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OIL KINGS SHUT DOWN PATS – Michael St. Croix scored and set up two more while Tristan Jarry stopped 24 shots to post his sixth shutout of the season as the visiting Edmonton Oil Kings blanked the Regina Pats 7-0 in Western Hockey League action on Thursday.
Henrik Samuelsson, T.J. Foster and Mitch Moroz each tallied a goal and an assist while Martin Gernat – with his first of the season – Dylan Wruck and Keegan Lowe also scored for the Oil Kings (40-11-2-3), who stretch their winning streak to 10 games and now sit just four points behind Portland fir first place in the overall WHL standings.
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McLellan, CP, Lovell, DI, and Gass, GC. Markers of postmatch fatigue in professional rugby league players. J Strength Cond Res 25(4): 1030-1039, 2011-The aim of the present study was to identify neuromuscular, biochemical, and endocrine markers of fatigue after Rugby League match play. Seventeen elite Rugby League players were monitored for a single match. Peak rate of force development (PRFD), peak power (PP), and peak force (PF) were measured during a countermovement jump (CMJ) on a force plate pre and postmatch play. Saliva and blood samples were collected 24 hours prematch, 30 minutes prematch, 30 minutes postmatch, and then at 24-hour intervals for a period of 120 hours to determine plasma creatine kinase concentration ([CK]) and salivary cortisol concentration ([sCort]). There were significant (p < 0.05) decreases in PRFD and PP up to 24 hours postmatch with PF significantly (p < 0.05) decreased immediately postmatch. The [sCort] significantly (p < 0.05) increased from 24 hours prematch to 30 minutes prematch and up to 24 hours postmatch compared with 24 hours prematch. Plasma [CK] significantly (p < 0.05) increased 30 minutes postmatch with a peak occurring 24 hours postmatch and remained elevated above 24 hours prematch for at least 120 hours postmatch. There were significant (p < 0.05) correlations between the increase in [CK] and reduction in PRFD 30 minutes postmatch and 24 hours postmatch. The [sCort] was significantly (p < 0.05) correlated with the reduction in PF 30 minutes postmatch. Results demonstrate that neuromuscular function is compromised for up to 48 hours after match play. Elevated [CK] despite 120-hour recovery indicate that damage to muscle tissue after Rugby League match play may persist for at least 5 days postmatch. Despite the prolonged presence of elevated [CK] postmatch, strength training 48 hours postmatch may have resulted in a compensatory increase in PRFD supporting the inclusion of strength training during the short-term postmatch recovery period.
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SEATTLE – Washington Gymnastics hosted its season opener Monday night against the pre-season-14th-ranked Minnesota Golden Gophers. Despite coming in behind the Gophers 196.350-195.025, the GymDawgs scored higher than ever before in a first meet with Joanne Bowers at the helm.
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The team was led by its lone senior Aliza Vaccher who tallied an all-around score of 39.250, highlighted by a 9.850 performance on the uneven bars. A 9.825 on vault, a 9.750 on beam and a 9.825 rounded out the Eugene native's scoresheet.
"Aliza starting out the season with an all-around score over 39 is fantastic. We are so excited to see where she goes in her senior season, we really think it is going to be amazing," said Bowers of Vaccher.
Allison Northey and Janae Janik were the other two all-arounders for UW, scoring 39.200 and 38.950 respectively.
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We had a great score for the first meet of the year, but we see those girls every day and we know what they can do. So while we are pleased, we know that we are nowhere near our peak, and that's the goal. We hope to show that on Saturday." Bowers concluded.
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Recently, sitting beside my four-year-old son as we eased downward, homeward, at the midnight end of a coast-to-coast flight, I pointed out the dark window to share with him the spread of Boston's lights below, many of them doubled in the reflection on the harbor. Leaning over my lap, Jesse strained to gaze out. "The whole city is under us!" he exclaimed. He then proceeded to shift his attention repeatedly between the view and his toy United Airlines airplane, which he lowered for landing again and again on my forearm. Back and forth he went between the real thing and the imagined. A minute later, peering down at the city's constellations, I realized that I was experiencing my own back-and-forth between fact and fiction: the vast view through that little oval window was prompting me to recall a tightly packed sentence from Kent Haruf's 1999 novel Plainsong that I had read — and had promptly reread — before take-off in San Francisco. Buckled in, I leaned over and dug into my carry-on.
Haruf writes of Ike and Bobby, young brothers, nine and ten, who deliver the newspaper in Holt, Colorado. "Between them," he tells us, "they had the entire town."
Bobby took the older, more established part of Holt, the south side where the wide flat streets were lined with elm trees and locust and hackberry and evergreen, where the comfortable two-story houses were set back in their own spaces of lawn and where behind them the car garages opened out onto the graveled alleys, while Ike, for his part, took the three blocks of Main Street on both sides, the stores and the dark apartments over the stores, and also the north side of town across the railroad tracks, where the houses were smaller with frequent vacant lots in between, where the houses were painted blue or yellow or pale green and might have chickens in the back lots in wire pens and here and there dogs on chains and also car bodies rusting among the cheatweed and redroot under the low-hanging mulberry trees.
Call it setting-by-bicycle. (And yes, it's demanding pedaling — take a moment to catch your breath, as I did after my first reading.)
I share this single, ambitious sentence not only because of the delight I take in what Haruf achieves in it — the sprawling efficiency, the precise seeing — but mainly because my experience with it as I approached the tarmac is a good example of how sentences accompany me, or how I like them to, and how I hope they will accompany students of mine. The pleasure of juxtaposing a view or encounter with a writer's related vision, rendered in words, can feel a bit like cheating time, like getting more out of a moment than is allowed. To keep admired or instructive sentences within reach – if not in memory, then scrawled in a commonplace book — readies one, I think, for a richer engagement with the real, which in turn aids in the art of crafting the fictional.
Certainly, working as a writing instructor and coach has led me to a finer and finer attention not only to the design of the individual sentence but to the profits to be gained from such attention when story-making. (Upon return from last year's Desert Nights, Rising Stars Writers Conference, I reflected on the single sentence as the starting point.) But the origin of my focused appreciation is not in teaching; it's in editing. I was an editor for a decade before entering the classroom, and my first editorial job in particular — assisting novelist John Irving as he performed three complete revisions of the 1,000-page manuscript of his eighth novel, A Son of the Circus — is to blame for how much of a pleased plodder I can be as a reader. In reading and rereading each revised section of each revised chapter for my boss, expected to transcribe every small change he made and to offer editorial comments, I came to know that novel sentence by sentence. As we packaged the final draft for delivery to New York, I felt that if John began reading aloud a sentence he had selected at random from the manuscript, I would be able to complete it from memory — and possibly also provide what shapes the sentence had previously taken. I trace my love of the movement in a thoughtfully designed sentence to the attention that apprenticeship demanded and encouraged.
In encouraging my students to join me in collecting sentences, I'm hoping they will establish a kind of associative network, so that their consideration of one sentence will lead to comparison to others and an expanding and informed artistic appreciation on this fundamental level. I'm reminded of and motivated by a remark by Robert Frost. "A poem is best read in the light of all the other poems ever written," he wrote. "We read A the better to read B (we have to start somewhere; we may get very little out of A). We read B the better to read C, C the better to read D, D the better to go back and get something more out of A. Progress is not the aim, but circulation. The thing is to get among the poems where they hold each other apart in their places as the stars do."
My thing is to get among the sentences.
As it happens, when I was copying out Haruf's sentence the morning after our return home, I circled back to a sentence by John Cheever that I had once captured and that will undoubtedly play in my mind during my next trip on Amtrak. Consider it setting-by-train. The sentence is all the ticket you need to ride with poor Johnny Hake of "The Housebreaker of Shady Hill":
I took the regular train home, looking out of the window at a peaceable landscape and a spring evening, and it seemed to me fisherman and lone bathers and grade-crossing watchmen and sand-lot ball players and lovers unashamed of their sport and the owners of small sailing craft and old men playing pinochle in firehouses were the people who stitched up the big holes in the world that were made by men like me.


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In another exhibition of the cultural tone deafness that has become typical for ESPN, Josina Anderson reported on this morning's installment of "SportsCenter" a summary of the responses she received from St. Louis Rams players who had been asked about Michael Sam's showering habits. Anderson quoted an unnamed defensive player as saying that Sam, the first-year player out of the University of Missouri who is currently fighting for a spot on the Rams roster, has exuded respect for his teammates' personal space, and that Sam is "waiting to kinda take a shower as not to make his teammates feel uncomfortable."
Sources quoted whose names Anderson did use included veteran defensive lineman Kendall Langford, who said, after admitting he has not yet showered with Sam, that there "could be a million reasons as to why that is," all of which being related to extra work the aspiring professional football player might be doing before hitting the showers.
Langford also issued a statement that mirrored one given by Rams linebacker Alec Ogletree concerning who has and who has not been showering at the same time as Michael Sam. Neither player, reported Anderson, has been "tracking that."
SBNation.com, who originally posted the details of this story, promoted the opinion of another of Sam's potential teammates, an opinion Anderson failed to collect during her interviews. Chris Long, a seven-year veteran of the National Football League who plays the same position Sam wishes to play professionally, took to Twitter to succinctly assess whether ESPN was reporting on or creating out of thin air a story about locker room concerns surrounding the NFL's first openly homosexual draftee. "Dear ESPN," Long tweeted. "Everyone but you is over it."
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) – Yale University researchers have identified two breakthrough genetic mutations that can trigger hypertension in up to a third of patients suffering from a common cause of severe high blood pressure.
The findings are a major step in understanding the causes of high blood pressure, which affects one out of every three Americans, explained Richard Lifton, Sterling Professor and chair of the Department of Genetics, professor of internal medicine and senior author of the paper, was quoted as saying. These findings may lead to a genetic screening test for this common cause of severe hypertension, Lifton said.
Five to ten percent of patients with severe hypertension have tumors of the adrenal gland that produce a hormone called aldosterone. Removing these tumors can cure this form of hypertension. Looking for clues by sequencing all of the genes from these tumors, and comparing their sequences to the patients' normal DNA, the researchers found that either one of two mutations of a single gene were found in 8 of 22 tumors studied. The investigators discovered that these mutations cause both aldosterone release and tumor formation by allowing the encoded protein, a potassium channel, to conduct sodium rather than only allowing potassium to pass through the channel.
In addition to causing these adrenal tumors, inherited mutations in the same gene were also found to be the cause of a rare familial form of severe hypertension. "This gene was not on anybody's list to sequence in an investigation of this disease," Lifton said. "We really hit the jackpot."
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During the midst of all the snowstorms we are getting, you can chase the winter blues away by eating yourself happy with healthy, satisfying foods. Eat Yourself Happy, a recently published book by Gill Paul, is an informative guide to eating right and improving your mind-set. Everyone at some given time feels low and discouraged, especially when we are cooped up and snowed in because of the cold as with the polar vortex and seemingly endless snow storms. Sometimes these feelings can carry on for weeks, maybe months. There are many types of depression with different causes, but almost all are improved by eating the right kinds of foods that make you feel good and stimulate your mind.
Avoiding sugary substances and alcohol is helpful as it can only lead to feeling down in the dumps. According to Paul, lack of sunlight is an additional factor that makes us depressed, because sunshine stimulates estrogen, serotonin, and the synthesis of vitamin D. By making simple dietary changes, most depressions can be eased. It a matter of including foods that stabilize blood sugar, supply vitamins and minerals where your body might be lacking and supplying food to stimulate the brain. Most of the foods on Paul's list are favorite foods for most people – dark chocolate, avocado and garlic.
Here's Paul's complete list of 21 winter-blues-busting foods:
Salmon, mackerel, almonds, eggs, kale, sweet potatoes, Brazil nuts, turkey, dark chocolate, oats, strawberries, avocado, romaine lettuce, bananas, dairy, pineapple, sour cherries, barley, garlic, lentils, and sesame seeds
Out of this list, you are sure to find many foods that will appeal to you and perk up you winter doldrums.
Here is one recipe from Paul's book and, as you may know, kale is the new wonder food.
Thai Turkey Burgers with Crispy Kale
- 1 lb ground turkey thigh meat
- 4 scallions, finely chopped
- 1/2 inch piece of fresh ginger root, peeled and grated
- 1 garlic clove, crushed
- 1 lemongrass stalk, outer leaves removed and core finely chopped
- 1/2 red chile, seeded and finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons finely chopped fresh cilantro
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 4 whole-wheat buns, warmed
- sea salt and black pepper
- Crispy kale
- 4 1/2 cups bite-size kale pieces
- finely grated zest of 1 lemon
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- sesame seeds, for sprinkling (optional)
- To make the crispy kale, put the kale into a large bowl and toss with the lemon zest, olive oil, and a little sea salt. Arrange in a single layer on 1 or 2 baking sheets.
- Place in a preheated oven, at 400°F, for 15–20 minutes, turning halfway through cooking time, until crunchy and crisp. Sprinkle with a little more salt or some sesame seeds, if desired.
- Meanwhile, put the turkey into a large bowl with the onions, ginger, garlic, lemongrass, chile, and cilantro. Mix well, then season to taste and stir in the egg.
- Use your hands to shape the mixture into 4 large balls, then press them firmly into patty shapes. Place under a preheated hot broiler and cook for 5 minutes on each side, or until golden and cooked through.
- Serve in warm whole-wheat buns with crispy kale on the side.
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According to George Mateljan on his website, whfoods.org, turkey has recently been shown to fall into a group of high-protein foods (including tuna and egg whites) that can help keep post-meal insulin levels within a desirable range. Four ounces of skinned turkey breast will provide 30-35 grams of protein, with less than 1 gram of total fat. The rich amount of protein contained in turkey is enough to help stabilize and regulate meal digestion thus helping to stabilize insulin levels. Pasture-raised, organic turkey has increased levels of omega-3 and is a food that we would consider whole and natural.
Kale is one of the healthiest vegetables around and one way to be sure to enjoy the maximum nutrition and flavor from kale is to cook it properly. Mateljan recommends healthy steaming kale for 5 minutes. To ensure quick and even cooking cut the leaves into 1/2" slices and the stems into 1/4" lengths. Let them sit for at least 5 minutes to enhance their health-promoting qualities before steaming.
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Unusual behavior related to Medicare and Medicaid programs, such as billing errors or the submission of false information, can lead to an investigation of possible fraud.
During Medicaid and Medicare fraud investigations, the federal government does not generally accept excuses that simple mistakes were made or that the regulations are too difficult to fully understand.
At David Finn, P.C. law firm in Dallas, Texas, our lawyers have defended recipients, doctors, clinics and other healthcare facilities against allegations of Medicare or Medicaid fraud. As a former federal prosecutor, David Finn understands and can anticipate the tactics the government will attempt to use against his clients to obtain a conviction. Consequently, Mr. Finn can prepare a solid defense on your behalf.
If you or your healthcare facility is under investigation for Medicare fraud or if you have already been indicted or formally charged, contact David Finn today
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Charges of Medicaid and Medicare fraud against providers frequently stem from allegations of overbilling or billing for procedures that were not actually performed. Individuals are also frequently charged with Medicaid and Medicare fraud if they are suspected of receiving benefits to which they are not otherwise entitled.
At David Finn, P.C., we represent both healthcare providers and individuals whose Medicaid and Medicare fraud charges stem from the following accusations:
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The government attempts to carefully monitor Medicare and Medicaid billing, and too many errors or mistakes may lead to fraud charges. This is particularly true if there is a pattern of errors or mistakes. However, in order to obtain a conviction, the government must prove that the "errors" were made intentionally or knowingly. Proving this type of intent beyond a reasonable doubt can sometimes prove to be a difficult task for the prosecution, as honest, unintentional mistakes are extremely common when filing paperwork or completing complex billing information.
David Finn has considerable experience handling federal fraud charges. Call David Finn today at: 214.651.1121. David Finn will aggressively challenge the government's claims of criminal intent to defraud the Medicaid and Medicare system.
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Why do People Detox?
You've heard your health nut friend mention she's going to detox again, but you're not sure what that entails? Detoxification is the removal of excess waste from your body, a method of purification. Once you've detoxified your body, you'll feel lighter, cleaner, and healthier.Why do you need to detox? You come in contact with all kinds of toxins as you go about your regular routine. Think about it: depending on where you live, you may have to deal with smoke, smog, chemicals, pesticides, alcohol, preservatives, and a variety of body-function clogging foods. Our bodies end up stressed as they try to filter these contaminants through our kidneys and liver, and then try to eliminate excess waste products. Detoxification is like using a natural form of liquid plumber to remove impurities from your system and get your pipes clean and open. Now you're wondering how people actually use a detox program. It's best to try to improve your external environment by getting away from smoke, renting or buying an air purifier for your home, drinking purified water, and limiting alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat consumption. Fast from everything but organic fruit and vegetables while detoxing; this will give your body a break from heavy foods and artificial addidtives. Make sure you stay well-hydrated, drinking plenty of tea and water. What can you do to encourage regularity? Try drinking a lot of water and senna tea, which will help your kidneys filter out waste products and will move your bowels. Try to focus on eating raw fruit and vegetables as much as possible. Combine filtered water with freshly squeezed lemon juice, cayenne pepper, and pure maple syrup for what's commonly referred to as the Mastr Cleanse tonic; this is an excellent detox drink. Choose a time period – like a long weekend–for your detox program; it'll be easier to handle if you make it a short commitment. Don't jump off the bandwagon and back into unhealthy eating habits right away or you'll jolt your system. Detox whenever you start to feel sluggish or weighed down.
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White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. -- New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees missed his second consecutive practice with a strained left oblique, but he was well enough to jog over to a crowd of autograph-seekers after Monday afternoon's session at the Greenbrier resort was over.
Saints coach Sean Payton declined to put a timeline on Brees' return other than repeating that the injury was being treated "day to day."
"We will make sure it's something that won't be aggravated again," Payton said Monday.
Meanwhile, the Saints' injury list continued to grow.
Veteran cornerback Champ Bailey appeared at practice for the first time since Thursday morning, but moved gingerly and did not participate. Ty Nsekhe, who had been absent the last two practices, returned to the sidelines but did not participate.
Two players -- fullback Erik Lorig and outside linebacker Victor Butler -- were not present at practice. Payton did not comment on their absence or specify whether it was injury-related.
Defensive end Glenn Foster and offensive lineman Jason Weaver, who had not previously been on the injured list, worked out on the sidelines. Defensive back Terrence Frederick, who was banged up on Friday, worked on the stationary bike. Tight end Je'Ron Hamm, who was injured in Saturday's scrimmage, was also on the sidelines, joined by receiver Steve Hull.
Offensive guard Ben Grubbs and defensive tackle John Jenkins (pectoral) also remain sidelined.
Receiver Kenny Stills (quadriceps) was present but did not participate in team drills. He participated in a light walk-through Friday but skipped Saturday's scrimmage.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - The Minutemen left the Harvard Invitational with a very strong showing against a slew of northeast schools including Boston College, Northeastern, Holy Cross, Quinnipiac and the host #25 Harvard. Antony Taylor, Michael McNaughton, Lamont Gooden and a relay squad all grabbed first place performances in the unscored meet.
On the track Michael McNaughton led three other Minutemen in the 800 meter run to top eight finishes. McNaughton completed the event in 1-minute, 55.55-seconds for one of the four first place finishes on the day. Stephen Ness trailed in third place at the 1-minute, 56.97-second mark. Michael Maldari and Alexander Finestone finished seventh and eighth respectively. Maldari led the freshman duo with a time of 1-minute, 58.63-seconds while Finestone crossed the finish line in just 1-minute, 58.79-seconds.
Antony Taylor grabbed the other individual first place finish on the track finishing the 3,000 meter run in 8-minutes, 22.45-seconds. Benjamin Thomas followed Taylor in fourth place with a time of 8-minutes, 34.14-seconds. Fellow harrier Ben Groleau scored in the top eight of the mile finishing in 4-minutes, 19.62-seconds for a third place finish.
Coach O'Brien managed to bring together two top eight relay quads for the 4x440 yard relay including one squad recording the fastest time. The quad that came out on top recorded a time of 3-minutes, 26.59-seconds while the second group finished in fourth with a time of 3-minutes, 34.59-seconds.
The fourth and final first place effort of the day came from a freshman Coach O'Brien and Coach Jackson have been high on since the beginning of the season. Lamont Gooden leaped 22-feet, 7-inches for the best mark recorded in the long jump. The Springfield, Mass. native was followed by another freshman coaches have been impressed with Adam Bonfilio. Bonfilio grabbed a fourth place finish in the event jumping 20-feet, 7-inches.
Gooden also placed fifth in the triple jump, placing back-to-back with freshman Dana Pagliuca. Gooden leaped 44-feet, 6-inches while Pagliuca's 42-foot, 2.25-inch jump placed him sixth in the event.
Bonfilio placed in the top eight again in the high jump finishing in fourth place setting a height of 6-feet, 2.75-inches. Fellow freshman Zachary Blum set a height of 6-feet, 2.75-inches for a third place performance.
The Minutemen scored a pair in the pole vault as well with Greg Copeland grabbing third and Nicholas Gemino placing fifth. Copeland vaulted 14-feet, 6-inches while Gemino set a mark of 13-feet, 5.75-inches.
In short distance events freshmen shined again in the 300 meter dash. Deion Arneaud placed sixth overall crossing the finish line in 36.72-seconds while Blum finished in eighth place recording a time of 37.15-seconds.
In the 400 meter dash Pat Farnham raced for a fourth place time of 50.80-seconds. Senior captain Zack Hildenbrandt finished in fifth clocking in at 50.89-seocnds.
The other UMass captain Stephen Bigelow raced for a second place finish in the 60 meter hurdles. The senior clocked in at 8.27-seconds. Zack Grube placed sixth overall in the event finishing in just 8.74-seconds.
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Two members of Jim Traficant's election committee submitted a 5-page appeal letter to the Trumbull County Board of Elections today, asking the boards of election in Mahoning, Trumbull, Portage and Summit counties to review the petitions Traficant submitted in his run for the 17th Congressional district.
The letter says the elections boards improperly invalidated 250 signatures in all, including 134 in Mahoning County and 88 in Trumbull County.
In all, 489 signatures were deemed invalid on Trumbull County petitions, and 471 signatures were ruled invalid from Mahoning County.
The letter says "vastly overly stringent standards" for petition signatures were used on the petitions, and the committee asks the elections boards to reconsider its rulings.
"Every citizen who put their name on this petition, whether signed or printed, did so with he clear intent of putting the name of James Traficant on the ballot," the letter said.
Traficant's bid to get on the ballot was ruled to be 107 signatures short of qualification, but based on mistakes found in Mahoning, Summit and Portage counties so far, that number is now down to about 55.
From yesterday's Akron Beacon Journal article
Summit elections board employees finished a re-tally of the gubernatorial vote Wednesday and found that Traficant and his supporters were right; they had overcounted the total by about 2,900 votes, Marijean Donofrio, the board's director said.
It's no wonder that Jimmy is having such a hard time getting on the ballot when just one BOE missed the count by nearly 3,000 ballots.


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Goodnestone, Wingham, Canterbury, Kent, CT3 1PL, Tel: 01304 840107, Email, www.goodnestoneparkgardens.co.uk/(2 miles, 3 km)
Set in 14 acres with walled garden, arboretums, woodland and formal area. Awarded 2 stars in The Good Garden Guide. Visit our tearoom for delicious homemade cakes and light lunches made with garden produce.
Bekesbourne Road, Bekesbourne, Canterbury, CT4 5EL, Tel: +44 (0)844 842 4647, Email, www.aspinallfoundation.org/(5 miles, 8 km)
The Aspinall Foundation's Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent is a great day out for groups of all sizes where education, conservation and fun combine. Set in over 100 acres of beautiful ancient parkland.
Fleming Road, Staple, Canterbury, CT3 1LG, Tel: 07772 300 511, Email, www.barnsole.co.uk(0 miles, 0 km)
A family run vineyard with its own winery. Visitors are most welcome and may have a free mini-tour to see how our vines are grown and wine produced. Tastings are free and our wines are available for direct sale.
Grove Road, Upstreet, Canterbury, CT3 4BP, explorekent.org/activities/grove-ferry-picnic-site/(5 miles, 8 km)
Grove Ferry Picnic Site is an ideal spot to watch the boats drift by and enjoy the wildlife on the river.
Stodmarsh, Canterbury, CT3 4BP, www.gov.uk/government/publications/kents-national-nature-reserves/kents-national-nature-reserves#stodmarsh(5 miles, 8 km)
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It Only Takes a Spark
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
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It only takes a spark to get a fire going,
And soon all those around can warm up in its glowing;
- Pass It On, Kurt Kaiser
Not too long ago, the founder of SparkPeople, Chris Downie�s book The Spark hit store shelves. I was able to read a few chapters before I decided to buy the book. This morning, I sat down to read them again.
In the first chapter, Chris gives a bit of a background of how the idea for SparkPeople started. Unlike other entrepreneurial ideas, I don�t believe he set out to make millions dollars, but rather �help millions of people� (The Spark, 2010) and he did! Starting out, Chris was a painfully shy adolescent who in any given day wouldn�t speak to anyone other than family. Soccer forced him to become part of a team. In college, he forced himself to take a public speaking class to get comfortable talking in public. After graduating, he got �sucked into� the corporate world and got too busy to do much of anything besides wolf down some fries and a fast food burger in his car during lunch break.
But he made a change that started with just 10 minutes. Every morning, he would get up and do 10 minutes of exercise. Day after day. Soon, he had created a steak of 100 days, 200 days. He even inspired a co-worker to do the same.
The reason why I�ve gone back and reread the first chapters of The Spark is to remind myself that small, daily actions lead to big changes. Chris didn�t dedicate hours of time in the gym (although eventually he had enough energy to head into one after work). The time he dedicated to his change was small, but it was consistent.
It reminds me that I can make small changes in my life and they will matter. I�m not talking just about weight loss (although this is definitely where I�m starting). Small actions that lead to big changes can affect all areas of my life. I will call it Chunks of 10. If I come home from work and take 10 minutes to straighten up the house, put in a load of clothes or make my bed, at the end of the week, my Saturday chores won�t take so long to complete. If I wake up 10 minutes before I need to, I can sit down and spend time with God. If I take 10 minutes to go through the mail as soon as it comes into the house, I won�t have to deal with it at the end of the week.
10 minutes is all it takes. I plan on incorporating Chunks of 10 to my daily routine.
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Teen killed in Vermont crashApril 29,2013ENOSBURG — A standout high school basketball player in Vermont has died following a two-vehicle collision.
Police said 17-year-old Brandon Gleason of Enosburg was a front passenger in a Jeep when it collided with a pickup Friday night on Route 105 in Enosburg.
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office said Gleason later died at a St. Albans hospital. Gleason was a senior at Enosburg Falls High School and was the state's Mountain Division player of the year this past season.
Capt. Jay Sweeny of the sheriff's office told WPTZ-TV that the driver of the pickup, 53-year old Patrick Prue of Franklin, was charged with driving under the influence, but that it hasn't been determined who was at fault in the crash.
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'The Oxy Generation' is a documentary photography book that takes an in depth look at the OxyContin epidemic in my town of Tacoma, Washington. The several chapters of text explore the local issues with opioids, national problems, opioid pharmacology, political influences, the history of opioids, addicts' stories, and the future outlook of opioid pain medications in the United States. The book includes over fifty photographs, an in depth introduction, a list of slang and medical terms for opioids, and four chapters of text.
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Longleaf Pine Forest
Did you know less than 4% of the original longleaf pine forest exists today? Watch this video and learn more.
People and wildlife in Southeast Mississippi stand to benefit from a new conservation partnership in Mississippi. The Nature Conservancy has awarded $100,000 to the Foundation for Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to enhance wetlands at the state's Theodore A. Mars, Jr. Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Pearl River County. Funds for this project were received from the Environmental Protection Agency to acquire, restore or enhance wetlands in the lower Pearl River drainage.
Dr. Sam Polles, Executive Director of the Mississippi Department of Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks, said, "This type of conservation partnership gives added strength to solving the ever-changing conservation equation. We are excited to be working with The Nature Conservancy once again and look forward to more ventures in the future."
At 896 acres, this WMA outside of Poplarville is one of the smallest in the state system—but provides critical longleaf pine habitat for threatened and endangered species such as black bear, gopher tortoises and black pine snakes as well as game species including deer, rabbits and bobwhite quail. The funding from The Nature Conservancy will focus on the 93 acres of wetlands on site, and allow additional land management practices to be implemented that will continue to improve the wetland habitats within the borders of the Mars WMA.
One of the key land management techniques used throughout the region is prescribed fire, where professional teams implement a regular regime of controlled fire to reduce the growth of non-native plant species and shrubs. These prescribed fires improve the habitat for native species and reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires. Other activities include control of non-native invasive species.
"The Conservancy is very excited to join in partnership with the Foundation for Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks," said Jim Murrian, Executive Director, The Nature Conservancy of Mississippi. He continued, "It is because of partnerships such as this that conservation funds can make a significant impact around Mississippi."
The Nature Conservancy is the world's leading conservation organization and has been active in Mississippi since the 1970s. The Conservancy's science-based, pragmatic solutions to complex problems involve working with individuals, businesses, agencies and other interested parties to meet the mission of conserving the lands and waters on which all life depends. You can learn more about the Conservancy at nature.org/mississippi.
The mission of the Foundation for Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks is to provide financial support for various projects associated with the Mississippi Department of Wildlife Fisheries and Parks. The Foundation works with the Department of Mississippi Wildlife, Fisheries and Parks to protect and preserve our wonderful wildlife heritage for generations to come. More information may be found at www.foundationmwfp.com.
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Sometimes, beer is more than just a beverage. Sometimes, it is a teaching tool. Today, we're adding a word to your vocabulary. Stochasticity (sto-kas-TI-city) is the state of being statistically non-deterministic. In short, this means being random. So with random in mind, the Beer of the Week is Stochasticity Project Grapefruit Slam IPA.
India pale ales harness the inherent flavor characteristics of hops to bring forward familiar flavors of pine, resin, spice and citrus. In some cases, those botanicals are so potent, they exactly mirror specific edibles. Such is the case with Centennial hops, which hail from the Great Northwest and come across on the palate like a mouthful of citrus fruit. The sensation is amplified with this, the first beer introduced via the Stochasticity Project, a double IPA brewed with Centennial, Chinook and Magnum hops as well as an immense dosing of fresh grapefruit peel. The result is over-the-top bittersweet grapefuit intensity that is at once refreshing and bracing in its citrusy bitterness.
Grapefruit Slam kciks off with a resinous pine aroma. The pour is golden with a white head. A gripping bitterness strikes then fades quickly with a subtly sweet body that stands up to hopping. Grapefruit pith resides in the bristly bitterness, surprisingly not present in rest of beer. The finish is clean with memories of the beer hiding in corners of the mouth. Smack your lips and bring back the honey sweetness mixed with resinous bitterness.
Grapefruit Slam is an interesting beer because, as the name implies, it carries with it a bit of randomness. A Double IPA that hits at 8.2%, the beer goes down like a smooth IPA. The ABV hides well but the bitterness is rough and eye popping at time. The name says Grapefruit Slam, but aside from a citrus pith bitterness, I feel the grapefruit pucker factor or even the sweet flavor of the flesh is lacking. Still, in the end, Grapefruit Slam is a very tasty beer and one that IPA lovers will approve of.
The Stochasticity Project is just kicking off and it will be interesting to see what Stone offers as the project moves forward. With the Enjoy By series of beers being a huge hit and new releases scheduled for 2014, Stone's looking to continue it's status as being relevant and ground-breaking even while CEO Greg Koch takes a brief sabbatical from the brewery.


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May 8, 2014 | Vol. 118 -- No. 3
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The above graphic shows the breakfast and lunch accounts served at the eight schools in the Cheney School District.
Nutrition in Cheney School District schools has changed drastically over the past five years, something Nutrition Services Director Brian Levy detailed for the district's board of directors at their April 30 meeting.
The district began moving away from processed commodity based meals in fall 2011, installing kitchens and staff training to implement scratch-cooking methods at all eight schools, thanks to a grant from Empire Health Foundation. Helped by a $60,000 Farm to School grant in 2012-2013, they began educating students on the types and value of fresh fruits and vegetables and incorpor...
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RE: WG feed-backs on PCEP
JP, All, Here are a few comments on the PCEP I-D. General comments: 1. Nice job, good technical solution, quite complete for a first draft. 2. So far we only have PCE Communication Protocol Generic Requirements http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pce-comm-protocol-gen-req s-00.txt, although we expect application-specific requirements as specified in Section 6.1.9 of that document. How do we know that the proposed PCEP satisfies the application-specific requirements when we have no such requirements at this point? Don't we need some of the application-specific requirements first, such as: - intra-area path computation - inter-area path computation - inter-AS intra provider and inter-AS inter-provider path computation? 3. You list requirements that are satisfied in Section 5. It would be good to identify in general how the proposed PCEP satisfies all the requirements in http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-pce-comm-protocol-gen-req s-00.txt. In particular, it is not entirely clear how/where the following requirements are addressed in the PCEP I-D: 6.1.4, 6.1.6 --> 6.1.10, 6.2.1 --> 6.2.3, 6.3.3. 4. You mention that PCEP is extensible, but it isn't clear how this extensibility would be accomplished. For example, in Section 7.2, RE 'format of a PCReq message', how do we extend the list of attributes in case other attributes in the PCReq message need to be added in the future? Same comment on PCRep message in Section 7.3, etc.(Continue reading)


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SUN PHOTO/CINDY LANE Several surfers catch a single wave
at Twin Piers in Bradenton Beach.
BRADENTON BEACH – A plan is in the works to save three crumbling erosion control groins, including two that form the popular "Twin Piers" surf spot, according to a Manatee County official.
The structures, which are subject to removal in the beach renourishment project planned for 2014, serve an important purpose in protecting Gulf Drive – a hurricane evacuation route – from erosion, according to Charlie Hunsicker, Director of the Manatee County Natural Resources Department.
They also provide recreational opportunities for surfers, anglers and divers, who are outspoken advocates to save the structures.
An erosion control project at the Islander Club condo on Longboat Key, due to be completed by spring, may hold the key to saving them, Hunsicker said.
The town is building two adjustable, permeable groins modified from the late engineer Sidney Makepeace Wood's original design used in building the three structures in Bradenton Beach, said Rick Spadoni of Coastal Planning and Engineering, the beach engineering firm for both Manatee County and Longboat Key.
Making the groins adjustable allows engineers to monitor the accumulation and erosion of sand, and slide panels in and out to fine tune the performance of the structures, he said.
Making them permeable allows some sand to flow through, like mangrove roots, building the beach on the side facing prevailing currents while keeping it from being eroded from the other side, which occurs with solid groins.
Permeable structures appear to be exempt from a state law that allows DEP to require a landowner to alter or remove solid – or impermeable – coastal structures on state sovereign land below the mean high-water line if they serve no public purpose or endanger human life, health or welfare.
The Town of Longboat Key received permission from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) to build the two permeable groins on Longboat Key, Spadoni said.
If the county proposes to rebuild the three Bradenton Beach groins in a similar style, DEP could approve them as well, Hunsicker said.
The county will work on a redesign of the erosion control groins, he said, adding that applying for a permit to replace the structures with pedestrian accessible piers like the one planned at Manatee Public Beach would require more stringent building standards and would likely be unsuccessful.
"We're hoping DEP will allow the county to refurbish them," Spadoni said, adding that the agency will require an evaluation of whether the structures are derelict. "There is a purpose for those structures to be there. Gulf Drive is very vulnerable at those locations. That's a hurricane evacuation route we can't afford to lose."


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Tara writes, "I have flown into a panic. Why? Because next year I start college and I just cannot figure out what to replace my giant, old, JanSport backpack with. (it was really meant for hiking--it's that big!) I love it, and it served me well in high school, but let's face it: I would be the laughing stock of the school if I continued to lug my books around in a bag half the size of my body next year. Here's what I'm looking for: a stylish, goes-with-everything, maybe leather (doesn't have to be, but it's gotta be neutral), durable, college-worthy bag that I can ride a bike with and put my 15-inch laptop (and at least a book or two) in. I'm not even sure such a wonder-bag exists! To give you an idea, I've been looking at bags from Saddleback Leather Co and Filson, but the prices are a little steep and although I love the sophisticated leather look, I'm trying to shy away from looking like I'm carrying a man-bag. Is my quest hopeless? Am I doomed? Anxiously awaiting your helpful advice, Tara."
Outblush to the rescue! We've rounded up some cute, but practical, leather backpacks that are all under $155 (Except #8, but that one would last you for decades.). If your parents balk at even that, offer to go half & half with 'em. Good luck at college!!
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Sourdough tips:
- Store starter in the refrigerator.
- A "winey" smell is normal indicating healthy starter.
- Always feed the starter when some is used and once every 10 days when stored. Add 2 tablespoons nonfat dry milk per cup of warm water, 1/4 cup sugar, and 1 cup of flour.
- Never store starter in a metal container or use metal utensils. Do not cover tightly.
- Stir, beat, or shake the starter daily.
- You can freeze starter. Thaw for 24 hours in the refrigerator, then feed and stir well.
Sourdough Biscuits, Pancakes, and Doughnuts
1 cup sourdough starter
1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 cup oil
Sift flour, baking powder, soda, and salt together. Add sourdough starter and oil. Roll out on floured board until one inch thick. Cut with a biscuit cutter, place on greased cookie sheet; let rise for 20 minutes in a warm place. Bake 10 to 12 minutes at 375 degrees.
Sourdough Pancakes use the same recipe, but add one beaten egg and enough milk for desired consistency and pour onto a hot griddle. Makes 12 to 15 pancakes.
Sourdough Doughnuts use the same recipe, but add 1/4 cup sugar and one beaten egg. Pat dough out onto a floured surface until one inch thick; cut dough with a doughnut cutter. Fry in hot oil, turning the doughnuts over so that both sides are golden brown. Makes one dozen doughnuts.
For more recipes and more of Reed Hellman's signature culinary adventures, visit his Website at www.reedhellmanwordsmith.com. You can follow his monthly columns in Recreation News and read his feature articles in Business Monthly.


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Microbrew beer and tours of urban gardens may seem like a strange combination, but add live music and you'll have a typical summer Chicago festival. And that's the exact combination that you'll be able to find in the area of Sheffield and Webster this weekend.
The Green Mountain Gringo Chicago Craft Beer Festival will happen simultaneously with the 46th Annual Sheffield Garden Walk and Music Festival on Saturday, July 19th and Sunday, July 20th. Chicagoans hoping to take advantage of this lovely post-summer polar vortex weekend by spending as much time as possible outside can sample the Windy City's best craft brews and then hop (bad pun completely intended) to the garden walk.
The Craft Beer Festival will run from noon until 10pm on Saturday and Sunday on Sheffield Avenue between Webster and Fullerton, with tasting times occurring between noon and 4pm daily. Proceeds from the festival go to the Sheffield Neighborhood Association, which works to improve conditions of life, work, recreation, health, and safety in the neighborhood that is hosting the event for the first time this year.
At tented tasting areas, guests can select samples from more than 100 craft beers for a tasting fee of $40 in advance or $45 on the day of for fifteen tickets. Each ticket will grant guests one three-ounce sample of their beer of choice. Some of these featured microbreweries include Revolution and Half Acre from Chicago, Two Brothers from Warrenville, Hinterland, from Wisconsin, and Arcadia Ales and Founders Brewing from Michigan. Ticket prices also include access to the tasting area, a souvenir tasting glass, access to a private tasting area, and live music from Low Down Brass Band.
Lovers of local brews can find full event information, including a list of the festival's confirmed participating breweries, at http://www.chicagoevents.com/event.cfm?eid=255.
For those who aren't big fans of beer or who want to combine their ales with their azaleas, the 46th Annual Sheffield Garden Walk and Music Festival, presented by the Sheffield Neighborhood Association, will also take place on Saturday and Sunday. For a donation of $7, or $10 after 3pm, guests can venture to the Sheffield and Webster area and participate in self-guided tours of more than eighty gardens, guided architectural tours, live entertainment, food and drink, and an array of child-friendly activities at the Kids' Corner.
Proceeds from this event provide support for neighborhood schools and community projects, as well as assist the Sheffield Neighborhood Association's award-winning Beautification Program, which maintains the area as the Garden District of Chicago. Nearly 500 volunteers will contribute their time to making this weekend's event a pleasant and educational experience.
From noon until 5:30pm on both days of the festival, guests can grab guidebooks at the Garden Center on the lawn of St. Vincent de Paul Church and guide themselves around some of the neighborhood's most beautiful gardens in the area between Halsted to the east, the Chicago River to the west, Armitage to the south, and Fullerton to the north. At 3:30pm, Master Gardeners or Landscape Experts will lead small tours of three selected gardens, where these experts will discuss plant material, design style, and the challenges of urban gardening. Furthermore, guests can ask their most complicated horticultural questions at the Ask a Master Gardener Booth from 1pm until 4pm at St. Vincent de Paul Church.
Of course, Chicagoans would view garden tours as incomplete without live music and some great food. The festival's main stage will feature performances by such bands as Meiko and The Samples, while the new Fullerton Stage will feature Hello Weekend and Wedding Banned, among others. The big band stylings of Barry Winograd will also be featured at the Little Sisters of the Poor St. Mary's Home. Furthermore, Bridgeport Pasty, Crave Bar, Genoa Italian, Robinson's Ribs, and other purveyors of festival food will be on hand to feed hungry garden tourists.
Aficionados of amaryllis and lovers of lilacs can find all necessary information on the Sheffield Garden Walk and view a photo gallery of last year's fun at http://www.sheffieldgardenwalk.com/.


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Will I miscarry?
I am pregnant with a 8 week 5 day lmp. However, my cycle length varies and lately it has been 31 days long. I have had two sonograms done. The first one showed my a few days behind my lmp with a yolk sac. My next one showed a 6 week 2 day embryo with a flicker of a heartbeat, which was 2 weeks behind my lmp. I had bloodwork done that day and my level was 17996. Two days later, my level was 17886. They want me to have more bloodwork done and another sonogram. I haven't had any spotting. Should I be worried about a miscarriage? The internet says the us could be 5 days off, and my conception date could be later than what the dr thinks. Are there any ladies who have had similar experiences and still have a full term pregnancy?
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It's hard to say... Typically, hormone levels are supposed to double (or come close) in early pregnancy. They'll have to keep checking and make sure they can find a heartbeat and such in the coming weeks...posted 07/30/2010 by nursenellie1
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Ali & The DT"s are a 7-piece Blues and Soul group from Dublin City, Ireland. Originally formed in the summer of 2006, they started by playing old blues standards in Beat clubs around Dublin. They took influences from Chess Records artists such as Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters & Sonny Boy Williamson and also found inspiration in Motown & Stax performers James Brown & Otis Redding.
Over the past two years the band has gigged relentlessly while developing their sound. Last summer, they rented a log cabin in the country, and started recording. Those compositions can now be found in their original debut album "Get the first layer of Civilisation off". Ali de Mora, front man of the DT's, got the album title from a self help book entitled "How to be a successful drinker", a book he stumbled upon while holidaying in San Francisco California.
The album opens with droning guitars, a rusty harp and detuned pianos. From the destructively engaging chaos emerges a powerful vocal delivery from Ali De Mora. What follows is an epic exploration of pain, destruction, and loss. From song to song, "Get the first layer of Civilisation off" will take you through a spectrum of emotions. Songs like "Voodoo" and "Pushing Up The Daisies" show a more raw and distorted side of Ali and the DT's. While "Esprit de Corps" invokes a more laid back type of mood.
The album, while being heavily rooted in Blues, spans across many genres including Soul, Rock, and R&B.
"The sound comes from everybody stepping aside and letting everybody else have some space" explains Christian Volkmann, who plays blues harp, percussion, and does backing vocals for the DT's. This ensemble approach, combined with the overwhelming amount of talent, may be what gives the band its uniquely powerful sound.
The album is just now reaching east to America and is expected to be released in the US on April 20th 2010.


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As an aircraft radioman and gunner, Charles French operated twin .30 caliber machine guns from the rear cockpit. During his visit, he was able to see the progress of the Helldiver restoration.
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(HARTFORD, Conn.) – Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center today broke ground for its new John T. O'Connell Tower. The 10-story building, located on the north side of Saint Francis' main campus, is a 318,000 square-foot facility, expected to begin operations by 2010.
"This is a momentous day for Saint Francis as we begin a new year with a major construction project that takes us into the next era of world-class care," said Christopher M. Dadlez, the Hospital's President and Chief Executive Officer. "This magnificent structure will feature state-of-the-art medical technology and spacious, comfortable patient facilities."
The Tower is named for the late John T. O'Connell, who was treated for cancer at Saint Francis prior to his death in 1996, in recognition of a major gift from his parents, Nancy and Daniel O'Connell, of South Glastonbury. The anticipated value of the gift from the O'Connells' estate is currently placed at a minimum of $5 million, at the time of its announcement, the largest gift in Saint Francis' 110-year history.
Daniel O'Connell currently serves as a member of the Hospital's Board of Directors, as well as the Boards of the Saint Francis Foundation and the Saint Francis Physician Hospital Organization (PHO).
"When our son, John, was a patient here, we were touched by the extraordinary care and compassion shown by the staff. They truly brought comfort to all three of us in our time of need," said Mr. O'Connell.
"We are truly grateful to the O'Connells for their generous gift made through The Valencia Society, which honors those individuals who have remembered Saint Francis in their estate plans," said Dadlez.
The O'Connell Tower will include an enlarged Emergency Department, expanding the treatment area from 49 to 68 treatment bays and increasing space for ambulances from six to 10 parking spots.
In addition, there will be 19 replacement operating rooms, 72 replacement medical/surgical patient beds and a new rooftop helipad.
The Tower will also include six orthopedic operating rooms and 63 replacement inpatient orthopedic beds for the Connecticut Joint Replacement Institute (CJRI). CJRI is a "Hospital within a Hospital," dedicated to joint replacement surgery. Staffed by 10 fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeons, CJRI maintains dedicated operating rooms, intake, preparation, recovery and post-acute areas.
The first four floors of the O'Connell Tower are anticipated to open in late 2010, with the rest of the building expected to be completed in early 2011. Total cost of the structure is set at $184 million. TRO/Jung Brannen is the architect for the project. The Turner Construction Company is the construction manager.
Founded in 1897, Saint Francis is a major teaching hospital licensed for 617 acute inpatient beds and 65 bassinets and is the largest Catholic hospital in New England.


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As someone who loves wine but always struggles getting the cork out of the bottle, this product is a great idea, but today the Coravin "Wine Access System" is at the top of the Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) recall list.
The wine opener works by inserting a hollow needle into the top of a wine bottle's cork, and voila the vino can be poured without removing the cork. Unfortunately, the CPSC says, "Coravin has received 13 reports of bottles breaking including one in which a bottle burst into four pieces and resulted in an injury involving two chipped teeth and a laceration that required stitches, four in which the bottles cracked and leaked, and eight in which bottles broke into two pieces." Yikes!
The CPSC warns if you have this wine opener system in your house to stop using it, your wine and health could be at risk.
Coravin sold about 65,000 wine delivery systems in the US and about 640 in Canada. The wine dispensing systems were sold online and at wine shops during the past year. They sold for about $300.
The recall notice says the company will send you a repair kit which sounds interesting... It has a neoprene wine bottle sleeve which will contain any broken glass when a bottle breaks and new warnings about the dispensing system including not using it on wine bottles that appear damaged.
To get this "kit" just contact Coravin toll-free at (844) 267-2846 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. ET Monday through Friday, email firstname.lastname@example.com, or online at www.coravin.com, and click on "Important Safety Announcement – Recall to Repair" for more information.
For complete details on the recall check out this link on the CPSC's website.


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Early Retirement Notification 2012
In order to help minimize or avoid the disruption and anxiety to certificated employees that may be associated with layoffs due to declining enrollment and budget reductions and to assist the District in the recruitment of qualified teachers for next year, the Vacaville Unified School District, in accord with the Vacaville Teachers Association, has entered into an MOU to offer the accompanying retirement/resignation notification incentive.
The MOU will be on the Governing Board Agenda on January 19, 2012
The incentive is effective from January 23, 2012, and expires February 17, 2012, at 5 p.m. This is the only resignation incentive to be offered to VTA members this school year.
For the 2011-12 school year only, the District shall pay a One Thousand Dollar ($1,000.00) retirement/resignation notification incentive payment to any VTA unit member who, during this period, notifies the District of their intent to retire or resign from employment effective upon the completion of the unit member's contracted terms of employment. This incentive only applies to those unit members who completely separate their employment from the District. Unit members who are not full time, will have their incentive payment prorated (i.e. 40% = $400, 6/5ths = $1200).
The retirement/resignation notification incentive payment shall be included on the regular June 29, 2012, pay warrant to any VTA unit member who submits a non-revocable letter of intent to resign or retire to the District's Human Resources Department not later than 5:00 p.m. Friday, February 17, 2012.
If you are interested, please complete the Retirement/Resignation Notification Incentive Form (click to download), and return it to Human Resources no later than February 17, 2012.
The District will hold a STRS workshop for employee's who are interested in resigning this year. The STRS workshop will be on January 25th from 4:00-6:00pm at the Educational Services Center. The attachments included in this email are to be filled out and emailed, faxed, or hand delivered to Human Resource Dept C/O Mary Hughes by January 20by each participant who wants to attend the workshop. Mary Hughes will email the forms to our STRS representative who will then have specific reports for each workshop participant You do not have to attend the workshop in order to resign.
Please remember this incentive offer is effective January 23, 2012, and expires February 17, 2012 at 5 p.m.
Should you have questions, please call the Human Resources Department at 453-6108.


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Schedule of Events | Facilities & Directions | Tickets | Accommodations | Transportation | Dining | Map
About the MPSF
The Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) was established in 1992 to serve the competitive needs of member institutions from the Big West, Pacific-10, Mountain West, Western Athletic and West Coast Conferences and other selected universities in the western United States, and to provide championship competition for Division I intercollegiate Olympic sports in a conference setting . . .
University of Denver Pioneers
University of California at Berkley
Stanford University
St. Mary's (California)
University of California at Davis
University of Oregon
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Live Webcasts
If you are unable to attend the tournament make sure to check out GoDucks.com's live coverage of all seven MPSF Tournament games. For only $8.95 fans can take part in the MPSF Tournament special which will give exclusive access to all tournament games. Each game will be shown in its entirety with live video and audio commentary via the O-Zone. For more information on this the MPSF Tournament Special or to signup now click here.
Schedule of Events & Game Schedule
Games at a glance
Thursday, May 4th
Friday, May 5th
Quarterfinal Game 1: #4 Oregon vs. #5 Saint Mary's
Saturday, May 6th
Sunday, May 7th
2006 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Tournament Team
MF Chloe Dee, St. Mary's
GK Hillary Harkins, UC Davis
MF Schuyler Sokolow,
GK Anna Poponyak,
A Jana Bradley,
MF Karen Morton,
D Natasha Davies,
D Kelly O'Connell
A Sarah Bach
A Daphne Patterson
D Bri Ned, Stanford
Most Valuable Player
A Megan Burker, Stanford
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Facilities & Directions
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Ticket Prices - CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE NOW
* In order to receive discounted ticket prices, current UO students must show a current UO student ID at the Pape Field ticket window.
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Local Accommodations & Information
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Automobile Rentals
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Local Area Information
For more information on the Eugene/Springfield area visit the VisitLaneCounty.org
Local Area Restaurants
Campus Food
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Parking for all MPSF Tournament games will be available in the Science Factory, located on the south side of Leo Harris Pkwy and accross from entry 7.


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Wood Sunrooms, the Traditional Choice
Wood is the traditional choice in sunroom materials. There is no getting 'round its custom potential and authenticity. Wood is naturally energy efficient and diverse; thousands of years of carpentry have proven that any design can be achieved via woodworking, including your most inventive sunroom creations.
Wood, however, does require maintenance (using paints or stains) and is more expensive than vinyl or aluminum. Yet hardwood offers a simultaneously traditional and exquisite look that many homeowners cannot do without.
Benefits of wood as a sunroom material include:
- Energy efficiency
- Natural, traditional appeal of wood beams, supports, and roof is unequaled by other materials
- Increases the value of the home considerably - in some cases achieving a 100% return on investment
- Easily finished for weatherproofing
- Can handle temperature fluctuations
- Less prone to condensation than vinyl and aluminum
Wood is an excellent material for four season sunrooms because of its innate thermal properties. Although more expensive to build, wood sunrooms allow seemingly infinite freedom of design. Common hardwoods used include oak, pine, hickory, cedar, maple, and more.
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