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Lead Piping and Lead In
Lead is a natural element that can
be highly toxic to the human body. Most exposure to lead occurs from
inhalation or direct contact with substances containing high levels
of lead; however, lead can also enter the body through drinking
water. Treated water contains minerals that can act as corrosive
agents on the pipes that deliver water to the different rooms in a
home or building; this can cause a harmful release of lead from any
parts of the water delivery system that contain lead products.
Lead piping was popular in plumbing
systems until the early 1900s. There is little danger of
encountering excessive levels of lead in the pipes of a
house constructed using modern materials and methods but
lead in drinking water can be a problem in houses that are
very old or very new.
The most common source of lead in the water delivery
system of old homes is the piping, but even in newer homes,
piping is not the only area from which lead can enter a
plumbing system. Common sources of lead in the water
Lead Piping
Made entirely of lead, highly corrodible and
susceptible to the chemicals found in tap water
Copper fixtures
Contain small amounts of lead used in their
casting, can be corroded by water. Both "hard" and
"soft" water can contain chemicals that can be slightly
corrosive after long exposure, have an excessively low
or high pH, or contain corrosive minerals
Copper or brass pipes
Often joined with lead-based solder
Often joined with lead-based solder
Often joined with lead-based solder
Brass or bronze pumps that can leach lead
Brass or bronze pumps that can leach lead
Brass or bronze pumps that can leach lead
Well screens with a "lead packing collar"
Wells that were packed with lead shot or lead wool
to keep out sand
Some public service connections installed before
1930 used lead piping
If your home was built before 1930, it is likely to
contain lead piping. If it was built before 1988, it is
likely to contain copper piping joined by lead-based solder.
In homes with pipes that are joined using lead solder, it
is likely that water run through the pipes after a long
period of non-use (such as first thing in the morning) will
pose the greatest threat of lead contamination.
Health Effects
Lead in the human body can be toxic and cause serious
damage to many areas of the body including:
Children are more susceptible to damage caused from a
buildup of lead in the body. They can suffer such serious
health effects as:
Problems can also occur in adults:
Lead cannot be seen, tasted, or smelled if it is
dissolved in water, but if you suspect that your water
supply may be contaminated by lead, or if you are not sure
about the condition of your water, it should be tested to
make sure that lead levels are within a safe range. Home
test kits are available but may not provide accurate results
regarding lead levels in your water. For a completely
accurate evaluation of your water supply, a certified
laboratory should perform the testing. This usually
costs between $20 and $100. Some laboratories will send a
trained and certified technician to make sure that water
samples are correctly collected, but most will not. In this
case you will be asked to collect tap-water samples
yourself. It is important that you follow the procedures
specified by the laboratory so that your water quality can
be accurately determined. The most common procedure for
taking water samples is to obtain a "first draw" sample and
a "fully flushed" sample:
First draw
First draw
The laboratory will compare these two samples. If the
lead content of the first draw sample is higher than that of
the fully flushed sample, then the water is leaching from
the in-house plumbing system. If both water samples contain
the same amount of lead, then the contaminated water most
likely originates from a source outside the household
plumbing system.
Temporary Measures
If the water in your plumbing system is contaminated with
harmful levels of lead, there are several steps that can be
taken to control or remove the hazard. The first and most
important step to take is that of attempting to determine
the source of the lead contamination and remove it
completely. In many cases, steps can be taken to
eliminate enough of the lead in water to make it potable
until measures can be taken to permanently remove the source
of lead.
Water from a system having lead piping should not
be consumed under any circumstances, as the possibility of
severe corrosion in old, all-lead pipes is too great to
bring to completely safe levels. The only way to
completely remove the hazard of lead contamination in the
water of homes having lead piping is to remove and
completely replace all of the lead pipes in the system.
The water in systems having these types of potential
hazards can be "flushed" to safer lead content levels in
many cases, until the proper measures can be taken to
completely remove the source of the hazard.
Do not consume water that has been standing in the
pipes for more than six hours
"Flush" water sources before use until the water is
as cold as it is likely to get (this must be done for
each drinking water faucet or tap before use)
If the lead contamination originates from a lead
service connector, flush for at least an extra 15
seconds after the water is running cold
Never consume or cook with hot water as it is
more likely to contain higher levels of lead
NOTE: These methods are only temporary measures of
reducing the risk of lead poisoning. They should only be
employed as long as it takes for the source of lead to be
removed and replaced.
In lieu of replacing the hazardous parts of a plumbing
system, there are several methods of treating water to make
it less corrosive, or to remove lead from water.
Several devices are available to treat water to make
it less corrosive, including:
Lead removal
Lead removal devices are typically applied
individually to faucets and are not 100% effective,
but can usually remove at least 85% of lead from a
water system. They may employ such methods as:
Reverse osmosis
Carbon filters
Reverse osmosis
Carbon filters
These procedures may not be appropriate for your plumbing
system; you should consult a professional to make sure these
measures are sufficient to reduce the lead content to
acceptable levels before implementing them.
Exposure Guidelines
In accordance with the Safe Drinking Water Act, the EPA
sets the minimum acceptable level for lead at under 15 parts
per billion (1 part per billion = 1.0 microgram per liter or
.001 milligram per liter). Utilities are required to
maintain standards meeting this regulation. You should be
concerned about water lead levels if your water supply tests
at or around 15 ppb (parts per billion).
To find a qualified lead testing company
in your area, look under "Laboratories" in your local yellow
pages, or contact your state or local health or
environmental department.
For more information about lead, call:
EPA Safe Drinking Water Hotline:
National Lead Information Center:
On the web:
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Brunswick police
Wednesday, Feb. 19
8:29 p.m. — Johnathan S. Teets, 59, 1935 Gaylann Drive, Brunswick, served a burglary warrant at his home.
Friday, Feb. 21
2:30 a.m. — 1100 block Pearl Road, damage reported to a car — scratches on the sides — while parked in a lot.
2:40 a.m. — Naomi M. Loadman, 19, Lakewood, charged with operating a vehicle impaired, operating in a weaving course and failure to display plates after she was stopped on Interstate 71. Police reported Loadman had blood-alcohol content of 0.153.
8:24 p.m. — 3300 block Center Road, traffic stop; Jessica Downing, 23, North Olmsted, served with an unpaid fines warrant and issued a citation for driving under a license suspension.
Saturday, Feb. 22
2:08 a.m. — 700 block Pearl Road, Amanda L. Myers, 23, North Royalton, charged with operating a vehicle impaired. She was stopped after police said she traveled left of center and then struck a curb. Police reported Myers had blood-alcohol content of 0.19.
2:22 a.m. — 1300 block Pearl Road, Mark M. Kanner, 26, of 1262 Pearl Road, Apt. 16, Brunswick, charged with operating a vehicle impaired, and driving under suspension. Police reported he had blood-alcohol content of 0.15.
10:30 p.m. — 3500 block Lexington Lane, backpack with a laptop and two cell phone chargers reported stolen from inside an unlocked vehicle.
Sunday, Feb. 23
1:17 a.m. — 600 block Pearl Road, Kenneth, Andrews, 32, North Royalton, charged with operating in a weaving course, operating a vehicle impaired, driving under an OVI suspension and refusal of a breath test for blood alcohol content with a prior OVI. The owner of the car was issued a citation for wrongful entrustment.
10:44 p.m. — 500 block Pearl Road, iPhone reported stolen from inside an unlocked vehicle at a gas pump. The owner said he only left his car for a few minutes while he went inside the store to pay for gas.
Hinckley Township police
Saturday, Feb. 22
10:10 p.m. — 1800 block State Road, Ivan J. Wolfington, 56, 355 Morlee Drive, Brunswick, charged with operating a vehicle impaired after his car went off the road striking a snow bank.

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The Northwest Georgia Crime Examiner personally compiles arrest reports that covers the Polk County area. Listed below is the Polk County arrest report for Saturday February 22, 2014.
The report includes a complete list of arrests, information regarding prior arrests, bonding information and available inmate photos. Unless specified otherwise, all information is obtained from the Polk County Sheriff's Office.
The following individuals were arrested and charged with the violations listed below. Click on the embedded links within each list to view the complete prior arrests report. Links to arrests prior to 2009 will not be included.
David Chance Baldwin, 29, of Cedartown was arrested on a warrant for failure to appear in superior court. Baldwin remains in custody at the time of this publication. See also (2/5/2013) (7/21/2012) (9/9/2011) (8/12/2010) (11/12/2009)
Erica Lecole Chandler, 24, of Rockmart was arrested and charged with criminal trespass under the Family Violence Act (FVA). Chandler was released on 2/22 after posting a $600 property bond.
Jeffery Lamar Davis, 28, of Aragon was arrested and charged with driving on a suspended license, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of firearm during the commission of crime, theft by receiving stolen property, possession of crack cocaine, possession of marijuana and criminal trespass. Davis remains in custody with bond denied at the time of this publication. See also (4/23/2013) (11/9/2010) (10/15/2009)
Steven Daniel Myers, 29, of Rockmart was arrested and charged with DUI (second offense) and open container. Myers was released the same day after posting two property bonds totaling $4,180. See also (4/23/2013) (12/9/2012)
Mendez Rodrigo Perez, 28, of Cedartown was arrested and charged with driving while unlicensed. Perez was released the same day after posting a $4,830 property bond.
Ciera Sharday Turner, 27, of Rockmart was arrested and charged with DUI, two counts of DUI endangering a child under 14 years of age, driving too fast for conditions and child restraint violation. Turner was released the same day after posting property bonds totaling $5,210. See also (4/13/2011)
Jeffery Leon Washington, 30, of Rockmart was arrested on warrants for two counts contempt of court regarding child support. Washington was released from the Polk County jail the same day after paying $400 cash. See also (2/21/2014)
The arrest reports within this list do not reflect the actual guilt or innocence of the individual or individuals listed. All parties are presumed innocent until they are proven guilty in a court of law. Not every arrest or charge leads to a conviction. A conviction or an acquittal will be determined by the court system.
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IMF Executive Board Concludes 2008 Article IV Consultation with AlbaniaPublic Information Notice (PIN) No. 08/94
July 29, 2008
Public Information Notices (PINs) form part of the IMF's efforts to promote transparency of the IMF's views and analysis of economic developments and policies. With the consent of the country (or countries) concerned, PINs are issued after Executive Board discussions of Article IV consultations with member countries, of its surveillance of developments at the regional level, of post-program monitoring, and of ex post assessments of member countries with longer-term program engagements. PINs are also issued after Executive Board discussions of general policy matters, unless otherwise decided by the Executive Board in a particular case.
On July, 25, 2008, the Executive Board of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) concluded the Article IV consultation with Albania.1
Over the last decade, macroeconomic performance has generally been strong and per capita GDP in US dollar terms more than doubled. A Stabilization and Association Agreement with the EU was signed in 2006, and an invitation to join NATO extended in the spring of 2008. Rapid growth, price stability, and continued large remittances also significantly improved social conditions and moved the country toward Millennium Development Goals. Macroeconomic stability has been maintained and inflation is among the lowest in the region.
Strong fiscal policy, largely based on major improvements in tax administration, lowered public debt from 66 percent of GDP in 2001 to 53 percent in 2007. More recently, tax policy reforms have further boosted revenues—to be allocated in the supplementary budget to investment projects.
With such supportive fiscal policy, the Bank of Albania was able to maintain low inflation, despite a rise in recent months above the 3±1 percent target range, that was driven mainly by higher world food prices. Underlying inflation remains low and, going forward, inflation is projected to return into the target band within the year, notwithstanding unfavorable global inflation trends and pressures from the ongoing transition process.
Risks to domestic and external stability have receded somewhat. Domestic credit growth, though still elevated, has decelerated from past highs, and the authorities adapted regulatory and supervisory regimes to keep abreast with the rapidly developing financial system. Exports are growing strongly, though temporary factors have pushed up the current account deficit.
However, progress with structural reform has been uneven. On the one hand, tax reforms, financial market development, and large scale privatization have provided strong incentives for investment. In contrast, turning around the loss-making electricity sector has proved elusive despite repeated attempts. The core of the problem is unpaid electricity usage—the average effective collection rate, at around 50 percent, remains low compared even with the regional average of about 75 percent. Moreover, wide-spread governance concerns and the weak business environment are already factors in the recent slowdown in productivity growth.
Executive Board Assessment
Executive Directors praised the authorities' macroeconomic policy stance that has led to a prolonged period of strong noninflationary growth and sustained improvement in living standards and social conditions, despite a deteriorating external environment. Directors also welcomed the good progress in structural reforms, and encouraged the authorities to undertake early action on the remaining agenda in reforming the electricity sector and in improving the business climate.
Directors concurred that the current stance of monetary policy is appropriate. Given that exogenous shocks implied upward pressure on prices in the near and medium-term—compounding pressures associated with the transition process—Directors noted that monetary conditions might need to be tightened if second-round effects appeared or inflationary expectations deteriorated.
Directors considered external competitiveness to be broadly adequate, and stressed the importance of ensuring that macroeconomic and structural policies continue to safeguard external stability going forward, particularly in light of the authorities' plans to rely more on international capital markets in the future.
Directors encouraged the authorities to set fiscal policy within a transparent medium-term framework. They considered the authorities' goal of reducing debt to 50 percent of GDP by 2011 to be consistent with debt sustainability, macroeconomic stability, and the need to meet Albania's still-considerable development needs. Safeguarding progress made in debt sustainability will require a prudent debt management strategy and a cautious approach to borrowing on international capital markets. Directors welcomed the authorities' intention to limit the 2008 deficit to 5.2 percent of GDP and to adopt an explicit fiscal rule guiding future budgets. They commended the authorities' recent decision to address the welfare effects of rising food prices through targeted subsidies.
Directors regarded continued financial sector development as a prerequisite for maintaining rapid economic growth. The banking system appears sound, and exposure to the current global financial turmoil is slight. Regulatory and supervisory capacity needs to keep pace with the sector's development to mitigate the attendant risks. In this regard, Directors considered that the immediate priority lay in improving cross-border supervisory collaboration, contingency planning, and collateral execution. Directors also saw an important role for regulatory and supervisory measures in supporting monetary policy, given the still undeveloped monetary transmission mechanism and high degree of euroization.
Directors observed that, with efficiency gains from the transition process likely to gradually wane, maintaining strong growth as a middle-income country would increasingly depend on improvements in both institutional quality and infrastructure. This would help to attract foreign direct investment and improve productivity. In this regard, Directors considered that past initiatives, such as the one-stop business licensing procedure, had been effective, and encouraged the authorities to initiate further business-friendly reforms. In addition, they encouraged the authorities to improve governance, strengthen the judicial system, and tackle corruption. Directors noted continuing problems in the electricity sector, and stressed that the authorities would have to follow through with their new action plan for the Albanian Power Corporation (KESH) if another electricity tariff increase in the near future was to be avoided. Progress in this area would facilitate the planned privatization of KESH's distribution company.
Directors welcomed the authorities' intention to improve the reliability and timeliness of statistics. Addressing the lack of skilled staff and insufficient resources in the statistical agency would help maximize the usefulness of Fund technical assistance.


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Kroll Ontrack
VMware Horizon 6 Helps Customers Streamline Their Business
VMware Horizon 6 delivers virtualized or hosted desktops and applications through a single platform to end users. Kroll Ontrack, BDP International, and Southern States Cooperative, discuss why they selected VMware over the competition and the impact of Horizon on their business.
"Before we were using Horizon, things would take a lot longer. We'd have to put a lot more resources in play, where now a few people can do the job of ten people."
Kroll Ontrack
Kroll Ontrack – Extending the Power of Virtualization with VMware
Kroll Ontrack, provider of technology-driven services and software, experienced challenges with their previous virtual desktop solution. After moving to VMware Horizon™ 6 Enterprise Edition, productivity has increased tremendously and "a few people can now do the job of 10 people." The company is also planning to implement VMware Horizon® Air™ for cloud-hosted desktops and apps, as well as VMware NSX™ for Horizon® bringing speed and simplicity to VDI networking.
"Our partnership with VMware has been tremendous. Before we were using Horizon things would take a lot longer. We'd have to put a lot more resources in play where now, a few people can do the job of ten people."
Kürt Zrt.
In 2010, KÜRT decided to offer its information security products also in the form of cloud-based services. The purpose of the project is to build a cloud which provides an advanced, scalable and secure environment for new and enhanced business services. Results achieved with VMware's solution: 2-3 times less hardware compared to an infrastructure built on physical servers, less operators and less energy needed, Ready-made functions for ensuring the uninterrupted availability of services provided to customers, Ready-made functions for measuring service consumption and for supporting billing, High availability, cost-efficient implementation of a disaster recovery site, Quick self-service provisioning of, development and test environments, Efficient vendor support, advantageous partner program
"The services we are about to introduce also incorporate academic knowledge, and security will be at the core of our VMware-based cloud infrastructure and its operation. This is what sets us apart from other similar service providers."
La Cité
La Cite is the largest French community college in Ontario with 5,000 students enrolled in over 90 programs. A variety of these programs require 3D graphics and computer labs, such as Civil and Mechanical Engineering, Architecture, and Interior Design. The college decided to virtualize desktops because the current workstations were aging. The price to replace those workstations was roughly the same as going to virtualization. La Cite chose Dell, NVIDIA, and VMware to deliver virtual desktops to these labs which resulted in reduced login times and more flexibility for both students and faculty.
"Virtualization helps me greatly when I'm preparing my classwork at home. I can quickly access the virtualization and see what the application looks like and prep my work around the same image that the students are using."
La Cité
La Cité has implemented virtual desktops to deliver engineering and design applications with advanced 3D graphics to its student computer labs. Deployed with VMware, Dell, and NVIDIA technology, the solution provides workstation-level performance on a flexible and cost-effective mix of repurposed legacy desktops and new zero-client machines. It also expands student and faculty access to important applications and greatly reduces system management and administration workloads.
"When I'm preparing my class work at home, I can quickly access a virtual workstation and see exactly the same image the students are using. When I walk into class, I just reconnect and I'm ready to teach."
La Salle Primary School
La Salle Primary School, based in Hong Kong, build a mobile learning platform using VMware Virtual SAN and VMware Horizon.
La Salle Primary School is leading the way for integrating IT with teaching in Hong Kong. They are enabling every student to use mobile learning on different devices and platforms with the help of VMware virtualization solutions like VMware Horizon View and VMware Virtual SAN.
La Salle Primary School chose VMware Virtual SAN technology to centrally manage storage for their servers alongside the VMware Horizon solution to deploy virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), saving significant hardware costs and footprint as well as the workload on internal IT and technical support staff. They now have a true VDI environment where students can smoothly and reliably access a common virtual environment and set of applications whether they are on campus computers or on their PCs and mobile devices.
"Compared with traditional server storage methods, VMware's Virtual SAN technology can bring us higher cost efficiency, stability and ease of management."
"We are no longer need to install required software or applications on each computer. This has in turn reduced memory and storage consumption, significantly reducing the burden on the school in terms of hardware. Equally important is that it has reduced the workload of our technical support staff and set a positive example in energy saving and sustainable development for our students."
Lakeridge Health Network
Lakeridge Health is one of the largest community hospitals in Ontario, Canada, serving more than 600,000 residents of Durham Region. Consisting of three acute hospitals, one specialty hospital, and several off-site facilities, Lakeridge Health manages more than 540 inpatient beds and employs more than 4,000 staff and physicians. Lakeridge Health is coming out of a multi-year capital freeze affecting IT. By deploying VMware Horizon (with View), Lakeridge Health now offers physicians bring-your-own-device (BYOD) and new remote access capabilities. Lakeridge Health also implemented VMware vSphere to bring its data center and Meditech clinical system hardware up to date. Benefits include improved patient privacy and hospital safety; improved physician satisfaction and remote access to systems; better data center performance; and hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings in hardware costs.
"When we evaluated the systems side-by-side on value—in terms of price for functionality—there was no question that VMware was the best choice. We're talking about hundreds of thousands of dollars of difference."
Langs Building Supplies
Langs Building Supplies Empowers Workforce with VMware Horizon, NVIDIA GRID, and the Nutanix Virtual Computing Platform
Langs Building Supplies is a leading supplier of timber and hardware products and a fabricator of roof trusses, wall frames, and door and window joinery for the construction industry. Based in Queensland, Australia, Langs is privately owned with a global workforce of nearly 400 employees. To better support its global workforce, Queensland-based Langs Building Supplies recently moved to an integrated virtual IT infrastructure using VMware Horizon, NVIDIA GRID Cards, and Nutanix Converged Infrastructure.
"The whole engagement – from the very first meeting to the proof of concept – was simply fantastic. They bent over backwards to support us. It's very rare to find a product that actually does what it says it's going to do. We found that with Nutanix and VMware."
Lanka Orix Leasing Company
LOLC Technologies is using the VMware vCloud Suite to implement a cloud platform that enables LOLC businesses to diversify into new markets. The Sri Lankan organization is also establishing IT services on demand to non-LOLC customers.
Large U.S. Financial Institution
A large financial institution deployed the VMware vCenter Log Insight solution on four nodes supporting 450 hosts and more than 12,000 virtual machines. The solution manages millions of log messages every day. It replaced a homegrown log management environment that was inefficient and didn't provide adequate visibility into the organization's reporting infrastructure. Now, with the Log Insight solution, this organization can resolve challenges quickly and spot latent problems before they cause infrastructure issues that impact critical business applications.
"vCenter Log Insight is our primary troubleshooting tool. Root-cause analyses … are 50 percent faster, just given that we don't have to wade through as many logs to find answers."
Laurens County Healthcare System
Laurens County Health Care System wanted to attest to Stage 1 of Meaningful Use by summer 2013 but knew it couldn't deploy Meditech in a physical data center environment because of cost and reliability concerns.
"Physicians are very excited that they can use their own devices from anywhere to access Meditech and review EMRs [electronic medical records] and patient data without physically having to come into the hospital,"
Legacy Reserves
Legacy Reserves uses Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service, provided by VMware vCloud Air, to ensure complete data protection for its business critical applications
Legacy Reserves LP is a master limited partnership headquartered in Midland, Texas, focused on the acquisition and development of oil and natural gas properties. Not satisfied with their current Disaster Recovery strategy, they turned to VMware for a solution that completely protects their data for business critical applications, while scaling to meet their growth objectives.
"Extremely efficient and easy to deploy—vCloud Air is worth every penny."
Legacy Reserves
Learn how Legacy Reserves LP uses vCloud Air DRaaS as a comprehensive disaster recovery platform.
"Extremely efficient and easy to deploy. vCloud Air is worth every penny."
Legacy Reserves
VMware customers discuss how vCloud Air is changing the way they do business by providing them with flexibility which enables them with new innovations.
A video featuring vCloud Air customers as they discuss how VMware changes the way they do business. Customers featured include: Perforce Software, Legacy Reserves, Custom Windows System, Cloud Business, Carisbrooke Shipping, Bluefin Solutions, Iatric and Nevro Corp.
Leonardo-Finmeccanica: the digital transformation of infrastructure starts with a software-defined data center
The Security & Information Systems division at Leonardo-Finmeccanica has embarked on a transformation. It begins with the development of infrastructure technology to achieve agility and simplicity in the provision of IT services. Leonardo-Finmeccanica has selected VMware as the provider of the best technology solutions and advisory services to create a software-defined data center.
"It is a decisive project for us, and this was the best time to implement it. VMware has proven to be the right partner to do it with, and they have provided support of the highest quality."
LifeSite Runs its Web Services Business in the Cloud with VMware vCloud Air
LifeSite's unique platform provides an intuitive solution to organize, categorize, manage, and safely share information accumulated through every phase of life. LifeSite Vault guides users with easy prompts for entering and encrypting information in different categories such as personal, medical, people, pets, online accounts, career, finances, property, insurance, and legal – and provides convenient features to enter, attach, and share information and documents. The solution facilitates collaboration with family members and advisors, and lets users establish backup contacts, so that a trusted family member or loved one can access key personal information in the event of an emergency.
Security is the number one feature at LifeSite. They have designed solutions from the ground up, with the safety and security of customers' information in mind. LifeSite uses the latest military-grade security protocols, and are continuously monitoring and auditing their systems to maintain the highest level of security.
LifeSite selected VMware vCloud Air as its IT cloud platform for performance, reliability, and access to management and automation tools that will enable seamless ongoing development and deployment of new applications and features for customers. The vCloud Air platform delivers an enterprise-grade infrastructure-as-a-service with the security and network isolation, and platform high availability, LifeSite needs to run their businesses.
"Security is very important to us and we made a significant investment in 3 specific areas: password security, date encryption, and the environment. That's why decided to partner with VMware utilizing VMware's vCloud Air Service. We were looking for an environment where it could be single tenant and where we have dedicated resources. Given the high bar we have set for ourselves and our users, vCloud Air was the only choice. Partnering with VMware and utilizing their vCloud Air Service provides our users and us that level of trust we need."
Linxdatacenter is constantly evolving in response to the growing needs of clients. Linxdatacenter decided to extend the portfolio of services provided to clients and to introduce Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) based on the FlexPod platform. The current and prospective clients, who are using typical ICT and collocation services, gained an opportunity to rent comprehensive virtual environments – a virtual data center. In practice this means that, with access to processing capacity, RAM and significant disk space, they are able to create and manage virtual servers on their own. The entire hardware solution is managed by VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 products.
"Clients want to make sure that their data is secure and they want to know where exactly the data is stored. LinxCloud meets both of these requirements. Our service, also called "the private cloud", enables our clients to process and store data on a secure platform and at the same time reduce the costs of hardware and software administration and maintenance. Also, the cloud allows for flexible and immediate adjustment of the hardware platform performance to meet the current needs of the company. The same rule applies to software, which does not need to be bought. You can pay for its use in the same way you pay for electricity consumption. Such an option is much more affordable compared to the traditional licensing model".
Liquid Capital harnesses virtualization as key to innovation. In its charge to embrace tomorrow's technology as a means to improve its customer's experience, South African financial service provider to the motoring industry Liquid Capital, has made a significant investment in virtualizing its entire IT environment.
"You have to be brave, you have to have a business strategy and you must show results immediately as you build things for the future. If you need an effective disaster recovery solution it is simply a no brainer, you have to virtualize. It's the catalyst for the future and without it you won't be able to get to the cloud."
Lombard Leasing Zrt.
Lombard Lízing Csoport has expanded its service portfolio considerably. Introducing products that are meant for new target groups presented a serious challenge for the IT team of the company. VMware based virtual environments were able to provide the business department with a new system in a day, including the installation and configuration of applications. It was precisely this kind of speed and flexibility that they wanted to achieve.
"Thanks to flexibility and availability achieved with VMware based virtualization Lombard Lízing Group can present itself to the customers as an agile, innovative and readily available financial service provider, and respond faster to changes on the market."
Lufthansa Systems
Lufthansa systems provide IT for the airline & aviation industry, based in Frankfurt, they employ over 3,000 people based in 14 countries. They needed to develop a system to distribute mapping data to pilots across the globe. Flight charts are only current for 4 weeks and pilots are only given 10 days to download updates. It needed to be scalable to cope with huge peaks in demand of up to 800MB of data being downloaded by over 7,000 pilots at the same time. A VMware Hybrid Cloud solution enables them to utilise a public cloud solution with their existing private cloud, increasing scalability & agility while ensuring data security. It was the only solution to provide the capacity to handle peaks in traffic avoiding latency issues
"VMware enables us to use the capabilities and scalabilities of a Public Cloud Provider and at the same time ensuring data security and integrity."


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Shaun Weiss is best known for his time on "Mighty Ducks." It looks like he needs to jump start his career again and that is something he will need help doing. He is now using Kickstarter to get things going again but this time he wants a comedy tour. He thinks that he would be a great comedian and this is what he wants to do with his life now. On Friday, US Magazine shared about his new Kickstarter campaign.
He wants to do a big tour and even a Netflix show about how it all goes down. Shaun made a small clip to let fans know how funny he is and see if they will help him out. He spoke out on the clip saying, ""I'm offering some insane kind of rewards. Basically if you invest, your reward is me. I will come to your house and you can shoot pucks at me," he joked. Some fans of the movie would beg to get to do this to him honestly.
Shaun Weiss hasn't been acting at all and the last time he was even in a show was in 2005. He has done a few various roles on things such as "Boy Meets World," "City Guys" and the show "Las Vegas." It seems like acting isn't really what he wants to do and he is hoping to become a comedian full-time. This is the career that he wants now and not being an actor.
It will be pretty cool if he can get enough people involved in his Kickstarter campaign. Only time will tell if enough people are willing to donate to him and help him out. Obviously he needs some financial help if he is trying to get some people to help him start his new career. Best of luck to Shaun Weiss!
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The Yosemite High Badgers (0-8, 0-3) ran into a team on a roll last Friday as the Redskins of Chowchilla (6-2, 3-0) had ripped off five straight victories under the leadership of one of the more exciting quarterbacks in the Central Section, DeVaughn Gaines. The Badgers become another victim of the Redskins losing 64-14 at Chowchilla, with 36 of those points being scored in the first quarter.
With Liberty losing to Washington Union (48-25) the Redskins control their destiny in the NSL.
Gaines, a senior, did it all for the Redskins. He ran for two touchdowns, returned a 45-yard punt for a TD and passed for another. He had over 200 yards of total offense. Chowchilla had 318 yards on the ground. For the third time this season, the Badgers were held to minus yard rushing and the Redskin defense limited the Badgers to minus eight yards.
Everything was clicking for Chowchilla on their homecoming. Just take Redskin kicker Justin Faafiti. The senior conventional, (not soccer style) kicker had three kickoffs out of the end zone. The Redskins also played virtually mistake free football.
"We let them get up on us early," said YHS head coach Kent Lincoln. "Our team had opportunities early to get points. We dropped a touchdown pass early. We aren't consistent. We need to put things together early to build positive momentum at the start of the game. We just haven't been able to do that often this year."
Chowchilla got off to a quick 22-0 lead before Badger QB Joey Woolsey connected with receiver Dillon Moran for a 44-yard touchdown pass. A Luke Blate PAT made it 22-7 Redskins. It was all Chowchilla from there.
The Redskins went on to score the next 35 points. Woolsey and Moran connected on a nine-yard TD at the end of the third period. Moran had another good game catching six passes for 129 yards and two touchdowns. It was Moran's second straight 100 plus receiving yards night.
"Joey Woolsey had a really good game on both offense and defense," said Lincoln.
Woolsey, a sophomore, who started as a defensive back for the first time this season. Lincoln also gave linebacker Cameron Simonsen kudos.
"Cameron had a great game," Lincoln said. "He was in on so many plays. He gave it all he had."
Game Stats
Chowchilla total yards: 380. Yosemite total yards: 177.
Chowchilla rushing: Gaines, 8-98; Fernando Martinez 1-75; Frankie Schwartz 9-55; Patrick Flanagan 4-34; Troy Uphoff 4-26; Evan Ortiz 4-13; Dustin Gaither 4-10; Anthony Stewart 1-7.
Yosemite rushing: Josia Madison 4-10; Woolsey 7-(-18).
Chowchilla passing: Gaines 2-6-0-62, 1 TD.
Yosemite passing: Woolsey 13-27-2-185, 2 TD's.
Chowchilla receiving: Uphoff 1-37; Gaither 1-25.
Yosemite receiving: Moran 6-129; Luke Blate 6-45; Timmy Jones 1-11.
NSL scores from 8-19
Washington Union 48, Liberty 25
Sierra 35, Kerman 6
Chowchilla 64, Yosemite 14
Yosemite vs. Washington Union
The Badgers travel to Easton to play Washington Union Friday. The JV teams play at 5 p.m. and the varsity kicks-off at 7 p.m.
The 2011 California State CIF D-III champions were hard hit at graduation and the team started the season 0-6. The Panthers are led by sophomore QB Landon Barberich. Barberich was 11 of 19 for 237 yards and three TD's against Liberty last week. The Panthers will still pound it on the ground. Their running back is Javin Harrison who tore up Liberty rushing for 270 yards and three touchdowns.
Union has produced 92 points in their last two games. The Panthers also had a close game with Chowchilla two weeks ago losing 47-44.
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Park announced his retirement from football due to knee problems, reports the Daily Mirror.
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Park underwent a medical with PSV Eindhoven ahead of a season-long loan from Queens Park Rangers, reports the Daily Mail.
Park left PSV back in 2005 to join Manchester United, and is now expected to return to the club for the upcoming season.
April 30, 2013
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Major League Soccer is interested in Park after his expected departure from QPR this summer, according to the Daily Mail.
The MLS is looking to make a larger impact in Asia and sees Park as an important key to that lock. After QPR was relegated, it seems likely that the star will be sold to lower expenses.
March 28, 2013
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Park refuted retirement discussion and said he is hoping to continue playing for a few more years, according to Sky Sports.
Park said his contract with QPR doesn't end until the end of next season, and he added that he hopes to play for a few more years with the team.
March 27, 2013
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Park said he would retire from soccer at the end of next season, reports the Daily Mail.
Park's father said that his time with Queens Park Rangers has been tough, and that keeping his passion for the game alive with inconsistent playing time is difficult.
July 9, 2012
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Queens Park Rangers have announced the signing of Park on a two-year deal, ESPN Soccernet reports.
Park has been brought on to add to QPR's presence in the Asian market, as well as to bring the experience that comes with any player who has been with Manchester United for seven years.
May 18, 2012
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Park expressed his wish to finish his career with Manchester United and is hoping to receive a new contract from the club, reports Sky Sports.
Park only has 12 months remaining on his current deal, and is a go-to player in most important tournament games.
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Park Ji-Sung added to the goal fest on Sunday as Manchester United embarrassed Arsenal 8-2.
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Euro May Lose More Ground Against the Dollar
The euro looks as though it needs guidance from the European Central Bank more than ever.
At the moment, the single currency should be on the rise. Euro-zone manufacturing activity has picked up again, even in some of the region's weakest countries.
The latest data from China, one of the euro zone's key trading partners, have lifted hopes that its economic slowdown may be over.
And in the U.S., worries about what might happen if a missile attack is launched on Syria have helped increase speculation that the Fed may choose to postpone any plans to start "tapering" its monetary policy later this month.
All of this should be playing into the euro's hands and pushing the single currency higher against the dollar. But it isn't. For the first time in a month, the single currency has fallen back below $1.32.
Some market watchers blame the slide on a end to repatriation flows that took place last month when investors were worried about the sharp losses in emerging markets and decided to bring their money back home.
Others reckon it could be just a reaction to the high level of speculative long positions that have built up in the currency in recent weeks.
Or it could be another reason: a financial market that has now been convinced that, regardless of the strength of the euro-zone economy, the ECB will stick to its forward guidance and keep interest rates low or even cut them further "for an extended period of time."
In other words, no matter how good the euro-zone economic data prove to be at the moment, the ECB will stick by its guns.
This is hardly surprising given the upcoming risks associated with Germany's elections, as well as talk that Greece will soon need a third bailout to prevent a sovereign default.
On top of that there is the German constitutional court's decision on the central bank's outright monetary transactions and whether their use is likely to be curbed. This could be key in removing some of the current investor support for debtor nations and make a debt crisis resolution more difficult to achieve.
Elsewhere, while the ECB continues to keep financial markets as stable as possible by resisting any pressure to tighten policy, the U.S. is still likely to start cutting by its bond-buying program this year, once the immediate tensions over Syria have passed.
These tapering expectations are likely to intensify if the U.S. reports another improvement in its employment market later this week.
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Chicago Mercantile Exchange live and feeder cattle were higher ahead of widespread cash business. DTN reports there was light trade in Nebraska at $125 Live and $195 Dressed. Asking prices are $128 to $129 South and $198+ North, with bids at $125 Live and $192 Dressed. The estimated slaughter of 128,000 head was up 2,000 on the week and 3,000 on the year.
Hogs were higher on the discount to the cash index, Wednesday's higher cutout but there are the longer term, seasonal, demand uncertainties. Terminals were steady to a dollar lower with tops at $50 to $58. The Eastern Cornbelt was $2.08 lower with the weighted average at $76.29, the Western Belt was up $1.39 at $80.11, and Iowa/Southern Minnesota was $1.21 higher at $79.94. The estimated slaughter was 434,000 head, 2,000 more than a week ago and 3,000 above a year ago.


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A 15-year-old spoke up during her time on the microphone.
In a smaller-scale version of Kanye West's Hurricane Katrina moment, a 15-year-old girl used her time on the microphone at this morning's September 11 remembrance to address the president directly. "I was only 3 when you were taken from us, and we love and miss you very much," she said of her uncle, who died in the attacks, before nervously switching gears to Syria. "And President Obama, please do not bring us to another war."
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Arab League foreign ministers yesterday expressed deep concern over the ongoing violence in Lebanon and urged the Lebanese parties to exercise self-restraint and seek unity. They also called on Israel to end its blockade of Gaza.
The ministers issued a statement yesterday after holding an extraordinary meeting in Cairo to discuss the situations in Lebanon and Gaza. Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Saud Al-Faisal led the Saudi delegation to the meeting.
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SEATTLE - The No. 63 Idaho men's tennis team responded from its first loss of the season with a pair of wins to wrap up the weekend, beating No. 73 St. Mary's 5-2 and Seattle U 7-0.
Idaho won the doubles point against St. Mary's, and clinched the match with some gutty wins in singles. Jose Bendeck's 6-2, 7-5 win at No. 5 was Idaho's only straight-set singles win, as Dmitry Perevoshchikov won 6-7, 6-1, 7-6 at No. 1, Marius Cirstea won 6-1, 6-7, 6-2 at No. 3 and Cristobal Ramos Salazar won 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 at No. 6.
"It was great to see how most of the guys showed up and competed against a very tough St. Mary's team," Idaho coach Jeff Beaman said. "This is a match that at times we were on the verge of losing but Marius, Cristobal and Dmitry really stepped up huge, gutting out third-set wins under pressure."
Idaho wrapped up the weekend with a clean sweep of Seattle U. The Vandals won at Nos. 1 and 3 doubles, and picked up straight-set wins at all six singles spots.
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Steven Velasquez eyes the field ahead during a run at Bonners Ferry last Friday night.
Medical Lake had the finish down just fine in their opening week.
Something happened, however, between their Week-1 win, 32-28 at home versus St. Maries and last Friday night's 28-16 setback at Bonners Ferry.
The hometown Badgers (2-1) got the lead for good, 21-16, on the first of two Anthony Skeen touchdown runs with 11 minutes, 9 seconds to play after Medical Lake turned the ball over deep in its own territory. "They were resilient, they're tough kids playing on their home field," Medical Lake head coach Wes Hobbs said.
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SEATTLE (AP) — A freight train struck and killed a woman Thursday morning on the tracks at Carkeek Park in Seattle.
Burlington Northern Santa Fe spokesman Gus Melonas says the crew blew the whistle and engaged emergency brakes, but the 63-car train could not stop in time. The crew said the woman was kneeling in the middle of the track.
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A proposed new code of ethics for educators focuses on cracking down on romantic relationships between Mississippi's teachers and students.
The Mississippi Department of Education released a draft of the Mississippi Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct on Thursday. The state Board of Education could vote to adopt it at its meeting next month.
Among other recommendations, the code would make it easier for the MDE to revoke the licenses of teachers who have improper relationships with students.
It also would require school districts to report all such behavior to the MDE.
"It is designed to serve as a deterrent to those employees who may have improper relationships with students, and it is designed to stop conduct at early stages," said Jim Keith, a consulting attorney for more than 100 districts in the state. Keith was on the task force that helped design the new code.
Currently, teachers would have to be convicted or terminated for their license to be revoked.
If they had harassed a student or sent inappropriate text messages but hadn't had sexual intercourse, they may have left a district before they had been terminated. Those teachers may then have been able to go to another district that was unaware of their conduct.
The new code aims to eliminate that loophole and increase what is reported to the MDE.
"The most important thing, in my book, is eliminating things that could harm boys and girls," said state board member Claude Hartley.
The code prohibits, among other things, such acts as sexual jokes and remarks, electronic communication, invitation to social networking, remarks about a student's body, sexual assault and consensual sex.
"We want the public to understand we're not going to tolerate this," Keith said.
The code would be the first statewide ethics code for Mississippi educators. Mississippi is currently the only state in the South without such a code.
"I think it is a huge step in the right direction," said Tupelo Superintendent Randy Shaver. "Educators are professionals, and most other professions have a strict code of ethics that they expect professionals to abide by."
The code was developed by a 22-member task force that has met over the last six months. They used codes from other states as guides.
Keith said that momentum for the new code built as concern grew about an increasing number of improper relationships between teachers and students. New technologies like Facebook and text messages that make it easier for teachers to communicate with students also needed to be addressed.
Deputy State Superintendent Daphne Buckley said the MDE is still determining how the new code will be implemented. Keith said teachers may need to sign the code at the beginning of the year before signing their contracts.
"It is a general guide for the highest professional behavior, and it has consequences for unethical behavior," Buckley said.
The code covers 10 standards, including professional conduct; trustworthiness; alcohol, drug and tobacco use and possession and use of public funds.
"It is very comprehensive, and I think it is good that professional educators have standards to base their work on," said Nettleton Schools Superintendent Russell Taylor.
New Albany Superintendent Charles Garrett said the code is important because it brings education in line with other professions; such as medicine, engineering and law; that also have codes of ethics.
"If you want consistency from school district to school district, you need some sort of state guidance, and I think the state board is trying to provide that guidance," he said.
The code also prohibits such acts as harassment of colleagues, inappropriate language on school grounds or at any school-related activity, "using coercive means or promise of special treatment in order to influence professional decisions of colleagues" and being on school campus or at a school-related activity while using alcohol or tobacco.
"It looks like a lot of practical common-sense behaviors you would hope your teachers exhibit on a daily basis with young people," said Amory Schools Superintendent Gearl Loden.
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Again, I find myself disheartened in the lack of progression.
A very dear and old friend of mine has recently begun to turn over a fresh new leaf of life and I couldn't be more proud. Although there have been a few bumps in the road, she remains positive through encouragement that she will soon succeed in societal demands.
I want to take this time to let the community know that Carroll Co Animal Support will be starting our low cost spay/neuter clinics back up this month.
This year, we are changing the way we will register clients for the clinic. We will be at the county library on Wednesday, Feb. 9 from 10 a.m. until noon and Wednesday, Feb. 16 from 6-7:30 p.m. registering everyone. We will also require a deposit on that day. Last year, we had several people to sign up and then not show up.
Last week, the General Assembly returned to the Capitol to kick off the main portion of the 2011 Regular Session.
This follows the guidelines established in the state's Constitution for odd-year meetings, which call for a brief recess after legislators meet for four days in early January to elect House and Senate leaders and establish committee membership for the next two years.
When we returned last Tuesday, Gov. Steve Beshear set the stage for the work ahead when he offered the annual State of the Commonwealth address.
I would like to use this space for a little rant this week.
Let me begin by saying I love my cell phone. It's great for when you are shopping with a friend and need to get back together after going your own ways. I have called the library for a phone number when I am on my way to an appointment and have left the address at home or I'm going to be late and need to call and let someone know. I have even taken a picture of a beautiful sunset with my phone when I encounter one and don't have my camera.
I am writing this letter to let the citizens of our surrounding area know that Jackson-Hewitt Tax Service supports two very good causes, the Home of the Innocents and Doing Our Part From the Heart.
Have you driven on Interstate 71 in Carroll County lately? If so, you'll know our section of this major highway is in need of repairs.
This winter has not been kind to I-71. It's rough and the number of potholes seems to increase every day. And it's only going to get worse as the weather breaks in the next month and there is a lot of freezing and thawing to damage the pavement.
At best, I would say riding through Carroll County is a bumpy experience. It's hard on both our bodies and our vehicles.
I remember a character in a book I must have read years ago who always read the obituaries to see if he was still alive.
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Sept. 27, 2013
AMHERST, Mass. - The University of Massachusetts field hockey program played its first overtime game of the season against New Hampshire on Friday evening, falling to the Wildcats, 3-2 at Garber Field. The Minutewomen recorded a goal each from Lauren Allymohamed and Nicole Miller while Charlotte Verelst added an assist.
New Hampshire (4-4 overall) secured the win 10 minutes, 15 seconds into the extra period on an own goal by UMass. Megan Bozek sent a pass into the circle intended for teammate Emma Compagna. The ball rolled by Compagna and a marking defender untouched and deflected off of Minutewomen goalkeeper Sam Carlino before settling into the back of the cage.
UMass (7-3) went ahead, 1-0 in the 40th minute of competition following a penalty corner, as Allymohamed redirected a Verelst shot by New Hampshire goalkeeper Carlie Tarbell at the 39:57 mark.
The Minutewomen padded their advantage at 57:23 with Miller's second goal of the year. The freshman from Washington, N.J., controlled possession at the right-center edge of the circle and took the play to the endline before cutting toward the goal. Miller fired an attempt into the left side of the cage as Tarbell stepped forward to challenge the play.
However, the Wildcats battled back with a pair of goals during the final five minutes of regulation to even the score at 2-2 and force overtime. Meg Flately notched the first New Hampshire tally at 66:11 following a pass from Kellie Joyce. Melyssa Woods added the tying goal after a penalty corner. Woods corralled a loose ball in the circle and placed a shot by Carlino into the left side of the netting with 47 seconds to play.
Carlino finished with four saves on the day while Tarbell earned eight for the Wildcats. The Minutewomen led in total shots, 16-10 and on-target attempts, 10-8. UMass also earned an 8-5 edge on penalty corners.
The Minutewomen wrap up their three-game homestand with a contest against No. 2 Maryland (8-0) on Sunday, Sept. 29, at 1 p.m. Admission is free of charge to all.
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WKU recognized its top volunteers, alumni and alumni chapters Thursday night (Oct. 18) at the annual Summit Awards.
Distinguished Service Medals to recognize the service of the University's top volunteers were presented to Dale Augenstein of Hilton Head, S.C., Dan Murph of Bowling Green and Mike Simpson of Bowling Green.
Dorris (D.B.) and Lula Burchett of Germantown, Tenn., were recognized as WKU's Philanthropists of the Year.
Kelsey Richey of Bowling Green is the Young Alumnus of the Year and Sally Sadler Tisdale of Louisville is the Alumna of the Year.
"Power of One" honorees for the Hilltopper Athletic Foundation membership campaign were Bob Baysinger of Glasgow, Roy Gravil of Brownsville, Michael Wang of Lexington and Scott Crutcher of Bowling Green.
The Barren County, Central Kentucky, Greater Louisville, Heartland, Muhlenberg County, Music City, Northern Kentucky and Warren County alumni chapters were recognized as Spirit of Distinction Alumni Chapters for their efforts in organizing alumni events, community service projects, student recruitment and special events.
The Summit Awards were presented at the Knicely Conference Center at WKU's South Campus as part of Homecoming activities.
University-wide volunteer of the year awards were presented to the following:
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- Dale Augenstein of Hilton Head, S.C., Alumni Association National Alumni Board
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Aretha Franklin came home to perform in Detroit after canceling two scheduled summer shows for the DTE Energy Music Theatre and in other cities in order to complete medical treatments, for an undisclosed health issue that dates back a few years. The Queen of Soul did make sure the crowd knew she was back and ready to retake the throne with a solid, adventurous and frequently uplifting performance. Photojournalist Ken Settle was there to catch the action. Read Gary Graff's review at TheOaklandPress.com/Entertainment.


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WALNUT, Calif.—The Arizona State track and field teams wrapped up competition at the 56th Mt. Sac Relays on Saturday at Mt. San Antonio College's Hilmer Lodge Stadium.
The men's 4x400m relay team of senior Keith Cleveland, redshirt junior Devan Spann, senior Daveon Collins, and senior Will Henry matched their season best time of 3:06.12 for second in their section and overall.
On the women's side, the 4x400m relay team of junior Sara McDonald, freshman LaTroya Franklin, senior Sarah Geren, and junior Brianna Tate took third overall at 3:33.13, a new season best.
Junior Shelby Houlihan ran in the elite section of the women's 800m run, finishing in 10th overall with a time of 2:02.96, which was just off her personal best and school record time of 2:02.63.
Redshirt senior Ryan Milus took fifth in his section and 12th overall in the elite 100m dash with a time of 10.35.
In the women's 4x100m relay elite section, the team of senior Asiah Gooden, Brianna Tate, Alycia Herring, and LaTroya Franklin won the second section at 44.98.
Late on Friday evening, the ASU distance runners were in action, with redshirt sophomore Ryan Herson taking 18th in the elite section of the 5000m run with a new personal best time of 13:44.81. The time remains the No. 4 time in the ASU record book.
Freshman Chelsey Totten took 14th in the Olympic Developmental section of the women's 5000m, taking 14th at 16:48.89, while freshman Bernie Montoya finished 24th on the men's side at 14:26.28.
In the open section of the women's 5000m, junior Marcy Bricks ran 17:14.04 for 17th, while redshirt senior Steven Schnieders took 16th on the men's side at 14:29.97.
Up next, the Sun Devil track and field teams will send its throwers to the Triton Invitational, April 25-26, in La Jolla, Calif.


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On our third day, we explored the mountains and gorges of Thorsmork, clambered through the Stakkholtsgja gorge, and spent another night in the hut whose name I preferred to translate from the Icelandic as "place with showers." In a gesture of group bonding, the Brits, Jonathan and Marion, produced tea bags, and even better, an ambrosial half-liter of Scotch. That night, the hut vibrated with snores of hard-earned exhaustion.
Cross Between a Refugee Camp and a Lunar Paradise
And so our U.N.-flavored expedition team settled into its own viable rhythm and flow. We devised an informal rotation to fulfill table-setting or dishwashing duties (or cheese-sandwich preparing; it was always and forever cheese sandwiches for lunch) in whatever hut Siggi had arranged for the night. And we established a casual choreography for walking in pairs or in quiet solitude, watching puffs of steam rise out of volcano-heated outcroppings along the way. We became comfortable enough with one another to joke, or to complain. Often we would nod international hellos to other wind-chapped hiking groups, many of them Danish, Swiss, French, or Australian, but none American.
By the fourth day, we began to traverse the Laugavegurinn Trail in earnest, crossing the Krossa River to the northern part of Iceland's glacial valley. "A terrain built from fire and ice," said Siggi, pointing to black sand created by lava. Flash streams required the removal of boots, the strapping on of water sandals, the fording of currents, the removal of sandals and the relacing of boots. As our team trudged on, the Spaniards sang while Dr. Hickory Stick free-associated about birds, flowers, weather patterns, and the splendors of North Dakota. (The guy also forged ahead with no hiking poles!) That night, I shared the gifts of hand sanitizer and the precious sleeping potion, Ambien, which made me a very popular bunkmate with the nonsnorers.
One morning, I realized, with no little pride, that I hadn't seen my face in a mirror for two days. Then, about the same time that Dr. Hickory Stick had stopped bathing or changing his clothes, I decided that if I, a woman used to plenty of space and time by myself, couldn't eke out a simple hour alone, I'd go mad as a hag in an Icelandic saga. I went outside, took deep breaths, gazed at the noon-colored night sky and returned to my sleeping bag. The last day of our expedition, we admired the great Icelandic volcano Mount Hekla, shrouded in mist. "She is very shy," Siggi explained, sounding like a Viking bard. "She is covered with clouds to her shoulders." The roughing-it portion of the hike had ended just in time: My travel-diary description of the large mountain hut at the end of the trail reads "a cross between a refugee camp and a lunar paradise."
Finally, Rejuvenated
How my hair looked I could only guess, but how my sense of self had strengthened needed no mirror for corroboration. With each adventure I take, journeying on my own to meet other pilgrims and committing myself to flexibility have become sources of psychic rejuvenation. I love the group camaraderie, the friendships that become as dissolvable or sustainable as desired by journey's end; I love studying the astonishing ways of strangers who become my temporary intimates. I even (almost) feel sisterly love for snorers. Nothing is intolerable when every situation is fresh, and the facts of my career, my home address, and even my hard-won definition as a woman of a certain age, status, and fastidiousness of grooming shrinks in importance.
Back home, these contours will matter again. But in the mists of Mount Hekla, I feel giddy with the excitement of life without borders.
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Rosita Missoni, founding partner of the hugely popular iconic Italian fashion brand Missoni, received her Honorary Degree from the Academy of Art University in 1999. On May 8th, 2014, her daughter Angela Missoni, creative director of the family's namesake label will receive her Honorary Doctorate along with granddaughter Margherita Maccapani Missoni, Missoni's company brand ambassador and accessories designer.
Missoni is all about innovation and I think we can say this is a fashion first: three generations of a family receiving Honorary Doctorate degrees from Academy of Art University", said Angela Missoni. "My mother, Rosita, received her degree over a decade ago, and Margherita and I are so proud to join her and the other honorary recipients of degrees from this prestigious institution."
The award ceremony will take place at the Academy of Art University annual student fashion show on May 8, 2014 at 7 pm at 2225 Jerrold Avenue in San Francisco.
Tickets are free to the public on a first come, first serve basis.
Missoni, founded in 1953 by Ottavio and Rosita Missoni, is hugely popular in the United States and worldwide. When they partnered with Target in 2011 to offer a limited edition low-price designer collection, demand crashed Target's website multiple times and the entire collection was sold out within days.
The Academy of Art University is the nation's largest accredited private art and design university. Established in 1929, the school offers accredited AA, BA, BFA, MA, MFA, and M.Arch degree programs in a variety of art and design fields.


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She's justly ticked. "Left-leaning politics" (a bit of a hyperbole for Quindlen's safely Democrat views) have, if anything, more of a claim to religious roots than do "right-leaning politics." They arise from a staunchly Christian progressive view of the world and God's plan for it (or, sometimes, from a more complicated but equally potent Jewish theological stew). "Right-leaning" politics are nearly always infused with a strong dose of libertarianism — humanism in the extreme.
Of course, there's just as strong a case to be made for Republicans and their further-right brethren as soldiers of the Lord, but it's worth remembering that religion in American politics has always been a double-edged sword, and one wielded by all parties.
Quindlen states the current conflict over who's doing God's work well: "the new wedge issue is religiosity, not to be confused with faith."
She is on shakier ground when she charges toward the great refuge of "reaonable discourse" in American politics: "Most voters neither go to church several times a week nor never set foot in one. American life takes place somewhere in the middle, and there the worship gap narrowed, if not downright disappeared."
This is a reformulation of the old "We're all basically the same under the skin" thesis, and it's as wrongheaded as the alleged "God gulf" beloved by all those who think the "red state/blue state" theory is sophisticated political analysis.
American life, whatever that is, does not take place in the "middle"; it takes place wherever Americans are. Their religious life is just varied. Quindlen does us a mitzvah in debunking the religious right monolith, but her theology of the mountain in the middle is bad geography.


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Ankara must be careful projecting itself as a player in a region where the word "Turk" still carries a good deal of historical baggage.
Bosnian meat producers anticipate new business opportunities in Turkey, after the authorities in Ankara agreed to buy around 6,000 tons of meat from the country.
The Turkish President's visit to Croatia this week will shore up Turkey's position in Europe, while raising hopes of benefits for Turkish exporters and tourism industry.
Turkey's state-run Anadolu press agency opened a Macedonian-language service that will also publish news in Albanian.
Erdogan's admirers in mainly Muslim parts of the Balkans took to the streets to celebrate the victory of his Justice and Development party, which won back its Turkish parliamentary majority.
Serbian government has protested over the way the Turkish embassy in Serbia was presented on the Turkish Foreign Ministry website, though experts doubt the spat will harm long-term ties.
Serbia's relations with Turkey are crucial for the Balkans, experts told a forum in Belgrade on Wednesday - although they did not all agree on Turkey's future role in the region.
On a visit to Sarajevo, Recep Tayyip Erdogan has shown the extent of Turkish support for Bosnia - while some suspect the visit is designed also to boost the hand of Erdogan's main Bosnian ally, Bakir Izetbegovic.
A newly-formed ethnic Albanian party in Macedonia has denied allegations that it is a 'subsidiary' of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling Justice and Development Party.
Turkish Airlines has indicated that it is willing to assist Macedonia set up its own national airline, following the demise of Macedonian Airlines several years ago.
Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said he "wants to believe" that Recep Tayyip Erdogan did not say that anyone who dares upset Bosniaks will have to face 100 million Turks.


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The Ballad of Gay Tony Credits reveal the following:
- Brucie Kibbutz and Mori Kibbutz sparring at the L.C. Fight Club.
- Jerry Kapowitz partying at his new mansion, surrounded by girls and downing a bottle of Blêuter'd champagne.
- Patrick McReary exiting a cab at Francis International Airport, Dukes with a duffelbag and heading in.
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