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If lightning can't strike twice in the same place, apparently tornadoes can. On Monday, May 20, 2013, Moore, Oklahoma experienced its second deadly tornado. The first slammed the region in May 1999. According to the National Weather Service, the 2013 tornado's wind speeds exceeded 200 mph and was at least half of a mile wide. (In 1999, wind speeds were clocked at 300 mph.)
Tornado season has those in living in North America's "Tornado Alley" heading for safe shelter and praying that the storm will pass without touching down.
"Tornado alley" is a term used to describe the area of the U.S. between the Rocky Mountains and the Appalachian Mountains. Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas are usually hardest hit, but killer tornadoes do occur in states outside of Tornado Alley.
It was once thought that twisters only touched down in rural areas. But the Salt Lake City, Utah tornado of 1999 disproved such a theory. It was also an unusual part of the country for a cyclone to touch down.
In 1953 another tornado hit outside of Tornado Alley in Flint, Michigan killing 116. One day later, from the same storm, a massive F4 tornado stayed on the ground for an hour and a half in Worcester, Massachusetts, injuring 1300 and killing 95.
This 1-mile wide tornado traveled 46 miles to Worcester, Massachusetts and Damage was phenomenal. Debris was thrown as far as 110 miles away and 10,000 people were left homeless. This tornado outside of tornado alley, proved again that tornadoes can and will occur anywhere.
The deadliest tornado, struck the U.S. on March 18, 1925, and killed 695 people in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
Click through the list for aftermath pictures of killer tornadoes.
Kasey Clark sorts through the debris of her grandmother-in-law Thelma Cox's mobile home after it was destroyed by a tornado May 20, 2013 near Shawnee, Oklahoma. A series of tornados moved across central Oklahoma May 19-20, killing and injuring many and destroying countless homes.
Shawnee, Oklahoma, May 20, 2013
A home sits damaged after a tornado moved through the area May 20, 2013 near Shawnee, Oklahoma. A series of tornadoes moved across central Oklahoma May 19 and 20, killing and injuring many.
Tornado destroys garage
Lonnie Langston talks about his garage that was swept off the concrete pad next to his house by a tornado May 20, 2013 near Shawnee, Oklahoma. A series of tornadoes moved across central Oklahoma May 19 and 20 and the death toll rises as rescue workers and survivors search through debris.
All gone--nothing left
Helpers help with cleanup of Tom and Ronda Clark's property after it was damaged by a tornado May 20, 2013 near Shawnee, Oklahoma. A series of tornadoes moved across central Oklahoma May 19 and 20, killing and injuring more than 37 including children attending school.
Tin like laundry hanging from electric wire
A piece of corrugated tin is left draped over a power line after a tornado ripped through Oklahoma. A series of tornadoes moved across central Oklahoma May 19 and 20, killing and injuring many. Homes, businesses, buildings and schools were completely destroyed. (Photo by Brett Deering/Getty Images)
Pers. Obama greets survivors in Joplin
The tornado in Joplin Missouri on May 22, 2011, killed 161 people and left thousands homeless. 944 pets were rescued and nearly 300 were reunited with their owners.
The track of the 1953 tornado in Michigan
The tornado now known as the Flint-Beecher tornado touched down on June 8, 1953 was the deadliest storm up to that date. Congressmen wondered if the storm had been caused by nuclear testing in the upper atmosphere. It killed 116 people. Papers from Flint, Michigan were swept as far as Ontario, Canada.
Joplin, Missouri aftermath
158 people were killed in the catastrophic EF5 multiple-vortex tornado in Joplin, Missouri on May 22, 2011. The nearly mile-wide tornado produced 200 MPH winds caused over $2.8 billion dollars in damages. It was the seventh deadliest tornado in U.S. history and the most expensive.
Remains recovered in rubble
146 sets of remains were recovered from the rubble. Remarkably, 134 victims were identified within days. However, some victims suffered such horrific injuries, different sets of remains were found to be from a single person. Six people died when St. John's Hospital was struck. These patients needed ventilators to live and when the power went out the backup generator did not work. One hospital visitor was also killed.
F2-F3 funnel
The funnel of a tornado is the thin tube that reaches from the cloud to the ground. The dust cloud at the bottom is caused by strong winds on the surface of the earth. The wind caused by a tornado is much wider than the funnel.
Nothing left behind
Scientists still debate whether or not a separate touchdown of the same funnel constitutes separate tornadoes. For those in its path the argument is irrelevant. Tornadoes are destructive killers, leaving thousands mourning and homeless year after year.
St. John's Hospital in ruins
The tornado that hit Joplin on May 22, 2011 left St. John's Hospital seriously damaged and four people dead. One of the hospital's towers was rotated four inches on its foundation. The hospital was declared structurally unsafe and had to be demolished.
St. Louis Tornado in 1896
On May 27, 1996, St. Louis was hist by a tornado outbreak that began in the central U.S. and traveled east. It caused over $10 million in damage in 1896 dollars. In today's dollars: $360,000,000 dollars in damage. 255 people were killed.
Tri-state tornado: Griffin, Indiana
The massive Tri-State Tornado killed 695 people on Wednesday, March 18, 1925. It is the deadliest tornado in U.S. history and left a 219 mile track making it the longest ever recorded in the world. It traveled from Missouri, through Illinois and into Indiana and completely destroyed Griffin and the surrounding rural areas. In Indiana alone 71 people were killed.
1953, Beecher, Michigan
The tornado that hit the Flint, Michigan area in 1953, completely destroyed the town of Beecher, Michigan. The F5 tornado leveled strong frame houses, ripping them from their foundations. Trees were debarked, and vehicles thrown more than 100 meters from wind speeds of 261-318 MPH. Damages of $19 million in 1953 dollars (about $166 million in 2013) occurred along a 27 mile path.
An F4 near Eerie, Michigan
On June 8-9, 1953, the deadly Flint–Worcester Tornadoes caused U.S. congress to question whether or not upper atmosphere atomic testing had caused the storm system that swept through the eastern U.S. The Worcester tornado was massive and traveled 46 miles, staying on the ground an hour and a half.
Salt Lake City, Utah, 1999
The very rare 1999 tornado that touched down in downtown Salt Lake City, Utah on August 11 occurred during an unusually strong summer monsoon season. More than 120 homes were damaged and 34 were destroyed. A tornado had not been known to hit a downtown district before, and hit buildings more than 500 feet tall. It also happened in an area of the country where tornadoes are rare. People could hear the sound of the tornado moving between the tall glass buildings and the implosion of the windows. It caused more than $170 million in damage in 1999 U.S. dollars. (Today's dollars: about $240 million.)
Greensburg, Kansas
In May 2007, 95% of Greensburg, Kansas was flattened by the first tornado to be rated an EF5. The city's water tower was toppled and smashed, and the world's largest hand dug well's visitor center was completely destroyed.


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In shocking news today, sex symbol and Playboy Playmate Cassandra Lynn Hensley has been found dead in what appears to be a suicide. On Jan. 16, TMZ reported that her body was found dead at her friend's house. She was floating in the bathtub when she was located.
She was Miss February back in 2006 but has continued to model and share her pictures with fans on Twitter. She has been on her page, but not for several days. The latest tweets are horoscope ones that go out on their own without her tweeting them. At this time, Hugh Hefner has not tweeted about her death.
At this time, they are not suspecting any foul play in the death of Playboy Playmate Cassandra Lynn Hensley. It is shocking that she died at the age of 34 and more information will continue to come out on her death. If you don't remember her, in the picture posted her she is has dark hair, but most of the time she was a blonde.

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World's First Test Tube Baby's Mother Dies in Britain
by Thilaka Ravi on June 21, 2012 at 12:50 PM General Health News - G J E 4
The British woman who underwent the first successful IVF treatment and gave birth to the world's first test tube baby has died aged 64, her family said on Wednesday.
Lesley Brown made history on July 22, 1978 when her daughter Louise was born following pioneering in-vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment.
AdvertisementShe died in hospital in Bristol, southwest England, on June 6 after a short illness, her family said.
She successfully conceived following treatment by scientist Robert Edwards and gynaecologist Patrick Steptoe.
Brown's family held a private funeral service for her in Bristol on Wednesday.
"Mum was a very quiet and private person who ended up in the world spotlight because she wanted a family so much," said Louise Brown. "We are all missing her terribly."
Bourn Hall, in eastern England's Cambridge, the world's first IVF clinic which Edwards and Steptoe set up in 1980, also paid tribute to Brown.
"Lesley was a devoted mum and grandmother and through her bravery and determination many millions of women have been given the chance to become mothers," said the clinic's chief executive Mike Macnamee.
"She was a lovely gentle lady and we will all remember her with deep affection."
As well as Louise, Brown leaves behind second daughter Natalie, who was also conceived via IVF treatment, and five grandchildren. Her husband John died five years ago.
Speaking on Louise's 30th birthday in 2008, Lesley Brown said: "I'm just so grateful that I'm a mum at all, because without IVF I never would have been and I wouldn't have my grandchildren."
Edwards, who began developing the IVF process in the 1950s, won the Nobel prize for medicine in 2010. Steptoe died in 1988.
Today, between 20 and 30 percent of eggs fertilised by IVF lead to the birth of a child.
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Jordan is a country where cigarettes and smoking are openly accepted. Whereas, in the United States cigarettes have become somewhat of a plague. The majority of restaurants and bars will not allow smoking inside.
The Jordan government recognizes that large numbers of the population are dying with illnesses that effect the lungs and throats. The statistics are growing each year. The Jordanian government is attempting to ban cigarettes in restaurants and other establishment.
Some of the natives are accusing the Jordanian government of following the Western rule. While, many business owners care more about cash than cancer. There appears to be stigma attached to coffee shops and restaurant. Owners simply don't want to get rid of the cigarettes, cigars, or the hookah. It seems like the mentality is if it doesn't puff than there's no profit.
Business owners believe that smoke free environments will hurt their cash flow. The Health Minister, began the challenging efforts to enforce a smoking ban. The Health Minister said the new law was created to"save lives, not businesses."
Russia has implemented a smoking ban that has yet to be enforced. The U.S. celebrated its 50 year anniversary of the surgeon general's warning regarding cigarettes.
While the world is adjusting to the smoke free model, Jordanian's have stated that smoking is part of their culture. I suppose smoking could be considered a religion. Maybe that is why smokers appear to get more breaks than others in the workplace. So, the debate will continue......
What are your thoughts, do you believe that there should be a world-wide smoking ban? Please scroll down to the bottom of this page where you can write your thoughts and insights on this topic.


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A Shasta County Deputy has filed a claim against the county after his dog was run over by two of his colleagues.
The claim was filed almost a month ago by Deputy Troy McCoy. He is asking to be reimbursed for more than $4,100 in vet bills.
The claim states that Deputy Garet Baldwin and Deputy Dustin Reynolds went to McCoys home in Paynes Creek to check on him during the Ponderosa Fire.
It said the Deputy who was driving turned the car around. That's when the right rear tire rolled over McCoy's dog, Coco.
According to the claim, Coco's pelvis was broken in four places requiring major reconstructive surgery and physical therapy.
Deputy McCoy said he doesn't have any hard feelings toward his colleagues, whom he considers his "brothers."
He said he is simply filing a claim, just like any other citizen has the right to do.
Sheriff Tom Bosenko said this is an "unfortunate incident" that will be handled the same way all other claims are.
He said right now, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors are in the process of deciding whether or not to accept the claim.


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Over the last couple years, my readers and I were fortunate enough to have Country share some of his real life stories. He has written a trilogy of books that opens the eyes of citizens (non bikers) to an outlaw biker lifestyle.
Let's face it . . . Sons of Anarchy isn't true to life. I'm not saying bikers don't sometime get in trouble, we know they do. But if we're honest, so do preachers, bankers, Senators, and the lists go on. I figure it would take real life outlaw bikers 40 years to have enough real life stories to fill one season of Sons of Anarchy . . . maybe.
Country;s introduction to Volume 3 . . . Evolution Of An Outlaw Biker:
These stories are true the best I can remember or know about. Yet when I finish one, it always seems I had not expressed it well enough. I have reasoned that is because words can transport us mentally into a different time or place, let us taste the actual events but nothing can replace the reality of actually being there, not knowing what the next turn will reveal with real life people reacting to it and suffering the consequences, many times a life is involved.
The reader will come back to his/her safe place no matter what, but the character may have in actuality died. There is no way words can convey that completely. I have given it my best shot and I hope it is close enough that you find the books entertaining, informative and consider it worth the money you paid for it. Thank you.
Farmersville Parish P-Farm and the voyeur female guard:
The cops loaded us on a bus and next stop was Farmersville P-farm north of Monroe. We were put in a big dorm like building along with about 50 black dudes. There were a couple of altercations, nothing bad compared to what was to come where I was going. One of the men I was with was named Spot (RIP Spot). I knew him through Phillip and had stayed at his house a couple of times.
Another one was called Gus, the president of the Satan's Tramps. He and I had a scuffle over a gal when I first came back from the west coast. He stuck a big pistol in my face and I took it and stuck it in his face. We didn't have a problem at this time. As a matter of fact I helped him when I could.
I met a black guy named Shorty. He told me not to talk to anyone in prison about my case. He had and when he went to court 3 black inmates showed up in court to testify to things he had said. It is literally a dog eat dog world in prison. They will do anything to get their time cut. They will get you another 20 years to get a few days cut off their sentence.
The showers were open. There were three circles of shower heads with about twelve shower heads to a circle, so 36 men would be there showering at once when the outside workers came in.
One of the evening guards was a woman. She would come over and watch everybody shower to make sure no one was doing anything wrong. Yeah, right. Ha ha.
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Memories matter. They matter because at some point they may be all we have to sustain us. Especially, when we lose a loved one.
I lost my Mother recently. My beautiful, amazing mother. She was my best friend. Growing up, I never looked any further than my own home to find someone to look up to and admire. My mother was my hero. She embodied all that was good in the world.
Mommy was an active, vibrant 74-year-old woman. She drove a little PT Cruiser that said "Granzwgn," she loved to dance, and little children and "old people" were drawn to her. Mommy loved her God and devoted more than a 100 hours a month in volunteer service to Him. She was compassionate and caring. She laughed a lot. She exuded joy. She loved life.
Maybe Mommy didn't accomplish much in terms of worldly success, in terms of fame or fortune, but in the eyes of her family and friends, she was wildly wealthy and hugely successful. Her titles included Mother, Grandmother, Great-Grandmother, Sister, Aunt, and Friend. The love she showered on her family and friends was as enormous as the Grand Canyon. To love and be loved in return is, in my mind, the greatest treasure that any of us can aspire to achieve. That is what makes us rich! Mommy's enduring legacy was one of love. She loved her family and friends with all of her heart, and she was loved and cherished in return.
My Mother had four great grandchildren whom she called her "Grands." The oldest Grand, Nattie, is just six years old, but she has wonderful memories of "Gram." My Mother babysat Nattie from birth until she went to pre-school. They loved to work in the garden together! They took walks, and they baked pies. Nattie often writes notes and cards to my Mom, telling her how much we miss her, how sad we are that she died and that she was a "Princess." My Mother would have been thrilled to be considered a Princess! Happily, in the mind and heart of this precious little six year old child, lies a memory of a wonderful great grandmother who was a Princess. For sure, over time, as she gets older, the memories will fade, but we have pictures and videos of Mom to help her remember, to keep Mommy alive in Nattie's sweet little heart and mind. Also, we have an oral history of Mommy's life to share. I will continue to share memories of my Mom with my children, who in turn will share them with their children and on and on. Memories matter. A lot.
The pain of my Mother's death is still very fresh. At times I feel as if I can't breathe; other times, I feel as though my heart is broken, and indeed it is a painful physical reaction. My head and my heart are in constant competition. My head saying, "She's gone," and my heart screaming, "No, that can't be true...please?" Occasionally when I'm doing the most ordinary, mundane things, the tears erupt suddenly, forcefully, hot and overwhelming. I still struggle to wrap my head around the fact that Mommy was healthy right up to the minute the doctor told her she had stage-four cancer. Six months later, she was gone. I needed more time. Oh how I wish we'd had more time.
I've been told by others who have lost a loved one that "it will get easier." I don't know if this is true. I don't think so because Mommy's death is not natural, death is not natural. So while I know I will grow to accept this new reality, I also know I'll never get over it until Mommy and I are reunited. For me, it's like missing a limb. I don't feel whole without my beautiful Mother.


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There's a reason why he's doing circus sideshow commentary on TBS & not in the front office running an NBA franchise.
Or has he just lucked his way into no one noticing his "Heads I win, tails you lose" comment.
Confused? Well let's allow the big man himself to clarify things.
So Chuck should NY pull the trigger:
"If you're telling me that Landry Fields and Danillo Gallinari are holding up that deal then something's wrong."
Oh right, so we should accept then right Chuck, that's what you are saying?
"Melo isn't Michael Jordan, if he says he's prepared to go to free agency to play for the Knicks I say prove it young man."
Right Charles so what the Knicks should do is make the trade and then not make the trade, you know just to cover all their bases. Thanks for that.
It should be noted I love the man but sometimes I think his word is given a bit TOO much credit.
There's a reason why he's doing circus sideshow commentary on TBS & not in the front office running an NBA franchise.
I like both comments and I think you're taking out of context a bit.
I'll take these in reverse,
The second comment about Melo not being MJ was a response to him pushing this thing to happen now. Barkley's saying who the fack does this kid think he is?? I'd like him to show some balls and wait for FA too, if he really cares about winning like he says he does. Fuggin spiatch..
The first comment was concerning the first offer to Denver of Gallo, Chandller, Curry, 1st and Felton, which Denver has no business haggling over.
So he's contradicting himself at worst and covering his bases at best.
I'm still not understanding the whole "he should come as an FA if he cares about winning" comments.
So in essence...he should come as an FA -- so in 2012 he has to watch Gallo and Felton walk as opposed to watching Billups, Carter, and maybe Shelden Williams, walk earlier?
How is it caring more about winning to watch current Knicks walk after signing as an FA, as opposed to watching the same cap holding players, that you were traded with, walk? And how is that his concern?
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I may have the quote (which is paraphrased and not exact) wrong but that's what I heard watching All Star Saturday.
What's to stop them from doing what everyone else on here wants the Knicks to do to Denver and just say "nah...we'll keep our draft picks and just sign them as FAs, cause we know you guys can't keep them" That only works for us against Denver but not against us when we'd have potential FAs that we can't keep? Why? Because it's more convenient for the discussion?
We won't be able to trade them and get back equal contracts, and we know that the both of them won't be enough to land us either CP3 or D-Will in a trade. So what value do they really have to us? From a cold, calculating, objective, standpoint. Not one where we're fans.
It could end up causing more problems than it solves. Or we can let the guys go now and assure our cap space for that offseason and put ourselves in the best possible position to sign one of the two guys without having to give up extra assets (whoever it would take to make up the difference in $ between Felton, Gallo and CP3 or D-Will.)
Barkley's a parrot. Repeats words and terms that he likes with a bit of a la Charles on it.
no, he's actually a lot more stupid them people give him credit. he got a job not based on his knowledge of the game, but because he was the worst trashtalker in the league when he played and his mouth gets him into so much trouble on TV it's hilarious.
"I dunno, i don't know if i want to be gettin any older. I'm poppin them viagra's like tic tac's Maria, so i dunno if I wanna be getting any older" - Sir Charles Barkley @ half time during the ASG.
Who cares what charles B says the bottom line is trade who ever we need to trade to get mello that's the bottom line!


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No heavyweight tussle after all – MacIntyre scratched but Stortini-Hordichuk possible
OK, so there won't be a heavyweight bout tonight after all between former Panther Steve MacIntyre and recycled Panther Darcy Hordichuk as the Oilers scratched Mac, however his younger replacement Zack Stortini, who's 6-4, 215 and finished 15th in majors last season with 17, might step in.
Apparently, Hordichuk and Stortini mixed it up in a preseason fight and Stortini ended up getting cut up.
Neither Mac nor Hordichuk would've had their hearts in it anyway as their friendship date back to junior days in Saskatchewa 10 years ago. In fact, Mac waited after his morning skate Saturday to greet his former mates, including coach DeBoer and Hordichuk, and said he would've had a few of the boys over for dinner if he knew they were coming in a day early. However, Panthers had a team dinner Saturday night at Ruths Cris steakhouse up the block from the hotel.
As expected after watching Saturday's skate Kenndal McArdle and Steve Reinprecht will be the healthy scratches tonight. Reino played all 82 last seasons. With the season kicking off with back-to-backs he could be back in the lineup tomorrow against the Canucks. It also depends on how that fourth line does. Steve Bernier and Horidchuk will skate together for the first time (in Vancouver Bernier was usually on the second line and Hordi on the fourth) with Marty Reasoner.
Reasoner who played parts of six seasons with Edmonton (2001-2008) was anxious to do well tonight. He had a great line about getting traded to Atlanta from Edmonton after the '08 season and then to Florida last July for Jeff Taffe.
"I keep going further south. I don't know if I'm going to make Mexico my next stop," he said.
Give me some predictions tonight against last year's 30th-ranked team?


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Societe Generale Private Banking appoints Jean-Pierre Flais as COO
He also becomes a member of the Executive Committee. Mr. Flais joined Societe Generale group in 1986, working for the Inspection department in Paris before becoming Head of Institutional Investor Relations in 1993, covering the UK, South East Asia and Australia.
In 1997, Mr. Flais moved to London as Finance Director for Societe Generale's Investment Banking arm, before becoming Chief Financial Officer at Societe Generale Private Banking Hambros in 1998. He was appointed Chief Operating Officer in 2003 and Deputy Chief Executive Officer in 2007 for the private bank in the UK. Mr. Flais is a graduate of the HEC Business School in Paris. ■


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Second version of my portfolio. Add in 17 new images, new writings and poetry, and you have the most up to date and complete collection of my work and thoughts.
The book is exactly what the sub-line says, art by Kevin Soriano. Art plus a shitload of random writings on the art.
I could describe the book further for you, but since the entire book is available on preview, feel free to go see for yourself. If you want to buy it, feel free. I don't make any money off it, so it's as cheap as it can possibly be for you.
is there anything worse,and more pointless, than a bio?
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Wilmington City Council Will Meet May 30 to Vote to Override the Mayor's Veto
Posted on 05/23/2013 5:45 pm
Wilmington City Council President Theo Gregory said tonight that he is disappointed that Mayor Williams has vetoed the City's Fiscal Year 2014 Operating Budget, but he noted that the action was not unexpected. The Council President said Council will meet in special session on Thursday, May 30 to vote to override the Mayor's veto.
"City Council approved a budget on May 16 that is fair and fiscally responsible, and one that restored the Mayor's funding cuts so the City can produce new jobs, businesses, improve public safety and create cleaner and more stable neighborhoods," said Council President Gregory. "I am extremely proud of this Council's work. I did everything I could on their behalf to work out a compromise with the Mayor. We actually reached an agreement on Tuesday night, but the Mayor changed his position the next day and the stalemate continued. We will meet as a body next week to confirm our support of our work on behalf of the citizens of Wilmington by voting to override the veto and thus, have a budget in place by the May 31 deadline."


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Courtesy: Idaho Athletic Media Relations
|Day One AFA Diving Invitational
The Vandal Dive team finished their first day of competition Friday for the Air Force Academy Diving Invitational. The Vandals had a great day on the board and had multiple top 10 finishes.
Senior Diver Paige Hunt had a great day with a 7th place finish in the 1-meter dive with a score of 267.85. She also broke another school record on the platform and placed 4th with a score of 245.15.
Senior diver Kelsi Potterf also had a good day with a 46th place finish in the 1-meter dive with a score of 199.00.
"For Saturday we need to clean up some entries and stay focused," Head Diving Coach Kelly Gufford said. "This meet is a marathon and we are only at the halfway mark."
The Vandals will finish the competition tomorrow with the 3-meter dive.


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MegaUpload had a pretty successful day in court: they got most of what they wanted, as far as user data preservation, from a ruling by U.S. District Judge Liam O'Grady. In short, the Judge has agreed that the data needs to be preserved, at least for now. He has sent the interested parties back into negotiations to come to a compromise.
Unless the interested parties wanted to hire a mediator, or "special master," the judge will send them to a magistrate judge known for "bringing people together." If you're rooting for MegaUpload, like me, or have data on the service, this ruling is good. If you're rooting for the MPAA, government, or others, you may not be so happy.
It appears, from the Judge's demeanor, that he is unlikely to make a ruling which would result in the loss of the data. It seems as though most of the interested parties want the data preserved, they just can't seem to agree on how or who should pay for it. At least for now, the data is safe and Carpathia is still stuck footing the bill.


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TC TO [JAMES H. STIRLING] ; 18 January 1842; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18420118-TC-JHS-01; CL 14: 14-17
Chelsea, 18 jany, 1842—
My dear Sir,
The decision you so earnestly expect ought at least to be sent you soon;1 unfortunately it is all the kindness I can shew you at present.
I have read the whole of your Prose Manuscript: if you knew what an element one lives in here, this of itself might be proof that you are worth something to me! The Poetic Manuscript I have not read in whole, but only parts; such part, as seemed sufficient for grounding a practical conclusion on; and this I now in great haste proceed to transmit you.
It appears to me clearly altogether improbable that any Bookseller, in these times of the Book-trade, would so much as consent to publish your Ms. at his own cost; far less pay down any sum of money for it. Nay I am not at all sure, harsh as this may seem, that it were for your own real good to have it published, to have it what is even called "succeed." There is undoubtedly sign of talent in it; but talent in far too loose, crude and unformed a condition: to have such accounted real finished talent, and praised and preached abroad, is precisely the fatallest future for a youth of any merit;—the sweetness in the mouth which in the belly becomes bitter as gall! You will understand all that better, I hope, some ten years hence; and twenty years hence, better still. But, on the whole, however that may be, I hesitate not to pronounce your Poem entirely unworkable as a financial element, in this place, at this time; and advise you not to spend more effort in that direction, but to quit it altogether for some more promising one. I at least, who know hardly any Bookseller, and have indeed small sympathy with their trade and aims at present, must profess my inability to make any helpful use of this Ms. I will, if you still request it, submit the Paper to the Publisher of Fraser's Magazine, the only Bookseller I speak to once in six months: but I must say beforehand that I think he has no chance to accept it. This is my sincere verdict. A much politer and softer to the ear might easily have been written; but my words are to do you good if they can; and a deeper feeling of regard orders me to avoid all flattering unctions in your case.
You seem to me a young man to whom Nature has given a superior endowment, which you run a considerable risk of failing to unfold. Alas, it is so easy to fail! You have in you that generous warmth of heart, which is usually, if it be well guided, the mother-soil of all sorts of talent; but which also, if ill guided, can run up into miserablest waste and weeds. Your mind is opening in many directions, great ideas or prophecies of ideas announcing themselves to you; all this is well, and the best. But, as I can discern withal, all this must as yet be kept in, held down with iron vigour, till it fashion and articulate itself: the cruellest waste for it were to dig it all out at present as germinating seed, to let it all rush up as worthless spurry and chickweed. My dear young friend, you must learn the indispensable significance of hard stern long-continued labour. Grudge not labour, grudge not pain, disappointment, sorrow or distress of any kind: all is for your good, if we can endeavour and endure. If you cannot,—why then it is all hopeless; no man ever grew to anything who durst not look death itself in the face, and say to all kinds of Martyrdom, "Ye shall not subdue me!" Be of courage; a man lies in you: but a man is not born the second time, any more than the first, without travail.— Your desultory mode of study hitherto has probably been a great misfortune; a thing to be pitied, as I well know, and to be blamed, as times now go: but it is a thing you must correct and get the better of. I fancy I discover in you, indeed, a certain natural tendency to haste, crudity, semi-articulate diffusion; I earnestly entreat you, stand up against that, unmercifully as against your worst foe! It will never do. The world wants alcohol, not beerwort [unfermented beer]. It is a crime to produce the latter, if the former be in you. You must learn the meaning of Silence,—that forgotten knowledge of Silence I am always speaking of! Be in no haste to speak yourself. Why be porous, incontinent? Nothing can ferment itself to clearness in a colander. Pray that you may be forced to hold your tongue: the longer you keep silence, the richer will your speech be when it does come.
Practically my advice were very decidedly that you kept by medicine; that you resolved faithfully to learn it, on all sides of it, and make yourself in actual fact an , a man that could heal disease. I am very serious in this. Pecuniary means will occasion difficulty;2 but they need not prove insuperable if you bestir yourself. If a man bestir himself, what thing is insuperable? Your present wishes, tastes &c ought to go for little with you. A man who cannot gird himself into harness will take no weight along these highways! I would even advise that you resolutely postponed, into the unexplored uncertainty of the Future, all concern with Literature, determined to set no store by that, to let it come or stay away as it might chance to like. As a trade I will protest against your meddling with it; describe it as the frightfullest, fatallest and too generally despicablest of all trades now followed under the sun. He that can, Mithridates-like,3 make poison his aliment, let him live in it, and conquer (by suffering, first of all); let no other try it. A steady course of professional industry has ever been held the usefullest support for mind as well as body: I heartily agree with that. As often I have said, What profession is the equal in true nobleness to Medicine? He that can abolish pain, relieve his fellow mortal from sickness, he is the indisputably usefullest of all men. Him savage and civilized will honour. He is in the right, be in the wrong who may. As a Lord Chancellor, under one's horsehair wig there might be misgivings; still more perhaps as a Lord Primate under one's cauliflower: but if I could heal disease, I should say to all men and angels without fear, Eu, Ecce [Look, well done]!
If Literature do unfold itself at length under shelter of such a profession then let Literature be welcome; it will be safe, beneficial, and have a chance to be true and wise, in such circumstances. How many true Physicians have turned out to be true Speakers, or even Singers! A man can first speak when he has got to know something; and knowledge comes from Experience alone. My decided advice is, that you stand resolutely by Medicine, determine to find an honest livelihood by Medicine, and do a man's task in that way.4 There is then a solid backbone in one's existence, round which all manner of beautiful and wholesome things will grow.
And so farewell for the present; and a good genius guide you,—a good patient valiant heart which is the best of all geniuses! I have not time to write another word.
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Sixty-one-year-old Margaret Farmer was arrested at her downtown Franklin Cares Consignment Shop and charged with harassment through communication. Police say Farmer sent the letter to an African-American motorcycle club earlier this year and signed the names of some of her family members with whom she has had previous troubles. Investigators say they believe Farmer was hoping to incite the African-American community against her family members.
Early in the investigation, police ruled those family members out as suspects, and instead called them victims. Police say a typewriter confiscated from Farmer's business was sent to the FBI crime lab for analysis, and has been matched to the ink and paper used to write the letter.
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In a series leading up to the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we asked our contributors to look back at their thoughts on that fateful day, and to reflect on whether history fulfilled the dreams that sprang from the rubble near Checkpoint Charlie.
'Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" said U.S. president Ronald Reagan at the Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. Some of his advisors were aghast. They thought that saying such things was too shrill, not presidential enough. Reagan knew better. He understood that under the walls of Jericho the presidential thing wasn't to pussyfoot but to sound the trumpet. So he did, and two and a half years later the wall came tumbling down.
Divided Berlin turned out to be the Evil Empire's solar plexus. The first body blow was delivered by the legendary Allied airlift of 1948-49. The audacious coup not only broke the Kremlin's attempted choke-hold on West Berlin, but demonstrated the resolve, ingenuity and technology the free world still had in those days.
Next came the East Berlin riots that made the Kremlin double over in 1953, not because Soviet tanks couldn't easily suppress rioters -- they could and did -- but because they illustrated how the regime's supposed beneficiaries, the workers, felt about the "systematic implementation of socialism," as the Moscow-puppet Walter Ulbricht's slogan had it.
And then, in 1961, came the Wall.
An important thing to remember about the wall is that it was Nikita Khrushchev's, not J.V. Stalin's. The hideous structure encircling West Berlin, the ultimate symbol of communist oppression, wasn't the brainwave of a crazed despot, but of the man who exposed him for being one. Within five years of unmasking Stalin in a "secret" speech at the 20th Congress of the Communist Party in 1956, Khrushchev had to build a monument to his memory.
The Berlin Wall grew out of communism's thaw, not communism's ice age. Khrushchev needed it at the perimeter of the Soviet empire for the same reason prisons and prison wardens need walls, for without walls, prisoners walk away. About 3.5 million East Germans did prior to 1961, often simply by crossing into West Berlin. Once it went up, the Wall became tangible Marxism; the Word of communism made Flesh.
Time passed, bringing the Prague spring, the Polish pope, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan, Lech Walesa, Afghanistan -- no knockouts, but each a solid body punch. Twenty-eight years after erecting the Wall, Mikhail Gorbachev's Kremlin was on the ropes. Unable to protect its solar plexus, it was about to go down for the count. The last pathetic defense of "scientific socialism" was trying to pretend the blows didn't hurt.
In a column I commented on the Kremlin's attempt to put a good face on its own implosion. "Judging by the comments of the top Soviet functionaries," I wrote on November 18, 1989, "the East German exodus to West Germany was a splendid expression of glasnost. The entire weekend of November 11-12, 1989, was just things proceeding in Berlin according to Gorbachev's plan.
"Some people in the West take these comments by Soviet spokesmen almost at face value," I continued. "In this view, Gorbachev had foreseen that these things would happen. He had all but planned them...
"I guess this would have required Gorbachev to say to the Politburo: 'Stick with me, baby, and I'll lose you Poland, Hungary and East Germany, but never mind. Thanks to glasnost, we'll create such paradise here with what's left that they'll clam-our to come back to communism before long.'
"Can anybody seriously believe this?"
Well, the answer is some people seriously believed it --and today, 20 years later, it turns out that they weren't entirely wrong. At least, not as deeply and irrevocably wrong as I imagined 20 years ago.
Within a dozen years after the collapse of a system -- something Poles and Hungarians had gone to the barricades to bring about -- both Poland and Hungary elected governments they could almost have had without the Soviet empire ever collapsing. Simply put, they elected
communist governments, albeit euphemistically named and cosmetically improved.
There's a difference, of course, between electing a government and having one imposed. In Hungary's case, it's also true that most voters regret having put ex-communists in power, and seem ready to throw the bums out. But they did elect them first, not once but twice, in 2002 and 2006.
Hungarians can't explain it. "Nobody I know voted communist," one shrugged, making me think of an old Budapest joke:
Q.: "Why is everybody whispering?"
A.: "Hush! Keep it down! There's a communist in the country and nobody knows who he is."
Electing communists isn't the whole story, obviously. In 20 years Eastern Europe's drab citadels of depression have turned into bright and vibrant cities. But in the bright, vibrant, post-communist streets, ex-communists routinely duke it out with neo-Nazis -- for Nazis are making a comeback as well.
Eastern Europe hasn't laid its ghosts to rest.
Twenty years ago I worried that we may bail out communism with loans, credits and technology. "Dracula may be stretched out in his coffin," I wrote on Oct. 9, 1989. "The trouble is, the West seems ready to give him another blood transfusion." Dracula's victims in the East volunteering their necks to the vampire again, however, surprised me. There's no mystery like history.


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In an attempt to prove that Joe Giudice is cheating on Teresa Giudice, Radar Online published a blurry photo on Jan. 2 that appears to be Giudice with a "mystery brunette." The report goes on to say that an eyewitness spotted the pair walking into La Havana 59 at 7:30 p.m. The eyewitness also said that Joe and his "mystery brunette" enjoyed a cozy dinner at the restaurant which is 30 minutes from Joe's home. Reportedly the couple stayed at the restaurant until past 9 p.m.
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At this year's Winter Music Conference in Miami, MTV News spoke to some of the biggest names in dance music and beyond. One name that we couldn't escape was West Coast electronic tycoon Steve Aoki.
To assign any one title to Steve Aoki is to do his talents a disservice. DJ, producer and record-label owner (Dim Mak) are but a few of the hats he somehow manages to wear all at once. And if you've heard him spin, Aoki doesn't miss a beat.
As mainstream artists are increasingly consulting underground icons of dance music for production advice, Aoki has a well-trodden path from the major labels to his doorstep, having remixed hit singles for Weezer, Kid Cudi, Robin Thicke, the Killers and beyond.
On the international scene, however, Aoki is a completely different phenomenon. His track "I'm in the House," which features Zuper Blahq (who is almost certainly the alter ego of Will.I.Am) has been making waves in the clubs and on the indie and dance singles charts abroad since it dropped in November of last year. This reboot of the chant-along sensibility of classic house (also revamped by David Guetta in "On the Dancefloor") may offer us a glimpse of Aoki's forthcoming LP.
"With my album I'm doing a couple of different tracks with some familiar voices," Aoki said. "Zuper Blahq, Kid Cudi, Lil Jon, Weezer, Black Star, Uffie, Sky Ferreira … just mixing it up with some hip-hop vocals, rock vocals, house vocals. So yeah, it should be interesting."
Aoki's eclectic sensibility and his DIY spirit perhaps stem from his roots in — of all things — hardcore punk bands. And as more and more "bedroom producers" ascend to international stardom, the independent spirit seems to be the look of the moment.
"We're all doing it ourselves," Aoki offered. "We're making enough of a riot in our own world that more people are getting interested and want to get involved in what we're doing. And if it makes sense to do a collaboration with a familiar voice that everyone knows, then it can make sense on both sides. It can work on the underground and it can work in the commercial world."
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Oh No! The 1D Boys Are Run Down And Home Sick
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Harry Styles told the Daily Mirror that he has a sore throat, saying: "I get ill all the time – it's all the travelling and long distance flights. Four of us had to have vitamin jabs because we were run down. I had mine in my bum. I do get homesick, too."
Fresh from gigging with Big Time Rush, appearing on US TV, and giving constant radio interviews, Niall Horan agreed with Harry, saying: "This is the longest we've ever been away from home and it's hard. We miss our families, we miss our friends. We get homesick, massively so."
Liam Payne, totally aware how lucky they are to be in such a position, said: "But I know how incredibly lucky I am, how privileged I am to be doing this. It is all massively exciting. I would never want to sound ungrateful to anyone, especially to the fans."
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Sustainability Watch – Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh, Ahold
By Ben Cooper | 28 April 2011
Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh details Ahold's sustainability targets
Netherlands-based food retail group Ahold has recently committed itself to a range of sustainability targets. Speaking with Ben Cooper for this month's Sustainability Watch, Ahold's executive vice president and chief corporate governance counsel, Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh, expands on the company's approach to sustainability and the need to balance ambition and pragmatism.
If targets are as important to corporate sustainability as they appear to be, then last month marked a significant moment for Netherlands-based retail group Ahold. In its latest Corporate Responsibility (CR) report, the company set out a raft of sustainability goals with the intention of reporting on progress towards those goals in subsequent reports.
Corporate responsibility reports which read like litanies of goals and targets, usually attained or exceeded with aplomb, may sometimes appear a little too good to be true, but there is no doubting that setting quantifiable goals and reporting on progress in reaching them is central to any corporate sustainability strategy.
Clearly, the sceptical observer will suggest that if companies are meeting targets with ease they cannot be that exacting. Companies are in a difficult position here. They want to push the envelope but they do not want to be constantly falling short of what might be admirably challenging goals. Sceptics may scoff at CR reports chock-full of glittering success stories but would they be correspondingly generous with companies which set highly ambitious targets, make reasonable progress but fail to hit them? One can forgive companies for erring on the side of caution.
For Lodewijk Hijmans van den Bergh, executive vice president and chief corporate governance counsel, who oversees Ahold's sustainability strategy, the key lies in balancing realism with ambition.
"What we have done is to set a number of specific, measurable and clear targets and pick targets in areas that are close to our business where we can make a real difference," says van den Bergh. "The targets are I would say both ambitious and realistic which is a very important combination. Obviously there will be challenges as well. If there weren't any challenges, the targets would not be set right."
Among its commitments, Ahold has pledged to reduce CO2 per square metre of sales area by 20% by 2015 against a 2008 baseline of 433kg. By the end of 2011, the retailer says each of its operating companies will have a comprehensive waste-management programme in place, and a community engagement programme and CR employee programme in place by 2012.
Employee engagement in sustainability is critical, van den Bergh believes. "You have to start close to home and for us what is close to home and a powerful instrument is our employees. We are putting programmes in place to encourage our employees to live healthier and more sustainable lifestyles. Research tells us that people influence people around them – maybe each can influence around 20 people. With 213,000 employees, you start to influence quite a lot of people."
The retailer's commitment to map the environmental footprint of 50% of its own-brand suppliers and their supply chains by 2015 is also "ambitious", says van den Bergh. "It is a complicated and long supply chain, and not something we can do on our own." Indeed, this is one of the reasons why the company joined the Sustainability Consortium in 2010, the first European-headquartered retailer to do so.
Founded in 2009, the Sustainability Consortium brings together businesses, academics and NGOs to improve consumer product sustainability through all stages of the life cycle. In particular, the organisation is developing tools to measure environmental, social and economic impacts.
With regard to sustainable sourcing, cooperation with suppliers is also crucial. "Working with suppliers in the chain is the only way forward. My impression is that a lot of participants in the supply chain are just as serious about it as we are."
Van den Bergh says sustainability issues are increasingly coming into the buying negotiation but he stresses that this is not a question of the retailer using its buying power to cajole suppliers. Rather, he emphasises that it "cuts both ways" and helps all the parties involved.
For example, working with suppliers to reformulate products helps the suppliers sell more and is therefore mutually advantageous. "I don't see it as something that helps us not you. If you go hand in hand it helps both parties and also helps the consumer. It's a win, win, win situation. We have mature relationship and this is part of that maturity."
Ahold has identified six "critical commodities", namely tea, coffee, cocoa, palm oil, soy and seafood, as having a potentially adverse impact across several sustainability criteria. It has therefore pledged to source 100% of these commodities for its own-brand products in accordance with "accepted industry certification standards for sustainable production" by 2015. It has also undertaken to ensure that 100% of own-brand suppliers in high-risk countries are audited on social compliance by 2012.
While the company states that 100% of its estimated own-label palm oil consumption, amounting to around 6,000 metric tonnes, is now offset by GreenPalm certificates, van den Bergh acknowledges that GreenPalm is a "first step" towards achieving a sustainable palm oil supply rather than the "end game".
Ahold does not currently disclose how much Certified Sustainable Palm Oil (CSPO) it uses in its own-label products. "We want to move on to using sustainable palm oil. The issue with certified sustainable palm oil is that it is often mixed with other palm oil before it gets to us. And that's where progress is needed and that's why we are a member of Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil."
Like some of its peers, Ahold recognises that retailers are in a strong position to address sustainability through the life cycle, in production, consumption and disposal. "What we're trying to do is look at the footprint, and look across the life cycle of products."
At the consumer level, the close contact with customers represents both a unique opportunity to influence behaviour and a responsibility to offer healthier and more sustainable products.
"We see the consumers everyday. We think it is very important to give our customers an informed choice in terms of what they are buying and the type of lives they live. Obviously we don't want to control the consumer; we want to inform the consumer to make the right choices. We have to have the right products to sell to customers and then encourage customers to buy those products." Van den Bergh also notes that consumers "are more and more interested" in sustainability issues.
Ahold has pledged that each of its operating companies will have a "comprehensive healthy-living programme" in place by the end of 2011 and to increase sales of healthier products to at least 25% of total food sales by 2015 across the entire company.
"Corporate responsibility is an integral part of our business and should be and will increasingly be part of our DNA," says van den Bergh. "Otherwise you won't progress. We have a lot of passionate people and they want to work hard on this."
On a more pragmatic level, a strong sustainability programme produces three positive business effects, van den Bergh adds, namely to help increase sales, reduce costs and mitigate risks. "If you look at our targets, each will have one or more of the business effects. So we come to it from a business perspective and from a responsibility perspective and they go hand in hand. Caring for the future now makes good business sense. It is both a pragmatic philosophy and a moral compact."
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Saints of Valory is an American alternative rock band from Austin, Texas. Produced by Joe Chiccarelli (guest instructor at Ex'pression College) they released their debut EP, Possibilities with Atlantic records in July of 2013, which featured their single, Neon Eyes. The band is currently on tour of the US and is visiting Ex'pression College in between their sets at Coachella to play for us here in Meyer Hall.
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How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a new 64bit PC which has UEFI instead of BIOS and a GPT formatted SSD disk, with no current OS ? I have already tried and although it seemed to install, it would not boot/startup. I have temporarily given up trying to install Ubuntu and am using Windows 7, but I would far prefer Ubuntu !
Did you add a 1MB biosgrup partition at installation? This is usually necessary for the newer GUID partition table for the BIOSes to recognise it or something (remember you are not limeted to four partitions like the Master Boot Record partition table so you can have as many as you want!)
This can be tricky because it's not obvious what your boot mode is when you run the installer. Most modern UEFI computers support booting in both BIOS mode and in EFI mode, and there's no system-to-system consistency about which mode gets used by default. I recommend using the "try before installing" mode and checking your boot mode by looking for the
If you've booted in BIOS mode, installation should proceed as usual, possibly including the 1MiB "bios_grub" partition that Marcappuccino mentioned. (This is needed only if you use GPT for partitions, though.) If the system doesn't boot at this point, then it probably means that the firmware is trying to boot in EFI mode. Perusing your firmware's boot options (from F2, F10, F12, Del, or some other key at boot time) may provide a clue about why it's not working.
If you've booted the installer in EFI mode, then installation should also proceed normally, although you don't need the bios_grub partition; instead, you need a ~100-500MiB EFI System Partition (ESP) with a FAT filesystem. The Ubuntu installer should create this automatically when it runs in EFI mode. If the computer doesn't boot when you reboot after this installation, then it might be trying to boot in BIOS mode -- again, checking your firmware settings might find a solution. More likely, though, something went wrong with the EFI boot loader installation. In EFI, boot loaders are normal files on the ESP, so you can check them out from an emergency system. If you mount the EFI at
You may need to adjust this command, though, especially if your ESP isn't on
If this doesn't work, you can copy/rename GRUB from its location in
After installing Ubuntu, use Boot-Repair from liveCD or liveUSB. Its
I managed to get ubuntu to install correctly by pressing F6 and disabling all the special features like "nomodeset". Hope this helps.
I have ASUS UEFI bios.
please check this https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEFI
It helps me with this one:
Creating an EFI partition An EFI partition is necessary to install Ubuntu in EFI mode via the manual Ubuntu installer.
Since Ubuntu 12.04, it is possible to re-use an existing Windows7 EFI partition (without formatting it). If you use a previous version of Ubuntu, or if you have several installations of GNU/Linux in EFI mode, it is safer to create a new EFI partition EFI. An EFI partition can be created via a recent version of GParted (the Gparted version included in the 12.04 disk is OK), and must have the following attributes:
Mount point: /boot/efi (remark: no need to set this mount point when using the manual partitioning, the Ubuntu installer will detect it automatically)
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Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care
November 25, 2003
Average annual expenditures per consumer unit rose 2.9 percent in 2002, following increases of 3.9 percent in 2001 and 2.8 percent in 2000. The increase in expenditures from 2001 to 2002 was more than the 1.6-percent annual average rise in the Consumer Price Index (CPI).
Among the major components of spending, expenditures on health care showed the largest increase in 2002, rising 7.7 percent. Spending on entertainment and on personal insurance and pensions also increased more than the average, rising 6.5 and 4.3 percent, respectively.
Spending on food, housing, transportation, and apparel and services all rose less than the overall average. Expenditures on apparel and service showed the smallest increase, 0.3 percent.
The Consumer Expenditure Survey is the source of these data. Consumer Expenditure Survey data also include the expenditures and income of consumers, as well as the demographic characteristics of those consumers. For more information, see news release USDL 03-759, "Consumer Expenditures in 2002" (PDF) (TXT).
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Largest rise in consumer spending in 2002: health care on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2003/nov/wk4/art02.htm (visited June 25, 2016).
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Weight for Age (WFA) describes one of the conditions for a horse race. A horse carries a set weight in accordance with the Weight for Age scale. A trained official assigns the weight depending on the horse's age, sex, distance, and the month of year. Such races are usually reserved for Group 1 races.
In Ireland, there are two prominent WFA races: the Irish Champion Stakes and the Irish St. Leger. In Britain, these meetings have WFA contests: Diamond Jubilee Stakes, Eclipse Stakes, July Cup, Sussex Stakes, King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Stakes, International Stakes, Nunthorpe Stakes, Sprint Cup, Queen Elizabeth II Stakes, and Champion Stakes.
Weight for Age is how officials equalize the physical maturity of horses, since thoroughbreds mature much faster than humans. Between the ages of two and three years old, horses will have reached their maximum height and weight. The weights serve to equalize the differences in maturity among the competing runners.
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There have been many platform games in the past, but none like Popeye. The game is designed around the very popular television show called Popeye that definitely made the show even more popular. There can be two players playing turned based or you have the option to play on your own with there being a track record of the top five high scores with your initials placed amongst them.
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Early detection and aggressive treatment of rheumatoid arthritis are vital in order to prevent damage to joints. To spot RA and measure its progression, rheumatologists test the blood for certain biomarkers, or biological substances – proteins, for instance – that are characteristic of RA. Although several biomarker tests – the erythrocyte sedimentation (sed) rate, the C-reactive protein (CRP), and rheumatoid factor (RF) – indicate inflammatory activity, they are fairly non-specific to RA. In other words, the tests could be positive if you have an infection or another cause for inflammation besides RA. So, the development of new biomarker tests specific to RA is important.These tests may not only allow earlier detection of RA but they also represent an advance in personalized medicine: The more specific the test, the more customized care becomes for each RA patient.
As rheumatologist Jeffrey Curtis, MD, MS, MPH, associate professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama-Birmingham and a consultant for Crescendo Bioscience, the manufacturer of Vectra DA, a new test, says, "The desire is to measure biomarkers of RA beyond [the sed rate and the CRP] that do a better job of knowing how active the RA is."
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Polyglutamate Testing: A Measure of Methotrexate's Effectiveness
What It Is: Methotrexate is one of the most commonly prescribed and effective drugs for rheumatoid arthritis. Once it enters the cells, it is converted to methotrexate polyglutamates, explains Maria I. Danila, MD, MSc, assistant professor of Medicine, Division of Clinical Immunology and Rheumatology at the University of Alabama-Birmingham.
Unless that conversion occurs, methotrexate won't work its therapeutic magic. Because 30 to 40 percent of patients do not respond to methotrexate, and early treatment of RA is essential, the measurement of methotrexate polyglutamates in the blood may show if a person if being adequately or inadequately treated. The measurement is taken three months after someone begins taking methotrexate.
Why It's Different. It can take months for methotrexate to work its effect, results largely gathered through a doctor's assessment, a swollen joint count and a disease activity score. The theory is that measuring methotrexate polyglutamate levels at three months may indicate earlier whether the methotrexate is working.


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LAREDO, TEXAS (KGNS) - Monday is Labor Day, and there are a few changes in town worth knowing about.
There is school for both LISD and UISD students.
All Webb County and the City of Laredo administrative offices will be closed. This includes the office of the Tax Assessor Collector and the Laredo Public Library.
El Metro bus services will run on a regular schedule.
All offices will re-open Tuesday, September 2, and all emergency services will be available.
Webb County Commissioners will meet Monday, September 8th at 9:00 a.m. for their regularly scheduled meeting at the Webb County Courthouse located at 1000 Houston Street.
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