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The brand-new Chevrolet Corvette Stingray was revealed at the Detroit Motor Show - and right-hand-drive versions are promised in the next few years.
The new Chevrolet Corvette Stingray is the seventh generation of Corvette and the manufacturer claims it will be more driver-focused than ever before.
A mild facelift for the BMW Z4 saw tweaks to the lights and bumpers, as well as an all-new entry-level 2.0-litre turbo petrol engine.
The new Maserati Quattroporte gets a pair of all-new Ferrari engines, including a powerful V8, which takes just 4.7 seconds to reach 62mph.
At the top of the BMW 6 Series range is this, the all-new M6 Gran Coupe - a sleek four-door version of the ferocious M6.
The Infiniti Q50 is the first car to take on the brand's new naming structure. It will rival the BMW 3 Series and Audi A4 when it goes on sale later this year.
Updates to the Mercedes E-Class range include tweaks to the ultra-powerful powerful E63 AMG version, which develops 549bhp.
Along with the standard Jeep Grand Cherokee, the US manufacturer has tweaked the high-performance SRT version. It's powered by a 6.4-litre Hemi V8 and 464bhp.
The sleek and aggressive new BMW 4 Series Coupe will replace the 3 Series Coupe when it arrives later this year.
The updated Mercedes E-Class ditches its twin headlight design, in favour of a set of single units. The changes have been extended across the Estate, Coupe and Cabrio models, too.
Not content with the super-fast RS6, Audi has unveiled the Audi RS7. The sleek four-door coupe gets 552bhp and hits 62mph in 3.9 seconds.
The ultimate MINI Paceman is this, the John Cooper Works version. It packs 215bhp from its 1.6-litre turbocharged engine and can hit 62mph in 6.9 seconds.
First shown at the LA Motor Show last year, the Jaguar XFR-S is the brand's flagship XF. It'll do 186mph and costs from £79,995.
The Cadillac ELR is a two-door coupe version of the range-extending Vauxhall Ampera and Chevrolet Volt.
The Volkswagen CrossBlue is a six-seat SUV concept, which previews an all-new model to sit above the current Touareg in the line-up.
The Toyota Furia Concept gives us some idea of what to expect from the new Corolla, which continues to sell well in markets like the US.
This high-performance VW Passat Concept gets a 247bhp 1.8-litre turbocharged engine and will hit 62mph in less than seven seconds.
The Mercedes E-Class Estate has been given the same treatment as the rest of the range, and still boasts one of the biggest boots in its class.
The Ford F-Series remains the best-selling car in the US, with more than 645,000 sold in 2012. The Atlas concept previews what the next F-Series will
look like.
The updated Honda NSX concept has been revealed at Detroit. It gives us our first look at the interior design of the upcoming supercar.
This special-edition BMW 1 Series Convertible will take the range through to the introduction of the forthcoming 2 Series next year.
The Jaguar F-Type continues its showcase at the Detroit Motor Show, with deliveries commencing later this year.
The all-new Porsche Cayman joined the revised Boxster at the Detroit Motor Show. It gets the same powerful engines and goes on sale in March.
Bentley's 200mph Continental GT Speed Convertible was on show at Detroit - it's the world's fastest four-seat cabriolet.
The concept behind the Mercedes G-Class is decades old now, but a rveised version is on display at the Detroit show.
The Honda Urban SUV Concept is based on the Jazz supermini and will rival the Nissan Juke and Vauxhall Mokka.
The Mercedes E-Class Coupe gets the same sleek design as its saloon and Estate siblings, with the new single-piece headlights taking centre stage.
In the UK, we'll get a diesel powered SQ5. But Audi has announced a petrol-powered version for the US. It has 349bhp and 470Nm of torque.
The Nissan Resonance concept gives us a good idea of the direction in which Nissan hopes to take its expanding SUV line-up. We expect design cues to follow in the next generation Juke.


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Bison carcass found on base to be part of museum exhibit
CAMP PENDLETON The newest addition to the San Diego Natural History Museum's collection of mammals comes from Camp Pendleton.
The base donated a 1,400-pound bison carcass earlier this month. Base officials discovered it in September. They covered it with a chicken wire blanket to protect it from scavengers until it could be transported to the museum.
The bison is of particular value to the museum because it had been locally extinct in the Southern California area and provides a representative sample of its species, said Scott Tremor, mammalogist at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
"The more specimens we have, the better we can separate species and identify them," Tremor said. The skeleton, once cleaned, is expected to be used for research and teaching by visiting scientists from around the world.
The animal was part of a herd of an estimated 120 bison that roam the central part of the 125,000-acre base, said Jim Asmus, wildlife biologist in the base's Game Warden's Office. The last bison count was done by helicopter in 2011 with 120 bison spotted.
The herd started with 14 bison that the San Diego Zoo brought to the base in the early 1970s.
To some. it's a surprise that bison live on the military installation.
"The bison roam, breed and eat grass," Asmus said.
The herd grazes in the grasslands and patches of oak woodlands in a remote artillery training area of the base.
"The Camp Pendleton herd offers substantial value for bison conservation because they are isolated from animals within the native range of plains bison and they don't have contact with domestic grazing animals, Asmus said. "So if there was ever a serious disease that decimated bison populations in the Plains states, this herd could be a breeding stock."
The number of Plains bison in conservation herds was estimated at 20,504 in 2008, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. An estimated total of half million bison live in the U.S., including those raised for meat production on private ranches.
The bison, also known as American Buffalo, are not to be confused with the cattle that once inhabited the base area in the 19th and early 20th century when it was a cattle ranch, called Rancho Santa Margarita y Las Flores. Although the base retained the cattle brand as its logo to pay tribute to the area's history, the cattle are gone.
The day the bison came on base is a historical moment that is being preserved through an account given by the man who was in charge of the base's natural resources for 28 years from 1948 to 1976, William Taylor.
"The Bison Story" was recently added to the annals of Camp Pendleton history as part of the oral history program coordinated by the base museum officer, Faye Jonason.
Taylor recalled being asked if the base could take a few bison back in the early 1970s.
"I got a call from the mammal curator down at the zoo," Taylor, 100, told Jonason in an interview two months ago.
"Well, I went up and told the general (Maj. Gen. Herman Poggemeyer, Jr. the base's commanding general at the time). ... He says, "Can we handle it?' I said "Yeah, sure we can." He says, 'Well, let's do it.'"
State officials gave Taylor the green light.
When the bison were ready to be unloaded at the Case Springs reservoir on base, Taylor asked Poggemeyer if he would come out. He did. "I handed the general a cattle-prod … he went up and chased the bison out."
The bison carcass will be part of the collection of 24,000 mammal specimens at the natural history museum in Balboa Park not far from the zoo where its herd originated.
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The objectives of this research are to evaluate energy usage patterns in modern broiler housing throughout the production cycle and to determine the effects of energy saving measures on thermal conditions and production efficiency in broiler chickens during the brooding phase.
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Effects of reduced energy usage regimens and measures to improve energy efficiency in modern broiler housing on the thermal environment and subsequent production efficiency will be evaluated.
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Do you love history? Do you love food? If you answered yes to either of these questions then join us for a night of Civil War love stories paired with exquisite food and libations.
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The Wine Kitchen, on Carroll Creek in downtown Frederick has reserved the entire restaurant for this occasion. This is a private event and will include love stories as told by Executive Director George Wunderlich. Stories of passion, longing and loss. Stories of food and drink. Stories that will transport you back in time. We have provided the Wine Kitchen with primary sourced tales of food, love and dining from the Civil War era. Their chef and staff will create one of a kind interpretations of these stories for an historic and unforgettable dining experience. Happy hour cash bar from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Dinner begins at 7:00 pm.
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Paired with: Goose Island Pepe Nero Farmhouse Ale
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Topic: Talking with the dead.....
My Dad- Jack has cc, is currently in the hospital fighting off a blood infection- stemming from what started in his biliary cath. He's not a very good patient, and is threatening tonight to walk out if they don't release him. He's been in there a week-tomorrow, and is a mere 5 weeks from the original diagnosis. He just wants to go home & return to life as it was before this monster arrived.
I don't know about others, but I find myself talking to our deceased family members, a lot, asking them to be sure to greet Dad when he arrives- so he's not alone. I imagine they will be excited to see each other again.
For now, we joke about Mom, get in a few games of cards, complain about the hospital food, and talk sports. There is a lot of silence, but it's great to just be with him.
I saw a beautiful poem today that others may enjoy.....
Death is nothing at all,
I have only slipped away
into the next room.
I am I,
and you are you;
whatever we were to each other,
that, we still are.
Call me by my old familiar name,
speak to me in the easy way
which you always used,
put no difference in your tone,
wear no forced air
of solemnity or sorrow.
Laugh as we always laughed
at the little jokes we shared together.
Let my name ever be
the household word that it always was.
Let it be spoken without effect,
without the trace of a shadow on it.
Life means all
that it ever meant.
It is the same as it ever was.
There is unbroken continuity.
Why should I be out of mind
because I am out of sight?
I am waiting for you,
for an interval,
somewhere very near,
just around the corner.
All is well.
Henry Scott Holland
1847 -1918
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STOCKTON — Five people were arrested and one was bitten by a police dog Wednesday evening after authorities discovered a loaded handgun during a traffic stop in north Stockton, police said.
Community Response Team officers and members of the multiagency San Joaquin County gang task force stopped a vehicle about 7:35 p.m. near West Lane and East Swain Road, authorities said. Officers noticed one of the passengers had a loaded handgun in his lap, police said.
The driver, 25-year-old Kevin Hernandez, became combative and resisted arrest while officers were trying to secure the vehicle's occupants, police said. A police dog helped officers take Hernandez into custody, authorities said.
Mere Rodriguez, 20, Alejandro Saenz, 20, Erika Grohman, 31, Julian Santillan, 19, and Hernandez were arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed firearm, carrying a loaded firearm and receiving stolen property, authorities said.
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Tuesday, Nov. 19 • 6 p.m. CT
Curb Event Center • Nashville, Tenn.
Thursday, Nov. 21 • 6 p.m. CT
Gentry Center • Nashville, Tenn.
The Texas A&M – Corpus Christi women's basketball team will hit the road for the first time this season, as it will head to Nashville, Tenn., for two games. The Islanders will take on Belmont on Tuesday, Nov. 19, followed by Tennessee State on Thursday, Nov. 21.
The Islanders just wrapped up a three-game homestand, going 1-2 during that stretch. In its first game of the season, the team picked its first win in an opener since the 2009-10 season, defeating Western Illinois in a 66-60 overtime thriller to advance to the championship game in the tournament. However, the Islanders would only be crowned the runners-up, coming up just one play away against Fairfield in the final game of the tournament, falling 58-55. The Islanders then fell to Southern Utah by seven to close out the streak of games at the Dugan Wellness Center.
• For the first time since the 2009-10 season, the Islanders opened the season with a win.
• The Emerald Beach Islanders Classic marked the first time since 2010-11 that the Islanders hosted a tournament at home. A win against Western Illinois led the Islanders to an appearance in the championship game of the tournament.
• This marks the first time since the 2008-09 season that the Islanders have made their way to Tennessee, as they played Vanderbilt for their season opener that season.
• The Islanders come into the 2013-14 season with the Southland's top-ranked recruiting class.
• The team features 10 newcomers this season after losing three starters and eight total letterwinners.
• Senior Ashley Darley returns as the team's leading point scorer. Last season Darley averaged 7.9 points a game after sitting out the 2011-12 campaign with a medical redshirt. She is on a similar clip so far this season, averaging 7.7 points in the team's first three games.
• After struggling to find offense last year, Marshall transfer Jasmine Shaw has become the main offensive threat for the Islanders. Last season no Islander had more than two 20-point games. Shaw already has three in as many games.
This will be the seventh all-time meeting between A&M – Corpus Christi and Belmont with the Bruins holding a 5-2 lead in the series. The two schools met up last season in the Coastal Bend with Belmont coming out on top 75-54. The two team's played twice in both of the Islanders first two season's in program history, with the sides splitting wins each year. However, since that time, Belmont has gotten the best of the series, winning the last three.
This season Belmont has started off with a 2-2 record with victories against Mercer and Lipscomb, while its losses have come against IUPUI and Chattanooga.
The Bruins are led offensively by Jordyn Luffman who is averaging 15.3 points a game to go along with 8.5 rebounds. She has recorded two double-doubles in the teams four games. Another threat for Belmont is Blair Bryce, who is almost another double-digit scorer for her team, averaging 9.8 points a game. However, Blair has battled with foul trouble throughout the season with nearly four fouls a game, resulting in her playing time only averaging out to 20.3 minutes a game. The Islanders will have to work for their rebounds as well, as Belmont comes into the game outrebounding its opponent by 2.5, while A&M – Corpus Christi has a rebounding margin of -9.0 thus far in the season.
This will mark the first time since the second year of existence of Islanders women's basketball that it will take on Tennessee State. A&M – Corpus Christi matched up with the Lady Tigers on Dec. 1, 2000, as part of the Commerce Bank Classic in Manhattan, Kan. The Islanders were able to come out on top by a score of 78-63.
This season TSU has had a schedule opposite of the Islanders, as it has played its first four games of the season on the road and will finally get to play at home on Thursday. Away from the Gentry Center, the Lady Tigers have gone 1-3 with trips all across the country, losing to Kansas State, Kennesaw State and Florida A&M. Their lone victory of the season came at Troy, winning 77-71.
Looking at the stats for the Lady Tigers it is easy to tell who the leader is for them, as Chelsea Hudson is putting up 18 points a game, as well as pulling down 32 boards over the Lady Tigers three games. However, she, along with the rest of her teammates, have had trouble controlling the ball, as the Lady Tigers have coughed it up an average of 21 times a game.
Jasmine Shaw, a senior transfer from Marshall, has now tallied three-straight games of twenty or more. Last season, no Islander had more than two games with more than 20 throughout the entire 2012-13 campaign. She currently ranks fourth in the Southland in scoring with 21.7 points per game. The Cincinnati, Ohio, native shot 48 percent from the field and knocked down 10-of-11 free throws during the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic en route to 42 points in two games.
Shaw also added 23 points against Southern Utah the following week. She stepped up her defense as well, recording six steals, which was one shy of tying a school record. Through her first three games Shaw is shooting 50 percent from the field and nearly an identical 47.4 percent from downtown. She has been nearly perfect from the line as well, shooting at a 93.3 percent clip.
Another transfer that has made a significant impact on the team is Shola Adebayo, coming from Eastern Oklahoma State. She became the first player at A&M – Corpus Christi to record six steals in her first game, just one shy of tying an all-time record.
Adebayo also added 14 points, five rebounds and four assists to help the Islanders make it to the championship game. She was then given her first start of her career with the Islanders against Southern Utah on Nov. 14. Against a very big team, the 5-foot-8 guard pulled down five rebounds, three offensively, while adding six points to boot.
Shaw and senior Ashley Darley were named to the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic All-Tournament Team. Darley was also a major cog in the offense throughout the week, picking up a double-double against Western Illinois with 13 points and 11 rebounds to help the Islanders advance to the championship game.
In both of its two loses A&M – Corpus Christi has come up just short, losing by an average of just five points. In its loss against Fairfield in the championship game of the Emerald Beach Islanders Classic, the Islanders were just one play away from tying the game up. However, down three, they were not able to get a three-pointer off before the buzzer sounded. Then in the matchup with Southern Utah, the Islanders trailed by just four late in the game before the Thunderbirds pushed the lead back to seven before the final horn sounded.
With the departure of eight players from last year's squad, the Islanders only have four returners for the 2013-14 season made up of three seniors and one sophomore. The leading scorer out of the bunch was Ashley Darley, who was second on the team in points scored with 7.9 a game. Darley also ranked second on the team in rebounds per game and steals per game last year.
Taryn Gregory also returns for her final season after starting in 20 games last year. She comes into the year ranking fourth in career free-throw percentage with a .764 overall mark her first three years. Brandi Huff rounds out the trio of seniors after ranking third on the team in rebounds.
The lone sophomore on A&M – Corpus Christi's roster is Ashanti Plummer. The Manhattan, N.Y., native enters play this year after making an impact on the team her freshman year, ranking second on the team in games started with 22 and first in the team in blocks and 11th in the Southland in the same category.
The Islanders enter this season with the top-ranked recruiting class in the Southland after signing 10 newcomers. However, five of them join the Island University with collegiate experience – three at the Division I level.
Two of the transfers have played for coach Royce Chadwick, as Shay Weaver and Jasmine Shaw come to the Island University after playing for him at Marshall. Shaw will look to make an immediate impact, while Weaver will sit out this season because of NCAA transfer rules.
Alissa Campanero will look to get the ball in the hands of shooters as she dished out 4.9 assists per game last season with Odessa College and has experience in Division I after playing her freshman season at Hawaii.
Adebayo played at Eastern Oklahoma State Community College and averaged 16 points and seven rebounds per game, while securing 12 double-doubles, picking up First Team All-Conference, First Team All-Region and Third Team NJCAA All-American honors.
Lexy Harris joins the Islanders after averaging a double-double with Angelina Community College, averaging 12.8 points per game and 10.9 rebounds to go along with 2.1 blocks per game.
Rounding off the highly touted recruiting class are five freshmen, with all but one of those coming from Texas. Ranked No. 63 in the ESPN Girls Recruiting National Rankings was Camesha Davis who averaged 16 points and 8.5 rebounds at Desoto High School. Another freshman that comes to the Coastal Bend almost averaging a double-double is Doshi Davis who averaged 11 points, 8.3 rebounds as a senior at Memorial High School in Port Arthur, Texas.
A freshman that managed to average a double-double her senior season of high school was Brittany Mbamalu, pulling down 10.1 rebounds a game to go along with 20.8 points. She was also named first team all-district her junior and senior seasons. Looking to help out a team that averaged less than 50 points a game last season is Kassie Jones, who was ranked 10th in Texas in scoring her senior year, averaging 24 points a game.
The lone freshman from outside of Texas is Rau Jau' Terry who comes to A&M – Corpus Christi from Louisville, Ky., and was rated one of the top 250 players in the country by Collegiate Girls Basketball Report.
The Islanders will have to find a way to make up for losing its top scorer with Jessica Jammer departing after tallying 8.4 points a game last year. It also loses its assists leader, as Verne'Qua Taylor leaves after climbing to fifth in the Islanders record book, while ranking ninth in the Southland with 3.31 assists per game. Taylor also ranked first on the team and 11th in the conference in steals.
After finishing last season 3-15, the Islanders have been picked by the Southland coaches to finish ninth in the conference, while the SID Poll has A&M – Corpus Christi occupying the 10th spot.
After two games in the Volunteer State, the Islanders will head back to Texas to complete their three-game stretch of away games. A&M – Corpus Christi will match up with Texas State the night before Thanksgiving. The game is set for a 7 p.m. tipoff on Wednesday, Nov. 27, in San Marcos, Texas.


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Startup Essentials Meetup - November 13th
By Stewart Townsend on Oct 31, 2008
Thursday November 13th - 18.30 - Late
Location : Sun Customer Briefing Centre - 45 King William Street - London
Do you want to know how to Scale your company ?
Do you ask, what happens when I cross that chasm ?
Have you thought, how do I answer the VC when he asks for my business model on growth, and how Im going to tackle it ?
Startup Essentials meetup is driven by the audience, you tell me what content you require and discussion points, I provide the speakers, content, beer and pizza. We have two main speakers, and then break out into a mini bar camp style session to discuss technology and commercial focused areas and let the audience drive that interaction.
So this month, we have the following agenda
Agenda :
18:30 - Late (Coffee, Water, Beer,Pizza all available)
Meeting Agenda
6.30 - Registration/Networking
7.00 - Paul Dowling - RD Tax Credits for Startups
The Government R&D credit scheme is a very effective way of getting tax relief for innovation. It is the single largest way the government has of helping SME's with funding. However, the scheme is much understood and greatly under-utilised. Paul's company GGTC helps clients to claim on a no win, no fee basis.
Paul will also talk about how his other firm Dreamstake helps to incubate start-ups and other early stage companies
7.30 - Paul Robinson - CTO For Hire
'You might have found great developers, amazing infrastructure engineers and inspirational support personnel to help your ideas bloom, but have you thought through what happens if systems or procedures fail? Or if you need to scale quickly? What happens if you need to change your business model overnight? Do you have the right processes, checks and people to make sure your technology business "just works".
Paul Robinson from Vagueware Ltd runs through some issues common to businesses his firm helps every day, and gives you a checklist to run through tomorrow morning to make sure your technology - and your business - is ready for what comes next.'
8.00 - 9.00 Mini BarCamp
Two breakout sessions, Technology and Commercial
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So I want to buy the new book. I try to purchase it and they say that my MasterCard has to have some verification. They are going to send me a verification code as a text message to my cell phone...that all sounds great....EXCEPT by the time they send me the verification code (or at least by the time I get it...) the web page has expired and I'm caught in this virtual Catch22....
There has to be a better way!
What can I do to purchase the book?


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PromoCell GmbH
Wide Range of Cytokines & Growth Factors
PromoKine offers a huge and continuously growing range of recombinant cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, soluble receptors and CD antigens (human, mouse, rat) that are produced in E. coli, yeast, insect, plant or mammalian cells. They are highly purified, biologically active and stable and are available in standard and very economic bulk sizes.
PromoKine has also extended its range of animal-free cytokines and growth factors that are produced in plants and are thus free of animal components, serum, endotoxins and antibiotics. These are also free of human, animal or bacterial infectious agents as well as other endogenous mammalian agents that might cause unwanted cell responses. They show very low proteolytic, pyrogenic and inflammatory activity compared to other commercially available proteins. Moreover, they retain proper eukaryotic folding and glycosylation, resulting in increased stability and biological activity.
In addition, PromoKine offers a huge variety of high-quality antibodies and ELISAs for the analysis of cytokines and growth factors as well as other interesting targets in cell biology.
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kip 1
1(In leather-making) the hide of a young or small animal.
Example sentences
- Now with flawless tight grain kip skin leather and the best Pro Patterns, these gloves are sure to be the new industry benchmark.
- Leather made from kips generally has a fine, tight fibre.
1.1A set or bundle of kips.
Late Middle English: perhaps related to Middle Dutch kip, kijp 'bundle (of hides)'.
Words that rhyme with kipblip, chip, clip, dip, drip, equip, flip, grip, gyp, hip, lip, nip, outstrip, pip, quip, rip, scrip, ship, sip, skip, slip, snip, strip, tip, toodle-pip, trip, whip, yip, zip
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noun (plural same or kips)
The basic monetary unit of Laos, equal to 100 ats.
Example sentences
- Wide fluctuations began in 1998, when the kip was valued at about 6,200 to the U.S. dollar.
- The value of the kip plummeted from around 800 to the dollar in 1997 to around 7,500 kip to the dollar today (it went over 10,000 at one point).
- All seven men were also ordered to pay 11 million kip each as compensation to the family of the victim, said the sources.
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Entry from US English dictionary
A unit of weight equal to 1,000 lb (453.6 kg).
Example sentences
- 'Lower design yield strengths of forty kips per square inch for reinforcement were used for the design of exterior exposed concrete elements to account for the effects of long-term corrosion,' explains Youssef.
- The fact is that the most common aluminum structural alloy, 6061-T6, has a minimum yield strength of 35 kips per square inch, which is almost equal to that of A36 steel.
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kip 4
1British A sleep or nap: I might have a little kip [mass noun]: he was trying to get some kip
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- Though you've still been on the road for four or five hours to reach the ferry port, your time clock says you are ready for some kip, so you sleep like a baby, arriving before France really wakes up, refreshed and prepared for a long drive.
- That's one way to get some kip on the plane, leave your child in an airport.
- Lo and behold out of the surf popped a little critter, and he proceeded to waddle up the beach and then up the banking for a bit of kip.
1.1chiefly Scottish A bed.
Example sentences
- I think I heard Steven Frail saying there's a virus flooring a lot of the players. Eggert puked this morning and is in his kip!
- Usually when he arrived home with his 'AA cronies', as Mary called them, she'd be in her kip.
2Irish An unpleasant, dirty, or sordid place: he couldn't get a start in this kip of a city
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- If these reforms go through much of the countryside will go back to being a barren kip.
- Now the only negative thing was that we stayed the night at the top to see the famed sunrise in the morning but the hotel we stayed at was a kip and I hardly got any sleep.
- Jaysus, but what a kip it was inside Mack's cottage!
verb (kips, kipping, kipped)[no object] British
Sleep: he can kip on her sofa
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- I was back from Germany for a few weeks and was kipping for a couple of nights on the sofa in the place that my ex-housemates were now sharing with my ex-girlfriend (we're still friendly so it wasn't a problem).
- Now at this stage I was all for kipping on the floor of the family room, rather than leave my poor, unprotected wife in the hands of evil maternity ward goons.
- In Japanese style, we just piled into the room and kipped on the floor, no beds, no mats, no nothing.
Mid 18th century (in the sense 'brothel'): perhaps related to Danish kippe 'hovel, tavern'.
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(In Australia) a small piece of wood from which coins are spun in the game of two-up.
Example sentences
- The boxer or manager of the game sat with his coins, kips, string and money tray in the place where he could view the whole ring clearly.
- Simon placed two coins on the 'kip' and flicked them high in the air.
Late 19th century: perhaps related to Irish cipin 'small stick, dibble'.
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Account Executive
- Recruiter
- Ear to the Ground
- Location
- Manchester
- Salary
- 17 – 21k
- Posted
- 21 Jan 2013
- Closes
- 07 Feb 2013
- Contact
- Gemma Longfellow
- Business Type
- Agency, In-house / Client-side
- Specialism
- Creative, Events & Experiential, Planning & Strategy, Production
- Sector
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
'We need two brilliant Account Executives to help us grow
A unique opportunity to connect brands with sport and music fans. Bring your personal fanaticism for experiential marketing and brand activations to the UK's most exciting communications agency.'
We're looking for two hungry, energetic and highly motivated individuals with agency experience to join our team. You won't be afraid to roll up your sleeves, get a job done and manage day-to-day project delivery. You will be totally hands-on in co-ordinating and implementing our brilliant live moments and sponsorship activations; making sure they can be communicated as far as possible.
You'll have masses of cultural nous, get brands and know how best to bring them to life in the real world for real people. Ideally you will also have a love of music, fashion, sport or culture. Sector experience is not a main factor, but demonstrable great work gained on previous campaigns is essential.
You'll be a fantastic communicator who's happy both working and playing hard as part of a team. With a keen eye on the detail, you'll make sure our projects stay within budget, as well as have an inherent knack for delighting and inspiring our clients on a daily basis.
- Good organisational and time management skills
- Excellent communication and 'people skills', for working with a range of colleagues and clients
- Confidence, tact and a persuasive manner
- Entrepreneurial approach to project management and client business development
- Personable
- A willingness to work long hours, often under pressure
- A professional manner
- Good business sense and the ability to work to budgets
- Experience working within a Promotional / Experiential Marketing agency
- Experience of working with a range of partners and suppliers
- Experience of working with brands
- Experience of working in Live and Experiential
- Knowledge of Microsoft software (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and efficient research
Application Task
Write a short appraisal of a recent event, or campaign around a live moment , that you admired. Explain what it entailed, why it was successful and what made it stand out.. (no more than two sides of A4)
We connect brands with sport and music fans.
We are experts in sponsorship activation and content creation. Our digitally driven approach puts live fan experience at the heart of the campaign. We are called Ear to the Ground because we listen to fans and know how to move them.
From an epic tune at a warehouse party to a winning goal in the last minute of extra time, the overwhelming power of sport and music is intoxicating.
We harness the unique emotion of sport and music to tell great brand stories that are relevant and exciting to fans.
Closing date: 7th February 2013
For further information and to apply online please click on the "Apply Now" button


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January 31, 2006
First Tee of Augusta announced the artists coming to town for its Rock Fore Dough concert today. News 12 has the big name lineup.
Hootie and the Blowfish will be back for this year's Rock Fore Dough concert. Also signing with be Collective Soul, Better than Ezra, and Emerson Hart of Tonic. The local group Edison Project will be opening.
Ed Roland of Collective Soul is rocking out because he believes in First Tee, a program that teaches kids from all backgrounds how to play golf. Roland, a single dad, plays golf with his 7-year-old son.
"He just started playing last year and it's the best babysitter I could ever find. He gets out on the driving range for like three hours," Roland said.
A love for golf is bringing these names during Masters week. The famous Augusta tournament is landing headliners this area doesn't get the rest of the year.
A large state is put over this practice green for the concert. For a charity that knew little about putting one on, they learned fast and last year was a big success.
"We were very pleased with the outcome and especially encouraged by the local support we got for the event, so we're looking forward to an even bigger and better event this year," said Jill Brown.
Last year's concert raised $57,000 for the charity and it looks like Rock Fore Dough will become their signature event.
"The bottom line is get your tickets early and we'll see you at the concert," Brown said.
A concert that's a treat for local music fans and local kids.
Rock Fore Dough will be on Tuesday, April 4. Mike Mills from REM is emceeing the concert. Tickets go on sale February 25 and are $25 in advance. To purchase them, go to the First Tee of Augusta or visit ticketalternative.com.


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18U Indy Dreams Gold (Benefiel) is looking to add a Gold Level pitcher to their pitching staff. Looking for a pitcher that has experience playing in "A" and/or "Gold" level competition. Team participates in ASA Gold, PGF and Showcase tournaments. Team is based in Central Indiana. If you feel that you have the pitching skills to compete at the elite level, please contact Bruce Benefiel (765-610-1235).
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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - Dozens showed up to Tuesday night's School Board meeting to voice their opinions about two petitions a local attorney turned in to Board members, one of which stirred up some controversy.
Since March, Rose Pugliese, a former Republican candidate for school board, has been circulating two petitions. One that asks the Board to create and enforce an official policy that bars teachers from applying their political views to their teaching and grading, and another that asks the board to prohibit the teaching of man-made global climate change as scientific fact in schools.
The latter was the topic of most remarks residents made to the Board during the public comment portion of the meeting.
Laura Kindregan, the Colorado head of the nationwide "Balanced Education for Everyone" campaign told Board Members her group is fine with the teaching of global warming in the classroom, but believes when the topic is introduced, teachers need to teach the "other side" of the climate change argument.
When asked what that other side was, Kindregan says, "That global warming doesn't exist, this is not the hottest our earth has ever been. There's science proving that our earth was much hotter during the medieval times, that we're going through a cycle."
"I wanted to support the Grand Junction community," says Kindregan. "What they have done with the initiation of Rose is really incredible."
Local biologist Richard Alward told Board Members the scientific community has been studying the effects of carbon dioxide on global temperatures since 1896, and the science to back up global warming is sound. He says it's important for students to learn about climate change because they will be the ones who have to deal with it later on.
"What I saw with these petitions was a motivation to introduce politics into the science classroom and I think that does harm to children, to the community, and the country," says Alward. "We have people who don't like some of the policy implications that are being proposed [because of global warming] and they attack science."
Pugliese collected 700 signatures for her global warming petition and 600 for her partisan politics one.
Because the petitions were turned in during the public comment portion of the meeting, Board Members did not respond to any comments made or take any official action on the issues.


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Alpinestars GP Tech Gloves
List Price: $299.95
Sale Price: $269.95
You save: $30 (10%)
Alpinestars GP Tech Gloves.
Alpinestars GP Tech Glove Features
- Alpinestars Dynamic Friction Shield (DFS) knuckle protector features dual density mold construction for superior resistance to repeated impacts
- Ergonomically shaped TPU injected wrist cuff protects wrist bone from impact
- Alpinestars patented third and fourth finger bridge
- Leather accordion insert on extended thumb zone and fingers for superior fit and flexibility
- Lateral leather accordion insert gives greater range of movement to back hand area
- Vented back hand TPR for climate control
- Internal Kevlar® back hand, wrist and thumb lining and internal K-Tech Kevlar® pinky lining
- Compound TPU sliders on fingers are mounted on foam-backed leather panels
- The Alpinestars GP-Tech has a Perforated leather top panel and wrist with ventilated finger sidewalls
- External finger to palm seams for a close fit and superior feel
Alpinestars GP Tech Glove Sizing
How To Measure for Alpinestars Gloves
- Palm: Measure across your palm, starting above the base of your thumb, keeping the tape horizontal, obtaining the widest measurement of you hand
- Refer to the conversion chart below
|Alpha Size
|Numeric Size
|2 1/8-2 5/8"
|2 5/8-3 1/8"
|3 1/8-3 5/8"
|3 5/8-4 1/8"
|4 1/8-4 5/8"
|4 5/8-5 1/8"
Alpinestars' has 6 new or updated gloves this Fall. The first is the Moto GP proven GP Tech race glove. This glove comes in 4 color ways and 6 sizes, s-3xl. The GP TEch is constructed using a combination of cowhide and kangaroo leather for a super strong yet comfortable fitting glove. The fingers are protected by multiple layers of material and foam pads at the tips and TPU sliders closer to the hand. The pinky and ring fingers are splinted together like many of the gloves in A-stars lineup. This dramatically reduces pinky injuries by holding it against the hand. The pinky is also protected by the K-tech Kevlar internal lining. The fingers also feature these flex panels for increased mobility and reduced fatigue. The Dynamic Friction Shield, or DFS system on the knuckle protector reduces friction by sculpting these blade-like portions into the design. The reduced surface area reduces heat in a slide, allowing the protector to stay intact as long as possible to provide maximum protection. Ventilation has also been incorporated right into this slider system. On the palm of the glove you can see the reinforced and articulated thumb and the TPU sliders on the balls of the hand. The wrist is adjustable using this hook and loop strap and the gauntlet features a wrap-around, low profile TPU slider to protect your wrist bones. Inside the glove, you can see the Kevlar lining that covers the back of the hand, wrist, and thumb.
The next glove in the lineup is the GPX Leather Glove. This glove is designed to be a light duty track day glove, or the top of the line glove on the street. The GPX comes in 4 color ways and 6 sizes, s-3xl. It's constructed using a combination of leather, suede, and perforated leather panels to offer the maximum protection and comfort. The fingers are protected by multiple layers of leather and foam backed pads in the tops of the fingers. The joints of the fingers have stretch panels and the pinky gets extra protection from this bridge and TPR slider. The knuckle protector features the same DFS design and has a shape similar to the protector on the GP Tech and has ventilation incorporated right into the slider. The carpals are protected by a foam pad as is the ulna. On the palm you can see the reinforced panel that extends on to thumb which is protected by a foam pad and is made flexible by this stretch panel. The balls of the hand are protected by reinforced panels that feature a foam pad and a TPU slider on the outside of the hand. The wrists are adjustable using this hook and loop strap.
Next, we have the Scheme Kevlar glove. This glove is a warm weather street glove that does a great job of keeping your hands cool, but still incorporates high levels of protection. The Scheme is available in three colors and six sizes including s-3xl. The top of the glove is constructed using synthetic suede and 3D mesh panels. The fingers have expandable joint seams and reinforced fingernail areas. The knuckles are protected by this foam pad and carbon fiber insert. The top of the hand is vented and the wrist features a hook and loop adjuster. The palm of the hand is constructed using Clarino with polyurethane reinforcements. The thumb is reinforced with synthetic suede and features an expandable joint seam for reduced fatigue. If you look inside the Scheme you can see the Kevlar reinforcement for the palm of the hand.
The next three new gloves are all part of Alpinestars' new Extrafit line. These are all designed with a fuller cut to accommodate American sizing. They are touring style gloves and all three versions feature a Gore-Tex waterproof, breathable membrane.
The first is the full grain leather version, the Archer. This is a top of the line touring glove that is very flexible and comfortable but provides the highest levels of protection available on a non-race glove. They come in sizes s-3xl and are available in two colorways; this all black version and a black and fluorescent yellow model. The fingers have reinforced leather panels with foam pads and the knuckles have stretch panels for flexibility. The pinky is splinted to the ring finger and gets extra protection from this reinforced panel. The PU knuckle protectors have the race proven DFS design with intake ventilation. The top of the hand has a stretch panel and the cuff features a TPR A-star logo slider. The palm of the hand features reinforced panels in high impact areas that extend onto the thumb which is also padded and flexible. The balls of the hand are protected by a padded layer of leather and a TPU slider. The wrist and cuff of the Archer are adjustable using these hook and loop straps.
Next, we have the GT-S glove. This is a slightly simpler glove than the Archer and has a little bit less protection worked into the glove but is slightly lower in profile as a result. This all-weather riding glove is made of a combination of leather and textile and comes in 2 colorways and 6 six sizes, s-3xl. The tops of the fingers are leather with foam pads for protection. The material in between the fingers is textile for light weight and dexterity. The fingers feature stretch panels and the pinky is bridged to the ring finger. The PU knuckle protector is covered with leather and the top of the hand has a flex panel. The gauntlet is made of mixed material and features protective padding and a large TPR A-star logo. The palm of the GT-S features a reinforced area that extends onto the padded and reinforced thumb. The ball of the hand is reinforced with synthetic suede and a foam pad, and adjustability is facilitated by these hook and loop straps on the wrist and cuff.
Last but certainly not least is the textile Equinox glove. This is going to be the Gore-Tex waterproof glove for the rider that wants the least amount of bulk possible without sacrificing all of the protective features. This glove is available in black only and the standard 6 sizes. The fingers are protected by foam pads and have high viz inserts in the flex seams. The pinky and ring finger are bridged and feature a subtle A-star logo. The knuckles are protected by a PU slider that is bonded to its textile covering. There is high-viz piping and a flex panel on the top of the hand and a subtle Alpinestars monogram on the cuff. The palm of the hand is made of leather and the reinforced panel extends onto the thumb. The balls of the hand feature reinforced synthetic suede panels with pads and there are hook and loop adjusters at the wrist and on the cuff.


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We've all felt the uncomfortable, uncontrollable consequences of acute stress. You get up to give a public speech, for example, when suddenly you feel red blotches burning their way up your neck, sweat ringing your armpits, your hands trembling on the lectern. As you struggle to read your next line, you may also be thinking: "Why is my body doing this to me?"
Relax. It could be good for you.
So says Dr. Firdaus Dhabhar, a Stanford University researcher who studies the relationship between stress and the immune system. His motto -- "A hassle a day keeps the doctor away" -- suggests that little bursts of stress strengthen our immune systems and help ward off infections.
At first glance, the motto appears to contradict everything we've been told about stress: It's bad for us, exhausting our body's defenses and allowing invaders such as viruses and cancerous cells to take hold.
But these apparently conflicting notions of stress actually fit together quite nicely, Dhabhar says. His work suggests that regular bursts of stress keep our army of immune cells trained and ready for the next attack; chronic stress, however, leads to exhaustion and confusion among the troops.
"Stressors that induce a short-term activation of the biological stress response may play an important role in maintaining health," he said, "as long as there are sufficient periods of downtime between hits."
Dhabhar and his colleagues hope to take advantage of the acute stress response to nudge our immune systems when they're needed the most: to heal a wound after surgery, to mount a successful response to a vaccination or to root out cancer cells before they spread.
As a professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Stanford's School of Medicine, Dhabhar's research sits squarely at the intersection of psychology, neuroscience, endrocrinology and immunology. He has a good reason for studying so many "ologies" -- all of them are connected. How we perceive and respond to the world around us triggers neurological responses that turn on a barrage of hormonal signals. Hormones, as shown by the work of Dhabhar and others, have the power to turn immune responses up or down. And, coming full circle, researchers have recently come to realize that the immune system can have profound effects on the psyche.
The idea that spikes of stress stoke our body's defenses makes a lot of sense from an evolutionary perspective. "The activation of a stress response and an immune response is almost always tied together in nature," Dhabhar said.
Take the example of a gazelle being chased by a lion. From the moment the chase begins, the gazelle's stress hormone levels shoot through the roof, triggering a chain of events that allows the animal to run faster and focus on nothing but survival. Should the gazelle survive the experience with a serious bite wound, the immune system must be quickly primed to fight infection.
Dhabhar's most recent study, published in September in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, showed that stress triggers a massive mobilization of immune cells in rats. Dhabhar and his colleagues showed that hormones in the blood sound a rallying cry to the immune cells, calling them out of their waiting rooms in immune organs such as the spleen and sending them into tissues most vulnerable to attack, such as the skin.
The cells move through the blood and out into their stations, ready to heal wounds or gobble up the germs that slip in through them. Without the stress response, the immune cells respond more like a couch potato summoned to do a chore, rather than a sprinter exploding out of the starting blocks.
Dhabhar's team showed that the stress we feel before surgery could aid in our recovery later. The team measured the deployment of immune cells in 57 patients during and after knee surgery. The researchers found that those whose immune cells zoomed out into the blood most efficiently during surgery showed the best recovery in terms of knee mobility up to a year later.
How would Dhabhar suggest turning up the stress response in patients? Throw them into a tank with crocodiles just before an operation, perhaps?
Fortunately, there are many less terrifying -- even pleasurable -- ways to invoke the stress response.
"Whether you are running away from a charging lion, making an important speech, voluntarily running on treadmill, or even doing something pleasurable like having sex," he said, "the major elements of the biological stress response are activated under all these conditions."
Of course, not all patients will be up for a sprint around the track or a romp in the sack before going under the knife. For these people, injecting key stress hormones during surgery might do the trick, Dhabhar said. Or perhaps they could play an intense video game just before the anesthesia kicks in or the vaccine is injected.
Dr. Esther Sternberg, research director at the Arizona Institute for Integrative Medicine, acknowledges that short bursts of stress are good at turning on the immune system. She points out, however, that too much stress is never healthy. "It also makes sense that if it keeps going on when it's no longer needed, stress would actually blunt the immune response," she said.
Much like the villagers in "The Boy Who Cried Wolf," the immune system appears to react with no more than a shrug after the stress alarm bells clang for too long.
In chronically stressed people, "when the hormones come up, the immune cells are not sensitive, so they don't move around as well," said Dr. Andrew Miller, a researcher at Emory University in Atlanta who studies the connections between stress, the immune system and the brain. "You don't get that positive effect you would get from acute stress."
Unless we can turn down the volume on the useless cacophony of chronic stress that plagues many of our lives, the immune benefits of acute stress will go unrealized, Dhabhar said. Ultimately, striking a healthy balance with stress just boils down to what he calls "Grandma's advice": plenty of invigorating experiences to boost your immunity, a nutritious diet and a good measure of rest and relaxation to ward off the damaging effects of chronic stress.
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The program, which is run by the state's Department of Revenue Administration, will be held at the Town Hall with two sessions — at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.
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Thousands of Bay Area apartment buildings with structurally weak first stories could collapse in a major earthquake, risking the lives of those who reside in them and leaving tens of thousands of families homeless, but there is no coordinated effort in the region to retrofit these risky structures.
That's left a patchwork of efforts, with some cities acting aggressively to solve the so-called "soft story" problem while others have done little, citing the high cost and fears of legal liability. The 6.0 Napa earthquake Aug. 24, the largest in California in 20 years, has again drawn attention to the dangers of older buildings that don't meet current seismic standards.
Officials in Oakland and San Francisco, which are crossed by major earthquake faults and where many vulnerable buildings are concentrated, have launched aggressive retrofit programs. San Jose has not. Berkeley, Alameda and Fremont have also pushed retrofitting the buildings, but other cities such as Mountain View and Concord are just taking stock of the problem.
"This could be our Katrina," said Oakland Mayor Jean Quan, referring to the deadly 2005 hurricane. She is working on an ordinance to require owners of about 1,400 Oakland apartment buildings to retrofit them.
A major quake on the Hayward fault could destroy 15,000 rental units, or about a quarter to a third of the city's rental housing, she said, citing a U.S. Geological Survey report. "If we fix it we can save lots of lives and maintain the cultural integrity of the city and the balance of residents." Many of the older apartments house lower-income families, she noted.
Many soft-story buildings were built during the 1960s and '70s with "tuck-under" parking on the ground floor. The structures tend to collapse on the open parking area during a quake.
"At the time these were being built, we didn't have the engineering knowledge to build them the right way," said Danielle Hutchings Mieler, earthquake and hazards program coordinator for the Association of Bay Area Governments. "Now we do."
Many are easily retrofitted with steel reinforcing, but forcing owners of the buildings to do the work is a political hot potato, since it can cost $80,000 for a 20-unit building -- a big bill for what are often mom-and-pop apartment owners.
After the Northridge earthquake in early 1994 highlighted the danger of apartments with unreinforced, open first floors -- in one complex, 16 people died when the building collapsed -- some Bay Area cities inventoried their soft-story apartments but didn't do much else, while others began retrofit plans. In some cases, the goal was to provide emergency responders with a map of where they were likely to find collapsed apartment buildings after a quake.
San Jose's emergency preparedness department conducted workshops for apartment owners and hired a Bay Area engineering firm to design a generic retrofit. But only three owners applied for permits to do retrofits, according to Frannie Edwards, a political science professor at San Jose State who was the city's director of emergency preparedness from 1991 to 2006.
From the San Jose's perspective, she said, "these were privately owned properties that people owned for profit and there was no public purpose spending public money fixing other people's property." The city attorney also claimed that identifying buildings with weak first stories could open the city to lawsuits, Edwards said. She said she rescued some of the materials from that project from a trash bin and they're available if the city's interested.
A survey by San Jose State's Collaborative for Disaster Mitigation found 2,630 soft-story multifamily buildings in Santa Clara County, or about 36 percent of all multifamily buildings. Nearly 1,100 were in San Jose.
San Jose doesn't have a program to address soft-story apartments, said Chu Chang, the city's chief building official. "We'd like to explore it,'' he added.
"I don't regard it as a failure," Fred Turner, an engineer with the California Seismic Safety Commission, said of San Jose's decision not to pursue retrofitting. "It's just an effort that maybe has been postponed.'' Other Bay Area cities have used San Jose's materials, he said.
There's no state law requiring apartment owners to evaluate and upgrade their soft-story buildings, Turner said. Because circumstances vary, it makes sense to let local agencies deal with the problem, he said.
In 1998, San Francisco launched a nine-year study of its earthquake risks. Now the city is requiring the retrofitting of 3,500 to 4,000 pre-1978 multifamily apartments with soft-story ground floors.
The buildings are the homes of 60,000 San Franciscans and also house 2,000 small neighborhood-serving businesses that provide about 7,000 local jobs, according to Patrick Otellini, director of the city's earthquake safety program. Retrofitting the buildings will allow residents to shelter in place, he said. "And then you automatically speed up your recovery process," he added.
San Francisco learned the hard way that these buildings were vulnerable. In the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, soft-story apartment complexes collapsed in the Marina district, leaving many residents homeless. Three people were killed when a four-story apartment building with a soft story collapsed. Buildings with soft stories that were on street corners had the most extensive damage, according to the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology report on the quake.
"The real important thing for people to understand is that a soft-story retrofit is designed to keep tenants in buildings after an earthquake so that you don't have all this displacement and red-tagging," said Mark Barbagelata of Seismic Retrofitters in San Francisco. "They're ultimately designed so you can escape the building with your life."
Still, "it's fair to say" that soft-story retrofits haven't yet been tested in a major quake, said Christopher Rojahn, executive director of the engineering firm Applied Technology Council in Redwood City.
Other cities that have been aggressively pushing retrofitting programs include Fremont and Berkeley.
"We have been on the cutting edge as far as making sure that buildings get retrofitted," said Fremont Community Development Director Jeff Schwob. About 80 percent of the city's soft-story apartments have been retrofitted so far.
Berkeley inventoried soft-story apartments in 2005 and required owners to get an engineering study recommending how to retrofit them. City Planning Director Eric Angstadt said the city has followed up this year with a law giving owners five years to retrofit. Already, about 20 have complied, Angstadt said.
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — An excessively wrinkled dog has had surgery to help him see and hear better as caregivers in South Texas seek a home for the animal.
The San Antonio Humane Society says a 2-year-old Chinese shar-pei (pay) named Sesame was available for adoption beginning Tuesday. Dr. Courtney Bridgeman says the surgery is a big improvement for Sesame.
The animal underwent procedures to remove excess skin and pin back his ears. Shelter officials say the dog had so many facial wrinkles that he could hardly open his eyes and was prone to rashes. The weight from the wrinkles also closed access to the dog's ears and he developed infections.
Society officials on Monday announced the successful surgery.
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HAYWARD -- A request to tear down the old Mervyn's headquarters to build 445 townhouses and apartments -- the largest downtown housing project in years -- have been submitted to the city.¿
The 11.3-acre campus has sat vacant on the northern edge of downtown along Foothill Boulevard since 2008, when the retail chain went out of business.
The proposal from Integral Communities calls for razing the four-story 336,000-square-foot structure -- built in 1957 as an Emporium-Capwell department store -- and constructing 124 three-story for-sale townhouses and 321 upscale apartments in a five-story structure.
The project would include 30,000 square feet of ground-level retail space at the corner of Foothill and City Center Drive, said Mark Butler, vice president of acquisitions for Integral, which has offices in Danville and Southern California. It also has an office on B Street.
"This plan gives a combination of retail and high-quality residential that will generate additional retail sales in downtown and create a more dynamic downtown area," Butler said.
The area is zoned for retail on the ground floor, with housing or offices allowed above that. Integral is requesting a conditional use permit to allow residences on the first floor.
The current parking garage would remain, with 890 covered parking spaces.
That's not enough, a nearby resident said. "Parking is bad already," said Mike Urioste, vice president of the Prospect Hill Neighborhood Association.
Integral Communities representatives met twice with the Prospect Hill group, which has gone on record opposing the project. The residents want the ground floor to be 100 percent retail and all the units to be owner-occupied, according to the staff report.
"We're not opposed to developing the property, but we'd like it to be in a way that's of benefit to the neighborhood and of benefit to the city. Businesses bring in more taxes and jobs," Urioste said. "We need new businesses, not more high-density housing."
Integral has named the project @The Boulevard. "It seemed appropriate since it's on Foothill," Butler said.
The project is scaled back from the company's early proposal, which called for 570 residences and 1,000 square feet of retail space. "We've listened to the community and city and made a number of design changes," Butler said.
"I invited downtown business people to briefings on the project, and there was 100 percent approval," said Kim Huggett, chamber president and CEO. "Whether it's bankers, restaurants, retail shops or the movie theater, the overwhelming response has been this is a way to rejuvenate the area with a population that is inclined to shop downtown."
The apartments would attract residents with annual incomes of $65,160 to $103,685, according to the staff report. The townhouses would be listed in the mid-$400,000 to mid-$500,000 range.
Rudy Grasseschi, owner of The Cobblers in the block of Foothill just south of the Mervyn's site, said he thinks the development will be good for the economy of the area. "From what I understand, this will attract upscale residents. I saw the plans, and I like it," he said.
Nearby Kraski's Nutrition owner Elie Goldstein was more cautious. "I think Hayward needs to first think about building a foundation of good schools and police providing safety," he said. "I'm not against it, if they can show they can provide services for families and safety."
Butler would not estimate when work would begin on the development or how long construction would take . The plan must go through the Planning Commission.
"We believe in downtown Hayward," Butler said. "We think this is a great opportunity to provide a combination of retail and high-quality mixed-use development and put more feet on the street to support downtown Hayward."


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BRENTWOOD -- Oakland Raiders cornerback Taiwan Jones personally expressed his regrets Saturday about a dog attack Monday that killed a Brentwood woman's Chihuahua.
"I hate for something like that to happen," Jones said speaking for the first time publicly about the incident following practice Saturday. "Anybody who knows me knows how much I care about animals. I feel really bad about the situation. It didn't happen at my residence, but I still can't help but feel for the young lady."
Jones' two dogs attacked and killed Olivia Paredes' 12-year-old dog, Chula, Monday night around 8 p.m. while she and her family pet were out on a walk along Larkspur Court in Brentwood.
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HERTFORDSHIRE, England -- Colin Kaepernick insisted Wednesday that the 49ers are already back to their "normal routine," even if their surroundings said otherwise.
Practice took place on a lush, green field nestled among towering trees at a gorgeous resort in the English countryside.
There was no stadium-construction noise like back home in Santa Clara, and the scenery sure beat that Holiday Inn parking lot in Youngstown, Ohio, where the team held practices during 2011 and 2012 road trips.
"It's a great place to set up camp (and) hunker down in a great football environment," 49ers coach Jim Harbaugh said. "We have everything we need. Great set up here at The Grove, a football oasis."
Kaepernick and the 49ers practiced here Wednesday for the first time, two days after arriving from Nashville and one day after Kaepernick briefly traded his celebrity status for that of an almost-anonymous tourist in London.
Only a "couple people" noticed the 49ers quarterback sightseeing with teammates on Tuesday's day off. "But for the most part, it was peaceful, it was nice," Kaepernick said Wednesday.
Chances are almost all of the 80,000-plus fans will recognize his No. 7 jersey Sunday when the 49ers (5-2) face the Jacksonville Jaguars (0-7) at Wembley Stadium.
Asked to name the most memorable stadiums he's played in away from home, Kaepernick listed only two: Boise State and Nebraska, both from his college days at Nevada. Obvious omissions: losing the Super Bowl at New Orleans' Superdome and winning the NFC championship in Atlanta's Georgia Dome.
"I don't think anything's going to compare to this weekend," Kaepernick said.
The 49ers enter Sunday's game on a four-game win streak, keyed by a run-oriented offense. Kaepernick, meanwhile, hasn't completed more than 16 passes in a game since the season opener.
"To me, it all depends on whether we're winning or not," Kaepernick said in evaluating his recent passing displays. "If we're winning, that's successful. If not, something needs to change and we need to get better. The last (four) games we've won, so that's all that matters."
As unique as this overseas road trip is, Kaepernick feels his body has adjusted to the time change. What wasn't normal was going nearly unnoticed in London. Can he do that back home? "No, not in the Bay. I don't try anymore."
"It's a frustrating time, but it's a good time because I'm learning every day," said Okoye, who's been intensely studying other defensive linemen on game film the past couple months.
His duties this week include acting as a pseudo-ambassador: "They think I'm their A-to-Z, their Yellow Pages. I just point them in the right direction. Everyone's focused on the win Sunday, so nobody wants to do anything crazy."
Full participants despite ongoing issues were linebacker NaVorro Bowman (wrist), tight end Vernon Davis (hamstring), Kaepernick (foot) and wide receiver Kyle Williams (knee).
For more on the 49ers, see Cam Inman's Hot Read blog at blogs.mercurynews.com/49ers. Follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/CamInman.
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ALBANY -- Chances are there were some awkward conversations between parents and their kids about sex, drugs and depression in this small town Thursday night, and that was the aim of a panel discussion at the high school -- communication.
It has been a tough six weeks for the small community and district of 3,000 students. Popular Albany Middle School teacher and coach James "Mr. I" Izumizaki was arrested on suspicion of lewd acts with a former student and killed himself days later. Last month, the body of 16-year-old Albany High School senior honors student Cathy Qiu, 16, of Richmond, was identified on a San Mateo County beach. Her family had reported her missing as a runaway, but how she died remains a mystery, although coroner's officials say there are no signs of foul play.
Both events hit the community hard and the district has taken steps to help students, parents and neighbors cope. On Thursday night they hosted a forum, "Choices, Responsibility and Self-Protection for Teenagers," including a psychologist, attorney and psychotherapist, that focused on Izumizaki's death and case, and other teen issues. The Albany High School Little Theater was packed with parents and students.
"The origins of this panel are sad and pretty profound," said Mitch Radin, a psychologist with Berkeley Mental Health Family Youth Services.
"Find a way to talk to your parents, and parents, figure out a way to talk to your kids," Radin said. "It's important to have the sex talk, not just leaving a book on the bed."
An attorney spoke about mandated reporting laws, the age of consent for sex and other legal topics.
"Any adult that works for a school district is mandated by law to report physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect ... if they have reasonable suspicion," said attorney Karen Rezendes.
The panelists spoke mostly in generalizations, but also candidly about the Izumizaki case.
"Nobody can make anybody commit suicide. It's nobody's fault except for the person who commits suicide," Radin said. "Whatever the allegation was, the suicide itself was on Mr. I."
Albany High School principal Ted Barone moderated the panel and updated the crowd on the Izumizaki case, saying police are still investigating, and that the Albany police chief said when the investigation is concluded he would release some version of the report publicly.
In an email to parents and the community, Albany Middle School principal Peter Parenti explained how the community was still reeling over Izumizaki and the panel was meant to help with the healing.
"There continue to be important, and oftentimes difficult, conversations to have around the multiple issues related to the James Izumizaki case," Parenti wrote. "These issues include suicide, depression, student-staff relationships, sexual abuse, staff morale, parent/community awareness, and more."
"These conversations take physical and emotional energy from everyone involved and we can't rush them," he said.
Crisis specialists presented the "Teens For Life" youth suicide prevention curriculum to seventh- and eighth-graders on Wednesday. The program teaches students how to recognize when a friend is depressed or suicidal, and how to get help from a trusted adult or crisis line. Sixth-graders will receive the same presentations later.
Parents and students ended the panel Thursday by writing down questions, which the panel then answered.
"Is it OK for a teacher to drive a student home?"
While not illegal, it's against school policy in most instances, the panel answered.
One father stood up and asked how parents can keep track of their son or daughter after they turn 18.
"When they turn 18 they really are just one day older than 17," he said to laughs from the crowd.
As adults they legally have more privacy rights from parents, but children can sign consent forms for medical records releases, for instance, the attorney said.
Many wondered how teens can identify if they are in an inappropriate relationship themselves.
"I'm a big fan of using your gut," Radin said. "I think most kids know when something feels wrong."
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When Penguins captain Sidney Crosby took the ice for the team's Sunday afternoon practice at CONSOL Energy Center something was missing.
Crosby, 25, hit the ice without the extra jaw protector that has been attached to his helmet since he returned from a broken jaw injury May 3. Crosby has been cleared to play without the jaw protector and will not wear it when the Penguins play the Boston Bruins in the Eastern Conference finals.
"They're comfortable with it coming off, being hit and things like that," Crosby said of the team's doctors. "That's what it came down to.
"It doesn't really change anything. It's nice to see a little bit better."
"It's something he's been cleared to be able to do," head coach Dan Bylsma said. "He didn't shake his head at the doctor and say, 'I'm taking it off.' So he's obviously progressed and his time period away from the injury has allowed him to even think about doing that."
Crosby suffered a broken jaw March 30 after being struck in the face by a puck on a deflected shot. He missed the last 12 games of the regular season and the first game of the postseason.
Crosby returned with a special protective attachment to his helmet to shield his jaw. He wore the piece in all 10 playoff games this year.
The full-face shield didn't affect his play, as he finished third on the team in scoring with 15 points (7G-8A), including his second career playoff hat trick in Game 2 vs. Ottawa. But now that the protector is gone, it will take some time for Crosby to get used to its absence.
"It feels weird cause I'm used to wearing the full-face (shield) for a month," Crosby said. "It feels weird, but much better. Seeing is much better.
"It might take a few days. I won't be sticking my head in front of the net as much as I would with a full-face on. But a few practices and I should be back to normal."
There is one downside to losing the face shield.
"I kind of like seeing the pictures of him with it," Bylsma said. "Gives a little playoff-type of pictures with that there. But it does show off his beard a little more."