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By Melinda Hemmelgarn, M.S., R.D., former Nutrition Specialist, College of Human Environmental Sciences, University of Missouri Extension
As the winter weather hits, keep in mind that outdoor activities can be risky. Snow shoveling can be especially dangerous. Exercise experts say shoveling heavy snow requires as much energy as running 9 miles per hour! In addition, breathing cold air and being exposed to the cold all make the heart work harder.
If you are over 45, sedentary, smoke, have elevated blood pressure, are overweight, and/or have a heart condition, play it safe and get someone else to do the shoveling. Experts warn that snow shoveling is not the exercise to use to start getting in shape.
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Don't shovel snow after smoking or eating a heavy meal. These activities put an extra load on our cardiovascular system. Dress in layers so clothing can be peeled off as the body becomes warm. Overheating puts extra strain on the heart. Wear a scarf over nose and mouth to avoid breathing cold air. Wear a hat to retain body heat. Pace yourself by taking frequent rest breaks. Shovel safely by bending legs slightly at the knee, letting thigh muscles do most of the pushing and lifting work — this will reduce strain on the heart and back. Use a shovel with a small scoop and keep loads light and small. Stay hydrated! You are sweating more than you realize. Be sure to drink plenty of fluids before and after shoveling to replenish the fluids lost in the process.
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The A8 Audi exclusive conceptAudi is introducing an exclusive special edition of its flagship. The A8 Audi exclusive concept with W12 engine (500 hp/368 kW) will be built at the quattro GmbH facility in Neckarsulm. The small-series production model, which is scheduled to begin rolling off the assembly line in March 2014, is strictly limited to 50 units.
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The high school football team in Euless, TX (population 52,900) starts their games by performing the haka, a chanting dance used to intimidating effect by New Zealand's All Blacks rugby team. What's odd/interesting about this is that the Maori chant was appropriated by the team's contingent of Tongan players -- whose parents moved to the town to work at DFW airport -- and has led to a greater sense of acceptance of the Tongans into the larger community. How's that for multiculturalism?


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Hi, I am Danny Batson (Knouse) and I am a lifelong resident of the Chillicothe area. I was born in 1951 and graduated from CHS in 1969. I took over my dad's septic tank business that he founded in 1937. While I have been in every state (except Hawaii and Maine), there is no place like home! I love taking pictures of old and unusual things and sharing them. There is beauty in everything, if we look for it. I have three Facebook pages filled with local pictures that may be of interest: "Where Has Danny Been," Chillicothe Now," and "Danny Batson".
Hi, I am Gary Thomas and I was born just across from Central School in 1942. I graduated from CHS in 1960 and MU in 1964. After two years in Army, I completed a graduate degree at the University of Chicago in 1970. After working in software development for more than 40 years, I retired from Raytheon in 2007. I have an abiding interest in history and in researching past events, places, and people. My latest project is developing a history-based chronology for Livingston County from 1801-2000.
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Since his blog appears in several other Missouri papers, I interject some context for those not familiar with our county's infamous serial killers. Ray and Faye Copeland were tried and convicted of killing five drifters (and likely killed at least seven more) at their farm in Livingston County, Missouri. They were the oldest couple ever sentenced to death in the United States. If you Google "Ray and Faye Copeland" you will find more than enough information. Trust me.
The first part of this story happened when I was cleaning wells as a teen. Over the years, I've cleaned shallow wells from the Iowa line to the Missouri River and from Macon to St. Joe. I must have cleaned a thousand by the time I retired the old four-inch water cooled diaphragm pump. The deepest well I was ever into was over 300 feet deep in Kansas and that was just to say I had been in it. They won't let anyone go down in that one these days. It was scary even to me, at age ten.
The well I want to tell you about is north of Mooresville on a farm owned by a man named Ray Copeland. My Dad was friends with Ray and Faye, so we would stop in now and then to talk about hogs. I knew them in the 60's and 70's. Dad bought lots of hogs back then to raise little pigs. It seemed Dad was always causing more work for me. That's why we never seemed to see things eye to eye; then I would quit helping him for awhile.
Ray asked us to clean a well west of his house in an open pasture. You couldn't see this well until you were right next to it as the top was almost level to the ground. It was about twenty feet deep. Dad lowered me down on a rope after we had pumped most of the water out.
This was the part of a well cleaning I hated. After I filled the bucket and as Dad pulled it up; it dripped on my head every time! Well mud is black and stinks!
After a few buckets of mud were removed, I felt around with my hands and found sticks and other stuff in the mud. The light is not good down in the bottom of a well, but after you are down there awhile your eyes adjust. As I wiped the mud from the junk I was picking up, I realized there were many bones!
Now I knew why it stunk so bad! I yelled up to Dad and told him that there were too many bones and junk down here to clean it any more. Dad then asked me, what kind of bones are they? I said I'm not sure, but that they look like human bones. I've handled lots of bones, but I didn't know the origin of these for certain.
I sent one up in the bucket and that's when Ray appeared suddenly and told Dad he had lost two calves and that's probably what had happned to them. I never heard anymore about the bones from Dad. As I probed through the mud some more I figured that there must have been four or five more feet of mud and tangled bones.
I gave it up and told Dad to pull the rope tight as I'm climbing up the walls. We only made $100 on a well back then and I wasn't about to dig all that stuff for that kind of money. Besides that, I only got half of it.
Ray seemed pleased that we had simply removed the smelly water. He hadn't really expected us to go down deeper into the mud as we usually did. He said he was going to build this well up with bricks around the top.
The Copeland's were always nice to me. Faye and I would have long talks there in the house while Dad and Ray talked outside. Ray was always trying to get me to stay with them for a week in the summer, but I refused. Later in life, I would fix her sewing machine at their house.
One day we got a phone call from Faye and she told Mom that Dad had been cut with a knife and was in bad shape. She needed someone to come out and take him to the hospital. Mom then called me and I rushed to her house and my cousin Mary Ann (a nursing student) had come to go with me.
So Mary Ann and I took my Mom's car and started for Mooresville. I'm doing 100 miles an hour on Highway 36 and at the Grand River bridge the Missouri Highway Patrol had radar and a checkpoint. Needless to say, I had to stop. The officer was extremely mad when he got to my window. He asked me why I was going so fast and I told him. He took my license and said you had better come back this way with your Dsd or you won't get it back!
By the time we reached the Copeland house, Dad had left. We did not pass him on the way, so he must have gone through the bottoms at Locks Springs. I had talked my way through the patrol's road block the first time with the truth, but this time it's going to sound like a lie.
As I pulled near at the bridge checkpoint, the same officer waves me over. He looks in and said: Where is he? All I could do was tell the truth, again. He has to be at the hospital I told him. So he let me go once again. But he kept my license and said, I'll meet you at the hospital when I get done here.
After arriving at the hospital, we still could not find Dad. I phone Mom; still no Dad. Where is he? We cannot go anywhere because the Highway Patrol said to wait there. So we did. It's the end of my driving, I thought. When the officer comes he tells me to get in his car and as he begins to bawl me out, about then here comes Dad. He has a towel wrapped around his forearm that is caked with blood!
Mom had told him that we were at the hospital waiting on him. After Dad talks to the officer for a long time the officer comes back to the car and scolds me for another thirty minutes about speeding. No ticket was issued. Praise the Lord!
Dad never would say how he had gotten cut other than saying that he was simply sharpening his knife. Dad kept his knife so sharp he could shave with it and I had never seen him cut himself. Besides, there is a difference between a stab and a cut.
Dad never dealt with the Copeland's after that day. I would only see them when I fixed her sewing machine.
Only a few years ago, I took my friend, Deputy Jimmy Lightner, over there to see if we could find the well. I could not tell anything from the road because the landscape and my memory had changed so much through the years. They have since built a large pond where I think the well might have been.


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WACO, Texas – The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi men's tennis team sent freshman Kevin Bettendroffer and sophomores Javier Pujol and Ricardo Mayagoitia to compete in the USTA/ITA Texas Regional Championships in Waco, Texas. The largest Division I tournament in the state of Texas started today and continues through Tuesday, Oct. 22 on the campus of Baylor University. All three Islanders advanced to the round of 64 in singles play and the duo of Bettendroffer and Mayagoitia advanced to the round of 32 in doubles action. The Islanders defeated players from TCU, Texas Tech and Rice to advance to the second round of competition.
"I thought we competed very very hard today as a team," Director of Tennis Steve Moore said. "In my opinion, this is one of the toughest tournaments in the United States and Texas is the toughest regional. I was especially impressed with Ricardo in both singles and doubles. I feel like Javier and Kevin are improving tremendously. I think the second round showed us that we have a lot of work to do which is an important message to get at the beginning of the year."
Bettendroffer cruised to a 6-4, 6-0 win against Guiherme Gesser of Abilene Christian before dropping a 6-2, 6-3 loss to No. 3 seed Shane Vinsant of Texas A&M in the round of 64.
Pujol also picked up a straight-set victory with a 6-4, 6-2 win over Rice's Leif Berger. In the round of 64, Pujol fell short 6-1, 6-1 to No. 9 seed Arnau Dachs of TCU.
Mayagoitia put together an impressive first-round victory in singles play against Carlos DiLaura of Texas Tech. The sophomore fell behind early 4-1 in the first set, but bounced back to even the set at 5-5 before winning two straight games to win 7-5. In the second set, the sophomore fell behind 5-1 before rallying back to garner a 6-5 lead and win the tiebreaker 7-3. In the round of 64, Mayagoitia dropped a 7-6 (2), 6-4 loss to Facundo Lugones of TCU.
Bettendroffer and Mayagoitia teamed up in doubles play to start the day. The duo topped Andres Alfonzo and Blake Wiiggins of TCU 8-2 to advance to the round of 32. In the second match of the day, the Islander pair fell 8-3 to Rice's duo of Tommy Bennett and Adam Gustafsson.
For all the latest on Islanders Tennis, like the team on Facebook (IslandersTennis) and follow them on Twitter and Instagram (@IslandersTennis).


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The tragic, pre-Oscar passing of Mickey Rourke's chihuahua, Loki, is clearly the most ill-timed thing to have happened since Barack Obama's grandmother died just before the election. Join us for a Loki retrospective.
As these pictures show, both on and off the red carpet, Rourke only had eyes for Loki. Our chihuahua-compiling research also turned up evidence that before The Wrestler came out last year, Rourke used to host a weekly, Loki-dedicated night of karaoke at Rokbar in Miami. He did this shirtless, wearing a black leather vest, as is the custom in Florida.
Rest in peace, Loki. You died too late to join the "In Memoriam" pool, but we'll be saving our applause for you regardless.
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Forbion Capitals: Two new oncology experts
10.12.2012 - Forbion Capital Partners (Naarden, Holland) has hired two oncology experts as scientific advisors to its funds. Dr. Kapil Dhingra (Photo) is a former Global Leader Oncology at Roche, while John Kastelein is a Professor of Medicine at the University of Amsterdam's Department of Vascular Medicine.
The two will be advising on oncology and metabolic disease investment opportunities respectively. Dhingra is a medical oncologist and physician/scientist. The founder of KAPital Consulting LLC used to head Roche's Disease Biology Leadership Team. Dinghra became VP Oncology at the Swiss pharma giant after joining the company in 1999. There he played a key role in the expansion of the firm's oncology department. Before that he had worked as a Clinical Research Physician at Eli Lilly and at the M.D.. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston (US). A former board member at BioVex and Micromet, Dhingra is also on the board of Exosome Diagnostics. Kastelein is a co-founder of Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics N.V. (now uniQure B.V.) and Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (formerly Xenon Genetics Inc.).
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It's a grand month for seasonal singing, December is, and here in the Bay Area, it may well be that the week already upon us is the very grandest.
First, we have those accomplished troubadours of international repute, the Bay Area-based a cappella ensemble Chanticleer, already making the rounds of the churches, missions and cathedrals hereabouts with its annual, eagerly awaited "A Chanticleer Christmas" program. Twelve gifted men, who have been dubbed a functioning "Orchestra of Voices," weave their tenor, bass and baritone lines seamlessly into a polyphonic stream of gorgeous music from across the ages. Franz Biebl's iconic "Ave Maria" is a surefire staple, demanded of them every year at this time. Also on this year's program are Praetorius' "Est is ein Ros entsprungen" ("Lo, how a rose e'er blooming"), Poulenc's "O magnum mysterium," works by Arvo Pärt and Spanish composers and carols and gospels arranged by Joseph Jennings, the ensemble's former music director, and others.
The group's Berkeley concert is behind us, alas, but for my money, the very best place to see them is in the gargantuan, lofty nave of Oakland's Cathedral of Christ the Light, 2121 Harrison St. That concert takes place at 8:15 p.m. Friday, and an added bonus for concertgoers is that the cathedral is launching its third annual Creche Festival that same evening. Local floral designers and artists have created Nativity scenes for each of the meditation chapels in the cathedral, and downstairs in the Event Center, viewable before and during intermission, will be up to 50 other creches created by parishes from all over the Diocese of Oakland, now celebrating its 50th year.
The remainder of Chanticleer's holiday program run takes place at these venues: St. Ignatius Church in San Francisco at 8 p.m. Saturday and Dec. 23; St. Vincent Church in Petaluma at 4 and 8 p.m. Sunday; the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento at 8 p.m. Tuesday; the Carmel Mission at 6 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 21; and Mission Santa Clara at 6 and 8:30 p.m. Dec. 22. Tickets, $30-$65, are at 415-392-4400 or 800-407-1400 or www.chanticleer.org.
human ANGELS WE MAY HEAR ON HIGH: Accomplished choral director Susan McMane, rather unceremoniously edged out of her job as music director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus last season after 11 years, is back with a new project and ensemble of her own called the Young Women's Chorus of San Francisco. And if the lineup on her board of artistic advisers is any indication, she appears to have some heavy-duty backing indeed. S.F. Symphony Chorus director Ragnar Bohlin is on board, as are mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade and soprano Zheng Cao, former S.F. Symphony Chorus director George Vance, and S.F. Opera cellist, chamber musician and soloist Emil Miland, among others.
Having had an inaugural fundraising concert back in October, the group of about three dozen young singers ages 12 to 18 is ready for a formal debut this weekend in Oakland and San Francisco. "Celestial Voices -- Heavenly Music for the Holidays," with McMane conducting and harpist Karen Gottlieb and pianist Ron Valentino providing accompaniment, takes place at 8 p.m. Friday at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Oakland and 8 p.m. Saturday at St. Mark's Lutheran Church in San Francisco. The program is a mix of traditional and contemporary works and features the premiere of composer (and advisory board member) Frank La Rocca's "Nunc Dimittis," which McMane describes as "full of contrasts, moments that sound like ancient plainchant, others that contain counterpoint like mysterious angels speaking, and still others that have bold, solid harmonies creating a beacon of light." Benjamin Britten's gorgeous "A Ceremony of Carols" is on the bill, rounded out by works by Mendelssohn, Handel, Verdi and more.
Tickets, $10-$28, are available at 415-312-7787 or www.ywcp.org.
MORE GLORIOUS SINGING: None of us will have to drop big bucks or even leave home for this extravaganza, an operatic smorgasbord featuring some of the finest sets of pipes in the world. At noon Sunday, KQED Channel 9 will rebroadcast the 37th annual Richard Tucker Music Foundation gala telecast, an event that is unfolding Thursday at Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall in New York. This year's Tucker Award winner is the fabulously gifted soprano Ailyn Pérez, a 2005 alum of San Francisco Opera's Merola program and the Chicago-born daughter of Mexican immigrants who becomes the first Latino winner in the history of the award. The lucky woman gets to appear on stage with her hubby, tenor Stephen Costello, the 2009 recipient, which makes them the first husband-wife awardees as well. Other dazzlers in the two-hour "Live From Lincoln Center" telecast include baritones Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Gerald Finley, mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina, tenor Marcello Giordani, bass Ildar Abdrazakov and bass-baritone Erwin Schrott. Broadway star Audra McDonald hosts.
Perez and Costello, by the way, are appearing in San Francisco Opera's just-announced new season, in the starring roles in Verdi's "La Traviata." And Abdrazakov will be the devil jumping up in the company's season-opening production of Boito's "Mefistofele."
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It's not every day a gal from Co. Kerry gets to visit the bright lights of Hollywood for the purpose of work, and it's certainly not every day she gets an opportunity to visit the house that most men dream about in their sleep, a house that only allows drop-dead gorgeous girls through its doors, and a house that if the walls could talk the stories would be something else.
An opportunity arose a few weeks ago that I couldn't turn down.
After seeing a few episodes of the hit E! television show Girls Next Door, which focuses on the day-to-day life of Playboy creator Hugh Hefner and his buxom young girlfriends, I became familiar with Mary O'Connor.
O'Connor is Hefner's personal secretary, friend, housemother and confidant and works in a tiny office in the upstairs of the Playboy Mansion. She has been a loyal servant to him for more than 40 years.
O'Connor intrigued me even more because she looked so like anyone's Irish grandmother, and as it turns out O'Connor's own grandmother is from Co. Tyrone.
Elated and still in disbelief after securing an interview with her, I enlisted the companionship of Irish Voice resident photographer Nuala Purcell to document our trip.
We left New York on Wednesday, April 7 at 7:30 a.m. After a six-hour flight we landed in sunny LA fresh as daises and ready for what was ahead of us.
Work began immediately. Nuala and I spent the afternoon conducting interviews with Irish immigrants who are trying to break into the movie/television business in LA.
It was all go so an early night was a necessity to prepare for our much-anticipated trip to the Playboy Mansion.
Running just on time, Nuala and I grabbed a light breakfast the following morning and settled nicely into our funny-looking red vehicle.
About three seconds later Nuala noticed a problem. The car wouldn't start. This couldn't be happening.
As Nuala frantically tried to start up the car, I looked at my watch. We only had 58 minutes to get to our scheduled interview. MapQuest told us the journey would only take 25 minutes, but in LA traffic this was going to be a nightmare. Would we make it at all?
Quick thinking had me running across the car park and into an Enterprise office (how lucky we were to have parked the car in the same location as our car rental provider).
A dose of quick verbal diarrhea had the little red headed man behind the counter on his feet in no time.
Yes, as we thought, the car engine had died (no we didn't leave the lights on!)
"I don't have any rental cars at this moment," he said.
"What," I screamed.
"But I do have a truck, an F150," he added.
Before Nuala could say her piece I told the little red head we would take it. Within minutes he had the paper work drawn up and a big roaring tuck (that a lot of Irish burly construction workers travel to Manhattan in every day) at our side.
I'd never seen Nuala drive so fast. My watch was telling us we had 39 minutes to get to our 9:30 a.m. meet.
The gods were on our side this time, and we pulled up to the gates of the famous Playboy Mansion in Beverly Hills at 9:29 a.m. on the dot.
Picture the scene -- the driveway is super narrow, made for little BMWs and Porsches. Our big roaring truck just about made it up the windy road (signs saying "Playmates at Play" welcoming us) and into the front yard of the most famous house in America – well, in California anyway.
As we took in our surroundings briefly we were met with the mansion's press guy, Rob, who kindly gave us a tour of the downstairs before introducing us to the woman of the hour.
Of course I'd seen all the rooms before. Hef's lounge where he catches up with friends and watches movies, the breathtaking foyer adorned with pictures and cut-outs of Hef and his girlfriends, and the dining room where we conducted our interview with 82-year-old Mary O'Connor.
ALTHOUGH extremely modest and camera shy, O'Connor kindly agreed to do this once off interview. She doesn't give them much, so we were very pleased when she allowed us into her world.
As previously mentioned, O'Connor's grandmother, Sarah Brigham Taner, emigrated with her siblings from Co. Tyrone in the mid-1800s for a better life in the U.S. They settled in Pittsburgh, and soon enough Sarah feel in love and married a German music professor who lived in America.
O'Connor's father was born in 1896. The family moved around a lot and it was in Berlin, Germany that O'Connor's parents met.
"My mother was studying music in the Berlin Conservatory of Music when she met my father," said O'Connor.
O'Connor's parents finally moved back to the U.S. and O'Connor was born in Chicago as Mary Feuchtinger. The O'Connor part comes from her fourth husband.
Before ever working for the founder of Playboy Enterprises, O'Connor had an exciting life. She married a man 11 years her senior when she was just 18.


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Buybacks Among S&P 500 Slow in Q3
Companies in the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index spent less on share repurchases in the third quarter compared to a year earlier and the prior quarter, according to FactSet Research. That slowdown, however, could be short lived as some big companies like General Electric and United Technologies recently announced plans to ramp up buyback activity.
Over the quarter, companies in the index spent $93.4 billion on buybacks, a 15.1% decline from the second quarter and a 25.8% drop year-over-year.
Most quarters would have a difficult time keeping up with the pace of buybacks in the third quarter of 2011, which marked a nineteen-quarter high for the dollar amount spent on buybacks. That quarter also matched the quarterly high for the number of companies repurchasing shares, with 377.
Despite the relative decline, companies continue to spend high levels of their free cash flow on share repurchases. On a trailing twelve-month basis, spending on buybacks amounted to 65.3% of free cash flow, and a number of sectors even outspent their free cash flow, FactSet found. The consumer discretionary and consumer staples sectors spent 106.8% and 116.3% of their free cash flow, respectively, on buybacks. Meanwhile, the energy and utilities sectors spent $38.6 billion and $1.9 billion, respectively, repurchasing shares despite generating negative free cash flow.
In terms of dollars spent, the information technology and financials sectors spent the most on repurchases in the third quarter, buying back shares worth $17.3 billion and $16.5 billion, respectively.
As the Journal's Kate Linebaugh reported last week, companies look primed to continue spending billions on buybacks next year, "a sign that companies have the cash to put to work but don't yet see an economic case for using it to expand their businesses or create jobs." General Electric recently said it plans to buy back $10 billion of stock over the next three years. United Technologies will resume share repurchases of as much as $1 billion in 2013, and Boeingid it could buy back twice that, Linebaugh reported.
Despite the deceleration in share buybacks, share counts in the S&P 500 fell over the third quarter. Aggregate shares outstanding amounted to 299.1 billion, which is the lowest level since the fourth quarter of 2008. Since 2005, the index has actually averaged year-over-year, quarterly dilution of 2.7%, FactSet said. However, this growth occurred primarily during the financial crisis, and year-over-year share growth has been less 1% or less for each of the last four quarters.


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Huge Gains for Cancer Prediction
New Genetic Research Makes Huge Gains for Cancer Prediction
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A new cancer study is all over the news today, highlighting a batch of cancer "markers" that can help predict the disease earlier than before. It's a testament to both how far we've come in our research to predict and treat cancer, and further how far we've got to go in finding a cure.
Researchers looked at biomarkers of more than 200,000 cancer patients, combining the data to better predict which gene variants can lead to cancer; specifically breast, prostate and ovarian cancers. Those three cancers affect about 2.5 million people worldwide, and they're all driven by sex hormones.
The study was a massive undertaking by a collaboration of 160 different research institutions, called the Collaborative Oncological Gene-environment Study (COGS), resulting in doubling the variants previously known to increase cancer risk. Now 74 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) linked to cancer risk have been decoded and are being studied. Nature Magazine has handily cataloged the COGS papers here, alongside helpful editorial content highlighting the main themes of research.
The news, as tends to happen, isn't an immediate fix-all for current cancer patients, and it may take a while to understand what's possible as a result of the study. There's still an enormous amount of unknowns even with the discovery of 74 new genetic red flags, and certain cancers (ovarian, namely), present enormous hurdles to research. Researchers also cautioned that genetic markers alone won't be a sole predictor of cancer risk and prevention. But it's a step forward, and patients may one day be able to take a genetic test that can more accurately predict their cancer risk.
What else can patients look forward to? In addition to the nearly 1,000 medicines currently in development to treat cancer, in a few years we may have highly accurate tests based on these genetic biomarkers that can predict cancer risk. If a patient has a high genetic risk, which can be determined early in life, they may opt to get screened much earlier. We might be able to fine-tune testing for people with these malignancies and personalize their treatment plan much earlier than ever before. Incremental advances in detection, treatment and innovation, like today's COGs discovery of genetic biomarkers, can eventually save lives.
Curious to learn more about incremental innovation and what's it's doing for cancer patients? Check out this Boston Healthcare Associates paper from last year, "Recognizing Value in Oncology Innovation".


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Well, I guess it was only a matter of time.... heck even I've been thinking about using 3d printers to build (at least part of it anyways) a surfboard...
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Well, I guess it was only a matter of time.... heck even I've been thinking about using 3d printers to build (at least part of it anyways) a surfboard...
I wonder if it can build me a girl friend?
I don't know about 'enemy' status.....if I were the 3D board guy, I'd be franchising the heck outta that technology to enable local shapers to do an even better job of creating terrific boards for local surfers.
Just my 2 centavos
As cool as it sounds, I feel like this is something that's too "tech" too fast for something that's seems like it's remained pretty much unchanged since boards were first made from foam and fiberglass. Or correct me if I'm wrong. I don't know ****.
don't know about surfboards (and i somehow doubt the viability of that particular business model) but i think 3d printing would be ideal for fins - would it not be awesome to just be able to play with fin designs on some kind of CAD program and pop them out in a few minutes right in your garage?
I wouldn't worry. Didn't you notice that turd they use an example? Seems like all the 3D printer does is make the framing for a hollow board.
I work in the 3d biz and I think its a pretty revolutionary advancement. Right now you can get a 3d printer for your desktop and print fins out you design on your computer. the material used is plastic but it wouldnt take much to have it say print a foam material.
the computer wiped out the typesetting industry overnight, literally. 3d printing has the ability to do that to any number of industries.
Still not as dangerous as their #1 Worst Enemy...
...Getting a real job
I don't know, I don't think shapers have too much to be worried about. There will always be guys who would rather have a Sunova than a FireWire. Same board fundamentally, right?
Except that the Sunova costs twice as much and has that something extra. Whatever it is.
Surfing is more than the machine.


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Definition of signature in English:
1A person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a cheque or document or concluding a letter: the signature of a senior manager
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- A petition is nothing more than a list of names, addresses and signatures with your cause written at the top of each page.
- The group began with the signed letter of September 5 with more than 800 signatures and verified the names and identification.
1.1 [mass noun] The action of signing a document: the licence was sent to the customer for signature
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- Mr. Pierson would send to each Academy member a document for signature.
1.2A distinctive pattern, product, or characteristic by which someone or something can be identified: the chef produced the pâté that was his signature [as modifier]: his signature dish
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3.1A printed sheet after being folded to form a group of pages.
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Health and outdoors calendar: Cardiovascular and stroke risk screenings
Published: Wednesday, February 6, 2013 at 3:15 a.m.
Last Modified: Monday, February 4, 2013 at 6:32 p.m.
Amedisys Cares: Needs volunteers to provide support to terminally ill patients and their families in Spartanburg, Duncan, Lyman, Wellford and Greer. Training is provided. 864-541-7159.
Overeaters Anonymous: 7 p.m. Mondays. YMCA of Greater Spartanburg, 226 S. Pine St. 621-7901.
Salsa dance classes: 7:45 p.m. Thursdays. Ages 13 and older. Taught by Gordon Owens at Ballet Spartanburg. First class is free; four classes are $48; eight classes for $80. 583-0339.
Gentle beginners yoga: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Thursdays. Instructor Liz Connell. Wear loose comfortable clothes. Mats provided (you can bring your own.) Four classes $48; eight classes $80. Ballet Spartanburg, Chapman Cultural Center, St, John St. Walk-ins welcome or register at 583-0339.
Bounce Back support group: 6-8 p.m. Every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. A free confidential drug and alcohol group. New Day Baptist Church, 2090 S. Church St. Ext. Call 573-7592.
Journey to Recover from Addiction: 9 a.m. Saturdays. Bible-based. 150 S. Forest St. Call 205-9742.
Yoga boot camp: 9:15-10:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday. Leslie Lehman, instructor. $10 drop-in; $80/8 classes. Chapman Cultural Center, Dance Studio 4 of Ballet Spartanburg, East St. John Street 612-8333.
Domestic violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Kids' domestic violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Sexual violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
LGBT interpersonal violence support group: 4:30-6 p.m. Thursdays. SAFE Homes-Rape Crisis Coalition, 236 Union St. 583-9803.
Tai chi for cancer survivors: 5:30-6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Improves balance, breathing and relaxation. Free. Gibbs Cancer Center, 101 E. Wood St. 560-6747.
Yoga for cancer survivors: 5:30-6:45 p.m. Thursdays. Free. Gibbs Cancer Center, 101 E. Wood St. 560-6747.
TOPS: 6:30 p.m. Tuesdays. Take Off Pounds Sensibly. Rosecrest Community Center, 200 Fortress Road, Inman. 864-439-4746.
Anyone in the Upstate with Larygnecedemees who would like to participate in a support group, call 864-515-0098.
Roebuck Garden Club: 3 p.m. "Heart to Heat Valentine Tea." Dexter Brown from Kennedy Street Florist, speaker. Devotion by Emily Rhodes. Mount Calvary Presbyterian Church, 1399 Walnut Grove Road, Roebuck.
Mobile Mammography: 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Bring your insurance card and identification. Family Physicians at 290, 175 E. Main St., Duncan.
Cardiovascular and stroke risk screenings: 7:30 a.m.-4 p.m. Free. Heart Wellness Center, 299 Pearl St. Call 560-7999 for appointment.
AYSO Region 132 spring soccer registration: 4:30-8:30 p.m. Westside Library, 525 Oak Grove Road. www.ayso132.org.
Spartanburg Ski & Outing Club: 7 p.m. Will feature the Outdoor Recreation Coordinator from Spartanburg Parks and Recreation. Non-skiers welcome. The Chapman Cultural Center, 200 E. St .John St. 592-3405.
CPR Saturday: 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Not for a school or job requirement. Recommended for ages 8 and older. Westgate Mall, Costco mall entrance. 590-7999.
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Substance Abuse and Addiction Health Center
How Does Marijuana Affect You?
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If you've ever smoked a joint or eaten a pot-laced brownie, you're hardly alone: More than 1 in 3 people in America have tried marijuana at one point in their lives.
Though occasional use isn't usually harmful, pot can affect your body and mind any time it gets into your system. Here's what you need to know.
Physical Effects
Marijuana comes from the hemp plant Cannabis sativa. It has an active ingredient called THC that makes you feel high. THC and other compounds in marijuana can also affect the way your body works.
Most people smoke the plant's dried leaves, flowers, stems, and seeds. But marijuana can also be mixed into food (like brownies, cookies, and lollipops), brewed as a tea, or inhaled with a vaporizer.
No matter how it gets into your system, it affects almost every organ in your body, and your nervous system and immune system, too. When you smoke pot, your body absorbs THC right away. (If you eat a baked good or another item, it may take much longer for your body to absorb THC, because it has to break down in your stomach before it enters your bloodstream). You may notice changes in your body right after you smoke. The effects usually stop after 3 or 4 hours.
Smoking pot can increase your heart rate by as much as two times for up to 3 hours. That's why some people have a heart attack right after they use marijuana. It can increase bleeding, lower blood pressure, and affect your blood sugar, too.
We don't yet know if marijuana is linked to higher odds of getting lung cancer. But the process does irritate your lungs -- which is why regular pot smokers are more likely to have an ongoing cough and to have lung-related health problems like chest colds and lung infections.
Other physical effects of marijuana include:
- Dizziness
- Shallow breathing
- Red eyes and dilated pupils
- Dry mouth
- Increased appetite
- Slowed reaction time (If you drive after using marijuana, your risk of being in a car accident more than doubles.)
If you're a long-time user, you can have physical withdrawal symptoms -- like cravings, irritability, sleeplessness, and less appetite -- when you stop.


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District Five is a unique and diverse area that includes eight municipalities and a Native American Community.
I am proud to represent more than 450,000 constituents throughout Avondale, Buckeye, Gila Bend, the Gila River Indian Community, Glendale, Goodyear, Guadalupe, Phoenix, Tolleson and many smaller communities.
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Avondale - In the late 19th century, Avondale was a pit stop on the main thoroughfare for folks racing to the 'Golden Coast'. Today, this vibrant city is a premier destination for International NASCAR racing, festivals, shopping, dining, recreation, education, family living, employment and business location.
Buckeye - Founded in 1888 and incorporated eight decades ago as a 440-acre town, Buckeye has surged into the 21st century with a planning area of almost 600 square miles. While Buckeye's population of about 30,000 residents is expected to increase at a rapid rate over the next few decades, the family-friendly festivals sprinkled throughout the year help maintain the small-town feel that makes Buckeye a nice place to visit – and to live.
Gila Bend - Gila (pronounced "hee-la") Bend, named for the sharp bend in the Gila River. It is located near a prehistoric Hohokam Indian Village which Farther Eusebio Francisco Kino visited in 1699.
Gila River Indian Community - The Gila River Indian Community, located in central Arizona, affiliates its people and its government with a tribal seal symbolizing the Gila River bringing life to the Sonoran Desert. The seal is illustrative of the Community's farming history.
Glendale - In 1880, the land that is now Glendale was nothing more than empty desert. But in 1882, William J. Murphy joined three Arizona builders to lead the Arizona Canal Co. project, which would bring water to the desert land. World War II brought the birth of Thunderbird Field to train civilian pilots for the Army. The military and college presence sparked a need for utilities, parks, schools and streets.
Goodyear - A city with a rich, rewarding quality of life and great community spirit. Nestled near the base of the Estrella Mountains, Goodyear is one of the fastest growing cities in the State. Yet it offers all the advantages of a small community – less traffic, safe neighborhoods day and night, and a friendly atmosphere that lets you feel at home right away.
Guadalupe - The Yaquis fled their traditional homeland along the Yaqui River in Sonora to avoid persecution and enslavement by the Mexican government under Porfirio Diaz. Residents voted to incorporate the town in 1975.
Phoenix - Phoenix is the capital and the most populous city of Arizona and the county seat of Maricopa County. It was incorporated as a city on February 25, 1881. Its physical location is along the banks of the normally dry Salt River.
Tolleson - We will retain the foundation of our family oriented, friendly, small town atmosphere. We will support a positive, diverse growth environment that maintains and enriches the quality of life for everyone.


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New Zealand, 2012, 68 Minute Running Time
Genre/Subjects: Biopic, Documentary, GLBT, Medical/Health
Programs: Cinema Q, DocumentaryLanguage: English
DIRECTOR: Grant Lahood
Producer: John KeirEditor: Grant LahoodScreenwriter: Grant LahoodCinematographer: Grant LahoodPrincipal Cast: Mani Mitchell
Intersexion director Grant Lahood admits he knew very little about intersex people when he started filming his documentary. Like others, he thought theirs was an extremely rare condition. Lahood soon learned that one in 2,000 babies are born with ambiguous genitals; their bodies cannot be classified as either male or female.
In the 1950s, sexologist Dr. John Money of Johns Hopkins Medical School developed a model for raising intersex children. Basing his theory on nurture rather than nature, he suggested to parents that they pick a gender for their children and have them surgically altered to fit that choice. Under a veil of secrecy, intersex children were often sent away to undergo invasive and painful surgeries. At puberty, hormone treatment was recommended to reinforce their given sexuality. But, as those interviewed in the film testify, there were serious physical and psychological consequences. Doctors told one intersex child, "You're not male, you're not female, you're nothing." Years later, Dr. Money's medical model was discredited and parents were encouraged to leave an intersex child's anatomy alone. Those born with the condition previously termed hermaphroditism now have a sense of belonging as they discover others among their "tribe."
Lahood selected Mani Bruce Mitchell, New Zealand's first "out" intersex person, to narrate the film, and interviewed intersex people from South Africa, the United States, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, and Australia. "We set out to find and talk to as many intersex people, from all over the world, as we possibly could," Lahood says. "To let them tell their stories and offer an insight to the rest of us just what it's like to grow up in an intersex body. The resulting film is a deeply personal, very moving, frank and funny exploration of a subject that is quite possibly the last taboo."
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Intel Shares Down on Earnings Slide, Weak Outlook
Inteles are down in late trading after the tech giant's fourth-quarter earnings topped Street views, as revenue fell in the company's biggest business segment and the company's margins tightened, and the chip maker struggles in a world that's moving quickly from PCs to mobile computing.
Intel earned $2.5 billion, or 48 cents a share, on revenue of $13.5 billion, and while that topped Street views, it's down from earnings of $3.4 billion, or 64 cents a share, on revenue of $13.9 billion a year ago. Its "core" earnings were 51 cents a share, above Street consensus of 45 cents a share.
Gross margin fell to 58% from 64.5% a year ago.
Shares were down 2% in late trading at $22.21.
Revenue in the company largest business segments was down. PC Client Group revenue fell 6% from a year ago to $8.5 billion, revenue in the Data Center Group rose 4% to $2.8 billion, and revenue in the catch-all "Other" group, which includes mobile chips, fell 7% to $1 billion.
For 2013, the company projected a revenue increase in the low single-digit percent range – 2012 revenue came in at $53.3 billion – and gross margins rising to roughly 60%.
As Dow Jones' Andrew Fitzgerald noted, the first-quarter outlook was a disappointment:
Intel's core 4Q profit of 51c tops Wall Street's dour estimate with in-line revenue and gross margins at 58%, edging over analysts' average forecast.
Yet chip maker's midpoint $12.7 billion sales target falls short of the consensus $12.91 billion view. CEO Otellini says Intel's "strong product pipeline" sets company up "to bring a new wave of Intel innovations across the spectrum of computing" in 2013 — question remains when that wave hits the top line.
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Zynga's Outlook Troubles Investors
Zynga's second quarter was not as dreary as many analysts expected, but the company provided little assurance that the business was on the mend.
On the contrary, Zynga's report on Thursday fanned investor fears, as the company issued a weak forecast and announced that it was officially giving up on becoming a real-money gaming outfit in the US.
The troubled games maker said sales fell 31% to $231 million, while bookings — the amount of in-game virtual good purchases and ads sold — fell 38% to $188 million. It posted a loss of 2 cents a share.
Also worrying for some investors was an announcement the company made that it would give up on its real-money gaming efforts in the U.S., an area many analysts thought would eventually become a big money driver for the games company. Zynga, which has a partnership with Bwin.party, a British real-money gaming outfit, said it is still evaluating its products in the United Kingdom, but says it is committed to its core mission of focusing on "free to play social games."
While the results suggest that Zynga is still struggling to ramp up its mobile business, the company beat analyst expectations on both the top and bottom line.
The stock was initially flat in after-hours trading immediately following the report, but soon fell as much as 13%.
"To say that this is a story in transition, would be kind," said Jordan Rohan a Stifel Nicolaus analyst.
Don Mattrick, Zynga's newly minted CEO, was cautious in a statement, warning of more volatility over the next two to four quarters. "We need to get back to basics and take a longer term view on our products and business," the former Microsoft executive said in a statement.
He also mentioned the need at Zynga for "efficient processes" and the need to tighten up execution, hinting at the possibility of future cuts. The caution was further reflected in the company's outlook for the third quarter. It is projecting sales to come in lower, at $175 million to $200 million, with a net loss of $43 to $14 million.
Zynga, which rose to prominence on popular Facebook desktop games like FarmVille, has struggled like many of its peers to attract consumers, as more spend more time on smartphones.
Over the past year, it has tried to diversify its offerings by putting more resources toward building new mobile games and pursuing so-called mid-core games, which offer more complex visuals and plots.
But Zynga is still bleeding users. In the second quarter, the number of daily active users fell sharply to 39 million, from 72 million. Meanwhile, monthly users fell just as steeply, by 39%, to 187 million.


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Adium is a fast and free instant messaging client which supports AIM, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo!, Google Talk, Yahoo! Japan, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, Novell Groupwise, and Lotus Sametime. Adium supports beautiful WebKit message display, tabbed messaging, encrypted chat, file transfer, and more. Give it a try; you won't look back.
Adium is currently translated into Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Icelandic, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Swedish, and Traditional Chinese.
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Tags: chat , im , msn , jabber , aim , icq , twitter
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Outstanding Mac app! Only 2 problems:
1) File transfers can be a bit flaky at times.
2) Forget A/V chats.
The only problem with Adium is that it's mac-only :-)
A really great app!
Adium is almost unusable for ICQ. Adium 0.8x drops messages (http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/3024 is only marked "fixed" for Adium 1.0) and Adium 1.0 beta doesn't even connect to ICQ in many situations http://trac.adiumx.com/ticket/4522
I prefer Fire http://osx.iusethis.com/app/fire – it has less fancy features, but works.
the best chat program i have ever used! tons of customizations & works with so many chat clients. They just need to add voice and video to this and I will uninstall every other chat program i have (except skype ;-) )
As an instant messenger, unmatched in features and configurability. As an open-source project, it's the model of efficiency and organization. Five stars.
As a recent switcher to the Mac universe, I was initially findin it difficult to chat with my friends and family. iChat which is include with the Mac (I think) has a pre-requistite that your friends also use iChat (I thin .Mac membership is needed for this).
Eitherway, I could not chat with anyone until one day I found this app. Now I can chat with my friends and family as this App works with other Messenger Apps.
Definitely worth a trying. You will love it...
Best application on OS X.
Rob: http://adiumxtras.com/ <- Make adium more Mac feeling for you!
Adium is just awesome (and not because I beta test for them!)
My only issue with Adium has been that file transfers on our private Jabber network doesn't seem to work (iChat has the same problem as well). It's the best cross-protocol IM client that I know of but I tend to stick with iChat at the moment despite Adium's message log search being infinitely superior.
It battled my awkward proxy and won! Well till the beta came out anyway
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Justin Williams continues to rise in Diamondbacks' organization
Published: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 4:06 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 at 5:32 p.m.
Former Terrebonne High standout Justin Williams continues his rapid rise in the Arizona Diamondbacks baseball organization.
Williams, drafted 52nd overall in the 2013 draft by the Arizona Diamondbacks, was promoted to the South Bend Silver Hawks of the Class A Midwest League on Tuesday.
Williams started out playing in the Arizona Rookie League for the Diamondbacks affiliate, but he quickly made the rise through the Missoula Osprey of the Rookie Pioneer League earlier this month before being called up to the Midwest League.
In his stint with the Missoula Osprey, Williams (6-foot-2, 215-pounds) hit .412 with six doubles and 12 runs scored in 11 games. In the Arizona Rookie League, he led the AZL D-Backs in batting average, RBIs and doubles (12), and he topped the league in hits (51), tied for second in RBIs and was third in batting average.
Williams turned 18 on Aug. 20. His next move up would possibly be to the Advanced A, Double-A or Triple-A affiliates in the Diamondbacks organization.
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Luckily there is a fresh crop of football crazed Yids here!
Welcome back Conman!
Can't remember you Conman, maybe before my time, but welcome back anyway!! Don't get many posts on here nowadays and I don't think this new format will help.


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Sage Francis wrote: Lazurus,
if you want, show up to the club early and introduce yourself. I may be busy as all hell but I'll be able to introduce you to some good people. We'll be at the club no later than 6. I would hope to get in there earlier than that. Hopefully 5. Hopefully before that so that I don't have a hemorrage.
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Published: Monday, March 25, 2013 at 8:15 a.m.
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RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More winter weather on the week before Easter in the western North Carolina mountains.
The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for nine counties; for most of them through 6 p.m. Tuesday.
A winter weather advisory is in effect in northern Jackson County.
Forecasters say between 3 inches and 6 inches of snow is possible in Graham, Haywood, Madison and Swain counties. Up to 8 inches is possible in the higher elevations.
Between 5 inches and 10 inches of snow is possible in Ashe and Watauga counties.
Early Monday, light snow was reported in Franklin and Boone.
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We deal with applications from people whose needs are within the aims of the charity. We prioritise those individuals catastrophically injured playing rugby. Families and dependents of such people can also apply for help.
The application process is explained in the "Grant Applications" section of this site. If you are not sure if you would be eligible for help or not, you can phone, e-mail or write to us for advice.
All applications will be considered. You can see in the "Grant Applications" section some of the projects we have supported. Common requests that are funded include:
The charity does not fund general household expenses such as food, clothing, utility bills or vehicle fuel costs.
An applicant's financial resources are considered as part of the assessment process as the charity has limits on its funds. Projects may be partly funded or an agreed percentage of a project cost agreed with the applicant. The majority of smaller projects (£2,000 - £5,000) are supported in full.
We may also need to consider the financial status of a partner and your outgoings for dependents.
There is no age limit applied as long as you meet the criteria in our charity's aims. If the applicant is a minor, the grant would be made to an agreed parent, guardian, carer or supporting agency.
This is not essential. We understand that catastrophic injuries may mean that the applicant's family, dependents or legal representative may have to apply on their behalf.
Once it is established that a person is suitable for funding within the aims of the charity, a person is eligible for the small grant programme which is a single annual payment up to a maximum of £2,000 currently. Each client is allowed only one small grant application each year. Each large grant application is considered on its own merits taking into consideration individual's circumstances. It is understood that, particularly in the early stages after a catastrophic injury, a person has many needs that are not always immediately apparent.
There is no specified maximum grant though it is rare for sums in excess of £10,000 to be funded for budget reasons. Most grants paid out are for £2,000 or less. Because of the availability of other grants such as Motability, motor vehicles are normally only funded up to 50% of the vehicle cost.
Generally not. The Grant Making committee does reserve the right to seek medical advice and applicants must consent to this if they are to receive funding support. The charity has two senior consultants as Trustees and they can manage medical matters in consultation with the applicant's GP or specialist. If detailed medical information is required, the applicant will be sent a request including a formal consent form.
All applications are treated in strict confidence. No information regarding an application is divulged by the charity to any other party without the express permission of the applicant. In such a rare case, the charity would agree with the applicant the information to be disclosed and the reason for its disclosure.
The charity's staff will be happy to discuss any aspect of an application and will treat such discussions with the same confidentiality as the application itself. The charity aims to minimise the bureaucracy around applications because we are sensitive to the fact that catastrophically injured people have to endure many such processes for benefit funding and other matters. If you are not sure that your project or request is suitable for funding, we can give an indication of the likelihood of success. If the matter is complex, we can do also visit an applicant at home to discuss their application.
The charity has a small office staff for day-to-day management of the charity. There are 12 Trustees who are responsible for the charity policy and budgets. The Trustees have a range of experience in medical, financial, business, caring and rugby matters. The Trustees must ensure the charity is managed in an efficient and effective way and in accordance with the Articles and Memorandum of the charity. The charity operates in compliance with Charity Commission guidance and charity law. Annual Reports and Accounts are lodged with the Charity Commission and may be viewed on their web site: www.charitycommission.gov.uk.
Absolutely. Once the IPF is alerted of a potentially catastrophic injury, immediate assistance is provided. We will ensure that you are supported throughout your rehabilitation and, if the injury is permanent, throughout your life.
The IPF helps anybody who is catastrophically injured whilst playing rugby union in England, regardless of their nationality. Everyone is treated in exactly the same manner. The IPF also works with an overseas player's club or team to contact family and help them during the injured player's time in England.
Whatever support is needed the IPF would endeavour to help. The IPF's Injured Player Welfare Officer will often be at the hospital in the early days to help a player and family. He will ensure the appropriate financial support is available and help with social services provision. He will liaise with a player's club on all manner of things, including trust funds and how to deal with local media requests for information. Once players are home the IPF funds home improvements, relocation where appropriate, and communication aids. Players are also eligible for VIP tickets for Twickenham international matches. Help is always tailored to a player's individual requirements.


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Tuesday evening sitting at the football game I came to the realization I should live in a warmer climate during the cold months of the year. I'm very much a wimp when it comes to being cold and if cold enough, I can even get a little crabby.
There is nothing I dislike more than being cold. It feels like you will never warm up. Walking is difficult because I cannot feel my toes. All I want then, is to crawl in bed with lots of heavy blankets, my toes surrounded by heavy socks and the blankets up around by chin.
You think I'd be used to it, being cold that is. Growing up, our house was old and the upstairs had no heat except for the warm air that rose from the floor furnace in our dining room. During the winter my bedroom would be so cold, there would be frost on the panelled walls. It was OK back then and now I even laugh and tease Mom about putting me in a bedroom with no heat.
Maybe like the thought for the week, we can will ourselves warm, but sitting at the game, I just couldn't will anything. The time wasn't running fast enough and those darn refs kept stopping the clock! At halftime, I was confident of a victory and could have gone home, but I wanted to be a good sport.
For over a week now we have been working on our 2014 budgets for the newspaper and I was looking forward to an evening out of my office. It will come, it's Wednesday morning as I write this and tonight I plan to sit on my warm couch, snuggled in a warm blanket, in my warm sitting room, watching something on TV or reading, while I sip on some warm tea. There, where there's a will, there's a way.
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Life itself can't give you joy, unless you really will it; life just gives you time and space, it's up to you to fill it. – author unknown.
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The Daily Startup: Amplify Partners Launches to Back Early-Stage Tech Infrastructure
Top stories in today's VentureWire:
Sunil Dhaliwal, a former partner at Battery Ventures, has launched his own fund, Amplify Partners, to back early-stage companies in technology infrastructure. Though several partners and principals have left venture firms in recent years to start their own venture funds, most are focused on consumer Web, digital media or software-as-a-service, rather than funding the technologies that power those businesses, such as databases, software development tools and network performance. That is what Dhaliwal intends to do with Amplify.
With $6 million in Series A funding led by Floodgate Fund, Connected Data is hoping that a new twist on cloud storage can help it stand apart from the many startups that are already targeting that space. The company's founder is Geoff Barrall, its chief executive, who previously founded storage companies BlueArc, which sold to Hitachi Data Systems for almost $600 million, and Drobo. Its product, Transporter, is a networking device with a hard drive that uses a cloud service to link together different Transporters or a Transporter and a different computing device. Unlike other cloud backup and filing-sharing services, Connected Data only makes the connection between the devices; it doesn't store or send and files, file names or metadata about files.
Also in today's VentureWire, PagerDuty, whose software aggregates errors from IT monitoring systems, has raised $10.7 million in Series A funding led by Andreessen Horowitz and including LiveOps Chairman Maynard Webb, Opscode founder Jesse Robbins, and current investors Harrison Metal, Baseline Ventures and Ignition Partners…Animal-health drug developer Aratana Therapeutics has secured $12 million in Series C financing from all its previous backers and new undisclosed investors, as it plans to see its drugs earn 12 regulatory approvals by 2017. Aratana acquires the animal-health rights to human drugs and develops them for dogs and cats…and Israel Cleantech Ventures has closed its second fund with $74 million, overcoming the negative views of the clean-technology investment sector held by some. Black Coral Capital and Sustainable Asset Management were some of the investors behind the fund, according to Jack Levy, a partner at the firm.
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Elsewhere around the Web:
A majority of small business owners in a recent survey said social-media tools are valuable, but most aren't impressed by venture-backed Twitter. Only 3% of 835 business owners surveyed by The Wall Street Journal and Vistage International said Twitter had the most potential to help their companies. LinkedIn topped the survey.
With less venture funding available to them, European startups are more frugal than their U.S. counterparts and that has paid off, according to data from Dow Jones VentureSource.


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PDF Merge
A simple drag and drop application that allows you to merge several PDF files into one PDF document.
Simply drag and drop multiple PDF files onto the program icon. The program will sort your files by name, and then you will be prompted to place them in order (if necessary) for the merge. You will be prompted for a file name for your new PDF file, and the merged PDF file will appear on your desktop.
Required OS: 10.4
Tags: pdf , join , combine , merge , concatenate
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As I wrote in my previous post, there's also iCombiner. It does just the same. For FREE!
And for Tiger you have PDFLab. It also does just the same. For FREE!
And these two apps also allow you to combine a bunch of images into a PDF file. For FREE!
shoregeek and tee_cee - Good point, but remember, Tiger OSX 10.4 cannot do this for free. Thanks!
Preview (part of the OSX system) does a great job of this -- and its FREE! :)
And with iCombiner too.
And with PDFSam
This can be done FOR FREE with Preview (that comes with Mac OS X).


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RENO, Nev. - The Vikings cross-country team left the competition in its dust Friday.
Both the boys and girls cleaned up at the Division 1-A Northern League Championships and will advance to state finals Saturday in Boulder City, Nev.
The boys, who are two-time reigning state champions, claimed first place overall with Conner Henderson leading the way for the second year in a row.
Henderson set a blistering first-place pace, averaging 5:30 a mile. He charged over the finish line at 17:04, a good 11 seconds faster than the second-place runner.
Harley Norton was right on his teammate's heels, with an 18:03 finish (5:49/M), which was good enough to earn him seventh place.
South Tahoe averaged a time of 18:08, with help from Tyler Myers (13th, 18:16), Dylan Maxwell (18th, 18:36), Ross Kovac (21st, 18:40) Logan Evans (27th, 19:01) and Conner Rettig (30th, 19:13).
The boys bested seven schools to earn a trip to state championships and a chance to defend their title in Boulder City, Nev. They will be joined by the top four finishers - Elko, Truckee and Spring Creek, which finished second, third and fourth respectively.
Girls claim third
The freshmen girls led the lady Vikings to a third place finish overall.
Freshman Tatum Whatford flew over the finish line in seventh place with a time of 21:49 and an average mile of 7:02.
Freshman Riley Rettig turned in a 10th place finish, charging in at 22:12 with a 7:10 average mile time.
Karley Martinez (15th, 22:30), Rebecca Novak (16th, 22:34), Emily Treat (18th, 22:39), Cara Filce (21st, 23:10) and Lauren Tang (23rd, 23:19) all contributed to the Vikings' team average of 22:21.
The girls ran against six schools and will meet Elko, Truckee and Spring Creek in the state finals Saturday.


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Published: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 9:10 a.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 9:10 a.m.
Prudential Lifestyle Realty is holding its annual coat drive through Dec. 15. Drop off new or gently used, clean coats at the downtown Hendersonville office.
Coats will be donated to the Hendersonville Rescue Mission. All sizes and types of coats are needed.
Prudential Lifestyle Realty is located at 130 South Main St., Suite B, in Hendersonville, next to PSNC.
Parking is available in front of the building and in the reserved lot behind the building.
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Member photos of the day from the month of August
Female mallard landing. (photo by Cecil Calloway)
Hunting with our future. (photo by Matt Slosar)
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This double-crested cormorant makes a large catch. (photo by Bill Houghton)
Wigeons coming in. (photo by Jordan Lybeck)
A small group of mallards resting on ice in mid-December. (photo by David Bunchalk)
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Waiting for the snow geese (photo by Willie Gloe)
Buck at six and a half months, on another fine Texas hunt. (photo by David Leos)
0 A pair of hooded mergansers takes off from glass-like water at the Edwin B. Forsythe NWR, Oceanville, NJ. (photo by Eric Reuter)
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2 This is a pre-hunt photo of my yellow lab Banks. He is eargerly waiting for me and my brothers to put the finishing touches on our decoy spread in a cut corn field. (photo by Collins Prescott)
3 My chessie, Satilla, wishing for some duck action. (photo by Jason Jennings)


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