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Description: Most new construction in Modesto is expected to comply with the regulations in the Zoning Code (i.e., setbacks from property lines, height limits, parking requirements, etc.). However, there are some instances where compliance with the development regulations creates a hardship for the property owner due to unusual characteristics of the parcel involved. A variance may be requested to deviate from Zoning Code requirements.
Examples: The property is unique compared to typical parcels due to its unusual size, shape, topography, location, surroundings, or other physical characteristics.
This submittal is an optional courtesy review by Planning staff, which provides applicants with preliminary feedback on variance proposals prior to submitting a full application. It does not include review by other departments or divisions.
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Preview: Man Utd v Arsenal
A mouth-watering clash on Sunday sees Manchester United face Arsenal at Old Trafford. (16.10 kick off GMT)
This is David Moyes toughest test at Old Trafford so far and the pressure is on to get a result. If they lose they could be 11 points behind Arsenal at the end of the weekend.
United Team News: Tom Cleverley and Michael Carrick should start while Danny Welbeck is carrying a knock.
Arsenal Team News: Jack Wilshere is a huge doubt with an ankle injury which caused him to miss Wednesday's win over Dortmund. Mathieu Flamini should be fit after a groin injury and Theo Walcott may play a part in the game as a sub.
Stat: Arsenal have scored in all of their 10 PL games this season.
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"Hopefully now we can go to Old Trafford and finish the job off." - Ramsey
If Arsenal manage to contain the pair, they will strongly fancy their chances were Stoke and West Brom have both scored twice. As Tyrrell Meertins pointed out, Arsenal's win against Dortmund was about the battle in midfield. United's midfield will have a difficult time of keeping Arsenal's midfield quiet as is filled with exceptional talent who are all in great form. Whereas, United's problem for the last few years is that there midfield has not been the strongest, hence a bid for Cesc Fabregas in the summer.
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President's Message
By Amy Cotton MSN, GNP-BC, FNP-BC, FNGNA
I love the changing of seasons in Maine and spring is no exception. For any of you in areas of the country where things are coming back to life, you know what a boost it is for us all. It is a fitting time to share with you some exciting news as well.
I am thrilled to share with you a major national collaboration for NGNA and significant new member benefit. The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing (HIGN) has joined with us to launch a new webinar series to improve nursing care for older adults. NGNA will provide expert faculty for six webinars each year and present clinical topics relevant to improving the delivery of healthcare to older adults. Members of NGNA will be able to access these webinars and other resources developed by the Hartford Institute, including the Gerontological Nursing Certification Review Course and other online learning modules, at heavily discounted rates. The webinars will also produce revenue for the organization. This is a win-win and I hope all of you will take advantage of this new member benefit.
For those of you with sharp eyes, did you notice anything new about the NGNA logo? Notice the new tagline: Where Compassion meets purpose. Your board leaders thoughtfully crafted a short description to describe to the world who NGNA is. I know you have all had experiences where people have asked "gero what?" when we tell them about NGNA. We felt it was important to differentiate our nursing organization from others. Our mission is clear – to improve nursing care for older adults. We now have a tagline that truly shares member passion and purpose.
Thank you all for your commitment to NGNA, the only inclusive nursing organization for gerontological nursing in the country!
Warm regards,
Pack your Sandals!
2013 NGNA Convention Update
Submitted by Marilyn Daly Newton, RN, BC, CRRN, FNGNA, Co-Chair Convention Planning Committee
The Planning Committee has been busy planning a great convention featuring inspiring lectures, panel discussions, networking opportunities and "Fun in the Sun!"
The Call for Abstracts was extended and a wide variety of topics have been submitted making it difficult for the committee to make choices to suit everyone.
Speakers for six general sessions and the Opening Session are being reviewed with a wide variety of topics. All general session speakers will be university-based. Different formats have been proposed to allow variety and choice for everyone in attendance, from lectures to panel discussion to open discussion.
Our annual highlight and "relaxed feature" of Convention, the Consumer Session, will again be chaired by Marcia Shad. This session never fails to leave us with some inspiration, hope and a good feeling about our older adult population and the endless horizons impacting our lives day by day, one nurse at a time.
The committee members are working hard to provide varied unduplicated poster presentations and research topics. We have received a variety of abstract submissions, and several committees are currently reviewing these abstracts to provide the most valuable program possible for you. For the second year in a row, Jane Marks and Inez Wendel are chairing this sub-committee.
Deb Conley will again present her popular two-day Pre-Convention Certification Workshop. Attendance increases every year and lasting friendships have been formed while attending the course.
By the time you receive the next newsletter, the speakers, panels and activities will be determined. This year's Convention Planning Committee members are very excited to have our board members actively participate as liaisons to the committee so that together, we may provide you the best education and networking opportunities that we all look forward to every year. Many of our speakers will be from the local Tampa Bay area (Clearwater, St. Petersburg and Tampa) and the state of Florida.
Remember, the convention is about a large group of professionals and one goal: Improving the lives of our older population one conference at a time!
Clearwater offers beautiful beaches, culture, shopping and - best of all – a chance to reunite with fellow NGNA members! See you in Clearwater this October.
NGNA Awards and Scholarships Program: An Opportunity for Recognition
"It takes each of us to make a difference for all of us."
Jackie Mutcheson – Teacher
How many times have you encountered a person in your practice/teaching/research who is truly making or striving to make a difference in the quality care provided to older adults? Most of you probably encounter somebody who fits this description daily. In fact, when you look in the mirror, you might see that person!
NGNA's Awards and Scholarships Program offers many possibilities for recognizing those persons who influence the quality of nursing care provided to older adults. The awards include:
The award materials are available on the NGNA website – click here for details –and nominations are due on May 15, 2013. Most of the awards and scholarships allow for self-nomination in addition to nomination of other worthy candidates. Please consider nominating one of your fellow members for these awards/scholarships.
Why should you, as a NGNA member, nominate persons for these awards (or encourage them to submit their own application)? Members of the 2013 Awards Committee articulated the following reasons. Jackie Close stated, "It is our professional responsibility when nominations are announced to really think of a deserving person…that we could take the time to nominate. If we do not toot the horns of our colleagues and peers, we are doing our organization and nursing a disservice." Carol Amann added that members might think about "a great nurse from your memory that often went unnoticed." These are the persons who deserve recognition.
Please consider taking a few moments of your time to make a difference not only in the lives of older adults but also to recognize those who contribute to the quality of older adults' lives. Nominate at least one person for an award/scholarship this year!
Rethink, Reconnect, Restore and Reduce Antipsychotic Medications to Improve Care for Persons with Dementia in the Nursing Home
Submitted by Pam Seale, MSN, RN, GCNS-BC
Reviewed by Melodee Harris, PhD, APN, GNP-BC and Wanda Spurlock, DNS, RN-BC, CNE, FNGNA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined that antipsychotics that are used for the management of behavioral symptoms in persons with dementia are at an increased risk for cardiovascular mortality.1 According to data from The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), more than 17 per cent of nursing home residents received inappropriate doses of antipsychotic medications.2 A medical record review for one 6 month interval revealed off-label use for 83 per cent of claims for atypical antipsychotic medications.2 Patrick Conway, the CMS Chief Medical Officer and Director of Clinical Standards and Quality reported that 40 per cent of persons with dementia in the nursing home received antipsychotic medications without a diagnosis of psychosis.3 In response to these findings, CMS issued The Initiative to Improve Behavioral Health and Reduce the Use of Antipsychotic Medications in Nursing Homes.4 In May 2012, CMS announced the Partnership to Improve Dementia Care. The Partnership to Improve Dementia Care is a national effort lead by federal and state partners, nursing homes, and other organizations to reduce off-label antipsychotic use in nursing homes by 15 per cent.5
The reactions of nurses, DONs, and administrators fall across a continuum. They don't understand our population. Do they know what will happen if we stop his Seroquel? Others look quickly for the loophole. How can the paper work look right yet our practices not really change? What kind of documentation will we need? Drug companies are promoting alternative drugs that promise behavioral management outside of the antipsychotic category. Alternative drug therapy may satisfy the surveyors who are looking at the letter of the law, but does it reach the spirit of the law? The cynic will say the driving force for the change is financial. I say the driving force is increasing person centered care with the most vulnerable population we have in long-term care (LTC).
Yes, we are working in a broken system that needs financial fixing fast. According to CMS, in 2007 US citizens and Medicare spent $13 billion for antipsychotic drugs. That is nearly 5% of the total drug expenditures.6 Woven deep in the tapestry of the healthcare industry however, including CMS, there are nurses and other professionals who are looking for strategies to improve individuals' quality of life. Nurses know the heart of the matter is quality of life. Nurses know that off-label antipsychotic medications cause a sedative effect leaving the patient less alert and often somnolent. Increasing somnolence is equivalent to increasing immobility. Immobility decreases independence. As activities of daily living decline, other poor outcomes increase such as a falls, incontinence, and skin breakdown.
Nursing home residents with dementia are even more vulnerable to geriatric syndromes due to adverse side effects of antipsychotic medications. Nonpharmacological alternatives can be used to manage dementia associated behaviors and improve quality of life.7
We at NGNA advocate for older adults to receive the highest quality of care available. Evidence-based research in non-pharmacological interventions is developing all across the nation. Take the opportunity to move dementia care forward to a new level for the sake of the each individual's quality of life.
The CMS National Partnership to Improve Dementia Care in Nursing Homes promotes "the three R's" - Rethink, Reconnect, and Restore!
Rethink the approach to managing behaviors in persons with dementia.
Reconnect using person centered care.
Restore good health and quality of life.3
Here's how to start:
Let's do our best to care for older adults!
NGNA Chapter Presidents, please complete your chapter's Annual Report online by April 8, in order to keep your chapter current for another year! Click here to access the online form.
Additionally, the chapter member roster and $50 fee must be submitted to NGNA Headquarters. You may send the roster and payment by check to:
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You may also pay by credit card by calling headquarters at 800-723-0560. Please contact Courtney Devine at email@example.com with any questions.
NGNA/HIGN Webinar Series
April Webinar Topic: Advance Directives and Decision Making
Description: This webinar will inform the primary care provider on how to utilize various types of advanced directives to ensure patient care preferences are met. It discusses the advantages and limitations of each type of advanced directive, and how they are executed.
Presenter: Mathy Mezey, EdD, RN, FAAN
A pioneer promoting best nursing care practices for older adults nationally and internationally, Dr. Mezey's distinguished career has focused on elevating the competency of nurses caring for older adults and ensuring that people age in comfort and dignity. Her research and writing focus on geriatric nursing education, the quality of care for older people in hospitals and long-term care, and bioethical issues that affect decisions at the end of life. Dr. Mezey is the founder and Associate Director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing.
NGNA Members: Login using your member access information to view a 50% discount code for NGNA members to use when registering for the webinar series.
Description: Many behaviors of older adults who have Alzheimer's disease provide challenges for caregivers. Knowing what to expect and what to do to prevent or manage specific behaviors increases satisfaction of caregivers and care recipients. A framework for rethinking challenging behaviors will provide guidance for choosing effective interventions.
This webinar will award 1 contact hour.
Information can be found on the Hartford Institute website. http://hartford2staging.hartfordign.org/education/webinars/
The New York University College of Nursing is accredited as a provider of continuing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Save the Date!
2013 NGNA Annual Convention: October 3-5, 2013
A Clear Vision of Care for the Older Adult
Hilton Clearwater Beach
Clearwater, Florida
Mark your calendar for the NGNA 2013 Annual Convention in Clearwater, Florida! Click here for hotel information - reservations are available now! Watch your inbox for more details. Registration will open in May.


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Compost tumblers convert food scraps into rich fertilizer in 10 wks, w/o hassle.
Imagine how much your lawn and garden would benefit from free organic fertilizer.
If one has ever wanted to garden, but didn't know where to start, creating a homemade compost tumbler is the perfect way to give one the nutritious potting soil one needs!
Tumblers create rich, dark fertilizer in only 10 weeks from your kitchen scraps. This is weeks faster in comparison to a regular compost bin or rotting compost pile, due to added aeration and easy daily tumbling for bacterial decomposition.
Compost tumblers eliminate the strain normally placed on the back muscles from shoveling. It also contains the smell into one space, and when earthworms are added, the humus (or compost) is made even faster. The worms are hardy creatures that don't mind getting tumbled, and are just fine when the pile is also steaming.
- Jigsaw
- Drill w/ small and large drill bits, and screwdriver bit
- Ruler
- Tape measure
- Sharpie marker
- Philips head Screwdriver
- Sharp kitchen knife
Optional: Epoxy glue, Spade bit
(Above photo: Jigsaw)
(Above photo: drill bit, drill with rechargeable battery, sharpie marker and tape measure)
Materials to Purchase or find:
- A rainwater barrel. The one in this photo was found at a local car wash beside the trash, with a tiny bit of detergent residue in the bottom, which was promptly poured into a pitcher and saved. Cost: free. Find one at your local car wash, mention that you noticed it next to the trash, ask if they're throwing it away and if so, "May I have it, please?" Manners work wonders!
At Home Depot, one can find:
- Box of 3" wood screws - $7.49
- 2 small hinges - $3
- 1 large hinge - $3
- 1 sliding bolt latch - $5
- 8 pieces of 4 ft. long 2 X 4 treated lumber - $8
- 1 PVC rod, 4 ft. long, 3/4" round - $.82 cents
Time needed for project: < 6 hours.
Step 1: Take 4 of the 8 wood planks, and on each of these 4, measure 10 inches down from one end, and mark a screw sized circle in the center.
Step 2: Take 2 of these 4 marked planks aside. Place your marked circles face up, to the right, and lay the planks horizontally in front of you on the floor.
At the opposite ends of the marked circles, measure 5 inches at a 45 degree angle slanted up from the bottom left edge of the plank, up to the right, and mark all the way across the plank with the sharpie. On the other two planks, measure the same 45 degree angle going in the opposite direction: from bottom right, up to the left, and mark the line.
At the halfway mark along each of these 4 lines (at 2.5"), mark a black circle to indicate where a wood screw will go. These lines indicate the triangle edge that is going to be sawed off with a jigsaw, which will make a flat resting portion to bear the weight of the tumbler on top of a flat wooden plank. The wood screws here are going to be going up and in on the thin underbelly of the plank.
These 4 planks thus marked will make the standing, criss-crossed portions of our 2 A-frames! The other 4 boards are going to be divided up, so that 2 boards go underneath each A-frame as the flat board each A-frame stands on, and 2 more boards will connect the 2 A-frames together, to give structural support.
Step 3: Placing the plank being cut on top of a large book or another support (such as another couple of planks) that lifts the plank being cut off the floor, cut the drawn diagonal line on each plank (we're cutting off the triangular edge) with the jigsaw.
Step 4: Using the drill and small drill bit, prepare the holes for the wood screws. Drill all the way through. Note: you do not have to use a drill bit first, and as an option, can just use the screwdriver bit and screw directly if you feel pressed for time, but it does mean you don't have to push so hard (which is good for your drill). The benefits of using the drill bit besides this are that, when it's time to put in the screw, the screw goes right in, and the tiny hole created generally focuses the screw at the angle you want it to, if drilled straight up and down.). It's up to you.
Step 5: Taking one wood screw, screw the first two black circles drawn 10 inches from the top, together, making sure that the cut bottom edges of the two planks you choose make that "tee-pee" shape, close-together.
Step 6: Take a flat, unmarked plank, and measure the halfway point (which is around ~2' across, assuming your planks are at exactly 4 ft. long to begin with.). Make a small mark to indicate the halfway point. The top of your A-frame should be directly above this mark when you screw this half-marked plank onto the A-frame.
Place the wide portion of this half-marked plank underneath the cut edges to where the edges both push flat against it. You may have to pull these boards wider or push them in further apart to adjust. When the cut edges are both flat, make sure the cut edges are equally distant from all 4 edges of the half-marked plank. Mark a circle on the half-marked plank where your screw is going to go in from the bottom, up through the top, and do this on both sides. Screw it in. For added stability, add an additional screw going up and in closely beside each of the screws on the sides, a few cms apart.
Congratulations! Your first A-frame should now stand up on its own without any outside support, like this:
Step 7: Make an identical second A-frame, following the same steps 5 and 6. You're halfway through!
Step 8: Taking the rainwater barrel, mark a rectangle door using a sharpie, of 11.5" X 16.5" (or whatever size you'd like, keeping in mind that you don't want it to be so large that too much weight from the inside could bust it open, and not too small that it would be difficult to obtain your compost.). I used the natural corners from this replaced sticker that came on the barrel as a reference point, marking 2 inches out, all the way around the perimeter.
Step 9: Taking a sharp kitchen knife, wedge a knife sized hole directly into each of the four corners, making an "L" shaped hole at each corner. This is so your jigsaw has a way to be inserted.
Step 10: Place the jigsaw in one corner and cut along the line until you come to the end of the line. Pull the jigsaw out, turn it at the corner, and cut each line out on all 4 edges, until the door comes completely out.
Step 11: Now for the fun part! You are ready to put the two small hinges on each side at the top of your door. First, place the hinge to where the top rounded cylindrical part of the hinge meets the very edge. Make sure your hinge will open the right way before screwing it on (again, it should open like a tee-pee, and not like a flower.). Mark each spot for the screws. Then, use your small drill bit to prepare the holes, and screw each one in with the screwdriver bit. You may use a strong-holding 2 part epoxy glue on the back after the hinges are screwed on, for a better hold, if your hinges did not come with a nut for each screw. This is for when the weight of the compost hits the screws.
Step 12: Do the same with a large hinge in the middle, between the two hinges.
Step 13: Screw on the main, big piece of sliding bolt latch on the bottom of the door, to where the bolt slides up and down. One variation for added structural stability: purchase 2 sliding latch bolts and place one near each bottom corner of the door. Then attach the opposite edge of the hinges (and the 2nd piece of the latch) to the rainwater barrel:
Step 14: Look! Your door opens! YAY!
Step 15: Turning your barrel to its side and looking at one of its ends, measure the diameter of the circle, and mark the radius at the halfway point, in the exact center of the circle. Using your large drill bit, or a spade bit, make a hole anywhere between 3/4" and 1" round. Test the hole to see if your 3/4" PVC rod will fit. Do this to the other end as well. Note: a spade bit will make the hole in the plastic almost immediately in comparison to whittling with a large drill bit, and may be worth the extra added dollars (under $10) for a small set.
Stick the rod from one end through the hole on the other side of the barrel. There should be plenty of rod on both sides, enough to rest fully on and go past each A-frame.
Step 16: Using the large and small drill bits, drill multiple solitary holes around the edges of the barrel for aeration.
Step 17:
Your barrel can be easily picked up by one person, from lifting the rod at each end, and it's nice and light! Place the barrel-rod combo on top of and in-between each A-frame.
Step 18:
Shortly below the barrel, place a wooden plank horizontally connecting the two A-frames, supported up temporarily by something you find at that height, underneath the plank as you drill two screws into each side. You may have to saw off one of the sides with the jigsaw, if like me, you like the barrel to be as close to the A-frames on the inside as possible, while letting the tumbler easily turn.
If you'd like added structural stability, one variation would be to place an additional two cut boards at a triangle on each side, from the A-frame, to the horizontal support, so that the tumbler is not allowed to wobble from side to side at all. Personally, I have not founded that mine has needed this yet, and I have a full compost barrel now. :) I must also note that while I live in a windy area of Texas, I do not have children around that might feel tempted to push hard on the sides. It does rock slightly without the additional added support, yet it is still sturdy, so that choice is up to you.
Step 18: You're ready to take your composter right outside your back door for composting!! Enjoy!
When placing food inside, and you're connecting the latch to close the door, be sure you also turn the knob of the bolt to the side to lock it (and tell your relatives to lock the bolt) each time you put food in. If you merely pull the latch down without locking, the latch will come undone, the door will easily open and your food will fall out.
If you're doing this on your, or someone else's living room floor...keep from sawing or screwing into the carpet! Clean up completely afterwards, and make sure you have all of the materials beforehand, so that it is not taking up space as an eyesore for more than six hours!
Before making one in your own living room, make sure your door is wide enough for the widest portion of your tumbler to go through! If not, you will have to unscrew the supports of the tumbler, one on each side, so that the A-frames can fit through, and then screw the sides of the horizontal support bar back on outside. If the doors are not wide enough, you may want to do this in your garage or outside in the driveway instead. Another option is to start in the living room where the temperature is nice and controlled, and move it outside, once your 2 A-frames are made.
Do not make your tumbler with a dark colored rainwater barrel, contrary to popular belief that your compost needs to be "cooked". It does not need to absorb extra heat from the sun, because the heat will actually kill the microbes and organisms necessary that you need for good decomposition.
Instead, rely on the airholes and the tumbling action itself, consider cutting or shredding your pieces into smaller scraps, and try vermicomposting if you'd like to receive your compost faster. Don't forget your "brown" items (dried leaves, old newspapers, branches, wood chips, etc.) to place in with the "green" (food, lawn clippings, fresh leaves, etc.). Utilize your yard clippings, and do not bag and throw this valuable resource away! The landfills simply make money from it, and charge you for it, when you could be spreading fertilizer to the places your yard needs. A good rule of thumb for the green/brown ratio: go half and half. The worms also love eating the newspaper.
Although it does save labor, the tumbler does not eliminate the need for labor. If one does not tumble the compost daily, the compost will become a wet, slimey sludge. Remember to give it a tumble after you place in the throw-away scraps from the meal you just cooked. You will be amazed at how fast the food adds up! Paired with recycling your glass, plastic, tin and cardboard, the amount of waste actually placed in the landfill is almost entirely eliminated. Less organic material in the landfills creates less methane (a green house gas which is twenty to thirty times more potent than carbon dioxide, coming from landfills and other sources) that has often escaped into the atmosphere despite the best efforts to keep it contained under the landfill tarps.
Don't worry about the worms falling out through the air holes. They want to stay where it's dark, warm and nutritious.


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Immigration Canada to lure foreign entrepreneurs with prize of permanent residency
Published on Thursday January 24, 2013
Nathan Denette/THE CANADIAN PRESS
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney hopes a new entrepreneur program will make "Canada the destination of choice for the world's best and brightest to launch their companies."
Nicholas Keung
Immigration Reporter
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Ottawa hopes to lure innovative entrepreneurs from abroad to Canada by offering them permanent residency.
Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said Thursday the move will put Canada ahead of its competitors, such as Australia, the United Kingdom and United States, where entrepreneurs are offered only temporary residency, and their ultimate status hinges on business success.
"Our new Start-Up Visa will help make Canada the destination of choice for the world's best and brightest to launch their companies," said Kenney, who is planning a trip to Silicon Valley, the world's start-up capital, to find foreign entrepreneurs looking for a permanent home.
"Recruiting dynamic entrepreneurs from around the world will help Canada remain competitive in the global economy."
The new program, which will accept applications starting April 1, will link immigrant entrepreneurs with private sector organizations in Canada that offer support and resources for their ideas. Candidates must be sponsored by Canadian investors.
In addition to a sound business plan, applicants must meet an intermediate language requirement in English or French, possess one year of post-secondary education and pass the necessary medical and criminal checks.
Kenney said the five-year pilot program will accept 2,750 applications a year and be made permanent if the government is satisfied with the results. Applications are expected to be processed within one year.
"Canada's future relies on today's entrepreneurs," said Kenney.
The initiative is an evolutionary leap from Canada's archaic entrepreneur program, which had been in place since the 1970s by offering conditional residency to foreign entrepreneurs who opened mall kiosks, corner stores and small businesses.
Immigrant entrepreneurs admitted to Canada dropped sharply to 184 in 2011, down from 1,176 in 2002.
Citizenship should not be sold to people who bring in a business to Canada!!! The businesses brought in will only hire their race which is being proven by the Chinese store in London only hiring Chinese. Sikhs in a trucking company want you speaking Pujab. I know because my son applied and was not hired. My cousin who worked for a bank in BC was told she had to learn Mandarin. Bringing more foreign people in to open a business will be of no benefit to Canadian born people. People wake up!!!!!
As far as the brain drain issue goes, we've been moaning about our brain drain to the USA for decades. But now it's OK to take third world thinkers from the places they're needed the most? What about encouraging our own kids into enterpeneurship and innovative research?
That just leads to the ludicrousness of that Sikh fellow a few years ago who sought "sancturary" in a Sikh temple in the Vancouver area because he said there were no doctors in India to treat his medical condition. Maybe he had a point – all the East Indian doctors are here!
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The cast for the 18th season of "Dancing with the Stars" was unveiled on ABC's "Good Morning America" last week. This season's cast of the celebs are as with previous seasons very diverse; ranging from recently awarded gold medalists at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, a reality TV star, professional hockey player, to a daytime game show host. NeNe Leakes the breakout star of Bravo's "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" was revealed to be one of the stars in this season's cast. Leakes previously appeared in the seventh season of "The Celebrity Apprentice" where she engaged in the infamous feud with former "The View" host Star Jones and she was featured in the Ryan Murphy sitcom "The New Normal;" both of which aired on NBC. In her latest project Leakes will have will have to learn the fundamentals of ballroom dancing with help of a professional partner. It will be interesting to see if any of her "Housewives" cast members will fly out to Los Angeles to support her?
Other celebs joining Leakes includes; funnyman Drew Carey the current host of the CBS daytime game show "The Price is Right". Carey will be steeping out onto the dance floor partnered with professional dancer Cheryl Burke. Hockey maverick Sean Avery will be waltzing on "DWTS" this season. The retired Red Wings player and activist has been busy working for an ad agency since leaving the NHL. Avery will get his dance on with Karina Smirnoff.
2014 Winter Olympic gold medalists Charlie White and his ice partner Meryl Davis be dancing without skates. The duo clinched the first place title in Sochi in Ice Dancing for Team USA just a few weeks ago. White and Davis will compete separately with professional dance partners Sharna Burgess and Maksim Chmerkovskiy respectively. The Paralympics are winding down in Sochi, however Amy Purdy just won the first bronze medal for Paralympic snowboarding. She'lll get the chance to glide across the dance floor with her dance partner Derek Hough.
Generations of sci-fi fans know him from "Star Wars" as Lando Calrissian; others may know him best as Diana Ross' co-star in "Lady Sings the Blues". Actor Billy Dee Williams will be partnered Emma Slater. Big Time Rush member James Maslow partners with Peta Murgatroyd. Actress and New York Times bestselling author Candace Cameron Bure with be paired with Mark Ballas. Former child actor from the TV series "The Wonder Years;" Danica McKellar partners with Val Chmerkovskiy. Internet sensation Cody Simpson his trying his hand at ballroom dancing. Simpson will be paired with "DWTS" newbie Witney Carson. Determined swimmer Diana Nyad rounds out this season's cast. Nyad garnered fame after successfully swimming over 100 miles from Cuba to Florida setting a record after four failed attempts. Nyad will dance with Henry Byalikov.
The 18th season of "Dancing with the Stars" kicks off on Monday March 17 at 8 p.m. on ABC, WSB-TV in Atlanta, Comcast channel 3/803. Also you can catch NeNe Leakes in all of her glory on "The Real Housewives of Atlanta" every Sunday at 8 p.m. on Bravo, Comcast channel 70/872. Check your local listings for specific channel information.
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Members of Medina's Ohio Army National Guard unit learned last year they would be deployed to Kuwait. Five citizen-soldiers shared their thoughts about serving their country and their days with family and friends before they said goodbye. This is the second installment in a four-part series. For a multimedia version of this story, visit wp2.medina-gazette.com/2008/01/09/photo-journal/brothersinarms/
A world map hangs on the wall at the bottom of the steps at the Demczyks' Medina home. Two clear, plastic pushpins are stuck through the laminated illustration of the world. One pin is in Texas. The other's in Kuwait.
"This pin covers almost the whole country,†Ohio Army National Guard Spc. Andy Demczyk, 21, said as he pushed one of the pins into Kuwait with his thumb the Sunday before Christmas.
"Well, people are going to want to know where you guys are,†his mother Barb said, looking over Andy's shoulder.
The Demczyks were getting ready for a party so family and friends could say goodbye to Andy and his brother, Spc. Joe Demczyk, 23, three weeks before their Medina-based Guard unit headed for Texas.
Barb and her husband, Rex, have an empty nest for now. Their oldest son, Travis, 26, moved to Idaho on Dec. 26, and Joe and Andy left with their Guard unit Sunday to spend three months in Texas for training before spending nine more in Kuwait on a security mission.
Joe said the unit will probably return in early January 2009.
Joe has a nest of his own with wife Jenny, 25, and daughter, Abby, who just turned 2 months old. Joe and Jenny grew up in the Medina area. Joe, a 2003 Medina High School graduate, met Jenny, a Cloverleaf graduate, working at Hawkins Market as a teenager. They now live in Mount Vernon. Jenny teaches, and Joe's a part-time student at Ohio State University.
War of words
Joe enlisted in the National Guard six months after Sept. 11, 2001, when he was a junior in high school.
"I didn't have the ambition to get college loans and have $20-, $30-, $40,000 to pay off afterwards,†Joe said the Saturday before Christmas, sitting on the oversized leather loveseat in his parents' family room, intently pushing a red-velvet lining into a wood jewelry box he made Jenny for Christmas.
"And a little bit of patriotism, too,†he added, pushing the fabric into the box's grooved bottom with a pencil.
Andy, sitting near Joe in a squishy, brown leather armchair, enlisted in June 2004 after graduating from Medina High.
"Everyone else says it's because I'm following in my brother's footsteps,†Andy said, rolling his eyes.
Barb, sitting on the couch across from Joe and cradling Abby, immediately jumped in.
"It's not true,†she said.
Joe smirked.
"It's not true,†Andy echoed for emphasis.
"He wanted to be in the Army ever since he was a little boy,†Barb said, smiling at Andy.
"No, he didn't,†Joe said with a devilish grin. Andy shot him a look.
"Yes, he did,†Barb said with an air of finality. Andy looked at Joe, and Joe rolled his eyes in response. The subject was dropped.
Later, Barb proved her point by pulling out a photo of a teenage Andy dressed in camouflage with some of his friends.
"See?†she said, beaming at the picture.
The friendly fire is common when the family gathers, and Joe and Andy plan to keep it up after they're deployed.
"Ever since I've been in, we've done the same job. We're always together no matter what we're doing there,†Andy said of being in the same platoon as his brother. "Plus, we get to argue — it makes time go faster.â€
Travis also wanted to enlist, Barb said, but wasn't able to.
Travis walked in the living room, on his way to work on his truck outside, as Barb talked about her other sons being deployed.
"It makes it easier knowing they're going together, you know, that they'll be able to see each other and have their friends in,†Barb said, still cuddling Abby. "When Joe was deployed to Italy by himself (in 2004), I think I was more worried then than I am now.â€
Joe closed the jewelry box.
"I didn't know anybody,†he said.
"It was the first time you were deployed ever,†Barb said, the worry spreading across her face. "You didn't know anybody. We have that under our belts now. I mean, you could've got shot.â€
Travis, standing across the room, smiled and took aim at Joe with an imaginary gun.
"I'll shoot at you,†he said with a laugh.
"Gee, thanks,†Joe said, rolling his eyes.
Travis chuckled and walked out of the room. In a house whose tenants are always coming and going, the friendly war of words between the Demczyk brothers is a constant.
"There have been rumors flying around for almost an entire year, so when they finally gave us word that, yes, we are actually going, it wasn't that big of a shock,†Joe said after finishing the jewelry box.
Jenny was now sitting next to him, sewing handles on a tote bag she made for her sister for Christmas. Part of the bag rested on Joe's lap.
"It's aggravating for an entire year to think are we going, are we not going? Just not knowing is a pain in the butt,†Joe said.
But once Joe found out, he had his work cut out for him at his and Jenny's Mount Vernon home.
"We got the garage cleaned out this week, so I can get to the lawn mower,†Jenny said.
The couple also finished buying kitchen appliances.
"We bought a new dishwasher. Now he has peace of mind that I can do dishes when he's gone,†Jenny joked.
"And you won't have to rinse all the dishes before you put them in there,†Joe said. "And now all the appliances match. It really happened by chance.â€
"No, I made sure,†Jenny said, shoving Joe's arm.
"Did you? I didn't notice,†Joe said with a shrug to push Jenny's buttons.
All joking aside, Jenny had to find somebody to help her with Joe out of the house.
"With setting up snow removal, the people I work with are wonderful,†Jenny said, eyeing Abby from the loveseat as she sucked on a bottle in Barb's arms. "And they're going to come and help me with any maintenance. If I have water squirting out anywhere, I have people down there that can help.â€
Jenny also found a baby sitter for Abby. She asked the woman, a student's mother, a couple months before Abby was born on Nov. 7.
"I'm a bit of a planner,†she said.
With their household in order, all Joe and Jenny had left to do was wait.
"I think the next few weeks will be the hardest because we just have to sit around and wait,†Jenny said, carefully pinning the handles on the unfinished tote bag in her lap. "And if he was already there, I wouldn't worry about it so much.â€
At the Guard's going-away ceremony Friday, Joe said he and Jenny's feelings haven't changed.
"Yep, we're still just waiting,†he said with a sigh, leaning against a wall in the Medina High School Performing Arts Center lobby. "I think Jenny's trying to not think about it because when she thinks about it a lot, she just gets upset.â€
Andy's preparation for deployment has been a bit different from Joe's. Barb and Andy have worked to get his affairs in order, including taking a trip to the bank.
"I'm going to be paying his bills,†Barb said, still holding Abby the Saturday before Christmas. "Anything that comes in, I'll be taking care of for him — his car payment, any letters that come in, I'll have to relay and handle for him.â€
Jenny let out a laugh and reminded Barb of when Joe, still unmarried, was deployed to Italy in 2004.
"When Joe got back from Italy, she had this whole Xerox box full of junk mail waiting for him,†Jenny said. "She saves everything.â€
Barb grinned.
"I do keep everything,†she said. "You never know.â€
Andy also had Lasik surgery before Christmas so he wouldn't have to wear glasses. He said the surgery, which he was awake for, was quick and surreal.
"I watched the doctor slice into my eye, but I couldn't feel it,†he said, opening a bottle of medicated eye drops in a chair next to Joe.
Later, the eye drops sparked another one of Joe and Andy's trademark brotherly battles.
"That's the only side effect to having this done,†Andy said.
He carefully held the eye-drop bottle above his eyeball as liquid drops fell on its surface. He blinked back tears.
"You have to put three sets of drops in four times a day,†he said. "Now everything's all blurry because one's a steroid to keep my eyes from swelling up, but it's cloudy.â€
Joe, who was looking on the whole time, pounced with a grin.
"You get eye surgery but you can't even see,†Joe said.
Andy blinked again.
"I can see,†he said.
Joe pointed accusingly at his younger brother.
"You said everything's all blurry,†he said.
"For about five minutes after I take this,†Andy said, rolling his eyes.
Joe got quiet.
"Oh, I stand corrected,†Joe said.
Andy also left his job at a Brunswick Hills Township machine shop.
"I'm not going back,†he said. "I want to go to school.â€
Joe, the student, didn't have a job to leave.
"He's got a sugar mama,†Jenny said with a giggle.
Home front
That "sugar mama†plans to keep constant reminders of Joe around the house for baby Abby.
"What I'm trying to do is get pictures of Joe and put them everywhere so when we walk by them we can say, 'That's Dada,' †Jenny said. "So when she sees him in January, I hope she recognizes that's her dada.â€
The couple also plans to talk as close to "in person†as they can when Joe's away — with a webcam.
"It's mostly going to be me holding Abby in front of the webcam so she can see Joe,†Jenny said.
She also took as much footage and photos of Joe as she could before he headed off to Texas.
"Oh, I'm just loving it,†Joe said sarcastically. Jenny set down her sewing and elbowed him.
Barb and Jenny also plan to visit Fort Hood, Texas, over Easter weekend. Abby will be about 5 months old when Joe sees her in person again this spring.
"The time they have leave is Easter weekend in Texas,†Jenny said. "Barb and Abby and I are going to go there Easter weekend. Joe and I went to Borders last night and got a map so we can figure out where we're going to go when they're on leave. The Hard Rock Café is a definite.â€
Joe and Andy got a literal taste of what their time in Kuwait could be like at a recent dinner at the local armory.
"Ugh! That falafel and that crap that we made was horrible,†Joe said, scrunching his nose.
"It's just ground-up chickpeas,†Jenny said defensively.
"Yeah, that tasted like crap,†Andy said, agreeing with his brother for once.
Andy elaborated on the fateful night at the armory he and his brother sampled what will be considered the "local fare†when they're staying on the Persian Gulf.
"They wanted to give us a meal that was native to the area we were going, so they got a bunch of guys who never heard of this stuff trying to make this meal,†Andy said, still reclined in the big leather chair. "It was ridiculous. Some of the guys who have been there said it was pretty good, that it was pretty close to how they make it. I said, 'Oh great.' â€
In spite of their slight culinary dread, the boys are looking forward to visiting Kuwait City, the country's capital, and nearby Dubai, one of the seven United Arab Emirates.
"Don't they have the biggest mall in the world there or something?†Andy asked.
Travis popped in the room to interject.
"The biggest mall in the world,†he said with mocking awe in his voice.
"No, I think it's the tallest building,†Joe shrugged.
They also might bring Barb home a Persian rug.
"Since we'll be on the Persian Gulf and all,†Andy joked.
When they're home from Kuwait, both hope to go to college.
Two deployments and other Guard obligations have broken up Joe's education at Ohio State, where he's studying natural resources. His current deployment also extended his six-year enlistment with the Guard.
"He's supposed to be out of the military in April,†Jenny said, sounding frustrated. "His out date was April 17, so we were already mentally preparing for him to leave and get out of the military, and then he got a deployment.â€
Andy plans to enroll at the University of Akron to study criminal justice.
"To follow in his mom's footsteps,†Barb, a special officer with the Medina police, joked.
"Once again, no,†Andy said.
Family ties
Nobody in the Demczyk family discouraged the boys from enlisting with the National Guard, Rex said, standing near the world map the Sunday before Christmas.
His kitchen and living rooms were packed with guests, and the room where the map hung, situated between the kitchen and living room, was the only quiet space in the house it seemed.
"I support whatever they do,†he said, leaning on a desk by the map. "My parents used to tell us what we should do, and it didn't work.â€
He laughed.
"So I don't want to do that and have it not work,†Rex said. "The service is great.â€
Barb, sitting in a small room off the kitchen before the party started, echoed Rex's sentiment.
"It's tough. I'm real proud of both of them,†she said, holding back tears. "I love them both, but I know what they're doing is important, and I believe in what they're doing and I'm going to support them 100 percent.â€
Jenny said she's comforted knowing Joe and Andy will be together in Kuwait.
"There's strength in numbers,†she said, a smile spreading across her face.
In the end, Barb said it was up to her sons, not the rest of the family, to map out their lives.
"People always ask me, 'How can you let them go?' And I say it's not up to me to let them,†Barb said, cuddling Abby close to her on the couch. "But like Joe told me once, he goes, 'I could get hit by a car and die tomorrow — when it's my time, it's my time.' So that really helped me. They're going to go.â€


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How The Division is ultimately going to work and come together is something that many, many people have been wondering. We know about Green Zones and how they will be a means to meet people, but what exactly will players use in order to "take back" New York City, outside of their weapons?
The Division will be implementing bases as a starting point for players and as a way for them to plan courses of action as they progress through the game. In an interview exclusively first published by Examiner.com, Massive talked about how players will bring back New York City from the dead in The Division.
"The base of operations is the most tangible way through which players can bring back New York from the brink of destruction. There are different base locations throughout the city. In the world, they used to be controlled by the government to provide emergency support for civilians, but have been abandoned or taken over by enemy factions.
"By reclaiming these locations, the player can increase the security level of the districts, creating a safe haven for the remaining civilians as well as a strategic position through which the player can start to bring back order," Massive said.
This feature in a way sounds like one we've seen in other Ubisoft games, but it's certainly not as obvious as something like a viewpoint or outpost, not that there is anything wrong with those. What building New York City back up means for your "base of operations" is unknown. Does that mean reconstructing buildings? We're not sure if it's just about clearing out enemies or what, but it should be an interesting feature to see in motion.
As we've seen in both demos of The Division, the ECHO feature looks to be quite an important feature when it comes to combat and strategy. Massive went on to detail what exactly ECHO is and the types of benefits it has for players.
"ECHO is the acronym for the Evidence Correlation Holographic Overlay. This ability collects data from the immediate environment around the agents such as surveillance cameras, cellphone camera footage, and audio pick-ups, to render moments frozen in time.
"It provides the agents with an autonomous source of information that allows them to investigate past events and look for clues relating to the origin of the pandemic. It will also have an impact on more general gameplay as it can reveal hidden loot and access to certain areas," Massive said.
Tom Clancy's The Division is setting up for a major launch sometime in 2015 and it could be just the second new-generation only title for Ubisoft. Assassin's Creed Unity is the other one that Ubisoft will have launched as recent news revealed The Crew would be launching on the Xbox 360.


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Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea: Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal
Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal
Return to Forever featuring Chick Corea
No Mystery (Polydor 827-149-2)
Chick Corea (keyboards), Al Di Meola (guitars), Stanley Clarke (bass, organ), Lenny White (drums).
Composed by Chick Corea, Lenny White, Stanley Clarke & Al Di Meola.
Recorded: New York, January 1975
Rating: 99/100 (learn more)
On "Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal" Corea's keyboard introduction is one of high drama worthy of any classic horror or mystery film soundtrack. It is a powerful opening statement of a tune that will last less than 3 minutes. But, in that short time, the piece manages to pack a wallop. As Corea posits the theme, a young Di Meola enters over Corea with a wicked scorching electric guitar. Drummer White kicks in with some straight-ahead power drumming as Clarke lays out a big fat fuzzy bass line. After a brief Corea synthesizer turn, the tune erupts upward culminating in Corea revisiting the theme he established early on.
I think that Jazz.com's mission to review each jazz tune, rather than each album, is a unique and valuable addition to the world of jazz knowledge. But things don't happen in a vacuum. I believe that about songs, too. A finely crafted album is not just a hodgepodge of tunes. It is a collection of performances that should be placed in a carefully considered order that gives the listener the best impression of the total work. In that way, producing good albums is not so different from the placement of great artworks for an important exhibit. Certain art is located next to other art so that patrons can enjoy the overall exhibition in its finest light. My point is simple. "Excerpt from the First Movement of Heavy Metal" is best appreciated if you also listen to the tune before it and the tune after it in their intended order.
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
If you liked this track, also check out
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What Silver and Palladium Are Saying About Gold
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
The bearish case for gold seems to be confirmed by what we see in the silver and palladium markets.
Last week the price of silver climbed to $23.45 after US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the Fed's huge stimulus program would stay in place. In my firm's previous two articles, we focused on two important links: the one between
gold and oil
and the one between
gold and the USD Index
. In the latter we wrote the following about gold:
"As you see on the above chart, gold verified the breakdown below the long-term resistance line created by the July 2005 and the October 2008 bottoms (taking intraday bottoms into account). At this point, it's worth noting that there was an invalidation of the breakout above the 38.2% Fibonacci retracement level based on the September 2012 - June 2013 decline earlier this month. This was a bearish sign.
"From this point of view, it seems that even if gold increases once again in the coming days and reaches the above-mentioned levels once again, the medium-term outlook will continue to be bearish.
"Please note that in 2008, when gold moved higher before plunging for the final time, there were several intra-week attempts to move higher after which gold finally declined.
Therefore, a double top pattern should not surprise us here. The same goes for a triple top.
Gold has declined since the above was posted, so the medium-term downtrend definitely remains in place. In today's commentary I will focus on other parts of the precious metals sector: silver and palladium. After all, it is usually the case that the most important price moves are seen simultaneously in all precious metals, so by comparing different metals' performance we could spot some confirmations or invalidations of the above.
Let's take a look at the charts and find out what the current outlook for silver and palladium is. Today we will start with the analysis of silver from the long-term perspective (charts courtesy of
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When we take a look at the above chart, we see that silver pulled back last week, but in spite of this upward move, it still remains visibly below the 32.8% Fibonacci retracement level based on the entire September 2012 – June 2013 decline.
Taking this into account, the medium-term downtrend was not invalidated. In fact, from the long-term perspective, the pullback was barely visible – the most recent move that we can see on the above chart is this month's decline.
To see more details, let's move to the short-term chart now.
On the above chart, we see that silver pulled back after the cyclical turning point and reached the 20-day moving average last Wednesday. As you see on the daily chart, this moving average was seen to stop rallies multiple times in previous months.
In the recent days, history repeated itself and we saw a downward move. With this correction silver erased almost all last week's gains and dropped below $21, which is not a positive sign for silver bulls.
In spite of last Wednesday's rally, the situation hasn't changed much. From today's point of view we see that silver moved up right after the cyclical turning point (after comments from the Fed, which were an important indicator, but perhaps the proximity of the turning point was what made this upswing so significant) and it seems that what was likely to happen based on it has already happened. Consequently, it seems that the medium-term trend in silver is still down.
Once we know the current situation in silver, let's find out what has recently happened with palladium and where it is right now.
On the above chart, we see that palladium declined slightly below the 68 level; however, the metal has pulled back and we've seen a rally over the past several weeks, which took it to the previously-broken declining resistance line based on the 2013 top and the May peak (in terms of weekly closing prices).
There was no upward move above this line in the previous week; therefore the breakdown that we saw at the end of August was not invalidated. Additionally, the price of palladium decreased on Friday and closed the week well below the declining resistance line. On Monday, we saw further deterioration and the price dropped below the 70 level. In spite of yesterday's small pullback, the breakdown was still not invalidated.
Summing up, the recent upward move in both metals was not as bullish as it seemed at first sight and the breakdown in palladium was not invalidated. The implications are still bearish and the bearish case for gold that we made in our previous article seems to be confirmed by what we see in the silver and palladium markets. At the same time please keep in mind that the analogy to the 2008 decline is still in place and a small move higher should not surprise us (such as the one that we are seeing today). Please note that we mean only the medium term as far as the bearish outlook is concerned – we are still bullish on the entire precious metals sector over the very long term due to the positive fundamental situation.
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As a resident of Lake Quivira, attended Shawnee Mission North High School where he earned a total of six athletic letters, three in football and three in track and field. Named all-conference his junior and senior years as a defensive tackle. Threw the shot put and discus in track.
Recruited to Baker to play for Coach Jim Irick. Started his freshman year at both offensive and defensive tackle and was named to the all-conference team on both offense and defense. Did not play during his sophomore year, but was again a two-way starter both his junior and senior years, and was again selected to the all-conference team on both offense and defense. Selected as a Small College All-American after his senior season.
Participated in track and field, winning letters all four years. Established new school and conference records in the shot put in 1965.
Was a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and the B-Club. Graduated with a degree in economics.
In 1966, following his senior year in football, signed a free-agent contract with the Kansas City Chiefs of the American Football League and was a member of the team's first Super Bowl squad. Played for the Chiefs for three seasons before being forced to retire due to injuries
Entered the field of business in life insurance as an agency manager of a division of the Franklin Life Insurance Company. From 1970 to 1977 was in sales and marketing with Southland Paint Co. in Gainesville, Texas. Was named Regional Sales Manager of the Enterprise Paint Co. in 1977 (later the Valspar Paint Corporation). Named National Sales Manager, Valspar Paints in 1989 and returned to the Kansas City Area where he currently resides in Independence, Mo.
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WSU LOOKS FOR PAC-12 ROAD WIN AT OREGON STATE: Washington State University men's basketball (10-9, 1-5) looks for its first Pac-12 road win of the season as it heads to Corvallis, Ore., to take on Oregon State, Saturday, Jan. 26 at 2 p.m. at Gill Coliseum.
The game can be seen on Pac-12 Networks, as JB Long and Lamar Hurd have the call.
Bud Nameck, in this 20th year with Cougar Basketball, will have all the action on the Cougar IMG Radio Network.
Live updates can be found on Twitter by following @WSUMensHoops, the official Twitter account of Washington State men's basketball.
Saturday marks the 287th all-time meetings between the Cougars and the Beavers, as the Cougars trail the series, 123-163.
WSU leads the series 76-60 in Pullman, but trails the series 99-41 in Corvallis...Oregon State leads the series 6-3 in neutral site matchups.
Head coach Ken Bone is 6-3 all-time against the Beavers and 6-2 as the head coach at Washington State...he lost to Oregon State once prior to becoming the coach at WSU.
The Cougars swept the regular season series last year, before falling to the Beavers in the first round the Pac-12 Tournament in Los Angeles and then bouncing back with a victory in the College Basketball Invitational (CBI) Semifinals, March 21.
WSU has won 11 of the last 14 matchups with OSU and five of the last six.
The last six regular season matchups in Corvallis have been decided by an average of 6.8 points.
Despite playing just two minutes in the final meeting of last season before injuring his ankle, Brock Motum averaged 18.0 points per game in the four matchups.
Marcus Capers each chipped in 10.0 points per game in the series.
In the first matchup of the season, WSU secured its first Pac-12 victory with an 81-76 defeat of the Beavers in Spokane.
Brock Motum led WSU with 26 points and eight rebounds.
Reggie Moore had a then-season high nine assists.
DaVonté Lacy finished with 18 points...he had his two highest scoring games this season in back-to-back games (19 against Oregon in the previous game).
In the second meeting, WSU controlled the first 30 minutes en route to an 83-73 victory in Corvallis.
Moore finished with a season-high 11 assists...he had nine of his assists in the first half.
D.J. Shelton scored a career-high 14 points...he added a then-career-high nine rebounds...Shelton's previous high for points was nine the first time against Oregon State that season (Dec. 31).
In the third matchup of the season, the Cougars fell to Oregon State, 69-64, in Los Angeles in the first round of the Pac-12 Tournament.
Reggie Moore had his third career double-double and second of the season with 10 points and 10 assists.
Marcus Capers tied his season high with 14 points, two shy of his career high of 16 done two years prior in the Pac-10 Tournament...he added a team-best eight rebounds.
In the fourth and final meeting, Abe Lodwick stepped up after the team's leading scorer, Brock Motum went out with an ankle injury, as WSU defeated OSU, 72-55 in the CBI Semifinals, March 21 at Corvallis.
Lodwick scored a career-high 23 points and was 8-for-12 from the field and 5-for-8 from beyond the 3-point arc...he scored double-digits in three-straight games, the longest streak of his career.
Lodwick added a career-high 12 rebounds, notching his first career double-double.
Reggie Moore finished with a season-high 22 points and three assists...he scored in double figures in three of the four games against the Beavers this season.
The Cougars outrebounded the Beavers, 41-34...held OSU to its lowest scoring output in the tournament.
Brock Motum scored four points in two minutes before leaving the game with a right ankle injury...he did not return.
Washington State and Oregon State are meeting for the 105th-consecutive men's basketball season.
It is the ninth longest continuous rivalry nationally behind Columbia/Yale (112th season), Princeton/Yale (112th season), Pennsylvania/Princeton (111th season), Columbia/Pennsylvania (110th season), Cornell/Pennsylvania (110th season), Washington State/Idaho (108th season), Kansas/Missouri (107th - not scheduled to play this season) and Baylor/Texas (105th).
The Cougars also hold the sixth oldest continuous rivalry, as they faced Idaho earlier this season.
Ken Bone GETS 400TH CAREER WIN:
With WSU's win over Buffalo, Dec. 21, fourth-year head coach Ken Bone got his 400th career win as a head coach.
He has 67 wins at WSU, had 77 in four years at Portland State, 253 victories in 12 seasons as head coach at Division II Seattle Pacific and 5 wins at Division III Cal State Stanislaus...he's in his 21st season as a head coach.
Bone has 144 career wins in his seventh season as a Division I head coach.
The Cougars are 10-9 overall and 1-5 in conference play, looking for their first conference road win.
WSU is 8-3 at home, 0-4 on the road and 2-2 in neutral-site games.
Five of the Cougars' 9 losses have come by 7 points or less, including a 2-point loss to then-No. 10 Gonzaga (Dec. 5) and a 5-point loss to Washington in the Pac-12 season opener (Jan. 5).
WSU has lost two-straight games...prior to Jan. 16, WSU had lost three-straight games, tying its longest losing streak of the season...in the first losing streak, all games occurred on the road or at a neutral sites, Nov. 16-20 (loss at Pepperdine and vs. Kansas and Texas A&M in Kansas City, Mo.).
The Cougars' longest winning streak is four games, Dec. 9-29, with wins over Fresno State and Jackson State at Pullman and Buffalo at Seattle and Idaho State at Kennewick, Wash.
Brock Motum leads the team with 18.8 points per game and 6.4 rebounds...he's scored at least 13 points in all 19 games this season...he's averaging 16.8 points in WSU's six conference games.
Motum is ranked third in the conference and 25th in the nation (as of Jan. 21) in scoring and has reached double figures in every game this season.
Motum ranks 17th in the league in rebounding and seventh in minutes played.
Mike Ladd has reached double figures each of the last seven games and is second on the team with 11.2 points per game...the 6-5 guard is adding a team second-best 6.0 rebounds a game.
Ladd is averaging 16.2 points (seventh in the Pac-12) and 7.0 rebounds (tied for 13th in the Pac-12) in Pac-12 only action.
After missing four games due to a knee injury suffered in the first five minutes against Kansas, Nov. 19, DaVonté Lacy is now averaging 9.4 points in 15 games.
Dexter Kernich-Drew 6.9 ppg, and D.J. Shelton 5.1 points and a team third-best 5.6 rebounds a game.
Will DiIorio played against Buffalo (Dec. 21) after missing two games due to a sprained ankle suffered against Gonzaga (Dec. 5)...he scored a career-high 9 points against Washington (Jan. 5)...he got his first start of the season at Stanford (Jan. 9).
After leading by 10 after halftime, WSU fell to No. 16 Oregon, 68-61, Wednesday, Jan. 23 at Matthew Knight Arena at Eugene, Ore.
Mike Ladd led WSU with 19 points...has reached double-figures in seven-straight games.
He added 8 rebounds and 5 assists...his 5 assists are a personal Pac-12 best and one shy of his career high.
Brock Motum finished with 14 points and has scored in double figures in all 19 of WSU's games this season.
Motum passed both Carlos Daniel and Derrick Low to move into 11th on the WSU career scoring list...he now has 1,290 career points.
D.J. Shelton scored all 5 of his points in the first half...finished with 7 rebounds...his most since grabbing 8 boards against Washington, Jan. 5.
Keaton Hayenga saw the first Pac-12 action of his career, played a minute.
Bryce Leavitt and James Hunter both saw action in the first half.
WSU led by 10 at halftime, leading at half for just the second time in Pac-12 play.
The Cougars fall to 47-224 all-time against ranked opponents and have lost five-straight against opponents ranked in the AP Top 25.
Brock Motum became the 33rd Washington State men's basketball student-athlete to score 1,000 career points with 14 points against Kansas, Monday, Nov. 19.
He is the third Cougar in the last four seasons to reach 1,000 career-points...Klay Thompson scored his 1,000th point during the 2009-10 season and Reggie Moore reached 1,000 points in the Cougs second-to-last game of the 2011-12 season.
With 1,290 points, Motum is 12th on WSU's career scoring list...he is 43 points away from Chris Crosby (1997-00) in 11th with 1,333.
For the second time in his career, Brock Motum was named the Pac-12 Player of the Week for the week of Dec. 3-9.
Motum led the Cougars with 23.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.0 blocks per game as WSU fell to No. 10 Gonzaga, 71-69, Dec. 5, and defeated Fresno State, 59-50, Dec. 9.
He shot .552 (16-for-29) from the field, including a .700 clip (7-for-10) from 3-point range.
Against Gonzaga, Motum had 23 points and made a career-high 5 3-pointers, going 5-for-7 from beyond the arc...he tied his career high with 3 blocked shots. He also scored 23 points against Fresno State, adding a team-high 8 rebounds and 2 assists.
Motum's honor is the 26th Player of the Week nod in WSU history as he became the sixth Cougar to earn the award multiple times in his career (also earned it Dec. 12, 2011).
MOTUM A CANDIDATE FOR THE WOODEN AWARD: Senior Klay Thompson was named to the preseason top-50 prior to the 2010-11 season. Thompson went on to make the midseason top-30 cut in 2010-11, as did Low in 2007-08. Three other Pac-12 student-athletes were named to the list: André Roberson (Colorado), Allen Crabbe (California), and Solomon Hill (Arizona).
PERFECT AT FRIEL IN NOVEMBER: With its win over Idaho, Nov. 28, WSU improved to 46-0 all-time in the month of November at Friel Court. The Cougars have won 46-straight November games in Pullman and are 47-1 (the loss came before the Cougars moved into Beasley Coliseum).
COUGARS GO `DOWN UNDER': The Cougars spent two weeks in Australia, Aug. 3-16, 2012, as part of an NCAA approved international tour. WSU went 2-3 in five games, three of them against teams of the NBL (National Basketball League). Brock Motum averaged 27.2 points in the five games, including a 41-point output against the Cairns Taipans in the final game of the tour. The Cougar roster contains three Aussies.


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I'm trying to figure out how I can do this for some arbitrary function. Say I find a monic associate of $f$ that we'll call $f_1(x)$. If I then apply Eisenstein's Criterion or Descartes' Rational Root Test to $f_1(x)$ and find it's irreducible, what does this say about $f(x)$? Is there a theorem for this?
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Hint $\rm\ f\:$ reducible $\Rightarrow$ $\rm\:uf\:$ reducible, since $\rm\:f = gh\:$ $\Rightarrow$ $\rm\:uf = (ug)h.\:$ Thus, contrapositively, we deduce that $\rm\:uf\:$ irreducible $\rm\Rightarrow\: f\:$ irreducible (here $\rm\:u\:$ is any unit).


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The standout swimmers are the first student-athlete duo in U of A history selected to the final
While only a few student-athletes have been finalists, even fewer have actually won. The first of only two athletes ever crowned was Senior Associate Athletics Director Kathleen "Rocky" LaRose (softball) who was Homecoming Queen in 1978. Eighteen years later, DeeDee Buzzi (track) was crowned Queen (1996) and is the most recent Homecoming royalty from the Arizona Athletic Department.
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Myers is a captain on the women's swim team for the third consecutive year. In the spring of 2006, Myers tallied six first team All-American honors and was theindividual NCAA Champion in the 200 and 400 individual medley. She also swam the third leg in two national championship relays, currently holds three of the top spots on
Excelling in the classroom as well, Myers is a biology and pre-pharmacy major with a 3.82 grade point average. She was named first team academic all-Pac-10, made the CoSIDA Academic All-District VIII At-Large first-team and was a swimming and diving Honda Sports Award Finalist.
Ritter is a senior co-captain for the men's swim team and returns to the water for the 2006-07 season after a breakout junior year in which he scored in the top eight of the 200 IM and the 200 free. At the 2006 NCAA Championships he tallied three national championship relay titles and a total of six All-American honors while posting an
Also an academic standout, Ritter received second team Academic all-Pac-10 Honors in 2006. His major is civil engineering and currently holds a 3.14 GPA.
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