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Oklahoma's strong second half propelled the Sooners to a 67-57 victory over West Virginia Saturday afternoon in Big 12 Conference basketball action at the WVU Coliseum.
It was the league opener for both teams, although Oklahoma defeated West Virginia, 77-70, in Orlando during Thanksgiving break and will go for the regular season trifecta in Norman on March 6.
"We had shots around the rim and don't make them," said West Virginia coach Bob Huggins. "They get shots around the rim and they make them."
Full Article at: WVUSports
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Lies, Damned Lies and Statistics
Wasn't it Mark Twain who once famously said, "Lies, damned lies and statistics?" Well, after scouring last Saturday's Pinstripe Bowl stat sheet, and then reading the corrected version that came out yesterday, I have a feeling old Mark may have been on to something.
WVU football sports information director Mike Montoro noticed "several discrepancies" following West Virginia's 38-14 loss to Syracuse and sat down with assistant athletic director Michael Fragale on Monday morning at the Milan Puskar Center to go through the game tape and re-score it. Their quick review ended up taking four hours.
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Dr Michelle McEvoy, Fiona Hanrahan and Prof Tom Clarke outline the early discharge guideline policies in the Rotunda Hospital, to ensure the health and the safety of new mothers and their babies
The length of hospital stay after birth has been steadily decreasing over the last 50 years. In the 1950s, the recommended postpartum stay was six days. In Ireland, even as recently as 2004, mothers and newborn babies stayed an average of four days after birth.
Although there is no standard definition for early hospital discharge, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) defines 'early' and 'very early' discharge as 48 and 24 hours, respectively, after an uncomplicated vaginal delivery.
In Ireland, there has been a growing trend towards earlier hospital discharge, and it is now becoming common practice for mother and baby to be discharged at 24 to 48 hours postnatally.
'Drive-through deliveries'
There are numerous factors that have driven the trend towards so-called 'drive-through deliveries'. Undoubtedly, as in other countries, economic factors have played an important role. However, one of the key issues for Ireland has been the remarkable growth in the population.
The latest report from Eurostat shows that Ireland has the highest birth rate in the European Union – 18.1 births per 1,000 population, which is well ahead of the next-highest birth rates in the UK at 13 per cent and France at 12.9 per cent.
Over the past 10 years, the birth rate has risen by 22 per cent. This is a staggering figure that has left our maternity services struggling to keep pace.
Increasing maternal choice, bed shortages and nursing manpower shortages are factors in the increasing number of infants being discharged home early after birth. Therefore, it is crucial that we understand the effect of such practices on the health of these newborns.
There are several potential advantages of early hospital discharge for both mother and baby, in addition to the obvious economic benefits. Shorter hospital stays may help decrease the risk of iatrogenic infection.
Some authors have suggested that early discharges help prevent the overly aggressive assessment of normal variations in newborn physiological changes, which may occur when infants stay in the hospital for several days after birth, such as mild hyperbilirubinemia.
Finally, there are numerous psychosocial benefits of early discharges, such as improved infant-mother bonding and family adaptation.
However, despite these advantages, there remain concerns about the safety of early discharges for both mother and baby. A recent Cochrane review, which assessed the safety, impact and effectiveness in published trials of early discharge policies for healthy mothers and term infants, concluded that adverse outcomes could not be ruled out due to limitations in methods of published studies.
One of the largest studies on early postpartum discharges was carried out in Washington between the years 1989 to 1990 by Malkin et al., who reviewed over 47,000 deliveries. Over the one-year period of study, just over 9,000 infants were discharged before 30 hours of age.
More likely to die
The study found that those infants discharged early from hospital were more likely to die within the first 28 days of life than those infants sent home later. However, the study did not address the timing or type of follow-up that early discharge infants received. Although much of the published evidence remains inconclusive, contradictory and methodologically flawed, there is a growing body of evidence to suggest that this trend towards earlier discharge may potentially affect newborn morbidity and therefore raises concern about the desirability of this practice.
In 1995, the AAP developed guidelines emphasising the importance of individualised assessment for early discharge of healthy term newborns and the use of stringent discharge criteria. Early discharge without appropriate support and services is potentially dangerous.
The AAP stresses the need for appropriate follow-up of these infants. Many countries have well-developed community services for mothers and newborns; however, in Ireland the only assistance available from most maternity units to mothers after hospital discharge is the public health nurse, who is required to call once to the mother during the 10 days after birth.
An early discharge guideline policy was therefore developed for the Rotunda Hospital, based on the AAP guidelines and adapted to the local support systems available within our institution and local community.
Within the Rotunda Hospital, a midwifery-led service, called DOMINO (DOMiciliary IN and Out), is already established. The DOMINO team consists of eight midwives who provide antenatal, intrapartum in hospital and postnatal care to women with low-risk pregnancies. This ensures community follow-up of infants discharged home at six to 12 hours of age. On average, seven to 10 babies are discharged weekly under the care of the DOMINO service.
An Early Transfer Home (ETH) team of five midwives, which provides similar community postnatal follow-up, was established in 2007. The establishment of these services has helped ensure that newborn infants are followed up at home for five to seven days, and intensive support is provided to breastfeeding mothers.
All babies are also reviewed by their GP at seven to 14 days of age. Neonatal problems can be identified early and managed appropriately by skilled, specialised midwives. During 2007-2008, 2,000 babies (and their mothers) were discharged to the care of the ETH service.
In 2008, the Rotunda Hospital introduced new Early Discharge Guidelines, based on the AAP's recommendations. Mothers and newborns considered for early discharge must be either under the care of the DOMINO or ETH services, or the infant must be over 24 hours of age and fulfil all the early discharge criteria. Included in the checklist are, that the infant must be:
-Term infant (37-42 weeks);
-Single birth;
-Birth weight must be appropriate (2.5-4.5kg);
-Multiparous (second child or greater, if not DOMINO/ETH);
-Infant must have passed meconium and urine;
-Infant must have a normal neonatal physical examination and observations – including normal pre-feed blood glucose, pulse oximetry and transcutaneous bilirubin measurement;
-There should be no maternal condition that can adversely affect the newborn, including maternal drug abuse and maternal illness such as diabetes mellitus;
-The infant must have successfully breastfed or formula fed;
-Appropriate follow-up and screening must be arranged;
-The family must have a GP;
-There should be no other cause of concern, i.e. social concerns.
Heart disease
Congenital cardiac conditions may not become apparent until several days after birth. Clinical examination remains the most frequently used means of diagnosing congenital heart disease; however, routine examination of apparently healthy newborn babies detects less than half of those with congenital cardiac malformations because, in the first few days, they are asymptomatic and without signs. Therefore a normal discharge clinical examination does not exclude serious congenital cardiac malformation.
Pulse oximetry (oxygen saturation) screening offers an effective, accurate and reliable means for maximising detection of cyanotic CHD in asymptomatic infants. All infants in the Rotunda have their pulse oximetry checked prior to discharge.
In recent years, the occurrence of kernicterus and hyperbilirubinaemia has become a cause of concern that must be addressed by improved neonatal discharge practices. Kernicterus is preventable, provided excessive hyperbilirubinaemia is promptly identified and appropriately treated. Potential lapses in care have been identified by the AAP, and these are addressed in our early discharge policy.
TcB measurement
As clinical assessment of jaundice is unreliable, particularly in non-Caucasian infants, all infants considered for early hospital discharge in the Rotunda Hospital must have a documented transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) measurement and risk-factor assessment to determine the need for further investigation and the timing of follow-up.
The time of follow-up after discharge is vitally important. Although the literature remains contradictory, many studies conclude that early hospital discharge is associated with an increase in hospital readmission rates for neonatal conditions that may not become apparent until the infant is discharged from hospital.
Therefore, even with careful screening and early post-discharge follow-up, there remains a potentially significant increase in clinical adverse outcomes following early discharge. Based on the American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines, all newborns discharged early from the Rotunda Hospital are therefore followed up at home within 24 hours by the midwifery-led DOMNO/ETH services or are seen in our paediatric outpatient department. This is a key component of ensuring newborn safety, as not all early neonatal problems can be identified during the first 24-48 hours after birth.
Although the introduction of an early discharge policy will help guide practitioners in deciding whether or not early discharge is appropriate, individualised assessment of newborns to determine the optimal time of discharge is essential. We recommend that other hospitals discharging infants early use a similar type of checklist.
Dr Michelle McEvoy, SPR Neonatal Paediatrics; Fiona Hanrahan, Assistant Director of Midwifery/Nursing; and Prof Tom Clarke, Consultant Neonatologist, Rotunda Hospital.

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Bicycles Recalled by Wilier Triestina Due to Fall Hazard; Bicycle Fork's Steerer Tube Can BreakPublish Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:00:00 GMT
UnitsAbout 200DescriptionThis recall involves Wilier Triestina model Izoard XP bicycles or framesets that were sold with carbon/alloy forks with serial numbers between LH0001 and LH4000. The serial number is located on the steerer tube of the fork, around six inches from the crown. Bicycles purchased before January 2012 are not included in this recall. Incidents/InjuriesNone reported RemedyConsumers should stop using the recalled bicycles immediately and have an authorized Wilier bicycle dealer check for the serial number on the fork and, if it is included in the recall, the dealer will install a new Izoard replacement fork at no charge. Sold atBicycle retailers nationwide from January 2012 through October 2012 for about $2,600 for the bicycle. ImporterWilier Triestina USA LLC, of Atlanta, Ga. Manufactured inChina
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Couldn't resist – Inside Tucson Business ran a story on another list that we really don't want to end up on. We are in the top 10 most expensive cities to do business in ….NATIONWIDE. Apparently there is a recalculation on how cities are measured and we as a region didn't fair too well.
We are going to find out how if there is a typo in this statement…. "small businesses saw their annual taxes jump from $744 to $200,000, Jensen said in an e-mail." Seems a little to big to make sense. Maybe $744 to $2000?
We made a similar list a year ago when ASBA ranked Tucson as the most unfriendly city in the state to do business in. ASBA has over 3000 members statewide that apparently aren't afraid to point out that Tucson needs to clean up it's act.
Tucson among 10 most expensive to do business
Published on Saturday, July 25, 2009A new study ranks Tucson among the 10 most expensive cities in the United States in which to do business.
The 15th annual Kosmont-Rose Institute Cost of Doing Business Survey released July 20 puts Tucson and Phoenix in an alphabetical list that also includes Akron, Ohio; Chicago; Jersey City, N.J.; Los Angeles; New York; Newark; Philadelphia; and San Francisco.
The survey, done by Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, Calif., ranked 411 cities in terms of their relative cost to do business. Categories include taxes, fees, economic incentives, transportation amenities, the existence of special enterprise zones, and public-private partnerships. Survey officials said two of the biggest determinants of a city's cost of doing business tended to be business license fees and property taxes.
Research associate Brad Jensen said what caused Tucson to jump so much was a 2007 change in the way taxes are calculated setting an annual tax of $200,000 for the first $10 million in receipts of the first 100 employees and doing away the old system that was graduated based on the number of employees. Under the change, small businesses saw their annual taxes jump from $744 to $200,000, Jensen said in an e-mail.
The survey was originally developed to compare costs among 250 cities in California but has been expanded to include 161 cities outside the state.
The 10 least expensive cities in the survey were Austin, Texas; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Dallas; Eugene, Ore.; Everett, Ore.; Fort Worth, Texas; Gresham, Ore.; Houston; Portland, Ore.; and Reno, Nev.
Laura Shaw, senior vice president of marketing and communications for the economic development agency Tucson Regional Economic Opportunities Inc., said she couldn't comment specifically on the new study because she hadn't seen it but said a Forbes study released in March this year ranked Tucson No. 105 out of 200 cities.
Once again, Texas cities came out looking pretty good. Four out of 10 cities are in Texas and four out of 10 are in Oregon of all places.
The press release from the Kosmont-Rose Institute took some pot shots at California.
California cities such as Los Angeles, Oakland, San Francisco, and Santa Monica received "Very High Cost" ratings, and as in past years, Los Angeles County continues to be the location of the Survey's most expensive jurisdictions with 11 of the 50 most expensive cities being in the County. Communities in western states such as Washington, Colorado, and Nevada consistently provide low cost areas in which to do business.
"California and many of its cities are now grappling with the triple witching hour of property tax losses, sales tax recession, and income tax losses,"said Larry Kosmont, president and CEO of Kosmont Companies and founder of the Survey. "Even well-run cities are having a hard time fending off tax increases, particularly since the financially faltering State wants to take back local redevelopment money and gas tax from their local cities and counties. However California should not raise anymore taxes at a time when businesses are already suffering, unless we want to see the exodus continue of companies leaving the State to other more business friendly locations."
Since the Survey's inception, California has consistently been one of the most expensive states in which to operate a business and as a result the state has earned a mixed reputation for its treatment of businesses. Recent trends support these conclusions. State workers' compensation costs are once again on the rise after some years of stability, and a new one percent increase in the sales tax went into effect for the state of California on April 1, 2009. Further, several California counties and cities have recently increased their local sales tax rates. As a result, the California sales tax ranges from 8.25 percent in counties without add-on sales tax to a hefty 10.75 percent in some cities in Los Angeles County.
Even more challenging to a healthy economy are finances at the State level. With the State bleeding red ink due to a 26.3 billion dollar shortfall, and the overall economy in a downturn, the California legislature will need to carve out a budget deal premised primarily on drastic service cuts. However, many worry that the budget will continue to ignore the unfunded programs that are not sustainable due to ongoing revenue deficits that make voter approved commitments such as Proposition 98 education mandates unachievable. This makes the State's future appear dim to many business leaders.
"California faces tough choices and spending reforms that are needed to resolve budget deficiencies, sufficient for California to become financially solvent, will not be easy ones to accept," said Kosmont. "Pension and In Home Supportive Service reforms could save the State billions of dollars, however these and other reforms can be perceived as harsh. Ultimately, the California legislature needs to decide if they want to bring credit stability to a system that the business and financial community views as unmanageable and less creditworthy as each day passes."
We've covered the California – Texas differences (HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE) on this blog quit a bit. As California continues to raise taxes, regulate industries and put in roadblocks to business, Texas took a right turn in the early 2000's. Texas did did crazy things like tort reform, reduced regulatory requirements and upgraded their tax system. As California loses business Texas is adding them.
The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion peice today about trial lawyers attempt to push back on tort reform gains. After spending $9 million and introducing 900 bills into this years legislature the lawyers haven't been too successful.
The best line in the article is:
Speaking of the economy, it's notable that Texas created more new jobs last year than the other 49 states combined. Texas's low tax burden is one reason. But also important is a fairer legal environment in which companies are less likely than they were a generation ago to face jackpot justice.
We had Senator Al Melvin on the Wake Up Tucson show this morning. We talked about the unique opportunity Arizona has to become a safe haven for enterprise. California is driving there business away and Texas has been opening doors for the past 10 years. Texas implemented tort reform, a relaxed regulatory environment and favorable tax status for enterprise. It's working. The jury is out as to if Arizona's conservatives can get it done and start turning the tide.
Even without our Tucson business communities support, we have leaders up north that are trying to turn the tide. Let's hope Arizona can but the 'open for business' sign up. Read about SALC's lobbing HERE.
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AUSTIN – Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution (HCR) 50 in support of states' rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
"I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state," Gov. Perry said. "That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states' rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union."
Perry continued: "Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas."
A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government's constitutionally designated powers and impede the states' right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.
It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.
Developing… From Druge
A State, just like a City or County can take steps today that will change the course of their future for generations to come. Six years ago the legislators in Texas set the state on a new course of action. A number of factors made a difference, not the least of which were tort reform and a favorable tax environment. Texas is touted as one of the most pro-business climates in the US. Both Arizona and Texas have similarities like a strong university system, major quality of life and climate benefits and a diverse workforce. Texas isn't saddled by our State Land Trust issues which as you look around Arizona is a big hurdle we have to figure out. With the right leadership in Arizona state government maybe, just maybe we can look back in a few years and see Arizona on top of some of these pro business lists.From Expansion Management
State Continues to Draw Projects
Texas remains at the forefront in attracting expansion and relocation projects primarily because of its pro-business attitude. Another factor is two dozen major universities providing research and development capabilities, as well as training partnerships.
When the high-tech industry took off in Austin, Texas' capital city, Austin Community College developed a program to train high-tech workers so companies could find a skilled and educated work force, said Patrick Shaughnessy, communications manager for the Texas Department of Economic Development.
That's why Oracle, the world's largest provider of database software, recently selected Austin for its high-availability data center.
Oracle looked at all viable options within the United States and short-listed 15 facilities, including ones in Missouri, Colorado, Massachusetts and Arizona, said Oracle spokeswoman Letty Ledbetter.
Oracle's strategic partnership with Dell Computer, headquartered in Austin, was another major factor in the decision.
Also taking advantage of Austin's high-tech expertise is PerformanceRetail, which moved its headquarters from Houston in July.
"Austin has a solid record in creating some of the world's largest and most successful technology companies," said Gregg Burt, president and CEO of Performance Retail. "This move gives us ready access to the talent we need to continue our leadership position in the development of retail technologies and expand our efforts to better serve our growing client roster of global corporations."
California's Bay Area was considered, said Dean Cruse, vice president of marketing.
Location Makes a Difference
The state's 1,248-mile border with Mexico translates into a large bilingual work force, a contributing factor in Clarke American Checks' decision to open a second contact center in San Antonio in August.
The new $12 million facility will provide customer service and sales via telephone, e-mail and Web chat for its partners and their customers, which includes more than 4,000 banks, credit unions and other financial institutions nationwide.
With 350 people working at its first facility, Clarke American plans to add another 350 at the new 42,000 square foot facility.
Kaari Swope, Clarke American'svice president and general manager of customer service, said the company considered alternative sites in Kansas, Iowa, Utah and other locations in the Midwest.
"We chose to add a second facility in San Antonio because of the existing infrastructure, the high quality work force available and because of the advantages of being able to hire a bilingual work force," Swope said.
The state's other major metropolitan area, Dallas/Fort Worth, recently welcomed two new arrivals.
Safety-Kleen Corp., which helps more than 400,000 companies regulate hazardous and non-hazardous waste, will add 250 employees at its new 120,000 square foot corporate headquarters. In a memo to company employees, company CEO Ronald A. Rittenmeyer said Dallas' central geographic location, its availability of affordable real estate, and a comparable cost of living were important factors.
Those were the same reasons Washington Mutual, one of the nation's largest financial services companies, announced in May plans to open a national commercial loan servicing and operations center in the region, bringing 300 new jobs.
"We selected the Dallas area – and Coppell, specifically -because it offers quality real estate options, an abundance of highly skilled workers, and high quality-of-life measures, such as affordability, great schools and access to arts and culture," said Stuart Miles, senior vice president for Washington Mutual.
Company spokesman Joe Arbona said the company considered Kansas City, Houston and Indianapolis, but felt Dallas offered the best pool of talent to fill the positions.
Dan Perkins is a freelance writer based in St. Louis, Mo.
Texas Job Creation Data HERE. and rankings HERE.
Some highlights of how Texas ranks;
Texas: The Business Advantage
Texas has established a worldwide reputation for its open, positive attitude toward the business community. With a low tax burden, low living costs, a Texas-friendly lifestyle and government programs designed to help rather than hinder business, the Lone Star State is the perfect location to build your company.
- If Texas were its own country, its economy would rank 12th in the world, just below Brazil and Russia and higher than India, South Korea and Australia.
- The Tax Foundation ranks Texas 43rd among states for its combined 2007 state and local tax burden. That's a contest in which first place is no prize!
- According to the Missouri Economic Research and Information Center, Texas had the third-lowest cost of living among all U.S. states in the fourth quarter of 2007, and by far the lowest cost of living among the 10 largest states.
- The Texas Enterprise Fund, created in 2003, gives Texas leaders unique leverage in using incentives to attract jobs and business to the state. The Texas Governor's Office reports that the fund has brought 51,800 new jobs to the state and generated $15.6 billion in capital investments.
- Since 2005, Texas' Emerging Technology Fund has been helping early-stage technology companies bring innovative products and services to market.
- Texas has made a substantial and ongoing commitment to upgrading the skills of its workers. The Texas Skills Development Fund, which provides state funding for employee training, awarded $25 million in grants in 2007 that generated nearly 7,100 new jobs and provided training to 13,758 workers in existing jobs.
- Texas emerged as the clear winner in Fortune magazine's 2007 ranking of the nation's 100 fastest-growing companies, with 32. California was a distant second, with 11 companies.
- In Chief Executive magazine's annual nationwide poll of chief executive officers, Texas has been chosen as the best state in which to do business for four consecutive years (2005-2008).
The CNBC financial news network ranked Texas as America's Top State for Business in 2008 and best all-around economy in the United States.
Craddick: Texas' pro-business moves will help weather economic turmoil
By Mella McEwen
Oil Editor
Amid the economic turmoil roiling the country and spreading across the globe, the state of Texas is an island of economic calm, according to Texas House Speaker Tom Craddick….
The state also is an island "created six years ago when we consolidated agencies and cut spending and made the government work like every other business,"Craddick added. "We had people who made the hard decisions and did what needed to be done."
The Midlander told his audience that "We have $12 billion in our rainy day fund and $5 billion to $6 billion surplus funds in our general revenue" as the Texas Legislature prepares to meet in January."If you've been following what's going on, California is facing a $19 billion budget deficit and has asked the federal government for a loan," he said. "When I was elected speaker, we were facing a $5 billion deficit. When
I was sworn in, it was a $10 billion deficit. We didn't ask the federal government for a loan, we formed a new appropriations committee and cut spending." He cited as an example the Health and Human Services, where 13 agencies were combined into three, saving approximately $1.5 billion a year.
Tort reform passing at the same time also helped, he said, stressing that legislation was not passed just to benefit doctors, though it has attracted 11,000 new doctors to the state in the last four years.
"Everyone across the board has benefited from tort reform," he said. "We got rid of most frivolous lawsuits" and companies looking to move to Texas have told him one reason is tort reform…
He predicted education funding will be a major focus of the session, telling the audience that "In my opinion, we've got to find another way to fund education and move away from property taxes."
He also wants to update the school formula he said dates back to the 1960s and make sure good teachers are rewarded for their efforts.
Transportation will be another focus, Craddick said, noting that the Transportation Commission recently announced it cannot locate $1 billion in funds."We're sending in an audit committee and we will find that $1 billion," he said. "You won't recognize TxDOTwhen we get through. Here, about 1 percent of you are concerned about transportation. In Dallas, 99 percent are concerned about transportation. The gasoline tax is not raising enough to keep up with our infrastructure. We need to look at options on funding transportation."
Health care will be another issue, he said, saying he wants to find ways to let small companies band together in larger groups so they can find healthcare insurance that offers better coverage at better rates.
Mella McEwen can be reached at email@example.com.
"Austin offered a lower cost of living, a great lifestyle, inexpensive services and access to a large, talented pool of technology professionals," Cruse said.
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This god is depicted as a well-nourished (fat) man with women's
breasts and a crown of papyrus reeds. This was the god of the
Nile and personified the fertility of the country and the land;
thereby holding the symbols of abundance. He showed his ability
to nourish the Nile through floods which brought wealth and
life. He was mostly considered the god of the northern Nile and
therefore is mostly seen wearing the papyrus plant which was a
symbol of Lower Egypt. In some sections he was depicted as a god
of the entire Nile whereby he was then portrayed as holding both
the lotus and papyrus plants in his hands. The lotus was the
symbol of Upper Egypt. Hapi's wife in the south was Nekhbet
(depicted as a vulture) and his wife in the north was Buto
(depicted as a cobra). Hapi also became associated with Osiris
and Nun throughout various eras of Egyptian history.
She was called the "Golden One" and proceeded to be a favorite
goddess for many centuries. She was also the female consort of
the "Bull of Amenti," the first god of the necropolis. There are
early links to Horus (god of the sky and of kingship). Her name
means "house of Horus" or "temple of Horus" and is usually
depicted in human form or sometimes as a cow with a disk of the
sun between the horns which indicates the solar aspect.
Sometimes she is depicted as a cow with stars in her belly. She
was known as a goddess of several things such as love,
maternity, protecting the deity of birth regeneration, and also
as the goddess of the eye of the sun and the moon. She was a
patron of joy and love, and a mistress of song and dance.
Because of all these qualities, she was associated with many
other goddesses and this allowed her to appear in several
disguises. Her main cult following was at the center of Dendara
where she was associated with the god of the sky and Horus of
Edfu. She was also honored at Thebes, Memphis, Abu Simbel, and
various other sites. In later times she would become associated
with other cults and sometimes called the daughter of Re and the
wife of Horus. It is said that her favorite instrument was the
Sistrum (musical instrument) and that she played it to drive
evil from the land. In some of the ancient reliefs she is shown
as nursing the king or his priestly representative from her
breasts. This nursing act provided the king with supernatural
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This trail is no longer maintained, since it burned over in a 2003 wildfire. This long side hill and valley trail, was mostly in timber within the Pasayten Wilderness. This trail goes to Crystal Lake, a beautiful alpine lake, and there are two other lakes nearby without trail access requiring cross-county travel. This would be a good trail for experienced hikers desiring solitude as there are many, many down trees on the trail and parts of the trail have been washed out. This trail is impassable to stock and is challenging for hikers.
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Lake fishing at Crystal Lake and nearby Kidney Lake and Halfmoon Lake.
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First they couldn't win a game at home in the ACC.
Maybe now they won't be able to stop.
The Miami Hurricanes defeated the Boston College Eagles Saturday afternoon 69-42 at the BankUnited Center, never trailing on their way to their biggest margin of victory this season.
It was Miami's second straight ACC win at home and its most complete game of the season. The Hurricanes shot 47.3 percent from the field, including 7-of-14 from three, turned the ball over just three times, and held Boston College to a season-low in points on 32.6 percent shooting while also forcing the Eagles into 10 turnovers.
"I like that our defensive game plan has been very well executed," Miami coach Jim Larrañaga said. "We've been really contesting things much better than any other time in the season. Offensively, when we do what we did today and keep attacking, guys can make those shots…today, we were very patient and I was very concerned, because yesterday in practice, we weren't. Yesterday, I thought we showed signs of fatigue and hurrying, which is what we did against Virginia Tech. So to play the way we did for 40 minutes, especially that second half scoring 42 points, shooting 59 percent from the field and 62 percent from three, you can't ask for any better than that."
Senior guard Rion Brown led the way for the Hurricanes with a game-high 22 points on 8-of-14 shooting, including 4-of-7 from beyond the arc, and his 3-pointer with 14:38 left in the first half were his 1,000th points in his career, becoming the 35th player in UM history to reach that milestone.
Erik Swoope was integral as well, tying a career-high with 14 points to go along with a career-high nine rebounds while Manu Lecomte (11) and Garrius Adams (10) also scored in double figures. Swoope made five of his eight shots and 4-of-6 from the free throw line while also playing a career-high 38 minutes.
"Since we switched the [starting] lineup to having our five seniors out there the guys have been really pushing me to try and grow offensively," Swoope said. "We always felt that the five of us as a unit could be a force and get us off to the right start and one of the key things I know I put on myself personally was trying to help Rion and Garrius get better opportunities out there or get easier shots, maybe the pressure is taken off them just a little bit so I've been really trying to watch film and diagnose how I can help them."
The starting seniors got Miami (14-13, 5-9) out to an early eight point lead before Boston College responded with an 11-4 run that included back-to back 3-pointers by Patrick Heckmann, six of his 13 first half points, that pulled the Eagles to within 18-17 but that was as close as Boston College would get the rest of the game. Miami answered right back with a 9-2 run to increase its lead back up to eight and led 27-22 at halftime thanks to 10 first half points by Brown and eight from Swoope.
The runs continued in the second half as well as Adams opened the second session with a 3-pointer to jumpstart a 14-6 surge that gave Miami its first double-digit lead of the game at 41-28. Ryan Anderson made a layup to pull Boston College back to within eight points at the 10:57 mark but Miami had an answer once again, coming right back at the Eagles with a 9-0 run.
Brown drilled a 3-pointer, Lecomte made back-to-back layups, and Swoope threw down a dunk on consecutive possessions in less than a minute and a half to blow the game open and give Miami a 53-36 lead.
It was a far cry from Boston College's performance Wednesday night against Syracuse when the Eagles upset the No. 1 team in the country 62-59 in overtime, ending the Orange's 25-game winning streak in the process.
"We felt like they were probably coming here thinking, 'Hey, we just beat Syracuse. We can definitely beat Miami,'" Brown said. "We just wanted to come out and play our game, execute our game plan and not even really think about that. We respect Boston College as a basketball team. We know they're a good team. We knew we had to come in and play our best."
Heckman scored just two points in the second half to finish with 15 for Boston College (7-20, 3-11). Miami's defense also held leading scorer Olivier Hanlan in check. The sophomore guard, who entered Saturday's contest averaging 18.2 points per game, was held to 11 points on 2-of-7 shooting.
Miami travels to Charlottesville next for a matchup with the No. 13 Virginia Cavaliers Wednesday night, the first of three straight on the road. Tip off is at 7 PM.


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The Silbatone room with Western Electric horns & drivers.
CD players - computer audio for dummies.
Careful in that room.
Think i just spotted jack the ripper behind that drape.
How do they sound?
They look massive.
Any news on the new Harbeth M30.1 from anyone at the show?
I've been sat in a bloody courtroom listening to people telling fibs all week. I suspect Sibatone and WE may have the edge on that.
The best hifi show in the UK today - http://www.thehifishow.com/
Keith in the Cessaro room
Ridicule is nothing to be scared of
Which ones Keith?
The ginger one.
He should've spent his time reading up on air travel, instead of scmoozing. Did you manage to get on the plane in the end?
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CD players - computer audio for dummies.
As opposed to the man wearing a jacket
I took alot of pics which I'll gradually put up here.
Entrance to MOC
3 views from the top floor gallery down to the first floor concourse in Hall 4. (They also made use of the concourse in Hall 3)
These chaps were wandering about providing extra 'atmosphere'!
We started out in the Auditorium 23 room. Keith Aschenbrenner is a renowned guru to many European audiophiles with a longstanding interest in old tech. He was playing via some Klangfilm powered OB's but there were also the nice LM Audio repro WE drivers in various implementations scattered about, a Verdier TT, new production EMT 997 tonearm, an SPU-A & being run through the AcousticPlan Electronics.
LM Audio TVC and amplifier
repro WE 555
There were other items of interest scattered about. Turntables from Garrard, Simon York & EMT (930).
Along the corridor, these speakers, with what appeared to be a large Linaeum type mid driver (illuminated from the rear)
Then to the Hanss room where various of their TT's & amplifiers were on display.
Further along & some huge Nola speakers arranged in 4 towers with separate crossovers.
From the rear
All being powered by some huge Canary Audio Monos (with 300B's)
This amp was also in the room. I have read about it previously but the name escapes me.
These were a striking looking design but it wasn't obvious who the manufacturer was.
From the rear.
Not sure they are my cuppa but at least they are different.
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On to the Kharma room which was lavishly decorated and which had the comfiest chairs.
That big panel in the centre matched the textured finish on the amps.
A Clearaudio TT at the front.
Personally I found the appearance of all of this a bit tasteless but I imagine there'd be plenty of footballers etc who'd go for it.
The next room had the Immedia TT and some Bulgarian amps called Thrax.
and a nifty little streamer/DAC ? gizmo from Nagra.
Foo with style in the next room. Didn't ask the price of this mains block!
More Thrax. They do seem to use some Tamura transformers.
Another Immedia TT, more Thrax
and the speakers with separate Duelund loaded crossovers.
Given the prices charged for some Duelund components its hard to imagine what these crossovers would set you back!
On next to the Pratt & Whitney room
While going around the show, Mr Coco & I were carefully selecting items for a 'Cheshire Bling' system aimed at the inhabitants of Wilmslow & Alderley Edge.
We knew where we'd find the turntable, Transrotor always have something suitable. Indeed, there was a choice.
As for an amplifier we expected that MBL would have something for the discerning man of means. And they did, in white & gold (pics later) but this amp took the biscuit if Burmester chrome was thought to be too tasteful.
Speakers were always going to be tricky until we spotted these lovely gold leaf covered delights.
As a bonus we also found a matching record cleaning m/c.
Of course no self respecting Wilmslovian would be without a large fibreglass animal adorning the listening room & this handsome lion (complete with meat) certainly fits the bill.
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Very nice pictures,thank you.
"I feel Sorry for people who don't drink when they wake in the morning. That's as good as they're gonna feel all day". F. Sinatra
The Clearaudio decks (although still made in Germany) are looking similar to the Hanss (made in China) I suspect Hanss are drawing their styling from several makers.
I hadn't seen this latest take on the Souther arm by Clearaudio before.
The Devaliet room with Wilsons actually sounded quite enjoyable. I've never encountere one being played properly at a show before.
Under the hood.
With Wilsons.
The new AMG V-12 turntable was being displayed & we were able to handle the various component parts. I didn't particularly like the optional wooden surround, but the basic deck seemed very well executed as it should be for the price.
Another deck seen but not heard was the new Air Force One which is garnering alot of attention in Germany. The people behind it are ex Micro Seiki and alot about the appearance & design ideas behind it suggest a heavyweight MS being brought up to date. I think it has an airbearing & possibly air suspension. Whatever, we didn't find one actually being played.


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Lynda Boyd Movies and Career Information
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Lynda Boyd is a Canadian actress, singer, dancer, musician, and writer. She is perhaps best known for her roles in the Hollywood films Final Destination 2, An Unfinished Life, She's the Man, and On Thin Ice, with Diane Keaton. She had minor roles in I Spy, About A Girl, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, and Intern Academy. She was also the voice of Cologne in Ranma 1/2, and the voice of Viv the bunny on the Sunbow cartoon series Littlest Pet Shop. She played the lead role for four seasons in WTN's You, Me, and the Kids. Boyd also wrote three of the episodes. Boyd has garnered Gemini Award nominations for ABC Family Channel's Falcon Beach and Republic of Doyle. A singer for many years, Boyd has starred in such musicals as The Rocky Horror Show, Guys and Dolls, and Little Shop of Horrors. She also sang and toured with The Blenders band in the 1980s. Boyd is currently starring in the Canadian drama/comedy series Republic of Doyle as the character Rose Miller. In 2010, she was nominated for a Gemini Award in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Continuing Leading Dramatic Role for her role on the show.
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- Damage 2010
- She's the Man 2006
- An Unfinished Life 2005
- Final Destination 2 (2003) 2003
- I Spy 2002
- Leaving Metropolis 2002
- Best in Show 2000
- Mission to Mars 2000
- Silver Wolf 1999
- Invader (1997)
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With a fine arts degree in painting and sculpture and a Master of Science degree in computer graphics, Rick Vertolli's perspective bridges both the technical and aesthetic characteristics of animation.
Prior to CCA, Rick was the animation supervisor for the computer graphics and animation studio at CSU Chico. Vertolli and his talented staff have won numerous awards for computer animation and are among the chosen few who have been invited to present their work at SIGGRAPH. In addition, Rick has been a key player in the creation of the Applied Computer Graphics Major at Chico State. His curriculum development focuses on animation and animation production. With twenty-five years of teaching experience his students can be found working in the film and entertainment industry throughout California and beyond.
This summer Rick completed his 11th year as course coordinator with the CSU Summer Arts Program. Summer Arts brings talented students together from all aspects of the Arts for a two-week intense workshop. His courses, taught by animators and artists from Pixar, Disney, Mattel and LEGO, give students an opportunity to work intimately with professional artists.
August of this year, Professor Vertolli became Chair of the Animation Program at the California College of the Arts. As an educator, Vertolli brings a collaborative and creative sprit to the classroom. He is adamant that the curriculum reflect the skills learned in a production environment. He also believes strongly in real-world experience and sees a huge benefit to students who participate in internships.
What Rick loves most about the California College of the Arts is the energy - the vibe. CCA is a relatively small art college with big ambitions. From the encouraging administration, to the optimistic first-year students, to a lineup of incredible faculty, they all have one goal in mind: to be the best animation program in the world.
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These and many others, rather than simple-minded worship of constitutional principles, are important roots of our "paralysis." Lazare has it backward. Culture drives politics, not the reverse. He cites Newt Gingrich to the effect that America is a "deeply conservative country" and laments that it is true "because the Ancient Constitution is a deeply conservative concept." On the contrary, we are a peculiar people, loving the new and the young but idealizing the past, which we constantly flee. It's how we are, not how the Founding Fathers made us. And what the record shows is that when the will is really there, we will change the system while swearing that we are really preserving it, as we have long done.
Only by misreading that record can Lazare's argument be sustained. I am not a constitutional fundamentalist. There are many provisions that I would willingly change. But neither do I subscribe to Lazare's unrestrained majoritarianism, his dire warning that unless we dump present limits on the freedom of the majority to secure instant political gratification, "politics will atrophy, society will die, and civil liberties will go with it." There are good cases for a new kind of politics, but good cases are not served by bad history.


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Parahaemolyticus is an equal-opportunity gut wrencher, says George Hoskin of the FDAs Office of Seafood.
In June 1998, 416 people in 13 states were made ill by a strain of Vibrio parahaemolyticus.
This strain appears to be more virulent, says Hoskin. Some speculate that it got to the Gulf of Mexico in ballast water dumped by a passing ship.
Even if your seafood is thoroughly cooked, it could make you sick. Ciguatera toxin is a neurotoxin found in fish harvested from reef areas. Scombroid poisoning comes from histamine that can form on the flesh of fresh tuna, mahi mahi, and some other fish that arent kept cold enough (usually before they reach the store). Neither is killed by heat.
Dont eat raw shellfish, especially from the Gulf Coast.
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Earlier in the day, McCartney's website he will play April 25 at National Stadium in Lima, Peru. The website said a ticket pre-sale through his website for that show will begin at 10 a.m. March 14. McCartney confirmed the first date of his 2014 tour at Santiago, Chile on March 9.
Other published reports say McCartney will also play in Korea. The Korean stop will reportedly be at Jamsil Olympic Stadium, the home of the 1988 Summer Olympic Games, which holds roughly 69,000 people. Rumor say the tour will also be hitting Japan and possibly the U.S., though these stops are unconfirmed.
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The California Film Commission have selected the winners of its $100 million allocation lottery which allows various TV and film productions to receive tax credits.
Fourteen films and seventeen TV productions have been conditionally approved to receive credits.
The biggest surprise on the list is the previously unannounced "The Purge 2," a sequel to Blumhouse Productions' high-concept Ethan Hawke and Lena Headey thriller that Universal is set to release this Friday in U.S. theaters.
Shot for very cheap, reviews so far for the film have been mixed with some quite enjoying it, while others seem less enamoured.
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Pork Slope Launches Delivery Menu; Maison Premiere Rolls Out a Tasting Menu
Plus: new lunch deals at Chinese Mirch, Wine Simplified, and more of today's leftovers.
• 5 Napkin Burger is launching their first beer, bourbon, and burger festival. Feast on unlimited beer-battered corn dogs, cheddar-and-ale fondue, 5 Napkin sliders, and more, accompanied by small-batch bourbon and craft beers, on November 8 at 404 event space. General admission tickets are $47 and VIP tickets, which get you in the door an hour before the 7:30 p.m. start time, are $67. Learn more here. [Grub Street]
• Dale Talde's Pork Slope now delivers to locations from 9th Street to Flatbush Avenue, between Prospect Park and Fourth Avenue. Starting today, everything on the regular menu is available for delivery from 5 to 11 p.m. Park Slope residents, plan to get fat this winter. [Grub Street]
• After nine years of serving up Italian small plates and panini, 'inoteca is adding pasta to its menu. Spaghetti aglio e olio, spaghetti pomodoro, and orecchiette with Heritage pork ragu will appear on the menu regularly along with some seasonal pastas like torchio with mussels, shrimp, and trapanese pesto. Plus, be on the lookout for a series of celebratory dinner events through Sidetour. [Grub Street]
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• Barbuto's Jonathan Waxman will host Lemon: NYC on October 23 at Industria Super Studio. At this fund-raiser for Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation, chefs Tom Colicchio, Susan Fengier, Marc Vetri, and more will prepare four-course family-style meals for event attendees. Visit Alex's Lemonade Stand for details. [Grub Street]
• Williamsburg oyster hot spot Maison Premiere is now offering reservations for their six-course tasting menu. The $95 menu includes oysters, chilled seafood on ice, crudos, seafood, meat, and dessert courses. Reserve up to one month in advance for as many as six people by calling 347-335-0446, extension 103, or by e-mailing firstname.lastname@example.com. [Grub Street]
• Murray Hill's Chinese Mirch has launched a new dine-in lunch menu. The multi-course lunch includes the soup of the day, appetizer of the day, choice of salad or bhel, two hand-rolled momos, your choice of entrée, steamed rice, and the dessert of the day. The entire lunch is just $9.99 for vegetarian and chicken options and $10.99 for seafood and lamb options. And if eating out isn't feasible, the Chinese-Indian fusion restaurant offers a takeout lunch box with everything but the salad, bhel, and dessert for $8.99 and $9.99. [Midtown Lunch]
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Marie Cardona Timeline and Summary
- Marie likes to swim. One day, while swimming at the public beach down at the Algiers harbor, she bumps, or rather, swims into Meursault, a former co-worker of hers at the shipping company. Meursault makes a move on her.
- The two fall asleep together, with Meursault lying on Marie's stomach.
- Meursault asks her out to a movie; she agrees to see a Fernandel comedy.
- When he picks her up wearing a black tie, Marie is shocked that Meursault's mother died only yesterday, but soon after, she forgets it.
- The two mess around in the theatre… then take it to bed at Meursault's place.
- The next morning, Marie leaves before Meursault wakes up.
- That next weekend, on Saturday, Marie goes to the beach a few miles outside Algiers with Meursault. After all afternoon in the sun, the two hurriedly catch a bus home to have some sex.
- The next morning, Marie asks Meursault if he loves her. She is saddened when he tells her saying that you love someone doesn't mean anything, and he doesn't think that he does.
- As the two fix their lunch, a fight breaks out on the landing of the apartment complex. Marie gets flustered and asks Meursault to call the police.
- When the commotion is over, everyone leaves. Meursault and Marie go back to their lunch, and then she leaves soon thereafter.
- A few days later, Meursault informs Marie that they've been invited to a friend's beach house for the weekend. That same evening, Marie off-handedly asks if he wants to get married. Meursault, of course, says it doesn't make any difference to him but that if she wants to, sure.
- Marie then asks again if he loves her yet, and Meursault answers in the same absurd way as before. Marie is fed up, but proposes marriage to Meursault anyway. Sigh.
- The two go for a stroll through the main streets on the other side of town (apparently to celebrate their engagement). Then, Meursault goes for dinner at Celeste's and Marie leaves.
- On Sunday, Marie comes by Meursault's apartment and wakes him up. They knock on Raymond's door, and the three catch a bus to the beach.
- They arrive at Raymond's friend's (Masson) wooden bungalow. Marie bonds with Masson's plump, Parisian wife.
- Marie goes with the boys (Masson and Meursault) for a swim down at the beach.
- When Meursault dozes off, Marie wakes him for lunch.
- Everyone eats fish, meat, wine, and fried potatoes for lunch. Marie drinks and smokes with the rest of them.
- Afterwards, the ladies take care of the dishes, while the men go for a walk.
- Only Meursault comes back from the beach, explaining to Marie and Masson's wife that Raymond got into a fight and is on his way to a doctor.
- Marie cries.
- Meursault has been sent to jail. Marie visits him, full of smiles, in a room without privacy.
- She shouts to Meursault that he has to have hope.
- Marie shouts again that they'll get married after he gets out; she has to force herself to act convincing.
- When the visit comes to an end, Marie blows a kiss at Meursault with a forced smile as he is led away.
- Shortly after, Marie sends a letter to Meursault stating that she is not allowed to visit him further, as she is not his wife.
- Marie attends Meursault's trial in June, a year later, in the Court of Assizes.
- She tries to catch Meursault's gaze all through the trial, but to little avail.
- Marie is called to the witness stand after Celeste. The prosecutor gets nasty with her, calling her Meursault's mistress and their relationship an affair. He has her go through their first date together, which, by the way, occurred the day after Maman's death.
- Marie resists, but has to testify. She narrates the swim, the movies, and going back to Meursault's apartment. The courtroom is completely silent when the prosecutor notes that the movie was a comedy by Fernandel. Marie begins to sob, saying that it's not as bad as it sounds, and that Meursault didn't do anything wrong. The bailiff ushers the crying Marie out at the signal of the judge.
- Marie never sees Meursault again after the verdict is announced.


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The joy of the plays of Conor McPherson, one of Ireland's most acclaimed playwrights, is that his plays make you feel like you've just sat next to the most interesting man in the room, and that man is telling you about the most interesting time of his life. McPherson's plays are captivating, relatable, and have an awkward honesty to them that feels so real. It's no question, then, why they always behave so well in the hands of Ken Webster, artistic director of Hyde Park Theatre, since Austin has few storytellers with more authentic skill in telling raw, intimate, earnest stories. In Hyde Park Theatre's latest production of McPherson's work, "Port Authority", he's only carrying a third of the weight, as he's joined as Austin theater veteran Tom Green, and one of Austin's most talented up-and-comers, Nate Jackson, to tell three tales of love, loss, and the awful awkwardness of life.
When "Port Authority" begins, we're introduced to three very different people. The first is a young punk moving out on his own for the first time, and moving in with the girl of his dreams. He's cocky, he's self-deprecating, he's all of us at eighteen. The second is a man entering his middle years, who has secured a steady job at a shipping company, and who is whisked away on a wild LA vacation by his overzealous boss. The final man is an aged, proper gentlemen, reminiscing about lost love after the delivery of a mysterious package. These stories bob and weave around each other, never truly meeting, but how they connect in their own ways helps to give us a better picture of the other two gentlemen with whom they share the stage.
It's always wonderful to see a young talent on the rise, and Nate Jackson, who just came off a much-acclaimed performance in Capital T Theatre's "punkplay", is showing himself to be just that with his performance here. Grabbing our attention with word one, Jackson shows a remarkable presence, his timbre and cadence winning over the audience from word one, and his comedic timing sparking up just when we least expect it. McPherson is not easy wordsmith to tackle, even for an experienced performer, but Jackson shows he's got the chops to pull it off despite his age, easily sliding into this likable, if flawed, young man, a character who could easily become intolerable in the wrong hands.
Tom Green has always had a talent for pulling every ounce of emotion out of a piece, as could not be more evident than in last year's stunning "A Steady Rain" by chick and a dude productions, and here he brandishes that talent to give his tale of an aging man, and his longing for a distant stranger, a real palpable pang. He performs his role without the fire and blast of his younger counterparts, but there's something about his direct, stolid delivery that helps to make the material that much more heartbreaking. There's a somberness to his countenance, a distance in his eyes that tugs at our heartstrings heavily, and when you see the small glimmering tear roll down his face, it's hard to keep the floodgates closed yourself.
There is no man in town who can take on a one-man show quite like Ken Webster, as he's shown in his past performances in McPherson's "Saint Nicholas" and "The Good Thief", as well as Daniel MacIvor's "House". Though "Port Authority" may not be a one-man show in the usual sense, he still shows a real talent for grabbing the audience's attention and holding it fast. There's something about Webster's speed of delivery, a certain je ne sais quoi to his phrasing and pitch, that makes him a natural born storyteller, so much so that it's difficult to look away the moment he opens his mouth. He takes a character who is very difficult to like, an aging, often lewd, drunk, and shows the audience what there is to like about the character under all the sleaze, even as he rattles on about the debaucherous deeds the character partakes in.
"Port Authority" is a bit of a strange beast, a kind of three-headed one-man show lightly sewn together to create a satisfying whole. Though that might sound unruly on paper, it's to the credit of the playwright, the wonderful cast, and the direction of Webster and his Assistant Directors, that the result is such a powerful, and oft-hilarious, experience. Both the veterans and the newcomer wear their characters like a comfy sweater, never missing a beat or falling out, and always remaining intriguing throughout.
"Port Authority" is playing at Hyde Park Theatre through August 9th. For more information, and to purchase tickets, visit hydeparktheatre.org.


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The office of sheriff survives today with unique responsibilities which
fall under both criminal and civil law. The powers and duties of the Sheriff
have changed but the historical functions remain.
The American Colonies adopted the office of sheriff from Mother England. Today,
the office of sheriff exists in all states except Alaska and Hawaii. It
is a constitutionally designated office in thirty-five states, including
Vermont. Traditionally, the Sheriff is an elected official and in most
states, serves four year terms. There are in excess of three thousand
counties in the United States and sheriffs exist in nearly all of them.
The responsibilities of the office varies between and within the states
though similarities do exist throughout the country. The office of sheriff
is unique in that it has responsibilities in all branches of the criminal
justice system.
There have been thirty-four sheriffs in Franklin County, Vermont, since
1769. Some noteworthy sheriffs in the past include: Sheriffs Prince B.
Hall (the first sheriff) and Thomas Russell (the second) who administered
time in stocks and whippings in (presently) Taylor Park for misdemeanor
crimes, Sheriff Solomon Walbridge (the fifth sheriff) who fought in the
Battle of Bennington in August 1777, Sheriff Shiverick Holmes (the eighth
sheriff), who was the only Franklin County Sheriff to hang a man (in 1820),
and Renesselaer R. Sherman (the eighteenth sheriff) who served at the
time of the St. Albans Raid in October 1864. He returned to the village
and found his 15 year old son about to go on one of the posse's, chasing
the St. Albans Raiders. Sheriff Sherman locked his son up in his jail
and he went with the posse.
There have been six county jails in St. Albans with the present being
built in 1893. Sheriffs to Sheriff (Senator) John Finn lived in the jail
until 1969. The State of Vermont closed most of Vermont's fourteen county
jails holding prisoners in the 1970's.
Sheriff Robert Norris assumed office in 1999. His responsibilities include
furnishing security for the Franklin Superior Court and Vermont District
Court, serving civil and criminal papers, transportation of prisoners,
patrolling towns, motor vehicle and snowmobile enforcement, and furnishing
security for special events.


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Fred Bleil joins the Green Wave staff after spending one season as the defensive coordinator/secondary coach at the University of North Texas. Prior to the Mean Green, he spent eight seasons as the secondary coach at San Diego State.
Bleil, 57, spent two terms as the director of the Mean Green defense after leading one of the Big West's top units in 1997 and 1998. Under Bleil, North Texas finished in the top three in the conference in scoring defense in both years, and ranked second in the league in pass defense in 96. Two-time NFL Pro Bowler Brian Waters was an All-Big West selection for Bliel's Mean Green defense, as were three other North Texas players in that two-year span.
At San Diego State, he coached the secondary for the final eight seasons and the special teams for three. Under his direction, the Aztec secondary became a force in the Mountain West and across the nation. SDSU improved from 86th in the country in pass defense in 2002 to fourth in 2003. Aztec cornerbacks ranked first and second in the MWC in 2003 in passes defended and third for interceptions.
Prior to North Texas, Bleil was the defensive coordinator at New Mexico from 1992 to 1995. In four seasons with the Lobos, Bleil helped improve the defense from one of the worst in the nation to one of the best in the WAC.
Bliel served defensive coordinator and assistant head coach at Utah State from 1986-91, and was the head coach at New Mexico Highlands from 1979 to 1982. He earned Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Coach of the Year honors when he led Highlands to the 1981 conference crown. He was also honored as the AFCA College Division Coach of the Year.
Bleil played football at Northern Iowa in 1967 and went on to earn his degree at Westmar College in 1971. He added a master's degree to his resume in 1972 from Eastern New Mexico.


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Sept. 12, 2011
DURHAM, N.C. - Washington State outfielder Jason Monda and infielder Adam Nelubowich were each recognized by Baseball America as top prospects in 2011 summer collegiate leagues.
Monda was ranked 14th in the Cape Cod League after finishing fourth in the circuit with a .333 batting average and tying for seventh with 13 stolen bases while playing for the Brewster Whitecaps.
Nelubowich led the West Coast League with eight home runs and 36 RBI and finished ninth in batting average at .304 competing for the Wenatchee AppleSox. He was the No. 7 prospect in the WCL.


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In this archive: How Ginger got together with Steve Winwood to start the next big band; Air Force's incredible line up; Air Force play the Royal Albert Hall and tour the UK and Europe; the band changes line up and starts another tour; Jimi Hendirx dies; Ginger and Elvin Jones drum battle, and Air Force's final line up and gigs; Africa caling...
It was on Ginger's first visit to Steve Winwood after his extended holiday following Blind Faith's final concert date in Honolulu, that he learned of Blind Faith's demise. Ginger tells us in 'Hellraiser' that Steve mentioned wanting to reform Traffic & that Eric had decided to team up with Delaney & Bonnie. So Ginger discussed with Steve his own plans to put 'a big band' together for 'a couple of gigs, and Stevie and Chris Wood (Traffic's sax & flute player) agreed to do it.'
Thus in January 1970, Ginger's Baker's Air Force Mark One was born, with an impressive line-up. Former friend from the GBO 'on the road days' & Moody Blues front man Denny Laine came in on guitar & vocals, Rick Grech was on bass & violin, Harold Macnair: sax & flute (along with Chris Wood), Graham Bond on alto, the great Phil Seamen on drums, Winwood on organ & vocals, Jeanette Jacobs: vocals & Remi Kabaka: percussion.
This was a powerful & eclectic mix of some the best musicians that Ginger had known, admired & worked with over the years & it resulted in a fantastically strong (& underrated) output.
Their first gig was at Birmingham Town Hall on 12th January & such was Ginger's standing that they went on to fill London's Royal Albert Hall on the 15th. Rat Scabies (drummer with Iconic 70's punk band The Damned) remembers the impact this band had when he saw them live & that this was the first time that African music had been brought into the mainstream.
The encore of this gig was recorded & released as a single in France where it was number 1 for a few weeks. This success prompted the RSO 'office' in the guise of Robin Turner to urge Ginger to keep on with the band. However, Steve, Chris & Rick had new projects they wanted to get underway; so Ginger recruited some new personnel & Air Force Mk II (March - May ´70), took to the road with the following line up:
Ginger Baker - drums
Phil Seamen - drums
Alan White - drums, keyboard
Denny Laine - guitar, lead vocal
Graham Bond - organ, sax
Harold Mc Nair- sax, flute
Colin Gibson - sax
Rick Grech - bass
Jeanette Jacobs - vocals
Diane Stewart - vocals
Remi Kabaka - percussion
(For some of the time they also featured the singer Eleanor Barooschian)
They played the following dates:
20th Victoria Hall, HANLEY
21th University, LEEDS
28th Music Evolution`70 at Le Bourget Airport
29th Lyceum, LONDON
19th Daily Mirror´s London-to- Mexico Car Rally, Wembley Stadium, LONDON
25th Roudhouse, LONDON
28th Greens`Playhouse, GLASGOW
29th Usher Hall, EDINBURGH
30th City Hall, NEWCASTLE
1st Caird Hall, DUNDEE
15th Joint Meeting Festival DÜSSELDORF Germany
23rd Hollywood Festival, Madeley, STAFFORDSHIRE
24th Plumpton Race Course, SUSSEX
A gig was then planned for New York's Madison Square Garden on June 20th but was cancelled & then the third & final incarnation of the band came into being consisting of the following line up:
Graham Bond - vocals, Hammond, saxes
Ken Craddok - organ, guitar, vocal
Steve Gregory - tenor sax, flute
Bud Beadle - saxes
Colin Gibson - bass
Aliki Ashman - vocals
Diane Stewart - vocals
Speedy Acquaye - congas
They took to the road in September... with
5th "Love & Peace Festival, FEHMARN Germany
8th Fairfield Hall, CROYDON
10th Free Trade Hall, MANCHESTER
11th City Hall, NEWCASTLE
15th Guildhall, PLYMOUTH
On 18th September Jimi Hendrix died; a blow to Ginger who had been planning to put some music together with him as well as cementing their friendship socially. Air Force continued the tour at.......
20th City Hall LEEDS
23th Town Hall BIRMINGHAM
29th Colston Hall BRISTOL
30th Victoria Hall HANLEY
& on October 24th they did the "Beatclub TV Show" BREMEN, Germany.
After which Ginger took off on his drive to Africa in his white Jensen FF, driving it over a cliff en-route, jumping out unscathed & filming the retrieval of his car with a triumphant thumbs up sign! He returned in December & Air Force played:
7th City Hall, SHEFFIELD
8th Guildhall, PORTSMOUTH
18th Stadthalle, OFFENBACH Germany
20th Messehalle, HAMBURG Germany
Then on the 21st Ginger flew his family out to a holiday in Jamaica, returning to the UK for a gig on 29th January 1971 at LEEDS Polytechnic. In February Air Force played their last gigs starting with the Drum Battle with Elvin Jones on the 1st, at the LONDON Lyceum, followed by...
4th Southsea South Parade
5th University, READING
6th University, SHEFFIELD
11th Memorial, Hall BARRY
12th Melody Rooms, NORWICH
13th University, HULL
15th Locarno, BLACKPOOL
18th Festival Hall, PAIGNTON
19th Market Hall, HAVERFORD
20th Coldfield Belfry, SUTTON
Now Africa & its music was calling Ginger & he wanted to realise his dream of setting up a recording studio in Nigeria & working with African musicians such as his new-found friend, Fela Kuti. He also found that the climate & unavailability of hard drugs there were beneficial to his health.


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Heavy Drinking and Endometrial Cancer
New research has determined that heavy drinking ups women's risk of endometrial cancer. Nicholas Bakalar of The New York Times investigates:
Researchers examined a multiethnic group of 41,574 postmenopausal women, following them for an average of eight years and using questionnaires about diet and drinking habits. In that time, the team found 324 cases of endometrial cancer, the type that forms in the tissue that lines the uterus. According to the National Cancer Institute, the United States has 40,000 new cases of endometrial cancer a year and 7,400 deaths.For more foods that'll mess you up, check out DiseaseProof's hurtful foods category.
After controlling for variables including body mass index, age, hormone therapy and whether they had been pregnant, the researchers found that women who had less than two drinks a day had no increased risk of endometrial cancer. But those who had more than two drinks a day had slightly more than twice the risk. It made no difference whether the women drank beer, wine or hard liquor.


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PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Art and Courage Forged in a Cauldron of Adversity
By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN
Published: April 9, 1999
Frank Hurley was 28 in 1914 when he shipped out as a photographer on Sir Ernest Shackleton's expedition to cross Antarctica. Hurley had been to Antarctica already. Three years earlier he had gone with his compatriot Douglas Mawson, the Australian explorer, and the film he made about Mawson's trip was one of the things that got Shackleton interested in having his own trip filmed and photographed.
Shackleton figured that selling rights to Hurley's pictures of the expedition would cover part of his cost. Hurley was an egotist, a roughneck who had come up in the world through hard work, and he was not easy to get along with. But he was nonetheless talented and fearless.
So Shackleton set off with a crew of 27, including Hurley, on Aug. 8, 1914, a week after World War I began, in a 300-ton Norwegian barkentine that he had renamed Endurance, after his family motto, ''By endurance we conquer.''
Nobody had the slightest idea what kind of adventure it would turn out to be.
Shackleton's journey, one of the great epics of global exploration, is recounted through more than 150 of Hurley's color and black-and-white photographs as well as with artifacts and some ingenious video displays in a show called ''The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition,'' starting tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History.
If it is unbelievable that Hurley's pictures survive at all, it is no less remarkable that so many of them, a large number of which have never been exhibited before, are first-class works of art. Sometimes the wildest and most extreme circumstances bring out the best in a person, and this was clearly the case with Hurley, who would never again be as good a photographer as he was on Shackleton's trip. But then he never again faced anything quite like what they went through.
Shackleton must have been an amazing, charismatic man. Like a character out of Robert Louis Stevenson or H. G. Wells, he was a dreamer, a chaser of quick fortune, a determined optimist, unbelievably steady and indomitable in adversity, an instinctual judge of men, whose total loyalty to him was based on the fact that he stopped at nothing to save them when the going got bad.
And go bad it did, more than once. He had been with Robert F. Scott on a failed trip to the South Pole, then failed to reach it on his own, getting within 100 miles before deciding to turn back to safeguard the lives of his men. That was in 1909. In 1911 Roald Amundsen beat Scott to the pole. So Shackleton proposed the absurd idea of crossing the whole continent by foot, about 1,600 miles from the Weddell Sea to the Ross Sea, simply because that had not been done.
Like Scott he was squarely in the crazy British tradition of Arctic explorers -- impractical, brave, weirdly inured to suffering -- and this helped make him a popular hero and got him knighted, though it's useful to recall that official Britain, including the people who ran the Admiralty, never entirely warmed to him. He was not one of them, as Scott had been. He had grown up in Ireland. He was middle class. Scott had been in the Royal Navy. Shackleton was merchant marine. He was, to them, a schemer, hustling to raise private money for his expeditions. Today he'd be called an entrepreneur.
The Endurance sailed from England to Buenos Aires, then to South Georgia Island, the last inhabited post, east of the Falklands, before entering the uncharted Weddell Sea in early December 1914. Conditions, which are never good there, were unusually bad that year, and heavy pack ice quickly surrounded the boat.
By mid-January, the Endurance had struggled to within 80 miles of Antarctica, but it was being inexorably drawn clockwise by the ice, back away from land, north. Crewmen tried desperately to saw a lead through the thick pack but ultimately were forced to give up.
For the next 10 months their boat was trapped in the floes, like an almond in toffee, one of the crewman said, helplessly drifting in the sea and slowly being crushed, as if in a vise, by millions of tons of pressure. On Oct. 27, 1915, the Endurance finally began to sink. The crew had to abandon ship and camp on the ice. They took what provisions they could. At first Hurley had to leave his film and bulky glass plates behind, but then he convinced Shackleton that they should be saved, if possible, so he dove into the icy water that now filled the ship's darkroom. He retrieved more than 500 plates but ultimately destroyed most because they were simply too heavy to take along. Who knows what was lost.
For five months more Shackleton and his men fought to stay afloat in horrendous weather on unpredictable melting ice that, from time to time, cracked open beneath them. They were two dozen men with only a wafer of frozen water between them and 2,000 fathoms of ocean.
They lived on rations, seals and penguins, which they killed when the animals climbed onto the floe, and on their own sled dogs, which they reluctantly shot. Food was almost the least of their problems. They had to hope by chance to be carried on the current to a spot from which they could launch their three modest lifeboats, which they had salvaged, toward one of the small islands above the Antarctic peninsula. If the ice carried them in the wrong direction or if it didn't open up in time, they would be swept into the ocean void.


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August 4, 2000 by Bill
Filed under Latest News Releases
When: Sunday, August 6, 1:00 pm
Where: In Front of Playboy Enterprises
730 Fifth Avenue, NY NY
(between 56th and 57th St.)
Issue: Gore's Playboy Mansion Fund-Raiser
Scheduled for August 15
William Donohue will explain why the Catholic League is protesting the Playboy Mansion event and will outline what the league is doing about it.
Both the venue and the timing of the fund-raiser are troubling: Playboy has long been a foe of Catholicism and the party takes place on the Feast of the Assumption, a holy day of obligation for Catholics. A fact sheet will be made available to the press.
The vice president has been notified of the league's concerns and has been asked to cancel the event. Thus far he has not done so.


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Oregon Hall of Fame Coaching Staff
Steve Jones
Hall of Fame Inductee
Coach Info:
|Hall of Fame Inductee
|Other Position:
|2003 Inductee, Men's Basketball (1961-64)
A three-year letterman for the Ducks, the two-year starter claimed team MVP honors his latter two seasons. He led
the team in scoring as a junior (14.5 avg.) and senior (16.2 avg.). His 37 points in the win over Washington State in
1963 was a then-school record. He was voted to the five-man All-Far West Classic first team in December of the same
year and was named to the 1963-64 All-Coast first team. At the conference level, he earned All-Coast honors as a
senior forward in 1964. Despite freshmen not allowed to play varsity basketball, he still scored close to 1,000 career
points (932 points) in three seasons. He played guard as a sophomore before shifting to forward as a junior and
senior, with the 6-5 player even playing center when occasionally needed. The second of three brothers to play for
the Ducks out of Portland's Franklin High School, he was inducted into the State of Oregon Sports Hall of Fame in


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