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ASK IRA: Where does Dorell's value stand?
Q: Ira, could the troubles with Dorell be a bit of a blessing in disguise for the Heat? Maybe this brings down his value to other teams and gives us a better chance of re-signing him. After all, I think all of this is getting blown out of proportion, anyway. The man came here at the age of 18 and in six years has had only these two incidents, not to mention those photos were actually taken a full year ago. It's not as if this was a recent mishap. — Hand.
A: Hmm, never thought of it that way. I am sure that Dorell will land a deal somewhere in the offseason. But getting beyond the past few weeks, I still would have concerns about going too far out on such a deal. He did have his moments again on Wednesday.
Q: Hello, Ira. What's your position about players re-signing for the Heat? Who would you keep in the team and who would you definitely like to bring from free agency? — Edwin.
A: I'd do everything I could to keep Haslem and would like Dorell on low dollars. I also would like Raja Bell at the minimum. I would, however, be wary of max-money and max-length deals for anyone other than Bosh (assuming LeBron is not going anywhere).
Q: Being a big fan of the Heat's assistant coaches, I'm having a hard time trying to pin the shortcomings of the Heat's young talent (Beasley, Chalmers, Cook) on something in the organization? Do you see the assistant coaches at fault here? — Derek.
A: No. This is what gets me about youth in the NBA, it seemingly is always someone else's fault. This is about Chalmers and Cook taking their craft more seriously and Beasley adjusting to the hurdles that have been put in his way. This is a man's league; be as man.
Q: Hey Ira, do you think the Heat has any chance of building a contender next season? Even with D-Wade and a player like Chris Bosh, it sounds like everyone else around them will be completely irrelevant, including Beasley, Chalmers and Cook. — Mike.
A: I think the team already is heading in that direction, considering the climb from 15-67 two years ago and a likely improvement on last season's 43-39. To me, 50 wins puts you in contender mode, and the Heat is not far from there.
Q: Do you think that Beasley is stuck in a similar situation as J.O. was in Portland, playing behind Rasheed and Brian Grant? Do you think if we trade him he will leave and blow up like J.O. did in Indy? — Alex.
A: I think the difference is J.O. had someone at his exact position. I think with Michael, it's about being somewhat reduced to a third option and making the adjustment. Yes, right now Michael would absolutely blow up as the lead option on the bad team. But can he make the move like J.O. did to help Indiana advance to an NBA Finals? That remains to be seen.


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The Christian County Sheriff's Office announced the arrest of Delbert Cox (43) of Pana on charges of Unlawful Participation in Methamphetamine Manufacturing.
Mr. Cox was arrested on March 23rd, 2012 by members of the Central Illinois Enforcement Group (CIEG) with the assistance of the Illinois State Police, Methamphetamine Response Team and the Christian County Sheriff's Office. During the course of the investigation materials consistent with methamphetamine production were seized.
When Christian County Deputies approached Mr. Cox in his vehicle an active meth lab was discovered. Mr. Cox was using the shake and bake method to produce the methamphetamine.
Investigation revealed that Mr. Cox had in his procession over 900 grams of substance containing methamphetamine. Under Illinois statute: a person who participates in the manufacture of 400 grams or more of methamphetamine or a substance containing methamphetamine is guilty of a Class X felony, subject to a term of imprisonment of not less that 15 years and not more than 60 years, and subject to a fine not to exceed $400,000 or the street value of the methamphetamine whichever is greater.
On March 24th Judge Paisley set bond on Mr. Cox charge at $200,000. Mr. Cox was released from the Christian County Correctional Center after posting $20,000 cash bond. A court date of April 12th at 10A.M. was set.
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I for one was mighty displeased at the HUGE FAILIURE in the fact that when she is young, LILY'S EYES ARE BROWN! It's bad enough Dan Rad refused to wear green contacts but the fact they were too lazy to even cast a girl with blue eyes is a BIT of a HUGE, GINORMOUS FAIL! It also renders Snape's final moments meaningless. How could they have been so damn stupid? It's not like they forgot to make sure Albus Severus' eyes were the same as Dan Rads...so....Why? WHY?!!
LOL oh poor Snape
i agree but just wanted to say that Dan didn't refuse. he was alergic
ultra mega super fail!!!
I noticed this straight away too =/ Total fail. Would it have been that much effort for the special effects guys to re-colour their eyes for the close up shots? >_<
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Gun sales in the U.S. must have taken a slight dip, because Gun Owners of America's Larry Pratt has once again crawled out of his hole in the wall to renew his warnings that President Obama is going to confiscate guns and form a private militia.
Pratt had supposedly invited fellow lunatic Selwyn Duke onto his Gun Owners News Hour to discuss the death of Nelson Mandela and race relations in the United States, but given the former's ties to white supremacists and Holocaust deniers and the latter's obsession with white suppression and gay secession, it was hardly surprising that the two of them instead wanted to take turns ranting about Obama trying to start a race war.
Duke began by referencing a 2013 column he had written suggesting that Obama may be creating a "martial law ready military" consisting of minorities, women and homosexuals.
"I'm not saying there's anything nefarious going on here for sure," Duke told Pratt, but added that if you "wanted to have the military on your side…you would do it by implementing the exact same policies that Barack Obama has been implementing."
From here, Pratt added his pet conspiracy theory that the president is "building up a civilian defense force, not for defending the country but defending the president."
Pratt even took a moment to muse that the President reminded him of people like Joseph Stalin, Ivan the Terrible, and of course, Adolf Hitler, though would later muse that apartheid in South Africa probably wasn't all that bad.


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EUGENE – Three days from its season opener, the University of Oregon softball team was chosen third in the annual Pac-12 Coaches Preseason Poll released Monday.
After scoring its second-ever World Series trip last year, the Ducks trailed fellow WCWS returnees California and Arizona State who were tabbed first and second overall by league head coaches.
Other teams' rankings in the nine-team conference included Washington (fourth), Arizona (fifth), Stanford (sixth), UCLA (seventh), Oregon State (eighth) and Utah (ninth).
In recent years under fourth-year head coach Mike White, UO has scored back to back third-place Pac-12 finishes in 2012 and '11 after it was tabbed seventh in the Pac-12 Preseason Polls. The Ducks also bettered their preseason league position (seventh) in his first season when the team ended the season sixth in 2010.
Point totals for each team follow, and were awarded in the following format: 1st (8 points), 2nd (7), 3rd (6), 4th (5), 5th (4), 6th (3), 7th (2), 8th (1).
2013 Pac-12 Softball Preseason Poll (1st Place Votes)
1. California (7) 62
2. Arizona State (1) 56
3. Oregon 52
4. Washington 41
5. Arizona 32
6. Stanford 29
8. Oregon State 16
9. Utah 9
In recent weeks, UO ranked fifth and sixth nationally in the NFCA and USA Softball preseason national polls – its all-time preseason high in each.
Six other Pac-12 teams stood top 20 (with their NFCA/USA SB pollings in (): California (3/3), Arizona State (4/4), Arizona (13/14), Washington (16/16), UCLA (19/19) and Stanford (21/20).
One other league member, Oregon State, also received votes in both national polls.
The Pac-12's reputation as the 'Conference of Champions' is validated by the fact that five different Pac-12 schools have combined to win 24 of the 31 softball NCAA national championships, including crowns in six of the last seven years by four different league members.
Last year, the Ducks were one of five Pac-12 teams that advanced to Super Regionals with the Huskies and Wildcats. The Beavers and Cardinal were NCAA Regional finalists, and an eighth team (UCLA) also advanced to the 64-team field.
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Gensler's Houston Ballet Center for Dance Opens With A Flurry of Fluttering Feet
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- Houston Ballet Center for DanceYesterday marked the beginning of dance rehearsals at Houston Ballet's new Center for Dance in the downtown theater district. The Gensler-designed facility is the largest of its kind in the US and includes a number of sustainable strategies like natural daylighting, automatic shades, energy efficient systems and more. Included within the black dance facility are a number of rehearsal rooms and a pedestrian sky bridge that connects it to the performance hall across the street.1
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceThe Center for Dance is a six-story, 115,000-square-foot facility with nine dance studios, a dance lab, and artistic, administrative and support facilities for Houston Ballet and its academy.2
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceClad in black granite, the contemporary facility features large picture windows that serve as a frame for the dancers as they work in their rehearsal studios.3
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceGensler crafted the facility with linear and neutral colored spaces to create a gallery-like space within which dancers become works of art.4
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceReclaimed walnut planks were used as finishes to warm the thresholds of each rehearsal space.5
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceDaylighting streams in through the amply-sized windows and automatic lighting adjusts to the amount of sunshine to keep a consistent light level.6
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceWest-facing windows are equipped with automatic blinds that lower as the afternoon sun increases and all the windows are inlaid with white ceramic to reduce energy consumption.7
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceThe facility is also equipped with energy efficient systems that reduce their peak electric loads, which is also a major cost saver.8
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceWhile the facility was designed to meet LEED standards, the organization decided to spend their money of equipment for the Dance Lab rather than on certification.9
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceA dramatic open-air pedestrian sky bridge crosses in between the Center for Dance and the performance hall and features a graphic wave of leaping dancers10
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceA rendering of the facility in downtown Houston's theater district.11
- Houston Ballet Center for Dance"I'm delighted that Gensler and Houston Ballet were able to bring this vision to life," said James E. Furr, FAIA, regional managing principal of Gensler's South Central region. "The opportunity to advance the arts, strengthen Houston's reputation, and bolster the city's economy by creating a significant work of civic architecture during a recession has been tremendous. We're thrilled to design a new gateway into downtown Houston and its Theater District."12
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceThe facility is thought to be the largest of its kind in the US.13
- Houston Ballet Center for DanceWith the official public, grand opening on April 9th, visitors to Houston's theater district may soon see dancers making their way across the sky bridge using their backstage entrance and dressed for performance.14


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Broadpoint.Amtech analyst Mark McKechnie has turned bullish on Cisco (CSCO), boosting his rating on the shares to Buy from Neutral, and setting a $29 target. The stock closed yesterday at $23.87.
The analyst lifted his EPS forecast for the July 2010 fiscal year by a penny to $1.43; for FY 2011 he goes to $1.65, from $1.58. (He's in line with the Street for 2010, and a bit ahead of the consensus of $1.61 for 2011.)...MORE
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In January 2010, Dr. Amy Baxter, 44, a pediatric emergency physician and pain specialist, received an unexpected visit at her Atlanta home from a woman named Karen Mae Sledge. Sledge had found Baxter's address on the Web, she explained, and assumed it would lead to an office building, not a family home. Then Sledge handed Baxter a basket of presents. "I just wanted to thank you for helping my dad," she said. "He was about to stop dialysis because he found it so painful." But Sledge had given him the revolutionary pain-reduction device that Baxter had invented, and it enabled him to manage his lifelong needle phobia. Her father agreed to continue with the treatment.
For Baxter, who as a child used to sit outside her home hoping that an injured person might pass by "so I could jump in with my Band-Aids and save the day," Sledge's story was deeply gratifying. Initially, Baxter invented Buzzy (buzzy4shots.com) to help kids bear their immunizations. "But this visit was the first time I had an inkling that there were other people who might need Buzzy more than kids getting shots," she says.
The gadget, about the size of a computer mouse, looks like a large plastic bee. A gel pack is attached to the underside of the bee, and right before getting a shot, you press the frozen pack against your skin a few inches from the injection site. When the device is switched on, Buzzy gently vibrates. Like magic, the area goes numb and you feel the needle much less. "The sensations of cold and vibration desensitize the nerves, thereby dulling or eliminating the pain from the shot," Baxter says. "The concept is based on gate-control theory. The neural pathways that transmit pain can only process so much sensation at one time."
Baxter knew that Buzzy could help children, who now get up to 30 vaccines before age 18. But after Sledge's visit, she started receiving reports about adults using the device—for fertility shots, IV insertions, diabetes injections, arthritis treatments, even tattoos. In 2009, the year the first Buzzys were sold, at $34.95 each, Baxter grossed $56,000. Today her sales are nearing $1 million, and adults are her biggest market. About 500 hospitals and 1,500 clinics nationwide now use Buzzy.
Baxter's war against injection pain began in 2001 when she took her son Max, then four years old, to the doctor for his vaccines. Baxter had devoted years of her career to pain research, so she thought she was uniquely equipped to help Max through the ordeal. "I had topical anesthetic creams. I had a box of cold juice for him to drink right at the moment of getting the shots. I had a book with hunt-and-find pictures to distract him," she says. "I told him what to expect. He was prepared and ready." But things didn't go well. Without warning, a nurse plunged the needle into Max's arm. He didn't cry or say a word. Then, as they left the doctor's office, he vomited all over the floor.
"After that, every time we had to go to the doctor, he would get physically ill," Baxter says. "There I was, a pediatrician and pain specialist, and I couldn't even protect my own kid. What were other parents going to do?" At first, she was angry with herself for her inability to shield her son from the traumatic experience, but gradually her anger turned into a determination to find a better way.
Knowing that cold water could numb pain from burns, Baxter began to experiment with inflatable cuffs and other devices that used water. Nothing worked. Then one morning in 2004, Baxter drove home after an exhausting overnight shift in the emergency room at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta Scottish Rite, the hospital where she worked. The wheels of her car were out of alignment, causing the steering wheel to vibrate. As she pulled into her driveway, her sleep-deprived brain registered a career-changing fact: The vibration had numbed her hands. Baxter ran inside, grabbed a black-and-yellow personal massager and a bag of frozen peas and asked Max to sit down for an experiment. She pressed the frozen peas against his arm with the massager, switched it on and pinched his skin a few inches below the vibrating massager. He didn't feel a thing. Then she tried the combo on her two other kids. It worked so well that they didn't even feel a pinch hard enough to leave a small mark. "That was my eureka moment," says Baxter. Her husband, Louis, drew a cute little bumblebee face on the massager, and Buzzy was born.
Though Baxter put in 80 to 100 hours a month in the ER and devoted 40 additional hours to research and lecturing at pain-management conferences, she spent every spare moment trying to develop a prototype by experimenting with motors from old cell phones donated by friends and neighbors. "It was an invigorating hobby," she says. "I was having giddy fun smashing things and wiring things up."
In 2007, Baxter applied for, and received, grant money to do a controlled scientific study. She named her business MMJ Labs, after her kids—Max, now 15; Miles, 13; and Jill, 11—and planned to sell or license the concept once she had the research to support it. But she still lacked a prototype. The coin-shaped cell phone motors didn't work properly; she needed a cylindrical motor. In January she met with a group of young engineering graduate students at Georgia Tech who sometimes collaborate with small businesses to solve real-world design problems. As she described her quest for the perfect cylindrical vibrating motor, they started to laugh. To them, the answer was obvious. That afternoon, Baxter and two grad students headed to a sex shop in Atlanta's red-light district. "I'd like to buy several vibrators," Baxter told the cashier. "What do you have on sale?"
"Oooh, honey," said the cashier. "I like the way you shop!" Baxter went home with nine vibrators. Two months later, she'd fashioned a 9-volt prototype. Her research, which would be conducted on 32 adult IV patients, began in March.By summer the results were in: Buzzy reduced—or in some cases eliminated—the pain of IV needle insertions in every patient.
Then Baxter hit a wall. Every company she pitched on her idea wanted to make Buzzy disposable in order to increase profit margins. Baxter, who is so frugal that she built her first home-office desk out of old cardboard boxes, couldn't stand the thought of all that waste. And though she believed in Buzzy, she didn't want to manufacture the device herself. "I didn't know how to build a company. I felt like, 'Please don't put this burden on me. I don't want this responsibility. I don't want to fail,' " she says. "But it felt wrong to abandon something that could help people." Her husband finally gave her the push she needed. "How are you going to feel every time you hear a child cry and wonder if you could have done something to avoid that?" he asked.
Baxter and Louis took out a second mortgage on their home, and while still working full time at the ER, she started searching for an industrial-design company to refine her prototype. During this period of her life, she says, "I lost all pop-culture social currency. CSI? Mad Men? Grey's Anatomy? I never saw a single episode of any of those shows. The tiny details of running a business were overwhelming." Most design firms charge as much as $100,000 to work up a prototype, but she finally found a company that would do it for $12,000. "One of the people who worked there had children who were afraid of needles," says Baxter, "and they believed the product was important. But it's not like there's one fixed price. There's $1,000 here and a couple of thousand dollars there, and things add up. Each of the prototypes we made cost $1,000."
Several groups stepped forward with financial support for Buzzy, including the National Institutes of Health, from which she received a Small Business Innovation Research grant of $1.1 million. In the summer of 2008, Baxter hired her first employee (she now has six), and in the spring of 2009 she celebrated the arrival from China of her first shipment of Buzzys. "I felt this stunned, chilled satisfaction of having created something that never existed before," she says. The first batch sold so quickly that by November she needed another 5,000 units.
The second time around, the shipment was riddled with defects. Some Buzzys had sickly greenish stripes, others had blurry or off-center eyes, and a few buzzed so loudly that they sounded like chain saws. "One of the nurses at the hospital had a Buzzy from the second shipment," says Baxter. "It sounded like someone was using a jackhammer. Her eyes got really wide, and my eyes got wide, and there was a crowd saying, 'This can't be right,' 'This has been overhyped.' " Baxter and her employees had to go through all 5,000 Buzzys to remove the defective units. It then took three months of negotiations to get the company to replace them and put quality control procedures in place.
But that incident paled in comparison to what happened next. Baxter was in Las Vegas to deliver a lecture at the American College of Emergency Physicians. That evening, sitting in her hotel room checking e-mail, she spotted a message from one of her employees. The subject line read, "Oh no." The Chinese factory she'd hired to make tote bags for the Buzzys had burned down—or so its owners claimed. The totes, for which she'd already paid $10,000, had literally gone up in smoke. Despite interventions from both the Georgia Economic Development Office and agencies in China, she was never able to get the money back. Since then, Baxter has shifted all her production to the U.S.
Today, Baxter has fully transformed into the businesswoman she originally didn't want to be. She's on sabbatical from her medical practice and works full time on Buzzy. In the true entrepreneurial spirit, she doesn't dwell on setbacks and instead focuses on her customers, many of whom have filled her home with gifts, tokens and letters describing how Buzzy changed their lives. One boy with a needle-phobic sibling wrote to Baxter to thank her for giving him his family back. An Australian woman who had all but given up the idea of having children because she couldn't tolerate the fertility shots posted a message on Baxter's Facebook page (on Baxter's birthday), triumphantly announcing that Buzzy had made it possible for her to finally become pregnant. The face-to-face conversations with customers are especially meaningful. "After Karen Mae Sledge's visit, my employees and I felt elevated from being a small 'mompreneur' business to feeling as though we had a greater purpose," says Baxter. "If something happened to make Buzzy fail tomorrow, I would still be satisfied that I had made a difference." When she looked through the basket to see what Sledge had given her, one gift caught her eye: a bag of Life Savers.
Jillian Keenan is a New York City–based freelance writer.
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Comparative cellular morphology suggesting the existence of resident dendritic cells within immune organs of salmonids
This report is the first morphological description of cells that resemble dendritic cells, which appear to form resident populations within the spleen and anterior kidney of fish. Based on examination of three salmonid species, including, rainbow trout, brook trout, and Atlantic salmon, the cells we...
This paper presents an overview of perkinsiosis in Salmo salar farmed in the Bay of Fundy, Canada, including information on the systematics of Perkinsus parasites, infection and disease caused by Perkinsus, lesions associated with the parasite in smolt and growout (market weight) salmon, differentia...
Effects of a prophylactic chloramine-T treatment on growth performance and condition indices of rainbow trout
Chloramine-T has been commonly used as a therapeutic agent for the treatment of bacterial gill disease and related phenomena in the salmonid aquaculture industry, and it is now commonly used as a prophylactic agent to prevent diseases in commercial salmonid hatcheries. Rainbow trout Oncorhynchus myk...
The effect of exposing Atlantic salmon Salmo salar to hydrogen peroxide was investigated to identify the acute and chronic effects of a single high dose on physiological measurements of stress. A total of 120 Atlantic salmon were divided into 3 groups, exposed to either saltwater (control), or 1000 ...
Morphometric assessment of epidermal and mucous-biofilm changes caused by exposure of trout to chloramine-T or formalin treatment
Juvenile rainbow trout were exposed to therapeutic concentrations of formalin or chloramine-T to assess the effects of these chemicals on the morphology of the piscine epidermis and its mucous coat. Repeated treatment, once weekly for 4 weeks, with either chemical did not affect the mucous coat of t...
Fixation of mucus on rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss Walbaum) gills for light and electron microscopy
Examination of gills from salmonids with bacterial gill disease using monoclonal antibody probes for Flavobacterium branchiophilum and Cytophaga columnaris
Bacterial diseases of the gills of commercially reared salmonids in freshwater are common problems. They accounted for 18% of all diagnostic submissions to the Atlantic Veterinary College from commercial fish hatcheries. Definitive diagnosis is difficult because of the growth characteristics of the ...
Comparative ultrastructural morphology of lamellar epithelial, chloride and mucous cell glycocalyx of the rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) gill
Development of the microsporidian parasite, Loma salmonae, in a rainbow trout gill epithelial cell line (RTG-1)
Development of the microsporidian parasite, Loma salmonae, in a rainbow trout gill epithelial cell line (RTG-1): evidence of xenoma development in vitro
Growth and propagation of fish-infecting microsporidians within cell culture has been more difficult to achieve than for insect- and human-infecting microsporidians. Fish microsporidia tend to elicit xenoma development rather than diffuse growth in vivo, and this process likely increases host specif...
Culture method influences degree of growth rate reduction in rainbow trout following exposure to hydrogen peroxide
We used hydrogen peroxide to reproduce gill lesions typical of a broad assemblage of gill diseases encountered in aquaculture, and examined the degree of growth rate depression that it caused. Additionally, we compared growth rates of 60 gill-damaged fish when they were either kept separate from (n=...
Efficacy of intraperitoneally and orally administered ProVale, a yeast beta-(1,3)/(1,6)-D-glucan product, in inhibiting xenoma formation by the microsporidian Loma salmonae on rainbow trout gills
The objectives of the research were to compare the efficacy of ProVale yeast beta-glucan (beta-glucan) with that of a previously tested research-grade yeast beta-glucan preparation when administered as an intraperitoneal (IP) injection and to also pilot test the effectiveness of ProVale yeast beta-g...
Ultrastructural study of the early development and localization of Loma salmonae in the gills of experimentally infected rainbow trout
The early ultrastructural stages of Loma salmonae were studied in the gills of experimentally infected rainbow trout. No parasitic stages were identified during the first 2 wk of the infection. By week 3 postexposure (PE), uninucleate and binucleate meronts were recognized within host cells (no xeno...
Phylogeny and morphology of Glugea hertwigi from rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax found in Prince Edward Island, Canada
Infection of rainbow smelt Osmerus mordax with the microsporidian Glugea hertwigi was diagnosed for the first time in Prince Edward Island, Canada. The prevalence of infection was 24%, 45 infected out of 187 examined fish captured in February and March 2009. Both large and small xenomas of G. hertwi...
Localization of the initial developmental stages of Loma salmonae in rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss)
The intracellular microsporidian parasite Loma salmonae affects salmonids of the genus Oncorhynchus and is a significant cause of economic losses in pen-reared Chinook salmon (O. tshawytscha) in British Columbia. Loma salmonae infection is easily recognized by the xenomas that form in the gills, but...
In contrast to mammalian therapeutics, the use of pharmaceutical substances is rather limited in fish. It is basically restricted to anaesthetic agents and anti-infective agents for parasitic and microbial diseases. Anaesthetic agents are used primarily in fish farm and laboratory settings to provid...
The physiological response of Atlantic salmon, Salmo salar L., to a single experimental challenge with sea lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis
Lepeophtheirus salmonis is capable of causing severe damage to Atlantic salmon and this study was conducted to examine the physiological response of salmon to the stress of sea lice infestation. Smoltified salmon were acclimatized in 30% saltwater and exposed to high levels of lice infestation. The ...
Immune response to fish microsporidia is still unknown and there are current research trying to elucidate the events involved in the immune response to this parasite. There is evidence suggesting the role of innate immune response and it is clear that adaptive immunity plays an essential part for el...
The presence of dendritic cells in fish is studied with immunohistochemistry using a commercially available antibody developed against Langerin/CD207 present in human Langerhans cells. Langerin/CD207, a protein known to be associated with the development of Birbeck granules in human and murine syste...
Effects of temperature and body size on immunological development and responsiveness in juvenile shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum)
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i once read a book that began with the scenario of finding yourself in a strange dark alley with no one else around. it encouraged one to acknowledge the emotions one might have being in such a situation and also have a plan for those emotions as well as anything other things that one would imagine - good or bad.
the basis of the book was to encourage a person to look inside themselves; see and feel what was inside there and at some point, choose to come out of the dark alley back into the daylight (reality).
it was a striking book, and i remember that it made a difference in my life (why didn't i just purchase it then? dunno me, but now i can't remember what the title was or even the author).
last week was a dark alley. heck it was dark valley that seemed to stretch to infinity and once i again i met myself there. i didn't enjoy it. i hate being alone, yet even as much as people are around and encouraging and helpful, one still has to complete life's journey on their own. there i was alone.
alone with physical pain, that turn into emotional pain, and the darkness. even yesterday i was plagued with just giving up, wanting to be done with the pain, the exercises, the endless being dependent on people to do things for me - clean my space, do my laundry (it's on another floor)...things that i would like to do for me, things that say "i'm independent". but alas, no...
what did i find in the dark alley - me; and all my insecurities (there are fewer than last dark alley experience) and all my wants, wishes and desires; all my grumpiness...but i had to say that i wasn't alone. i felt bad for snapping at my partner, who was so kind and gentle and running hither and yon for me; i had people texting and emailing, and visiting...that is what drew me out of the dark alley. the light of their lives and their ability to see things that i sure couldn't in the darkness. i clung to them, and forced myself to go forward. the way is now lighter, and i can once again see some future.
the challenge today was to visualize ending the day and looking back on the good choices that were made today. i can't wait for the end of the day, i am needing to visualize the good choices all the way along today. with each step i take, i will need the light of my friends at spark people, and the things that i have learned through the community, blogs, postings, books i have read, things people have told me just to ensure that i choose health and not a quick fix to dull any pain that may be present in my life.
i can choose to make this just a dark alley versus a dark valley.
in the end - i choose a warm meadow, sunlight streaming down upon me, the fragrance of grass, flowers and clear blue sky as i run that sprint triathlon that i have planned once i recover...spring and new life is just around the corner.
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Young striker is off the mark for Sunderland.
Today's trip down memory lane throws up a win over Stoke City, two League Cup victories and history made at the Riverside.
2010 – An Asamoah Gyan double sealed all three points for Sunderland when Stoke City visited the Stadium of Light.
2002 – Sunderland's youngest ever captain, Rob Hindmarsh passed away, aged 41.
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1999 – Young striker Michael Reddy tapped home the rebound from Kevin Phillips' saved penalty to rescue a point for Sunderland against Middlesbrough. Reddy, who was wearing the number 31 shirt, became the first SAFC player to score wearing a squad number higher than number 30.
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Happy Hockeydays, everybody!
If you follow this blog, you know I'm a big fan of the holiday tournaments as an opportunity for Hobey candidates to make their case. Not only is it non-conference competition (which gives candidates exposure to coaches in other conferences, who vote for the Hobey finalists), but it captures the finalists at mid-season form.
And, as it happens, there's a particularly interesting group of games for this year's Hobey contenders to take part in.
Wisconsin defenseman Brendan Smith is probably the leader in the Hobey race at this point. When you consider a defenseman who's the No. 3 scorer in the country, playing for a top 10 team, and a plus on the score sheet, it's hard to imagine a better candidate. Smith and the Badgers will take on another ranked opponent at the Badger showdown, either No. 9 Yale or No. 11 Ferris State, depending on the outcome of their game and the Badgers' matchup with Merrimack.
Meanwhile, No. 4 Cornell's dynamic duo of Blake Gallagher and Colin Greening have a big challenge in No. 3 Colorado College. The Tigers are a solid penalty-killing team, and will challenge the nation's best power play, where Gallagher and Greening do the bulk of their damage.
Maine's resurgence in Hockey East has been powered by Gustav Nyquist, the nation's No. 5 scorer (1.47 PPG), and Nyquist will get a shot at either the Big Red or the Tigers, depending on the result of their game and the Black Bears' matchup with Princeton. I haven't written a whole lot about Nyquist, but he's been an impact player for Tim Whitehead since his arrival in Orono, and if the Black Bears reclaim their usual position as a top four team in Hockey East by season's end, Nyquist will likely have a lot to do with it, and he'll be rewarded as such. Meanwhile, coaches in ECAC Hockey (and possibly the WCHA) will get a good look at Nyquist when they watch the video from this game for scouting purposes.
As far as goaltenders go, Denver's Marc Cheverieface No. 5Boston College on Saturday in the Denver Cup. Last time the Eagles visited Magness Arena, in the 2005-06 season, they never saw the Pioneers, as the then-champs dropped their first-round game to Princeton, but this year, the matchups are predetermined, so regardless of what happens in the New Year's Day games between Denver and Nebraska-Omaha and BC and St. Lawrence, the Eagles face the Pioneers, and Cheverie will get a look at the nation's No. 5 offense.
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When the Boston Mounted Police are out, their horses have access to the city streets and parks. However, this is not true for the average rider, so families in Boston have few selections and often have to travel outside of the city if they want just a place to ride and not lessons. This can make it difficult to have a casual half-day's ride. On the other hand, there are some gorgeous parks around Boston that not only allow horses, but also have many miles of easy bridle trails that families of riders can use together.
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Carver, MA 02366
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Roughly 50 miles south of Boston is one the largest state park on the South Shore of Massachusetts. With 35 miles of bridle trails, it is also one of the best places to ride a horse in the state. Because it has more than 30 horse campsites, it is easy to make a weekend out of it so the distance from the city is well worth it. Some of the sites are on ponds and all of the sites are near the many bridle trails. The family will also enjoy the several swimming areas in the huge park. Just be careful not to take the horses into areas that are ecologically sensitive to trampling. Signs are posted.
Charles River Link Trail
The Charles River Link Trail is a long trail that follows through six towns west of Boston and touches back with the Charles River five times. The trail is more than 16 miles, but riders can follow sections of the trail and double back to their entry points, of which there are many along the trail. They include Ware Paper Mill, Ouellet Playground, Pegan Hill and Longfellow Pond. Get a detailed map of the trail at the Wellesley website in order to stay clear of private property and obey town regulations for using the Charles River Link Trail.
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I haven't played FM since early December due to work commitments, but am looking to get back into it again. However before I start a new game, I was wondering if a new update is on the horizon to take into account the January transfer updates (an official update from SI not an unoffical data update). In past years I believe such updates have been released mid February, so:
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PROVO, Utah – The University of Washington scored a 194.300 in a loss to the Brigham Young Cougars on Friday night who scored a 196.125, their second highest team total of the season.
After fighting through two falls in the bar line-up last weekend, the Huskies made a definite bounce back including a beautiful 9.825 routine from Aliza Vaccher and a huge 9.800 for sophomore Sheridan Metcalf. Freshman Alexandra Yacalis made her GymDawg debut on bars, and in the all-around, and scored a 9.650.
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"At this point, there are no excuses. We are a better team than this and we still have a couple of opportunities to show that. We are going to work hard and do what we can do over the next week to get there. We are really excited to be back at home next weekend so we can be back in our element," head coach Joanne Bowers said of the meet.
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Who says teams take time to build?
In its first year as a co-ed club ultimate Frisbee team, Whagonweel took second at the Mid-Atlantic Regionals on Oct. 2 and advanced to USA Ultimate's national championship tournament in Sarasota, Fla., Oct. 28-31.
Though Saturday started a little sluggish, the team pulled it together in the second half of the first game.
"We went on a 22-3 point streak between the second half and our second game, so we were really firing on all cylinders for semis," said team member Rob Sayre-McCord. "We had a couple of streaks on defense where we were pretty dominant, and that really helped us to crack open a couple games."
The team lost 15-6 to AMP in the finals, but managed to pull it together against Renegade in the game-to-go, winning 15-10 and securing the second nationals bid.
"It's really easy to get down on yourselves after losing a finals and having to play a backdoor game," Sayre-McCord said. "But we did a great job of pulling together, getting our spirits back up and going to work."
That doesn't mean the young team didn't encounter any bumps along the way. Sayre-McCord says Whagonweel struggled periodically on offense.
"We're just incredibly inconsistent and rely too much on individual talent as opposed to an overall cohesive strategy," he said.
The team also encountered a few difficulties with its mental game.
"When we were playing well, it was because we were having fun and trusted each other," said player Andrew Ryan. "When we slipped up, we were hesitant and stagnant, which gave our mental game a small hiccup."
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While there are a few brief attestations (one sentence or less) of Albanian from the 15th century, the earliest major text that has been discovered is Meshari i Gjon Buzukut (The Missal of Gjon Buzuku), written in 1555. The missal contains various sections of the Bible translated into Albanian.
Elsie (2005) writes that not much is known about Gjon Buzuku, except for the information he provided in the postscript of the Missal. From the postscript we have his name, the dates of its composition, his reasons for composing the Missal (essentially because there was no translation of scriptures in Albanian), and a sincere apology for any mistakes he might have made in the translation. It is generally assumed that he probably lived outside of Albania where, particularly after the Ottoman conquest of the Western Balkans, he would be able to become a priest. It was originally believed that the Missal was first published in Venice, though Elsie believes that this is not necessarily the case, and it is just as likely that it was published in one of the major centers along the Dalmatian coast, e.g. Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik, Croatia). Given the dialectal features present in the Missal, it is believed that Buzuku was likely originally from the northwestern Geg-speaking area, north of Shkodër, probably in modern-day southern Montenegro.
As discussed in the series introduction, the alphabet used to write Albanian was heavily dependent on the religious affiliation of the scribe. As the north of Albania was predominantly Catholic and considerably more difficult for the Ottomans to conquer, like all of the other early attestations of Albanian, Buzuku's Missal was written in a modified version of the Latin alphabet. However, the alphabet used by Buzuku differs greatly from that used for Modern Albanian, and is quite different from the alphabets used for other early Albanian texts. Many of the letters used by Buzuku have several values (basically due to Albanian having a wider range of consonant sounds than Latin). For example, r is used for r and rr, c is used for c, ç and k, and s is used for s, sh and sometimes z and zh. As discussed earlier, the modern Albanian alphabet has avoided this issue via the extensive use of digraphs. In addition to several characters having multiple values, some non-Latin letters were used in the Missal as well, e.g., the Greek letter xi represents Albanian dh and th and the Cyrillic letter tshe represents Albanian q, gj and occasionally g. Long vowels are usually indicated by the doubling of a vowel character (e.g. aa = ā), and nasal vowels are represented with a vowel + nasal sequence (e.g. anshtë = âsht).
The edition of Meshari used here is Namik Ressuli's 1958 Il "messale" di Giovanni Buzuku: riproduzione e trascrizione, the first modern edition of the entire text. Ressuli (1958) presents each page of the original text from 1455, along with a transcription into the (more or less) modern Albanian alphabet. For the sake of clarity we have chosen to use Ressuli's transliteration of the text, with one exception. Ressuli chose to leave the Cyrillic character uku (a vertical ligature of o and y with phonetic value [u]) as such; we have converted all of these instances to u. To see the original manuscript, please consult Ressuli (1958). To see a transliterated, but unmodified (with all original characters intact) version of the text, please visit the TITUS (Thesaurus Indogermanischer Text- und Sprachmaterialien) project website, a link to which is available here.
As this text is substantially older than the texts presented in Lessons 1 through 4, there are features present in Buzuku's missal that have been lost or modified in modern Albanian. One of the more striking differences is the presence of neuter nouns in this text. As discussed in Lesson 1, the neuter gender has been nearly completely lost in the modern language; however, the neuter was alive and well in the 16th century. A number of nouns that appear in this lesson are neuter (e.g., firmuom, e 'vault', erët, e 'darkness, etc). Most nouns formed from adjectives were, in Old Albanian, neuter (and note that their adjectival origin explains why they require the nyje particle). The main difference in the inflection of neuter nouns is the singular definite ending -t/-të. In addition, Old Albanian shows the locative case, which has been mostly lost in modern Albanian (though it survives in some varieties of Arberisht). The locative endings seen in the Missal are -sh for singular nouns and and -shit for plural nouns. In addition, there is quite a bit of inconsistency throughout Buzuku's Missal. For example, for the plural of zog 'bird', Buzuku has alternate forms zogjtë and zojtë within a single paragraph. There are even instances of alternate forms within a single line, e.g. ishnë and ishnjinë as the 3rd person imperfect of 'be' (cf. Std. Alb. ishin), as seen in the excerpt below. We have not made any changes to the text; dealing with inconsistencies is an essential part of being able to interpret these texts.
The following text contains Buzuku's Albanian translation of Genesis 1:1-10. To see a picture of the corresponding text in the original manuscript, please click here. As discussed above, the Missal is written in Geg, and it specifically shows some features of dialects spoken north of Shkodër.
Ëndë e zanët të shekullit bani Zot'ynë qiellë e dhenë.
E dheu ish i pāfrujt e i shprazëtë, e t'erëtitë ish për-ënbī faqet të fondit ujit, e shpirti i t'inë Zot vëlizee për-ënbī ujënat.
E tha Zot'ynë: Kloftë bām drita. E u bā drita.
E pā Zot'ynë se drita ish e mirë; e dau Zot'ynë dritënë ën s'erëtit.
E grishi Zot'ynë dritënë ditë, e t'erëtitë natë. E u bā natë, e duol drita.
E tha Zot'ynë: Kloftë bām të firmuomitë për viedmis ujënavet, e ata të fërmuom të daë ujënatë ën ujënashit.
E bani Zot'ynë të firmuomitë e dau ujënatë qi ishnjinë për ëndënë të firmuomitë, e ato qi ishnë për-ënbī të firmuomitë. E ashtu u bā.
E grishi Zot'ynë të firmuomitë qiell. E u bā natë, e duol drita, qi anshtë e dyta ditë.
E tha Zot'ynë: u ënbëliedhshinë ujënatë për ëndënë qiellt ënbë një vend, e u duktë thatë. E ashtu kle.
E grishi Zot'ynë të thatëtë dhē, e të ënbëliedhunitë e ujënavet grishi dēt. E pā Zot'ynë se ish fort mirë.
Ëndë e zanët të shekullit bani Zot'ynë qiellë e dhenë. E dheu ish i pāfrujt e i shprazëtë, e t'erëtitë ish për-ënbī faqet të fondit ujit, e shpirti i t'inë Zot vëlizee për-ënbī ujënat. E tha Zot'ynë: Kloftë bām drita. E u bā drita. E pā Zot'ynë se drita ish e mirë; e dau Zot'ynë dritënë ën s'erëtit. E grishi Zot'ynë dritënë ditë, e t'erëtitë natë. E u bā natë, e duol drita. E tha Zot'ynë: Kloftë bām të firmuomitë për viedmis ujënavet, e ata të fërmuom të daë ujënatë ën ujënashit. E bani Zot'ynë të firmuomitë e dau ujënatë qi ishnjinë për ëndënë të firmuomitë, e ato qi ishnë për-ënbī të firmuomitë. E ashtu u bā. E grishi Zot'ynë të firmuomitë qiell. E u bā natë, e duol drita, qi anshtë e dyta ditë. E tha Zot'ynë: u ënbëliedhshinë ujënatë për ëndënë qiellt ënbë një vend, e u duktë thatë. E ashtu kle. E grishi Zot'ynë të thatëtë dhē, e të ënbëliedhunitë e ujënavet grishi dēt. E pā Zot'ynë se ish fort mirë.
In the beginning of time our Lord made heavens and the earth. And the earth was barren and empty and the darkness was over the surface of the deep of the water and the spirit of our Lord was moving over the waters. And our Lord said: May the light be made. And the light was made. And our Lord saw that the light was good, and our Lord separated the light from the darkness. And our Lord called the light 'day' and the darkness 'night'. And night was made, and the light arrived. And our Lord said: May a vault be made in the midst of the waters and (may the) vault separate waters from waters. And our Lord made the vault and separated the waters that were under the vault and those that were over the vault. And so it was done. And our Lord called the vault 'heaven'. And night was made, and the light arrived, which is the second day. And our Lord said "May the waters under the sky be gathered at one place and may dry ground appear. And it was so. And our Lord called the dry ground 'earth' and the gathering of waters he called 'sea'. And our Lord saw that it was very good.
The Albanian numbers 11 through 19 are formed following the pattern DIGIT - ON(mbë) - TEN(dhjetë). For example, the number '15' is FIVE(pesë) - ON(mbë) - TEN(dhjetë) > pesëmbëdhjetë. The word for '20' is njëzet and the word for '40' is dyzet. The rest of the multiples of ten are formed on the pattern DIGIT - TEN(dhjetë). For example, '50' is pesëdhjetë. The Albanian patterns used to form 11-19 and the multiples of ten are found in other Balkan languages as well (e.g., Mac. FIVE(pet) - ON(na) - TEN (deset) > petnaeset '15'; FIVE(pet) - TEN (deset) > pedeset '50')
'100' is njëqind, and to form other multiples of 100, replace një with another number, e.g., '500' is pesëqind. 'One thousand' is një mijë, and 'one million' is një milion.
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The word for 'first' is suppletive and not related to the cardinal number një. 'Second' through 'fifth' are formed via the suffixation of -të (sometimes with slight modification of the numerical root or the suffix). 'sixth' through 'tenth' have the identical forms to their corresponding cardinal numbers though, since they are articulated adjectives, a nyje particle is obligatory.
The imperative mood is used for commands, requests, etc. Positive and negative imperatives are morphologically identical. The negator mos is used to form a negative imperative.
The 2nd person plural imperative form is almost always identical to the 2nd person plural present indicative form. For example, the 2nd person plural present indicative of punoj work is punoni. Thus, this is also the plural imperative, punoni '(you all) work!' The only exceptions to this generalization are 'be' (jini 'be!' vs. jeni 'you (pl.) are', though jini 'you (pl.) are' occurs dialectally) and 'have' (kini 'have!' vs. keni 'you (pl.) have', though keni 'you (pl)' occurs for the indicative dialectally, as seen in Lesson 4).
The formation of the singular imperative is not as consistent as that of the plural form. The general pattern for consonant stems is that the 2SG imperative is identical to the 2PL with -ni removed. However, in some cases, the 2SG imperative of consonant stems will be identical to the 2SG indicative (e.g., hap 's/he opens', hap! 'open!'). Vowel stems in -o or -e take no ending in the 2SG imperative (e.g., puno! 'work!'). Vowel stems in any other vowel have the 2SG imperative ending -j (e.g., shkruaj! 'write!'). There are also a number of more unpredictable cases.
The optative mood is used to express wishes or desires. The function of the optative overlaps somewhat with the present subjunctive. Optatives are usually translated into English as "may SUBJECT VERB". For example, the text above has the phrase u ënbëliedhshinë ujënatë, where u is the non-active marker, ënbëliedhshinë is the 3PL present optative of the Old Albanian verb ënbëledh, and ujënatë is the nominative plural of 'water'. Thus, this translates to 'may the waters be gathered'.
The optative stem is formed by attaching the suffix -fsh/-sh/-ç to the verbal stem. Newmark et al. (1982) describe the general pattern as that -fsh is used with vowel stems, -ç is used with consonant stems in n or sh, and -sh is used elsewhere. The verbal stem to which the suffix is attached is usually identical to the stem used in the past definite. The present optative endings are as follows:
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In the 3rd person singular, the segment sh is lost when the optative ending is -fsh- or -sh-. If the ending is -ç-, it becomes s in the 3rd person singular. For example, the verb shkruaj 'write' has the verb stem shkro and the optative stem formation suffix -fsh-. Thus, the present optative paradigm of this verb is as follows:
Present optative paradigm of shkruaj 'write':
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Recall that the stem to which the optative suffix is attached is normally the past definite stem. For example, as discussed in Lesson 4, the past definite of jam 'be' has the stem qe (as in qeshë). The stem of the optative of 'be' is made from a modified form of this stem, qo-.
Present optative paradigm of jam 'be':
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Included here is the paradigm of kam 'have', which has an optative stem paç-, essential due to its use in the compound optative tense.
Present optative paradigm of kam 'have':
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The present perfect optative is formed with the optative of kam 'have' (or jam 'be' if non-active), followed by the participle.
Present perfect optative paradigm of shkruaj 'write':
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The admirative mood is used to express shock/surprise at an event. It can also be used to express doubt, or other strong emotions connected to a lack of confirmation of knowledge of an event.
The present admirative is formed from the short form of the participle suffixed by a present tense form of kam 'have'. The final -ë of kanë is lost in the 3PL admirative. The example below gives the present admirative of the verb jam be. Recall that the past participle of jam is qenë, and thus the shortened form of the participle to which the forms of kam is attached is qen-.
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The imperfect admirative is formed as described above for the present admirative, except that an imperfect form of kam is suffixed to the participle.
Imperfect admirative paradigm of jam 'be':
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There are two compound admirative tenses: the present perfect and the past perfect. They are formed by the present admirative and imperfect admirative of kam (or jam if non-active), respectively, plus the participle.
Present perfect admirative paradigm of jam 'be':
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|2nd person
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|3rd person
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Past perfect admirative paradigm of jam 'be':
|1st person
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|2nd person
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|3rd person
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|paskëshin qenë
Forming interrogative statements in Albanian is fairly straightforward. If a question is seeking information (rather than a yes/no answer), an interrogative pronoun is used. It is important to note that some of the interrogative pronouns have different case forms, e.g., Kush flet? 'Who is talking?" vs. Me kë flet? 'With whom are you talking?'.
To form a yes/no question, the interrogative marker a is required, e.g., A di shqip? 'Do you know/speak Albanian?'.


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So my daughter (1st grade) is going on her first real field trip to the zoo with school. I cannot be a chaperone - for my own reason, not the teacher's.
So I got an email from a dad of a student asking if he can chaperone the field trip (he sent it to me becuase I am handling volunteers for the PTA "Field Day" event and he got confused - they are a few days apart).
But this got me thinking, what if my daughter (special snowflake I know) got put with a male chaperone? I do not know this man. Makes me really uncomfortable. I emailed the teacher asking if they stay together as a class or not, but I know it will be a while until I hear from her. I do think they go off in small groups with a chaperone based on pics I see on facebook - but not positive.
Does anyone else worry about stuff like this when there is a field trip?


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Supreme Court To Decide Health Care Law's Fate
An unprecedented three days of Supreme Court hearings on the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law have concluded. Wednesday's proceedings had sessions in the morning and the afternoon, taking on two separate questions related to the law.
This is MORNING EDITION from NPR News. Good morning. I'm David Greene.
And I'm Renee Montagne.
In the third and last day that the U.S. Supreme Court considered the Obama health care law, it turned its attention from the abstract legal issues to the very practical – what if it did overturn a key part of the law. In sessions in the morning and afternoon, the justices took on two separate questions related to the federal health care overhaul.
NPR's Ari Shapiro reports.
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: The morning's arguments began by assuming the worst for the Obama administration. If the court strikes down the central part of the health care law, the individual mandate requiring nearly everyone to have health insurance, then the question is whether the rest of the law has to fall too.
Lawyer Paul Clement argued yes, the whole tower collapses.
PAUL CLEMENT: If the individual mandate is unconstitutional, then the rest of the act cannot stand.
SHAPIRO: He represents 26 states challenging the health law. He immediately came under fire from the justices who tend to lean left. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said why not let Congress figure out which remaining parts of the law should stand and fall.
JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR: Congress could look at it without the mandatory coverage provision and say this model doesn't work; let's start from the beginning. Or it could choose to fix what it has.
SHAPIRO: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said many parts of the law have nothing to do with the individual mandate. Why not leave intact the Indian Health Care Improvement Act or changes to the black-lung benefit?
JUSTICE RUTH BADER GINSBERG: Why shouldn't we say it's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job? And the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything.
SHAPIRO: Attorney Paul Clement said those provisions never would have made it into the bill if it were not for the individual mandate at its core.
CLEMENT: You can't possibly think that Congress would have passed that hollow shell without the heart...
JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS: No, but it would've passed parts of the hollow shell. I mean a lot of this is reauthorization of appropriations that have been reauthorized for the previous five or 10 years.
SHAPIRO: That was Chief Justice John Roberts pushing back on Clement.
When government lawyer Ed Kneedler stepped up on behalf of the Obama administration, Roberts and the other conservative justices pushed back even harder.
This is Kneedler's position...
ED KNEEDLER: We think only a few provisions are un-severable from the minimum coverage provision.
SHAPIRO: Justice Antonin Scalia said it's crazy to ask the Supreme Court to parse this bill.
JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA: You really want us to go through these 2,700 pages?
SCALIA: And do you really expect a court to do that? Or do you expect us to give this function to our law clerks? Is this not totally unrealistic?
SHAPIRO: Some of the justices expressed concern about insurance companies. Justice Samuel Alito asked how they could continue covering everyone if the court strikes down the individual mandate but upholds other parts of the law.
JUSTICE SAMUEL ALITO: If the 350 million(ph) from the individual mandate were to be lost, what would happen to the insurance industry, which would now be in the hole for $350 billion over 10 years?
SHAPIRO: That suggests Alito sees the different parts of the law intertwined like a ball of roots.
Later, a third lawyer argued for a minimalist approach, striking down only the individual mandate and nothing else. The court appointed him to take that position, since neither the government nor the law's challengers agree with it.
In the afternoon, the judges donned their black robes again. This time the question was about Medicaid. Under the health law, states must provide services to more people. Congress provides most of the money. But if states refuse to expand the program, they lose all their federal Medicaid money.
Attorney Clement said the expansion amounts to coercion.
CLEMENT: They're saying that if you don't take our new money subject to the new conditions, we're going to take all of the money you've previously gotten that you've been dependent on for 45 years and you're using right now to serve the visually impaired and the disabled.
SHAPIRO: If the justices strike down the Medicaid requirements, it could have implications for all kinds of federal funding - highways, arts, education and more.
In the three days of arguments, this was the session where justices seemed most skeptical of the health law's challengers.
Justice Elena Kagan said the money with conditions from the federal government is like a gift certificate.
JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN: If I give you a gift certificate for one store, you can't use it for other stores. But still you can use it for all kinds of different things.
SHAPIRO: Chief Justice John Roberts suggested the states set themselves up for this.
ROBERTS: They tied the strings. They shouldn't be surprised that the federal government isn't going to start pulling them.
SHAPIRO: Now the justices decide whether to snip them.
Ari Shapiro, NPR News, Washington.
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The second annual Naperville Ale Fest will take place on Saturday, July 19, 2014 from 1:00 - 5:00 p.m., and will showcase over 200 unique beers and ciders. The fest will also feature live music and food from some of Naperville's favorite restaurants. Situated on the grounds of the Naper Settlement, with downtown Naperville as a backdrop, it is the ideal setting to experience craft beer. A portion of the proceeds from the Naperville Ale Fest will benefit the Naper Settlement and the Naperville Heritage Society.
The Naperville Ale Fest will feature local favorites such as Solemn Oath and Two Brothers. Chicagoland brewers, such as Ale Syndicate, Finch's, Goose Island, and Half Acre will also be in attendance alongside other craft breweries from across the country. Several craft cider companies, such as Angry Orchard, Crispin, and Virtue Cider will also be present. Click here to view the list of all participating breweries.
Food vendors will also be in attendance with food for purchase. Click here to view a list of participating eateries.
Dirty Ernie will be playing sets of classic and contemporary rock, including tunes by Van Morrison, the Rolling Stones, and the Beatles, to current hits from Bruno Mars, Jason Mraz, and Train.
General Admission Tickets are priced at $45 each, and include entrance to the Naperville Ale Fest, a commemorative festival sampling glass, access to samples of over 200 craft beers, and a program guide. Each festival participant will receive 15 drink tickets. Each drink ticket can be exchanged for a 3oz sample, and additional tickets are available for purchase at $0.50 per ticket. Additional samples are limited to 10 tickets. A Designated Driver Ticket can be purchased for $15, and includes complimentary soda and water. Please note that Designated Drivers are not permitted to sample any beer. Click here to view ticket options and to purchase.
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School Colors
The school colors for East Carolina University - purple and gold - go back to the time when the first students arrived on campus in 1909. ECU historian Dr. Mary Jo Bratton, the author of "East Carolina University The Formative Years 1907 - 1982," said the selection of school colors represented one of the first traditions established by the students. In the early fall of 1909 the administration asked students for their suggestions on school colors. Old gold and royal purple won the vote.
In the following year, the colors carried over to the school's first baseball team, a club team, that won most of its games. According to Bratton the opening game produced a 6 - 2 win for East Carolina against a local Greenville team. The newspaper account of the game credited the effective cheering of the young ladies of the school for "winning the victory for the purple and gold."


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Veteran Northern California bluesmen Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel and John Nemeth were among the winners at the Blues Awards.
Buddy Guy was named the B.B. King Entertainer of the Year at Thursday night's 35th annual Blues Awards held in Memphis.
In general, the awards were well spread out over a host of artists with Charlie Musselwhite and Susan Tedeschi (two with husband Derek Trucks) taking the most awards with three each while the album "Remembering Little Walter" by Billy Boy Arnold, Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia and James Harman won two including Album of the Year as did Trucks. Musselwhite won for the Little Walter album and as Harmonica artist. Tedeschi won for Band and Rock Blues Album for "Made Up Mind" by the Tedeschi Trucks Band along with Contemporary Blues Female Artist.
B.B. King Entertainer: Buddy Guy
Album: "Remembering Little Walter"— Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman
Song: "Blues in My Soul" – Lurrie Bell
Band: Tedeschi Trucks Band
Best New Artist Debut: "Daddy Told Me" – Shawn Holt & the Teardrops
Historical Album: "The Sun Blues Box" – Various Artists
DVD: "Songs from the Road" – Royal Southern Brotherhood
Acoustic Album: "There's a Time" – Doug MacLeod
Acoustic Artist: Doug MacLeod
Contemporary Blues Album: "Badlands" – Trampled Under Foot
Contemporary Blues Female Artist: Susan Tedeschi
Contemporary Blues Male Artist: Gary Clark Jr.
Traditional Blues Album: "Remembering Little Walter" – Billy Boy Arnold, Charlie Musselwhite, Mark Hummel, Sugar Ray Norcia, James Harman
Traditional Blues Male Artist: James Cotton
Koko Taylor Award: Diunna Greenleaf
Soul Blues Album: "Down in Louisiana" –Bobby Rush
Soul Blues Female Artist: Irma Thomas
Soul Blues Male Artist: John Nemeth
Rock Blues Album: "Made Up Mind" – Tedeschi Trucks Band
Instrumentalist – Bass: Danielle Schnebelen
Instrumentalist – Drums: Cedric Burnside
Instrumentalist – Guitar: Ronnie Earl
Instrumentalist – Harmonica: Charlie Musselwhite
Instrumentalist – Horn: Eddie Shaw
Pinetop Perkins Piano Player: Victor Wainwright
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The apartment is ideal for families or couples who want to spend their summer holidays in a beach side apartment, in one of the most elegant areas of Athens. The nearest beach is only 500 m away, but also there are plenty of organized beaches in Voula and Vouliagmeni area. During summer time the coast line of Glyfada, Voula & Vouliagmeni areas are very popular choice for swimming , walking and dinning. Located close to the sea we are enjoying the fresh sea breeze in the summer time compared to the more warm center but most important away from any traffic jams and all the demonstrations that take place in the center of Athens. The apartment is very close to a pharmacy, banks and public transport 300 m away from the apartment. There is a bus station from where you can take a bus to the city centre. 500 m away from the apartment there is a super market, a bakery and a pharmacy. In only 200 m from the apartment you can find a playground for children.
Airport or any other transport is available upon demand at an additional but very reasonable cost.
Glyfada is a suburb of Athens, situated in the southern parts of the Athens Metropolitan Area. The area, which is home to many of Greece's millionaires, ministers and celebrities, stretches out from the foot of the Hymettus mountain and reaches out to embrace the Saronic Gulf. It is the largest of Athens' southern suburbs. This fashion-conscious suburb is known in Greece for its upmarket cafes, well-known restaurants, boutiques and cosmopolitan summer clubs; Glyfada has also been called "Knightsbridge-on-Sea", "Hellenic Hamptons", or the "Beverly Hills of Greece"
Glyfada was established as the heart of Athens' southern suburbs, because of its prime waterfront location, rich commercial centre, and modern business district. It has been described as the headpoint of the 'Athens Riviera' and features some of Europe's most opulent seafront residences, gardens and extensive beachfront property, with a modern marina.
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Dear George,
We had wonderful days in the apartment. It is spacious, clean and beautiful and fully equipped. Even an Nespresso machine.
However, we found a strange odor around or from the sofa.
We will definitely return.
With Kind Regards, Koos and Tineke Boersma
schöne wohnung … tip-top … sauber … und ein wenig abgelegen … 1 stunde mit dem tram ins centrum.
I would definately recommed the Apartment to everyone. It is fully renovated and modern decorated. George was a perfect Host and always very helpful.
The location is unbeatable for sure. Great Areas like Plaka, Acropolis, Monastiraki, Kolonaki are all within walking distance, from 1 minute away to a maximum of 15 minutes.
Athens in general is allways worth it to go there.
Thanks George. See you next time in Athens.
The apartment Georges offers is excellent. The interior is very nice and the 3 bethrooms are specious. The balcony gives you a great view over Athens and the harbour and so is a nice spot to relaxe after a long day of sight seeing.
The metro station Ag. Dimitrios is only a 15 minutes walk, and from there it is an easy ride to Athens centre. Supermarkets are just a 5 minutes walk away to do some shopping.
George gave a very good support on questions / demands from our side.
Best regards Paul de Jonge
The location is unbeatable - a quiet side street, but seconds from the Acropolis site, museum and the adjoining metro, Easy walks to all the major sites. The flat is nice - a decent size, good bathroom, clean, well appointed. Its a raised ground floor flat, so the views either way aren't much, but you only have to turn the corner for views of Hadrian's Temple or the Acropolis.
Although this property is not the most convenient to the center of Athens, if you have business in the northern suburbs, as we did, it is the perfect spot. The neighborhood is clean, with many restaurants and shops within walking distance, including a big A/B. There is a big park with a well maintained fenced playground nearby as well, which my daughter enjoyed. The apartment itself is very large and thoughtfully stocked, with a comfortable, well-equipped kitchen. While we had trouble with one of the toilets, everything else was fine. Beds were extremely comfortable, and it was quiet at night. The building felt secure and the neighborhood felt safe. We asked for cleaning and a friendly woman called Ellie came and did a thorough job for not much money. Management was responsive to requests. The metro is a 15 minute walk away, though it is down some steep streets and they are harder to walk on the way back! Once there it is very quick into the center.
The apartments are really excellent. We stayed (3 adults and 1 infant) for 5 days. Good location-3 stops by underground to the historical centre in a good and calm district, very quite in the night, air condition works perfect, good equipment, washing machine, balcony, grill. Very helpful owner of the apartments, enough space for 2 families. Near is supermarket and farmacy. Excellent for people with small children. Internet works a little bit slowly (low speed): it's enough for searching but impossible to watch movie. We definitely would stay there next time there.
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Very well equiped, with everything you need to cook and spend a few days. Very nice place!
In July 2015 we - 6 happy Danes - spent a wonderful week in this luxury Apartment beautiful placed on top of a steep Road providing us with the most fantastic view over all of Athens - including Acropolis! The Apartment contents everything you need for a nice stay abroad - well equipped kitchen with refrigerator, freezer, dishwasher, microwaven and washingmachine - all new and in a good condition. The Apartment was light and spacy and very clean and - most important - very well airconditioned! We were treated most kindly by the elderly woman living in the ground flat and the very sweet woman living on first floor. The area is very cosy with a lot of small - but all very steep roads. During the day there's some traffic in the area, but things settle down during the evening and night - and nobody was kept awake due to noisy traffic. The nearest metro stations is Dimitrios and Dafni both 1.2km from the flat - about 20 minutes walk. It is convinient and easy to go by metro - even all the way to the AirPort. From Dafni station its easy to get a taxi to the flat for the most fair Price of around 3 Euros. We will highly recommend the Apartment .... And wonderful Athens!
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The Ordinary Man With The Extraordinary Sound
Enter the world of an Ordinary Man!
(C) Copyright 2015 Steve Ketterer. All rights reserved
I'm proud to announce that I'll be releasing my first original song in two years as part of the WSTW Hometown Heroes holiday album, "Midnight Clear." The CD, which includes my brand new song "All I Want For Christmas" will include songs by other great local artists and friends of mine and the proceeds will benefit Toys For Tots. Please feel free to like the
Hometown Heroes WSTW facebook page
for all the upcoming info on release dates, store locations, live performances and more! Happy Holidays to all!!
With Love,
Photo by Josh Shannon of the Newark Post
Happy 10th wedding anniversary to my wife, Tammy. In total, she's been putting up with me for nearly 17 years! That's a lifetime to deal with the likes of me!! In 2004, I debuted a song called "It's You" on the radio for her birthday. A year later, she married me! To celebrate ten years of marriage, I'm excited to debut a brand new song called "Just a Little Bit In Love With You." You can check it out on the ReverbNation player on this page. Hope you like it! Here's to another ten years!!
In Love,