reelection largely to his evangelical base. "Christian evangelical votes made the difference in this election, there's no doubt about it," said Roberta Combs, executive director of the Christian Coalition. "Four years ago they didn't really know President Bush, and they didn't turn out as strongly as they might have. But I think Christian evangelicals got to know him and trust him. They know he's a man of faith-he's spoken about it and he's practiced it."
But Matthew Spalding, director of the B. Kenneth Simon Center at the Heritage Foundation, warns that focusing on evangelicals alone misses the full impact of what the president has accomplished in terms of coalition-building. "It's not just the religious right-this is bigger. Bush got a significant portion of the Hispanic vote-42 percent. He got 11 percent of the black vote nationally and better than that in some states. He got the Catholic vote, the Protestant vote. It's now accurate to say there's a bloc-there's a group out there that takes these moral issues seriously. They're the cornerstone of the Bush coalition."
Mr. Spalding points out that one in five voters on Nov. 2 cited "moral values" as the most important issue driving them to the polls. "No one saw that coming. They expected it to be all about jobs and terrorism." Because of their religious blind spot, he says, the mainstream media "completely missed the larger movement in American politics-that is, that we are seeing a moral alignment of great magnitude for this country."
That moral alignment, he says, is "about a whole basket of issues, not just abortion. . . . We know abortion is very important, and the pro-life vote went 70 percent plus for Bush." But it was another moral issue-one that got very little attention during the campaign-that may have turned the entire election in the Republicans' favor. "This was clearly a 9/11 election," Mr. Spalding says. "I believe the post-9/11 threat was the single most important issue with most voters. But if there was a side issue that decided several states and gave Bush the presidency, it was the defense-of-marriage issue."
Indeed, constitutional initiatives limiting marriage to one man and one woman swept the board on Tuesday, winning by margins of 60 percent to 80 percent in all 11 states where they appeared on the ballot. Though gay marriage was rarely mentioned during the campaign, Mr. Bush did come out early in favor of a Federal Marriage Amendment-a position opposed by Mr. Kerry. That seemed to work in the president's favor: Of the 11 states voting on the measure, Mr. Bush carried nine of them. (Only Michigan and Oregon went to Mr. Kerry.)
But it was Ohio-the linchpin of the entire election-where the issue appeared to be most pivotal. All day, exit polls had predicted good news for the Democrats, and newscasters privy to the poll results could barely contain their glee. Then, when the polls closed in Ohio at 7:30 p.m., came the first hint that something might go seriously wrong with the Kerry momentum.
Within moments after voting ended in the Buckeye State-and more than 12 hours before Mr. Kerry was willing to admit defeat there-the networks predicted a big win for Ohio's toughest-in-the-nation ban on gay marriages and civil unions. On NBC, Tom Brokaw let out a low whistle. The implications were obvious: A 2-to-1 winning margin for the marriage amendment (known in Ohio as Issue 1) suggested a bigger GOP turnout than anyone had anticipated.
All across the country, politically savvy Republicans seemed to get a second wind from the quick victory for Issue 1. At a bar in Arlington, Va., the site of a local Republican victory celebration, many were glued to presidential election returns in Florida and Ohio. But Tess Taylor, a Filipino-American wearing a casual gray suit festooned with Bush-Cheney buttons, said she was most interested in the 11 state measures on gay marriage. Among the Filipino community in the greater Washington area, she'd seen many of her friends switch from Democrat to Republican over the course of the campaign, largely because of marriage and family issues.
When Issue 1 breezed to victory in Ohio, she was convinced the Christian vote would win Mr. Bush a second term. "I'm very, very positive it's Bush's," she said around 11 p.m., hours before anyone had called the election. "It's the [religious] vote that's going to win," she said. "It's the first time that I've seen Christians and Catholics really rallying together."
More than theological differences, the marriage issue appeared to cross racial lines in a way that benefited Republicans. "No one on either side disputes that the marriage amendment motivated the GOP base," said Matt Daniels, president of the Alliance for Marriage. But what many analysts missed is the way the issue attracted normally Democratic voters, especially African-Americans. "Our polling found that support for the marriage amendment was highest among African-Americans," Mr. Daniels said. Even more revealing: A CNN exit poll in Ohio showed that Mr. Bush's standing among African-American voters soared from 9 percent to 16 percent specifically because of the marriage amendment.
With passions running high among the GOP's evangelical base plus crossover support from blacks and Hispanics, Mr. Bush collected more than 59 million votes, the most ever for a presidential candidate. He avoided the emotional roller coaster of 2000 by handily winning Florida's 27 electoral votes, then flipped 5 more electoral votes to the Republican column by eking out a 1-point win in New Mexico. Iowa looked poised to flip as well, but Mr. Bush's 13,000-vote advantage could be tested by yet-to-be-counted provisional and absentee ballots. Mr. Kerry managed to steal only tiny New Hampshire from the Republicans, leaving him 18 votes short of his goal in the Electoral College.
But despite the few small-state flip-flops, Ohio seemed to be the only state that really mattered throughout the long, excruciating hours of Election Night. By failing to win any of the big Midwest industrial states, Mr. Bush found himself in the same predicament as his challenger: Neither man could capture the White House without Ohio's 20 electoral votes.
For Republicans, the tension was palpable. In addition to the encouragement of Issue 1, Mr. Bush's political team was spreading the word among reporters that according to their models, the president would carry the Buckeye State. Though a few Ohio voters were still standing in line as late as midnight, Fox News and NBC called the state for Mr. Bush just before 1 a.m. Other news outlets refused to follow suit, and the Kerry campaign insisted that left-leaning Cleveland could still provide the votes to overtake the president's 125,000-vote margin.
Still, the early projection put Mr. Bush at 269 electoral votes-and put Republicans around the country in a celebratory mood. At the Marriott Hotel in Albuquerque, N.M., a 10-piece band played in the corner of the ballroom while GOP revelers attempted to dance the Salsa with varying degrees of success. With 269 votes already in the president's column, everyone in the room hoped New Mexico would be the state to put him over the top. Each time New Mexico's vote counts appeared on Fox News, the crowd stopped what they were doing and broke into cheers of "Viva Bush" or "Four more years."
For hours the cycle of dancing and worrying went on. As more and more precincts reported and Mr. Bush maintained his margin of 12,000 or so votes, the cries of "Viva Bush" faded into chants of "Call it! Call it! Call it!" But the call didn't come-and neither did the concession.
Two time zones and 2,000 miles away, John Edwards finally took the platform at Boston's Copley Plaza with a 60-second announcement for the party faithful who gathered as a cold November night became the day after the voting began. Mr. Kerry was still watching Ohio, he said, and the vote count would go on. "It's been a long night, but we've waited four years for this victory. We can wait one more night."
But the night was already half over-and so were the Democrats' dreams. Several hundred thousand provisional ballots could never overcome the president's margin of 135,000 votes. For Democrats, one more night of waiting gave way to four more years of wandering in the political wilderness.
- with reporting by Priya Abraham in Washington, D.C., and John Dawson in New Mexico


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Flower Show at the Belgrade Library July 21 and 22 During Open Hours
Join us at the Belgrade library for our 5th Annual Flower Show on Thursday, July 21 and Friday, July 22 during open hours. Open hours on Thursdays are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and 2 to 5 p.m. Friday hours are 2 - 5 p.m. and 6 - 8 p.m.
If you wish to display arrangements, containers or specimens please deliver them to the library Thursday, July 21 between 8 and 10 a.m.
A variety of flower and gardening books will be on display and available for checkout.
Door prizes, lemonade and treats will be part of the fun!


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Our Religion Department provides the context for a flourishing Ph.D. program with concentrations offered in the Old Testament, New Testament, Historical and Theological Areas.
Faculty are committed to a strong research agenda, and that agenda is tied to the Baylor tradition of providing the very finest in classroom instruction. Baylor continues to move toward its goal of becoming a top tier university and the department along with the university remains friendly to faith and to church, thus providing a distinctive setting in American higher education.
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Foundation announces plan for huge donation
ELKHART — Residents of Elkhart County want to spend millions of dollars each year on children and making this a better place to live, while still supporting the work done by nonprofit agencies.
That's the essence of the framework the Elkhart County Community Foundation's board and staff unveiled Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 9, in addressing how they plan to use the proceeds from Guy David Gundlach's unprecedented, unrestricted gift of $150 million to the foundation.
It was part of the foundation's annual report to the community, where they described the growth from a $45 million foundation giving out $500,000 a year a couple of years ago to a $200 million foundation giving out more than $8 million annually in a couple of years.
The board and staff created a plan to let the staff handle the smaller requests and to let a larger group of community members make decisions on the larger requests. For instance, in the next fiscal year they could give out $2 million in gifts larger than $250,000, part of $4.5 million in total grants. The numbers will grow in time.
They asked roughly 1,000 members of the community four things:
What things would you be thinking about in terms of funding priorities?
What criteria will you use to make the decisions?
What role should the foundation play, leading priorities or supporting established ones?
What harm could be done and what are the risks?
Brian Smith, chairman of the foundation's board, said, "This year-long conversation across our county has truly guided our decisions."
In an interview with The Elkhart Truth, Pete McCown, president of the foundation, said, "Whether or not we were visiting with Amish bishops, residents of Faith Mission, senior citizens, new immigrant families, multi-generational captains of industry, everyone was unanimous in the idea that the foundation should focus a lot of its energy on the next generation of people."
He told a story of a father at Faith Mission with his wife and two children. "He and his wife suffered substance abuse addictions. Their 4- or 5-year-old daughter was sitting in their lap while we conducted this focus group, she was coloring, and he said effectively, 'I've made a mess of my life and I'm trying to get things back in good order, and Faith Mission is giving me that avenue. Please don't let this happen to my kids. If there's anything you do with this money, give my kids a chance to make a better life for themselves than I've made the mess of mine.'"
Amish who were interviewed said similar things. "They're saying, 'You know what? We need our kids to be ready to do the Amish community but within the modern environment. We need help. We've got disabled kids, we've got kids with learning disabilities, we could use your help in this area. We'll take responsibility for our own community and our own lives, but help our kids. There are some things you can really make a difference in our kids' lives,'" McCown said.
"And senior citizens are saying, 'I've lived my life and there are days I'm lonely, but you know what? Kids deserve a bright future in our community.' It was fascinating. That was so crystal clear," McCown said.
After the listening tour, the foundation's board members created a framework so staff members can handle smaller grants and new community committees can decide on bigger ones, with the biggest requests coming to the foundation's board.
Because of that, the board put more strict rules on board members and staff members, with conduct standards and term limits for board members.
Dzung Nguyen, a member of the foundation's board, said there's a big difference between where the foundation was and where it is now.
The foundation gives out five percent of its holdings each year, based on an average of the last few years' value in the holdings. That means that in a few years, the foundation will be giving out from $8 to $10 million per year. That means individual gifts can balloon in size.
"When you go from a $50,000 gift to maybe a million or more type of gift (at one time), obviously you've got to be nervous about it. Nervous doesn't mean it's bad, nervous in the sense of we want to be responsive, we want to be sure it's put to good use to help the community."
At the luncheon, Smith pointed out that going from the neighborhood of $500,000 in total grants a year to $8 million in just a few years is huge. "That's a lot of coin, and it's going to help our community, for sure."
The last year has been an intense one for the foundation. Smith said, "It wasn't an easy task when you're used to analyzing a grant of $10,000, and you need to talk about it for 45 minutes or an hour to figure out if it's something worthy, and now you have to create a model that says we're going to maybe just, if those come in maybe they just go in a pile and we start writing checks for those. We've got to start looking at the big ones. It's a whole different mind set."
McCown said they learned from other foundations, "the decisions you make can be divisive within a community if you're not thoughtful about it."
Ultimately, they want to focus on making a better community and inspiring generosity, but they don't want to drive the community's efforts. "We want to lead from behind," McCown said.
Applications will come from non-profit or government agencies to the staff, who will guide them through the process.
From there, requests larger than $10,000 will go to one of three committees ("youth development," "quality of place" and "responsive") made up of seven to 10 members.
If a request is for more than $250,000, then it will go to a joint committee, the members of which will make the decision on anything between $250,000 and $1 million.
Anything larger goes to the foundation board for a final decision, McCown said.
When the staff, committees and board consider grant applications, McCown said they plan to look for:
Transformative projects. "We want to see transformative work. We want to invest in transformative work."
Sustainable ideas, so "if we step away after a period of years, it doesn't collapse."
Stakeholder support. "If a not-for-profit comes to us with an idea, we want to see their own constituents, their own stakeholders, their own community to have voted with their generosity that this is a priority, as opposed to us just paying for something."
Outcomes. "The strongest proposals we will consider in the future are those that we will actually be able to make an assessment of the impact, or return on that investment." That doesn't mean they won't support new ideas, but they will look for ways to measure the impact.
"Grant proposals that are innovative, all other things being equal, will find greater favor than those that aren't. We also said collaboration," McCown said, so groups working together will be more likely to find support.
"Our goal is to actually change and transform this community as much as we can. Ten million isn't going to make Elkhart County the land of milk and honey" each year, McCown said, but the foundation's staff and board hope to have fewer lonely senior citizens and fewer kids dropping out of school in the long run.
One of the ways to do that is to help attract new industry in this area. McCown said, "We feel like our role is to create the ecosystem to make this a more attractive place to help attract those companies to relocate or to germinate," and the more they focus on crisis intervention to the expense of other priorities, the more that helps sustain only a cheap labor pool in the area.
"We need to have some focus areas and priorities, however, we want to still be able to anticipate that there may be an idea out there that we haven't yet identified that is worthy of consideration," McCown said.
The model the board laid out is not set in stone, but it "is our best thinking at this point," though they'll look at it as they go along, McCown said. "This is generation one. This is our beta test of this and we're going to learn something as we go."
McCown said he wants to develop a method to track how the community is doing and how the foundation is impacting the community, and that it will be a broad community effort. "I feel that now that we're in this broadened role, we should hold ourselves accountable," McCown said.
Ultimately, the foundation board and staff members want to make "investments that we hope will change the landscape of Elkhart County in remarkably positive ways," McCown said.


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Review: Guitar Pro 6 Tablature Software
Tuesday, April 20th, 2010
Earlier this month the folks at Arobas Software, who produce the popular guitar tab software Guitar Pro, released version 6 of their application. Guitar Pro 6 represents a complete rewrite of the application that's grown way beyond a mere tab editor and into a fully fledged score writer with support for multiple instruments and a huge library of sounds. Guitar Pro 6 has become an formidable composition tool at a price the average guitarist can afford.
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Date: 10/12/2013
Stories abound in Anoka of odd happenings and eerie encounters. There is a house where the rocking chair rocks with no one sitting in it. A business in town has employees who won't enter parts of the building because of the woman seen only in a mirror. There are doors that lock themselves, displays that change on their own, cold drafts.....might they all speak of things unexplained? Join us at the Northtown Library on Saturday, October 12th at 2:00 pm to learn about the stories of the supernatural in Anoka. Northtown Library is located at 711 County Road 10 NE in Blaine.
"This is a great way to get in the spirit of the season and better acquainted with our local history," said Anoka County Commissioner Scott Schulte.
This slide show presentation will take you on a virtual walk through historic neighborhoods of Anoka. You'll see photos of homes and businesses that have been privy to some unexplained events, while your guide shares real stories that have been brought to the Anoka County Historical Society by the people who live and work in these buildings. Sixty percent history, forty percent folklore; these stories are just part of the fun you will experience on your Virtual Ghosts of Anoka tour!
"Are the stories real or imagined? Only you can decide," said Library Board Vice President Melanie Keister, "Learn more about local mysteries and the real historic events behind the stories."
This program is free and open to the public, but seating may be limited. Ghosts of Anoka – A Virtual Tour [2]is sponsored by the Anoka County Library, presented by the Anoka County Historical Society, and funded with money from Minnesota's Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.
For more information about this and other library programs, call 763-712-2322 or visit your local Anoka County Library.


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Tampa, FL (Sports Network) - The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have acquired cornerback
Darrelle Revis from the New York Jets.
The Buccaneers will send their first-round pick in Thursday's draft, the 13th
overall selection, and their fourth-round pick in 2014 for Revis, who also
agreed to a new contract. The fourth-round choice will become a third-round
pick if Revis is on the Bucs' roster on the third day of the 2014 league year.
Revis is recovering from surgery to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, an
injury he suffered in Week 3 last season against Miami. The Jets granted the
Bucs permission to give Revis a physical on Sunday.
The Bucs and Revis then agreed to a six-year contract. Financial terms were
not disclosed.
There had been speculation since January, when John Idzik took over as Jets
general manager for the fired Mike Tannenbaum, that Revis was on the trading
block. Rumors of a deal to Tampa Bay had been brewing for weeks.
Revis could have become a free agent after the 2013 season and has had issues
with Jets management in the past, leading to thoughts he would not re-sign
with the club next offseason. He held out as a rookie after being selected in
the first round of the 2007 draft and had a lengthy holdout in 2010 before
signing a long-term contract.
Considered the top shutdown corner in the NFL, the 27-year-old Revis played
just two games last year, missing one contest with a mild concussion before
his season-ending injury. He had missed just three games in his first five
seasons and has 19 career interceptions, three of which he has returned for
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Simple Solutions for Families in the Fast Lane : Every family runs at a certain pace. If you feel like yours is hurried and frantic, maybe it's time to take back control of your life from your long list of responsibilities and activities. Timothy Smith challenges today's frantic pace and offers helpful solutions to families who are missing out on togetherness because of overscheduling. Simple Solutions for Families in the Fast Lane will help your family connect with each other in meaningful ways in spite of work, school, extracurricular activities, and other responsibilities.
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If you instinctively rush to help a blind man across the street, you'd better make sure first that it is where he wants to go. The real world can all too often make nonsense of the best intentions.
Belgium has just offered a compelling demonstration of how a good idea can go wrong. Last year it introduced an experimental new system designed to cut the public health bill for one of the most widely prescribed class of drugs in the country, statins. The idea was to boost the consumption of generic competitors to Lipitor, Crestor and Zocor, and thus to save the country money.
The result has been disastrously the opposite of what was hoped for. The system has drastically brought down the price of generics, but has had no effect whatever on the market share of the originator products, which continue to dominate the medicine chests of the 900,000 patients prescribed these products close to one in every ten of the country's population.
Worse, in bringing down the prices of generics without any corresponding increase in their market share, it has reduced many of Belgium's generic suppliers to the brink of ruin, claims Joris Van Assche, president of the country's association of generic firms. In support of his claim, he waves figures indicating that between late 2007 and early 2009, Lipitor has continued to bring in about 25 million a quarter, Crestor has steadily increased sales from 10 to 12 million, and only Zocor has slightly dipped from 5 million to about 3 million. Meanwhile, sales of generic simvastatins have dropped from about 7 million to under 5 million.
There has been some slight uptick in volume sales of the generics from around 25 million tablets a quarter to just under 30 million. But volume sales of Lipitor and Zocor have remained stable, and Crestor's have actually risen by 50%. The problem springs from the complexity of the Belgian health system. Without wearying summertime readers with the intricate details of this new Byzantium, it is easy to identify two clear impediments to deeper penetration of generics. One is that doctors have no incentive to prescribe them; the other is that pharmacists have no incentive to dispense them.
Of course Van Assche is urging the government to make adaptations to the system that would persuade a shift in prescribing and dispensing behaviour. And in return, he is holding out the prospect of generic companies doing direct deals with the healthcare system, in a series of comfortable negotiating meetings, to supply products at prices as much as 80% below the brand leaders.
Unintended consequences may result from this stratagem, however. The health minister in Belgium's newly-appointed government is already preparing her own proposals for the autumn and these are likely to take the form of cutting reimbursement levels to the price of the lowest generic on offer. This is closer to the system in the neighbouring Netherlands and there, claims Van Assche, the system has led to catastrophic effects on supply, with products being pulled off the market because they are no longer profitable, and widespread availability problems.
Helping a blind man on the pavement edge is a relatively simple matter. Either he wants to cross the road, or he doesn't. Creating mechanisms that will keep drug costs under control without distorting medicines supply is altogether more challenging and is not going to be achieved by blundering wildly from one experiment to another in distinct elements of the healthcare system.
As in so many other ways, Belgium is a microcosm of Europe, and attaining the delicate balance that is required in the economic regulation of medicines needs a great deal more reasoned reflection and co-ordinated action otherwise the whole EU medicines industry may find itself on the wrong side of the road too.


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First memories of county's inaugural pro golf tournament
Members of San Diego Country Club celebrate open's 60th anniversary
Farmers Open 2012
'$100 was a big deal;' Century Club started with that initiation fee 50 years ago
Color barrier started to break down at first San Diego tourney
Stadler's tree, Devlin's billabong & more lore
Phil-Tiger showdown in 2000 tops list of S.D.'s best
Golf's ghosts never seem far away in a game that honors its legends and holds its traditions sacred. And so on a chilly winter evening last week that was warmed by the aura of a walk unspoiled down memory lane, members of the San Diego Country Club celebrated the 60th anniversary of this county's first professional golf tournament.
A coal black 1952 Chevy truck idled outside the club's entrance to honor the tournament's first sponsor, the brave Chevrolet Dealers of San Diego County who put up the $10,000 purse, with $2,000 going to the winner. San Diego's first champion was Ted Kroll, a pro from New Hartford, N.Y., a Wounded Warrior who was awarded three Purple Hearts in World War II. Kroll opened with a course-record 65 and went wire-to-wire on some very soggy turf to earn his first-ever PGA Tour win. He beat Jimmy Demaret of Ojai by three strokes. Later that year Kroll won the first-ever Greater Hartford Open, becoming the only golfer ever to make inaugural events his first two tournament wins.
Some SDCC club members dressed in outfits of the day, 60 years to the day of the first round, and there was a sighting of Buddy Holly and Peggy Sue (Doug and Barbara Fuller). Members played a nine-hole tournament, with each group rotating one player who had to play an entire hole with a 1952 golf ball that counted toward the foursome's two best-ball score. They teed off on one hole with a 1952-era wooden driver and putted with a Bulls Eye putter from the period. SDCC President Dean Knuth found the golf balls on eBay and rousted up the other equipment. Three groups tied with 2-under-par 70s.
"I hit driver, 5-wood, a pitch and a putt, just like I did in the '50s," joked member Phil Hamilton after making par with the '52 ball, driver and putter on a par 4. He also made birdie with the ball on a par 3.
Once back in the Mickey Wright Lounge and Billy Casper Grill after the round, the members assembled around enlarged San Diego Union sports pages. Each board contained the day's tournament stories by Howard Hagan, sidebars by other writers and columns by sports editor Jack Murphy. San Diego Country Club was so soggy that week, Murphy described the course being "marshmallow-soft" and the competition as not a golf event, but the "San Diego Regatta."
The weather was so bad that all of the area's Sunday sandlot games were canceled, and Agua Caliente Racetrack closed for the first time ever due to bad roads in Tijuana and unsafe conditions for the horses. The closure flooded the country club, which is just across the border in Chula Vista, with "track figures," even owner Johnny Alessio, according to one story.
SDCC member T.R. Reinman, the former U-T golf writer who now works for an agency that represents players on tour, gathered the newspaper clips. The anniversary celebration was his idea.
"This was a milestone for our club, and a milestone in the history of the game, really," Reinman told the members later over a dinner that included meatloaf, pork chops, fried chicken, a vegetable casserole and other '50s-style family chow. "We should be proud for giving birth to this tournament that has benefited so many people, so many fans and so many charities that received more than $23 million in the 60-year history of the tournament. It all started right here."


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The Royals are at Minnesota this weekend for the final regular season series at the Metrodome. The Twins have their sights set on a potential playoff date with New York, while Kansas City looks to play the spoiler role. Here's your Kansas City lineup:
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Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME: 20 min - COOKING TIME: 40 min - CHILLING TIME: 30 min
INGREDIENTS: 6 Livanto capsules (6 x 40 ml) - 6 tablespoons of orgeat syrup – crushed ice.
For the pastry: 220 g (8 oz) plain flour – 125 g (9 oz) butter + a knob to grease the tin – two pinches salt – 80 g (3 oz) icing sugar – 40 g (1 ½ oz) ground almonds – 1 egg.
For the filling: 500 g ricotta – 1 egg – 50 g (2 oz) icing sugar – 1 organic orange – 2 tablespoons of fortified wine (marsala, amaretto or cognac) – 2 tablespoons of granulated sugar to garnish.
To make the pastry, place the flour, butter, almonds, salt and icing sugar in a food processor. Mix until you obtain a breadcrumb texture, and then add the egg gradually to form a ball of dough. Chill in the fridge for 30 min. To make the filling, whisk the ricotta, egg, icing sugar, wine and a little orange zest together. Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (gas mark 6) and grease a pie tin. Roll the pastry out on a floured surface and place it in the tin, keeping any trimmed excess to one side, then prick the base with a fork. Pour the filling mixture onto the pastry. Use the excess pastry to form strips and create a lattice pattern on top of the pie. Bake for 30 to 40 minutes. Enjoy the pie warm and sprinkled with granulated sugar. Serve with a caffè freddo made with a Livanto. Pour the orgeat syrup into a large glass, adding the crushed ice and the Grand Cru.
Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME : 30 min - COOKING TIME: 1 hr - COOLING TIME: 1hr30
INGREDIENTS: 6 Roma capsules (6 x 40 ml).
For 12 budini: 150 g (5 oz) risotto rice – zest of ½ a lemon – 600 ml (20 fl oz) milk – 3 egg yolks – 80 g (2 oz) caster sugar.
For the pastry: 250 g (9 oz) plain flour – 100 g (3 oz) caster sugar – 125 g (1 oz) butter – 1 egg yolk – 2 tablespoons of water.
Wash the rice and boil in a pan with 100 ml (3 ½ fl oz) of water for 2 to 3 minutes. When the water has boiled off, add 400 ml (14 fl oz) of milk, 20 g (1 oz) of sugar and the lemon zest, then cook with the lid on at a very low heat for 30 to 40 min. Whisk the egg yolks and 60 g (2 oz) of the remaining sugar until the mixture turns white, then add the remaining 200 ml (7 fl oz) of milk and stir continuously for around 8 min over a low heat to thicken the mixture. Careful, make sure the mixture does not start to boil. Next, mix the cream with the cooked rice and leave to cool. To make the pastry bases, place the flour, sugar and butter in a food processor. Blend until the mixture resembles breadcrumbs then add the egg yolk and water gradually to form a ball of dough. Chill in the fridge for 1 hour. Roll the pastry out on a floured surface, cut out round shapes with a cutter and place them in silicone baking moulds (5 cm). Prick the pastry a few times with a fork then leave the cases in the fridge for at least 30 min to prevent the pastry from shrinking during baking. Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (gas mark 6) and blind bake for 10 min. Spoon the rice into the cases and put back in the oven for a further 15 to 20 min. Serve with a Roma.
Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME: 20 min - FREEZING: 4 hrs
INGREDIENTS: 6 Arpeggio capsules (6 x 25 ml).
For the semifreddo: 80 g (3 oz) caster sugar – 4 eggs – a pinch of salt – 500 ml (17 fl oz) whipping cream + 200 ml (7 fl oz) – 100 g (18 oz) nougat – 100 g (18 oz) unsalted pistachios – 2 Arpeggio capsules (2 x 25 ml).
Separate the egg yolks from the whites. Whisk the yolks with the sugar until the mixture turns white and thickens. Add the nougat in small pieces, crushed pistachios and the coffee. Whisk the 500 ml (17 fl oz) of cream in a mixing bowl to form whipped cream and then whisk the egg whites with a pinch of salt in another bowl. Add the two mixtures to the first and fold gently with a spatula. Pour the mixture into a freezer container and freeze for at least 4 hours, stirring often to prevent the formation of ice crystals. Take the ice cream out of the freezer 30 minutes before serving and mix it with the remaining 200 ml (7 oz) of whipped cream. Serve with an Arpeggio.
Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME: 10 min - COOKING TIME: 20 min
INGREDIENTS: 6 Cosi capsules (6 x 40 ml).
For 12 cakes: 100 g (3 oz) melted butter – 80 g (3 oz) caster sugar – 2 eggs – 1 teaspoon vanilla powder – 100 g (3 oz) plain flour – 1 teaspoon baking powder – 6 tablespoons milk – 1 organic lemon – 60 g (2 oz) pine nuts – icing sugar to garnish.
Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (gas mark 6). Beat the eggs and caster sugar until the mixture turns white. Add the vanilla, plain flour, baking powder, butter, milk, grated zest and half the juice of the lemon (the other half is not needed) then whisk lightly. Pour the batter into silicone muffin moulds and sprinkle with pine nuts. Bake in the oven for 15 to 20 min. Remove from the moulds and leave to cool on a wire rack. Sprinkle with a little icing sugar to serve. Enjoy with a Cosi.
Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME: 10 min - COOKING TIME: 5 min - CHILLING TIME: 4 hrs
INGREDIENTS: 6 Dulsão do Brasil capsules (6 x 40 ml).
For 6 panna cottas: 600 ml (20 fl oz) whipping cream – 50 g (1 ½ oz) ground almonds – 50 g (1 ½ oz) caster sugar – 6 gelatine sheets.
For the jelly: 100 ml (3 ½ fl oz) mineral water – 25 g (1 oz) caster sugar – 1 gelatine sheet – 2 Dulsão do Brasil capsules (2 x 40 ml).
To make the panna cotta, soak the 6 gelatine sheets in a bowl of cold water to soften them. Bring the cream to a boil with the ground almonds and sugar. Take off the heat and add the drained gelatine, mixing well. Pour the mixture into dessert glasses. Chill for 30 min. To make the jelly, soak the gelatine sheet in cold water. Boil the 100 ml (3 ½ fl oz) of water with the sugar for 5 min. Take off the heat, add the drained gelatine and coffee, then leave to cool. Add one layer of jelly to each dessert glass and return to the refrigerator. Serve with a cappuccino made with a Dulsão do Brasil.
Serves 6
PREPARATION TIME: 20 min - COOKING TIME: 20 min - RESTING TIME: 2 hrs - FREEZING TIME: 4 hrs
For 6 granitas: 8 Ristretto capsules (8 x 40 ml) – 100 g (3 oz) caster sugar – 300 ml (10 fl oz) water.
For the whipped cream: 200 ml (7 fl oz) whipping cream – 1 tablespoon icing sugar.
For 20 rings: 200 g (7 oz) plain flour – 120 g (4 oz) soft butter – 80 g (3 oz) icing sugar – 1 pinch of vanilla – 25 g (1 oz) ground almonds – 1 egg.
To make the granitas: boil the caster sugar and water together for 5 min. Take off the heat, add the coffee (8 x 40 ml) and leave to cool. Pour the coffee syrup into a freezer bag, doubling with another bag for added support, seal and lay flat in the freezer. Knead the bag every 30 minutes until it forms a granita. To make the biscuits: place the flour, butter, icing sugar, vanilla and almonds in a food processor. Mix until you obtain a breadcrumb texture and then add the egg gradually until it forms a ball of dough. Chill for 2 hours. Pre-heat the oven to 180 °C (gas mark 6) and cover the oven tray with greaseproof paper. Form little sausages of the pastry into ring shapes. Place them on the oven tray and bake for 12 to 15 min. To serve : whip the cream, adding icing sugar at the end. Spoon the granita into glasses. Top with whipped cream. Enjoy with the shortbread rings.
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Donors Help Provide Tools to Treat Young Heart Patients
Like most first-time parents, Dave and Anne Pankratz of Marion, S.D., fell in love with their daughter upon seeing her at birth. They named her Madison.
"Out came this beautiful pink little creature," Anne Pankratz said. "She had 10 little toes and 10 little fingers, and she was perfect."
But doctors had other news to share.
"He said to us, 'Kids, I think we need to talk,'" she said. "One in 1,000 babies is born with a heart defect. Maddie was born with five."
According to Dr. Theresa Stamato, Pediatric Cardiologist at Sanford Children's, Madison has issues with vessels and how the pumping chambers are related; she has some narrowed valves and some holes in her heart.
"She was just this little tiny thing. How could something so wrong be going on?" Pankratz said.
Madison had her first heart surgery at 10 months old and a second one exactly five years later, both in Ann Arbor, Mich. "The day I will never forget is the day she had surgery for the second time," Pankratz said. "She was so calm and she looked at both Dave and me and she said, 'Mamma, don't worry. I'm going to be just fine.'"
Madison had a third heart surgery in December in Ann Arbor to deal with an issue called supraventricular tachycardia, or SVT, which is a rapid heart rhythm originating above the ventricular tissue. Her heart rate has been as high as 280. In addition, her mitral valve isn't working properly, which will require more surgery.
Pankratz is confident Madison will receive the best medical attention at Sanford Children's. She said the doctors and nurses perform like they were born to heal children. "We feel so fortunate to live so close to a phenomenal medical facility," she said. "We never doubt – ever – what kind of care Maddie will get."
Statistics show that each year in the United States, one percent of newborns are born with congenital heart disease. At Sanford, that equates to approximately 130 babies, most of whom must travel out of state for life saving surgical treatment, just like Madison did.
To help meet these needs, a new pediatric cardiovascular surgery program is being created at Sanford Children's Hospital. When Madison needs another heart surgery as a teenager, she won't have to travel further than Sioux Falls. The Sanford Health Foundation established the Pediatric Cardiovascular Surgery Fund to help create and support this special program.
The Pankratz family also received assistance with travel for the heart surgeries from Children's Miracle Network. In addition, different equipment used during Madison's hospital and clinic visits at Sanford was purchased with Children's Miracle Network funds.
To support these important programs, visit foundation.sanfordhealth.org.
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LinkedIn is the most popular social media site for posting jobs, according to survey results released today by Bullhorn Inc., a Boston-based software-as-a-service provider for recruitment.
Seventy-seven percent of job openings are shared on LinkedIn, followed by Twitter at 54 percent. Facebook came in third with 25 percent.
The report also found that 21 percent of jobs are posted to all three social networks and that the same percentage of jobs are not posted to social media sites at all.
The Northeast, specifically Maine and New Hampshire, is the most active region in social recruiting, while the Midwest, including Montana, is the least socially active.
Bullhorn's survey pulled from the company's user network of more than 77,500 recruiters.
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Hi everybody, I come back after a lot of time and it's nice to see how grow this community, after the commercial:
I try to install ZCS community edition on a CentOS box, next the general information:
OS version (cat on red-hat release): CentOS release 5.9 (Final) patched to the latest version, don't believe me? Heres my yum update output:
The zcs installer version: zcs-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64.20121210115059.tgzCode:yum update Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.globo.com * extras: mirror.globo.com * updates: mirror.globo.com base | 1.1 kB 00:00 extras | 2.1 kB 00:00 updates | 1.9 kB 00:00 Setting up Update Process No Packages marked for Update
So the problem is, when the installer is in the zimbra-core installating gives an installation failed error, the output:
The install log file output:Code:You appear to be installing packages on a platform different than the platform for which they were built. This platform is CentOS5_64 Packages found: RHEL6_64 This may or may not work. Using packages for a platform in which they were not designed for may result in an installation that is NOT usable. Your support options may be limited if you choose to continue. Install anyway? [N] Y The system will be modified. Continue? [N] Y Removing /opt/zimbra Removing zimbra crontab entry...done. done. Cleaning up zimbra init scripts...done. Cleaning up /etc/ld.so.conf...done. Cleaning up /etc/prelink.conf...done. Cleaning up /etc/security/limits.conf...done. Finished removing Zimbra Collaboration Server. Installing packages zimbra-core......zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64-20121210115059.x86_64.rpm...FAILED ###ERROR### zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64-20121210115059.x86_64.rpm installation failed Installation cancelled
I already make an uncle Google search and I just find some threads about issues when update from 7.0 to 7.2, I already search here in the forum and not found info, so if any one knows some about this in advance thank's.Code:cat install.log.6376 error: Failed dependencies: rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RH EL6_64-20121210115059.x86_64 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 is needed by zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL 6_64-20121210115059.x86_64 [root@ZCS tmp]# cat install.log.6376 error: Failed dependencies: rpmlib(FileDigests) <= 4.6.0-1 is needed by zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64-20121210115059.x86_64 rpmlib(PayloadIsXz) <= 5.2-1 is needed by zimbra-core-8.0.2_GA_5569.RHEL6_64-20121210115059.x86_64


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A jet fuel spill at NAS Meridian caused concerns off the base. The spill was discovered late Thursday. A leaky pipeline was to blame.
Officials say hundreds of gallons of the fuel spilled into a local creek. It has been contained, but they're still sizing up what problems it caused.
"I got the call of a leak at the Navy base. The fire department and environmental folks from the Navy base were already deploying booms in Ponta Creek here on base. The facts are there was very minute traces of anything that got into Ponta Creek period," said David Sharp, director of Lauderdale Emergency Management Agency.
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Buffalo, NY (Sports Network) - Dri Archer ran for 119 yards and a touchdown,
as Kent State downed Buffalo, 23-7, in Mid-American Conference action at UB
The East Division rivals were separated by less than a touchdown entering the
final quarter, but Freddy Cortez's 21-yard field goal opened a two-score
advantage, 16-7, then Julian Durden cemented the win with a two-run TD plunge
with under a minute remaining.
Kent State (2-1) dominated the ground game, piling up 274 yards on 50 carries.
Trayion Durham joined Archer in the 100-yard club with 114 yards on a team-
best 24 carries. He was the thunder, averaging 4.8 yards per carry, to
Archer's lightning, as the speedster averaged 9.2 yards per jaunt.
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struggled through the air. Alex Zordich, who entered the game with 385 yards
passing and five touchdowns through the first two games, completed just 4-
of-22 passes for 95 yards with two interceptions.
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of 39.5 points per game, managed just a second-quarter touchdown in defeat.
That score came as time expired in the first half. Zordich found Alex Neutz
for a 46-yard scoring strike to narrow the deficit to 10-7. The Golden Flashes
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second quarter and Cortez's 23-yard field goal with just under six minutes to
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Video: Part of Community Near Texas Blast Is 'Gone': Police
The fertilizer plant that exploded in West, Texas has a past of violations according to USA TODAY.
In 2006, West Chemical and Fertilizer was fined $2,300 for failing to update a risk management plan, poor employee training records, and no written policy for a maintenance program.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said the company later told them they corrected the deficiencies.
The EPA is monitoring the air quality in the area of the explosion that's now said to have killed more than 30 people.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and "National Response Team "are trying to determine the cause of the catastrophe.
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board also has a team of investigators along with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on scene.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry is calling the deadly fertilizer plant explosion in his state "a truly nightmare scenario."
Authorities said earlier Thursday as many as 15 people are feared dead and more than 160 others were injured in the explosion that leveled homes and businesses in the farming community of West, Texas.
Perry emphasized during a Thursday morning news conference that much of the information about victims still is "very preliminary."
Explosions rocked a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, Wednesday evening as firefighters were battling a fire, causing multiple injuries, authorities said.
A hospital in nearby Waco reported receiving at least 45 patients.
"The injuries that we are seeing are very serious,'' said Glenn Robinson, CEO of Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center. "There are a number of patients that will be going to surgery.... It's a very, very unfortunate situation.''
Robinson said he did not know how many were in critical condition. He said helicopters were en route for more of the injured after earlier being grounded by high winds. And he said more patients were being taken to at least one other trauma center nearby.
Dani Moore, dispatcher with the Texas Department of Pubic Safety, said she did not know how many were injured or the extent of their injuries.
"The fertilizer plant was on fire. Firefighters were on the scene. There was an explosion ... followed by a second explosion,'' she said.
She said there were multiple damages to structures and vehicles. She said she had no information on the cause of the blasts or fire.
Waco Police Sgt. William Patrick Swanton told the AP early Thursday he doesn't know how many people have been rescued since the Wednesday night explosion in downtown West.
But he says officials on the ground remain in "search and rescue mode," going building to building in the largely decimated neighborhood surrounding the plant. He says he knows some firefighters still are missing.
WFAA.com reported at least 10 structures were on fire, including a school which is next door to the plant. An emergency triage center was set up at a high school football field.
The TV station said on its website that a shock wave was felt in parts of North Texas.
The Waco Tribune reported firefighters were among the injured.
The fertilizer plant is about 20 miles north of Waco and just off Interstate 35.
KWTX.com reported one of the nearby buildings damaged was a nursing home, and state troopers transported some of the injured to hospitals in patrol cars.
It also said the explosion knocked out electrical power to part of the community.
Of the first 45 patients to arrive at Hillcrest, 25 of them came by private vehicle and 20 by ambulance, Robinson said.
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Ned Yost media session: June 12
The return of second baseman Chris Getz was the first topic brought up this afternoon when Royals' manager Ned Yost met with the media. Yost said having him back improves their defense as a whole and he can swing the bat very well which is also very nice. It will be good to have him back in the lineup. Yost went on to say that having him and Yuniesky Betancourt platoon the second base role will also be good for the team. That means that whomever of the two is not playing will serve as a solid option off the bench.
Ex-Royal and tonight's starting pitcher for Milwaukee, Zack Greinke, was brought up next by the media. Yost said he is a very good pitcher. He said he commands his fastball, he has a good slider, an exceptionally good changeup, and he is extremely intelligent out there on the mound. Yost said, however, Greinke throwing against them tonight does not mean it is anything different than a normal game other than they know the pitcher very well. He said it is just another game for both teams and they want a win.
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I open the door to the outside world and hear nothing.
Oh, wait, a bird�s call.
The sound is unmistakable: �EMAIL � EMAIL � EMAIL.�
I have heard that cry a thousand times. It grows old. This time, no answer, however. Perhaps the mate is winging homeward with a worm in its mouth. Hard to return a mate�s call with a worm in your mouth.
I step outside and close the door. There�s the spot that, year after year, has been taken by tomato-plant default. Kind of a sacred place, actually. I could have named it �Better Boy Temple.�
But not this year. There will be no tomatoes this year. I finally have given up. Last fall, after dismantling my Earthbox tomato-plant construction, I shook my fist at the woods 25 yards away and said:
�OK, you gutless tomato mongers, I hope you enjoyed all those tomato sandwiches you kept me from eating, because the game is over. No more free ride. Go find somebody else�s fruit to plunder.�
I listened, but nobody spoke up. Not the hordes of squirrels, the raccoons, birds of other feathers and several prankish creatures who came in the night, tore into my netting, grabbed a few tomatoes and ruined many more.
I like a good tomato sandwich as well as anyone else. But there comes a time when one draws the line. Don�t monkey with me anymore. I am cutting off your food-supply.
And so I did. I gave away my Earthbox. No Earthbox, no real earth-place to raise tomato plants.
No tomato plants that grew to be 10 feet tall and full of tomatoes. Nice tomatoes. Picture-book tomatoes. Better Boys. Juicy, scrumptious, red tomatoes. Ripe-and-ready-for-plucking tomatoes.
And they got plucked. Plundered, really.
First, there came one plunderer. Somebody or something made off with one tomato but left three others with nasty-looking teeth-mark scars. They had to be tossed.
The next night, momentum was building. They were ganging up on me. It must have been mommy, daddy, the kids and several aunts and uncles.
Somehow, they managed to get through two strands of hog wire and two layers of bird netting.
There is a moral to all this somewhere, but I am afraid to look for it. My confidence lies among the leavings � broken and shaken.
So last fall, I disassembled my Earthbox. Told the fellow who hauled it home that it had been nominated for the Reliable and Effective Tomato Producer Award of the Year.
He grinned and I grinned, and we let it go at that.
I am a no-nonsense tomato grower. I am serious, dedicated and purposeful in growing tomatoes, for I work with one picture always in the back of my mind: A tomato sandwich done up just right.
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But it is hard, for I am no good at pretending tomato sandwiches.
I stood there in the shade of the house and listened to a mockingbird whistling in the distance: �Leap year � leap year � leap year.�
Crazy bird. Even I know it�s not leap year.
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Back when we first installed Zimbra (v 4.5), there was some internal requirement that all the Zimbra hosts (ldap, mtas, mailboxes) had to be on the same subnet. Maybe it was related to clustering....which we don't use anymore???
We are now running v. 7.1.3 and wonder if the requirement is still the same. We're going to bringing some new hosts online in VMware and are wondering if they have to be on the same subnet as the original physical hosts.


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Creative energy fills the five boroughs each day of the year as innovative minds from every facet of the design world make their mark on New York City's cultural and artistic landscape. From May 10 to 21, their talents take center stage when NYCxDESIGN brings together architects, graphic designers, fashion-world entrepreneurs, furniture craftsmen and the like for 12 days of engaging exhibitions, talks, installations and studio sessions. Highlights of the citywide event include the Frieze New York art fair on Randalls Island, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center and local furnishing and home accessories exhibition BKLYN DESIGNS at St. Ann's Warehouse. Woven throughout these key festivals will be events at museums, studios, parks and schools that provide an inside look into the City's many design communities. Explore the women's fashions of early-20th-century Shanghai at the Museum of Chinese in America, get immersed in a video game conference at Cobble Hill's The Invisible Dog Art Center or discover the artistry behind gardening and building design at the Bronx's Wave Hill. And in between the happenings, get to know the exciting neighborhoods that make up the design capital of the world, among them the Meatpacking District, Chinatown, Long Island City and Lower Manhattan. For a full lineup of NYCxDESIGN events, visit nycxdesign.com.
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Wheeling Central 5, Wheeling Park 2
WHEELING - Gus Schmidt and Daniel Lee each won singles matches and Wheeling Central swept through the doubles as it defeated Wheeling Park.
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Paradise Island, Bahamas (Sports Network) - Treveon Graham poured in a game-
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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Ryan Barnes delivered a two-out, RBI-single in the bottom of the ninth to provide No. 3 Oregon State a 7-6 victory over Washington State, Sunday.
Barnes' game-winning hit came off Washington State (23-32, 9-21 Pac-12) reliever J.D. Leckenby (2-4), the third Cougar pitcher of the day and made a winner out of Max Engelbrekt (4-1), the sixth Oregon State (45-10, 24-6 Pac-12) hurler in the game.
The Beavers clinched the Pac-12 title earlier in the day when Oregon lost at Utah.
Oregon State jumped out to a 4-0 lead with a run in the first and three more in the second against Washington State starter Scott Simon. The Cougars roared back with three in the third and two in the fourth off Beavers' starter Ben Wetzler to grab a 5-4 lead.
In the third, freshman Trek Stemp led off the inning with his first-career home run. Collin Slaybaugh followed with a double and scored on a one-out double by Jason Monda. After Monda stole third, Patrick McGrath plated a run with a ground out.
Yale Rosen opened the fourth with a double, but was erased on a fielder's choice off the bat of Adam Nelubowich. Trace Tam Sing walked and Stemp singled to load the bases. Slaybaugh singled to score Nelubowich the tying run and P.J. Jones brought Tam Sing in with go-ahead tally on a sacrifice fly.
The Cougars added a run in the sixth on a single by Nelubowich, a sacrifice bunt by Tam Sing and a one-out RBI-single by Slaybaugh.
Monda, who replaced Simon on the mound in the fourth, retired the first-10 men he faced before giving up back-to-back home runs to Dylan Davis and Danny Hayes leading off the eighth that tied the game, 6-6.