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UI golfers Carson Schaake and Matthew Walker enduring solid summer campaigns
Schaake closes with strong finish, ties for 11th
Knoll currently T9 heading into Wednesday's final round
Schaake leads Iowa with opening round 74
Iowa begins play at NCAA Albuquerque Regional on Monday
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Action from day one of the Hawkeye-Great River Entertainment Invitational
Fall 2015 --Competed in all four tournaments, compiling an average of 72.95 strokes per round, which tied for a team best... recorded two top-10 finishes, including a 4th place finish at the David Toms Intercollegiate... posted a team high five rounds at or below par... tied for 39th place at the Gopher Invitational, carding a 225 (+12)... helped the Hawkeyes to a to a team title and the programs fifth best 54-hole team score at the GolfWeek Conference Challenge after posting his best 54-hole score of the season, a six-under-par 210 -- he finished tied for seventh individually... recorded his best round of the fall in the second round of the GolfWeek Conference Challenge with a 66 (-6), which also tied for the team's lowest round of the fall... Iowa's top finisher at the David Toms Intercollegiate, shooting even-par 216 to finish fourth... tied for 50th at the U.S. Collegiate Championship, posting an eight-over-par 224.
Spring 2015 -- Big Ten Champion and first-team All-Big Ten honoree... named to the Division I PING All-Midwest Regional Team... crowned co-champion at the 2015 Big Ten Tournament, marking the third time in program history a Hawkeye has accomplished the feat and first since 1992 (Brad Klapprott)... also recorded the best 18-hole score of his career and the lowest round at the three-day event with a seven-under-par 65 in the opening round on his way to a four-round total of 284 (-4)... competed in five tournaments, leading the Hawkeyes in three of them... averaged 71 strokes per round to lead all Iowa golfers -- finished the 2014-15 season averaging 71.17 strokes per round; the second-best average in program history... compiled a 3-1-0 record at the Big Ten Match Play Championships to lead Iowa to a third-place finish... tied for 65th place at the Schenkel Invitational, carding a five-over-par 221... finished in a tie for 19th place at the ASU Thunderbird Invitational after recording a 231 (+3)... led Iowa to a third-place finish at the Hawkeye-GRE Invitational, firing a six-under-par 210 to finish tied for fourth... Iowa's top finisher at the NCAA Yale Regional, carding a two-under-par 208 to tie for 11th... letterwinner.
Fall 2014 -- Competed in all five tournaments, leading the Hawkeyes in four of them... posted a team-best 71.4 stroke average over 14 rounds, finishing at or below par 10 times... finished inside the top 10 twice and inside the top 20 three times... reached as high as 49th in Golfweek's collegiate individual rankings... led Iowa to a third place finish at the Golfweek Conference Challenge, shooting a one-under-par 215 to tie for fifth place... finished tied for fourth place, a career-high, at the Windon Memorial Classic after recording a career-best 54-hole score of 209 (-1)... carded back-to-back rounds of 72 (E) at the Rod Myers Invitational to tie with fellow Hawkeye Raymond Knoll for 13th place individually at 144 (E)... paced the way for the Hawkeyes at the U.S. Collegiate Championship, finishing tied for 11th place individually after registering a four-under-par 212 (69-71-72)... tied for 16th place at the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate with a three-round total of 219 (+6)... recorded a career-low 68 on 18 holes at both the Windon Memorial Classic and the Royal Oaks Intercollegiate.
Spring 2014 -- Tied for fourth at Hawkeye-GRE Invitational, carding a 215 (-1)... Tied for 20th at Big Ten Championships, posting a 303 (+15)... Placed 51st at Boilermaker Invitational, firing a 227 (+11)... Placed 37th at NCAA Regionals in Columbia, Mo., with a 218 (+2)... carded a 70 (-2) in final round of NCAA Regionals, his best 18-hole score of the season... competed in last four events of spring schedule... posted scoring average of 74.75.
2013 Fall -- Carded a 17-over-par 233 (82-76-75) at the Rod Myers Invitational in first career collegiate event to tie for 59th place individually.
2013 Summer -- Tied for 4th at the Waterloo Open... Placed third at the Nebraska Junior Amateur... Placed second at the Nebraska Amateur... Advanced to the semifinals of the Nebraska Men's Matchplay event... Won the Nebraska Junior Matchplay event.
High School -- Ranked first in the state of Nebraska and 24th in the country for the class of 2013 on the National Junior Golf Scoreboard... qualified for the U.S. Junior Amateur after winning the Nebraska qualifier (75-72)... placed second in the PGA Junior Series at Arbor Links (76-70-71)... placed fifth in the Nebraska Men's Amateur (76-71-70-71)... placed 17th at the Junior PGA National Championships (74-72-73-72)... won the Nebraska Class A State High School Championship in 2012 (69-73) as a junior... placed 12th in the Class A state championship in 2011 as a sophomore... helped lead team to state championship appearance as a freshman.
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Beekeeping is on the rise as more people become aware of the benefits of homegrown honey. Many people use honey to sweeten food in a much healthier way than sugar. Local honey may also help in the management of allergies because bees make honey from local allergens. People who ingest this locally grown honey may find that they have increased immunity against these allergens. Honey bees are also important pollinators for flower and vegetable gardens. Cities all over the world are getting rid of bans on beekeeping which are making it easier for people to have their own beehives. Once you have decided that you want to join this beekeeping movement, you will need to learn how to buy honey bees for your hive. There are 3 ways to buy honey bees, including packaged bees, bee nucs (nucleus colonies), and established bee colonies.
1Decide on the characteristics you want your bees to have. There are many types of bees available with different characteristics. Some are known for their temperament, some for the quantity of honey production, and others because they are known to be disease resistant. Bees from Africa are known for their aggressiveness, while European bees are known for their honey production. Not all bees produce enough honey to be harvested, though. Remember to go off of what you want and not what types of bees seem to be the most popular at the time.
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This guideline updates a previous version: Mackay MT, Weiss SK, Adams-Webber T, Ashwal S, Stephens D, Ballaban-Gill K, Baram TZ, Duchowny M, Hirtz D, Pellock JM, Shields WD, Shinnar S, Wyllie E, Snead OC 3rd. Practice parameter: medical treatment of infantile spasms: report of the American Academy of Neurology and the Child Neurology Society. Neurology 2004 May 25;62(10):1668-81. [68 references]
Infantile spasms
To update the 2004 American Academy of Neurology (AAN)/Child Neurology Society (CNS) practice parameter on treatment of infantile spasms in children
Children aged 1 to 36 months with infantile spasms
Note: The subcommittee did not consider studies (1) of children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, (2) of children aged <1 month or >36 months at study entry, (3) wherein EEG not initially performed to confirm hypsarrhythmia/modified hypsarrhythmia.
The following treatments were considered but there was insufficient evidence to make recommendations concerning their use:
An updated literature search of MEDLINE and EMBASE databases (2002–August 2011) using the OVID interface was conducted using the process described in the 2004 parameter (see appendix e-3 of the Data Supplement [see the "Availability of Companion Documents" field]). The combined MEDLINE and EMBASE text word searches identified 1,935 articles. All search titles and abstracts were analyzed for content. English-language articles on therapy, prognosis, and adverse effects (AEs) were selected. Sixty-eight articles were chosen for detailed review; 26 were included in the analysis.
Articles selected for detailed review required a clearly stated diagnosis of infantile spasms, an electroencephalogram (EEG) demonstrating hypsarrhythmia or modified hypsarrhythmia (articles using routine electroencephalography (EEG) recording were included because not all articles used prolonged video-EEG monitoring), and inclusion of children aged 1–36 months. Infantile spasms were classified as either symptomatic (i.e., of known cause) or cryptogenic (of unknown cause but presumably genetic in many infants) as defined by the International League Against Epilepsy. Cases described as idiopathic were included in the cryptogenic group for analysis.
The subcommittee excluded studies of children with Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, studies of children aged <1 month or >36 months at the time of study entry, and studies wherein an EEG was not initially performed to confirm the presence of hypsarrhythmia or modified hypsarrhythmia. Also excluded were retrospective studies with single case reports, case series containing fewer than 4 infants, studies on long-term prognosis that were uncontrolled for treatment, letters, abstracts, unpublished data, and review articles.
Sixty-eight articles were selected for detailed review; 26 were included in the analysis
Classification of Evidence for Therapeutic Intervention
Class I: A randomized, controlled clinical trial of the intervention of interest with masked or objective outcome assessment, in a representative population. Relevant baseline characteristics are presented and substantially equivalent among treatment groups or there is appropriate statistical adjustment for differences. The following are also required:
Class II: A randomized controlled clinical trial of the intervention of interest in a representative population with masked or objective outcome assessment that lacks one criteria a–e above or a prospective matched cohort study with masked or objective outcome assessment in a representative population that meets b–e above. Relevant baseline characteristics are presented and substantially equivalent among treatment groups or there is appropriate statistical adjustment for differences.
Class III: All other controlled trials (including well-defined natural history controls or patients serving as own controls) in a representative population, where outcome is independently assessed, or independently derived by objective outcome measurement.**
Class IV: Studies not meeting Class I, II, or III criteria including consensus or expert opinion.
*Note that numbers 1-3 in Class Ie are required for Class II in equivalence trials. If any one of the three is missing, the class is automatically downgraded to Class III.
**Objective outcome measurement: an outcome measure that is unlikely to be affected by an observer's (patient, treating physician, investigator) expectation or bias (e.g., blood tests, administrative outcome data).
Two panelists independently reviewed, abstracted, and classified the articles, to assess the quality of data related to study design and treatment effect. A third panelist arbitrated any disagreements in ratings. For each question, evidence is sequentially analyzed and then summarized to determine the overall strength of the evidence and to formulate recommendations.
Analysis included short-term, intermediate, and long-term outcome measures. Short-term outcome measures were defined as complete spasms cessation; hypsarrhythmia resolution and, where documented, electroencephalogram (EEG) normalization; and relapse rate. Adverse effects (AEs) and mortality were documented. For studies with a mean follow-up of >12 months, intermediate to long-term outcome measures were EEG without epileptiform abnormalities, absence of seizures, and normal development. Data recorded included the number of patients entering and completing the trial, age at spasms onset, age at study entry, treatment lag (time of spasms onset to treatment initiation with the agents described herein), gender, etiology, drug dosage, therapy duration, cointerventions, and follow-up duration.
The Cochran-Mantel-Haenszel statistical method was used in the meta-analysis to quantify the clinical efficacy of adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) versus vigabatrin (VGB). This method is used to perform a stratified analysis when comparing odds ratios (OR) across studies. It combines the ORs while maintaining the group from which the data came. The Breslow-Day (BD) statistic is then applied to test the homogeneity of the OR across the strata. When the BD statistic is nonsignificant, all studies in the meta-analysis are pointing in the same direction, signifying concordance.
The American Academy of Neurology's 4-tiered article classification scheme for therapeutic evidence was used (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Evidence" field); the strength of the recommendations was linked to the evidence (see the "Rating Scheme for the Strength of the Recommendation").
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Classification of Recommendations
Level A = Established as effective, ineffective or harmful (or established as useful/predictive or not useful/predictive) for the given condition in the specified population. (Level A rating requires at least two consistent Class I studies.*)
Level B = Probably effective, ineffective or harmful (or probably useful/predictive or not useful/predictive) for the given condition in the specified population. (Level B rating requires at least one Class I study or two consistent Class II studies.)
Level C = Possibly effective, ineffective or harmful (or possibly useful/predictive or not useful/predictive) for the given condition in the specified population. (Level C rating requires at least one Class II study or two consistent Class III studies.)
Level U = Data inadequate or conflicting; given current knowledge, treatment (test, predictor) is unproven.
* In exceptional cases, one convincing Class I study may suffice for an "A" recommendation if 1) all criteria are met, 2) the magnitude of effect is large (relative rate improved outcome >5 and the lower limit of the confidence interval is >2).
A formal cost analysis was not performed and published cost analyses were not reviewed.
Drafts of the guideline have been reviewed by at least 3 American Academy of Neurology (AAN) committees, a network of neurologists, Neurology® peer reviewers and representatives from related fields.
Guidelines were approved by the AAN Guideline Development Subcommittee on November 19, 2011; by the AAN Practice Committee on January 2, 2012; and by the AAN Board of Directors on April 2, 2012.
Definitions of the levels of the recommendations (A, B, C, U) and classification of the evidence (Class I-IV) are provided at the end of the "Major Recommendations" field.
Are Other Forms of Corticosteroids as Effective as Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) for Treatment of Infantile Spasms?
Data are insufficient regarding the equivalence of other corticosteroids to ACTH (Class III and IV evidence).
The evidence is insufficient to recommend the use of prednisolone, dexamethasone, and methylprednisolone as being as effective as ACTH for short-term treatment of infantile spasms (Level U).
Are Low-Dose ACTH Regimens Effective for Short-term Treatment of Infantile Spasms?
A Class I study showed similar efficacy between low-dose (20–30 IU) and high-dose (150 IU/m2) natural ACTH, and a Class II study using the same low-dose natural ACTH showed clinical and electroencephalographic (EEG) response rates of >40%. The evidence suggests that low-dose ACTH is probably as effective as high-dose ACTH for short-term treatment of infantile spasms (Class I and II evidence).
Low-dose ACTH should be considered as an alternative to high-dose ACTH for treatment of infantile spasms (Level B).
Is ACTH More Effective Than Vigabatrin (VGB) for Short-term Treatment of Infantile Spasms?
Two Class III studies (1 from the 2004 parameter and a later study) demonstrated that ACTH is more effective than VGB for short-term treatment of children with infantile spasms (excluding those with tuberous sclerosis complex [TSC]). A small Class III study and a Class IV study found no difference in short-term outcome between ACTH and VGB.
ACTH (Level B) or VGB (Level C) may be offered for short-term treatment of infantile spasms. Evidence suggests that ACTH may be offered over VGB (Level C).
What Other Agents Are as Effective as ACTH for Treatment of Infantile Spasms?
Data from previously reviewed and updated evidence are insufficient to determine whether valproic acid (VPA), vitamin B6, nitrazepam (NZP), levetiracetam (LEV), zonisamide (ZNS), topiramate (TPM), the ketogenic diet, sulthiame, or other novel therapies (e.g., intravenous immunoglobulin [IVIg], thyrotropin-releasing hormone [TRH]) are effective in the treatment of infantile spasms (Class III and IV evidence). A single Class III study showed better outcome for combination therapy with ACTH and magnesium sulfate (MgSO4).
The evidence is insufficient to recommend other therapies (VPA, vitamin B6, NZP, LEV, ZNS, TPM, the ketogenic diet, or novel/combination therapies) for treatment of infantile spasms (Level U).
Does Successful Early Treatment of Infantile Spasms Lead to Long-term Improvement of Neurodevelopmental Outcomes or Decreased Incidence of Epilepsy?
A Class II study showed that hormonal therapy (ACTH or prednisolone) relative to VGB therapy leads to better neurodevelopmental outcome in children with cryptogenic spasms. One previous Class III study and 1 newer Class II study showed that shorter lag time to treatment improves long-term cognitive outcomes.
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The type of supporting evidence is identified and graded for each recommendation (see the "Major Recommendations" field).
Appropriate treatment of infantile spasms
This statement is provided as an educational service of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the Child Neurology Society (CNS). It is based on an assessment of current scientific and clinical information. It is not intended to include all possible proper methods of care for a particular neurologic problem or all legitimate criteria for choosing to use a specific procedure. Neither is it intended to exclude any reasonable alternative methodologies. The AAN and CNS recognize that specific patient care decisions are the prerogative of the patient and the physician caring for the patient, based on all circumstances involved. The clinical context section is made available in order to place the evidence-based guideline(s) into perspective with current practice habits and challenges. No formal practice recommendations should be inferred.
An implementation strategy was not provided.
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American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and the Child Neurology Society
Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology
Practice Committee of the Child Neurology Society
American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Guideline Development Subcommittee Members: John D. England, MD, FAAN (Chair); Cynthia Harden, MD (Vice-Chair); Melissa Armstrong, MD; Eric Ashman, MD; Misha-Miroslav Backonja, MD; Richard L. Barbano, MD, PhD, FAAN; Diane Donley, MD; Terry Fife, MD, FAAN; David Gloss, MD; John J. Halperin, MD, FAAN; Cheryl Jaigobin, MD; Andres M. Kanner, MD; Jason Lazarou, MD; Steven R. Messé, MD, FAAN; David Michelson, MD; Pushpa Narayanaswami, MD, MBBS; Anne Louise Oaklander, MD, PhD, FAAN; Tamara Pringsheim, MD; Alexander Rae-Grant, MD; Michael Shevell, MD, FAAN; Theresa A. Zesiewicz, MD, FAAN; Jonathan P. Hosey, MD, FAAN (Ex-Officio); Stephen Ashwal, MD, FAAN (Ex-Officio); Deborah Hirtz, MD, FAAN (Ex-Officio)
Child Neurology Society Practice Committee Members: Bruce Cohen, MD, FAAN (Chair); Deborah Hirtz, MD, FAAN (Co-Chair for Practice Parameters); Michael Goldstein, MD (Emeritus); Gary Clark, MD (Liaison); Terence Edgar, MD; Cesar Santos, MD; Walter Molofsky, MD; Diane Donley, MD
Dr. Go reports no disclosures. Dr. Mackay has received honoraria from UCB Pharma, Jansen Cilag, and Sanofi-Aventis for presentations at industry-sponsored symposia. Dr. Weiss, T. Adams-Webber, D. Stephens, Dr. O.C. Snead III, and Dr. Ashwal report no disclosures. Go to Neurology.org for full disclosures.
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The American Academy of Neurology (AAN) and Child Neurology Society (CNS) are committed to producing; independent, critical and truthful clinical practice guidelines (CPGs). Significant efforts are made to minimize the potential for conflicts of interest to influence the recommendations of this CPG. To the extent possible, the AAN and CNS keep separate those who have a financial stake in the success or failure of the products appraised in the CPGs and the developers of the guidelines. Conflict of interest forms were obtained from all authors and reviewed by an oversight committee prior to project initiation. AAN and CNS limit the participation of authors with substantial conflicts of interest. The AAN and CNS forbid commercial participation in, or funding of, guideline projects. The AAN Guideline Author Conflict of Interest Policy can be viewed at www.aan.com .
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WACO, Texas - Courtney Putnam had a team-high 21 kills to lead the Texas Tech women's volleyball team past Baylor in four games in a match played Wednesday night on the campus of Baylor University. Game scores were 15-12, 15-13, 5-15, and 15-10.
After Texas Tech had claimed hard-fought victories in the first two games of the match, the host Bears responded with a spectacular third game, hitting a scorching .457 as a team to post an easy 15-5 victory. The Red Raiders regrouped in the fourth game, however, and notched a 15-10 victory to win the match.
In addition to Putnam's 21-kill performance, Brande Brown posted 18 kills to aid the Texas Tech attack. Lisa Hilgers led the way defensively for the Red Raiders, collecting 18 digs to go along with 49 assists from her setter position. Elisha Polk spearheaded the Baylor attack with a match-high 24 kills.
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College/Major/Grad Year: University of Florida/Sports Management/ 2004
Nature of disability: No fingers on his left hand
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- Started all six matches at the 2016 ParaVolley Intercontinental Cup
- Named 2014 "Male Sitting Player of the Year"
- Competed at the 2004 Paralympic Games
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- He has played eight years of classical piano, seven years of percussion and competed in archery for two years-all without fingers on his left hand
- He was born with amniotic band syndrome, but likes to tell people that he lost his fingers while protecting his dog from an alligator
- Eric served as a volunteer assistant coach for the volleyball team at the University of Florida while earning a bachelor's degree in sports management.
- Has served as a volunteer assistant coach for the women's volleyball team at Central Oklahoma. He also coaches for Oklahoma Peak Performance and coached women's volleyball at Redlands Community College in Oklahoma.
- He was the men's volleyball team captain for the 2003 and 2004 seasons at the University of Florida
- His hobbies include disc golf, working with Habitat for Humanity and trivia competitions
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Miami Marlins video: Logan Morrison, David Samson, others shave heads for charity
Led by Logan Morrison and team president David Samson, several Marlins sat in barber chairs before Saturday's game and shaved their heads. As part of the Marlins Charity Partner Weekend benefiting Miami Children's Hospital, Morrison invited teammates and fans to shave their head as a way to recognize the strength and beauty of pediatric cancer patients. Morrison earlier this week spent time at Miami Children's visiting patients.
Morrison and the Marlins hosted 70 children from the Kids Cancer Camp Saturday night as VIP guests.
"Logan and I were talking about this and we talked about all the kids in Miami and Miami Children's Hospital who don't have a choice but to wear their hair like this," Samson said. "We all have a choice and we're lucky. We decided to show some unity, raise some money, and anytime we can raise money we'll do anything.
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Total Quality Management
Posted by: Jaz Major in MyBlog on Aug 24, 2011
Tagged in: TQM
Total quality management is a management system for a customer focused organization that involves all employee in continual improvement of all aspects of the organization. TQM uses strategy, data, and effective communication to integrate the quality principles into the culture and activities of the organization.
Principles Of TQM
> Be Customer focused: Whatever you do for quality improvement, remember that ONLY customers determine the level of quality. Whatever you do to foster quality improvement, training employees, integrating quality into processes management, ONLY customers determine whether your efforts were worthwhile.
> Ensure Total Employee Involvement: You must remove fear from work place, then empower employee... you provide the proper environment.
> Process Centered: Fundamental part of TQM is to focus on process thinking.
> Integrated system: All employee must know the business mission and vision. An integrated business system may be modeled by MBNQA or ISO 9000
> Strategic and systematic approach: Strategic plan must integrate quality as core component.
> Continual Improvement: Using analytical, quality tools, and creative thinking to become more efficient and effective.
> Fact Based Decision Making: Decision making must be ONLY on data, not personal or situational thinking.
> Communication: Communication strategy, method and timeliness must be well defined.


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If you have a mailbox, then chances are pretty high that you get junk mail. Left unchecked, all that junk mail can quickly stack up to an Everest-sized mountain. So it's with great pleasure that I announce to you that Heather at Happy Chippy Junk has a fun craft project that will help you get through the rest of the year.
Heather works at an office that had a very plain door. She decided to use all that junk mail she'd been receiving to spruce it up a bit. So, Heather folded all of the different pieces of paper, fan style. She glued all of the fans onto a circle form, and had a bright, colorful wreath for her front door. Easy and free!
To learn more about this junk mail wreath, go to Happy Chippy Junk.


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The Lying Game: To Lie For/
What in the what?
Okay. Let me start at the beginning. Theresa is totally dead, face down in a pool and Dan (understandably) loses it like he's in a Shakespearan play and yells at all the liars (and there are quite a few these days) for lying and killing his one true wuv. Then he burns furniture and starts giving Ethan ultimatums. Thayer, seemingly having no perspective on the situation that someone has just died, blends into a wall and also gives Emma an ultimatum. When everyone gives an ulitmatum, a lot of people lose: Thayer loses Emma, Emma loses Ethan, Ethan loses Emma, etc. Rebecca almost leaves town after a verbal bitch slap from Emma, but decides to stick around just in time for Jordan to be arrested for killing his brother (!), Alec to fall through a skylight (!!) and Thayer to have Theresa's murder weapon stashed in his chair (!!!). Thayer having the murder weapons explains his lack of perspective. These things happen when you're a sociopath.
It's ultimatum time! Once again, Thayer blends into the woodwork and we almost forget he exists. I'd almost feel bad for him that he's losing his girlfriend to a way cuter guy, except a) I feel worse for Theresa and b) it looks like he killed her, so that negates any sympathy points.
And Dan says family or twins, so Ethan goes for family. Can't say I blame him. If this is the scene when your bro gives you an ultimatum, what would you do?
You pick the guy who is willing to burn the patio furniture in a rage, that's what. Which is really too bad for Emma, who has been headed back to "dressed like a normal teen", ever since the twin truth has been leaking.
If she were still pretending to be Sutton, I have a feeling mismatched PJs and a hoodie woudn't be happening here. But it's definitely more her personality than the daytime glamour.
Plus it suits Ethan's style as well.
I can't think of anything that would look bad on that guy. Flour sack? If it were fitted, he could make it work.
Still bringing it hard, probably because she's ultimatum free, is Laurel.
She looks like a teen dream in tangerine. Also, it's nice to see her in a dress that flatters her waist and boobs again. Those earth mother numbers were dragging her down hard.
Rebecca may want to burn some furniture or give an ultimatum, because she is failing to get her daughters to choose Team Family.
While she looks great in champagne coloured lace and jeans, with some tasteful gold jewelry, she's not winning this fight against Emma of the Seven Foster Homes and Six Schools. No amount of tacky BFF jewelry is going to save you from that one (it's her undoing in more ways than one, since the other half turns up at a the scene of the murder). Becs, you need to bring the Cartier to make up for those lost years.
Looks like she can afford it, seeing as this was her getaway outfit and choice of transportation.
Seriously? Cheap jewelry while you fly charter? Bitch, please. But the white sheath with a hint of peplum is an excellent choice when you make an evil getaway. I believe that's a page from the Victoria Grayson Playbook.
The twins, headed to a weird place of sisterly bonding (I'm unfamiliar with a sisterly Sutton), do it in floral this week.
Twisies, best friendsies? Emma goes for big bright floral on a black dress...
while sutton goes for the very odd choice of random botanical prints with pink formal shorts.
I can't even begin to understand the choice of shorts. Or even Emma's church garden party dress. However, I'm so on board with Sutton's giant ass ring.
Daytime cocktail rings must be the new daytime glamour.
Alec decides to honour Theresa's memory with a fund of some kind, plus what may be the oddest memorial service in the history of ever. It looks more like a fundraising dinner than a memorial. Very few dressed in their mourning clothes. Ethan and Dan did, but I guess you have to when it's your fiancée/sister-in-law-to-be that's found dead in the pool.
Outside of those two, Sutton is the only one even remotely dressed for the occasion.
Not so much the giant chain link necklace (love it), but the black dress. Oddly, she had no plans to attend. This is her "I'm chilling out in a cabin in the woods" outfit.
Emma goes with champagne lace and a figure skater neckline.
Flattering and lovely, but not really memorial service appropriate.
Then again, neither is Kristen in this blue satin frock she swiped from the Mad Men wardrobe department.
I mean, it's much better than her pre-divorce proceedings, but the timing is all off. Maybe don't wear the bright sexy mom number to mourn the dead?
The blue dress is the only thing she's really doing right. Because, as I said, she was totally bland at the divorce meeting.
Great red glasses though. Totally cool mom of you, Kristen.
After switching places with Sutton, Emma raids Kristen's closet for the most shapeless blue shirtdress. And success! She finds one!
But her hair was totally fantastic and very Veronica Lake-film noir-ish, so she gets half points for that.
Back at the country club where everything of any importance in Arroyo happens, Mads goes for some lovely black and white.
How much hair does that girl have? The more to hide secrets in I guess. I don't love that it's a maxi skirt, but I otherwise dig on the B&W&red-hot all over look. it's a great one for saying good bye to your boyfriend as he's arrested on surprise murder charges.
He must have known that arrest was coming, because he changed his shirt. I get it. I'd want to look my best for the mug shot, too.
Still wreaking havoc is the very evil, but perhaps not quite as evil as we first thought, Rebecca.
Black dress and black gloves? How very "A" of you, Rebecca. I'll just assume they're her way of going incognito and preparing for this to happen.
Oops. Let's hope he makes a Revenge(!!!)-like recovery.
Ok, let's recap: Jordan has been arrested for possibly murdering his brother, Rebecca has possibly pushed Alec through a skylight, and Mr. Blink-and-you'll-miss-him has a found a way to get his girlfriend to notice him...
But I bet wearing colors that aren't the same as the walls would also get her attention. Killing very nice lawyers, framing your dad and trashing your room with a murder weapon is really not necessary.
So, did Thayer do it? Did Rebecca do it? Did Jordan do...whatever it is he's accused of doing? Sadly, it's the end of season 2, and the secrets and lies will be marinating for the rest of the year.


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Evergreen Public Schools offers the AVID program at Heritage High School and its feeder middle schools.
Citing improved grades and test results, Vancouver Public Schools has announced a major expansion of AVID this fall to include all four of its traditional high schools and its six middle schools, about 390 students total. Another 400 students at alternative Lewis and Clark High School will be recruited.
Getting all students "college-ready" is a district priority, said Layne Curtis, Vancouver director of curriculum and instruction. "The research is compelling that AVID is a vehicle to accomplish that."
Heritage High School teacher Matt Kessler pressed his 23 seniors hard this spring. Again.
Listen to Miranda Taylor, longtime participant in the school's Achievement Via Individual Determination program, which is designed to steer more students into rigorous Advanced Placement courses and a full-throttle college education.
"He always pushed us to do our absolute best and work as hard as we could," Taylor said. "He was always saying, 'Finish strong.'"
Evergreen Public Schools offers the AVID program at Heritage High School and its feeder middle schools.
Citing improved grades and test results, Vancouver Public Schools has announced a major expansion of AVID this fall to include all four of its traditional high schools and its six middle schools, about 390 students total. Another 400 students at alternative Lewis and Clark High School will be recruited.
Getting all students "college-ready" is a district priority, said Layne Curtis, Vancouver director of curriculum and instruction. "The research is compelling that AVID is a vehicle to accomplish that."
Finish strong, they did: Of 23 senior students in the AVID program this year, 22 were accepted into a four-year university, racking up just shy of $800,000 in college scholarships in the process. That compares to about $680,000 in scholarships won by the other 433 Heritage seniors.
"This year was the perfect storm," Kessler said.
While he'd rather not "toot my own horn," he and senior counselor Ryan Hovde are rightfully proud of the AVID bounty at Heritage.
"We had the right group of kids, and I pushed maybe harder than I normally would," Kessler said. "This has been such a bright, shining star" as Evergreen Public Schools braces for more budget cuts. "Our kids are getting a slingshot right out of here."
Graduates such as Taylor, 18, who starts at Washington State University Vancouver in August on a one-year full scholarship, said the relentless Kessler and Hovde deserve the credit. Grant writer Rosemary Fryer completes the potent Heritage AVID team, Kessler noted.
"I never realized how many steps and efforts it takes to get into a four-year university. I wouldn't have known where to start," said Taylor, oldest child in her family. Her sister DeeAnna, a sixth-grader, is anxious to follow her sister's AVID path.
Taylor said she hopes to study civil engineering at either WSU's Pullman campus or Oregon State University. She loaded up on AP math and science courses at Heritage she never otherwise would have tried, she said.
"You can always tell the AVID students in the classroom," Taylor said. "They're the ones up front, the ones asking questions … the ones who take their notes out before they're asked. As you go through the program and you take harder classes, you just know it helps you."
Add the college-search boost, and it's no surprise "we were so many steps ahead of everyone," said Taylor, who with her peers are the top of an AVID pyramid that includes Heritage feeder middle schools.
Since 2000, the national-model program has been funded at Evergreen by outside grant money, including Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and other competitive awards.
There are two separate block classes for freshman, sophomore and junior students, plus the lone senior class. About 165 Heritage students are enrolled in the program. AVID also reaches to classes at Covington and Frontier middle schools, where teachers recruit students starting in sixth grade.
AVID's objective is to create a culture where college is a question of where, and not if, for students who show promise but need an extra nudge to succeed at a four-year university.
Its method involves aggressively drilling students in note-taking and organization, providing tutorial and collaborative peer help, and exposing them to college rigor and environments, campus visits, guest speakers, and AP courses and exams that earn them early college credits.
It's no small thing to guide students through the maze of college application, financial aid and scholarship legwork. It's even more bewildering for teens whose families lack higher education experience. Kessler demanded no fewer than 20 college applications per student, at least until they found just the right match. More than 30 schools accepted his 2011 seniors.
"The work that we try to do is, maximize opportunity," Kessler said. "Who can we just give that lift to to change the trajectory of their path?" Many students, though not all, are minorities or live in poverty.
Hovde hunted for grant or waiver opportunities. AVID pays all or part of the costly application fees and charges for SAT, ACT and other crucial tests. That includes the 10th grade pre-SAT, or PSAT, that first draws colleges' notice and proves to students that they have "the right stuff" for university level work, Kessler said.
Among his disciples is Austin "Rudy" Frazier, 18, accepted by eight schools without a single rejection. Frazier, who weighed options of tens of thousands of dollars in scholarships, is headed for Dickinson State University in North Dakota on a combined wrestling-academic scholarship. At Dickinson State, he said he'll compete at a high level and chase his dream to be a high school math teacher and wrestling coach.
"Our (AVID) class is amazing. Just the family aspect is great," Frazier said.
Kessler pounded the applications regimen, led challenging classroom dialogue and led peer-tutoring sessions that Frazier said sealed his own teaching ambitions.
"A lot of my friends said I was better (at explaining math) than the real teachers," he said.
Taylor said a weeklong immersion stay at the University of Portland in her junior year — AVID students slept in dorms, tackled real coursework and filled out UP's admission application — had strong impact.
The discipline, self-reliance and, yes, freedom of students made a lasting mark, she said. College was clearly a whole new level, yet suddenly a real prospect, Taylor said.
"It was a motivator. We were so 'stuck' in high school," she said she realized through the experience.


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Ryan Seacrest warned off the top that fans were going to be disappointed with the news on Thursday night's (April 28) "American Idol" results show. At the point in the season where you are guaranteed that half of the remaining six will end up in the bottom three, there were plenty of opportunities to be bummed.
But after finding new ways to make the amateur singers twist in the wind while awaiting their fate, when the smoke cleared, it was Casey Abrams whose card was punched into "Idol" purgatory. Lauded for his musical aptitude but hampered by a tendency to get overly aggressive and unnecessarily scatty during his performances, Abrams left the show after being saved by the judges earlier in the season.
There were plenty of things that had to happen before any actual results were read, though, like a trip to the British consulate in honor of Friday's royal wedding, some Internet questions from fans and a medley of the Carole King-penned tunes "It Might as Well Rain Until September," "One Fine Day," "Go Away Little Girl" and "It's Too Late."
When it was time to finally give some results, Seacrest brought out each of the finalists in random order, with frequent bottom-three dweller Haley Reinhart dodging the bullet this week and being sent to safety after her bluesy rendition of "Beautiful."
Seacrest teased audience fave Scotty McCreery, making him hang on after reviewing his sensitive-guy take on "You've Got a Friend." He then called out fellow teen Lauren Alaina, who sang "Where You Lead (I Will Follow)," and … did the same thing.
The torture continued with bearded lover-man Abrams, who had grunted and scowled through a mother-lovin' cover of the little-known "Hi-De-Ho" and was also sent back to the couch to chill through a commercial break. Surely, Seacrest would just wave James Durbin to safety after the rocker's touching take on "Will You Love Me Tomorrow?" And he did.
Though our experts were unanimous in picking gospel singer Jacob Lusk as the likely boot-ee after his up-and-down rendition of "Oh No Not My Baby — which mentor Jimmy Iovine said was also ankled by a poor, not star-like wardrobe choice — Lusk was spared yet again.
That left the unlikely due of Abrams and McCreery standing center stage facing the abyss. After wowing the judges and audience with his upright and electric bass playing, melodica honking and a controversial save, Abrams is now free to do what he vowed to at the end of his goodbye montage: "work hard and do everything I can to get myself out there and bring jazz back."
His run ended with a reprise of his signature scowl-fest "I Put a Spell on You," which included hugs and kisses with the judges, random smooches with audience members, a chest thump for McCreery, a barrel-roll onto the stage and a final eye-lock with purported show honey Reinhart.
The show also featured a drop-in from last season's runner-up, Crystal Bowersox, who sang the bluesy old time rock and roll ditty "Ridin' With the Radio," as well as a song from Bruno Mars, who got mellow with his perfect summer tune "The Lazy Song."
The top five will do it all again next week in the run-up to the show's May 26 finale.
Don't miss "Idol Party Live" every Thursday at noon on MTV.com for analysis, celebrity guests and even some karaoke — get in the conversation by tweeting with the hashtag #idolparty! In the meantime, get your "Idol" fix on MTV News' "American Idol" page, where you'll find all the latest news, interviews and opinions.


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The March 18, 2014 Mega Millions winning numbers results are in! Did anyone win the Mega Millions jackpot? You bet they did! Congratulations to the Florida and Maryland jackpot winners for hitting the $400 million jackpot! The Florida Lottery Mega Millions winning ticket was sold in Brevard County at a Sunoco gas station in Merritt Island, according to NBC Washington News on Wednesday, March 19, while the Maryland Lottery Mega Millions winning ticket was sold somewhere in Charles County, which is located south of Prince George's County.
"We haven't been able to get a hold of the retailer just yet. We're trying to make that notification. But we do know it was a manual pick, so someone chose those numbers, said a Maryland lottery official."
The March 18, 2014 Mega Millions winning numbers are 11, 19, 24, 33, 51, the Mega Ball is 7, and the Megaplier is X 3. The $400 million Mega Millions jackpot was the third-largest jackpot in Mega Millions history, and the sixth-largest lottery prize in U.S. history, with a lump-sum option of $224 million.
The Washington Post on March 19 reported, "the two winners will split the $400 million jackpot so they'll each get about $200 million. In Maryland, the winnings are $112.4 million as the cash option. That would net about $77.4 million after taxes, Maryland lottery officials said."
How much do Florida and Maryland Mega Millions jackpot lottery winners pay for state and federal taxes? The two Mega Millions jackpot winners will split the $400 million lottery jackpot, so already the jackpot is cut in half. Good news for the Florida Mega Millions lottery winner though as there's no state income tax in Florida! The Florida Mega Millions winner will only be subject to 25 percent federal taxes. Unfortunately, Maryland residents pay one of the highest state taxes, at 9.25 percent. Add to that the 25 percent federal taxes due, and the Maryland Mega Millions winner will end up with a lot less than the Florida Mega Millions winner.
Additionally, there were eight (8) Match 5 + 0 winners in Tuesday's Mega Millions drawing. There were two $1 million Mega Millions winners in Florida and New York, and one each in Illinois, Maryland and Texas. The California lottery winner will receive $1,962,339 due to pari-mutuel prize rules. Each lottery winner matched five out of six white Mega Millions winning numbers, but not the gold Mega Ball number for the second-tier prize.
What Time is the March 19 Powerball Drawing?
Whatever you do, don't miss the next Powerball drawing which is scheduled for March 19, 2014 at 10:59 p.m. EDT. Wednesday's Powerball winning numbers are worth a whopping $80 million annuity, or $45.9 million cash value. Powerball winning numbers are drawn live Wednesday and Saturday evenings at 10:59 p.m. EDT in Florida. The Powerball game is played in 43 states plus the District of Columbia and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Tickets cost $2 each, and another $1 for the Power Play option which could instantly multiply your prize winnings. The most recent Powerball winning numbers from the March 15 drawing were 2, 5, 34, 51, 58, and the red Powerball number was 9.
Sources: Mega Millions; NBC News; Washington Post; Powerball
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Gifted and Talented
The Gifted and Talented Program in the Atlanta Public School System provides differentiated instruction for the intellectually advanced and creatively gifted student. Gifted services are available for all eligible students in grades kindergarten through grade 12.
1. Atlanta Public Schools' Implementation of Georgia Board Rule is the guideline which drives the qualification students must meet in order to be determined eligible for gifted services.
4. The Gifted and Talented Permission to Test form provides parents with the documentation needed to refer and grant permission for a child to be tested for gifted services.
Parents: Please view the Testing Informational video below for details about the 2015-2016 Gifted and Talented Education testing process.


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Over the last couple of months I have experienced very, very slow speed in moving from page to page, slow updates, and very slow typing speed in posting. In other words the site appears to have slowed down significantly.
I do not have such problems with other web sites that I visit regularly and my download speeds (measured on speedtest.net) are about 20Mb/sec download and 4 Mb/sec uploading. Whenever I encounter slow web updates, I check my speed.
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June 6, 2013 | Vol. 117 -- No. 7
Making its final stop at Hallett Elementary during its annual visit to different schools in the district, the Medical Lake School District board of directors held its final meeting during the school year.
Students at Hallett in Sheila Overman's fourth-grade class demonstrated at the Tuesday, May 28 meeting some of the different ways of learning math through iPad applications.
The apps allow a teacher to guide students as they solve a problem, and display a student's iPad up on the projector so they can explain their work. Programs also let students create a video to explain a subject,...
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California Gold Rush
California Gold Rush Terms
Californios, CalifornioMexican citizens, inhabitants of the Mexican province of Alta California.
CompetencyWithin republican ideology, a competency was a holding of land—typically a farmstead—that allowed a man to sustain his family without needing to work for wages in the market economy.
Manifest DestinyThe concept, popular in the nineteenth century, that the United States was ordained by God to conquer the entire North American continent.
This phrase was first coined in 1845 by those who advocated the annexation of Texas. Thereafter it became the calling card for western expansion and, ultimately, a rallying cry for those who sought to justify American imperialism.
First used by those who supported the annexation of Texas in 1845, the term later justified American settlement of the Great Plains and the West (and then the broadening of the American empire).
The idea, popular in the mid-nineteenth century, that the United States was ordained by God to spread across the entire North American continent.
SlickensA Forty-Niner term for the torrents of muck sent downstream by hydraulic mining, which used the spray from high-pressure hoses to artificially erode ore-bearing hillsides to reveal the gold buried within.
QuinineA drug made from the bark of the chinchona tree and used as a prophylactic against malaria. The discovery of quinine's anti-malarial effects was one of the most important achievements of nineteenth-century medicine. In 1848, San Francisco merchant Samuel Brannan filled an empty quinine bottle with gold dust to prove that rumors of a gold strike in the Sierra foothills were true.
American DreamThe ideal of freedom and opportunity that allows all Americans to aspire to a higher standard of living than that achieved by their parents.
AgrarianRural, agricultural.
Characteristic of a society based on agriculture and farming.
Wage LaborWork performed for an employer, for pay.
Yeoman Farmer, Yeomen, YeomanAn independent farmer, working his own land to support his own family. In the early years of the American republic, Thomas Jefferson idealized yeoman farmers as the backbone of a free and democratic society. In the nineteenth century, Americans frequently contrasted independent yeoman farmers with wage laborers, whose dependence upon their employers for survival was said to make them less reliable democratic citizens.
CitizenshipThe status of being a citizen of the United States. Citizenship can be attained either through birthright (for those born in the United States) or through naturalization (for those who immigrate to the United States from foreign countries).
DependencyThe state of being dependent or subordinate to another person for survival. In the early nineteenth century, adherents of republican ideology believed that all wage laborers were too dependent upon their employers to make good democratic citizens.
QuixoticIdealistic, impractical, and unrealistic. The word is derived from Cervantes' great Spanish novel Don Quixote, which satirically chronicles the dubious exploits of the hopelessly romantic title character.
A romantic and/or impossible goal or quest
Second Great AwakeningA great religious revival that swept through much of the eastern United States in the 1830s, during which hundreds of thousands of people joined evangelical churches such as the Baptists and Methodists, as well as newer sects such as the Shakers and Mormons.
Sectional Question, SectionalismThe long debate between North and South over slavery in the United States. The sectional question was only finally answered through the Civil War, which ended slavery in the United States.
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T-Mobile announced today that they are planning on offering only Value Plans in 2013. A Value Plan offers a cheaper per-month rate, but a customer loses the subsidy that would otherwise discount cellular devices. For instance, my iPhone was $299 with a 2-year contract. On a T-Mobile plan, that would have set me back $749.
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Good thing he didn't wait for his first super bowl to propose!
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Looks like they are now engaged:
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I call B.S. There is no way he has a ring to give her.
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Yeah, he has to get this **** locked down before she realizes he's not actually good.
She's too smart to not know that. He must be hu... er, very nice.
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Last week Microsoft announced a change to its performance review and compensation system that is aimed, in part, to establish a clear link between performance and compensation. In their current system, managers use a forced ranking system assigning people to the top 20%, middle 70%, or bottom 10%. In the new system, employees will be assigned a ranking of 1 - 5 based upon their overall performance, versus multiple metrics. Ranking will be based upon relevant peer groups and be directly linked to compensation.
Reading the blogs and commentary concerning this announcement has caused me to wonder about all of the time and effort that has likely been devoted to this change. All HR experts know that a performance review and compensation program change requires a great deal of time and effort - from research to communication to complex political play. But what has really changed?
Ultimately, the effectiveness in managing the performance of the organization falls in the hands of leadership. The type of rating or ranking system that is used matters very little if leaders are not held accountable for goal setting, ongoing coaching and development, and providing helpful performance evaluations on a regular basis.
Employees have commented that in this new system, 20% of employees will now be classified in the lowest performing category versus 10% in the current system. However, being rated in the lowest 10% has not meant much in that lower performing employees have remained in place....maybe just put out to pasture. If senior leaders have not created a culture and aligned organizational systems, including their own behavior, to support the concept of forced ranking then line managers have no incentive to take ownership of the process...and employees will not see much value in the process.
As Kris Dunn writes in the HR Capitalist.... more fuel for the performance review haters society.
In this case, managers have two choices...they can hide behind the system or they can use this change as an opportunity to hone their skills in providing feedback and coaching. Managers should use the system to improve the performance of their team:
- Understand the details of the new system and communicate those details to direct reports multiple times to ensure their understanding.
- Clearly articulate how individual performance goals are linked to team and organizational goals, as well as the specific rewards that are attached to high performance.
- Document progress and examples of performance on a regular basis - consider Micro-Feedback.
- Make performance discussions a regular part of your ongoing activity. Take time to schedule performance and coaching discussions, but offer informal feedback as often as possible.


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January 20, 2014 | vol. 95, No. 16
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Librarian Eric Smith checks out a book for an Ontonagon patron. Smith will be leaving for the Mason District Library at the end of the month and the library board is looking for a replacement.
ONTONAGON - The Ontonagon Township Library is looking for a new librarian.
After more than seven years Eric Smith informed the Library Bard that he has accepted a position with the Mason County District Library at its main branch in Ludington.
There have been many changes to the library in those seven years, and Smith said he is proud of the advances that he and library assistant Laura Lahaie have accomplished. He noted that groundwork for those advances were already laid by his predecessors. "We just continued what they started in bringing technology and service to the community," Smith said.
Smith said he is most proud that he and Laura have made the library an inviting, comfortable place for people of all ages. He said that he is especially pleased that patrons now ask "Do we have this or that book or information?"
"The use of the word 'we' tells me they have taken pride and ownership in the place and are happy to be a part of it," he said.
Smith is also proud that he, Lahaie and the library board decided to become part of the statewide loan system. He continued that the group agonized over the extensive work that had to be done to make that possible. They had to re-do every bar code of every book in the library. The result is that more than 3 million books are now available to Ontonagon area patrons.
The Ontonagon Library is now the first place that readers can come when they are looking for material. "We can almost always get it for them," he said.
The library has also become an educational center of the community. Smith credits Lahaie for that. A kickoff science program with hands-on projects begans the annual summer reading program at the library. Kids work with adults to make rockets, their own batteries and a myriad of other exciting projects.
Lahaie also directs a program each week where an adult comes in and reads to children about their job or profession. Many of the readers are professional women which are role models for young girls.
Smith said he has been fortunate to work with a library board that has clear vision and knowledge of what they want in a library. The media center features up to date technology and is used not only by residents, but tourists who want to use computers and other devises. The talking books program is bringing more books to those with disabilities in the area.
Although Smith will be leaving, he said Lahaie, the board and who ever is hired as the next librarian will continue to make the library a center for learning for all ages in the area.
The board has set a deadline of February 7 to accept applications for a new librarian. Résumés can be dropped off at the library. Smith will be leaving for his new post at the end of the month. LaHaie, an eight year veteran clerk , and a sub remain. The board hopes to have a new librarian as soon as possible.
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The life and times of Arctic icebergs
By Holly Gordon
Icebergs are normally white because of all the tiny air bubbles in the ice. The bubbles reflect
all light waves, giving the iceberg a white appearance. An iceberg looks blue in colour when
the ice is bubble-free. This is because when white light, made up of all colours combined,
passes through the ice more red light is absorbed than blue light, causing any light that has
passed through a reasonable thickness of ice to appear blue.
There are two classes of icebergs: tabular and non-tabular. A tabular iceberg has steep
sides and a flat top. It looks more like a large, flat piece of ice than one would normally
picture, and its length-to-height ratio is less than 5:1. A non-tabular iceberg is as it
sounds – any iceberg that does not conform to the tabular characteristics. It usually
becomes that way because its flat top has eroded into another shape.
There are five kinds of non-tabular icebergs: dome, pinnacle, wedge, dry dock and blocky.
An Arctic iceberg breaks off from a glacier and
can be found floating in the water or aground. Icebergs themselves don't exist for many years,
but the glaciers that calve them are thousands of years old.
Iceberg timeline:
1,000 B.C.: Snow falls on arctic ice caps and, during the next several months, turns into
firn – a granular form of snow.
950 B.C.: The firn is compressed into dense ice because of the added firn and snow that
have accumulated on top of what fell 50 years earlier.
Between 950 B.C. and 2002 A.D.: The weight of the ice cap forces the ice to slowly flow
1993 A.D.: Icebergs are calved – break off of the glacier – because they are
weakened by the rising and falling tides on the coast.
1996 A.D.: The icebergs calved three years previous melt. An estimated one percent of icebergs
make it as far as the Atlantic Ocean. If an iceberg travels that far, it will melt within
months from the warm waters. If an iceberg stops drifting in Baffin Bay, however, it can
take more than four years for the iceberg to melt.
Western Greenland's glaciers calve 90 percent of all icebergs found in Newfoundland's waters.
This means that between 30,000 and 40,000 icebergs are calved annually.
After calving usually on the west coast of Greenland, icebergs drift to the coast of Newfoundland,
which is about 1,800 nautical miles.
The average iceberg drift speed is about 0.7 kilometres per hour, but this is influenced
by factors including iceberg size, shape, currents, waves and wind. They travel in the Baffin
Current, then the Labrador Current and finally reach the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. Once
they reach the Grand Banks, icebergs drift either eastward – north of the Flemish Cap – or
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Ada Wrigley loved the Rose Parade. She used to watch it from her bedroom window in her Pasadena mansion, and after death in 1958, the William Wrigley, Jr. family presented the property to the City of Pasadena for use as the headquarters of the Tournament of Roses Association. The Association puts on the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game in Pasadena.
The Tournament offers free docent-led tours every Thursday between Feb. 6 and Aug. 28, 2014, promptly at 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. The house, which celebrates its 100th anniversary this year, is located at 391 S. Orange Grove, between Arbor and Lockehaven streets. Visitors can park on the street and meet on the porch. Reservations are not necessary for parties of less than 15 people. Call (626) 449-4100 for reservations or questions.
The tours present Tournament history and showcase the interior of the house, which features richly paneled rooms, inlaid marble floor and an ornate molded plaster ceiling, a design element that made architect G. Lawrence Stimson famous. Visitors will walk through rooms set aside for the Grand Marshals, Royal Court, and Rose Bowl Game. The Wrigley Gardens, 4 ½ acres of expansive lawns and more than 1,500 varieties of roses, camellias and annuals, are open to the public throughout most of the year. The Centennial Rose Garden features the All-America Rose Selections award-winning Tournament of Roses rose developed especially for the Tournament of Roses centennial.
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Encrypting ZFS pools using lofi crypto
By Darren Moffat-Oracle on Jun 01, 2009
I'm running OpenSolaris 2009.06 on my laptop, soon I'll be running my own development bits of ZFS Crypto but I couldn't do that because OpenSolaris 2009.06 is based on build 111 but the ZFS crypto source is already at build 116. Once the /dev repository catches up to 116 (or later) then I can put ZFS Crypto onto my laptop and run it "real world" rather than just pounding on it with the test script.
In the mean time I had a need to store some confidential and also some highly personal data on my laptop - not something I generally do as it is mostly used for remote access or the sources I have on it are all open source.
I also really wanted to take advantage of the ZFS auto-snapshot service for this data. So I really needed ZFS Crypto but I was also constrained to 2009.06. I could have gone back and used an older build of ZFS crypto that was in sync with 111 but that would have taken me a few days to backport my current sources - not something that I'd consider useful work given the only person that would benefit from this was me and for a short period of time.
It was also only a relatively small amount of data and performance of access wasn't critical. I should also mention that storing it on a USB mass storage device of any kind was a complete non starter given where I was going with this laptop at the time - lets just say one can't take usb disks there.
I wrote previously about the crypto capability we have in the lofi(7D) driver - this is "block" device based crypto and knows nothing about filesystems. As I mentioned before it has a number of weaknesses but by running ZFS on top of it some of those are mitigated for me in the situation I outlined above. Particularly since I'd end up with "ZFS - lofi - ZFS".
What I decided to do was use lofi as a "shim" and create a ZFS pool on a lofi device which was backed by a ZVOL. As I mentioned above the reason for using ZFS as the end filesystem was to take advantage of the auto-snapshot feature, using ZFS below lofi means that I can expand the size of the encrypted area by adjusting the size of the ZVOL if necessary.
darrenm$ export PVOL=rpool/export/home/darrenm/pvol
# zfs create -V 1g $PVOL
darrenm$ pktool genkey keystore=pkcs11 label=$PVOL keylen=256 keytype=aes
Enter PIN for Sun Software PKCS#11 softtoken:
darrenm$ pfexec lofiadm -a /dev/zvol/rdsk/$PVOL -T:::$PVOL -c aes-256-cbc
# zpool create darrenm -O canmount=off -O checksum=sha256 -O mountpoint=/export/home/darrenm darrenm /dev/lofi/1
# zfs allow darrenm create,destroy,mount darrenm
darrenm$ zfs create -o canmount=off darrenm/Documents
darrenm$ zfs create darrenm/Documents/Private
That sets things up the first time. This won't be automatically available after a reboot, infact the "darrenm" pool will be known about but will be in an FAULTED state since its devices won't be present. To make it available again after reboot do this:
darrenm$ pfexec lofiadm -a /dev/zvol/rdsk/$PVOL -T :::$PVOL -c aes-256-cbc darrenm$ pfexec zpool import -d /dev/lofi darrenm
darrenm$ zfs mount -a
A few notes on the choice of naming. I deliberately made the pool named after my usename and set the mountpoint of the top level dataset to match where my home dir is mounted (NOT the automounted /home/ entry but the actual underlying one) and set that as canmount=off so that my default home dir is still unencrypted but I can have subdirs below it that are actually ZFS datasets mounted encrypted from the encrypted pool.
The lofi encryption key is stored (encrypted) in my keystore managed by pkcs11_softtoken. (As it happens my latop has a TPM so I could have stored it in there - expect for the fact that the TPM driver stack isn't fully operational until after build 111). I chose to name the key using the name of the ZVOL just to keep things simple and to remind me what it is for, the label is arbitary but using the ZVOL name will help when this is scripted.
I'm planning on polishing this off a bit and making some scripts available, but first I want to try out some more complex use cases including having the "guest" pool be mirrored. I also want to get the appropriate ZFS delegation and RBAC details correct. For how though the above should be enough to show what is possible here until the "real" ZFS encrypted dataset support appears. This isn't designed to be a replacement for the ZFS crypto project but a, for me at least, a usable workaround using what we have in 2009.06.


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Conference Dates: Friday, March 4, 2005
Conference Location: Turner Building, Johns Hopkins University
Sponsoring Group: Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation
Conference Web Page URL: www.hopkinscme.net/etrakwebapp/meetingdetail.aspx?meetingcode=05-511393
Topics Covered: Focus on discussing the novel therapies, standard treatment approaches, and controversies in the management of multiple myeloma. Future therapeutic approaches based on ongoing pre-clinical work will also be discussed.
Conference Objectives: Identify the diagnostic approaches and prognostic indicators in multiple myeloma; Describe the role and appropriate use of novel treatments for multiple myeloma throughout the disease progression and Discuss the latest advances in stem cell transplantation, treatments for bone disease, and supportive care management
Who Should Attend: Internists, hematologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, and oncology nurses
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Mohamad A. Hussein, MD
Advances in Bone Disease and Supportive Care
G. David Roodman, MD, PhD
The Role of Stem Cell Transplantation and Immune Therapy in Multiple Myeloma
Ivan Borrello, MD
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I just watched an hour interview with Jordan Belfast. It was like watching a short Tony Robbins do his thing. Although Jordan had time in jail to think about his behavior and Tony has stayed on the straight and narrow, what they said was just about the same.
It was NLP in a motivational package.
Here are the 4 things that Belfast said you need to do to make your personal fortune. However, before I state them I was at least impressed with one comment: "Making money is easy; finding fulfillment is not."
Now here is how to be a success according to the motivational gurus:
- 1. Have a vision: this is more important than goals. A vision is what your future will look like when you have worked your goals and not strayed from your program.
- 2. Manage your state: that means YOU are in charge of your emotions and not the other way around.
- 3. Dig into your beliefs: limiting beliefs, the "can't do" mentality keeps us from moving forward. Banish them from your thinking.
- 4. Model success: find people you respect and look into what they do and how they do it and find a way to copy what you see; well not exactly copy, just follow their lead.
Just remember that success is more than the "stuff" of the world and the Wolf of Wall Street had to learn this the hard way.
Now go see the movie and decide how you want to learn to live a life of fulfillment.


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Western Australia officials have approved a plan to kill sharks that venture too close to people in the water.
Western Australia state Premier Colin Barnett announced the plan on Thursday following a string of deadly shark attacks off the state's coast.
The plan is a sharp reversal of the current policy, which permits the killing of sharks only after they have attacked.
There have been five fatal shark attacks in Western Australia in the past year. That has prompted residents to demand a more aggressive shark management plan.
Conservationists have slammed the new policy as ineffective and harmful to the environment.
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