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Girls notebook: Crosby sophomore rising star
Is there a bigger surprise in the area than Crosby's super sophomore Zanayia Love? Probably not. A 5-foot-9 forward/center, Love stepped in when the Bulldogs' Samaya Saunders went down with a torn ACL early in the season. And she has done nothing but set the NVL on fire.
Love is averaging 20.3 points per game, including a couple of big-time performances this past week, scoring 26 points in a 59-38 win over Derby and 25 points in a 50-49 win over St. Paul. She also has had 34- and 27-point performances in earlier games this season.
"It's all post moves," said Crosby coach Phil Lott, who knows a little bit about scoring. "She's making moves and they can't stop her. She stepped up from nowhere. I don't know where the moves come from."
Love's efforts have the Bulldogs (6-6) within two games of qualifying for the state tournament. They're loving it at Crosby.
Nonnewaug had the rare opportunity to step out of the Berkshire League on Saturday night and play one of the state's better teams in Bacon Academy, which is ranked No. 8 in the current New Haven Register poll.
The Chiefs lost their second game of the season, 53-38, but are better for the experience, according to coach Adam Brutting.
"Aside from the second period, it felt good to match up with them and be competitive," said Brutting. "They start five seniors and have two extremely talented post players (Taylor McLaughlin, 19 points, Carlee Putnam, 17 points).
The Chiefs actually led by a point after one quarter only to be outscored, 20-5, in the second period to fall behind, 29-15, at the half. The second half was even.
"(Bacon) mixed up its defense and made it very tough for us to score in the second period," added Brutting.
Bacon is 11-1 on the season. Meanwhile, the Chiefs (11-2) are at Lewis Mills for a crucial BL matchup against Lewis Mills on Friday night.
Basketball rules are not the same everywhere. Housatonic traveled to Massachusetts on Friday for a game against nearby Mt. Everett and came away with a 54-46 victory.
But Connecticut and Massachusetts have some differences as the Mountaineers found out. First of all, there is a shot clock which also eliminates the need for the 10-second backcourt rule. But maybe the biggest adjustment was the idea that many of the JV players could not play varsity because you can only play four quarters in one night. And if you step on the floor that constitutes playing in a quarter.
Housatonic had 11 players so coach Frank Hadsdell made sure one of his players did not play JV. Also, the referees stand at midcourt at the end of the game and the players shake hands with them. Still, the Mountaineers came with the victory, the differences not having a negative impact.
"I kind of like all the changes," said Hadsdell. "The only one I don't like is that if you have a big lead, you can't hold the ball."
Thomaston's school colors are brown and gold. But you may have noticed that the Bears are wearing pink socks and shoe laces this season. It is not a fashion statement but more of a humanitarian statement.
The decision to wear pink was actually made before the season to 'Play for the Cure' and raise money for cancer. The Bears also have pink warm-up shirts. A teacher in the system, Karen DePalma, recently died of cancer, and the money raised at two games, Feb. 1 and Feb. 11 will be put in a scholarship fund for the DePalma children.
It's getting to be counting time for the state tournament. Here's who has those magic eight wins as we head towards the stretch. In the BL: Thomaston, Nonnewaug, Northwestern and Lewis Mills have punched their tickets. In the NVL: Wolcott, Holy Cross, Watertown, Kennedy and Ansonia are in the postseason. Pomperaug is also ready to roll for March.
If you are trying to get a feel for what is up in the NVL, there is an interesting matchup Friday night as Watertown (12-1) and Kennedy (10-3) tangle. In the goofy world of the NVL this season, Watertown has been the most consistent team, only losing to Torrington while offering a balanced attack led by Meg Perrin, Sara Selimovski Abby Collier and Jamie Zoldy.
But Kennedy has beaten both Holy Cross and Torrington, has a real speed merchant in freshman Lynadia Whting and some rugged strength up front. It will be interesting.
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New York Times bestseller J.A. Jance reunites two of her most popular series characters—Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady and Seattle detective J.P. Beaumont—in Fire and Ice, as the separate investigations into grisly homicides in two different states shockingly intertwine. As Jance proved in her previous Beau/Brady pairing, Partner in Crime, when these two join forces, fireworks happen. Fire and Ice is not to be missed.
Seattle investigator J. P. Beaumont is working a series of murders in which six young women have been wrapped in tarps, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. Their charred remains have been scattered around various dump sites, creating a grisly pattern of death across western Washington.
At the same time, thousands of miles away in the Arizona desert, Cochise County sheriff Joanna Brady is looking into a homicide in which the elderly caretaker of an ATV park was run over and left to die. All the man has left behind is his dog, who is the improbable witness to some kind of turf warfare—or possibly something more sinister.
Then a breakthrough in Beaumont's case leads him directly to the Southwest and into Brady's jurisdiction. When the two met on a joint investigation years earlier, sparks flew. Under different circumstances, both of them admit, even more could have happened.
But here, as the threads of their two seemingly separate cases wind together, Beaumont and Brady must put aside echoes of their shared past as they are once again drawn into an orbit of deception. Except this time it's not just their own lives that are in danger but those of the people closest to them as well.
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The most compelling story of the midterm election year so far has been the struggle within the Republican Party, cast as a fight between establishment and tea-party Republicans over which kinds of candidates to nominate.
But that struggle is, in many ways, a proxy for the much bigger question lurking beneath the surface of American politics: Are the makings emerging for a third political party?
The question arises because there is a populist strain growing in both parties that simply isn't a comfortable fit in either. As today's Capital Journal column notes, business leaders are lamenting the extent to which tea-party Republicans already are undermining parts of the business agenda in Washington, including immigration reform, refinancing of the Export-Import Bank and replenishing of the Highway Trust Fund that pays for construction of roads, bridges and infrastructure projects many business leaders consider important.
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But to the extent that a new batch of conservative Democrats might be found, they would be uncomfortable within a Democratic Party that has its own resurgent populist movement, skeptical of big banks and Wall Street and suspicious of their own party's ties to such institutions. These Democratic populists have their own champion in Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren, and there is good reason to think they have the power to push the party in their direction in the coming 2016 presidential campaign. The problem they face is that the most likely 2016 Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton, is the quintessential establishment player at this point, comfortable with business interests and hardly the ideal standard-bearer for populist sentiments.
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Last weekend i was breaking my head thinking about wat to prepare for dinner.Finally i asked my hubby what he wanted to have. He told me to prepare upma urundai and also he said its been a very long time we prepared this.Yes , I agreed i totally forgot about this dish.Immediately i gave a call to my MIL for the recipe and made it. It was tasting soft and excellent. Thanks to my hubby for reminding this yummy tiffin.Also i've got a different recipe to share with u all :)
- Raw rice - 1 cup
- Toor dal - 1/4 cup
- Water - 2 cups
To temper :
- Cooking oil - 1 tbsp
- Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
- Urad dal - 1/2 tsp
- Asafetida /Hing - 1/4 tsp
- Green chilly - 1 no ( cut into two)
- Ginger - 1 inch piece ( cut into small pieces)
- Curry leaves - A few
Salt & water - as needed.
- Soak the rice and toor dal together for two hours.
- Coarse grind the rice & dal mixture in a mixie. Run the mixie only once.(Please do not grind for more time) The rice & dal should be just broken.
- Now in a broad kadai , temper all the items given above in the same order.
- Add 2 cups of water and the required salt.Allow it to boil.Now add the ground rice mixture.Mix well for sometime without forming lumps.Let it thicken.
- The rice absorbs all the water and becomes a non sticky dough.
- Let it cool down. Now grease the idly plate with little oil. Make balls out of the dough and arrange it in the greased idly plate.Steam the balls for 10-15 mins.
Soft , hot upma urundai is ready to serve. We enjoyed with the sambhar i made for lunch. U can have it with any chutney. Sometimes this can be made as a evening snack without any accompaniment.


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UA grad students robbed at gunpoint in University Village parking lot
Published: Friday, October 18, 2013 at 3:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 17, 2013 at 10:07 p.m.
It's common for college students to come and go at all hours of the night.
That's why University of Alabama graduate students Li Yang and Molei Wu didn't think anything was unusual when a young man waved and approached them in the parking lot of University Village early Monday morning.
"I thought he was a neighbor," Yang said. "But then he walked up, held a gun out and told me to give him my purse."
Yang handed over her bag while Wu gave another man his backpack. The bags contained their apartment keys and car keys, wallets, iPhones, cash, bank cards, identification, text books, a history paper and a flash drive containing schoolwork.
Yang and Wu, both 24, had studied late into the night at a campus library and returned to their apartment a short time after midnight Monday.
The complex off 10th Avenue is staffed with security guards, monitored by cameras and restricted by a gate with keypad access. It's surrounded by a fence topped with barbed wire, but police later discovered a hole in the fence that the young men likely used to enter and later flee the area, Wu said. Police found his backpack on the property and returned it.
Officers have few clues in the case, said Tuscaloosa Police spokesman Sgt. Brent Blankley.
"We are working the case and urge anybody who knows about it to call CrimeStoppers," he said.
Four suspects were involved in the incident, Yang said.
Yang said that the young man who threatened her with a gun appeared to be 15 or 16. The other suspects seemed older, she said.
"He wasn't nervous, which makes me think he's done this before," she said. "We want people to know that this happened in case they do the same thing again."
Yang, who is studying journalism, and Wu, a mechanical engineering student, said that they have never heard of problems at the apartment complex before.
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63-08 69th Pl.
Middle Village NY , 11379
phone: (718) 381-7777
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74-15 Juniper Boulevard North
Middle Village NY , 11379
phone: (718) 899-2020
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72-52 Metropolitan Avenue
Middle Village NY , 11379
phone: (718) 326-0055
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Middle Village NY , 11379
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Middle Village was named as such because it was the middle point from Williamsburgh to Jamaica on the Williamsburgh and Jamaica Turnpike Road, which is now Metropolitan Avenue. The name also has its origin in that it was the midpoint for farmers from eastern Queens who traveled to the ferry at Newtown Creek. Another origin of the name comes about because it is an anglicization of Middleburgh, Newtown's original name.
The Middle Village Community Library serves the area bounded by Woodhaven Blvd. to the east, Eliot Ave. to the north, 69th St. to the west, and the LIRR tracks and Cooper Ave. to the south. Middle Village was founded in 1850. It grew from farmland to a prosperous community after the New York City Council announced that no further burials would be permitted on Manhattan Island after May 1, 1851. The farmland was purchased by several church groups for cemeteries. Florists, monument makers, and taverns flourished as business and industry expanded.
The area thrived until the opening of the Brooklyn Bridge in 1883 when people found it easier to travel more rapidly. By 1902, the population reached 1,300. The community continued to grow steadily. By the 1940s, much of the farmland was developed with residential homes.
Until recently, the working-class neighborhood of Middle Village was predominantly Italian. Immigrants from Latin America, Poland, Soviet Union, and Ireland have been moving in, attracted by reasonable rents and central location in New York City.
Middle Village is made up largely of private and two-family homes. There are some garden apartments, though no real large apartment buildings like those found in nearby communities like Forest Hills or Rego Park and along Woodhaven Blvd. New construction, though, has been taking place in the area with the building of a number of multiple-dwelling homes on the blocks around Metropolitan Avenue and near Juniper Valley Park, a noteworthy local attraction and neighborhood favorite location.
Middle Village: 145 years of change. The Juniper Berry, June/July 1994, p.26.
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GRANBY — Organizers for the East Newton Senior Citizens Banquet are gearing up for the annual event, which will be held at 5:30 p.m. Monday, April 1, at the East Newton High School.
The event is open to senior citizens in the East Newton R-6 School District.
"The main purpose is to show appreciation for all they have done and continue to do for our district," said Bobby Stafford, advisor with the school's student council, who is putting on the event.
The council will be serving food and senior citizens will be treated to smoked pork and chicken, along with potato salad, baked beans, bread and desserts. There will also be entertainment and prize giveaways.
"Attendance has varied every year," he said. "Usually there are 75-100 senior citizens."
As far as why the student council hosts this event, Stafford said that it is a service project.
"This is one of the most important service projects of the year and it seems to be greatly appreciated by those who attend," he noted.
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bblueberry, on 27 November 2012 - 02:23 AM, said:
after this change even bm gonna be worse in arena i guess -.-"
Unplayable against wizards. It's already awful to fight wizards even with the immunity, can only imagine the pain after patch.
Don't care though, haven't played BM in 3-4 weeks, been enjoying MM. It's really underrated, people haven't played it long enough to "feel it out" properly. People see weak damage/aimed shots but don't realize a lot more of our damage comes from wild quiver/arcane spam now. It's not all clumped into a huge fat chimera shot crit, but our damage is still pretty damn decent as MM.
Also powershot owns when it lands/crits, especially on light armor (kinda weak against some plate shit though).
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Cambodia Opposition March Over Disputed Vote
By Sun Narin and Chun Han Wong
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia—Opponents of long-ruling Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen renewed vows to continue their challenge against results of a disputed July vote and pressure the leader to resign, after staging the country's largest protest march in 15 years.
On Sunday, the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party rallied roughly 100,000 supporters to parade through the nation's capital, according to municipal officials. It was part of a rolling opposition protest over the contentious July 28 general election that was narrowly won by Mr. Hun Sen and his Cambodian People's Party amid allegations of widespread electoral fraud.
Opposition leaders are calling on Mr. Hun Sen, who has held power for 28 years, to resign or call for a fresh election. They say they will continue their protest for three months or until the prime minister gives in to their demands. Mr. Hun Sen rejected those calls Friday, saying he had no plans to resign or hold a new poll before the end of his five-year term.
Protesters had gathered Sunday at Freedom Park in the heart of Phnom Penh before parading through the capital's main thoroughfares, waving opposition party colors and chanting slogans demanding political change. The boisterous and largely peaceful scenes mirrored a series of mass opposition protests in recent months.
The march was Cambodia's largest since similar protests broke out in the wake of the 1998 elections, according to local English-language newspaper The Cambodia Daily.
"A political tsunami has started in Cambodia," Sam Rainsy, leader of the Rescue Party, told supporters before the march, according to local media reports. "Sooner or later, the [Rescue Party's] government will take power and deal with all your problems," he said.
The protest entered its ninth day Monday as demonstrators continued to occupy Freedom Park, a popular rallying point for opposition groups, while Mr. Rainsy and other senior Rescue Party leaders met supporters in the southeastern province of Svay Rieng.
Phnom Penh municipal officials criticized the Rescue Party's protest for what they called "irregularities" in areas like hygiene, noise pollution and crowd control. But they have largely allowed the demonstration to proceed with minimal security intervention.
Lawmakers-elect from Mr. Rainsy's party have boycotted Parliament since the July vote, and criticized Mr. Hun Sen for forming a new government without opposition lawmakers. Mr. Hun Sen and ruling party officials have defended the election results, but promised to consider unspecified reforms for the election commission. They also defended their formation of a new National Assembly and government, calling on the Rescue Party to end its protests and join Parliament.
In the July 28 election, Cambodia's fifth since the United Nations reintroduced competitive elections in 1993, Mr. Hun Sen's party won 68 parliamentary seats to 55 for the opposition Cambodia National Rescue Party, official results show. This represented a 22-seat loss for the ruling party compared with 2008, and marked the ruling party's worst showing since 1998.
The Rescue Party—formed last year by a merger of two opposition parties—has claimed that it won 63 seats in the 123-member National Assembly, enough for overall victory and up from 29 taken by its constituent groups five years ago. The party says it was denied victory by widespread voting fraud, and its lawmakers-elect have refused to take their parliamentary seats in protest.
The National Election Committee—which has close ties to the ruling People's Party—has rejected calls for a United Nations-backed probe. The commission has said it found some instances of voting fraud, though not enough to sway the official result.
Meanwhile, Mr. Hun Sen has continued to govern despite the opposition's parliamentary boycott. He has rejected claims from some legal experts who say the Constitution allows the opposition to block a new Parliament by declining to take its seats.
Mr. Hun Sen, 61, is credited with restoring stability and economic growth to his impoverished nation, but has also been accused of quieting dissent through intimidation. Political analysts say support for the prime minister has weakened amid deepening disenchantment over rural-land conflicts, high youth unemployment and widening social inequity, as well as the ruling party's inability to connect with a growing youth demographic.


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How-To: Install FFMPEG on Ubuntu Gutsy
I wanted to install FFmpeg on my Ubuntu Gutsy
Gibbon (7.10) desktop machine. This is so I can encode and transcode
video files to various formats locally, and also render projects from
the non-linear editor (NLE) PiTiVi.
This post will mainly cover just the commands I used to install FFmpeg on Gutsy, with very little commentary regarding why or how
things work. If you want a more in-depth look at installing FFmpeg, you
can read about the installation
of FFmpeg on my Debian Etch server earlier today – which ultimately
moves me closer to on-the-fly video transcoding of user submitted
content on Kapital Moto TV
Installing FFmpeg on Ubuntu Gutsy:
sudo apt-get build-dep ffmpeg
sudo apt-get install liblame-dev libfaad2-dev libfaac-dev
libxvidcore4-dev liba52-0.7.4 liba52-0.7.4-dev libx264-dev libdts-dev
checkinstall build-essential subversion
svn checkout svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
make distclean (I used this because I already had an older SVN snapshot of FFMPEG downloaded, configured and made from last night)
./configure –enable-gpl –enable-pp
–enable-libvorbis –enable-libtheora –enable-liba52
–enable-libdc1394 –enable-libgsm –enable-libmp3lame –enable-libfaad
–enable-libfaac –enable-libxvid –enable-pthreads –enable-libx264 –enable-shared
sudo checkinstall
Some things you might want to do when prompted to by checkinstall:
- Select 0 change maintainer name
- Select 3 to set version name. I used svn11213-ubuntu-gutsy-20071213
And that's it FFmpeg installed on Ubuntu Gutsy.
Other links:
- Installing FFmpeg on Debian Etch – a far more detailed summary of a very similar process
- FFmpeg User Documentation – where to go next to learn to use FFmpeg
- MPEG4 and H.264 – all about these at the Video Forums.


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Week in Review: Medical Innovation Through Public Policy
Week in Review: Medical Innovation Through Public Policy
02.22.13 | By
It was a busy week for innovation - this week we discussed President Obama's initiative to advance medical research for neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Collaboration among federal research institutions, academia, biopharmaceutical companies and patent companies make progress possible and reduce the number of lives impacted by brain diseases.
But good innovation - the kind that improves and even transforms patient's lives - is only possible through public policy that protects it. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement is a good example of international policy that can protect innovation and encourage medical research and development. With the next round of TTP negotiations in Singapore beginning March 4th, PhRMA Vice President of International Affairs Jay Taylor emphasized how important it is that this free trade agreement protect intellectual property and provide incentives for companies to develop new life-saving medicines.
Speaking at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce with Former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative John Veroneau and other experts, Taylor also noted that Canada's current intellectual property laws are not as strong as those in the U.S., which can put U.S. innovators at a disadvantage. The country, which is on the United States Trade Representative's Priority Watch List, does not adequately address patent, copyright, and trademark security.
Innovation isn't pulled from a magical hat - it has to be fostered, financed, encouraged, protected and advocated for in order for America to remain the world leader in medicine development. The alternative is for lifesaving medicines and their development to become adversely affected; a dire prospect, indeed.


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In Memoriam: Dr. Stanley Greenspan
Stanley I. Greenspan, M.D., the world's foremost authority on clinical work with infants and young children with developmental and emotional problems, passed away on April 27, 2010.
Dr. Greenspan was Clinical Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics at George Washington University Medical School and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders. The world's foremost authority on clinical work with infants and young children with developmental and emotional problems, his work has guided parents, professionals and researchers all over the world.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Stanley Greenspan Memorial Scholarship fund, established by the Greenspan family to support future leaders in the field of infant mental health and developmental disorders, currently enrolled or applying to the ICDL Graduate School. Applications for this scholarship will be made available online soon.
We sincerely thank Dr. Greenspan for all of his contributions to the autism community.
Source: http://stanleygreenspan.com/
April 29, 2010 at 10:14 am
My family is personally indebted to the principals initiated by Dr. Greenspan.
After starting a strict Lovaas style program – I knew within a week of watching them making my child touch whatever 10x in a row – I knew this was torture and would be counterproductive.
The search for something else was on – and luckily we fell upon a wonderful VB/NET/Floortime consultant who trained me, my husband and the most dedicated teams of 4th year psychology students (we are very lucky to live very close to a major university) to PLAY while always having our VB targets in mind to test and to teach the next step (yup, plenty of data recorded post session). Our program was all over the house, the yard, our older neighborhood that Jane Jacobs would adore http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs, buses, downtown, the mall, the woods, the dog parks, the playground, you name it.
This amazing program couldn't have happened without Dr. Greenspan and his work.
… Just one of millions of families who benefited from his work.
April 29, 2010 at 11:36 am
What a terrible loss for the Autism Community … he changed lives and will be so greatly missed!
April 29, 2010 at 10:35 pm
Dr. Greenspan was truly a great man. I put several quotes from his book, "Engaging Autism" in my tribute article at http://www.examiner.com/x-43538-DC-Autism-Examiner~y2010m4d28-Dr-Stanley-Greenspan-dies-at-69-founded-Floortime-and-developmental-approaches-to-autism-therapy. My favorite is when he wrote, "The child may have a disorder or a set of problems, but he is not the disorder. He is a human being with real feelings, real desires, and real wishes."
April 29, 2010 at 11:42 pm
The autism community has lost an important figure. May he rest in peace.
May 3, 2010 at 1:08 am
Dr. Greenspan was a giant. I just found out he passed away reading this memorium.
He taught me so much about learning, and his ideas have become part of my life as both a parent and educator.
May his memory be blessed.
May 14, 2010 at 4:19 pm
As our way of honoring Dr. Greenspan, PediaStaff is auctioning off an autographed copy of his book Infancy and Early Childhood to benefit the new Dr. Stanley Greenspan Memorial Fund.
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February 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm
I am so very saddened to just learn of Dr. Greenspan's passing. Not a day goes by that I don't say a prayer of Thanksgiving for this dear man! We met Dr. Greenspan when our son, Matt, was 2. He is now a successful 20 year old who is a sophomore at Purdue University studying psychology.
Matt was diagnosed with autism at the age of 2. We were blessed to hear of Dr. Greenspan and flew out to meet with him right away. I had been told by the doctor we initially received the diagnosis from that Matt would be " a nerd, social outcast, and never fit in today's society". Matt had no language and was very violent at times. He also had no eye contact. The story of Matt is so long, but I can say that by the time Matt was in kindergarden he was with out any special needs! Dr. Greenspan had told us to treat Matt's case like it was a medical emergency and do everything he told us to do, including floor time and Tomatis Auditory Training.
Because of this wonderful man's expertise, we have a wonderful successful son with a bright, beautiful future. Matt loves sports and has played every sport possible throughout his school years. He was the captain of his high school soccer team and earned the prestigious award for leadership at his school.
He is now attending Purdue University with the goal of helping others as Dr. Greenspan has. How can I ever express my gratitude to him and his family. It is overwhelming to think of just how many lives have been touched by this wonderful man!! He will never be forgotten by our son Matt and the whole Seidl family! God bless you Dr. Greenspan!!


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Fifty years ago this very day there were, on a percentage basis, a lot more nervous people in Happy Valley than there are today.
But the surprising thing is that snowfall was not at the top of their "Holy bleep, what're we gonna do" list. Oh sure, it was there, somewhere in the top 10 would be my guess, but after spending the previous 12 months busting their backsides pretty much 24/7, they were wondering and worrying if anyone would show up on Saturday for their long-awaited grand opening.
It had been an incredibly difficult and challenging year, but it was all about to pay off (at least they hoped). They had done it with no cell phones, TVs, or computers, newspapers that arrived a few days late in Minturn by train, and AM radio only if you stood on top of Vail Mountain with one leg in the air and angled slightly toward Denver.
Yet besides a huge crowd, there was so much more to worry about.
Was $5 too much for a lift ticket? (Nope.)
Were a dozen ski instructors enough? (Yep.)
Was one liquor store enough? (Is it ever?)
Would the party line phone system handle all the possible requests? (Probably, as it was a different time.)
If the tourists did arrive, would they feign shock at the muddy streets and dismay at the ratty trailers used for worker housing? (Yes and no. Again, it was a different time.)
Was Gopher Hill a stupid name? (Yes, but that was better than Marmot Molehill, and it eventually became Golden Peak anyway.)
Although extremely popular, would anyone ever be able to decipher Pepi and Sheika's accents? (No, and 50 years later not much has changed.)
Would paying $11 per square foot to build a house on Beaver Dam Road ever be looked back upon as a smart financial decision? (Um ... yeeeeesss!)
According to original investor Dick Hauserman, they had just built all of Vail - cut the runs, the lifts, the upper terminal, lower terminal and everything else - for $1.6 million.
Today that wouldn't be enough to build a small outhouse on Forest Road (provided one could acquire the proper permits). Or for even better perspective, the town of Vail spent more than that on the Famous Flatulating Fountain at Seibert Circle.
Anyway, just two days later, on Thursday of that week, a directors meeting was held to decide what to do since regardless of all the other issues, they still had no snow, and to top it off the U.S. Ski Team was arriving to train. They decided to give away free lift tickets so people could at least ride the new gondola (the first in America), and lo and behold, it snowed about a foot the next day, allowing them to open on the 15th (sort of like last Saturday).
Rumor has it there's a wonderful story of the entire year (1962) in the latest issue of Vail Valley Magazine, where our very own Rod Slifer gives a season by season recap, and it includes fascinating info most of us have never heard or read about.
So pay attention this weekend, and the entire season for that matter, but on Friday night we can all see the 50th anniversary film by Roger Brown (Vail's original filmmaker) at the Marriott in Lionshead.
The next morning marks the official birthday, and there will be all sorts of activities happening throughout the day, but especially late that afternoon at Mountain Plaza (at the base of the Vista Bahn - 'scuze me, I mean "One").
And the Vail Daily's 128-page 50th anniversary glossy commemorative magazine comes out next week.
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SANTA CLARA -- Justin Smith is riding shotgun in one of the NFL's greatest single-season pursuits of sacks.
"He's chasing history," Justin Smith said of 49ers teammate Aldon Smith, who is five sacks away from Michael Strahan's 2001 league-record of 221/2.
More sacks could come Sunday when the Miami Dolphins start Stanford-bred rookie Jonathan Martin at left tackle. Martin replaces Jake Long, the 2008 draft's first overall pick who went on season-ending injured reserve Tuesday with a torn triceps.
"I've just got to take advantage of the opportunity," Aldon Smith said.
Martin, a three-year starter at Stanford, started the Dolphins' previous 12 games at right tackle. Coach Joe Philbin, in a conference call with Bay Area media, lauded Martin's poise and work ethic, adding: "This guy hasn't batted an eye."
In the eyes of Justin Smith, however, Martin is merely "a serviceable tackle in the league" who's expected to get help from other blockers to keep the 49ers away from rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill.
Jim Harbaugh, who coached Martin at Stanford before joining the 49ers last year, credited his former pupil for doing "a good job his entire rookie year."
It's Tannehill, however, who is in the primary sights of Aldon Smith & Co.
Tannehill has been sacked only 23 times. Linebacker Patrick Willis noted that the rookie gunslinger "lets the ball go quick, so we have to make sure we're tight on our coverages."
Philbin complimented the 49ers' secondary as much as Justin Smith for contributing to Aldon Smith's league-leading 171/2 sacks.
That total matches Fred Dean's 1983 franchise record. The NFL began tracking sacks in 1982, and since then, no one has compiled more in their first two seasons than Smith's 311/2.
Smith has had at least one sack in each of the last six games while totaling 13 overall, including 51/2 on Nov. 19 against the Chicago Bears.
"Aldon got better as last year progressed. Then he just blew up," Justin Smith said. "He's done everything to take his game to the other level."
A year ago, Aldon Smith was the NFL's Defensive Rookie of the Year runner-up while Justin Smith notched All-Pro and Pro Bowl honors.
Justin Smith went a career-long nine games without a sack to start this season, but he has three in the past three games. He also notched a season-best 10 solo tackles in the 49ers' 16-13 overtime loss Sunday at St. Louis.
Beside getting to the quarterbacks, the Smith & Smith tandem hasn't slacked against stopping the run, something that Justin Smith says tends to happen "a lot of times to guys chasing sacks."
That's translated statistically. The 49ers rank No. 1 in fewest points allowed, No. 2 in yards allowed, No. 2 in passing yards and No. 3 in rushing yards. Their 30 sacks are tied for the ninth-most.
"It's all about winning games and getting to the playoffs and the Super Bowl," Justin Smith said. "Hopefully the record falls on the way there."
No, Brett Favre isn't around to give up the record this time as he did in 2001. But it certainly could fall in the 49ers' remaining four games.
After hosting the Dolphins, the 49ers visit two clubs who aren't allowing many sacks, the New England Patriots (19 sacks, 28th most) and the Seattle Seahawks (23 sacks, 23rd most).
The Arizona Cardinals visit the 49ers in the regular-season finale, and they've allowed a league-high 48. But a couple issues could hinder Aldon Smith's pursuit in that Dec. 30 game. A lingering shoulder injury forced him to wear a no-contact jersey in practice Wednesday, as was the case last week. If the 49ers' playoff fate is sewn up before that Cardinals game, they might want to rest him.
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.
Master rushers
With 17.5 sacks, Aldon Smith (99) is tied for 22nd on the all-time single-season sack list. Here are the players with 20 or more in one season:
22.5: Michael Strahan, 2001. 22.0: Jared Allen, 2011; Mark Gastineau, 1984. 21.0: Reggie White, 1987; Chris Doleman, 1989.20.5: Lawrence Taylor, 1986 20.0: Derrick Thomas, 1990; DeMarcus Ware, 2008
Sunday's game
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It's been a big week around here: Our fall shopping and style-packed September issue has hit the newsstands. In case you missed it, earlier this week, I gave readers a little behind the scenes peek at pulling the issue together –and trying to fit in over 100 local finds–here.
In that same issue, we call out Spun Sustainable Collective as one of our favorite new boutiques of the year; lucky for you, this weekend you can score some killer deals at the boutique's first ever sample sale. Old stock, samples and one-offs will be offered between 20% - 90% off retail prices and include locally-made garments from the likes of Out of Line, Cameron Levin and even from store owner Sara Seumae's SPUN line. (I've had my eye on the dress below for months.) Accessories and jewels from Dotty Speck and Joanna Morgan (also pictured below) will also be up for grabs. The sale runs from 11 a.m.- 7 p.m. Saturday, but given all the Twitter chatter, I'd recommend getting there early. (Hey, Porchlight is right next door, so you can get caffeined-up ahead of time.)
In my mind, the phrases "fashionable" and "rain poncho" have never gone together. I've been proven wrong. I'm crushing hard on Seattle designer Ann DeOtte's Iva Jean rain cape, so much so I *almost wish it would rain this weekend.
You know what other phrases have never married in my mind? "Cool" and "Crocs," but thanks to our intrepid leader Rachel Hart, I stand corrected again. Vancouver B.C.-based Native Shoes has modeled their version of the light, easy slip-on after classic styles resembling Keds slip-ons and Vans loafers. If you think the adult styles are sweet, you should see the pint-sized ones.
Have a lovely weekend!
*But not really, this rare bit of sunshine is too glorious.
SPUN dress photo courtesy of SPUN; Rain cape photo courtesy of Iba Jean; shoe photos courtesy of Native Soles; all other photos by Hayley Young


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Yes Issue 22 is broken. I have tried to open it in Acrobat reader 8, Evince on linux and Foxit reader on windows. It only shows blank pages. This broken issues is there for many days and no one has bothered to fix it. :(
Tushar Gokhale
It should work now
it should be all fixed now!
yeah, me too, cannot open issue #22
What software are you using
Can you tell us what software you are trying to open this on. I've now successfully opened it on kpdf and Adobe Reader on a few different machines.
Is it possible that your ISP is caching content and thus you are looking at an older copy (I had problems with it a few weeks back but since Tony's post above it opens fine)?
nice hint!
everything fine now. thanks!


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After Tahoe, I went back and listened to all the long Tweezers.
It was almost comical how handily this one smoked the rest. It almost doesn't feel like a 1994 jam because its so coherent and cohesive, each segment spilling logically into the next even if the departure is pretty massive.
There are two seperate Page solos, a Cactus solo, a DDLJ, and my favorite part, a full blown Tweezer Reprise jam without the words to out about 35 exclamation points on it. (Pre?) Reminiscent of the Weekapaug jam in the Worcester Jim, the Back At The Chicken Shack jam in the Dicks Light and Frampton jam in the Tahoe Tweezer, an uplifting crescendo of emotion delivered via recognizable thematic jamming.
This is 10/10. The only Tweezers that get me going as well are 12/2/95 and Tahoe, but neither of them can match this.


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Federal Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced a south Lafourche owner of a seafood-distribution business Thursday to six months home confinement followed by three years probation for bribing an IRS agent, U.S. Attorney Dana J. Boente announced.
According to court documents, on Jan. 5, 2012, Vinh Q. Tran, 63, Cut Off, pleaded guilty to one count of admitting that from August 2007 until April 2011, he bribed the agent with the intent to influence an IRS audit being conducted on his business. Tran paid $6,000 cash and other things of value to the public official.
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KINGS BEACH, Calif. - Alibi Ale Works is a new libation collaboration between Kevin Drake and Rich Romo. Romo, a North Tahoe native, and Kevin, a local, have had the itch to start a brewery for many years and are excited to be pooling their collective talents to open Kings Beach's first and only brewery in early 2013.
You can expect progressive interpretations of traditional beer styles as well as experimental beers using local and non-traditional ingredients, wild fermentation techniques, and wood barrel aging.
Alibi Ale Works will be producing relatively small batches (roughly 100 gallons) in order to offer a wide range of beer styles/flavors and will emphasize and respond to community feedback. Alibi Ale Works beer will be available through its tasting room, CSA-style growler club, and at a few select tap accounts throughout North Tahoe and Truckee.
Drake and Romo refer to brewing as the perfect integration of art, craft, and a bit of mad scientist! Already considered mavericks in their creations, they are known to take classic beer styles and draw outside of the lines to produce something special and unique every time.
The objective of this brain child brewery is "to produce handcrafted, suspiciously tasty beers."
But to make this a reality, Alibi needs the public's help. Alibi Ale Works has launched a kickstarter funding campaign, with the hope of raising $35,000 by Dec. 22.
In exchange for even the smallest pledges, Alibi Ale Works will offer rewards. Go to Kickstarter.com and search "Alibi Ale Works" to watch a video and learn about the rewards.
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The Great Champ Fearnley
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Brisbane-based creative Brenton Craig (who teaches part-time here at Shillington) is the graphic designer on a government-sponsored feature film called The Great Champ Fernley. It's a film about a young boy who finds an alien code, and Brenton is behind every little graphic detail. The entire world—posters, comics, signs, newsletters, the alien code—will be designed by Brenton.
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This 2nd installment of our girl activist program introduces you to KORALIE, a french artist who spends her time and spreads her art in various big city. We met this renown street artist in Paris and followed her from her flat where her art is getting thoughts and designed to the street where it lives and gives a unique flavor to everyday's life.
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HOUSTON (January 21, 2013)--Former President George H.W. Bush, 88, and his wife, Barbara, weren't able to attend the inauguration events in Washington, but they issued a statement congratulating President Barack Obama as he begins his second term.
The former president issued a statement Monday in which he said, "Barbara and I send President and Mrs. Obama - and their wonderful girls - our best wishes and prayers on this historic day. May Almighty God bless them and our wonderful country over the next four years."
Bush was released a week ago from a Houston hospital where he was treated for nearly two months for a bronchitis-related cough and other health issues.
He served two terms as Ronald Reagan's vice president before he was elected in 1988 to his only term as the nation's 41st president.
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Definition of collocation in English:
noun[mass noun]
1 Linguistics The habitual juxtaposition of a particular word with another word or words with a frequency greater than chance: the words have a similar range of collocation
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1.1 [count noun] A pair or group of words that are habitually juxtaposed: 'strong tea' and 'heavy drinker' are typical English collocations
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Small Loans on a Large Scale
Microfinance, an economic development model pioneered by Bangladesh's Grameen Bank in the 1970s, was once the realm of NGOs. But in recent years, private-sector financial institutions have discovered that making small loans to poor women can pay off. "I think there is a push toward private capital going toward the poorer sections of society," says Professor Suresh Sundaresan, "not because of a philanthropic motivation, but because it's good business."
Sundaresan and PhD student Sam Cheung examined the issues facing both lenders and borrowers in the microfinance market, using data collected by the Microfinance Information eXchange (MIX), a nonprofit that promotes information exchange in the industry. Sundaresan and Cheung found that microfinance institutions reporting their data to MIX have more than 28 million active borrowers. Worldwide, banks account for 52 percent of the dollar value of microloans and 31 percent of the active borrowers, while NGOs account for 17 percent of the dollar value and 46 percent of the borrowers.
Microfinance is considered to be one of the most promising vehicles for economic development in poor countries. Most of the borrowers are female, and many microfinance institutions lend exclusively to women. The loans are small — the average loan is $848 in Latin America, $483 in East Asia and just $83 in South Asia — and the repayment rate is 90 percent, higher than that of high-yield corporate borrowers in the United States. But does microfinance offer a realistic solution to the problem of poverty?
"You would normally think that a 1,000-rupee loan is not going to deliver a family out of poverty," Sundaresan says. "It'll help them to sustain themselves a little better. That may be a welfare improvement, but it's a long way from saying you've gotten out of the poverty trap. So the real point is scaling up."
One of the biggest obstacles to achieving scale in microfinance is the administrative overhead, which drives up interest rates. Delivering small loans to a large number of borrowers is expensive, as is monitoring borrowers to make sure they are using the money productively. The average interest rate for a microloan ranges from 30 to 40 percent — a bargain compared to the 70 or 80 percent that borrowers might otherwise pay to a local loan shark but still much higher than corporate loan rates.
To find an optimal pricing structure for microloans, Sundaresan and Cheung built an interest rate model that incorporates the typical features of microloan contracts: (1) absence of collateral, (2) joint liability provisions, (3) penalties for default (such as exclusion from credit markets in the future) and (4) monitoring to ensure that funds are put to good use.
In a joint liability contract — the most common form of microloan — peer pressure replaces collateral as a motivator for repayment. Borrowers form groups and assume mutual responsibility for each other's loans. Since group members select their own partners, much of the burden of screening falls to the borrowers themselves.
Sundaresan and Cheung's research suggests that by doing less monitoring, microfinance institutions (MFIs) could lower their interest rates without hurting their bottom line, provided other safeguards such as joint liability and a credible default penalty are in place. Joint liability reduces the unproductive use of loans and can provide a stronger safeguard against default than monitoring, which is much more expensive to implement. So less monitoring would improve the welfare of both lenders and borrowers.
"Suppose you do less monitoring," says Sundaresan. "Default will potentially go up. But then if the cost of the loan is going to go down, presumably more women will come to borrow. When more women come to borrow, the numbers are going to be in your favor because your portfolio is more diversified. So if you have all the safeguards in place, maybe you should ease off a bit on monitoring."
The researchers found that when borrowers fail to repay their loans in spite of those safeguards, it is often because of an aggregate shock such as a heavy monsoon or an unforeseen epidemic. So lenders could potentially lower their default rates — and their interest rates — by requiring borrowers to purchase microinsurance.
Many MFIs are reluctant to expand the scale of their operations because they don't know what will happen to their default rates. "Whatever default experience you have when you are catering to a thousand women might not hold true when you cater to a million women," Sundaresan says. The same question arises with regard to loan size. "I want to be able to say that this model can apply to 10,000-rupee loans without substantially increasing default," says Sundaresan, who has conducted field research on microloans in India. So far, he has been unable to find an MFI in India that is willing to test his model by experimenting with larger loan sizes.
Another impediment to scale is geographic distance and lack of information. Most MFIs serve a limited area because long-distance lending imposes higher screening and monitoring costs. India's largest private bank, ICICI, is getting around this problem by partnering with small local financial institutions that have better information about prospective borrowers in remote villages. ICICI provides capital at a fixed rate to the local institutions, which lend it out at whatever price the market will bear. ICICI carries the loans on its books, but to give the local institutions an incentive for due diligence it requires them to cover the first 10 percent of the losses.
Even if more capital becomes available at lower interest rates, the fact remains that less than 10 percent of microloan borrowers turn out to be true entrepreneurs. Sundaresan tracked the borrowing patterns of nearly 50 women in two Indian villages over a period of 5 years. The real entrepreneurs borrowed larger amounts each year and gradually increased the scope of their economic activities, eventually pulling themselves out of poverty. Some of them now employ 100 or 200 other women.
For the other 90 percent of microloan borrowers, microfinance may offer only an incremental improvement in living standards. Still, in areas with large pools of unskilled labor, even a small infusion of capital can increase the welfare of a village or region — especially when the money is combined with education and technology. "The real issue," says Sundaresan, "is how do you deliver the capital in a scalable manner and at a rate that is reasonable?"
Suresh Sundaresan is the Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia Business School.
M. Suresh Sundaresan
Suresh Sundaresan is the Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation Professor of Financial Institutions at Columbia University. He has published in the areas of Treasury auctions, bidding, default risk, habit formation, term structure of interest rates, asset pricing, investment theory, pension asset allocation, swaps, options, forwards, futures, fixed-income securities markets and risk management. His research papers have appeared in major journals such as the Journal of Finance...
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Sam Cheung, M. Suresh Sundaresan
"Lending Without Access to Collateral: A Theory of Microloan Borrowing Rates"


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The ASUG Venezuela vision is to be a consolidated, strategic community that promotes the integration of SAP users in Venezuela, creating value for them. The ASUG Venezuela mission is to create and maintain value networks among its members – sharing knowledge that promotes the adoption, optimization, and enhancement of their SAP solutions.
The first ASUG México was founded in 2000 and during Q1 of 2015 was re-launched, with a new administration, objectives and interaction dynamics between all SAP ecosystem members (customers, partners and SAP).
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ASUG MEX is an SAP-independent community, but with the advantage of significant influence in the development of its products and services, invoking the needs and requirements for Mexico's customers, and therefore obtaining solutions with a local focus.
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