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SANTA CLARA -- Quarterback Alex Smith came one play or so away from directing the 49ers to the Super Bowl last season. This season, they reached the big game with Smith playing a backup role.
"I would be lying if I said it wasn't a little bittersweet," Smith said Wednesday. "Yeah, I want to be out there. It's what you work for coming into the season. That was the mindset. That was the goal for me."
Smith fell short of his goal as a result of a concussion he suffered against the St. Louis Rams in the ninth regular-season game. Coach Jim Harbaugh opted to stick with second-year player Colin Kaepernick once Smith recovered well enough to resume playing.
If Smith is bitter about how things played out, he isn't letting on. In keeping with his professional approach, he is going about his business as the backup and supporting Kaepernick and his teammates.
"It's the nature of sports," Smith said. "He got an opportunity, stepped up and made the most of it. That's the deal. That's how I got my start in college. It was no different. The guy in front of me got hurt. That's how I got my first start. It's just the nature of team sports."
Smith keeps things in perspective by viewing things through the lens of overall perspective.
"It is a team sport and these are my teammates," Smith said. "You go through so much together, especially these guys who have been here for a chunk of time. If you can't be happy, there's something wrong with you."
As for Kaepernick, Smith said he isn't surprised by how well he has played since he took the reins. He is impressed by just about everything Kaepernick does.
"No question, out there you see the playmaking ability on the practice field," Smith said. "For sure. You saw it in preseason. The thing I'm shocked by is the consistency. He hasn't done the thing that a lot of quarterbacks do, which is lose the game for a team. He's done a great job of preparing."
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- Jun 4:
- Chavez has early lead in Santa Clara County's District 2 race
- Jun 2:
- Election on Tuesday to replace George Shirakawa Jr. in Santa Clara County District 2 likely to have low turnout
- Santa Clara County supervisor election: Meet the candidates
- George Shirakawa Jr. is convicted but not sentenced; can he vote?
- May 14:
- Mike Honda: Cindy Chavez the best choice for Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors
- May 6:
- Four other candidates competing for vacant Santa Clara County Board of Superviors seat
- May 4:
- Candidate profile: Teresa Alvarado campaigns for reform in wake of Shirakawa scandal
- Candidate profile: Cindy Chavez seen as both savior and polarizing figure
A campaign for Santa Clara County supervisor in District 2 should have happened a year ago, when George Shirakawa Jr. was up for re-election. If the county administration had been doing its job, Shirakawa's misuse of taxpayer and campaign money that resulted in five felony charges this spring would have come to light earlier, and he would have been challenged in 2012 -- perhaps by Teresa Alvarado or Cindy Chavez, the front-runners in this June 4 special election, or both. As it was, he ran unopposed.
Alvarado will fight for accountable county management and above-board rather than backroom governance. We recommend her.
The cost of the special election, up to $2 million if a runoff is needed, is a fraction of what county incompetence has cost residents in tangible and intangible ways. The East and Central San Jose district is the one with the lowest income and the greatest need for county safety net services, such as health care. It needs a representative who is respected and trusted both within the district and countywide.
There are six candidates on the ballot, but the race is between Alvarado and Chavez, the two-term San Jose city councilwoman who lost the 2006 mayoral race to Chuck Reed. More recently she has headed the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and its policy arm, Working Partnerships USA.
Both Chavez and Alvarado are exceptionally intelligent and have life and professional experiences that prepare them for this job. Chavez has experience in elected office, while Alvarado has worked mainly in the private and nonprofit sectors. She has headed the Hispanic Foundation and is now communications manager for the Santa Clara Valley Water District.
We think the Board of Supervisors and District 2 need a fresh outlook rather than Chavez's deep ties to the unions that hold enormous power in the county -- her interests and theirs are indistinguishable -- and to the Shirakawa political machine.
Alvarado served as a community member for this editorial board before she ran for the supervisor seat won by Mike Wasserman in 2010. Now she's back in District 2, where she grew up, and which her mother, Blanca Alvarado, represented for years. Regardless of her district, Alvarado would fight for the rights and welfare of working people. In fact, on some questions in our editorial board interview, her answers seemed more consistent with the union script than Chavez's. But we trust Alvarado to be objective if union priorities collide with the long-term good of the county.
Alvarado also would work to end the polarization of civic activists in District 2. There are always cliques in politics, but Shirakawa and his allies and aides -- San Jose Councilman Xavier Campos used to work for him -- took it to the extreme. They set themselves up as power brokers to decide who should run for City Council and even school board openings, which usually are treated as nonpolitical.
Chavez claims to know nothing of this, oddly. She says she wouldn't do anything similar, but Alvarado would actively work at breaking up the cliques.
Chavez certainly could hit the ground running, but Alvarado is a quick study and has a deep bench of support from experienced leaders.
There are four other candidates on the ballot: Joseph La Jeunesse, a deputy sheriff; Scott Hung Pham, a community college instructor; Patricia Martinez-Roach, a kindergarten teacher and former school board member, and David Wall, a retiree who rants at City Council meetings. None of them is qualified for the job.
Santa Clara County faces challenges ranging from health care reform to huge pension and retiree health care debts. Chavez and Alvarado would approach them with District 2 residents at heart -- but Alvarado would be an independent voice and a fighter for accountability of county workers. She is the best candidate.


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Larose man killed in crash
Published: Tuesday, April 23, 2013 at 2:42 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 at 9:45 a.m.
A Larose man was killed in a two-vehicle crash Tuesday morning on La. 3235 in Lafourche Parish after his vehicle struck another vehicle in the rear, State Police said.
The victim was identified as Jason Guidry, 46, of Larose.
A 2006 International single unit flatbed truck, driven by Gary Bourgeois, 61, of Westwego, was traveling south on La. 3235 at the La. 3162 intersection when a southbound 2006 Chevrolet Silverado driven by Guidry struck the International in the rear.
Upon impact, a large welding machine in the rear of the Silverado slid forward, crushing the cab around Guidry and trapping him, police said. Guidry, who was wearing a seat belt, was pronounced dead on the scene by the Lafourche Parish Coroner's Office.
Bourgeois, who was wearing a seat belt, was transported to Lady of the Sea Hospital in Galliano with what authorities described as minor injuries.
Alcohol use is not suspected. Routine toxicology tests are pending for Guidry. Blood was taken from Bourgeois and test results are pending.
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A few weeks ago I ran my first half marathon. The rest of that day, and all the next day, my foot felt fine. However, that 2nd night after, my foot started feeling like it needed to be "popped" or "cracked" like a knuckle.
So I started wrenching on it, trying to pop it, but no, no pop. It started to hurt though. The days after that, it was fairly painful to walk on. Even now... 11 days after the half, when I get up in the morning it's a sharp pain when I walk, but the pain goes away after a short time, maybe 10, 15 minutes after first walking on it.
After about a week, I noticed that I had bruising on the side of my foot. In the picture below, I've indicated the bruising - not very heavy bruising, but enough to notice. The purple X indicates the focal point of the pain. When this first started, if I pressed there, it would hurt, but now it doesn't. When the pain was the worst, it felt fine to walk tippy-toe, and I'd do that to get up stairs. The pain comes mostly when I stride, flexing the foot while bearing my body weight.
So..... could this be a stress fracture? If not, what else? I'm thinking I'll stay off of it a few more days, to make it 2 weeks since the half before running on it again, and see how that feels.
And yes, the left half of my big-toe nail is black and has been for a few months from something else entirely.
Thanks in advance for any tips, etc.
I'm going to guess (I don't have any medical training) it's not a stress fracture. From what I understand stress fractures tend to have increasing pain as an activity goes on. So if you said it feels fine when I get up but hurts more as time goes by - then I might think stress fracture. Pain upon initial movement after long periods of non-movement (i.e. sleeping) which then feels better sounds more like a tendonitis or other soft-tissue problem. The area where you're having issues is generally where the Peroneal tendons run. Maybe you've got some tendonitis. It's a little hard for me to tell from the pic but when you say "bruising" is there discoloration or just swelling? If just swelling that points even more, in my opinion, to tendonitis. If there's discoloration - that would lead me to believe something more like a sprain, but I assume you didn't have any sort of traumatic event, especially since it felt OK right after the race.
Rest and ice seems in order. If it doesn't improve over a few days I'd probably go to a podiatrist and see what a pro has to say.
Good luck.
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Thanks for the feedback. By bruising, I mean discoloration.... it was kinda reddish brown, then kinda green, but the discoloration is gone now.
I haven't run now for 2 weeks (since the half).... and think this is probably healed up now.... probably just a flesh wound. Another medical issue is keeping me from running now, so this has kinda gone to the back-burner as far as ailments go.
New problem is torticollis... not running-related, but any movement causes great pain, so I won't be able to run probably until later this week at the earliest. Oh well, at least it's forcing me to stay off the foot!
First, congrats on your Half, although it appears you have paid a steep price in pain. I want to second Jim's comments above on your foot, but have to ask you about your neck, since it is bothering you enough to stop you from running.
By "torticollis," are you referring to a true "wry neck," or just stiffening of the neck that prevents normal movement. There can be different causes for the condition and different "cures" to match, but stiff or twisted necks are pretty easy to find out there, and often due to postural issues during work (common), sleep (also common), while sitting watching tv or computer (all too common), or the occasional muscular strain while reaching or lifting overhead (less common but can produce a nasty case of it). The rarest forms involve nerve compression or other neurological and spinal causes that may be simple or difficult to treat. If the average chiropractic adjustment does not make it disappear (could make it worse), it is probably more complicated.
A patient of mine in his mid-eighties, who was a hurdler in college, had gotten used to his head being tilted to one side. We often see this in the elderly, and it is often due to accumulated stresses or lifestyle issues that gradually take their toll. In his case, the unequal stress of taking hurdles with the leading leg so many years ago had probably caught up with him. In a few minutes on my table I had straightened his neck again by working on his chronically tight Sternocleidomastoid muscle, which can easily pull the neck to one side. He was greatly relieved.
I've had a case of my own lately that might not be true torticollis, but prevents me from turning my neck from side to side or moving it rearward. I can solve it in seconds my placing my fingers in the groove between my collar bone (clavicle) and upper Trapezius muscle, and probing for tender spots underneath where the Levator Scapula and Posterior Scalene muscles can be found. Instant range of motion, but I hurt this area so bad when I was hoisting a 24' ladder overhead, that the problem returns intermittently. It will eventually go away after the muscles have fully recovered from the strain.
In cross section, you can see how much of the mass of your body is represented by muscle tissue that is rich in sensitive nerve endings. It doesn't take much for a little pain somewhere in all this meat to spread throughout the area, even though the pain is often blamed on comparatively tiny structures like the neck bone (6th cervical) that you see at right center. This is a recurring theme when symptoms are discussed. People are curiously slow to notice the 800 pound gorilla in the room. ..
About your foot, there is a muscle in the region highlighted in your photo, called the Extensor Digitorum Brevis, that can produce cramps in the toes and pain in that area because of its sensitivity. Activate the muscle by extending your toes upwards with your foot flat on the floor as depicted. If you place a finger on the area in your photo, you can feel it flex when you do this...
While the pic from Gray's partially obscures the Extensor Digitorum Brevis with the superficial Cruciate Ligament, the muscle begins way back at the heel bone, extending underneath the Peroneal tendon sheaths, on its way to the toes. Because of this, its pain symptoms range from the toes to the area you describe. Swelling in these muscles can actually widen the foot so shoes seem tighter than they really are. Restrictive shoes (based on your photo, I think yours may be too tight) stifle circulation in these muscles and irritate them. They also prevent the natural motion of the muscle to lift the toes with every footstrike. Look for a longer, wider shoe with a roomier toe box and better flex in the sole (it should have special "flex grooves" to promote this movement).
Another muscle underneath the EDB that travels from the heel along the base of the foot to the little toe, is called the Abductor Digiti Minimi. You can activate this muscle by spreading your toes outward, where its action to "abduct" the little toe to stabilize lateral motion of the foot comes into play. One important symptom of strain in this muscle is feelings of ankle sprain that show nothing on x-ray or mri. The pain pattern even more closely matches your description, even extending rear to the heel. Pressure from the muscle may cause some of the discomfort that begs "popping."
Be careful, when massaging these muscles, not to irritate them further. Avoid wearing elevated shoes or notoriously unstable shoes like flip flops, although there are probably a number of well-constructed, supportive exercise sandals that may give them relief.
Hi James,
Thanks for the info!
Torticollis is the closest thing I could find to what I experience... this started a few years ago and happens about twice a year. Usually this happens in the morning after getting up and showering. I'll feel something akin to shocks shooting through my neck muscles and through the muscles that run down my back parallel to the spine. This usually takes just a few seconds and will consist of about a half-dozen pulses of shock. These "shocks" seem to cramp up or "spasm" small strips of muscle. These will then be very painful if any stress is put upon them and take a few weeks to heal. For example, right now, just walking upright puts sufficient stress upon the muscles in my neck that I walk with a tilt to my head to compensate - i.e., to lessen the pull on those muscles. It's very painful. Even moving my head in my sleep causes a sharp pain that wakes me up. I suspect that it may have something to do with dopamine, and I'm trying to get in to see an MD specialist for evaluation.
As for the foot thing, it's much better now (about a week since my original post), and I do suspect it may have been a touch of tendonitis or other soft-tissue stress. While this bout of torticollis is a royal pain in the neck - literally - it's given me extra time to rest my foot.
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Here's an update. After the half marathon, I took off a few weeks because of this foot issue. Then I had an attack of torticollis, which prevented me from running for another week.
By then, the foot pain was gone... it healed up apparently.
I ran M W F, then again M W, then this last weekend participated in the Spokane To Sand Point Relay (http://www.spokanetosandpoint.com). My three legs of running added up to 12 miles. The foot was fine, no indication whatsoever of any trouble.
So, I think - and hope - this is all resolved.
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United States Department of Agriculture
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Cotton Ginning Laboratory(Stoneville, MS)
1a.Objectives (from AD-416)
The objective of this cooperative research project is to provide ginning and testing services to the cotton industry.
1b.Approach (from AD-416)
The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will provide small-scale and large-scale ginning services to the cotton industry to expand and expedite public and private research programs. Scientific evaluation of ginning characteristics and fiber properties will be provided to establish optimum cotton production practices and ginning procedures.
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At the 2012 SemTechBiz San Francisco Conference, SemanticWeb.com and WebMediaBrands will award one company the prize as "Top Semantic Technology Start-Up." From 12:30 pm - 3:00 pm on Tuesday, June 5th, companies will have the opportunity to compete on stage as they deliver their pitches before a panel of expert judges! The companies competing have met the following conditions:
"Using 6Builder For Content Based Marketing Automation On Twitter" George Ludwig, CEO, 6Builder.com
"Presenting 'BigData.ProjectWare'" Sesh Raj, President, DSAPPS INC
"BrainSpace: The Dawn of the The Post-Search Era" Dave Copps, CEO, PureDiscovery Corporation
"Callimachus Enterprise: Web-scale Data Integration" David Wood, CTO, 3 Round Stones Inc
"DishTip - What To Eat and Where" David Schorr, Founder, DishTip
"FlatWorld: Your 'Glu' in the Global, Digital Economy" Michael McDonald, President and CTO, KimmiC Kim McDonald, Exec. V.P., Flat World Navigator, KimmiC
"Solving the Problem of Engineering Data Complexity" Oleg Shilovitsky, Co-founder and CEO, INFORBIX
"Enterprise Linked Data Clouds: a third dimension in data integration" Giovanni Tummarello, CEO, SindiceTech
"seevl.net : YouTube music, one level up" Alexandre Passant, CEO, seevl
"Vital.AI Presents Thrive.AI, an Personal eCommerce Agent" Marc Hadfield, CTO, Vital AI
"Ultrawrap by Capsenta: semantically enabling your relational database assets" Juan Sequeda, Founder, Capsenta
"Saplo Predictive Text Analytics" Mattias Tyrberg, Founder & CEO, Saplo
We have assembled a panel of expert judges for the pitch contest, ensuring careful evaluation and a lively afternoon.
MODERATOR: Eric Franzon, Vice President of Community, SemanticWeb.com Prior to that he was VP of Wilshire Conferences/Semantic Universe, where he led educational and community efforts for professionals working with enterprise data and Semantic Technologies. Since 2004, he has worked to raise awareness and explain the usage of semantic technologies in business and consumer settings. A lifelong learner and teacher, Eric is frequently called on as a consultant, coach, and trainer around complex technical topics. He is an Advisory Committee representative with the World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org) and is an advisor to Chris Shipley's Guidewire Group (http://www.guidewiregroup.com).
Phil Aucutt, CEO, TeamPatent, the patent platform that enables intellectual property professionals, enterprises, and governments to unlock innovation by reducing the complexity of creating and prosecuting patents through the use of semantic technologies and innovative collaboration services. Phil was an advisor and board member to TeamPatent prior to assuming the CEO role, and leading the pivot to focusing on the enterprise and government organizations. Bringing a background in private equity and venture capital Phil advises other startups in the Bay area such as quantiFind and First Retail.
Mike Dunn, CTO, Hearst Interactive directs all of Hearst's enterprise technology initiatives, manages the enterprise Program Management Office, performs venture related technology due diligence and coordinates all strategic technology relationships. He is also the go to person for exposing Hearst's traditional media businesses to emerging media technology trends and capabilities. Finally he oversees and coordinates Hearst's sponsorship of the MIT Media LAB and the partnership Hearst has with Northerwestern's Kellogg School of Management, related to technology initiatives. Dunn joined Hearst Interactive Media in July 2003. He had been chief technology officer at Encoda Systems, a global supplier of sales, traffic, programming and financial systems for the broadcast industry. Before Encoda, Dunn spent much of the last decade in CTO roles including Time Warner, where he was the Corporate CTO and also lead technologist for the Time Warner Digital Media Investment Fund, and was the founding CTO of Dell's online division. Earlier in his career, Dunn held senior technology-related posts at True North Communications, a global ad agency; Turner Broadcasting; Hanna-Barbera Studios; and Americast, a joint venture of Walt Disney Co. and four telephone companies.
James Hendler, Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Hendler has authored over 200 technical papers in the areas of Semantic Web, artificial intelligence, agent-based computing and high performance processing. One of the inventors of the "Semantic Web," Hendler was the recipient of a 1995 Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, is a former member of the US Air Force Science Advisory Board, and is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, the British Computer Society, the IEEE and the AAAS. He is also the former Chief Scientist of the Information Systems Office at the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and was awarded a US Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Medal in 2002. He is the Editor-in-Chief emeritus of IEEE Intelligent Systems and is the first computer scientist to serve on the Board of Reviewing Editors for Science. In 2010, Hendler was named one of the 20 most innovative professors in America by Playboy magazine and was selected as an "Internet Web Expert" by the US government.
Mark Johnson, CEO, Zite, the personalized magazine app for iPad, iPhone and TouchPad, recently acquired by CNN. Mark was an advisor to Zite for almost two years prior to taking the CEO role and was instrumental in the pivot from Worio to Zite. He brings a strong product and technology background with experience at several successful search startups: Powerset (natural language search, acquired by Microsoft), Kosmix (categorized search, acquired by Walmart), and SideStep (travel search, acquired by Kayak). Most recently, he led product at Bing in San Francisco. Mark's passion and mission at Zite is to change the way people discover and browse content.
Chris Shipley, CEO, Guidewire Group (former Executive Director, DEMO Conference) drives the company's strategic vision and business operations. A leading technology analyst for more than 25 years, Chris is passionate about entrepreneurship as the driver of economic growth and job creation. She has built a career on identifying emerging market opportunities and the innovative startups poised to capitalize on them, and as executive producer of the DEMO conference from 1996 to 2009, helped companies including WebEx, VMWare, salesforce.com, TiVo, Xfire, Ribbit, and Ironport make their market debut. In June 2010, SD Forum presented Chris with its prestigious Visionary Award for her work with young companies. She sits on the board of CSR-management software company Versaic, and is an advisor to a number of early stage companies.
The winning company will win the opportunity to give a half-hour presentation at the official SemTechBiz conference program on June 6 at noon and will receive an award on stage at the final keynote. Additionally, the winning company will be featured in an article at SemanticWeb.com, to include interviews with key company officers and/or investors.
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Near where the morning shadows of the World Trade Center used to fall is the 27-story Solaire, America's first "green" high-rise residential building. This 293-unit rental building in New York City has received a LEED Gold Certification from the U.S. Green Building Council.
A significant green component in the Solaire is a membrane bioreactor-based wastewater treatment and recycling system installed in the basement, which provides reclaimed water for use as fixture flushwater and cooling tower makeup. This is the first urban, residential treated wastewater reuse application permitted in the United States. The wastewater system, with a capacity of 25,000 gallons per day, also supplies reclaimed water to an adjacent apartment building currently under construction. With further treatment, the water is used for subsurface irrigation in the adjacent Teardrop Park. The wastewater system and its associated equipment was designed and furnished by Hillsborough, N.J.-based Applied Water Management, and began operation in January 2004.
The use of multiple features enabled the Solaire to capture all of the LEED Water Efficiency Credits and to qualify for the financial incentives offered under the New York City Department of Environmental Protection Comprehensive Water Reuse Program, which offers a 25% reduction in water and sewer charges for buildings with reuse systems that reduce potable water consumption by at least 25%. Also, implementation of the reuse system and other water conservation measures, along with compliance with other parts of Battery Park City Authority's Green Guidelines, enabled the Solaire to qualify for New York State Green Building tax credits.
The designers set up the wastewater treatment system to provide flushwater for all the toilets in the Solaire and the adjacent building at site 18B, to provide a portion of the cooling tower makeup for both buildings, and to provide water for subsurface irrigation in nearby Teardrop Park. The wastewater and recycling system at the Solaire was designed with a nominal capacity of 25,000 gallons per day with an influent waste stream of typical domestic wastewater: biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) concentrations in the range of 250 to 280 mg/L, total suspended solids (TSS) of 220 to 250 mg/L, and total nitrogen of 40 to 50 mg/L.
The building's operating engineers established a testing protocol that included initial operation of the system for two weeks with effluent going to drain. During this two-week demonstration period, the effluent was sampled three times per week for the several parameters and, after demonstrating successful compliance, was introduced into the treated effluent storage tanks. This began the initial operation period with a three-month duration during which the effluent was sampled weekly. The system was granted final approval by the Health Department when it met quality standards of less than 10 mg/L BOD and TSS, fecal coliform less than 100 colonies/100 mL, and turbidity less than 0.5 nephelometric turbidity units.
Treatment tanks consist of a series of common wall, cast-in-place concrete tanks partially recessed below the basement floor level to provide sufficient headroom over the tops of the tanks. Treated effluent is stored in two fiberglass tanks.
Tanks and Pumps
The building sewer is routed to a 6000-gallon-capacity interceptor or feed tank, which is located adjacent to the trash trap tank but at greater height above the basement floor. This tank is aerated using coarse-bubble diffusers to keep the tank mixed and to avoid septic conditions. Duplex solids-handling centrifugal pumps are mounted on top of the adjacent trash trap, with suction lines passing through the wall of the feed tank. The discharge line from these pumps rises to an elevation above the invert of the overflow from this tank, which connects with the sewer mains in the street.
An air/vacuum relief valve is installed at the high point in the pump discharge line to prevent siphoning when the pumps are not operating. The pumps are controlled by levels in the water storage and treatment tanks to provide sufficient influent to the treatment system to meet the recycled water demand. The volume of the building's wastewater not needed to meet reuse water demands flows through this feed tank to the public sewers. Valves are installed on the building sewer lines so that the treatment system can be bypassed.
Wastewater from the feed tank is pumped into a 9890-gallon, cast-in-place concrete tank termed the "trash trap" for removal of non-biodegradable solids. Effluent from the trash trap flows by gravity into the subsequent treatment tanks. This tank is vented through the odor control system to the building roof.
Biological Treatment
The biological system combines both aerobic and anoxic biological processes. Wastewater from the trash trap tank is transferred directly into the anoxic reactor section of the treatment tank. The incoming wastewater provides a carbon source for denitrifying bacteria that reduce nitrate and nitrite in nitrified mixed liquor. The anoxic reactor is mixed via periodic injections of air. A coarse-bubble diffuser system is provided to distribute air within the anoxic tank. Even though there is no nitrate limit for this system, an anoxic zone was incorporated in the process in order to recover some of the alkalinity consumed by nitrification.


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TV's 'Waltons' storekeeper Joe Conley dies at 85
Published: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, July 10, 2013 at 10:25 a.m.
THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. (AP) — Joe Conley, an actor best known as the small town storekeeper on the TV series "The Waltons," has died at age 85.
The Los Angeles Times reports Tuesday that according to wife Louise Conley, Joe Conley died at a care facility in Southern California on Sunday. She says he had suffered from dementia.
A native of Buffalo, N.Y., Conley had bit parts on 1960s series like "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" before he landed the role on CBS's "The Waltons" in 1972 that would last nearly a decade.
Conley played Ike Godsey, postmaster and owner of the Jefferson County general store frequented by the Walton family in Depression-era Virginia. He would appear in 172 episodes over nine seasons and in TV movie reunions that lasted into the 1990s.
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POSITION: Defenseman
SHOOTS: Left
BIRTHPLACE: Stockholm, SWE
DRAFTED: WSH: 2001-221 overall
|Posted career highs with seven goals, including four game-winning goals, 22 assists and 29 points in 82 games during the 2008-09 regular season with NJD … Compiled a career-most 149 blocked shots in 2010-11 with NJD ... Skated in a regular-season career-high 31:14 on March 29, 2012 vs. STL ... Notched a postseason career-best eight points (3G, 5A) in the 2013 Stanley Cup Playoffs with Chicago … Named to the 2010 and 2014 Swedish Olympic teams and won a silver medal at the 2014 Olympics … Won the Stanley Cup in 2013 with Chicago.
|2013-14: Earned 16 points (3G, 13A) in 77 regular-season games with the Blackhawks … Ranked fourth among team defensemen and fifth overall with 20:06 of ice time per game … Ranked third on the team with 114 blocked shots … Scored the GWG on his 32nd birthday on Oct. 1 in the season opener vs. WSH … Skated in a season-high 26:05 of ice time on Oct. 15 at CAR … Recorded a season-high two points (2A) on Nov. 9 at DAL … Appeared in his 100th game as a Blackhawk on Dec. 11 vs. PHI … Missed five games due to injury (Feb. 5-7, April 3-6) ... Registered seven points (2G, 5A) in 19 Stanley Cup Playoffs games … Equaled his postseason career best in assists … Ranked fourth on the team with 21:53 of average ice time … Recorded a postseason-high 36:33 of ice time in Game 1 of the Western Conference First Round at STL on April 17 and netted Chicago's opening goal of the 2014 playoffs … Notched a playoff career-high two points (1G, 1A) in Game 5 of the Western Conference Final vs. LAK on May 28, including an assist on the game-tying goal.
2012-13: Registered 12 points (3G, 9A) and a +12 plus/minus rating in 48 regular-season games … Blocked a season-high six shots on Feb. 2 at CGY … Notched a season-high four hits on Feb. 17 vs. LAK … Equaled a career-long four-game point streak (4A) from Feb. 17-24 … Registered a season-high 28:37 of ice time on Feb. 19 vs. VAN … Netted goals in back-to-back games on March 14 at CBJ and March 16 at DAL … Skated in his 500th career game on April 6 at NSH … Tallied his 100th career assist on April 12 vs. DET … Registered postseason career highs in nearly every statistical category in 23 playoff games en route to the 2013 Stanley Cup championship … Notched eight points (3G, 5A), including his first career playoff goal on May 5 at MIN … Shared third in the NHL with a club-high +12 rating … Shared first among team defensemen and fourth among league blueliners with three goals … Ranked third in the NHL with a team-high 49 blocked shots … Skated in a regular and postseason career-high 37:20 on June 12 vs. BOS … Tallied the secondary assist on Chicago's Stanley Cup-winning goal in Game 6 on June 24 at BOS.
2011-12: Registered 18 points (3G, 15A) in 81 regular-season games with Chicago and WPG … Tallied one goal, four assists and a +3 rating in 18 regular-season tilts with the Blackhawks … Posted a season-high six blocked shots and a career-high 31:14 of ice time on March 29 vs. STL … Posted his first goal and assist and his first multi-point game in a Blackhawks uniform on March 9 vs. NYR … Posted 13 points (2G, 11A) and 33 PIM in 63 regular-season matchups with WPG … Shared second on the club with three points (3A) in six appearances vs. PHX in the Western Conference Quarterfinals … Ranked third on the club with an average TOI of 23:14.
2010-11: Registered 15 assists and 17 points in 82 regular-season games with ATL … Ranked second on the team with a career-high 149 blocked shots … Notched a multi-goal game (2G) on Dec. 11 at NYI … Notched the second multi-goal (2G) effort of his career on Dec. 11 at NYI.
2009-10: Split the season between ATL and NJD, recording a combined 13 points (3G, 10A) in 67 regular-season games … Notched nine points (1G, 8A) in 27 regular-season games with ATL … Ranked third on the club with 124 blocked shots … Posted a season-long three-game point streak (3A) from Feb. 10-13 … Tallied four points (2G, 2A) in 40 regular-season matchups with NJD.
2008-09: Appeared in all 82 regular-season games for NJD for the first time in his career … Paced team defensemen with a career-high seven goals and ranked second among club blueliners with a career-high 22 assists and 29 points … Ranked fourth on the club with a career-high four game-winning goals … Ranked second on the club with 20:52 TOI per game … Paced club defensemen with a career-high 108 shots on goal … Ranked third on the club with 127 blocked shots … Tallied a career-most five multi-point efforts … Appeared in seven playoff games.
2007-08: Registered 26 points (6G, 20A) in 75 regular-season tilts with NJD, pacing club defensemen in goals and ranking second among team blueliners in assists and points … Led the team with a career-high +27 rating … Notched a career-most two power-play goals … Posted a career-high 71 hits … Registered his first NHL multi-goal game and a career-high 5 SOG on March 28 vs. PHI … Tallied a career-high four-point effort (1G, 3A) on Jan. 22 at PHI … Tallied one assist and 6 PIM in five postseason appearances.
2006-07: Registered 11 points (2G, 9A) and a career-high 61 PIM in 76 regular-season tilts in his first NHL season … Made his NHL debut on Oct. 6 at CAR … Registered his first NHL point on Nov. 9 vs. Chicago … Netted his first NHL goal on Dec. 19 vs. ATL … Tallied 6 PIM and one point in six playoff appearances … Posted his first NHL postseason point with an assist on April 18 at TBL.
2005-06: Notched 19 points (8G, 11A) and 95 PIM in 47 regular-season games with the Swedish Elite League's Frolunda HC Goteborg … Posted three points (1G, 2A) and 16 PIM in 17 postseason games with Frolunda.
2004-05: Registered six points (2G, 4A) and 139 PIM in 49 regular-season tilts with the Swedish Elite League's Djurgarden IF Stockholm … Tallied two assists and 29 PIM in 12 playoff games with Djurgarden.
2003-04: Posted eight points (4G, 4A) and 173 PIM in 42 regular-season matchups with Djurgarden.
2002-03: Recorded 15 goals, 25 assists and 200 PIM in 48 regular-season games with the Superallsvenskan's Hammarby IF Stockholm.
2001-02: Tallied 25 points (11G, 14A) and 66 PIM in 46 regular-season matchups with Hammarby … Netted one goal and recorded 4 PIM in two postseason games with Hammarby.
2000-01: Split the season between the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League's Victoriaville Tigres and Moncton Wildcats, combining for 68 points (14G, 54A) and 259 PIM in 68 regular-season tilts … Posted 19 points (3G, 16A) and 112 PIM in 24 regular-season tilts with Victoriaville… Recorded 13 points (4G, 9A) and 10 PIM in 13 playoff appearances with the Tigres … Recorded 49 points (11G, 38A) and 147 PIM in 44 regular-season games with the Wildcats.
INTERNATIONAL CAREER: Registered 12 PIM in four appearances while competing for Team Sweden in the 2010 Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver … Posted three goals and one assist in five appearances with Sweden at the 2009 World Championship.


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SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's tennis team closed out the 2011 regular season on Tuesday with a pair of 5-0 wins over St. Mary's on the road.
The Islanders improved to 12-5 on the season while the Rattlers fell to 9-16 overall.
"It was a very focused effort after an emotional conference weekend," said Director of Tennis Steve Moore. "We controlled what we could control out there today."
In the opening match, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi sat its top two players with Bianca Discordia going unfinished at the No. 1 spot after winning the first set at 6-4, 3-0 when the match was clinched. At No. 2 singles, Stefania Nicolae took a 6-3, 6-0 final while Sandra Burges shut her opponent out at 6-0, 6-0 in No. 3 singles.
Mia Matuszak won 6-2, 6-0 at No. 4 while the final two matches were decided by identical scores. Nadia Filmalter took the No. 5 flight by a score of 6-2, 6-2 while LeAnne Mascall won No. 6 singles with a 6-2, 6-2 final as well.
In the second match of the day, the Islanders started with doubles play and swept all three matches by 8-2 finals. Discordia and Burges played the No. 1 spot, Nicolae and Matuszak won at No. 2 while Filmalter and Mascall took the No. 3 doubles point.
In singles, Nicolae took a 6-0, 6-4 final at the No. 2 position while Burges won her No. 3 flight by a 6-3, 6-0 final. Matuszak took a 6-1, 6-0 final at No. 4 and Mascall finished out singles play with her 6-1, 6-2 win at the No. 6 position.
Filmalter and Discordia both had matches go unfinished when the match was clinched.
With the regular season completed, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will turn its attention to the upcoming Southland Conference Tournament on April 29-May 1 in San Antonio at the UTSA campus.
"We have one singular goal now and that is to win a conference championship," said Moore. "We will be very focused on that one goal from now until the Southland Conference Tournament."


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I'm on a wired connection, but I get all the issues that are common in the forums. I'd try some different settings, but my desktop this morning gave me a healthy, BSOD, so i'm switching files over and going for a clean boot.
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The Cavendish-Bentinck Memorandum
139. Cavendish-Bentinck (later Duke of Portland), though dismissively described by Gray J as a "Foreign Office official," was in fact chairman of the Joint Intelligence Committee of the War Cabinet, and thus head of British Intelligence. He had automatic access to all Intelligence materials, including the highest grades such as Ultra intercepts and CSDIC interrogations. He stated in writing in August 1943 that the British had no evidence of the existence of gas chambers. The document dated 27 August, 1943, is authentic, signed in his handwriting, and preserved in British files (PRO file FO.371/ 15252). It reads:--
"As regards putting Poles to death in gas chambers, I do not believe that there is any evidence that this has been done. There have been many stories to this effect, and we have played them up in P.W.E. rumours without believing that they had any foundation. At any rate there is far less evidence than exists for the mass murder of Polish officers by the Russians at Katyn. [. . . I think that we weaken our case against the Germans by publicly giving credence to atrocity stories for which we have no evidence. These mass executions in gas chambers remind me of the story of employment of human corpses during the last war for the manufacture of fat [. . ]."


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The leaders of Stafford County and its three core cities – Stafford, St. John and Macksville – signed an agreement today that will provide better fire protection for county residents at a decreased cost for everybody.
Before this agreement the county had one lone pumper truck that was housed at the joint fire station in St. John. The problem with having only one centrally located truck is the response time to any structure fire in the eastern or western parts of the county would be very lengthy.
This problem could be addressed by buying two more of these trucks. One could be housed at the fire station in Macksville and the other housed at the fire station in Stafford. There were two problems with that approach.
First, these trucks are extremely expensive to purchase and maintain � even if you buy a used one. And, second is the fire stations in both of these cities have no room for an additional truck.
So, this was the fire protection problem the county faced, but the cities also faced problems with fire protection costs.
A little over four years ago the county landed two substantial fire protection grants. One of the grants was used to buy a breathing air system including air packs and a fill station to re-fill the air pack bottles. The second grant was used to buy firefighter coats/pants/boots � also known as �turn-out gear.�
Since the county�s firefighters are the city�s firefighters � and vice versa � everything has been shared. But, the question had never been answered as to whom would pick up the cost of these items when they needed replaced. Hoping to hit another grant for the same items is unlikely.
The answer to these problems was, �We should expand the sharing of our resources.�
Here�s what was done.
The county agreed to shoulder the ongoing costs of the air pack system and the turn-out gear. And, the cities agreed to respond within a north/south corridor county wide with their pumper trucks.
One additional thing was done. The city of Stafford has a back-up pumper truck that is subpar to the county�s truck. Instead of trying to sell the truck, the county is letting the City of Stafford use the truck as their backup pumper. There is a military truck type agreement whereby the truck�s ownership will remain with the county, but the maintenance will be shouldered by the City of Stafford.
Be sure and thank your governmental leaders for improving and reducing the cost of fire protection through partnership. This sharing of resources is a great example for other communities in our nation to follow.


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One might think that a city surrounded by vineyards and wineries wouldn't have much need of wine bars. And one would be wrong, because Livermore's tiny downtown has no fewer than four thriving within a few blocks of each other and a fifth -- the Underdog Wine Bar -- just a couple of miles away on the grounds of Concannon Vineyard.
This is the essence of night life in downtown Livermore. Unlike typical watering holes, Livermore wine bars serve tapas-style dishes and desserts. So while you're likely to encounter plenty of wine-sipping regulars, it's just as likely that you'll sit next to a cute couple on date night, 30-somethings on a girls' night out or a family with kids in tow.
All the wine bars offer warm welcomes and tasty sips, but that's where the similarity ends. Every stop has its own vibe. Swirl on the Square, the first of the wine bars to take flight with wine flights and small pours in 2009, opens up to a brick courtyard that bustles year-round.
Double Barrel makes nearly all its dishes from scratch, including wild boar meatballs, sticky toffee pudding and the raspberry-fig jam that accompanies brie and brioche. Enjoy those dishes indoors or on the patio by a toasty fire pit.
The Winemaker's Pourhouse boasts an exclusively Livermore Valley wine list, while First Street Wines doubles as a wine bar and store, inviting you to enjoy a flight or taste, open a bottle over munchies from the deli case and browse the aisles for handcrafted gifts. And Underdog draws curious wine drinkers who want to try Concannon wines along with something from Argentina, Germany or maybe Napa.
Underdog manager Jeremy Ponzio believes the refreshed downtown district has set the tone for new businesses to thrive; that they're showcasing local wines makes them even more appealing. Chris Chandler, the executive director of the Livermore Valley Winegrowers Association, attributes the wine bar popularity to a combination of factors: the chance to sample wine and small plates in an easygoing atmosphere where everyone, from the beginning wine taster to the experienced connoisseur, can try something new.
Ever-evolving wine lists and menus keep things fresh. And those warm welcomes have an effect, too.
"This is not a 'turn the table' kind of place," says Stephanie Fish, manager at Swirl. "If you want to come in and hang out for a few hours, that's fine."
Livermore Wine Bars
Double Barrel: Livermore, California and international wines are served alongside small plates and desserts. Open on Sundays for brunch.
2086 First St.; www.doublebarrelwinebar.com
First Street Wine Company: An eclectic wine store and wine bar, First Street offers flights, tastings and wines by the glass from Livermore and beyond, and handmade wine-themed gifts, including Lazy Susans made from wine barrels and bags crafted from newspaper wine pages.
2211 First St.; www.wineco.com
Swirl on the Square: Swirl serves California and Livermore wines and a few international selections, as well as small plates and desserts.
21 S. Livermore Ave. Suite 105; www.swirlonthesq.com
Underdog at Concannon Vineyard: Underdog pours more than 50 wines by the glass from vineyards here and around the world. Global fare is served in a rustic, lounge setting and on the beautiful patio overlooking the Concannon grounds.
4590 Tesla Road; www.underdogwineandspirits.com
The Winemaker's Pourhouse: This wine bar focuses on wines from the entire Livermore Valley AVA, complemented by a menu of appetizers, cheese platters and desserts.
2241 First St.; www.winemakerspourhouse.com


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F.I.S.H. Program Rules
The Fishing Impoundment & Stream Habitat (FISH) program began in 1998.
The FISH program promises every fisherman who purchased a Kansas fishing license the opportunity to enjoy the state's diverse fisheries resources. Common sense and ethical behavior will ensure that the program may be expanded for all to enjoy in the future.
The following guidelines will assist sportsmen in using FISH tracts:
- Obey the lease boundaries. Stay within 50 ft of shoreline.
- If the FISH property is a river or creek, fish only on the side which is on the FISH tract. Do not walk or fish on adjacent property.
- Do not damage any standing crops.
- Obey all Kansas fishing rules and regulations and respect the rights of the landowners and others using the area. Treat the land as if it were your own and act responsibly when afield. your behavior will decide the future of this program and these areas.
- Take all your trash with you when you leave. If someone using the area before you left trash, please remove it also.
- Do not open gates or enter properties with vehicles. Park along the road or in areas designated as parking areas. Do not block access to field, nor block access along county roads. Landowners may need to work fields with big equipment, so please allow them to pass. Use fence crossing ladders located at access sites
- Do not attempt to contact cooperating landowners for the purpose of fishing on other portions of their land. Enrollment of land in the FISH program may have been done to reduce the landowner's direct contact with fisherman.
- All statewide length and creel limits are imposed on all FISH areas.
- The following regulations are enforced on Fishing Impoundments & Stream Habitat (FISH) areas: no target practice (KAR 115-8-1), no commercial or noncommercial hunting dog training (KAR 115-8-4), no discharge of fully automatic rifles or fully automatic handguns (KAR 115-8-5), camping by posted notice only (KAR 115-8-9), no horseback riding (KAR 115-8-11), no stocking or releasing of wildlife (KAR 115-8-12), no discharge of fireworks (KAR 115-8-14), no fires (KAR 115-8-15), no littering (KAR 155-8-18), no cereal malt beverage or alcoholic liquor (KAR 115-8-19), no destructive acts, including digging, destruction or removal of signs or vegetation (KAR 115-8-20).
On occasion, sites enrolled in the program are removed at the landowner's request. Make sure the land you are entering is posted with FISH area signs.
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Not satisfied with plan for state to pay 80% of bridge repair, Francestown applies for federal grant hoping 100% will be covered
FRANCESTOWN — The Select Board voted unanimously on May 31 to authorize Town Administrator Michael Branley to draft and sign a U.S. Department of Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery grant application.
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Runners filled 4,000 spots in the 2013 TD Beach to Beacon 10K in less than five minutes Friday morning, according to race organizers.
Online registration opened on line at 7 a.m. Friday and all 4,000 slots were filled in four minutes, 58 seconds, organizers said.
The race, founded in 1998 by Olympic gold medalist and Maine native Joan Benoit Samuelson, will be held Aug. 3 in Cape Elizabeth.
The remaining 1,900 slots will be filled through a lottery, which will be drawn on March 25. As of 9 a.m. Friday, 1,187 runners had registered for the lottery.
On Thursday, 600 spots designated for Cape Elizabeth residents only, were filled in just nine minutes.


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Oracle JDK 7u40 released - security features, hardfloat ARM, Java Mission Control and more
By Henrik Stahl on Sep 10, 2013
Oracle JDK 7 Update 40 is now available. This release introduces the following new features:
- Java Mission Control. This is an advanced monitoring/diagnostics tool inherited from JRockit, now fully supported on the JDK 7. Also adds new features such as a DTrace plugin.
- Java Flight Recorder, again a feature ported over from JRockit. This is a really cool feature that enables you to record events and metrics during runtime, and then extract them at will. You can even dump all or part of the data on a user-defined alert. Eg, "Why did that transaction take more than 1 second? Give me the last 10 seconds of data in your buffer so that I can figure out what went wrong."
- Support for the Apple Retina display with Swing/AWT and JavaFX.
- A new JDK binary for hardfloat Linux/ARM, for ARM-based micro servers and development boards. Yes, this means that we now have official JDK 7 support for the default Raspbian Linux distribution for the Raspberry Pi.
- A new Deployment Rule Set feature to enable fine granular controls for execution of Applet and WebStart applications.
- Security feature enhancements for applets, JAXP and x.509 certificates.
The new update of the JRE and the JDK are available from OTN. For more information, see the release notes.
For Mission Control, a great source of information is Marcus Hirt's blog (thanks, Marcus!).


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Ken Woolley – six decades of architectural innovation
The speech given by Ken Woolley AM (BArch (Hons) '55) one of Australia's most distinguished architects and three-time University medallist, on the occasion of the award of Doctor of Science in Architecture (honouris causa) on April 16, 2010, in the Great Hall.
I would like us to think about this room, this great Hall. I doubt that anyone present is not moved by it. This is real architecture and as such it represents our culture – the many layers and expressions of culture over time – from its medieval origin, its revival in the 18th and 19th centuries and now our heritage conservationist attitude to the Gothic style. It is no more beautiful and depending on your values, arguably less so, than some other great secular buildings of history. But it is a great piece of architecture because it was - and is, purposeful. While stimulating our sense of history and treating our senses with the beauty of materials, craftsmanship, sculpture and decoration – subtly lit, insinuatingly tactile and spacious of sound – it is actually securing all of us from the physical distractions of the world outside. It is a place in which a ceremony with hundreds of people can be conducted. If it couldn't do that well – perform its purpose – it would be diminished as architecture. That is what distinguishes architecture as an art from all the others. It is a balance between performing its purpose and being a powerful, creative art that defines the spaces of civilisation, at whatever quality it is produced.
It is 60 years since I sat my first examination in this room, at the age of 17. This University transformed my life completely. I was so entranced by finding something I could do – in a place that embodied it with the buildings of Blacket, Vernon and Wilkinson – that it is a wonder I ever left. But what might have been expected of me as an academic career was thwarted by my willing seduction into the life of designing and building things myself; an ambition that is rarely gratified with such early effect.
The great thing about youth is that you can believe you will eventually get a go at everything. The eventuality is that you may at least get to say something about your beliefs. So, in the spirit of Jean Jacques Rousseau ("You do not need to know this but I need to tell you") I offer the following …
It is a caution that the words "design" and "architecture" are not synonymous. Despite all the technology, social service, scientific design and sustainability, architecture is an art and is distinguished by its concern with aesthetics. The others are tools – techniques – the medium in which the art is practised.
People care about how our cities, our buildings and spaces look, and feel. Generally expressing disapproval. Quite rightly they think those other practical things ought to be taken care of within the process. Architecture is the aesthetics of shelter, the sense of purpose. Architecture employs design techniques, like a number of other activities in which aesthetics have a part. But all design outcomes in buildings, good or bad, are not necessarily part of its architecture. Design is a process, often involving depiction, drawings and prescriptions.
Buildings are erected by processes. Judged in the balancing act between performance and art, architecture is the intention for buildings and their interacting spaces that they be measured aesthetically. And while one should be cautious about describing all buildings as architecture, it is rare that no attempt, however feeble, has been made to decide how a building is to impart its sense of purpose, in addition to how it will work. But more attention should be given to the higher ground, where mediocre, pretentious architecture is made to meet short-term, commercial fashion.
Nevertheless, the creation of architectural concepts is commonly called design. A design is an idea developed through a series of decisions about alternative courses of progress. Most are made from ranking the various design alternatives in importance for the requirements of the project and selecting each step in balance with the enhancement of the original creative idea and its descendents. There is a serious dilemma present in these decisions, whenever the advancement of the artistic aspect involves detracting from the purpose of the project.
Architects are almost never engaged on the basis that they are to achieve a supreme work of art, on the understanding that the use of the building is of lesser importance and is to be the variable factor. Quite the contrary, the expectation of the architecture is that it should accompany the production of a building for a well-defined purpose – that justifies the cost of building it. The architecture is to transcend the pragmatic limitations, to achieve an artistic vision without loss of its raison d'être.
Artists in other fields take the same steps except that, by definition, their work is not intended for use; performance perhaps, which is interpretation, but not use. Artworks are for provoking thoughtful admiration and are accompanied by an opportunity to trade in their possession. It is often convenient for the interested, but non-paying, onlookers of any artistic enterprise to prioritise the forward looking, inspirational, culturally progressive values. But meanwhile scorning respect for any practical, pragmatic and functional issues, which they see as conservative and backward looking. The assumption is that the latter should always give way to the former. The great irony is that the foundation philosophy of modern architecture – albeit simplistic, rarely achieved and probably impossible – was that form follows function. That is not to argue for functional determinism, but it is incontestable that a building should perform the activity for which it is intended.
Any architect with ideas recognises the dilemma. To follow the path of the autonomous artist, indifferent to the restraint of duty and obligations, should not be an alternative. The nature of architecture is to build for other people. The duties come with the job. The pursuit of the art of architecture requires transcending the limitations of duty, not ignoring them. Yet, so often, the rationale offered by architects, while deluding themselves, is that all their decisions are being made on functional grounds.
Ultimately you must accept the principle that the end should never justify the means. Undeniably, the aim of any project is to avoid that when it is in prospect, but in hindsight any failure to have kept to the principle undermines the achievement. Those shortcomings usually seek justification by claiming that a novel style, a technical innovation or a so-called icon has been achieved, although that had not been the intention.
When I see this new generation going out to give contest, or staying in to give thought dedicated to the complexities of our art and to teach it, I wonder whether it is harder or easier than it was 55 years ago? I do know that it is different in detail, and proportions, but is a similar endeavour. We are still trying to build well – so as to meet the purpose of those who pay for the buildings, to provide for their needs – and we strive to control this process, such that the result embodies our art.
I suppose one of the differences now is that this more complex society, its diverse technology and hyper-production, all demand more individual specialisation. I hope that those who go into the avenues of technology, science, law and management as related to architecture, will maintain the understanding that it is all part of the performance of buildings for which the expectation of our community is that they be beautiful. We must not lose sight of that obligation and should remain aware that it is not automatic. No technique is intrinsically aesthetic. Science is not art.
These are human judgments of serious contemplation, deeply interlocked with, and dependent on, cultural values.


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18 Dream Casting Ideas for the Fifty Shades of Grey Supporting Characters
We all know by now that the iconic blonde bombshell was actually an anxiety-addled wreck. And having a sketchy affair with the POTUS in 1962, John F. Kennedy, couldnt have helped her issues (especially since, allegedly, he shared her with his baby bro Bobby). Since her 1963 death, rumors have raged about the governments involvement did they have her whacked? Who knows. What we do know is that the affair produced a stellar pop culture moment MMs breathy rendition of Happy Birthday to the president at a televised MSG concert.
This silent movie starlet wrote the guidebook on mistressery! From 1918 to 1951, she had an open affair with 40-year-older newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst – who famously never divorced socialite Millicent Hearst, the mother of his five sons. Hearst was so whipped that he tried to buy her film stardom (his ploy bombed. Check out Citizen Kane for details, the 1941 film was based on their life). He even built her a castle, "San Simeon," outside L.A. That's devotion.
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This article appears in a special supplement, A Renaissance in Biomanufacturing:The Art of Purification, published in August 2013.
Current regulatory guidelines require at least two orthogonal steps for the inactivation and/or removal of viruses, thus different principles of separation/inactivation must be used in each method (2,3). Because viruses vary in size, charge, and the presence or absence of an envelope, the available methods differ in their effectiveness against particular types of virus; these factors must be integrated into the design space during the development of a process ahead of Phase I clinical trials. Manufacturers are also expected to deliver a virus clearance strategy that has been optimized for each product because biopharmaceuticals are often large, complex proteins that resemble smaller viruses in their physical and chemical properties. Virus clearance strategies must, therefore, be tailored to avoid product loss. The virus removal steps must then be tested against at least two model viruses representing those most likely to be present in the process stream (2-3) and should include an endogenous virus if relevant to the process. Ideally, an adventitious virus such as minute virus of mice (MVM) or porcine parvovirus (PPV) should also be tested, because these are the gold standards for size-dependent clearance steps using 20-nm filters (2-4). Removal/inactivation is usually demonstrated in spiking studies, where specific viruses are added deliberately to the process stream ahead of the relevant unit operations. Before Phase III clinical trials can be authorized, two further viruses must be tested if specific contaminants are likely in the process stream. The two testing schemes have different aims: general virus clearance is designed to test process robustness, whereas specific virus clearance using anticipated contaminants aims to ensure product safety (4).Although virus clearance should be built into the design space on a product-by-product basis, several robust and effective strategies have become established in the industry (5-6). Appropriate methods for virus inactivation include heating/pasteurization or solvent/detergent treatments (7), although these may also have a significant negative impact on some recombinant proteins and are only effective against enveloped viruses. More often, a low-pH hold (8) is used for enveloped viruses if this is compatible with the buffer conditions in the process (e.g., during the production of monoclonal antibodies); exposure to ultraviolet light in the UVC range is used to inactivate all viruses by cross-linking the nucleic acids at 254 nm (9). Virus removal methods physically separate virus particles from the feed stream, and the most suitable methods are chromatography, where virus particles are captured by adsorption (10), and retentive filtration using 20-nm filters, which eliminates even the smallest viruses by size exclusion (2,4). However, there are currently no common standards for virus filtration. Instead, it is left to manufacturers to show, on a case-by-case basis, that their virus clearance steps are acceptable and efficient.


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ORLANDO, Fla. -- Pablo Sandoval has long tantalized the Giants with his talent and disappointed them with his weight, but the organization is confident that the third baseman's ability to become a free agent next fall will spur lifestyle changes.
If Sandoval drops the pounds and performs, general manager Brian Sabean said, he might not have to chase those open-market riches.
Sabean hasn't ruled out a contract extension if Sandoval impresses management upon arriving at spring training in February. The price of adding free-agent position players has skyrocketed, and Sandoval could represent a value for the Giants, who have made a habit of signing their young stars before they hit free agency.
"Position players -- especially a switch hitter with run-producing capability -- are hard to find," Sabean said. "He's not going to be short on suitors, trust me, no matter what his weight is."
Sandoval has been in regular contact with Giants executives, coaches and trainer Dave Groeschner, and he has posted photos of his workouts on Twitter. By all estimates, Sandoval has slimmed down, with one source saying he could be up to 40 pounds lighter than his peak weight. Sandoval's value is tied in part to his ability to play third base, but Sabean said he wouldn't speculate on whether Sandoval could stay at the position as he ages.
"I'm not a doctor, I'm not the good Lord, so I don't know what somebody is able to do as far as their weight, their body type as they go forward," Sabean said. "I can't predict that. He's a Giant, and whatever his weight has been, I know Pablo loves the game and has a great passion. This has been something for him to get under control and conquer.
"We've helped him every year, and some years he has helped himself more than others. This year I think he's been particularly determined."
Bochy started thinking about a change when he was managing the San Diego Padres in 2003 and lost catcher Gary Bennett for a month after a collision with Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Brian Jordan. His stance solidified in 2011 when Buster Posey's season was cut short after a collision in late May.
"It's just not worth it," Bochy said of the plays at the plate. "Hopefully we can take them out of the game."
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Sunday outfits! My sister and I totally had a 50's Housewife theme going on this week. She even pulled out the sock bun for the occasion. Sunday is when I reserve all of my energy to dress nice. A couple years ago, I found this great vintage dress from an antique shop in downtown Mesa, Antique Plaza. I swear I could get lost in there for days! It's a two story building spilling over with antiques. I generally try to give myself a time limit, something like an hour or so, because otherwise…. bad news. Once I've been shopping for a while, I tend to think my life is very different than it really is. I start to think I have more money than I do, and that my house and closet are enormous, and that Yes- I Can pull off a neon yellow/orange/red/green striped jumper from 1976. So the time limit is essential.
But this dress was a great find. When I tried it on, I swear there was a Traveling Pants moment of magic when I truly felt like the dress was specifically made for me. I can't really lift my arms too high…but other than that- Fits like a glove!
Detail of the dress fabric. I'm in love the the hidden colors sprinkled throughout it.
And this is a cute basket purse my mom found me at Goodwill. It was filled with some old yarn and a book about crochet. I decided to match the red details in the dress, and went with my vintage bow shoes❤


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The Michigan Department of Health says two more Michigan residents have died from West Nile virus. That brings the total number of fatal cases statewide to 13.
Both victims, a 68-year-old man and a 49-year-old man, were from Oakland County. Each case had previously been reported as West Nile infections.
The Department of Community Health also reports two new cases of West Nile, one in Oakland County and one in Macomb County.
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On paper, "Rust and Bone" sounds like a particularly bad Lifetime movie.
A brutish single father, who is not a particularly good dad to his young son and spends much of his time on street fighting, somehow finds a relationship with a lovely, sophisticated whale trainer who loses both her legs in an accident. They are two broken souls, but somehow they manage to find a life together.
That short description is enough to trigger the gag reflex in almost anyone. But basic storyline aside, "Rust and Bone" turns out to be a rather compelling and moving drama, thanks to some sharp and thoughtful direction by Jacques Audiard and fine performances by Matthias Schoenaerts as the fighter and, in particular, Marion Cotillard as the trainer. In fact, Cotillard's work is so courageous and nuanced that it is worth seeing "Rust and Bone" just to watch her light up the screen.
Much of the film is set in Antibes on the glorious Cote d'Azur in southern France. This is the part of the Cote d'Azur that tourists never see -- the rough, working class area where life is a struggle.
Ali (Schoenaerts), a former prizefighter, and his son, Sam (Armand Verdure), have fled to Antibes after Ali liberates Sam from the boy's mother, who, apparently, had been using the child to peddle drugs. The two arrive with no money and no prospects, only a place to stay at the home of Ali's sister Anna (Corinne Masiero).
It isn't much, and Anna is, at best, somewhat dubious about having Ali around, although she loves Sam. She realizes that life has been so hard on Ali, such a struggle, that he no longer really cares about anyone around him -- not even Sam.
After Anna helps Ali get a job with a security firm, he becomes a bouncer at a local club, which is where he meets Stephanie (Cotillard) under less than pleasant circumstances. She has gotten involved in a fight at the club; he offhandedly humiliates her live-in boyfriend. But he gives her his phone number; she doesn't toss it away but hangs on to it.
Weeks later, Stephanie is involved in a freak, horrific accident at the Sea World-esque amusement park where she works. It is a stunning sequence, set in part to Katy Perry's "Firework." Even more gripping is the scene where Stephanie discovers that the accident has forced the doctors to amputate both of her legs. The look on Cotillard's face, the despair in her eyes, is mesmerizing. (The digital removal of Cotillard's legs for most of the film is an amazing special-effects achievement.)
On what seems like a whim, Stephanie finds Ali's number and calls him. She sees in him a man who won't care that she is a double amputee, won't pity her circumstances. They end up gradually building a relationship, including raw sex, that underlines how desperately they really need each other.
Audiard, whose last film was the very good "A Prophet," lets his story play out against the backdrop of the realities of contemporary France, although the sociopolitical nuances probably won't resonate with American audiences. What will is the intensity of the relationship between Stephanie and Ali -- one that is made real by the naturalistic performances of Cotillard and Schoenaerts.
Schoenaerts, a Belgian actor, is as formidable a presence here as he was in "Bullhead," a foreign-language Oscar nominee last year. Cotillard has already won one Oscar for her transformation into Edith Piaf in "La Vie en Rose," and she has found an American following with her work in "Midnight in Paris," "Inception" and "The Dark Knight Rises." But her work in "Rust and Bone" is just brilliant, with a deglamorized Cotillard building an extraordinary portrait of a damaged human being.
If "Rust and Bone" has a notable problem, it is an ending that, while satisfying in its way, doesn't really fit convincingly with the rest of the film. Still, this is a vivid bit of moviemaking that it is hard-edged and often difficult to watch, but also quite life-affirming.
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Rating: R (for sexual content, nudity, violence and language)
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts and Armand Verdure
Director: Jacques
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Red Sox, Bruins back after bombing, manhunt
Published: Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
Last Modified: Saturday, April 20, 2013 at 4:57 p.m.
BOSTON — A defiant David Ortiz stood on the Fenway Park infield and told the crowd, "Stay Strong," bringing a rousing cheer from Bostonians weary from a week of bombings, stay-at-home orders and a manhunt that locked down the city for a day.
Playing at home for the first time since two bombs at the Boston Marathon finish line killed three people and wounded more than 180 others, the Red Sox honored the victims and the survivors with a pregame ceremony and an emotional video of scenes from Monday's race.
"We will run another marathon, bigger and better than ever," public address announcer Henry Mahegan said. "We are one. We are Boston Strong."
Bomb-sniffing dogs and military in camouflage fatigues joined the police patrolling the ballpark, and long lines of fans waited to be scanned by metal-detecting wands. Many were still waiting to get in when the Red Sox and Kansas City Royals lined up along the base-lines for the pregame ceremony.
With Boston Athletic Association volunteers in their yellow and blue jackets lined up in front of the Green Monster, Fenway's famous left-field wall, and police and public officials encircling the mound, ballpark organist Josh Kantor played the Star-Spangled Banner, with the crowd singing along. A giant U.S. flag was draped over the 37-foot-high Green Monster left-field wall, temporarily covering the "B Strong" logo newly painted in left-center field.
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Novartis heats up HCV hype
The hepatitis C space has seen a string of large deals in the last weeks that include a US$11bn buyout of Pharmasset by Gilead. Now Novartis is also trying to get in the game with the purchase of a global exclusive licence from Enanta Pharmaceutical Inc. Under the terms of the agreement, Enanta will advance its preclinical lead candidate NS5A into clinical trials. The firm will receive an upfront payment of US$34m and milestones that could total up to US$406m if the drug reaches full commercialisation, as well as double-digit royalties on global sales. The picomolar NS5A blocker follows BristolMyers-Squibb's Phase I first-in-class molecule BMS790052, which seems to address a patient group that is complementary to that of the current standard of care (SOC, Peg-interferon plus ribavirin). According to experts, NS5A blockers cannot completely replace standard treatments as they are not able to fully eradicate the virus, resulting in rapid development of drug resistance. However, they seem to have the potential to broaden the patient group that can benefit from a combination therapy of NS5A blockers plus SOC. The current SOC clears most infections with HCV genotypes 2 and 3, but succeeds in less than 50% of the patients with genotype 1.


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The Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit (ORAU) undertakes research in many fields where the measurement of the radiocarbon isotope is useful. We provide a radiocarbon dating service for people involved in archaeological and environmental research and carry out research into very low level measurements of radiocarbon in biological specimens.
ORAU's dating service operates on a commercial basis and in conjunction with NERC/ARHC which funds the NRCF programme for British archaeologists and English Heritage.
Complementary to our work with radiocarbon we also have interests in the use of stable isotopes to help in the study of past human diet.
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The Dangers in Changing Default Character Sets on Tables
By jonathonc on May 28, 2013
The ALTER TABLE command can change the default character set for the table in two ways. The DEFAULT CHARSET method changes the default on the table, but leaves the character columns in the older character set. The CONVERT method converts the character columns to the new character set and sets the default on the table.[Read More]


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Tuesday, Oct. 2, 2012
AIKEN, S.C. -- A man allegedly tried to attack his father, strangle a female victim and held himself at knifepoint Monday night.
Officers were called to the scene after getting reports of a fight between a father and a son. When they got to the home on the 100 block of Poplar Place, a woman opened the door and said a man inside the house assaulted her.
She told officers the man, Aaron Kranenberg, was hiding in his bedroom, armed with a sword.
The female victim says she was in his bedroom watching a movie when they began to have a deep discussion. Kranenberg, who had been drinking, allegedly became upset and wouldn't let her out of the bedroom. When this happened, the victim screamed, and the suspect's father ran into the room.
This is when Kranenberg is said to have attacked his father. The suspect tried to strangle the female when she tried to help the father. She says Kranenberg punched her in the face several times. He allegedly forced her into the bedroom and locked the door until the Aiken Department of Public Safety arrived on scene.
When officers went inside the room, they say Kranenberg stepped out of a closet and held the blade to his throat. He would not drop the knife after officers asked him to do so.
Officers were eventually able to negotiate with the suspect and get him to drop the knife.
Kranenberg allegedly tried to stab himself in the stomach but officers were able to stop him.
He was taken to the hospital. Officers say a warrant will be issued for him later.
Officers later seized four swords, six knifes, a crossbow with 10 arrows and a set of sais.


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System is a 2011 2.5GHz 4GB Mac Mini running Lion 10.7.3. PS3 Media Server is version 1.52.1.
I have both a PS3 and a 360 wired to the same 1GHz switch as the Mini. I'm using PS3MS out of the box, I haven't messed with any binaries or modified the configuration other than forcing binding to the en0 interface as part of troubleshooting this.
It's odd because the PS3 works fine but the Xbox doesn't. I have a Windows 7 VM on a VMware ESXi host elsewhere on the network also running 1.52.1. The Xbox DOES work with the Win7 PS3MS, just not the Lion one.
When starting the "Video Player" app on the Xbox, the Win7 installation appears almost immediately in the list of detected servers. The Lion server takes 10-20 seconds to appear but eventually does. When I try to use the one on Lion, the connection seems to time out and the Xbox tells me it can't connect and offers to troubleshoot my network connection via the same "test my network connection" you can fire up to check your Xbox Live connection. According to the Status and Traces tabs in PS3MS it "sees" both renderers.
To summarize:
PS3 -> Win7 works
Xbox -> Win7 works
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Xbox -> Lion does NOT work
It's just annoying because I'm trying to migrate away from my Windows system. Of course, I can use the PS3 as needed but I'd really like to see this fixed because I have a second Xbox in another part of the house and it would be great to be able to watch videos there too.


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from Steven Lawson Aug 24, 2016 Category: ArticlesThe title "Holy One of God" means that Jesus is infinitely and absolutely holy, fully and perfectly divine. He is transcendent and majestic. He came down from above to save sinners, yet He is set apart from sinners in that He is completely sinless, without any moral blemish, perfect in... Keep Reading
Who Shall Ascend the Mountain of the LORD? (Part 2)
from L. Michael Morales Aug 04, 2010 Category: ArticlesThe paradise atop Eden's mount is described in Genesis 2-3 as a well-watered Garden with an abundance of fruit trees, a place where humanity and animals lived in harmony. These physical blessings, however, were but tokens (and small ones at that) of the greater delight of their Source: the very life-giving Presence of God. After Adam and Eve's sin, and consequent descent from the mountain of the LORD, the biblical narrative continues to deal with the dilemma: How shall we abide in the divine Presence — who shall ascend? Keep Reading
Daily Confession, Enduring Reform
from Tim Challies Aug 03, 2010 Category: Tabletalk MagazineIn this introductory article to the August edition of Tabletalk, Burk Parsons writes about confession and the Roman Catholic sacrament of penance. "Although historically Rome has taught the necessity of both private and public confession of sin, many Catholics have been persuaded that only when they confess their sins to their priests, are absolved, and do penance that they really possess the forgiveness of God." Parsons then introduces us to Simeon, a tenth-century Christian who called the church to more than mere outward performance. "Through the centuries the Lord has continued to sustain and reform His church by raising up faithful men to proclaim His gospel and to call His people to live coram Deo, before His face, in genuine repentance, humble confession, and authentic faith leading to a life wholeheartedly devoted to God." Keep Reading
Shipping Department Closing This Week for Inventory
from Karisa Schlehr Aug 02, 2010 Category: Ministry NewsOur shipping department will be closed Wednesday, August 4th, through Saturday, August 7th, for inventory. Tuesday will be the last day orders will be shipped. Shipping will resume as normal on Monday, August 9th. Orders may still be placed during this time, and we will ship them as soon as we are able. Thank you for your patience as we work on inventory this week. Keep Reading
Columns from Tabletalk Magazine, August 2010
from Tim Challies Aug 02, 2010 Category: Tabletalk MagazineThe August edition of Tabletalk is out. This month's issue continues our ongoing series on the history of the church by presenting highlights from the tenth century, including its historical, theological, and practical ramifications. Contributors include C. Fitzsimmons Allison, Chris Donato, Collin Hansen, Keith Mathison, Burk Parsons, R.C. Sproul, and R.C. Sproul Jr. Keep Reading
Embryo: A Defense of Human Life
from Keith Mathison Aug 02, 2010 Category: ArticlesSince the 1973 Supreme Court decision in the case of Roe v. Wade, the question of the status of the human embryo (and fetus) has been at the center of heated political debate, typically focusing on the issue of abortion. Such debate has only intensified as disputes over stem cell research have entered the public consciousness as well. The ethical questions involved in these issues are numerous. The most significant question, however, is the one that is often overlooked as rhetoric about "choice" and "privacy" drowns it out. This question that must remain at the forefront of such debates is this: At what point does the life of an individual human being begin? Keep Reading
The Logic of Substitutionary Atonement
from Chris Larson Aug 01, 2010 Category: ArticlesSince all have committed cosmic treason against a holy God, how can anyone be a substitute for the punishment you deserve? In other words, how can Jesus die in your place? Keep Reading
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from R.C. Sproul Aug 01, 2010 Category: R.C. SproulThe word philosophy derives from a combination of two Greek words: phileo ("to love") and sophia ("wisdom"). Literally, philosophy means "love of wisdom." The ancient Greeks, who are usually credited with developing the science of philosophy, were also concerned with abstract metaphysics and epistemology. However, the question of ethics was of paramount importance to Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle. Socrates sought to reduce virtue or ethics to "right knowledge." Plato sought the ultimate standard of the good. Keep Reading
Not Return Void (Africa Journal #4)
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Jul 31, 2010 Category: ArticlesLogistics intimidate me. Had I been present at the sermon that preceded the feeding of the five thousand I wouldn't have heard a word. My mind would have been rather occupied with that one burning question — How are we ever going to feed all these people? There I would have been failing to hear the words of life from the Bread of Life all because I was worried about where bread would come from. Keep Reading
Contextualize This (Africa Journal #3)
from R.C. Sproul Jr. Jul 30, 2010 Category: ArticlesI scanned my notes rather quickly, looking for problems. I would soon be preaching amidst a gathering throng of Kenyans. Was there an allusion somewhere in here to America culture? Were there idioms that would make no sense to these saints? Was there a hint of technical jargon connected to theological controversies that had not yet crossed the Atlantic? Truth be told, I was more nervous than I have been in a long time. Nairobi West Presbyterian Church is neither tiny (which tends to make me more nervous than large crowds) nor massive (which tends to make some others more nervous.) The pews were, however, filled with a rather mixed crowd- most of them local, but a decent sized contingent of those who had been travelling with me from these United States. Keep Reading
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Millions of Americans try to enroll in health care benefits during the first days of a new government health care program. They rely on indispensable government website that had been "pitched as a high-tech way"to sort through available coverage options. They�re encountering countless glitches and technical errors: the website freezes, displays incorrect plan information and sends insurers erroneous reports.
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